| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Commentary On the road to selenocysteine Alan M. Diamond Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13395–13396. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405357101.PMCID: PMC518767 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences From the Cover: Ten- to 50-nm-long quasi-ballistic carbon nanotube devices obtained without complex lithography Ali Javey, Pengfei Qi, Qian Wang, and Hongjie Dai Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13408–13410. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404450101.PMCID: PMC518770 Chemistry Ultrafast hydration dynamics in protein unfolding: Human serum albumin J. K. Amisha Kamal, Liang Zhao, and Ahmed H. Zewail Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13411–13416. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405724101.PMCID: PMC518771 Improved peptide identification in proteomics by two consecutive stages of mass spectrometric fragmentation Jesper V. Olsen and Matthias Mann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13417–13422. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405549101.PMCID: PMC518757 Engineering INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Biography of Zdeněk P. Bažant Liza Q. Bundesen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13397–13399. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405856101.PMCID: PMC518768 INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Scaling theory for quasibrittle structural failure Zdeněk P. Bažant Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13400–13407. Published online 2004 August 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404096101.PMCID: PMC518769 Geology The magnetic polarity stratigraphy of the Mauch Chunk Formation, Pennsylvania Neil D. Opdyke and Victor J. DiVenere Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13423–13427. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403786101.PMCID: PMC518772 Mathematics Counting primes, groups, and manifolds Dorian Goldfeld, Alexander Lubotzky, Nikolay Nikolov, and László Pyber Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13428–13430. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404571101.PMCID: PMC518773 Physics Topologically driven swelling of a polymer loop Nathan T. Moore, Rhonald C. Lua, and Alexander Y. Grosberg Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13431–13435. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403383101.PMCID: PMC518774 Biological Sciences Biochemistry The crystal structure of ribosomal chaperone trigger factor from Vibrio cholerae Anthony V. Ludlam, Brian A. Moore, and Zhaohui Xu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13436–13441. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405868101.PMCID: PMC518775 Distinct roles of transcription factors TFIIIB and TFIIIC in RNA polymerase III transcription reinitiation Roberto Ferrari, Claudio Rivetti, Joël Acker, and Giorgio Dieci Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13442–13447. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403851101.PMCID: PMC518776 Naturally occurring H-DNA-forming sequences are mutagenic in mammalian cells Guliang Wang and Karen M. Vasquez Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13448–13453. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405116101.PMCID: PMC518777 Ribosomal protein S1 binds mRNA and tmRNA similarly but plays distinct roles in translation of these molecules Kathleen E. McGinness and Robert T. Sauer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13454–13459. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405521101.PMCID: PMC518778 Biophysics Molecular dimension explored in evolution to promote proteomic complexity Ariel Fernández and R. Stephen Berry Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13460–13465. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405585101.PMCID: PMC518779 Synergistic interactions of lipids and myelin basic protein Yufang Hu, Ivo Doudevski, Denise Wood, Mario Moscarello, Cynthia Husted, Claude Genain, Joseph A. Zasadzinski, and Jacob Israelachvili Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13466–13471. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405665101.PMCID: PMC518780 DNA heterogeneity and phosphorylation unveiled by single-molecule electrophoresis Hui Wang, James E. Dunning, Albert P.-H. Huang, Jacqueline A. Nyamwanda, and Daniel Branton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13472–13477. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405568101.PMCID: PMC518781 From the Cover: Fast folding of a helical protein initiated by the collision of unstructured chains W. Kevin Meisner and Tobin R. Sosnick Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13478–13482. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404057101.PMCID: PMC518782 Cell Biology Sperm-specific protein kinase A catalytic subunit Cα2 orchestrates cAMP signaling for male fertility Michael A. Nolan, Donner F. Babcock, Gunther Wennemuth, William Brown, Kimberly A. Burton, and G. Stanley McKnight Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13483–13488. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405580101.PMCID: PMC518783 Tumor-promoting phorbol esters and activated Ras inactivate the tuberous sclerosis tumor suppressor complex via p90 ribosomal S6 kinase Philippe P. Roux, Bryan A. Ballif, Rana Anjum, Steven P. Gygi, and John Blenis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13489–13494. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405659101.PMCID: PMC518784 Targeted cytoplasmic irradiation induces bystander responses Chunlin Shao, Melvyn Folkard, Barry D. Michael, and Kevin M. Prise Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13495–13500. Published online 2004 September 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404930101.PMCID: PMC518785 The inositol polyphosphate 5-phosphatase Ocrl associates with endosomes that are partially coated with clathrin Alexander Ungewickell, Michael E. Ward, Ernst Ungewickell, and Philip W. Majerus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13501–13506. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405664101.PMCID: PMC518786 Hematopoietic contribution to skeletal muscle regeneration by myelomonocytic precursors Regis Doyonnas, Mark A. LaBarge, Alessandra Sacco, Carol Charlton, and Helen M. Blau Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13507–13512. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405361101.PMCID: PMC518787 Regulation of chromosome stability by the histone H2A variant Htz1, the Swr1 chromatin remodeling complex, and the histone acetyltransferase NuA4 Nevan J. Krogan, Kristin Baetz, Michael-Christopher Keogh, Nira Datta, Chika Sawa, Trevor C. Y. Kwok, Natalie J. Thompson, Michael G. Davey, Jeff Pootoolal, Timothy R. Hughes, Andrew Emili, Stephen Buratowski, Philip Hieter, and Jack F. Greenblatt Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13513–13518. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405753101.PMCID: PMC518788 Dynamic alterations of membrane tethers stabilize leukocyte rolling on P-selectin Vishwanath Ramachandran, Marcie Williams, Tadayuki Yago, David W. Schmidtke, and Rodger P. McEver Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13519–13524. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403608101.PMCID: PMC518789 Developmental Biology Specialized and redundant roles of TBP and a vertebrate-specific TBP paralog in embryonic gene regulation in Xenopus Zainab Jallow, Ulrike G. Jacobi, Daniel L. Weeks, Igor B. Dawid, and Gert Jan C. Veenstra Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13525–13530. Published online 2004 September 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405536101.PMCID: PMC518790 Ecology From the Cover: Membrane lipids of symbiotic algae are diagnostic of sensitivity to thermal bleaching in corals Dan Tchernov, Maxim Y. Gorbunov, Colomban de Vargas, Swati Narayan Yadav, Allen J. Milligan, Max Häggblom, and Paul G. Falkowski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13531–13535. Published online 2004 August 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402907101.PMCID: PMC518791 Evolution Phylogenetic discovery bias in Bacillus anthracis using single-nucleotide polymorphisms from whole-genome sequencing Talima Pearson, Joseph D. Busch, Jacques Ravel, Timothy D. Read, Shane D. Rhoton, Jana M. U'Ren, Tatum S. Simonson, Sergey M. Kachur, Rebecca R. Leadem, Michelle L. Cardon, Matthew N. Van Ert, Lynn Y. Huynh, Claire M. Fraser, and Paul Keim Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13536–13541. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403844101.PMCID: PMC518758 Comparative structural modeling and inference of conserved protein classes in Drosophila seminal fluid Jacob L. Mueller, Daniel R. Ripoll, Charles F. Aquadro, and Mariana F. Wolfner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13542–13547. Published online 2004 September 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405579101.PMCID: PMC518759 Analysis of Rhizobium etli and of its symbiosis with wild Phaseolus vulgaris supports coevolution in centers of host diversification O. Mario Aguilar, Omar Riva, and Eitel Peltzer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13548–13553. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405321101.PMCID: PMC518792 Genetics From the Cover: Chromosome painting using repetitive DNA sequences as probes for somatic chromosome identification in maize Akio Kato, Jonathan C. Lamb, and James A. Birchler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13554–13559. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403659101.PMCID: PMC518793 The extracellular matrix gene Frem1 is essential for the normal adhesion of the embryonic epidermis Ian Smyth, Xin Du, Martin S. Taylor, Monica J. Justice, Bruce Beutler, and Ian J. Jackson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13560–13565. Published online 2004 September 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402760101.PMCID: PMC518794 Activating calcium-sensing receptor mutation in the mouse is associated with cataracts and ectopic calcification Tertius A. Hough, Debora Bogani, Michael T. Cheeseman, Jack Favor, M. Andrew Nesbit, Rajesh V. Thakker, and Mary F. Lyon Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13566–13571. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405516101.PMCID: PMC518795 Cell-type-specific binding of the transcription factor CREB to the cAMP-response element Hyunjoo Cha-Molstad, David M. Keller, Gregory S. Yochum, Soren Impey, and Richard H. Goodman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13572–13577. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405587101.PMCID: PMC518796 Immunology CD1d-restricted T cell activation by nonlipidic small molecules Ildiko Van Rhijn, David C. Young, Jin Seon Im, Steven B. Levery, Petr A. Illarionov, Gurdyal S. Besra, Steven A. Porcelli, Jenny Gumperz, Tan-Yun Cheng, and D. Branch Moody Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13578–13583. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402838101.PMCID: PMC518797 A mucosally targeted subunit vaccine candidate eliciting HIV-1 transcytosis-blocking Abs Nobuyuki Matoba, Aude Magérus, Brian C. Geyer, Yunfang Zhang, Mrinalini Muralidharan, Annette Alfsen, Charles J. Arntzen, Morgane Bomsel, and Tsafrir S. Mor Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13584–13589. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405297101.PMCID: PMC518798 Proapoptotic N-truncated BCL-xL protein activates endogenous mitochondrial channels in living synaptic terminals Elizabeth A. Jonas, John A. Hickman, Mushtaque Chachar, Brian M. Polster, Teresa A. Brandt, Yihru Fannjiang, Iva Ivanovska, Gorka Basañez, Kathleen W. Kinnally, Joshua Zimmerberg, J. Marie Hardwick, and Leonard K. Kaczmarek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13590–13595. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401372101.PMCID: PMC518799 RELMβ/FIZZ2 is a goblet cell-specific immune-effector molecule in the gastrointestinal tract David Artis, Mei Lun Wang, Sue A. Keilbaugh, Weimian He, Mario Brenes, Gary P. Swain, Pamela A. Knight, Deborah D. Donaldson, Mitchell A. Lazar, Hugh R. P. Miller, Gerhard A. Schad, Phillip Scott, and Gary D. Wu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13596–13600. Published online 2004 August 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404034101.PMCID: PMC518800 A cationic lipid-formulated plasmid DNA vaccine confers sustained antibody-mediated protection against aerosolized anthrax spores G. Hermanson, V. Whitlow, S. Parker, K. Tonsky, D. Rusalov, M. Ferrari, P. Lalor, M. Komai, R. Mere, M. Bell, K. Brenneman, A. Mateczun, T. Evans, D. Kaslow, D. Galloway, and P. Hobart Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13601–13606. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405557101.PMCID: PMC518760 Medical Sciences Mast cells: A unique source of renin Randi B. Silver, Alicia C. Reid, Christina J. Mackins, Trevor Askwith, Ulrich Schaefer, Doris Herzlinger, and Roberto Levi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13607–13612. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403208101.PMCID: PMC518801 Proteasomal degradation of the FoxO1 transcriptional regulator in cells transformed by the P3k and Akt oncoproteins Masahiro Aoki, Hao Jiang, and Peter K. Vogt Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13613–13617. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405454101.PMCID: PMC518802 NF-κB-mediated repression of growth arrest- and DNA-damage-inducible proteins 45α and γ is essential for cancer cell survival Luiz F. Zerbini, Yihong Wang, Akos Czibere, Ricardo G. Correa, Je-Yoel Cho, Kosei Ijiri, Wanjang Wei, Marie Joseph, Xuesong Gu, Franck Grall, Mary B. Goldring, Jin-Rhong Zhou, and Towia A. Libermann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13618–13623. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402069101.PMCID: PMC518803 Hyperleptinemia prevents lipotoxic cardiomyopathy in acyl CoA synthase transgenic mice Young Lee, R. Haris Naseem, Laurence Duplomb, Byung-Hyun Park, Daniel J. Garry, James A. Richardson, Jean E. Schaffer, and Roger H. Unger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13624–13629. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405499101.PMCID: PMC518804 Microbiology A family of variably expressed outer-membrane proteins (Vomp) mediates adhesion and autoaggregation in Bartonella quintana Peng Zhang, Bruno B. Chomel, Maureen K. Schau, Jeanna S. Goo, Sara Droz, Karen L. Kelminson, Smitha S. George, Nicholas W. Lerche, and Jane E. Koehler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13630–13635. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405284101.PMCID: PMC518805 A nonpolio enterovirus with respiratory tropism causes poliomyelitis in intercellular adhesion molecule 1 transgenic mice Andrew T. Dufresne and Matthias Gromeier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13636–13641. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403998101.PMCID: PMC518806 Isolation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutants defective in the arrest of phagosome maturation Kevin Pethe, Dana L. Swenson, Sylvie Alonso, Jennifer Anderson, Carren Wang, and David G. Russell Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13642–13647. Published online 2004 August 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401657101.PMCID: PMC518761 Neuroscience Behavioral and regulatory abnormalities in mice deficient in the NPAS1 and NPAS3 transcription factors Claudia Erbel-Sieler, Carol Dudley, Yudong Zhou, Xinle Wu, Sandi Jo Estill, Tina Han, Ramon Diaz-Arrastia, Eric W. Brunskill, S. Steven Potter, and Steven L. McKnight Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13648–13653. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405310101.PMCID: PMC518807 Potential for neural regeneration after neurotoxic injury in the adult mammalian retina Sotaro Ooto, Tadamichi Akagi, Ryoichiro Kageyama, Joe Akita, Michiko Mandai, Yoshihito Honda, and Masayo Takahashi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13654–13659. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402129101.PMCID: PMC518808 From the Cover: Delayed neuropathology after carbon monoxide poisoning is immune-mediated Stephen R. Thom, Veena M. Bhopale, Donald Fisher, Jie Zhang, and Phyllis Gimotty Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13660–13665. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405642101.PMCID: PMC518809 Deletion of Bax eliminates sex differences in the mouse forebrain Nancy G. Forger, Greta J. Rosen, Elizabeth M. Waters, Dena Jacob, Richard B. Simerly, and Geert J. de Vries Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13666–13671. Published online 2004 September 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404644101.PMCID: PMC518810 Pharmacology Olfactory receptor surface expression is driven by association with the β2-adrenergic receptor Chris Hague, Michelle A. Uberti, Zhongjian Chen, Cristina F. Bush, Seth V. Jones, Kerry J. Ressler, Randy A. Hall, and Kenneth P. Minneman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13672–13676. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403854101.PMCID: PMC518811 Imidazoleacetic acid-ribotide: An endogenous ligand that stimulates imidazol(in)e receptors George D. Prell, Giorgio P. Martinelli, Gay R. Holstein, Jasenka Matulić-Adamić, Kyoichi A. Watanabe, Susan L. F. Chan, Noel G. Morgan, Musa A. Haxhiu, and Paul Ernsberger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13677–13682. Published online 2004 September 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404846101.PMCID: PMC518812 Reduction of nitrite to nitric oxide during ischemia protects against myocardial ischemia–reperfusion damage Andrew Webb, Richard Bond, Peter McLean, Rakesh Uppal, Nigel Benjamin, and Amrita Ahluwalia Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13683–13688. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402927101.PMCID: PMC518813 Physiology Resolution of the insect ouabain paradox Leah S. Torrie, Jonathan C. Radford, Tony D. Southall, Laura Kean, Andrew J. Dinsmore, Shireen A. Davies, and Julian A. T. Dow Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13689–13693. Published online 2004 September 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403087101.PMCID: PMC518814 Corrections Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13694. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405937101.PMCID: PMC518815 Corrects: Guofa Zhou, et al. Association between climate variability and malaria epidemics in the East African highlands. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 February 24; 101(8): 2375–2380. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13694. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405693101.PMCID: PMC518816 Corrects: Christopher J. Farrell, et al. Inhibition of Epstein-Barr virus-induced growth proliferation by a nuclear antigen EBNA2-TAT peptide. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 March 30; 101(13): 4625–4630. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13694. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405523101.PMCID: PMC518817 Corrects: Ling Tao, et al. Cardioprotective effects of thioredoxin in myocardial ischemia and the reperfusion role of S-nitrosation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 August 3; 101(31): 11471–11476. |