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May 01, 2012; vol. 109 no. 18
This Week in PNAS
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessMisuse of hierarchical linear models overstates the significance of a reported association between OXTR and prosocialityLuke Jostins, Joseph K. Pickrell, Daniel G. MacArthur, and Jeffrey C. Barrett
- You have accessAre momentary measures of positive affect better predictors of mortality than recalled feelings?Michael Daly
- You have accessReply to Daly: Recalled vs. experienced affect as predictors of mortalityAndrew Steptoe and Jane Wardle
- You have accessCovalent attachment of pyridoxal-phosphate derivatives to 14-3-3 proteinsLars Röglin, Philipp Thiel, Oliver Kohlbacher, and Christian Ottmann
- You have accessReply to Röglin et al.: Synchrotron radiation-induced covalent modification of 14-3-3ζ by diazene compounds containing pyridoxal phosphateAnup K. Upadhyay, John R. Horton, Yuhong Du, Yan Bai, Xiaodong Cheng, and Haian Fu
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Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessPressure tunes electrical resistivity by four orders of magnitude in amorphous Ge2Sb2Te5 phase-change memory alloyM. Xu, Y. Q. Cheng, L. Wang, H. W. Sheng, Y. Meng, W. G. Yang, X. D. Han, and E. Ma
- You have accessOn the origin of the hierarchy of color namesVittorio Loreto, Animesh Mukherjee, and Francesca Tria
- You have accessEvidence of a large-scale mechanosensing mechanism for cellular adaptation to substrate stiffnessLéa Trichet, Jimmy Le Digabel, Rhoda J. Hawkins, Sri Ram Krishna Vedula, Mukund Gupta, Claire Ribrault, Pascal Hersen, Raphaël Voituriez, and Benoît Ladoux
Chemistry
- You have accessOctahydriodo diborane (B2H8) and its protonated cations containing five-, six-, and seven-coordinate boron atomsGeorge A. Olah, G. K. Surya Prakash, and Golam Rasul
- Open AccessBiologically relevant mechanism for catalytic superoxide removal by simple manganese compoundsKevin Barnese, Edith Butler Gralla, Joan Selverstone Valentine, and Diane E. Cabelli
- Open AccessDesigning biomimetic pores based on carbon nanotubesRebeca García-Fandiño and Mark S. P. Sansom
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Open AccessClimate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinctionSeth Finnegan, Noel A. Heim, Shanan E. Peters, and Woodward W. Fischer
- You have accessAgulhas leakage as a key process in the modes of Quaternary climate changesThibaut Caley, Jacques Giraudeau, Bruno Malaizé, Linda Rossignol, and Catherine Pierre
- You have accessAlternative pathway for atmospheric particles growth
- From the Cover
Maria Eugenia Monge, Thomas Rosenørn, Olivier Favez, Markus Müller, Gabriela Adler, Ali Abo Riziq, Yinon Rudich, Hartmut Herrmann, Christian George, and Barbara D’Anna - You have accessPredator-induced macroevolutionary trends in Mesozoic crinoidsPrzemysław Gorzelak, Mariusz A. Salamon, and Tomasz K. Baumiller
Mathematics
- You have accessOn De Giorgi’s conjecture and beyondManuel Del Pino, Michal Kowalczyk, and Juncheng Wei
Physics
- You have accessCoupling actin flow, adhesion, and morphology in a computational cell motility modelDanying Shao, Herbert Levine, and Wouter-Jan Rappel
- You have accessThe inexorable resistance of inertia determines the initial regime of drop coalescenceJoseph D. Paulsen, Justin C. Burton, Sidney R. Nagel, Santosh Appathurai, Michael T. Harris, and Osman A. Basaran
