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May 22, 2018; vol. 115 no. 21

This Week in PNAS

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    In This Issue
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5301-5302; https://doi.org/10.1073/iti2118115

Letters (Online Only)

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    Did human activity really trigger the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Central Africa?
    Bernard Clist, Koen Bostoen, Pierre de Maret, Manfred K. H. Eggert, Alexa Höhn, Christophe Mbida Mindzié, Katharina Neumann, and Dirk Seidensticker
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4733-E4734; first published May 8, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805247115
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    Reply to Clist et al.: Human activity is the most probable trigger of the late Holocene rainforest crisis in Western Central Africa
    Yannick Garcin, Pierre Deschamps, Guillemette Ménot, Geoffroy de Saulieu, Enno Schefuß, David Sebag, Lydie M. Dupont, Richard Oslisly, Brian Brademann, Kevin G. Mbusnum, Jean-Michel Onana, Andrew A. Ako, Laura S. Epp, Rik Tjallingii, Manfred R. Strecker, Achim Brauer, and Dirk Sachse
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4735-E4736; first published May 8, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805582115

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    • Early human impact on Central African rainforests
      - Feb 26, 2018
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    Impact of sampling strategies and reconstruction protocols in nasal airflow simulations in fossil hominins
    Andrej A. Evteev and Yann Heuzé
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4737-E4738; first published May 4, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804197115
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    Reply to Evteev and Heuzé: How to overcome the problem of modeling respiration departing from bony structures
    S. de Azevedo, M. F. González, C. Cintas, V. Ramallo, M. Quinto-Sánchez, F. Márquez, T. Hünemeier, C. Paschetta, A. Ruderman, P. Navarro, B. A. Pazos, C. C. Silva de Cerqueira, O. Velan, F. Ramírez-Rozzi, N. Calvo, H. G. Castro, R. R. Paz, and R. González-José
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4739-E4740; first published May 4, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804796115

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    • Nasal adaptation in Neanderthals and modern humans
      - Oct 30, 2017

Science and Culture

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    Science and Culture: Artistic endeavors strive to save coral reefs
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    Carolyn Beans
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5303-5305; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807178115

Inner Workings

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    Inner Workings: Zebrafish assay forges new approach to drug discovery
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    Kim Smuga-Otto
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5306-5308; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806440115

Retrospective

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    Stephen Hawking (1942–2018): Toward a complete understanding of the universe
    James Hartle
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5309-5310; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806196115

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    Taming unruly chloride channel inhibitors with rational design
    Rebecka J. Sepela and Jon T. Sack
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5311-5313; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805589115

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    • A selective class of inhibitors for the CLC-Ka chloride ion channel
      - Apr 18, 2018
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    Uncertainty in long-run forecasts of quantities such as per capita gross domestic product
    M. Granger Morgan
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5314-5316; first published May 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805767115

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    • Uncertainty in forecasts of long-run economic growth
      - May 14, 2018
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    New explanation for the longevity of social insect reproductives: Transposable element activity
    Eric R. Lucas and Laurent Keller
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5317-5318; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806014115

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    • Longevity and transposon defense, the case of termite reproductives
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    PNAS Plus Significance Statements
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5319-5322; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.ss11521

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    Early fossil record of Euarthropoda and the Cambrian Explosion
    Allison C. Daley, Jonathan B. Antcliffe, Harriet B. Drage, and Stephen Pates
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5323-5331; first published May 21, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719962115

