| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 January 2; 104(1): 1–2. doi: 10.1073/iti0107104.PMCID: PMC1765418 Commentaries Coupled transport at the nanoscale: The unreasonable effectiveness of equilibrium theory R. Dean Astumian PMCID: PMC1765454 Ungulate herbivory: Indirect effects cascade into the treetops Andrew J. Larson and Robert T. Paine PMCID: PMC1765475 Varicella-zoster vaccine virus: Evolution in action Jeffrey I. Cohen PMCID: PMC1765479 Physical Sciences Chemistry Independent control of grafting density and conformation of single-stranded DNA brushes Aric Opdahl, Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Hiromi Kimura-Suda, Michael J. Tarlov, and Lloyd J. Whitman PMCID: PMC1766319 Human Sco1 functional studies and pathological implications of the P174L mutant Lucia Banci, Ivano Bertini, Simone Ciofi-Baffoni, Iliana Leontari, Manuele Martinelli, Peep Palumaa, Rannar Sillard, and Shenlin Wang PMCID: PMC1765425 Monoalkyl sulfates as alkylating agents in water, alkylsulfatase rate enhancements, and the “energy-rich” nature of sulfate half-esters Richard Wolfenden and Yang Yuan PMCID: PMC1765482 Site-specific collapse dynamics guide the formation of the cytochrome c′ four-helix bundle Tetsunari Kimura, Jennifer C. Lee, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler PMCID: PMC1765420 Environmental Sciences Oxygen isotopic composition of carbon dioxide in the middle atmosphere Mao-Chang Liang, Geoffrey A. Blake, Brenton R. Lewis, and Yuk L. Yung PMCID: PMC1749325 Geophysics Evidence for a chemical-thermal structure at base of mantle from sharp lateral P-wave variations beneath Central America Xinlei Sun, Xiaodong Song, Sihua Zheng, and Don V. Helmberger PMCID: PMC1765446 Short wavelength topography on the inner-core boundary Aimin Cao, Yder Masson, and Barbara Romanowicz PMCID: PMC1765456 Physics Resolution limit in community detection Santo Fortunato and Marc Barthélemy PMCID: PMC1765466 Biological Sciences Biochemistry Independent control of grafting density and conformation of single-stranded DNA brushes Aric Opdahl, Dmitri Y. Petrovykh, Hiromi Kimura-Suda, Michael J. Tarlov, and Lloyd J. Whitman PMCID: PMC1766319 Inhibitory complex of the transmembrane ammonia channel, AmtB, and the cytosolic regulatory protein, GlnK, at 1.96 Å Franz Gruswitz, Joseph O'Connell, III, and Robert M. Stroud PMCID: PMC1765473 Computationally designed libraries of fluorescent proteins evaluated by preservation and diversity of function Thomas P. Treynor, Christina L. Vizcarra, Daniel Nedelcu, and Stephen L. Mayo PMCID: PMC1765474 Reengineering CCA-adding enzymes to function as (U,G)- or dCdCdA-adding enzymes or poly(C,A) and poly(U,G) polymerases HyunDae D. Cho, Christophe L. M. J. Verlinde, and Alan M. Weiner PMCID: PMC1765476 N-formylation of lysine in histone proteins as a secondary modification arising from oxidative DNA damage Tao Jiang, Xinfeng Zhou, Koli Taghizadeh, Min Dong, and Peter C. Dedon PMCID: PMC1765477 Oxidized messenger RNA induces translation errors Mikiei Tanaka, P. Boon Chock, and Earl R. Stadtman PMCID: PMC1765478 Mechanism of tRNA-dependent editing in translational quality control Jiqiang Ling, Hervé Roy, and Michael Ibba PMCID: PMC1765480 The 1′,4′-iminopyrimidine