Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: 108 (37)

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September 13, 2011; vol. 108 no. 37

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PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15011-15012; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.iti3711108

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Lack of data to support a relationship between methane contamination of drinking water wells and hydraulic fracturing
Tarek Saba and Mark Orzechowski

PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E663; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108435108
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Hydraulic fracturing not responsible for methane migration
Samuel C. Schon

PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E664; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107960108
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Reply to Saba and Orzechowski and Schon: Methane contamination of drinking water accompanying gas-well drilling and hydraulic fracturing
Stephen G. Osborn, Avner Vengosh, Nathaniel R. Warner, and Robert B. Jackson

PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E665-E666; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109270108

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“Eppur si muove” (yet it moves)
Vicent Moliner

PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15013-15014; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112014108
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Reaction chemistry ABC-style
Alan E. Senior

PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15015-15016; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1111863108
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Sneak peak at galactocerebrosidase, Krabbe disease's lysosomal hydrolase
Raquel L. Lieberman

PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15017-15018; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112653108

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Physical Sciences – Chemistry – Biological Sciences – Biophysics and Computational Biology
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  Heterotrimeric G protein β₁γ₂ subunits change orientation upon complex formation with G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2) on a model membrane
  Andrew P. Boughton, Pei Yang, Valerie M. Tesmer, Bei Ding, John J. G. Tesmer, and Zhan Chen
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E667-E673; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108236108
Physical Sciences – Engineering – Biological Sciences – Biophysics and Computational Biology
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  Mechanical regulation of vascular growth and tissue regeneration in vivo
  Joel D. Boerckel, Brent A. Uhrig, Nick J. Willett, Nathaniel Huebsch, and Robert E. Guldberg
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E674-E680; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107019108
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    Huntingtin-interacting protein 14 is a type 1 diabetes candidate protein regulating insulin secretion and β-cell apoptosis
    Lukas Adrian Berchtold, Zenia Marian Størling, Fernanda Ortis, Kasper Lage, Claus Bang-Berthelsen, Regine Bergholdt, Jacob Hald, Caroline Anna Brorsson, Decio Laks Eizirik, Flemming Pociot, Søren Brunak, and Joachim Størling
    
    PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E681-E688; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104384108
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    CD4⁺ T cells from elite suppressors are more susceptible to HIV-1 but produce fewer virions than cells from chronic progressors
    Karen A. O'Connell, S. Alireza Rabi, Robert F. Siliciano, and Joel N. Blankson
    
    PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E689-E698; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108866108
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    PI3K-targeted therapy can be evaded by gene amplification along the MYC-eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) axis
    Nina Ilic, Tamara Utermark, Hans R. Widlund, and Thomas M. Roberts
    
    PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E699-E708; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108237108
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    Global discovery of small RNAs in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis identifies Yersinia-specific small, noncoding RNAs required for virulence
    Jovanka T. Koo, Trevis M. Alleyne, Chelsea A. Schiano, Nadereh Jafari, and Wyndham W. Lathem
    
    PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E709-E717; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101655108
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    Large-scale navigational map in a mammal
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    Asaf Tsoar, Ran Nathan, Yoav Bartan, Alexei Vyssotski, Giacomo Dell'Omo, and Nachum Ulanovsky
    
    PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E718-E724; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107365108
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    Optical imaging in galagos reveals parietal–frontal circuits underlying motor behavior
    Iwona Stepniewska, Robert M. Friedman, Omar A. Gharbawie, Christina M. Cerkevich, Anna W. Roe, and Jon H. Kaas
    
    PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E725-E732; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109925108
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    Recovery of stereopsis through perceptual learning in human adults with abnormal binocular vision
    Jian Ding and Dennis M. Levi
    
    PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E733-E741; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105183108

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Addiction: Beyond dopamine reward circuitry
Nora D. Volkow, Gene-Jack Wang, Joanna S. Fowler, Dardo Tomasi, and Frank Telang

PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15037-15042; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1010654108

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PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15043-15045; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1111960108

