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Volume 101(21);  May 25, 2004
Commentary
Tracking the cryptic pumiliotoxins
Stanton Q. Smith and Tappey H. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7841–7842. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402599101.
PMCID: PMC419517
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
From the Cover:
Shape insensitive optimal adhesion of nanoscale fibrillar structures
Huajian Gao and Haimin Yao
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7851–7856. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400757101.
PMCID: PMC419520
Microtesla MRI with a superconducting quantum interference device
Robert McDermott, SeungKyun Lee, Bennie ten Haken, Andreas H. Trabesinger, Alexander Pines, and John Clarke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7857–7861. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402382101.
PMCID: PMC419521
Chemistry
Scanning electrochemical microscopy of menadione-glutathione conjugate export from yeast cells
Janine Mauzeroll and Allen J. Bard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7862–7867. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402556101.
PMCID: PMC419522
Identification of Ald6p as the target of a class of small-molecule suppressors of FK506 and their use in network dissection
Rebecca A. Butcher and Stuart L. Schreiber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7868–7873. Published online 2004 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402317101.
PMCID: PMC419523
From the Cover:
Formicine ants: An arthropod source for the pumiliotoxin alkaloids of dendrobatid poison frogs
Ralph A. Saporito, H. Martin Garraffo, Maureen A. Donnelly, Adam L. Edwards, John T. Longino, and John W. Daly
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8045–8050. Published online 2004 May 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402365101.
PMCID: PMC419554
Engineering
Programmable motion and patterning of molecules on solid surfaces
Z. Suo and W. Hong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7874–7879. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308254101.
PMCID: PMC419524
Geophysics
Flint mining in prehistory recorded by in situ-produced cosmogenic 10Be
G. Verri, R. Barkai, C. Bordeanu, A. Gopher, M. Hass, A. Kaufman, P. Kubik, E. Montanari, M. Paul, A. Ronen, S. Weiner, and E. Boaretto
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7880–7884. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402302101.
PMCID: PMC419525
Statistics
Biography of David O. Siegmund
David Appell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7843–7844. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402953101.
PMCID: PMC419518
Mapping quantitative traits with random and with ascertained sibships
Jie Peng and D. Siegmund
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7845–7850. Published online 2004 April 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401713101.
PMCID: PMC419519
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
A model for Ure2p prion filaments and other amyloids: The parallel superpleated β-structure
Andrey V. Kajava, Ulrich Baxa, Reed B. Wickner, and Alasdair C. Steven
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7885–7890. Published online 2004 May 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402427101.
PMCID: PMC419526
The mechanism of transmembrane S-nitrosothiol transport
Yanhong Zhang and Neil Hogg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7891–7896. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401167101.
PMCID: PMC419527
From the Cover:
The ribosome as an entropy trap
Annette Sievers, Malte Beringer, Marina V. Rodnina, and Richard Wolfenden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7897–7901. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402488101.
PMCID: PMC419528
Trigger factor binds to ribosome–signal-recognition particle (SRP) complexes and is excluded by binding of the SRP receptor
Iwona Buskiewicz, Elke Deuerling, Shan-Qing Gu, Johannes Jöckel, Marina V. Rodnina, Bernd Bukau, and Wolfgang Wintermeyer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7902–7906. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402231101.
PMCID: PMC419529
Computational design of receptors for an organophosphate surrogate of the nerve agent soman
Malin Allert, Shahir S. Rizk, Loren L. Looger, and Homme W. Hellinga
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7907–7912. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401309101.
PMCID: PMC419530
Quinone biogenesis: Structure and mechanism of PqqC, the final catalyst in the production of pyrroloquinoline quinone
Olafur Th. Magnusson, Hirohide Toyama, Megumi Saeki, Ana Rojas, John C. Reed, Robert C. Liddington, Judith P. Klinman, and Robert Schwarzenbacher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7913–7918. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402640101.
PMCID: PMC419531
A new activity for an old enzyme: Escherichia coli bacterial alkaline phosphatase is a phosphite-dependent hydrogenase
Kechao Yang and William W. Metcalf
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7919–7924. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400664101.
