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Volume 103(7);  February 14, 2006
This Week in PNAS
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2003–2004. doi: 10.1073/iti0706103.
PMCID: PMC1413765
Commentaries
Making a virtue out of a necessity: Hurricanes and the resilience of community organization
Robert D. Holt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2005–2006. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600289103.
PMCID: PMC1413764
Standing guard: Perinuclear localization of an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
William G. Kelly
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2007–2008. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600085103.
PMCID: PMC1413763
Profiles
Profile of Don Helmberger
Nick Zagorski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2009–2011. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510010103.
PMCID: PMC1413711
Profile of Isaac M. Held
Bijal Trivedi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2012–2014. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511071103.
PMCID: PMC1413754
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics
Vittoria Colizza, Alain Barrat, Marc Barthélemy, and Alessandro Vespignani
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2015–2020. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510525103.
PMCID: PMC1413717
Chemistry
Engineering a biospecific communication pathway between cells and electrodes
Joel H. Collier and Milan Mrksich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2021–2025. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504349103.
PMCID: PMC1413682
Controlling the shape, orientation, and linkage of carbon nanotube features with nano affinity templates
Yuhuang Wang, Daniel Maspoch, Shengli Zou, George C. Schatz, Richard E. Smalley, and Chad A. Mirkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2026–2031. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511022103.
PMCID: PMC1413750
Mathematics
The Kadison–Singer Problem in mathematics and engineering
Peter G. Casazza and Janet Crandell Tremain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2032–2039. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507888103.
PMCID: PMC1413700
Physics
Lateral mobility of proteins in liquid membranes revisited
Y. Gambin, R. Lopez-Esparza, M. Reffay, E. Sierecki, N. S. Gov, M. Genest, R. S. Hodges, and W. Urbach
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2098–2102. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511026103.
PMCID: PMC1413751
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
13C isotopologue perturbation studies of Listeria monocytogenes carbon metabolism and its modulation by the virulence regulator PrfA
Wolfgang Eisenreich, Jörg Slaghuis, Ralf Laupitz, Johanna Bussemer, Jochen Stritzker, Christine Schwarz, Roland Schwarz, Thomas Dandekar, Werner Goebel, and Adelbert Bacher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2040–2045. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507580103.
PMCID: PMC1413697
Biochemistry
Design of a mimic of nonamyloidogenic and bioactive human islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) as nanomolar affinity inhibitor of IAPP cytotoxic fibrillogenesis
Li-Mei Yan, Marianna Tatarek-Nossol, Aleksandra Velkova, Athanasios Kazantzis, and Aphrodite Kapurniotu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2046–2051. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507471103.
PMCID: PMC1413694
Fast complementation of split fluorescent protein triggered by DNA hybridization
Vadim V. Demidov, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Carlos Witte-Hoffmann, Poornima Chalasani, Hung-Wei Yiu, Feng Ding, Yong Yu, Charles R. Cantor, and Natalia E. Broude
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2052–2056. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511078103.
PMCID: PMC1413755
Structure and function of the SWIRM domain, a conserved protein module found in chromatin regulatory complexes
Guoping Da, Jeffrey Lenkart, Kehao Zhao, Ramin Shiekhattar, Bradley R. Cairns, and Ronen Marmorstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2057–2062. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510949103.
PMCID: PMC1413740
Structures of wild-type and mutant human spermidine/spermine N1-acetyltransferase, a potential therapeutic drug target
Maria C. Bewley, Vito Graziano, Jiangsheng Jiang, Eileen Matz, F. William Studier, Anthony E. Pegg, Catherine S. Coleman, and John M. Flanagan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2063–2068. Published online 2006 February 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511008103.
PMCID: PMC1360125
A genetic locus required for iron acquisition in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
R. Krithika, Uttara Marathe, Priti Saxena, Mohd. Zeeshan Ansari, Debasisa Mohanty, and Rajesh S. Gokhale
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2069–2074. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507924103.
