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August 30, 2011; vol. 108 no. 35
This Week in PNAS
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessStructure of the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromeric histones Cse4-H4 complexed with the chaperone Scm3Hanqiao Feng, Zheng Zhou, Bing-Rui Zhou, and Yawen Bai
- You have accessReply to Feng et al.: Structures of Scm3–Cse4–H4 complexesUhn-Soo Cho and Stephen C. Harrison
- You have accessRobust statistics show no evidence for a relationship between fiber density and memory performanceGuillaume A. Rousselet and Cyril R. Pernet
- You have accessReply to Rousselet et al.: A robust relationship between fiber density and memory recallBjörn H. Schott and Emrah Düzel
PNAS Plus (Author Summaries and Research Articles)
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
- You have accessSite-specific and redox-controlled S-nitrosation of thioredoxinKatherine T. Barglow, Charles G. Knutson, John S. Wishnok, Steven R. Tannenbaum, and Michael A. Marletta
Neuroscience
- You have accessCellular correlate of assembly formation in oscillating hippocampal networks in vitroFlorian Bähner, Elisa K. Weiss, Gunnar Birke, Nikolaus Maier, Dietmar Schmitz, Uwe Rudolph, Michael Frotscher, Roger D. Traub, Martin Both, and Andreas Draguhn
- You have accessC terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP)-mediated degradation of hippocampal estrogen receptor-α and the critical period hypothesis of estrogen neuroprotection
- From the Cover
Quan-guang Zhang, Dong Han, Rui-min Wang, Yan Dong, Fang Yang, Ratna K. Vadlamudi, and Darrell W. BrannSee companion article:
Perspective
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessFree radical functionalization of surfaces to prevent adverse responses to biomedical devicesMarcela M. M. Bilek, Daniel V. Bax, Alexey Kondyurin, Yongbai Yin, Neil J. Nosworthy, Keith Fisher, Anna Waterhouse, Anthony S. Weiss, Cristobal G. dos Remedios, and David R. McKenzie
Chemistry
- You have accessInnate C-H trifluoromethylation of heterocyclesYining Ji, Tobias Brueckl, Ryan D. Baxter, Yuta Fujiwara, Ian B. Seiple, Shun Su, Donna G. Blackmond, and Phil S. Baran
- Open AccessRemarkable patterns of surface water ordering around polarized buckminsterfullereneGaurav Chopra and Michael Levitt
- You have accessProtons migrate along interfacial water without significant contributions from jumps between ionizable groups on the membrane surfaceAndreas Springer, Volker Hagen, Dmitry A. Cherepanov, Yuri N. Antonenko, and Peter Pohl
Engineering
- You have accessAge-related changes in the plasticity and toughness of human cortical bone at multiple length scalesElizabeth A. Zimmermann, Eric Schaible, Hrishikesh Bale, Holly D. Barth, Simon Y. Tang, Peter Reichert, Bjoern Busse, Tamara Alliston, Joel W. Ager III, and Robert O. Ritchie
Geophysics
- You have accessEvidence of neutron leakage at the Fukushima nuclear plant from measurements of radioactive 35S in CaliforniaAntra Priyadarshi, Gerardo Dominguez, and Mark H. Thiemens
Social Sciences
Anthropology
- You have accessDemography and ecology drive variation in cooperation across human populationsShakti Lamba and Ruth Mace
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
- You have accessDemography and ecology drive variation in cooperation across human populationsShakti Lamba and Ruth Mace
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessAge-related changes in the plasticity and toughness of human cortical bone at multiple length scalesElizabeth A. Zimmermann, Eric Schaible, Hrishikesh Bale, Holly D. Barth, Simon Y. Tang, Peter Reichert, Bjoern Busse, Tamara Alliston, Joel W. Ager III, and Robert O. Ritchie
Biochemistry
- You have accessFlexibility of the C-terminal, or CII, ring of KaiC governs the rhythm of the circadian clock of cyanobacteria
- From the Cover
Yong-Gang Chang, Nai-Wei Kuo, Roger Tseng, and Andy LiWangSee companion article:
- Dynamic fluctuations lubricate the circadian clock- Aug 23, 2011
- You have accessNucleotide pyrophosphatase employs a P-loop-like motif to enhance catalytic power and NDP/NTP discriminationIldikó Pécsi, Judit E. Szabó, Scott D. Adams, István Simon, James R. Sellers, Beáta G. Vértessy, and Judit Tóth
