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September 25, 2012; vol. 109 no. 39

This Week in PNAS

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    In This Issue
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15529-15530; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti3912109

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    • Sphingosine-1-phosphate signals to P-glycoprotein
      - Sep 04, 2012
    • Virulent TRSw H1N2 influenza virus in ferrets
      - Sep 10, 2012
    • Satellite detects clouds by airglow and starlight
      - Sep 10, 2012
    • Peptide bond formation at the water–air interface
      - Aug 27, 2012
    • Preclinical phase-contrast CT scanner
      - Sep 10, 2012

Letters (Online Only)

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    Lack of correspondence between Asian-Papuan genetic admixture and Austronesian language dispersal in eastern Indonesia
    Tim Denham and Mark Donohue
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2577; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209616109
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    Reply to Denham and Donohue: Asian-Papuan genetic admixture is in excellent agreement with Austronesian dispersal in eastern Indonesia
    Shuhua Xu and Mark Stoneking
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2578; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210177109

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    Longer time scale for human evolution
    John Hawks
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15531-15532; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212718109

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    • Human and great ape divergence times
      - Aug 13, 2012
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    Modeling the protection of photosynthesis
    Jeremy Harbinson
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15533-15534; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213195109

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    • Mathematical model of nonphotochemical quenching
      - Aug 13, 2012
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    Toward a metabolic scaling theory of crop systems
    Louis J. Gross and Brian Beckage
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15535-15536; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214556109

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    • Optimal density and maximal yield for crops
      - Aug 13, 2012
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    Looking beyond overnutrition for causes of epidemic metabolic disease
    Leonid Poretsky
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15537-15538; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213503109

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    • AGEs regulate AGER1 and SIRT1
      - Aug 20, 2012

Chemical Approaches To Artificial Photosynthesis: Solar Fuels Special Feature (free online)

