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June 07, 2011; vol. 108 no. 23
This Week in PNAS
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessHigh-precision dating of colonization and settlement in East PolynesiaMara A. Mulrooney, Simon H. Bickler, Melinda S. Allen, and Thegn N. Ladefoged
- You have accessReply to Mulrooney et al.: Accepting lower precision radiocarbon dates results in longer colonization chronologies for East PolynesiaJanet M. Wilmshurst, Terry L. Hunt, Carl P. Lipo, and Atholl J. Anderson
- You have accessBuilding interdisciplinary frameworks: The importance of institutions, scale, and politicsClaudia Romero and Arun Agrawal
- You have accessReply to Romero and Agrawal: Unpacking the specific links between biodiversity, ecosystem services, and social diversity is an essential first stepSandra Díaz, Fabien Quétier, Sarah F. Trainor, and Daniel M. Cáceres
QnAs
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessPaul trapping of charged particles in aqueous solutionWeihua Guan, Sony Joseph, Jae Hyun Park, Predrag S. Krstić, and Mark A. Reed
Chemistry
- You have accessUsing silver nanowire antennas to enhance the conversion efficiency of photoresponsive DNA nanomotorsQuan Yuan, Yunfei Zhang, Yan Chen, Ruowen Wang, Chaoling Du, Emir Yasun, and Weihong Tan
- You have accessKinetics of cyclobutane thymine dimer splitting by DNA photolyase directly monitored in the UVViruthachalam Thiagarajan, Martin Byrdin, André P. M. Eker, Pavel Müller, and Klaus Brettel
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessSelectivity of terrestrial gastropod extinctions on an oceanic archipelago and insights into the anthropogenic extinction processSatoshi Chiba and Kaustuv Roy
Geology
- You have accessDiet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa
- From the Cover
Thure E. Cerling, Emma Mbua, Francis M. Kirera, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Frederick E. Grine, Meave G. Leakey, Matt Sponheimer, and Kevin T. UnoSee companion article:
- The demise of “Nutcracker Man”- May 26, 2011
- You have accessPhonons of the anomalous element ceriumMichael Krisch, D. L. Farber, R. Xu, Daniele Antonangeli, C. M. Aracne, Alexandre Beraud, Tai-Chang Chiang, J. Zarestky, Duck Young Kim, Eyvaz I. Isaev, Rajeev Ahuja, and Börje Johansson
Physics
- Open AccessElectronic phase diagram of high-temperature copper oxide superconductorsUtpal Chatterjee, Dingfei Ai, Junjing Zhao, Stephan Rosenkranz, Adam Kaminski, Helene Raffy, Zhizhong Li, Kazuo Kadowaki, Mohit Randeria, Michael R. Norman, and J. C. Campuzano
- You have accessActive multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motorsMarina Soares e Silva, Martin Depken, Björn Stuhrmann, Marijn Korsten, Fred C. MacKintosh, and Gijsje H. Koenderink
- You have accessDynamics of enzymatic digestion of elastic fibers and networks under tensionAscânio D. Araújo, Arnab Majumdar, Harikrishnan Parameswaran, Eunice Yi, Jean L. Spencer, Matthew A. Nugent, and Béla Suki
Social Sciences
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessImpaired capacity for familiarity after hippocampal damageZhuang Song, John T. Wixted, Ramona O. Hopkins, and Larry R. Squire
- You have accessSimple line drawings suffice for functional MRI decoding of natural scene categoriesDirk B. Walther, Barry Chai, Eamon Caddigan, Diane M. Beck, and Li Fei-Fei
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- Open AccessInfection with a plant virus modifies vector feeding behaviorCandice A. Stafford, Gregory P. Walker, and Diane E. Ullman
Anthropology
- You have accessDiet of Paranthropus boisei in the early Pleistocene of East Africa
- From the Cover
Thure E. Cerling, Emma Mbua, Francis M. Kirera, Fredrick Kyalo Manthi, Frederick E. Grine, Meave G. Leakey, Matt Sponheimer, and Kevin T. UnoSee companion article:
- The demise of “Nutcracker Man”- May 26, 2011
