| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 September 26; 103(39): 14257–14258. doi: 10.1073/iti3906103.PMCID: PMC1599948 Commentaries Cryptic messages: Is noncoagulant tissue factor reserved for cell signaling? Eric Camerer and JoAnn Trejo PMCID: PMC1599949 Mapping land use of tropical regions from space Carlos M. Souza, Jr. PMCID: PMC1599950 Profile Profile of Ranulfo Romo Philip Downey PMCID: PMC1599951 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Helmholtz decomposition coupling rotational to irrotational flow of a viscous fluid Daniel D. Joseph PMCID: PMC1570130 Chemistry Partitioning of atmospherically relevant ions between bulk water and the water/vapor interface Laurel M. Pegram and M. Thomas Record, Jr. PMCID: PMC1599954 First-principles, quantum-mechanical simulations of electron solvation by a water cluster John M. Herbert and Martin Head-Gordon PMCID: PMC1599955 Environmental Sciences Global temperature change James Hansen, Makiko Sato, Reto Ruedy, Ken Lo, David W. Lea, and Martin Medina-Elizade PMCID: PMC1576294 Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity Dana L. Miller, Claudia I. Mora, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Cary J. Mock, Maria E. Uhle, and Zachary Sharp PMCID: PMC1570183 Physics Determining the underlying Fermi surface of strongly correlated superconductors Claudius Gros, Bernhard Edegger, V. N. Muthukumar, and P. W. Anderson PMCID: PMC1599958 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Engineering broad root-knot resistance in transgenic plants by RNAi silencing of a conserved and essential root-knot nematode parasitism gene Guozhong Huang, Rex Allen, Eric L. Davis, Thomas J. Baum, and Richard S. Hussey PMCID: PMC1570184 Applied Biological Sciences A rationally designed agonist antibody fragment that functionally mimics thrombopoietin Shana Frederickson, Mark W. Renshaw, Bing Lin, Lynette M. Smith, Peter Calveley, Jeremy P. Springhorn, Krista Johnson, Yi Wang, Xiao Su, Yamin Shen, and Katherine S. Bowdish PMCID: PMC1599960 Biochemistry Self-assembly of receptor/signaling complexes in bacterial chemotaxis Peter M. Wolanin, Melinda D. Baker, Noreen R. Francis, Dennis R. Thomas, David J. DeRosier, and Jeffry B. Stock PMCID: PMC1599961 Prolactin/growth hormone–derived antiangiogenic peptides highlight a potential role of tilted peptides in angiogenesis Ngoc-Quynh-Nhu Nguyen, Sebastien P. Tabruyn, Laurence Lins, Michelle Lion, Anne M. Cornet, Florence Lair, Francoise Rentier-Delrue, Robert Brasseur, Joseph A. Martial, and Ingrid Struman PMCID: PMC1599962 Visualizing odorant receptor trafficking in living cells down to the single-molecule level V. Jacquier, M. Prummer, J.-M. Segura, H. Pick, and H. Vogel PMCID: PMC1599963 Structural insights into methyltransfer reactions of a corrinoid iron–sulfur protein involved in acetyl-CoA synthesis Tatiana Svetlitchnaia, Vitali Svetlitchnyi, Ortwin Meyer, and Holger Dobbek PMCID: PMC1599964 Crystal structure of 12-oxophytodienoate reductase 3 from tomato: Self-inhibition by dimerization Constanze Breithaupt, Robert Kurzbauer, Hauke Lilie, Andreas Schaller, Jochen Strassner, Robert Huber, Peter Macheroux, and Tim Clausen PMCID: PMC1586121 The crystal structure of human IRE1 luminal domain reveals a conserved dimerization interface required for activation of the unfolded protein response Jiahai Zhou, Chuan Yin Liu, Sung Hoon Back, Robert L. Clark, Daniel Peisach, Zhaohui Xu, and Randal