| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 December 26; 103(52): 19607–19608. doi: 10.1073/iti5206103.PMCID: PMC1750897 Commentaries Air pollution and climate change both reduce Indian rice harvests Wolfgang Cramer PMCID: PMC1750908 Illuminating membrane fusion Josep Rizo PMCID: PMC1750903 Profile Profile of Edward L. Miles Philip Downey PMCID: PMC1750915 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences Adhesion and detachment mechanisms of sugar surfaces from the solid (glassy) to liquid (viscous) states Boxin Zhao, Hongbo Zeng, Yu Tian, and Jacob Israelachvili PMCID: PMC1750895 High-sensitivity detection of TNT Michael B. Pushkarsky, Ilya G. Dunayevskiy, Manu Prasanna, Alexei G. Tsekoun, Rowel Go, and C. Kumar N. Patel PMCID: PMC1750912 Chemistry Four-color DNA sequencing by synthesis using cleavable fluorescent nucleotide reversible terminators Jingyue Ju, Dae Hyun Kim, Lanrong Bi, Qinglin Meng, Xiaopeng Bai, Zengmin Li, Xiaoxu Li, Mong Sano Marma, Shundi Shi, Jian Wu, John R. Edwards, Aireen Romu, and Nicholas J. Turro PMCID: PMC1702316 Role of protein frame and solvent for the redox properties of azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Michele Cascella, Alessandra Magistrato, Ivano Tavernelli, Paolo Carloni, and Ursula Rothlisberger PMCID: PMC1705813 Processive enzyme mimic: Kinetics and thermodynamics of the threading and sliding process Ruud G. E. Coumans, Johannes A. A. W. Elemans, Roeland J. M. Nolte, and Alan E. Rowan PMCID: PMC1750920 Single-stranded nucleic acid-induced helical self-assembly of alkynylplatinum(II) terpyridyl complexes Cong Yu, Kenneth Hoi-Yiu Chan, Keith Man-Chung Wong, and Vivian Wing-Wah Yam PMCID: PMC1750871 Carboxyl-modified single-walled carbon nanotubes selectively induce human telomeric i-motif formation Xi Li, Yinghua Peng, Jinsong Ren, and Xiaogang Qu PMCID: PMC1750900 Multiwalled ice helixes and ice nanotubes Jaeil Bai, Jun Wang, and X. C. Zeng PMCID: PMC1750917 Computer Sciences Microinversions in mammalian evolution M. J. Chaisson, B. J. Raphael, and P. A. Pevzner PMCID: PMC1750909 Engineering From the Cover:
Anisotropy of cell adhesive microenvironment governs cell internal organization and orientation of polarity Manuel Théry, Victor Racine, Matthieu Piel, Anne Pépin, Ariane Dimitrov, Yong Chen, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, and Michel Bornens PMCID: PMC1750916 Environmental Sciences-PS From the Cover:
Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India Maximilian Auffhammer, V. Ramanathan, and Jeffrey R. Vincent PMCID: PMC1693867 Geophysics Tsunami inundation modeling for western Sumatra José C. Borrero, Kerry Sieh, Mohamed Chlieh, and Costas E. Synolakis PMCID: PMC1750885 Physics From the Cover:
Why molecules move along a temperature gradient Stefan Duhr and Dieter Braun PMCID: PMC1750914 Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences Four-color DNA sequencing by synthesis using cleavable fluorescent nucleotide reversible terminators Jingyue Ju, Dae Hyun Kim, Lanrong Bi, Qinglin Meng, Xiaopeng Bai, Zengmin Li, Xiaoxu Li, Mong Sano Marma, Shundi Shi, Jian Wu, John R. Edwards, Aireen Romu, and Nicholas J. Turro PMCID: PMC1702316 Biochemistry From the Cover:
Why molecules move along a temperature gradient Stefan Duhr and Dieter Braun PMCID: PMC1750914 Mechanism of allosteric regulation of transglutaminase 2 by GTP Gillian E. Begg, Lyle Carrington, Philippa H. Stokes, Jacqueline M. Matthews, Merridee A. Wouters, Ahsan Husain, Laszlo Lorand, Siiri E. Iismaa, and Robert M. Graham PMCID: PMC1750866 Sequence-specific modification of mitochondrial DNA using a chimeric zinc finger methylase Michal Minczuk, Monika A. Papworth, Paulina Kolasinska, Michael P. Murphy, and Aaron Klug PMCID: PMC1750892 Molecular identification of microsomal acyl-CoA:glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase, a key enzyme in de novo triacylglycerol synthesis Jingsong Cao, Jian-Liang Li, Dongmei Li, James F. Tobin, and Ruth E. Gimeno PMCID: PMC1702318 The structural basis for the mutagenicity of O6-methyl-guanine lesions Joshua J. Warren, Lawrence J. Forsberg, and Lorena S. Beese PMCID: PMC1750904 Synthetic small molecule furin inhibitors