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      Laterally confined growth of cells induces nuclear reprogramming in the absence of exogenous biochemical factors
      Bibhas Roy, Saradha Venkatachalapathy, Prasuna Ratna, Yejun Wang, Doorgesh Sharma Jokhun, Mallika Nagarajan, and G. V. Shivashankar
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4741-E4750; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714770115
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      Phase-transition temperature suppression to achieve cubic GeTe and high thermoelectric performance by Bi and Mn codoping
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5332-5337; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802020115
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      Interferometric imaging of nonlocal electromechanical power transduction in ferroelectric domains
      Lu Zheng, Hui Dong, Xiaoyu Wu, Yen-Lin Huang, Wenbo Wang, Weida Wu, Zheng Wang, and Keji Lai
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5338-5342; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722499115
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      Fully gapped d-wave superconductivity in CeCu2Si2
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4751-E4757; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722154115
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      Dynamic switching enables efficient bacterial colonization in flow
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4767-E4776; first published May 9, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800541115
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      Sequentially bridged graphene sheets with high strength, toughness, and electrical conductivity
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5359-5364; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719111115
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      Rapid shift and millennial-scale variations in Holocene North Pacific Intermediate Water ventilation
      Lester Lembke-Jene, Ralf Tiedemann, Dirk Nürnberg, Xun Gong, and Gerrit Lohmann
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5365-5370; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1714754115
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      Bing Xiao and Lars Stixrude
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5371-5376; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719134115
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      Magnetic control of heterogeneous ice nucleation with nanophase magnetite: Biophysical and agricultural implications
      Atsuko Kobayashi, Masamoto Horikawa, Joseph L. Kirschvink, and Harry N. Golash
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      Anomalous density fluctuations in a strange metal
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      Uncertainty in forecasts of long-run economic growth
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5409-5414; first published May 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713628115

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      • Uncertainty in long-run forecasts of quantities such as per capita gross domestic product
        - May 14, 2018

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      Uncertainty in forecasts of long-run economic growth
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      P. Christensen, K. Gillingham, and W. Nordhaus
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5409-5414; first published May 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1713628115

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        - May 14, 2018
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      Importing food damages domestic environment: Evidence from global soybean trade
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5415-5419; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718153115

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      Importing food damages domestic environment: Evidence from global soybean trade
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      Jaewook Chung, Xia Zhang, Bruce Collins, Renan B. Sper, Katherine Gleason, Sean Simpson, Sehwon Koh, Jeffrey Sommer, William L. Flowers, Robert M. Petters, and Jorge A. Piedrahita
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5420-5425; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721630115
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4767-E4776; first published May 9, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800541115
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4786-E4795; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721811115
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      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5492-5497; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721275115
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      • New explanation for the longevity of social insect reproductives: Transposable element activity
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      Ola Brønstad Brynildsrud, Vegard Eldholm, Jon Bohlin, Kennedy Uadiale, Stephen Obaro, and Dominique A. Caugant
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5510-5515; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802298115
  • Genetics

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      Suppressor mutation analysis combined with 3D modeling explains cohesin’s capacity to hold and release DNA
      Xingya Xu, Ryuta Kanai, Norihiko Nakazawa, Li Wang, Chikashi Toyoshima, and Mitsuhiro Yanagida
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4833-E4842; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803564115
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      Precise detection of de novo single nucleotide variants in human genomes
      Laura Gómez-Romero, Kim Palacios-Flores, José Reyes, Delfino García, Margareta Boege, Guillermo Dávila, Margarita Flores, Michael C. Schatz, and Rafael Palacios
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5516-5521; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1802244115
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      Reducing resistance allele formation in CRISPR gene drive
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      Jackson Champer, Jingxian Liu, Suh Yeon Oh, Riona Reeves, Anisha Luthra, Nathan Oakes, Andrew G. Clark, and Philipp W. Messer
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5522-5527; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720354115
  • Immunology and Inflammation