J. Kaufman PMCID: PMC1566190 Hydroxymalonyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) and aminomalonyl-ACP are two additional type I polyketide synthase extender units Yolande A. Chan, Michael T. Boyne, II, Angela M. Podevels, Amy K. Klimowicz, Jo Handelsman, Neil L. Kelleher, and Michael G. Thomas PMCID: PMC1599966 Biophysics Electrostatic interactions in the channel cavity as an important determinant of potassium channel selectivity Delphine Bichet, Michael Grabe, Yuh Nung Jan, and Lily Yeh Jan PMCID: PMC1570129 K+ channel selectivity depends on kinetic as well as thermodynamic factors Michael Grabe, Delphine Bichet, Xiang Qian, Yuh Nung Jan, and Lily Yeh Jan PMCID: PMC1570128 Normal-repeat-length polyglutamine peptides accelerate aggregation nucleation and cytotoxicity of expanded polyglutamine proteins Natalia Slepko, Anusri M. Bhattacharyya, George R. Jackson, Joan S. Steffan, J. Lawrence Marsh, Leslie Michels Thompson, and Ronald Wetzel PMCID: PMC1599969 An intracellular lamellar–nonlamellar phase transition rationalizes the superior performance of some cationic lipid transfection agents Rumiana Koynova, Li Wang, and Robert C. MacDonald PMCID: PMC1599970 Cell Biology Transducer of regulated CREB-binding proteins (TORCs) induce PGC-1α transcription and mitochondrial biogenesis in muscle cells Zhidan Wu, Xueming Huang, Yajun Feng, Christoph Handschin, Yan Feng, P. Scott Gullicksen, Olivia Bare, Mark Labow, Bruce Spiegelman, and Susan C. Stevenson PMCID: PMC1569674 Developmental Biology From the Cover:
Differences in vertebrate microRNA expression Brandon Ason, Diana K. Darnell, Beate Wittbrodt, Eugene Berezikov, Wigard P. Kloosterman, Jochen Wittbrodt, Parker B. Antin, and Ronald H. A. Plasterk PMCID: PMC1599972 Endogenous retroviruses regulate periimplantation placental growth and differentiation Kathrin A. Dunlap, Massimo Palmarini, Mariana Varela, Robert C. Burghardt, Kanako Hayashi, Jennifer L. Farmer, and Thomas E. Spencer PMCID: PMC1599973 Ecology An α2-macroglobulin-like protein is the cue to gregarious settlement of the barnacle Balanus amphitrite Catherine Dreanno, Kiyotaka Matsumura, Naoshi Dohmae, Koji Takio, Hiroshi Hirota, Richard R. Kirby, and Anthony S. Clare PMCID: PMC1599974 Environmental Sciences Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity Dana L. Miller, Claudia I. Mora, Henri D. Grissino-Mayer, Cary J. Mock, Maria E. Uhle, and Zachary Sharp PMCID: PMC1570183 Evolution Epistasis correlates to genomic complexity Rafael Sanjuán and Santiago F. Elena PMCID: PMC1599975 Sex-biased maternal effects reduce ectoparasite-induced mortality in a passerine bird Alexander V. Badyaev, Terri L. Hamstra, Kevin P. Oh, and Dana A. Acevedo Seaman PMCID: PMC1599976 Codon-usage bias versus gene conversion in the evolution of yeast duplicate genes Yeong-Shin Lin, Jake K. Byrnes, Jenn-Kang Hwang, and Wen-Hsiung Li PMCID: PMC1599977 Genetics Differential microarray analysis of Drosophila mushroom body transcripts using chemical ablation Masatomo Kobayashi, Lydia Michaut, Ayako Ino, Ken Honjo, Taiki Nakajima, Yasushi Maruyama, Hiroaki Mochizuki, Mai Ando, Indrayani Ghangrekar, Kuniaki Takahashi, Kaoru Saigo, Ryu Ueda, Walter J. Gehring, and Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga PMCID: PMC1599978 Genes with internal repeats require the THO complex for transcription Vladimir Voynov, Kevin J. Verstrepen, An Jansen, Vanessa M. Runner, Stephen Buratowski, and Gerald R. Fink PMCID: PMC1599979 Regulation of gene expression in the mammalian eye and its relevance to eye disease Todd E. Scheetz, Kwang-Youn A. Kim, Ruth E. Swiderski, Alisdair R. Philp, Terry A. Braun, Kevin L. Knudtson, Anne M. Dorrance, Gerald F. DiBona, Jian Huang, Thomas L. Casavant, Val C. Sheffield, and Edwin M. Stone PMCID: PMC1636701 Immunology From the Cover:
Functional CD8+ but not CD4+ T cell responses develop independent of thymic epithelial MHC Marianne M. Martinic, Maries F. van den Broek, Thomas Rülicke, Christoph Huber, Bernhard Odermatt, Walter Reith, Edit Horvath, Raphael Zellweger, Katja Fink, Mike Recher, Bruno Eschli, Hans Hengartner, and Rolf M. Zinkernagel PMCID: PMC1599980 From the Cover:
A variable immunoreceptor in a subpopulation of human neutrophils Kerstin Puellmann, Wolfgang E. Kaminski, Mandy Vogel, C. Thomas Nebe, Josef Schroeder, Hans Wolf, and Alexander W. Beham PMCID: PMC1599981 The X-linked lymphoproliferative disease gene product SAP associates with PAK-interacting exchange factor and participates in T cell activation Cuiping Gu, Stuart G. Tangye, Xiaoqing Sun, Ying Luo, Zhixin Lin, and Jun Wu PMCID: PMC1599982 Recombinant vaccinia/fowlpox NY-ESO-1 vaccines induce both humoral and cellular NY-ESO-1-specific immune responses in cancer patients Elke Jäger, Julia Karbach, Sacha Gnjatic, Antje Neumann, Armin Bender, Danila Valmori, Maha Ayyoub, Erika Ritter, Gerd Ritter, Dirk Jäger, Dennis Panicali, Eric Hoffman, Linda Pan, Herbert Oettgen, Lloyd J. Old, and Alexander Knuth PMCID: PMC1570182 Activation of NF-κB by the intracellular expression of NF-κB-inducing kinase acts as a powerful vaccine adjuvant E. Andreakos, R. O. Williams, J. Wales, B. M. Foxwell, and M. Feldmann PMCID: PMC1599984 Aberrant MHC class II expression in mouse joints leads to arthritis with extraarticular manifestations similar to rheumatoid arthritis Satoshi Kanazawa, Shusuke Ota, Chiyoko Sekine, Toyohiro Tada, Takanobu Otsuka, Takashi Okamoto, Grete Sønderstrup, and B. Matija Peterlin PMCID: PMC1599985 Medical Sciences Gata4 is required for maintenance of postnatal cardiac function and protection from pressure overload-induced heart failure Egbert Bisping, Sadakatsu Ikeda, Sek Won Kong, Oleg Tarnavski, Natalya Bodyak, Julie R. McMullen, Satish Rajagopal, Jennifer K. Son, Qing Ma, Zhangli Springer, Peter M. Kang, Seigo Izumo, and William T. Pu PMCID: PMC1636702 Combinatorial activities of Akt and B-Raf/Erk signaling in a mouse model of androgen-independent prostate cancer Hui Gao, Xuesong Ouyang, Whitney A. Banach-Petrosky, William L. Gerald, Michael M. Shen, and Cory Abate-Shen PMCID: PMC1599986 Granulocyte colony-stimulating factor preferentially stimulates proliferation of monosomy 7 cells bearing the isoform IV receptor Elaine M. Sloand, Agnes S. M. Yong, Shakti Ramkissoon, Elena Solomou, Tullia C. Bruno, Sonnie Kim, Monika Fuhrer, Sachiko Kajigaya, A. John Barrett, and Neal S. Young PMCID: PMC1599987 Role of cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript in estradiol-mediated neuroprotection Yun Xu, Wenri Zhang, Judith Klaus, Jennifer Young, Ines Koerner, Laird C. Sheldahl, Patricia D. Hurn, Francisco Martínez-Murillo, and Nabil J. Alkayed PMCID: PMC1636703 Activation of Rho-associated coiled-coil protein kinase 1 (ROCK-1) by caspase-3 cleavage plays an essential role in cardiac myocyte apoptosis Jiang Chang, Min Xie, Viraj R. Shah, Michael D. Schneider, Mark L. Entman, Lei Wei, and Robert J. Schwartz