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Volume 99(6);  March 19, 2002
Commentaries
Epithelia: Not just physical barriers
Tomas Ganz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3357–3358. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072073199.
PMCID: PMC122525
Spliceosomal introns in a deep-branching eukaryote: The splice of life
Patricia J. Johnson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3359–3361. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072084199.
PMCID: PMC122526
Virus self-improvement through inflammation: No pain, no gain
Edward S. Mocarski, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3362–3364. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072075899.
PMCID: PMC122527
Rivers dam waves of rabies
Bryan Grenfell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3365–3367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062049599.
PMCID: PMC122528
A new mutator phenotype in breast cancer?
Johan G. de Boer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3368–3369. doi: 10.1073/pnas.082095799.
PMCID: PMC122529
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
Fast 100-nm resolution three-dimensional microscope reveals structural plasticity of mitochondria in live yeast
Alexander Egner, Stefan Jakobs, and Stefan W. Hell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3370–3375. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052545099.
PMCID: PMC122530
Chemistry
The gas phase reaction of singlet dioxygen with water: A water-catalyzed mechanism
Xin Xu, Richard P. Muller, and William A. Goddard, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3376–3381. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052710099.
PMCID: PMC122531
Target-induced formation of neuraminidase inhibitors from in vitro virtual combinatorial libraries
Matthias Hochgürtel, Heiko Kroth, Dorothea Piecha, Michael W. Hofmann, Claude Nicolau, Sonja Krause, Otmar Schaaf, Gabriele Sonnenmoser, and Alexey V. Eliseev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3382–3387. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052703799.
PMCID: PMC122532
Computer Sciences
Algorithmic cooling and scalable NMR quantum computers
P. Oscar Boykin, Tal Mor, Vwani Roychowdhury, Farrokh Vatan, and Rutger Vrijen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3388–3393. doi: 10.1073/pnas.241641898.
PMCID: PMC122533
Engineering
The role of the dynamics of focal adhesion kinase in the mechanotaxis of endothelial cells
Song Li, Peter Butler, Yingxiao Wang, Yingli Hu, Dong Cho Han, Shunichi Usami, Jun-Lin Guan, and Shu Chien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3546–3551. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052018099.
PMCID: PMC122560
Physics
Algorithmic cooling and scalable NMR quantum computers
P. Oscar Boykin, Tal Mor, Vwani Roychowdhury, Farrokh Vatan, and Rutger Vrijen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3388–3393. doi: 10.1073/pnas.241641898.
PMCID: PMC122533
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
Aluminum-dependent regulation of intracellular silicon in the aquatic invertebrate Lymnaea stagnalis
Mahmoud Desouky, Ravin Jugdaohsingh, Catherine R. McCrohan, Keith N. White, and Jonathan J. Powell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3394–3399. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062478699.
PMCID: PMC122534
Cells exposed to antifolates show increased cellular levels of proteins fused to dihydrofolate reductase: A method to modulate gene expression
Philipp Mayer-Kuckuk, Debabrata Banerjee, Sundeep Malhotra, Mikhail Doubrovin, Marian Iwamoto, Tim Akhurst, Julius Balatoni, William Bornmann, Ronald Finn, Steven Larson, Yuman Fong, Juri Gelovani Tjuvajev, Ronald Blasberg, and Joseph R. Bertino
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3400–3405. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062036899.
PMCID: PMC122535
Cross-clade inhibition of HIV-1 replication and cytopathology by using RNase P-associated external guide sequences
Günter Kraus, Rebeca Geffin, Gina Spruill, Andrea K. Young, Rachel Seivright, Diana Cardona, Jennifer Burzawa, and H. James Hnatyszyn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3406–3411. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052651199.
PMCID: PMC122536
Biochemistry
Covalent modification of proteins by cocaine
Shi-Xian Deng, Narine Bharat, Marian C. Fischman, and Donald W. Landry
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3412–3416. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.042700599.
PMCID: PMC122537
Crystal structure of the OpcA integral membrane adhesin from Neisseria meningitidis
Stephen M. Prince, Mark Achtman, and Jeremy P. Derrick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3417–3421. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062630899.
PMCID: PMC122538
A mammalian homolog of unc-53 is regulated by all-trans retinoic acid in neuroblastoma cells and embryos
R. A. Merrill, L. A. Plum, M. E. Kaiser, and M. Clagett-Dame
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3422–3427. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052017399.
PMCID: PMC122539
Solution structure of a Bcl-2 homolog from Kaposi sarcoma virus
Qiulong Huang, Andrew M. Petros, Herbert W. Virgin, Stephen W. Fesik, and Edward T. Olejniczak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3428–3433. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062525799.
PMCID: PMC122540
Arm-site binding by λ-integrase: Solution structure and functional characterization of its amino-terminal domain
Jonathan M. Wojciak, Dibyendu Sarkar, Arthur Landy, and Robert T. Clubb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3434–3439. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052017999.
PMCID: PMC122541
Stop codons preceded by rare arginine codons are efficient determinants of SsrA tagging in Escherichia coli
Christopher S. Hayes, Baundauna Bose, and Robert T. Sauer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3440–3445. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052707199.
