| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 November 13; 104(46): 17899–17900. doi: 10.1073/iti4607104.PMCID: PMC2084265 Commentaries A neurobiological basis for nicotine withdrawal Neil E. Grunberg PMCID: PMC2084266 Calcium channels in higher-level brain function Edward G. Jones PMCID: PMC2084267 Plant virus transmission from the insect point of view Thomas Hohn PMCID: PMC2084268 A new gaseous signaling molecule emerges: Cardioprotective role of hydrogen sulfide David J. Lefer PMCID: PMC2084269 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences Distribution of node characteristics in complex networks Juyong Park and Albert-László Barabási PMCID: PMC2084271 Chemistry Synergic mechanism and fabrication target for bipedal nanomotors Zhisong Wang PMCID: PMC2084272 Self-recognition and self-selection in multicomponent supramolecular coordination networks on surfaces Alexander Langner, Steven L. Tait, Nian Lin, Chandrasekar Rajadurai, Mario Ruben, and Klaus Kern PMCID: PMC2084273 Engineering From the Cover:
The micro-Petri dish, a million-well growth chip for the culture and high-throughput screening of microorganisms Colin J. Ingham, Ad Sprenkels, Johan Bomer, Douwe Molenaar, Albert van den Berg, Johan E. T. van Hylckama Vlieg, and Willem M. de Vos PMCID: PMC2084323 Environmental Sciences Peaking profiles for achieving long-term temperature targets with more likelihood at lower costs Michel G. J. den Elzen and Detlef P. van Vuuren PMCID: PMC2084274 Geology Contrarian clade confirms the ubiquity of spatial origination patterns in the production of latitudinal diversity gradients Andrew Z. Krug, David Jablonski, and James W. Valentine PMCID: PMC2084308 Geophysics Impact of vegetation removal and soil aridation on diurnal temperature range in a semiarid region: Application to the Sahel Liming Zhou, Robert E. Dickinson, Yuhong Tian, Russell S. Vose, and Yongjiu Dai PMCID: PMC2084275 Physics National scientific facilities and their science impact on nonbiomedical research A. L. Kinney PMCID: PMC2084276 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences From the Cover:
A protein key to plant virus transmission at the tip of the insect vector stylet Marilyne Uzest, Daniel Gargani, Martin Drucker, Eugénie Hébrard, Elisa Garzo, Thierry Candresse, Alberto Fereres, and Stéphane Blanc PMCID: PMC2084279 Applied Biological Sciences Interaction of endosialin/TEM1 with extracellular matrix proteins mediates cell adhesion and migration Brian Tomkowicz, Katherine Rybinski, Brian Foley, Wolfgang Ebel, Brad Kline, Eric Routhier, Philip Sass, Nicholas C. Nicolaides, Luigi Grasso, and Yuhong Zhou PMCID: PMC2084280 From the Cover:
Cell division modulates prion accumulation in cultured cells Sina Ghaemmaghami, Puay-Wah Phuan, Beth Perkins, Julie Ullman, Barnaby C. H. May, Fred E. Cohen, and Stanley B. Prusiner PMCID: PMC2084281 Biochemistry From the Cover:
Hydrogen sulfide mediates the vasoactivity of garlic Gloria A. Benavides, Giuseppe L. Squadrito, Robert W. Mills, Hetal D. Patel, T. Scott Isbell, Rakesh P. Patel, Victor M. Darley-Usmar, Jeannette E. Doeller, and David W. Kraus PMCID: PMC2084282 Remodeling a DNA-binding protein as a specific in vivo inhibitor of bacterial secretin PulD Barbara Mouratou, Francis Schaeffer, Ingrid Guilvout, Diana Tello-Manigne, Anthony P. Pugsley, Pedro M. Alzari, and Frédéric Pecorari PMCID: PMC2084283 The fast release of sticky protons: Kinetics of substrate binding and proton release in a multidrug transporter Yoav Adam, Naama Tayer, Dvir Rotem, Gideon Schreiber, and Shimon Schuldiner PMCID: PMC2084284 Folding