Social Sciences
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessOn the origin of the hierarchy of color namesVittorio Loreto, Animesh Mukherjee, and Francesca Tria
- You have accessRepresentation of stable social dominance relations by human infantsOlivier Mascaro and Gergely Csibra
Sustainability Science
- You have accessGlobal changes in diets and the consequences for land requirements for foodThomas Kastner, Maria Jose Ibarrola Rivas, Wolfgang Koch, and Sanderine Nonhebel
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
- You have accessRepresentation of stable social dominance relations by human infantsOlivier Mascaro and Gergely Csibra
- You have accessNest-building orangutans demonstrate engineering know-how to produce safe, comfortable bedsAdam van Casteren, William I. Sellers, Susannah K. S. Thorpe, Sam Coward, Robin H. Crompton, Julia P. Myatt, and A. Roland Ennos
- You have accessSingle amino acid radiocarbon dating of Upper Paleolithic modern humans
- From the Cover
Anat Marom, James S. O. McCullagh, Thomas F. G. Higham, Andrey A. Sinitsyn, and Robert E. M. Hedges - You have accessJuvenile hominoid cranium from the late Miocene of southern China and hominoid diversity in AsiaJay Kelley and Feng Gao
Applied Biological Sciences
- Open AccessTissue deformation spatially modulates VEGF signaling and angiogenesisNicolas C. Rivron, Erik J. Vrij, Jeroen Rouwkema, Severine Le Gac, Albert van den Berg, Roman K. Truckenmüller, and Clemens A. van Blitterswijk
Biochemistry
- You have accessA core subunit of Polycomb repressive complex 1 is broadly conserved in function but not primary sequenceLeslie Y. Beh, Lucy J. Colwell, and Nicole J. Francis
- Open AccessBiologically relevant mechanism for catalytic superoxide removal by simple manganese compoundsKevin Barnese, Edith Butler Gralla, Joan Selverstone Valentine, and Diane E. Cabelli
- You have accessImmunotoxin resistance via reversible methylation of the DPH4 promoter is a unique survival strategyHui Wei, Laiman Xiang, Alan S. Wayne, Oleg Chertov, David J. FitzGerald, Tapan K. Bera, and Ira Pastan
- You have accessPyruvate kinase M2 promotes de novo serine synthesis to sustain mTORC1 activity and cell proliferationJiangbin Ye, Anthony Mancuso, Xuemei Tong, Patrick S. Ward, Jing Fan, Joshua D. Rabinowitz, and Craig B. Thompson
- You have accessNear attack conformers dominate β-phosphoglucomutase complexes where geometry and charge distribution reflect those of substrateJoanna L. Griffin, Matthew W. Bowler, Nicola J. Baxter, Katherine N. Leigh, Hugh R. W. Dannatt, Andrea M. Hounslow, G. Michael Blackburn, Charles Edwin Webster, Matthew J. Cliff, and Jonathan P. Waltho
- You have accessAtomic structure of the autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia phosphotyrosine-binding domain in complex with the LDL-receptor tailHay Dvir, Mehul Shah, Enrico Girardi, Lixia Guo, Marilyn G. Farquhar, and Dirk M. Zajonc
- You have accessATP-independent substrate reduction by nitrogenase P-cluster variantChi Chung Lee, Yilin Hu, and Markus W. Ribbe
- You have accessBRD4 is an atypical kinase that phosphorylates Serine2 of the RNA Polymerase II carboxy-terminal domainBallachanda N. Devaiah, Brian A. Lewis, Natasha Cherman, Michael C. Hewitt, Brian K. Albrecht, Pamela G. Robey, Keiko Ozato, Robert J. Sims III, and Dinah S. Singer
