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July 09, 2002; vol. 99 no. 14
Editorial
- You have accessPNAS publishes daily onlineNicholas R. Cozzarelli, Kenneth R. Fulton, and Diane M. Sullenberger
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
- You have access1H and 13C MAS NMR evidence for pronounced ligand–protein interactions involving the ionone ring of the retinylidene chromophore in rhodopsinAlain F. L. Creemers, Suzanne Kiihne, Petra H. M. Bovee-Geurts, Willem J. DeGrip, Johan Lugtenburg, and Huub J. M. de Groot
- You have accessBeyond the Rayleigh instability limit for multicharged finite systems: From fission to Coulomb explosionIsidore Last, Yaakov Levy, and Joshua Jortner
Geology
- You have accessDiffuse fluid flux through orogenic belts: Implications for the world oceanSteven E. Ingebritsen and Craig E. Manning
- You have accessAtomic force microscopy of Precambrian microscopic fossilsAndré Kempe, J. William Schopf, Wladyslaw Altermann, Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev, and Wolfgang M. Heckl
Statistics
- You have accessCluster analysis of gene expression dynamics
- From the Cover
Marco F. Ramoni, Paola Sebastiani, and Isaac S. Kohane
Social Sciences
Psychology
- You have accessEye contact detection in humans from birthTeresa Farroni, Gergely Csibra, Francesca Simion, and Mark H. Johnson
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
- You have accessHigh-resolution structures of a chitinase complexed with natural product cyclopentapeptide inhibitors: Mimicry of carbohydrate substrateDouglas R. Houston, Kazuro Shiomi, Noriko Arai, Satoshi Ōmura, Martin G. Peter, Andreas Turberg, Bjørnar Synstad, Vincent G. H. Eijsink, and Daan M. F. van Aalten
- You have accessThe fifth essential DNA polymerase φ in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is localized to the nucleolus and plays an important role in synthesis of rRNAKikuo Shimizu, Yasuo Kawasaki, Shin-Ichiro Hiraga, Maki Tawaramoto, Naomi Nakashima, and Akio Sugino
- You have accessPotent stimulation of transcription-coupled DNA supercoiling by sequence-specific DNA-binding proteinsFenfei Leng and Roger McMacken
- You have accessDistinct domains of splicing factor Prp8 mediate different aspects of spliceosome activationAndreas N. Kuhn, Elizabeth M. Reichl, and David A. Brow
- You have accessDirect detection of potential selenium delivery proteins by using an Escherichia coli strain unable to incorporate selenium from selenite into proteinsGerard M. Lacourciere, Rodney L. Levine, and Thressa C. Stadtman
- You have accessPheromone induction promotes Ste11 degradation through a MAPK feedback and ubiquitin-dependent mechanismR. K. Esch and B. Errede
- You have accessThe final acylation step in Taxol biosynthesis: Cloning of the taxoid C13-side-chain N-benzoyltransferase from TaxusKevin Walker, Robert Long, and Rodney Croteau
- You have accessEvidence for S-nitrosothiol-dependent changes in fibrinogen that do not involve transnitrosation or thiolationShirin Akhter, Arianna Vignini, Zhong Wen, Ann English, Peng G. Wang, and Bulent Mutus
- You have accessTranscription and replication initiate at separate sites on the vesicular stomatitis virus genomeSean P. J. Whelan and Gail W. Wertz
Biophysics
- You have accessThree-dimensional structure of the amino-terminal domain of syntaxin 6, a SNAP-25 C homologKira M. S. Misura, Jason B. Bock, Lino C. Gonzalez Jr., Richard H. Scheller, and William I. Weis
- You have accessPolyproline II structure in a sequence of seven alanine residuesZhengshuang Shi, C. Anders Olson, George D. Rose, Robert L. Baldwin, and Neville R. Kallenbach
- You have accessThe protofilament structure of insulin amyloid fibrilsJosé L. Jiménez, Ewan J. Nettleton, Mario Bouchard, Carol V. Robinson, Christopher M. Dobson, and Helen R. Saibil
- You have accessConformational change of the actomyosin complex drives the multiple stepping movementTomoki P. Terada, Masaki Sasai, and Tetsuya Yomo
