| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 8; 105(14): 5283–5284. doi: 10.1073/iti1408105.PMCID: PMC2291088 Commentaries Aminoacyl-tRNAs, the bacterial cell envelope, and antibiotics Uttam L. RajBhandary and Dieter Söll PMCID: PMC2291102 A breakthrough innovation in animal evolution Ulrich G. Mueller and Christian Rabeling PMCID: PMC2291106 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences Suppression of immediate-early viral gene expression by herpesvirus-coded microRNAs: Implications for latency Eain Murphy, Jiří Vaníček, Harlan Robins, Thomas Shenk, and Arnold J. Levine PMCID: PMC2291141 Chemistry A polycatenated DNA scaffold for the one-step assembly of hierarchical nanostructures Yossi Weizmann, Adam B. Braunschweig, Ofer I. Wilner, Zoya Cheglakov, and Itamar Willner PMCID: PMC2291075 Water inertial reorientation: Hydrogen bond strength and the angular potential David E. Moilanen, Emily E. Fenn, Yu-Shan Lin, J. L. Skinner, B. Bagchi, and Michael D. Fayer PMCID: PMC2291089 DNA surface hybridization regimes Ping Gong and Rastislav Levicky PMCID: PMC2291116 Environmental Sciences From the Cover:
Massive global ozone loss predicted following regional nuclear conflict Michael J. Mills, Owen B. Toon, Richard P. Turco, Douglas E. Kinnison, and Rolando R. Garcia PMCID: PMC2291128 Geology Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods Philip M. Novack-Gottshall and Michael A. Lanier PMCID: PMC2291137 Mathematics  ( H) has a pure state that is not multiplicative on any masa Charles Akemann and Nik Weaver PMCID: PMC2291113 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences From the Cover:
A global perspective of the richness and evenness of traditional crop-variety diversity maintained by farming communities Devra I. Jarvis, Anthony H. D. Brown, Pham Hung Cuong, Luis Collado-Panduro, Luis Latournerie-Moreno, Sanjaya Gyawali, Tesema Tanto, Mahamadou Sawadogo, Istvan Mar, Mohammed Sadiki, Nguyen Thi-Ngoc Hue, Luis Arias-Reyes, Didier Balma, Jwala Bajracharya, Fernando Castillo, Deepak Rijal, Loubna Belqadi, Ram Rana, Seddik Saidi, Jeremy Ouedraogo, Roger Zangre, Keltoum Rhrib, Jose Luis Chavez, Daniel Schoen, Bhuwon Sthapit, Paola De Santis, Carlo Fadda, and Toby Hodgkin PMCID: PMC2291090 Anthropology Reproductive conflict and the separation of reproductive generations in humans Michael A. Cant and Rufus A. Johnstone PMCID: PMC2291103 Applied Biological Sciences Identification of a potent synthetic FXR agonist with an unexpected mode of binding and activation Stephen M. Soisson, Gopalakrishnan Parthasarathy, Alan D. Adams, Soumya Sahoo, Ayesha Sitlani, Carl Sparrow, Jisong Cui, and Joseph W. Becker PMCID: PMC2291122 Biochemistry MicroRNA-repressed mRNAs contain 40S but not 60S components Bingbing Wang, Adrienne Yanez, and Carl D. Novina PMCID: PMC2291078 Crystal structure and functional analysis of tetracenomycin ARO/CYC: Implications for cyclization specificity of aromatic polyketides Brian Douglas Ames, Tyler Paz Korman, Wenjun Zhang, Peter Smith, Thanh Vu, Yi Tang, and Shiou-Chuan Tsai PMCID: PMC2291100 RTX cytotoxins recognize β2 integrin receptors through N-linked oligosaccharides Jana Morova, Radim Osicka, Jiri Masin, and Peter Sebo PMCID: PMC2291121 Regulation of polymerase exchange between Polη and Polδ by monoubiquitination of PCNA and the movement of DNA polymerase holoenzyme Zhihao Zhuang, Robert E. Johnson, Lajos Haracska, Louise Prakash, Satya Prakash, and Stephen J. Benkovic PMCID: PMC2291123 TFIID component TAF7 functionally interacts with both TFIIH and P-TEFb Anne Gegonne, Jocelyn D. Weissman, Hanxin Lu, Meisheng Zhou, Arindam Dasgupta, Robert Ribble, John N. Brady, and Dinah S. Singer PMCID: PMC2291086 Biophysics The thermal impulse response of Escherichia coli Eli Paster and William S. Ryu PMCID: PMC2291076 The lattice as allosteric effector: Structural studies of αβ- and γ-tubulin clarify the role of GTP in microtubule assembly Luke M. Rice, Elizabeth