PMCID: PMC419532
Design of temperature-sensitive mutants solely from amino acid sequence
Ghadiyaram Chakshusmathi, Kajari Mondal, G. Santosh Lakshmi, Guramrit Singh, Ankita Roy, Ravindra Babu Ch., S. Madhusudhanan, and Raghavan Varadarajan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7925–7930. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402222101.
PMCID: PMC419533
The crystal structure of xanthine oxidoreductase during catalysis: Implications for reaction mechanism and enzyme inhibition
Ken Okamoto, Koji Matsumoto, Russ Hille, Bryan T. Eger, Emil F. Pai, and Takeshi Nishino
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7931–7936. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400973101.
PMCID: PMC419534
Role of Polo-like kinase in the degradation of early mitotic inhibitor 1, a regulator of the anaphase promoting complex/cyclosome
Yakir Moshe, Jérôme Boulaire, Michele Pagano, and Avram Hershko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7937–7942. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402442101.
PMCID: PMC419535
Activity-based probes for protein tyrosine phosphatases
Sanjai Kumar, Bo Zhou, Fubo Liang, Wei-Qing Wang, Zhonghui Huang, and Zhong-Yin Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7943–7948. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402323101.
PMCID: PMC419536
Biophysics
Mechanical tweezer action by self-tightening knots in surfactant nanotubes
Tatsiana Lobovkina, Paul Dommersnes, Jean-Francois Joanny, Patricia Bassereau, Mattias Karlsson, and Owe Orwar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7949–7953. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401760101.
PMCID: PMC419537
Dramatic acceleration of protein folding by stabilization of a nonnative backbone conformation
Ariel A. Di Nardo, Dmitry M. Korzhnev, Peter J. Stogios, Arash Zarrine-Afsar, Lewis E. Kay, and Alan R. Davidson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7954–7959. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400550101.
PMCID: PMC419538
Geometry and symmetry presculpt the free-energy landscape of proteins
Trinh Xuan Hoang, Antonio Trovato, Flavio Seno, Jayanth R. Banavar, and Amos Maritan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7960–7964. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402525101.
PMCID: PMC419539
Membrane growth can generate a transmembrane pH gradient in fatty acid vesicles
Irene A. Chen and Jack W. Szostak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7965–7970. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308045101.
PMCID: PMC419540
Resonant optical rectification in bacteriorhodopsin
Géza I. Groma, Anne Colonna, Jean-Christophe Lambry, Jacob W. Petrich, György Váró, Manuel Joffre, Marten H. Vos, and Jean-Louis Martin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7971–7975. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0306789101.
PMCID: PMC419541
Φ-Value analysis and the nature of protein-folding transition states
Alan R. Fersht and Satoshi Sato
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7976–7981. Published online 2004 May 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402684101.
PMCID: PMC419542
Cell Biology
Discovery and characterization of an epithelial-specific galectin in the endometrium that forms crystals in the trophectoderm
C. Allison Gray, David L. Adelson, Fuller W. Bazer, Robert C. Burghardt, Els N. T. Meeusen, and Thomas E. Spencer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7982–7987. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402669101.
PMCID: PMC419543
Cytomegalovirus cell death suppressor vMIA blocks Bax- but not Bak-mediated apoptosis by binding and sequestering Bax at mitochondria
Damien Arnoult, Laura M. Bartle, Anna Skaletskaya, Delphine Poncet, Naoufal Zamzami, Peter U. Park, Juanita Sharpe, Richard J. Youle, and Victor S. Goldmacher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7988–7993. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401897101.
PMCID: PMC419544
Inhibitor of κB kinase is required to activate a subset of interferon γ-stimulated genes
Nywana Sizemore, Anju Agarwal, Kingshuk Das, Natalia Lerner, Michael Sulak, Sandhya Rani, Richard Ransohoff, David Shultz, and George R. Stark
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7994–7998. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401593101.