- You have accessApparent role of traveling metabolic waves in oxidant release by living neutrophils
- From the Cover
Andrei L. Kindzelskii and Howard R. PettySee companion article:
Cell Biology
- You have accessA protein kinase B-dependent and rapamycin-sensitive pathway controls skeletal muscle growth but not fiber type specificationGiorgia Pallafacchina, Elisa Calabria, Antonio L. Serrano, John M. Kalhovde, and Stefano Schiaffino
- You have accessInteractions between Eph kinases and ephrins provide a mechanism to support platelet aggregation once cell-to-cell contact has occurredNicolas Prevost, Donna Woulfe, Takako Tanaka, and Lawrence F. Brass
- You have accessThe ryanodine receptor modulates the spontaneous beating rate of cardiomyocytes during developmentHuang-Tian Yang, David Tweedie, Su Wang, Antonio Guia, Tatiana Vinogradova, Konstantin Bogdanov, Paul D. Allen, Michael D. Stern, Edward G. Lakatta, and Kenneth R. Boheler
- You have accessPolyvalent cation receptor proteins (CaRs) are salinity sensors in fishJ. Nearing, M. Betka, S. Quinn, H. Hentschel, M. Elger, M. Baum, M. Bai, N. Chattopadyhay, E. M. Brown, S. C. Hebert, and H. W. Harris
Developmental Biology
- You have accessGATA-factor dependence of the multitype zinc-finger protein FOG-1 for its essential role in megakaryopoiesisAaron N. Chang, Alan B. Cantor, Yuko Fujiwara, Maya B. Lodish, Steven Droho, John D. Crispino, and Stuart H. Orkin
- You have accessPromoter-proximal tethering elements regulate enhancer-promoter specificity in the Drosophila Antennapedia complexVincent C. Calhoun, Angelike Stathopoulos, and Michael Levine
- You have accessErk5 null mice display multiple extraembryonic vascular and embryonic cardiovascular defectsChristopher P. Regan, Wei Li, Diane M. Boucher, Stephen Spatz, Michael S. Su, and Keisuke Kuida
- You have accessSKIP is an indispensable factor for Caenorhabditis elegans developmentMarta Kostrouchova, Daniel Housa, Zdenek Kostrouch, Vladimir Saudek, and Joseph Edward Rall
- You have accessPRKX, a phylogenetically and functionally distinct cAMP-dependent protein kinase, activates renal epithelial cell migration and morphogenesisXiaohong Li, Hsi-Ping Li, Kurt Amsler, Deborah Hyink, Patricia D. Wilson, and Christopher R. Burrow
Ecology
- You have accessTracking the ecological overshoot of the human economyMathis Wackernagel, Niels B. Schulz, Diana Deumling, Alejandro Callejas Linares, Martin Jenkins, Valerie Kapos, Chad Monfreda, Jonathan Loh, Norman Myers, Richard Norgaard, and Jørgen Randers
Evolution
- You have accessGene order evolution and paleopolyploidy in hemiascomycete yeastsSimon Wong, Geraldine Butler, and Kenneth H. Wolfe
- You have accessAncestral polymorphism and adaptive evolution in the trichothecene mycotoxin gene cluster of phytopathogenic FusariumTodd J. Ward, Joseph P. Bielawski, H. Corby Kistler, Eileen Sullivan, and Kerry O'Donnell
- You have accessPopulation genomics of drug resistance in Candida albicansLeah E. Cowen, André Nantel, Malcolm S. Whiteway, David Y. Thomas, Daniel C. Tessier, Linda M. Kohn, and James B. Anderson
- You have accessOvert female mate competition and preference for central males in a lekking antelope
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Jakob Bro-Jørgensen - You have accessSecond- and third-hand chloroplasts in dinoflagellates: Phylogeny of oxygen-evolving enhancer 1 (PsbO) protein reveals replacement of a nuclear-encoded plastid gene by that of a haptophyte tertiary endosymbiontKen-ichiro Ishida and Beverley R. Green
Genetics
- You have accessCluster analysis of gene expression dynamics
- From the Cover
Marco F. Ramoni, Paola Sebastiani, and Isaac S. Kohane - You have accessAssociation of a lysine-232/alanine polymorphism in a bovine gene encoding acyl-CoA:diacylglycerol acyltransferase (DGAT1) with variation at a quantitative trait locus for milk fat contentAndreas Winter, Wolfgang Krämer, Fabian A. O. Werner, Sonja Kollers, Srinivas Kata, Gregor Durstewitz, Johannes Buitkamp, James E. Womack, Georg Thaller, and Ruedi Fries