A. Montabana, and David A. Agard PMCID: PMC2291134 Cell Biology Palmitoylation and ubiquitination regulate exit of the Wnt signaling protein LRP6 from the endoplasmic reticulum Laurence Abrami, Béatrice Kunz, Ioan Iacovache, and F. Gisou van der Goot PMCID: PMC2291096 The role of filament-packing dynamics in powering amoeboid cell motility Long Miao, Orion Vanderlinde, Jun Liu, Richard P. Grant, Alan Wouterse, Katsuya Shimabukuro, Albert Philipse, Murray Stewart, and Thomas M. Roberts PMCID: PMC2291107 Killin is a p53-regulated nuclear inhibitor of DNA synthesis Yong-jig Cho and Peng Liang PMCID: PMC2291080 Id1 cooperates with oncogenic Ras to induce metastatic mammary carcinoma by subversion of the cellular senescence response Alexander Swarbrick, Emie Roy, Thaddeus Allen, and J. Michael Bishop PMCID: PMC2291136 Developmental Biology Molecular links among the causative genes for ocular malformation: Otx2 and Sox2 coregulate Rax expression Hiroki Danno, Tatsuo Michiue, Keisuke Hitachi, Akira Yukita, Shoichi Ishiura, and Makoto Asashima PMCID: PMC2291098 The Drosophila homolog of human tumor suppressor TSC-22 promotes cellular growth, proliferation, and survival Xiaodong Wu, Megumu Yamada-Mabuchi, Erick J. Morris, Pradeep Singh Tanwar, Leonard Dobens, Silvia Gluderer, Sabina Khan, Jing Cao, Hugo Stocker, Ernst Hafen, Nick J. Dyson, and Laurel A. Raftery PMCID: PMC2291125 Ecology Complex interplays among population dynamics, environmental forcing, and exploitation in fisheries T. Rouyer, J.-M. Fromentin, F. Ménard, B. Cazelles, K. Briand, R. Pianet, B. Planque, and N. C. Stenseth PMCID: PMC2291108 Pervasive impact of large-scale edge effects on a beetle community Robert M. Ewers and Raphael K. Didham PMCID: PMC2291112 Evolution Scale-dependence of Cope's rule in body size evolution of Paleozoic brachiopods Philip M. Novack-Gottshall and Michael A. Lanier PMCID: PMC2291137 From the Cover:
Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture Ted R. Schultz and Seán G. Brady PMCID: PMC2291119 Detecting evolutionary relationships across existing fold space, using sequence order-independent profile–profile alignments Lei Xie and Philip E. Bourne PMCID: PMC2291117 Evidence that strong positive selection drives neofunctionalization in the tandemly duplicated polyhomeotic genes in Drosophila Steffen Beisswanger and Wolfgang Stephan PMCID: PMC2291077 Genetics Suppression of immediate-early viral gene expression by herpesvirus-coded microRNAs: Implications for latency Eain Murphy, Jiří Vaníček, Harlan Robins, Thomas Shenk, and Arnold J. Levine PMCID: PMC2291141 The conserved Wobble uridine tRNA thiolase Ctu1–Ctu2 is required to maintain genome integrity Monique Dewez, Fanélie Bauer, Marc Dieu, Martine Raes, Jean Vandenhaute, and Damien Hermand PMCID: PMC2291126 Immunology Human glucocorticoid-induced TNF receptor ligand regulates its signaling activity through multiple oligomerization states Zhaocai Zhou, Xiaomin Song, Alan Berezov, Geng Zhang, Yanjing Li, Hongtao Zhang, Ramachandran Murali, Bin Li, and Mark I. Greene PMCID: PMC2291095 The lack of anti-idiotypic antibodies, not the presence of the corresponding autoantibodies to glutamate decarboxylase, defines type 1 diabetes Shilpa Oak, Lisa K. Gilliam, Mona Landin-Olsson, Carina Törn, Ingrid Kockum, Christina R. Pennington, Merrill J. Rowley, Michael R. Christie, J. Paul Banga, and Christiane S. Hampe PMCID: PMC2291139 Regulation of innate immune responses by DAI (DLM-1/ZBP1) and other DNA-sensing molecules ZhiChao Wang, Myoung Kwon Choi, Tatsuma Ban, Hideyuki Yanai, Hideo Negishi, Yan Lu, Tomohiko Tamura, Akinori Takaoka, Kazuko Nishikura, and Tadatsugu Taniguchi PMCID: PMC2291118 Medical Sciences Adenovirus serotype 5 hexon is critical for virus infection of hepatocytes in vivo O. Kalyuzhniy, N. C. Di Paolo, M. Silvestry, S. E. Hofherr, M. A. Barry, P. L. Stewart, and D. M. Shayakhmetov PMCID: PMC2291105 EBV-encoded EBNA-6 binds and targets MRS18-2 