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Volume 102(38);  September 20, 2005
From the Academy
Statistical signals in bioinformatics
Samuel Karlin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13355–13362. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501804102.
PMCID: PMC1224616
Evidence of functional selection pressure for alternative splicing events that accelerate evolution of protein subsequences
Yi Xing and Christopher Lee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13526–13531. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501213102.
PMCID: PMC1224612
In This Issue
This Week in PNAS
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13353–13354. doi: 10.1073/iti3805102.
PMCID: PMC1224675
Commentaries
Bugging the intestinal response to radiation
Ralph R. Weichselbaum
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13363–13364. Published online 2005 September 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506706102.
PMCID: PMC1224667
The LIGHT and DARC sides of herpesvirus entry mediator
Tania H. Watts and Jennifer L. Gommerman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13365–13366. Published online 2005 September 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506707102.
PMCID: PMC1224668
Perspective
Eusociality: Origin and consequences
Edward O. Wilson and Bert Hölldobler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13367–13371. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505858102.
PMCID: PMC1224642
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
Dissection of the carbohydrate specificity of the broadly neutralizing anti-HIV-1 antibody 2G12
Daniel A. Calarese, Hing-Ken Lee, Cheng-Yuan Huang, Michael D. Best, Rena D. Astronomo, Robyn L. Stanfield, Hermann Katinger, Dennis R. Burton, Chi-Huey Wong, and Ian A. Wilson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13372–13377. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505763102.
PMCID: PMC1224641
From the Cover:
Probing the structure of a rotaxane with two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy
Olaf F. A. Larsen, Pavol Bodis, Wybren Jan Buma, Jeffrey S. Hannam, David A. Leigh, and Sander Woutersen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13378–13382. Published online 2005 September 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505313102.
PMCID: PMC1198997
Defined DNA/nanoparticle conjugates
Christopher J. Ackerson, Michael T. Sykes, and Roger D. Kornberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13383–13385. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506290102.
PMCID: PMC1200880
Induced helicity in biopolymer networks under stress
S. Courty, J. L. Gornall, and E. M. Terentjev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13457–13460. Published online 2005 September 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506864102.
PMCID: PMC1224673
Statistics
Discovering statistically significant pathways in expression profiling studies
Lu Tian, Steven A. Greenberg, Sek Won Kong, Josiah Altschuler, Isaac S. Kohane, and Peter J. Park
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13544–13549. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506577102.
PMCID: PMC1200092
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
The endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica reprograms barley to salt-stress tolerance, disease resistance, and higher yield
Frank Waller, Beate Achatz, Helmut Baltruschat, József Fodor, Katja Becker, Marina Fischer, Tobias Heier, Ralph Hückelhoven, Christina Neumann, Diter von Wettstein, Philipp Franken, and Karl-Heinz Kogel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13386–13391. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504423102.
PMCID: PMC1224632
Biochemistry
Crystal structure of a bacterial ribonuclease P RNA
Alexei V. Kazantsev, Angelika A. Krivenko, Daniel J. Harrington, Stephen R. Holbrook, Paul D. Adams, and Norman R. Pace
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13392–13397. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506662102.
PMCID: PMC1224664
Extensive 3′ modification of plant small RNAs is modulated by helper component-proteinase expression
H. Alexander Ebhardt, Emily P. Thi, Ming-Bo Wang, and Peter J. Unrau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13398–13403. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506597102.
PMCID: PMC1224661
Regulation of SR-BI protein levels by phosphorylation of its associated protein, PDZK1
Toshiyuki Nakamura, Norihito Shibata, Takako Nishimoto-Shibata, Dongdong Feng, Mamoru Ikemoto, Kiyoto Motojima, Naoyuki Iso-o, Kazuhisa Tsukamoto, Masafumi Tsujimoto, and Hiroyuki Arai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13404–13409. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506679102.
PMCID: PMC1224665
Rtt106p is a histone chaperone involved in heterochromatin-mediated silencing
Shengbing Huang, Hui Zhou, David Katzmann, Mark Hochstrasser, Elena Atanasova, and Zhiguo Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13410–13415. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506176102.
