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November 22, 2016; vol. 113 no. 47

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    In This Issue
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13257; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti4716113

Letters (Online Only)

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    Questionable association between front boarding and air rage
    Marcus Crede, Andrew Gelman, and Carol Nickerson
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7348; first published November 11, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611704113
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    Reply to Crede et al.: Association between front boarding and air rage is supported by theory and analysis
    Katherine A. DeCelles and Michael I. Norton
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7349-E7350; first published November 11, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614434113

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Science and Culture

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    Science and Culture: Crafting prostheses with form, function, and flair
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    Esther Landhuis
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13258-13259; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616194113

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    Core Concept: Can bioenergy with carbon capture and storage make an impact?
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    Danielle Venton
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13260-13262; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617583113

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    HIV-1 leader RNA dimeric interface revealed by NMR
    Laura R. Ganser and Hashim M. Al-Hashimi
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13263-13265; first published November 11, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615789113

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    How the proteasome is degraded
    Daniela Hoeller and Ivan Dikic
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13266-13268; first published November 11, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616535113

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    Genotyping the dead: Using offspring as proxy to estimate the genetic correlation of education and longevity
    Dalton Conley and Ramina Sotoudeh
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13269-13271; first published November 11, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616274113

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    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13272-13277; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss11347

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      A variational perspective on accelerated methods in optimization
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7351-E7358; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614734113
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      Supercritical entanglement in local systems: Counterexample to the area law for quantum matter
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      Optimal prediction of the number of unseen species
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13283-13288; first published November 8, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607774113
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      Ultrahigh-throughput–directed enzyme evolution by absorbance-activated droplet sorting (AADS)
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7383-E7389; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606927113
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      Red cells’ dynamic morphologies govern blood shear thinning under microcirculatory flow conditions
      Luca Lanotte, Johannes Mauer, Simon Mendez, Dmitry A. Fedosov, Jean-Marc Fromental, Viviana Claveria, Franck Nicoud, Gerhard Gompper, and Manouk Abkarian
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13289-13294; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608074113
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      Hydrogel films and coatings by swelling-induced gelation
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13295-13300; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609603113
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      Thomas Vasileiou, Julia Gerber, Jana Prautzsch, Thomas M. Schutzius, and Dimos Poulikakos
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13307-13312; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1611631113
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      Mastering the interface for advanced all-solid-state lithium rechargeable batteries
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13313-13317; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615912113
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      One low-dose exposure of gold nanoparticles induces long-term changes in human cells
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13318-13323; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616400113
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      In situ solid-state electrochemistry of mass-selected ions at well-defined electrode–electrolyte interfaces
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13324-13329; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608730113
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      Siderophore-based immunization strategy to inhibit growth of enteric pathogens
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      Radiocarbon dating of seized ivory confirms rapid decline in African elephant populations and provides insight into illegal trade
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      Thure E. Cerling, Janet E. Barnette, Lesley A. Chesson, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Kathleen S. Gobush, Kevin T. Uno, Samuel K. Wasser, and Xiaomei Xu
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13330-13335; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614938113
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      Molecular and physiological evidence of genetic assimilation to high CO2 in the marine nitrogen fixer Trichodesmium
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7367-E7374; first published November 8, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605202113
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      Coastal sea level rise with warming above 2 °C
      Svetlana Jevrejeva, Luke P. Jackson, Riccardo E. M. Riva, Aslak Grinsted, and John C. Moore
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13342-13347; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605312113
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      What grades and achievement tests measure
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      Lex Borghans, Bart H. H. Golsteyn, James J. Heckman, and John Eric Humphries
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13354-13359; first published November 8, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1601135113
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      Peipei Setoh, Rose M. Scott, and Renée Baillargeon
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13480-13485; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617025113
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      Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity
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      Riccardo E. Marioni, Stuart J. Ritchie, Peter K. Joshi, Saskia P. Hagenaars, Aysu Okbay, Krista Fischer, Mark J. Adams, W. David Hill, Gail Davies, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Reka Nagy, Carmen Amador, Kristi Läll, Andres Metspalu, David C. Liewald, Archie Campbell, James F. Wilson, Caroline Hayward, Tõnu Esko, David J. Porteous, Catharine R. Gale, and Ian J. Deary
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13366-13371; first published October 31, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605334113