PMCID: PMC419545
Methionine sulfoxide reductase regulation of yeast lifespan reveals reactive oxygen species-dependent and -independent components of aging
Ahmet Koc, Audrey P. Gasch, Julian C. Rutherford, Hwa-Young Kim, and Vadim N. Gladyshev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7999–8004. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0307929101.
PMCID: PMC419546
E-selectin is required for the antiangiogenic activity of endostatin
Ying Yu, Karen S. Moulton, Mohamed K. Khan, Sabrina Vineberg, Eileen Boye, Vannessa M. Davis, Peter E. O'Donnell, Joyce Bischoff, and David S. Milstone
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8005–8010. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402551101.
PMCID: PMC419547
Developmental Biology
Establishment of a normal medakafish spermatogonial cell line capable of sperm production in vitro
Yunhan Hong, Tongming Liu, Haobin Zhao, Hongyan Xu, Weijia Wang, Rong Liu, Tiansheng Chen, Jiaorong Deng, and Jianfang Gui
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8011–8016. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308668101.
PMCID: PMC419548
Anteriorization of neural fate by inhibitor of β-catenin and T cell factor (ICAT), a negative regulator of Wnt signaling
Kiyotoshi Satoh, Mana Kasai, Takefumi Ishidao, Kenichi Tago, Susumu Ohwada, Yoshimi Hasegawa, Takao Senda, Shinji Takada, Shigeyuki Nada, Tsutomu Nakamura, and Tetsu Akiyama
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8017–8021. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401733101.
PMCID: PMC419549
A balance between the diap1 death inhibitor and reaper and hid death inducers controls steroid-triggered cell death in Drosophila
Viravuth P. Yin and Carl S. Thummel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8022–8027. Published online 2004 May 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402647101.
PMCID: PMC419550
Endometrial calbindins are critical for embryo implantation: Evidence from in vivo use of morpholino antisense oligonucleotides
Kien C. Luu, Gui Ying Nie, and Lois A. Salamonsen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8028–8033. Published online 2004 May 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401069101.
PMCID: PMC419551
Telomere length is reset during early mammalian embryogenesis
Sonja Schaetzlein, Andrea Lucas-Hahn, Erika Lemme, Wilfried A. Kues, Martina Dorsch, Michael P. Manns, Heiner Niemann, and K. Lenhard Rudolph
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8034–8038. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402400101.
PMCID: PMC419552
Auxin regulation of cytokinin biosynthesis in Arabidopsis thaliana: A factor of potential importance for auxin–cytokinin-regulated development
Anders Nordström, Petr Tarkowski, Danuse Tarkowska, Rikke Norbaek, Crister Åstot, Karel Dolezal, and Göran Sandberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8039–8044. Published online 2004 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402504101.
PMCID: PMC419553
Ecology
From the Cover:
Formicine ants: An arthropod source for the pumiliotoxin alkaloids of dendrobatid poison frogs
Ralph A. Saporito, H. Martin Garraffo, Maureen A. Donnelly, Adam L. Edwards, John T. Longino, and John W. Daly
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8045–8050. Published online 2004 May 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402365101.
PMCID: PMC419554
Previous-year reproduction reduces photosynthetic capacity and slows lifetime growth in females of a neotropical tree
Nathaniel T. Wheelwright and Barry A. Logan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8051–8055. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402735101.
PMCID: PMC419555
Evolution
Cretaceous flowers of Nymphaeaceae and implications for complex insect entrapment pollination mechanisms in early Angiosperms
M. A. Gandolfo, K. C. Nixon, and W. L. Crepet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8056–8060. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402473101.
PMCID: PMC419556
Genetic variation in cancer predisposition: Mutational decay of a robust genetic control network
Steven A. Frank
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8061–8065. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400561101.
PMCID: PMC419557
From the Cover:
The twilight of Heliozoa and rise of Rhizaria, an emerging supergroup of amoeboid eukaryotes
Sergey I. Nikolaev, Cédric Berney, José F. Fahrni, Ignacio Bolivar, Stephane Polet, Alexander P. Mylnikov, Vladimir V. Aleshin, Nikolai B. Petrov, and Jan Pawlowski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8066–8071. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308602101.
