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Volume 101(44);  November 2, 2004
Commentaries
The unpredictable past of Plasmodium vivax revealed in its genome
Stephen M. Rich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15547–15548. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405618101.
PMCID: PMC524848
Viruses and the physics of soft condensed matter
Adam Zlotnick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15549–15550. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406935101.
PMCID: PMC524855
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
From the Cover:
Emergence of complex dynamics in a simple model of signaling networks
Luís A. N. Amaral, Albert Díaz-Guilera, Andre A. Moreira, Ary L. Goldberger, and Lewis A. Lipsitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15551–15555. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404843101.
PMCID: PMC524828
Physics
From the Cover:
Origin of icosahedral symmetry in viruses
Roya Zandi, David Reguera, Robijn F. Bruinsma, William M. Gelbart, and Joseph Rudnick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15556–15560. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405844101.
PMCID: PMC524849
Statistics
A system for enhancing genome-wide coexpression dynamics study
Ker-Chau Li, Ching-Ti Liu, Wei Sun, Shinsheng Yuan, and Tianwei Yu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15561–15566. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402962101.
PMCID: PMC524832
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
Human fatty acid synthase: Structure and substrate selectivity of the thioesterase domain
Bornali Chakravarty, Ziwei Gu, Subrahmanyam S. Chirala, Salih J. Wakil, and Florante A. Quiocho
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15567–15572. Published online 2004 October 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406901101.
PMCID: PMC524853
Total synthesis of long DNA sequences: Synthesis of a contiguous 32-kb polyketide synthase gene cluster
Sarah J. Kodumal, Kedar G. Patel, Ralph Reid, Hugo G. Menzella, Mark Welch, and Daniel V. Santi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15573–15578. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406911101.
PMCID: PMC524854
A single active site residue directs oxygenation stereospecificity in lipoxygenases: Stereocontrol is linked to the position of oxygenation
Gianguido Coffa and Alan R. Brash
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15579–15584. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406727101.
PMCID: PMC524819
Selective interaction between nonribosomal peptide synthetases is facilitated by short communication-mediating domains
Martin Hahn and Torsten Stachelhaus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15585–15590. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404932101.
PMCID: PMC524835
A systematic method for identifying small-molecule modulators of protein–protein interactions
Alexander R. Horswill, Sergey N. Savinov, and Stephen J. Benkovic
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15591–15596. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406999101.
PMCID: PMC524857
Carbohydrate response element binding protein directly promotes lipogenic enzyme gene transcription
Seiji Ishii, Katsumi IIzuka, Bonnie C. Miller, and Kosaku Uyeda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15597–15602. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405238101.
PMCID: PMC524841
From the Cover:
Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) scanning identifies primary glucocorticoid receptor target genes
Jen-Chywan Wang, Mika Kakefuda Derynck, Daisuke F. Nonaka, Daniel B. Khodabakhsh, Chris Haqq, and Keith R. Yamamoto
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15603–15608. Published online 2004 October 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407008101.
PMCID: PMC524211
EncM, a versatile enterocin biosynthetic enzyme involved in Favorskii oxidative rearrangement, aldol condensation, and heterocycle-forming reactions
Longkuan Xiang, John A. Kalaitzis, and Bradley S. Moore
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15609–15614. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405508101.
PMCID: PMC524846
Self/nonself recognition in ascidian fertilization: Vitelline coat protein HrVC70 is a candidate allorecognition molecule
Hitoshi Sawada, Etsuko Tanaka, Susumu Ban, Chiho Yamasaki, Junko Fujino, Kazuto Ooura, Yukichi Abe, Ken-ichi Matsumoto, and Hideyoshi Yokosawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15615–15620. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401928101.
PMCID: PMC524827
Biophysics
AtTPK4, an Arabidopsis tandem-pore K+ channel, poised to control the pollen membrane voltage in a pH- and Ca2+-dependent manner
D. Becker, D. Geiger, M. Dunkel, A. Roller, A. Bertl, A. Latz, A. Carpaneto, P. Dietrich, M. R. G. Roelfsema, C. Voelker, D. Schmidt, B. Mueller-Roeber, K. Czempinski, and R. Hedrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15621–15626. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401502101.