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessThe hummingbird tongue is a fluid trap, not a capillary tube
- From the Cover
Alejandro Rico-Guevara and Margaret A. RubegaSee companion article:
- Surface tension helps a tongue grab liquid- May 24, 2011
Biochemistry
- You have accessCrystal structure of lactose permease in complex with an affinity inactivator yields unique insight into sugar recognitionVincent Chaptal, Seunghyug Kwon, Michael R. Sawaya, Lan Guan, H. Ronald Kaback, and Jeff Abramson
- Open AccessRecognition of the centromere-specific histone Cse4 by the chaperone Scm3Uhn-Soo Cho and Stephen C. Harrison
- You have accessHelicase-DNA polymerase interaction is critical to initiate leading-strand DNA synthesisHuidong Zhang, Seung-Joo Lee, Bin Zhu, Ngoc Q. Tran, Stanley Tabor, and Charles C. Richardson
- You have accessNaturally occurring aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases editing-domain mutations that cause mistranslation in Mycoplasma parasitesLi Li, Michal T. Boniecki, Jacob D. Jaffe, Brian S. Imai, Peter M. Yau, Zaida A. Luthey-Schulten, and Susan A. Martinis
- You have accessStructure of a bacterial cell surface decaheme electron conduitThomas A. Clarke, Marcus J. Edwards, Andrew J. Gates, Andrea Hall, Gaye F. White, Justin Bradley, Catherine L. Reardon, Liang Shi, Alexander S. Beliaev, Matthew J. Marshall, Zheming Wang, Nicholas J. Watmough, James K. Fredrickson, John M. Zachara, Julea N. Butt, and David J. Richardson
- Open AccessPhotosynthetic electron partitioning between [FeFe]-hydrogenase and ferredoxin:NADP+-oxidoreductase (FNR) enzymes in vitroIftach Yacoby, Sergii Pochekailov, Hila Toporik, Maria L. Ghirardi, Paul W. King, and Shuguang Zhang
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessKinetics of cyclobutane thymine dimer splitting by DNA photolyase directly monitored in the UVViruthachalam Thiagarajan, Martin Byrdin, André P. M. Eker, Pavel Müller, and Klaus Brettel
- You have accessActive multistage coarsening of actin networks driven by myosin motorsMarina Soares e Silva, Martin Depken, Björn Stuhrmann, Marijn Korsten, Fred C. MacKintosh, and Gijsje H. Koenderink
- You have accessDynamics of enzymatic digestion of elastic fibers and networks under tensionAscânio D. Araújo, Arnab Majumdar, Harikrishnan Parameswaran, Eunice Yi, Jean L. Spencer, Matthew A. Nugent, and Béla Suki
- You have accessInteraction of a G protein with an activated receptor opens the interdomain interface in the alpha subunitNed Van Eps, Anita M. Preininger, Nathan Alexander, Ali I. Kaya, Scott Meier, Jens Meiler, Heidi E. Hamm, and Wayne L. Hubbell
- You have accessRelating domain size distribution to line tension and molecular dipole density in model cytoplasmic myelin lipid monolayersDong Woog Lee, Younjin Min, Prajnaparamitra Dhar, Arun Ramachandran, Jacob N. Israelachvili, and Joseph A. Zasadzinski
- You have accessForming giant vesicles with controlled membrane composition, asymmetry, and contentsDavid L. Richmond, Eva M. Schmid, Sascha Martens, Jeanne C. Stachowiak, Nicole Liska, and Daniel A. Fletcher
- You have accessSolution structure of the ESCRT-I complex by small-angle X-ray scattering, EPR, and FRET spectroscopyEvzen Boura, Bartosz Różycki, Dawn Z. Herrick, Hoi Sung Chung, Jaroslav Vecer, William A. Eaton, David S. Cafiso, Gerhard Hummer, and James H. Hurley
- Open AccessHuman telomerase model shows the role of the TEN domain in advancing the double helix for the next polymerization stepKamil Steczkiewicz, Michael T. Zimmermann, Mateusz Kurcinski, Benjamin A. Lewis, Drena Dobbs, Andrzej Kloczkowski, Robert L. Jernigan, Andrzej Kolinski, and Krzysztof Ginalski
- You have accessStructural basis of photosensitivity in a bacterial light-oxygen-voltage/helix-turn-helix (LOV-HTH) DNA-binding proteinAbigail I. Nash, Reginald McNulty, Mary Elizabeth Shillito, Trevor E. Swartz, Roberto A. Bogomolni, Hartmut Luecke, and Kevin H. Gardner