of noncoding RNAs during transcription facilitated by pausing-induced nonnative structures Terrence N. Wong, Tobin R. Sosnick, and Tao Pan PMCID: PMC2084285 Mechanism of degradation of CPEB during Xenopus oocyte maturation Daiki Setoyama, Masakane Yamashita, and Noriyuki Sagata PMCID: PMC2084286 Escherichia coli succinate dehydrogenase variant lacking the heme b Quang M. Tran, Richard A. Rothery, Elena Maklashina, Gary Cecchini, and Joel H. Weiner PMCID: PMC2084287 Biophysics Multiple-state reactions between the epidermal growth factor receptor and Grb2 as observed by using single-molecule analysis Miki Morimatsu, Hiroaki Takagi, Kosuke G. Ota, Ryo Iwamoto, Toshio Yanagida, and Yasushi Sako PMCID: PMC2084288 Charge transport and intrinsic fluorescence in amyloid-like fibrils Loretta Laureana del Mercato, Pier Paolo Pompa, Giuseppe Maruccio, Antonio Della Torre, Stefania Sabella, Antonio Mario Tamburro, Roberto Cingolani, and Ross Rinaldi PMCID: PMC2084289 Transport direction determines the kinetics of substrate transport by the glutamate transporter EAAC1 Zhou Zhang, Zhen Tao, Armanda Gameiro, Stephanie Barcelona, Simona Braams, Thomas Rauen, and Christof Grewer PMCID: PMC2084290 The conformation of acetylcholine at its target site in the membrane-embedded nicotinic acetylcholine receptor P. T. F. Williamson, A. Verhoeven, K. W. Miller, B. H. Meier, and A. Watts PMCID: PMC2084291 From the Cover:
Memory in receptor–ligand-mediated cell adhesion Veronika I. Zarnitsyna, Jun Huang, Fang Zhang, Yuan-Hung Chien, Deborah Leckband, and Cheng Zhu PMCID: PMC2084292 Efficient and verified simulation of a path ensemble for conformational change in a united-residue model of calmodulin Bin W. Zhang, David Jasnow, and Daniel M. Zuckerman PMCID: PMC2084293 Coupling of protein and hydration-water dynamics in biological membranes K. Wood, M. Plazanet, F. Gabel, B. Kessler, D. Oesterhelt, D. J. Tobias, G. Zaccai, and M. Weik PMCID: PMC2084294 Illuminating the mechanistic roles of enzyme conformational dynamics Jeffrey A. Hanson, Karl Duderstadt, Lucas P. Watkins, Sucharita Bhattacharyya, Jason Brokaw, Jhih-Wei Chu, and Haw Yang PMCID: PMC2084295 Cell Biology β-arrestin 2 oligomerization controls the Mdm2-dependent inhibition of p53 Cédric Boularan, Mark G. H. Scott, Karima Bourougaa, Myriam Bellal, Emmanuel Esteve, Alain Thuret, Alexandre Benmerah, Marc Tramier, Maité Coppey-Moisan, Catherine Labbé-Jullié, Robin Fåhraeus, and Stefano Marullo PMCID: PMC2084296 ANCCA, an estrogen-regulated AAA+ ATPase coactivator for ERα, is required for coregulator occupancy and chromatin modification June X. Zou, Alexey S. Revenko, Li B. Li, Abigael T. Gemo, and Hong-Wu Chen PMCID: PMC2084297 Hydrophilic protein associated with desiccation tolerance exhibits broad protein stabilization function Sohini Chakrabortee, Chiara Boschetti, Laura J. Walton, Sovan Sarkar, David C. Rubinsztein, and Alan Tunnacliffe PMCID: PMC2084298 Identification of yeast proteins necessary for cell-surface function of a potassium channel Friederike A. Haass, Martin Jonikas, Peter Walter, Jonathan S. Weissman, Yuh-Nung Jan, Lily Y. Jan, and Maya Schuldiner PMCID: PMC2084299 PAX3-FOXO1 controls expression of the p57Kip2 cell-cycle regulator through degradation of EGR1 Wendy Roeb, Antonia Boyer, Webster K. Cavenee, and Karen C. Arden PMCID: PMC2084300 Targeted polyphosphatase expression alters mitochondrial metabolism and inhibits calcium-dependent cell death Andrey Y. Abramov, Cresson Fraley, Catherine T. Diao, Robert Winkfein, Michael A. Colicos, Michael R. Duchen, Robert J. French, and Evgeny Pavlov PMCID: PMC2084301 RNA sequence analysis defines Dicer's role in mouse embryonic stem cells J. Mauro Calabrese, Amy C. Seila, Gene W. Yeo, and Phillip A. Sharp PMCID: PMC2084302 A specific role of AGS3 in the surface expression of plasma membrane proteins B. Groves, Q. Gong, Z. Xu, C. Huntsman, C. Nguyen, D. Li, and D. Ma PMCID: PMC2084303 Developmental Biology Epicardium-derived progenitor cells require β-catenin for coronary artery formation Mónica Zamora, Jörg Männer, and Pilar Ruiz-Lozano PMCID: PMC2084304 Ecology Evidence for a navigational map stretching across the continental U.S. in a migratory songbird Kasper Thorup, Isabelle-A. Bisson, Melissa S. Bowlin, Richard A. Holland, John C. Wingfield, Marilyn Ramenofsky, and Martin Wikelski PMCID: PMC2084305 Bio-foam enhances larval retention in a free-spawning marine tunicate Juan Carlos Castilla, Patricio H. Manríquez, Alejandro P. Delgado, Ligia Gargallo, Angel Leiva, and Deodato Radic PMCID: PMC2084306 Impacts of plant diversity on biomass production increase through time because of species complementarity Bradley J. Cardinale, Justin P. Wright, Marc W. Cadotte, Ian T. Carroll, Andy Hector, Diane S. Srivastava, Michel Loreau, and Jerome J. Weis PMCID: PMC2084307 Evolution Contrarian clade confirms the ubiquity of spatial origination patterns in the production of latitudinal diversity gradients Andrew Z. Krug, David Jablonski, and James W. Valentine PMCID: PMC2084308 Clonal interference in large populations Su-Chan Park and Joachim Krug PMCID: PMC2084309 Conifer ovulate cones accumulate pollen principally by simple impaction James E. Cresswell, Kevin Henning, Christophe Pennel, Mohamed Lahoubi, Michael A. Patrick, Phillipe G. Young, and Gavin R. Tabor PMCID: PMC2084310 Genetics ATM regulates the length of individual telomere tracts in Arabidopsis Laurent Vespa, Ross T. Warrington, Petr Mokros, Jiri Siroky, and Dorothy E. Shippen PMCID: PMC2084311 Functional screening identifies miR-315 as a potent activator of Wingless signaling Serena J. Silver, Joshua W. Hagen, Katsutomo Okamura, Norbert Perrimon, and Eric C. Lai PMCID: PMC2084312 DUX4, a candidate gene of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy, encodes a transcriptional activator of PITX1 Manjusha Dixit, Eugénie Ansseau, Alexandra Tassin, Sara Winokur, Rongye Shi, Hong Qian, Sébastien Sauvage, Christel Mattéotti, Anne M. van Acker, Oberdan Leo, Denise Figlewicz, Marietta Barro, Dalila Laoudj-Chenivesse, Alexandra Belayew, Frédérique Coppée, and Yi-Wen Chen PMCID: PMC2084313 Mutations in ionotropic AMPA receptor 3 alter channel properties and are associated with moderate cognitive impairment in humans Ye Wu, Amy C. Arai, Gavin Rumbaugh, Anand K. Srivastava, Gillian Turner, Takashi Hayashi, Erika Suzuki, Yuwu Jiang, Lilei Zhang, Jayson Rodriguez, Jackie Boyle, Patrick Tarpey, F. Lucy Raymond, Joke Nevelsteen, Guy Froyen, Mike Stratton, Andy Futreal, Jozef Gecz, Roger Stevenson, Charles E. Schwartz, David Valle, Richard L. Huganir, and Tao Wang PMCID: PMC2084314 Immunology Antagonistic nature of T helper 1/2 developmental programs in opposing peripheral induction of Foxp3+ regulatory T cells Jun Wei, Omar Duramad, Olivia A. Perng, Steven L. Reiner, Yong-Jun Liu, and F. Xiao-Feng Qin PMCID: PMC2084315 Developmental pathway of CD4+CD8− medullary thymocytes during mouse ontogeny and its defect in Aire−/− mice Juan Li, Yan Li, Jin-Yan Yao, Rong Jin, Ming-Zhao Zhu, Xiao-Ping Qian, Jun Zhang, Yang-Xin Fu, Li Wu, Yu Zhang, and Wei-Feng Chen PMCID: PMC2084316 Enhanced thymic selection of FoxP3+ regulatory T cells in the NOD mouse model of