PMCID: PMC524823
Crystal structures of actin-related protein 2/3 complex with bound ATP or ADP
Brad J. Nolen, Ryan S. Littlefield, and Thomas D. Pollard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15627–15632. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407149101.
PMCID: PMC524860
Crystal structure of the dimeric protein core of decorin, the archetypal small leucine-rich repeat proteoglycan
Paul G. Scott, Paul A. McEwan, Carole M. Dodd, Ernst M. Bergmann, Paul N. Bishop, and Jordi Bella
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15633–15638. Published online 2004 October 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402976101.
PMCID: PMC524833
Barrier-limited, microsecond folding of a stable protein measured with hydrogen exchange: Implications for downhill folding
W. Kevin Meisner and Tobin R. Sosnick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15639–15644. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404895101.
PMCID: PMC524831
Crystal structure of 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydratase: Radical catalysis involving a [4Fe–4S] cluster and flavin
Berta M. Martins, Holger Dobbek, Irfan Çinkaya, Wolfgang Buckel, and Albrecht Messerschmidt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15645–15649. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403952101.
PMCID: PMC524839
Cell Biology
Effect of torsinA on membrane proteins reveals a loss of function and a dominant-negative phenotype of the dystonia-associated ΔE-torsinA mutant
Gonzalo E. Torres, Ava L. Sweeney, Jean-Martin Beaulieu, Pullani Shashidharan, and Marc G. Caron
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15650–15655. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308088101.
PMCID: PMC524822
Developmental Biology
Nodal protein processing and fibroblast growth factor 4 synergize to maintain a trophoblast stem cell microenvironment
Marcela Guzman-Ayala, Nadav Ben-Haim, Séverine Beck, and Daniel B. Constam
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15656–15660. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405429101.
PMCID: PMC524845
Ecology
From the Cover:
Growth and hydraulic (not mechanical) constraints govern the scaling of tree height and mass
Karl J. Niklas and Hanns-Christof Spatz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15661–15663. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405857101.
PMCID: PMC524850
The relationship between regional and local species diversity in marine benthic communities: A global perspective
Jon D. Witman, Ron J. Etter, and Franz Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15664–15669. Published online 2004 October 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404300101.
PMCID: PMC524210
Evolution
Epistatic interaction between Arabidopsis FRI and FLC flowering time genes generates a latitudinal cline in a life history trait
Ana L. Caicedo, John R. Stinchcombe, Kenneth M. Olsen, Johanna Schmitt, and Michael D. Purugganan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15670–15675. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406232101.
PMCID: PMC524852
Genetics
A system for enhancing genome-wide coexpression dynamics study
Ker-Chau Li, Ching-Ti Liu, Wei Sun, Shinsheng Yuan, and Tianwei Yu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15561–15566. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402962101.
PMCID: PMC524832
Correction of ATM gene function by aminoglycoside-induced read-through of premature termination codons
Chih-Hung Lai, Helen H. Chun, Shareef A. Nahas, Midori Mitui, Kristin M. Gamo, Liutao Du, and Richard A. Gatti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15676–15681. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405155101.
PMCID: PMC524838
Combining biological networks to predict genetic interactions
Sharyl L. Wong, Lan V. Zhang, Amy H. Y. Tong, Zhijian Li, Debra S. Goldberg, Oliver D. King, Guillaume Lesage, Marc Vidal, Brenda Andrews, Howard Bussey, Charles Boone, and Frederick P. Roth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15682–15687. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406614101.
PMCID: PMC524818
Association of late-onset Alzheimer's disease with genetic variation in multiple members of the GAPD gene family
Yonghong Li, Petra Nowotny, Peter Holmans, Scott Smemo, John S. K. Kauwe, Anthony L. Hinrichs, Kristina Tacey, Lisa Doil, Ryan van Luchene, Veronica Garcia, Charles Rowland, Steve Schrodi, Diane Leong, Goran Gogic, Joanne Chan, Anibal Cravchik, David Ross, Kit Lau, Shirley Kwok, Sheng-Yung Chang, Joe Catanese, John Sninsky, Thomas J. White, John Hardy, John Powell, Simon Lovestone, John C. Morris, Leon Thal, Michael Owen, Julie Williams, Alison Goate, and Andrew Grupe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15688–15693. Published online 2004 October 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403535101.