PMCID: PMC419558
The evolution of a pleiotropic fitness tradeoff in Pseudomonas fluorescens
R. Craig MacLean, Graham Bell, and Paul B. Rainey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8072–8077. Published online 2004 May 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0307195101.
PMCID: PMC419559
Genetics
Identification of Ald6p as the target of a class of small-molecule suppressors of FK506 and their use in network dissection
Rebecca A. Butcher and Stuart L. Schreiber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 7868–7873. Published online 2004 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402317101.
PMCID: PMC419523
Cti1/C1D interacts with condensin SMC hinge and supports the DNA repair function of condensin
Ee Sin Chen, Takashi Sutani, and Mitsuhiro Yanagida
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8078–8083. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0307976101.
PMCID: PMC419560
Measurements of age-related changes of physiological processes that predict lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans
Cheng Huang, Chengjie Xiong, and Kerry Kornfeld
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8084–8089. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400848101.
PMCID: PMC419561
SIX1 mutations cause branchio-oto-renal syndrome by disruption of EYA1–SIX1–DNA complexes
Rainer G. Ruf, Pin-Xian Xu, Derek Silvius, Edgar A. Otto, Frank Beekmann, Ulla T. Muerb, Shrawan Kumar, Thomas J. Neuhaus, Markus J. Kemper, Richard M. Raymond, Jr., Patrick D. Brophy, Jennifer Berkman, Michael Gattas, Valentine Hyland, Eva-Maria Ruf, Charles Schwartz, Eugene H. Chang, Richard J. H. Smith, Constantine A. Stratakis, Dominique Weil, Christine Petit, and Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8090–8095. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0308475101.
PMCID: PMC419562
The minimal promoter plays a major role in silencing of the galago γ-globin gene in adult erythropoiesis
Qiliang Li, Xiangdong Fang, Hemei Han, and George Stamatoyannopoulos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8096–8101. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402594101.
PMCID: PMC419563
Immunology
Natural killer cells distinguish innocuous and destructive forms of pancreatic islet autoimmunity
Laurent Poirot, Christophe Benoist, and Diane Mathis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8102–8107. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402065101.
PMCID: PMC419564
Unique CD40-mediated biological program in B cell activation requires both type 1 and type 2 NF-κB activation pathways
Brian Zarnegar, Jeannie Q. He, Gagik Oganesyan, Alexander Hoffmann, David Baltimore, and Genhong Cheng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8108–8113. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402629101.
PMCID: PMC419565
The structure of a yeast RNA-editing deaminase provides insight into the fold and function of activation-induced deaminase and APOBEC-1
Kefang Xie, Mark P. Sowden, Geoffrey S. C. Dance, Andrew T. Torelli, Harold C. Smith, and Joseph E. Wedekind
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8114–8119. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400493101.
PMCID: PMC419566
Inhibition of acute graft-versus-host disease with retention of graft-versus-tumor effects by the proteasome inhibitor bortezomib
Kai Sun, Lisbeth A. Welniak, Angela Panoskaltsis-Mortari, Matthew J. O'Shaughnessy, Haiyan Liu, Isabel Barao, William Riordan, Raquel Sitcheran, Christian Wysocki, Jonathan S. Serody, Bruce R. Blazar, Thomas J. Sayers, and William J. Murphy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8120–8125. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401563101.
PMCID: PMC419567
NFAM1, an immunoreceptor tyrosine-based activation motif-bearing molecule that regulates B cell development and signaling
Makoto Ohtsuka, Hisashi Arase, Arata Takeuchi, Sho Yamasaki, Ritsuko Shiina, Tadahiro Suenaga, Daiju Sakurai, Tadashi Yokosuka, Noriko Arase, Makio Iwashima, Toshio Kitamura, Hideshige Moriya, and Takashi Saito
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8126–8131. Published online 2004 May 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401119101.