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessEvidence of a large-scale mechanosensing mechanism for cellular adaptation to substrate stiffnessLéa Trichet, Jimmy Le Digabel, Rhoda J. Hawkins, Sri Ram Krishna Vedula, Mukund Gupta, Claire Ribrault, Pascal Hersen, Raphaël Voituriez, and Benoît Ladoux
- Open AccessDesigning biomimetic pores based on carbon nanotubesRebeca García-Fandiño and Mark S. P. Sansom
- You have accessCavities determine the pressure unfolding of proteins
- From the Cover
Julien Roche, Jose A. Caro, Douglas R. Norberto, Philippe Barthe, Christian Roumestand, Jamie L. Schlessman, Angel E. Garcia, Bertrand García-Moreno E., and Catherine A. RoyerSee companion article:
- Proteins under pressure- Apr 23, 2012
- You have accessIntrinsic disorder modulates protein self-assembly and aggregationAlfonso De Simone, Craig Kitchen, Ann H. Kwan, Margaret Sunde, Christopher M. Dobson, and Daan Frenkel
- You have accessRobustness and accuracy of cell division in Escherichia coli in diverse cell shapesJaan Männik, Fabai Wu, Felix J. H. Hol, Paola Bisicchia, David J. Sherratt, Juan E. Keymer, and Cees Dekker
Cell Biology
- You have accessDrosophila Golgi membrane protein Ema promotes autophagosomal growth and functionSungsu Kim, Sarah A. Naylor, and Aaron DiAntonio
- You have accessCoupling actin flow, adhesion, and morphology in a computational cell motility modelDanying Shao, Herbert Levine, and Wouter-Jan Rappel
- You have accessβ-Catenin signaling initiates the activation of astrocytes and its dysregulation contributes to the pathogenesis of astrocytomasChunzhang Yang, Rajiv R. Iyer, Albert C. H. Yu, Raymund L. Yong, Deric M. Park, Robert J. Weil, Barbara Ikejiri, Roscoe O. Brady, Russell R. Lonser, and Zhengping Zhuang
- You have accessDifferent agonists recruit different stromal interaction molecule proteins to support cytoplasmic Ca2+ oscillations and gene expressionPulak Kar, Daniel Bakowski, Joseph Di Capite, Charmaine Nelson, and Anant B. Parekh
- You have accessLysocardiolipin acyltransferase 1 (ALCAT1) controls mitochondrial DNA fidelity and biogenesis through modulation of MFN2 expressionJia Li, Xiaolei Liu, Huayan Wang, Weiping Zhang, David C. Chan, and Yuguang Shi
- You have accessRegulation of selective autophagy onset by a Ypt/Rab GTPase moduleZhanna Lipatova, Natalia Belogortseva, Xiu Qi Zhang, Jane Kim, David Taussig, and Nava Segev
Developmental Biology
- Open AccessNeurofibromatosis-like phenotype in Drosophila caused by lack of glucosylceramide extensionKatja Dahlgaard, Anita Jung, Klaus Qvortrup, Henrik Clausen, Ole Kjaerulff, and Hans H. Wandall
- You have accessDifferentiation of vascular smooth muscle cells from local precursors during embryonic and adult arteriogenesis requires Notch signaling
- From the Cover
Linda Chang, Michela Noseda, Michelle Higginson, Michelle Ly, Alexandre Patenaude, Megan Fuller, Alastair H. Kyle, Andrew I. Minchinton, Mira C. Puri, Daniel J. Dumont, and Aly Karsan
Ecology
- Open AccessClimate change and the selective signature of the Late Ordovician mass extinctionSeth Finnegan, Noel A. Heim, Shanan E. Peters, and Woodward W. Fischer
- You have accessInoculation of bats with European Geomyces destructans supports the novel pathogen hypothesis for the origin of white-nose syndrome
- From the Cover
Lisa Warnecke, James M. Turner, Trent K. Bollinger, Jeffrey M. Lorch, Vikram Misra, Paul M. Cryan, Gudrun Wibbelt, David S. Blehert, and Craig K. R. WillisSee companion article:
- Bats and white-nose syndrome- Apr 19, 2012
Environmental Sciences
