| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 June 5; 104(23): 9547–9548. doi: 10.1073/iti2307104.PMCID: PMC1887596 Commentaries Early cardiac development: A Wnt beat away Kausalia Vijayaragavan and Mickie Bhatia PMCID: PMC1887602 A simplified recipe for prions Kil Sun Lee and Byron Caughey PMCID: PMC1887566 Lean gene and the clock machine Kathryn Moynihan Ramsey and Joseph Bass PMCID: PMC1887575 Profile Profile of Roy H. Doi Nick Zagorski PMCID: PMC1887579 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Information flow between subspaces of complex dynamical systems Andrew J. Majda and John Harlim PMCID: PMC1887551 Mixture models and exploratory analysis in networks M. E. J. Newman and E. A. Leicht PMCID: PMC1887592 Applied Physical Sciences From the Cover:
Observation of the density minimum in deeply supercooled confined water Dazhi Liu, Yang Zhang, Chia-Cheng Chen, Chung-Yuan Mou, Peter H. Poole, and Sow-Hsin Chen PMCID: PMC1887572 Relation between the Widom line and the breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water Pradeep Kumar, S. V. Buldyrev, S. R. Becker, P. H. Poole, F. W. Starr, and H. E. Stanley PMCID: PMC1887548 Geometry-induced asymmetric diffusion Robert S. Shaw, Norman Packard, Matthias Schröter, and Harry L. Swinney PMCID: PMC1876429 Chemistry Relation between the Widom line and the breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water Pradeep Kumar, S. V. Buldyrev, S. R. Becker, P. H. Poole, F. W. Starr, and H. E. Stanley PMCID: PMC1887548 Internal DNA pressure modifies stability of WT phage Irena Ivanovska, Gijs Wuite, Bengt Jönsson, and Alex Evilevitch PMCID: PMC1887591 Engineering From the Cover:
Chemomechanical mapping of ligand–receptor binding kinetics on cells Sunyoung Lee, Jelena Mandic, and Krystyn J. Van Vliet PMCID: PMC1887608 Geology The shifting baseline of northern fur seal ecology in the northeast Pacific Ocean Seth D. Newsome, Michael A. Etnier, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Donald L. Phillips, Marcel van Tuinen, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Daniel P. Costa, Douglas J. Kennett, Tom P. Guilderson, and Paul L. Koch PMCID: PMC1887562 Biological Sciences Biochemistry Small-molecule activators of RNase L with broad-spectrum antiviral activity Chandar S. Thakur, Babal Kant Jha, Beihua Dong, Jaydip Das Gupta, Kenneth M. Silverman, Hongxia Mao, Hiro Sawai, Akiko O. Nakamura, Amiya K. Banerjee, Andrei Gudkov, and Robert H. Silverman PMCID: PMC1877983 Conformational variability of the intracellular domain of Drosophila Notch and its interaction with Suppressor of Hairless Deborah F. Kelly, Robert J. Lake, Thomas Walz, and Spyros Artavanis-Tsakonas PMCID: PMC1887580 Free methionine-(R)-sulfoxide reductase from Escherichia coli reveals a new GAF domain function Zhidong Lin, Lynnette C. Johnson, Herbert Weissbach, Nathan Brot, Mark O. Lively, and W. Todd Lowther PMCID: PMC1887594 Biophysics Geometry-induced asymmetric diffusion Robert S. Shaw, Norman Packard, Matthias Schröter, and Harry L. Swinney PMCID: PMC1876429 Internal DNA pressure modifies stability of WT phage Irena Ivanovska, Gijs Wuite, Bengt Jönsson, and Alex Evilevitch PMCID: PMC1887591 From the Cover:
