| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 September 5; 103(36): 13261–13262. doi: 10.1073/iti3606103.PMCID: PMC1569148 Commentaries Overcoming inhibitions Kenneth J. Kellar PMCID: PMC1569149 Proline to the rescue Mark T. Fisher PMCID: PMC1569150 Impaired collagen chaperone results in preterm PROM Kristen H. Taylor, Robert D. Schnabel, and Jeremy F. Taylor PMCID: PMC1569151 Antioxidants put Parkinson flies back in the PINK Ethan Bier PMCID: PMC1569152 Perspective Abnormal sex ratios in human populations: Causes and consequences Therese Hesketh and Zhu Wei Xing PMCID: PMC1569153 Profile Profile of Margaret M. Murnane Tinsley H. Davis PMCID: PMC1569154 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences Anomalous resonance in a nanomechanical biosensor Amit K. Gupta, Pradeep R. Nair, Demir Akin, Michael R. Ladisch, Steve Broyles, Muhammad A. Alam, and Rashid Bashir PMCID: PMC1569169 Chemistry Energy analysis of chemistry for correct insertion by DNA polymerase β Ping Lin, Lars C. Pedersen, Vinod K. Batra, William A. Beard, Samuel H. Wilson, and Lee G. Pedersen PMCID: PMC1569157 Designing, fabricating, and imaging Raman hot spots Lidong Qin, Shengli Zou, Can Xue, Ariel Atkinson, George C. Schatz, and Chad A. Mirkin PMCID: PMC1569158 Fluorogenic metabolic probes for direct activity readout of redox enzymes: Selective measurement of human AKR1C2 in living cells Dominic J. Yee, Vojtech Balsanek, David R. Bauman, Trevor M. Penning, and Dalibor Sames PMCID: PMC1569159 Geology Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities T. Jacob, E. Indriati, R. P. Soejono, K. Hsü, D. W. Frayer, R. B. Eckhardt, A. J. Kuperavage, A. Thorne, and M. Henneberg PMCID: PMC1552106 Physics INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Monitoring molecular dynamics using coherent electrons from high harmonic generation Nicholas L. Wagner, Andrea Wüest, Ivan P. Christov, Tenio Popmintchev, Xibin Zhou, Margaret M. Murnane, and Henry C. Kapteyn PMCID: PMC1533881 Surface molecular view of colloidal gelation Sylvie Roke, Otto Berg, Johan Buitenhuis, Alfons van Blaaderen, and Mischa Bonn PMCID: PMC1557386 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences Characterization of capsaicin synthase and identification of its gene (csy1) for pungency factor capsaicin in pepper (Capsicum sp.) B. C. Narasimha Prasad, Vinod Kumar, H. B. Gururaj, R. Parimalan, P. Giridhar, and G. A. Ravishankar PMCID: PMC1569161 Biochemistry Energy analysis of chemistry for correct insertion by DNA polymerase β Ping Lin, Lars C. Pedersen, Vinod K. Batra, William A. Beard, Samuel H. Wilson, and Lee G. Pedersen PMCID: PMC1569157 Structural mechanism for the carriage and release of thyroxine in the blood Aiwu Zhou, Zhenquan Wei, Randy J. Read, and Robin W. Carrell PMCID: PMC1557382 The transition state for formation of the peptide bond in the ribosome Asta Gindulyte, Anat Bashan, Ilana Agmon, Lou Massa, Ada Yonath, and Jerome Karle PMCID: PMC1557383 Matrix morphogenesis in cornea is mediated by the modification of keratan sulfate by GlcNAc 6-O-sulfotransferase Yasutaka Hayashida, Tomoya O. Akama, Nicola Beecher, Philip Lewis, Robert D. Young, Keith M. Meek, Briedgeen Kerr, Clare E. Hughes, Bruce Caterson, Akira Tanigami, Jun Nakayama, Michiko N. Fukada, Yasuo Tano, Kohji Nishida, and Andrew J. Quantock PMCID: PMC1569164 Structure of aminopeptidase N from Escherichia coli suggests a compartmentalized, gated active site Anthony Addlagatta, Leslie Gay, and Brian W. Matthews PMCID: PMC1569165 A biosynthetic