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Volume 99(25);  December 10, 2002
Commentaries
The jaundice of the cell
David A. Greenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15837–15839. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.012685199.
PMCID: PMC138521
T cells take aim at cancer
Drew Pardoll
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15840–15842. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.262669499.
PMCID: PMC138522
Plant cell adhesion: A bioassay facilitates discovery of the first pectin biosynthetic gene
Elizabeth M. Lord and Jean-Claude Mollet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15843–15845. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.012685099.
PMCID: PMC138523
Surfing on protein folding energy landscapes
Joost W. H. Schymkowitz, Frederic Rousseau, and Luis Serrano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15846–15848. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.012686599.
PMCID: PMC138524
The geometry of phenotypic evolution in developmental hyperspace
Jason B. Wolf
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15849–15851. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.012686699.
PMCID: PMC138525
Biological skeletal carbonate records changes in major-ion chemistry of paleo-oceans
Isabel P. Montañez
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15852–15854. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.262659599.
PMCID: PMC138526
Mitotic chromosome scaffold structure: New approaches to an old controversy
Andrew S. Belmont
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15855–15857. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.262672799.
PMCID: PMC138527
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
The acquisition of multidimensional NMR spectra within a single scan
Lucio Frydman, Tali Scherf, and Adonis Lupulescu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15858–15862. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252644399.
PMCID: PMC138528
Secondary and tertiary structures of gaseous protein ions characterized by electron capture dissociation mass spectrometry and photofragment spectroscopy
HanBin Oh, Kathrin Breuker, Siu Kwan Sze, Ying Ge, Barry K. Carpenter, and Fred W. McLafferty
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15863–15868. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212643599.
PMCID: PMC138529
Computer Sciences
A self-organizing principle for learning nonlinear manifolds
Dimitris K. Agrafiotis and Huafeng Xu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15869–15872. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242424399.
PMCID: PMC138530
Geophysics
Surface crystallization of supercooled water in clouds
A. Tabazadeh, Y. S. Djikaev, and H. Reiss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15873–15878. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252640699.
PMCID: PMC138531
Mathematics
The average distances in random graphs with given expected degrees
Fan Chung and Linyuan Lu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15879–15882. Published online 2002 December 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252631999.
PMCID: PMC138532
Sets meeting isometric copies of the lattice Z2 in exactly one point
Steve Jackson and R. Daniel Mauldin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15883–15887. Published online 2002 December 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222551699.
PMCID: PMC138533
The Brownian Web
L. R. G. Fontes, M. Isopi, C. M. Newman, and K. Ravishankar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15888–15893. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252619099.
PMCID: PMC138534
Physics
Information optimization in coupled audio-visual cortical maps
Mehran Kardar and A. Zee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15894–15897. Published online 2002 November 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252472699.
PMCID: PMC138535
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
Trehalose accumulation in rice plants confers high tolerance levels to different abiotic stresses
Ajay K. Garg, Ju-Kon Kim, Thomas G. Owens, Anil P. Ranwala, Yang Do Choi, Leon V. Kochian, and Ray J. Wu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15898–15903. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252637799.
PMCID: PMC138536
Air pollution induces heritable DNA mutations
Christopher M. Somers, Carole L. Yauk, Paul A. White, Craig L. J. Parfett, and James S. Quinn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15904–15907. Published online 2002 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252499499.
PMCID: PMC138537
Biochemistry
An mRNA structure that controls gene expression by binding FMN
Wade C. Winkler, Smadar Cohen-Chalamish, and Ronald R. Breaker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15908–15913. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212628899.
PMCID: PMC138538
Functional complementation of yeast cytosolic pyrophosphatase by bacterial and plant H+-translocating pyrophosphatases
José R. Pérez-Castiñeira, Rosa L. López-Marqués, José M. Villalba, Manuel Losada, and Aurelio Serrano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15914–15919. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242625399.
PMCID: PMC138539
Control of PERK eIF2α kinase activity by the endoplasmic reticulum stress-induced molecular chaperone P58IPK
Wei Yan, Christopher L. Frank, Marcus J. Korth, Bryce L. Sopher, Isabel Novoa, David Ron, and Michael G. Katze
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15920–15925. Published online 2002 November 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252341799.
