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October 16, 2012; vol. 109 no. 42
This Week in PNAS
- You have accessIn This Issue
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- Linking microbes and geochemistry in sediments- Oct 01, 2012
- Neuroprotection in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis- Oct 01, 2012
- Ring stacking drives circadian clock clockwise- Sep 11, 2012
- Neuroprotection in Parkinson disease- Oct 01, 2012
- Misconduct and retractions- Oct 01, 2012
- Task-specific selectivity in V4- Oct 05, 2012
- Linking microbes and geochemistry in sediments- Oct 01, 2012
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessInhibitory signaling through signal regulatory protein-α is not sufficient to explain the antitumor activities of CD47 antibodiesDavid R. Soto-Pantoja, Thomas W. Miller, William A. Frazier, and David D. Roberts
- You have accessOn the mechanism of CD47 targeting in cancerXi Wen Zhao, Hanke L. Matlung, Taco W. Kuijpers, and Timo K. van den Berg
- You have accessReply to Soto-Pantoja et al. and Zhao et al.: Targeting CD47 on human solid tumorsStephen B. Willingham, Jens-Peter Volkmer, Kipp Weiskopf, Aaron M. Ring, and Irving L. Weissman
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Retrospective
Profile
- You have accessProfile of Pamela J. FrakerTinsley H. Davis
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- Task-specific selectivity in V4- Oct 05, 2012
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- Hematopoiesis in DIO mice- Apr 25, 2012
Feature Article
- Open AccessEvidence for additive and interaction effects of host genotype and infection in malaria
- From the Cover
Youssef Idaghdour, Jacklyn Quinlan, Jean-Philippe Goulet, Joanne Berghout, Elias Gbeha, Vanessa Bruat, Thibault de Malliard, Jean-Christophe Grenier, Selma Gomez, Philippe Gros, Mohamed Chérif Rahimy, Ambaliou Sanni, and Philip Awadalla
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
- You have accessHeterogeneity of AMPA receptor trafficking and molecular interactions revealed by superresolution analysis of live cell imagingNathanael Hoze, Deepak Nair, Eric Hosy, Christian Sieben, Suliana Manley, Andreas Herrmann, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, Daniel Choquet, and David Holcman
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have access3D imaging and mechanical modeling of helical buckling in Medicago truncatula plant rootsJesse L. Silverberg, Roslyn D. Noar, Michael S. Packer, Maria J. Harrison, Christopher L. Henley, Itai Cohen, and Sharon J. Gerbode
Chemistry
- You have accessBacillus cereus iron uptake protein fishes out an unstable ferric citrate trimerTatsuya Fukushima, Allyson K. Sia, Benjamin E. Allred, Rita Nichiporuk, Zhongrui Zhou, Ulla N. Andersen, and Kenneth N. Raymond
- You have accessLithocholic acid is an endogenous inhibitor of MDM4 and MDM2Simon M. Vogel, Matthias R. Bauer, Andreas C. Joerger, Rainer Wilcken, Tobias Brandt, Dmitry B. Veprintsev, Trevor J. Rutherford, Alan R. Fersht, and Frank M. Boeckler
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- Open AccessOxygen isotopes in tree rings are a good proxy for Amazon precipitation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation variabilityRoel J. W. Brienen, Gerd Helle, Thijs L. Pons, Jean-Loup Guyot, and Manuel Gloor
Engineering
- You have accessFine-tuning gene networks using simple sequence repeats
- From the Cover
Robert G. Egbert and Eric KlavinsSee companion article:
- The genetic circuits tune-up shop- Oct 01, 2012
Physics
- You have accessNuclear transport receptor binding avidity triggers a self-healing collapse transition in FG-nucleoporin molecular brushesRafael L. Schoch, Larisa E. Kapinos, and Roderick Y. H. Lim
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
- You have accessAdolescents’ risk-taking behavior is driven by tolerance to ambiguityAgnieszka Tymula, Lior A. Rosenberg Belmaker, Amy K. Roy, Lital Ruderman, Kirk Manson, Paul W. Glimcher, and Ifat Levy
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessMental time travel and default-mode network functional connectivity in the developing brainYlva Østby, Kristine B. Walhovd, Christian K. Tamnes, Håkon Grydeland, Lars Tjelta Westlye, and Anders M. Fjell
- Open AccessSelectively altering belief formation in the human brainTali Sharot, Ryota Kanai, David Marston, Christoph W. Korn, Geraint Rees, and Raymond J. Dolan
- You have accessHigh-resolution imaging of expertise reveals reliable object selectivity in the fusiform face area related to perceptual performanceRankin Williams McGugin, J. Christopher Gatenby, John C. Gore, and Isabel Gauthier
Sustainability Science
- You have accessEconomics of nuclear power and climate change mitigation policiesNico Bauer, Robert J. Brecha, and Gunnar Luderer
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
- You have accessTargeted microRNA expression in dairy cattle directs production of β-lactoglobulin-free, high-casein milkAnower Jabed, Stefan Wagner, Judi McCracken, David N. Wells, and Goetz Laible
Applied Biological Sciences
- You have accessFine-tuning gene networks using simple sequence repeats
- From the Cover
Robert G. Egbert and Eric KlavinsSee companion article:
- The genetic circuits tune-up shop- Oct 01, 2012
- Open AccessMalarial dihydrofolate reductase as a paradigm for drug development against a resistance-compromised targetYongyuth Yuthavong, Bongkoch Tarnchompoo, Tirayut Vilaivan, Penchit Chitnumsub, Sumalee Kamchonwongpaisan, Susan A. Charman, Danielle N. McLennan, Karen L. White, Livia Vivas, Emily Bongard, Chawanee Thongphanchang, Supannee Taweechai, Jarunee Vanichtanankul, Roonglawan Rattanajak, Uthai Arwon, Pascal Fantauzzi, Jirundon Yuvaniyama, William N. Charman, and David Matthews
Biochemistry
- You have accessBacillus cereus iron uptake protein fishes out an unstable ferric citrate trimerTatsuya Fukushima, Allyson K. Sia, Benjamin E. Allred, Rita Nichiporuk, Zhongrui Zhou, Ulla N. Andersen, and Kenneth N. Raymond
- You have accessRole of protons in sugar binding to LacYIrina Smirnova, Vladimir Kasho, Junichi Sugihara, José Luis Vázquez-Ibar, and H. Ronald Kaback
- You have accessProtein kinase WNK3 regulates the neuronal splicing factor Fox-1A-Young Lee, Wei Chen, Steve Stippec, Jon Self, Fan Yang, Xiaojun Ding, She Chen, Yu-Chi Juang, and Melanie H. Cobb
- You have accessRhythmic ring–ring stacking drives the circadian oscillator clockwise
- From the Cover
Yong-Gang Chang, Roger Tseng, Nai-Wei Kuo, and Andy LiWangSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Oct 16, 2012
- Orderly wheels of the cyanobacterial clock- Oct 08, 2012
- Open AccessStructural basis for the recognition and cleavage of abasic DNA in Neisseria meningitidisDuo Lu, Jan Silhan, James T. MacDonald, Elisabeth P. Carpenter, Kirsten Jensen, Christoph M. Tang, Geoff S. Baldwin, and Paul S. Freemont