Chemomechanical mapping of ligand–receptor binding kinetics on cells Sunyoung Lee, Jelena Mandic, and Krystyn J. Van Vliet PMCID: PMC1887608 Protein structure determination from NMR chemical shifts Andrea Cavalli, Xavier Salvatella, Christopher M. Dobson, and Michele Vendruscolo PMCID: PMC1887584 Bacteriorhodopsin photocycle at cryogenic temperatures reveals distributed barriers of conformational substates Andrei K. Dioumaev and Janos K. Lanyi PMCID: PMC1887559 Primary protein response after ligand photodissociation in carbonmonoxy myoglobin Akira Sato, Ying Gao, Teizo Kitagawa, and Yasuhisa Mizutani PMCID: PMC1887578 Designing an extracellular matrix protein with enhanced mechanical stability Sean P. Ng, Kate S. Billings, Tomoo Ohashi, Mark D. Allen, Robert B. Best, Lucy G. Randles, Harold P. Erickson, and Jane Clarke PMCID: PMC1887552 Docosahexaenoic acid alters bilayer elastic properties Michael J. Bruno, Roger E. Koeppe, II, and Olaf S. Andersen PMCID: PMC1887599 In vitro high-resolution structural dynamics of single germinating bacterial spores Marco Plomp, Terrance J. Leighton, Katherine E. Wheeler, Haley D. Hill, and Alexander J. Malkin PMCID: PMC1877984 Polyelectrostatic interactions of disordered ligands suggest a physical basis for ultrasensitivity Mikael Borg, Tanja Mittag, Tony Pawson, Mike Tyers, Julie D. Forman-Kay, and Hue Sun Chan PMCID: PMC1887549 Structure of cholesterol helical ribbons and self-assembling biological springs Boris Khaykovich, Chintan Hossain, Jennifer J. McManus, Aleksey Lomakin, David E. Moncton, and George B. Benedek PMCID: PMC1887567 A new paradigm for electrostatic catalysis of radical reactions in vitamin B12 enzymes Pankaz K. Sharma, Zhen T. Chu, Mats H. M. Olsson, and Arieh Warshel PMCID: PMC1887576 Cell Biology Target mRNAs are repressed as efficiently by microRNA-binding sites in the 5′ UTR as in the 3′ UTR J. Robin Lytle, Therese A. Yario, and Joan A. Steitz PMCID: PMC1887587 A high-throughput siRNA library screen identifies osteogenic suppressors in human mesenchymal stem cells Yuanxiang Zhao and Sheng Ding PMCID: PMC1887565 Sumoylation of nucleophosmin/B23 regulates its subcellular localization, mediating cell proliferation and survival Xia Liu, Zhixue Liu, Sung-Wuk Jang, Zhiyong Ma, Kazuya Shinmura, Sumin Kang, Shaozhong Dong, Jing Chen, Kenji Fukasawa, and Keqiang Ye PMCID: PMC1887583 Developmental Biology From the Cover:
Biphasic role for Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cardiac specification in zebrafish and embryonic stem cells Shuichi Ueno, Gilbert Weidinger, Tomoaki Osugi, Aimee D. Kohn, Jonathan L. Golob, Lil Pabon, Hans Reinecke, Randall T. Moon, and Charles E. Murry PMCID: PMC1876428 The hotei mutation of medaka in the anti-Müllerian hormone receptor causes the dysregulation of germ cell and sexual development Chikako Morinaga, Daisuke Saito, Shuhei Nakamura, Takashi Sasaki, Shuichi Asakawa, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Hiroshi Mitani, Makoto Furutani-Seiki, Minoru Tanaka, and Hisato Kondoh PMCID: PMC1887600 A1 adenosine receptors play an essential role in protecting the embryo against hypoxia Christopher C. Wendler, Salina Amatya, Carolyn McClaskey, Satish Ghatpande, Bertil B. Fredholm, and Scott A. Rivkees PMCID: PMC1887547 Ecology Mother–offspring competition promotes colonization success J. Cote, J. Clobert, and P. S. Fitze PMCID: PMC1887544 The shifting baseline of northern fur seal ecology in the northeast Pacific Ocean Seth D. Newsome, Michael A. Etnier, Diane Gifford-Gonzalez, Donald L. Phillips, Marcel van Tuinen, Elizabeth A. Hadly, Daniel P. Costa, Douglas J. Kennett, Tom P. Guilderson, and Paul L. Koch PMCID: PMC1887562 Mechanisms for climate-induced mortality of fish populations in whole-lake experiments Peter A. Biro, John R. Post, and David J. Booth PMCID: PMC1887605 Dominant factors controlling glacial and interglacial variations in the treeline elevation in tropical Africa Haibin Wu, Joël Guiot, Simon Brewer, Zhengtang Guo, and Changhui Peng PMCID: PMC1887610 Niche characteristics explain the reciprocal invasion success of stream salmonids in different continents Kai Korsu, Ari Huusko, and Timo Muotka PMCID: PMC1887588 Evolution Sex chromosome silencing in the marsupial male germ line Satoshi H. Namekawa, John L. VandeBerg, John R. McCarrey, and Jeannie T. Lee PMCID: PMC1887598 The emergence of a superorganism through intergroup competition H. Kern Reeve and Bert Hölldobler PMCID: PMC1887545 Genetics From the Cover:
Formation of native prions from minimal components in vitro Nathan R. Deleault, Brent T. Harris, Judy R. Rees, and Surachai Supattapone PMCID: PMC1887554 Oxygen metabolism and reactive oxygen species cause chromosomal rearrangements and cell death Sandrine Ragu, Gérard Faye, Ismail Iraqui, Amélie Masurel-Heneman, Richard D. Kolodner, and Meng-Er Huang PMCID: PMC1887571 Functional redundancy of worm spliceosomal proteins U1A and U2B″ Tassa Saldi, Carol Wilusz, Margaret MacMorris, and Thomas Blumenthal PMCID: PMC1887542 A genome-wide approach to identify genetic variants that contribute to etoposide-induced cytotoxicity R. Stephanie Huang, Shiwei Duan, Wasim K. Bleibel, Emily O. Kistner, Wei Zhang, Tyson A. Clark, Tina X. Chen, Anthony C. Schweitzer, John E. Blume, Nancy J. Cox, and M. Eileen Dolan PMCID: PMC1887589 Immunology Mastermind-1 is required for Notch signal-dependent steps in lymphocyte development in vivo Toshinao Oyama, Kenichi Harigaya, Ablimit Muradil, Katsuto Hozumi, Sonoko Habu, Hideyuki Oguro, Atsushi Iwama, Kenji Matsuno, Reiko Sakamoto, Mitsuharu Sato, Nobuaki Yoshida, and Motoo Kitagawa PMCID: PMC1887568 Fc receptor-like 5 inhibits B cell activation via SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase recruitment Christopher L. Haga, Götz R. A. Ehrhardt, Rebecca J. Boohaker, Randall S. Davis, and Max D. Cooper PMCID: PMC1887609 A unique T cell receptor discovered in marsupials Zuly E. Parra, Michelle L. Baker, Ryan S. Schwarz, Janine E. Deakin, Kerstin Lindblad-Toh, and Robert D. Miller PMCID: PMC1887558 Location rather than CD62L phenotype is critical in the early establishment of influenza-specific CD8+ T cell memory Katherine Kedzierska, John Stambas, Misty R. Jenkins, Rachael Keating, Stephen J. Turner, and Peter C. Doherty PMCID: PMC1887603 Medical Sciences Newcastle disease virus, a host range-restricted virus, as a vaccine vector for intranasal immunization against emerging pathogens Joshua M. DiNapoli, Alexander Kotelkin, Lijuan Yang, Subbiah Elankumaran, Brian R. Murphy, Siba K. Samal, Peter L. Collins, and Alexander Bukreyev PMCID: PMC1887550 Quantifying HIV-1 transmission due to contaminated injections Richard