PMCID: PMC122542
Molecular identification of the insect adipokinetic hormone receptors
Frank Staubli, Thomas J. D. Jørgensen, Giuseppe Cazzamali, Michael Williamson, Camilla Lenz, Leif Søndergaard, Peter Roepstorff, and Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3446–3451. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052556499.
PMCID: PMC122543
Solution NMR spectroscopy of [α-15N]lysine-labeled rhodopsin: The single peak observed in both conventional and TROSY-type HSQC spectra is ascribed to Lys-339 in the carboxyl-terminal peptide sequence
J. Klein-Seetharaman, P. J. Reeves, M. C. Loewen, E. V. Getmanova, J. Chung, H. Schwalbe, P. E. Wright, and H. G. Khorana
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3452–3457. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052713999.
PMCID: PMC122544
Structure of the full-length HPr kinase/phosphatase from Staphylococcus xylosus at 1.95 Å resolution: Mimicking the product/substrate of the phospho transfer reactions
José Antonio Márquez, Sonja Hasenbein, Brigitte Koch, Sonia Fieulaine, Sylvie Nessler, Robert B. Russell, Wolfgang Hengstenberg, and Klaus Scheffzek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3458–3463. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052461499.
PMCID: PMC122545
Structure of spinach chloroplast F1-ATPase complexed with the phytopathogenic inhibitor tentoxin
Georg Groth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3464–3468. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052546099.
PMCID: PMC122546
Protein–protein interactions monitored in mammalian cells via complementation of β-lactamase enzyme fragments
Tom Wehrman, Benjamin Kleaveland, Jeng-Horng Her, Robert F. Balint, and Helen M. Blau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3469–3474. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062043699.
PMCID: PMC122547
Surface-exposed positions in the transmembrane helices of the lactose permease of Escherichia coli determined by intermolecular thiol cross-linking
Lan Guan, Franklin D. Murphy, and H. Ronald Kaback
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3475–3480. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052703699.
PMCID: PMC122548
Direct real-time evaluation of nitration with green fluorescent protein in solution and within human cells reveals the impact of nitrogen dioxide vs. peroxynitrite mechanisms
Michael Graham Espey, Sandhya Xavier, Douglas D. Thomas, Katrina M. Miranda, and David A. Wink
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3481–3486. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062604199.
PMCID: PMC122549
Engineering a terbium-binding site into an integral membrane protein for luminescence energy transfer
José Luis Vázquez-Ibar, Adam B. Weinglass, and H. Ronald Kaback
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3487–3492. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052703599.
PMCID: PMC122550
Interaction of RNA polymerase with forked DNA: Evidence for two kinetically significant intermediates on the pathway to the final complex
Laura Tsujikawa, Oleg V. Tsodikov, and Pieter L. deHaseth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3493–3498. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062487299.
PMCID: PMC122551
The tRNA Specificity of Thermus thermophilus EF-Tu
Haruichi Asahara and Olke C. Uhlenbeck
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3499–3504. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052028599.
PMCID: PMC122552
Identification by redox proteomics of glutathionylated proteins in oxidatively stressed human T lymphocytes
Maddalena Fratelli, Hans Demol, Magda Puype, Simona Casagrande, Ivano Eberini, Mario Salmona, Valentina Bonetto, Manuela Mengozzi, Francis Duffieux, Emeric Miclet, Angela Bachi, Joel Vandekerckhove, Elisabetta Gianazza, and Pietro Ghezzi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3505–3510. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052592699.
PMCID: PMC122553
Vanadate trapping of nucleotide at the ATP-binding sites of human multidrug resistance P-glycoprotein exposes different residues to the drug-binding site
Tip W. Loo and David M. Clarke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3511–3516. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022049799.
PMCID: PMC122554
Elongator is a histone H3 and H4 acetyltransferase important for normal histone acetylation levels in vivo
G. Sebastiaan Winkler, Arnold Kristjuhan, Hediye Erdjument-Bromage, Paul Tempst, and Jesper Q. Svejstrup
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3517–3522. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022042899.
PMCID: PMC122555
From the Cover:
Identification and characterization of a human DNA glycosylase for repair of modified bases in oxidatively damaged DNA
Tapas K. Hazra, Tadahide Izumi, Istvan Boldogh, Barry Imhoff, Yoke W. Kow, Pawel Jaruga, Miral Dizdaroglu, and Sankar Mitra
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3523–3528. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062053799.
PMCID: PMC122556
Induction of p57KIP2 expression by p73β
Éva Bálint, Andrew C. Phillips, Serguei Kozlov, Colin L. Stewart, and Karen H. Vousden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3529–3534. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062491899.
PMCID: PMC122557
Biophysics
How the folding rate constant of simple, single-domain proteins depends on the number of native contacts
Dmitrii E. Makarov, Craig A. Keller, Kevin W. Plaxco, and Horia Metiu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3535–3539. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052713599.
PMCID: PMC122558
Protein unfolding: Rigidity lost
A. J. Rader, Brandon M. Hespenheide, Leslie A. Kuhn, and M. F. Thorpe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3540–3545. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062492699.