PMCID: PMC1413701
Arsenic detoxification and evolution of trimethylarsine gas by a microbial arsenite S-adenosylmethionine methyltransferase
Jie Qin, Barry P. Rosen, Yang Zhang, Gejiao Wang, Sylvia Franke, and Christopher Rensing
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2075–2080. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506836103.
PMCID: PMC1413689
Roles of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome and of its activator Cdc20 in functional substrate binding
Esther Eytan, Yakir Moshe, Ilana Braunstein, and Avram Hershko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2081–2086. Published online 2006 February 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510695103.
PMCID: PMC1413726
An RNA interference-based screen identifies MAP4K4/NIK as a negative regulator of PPARγ, adipogenesis, and insulin-responsive hexose transport
Xiaoqing Tang, Adilson Guilherme, Abhijit Chakladar, Aimee M. Powelka, Silvana Konda, Joseph V. Virbasius, Sarah M. C. Nicoloro, Juerg Straubhaar, and Michael P. Czech
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2087–2092. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507660103.
PMCID: PMC1413698
Biophysics
Monitoring bacterial chemotaxis by using bioluminescence resonance energy transfer: Absence of feedback from the flagellar motors
Thomas S. Shimizu, Nicolas Delalez, Klemens Pichler, and Howard C. Berg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2093–2097. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510958103.
PMCID: PMC1413742
Lateral mobility of proteins in liquid membranes revisited
Y. Gambin, R. Lopez-Esparza, M. Reffay, E. Sierecki, N. S. Gov, M. Genest, R. S. Hodges, and W. Urbach
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2098–2102. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511026103.
PMCID: PMC1413751
Dictyostelium myosin II mechanochemistry promotes active behavior of the cortex on long time scales
Kristine D. Girard, Scot C. Kuo, and Douglas N. Robinson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2103–2108. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508819103.
PMCID: PMC1413706
Solution structure of p53 core domain: Structural basis for its instability
José Manuel Pérez Cañadillas, Henning Tidow, Stefan M. V. Freund, Trevor J. Rutherford, Hwee Ching Ang, and Alan R. Fersht
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2109–2114. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510941103.
PMCID: PMC1413739
Core domain interactions in full-length p53 in solution
Dmitry B. Veprintsev, Stefan M. V. Freund, Antonina Andreeva, Stacey E. Rutledge, Henning Tidow, José Manuel Pérez Cañadillas, Caroline M. Blair, and Alan R. Fersht
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2115–2119. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511130103.
PMCID: PMC1413758
Nanomechanics of the subtectorial space caused by electromechanics of cochlear outer hair cells
Manuela Nowotny and Anthony W. Gummer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2120–2125. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511125103.
PMCID: PMC1413757
Crystal structure of human apolipoprotein A-I: Insights into its protective effect against cardiovascular diseases
A. Abdul Ajees, G. M. Anantharamaiah, Vinod K. Mishra, M. Mahmood Hussain, and H. M. Krishna Murthy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2126–2131. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506877103.
PMCID: PMC1413691
Roles of static and dynamic domains in stability and catalysis of adenylate kinase
Euiyoung Bae and George N. Phillips, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2132–2137. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507527103.
PMCID: PMC1413696
FRET imaging reveals that functional neurokinin-1 receptors are monomeric and reside in membrane microdomains of live cells
Bruno H. Meyer, Jean-Manuel Segura, Karen L. Martinez, Ruud Hovius, Nathalie George, Kai Johnsson, and Horst Vogel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2138–2143. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507686103.
PMCID: PMC1413699
Directing electron transfer within Photosystem I by breaking H-bonds in the cofactor branches
Yajing Li, Art van der Est, Marie Gabrielle Lucas, V. M. Ramesh, Feifei Gu, Alexander Petrenko, Su Lin, Andrew N. Webber, Fabrice Rappaport, and Kevin Redding
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2144–2149. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506537103.
PMCID: PMC1413687
Monitoring the direct and indirect damage of DNA bases and polynucleotides by using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy
Marina K. Kuimova, Alexander J. Cowan, Pavel Matousek, Anthony W. Parker, Xue Zhong Sun, Michael Towrie, and Michael W. George
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2150–2153. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506860103.
