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Biological Sciences

• Agricultural Sciences

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    Neurokinin Bs and neurokinin B receptors in zebrafish-potential role in controlling fish reproduction

    Jakob Biran, Ori Palevitch, Shifra Ben-Dor, and Berta Levavi-Sivan

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10269-10274; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119165109
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    Diverse genetic basis of field-evolved resistance to Bt cotton in cotton bollworm from China

    Haonan Zhang, Wen Tian, Jing Zhao, Lin Jin, Jun Yang, Chunhui Liu, Yihua Yang, Shuwen Wu, Kongming Wu, Jinjie Cui, Bruce E. Tabashnik, and Yidong Wu

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10275-10280; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200156109
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    Presence of tannins in sorghum grains is conditioned by different natural alleles of Tannin1

    Yuye Wu, Xianran Li, Wenwen Xiang, Chengsong Zhu, Zhongwei Lin, Yun Wu, Jiarui Li, Satchidanand Pandravada, Dustan D. Ridder, Guihua Bai, Ming L. Wang, Harold N. Trick, Scott R. Bean, Mitchell R. Tuinstra, Tesfaye T. Tesso, and Jianming Yu

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10281-10286; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201700109

• Anthropology

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    Aboriginal hunting buffers climate-driven fire-size variability in Australia’s spinifex grasslands

    Rebecca Bliege Bird, Brian F. Codding, Peter G. Kauhanen, and Douglas W. Bird

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10287-10292; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204585109
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    Late Middle Eocene primate from Myanmar and the initial anthropoid colonization of Africa

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    Yaowalak Chaimanee, Olivier Chavasseau, K. Christopher Beard, Aung Aung Kyaw, Aung Naing Soe, Chit Sein, Vincent Lazzari, Laurent Marivaux, Bernard Marandat, Myat Swe, Mana Rugbumrung, Thit Lwin, Xavier Valentin, Zin-Maung-Maung-Thein, and Jean-Jacques Jaeger

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10293-10297; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200644109

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    • Evidence for an Asian origin of stem anthropoids

      - Jun 13, 2012

• Applied Biological Sciences

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    Nanoparticle-based therapy in an in vivo microRNA-155 (miR-155)-dependent mouse model of lymphoma

    Imran A. Babar, Christopher J. Cheng, Carmen J. Booth, Xianping Liang, Joanne B. Weidhaas, W. Mark Saltzman, and Frank J. Slack

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1695-E1704; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201516109
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    Enhanced cellulose degradation by targeted integration of a cohesin-fused β-glucosidase into the Clostridium thermocellum cellulosome

    Gilad Gefen, Michael Anbar, Ely Morag, Raphael Lamed, and Edward A. Bayer

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10298-10303; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202747109

• Biochemistry

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    Evolutionary selection of enzymatically synthesized semiconductors from biomimetic mineralization vesicles

    Lukmaan A. Bawazer, Michi Izumi, Dmitriy Kolodin, James R. Neilson, Birgit Schwenzer, and Daniel E. Morse

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1705-E1714; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116958109
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    Plant tropane alkaloid biosynthesis evolved independently in the Solanaceae and Erythroxylaceae

    Jan Jirschitzka, Gregor W. Schmidt, Michael Reichelt, Bernd Schneider, Jonathan Gershenzon, and John Charles D’Auria

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10304-10309; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200473109
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    Arylsulfatase G inactivation causes loss of heparan sulfate 3-O-sulfatase activity and mucopolysaccharidosis in mice

    Björn Kowalewski, William C. Lamanna, Roger Lawrence, Markus Damme, Stijn Stroobants, Michael Padva, Ina Kalus, Marc-André Frese, Torben Lübke, Renate Lüllmann-Rauch, Rudi D’Hooge, Jeffrey D. Esko, and Thomas Dierks

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10310-10315; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202071109
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    An IFN-γ–stimulated ATF6–C/EBP-β–signaling pathway critical for the expression of Death Associated Protein Kinase 1 and induction of autophagy

    Padmaja Gade, Girish Ramachandran, Uday B. Maachani, Mark A. Rizzo, Tetsuya Okada, Ron Prywes, Alan S. Cross, Kazutoshi Mori, and Dhananjaya V. Kalvakolanu

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10316-10321; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119273109
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    Roco kinase structures give insights into the mechanism of Parkinson disease-related leucine-rich-repeat kinase 2 mutations

    Bernd K. Gilsbach, Franz Y. Ho, Ingrid R. Vetter, Peter J. M. van Haastert, Alfred Wittinghofer, and Arjan Kortholt

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10322-10327; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203223109