- You have accessStructural basis of simultaneous recruitment of the transcriptional regulators LMO2 and FOG1/ZFPM1 by the transcription factor GATA1Lorna Wilkinson-White, Roland Gamsjaeger, Siavoush Dastmalchi, Beeke Wienert, Philippa H. Stokes, Merlin Crossley, Joel P. Mackay, and Jacqueline M. Matthews
- You have accessWAVE regulatory complex activation by cooperating GTPases Arf and Rac1Vassilis Koronakis, Peter J. Hume, Daniel Humphreys, Tao Liu, Ole Hørning, Ole N. Jensen, and Emma J. McGhie
- You have accessSite-specific and redox-controlled S-nitrosation of thioredoxinKatherine T. Barglow, Charles G. Knutson, John S. Wishnok, Steven R. Tannenbaum, and Michael A. Marletta
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessFree radical functionalization of surfaces to prevent adverse responses to biomedical devicesMarcela M. M. Bilek, Daniel V. Bax, Alexey Kondyurin, Yongbai Yin, Neil J. Nosworthy, Keith Fisher, Anna Waterhouse, Anthony S. Weiss, Cristobal G. dos Remedios, and David R. McKenzie
- Open AccessRemarkable patterns of surface water ordering around polarized buckminsterfullereneGaurav Chopra and Michael Levitt
- You have accessProtons migrate along interfacial water without significant contributions from jumps between ionizable groups on the membrane surfaceAndreas Springer, Volker Hagen, Dmitry A. Cherepanov, Yuri N. Antonenko, and Peter Pohl
- You have accessTemporary increase in plasma membrane tension coordinates the activation of exocytosis and contraction during cell spreading
- From the Cover
Nils C. Gauthier, Marc Antoine Fardin, Pere Roca-Cusachs, and Michael P. SheetzSee companion article:
- Membrane tension leads the way- Aug 23, 2011
Cell Biology
- Open AccessAugmin promotes meiotic spindle formation and bipolarity in Xenopus egg extractsSabine Petry, Céline Pugieux, François J. Nédélec, and Ronald D. Vale
- Open AccessReconstruction of human elastic cartilage by a CD44+ CD90+ stem cell in the ear perichondriumShinji Kobayashi, Takanori Takebe, Midori Inui, Sayaka Iwai, Hiroomi Kan, Yun-Wen Zheng, Jiro Maegawa, and Hideki Taniguchi
- Open AccessParallel adaptive feedback enhances reliability of the Ca2+ signaling systemEllen Abell, Robert Ahrends, Samuel Bandara, Byung Ouk Park, and Mary N. Teruel
- You have accessHeme oxygenase-1 and carbon monoxide modulate DNA repair through ataxia-telangiectasia mutated (ATM) proteinLeo E. Otterbein, Andreas Hedblom, Clair Harris, Eva Csizmadia, David Gallo, and Barbara Wegiel
- You have accessOCT4 establishes and maintains nucleosome-depleted regions that provide additional layers of epigenetic regulation of its target genesJueng Soo You, Theresa K. Kelly, Daniel D. De Carvalho, Phillippa C. Taberlay, Gangning Liang, and Peter A. Jones
- You have accessFusion-activated Ca2+ entry via vesicular P2X4 receptors promotes fusion pore opening and exocytotic content release in pneumocytesPika Miklavc, Norbert Mair, Oliver H. Wittekindt, Thomas Haller, Paul Dietl, Edward Felder, Melanie Timmler, and Manfred Frick
- You have accessPI3K/Akt signaling requires spatial compartmentalization in plasma membrane microdomainsXinxin Gao, Pamela R. Lowry, Xin Zhou, Charlene Depry, Zhikui Wei, G. William Wong, and Jin Zhang
Ecology
- You have accessDivergent ecosystem responses within a benthic marine community to ocean acidificationKristy J. Kroeker, Fiorenza Micheli, Maria Cristina Gambi, and Todd R. Martz
- You have accessReconstruction of a 1,910-y-long locust series reveals consistent associations with climate fluctuations in ChinaHuidong Tian, Leif C. Stige, Bernard Cazelles, Kyrre Linne Kausrud, Rune Svarverud, Nils C. Stenseth, and Zhibin Zhang
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessDynamics of the plague–wildlife–human system in Central Asia are controlled by two epidemiological thresholdsNoelle I. Samia, Kyrre Linné Kausrud, Hans Heesterbeek, Vladimir Ageyev, Mike Begon, Kung-Sik Chan, and Nils C. Stenseth
Evolution