PMCID: PMC138540
Combining computational and experimental screening for rapid optimization of protein properties
Robert J. Hayes, Jörg Bentzien, Marie L. Ary, Marian Y. Hwang, Jonathan M. Jacinto, Jost Vielmetter, Anirban Kundu, and Bassil I. Dahiyat
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15926–15931. Published online 2002 November 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212627499.
PMCID: PMC138541
Selenosugars are key and urinary metabolites for selenium excretion within the required to low-toxic range
Yayoi Kobayashi, Yasumitsu Ogra, Kazuya Ishiwata, Hiromitsu Takayama, Norio Aimi, and Kazuo T. Suzuki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15932–15936. Published online 2002 November 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252610699.
PMCID: PMC138542
A putative molecular-activation switch in the transmembrane domain of erbB2
Sarel J. Fleishman, Joseph Schlessinger, and Nir Ben-Tal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15937–15940. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252640799.
PMCID: PMC138543
Nitrolinoleate, a nitric oxide-derived mediator of cell function: Synthesis, characterization, and vasomotor activity
Dong Gun Lim, Scott Sweeney, Allison Bloodsworth, C. Roger White, Phillip H. Chumley, N. Rama Krishna, Francisco Schopfer, Valerie B. O'Donnell, Jason P. Eiserich, and Bruce A. Freeman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15941–15946. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232409599.
PMCID: PMC138544
Murine apolipoprotein serum amyloid A in solution forms a hexamer containing a central channel
Limin Wang, Hilal A. Lashuel, Thomas Walz, and Wilfredo Colón
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15947–15952. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252508399.
PMCID: PMC138545
Artificial human telomeres from DNA nanocircle templates
Ulf M. Lindström, Ravi A. Chandrasekaran, Lucian Orbai, Sandra A. Helquist, Gregory P. Miller, Emin Oroudjev, Helen G. Hansma, and Eric T. Kool
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15953–15958. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252396199.
PMCID: PMC138546
Structure of the extracellular domains of the human interleukin-6 receptor α-chain
J. N. Varghese, R. L. Moritz, M.-Z. Lou, A. van Donkelaar, H. Ji, N. Ivancic, K. M. Branson, N. E. Hall, and R. J. Simpson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15959–15964. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232432399.
PMCID: PMC138547
Crystal structure of a DNA decamer containing a cis-syn thymine dimer
HaJeung Park, Kaijiang Zhang, Yingjie Ren, Sourena Nadji, Nanda Sinha, John-Stephen Taylor, and ChulHee Kang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15965–15970. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242422699.
PMCID: PMC138548
Catalysis at a dinuclear [CuSMo(An external file that holds a picture, illustration, etc., usually as some form of binary object. The name of referred object is dbnd.jpgO)OH] cluster in a CO dehydrogenase resolved at 1.1-Å resolution
Holger Dobbek, Lothar Gremer, Reiner Kiefersauer, Robert Huber, and Ortwin Meyer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15971–15976. Published online 2002 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212640899.
PMCID: PMC138549
Homology modeling of the cation binding sites of Na+K+-ATPase
Haruo Ogawa and Chikashi Toyoshima
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15977–15982. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.202622299.
PMCID: PMC138550
AMP kinase is required for mitochondrial biogenesis in skeletal muscle in response to chronic energy deprivation
Haihong Zong, Jian Ming Ren, Lawrence H. Young, Marc Pypaert, James Mu, Morris J. Birnbaum, and Gerald I. Shulman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15983–15987. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252625599.
PMCID: PMC138551
Identification of specific HIV-1 reverse transcriptase contacts to the viral RNA:tRNA complex by mass spectrometry and a primary amine selective reagent
Mamuka Kvaratskhelia, Jennifer T. Miller, Scott R. Budihas, Lewis K. Pannell, and Stuart F. J. Le Grice
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15988–15993. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252550199.
PMCID: PMC138552
Studies on the function of oligosaccharyl transferase subunits: A glycosylatable photoprobe binds to the luminal domain of Ost1p
Qi Yan and William J. Lennarz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 15994–15999. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212637999.