PMCID: PMC122559
The role of the dynamics of focal adhesion kinase in the mechanotaxis of endothelial cells
Song Li, Peter Butler, Yingxiao Wang, Yingli Hu, Dong Cho Han, Shunichi Usami, Jun-Lin Guan, and Shu Chien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3546–3551. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052018099.
PMCID: PMC122560
Ion channel gating: A first-passage time analysis of the Kramers type
Igor Goychuk and Peter Hänggi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3552–3556. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052015699.
PMCID: PMC122561
Mutation of the myosin converter domain alters cross-bridge elasticity
Jan Köhler, Gerhard Winkler, Imke Schulte, Tim Scholz, William McKenna, Bernhard Brenner, and Theresia Kraft
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3557–3562. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062415899.
PMCID: PMC122562
Structural studies of the scrapie prion protein by electron crystallography
Holger Wille, Melissa D. Michelitsch, Vincent Guénebaut, Surachai Supattapone, Ana Serban, Fred E. Cohen, David A. Agard, and Stanley B. Prusiner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3563–3568. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052703499.
PMCID: PMC122563
A Gaussian-chain model for treating residual charge–charge interactions in the unfolded state of proteins
Huan-Xiang Zhou
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3569–3574. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052030599.
PMCID: PMC122564
Mechanical force generation by G proteins
Ioan Kosztin, Robijn Bruinsma, Paul O'Lague, and Klaus Schulten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3575–3580. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052209199.
PMCID: PMC122565
Fold prediction of helical proteins using torsion angle dynamics and predicted restraints
Chao Zhang, Jingtong Hou, and Sung-Hou Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3581–3585. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052003799.
PMCID: PMC122566
Cell Biology
Embryonic stem cells and somatic cells differ in mutation frequency and type
Rachel B. Cervantes, James R. Stringer, Changshun Shao, Jay A. Tischfield, and Peter J. Stambrook
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3586–3590. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062527199.
PMCID: PMC122567
Haploinsufficiency of mTR results in defects in telomere elongation
Karen S. Hathcock, Michael T. Hemann, Kay Keyer Opperman, Margaret A. Strong, Carol W. Greider, and Richard J. Hodes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3591–3596. doi: 10.1073/pnas.012549799.
PMCID: PMC122568
Preferential maintenance of critically short telomeres in mammalian cells heterozygous for mTert
Yie Liu, Hue Kha, Mark Ungrin, Murray O. Robinson, and Lea Harrington
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3597–3602. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062549199.
PMCID: PMC122569
Neutrophils lacking phosphoinositide 3-kinase γ show loss of directionality during N-formyl-Met-Leu-Phe-induced chemotaxis
Michael Hannigan, Lijun Zhan, Zhong Li, Youxi Ai, Dianqing Wu, and Chi-Kuang Huang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3603–3608. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052010699.
PMCID: PMC122570
Abnormal accumulation of hyaluronan matrix diminishes contact inhibition of cell growth and promotes cell migration
Naoki Itano, Fukiko Atsumi, Takahiro Sawai, Yoichi Yamada, Osamu Miyaishi, Takeshi Senga, Michinari Hamaguchi, and Koji Kimata
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3609–3614. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052026799.
PMCID: PMC122571
Restoration of fragile histidine triad (FHIT) expression induces apoptosis and suppresses tumorigenicity in lung and cervical cancer cell lines
Luca Roz, Marcella Gramegna, Hideshi Ishii, Carlo M. Croce, and Gabriella Sozzi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3615–3620. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062030799.
PMCID: PMC122572
Element-specific localization of Drosophila retrotransposon Gag proteins occurs in both nucleus and cytoplasm
S. Rashkova, S. E. Karam, and M.-L. Pardue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3621–3626. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.032071999.
PMCID: PMC122573
Integrins regulate the apoptotic response to DNA damage through modulation of p53
Jean McArthur Lewis, Tony Nguyen Truong, and Martin Alexander Schwartz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3627–3632. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062698499.
PMCID: PMC122574
Targeted new membrane addition in the cleavage furrow is a late, separate event in cytokinesis
C. B. Shuster and D. R. Burgess
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3633–3638. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052342699.
PMCID: PMC122575
Immortalization of a primate bipotent epithelial liver stem cell
Jean-Etienne Allain, Ibrahim Dagher, Dominique Mahieu-Caputo, Nathalie Loux, Marion Andreoletti, Karen Westerman, Pascale Briand, Dominique Franco, Philippe Leboulch, and Anne Weber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3639–3644. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062038599.
PMCID: PMC122576
Characterization of mutant tobacco mosaic virus coat protein that interferes with virus cell-to-cell movement
Mohammed Bendahmane, Judit Szécsi, Iju Chen, R. Howard Berg, and Roger N. Beachy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3645–3650. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062041499.
PMCID: PMC122577
Developmental Biology
Design of an HIV-1 lentiviral-based gene-trap vector to detect developmentally regulated genes in mammalian cells
Zhennan Lai, Ina Han, Misun Park, and Roscoe O. Brady
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3651–3656. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062032499.