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      For blacks in America, the gap in neighborhood poverty has declined faster than segregation
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13372-13377; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607220113
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      Coastal sea level rise with warming above 2 °C
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13342-13347; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605312113

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      Adam M. Bayless, John M. Smith, Junqi Song, Patrick H. McMinn, Alice Teillet, Benjamin K. August, and Andrew F. Bent
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7375-E7382; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610150113
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      Ultrahigh-throughput–directed enzyme evolution by absorbance-activated droplet sorting (AADS)
      Fabrice Gielen, Raphaelle Hours, Stephane Emond, Martin Fischlechner, Ursula Schell, and Florian Hollfelder
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7383-E7389; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606927113
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7390-E7398; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605162113
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      Distinct regions that control ion selectivity and calcium-dependent activation in the bestrophin ion channel
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7399-E7408; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614688113
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      Control of transcriptional pausing by biased thermal fluctuations on repetitive genomic sequences
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      Synthetic genome readers target clustered binding sites across diverse chromatin states
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      Drew G. Michael, Ezekiel J. Maier, Holly Brown, Stacey R. Gish, Christopher Fiore, Randall H. Brown, and Michael R. Brent
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      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13289-13294; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608074113
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      Radiocarbon dating of seized ivory confirms rapid decline in African elephant populations and provides insight into illegal trade
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      Thure E. Cerling, Janet E. Barnette, Lesley A. Chesson, Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Kathleen S. Gobush, Kevin T. Uno, Samuel K. Wasser, and Xiaomei Xu
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      Molecular and physiological evidence of genetic assimilation to high CO2 in the marine nitrogen fixer Trichodesmium
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  • Genetics

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      Genetic variants linked to education predict longevity
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      Riccardo E. Marioni, Stuart J. Ritchie, Peter K. Joshi, Saskia P. Hagenaars, Aysu Okbay, Krista Fischer, Mark J. Adams, W. David Hill, Gail Davies, Social Science Genetic Association Consortium, Reka Nagy, Carmen Amador, Kristi Läll, Andres Metspalu, David C. Liewald, Archie Campbell, James F. Wilson, Caroline Hayward, Tõnu Esko, David J. Porteous, Catharine R. Gale, and Ian J. Deary
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13366-13371; first published October 31, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605334113

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      • Genotyping the dead
        - Nov 11, 2016
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      Selective nucleolus organizer inactivation in Arabidopsis is a chromosome position-effect phenomenon
      Gireesha Mohannath, Frederic Pontvianne, and Craig S. Pikaard
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13426-13431; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608140113
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      High-density array-CGH with targeted NGS unmask multiple noncontiguous minute deletions on chromosome 3p21 in mesothelioma
      Yoshie Yoshikawa, Mitsuru Emi, Tomoko Hashimoto-Tamaoki, Masaki Ohmuraya, Ayuko Sato, Tohru Tsujimura, Seiki Hasegawa, Takashi Nakano, Masaki Nasu, Sandra Pastorino, Agata Szymiczek, Angela Bononi, Mika Tanji, Ian Pagano, Giovanni Gaudino, Andrea Napolitano, Chandra Goparaju, Harvey I. Pass, Haining Yang, and Michele Carbone
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13432-13437; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612074113
  • Immunology and Inflammation