PMCID: PMC1413690
Cell Biology
Hutchinson–Gilford progeria mutant lamin A primarily targets human vascular cells as detected by an anti-Lamin A G608G antibody
Dayle McClintock, Leslie B. Gordon, and Karima Djabali
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2154–2159. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511133103.
PMCID: PMC1413759
Gain-of-function/Noonan syndrome SHP-2/Ptpn11 mutants enhance calcium oscillations and impair NFAT signaling
Per Uhlén, Peter M. Burch, Christina Ivins Zito, Manuel Estrada, Barbara E. Ehrlich, and Anton M. Bennett
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2160–2165. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510876103.
PMCID: PMC1413735
Unraveling the complexity of flux regulation: A new method demonstrated for nutrient starvation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Sergio Rossell, Coen C. van der Weijden, Alexander Lindenbergh, Arjen van Tuijl, Christof Francke, Barbara M. Bakker, and Hans V. Westerhoff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2166–2171. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509831103.
PMCID: PMC1413710
Simple fold composition and modular architecture of the nuclear pore complex
Damien Devos, Svetlana Dokudovskaya, Rosemary Williams, Frank Alber, Narayanan Eswar, Brian T. Chait, Michael P. Rout, and Andrej Sali
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2172–2177. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506345103.
PMCID: PMC1413685
Reprogramming of replicative senescence in hepatocellular carcinoma-derived cells
Nuri Ozturk, Esra Erdal, Mine Mumcuoglu, Kamil C. Akcali, Ozden Yalcin, Serif Senturk, Ayca Arslan-Ergul, Bala Gur, Isik Yulug, Rengul Cetin-Atalay, Cengiz Yakicier, Tamer Yagci, Mesut Tez, and Mehmet Ozturk
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2178–2183. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510877103.
PMCID: PMC1413736
Prion protein is expressed on long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells and is important for their self-renewal
Cheng Cheng Zhang, Andrew D. Steele, Susan Lindquist, and Harvey F. Lodish
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2184–2189. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510577103.
PMCID: PMC1413720
Cyclin D1b variant influences prostate cancer growth through aberrant androgen receptor regulation
Craig J. Burd, Christin E. Petre, Lisa M. Morey, Ying Wang, Monica P. Revelo, Christopher A. Haiman, Shan Lu, Cecilia M. Fenoglio-Preiser, Jiwen Li, Erik S. Knudsen, Jiemin Wong, and Karen E. Knudsen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2190–2195. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506281103.
PMCID: PMC1413684
Developmental Biology
Paracrine signaling through the epithelial estrogen receptor α is required for proliferation and morphogenesis in the mammary gland
Sonia Mallepell, Andrée Krust, Pierre Chambon, and Cathrin Brisken
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2196–2201. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510974103.
PMCID: PMC1413744
Combinatorial Gata2 and Sca1 expression defines hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow niche
Norio Suzuki, Osamu Ohneda, Naoko Minegishi, Mitsuo Nishikawa, Takayuki Ohta, Satoru Takahashi, James Douglas Engel, and Masayuki Yamamoto
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2202–2207. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508928103.
PMCID: PMC1413708
Dicer function is essential for lung epithelium morphogenesis
Kelley S. Harris, Zhen Zhang, Michael T. McManus, Brian D. Harfe, and Xin Sun
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2208–2213. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510839103.
PMCID: PMC1413733
An essential role for the hematopoietic transcription factor Ikaros in hypothalamic–pituitary-mediated somatic growth
Shereen Ezzat, Rene Mader, Sandra Fischer, ShunJiang Yu, Cameron Ackerley, and Sylvia L. Asa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2214–2219. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508565103.
PMCID: PMC1413703
Ecology
From the Cover:
Nonsynchronous recovery of community characteristics in island spiders after a catastrophic hurricane
Thomas W. Schoener and David A. Spiller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2220–2225. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510355103.
PMCID: PMC1413712
Evolution
Evolution of enzymes in a series is driven by dissimilar functional demands
Armindo Salvador and Michael A. Savageau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2226–2231. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510776103.