PMCID: PMC122578
Targeting of both mouse neuropilin-1 and neuropilin-2 genes severely impairs developmental yolk sac and embryonic angiogenesis
Seiji Takashima, Masafumi Kitakaze, Masanori Asakura, Hiroshi Asanuma, Shoji Sanada, Fumi Tashiro, Hitoshi Niwa, Jun-ichi Miyazaki, Seiichi Hirota, Yukihiko Kitamura, Takashi Kitsukawa, Hajime Fujisawa, Michael Klagsbrun, and Masatsugu Hori
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3657–3662. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022017899.
PMCID: PMC122579
The embryonic stem cell transcription factors Oct-4 and FoxD3 interact to regulate endodermal-specific promoter expression
Ying Guo, Robert Costa, Heather Ramsey, Trevor Starnes, Gail Vance, Kent Robertson, Mark Kelley, Rolland Reinbold, Hans Scholer, and Robert Hromas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3663–3667. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062041099.
PMCID: PMC122580
Ecology
From the Cover:
Predicting the spatial dynamics of rabies epidemics on heterogeneous landscapes
David L. Smith, Brendan Lucey, Lance A. Waller, James E. Childs, and Leslie A. Real
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3668–3672. doi: 10.1073/pnas.042400799.
PMCID: PMC122581
Rapid prehistoric extinction of iguanas and birds in Polynesia
David W. Steadman, Gregory K. Pregill, and David V. Burley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3673–3677. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072079299.
PMCID: PMC122582
From the Cover:
Community-wide distribution of predator–prey interaction strength in kelp forests
Enric Sala and Michael H. Graham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3678–3683. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052028499.
PMCID: PMC122583
Evolution
A new evolutionary scenario for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
R. Brosch, S. V. Gordon, M. Marmiesse, P. Brodin, C. Buchrieser, K. Eiglmeier, T. Garnier, C. Gutierrez, G. Hewinson, K. Kremer, L. M. Parsons, A. S. Pym, S. Samper, D. van Soolingen, and S. T. Cole
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3684–3689. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052548299.
PMCID: PMC122584
Conflicting levels of selection in the accumulation of mitochondrial defects in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Douglas R. Taylor, Clifford Zeyl, and Erin Cooke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3690–3694. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072660299.
PMCID: PMC122585
Metabolic efficiency and amino acid composition in the proteomes of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis
Hiroshi Akashi and Takashi Gojobori
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3695–3700. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062526999.
PMCID: PMC122586
From the Cover:
A spliceosomal intron in Giardia lamblia
Julie E. J. Nixon, Amy Wang, Hilary G. Morrison, Andrew G. McArthur, Mitchell L. Sogin, Brendan J. Loftus, and John Samuelson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3701–3705. Published online 2002 February 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.042700299.
PMCID: PMC122587
How many named species are valid?
John Alroy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3706–3711. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062691099.
PMCID: PMC122588
Genetics
On the sequencing of the human genome
Robert H. Waterston, Eric S. Lander, and John E. Sulston
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3712–3716. Published online 2002 March 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.042692499.
PMCID: PMC122589
Genetic variation at the 22q11 PRODH2/DGCR6 locus presents an unusual pattern and increases susceptibility to schizophrenia
Hui Liu, Simon C. Heath, Christina Sobin, J. Louw Roos, Brandi L. Galke, Maude L. Blundell, Marge Lenane, Brian Robertson, Ellen M. Wijsman, Judith L. Rapoport, Joseph A. Gogos, and Maria Karayiorgou
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3717–3722. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.042700699.
PMCID: PMC122590
Enhancer action in trans is permitted throughout the Drosophila genome
Ji-Long Chen, Kathryn L. Huisinga, Michaela M. Viering, Sharon A. Ou, C.-ting Wu, and Pamela K. Geyer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3723–3728. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062447999.
PMCID: PMC122591
Linkage disequilibrium between the beta frequency of the human EEG and a GABAA receptor gene locus
Bernice Porjesz, Laura Almasy, Howard J. Edenberg, Kongming Wang, David B. Chorlian, Tatiana Foroud, Alison Goate, John P. Rice, Sean J. O'Connor, John Rohrbaugh, Samuel Kuperman, Lance O. Bauer, Raymond R. Crowe, Marc A. Schuckit, Victor Hesselbrock, P. Michael Conneally, Jay A. Tischfield, Ting-Kai Li, Theodore Reich, and Henri Begleiter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3729–3733. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052716399.
PMCID: PMC122592
A robust inducible-repressible promoter greatly facilitates gene knockouts, conditional expression, and overexpression of homologous and heterologous genes in Tetrahymena thermophila
Yuhua Shang, Xiaoyuan Song, Josephine Bowen, Robert Corstanje, Yan Gao, Jacek Gaertig, and Martin A. Gorovsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3734–3739. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052016199.
PMCID: PMC122593
Comprehensive analysis of CpG islands in human chromosomes 21 and 22
Daiya Takai and Peter A. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3740–3745. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052410099.
PMCID: PMC122594
The Dun1 checkpoint kinase phosphorylates and regulates the ribonucleotide reductase inhibitor Sml1
Xiaolan Zhao and Rodney Rothstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3746–3751. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062502299.
