| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11863–11864. doi: 10.1073/iti2907104.PMCID: PMC1924565 Commentaries Developmental genomics of the most dangerous animal Matthew P. Scott Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11865–11866. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704795104.PMCID: PMC1924572 Physiology versus pathology in Parkinson's disease Ken Nakamura and Robert H. Edwards Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11867–11868. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704254104.PMCID: PMC1924576 Neural stem cells for Parkinson's disease: To protect and repair Paul R. Sanberg Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11869–11870. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704704104.PMCID: PMC1924581 Profile Profile of Dolores R. Piperno Tinsley H. Davis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11871–11873. Published online 2007 July 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704904104.PMCID: PMC1924548 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences Dissecting biological “dark matter” with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth Yann Marcy, Cleber Ouverney, Elisabeth M. Bik, Tina Lösekann, Natalia Ivanova, Hector Garcia Martin, Ernest Szeto, Darren Platt, Philip Hugenholtz, David A. Relman, and Stephen R. Quake Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11889–11894. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704662104.PMCID: PMC1924555 Chemistry Electrochemical attosyringe François O. Laforge, James Carpino, Susan A. Rotenberg, and Michael V. Mirkin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11895–11900. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705102104.PMCID: PMC1924598 Engineering From the Cover: Making polymeric micro- and nanoparticles of complex shapes Julie A. Champion, Yogesh K. Katare, and Samir Mitragotri Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11901–11904. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705326104.PMCID: PMC1924596 Retinotopic mapping of adult human visual cortex with high-density diffuse optical tomography Benjamin W. Zeff, Brian R. White, Hamid Dehghani, Bradley L. Schlaggar, and Joseph P. Culver Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12169–12174. Published online 2007 July 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611266104.PMCID: PMC1924577 Biological Sciences Anthropology Congruence of molecules and morphology using a narrow allometric approach Christopher C. Gilbert and James B. Rossie Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11910–11914. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702174104.PMCID: PMC1924546 Applied Biological Sciences Antithrombogenic property of bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells in nanofibrous vascular grafts Craig K. Hashi, Yiqian Zhu, Guo-Yuan Yang, William L. Young, Benjamin S. Hsiao, Karin Wang, Benjamin Chu, and Song Li Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11915–11920. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704581104.PMCID: PMC1924591 Biochemistry Hot spots in prion protein for pathogenic conversion Kazuo Kuwata, Noriyuki Nishida, Tomoharu Matsumoto, Yuji O. Kamatari, Junji Hosokawa-Muto, Kota Kodama, Hironori K. Nakamura, Kiminori Kimura, Makoto Kawasaki, Yuka Takakura, Susumu Shirabe, Jiro Takata, Yasufumi Kataoka, and Shigeru Katamine Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11921–11926. Published online 2007 July 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702671104.PMCID: PMC1924567 Discovery of antiandrogen activity of nonsteroidal scaffolds of marketed drugs W. H. Bisson, A. V. Cheltsov, N. Bruey-Sedano, B. Lin, J. Chen, N. Goldberger, L. T. May, A. Christopoulos, J. T. Dalton, P. M. Sexton, X.-K. Zhang, and R. Abagyan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11927–11932. Published online 2007 July 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609752104.PMCID: PMC1924583 Src phosphorylation of cortactin enhances actin assembly Shandiz Tehrani, Nenad Tomasevic, Scott Weed, Roman Sakowicz, and John A. Cooper Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11933–11938. Published online 2007 July 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701077104.PMCID: PMC1924558 Structural consequences of disease-causing mutations in the ATRX-DNMT3-DNMT3L (ADD) domain of the chromatin-associated protein ATRX Anthony Argentaro, Ji-Chun Yang, Lynda Chapman, Monika S. Kowalczyk, Richard J. Gibbons, Douglas R. Higgs, David Neuhaus, and Daniela Rhodes Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11939–11944. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704057104.PMCID: PMC1924575 Packing contacts can mediate highly specific interactions between artificial transmembrane proteins and the PDGFβ receptor Jennifer B. Ptacek, Anne P. B. Edwards, Lisa L. Freeman-Cook, and Daniel DiMaio Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11945–11950. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704348104.PMCID: PMC1924551 Directed evolution can rapidly improve the activity of chimeric assembly-line enzymes Michael A. Fischbach, Jonathan R. Lai, Eric D. Roche, Christopher T. Walsh, and David R. Liu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11951–11956. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705348104.PMCID: PMC1924594 Biophysics From the Cover: Fast dynamics of supercoiled DNA revealed by single-molecule experiments Aurélien Crut, Daniel A. Koster, Ralf Seidel, Chris H. Wiggins, and Nynke H. Dekker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11957–11962. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700333104.PMCID: PMC1924543 The design and characterization of two proteins with 88% sequence identity but different structure and function Patrick A. Alexander, Yanan He, Yihong Chen, John Orban, and Philip N. Bryan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11963–11968. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700922104.PMCID: PMC1906725 Identifying important structural characteristics of arsenic resistance proteins by using designed three-stranded coiled coils Debra S. Touw, Christer E. Nordman, Jeanne A. Stuckey, and Vincent L. Pecoraro Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11969–11974. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701979104.PMCID: PMC1924535 Substrate-dependent transmembrane signaling in TonB-dependent transporters is not conserved Miyeon Kim, Gail E. Fanucci, and David S. Cafiso Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11975–11980. Published online 2007 July 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702172104.PMCID: PMC1924579 The mechanism of rate-limiting motions in enzyme function Eric D. Watt, Hiroko Shimada, Evgenii L. Kovrigin, and J. Patrick Loria Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11981–11986. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702551104.PMCID: PMC1924554 Protein folding by zipping and assembly S. Banu Ozkan, G. Albert Wu, John D. Chodera, and Ken A. Dill Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11987–11992. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703700104.PMCID: PMC1924571 Observation of sequential steps in the folding of intestinal fatty acid binding protein using a slow folding mutant and 19F NMR Hua Li and Carl Frieden Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11993–11998. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705253104.PMCID: PMC1924545 Cell Biology ΔNp63 regulates thymic development through enhanced expression of FgfR2 and Jag2 Eleonora Candi, Alessandro Rufini, Alessandro Terrinoni, Alessandro Giamboi-Miraglia, Anna Maria Lena, Roberto Mantovani, Richard Knight, and Gerry Melino Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11999–12004. Published online 2007 July 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703458104.PMCID: PMC1924561 Essential role for MFG-E8 as ligand for αvβ5 integrin in diurnal retinal phagocytosis Emeline F. Nandrot, Monika Anand, Dena Almeida, Kamran Atabai, Dean Sheppard, and Silvia C. Finnemann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12005–12010. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704756104.PMCID: PMC1924559 Functional specialization of β-arrestin interactions revealed by proteomic analysis Kunhong Xiao, Daniel B. McClatchy, Arun K. Shukla, Yang Zhao, Minyong Chen, Sudha K. Shenoy, John R. Yates, III, and Robert J. Lefkowitz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12011–12016. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704849104.PMCID: PMC1913545 AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) action in skeletal muscle via direct phosphorylation of PGC-1α Sibylle Jäger, Christoph Handschin, Julie St.-Pierre, and Bruce M. Spiegelman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12017–12022. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705070104.PMCID: PMC1924552 Otopetrin 1 activation by purinergic nucleotides regulates intracellular calcium Inna Hughes, Mitsuyoshi Saito, Paul H. Schlesinger, and David M. Ornitz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12023–12028. Published online 2007 July 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705182104.PMCID: PMC1924595 Developmental Biology INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: A comparative analysis of frog early development Eugenia M. del Pino, Michael Venegas-Ferrín, Andrés Romero-Carvajal, Paola Montenegro-Larrea, Natalia Sáenz-Ponce, Iván M. Moya, Ingrid Alarcón, Norihiro Sudou, Shinji Yamamoto, and Masanori Taira Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11882–11888. Published online 2007 July 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705092104.PMCID: PMC1924569 Vertebrate Ctr1 coordinates morphogenesis and progenitor cell fate and regulates embryonic stem cell differentiation Tomomi Haremaki, Stuart T. Fraser, Yien-Ming Kuo, Margaret H. Baron, and Daniel C. Weinstein Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12029–12034. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701413104.PMCID: PMC1924542 Environmental Sciences INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico D. R. Piperno, J. E. Moreno, J. Iriarte, I. Holst, M. Lachniet, J. G. Jones, A. J. Ranere, and R. Castanzo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11874–11881. Published online 2007 May 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703442104.PMCID: PMC1880864 Hurricanes benefit bleached corals Derek P. Manzello, Marilyn Brandt, Tyler B. Smith, Diego Lirman, James C. Hendee, and Richard S. Nemeth Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12035–12039. Published online 2007 July 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701194104.PMCID: PMC1924587 From the Cover: Methane monooxygenase gene expression mediated by methanobactin in the presence of mineral copper sources Charles W. Knapp, David A. Fowle, Ezra Kulczycki, Jennifer A. Roberts, and David W. Graham Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12040–12045. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702879104.PMCID: PMC1907314 Evolution Poxviruses as possible vectors for horizontal transfer of retroposons from reptiles to mammals Oliver Piskurek and Norihiro Okada Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12046–12051. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700531104.PMCID: PMC1924541 Temporal patterns of genes in scientific publications Thomas Pfeiffer and Robert Hoffmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12052–12056. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701315104.PMCID: PMC1924584 Genome-wide patterns of single-feature polymorphism in Arabidopsis thaliana Justin O. Borevitz, Samuel P. Hazen, Todd P. Michael, Geoffrey P. Morris, Ivan R. Baxter, Tina T. Hu, Huaming Chen, Jonathan D. Werner, Magnus Nordborg, David E. Salt, Steve A. Kay, Joanne Chory, Detlef Weigel, Jonathan D. G. Jones, and Joseph R. Ecker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12057–12062. Published online 2007 July 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705323104.PMCID: PMC1914337 Genetics A connector of two-component regulatory systems promotes signal amplification and persistence of expression Akinori Kato, Alexander Y. Mitrophanov, and Eduardo A. Groisman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12063–12068. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704462104.PMCID: PMC1924540 A typology of photoreceptor gene expression patterns in the mouse Joseph C. Corbo, Connie A. Myers, Karen A. Lawrence, Ashutosh P. Jadhav, and Constance L. Cepko Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12069–12074. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705465104.PMCID: PMC1913549 Immunology CCR6-dependent recruitment of blood phagocytes is necessary for rapid CD4 T cell responses to local bacterial infection Rajesh Ravindran, Lori Rusch, Andrea Itano, Marc K. Jenkins, and Stephen J. McSorley Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12075–12080. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701363104.PMCID: PMC1907313 Natural killer cells actively patrol peripheral lymph nodes forming stable conjugates to eliminate MHC-mismatched targets Kym R. Garrod, Sindy H. Wei, Ian Parker, and Michael D. Cahalan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12081–12086. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702867104.PMCID: PMC1924574 Association of cervical cancer with the presence of CD4+ regulatory T cells specific for human papillomavirus antigens Sjoerd H. van der Burg, Sytse J. Piersma, Annemieke de Jong, Jeanette M. van der Hulst, Kitty M. C. Kwappenberg, Muriel van den Hende, Marij J. P. Welters, Jon J. Van Rood, Gert Jan Fleuren, Cornelis J. M. Melief, Gemma G. Kenter, and Rienk Offringa Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12087–12092. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704672104.PMCID: PMC1924590 Peripheral deletion of mature alloreactive B cells induced by costimulation blockade Yijin Li, Lianli Ma, Jikun Shen, and Anita S. Chong Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12093–12098. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705240104.PMCID: PMC1924566 IL-6-dependent and -independent pathways in the development of interleukin 17-producing T helper cells Akihiro Kimura, Tetsuji Naka, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12099–12104. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705268104.PMCID: PMC1924582 Akt1 and Akt2 are required for αβ thymocyte survival and differentiation Marisa M. Juntilla, Jessica A. Wofford, Morris J. Birnbaum, Jeffrey C. Rathmell, and Gary A. Koretzky Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12105–12110. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705285104.PMCID: PMC1924580 Medical Sciences Somatic loss of BRCA1 and p53 in mice induces mammary tumors with features of human BRCA1-mutated basal-like breast cancer Xiaoling Liu, Henne Holstege, Hanneke van der Gulden, Marcelle Treur-Mulder, John Zevenhoven, Arno Velds, Ron M. Kerkhoven, Martin H. van Vliet, Lodewyk F. A. Wessels, Johannes L. Peterse, Anton Berns, and Jos Jonkers Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12111–12116. Published online 2007 July 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702969104.PMCID: PMC1924557 Selective induction of chemotherapy resistance of mammary tumors in a conditional mouse model for hereditary breast cancer Sven Rottenberg, Anders O. H. Nygren, Marina Pajic, Fijs W. B. van Leeuwen, Ingrid van der Heijden, Koen van de Wetering, Xiaoling Liu, Karin E. de Visser, Kenneth G. Gilhuijs, Olaf van Tellingen, Jan P. Schouten, Jos Jonkers, and Piet Borst Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12117–12122. Published online 2007 July 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702955104.PMCID: PMC1914039 Potent cross-reactive neutralization of SARS coronavirus isolates by human monoclonal antibodies Zhongyu Zhu, Samitabh Chakraborti, Yuxian He, Anjeanette Roberts, Tim Sheahan, Xiaodong Xiao, Lisa E. Hensley, Ponraj Prabakaran, Barry Rockx, Igor A. Sidorov, Davide Corti, Leatrice Vogel, Yang Feng, Jae-Ouk Kim, Lin-Fa Wang, Ralph Baric, Antonio Lanzavecchia, Kristopher M. Curtis, Gary J. Nabel, Kanta Subbarao, Shibo Jiang, and Dimiter S. Dimitrov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12123–12128. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701000104.PMCID: PMC1924550 Aristolochic acid and the etiology of endemic (Balkan) nephropathy Arthur P. Grollman, Shinya Shibutani, Masaaki Moriya, Frederick Miller, Lin Wu, Ute Moll, Naomi Suzuki, Andrea Fernandes, Thomas Rosenquist, Zvonimir Medverec, Krunoslav Jakovina, Branko Brdar, Neda Slade, Robert J. Turesky, Angela K. Goodenough, Robert Rieger, Mato Vukelić, and Bojan Jelaković Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12129–12134. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701248104.PMCID: PMC1913550 Telomere length is paternally inherited and is associated with parental lifespan Omer T. Njajou, Richard M. Cawthon, Coleen M. Damcott, Shih-Hsuan Wu, Sandy Ott, Michael J. Garant, Elizabeth H. Blackburn, Braxton D. Mitchell, Alan R. Shuldiner, and Wen-Chi Hsueh Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12135–12139. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702703104.PMCID: PMC1924539 Combinatorial protein therapy of angiogenic and arteriogenic factors remarkably improves collaterogenesis and cardiac function in pigs Huixia Lu, Xinsheng Xu, Mei Zhang, Renhai Cao, Ebba Bråkenhielm, Changjiang Li, Huili Lin, Guihua Yao, Huiwen Sun, Lihang Qi, Mengxiong Tang, Hongyan Dai, Yanen Zhang, Runyi Su, Yanwen Bi, Yun Zhang, and Yihai Cao Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12140–12145. Published online 2007 July 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704966104.PMCID: PMC1920536 Microbiology Dissecting biological “dark matter” with single-cell genetic analysis of rare and uncultivated TM7 microbes from the human mouth Yann Marcy, Cleber Ouverney, Elisabeth M. Bik, Tina Lösekann, Natalia Ivanova, Hector Garcia Martin, Ernest Szeto, Darren Platt, Philip Hugenholtz, David A. Relman, and Stephen R. Quake Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11889–11894. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704662104.PMCID: PMC1924555 Deep-sea vent ε-proteobacterial genomes provide insights into emergence of pathogens Satoshi Nakagawa, Yoshihiro Takaki, Shigeru Shimamura, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Ken Takai, and Koki Horikoshi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12146–12150. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700687104.PMCID: PMC1907315 From the Cover: Structural basis for the specific inhibition of protein kinase G, a virulence factor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Nicole Scherr, Srinivas Honnappa, Gabriele Kunz, Philipp Mueller, Rajesh Jayachandran, Fritz Winkler, Jean Pieters, and Michel O. Steinmetz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12151–12156. Published online 2007 July 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702842104.PMCID: PMC1924570 Infection and coaccumulation of tobacco mosaic virus proteins alter microRNA levels, correlating with symptom and plant development A. A. Bazzini, H. E. Hopp, R. N. Beachy, and S. Asurmendi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12157–12162. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705114104.PMCID: PMC1924585 Interaction of herpes simplex virus RNase with VP16 and VP22 is required for the accumulation of the protein but not for accumulation of mRNA Brunella Taddeo, Maria Teresa Sciortino, Weiran Zhang, and Bernard Roizman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12163–12168. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705245104.PMCID: PMC1924560 Neuroscience Retinotopic mapping of adult human visual cortex with high-density diffuse optical tomography Benjamin W. Zeff, Brian R. White, Hamid Dehghani, Bradley L. Schlaggar, and Joseph P. Culver Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12169–12174. Published online 2007 July 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611266104.PMCID: PMC1924577 From the Cover: Behavioral improvement in a primate Parkinson's model is associated with multiple homeostatic effects of human neural stem cells D. Eugene Redmond, Jr., Kimberly B. Bjugstad, Yang D. Teng, Vaclav Ourednik, Jitka Ourednik, Dustin R. Wakeman, Xuejun H. Parsons, Rodolfo Gonzalez, Barbara C. Blanchard, Seung U. Kim, Zezong Gu, Stuart A. Lipton, Eleni A. Markakis, Robert H. Roth, John D. Elsworth, John R. Sladek, Jr., Richard L. Sidman, and Evan Y. Snyder Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12175–12180. Published online 2007 June 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704091104.PMCID: PMC1896134 GluR7 is an essential subunit of presynaptic kainate autoreceptors at hippocampal mossy fiber synapses Paulo S. Pinheiro, David Perrais, Françoise Coussen, Jacques Barhanin, Bernhard Bettler, Jeffrey R. Mann, João O. Malva, Stephen F. Heinemann, and Christophe Mulle Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12181–12186. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0608891104.PMCID: PMC1924597 Baseline brain activity fluctuations predict somatosensory perception in humans M. Boly, E. Balteau, C. Schnakers, C. Degueldre, G. Moonen, A. Luxen, C. Phillips, P. Peigneux, P. Maquet, and S. Laureys Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12187–12192. Published online 2007 July 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611404104.PMCID: PMC1924544 Large-scale reorganization of the tonotopic map in mouse auditory midbrain revealed by MRI Xin Yu, Dan H. Sanes, Orlando Aristizabal, Youssef Zaim Wadghiri, and Daniel H. Turnbull Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12193–12198. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700960104.PMCID: PMC1913547 Pharmacology Dimerization of the class A G protein-coupled neurotensin receptor NTS1 alters G protein interaction Jim F. White, Justin Grodnitzky, John M. Louis, Loc B. Trinh, Joseph Shiloach, Joanne Gutierrez, John K. Northup, and Reinhard Grisshammer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12199–12204. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705312104.PMCID: PMC1913548 Plant Biology Tomato MAPKs LeMPK1, LeMPK2, and LeMPK3 function in the systemin-mediated defense response against herbivorous insects Pramod Kaitheri Kandoth, Stefanie Ranf, Suchita S. Pancholi, Sastry Jayanty, Michael D. Walla, Wayne Miller, Gregg A. Howe, David E. Lincoln, and Johannes W. Stratmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12205–12210. Published online 2007 July 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700344104.PMCID: PMC1924534 Structural modules for receptor dimerization in the S-locus receptor kinase extracellular domain Sushma Naithani, Thanat Chookajorn, Daniel R. Ripoll, and June B. Nasrallah Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12211–12216. Published online 2007 July 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705186104.PMCID: PMC1924578 The receptor-like kinase SERK3/BAK1 is a central regulator of innate immunity in plants Antje Heese, Dagmar R. Hann, Selena Gimenez-Ibanez, Alexandra M. E. Jones, Kai He, Jia Li, Julian I. Schroeder, Scott C. Peck, and John P. Rathjen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12217–12222. Published online 2007 July 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705306104.PMCID: PMC1924592 Psychology A sound element gets lost in perceptual competition Barbara G. Shinn-Cunningham, Adrian K. C. Lee, and Andrew J. Oxenham Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12223–12227. Published online 2007 July 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704641104.PMCID: PMC1924568 Social Sciences Anthropology INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Late Pleistocene and Holocene environmental history of the Iguala Valley, Central Balsas Watershed of Mexico D. R. Piperno, J. E. Moreno, J. Iriarte, I. Holst, M. Lachniet, J. G. Jones, A. J. Ranere, and R. Castanzo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11874–11881. Published online 2007 May 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703442104.PMCID: PMC1880864 Precolumbian use of chili peppers in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico Linda Perry and Kent V. Flannery Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 11905–11909. Published online 2007 July 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704936104.PMCID: PMC1924538 Correction Correction for Zangerl and Berenbaum, Increase in toxicity of an invasive weed after reassociation with its coevolved herbivore Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 17; 104(29): 12228. Published online 2007 July 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705164104.PMCID: PMC1924549 Corrects: Arthur R. Zangerl, et al. Increase in toxicity of an invasive weed after reassociation with its coevolved herbivore. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 October 25; 102(43): 15529–15532. |