| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Inaugural Articles Hydrogen bond dynamics in aqueous NaBr solutions Sungnam Park and M. D. Fayer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16731–16738. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707824104.PMCID: PMC2040434 Drosophila follicle cell amplicons as models for metazoan DNA replication: A cyclinE mutant exhibits increased replication fork elongation Eugenia A. Park, David M. MacAlpine, and Terry L. Orr-Weaver Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16739–16746. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707804104.PMCID: PMC2040429 This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16721–16722. doi: 10.1073/iti4307104.PMCID: PMC2040462 Commentaries The transience of interneuron circuit diversity just “sped” up Esther Krook-Magnuson and Molly M. Huntsman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16723–16724. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708149104.PMCID: PMC2040444 Bringing the genetics of macular degeneration into focus Jonathan L. Haines, Kylee M. Spencer, and Margaret A. Pericak-Vance Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16725–16726. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708151104.PMCID: PMC2040461 The cyanobacterial circadian clock is based on the intrinsic ATPase activity of KaiC C. Robertson McClung Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16727–16728. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708757104.PMCID: PMC2040479 The emergence of grass root chemical ecology Stephen O. Duke Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16729–16730. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707837104.PMCID: PMC2040442 Poverty and Hunger Special Feature Introduction African poverty: A grand challenge for sustainability science Robert W. Kates and Partha Dasgupta Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16747–16750. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708566104.PMCID: PMC2040431 Research Articles Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981–2004 Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16757–16762. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702930104.PMCID: PMC2040450 Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Poverty reduction in Africa Paul Collier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16763–16768. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611702104.PMCID: PMC2040421 From the Cover: Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya Paul O. Okwi, Godfrey Ndeng'e, Patti Kristjanson, Mike Arunga, An Notenbaert, Abisalom Omolo, Norbert Henninger, Todd Benson, Patrick Kariuki, and John Owuor Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16769–16774. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611107104.PMCID: PMC2040447 Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: The African Millennium Villages Pedro Sanchez, Cheryl Palm, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Denning, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Bashir Jama, Tsegazeab Kiflemariam, Bronwen Konecky, Raffaela Kozar, Eliud Lelerai, Alia Malik, Vijay Modi, Patrick Mutuo, Amadou Niang, Herine Okoth, Frank Place, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Amir Said, David Siriri, Awash Teklehaimanot, Karen Wang, Justine Wangila, and Colleen Zamba Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16775–16780. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700423104.PMCID: PMC2040451 Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Tackling the African “poverty trap”: The Ijebu-Ode experiment Akin L. Mabogunje Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16781–16786. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704765104.PMCID: PMC2040443 Perspective Governance and poverty reduction in Africa Goran Hyden Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16751–16756. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700696104.PMCID: PMC2040419 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics High-resolution timing of cell cycle-regulated gene expression Maga Rowicka, Andrzej Kudlicki, Benjamin P. Tu, and Zbyszek Otwinowski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16892–16897. Published online 2007 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706022104.PMCID: PMC2040468 Chemistry Hydrogen bond dynamics in aqueous NaBr solutions Sungnam Park and M. D. Fayer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16731–16738. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707824104.PMCID: PMC2040434 Enantioselective hydrogenation of α-aminomethylacrylates containing a free N H group for the synthesis of β-amino acid derivatives Liqin Qiu, Mahavir Prashad, Bin Hu, Kapa Prasad, Oljan Repič, Thomas J. Blacklock, Fuk Yee Kwong, Stanton H. L. Kok, Hang Wai Lee, and Albert S. C. Chan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16787–16792. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704461104.PMCID: PMC2040417 From the Cover: Copper-free click chemistry for dynamic in vivo imaging Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher, Scott T. Laughlin, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Isaac A. Miller, Anderson Lo, Julian A. Codelli, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16793–16797. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707090104.PMCID: PMC2040404 The structures of cyclic dihydronium cations Sonjae Wallace, Lulu Huang, Lou Massa, Uday Mukhopadhyay, Ivan Bernal, and Jerome Karle Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16798–16803. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708249104.PMCID: PMC2040416 From the Cover: Altered phase diagram due to a single point mutation in human γD-crystallin Jennifer J. McManus, Aleksey Lomakin, Olutayo Ogun, Ajay Pande, Markus Basan, Jayanti Pande, and George B. Benedek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16856–16861. Published online 2007 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707412104.PMCID: PMC2040415 α-Helices direct excitation energy flow in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson protein Frank Müh, Mohamed El-Amine Madjet, Julia Adolphs, Ayjamal Abdurahman, Björn Rabenstein, Hiroshi Ishikita, Ernst-Walter Knapp, and Thomas Renger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16862–16867. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708222104.PMCID: PMC2040394 Geophysics Modeling river delta formation Hansjörg Seybold, José S. Andrade, Jr., and Hans J. Herrmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16804–16809. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705265104.PMCID: PMC2040410 Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences Activated vitamin D attenuates left ventricular abnormalities induced by dietary sodium in Dahl salt-sensitive animals Natalya Bodyak, Juan Carlos Ayus, Steven Achinger, Venkatesha Shivalingappa, Qingen Ke, Yee-Shiuan Chen, Debra L. Rigor, Isaac Stillman, Hector Tamez, Paul E. Kroeger, Ruth R. Wu-Wong, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Ravi Thadhani, and Peter M. Kang Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16810–16815. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611202104.PMCID: PMC2040477 Enhanced phytoremediation of volatile environmental pollutants with transgenic trees Sharon L. Doty, C. Andrew James, Allison L. Moore, Azra Vajzovic, Glenda L. Singleton, Caiping Ma, Zareen Khan, Gang Xin, Jun Won Kang, Jin Young Park, Richard Meilan, Steven H. Strauss, Jasmine Wilkerson, Federico Farin, and Stuart E. Strand Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16816–16821. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703276104.PMCID: PMC2040402 Exploring the biochemical properties and remediation applications of the unusual explosive-degrading P450 system XplA/B Rosamond G. Jackson, Elizabeth L. Rylott, Diane Fournier, Jalal Hawari, and Neil C. Bruce Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16822–16827. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705110104.PMCID: PMC2040458 Biochemistry Potent D-peptide inhibitors of HIV-1 entry Brett D. Welch, Andrew P. VanDemark, Annie Heroux, Christopher P. Hill, and Michael S. Kay Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16828–16833. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708109104.PMCID: PMC2040420 Type I phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 4-phosphatase regulates stress-induced apoptosis Jun Zou, Jasna Marjanovic, Marina V. Kisseleva, Monita Wilson, and Philip W. Majerus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16834–16839. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708189104.PMCID: PMC2040409 Interactions and dynamics of the Shine–Dalgarno helix in the 70S ribosome Andrei Korostelev, Sergei Trakhanov, Haruichi Asahara, Martin Laurberg, Laura Lancaster, and Harry F. Noller Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16840–16843. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707850104.PMCID: PMC2040411 Architecture of the yeast Rrp44–exosome complex suggests routes of RNA recruitment for 3′ end processing Hong-Wei Wang, Jianjun Wang, Fang Ding, Kevin Callahan, Matthew A. Bratkowski, J. Scott Butler, Eva Nogales, and Ailong Ke Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16844–16849. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705526104.PMCID: PMC2040474 Activation-dependent intrachromosomal interactions formed by the TNF gene promoter and two distal enhancers Alla V. Tsytsykova, Ricardo Rajsbaum, James V. Falvo, Filipa Ligeiro, Simon R. Neely, and Anne E. Goldfeld Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16850–16855. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708210104.PMCID: PMC2040403 Cyclic changes in metabolic state during the life of a yeast cell Benjamin P. Tu, Rachel E. Mohler, Jessica C. Liu, Kenneth M. Dombek, Elton T. Young, Robert E. Synovec, and Steven L. McKnight Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16886–16891. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708365104.PMCID: PMC2040445 Biophysics From the Cover: Altered phase diagram due to a single point mutation in human γD-crystallin Jennifer J. McManus, Aleksey Lomakin, Olutayo Ogun, Ajay Pande, Markus Basan, Jayanti Pande, and George B. Benedek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16856–16861. Published online 2007 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707412104.PMCID: PMC2040415 α-Helices direct excitation energy flow in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson protein Frank Müh, Mohamed El-Amine Madjet, Julia Adolphs, Ayjamal Abdurahman, Björn Rabenstein, Hiroshi Ishikita, Ernst-Walter Knapp, and Thomas Renger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16862–16867. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708222104.PMCID: PMC2040394 Single phage T4 DNA packaging motors exhibit large force generation, high velocity, and dynamic variability Derek N. Fuller, Dorian M. Raymer, Vishal I. Kottadiel, Venigalla B. Rao, and Douglas E. Smith Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16868–16873. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704008104.PMCID: PMC2040459 Structural basis for receptor specificity of influenza B virus hemagglutinin Qinghua Wang, Xia Tian, Xiaorui Chen, and Jianpeng Ma Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16874–16879. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708363104.PMCID: PMC2040455 Linking folding with aggregation in Alzheimer's β-amyloid peptides Jana Khandogin and Charles L. Brooks, III Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16880–16885. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703832104.PMCID: PMC2040412 Cell Biology From the Cover: Copper-free click chemistry for dynamic in vivo imaging Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher, Scott T. Laughlin, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Isaac A. Miller, Anderson Lo, Julian A. Codelli, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16793–16797. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707090104.PMCID: PMC2040404 Cyclic changes in metabolic state during the life of a yeast cell Benjamin P. Tu, Rachel E. Mohler, Jessica C. Liu, Kenneth M. Dombek, Elton T. Young, Robert E. Synovec, and Steven L. McKnight Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16886–16891. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708365104.PMCID: PMC2040445 High-resolution timing of cell cycle-regulated gene expression Maga Rowicka, Andrzej Kudlicki, Benjamin P. Tu, and Zbyszek Otwinowski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16892–16897. Published online 2007 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706022104.PMCID: PMC2040468 Nitric oxide regulates matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity by guanylyl-cyclase-dependent and -independent pathways Lisa A. Ridnour, Alisha N. Windhausen, Jeffrey S. Isenberg, Nolan Yeung, Douglas D. Thomas, Michael P. Vitek, David D. Roberts, and David A. Wink Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16898–16903. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702761104.PMCID: PMC2040425 EGF receptor ubiquitination is not necessary for its internalization Fangtian Huang, Lai Kuan Goh, and Alexander Sorkin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16904–16909. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707416104.PMCID: PMC2040475 RIDDLE immunodeficiency syndrome is linked to defects in 53BP1-mediated DNA damage signaling Grant S. Stewart, Tatjana Stankovic, Philip J. Byrd, Thomas Wechsler, Edward S. Miller, Aarn Huissoon, Mark T. Drayson, Stephen C. West, Stephen J. Elledge, and A. Malcolm R. Taylor Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16910–16915. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708408104.PMCID: PMC2040433 Quantification of dynamic protein complexes using Renilla luciferase fragment complementation applied to protein kinase A activities in vivo E. Stefan, S. Aquin, N. Berger, C. R. Landry, B. Nyfeler, M. Bouvier, and S. W. Michnick Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16916–16921. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704257104.PMCID: PMC2040481 SIK1 is part of a cell sodium-sensing network that regulates active sodium transport through a calcium-dependent process Mattias Sjöström, Karin Stenström, Kristina Eneling, Jean Zwiller, Adrian I. Katz, Hiroshi Takemori, and Alejandro M. Bertorello Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16922–16927. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706838104.PMCID: PMC2040423 ARF1-mediated actin polymerization produces movement of artificial vesicles Julien Heuvingh, Michel Franco, Philippe Chavrier, and Cécile Sykes Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16928–16933. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704749104.PMCID: PMC2040406 Chromosome mobility during meiotic prophase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Harry Scherthan, Hailin Wang, Caroline Adelfalk, Eric J. White, Carrie Cowan, W. Zacheus Cande, and David B. Kaback Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16934–16939. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704860104.PMCID: PMC2040470 A role for IκB kinase 2 in bipolar spindle assembly Jeffrey T. Irelan, Thomas J. Murphy, Paul D. DeJesus, Hsiangling Teo, DingYue Xu, Maria A. Gomez-Ferreria, Yingyao Zhou, Loren J. Miraglia, Daniel R. Rines, Inder M. Verma, David J. Sharp, Vinay Tergaonkar, and Sumit K. Chanda Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16940–16945. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706493104.PMCID: PMC2040438 Developmental Biology A unique Extradenticle recruitment mode in the Drosophila Hox protein Ultrabithorax Samir Merabet, Mehdi Saadaoui, Nagraj Sambrani, Bruno Hudry, Jacques Pradel, Markus Affolter, and Yacine Graba Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16946–16951. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705832104.PMCID: PMC2040397 HOXB4's road map to stem cell expansion Bernhard Schiedlmeier, Ana Cristina Santos, Ana Ribeiro, Natalia Moncaut, Dietrich Lesinski, Herbert Auer, Karl Kornacker, Wolfram Ostertag, Christopher Baum, Moises Mallo, and Hannes Klump Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16952–16957. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703082104.PMCID: PMC2040480 Germ cells are essential for sexual dimorphism in the medaka gonad Hiromi Kurokawa, Daisuke Saito, Shuhei Nakamura, Yuko Katoh-Fukui, Kohei Ohta, Takashi Baba, Ken-ichiro Morohashi, and Minoru Tanaka Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16958–16963. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609932104.PMCID: PMC2040408 Ecology From the Cover: Grass roots chemistry: meta-Tyrosine, an herbicidal nonprotein amino acid Cécile Bertin, Leslie A. Weston, Tengfang Huang, Georg Jander, Thomas Owens, Jerrold Meinwald, and Frank C. Schroeder Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16964–16969. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707198104.PMCID: PMC2040483 Active root-inhabiting microbes identified by rapid incorporation of plant-derived carbon into RNA Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Stéphane Mahé, Philip Ineson, Phil Staddon, Nick Ostle, Jean-Bernard Cliquet, André-Jean Francez, Alastair H. Fitter, and J. Peter W. Young Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16970–16975. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705902104.PMCID: PMC2040396 Fluctuations in density of an outbreak species drive diversity cascades in food webs Eldon S. Eveleigh, Kevin S. McCann, Peter C. McCarthy, Steven J. Pollock, Christopher J. Lucarotti, Benoit Morin, George A. McDougall, Douglas B. Strongman, John T. Huber, James Umbanhowar, and Lucas D. B. Faria Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16976–16981. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704301104.PMCID: PMC2040472 Evolution Negative correlation does not imply a tradeoff between growth and reproduction in California oaks Johannes M. H. Knops, Walter D. Koenig, and William J. Carmen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16982–16985. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704251104.PMCID: PMC2040414 Antagonistic pleiotropic effects reduce the potential adaptive value of the FRIGIDA locus Nora Scarcelli, James M. Cheverud, Barbara A. Schaal, and Paula X. Kover Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16986–16991. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708209104.PMCID: PMC2040464 The other side of the nearly neutral theory, evidence of slightly advantageous back-mutations Jane Charlesworth and Adam Eyre-Walker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16992–16997. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705456104.PMCID: PMC2040392 The relationship between evolutionary and physiological variation in hemoglobin Ron Milo, Jennifer H. Hou, Michael Springer, Michael P. Brenner, and Marc W. Kirschner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16998–17003. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707673104.PMCID: PMC2040440 Ohno's dilemma: Evolution of new genes under continuous selection Ulfar Bergthorsson, Dan I. Andersson, and John R. Roth Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17004–17009. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707158104.PMCID: PMC2040452 Genetics Drosophila follicle cell amplicons as models for metazoan DNA replication: A cyclinE mutant exhibits increased replication fork elongation Eugenia A. Park, David M. MacAlpine, and Terry L. Orr-Weaver Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16739–16746. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707804104.PMCID: PMC2040429 Terminally differentiated muscle cells are defective in base excision DNA repair and hypersensitive to oxygen injury Laura Narciso, Paola Fortini, Deborah Pajalunga, Annapaola Franchitto, Pingfang Liu, Paolo Degan, Mathilde Frechet, Bruce Demple, Marco Crescenzi, and Eugenia Dogliotti Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17010–17015. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701743104.PMCID: PMC2040456 Distinctive patterns of microRNA expression in primary muscular disorders Iris Eisenberg, Alal Eran, Ichizo Nishino, Maurizio Moggio, Costanza Lamperti, Anthony A. Amato, Hart G. Lidov, Peter B. Kang, Kathryn N. North, Stella Mitrani-Rosenbaum, Kevin M. Flanigan, Lori A. Neely, Duncan Whitney, Alan H. Beggs, Isaac S. Kohane, and Louis M. Kunkel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17016–17021. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708115104.PMCID: PMC2040449 Immunology Conventional dendritic cells regulate the outcome of colonic inflammation independently of T cells Kazumichi Abe, Kim Phung Nguyen, Sean D. Fine, Ji-Hun Mo, Carol Shen, Steve Shenouda, Maripat Corr, Steffen Jung, Jongdae Lee, Lars Eckmann, and Eyal Raz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17022–17027. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708469104.PMCID: PMC2040469 Elevated level of SUMOylated IRF-1 in tumor cells interferes with IRF-1-mediated apoptosis Junsoo Park, Kwangsoo Kim, Eun-Ju Lee, Yun-Jee Seo, Si-Nae Lim, Kyoungsook Park, Seung Bae Rho, Seung-Hoon Lee, and Je-Ho Lee Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17028–17033. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609852104.PMCID: PMC2040422 Optimal induction of T helper 17 cells in humans requires T cell receptor ligation in the context of Toll-like receptor-activated monocytes Hayley G. Evans, Tesha Suddason, Ian Jackson, Leonie S. Taams, and Graham M. Lord Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17034–17039. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708426104.PMCID: PMC2040448 The cation efflux transporter ZnT8 (Slc30A8) is a major autoantigen in human type 1 diabetes Janet M. Wenzlau, Kirstine Juhl, Liping Yu, Ong Moua, Suparna A. Sarkar, Peter Gottlieb, Marian Rewers, George S. Eisenbarth, Jan Jensen, Howard W. Davidson, and John C. Hutton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17040–17045. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705894104.PMCID: PMC2040407 Linking double-stranded DNA breaks to the recombination activating gene complex directs repair to the nonhomologous end-joining pathway Xiaoping Cui and Katheryn Meek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17046–17051. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610928104.PMCID: PMC2040436 Demethylation of a specific hypersensitive site in the Th2 locus control region Sean T. Kim, Patrick E. Fields, and Richard A. Flavell Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17052–17057. Published online 2007 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708293104.PMCID: PMC2040439 Axonal transport mediates West Nile virus entry into the central nervous system and induces acute flaccid paralysis Melanie A. Samuel, Hong Wang, Venkatraman Siddharthan, John D. Morrey, and Michael S. Diamond Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17140–17145. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705837104.PMCID: PMC2040476 Medical Sciences S-nitrosohemoglobin deficiency: A mechanism for loss of physiological activity in banked blood James D. Reynolds, Gregory S. Ahearn, Michael Angelo, Jian Zhang, Fred Cobb, and Jonathan S. Stamler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17058–17062. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707958104.PMCID: PMC2040473 Evolution of adverse changes in stored RBCs Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, Tim H. Veldman, Allan Doctor, Marilyn J. Telen, Thomas L. Ortel, T. Scott Reid, Melissa A. Mulherin, Hongmei Zhu, Raymond D. Buck, Robert M. Califf, and Timothy J. McMahon Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17063–17068. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708160104.PMCID: PMC2040393 Multiple circulating proangiogenic factors induced by sunitinib malate are tumor-independent and correlate with antitumor efficacy John M. L. Ebos, Christina R. Lee, James G. Christensen, Anthony J. Mutsaers, and Robert S. Kerbel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17069–17074. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708148104.PMCID: PMC2040401 Mitochondrial dysfunction due to long-chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency causes hepatic steatosis and hepatic insulin resistance Dongyan Zhang, Zhen-Xiang Liu, Cheol Soo Choi, Liqun Tian, Richard Kibbey, Jianying Dong, Gary W. Cline, Philip A. Wood, and Gerald I. Shulman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17075–17080. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707060104.PMCID: PMC2040460 The EGF receptor is required for efficient liver regeneration Anuradha Natarajan, Bettina Wagner, and Maria Sibilia Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17081–17086. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704126104.PMCID: PMC2040457 Inhibition of 5-HT neuron activity and induction of depressive-like behavior by high-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus Yasin Temel, Laura J. Boothman, Arjan Blokland, Peter J. Magill, Harry W. M. Steinbusch, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, and Trevor Sharp Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17087–17092. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704144104.PMCID: PMC2040465 HOXB13 promotes ovarian cancer progression Jiangyong Miao, Zuncai Wang, Heather Provencher, Beth Muir, Sonika Dahiya, Erin Carney, Chee-Onn Leong, Dennis C. Sgroi, and Sandra Orsulic Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17093–17098. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707938104.PMCID: PMC2040435 Immunotoxin and Taxol synergy results from a decrease in shed mesothelin levels in the extracellular space of tumors Yujian Zhang, Laiman Xiang, Raffit Hassan, and Ira Pastan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17099–17104. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708101104.PMCID: PMC2040446 Hepatocyte survival in acute hepatitis is due to c-Jun/AP-1-dependent expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase Peter Hasselblatt, Martina Rath, Vukoslav Komnenovic, Kurt Zatloukal, and Erwin F. Wagner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17105–17110. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706272104.PMCID: PMC2040484 Microbiology A DNA methylation ratchet governs progression through a bacterial cell cycle Justine Collier, Harley H. McAdams, and Lucy Shapiro Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17111–17116. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708112104.PMCID: PMC2040471 Arp2/3-independent assembly of actin by Vibrio type III effector VopL Amy D. B. Liverman, Hui-Chun Cheng, Jennifer E. Trosky, Daisy W. Leung, Melanie L. Yarbrough, Dara L. Burdette, Michael K. Rosen, and Kim Orth Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17117–17122. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703196104.PMCID: PMC2040399 Isolates of Zaire ebolavirus from wild apes reveal genetic lineage and recombinants Tatiana J. Wittmann, Roman Biek, Alexandre Hassanin, Pierre Rouquet, Patricia Reed, Philippe Yaba, Xavier Pourrut, Leslie A. Real, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, and Eric M. Leroy Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17123–17127. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704076104.PMCID: PMC2040453 Proteomic identification of tmRNA substrates Sue-Jean Hong, Faith H. Lessner, Elisabeth M. Mahen, and Kenneth C. Keiler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17128–17133. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707671104.PMCID: PMC2040454 Herpes simplex virus-infected cell protein 0 blocks the silencing of viral DNA by dissociating histone deacetylases from the CoREST–REST complex Haidong Gu and Bernard Roizman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17134–17139. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707266104.PMCID: PMC2040395 Neuroscience A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees James K. Rilling, Sarah K. Barks, Lisa A. Parr, Todd M. Preuss, Tracy L. Faber, Giuseppe Pagnoni, J. Douglas Bremner, and John R. Votaw Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17146–17151. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705132104.PMCID: PMC2040430 Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation Yi-Yuan Tang, Yinghua Ma, Junhong Wang, Yaxin Fan, Shigang Feng, Qilin Lu, Qingbao Yu, Danni Sui, Mary K. Rothbart, Ming Fan, and Michael I. Posner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17152–17156. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707678104.PMCID: PMC2040428 Imaging cortical dynamics of language processing with the event-related optical signal Chun-Yu Tse, Chia-Lin Lee, Jason Sullivan, Susan M. Garnsey, Gary S. Dell, Monica Fabiani, and Gabriele Gratton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17157–17162. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707901104.PMCID: PMC2040398 Symmetries in human brain language pathways correlate with verbal recall Marco Catani, Matthew P. G. Allin, Masud Husain, Luca Pugliese, Marsel M. Mesulam, Robin M. Murray, and Derek K. Jones Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17163–17168. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702116104.PMCID: PMC2040413 Diminished adult neurogenesis in the marmoset brain precedes old age Benedetta Leuner, Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Charles G. Gross, and Elizabeth Gould Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17169–17173. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708228104.PMCID: PMC2040400 Neural correlates of a postponed decision report Luis Lemus, Adrián Hernández, Rogelio Luna, Antonio Zainos, Verónica Nácher, and Ranulfo Romo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17174–17179. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707961104.PMCID: PMC2040441 Optimally wired subnetwork determines neuroanatomy of Caenorhabditis elegans Alfonso Pérez-Escudero and Gonzalo G. de Polavieja Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17180–17185. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703183104.PMCID: PMC2040432 Dissociating the neural mechanisms of memory-based guidance of visual selection David Soto, Glyn W. Humphreys, and Pia Rotshtein Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17186–17191. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703706104.PMCID: PMC2040391 Dendritic spikes induce single-burst long-term potentiation Stefan Remy and Nelson Spruston Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17192–17197. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707919104.PMCID: PMC2040482 CRF–CRF1 system activation mediates withdrawal-induced increases in nicotine self-administration in nicotine-dependent rats Olivier George, Sandy Ghozland, Marc R. Azar, Pietro Cottone, Eric P. Zorrilla, Loren H. Parsons, Laura E. O'Dell, Heather N. Richardson, and George F. Koob Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17198–17203. Published online 2007 October 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707585104.PMCID: PMC2040467 Therapeutic silencing of mutant huntingtin with siRNA attenuates striatal and cortical neuropathology and behavioral deficits M. DiFiglia, M. Sena-Esteves, K. Chase, E. Sapp, E. Pfister, M. Sass, J. Yoder, P. Reeves, R. K. Pandey, K. G. Rajeev, M. Manoharan, D. W. Y. Sah, P. D. Zamore, and N. Aronin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17204–17209. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708285104.PMCID: PMC2040405 Adenosine receptor A2A-R contributes to motoneuron survival by transactivating the tyrosine kinase receptor TrkB Stefan Wiese, Sibylle Jablonka, Bettina Holtmann, Nadiya Orel, Rithwick Rajagopal, Moses V. Chao, and Michael Sendtner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17210–17215. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705267104.PMCID: PMC2040418 Plant Biology Galactolipid synthesis in chloroplast inner envelope is essential for proper thylakoid biogenesis, photosynthesis, and embryogenesis Koichi Kobayashi, Maki Kondo, Hiroaki Fukuda, Mikio Nishimura, and Hiroyuki Ohta Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17216–17221. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704680104.PMCID: PMC2040463 The basic helix–loop–helix domain of maize R links transcriptional regulation and histone modifications by recruitment of an EMSY-related factor J. Marcela Hernandez, Antje Feller, Kengo Morohashi, Kenneth Frame, and Erich Grotewold Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17222–17227. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705629104.PMCID: PMC2040437 Psychology Chimpanzees modify recruitment screams as a function of audience composition Katie E. Slocombe and Klaus Zuberbühler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17228–17233. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706741104.PMCID: PMC2040427 Impaired face and body perception in developmental prosopagnosia Ruthger Righart and Beatrice de Gelder Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17234–17238. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707753104.PMCID: PMC2040466 Social Sciences Anthropology A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees James K. Rilling, Sarah K. Barks, Lisa A. Parr, Todd M. Preuss, Tracy L. Faber, Giuseppe Pagnoni, J. Douglas Bremner, and John R. Votaw Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17146–17151. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705132104.PMCID: PMC2040430 Economic Sciences Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981–2004 Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16757–16762. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702930104.PMCID: PMC2040450 Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Poverty reduction in Africa Paul Collier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16763–16768. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611702104.PMCID: PMC2040421 Environmental Sciences From the Cover: Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya Paul O. Okwi, Godfrey Ndeng'e, Patti Kristjanson, Mike Arunga, An Notenbaert, Abisalom Omolo, Norbert Henninger, Todd Benson, Patrick Kariuki, and John Owuor Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16769–16774. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611107104.PMCID: PMC2040447 Psychology Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation Yi-Yuan Tang, Yinghua Ma, Junhong Wang, Yaxin Fan, Shigang Feng, Qilin Lu, Qingbao Yu, Danni Sui, Mary K. Rothbart, Ming Fan, and Michael I. Posner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17152–17156. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707678104.PMCID: PMC2040428 Imaging cortical dynamics of language processing with the event-related optical signal Chun-Yu Tse, Chia-Lin Lee, Jason Sullivan, Susan M. Garnsey, Gary S. Dell, Monica Fabiani, and Gabriele Gratton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17157–17162. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707901104.PMCID: PMC2040398 Sustainability Science Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: The African Millennium Villages Pedro Sanchez, Cheryl Palm, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Denning, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Bashir Jama, Tsegazeab Kiflemariam, Bronwen Konecky, Raffaela Kozar, Eliud Lelerai, Alia Malik, Vijay Modi, Patrick Mutuo, Amadou Niang, Herine Okoth, Frank Place, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Amir Said, David Siriri, Awash Teklehaimanot, Karen Wang, Justine Wangila, and Colleen Zamba Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16775–16780. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700423104.PMCID: PMC2040451 Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Tackling the African “poverty trap”: The Ijebu-Ode experiment Akin L. Mabogunje Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16781–16786. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704765104.PMCID: PMC2040443 Corrections Correction for Güngör et al., Proteasomal selection of multiprotein complexes recruited by LIM homeodomain transcription factors Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17239. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709141104.PMCID: PMC2040426 Corrects: Cenap Güngör, et al. Proteasomal selection of multiprotein complexes recruited by LIM homeodomain transcription factors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 18; 104(38): 15000–15005. Correction for Bauer et al., A structural gap in Dpo4 supports mutagenic bypass of a major benzo[a]pyrene dG adduct in DNA through template misalignment Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17240. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708950104.PMCID: PMC2040478 Corrects: Jacob Bauer, et al. A structural gap in Dpo4 supports mutagenic bypass of a major benzo[a]pyrene dG adduct in DNA through template misalignment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 18; 104(38): 14905–14910. Correction for Wu et al., Increased prostate cell proliferation and loss of cell differentiation in mice lacking prostate epithelial androgen receptor Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17240. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708993104.PMCID: PMC2040424 Corrects: Chun-Te Wu, et al. Increased prostate cell proliferation and loss of cell differentiation in mice lacking prostate epithelial androgen receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 31; 104(31): 12679–12684. |