  • Introduction

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      Chemical approaches to artificial photosynthesis
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      Javier J. Concepcion, Ralph L. House, John M. Papanikolas, and Thomas J. Meyer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15560-15564; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212254109
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      Step-by-step self-assembled hybrids that feature control over energy and charge transfer
      Bruno Grimm, Julia Schornbaum, Hannelore Jasch, Olga Trukhina, Florian Wessendorf, Andreas Hirsch, Tomas Torres, and Dirk M. Guldi
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15565-15571; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113753109
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      Formation of a long-lived electron-transfer state in mesoporous silica-alumina composites enhances photocatalytic oxygenation reactivity
      Shunichi Fukuzumi, Kaoru Doi, Akinori Itoh, Tomoyoshi Suenobu, Kei Ohkubo, Yusuke Yamada, and Kenneth D. Karlin
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15572-15577; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119994109
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      Mimicking the electron transfer chain in photosystem II with a molecular triad thermodynamically capable of water oxidation
      Jackson D. Megiatto Jr., Antaeres Antoniuk-Pablant, Benjamin D. Sherman, Gerdenis Kodis, Miguel Gervaldo, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore, and Devens Gust
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15578-15583; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118348109
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      Highly efficient and robust molecular ruthenium catalysts for water oxidation
      Lele Duan, Carlos Moyses Araujo, Mårten S.G. Ahlquist, and Licheng Sun
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15584-15588; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118347109
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      Catalytic hydrogen evolution from a covalently linked dicobaloxime
      Carolyn N. Valdez, Jillian L. Dempsey, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15589-15593; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118329109
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      Cobalt-dithiolene complexes for the photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reduction of protons in aqueous solutions
      William R. McNamara, Zhiji Han, Chih-Juo (Madeline) Yin, William W. Brennessel, Patrick L. Holland, and Richard Eisenberg
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15594-15599; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120757109
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      Similarities of artificial photosystems by ruthenium oxo complexes and native water splitting systems
      Koji Tanaka, Hiroshi Isobe, Shusuke Yamanaka, and Kizashi Yamaguchi
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15600-15605; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120705109
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      Splitting CO2 into CO and O2 by a single catalyst
      Zuofeng Chen, Javier J. Concepcion, M. Kyle Brennaman, Peng Kang, Michael R. Norris, Paul G. Hoertz, and Thomas J. Meyer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15606-15611; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203122109
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      Improving the efficiency of water splitting in dye-sensitized solar cells by using a biomimetic electron transfer mediator
      Yixin Zhao, John R. Swierk, Jackson D. Megiatto Jr, Benjamin Sherman, W. Justin Youngblood, Dongdong Qin, Deanna M. Lentz, Ana L. Moore, Thomas A. Moore, Devens Gust, and Thomas E. Mallouk
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15612-15616; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118339109
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      Interplay of oxygen-evolution kinetics and photovoltaic power curves on the construction of artificial leaves
      Yogesh Surendranath, D. Kwabena Bediako, and Daniel G. Nocera
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15617-15621; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118341109
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      Evaluation and optimization of mass transport of redox species in silicon microwire-array photoelectrodes
      Chengxiang Xiang, Andrew C. Meng, and Nathan S. Lewis
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15622-15627; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118338109
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      Visible light generation of I–I bonds by Ru-tris(diimine) excited states
      Byron H. Farnum, Jeffrey J. Jou, and Gerald J. Meyer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15628-15633; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118340109
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      Acidic ionic liquid/water solution as both medium and proton source for electrocatalytic H2 evolution by [Ni(P2N2)2]2+ complexes
      Douglas H. Pool, Michael P. Stewart, Molly O’Hagan, Wendy J. Shaw, John A. S. Roberts, R. Morris Bullock, and Daniel L. DuBois
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15634-15639; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120208109
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      Dynamics of photogenerated holes in surface modified α-Fe2O3 photoanodes for solar water splitting
      Monica Barroso, Camilo A. Mesa, Stephanie R. Pendlebury, Alexander J. Cowan, Takashi Hisatomi, Kevin Sivula, Michael Grätzel, David R. Klug, and James R. Durrant
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15640-15645; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118326109
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      Kinetic and structural studies, origins of selectivity, and interfacial charge transfer in the artificial photosynthesis of CO
      Jonathan M. Smieja, Eric E. Benson, Bhupendra Kumar, Kyle A. Grice, Candace S. Seu, Alexander J. M. Miller, James M. Mayer, and Clifford P. Kubiak
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15646-15650; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119863109
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      Ultrafast photodriven intramolecular electron transfer from an iridium-based water-oxidation catalyst to perylene diimide derivatives
      Michael T. Vagnini, Amanda L. Smeigh, James D. Blakemore, Samuel W. Eaton, Nathan D. Schley, Francis D’Souza, Robert H. Crabtree, Gary W. Brudvig, Dick T. Co, and Michael R. Wasielewski
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15651-15656; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202075109
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      Calculation of thermodynamic hydricities and the design of hydride donors for CO2 reduction
      James T. Muckerman, Patrick Achord, Carol Creutz, Dmitry E. Polyansky, and Etsuko Fujita
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15657-15662; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201026109
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      Insights into proton-coupled electron transfer mechanisms of electrocatalytic H2 oxidation and production
      Samantha Horvath, Laura E. Fernandez, Alexander V. Soudackov, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15663-15668; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118333109
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      Theoretical study of catalytic mechanism for single-site water oxidation process
      Xiangsong Lin, Xiangqian Hu, Javier J. Concepcion, Zuofeng Chen, Shubin Liu, Thomas J. Meyer, and Weitao Yang
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15669-15672; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118344109
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      Photocatalytic CO2 reduction with high turnover frequency and selectivity of formic acid formation using Ru(II) multinuclear complexes
      Yusuke Tamaki, Tatsuki Morimoto, Kazuhide Koike, and Osamu Ishitani
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15673-15678; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118336109

