| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. In This Issue Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 April 12; 102(15): 5301–5302. doi: 10.1073/iti1505102.PMCID: PMC556261 Editorial Making research accessible: National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access and PNAS open access policies Nicholas R. Cozzarelli PMCID: PMC556258 Commentaries From the representation theory of vertex operator algebras to modular tensor categories in conformal field theory James Lepowsky PMCID: PMC556255 Big brains do matter in new environments Lori Marino PMCID: PMC556226 Histone modifications: Combinatorial complexity or cumulative simplicity? Steven Henikoff PMCID: PMC556254 Threshold effects in gene regulation: When some is not enough John W. Little PMCID: PMC556274 Biographies INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Biography of George W. Flynn Tinsley H. Davis PMCID: PMC556246 INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Biography of Veerabhadran Ramanathan Regina Nuzzo PMCID: PMC556241 Physical Sciences Chemistry INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy and theoretical studies of 1-halohexane monolayers on graphite Thomas Müller, Tova L. Werblowsky, Gina M. Florio, Bruce J. Berne, and George W. Flynn PMCID: PMC556233 Conformational variability of matrix metalloproteinases: Beyond a single 3D structure Ivano Bertini, Vito Calderone, Marta Cosenza, Marco Fragai, Yong-Min Lee, Claudio Luchinat, Stefano Mangani, Beatrice Terni, and Paola Turano PMCID: PMC556229 Intermediates in the oxygenation of a nonheme diiron(II) complex, including the first evidence for a bound superoxo species Xiaopeng Shan and Lawrence Que, Jr. PMCID: PMC556236 Engineering Color-blind fluorescence detection for four-color DNA sequencing Ernest K. Lewis, Wade C. Haaland, Freddy Nguyen, Daniel A. Heller, Matthew J. Allen, Robert R. MacGregor, C. Scott Berger, Britain Willingham, Lori A. Burns, Graham B. I. Scott, Carter Kittrell, Bruce R. Johnson, Robert F. Curl, and Michael L. Metzker PMCID: PMC556273 Geophysics INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Atmospheric brown clouds: Impacts on South Asian climate and hydrological cycle V. Ramanathan, C. Chung, D. Kim, T. Bettge, L. Buja, J. T. Kiehl, W. M. Washington, Q. Fu, D. R. Sikka, and M. Wild PMCID: PMC552786 Mathematics Vertex operator algebras, the Verlinde conjecture, and modular tensor categories Yi-Zhi Huang PMCID: PMC556239 Biological Sciences Biochemistry Molecular recognition of an ADP-ribosylating Clostridium botulinum C3 exoenzyme by RalA GTPase Kenneth P. Holbourn, J. Mark Sutton, Hazel R. Evans, Clifford C. Shone, and K. Ravi Acharya PMCID: PMC556266 Molecular organization of the Ndc80 complex, an essential kinetochore component Ronnie R. Wei, Peter K. Sorger, and Stephen C. Harrison PMCID: PMC555962 Burn injury causes mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle Katie E. Padfield, Loukas G. Astrakas, Qunhao Zhang, Suresh Gopalan, George Dai, Michael N. Mindrinos, Ronald G. Tompkins, Laurence G. Rahme, and A. Aria Tzika PMCID: PMC556259 Decreased plasma cholesterol and hypersensitivity to statins in mice lacking Pcsk9 Shirya Rashid, David E. Curtis, Rita Garuti, Norma N. Anderson, Yuriy Bashmakov, Y. K. Ho, Robert E. Hammer, Young-Ah Moon, and Jay D. Horton PMCID: PMC556275 On the conservative nature of intragenic recombination D. Allan Drummond, Jonathan J. Silberg, Michelle M. Meyer, Claus O. Wilke, and Frances H. Arnold PMCID: PMC556249 Kinetics and molecular properties of pheromone binding and release Walter S. Leal, Angela M. Chen, Yuko Ishida, Vicky P. Chiang, Melissa L. Erickson, Tania I. Morgan, and Jennifer M. Tsuruda PMCID: PMC555038 Biophysics Molecular structure of the lecithin ripple phase Alex H. de Vries, Serge Yefimov, Alan E. Mark, and Siewert J. Marrink PMCID: PMC556238 Cyclization of short DNA fragments and bending fluctuations of the double helix Quan Du, Chaim Smith, Nahum Shiffeldrim, Maria Vologodskaia, and Alexander Vologodskii PMCID: PMC556251 Conformational transition of amyloid β-peptide Yechun Xu, Jianhua Shen, Xiaomin Luo, Weiliang Zhu, Kaixian Chen, Jianpeng Ma, and Hualiang Jiang PMCID: PMC556260 Cell Biology The kinetochore protein Ndc10p is required for spindle stability and cytokinesis in yeast David C. Bouck and Kerry S. Bloom PMCID: PMC556225 Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum is associated with movement of var loci between subnuclear locations Stuart A. Ralph, Christine Scheidig-Benatar, and Artur Scherf PMCID: PMC556247 Plakoglobin suppresses keratinocyte motility through both cell–cell adhesion-dependent and -independent mechanisms Taofei Yin, Spiro Getsios, Reto Caldelari, Andrew P. Kowalczyk, Eliane J. Müller, Jonathan C. R. Jones, and Kathleen J. Green PMCID: PMC556221 Developmental Biology Posttranslational processing of mouse and human BMP-15: Potential implication in the determination of ovulation quota Osamu Hashimoto, R. Kelly Moore, and Shunichi Shimasaki PMCID: PMC556231 Ecology Differential shuffling of native genetic diversity across introduced regions in a brown alga: Aquaculture vs. maritime traffic effects Marie Voisin, Carolyn R. Engel, and Frédérique Viard PMCID: PMC556235 From the Cover:
Wheat archive links long-term fungal pathogen population dynamics to air pollution Sarah J. Bearchell, Bart A. Fraaije, Michael W. Shaw, and Bruce D. L. Fitt PMCID: PMC556271 Interaction strength combinations and the overfishing of a marine food web Jordi Bascompte, Carlos J. Melián, and Enric Sala PMCID: PMC556268 Evolution Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectral sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi Tohru Sugawara, Yohey Terai, Hiroo Imai, George F. Turner, Stephan Koblmüller, Christian Sturmbauer, Yoshinori Shichida, and Norihiro Okada PMCID: PMC556224 Modeling gene and genome duplications in eukaryotes Steven Maere, Stefanie De Bodt, Jeroen Raes, Tineke Casneuf, Marc Van Montagu, Martin Kuiper, and Yves Van de Peer PMCID: PMC556253 Big brains, enhanced cognition, and response of birds to novel environments Daniel Sol, Richard P. Duncan, Tim M. Blackburn, Phillip Cassey, and Louis Lefebvre PMCID: PMC556234 The majority of human genes have regions repeated in other human genes Roy J. Britten PMCID: PMC555776 Homology-dependent methylation in primate repetitive DNA Julien Meunier, Adel Khelifi, Vincent Navratil, and Laurent Duret PMCID: PMC556223 Transcriptome analysis of the aphid bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors an endocellular mutualistic bacterium, Buchnera Atsushi Nakabachi, Shuji Shigenobu, Naoko Sakazume, Toshiyuki Shiraki, Yoshihide Hayashizaki, Piero Carninci, Hajime Ishikawa, Toshiaki Kudo, and Takema Fukatsu PMCID: PMC555734 Functional genomic analysis of the rates of protein evolution Dennis P. Wall, Aaron E. Hirsh, Hunter B. Fraser, Jochen Kumm, Guri Giaever, Michael B. Eisen, and Marcus W. Feldman PMCID: PMC555735 Genetics Olfactory expression of a single and highly variable V1r pheromone receptor-like gene in fish species Patrick Pfister and Ivan Rodriguez PMCID: PMC556222 Identification of putative noncoding polyadenylated transcripts in Drosophila melanogaster Jonathan L. Tupy, Adina M. Bailey, Gina Dailey, Martha Evans-Holm, Christian W. Siebel, Sima Misra, Susan E. Celniker, and Gerald M. Rubin PMCID: PMC555963 From the Cover:
Genomic characterization reveals a simple histone H4 acetylation code Michael F. Dion, Steven J. Altschuler, Lani F. Wu, and Oliver J. Rando PMCID: PMC555684 Genetic predictors of the maximum doses patients receive during clinical use of the anti-epileptic drugs carbamazepine and phenytoin Sarah K. Tate, Chantal Depondt, Sanjay M. Sisodiya, Gianpiero L. Cavalleri, Stephanie Schorge, Nicole Soranzo, Maria Thom, Arjune Sen, Simon D. Shorvon, Josemir W. Sander, Nicholas W. Wood, and David B. Goldstein PMCID: PMC556232 From the Cover:
Identification of the control region for tissue-specific imprinting of the stimulatory G protein α-subunit Jie Liu, Min Chen, Chuxia Deng, Déborah Bourc'his, Julie G. Nealon, Beth Erlichman, Timothy H. Bestor, and Lee S. Weinstein PMCID: PMC556240 Immunology Memory T cells have gene expression patterns intermediate between naïve and effector Susan Holmes, Michael He, Tong Xu, and Peter P. Lee PMCID: PMC556264 Medical Sciences Functional diffusion map: A noninvasive MRI biomarker for early stratification of clinical brain tumor response Bradford A. Moffat, Thomas L. Chenevert, Theodore S. Lawrence, Charles R. Meyer, Timothy D. Johnson, Qian Dong, Christina Tsien, Suresh Mukherji, Douglas J. Quint, Stephen S. Gebarski, Patricia L. Robertson, Larry R. Junck, Alnawaz Rehemtulla, and Brian D. Ross PMCID: PMC555936 Multipotent nestin-positive, keratin-negative hair-follicle bulge stem cells can form neurons Yasuyuki Amoh, Lingna Li, Kensei Katsuoka, Sheldon Penman, and Robert M. Hoffman PMCID: PMC556262 Inhibition of NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase 1 activity and induction of p53 degradation by the natural phenolic compound curcumin Peter