- You have accessA fundamental protein property, thermodynamic stability, revealed solely from large-scale measurements of protein functionCarlos L. Araya, Douglas M. Fowler, Wentao Chen, Ike Muniez, Jeffery W. Kelly, and Stanley Fields
- You have accessStructural basis for promiscuity and specificity during Candida glabrata invasion of host epitheliaManuel Maestre-Reyna, Rike Diderrich, Maik Stefan Veelders, Georg Eulenburg, Vitali Kalugin, Stefan Brückner, Petra Keller, Steffen Rupp, Hans-Ulrich Mösch, and Lars-Oliver Essen
- You have accessChlamydia trachomatis protein GrgA activates transcription by contacting the nonconserved region of σ66Xiaofeng Bao, Bryce E. Nickels, and Huizhou Fan
- You have accessCrystal structure of Enpp1, an extracellular glycoprotein involved in bone mineralization and insulin signalingKazuki Kato, Hiroshi Nishimasu, Shinichi Okudaira, Emiko Mihara, Ryuichiro Ishitani, Junichi Takagi, Junken Aoki, and Osamu Nureki
- You have accessPathogen-Related Yeast (PRY) proteins and members of the CAP superfamily are secreted sterol-binding proteinsVineet Choudhary and Roger Schneiter
- You have accessModification of RelA by O-linked N-acetylglucosamine links glucose metabolism to NF-κB acetylation and transcriptionDavid F. Allison, J. Jacob Wamsley, Manish Kumar, Duo Li, Lisa G. Gray, Gerald W. Hart, David R. Jones, and Marty W. Mayo
- You have accessTransforming a drug/H+ antiporter into a polyamine importer by a single mutationShlomo Brill, Ofir Sade Falk, and Shimon Schuldiner
- You have accessStructural basis for TetM-mediated tetracycline resistanceAlexandra Dönhöfer, Sibylle Franckenberg, Stephan Wickles, Otto Berninghausen, Roland Beckmann, and Daniel N. Wilson
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessLithocholic acid is an endogenous inhibitor of MDM4 and MDM2Simon M. Vogel, Matthias R. Bauer, Andreas C. Joerger, Rainer Wilcken, Tobias Brandt, Dmitry B. Veprintsev, Trevor J. Rutherford, Alan R. Fersht, and Frank M. Boeckler
- You have accessNuclear transport receptor binding avidity triggers a self-healing collapse transition in FG-nucleoporin molecular brushesRafael L. Schoch, Larisa E. Kapinos, and Roderick Y. H. Lim
- Open AccessTetrameric assembly of KvLm K+ channels with defined numbers of voltage sensorsRuhma Syeda, Jose S. Santos, Mauricio Montal, and Hagan Bayley
- You have accessIdentification of cation-binding sites on actin that drive polymerization and modulate bending stiffnessHyeran Kang, Michael J. Bradley, Brannon R. McCullough, Anaëlle Pierre, Elena E. Grintsevich, Emil Reisler, and Enrique M. De La Cruz
- You have accessIn vitro reconstitution of the ordered assembly of the endosomal sorting complex required for transport at membrane-bound HIV-1 Gag clustersLars-Anders Carlson and James H. Hurley
Developmental Biology
- You have accessTestis tissue explantation cures spermatogenic failure in c-Kit ligand mutant mice
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Takuya Sato, Tetsuhiro Yokonishi, Mitsuru Komeya, Kumiko Katagiri, Yoshinobu Kubota, Shogo Matoba, Narumi Ogonuki, Atsuo Ogura, Shosei Yoshida, and Takehiko OgawaSee companion article:
- Making male gametes in culture- Oct 09, 2012
- You have accessA noncoding RNA regulates the neurogenin1 gene locus during mouse neocortical developmentMasahiro Onoguchi, Yusuke Hirabayashi, Haruhiko Koseki, and Yukiko Gotoh
- You have accessCollective mesendoderm migration relies on an intrinsic directionality signal transmitted through cell contactsJulien G. Dumortier, Sandro Martin, Dirk Meyer, Frederic M. Rosa, and Nicolas B. David