- You have accessMaternal transmission of P element transposase activity in Drosophila melanogaster depends on the last P intronMichael J. Simmons, Kevin J. Haley, and Sarah J. Thompson
- You have accessLive-cell imaging reveals divergent intracellular dynamics of polyglutamine disease proteins and supports a sequestration model of pathogenesisYaohui Chai, Jianqiang Shao, Victor M. Miller, Aislinn Williams, and Henry L. Paulson
- You have accessThe genome-wide expression response to telomerase deletion in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeShivani Nautiyal, Joseph L. DeRisi, and Elizabeth H. Blackburn
- You have accessPositional cloning of the murine flavivirus resistance geneAndrey A. Perelygin, Svetlana V. Scherbik, Igor B. Zhulin, Bronislava M. Stockman, Yan Li, and Margo A. Brinton
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- Host genetic variability and West Nile virus susceptibility- Aug 21, 2002
- You have accessThe barley stem rust-resistance gene Rpg1 is a novel disease-resistance gene with homology to receptor kinasesR. Brueggeman, N. Rostoks, D. Kudrna, A. Kilian, F. Han, J. Chen, A. Druka, B. Steffenson, and A. Kleinhofs
- You have accessIdentification and characterization of CIA/ASF1 as an interactor of bromodomains associated with TFIIDTakahiko Chimura, Takashi Kuzuhara, and Masami Horikoshi
- You have accessHyporesponsiveness of SPRET/Ei mice to lethal shock induced by tumor necrosis factor and implications for a TNF-based antitumor therapyJan Staelens, Ben Wielockx, Leen Puimège, Frans Van Roy, Jean-Louis Guénet, and Claude Libert
- You have accessAn approach for global scanning of single nucleotide variationsXinghua Pan and Sherman M. Weissman
- You have accessInteraction of Gα12 with Gα13 and Gαq signaling pathwaysJennifer L. Gu, Stefan Müller, Valeria Mancino, Stefan Offermanns, and Melvin I. Simon
Immunology
- You have accessCytotoxic T lymphocytes directed against a tumor-specific mutated antigen display similar HLA tetramer binding but distinct functional avidity and tissue distributionHamid Echchakir, Guillaume Dorothée, Isabelle Vergnon, Jeanne Menez, Salem Chouaib, and Fathia Mami-Chouaib
- You have accessGATA-3 transcriptional imprinting in Th2 lymphocytes: A mathematical modelThomas Höfer, Holger Nathansen, Max Löhning, Andreas Radbruch, and Reinhart Heinrich
- You have accessCD28 plays a critical role in the segregation of PKCθ within the immunologic synapseJianyong Huang, Pei-Fen Lo, Tomasz Żal, Nicholas R. J. Gascoigne, Brian A. Smith, Steven D. Levin, and Howard M. Grey
- You have accessRestricted islet-cell reactive T cell repertoire of early pancreatic islet infiltrates in NOD miceFelix J. Baker, Mark Lee, Yueh-hsiu Chien, and Mark M. Davis
- You have accessHIV envelope induces a cascade of cell signals in non-proliferating target cells that favor virus replicationClaudia Cicala, James Arthos, Sara M. Selig, Glynn Dennis Jr., Douglas A. Hosack, Donald Van Ryk, Marion L. Spangler, Tavis D. Steenbeke, Prateeti Khazanie, Neil Gupta, Jun Yang, Marybeth Daucher, Richard A. Lempicki, and Anthony S. Fauci
- You have accessRole of NFκB activator Act1 in CD40-mediated signaling in epithelial cellsYoucun Qian, Zhendong Zhao, Zhengfan Jiang, and Xiaoxia Li
- You have accessUncoupling protein 2 plays an important role in nitric oxide production of lipopolysaccharide-stimulated macrophagesTakako Kizaki, Kenji Suzuki, Yoshiaki Hitomi, Naoyuki Taniguchi, Daizoh Saitoh, Kenji Watanabe, Kazunori Onoé, Noorbibi K. Day, Robert A. Good, and Hideki Ohno
- You have accessDefective T cell development and function in calcineurin Aβ-deficient miceOrlando F. Bueno, Eric B. Brandt, Marc E. Rothenberg, and Jeffery D. Molkentin
- You have accessCrystal structure of human cytomegalovirus IL-10 bound to soluble human IL-10R1Brandi C. Jones, Naomi J. Logsdon, Kristopher Josephson, Jennifer Cook, Peter A. Barry, and Mark R. Walter