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  Mathematical accuracy of Aztec land surveys assessed from records in the Codex Vergara
  María del Carmen Jorge, Barbara J. Williams, C. E. Garza-Hume, and Arturo Olvera
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15053-15057; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107737108
Applied Physical Sciences
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  Herd behavior in a complex adaptive system
  Li Zhao, Guang Yang, Wei Wang, Yu Chen, J. P. Huang, Hirotada Ohashi, and H. Eugene Stanley
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15058-15063; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105239108
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  Wave drag on floating bodies
  Marie Le Merrer, Christophe Clanet, David Quéré, Élie Raphaël, and Frédéric Chevy
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15064-15068; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106662108
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  Controlling the dimensionality of charge transport in organic thin-film transistors
  Ari Laiho, Lars Herlogsson, Robert Forchheimer, Xavier Crispin, and Magnus Berggren
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15069-15073; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107063108
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  On the spontaneous collective motion of active matter
  Shenshen Wang and Peter G. Wolynes
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15184-15189; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112034108
Chemistry
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  Heterotrimeric G protein β₁γ₂ subunits change orientation upon complex formation with G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2) on a model membrane
  Andrew P. Boughton, Pei Yang, Valerie M. Tesmer, Bei Ding, John J. G. Tesmer, and Zhan Chen
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E667-E673; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108236108
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  Chemical genetic strategy for targeting protein kinases based on covalent complementarity
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  Adam L. Garske, Ulf Peters, Arianna T. Cortesi, Jenny L. Perez, and Kevan M. Shokat
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15046-15052; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1111239108
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  Emergence of potent inhibitors of metastasis in lung cancer via syntheses based on migrastatin
  Nicolas Lecomte, Jon T. Njardarson, Pavel Nagorny, Guangli Yang, Robert Downey, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Malcolm A. S. Moore, and Samuel J. Danishefsky
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15074-15078; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1015247108
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  Insights into the oxidative degradation of cellulose by a copper metalloenzyme that exploits biomass components
  R. Jason Quinlan, Matt D. Sweeney, Leila Lo Leggio, Harm Otten, Jens-Christian N. Poulsen, Katja Salomon Johansen, Kristian B. R. M. Krogh, Christian Isak Jørgensen, Morten Tovborg, Annika Anthonsen, Theodora Tryfona, Clive P. Walter, Paul Dupree, Feng Xu, Gideon J. Davies, and Paul H. Walton
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15079-15084; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105776108
Computer Sciences
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  Pattern of trauma determines the threshold for epileptic activity in a model of cortical deafferentation
  Vladislav Volman, Maxim Bazhenov, and Terrence J. Sejnowski
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15402-15407; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112066108
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  Cross-modal responses in the primary visual cortex encode complex objects and correlate with tactile discrimination
  Nivaldo Vasconcelos, Janaina Pantoja, Hindiael Belchior, Fábio Viegas Caixeta, Jean Faber, Marco Aurelio M. Freire, Vinícius Rosa Cota, Edson Anibal de Macedo, Diego A. Laplagne, Herman Martins Gomes, and Sidarta Ribeiro
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15408-15413; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102780108
Environmental Sciences
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  Implications for the hydrologic cycle under climate change due to the expansion of bioenergy crops in the Midwestern United States
  Phong V. V. Le, Praveen Kumar, and Darren T. Drewry
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15085-15090; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107177108
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  Asymmetric dispersal allows an upstream region to control population structure throughout a species’ range
  James M. Pringle, April M. H. Blakeslee, James E. Byers, and Joe Roman
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15288-15293; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100473108
Geology
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  Biologically induced initiation of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth events
  Eli Tziperman, Itay Halevy, David T. Johnston, Andrew H. Knoll, and Daniel P. Schrag
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15091-15096; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1016361108
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  Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary
  Nicholas R. Longrich, Tim Tokaryk, and Daniel J. Field
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15253-15257; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110395108
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  Quantum heat engine power can be increased by noise-induced coherence
  Marlan O. Scully, Kimberly R. Chapin, Konstantin E. Dorfman, Moochan Barnabas Kim, and Anatoly Svidzinsky
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15097-15100; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110234108
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  High-temperature high-pressure phases of lithium from electron force field (eFF) quantum electron dynamics simulations
  Hyungjun Kim, Julius T. Su, and William A. Goddard III
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15101-15105; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110322108
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  3D lithography by rapid curing of the liquid instabilities at nanoscale
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  Simonetta Grilli, Sara Coppola, Veronica Vespini, Francesco Merola, Andrea Finizio, and Pietro Ferraro
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15106-15111; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110676108
Statistics
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  Lack of confidence in approximate Bayesian computation model choice
  Christian P. Robert, Jean-Marie Cornuet, Jean-Michel Marin, and Natesh S. Pillai
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15112-15117; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102900108
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  Bayesian design of synthetic biological systems
  Chris P. Barnes, Daniel Silk, Xia Sheng, and Michael P. H. Stumpf
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15190-15195; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1017972108

