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This Week in PNAS

Core Concepts

A brief introduction to emerging topics in science.

Commentaries

  • Butterfly-inspired photonics reverse diffraction color sequence

    • Michael H. Bartl
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15602-15603; published ahead of print October 24, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1418292111
    See companion article on page 15630 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Migrant solution to the anammox mystery

    • Cecelia C. S. Hannides
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15604-15605; published ahead of print October 23, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1418296111
    See companion article on page 15653 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Elucidating marine virus ecology through a unified heartbeat

    • Kay D. Bidle
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15606-15607; published ahead of print October 27, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417243111
    See companion article on page 15786 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Algae hold clues to eukaryotic origins of plant phytochromes

    • Sarah Mathews
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15608-15609; published ahead of print October 27, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417990111
    See companion article on page 15827 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Waking sleeping algal cells

    • Xiaobo Li,
    • James G. Umen,
    • and Martin C. Jonikas
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15610-15611; published ahead of print October 23, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1418295111
    See companion article on page 15833 in issue 44 of volume 111

PNAS Plus Significance Statements

Brief statements written by the authors about the significance of their papers.

Perspective

  • Antibody persistence and T-cell balance: Two key factors confronting HIV vaccine development

    • George K. Lewis,
    • Anthony L. DeVico,
    • and Robert C. Gallo
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15614-15621; published ahead of print October 27, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413550111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Bioinspired micrograting arrays mimicking the reverse color diffraction elements evolved by the butterfly Pierella luna

    • Grant England,
    • Mathias Kolle,
    • Philseok Kim,
    • Mughees Khan,
    • Philip Muñoz,
    • Eric Mazur,
    • and Joanna Aizenberg
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15630-15634; published ahead of print October 6, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1412240111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    See Commentary on page 15602 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Volta potential phase plate for in-focus phase contrast transmission electron microscopy

    • Radostin Danev,
    • Bart Buijsse,
    • Maryam Khoshouei,
    • Jürgen M. Plitzko,
    • and Wolfgang Baumeister
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15635-15640; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1418377111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Chemistry

  • Direct in situ observations of single Fe atom catalytic processes and anomalous diffusion at graphene edges

    • Jiong Zhao,
    • Qingming Deng,
    • Stanislav M. Avdoshenko,
    • Lei Fu,
    • Jürgen Eckert,
    • and Mark H. Rümmeli
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15641-15646; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1412962111

Computer Sciences

  • Transplantation of prokaryotic two-component signaling pathways into mammalian cells

    • Jonathan Hansen,
    • Erik Mailand,
    • Krishna Kumar Swaminathan,
    • Joerg Schreiber,
    • Bartolomeo Angelici,
    • and Yaakov Benenson
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15705-15710; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1406482111

Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences

  • Long-term relationships among pesticide applications, mobility, and soil erosion in a vineyard watershed

    • Pierre Sabatier,
    • Jérôme Poulenard,
    • Bernard Fanget,
    • Jean-Louis Reyss,
    • Anne-Lise Develle,
    • Bruno Wilhelm,
    • Estelle Ployon,
    • Cécile Pignol,
    • Emmanuel Naffrechoux,
    • Jean-Marcel Dorioz,
    • Bernard Montuelle,
    • and Fabien Arnaud
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15647-15652; published ahead of print October 13, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1411512111

  • Enhancement of anammox by the excretion of diel vertical migrators

    • Daniele Bianchi,
    • Andrew R. Babbin,
    • and Eric D. Galbraith
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15653-15658; published ahead of print October 6, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1410790111
    See Commentary on page 15604 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Strong influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation on flood risk around the world

    • Philip J. Ward,
    • Brenden Jongman,
    • Matti Kummu,
    • Michael D. Dettinger,
    • Frederiek C. Sperna Weiland,
    • and Hessel C. Winsemius
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15659-15664; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1409822111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

  • Direct numerical simulations of aeolian sand ripples

    • Orencio Durán,
    • Philippe Claudin,
    • and Bruno Andreotti
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15665-15668; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413058111

  • Ultra-high-resolution paleoenvironmental records via direct laser-based analysis of lipid biomarkers in sediment core samples

