| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 June 19; 104(25): 10295–10296. doi: 10.1073/iti2507104.PMCID: PMC1965505 Commentary Metamorphosis starts with Met Judith H. Willis PMCID: PMC1965506 Physical Sciences Chemistry Potent immune-modulating and anticancer effects of NKT cell stimulatory glycolipids Ya-Jen Chang, Jing-Rong Huang, Yi-Chien Tsai, Jung-Tung Hung, Douglass Wu, Masakazu Fujio, Chi-Huey Wong, and Alice L. Yu PMCID: PMC1965507 Light-controlled self-assembly of reversible and irreversible nanoparticle suprastructures Rafal Klajn, Kyle J. M. Bishop, and Bartosz A. Grzybowski PMCID: PMC1965508 On the ability of the Viking gas chromatograph–mass spectrometer to detect organic matter Klaus Biemann PMCID: PMC1965509 Reactivity-promoting criterion based on internal vibrational energy redistribution Roland Mitrić, Christian  rgel, and Vlasta Bonǎić-Koutecký PMCID: PMC1965510 Computer Sciences Gibbs states and the set of solutions of random constraint satisfaction problems Florent Krz ![[a with cedilla]](corehtml/pmc/pmcents/x0061x0327.gif) kał, Andrea Montanari, Federico Ricci-Tersenghi, Guilhem Semerjian, and Lenka Zdeborová PMCID: PMC1965511 Geology The effect of geographic range on extinction risk during background and mass extinction Jonathan L. Payne and Seth Finnegan PMCID: PMC1890565 Physics From the Cover:
Propagating waves of self-assembly in organosilane monolayers Jack F. Douglas, Kirill Efimenko, Daniel A. Fischer, Fredrick R. Phelan, and Jan Genzer PMCID: PMC1965512 Biological Sciences Anthropology Radiocarbon and DNA evidence for a pre-Columbian introduction of Polynesian chickens to Chile Alice A. Storey, José Miguel Ramírez, Daniel Quiroz, David V. Burley, David J. Addison, Richard Walter, Atholl J. Anderson, Terry L. Hunt, J. Stephen Athens, Leon Huynen, and Elizabeth A. Matisoo-Smith PMCID: PMC1965514 Applied Biological Sciences Real-time analysis of uptake and bioactivatable cleavage of luciferin-transporter conjugates in transgenic reporter mice Paul A. Wender, Elena A. Goun, Lisa R. Jones, Thomas H. Pillow, Jonathan B. Rothbard, Rajesh Shinde, and Christopher H. Contag PMCID: PMC1965515 Biochemistry Structural basis for tubulin recognition by cytoplasmic linker protein 170 and its autoinhibition Masaki Mishima, Ryoko Maesaki, Miyuki Kasa, Takashi Watanabe, Masaki Fukata, Kozo Kaibuchi, and Toshio Hakoshima PMCID: PMC1965516 Dissociation of halted T7 RNA polymerase elongation complexes proceeds via a forward-translocation mechanism Yi Zhou, Deanna M. Navaroli, Metewo Selase Enuameh, and Craig T. Martin PMCID: PMC1965517 Generation of DNA cleavage specificities of type II restriction endonucleases by reassortment of target recognition domains Sonata Jurėnaitė-Urbanavičienė, Jurgita Šerkšnaitė, Edita Kriukienė, Jolanta Giedrienė, Česlovas Venclovas, and Arvydas Lubys PMCID: PMC1965518 Proteome-wide identification of in vivo targets of DNA damage checkpoint kinases Marcus B. Smolka, Claudio P. Albuquerque, Sheng-hong Chen, and Huilin Zhou PMCID: PMC1965519 Structure-based discovery of an inhibitor of Arf activation by Sec7 domains through targeting of protein–protein complexes Julien Viaud, Mahel Zeghouf, Hélène Barelli, Jean-Christophe Zeeh, André Padilla, Bernard Guibert, Pierre Chardin, Catherine A. Royer, Jacqueline Cherfils, and Alain Chavanieu PMCID: PMC1965520 Genome sequencing reveals complex secondary metabolome in the marine actinomycete Salinispora tropica Daniel W. Udwary, Lisa Zeigler, Ratnakar N. Asolkar, Vasanth Singan, Alla Lapidus, William Fenical, Paul R. Jensen, and Bradley S. Moore PMCID: PMC1965521 Structural basis for recruitment