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Volume 102(18);  May 3, 2005
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6239–6240. doi: 10.1073/iti1805102.
PMCID: PMC1088397
Editorial
How and why to publish in PNAS
Alan Fersht
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6241–6242. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502713102.
PMCID: PMC1088396
Commentary
Recruiting dendritic cells to improve antibody therapy of cancer
Kavita M. Dhodapkar and Madhav V. Dhodapkar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6243–6244. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502547102.
PMCID: PMC1088395
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
A coherent framework for multiresolution analysis of biological networks with “memory”: Ras pathway, cell cycle, and immune system
Paolo Emilio Barbano, Marina Spivak, Jiawu Feng, Marco Antoniotti, and Bud Mishra
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6245–6250. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500554102.
PMCID: PMC1088370
Chemistry
The question of C- vs. O-silylation of ketenes: Electrophilic triethylsilylation of diphenylketene
G. K. Surya Prakash, Chulsung Bae, Golam Rasul, and George A. Olah
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6251–6254. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501813102.
PMCID: PMC1088379
From the Cover:
The retinal chromophore/chloride ion pair: Structure of the photoisomerization path and interplay of charge transfer and covalent states
Alessandro Cembran, Fernando Bernardi, Massimo Olivucci, and Marco Garavelli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6255–6260. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408723102.
PMCID: PMC1088357
Applied Mathematics
Using independent open-to-closed transitions to simplify aggregated Markov models of ion channel gating kinetics
William J. Bruno, Jin Yang, and John E. Pearson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6326–6331. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409110102.
PMCID: PMC1088360
Biological Sciences
From the Cover:
The retinal chromophore/chloride ion pair: Structure of the photoisomerization path and interplay of charge transfer and covalent states
Alessandro Cembran, Fernando Bernardi, Massimo Olivucci, and Marco Garavelli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6255–6260. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408723102.
PMCID: PMC1088357
Agricultural Sciences
Meat and milk compositions of bovine clones
X. Cindy Tian, Chikara Kubota, Kunihito Sakashita, Yoshiaki Izaike, Ryoichi Okano, Norio Tabara, Carol Curchoe, Lavina Jacob, Yuqin Zhang, Sadie Smith, Charles Bormann, Jie Xu, Masumi Sato, Sheila Andrew, and Xiangzhong Yang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6261–6266. Published online 2005 April 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500140102.
PMCID: PMC1088367
Biochemistry
E1A and a nuclear receptor corepressor splice variant (N-CoRI) are thyroid hormone receptor coactivators that bind in the corepressor mode
Xianwang Meng, Paul Webb, Yong-Fan Yang, Michael Shuen, Ahmed F. Yousef, John D. Baxter, Joe S. Mymryk, and Paul G. Walfish
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6267–6272. Published online 2005 April 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501491102.
PMCID: PMC1088377
A positive feedback vector for identification of nucleotide sequences that enhance translation
Wei Zhou, Gerald M. Edelman, and Vincent P. Mauro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6273–6278. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409892102.
PMCID: PMC1088366
β-TrCP recognizes a previously undescribed nonphosphorylated destruction motif in Cdc25A and Cdc25B phosphatases
Yoshinori Kanemori, Katsuhiro Uto, and Noriyuki Sagata
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6279–6284. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501873102.
PMCID: PMC1083676
Phosphorylation of a UDP-glucuronosyltransferase regulates substrate specificity
Nikhil K. Basu, Martina Kovarova, Amanda Garza, Shigeki Kubota, Tapas Saha, Partha S. Mitra, Rajat Banerjee, Juan Rivera, and Ida S. Owens
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6285–6290. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407872102.
PMCID: PMC1088353
Genes required for rapid expression of nitrogenase activity in Azotobacter vinelandii
Leonardo Curatti, Carolyn S. Brown, Paul W. Ludden, and Luis M. Rubio
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6291–6296. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501216102.