• Biophysics and Computational Biology

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    Conservation of complex knotting and slipknotting patterns in proteins

    Joanna I. Sułkowska, Eric J. Rawdon, Kenneth C. Millett, Jose N. Onuchic, and Andrzej Stasiak

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1715-E1723; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205918109
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    Asymmetrical roles of zinc fingers in dynamic DNA-scanning process by the inducible transcription factor Egr-1

    Levani Zandarashvili, Dana Vuzman, Alexandre Esadze, Yuki Takayama, Debashish Sahu, Yaakov Levy, and Junji Iwahara

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1724-E1732; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1121500109
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    Structural basis of histidine kinase autophosphorylation deduced by integrating genomics, molecular dynamics, and mutagenesis

    Angel E. Dago, Alexander Schug, Andrea Procaccini, James A. Hoch, Martin Weigt, and Hendrik Szurmant

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1733-E1742; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201301109
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    Electron transfer-based combination therapy of cisplatin with tetramethyl-p-phenylenediamine for ovarian, cervical, and lung cancers

    Ting Luo, Jianqing Yu, Jenny Nguyen, Chun-Rong Wang, Robert G. Bristow, David A. Jaffray, Xiao Zhen Zhou, Kun Ping Lu, and Qing-Bin Lu

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10175-10180; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203451109
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    Hydrodynamic trapping of molecules in lipid bilayers

    Peter Jönsson, James McColl, Richard W. Clarke, Victor P. Ostanin, Bengt Jönsson, and David Klenerman

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10328-10333; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202858109
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    Independent regulation of tumor cell migration by matrix stiffness and confinement

    Amit Pathak and Sanjay Kumar

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10334-10339; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118073109
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    Genomics-aided structure prediction

    Joanna I. Sułkowska, Faruck Morcos, Martin Weigt, Terence Hwa, and José N. Onuchic

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10340-10345; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207864109
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    Anomalous diffusion and dynamical correlation between the side chains and the main chain of proteins in their native state

    Yoann Cote, Patrick Senet, Patrice Delarue, Gia G. Maisuradze, and Harold A. Scheraga

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10346-10351; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207083109
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    Mechanistic basis for low threshold mechanosensitivity in voltage-dependent K⁺ channels

    Daniel Schmidt, Josefina del Mármol, and Roderick MacKinnon

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10352-10357; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204700109
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    Bridging the gaps in design methodologies by evolutionary optimization of the stability and proficiency of designed Kemp eliminase KE59

    Olga Khersonsky, Gert Kiss, Daniela Röthlisberger, Orly Dym, Shira Albeck, Kendall N. Houk, David Baker, and Dan S. Tawfik

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10358-10363; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1121063109
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    Impact of branching on the elasticity of actin networks

    Thomas Pujol, Olivia du Roure, Marc Fermigier, and Julien Heuvingh

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10364-10369; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1121238109

• Cell Biology

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    Neural stem cell specific fluorescent chemical probe binding to FABP7

    Seong-Wook Yun, Cheryl Leong, Duanting Zhai, Yee Ling Tan, Linda Lim, Xuezhi Bi, Jae-Jung Lee, Han Jo Kim, Nam-Young Kang, Shin Hui Ng, Lawrence W. Stanton, and Young-Tae Chang

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10214-10217; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200817109
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    Cysteine desulfurase Nfs1 and Pim1 protease control levels of Isu, the Fe-S cluster biogenesis scaffold

    Ji-Yoon Song, Jaroslaw Marszalek, and Elizabeth Anne Craig

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10370-10375; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206945109
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    Anoctamin 1 (Tmem16A) Ca²⁺-activated chloride channel stoichiometrically interacts with an ezrin–radixin–moesin network

    Patricia Perez-Cornejo, Avanti Gokhale, Charity Duran, Yuanyuan Cui, Qinghuan Xiao, H. Criss Hartzell, and Victor Faundez

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10376-10381; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200174109
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    Gadkin negatively regulates cell spreading and motility via sequestration of the actin-nucleating ARP2/3 complex

    Tanja Maritzen, Tobias Zech, Michael R. Schmidt, Eberhard Krause, Laura M. Machesky, and Volker Haucke

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10382-10387; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206468109
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    Perivascular-resident macrophage-like melanocytes in the inner ear are essential for the integrity of the intrastrial fluid–blood barrier

    Wenjing Zhang, Min Dai, Anders Fridberger, Ahmed Hassan, Jacqueline DeGagne, Lingling Neng, Fei Zhang, Wenxuan He, Tianying Ren, Dennis Trune, Manfred Auer, and Xiaorui Shi

