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Volume 105(9);  March 4, 2008
This Week in PNAS
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3171–3172. doi: 10.1073/iti0908105.
PMCID: PMC2265159
Commentaries
Modulated pairs in superconducting cuprates
Michael R. Norman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3173–3174. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800433105.
PMCID: PMC2265151
Canoes and cultural evolution
Stephen Shennan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3175–3176. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800666105.
PMCID: PMC2265163
Chance favors a prepared genome
Jonathan P. Stoye and Melvyn W. Yap
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3177–3178. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800667105.
PMCID: PMC2265119
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Limbless undulatory propulsion on land
Z. V. Guo and L. Mahadevan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3179–3184. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705442105.
PMCID: PMC2265148
Chemistry
Solvent molecules bridge the mechanical unfolding transition state of a protein
Lorna Dougan, Gang Feng, Hui Lu, and Julio M. Fernandez
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3185–3190. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706075105.
PMCID: PMC2265161
Engineering
Microfluidic high-throughput encapsulation and hydrodynamic self-sorting of single cells
Max Chabert and Jean-Louis Viovy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3191–3196. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708321105.
PMCID: PMC2265149
Nanometer-scale mapping and single-molecule detection with color-coded nanoparticle probes
Amit Agrawal, Rajesh Deo, Geoffrey D. Wang, May D. Wang, and Shuming Nie
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3298–3303. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712351105.
PMCID: PMC2265145
Geology
Pulsed oxidation and biological evolution in the Ediacaran Doushantuo Formation
Kathleen A. McFadden, Jing Huang, Xuelei Chu, Ganqing Jiang, Alan J. Kaufman, Chuanming Zhou, Xunlai Yuan, and Shuhai Xiao
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3197–3202. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708336105.
PMCID: PMC2265117
Physics
From the Cover:
Imaging the impact on cuprate superconductivity of varying the interatomic distances within individual crystal unit cells
J. A. Slezak, Jinho Lee, M. Wang, K. McElroy, K. Fujita, B. M. Andersen, P. J. Hirschfeld, H. Eisaki, S. Uchida, and J. C. Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3203–3208. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706795105.
PMCID: PMC2265138
Statistics
Centroid estimation in discrete high-dimensional spaces with applications in biology
Luis E. Carvalho and Charles E. Lawrence
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3209–3214. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712329105.
PMCID: PMC2265131
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
Cosmogenic nuclide dating of Sahelanthropus tchadensis and Australopithecus bahrelghazali: Mio-Pliocene hominids from Chad
Anne-Elisabeth Lebatard, Didier L. Bourlès, Philippe Duringer, Marc Jolivet, Régis Braucher, Julien Carcaillet, Mathieu Schuster, Nicolas Arnaud, Patrick Monié, Fabrice Lihoreau, Andossa Likius, Hassan Taisso Mackaye, Patrick Vignaud, and Michel Brunet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3226–3231. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708015105.
PMCID: PMC2265126
Applied Biological Sciences
Engineering of mucin-type human glycoproteins in yeast cells
Koh Amano, Yasunori Chiba, Yoshiko Kasahara, Yukinari Kato, Mika Kato Kaneko, Atsushi Kuno, Hiromi Ito, Kazuo Kobayashi, Jun Hirabayashi, Yoshifumi Jigami, and Hisashi Narimatsu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3232–3237. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710412105.
PMCID: PMC2265114
Biochemistry
Two-step site selection for serine-integrase-mediated excision: DNA-directed integrase conformation and central dinucleotide proofreading
Pallavi Ghosh, Lori A. Bibb, and Graham F. Hatfull
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3238–3243. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711649105.
PMCID: PMC2265153
Mitochondrial deafness alleles confer misreading of the genetic code
Sven N. Hobbie, Christian M. Bruell, Subramanian Akshay, Sarath K. Kalapala, Dmitry Shcherbakov, and Erik C. Böttger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3244–3249. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707265105.
PMCID: PMC2265171
The enzyme mechanism of nitrite reductase studied at single-molecule level
Sofya Kuznetsova, Gerhild Zauner, Thijs J. Aartsma, Hans Engelkamp, Nikos Hatzakis, Alan E. Rowan, Roeland J. M. Nolte, Peter C. M. Christianen, and Gerard W. Canters
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3250–3255. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707736105.