PMCID: PMC1088376
Raft lipids as common components of human extracellular amyloid fibrils
Gerald P. Gellermann, Thomas R. Appel, Astrid Tannert, Anja Radestock, Peter Hortschansky, Volker Schroeckh, Christian Leisner, Tim Lütkepohl, Shmuel Shtrasburg, Christoph Röcken, Mordechai Pras, Reinhold P. Linke, Stephan Diekmann, and Marcus Fändrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6297–6302. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407035102.
PMCID: PMC1088351
Biophysics
A rhodopsin exhibiting binding ability to agonist all-trans-retinal
Hisao Tsukamoto, Akihisa Terakita, and Yoshinori Shichida
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6303–6308. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500378102.
PMCID: PMC1088369
A folding-dependent mechanism of antimicrobial peptide resistance to degradation unveiled by solution structure of distinctin
Domenico Raimondo, Giuseppina Andreotti, Nathalie Saint, Pietro Amodeo, Giovanni Renzone, Marina Sanseverino, Ivana Zocchi, Gerard Molle, Andrea Motta, and Andrea Scaloni
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6309–6314. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409004102.
PMCID: PMC1088359
Early events in the folding of four-helix-bundle heme proteins
Jasmin Faraone-Mennella, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6315–6319. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502301102.
PMCID: PMC1088390
Crosslinking a lipid raft component triggers liquid ordered-liquid disordered phase separation in model plasma membranes
A. T. Hammond, F. A. Heberle, T. Baumgart, D. Holowka, B. Baird, and G. W. Feigenson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6320–6325. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405654102.
PMCID: PMC1088350
Using independent open-to-closed transitions to simplify aggregated Markov models of ion channel gating kinetics
William J. Bruno, Jin Yang, and John E. Pearson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6326–6331. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409110102.
PMCID: PMC1088360
From the Cover:
Evaluating putative mechanisms of the mitotic spindle checkpoint
Andreas Doncic, Eshel Ben-Jacob, and Naama Barkai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6332–6337. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409142102.
PMCID: PMC1088361
Cell Biology
Localized glucose and water influx facilitates Cryptosporidium parvum cellular invasion by means of modulation of host-cell membrane protrusion
Xian-Ming Chen, Steven P. O'Hara, Bing Q. Huang, Patrick L. Splinter, Jeremy B. Nelson, and Nicholas F. LaRusso
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6338–6343. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408563102.
PMCID: PMC1088355
Serine 31 phosphorylation of histone variant H3.3 is specific to regions bordering centromeres in metaphase chromosomes
Sandra B. Hake, Benjamin A. Garcia, Monika Kauer, Stephen P. Baker, Jeffrey Shabanowitz, Donald F. Hunt, and C. David Allis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6344–6349. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502413102.
PMCID: PMC1088391
Capturing protein interactions in the secretory pathway of living cells
Beat Nyfeler, Stephen W. Michnick, and Hans-Peter Hauri
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6350–6355. Published online 2005 April 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501976102.
PMCID: PMC1084318
From the Cover:
Human lysyl-tRNA synthetase is secreted to trigger proinflammatory response
Sang Gyu Park, Hye Jin Kim, You Hong Min, Eung-Chil Choi, Young Kee Shin, Bum-Joon Park, Sang Won Lee, and Sunghoon Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6356–6361. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500226102.
PMCID: PMC1088368
Tetanus neurotoxin-mediated cleavage of cellubrevin impairs epithelial cell migration and integrin-dependent cell adhesion
Véronique Proux-Gillardeaux, Julie Gavard, Theano Irinopoulou, René-Marc Mège, and Thierry Galli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6362–6367. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409613102.
PMCID: PMC1088364
Synonymous mutations in CFTR exon 12 affect splicing and are not neutral in evolution
Franco Pagani, Michela Raponi, and Francisco E. Baralle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6368–6372. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502288102.
