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December 19, 2017; vol. 114 no. 51

This Week in PNAS

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    In This Issue
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13303-13305; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti5117114

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    Clarifying results and prevailing models for the evolution of Puf proteins and their RNA targets
    Gregory J. Hogan
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10853; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716625114
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    Reply to Hogan: Direct evidence of RNA–protein interactions and rewiring
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    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10854-E10855; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717585114

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    No reason to reconsider HIF-2 as an oncogene in neuroblastoma and other cancer forms
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    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10856-E10858; first published December 12, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716644115
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    Reply to Mohlin et al.: High levels of EPAS1 are closely associated with key features of low-risk neuroblastoma
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    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10859-E10860; first published December 12, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718429115

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    Inner Workings: Companies seek food safety using a microbiome approach
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    Carolyn Beans
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13306-13308; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719373114

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    Core Concept: Role player or cellular rubbish? Biologists debate the function of neutrophil extracellular traps
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    Jyoti Madhusoodanan
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13309-13311; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719978115

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    How T cells grasp mycobacterial lipid antigens
    D. Branch Moody
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13312-13314; first published December 7, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719260115

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    Function of a retroviral envelope protein in the placenta of a viviparous lizard
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    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13315-13317; first published December 7, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719189114

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    Country-by-genotype-by-environment interaction in childhood academic achievement
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    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13318-13320; first published December 7, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718938115

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    PNAS Plus Significance Statements
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13321-13324; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss11451

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      Chemical physics of water
      Pablo G. Debenedetti and Michael L. Klein
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13325-13326; first published December 11, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719350115
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      Water is an active matrix of life for cell and molecular biology
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13327-13335; first published June 7, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1703781114
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      Supercooled and glassy water: Metastable liquid(s), amorphous solid(s), and a no-man’s land
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13336-13344; first published November 13, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1700103114
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      Solar thermochemical splitting of water to generate hydrogen
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13385-13393; first published May 18, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1700104114
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13507-13512; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714386114
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      SCWISh network is essential for survival under mechanical pressure
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13465-13470; first published November 29, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711204114

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      Protein kinase C and calcineurin cooperatively mediate cell survival under compressive mechanical stress
      Ranjan Mishra, Frank van Drogen, Reinhard Dechant, Soojung Oh, Noo Li Jeon, Sung Sik Lee, and Matthias Peter
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13471-13476; first published December 1, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1709079114

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      Gαs protein binds ubiquitin to regulate epidermal growth factor receptor endosomal sorting
      Xuezhi Li, Danny Létourneau, Brian Holleran, Richard Leduc, Pierre Lavigne, and Christine Lavoie
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13477-13482; first published November 30, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708215114
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      STRIP1, a core component of STRIPAK complexes, is essential for normal mesoderm migration in the mouse embryo
      Hisham Bazzi, Ekaterina Soroka, Heather L. Alcorn, and Kathryn V. Anderson
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10928-E10936; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713535114
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      Mapping local and global variability in plant trait distributions
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10937-E10946; first published December 1, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708984114
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      Superhydrophobic diving flies (Ephydra hians) and the hypersaline waters of Mono Lake
      Floris van Breugel and Michael H. Dickinson
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13483-13488; first published November 20, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714874114
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      Structure and function of a compound eye, more than half a billion years old
      Brigitte Schoenemann, Helje Pärnaste, and Euan N. K. Clarkson
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13489-13494; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716824114
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      Terminal attack trajectories of peregrine falcons are described by the proportional navigation guidance law of missiles
      Caroline H. Brighton, Adrian L. R. Thomas, and Graham K. Taylor
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13495-13500; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714532114
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      Rapid adaptive evolution in novel environments acts as an architect of population range expansion
      M. Szűcs, M. L. Vahsen, B. A. Melbourne, C. Hoover, C. Weiss-Lehman, and R. A. Hufbauer
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13501-13506; first published November 28, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712934114
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      Kras mutant genetically engineered mouse models of human cancers are genomically heterogeneous
      Wei-Jen Chung, Anneleen Daemen, Jason H. Cheng, Jason E. Long, Jonathan E. Cooper, Bu-er Wang, Christopher Tran, Mallika Singh, Florian Gnad, Zora Modrusan, Oded Foreman, and Melissa R. Junttila
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10947-E10955; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708391114
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      CD1b-restricted GEM T cell responses are modulated by Mycobacterium tuberculosis mycolic acid meromycolate chains
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      Andrew Chancellor, Anna S. Tocheva, Chris Cave-Ayland, Liku Tezera, Andrew White, Juma’a R. Al Dulayymi, John S. Bridgeman, Ivo Tews, Susan Wilson, Nikolai M. Lissin, Marc Tebruegge, Ben Marshall, Sally Sharpe, Tim Elliott, Chris-Kriton Skylaris, Jonathan W. Essex, Mark S. Baird, Stephan Gadola, Paul Elkington, and Salah Mansour
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10956-E10964; first published November 20, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708252114