PMCID: PMC138553
Role of human DNA polymerase κ as an extender in translesion synthesis
Lajos Haracska, Louise Prakash, and Satya Prakash
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16000–16005. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252524999.
PMCID: PMC138554
The 2B domain of the Escherichia coli Rep protein is not required for DNA helicase activity
Wei Cheng, Katherine M. Brendza, George H. Gauss, Sergey Korolev, Gabriel Waksman, and Timothy M. Lohman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16006–16011. Published online 2002 November 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242479399.
PMCID: PMC138555
Biophysics
Single pilus motor forces exceed 100 pN
Berenike Maier, Laura Potter, Magdalene So, Hank S. Seifert, and Michael P. Sheetz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16012–16017. Published online 2002 November 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242523299.
PMCID: PMC138556
Scanning surface confocal microscopy for simultaneous topographical and fluorescence imaging: Application to single virus-like particle entry into a cell
J. Gorelik, A. Shevchuk, M. Ramalho, M. Elliott, C. Lei, C. F. Higgins, Max J. Lab, D. Klenerman, N. Krauzewicz, and Y. Korchev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16018–16023. Published online 2002 December 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252458399.
PMCID: PMC138557
Guiding neuronal growth with light
A. Ehrlicher, T. Betz, B. Stuhrmann, D. Koch, V. Milner, M. G. Raizen, and J. Käs
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16024–16028. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252631899.
PMCID: PMC138558
Consensus-derived structural determinants of the ankyrin repeat motif
Leila K. Mosavi, Daniel L. Minor, Jr., and Zheng-yu Peng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16029–16034. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252537899.
PMCID: PMC138559
From the Cover:
Large-scale molecular dynamics simulations of general anesthetic effects on the ion channel in the fully hydrated membrane: The implication of molecular mechanisms of general anesthesia
Pei Tang and Yan Xu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16035–16040. Published online 2002 November 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252522299.
PMCID: PMC138560
The directional atomic solvation energy: An atom-based potential for the assignment of protein sequences to known folds
Parag Mallick, Robert Weiss, and David Eisenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16041–16046. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252626399.
PMCID: PMC138561
Slaving: Solvent fluctuations dominate protein dynamics and functions
P. W. Fenimore, H. Frauenfelder, B. H. McMahon, and F. G. Parak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16047–16051. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212637899.
PMCID: PMC138562
De novo designed peptide-based amyloid fibrils
Manuela López de la Paz, Kenneth Goldie, Jesús Zurdo, Emmanuel Lacroix, Christopher M. Dobson, Andreas Hoenger, and Luis Serrano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16052–16057. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252340199.
PMCID: PMC138563
From the Cover:
Coordination of kinesin's two heads studied with mutant heterodimers
Kuniyoshi Kaseda, Hideo Higuchi, and Keiko Hirose
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16058–16063. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252409199.
PMCID: PMC138564
From the Cover:
Probing the folding free energy landscape of the src-SH3 protein domain
Joan-Emma Shea, José N. Onuchic, and Charles L. Brooks, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16064–16068. Published online 2002 November 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242293099.
PMCID: PMC138565
Cell Biology
Molecular characterization of lymphatic endothelial cells
Simona Podgrabinska, Pascal Braun, Paula Velasco, Bryan Kloos, Michael S. Pepper, David G. Jackson, and Mihaela Skobe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16069–16074. Published online 2002 November 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242401399.
PMCID: PMC138566
Complex interactions between the laminin α4 subunit and integrins regulate endothelial cell behavior in vitro and angiogenesis in vivo
Annette M. Gonzalez, Meredith Gonzales, G. Scott Herron, Usha Nagavarapu, Susan B. Hopkinson, Daisuke Tsuruta, and Jonathan C. R. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16075–16080. Published online 2002 November 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252649399.
PMCID: PMC138567
Distinct RNA motifs are important for coactivation of steroid hormone receptors by steroid receptor RNA activator (SRA)
Rainer B. Lanz, Bahram Razani, Aaron D. Goldberg, and Bert W. O'Malley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16081–16086. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192571399.
