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Volume 101(42);  October 19, 2004
From the Academy
National Academy of Sciences endorses National Institutes of Health plan for enhanced access to research information
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli, Kenneth R. Fulton, and Diane M. Sullenberger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 14991. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407071101.
PMCID: PMC524081
Commentaries
The oncogenic potential of autocrine human growth hormone in breast cancer
Michael J. Waters and Becky L. Conway-Campbell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 14992–14993. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406396101.
PMCID: PMC524049
Smallpox: An ancient disease enters the modern era of virogenomics
Grant McFadden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 14994–14995. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406207101.
PMCID: PMC524071
Counting the cost of a cold-blooded life: Metabolomics of cold acclimation
John Browse and B. Markus Lange
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 14996–14997. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406389101.
PMCID: PMC524045
Perspective
Regional crustal thickness and precipitation in young mountain chains
W. G. Ernst
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 14998–15001. Published online 2004 October 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406557101.
PMCID: PMC524060
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Dimensional reduction for a Bayesian filter
Alexandre J. Chorin and Paul Krause
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15013–15017. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406222101.
PMCID: PMC524072
Elementary inequalities that involve two nonnegative vectors or functions
Joel E. Cohen, J. H. B. Kemperman, and Gheorghe Zbăganu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15018–15022. Published online 2004 September 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405413101.
PMCID: PMC524063
A mathematical model for the scaling of turbulence
Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt and Alexandre J. Chorin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15023–15026. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406291101.
PMCID: PMC524076
Chemistry
From the Cover:
A rapid bioassay for single bacterial cell quantitation using bioconjugated nanoparticles
Xiaojun Zhao, Lisa R. Hilliard, Shelly John Mechery, Yanping Wang, Rahul P. Bagwe, Shouguang Jin, and Weihong Tan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15027–15032. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404806101.
PMCID: PMC524056
Geology
Ringwoodite lamellae in olivine: Clues to olivine–ringwoodite phase transition mechanisms in shocked meteorites and subducting slabs
Ming Chen, Ahmed El Goresy, and Philippe Gillet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15033–15037. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405048101.
PMCID: PMC524059
Physics
Experimental test of Hatano and Sasa's nonequilibrium steady-state equality
E. H. Trepagnier, C. Jarzynski, F. Ritort, G. E. Crooks, C. J. Bustamante, and J. Liphardt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15038–15041. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406405101.
PMCID: PMC524055
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
Wolbachia-induced cytoplasmic incompatibility as a means for insect pest population control
Sofia Zabalou, Markus Riegler, Marianna Theodorakopoulou, Christian Stauffer, Charalambos Savakis, and Kostas Bourtzis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15042–15045. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403853101.
PMCID: PMC524042
Biochemistry
Biography of Arthur L. Horwich
Tinsley H. Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15002–15004. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406924101.
PMCID: PMC524080
Substrate polypeptide presents a load on the apical domains of the chaperonin GroEL
Fumihiro Motojima, Charu Chaudhry, Wayne A. Fenton, George W. Farr, and Arthur L. Horwich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15005–15012. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406132101.
PMCID: PMC523455
Targeting a binding pocket within the trimer-of-hairpins: Small-molecule inhibition of viral fusion
Christopher Cianci, David R. Langley, Douglas D. Dischino, Yaxiong Sun, Kuo-Long Yu, Anne Stanley, Julia Roach, Zhufang Li, Richard Dalterio, Richard Colonno, Nicholas A. Meanwell, and Mark Krystal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15046–15051. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406696101.
PMCID: PMC523459
Crystal structure of γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase: Insights into the mechanism of catalysis by a key enzyme for glutathione homeostasis
Takao Hibi, Hiroshi Nii, Toru Nakatsu, Akira Kimura, Hiroaki Kato, Jun Hiratake, and Jun'ichi Oda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15052–15057. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403277101.