PMCID: PMC419568
Medical Sciences
Hypoxia induces adhesion molecules on cancer cells: A missing link between Warburg effect and induction of selectin-ligand carbohydrates
Tetsufumi Koike, Naoko Kimura, Keiko Miyazaki, Tomonori Yabuta, Kensuke Kumamoto, Seiichi Takenoshita, Jian Chen, Masanobu Kobayashi, Masuo Hosokawa, Akiyoshi Taniguchi, Tetsuhito Kojima, Nobuhiro Ishida, Masao Kawakita, Harumi Yamamoto, Hiromu Takematsu, Akemi Suzuki, Yasunori Kozutsumi, and Reiji Kanangi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8132–8137. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402088101.
PMCID: PMC419569
Leptin modulates β cell expression of IL-1 receptor antagonist and release of IL-1β in human islets
Kathrin Maedler, Pavel Sergeev, Jan A. Ehses, Zoltan Mathe, Domenico Bosco, Thierry Berney, Jean-Michel Dayer, Manfred Reinecke, Philippe A. Halban, and Marc Y. Donath
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8138–8143. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0305683101.
PMCID: PMC419570
Lessons from border cell migration in the Drosophila ovary: A role for myosin VI in dissemination of human ovarian cancer
Hiroyuki Yoshida, Wenjun Cheng, Jamie Hung, Denise Montell, Erika Geisbrecht, Daniel Rosen, Jinsong Liu, and Honami Naora
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8144–8149. Published online 2004 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400400101.
PMCID: PMC419571
Reversal of cystic fibrosis phenotype in a cultured Δ508 cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator cell line by oligonucleotide insertion
Paul C. Zamecnik, Malay K. Raychowdhury, David R. Tabatadze, and Horacio F. Cantiello
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8150–8155. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401933101.
PMCID: PMC419572
Microbiology
H5N1 influenza: A protean pandemic threat
Y. Guan, L. L. M. Poon, C. Y. Cheung, T. M. Ellis, W. Lim, A. S. Lipatov, K. H. Chan, K. M. Sturm-Ramirez, C. L. Cheung, Y. H. C. Leung, K. Y. Yuen, R. G. Webster, and J. S. M. Peiris
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8156–8161. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402443101.
PMCID: PMC419573
Neuroscience
Forebrain degeneration and ventricle enlargement caused by double knockout of Alzheimer's presenilin-1 and presenilin-2
Ruiben Feng, Huimin Wang, Jianlin Wang, David Shrom, Xuemei Zeng, and Joe Z. Tsien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8162–8167. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402733101.
PMCID: PMC419574
Molecular changes in neurons in multiple sclerosis: Altered axonal expression of Nav1.2 and Nav1.6 sodium channels and Na+/Ca2+ exchanger
Matthew J. Craner, Jia Newcombe, Joel A. Black, Caroline Hartle, M. Louise Cuzner, and Stephen G. Waxman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8168–8173. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402765101.
PMCID: PMC419575
From the Cover:
Dynamic mapping of human cortical development during childhood through early adulthood
Nitin Gogtay, Jay N. Giedd, Leslie Lusk, Kiralee M. Hayashi, Deanna Greenstein, A. Catherine Vaituzis, Tom F. Nugent, III, David H. Herman, Liv S. Clasen, Arthur W. Toga, Judith L. Rapoport, and Paul M. Thompson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8174–8179. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402680101.
PMCID: PMC419576
T cell deficiency leads to cognitive dysfunction: Implications for therapeutic vaccination for schizophrenia and other psychiatric conditions
Jonathan Kipnis, Hagit Cohen, Michal Cardon, Yaniv Ziv, and Michal Schwartz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8180–8185. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402268101.
PMCID: PMC419577
Norepinephrine-deficient mice lack responses to antidepressant drugs, including selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors
John F. Cryan, Olivia F. O'Leary, Sung-Ha Jin, Julie C. Friedland, Ming Ouyang, Bradford R. Hirsch, Michelle E. Page, Ashutosh Dalvi, Steven A. Thomas, and Irwin Lucki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8186–8191. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401080101.