PMCID: PMC2265120
Phenylalanine-508 mediates a cytoplasmic–membrane domain contact in the CFTR 3D structure crucial to assembly and channel function
Adrian W. R. Serohijos, Tamás Hegedűs, Andrei A. Aleksandrov, Lihua He, Liying Cui, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, and John R. Riordan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3256–3261. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800254105.
PMCID: PMC2265173
Cloning and identification of an oxytocin/vasopressin-like receptor and its ligand from insects
Elisabeth Stafflinger, Karina K. Hansen, Frank Hauser, Martina Schneider, Giuseppe Cazzamali, Michael Williamson, and Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3262–3267. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710897105.
PMCID: PMC2265169
On the evolutionary significance and metal-binding characteristics of a monolobal transferrin from Ciona intestinalis
Arthur D. Tinoco, Cynthia W. Peterson, Baldo Lucchese, Robert P. Doyle, and Ann M. Valentine
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3268–3273. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705037105.
PMCID: PMC2265155
PDCD4 inhibits translation initiation by binding to eIF4A using both its MA3 domains
Chikako Suzuki, Robert G. Garces, Katherine A. Edmonds, Sebastian Hiller, Sven G. Hyberts, Assen Marintchev, and Gerhard Wagner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3274–3279. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712235105.
PMCID: PMC2265113
Structure of glycerol-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, an essential monotopic membrane enzyme involved in respiration and metabolism
Joanne I. Yeh, Unmesh Chinte, and Shoucheng Du
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3280–3285. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712331105.
PMCID: PMC2265192
Metal active site elasticity linked to activation of homocysteine in methionine synthases
Markos Koutmos, Robert Pejchal, Theresa M. Bomer, Rowena G. Matthews, Janet L. Smith, and Martha L. Ludwig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3286–3291. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709960105.
PMCID: PMC2265165
Fine structure of the promoter–σ region 1.2 interaction
Shanil P. Haugen, Wilma Ross, Michele Manrique, and Richard L. Gourse
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3292–3297. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709513105.
PMCID: PMC2265156
Biophysics
Limbless undulatory propulsion on land
Z. V. Guo and L. Mahadevan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3179–3184. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705442105.
PMCID: PMC2265148
Nanometer-scale mapping and single-molecule detection with color-coded nanoparticle probes
Amit Agrawal, Rajesh Deo, Geoffrey D. Wang, May D. Wang, and Shuming Nie
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3298–3303. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712351105.
PMCID: PMC2265145
Relationship between cellular response and behavioral variability in bacterial chemotaxis
Thierry Emonet and Philippe Cluzel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3304–3309. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705463105.
PMCID: PMC2265172
Gating at the selectivity filter in cyclic nucleotide-gated channels
Jorge E. Contreras, Deepa Srikumar, and Miguel Holmgren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3310–3314. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709809105.
PMCID: PMC2265121
Monitoring RNA transcription in real time by using surface plasmon resonance
Sandra J. Greive, Steven E. Weitzel, Jim P. Goodarzi, Lisa J. Main, Zvi Pasman, and Peter H. von Hippel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3315–3320. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712074105.
PMCID: PMC2265150
Assessing the solvent-dependent surface area of unfolded proteins using an ensemble model
Haipeng Gong and George D. Rose
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3321–3326. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712240105.
PMCID: PMC2265189
Cell Biology
Microfluidic high-throughput encapsulation and hydrodynamic self-sorting of single cells
Max Chabert and Jean-Louis Viovy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3191–3196. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708321105.
PMCID: PMC2265149
Yeast Pch2 promotes domainal axis organization, timely recombination progression, and arrest of defective recombinosomes during meiosis
G. Valentin Börner, Aekam Barot, and Nancy Kleckner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3327–3332. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711864105.
PMCID: PMC2265181
A GATA-1-regulated microRNA locus essential for erythropoiesis
Louis C. Dore, Julio D. Amigo, Camila O. dos Santos, Zhe Zhang, Xiaowu Gai, John W. Tobias, Duonan Yu, Alyssa M. Klein, Christine Dorman, Weisheng Wu, Ross C. Hardison, Barry H. Paw, and Mitchell J. Weiss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3333–3338. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712312105.