of tandem hotdog domains in acyl-CoA thioesterase 7 and its role in inflammation Jade K. Forwood, Anil S. Thakur, Gregor Guncar, Mary Marfori, Dmitri Mouradov, Weining Meng, Jodie Robinson, Thomas Huber, Stuart Kellie, Jennifer L. Martin, David A. Hume, and Bostjan Kobe PMCID: PMC1965522 Structural basis for streptogramin B resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by virginiamycin B lyase Magdalena Korczynska, Tariq A. Mukhtar, Gerard D. Wright, and Albert M. Berghuis PMCID: PMC1965523 Werner syndrome protein interacts functionally with translesion DNA polymerases Ashwini S. Kamath-Loeb, Li Lan, Satoshi Nakajima, Akira Yasui, and Lawrence A. Loeb PMCID: PMC1965524 Selectivity and proofreading both contribute significantly to the fidelity of RNA polymerase III transcription Nazif Alic, Nayla Ayoub, Emilie Landrieux, Emmanuel Favry, Peggy Baudouin-Cornu, Michel Riva, and Christophe Carles PMCID: PMC1965525 Riboswitching on RNA virus replication Sheng Wang and K. Andrew White PMCID: PMC1965526 Mutational analysis of a viral RNA element that counteracts rapid RNA decay by interaction with the polyadenylate tail Nicholas K. Conrad, Mei-Di Shu, Katherine E. Uyhazi, and Joan A. Steitz PMCID: PMC1965527 Suppression of androgen receptor-mediated gene expression by a sequence-specific DNA-binding polyamide Nicholas G. Nickols and Peter B. Dervan PMCID: PMC1965528 P-cluster maturation on nitrogenase MoFe protein Yilin Hu, Aaron W. Fay, Chi Chung Lee, and Markus W. Ribbe PMCID: PMC1965529 Biophysics Protein folding under confinement: A role for solvent Del Lucent, V. Vishal, and Vijay S. Pande PMCID: PMC1965530 From the Cover:
Synthetic ecosystems based on airborne inter- and intrakingdom communication Wilfried Weber, Marie Daoud-El Baba, and Martin Fussenegger PMCID: PMC1886003 Salinity-dependent diatom biosilicification implies an important role of external ionic strength Engel G. Vrieling, Qianyao Sun, Mingwen Tian, Patricia J. Kooyman, Winfried W. C. Gieskes, Rutger A. van Santen, and Nico A. J. M. Sommerdijk PMCID: PMC1965532 Single molecule detection of intermediates during botulinum neurotoxin translocation across membranes Audrey Fischer and Mauricio Montal PMCID: PMC1965533 Development of a technique for the investigation of folding dynamics of single proteins for extended time periods Masahito Kinoshita, Kiyoto Kamagata, Akio Maeda, Yuji Goto, Tamiki Komatsuzaki, and Satoshi Takahashi PMCID: PMC1965534 Dynamics of equilibrium structural fluctuations of apomyoglobin measured by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy Huimin Chen, Elizabeth Rhoades, James S. Butler, Stewart N. Loh, and Watt W. Webb PMCID: PMC1965535 Cell Biology IQGAP1 modulates activation of B-Raf Jian-Guo Ren, Zhigang Li, and David B. Sacks PMCID: PMC1965536 Calreticulin and Hsp90 stabilize the human insulin receptor and promote its mobility in the endoplasmic reticulum Rowena R. Ramos, Andrea J. Swanson, and Joseph Bass PMCID: PMC1965537 The properties of a mammary gland cancer stem cell I. Zucchi, S. Sanzone, S. Astigiano, P. Pelucchi, M. Scotti, V. Valsecchi, O. Barbieri, G. Bertoli, A. Albertini, R. A. Reinbold, and R. Dulbecco PMCID: PMC1965538 Reversine increases the plasticity of lineage-committed mammalian cells Shuibing Chen, Shinichi Takanashi, Qisheng Zhang, Wen Xiong, Shoutian Zhu, Eric C. Peters, Sheng Ding, and Peter G. Schultz PMCID: PMC1965539 Developmental Biology From the Cover:
Juvenile hormone resistance gene Methoprene-tolerant controls entry into metamorphosis in the beetle Tribolium castaneum Barbora Konopova and Marek Jindra PMCID: PMC1965540 Bmi-1 is a target gene for SALL4 in hematopoietic and leukemic cells Jianchang Yang, Li Chai, Fang Liu, Louis M. Fink, Pei Lin, Leslie E. Silberstein, Hesham M. Amin, David C. Ward, and Yupo Ma PMCID: PMC1965541 Sox9 coordinates a transcriptional network in pancreatic progenitor cells F. C. Lynn, S. B. Smith, M. E. Wilson, K. Y. Yang, N. Nekrep, and M. S. German PMCID: PMC1965542 Ecology The effect of geographic range on extinction risk during background and mass extinction Jonathan L. Payne and Seth Finnegan PMCID: PMC1890565 Chemical cues induce consumer-specific defenses in a bloom-forming marine phytoplankton Jeremy D. Long, Gabriela W. Smalley, Todd Barsby, Jon T. Anderson, and Mark E. Hay PMCID: PMC1965544 Trophic cascades triggered by overfishing reveal possible mechanisms of ecosystem regime shifts Georgi M. Daskalov, Alexander N. Grishin, Sergei Rodionov, and Vesselina Mihneva PMCID: PMC1965545 Relative resource abundance explains butterfly biodiversity in island communities Naoaki Yamamoto, Jun Yokoyama, and Masakado Kawata PMCID: PMC1888573 Divergent ecological effects of oceanographic anomalies on terrestrial ecosystems of the Mexican Pacific coast Margarita Caso, Charlotte González-Abraham, and Exequiel Ezcurra PMCID: PMC1965547 Molecular sabotage of plant defense by aphid saliva Torsten Will, W. Fred Tjallingii, Alexandra Thönnessen, and Aart J. E. van Bel PMCID: PMC1965548 Evolution Centromeres were derived from telomeres during the evolution of the eukaryotic chromosome Alfredo Villasante, José P. Abad, and María Méndez-Lago PMCID: PMC1965549 Social control of brain morphology in a eusocial mammal Melissa M. Holmes, Greta J. Rosen, Cynthia L. Jordan, Geert J. de Vries, Bruce D. Goldman, and Nancy G. Forger PMCID: PMC1965550 Quantifying fitness distributions and phenotypic relationships in recombinant yeast populations Ethan O. Perlstein, Eric J. Deeds, Orr Ashenberg, Eugene I. Shakhnovich, and Stuart L. Schreiber PMCID: PMC1965551 Genetics Chromosomal periodicity of evolutionarily conserved gene pairs Matthew A. Wright, Peter Kharchenko, George M. Church, and Daniel Segrè PMCID: PMC1890563 Caenorhabditis elegans SID-2 is required for environmental RNA interference William M. Winston, Marie Sutherlin, Amanda J. Wright, Evan H. Feinberg, and Craig P. Hunter PMCID: PMC1965553 Scm3, an essential Saccharomyces cerevisiae centromere protein required for G2/M progression and Cse4 localization Sam Stoler, Kelly Rogers, Scott Weitze, Lisa Morey, Molly Fitzgerald-Hayes, and Richard E. Baker PMCID: PMC1885823 Immunology Pulmonary expression of CXC chemokine ligand 13, CC chemokine ligand 19, and CC chemokine ligand 21 is essential for local immunity to influenza Javier Rangel-Moreno, Juan E. Moyron-Quiroz, Louise Hartson, Kim Kusser, and Troy D. Randall PMCID: PMC1965555 Structure of CD84 provides insight into SLAM family function Qingrong Yan, Vladimir N. Malashkevich, Alexander Fedorov, Elena Fedorov, Erhu Cao, Jeffrey W. Lary, James L. Cole, Stanley G. Nathenson, and Steven C. Almo PMCID: PMC1965556 Medical Sciences Potent immune-modulating and anticancer effects of NKT cell stimulatory glycolipids Ya-Jen Chang, Jing-Rong Huang, Yi-Chien Tsai, Jung-Tung Hung, Douglass Wu, Masakazu Fujio, Chi-Huey Wong, and Alice L. Yu PMCID: PMC1965507 From the Cover:
IGFBP3 suppresses retinopathy through suppression of oxygen-induced vessel loss and promotion of vascular regrowth Chatarina Lofqvist, Jing Chen, Kip M. Connor, Alexandra C. H. Smith, Christopher M. Aderman, Nan Liu, John E. Pintar, Thomas Ludwig, Ann Hellstrom, and Lois E. H. Smith PMCID: PMC1965557 IGF binding protein-3 regulates hematopoietic stem cell and endothelial precursor cell function during vascular development Kyung-Hee Chang, Tailoi Chan-Ling, Evan L. McFarland, Aqeela Afzal, Hao Pan, Louise C. Baxter, Lynn C. Shaw, Sergio Caballero, Nilanjana Sengupta, Sergio Li Calzi, Sean M. Sullivan, and Maria B. Grant PMCID: PMC1965558 Attenuation of neuroinflammation and Alzheimer's disease pathology by liver x receptors Noam Zelcer, Negar Khanlou, Ryan Clare, Qingguang Jiang, Erin G. Reed-Geaghan, Gary E. Landreth, Harry V. Vinters, and Peter Tontonoz PMCID: PMC1890560 Activation of AMP-activated protein kinase by human EGF receptor 2/EGF receptor tyrosine kinase inhibitor protects cardiac cells Neil L. Spector, Yosef Yarden, Bradley Smith, Ljuba Lyass, Patricia Trusk, Karen Pry, Jason E. Hill, Wenle Xia, Rony Seger, and Sarah S. Bacus PMCID: PMC1965560 Presenilin/γ-secretase-dependent processing of β-amyloid precursor protein regulates EGF receptor expression Yun-wu Zhang, Ruishan Wang, Qiang Liu, Han Zhang, Francesca-Fang Liao, and Huaxi Xu PMCID: PMC1888796 Proline-rich tyrosine kinase 2 regulates osteoprogenitor cells and bone formation, and offers an anabolic treatment approach for osteoporosis Leonard Buckbinder, David T. Crawford, Hong Qi, Hua Zhu Ke, Lisa M. Olson, Kelly R. Long, Peter C. Bonnette, Amy P. Baumann, John E. Hambor, William A. Grasser, III, Lydia C. Pan, Thomas A. Owen, Michael J. Luzzio, Catherine A. Hulford, David F. Gebhard, Vishwas M. Paralkar, Hollis A. Simmons, John C. Kath, W. Gregory Roberts, Steven L. Smock, Angel Guzman-Perez, Thomas A. Brown, and Mei Li PMCID: PMC1880863 From the Cover:
Inhibition of VEGF-A prevents the angiogenic switch and results in increased survival of Apc+/min mice Nina Korsisaari, Ian M. Kasman, William F. Forrest, Navneet Pal, Wei Bai, Germaine Fuh, Franklin V. Peale, Ron Smits, and Napoleone Ferrara PMCID: PMC1888576 Microbiology Synthesis of C5-dicarboxylic acids from C2-units involving crotonyl-CoA carboxylase/reductase: The ethylmalonyl-CoA pathway Tobias J. Erb, Ivan A. Berg, Volker Brecht, Michael Müller, Georg Fuchs, and Birgit E. Alber PMCID: PMC1965564 Commensal and pathogenic Escherichia coli use a common pilus adherence factor for epithelial cell colonization María A. Rendón, Zeus Saldaña, Ayşen L. Erdem, Valério Monteiro-Neto, Alejandra Vázquez, James B. Kaper, José L. Puente, and Jorge A. Girón PMCID: PMC1890562 Genomic and metabolic adaptations of Methanobrevibacter smithii to the human gut Buck S. Samuel, Elizabeth E. Hansen, Jill K. Manchester, Pedro M. Coutinho, Bernard Henrissat, Robert Fulton, Philippe Latreille, Kung Kim, Richard K. Wilson, and Jeffrey I. Gordon PMCID: PMC1890564 Automated comparative sequence analysis by base-specific cleavage and mass spectrometry for nucleic acid-based microbial typing Christiane Honisch, Yong Chen, Chloe Mortimer, Catherine Arnold, Oliver Schmidt, Dirk van den Boom, Charles R. Cantor, Haroun N. Shah, and Saheer E. Gharbia PMCID: PMC1890566 Neuroscience Inhibition of spinal microglial cathepsin S for the reversal of neuropathic pain Anna K. Clark, Ping K. Yip, John Grist, Clive Gentry, Amelia A. Staniland, Fabien Marchand, Maliheh Dehvari, Glen Wotherspoon, Janet Winter, Jakir Ullah, Stuart Bevan, and Marzia Malcangio PMCID: PMC1965568 Stimulation of subterritories of the subthalamic nucleus reveals its role in the integration of the emotional and motor aspects of behavior Luc Mallet, Michael Schüpbach, Karim N'Diaye, Philippe Remy, Eric Bardinet, Virginie Czernecki, Marie-Laure Welter, Antoine Pelissolo, Merle Ruberg, Yves Agid, and Jérôme Yelnik PMCID: PMC1965569 Functional MRI of the zebra finch