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  Genetic evidence for archaic admixture in Africa
  Michael F. Hammer, August E. Woerner, Fernando L. Mendez, Joseph C. Watkins, and Jeffrey D. Wall
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15123-15128; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109300108
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  Strong reproductive isolation between humans and Neanderthals inferred from observed patterns of introgression
  Mathias Currat and Laurent Excoffier
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15129-15134; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107450108
Applied Biological Sciences
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  Reiterative Recombination for the in vivo assembly of libraries of multigene pathways
  Laura M. Wingler and Virginia W. Cornish
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15135-15140; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100507108
Biochemistry
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  Chemical genetic strategy for targeting protein kinases based on covalent complementarity
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  Adam L. Garske, Ulf Peters, Arianna T. Cortesi, Jenny L. Perez, and Kevan M. Shokat
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15046-15052; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1111239108
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  Large collective motions regulate the functional properties of glutamate transporter trimers
  Jie Jiang, Indira H. Shrivastava, Spencer D. Watts, Ivet Bahar, and Susan G. Amara
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15141-15146; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112216108
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  Opening the periplasmic cavity in lactose permease is the limiting step for sugar binding
  Irina Smirnova, Vladimir Kasho, Junichi Sugihara, and H. Ronald Kaback
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15147-15151; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112157108
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  Snapshots of the maltose transporter during ATP hydrolysis
  Michael L. Oldham and Jue Chen
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15152-15156; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108858108
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  The former annotated human pseudogene dihydrofolate reductase-like 1 (DHFRL1) is expressed and functional
  Gráinne McEntee, Stefano Minguzzi, Kirsty O’Brien, Nadia Ben Larbi, Christine Loscher, Ciarán Ó’Fágáin, and Anne Parle-McDermott
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15157-15162; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103605108
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  Identification of a de novo thymidylate biosynthesis pathway in mammalian mitochondria
  Donald D. Anderson, Cynthia M. Quintero, and Patrick J. Stover
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15163-15168; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103623108
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  Insights into Krabbe disease from structures of galactocerebrosidase
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  Janet E. Deane, Stephen C. Graham, Nee Na Kim, Penelope E. Stein, Rosamund McNair, M. Begoña Cachón-González, Timothy M. Cox, and Randy J. Read
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15169-15173; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105639108
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  Correlation of in situ mechanosensitive responses of the Moraxella catarrhalis adhesin UspA1 with fibronectin and receptor CEACAM1 binding
  Christopher Agnew, Elena Borodina, Nathan R. Zaccai, Rebecca Conners, Nicholas M. Burton, James A. Vicary, David K. Cole, Massimo Antognozzi, Mumtaz Virji, and R. Leo Brady
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15174-15178; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106341108
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  In vivo protein-interaction mapping of a mitochondrial translocator protein Tom22 at work
  Takuya Shiota, Hide Mabuchi, Sachiko Tanaka-Yamano, Koji Yamano, and Toshiya Endo
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15179-15183; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105921108
Biophysics and Computational Biology
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  Heterotrimeric G protein β₁γ₂ subunits change orientation upon complex formation with G protein-coupled receptor kinase 2 (GRK2) on a model membrane
  Andrew P. Boughton, Pei Yang, Valerie M. Tesmer, Bei Ding, John J. G. Tesmer, and Zhan Chen
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E667-E673; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108236108
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  Mechanical regulation of vascular growth and tissue regeneration in vivo
  Joel D. Boerckel, Brent A. Uhrig, Nick J. Willett, Nathaniel Huebsch, and Robert E. Guldberg
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E674-E680; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107019108
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  Lack of confidence in approximate Bayesian computation model choice
  Christian P. Robert, Jean-Marie Cornuet, Jean-Michel Marin, and Natesh S. Pillai
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15112-15117; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102900108
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  On the spontaneous collective motion of active matter