    • Lars Wörmer,
    • Marcus Elvert,
    • Jens Fuchser,
    • Julius Sebastian Lipp,
    • Pier Luigi Buttigieg,
    • Matthias Zabel,
    • and Kai-Uwe Hinrichs
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15669-15674; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1405237111

Environmental Sciences

  • Marine algae and land plants share conserved phytochrome signaling systems

    • Deqiang Duanmu,
    • Charles Bachy,
    • Sebastian Sudek,
    • Chee-Hong Wong,
    • Valeria Jiménez,
    • Nathan C. Rockwell,
    • Shelley S. Martin,
    • Chew Yee Ngan,
    • Emily N. Reistetter,
    • Marijke J. van Baren,
    • Dana C. Price,
    • Chia-Lin Wei,
    • Adrian Reyes-Prieto,
    • J. Clark Lagarias,
    • and Alexandra Z. Worden
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15827-15832; published ahead of print September 29, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1416751111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    See Commentary on page 15608 in issue 44 of volume 111

Statistics

Social Sciences

Environmental Sciences

  • Strong influence of El Niño Southern Oscillation on flood risk around the world

    • Philip J. Ward,
    • Brenden Jongman,
    • Matti Kummu,
    • Michael D. Dettinger,
    • Frederiek C. Sperna Weiland,
    • and Hessel C. Winsemius
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15659-15664; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1409822111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

Social Sciences

  • Disruption of multisystem responses to stress in type 2 diabetes: Investigating the dynamics of allostatic load

    • Andrew Steptoe,
    • Ruth A. Hackett,
    • Antonio I. Lazzarino,
    • Sophie Bostock,
    • Roberto La Marca,
    • Livia A. Carvalho,
    • and Mark Hamer
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15693-15698; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1410401111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Long-term relationships among pesticide applications, mobility, and soil erosion in a vineyard watershed

    • Pierre Sabatier,
    • Jérôme Poulenard,
    • Bernard Fanget,
    • Jean-Louis Reyss,
    • Anne-Lise Develle,
    • Bruno Wilhelm,
    • Estelle Ployon,
    • Cécile Pignol,
    • Emmanuel Naffrechoux,
    • Jean-Marcel Dorioz,
    • Bernard Montuelle,
    • and Fabien Arnaud
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15647-15652; published ahead of print October 13, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1411512111

  • A rice ABC transporter, OsABCC1, reduces arsenic accumulation in the grain

    • Won-Yong Song,
    • Tomohiro Yamaki,
    • Naoki Yamaji,
    • Donghwi Ko,
    • Ki-Hong Jung,
    • Miho Fujii-Kashino,
    • Gynheung An,
    • Enrico Martinoia,
    • Youngsook Lee,
    • and Jian Feng Ma
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15699-15704; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1414968111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Bioinspired micrograting arrays mimicking the reverse color diffraction elements evolved by the butterfly Pierella luna

    • Grant England,
    • Mathias Kolle,
    • Philseok Kim,
    • Mughees Khan,
    • Philip Muñoz,
    • Eric Mazur,
    • and Joanna Aizenberg
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15630-15634; published ahead of print October 6, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1412240111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    See Commentary on page 15602 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Transplantation of prokaryotic two-component signaling pathways into mammalian cells

    • Jonathan Hansen,
    • Erik Mailand,
    • Krishna Kumar Swaminathan,
    • Joerg Schreiber,
    • Bartolomeo Angelici,
    • and Yaakov Benenson
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15705-15710; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1406482111

  • Baculovirus resistance in codling moth is virus isolate-dependent and the consequence of a mutation in viral gene pe38

    • Manuela M. Gebhardt,
    • Karolin E. Eberle,
    • Pit Radtke,
    • and Johannes A. Jehle
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15711-15716; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1411089111

  • Engineering of an epoxide hydrolase for efficient bioresolution of bulky pharmaco substrates

    • Xu-Dong Kong,
    • Shuguang Yuan,
    • Lin Li,
    • She Chen,
    • Jian-He Xu,
    • and Jiahai Zhou
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15717-15722; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1404915111

Biochemistry

  • Mitochondrial COQ9 is a lipid-binding protein that associates with COQ7 to enable coenzyme Q biosynthesis