PMCID: PMC1413729
Role of positive selection in the retention of duplicate genes in mammalian genomes
Shin-Han Shiu, Jake K. Byrnes, Runsun Pan, Peng Zhang, and Wen-Hsiung Li
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2232–2236. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510388103.
PMCID: PMC1413713
Comparative genomics provides evidence for close evolutionary relationships between the urotensin II and somatostatin gene families
Hervé Tostivint, Lucille Joly, Isabelle Lihrmann, Caroline Parmentier, Alexis Lebon, Mireille Morisson, André Calas, Marc Ekker, and Hubert Vaudry
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2237–2242. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510700103.
PMCID: PMC1413727
Genetics
From the Cover:
SAD-2 is required for meiotic silencing by unpaired DNA and perinuclear localization of SAD-1 RNA-directed RNA polymerase
Patrick K. T. Shiu, Denise Zickler, Namboori B. Raju, Gwenael Ruprich-Robert, and Robert L. Metzenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2243–2248. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508896103.
PMCID: PMC1413707
Ataxia telangiectasia mutated (Atm) is not required for telomerase-mediated elongation of short telomeres
David Feldser, Margaret A. Strong, and Carol W. Greider
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2249–2251. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511143103.
PMCID: PMC1413760
A transgenic approach for RNA interference-based genetic screening in mice
Shaohua Peng, J. Philippe York, and Pumin Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2252–2256. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511034103.
PMCID: PMC1413752
A microRNA expression signature of human solid tumors defines cancer gene targets
Stefano Volinia, George A. Calin, Chang-Gong Liu, Stefan Ambs, Amelia Cimmino, Fabio Petrocca, Rosa Visone, Marilena Iorio, Claudia Roldo, Manuela Ferracin, Robyn L. Prueitt, Nozumu Yanaihara, Giovanni Lanza, Aldo Scarpa, Andrea Vecchione, Massimo Negrini, Curtis C. Harris, and Carlo M. Croce
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2257–2261. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510565103.
PMCID: PMC1413718
Immunology
Appearance of immature/transitional B cells in HIV-infected individuals with advanced disease: Correlation with increased IL-7
Angela Malaspina, Susan Moir, Jason Ho, Wei Wang, Melissa L. Howell, Marie A. O’Shea, Gregg A. Roby, Catherine A. Rehm, JoAnn M. Mican, Tae-Wook Chun, and Anthony S. Fauci
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2262–2267. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511094103.
PMCID: PMC1413756
A pilot clinical trial of a recombinant ricin vaccine in normal humans
Ellen S. Vitetta, Joan E. Smallshaw, Elaine Coleman, Hasan Jafri, Callie Foster, Robert Munford, and John Schindler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2268–2273. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510893103.
PMCID: PMC1413738
Dynamic regulation of pro- and anti-inflammatory cytokines by MAPK phosphatase 1 (MKP-1) in innate immune responses
Hongbo Chi, Sean P. Barry, Rachel J. Roth, J. Julie Wu, Elizabeth A. Jones, Anton M. Bennett, and Richard A. Flavell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2274–2279. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510965103.
PMCID: PMC1413743
Antibodies to native myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein are serologic markers of early inflammation in multiple sclerosis
Patrice H. Lalive, Til Menge, Cecile Delarasse, Bruno Della Gaspera, Danielle Pham-Dinh, Pablo Villoslada, H.-C. von Büdingen, and Claude P. Genain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2280–2285. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510672103.
PMCID: PMC1413723
Regulation of allergic airway inflammation through Toll-like receptor 4-mediated modification of mast cell function
Yukiko I. Nigo, Masakatsu Yamashita, Kiyoshi Hirahara, Ryo Shinnakasu, Masamichi Inami, Motoko Kimura, Akihiro Hasegawa, Yoichi Kohno, and Toshinori Nakayama
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2286–2291. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510685103.