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      • Grasping mycobacterial lipid antigens
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      Crystal structure of human IRAK1
      Li Wang, Qi Qiao, Ryan Ferrao, Chen Shen, John M. Hatcher, Sara J. Buhrlage, Nathanael S. Gray, and Hao Wu
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13507-13512; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714386114
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      Effect of removing Kupffer cells on nanoparticle tumor delivery
      Anthony J. Tavares, Wilson Poon, Yi-Nan Zhang, Qin Dai, Rickvinder Besla, Ding Ding, Ben Ouyang, Angela Li, Juan Chen, Gang Zheng, Clinton Robbins, and Warren C. W. Chan
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10871-E10880; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713390114
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      Point-of-care device to diagnose and monitor neonatal jaundice in low-resource settings
      Pelham A. Keahey, Mathieu L. Simeral, Kristofer J. Schroder, Meaghan M. Bond, Prince J. Mtenthaonnga, Robert H. Miros, Queen Dube, and Rebecca R. Richards-Kortum
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10965-E10971; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714020114
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      DNA replication timing alterations identify common markers between distinct progeroid diseases
      Juan Carlos Rivera-Mulia, Romain Desprat, Claudia Trevilla-Garcia, Daniela Cornacchia, Hélène Schwerer, Takayo Sasaki, Jiao Sima, Tyler Fells, Lorenz Studer, Jean-Marc Lemaitre, and David M. Gilbert
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10972-E10980; first published December 1, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711613114
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      Epigenetic therapy activates type I interferon signaling in murine ovarian cancer to reduce immunosuppression and tumor burden
      Meredith L. Stone, Katherine B. Chiappinelli, Huili Li, Lauren M. Murphy, Meghan E. Travers, Michael J. Topper, Dimitrios Mathios, Michael Lim, Ie-Ming Shih, Tian-Li Wang, Chien-Fu Hung, Vipul Bhargava, Karla R. Wiehagen, Glenn S. Cowley, Kurtis E. Bachman, Reiner Strick, Pamela L. Strissel, Stephen B. Baylin, and Cynthia A. Zahnow
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10981-E10990; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712514114

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      Rapid diagnostic testing platform for iron and vitamin A deficiency
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13513-13518; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1711464114
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      Selected reaction monitoring approach for validating peptide biomarkers
      Qing Wang, Ming Zhang, Tyler Tomita, Joshua T. Vogelstein, Shibin Zhou, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13519-13524; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712731114
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      Islet cells share promoter hypomethylation independently of expression, but exhibit cell-type–specific methylation in enhancers
      Daniel Neiman, Joshua Moss, Merav Hecht, Judith Magenheim, Sheina Piyanzin, A. M. James Shapiro, Eelco J. P. de Koning, Aharon Razin, Howard Cedar, Ruth Shemer, and Yuval Dor
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13525-13530; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713736114
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      An endogenous retroviral envelope syncytin and its cognate receptor identified in the viviparous placental Mabuya lizard
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      Guillaume Cornelis, Mathis Funk, Cécile Vernochet, Francisca Leal, Oscar Alejandro Tarazona, Guillaume Meurice, Odile Heidmann, Anne Dupressoir, Aurélien Miralles, Martha Patricia Ramirez-Pinilla, and Thierry Heidmann
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E10991-E11000; first published November 21, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714590114