- You have accessAnalysis of human samples reveals impaired SHH-dependent cerebellar development in Joubert syndrome/Meckel syndromeAndrea Aguilar, Alice Meunier, Laetitia Strehl, Jelena Martinovic, Maryse Bonniere, Tania Attie-Bitach, Féréchté Encha-Razavi, and Nathalie Spassky
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessCorrelating microbial community profiles with geochemical data in highly stratified sediments from the Arctic Mid-Ocean Ridge
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Steffen Leth Jorgensen, Bjarte Hannisdal, Anders Lanzén, Tamara Baumberger, Kristin Flesland, Rita Fonseca, Lise Øvreås, Ida H. Steen, Ingunn H. Thorseth, Rolf B. Pedersen, and Christa SchleperSee companion article:
- In This Issue- Oct 16, 2012
- Microbial subsurface habitats- Oct 09, 2012
- Open AccessOxygen isotopes in tree rings are a good proxy for Amazon precipitation and El Niño-Southern Oscillation variabilityRoel J. W. Brienen, Gerd Helle, Thijs L. Pons, Jean-Loup Guyot, and Manuel Gloor
- Open AccessEvidence for the respiration of ancient terrestrial organic C in northern temperate lakes and streamsS. Leigh McCallister and Paul A. del Giorgio
Evolution
- You have accessInhibitory cross-talk upon introduction of a new metabolic pathway into an existing metabolic networkJuhan Kim and Shelley D. Copley
- Open AccessTibet is one of the centers of domestication of cultivated barleyFei Dai, Eviatar Nevo, Dezhi Wu, Jordi Comadran, Meixue Zhou, Long Qiu, Zhonghua Chen, Avigdor Beiles, Guoxiong Chen, and Guoping Zhang
- You have accessCell-type homologies and the origins of the neocortexJennifer Dugas-Ford, Joanna J. Rowell, and Clifton W. Ragsdale
- You have accessVariation in personality and fitness in wild female baboonsRobert M. Seyfarth, Joan B. Silk, and Dorothy L. Cheney
Genetics
- Open AccessEvidence for additive and interaction effects of host genotype and infection in malaria
- From the Cover
Youssef Idaghdour, Jacklyn Quinlan, Jean-Philippe Goulet, Joanne Berghout, Elias Gbeha, Vanessa Bruat, Thibault de Malliard, Jean-Christophe Grenier, Selma Gomez, Philippe Gros, Mohamed Chérif Rahimy, Ambaliou Sanni, and Philip Awadalla
Immunology
- Open AccessRequirement for the histone deacetylase Hdac3 for the inflammatory gene expression program in macrophagesXuefen Chen, Iros Barozzi, Alberto Termanini, Elena Prosperini, Antonio Recchiuti, Jesmond Dalli, Flore Mietton, Gianluca Matteoli, Scott Hiebert, and Gioacchino Natoli
- Open AccessPhosphorylation of CRTC3 by the salt-inducible kinases controls the interconversion of classically activated and regulatory macrophagesKristopher Clark, Kirsty F. MacKenzie, Kasparas Petkevicius, Yosua Kristariyanto, Jiazhen Zhang, Hwan Geun Choi, Mark Peggie, Lorna Plater, Patrick G. A. Pedrioli, Ed McIver, Nathanael S. Gray, J. Simon C. Arthur, and Philip Cohen
- You have accessRegulation of memory CD4 T-cell pool size and function by natural killer T cells in vivoChiaki Iwamura, Kenta Shinoda, Yusuke Endo, Yukiko Watanabe, Damon John Tumes, Shinichiro Motohashi, Kazuyoshi Kawahara, Yuki Kinjo, and Toshinori Nakayama
- You have accessUsing intein catalysis to probe the origin of major histocompatibility complex class I-presented peptidesDiego J. Farfán-Arribas, Lawrence J. Stern, and Kenneth L. Rock
- You have accessNoncoding transcription within the Igh distal VH region at PAIR elements affects the 3D structure of the Igh locus in pro-B cellsJiyoti Verma-Gaur, Ali Torkamani, Lana Schaffer, Steven R. Head, Nicholas J. Schork, and Ann J. Feeney