autoimmune diabetes Markus Feuerer, Wenyu Jiang, Phillip D. Holler, Ansuman Satpathy, Christopher Campbell, Molly Bogue, Diane Mathis, and Christophe Benoist PMCID: PMC2084317 Blockade of NKG2D on NKT cells prevents hepatitis and the acute immune response to hepatitis B virus Sílvia Vilarinho, Kouetsu Ogasawara, Stephen Nishimura, Lewis L. Lanier, and Jody L. Baron PMCID: PMC2084318 Danger-free autoimmune disease in Aire-deficient mice Daniel H. D. Gray, Irina Gavanescu, Christophe Benoist, and Diane Mathis PMCID: PMC2084319 Medical Sciences α-Catenin is essential in intestinal adenoma formation Hiroyuki Shibata, Hiroshi Takano, Masaki Ito, Hisashi Shioya, Morihisa Hirota, Hiroshi Matsumoto, Yuichi Kakudo, Chikashi Ishioka, Tetsu Akiyama, Yumi Kanegae, Izumu Saito, and Tetsuo Noda PMCID: PMC2084320 Melanocortin 2 receptor is required for adrenal gland development, steroidogenesis, and neonatal gluconeogenesis Dai Chida, Shinichi Nakagawa, So Nagai, Hiroshi Sagara, Harumi Katsumata, Toshihiro Imaki, Harumi Suzuki, Fumiko Mitani, Tadashi Ogishima, Chikara Shimizu, Hayato Kotaki, Shigeru Kakuta, Katsuko Sudo, Takao Koike, Mitsumasa Kubo, and Yoichiro Iwakura PMCID: PMC2084321 Blood gene expression signatures predict exposure levels P. R. Bushel, A. N. Heinloth, J. Li, L. Huang, J. W. Chou, G. A. Boorman, D. E. Malarkey, C. D. Houle, S. M. Ward, R. E. Wilson, R. D. Fannin, M. W. Russo, P. B. Watkins, R. W. Tennant, and R. S. Paules PMCID: PMC2084322 Microbiology From the Cover:
The micro-Petri dish, a million-well growth chip for the culture and high-throughput screening of microorganisms Colin J. Ingham, Ad Sprenkels, Johan Bomer, Douwe Molenaar, Albert van den Berg, Johan E. T. van Hylckama Vlieg, and Willem M. de Vos PMCID: PMC2084323 Circadian rhythmicity mediated by temporal regulation of the activity of p38 MAPK Michael W. Vitalini, Renato M. de Paula, Charles S. Goldsmith, Carol A. Jones, Katherine A. Borkovich, and Deborah Bell-Pedersen PMCID: PMC2084324 An in vivo expression technology screen for Vibrio cholerae genes expressed in human volunteers Mary-Jane Lombardo, Jane Michalski, Hector Martinez-Wilson, Cara Morin, Tamara Hilton, Carlos G. Osorio, James P. Nataro, Carol O. Tacket, Andrew Camilli, and James B. Kaper PMCID: PMC2084325 An influenza virus replicon system in yeast identified Tat-SF1 as a stimulatory host factor for viral RNA synthesis Tadasuke Naito, Yoshihiko Kiyasu, Kenji Sugiyama, Ayumi Kimura, Ryosuke Nakano, Akio Matsukage, and Kyosuke Nagata PMCID: PMC2084326 A photosensory two-component system regulates bacterial cell attachment Erin B. Purcell, Dan Siegal-Gaskins, David C. Rawling, Aretha Fiebig, and Sean Crosson PMCID: PMC2084327 Mutational activation of niche-specific genes provides insight into regulatory networks and bacterial function in a complex environment Stephen R. Giddens, Robert W. Jackson, Christina D. Moon, Michael A. Jacobs, Xue-Xian Zhang, Stefanie M. Gehrig, and Paul B. Rainey PMCID: PMC2084328 Neuroscience Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisions Hackjin Kim, Ralph Adolphs, John P. O'Doherty, and Shinsuke Shimojo PMCID: PMC2084329 Overexpression of wild-type androgen receptor in muscle recapitulates polyglutamine disease Douglas Ashley Monks, Jamie A. Johansen, Kaiguo Mo, Pengcheng Rao, Bryn Eagleson, Zhigang Yu, Andrew P. Lieberman, S. Marc Breedlove, and Cynthia L. Jordan PMCID: PMC2084330 Synchronized delta oscillations correlate with the resting-state functional MRI signal Hanbing Lu, Yantao Zuo, Hong Gu, James A. Waltz, Wang Zhan, Clara A. Scholl, William Rea, Yihong Yang, and Elliot A. Stein PMCID: PMC2084331 Mg2+ mediates interaction between the voltage sensor and cytosolic domain to activate BK channels Huanghe Yang, Lei Hu, Jingyi Shi, Kelli Delaloye, Frank T. Horrigan, and Jianmin Cui PMCID: PMC2084332 From the Cover:
Leptin replacement alters brain response to food cues in genetically leptin-deficient adults Kate Baicy, Edythe D. London, John Monterosso, Ma-Li Wong, Tuncay Delibasi, Anil Sharma, and Julio Licinio PMCID: PMC2084333 Specific developmental disruption of disrupted-in-schizophrenia-1 function results in schizophrenia-related phenotypes in mice Weidong Li, Yu Zhou, J. David Jentsch, Robert A. M. Brown, Xiaoli Tian, Dan Ehninger, William Hennah, Leena Peltonen, Jouko Lönnqvist, Matti O. Huttunen, Jaakko Kaprio, Joshua T. Trachtenberg, Alcino J. Silva, and Tyrone D. Cannon PMCID: PMC2084334 Processing of tactile information by the hippocampus Antonio Pereira, Sidarta Ribeiro, Michael Wiest, Leonardo C. Moore, Janaina Pantoja, Shih-Chieh Lin, and Miguel A. L. Nicolelis PMCID: PMC2084335 Arousal of cerebral cortex electroencephalogram consequent to high-frequency stimulation of ventral medullary reticular formation Hui-Bing Wu, Mihaela Stavarache, Donald W. Pfaff, and Lee-Ming Kow PMCID: PMC2084336 Stress-induced alterations in hippocampal plasticity, place cells, and spatial memory Jeansok J. Kim, Hongjoo J. Lee, Adam C. Welday, EunYoung Song, Jeiwon Cho, Patricia E. Sharp, Min W. Jung, and Hugh T. Blair PMCID: PMC2084337 Pharmacology Dimerization of the thyrotropin-releasing hormone receptor potentiates hormone-dependent receptor phosphorylation Gyun Jee Song, Brian W. Jones, and Patricia M. Hinkle PMCID: PMC2084338 Physiology Loss of luminal Ca2+ activation in the cardiac ryanodine receptor is associated with ventricular fibrillation and sudden death Dawei Jiang, Wenqian Chen, Ruiwu Wang, Lin Zhang, and S. R. Wayne Chen PMCID: PMC2084339 Maternal heparin-binding-EGF deficiency limits pregnancy success in mice Huirong Xie, Haibin Wang, Susanne Tranguch, Ryo Iwamoto, Eisuke Mekada, Francesco J. DeMayo, John P. Lydon, Sanjoy K. Das, and Sudhansu K. Dey PMCID: PMC2084340 Activating mutation in a mucolipin transient receptor potential channel leads to melanocyte loss in varitint–waddler mice Haoxing Xu, Markus Delling, Linyu Li, Xianping Dong, and David E. Clapham PMCID: PMC2084341 Plant Biology INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Different mechanisms for phytoalexin induction by pathogen and wound signals in Medicago truncatulaMarina Naoumkina, Mohamed A. Farag, Lloyd W. Sumner, Yuhong Tang, Chang-Jun Liu, and Richard A. Dixon PMCID: PMC2084270 Temporal and spatial activation of caspase-like enzymes induced by self-incompatibility in Papaver pollen Maurice Bosch and Vernonica E. Franklin-Tong PMCID: PMC2084342 Tyrosine-sulfated glycopeptide involved in cellular proliferation and expansion in Arabidopsis Yukari Amano, Hiroko Tsubouchi, Hidefumi Shinohara, Mari Ogawa, and Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi PMCID: PMC2084343 Identification of acyltransferases required for cutin biosynthesis and production of cutin with suberin-like monomers Yonghua Li, Fred Beisson, Abraham J. K. Koo, Isabel Molina, Mike Pollard, and John Ohlrogge PMCID: PMC2084344 Social Sciences Psychology Predicting political elections from rapid and unreflective face judgments Charles C. Ballew, II and Alexander Todorov PMCID: PMC2084277 Social Sciences Socialization between toddlers and robots at an early childhood education center Fumihide Tanaka, Aaron Cicourel, and Javier R. Movellan PMCID: PMC2084278 |
