| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Editorial An open access option for PNAS Nicholas R. Cozzarelli PMCID: PMC423221 Commentaries Bacteria make tracks to the pole Aretha Fiebig and Julie A. Theriot PMCID: PMC423222 Endocannabinoids: Getting the message across Bradley E. Alger PMCID: PMC423223 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences A generalization of the Π-theorem and dimensional analysis Ain A. Sonin PMCID: PMC423226 Chemistry Selective deposition of a gadolinium(III) cluster in a hole opening of single-wall carbon nanohorn Ayako Hashimoto, Hideki Yorimitsu, Kumiko Ajima, Kazutomo Suenaga, Hiroyuki Isobe, Jin Miyawaki, Masako Yudasaka, Sumio Iijima, and Eiichi Nakamura PMCID: PMC423227 The cholesterol membrane anchor of the Hedgehog protein confers stable membrane association to lipid-modified proteins Carsten Peters, Alexander Wolf, Melanie Wagner, Jürgen Kuhlmann, and Herbert Waldmann PMCID: PMC423228 From the Cover:
Microtubule-stabilizing agents based on designed laulimalide analogues Susan L. Mooberry, Deborah A. Randall-Hlubek, Rachel M. Leal, Sayee G. Hegde, Robert D. Hubbard, Lei Zhang, and Paul A. Wender PMCID: PMC423276 Geophysics Changing concentrations of CO, CH4, C5H8, CH3Br, CH3I, and dimethyl sulfide during the Southern Ocean Iron Enrichment Experiments Oliver W. Wingenter, Karl B. Haase, Peter Strutton, Gernot Friederich, Simone Meinardi, Donald R. Blake, and F. Sherwood Rowland PMCID: PMC423229 Physics Dry granular flows can generate surface features resembling those seen in Martian gullies Troy Shinbrot, N.-H. Duong, L. Kwan, and M. M. Alvarez PMCID: PMC423230 Stability and dynamics of crystals and glasses of motorized particles Tongye Shen and Peter G. Wolynes PMCID: PMC423231 Biological Sciences Biochemistry Sumoylation of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoproteins, zinc finger proteins, and nuclear pore complex proteins: A proteomic analysis Tianwei Li, Evgenij Evdokimov, Rong-Fong Shen, Chien-Chung Chao, Ephrem Tekle, Tao Wang, Earl R. Stadtman, David C. H. Yang, and P. Boon Chock PMCID: PMC423232 Ferritin reactions: Direct identification of the site for the diferric peroxide reaction intermediate Xiaofeng Liu and Elizabeth C. Theil PMCID: PMC423233 Structural basis for nicotinamide cleavage and ADP-ribose transfer by NAD+-dependent Sir2 histone/protein deacetylases Kehao Zhao, Robyn Harshaw, Xiaomei Chai, and Ronen Marmorstein PMCID: PMC423234 Crystal structure of nickel-containing superoxide dismutase reveals another type of active site Jochen Wuerges, Jin-Won Lee, Yang-In Yim, Hyung-Soon Yim, Sa-Ouk Kang, and Kristina Djinovic Carugo PMCID: PMC423235 Crystal structure of the Deinococcus radiodurans single-stranded DNA-binding protein suggests a mechanism for coping with DNA damage Douglas A. Bernstein, Julie M. Eggington, Michael P. Killoran, Ana M. Misic, Michael M. Cox, and James L. Keck PMCID: PMC423236 Polyadenylation of rRNA in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Letian Kuai, Feng Fang, J. Scott Butler, and Fred Sherman PMCID: PMC423237 The linker-loop region of Escherichia coli chaperone Hsp31 functions as a gate that modulates high-affinity substrate binding at elevated temperatures M. S. R. Sastry, Paulene M. Quigley, Wim G. J. Hol, and François Baneyx PMCID: PMC423238 Artificially ambiguous genetic code confers growth yield advantage V. Pezo, D. Metzgar, T. L. Hendrickson, W. F. Waas, S. Hazebrouck, V. Döring, P. Marlière, P. Schimmel, and