| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 9; 103(19): 7199–7200. doi: 10.1073/iti1906103.PMCID: PMC1464319 Commentaries The infectious kiss: Newly infected B cells deliver Epstein–Barr virus to epithelial cells Georg W. Bornkamm, Uta Behrends, and Josef Mautner PMCID: PMC1464320 A unified theory for the basis of the limitations of the primary reaction of photosynthetic CO2 fixation: Was Dr. Pangloss right? Steven Gutteridge and John Pierce PMCID: PMC1464321 A time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy glimpse into the oxygen-evolving complex of photosynthesis Terry M. Bricker PMCID: PMC1464322 Profile Profile of David W. Schindler Nick Zagorski PMCID: PMC1564277 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences Energy landscape view of phase transitions and slow dynamics in thermotropic liquid crystals Dwaipayan Chakrabarti and Biman Bagchi PMCID: PMC1464323 Chemistry From the Cover:
Force-dependent chemical kinetics of disulfide bond reduction observed with single-molecule techniques Arun P. Wiita, Sri Rama Koti Ainavarapu, Hector H. Huang, and Julio M. Fernandez PMCID: PMC1464324 Engineering Multivortex micromixing Arjun P. Sudarsan and Victor M. Ugaz PMCID: PMC1464325 Environmental Sciences INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces D. W. Schindler and W. F. Donahue PMCID: PMC1564278 Physics Diffusion of isolated DNA molecules: Dependence on length and topology Rae M. Robertson, Stephan Laib, and Douglas E. Smith PMCID: PMC1450111 Biological Sciences Anthropology Admixture dynamics in Hispanics: A shift in the nuclear genetic ancestry of a South American population isolate Gabriel Bedoya, Patricia Montoya, Jenny García, Ivan Soto, Stephane Bourgeois, Luis Carvajal, Damian Labuda, Victor Alvarez, Jorge Ospina, Philip W. Hedrick, and Andrés Ruiz-Linares PMCID: PMC1464326 Applied Biological Sciences From the Cover:
Microfabricated bioprocessor for integrated nanoliter-scale Sanger DNA sequencing Robert G. Blazej, Palani Kumaresan, and Richard A. Mathies PMCID: PMC1464327 Biochemistry From the Cover:
Despite slow catalysis and confused substrate specificity, all ribulose bisphosphate carboxylases may be nearly perfectly optimized Guillaume G. B. Tcherkez, Graham D. Farquhar, and T. John Andrews PMCID: PMC1464328 Dimerization and interactions of Brucella suis VirB8 with VirB4 and VirB10 are required for its biological activity Athanasios Paschos, Gilles Patey, Durga Sivanesan, Chan Gao, Richard Bayliss, Gabriel Waksman, David O'Callaghan, and Christian Baron PMCID: PMC1464329 Basic requirements for a metal-binding site in a protein: The influence of loop shortening on the cupredoxin azurin Chan Li, Sachiko Yanagisawa, Berta M. Martins, Albrecht Messerschmidt, Mark J. Banfield, and Christopher Dennison PMCID: PMC1464330 Stat3 activation of NF-κB p100 processing involves CBP/p300-mediated acetylation Nagalakshmi Nadiminty, Wei Lou, Soo Ok Lee, Xin Lin, Donald L. Trump, and Allen C. Gao PMCID: PMC1464331 Na+/monocarboxylate transport (SMCT) protein expression correlates with survival in colon cancer: Molecular characterization of SMCT Viktoriya Paroder, Shelly R. Spencer, Monika Paroder, Diego Arango, Simo Schwartz, Jr., John M. Mariadason, Leonard H. Augenlicht, Sepehr Eskandari, and Nancy Carrasco PMCID: PMC1456061 Transcription regulatory elements are punctuation marks for DNA replication Ekaterina V. Mirkin, Daniel Castro Roa, Evgeny Nudler, and Sergei M. Mirkin PMCID: PMC1464333 The brain-specific carnitine palmitoyltransferase-1c regulates energy homeostasis Michael J. Wolfgang, Takeshi Kurama, Yun Dai, Akira Suwa, Makoto Asaumi, Shun-ichiro Matsumoto, Seung Hun Cha, Teruhiko Shimokawa, and M. Daniel Lane PMCID: PMC1564279 Biophysics Time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy detects protein-based intermediates in the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving cycle Bridgette A. Barry, Ian B. Cooper, Antonio De Riso, Scott