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Volume 103(51);  December 19, 2006
Bioligical Sciences
Biophysics
Order N algorithm for computation of electrostatic interactions in biomolecular systems
Benzhuo Lu, Xiaolin Cheng, Jingfang Huang, and J. Andrew McCammon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19314–19319. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605166103.
PMCID: PMC1748223
This Week in PNAS
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19215–19216. doi: 10.1073/iti5106103.
PMCID: PMC1748205
Commentaries
Binding then bending: A mechanism for wrapping DNA
Sergei Khrapunov, Michael Brenowitz, Phoebe A. Rice, and Carlos Enrique Catalano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19217–19218. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609223103.
PMCID: PMC1748206
Small worlds inside big brains
Olaf Sporns and Christopher J. Honey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19219–19220. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609523103.
PMCID: PMC1748207
Profile
Profile of Elinor Ostrom
Nick Zagorski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19221–19223. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609919103.
PMCID: PMC1748208
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Three-dimensional equilibria in axially symmetric tokamaks
Paul R. Garabedian
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19232–19236. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609569103.
PMCID: PMC1748209
Applied Physical Sciences
Three-dimensional equilibria in axially symmetric tokamaks
Paul R. Garabedian
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19232–19236. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609569103.
PMCID: PMC1748209
Role of molecular charge and hydrophilicity in regulating the kinetics of crystal growth
S. Elhadj, J. J. De Yoreo, J. R. Hoyer, and P. M. Dove
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19237–19242. Published online 2006 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605748103.
PMCID: PMC1748210
Chemistry
Nanoliter microfluidic hybrid method for simultaneous screening and optimization validated with crystallization of membrane proteins
Liang Li, Debarshi Mustafi, Qiang Fu, Valentina Tereshko, Delai L. Chen, Joshua D. Tice, and Rustem F. Ismagilov
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19243–19248. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607502103.
PMCID: PMC1748211
Computer Sciences
Discrete Radon transform has an exact, fast inverse and generalizes to operations other than sums along lines
William H. Press
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19249–19254. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609228103.
PMCID: PMC1697830
Engineering
Analysis of cartilage matrix fixed charge density and three-dimensional morphology via contrast-enhanced microcomputed tomography
Ashley W. Palmer, Robert E. Guldberg, and Marc E. Levenston
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19255–19260. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0606406103.
PMCID: PMC1748213
Physics
A physical analogue of the Schelling model
Dejan Vinković and Alan Kirman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19261–19265. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609371103.
PMCID: PMC1748214
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
Paleobiology and comparative morphology of a late Neandertal sample from El Sidrón, Asturias, Spain
Antonio Rosas, Cayetana Martínez-Maza, Markus Bastir, Antonio García-Tabernero, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Rosa Huguet, José Eugenio Ortiz, Ramón Julià, Vicente Soler, Trinidad de Torres, Enrique Martínez, Juan Carlos Cañaveras, Sergio Sánchez-Moral, Soledad Cuezva, Javier Lario, David Santamaría, Marco de la Rasilla, and Javier Fortea
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19266–19271. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609662104.
PMCID: PMC1748215
Applied Biological Sciences
A fully integrated microfluidic genetic analysis system with sample-in–answer-out capability
Christopher J. Easley, James M. Karlinsey, Joan M. Bienvenue, Lindsay A. Legendre, Michael G. Roper, Sanford H. Feldman, Molly A. Hughes, Erik L. Hewlett, Tod J. Merkel, Jerome P. Ferrance, and James P. Landers
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19272–19277. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604663103.
PMCID: PMC1748216
Biochemistry
Epstein–Barr nuclear antigen leader protein coactivates transcription through interaction with histone deacetylase 4
D. Portal, A. Rosendorff, and E. Kieff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19278–19283. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609320103.
PMCID: PMC1748217
Structure of a bacterial pyridoxal 5′-phosphate synthase complex
Marco Strohmeier, Thomas Raschle, Jacek Mazurkiewicz, Karsten Rippe, Irmgard Sinning, Teresa B. Fitzpatrick, and Ivo Tews
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19284–19289. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604950103.