PMCID: PMC2265118
Glucocorticoids differentially regulate degradation of MyoD and Id1 by N-terminal ubiquitination to promote muscle protein catabolism
Liping Sun, Julie S. Trausch-Azar, Louis J. Muglia, and Alan L. Schwartz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3339–3344. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800165105.
PMCID: PMC2265166
Shear stress regulates aquaporin-5 and airway epithelial barrier function
Venkataramana K. Sidhaye, Kelly S. Schweitzer, Michael J. Caterina, Larissa Shimoda, and Landon S. King
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3345–3350. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712287105.
PMCID: PMC2265191
A trans-Golgi network golgin is required for the regulated secretion of TNF in activated macrophages in vivo
Zi Zhao Lieu, John G. Lock, Luke A. Hammond, Nicole L. La Gruta, Jennifer L. Stow, and Paul A. Gleeson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3351–3356. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800137105.
PMCID: PMC2265200
Association of guanine nucleotide-exchange protein BIG1 in HepG2 cell nuclei with nucleolin, U3 snoRNA, and fibrillarin
Philip Ian Padilla, Marina Uhart, Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez, Brenda A. Peculis, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3357–3361. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712387105.
PMCID: PMC2265132
Myocardin inhibits cellular proliferation by inhibiting NF-κB(p65)-dependent cell cycle progression
Ru-hang Tang, Xi-Long Zheng, Thomas E. Callis, William E. Stansfield, Jiayin He, Albert S. Baldwin, Da-Zhi Wang, and Craig H. Selzman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3362–3367. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705842105.
PMCID: PMC2265140
Interaction with factor inhibiting HIF-1 defines an additional mode of cross-coupling between the Notch and hypoxia signaling pathways
Xiaofeng Zheng, Sarah Linke, José M. Dias, Xiaowei Zheng, Katarina Gradin, Tristan P. Wallis, Brett R. Hamilton, Maria Gustafsson, Jorge L. Ruas, Sarah Wilkins, Rebecca L. Bilton, Kerstin Brismar, Murray L. Whitelaw, Teresa Pereira, Jeffrey J. Gorman, Johan Ericson, Daniel J. Peet, Urban Lendahl, and Lorenz Poellinger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3368–3373. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711591105.
PMCID: PMC2265116
A role for the NAD-dependent deacetylase Sirt1 in the regulation of autophagy
In Hye Lee, Liu Cao, Raul Mostoslavsky, David B. Lombard, Jie Liu, Nicholas E. Bruns, Maria Tsokos, Frederick W. Alt, and Toren Finkel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3374–3379. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712145105.
PMCID: PMC2265142
Loss of Bardet–Biedl syndrome proteins alters the morphology and function of motile cilia in airway epithelia
Alok S. Shah, Sara L. Farmen, Thomas O. Moninger, Thomas R. Businga, Michael P. Andrews, Kevin Bugge, Charles C. Searby, Darryl Nishimura, Kim A. Brogden, Joel N. Kline, Val C. Sheffield, and Michael J. Welsh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3380–3385. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712327105.
PMCID: PMC2265193
Splicing promotes rapid and efficient mRNA export in mammalian cells
Patricia Valencia, Anusha P. Dias, and Robin Reed
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3386–3391. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800250105.
PMCID: PMC2265164
Developmental Biology
Highly efficient and large-scale generation of functional dopamine neurons from human embryonic stem cells
Myung Soo Cho, Young-Eun Lee, Ji Young Kim, Seungsoo Chung, Yoon Hee Cho, Dae-Sung Kim, Sang-Moon Kang, Haksup Lee, Myung-Hwa Kim, Jeong-Hoon Kim, Joong Woo Leem, Sun Kyung Oh, Young Min Choi, Dong-Youn Hwang, Jin Woo Chang, and Dong-Wook Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3392–3397. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712359105.
PMCID: PMC2265201
Border formation in a Bmp gradient reduced to single dissociated cells
Jia Sheng Hu, Linda T. Doan, D. Spencer Currle, Michelle Paff, Justin Y. Rheem, Rachel Schreyer, Benoit Robert, and Edwin S. Monuki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3398–3403. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709100105.
PMCID: PMC2265170
Ecology
From the Cover:
Behavioral consequences of innate preferences and olfactory learning in hawkmoth–flower interactions
Jeffrey A. Riffell, Ruben Alarcón, Leif Abrell, Goggy Davidowitz, Judith L. Bronstein, and John G. Hildebrand
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3404–3409. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709811105.