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      Systematic autoantigen analysis identifies a distinct subtype of scleroderma with coincident cancer
      George J. Xu, Ami A. Shah, Mamie Z. Li, Qikai Xu, Antony Rosen, Livia Casciola-Rosen, and Stephen J. Elledge
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7526-E7534; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615990113
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      Keratin mediates the recognition of apoptotic and necrotic cells through dendritic cell receptor DEC205/CD205
      Longxing Cao, Haishuang Chang, Xiangyi Shi, Chao Peng, and Yongning He
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13438-13443; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609331113
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      Stress-induced brain activity, brain atrophy, and clinical disability in multiple sclerosis
      Martin Weygandt, Lil Meyer-Arndt, Janina Ruth Behrens, Katharina Wakonig, Judith Bellmann-Strobl, Kerstin Ritter, Michael Scheel, Alexander U. Brandt, Christian Labadie, Stefan Hetzer, Stefan M. Gold, Friedemann Paul, and John-Dylan Haynes
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13444-13449; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1605829113
  • Medical Sciences

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      Epigenetic inactivation of the p53-induced long noncoding RNA TP53 target 1 in human cancer
      Angel Diaz-Lagares, Ana B. Crujeiras, Paula Lopez-Serra, Marta Soler, Fernando Setien, Ashish Goyal, Juan Sandoval, Yutaka Hashimoto, Anna Martinez-Cardús, Antonio Gomez, Holger Heyn, Catia Moutinho, Jesús Espada, August Vidal, Maria Paúles, Maica Galán, Núria Sala, Yoshimitsu Akiyama, María Martínez-Iniesta, Lourdes Farré, Alberto Villanueva, Matthias Gross, Sven Diederichs, Sonia Guil, and Manel Esteller
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7535-E7544; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608585113
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      Control of inflammation by stromal Hedgehog pathway activation restrains colitis
      John J. Lee, Michael E. Rothenberg, E. Scott Seeley, Bryan Zimdahl, Sally Kawano, Wan-Jin Lu, Kunyoo Shin, Tomoyo Sakata-Kato, James K. Chen, Maximilian Diehn, Michael F. Clarke, and Philip A. Beachy
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7545-E7553; first published November 4, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616447113
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      Hydrogel films and coatings by swelling-induced gelation
      David Moreau, Caroline Chauvet, François Etienne, François P. Rannou, and Laurent Corté
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13295-13300; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609603113
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      Nicotinamide benefits both mothers and pups in two contrasting mouse models of preeclampsia
      Feng Li, Tomofumi Fushima, Gen Oyanagi, H. W. Davin Townley-Tilson, Emiko Sato, Hironobu Nakada, Yuji Oe, John R. Hagaman, Jennifer Wilder, Manyu Li, Akiyo Sekimoto, Daisuke Saigusa, Hiroshi Sato, Sadayoshi Ito, J. Charles Jennette, Nobuyo Maeda, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Oliver Smithies, and Nobuyuki Takahashi
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13450-13455; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1614947113
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      Preclinical efficacy of a RAF inhibitor that evades paradoxical MAPK pathway activation in protein kinase BRAF-mutant lung cancer
      Ross A. Okimoto, Luping Lin, Victor Olivas, Elton Chan, Evan Markegard, Andrey Rymar, Dana Neel, Xiao Chen, Golzar Hemmati, Gideon Bollag, and Trever G. Bivona
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13456-13461; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610456113
  • Microbiology

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      Gut microbiota induce IGF-1 and promote bone formation and growth
      Jing Yan, Jeremy W. Herzog, Kelly Tsang, Caitlin A. Brennan, Maureen A. Bower, Wendy S. Garrett, Balfour R. Sartor, Antonios O. Aliprantis, and Julia F. Charles
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7554-E7563; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607235113
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      Siderophore-based immunization strategy to inhibit growth of enteric pathogens
      Martina Sassone-Corsi, Phoom Chairatana, Tengfei Zheng, Araceli Perez-Lopez, Robert A. Edwards, Michael D. George, Elizabeth M. Nolan, and Manuela Raffatellu
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13462-13467; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606290113