PMCID: PMC122595
A screen for dominant mutations applied to components in the Drosophila EGF-R pathway
Annabel Guichard, Shaila Srinivasan, Georgianna Zimm, and Ethan Bier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3752–3757. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052028699.
PMCID: PMC122596
DNA-dependent protein kinase suppresses double-strand break-induced and spontaneous homologous recombination
Chris Allen, Akihiro Kurimasa, Mark A. Brenneman, David J. Chen, and Jac A. Nickoloff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3758–3763. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052545899.
PMCID: PMC122597
Quantitative measurement of translesion replication in human cells: Evidence for bypass of abasic sites by a replicative DNA polymerase
Sharon Avkin, Sheera Adar, Gil Blander, and Zvi Livneh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3764–3769. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062038699.
PMCID: PMC122598
Genetic instability favoring transversions associated with ErbB2-induced mammary tumorigenesis
Shiquan Liu, Wenjing Liu, John L. Jakubczak, Gregory L. Erexson, Kenneth R. Tindall, Richard Chan, William J. Muller, Sankar Adhya, Susan Garges, and Glenn Merlino
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3770–3775. Published online 2002 February 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052710299.
PMCID: PMC122599
Immunology
An unusual Fc receptor-related protein expressed in human centroblasts
Fabio Facchetti, Marina Cella, Silvana Festa, Daved H. Fremont, and Marco Colonna
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3776–3781. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022042699.
PMCID: PMC122600
Expression of CD40 identifies a unique pathogenic T cell population in type 1 diabetes
David H. Wagner, Jr., Gisela Vaitaitis, Richard Sanderson, Michelle Poulin, Cathleen Dobbs, and Kathryn Haskins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3782–3787. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052247099.
PMCID: PMC122601
Combined expression of pTα and Notch3 in T cell leukemia identifies the requirement of preTCR for leukemogenesis
Diana Bellavia, Antonio F. Campese, Saula Checquolo, Anna Balestri, Andrea Biondi, Giovanni Cazzaniga, Urban Lendahl, Hans J. Fehling, Adrian C. Hayday, Luigi Frati, Harald von Boehmer, Alberto Gulino, and Isabella Screpanti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3788–3793. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062050599.
PMCID: PMC122602
Negative regulation of Lck by Cbl ubiquitin ligase
Navin Rao, Sachiko Miyake, Alagarsamy Lakku Reddi, Patrice Douillard, Amiya K. Ghosh, Ingrid L. Dodge, Pengcheng Zhou, Norvin D. Fernandes, and Hamid Band
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3794–3799. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062055999.
PMCID: PMC122603
Disrupting the IL-4 gene rescues mice homozygous for the tight-skin mutation from embryonic death and diminishes TGF-β production by fibroblasts
Takao Kodera, Tracy L. McGaha, Robert Phelps, William E. Paul, and Constantin A. Bona
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3800–3805. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052709999.
PMCID: PMC122604
Medical Sciences
UBE1L is a retinoid target that triggers PML/RARα degradation and apoptosis in acute promyelocytic leukemia
Sutisak Kitareewan, Ian Pitha-Rowe, David Sekula, Christopher H. Lowrey, Michael J. Nemeth, Todd R. Golub, Sarah J. Freemantle, and Ethan Dmitrovsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3806–3811. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052011299.
PMCID: PMC122605
Prions in skeletal muscle
Patrick J. Bosque, Chongsuk Ryou, Glenn Telling, David Peretz, Giuseppe Legname, Stephen J. DeArmond, and Stanley B. Prusiner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3812–3817. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052707499.
PMCID: PMC122606
Profound defects in pancreatic β-cell function in mice with combined heterozygous mutations in Pdx-1, Hnf-1α, and Hnf-3β
David Q. Shih, Markus Heimesaat, Satoru Kuwajima, Roland Stein, Christopher V. E. Wright, and Markus Stoffel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3818–3823. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062605899.
PMCID: PMC122607
Direct external imaging of nascent cancer, tumor progression, angiogenesis, and metastasis on internal organs in the fluorescent orthotopic model
Meng Yang, Eugene Baranov, Jin-Wei Wang, Ping Jiang, Xiaoen Wang, Fang-Xian Sun, Michael Bouvet, A. R. Moossa, Sheldon Penman, and Robert M. Hoffman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3824–3829. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052029099.
PMCID: PMC122608
Small-molecule antagonists of Myc/Max dimerization inhibit Myc-induced transformation of chicken embryo fibroblasts
Thorsten Berg, Steven B. Cohen, Joel Desharnais, Corinna Sonderegger, Daniel J. Maslyar, Joel Goldberg, Dale L. Boger, and Peter K. Vogt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3830–3835. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062036999.
PMCID: PMC122609
Bombesin antagonists inhibit growth of MDA-MB-435 estrogen-independent breast cancers and decrease the expression of the ErbB-2/HER-2 oncoprotein and c-jun and c-fos oncogenes
Ana M. Bajo, Andrew V. Schally, Magdalena Krupa, Francine Hebert, Kate Groot, and Karoly Szepeshazi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3836–3841. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052715299.