- You have accessEocene habitat shift from saline to freshwater promoted Tethyan amphipod diversificationZhonge Hou, Boris Sket, Cene Fišer, and Shuqiang Li
- You have accessMicrobe domestication and the identification of the wild genetic stock of lager-brewing yeast
- From the Cover
Diego Libkind, Chris Todd Hittinger, Elisabete Valério, Carla Gonçalves, Jim Dover, Mark Johnston, Paula Gonçalves, and José Paulo Sampaio - Open AccessCranial asymmetry in Eocene archaeocete whales and the evolution of directional hearing in waterJulia M. Fahlke, Philip D. Gingerich, Robert C. Welsh, and Aaron R. Wood
- You have accessLow-frequency songs lose their potency in noisy urban conditionsWouter Halfwerk, Sander Bot, Jasper Buikx, Marco van der Velde, Jan Komdeur, Carel ten Cate, and Hans Slabbekoorn
- You have accessPhylogenetic rate shifts in feeding time during the evolution of HomoChris Organ, Charles L. Nunn, Zarin Machanda, and Richard W. Wrangham
Genetics
- You have accessRegenerative phenotype in mice with a point mutation in transforming growth factor β type I receptor (TGFBR1)Jun Liu, Kristen Johnson, Jie Li, Victoria Piamonte, Brian M. Steffy, Mindy H. Hsieh, Nicholas Ng, Jay Zhang, John R. Walker, Sheng Ding, Ken Muneoka, Xu Wu, Richard Glynne, and Peter G. Schultz
- You have accessTen-Eleven-Translocation 2 (TET2) negatively regulates homeostasis and differentiation of hematopoietic stem cells in miceMyunggon Ko, Hozefa S. Bandukwala, Jungeun An, Edward D. Lamperti, Elizabeth C. Thompson, Ryan Hastie, Angeliki Tsangaratou, Klaus Rajewsky, Sergei B. Koralov, and Anjana Rao
- You have accessPalmitoylation controls the dynamics of budding-yeast heterochromatin via the telomere-binding protein Rif1Sookhee Park, Erin E. Patterson, Jenel Cobb, Anjon Audhya, Marc R. Gartenberg, and Catherine A. Fox
- You have accessIncreased expression of multifunctional serine protease, HTRA1, in retinal pigment epithelium induces polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy in miceAlex Jones, Sandeep Kumar, Ning Zhang, Zongzhong Tong, Jia-Hui Yang, Carl Watt, James Anderson, Amrita, Heather Fillerup, Manabu McCloskey, Ling Luo, Zhenglin Yang, Balamurali Ambati, Robert Marc, Chio Oka, Kang Zhang, and Yingbin Fu
Immunology
- You have accessMobilization of natural killer cells inhibits development of collagen-induced arthritisJianmei W. Leavenworth, Xiaoyang Wang, Carola Schellack Wenander, Pieter Spee, and Harvey Cantor
- You have accessMitochondrial-associated endoplasmic reticulum membranes (MAM) form innate immune synapses and are targeted by hepatitis C virusStacy M. Horner, Helene Minyi Liu, Hae Soo Park, Jessica Briley, and Michael Gale Jr.
- You have accessMalt1-dependent RelB cleavage promotes canonical NF-κB activation in lymphocytes and lymphoma cell linesStephan Hailfinger, Hendrik Nogai, Christiane Pelzer, Maike Jaworski, Katrin Cabalzar, Jean-Enno Charton, Montserrat Guzzardi, Chantal Décaillet, Michael Grau, Bernd Dörken, Peter Lenz, Georg Lenz, and Margot Thome
- You have accessQuantitative impact of thymic selection on Foxp3+ and Foxp3− subsets of self-peptide/MHC class II-specific CD4+ T cellsJames J. Moon, Pradyot Dash, Thomas H. Oguin III, Jennifer L. McClaren, H. Hamlet Chu, Paul G. Thomas, and Marc K. Jenkins
Medical Sciences
- You have accessSirtuin-3 (Sirt3) regulates skeletal muscle metabolism and insulin signaling via altered mitochondrial oxidation and reactive oxygen species productionEnxuan Jing, Brice Emanuelli, Matthew D. Hirschey, Jeremie Boucher, Kevin Y. Lee, David Lombard, Eric M. Verdin, and C. Ronald Kahn
- You have accessVascular cell-adhesion molecule-1 plays a central role in the proangiogenic effects of oxidative stressAling Dong, Jikui Shen, MingBing Zeng, and Peter A. Campochiaro
- Open AccessPreclinical evaluation and validation of [18F]HX4, a promising hypoxia marker for PET imagingLudwig J. Dubois, Natasja G. Lieuwes, Marco H. M. Janssen, Wenny J. M. Peeters, Albert D. Windhorst, Joseph C. Walsh, Hartmuth C. Kolb, Michel C. Öllers, Johan Bussink, Guus A. M. S. van Dongen, Albert van der Kogel, and Philippe Lambin