PMCID: PMC523444
Growth retardation and abnormal maternal behavior in mice lacking testicular orphan nuclear receptor 4
Loretta L. Collins, Yi-Fen Lee, Cynthia A. Heinlein, Ning-Chun Liu, Yei-Tsung Chen, Chih-Rong Shyr, Charles K. Meshul, Hideo Uno, Kenneth A. Platt, and Chawnshang Chang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15058–15063. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405700101.
PMCID: PMC524065
Crystal structure of a eukaryotic zinc-dependent histone deacetylase, human HDAC8, complexed with a hydroxamic acid inhibitor
Alessandro Vannini, Cinzia Volpari, Gessica Filocamo, Elena Caroli Casavola, Mirko Brunetti, Debora Renzoni, Prasun Chakravarty, Chantal Paolini, Raffaele De Francesco, Paola Gallinari, Christian Steinkühler, and Stefania Di Marco
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15064–15069. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404603101.
PMCID: PMC524051
Codon-specific translational defect caused by a wobble modification deficiency in mutant tRNA from a human mitochondrial disease
Yohei Kirino, Takehiro Yasukawa, Shigeo Ohta, Shigeo Akira, Kaisuke Ishihara, Kimitsuna Watanabe, and Tsutomu Suzuki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15070–15075. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405173101.
PMCID: PMC524061
Biophysics
Melanin acts as a potent UVB photosensitizer to cause an atypical mode of cell death in murine skin
Seiji Takeuchi, Wengeng Zhang, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito, Vincent J. Hearing, Kenneth H. Kraemer, and Douglas E. Brash
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15076–15081. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403994101.
PMCID: PMC524044
Shape control through molecular segregation in giant surfactant aggregates
Monique Dubois, Vladimir Lizunov, Annette Meister, Thadeus Gulik-Krzywicki, Jean Marc Verbavatz, Emile Perez, Joshua Zimmerberg, and Thomas Zemb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15082–15087. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400837101.
PMCID: PMC523443
Three-body interactions improve the prediction of rate and mechanism in protein folding models
M. R. Ejtehadi, S. P. Avall, and S. S. Plotkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15088–15093. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403486101.
PMCID: PMC524050
The rate and equilibrium constants for a multistep reaction sequence for the aggregation of superoxide dismutase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Sagar D. Khare, Michael Caplow, and Nikolay V. Dokholyan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15094–15099. Published online 2004 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406650101.
PMCID: PMC524068
Cell Biology
Cell division and cell survival in the absence of survivin
Dun Yang, Alana Welm, and J. Michael Bishop
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15100–15105. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406665101.
PMCID: PMC524069
Upstream binding factor association induces large-scale chromatin decondensation
Danyang Chen, Andrew S. Belmont, and Sui Huang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15106–15111. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404767101.
PMCID: PMC524054
RNA polymerase I remains intact without subunit exchange through multiple rounds of transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
David A. Schneider and Masayasu Nomura
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15112–15117. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406746101.
PMCID: PMC524078
Developmental Biology
Ciona intestinalis Hox gene cluster: Its dispersed structure and residual colinear expression in development
Tetsuro Ikuta, Natsue Yoshida, Nori Satoh, and Hidetoshi Saiga
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15118–15123. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401389101.
PMCID: PMC524048
Ecology
Forecast and control of epidemics in a globalized world
L. Hufnagel, D. Brockmann, and T. Geisel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15124–15129. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308344101.
PMCID: PMC524041
Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events
Debra P. C. Peters, Roger A. Pielke, Sr., Brandon T. Bestelmeyer, Craig D. Allen, Stuart Munson-McGee, and Kris M. Havstad
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15130–15135. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403822101.
PMCID: PMC523446
Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria respond to multifactorial global change
Hans-Peter Horz, Adrian Barbrook, Christopher B. Field, and Brendan J. M. Bohannan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15136–15141. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406616101.