tautomer of thiamin diphosphate is poised for catalysis in asymmetric active centers on enzymes Natalia Nemeria, Sumit Chakraborty, Ahmet Baykal, Lioubov G. Korotchkina, Mulchand S. Patel, and Frank Jordan PMCID: PMC1765481 Monoalkyl sulfates as alkylating agents in water, alkylsulfatase rate enhancements, and the “energy-rich” nature of sulfate half-esters Richard Wolfenden and Yang Yuan PMCID: PMC1765482 Biophysics Multiple-motor based transport and its regulation by Tau Michael Vershinin, Brian C. Carter, David S. Razafsky, Stephen J. King, and Steven P. Gross PMCID: PMC1765483 cAMP activation of PKA defines an ancient signaling mechanism Rahul Das, Veronica Esposito, Mona Abu-Abed, Ganesh S. Anand, Susan S. Taylor, and Giuseppe Melacini PMCID: PMC1765484 Structure and quantum chemical characterization of chloroperoxidase compound 0, a common reaction intermediate of diverse heme enzymes Karin Kühnel, Etienne Derat, James Terner, Sason Shaik, and Ilme Schlichting PMCID: PMC1765485 Mapping protein collapse with single-molecule fluorescence and kinetic synchrotron radiation circular dichroism spectroscopy Armin Hoffmann, Avinash Kane, Daniel Nettels, David E. Hertzog, Peter Baumgärtel, Jan Lengefeld, Gerd Reichardt, David A. Horsley, Robert Seckler, Olgica Bakajin, and Benjamin Schuler PMCID: PMC1765419 Monomer adds to preformed structured oligomers of Aβ-peptides by a two-stage dock–lock mechanism Phuong H. Nguyen, Mai Suan Li, Gerhard Stock, John E. Straub, and D. Thirumalai PMCID: PMC1766316 Site-specific collapse dynamics guide the formation of the cytochrome c′ four-helix bundle Tetsunari Kimura, Jennifer C. Lee, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler PMCID: PMC1765420 Distinguishing between cooperative and unimodal downhill protein folding Fang Huang, Satoshi Sato, Timothy D. Sharpe, Liming Ying, and Alan R. Fersht PMCID: PMC1765421 A PDZ domain recapitulates a unifying mechanism for protein folding Stefano Gianni, Christian D. Geierhaas, Nicoletta Calosci, Per Jemth, Geerten W. Vuister, Carlo Travaglini-Allocatelli, Michele Vendruscolo, and Maurizio Brunori PMCID: PMC1765422 Cell Biology Bcl10 and Malt1 control lysophosphatidic acid-induced NF-κB activation and cytokine production Stefanie Klemm, Stephanie Zimmermann, Christian Peschel, Tak W. Mak, and Jürgen Ruland PMCID: PMC1765423 CARMA3/Bcl10/MALT1-dependent NF-κB activation mediates angiotensin II-responsive inflammatory signaling in nonimmune cells Linda M. McAllister-Lucas, Jürgen Ruland, Katy Siu, Xiaohong Jin, Shufang Gu, David S. L. Kim, Peter Kuffa, Dawn Kohrt, Tak W. Mak, Gabriel Nuñez, and Peter C. Lucas PMCID: PMC1766317 Bcl10 plays a critical role in NF-κB activation induced by G protein-coupled receptors Donghai Wang, Yun You, Pei-Chun Lin, Liquan Xue, Stephan W. Morris, Hu Zeng, Renren Wen, and Xin Lin PMCID: PMC1765424 The zinc-finger antiviral protein recruits the RNA processing exosome to degrade the target mRNA Xuemin Guo, Jing Ma, Jing Sun, and Guangxia Gao PMCID: PMC1765426 LIM-only protein, CRP2, switched on smooth muscle gene activity in adult cardiac myocytes David F. Chang, Narasimhaswamy S. Belaguli, Jiang Chang, and Robert J. Schwartz PMCID: PMC1765427 Identification and characterization of COPIa- and COPIb-type vesicle classes associated with plant and algal Golgi Bryon S. Donohoe, Byung-Ho Kang, and L. Andrew Staehelin PMCID: PMC1765428 Developmental Biology From the Cover:
Genetic regulation of patterned tubular branching in Drosophila E. Hatton-Ellis, C. Ainsworth, Y. Sushama, S. Wan, K. VijayRaghavan, and H. Skaer PMCID: PMC1765429 Conserved markers of fetal pancreatic epithelium permit prospective isolation of islet progenitor cells by FACS Takuya Sugiyama, Ryan T. Rodriguez, Graeme W. McLean, and Seung K. Kim PMCID: PMC1765430 Isolation and functional characterization of murine prostate stem cells Devon A. Lawson, Li Xin, Rita U. Lukacs, Donghui Cheng, and Owen N. Witte PMCID: PMC1716155 Mouse oocytes within germ cell cysts and primordial follicles contain a Balbiani body Melissa E. Pepling, James E. Wilhelm, Ashley L. O'Hara, Grant W. Gephardt, and Allan C. Spradling PMCID: PMC1765432 Ecology From the Cover:
Herbivore-initiated interaction cascades and their modulation by productivity in an African savanna Robert M. Pringle, Truman P. Young, Daniel I. Rubenstein, and Douglas J. McCauley PMCID: PMC1765433 Divergence of reproductive phenology under climate warming Rebecca A. Sherry, Xuhui Zhou, Shiliang Gu, John A. Arnone, III, David S. Schimel, Paul S. Verburg, Linda L. Wallace, and Yiqi Luo PMCID: PMC1713188 Environmental Sciences Risk assessment for invasive species produces net bioeconomic benefits Reuben P. Keller, David M. Lodge, and David C. Finnoff PMCID: PMC1765435 Evolution From the Cover:
Natural selection for rash-forming genotypes of the varicella-zoster vaccine virus detected within immunized human hosts Mark L. Quinlivan, Anne A. Gershon, Mahmoud M. Al Bassam, Sharon P. Steinberg, Philip LaRussa, Richard A. Nichols, and Judith Breuer PMCID: PMC1765436 Parasitic inhibition of cell death facilitates symbiosis Bart A. Pannebakker, Benjamin Loppin, Coen P. H. Elemans, Lionel Humblot, and Fabrice Vavre PMCID: PMC1765438 Genetics RecA-independent recombination is efficient but limited by exonucleases Bethany E. Dutra, Vincent A. Sutera, Jr., and Susan T. Lovett PMCID: PMC1765439 Eukaryotic operon-like transcription of functionally related genes in Drosophila Yehuda Ben-Shahar, Kishore Nannapaneni, Thomas L. Casavant, Todd E. Scheetz, and Michael J. Welsh PMCID: PMC1749324 A unique configuration of genome-wide DNA methylation patterns in the testis C. C. Oakes, S. La Salle, D. J. Smiraglia, B. Robaire, and J. M. Trasler PMCID: PMC1765440 Immunology The tetraspanin CD9 mediates lateral association of MHC class II molecules on the dendritic cell surface Julia J. Unternaehrer, Amy Chow, Marc Pypaert, Kayo Inaba, and Ira Mellman PMCID: PMC1765441 Gain-of-function mutations in complement factor B are associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome Elena Goicoechea de Jorge, Claire L. Harris, Jorge Esparza-Gordillo, Luis Carreras, Elena Aller Arranz, Cynthia Abarrategui Garrido, Margarita López-Trascasa, Pilar Sánchez-Corral, B. Paul Morgan, and Santiago Rodríguez de Córdoba PMCID: PMC1765442 Ab and T cell epitopes of influenza A virus, knowledge and opportunities Huynh-Hoa Bui, Bjoern Peters, Erika Assarsson, Innocent Mbawuike, and Alessandro