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10388-10393; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205210109

• Ecology

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    Mass spectral molecular networking of living microbial colonies

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    Jeramie Watrous, Patrick Roach, Theodore Alexandrov, Brandi S. Heath, Jane Y. Yang, Roland D. Kersten, Menno van der Voort, Kit Pogliano, Harald Gross, Jos M. Raaijmakers, Bradley S. Moore, Julia Laskin, Nuno Bandeira, and Pieter C. Dorrestein

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1743-E1752; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203689109

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    • The chemical lives of microbes

      - Jun 18, 2012
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    Biodiversity impacts ecosystem productivity as much as resources, disturbance, or herbivory

    David Tilman, Peter B. Reich, and Forest Isbell

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10394-10397; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208240109
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    Rapidly growing tropical trees mobilize remarkable amounts of nitrogen, in ways that differ surprisingly among species

    Ann E. Russell and James W. Raich

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10398-10402; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204157109

• Environmental Sciences

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    Warming accelerates decomposition of decades-old carbon in forest soils

    Francesca M. Hopkins, Margaret S. Torn, and Susan E. Trumbore

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1753-E1761; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120603109
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    Influence of cobalamin scarcity on diatom molecular physiology and identification of a cobalamin acquisition protein

    Erin M. Bertrand, Andrew E. Allen, Christopher L. Dupont, Trina M. Norden-Krichmar, Jing Bai, Ruben E. Valas, and Mak A. Saito

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1762-E1771; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201731109

• Evolution

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    Delayed paternal age of reproduction in humans is associated with longer telomeres across two generations of descendants

    Dan T. A. Eisenberg, M. Geoffrey Hayes, and Christopher W. Kuzawa

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10251-10256; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202092109
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    Leaf fossil record suggests limited influence of atmospheric CO₂ on terrestrial productivity prior to angiosperm evolution

    C. Kevin Boyce and Maciej A. Zwieniecki

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10403-10408; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203769109
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    Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma contains strategies that dominate any evolutionary opponent

    William H. Press and Freeman J. Dyson

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10409-10413; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206569109

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    • Prisoner’s Dilemma: Extortion and cooperation

      - Jun 18, 2012
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    Evolutionary optimum for male sexual traits characterized using the multivariate Robertson–Price Identity

    Matthieu Delcourt, Mark W. Blows, J. David Aguirre, and Howard D. Rundle

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10414-10419; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116828109
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    Dynamic epistasis for different alleles of the same gene

    Lin Xu, Brandon Barker, and Zhenglong Gu

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10420-10425; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1121507109
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    Evolution of Fe/S cluster biogenesis in the anaerobic parasite Blastocystis

    Anastasios D. Tsaousis, Sandrine Ollagnier de Choudens, Eleni Gentekaki, Shaojun Long, Daniel Gaston, Alexandra Stechmann, Daniel Vinella, Béatrice Py, Marc Fontecave, Frédéric Barras, Julius Lukeš, and Andrew J. Roger

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10426-10431; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116067109
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    High natural prevalence of a fungal prion

    Alfons J. M. Debets, Henk J. P. Dalstra, Marijke Slakhorst, Bertha Koopmanschap, Rolf F. Hoekstra, and Sven J. Saupe

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10432-10437; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205333109

• Genetics

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    Analysis of neural subtypes reveals selective mitochondrial dysfunction in dopaminergic neurons from parkin mutants

    Jonathon L. Burman, Selina Yu, Angela C. Poole, Richard B. Decal, and Leo Pallanck

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10438-10443; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120688109
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    Repeat associated small RNAs vary among parents and following hybridization in maize

    Wesley T. Barber, Wei Zhang, Hlaing Win, Kranthi K. Varala, Jane E. Dorweiler, Matthew E. Hudson, and Stephen P. Moose

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10444-10449; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202073109
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    Cdc28 kinase activity regulates the basal transcription machinery at a subset of genes

    Pierre Chymkowitch, Vegard Eldholm, Susanne Lorenz, Christine Zimmermann, Jessica M. Lindvall, Magnar Bjørås, Leonardo A. Meza-Zepeda, and Jorrit M. Enserink

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10450-10455; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200067109

• Immunology

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    CD45-deficient severe combined immunodeficiency caused by uniparental disomy

    Joseph L. Roberts, Rebecca H. Buckley, Biao Luo, Jianming Pei, Alla Lapidus, Suraj Peri, Qiong Wei, Jinwook Shin, Roberta E. Parrott, Roland L. Dunbrack Jr., Joseph R. Testa, Xiao-Ping Zhong, and David L. Wiest