- You have accessAgulhas leakage as a key process in the modes of Quaternary climate changesThibaut Caley, Jacques Giraudeau, Bruno Malaizé, Linda Rossignol, and Catherine Pierre
- You have accessGlobal changes in diets and the consequences for land requirements for foodThomas Kastner, Maria Jose Ibarrola Rivas, Wolfgang Koch, and Sanderine Nonhebel
Evolution
- You have accessPredator-induced macroevolutionary trends in Mesozoic crinoidsPrzemysław Gorzelak, Mariusz A. Salamon, and Tomasz K. Baumiller
- You have accessTempo of trophic evolution and its impact on mammalian diversificationSamantha A. Price, Samantha S. B. Hopkins, Kathleen K. Smith, and V. Louise Roth
Genetics
- Open AccessChronic restraint stress attenuates p53 function and promotes tumorigenesisZhaohui Feng, Lianxin Liu, Cen Zhang, Tongsen Zheng, Jiabei Wang, Meihua Lin, Yuhan Zhao, Xiaowen Wang, Arnold J. Levine, and Wenwei Hu
- Open AccessMembrane binding of Escherichia coli RNase E catalytic domain stabilizes protein structure and increases RNA substrate affinityOleg N. Murashko, Vladimir R. Kaberdin, and Sue Lin-Chao
Immunology
- You have accessTpl2 ablation promotes intestinal inflammation and tumorigenesis in Apcmin mice by inhibiting IL-10 secretion and regulatory T-cell generationOksana B. Serebrennikova, Christos Tsatsanis, Changchuin Mao, Elias Gounaris, Wenying Ren, Linda D. Siracusa, Aristides G. Eliopoulos, Khashayarsha Khazaie, and Philip N. Tsichlis
- Open AccessMurine gammaherpesvirus 68 infection protects lupus-prone mice from the development of autoimmunityJennifer D. Larson, Joshua M. Thurman, Anatoly V. Rubtsov, David Claypool, Philippa Marrack, Linda F. van Dyk, Raul M. Torres, and Roberta Pelanda
- Open AccessMHC class I antigen processing distinguishes endogenous antigens based on their translation from cellular vs. viral mRNABrian P. Dolan, Aditi A. Sharma, James S. Gibbs, Tshaka J. Cunningham, Jack R. Bennink, and Jonathan W. Yewdell
- You have accessThe expression of the receptor for advanced glycation endproducts (RAGE) is permissive for early pancreatic neoplasiaRui Kang, Tara Loux, Daolin Tang, Nicole E. Schapiro, Philip Vernon, Kristen M. Livesey, Alyssa Krasinskas, Michael T. Lotze, and Herbert J. Zeh III
- You have accessLong-lived epithelial immunity by tissue-resident memory T (TRM) cells in the absence of persisting local antigen presentationLaura K. Mackay, Angus T. Stock, Joel Z. Ma, Claerwen M. Jones, Stephen J. Kent, Scott N. Mueller, William R. Heath, Francis R. Carbone, and Thomas Gebhardt
- You have accessLangerhans cells down-regulate inflammation-driven alveolar bone lossMoran Arizon, Itay Nudel, Hadas Segev, Gabriel Mizraji, Mazal Elnekave, Karina Furmanov, Luba Eli-Berchoer, Björn E. Clausen, Lior Shapira, Asaf Wilensky, and Avi-Hai Hovav
Medical Sciences
- Open AccessRobust full-length hepatitis C virus genotype 2a and 2b infectious cultures using mutations identified by a systematic approach applicable to patient strainsYi-Ping Li, Santseharay Ramirez, Judith M. Gottwein, Troels K. H. Scheel, Lotte Mikkelsen, Robert H. Purcell, and Jens Bukh
- Open AccessExpression-based genome-wide association study links the receptor CD44 in adipose tissue with type 2 diabetesKeiichi Kodama, Momoko Horikoshi, Kyoko Toda, Satoru Yamada, Kazuo Hara, Junichiro Irie, Marina Sirota, Alexander A. Morgan, Rong Chen, Hiroshi Ohtsu, Shiro Maeda, Takashi Kadowaki, and Atul J. Butte