H. Brewer, Dung M. Vu, and R. Brian Dyer PMCID: PMC1464334 Voltage sensor conformations in the open and closed states in rosetta structural models of K+ channels Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, David Baker, and William A. Catterall PMCID: PMC1464335 Flexibly varying folding mechanism of a nearly symmetrical protein: B domain of protein A Kazuhito Itoh and Masaki Sasai PMCID: PMC1564280 Predicting stochastic gene expression dynamics in single cells Jerome T. Mettetal, Dale Muzzey, Juan M. Pedraza, Ertugrul M. Ozbudak, and Alexander van Oudenaarden PMCID: PMC1464336 Diffusion of isolated DNA molecules: Dependence on length and topology Rae M. Robertson, Stephan Laib, and Douglas E. Smith PMCID: PMC1450111 Cell Biology Growth hormone promotes skeletal muscle cell fusion independent of insulin-like growth factor 1 up-regulation Athanassia Sotiropoulos, Mickaël Ohanna, Cécile Kedzia, Ram K. Menon, John J. Kopchick, Paul A. Kelly, and Mario Pende PMCID: PMC1456062 Bone-marrow-derived stem cells repair basement membrane collagen defects and reverse genetic kidney disease Hikaru Sugimoto, Thomas M. Mundel, Malin Sund, Liang Xie, Dominic Cosgrove, and Raghu Kalluri PMCID: PMC1464339 Modulatory calcineurin-interacting proteins 1 and 2 function as calcineurin facilitators in vivo Bastiano Sanna, Eric B. Brandt, Robert A. Kaiser, Paul Pfluger, Sandy A. Witt, Thomas R. Kimball, Eva van Rooij, Leon J. De Windt, Marc E. Rothenberg, Matthias H. Tschop, Stephen C. Benoit, and Jeffery D. Molkentin PMCID: PMC1464340 Developmental Biology Progestin is an essential factor for the initiation of the meiosis in spermatogenetic cells of the eel Takeshi Miura, Masato Higuchi, Yuichi Ozaki, Takashi Ohta, and Chiemi Miura PMCID: PMC1464341 Inadequate histone deacetylation during oocyte meiosis causes aneuploidy and embryo death in mice Tomohiko Akiyama, Masao Nagata, and Fugaku Aoki PMCID: PMC1464342 Essential role of retinoblastoma protein in mammalian hair cell development and hearing Cyrille Sage, Mingqian Huang, Melissa A. Vollrath, M. Christian Brown, Philip W. Hinds, David P. Corey, Douglas E. Vetter, and Zheng-Yi Chen PMCID: PMC1450112 Ecology On the Pleistocene extinctions of Alaskan mammoths and horses Andrew R. Solow, David L. Roberts, and Karen M. Robbirt PMCID: PMC1464344 Environmental Sciences INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: An impending water crisis in Canada's western prairie provinces D. W. Schindler and W. F. Donahue PMCID: PMC1564278 Evolution Post-Miocene expansion, colonization, and host switching drove speciation among extant nematodes of the archaic genus Trichinella D. S. Zarlenga, B. M. Rosenthal, G. La Rosa, E. Pozio, and E. P. Hoberg PMCID: PMC1464345 Phylogeny, evolution, and biogeography of Asiatic Salamanders (Hynobiidae) Peng Zhang, Yue-Qin Chen, Hui Zhou, Yi-Fei Liu, Xiu-Ling Wang, Theodore J. Papenfuss, David B. Wake, and Liang-Hu Qu PMCID: PMC1464346 There is no universal molecular clock for invertebrates, but rate variation does not scale with body size Jessica A. Thomas, John J. Welch, Megan Woolfit, and Lindell Bromham PMCID: PMC1464347 Self-recognition, color signals, and cycles of greenbeard mutualism and altruism Barry Sinervo, Alexis Chaine, Jean Clobert, Ryan Calsbeek, Lisa Hazard, Lesley Lancaster, Andrew G. McAdam, Suzanne Alonzo, Gwynne Corrigan, and Michael E. Hochberg PMCID: PMC1564281 Genetics XRCC4 suppresses medulloblastomas with recurrent translocations in p53-deficient mice Catherine T. Yan, Dhruv Kaushal, Michael Murphy, Yu Zhang, Abhishek Datta, Changzhong Chen, Brianna Monroe, Gustavo Mostoslavsky, Kristen Coakley, Yijie Gao, Kevin D. Mills, Alex P. Fazeli, Suprawee Tepsuporn, Giles Hall, Richard Mulligan, Edward Fox, Roderick Bronson, Umberto De Girolami, Charles Lee, and Frederick W. Alt PMCID: PMC1464348 Groucho/transducin-like Enhancer-of-split (TLE)-dependent and -independent transcriptional regulation by Runx3 Merav Yarmus, Eilon Woolf, Yael