- You have accessTransepithelial transport of HIV-1 by M cells is receptor-mediatedGrigorios Fotopoulos, Alexandre Harari, Pierre Michetti, Didier Trono, Giuseppe Pantaleo, and Jean-Pierre Kraehenbuhl
- You have accessHuman tumor-derived genomic DNA transduced into a recipient cell induces tumor-specific immune responses ex vivoTheresa L. Whiteside, Andrea Gambotto, Andreas Albers, Joanna Stanson, and Edward P. Cohen
- You have accessDirect visualization of distinct T cell epitopes derived from a melanoma tumor-associated antigen by using human recombinant antibodies with MHC- restricted T cell receptor-like specificityGalit Denkberg, Cyril J. Cohen, Avital Lev, Patrick Chames, Hennie R. Hoogenboom, and Yoram Reiter
Medical Sciences
- You have accessAn estrogen receptor repressor induces cataract formation in transgenic miceVicki L. Davis, Chi-Chao Chan, Timothy J. Schoen, John F. Couse, Gerald J. Chader, and Kenneth S. Korach
- You have accessMutations in APC, Kirsten-ras, and p53—alternative genetic pathways to colorectal cancerGillian Smith, Francis A. Carey, Julie Beattie, Murray J. V. Wilkie, Tracy J. Lightfoot, Jonathan Coxhead, R. Colin Garner, Robert J. C. Steele, and C. Roland Wolf
- You have accessInteraction of intracellular β amyloid peptide with chaperone proteinsVirginia Fonte, Wadim Jan Kapulkin, Andrew Taft, Amy Fluet, David Friedman, and Christopher D. Link
- You have accessTissue-nonspecific alkaline phosphatase and plasma cell membrane glycoprotein-1 are central antagonistic regulators of bone mineralizationLovisa Hessle, Kristen A. Johnson, H. Clarke Anderson, Sonoko Narisawa, Adnan Sali, James W. Goding, Robert Terkeltaub, and José Luis Millán
- You have accessRecombinant human erythropoietin counteracts secondary injury and markedly enhances neurological recovery from experimental spinal cord traumaAlfredo Gorio, Necati Gokmen, Serhat Erbayraktar, Osman Yilmaz, Laura Madaschi, Cinzia Cichetti, Anna Maria Di Giulio, Enver Vardar, Anthony Cerami, and Michael Brines
- You have accessChimeric snRNA molecules carrying antisense sequences against the splice junctions of exon 51 of the dystrophin pre-mRNA induce exon skipping and restoration of a dystrophin synthesis in Δ48-50 DMD cellsFernanda Gabriella De Angelis, Olga Sthandier, Barbara Berarducci, Silvia Toso, Giuliana Galluzzi, Enzo Ricci, Giulio Cossu, and Irene Bozzoni
- You have accessVEGF receptor 2 and the adherens junction as a mechanical transducer in vascular endothelial cellsAyelet Shay-Salit, Moran Shushy, Efrat Wolfovitz, Hava Yahav, Ferruccio Breviario, Elisabetta Dejana, and Nitzan Resnick
- You have accessAdaptive immunity cooperates with liposomal all-trans-retinoic acid (ATRA) to facilitate long-term molecular remissions in mice with acute promyelocytic leukemiaPeter Westervelt, Jessica L. Pollock, Kristie M. Oldfather, Matthew J. Walter, Margaret K. Ma, Anthony Williams, John F. DiPersio, and Timothy J. Ley
- You have accessKnockout of the α1A/C-adrenergic receptor subtype: The α1A/C is expressed in resistance arteries and is required to maintain arterial blood pressureD. Gregg Rokosh and Paul C. Simpson
- You have accessAdeno-associated viral vector-mediated hypoxia response element-regulated gene expression in mouse ischemic heart modelHua Su, Janice Arakawa-Hoyt, and Yuet Wai Kan
- You have accessRandomized controlled trial of a treatment for anorexia and bulimia nervosaCecilia Bergh, Ulf Brodin, Greger Lindberg, and Per Södersten
- You have accessApoptotic threshold is lowered by p53 transactivation of caspase-6Timothy K. MacLachlan and Wafik S. El-Deiry
- You have accessC75 increases peripheral energy utilization and fatty acid oxidation in diet-induced obesityJagan N. Thupari, Leslie E. Landree, Gabriele V. Ronnett, and Francis P. Kuhajda
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- The search for new ways to treat obesity- Jul 01, 2002