PMCID: PMC1224646
Inorganic polyphosphate in the social life of Myxococcus xanthus: Motility, development, and predation
Haiyu Zhang, Narayan N. Rao, Toshikazu Shiba, and Arthur Kornberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13416–13420. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506520102.
PMCID: PMC1224657
Eukaryotic translation initiation factor 4GI and p97 promote cellular internal ribosome entry sequence-driven translation
Patrick Hundsdoerfer, Christian Thoma, and Matthias W. Hentze
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13421–13426. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506536102.
PMCID: PMC1224658
Biophysics
Dissecting the mechanical unfolding of ubiquitin
Anders Irbäck, Simon Mitternacht, and Sandipan Mohanty
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13427–13432. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501581102.
PMCID: PMC1224613
Characterization of a possible amyloidogenic precursor in glutamine-repeat neurodegenerative diseases
Roger S. Armen, Brady M. Bernard, Ryan Day, Darwin O. V. Alonso, and Valerie Daggett
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13433–13438. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502068102.
PMCID: PMC1224618
Eukaryotic cells are dynamically ordered or critical but not chaotic
Ilya Shmulevich, Stuart A. Kauffman, and Maximino Aldana
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13439–13444. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506771102.
PMCID: PMC1224670
Ensemble versus single-molecule protein unfolding
Ryan Day and Valerie Daggett
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13445–13450. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501773102.
PMCID: PMC1224615
Reversible inhibition of copper amine oxidase activity by channel-blocking ruthenium(II) and rhenium(I) molecular wires
Stephen M. Contakes, Gregory A. Juda, David B. Langley, Nicholas W. Halpern-Manners, Anthony P. Duff, Alexander R. Dunn, Harry B. Gray, David M. Dooley, J. Mitchell Guss, and Hans C. Freeman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13451–13456. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506336102.
PMCID: PMC1224652
Induced helicity in biopolymer networks under stress
S. Courty, J. L. Gornall, and E. M. Terentjev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13457–13460. Published online 2005 September 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506864102.
PMCID: PMC1224673
Cell Biology
Neuronal sorting protein-related receptor sorLA/LR11 regulates processing of the amyloid precursor protein
Olav M. Andersen, Juliane Reiche, Vanessa Schmidt, Michael Gotthardt, Robert Spoelgen, Joachim Behlke, Christine A. F. von Arnim, Tilman Breiderhoff, Pernille Jansen, Xin Wu, Kelly R. Bales, Roberto Cappai, Colin L. Masters, Jørgen Gliemann, Elliott J. Mufson, Bradley T. Hyman, Steven M. Paul, Anders Nykjær, and Thomas E. Willnow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13461–13466. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503689102.
PMCID: PMC1224625
Distinct functional units of the Golgi complex in Drosophila cells
Hiroyuki Yano, Miki Yamamoto-Hino, Masato Abe, Reiko Kuwahara, Shuka Haraguchi, Isamu Kusaka, Wakae Awano, Akiko Kinoshita-Toyoda, Hidenao Toyoda, and Satoshi Goto
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13467–13472. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506681102.
PMCID: PMC1224666
Distinct pathways control recruitment and maintenance of myosin II at the cleavage furrow during cytokinesis
Sara O. Dean, Stephen L. Rogers, Nico Stuurman, Ronald D. Vale, and James A. Spudich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13473–13478. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506810102.
PMCID: PMC1200093
An interaction between αvβ8 integrin and Band 4.1B via a highly conserved region of the Band 4.1 C-terminal domain
Joseph H. McCarty, Aaron A. Cook, and Richard O. Hynes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13479–13483. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506068102.
PMCID: PMC1224645
Cdc42GAP regulates c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK)-mediated apoptosis and cell number during mammalian perinatal growth
Lei Wang, Linda Yang, Kevin Burns, Chia-Yi Kuan, and Yi Zheng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13484–13489. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504420102.
PMCID: PMC1224631
Developmental Biology
Complex cardiac Nkx2-5 gene expression activated by noggin-sensitive enhancers followed by chamber-specific modules
Xuan Chi, Pradeep K. Chatterjee, Willie Wilson, III, Shu-Xing Zhang, Franco J. DeMayo, and Robert J. Schwartz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13490–13495. Published online 2005 September 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504295102.