PMCID: PMC419578
Hippocampal long-term depression and long-term potentiation encode different aspects of novelty acquisition
Anne Kemp and Denise Manahan-Vaughan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8192–8197. Published online 2004 May 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402650101.
PMCID: PMC419579
Pharmacology
A steroid modulatory domain on NR2B controls N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor proton sensitivity
Ming-Kuei Jang, Dale F. Mierke, Shelley J. Russek, and David H. Farb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8198–8203. Published online 2004 May 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401838101.
PMCID: PMC419580
Physiology
Placental-specific insulin-like growth factor 2 (Igf2) regulates the diffusional exchange characteristics of the mouse placenta
C. P. Sibley, P. M. Coan, A. C. Ferguson-Smith, W. Dean, J. Hughes, P. Smith, W. Reik, G. J. Burton, A. L. Fowden, and M. Constância
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8204–8208. Published online 2004 May 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402508101.
PMCID: PMC419581
Dehydroepiandrosterone and allopregnanolone protect sympathoadrenal medulla cells against apoptosis via antiapoptotic Bcl-2 proteins
Ioannis Charalampopoulos, Christos Tsatsanis, Erene Dermitzaki, Vasilia-Ismini Alexaki, Elias Castanas, Andrew N. Margioris, and Achille Gravanis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8209–8214. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0306631101.
PMCID: PMC419582
Proximal renal tubular acidosis in TASK2 K+ channel-deficient mice reveals a mechanism for stabilizing bicarbonate transport
Richard Warth, Hervé Barrière, Pierre Meneton, May Bloch, Jörg Thomas, Michel Tauc, Dirk Heitzmann, Elisa Romeo, François Verrey, Raymond Mengual, Nicolas Guy, Saïd Bendahhou, Florian Lesage, Philippe Poujeol, and Jacques Barhanin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8215–8220. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400081101.
PMCID: PMC419583
Rescuing cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)-processing mutants by transcomplementation
Estelle Cormet-Boyaka, Michael Jablonsky, Anjaparavanda P. Naren, Patricia L. Jackson, Donald D. Muccio, and Kevin L. Kirk
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8221–8226. Published online 2004 May 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400459101.
PMCID: PMC419584
Genetic deletion of ghrelin does not decrease food intake but influences metabolic fuel preference
Katherine E. Wortley, Keith D. Anderson, Karen Garcia, Jane D. Murray, Lubomira Malinova, Rong Liu, Marshena Moncrieffe, Karen Thabet, Hilary J. Cox, George D. Yancopoulos, Stanley J. Wiegand, and Mark W. Sleeman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8227–8232. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402763101.
PMCID: PMC419585
Plant Biology
A gene cluster for secondary metabolism in oat: Implications for the evolution of metabolic diversity in plants
X. Qi, S. Bakht, M. Leggett, C. Maxwell, R. Melton, and A. Osbourn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8233–8238. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401301101.
PMCID: PMC419586
Suppression of pathogen-inducible NO synthase (iNOS) activity in tomato increases susceptibility to Pseudomonas syringae
Meena R. Chandok, Sophia K. Ekengren, Gregory B. Martin, and Daniel F. Klessig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8239–8244. Published online 2004 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402344101.
PMCID: PMC419587
Camalexin is synthesized from indole-3-acetaldoxime, a key branching point between primary and secondary metabolism in Arabidopsis
Erich Glawischnig, Bjarne Gram Hansen, Carl Erik Olsen, and Barbara Ann Halkier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8245–8250. Published online 2004 May 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0305876101.
PMCID: PMC419588
Population Biology
Coral decline threatens fish biodiversity in marine reserves
Geoffrey P. Jones, Mark I. McCormick, Maya Srinivasan, and Janelle V. Eagle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8251–8253. Published online 2004 May 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401277101.
PMCID: PMC419589
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 25; 101(21): 8254. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402658101.
PMCID: PMC419590
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