| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10529–10530. doi: 10.1073/iti2806103.PMCID: PMC1502266 Commentary O brother, where art thou? The fraternal birth-order effect on male sexual orientation David A. Puts, Cynthia L. Jordan, and S. Marc Breedlove Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10531–10532. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604102103.PMCID: PMC1502267 Perspective Whence cometh the allosterome? Janet E. Lindsley and Jared Rutter Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10533–10535. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604452103.PMCID: PMC1502268 Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature Introductory Perspectives Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Clusters: A bridge between disciplines A. W. Castleman, Jr. and Puru Jena Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10552–10553. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601783103.PMCID: PMC1502271 Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Clusters: A bridge across the disciplines of environment, materials science, and biology A. W. Castleman, Jr. and Puru Jena Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10554–10559. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601780103.PMCID: PMC1502272 Clusters: A bridge across the disciplines of physics and chemistry Puru Jena and A. W. Castleman, Jr. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10560–10569. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601782103.PMCID: PMC1636021 Research Articles Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Cluster dynamics transcending chemical dynamics toward nuclear fusion Andreas Heidenreich, Joshua Jortner, and Isidore Last Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10589–10593. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508622103.PMCID: PMC1502276 Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Ultrafast dynamics in atomic clusters: Analysis and control Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký, Roland Mitrić, Ute Werner, Ludger Wöste, and R. Stephen Berry Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10594–10599. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600151103.PMCID: PMC1502277 Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Electron and boson clusters in confined geometries: Symmetry breaking in quantum dots and harmonic traps Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10600–10605. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509041103.PMCID: PMC1502278 Perspectives Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Dynamics of clusters: From elementary to biological structures Po-Yuan Cheng, J. Spencer Baskin, and Ahmed H. Zewail Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10570–10576. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507114103.PMCID: PMC1502273 Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Clusters, surfaces, and catalysis Gabor A. Somorjai, Anthony M. Contreras, Max Montano, and Robert M. Rioux Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10577–10583. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507691103.PMCID: PMC1502274 Review Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Molecular complexes in close and far away William Klemperer and Veronica Vaida Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10584–10588. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508231103.PMCID: PMC1502275 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics An opposite role for tau in circadian rhythms revealed by mathematical modeling Monica Gallego, Erik J. Eide, Margaret F. Woolf, David M. Virshup, and Daniel B. Forger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10618–10623. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604511103.PMCID: PMC1502281 Chemistry Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Cluster dynamics transcending chemical dynamics toward nuclear fusion Andreas Heidenreich, Joshua Jortner, and Isidore Last Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10589–10593. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508622103.PMCID: PMC1502276 Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Ultrafast dynamics in atomic clusters: Analysis and control Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký, Roland Mitrić, Ute Werner, Ludger Wöste, and R. Stephen Berry Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10594–10599. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600151103.PMCID: PMC1502277 Geology INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present Lonnie G. Thompson, Ellen Mosley-Thompson, Henry Brecher, Mary Davis, Blanca León, Don Les, Ping-Nan Lin, Tracy Mashiotta, and Keith Mountain Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10536–10543. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603900103.PMCID: PMC1484420 Mathematics Packing, tiling, and covering with tetrahedra J. H. Conway and S. Torquato Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10612–10617. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601389103.PMCID: PMC1502280 Physics Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Electron and boson clusters in confined geometries: Symmetry breaking in quantum dots and harmonic traps Constantine Yannouleas and Uzi Landman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10600–10605. Published online 2006 June 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509041103.PMCID: PMC1502278 Biological Sciences Biochemistry An opposite role for tau in circadian rhythms revealed by mathematical modeling Monica Gallego, Erik J. Eide, Margaret F. Woolf, David M. Virshup, and Daniel B. Forger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10618–10623. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604511103.PMCID: PMC1502281 A sensor for intracellular ionic strength Esther Biemans-Oldehinkel, Nik A. B. N. Mahmood, and Bert Poolman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10624–10629. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603871103.PMCID: PMC1502282 Discrete steps in sensing of β-lactam antibiotics by the BlaR1 protein of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacterium Kanjana Thumanu, Jooyoung Cha, Jed F. Fisher, Richard Perrins, Shahriar Mobashery, and Christopher Wharton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10630–10635. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601971103.PMCID: PMC1502283 Pancreatic β cells lack a low glucose and O2-inducible mitochondrial protein that augments cell survival Jie Wang, Yun Cao, Ying Chen, Yimei Chen, Paul Gardner, and Donald F. Steiner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10636–10641. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604194103.PMCID: PMC1502284 Implications of structures of synaptic tetramers of γδ resolvase for the mechanism of recombination Satwik Kamtekar, Roger S. Ho, Melanie J. Cocco, Weikai Li, Sandra V. C. T. Wenwieser, Martin R. Boocock, Nigel D. F. Grindley, and Thomas A. Steitz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10642–10647. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604062103.PMCID: PMC1483221 Biophysics Structure–function–folding relationship in a WW domain Marcus Jäger, Yan Zhang, Jan Bieschke, Houbi Nguyen, Maria Dendle, Marianne E. Bowman, Joseph P. Noel, Martin Gruebele, and Jeffery W. Kelly Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10648–10653. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600511103.PMCID: PMC1502286 Microtubule bundling and nested buckling drive stripe formation in polymerizing tubulin solutions Yifeng Liu, Yongxing Guo, James M. Valles, Jr., and Jay X. Tang Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10654–10659. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510381103.PMCID: PMC1502287 Cell Biology Selective small-molecule inhibitor reveals critical mitotic functions of human CDK1 Lyubomir T. Vassilev, Christian Tovar, Shaoqing Chen, Dejan Knezevic, Xiaolan Zhao, Hongmao Sun, David C. Heimbrook, and Li Chen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10660–10665. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600447103.PMCID: PMC1502288 Interaction of two hereditary spastic paraplegia gene products, spastin and atlastin, suggests a common pathway for axonal maintenance Katia Evans, Christian Keller, Karen Pavur, Kristen Glasgow, Bryan Conn, and Brett Lauring Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10666–10671. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510863103.PMCID: PMC1502289 GEP100/BRAG2: Activator of ADP-ribosylation factor 6 for regulation of cell adhesion and actin cytoskeleton via E-cadherin and α-catenin Toyoko Hiroi, Akimasa Someya, Walter Thompson, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10672–10677. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604091103.PMCID: PMC1502290 Chemistry From the Cover: Discovery of protein phosphatase inhibitor classes by biology-oriented synthesis Andrea Nören-Müller, Ivan Reis-Corrêa, Jr, Heino Prinz, Claudia Rosenbaum, Krishna Saxena, Harald J. Schwalbe, Dietmar Vestweber, Guiseppe Cagna, Stefan Schunk, Oliver Schwarz, Hajo Schiewe, and Herbert Waldmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10606–10611. Published online 2006 June 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601490103.PMCID: PMC1502279 Developmental Biology A unique preovulatory expression pattern plays a key role in the physiological functions of BMP-15 in the mouse Osamu Yoshino, Heather E. McMahon, Shweta Sharma, and Shunichi Shimasaki Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10678–10683. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600507103.PMCID: PMC1502291 CTCF binding at the H19 imprinting control region mediates maternally inherited higher-order chromatin conformation to restrict enhancer access to Igf2 Sreenivasulu Kurukuti, Vijay Kumar Tiwari, Gholamreza Tavoosidana, Elena Pugacheva, Adele Murrell, Zhihu Zhao, Victor Lobanenkov, Wolf Reik, and Rolf Ohlsson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10684–10689. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600326103.PMCID: PMC1484419 Ecology Prey evolution on the time scale of predator–prey dynamics revealed by allele-specific quantitative PCR Justin R. Meyer, Stephen P. Ellner, Nelson G. Hairston, Jr., Laura E. Jones, and Takehito Yoshida Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10690–10695. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600434103.PMCID: PMC1502293 Evolution Collective evolution and the genetic code Kalin Vetsigian, Carl Woese, and Nigel Goldenfeld Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10696–10701. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603780103.PMCID: PMC1502294 Cryptic sex and many-to-one coevolution in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis Alexander S. Mikheyev, Ulrich G. Mueller, and Patrick Abbot Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10702–10706. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601441103.PMCID: PMC1502295 Genetics gp130 signaling in proopiomelanocortin neurons mediates the acute anorectic response to centrally applied ciliary neurotrophic factor Ruth Janoschek, Leona Plum, Linda Koch, Heike Münzberg, Sabrina Diano, Marya Shanabrough, Werner Müller, Tamas L. Horvath, and Jens C. Brüning Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10707–10712. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600425103.PMCID: PMC1502296 Computational prediction of methylation status in human genomic sequences Rajdeep Das, Nevenka Dimitrova, Zhenyu Xuan, Robert A. Rollins, Fatemah Haghighi, John R. Edwards, Jingyue Ju, Timothy H. Bestor, and Michael Q. Zhang Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10713–10716. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0602949103.PMCID: PMC1502297 Immunology Naive CD4 T cells constitutively express CD40L and augment autoreactive B cell survival Robin Lesley, Lisa M. Kelly, Ying Xu, and Jason G. Cyster Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10717–10722. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601539103.PMCID: PMC1484418 IgD, like IgM, is a primordial immunoglobulin class perpetuated in most jawed vertebrates Yuko Ohta and Martin Flajnik Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10723–10728. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601407103.PMCID: PMC1636022 The dominant role of CD8+ dendritic cells in cross-presentation is not dictated by antigen capture Petra Schnorrer, Georg M. N. Behrens, Nicholas S. Wilson, Joanne L. Pooley, Christopher M. Smith, Dima El-Sukkari, Gayle Davey, Fiona Kupresanin, Ming Li, Eugene Maraskovsky, Gabrielle T. Belz, Francis R. Carbone, Ken Shortman, William R. Heath, and Jose A. Villadangos Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10729–10734. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0601956103.PMCID: PMC1502299 HERC5 is an IFN-induced HECT-type E3 protein ligase that mediates type I IFN-induced ISGylation of protein targets Joyce Jing Yi Wong, Yuh Fen Pung, Newman Siu-Kwan Sze, and Keh-Chuang Chin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10735–10740. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0600397103.PMCID: PMC1484417 Medical Sciences INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Loss of hepatic NF-κB activity enhances chemical hepatocarcinogenesis through sustained c-Jun N-terminal kinase 1 activation Toshiharu Sakurai, Shin Maeda, Lufen Chang, and Michael Karin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10544–10551. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603499103.PMCID: PMC1502270 Functional in vivo interactions between JNK1 and JNK2 isoforms in obesity and insulin resistance Gürol Tuncman, Jiro Hirosumi, Giovanni Solinas, Lufen Chang, Michael Karin, and Gökhan S. Hotamisligil Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10741–10746. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603509103.PMCID: PMC1487172 Aberrant Wnt/β-catenin signaling can induce chromosomal instability in colon cancer Michel V. Hadjihannas, Martina Brückner, Boris Jerchow, Walter Birchmeier, Wolfgang Dietmaier, and Jürgen Behrens Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10747–10752. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604206103.PMCID: PMC1502302 A functional variant of the dopamine D3 receptor is associated with risk and age-at-onset of essential tremor Freddy Jeanneteau, Benoît Funalot, Joseph Jankovic, Hao Deng, Jean-Pierre Lagarde, Gérard Lucotte, and Pierre Sokoloff Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10753–10758. Published online 2006 June 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508189103.PMCID: PMC1502303 Dissociation of pathological and molecular phenotype of variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease in transgenic human prion protein 129 heterozygous mice Emmanuel A. Asante, Jacqueline M. Linehan, Ian Gowland, Susan Joiner, Katie Fox, Sharon Cooper, Olufumilayo Osiguwa, Michelle Gorry, Julie Welch, Richard Houghton, Melanie Desbruslais, Sebastian Brandner, Jonathan D. F. Wadsworth, and John Collinge Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10759–10764. Published online 2006 June 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604292103.PMCID: PMC1502304 Microbiology PlyC: A multimeric bacteriophage lysin Daniel Nelson, Raymond Schuch, Peter Chahales, Shiwei Zhu, and Vincent A. Fischetti Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10765–10770. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604521103.PMCID: PMC1487170 Neuroscience From the Cover: Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men’s sexual orientation Anthony F. Bogaert Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10771–10774. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511152103.PMCID: PMC1502306 Arithmetic processing in the brain shaped by cultures Yiyuan Tang, Wutian Zhang, Kewei Chen, Shigang Feng, Ye Ji, Junxian Shen, Eric M. Reiman, and Yijun Liu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10775–10780. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604416103.PMCID: PMC1502307 Reconstitution of invertebrate glutamate receptor function depends on stargazin-like proteins Craig S. Walker, Penelope J. Brockie, David M. Madsen, Michael M. Francis, Yi Zheng, Sri Koduri, Jerry E. Mellem, Nathalie Strutz-Seebohm, and Andres V. Maricq Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10781–10786. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604482103.PMCID: PMC1502308 Conserved SOL-1 proteins regulate ionotropic glutamate receptor desensitization Craig S. Walker, Michael M. Francis, Penelope J. Brockie, David M. Madsen, Yi Zheng, and Andres V. Maricq Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10787–10792. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604520103.PMCID: PMC1502309 Mitochondrial pathology and muscle and dopaminergic neuron degeneration caused by inactivation of Drosophila Pink1 is rescued by Parkin Yufeng Yang, Stephan Gehrke, Yuzuru Imai, Zhinong Huang, Yingshi Ouyang, Ji-Wu Wang, Lichuan Yang, M. Flint Beal, Hannes Vogel, and Bingwei Lu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10793–10798. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0602493103.PMCID: PMC1502310 Theories and measures of consciousness: An extended framework Anil K. Seth, Eugene Izhikevich, George N. Reeke, and Gerald M. Edelman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10799–10804. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604347103.PMCID: PMC1487169 Dynamics and specificity of cortical map reorganization after retinal lesions Dimitrios V. Giannikopoulos and Ulf T. Eysel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10805–10810. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604539103.PMCID: PMC1487171 Functional uncoupling between Ca2+ release and afterhyperpolarization in mutant hippocampal neurons lacking junctophilins Shigeki Moriguchi, Miyuki Nishi, Shinji Komazaki, Hiroyuki Sakagami, Taisuke Miyazaki, Haruko Masumiya, Shin-ya Saito, Masahiko Watanabe, Hisatake Kondo, Hiromu Yawo, Kohji Fukunaga, and Hiroshi Takeshima Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10811–10816. Published online 2006 June 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509863103.PMCID: PMC1502313 Plant Biology From the Cover: A phosphatidic acid-binding protein of the chloroplast inner envelope membrane involved in lipid trafficking Koichiro Awai, Changcheng Xu, Banita Tamot, and Christoph Benning Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10817–10822. Published online 2006 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0602754103.PMCID: PMC1502314 Social Sciences Psychology From the Cover: Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men’s sexual orientation Anthony F. Bogaert Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10771–10774. Published online 2006 June 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0511152103.PMCID: PMC1502306 Arithmetic processing in the brain shaped by cultures Yiyuan Tang, Wutian Zhang, Kewei Chen, Shigang Feng, Ye Ji, Junxian Shen, Eric M. Reiman, and Yijun Liu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10775–10780. Published online 2006 June 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604416103.PMCID: PMC1502307 Corrections Correction for Monath et al., A live, attenuated recombinant West Nile virus vaccine Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10823. Published online 2006 June 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603218103.PMCID: PMC1502315 Corrects: Thomas P. Monath, et al. A live, attenuated recombinant West Nile virus vaccine. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 April 25; 103(17): 6694–6699. Correction for Hagelueken et al., The crystal structure of SdsA1, an alkylsulfatase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, defines a third class of sulfatases Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 11; 103(28): 10824. Published online 2006 June 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604082103.PMCID: PMC1502316 Corrects: Gregor Hagelueken, et al. The crystal structure of SdsA1, an alkylsulfatase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa, defines a third class of sulfatases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 16; 103(20): 7631–7636. |