Medical Sciences
- You have accessAberrant expression of c-Jun in glioblastoma by internal ribosome entry site (IRES)-mediated translational activationLior Blau, Revital Knirsh, Iris Ben-Dror, Sivan Oren, Silke Kuphal, Peter Hau, Martin Proescholdt, Anja-Katrin Bosserhoff, and Lily Vardimon
- Open AccessNeuroprotective efficacy of aminopropyl carbazoles in a mouse model of Parkinson diseaseHéctor De Jesús-Cortés, Pin Xu, Jordan Drawbridge, Sandi Jo Estill, Paula Huntington, Stephanie Tran, Jeremiah Britt, Rachel Tesla, Lorraine Morlock, Jacinth Naidoo, Lisa M. Melito, Gelin Wang, Noelle S. Williams, Joseph M. Ready, Steven L. McKnight, and Andrew A. Pieper
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- Open AccessNeuroprotective efficacy of aminopropyl carbazoles in a mouse model of amyotrophic lateral sclerosisRachel Tesla, Hamilton Parker Wolf, Pin Xu, Jordan Drawbridge, Sandi Jo Estill, Paula Huntington, LaTisha McDaniel, Whitney Knobbe, Aaron Burket, Stephanie Tran, Ruth Starwalt, Lorraine Morlock, Jacinth Naidoo, Noelle S. Williams, Joseph M. Ready, Steven L. McKnight, and Andrew A. Pieper
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- In This Issue- Oct 16, 2012
- You have accessBiochemical evidence for superior correction of neuronal storage by chemically modified enzyme in murine mucopolysaccharidosis VIIHa T. Huynh, Jeffrey H. Grubb, Carole Vogler, and William S. Sly
- You have accessMisconduct accounts for the majority of retracted scientific publicationsFerric C. Fang, R. Grant Steen, and Arturo Casadevall
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- Open AccessA framework for identification of actionable cancer genome dependencies in small cell lung cancerMartin L. Sos, Felix Dietlein, Martin Peifer, Jakob Schöttle, Hyatt Balke-Want, Christian Müller, Mirjam Koker, André Richters, Stefanie Heynck, Florian Malchers, Johannes M. Heuckmann, Danila Seidel, Patrick A. Eyers, Roland T. Ullrich, Andrey P. Antonchick, Viktor V. Vintonyak, Peter M. Schneider, Takashi Ninomiya, Herbert Waldmann, Reinhard Büttner, Daniel Rauh, Lukas C. Heukamp, and Roman K. Thomas
Microbiology
- You have accessHeterosubtypic antibody recognition of the influenza virus hemagglutinin receptor binding site enhanced by avidityPeter S. Lee, Reiko Yoshida, Damian C. Ekiert, Naoki Sakai, Yasuhiko Suzuki, Ayato Takada, and Ian A. Wilson
- You have accessAlphaherpesvirus axon-to-cell spread involves limited virion transmissionMatthew P. Taylor, Oren Kobiler, and Lynn W. Enquist
Neuroscience
- Open AccessStatistical connectivity provides a sufficient foundation for specific functional connectivity in neocortical neural microcircuitsSean L. Hill, Yun Wang, Imad Riachi, Felix Schürmann, and Henry Markram
- Open AccessLevetiracetam suppresses neuronal network dysfunction and reverses synaptic and cognitive deficits in an Alzheimer’s disease modelPascal E. Sanchez, Lei Zhu, Laure Verret, Keith A. Vossel, Anna G. Orr, John R. Cirrito, Nino Devidze, Kaitlyn Ho, Gui-Qiu Yu, Jorge J. Palop, and Lennart Mucke
- You have accessAn accumulator model for spontaneous neural activity prior to self-initiated movementAaron Schurger, Jacobo D. Sitt, and Stanislas Dehaene
- You have accessFeature attention evokes task-specific pattern selectivity in V4 neurons
- Inaugural Article
Anna E. Ipata, Angela L. Gee, and Michael E. GoldbergSee companion article:
- Profile of Pamela J. Fraker- Oct 01, 2012
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- In This Issue- Oct 16, 2012