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      • Siderophore vaccine protects against UTI
        - Nov 07, 2016
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      Siderophore vaccine conjugates protect against uropathogenic Escherichia coli urinary tract infection
      Laura A. Mike, Sara N. Smith, Christopher A. Sumner, Kathryn A. Eaton, and Harry L. T. Mobley
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13468-13473; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606324113

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      • Siderophore-based immunization inhibits pathogens
        - Nov 07, 2016
  • Neuroscience

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      Role of sulfiredoxin as a peroxiredoxin-2 denitrosylase in human iPSC-derived dopaminergic neurons
      Carmen R. Sunico, Abdullah Sultan, Tomohiro Nakamura, Nima Dolatabadi, James Parker, Bing Shan, Xuemei Han, John R. Yates III, Eliezer Masliah, Rajesh Ambasudhan, Nobuki Nakanishi, and Stuart A. Lipton
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7564-E7571; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608784113
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      IL-33/ST2 signaling excites sensory neurons and mediates itch response in a mouse model of poison ivy contact allergy
      Boyi Liu, Yan Tai, Satyanarayana Achanta, Melanie M. Kaelberer, Ana I. Caceres, Xiaomei Shao, Jianqiao Fang, and Sven-Eric Jordt
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7572-E7579; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606608113
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      Motor neuron disease, TDP-43 pathology, and memory deficits in mice expressing ALS–FTD-linked UBQLN2 mutations
      Nhat T. T. Le, Lydia Chang, Irina Kovlyagina, Polymnia Georgiou, Nathaniel Safren, Kerstin E. Braunstein, Mark D. Kvarta, Adam M. Van Dyke, Tara A. LeGates, Thomas Philips, Brett M. Morrison, Scott M. Thompson, Adam C. Puche, Todd D. Gould, Jeffrey D. Rothstein, Philip C. Wong, and Mervyn J. Monteiro
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7580-E7589; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608432113
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      C-terminal domain of mammalian complexin-1 localizes to highly curved membranes
      Jihong Gong, Ying Lai, Xiaohong Li, Mengxian Wang, Jeremy Leitz, Yachong Hu, Yunxiang Zhang, Ucheor B. Choi, Daniel Cipriano, Richard A. Pfuetzner, Thomas C. Südhof, Xiaofei Yang, Axel T. Brunger, and Jiajie Diao
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7590-E7599; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1609917113
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      Reduced high-frequency motor neuron firing, EMG fractionation, and gait variability in awake walking ALS mice
      Muhamed Hadzipasic, Weiming Ni, Maria Nagy, Natalie Steenrod, Matthew J. McGinley, Adi Kaushal, Eleanor Thomas, David A. McCormick, and Arthur L. Horwich
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7600-E7609; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616832113
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      Autobiographical memory, future imagining, and the medial temporal lobe
      Adam J. O. Dede, John T. Wixted, Ramona O. Hopkins, and Larry R. Squire
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13474-13479; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1615864113
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      Learning and remembering real-world events after medial temporal lobe damage
      Adam J. O. Dede, Jennifer C. Frascino, John T. Wixted, and Larry R. Squire
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13480-13485; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617025113
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      Quasimodo mediates daily and acute light effects on Drosophila clock neuron excitability
      Edgar Buhl, Adam Bradlaugh, Maite Ogueta, Ko-Fan Chen, Ralf Stanewsky, and James J. L. Hodge
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13486-13491; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606547113
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      Temporal coding of reward-guided choice in the posterior parietal cortex
      David J. Hawellek, Yan T. Wong, and Bijan Pesaran
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13492-13497; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1606479113
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      The cholinergic forebrain arousal system acts directly on the circadian pacemaker
      Glenn R. Yamakawa, Priyoneel Basu, Filomeno Cortese, Johanna MacDonnell, Danica Whalley, Victoria M. Smith, and Michael C. Antle
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13498-13503; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610342113
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      Diffusion-weighted imaging uncovers likely sources of processing-speed deficits in schizophrenia
      Peter Kochunov, Laura M. Rowland, Els Fieremans, Jelle Veraart, Neda Jahanshad, George Eskandar, Xiaoming Du, Florian Muellerklein, Anya Savransky, Dinesh Shukla, Hemalatha Sampath, Paul M. Thompson, and L. Elliot Hong
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13504-13509; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608246113
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      Relationships between cortical myeloarchitecture and electrophysiological networks
      Benjamin A. E. Hunt, Prejaas K. Tewarie, Olivier E. Mougin, Nicolas Geades, Derek K. Jones, Krish D. Singh, Peter G. Morris, Penny A. Gowland, and Matthew J. Brookes
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13510-13515; first published November 8, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1608587113
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      Model-driven experimental approach reveals the complex regulatory distribution of p53 by the circadian factor Period 2
      Tetsuya Gotoh, Jae Kyoung Kim, Jingjing Liu, Marian Vila-Caballer, Philip E. Stauffer, John J. Tyson, and Carla V. Finkielstein
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13516-13521; first published November 9, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607984113
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      Decreasing maternal myostatin programs adult offspring bone strength in a mouse model of osteogenesis imperfecta
      Arin K. Oestreich, William M. Kamp, Marcus G. McCray, Stephanie M. Carleton, Natalia Karasseva, Kristin L. Lenz, Youngjae Jeong, Salah A. Daghlas, Xiaomei Yao, Yong Wang, Ferris M. Pfeiffer, Mark R. Ellersieck, Laura C. Schulz, and Charlotte L. Phillips
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13522-13527; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1607644113
  • Plant Biology

