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March 12, 2013; vol. 110 no. 11
This Week in PNAS
Letters (Online Only)
- You have accessPersonality may explain the association between cannabis use and neuropsychological impairmentMichael Daly
- You have accessReply to Rogeberg and Daly: No evidence that socioeconomic status or personality differences confound the association between cannabis use and IQ declineTerrie E. Moffitt, Madeline H. Meier, Avshalom Caspi, and Richie Poulton
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- Cannabis use and neuropsychological decline- Aug 27, 2012
- Cannabis use and neuropsychological decline- Aug 27, 2012
- You have accessReply to Moffitt et al.: Causal inference from observational data remains difficultOle Rogeberg
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- Cannabis use and neuropsychological decline- Aug 27, 2012
- Cannabis use and neuropsychological decline- Aug 27, 2012
- You have accessOrganic farming gives no climate change benefit through soil carbon sequestrationJens Leifeld, Denis A. Angers, Claire Chenu, Jürg Fuhrer, Thomas Kätterer, and David S. Powlson
- You have accessReply to Leifeld et al.: Enhanced top soil carbon stocks under organic farming is not equated with climate change mitigationAndreas Gattinger, Adrian Muller, Matthias Haeni, Colin Skinner, Andreas Fließbach, Nina Buchmann, Paul Mäder, Matthias Stolze, Pete Smith, Nadia El-Hage Scialabba, and Urs Niggli
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- Top soil carbon stocks under organic farming- Oct 15, 2012
News Feature
Science and Culture
Profile
- You have accessProfile of Michael B. A. OldstoneNicholette Zeliadt
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- How viruses cause disease and persist- Jan 22, 2013
Core Concepts
PNAS Plus Significance Statements
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- Open AccessBiofilm streamers cause catastrophic disruption of flow with consequences for environmental and medical systemsKnut Drescher, Yi Shen, Bonnie L. Bassler, and Howard A. Stone
Chemistry
- You have accessTransketolase reaction under credible prebiotic conditionsRonald Breslow and Chandrakumar Appayee
- Open AccessFolding and ligand recognition of the TPP riboswitch aptamer at single-molecule resolutionAndrea Haller, Roger B. Altman, Marie F. Soulière, Scott C. Blanchard, and Ronald Micura
- You have accessMetal ions control product specificity of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases in the insect terpenoid pathwaySindy Frick, Raimund Nagel, Axel Schmidt, René R. Bodemann, Peter Rahfeld, Gerhard Pauls, Wolfgang Brandt, Jonathan Gershenzon, Wilhelm Boland, and Antje Burse
- You have accessHydration of metal surfaces can be dynamically heterogeneous and hydrophobicDavid T. Limmer, Adam P. Willard, Paul Madden, and David Chandler
- You have accessStereochemical evidence for stabilization of a nitrogen cation by neighboring chlorine or bromineTomohiko Ohwada, Norihiko Tani, Yuko Sakamaki, Yoji Kabasawa, Yuko Otani, Masatoshi Kawahata, and Kentaro Yamaguchi
- You have accessIdentification of parameters through which surface chemistry determines the lifetimes of hot electrons in small Au nanoparticlesKenneth O. Aruda, Mario Tagliazucchi, Christina M. Sweeney, Daniel C. Hannah, George C. Schatz, and Emily A. Weiss
- You have accessOnchocerca volvulus-neurotransmitter tyramine is a biomarker for river blindness
- From the Cover
Daniel Globisch, Amira Y. Moreno, Mark S. Hixon, Ashlee A. K. Nunes, Judith R. Denery, Sabine Specht, Achim Hoerauf, and Kim D. Janda
Computer Sciences
- Open AccessAutomated reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change
- From the Cover
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, David Hall, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Dan KleinSee companion article:
- The descent of words- Feb 15, 2013
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessWater-controlled wealth of nations
- From the Cover
Samir Suweis, Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, and Paolo D’OdoricoSee companion article:
- Fifty years to prove Malthus right- Mar 04, 2013
- You have accessGreen-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011Geli Zhang, Yangjian Zhang, Jinwei Dong, and Xiangming Xiao
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- Spring phenology advanced in Tibetan Plateau- May 09, 2013
