| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 April 24; 104(17): 6877–6878. doi: 10.1073/iti1707104.PMCID: PMC1855420 Commentaries Transgene containment by maternal inheritance: Effective or elusive? Henry Daniell PMCID: PMC1855423 Probing nitrogen metabolism in the redox gradient of the Black Sea James T. Staley PMCID: PMC1855386 Understanding hearing through deafness Robert V. Shannon PMCID: PMC1855393 Coordination Chemistry of Saturated Molecules Special Feature Introduction The coordination chemistry of saturated molecules John E. Bercaw and Jay A. Labinger PMCID: PMC1855396 Research Articles The role of alkane coordination in C  H bond cleavage at a Pt(II) center George S. Chen, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw PMCID: PMC1855376 C–C σ complexes of rhodium Simon K. Brayshaw, Emma L. Sceats, Jennifer C. Green, and Andrew S. Weller PMCID: PMC1855424 A delicate balance of complexation vs. activation of alkanes interacting with [Re(Cp)(CO)(PF3)] studied with NMR and time-resolved IR spectroscopy Graham E. Ball, Christopher M. Brookes, Alexander J. Cowan, Tamim A. Darwish, Michael W. George, Hajime K. Kawanami, Peter Portius, and Jonathan P. Rourke PMCID: PMC1855363 Time-resolved infrared (TRIR) study on the formation and reactivity of organometallic methane and ethane complexes in room temperature solution Alexander J. Cowan, Peter Portius, Hajime K. Kawanami, Omar S. Jina, David C. Grills, Xue-Zhong Sun, Jonathan McMaster, and Michael W. George PMCID: PMC1855416 Structural and dynamic properties of propane coordinated to TpRh(CNR) from a confrontation between theory and experiment Eric Clot, Odile Eisenstein, and William D. Jones PMCID: PMC1855355 Agostic interaction and intramolecular proton transfer from the protonation of dihydrogen ortho metalated ruthenium complexes Andrew Toner, Jochen Matthes, Stephan Gründemann, Hans-Heinrich Limbach, Bruno Chaudret, Eric Clot, and Sylviane Sabo-Etienne PMCID: PMC1855409 Nature of hydrogen interactions with Ni(II) complexes containing cyclic phosphine ligands with pendant nitrogen bases Aaron D. Wilson, R. K. Shoemaker, A. Miedaner, J. T. Muckerman, Daniel L. DuBois, and M. Rakowski DuBois PMCID: PMC1855379 The activation of alkyl cyanides using a rhodiumtrispyrazolylborate complex Andrew J. Vetter, Ryan D. Rieth, and William D. Jones PMCID: PMC1855398 Theoretical study of the rhenium–alkane interaction in transition metal–alkane σ-complexes Erika A. Cobar, Rustam Z. Khaliullin, Robert G. Bergman, and Martin Head-Gordon PMCID: PMC1855367 An NMR study of trans ligand influence in rhodium η2 triphenyltin hydride complexes Laurence Carlton, Manuel A. Fernandes, and Enos Sitabule PMCID: PMC1855389 Perspective From the Cover: Coordination Chemistry of Saturated Molecules Special Feature:
Dihydrogen complexes as prototypes for the coordination chemistry of saturated molecules Gregory J. Kubas PMCID: PMC1855383 Review Agostic interactions in transition metal compounds Maurice Brookhart, Malcolm L. H. Green, and Gerard Parkin PMCID: PMC1855361 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Complex spatial group patterns result from different animal communication mechanisms R. Eftimie, G. de Vries, and M. A. Lewis PMCID: PMC1855397 Applied Physical Sciences The role of singlet oxygen and oxygen concentration in photodynamic inactivation of bacteria Tim Maisch, Jürgen Baier, Barbara Franz, Max Maier, Michael Landthaler, Rolf-Markus Szeimies, and Wolfgang Bäumler PMCID: PMC1851884 Chemistry INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Using theory and computation to model nanoscale properties George C. Schatz PMCID: PMC1855400 The role of alkane coordination in C H bond cleavage at a Pt(II) center George S. Chen, Jay A. Labinger, and John E. Bercaw PMCID: PMC1855376 C–C σ complexes of rhodium Simon K. Brayshaw, Emma L. Sceats, Jennifer C. Green, and Andrew S. Weller PMCID: PMC1855424 A delicate balance of complexation vs. activation