- You have accessHeterogeneity of AMPA receptor trafficking and molecular interactions revealed by superresolution analysis of live cell imagingNathanael Hoze, Deepak Nair, Eric Hosy, Christian Sieben, Suliana Manley, Andreas Herrmann, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, Daniel Choquet, and David Holcman
- Open AccessSelectively altering belief formation in the human brainTali Sharot, Ryota Kanai, David Marston, Christoph W. Korn, Geraint Rees, and Raymond J. Dolan
- You have accessHigh-resolution imaging of expertise reveals reliable object selectivity in the fusiform face area related to perceptual performanceRankin Williams McGugin, J. Christopher Gatenby, John C. Gore, and Isabel Gauthier
- You have accessFine-tuning synaptic plasticity by modulation of CaV2.1 channels with Ca2+ sensor proteinsKarina Leal, Sumiko Mochida, Todd Scheuer, and William A. Catterall
- Open AccessCognitive signals for brain–machine interfaces in posterior parietal cortex include continuous 3D trajectory commandsMarkus Hauschild, Grant H. Mulliken, Igor Fineman, Gerald E. Loeb, and Richard A. Andersen
- You have accessDBL-1, a TGF-β, is essential for Caenorhabditis elegans aversive olfactory learningXiaodong Zhang and Yun Zhang
- You have accessActivity-dependent BDNF release and TRPC signaling is impaired in hippocampal neurons of Mecp2 mutant miceWei Li, Gaston Calfa, Jennifer Larimore, and Lucas Pozzo-Miller
- You have accessFunctional anatomy of neural circuits regulating fear and extinctionEwelina Knapska, Matylda Macias, Marta Mikosz, Aleksandra Nowak, Dorota Owczarek, Marcin Wawrzyniak, Marcelina Pieprzyk, Iwona A. Cymerman, Tomasz Werka, Morgan Sheng, Stephen Maren, Jacek Jaworski, and Leszek Kaczmarek
Physiology
- You have accessCardiomyocytes from AKAP7 knockout mice respond normally to adrenergic stimulationBrian W. Jones, Sylvain Brunet, Merle L. Gilbert, C. Blake Nichols, Thomas Su, Ruth E. Westenbroek, John D. Scott, William A. Catterall, and G. Stanley McKnight
- Open AccessAssessment of morphometry of pulmonary acini in mouse lungs by nondestructive imaging using multiscale microcomputed tomographyDragoş M. Vasilescu, Zhiyun Gao, Punam K. Saha, Leilei Yin, Ge Wang, Beatrice Haefeli-Bleuer, Matthias Ochs, Ewald R. Weibel, and Eric A. Hoffman
- Open AccessSolar UV radiation reduces the barrier function of human skinKrysta Biniek, Kemal Levi, and Reinhold H. Dauskardt
Plant Biology
- You have accessXAX1 from glycosyltransferase family 61 mediates xylosyltransfer to rice xylanDawn Chiniquy, Vaishali Sharma, Alex Schultink, Edward E. Baidoo, Carsten Rautengarten, Kun Cheng, Andrew Carroll, Peter Ulvskov, Jesper Harholt, Jay D. Keasling, Markus Pauly, Henrik V. Scheller, and Pamela C. Ronald
- Open AccessTranscriptional repressor PRR5 directly regulates clock-output pathwaysNorihito Nakamichi, Takatoshi Kiba, Mari Kamioka, Takamasa Suzuki, Takafumi Yamashino, Tetsuya Higashiyama, Hitoshi Sakakibara, and Takeshi Mizuno
- You have accessCIRCADIAN CLOCK-ASSOCIATED 1 regulates ROS homeostasis and oxidative stress responsesAlvina Grace Lai, Colleen J. Doherty, Bernd Mueller-Roeber, Steve A. Kay, Jos H. M. Schippers, and Paul P. Dijkwel
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessAdolescents’ risk-taking behavior is driven by tolerance to ambiguityAgnieszka Tymula, Lior A. Rosenberg Belmaker, Amy K. Roy, Lital Ruderman, Kirk Manson, Paul W. Glimcher, and Ifat Levy
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