PMCID: PMC1088389
Developmental Biology
roundabout4 is essential for angiogenesis in vivo
Victoria M. Bedell, Sang-Yeob Yeo, Kye Won Park, Jeffrey Chung, Pankaj Seth, Venkatesha Shivalingappa, Jinhua Zhao, Tomoko Obara, Vikas P. Sukhatme, Iain A. Drummond, Dean Y. Li, and Ramani Ramchandran
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6373–6378. Published online 2005 April 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408318102.
PMCID: PMC1088354
Evolution
Rapid electrostatic evolution at the binding site for cytochrome c on cytochrome c oxidase in anthropoid primates
Timothy R. Schmidt, Derek E. Wildman, Monica Uddin, Juan C. Opazo, Morris Goodman, and Lawrence I. Grossman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6379–6384. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409714102.
PMCID: PMC1088365
Evolutionary origin of cAMP-based chemoattraction in the social amoebae
Elisa Alvarez-Curto, Daniel E. Rozen, Allyson V. Ritchie, Celine Fouquet, Sandra L. Baldauf, and Pauline Schaap
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6385–6390. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502238102.
PMCID: PMC1088387
Differences in color vision make passerines less conspicuous in the eyes of their predators
Olle Håstad, Jonas Victorsson, and Anders Ödeen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6391–6394. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409228102.
PMCID: PMC1088363
Solving the protein sequence metric problem
William R. Atchley, Jieping Zhao, Andrew D. Fernandes, and Tanja Drüke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6395–6400. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408677102.
PMCID: PMC1088356
Sequence signatures and the probabilistic identification of proteins in the Myc-Max-Mad network
William R. Atchley and Andrew D. Fernandes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6401–6406. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408964102.
PMCID: PMC1088358
Genetics
A specific subdomain in [var phi]29 DNA polymerase confers both processivity and strand-displacement capacity
Irene Rodríguez, José M. Lázaro, Luis Blanco, Satwik Kamtekar, Andrea J. Berman, Jimin Wang, Thomas A. Steitz, Margarita Salas, and Miguel de Vega
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6407–6412. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500597102.
PMCID: PMC1088371
Transgenic engineering of male-specific muscular hypertrophy
Dimitri Pirottin, Luc Grobet, Antoine Adamantidis, Frédéric Farnir, Christian Herens, Henrik Daa Schrøder, and Michel Georges
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6413–6418. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502426102.
PMCID: PMC1088392
Temporal profile of replication of human chromosomes
Yesu Jeon, Stefan Bekiranov, Neerja Karnani, Philipp Kapranov, Srinka Ghosh, David MacAlpine, Charles Lee, Deog Su Hwang, Thomas R. Gingeras, and Anindya Dutta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6419–6424. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405088102.
PMCID: PMC1088349
Mutagenesis by reversible promoter insertion to study the activation of NF-κB
Eugene S. Kandel, Tao Lu, Youzhong Wan, Mukesh K. Agarwal, Mark W. Jackson, and George R. Stark
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6425–6430. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502463102.
PMCID: PMC1088393
Functionally distinct polymorphic sequences in the human genome that are targets for p53 transactivation
Daniel J. Tomso, Alberto Inga, Daniel Menendez, Gary S. Pittman, Michelle R. Campbell, Francesca Storici, Douglas A. Bell, and Michael A. Resnick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6431–6436. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501721102.
PMCID: PMC1088378
Immunology
Distinct role of lymphocyte function-associated antigen-1 in mediating effective cytolytic activity by cytotoxic T lymphocytes
Nadia Anikeeva, Kristina Somersalo, Tasha N. Sims, V. Kaye Thomas, Michael L. Dustin, and Yuri Sykulev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6437–6442. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502467102.
PMCID: PMC1088394
A point mutation in the groove of HLA-DO allows egress from the endoplasmic reticulum independent of HLA-DM
Francis Deshaies, Alexandre Brunet, Djibril A. Diallo, Lisa K. Denzin, Angela Samaan, and Jacques Thibodeau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6443–6448. Published online 2005 April 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500853102.