to the nucleus, resulting in the disruption of pRb-E2F1 complexes Elena Kashuba, Mariya Yurchenko, Surya Pavan Yenamandra, Boris Snopok, Maria Isaguliants, Laszlo Szekely, and George Klein PMCID: PMC2291094 Photodynamic therapy plus low-dose cyclophosphamide generates antitumor immunity in a mouse model Ana P. Castano, Pawel Mroz, Mei X. Wu, and Michael R. Hamblin PMCID: PMC2291083 Cytidine deamination induced HIV-1 drug resistance Lubbertus C. F. Mulder, Ariana Harari, and Viviana Simon PMCID: PMC2291111 SGX393 inhibits the CML mutant Bcr-AblT315I and preempts in vitro resistance when combined with nilotinib or dasatinib Thomas O'Hare, Christopher A. Eide, Jeffrey W. Tyner, Amie S. Corbin, Matthew J. Wong, Sean Buchanan, Kevin Holme, Katayoun A. Jessen, Crystal Tang, Hal A. Lewis, Richard D. Romero, Stephen K. Burley, and Michael W. Deininger PMCID: PMC2291110 Unregulated smooth-muscle myosin in human intestinal neoplasia Pia Alhopuro, Denis Phichith, Sari Tuupanen, Heli Sammalkorpi, Miranda Nybondas, Juha Saharinen, James P. Robinson, Zhaohui Yang, Li-Qiong Chen, Torben Orntoft, Jukka-Pekka Mecklin, Heikki Järvinen, Charis Eng, Gabriela Moeslein, Darryl Shibata, Richard S. Houlston, Anneke Lucassen, Ian P. M. Tomlinson, Virpi Launonen, Ari Ristimäki, Diego Arango, Auli Karhu, H. Lee Sweeney, and Lauri A. Aaltonen PMCID: PMC2291082 Tbx5-dependent pathway regulating diastolic function in congenital heart disease Yonghong Zhu, Anthony O. Gramolini, Mark A. Walsh, Yu-Qing Zhou, Cameron Slorach, Mark K. Friedberg, Jun K. Takeuchi, Hui Sun, R. Mark Henkelman, Peter H. Backx, Andrew N. Redington, David H. MacLennan, and Benoit G. Bruneau PMCID: PMC2291114 Microbiology Hepatitis C virus NS5A anchor peptide disrupts human immunodeficiency virus Michael D. Bobardt, Guofeng Cheng, Lot de Witte, Suganya Selvarajah, Udayan Chatterji, Brigitte E. Sanders-Beer, Teunis B. H. Geijtenbeek, Francis V. Chisari, and Philippe A. Gallay PMCID: PMC2291127 Human CMV infection of endothelial cells induces an angiogenic response through viral binding to EGF receptor and β1 and β3 integrins Gretchen L. Bentz and Andrew D. Yurochko PMCID: PMC2291133 Identification of two inner-membrane proteins required for the transport of lipopolysaccharide to the outer membrane of Escherichia coli Natividad Ruiz, Luisa S. Gronenberg, Daniel Kahne, and Thomas J. Silhavy PMCID: PMC2291135 Up-regulation of a cellular protein at the translational level by a retrovirus Fayth K. Yoshimura, Xixia Luo, Xiaoqing Zhao, Herve C. Gerard, and Alan P. Hudson PMCID: PMC2291115 From the Cover:
Purported nanobacteria in human blood as calcium carbonate nanoparticles Jan Martel and John Ding-E Young PMCID: PMC2291092 Complete genome of the uncultured Termite Group 1 bacteria in a single host protist cell Yuichi Hongoh, Vineet K. Sharma, Tulika Prakash, Satoko Noda, Todd D. Taylor, Toshiaki Kudo, Yoshiyuki Sakaki, Atsushi Toyoda, Masahira Hattori, and Moriya Ohkuma PMCID: PMC2291132 Neuroscience From the Cover:
A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers Wai Ting Siok, Zhendong Niu, Zhen Jin, Charles A. Perfetti, and Li Hai Tan PMCID: PMC2291101 Decreased corticolimbic allopregnanolone expression during social isolation enhances contextual fear: A model relevant for posttraumatic stress disorder Fabio Pibiri, Marianela Nelson, Alessandro Guidotti, Erminio Costa, and Graziano Pinna PMCID: PMC2291140 Acute corticosterone treatment is sufficient to induce anxiety and amygdaloid dendritic hypertrophy Rupshi Mitra and Robert M. Sapolsky PMCID: PMC2291109 Serotonin is necessary for place memory in Drosophila Divya Sitaraman, Melissa Zars, Holly LaFerriere, Yin-Chieh Chen, Alex Sable-Smith, Toshihiro Kitamoto, George E. Rottinghaus, and Troy Zars PMCID: PMC2291120 Alteration of BACE1-dependent NRG1/ErbB4 signaling and schizophrenia-like phenotypes in BACE1-null mice A. V. Savonenko, T. Melnikova, F. M. Laird, K.