PMCID: PMC138568
An N-terminal domain of Dbf4p mediates interaction with both origin recognition complex (ORC) and Rad53p and can deregulate late origin firing
Bernard P. Duncker, Kenji Shimada, Monika Tsai-Pflugfelder, Philippe Pasero, and Susan M. Gasser
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16087–16092. Published online 2002 November 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252093999.
PMCID: PMC138569
From the Cover:
Biliverdin reductase: A major physiologic cytoprotectant
David E. Barañano, Mahil Rao, Christopher D. Ferris, and Solomon H. Snyder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16093–16098. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252626999.
PMCID: PMC138570
The autosomal recessive hypercholesterolemia (ARH) protein interfaces directly with the clathrin-coat machinery
Sanjay K. Mishra, Simon C. Watkins, and Linton M. Traub
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16099–16104. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252630799.
PMCID: PMC138571
Developmental Biology
Growth inhibitors promote differentiation of insulin-producing tissue from embryonic stem cells
Yuichi Hori, Ingrid C. Rulifson, Bernette C. Tsai, Jeremy J. Heit, John D. Cahoy, and Seung K. Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16105–16110. Published online 2002 November 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252618999.
PMCID: PMC138572
Retinaldehyde dehydrogenase 2 (RALDH2)- independent patterns of retinoic acid synthesis in the mouse embryo
Karen Niederreither, Julien Vermot, Valérie Fraulob, Pierre Chambon, and Pascal Dollé
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16111–16116. Published online 2002 November 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252626599.
PMCID: PMC138573
Ecology
Persistent millennial-scale shifts in moisture regimes in western Canada during the past six millennia
Brian F. Cumming, Kathleen R. Laird, Joseph R. Bennett, John P. Smol, and Anne K. Salomon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16117–16121. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252603099.
PMCID: PMC138574
Evolution
Conflict between nuclear and mitochondrial DNA phylogenies of a recent species radiation: What mtDNA reveals and conceals about modes of speciation in Hawaiian crickets
Kerry L. Shaw
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16122–16127. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242585899.
PMCID: PMC138575
Large-scale comparison of intron positions among animal, plant, and fungal genes
Alexei Fedorov, Amir Feisal Merican, and Walter Gilbert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16128–16133. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242624899.
PMCID: PMC138576
Near-neutrality in evolution of genes and gene regulation
Tomoko Ohta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16134–16137. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252626899.
PMCID: PMC138577
Overcredibility of molecular phylogenies obtained by Bayesian phylogenetics
Yoshiyuki Suzuki, Galina V. Glazko, and Masatoshi Nei
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16138–16143. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212646199.
PMCID: PMC138578
Genetics
Characteristic genome rearrangements in experimental evolution of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Maitreya J. Dunham, Hassan Badrane, Tracy Ferea, Julian Adams, Patrick O. Brown, Frank Rosenzweig, and David Botstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16144–16149. Published online 2002 November 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242624799.
PMCID: PMC138579
Penelope retroelements from Drosophila virilis are active after transformation of Drosophila melanogaster
Konstantin I. Pyatkov, Natalia G. Shostak, Elena S. Zelentsova, George T. Lyozin, Michael I. Melekhin, David J. Finnegan, Margaret G. Kidwell, and Michael B. Evgen'ev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16150–16155. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252641799.
PMCID: PMC138580
Digital karyotyping
Tian-Li Wang, Christine Maierhofer, Michael R. Speicher, Christoph Lengauer, Bert Vogelstein, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Victor E. Velculescu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16156–16161. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.202610899.
PMCID: PMC138581
RNA interference-mediated silencing of Sod2 in Drosophila leads to early adult-onset mortality and elevated endogenous oxidative stress
Kim Kirby, Jianguo Hu, Arthur J. Hilliker, and John P. Phillips
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16162–16167. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252342899.