PMCID: PMC122610
The lipofuscin component A2E selectively inhibits phagolysosomal degradation of photoreceptor phospholipid by the retinal pigment epithelium
Silvia C. Finnemann, Lawrence W. Leung, and Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3842–3847. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052025899.
PMCID: PMC122611
The Arf tumor suppressor gene promotes hyaloid vascular regression during mouse eye development
Robyn N. McKeller, Jennifer L. Fowler, Justine J. Cunningham, Nikita Warner, Richard J. Smeyne, Frederique Zindy, and Stephen X. Skapek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3848–3853. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052484199.
PMCID: PMC122612
Latent sensitivity to Fas-mediated apoptosis after CD40 ligation may explain activity of CD154 gene therapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia
Peter Chu, Dieter Deforce, Irene M. Pedersen, Youngsoo Kim, Shinichi Kitada, John C. Reed, and Thomas J. Kipps
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3854–3859. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022604399.
PMCID: PMC122613
Immunization of Aotus monkeys with a functional domain of the Plasmodium falciparum variant antigen induces protection against a lethal parasite line
Dror I. Baruch, Benoit Gamain, John W. Barnwell, JoAnn S. Sullivan, Anthony Stowers, G. Gale Galland, Louis H. Miller, and William E. Collins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3860–3865. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022018399.
PMCID: PMC122614
MEKK1 is essential for cardiac hypertrophy and dysfunction induced by Gq
Tetsuo Minamino, Toshiaki Yujiri, Naohiro Terada, George E. Taffet, Lloyd H. Michael, Gary L. Johnson, and Michael D. Schneider
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3866–3871. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062453699.
PMCID: PMC122615
G protein-coupled receptor kinase 4 gene variants in human essential hypertension
Robin A. Felder, Hironobu Sanada, Jing Xu, Pei-Ying Yu, Zheng Wang, Hidetsuna Watanabe, Laureano D. Asico, Wei Wang, Shaopeng Zheng, Ikuyo Yamaguchi, Scott M. Williams, James Gainer, Nancy J. Brown, Debra Hazen-Martin, Lee-Jun C. Wong, Jean E. Robillard, Robert M. Carey, Gilbert M. Eisner, and Pedro A. Jose
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3872–3877. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062694599.
PMCID: PMC122616
Identification of gene function and functional pathways by systemic plasmid-based ribozyme targeting in adult mice
Mohammed Kashani-Sabet, Yong Liu, Sylvia Fong, Pierre-Yves Desprez, Shuqing Liu, Guanghuan Tu, Mehdi Nosrati, Chakkrapong Handumrongkul, Denny Liggitt, Ann D. Thor, and Robert J. Debs
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3878–3883. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.002025599.
PMCID: PMC122617
Role for FGFR2IIIb-mediated signals in controlling pancreatic endocrine progenitor cell proliferation
Lynda Elghazi, Corentin Cras-Méneur, Paul Czernichow, and Raphael Scharfmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3884–3889. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062321799.
PMCID: PMC122618
The identification of E2F1-specific target genes
Julie Wells, Carrie R. Graveel, Stephanie M. Bartley, Steven J. Madore, and Peggy J. Farnham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3890–3895. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062047499.
PMCID: PMC122619
Thymocyte depletion in Trypanosoma cruzi infection is mediated by trans-sialidase-induced apoptosis on nurse cells complex
Juan Mucci, Alejandra Hidalgo, Esteban Mocetti, Pablo F. Argibay, M. Susana Leguizamón, and Oscar Campetella
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3896–3901. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052496399.
PMCID: PMC122620
Lipid mediator-induced expression of bactericidal/ permeability-increasing protein (BPI) in human mucosal epithelia
Geraldine Canny, Ofer Levy, Glenn T. Furuta, Sailaja Narravula-Alipati, Richard B. Sisson, Charles N. Serhan, and Sean P. Colgan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3902–3907. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052533799.
PMCID: PMC122621
Deficient Smad7 expression: A putative molecular defect in scleroderma
Chunming Dong, Shoukang Zhu, Tao Wang, Woohyun Yoon, Zhiru Li, Rene J. Alvarez, Peter ten Dijke, Barbara White, Fredrick M. Wigley, and Pascal J. Goldschmidt-Clermont
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3908–3913. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062010399.
PMCID: PMC122622
The quantity of nitric oxide released by macrophages regulates Chlamydia-induced disease
Jin Huang, Fred J. DeGraves, Stephen D. Lenz, Dongya Gao, Pu Feng, Dan Li, Tobias Schlapp, and Bernhard Kaltenboeck
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3914–3919. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062578399.
PMCID: PMC122623
Microbiology
Complex pattern of Mycobacterium marinum gene expression during long-term granulomatous infection
Kaman Chan, Timothy Knaak, Laura Satkamp, Olivier Humbert, Stanley Falkow, and Lalita Ramakrishnan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3920–3925. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.002024599.