- You have accessEvidence for a cytopathogenicity determinant in HIV-1 VprMohan Somasundaran, Mark Sharkey, Beda Brichacek, Katherine Luzuriaga, Michael Emerman, John L. Sullivan, and Mario Stevenson
Microbiology
- You have accessThe complete genome sequence of Chlorobium tepidum TLS, a photosynthetic, anaerobic, green-sulfur bacteriumJonathan A. Eisen, Karen E. Nelson, Ian T. Paulsen, John F. Heidelberg, Martin Wu, Robert J. Dodson, Robert Deboy, Michelle L. Gwinn, William C. Nelson, Daniel H. Haft, Erin K. Hickey, Jeremy D. Peterson, A. Scott Durkin, James L. Kolonay, Fan Yang, Ingeborg Holt, Lowell A. Umayam, Tanya Mason, Michael Brenner, Terrance P. Shea, Debbie Parksey, William C. Nierman, Tamara V. Feldblyum, Cheryl L. Hansen, M. Brook Craven, Diana Radune, Jessica Vamathevan, Hoda Khouri, Owen White, Tanja M. Gruber, Karen A. Ketchum, J. Craig Venter, Hervé Tettelin, Donald A. Bryant, and Claire M. Fraser
- You have accessMutations in the RNase H domain of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase affect the initiation of DNA synthesis and the specificity of RNase H cleavage in vivoJohn G. Julias, Mary Jane McWilliams, Stefan G. Sarafianos, Edward Arnold, and Stephen H. Hughes
Neurobiology
- You have accessEffects of cerebral ischemia in mice deficient in PersephinAndreas C. Tomac, Alan D. Agulnick, Norman Haughey, Chen-Fu Chang, Yajun Zhang, Cristina Bäckman, Marisela Morales, Mark P. Mattson, Yun Wang, Heiner Westphal, and Barry J. Hoffer
- You have accessThe relationship between cortical activation and perception investigated with invisible stimuliK. Moutoussis and S. Zeki
- You have accessCortical hyperpolarization-activated depolarizing current takes part in the generation of focal paroxysmal activitiesIgor Timofeev, Maxim Bazhenov, Terrence Sejnowski, and Mircea Steriade
- You have accessAssessing the role of Ih channels in synaptic transmission and mossy fiber LTPVivien Chevaleyre and Pablo E. Castillo
Physiology
- You have accessNuclear KATP channels trigger nuclear Ca2+ transients that modulate nuclear functionIvan Quesada, Juan M. Rovira, Franz Martin, Enrique Roche, Angel Nadal, and Bernat Soria
- You have accessOxytocin induces differentiation of P19 embryonic stem cells to cardiomyocytesJoanne Paquin, Bogdan A. Danalache, Marek Jankowski, Samuel M. McCann, and Jolanta Gutkowska
- You have accessRole of the short isoform of myosin light chain kinase in the contraction of cultured smooth muscle cells as examined by its down-regulationJianjun Bao, Kazuhiko Oishi, Tomohisa Yamada, Liqun Liu, Akio Nakamura, Masaatsu K. Uchida, and Kazuhiro Kohama
- You have accessInfluence of the period-dependent circadian clock on diurnal, circadian, and aperiodic gene expression in Drosophila melanogasterYiing Lin, Mei Han, Brian Shimada, Lin Wang, Therese M. Gibler, Aloka Amarakone, Tarif A. Awad, Gary D. Stormo, Russell N. Van Gelder, and Paul H. Taghert
Plant Biology
- You have accessIntraspecific violation of genetic colinearity and its implications in maize
- From the Cover
Huihua Fu and Hugo K. DoonerSee companion article:
- Exceptional haplotype variation in maize- Jul 01, 2002
- You have accessSelective interaction of plant homeodomain proteins mediates high DNA-binding affinityHarley M. S. Smith, Ilja Boschke, and Sarah Hake
- You have accessThe systemin receptor SR160 from Lycopersicon peruvianum is a member of the LRR receptor kinase family
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Justin M. Scheer and Clarence A. Ryan Jr.See companion article:
- Plant receptor kinases: Systemin receptor identified- Jul 01, 2002
Population Biology
- You have accessThe aging baboon: Comparative demography in a non-human primateAnne M. Bronikowski, Susan C. Alberts, Jeanne Altmann, Craig Packer, K. Dee Carey, and Marc Tatar
Psychology
- You have accessRapid natural scene categorization in the near absence of attentionFei Fei Li, Rufin VanRullen, Christof Koch, and Pietro Perona
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