| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 18; 103(29): 10825–10826. doi: 10.1073/iti2906103.PMCID: PMC1544131 Commentaries Cenozoic insect–plant diversification in the tropics Donald R. Strong and Michael Sanderson PMCID: PMC1544132 LysM receptors recognize friend and foe Wolfgang Knogge and Dierk Scheel PMCID: PMC1544133 Profile Profile of Rino Rappuoli Bijal Trivedi PMCID: PMC1544134 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Minimal model of spiky oscillations in NF-κB signaling Sandeep Krishna, Mogens H. Jensen, and Kim Sneppen PMCID: PMC1544135 Utilizing the information content in two-state trajectories Ophir Flomenbom and Robert J. Silbey PMCID: PMC1544147 Applied Physical Sciences Sub-parts-per-billion level detection of NO2 using room-temperature quantum cascade lasers Michael Pushkarsky, Alexei Tsekoun, Ilya G. Dunayevskiy, Rowel Go, and C. Kumar N. Patel PMCID: PMC1544136 Single molecules of the bacterial actin MreB undergo directed treadmilling motion in Caulobacter crescentus So Yeon Kim, Zemer Gitai, Anika Kinkhabwala, Lucy Shapiro, and W. E. Moerner PMCID: PMC1544151 Chemistry Shape-persistent macrocyclic aromatic tetrasulfonamides: Molecules with nanosized cavities and their nanotubular assemblies in solid state Lan He, Yu An, Lihua Yuan, Wen Feng, Minfeng Li, Dechun Zhang, Kazuhiro Yamato, Chong Zheng, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Bing Gong PMCID: PMC1544137 Symmetry breaking in individual plasmonic nanoparticles Hui Wang, Yanpeng Wu, Britt Lassiter, Colleen L. Nehl, Jason H. Hafner, Peter Nordlander, and Naomi J. Halas PMCID: PMC1544138 Geology The diversification of Paleozoic fire systems and fluctuations in atmospheric oxygen concentration Andrew C. Scott and Ian J. Glasspool PMCID: PMC1544139 Statistics Cross-species analysis of biological networks by Bayesian alignment Johannes Berg and Michael Lässig PMCID: PMC1544158 Sustainability Science Prehistoric agricultural depletion of soil nutrients in Hawai'i A. S. Hartshorn, O. A. Chadwick, P. M. Vitousek, and P. V. Kirch PMCID: PMC1544177 Biological Sciences Biochemistry From the Cover:
Functionally diverging molecular quasi-species evolve by crossing two enzymes Lars O. Emrén, Sanela Kurtovic, Arna Runarsdottir, Anna-Karin Larsson, and Bengt Mannervik PMCID: PMC1544140 Mutant LYS2 mRNAs retained and degraded in the nucleus of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Biswadip Das, Satarupa Das, and Fred Sherman PMCID: PMC1544141 Structure of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine acyltransferase with a bound antibacterial pentadecapeptide Allison H. Williams, Robert M. Immormino, Daniel T. Gewirth, and Christian R. H. Raetz PMCID: PMC1544142 WNK1 and OSR1 regulate the Na+, K+, 2Cl− cotransporter in HeLa cells Anthony N. Anselmo, Svetlana Earnest, Wei Chen, Yu-Chi Juang, Sung Chan Kim, Yingming Zhao, and Melanie H. Cobb PMCID: PMC1544143 Biophysics Migration of tumor cells in 3D matrices is governed by matrix stiffness along with cell-matrix adhesion and proteolysis Muhammad H. Zaman, Linda M. Trapani, Alisha Sieminski, Drew MacKellar, Haiyan Gong, Roger D. Kamm, Alan Wells, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, and Paul Matsudaira PMCID: PMC1544144 Hydrogen-bond switching through a radical pair mechanism in a flavin-binding photoreceptor Magdalena Gauden, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Jason M. Key, Daniel Ch. Lührs, Rienk van Grondelle, Peter Hegemann, and John T. M. Kennis PMCID: PMC1544145 Relation between native ensembles and experimental structures of proteins Robert B. Best, Kresten Lindorff-Larsen, Mark A. DePristo, and Michele Vendruscolo PMCID: PMC1544146 Utilizing the information content in two-state trajectories Ophir Flomenbom and Robert J. Silbey PMCID: PMC1544147 Cell Biology Minimal model of spiky oscillations in NF-κB signaling Sandeep Krishna, Mogens H. Jensen, and Kim Sneppen PMCID: PMC1544135 Contacts and cooperation between cells depend on the hormone ouabain Isabel Larre, Arturo Ponce, Rosana Fiorentino, Liora