PMCID: PMC524064
Genetics
Prion protein gene (PRNP) variants and evidence for strong purifying selection in functionally important regions of bovine exon 3
Christopher M. Seabury, Rodney L. Honeycutt, Alejandro P. Rooney, Natalie D. Halbert, and James N. Derr
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15142–15147. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406403101.
PMCID: PMC524052
Molecular triangulation: Bridging linkage and molecular-network information for identifying candidate genes in Alzheimer's disease
Michael Krauthammer, Charles A. Kaufmann, T. Conrad Gilliam, and Andrey Rzhetsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15148–15153. Published online 2004 October 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404315101.
PMCID: PMC523448
Immunology
IL-15/IL-15Rα-mediated avidity maturation of memory CD8+ T cells
SangKon Oh, Liyanage P. Perera, Donald S. Burke, Thomas A. Waldmann, and Jay A. Berzofsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15154–15159. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406649101.
PMCID: PMC524066
Medical Sciences
Development of a polyclonal antiserum for the detection of the isoforms of the receptors for human growth hormone-releasing hormone on tumors
Gabor L. Toller, Judit E. Horvath, Andrew V. Schally, Gabor Halmos, Jozsef L. Varga, Kate Groot, David Chism, and Marta Zarandi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15160–15165. Published online 2004 October 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406348101.
PMCID: PMC524040
From the Cover:
Phenotypic conversion of human mammary carcinoma cells by autocrine human growth hormone
Svetlana Mukhina, Hichem C. Mertani, Ke Guo, Kok-Onn Lee, Peter D. Gluckman, and Peter E. Lobie
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15166–15171. Published online 2004 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405881101.
PMCID: PMC524067
Bacteriolytic therapy can generate a potent immune response against experimental tumors
Nishant Agrawal, Chetan Bettegowda, Ian Cheong, Jean-Francois Geschwind, Charles G. Drake, Edward L. Hipkiss, Mitsuaki Tatsumi, Long H. Dang, Luis A. Diaz, Jr., Martin Pomper, Mohammad Abusedera, Richard L. Wahl, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Shibin Zhou, David L. Huso, and Bert Vogelstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15172–15177. Published online 2004 October 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406242101.
PMCID: PMC523456
Aspirin triggers antiinflammatory 15-epi-lipoxin A4 and inhibits thromboxane in a randomized human trial
Nan Chiang, Edmund A. Bermudez, Paul M. Ridker, Shelley Hurwitz, and Charles N. Serhan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15178–15183. Published online 2004 October 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405445101.
PMCID: PMC523452
Stem cell expression of the AML1/ETO fusion protein induces a myeloproliferative disorder in mice
Timothy S. Fenske, Gina Pengue, Vikram Mathews, Piia T. Hanson, Sarah E. Hamm, Noor Riaz, and Timothy A. Graubert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15184–15189. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400751101.
PMCID: PMC524043
Microbiology
From the Cover:
The host response to smallpox: Analysis of the gene expression program in peripheral blood cells in a nonhuman primate model
Kathleen H. Rubins, Lisa E. Hensley, Peter B. Jahrling, Adeline R. Whitney, Thomas W. Geisbert, John W. Huggins, Art Owen, James W. LeDuc, Patrick O. Brown, and David A. Relman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15190–15195. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405759101.
PMCID: PMC523453
From the Cover:
Exploring the potential of variola virus infection of cynomolgus macaques as a model for human smallpox
Peter B. Jahrling, Lisa E. Hensley, Mark J. Martinez, James W. LeDuc, Kathleen H. Rubins, David A. Relman, and John W. Huggins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15196–15200. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405954101.
PMCID: PMC523454
Neuroscience
The fragile X protein controls microtubule-associated protein 1B translation and microtubule stability in brain neuron development
Robert Lu, Houping Wang, Zhe Liang, Li Ku, William T. O'Donnell, Wen Li, Stephen T. Warren, and Yue Feng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15201–15206. Published online 2004 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404995101.
