| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 August 29; 103(35): 12953–12954. doi: 10.1073/iti3506103.PMCID: PMC1559730 Commentaries Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water Pradeep Kumar PMCID: PMC1559731 Unraveling the genetic basis of hybrid vigor James A. Birchler, Hong Yao, and Sivanandan Chudalayandi PMCID: PMC1559732 My O'Myeloid, a tale of two lineages Ann C. Zovein and M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe PMCID: PMC1559733 In search of an effective obesity treatment: A shot in the dark or a shot in the arm? Jeffrey M. Zigman and Joel K. Elmquist PMCID: PMC1559734 Profile Profile of Edward I. Solomon Nick Zagorski PMCID: PMC1559735 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences From the Cover:
The violation of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water Sow-Hsin Chen, Francesco Mallamace, Chung-Yuan Mou, Matteo Broccio, Carmelo Corsaro, Antonio Faraone, and Li Liu PMCID: PMC1559737 Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion Haeshin Lee, Norbert F. Scherer, and Phillip B. Messersmith PMCID: PMC1559742 Swimming Paramecium in magnetically simulated enhanced, reduced, and inverted gravity environments Karine Guevorkian and James M. Valles, Jr. PMCID: PMC1559751 Chemistry INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of aromatic electrophilic attack and hydrogen-atom abstraction by non-heme iron enzymes Michael L. Neidig, Andrea Decker, Oliver W. Choroba, Fanglu Huang, Michael Kavana, Graham R. Moran, Jonathan B. Spencer, and Edward I. Solomon PMCID: PMC1559736 Amplification of enantiomeric concentrations under credible prebiotic conditions Ronald Breslow and Mindy S. Levine PMCID: PMC1559738 Environmental Sciences A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems Marko Scholze, Wolfgang Knorr, Nigel W. Arnell, and I. Colin Prentice PMCID: PMC1559762 Physics Scale-invariant structure of strongly conserved sequence in genomic intersections and alignments William Salerno, Paul Havlak, and Jonathan Miller PMCID: PMC1559763 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences From the Cover:
Overdominant quantitative trait loci for yield and fitness in tomato Yaniv Semel, Jonathan Nissenbaum, Naama Menda, Michael Zinder, Uri Krieger, Noa Issman, Tzili Pleban, Zachary Lippman, Amit Gur, and Dani Zamir PMCID: PMC1552043 Overexpressing a NAM, ATAF, and CUC (NAC) transcription factor enhances drought resistance and salt tolerance in rice Honghong Hu, Mingqiu Dai, Jialing Yao, Benze Xiao, Xianghua Li, Qifa Zhang, and Lizhong Xiong PMCID: PMC1559740 Applied Biological Sciences Adeno-associated virus serotype 9 vectors transduce murine alveolar and nasal epithelia and can be readministered Maria P. Limberis and James M. Wilson PMCID: PMC1559741 Biochemistry Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion Haeshin Lee, Norbert F. Scherer, and Phillip B. Messersmith PMCID: PMC1559742 Quantification of protein half-lives in the budding yeast proteome Archana Belle, Amos Tanay, Ledion Bitincka, Ron Shamir, and Erin K. O’Shea PMCID: PMC1550773 Molecular basis for the herbicide resistance of Roundup Ready crops Todd Funke, Huijong Han, Martha L. Healy-Fried, Markus Fischer, and Ernst Schönbrunn PMCID: PMC1559744 Structure of archaeal translational initiation factor 2 βγ–GDP reveals significant conformational change of the β-subunit and switch 1 region Masaaki Sokabe, Min Yao, Naoki Sakai, Shingo Toya, and Isao Tanaka PMCID: PMC1559745 Stable stem cell commitment to the adipocyte lineage by inhibition of DNA methylation: Role of the BMP-4 gene Robert R. Bowers, Jae Woo Kim, Tamara C. Otto, and M. Daniel Lane PMCID: PMC1559746 Structural basis for the inhibition of insulin-like growth factors by insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins Tomasz Sitar, Grzegorz M. Popowicz, Igor Siwanowicz, Robert Huber, and Tad A. Holak PMCID: PMC1551901 Kelch-repeat proteins interacting with the Gα protein Gpa2 bypass adenylate cyclase for direct regulation of protein kinase A in yeast Tom Peeters, Wendy Louwet, Ruud Geladé, David Nauwelaers, Johan M. Thevelein, and Matthias Versele PMCID: PMC1559748 Biophysics INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of aromatic electrophilic attack and hydrogen-atom abstraction by non-heme iron enzymes Michael L. Neidig, Andrea Decker, Oliver W. Choroba, Fanglu Huang, Michael