PMCID: PMC1748218
Polyoma and SV40 proteins differentially regulate PP2A to activate distinct cellular signaling pathways involved in growth control
Pablo Rodriguez-Viciana, Crista Collins, and Mike Fried
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19290–19295. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609343103.
PMCID: PMC1748219
Polycomb recruitment to DNA in vivo by the YY1 REPO domain
Frank H. Wilkinson, Kyoungsook Park, and Michael L. Atchison
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19296–19301. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603564103.
PMCID: PMC1748220
Conservation of the metabolomic response to starvation across two divergent microbes
Matthew J. Brauer, Jie Yuan, Bryson D. Bennett, Wenyun Lu, Elizabeth Kimball, David Botstein, and Joshua D. Rabinowitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19302–19307. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609508103.
PMCID: PMC1697828
Purified vitamin K epoxide reductase alone is sufficient for conversion of vitamin K epoxide to vitamin K and vitamin K to vitamin KH2
Pei-Hsuan Chu, Teng-Yi Huang, Jason Williams, and D. W. Stafford
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19308–19313. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609401103.
PMCID: PMC1698442
Biophysics
Analysis of cartilage matrix fixed charge density and three-dimensional morphology via contrast-enhanced microcomputed tomography
Ashley W. Palmer, Robert E. Guldberg, and Marc E. Levenston
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19255–19260. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0606406103.
PMCID: PMC1748213
Adhesion and friction in gecko toe attachment and detachment
Yu Tian, Noshir Pesika, Hongbo Zeng, Kenny Rosenberg, Boxin Zhao, Patricia McGuiggan, Kellar Autumn, and Jacob Israelachvili
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19320–19325. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0608841103.
PMCID: PMC1748224
Crystal structure of apo-calmodulin bound to the first two IQ motifs of myosin V reveals essential recognition features
Anne Houdusse, Jean-François Gaucher, Elena Krementsova, Suet Mui, Kathleen M. Trybus, and Carolyn Cohen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19326–19331. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609436103.
PMCID: PMC1687203
Cell Biology
Two synaptojanin 1 isoforms are recruited to clathrin-coated pits at different stages
Rushika M. Perera, Roberto Zoncu, Louise Lucast, Pietro De Camilli, and Derek Toomre
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19332–19337. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609795104.
PMCID: PMC1693868
Developmental Biology
Estrogen receptor β expression in the embryonic brain regulates development of calretinin-immunoreactive GABAergic interneurons
Xiaotang Fan, Margaret Warner, and Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19338–19343. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609663103.
PMCID: PMC1748227
Azoospermia in mice with targeted disruption of the Brek/Lmtk2 (brain-enriched kinase/lemur tyrosine kinase 2) gene
Seiji Kawa, Chizuru Ito, Yoshiro Toyama, Mamiko Maekawa, Tohru Tezuka, Takahisa Nakamura, Takanobu Nakazawa, Kazumasa Yokoyama, Nobuaki Yoshida, Kiyotaka Toshimori, and Tadashi Yamamoto
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19344–19349. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603603103.
PMCID: PMC1748228
Evolutionary constraint on Otx2 neuroectoderm enhancers-deep conservation from skate to mouse and unique divergence in teleost
Daisuke Kurokawa, Yusuke Sakurai, Ai Inoue, Rika Nakayama, Nobuyoshi Takasaki, Yoko Suda, Tsutomu Miyake, Chris T. Amemiya, and Shinichi Aizawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19350–19355. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604686103.
PMCID: PMC1748229
Ecology
Canopy leaf area constrains [CO2]-induced enhancement of productivity and partitioning among aboveground carbon pools
Heather R. McCarthy, Ram Oren, Adrien C. Finzi, and Kurt H. Johnsen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19356–19361. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609448103.
PMCID: PMC1748230
Aboveground sink strength in forests controls the allocation of carbon below ground and its [CO2]-induced enhancement
Sari Palmroth, Ram Oren, Heather R. McCarthy, Kurt H. Johnsen, Adrien C. Finzi, John R. Butnor, Michael G. Ryan, and William H. Schlesinger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19362–19367. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609492103.