    • Danielle C. Lohman,
    • Farhad Forouhar,
    • Emily T. Beebe,
    • Matthew S. Stefely,
    • Catherine E. Minogue,
    • Arne Ulbrich,
    • Jonathan A. Stefely,
    • Shravan Sukumar,
    • Marta Luna-Sánchez,
    • Adam Jochem,
    • Scott Lew,
    • Jayaraman Seetharaman,
    • Rong Xiao,
    • Huang Wang,
    • Michael S. Westphall,
    • Russell L. Wrobel,
    • John K. Everett,
    • Julie C. Mitchell,
    • Luis C. López,
    • Joshua J. Coon,
    • Liang Tong,
    • and David J. Pagliarini
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4697-E4705; published ahead of print October 22, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413128111

  • Argonaute-1 binds transcriptional enhancers and controls constitutive and alternative splicing in human cells

    • Mariano Alló,
    • Eneritz Agirre,
    • Sergey Bessonov,
    • Paola Bertucci,
    • Luciana Gómez Acuña,
    • Valeria Buggiano,
    • Nicolás Bellora,
    • Babita Singh,
    • Ezequiel Petrillo,
    • Matías Blaustein,
    • Belén Miñana,
    • Gwendal Dujardin,
    • Berta Pozzi,
    • Federico Pelisch,
    • Elías Bechara,
    • Dmitry E. Agafonov,
    • Anabella Srebrow,
    • Reinhard Lührmann,
    • Juan Valcárcel,
    • Eduardo Eyras,
    • and Alberto R. Kornblihtt
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15622-15629; published ahead of print October 13, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1416858111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

  • Xylose phosphorylation functions as a molecular switch to regulate proteoglycan biosynthesis

    • Jianzhong Wen,
    • Junyu Xiao,
    • Meghdad Rahdar,
    • Biswa P. Choudhury,
    • Jixin Cui,
    • Gregory S. Taylor,
    • Jeffrey D. Esko,
    • and Jack E. Dixon
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15723-15728; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417993111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

  • Proteolytic control of neurite outgrowth inhibitor NOGO-A by the cAMP/PKA pathway

    • Maria Sepe,
    • Luca Lignitto,
    • Monia Porpora,
    • Rossella Delle Donne,
    • Laura Rinaldi,
    • Giuseppe Belgianni,
    • Gianna Colucci,
    • Ornella Cuomo,
    • Davide Viggiano,
    • Antonella Scorziello,
    • Corrado Garbi,
    • Lucio Annunziato,
    • and Antonio Feliciello
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15729-15734; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1410274111

  • Kinetic evidence against partitioning of the ubiquinone pool and the catalytic relevance of respiratory-chain supercomplexes

    • James N. Blaza,
    • Riccardo Serreli,
    • Andrew J. Y. Jones,
    • Khairunnisa Mohammed,
    • and Judy Hirst
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15735-15740; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413855111

  • Deorphanization of the human leukocyte tyrosine kinase (LTK) receptor by a signaling screen of the extracellular proteome

    • Hongbing Zhang,
    • Lily I. Pao,
    • Aileen Zhou,
    • Arthur D. Brace,
    • Robert Halenbeck,
    • Amy W. Hsu,
    • Thomas L. Bray,
    • Kevin Hestir,
    • Elizabeth Bosch,
    • Ernestine Lee,
    • Gang Wang,
    • Haixia Liu,
    • Brian R. Wong,
    • W. Michael Kavanaugh,
    • and Lewis T. Williams
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15741-15745; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1412009111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

  • An intramolecular lock facilitates folding and stabilizes the tertiary structure of Streptococcus mutans adhesin P1

    • Kyle P. Heim,
    • Paula J. Crowley,
    • Joanna R. Long,
    • Shweta Kailasan,
    • Robert McKenna,
    • and L. Jeannine Brady
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15746-15751; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413018111

Biophysics and Computational Biology

Cell Biology

  • VEGF-induced neoangiogenesis is mediated by NAADP and two-pore channel-2–dependent Ca2+ signaling