pathway for anandamide Jie Liu, Lei Wang, Judith Harvey-White, Douglas Osei-Hyiaman, Raj Razdan, Qian Gong, Andrew C. Chan, Zhifeng Zhou, Bill X. Huang, Hee-Yong Kim, and George Kunos PMCID: PMC1557387 Coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1 (CARM1) is a positive regulator of the Cyclin E1 gene Selma El Messaoudi, Eric Fabbrizio, Carmen Rodriguez, Paul Chuchana, Lucas Fauquier, Donghang Cheng, Charles Theillet, Laurence Vandel, Mark T. Bedford, and Claude Sardet PMCID: PMC1569167 Biophysics Inhibition of protein aggregation in vitro and in vivo by a natural osmoprotectant Zoya Ignatova and Lila M. Gierasch PMCID: PMC1569168 Anomalous resonance in a nanomechanical biosensor Amit K. Gupta, Pradeep R. Nair, Demir Akin, Michael R. Ladisch, Steve Broyles, Muhammad A. Alam, and Rashid Bashir PMCID: PMC1569169 Conformational transition pathway in the allosteric process of human glucokinase Jian Zhang, Chenjing Li, Kaixian Chen, Weiliang Zhu, Xu Shen, and Hualiang Jiang PMCID: PMC1569170 Monitoring of heparin and its low-molecular-weight analogs by silicon field effect Nebojša M. Milović, Jonathan R. Behr, Michel Godin, Chih-Sheng Johnson Hou, Kristofor R. Payer, Aarthi Chandrasekaran, Peter R. Russo, Ram Sasisekharan, and Scott R. Manalis PMCID: PMC1569171 Trapped water molecules are essential to structural dynamics and function of a ribozyme Maria M. Rhodes, Kamila Réblová, Jiří Šponer, and Nils G. Walter PMCID: PMC1569172 High-field pulsed electron–electron double resonance spectroscopy to determine the orientation of the tyrosyl radicals in ribonucleotide reductase V. P. Denysenkov, T. F. Prisner, J. Stubbe, and M. Bennati PMCID: PMC1569173 Cell Biology The Nck-interacting kinase phosphorylates ERM proteins for formation of lamellipodium by growth factors Martin Baumgartner, Amy L. Sillman, Elizabeth M. Blackwood, Jyoti Srivastava, Nikki Madson, James W. Schilling, Jocelyn H. Wright, and Diane L. Barber PMCID: PMC1569174 From the Cover:
Matefin/SUN-1 is a nuclear envelope receptor for CED-4 during Caenorhabditis elegans apoptosis Yonatan B. Tzur, Ayelet Margalit, Naomi Melamed-Book, and Yosef Gruenbaum PMCID: PMC1569175 Developmental Biology Tcof1/Treacle is required for neural crest cell formation and proliferation deficiencies that cause craniofacial abnormalities Jill Dixon, Natalie C. Jones, Lisa L. Sandell, Sachintha M. Jayasinghe, Jennifer Crane, Jean-Philippe Rey, Michael J. Dixon, and Paul A. Trainor PMCID: PMC1557391 Dual roles for adenomatous polyposis coli in regulating retinoic acid biosynthesis and Wnt during ocular development Lincoln D. Nadauld, Stephanie Chidester, Dawne N. Shelton, Kunal Rai, Talmage Broadbent, Imelda T. Sandoval, Peter W. Peterson, Elizabeth J. Manos, Chris M. Ireland, H. Joseph Yost, and David A. Jones PMCID: PMC1569177 MIWI associates with translational machinery and PIWI-interacting RNAs (piRNAs) in regulating spermatogenesis Shane T. Grivna, Brook Pyhtila, and Haifan Lin PMCID: PMC1569178 Evolution Pygmoid Australomelanesian Homo sapiens skeletal remains from Liang Bua, Flores: Population affinities and pathological abnormalities T. Jacob, E. Indriati, R. P. Soejono, K. Hsü, D. W. Frayer, R. B. Eckhardt, A. J. Kuperavage, A. Thorne, and M. Henneberg PMCID: PMC1552106 Comparison of multiple vertebrate genomes reveals the birth and evolution of human exons Xiang H.