PMCID: PMC1599988 Intracellular IL-1α-binding proteins contribute to biological functions of endogenous IL-1α in systemic sclerosis fibroblasts Yasushi Kawaguchi, Emi Nishimagi, Akiko Tochimoto, Manabu Kawamoto, Yasuhiro Katsumata, Makoto Soejima, Tokiko Kanno, Naoyuki Kamatani, and Masako Hara PMCID: PMC1599989 Deletion of microsomal prostaglandin E synthase-1 augments prostacyclin and retards atherogenesis Miao Wang, Alicia M. Zukas, Yiqun Hui, Emanuela Ricciotti, Ellen Puré, and Garret A. FitzGerald PMCID: PMC1566188 Synergistic inhibition of growth of lung carcinomas by antagonists of growth hormone-releasing hormone in combination with docetaxel Florian Hohla, Andrew V. Schally, Karoly Szepeshazi, Jozsef L. Varga, Stefan Buchholz, Frank Köster, Elmar Heinrich, Gabor Halmos, Ferenc G. Rick, Chandrika Kannadka, Christian Datz, and Celia A. Kanashiro PMCID: PMC1599991 A therapeutic target for prostate cancer based on angiogenin-stimulated angiogenesis and cancer cell proliferation Norie Yoshioka, Li Wang, Koji Kishimoto, Takanori Tsuji, and Guo-fu Hu PMCID: PMC1599992 Cardiac myosin missense mutations cause dilated cardiomyopathy in mouse models and depress molecular motor function Joachim P. Schmitt, Edward P. Debold, Ferhaan Ahmad, Amy Armstrong, Andrea Frederico, David A. Conner, Ulrike Mende, Martin J. Lohse, David Warshaw, Christine E. Seidman, and J. G. Seidman PMCID: PMC1599993 The von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor gene product represses oncogenic β-catenin signaling in renal carcinoma cells Benedetta Peruzzi, Gagani Athauda, and Donald P. Bottaro PMCID: PMC1599994 Ex vivo pretreatment of bone marrow mononuclear cells with endothelial NO synthase enhancer AVE9488 enhances their functional activity for cell therapy Ken-ichiro Sasaki, Christopher Heeschen, Alexandra Aicher, Thomas Ziebart, Joerg Honold, Carmen Urbich, Lothar Rossig, Ulrike Koehl, Masamichi Koyanagi, Annisuddin Mohamed, Ralf P. Brandes, Hans Martin, Andreas M. Zeiher, and Stefanie Dimmeler PMCID: PMC1599995 Microbiology Vibrio cholerae virulence regulator-coordinated evasion of host immunity Ansel Hsiao, Zhi Liu, Adam Joelsson, and Jun Zhu PMCID: PMC1599996 From the Cover:
Inhibitors of Plasmodium falciparum methionine aminopeptidase 1b possess antimalarial activity Xiaochun Chen, Curtis R. Chong, Lirong Shi, Tadashi Yoshimoto, David J. Sullivan, Jr., and Jun O. Liu PMCID: PMC1599997 Recruitment of the de novo DNA methyltransferase Dnmt3a by Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus LANA Meir Shamay, Anita Krithivas, Jun Zhang, and S. Diane Hayward PMCID: PMC1599998 Genome reduction in Leptospira borgpetersenii reflects limited transmission potential Dieter M. Bulach, Richard L. Zuerner, Peter Wilson, Torsten Seemann, Annette McGrath, Paul A. Cullen, John Davis, Matthew Johnson, Elizabeth Kuczek, David P. Alt, Brooke Peterson-Burch, Ross L. Coppel, Julian I. Rood, John K. Davies, and Ben Adler PMCID: PMC1599999 A small-molecule inhibitor of type III secretion inhibits different stages of the infectious cycle of Chlamydia trachomatis Sandra Muschiol, Leslie Bailey, Åsa Gylfe, Charlotta Sundin, Kjell Hultenby, Sven Bergström, Mikael Elofsson, Hans Wolf-Watz, Staffan Normark, and Birgitta Henriques-Normark PMCID: PMC1566191 The herpesvirus glycoproteins B and H·L are sequentially recruited to the receptor-bound gD to effect membrane fusion at virus entry Tatiana Gianni, Cristina Forghieri, and Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume PMCID: PMC1600001 From the Cover:
Autophagy-mediated reentry of Francisella tularensis into the endocytic compartment after cytoplasmic replication Claire Checroun, Tara D. Wehrly, Elizabeth R. Fischer, Stanley F. Hayes, and Jean Celli PMCID: PMC1600002 Neuroscience INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Neural correlate of subjective sensory experience gradually builds up across cortical areas Victor de Lafuente and Ranulfo Romo PMCID: PMC1551903 TLQP-21, a VGF-derived peptide, increases energy expenditure and prevents the early phase of diet-induced obesity A. Bartolomucci, G. La Corte, R. Possenti, V. Locatelli, A. E. Rigamonti, A. Torsello, E. Bresciani, I. Bulgarelli, R. Rizzi, F. Pavone, F. R. D’Amato, C. Severini, G. Mignogna, A. Giorgi, M. E. Schininà, G. Elia, C. Brancia, G.-L. Ferri, R. Conti, B. Ciani, T. Pascucci, G. Dell’Omo, E. E. Muller, A. Levi, and A. Moles PMCID: PMC1600003 The molecular basis for T-type Ca2+ channel inhibition by G protein β2γ2 subunits Seth D. DePuy, Junlan Yao, Changlong Hu, William McIntire, Isabelle Bidaud, Philippe Lory, Fraydoon Rastinejad, Carlos Gonzalez, James C. Garrison, and Paula Q. Barrett PMCID: PMC1600004 The cellular basis for parallel neural transmission of a high-frequency stimulus and its low-frequency envelope Jason W. Middleton, André Longtin, Jan Benda, and Leonard Maler PMCID: PMC1600005 Characterization of brain neurons that express enzymes mediating neurosteroid biosynthesis Roberto C. Agís-Balboa, Graziano Pinna, Adrian Zhubi, Ekrem Maloku, Marin Veldic, Erminio Costa, and Alessandro Guidotti PMCID: PMC1600006 Task-modulated “what” and “where” pathways in human auditory cortex Jyrki Ahveninen, Iiro P. Jääskeläinen, Tommi Raij, Giorgio Bonmassar, Sasha Devore, Matti Hämäläinen, Sari Levänen, Fa-Hsuan Lin, Mikko Sams, Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Thomas Witzel, and John W. Belliveau PMCID: PMC1600007 Physiology Diversity of zebrafish peripheral oscillators revealed by luciferase reporting Maki Kaneko, Nancy Hernandez-Borsetti, and Gregory M. Cahill PMCID: PMC1600008 Plant Biology Ralstonia solanacearum requires F-box-like domain-containing type III effectors to promote disease on several host plants Aurélie Angot, Nemo Peeters, Esther Lechner, Fabienne Vailleau, Catherine Baud, Laurent Gentzbittel, Elodie Sartorel, Pascal Genschik, Christian Boucher, and Stéphane Genin PMCID: PMC1600009 Quantitative phase tomography of Arabidopsis seeds reveals intercellular void network Peter Cloetens, Régis Mache, Michel Schlenker, and Silva Lerbs-Mache PMCID: PMC1600010 The Arabidopsis thaliana vernalization response requires a polycomb-like protein complex that also includes VERNALIZATION INSENSITIVE 3 Craig C. Wood, Masumi Robertson, Greg Tanner, W. James Peacock, Elizabeth S. Dennis, and Chris A. Helliwell PMCID: PMC1600011 Social Sciences Sustainability Science Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon Douglas C. Morton, Ruth S. DeFries, Yosio E. Shimabukuro, Liana O. Anderson, Egidio Arai, Fernando del Bon Espirito-Santo, Ramon Freitas, and Jeff Morisette PMCID: PMC1600012 Correction Correction for Legname et al., Strain-specified characteristics of mouse synthetic prions PMCID: PMC1600013 Corrects: Giuseppe Legname, et al. Strain-specified characteristics of mouse synthetic prions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 8; 102(6): 2168–2173. |