    • Annarita Favia,
    • Marianna Desideri,
    • Guido Gambara,
    • Alessio D’Alessio,
    • Margarida Ruas,
    • Bianca Esposito,
    • Donatella Del Bufalo,
    • John Parrington,
    • Elio Ziparo,
    • Fioretta Palombi,
    • Antony Galione,
    • and Antonio Filippini
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4706-E4715; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1406029111

  • WWOX, the common fragile site FRA16D gene product, regulates ATM activation and the DNA damage response

    • Mohammad Abu-Odeh,
    • Zaidoun Salah,
    • Christoph Herbel,
    • Thomas G. Hofmann,
    • and Rami I. Aqeilan
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4716-E4725; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1409252111

  • Single-cell analyses of transcriptional heterogeneity during drug tolerance transition in cancer cells by RNA sequencing

    • Mei-Chong Wendy Lee,
    • Fernando J. Lopez-Diaz,
    • Shahid Yar Khan,
    • Muhammad Akram Tariq,
    • Yelena Dayn,
    • Charles Joseph Vaske,
    • Amie J. Radenbaugh,
    • Hyunsung John Kim,
    • Beverly M. Emerson,
    • and Nader Pourmand
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4726-E4735; published ahead of print October 22, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1404656111

  • G protein-coupled receptor 56 regulates mechanical overload-induced muscle hypertrophy

    • James P. White,
    • Christiane D. Wrann,
    • Rajesh R. Rao,
    • Sreekumaran K. Nair,
    • Mark P. Jedrychowski,
    • Jae-Sung You,
    • Vicente Martínez-Redondo,
    • Steven P. Gygi,
    • Jorge L. Ruas,
    • Troy A. Hornberger,
    • Zhidan Wu,
    • David J. Glass,
    • Xianhua Piao,
    • and Bruce M. Spiegelman
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15756-15761; published ahead of print October 21, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417898111

  • Cog5–Cog7 crystal structure reveals interactions essential for the function of a multisubunit tethering complex

    • Jun Yong Ha,
    • Irina D. Pokrovskaya,
    • Leslie K. Climer,
    • Gregory R. Shimamura,
    • Tetyana Kudlyk,
    • Philip D. Jeffrey,
    • Vladimir V. Lupashin,
    • and Frederick M. Hughson
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15762-15767; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1414829111

Developmental Biology

  • A nontranscriptional role for Oct4 in the regulation of mitotic entry

    • Rui Zhao,
    • Richard W. Deibler,
    • Paul H. Lerou,
    • Andrea Ballabeni,
    • Garrett C. Heffner,
    • Patrick Cahan,
    • Juli J. Unternaehrer,
    • Marc W. Kirschner,
    • and George Q. Daley
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15768-15773; published ahead of print October 16, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417518111

Environmental Sciences

  • Enhancement of anammox by the excretion of diel vertical migrators

    • Daniele Bianchi,
    • Andrew R. Babbin,
    • and Eric D. Galbraith
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15653-15658; published ahead of print October 6, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1410790111
    See Commentary on page 15604 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Impact of mesophyll diffusion on estimated global land CO2 fertilization

    • Ying Sun,
    • Lianhong Gu,
    • Robert E. Dickinson,
    • Richard J. Norby,
    • Stephen G. Pallardy,
    • and Forrest M. Hoffman
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15774-15779; published ahead of print October 13, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1418075111

Evolution

  • Predictable transcriptome evolution in the convergent and complex bioluminescent organs of squid

    • M. Sabrina Pankey,
    • Vladimir N. Minin,
    • Greg C. Imholte,
    • Marc A. Suchard,
    • and Todd H. Oakley
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4736-E4742; published ahead of print October 21, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1416574111

Genetics

  • Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the medicinal fungus Antrodia cinnamomea for its metabolite biosynthesis and sexual development

    • Mei-Yeh Jade Lu,
    • Wen-Lang Fan,
    • Woei-Fuh Wang,
    • Tingchun Chen,
    • Yi-Ching Tang,
    • Fang-Hua Chu,
    • Tun-Tschu Chang,
    • Sheng-Yang Wang,
    • Meng-yun Li,
    • Yi-Hua Chen,
    • Ze-Shiang Lin,
    • Kai-Jung Yang,
    • Shih-May Chen,
    • Yu-Chuan Teng,
    • Yan-Liang Lin,
    • Jei-Fu Shaw,
    • Ting-Fang Wang,
    • and Wen-Hsiung Li
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4743-E4752; published ahead of print October 21, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417570111