of alkanes interacting with [Re(Cp)(CO)(PF3)] studied with NMR and time-resolved IR spectroscopy Graham E. Ball, Christopher M. Brookes, Alexander J. Cowan, Tamim A. Darwish, Michael W. George, Hajime K. Kawanami, Peter Portius, and Jonathan P. Rourke PMCID: PMC1855363 Time-resolved infrared (TRIR) study on the formation and reactivity of organometallic methane and ethane complexes in room temperature solution Alexander J. Cowan, Peter Portius, Hajime K. Kawanami, Omar S. Jina, David C. Grills, Xue-Zhong Sun, Jonathan McMaster, and Michael W. George PMCID: PMC1855416 Structural and dynamic properties of propane coordinated to TpRh(CNR) from a confrontation between theory and experiment Eric Clot, Odile Eisenstein, and William D. Jones PMCID: PMC1855355 Agostic interaction and intramolecular proton transfer from the protonation of dihydrogen ortho metalated ruthenium complexes Andrew Toner, Jochen Matthes, Stephan Gründemann, Hans-Heinrich Limbach, Bruno Chaudret, Eric Clot, and Sylviane Sabo-Etienne PMCID: PMC1855409 Nature of hydrogen interactions with Ni(II) complexes containing cyclic phosphine ligands with pendant nitrogen bases Aaron D. Wilson, R. K. Shoemaker, A. Miedaner, J. T. Muckerman, Daniel L. DuBois, and M. Rakowski DuBois PMCID: PMC1855379 The activation of alkyl cyanides using a rhodiumtrispyrazolylborate complex Andrew J. Vetter, Ryan D. Rieth, and William D. Jones PMCID: PMC1855398 Theoretical study of the rhenium–alkane interaction in transition metal–alkane σ-complexes Erika A. Cobar, Rustam Z. Khaliullin, Robert G. Bergman, and Martin Head-Gordon PMCID: PMC1855367 An NMR study of trans ligand influence in rhodium η2 triphenyltin hydride complexes Laurence Carlton, Manuel A. Fernandes, and Enos Sitabule PMCID: PMC1855389 Structures and spectral signatures of protonated water networks in bacteriorhodopsin Gerald Mathias and Dominik Marx PMCID: PMC1855365 Intravesicular and intervesicular interaction by orthogonal multivalent host–guest and metal–ligand complexation Choon Woo Lim, Olga Crespo-Biel, Marc C. A. Stuart, David N. Reinhoudt, Jurriaan Huskens, and Bart Jan Ravoo PMCID: PMC1855387 Fronts and pulses in an enzymatic reaction catalyzed by glucose oxidase David G. Míguez, Vladimir K. Vanag, and Irving R. Epstein PMCID: PMC1855356 Geology Terrestrial-style feeding in a very early aquatic tetrapod is supported by evidence from experimental analysis of suture morphology Molly J. Markey and Charles R. Marshall PMCID: PMC1855429 Geophysics INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: An instrument for direct observations of seismic and normal-mode rotational oscillations of the Earth R. Cowsik PMCID: PMC1855374 Physics Cyanobacterial clock, a stable phase oscillator with negligible intercellular coupling M. Amdaoud, M. Vallade, C. Weiss-Schaber, and I. Mihalcescu PMCID: PMC1855407 Noisy information processing through transcriptional regulation Eric Libby, Theodore J. Perkins, and Peter S. Swain PMCID: PMC1855426 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences From the Cover:
Determining the transgene containment level provided by chloroplast transformation Stephanie Ruf, Daniel Karcher, and Ralph Bock PMCID: PMC1849964 From the Cover:
Exceptional transmission of plastids and mitochondria from the transplastomic pollen parent and its impact on transgene containment Zora Svab and Pal Maliga PMCID: PMC1849963 Biochemistry Four domains of p300 each bind tightly to a sequence spanning both transactivation subdomains of p53 Daniel P. Teufel, Stefan M. Freund, Mark Bycroft, and Alan R. Fersht PMCID: PMC1855428 Aldolase provides an unusual binding site for thrombospondin-related anonymous protein in the invasion machinery of the malaria parasite Jürgen Bosch, Carlos A. Buscaglia, Brian Krumm, Bjarni P. Ingason, Robert Lucas, Claudia Roach, Timothy Cardozo, Victor Nussenzweig, and Wim G. J. Hol PMCID: PMC1855406 Specificity of the medaka enteropeptidase serine protease