- Snow and air temperature affect spring phenology- Jun 05, 2013
Physics
- You have accessDynamical Casimir effect in a Josephson metamaterialPasi Lähteenmäki, G. S. Paraoanu, Juha Hassel, and Pertti J. Hakonen
- You have accessSpatial extent of an outbreak in animal epidemicsEric Dumonteil, Satya N. Majumdar, Alberto Rosso, and Andrea Zoia
- You have accessFree energy landscape for the binding process of Huperzine A to acetylcholinesteraseFang Bai, Yechun Xu, Jing Chen, Qiufeng Liu, Junfeng Gu, Xicheng Wang, Jianpeng Ma, Honglin Li, José N. Onuchic, and Hualiang Jiang
Statistics
- You have accessStatistical method for comparing the level of intracellular organization between cellsZachary S. Apte and Wallace F. Marshall
- Open AccessPattern discovery and cancer gene identification in integrated cancer genomic dataQianxing Mo, Sijian Wang, Venkatraman E. Seshan, Adam B. Olshen, Nikolaus Schultz, Chris Sander, R. Scott Powers, Marc Ladanyi, and Ronglai Shen
Social Sciences
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- Open AccessAutomated reconstruction of ancient languages using probabilistic models of sound change
- From the Cover
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, David Hall, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Dan KleinSee companion article:
- The descent of words- Feb 15, 2013
- You have accessReversal of age-related neural timing delays with trainingSamira Anderson, Travis White-Schwoch, Alexandra Parbery-Clark, and Nina Kraus
- Open AccessSuperiority illusion arises from resting-state brain networks modulated by dopamineMakiko Yamada, Lucina Q. Uddin, Hidehiko Takahashi, Yasuyuki Kimura, Keisuke Takahata, Ririko Kousa, Yoko Ikoma, Yoko Eguchi, Harumasa Takano, Hiroshi Ito, Makoto Higuchi, and Tetsuya Suhara
- Open AccessSensory adaptation as optimal resource allocationSergei Gepshtein, Luis A. Lesmes, and Thomas D. Albright
- Open AccessDorsolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex interactions during self-control of cigarette craving
- From the Cover
Takuya Hayashi, Ji Hyun Ko, Antonio P. Strafella, and Alain DagherSee companion article:
- Control of craving by the prefrontal cortex- Mar 04, 2013
Sustainability Science
- Open AccessWater-controlled wealth of nations
- From the Cover
Samir Suweis, Andrea Rinaldo, Amos Maritan, and Paolo D’OdoricoSee companion article:
- Fifty years to prove Malthus right- Mar 04, 2013
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
- Open AccessComprehensive profiling of circulating microRNA via small RNA sequencing of cDNA libraries reveals biomarker potential and limitationsZev Williams, Iddo Z. Ben-Dov, Rony Elias, Aleksandra Mihailovic, Miguel Brown, Zev Rosenwaks, and Thomas Tuschl
Biochemistry
- You have accessDirect activation of full-length proapoptotic BAKElizaveta S. Leshchiner, Craig R. Braun, Gregory H. Bird, and Loren D. Walensky
- You have accessTransketolase reaction under credible prebiotic conditionsRonald Breslow and Chandrakumar Appayee
- Open AccessFolding and ligand recognition of the TPP riboswitch aptamer at single-molecule resolutionAndrea Haller, Roger B. Altman, Marie F. Soulière, Scott C. Blanchard, and Ronald Micura
- You have accessMetal ions control product specificity of isoprenyl diphosphate synthases in the insect terpenoid pathwaySindy Frick, Raimund Nagel, Axel Schmidt, René R. Bodemann, Peter Rahfeld, Gerhard Pauls, Wolfgang Brandt, Jonathan Gershenzon, Wilhelm Boland, and Antje Burse
- You have accessSomatic hypermutation maintains antibody thermodynamic stability during affinity maturationFeng Wang, Shiladitya Sen, Yong Zhang, Insha Ahmad, Xueyong Zhu, Ian A. Wilson, Vaughn V. Smider, Thomas J. Magliery, and Peter G. SchultzPNAS March 12, 2013 110 (11) 4261-4266; first published February 25, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1301810110
- You have accessArginine ADP-ribosylation mechanism based on structural snapshots of iota-toxin and actin complex
- From the Cover
Toshiharu Tsurumura, Yayoi Tsumori, Hao Qiu, Masataka Oda, Jun Sakurai, Masahiro Nagahama, and Hideaki TsugeSee companion article:
- Model of the ADP-ribosylation reaction- Mar 01, 2013
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- You have accessSingle-channel basis for the slow activation of the repolarizing cardiac potassium current, IKsDaniel Werry, Jodene Eldstrom, Zhuren Wang, and David Fedida