Bernstein, Ofer Fainaru, Varda Negreanu, Ditsa Levanon, and Yoram Groner PMCID: PMC1464349 An essential role for the DXPas34 tandem repeat and Tsix transcription in the counting process of X chromosome inactivation Sébastien Vigneau, Sandrine Augui, Pablo Navarro, Philip Avner, and Philippe Clerc PMCID: PMC1464350 Immunology Tracking germinal center B cells expressing germ-line immunoglobulin γ1 transcripts by conditional gene targeting Stefano Casola, Giorgio Cattoretti, Nathalie Uyttersprot, Sergei B. Koralov, Jane Seagal, Zhenyue Hao, Ari Waisman, Angela Egert, Dvora Ghitza, and Klaus Rajewsky PMCID: PMC1464351 Medical Sciences Proteomic identification of oncogenic chromosomal translocation partners encoding chimeric anaplastic lymphoma kinase fusion proteins Kojo S. J. Elenitoba-Johnson, David K. Crockett, Jonathan A. Schumacher, Stephen D. Jenson, Cheryl M. Coffin, Alan L. Rockwood, and Megan S. Lim PMCID: PMC1464352 Construction and characterization of infectious intragenotypic and intergenotypic hepatitis C virus chimeras Thomas Pietschmann, Artur Kaul, George Koutsoudakis, Anna Shavinskaya, Stephanie Kallis, Eike Steinmann, Karim Abid, Francesco Negro, Marlene Dreux, Francois-Loic Cosset, and Ralf Bartenschlager PMCID: PMC1455439 The circadian basis of winter depression Alfred J. Lewy, Bryan J. Lefler, Jonathan S. Emens, and Vance K. Bauer PMCID: PMC1450113 Identification of S-nitrosylation motifs by site-specific mapping of the S-nitrosocysteine proteome in human vascular smooth muscle cells Todd M. Greco, Roberto Hodara, Ioannis Parastatidis, Harry F. G. Heijnen, Michelle K. Dennehy, Daniel C. Liebler, and Harry Ischiropoulos PMCID: PMC1464354 Mammalian cell survival and processing in supercritical CO2 Patrick J. Ginty, Daniel Howard, Felicity R. A. J. Rose, Martin J. Whitaker, John J. A. Barry, Patrick Tighe, Stacey R. Mutch, Gulay Serhatkulu, Richard O. C. Oreffo, Steven M. Howdle, and Kevin M. Shakesheff PMCID: PMC1464355 Requirement of Rac1 in the development of cardiac hypertrophy Minoru Satoh, Hisakazu Ogita, Kyosuke Takeshita, Yasushi Mukai, David J. Kwiatkowski, and James K. Liao PMCID: PMC1455410 A neuropeptide ligand of the G protein-coupled receptor GPR103 regulates feeding, behavioral arousal, and blood pressure in mice Shinobu Takayasu, Takeshi Sakurai, Satoshi Iwasaki, Hitoshi Teranishi, Akihiro Yamanaka, S. Clay Williams, Haruhisa Iguchi, Yuka Imamura Kawasawa, Yukio Ikeda, Iori Sakakibara, Kousaku Ohno, Ryoichi X. Ioka, Saori Murakami, Naoshi Dohmae, Jian Xie, Toshihiro Suda, Toshiyuki Motoike, Takashi Ohuchi, Masashi Yanagisawa, and Juro Sakai PMCID: PMC1464357 Loss of p53 impedes the antileukemic response to BCR-ABL inhibition Hans-Guido Wendel, Elisa de Stanchina, Enriqué Cepero, Sagarika Ray, Michael Emig, Jordan S. Fridman, Darren R. Veach, William G. Bornmann, Bayard Clarkson, W. Richard McCombie, Scott C. Kogan, Andreas Hochhaus, and Scott W. Lowe PMCID: PMC1455409 Microbiology Bioportfolio: Lifelong persistence of variant and prototypic erythrovirus DNA genomes in human tissue Päivi Norja, Kati Hokynar, Leena-Maija Aaltonen, Renwei Chen, Annamari Ranki, Esa K. Partio, Olli Kiviluoto, Irja Davidkin, Tomi Leivo, Anna Maria Eis-Hübinger, Beate Schneider, Hans-Peter Fischer, René Tolba, Olli Vapalahti, Antti Vaheri, Maria Söderlund-Venermo, and Klaus Hedman PMCID: PMC1464359 Evolution of a cytoplasmic tripartite motif (TRIM) protein in cows that restricts retroviral infection Zhihai Si, Nick Vandegraaff, Colm O’hUigin, Byeongwoon Song, Wen Yuan, Chen Xu, Michel Perron, Xing Li, Wayne A. Marasco, Alan Engelman, Michael Dean, and Joseph Sodroski PMCID: PMC1464360 GABA controls the level of quorum-sensing signal in Agrobacterium tumefaciens Romain Chevrot, Ran Rosen, Elise Haudecoeur, Amélie Cirou, Barry J. Shelp, Eliora Ron, and Denis Faure PMCID: PMC1464361 Proteasome inhibitors uncouple rhesus TRIM5α restriction of HIV-1 reverse transcription and infection Xiaolu Wu, Jenny L. Anderson, Edward