| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 23; 103(21): 7937–7938. doi: 10.1073/pnas.iti2106103.PMCID: PMC1472406 Commentaries Rapid expansion of the spermatogonial stem cell tool box Dirk G. de Rooij PMCID: PMC1472407 Evolutionary tinkering with transposable elements I. King Jordan PMCID: PMC1472408 Another weapon against amyloid David A. Greenberg PMCID: PMC1472409 Profile Profile of Giorgio Parisi Regina Nuzzo PMCID: PMC1472410 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Hierarchical structures induce long-range dynamical correlations in written texts E. Alvarez-Lacalle, B. Dorow, J.-P. Eckmann, and E. Moses PMCID: PMC1472411 Applied Physical Sciences Counterions between charged polymers exhibit liquid-like organization and dynamics Thomas E. Angelini, Ramin Golestanian, Robert H. Coridan, John C. Butler, Alexandre Beraud, Michael Krisch, Harald Sinn, Kenneth S. Schweizer, and Gerard C. L. Wong PMCID: PMC1472412 Chemistry Differentiation of proteins based on characteristic patterns of association and denaturation in solutions of SDS Katherine L. Gudiksen, Irina Gitlin, and George M. Whitesides PMCID: PMC1472413 Tetrahedral structure or chains for liquid water Teresa Head-Gordon and Margaret E. Johnson PMCID: PMC1472414 Understanding the bacterial polysaccharide antigenicity of Streptococcus agalactiae versus Streptococcus pneumoniae Renuka Kadirvelraj, Jorge Gonzalez-Outeiriño, B. Lachele Foley, Meredith L. Beckham, Harold J. Jennings, Simon Foote, Michael G. Ford, and Robert J. Woods PMCID: PMC1472444 Physics Velocity of vortices in inhomogeneous Bose–Einstein condensates Halvor M. Nilsen, Gordon Baym, and C. J. Pethick PMCID: PMC1472415 Salt screening and specific ion adsorption determine neutral-lipid membrane interactions Horia I. Petrache, Thomas Zemb, Luc Belloni, and V. Adrian Parsegian PMCID: PMC1461405 Statistics INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Spin glasses and fragile glasses: Statics, dynamics, and complexity Giorgio Parisi PMCID: PMC1459408 Bayesian error analysis model for reconstructing transcriptional regulatory networks Ning Sun, Raymond J. Carroll, and Hongyu Zhao PMCID: PMC1472417 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Complex genetic networks underlying the defensive system of rice (Oryza sativa L.) to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae Z. K. Li, M. Arif, D. B. Zhong, B. Y. Fu, J. L. Xu, J. Domingo-Rey, J. Ali, C. H. M. Vijayakumar, S. B. Yu, and G. S. Khush PMCID: PMC1461406 κ-Casein-deficient mice fail to lactate P. Chandra Shekar, Sandeep Goel, S. Deepa Selvi Rani, D. Partha Sarathi, Jomini Liza Alex, Shashi Singh, and Satish Kumar PMCID: PMC1472419 Anthropology Hotspots for copy number variation in chimpanzees and humans George H. Perry, Joelle Tchinda, Sean D. McGrath, Junjun Zhang, Simon R. Picker, Angela M. Cáceres, A. John Iafrate, Chris Tyler-Smith, Stephen W. Scherer, Evan E. Eichler, Anne C. Stone, and Charles Lee PMCID: PMC1472420 Serial coalescent simulations suggest a weak genealogical relationship between Etruscans and modern Tuscans Elise M. S. Belle, Uma Ramakrishnan, Joanna L. Mountain, and Guido Barbujani PMCID: PMC1472421 Applied Biological Sciences From the Cover:
Production of knockout mice by random or targeted mutagenesis in spermatogonial stem cells Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara, Masahito Ikawa, Masanori Takehashi, Narumi Ogonuki, Hiromi Miki, Kimiko Inoue, Yasuhiro Kazuki, Jiyoung Lee, Shinya Toyokuni, Mitsuo Oshimura, Atsuo Ogura, and Takashi Shinohara PMCID: PMC1472422 Evidence that the Y chromosome influences autoimmune disease in male and female mice Cory Teuscher, Rajkumar Noubade, Karen Spach, Benjamin McElvany, Janice Y. Bunn, Parley D. Fillmore, James F. Zachary, and Elizabeth P. Blankenhorn PMCID: PMC1472423 Biochemistry A heme-degradation pathway in a blood-sucking insect Gabriela O. Paiva-Silva, Christine Cruz-Oliveira, Ernesto S. Nakayasu, Clarissa M. Maya-Monteiro, Boris C. Dunkov, Hatisaburo Masuda, Igor C. Almeida, and Pedro L. Oliveira PMCID: PMC1472424 L1 retrotransposition in nondividing and primary human somatic cells Shuji Kubo, Maria del Carmen Seleme, Harris S. Soifer, José Luis Garcia Perez, John V. Moran, Haig H. Kazazian, Jr., and Noriyuki Kasahara PMCID: PMC1472425 Runaway domain swapping in amyloid-like fibrils of T7 endonuclease I Zhefeng Guo and David Eisenberg PMCID: PMC1472426 X-ray structure of a native calicivirus: Structural insights into antigenic diversity and host specificity Rong Chen, John D. Neill, Mary K. Estes, and B. V. Venkataram Prasad PMCID: PMC1472427 Biophysics Salt screening and specific ion adsorption determine neutral-lipid membrane interactions Horia I. Petrache, Thomas Zemb, Luc Belloni, and V. Adrian Parsegian PMCID: PMC1461405 Backsteps induced by nucleotide analogs suggest the front head of kinesin is gated by strain Nicholas R. Guydosh and Steven M. Block PMCID: PMC1472428 Toward the structural genomics of complexes: Crystal structure of a PE/PPE protein complex from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Michael Strong, Michael R. Sawaya, Shuishu Wang, Martin Phillips, Duilio Cascio, and David Eisenberg PMCID: PMC1472429 The maximum number of torque-generating units in the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli is at least 11 Stuart W. Reid, Mark C. Leake, Jennifer H. Chandler, Chien-Jung Lo, Judith P. Armitage, and Richard M. Berry PMCID: PMC1472430 On the hand-over-hand mechanism of kinesin Qiang Shao and Yi Qin Gao PMCID: PMC1472431 Cell Biology Activation of FIP1L1-PDGFRα requires disruption of the juxtamembrane domain of PDGFRα and is FIP1L1-independent Elizabeth H. Stover, Jing Chen, Cedric Folens, Benjamin H. Lee, Nicole Mentens, Peter Marynen, Ifor R. Williams, D. Gary Gilliland, and Jan Cools PMCID: PMC1472432 Factor B of the alternative complement pathway regulates development of airway hyperresponsiveness and inflammation Christian Taube, Joshua M. Thurman, Katsuyuki Takeda, Anthony Joetham, Nobuaki Miyahara, Michael C. Carroll, Azzeddine Dakhama, Patricia C. Giclas, V. Michael Holers, and Erwin W. Gelfand PMCID: PMC1472433 Developmental Biology Oogenesis requires germ cell-specific transcriptional regulators Sohlh1 and Lhx8 Stephanie A. Pangas, Youngsok Choi, Daniel J. Ballow, Yangu Zhao, Heiner Westphal, Martin M. Matzuk, and Aleksandar Rajkovic PMCID: PMC1472434 Ecology Genetic effects of chronic habitat fragmentation in a wind-pollinated tree Alistair S. Jump and Josep Peñuelas PMCID: PMC1472435 Evolution From the Cover:
Birth of a chimeric primate gene by capture of the transposase gene from a mobile element Richard Cordaux, Swalpa Udit, Mark A. Batzer, and Cédric Feschotte PMCID: PMC1472436 Comprehensive mutation identification in an evolved bacterial cooperator and its cheating ancestor Gregory J. Velicer, Günter Raddatz, Heike Keller, Silvia Deiss, Christa Lanz, Iris Dinkelacker, and Stephan C. Schuster PMCID: PMC1472437 From the Cover:
The origin of European cattle: Evidence from modern and ancient DNA Albano Beja-Pereira, David Caramelli, Carles Lalueza-Fox, Cristiano Vernesi, Nuno Ferrand, Antonella Casoli, Felix Goyache, Luis J. Royo, Serena Conti, Martina Lari, Andrea Martini, Lahousine Ouragh, Ayed Magid, Abdulkarim Atash, Attila Zsolnai, Paolo Boscato, Costas Triantaphylidis, Konstantoula Ploumi, Luca Sineo, Francesco Mallegni, Pierre Taberlet, Georg Erhardt, Lourdes Sampietro, Jaume Bertranpetit, Guido Barbujani, Gordon Luikart, and Giorgio Bertorelle PMCID: PMC1472438 Genetics The callipyge mutation enhances bidirectional long-range DLK1-GTL2 intergenic transcription in cis Haruko Takeda, Florian Caiment, Maria Smit, Samuel Hiard, Xavier Tordoir, Noelle Cockett, Michel Georges, and Carole Charlier PMCID: PMC1472439 Genetic variants of Tgfb1 act as context-dependent modifiers of mouse skin tumor susceptibility Jian-Hua Mao, Elise F. Saunier, John P. de Koning, Margaret M. McKinnon, Mamie Nakijama Higgins, Kathy Nicklas, Hai-Tao Yang, Allan Balmain, and Rosemary J. Akhurst PMCID: PMC1472440 Hsk1 kinase is required for induction of meiotic dsDNA breaks without involving checkpoint kinases in fission yeast Keiko Ogino, Kouji Hirota, Seiji Matsumoto, Tadayuki Takeda, Kunihiro Ohta, Ken-ichi Arai, and Hisao Masai PMCID: PMC1472441 Immunology Selective regulatory function of Socs3 in the formation of IL-17-secreting T cells Zhi Chen, Arian Laurence, Yuka Kanno, Margit Pacher-Zavisin, Bing-Mei Zhu, Cristina Tato, Akihiko Yoshimura, Lothar Hennighausen, and John J. O'Shea PMCID: PMC1459629 Fluorescence resonance energy transfer in living cells reveals dynamic membrane changes in the initiation of B cell signaling Hae Won Sohn, Pavel Tolar, Tian Jin, and Susan K. Pierce PMCID: PMC1472443 Understanding the bacterial polysaccharide antigenicity of Streptococcus agalactiae versus Streptococcus pneumoniae Renuka Kadirvelraj, Jorge Gonzalez-Outeiriño, B. Lachele Foley, Meredith L. Beckham, Harold J. Jennings, Simon Foote, Michael G. Ford, and Robert J. Woods PMCID: PMC1472444 Medical Sciences Local myocardial insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) delivery with biotinylated peptide nanofibers improves cell therapy for myocardial infarction Michael E. Davis, Patrick C. H. Hsieh, Tomosaburo Takahashi, Qing Song, Shuguang Zhang, Roger D. Kamm, Alan J. Grodzinsky, Piero Anversa, and Richard T. Lee PMCID: PMC1472445 Expression of 5-lipoxygenase and leukotriene A4 hydrolase in human atherosclerotic lesions correlates with symptoms of plaque instability Hong Qiu, Anders Gabrielsen, Hanna E. Agardh, Min Wan, Anders Wetterholm, Chi-Huey Wong, Ulf Hedin, Jesper Swedenborg, Göran K. Hansson, Bengt Samuelsson, Gabrielle Paulsson-Berne, and Jesper Z. Haeggström PMCID: PMC1459628 Complex genomic alterations and gene expression in acute lymphoblastic leukemia with intrachromosomal amplification of chromosome 21 Jon C. Strefford, Frederik W. van Delft, Hazel M. Robinson, Helen Worley, Olga Yiannikouris, Rebecca Selzer, Todd Richmond, Ian Hann, Tony Bellotti, Manoj Raghavan, Bryan D. Young, Vaskar Saha, and Christine J. Harrison PMCID: PMC1472447 The G12 family of heterotrimeric G proteins promotes breast cancer invasion and metastasis Patrick Kelly, Benjamin J. Moeller, Juhi Juneja, Michelle A. Booden, Channing J. Der, Yehia Daaka, Mark W. Dewhirst, Timothy A. Fields, and Patrick J. Casey PMCID: PMC1472448 Selenoprotein deficiency accelerates prostate carcinogenesis in a transgenic model Veda Diwadkar-Navsariwala, Gail S. Prins, Steven M. Swanson, Lynn A. Birch, Vera H. Ray, Samad Hedayat, Daniel L. Lantvit, and Alan M. Diamond PMCID: PMC1472449 High-resolution video monitoring of hematopoietic stem cells cultured in single-cell arrays identifies new features of self-renewal Brad Dykstra, John Ramunas, David Kent, Lindsay McCaffrey, Erin Szumsky, Liam Kelly, Kristen Farn, April Blaylock, Connie Eaves, and Eric Jervis PMCID: PMC1461403 Microbiology The TodS–TodT two-component regulatory system recognizes a wide range of effectors and works with DNA-bending proteins Jesús Lacal, Andreas Busch, María-Eugenia Guazzaroni, Tino Krell, and Juan L. Ramos PMCID: PMC1472451 Newcastle disease virus expressing H5 hemagglutinin gene protects chickens against Newcastle disease and avian influenza Jutta Veits, Dorothee Wiesner, Walter Fuchs, Bernd Hoffmann, Harald Granzow, Elke Starick, Egbert Mundt, Horst Schirrmeier, Teshome Mebatsion, Thomas C. Mettenleiter, and Angela Römer-Oberdörfer PMCID: PMC1472452 From the Cover:
Engineered viral vaccine constructs with dual specificity: Avian influenza and Newcastle disease Man-Seong Park, John Steel, Adolfo García-Sastre, David Swayne, and Peter Palese PMCID: PMC1464378 The positioning of cytoplasmic protein clusters in bacteria Stephen R. Thompson, George H. Wadhams, and Judith P. Armitage PMCID: PMC1472454 Neuroscience From the Cover:
PKCε increases endothelin converting enzyme activity and reduces amyloid plaque pathology in transgenic mice Doo-Sup Choi, Dan Wang, Gui-Qui Yu, Guofen Zhu, Viktor N. Kharazia, J. Peter Paredes, Wesley S. Chang, Jason K. Deitchman, Lennart Mucke, and Robert O. Messing PMCID: PMC1472455 The chemokine SDF-1/CXCL12 modulates the firing pattern of vasopressin neurons and counteracts induced vasopressin release through CXCR4 Céline Callewaere, Ghazal Banisadr, Michel G. Desarménien, Patricia Mechighel, Patrick Kitabgi, William H. Rostène, and Stéphane Mélik Parsadaniantz PMCID: PMC1570101 Synaptic tetraspan vesicle membrane proteins are conserved but not needed for synaptogenesis and neuronal function in Caenorhabditis elegans Christian Abraham, Harald Hutter, Mark T. Palfreyman, Gabriele Spatkowski, Robby M. Weimer, Reinhard Windoffer, Erik M. Jorgensen, and Rudolf E. Leube PMCID: PMC1570102 Fluoxetine targets early progenitor cells in the adult brain Juan M. Encinas, Anne Vaahtokari, and Grigori Enikolopov PMCID: PMC1461404 Binding crossmodal object features in perirhinal cortex Kirsten I. Taylor, Helen E. Moss, Emmanuel A. Stamatakis, and Lorraine K. Tyler PMCID: PMC1461402 A single sodium channel mutation produces hyper- or hypoexcitability in different types of neurons Anthony M. Rush, Sulayman D. Dib-Hajj, Shujun Liu, Theodore R. Cummins, Joel A. Black, and Stephen G. Waxman PMCID: PMC1472458 Frequency-specific and D2 receptor-mediated inhibition of glutamate release by retrograde endocannabinoid signaling Henry H. Yin and David M. Lovinger PMCID: PMC1472459 Muscle representation in the macaque motor cortex: An anatomical perspective Jean-Alban Rathelot and Peter L. Strick PMCID: PMC1461407 Direct and fast detection of neuronal activation in the human brain with diffusion MRI Denis Le Bihan, Shin-ichi Urayama, Toshihiko Aso, Takashi Hanakawa, and Hidenao Fukuyama PMCID: PMC1472461 Brain response to putative pheromones in lesbian women Hans Berglund, Per Lindström, and Ivanka Savic PMCID: PMC1570103 Failing to deactivate: Resting functional abnormalities in autism Daniel P. Kennedy, Elizabeth Redcay, and Eric Courchesne PMCID: PMC1472462 Plant Biology The negative regulator of plant cold responses, HOS1, is a RING E3 ligase that mediates the ubiquitination and degradation of ICE1 Chun-Hai Dong, Manu Agarwal, Yiyue Zhang, Qi Xie, and Jian-Kang Zhu PMCID: PMC1472463 Tomato aromatic amino acid decarboxylases participate in synthesis of the flavor volatiles 2-phenylethanol and 2-phenylacetaldehyde Denise Tieman, Mark Taylor, Nicolas Schauer, Alisdair R. Fernie, Andrew D. Hanson, and Harry J. Klee PMCID: PMC1472464 Psychology Signature whistle shape conveys identity information to bottlenose dolphins V. M. Janik, L. S. Sayigh, and R. S. Wells PMCID: PMC1472465 Correction Correction for multiple articles PMCID: PMC1472466 Corrects: Ling Wang, et al. Liver X receptors in the central nervous system: From lipid homeostasis to neuronal degeneration. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 October 15; 99(21): 13878–13883. |