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      Identification of cytokine-specific sensory neural signals by decoding murine vagus nerve activity
      Theodoros P. Zanos, Harold A. Silverman, Todd Levy, Tea Tsaava, Emily Battinelli, Peter W. Lorraine, Jeffrey M. Ashe, Sangeeta S. Chavan, Kevin J. Tracey, and Chad E. Bouton
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4843-E4852; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719083115
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      Biochemically altered myelin triggers autoimmune demyelination
      Andrew V. Caprariello, James A. Rogers, Megan L. Morgan, Vahid Hoghooghi, Jason R. Plemel, Adam Koebel, Shigeki Tsutsui, Jeffrey F. Dunn, Lakshmi P. Kotra, Shalina S. Ousman, V. Wee Yong, and Peter K. Stys
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5528-5533; first published May 4, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721115115
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      Osmotic stabilization prevents cochlear synaptopathy after blast trauma
      Jinkyung Kim, Anping Xia, Nicolas Grillet, Brian E. Applegate, and John S. Oghalai
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4853-E4860; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720121115
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      Modeling combination therapy for breast cancer with BET and immune checkpoint inhibitors
      Xiulan Lai, Andrew Stiff, Megan Duggan, Robert Wesolowski, William E. Carson III, and Avner Friedman
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5534-5539; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721559115
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      Simulated night shift work induces circadian misalignment of the human peripheral blood mononuclear cell transcriptome
      Laura Kervezee, Marc Cuesta, Nicolas Cermakian, and Diane B. Boivin
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5540-5545; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720719115
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      Deubiquitinating enzyme USP3 controls CHK1 chromatin association and activation
      Yu-Che Cheng and Sheau-Yann Shieh
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5546-5551; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719856115
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      Activation of intestinal tuft cell-expressed Sucnr1 triggers type 2 immunity in the mouse small intestine
      Weiwei Lei, Wenwen Ren, Makoto Ohmoto, Joseph F. Urban Jr., Ichiro Matsumoto, Robert F. Margolskee, and Peihua Jiang
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5552-5557; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720758115
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      PII-like signaling protein SbtB links cAMP sensing with cyanobacterial inorganic carbon response
      Khaled A. Selim, Florian Haase, Marcus D. Hartmann, Martin Hagemann, and Karl Forchhammer
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4861-E4869; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803790115
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      Periplasmic depolymerase provides insight into ABC transporter-dependent secretion of bacterial capsular polysaccharides
      Sean D. Liston, Stephen A. McMahon, Audrey Le Bas, Michael D. L. Suits, James H. Naismith, and Chris Whitfield
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4870-E4879; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1801336115
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      Structural basis for Acinetobacter baumannii biofilm formation
      Natalia Pakharukova, Minna Tuittila, Sari Paavilainen, Henri Malmi, Olena Parilova, Susann Teneberg, Stefan D. Knight, and Anton V. Zavialov
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5558-5563; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1800961115
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      Staphylococcus aureus clumping factor A is a force-sensitive molecular switch that activates bacterial adhesion
      Philippe Herman-Bausier, Cristina Labate, Aisling M. Towell, Sylvie Derclaye, Joan A. Geoghegan, and Yves F. Dufrêne
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5564-5569; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1718104115
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      Specificity and robustness of long-distance connections in weighted, interareal connectomes
      Richard F. Betzel and Danielle S. Bassett
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4880-E4889; first published May 8, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720186115
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      Dopamine receptors mediate strategy abandoning via modulation of a specific prelimbic cortex–nucleus accumbens pathway in mice
      Qiaoling Cui, Qian Li, Hongyan Geng, Lei Chen, Nancy Y. Ip, Ya Ke, and Wing-Ho Yung
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4890-E4899; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717106115
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      Ca2+-activated Cl current predominates in threshold response of mouse olfactory receptor neurons
      Rong-Chang Li, Chih-Chun Lin, Xiaozhi Ren, Jingjing Sherry Wu, Laurie L. Molday, Robert S. Molday, and King-Wai Yau
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5570-5575; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803443115
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      LRRK2 phosphorylation of auxilin mediates synaptic defects in dopaminergic neurons from patients with Parkinson’s disease
      Maria Nguyen and Dimitri Krainc
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5576-5581; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717590115
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      Transcriptomic context of DRD1 is associated with prefrontal activity and behavior during working memory
      Leonardo Fazio, Giulio Pergola, Marco Papalino, Pasquale Di Carlo, Anna Monda, Barbara Gelao, Nicola Amoroso, Sabina Tangaro, Antonio Rampino, Teresa Popolizio, Alessandro Bertolino, and Giuseppe Blasi
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5582-5587; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1717135115
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      Flight motor networks modulate primary olfactory processing in the moth Manduca sexta
      Phillip D. Chapman, Rex Burkland, Samual P. Bradley, Benjamin Houot, Victoria Bullman, Andrew M. Dacks, and Kevin C. Daly
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5588-5593; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722379115
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      Ultrafast glutamate sensors resolve high-frequency release at Schaffer collateral synapses
      Nordine Helassa, Céline D. Dürst, Catherine Coates, Silke Kerruth, Urwa Arif, Christian Schulze, J. Simon Wiegert, Michael Geeves, Thomas G. Oertner, and Katalin Török
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5594-5599; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720648115
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      A selective class of inhibitors for the CLC-Ka chloride ion channel
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      Anna K. Koster, Chase A. P. Wood, Rhiannon Thomas-Tran, Tanmay S. Chavan, Jonas Almqvist, Kee-Hyun Choi, J. Du Bois, and Merritt Maduke
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4900-E4909; first published April 18, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1720584115