G. White, S. Cooper Ben, Anusha Kedhar, Kate K. Orroth, Sam Biraro, Rebecca F. Baggaley, Jimmy Whitworth, Eline L. Korenromp, Azra Ghani, Marie-Claude Boily, and Richard J. Hayes PMCID: PMC1887593 [18F]MK-9470, a positron emission tomography (PET) tracer for in vivo human PET brain imaging of the cannabinoid-1 receptor H. Donald Burns, Koen Van Laere, Sandra Sanabria-Bohórquez, Terence G. Hamill, Guy Bormans, Wai-si Eng, Ray Gibson, Christine Ryan, Brett Connolly, Shil Patel, Stephen Krause, Amy Vanko, Anne Van Hecken, Patrick Dupont, Inge De Lepeleire, Paul Rothenberg, S. Aubrey Stoch, Josee Cote, William K. Hagmann, James P. Jewell, Linus S. Lin, Ping Liu, Mark T. Goulet, Keith Gottesdiener, John A. Wagner, Jan de Hoon, Luc Mortelmans, Tung M. Fong, and Richard J. Hargreaves PMCID: PMC1877985 Estrogen receptor β-deficient female mice develop a bladder phenotype resembling human interstitial cystitis Otabek Imamov, Konstantin Yakimchuk, Andrea Morani, Thomas Schwend, Osamu Wada-Hiraike, Sergei Razumov, Margaret Warner, and Jan-Åke Gustafsson PMCID: PMC1887607 Liposomal vaccines with conformation-specific amyloid peptide antigens define immune response and efficacy in APP transgenic mice Andreas Muhs, David T. Hickman, Maria Pihlgren, Nathalie Chuard, Valérie Giriens, Carine Meerschman, Ingrid van der Auwera, Fred van Leuven, Masae Sugawara, Marie-Catherine Weingertner, Burkhard Bechinger, Ruth Greferath, Nadine Kolonko, Luitgard Nagel-Steger, Detlev Riesner, Roscoe O. Brady, Andrea Pfeifer, and Claude Nicolau PMCID: PMC1887581 Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is vital to sperm fertilizing capacity and male fertility Wen Ming Xu, Qi Xian Shi, Wen Ying Chen, Chen Xi Zhou, Ya Ni, Dewi Kenneth Rowlands, Guo Yi Liu, Hu Zhu, Ze Gang Ma, Xiao Fei Wang, Zhang Hui Chen, Si Chang Zhou, Hong Shan Dong, Xiao Hu Zhang, Yiu Wa Chung, Yu Ying Yuan, Wan Xi Yang, and Hsiao Chang Chan PMCID: PMC1887595 Microbiology Inhibition of type I and type III interferons by a secreted glycoprotein from Yaba-like disease virus Jiaying Huang, Sergey V. Smirnov, Anita Lewis-Antes, Murugabaskar Balan, Wei Li, Sheila Tang, Gemma V. Silke, Mike M. Pütz, Geoffrey L. Smith, and Sergei V. Kotenko PMCID: PMC1887573 Neuroscience Threatening a rubber hand that you feel is yours elicits a cortical anxiety response H. Henrik Ehrsson, Katja Wiech, Nikolaus Weiskopf, Raymond J. Dolan, and Richard E. Passingham PMCID: PMC1887585 Sildenafil accelerates reentrainment of circadian rhythms after advancing light schedules Patricia V. Agostino, Santiago A. Plano, and Diego A. Golombek PMCID: PMC1887561 Photoperiod reverses the effects of estrogens on male aggression via genomic and nongenomic pathways Brian C. Trainor, Shili Lin, M. Sima Finy*, Michael R. Rowland, and Randy J. Nelson PMCID: PMC1876655 GPR37 associates with the dopamine transporter to modulate dopamine uptake and behavioral responses to dopaminergic drugs Daniela Marazziti, Silvia Mandillo, Chiara Di Pietro, Elisabetta Golini, Rafaele Matteoni, and Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini PMCID: PMC1887553 Musical intervals in speech Deborah Ross, Jonathan Choi, and Dale Purves PMCID: PMC1876656 Purkinje cell dysfunction and alteration of long-term synaptic plasticity in fetal alcohol syndrome Laurent Servais, Raphaël Hourez, Bertrand Bearzatto, David Gall, Serge N. Schiffmann, and Guy Cheron PMCID: PMC1887541 Neuronal somatic ATP release triggers neuron–satellite glial cell communication in dorsal root ganglia X. Zhang, Y. Chen, C. Wang, and L.