Immunology and Inflammation

Medical Sciences

  • Disruption of multisystem responses to stress in type 2 diabetes: Investigating the dynamics of allostatic load

    • Andrew Steptoe,
    • Ruth A. Hackett,
    • Antonio I. Lazzarino,
    • Sophie Bostock,
    • Roberto La Marca,
    • Livia A. Carvalho,
    • and Mark Hamer
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15693-15698; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1410401111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Microbiology

  • Interleukin 1 receptor-associated kinase 1 (IRAK1) mutation is a common, essential driver for Kaposi sarcoma herpesvirus lymphoma

    • Dongmei Yang,
    • Wuguo Chen,
    • Jie Xiong,
    • Carly J. Sherrod,
    • David H. Henry,
    • and Dirk P. Dittmer
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4762-E4768; published ahead of print October 23, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1405423111

  • Ribonucleotide reductases reveal novel viral diversity and predict biological and ecological features of unknown marine viruses

    • Eric G. Sakowski,
    • Erik V. Munsell,
    • Mara Hyatt,
    • William Kress,
    • Shannon J. Williamson,
    • Daniel J. Nasko,
    • Shawn W. Polson,
    • and K. Eric Wommack
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15786-15791; published ahead of print October 13, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1401322111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    See Commentary on page 15606 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Solution structures of Mengovirus Leader protein, its phosphorylated derivatives, and in complex with nuclear transport regulatory protein, RanGTPase

    • Valjean R. Bacot-Davis,
    • Jessica J. Ciomperlik,
    • Holly A. Basta,
    • Claudia C. Cornilescu,
    • and Ann C. Palmenberg
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15792-15797; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1411098111

  • Potential antigenic explanation for atypical H1N1 infections among middle-aged adults during the 2013–2014 influenza season

    • Susanne L. Linderman,
    • Benjamin S. Chambers,
    • Seth J. Zost,
    • Kaela Parkhouse,
    • Yang Li,
    • Christin Herrmann,
    • Ali H. Ellebedy,
    • Donald M. Carter,
    • Sarah F. Andrews,
    • Nai-Ying Zheng,
    • Min Huang,
    • Yunping Huang,
    • Donna Strauss,
    • Beth H. Shaz,
    • Richard L. Hodinka,
    • Gustavo Reyes-Terán,
    • Ted M. Ross,
    • Patrick C. Wilson,
    • Rafi Ahmed,
    • Jesse D. Bloom,
    • and Scott E. Hensley
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15798-15803; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1409171111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Neuroscience

  • Activity-dependent FUS dysregulation disrupts synaptic homeostasis

    • Chantelle F. Sephton,
    • Amy A. Tang,
    • Ashwinikumar Kulkarni,
    • James West,
    • Mieu Brooks,
    • Jeremy J. Stubblefield,
    • Yun Liu,
    • Michael Q. Zhang,
    • Carla B. Green,
    • Kimberly M. Huber,
    • Eric J. Huang,
    • Joachim Herz,
    • and Gang Yu
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4769-E4778; published ahead of print October 16, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1406162111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

  • The rare DAT coding variant Val559 perturbs DA neuron function, changes behavior, and alters in vivo responses to psychostimulants

    • Marc A. Mergy,
    • Raajaram Gowrishankar,
    • Paul J. Gresch,
    • Stephanie C. Gantz,
    • John Williams,
    • Gwynne L. Davis,
    • C. Austin Wheeler,
    • Gregg D. Stanwood,
    • Maureen K. Hahn,
    • and Randy D. Blakely
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4779-E4788; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1417294111

  • Dopamine release from transplanted neural stem cells in Parkinsonian rat striatum in vivo