PMCID: PMC1413725
The wild-derived inbred mouse strain SPRET/Ei is resistant to LPS and defective in IFN-β production
Tina Mahieu, Jin Mo Park, Hilde Revets, Bastian Pasche, Andreas Lengeling, Jan Staelens, Andy Wullaert, Ineke Vanlaere, Tino Hochepied, Frans van Roy, Michael Karin, and Claude Libert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2292–2297. Published online 2006 February 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510874103.
PMCID: PMC1413734
Medical Sciences
ALADINI482S causes selective failure of nuclear protein import and hypersensitivity to oxidative stress in triple A syndrome
Makito Hirano, Yoshiko Furiya, Hirohide Asai, Akira Yasui, and Satoshi Ueno
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2298–2303. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505598103.
PMCID: PMC1413683
Stem cell factor receptor induces progenitor and natural killer cell-mediated cardiac survival and repair after myocardial infarction
Bilal B. Ayach, Makoto Yoshimitsu, Fayez Dawood, Mei Sun, Sara Arab, Manyin Chen, Koji Higuchi, Christopher Siatskas, Paul Lee, Hilda Lim, Jane Zhang, Eva Cukerman, William L. Stanford, Jeffrey A. Medin, and Peter P. Liu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2304–2309. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510997103.
PMCID: PMC1413746
From the Cover:
Production of infectious genotype 1a hepatitis C virus (Hutchinson strain) in cultured human hepatoma cells
MinKyung Yi, Rodrigo A. Villanueva, David L. Thomas, Takaji Wakita, and Stanley M. Lemon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2310–2315. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510727103.
PMCID: PMC1413728
Amplification of MET may identify a subset of cancers with extreme sensitivity to the selective tyrosine kinase inhibitor PHA-665752
Gromoslaw A. Smolen, Raffaella Sordella, Beth Muir, Gayatry Mohapatra, Anne Barmettler, Heidi Archibald, Woo J. Kim, Ross A. Okimoto, Daphne W. Bell, Dennis C. Sgroi, James G. Christensen, Jeffrey Settleman, and Daniel A. Haber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2316–2321. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508776103.
PMCID: PMC1413705
Links between α-catenin, NF-κB, and squamous cell carcinoma in skin
Agnieszka Kobielak and Elaine Fuchs
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2322–2327. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510422103.
PMCID: PMC1413714
Drusen complement components C3a and C5a promote choroidal neovascularization
Miho Nozaki, Brian J. Raisler, Eiji Sakurai, J. Vidya Sarma, Scott R. Barnum, John D. Lambris, Yali Chen, Kang Zhang, Balamurali K. Ambati, Judit Z. Baffi, and Jayakrishna Ambati
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2328–2333. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408835103.
PMCID: PMC1413680
The unique cytoarchitecture of human pancreatic islets has implications for islet cell function
Over Cabrera, Dora M. Berman, Norma S. Kenyon, Camillo Ricordi, Per-Olof Berggren, and Alejandro Caicedo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2334–2339. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510790103.
PMCID: PMC1413730
In vivo repopulation ability of genetically corrected bone marrow cells from Fanconi anemia patients
Odile Cohen-Haguenauer, Bruno Péault, Cécile Bauche, Marie-Thérèse Daniel, Ibrahim Casal, Vincent Levy, Jean Dausset, Michel Boiron, Christian Auclair, Eliane Gluckman, and Michel Marty
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2340–2345. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510613103.
PMCID: PMC1413721
Adipocyte enhancer-binding protein 1 is a potential novel atherogenic factor involved in macrophage cholesterol homeostasis and inflammation
Amin Majdalawieh, Lei Zhang, Ilia V. Fuki, Daniel J. Rader, and Hyo-Sung Ro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2346–2351. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508139103.
PMCID: PMC1413702
Mutation and genomic deletion status of ataxia telangiectasia mutated (ATM) and p53 confer specific gene expression profiles in mantle cell lymphoma
Timothy C. Greiner, Chiranjib Dasgupta, Vincent V. Ho, Dennis D. Weisenburger, Lynette M. Smith, James C. Lynch, Julie M. Vose, Kai Fu, James O. Armitage, Rita M. Braziel, Elias Campo, Jan Delabie, Randy D. Gascoyne, Elaine S. Jaffe, Hans K. Muller-Hermelink, German Ott, Andreas Rosenwald, Louis M. Staudt, Michael Y. Im, Mazen W. Karaman, Brian L. Pike, Wing C. Chan, and Joseph G. Hacia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2352–2357. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510441103.