Physical Sciences

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      Parameter-free model discrimination criterion based on steady-state coplanarity
      Heather A. Harrington, Kenneth L. Ho, Thomas Thorne, and Michael P.H. Stumpf
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15746-15751; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1117073109
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      Saturation wind power potential and its implications for wind energy
      Mark Z. Jacobson and Cristina L. Archer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15679-15684; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208993109
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      Optimum inhomogeneity of local lattice distortions in La2CuO4+y
      Nicola Poccia, Alessandro Ricci, Gaetano Campi, Michela Fratini, Alessandro Puri, Daniele Di Gioacchino, Augusto Marcelli, Michael Reynolds, Manfred Burghammer, Naurang Lal Saini, Gabriel Aeppli, and Antonio Bianconi
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15685-15690; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208492109
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      Experimental results from a preclinical X-ray phase-contrast CT scanner
      Arne Tapfer, Martin Bech, Astrid Velroyen, Jan Meiser, Jürgen Mohr, Marco Walter, Joachim Schulz, Bart Pauwels, Peter Bruyndonckx, Xuan Liu, Alexander Sasov, and Franz Pfeiffer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15691-15696; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207503109

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        - Sep 25, 2012
  • Chemistry

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      Step-by-step self-assembled hybrids that feature control over energy and charge transfer
      Bruno Grimm, Julia Schornbaum, Hannelore Jasch, Olga Trukhina, Florian Wessendorf, Andreas Hirsch, Tomas Torres, and Dirk M. Guldi
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15565-15571; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1113753109
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      Formation of a long-lived electron-transfer state in mesoporous silica-alumina composites enhances photocatalytic oxygenation reactivity
      Shunichi Fukuzumi, Kaoru Doi, Akinori Itoh, Tomoyoshi Suenobu, Kei Ohkubo, Yusuke Yamada, and Kenneth D. Karlin
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15572-15577; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119994109
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      Mimicking the electron transfer chain in photosystem II with a molecular triad thermodynamically capable of water oxidation
      Jackson D. Megiatto Jr., Antaeres Antoniuk-Pablant, Benjamin D. Sherman, Gerdenis Kodis, Miguel Gervaldo, Thomas A. Moore, Ana L. Moore, and Devens Gust
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15578-15583; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118348109
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      Highly efficient and robust molecular ruthenium catalysts for water oxidation
      Lele Duan, Carlos Moyses Araujo, Mårten S.G. Ahlquist, and Licheng Sun
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15584-15588; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118347109
    • You have access
      Catalytic hydrogen evolution from a covalently linked dicobaloxime
      Carolyn N. Valdez, Jillian L. Dempsey, Bruce S. Brunschwig, Jay R. Winkler, and Harry B. Gray
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15589-15593; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118329109
    • You have access
      Cobalt-dithiolene complexes for the photocatalytic and electrocatalytic reduction of protons in aqueous solutions
      William R. McNamara, Zhiji Han, Chih-Juo (Madeline) Yin, William W. Brennessel, Patrick L. Holland, and Richard Eisenberg
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15594-15599; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120757109
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      Similarities of artificial photosystems by ruthenium oxo complexes and native water splitting systems
      Koji Tanaka, Hiroshi Isobe, Shusuke Yamanaka, and Kizashi Yamaguchi
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15600-15605; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120705109
    • You have access
      Splitting CO2 into CO and O2 by a single catalyst
      Zuofeng Chen, Javier J. Concepcion, M. Kyle Brennaman, Peng Kang, Michael R. Norris, Paul G. Hoertz, and Thomas J. Meyer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15606-15611; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203122109
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      Improving the efficiency of water splitting in dye-sensitized solar cells by using a biomimetic electron transfer mediator
      Yixin Zhao, John R. Swierk, Jackson D. Megiatto Jr, Benjamin Sherman, W. Justin Youngblood, Dongdong Qin, Deanna M. Lentz, Ana L. Moore, Thomas A. Moore, Devens Gust, and Thomas E. Mallouk
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15612-15616; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118339109
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      Interplay of oxygen-evolution kinetics and photovoltaic power curves on the construction of artificial leaves
      Yogesh Surendranath, D. Kwabena Bediako, and Daniel G. Nocera
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15617-15621; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118341109
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      Evaluation and optimization of mass transport of redox species in silicon microwire-array photoelectrodes
      Chengxiang Xiang, Andrew C. Meng, and Nathan S. Lewis
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15622-15627; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118338109
    • You have access
      Visible light generation of I–I bonds by Ru-tris(diimine) excited states
      Byron H. Farnum, Jeffrey J. Jou, and Gerald J. Meyer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15628-15633; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118340109
    • You have access
      Acidic ionic liquid/water solution as both medium and proton source for electrocatalytic H2 evolution by [Ni(P2N2)2]2+ complexes
      Douglas H. Pool, Michael P. Stewart, Molly O’Hagan, Wendy J. Shaw, John A. S. Roberts, R. Morris Bullock, and Daniel L. DuBois
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15634-15639; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120208109
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      Dynamics of photogenerated holes in surface modified α-Fe2O3 photoanodes for solar water splitting
      Monica Barroso, Camilo A. Mesa, Stephanie R. Pendlebury, Alexander J. Cowan, Takashi Hisatomi, Kevin Sivula, Michael Grätzel, David R. Klug, and James R. Durrant
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15640-15645; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118326109
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      Kinetic and structural studies, origins of selectivity, and interfacial charge transfer in the artificial photosynthesis of CO
      Jonathan M. Smieja, Eric E. Benson, Bhupendra Kumar, Kyle A. Grice, Candace S. Seu, Alexander J. M. Miller, James M. Mayer, and Clifford P. Kubiak
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15646-15650; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1119863109
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      Ultrafast photodriven intramolecular electron transfer from an iridium-based water-oxidation catalyst to perylene diimide derivatives
      Michael T. Vagnini, Amanda L. Smeigh, James D. Blakemore, Samuel W. Eaton, Nathan D. Schley, Francis D’Souza, Robert H. Crabtree, Gary W. Brudvig, Dick T. Co, and Michael R. Wasielewski
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15651-15656; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202075109
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      Calculation of thermodynamic hydricities and the design of hydride donors for CO2 reduction
      James T. Muckerman, Patrick Achord, Carol Creutz, Dmitry E. Polyansky, and Etsuko Fujita
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15657-15662; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1201026109
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      Insights into proton-coupled electron transfer mechanisms of electrocatalytic H2 oxidation and production
      Samantha Horvath, Laura E. Fernandez, Alexander V. Soudackov, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15663-15668; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118333109
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      Theoretical study of catalytic mechanism for single-site water oxidation process
      Xiangsong Lin, Xiangqian Hu, Javier J. Concepcion, Zuofeng Chen, Shubin Liu, Thomas J. Meyer, and Weitao Yang
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15669-15672; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118344109
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      Photocatalytic CO2 reduction with high turnover frequency and selectivity of formic acid formation using Ru(II) multinuclear complexes
      Yusuke Tamaki, Tatsuki Morimoto, Kazuhide Koike, and Osamu Ishitani
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15673-15678; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1118336109
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      In situ observation of peptide bond formation at the water–air interface
      Elizabeth C. Griffith and Veronica Vaida
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15697-15701; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210029109