  Shenshen Wang and Peter G. Wolynes
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15184-15189; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112034108
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  Bayesian design of synthetic biological systems
  Chris P. Barnes, Daniel Silk, Xia Sheng, and Michael P. H. Stumpf
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15190-15195; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1017972108
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  Interaction of complexes I, III, and IV within the bovine respirasome by single particle cryoelectron tomography
  Natalya V. Dudkina, Mikhail Kudryashev, Henning Stahlberg, and Egbert J. Boekema
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15196-15200; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107819108
Cell Biology
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  Huntingtin-interacting protein 14 is a type 1 diabetes candidate protein regulating insulin secretion and β-cell apoptosis
  Lukas Adrian Berchtold, Zenia Marian Størling, Fernanda Ortis, Kasper Lage, Claus Bang-Berthelsen, Regine Bergholdt, Jacob Hald, Caroline Anna Brorsson, Decio Laks Eizirik, Flemming Pociot, Søren Brunak, and Joachim Størling
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E681-E688; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104384108
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  Emergence of potent inhibitors of metastasis in lung cancer via syntheses based on migrastatin
  Nicolas Lecomte, Jon T. Njardarson, Pavel Nagorny, Guangli Yang, Robert Downey, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Malcolm A. S. Moore, and Samuel J. Danishefsky
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15074-15078; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1015247108
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  The mammalian target of rapamycin regulates cholesterol biosynthetic gene expression and exhibits a rapamycin-resistant transcriptional profile
  Beatrice T. Wang, Gregory S. Ducker, Andrea J. Barczak, Rebecca Barbeau, David J. Erle, and Kevan M. Shokat
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15201-15206; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103746108
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  Different telomere-length dynamics at the inner cell mass versus established embryonic stem (ES) cells
  Elisa Varela, Ralph P. Schneider, Sagrario Ortega, and Maria A. Blasco
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15207-15212; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105414108
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  β1 integrin cytoplasmic tyrosines promote skin tumorigenesis independent of their phosphorylation
  Alexander Meves, Tamar Geiger, Sara Zanivan, John DiGiovanni, Matthias Mann, and Reinhard Fässler
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15213-15218; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105689108
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  Expression of the metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5) induces melanoma in transgenic mice
  Kyu Yeong Choi, Kai Chang, James M. Pickel, John D. Badger II, and Katherine W. Roche
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15219-15224; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107304108
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  Calcium store sensor stromal-interaction molecule 1-dependent signaling plays an important role in cervical cancer growth, migration, and angiogenesis
  Yih-Fung Chen, Wen-Tai Chiu, Ying-Ting Chen, Pey-Yun Lin, Huey-Jy Huang, Cheng-Yang Chou, Hsien-Chang Chang, Ming-Jer Tang, and Meng-Ru Shen
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15225-15230; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103315108
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  Restraint of angiogenesis by zinc finger transcription factor CTCF-dependent chromatin insulation
  Ming Tang, Bo Chen, Tong Lin, Zhaozhong Li, Carolina Pardo, Christine Pampo, Jing Chen, Ching-Ling Lien, Lizi Wu, Lingbao Ai, Heiman Wang, Kai Yao, S. Paul Oh, Edward Seto, Lois E. H. Smith, Dietmar W. Siemann, Michael P. Kladde, Constance L. Cepko, and Jianrong Lu
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15231-15236; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104662108
Developmental Biology
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  Placental protection of the fetal brain during short-term food deprivation
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  Kevin D. Broad and Eric B. Keverne
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15237-15241; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106022108
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  Connective tissue growth factor acts within both endothelial cells and β cells to promote proliferation of developing β cells
  Michelle A. Guney, Christine P. Petersen, Andre Boustani, Matthew R. Duncan, Uma Gunasekaran, Renuka Menon, Courtney Warfield, Gary R. Grotendorst, Anna L. Means, Aris N. Economides, and Maureen Gannon
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15242-15247; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100072108
Ecology
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  Implications for the hydrologic cycle under climate change due to the expansion of bioenergy crops in the Midwestern United States
  Phong V. V. Le, Praveen Kumar, and Darren T. Drewry
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15085-15090; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107177108