- You have accessOptical imaging of breast cancer oxyhemoglobin flare correlates with neoadjuvant chemotherapy response one day after starting treatmentDarren Roblyer, Shigeto Ueda, Albert Cerussi, Wendy Tanamai, Amanda Durkin, Rita Mehta, David Hsiang, John A. Butler, Christine McLaren, Wen-Pin Chen, and Bruce Tromberg
Microbiology
- You have accessUS3 protein kinase of HSV-1 cycles between the cytoplasm and nucleus and interacts with programmed cell death protein 4 (PDCD4) to block apoptosisXiaojia Wang, Caroline Patenode, and Bernard Roizman
- You have accessBacterial community comparisons by taxonomy-supervised analysis independent of sequence alignment and clusteringWoo Jun Sul, James R. Cole, Ederson da C. Jesus, Qiong Wang, Ryan J. Farris, Jordan A. Fish, and James M. Tiedje
- Open AccessConjugative DNA transfer into human cells by the VirB/VirD4 type IV secretion system of the bacterial pathogen Bartonella henselaeGunnar Schröder, Ralf Schuelein, Maxime Quebatte, and Christoph Dehio
- You have accessConservation of the C-type lectin fold for massive sequence variation in a Treponema diversity-generating retroelementJohanne Le Coq and Partho Ghosh
Neuroscience
- Open AccessA stable hippocampal representation of a space requires its direct experienceDavid C. Rowland, Yelizaveta Yanovich, and Clifford G. Kentros
- Open AccessSlow intrinsic rhythm in the koniocellular visual pathwaySoon Keen Cheong, Chris Tailby, Paul R. Martin, Jonathan B. Levitt, and Samuel G. Solomon
- You have accessCellular correlate of assembly formation in oscillating hippocampal networks in vitroFlorian Bähner, Elisa K. Weiss, Gunnar Birke, Nikolaus Maier, Dietmar Schmitz, Uwe Rudolph, Michael Frotscher, Roger D. Traub, Martin Both, and Andreas Draguhn
- You have accessC terminus of Hsc70-interacting protein (CHIP)-mediated degradation of hippocampal estrogen receptor-α and the critical period hypothesis of estrogen neuroprotection
- From the Cover
Quan-guang Zhang, Dong Han, Rui-min Wang, Yan Dong, Fang Yang, Ratna K. Vadlamudi, and Darrell W. BrannSee companion article:
Physiology
- Open AccessControl of body size by oxygen supply reveals size-dependent and size-independent mechanisms of molting and metamorphosisViviane Callier and H. Frederik Nijhout
- You have accessSubcutaneous administration of leptin normalizes fasting plasma glucose in obese type 2 diabetic UCD-T2DM ratsBethany P. Cummings, Ahmed Bettaieb, James L. Graham, Kimber L. Stanhope, Riva Dill, Gregory J. Morton, Fawaz G. Haj, and Peter J. Havel
Plant Biology
- Open AccessConcerted action of two avirulent spore effectors activates Reaction to Puccinia graminis 1 (Rpg1)-mediated cereal stem rust resistanceJayaveeramuthu Nirmala, Tom Drader, Paulraj K. Lawrence, Chuntao Yin, Scot Hulbert, Camille M. Steber, Brian J. Steffenson, Les J. Szabo, Diter von Wettstein, and Andris Kleinhofs
- You have accessPhosphatidylinositol monophosphate-binding interface in the oomycete RXLR effector AVR3a is required for its stability in host cells to modulate plant immunity
- From the Cover
Takashi Yaeno, Hua Li, Angela Chaparro-Garcia, Sebastian Schornack, Seizo Koshiba, Satoru Watanabe, Takanori Kigawa, Sophien Kamoun, and Ken ShirasuSee companion article:
- You have accessIsoleucine 309 acts as a C4 catalytic switch that increases ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase (rubisco) carboxylation rate in FlaveriaSpencer M. Whitney, Robert E. Sharwood, Douglas Orr, Sarah J. White, Hernan Alonso, and Jeroni Galmés
- You have accessStability of plant immune-receptor resistance proteins is controlled by SKP1-CULLIN1-F-box (SCF)-mediated protein degradationYu Ti Cheng, Yingzhong Li, Shuai Huang, Yan Huang, Xinnian Dong, Yuelin Zhang, and Xin Li
Population Biology
- Open AccessEco-evolutionary spatial dynamics in the Glanville fritillary butterfly
- Inaugural Article
Ilkka A. HanskiSee companion article:
- Profile of Ilkka A. Hanski- Nov 21, 2011
Sustainability Science
- You have accessEffects of parasites from salmon farms on productivity of wild salmonMartin Krkošek, Brendan M. Connors, Alexandra Morton, Mark A. Lewis, Lawrence M. Dill, and Ray Hilborn
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