- Open AccessForces guiding assembly of light-harvesting complex 2 in native membranesLu-Ning Liu, Katia Duquesne, Filipp Oesterhelt, James N. Sturgis, and Simon Scheuring
- You have accessIslet amyloid polypeptide demonstrates a persistent capacity to disrupt membrane integrityNicholas B. Last, Elizabeth Rhoades, and Andrew D. Miranker
Cell Biology
- You have accessIntegrin activation and internalization on soft ECM as a mechanism of induction of stem cell differentiation by ECM elasticityJing Du, Xiaofei Chen, Xudong Liang, Guangyao Zhang, Jia Xu, Linrong He, Qingyuan Zhan, Xi-Qiao Feng, Shu Chien, and Chun Yang
- You have accessApoptosis regulator through modulating IAP expression (ARIA) controls the PI3K/Akt pathway in endothelial and endothelial progenitor cellsMasahiro Koide, Koji Ikeda, Yoshiki Akakabe, Youhei Kitamura, Tomomi Ueyama, Satoaki Matoba, Hiroyuki Yamada, Mitsuhiko Okigaki, and Hiroaki Matsubara
- You have accessCholinergic chemosensory cells in the trachea regulate breathingGabriela Krasteva, Brendan J. Canning, Petra Hartmann, Tibor Z. Veres, Tamara Papadakis, Christian Mühlfeld, Kirstin Schliecker, Yvonne N. Tallini, Armin Braun, Holger Hackstein, Nelli Baal, Eberhard Weihe, Burkhard Schütz, Michael Kotlikoff, Ines Ibanez-Tallon, and Wolfgang Kummer
Developmental Biology
- You have accessHedgehog signaling is required for formation of the notochord sheath and patterning of nuclei pulposi within the intervertebral discsKyung-Suk Choi and Brian D. Harfe
- You have accessPolycomb repressive complex 2 is necessary for the normal site-specific O-GlcNAc distribution in mouse embryonic stem cellsSamuel A. Myers, Barbara Panning, and Alma L. Burlingame
Ecology
- You have accessSelectivity of terrestrial gastropod extinctions on an oceanic archipelago and insights into the anthropogenic extinction processSatoshi Chiba and Kaustuv Roy
- Open AccessCoincident mass extirpation of neotropical amphibians with the emergence of the infectious fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis
- From the Cover
Tina L. Cheng, Sean M. Rovito, David B. Wake, and Vance T. VredenburgSee companion article:
- Museum collections: Mining the past to manage the future- May 24, 2011
- You have accessSoil warming, carbon–nitrogen interactions, and forest carbon budgetsJerry M. Melillo, Sarah Butler, Jennifer Johnson, Jacqueline Mohan, Paul Steudler, Heidi Lux, Elizabeth Burrows, Francis Bowles, Rose Smith, Lindsay Scott, Chelsea Vario, Troy Hill, Andrew Burton, Yu-Mei Zhou, and Jim Tang
- Open AccessBehavioral thermoregulation by turtle embryosWei-Guo Du, Bo Zhao, Ye Chen, and Richard Shine
- Open AccessThe trans-Himalayan flights of bar-headed geese (Anser indicus)Lucy A. Hawkes, Sivananinthaperumal Balachandran, Nyambayar Batbayar, Patrick J. Butler, Peter B. Frappell, William K. Milsom, Natsagdorj Tseveenmyadag, Scott H. Newman, Graham R. Scott, Ponnusamy Sathiyaselvam, John Y. Takekawa, Martin Wikelski, and Charles M. Bishop
Evolution
- You have accessRare gene capture in predominantly androgenetic speciesShannon M. Hedtke, Matthias Glaubrecht, and David M. Hillis
- You have accessCommunity interactions govern host-switching with implications for host–parasite coevolutionary historyChristopher W. Harbison and Dale H. Clayton
Genetics
- You have accessDetection and quantification of rare mutations with massively parallel sequencingIsaac Kinde, Jian Wu, Nick Papadopoulos, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein
Immunology
- You have accessStructural basis for enabling T-cell receptor diversity within biased virus-specific CD8+ T-cell responsesE. Bridie Day, Carole Guillonneau, Stephanie Gras, Nicole L. La Gruta, Dario A. A. Vignali, Peter C. Doherty, Anthony W. Purcell, Jamie Rossjohn, and Stephen J. Turner