Environmental Sciences
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  Extracellular reduction of uranium via Geobacter conductive pili as a protective cellular mechanism
  Dena L. Cologgi, Sanela Lampa-Pastirk, Allison M. Speers, Shelly D. Kelly, and Gemma Reguera
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15248-15252; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108616108
Evolution
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  Mass extinction of birds at the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary
  Nicholas R. Longrich, Tim Tokaryk, and Daniel J. Field
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15253-15257; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110395108
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  Horizontal gene transfer facilitated the evolution of plant parasitic mechanisms in the oomycetes
  Thomas A. Richards, Darren M. Soanes, Meredith D. M. Jones, Olga Vasieva, Guy Leonard, Konrad Paszkiewicz, Peter G. Foster, Neil Hall, and Nicholas J. Talbot
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15258-15263; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105100108
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  Primordial neurosecretory apparatus identified in the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis
  Pawel Burkhardt, Christian M. Stegmann, Benjamin Cooper, Tobias H. Kloepper, Cordelia Imig, Frédérique Varoqueaux, Markus C. Wahl, and Dirk Fasshauer
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15264-15269; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106189108
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  Convergent evolution of two mammalian neuronal enhancers by sequential exaptation of unrelated retroposons
  Lucía F. Franchini, Rodrigo López-Leal, Sofía Nasif, Paula Beati, Diego M. Gelman, Malcolm J. Low, Flávio J. S. de Souza, and Marcelo Rubinstein
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15270-15275; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104997108
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  Two types of cis-trans compensation in the evolution of transcriptional regulation
  K. Ryo Takahasi, Takashi Matsuo, and Toshiyuki Takano-Shimizu-Kouno
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15276-15281; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105814108
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  Alternative splicing of a single transcription factor drives selfish reproductive behavior in honeybee workers (Apis mellifera)
  Antje Jarosch, Eckart Stolle, Robin M. Crewe, and Robin F. A. Moritz
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15282-15287; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109343108
Genetics
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  Asymmetric dispersal allows an upstream region to control population structure throughout a species’ range
  James M. Pringle, April M. H. Blakeslee, James E. Byers, and Joe Roman
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15288-15293; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100473108
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  Context-dependent individualization of nucleotides and virtual genomic hybridization allow the precise location of human SNPs
  José Reyes, Laura Gómez-Romero, Ximena Ibarra-Soria, Kim Palacios-Flores, Luis R. Arriola, Alejandro Wences, Delfino García, Margareta Boege, Guillermo Dávila, Margarita Flores, and Rafael Palacios
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15294-15299; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112567108
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  Control of the function of the transcription and repair factor TFIIH by the action of the cochaperone Ydj1
  María Moriel-Carretero, Cristina Tous, and Andrés Aguilera
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15300-15305; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107425108
Immunology
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  Differentiation-dependent functional and epigenetic landscapes for cytokine genes in virus-specific CD8⁺ T cells
  Alice E. Denton, Brendan E. Russ, Peter C. Doherty, Sudha Rao, and Stephen J. Turner
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15306-15311; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112520108
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  Complementary roles of Fas-associated death domain (FADD) and receptor interacting protein kinase-3 (RIPK3) in T-cell homeostasis and antiviral immunity
  Jennifer V. Lu, Brian M. Weist, Bram J. van Raam, Brett S. Marro, Long V. Nguyen, Prathna Srinivas, Bryan D. Bell, Keith A. Luhrs, Thomas E. Lane, Guy S. Salvesen, and Craig M. Walsh
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15312-15317; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102779108
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  Single cell analysis reveals similar functional competence of dominant and nondominant CD8 T-cell clonotypes
  Daniel E. Speiser, Sébastien Wieckowski, Bhawna Gupta, Emanuela M. Iancu, Petra Baumgaertner, Lukas Baitsch, Olivier Michielin, Pedro Romero, and Nathalie Rufer
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15318-15323; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105419108
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  Inflammasome is a central player in the induction of obesity and insulin resistance
