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Volume 103(2);  January 10, 2006
In This Issue
This Week in PNAS
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 249–250. doi: 10.1073/iti0206103.
PMCID: PMC1326148
Commentary
mGluR7's lucky number
P. Jeffrey Conn and Colleen M. Niswender
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 251–252. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510051103.
PMCID: PMC1326193
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
The up-regulation of ferritin expression using a small-molecule ligand to the native mRNA
Jennifer D. Tibodeau, Paige M. Fox, Patricia A. Ropp, Elizabeth C. Theil, and H. Holden Thorp
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 253–257. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509744102.
PMCID: PMC1326178
Primary steps of the photoactive yellow protein: Isolated chromophore dynamics and protein directed function
I-Ren Lee, Wonchul Lee, and Ahmed H. Zewail
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 258–262. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510015103.
PMCID: PMC1326191
Physics
Phase coexistence and connectivity in the apical membrane of polarized epithelial cells
Doris Meder, Maria Joao Moreno, Paul Verkade, Winchil L. C. Vaz, and Kai Simons
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 329–334. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509885103.
PMCID: PMC1324955
Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli
Rex A. Kerr, Herbert Levine, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and Wouter-Jan Rappel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 347–352. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505825102.
PMCID: PMC1326155
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
The up-regulation of ferritin expression using a small-molecule ligand to the native mRNA
Jennifer D. Tibodeau, Paige M. Fox, Patricia A. Ropp, Elizabeth C. Theil, and H. Holden Thorp
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 253–257. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509744102.
PMCID: PMC1326178
Flow cytometric detection of specific RNAs in native human cells with quenched autoligating FRET probes
Hiroshi Abe and Eric T. Kool
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 263–268. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509938103.
PMCID: PMC1326184
Point mutations in the aromatic/arginine region in aquaporin 1 allow passage of urea, glycerol, ammonia, and protons
Eric Beitz, Binghua Wu, Lars M. Holm, Joachim E. Schultz, and Thomas Zeuthen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 269–274. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507225103.
PMCID: PMC1326162
Harnessing the potential of communication-mediating domains for the biocombinatorial synthesis of nonribosomal peptides
Martin Hahn and Torsten Stachelhaus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 275–280. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508409103.
PMCID: PMC1326170
Autoantibodies to myelin basic protein catalyze site-specific degradation of their antigen
Natalia A. Ponomarenko, Oxana M. Durova, Ivan I. Vorobiev, Alexey A. Belogurov, Jr., Inna N. Kurkova, Alexander G. Petrenko, Georgy B. Telegin, Sergey V. Suchkov, Sergey L. Kiselev, Maria A. Lagarkova, Vadim M. Govorun, Marina V. Serebryakova, Bérangère Avalle, Pete Tornatore, Alexander Karavanov, Herbert C. Morse, III, Daniel Thomas, Alain Friboulet, and Alexander G. Gabibov
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 281–286. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509849103.
PMCID: PMC1324791
Critical role of a thiolate-quinone charge transfer complex and its adduct form in de novo disulfide bond generation by DsbB
Kenji Inaba, Yoh-hei Takahashi, Koreaki Ito, and Shigehiko Hayashi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 287–292. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507570103.
PMCID: PMC1323469
Linoleic acid hydroperoxide reacts with hypochlorous acid, generating peroxyl radical intermediates and singlet molecular oxygen
Sayuri Miyamoto, Glaucia R. Martinez, Daniel Rettori, Ohara Augusto, Marisa H. G. Medeiros, and Paolo Di Mascio
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 293–298. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508170103.
PMCID: PMC1326168
Generating disulfides enzymatically: Reaction products and electron acceptors of the endoplasmic reticulum thiol oxidase Ero1p
Einav Gross, Carolyn S. Sevier, Nimrod Heldman, Elvira Vitu, Moran Bentzur, Chris A. Kaiser, Colin Thorpe, and Deborah Fass
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 299–304. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506448103.
PMCID: PMC1326156
Mechanism of bacterial cell-surface attachment revealed by the structure of cellulosomal type II cohesin-dockerin complex
Jarrett J. Adams, Gour Pal, Zongchao Jia, and Steven P. Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 305–310. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507109103.
PMCID: PMC1326161
Biophysics
Primary steps of the photoactive yellow protein: Isolated chromophore dynamics and protein directed function
I-Ren Lee, Wonchul Lee, and Ahmed H. Zewail
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 258–262. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510015103.
PMCID: PMC1326191
From the Cover:
A simple physical model for scaling in protein-protein interaction networks
Eric J. Deeds, Orr Ashenberg, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 311–316. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509715102.
PMCID: PMC1326177
Controlled uncoupling and recoupling of proton pumping in cytochrome c oxidase
Gisela Brändén, Ashtamurthy S. Pawate, Robert B. Gennis, and Peter Brzezinski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 317–322. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507734103.
PMCID: PMC1326165
Packing defects as selectivity switches for drug-based protein inhibitors
Ariel Fernández, Ridgway Scott, and R. Stephen Berry
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 323–328. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509351102.