PMCID: PMC1748231
From the Cover:
Predicting the global spread of H5N1 avian influenza
A. Marm Kilpatrick, Aleksei A. Chmura, David W. Gibbons, Robert C. Fleischer, Peter P. Marra, and Peter Daszak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19368–19373. Published online 2006 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609227103.
PMCID: PMC1748232
Global mammal distributions, biodiversity hotspots, and conservation
Gerardo Ceballos and Paul R. Ehrlich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19374–19379. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609334103.
PMCID: PMC1698439
Environmental Sciences
Forest fire increases mercury accumulation by fishes via food web restructuring and increased mercury inputs
Erin N. Kelly, David W. Schindler, Vincent L. St. Louis, David B. Donald, and Katherine E. Vladicka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19380–19385. Published online 2006 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609798104.
PMCID: PMC1693476
Atmospheric nitrogen deposition promotes carbon loss from peat bogs
Luca Bragazza, Chris Freeman, Timothy Jones, Håkan Rydin, Juul Limpens, Nathalie Fenner, Tim Ellis, Renato Gerdol, Michal Hájek, Tomáš Hájek, Paola Iacumin, Lado Kutnar, Teemu Tahvanainen, and Hannah Toberman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19386–19389. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0606629104.
PMCID: PMC1748235
Evolution
Transgenic analysis of Dlx regulation in fish tooth development reveals evolutionary retention of enhancer function despite organ loss
William R. Jackman and David W. Stock
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19390–19395. Published online 2006 December 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609575103.
PMCID: PMC1748236
Bursts of nonsynonymous substitutions in HIV-1 evolution reveal instances of positive selection at conservative protein sites
Georgii A. Bazykin, Jonathan Dushoff, Simon A. Levin, and Alexey S. Kondrashov
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19396–19401. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609484103.
PMCID: PMC1698441
Evolutionary theory for modifiers of epistasis using a general symmetric model
Uri Liberman and Marcus W. Feldman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19402–19406. Published online 2006 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0608569103.
PMCID: PMC1748238
Gene cooption without duplication during the evolution of a male-pregnancy gene in pipefish
April Harlin-Cognato, Eric A. Hoffman, and Adam G. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19407–19412. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0603000103.
PMCID: PMC1748239
Flux control and excess capacity in the enzymes of glycolysis and their relationship to flight metabolism in Drosophila melanogaster
Walter F. Eanes, Thomas J. S. Merritt, Jonathan M. Flowers, Seiji Kumagai, Efe Sezgin, and Chen-Tseh Zhu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19413–19418. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607095104.
PMCID: PMC1748240
Miocene mammal reveals a Mesozoic ghost lineage on insular New Zealand, southwest Pacific
Trevor H. Worthy, Alan J. D. Tennyson, Michael Archer, Anne M. Musser, Suzanne J. Hand, Craig Jones, Barry J. Douglas, James A. McNamara, and Robin M. D. Beck
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19419–19423. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605684103.
PMCID: PMC1697831
Genetics
Zfp423 controls proliferation and differentiation of neural precursors in cerebellar vermis formation
Wendy A. Alcaraz, David A. Gold, Eric Raponi, Peter M. Gent, Dorothy Concepcion, and Bruce A. Hamilton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19424–19429. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609184103.
PMCID: PMC1748242
Multivariate regression analysis of distance matrices for testing associations between gene expression patterns and related variables
Matthew A. Zapala and Nicholas J. Schork
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19430–19435. Published online 2006 December 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609333103.
PMCID: PMC1748243
Immunology
Two overrepresented B cell populations in HIV-infected individuals undergo apoptosis by different mechanisms
Jason Ho, Susan Moir, Angela Malaspina, Melissa L. Howell, Wei Wang, Angela C. DiPoto, Marie A. O'Shea, Gregg A. Roby, Richard Kwan, JoAnn M. Mican, Tae-Wook Chun, and Anthony S. Fauci
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19436–19441. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609515103.
PMCID: PMC1748244
TNFα kinoid vaccination-induced neutralizing antibodies to TNFα protect mice from autologous TNFα-driven chronic and acute inflammation
Hélène Le Buanec, Laure Delavallée, Natacha Bessis, Sébastien Paturance, Bernard Bizzini, Robert Gallo, Daniel Zagury, and Marie-Christophe Boissier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19442–19447. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604827103.