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10456-10461; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202249109
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    Abating colon cancer polyposis by Lactobacillus acidophilus deficient in lipoteichoic acid

    Khashayarsha Khazaie, Mojgan Zadeh, Mohammad W. Khan, Praveen Bere, Fotini Gounari, Kirsten Dennis, Nichole R. Blatner, Jennifer L. Owen, Todd R. Klaenhammer, and Mansour Mohamadzadeh

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10462-10467; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207230109
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    Regulatory T cells use programmed death 1 ligands to directly suppress autoreactive B cells in vivo

    Janine Gotot, Catherine Gottschalk, Sonny Leopold, Percy A. Knolle, Hideo Yagita, Christian Kurts, and Isis Ludwig-Portugall

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10468-10473; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201131109
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    Opposing roles for RhoH GTPase during T-cell migration and activation

    Christina M. Baker, William A. Comrie, Young-Min Hyun, Hung-Li Chung, Christine A. Fedorchuk, Kihong Lim, Cord Brakebusch, James L. McGrath, Richard E. Waugh, Martin Meier-Schellersheim, and Minsoo Kim

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10474-10479; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1114214109
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    NLRP3 inflammasome induces chemotactic immune cell migration to the CNS in experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis

    Makoto Inoue, Kristi L. Williams, Michael D. Gunn, and Mari L. Shinohara

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10480-10485; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201836109
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    Presensitizing with a Toll-like receptor 3 ligand impairs CD8 T-cell effector differentiation and IL-33 responsiveness

    Soo Mun Ngoi, Marie-Clare St. Rose, Antoine M. Menoret, Dirk E. Smith, Michael G. Tovey, Adam J. Adler, and Anthony T. Vella

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10486-10491; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202607109
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    Autocrine/paracrine TGF-β1 inhibits Langerhans cell migration

    Aleh Bobr, Botond Z. Igyarto, Krystal M. Haley, Ming O. Li, Richard A. Flavell, and Daniel H. Kaplan

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10492-10497; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119178109
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    Revised mechanism of complement lectin-pathway activation revealing the role of serine protease MASP-1 as the exclusive activator of MASP-2

    Dávid Héja, Andrea Kocsis, József Dobó, Katalin Szilágyi, Róbert Szász, Péter Závodszky, Gábor Pál, and Péter Gál

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10498-10503; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202588109

• Medical Sciences

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    Hypoxia-inducible factor 1 transcriptional activity in endothelial cells is required for acute phase cardioprotection induced by ischemic preconditioning

    Kakali Sarkar, Zheqing Cai, Rigu Gupta, Nirmal Parajuli, Karen Fox-Talbot, Medha S. Darshan, Frank J. Gonzalez, and Gregg L. Semenza

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10504-10509; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208314109
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    Patched dependence receptor triggers apoptosis through ubiquitination of caspase-9

    Joanna Fombonne, Pierre-Antoine Bissey, Catherine Guix, Rémy Sadoul, Chantal Thibert, and Patrick Mehlen

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10510-10515; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200094109
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    A discrete population of squamocolumnar junction cells implicated in the pathogenesis of cervical cancer

    Michael Herfs, Yusuke Yamamoto, Anna Laury, Xia Wang, Marisa R. Nucci, Margaret E. McLaughlin-Drubin, Karl Münger, Sarah Feldman, Frank D. McKeon, Wa Xian, and Christopher P. Crum

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10516-10521; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202684109
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    Distinct DNA methylomes of newborns and centenarians

    Holger Heyn, Ning Li, Humberto J. Ferreira, Sebastian Moran, David G. Pisano, Antonio Gomez, Javier Diez, Jose V. Sanchez-Mut, Fernando Setien, F. Javier Carmona, Annibale A. Puca, Sergi Sayols, Miguel A. Pujana, Jordi Serra-Musach, Isabel Iglesias-Platas, Francesc Formiga, Agustin F. Fernandez, Mario F. Fraga, Simon C. Heath, Alfonso Valencia, Ivo G. Gut, Jun Wang, and Manel Esteller

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10522-10527; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120658109
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    Specific mitochondrial DNA mutation in mice regulates diabetes and lymphoma development

    Osamu Hashizume, Akinori Shimizu, Mutsumi Yokota, Atsuko Sugiyama, Kazuto Nakada, Hiroyuki Miyoshi, Makiko Itami, Miki Ohira, Hiroki Nagase, Keizo Takenaga, and Jun-Ichi Hayashi

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10528-10533; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202367109
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    Expression of MALT1 oncogene in hematopoietic stem/progenitor cells recapitulates the pathogenesis of human lymphoma in mice