- You have accessKey role for IL-21 in experimental autoimmune uveitisLu Wang, Cheng-Rong Yu, Hyoung-Pyo Kim, Wei Liao, William G. Telford, Charles E. Egwuagu, and Warren J. Leonard
- You have accessSpontaneous and aging-dependent development of arthritis in NADPH oxidase 2 deficiency through altered differentiation of CD11b+ and Th/Treg cellsKihyun Lee, Hee Yeon Won, Myung Ae Bae, Jeong-Ho Hong, and Eun Sook Hwang
- You have accessGlucocorticoids target suppressor of cytokine signaling 1 (SOCS1) and type 1 interferons to regulate Toll-like receptor–induced STAT1 activationSandip Bhattacharyya, Yuxing Zhao, Thomas W. H. Kay, and Louis J. Muglia
- You have accessInflammatory disease protective R381Q IL23 receptor polymorphism results in decreased primary CD4+ and CD8+ human T-cell functional responsesRitu Sarin, Xingxin Wu, and Clara Abraham
- You have accessCCCTC-binding factor (CTCF) and cohesin influence the genomic architecture of the Igh locus and antisense transcription in pro-B cellsStephanie C. Degner, Jiyoti Verma-Gaur, Timothy P. Wong, Claudia Bossen, G. Michael Iverson, Ali Torkamani, Christian Vettermann, Yin C. Lin, Zhongliang Ju, Danae Schulz, Caroline S. Murre, Barbara K. Birshtein, Nicholas J. Schork, Mark S. Schlissel, Roy Riblet, Cornelis Murre, and Ann J. Feeney
Medical Sciences
- Open AccessPTEN-inducible kinase 1 (PINK1)/Park6 is indispensable for normal heart functionFilio Billia, Ludger Hauck, Filip Konecny, Vivek Rao, Jie Shen, and Tak Wah Mak
- Open AccessNoninvasive measurement of androgen receptor signaling with a positron-emitting radiopharmaceutical that targets prostate-specific membrane antigenMichael J. Evans, Peter M. Smith-Jones, John Wongvipat, Vincent Navarro, Sae Kim, Neil H. Bander, Steven M. Larson, and Charles L. Sawyers
- Open AccessPlatelet gene therapy improves hemostatic function for integrin αIIbβ3-deficient dogsJuan Fang, Eric S. Jensen, Mary K. Boudreaux, Lily M. Du, Troy B. Hawkins, Sevasti B. Koukouritaki, Kenneth Cornetta, and David A. Wilcox
- Open AccessCanonical hedgehog signaling augments tumor angiogenesis by induction of VEGF-A in stromal perivascular cellsWeiwei Chen, Tracy Tang, Jeff Eastham-Anderson, Debra Dunlap, Bruno Alicke, Michelle Nannini, Stephen Gould, Robert Yauch, Zora Modrusan, Kelly J. DuPree, Walter C. Darbonne, Greg Plowman, Frederic J. de Sauvage, and Christopher A. Callahan
- You have accessGain of chromosome band 7q11 in papillary thyroid carcinomas of young patients is associated with exposure to low-dose irradiation
- From the Cover
Julia Heß, Gerry Thomas, Herbert Braselmann, Verena Bauer, Tatjana Bogdanova, Johannes Wienberg, Horst Zitzelsberger, and Kristian Unger - You have accessNod-like receptor pyrin domain-containing protein 6 (NLRP6) controls epithelial self-renewal and colorectal carcinogenesis upon injurySylvain Normand, Anne Delanoye-Crespin, Aude Bressenot, Ludovic Huot, Teddy Grandjean, Laurent Peyrin-Biroulet, Yves Lemoine, David Hot, and Mathias Chamaillard
- You have accessGuanine nucleotide exchange factor Vav1 regulates perivascular homing and bone marrow retention of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cellsAbel Sanchez-Aguilera, Yun-Jung Lee, Cristina Lo Celso, Francesca Ferraro, Kristina Brumme, Subhanjan Mondal, Chaekyun Kim, Adrienne Dorrance, Hongbo R. Luo, David T. Scadden, and David A. Williams
- Open AccessEndothelium-protective sphingosine-1-phosphate provided by HDL-associated apolipoprotein MChristina Christoffersen, Hideru Obinata, Sunil B. Kumaraswamy, Sylvain Galvani, Josefin Ahnström, Madhumati Sevvana, Claudia Egerer-Sieber, Yves A. Muller, Timothy Hla, Lars B. Nielsen, and Björn Dahlbäck
Microbiology
- Open AccessStructural basis for immunization with postfusion respiratory syncytial virus fusion F glycoprotein (RSV F) to elicit high neutralizing antibody titersKurt A. Swanson, Ethan C. Settembre, Christine A. Shaw, Antu K. Dey, Rino Rappuoli, Christian W. Mandl, Philip R. Dormitzer, and Andrea Carfi