PMCID: PMC1748245
From the Cover:
Delay of T cell senescence by caloric restriction in aged long-lived nonhuman primates
Ilhem Messaoudi, Jessica Warner, Miranda Fischer, Buyng Park, Brenna Hill, Julie Mattison, Mark A. Lane, George S. Roth, Donald K. Ingram, Louis J. Picker, Daniel C. Douek, Motomi Mori, and Janko Nikolich-Žugich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19448–19453. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0606661103.
PMCID: PMC1748246
CD27 mediates interleukin-2-independent clonal expansion of the CD8+ T cell without effector differentiation
James M. Carr, Marlene J. Carrasco, James E. D. Thaventhiran, Paul J. Bambrough, Matthew Kraman, Alexander D. Edwards, Aymen Al-Shamkhani, and Douglas T. Fearon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19454–19459. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609706104.
PMCID: PMC1697827
Medical Sciences
Discrete Radon transform has an exact, fast inverse and generalizes to operations other than sums along lines
William H. Press
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19249–19254. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609228103.
PMCID: PMC1697830
Environmental change and infectious disease: How new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador
Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, William Cevallos, Karina Ponce, Karen Levy, Sarah J. Bates, James C. Scott, Alan Hubbard, Nadia Vieira, Pablo Endara, Mauricio Espinel, Gabriel Trueba, Lee W. Riley, and James Trostle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19460–19465. Published online 2006 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609431104.
PMCID: PMC1693477
Phosphorylation of the ATP-binding loop directs oncogenicity of drug-resistant BCR-ABL mutants
Brian J. Skaggs, Mercedes E. Gorre, Ann Ryvkin, Michael R. Burgess, Yongming Xie, Yun Han, Evangelia Komisopoulou, Lauren M. Brown, Joseph A. Loo, Elliot M. Landaw, Charles L. Sawyers, and Thomas G. Graeber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19466–19471. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609239103.
PMCID: PMC1698443
A cancer-associated PCNA expressed in breast cancer has implications as a potential biomarker
Linda H. Malkas, Brittney Shea Herbert, Waleed Abdel-Aziz, Lacey E. Dobrolecki, Yang Liu, Beamon Agarwal, Derek Hoelz, Sunil Badve, Lauren Schnaper, Randy J. Arnold, Yehia Mechref, Milos V. Novotny, Patrick Loehrer, Robert J. Goulet, and Robert J. Hickey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19472–19477. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604614103.
PMCID: PMC1697829
The small-molecule VEGF receptor inhibitor pazopanib (GW786034B) targets both tumor and endothelial cells in multiple myeloma
Klaus Podar, Giovanni Tonon, Martin Sattler, Yu-Tzu Tai, Steven LeGouill, Hiroshi Yasui, Kenji Ishitsuka, Shaji Kumar, Rakesh Kumar, Lini N. Pandite, Teru Hideshima, Dharminder Chauhan, and Kenneth C. Anderson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19478–19483. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609329103.
PMCID: PMC1748251
Microbiology
Antibiotics as intermicrobial signaling agents instead of weapons
J. F. Linares, I. Gustafsson, F. Baquero, and J. L. Martinez
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19484–19489. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0608949103.
PMCID: PMC1682013
Identification of a large noncoding RNA in extremophilic eubacteria
Elena Puerta-Fernandez, Jeffrey E. Barrick, Adam Roth, and Ronald R. Breaker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19490–19495. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607493103.
PMCID: PMC1748253
A route for fructose utilization by Escherichia coli involving the fucose regulon
Hans Kornberg and Christopher Lourenco
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19496–19499. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609429103.
PMCID: PMC1748254
Epstein–Barr virus nuclear protein EBNA3C is required for cell cycle progression and growth maintenance of lymphoblastoid cells
Seiji Maruo, Yi Wu, Satoko Ishikawa, Teru Kanda, Dai Iwakiri, and Kenzo Takada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19500–19505. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604919104.
PMCID: PMC1748255
Existence of an operative pathway from the endoplasmic reticulum to the immature poxvirus membrane
Matloob Husain, Andrea S. Weisberg, and Bernard Moss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19506–19511. Published online 2006 December 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609406103.