PMCID: PMC2265144
Impact of an extreme climatic event on community assembly
Katherine M. Thibault and James H. Brown
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3410–3415. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712282105.
PMCID: PMC2265133
Evolution
Distinct genomic signatures of adaptation in pre- and postnatal environments during human evolution
Monica Uddin, Morris Goodman, Offer Erez, Roberto Romero, Guozhen Liu, Munirul Islam, Juan C. Opazo, Chet C. Sherwood, Lawrence I. Grossman, and Derek E. Wildman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3215–3220. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712400105.
PMCID: PMC2265188
From the Cover:
Natural selection and cultural rates of change
Deborah S. Rogers and Paul R. Ehrlich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3416–3420. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711802105.
PMCID: PMC2265130
A genome-wide signature of positive selection in ancient and recent invasive expansions of the honey bee Apis mellifera
Amro Zayed and Charles W. Whitfield
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3421–3426. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800107105.
PMCID: PMC2265178
Whole-genome analysis reveals molecular innovations and evolutionary transitions in chromalveolate species
Cindy Martens, Klaas Vandepoele, and Yves Van de Peer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3427–3432. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712248105.
PMCID: PMC2265158
Replication timing, chromosomal bands, and isochores
Maria Costantini and Giorgio Bernardi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3433–3437. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710587105.
PMCID: PMC2265141
Genetics
Centroid estimation in discrete high-dimensional spaces with applications in biology
Luis E. Carvalho and Charles E. Lawrence
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3209–3214. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712329105.
PMCID: PMC2265131
Functionally significant insulin-like growth factor I receptor mutations in centenarians
Yousin Suh, Gil Atzmon, Mi-Ook Cho, David Hwang, Bingrong Liu, Daniel J. Leahy, Nir Barzilai, and Pinchas Cohen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3438–3442. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705467105.
PMCID: PMC2265137
Chromatid cohesion defects may underlie chromosome instability in human colorectal cancers
Thomas D. Barber, Kirk McManus, Karen W. Y. Yuen, Marcelo Reis, Giovanni Parmigiani, Dong Shen, Irene Barrett, Yasaman Nouhi, Forrest Spencer, Sanford Markowitz, Victor E. Velculescu, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, Christoph Lengauer, and Philip Hieter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3443–3448. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712384105.
PMCID: PMC2265152
Genetic interaction between members of the Vangl family causes neural tube defects in mice
Elena Torban, Anne-Marie Patenaude, Severine Leclerc, Staci Rakowiecki, Susan Gauthier, Gregor Andelfinger, Douglas J. Epstein, and Philippe Gros
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3449–3454. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712126105.
PMCID: PMC2265143
A translocation causing increased α-Klotho level results in hypophosphatemic rickets and hyperparathyroidism
Catherine A. Brownstein, Felix Adler, Carol Nelson-Williams, Junko Iijima, Peining Li, Akihiro Imura, Yo-ichi Nabeshima, Miguel Reyes-Mugica, Thomas O. Carpenter, and Richard P. Lifton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3455–3460. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712361105.
PMCID: PMC2265125
Defining genetic interaction
Ramamurthy Mani, Robert P. St.Onge, John L. Hartman, IV, Guri Giaever, and Frederick P. Roth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3461–3466. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712255105.
PMCID: PMC2265146
DNA instability in postmitotic neurons
Roman Gonitel, Hilary Moffitt, Kirupa Sathasivam, Ben Woodman, Peter J. Detloff, Richard L. M. Faull, and Gillian P. Bates
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3467–3472. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800048105.
PMCID: PMC2265187
Whole-genome comparison of disease and carriage strains provides insights into virulence evolution in Neisseria meningitidis
Christoph Schoen, Jochen Blom, Heike Claus, Anja Schramm-Glück, Petra Brandt, Tobias Müller, Alexander Goesmann, Biju Joseph, Sebastian Konietzny, Oliver Kurzai, Corinna Schmitt, Torben Friedrich, Burkhard Linke, Ulrich Vogel, and Matthias Frosch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3473–3478. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800151105.