PMCID: PMC122624
Ammonium/methylammonium transport (Amt) proteins facilitate diffusion of NH3 bidirectionally
Eric Soupene, Haidy Lee, and Sydney Kustu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3926–3931. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062043799.
PMCID: PMC122625
From the Cover:
Inhibition of cyclooxygenase 2 blocks human cytomegalovirus replication
Hua Zhu, Jian-Ping Cong, Deborah Yu, Wade A. Bresnahan, and Thomas E. Shenk
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3932–3937. Published online 2002 February 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052713799.
PMCID: PMC122626
Chronic intracellular infection of alfalfa nodules by Sinorhizobium meliloti requires correct lipopolysaccharide core
Gordon R. O. Campbell, Bradley L. Reuhs, and Graham C. Walker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3938–3943. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062425699.
PMCID: PMC122627
Nuclear entry and CRM1-dependent nuclear export of the Rous sarcoma virus Gag polyprotein
Lisa Z. Scheifele, Rachel A. Garbitt, Jonathan D. Rhoads, and Leslie J. Parent
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3944–3949. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062652199.
PMCID: PMC122628
Neurobiology
Some properties of human neuronal α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors fused to the green fluorescent protein
Eleonora Palma, Anna M. Mileo, Ataúlfo Martínez-Torres, Fabrizio Eusebi, and Ricardo Miledi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3950–3955. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052699299.
PMCID: PMC122629
The single-channel properties of human acetylcholine α7 receptors are altered by fusing α7 to the green fluorescent protein
Sergio Fucile, Eleonora Palma, Ataúlfo Martínez-Torres, Ricardo Miledi, and Fabrizio Eusebi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3956–3961. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052699599.
PMCID: PMC122630
Somatic action potentials are sufficient for late-phase LTP-related cell signaling
Serena M. Dudek and R. Douglas Fields
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3962–3967. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062510599.
PMCID: PMC122631
Ionic dependence of Ca2+ channel modulation by syntaxin 1A
Ofer Wiser, Roy Cohen, and Daphne Atlas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3968–3973. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052017299.
PMCID: PMC122632
Dominant-interfering forms of MEF2 generated by caspase cleavage contribute to NMDA-induced neuronal apoptosis
Shu-ichi Okamoto, Zhen Li, Chung Ju, Marion N. Schölzke, Emily Mathews, Jiankun Cui, Guy S. Salvesen, Ella Bossy-Wetzel, and Stuart A. Lipton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3974–3979. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022036399.
PMCID: PMC122633
Voltage opens unopposed gap junction hemichannels formed by a connexin 32 mutant associated with X-linked Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease
C. K. Abrams, M. V. L. Bennett, V. K. Verselis, and T. A. Bargiello
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3980–3984. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.261713499.
PMCID: PMC122634
Deletion of the thyroid hormone receptor α1 prevents the structural alterations of the cerebellum induced by hypothyroidism
Beatriz Morte, Jimena Manzano, Thomas Scanlan, Björn Vennström, and Juan Bernal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3985–3989. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062413299.
PMCID: PMC122635
sgk, a primary glucocorticoid-induced gene, facilitates memory consolidation of spatial learning in rats
Kuen J. Tsai, Shau K. Chen, Yun L. Ma, Wei L. Hsu, and Eminy H. Y. Lee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3990–3995. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062405399.
PMCID: PMC122636
Disruption of estrogen receptor β gene impairs spatial learning in female mice
Emilie F. Rissman, Amy L. Heck, Julie E. Leonard, Margaret A. Shupnik, and Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3996–4001. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.012032699.
PMCID: PMC122637
Induction of behavioral associative memory by stimulation of the nucleus basalis
Dewey E. McLin, III, Alexandre A. Miasnikov, and Norman M. Weinberger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4002–4007. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062057099.
PMCID: PMC122638
The vitelliform macular dystrophy protein defines a new family of chloride channels
Hui Sun, Takashi Tsunenari, King-Wai Yau, and Jeremy Nathans
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4008–4013. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052692999.
PMCID: PMC122639
Notch receptor cleavage depends on but is not directly executed by presenilins
Yoshihito Taniguchi, Helena Karlström, Johan Lundkvist, Tomohiko Mizutani, Akira Otaka, Monica Vestling, Alan Bernstein, Dorit Donoviel, Urban Lendahl, and Tasuku Honjo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4014–4019. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052017699.
PMCID: PMC122640
Reelin function in neural stem cell biology
H. M. Kim, T. Qu, V. Kriho, P. Lacor, N. Smalheiser, G. D. Pappas, A. Guidotti, E. Costa, and K. Sugaya
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4020–4025. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062698299.
PMCID: PMC122641
Updating of the visual representation in monkey striate and extrastriate cortex during saccades
Kae Nakamura and Carol L. Colby
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4026–4031. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052379899.
PMCID: PMC122642
Frequency-dependent synchrony in locus ceruleus: Role of electrotonic coupling
Veronica A. Alvarez, Carson C. Chow, Elisabeth J. Van Bockstaele, and John T. Williams
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4032–4036. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062716299.
PMCID: PMC122643
Glial protein S100B modulates long-term neuronal synaptic plasticity
Hiroshi Nishiyama, Thomas Knöpfel, Shogo Endo, and Shigeyoshi Itohara
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4037–4042. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052020999.