  Rinke Stienstra, Janna A. van Diepen, Cees J. Tack, Md. Hasan Zaki, Frank L. van de Veerdonk, Deshani Perera, Geoffrey A. Neale, Guido J. Hooiveld, Anneke Hijmans, Irene Vroegrijk, Sjoerd van den Berg, Johannes Romijn, Patrick C. N. Rensen, Leo A. B. Joosten, Mihai G. Netea, and Thirumala-Devi Kanneganti
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15324-15329; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1100255108
Medical Sciences
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  CD4⁺ T cells from elite suppressors are more susceptible to HIV-1 but produce fewer virions than cells from chronic progressors
  Karen A. O'Connell, S. Alireza Rabi, Robert F. Siliciano, and Joel N. Blankson
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E689-E698; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108866108
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  PI3K-targeted therapy can be evaded by gene amplification along the MYC-eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4E (eIF4E) axis
  Nina Ilic, Tamara Utermark, Hans R. Widlund, and Thomas M. Roberts
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E699-E708; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108237108
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  Amino acid substitution in NPC1 that abolishes cholesterol binding reproduces phenotype of complete NPC1 deficiency in mice
  Xuefen Xie, Michael S. Brown, John M. Shelton, James A. Richardson, Joseph L. Goldstein, and Guosheng Liang
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15330-15335; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112751108
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  Exosomal evasion of humoral immunotherapy in aggressive B-cell lymphoma modulated by ATP-binding cassette transporter A3
  Thiha Aung, Bjoern Chapuy, Daniel Vogel, Dirk Wenzel, Martin Oppermann, Marlen Lahmann, Toni Weinhage, Kerstin Menck, Timo Hupfeld, Raphael Koch, Lorenz Trümper, and Gerald G. Wulf
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15336-15341; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102855108
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  Fluid forces control endothelial sprouting
  Jonathan W. Song and Lance L. Munn
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15342-15347; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105316108
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  Forced expression of laminin β1 in podocytes prevents nephrotic syndrome in mice lacking laminin β2, a model for Pierson syndrome
  Jung Hee Suh, George Jarad, Rene G. VanDeVoorde, and Jeffrey H. Miner
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15348-15353; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108269108
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  Polyamine catabolism contributes to enterotoxigenic Bacteroides fragilis-induced colon tumorigenesis
  Andrew C. Goodwin, Christina E. Destefano Shields, Shaoguang Wu, David L. Huso, XinQun Wu, Tracy R. Murray-Stewart, Amy Hacker-Prietz, Shervin Rabizadeh, Patrick M. Woster, Cynthia L. Sears, and Robert A. Casero Jr.
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15354-15359; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1010203108
Microbiology
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  Global discovery of small RNAs in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis identifies Yersinia-specific small, noncoding RNAs required for virulence
  Jovanka T. Koo, Trevis M. Alleyne, Chelsea A. Schiano, Nadereh Jafari, and Wyndham W. Lathem
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E709-E717; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101655108
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  Quantitative lipid composition of cell envelopes of Corynebacterium glutamicum elucidated through reverse micelle extraction
  Ritu Bansal-Mutalik and Hiroshi Nikaido
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15360-15365; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112572108
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  Inhibition of influenza virus replication via small molecules that induce the formation of higher-order nucleoprotein oligomers
  Samuel W. Gerritz, Christopher Cianci, Sean Kim, Bradley C. Pearce, Carol Deminie, Linda Discotto, Brian McAuliffe, Beatrice F. Minassian, Shuhao Shi, Shirong Zhu, Weixu Zhai, Annapurna Pendri, Guo Li, Michael A. Poss, Suzanne Edavettal, Patricia A. McDonnell, Hal A. Lewis, Klaus Maskos, Mario Mörtl, Reiner Kiefersauer, Stefan Steinbacher, Eric T. Baldwin, William Metzler, James Bryson, Matthew D. Healy, Thomas Philip, Mary Zoeckler, Richard Schartman, Michael Sinz, Victor H. Leyva-Grado, Hans-Heinrich Hoffmann, David R. Langley, Nicholas A. Meanwell, and Mark Krystal
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15366-15371; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107906108
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  Intramolecular signal transmission in a tetrameric repressor of the IclR family
  Sandy Fillet, Tino Krell, Bertrand Morel, Duo Lu, Xiaodong Zhang, and Juan L. Ramos
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15372-15377; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1018894108
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  Metabolic basis for the differential susceptibility of Gram-positive pathogens to fatty acid synthesis inhibitors
  Joshua B. Parsons, Matthew W. Frank, Chitra Subramanian, Panatda Saenkham, and Charles O. Rock
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15378-15383; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109208108