PMCID: PMC2265139
Immunology
Induction of antigen-specific regulatory T cells in wild-type mice: Visualization and targets of suppression
Panayotis Verginis, Katherine A. McLaughlin, Kai W. Wucherpfennig, Harald von Boehmer, and Irina Apostolou
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3479–3484. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800149105.
PMCID: PMC2265184
Broad dispersion and lung localization of virus-specific memory B cells induced by influenza pneumonia
Hye Mee Joo, Yuxia He, and Mark Y. Sangster
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3485–3490. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800003105.
PMCID: PMC2265167
MHC class II stabilization at the surface of human dendritic cells is the result of maturation-dependent MARCH I down-regulation
Aude De Gassart, Voahirana Camosseto, Jacques Thibodeau, Maurizio Ceppi, Nadia Catalan, Philippe Pierre, and Evelina Gatti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3491–3496. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708874105.
PMCID: PMC2265198
Notch regulates IL-10 production by T helper 1 cells
Sascha Rutz, Marko Janke, Nadine Kassner, Thordis Hohnstein, Manuela Krueger, and Alexander Scheffold
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3497–3502. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712102105.
PMCID: PMC2265185
Control of canonical NF-κB activation through the NIK–IKK complex pathway
Brian Zarnegar, Soh Yamazaki, Jeannie Q. He, and Genhong Cheng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3503–3508. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707959105.
PMCID: PMC2265190
SPAS-1 (stimulator of prostatic adenocarcinoma-specific T cells)/SH3GLB2: A prostate tumor antigen identified by CTLA-4 blockade
Marcella Fassò, Rebecca Waitz, Yafei Hou, Tae Rim, Norman M. Greenberg, Nilabh Shastri, Lawrence Fong, and James P. Allison
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3509–3514. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712269105.
PMCID: PMC2265147
Interleukin-32 induces the differentiation of monocytes into macrophage-like cells
Mihai G. Netea, Eli C. Lewis, Tania Azam, Leo A. B. Joosten, Jun Jaekal, Su-Young Bae, Charles A. Dinarello, and Soo-Hyun Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3515–3520. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712381105.
PMCID: PMC2265135
Medical Sciences
Transcriptome sequencing of malignant pleural mesothelioma tumors
David J. Sugarbaker, William G. Richards, Gavin J. Gordon, Lingsheng Dong, Assunta De Rienzo, Gautam Maulik, Jonathan N. Glickman, Lucian R. Chirieac, Mor-Li Hartman, Bruce E. Taillon, Lei Du, Pascal Bouffard, Stephen F. Kingsmore, Neil A. Miller, Andrew D. Farmer, Roderick V. Jensen, Steven R. Gullans, and Raphael Bueno
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3521–3526. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712399105.
PMCID: PMC2265129
Both ovarian hormones estrogen and progesterone are necessary for hormonal mammary carcinogenesis in ovariectomized ACI rats
Edward W. Blank, Po-Yin Wong, Rajkumar Lakshmanaswamy, Raphael Guzman, and Satyabrata Nandi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3527–3532. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710535105.
PMCID: PMC2265202
PD-1 deficiency reveals various tissue-specific autoimmunity by H-2b and dose-dependent requirement of H-2g7 for diabetes in NOD mice
Taku Yoshida, Fang Jiang, Tasuku Honjo, and Taku Okazaki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3533–3538. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710951105.
PMCID: PMC2265199
Mesenchymal–epithelial interactions involving epiregulin in tuberous sclerosis complex hamartomas
Shaowei Li, Fumiko Takeuchi, Ji-an Wang, Qingyuan Fan, Toshi Komurasaki, Eric M. Billings, Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez, Joel Moss, and Thomas N. Darling
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3539–3544. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712397105.
PMCID: PMC2265180
Overexpression of the dual-specificity phosphatase MKP-4/DUSP-9 protects against stress-induced insulin resistance
Brice Emanuelli, Delphine Eberlé, Ryo Suzuki, and C. Ronald Kahn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3545–3550. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712275105.
PMCID: PMC2265194
Intestinal alkaline phosphatase is a gut mucosal defense factor maintained by enteral nutrition
Ross F. Goldberg, William G. Austen, Jr., Xiaobo Zhang, Gitonga Munene, Golam Mostafa, Shaluk Biswas, Michael McCormack, Kyle R. Eberlin, John T. Nguyen, Hamit S. Tatlidede, H. Shaw Warren, Sonoko Narisawa, Jose L. Millán, and Richard A. Hodin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3551–3556. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712140105.