PMCID: PMC138582
Immunology
Adoptive T cell therapy using antigen-specific CD8+ T cell clones for the treatment of patients with metastatic melanoma: In vivo persistence, migration, and antitumor effect of transferred T cells
C. Yee, J. A. Thompson, D. Byrd, S. R. Riddell, P. Roche, E. Celis, and P. D. Greenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16168–16173. Published online 2002 November 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242600099.
PMCID: PMC138583
Nonlymphoid Fas ligand in peptide-induced peripheral lymphocyte deletion
Michael J. Pinkoski, Nathalie M. Droin, Tesu Lin, Laurent Genestier, Thomas A. Ferguson, and Douglas R. Green
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16174–16179. Published online 2002 November 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.262660999.
PMCID: PMC138584
Disulfide bond-mediated dimerization of HLA-G on the cell surface
Jonathan E. Boyson, Robert Erskine, Mary C. Whitman, Michael Chiu, Julie M. Lau, Louise A. Koopman, Markus M. Valter, Pavla Angelisova, Václav Horejsí, and Jack L. Strominger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16180–16185. Published online 2002 November 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212643199.
PMCID: PMC138585
Medical Sciences
Nitric oxide preferentially induces type 1 T cell differentiation by selectively up-regulating IL-12 receptor β2 expression via cGMP
Wanda Niedbala, Xiao-qing Wei, Carol Campbell, Duncan Thomson, Mousa Komai-Koma, and Foo Y. Liew
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16186–16191. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252464599.
PMCID: PMC138586
Magnetic resonance microimaging of intraaxonal water diffusion in live excised lamprey spinal cord
Masaya Takahashi, David B. Hackney, Guixin Zhang, Suzanne L. Wehrli, Alex C. Wright, William T. O'Brien, Hidemasa Uematsu, Felix W. Wehrli, and Michael E. Selzer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16192–16196. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252249999.
PMCID: PMC138587
Ventricular septal defect and cardiomyopathy in mice lacking the transcription factor CHF1/Hey2
Yasuhiko Sakata, Caramai N. Kamei, Hironori Nakagami, Roderick Bronson, James K. Liao, and Michael T. Chin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16197–16202. Published online 2002 November 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252648999.
PMCID: PMC138588
Phospholipase A2 group IIA expression in gastric adenocarcinoma is associated with prolonged survival and less frequent metastasis
Suet Y. Leung, Xin Chen, Kent M. Chu, Siu T. Yuen, Jonathan Mathy, Jiafu Ji, Annie S. Y. Chan, Rui Li, Simon Law, Olga G. Troyanskaya, I-Ping Tu, John Wong, Samuel So, David Botstein, and Patrick O. Brown
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16203–16208. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212646299.
PMCID: PMC138589
STAT1 deficiency unexpectedly and markedly exacerbates the pathophysiological actions of IFN-α in the central nervous system
Jianping Wang, Robert D. Schreiber, and Iain L. Campbell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16209–16214. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252454799.
PMCID: PMC138590
Loci on chromosomes 14 and 2, distinct from ABCG5/ABCG8, regulate plasma plant sterol levels in a C57BL/6J × CASA/Rk intercross
Ephraim Sehayek, Elizabeth M. Duncan, Dieter Lutjohann, Klaus von Bergmann, Jennie G. Ono, Ashok K. Batta, Gerald Salen, and Jan L. Breslow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16215–16219. Published online 2002 November 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212640599.
PMCID: PMC138591
Preferential induction of apoptosis for primary human leukemic stem cells
Monica L. Guzman, Carol F. Swiderski, Dianna S. Howard, Barry A. Grimes, Randall M. Rossi, Stephen J. Szilvassy, and Craig T. Jordan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16220–16225. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252462599.
PMCID: PMC138592
The role of chromosomal instability in tumor initiation
Martin A. Nowak, Natalia L. Komarova, Anirvan Sengupta, Prasad V. Jallepalli, Ie-Ming Shih, Bert Vogelstein, and Christoph Lengauer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16226–16231. Published online 2002 November 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.202617399.
PMCID: PMC138593
Immunization and immunotherapy for cancers involving infection by a human papillomavirus in a mouse model
Jin Li, Ying Sun, and Alan Garen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16232–16236. Published online 2002 November 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192581299.