V. de Crécy-Lagard PMCID: PMC423239 Trans-4-hydroxy-2-nonenal inhibits nucleotide excision repair in human cells: A possible mechanism for lipid peroxidation-induced carcinogenesis Zhaohui Feng, Wenwei Hu, and Moon-shong Tang PMCID: PMC423240 β-Arrestin inhibits NF-κB activity by means of its interaction with the NF-κB inhibitor IκBα D. Scott Witherow, Tiffany Runyan Garrison, William E. Miller, and Robert J. Lefkowitz PMCID: PMC423241 DNA axial rotation and the merge of oppositely supercoiled DNA domains in Escherichia coli: Effects of DNA bends Vera A. Stupina and James C. Wang PMCID: PMC423242 Seven in absentia homolog 1A mediates ubiquitination and degradation of group 1 metabotropic glutamate receptors Koki Moriyoshi, Kouichirou Iijima, Hajime Fujii, Hiroshi Ito, Yoshimi Cho, and Shigetada Nakanishi PMCID: PMC423243 The 5′-HS4 chicken β-globin insulator is a CTCF-dependent nuclear matrix-associated element Timur M. Yusufzai and Gary Felsenfeld PMCID: PMC423244 Activation of Aurora-A kinase by protein phosphatase inhibitor-2, a bifunctional signaling protein David L. Satinover, Craig A. Leach, P. Todd Stukenberg, and David L. Brautigan PMCID: PMC423245 Involvement of a bifunctional fatty-acyl desaturase in the biosynthesis of the silkmoth, Bombyx mori, sex pheromone Ken'ichi Moto, Masataka G. Suzuki, J. Joe Hull, Ryuichiro Kurata, Shunya Takahashi, Masanobu Yamamoto, Kazuhiro Okano, Kiyohiro Imai, Tetsu Ando, and Shogo Matsumoto PMCID: PMC423246 Biophysics Heme axial methionine fluxionality in Hydrogenobacter thermophilus cytochrome c552 Linghao Zhong, Xin Wen, Terry M. Rabinowitz, Brandy S. Russell, Elizabeth F. Karan, and Kara L. Bren PMCID: PMC423247 Cell Biology From the Cover:
An actin-like gene can determine cell polarity in bacteria Zemer Gitai, Natalie Dye, and Lucy Shapiro PMCID: PMC423248 Ecology INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Biography of Juan Carlos Castilla Christen Brownlee PMCID: PMC423224 INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Invasion of a rocky intertidal shore by the tunicate Pyura praeputialis in the Bay of Antofagasta, Chile Juan Carlos Castilla, Ricardo Guiñez, Andrés U. Caro, and Verónica Ortiz PMCID: PMC423225 Evolution Egg viability and worker policing in honey bees Christian W. W. Pirk, Peter Neumann, Randall Hepburn, Robin F. A. Moritz, and Jürgen Tautz PMCID: PMC423249 Genetics Mutations of ephrin-B1 (EFNB1), a marker of tissue boundary formation, cause craniofrontonasal syndrome Stephen R. F. Twigg, Rui Kan, Christian Babbs, Elena G. Bochukova, Stephen P. Robertson, Steven A. Wall, Gillian M. Morriss-Kay, and Andrew O. M. Wilkie PMCID: PMC423250 From the Cover:
A genome-wide screen for Saccharomyces cerevisiae deletion mutants that affect telomere length Syed H. Askree, Tal Yehuda, Sarit Smolikov, Raya Gurevich, Joshua Hawk, Carrie Coker, Anat Krauskopf, Martin Kupiec, and Michael J. McEachern PMCID: PMC423251 Bardet–Biedl syndrome type 4 (BBS4)-null mice implicate Bbs4 in flagella formation but not global cilia assembly Kirk Mykytyn, Robert F. Mullins, Michael Andrews, Annie P. Chiang, Ruth E. Swiderski, Baoli Yang, Terry Braun, Thomas Casavant, Edwin M. Stone, and Val C. Sheffield PMCID: PMC423252 Immunology Distinct migrating and nonmigrating dendritic cell populations are involved in MHC class I-restricted antigen presentation after lung infection with virus Gabrielle T. Belz, Christopher M. Smith, Lauren Kleinert, Patrick