PMCID: PMC1326172
Cell Biology
Phase coexistence and connectivity in the apical membrane of polarized epithelial cells
Doris Meder, Maria Joao Moreno, Paul Verkade, Winchil L. C. Vaz, and Kai Simons
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 329–334. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509885103.
PMCID: PMC1324955
Role of Src in C3 transient receptor potential channel function and evidence for a heterogeneous makeup of receptor- and store-operated Ca2+ entry channels
Brian T. Kawasaki, Yanhong Liao, and Lutz Birnbaumer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 335–340. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508030102.
PMCID: PMC1326167
The activity of a human endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation E3, gp78, requires its Cue domain, RING finger, and an E2-binding site
Bo Chen, Jennifer Mariano, Yien Che Tsai, Anna H. Chan, Mickael Cohen, and Allan M. Weissman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 341–346. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506618103.
PMCID: PMC1326157
Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli
Rex A. Kerr, Herbert Levine, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and Wouter-Jan Rappel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 347–352. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505825102.
PMCID: PMC1326155
Regulation of tyrosinase trafficking and processing by presenilins: Partial loss of function by familial Alzheimer's disease mutation
Runsheng Wang, Phuong Tang, Pei Wang, Raymond E. Boissy, and Hui Zheng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 353–358. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509822102.
PMCID: PMC1326180
Developmental Biology
From the Cover:
A nucleoporin is required for induction of Ca2+ spiking in legume nodule development and essential for rhizobial and fungal symbiosis
Norihito Kanamori, Lene Heegaard Madsen, Simona Radutoiu, Mirela Frantescu, Esben M. H. Quistgaard, Hiroki Miwa, J. Allan Downie, Euan K. James, Hubert H. Felle, Line Lindegaard Haaning, Torben Heick Jensen, Shusei Sato, Yasukazu Nakamura, Satoshi Tabata, Niels Sandal, and Jens Stougaard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 359–364. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508883103.
PMCID: PMC1326171
Constitutive activation of MKK6 in chondrocytes of transgenic mice inhibits proliferation and delays endochondral bone formation
Ren Zhang, Shunichi Murakami, Françoise Coustry, Ying Wang, and Benoit de Crombrugghe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 365–370. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507979103.
PMCID: PMC1326166
Ecology
Stable isotopes in elephant hair document migration patterns and diet changes
Thure E. Cerling, George Wittemyer, Henrik B. Rasmussen, Fritz Vollrath, Claire E. Cerling, Todd J. Robinson, and Iain Douglas-Hamilton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 371–373. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509606102.
PMCID: PMC1326175
Spread dynamics of invasive species
Matías Arim, Sebastián R. Abades, Paula E. Neill, Mauricio Lima, and Pablo A. Marquet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 374–378. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504272102.
PMCID: PMC1326152
Evolution
Evidence of a false thumb in a fossil carnivore clarifies the evolution of pandas
Manuel J. Salesa, Mauricio Antón, Stéphane Peigné, and Jorge Morales
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 379–382. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504899102.
PMCID: PMC1326154
Genetics
Recombination, rearrangement, reshuffling, and divergence in a centromeric region of rice
Jianxin Ma and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 383–388. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509810102.
PMCID: PMC1326179
Transcriptional response of steady-state yeast cultures to transient perturbations in carbon source
Michal Ronen and David Botstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 389–394. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509978103.
PMCID: PMC1326188
Immunology
From the Cover:
PKA-mediated phosphorylation regulates the function of activation-induced deaminase (AID) in B cells
Laura Pasqualucci, Yasuyuki Kitaura, Hua Gu, and Riccardo Dalla-Favera
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 395–400. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509969103.
PMCID: PMC1326186
Medical Sciences
Preclinical and phase I clinical trial of blockade of IL-15 using Mikβ1 monoclonal antibody in T cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia
John C. Morris, John E. Janik, Jeffrey D. White, Thomas A. Fleisher, Margaret Brown, Mitsuru Tsudo, Carolyn K. Goldman, Bonita Bryant, Michael Petrus, Lois Top, Cathryn C. Lee, Wendy Gao, and Thomas A. Waldmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 401–406. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509575103.
PMCID: PMC1326174
Screening phage display libraries for organ-specific vascular immunotargeting in vivo
Philippe Valadon, Jeff D. Garnett, Jacqueline E. Testa, Marc Bauerle, Phil Oh, and Jan E. Schnitzer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 407–412. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506938103.
PMCID: PMC1326159
From the Cover:
Gene expression in human thyrocytes and autonomous adenomas reveals suppression of negative feedbacks in tumorigenesis
Wilma C. G. van Staveren, David Weiss Solís, Laurent Delys, David Venet, Matteo Cappello, Guy Andry, Jacques E. Dumont, Frédérick Libert, Vincent Detours, and Carine Maenhaut
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 413–418. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507354102.
PMCID: PMC1326163
Enhancement of plasmid-mediated gene therapy for muscular dystrophy by directed plasmid integration
Carmen Bertoni, Sohail Jarrahian, Thurman M. Wheeler, Yining Li, Eric C. Olivares, Michele P. Calos, and Thomas A. Rando
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 419–424. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504505102.