M. Campbell, Ajith M. Joseph, and Thomas J. Hope PMCID: PMC1464362 Neuroscience Deficiency of the zinc finger protein ZPR1 causes neurodegeneration Beth Doran, Norberto Gherbesi, Gregory Hendricks, Richard A. Flavell, Roger J. Davis, and Laxman Gangwani PMCID: PMC1464363 Behavioral sensitization to amphetamine results from an uncoupling between noradrenergic and serotonergic neurons Lucas Salomon, Christophe Lanteri, Jacques Glowinski, and Jean-Pol Tassin PMCID: PMC1464364 Human QKI, a potential regulator of mRNA expression of human oligodendrocyte-related genes involved in schizophrenia Karolina Åberg, Peter Saetre, Niclas Jareborg, and Elena Jazin PMCID: PMC1464365 Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP) decreases ischemic neuronal cell death in association with IL-6 Hirokazu Ohtaki, Tomoya Nakamachi, Kenji Dohi, Yoichi Aizawa, Atsushi Takaki, Kei Hodoyama, Sachiko Yofu, Hitoshi Hashimoto, Norihito Shintani, Akemichi Baba, Manfred Kopf, Yoichiro Iwakura, Kouhei Matsuda, Akira Arimura, and Seiji Shioda PMCID: PMC1464366 Nonconscious semantic processing of emotional words modulates conscious access Raphaël Gaillard, Antoine Del Cul, Lionel Naccache, Fabien Vinckier, Laurent Cohen, and Stanislas Dehaene PMCID: PMC1464371 Pharmacology A pharmacologic target of G3139 in melanoma cells may be the mitochondrial VDAC Johnathan C. Lai, Wenzhi Tan, Luba Benimetskaya, Paul Miller, Marco Colombini, and C. A. Stein PMCID: PMC1464367 Physiology From the Cover:
Localization of cardiac L-type Ca2+ channels to a caveolar macromolecular signaling complex is required for β2-adrenergic regulation Ravi C. Balijepalli, Jason D. Foell, Duane D. Hall, Johannes W. Hell, and Timothy J. Kamp PMCID: PMC1564282 Plant Biology CO2 signaling in guard cells: Calcium sensitivity response modulation, a Ca2+-independent phase, and CO2 insensitivity of the gca2 mutant Jared J. Young, Samar Mehta, Maria Israelsson, Jan Godoski, Erwin Grill, and Julian I. Schroeder PMCID: PMC1464368 Functional differences between galactolipids and glucolipids revealed in photosynthesis of higher plants Georg Hölzl, Sandra Witt, Amélie A. Kelly, Ulrich Zähringer, Dirk Warnecke, Peter Dörmann, and Ernst Heinz PMCID: PMC1464369 Subcellular localization and functions of the barley stem rust resistance receptor-like serine/threonine-specific protein kinase Rpg1 Jayaveeramuthu Nirmala, Robert Brueggeman, Christina Maier, Christine Clay, Nils Rostoks, C. Gamini Kannangara, Diter von Wettstein, Brian J. Steffenson, and Andris Kleinhofs PMCID: PMC1464370 Social Sciences Psychology Nonconscious semantic processing of emotional words modulates conscious access Raphaël Gaillard, Antoine Del Cul, Lionel Naccache, Fabien Vinckier, Laurent Cohen, and Stanislas Dehaene PMCID: PMC1464371 Corrections Correction for Ellis-Behnke et al., Nano neuro knitting: Peptide nanofiber scaffold for brain repair and axon regeneration with functional return of vision PMCID: PMC1464372 Corrects: Rutledge G. Ellis-Behnke, et al. Nano neuro knitting: Peptide nanofiber scaffold for brain repair and axon regeneration with functional return of vision. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 March 28; 103(13): 5054–5059. Correction for Carlson et al., Endothelial expression of constitutively active Notch4 elicits reversible arteriovenous malformations in adult mice PMCID: PMC1464373 Corrects: Timothy R. Carlson, et al. Endothelial expression of constitutively active Notch4 elicits reversible arteriovenous malformations in adult mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 July 12; 102(28): 9884–9889. Correction for Bick-Sander et al., Running in pregnancy transiently increases postnatal hippocampal neurogenesis in the offspring PMCID: PMC1464374 Corrects: Anika Bick-Sander, et al. Running in pregnancy transiently increases postnatal hippocampal neurogenesis in the offspring. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 March 7; 103(10): 3852–3857. |