PMCID: PMC1681353
Neuroscience
Geniculocortical relay of blue-off signals in the primate visual system
Brett A. Szmajda, Péter Buzás, Thomas FitzGibbon, and Paul R. Martin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19512–19517. Published online 2006 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0606970103.
PMCID: PMC1748257
From the Cover:
Adaptive reconfiguration of fractal small-world human brain functional networks
Danielle S. Bassett, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Sophie Achard, Thomas Duke, and Edward Bullmore
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19518–19523. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0606005103.
PMCID: PMC1838565
Presenilin mutations linked to familial Alzheimer's disease cause an imbalance in phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate metabolism
Natalie Landman, Soon Youn Jeong, Sun Young Shin, Sergey V. Voronov, Geo Serban, Min Suk Kang, Myung Kyu Park, Gilbert Di Paolo, Sungkwon Chung, and Tae-Wan Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19524–19529. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604954103.
PMCID: PMC1748258
Direct evidence for a prefrontal contribution to the control of proactive interference in verbal working memory
Eva Feredoes, Giulio Tononi, and Bradley R. Postle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19530–19534. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604509103.
PMCID: PMC1748259
Synapse-specific regulation of AMPA receptor function by PSD-95
Jean-Claude Béïque, Da-Ting Lin, Myoung-Goo Kang, Hiro Aizawa, Kogo Takamiya, and Richard L. Huganir
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19535–19540. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0608492103.
PMCID: PMC1748260
Hypoglycemia leads to age-related loss of vision
Y. Umino, D. Everhart, E. Solessio, K. Cusato, J. C. Pan, T. H. Nguyen, E. T. Brown, R. Hafler, B. A. Frio, B. E. Knox, G. A. Engbretson, M. Haeri, L. Cui, A. S. Glenn, M. J. Charron, and R. B. Barlow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19541–19545. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604478104.
PMCID: PMC1697832
From the Cover:
Gene transfer demonstrates that muscle is not a primary target for non-cell-autonomous toxicity in familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Timothy M. Miller, Soo H. Kim, Koji Yamanaka, Mark Hester, Priya Umapathi, Hannah Arnson, Liza Rizo, Jerry R. Mendell, Fred H. Gage, Don W. Cleveland, and Brian K. Kaspar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19546–19551. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609411103.
PMCID: PMC1748262
Selectivity for the configural cues that identify the gender, ethnicity, and identity of faces in human cortex
Minna Ng, Vivian M. Ciaramitaro, Stuart Anstis, Geoffrey M. Boynton, and Ione Fine
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19552–19557. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0605358104.
PMCID: PMC1748263
Opposite patterns of hemisphere dominance for early auditory processing of lexical tones and consonants
Hao Luo, Jing-Tian Ni, Zhi-Hao Li, Xiao-Ou Li, Da-Ren Zhang, Fan-Gang Zeng, and Lin Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19558–19563. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607065104.
PMCID: PMC1748264
Pharmacology
TRP channel activation by reversible covalent modification
Andrew Hinman, Huai-hu Chuang, Diana M. Bautista, and David Julius
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19564–19568. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609598103.
PMCID: PMC1748265
Physiology
Inhibition of MAPK stimulates the Ca2+-dependent big-conductance K channels in cortical collecting duct
Dimin Li, Zhijian Wang, Peng Sun, Yan Jin, Dao-Hong Lin, Steven C. Hebert, Gerhard Giebisch, and Wen-Hui Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19569–19574. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609555104.
PMCID: PMC1748266
Insulin protects islets from apoptosis via Pdx1 and specific changes in the human islet proteome
James D. Johnson, Ernesto Bernal-Mizrachi, Emilyn U. Alejandro, Zhiqiang Han, Tatyana B. Kalynyak, Hong Li, Jennifer L. Beith, Julia Gross, Garth L. Warnock, R. Reid Townsend, M. Alan Permutt, and Kenneth S. Polonsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19575–19580. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604208103.