-A. Stewart, D. L. Price, and P. C. Wong PMCID: PMC2291091 Perception of emotional expressions is independent of face selectivity in monkey inferior temporal cortex Fadila Hadj-Bouziane, Andrew H. Bell, Tamara A. Knusten, Leslie G. Ungerleider, and Roger B. H. Tootell PMCID: PMC2291084 NMDA receptors inhibit synapse unsilencing during brain development Hillel Adesnik, Guangnan Li, Matthew J. During, Samuel J. Pleasure, and Roger A. Nicoll PMCID: PMC2291097 Dynamic development of the calyx of Held synapse Adrián Rodríguez-Contreras, John Silvio Soria van Hoeve, Ron L. P. Habets, Heiko Locher, and J. Gerard G. Borst PMCID: PMC2291093 Postendocytotic traffic of the galanin R1 receptor: A lysosomal signal motif on the cytoplasmic terminus Sheng Xia, Xing-Peng Dun, Ping-Sheng Hu, Svend Kjaer, Kang Zheng, Yu Qian, Christina Solén, Tao Xu, Bertil Fredholm, Tomas Hökfelt, and Zhi-Qing David Xu PMCID: PMC2291124 Dicer loss in striatal neurons produces behavioral and neuroanatomical phenotypes in the absence of neurodegeneration Trinna L. Cuellar, Tigwa H. Davis, Peter T. Nelson, Gabriel B. Loeb, Brian D. Harfe, Erik Ullian, and Michael T. McManus PMCID: PMC2291142 Physiology MKP-1 inhibits high NaCl-induced activation of p38 but does not inhibit the activation of TonEBP/OREBP: Opposite roles of p38α and p38δ Xiaoming Zhou, Joan D. Ferraris, Natalia I. Dmitrieva, Yusen Liu, and Maurice B. Burg PMCID: PMC2291081 Plant Biology Blue light-induced autophosphorylation of phototropin is a primary step for signaling Shin-ichiro Inoue, Toshinori Kinoshita, Masaki Matsumoto, Keiichi I. Nakayama, Michio Doi, and Ken-ichiro Shimazaki PMCID: PMC2291087 Small-molecule agonists and antagonists of F-box protein–substrate interactions in auxin perception and signaling Ken-ichiro Hayashi, Xu Tan, Ning Zheng, Tatsuya Hatate, Yoshio Kimura, Stefan Kepinski, and Hiroshi Nozaki PMCID: PMC2291130 A fungal-responsive MAPK cascade regulates phytoalexin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis Dongtao Ren, Yidong Liu, Kwang-Yeol Yang, Ling Han, Guohong Mao, Jane Glazebrook, and Shuqun Zhang PMCID: PMC2291085 Psychology Touch perception reveals the dominance of spatial over digital representation of numbers Claudio Brozzoli, Masami Ishihara, Silke M. Göbel, Roméo Salemme, Yves Rossetti, and Alessandro Farnè PMCID: PMC2291099 Social Sciences Anthropology Human cremation in Mexico 3,000 years ago William N. Duncan, Andrew K. Balkansky, Kimberly Crawford, Heather A. Lapham, and Nathan J. Meissner PMCID: PMC2291131 Psychology Language universals in human brains Iris Berent, Tracy Lennertz, Jongho Jun, Miguel A. Moreno, and Paul Smolensky PMCID: PMC2291138 From the Cover:
A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers Wai Ting Siok, Zhendong Niu, Zhen Jin, Charles A. Perfetti, and Li Hai Tan PMCID: PMC2291101 Corrections Correction for Matsumoto et al., Distribution of cytotoxic and DNA ADP-ribosylating activity in crude extracts from butterflies among the family Pieridae PMCID: PMC2291129 Corrects: Yasuko Matsumoto, et al. Distribution of cytotoxic and DNA ADP-ribosylating activity in crude extracts from butterflies among the family Pieridae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 February 19; 105(7): 2516–2520. Correction for Samejima et al., A promoter-hijack strategy for conditional shutdown of multiply spliced essential cell cycle genes PMCID: PMC2291079 Corrects: Kumiko Samejima, et al. A promoter-hijack strategy for conditional shutdown of multiply spliced essential cell cycle genes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 February 19; 105(7): 2457–2462. Correction for Fernández-Majada et al., Nuclear IKK activity leads to dysregulated Notch-dependent gene expression in colorectal cancer PMCID: PMC2291104 Corrects: V. Fernández-Majada, et al. Nuclear IKK activity leads to dysregulated Notch-dependent gene expression in colorectal cancer. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 January 2; 104(1): 276–281. |