-Y. M. Huang PMCID: PMC1887586 Mechanism of the 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A receptor-mediated facilitation of synaptic activity in prefrontal cortex Jean-Claude Béïque, Mays Imad, Ljiljana Mladenovic, Jay A. Gingrich, and Rodrigo Andrade PMCID: PMC1887564 The B″/PR72 subunit mediates Ca2+-dependent dephosphorylation of DARPP-32 by protein phosphatase 2A Jung-Hyuck Ahn, Jee Young Sung, Thomas McAvoy, Akinori Nishi, Veerle Janssens, Jozef Goris, Paul Greengard, and Angus C. Nairn PMCID: PMC1887582 Transcription factor Sp4 regulates dendritic patterning during cerebellar maturation Belén Ramos, Brice Gaudillière, Azad Bonni, and Grace Gill PMCID: PMC1887555 Physiology From the Cover:
Loss of Nocturnin, a circadian deadenylase, confers resistance to hepatic steatosis and diet-induced obesity Carla B. Green, Nicholas Douris, Shihoko Kojima, Carl A. Strayer, Joseph Fogerty, David Lourim, Susanna R. Keller, and Joseph C. Besharse PMCID: PMC1871564 The induced prostaglandin E2 pathway is a key regulator of the respiratory response to infection and hypoxia in neonates Annika O. Hofstetter, Sipra Saha, Veronica Siljehav, Per-Johan Jakobsson, and Eric Herlenius PMCID: PMC1877988 Plant Biology Zinc finger protein STOP1 is critical for proton tolerance in Arabidopsis and coregulates a key gene in aluminum tolerance Satoshi Iuchi, Hiroyuki Koyama, Atsuko Iuchi, Yasufumi Kobayashi, Sadako Kitabayashi, Yuriko Kobayashi, Takashi Ikka, Takashi Hirayama, Kazuo Shinozaki, and Masatomo Kobayashi PMCID: PMC1887543 A specific c-type cytochrome maturation system is required for oxygenic photosynthesis Richard Kuras, Denis Saint-Marcoux, Francis-André Wollman, and Catherine de Vitry PMCID: PMC1887560 Corrections Correction for Bolam et al., The crystal structure of two macrolide glycosyltransferases provides a blueprint for host cell antibiotic immunity PMCID: PMC1887569 Corrects: David N. Bolam, et al. The crystal structure of two macrolide glycosyltransferases provides a blueprint for host cell antibiotic immunity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 March 27; 104(13): 5336–5341. Correction for Bala et al., Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation PMCID: PMC1887563 Corrects: G. Bala, et al. Combined climate and carbon-cycle effects of large-scale deforestation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 April 17; 104(16): 6550–6555. Correction for Petit et al., Deletion of the orphan nuclear receptor COUP-TFII in uterus leads to placental deficiency PMCID: PMC1887601 Corrects: Fabrice G. Petit, et al. Deletion of the orphan nuclear receptor COUP-TFII in uterus leads to placental deficiency. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 April 10; 104(15): 6293–6298. Correction for Sanchez-Alavez et al., Night eating and obesity in the EP3R-deficient mouse PMCID: PMC1887570 Corrects: Manuel Sanchez-Alavez, et al. Night eating and obesity in the EP3R-deficient mouse. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 February 20; 104(8): 3009–3014. |