PMCID: PMC122644
Wild-type and mutated presenilins 2 trigger p53-dependent apoptosis and down-regulate presenilin 1 expression in HEK293 human cells and in murine neurons
Cristine Alves da Costa, Erwan Paitel, Mark P. Mattson, Robert Amson, Adam Telerman, Karine Ancolio, and Frédéric Checler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4043–4048. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062059899.
PMCID: PMC122645
Learning to see the trees before the forest: Reversible deactivation of the superior colliculus during learning of local and global visual features
Stephen G. Lomber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4049–4054. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062551899.
PMCID: PMC122646
Pharmacology
Testosterone attenuates expression of vascular cell adhesion molecule-1 by conversion to estradiol by aromatase in endothelial cells: Implications in atherosclerosis
Tapan K. Mukherjee, Hillary Dinh, Gautam Chaudhuri, and Lauren Nathan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4055–4060. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052703199.
PMCID: PMC122647
Physiology
Akt-dependent phosphorylation of endothelial nitric-oxide synthase mediates penile erection
K. Joseph Hurt, Biljana Musicki, Michael A. Palese, Julie K. Crone, Robyn E. Becker, John L. Moriarity, Solomon H. Snyder, and Arthur L. Burnett
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4061–4066. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052712499.
PMCID: PMC122648
Short day lengths augment stress-induced leukocyte trafficking and stress-induced enhancement of skin immune function
Staci D. Bilbo, Firdaus S. Dhabhar, Kavitha Viswanathan, Alison Saul, Steven M. Yellon, and Randy J. Nelson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4067–4072. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062001899.
PMCID: PMC122649
An unexpected role for brain-type sodium channels in coupling of cell surface depolarization to contraction in the heart
Sebastian K. G. Maier, Ruth E. Westenbroek, Kenneth A. Schenkman, Eric O. Feigl, Todd Scheuer, and William A. Catterall
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4073–4078. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.261705699.
PMCID: PMC122650
Plant Biology
AtKC1, a silent Arabidopsis potassium channel α-subunit modulates root hair K+ influx
Birgit Reintanz, Alexander Szyroki, Natalya Ivashikina, Peter Ache, Matthias Godde, Dirk Becker, Klaus Palme, and Rainer Hedrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4079–4084. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052677799.
PMCID: PMC122651
Evidence for in vivo modulation of chloroplast RNA stability by 3′-UTR homopolymeric tails in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Yutaka Komine, Elise Kikis, Gadi Schuster, and David Stern
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4085–4090. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052327599.
PMCID: PMC122652
Functional asymmetry of photosystem II D1 and D2 peripheral chlorophyll mutants of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Jun Wang, David Gosztola, Stuart V. Ruffle, Craig Hemann, Michael Seibert, Michael R. Wasielewski, Russ Hille, Terry L. Gustafson, and Richard T. Sayre
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4091–4096. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062056899.
PMCID: PMC122653
Hydrogen peroxide homeostasis: Activation of plant catalase by calcium/calmodulin
T. Yang and B. W. Poovaiah
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4097–4102. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052564899.
PMCID: PMC122654
Intercellular trafficking of a KNOTTED1 green fluorescent protein fusion in the leaf and shoot meristem of Arabidopsis
Jae Yean Kim, Zhuang Yuan, Michelle Cilia, Zainab Khalfan-Jagani, and David Jackson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4103–4108. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052484099.
PMCID: PMC122655
Overexpression of a Na+/H+ antiporter confers salt tolerance on a freshwater cyanobacterium, making it capable of growth in sea water
Rungaroon Waditee, Takashi Hibino, Tatsunosuke Nakamura, Aran Incharoensakdi, and Teruhiro Takabe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4109–4114. Published online 2002 March 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052576899.
PMCID: PMC122656
Psychology
Integration of emotion and cognition in the lateral prefrontal cortex
Jeremy R. Gray, Todd S. Braver, and Marcus E. Raichle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4115–4120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062381899.
PMCID: PMC122657
Fear recognition in the voice is modulated by unconsciously recognized facial expressions but not by unconsciously recognized affective pictures
Beatrice de Gelder, Gilles Pourtois, and Lawrence Weiskrantz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4121–4126. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062018499.
PMCID: PMC122658
Social Sciences
Psychology
The perceptual reality of synesthetic colors
Thomas J. Palmeri, Randolph Blake, René Marois, Marci A. Flanery, and William Whetsell, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4127–4131. doi: 10.1073/pnas.022049399.
PMCID: PMC122659
Corrections
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4132. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062024199.
PMCID: PMC122523
Corrects: Paul G. Mermelstein, et al. Calmodulin priming: Nuclear translocation of a calmodulin complex and the memory of prior neuronal activity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 December 18; 98(26): 15342–15347.
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 4134. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072044999.
PMCID: PMC122524
Corrects: Yinghui Mao, et al. Subnuclear distribution of topoisomerase I is linked to ongoing transcription and p53 status. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 February 5; 99(3): 1235–1240.
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