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Volume 101(37);  September 14, 2004
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
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
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.
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