and its usefulness as a biotechnological tool for fusion-protein cleavage Katsueki Ogiwara and Takayuki Takahashi PMCID: PMC1855373 Role of group-conserved residues in the helical core of β2-adrenergic receptor Prashen Chelikani, Viktor Hornak, Markus Eilers, Phillip J. Reeves, Steven O. Smith, Uttam L. RajBhandary, and H. Gobind Khorana PMCID: PMC1855394 Bacteriophage N4 virion RNA polymerase interaction with its promoter DNA hairpin Elena K. Davydova, Thomas J. Santangelo, and Lucia B. Rothman-Denes PMCID: PMC1855362 Biophysics Structures and spectral signatures of protonated water networks in bacteriorhodopsin Gerald Mathias and Dominik Marx PMCID: PMC1855365 Real-time control of the energy landscape by force directs the folding of RNA molecules Pan T. X. Li, Carlos Bustamante, and Ignacio Tinoco, Jr. PMCID: PMC1855384 Distinct contribution of electrostatics, initial conformational ensemble, and macromolecular stability in RNA folding Alain Laederach, Inna Shcherbakova, Magdalena A. Jonikas, Russ B. Altman, and Michael Brenowitz PMCID: PMC1855354 Cyanobacterial clock, a stable phase oscillator with negligible intercellular coupling M. Amdaoud, M. Vallade, C. Weiss-Schaber, and I. Mihalcescu PMCID: PMC1855407 Mechanism of the myosin catalyzed hydrolysis of ATP as rationalized by molecular modeling Bella L. Grigorenko, Alexander V. Rogov, Igor A. Topol, Stanley K. Burt, Hugo M. Martinez, and Alexander V. Nemukhin PMCID: PMC1855422 Molecular basis of coiled-coil formation Michel O. Steinmetz, Ilian Jelesarov, William M. Matousek, Srinivas Honnappa, Wolfgang Jahnke, John H. Missimer, Sabine Frank, Andrei T. Alexandrescu, and Richard A. Kammerer PMCID: PMC1855353 Connecting protein structure with predictions of regulatory sites Alexandre V. Morozov and Eric D. Siggia PMCID: PMC1855371 Cell Biology Kruppel-like factor 15 is a regulator of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy Sudeshna Fisch, Susan Gray, Stephane Heymans, Saptarsi M. Haldar, Baiqiu Wang, Otmar Pfister, Lei Cui, Ajay Kumar, Zhiyong Lin, Sucharita Sen-Banerjee, Hiranmoy Das, Christine A. Petersen, Ulrike Mende, Barbara A. Burleigh, Yan Zhu, Yigal M. Pinto, Ronglih Liao, and Mukesh K. Jain PMCID: PMC1855421 miR-150, a microRNA expressed in mature B and T cells, blocks early B cell development when expressed prematurely Beiyan Zhou, Stephanie Wang, Christine Mayr, David P. Bartel, and Harvey F. Lodish PMCID: PMC1855395 Self-organization of actin filament orientation in the dendritic-nucleation/array-treadmilling model Thomas E. Schaus, Edwin W. Taylor, and Gary G. Borisy PMCID: PMC1855413 Developmental Biology The zebrafish candyfloss mutant implicates extracellular matrix adhesion failure in laminin α2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy Thomas E. Hall, Robert J. Bryson-Richardson, Silke Berger, Arie S. Jacoby, Nicholas J. Cole, Georgina E. Hollway, Joachim Berger, and Peter D. Currie PMCID: PMC1855385 Chimaerin and Rac regulate cell number, adherens junctions, and ERK MAP kinase signaling in the Drosophila eye Stephen P. Bruinsma, Ross L. Cagan, and Thomas J. Baranski PMCID: PMC1855405 Ecology Complex spatial group patterns result from different animal communication mechanisms R. Eftimie, G. de Vries, and M. A. Lewis PMCID: PMC1855397 Environmental Sciences From the Cover:
Linking crenarchaeal and bacterial nitrification to anammox in the Black Sea Phyllis Lam, Marlene M. Jensen, Gaute Lavik, Daniel F. McGinnis, Beat Müller, Carsten J. Schubert, Rudolf Amann, Bo Thamdrup, and Marcel M. M. Kuypers PMCID: PMC1849958 Environmental effects on parasitic disease transmission exemplified by schistosomiasis in western China Song Liang, Edmund Y. W. Seto, Justin V. Remais, Bo Zhong, Changhong Yang, Alan Hubbard, George M. Davis, Xueguang Gu, Dongchuan Qiu, and Robert C. Spear PMCID: PMC1852328 Evolution Stepwise formation of the bacterial flagellar system Renyi Liu and Howard Ochman PMCID: PMC1852327 Evolutionary