    Carolina Vicente-Dueñas, Lorena Fontán, Ines Gonzalez-Herrero, Isabel Romero-Camarero, Victor Segura, M. Angela Aznar, Esther Alonso-Escudero, Elena Campos-Sanchez, Lucía Ruiz-Roca, Marcos Barajas-Diego, Ainara Sagardoy, Jose I. Martinez-Ferrandis, Fernando Abollo-Jimenez, Cristina Bertolo, Ivan Peñuelas, Francisco J. Garcia-Criado, María B. García-Cenador, Thomas Tousseyn, Xabier Agirre, Felipe Prosper, Federico Garcia-Bragado, Ellen D. McPhail, Izidore S. Lossos, Ming-Qing Du, Teresa Flores, Jesus M. Hernandez-Rivas, Marcos Gonzalez, Antonio Salar, Beatriz Bellosillo, Eulogio Conde, Reiner Siebert, Xavier Sagaert, Cesar Cobaleda, Isidro Sanchez-Garcia, and Jose A. Martinez-Climent

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10534-10539; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204127109

• Microbiology

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    A subset of group A-like var genes encodes the malaria parasite ligands for binding to human brain endothelial cells

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    Antoine Claessens, Yvonne Adams, Ashfaq Ghumra, Gabriella Lindergard, Caitlin C. Buchan, Cheryl Andisi, Peter C. Bull, Sachel Mok, Archna P. Gupta, Christian W. Wang, Louise Turner, Mònica Arman, Ahmed Raza, Zbynek Bozdech, and J. Alexandra Rowe

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1772-E1781; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120461109

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    • Molecular basis of severe malaria

      - Jun 07, 2012
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    A restricted subset of var genes mediates adherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes to brain endothelial cells

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    Marion Avril, Abhai K. Tripathi, Andrew J. Brazier, Cheryl Andisi, Joel H. Janes, Vijaya L. Soma, David J. Sullivan Jr., Peter C. Bull, Monique F. Stins, and Joseph D. Smith

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1782-E1790; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120534109

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    • Molecular basis of severe malaria

      - Jun 07, 2012
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    Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 domain cassettes 8 and 13 are associated with severe malaria in children

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    Thomas Lavstsen, Louise Turner, Fredy Saguti, Pamela Magistrado, Thomas S. Rask, Jakob S. Jespersen, Christian W. Wang, Sanne S. Berger, Vito Baraka, Andrea M. Marquard, Andaine Seguin-Orlando, Eske Willerslev, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, John Lusingu, and Thor G. Theander

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) E1791-E1800; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120455109

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    • Molecular basis of severe malaria

      - Jun 07, 2012
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    Strategy for directing combinatorial genome engineering in Escherichia coli

    Nicholas R. Sandoval, Jaoon Y. H. Kim, Tirzah Y. Glebes, Philippa J. Reeder, Hanna R. Aucoin, Joseph R. Warner, and Ryan T. Gill

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10540-10545; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206299109
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    Cleavage of a putative metal permease in Chlamydia trachomatis yields an iron-dependent transcriptional repressor

    Christopher C. Thompson, Sophie S. Nicod, Denise S. Malcolm, Scott S. Grieshaber, and Rey A. Carabeo

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10546-10551; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201398109
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    PGRP-LB is a maternally transmitted immune milk protein that influences symbiosis and parasitism in tsetse’s offspring

    Jingwen Wang and Serap Aksoy

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10552-10557; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1116431109
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    Acetylation modulates cellular distribution and DNA sensing ability of interferon-inducible protein IFI16

    Tuo Li, Benjamin A. Diner, Jin Chen, and Ileana M. Cristea

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10558-10563; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203447109

• Neuroscience

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    Scale invariance in the dynamics of spontaneous behavior

    Alex Proekt, Jayanth R. Banavar, Amos Maritan, and Donald W. Pfaff

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10564-10569; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206894109
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    Mechanisms of white matter changes induced by meditation

    Yi-Yuan Tang, Qilin Lu, Ming Fan, Yihong Yang, and Michael I. Posner

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10570-10574; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207817109
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    Memory stabilization with targeted reactivation during human slow-wave sleep

    Eelco V. van Dongen, Atsuko Takashima, Markus Barth, Jascha Zapp, Lothar R. Schad, Ken A. Paller, and Guillén Fernández

    PNAS June 26, 2012 109 (26) 10575-10580; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201072109
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    Small molecule-induced cytosolic activation of protein kinase Akt rescues ischemia-elicited neuronal death

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