Kavana, Graham R. Moran, Jonathan B. Spencer, and Edward I. Solomon PMCID: PMC1559736 Precise adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through “assistance neighborhoods” Robert G. Endres and Ned S. Wingreen PMCID: PMC1559749 Surface-modulated motion switch: Capture and release of iron–sulfur protein in the cytochrome bc1 complex Lothar Esser, Xing Gong, Shaoqing Yang, Linda Yu, Chang-An Yu, and Di Xia PMCID: PMC1551902 Swimming Paramecium in magnetically simulated enhanced, reduced, and inverted gravity environments Karine Guevorkian and James M. Valles, Jr. PMCID: PMC1559751 The role of hydrophobic interactions in initiation and propagation of protein folding H. Jane Dyson, Peter E. Wright, and Harold A. Scheraga PMCID: PMC1559752 Regulation of outside-in signaling and affinity by the β2 I domain of integrin αLβ2 JianFeng Chen, Wei Yang, Minsoo Kim, Christopher V. Carman, and Timothy A. Springer PMCID: PMC1559753 Cell Biology Human cytomegalovirus-encoded chemokine receptor US28 promotes tumorigenesis David Maussang, Dennis Verzijl, Marijke van Walsum, Rob Leurs, Jens Holl, Olivier Pleskoff, Detlef Michel, Guus A. M. S. van Dongen, and Martine J. Smit PMCID: PMC1559754 A repressor complex, AP4 transcription factor and geminin, negatively regulates expression of target genes in nonneuronal cells Mi-Young Kim, Byung Chul Jeong, Ji Hee Lee, Hae Jin Kee, Hyun Kook, Nack Sung Kim, Yoon Ha Kim, Jong-Keun Kim, Kyu Youn Ahn, and Kyung Keun Kim PMCID: PMC1551900 The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon Lynn Margulis, Michael Chapman, Ricardo Guerrero, and John Hall PMCID: PMC1559756 Dynamic redox control of NF-κB through glutaredoxin-regulated S-glutathionylation of inhibitory κB kinase β Niki L. Reynaert, Albert van der Vliet, Amy S. Guala, Toby McGovern, Milena Hristova, Cristen Pantano, Nicholas H. Heintz, John Heim, Ye-Shih Ho, Dwight E. Matthews, Emiel F. M. Wouters, and Yvonne M. W. Janssen-Heininger PMCID: PMC1559757 Heat-shock transcription factor (HSF)-1 pathway required for Caenorhabditis elegans immunity Varsha Singh and Alejandro Aballay PMCID: PMC1559758 Developmental Biology Spermatozoa and spermatids retrieved from frozen reproductive organs or frozen whole bodies of male mice can produce normal offspring Narumi Ogonuki, Keiji Mochida, Hiromi Miki, Kimiko Inoue, Martin Fray, Takamasa Iwaki, Kazuo Moriwaki, Yuichi Obata, Kazuto Morozumi, Ryuzo Yanagimachi, and Atsuo Ogura PMCID: PMC1550775 Ecology Annually reoccurring bacterial communities are predictable from ocean conditions Jed A. Fuhrman, Ian Hewson, Michael S. Schwalbach, Joshua A. Steele, Mark V. Brown, and Shahid Naeem PMCID: PMC1559760 Environmental Sciences Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation Nils Chr. Stenseth, Noelle I. Samia, Hildegunn Viljugrein, Kyrre Linné Kausrud, Mike Begon, Stephen Davis, Herwig Leirs, V. M. Dubyanskiy, Jan Esper, Vladimir S. Ageyev, Nikolay L. Klassovskiy, Sergey B. Pole, and Kung-Sik Chan PMCID: PMC1559761 A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems Marko Scholze, Wolfgang Knorr, Nigel W. Arnell, and I. Colin Prentice PMCID: PMC1559762 Evolution The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon Lynn Margulis, Michael Chapman, Ricardo Guerrero, and John Hall PMCID: PMC1559756 Scale-invariant structure of strongly conserved sequence in genomic intersections and alignments William Salerno, Paul Havlak, and Jonathan Miller PMCID: PMC1559763 The cyanobacterial genome core and the origin of photosynthesis Armen Y. Mulkidjanian, Eugene V. Koonin, Kira S. Makarova, Sergey L. Mekhedov, Alexander Sorokin, Yuri I. Wolf, Alexis Dufresne, Frédéric Partensky, Henry Burd, Denis Kaznadzey, Robert Haselkorn, and Michael Y. Galperin PMCID: PMC1551899 Immunology A2A adenosine receptor protects tumors from antitumor T cells Akio Ohta, Elieser Gorelik, Simon J. Prasad, Franca Ronchese, Dmitriy Lukashev, Michael K. K. Wong, Xiaojun Huang, Sheila Caldwell, Kebin Liu, Patrick Smith, Jiang-Fan Chen, Edwin K. Jackson, Sergey Apasov, Scott Abrams, and Michail Sitkovsky PMCID: PMC1559765 OX40 ligand shuts down IL-10-producing regulatory T cells Tomoki Ito, Yui-Hsi Wang, Omar Duramad, Shino Hanabuchi, Olivia A. Perng, Michel Gilliet, F. Xiao-Feng Qin, and Yong-Jun Liu PMCID: PMC1559766 Direct stimulation of T lymphocytes by immunosomes: Virus-like particles decorated with T cell receptor/CD3 ligands plus costimulatory molecules Sophia V. Derdak, Hans J. Kueng, Victoria M. Leb, Alina Neunkirchner, Klaus G. Schmetterer, Edith Bielek, Otto Majdic, Walter Knapp, Brian Seed, and Winfried F. Pickl PMCID: PMC1559767 Medical Sciences Coactosin-like protein supports 5-lipoxygenase enzyme activity and up-regulates leukotriene A4 production Marija Rakonjac, Lutz Fischer, Patrick Provost, Oliver Werz, Dieter Steinhilber, Bengt Samuelsson, and Olof Rådmark PMCID: PMC1559768 From the Cover:
Myeloid lineage progenitors give rise to vascular endothelium Alexis S. Bailey, Holger Willenbring, Shuguang Jiang, Daniel A. Anderson, David A. Schroeder, Melissa H. Wong, Markus Grompe, and William H. Fleming PMCID: PMC1559769 Estrogen receptor (ER)-β isoforms: A key to understanding ER-β signaling Yuet-Kin Leung, Paul Mak, Sazzad Hassan, and Shuk-Mei Ho PMCID: PMC1552044 Side population in adult murine epidermis exhibits phenotypic and functional characteristics of keratinocyte stem cells Richard P. Redvers, Amy Li, and Pritinder Kaur PMCID: PMC1559771 Synergy between immune cells and adult neural stem/progenitor cells promotes functional recovery from spinal cord injury Yaniv Ziv, Hila Avidan, Stefano Pluchino, Gianvito Martino, and Michal Schwartz PMCID: PMC1559772 Alveolar epithelial cell mesenchymal transition develops in vivo during pulmonary fibrosis and is regulated by the extracellular matrix Kevin K. Kim, Matthias C. Kugler, Paul J. Wolters, Liliane Robillard, Michael G. Galvez, Alexis N. Brumwell, Dean Sheppard, and Harold A. Chapman PMCID: PMC1551904 Microbiology A proteomic study of Methylobacterium extorquens reveals a response regulator essential for epiphytic growth Benjamin Gourion, Michel Rossignol, and Julia A. Vorholt PMCID: PMC1559774 Apicoplast fatty acid synthesis is essential for organelle biogenesis and parasite survival in Toxoplasma gondii Jolly Mazumdar, Emma H. Wilson, Kate Masek, Christopher A. Hunter, and Boris Striepen PMCID: PMC1559775 Neuroscience Evidence for stroke-induced neurogenesis in the human brain Kunlin Jin, Xiaomei Wang, Lin Xie, Xiao Ou Mao, Wei Zhu, Yin Wang, Jianfeng Shen, Ying Mao, Surita Banwait, and David A. Greenberg PMCID: PMC1559776 An internally controlled peripheral biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease: Erk1 and Erk2 responses to the inflammatory signal bradykinin Tapan K. Khan and Daniel L. Alkon PMCID: PMC1559777 Transgenic brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression causes both anxiogenic and antidepressant effects Arvind Govindarajan, B. S. Shankaranarayana Rao, Deepti Nair, Mimi Trinh, Nadya Mawjee, Susumu Tonegawa, and Sumantra Chattarji PMCID: PMC1559778 From the Cover:
Spontaneous and evoked synaptic rewiring in the neonatal neocortex Jean-Vincent Le Bé and Henry Markram PMCID: PMC1559779 Pharmacology Effective countermeasure against poisoning by organophosphorus insecticides and nerve agents Edson X. Albuquerque, Edna F. R. Pereira, Yasco Aracava, William P. Fawcett, Maristela Oliveira, William R. Randall, Tracey A. Hamilton, Robert K. Kan, James A. Romano, Jr., and Michael Adler PMCID: PMC1550772 Physiology From the Cover:
Vaccination against weight gain Eric P. Zorrilla, Shinichi Iwasaki, Jason A. Moss, Jason Chang, Jonathan Otsuji, Koki Inoue, Michael M. Meijler, and Kim D. Janda PMCID: PMC1559781 Local subplasma membrane Ca2+ signals detected by a tethered Ca2+ sensor Moo Yeol Lee, Hong Song, Junichi Nakai, Masamichi Ohkura, Michael I. Kotlikoff, Stephen P. Kinsey, Vera A. Golovina, and Mordecai P. Blaustein PMCID: PMC1559782 Plant Biology PEAPOD regulates lamina size and curvature in Arabidopsis Derek W. R. White PMCID: PMC1550771 Partially redundant functions of two SET-domain polycomb-group proteins in controlling initiation of seed development in Arabidopsis Dongfang Wang, Mark D. Tyson, Shawn S. Jackson, and Ramin Yadegari PMCID: PMC1559784 Non-cell-autonomous rescue of anaphase-promoting complex function revealed by mosaic analysis of HOBBIT, an Arabidopsis CDC27 homolog Olivier Serralbo, José Manuel Pérez-Pérez, Renze Heidstra, and Ben Scheres PMCID: PMC1559785 Psychology Transcranial magnetic stimulation of the visual cortex induces somatotopically organized qualia in blind subjects Ron Kupers, Arnaud Fumal, Alain Maertens de Noordhout, Albert Gjedde, Jean Schoenen, and Maurice Ptito PMCID: PMC1550769 |
