| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. From the Academy Introduction to German-American Frontiers of Science PMCID: PMC33944 Extra-solar planetary systems Joan Najita, Willy Benz, and Artie Hatzes PMCID: PMC33945 Carbon nanotubes: From macromolecules to nanotechnology P. M. Ajayan, J.-C. Charlier, and A. G. Rinzler PMCID: PMC33946 Neutrinos Dave Besson, Doug Cowen, Mats Selen, and Christopher Wiebusch PMCID: PMC33947 Image recognition: Visual grouping, recognition, and learning Joachim M. Buhmann, Jitendra Malik, and Pietro Perona PMCID: PMC33948 Neotectonics: Watching the earth move Bradford Clement, Rob McCaffrey, and William Holt PMCID: PMC33949 Ancient origins of nitric oxide signaling in biological systems Jörg Durner, Andrew J. Gow, Jonathan S. Stamler, and Jane Glazebrook PMCID: PMC33950 Bionics: Biological insight into mechanical design Michael H. Dickinson PMCID: PMC33951 Commentaries Programmed ribosomal frameshifting: Much ado about knotting! S. L. Alam, J. F. Atkins, and R. F. Gesteland PMCID: PMC33937 Escapees on the X chromosome Christine M. Disteche PMCID: PMC33938 Biomimetics: Materials fabrication through biology Mehmet Sarikaya PMCID: PMC33939 Multiple functions of MutS- and MutL-related heterocomplexes Takuro Nakagawa, Abhijit Datta, and Richard D. Kolodner PMCID: PMC33940 Easy passage: Germline transgenesis in frogs Kristen L. Kroll and Marc W. Kirschner PMCID: PMC33941 ADD-1 provides major new insight into the mechanism of insulin action Jeffrey S. Flier and Anthony N. Hollenberg PMCID: PMC33942 The power of stem cells reconsidered? Ihor Lemischka PMCID: PMC33943 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Residual delay maps unveil global patterns of atmospheric nonlinearity and produce improved local forecasts George Sugihara, Martin Casdagli, Edward Habjan, Dale Hess, Paul Dixon, and Greg Holland PMCID: PMC24416 Spectral bifurcations in dispersive wave turbulence David Cai, Andrew J. Majda, David W. McLaughlin, and Esteban G. Tabak PMCID: PMC24417 Applied Physical Sciences Intra-ring variability of Cr, As, Cd, and Pb in red oak revealed by secondary ion mass spectrometry: Implications for environmental biomonitoring D. J. Brabander, N. Keon, R. H. R. Stanley, and H. F. Hemond PMCID: PMC24488 Chemistry Imaging of biological macromolecules on mica in humid air by scanning electrochemical microscopy Fu-Ren F. Fan and Allen J. Bard PMCID: PMC24418 HU-308: A specific agonist for CB2, a peripheral cannabinoid receptor L. Hanuš, A. Breuer, S. Tchilibon, S. Shiloah, D. Goldenberg, M. Horowitz, R. G. Pertwee, R. A. Ross, R. Mechoulam, and E. Fride PMCID: PMC24419 Biological Sciences Biochemistry From the Cover:
Specific mutations in a viral RNA pseudoknot drastically change ribosomal frameshifting efficiency Yang-Gyun Kim, Li Su, Stefan Maas, Analeah O’Neill, and Alexander Rich PMCID: PMC24420 Structural origins of the exonuclease resistance of a zwitterionic RNA Marianna Teplova, Scot T. Wallace, Valentina Tereshko, George Minasov, Alice M. Symons, P. Dan Cook, Muthiah Manoharan, and Martin Egli PMCID: PMC24421 Structure of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor of an arabinogalactan protein from Pyrus communis suspension-cultured cells David Oxley and Antony Bacic PMCID: PMC24422 The small ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus at 4.5 Å resolution: Pattern fittings and the identification of a functional site Ante Tocilj, Frank Schlünzen, Daniela Janell, Marco Glühmann, Harly A. S. Hansen, Jörg Harms, Anat Bashan, Heike Bartels, Ilana Agmon, Francois Franceschi, and Ada Yonath PMCID: PMC24423 A physical basis for protein secondary structure Rajgopal Srinivasan and George D. Rose PMCID: PMC24424 Inorganic polyphosphate kinase is required to stimulate protein degradation and for adaptation to amino acid starvation in Escherichia coli Akio Kuroda, Shoutaro Tanaka, Tsukasa Ikeda, Junichi Kato, Noboru Takiguchi, and Hisao Ohtake PMCID: PMC24425 The mechanism of pseudouridine synthase I as deduced from its interaction with 5-fluorouracil-tRNA Xiangrong Gu, Yaoquan Liu, and Daniel V. Santi PMCID: PMC24426 Inhibition of human telomerase in immortal human cells leads to progressive telomere shortening and cell death B.