    • Open Access
      Illuminating a plant’s tissue-specific metabolic diversity using computational metabolomics and information theory
      Dapeng Li, Sven Heiling, Ian T. Baldwin, and Emmanuel Gaquerel
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7610-E7618; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610218113
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      The biosynthetic pathway of the nonsugar, high-intensity sweetener mogroside V from Siraitia grosvenorii
      Maxim Itkin, Rachel Davidovich-Rikanati, Shahar Cohen, Vitaly Portnoy, Adi Doron-Faigenboim, Elad Oren, Shiri Freilich, Galil Tzuri, Nadine Baranes, Shmuel Shen, Marina Petreikov, Rotem Sertchook, Shifra Ben-Dor, Hugo Gottlieb, Alvaro Hernandez, David R. Nelson, Harry S. Paris, Yaakov Tadmor, Yosef Burger, Efraim Lewinsohn, Nurit Katzir, and Arthur Schaffer
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7619-E7628; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1604828113
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      Chloroplast division checkpoint in eukaryotic algae
      Nobuko Sumiya, Takayuki Fujiwara, Atsuko Era, and Shin-ya Miyagishima
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7629-E7638; first published November 11, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1612872113
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      Engineering dynamical control of cell fate switching using synthetic phospho-regulons
      Russell M. Gordley, Reid E. Williams, Caleb J. Bashor, Jared E. Toettcher, Shude Yan, and Wendell A. Lim
      PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) 13528-13533; first published November 7, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1610973113

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    Correction for Mantelli et al., Stochastic ice stream dynamics
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7639; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616623113
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    Correction for Biswas et al., E-cadherin junction formation involves an active kinetic nucleation process
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7640; first published November 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1617360113
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    Correction for Wang et al., Interplay of mevalonate and Hippo pathways regulates RHAMM transcription via YAP to modulate breast cancer cell motility
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7641-E7642; first published November 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616959113
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    Correction for Ren et al., LRP-6 is a coreceptor for multiple fibrogenic signaling pathways in pericytes and myofibroblasts that are inhibited by DKK-1
    PNAS November 22, 2016 113 (47) E7643-E7644; first published November 14, 2016. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1616960113
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