PMCID: PMC524058
Visualization of a functionally enhanced GFP-tagged galanin R2 receptor in PC12 cells: Constitutive and ligand-induced internalization
Sheng Xia, Svend Kjær, Kang Zheng, Ping-Sheng Hu, Li Bai, Jun-Yong Jia, Rudolf Rigler, Aladdin Pramanik, Tao Xu, Tomas Hökfelt, and Zhi-Qing David Xu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15207–15212. Published online 2004 October 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406571101.
PMCID: PMC524062
Nonvesicular release of acetylcholine is required for axon targeting in the Drosophila visual system
Hong Yang and Sam Kunes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15213–15218. Published online 2004 October 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308141101.
PMCID: PMC524039
Deletion of the synaptic protein interaction site of the N-type (CaV2.2) calcium channel inhibits secretion in mouse pheochromocytoma cells
Amy B. Harkins, Anne L. Cahill, James F. Powers, Arthur S. Tischler, and Aaron P. Fox
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15219–15224. Published online 2004 October 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401001101.
PMCID: PMC524046
Pharmacology
Regulation of the endogenous VEGF-A gene by exogenous designed regulatory proteins
Kiyoshi Tachikawa, Oliver Schröder, Gerhard Frey, Steven P. Briggs, and Takashi Sera
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15225–15230. Published online 2004 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406473101.
PMCID: PMC523457
Physiology
Transforming growth factor β-induced cell cycle arrest of human hematopoietic cells requires p57KIP2 up-regulation
Joseph M. Scandura, Piernicola Boccuni, Joan Massagué, and Stephen D. Nimer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15231–15236. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406771101.
PMCID: PMC524079
Multiple sequences in the C terminus of MaxiK channels are involved in expression, movement to the cell surface, and apical localization
Sang-Ho Kwon and William B. Guggino
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15237–15242. Published online 2004 October 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404877101.
PMCID: PMC524057
Plant Biology
From the Cover:
A prominent role for the CBF cold response pathway in configuring the low-temperature metabolome of Arabidopsis
Daniel Cook, Sarah Fowler, Oliver Fiehn, and Michael F. Thomashow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15243–15248. Published online 2004 September 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406069101.
PMCID: PMC524070
Engineering high-level aluminum tolerance in barley with the ALMT1 gene
Emmanuel Delhaize, Peter R. Ryan, Diane M. Hebb, Yoko Yamamoto, Takayuki Sasaki, and Hideaki Matsumoto
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15249–15254. Published online 2004 October 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406258101.
PMCID: PMC524075
Nucleotide diversity and linkage disequilibrium in loblolly pine
Garth R. Brown, Geoffrey P. Gill, Robert J. Kuntz, Charles H. Langley, and David B. Neale
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15255–15260. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404231101.
PMCID: PMC524047
Population Biology
Most species are not driven to extinction before genetic factors impact them
Derek Spielman, Barry W. Brook, and Richard Frankham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15261–15264. Published online 2004 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403809101.
PMCID: PMC524053
Psychology
Left insula activation: A marker for language attainment in bilinguals
Michael W. L. Chee, Chun Siong Soon, Hwee Ling Lee, and Christophe Pallier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15265–15270. Published online 2004 October 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403703101.
PMCID: PMC523445
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15271. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406713101.
PMCID: PMC524073
Corrects: Luiz F. Zerbini, et al. NF-κB-mediated repression of growth arrest- and DNA-damage-inducible proteins 45α and γ is essential for cancer cell survival. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 14; 101(37): 13618–13623.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15271. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406730101.
PMCID: PMC524077
Corrects: Colin A. Bill, et al. Genomic DNA double-strand breaks are targets for hepadnaviral DNA integration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 July 27; 101(30): 11135–11140.
Retraction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 19; 101(42): 15271. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406725101.
PMCID: PMC524074
Retracts: Jeffrey R. Martens, et al. Prevention of renovascular and cardiac pathophysiological changes in hypertension by angiotensin II type 1 receptor antisense gene therapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 March 3; 95(5): 2664–2669.
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