PMCID: PMC1748267
Plant Biology
From the Cover:
The wheat and barley vernalization gene VRN3 is an orthologue of FT
L. Yan, D. Fu, C. Li, A. Blechl, G. Tranquilli, M. Bonafede, A. Sanchez, M. Valarik, S. Yasuda, and J. Dubcovsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19581–19586. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607142103.
PMCID: PMC1748268
Mitochondrial uncoupling protein is required for efficient photosynthesis
Lee J. Sweetlove, Anna Lytovchenko, Megan Morgan, Adriano Nunes-Nesi, Nicolas L. Taylor, Charles J. Baxter, Ira Eickmeier, and Alisdair R. Fernie
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19587–19592. Published online 2006 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607751103.
PMCID: PMC1748269
RNA silencing of host transcripts by cauliflower mosaic virus requires coordinated action of the four Arabidopsis Dicer-like proteins
Guillaume Moissiard and Olivier Voinnet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19593–19598. Published online 2006 December 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604627103.
PMCID: PMC1698440
Sustainability Science
Environmental change and infectious disease: How new roads affect the transmission of diarrheal pathogens in rural Ecuador
Joseph N. S. Eisenberg, William Cevallos, Karina Ponce, Karen Levy, Sarah J. Bates, James C. Scott, Alan Hubbard, Nadia Vieira, Pablo Endara, Mauricio Espinel, Gabriel Trueba, Lee W. Riley, and James Trostle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19460–19465. Published online 2006 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609431104.
PMCID: PMC1693477
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
A physical analogue of the Schelling model
Dejan Vinković and Alan Kirman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19261–19265. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609371103.
PMCID: PMC1748214
Psychology
Direct evidence for a prefrontal contribution to the control of proactive interference in verbal working memory
Eva Feredoes, Giulio Tononi, and Bradley R. Postle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19530–19534. Published online 2006 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0604509103.
PMCID: PMC1748259
Sometimes area counts more than number
Felicia Hurewitz, Rochel Gelman, and Brian Schnitzer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19599–19604. Published online 2006 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609485103.
PMCID: PMC1748271
Sustainability Science
Insights on linking forests, trees, and people from the air, on the ground, and in the laboratory
Elinor Ostrom and Harini Nagendra
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19224–19231. Published online 2006 November 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607962103.
PMCID: PMC1838564
Corrections
Correction for Earn et al., Global asymptotic coherence in discrete dynamical systems
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19605. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609526103.
PMCID: PMC1748272
Corrects: David J. D. Earn, et al. Global asymptotic coherence in discrete dynamical systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 March 14; 103(11): 3968–3971.
Correction for Huang et al., Dewetting-induced collapse of hydrophobic particles
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19605. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609680103.
PMCID: PMC1748273
Corrects: X. Huang, et al. Dewetting-induced collapse of hydrophobic particles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 October 14; 100(21): 11953–11958.
Correction for Goldman et al., Evolution of sensory complexity recorded in a myxobacterial genome
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19605. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609567103.
PMCID: PMC1748274
Corrects: B. S. Goldman, et al. Evolution of sensory complexity recorded in a myxobacterial genome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 October 10; 103(41): 15200–15205.
Correction for Lu et al., Enzyme–microbe synergy during cellulose hydrolysis by Clostridium thermocellum
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19605. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609576103.
PMCID: PMC1748275
Corrects: Yanpin Lu, et al. Enzyme–microbe synergy during cellulose hydrolysis by Clostridium thermocellum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 October 31; 103(44): 16165–16169.
Correction for Bielas et al., Human cancers express a mutator phenotype
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19605. Published online 2006 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610370103.
PMCID: PMC1748276
Corrects: Jason H. Bielas, et al. From the Cover:
Human cancers express a mutator phenotype.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 November 28; 103(48): 18238–18242.
Retraction
Retraction for Nouspikel et al., A common mutational pattern in Cockayne syndrome patients from xeroderma pigmentosum group G: Implications for a second XPG function
Solomon H. Snyder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 19; 103(51): 19606. Published online 2006 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609759103.
PMCID: PMC1748277
Corrects: Thierry Nouspikel, et al. A common mutational pattern in Cockayne syndrome patients from xeroderma pigmentosum group G: Implications for a second XPG function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 April 1; 94(7): 3116–3121.
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