- You have accessFree energy landscape for the binding process of Huperzine A to acetylcholinesteraseFang Bai, Yechun Xu, Jing Chen, Qiufeng Liu, Junfeng Gu, Xicheng Wang, Jianpeng Ma, Honglin Li, José N. Onuchic, and Hualiang Jiang
- Open AccessElectrokinetic properties of the mammalian tectorial membraneRoozbeh Ghaffari, Scott L. Page, Shirin Farrahi, Jonathan B. Sellon, and Dennis M. Freeman
- You have accessMembrane protein thermodynamic stability may serve as the energy sink for sorting in the periplasmC. Preston Moon, Nathan R. Zaccai, Patrick J. Fleming, Dennis Gessmann, and Karen G. Fleming
- Open AccessKCNJ2 mutation in short QT syndrome 3 results in atrial fibrillation and ventricular proarrhythmiaMakarand Deo, Yanfei Ruan, Sandeep V. Pandit, Kushal Shah, Omer Berenfeld, Andrew Blaufox, Marina Cerrone, Sami F. Noujaim, Marco Denegri, José Jalife, and Silvia G. Priori
- You have accessQuinone-dependent proton transfer pathways in the photosynthetic cytochrome b6f complexS. Saif Hasan, Eiki Yamashita, Danas Baniulis, and William A. Cramer
Cell Biology
- You have accessStatistical method for comparing the level of intracellular organization between cellsZachary S. Apte and Wallace F. Marshall
Developmental Biology
- You have accessForces shaping a Hox morphogenetic gene networkSol Sotillos, Mario Aguilar, and James Castelli-Gair Hombría
Ecology
- You have accessGreen-up dates in the Tibetan Plateau have continuously advanced from 1982 to 2011Geli Zhang, Yangjian Zhang, Jinwei Dong, and Xiangming Xiao
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- Spring phenology advanced in Tibetan Plateau- May 09, 2013
- Snow and air temperature affect spring phenology- Jun 05, 2013
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessBisphenol A delays the perinatal chloride shift in cortical neurons by epigenetic effects on the Kcc2 promoterMichele Yeo, Ken Berglund, Michael Hanna, Junjie U. Guo, Jaya Kittur, Maria D. Torres, Joel Abramowitz, Jorge Busciglio, Yuan Gao, Lutz Birnbaumer, and Wolfgang B. Liedtke
Genetics
- You have accessH3K4 methyltransferase Set1 is involved in maintenance of ergosterol homeostasis and resistance to Brefeldin APaul F. South, Kayla M. Harmeyer, Nina D. Serratore, and Scott D. Briggs
- You have accessBCL2A1 is a lineage-specific antiapoptotic melanoma oncogene that confers resistance to BRAF inhibitionRizwan Haq, Satoru Yokoyama, Elena B. Hawryluk, Göran B. Jönsson, Dennie Tompers Frederick, Kevin McHenry, Dale Porter, Thanh-Nga Tran, Kevin T. Love, Robert Langer, Daniel G. Anderson, Levi A. Garraway, Lyn McDivitt Duncan, Donald L. Morton, Dave S. B. Hoon, Jennifer A. Wargo, Jun S. Song, and David E. Fisher
Medical Sciences
- You have accessCalcium-activated chloride channel ANO1 promotes breast cancer progression by activating EGFR and CAMK signalingAdrian Britschgi, Anke Bill, Heike Brinkhaus, Christopher Rothwell, Ieuan Clay, Stephan Duss, Michael Rebhan, Pichai Raman, Chantale T. Guy, Kristie Wetzel, Elizabeth George, M. Oana Popa, Sarah Lilley, Hedaythul Choudhury, Martin Gosling, Louis Wang, Stephanie Fitzgerald, Jason Borawski, Jonathan Baffoe, Mark Labow, L. Alex Gaither, and Mohamed Bentires-Alj
- You have accessZebrafish model for allogeneic hematopoietic cell transplantation not requiring preconditioningIsabell Hess, Norimasa Iwanami, Michael Schorpp, and Thomas Boehm
- You have accessHypothalamic ventromedial COUP-TFII protects against hypoglycemia-associated autonomic failureLina Sabra-Makke, Micol Maritan, Julien Planchais, Marie Boutant, Jean-Paul Pégorier, Patrick C. Even, Mireille Vasseur-Cognet, and Pascale Bossard
- Open AccessPML mediates glioblastoma resistance to mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR)-targeted therapiesAkio Iwanami, Beatrice Gini, Ciro Zanca, Tomoo Matsutani, Alvaro Assuncao, Ali Nael, Julie Dang, Huijun Yang, Shaojun Zhu, Jun Kohyama, Issay Kitabayashi, Webster K. Cavenee, Timothy F. Cloughesy, Frank B. Furnari, Masaya Nakamura, Yoshiaki Toyama, Hideyuki Okano, and Paul S. Mischel
Microbiology
- You have accessDirect involvement of DprA, the transformation-dedicated RecA loader, in the shut-off of pneumococcal competenceNicolas Mirouze, Mathieu A. Bergé, Anne-Lise Soulet, Isabelle Mortier-Barrière, Yves Quentin, Gwennaele Fichant, Chantal Granadel, Marie-Françoise Noirot-Gros, Philippe Noirot, Patrice Polard, Bernard Martin, and Jean-Pierre Claverys