    • Xinjiang Kang,
    • Huadong Xu,
    • Sasa Teng,
    • Xiaoyu Zhang,
    • Zijun Deng,
    • Li Zhou,
    • Panli Zuo,
    • Bing Liu,
    • Bin Liu,
    • Qihui Wu,
    • Li Wang,
    • Meiqin Hu,
    • Haiqiang Dou,
    • Wei Liu,
    • Feipeng Zhu,
    • Qing Li,
    • Shu Guo,
    • Jingli Gu,
    • Qian Lei,
    • Jing Lü,
    • Yu Mu,
    • Mu Jin,
    • Shirong Wang,
    • Wei Jiang,
    • Kun Liu,
    • Changhe Wang,
    • Wenlin Li,
    • Kang Zhang,
    • and Zhuan Zhou
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15804-15809; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1408484111

  • Physical exercise-induced hippocampal neurogenesis and antidepressant effects are mediated by the adipocyte hormone adiponectin

    • Suk Yu Yau,
    • Ang Li,
    • Ruby L. C. Hoo,
    • Yick Pang Ching,
    • Brian R. Christie,
    • Tatia M. C. Lee,
    • Aimin Xu,
    • and Kwok-Fai So
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15810-15815; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1415219111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

  • Neuroprotection and repair of 3′-blocking DNA ends by glaikit (gkt) encoding Drosophila tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase 1 (TDP1)

    • DongYu Guo,
    • Thomas S. Dexheimer,
    • Yves Pommier,
    • and Howard A. Nash
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15816-15820; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1415011111

  • Uridine adenosine tetraphosphate is a novel neurogenic P2Y1 receptor activator in the gut

    • Leonie Durnin,
    • Sung Jin Hwang,
    • Masaaki Kurahashi,
    • Bernard T. Drumm,
    • Sean M. Ward,
    • Kent C. Sasse,
    • Kenton M. Sanders,
    • and Violeta N. Mutafova-Yambolieva
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15821-15826; published ahead of print October 23, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1409078111

Physiology

  • Chemoselective tarantula toxins report voltage activation of wild-type ion channels in live cells

    • Drew C. Tilley,
    • Kenneth S. Eum,
    • Sebastian Fletcher-Taylor,
    • Daniel C. Austin,
    • Christophe Dupré,
    • Lilian A. Patrón,
    • Rita L. Garcia,
    • Kit Lam,
    • Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy,
    • Bruce E. Cohen,
    • and Jon T. Sack
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) E4789-E4796; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1406876111

Plant Biology

  • Marine algae and land plants share conserved phytochrome signaling systems

    • Deqiang Duanmu,
    • Charles Bachy,
    • Sebastian Sudek,
    • Chee-Hong Wong,
    • Valeria Jiménez,
    • Nathan C. Rockwell,
    • Shelley S. Martin,
    • Chew Yee Ngan,
    • Emily N. Reistetter,
    • Marijke J. van Baren,
    • Dana C. Price,
    • Chia-Lin Wei,
    • Adrian Reyes-Prieto,
    • J. Clark Lagarias,
    • and Alexandra Z. Worden
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15827-15832; published ahead of print September 29, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1416751111
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
    See Commentary on page 15608 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • The protein Compromised Hydrolysis of Triacylglycerols 7 (CHT7) acts as a repressor of cellular quiescence in Chlamydomonas

    • Chia-Hong Tsai,
    • Jaruswan Warakanont,
    • Tomomi Takeuchi,
    • Barb B. Sears,
    • Eric R. Moellering,
    • and Christoph Benning
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15833-15838; published ahead of print October 13, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1414567111
    See Commentary on page 15610 in issue 44 of volume 111

  • Compartmentalization of the protein repair machinery in photosynthetic membranes

    • Sujith Puthiyaveetil,
    • Onie Tsabari,
    • Troy Lowry,
    • Steven Lenhert,
    • Robert R. Lewis,
    • Ziv Reich,
    • and Helmut Kirchhoff
    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15839-15844; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1413739111

Psychological and Cognitive Sciences

Systems Biology

Retraction

  • Retraction for Nandakumar et al., Dominant suppression of inflammation by glycan-hydrolyzed IgG

    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15851; published ahead of print October 20, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1419043111

Correction

  • Correction for Wenz et al., Increased muscle PGC-1α expression protects from sarcopenia and metabolic disease during aging

    PNAS 2014 111 (44) 15851; published ahead of print October 15, 2014, doi:10.1073/pnas.1419095111