PMCID: PMC1413716
Microbiology
The glycophorin C N-linked glycan is a critical component of the ligand for the Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte receptor BAEBL
D. C. Ghislaine Mayer, Lubin Jiang, Rajeshwara N. Achur, Ikuko Kakizaki, D. Channe Gowda, and Louis H. Miller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2358–2362. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510648103.
PMCID: PMC1413722
From the Cover:
Cohn’s Crenothrix is a filamentous methane oxidizer with an unusual methane monooxygenase
Kilian Stoecker, Bernd Bendinger, Björn Schöning, Per H. Nielsen, Jeppe L. Nielsen, Christian Baranyi, Elena R. Toenshoff, Holger Daims, and Michael Wagner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2363–2367. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506361103.
PMCID: PMC1413686
Functional dissection of YabA, a negative regulator of DNA replication initiation in Bacillus subtilis
Marie-Françoise Noirot-Gros, M. Velten, M. Yoshimura, S. McGovern, T. Morimoto, S. D. Ehrlich, N. Ogasawara, P. Polard, and Philippe Noirot
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2368–2373. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506914103.
PMCID: PMC1413692
Guanosine 3′,5′-bispyrophosphate coordinates global gene expression during glucose-lactose diauxie in Escherichia coli
Matthew F. Traxler, Dong-Eun Chang, and Tyrrell Conway
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2374–2379. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510995103.
PMCID: PMC1413745
Streptococcal modulation of cellular invasion via TGF-β1 signaling
Beinan Wang, Shaoying Li, Peter J. Southern, and Patrick P. Cleary
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2380–2385. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506668103.
PMCID: PMC1413688
Quorum sensing and multidrug transporters in Escherichia coli
Shirley Yang, Christopher R. Lopez, and E. Lynn Zechiedrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2386–2391. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502890102.
PMCID: PMC1413681
Structural and function analyses of the global regulatory protein SarA from Staphylococcus aureus
Yingfang Liu, Adhar C. Manna, Cheol-Ho Pan, Irina A. Kriksunov, Daniel J. Thiel, Ambrose L. Cheung, and Gongyi Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2392–2397. Published online 2006 February 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510439103.
PMCID: PMC1413715
From the Cover:
In situ analysis of nitrogen fixation and metabolic switching in unicellular thermophilic cyanobacteria inhabiting hot spring microbial mats
Anne-Soisig Steunou, Devaki Bhaya, Mary M. Bateson, Melanie C. Melendrez, David M. Ward, Eric Brecht, John W. Peters, Michael Kühl, and Arthur R. Grossman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2398–2403. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507513103.
PMCID: PMC1413695
Neuroscience
S-nitrosothiol depletion in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Christopher M. Schonhoff, Masaaki Matsuoka, Hemachand Tummala, Michael A. Johnson, Alvaro G. Estevéz, Rui Wu, Andrés Kamaid, Karina C. Ricart, Yuichi Hashimoto, Benjamin Gaston, Timothy L. Macdonald, Zuoshang Xu, and Joan B. Mannick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2404–2409. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507243103.
PMCID: PMC1413693
Identification and characterization of a gonadotropin-inhibitory system in the brains of mammals
Lance J. Kriegsfeld, Dan Feng Mei, George E. Bentley, Takayoshi Ubuka, Alex O. Mason, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kazuyoshi Ukena, Kazuyoshi Tsutsui, and Rae Silver
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2410–2415. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511003103.
PMCID: PMC1413747
Unique, common, and interacting cortical correlates of thirst and pain
Michael J. Farrell, Gary F. Egan, Frank Zamarripa, Robert Shade, John Blair-West, Peter Fox, and Derek A. Denton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2416–2421. Published online 2006 February 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511019103.