Shoshani, Rubén G. Contreras, and Marcelino Cereijido PMCID: PMC1544148 Ebp1 isoforms distinctively regulate cell survival and differentiation Zhixue Liu, Jee-Yin Ahn, Xia Liu, and Keqiang Ye PMCID: PMC1544149 Monoamine oxidase A and repressor R1 are involved in apoptotic signaling pathway Xiao-Ming Ou, Kevin Chen, and Jean C. Shih PMCID: PMC1544150 Single molecules of the bacterial actin MreB undergo directed treadmilling motion in Caulobacter crescentus So Yeon Kim, Zemer Gitai, Anika Kinkhabwala, Lucy Shapiro, and W. E. Moerner PMCID: PMC1544151 A phospho-signaling pathway controls the localization and activity of a protease complex critical for bacterial cell cycle progression Antonio A. Iniesta, Patrick T. McGrath, Ann Reisenauer, Harley H. McAdams, and Lucy Shapiro PMCID: PMC1544152 Ecology From the Cover:
Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions Stuart Pimm, Peter Raven, Alan Peterson, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, and Paul R. Ehrlich PMCID: PMC1544153 Evolution From the Cover:
Tropical forests are both evolutionary cradles and museums of leaf beetle diversity Duane D. McKenna and Brian D. Farrell PMCID: PMC1544154 Evolution of cooperation by multilevel selection Arne Traulsen and Martin A. Nowak PMCID: PMC1544155 Mammalian monogamy is not controlled by a single gene Sabine Fink, Laurent Excoffier, and Gerald Heckel PMCID: PMC1544156 Genetics Details of Toll-like receptor:adapter interaction revealed by germ-line mutagenesis Zhengfan Jiang, Philippe Georgel, Chenglong Li, Jungwoo Choe, Karine Crozat, Sophie Rutschmann, Xin Du, Tim Bigby, Suzanne Mudd, Sosathya Sovath, Ian A. Wilson, Arthur Olson, and Bruce Beutler PMCID: PMC1544157 Cross-species analysis of biological networks by Bayesian alignment Johannes Berg and Michael Lässig PMCID: PMC1544158 Whirlin complexes with p55 at the stereocilia tip during hair cell development Philomena Mburu, Yoshiaki Kikkawa, Stuart Townsend, Rosario Romero, Hiromichi Yonekawa, and Steve D. M. Brown PMCID: PMC1544159 Immunology The NF-κB regulator Bcl-3 and the BH3-only proteins Bim and Puma control the death of activated T cells Anette Bauer, Andreas Villunger, Verena Labi, Silke F. Fischer, Andreas Strasser, Hermann Wagner, Roland M. Schmid, and Georg Häcker PMCID: PMC1544160 Cytotoxic T lymphocytes kill multiple targets simultaneously via spatiotemporal uncoupling of lytic and stimulatory synapses Aurelie Wiedemann, David Depoil, Mustapha Faroudi, and Salvatore Valitutti PMCID: PMC1544161 Medical Sciences INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: A universal vaccine for serogroup B meningococcus Marzia M. Giuliani, Jeannette Adu-Bobie, Maurizio Comanducci, Beatrice Aricò, Silvana Savino, Laura Santini, Brunella Brunelli, Stefania Bambini, Alessia Biolchi, Barbara Capecchi, Elena Cartocci, Laura Ciucchi, Federica Di Marcello, Francesca Ferlicca, Barbara Galli, Enrico Luzzi, Vega Masignani, Davide Serruto, Daniele Veggi, Mario Contorni, Maurizio Morandi, Alessandro Bartalesi, Vanda Cinotti, Donatella Mannucci, Francesca Titta, Elisa Ovidi, Jo Anne Welsch, Dan Granoff, Rino Rappuoli, and Mariagrazia Pizza PMCID: PMC2047628 A molecular correlate to the Gleason grading system for prostate adenocarcinoma Lawrence True, Ilsa Coleman, Sarah Hawley, Ching-Ying Huang, David Gifford, Roger Coleman, Tomasz M. Beer, Edward Gelmann, Milton Datta, Elahe Mostaghel, Beatrice Knudsen, Paul Lange, Robert Vessella, Daniel Lin, Leroy Hood, and Peter S. Nelson PMCID: PMC1544162 Identification of a receptor necessary for Nogo-B stimulated chemotaxis and morphogenesis of endothelial cells Robert Qing Miao, Yuan Gao, Kenneth D. Harrison, Jay Prendergast, Lisette M. Acevedo, Jun Yu, Fenghua Hu, Stephen M. Strittmatter, and William C. Sessa PMCID: PMC1544163 Small-molecule modulators of p53 family signaling and antitumor effects in p53-deficient human colon tumor xenografts Wenge Wang, Seok-Hyun Kim, and Wafik S. El-Deiry PMCID: PMC1544164 Breaking the one antibody–one target axiom Fang Guo, Sanjib Das, Barbara M. Mueller, Carlos