PMCID: PMC138594
Disruption of Abcg5 and Abcg8 in mice reveals their crucial role in biliary cholesterol secretion
Liqing Yu, Robert E. Hammer, Jia Li-Hawkins, Klaus von Bergmann, Dieter Lutjohann, Jonathan C. Cohen, and Helen H. Hobbs
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16237–16242. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252582399.
PMCID: PMC138595
Microbiology
The membrane protein FeoB contains an intramolecular G protein essential for Fe(II) uptake in bacteria
Thomas C. Marlovits, Winfried Haase, Christian Herrmann, Stephen G. Aller, and Vinzenz M. Unger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16243–16248. Published online 2002 November 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242338299.
PMCID: PMC138596
Sensitivity of HIV-1 to entry inhibitors correlates with envelope/coreceptor affinity, receptor density, and fusion kinetics
Jacqueline D. Reeves, Stephen A. Gallo, Navid Ahmad, John L. Miamidian, Phoebe E. Harvey, Matthew Sharron, Stefan Pöhlmann, Jeffrey N. Sfakianos, Cynthia A. Derdeyn, Robert Blumenthal, Eric Hunter, and Robert W. Doms
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16249–16254. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252469399.
PMCID: PMC138597
Human cytomegalovirus gene expression during infection of primary hematopoietic progenitor cells: A model for latency
Felicia D. Goodrum, Craig T. Jordan, Kevin High, and Thomas Shenk
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16255–16260. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252630899.
PMCID: PMC138598
Neuroscience
The spatial receptive field of thalamic inputs to single cortical simple cells revealed by the interaction of visual and electrical stimulation
Prakash Kara, John S. Pezaris, Sergey Yurgenson, and R. Clay Reid
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16261–16266. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242625499.
PMCID: PMC138599
Monitoring of implanted stem cell migration in vivo: A highly resolved in vivo magnetic resonance imaging investigation of experimental stroke in rat
Mathias Hoehn, Ekkehard Küstermann, James Blunk, Dirk Wiedermann, Thorsten Trapp, Stefan Wecker, Melanie Föcking, Heinz Arnold, Jürgen Hescheler, Bernd K. Fleischmann, Wolfram Schwindt, and Christian Bührle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16267–16272. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242435499.
PMCID: PMC138600
Differential modulation of BMP signaling promotes the elaboration of cerebral cortical GABAergic neurons or oligodendrocytes from a common sonic hedgehog-responsive ventral forebrain progenitor species
Shau-Yu Yung, Solen Gokhan, Jennifer Jurcsak, Aldrin E. Molero, Joseph J. Abrajano, and Mark F. Mehler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16273–16278. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232586699.
PMCID: PMC138601
Memory-specific temporal profiles of gene expression in the hippocampus
Sebastiano Cavallaro, Velia D'Agata, Pachiappan Manickam, Franck Dufour, and Daniel L. Alkon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16279–16284. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242597199.
PMCID: PMC138602
Prion and doppel proteins bind to granule cells of the cerebellum
Giuseppe Legname, Peter Nelken, Zhengyu Guan, Zoltan F. Kanyo, Stephen J. DeArmond, and Stanley B. Prusiner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16285–16290. Published online 2002 November 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242611999.
PMCID: PMC138603
Hypothalamic gene expression in reproductively photoresponsive and photorefractory Siberian hamsters
Brian J. Prendergast, Bedrich Mosinger, Jr., Pappachan E. Kolattukudy, and Randy J. Nelson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16291–16296. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232490799.
PMCID: PMC138604
Molecular basis of cell migration in the fish lateral line: Role of the chemokine receptor CXCR4 and of its ligand, SDF1
Nicolas B. David, Dora Sapède, Laure Saint-Etienne, Christine Thisse, Bernard Thisse, Christine Dambly-Chaudière, Frédéric M. Rosa, and Alain Ghysen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16297–16302. Published online 2002 November 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252339399.
PMCID: PMC138605
Therapeutic intervention in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis by administration of uric acid precursors
Gwen S. Scott, Sergei V. Spitsin, Rhonda B. Kean, Tatiana Mikheeva, Hilary Koprowski, and D. Craig Hooper
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16303–16308. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212645999.