PMCID: PMC1413749
Reciprocal actions of REST and a microRNA promote neuronal identity
Cecilia Conaco, Stefanie Otto, Jong-Jin Han, and Gail Mandel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2422–2427. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511041103.
PMCID: PMC1413753
Pharmacology
N-arachidonoyl l-serine, an endocannabinoid-like brain constituent with vasodilatory properties
Garry Milman, Yehoshua Maor, Saleh Abu-Lafi, Michal Horowitz, Ruth Gallily, Sandor Batkai, Fong-Ming Mo, Laszlo Offertaler, Pal Pacher, George Kunos, and Raphael Mechoulam
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2428–2433. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510676103.
PMCID: PMC1413724
Physiology
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor δ promotes very low-density lipoprotein-derived fatty acid catabolism in the macrophage
Chih-Hao Lee, Kihwa Kang, Isaac R. Mehl, Russell Nofsinger, William A. Alaynick, Ling-Wa Chong, John M. Rosenfeld, and Ronald M. Evans
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2434–2439. Published online 2006 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510815103.
PMCID: PMC1413732
Smooth muscle of telokin-deficient mice exhibits increased sensitivity to Ca2+ and decreased cGMP-induced relaxation
A. S. Khromov, H. Wang, N. Choudhury, M. McDuffie, B. P. Herring, R. Nakamoto, G. K. Owens, A. P. Somlyo, and A. V. Somlyo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2440–2445. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508566103.
PMCID: PMC1413704
Cardiac-specific overexpression of sarcolipin in phospholamban null mice impairs myocyte function that is restored by phosphorylation
Anthony O. Gramolini, Maria G. Trivieri, Gavin Y. Oudit, Thomas Kislinger, Wenping Li, Mikin M. Patel, Andrew Emili, Evangelia G. Kranias, Peter H. Backx, and David H. MacLennan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2446–2451. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510883103.
PMCID: PMC1413737
Social Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Malaria risk on the Amazon frontier
Marcia Caldas de Castro, Roberto L. Monte-Mór, Diana O. Sawyer, and Burton H. Singer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2452–2457. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510576103.
PMCID: PMC1413719
Psychology
The brain differentiates human and non-human grammars: Functional localization and structural connectivity
Angela D. Friederici, Jörg Bahlmann, Stefan Heim, Ricarda I. Schubotz, and Alfred Anwander
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2458–2463. Published online 2006 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509389103.
PMCID: PMC1413709
Corrections
Correction for Cimmino et al., miR-15 and miR-16 induce apoptosis by targeting BCL2
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2464. Published online 2006 February 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510793103.
PMCID: PMC1413731
Corrects: Amelia Cimmino, et al. miR-15 and miR-16 induce apoptosis by targeting BCL2. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 27; 102(39): 13944–13949.
Correction for Sacher et al., The crystal structure of CREG, a secreted glycoprotein involved in cellular growth and differentiation
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2465. Published online 2006 January 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510955103.
PMCID: PMC1413741
Corrects: Michael Sacher, et al. The crystal structure of CREG, a secreted glycoprotein involved in cellular growth and differentiation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 December 20; 102(51): 18326–18331.
Correction for Gobbi et al., Antidepressant-like activity and modulation of brain monoaminergic transmission by blockade of anandamide hydrolysis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2465. Published online 2006 January 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511247103.
PMCID: PMC1413761
Corrects: G. Gobbi, et al. Antidepressant-like activity and modulation of brain monoaminergic transmission by blockade of anandamide hydrolysis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 December 20; 102(51): 18620–18625.
Correction for Lu et al., EST-based genome-wide gene inactivation identifies ARAP3 as a host protein affecting cellular susceptibility to anthrax toxin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 14; 103(7): 2465. Published online 2006 January 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511286103.
PMCID: PMC1413762
Corrects: Quan Lu, et al. EST-based genome-wide gene inactivation identifies ARAP3 as a host protein affecting cellular susceptibility to anthrax toxin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 7; 101(49): 17246–17251.
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