-S. Herbert, A. E. Pitts, S. I. Baker, S. E. Hamilton, W. E. Wright, J. W. Shay, and D. R. Corey PMCID: PMC24427 A conserved serine-rich stretch in the glutamate transporter family forms a substrate-sensitive reentrant loop Dirk Jan Slotboom, Iwona Sobczak, Wil N. Konings, and Juke S. Lolkema PMCID: PMC24428 Photoassembly of the manganese cluster and oxygen evolution from monomeric and dimeric CP47 reaction center photosystem II complexes Claudia Büchel, Jim Barber, Gennady Ananyev, Said Eshaghi, Richard Watt, and Charles Dismukes PMCID: PMC24429 Transcriptional coupling between the divergent promoters of a prototypic LysR-type regulatory system, the ilvYC operon of Escherichia coli Kyu Y. Rhee, Michael Opel, Elaine Ito, She-pin Hung, Stuart M. Arfin, and G. Wesley Hatfield PMCID: PMC24430 Modification of EWS/WT1 functional properties by phosphorylation Jungho Kim, Joseph M. Lee, Philip E. Branton, and Jerry Pelletier PMCID: PMC24431 Biophysics Active hair-bundle movements can amplify a hair cell’s response to oscillatory mechanical stimuli Pascal Martin and A. J. Hudspeth PMCID: PMC24432 Network formation of lipid membranes: Triggering structural transitions by chain melting Matthias F. Schneider, Derek Marsh, Wolfgang Jahn, Beate Kloesgen, and Thomas Heimburg PMCID: PMC24433 Detection of protein fold similarity based on correlation of amino acid properties Igor V. Grigoriev and Sung-Hou Kim PMCID: PMC24434 Vibrational population relaxation of carbon monoxide in the heme pocket of photolyzed carbonmonoxy myoglobin: Comparison of time-resolved mid-IR absorbance experiments and molecular dynamics simulations Diane E. Sagnella, John E. Straub, Timothy A. Jackson, Manho Lim, and Philip A. Anfinrud PMCID: PMC24435 Molecular dynamics and free-energy calculations applied to affinity maturation in antibody 48G7 Lillian T. Chong, Yong Duan, Lu Wang, Irina Massova, and Peter A. Kollman PMCID: PMC24436 Correlation of the structural and functional domains in the membrane protein Vpu from HIV-1 F. M. Marassi, C. Ma, H. Gratkowski, S. K. Straus, K. Strebel, M. Oblatt-Montal, M. Montal, and S. J. Opella PMCID: PMC24437 Transport of torsional stress in DNA Philip Nelson PMCID: PMC24438 Proton uptake by bacterial reaction centers: The protein complex responds in a similar manner to the reduction of either quinone acceptor J. Miksovska, M. Schiffer, D. K. Hanson, and P. Sebban PMCID: PMC24439 Cell Biology Positional enhancer-blocking activity of the chicken β-globin insulator in transiently transfected cells Félix Recillas-Targa, Adam C. Bell, and Gary Felsenfeld PMCID: PMC24440 The polo-box-dependent induction of ectopic septal structures by a mammalian polo kinase, Plk, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Kyung S. Lee, Sukgil Song, and Raymond L. Erikson PMCID: PMC24441 Nuclear tRNA aminoacylation and its role in nuclear export of endogenous tRNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Srimonti Sarkar, Abul K. Azad, and Anita K. Hopper PMCID: PMC24442 Developmental Biology Mammalian Trithorax and Polycomb-group homologues are antagonistic regulators of homeotic development Robin D. Hanson, Jay L. Hess, Benjamin D. Yu, Patricia