PMCID: PMC1224629
From the Cover:
A Caenorhabditis elegans nutrient response system partially dependent on nuclear receptor NHR-49
Marc R. Van Gilst, Haralambos Hadjivassiliou, and Keith R. Yamamoto
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13496–13501. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506234102.
PMCID: PMC1201344
Cooperative interaction of Angiopoietin-like proteins 1 and 2 in zebrafish vascular development
Yoshiaki Kubota, Yuichi Oike, Shinya Satoh, Yoko Tabata, Yuichi Niikura, Tohru Morisada, Masaki Akao, Takashi Urano, Yasuhiro Ito, Takeshi Miyamoto, Norihiro Nagai, Gou Young Koh, Sumiko Watanabe, and Toshio Suda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13502–13507. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501902102.
PMCID: PMC1224617
Ecology
Reproductive benefits derived from defensive plant alkaloid possession in an arctiid moth (Utetheisa ornatrix)
Marta L. del Campo, Scott R. Smedley, and Thomas Eisner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13508–13512. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505725102.
PMCID: PMC1224640
Small-scale field experiments accurately scale up to predict density dependence in reef fish populations at large scales
Mark A. Steele and Graham E. Forrester
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13513–13516. Published online 2005 September 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504306102.
PMCID: PMC1224630
From the Cover:
Increased salinization of fresh water in the northeastern United States
Sujay S. Kaushal, Peter M. Groffman, Gene E. Likens, Kenneth T. Belt, William P. Stack, Victoria R. Kelly, Lawrence E. Band, and Gary T. Fisher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13517–13520. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506414102.
PMCID: PMC1224654
Environmental Sciences
Satellite-observed photosynthetic trends across boreal North America associated with climate and fire disturbance
Scott J. Goetz, Andrew G. Bunn, Gregory J. Fiske, and R. A. Houghton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13521–13525. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506179102.
PMCID: PMC1224647
Evolution
Evidence of functional selection pressure for alternative splicing events that accelerate evolution of protein subsequences
Yi Xing and Christopher Lee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13526–13531. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501213102.
PMCID: PMC1224612
Genetics
Statistical methods for identifying yeast cell cycle transcription factors
Huai-Kuang Tsai, Henry Horng-Shing Lu, and Wen-Hsiung Li
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13532–13537. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505874102.
PMCID: PMC1224643
UVA radiation is highly mutagenic in cells that are unable to repair 7,8-dihydro-8-oxoguanine in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
S. Kozmin, G. Slezak, A. Reynaud-Angelin, C. Elie, Y. de Rycke, S. Boiteux, and E. Sage
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13538–13543. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504497102.
PMCID: PMC1224634
Discovering statistically significant pathways in expression profiling studies
Lu Tian, Steven A. Greenberg, Sek Won Kong, Josiah Altschuler, Isaac S. Kohane, and Peter J. Park
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13544–13549. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506577102.
PMCID: PMC1200092
From the Cover:
An expression signature for p53 status in human breast cancer predicts mutation status, transcriptional effects, and patient survival
Lance D. Miller, Johanna Smeds, Joshy George, Vinsensius B. Vega, Liza Vergara, Alexander Ploner, Yudi Pawitan, Per Hall, Sigrid Klaar, Edison T. Liu, and Jonas Bergh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13550–13555. Published online 2005 September 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506230102.
PMCID: PMC1197273
Immunology
Dissection of the carbohydrate specificity of the broadly neutralizing anti-HIV-1 antibody 2G12
Daniel A. Calarese, Hing-Ken Lee, Cheng-Yuan Huang, Michael D. Best, Rena D. Astronomo, Robyn L. Stanfield, Hermann Katinger, Dennis R. Burton, Chi-Huey Wong, and Ian A. Wilson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13372–13377. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505763102.
PMCID: PMC1224641
The anti-tetanus immune response of neonatal mice is augmented by retinoic acid combined with polyriboinosinic:polyribocytidylic acid
Yifan Ma and A. Catharine Ross
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13556–13561. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506438102.