-F. Zhang and Lawrence A. Chasin PMCID: PMC1569180 Population-wide lineage frequencies predict genetic load in the seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex Kirk E. Anderson, Bert Hölldobler, Jennifer H. Fewell, Brendon M. Mott, and Jürgen Gadau PMCID: PMC1569181 Genetics A Drosophila model of the rhabdomyosarcoma initiator PAX7-FKHR Rene L. Galindo, Jay A. Allport, and Eric N. Olson PMCID: PMC1569182 A mitotically inheritable unit containing a MAP kinase module Sébastien Kicka, Crystel Bonnet, Andrew K. Sobering, Latha P. Ganesan, and Philippe Silar PMCID: PMC1569183 Immunology Inactivation of JNK1 enhances innate IL-10 production and dampens autoimmune inflammation in the brain Elise H. Tran, Yasu-Taka Azuma, Manchuan Chen, Claire Weston, Roger J. Davis, and Richard A. Flavell PMCID: PMC1569184 Role of T and NK cells and IL7/IL7r interactions during neonatal maturation of lymph nodes Mark C. Coles, Henrique Veiga-Fernandes, Katie E. Foster, Trisha Norton, Stamatis N. Pagakis, Ben Seddon, and Dimitris Kioussis PMCID: PMC1569185 Medical Sciences From the Cover:
A functional SNP in the promoter of the SERPINH1 gene increases risk of preterm premature rupture of membranes in African Americans Hongyan Wang, Samuel Parry, George Macones, Mary D. Sammel, Helena Kuivaniemi, Gerard Tromp, George Argyropoulos, Indrani Halder, Mark D. Shriver, Roberto Romero, and Jerome F. Strauss, III PMCID: PMC1557384 Improving function and survival of pancreatic islets by endogenous production of glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1) Rhonda D. Wideman, Irene L. Y. Yu, Travis D. Webber, C. Bruce Verchere, James D. Johnson, Anthony T. Cheung, and Timothy J. Kieffer PMCID: PMC1569187 From the Cover:
Evolution of cooperation among tumor cells Robert Axelrod, David E. Axelrod, and Kenneth J. Pienta PMCID: PMC1557388 Carboxyethylpyrrole oxidative protein modifications stimulate neovascularization: Implications for age-related macular degeneration Quteba Ebrahem, Kutralanathan Renganathan, Jonathan Sears, Amit Vasanji, Xiaorong Gu, Liang Lu, Robert G. Salomon, John W. Crabb, and Bela Anand-Apte PMCID: PMC1569188 Dopamine targets cycling B cells independent of receptors/transporter for oxidative attack: Implications for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma Elizabeth J. Meredith, Michelle J. Holder, Anders Rosén, Adrian Drake Lee, Martin J. S. Dyer, Nicholas M. Barnes, and John Gordon PMCID: PMC1569189 Cryptic out-of-frame translational initiation of TBCE rescues tubulin formation in compound heterozygous HRD Guoling Tian, Melissa C. Huang, Ruti Parvari, George A. Diaz, and Nicholas J. Cowan PMCID: PMC1569190 Microbiology The Salmonella effector protein PipB2 is a linker for kinesin-1 Thomas Henry, Carole Couillault, Patrick Rockenfeller, Emmanuel Boucrot, Audrey Dumont, Nina Schroeder, Aurélie Hermant, Leigh A. Knodler, Patrick Lecine, Olivia Steele-Mortimer, Jean-Paul Borg, Jean-Pierre Gorvel, and Stéphane Méresse PMCID: PMC1569191 The PhoP/PhoQ two-component system stabilizes the alternative sigma factor RpoS in Salmonella enterica Xuanlin Tu, Tammy Latifi, Alexandre Bougdour, Susan Gottesman, and Eduardo A. Groisman PMCID: PMC1557385 Polyvalent inhibitors of anthrax toxin that target host receptors Saleem Basha, Prakash Rai, Vincent Poon, Arundhati Saraph, Kunal Gujraty, Mandy Y. Go, Skanda Sadacharan, Mia Frost, Jeremy Mogridge, and Ravi S. Kane PMCID: PMC1569193 RovA, a global regulator of Yersinia pestis, specifically required for bubonic plague Jason S. Cathelyn, Seth D. Crosby, Wyndham W. Lathem, William E. Goldman, and Virginia L. Miller PMCID: PMC1569194 Neuroscience From the Cover:
Antioxidants protect PINK1-dependent dopaminergic neurons in Drosophila Danling Wang, Li Qian, Hui Xiong, Jiandong Liu, Wendi S. Neckameyer, Sean Oldham, Kun Xia, Jianzhi Wang, Rolf Bodmer, and Zhuohua Zhang PMCID: PMC1569195 Olfactory responses in a gustatory organ of the malaria vector mosquito Anopheles gambiae Hyung-Wook Kwon, Tan Lu, Michael Rützler, and Laurence J. Zwiebel PMCID: PMC1569196 Temporary loss of perivascular aquaporin-4 in neocortex after transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in mice Didrik S. Frydenlund, Anish Bhardwaj, Takashi Otsuka, Maria N. Mylonakou, Thomas Yasumura, Kimberly G. V. Davidson, Emil Zeynalov, Øivind Skare, Petter Laake, Finn-Mogens Haug, John E. Rash, Peter Agre, Ole P. Ottersen, and Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam PMCID: PMC1557389 Neurotoxic protein expression reveals connections between the circadian clock and mating behavior in Drosophila Sebastian Kadener, Adriana Villella, Elzbieta Kula, Kristyna Palm, Elzbieta Pyza, Juan Botas, Jeffrey C. Hall, and Michael Rosbash PMCID: PMC1557390 Broad activation of the olfactory bulb produces long-lasting changes in odor perception Nathalie Mandairon, Conor Stack, Carly Kiselycznyk, and Christiane Linster PMCID: PMC1569199 Plant Biology INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: ETHYLENE-INSENSITIVE5 encodes a 5′→3′ exoribonuclease required for regulation of the EIN3-targeting F-box proteins EBF1/2 Gabriela Olmedo, Hongwei Guo, Brian D. Gregory, Saeid D. Nourizadeh, Laura Aguilar-Henonin, Hongjiang Li, Fengying An, Plinio Guzman, and Joseph R. Ecker PMCID: PMC1550774 Protein phosphatase 1 positively regulates stomatal opening in response to blue light in Vicia faba Atsushi Takemiya, Toshinori Kinoshita, Miwako Asanuma, and Ken-ichiro Shimazaki PMCID: PMC1569200 Genome sequence of Synechococcus CC9311: Insights into adaptation to a coastal environment Brian Palenik, Qinghu Ren, Chris L. Dupont, Garry S. Myers, John F. Heidelberg, Jonathan H. Badger, Ramana Madupu, William C. Nelson, Lauren M. Brinkac, Robert J. Dodson, A. Scott Durkin, Sean C. Daugherty, Stephen A. Sullivan, Hoda Khouri, Yasmin Mohamoud, Rebecca Halpin, and Ian T. Paulsen PMCID: PMC1569201 Corrections Correction for Mellars, Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model PMCID: PMC1569202 Corrects: Paul Mellars. Why did modern human populations disperse from Africa ca. 60,000 years ago? A new model. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 June 20; 103(25): 9381–9386. Correction for Austin et al., Death-receptor activation halts clathrin-dependent endocytosis PMCID: PMC1569203 Corrects: Cary D. Austin, et al. Death-receptor activation halts clathrin-dependent endocytosis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 July 5; 103(27): 10283–10288. Correction for Xie et al., Insights into TOR function and rapamycin response: Chemical genomic profiling by using a high-density cell array method PMCID: PMC1569204 Corrects: Michael W. Xie, et al. Insights into TOR function and rapamycin response: Chemical genomic profiling by using a high-density cell array method. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 17; 102(20): 7215–7220. Correction for Fox et al., Spontaneous neuronal activity distinguishes human dorsal and ventral attention systems PMCID: PMC1569205 Corrects: Michael D. Fox, et al. Spontaneous neuronal activity distinguishes human dorsal and ventral attention systems. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 June 27; 103(26): 10046–10051. |