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  Expression of the Sendai (murine parainfluenza) virus C protein alleviates restriction of measles virus growth in mouse cells
  Masaharu Iwasaki and Yusuke Yanagi
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15384-15389; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107382108
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  Bacterial outer membrane channel for divalent metal ion acquisition
  Thomas H. Hohle, William L. Franck, Gary Stacey, and Mark R. O'Brian
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15390-15395; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110137108
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  Circadian transcriptional regulation by the posttranslational oscillator without de novo clock gene expression in Synechococcus
  Norimune Hosokawa, Tetsuhiro S. Hatakeyama, Takashi Kojima, Yoshiyuki Kikuchi, Hiroshi Ito, and Hideo Iwasaki
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15396-15401; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1019612108
Neuroscience
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  Large-scale navigational map in a mammal
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  Asaf Tsoar, Ran Nathan, Yoav Bartan, Alexei Vyssotski, Giacomo Dell'Omo, and Nachum Ulanovsky
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E718-E724; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107365108
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  Optical imaging in galagos reveals parietal–frontal circuits underlying motor behavior
  Iwona Stepniewska, Robert M. Friedman, Omar A. Gharbawie, Christina M. Cerkevich, Anna W. Roe, and Jon H. Kaas
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E725-E732; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1109925108
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  Pattern of trauma determines the threshold for epileptic activity in a model of cortical deafferentation
  Vladislav Volman, Maxim Bazhenov, and Terrence J. Sejnowski
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15402-15407; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112066108
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  Cross-modal responses in the primary visual cortex encode complex objects and correlate with tactile discrimination
  Nivaldo Vasconcelos, Janaina Pantoja, Hindiael Belchior, Fábio Viegas Caixeta, Jean Faber, Marco Aurelio M. Freire, Vinícius Rosa Cota, Edson Anibal de Macedo, Diego A. Laplagne, Herman Martins Gomes, and Sidarta Ribeiro
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15408-15413; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102780108
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  Anterograde or retrograde transsynaptic labeling of CNS neurons with vesicular stomatitis virus vectors
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  Kevin T. Beier, Arpiar Saunders, Ian A. Oldenburg, Kazunari Miyamichi, Nazia Akhtar, Liqun Luo, Sean P. J. Whelan, Bernardo Sabatini, and Constance L. Cepko
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15414-15419; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1110854108
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  Dendritic coding of multiple sensory inputs in single cortical neurons in vivo
  Zsuzsanna Varga, Hongbo Jia, Bert Sakmann, and Arthur Konnerth
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15420-15425; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112355108
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  Mapping the receptor site for α-scorpion toxins on a Na⁺ channel voltage sensor
  Jinti Wang, Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Roy Kahn, Dalia Gordon, Michael Gurevitz, Todd Scheuer, and William A. Catterall
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15426-15431; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112320108
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  Mouse model of Timothy syndrome recapitulates triad of autistic traits
  Patrick L. Bader, Mehrdad Faizi, Leo H. Kim, Scott F. Owen, Michael R. Tadross, Ronald W. Alfa, Glenna C. L. Bett, Richard W. Tsien, Randall L. Rasmusson, and Mehrdad Shamloo
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15432-15437; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112667108
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  Interplay between spontaneous and induced brain activity during human non-rapid eye movement sleep
  Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Maxime Bonjean, Manuel Schabus, Mélanie Boly, Annabelle Darsaud, Martin Desseilles, Christian Degueldre, Evelyne Balteau, Christophe Phillips, André Luxen, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and Pierre Maquet
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15438-15443; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112503108
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  Stereotyped fetal brain disorganization is induced by hypoxia and requires lysophosphatidic acid receptor 1 (LPA₁) signaling
  Keira Joann Herr, Deron R. Herr, Chang-Wook Lee, Kyoko Noguchi, and Jerold Chun
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15444-15449; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106129108
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  Global impairment and therapeutic restoration of visual plasticity mechanisms after a localized cortical stroke
  Franziska Greifzu, Silvio Schmidt, Karl-Friedrich Schmidt, Klaus Kreikemeier, Otto W. Witte, and Siegrid Löwel
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15450-15455; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1016458108