Tsvetkov, Gad Asher, Veronica Reiss, Yosef Shaul, Leo Sachs, and Joseph Lotem PMCID: PMC556252 Structural and numerical chromosome changes in colon cancer develop through telomere-mediated anaphase bridges, not through mitotic multipolarity Ylva Stewénius, Ludmila Gorunova, Tord Jonson, Nina Larsson, Mattias Höglund, Nils Mandahl, Fredrik Mertens, Felix Mitelman, and David Gisselsson PMCID: PMC556242 Microbiology The phasevarion: A genetic system controlling coordinated, random switching of expression of multiple genes Yogitha N. Srikhanta, Tina L. Maguire, Katryn J. Stacey, Sean M. Grimmond, and Michael P. Jennings PMCID: PMC556257 Domain III of Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1 binds to the erythrocyte membrane protein Kx Kentaro Kato, D. C. Ghislaine Mayer, Sanjay Singh, Marion Reid, and Louis H. Miller PMCID: PMC556269 Evidence for the presence of Mn(III) intermediates in the bacterial oxidation of Mn(II) Samuel M. Webb, Gregory J. Dick, John R. Bargar, and Bradley M. Tebo PMCID: PMC556228 Escherichia coli K1 polysialic acid O-acetyltransferase gene, neuO, and the mechanism of capsule form variation involving a mobile contingency locus Eric L. Deszo, Susan M. Steenbergen, Darón I. Freedberg, and Eric R. Vimr PMCID: PMC555961 Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus expresses an array of viral microRNAs in latently infected cells Xuezhong Cai, Shihua Lu, Zhihong Zhang, Carlos M. Gonzalez, Blossom Damania, and Bryan R. Cullen PMCID: PMC556237 A contact-activated kinase signals Candida albicans invasive growth and biofilm development Carol A. Kumamoto PMCID: PMC556227 Neuroscience Developmental disruption of serotonin transporter function impairs cerebral responses to whisker stimulation in mice Takanori Esaki, Michelle Cook, Kazuaki Shimoji, Dennis L. Murphy, Louis Sokoloff, and Andrew Holmes PMCID: PMC556265 The contribution of GABA to glutamate/glutamine cycling and energy metabolism in the rat cortex in vivo Anant B. Patel, Robin A. de Graaf, Graeme F. Mason, Douglas L. Rothman, Robert G. Shulman, and Kevin L. Behar PMCID: PMC556230 Optical imaging of visually evoked responses in the middle temporal area after deactivation of primary visual cortex in adult primates Christine E. Collins, Xiangmin Xu, Ilya Khaytin, Peter M. Kaskan, Vivien A. Casagrande, and Jon H. Kaas PMCID: PMC556248 Activity-dependent NMDA receptor degradation mediated by retrotranslocation and ubiquitination Akihiko Kato, Nathalie Rouach, Roger A. Nicoll, and David S. Bredt PMCID: PMC556250 Glutamate receptor activation triggers a calcium-dependent and SNARE protein-dependent release of the gliotransmitter D-serine Jean-Pierre Mothet, Loredano Pollegioni, Gilles Ouanounou, Magalie Martineau, Philippe Fossier, and Gérard Baux PMCID: PMC556243 Quantitative prediction of perceptual decisions during near-threshold fear detection Luiz Pessoa and Srikanth Padmala PMCID: PMC556244 Physiology From the Cover:
Decline in skeletal muscle mitochondrial function with aging in humans Kevin R. Short, Maureen L. Bigelow, Jane Kahl, Ravinder Singh, Jill Coenen-Schimke, Sreekumar Raghavakaimal, and K. Sreekumaran Nair PMCID: PMC556267 Psychology Independent perceptual learning in monocular and binocular motion systems Zhong-Lin Lu, Wilson Chu, Barbara Anne Dosher, and Sophia Lee PMCID: PMC556263 Social Sciences Anthropology Finds in Belize document Late Classic Maya salt making and canoe transport Heather McKillop PMCID: PMC556245 Corrections Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 April 12; 102(15): 5635. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501595102.PMCID: PMC556270 Corrects: Kiranmai Gumireddy, et al. A non-ATP-competitive inhibitor of BCR-ABL overrides imatinib resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 8; 102(6): 1992–1997. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 April 12; 102(15): 5635. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501597102.PMCID: PMC556272 Corrects: Enzo Nisoli, et al. Mitochondrial biogenesis by NO yields functionally active mitochondria in mammals. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 23; 101(47): 16507–16512. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 April 12; 102(15): 5635. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501898102.PMCID: PMC556256 Corrects: Ivan R. Baxter, et al. A plasma membrane H+-ATPase is required for the formation of proanthocyanidins in the seed coat endothelium of Arabidopsis thaliana. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 15; 102(7): 2649–2654. |