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      Folate binding site of flavin-dependent thymidylate synthase
      Eric M. Koehn, Laura L. Perissinotti, Salah Moghram, Arjun Prabhakar, Scott A. Lesley, Irimpan I. Mathews, and Amnon Kohen
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15722-15727; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206077109
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      Domain–domain interactions in full-length p53 and a specific DNA complex probed by methyl NMR spectroscopy
      Michal Bista, Stefan M. Freund, and Alan R. Fersht
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15752-15756; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214176109
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      Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs
      Derek E. G. Briggs, Derek J. Siveter, David J. Siveter, Mark D. Sutton, Russell J. Garwood, and David Legg
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15702-15705; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205875109
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      Suomi satellite brings to light a unique frontier of nighttime environmental sensing capabilities
      Steven D. Miller, Stephen P. Mills, Christopher D. Elvidge, Daniel T. Lindsey, Thomas F. Lee, and Jeffrey D. Hawkins
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15706-15711; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207034109

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      Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit
      Silvia Vignolini, Paula J. Rudall, Alice V. Rowland, Alison Reed, Edwige Moyroud, Robert B. Faden, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Beverley J. Glover, and Ullrich Steiner
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15712-15715; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210105109

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Social Sciences

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      Phylogenies reveal predictive power of traditional medicine in bioprospecting
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      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15835-15840; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202242109