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  Mitochondrial matrix Ca²⁺ as an intrinsic signal regulating mitochondrial motility in axons
  Karen T. Chang, Robert F. Niescier, and Kyung-Tai Min
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15456-15461; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1106862108
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  Dopamine neurons learn to encode the long-term value of multiple future rewards
  Kazuki Enomoto, Naoyuki Matsumoto, Sadamu Nakai, Takemasa Satoh, Tatsuo K. Sato, Yasumasa Ueda, Hitoshi Inokawa, Masahiko Haruno, and Minoru Kimura
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15462-15467; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1014457108
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  Chemical modulation of memory formation in larval zebrafish
  Marc A. Wolman, Roshan A. Jain, Laura Liss, and Michael Granato
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15468-15473; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107156108
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  The neuronal K-Cl cotransporter KCC2 influences postsynaptic AMPA receptor content and lateral diffusion in dendritic spines
  Grégory Gauvain, Ingrid Chamma, Quentin Chevy, Carolina Cabezas, Theano Irinopoulou, Natalia Bodrug, Michèle Carnaud, Sabine Lévi, and Jean Christophe Poncer
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15474-15479; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107893108
Pharmacology
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  Interdomain movements in metabotropic glutamate receptor activation
  Siluo Huang, Jianhua Cao, Ming Jiang, Gilles Labesse, Jianfeng Liu, Jean-Philippe Pin, and Philippe Rondard
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15480-15485; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1107775108
Physiology
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  Mechanistic basis of bell-shaped dependence of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor gating on cytosolic calcium
  Tadashi Shinohara, Takayuki Michikawa, Masahiro Enomoto, Jun-Ichi Goto, Miwako Iwai, Toru Matsu-ura, Haruka Yamazaki, Akitoshi Miyamoto, Akio Suzuki, and Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15486-15491; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1101677108
Plant Biology
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  A special pair of phytohormones controls excitability, slow closure, and external stomach formation in the Venus flytrap
  María Escalante-Pérez, Elzbieta Krol, Annette Stange, Dietmar Geiger, Khaled A. S. Al-Rasheid, Bettina Hause, Erwin Neher, and Rainer Hedrich
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15492-15497; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112535108
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  A 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylase/lyase demethylates the retrotransposon Tos17 and promotes its transposition in rice
  Honggui La, Bo Ding, Gyan P. Mishra, Bo Zhou, Hongmei Yang, Maria del Rosario Bellizzi, Songbiao Chen, Blake C. Meyers, Zhaohua Peng, Jian-Kang Zhu, and Guo-Liang Wang
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15498-15503; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1112704108
Population Biology
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  Role of stochastic processes in maintaining discrete strain structure in antigenically diverse pathogen populations
  Caroline O. Buckee, Mario Recker, Eleanor R. Watkins, and Sunetra Gupta
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15504-15509; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1102445108
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
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  Recovery of stereopsis through perceptual learning in human adults with abnormal binocular vision
  Jian Ding and Dennis M. Levi
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) E733-E741; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1105183108
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  The motor origins of human and avian song structure
  Adam T. Tierney, Frank A. Russo, and Aniruddh D. Patel
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15510-15515; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1103882108
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  Normal hearing is not enough to guarantee robust encoding of suprathreshold features important in everyday communication
  Dorea Ruggles, Hari Bharadwaj, and Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15516-15521; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1108912108
Systems Biology
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  Functional characterization of bacterial sRNAs using a network biology approach
  Sheetal R. Modi, Diogo M. Camacho, Michael A. Kohanski, Graham C. Walker, and James J. Collins
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15522-15527; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1104318108
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  Differential radial capillary action of ligand assay for high-throughput detection of protein-metabolite interactions
  Kevin G. Roelofs, Jingxin Wang, Herman O. Sintim, and Vincent T. Lee
  
  PNAS September 13, 2011 108 (37) 15528-15533; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1018949108

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Correction for Rubin, The early history of tumor virology: Rous, RIF, and RAV
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