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        - May 07, 2018
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      Genomic integration of ERRγ-HNF1β regulates renal bioenergetics and prevents chronic kidney disease
      Juanjuan Zhao, Katherine Lupino, Benjamin J. Wilkins, Chengxiang Qiu, Jian Liu, Yasuhiro Omura, Amanda L. Allred, Caitlin McDonald, Katalin Susztak, Grant D. Barish, and Liming Pei
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4910-E4919; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804965115
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      Farnesoid X receptor is essential for the survival of renal medullary collecting duct cells under hypertonic stress
      Sujuan Xu, Shizheng Huang, Zhilin Luan, Tingyue Chen, Yuanyi Wei, Miaomiao Xing, Yaqing Li, Chunxiu Du, Bing Wang, Feng Zheng, Nanping Wang, Youfei Guan, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, and Xiaoyan Zhang
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5600-5605; first published May 8, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1803945115
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      N-hydroxy-pipecolic acid is a mobile metabolite that induces systemic disease resistance in Arabidopsis
      Yun-Chu Chen, Eric C. Holmes, Jakub Rajniak, Jung-Gun Kim, Sandy Tang, Curt R. Fischer, Mary Beth Mudgett, and Elizabeth S. Sattely
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4920-E4929; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1805291115
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      Time-evolving genetic networks reveal a NAC troika that negatively regulates leaf senescence in Arabidopsis
      Hyo Jung Kim, Ji-Hwan Park, Jingil Kim, Jung Ju Kim, Sunghyun Hong, Jeongsik Kim, Jin Hee Kim, Hye Ryun Woo, Changbong Hyeon, Pyung Ok Lim, Hong Gil Nam, and Daehee Hwang
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4930-E4939; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721523115
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      Diurnal down-regulation of ethylene biosynthesis mediates biomass heterosis
      Qingxin Song, Atsumi Ando, Dongqing Xu, Lei Fang, Tianzhen Zhang, Enamul Huq, Hong Qiao, Xing Wang Deng, and Z. Jeffrey Chen
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5606-5611; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1722068115
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      Rewiring of auxin signaling under persistent shade
      Ornella Pucciariello, Martina Legris, Cecilia Costigliolo Rojas, María José Iglesias, Carlos Esteban Hernando, Carlos Dezar, Martín Vazquez, Marcelo J. Yanovsky, Scott A. Finlayson, Salomé Prat, and Jorge J. Casal
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) 5612-5617; first published May 3, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1721110115
  • Systems Biology

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      Codon usage of highly expressed genes affects proteome-wide translation efficiency
      Idan Frumkin, Marc J. Lajoie, Christopher J. Gregg, Gil Hornung, George M. Church, and Yitzhak Pilpel
      PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4940-E4949; first published May 7, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1719375115

Corrections (Online Only)

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    Correction for Ishikawa et al., Ion-beam irradiation, gene identification, and marker-assisted breeding in the development of low-cadmium rice
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4950-E4951; first published May 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1806782115
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    Correction for Xu et al., Drought delays development of the sorghum root microbiome and enriches for monoderm bacteria
    PNAS May 22, 2018 115 (21) E4952; first published May 14, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1807275115
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