Reading, Andrew Brooks, Ken Shortman, Francis R. Carbone, and William R. Heath PMCID: PMC423253 Medical Sciences Inhibition of influenza virus production in virus-infected mice by RNA interference Qing Ge, Lily Filip, Ailin Bai, Tam Nguyen, Herman N. Eisen, and Jianzhu Chen PMCID: PMC423254 Protection against lethal influenza virus challenge by RNA interference in vivo Stephen Mark Tompkins, Chia-Yun Lo, Terrence M. Tumpey, and Suzanne L. Epstein PMCID: PMC423255 Down-regulation of Smad7 expression by ubiquitin-dependent degradation contributes to renal fibrosis in obstructive nephropathy in mice Hirotaka Fukasawa, Tatsuo Yamamoto, Akashi Togawa, Naro Ohashi, Yoshihide Fujigaki, Toshiaki Oda, Chiharu Uchida, Kyoko Kitagawa, Takayuki Hattori, Sayuri Suzuki, Masatoshi Kitagawa, and Akira Hishida PMCID: PMC423256 Molecular imaging of gene expression in living subjects by spliceosome-mediated RNA trans-splicing S. Bhaumik, Z. Walls, M. Puttaraju, L. G. Mitchell, and S. S. Gambhir PMCID: PMC423257 Lethality to human cancer cells through massive chromosome loss by inhibition of the mitotic checkpoint Geert J. P. L. Kops, Daniel R. Foltz, and Don W. Cleveland PMCID: PMC423258 Humanized anti-CD25 (daclizumab) inhibits disease activity in multiple sclerosis patients failing to respond to interferon β Bibiana Bielekova, Nancy Richert, Thomas Howard, Gregg Blevins, Silva Markovic-Plese, Jennifer McCartin, Jens Würfel, Joan Ohayon, Thomas A. Waldmann, Henry F. McFarland, and Roland Martin PMCID: PMC423259 Structural characterization of the fusion-active complex of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) coronavirus Paolo Ingallinella, Elisabetta Bianchi, Marco Finotto, Giovanna Cantoni, Debra M. Eckert, Vinit M. Supekar, Chiara Bruckmann, Andrea Carfi, and Antonello Pessi PMCID: PMC423260 Gene expression alterations over large chromosomal regions in cancers include multiple genes unrelated to malignant progression Brett G. Masayesva, Patrick Ha, Elizabeth Garrett-Mayer, Thomas Pilkington, Rong Mao, Jonathan Pevsner, Traci Speed, Nicole Benoit, Chul-So Moon, David Sidransky, William H. Westra, and Joseph Califano PMCID: PMC423261 Microbiology Plasmodium falciparum cysteine protease falcipain-1 is not essential in erythrocytic stage malaria parasites Puran S. Sijwali, Kentaro Kato, Karl B. Seydel, Jiri Gut, Julie Lehman, Michael Klemba, Daniel E. Goldberg, Louis H. Miller, and Philip J. Rosenthal PMCID: PMC423262 CD4 on CD8+ T cells directly enhances effector function and is a target for HIV infection Scott G. Kitchen, Nicole R. Jones, Stuart LaForge, Jason K. Whitmire, Bien-Aimee Vu, Zoran Galic, David G. Brooks, Stephen J. Brown, Christina M. R. Kitchen, and Jerome A. Zack PMCID: PMC423263 Bile acids are essential for porcine enteric calicivirus replication in association with down-regulation of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 Kyeong-Ok Chang, Stanislav V. Sosnovtsev, Gaël Belliot, Yunjeong Kim, Linda J. Saif, and Kim Y. Green PMCID: PMC423264 Antigen selection based on expression levels during infection facilitates vaccine development for an intracellular pathogen Claudia Rollenhagen, Meike Sörensen, Konstantin Rizos, Robert Hurvitz, and Dirk Bumann PMCID: PMC423265 Neuroscience From the Cover:
The statistical structure of natural light patterns determines perceived light intensity Zhiyong Yang and Dale Purves PMCID: PMC437094 The LIM-homeodomain protein Lhx2 is required for complete development of mouse olfactory sensory neurons Junji Hirota and Peter Mombaerts PMCID: PMC423267 From the Cover:
Anandamide transport is independent of fatty-acid amide hydrolase activity and is blocked by the hydrolysis-resistant inhibitor AM1172 D. Fegley, S. Kathuria, R. Mercier, C. Li, A. Goutopoulos, A. Makriyannis, and D. Piomelli PMCID: PMC423268 Lethal impairment of cholinergic neurotransmission in hemicholinium-3-sensitive choline transporter knockout mice Shawn M. Ferguson, Mihaela Bazalakova, Valentina Savchenko, Juan Carlos Tapia, Jane Wright, and Randy D. Blakely PMCID: PMC423269 Two Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease agents reproduce prion protein-independent identities in cell cultures Alvaro Arjona, Laura Simarro, Florian Islinger, Noriyuki Nishida, and Laura Manuelidis PMCID: PMC423270 Neurotrophins regulate Schwann cell migration by activating divergent signaling pathways dependent on Rho GTPases Junji Yamauchi, Jonah R. Chan, and Eric M. Shooter PMCID: PMC423271 Bilayers merge even when exocytosis is transient Justin W. Taraska and Wolfhard Almers PMCID: PMC423272 The phosphodiesterase inhibitor rolipram delivered after a spinal cord lesion promotes axonal regeneration and functional recovery Elena Nikulina, J. Lille Tidwell, Hai Ning Dai, Barbara S. Bregman, and Marie T. Filbin PMCID: PMC423273 Nitrous oxide (N2O) requires the N-methyl-d-aspartate receptor for its action in Caenorhabditis elegans P. Nagele, L. B. Metz, and C. M. Crowder PMCID: PMC423274 Pharmacology Long-term combined beneficial effects of physical training and metabolic treatment on atherosclerosis in hypercholesterolemic mice Claudio Napoli, Sharon Williams-Ignarro, Filomena de Nigris, Lilach O. Lerman, Loredana Rossi, Carmen Guarino, Gelsomina Mansueto, Francesco Di Tuoro, Orlando Pignalosa, Gaetano De Rosa, Vincenzo Sica, and Louis J. Ignarro PMCID: PMC423275 From the Cover:
Microtubule-stabilizing agents based on designed laulimalide analogues Susan L. Mooberry, Deborah A. Randall-Hlubek, Rachel M. Leal, Sayee G. Hegde, Robert D. Hubbard, Lei Zhang, and Paul A. Wender PMCID: PMC423276 Physiology ATM, a DNA damage-inducible kinase, contributes to activation by high NaCl of the transcription factor TonEBP/OREBP Carlos E. Irarrazabal, Jennifer C. Liu, Maurice B. Burg, and Joan D. Ferraris PMCID: PMC423277 Differences in signaling pathways by IL-1β and IL-18 Jae-Kwon Lee, Soo-Hyun Kim, Eli C. Lewis, Tania Azam, Leonid L. Reznikov, and Charles A. Dinarello PMCID: PMC423278 Plant Biology In planta functions of the Arabidopsis cytokinin receptor family Masayuki Higuchi, Melissa S. Pischke, Ari Pekka Mähönen, Kaori Miyawaki, Yukari Hashimoto, Motoaki Seki, Masatomo Kobayashi, Kazuo Shinozaki, Tomohiko Kato, Satoshi Tabata, Ykä Helariutta, Michael R. Sussman, and Tatsuo Kakimoto PMCID: PMC423279 Hydrogen peroxide mediates plant root cell response to nutrient deprivation Ryoung Shin and Daniel P. Schachtman PMCID: PMC423280 Variation in xylem structure from tropics to tundra: Evidence from vestured pits Steven Jansen, Pieter Baas, Peter Gasson, Frederic Lens, and Erik Smets PMCID: PMC423281 Correction Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 June 8; 101(23): 8838. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403146101.PMCID: PMC423282 Corrects: André Kempe, et al. Atomic force microscopy of Precambrian microscopic fossils. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 July 9; 99(14): 9117–9120. |