PMCID: PMC1088373
Induction of CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells by copolymer-I through activation of transcription factor Foxp3
Jian Hong, Ningli Li, Xuejun Zhang, Biao Zheng, and Jingwu Z. Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6449–6454. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502187102.
PMCID: PMC1088385
Ligand-induced dimerization of Drosophila peptidoglycan recognition proteins in vitro
Peter Mellroth, Jenny Karlsson, Janet Håkansson, Niklas Schultz, William E. Goldman, and Håkan Steiner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6455–6460. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407559102.
PMCID: PMC1088352
From the Cover:
Efficient cross-priming of tumor antigen-specific T cells by dendritic cells sensitized with diverse anti-MICA opsonized tumor cells
Veronika Groh, Yongqing Q. Li, Daniel Cioca, Naomi N. Hunder, Wei Wang, Stanley R. Riddell, Cassian Yee, and Thomas Spies
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6461–6466. Published online 2005 April 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501953102.
PMCID: PMC1088382
Mast cells enhance T cell activation: Importance of mast cell-derived TNF
Susumu Nakae, Hajime Suto, Maki Kakurai, Jonathon D. Sedgwick, Mindy Tsai, and Stephen J. Galli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6467–6472. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501912102.
PMCID: PMC1088381
Medical Sciences
In vivo fragmentation of heparan sulfate by heparanase overexpression renders mice resistant to amyloid protein A amyloidosis
Jin-Ping Li, Martha L. Escobar Galvis, Feng Gong, Xiao Zhang, Eyal Zcharia, Shula Metzger, Israel Vlodavsky, Robert Kisilevsky, and Ulf Lindahl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6473–6477. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502287102.
PMCID: PMC1088388
Microbiology
From the Cover:
Massive nitrogen loss from the Benguela upwelling system through anaerobic ammonium oxidation
Marcel M. M. Kuypers, Gaute Lavik, Dagmar Woebken, Markus Schmid, Bernhard M. Fuchs, Rudolf Amann, Bo Barker Jørgensen, and Mike S. M. Jetten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6478–6483. Published online 2005 April 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502088102.
PMCID: PMC556276
Nanoscale visualization and characterization of Myxococcus xanthus cells with atomic force microscopy
Andrew E. Pelling, Yinuo Li, Wenyuan Shi, and James K. Gimzewski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6484–6489. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501207102.
PMCID: PMC1088375
Varicella-zoster virus infection of human dorsal root ganglia in vivo
Leigh Zerboni, Chia-Chi Ku, Carol D. Jones, James L. Zehnder, and Ann M. Arvin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6490–6495. Published online 2005 April 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501045102.
PMCID: PMC1088374
The Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrRpt2 cleaves its C-terminally acylated target, RIN4, from Arabidopsis membranes to block RPM1 activation
Han-Suk Kim, Darrell Desveaux, Alex U. Singer, Priyesh Patel, John Sondek, and Jeffery L. Dangl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6496–6501. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500792102.
PMCID: PMC1088372
A transcriptional response to singlet oxygen, a toxic byproduct of photosynthesis
Jennifer R. Anthony, Kristin L. Warczak, and Timothy J. Donohue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6502–6507. Published online 2005 April 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502225102.
PMCID: PMC1088386
Psychology
Positive affect and health-related neuroendocrine, cardiovascular, and inflammatory processes
Andrew Steptoe, Jane Wardle, and Michael Marmot
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6508–6512. Published online 2005 April 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409174102.
PMCID: PMC1088362
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 3; 102(18): 6513. Published online 2005 April 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500811102.
PMCID: PMC1088417
Corrects: Elizabeth J. Renaud, et al. Endometrial cancer is a receptor-mediated target for Mullerian Inhibiting Substance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 4; 102(1): 111–116.
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