- You have accessSelective recruitment of G protein-coupled receptor kinases (GRKs) controls signaling of the insulin-like growth factor 1 receptorHuiyuan Zheng, Claire Worrall, Hongchang Shen, Tarik Issad, Stefan Seregard, Ada Girnita, and Leonard Girnita
- You have accessGeneral anesthesia alters time perception by phase shifting the circadian clockJames F. Cheeseman, Eva C. Winnebeck, Craig D. Millar, Lisa S. Kirkland, James Sleigh, Mark Goodwin, Matt D. M. Pawley, Guy Bloch, Konstantin Lehmann, Randolf Menzel, and Guy R. Warman
- Open AccessPleckstrin homology domain-interacting protein (PHIP) as a marker and mediator of melanoma metastasisDavid De Semir, Mehdi Nosrati, Vladimir Bezrookove, Altaf A. Dar, Scot Federman, Geraldine Bienvenu, Suraj Venna, Javier Rangel, Joan Climent, Tanja M. Meyer Tamgüney, Suresh Thummala, Schuyler Tong, Stanley P. L. Leong, Chris Haqq, Paul Billings, James R. Miller III, Richard W. Sagebiel, Robert Debs, and Mohammed Kashani-Sabet
Microbiology
- You have accessBacteriophage T4 polynucleotide kinase triggers degradation of mRNAsSylvain Durand, Graziella Richard, François Bontems, and Marc Uzan
- You have accessSnapshot of virus evolution in hypersaline environments from the characterization of a membrane-containing Salisaeta icosahedral phage 1Antti P. Aalto, David Bitto, Janne J. Ravantti, Dennis H. Bamford, Juha T. Huiskonen, and Hanna M. Oksanen
- You have accessRefactoring the nitrogen fixation gene cluster from Klebsiella oxytocaKarsten Temme, Dehua Zhao, and Christopher A. Voigt
Neuroscience
- Open AccessLink between orientation and retinotopic maps in primary visual cortexSe-Bum Paik and Dario L. Ringach
Physiology
- You have accessDynamic migration of γδ intraepithelial lymphocytes requires occludinKaren L. Edelblum, Le Shen, Christopher R. Weber, Amanda M. Marchiando, Bryan S. Clay, Yingmin Wang, Immo Prinz, Bernard Malissen, Anne I. Sperling, and Jerrold R. Turner
- You have accessAllosteric gating mechanism underlies the flexible gating of KCNQ1 potassium channelsJeremiah D. Osteen, Rene Barro-Soria, Seth Robey, Kevin J. Sampson, Robert S. Kass, and H. Peter Larsson
Plant Biology
- Open AccessHeterosis of Arabidopsis hybrids between C24 and Col is associated with increased photosynthesis capacityRyo Fujimoto, Jennifer M. Taylor, Sachiko Shirasawa, W. James Peacock, and Elizabeth S. Dennis
- You have accessMolecular genetic basis of pod corn (Tunicate maize)Luzie U. Wingen, Thomas Münster, Wolfram Faigl, Wim Deleu, Hans Sommer, Heinz Saedler, and Günter Theißen
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- Open AccessTest of a motor theory of long-term auditory memoryKatrin Schulze, Faraneh Vargha-Khadem, and Mortimer Mishkin
Sustainability Science
- Open AccessExtending the timescale and range of ecosystem services through paleoenvironmental analyses, exemplified in the lower Yangtze basinJohn A. Dearing, Xiangdong Yang, Xuhui Dong, Enlou Zhang, Xu Chen, Peter G. Langdon, Ke Zhang, Weiguo Zhang, and Terence P. Dawson
Systems Biology
- You have accessSuperessential reactions in metabolic networksAditya Barve, João Frederico Matias Rodrigues, and Andreas Wagner
- You have accessThe protein expression landscape of the Arabidopsis root
- Inaugural Article
Jalean J. Petricka, Monica A. Schauer, Molly Megraw, Natalie W. Breakfield, J. Will Thompson, Stoyan Georgiev, Erik J. Soderblom, Uwe Ohler, Martin Arthur Moseley, Ueli Grossniklaus, and Philip N. Benfey
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