F. Barbas, III, Richard A. Lerner, and Subhash C. Sinha PMCID: PMC1488731 Cell cycle regulator E2F1 modulates angiogenesis via p53-dependent transcriptional control of VEGF Gangjian Qin, Raj Kishore, Christine M. Dolan, Marcy Silver, Andrea Wecker, Corinne N. Luedemann, Tina Thorne, Allison Hanley, Cynthia Curry, Lindsay Heyd, Deepika Dinesh, Marianne Kearney, Fabio Martelli, Toshinori Murayama, David A. Goukassian, Yan Zhu, and Douglas W. Losordo PMCID: PMC1544166 Essential role of nitric oxide in VEGF-induced, asthma-like angiogenic, inflammatory, mucus, and physiologic responses in the lung Vineet Bhandari, Rayman Choo-Wing, Svetlana P. Chapoval, Chun G. Lee, C. Tang, Y. K. Kim, Bing Ma, Peter Baluk, Michelle I. Lin, Donald M. McDonald, Robert J. Homer, William C. Sessa, and Jack A. Elias PMCID: PMC1544167 Microbiology A Porphyromonas gingivalis haloacid dehalogenase family phosphatase interacts with human phosphoproteins and is important for invasion Gena D. Tribble, Song Mao, Chloe E. James, and Richard J. Lamont PMCID: PMC1544168 Imaging peptidoglycan biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis with fluorescent antibiotics Kittichoat Tiyanont, Thierry Doan, Michael B. Lazarus, Xiao Fang, David Z. Rudner, and Suzanne Walker PMCID: PMC1544169 Neuroscience Homeostatic shutdown of long-term potentiation in the adult hippocampus Claudia Roth-Alpermann, Richard G. M. Morris, Martin Korte, and Tobias Bonhoeffer PMCID: PMC1544170 Flanking sequences profoundly alter polyglutamine toxicity in yeast Martin L. Duennwald, Smitha Jagadish, Paul J. Muchowski, and Susan Lindquist PMCID: PMC1544171 A network of protein interactions determines polyglutamine toxicity Martin L. Duennwald, Smitha Jagadish, Flaviano Giorgini, Paul J. Muchowski, and Susan Lindquist PMCID: PMC1544172 Sialidase enhances spinal axon outgrowth in vivo Lynda J. S. Yang, Ileana Lorenzini, Katarina Vajn, Andrea Mountney, Lawrence P. Schramm, and Ronald L. Schnaar PMCID: PMC1544173 Temporally restricted substrate interactions direct fate and specification of neural precursors derived from embryonic stem cells A. Katrin Goetz, Bjorn Scheffler, Huan-Xin Chen, Shanshan Wang, Oleg Suslov, Hui Xiang, Oliver Brüstle, Steve N. Roper, and Dennis A. Steindler PMCID: PMC1544174 Pharmacology The active metabolite of Clopidogrel disrupts P2Y12 receptor oligomers and partitions them out of lipid rafts Pierre Savi, Jean-Luc Zachayus, Nathalie Delesque-Touchard, Catherine Labouret, Caroline Hervé, Marie-Françoise Uzabiaga, Jean-Marie Pereillo, Jean-Michel Culouscou, Françoise Bono, Pascual Ferrara, and Jean-Marc Herbert PMCID: PMC1635153 Plant Biology Yellow flowers generated by expression of the aurone biosynthetic pathway Eiichiro Ono, Masako Fukuchi-Mizutani, Noriko Nakamura, Yuko Fukui, Keiko Yonekura-Sakakibara, Masaatsu Yamaguchi, Toru Nakayama, Takaharu Tanaka, Takaaki Kusumi, and Yoshikazu Tanaka PMCID: PMC1544175 A subset of Arabidopsis AP2 transcription factors mediates cytokinin responses in concert with a two-component pathway Aaron M. Rashotte, Michael G. Mason, Claire E. Hutchison, Fernando J. Ferreira, G. Eric Schaller, and Joseph J. Kieber PMCID: PMC1544176 Plant cells recognize chitin fragments for defense signaling through a plasma membrane receptor Hanae Kaku, Yoko Nishizawa, Naoko Ishii-Minami, Chiharu Akimoto-Tomiyama, Naoshi Dohmae, Koji Takio, Eiichi Minami, and Naoto Shibuya PMCID: PMC1636686 Sustainability Science From the Cover:
Human impacts on the rates of recent, present, and future bird extinctions Stuart Pimm, Peter Raven, Alan Peterson, Çağan H. Şekercioğlu, and Paul R. Ehrlich PMCID: PMC1544153 Prehistoric agricultural depletion of soil nutrients in Hawai'i A. S. Hartshorn, O. A. Chadwick, P. M. Vitousek, and P. V. Kirch PMCID: PMC1544177 Correction Correction for Berglund et al., Brain response to putative pheromones in lesbian women PMCID: PMC1544178 Corrects: Hans Berglund, et al. Brain response to putative pheromones in lesbian women. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 May 23; 103(21): 8269–8274. |