PMCID: PMC2265168
Microbiology
From the Cover:
Independent evolution of an antiviral TRIMCyp in rhesus macaques
Sam J. Wilson, Benjamin L. J. Webb, Laura M. J. Ylinen, Ernst Verschoor, Jonathan L. Heeney, and Greg J. Towers
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3557–3562. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709003105.
PMCID: PMC2265179
From the Cover:
Independent genesis of chimeric TRIM5-cyclophilin proteins in two primate species
Cesar A. Virgen, Zerina Kratovac, Paul D. Bieniasz, and Theodora Hatziioannou
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3563–3568. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709258105.
PMCID: PMC2265128
From the Cover:
TRIMCyp expression in Old World primates Macaca nemestrina and Macaca fascicularis
Greg Brennan, Yury Kozyrev, and Shiu-Lok Hu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3569–3574. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709511105.
PMCID: PMC2265124
Protection from fatal viral encephalomyelitis: AMPA receptor antagonists have a direct effect on the inflammatory response to infection
Ivorlyne P. Greene, Eun-Young Lee, Natalie Prow, Brownhilda Ngwang, and Diane E. Griffin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3575–3580. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712390105.
PMCID: PMC2265123
Neuroscience
From the Cover:
Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults
A. Franklin, G. V. Drivonikou, L. Bevis, I. R. L. Davies, P. Kay, and T. Regier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3221–3225. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712286105.
PMCID: PMC2265127
Origin and progeny of reactive gliosis: A source of multipotent cells in the injured brain
Annalisa Buffo, Inmaculada Rite, Pratibha Tripathi, Alexandra Lepier, Dilek Colak, Ana-Paula Horn, Tetsuji Mori, and Magdalena Götz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3581–3586. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709002105.
PMCID: PMC2265175
Altered morphology and 3D architecture of brain vasculature in a mouse model for Alzheimer's disease
Eric P. Meyer, Alexandra Ulmann-Schuler, Matthias Staufenbiel, and Thomas Krucker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3587–3592. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709788105.
PMCID: PMC2265182
Large-scale model of mammalian thalamocortical systems
Eugene M. Izhikevich and Gerald M. Edelman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3593–3598. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712231105.
PMCID: PMC2265160
Human single-neuron responses at the threshold of conscious recognition
R. Quian Quiroga, R. Mukamel, E. A. Isham, R. Malach, and I. Fried
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3599–3604. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707043105.
PMCID: PMC2265174
fMRI mapping of a morphed continuum of 3D shapes within inferior temporal cortex
Roger B. H. Tootell, Kathryn J. Devaney, Jeremy C. Young, Gheorghe Postelnicu, Reza Rajimehr, and Leslie G. Ungerleider
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3605–3609. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712274105.
PMCID: PMC2265115
Peptidergic influences on proliferation, migration, and placement of neural progenitors in the adult mouse forebrain
Davor Stanić, Gustavo Paratcha, Fernanda Ledda, Herbert Herzog, Alan S. Kopin, and Tomas Hökfelt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3610–3615. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712303105.
PMCID: PMC2265196
Regulation of synaptic inhibition by phospho-dependent binding of the AP2 complex to a YECL motif in the GABAA receptor γ2 subunit
Josef T. Kittler, Guojun Chen, Viktoria Kukhtina, Ardeschir Vahedi-Faridi, Zhenglin Gu, Verena Tretter, Katharine R. Smith, Kristina McAinsh, I. Lorena Arancibia-Carcamo, Wolfram Saenger, Volker Haucke, Zhen Yan, and Stephen J. Moss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3616–3621. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707920105.
PMCID: PMC2265186
Akt and CHIP coregulate tau degradation through coordinated interactions
Chad A. Dickey, John Koren, Yong-Jie Zhang, Ya-fei Xu, Umesh K. Jinwal, Morris J. Birnbaum, Bobby Monks, Mei Sun, Jin Q. Cheng, Cam Patterson, Rachel M. Bailey, Judith Dunmore, Sareh Soresh, Carlos Leon, Dave Morgan, and Leonard Petrucelli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3622–3627. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709180105.