PMCID: PMC138606
Physiology
Enhanced muscle fat oxidation and glucose transport by ACRP30 globular domain: Acetyl–CoA carboxylase inhibition and AMP-activated protein kinase activation
Eva Tomas, Tsu-Shuen Tsao, Asish K. Saha, Heather E. Murrey, Cheng cheng Zhang, Samar I. Itani, Harvey F. Lodish, and Neil B. Ruderman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16309–16313. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222657499.
PMCID: PMC138607
Plant Biology
A new role for an old enzyme: Nitrate reductase-mediated nitric oxide generation is required for abscisic acid-induced stomatal closure in Arabidopsis thaliana
Radhika Desikan, Rachael Griffiths, John Hancock, and Steven Neill
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16314–16318. Published online 2002 November 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252461999.
PMCID: PMC138608
From the Cover:
A pectin glucuronyltransferase gene is essential for intercellular attachment in the plant meristem
Hiroaki Iwai, Nobutaka Masaoka, Tadashi Ishii, and Shinobu Satoh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16319–16324. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252530499.
PMCID: PMC138609
Transgenic barley grain overexpressing thioredoxin shows evidence that the starchy endosperm communicates with the embryo and the aleurone
Joshua H. Wong, Yong-Bum Kim, Pei-Hsien Ren, Nick Cai, Myeong-Je Cho, Peter Hedden, Peggy G. Lemaux, and Bob B. Buchanan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16325–16330. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212641999.
PMCID: PMC138610
In vitro reconstitution of the activated zeaxanthin state associated with energy dissipation in plants
Mark Aspinall-O'Dea, Mark Wentworth, Andy Pascal, Bruno Robert, Alexander Ruban, and Peter Horton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16331–16335. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252500999.
PMCID: PMC138611
AGAMOUS-LIKE 24, a dosage-dependent mediator of the flowering signals
Hao Yu, Yifeng Xu, Ee Ling Tan, and Prakash P. Kumar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16336–16341. Published online 2002 November 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212624599.
PMCID: PMC138612
A subclass of plant heat shock cognate 70 chaperones carries a motif that facilitates trafficking through plasmodesmata
Koh Aoki, Friedrich Kragler, Beatriz Xoconostle-Cázares, and William J. Lucas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16342–16347. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252427999.
PMCID: PMC138613
Population Biology
Mosaic organization and heterogeneity in frequency of allelic recombination of the Plasmodium vivax merozoite surface protein-1 locus
Chaturong Putaporntip, Somchai Jongwutiwes, Naoko Sakihama, Marcelo U. Ferreira, Weon-Gyu Kho, Akira Kaneko, Hiroji Kanbara, Tetsuya Hattori, and Kazuyuki Tanabe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16348–16353. Published online 2002 December 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252348999.
PMCID: PMC138614
Psychology (Biological Sciences)
Dissociation between conflict detection and error monitoring in the human anterior cingulate cortex
Diane Swick and And U. Turken
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16354–16359. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252521499.
PMCID: PMC138615
Social Sciences
Anthropology
African rice (Oryza glaberrima): History and future potential
Olga F. Linares
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16360–16365. Published online 2002 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252604599.
PMCID: PMC138616
Psychology
Attentional mechanisms of borderline personality disorder
Michael I. Posner, Mary K. Rothbart, Nathalie Vizueta, Kenneth N. Levy, David E. Evans, Kathleen M. Thomas, and John F. Clarkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16366–16370. Published online 2002 November 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252644699.
PMCID: PMC138617
Visual detection is gated by attending for action: Evidence from hemispatial neglect
Robert Rafal, Shai Danziger, Giordana Grossi, Liana Machado, and Robert Ward
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16371–16375. Published online 2002 November 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252309099.
PMCID: PMC138618
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 December 10; 99(25): 16376. Published online 2002 November 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.252641499.
PMCID: PMC138520
Corrects: F. Kent Hamra, et al. Production of transgenic rats by lentiviral transduction of male germ-line stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14931–14936.
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