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      Generation times in wild chimpanzees and gorillas suggest earlier divergence times in great ape and human evolution
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      Kevin E. Langergraber, Kay Prüfer, Carolyn Rowney, Christophe Boesch, Catherine Crockford, Katie Fawcett, Eiji Inoue, Miho Inoue-Muruyama, John C. Mitani, Martin N. Muller, Martha M. Robbins, Grit Schubert, Tara S. Stoinski, Bence Viola, David Watts, Roman M. Wittig, Richard W. Wrangham, Klaus Zuberbühler, Svante Pääbo, and Linda Vigilant
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15716-15721; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1211740109

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      Cas9–crRNA ribonucleoprotein complex mediates specific DNA cleavage for adaptive immunity in bacteria
      Giedrius Gasiunas, Rodolphe Barrangou, Philippe Horvath, and Virginijus Siksnys
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2579-E2586; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208507109
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      Folate binding site of flavin-dependent thymidylate synthase
      Eric M. Koehn, Laura L. Perissinotti, Salah Moghram, Arjun Prabhakar, Scott A. Lesley, Irimpan I. Mathews, and Amnon Kohen
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      Selection of antibodies that regulate phenotype from intracellular combinatorial antibody libraries
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      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15728-15733; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214275109
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      Revisiting the contribution of negative charges on the chaperonin cage wall to the acceleration of protein folding
      Fumihiro Motojima, Yuko Motojima-Miyazaki, and Masasuke Yoshida
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15740-15745; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204547109
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      Parameter-free model discrimination criterion based on steady-state coplanarity
      Heather A. Harrington, Kenneth L. Ho, Thomas Thorne, and Michael P.H. Stumpf
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15746-15751; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1117073109
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      Domain–domain interactions in full-length p53 and a specific DNA complex probed by methyl NMR spectroscopy
      Michal Bista, Stefan M. Freund, and Alan R. Fersht
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15752-15756; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214176109
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      A kinetic model of rapidly reversible nonphotochemical quenching
      Julia Zaks, Kapil Amarnath, David M. Kramer, Krishna K. Niyogi, and Graham R. Fleming
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15757-15762; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1211017109

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      • Modeling the protection of photosynthesis
        - Sep 18, 2012
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      Topography of funneled landscapes determines the thermodynamics and kinetics of protein folding
      Jin Wang, Ronaldo J. Oliveira, Xiakun Chu, Paul C. Whitford, Jorge Chahine, Wei Han, Erkang Wang, José N. Onuchic, and Vitor B.P. Leite
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15763-15768; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212842109
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      Evidence that viral RNAs have evolved for efficient, two-stage packaging
      Alexander Borodavka, Roman Tuma, and Peter G. Stockley
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15769-15774; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204357109
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      Supertertiary structure of the synaptic MAGuK scaffold proteins is conserved
      James J. McCann, Liqiang Zheng, Daniel Rohrbeck, Suren Felekyan, Ralf Kühnemuth, R. Bryan Sutton, Claus A. M. Seidel, and Mark E. Bowen
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15775-15780; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1200254109
  • Cell Biology