PMCID: PMC2265134
Pharmacology
Pharmacological disruption of calcium channel trafficking by the α2δ ligand gabapentin
Jan Hendrich, Alexandra Tran Van Minh, Fay Heblich, Manuela Nieto-Rostro, Katrin Watschinger, Jörg Striessnig, Jack Wratten, Anthony Davies, and Annette C. Dolphin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3628–3633. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708930105.
PMCID: PMC2265195
Physiology
Proteomic analysis of lithium-induced nephrogenic diabetes insipidus: Mechanisms for aquaporin 2 down-regulation and cellular proliferation
Jakob Nielsen, Jason D. Hoffert, Mark A. Knepper, Peter Agre, Søren Nielsen, and Robert A. Fenton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3634–3639. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800001105.
PMCID: PMC2265122
Plant Biology
Microarray analyses reveal that plant mutagenesis may induce more transcriptomic changes than transgene insertion
Rita Batista, Nelson Saibo, Tiago Lourenço, and Maria Margarida Oliveira
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3640–3645. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707881105.
PMCID: PMC2265136
Distinct regulatory role for RFL, the rice LFY homolog, in determining flowering time and plant architecture
Nagashree N. Rao, Kalika Prasad, Puja Ravi Kumar, and Usha Vijayraghavan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3646–3651. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709059105.
PMCID: PMC2265177
Psychology
Prefrontal and amygdala volumes are related to adolescents' affective behaviors during parent–adolescent interactions
Sarah Whittle, Marie B. H. Yap, Murat Yücel, Alex Fornito, Julian G. Simmons, Anna Barrett, Lisa Sheeber, and Nicholas B. Allen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3652–3657. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709815105.
PMCID: PMC2265176
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Distinct genomic signatures of adaptation in pre- and postnatal environments during human evolution
Monica Uddin, Morris Goodman, Offer Erez, Roberto Romero, Guozhen Liu, Munirul Islam, Juan C. Opazo, Chet C. Sherwood, Lawrence I. Grossman, and Derek E. Wildman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3215–3220. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712400105.
PMCID: PMC2265188
Psychology
From the Cover:
Categorical perception of color is lateralized to the right hemisphere in infants, but to the left hemisphere in adults
A. Franklin, G. V. Drivonikou, L. Bevis, I. R. L. Davies, P. Kay, and T. Regier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3221–3225. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712286105.
PMCID: PMC2265127
Prefrontal and amygdala volumes are related to adolescents' affective behaviors during parent–adolescent interactions
Sarah Whittle, Marie B. H. Yap, Murat Yücel, Alex Fornito, Julian G. Simmons, Anna Barrett, Lisa Sheeber, and Nicholas B. Allen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3652–3657. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709815105.
PMCID: PMC2265176
Corrections
Correction for Olson, Gravitational dynamos and the low-frequency geomagnetic secular variation
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3658. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800480105.
PMCID: PMC2265197
Corrects: P. Olson. Gravitational dynamos and the low-frequency geomagnetic secular variation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 18; 104(51): 20159–20166.
Correction for Cotrell et al., Instability in pipe flow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3658. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801024105.
PMCID: PMC2265162
Corrects: D. L. Cotrell, et al. Instability in pipe flow. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 15; 105(2): 428–430.
Correction for Li et al., The globular tail domain puts on the brake to stop the ATPase cycle of myosin Va
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3658. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801004105.
PMCID: PMC2265183
Corrects: Xiang-dong Li, et al. The globular tail domain puts on the brake to stop the ATPase cycle of myosin Va. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 29; 105(4): 1140–1145.
Correction for Zhao et al., Linking pattern formation to cell-type specification: Dichaete and Ind directly repress achaete gene expression in the Drosophila CNS
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3658. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800385105.
PMCID: PMC2265154
Corrects: Guoyan Zhao, et al. Linking pattern formation to cell-type specification: Dichaete and Ind directly repress achaete gene expression in the Drosophila CNS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 March 6; 104(10): 3847–3852.
Retraction
Retraction for Holweg and Nick, Arabidopsis myosin XI mutant is defective in organelle movement and polar auxin transport
Carola Holweg and Peter Nick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 March 4; 105(9): 3658. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801065105.
PMCID: PMC2265157
Retracts: Carola Holweg, et al. Arabidopsis myosin XI mutant is defective in organelle movement and polar auxin transport. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 July 13; 101(28): 10488–10493.
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