- Open AccessPolymorphic family of injected pseudokinases is paramount in Toxoplasma virulenceMichael L. Reese, Gusti M. Zeiner, Jeroen P. J. Saeij, John C. Boothroyd, and Jon P. Boyle
- You have accessVirulence differences in Toxoplasma mediated by amplification of a family of polymorphic pseudokinasesMichael S. Behnke, Asis Khan, John C. Wootton, Jitender P. Dubey, Keliang Tang, and L. David Sibley
- You have accessHydrogen-bonding networks and RNA bases revealed by cryo electron microscopy suggest a triggering mechanism for calcium switchesPeng Ge and Z. Hong Zhou
- You have accessGenetic and molecular analyses reveal an evolutionary trajectory for glycan synthesis in a bacterial protein glycosylation systemBente Børud, Raimonda Viburiene, Meredith D. Hartley, Berit Smestad Paulsen, Wolfgang Egge-Jacobsen, Barbara Imperiali, and Michael Koomey
- You have accessStage-specific proteomic expression patterns of the human filarial parasite Brugia malayi and its endosymbiont WolbachiaSasisekhar Bennuru, Zhaojing Meng, José M. C. Ribeiro, Roshanak Tolouei Semnani, Elodie Ghedin, King Chan, David A. Lucas, Timothy D. Veenstra, and Thomas B. Nutman
Neuroscience
- You have accessImpaired capacity for familiarity after hippocampal damageZhuang Song, John T. Wixted, Ramona O. Hopkins, and Larry R. Squire
- You have accessSimple line drawings suffice for functional MRI decoding of natural scene categoriesDirk B. Walther, Barry Chai, Eamon Caddigan, Diane M. Beck, and Li Fei-Fei
- You have accessTransfer characteristics of a thermosensory synapse in Caenorhabditis elegansAnusha Narayan, Gilles Laurent, and Paul W. Sternberg
- Open AccessEnhancer-driven membrane markers for analysis of nonautonomous mechanisms reveal neuron–glia interactions in DrosophilaChun Han, Lily Yeh Jan, and Yuh-Nung Jan
- You have accessSparse low-order interaction network underlies a highly correlated and learnable neural population codeElad Ganmor, Ronen Segev, and Elad Schneidman
- Open AccessNeural correlates of illusory motion perception in DrosophilaJohn C. Tuthill, M. Eugenia Chiappe, and Michael B. Reiser
- You have accessImportant roles of brain-specific carnitine palmitoyltransferase and ceramide metabolism in leptin hypothalamic control of feedingSu Gao, Guangjing Zhu, Xuefei Gao, Donghai Wu, Patricia Carrasco, Núria Casals, Fausto G. Hegardt, Timothy H. Moran, and Gary D. Lopaschuk
- You have accessGenetic modulation of horizontal cell number in the mouse retinaIrene E. Whitney, Mary A. Raven, Daniel C. Ciobanu, Ross A. Poché, Qian Ding, Yasser Elshatory, Lin Gan, Robert W. Williams, and Benjamin E. Reese
- You have accessES cell-derived renewable and functional midbrain dopaminergic progenitorsSangmi Chung, Jung-Il Moon, Amanda Leung, Daniel Aldrich, Stefan Lukianov, Yui Kitayama, Sara Park, Yan Li, Vadim Y. Bolshakov, Thomas Lamonerie, and Kwang-Soo Kim
Plant Biology
- Open AccessGenome-wide network model capturing seed germination reveals coordinated regulation of plant cellular phase transitions
- From the Cover
George W. Bassel, Hui Lan, Enrico Glaab, Daniel J. Gibbs, Tanja Gerjets, Natalio Krasnogor, Anthony J. Bonner, Michael J. Holdsworth, and Nicholas J. Provart
Systems Biology
- Open AccessExpanded methyl-sensitive cut counting reveals hypomethylation as an epigenetic state that highlights functional sequences of the genomeAlejandro Colaneri, Nickolas Staffa, David C. Fargo, Yuan Gao, Tianyuan Wang, Shyamal D. Peddada, and Lutz Birnbaumer
- You have accessConvergent transcription confers a bistable switch in Enterococcus faecalis conjugationAnushree Chatterjee, Christopher M. Johnson, Che-Chi Shu, Yiannis N. Kaznessis, Doraiswami Ramkrishna, Gary M. Dunny, and Wei-Shou Hu
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