dynamics of olfactory receptor genes in Drosophila species Masafumi Nozawa and Masatoshi Nei PMCID: PMC1855360 Vitellogenin, juvenile hormone, insulin signaling, and queen honey bee longevity Miguel Corona, Rodrigo A. Velarde, Silvia Remolina, Adrienne Moran-Lauter, Ying Wang, Kimberly A. Hughes, and Gene E. Robinson PMCID: PMC1852330 Terrestrial-style feeding in a very early aquatic tetrapod is supported by evidence from experimental analysis of suture morphology Molly J. Markey and Charles R. Marshall PMCID: PMC1855429 Reevolution of sexuality breaks Dollo's law Katja Domes, Roy A. Norton, Mark Maraun, and Stefan Scheu PMCID: PMC1855408 Genetics Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in conserved regions of the human genome, including thousands of CTCF insulator sites Xiaohui Xie, Tarjei S. Mikkelsen, Andreas Gnirke, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, Manolis Kellis, and Eric S. Lander PMCID: PMC1852749 Noisy information processing through transcriptional regulation Eric Libby, Theodore J. Perkins, and Peter S. Swain PMCID: PMC1855426 Mutation of the MAP kinase DYF-5 affects docking and undocking of kinesin-2 motors and reduces their speed in the cilia of Caenorhabditis elegans Jan Burghoorn, Martijn P. J. Dekkers, Suzanne Rademakers, Ton de Jong, Rob Willemsen, and Gert Jansen PMCID: PMC1855366 Network of general and specialty J protein chaperones of the yeast cytosol Chandan Sahi and Elizabeth Anne Craig PMCID: PMC1855418 Immunology Systemic lupus erythematosus-associated defects in the inhibitory receptor FcγRIIb reduce susceptibility to malaria Menna R. Clatworthy, Lisa Willcocks, Britta Urban, Jean Langhorne, Tom N. Williams, Norbert Peshu, Nicholas A. Watkins, R. Andres Floto, and Kenneth G. C. Smith PMCID: PMC1855357 Accumulation of NFAT mediates IL-2 expression in memory, but not naïve, CD4+ T cells Oliver Dienz, Sheri M. Eaton, Troy J. Krahl, Sean Diehl, Colette Charland, John Dodge, Susan L. Swain, Ralph C. Budd, Laura Haynes, and Mercedes Rincon PMCID: PMC1855411 MHC class II deprivation impairs CD4 T cell motility and responsiveness to antigen-bearing dendritic cells in vivo Ursula B. Fischer, Erica L. Jacovetty, Ricardo B. Medeiros, Brian D. Goudy, Traci Zell, Jeannie-Beth Swanson, Elizabeth Lorenz, Yoji Shimizu, Mark J. Miller, Alexander Khoruts, and Elizabeth Ingulli PMCID: PMC1855382 The same genomic region conditions clonal deletion and clonal deviation to the CD8αα and regulatory T cell lineages in NOD versus C57BL/6 mice Phillip D. Holler, Tetsuya Yamagata, Wenyu Jiang, Markus Feuerer, Christophe Benoist, and Diane Mathis PMCID: PMC1855402 Role for Msh5 in the regulation of Ig class switch recombination Hideharu Sekine, Ricardo C. Ferreira, Qiang Pan-Hammarström, Robert R. Graham, Beth Ziemba, Sandra S. de Vries, Jiabin Liu, Keli Hippen, Thearith Koeuth, Ward Ortmann, Akiko Iwahori, Margaret K. Elliott, Steven Offer, Cara Skon, Likun Du, Jill Novitzke, Annette T. Lee, Nianxi Zhao, Joshua D. Tompkins, David Altshuler, Peter K. Gregersen, Charlotte Cunningham-Rundles, Reuben S. Harris, Chengtao Her, David L. Nelson, Lennart Hammarström, Gary S. Gilkeson, and Timothy W. Behrens PMCID: PMC1855370 Medical Sciences Hairpin extensions enhance the efficacy of mycolyl transferase-specific antisense oligonucleotides targeting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Günter Harth, Paul C. Zamecnik, David Tabatadze, Katherine Pierson, and Marcus A. Horwitz PMCID: PMC1855390 Caspase 1 deficiency reduces inflammation-induced brain transcription Claudio Mastronardi, Fiona Whelan, Ozlem A. Yildiz, Jonas Hannestad, David Elashoff, Samuel M. McCann, Julio Licinio, and Ma-Li Wong PMCID: PMC1847598 Human prostate epithelium lacks Wee1A-mediated DNA damage-induced checkpoint enforcement Taija M. Kiviharju-af Hällström, Sari Jäämaa, Mia Mönkkönen, Karita Peltonen, Leif C. Andersson, René H. Medema, Donna M. Peehl, and Marikki Laiho PMCID: PMC1855358 Resveratrol