PMCID: PMC524264
Formation of deletions during double-strand break repair in Drosophila DmBlm mutants occurs after strand invasion
Mitch McVey, Jeannine R. LaRocque, Melissa D. Adams, and Jeff J. Sekelsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15694–15699. Published online 2004 October 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406157101.
PMCID: PMC524851
Variation in sequence and organization of splicing regulatory elements in vertebrate genes
Gene Yeo, Shawn Hoon, Byrappa Venkatesh, and Christopher B. Burge
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15700–15705. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404901101.
PMCID: PMC524216
Immunology
Resolution of the novel immune-type receptor gene cluster in zebrafish
Jeffrey A. Yoder, Ronda T. Litman, M. Gail Mueller, Salil Desai, Kimberly P. Dobrinski, Jennifer S. Montgomery, Matthew P. Buzzeo, Tatsuya Ota, Chris T. Amemiya, Nikolaus S. Trede, Sheng Wei, Julie Y. Djeu, Sean Humphray, Kerstin Jekosch, Jose A. Hernandez Prada, David A. Ostrov, and Gary W. Litman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15706–15711. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405242101.
PMCID: PMC524843
The Ets-1 transcription factor is required for complete pre-T cell receptor function and allelic exclusion at the T cell receptor β locus
Stéphanie Eyquem, Karine Chemin, Magali Fasseu, and Jean-Christophe Bories
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15712–15717. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405546101.
PMCID: PMC524847
Medical Sciences
The gut microbiota as an environmental factor that regulates fat storage
Fredrik Bäckhed, Hao Ding, Ting Wang, Lora V. Hooper, Gou Young Koh, Andras Nagy, Clay F. Semenkovich, and Jeffrey I. Gordon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15718–15723. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407076101.
PMCID: PMC524219
Large-scale cDNA transfection screening for genes related to cancer development and progression
Dafang Wan, Yi Gong, Wenxin Qin, Pingping Zhang, Jinjun Li, Lin Wei, Xiaomei Zhou, Hongnian Li, Xiaokun Qiu, Fei Zhong, Liping He, Jian Yu, Genfu Yao, Huiqiu Jiang, Lianfang Qian, Ye Yu, Huiqun Shu, Xianlian Chen, Huili Xu, Minglei Guo, Zhimei Pan, Yan Chen, Chao Ge, Shengli Yang, and Jianren Gu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15724–15729. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404089101.
PMCID: PMC524842
Epstein–Barr virus-encoded LMP2A regulates viral and cellular gene expression by modulation of the NF-κB transcription factor pathway
Suzanne Stewart, Christopher W. Dawson, Kenzo Takada, John Curnow, Cary A. Moody, John W. Sixbey, and Lawrence S. Young
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15730–15735. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402135101.
PMCID: PMC524829
A β-oxidation-resistant lipoxin A4 analog treats hapten-induced colitis by attenuating inflammation and immune dysfunction
Stefano Fiorucci, John L. Wallace, Andrea Mencarelli, Eleonora Distrutti, Giovanni Rizzo, Silvana Farneti, Antonio Morelli, Jih-Lie Tseng, Babu Suramanyam, William J. Guilford, and John F. Parkinson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15736–15741. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404722101.
PMCID: PMC524215
Microbiology
Three distinct suppressors of RNA silencing encoded by a 20-kb viral RNA genome
Rui Lu, Alexey Folimonov, Michael Shintaku, Wan-Xiang Li, Bryce W. Falk, William O. Dawson, and Shou-Wei Ding
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15742–15747. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404940101.