Sette PMCID: PMC1765443 Antitumor NK activation induced by the Toll-like receptor 3-TICAM-1 (TRIF) pathway in myeloid dendritic cells Takashi Akazawa, Takashi Ebihara, Manabu Okuno, Yu Okuda, Masashi Shingai, Kunio Tsujimura, Toshitada Takahashi, Masahito Ikawa, Masaru Okabe, Norimitsu Inoue, Miki Okamoto-Tanaka, Hiroyoshi Ishizaki, Jun Miyoshi, Misako Matsumoto, and Tsukasa Seya PMCID: PMC1765444 Medical Sciences Bcl10 and Malt1 control lysophosphatidic acid-induced NF-κB activation and cytokine production Stefanie Klemm, Stephanie Zimmermann, Christian Peschel, Tak W. Mak, and Jürgen Ruland PMCID: PMC1765423 From the Cover:
Ethanol prevents development of destructive arthritis Ing-Marie Jonsson, Margareta Verdrengh, Mikael Brisslert, Sofia Lindblad, Maria Bokarewa, Ulrika Islander, Hans Carlsten, Claes Ohlsson, Kutty Selva Nandakumar, Rikard Holmdahl, and Andrej Tarkowski PMCID: PMC1765445 Nitric oxide release combined with nonsteroidal antiinflammatory activity prevents muscular dystrophy pathology and enhances stem cell therapy Silvia Brunelli, Clara Sciorati, Giuseppe D'Antona, Anna Innocenzi, Diego Covarello, Beatriz G. Galvez, Cristiana Perrotta, Angela Monopoli, Francesca Sanvito, Roberto Bottinelli, Ennio Ongini, Giulio Cossu, and Emilio Clementi PMCID: PMC1765447 Identification of NVP-TAE684, a potent, selective, and efficacious inhibitor of NPM-ALK Anna V. Galkin, Jonathan S. Melnick, Sungjoon Kim, Tami L. Hood, Nanxin Li, Lintong Li, Gang Xia, Ruo Steensma, Greg Chopiuk, Jiqing Jiang, Yongqin Wan, Peter Ding, Yi Liu, Fangxian Sun, Peter G. Schultz, Nathanael S. Gray, and Markus Warmuth PMCID: PMC1765448 Nuclear IKK activity leads to dysregulated Notch-dependent gene expression in colorectal cancer V. Fernández-Majada, C. Aguilera, A. Villanueva, F. Vilardell, A. Robert-Moreno, A. Aytés, F. X. Real, G. Capella, M. W. Mayo, L. Espinosa, and A. Bigas PMCID: PMC1765449 IL-33, the IL-1-like cytokine ligand for ST2 receptor, is a chromatin-associated nuclear factor in vivo Virginie Carriere, Lucie Roussel, Nathalie Ortega, Delphine-Armelle Lacorre, Laure Americh, Luc Aguilar, Gérard Bouche, and Jean-Philippe Girard PMCID: PMC1765450 Par4 is required for platelet thrombus propagation but not fibrin generation in a mouse model of thrombosis Erik R. Vandendries, Justin R. Hamilton, Shaun R. Coughlin, Bruce Furie, and Barbara C. Furie PMCID: PMC1765451 Long-lasting and transmission-blocking activity of antibodies to Plasmodium falciparum elicited in mice by protein conjugates of Pfs25 Joanna Kubler-Kielb, Fathy Majadly, Yimin Wu, David L. Narum, Chunyan Guo, Louis H. Miller, Joseph Shiloach, John B. Robbins, and Rachel Schneerson PMCID: PMC1765452 Microbiology Urban aerosols harbor diverse and dynamic bacterial populations Eoin L. Brodie, Todd Z. DeSantis, Jordan P. Moberg Parker, Ingrid X. Zubietta, Yvette M. Piceno, and Gary L. Andersen PMCID: PMC1713168 A singular enzymatic megacomplex from Bacillus subtilis Paul D. Straight, Michael A. Fischbach, Christopher T. Walsh, David Z. Rudner, and Roberto Kolter PMCID: PMC1765455 Toxin–antitoxin systems are ubiquitous and plasmid-encoded in vancomycin-resistant enterococci Elizabeth M. Moritz and Paul J. Hergenrother PMCID: PMC1765457 Mutations in the connection domain of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase increase 3′-azido-3′-deoxythymidine resistance Galina N. Nikolenko, Krista A. Delviks-Frankenberry, Sarah Palmer, Frank Maldarelli, Matthew J. Fivash, Jr., John M. Coffin, and Vinay K. Pathak PMCID: PMC1765458 Neuroscience A neural basis for inference in perceptual ambiguity Philipp Sterzer and Andreas Kleinschmidt PMCID: PMC1765459 From the Cover:
Maternal serotonin is crucial for murine embryonic development Francine Côté, Cécile Fligny, Elisa Bayard, Jean-Marie Launay, Michael D. Gershon, Jacques Mallet, and Guilan Vodjdani PMCID: PMC1713169 Activity-dependent neurotransmitter-receptor matching at the neuromuscular junction Laura N. Borodinsky and Nicholas C. Spitzer PMCID: PMC1749326 NMDA-dependent facilitation of corticostriatal plasticity by the amygdala Andrei T. Popescu, Aleksandr A. Saghyan, and Denis Paré PMCID: PMC1765462 Sequential structure of neocortical spontaneous activity in vivo Artur Luczak, Peter Barthó, Stephan L. Marguet, György Buzsáki, and Kenneth D. Harris PMCID: PMC1765463 Amyloid precursor protein overexpression depresses excitatory transmission through both presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms Jonathan T. Ting, Brooke G. Kelley, Talley J. Lambert, David G. Cook, and Jane M. Sullivan PMCID: PMC1765464 Identification of the protein receptor binding site of botulinum neurotoxins B and G proves the double-receptor concept Andreas Rummel, Timo Eichner, Tanja Weil, Tino Karnath, Aleksandrs Gutcaits, Stefan Mahrhold, Konrad Sandhoff, Richard L. Proia, K. Ravi Acharya, Hans Bigalke, and Thomas Binz PMCID: PMC1716154 Penetrating arterioles are a bottleneck in the perfusion of neocortex Nozomi Nishimura, Chris B. Schaffer, Beth Friedman, Patrick D. Lyden, and David Kleinfeld PMCID: PMC1765467 Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection G. Rowe, J. B. Hirsh, and A. K. Anderson PMCID: PMC1765470 How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11 Tali Sharot, Elizabeth A. Martorella, Mauricio R. Delgado, and Elizabeth A. Phelps PMCID: PMC1713166 Physiology A quantitative study of bioenergetics in skeletal muscle lacking carbonic anhydrase III using 31P magnetic resonance spectroscopy M. Liu, G. A. Walter, N. C. Pathare, R. E. Forster, and K. Vandenborne PMCID: PMC1765468 Social Sciences Economic Sciences The Iranian petroleum crisis and United States national security Roger Stern PMCID: PMC1749323 Psychology Positive affect increases the breadth of attentional selection G. Rowe, J. B. Hirsh, and A. K. Anderson PMCID: PMC1765470 How personal experience modulates the neural circuitry of memories of September 11 Tali Sharot, Elizabeth A. Martorella, Mauricio R. Delgado, and Elizabeth A. Phelps PMCID: PMC1713166 Correction Correction for Wereszczynski and Andricioaei, On structural transitions, thermodynamic equilibrium, and the phase diagram of DNA and RNA duplexes under torque and tension PMCID: PMC1765472 Corrects: Jeff Wereszczynski, et al. On structural transitions, thermodynamic equilibrium, and the phase diagram of DNA and RNA duplexes under torque and tension. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 October 31; 103(44): 16200–16205. |