stimulates AMP kinase activity in neurons Biplab Dasgupta and Jeffrey Milbrandt PMCID: PMC1855377 Microbiology The role of singlet oxygen and oxygen concentration in photodynamic inactivation of bacteria Tim Maisch, Jürgen Baier, Barbara Franz, Max Maier, Michael Landthaler, Rolf-Markus Szeimies, and Wolfgang Bäumler PMCID: PMC1851884 The dynein light chain 8 binding motif of rabies virus phosphoprotein promotes efficient viral transcription Gene S. Tan, Mirjam A. R. Preuss, John C. Williams, and Matthias J. Schnell PMCID: PMC1855364 Gene expression in vivo shows that Helicobacter pylori colonizes an acidic niche on the gastric surface David R. Scott, Elizabeth A. Marcus, Yi Wen, Jane Oh, and George Sachs PMCID: PMC1855417 Vesicle formation from the nuclear membrane is induced by coexpression of two conserved herpesvirus proteins Barbara G. Klupp, Harald Granzow, Walter Fuchs, Günther M. Keil, Stefan Finke, and Thomas C. Mettenleiter PMCID: PMC1855391 Borrelia burgdorferi intercepts host hormonal signals to regulate expression of outer surface protein A Mark R. Scheckelhoff, Sam R. Telford, Mary Wesley, and Linden T. Hu PMCID: PMC1855410 Disruption of innate immunity due to mitochondrial targeting of a picornaviral protease precursor Yan Yang, Yuqiong Liang, Lin Qu, Zeming Chen, MinKyung Yi, Kui Li, and Stanley M. Lemon PMCID: PMC1855380 Neuroscience GABAergic inhibition at dendrodendritic synapses tunes γ oscillations in the olfactory bulb Samuel Lagier, Patrizia Panzanelli, Raúl E. Russo, Antoine Nissant, Brice Bathellier, Marco Sassoè-Pognetto, Jean-Marc Fritschy, and Pierre-Marie Lledo PMCID: PMC1855399 The Rac1 guanine nucleotide exchange factor Tiam1 mediates EphB receptor-dependent dendritic spine development Kimberley F. Tolias, Jay B. Bikoff, Christina G. Kane, Christos S. Tolias, Linda Hu, and Michael E. Greenberg PMCID: PMC1855368 Mutant torsinA interferes with protein processing through the secretory pathway in DYT1 dystonia cells Jeffrey W. Hewett, Bakhos Tannous, Brian P. Niland, Flavia C. Nery, Juan Zeng, Yuqing Li, and Xandra O. Breakefield PMCID: PMC1855419 Plant Biology Plastidial fatty acid levels regulate resistance gene-dependent defense signaling in Arabidopsis A. C. Chandra-Shekara, Srivathsa C. Venugopal, Subhankar Roy Barman, Aardra Kachroo, and Pradeep Kachroo PMCID: PMC1855359 Identification of the special pair of photosystem II in a chlorophyll d-dominated cyanobacterium Tatsuya Tomo, Tatsunori Okubo, Seiji Akimoto, Makio Yokono, Hideaki Miyashita, Tohru Tsuchiya, Takumi Noguchi, and Mamoru Mimuro PMCID: PMC1851883 Derepression of the NC80 motif is critical for the photoactivation of Arabidopsis CRY2 Xuhong Yu, Dror Shalitin, Xuanming Liu, Maskit Maymon, John Klejnot, Hongyun Yang, Javier Lopez, Xiaoying Zhao, Krishnaprasad T. Bendehakkalu, and Chentao Lin PMCID: PMC1855427 Psychology From the Cover:
Evidence that cochlear-implanted deaf patients are better multisensory integrators J. Rouger, S. Lagleyre, B. Fraysse, S. Deneve, O. Deguine, and P. Barone PMCID: PMC1855404 Social Sciences Sustainability Science Growth, innovation, scaling, and the pace of life in cities Luís M. A. Bettencourt, José Lobo, Dirk Helbing, Christian Kühnert, and Geoffrey B. West PMCID: PMC1852329 Corrections Correction for Woodward et al., WNT/β-catenin mediates radiation resistance of mouse mammary progenitor cells PMCID: PMC1855415 Corrects: Wendy A. Woodward, et al. WNT/β-catenin mediates radiation resistance of mouse mammary progenitor cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 January 9; 104(2): 618–623. Correction for Durrant et al., Arabidopsis SNI1 and RAD51D regulate both gene transcription and DNA recombination during the defense response PMCID: PMC1855369 Corrects: Wendy E. Durrant, et al. Arabidopsis SNI1 and RAD51D regulate both gene transcription and DNA recombination during the defense response. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 March 6; 104(10): 4223–4227. |