PMCID: PMC1326153
Microbiology
Essential genes of a minimal bacterium
John I. Glass, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Nina Alperovich, Shibu Yooseph, Matthew R. Lewis, Mahir Maruf, Clyde A. Hutchison, III, Hamilton O. Smith, and J. Craig Venter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 425–430. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510013103.
PMCID: PMC1324956
Identification of a nitroimidazo-oxazine-specific protein involved in PA-824 resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Ujjini H. Manjunatha, Helena Boshoff, Cynthia S. Dowd, Liang Zhang, Thomas J. Albert, Jason E. Norton, Lacy Daniels, Thomas Dick, Siew Siew Pang, and Clifton E. Barry, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 431–436. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508392103.
PMCID: PMC1326169
The E7 proteins of low- and high-risk human papillomaviruses share the ability to target the pRB family member p130 for degradation
Benyue Zhang, Wei Chen, and Ann Roman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 437–442. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510012103.
PMCID: PMC1326189
Neuroscience
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs repress β-secretase gene promoter activity by the activation of PPARγ
Magdalena Sastre, Ilse Dewachter, Steffen Rossner, Nenad Bogdanovic, Evan Rosen, Peter Borghgraef, Bernd O. Evert, Lucia Dumitrescu-Ozimek, Dietmar R. Thal, Gary Landreth, Jochen Walter, Thomas Klockgether, Fred van Leuven, and Michael T. Heneka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 443–448. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503839103.
PMCID: PMC1326151
Top-down facilitation of visual recognition
M. Bar, K. S. Kassam, A. S. Ghuman, J. Boshyan, A. M. Schmid, A. M. Dale, M. S. Hämäläinen, K. Marinkovic, D. L. Schacter, B. R. Rosen, and E. Halgren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 449–454. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507062103.
PMCID: PMC1326160
Synchronous dynamic brain networks revealed by magnetoencephalography
Frederick J. P. Langheim, Arthur C. Leuthold, and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 455–459. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509623102.
PMCID: PMC1324790
Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left
Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 489–494. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509868103.
PMCID: PMC1326182
Pharmacology
PDE1B2 regulates cGMP and a subset of the phenotypic characteristics acquired upon macrophage differentiation from a monocyte
Andrew T. Bender and Joseph A. Beavo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 460–465. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509972102.
PMCID: PMC1326187
RF9, a potent and selective neuropeptide FF receptor antagonist, prevents opioid-induced tolerance associated with hyperalgesia
Frédéric Simonin, Martine Schmitt, Jean-Paul Laulin, Emilie Laboureyras, Jack H. Jhamandas, David MacTavish, Audrey Matifas, Catherine Mollereau, Patrick Laurent, Marc Parmentier, Brigitte L. Kieffer, Jean-Jacques Bourguignon, and Guy Simonnet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 466–471. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502090103.
PMCID: PMC1326150
Plant Biology
From the Cover:
MAX1, a regulator of the flavonoid pathway, controls vegetative axillary bud outgrowth in Arabidopsis
Gabor Lazar and Howard M. Goodman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 472–476. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509463102.
PMCID: PMC1324789
Identification of the mobile light-harvesting complex II polypeptides for state transitions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii
Hiroko Takahashi, Masakazu Iwai, Yuichiro Takahashi, and Jun Minagawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 477–482. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509952103.
PMCID: PMC1326185
Psychology
Demonstration of cue recruitment: Change in visual appearance by means of Pavlovian conditioning
Qi Haijiang, Jeffrey A. Saunders, Rebecca W. Stone, and Benjamin T. Backus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 483–488. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506728103.
PMCID: PMC1326158
Social Sciences
Psychology
Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left
Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 489–494. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509868103.
PMCID: PMC1326182
Social Sciences
Infection, inflammation, height, and longevity
Eileen M. Crimmins and Caleb E. Finch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 498–503. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501470103.
PMCID: PMC1326149
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510045102.
PMCID: PMC1326192
Corrects: Tetsuya Furuya, et al. Disruption of a Plasmodium falciparum gene linked to male sexual development causes early arrest in gametocytogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 November 15; 102(46): 16813–16818.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510118102.
PMCID: PMC1326194
Corrects: Jena D. French, et al. γδ T cell homeostasis is established in competition with αβ T cells and NK cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 October 11; 102(41): 14741–14746.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510271102.
PMCID: PMC1326195
Corrects: Peter H. Raven. Transgenes in Mexican maize: Desirability or inevitability? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 13; 102(37): 13003–13004.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510298102.
PMCID: PMC1326196
Corrects: Markus Welcker, et al. From the Cover:
The Fbw7 tumor suppressor regulates glycogen synthase kinase 3 phosphorylation-dependent c-Myc protein degradation.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 June 15; 101(24): 9085–9090.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510367102.
PMCID: PMC1326197
Corrects: This Week in PNAS. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 November 29; 102(48): 17253–17254.
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