- You have accessLessons learned and concepts formed from study of the pathogenesis of the two negative-strand viruses lymphocytic choriomeningitis and influenza
- Inaugural Article
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- Profile of Michael B. A. Oldstone- Mar 04, 2013
- Open AccessBiofilm streamers cause catastrophic disruption of flow with consequences for environmental and medical systemsKnut Drescher, Yi Shen, Bonnie L. Bassler, and Howard A. Stone
- Open AccessAsymmetric recognition of the HIV-1 trimer by broadly neutralizing antibody PG9Jean-Philippe Julien, Jeong Hyun Lee, Albert Cupo, Charles D. Murin, Ronald Derking, Simon Hoffenberg, Michael J. Caulfield, C. Richter King, Andre J. Marozsan, Per Johan Klasse, Rogier W. Sanders, John P. Moore, Ian A. Wilson, and Andrew B. Ward
Neuroscience
- Open AccessCell cycle and lineage progression of neural progenitors in the ventricular-subventricular zones of adult miceGiovanna Ponti, Kirsten Obernier, Cristina Guinto, Lingu Jose, Luca Bonfanti, and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
- You have accessBiosynthesis of ionotropic acetylcholine receptors requires the evolutionarily conserved ER membrane complexMagali Richard, Thomas Boulin, Valérie J. P. Robert, Janet E. Richmond, and Jean-Louis Bessereau
- You have accessReversal of age-related neural timing delays with trainingSamira Anderson, Travis White-Schwoch, Alexandra Parbery-Clark, and Nina Kraus
- Open AccessSuperiority illusion arises from resting-state brain networks modulated by dopamineMakiko Yamada, Lucina Q. Uddin, Hidehiko Takahashi, Yasuyuki Kimura, Keisuke Takahata, Ririko Kousa, Yoko Ikoma, Yoko Eguchi, Harumasa Takano, Hiroshi Ito, Makoto Higuchi, and Tetsuya Suhara
- Open AccessSensory adaptation as optimal resource allocationSergei Gepshtein, Luis A. Lesmes, and Thomas D. Albright
- You have accessLifespan of neurons is uncoupled from organismal lifespanLorenzo Magrassi, Ketty Leto, and Ferdinando Rossi
- You have accessResolving the transition from negative to positive blood oxygen level-dependent responses in the developing brainMariel G. Kozberg, Brenda R. Chen, Sarah E. DeLeo, Matthew B. Bouchard, and Elizabeth M. C. Hillman
- You have accessGenotype–phenotype correlations in neonatal epilepsies caused by mutations in the voltage sensor of Kv7.2 potassium channel subunitsFrancesco Miceli, Maria Virginia Soldovieri, Paolo Ambrosino, Vincenzo Barrese, Michele Migliore, Maria Roberta Cilio, and Maurizio Taglialatela
- Open AccessTime-varying functional network information extracted from brief instances of spontaneous brain activityXiao Liu and Jeff H. Duyn
- You have accessRecruitment of oriens-lacunosum-moleculare interneurons during hippocampal ripplesMaria Pangalos, José R. Donoso, Jochen Winterer, Aleksandar R. Zivkovic, Richard Kempter, Nikolaus Maier, and Dietmar Schmitz
Pharmacology
- You have accessVx-770 potentiates CFTR function by promoting decoupling between the gating cycle and ATP hydrolysis cycleKang-Yang Jih and Tzyh-Chang Hwang
Physiology
- You have accessOlfactory receptor responding to gut microbiota-derived signals plays a role in renin secretion and blood pressure regulationJennifer L. Pluznick, Ryan J. Protzko, Haykanush Gevorgyan, Zita Peterlin, Arnold Sipos, Jinah Han, Isabelle Brunet, La-Xiang Wan, Federico Rey, Tong Wang, Stuart J. Firestein, Masashi Yanagisawa, Jeffrey I. Gordon, Anne Eichmann, Janos Peti-Peterdi, and Michael J. Caplan
- You have accessAutonomous regulation of the insect gut by circadian genes acting downstream of juvenile hormone signalingAdam Bajgar, Marek Jindra, and David Dolezel
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- You have accessThe brain uses adaptive internal models of scene statistics for sensorimotor estimation and planningOh-Sang Kwon and David C. Knill
- Open AccessDorsolateral prefrontal and orbitofrontal cortex interactions during self-control of cigarette craving
- From the Cover
Takuya Hayashi, Ji Hyun Ko, Antonio P. Strafella, and Alain DagherSee companion article:
- Control of craving by the prefrontal cortex- Mar 04, 2013
Systems Biology
- Open AccessPattern discovery and cancer gene identification in integrated cancer genomic dataQianxing Mo, Sijian Wang, Venkatraman E. Seshan, Adam B. Olshen, Nikolaus Schultz, Chris Sander, R. Scott Powers, Marc Ladanyi, and Ronglai Shen
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