PMCID: PMC524217
CD209L (L-SIGN) is a receptor for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
Scott A. Jeffers, Sonia M. Tusell, Laura Gillim-Ross, Erin M. Hemmila, Jenna E. Achenbach, Gregory J. Babcock, William D. Thomas, Jr., Larissa B. Thackray, Mark D. Young, Robert J. Mason, Donna M. Ambrosino, David E. Wentworth, James C. DeMartini, and Kathryn V. Holmes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15748–15753. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403812101.
PMCID: PMC524836
Conserved residues in the Plasmodium vivax Duffy-binding protein ligand domain are critical for erythrocyte receptor recognition
Kelley M. VanBuskirk, Elitza Sevova, and John H. Adams
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15754–15759. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405421101.
PMCID: PMC524844
A biochemical oscillator explains several aspects of Myxococcus xanthus behavior during development
Oleg A. Igoshin, Albert Goldbeter, Dale Kaiser, and George Oster
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15760–15765. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407111101.
PMCID: PMC524859
Neuroscience
Convergence of excitatory and inhibitory hair cell transmitters shapes vestibular afferent responses
Gay R. Holstein, Richard D. Rabbitt, Giorgio P. Martinelli, Victor L. Friedrich, Jr., Richard D. Boyle, and Stephen M. Highstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15766–15771. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402824101.
PMCID: PMC524830
Facile isolation and the characterization of human retinal stem cells
Brenda L. K. Coles, Brigitte Angénieux, Tomoyuki Inoue, Katia Del Rio-Tsonis, Jason R. Spence, Roderick R. McInnes, Yvan Arsenijevic, and Derek van der Kooy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15772–15777. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401596101.
PMCID: PMC524825
Organization of a primitive memory: Olfaction
P.-G. de Gennes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15778–15781. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403868101.
PMCID: PMC524837
Modulation of dendritic differentiation by corticotropin-releasing factor in the developing hippocampus
Yuncai Chen, Roland A. Bender, Kristen L. Brunson, Jörn K. Pomper, Dimitri E. Grigoriadis, Wolfgang Wurst, and Tallie Z. Baram
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15782–15787. Published online 2004 October 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403975101.
PMCID: PMC524840
Induction of long-term potentiation and depression is reflected by corresponding changes in secretion of endogenous brain-derived neurotrophic factor
Giorgio Aicardi, Emanuela Argilli, Silvia Cappello, Spartaco Santi, Massimo Riccio, Hans Thoenen, and Marco Canossa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15788–15792. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406960101.
PMCID: PMC524856
Physiology
Conformational activation of Ca2+ entry by depolarization of skeletal myotubes
Gennady Cherednichenko, Alanna M. Hurne, James D. Fessenden, Eun Hui Lee, Paul D. Allen, Kurt G. Beam, and Isaac N. Pessah
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15793–15798. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403485101.
PMCID: PMC524834
Role of proneuregulin 1 cleavage and human epidermal growth factor receptor activation in hypertonic aquaporin induction
Andreas Herrlich, Virginia Leitch, and Landon S. King
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15799–15804. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406853101.
PMCID: PMC524821
Plant Biology
Expression of antiapoptotic genes bcl-xL and ced-9 in tomato enhances tolerance to viral-induced necrosis and abiotic stress
Ping Xu, Stephanie J. Rogers, and Marilyn J. Roossinck
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15805–15810. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407094101.
PMCID: PMC524858
From the Cover:
Innate immunity in Arabidopsis thaliana: Lipopolysaccharides activate nitric oxide synthase (NOS) and induce defense genes
Dana Zeidler, Ulrich Zähringer, Isak Gerber, Ian Dubery, Thomas Hartung, Wolf Bors, Peter Hutzler, and Jörg Durner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15811–15816. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404536101.
PMCID: PMC524824
Integration of reproductive meristem fates by a SEPALLATA-like MADS-box gene
Anne Uimari, Mika Kotilainen, Paula Elomaa, Deyue Yu, Victor A. Albert, and Teemu H. Teeri
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15817–15822. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406844101.
PMCID: PMC524820
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15823. Published online 2004 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401727101.
PMCID: PMC524826
Corrects: D. N. Angelov, et al. Therapeutic vaccine for acute and chronic motor neuron diseases: Implications for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 April 15; 100(8): 4790–4795.
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