Ernst, Maarten van Lohuizen, Anton Berns, Nathalie M. T. van der Lugt, Cooduvalli S. Shashikant, Frank H. Ruddle, Masao Seto, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer PMCID: PMC24443 Pax6 is essential for establishing ventral-dorsal cell boundaries in pituitary gland development Chrissa Kioussi, Shawn O’Connell, Luc St-Onge, Mathias Treier, Anatoli S. Gleiberman, Peter Gruss, and Michael G. Rosenfeld PMCID: PMC24444 Activation of a Frizzled-2/β-adrenergic receptor chimera promotes Wnt signaling and differentiation of mouse F9 teratocarcinoma cells via Gαo and Gαt Xunxian Liu, Tong Liu, Diane C. Slusarski, Julia Yang-Snyder, Craig C. Malbon, Randall T. Moon, and Hsien-yu Wang PMCID: PMC24445 From the Cover:
Germ-line transmission of transgenes in Xenopus laevis Nicholas Marsh-Armstrong, Haochu Huang, Deborah L. Berry, and Donald D. Brown PMCID: PMC24446 Evolution Chloroplast small heat shock proteins: Evidence for atypical evolution of an organelle-localized protein Elizabeth R. Waters and Elizabeth Vierling PMCID: PMC24447 Phylogeny of rice genomes with emphasis on origins of allotetraploid species Song Ge, Tao Sang, Bao-Rong Lu, and De-Yuan Hong PMCID: PMC24448 Duplicated genes evolve independently after polyploid formation in cotton Richard C. Cronn, Randall L. Small, and Jonathan F. Wendel PMCID: PMC24449 Genetics The DNMT3B DNA methyltransferase gene is mutated in the ICF immunodeficiency syndrome R. Scott Hansen, Cisca Wijmenga, Ping Luo, Ann M. Stanek, Theresa K. Canfield, Corry M. R. Weemaes, and Stanley M. Gartler PMCID: PMC24450 Genomic analysis of human and mouse TCL1 loci reveals a complex of tightly clustered genes Cora Hallas, Yuri Pekarsky, Takahiro Itoyama, James Varnum, Roberta Bichi, Jay L. Rothstein, and Carlo M. Croce PMCID: PMC24451 Further examination of the Xist promoter-switch hypothesis in X inactivation: Evidence against the existence and function of a P0 promoter David Warshawsky, Nicholas Stavropoulos, and Jeannie T. Lee PMCID: PMC24452 Conserved characteristics of heterochromatin-forming DNA at the
15q11-q13 imprinting center John M. Greally, Todd A. Gray, James
M. Gabriel, Li qun Song, Sharon Zemel, and Robert D. Nicholls PMCID: PMC24453 Telomeres of polytene chromosomes in a ciliated protozoan terminate in duplex DNA loops K. G. Murti and D. M. Prescott PMCID: PMC24454 From the Cover:
A first-generation X-inactivation profile of the human X chromosome Laura Carrel, Amy A. Cottle, Karrie C. Goglin, and Huntington F. Willard PMCID: PMC24455 Mammalian Cdk5 is a functional homologue of the budding yeast Pho85 cyclin-dependent protein kinase Dongqing Huang, Gentry Patrick, Jason Moffat, Li-Huei Tsai, and Brenda Andrews PMCID: PMC24456 INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Functioning of the Drosophila integral U1/U2 protein Snf independent of U1 and U2 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles is revealed by snf+ gene dose effects Thomas W. Cline, David Z. Rudner, Daniel A. Barbash, Maren Bell, and Roselyne Vutien PMCID: PMC24457 Immunology Toll-like receptor-2 mediates mycobacteria-induced proinflammatory signaling in macrophages David M. Underhill, Adrian Ozinsky, Kelly D. Smith, and Alan Aderem PMCID: PMC24458 Specific therapy regimes could lead to long-term immunological control of HIV Dominik Wodarz and Martin A. Nowak PMCID: PMC24459 CTACK, a skin-associated chemokine that preferentially attracts skin-homing memory T cells Janine Morales, Bernhard Homey, Alain P. Vicari, Susan Hudak, Elizabeth Oldham, Joseph Hedrick, Rocio Orozco, Neal G. Copeland, Nancy A. Jenkins, Leslie M. McEvoy, and Albert Zlotnik PMCID: PMC24460 From the Cover:
Withdrawal of IL-7 induces Bax translocation from cytosol to mitochondria through a rise in intracellular pH Annette R. Khaled, Kyungjae Kim, Robert Hofmeister, Kathrin Muegge, and Scott K. Durum PMCID: PMC24461 From the Cover:
Hematopoietic potential of stem cells isolated from murine skeletal muscle Kathyjo Ann Jackson, Tiejuan Mi, and Margaret A. Goodell PMCID: PMC24462 Key residues revealed in a major conformational epitope of the U1-70K protein Elisabet Welin Henriksson, Marie Wahren-Herlenius, Ingrid Lundberg, Evi Mellquist, and Ingvar Pettersson PMCID: PMC24463 Identification of an early T cell progenitor for a pathway of T cell maturation in the bone marrow Sussan Dejbakhsh-Jones and Samuel Strober PMCID: PMC24464 Medical Sciences Soluble complexes of regulated upon activation, normal T cells expressed and secreted (RANTES) and glycosaminoglycans suppress HIV-1 infection but do not induce Ca2+ signaling Jennifer M. Burns, George K. Lewis, and Anthony L. DeVico PMCID: PMC24465 Mouse model of Sanfilippo syndrome type B produced by targeted disruption of the gene encoding α-N-acetylglucosaminidase Hong Hua Li, Wei-Hong Yu, Nora Rozengurt, Hui-Zhi Zhao, Karen M. Lyons, Stephan Anagnostaras, Michael S. Fanselow, Kunihiko Suzuki, Marie T. Vanier, and Elizabeth F. Neufeld PMCID: PMC24466 Mice mutant for glucokinase regulatory protein exhibit decreased liver glucokinase: A sequestration mechanism in metabolic regulation Dennis Farrelly, Karen S. Brown, Aaron Tieman, Jianming Ren, Sergio A. Lira, Deborah Hagan, Richard Gregg, Kasim A. Mookhtiar, and Narayanan Hariharan PMCID: PMC24467 Identification and classification of p53-regulated genes Jian Yu, Lin Zhang, Paul M. Hwang, Carlo Rago, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein PMCID: PMC24468 STEAP: A prostate-specific cell-surface antigen highly expressed in human prostate tumors Rene S. Hubert, Igor Vivanco, Emily Chen, Shiva Rastegar, Kahan Leong, Steve C. Mitchell, Rashida Madraswala, Yanhong Zhou, James Kuo, Arthur B. Raitano, Aya Jakobovits, Douglas C. Saffran, and Daniel E. H. Afar PMCID: PMC24469 Elimination of prions by branched polyamines and implications for therapeutics Surachai Supattapone, Hoang-Oanh B. Nguyen, Fred E. Cohen, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Michael R. Scott PMCID: PMC24470 AF5q31, a newly identified AF4-related gene, is fused to MLL in infant acute lymphoblastic leukemia with ins(5;11)(q31;q13q23) Tomohiko Taki, Hirotsugu Kano, Masafumi Taniwaki, Masahiro Sako, Masayoshi Yanagisawa, and Yasuhide Hayashi PMCID: PMC24471 Prevention of lymphocyte cell death in sepsis improves survival in mice R. S. Hotchkiss, K. W. Tinsley, P. E. Swanson, K. C. Chang, J. P. Cobb, T. G. Buchman, S. J. Korsmeyer, and I. E. Karl PMCID: PMC24472 Microbiology Bacterial diversity within the human subgingival crevice Ian Kroes, Paul W. Lepp, and David A. Relman PMCID: PMC24473 From the Cover:
An in vivo membrane fusion assay implicates SpoIIIE in the final stages of engulfment during Bacillus subtilis sporulation Marc D. Sharp and Kit Pogliano PMCID: PMC24474 Altered states: Involvement of phosphorylated CagA in the induction of host cellular growth changes by Helicobacter pylori E. D. Segal, J. Cha, J. Lo, S. Falkow, and L. S. Tompkins PMCID: PMC24475 Neurobiology Cannabinoid CB1 receptors and ligands in vertebrate retina: Localization and function of an endogenous signaling system Alex Straiker, Nephi Stella, Daniele Piomelli, Ken Mackie, Harvey J. Karten, and Greg Maguire PMCID: PMC24476 Permeant ion regulation of N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor channel block by Mg2+ Sergei M. Antonov and Jon W. Johnson PMCID: PMC24477 Neuropeptide release by efficient recruitment of diffusing cytoplasmic secretory vesicles