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      Ultrastructural dynamics of proteins involved in endocytic budding
      Fatima-Zahra Idrissi, Anabel Blasco, Anna Espinal, and María Isabel Geli
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2587-E2594; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202789109
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      ECM microenvironment regulates collective migration and local dissemination in normal and malignant mammary epithelium
      Kim-Vy Nguyen-Ngoc, Kevin J. Cheung, Audrey Brenot, Eliah R. Shamir, Ryan S. Gray, William C. Hines, Paul Yaswen, Zena Werb, and Andrew J. Ewald
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2595-E2604; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212834109
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      Intrinsically disordered proteins aggregate at fungal cell-to-cell channels and regulate intercellular connectivity
      Julian Lai, Chuan Hock Koh, Monika Tjota, Laurent Pieuchot, Vignesh Raman, Karthik Balakrishna Chandrababu, Daiwen Yang, Limsoon Wong, and Gregory Jedd
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15781-15786; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207467109
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      TBC1D16 is a Rab4A GTPase activating protein that regulates receptor recycling and EGF receptor signaling
      Basem S. Goueli, Marianne Broome Powell, Elizabeth C. Finger, and Suzanne R. Pfeffer
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15787-15792; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204540109
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      Dinoflagellate tandem array gene transcripts are highly conserved and not polycistronic
      Mathieu Beauchemin, Sougata Roy, Philippe Daoust, Steve Dagenais-Bellefeuille, Thierry Bertomeu, Louis Letourneau, B. Franz Lang, and David Morse
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15793-15798; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206683109
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      Dual modes of motility at the leading edge of migrating epithelial cell sheets
      Jes K. Klarlund
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15799-15804; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210992109
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      cAMP response element-binding protein promotes gliomagenesis by modulating the expression of oncogenic microRNA-23a
      Xiaochao Tan, Shan Wang, Liyuan Zhu, Chao Wu, Bin Yin, Jizong Zhao, Jiangang Yuan, Boqin Qiang, and Xiaozhong Peng
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15805-15810; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207787109
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      Compartmentalization of superoxide dismutase 1 (SOD1G93A) aggregates determines their toxicity
      Sarah J. Weisberg, Roman Lyakhovetsky, Ayelet-chen Werdiger, Aaron D. Gitler, Yoav Soen, and Daniel Kaganovich
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15811-15816; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205829109
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      Hedgehog-responsive mesenchymal clusters direct patterning and emergence of intestinal villi
      Katherine D. Walton, Åsa Kolterud, Michael J. Czerwinski, Michael J. Bell, Ajay Prakash, Juhi Kushwaha, Ann S. Grosse, Santiago Schnell, and Deborah L. Gumucio
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15817-15822; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205669109
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      Models and tests of optimal density and maximal yield for crop plants
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      Jianming Deng, Jinzhi Ran, Zhiqiang Wang, Zhexuan Fan, Genxuan Wang, Mingfei Ji, Jing Liu, Yun Wang, Jianquan Liu, and James H. Brown
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15823-15828; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210955109