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      Enigmatic origin of the poxvirus membrane from the endoplasmic reticulum shown by 3D imaging of vaccinia virus assembly mutants
      Andrea S. Weisberg, Liliana Maruri-Avidal, Himani Bisht, Bryan T. Hansen, Cindi L. Schwartz, Elizabeth R. Fischer, Xiangzhi Meng, Yan Xiang, and Bernard Moss
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11001-E11009; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716255114
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      An inclusive Research Education Community (iREC): Impact of the SEA-PHAGES program on research outcomes and student learning
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      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13531-13536; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718188115
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      MotI (DgrA) acts as a molecular clutch on the flagellar stator protein MotA in Bacillus subtilis
      Sundharraman Subramanian, Xiaohui Gao, Charles E. Dann III, and Daniel B. Kearns
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13537-13542; first published December 1, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1716231114
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      Structural insights into the roles of the IcmS–IcmW complex in the type IVb secretion system of Legionella pneumophila
      Jianpo Xu, Dandan Xu, Muyang Wan, Li Yin, Xiaofei Wang, Lijie Wu, Yanhua Liu, Xiaoyun Liu, Yan Zhou, and Yongqun Zhu
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13543-13548; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1706883115
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      Lipid bilayer mediates ion-channel cooperativity in a model of hair-cell mechanotransduction
      Francesco Gianoli, Thomas Risler, and Andrei S. Kozlov
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11010-E11019; first published December 7, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713135114
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      Disease onset in X-linked dystonia-parkinsonism correlates with expansion of a hexameric repeat within an SVA retrotransposon in TAF1
      D. Cristopher Bragg, Kotchaphorn Mangkalaphiban, Christine A. Vaine, Nichita J. Kulkarni, David Shin, Rachita Yadav, Jyotsna Dhakal, Mai-Linh Ton, Anne Cheng, Christopher T. Russo, Mark Ang, Patrick Acuña, Criscely Go, Taylor N. Francoeur, Trisha Multhaupt-Buell, Naoto Ito, Ulrich Müller, William T. Hendriks, Xandra O. Breakefield, Nutan Sharma, and Laurie J. Ozelius
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11020-E11028; first published December 11, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712526114
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      Evidence for sortilin modulating regional accumulation of human tau prions in transgenic mice
      Noah R. Johnson, Carlo Condello, Shenheng Guan, Abby Oehler, Julia Becker, Marta Gavidia, George A. Carlson, Kurt Giles, and Stanley B. Prusiner
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11029-E11036; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717193114
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      Multiple oscillatory rhythms determine the temporal organization of perception
      Luca Ronconi, Nikolaas N. Oosterhof, Claudia Bonmassar, and David Melcher
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13435-13440; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714522114
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      Early childhood stress exposure, reward pathways, and adult decision making
      Rasmus M. Birn, Barbara J. Roeber, and Seth D. Pollak
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13549-13554; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1708791114
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      Contributions of primate prefrontal cortex and medial temporal lobe to temporal-order memory
      Yuji Naya, He Chen, Cen Yang, and Wendy A. Suzuki
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13555-13560; first published November 30, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712711114
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      TRPV1 is a physiological regulator of μ-opioid receptors
      Paul C. Scherer, Nicholas W. Zaccor, Neil M. Neumann, Chirag Vasavda, Roxanne Barrow, Andrew J. Ewald, Feng Rao, Charlotte J. Sumner, and Solomon H. Snyder
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13561-13566; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717005114
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      Divergence of regulatory networks governed by the orthologous transcription factors FLC and PEP1 in Brassicaceae species
      Julieta L. Mateos, Vicky Tilmes, Pedro Madrigal, Edouard Severing, René Richter, Colin W. M. Rijkenberg, Paweł Krajewski, and George Coupland
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11037-E11046; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1618075114
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      Efficient targeted DNA editing and replacement in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii using Cpf1 ribonucleoproteins and single-stranded DNA
      Aron Ferenczi, Douglas Euan Pyott, Andromachi Xipnitou, and Attila Molnar
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13567-13572; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1710597114
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      Recurring infection with ecologically distinct HPV types can explain high prevalence and diversity
      Sylvia L. Ranjeva, Edward B. Baskerville, Vanja Dukic, Luisa L. Villa, Eduardo Lazcano-Ponce, Anna R. Giuliano, Greg Dwyer, and Sarah Cobey
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13573-13578; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714712114
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      Encoding model of temporal processing in human visual cortex
      Anthony Stigliani, Brianna Jeska, and Kalanit Grill-Spector
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11047-E11056; first published December 5, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1704877114
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      Musical training sharpens and bonds ears and tongue to hear speech better
      Yi Du and Robert J. Zatorre
      PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) 13579-13584; first published December 4, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1712223114

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    Correction for Kang et al., Increased intracellular Ca2+ concentrations prevent membrane localization of PH domains through the formation of Ca2+-phosphoinositides
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11057; first published November 27, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719887115
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    Correction for Matthews et al., Optimal nutrient exchange and immune responses operate in partner specificity in the cnidarian-dinoflagellate symbiosis
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11058; first published December 11, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720356115
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    Correction for Giang et al., Human broadly neutralizing antibodies to the envelope glycoprotein complex of hepatitis C virus
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11059; first published December 11, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720228115
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    Correction for Gerth et al., Intersectin associates with synapsin and regulates its nanoscale localization and function
    PNAS December 19, 2017 114 (51) E11060; first published December 11, 2017. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720226115
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