Weiping Han, Yuen-Keng Ng, Daniel Axelrod, and Edwin S. Levitan PMCID: PMC24478 Electrophysiological evidence for a hyperpolarizing, galanin (1-15)-selective receptor on hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons Zhi-Qing David Xu, Xiaosong Ma, Ursel Soomets, Ulo Langel, and Tomas Hökfelt PMCID: PMC24479 Reduced facilitation and vesicular uptake in crustacean and mammalian neuromuscular junction by T-588, a neuroprotective compound Kazunari Hirata, Masaya Nakagawa, Francisco J. Urbano, Marcelo D. Rosato-Siri, Jorge E. Moreira, Osvaldo D. Uchitel, Mutsuyuki Sugimori, and Rodolfo Llinás PMCID: PMC24480 Voltage-induced membrane displacement in patch pipettes activates mechanosensitive channels Ziv Gil, Shai D. Silberberg, and Karl L. Magleby PMCID: PMC24481 Calcium electrogenesis in distal apical dendrites of layer 5 pyramidal cells at a critical frequency of back-propagating action potentials M. E. Larkum, K. M. M. Kaiser, and B. Sakmann PMCID: PMC24482 Odorants induce the phosphorylation of the cAMP response element binding protein in olfactory receptor neurons Cheil Moon, Young-Kwan Sung, Radhika Reddy, and Gabriele V. Ronnett PMCID: PMC24483 Horizontal cells reveal cone type-specific adaptation in primate retina Barry B. Lee, Dennis M. Dacey, Vivianne C. Smith, and Joel Pokorny PMCID: PMC24484 Pharmacology HU-308: A specific agonist for CB2, a peripheral cannabinoid receptor L. Hanuš, A. Breuer, S. Tchilibon, S. Shiloah, D. Goldenberg, M. Horowitz, R. G. Pertwee, R. A. Ross, R. Mechoulam, and E. Fride PMCID: PMC24419 Opposite effects of nitric oxide and nitroxyl on postischemic myocardial injury Xin L. Ma, Feng Gao, Gao-Lin Liu, Bernard L. Lopez, Theodore A. Christopher, Jon M. Fukuto, David A. Wink, and Martin Feelisch PMCID: PMC24485 Physiology Torpor in mice is induced by both leptin-dependent and -independent mechanisms Oksana Gavrilova, Lisa R. Leon, Bernice Marcus-Samuels, Mark M. Mason, Arthur L. Castle, Samuel Refetoff, Charles Vinson, and Marc L. Reitman PMCID: PMC24486 Repeated, but not acute, stress suppresses inflammatory plasma extravasation Holly J. Strausbaugh, Mary F. Dallman, and Jon D. Levine PMCID: PMC24487 Plant Biology Intra-ring variability of Cr, As, Cd, and Pb in red oak revealed by secondary ion mass spectrometry: Implications for environmental biomonitoring D. J. Brabander, N. Keon, R. H. R. Stanley, and H. F. Hemond PMCID: PMC24488 Overexpression of thioredoxin h leads to enhanced activity of starch debranching enzyme (pullulanase) in barley grain Myeong-Je Cho, Joshua H. Wong, Corina Marx, Wen Jiang, Peggy G. Lemaux, and Bob B. Buchanan PMCID: PMC24489 Herbicide sensitivity determinant of wheat plastid acetyl-CoA carboxylase is located in a 400-amino acid fragment of the carboxyltransferase domain T. Nikolskaya, O. Zagnitko, G. Tevzadze, R. Haselkorn, and P. Gornicki PMCID: PMC24490 The circadian clock controls the expression pattern of the circadian input photoreceptor, phytochrome B László Kozma Bognár, Anthony Hall, Éva Ádám, Simon C. Thain, Ferenc Nagy, and Andrew J. Millar PMCID: PMC24491 Psychology Invariance of brain-wave representations of simple visual images and their names Patrick Suppes, Bing Han, Julie Epelboim, and Zhong-Lin Lu PMCID: PMC24492 Social Sciences Anthropology A finding of Oligocene primates on the European continent Meike Köhler and Salvador Moyà-Solà PMCID: PMC24493 Correction Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 December 7; 96(25): 14668. PMCID: PMC56182 Corrects: D. E. Smith, et al. Age-associated neuronal atrophy occurs in the primate brain and is reversible by growth factor gene therapy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 September 14; 96(19): 10893–10898. |