PMCID: PMC1224655
Vasoactive intestinal peptide induces regulatory dendritic cells with therapeutic effects on autoimmune disorders
Alejo Chorny, Elena Gonzalez-Rey, Amelia Fernandez-Martin, David Pozo, Doina Ganea, and Mario Delgado
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13562–13567. Published online 2005 September 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504484102.
PMCID: PMC1224633
Transgenic alteration of Toll immune pathway in the female mosquito Aedes aegypti
Guowu Bian, Sang Woon Shin, Hyang-Mi Cheon, Vladimir Kokoza, and Alexander S. Raikhel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13568–13573. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502815102.
PMCID: PMC1224621
A requirement for sustained ERK signaling during thymocyte positive selection in vivo
Lisa K. McNeil, Timothy K. Starr, and Kristin A. Hogquist
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13574–13579. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505110102.
PMCID: PMC1224638
Medical Sciences
Opposing effects of DNA hypomethylation on intestinal and liver carcinogenesis
Yasuhiro Yamada, Laurie Jackson-Grusby, Heinz Linhart, Alex Meissner, Amir Eden, Haijiang Lin, and Rudolf Jaenisch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13580–13585. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506612102.
PMCID: PMC1224663
Intrathymic administration of hematopoietic progenitor cells enhances T cell reconstitution in ZAP-70 severe combined immunodeficiency
Oumeya Adjali, Rita R. Vicente, Christophe Ferrand, Chantal Jacquet, Cédric Mongellaz, Pierre Tiberghien, Karim Chebli, Valérie S. Zimmermann, and Naomi Taylor
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13586–13591. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504268102.
PMCID: PMC1224628
Reversal of amyloid-induced heart disease in desmin-related cardiomyopathy
Atsushi Sanbe, Hanna Osinska, Chet Villa, James Gulick, Raisa Klevitsky, Charles G. Glabe, Rakez Kayed, and Jeffrey Robbins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13592–13597. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503324102.
PMCID: PMC1224623
Structural models for the protein family characterized by gamete surface protein Pfs230 of Plasmodium falciparum
Dietlind L. Gerloff, Alison Creasey, Siarhei Maslau, and Richard Carter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13598–13603. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502378102.
PMCID: PMC1224620
Pharmacologic ascorbic acid concentrations selectively kill cancer cells: Action as a pro-drug to deliver hydrogen peroxide to tissues
Qi Chen, Michael Graham Espey, Murali C. Krishna, James B. Mitchell, Christopher P. Corpe, Garry R. Buettner, Emily Shacter, and Mark Levine
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13604–13609. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506390102.
PMCID: PMC1224653
Pathophysiological role of Toll-like receptor 5 engagement by bacterial flagellin in colonic inflammation
Sang Hoon Rhee, Eunok Im, Martin Riegler, Efi Kokkotou, Michael O'Brien, and Charalabos Pothoulakis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13610–13615. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502174102.
PMCID: PMC1224619
The B1-subunit of the H+ ATPase is required for maximal urinary acidification
Karin E. Finberg, Carsten A. Wagner, Matthew A. Bailey, Teodor G. Păunescu, Sylvie Breton, Dennis Brown, Gerhard Giebisch, John P. Geibel, and Richard P. Lifton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13616–13621. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506769102.
PMCID: PMC1224669
The kinase inhibitor imatinib mesylate inhibits TNF-α production in vitro and prevents TNF-dependent acute hepatic inflammation
Anna Maria Wolf, Dominik Wolf, Holger Rumpold, Susanne Ludwiczek, Barbara Enrich, Guenther Gastl, Guenter Weiss, and Herbert Tilg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13622–13627. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501758102.
PMCID: PMC1224614
Correction of chromosomal mutation and random integration in embryonic stem cells with helper-dependent adenoviral vectors
Fumi Ohbayashi, Michael A. Balamotis, Atsuhiro Kishimoto, Emi Aizawa, Arturo Diaz, Paul Hasty, Frank L. Graham, C. Thomas Caskey, and Kohnosuke Mitani
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13628–13633. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506598102.
PMCID: PMC1224662
Microbiology
How adeno-associated virus Rep78 protein arrests cells completely in S phase
Carole Berthet, Kenneth Raj, Philippe Saudan, and Peter Beard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13634–13639. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504583102.