brain during song stimulation suggests a lateralized response topography Henning U. Voss, Karsten Tabelow, Jörg Polzehl, Ofer Tchernichovski, Kristen K. Maul, Delanthi Salgado-Commissariat, Douglas Ballon, and Santosh A. Helekar PMCID: PMC1965570 Acute stress increases interstitial fluid amyloid-β via corticotropin-releasing factor and neuronal activity Jae-Eun Kang, John R. Cirrito, Hongxin Dong, John G. Csernansky, and David M. Holtzman PMCID: PMC1965571 Dendritic BC200 RNA in aging and in Alzheimer's disease El Mus, Patrick R. Hof, and Henri Tiedge PMCID: PMC1965572 Control of hypothalamic orexin neurons by acid and CO2 Rhîannan H. Williams, Lise T. Jensen, Alex Verkhratsky, Lars Fugger, and Denis Burdakov PMCID: PMC1965573 Physiology Functional consequences of alteration of N-linked glycosylation sites on the neurokinin 1 receptor Morris F. Tansky, Charalabos Pothoulakis, and Susan E. Leeman PMCID: PMC1965574 Repeated sleep restriction in rats leads to homeostatic and allostatic responses during recovery sleep Youngsoo Kim, Aaron D. Laposky, Bernard M. Bergmann, and Fred W. Turek PMCID: PMC1885821 Adipose tissue-specific inactivation of the retinoblastoma protein protects against diabesity because of increased energy expenditure Nassim Dali-Youcef, Chikage Mataki, Agnès Coste, Nadia Messaddeq, Sylvain Giroud, Stéphane Blanc, Christian Koehl, Marie-France Champy, Pierre Chambon, Lluis Fajas, Daniel Metzger, Kristina Schoonjans, and Johan Auwerx PMCID: PMC1965576 Raising plasma fatty acid concentration induces increased biogenesis of mitochondria in skeletal muscle Pablo Garcia-Roves, Janice M. Huss, Dong-Ho Han, Chad R. Hancock, Eduardo Iglesias-Gutierrez, May Chen, and John O. Holloszy PMCID: PMC1965577 Hypogonadotropic hypogonadism in mice lacking a functional Kiss1 gene Xavier d'Anglemont de Tassigny, Lisa A. Fagg, John P. C. Dixon, Kate Day, Harry G. Leitch, Alan G. Hendrick, Dirk Zahn, Isabelle Franceschini, Alain Caraty, Mark B. L. Carlton, Samuel A. J. R. Aparicio, and William H. Colledge PMCID: PMC1965578 Plant Biology Two type III effector genes of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae control the induction of the host genes OsTFIIAγ1 and OsTFX1 during bacterial blight of rice Akiko Sugio, Bing Yang, Tong Zhu, and Frank F. White PMCID: PMC1965579 The two-pore channel TPK1 gene encodes the vacuolar K+ conductance and plays a role in K+ homeostasis Anthony Gobert, Stanislav Isayenkov, Camilla Voelker, Katrin Czempinski, and Frans J. M. Maathuis PMCID: PMC1965580 Endogenous peptide defense signals in Arabidopsis differentially amplify signaling for the innate immune response Alisa Huffaker and Clarence A. Ryan PMCID: PMC1965581 Arabidopsis fhl/fhy1 double mutant reveals a distinct cytoplasmic action of phytochrome A Jutta Rösler, Ilse Klein, and Mathias Zeidler PMCID: PMC1965582 Sustainability Science Reburn severity in managed and unmanaged vegetation in a large wildfire Jonathan R. Thompson, Thomas A. Spies, and Lisa M. Ganio PMCID: PMC1965583 Social Sciences Psychology Anticipation of conflict monitoring in the anterior cingulate cortex and the prefrontal cortex Myeong-Ho Sohn, Mark V. Albert, Kwanjin Jung, Cameron S. Carter, and John R. Anderson PMCID: PMC1965513 Correction Correction for Elena Goicoechea de Jorge et al., Gain-of-function mutations in complement factor B are associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome PMCID: PMC1965584 Corrects: Elena Goicoechea de Jorge, et al. Gain-of-function mutations in complement factor B are associated with atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 January 2; 104(1): 240–245. |