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      • Scaling of crop systems
        - Sep 14, 2012
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      Allometric scaling of population variance with mean body size is predicted from Taylor’s law and density-mass allometry
      Joel E. Cohen, Meng Xu, and William S. F. Schuster
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15829-15834; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1212883109
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      Silurian horseshoe crab illuminates the evolution of arthropod limbs
      Derek E. G. Briggs, Derek J. Siveter, David J. Siveter, Mark D. Sutton, Russell J. Garwood, and David Legg
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15702-15705; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205875109
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      Phylogenies reveal predictive power of traditional medicine in bioprospecting
      C. Haris Saslis-Lagoudakis, Vincent Savolainen, Elizabeth M. Williamson, Félix Forest, Steven J. Wagstaff, Sushim R. Baral, Mark F. Watson, Colin A. Pendry, and Julie A. Hawkins
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15835-15840; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202242109
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      Position-dependent correlations between DNA methylation and the evolutionary rates of mammalian coding exons
      Trees-Juen Chuang, Feng-Chi Chen, and Yen-Zho Chen
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15841-15846; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208214109
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      Epistasis dominates the genetic architecture of Drosophila quantitative traits
      • Inaugural Article
      Wen Huang, Stephen Richards, Mary Anna Carbone, Dianhui Zhu, Robert R. H. Anholt, Julien F. Ayroles, Laura Duncan, Katherine W. Jordan, Faye Lawrence, Michael M. Magwire, Crystal B. Warner, Kerstin Blankenburg, Yi Han, Mehwish Javaid, Joy Jayaseelan, Shalini N. Jhangiani, Donna Muzny, Fiona Ongeri, Lora Perales, Yuan-Qing Wu, Yiqing Zhang, Xiaoyan Zou, Eric A. Stone, Richard A. Gibbs, and Trudy F. C. Mackay
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15553-15559; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213423109
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      Genetic composition of yield heterosis in an elite rice hybrid
      Gang Zhou, Ying Chen, Wen Yao, Chengjun Zhang, Weibo Xie, Jinping Hua, Yongzhong Xing, Jinghua Xiao, and Qifa Zhang
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15847-15852; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214141109
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      p21-Activated kinase interacts with Wnt signaling to regulate tissue polarity and gene expression
      Kah Yee Goh, Natalie Weili Ng, Thilo Hagen, and Takao Inoue
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15853-15858; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1120795109
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      Regulation of immunity and disease resistance by commensal microbes and chromatin modifications during zebrafish development
      Jorge Galindo-Villegas, Diana García-Moreno, Sofia de Oliveira, José Meseguer, and Victoriano Mulero
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2605-E2614; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209920109
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      The immunodominant myeloperoxidase T-cell epitope induces local cell-mediated injury in antimyeloperoxidase glomerulonephritis
      Joshua D. Ooi, Janet Chang, Michael J. Hickey, Dorin-Bogdan Borza, Lars Fugger, Stephen R. Holdsworth, and A. Richard Kitching
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2615-E2624; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210147109
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      A mouse model for HIV-1 entry
      John Pietzsch, Henning Gruell, Stylianos Bournazos, Bridget M. Donovan, Florian Klein, Ron Diskin, Michael S. Seaman, Pamela J. Bjorkman, Jeffrey V. Ravetch, Alexander Ploss, and Michel C. Nussenzweig
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15859-15864; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213409109
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      Chromatin conformation governs T-cell receptor Jβ gene segment usage
      Wilfred Ndifon, Hilah Gal, Eric Shifrut, Rina Aharoni, Nissan Yissachar, Nir Waysbort, Shlomit Reich-Zeliger, Ruth Arnon, and Nir Friedman
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15865-15870; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203916109
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      Single-cell analysis of early B-lymphocyte development suggests independent regulation of lineage specification and commitment in vivo
      Sasan Zandi, Josefine Åhsberg, Panagiotis Tsapogas, Jenny Stjernberg, Hong Qian, and Mikael Sigvardsson
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15871-15876; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210144109
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      T cells engineered with a T cell receptor against the prostate antigen TARP specifically kill HLA-A2+ prostate and breast cancer cells
      Victoria Hillerdal, Berith Nilsson, Björn Carlsson, Fredrik Eriksson, and Magnus Essand
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15877-15881; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209042109
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      Altered Ig levels and antibody responses in mice deficient for the Fc receptor for IgM (FcμR)
      Kazuhito Honjo, Yoshiki Kubagawa, Dewitt M. Jones, Brian Dizon, Zilu Zhu, Hiroshi Ohno, Shozo Izui, John F. Kearney, and Hiromi Kubagawa
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15882-15887; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206567109
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      Oral advanced glycation endproducts (AGEs) promote insulin resistance and diabetes by depleting the antioxidant defenses AGE receptor-1 and sirtuin 1
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      Weijing Cai, Maya Ramdas, Li Zhu, Xue Chen, Gary E. Striker, and Helen Vlassara
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15888-15893; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205847109

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      • AGEs and diabetes
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      Collaborative interplay between FGF-2 and VEGF-C promotes lymphangiogenesis and metastasis
      Renhai Cao, Hong Ji, Ninghan Feng, Yin Zhang, Xiaojuan Yang, Patrik Andersson, Yuping Sun, Katerina Tritsaris, Anker Jon Hansen, Steen Dissing, and Yihai Cao
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15894-15899; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208324109
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      Fusion activation by a headless parainfluenza virus 5 hemagglutinin-neuraminidase stalk suggests a modular mechanism for triggering
      Sayantan Bose, Aarohi Zokarkar, Brett D. Welch, George P. Leser, Theodore S. Jardetzky, and Robert A. Lamb
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2625-E2634; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1213813109
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      Virulence and transmissibility of H1N2 influenza virus in ferrets imply the continuing threat of triple-reassortant swine viruses
      Philippe Noriel Q. Pascua, Min-Suk Song, Jun Han Lee, Yun Hee Baek, Hyeok-il Kwon, Su-Jin Park, Eun Hye Choi, Gyo-Jin Lim, Ok-Jun Lee, Si-Wook Kim, Chul-Joong Kim, Moon Hee Sung, Myung Hee Kim, Sun-Woo Yoon, Elena A. Govorkova, Richard J. Webby, Robert G. Webster, and Young-Ki Choi
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15900-15905; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205576109

