| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Letters Natural selection does not explain cultural rates of change John R. Skoyles Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): E27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802586105.PMCID: PMC2409415 Reply to Skoyles: Natural selection does appear to explain some cultural rates of change Deborah S. Rogers and Paul R. Ehrlich Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): E28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803570105.PMCID: PMC2409405 Reply to Bagni: On BC1 RNA and the fragile X mental retardation protein Anna Iacoangeli, Timofey S. Rozhdestvensky, Natalia Dolzhanskaya, Barthélémy Tournier, Janin Schütt, Jürgen Brosius, Robert B. Denman, Edouard W. Khandjian, Stefan Kindler, and Henri Tiedge Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): E29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803737105.PMCID: PMC2409383 This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7625–7626. doi: 10.1073/iti2208105.PMCID: PMC2409401 Commentaries Muscle insulin resistance: A case of fat overconsumption, not mitochondrial dysfunction Edward W. Kraegen, Gregory J. Cooney, and Nigel Turner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7627–7628. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803901105.PMCID: PMC2409426 Notch2 paves the way to mast cells by Hes1 and Gata3 Priya Dedhia, Taku Kambayashi, and Warren S. Pear Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7629–7630. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803439105.PMCID: PMC2409425 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Inflationary dynamics for matrix eigenvalue problems Eric J. Heller, Lev Kaplan, and Frank Pollmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7631–7635. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801047105.PMCID: PMC2409430 Applied Physical Sciences Passivation of irregular surfaces accessed by diffusion M. Filoche, D. S. Grebenkov, J. S. Andrade, Jr., and B. Sapoval Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7636–7640. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706915105.PMCID: PMC2409382 Chemistry Controlling the efficiency of an artificial light-harvesting complex Janne Savolainen, Riccardo Fanciulli, Niels Dijkhuizen, Ana L. Moore, Jürgen Hauer, Tiago Buckup, Marcus Motzkus, and Jennifer L. Herek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7641–7646. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711927105.PMCID: PMC2409393 Lithium monoxide anion: A ground-state triplet with the strongest base to date Zhixin Tian, Bun Chan, Michael B. Sullivan, Leo Radom, and Steven R. Kass Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7647–7651. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801393105.PMCID: PMC2409378 Thiolate-bridged dinuclear iron(tris-carbonyl)–nickel complexes relevant to the active site of [NiFe] hydrogenase Yasuhiro Ohki, Kazunari Yasumura, Katsuaki Kuge, Soichiro Tanino, Masaru Ando, Zilong Li, and Kazuyuki Tatsumi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7652–7657. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800538105.PMCID: PMC2409409 From the Cover: Role of excited electronic states in the high-pressure amorphization of benzene Margherita Citroni, Roberto Bini, Paolo Foggi, and Vincenzo Schettino Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7658–7663. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802269105.PMCID: PMC2409391 Engineering From the Cover: Micropatterning of costimulatory ligands enhances CD4+ T cell function Keyue Shen, V. Kaye Thomas, Michael L. Dustin, and Lance C. Kam Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7791–7796. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710295105.PMCID: PMC2409411 Environmental Sciences Impact of geoengineering schemes on the global hydrological cycle G. Bala, P. B. Duffy, and K. E. Taylor Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7664–7669. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711648105.PMCID: PMC2409412 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Acid sphingomyelinase involvement in tumor necrosis factor α-regulated vascular and steroid disruption during luteolysis in vivo Luiz E. Henkes, Brian T. Sullivan, Maureen P. Lynch, Richard Kolesnick, Danielle Arsenault, Mark Puder, John S. Davis, and Bo R. Rueda Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7670–7675. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712260105.PMCID: PMC2409385 Anthropology Dating the late prehistoric dispersal of Polynesians to New Zealand using the commensal Pacific rat Janet M. Wilmshurst, Atholl J. Anderson, Thomas F. G. Higham, and Trevor H. Worthy Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7676–7680. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801507105.PMCID: PMC2409139 Biochemistry Contacts between membrane proximal regions of the PDGF receptor ectodomain are required for receptor activation but not for receptor dimerization Yan Yang, Satoru Yuzawa, and Joseph Schlessinger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7681–7686. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802896105.PMCID: PMC2409387 ALIX-CHMP4 interactions in the human ESCRT pathway John McCullough, Robert D. Fisher, Frank G. Whitby, Wesley I. Sundquist, and Christopher P. Hill Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7687–7691. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801567105.PMCID: PMC2409388 Dimeric subunit stoichiometry of the human voltage-dependent proton channel Hv1 Seok-Yong Lee, James A. Letts, and Roderick MacKinnon Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7692–7695. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803277105.PMCID: PMC2409406 Insights into the stator assembly of the Vibrio flagellar motor from the crystal structure of MotY Seiji Kojima, Akari Shinohara, Hiroyuki Terashima, Toshiharu Yakushi, Mayuko Sakuma, Michio Homma, Keiichi Namba, and Katsumi Imada Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7696–7701. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800308105.PMCID: PMC2409386 Interplay of PDZ and protease domain of DegP ensures efficient elimination of misfolded proteins Tobias Krojer, Karen Pangerl, Juliane Kurt, Justyna Sawa, Christoph Stingl, Karl Mechtler, Robert Huber, Michael Ehrmann, and Tim Clausen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7702–7707. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803392105.PMCID: PMC2396557 Biophysics Controlling the efficiency of an artificial light-harvesting complex Janne Savolainen, Riccardo Fanciulli, Niels Dijkhuizen, Ana L. Moore, Jürgen Hauer, Tiago Buckup, Marcus Motzkus, and Jennifer L. Herek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7641–7646. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711927105.PMCID: PMC2409393 Coevolution at protein complex interfaces can be detected by the complementarity trace with important impact for predictive docking Hocine Madaoui and Raphaël Guerois Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7708–7713. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707032105.PMCID: PMC2409390 Load-dependent ADP binding to myosins V and VI: Implications for subunit coordination and function Yusuke Oguchi, Sergey V. Mikhailenko, Takashi Ohki, Adrian O. Olivares, Enrique M. De La Cruz, and Shin'ichi Ishiwata Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7714–7719. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800564105.PMCID: PMC2409399 Two-dimensional infrared spectra of isotopically diluted amyloid fibrils from Aβ40 Yung Sam Kim, Liu Liu, Paul H. Axelsen, and Robin M. Hochstrasser Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7720–7725. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802993105.PMCID: PMC2409414 Electrostatic basis for the unidirectionality of the primary proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase Andrei V. Pisliakov, Pankaz K. Sharma, Zhen T. Chu, Maciej Haranczyk, and Arieh Warshel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7726–7731. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800580105.PMCID: PMC2409407 Cell Biology Asymmetric mitosis: Unequal segregation of proteins destined for degradation Luis C. Fuentealba, Edward Eivers, Douglas Geissert, Vincent Taelman, and E. M. De Robertis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7732–7737. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803027105.PMCID: PMC2402384 Control of endothelial cell proliferation and migration by VEGF signaling to histone deacetylase 7 Shusheng Wang, Xiumin Li, Maribel Parra, Eric Verdin, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, and Eric N. Olson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7738–7743. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802857105.PMCID: PMC2409381 From the Cover: A drug-controllable tag for visualizing newly synthesized proteins in cells and whole animals Michael Z. Lin, Jeffrey S. Glenn, and Roger Y. Tsien Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7744–7749. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803060105.PMCID: PMC2402386 Developmental Biology A nonneural epithelial domain of embryonic cranial neural folds gives rise to ectomesenchyme Marie Anne Breau, Thomas Pietri, Marc P. Stemmler, Jean Paul Thiery, and James A. Weston Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7750–7755. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711344105.PMCID: PMC2408482 Cdx gene deficiency compromises embryonic hematopoiesis in the mouse Yuan Wang, Akiko Yabuuchi, Shannon McKinney-Freeman, Danica M. K. Ducharme, Manas K. Ray, Kallayanee Chawengsaksophak, Trevor K. Archer, and George Q. Daley Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7756–7761. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708951105.PMCID: PMC2409377 Promoter elements associated with RNA Pol II stalling in the Drosophila embryo David A. Hendrix, Joung-Woo Hong, Julia Zeitlinger, Daniel S. Rokhsar, and Michael S. Levine Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7762–7767. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802406105.PMCID: PMC2396556 Ecology Spatial scaling of functional gene diversity across various microbial taxa Jizhong Zhou, Sanghoon Kang, Christopher W. Schadt, and Charles T. Garten, Jr. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7768–7773. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709016105.PMCID: PMC2409408 From the Cover: A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria Jed A. Fuhrman, Joshua A. Steele, Ian Hewson, Michael S. Schwalbach, Mark V. Brown, Jessica L. Green, and James H. Brown Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7774–7778. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803070105.PMCID: PMC2409396 Evolution Natural variation in Pristionchus pacificus insect pheromone attraction involves the protein kinase EGL-4 Ray L. Hong, Hanh Witte, and Ralf J. Sommer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7779–7784. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708406105.PMCID: PMC2409422 Genetics p53 stabilization in response to DNA damage requires Akt/PKB and DNA-PK Karen A. Boehme, Roman Kulikov, and Christine Blattner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7785–7790. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703423105.PMCID: PMC2409394 Immunology From the Cover: Micropatterning of costimulatory ligands enhances CD4+ T cell function Keyue Shen, V. Kaye Thomas, Michael L. Dustin, and Lance C. Kam Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7791–7796. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710295105.PMCID: PMC2409411 T cell receptor signaling controls Foxp3 expression via PI3K, Akt, and mTOR Stephan Sauer, Ludovica Bruno, Arnulf Hertweck, David Finlay, Marion Leleu, Mikhail Spivakov, Zachary A. Knight, Bradley S. Cobb, Doreen Cantrell, Eric O'Connor, Kevan M. Shokat, Amanda G. Fisher, and Matthias Merkenschlager Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7797–7802. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800928105.PMCID: PMC2409380 A NOD2–NALP1 complex mediates caspase-1-dependent IL-1β secretion in response to Bacillus anthracis infection and muramyl dipeptide Li-Chung Hsu, Syed R. Ali, Shauna McGillivray, Ping-Hui Tseng, Sanjeev Mariathasan, Eric W. Humke, Lars Eckmann, Jonathan J. Powell, Victor Nizet, Vishva M. Dixit, and Michael Karin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7803–7808. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802726105.PMCID: PMC2409384 Medical Sciences Modulation of TNF-α-converting enzyme by the spike protein of SARS-CoV and ACE2 induces TNF-α production and facilitates viral entry Shiori Haga, Norio Yamamoto, Chikako Nakai-Murakami, Yoshiaki Osawa, Kenzo Tokunaga, Tetsutaro Sata, Naoki Yamamoto, Takehiko Sasazuki, and Yukihito Ishizaka Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7809–7814. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711241105.PMCID: PMC2409424 High-fat diets cause insulin resistance despite an increase in muscle mitochondria Chad R. Hancock, Dong-Ho Han, May Chen, Shin Terada, Toshihiro Yasuda, David C. Wright, and John O. Holloszy Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7815–7820. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802057105.PMCID: PMC2409421 Involvement of estrogen-related receptors in transcriptional response to hypoxia and growth of solid tumors Ada Ao, Heiman Wang, Sushama Kamarajugadda, and Jianrong Lu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7821–7826. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711677105.PMCID: PMC2409389 Next generation of adeno-associated virus 2 vectors: Point mutations in tyrosines lead to high-efficiency transduction at lower doses Li Zhong, Baozheng Li, Cathryn S. Mah, Lakshmanan Govindasamy, Mavis Agbandje-McKenna, Mario Cooper, Roland W. Herzog, Irene Zolotukhin, Kenneth H. Warrington, Jr., Kirsten A. Weigel-Van Aken, Jacqueline A. Hobbs, Sergei Zolotukhin, Nicholas Muzyczka, and Arun Srivastava Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7827–7832. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802866105.PMCID: PMC2402387 Cidea is associated with lipid droplets and insulin sensitivity in humans Vishwajeet Puri, Srijana Ranjit, Silvana Konda, Sarah M. C. Nicoloro, Juerg Straubhaar, Anil Chawla, My Chouinard, Chenyi Lin, Alison Burkart, Silvia Corvera, Richard A. Perugini, and Michael P. Czech Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7833–7838. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802063105.PMCID: PMC2409392 From the Cover: Coordinated regulation of transcription factors through Notch2 is an important mediator of mast cell fate Mamiko Sakata-Yanagimoto, Etsuko Nakagami-Yamaguchi, Toshiki Saito, Keiki Kumano, Koji Yasutomo, Seishi Ogawa, Mineo Kurokawa, and Shigeru Chiba Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7839–7844. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801074105.PMCID: PMC2409420 Microbiology Immunity to a salivary protein of a sand fly vector protects against the fatal outcome of visceral leishmaniasis in a hamster model Regis Gomes, Clarissa Teixeira, Maria Jânia Teixeira, Fabiano Oliveira, Maria José Menezes, Claire Silva, Camila I. de Oliveira, Jose C. Miranda, Dia-Eldin Elnaiem, Shaden Kamhawi, Jesus G. Valenzuela, and Cláudia I. Brodskyn Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7845–7850. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712153105.PMCID: PMC2397325 A dicarboxylate/4-hydroxybutyrate autotrophic carbon assimilation cycle in the hyperthermophilic Archaeum Ignicoccus hospitalis Harald Huber, Martin Gallenberger, Ulrike Jahn, Eva Eylert, Ivan A. Berg, Daniel Kockelkorn, Wolfgang Eisenreich, and Georg Fuchs Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7851–7856. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801043105.PMCID: PMC2409403 Population structure of the genes encoding the polymorphic Plasmodium falciparum apical membrane antigen 1: Implications for vaccine design Junhui Duan, Jianbing Mu, Mahamadou Ali Thera, Deirdre Joy, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, David Diemert, Carole Long, Hong Zhou, Kazutoyo Miura, Amed Ouattara, Amagana Dolo, Ogobara Doumbo, Xin-zhuan Su, and Louis Miller Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7857–7862. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802328105.PMCID: PMC2409418 Neuroscience Place cell firing correlates with memory deficits and amyloid plaque burden in Tg2576 Alzheimer mouse model Francesca Cacucci, Ming Yi, Thomas J. Wills, Paul Chapman, and John O'Keefe Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7863–7868. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802908105.PMCID: PMC2396558 Functional significance of axonal Kv7 channels in hippocampal pyramidal neurons Mala M. Shah, Michele Migliore, Ignacio Valencia, Edward C. Cooper, and David A. Brown Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7869–7874. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802805105.PMCID: PMC2408483 Complexins facilitate neurotransmitter release at excitatory and inhibitory synapses in mammalian central nervous system Mingshan Xue, Alicja Stradomska, Hongmei Chen, Nils Brose, Weiqi Zhang, Christian Rosenmund, and Kerstin Reim Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7875–7880. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803012105.PMCID: PMC2409395 Plant Biology An original adaptation of photosynthesis in the marine green alga Ostreococcus Pierre Cardol, Benjamin Bailleul, Fabrice Rappaport, Evelyne Derelle, Daniel Béal, Cécile Breyton, Shaun Bailey, Francis André Wollman, Arthur Grossman, Hervé Moreau, and Giovanni Finazzi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7881–7886. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802762105.PMCID: PMC2409423 Independent origins of syringyl lignin in vascular plants Jing-Ke Weng, Xu Li, Jake Stout, and Clint Chapple Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7887–7892. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801696105.PMCID: PMC2409400 Corrections Editorial Expression of Concern and Corrections Randy Schekman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7893. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803890105.PMCID: PMC2409379 Corrects: Stefano Fiorucci, et al. NCX-1000, a NO-releasing derivative of ursodeoxycholic acid, selectively delivers NO to the liver and protects against development of portal hypertension. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 July 17; 98(15): 8897–8902. Correction for Kang et al., Salt tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana requires maturation of N-glycosylated proteins in the Golgi apparatus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7893. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803745105.PMCID: PMC2409429 Corrects: Jae Sook Kang, et al. Salt tolerance of Arabidopsis thaliana requires maturation of N-glycosylated proteins in the Golgi apparatus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 15; 105(15): 5933–5938. Correction for Chen et al., Organization of the core structure of the postsynaptic density Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 June 3; 105(22): 7893. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803900105.PMCID: PMC2409428 Corrects: Xiaobing Chen, et al. Organization of the core structure of the postsynaptic density. 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