PMCID: PMC1224635
Viral targeting of the interferon-β-inducing Traf family member-associated NF-κB activator (TANK)-binding kinase-1
Gunhild Unterstab, Stephan Ludwig, Aline Anton, Oliver Planz, Bianca Dauber, Daniel Krappmann, Gudrun Heins, Christina Ehrhardt, and Thorsten Wolff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13640–13645. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502883102.
PMCID: PMC1224622
Use of RNA interference in Drosophila S2 cells to identify host pathways controlling compartmentalization of an intracellular pathogen
Luisa W. Cheng, Julie P. M. Viala, Nico Stuurman, Ursula Wiedemann, Ronald D. Vale, and Daniel A. Portnoy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13646–13651. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506461102.
PMCID: PMC1224656
Neuroscience
Cytoskeletal coordination during neuronal migration
Bruce T. Schaar and Susan K. McConnell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13652–13657. Published online 2005 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506008102.
PMCID: PMC1199551
Mutation of key residues of RPE65 abolishes its enzymatic role as isomerohydrolase in the visual cycle
T. Michael Redmond, Eugenia Poliakov, Shirley Yu, Jen-Yue Tsai, Zhongjian Lu, and Susan Gentleman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13658–13663. Published online 2005 September 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504167102.
PMCID: PMC1224626
Encoding of learned importance of sound by magnitude of representational area in primary auditory cortex
Richard G. Rutkowski and Norman M. Weinberger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13664–13669. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506838102.
PMCID: PMC1200094
Inactivation of Drosophila DJ-1 leads to impairments of oxidative stress response and phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase/Akt signaling
Yufeng Yang, Stephan Gehrke, Md. Emdadul Haque, Yuzuru Imai, Jon Kosek, Lichuan Yang, M. Flint Beal, Isao Nishimura, Kazumasa Wakamatsu, Shosuke Ito, Ryosuke Takahashi, and Bingwei Lu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13670–13675. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504610102.
PMCID: PMC1224636
Pharmacology
The antimalarial drug artemisinin alkylates heme in infected mice
Anne Robert, Françoise Benoit-Vical, Catherine Claparols, and Bernard Meunier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13676–13680. Published online 2005 September 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500972102.
PMCID: PMC1224611
l-citrulline and l-arginine supplementation retards the progression of high-cholesterol-diet-induced atherosclerosis in rabbits
Toshio Hayashi, Packiasamy A. R. Juliet, Hisako Matsui-Hirai, Asaka Miyazaki, Akiko Fukatsu, Jun Funami, Akihisa Iguchi, and Louis J. Ignarro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13681–13686. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506595102.
PMCID: PMC1224660
Plant Biology
Vitamin B6 biosynthesis in higher plants
Marina Tambasco-Studart, Olca Titiz, Thomas Raschle, Gabriela Forster, Nikolaus Amrhein, and Teresa B. Fitzpatrick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13687–13692. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506228102.
PMCID: PMC1224648
The putative high-affinity nitrate transporter NRT2.1 represses lateral root initiation in response to nutritional cues
Daniel Y. Little, Hongyu Rao, Sabrina Oliva, Françoise Daniel-Vedele, Anne Krapp, and Jocelyn E. Malamy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13693–13698. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504219102.
PMCID: PMC1224627
AtFtsH6 is involved in the degradation of the light-harvesting complex II during high-light acclimation and senescence
Agnieszka Żelisko, Maribel García-Lorenzo, Grzegorz Jackowski, Stefan Jansson, and Christiane Funk
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13699–13704. Published online 2005 September 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503472102.
PMCID: PMC1224624
From the Cover:
A chimeric photoreceptor gene, NEOCHROME, has arisen twice during plant evolution
Noriyuki Suetsugu, Franz Mittmann, Gottfried Wagner, Jon Hughes, and Masamitsu Wada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13705–13709. Published online 2005 September 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504734102.
PMCID: PMC1224637
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 20; 102(38): 13710. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506917102.
PMCID: PMC1224674
Corrects: Kohjiro Ueki, et al. Central role of suppressors of cytokine signaling proteins in hepatic steatosis, insulin resistance, and the metabolic syndrome in the mouse. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 July 13; 101(28): 10422–10427.
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