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      Activation of Escherichia coli antiterminator BglG requires its phosphorylation
      Fabian M. Rothe, Thomas Bahr, Jörg Stülke, Bodo Rak, and Boris Görke
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15906-15911; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210443109
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      Mechanism for Hypocretin-mediated sleep-to-wake transitions
      Matthew E. Carter, Julia Brill, Patricia Bonnavion, John R. Huguenard, Ramon Huerta, and Luis de Lecea
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) E2635-E2644; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202526109
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      Brain imaging reveals neuronal circuitry underlying the crow’s perception of human faces
      John M. Marzluff, Robert Miyaoka, Satoshi Minoshima, and Donna J. Cross
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15912-15917; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1206109109
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      Progressive dopaminergic cell loss with unilateral-to-bilateral progression in a genetic model of Parkinson disease
      Maxime W. C. Rousseaux, Paul C. Marcogliese, Dianbo Qu, Sarah J. Hewitt, Sarah Seang, Raymond H. Kim, Ruth S. Slack, Michael G. Schlossmacher, Diane C. Lagace, Tak W. Mak, and David S. Park
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15918-15923; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1205102109
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      Role of pro-brain-derived neurotrophic factor (proBDNF) to mature BDNF conversion in activity-dependent competition at developing neuromuscular synapses
      H. Shawn Je, Feng Yang, Yuanyuan Ji, Guhan Nagappan, Barbara L. Hempstead, and Bai Lu
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15924-15929; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207767109
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      Targeting blood-brain barrier sphingolipid signaling reduces basal P-glycoprotein activity and improves drug delivery to the brain
      Ronald E. Cannon, John C. Peart, Brian T. Hawkins, Christopher R. Campos, and David S. Miller
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15930-15935; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1203534109

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        - Sep 25, 2012
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      Endochin-like quinolones are highly efficacious against acute and latent experimental toxoplasmosis
      J. Stone Doggett, Aaron Nilsen, Isaac Forquer, Keith W. Wegmann, Lorraine Jones-Brando, Robert H. Yolken, Claudia Bordón, Susan A. Charman, Kasiram Katneni, Tracey Schultz, Jeremy N. Burrows, David J. Hinrichs, Brigitte Meunier, Vern B. Carruthers, and Michael K. Riscoe
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15936-15941; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1208069109
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      Pointillist structural color in Pollia fruit
      Silvia Vignolini, Paula J. Rudall, Alice V. Rowland, Alison Reed, Edwige Moyroud, Robert B. Faden, Jeremy J. Baumberg, Beverley J. Glover, and Ullrich Steiner
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15712-15715; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1210105109

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      • Pointillist structural color on land and in water
        - Nov 06, 2012
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      Degradation of the antiviral component ARGONAUTE1 by the autophagy pathway
      Benoît Derrien, Nicolas Baumberger, Mikhail Schepetilnikov, Corrado Viotti, Julia De Cillia, Véronique Ziegler-Graff, Erika Isono, Karin Schumacher, and Pascal Genschik
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15942-15946; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1209487109
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      Rice phytochrome-interacting factor-like protein OsPIL1 functions as a key regulator of internode elongation and induces a morphological response to drought stress
      Daisuke Todaka, Kazuo Nakashima, Kyonoshin Maruyama, Satoshi Kidokoro, Yuriko Osakabe, Yusuke Ito, Satoko Matsukura, Yasunari Fujita, Kyouko Yoshiwara, Masaru Ohme-Takagi, Mikiko Kojima, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Kazuo Shinozaki, and Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15947-15952; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1207324109
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      Auditory perception at the root of language learning
      Jutta L. Mueller, Angela D. Friederici, and Claudia Männel
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15953-15958; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1204319109
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      Nonconscious activation of placebo and nocebo pain responses
      Karin B. Jensen, Ted J. Kaptchuk, Irving Kirsch, Jacqueline Raicek, Kara M. Lindstrom, Chantal Berna, Randy L. Gollub, Martin Ingvar, and Jian Kong
      PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15959-15964; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1202056109

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    Correction for Muckerman et al., Calculation of thermodynamic hydricities and the design of hydride donors for CO2 reduction
    PNAS September 25, 2012 109 (39) 15965; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1214762109
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