derived from 2,5-dideoxystreptamine Guan-Sheng Jiao, Lynne Cregar, Jinzhi Wang, Sherri Z. Millis, Cho Tang, Sean O'Malley, Alan T. Johnson, Sina Sareth, Jason Larson, and Gary Thomas PMCID: PMC1750872 Topological dynamics of holins in programmed bacterial lysis Taehyun Park, Douglas K. Struck, John F. Deaton, and Ry Young PMCID: PMC1750887 Identification of long-range regulatory elements in the protocadherin-α gene cluster Scott Ribich, Bosiljka Tasic, and Tom Maniatis PMCID: PMC1750919 The first armadillo repeat is involved in the recognition and regulation of β-catenin phosphorylation by protein kinase CK1 Victor H. Bustos, Anna Ferrarese, Andrea Venerando, Oriano Marin, Jorge E. Allende, and Lorenzo A. Pinna PMCID: PMC1750875 Biophysics Role of protein frame and solvent for the redox properties of azurin from Pseudomonas aeruginosa Michele Cascella, Alessandra Magistrato, Ivano Tavernelli, Paolo Carloni, and Ursula Rothlisberger PMCID: PMC1705813 From the Cover:
Multiple intermediates in SNARE-induced membrane fusion Tae-Young Yoon, Burak Okumus, Fan Zhang, Yeon-Kyun Shin, and Taekjip Ha PMCID: PMC1698870 Structural transitions of complement component C3 and its activation products Noritaka Nishida, Thomas Walz, and Timothy A. Springer PMCID: PMC1750921 The discordant eardrum Jonathan P. Fay, Sunil Puria, and Charles R. Steele PMCID: PMC1702319 Determination of solvent content in cavities in IL-1β using experimentally phased electron density Michael L. Quillin, Paul T. Wingfield, and Brian W. Matthews PMCID: PMC1750907 Amyloid of the prion domain of Sup35p has an in-register parallel β-sheet structure Frank Shewmaker, Reed B. Wickner, and Robert Tycko PMCID: PMC1750918 Bidirectional signaling between calcium channels of skeletal muscle requires multiple direct and indirect interactions David C. Sheridan, Hiroaki Takekura, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Kurt G. Beam, Paul D. Allen, and Claudio F. Perez PMCID: PMC1750873 Localized proton microcircuits at the biological membrane–water interface Magnus Brändén, Tor Sandén, Peter Brzezinski, and Jerker Widengren PMCID: PMC1750901 Cell Biology From the Cover:
Anisotropy of cell adhesive microenvironment governs cell internal organization and orientation of polarity Manuel Théry, Victor Racine, Matthieu Piel, Anne Pépin, Ariane Dimitrov, Yong Chen, Jean-Baptiste Sibarita, and Michel Bornens PMCID: PMC1750916 Nitric oxide synthase generates nitric oxide locally to regulate compartmentalized protein S-nitrosylation and protein trafficking Yasuko Iwakiri, Ayano Satoh, Suvro Chatterjee, Derek K. Toomre, Cecile M. Chalouni, David Fulton, Roberto J. Groszmann, Vijay H. Shah, and William C. Sessa PMCID: PMC1750883 Rae1 interaction with NuMA is required for bipolar spindle formation Richard W. Wong, Günter Blobel, and Elias Coutavas PMCID: PMC1750899 S-adenosylhomocysteine hydrolase is localized at the front of chemotaxing cells, suggesting a role for transmethylation during migration Shi Shu, Dana C. Mahadeo, Xiong Liu, Wenli Liu, Carole A. Parent, and Edward D. Korn PMCID: PMC1750865 Combinatorial pattern recognition receptor signaling alters the balance of life and death in macrophages Tracie A. Seimon, Amrom Obstfeld, Kathryn J. Moore, Douglas T. Golenbock, and Ira Tabas PMCID: PMC1750881 Developmental Biology Order from disorder: Self-organization in mammalian hair patterning Yanshu Wang, Tudor Badea, and Jeremy Nathans PMCID: PMC1750877 Mesodermal cell displacements during avian gastrulation are due to both individual cell-autonomous and convective tissue movements Evan A. Zamir, András Czirók, Cheng Cui, Charles D. Little, and Brenda J. Rongish PMCID: PMC1705812 Developmental stage-specific biphasic roles of Wnt/β-catenin signaling in cardiomyogenesis and hematopoiesis Atsuhiko T. Naito, Ichiro Shiojima, Hiroshi Akazawa, Kyoko Hidaka, Takayuki Morisaki, Akira Kikuchi, and Issei Komuro PMCID: PMC1750922 Ecology Introduced cryptic species of parasites exhibit different invasion pathways Osamu Miura, Mark E. Torchin, Armand M. Kuris, Ryan F. Hechinger, and Satoshi Chiba PMCID: PMC1750888 Evolution Microinversions in mammalian evolution M. J. Chaisson, B. J. Raphael, and P. A. Pevzner PMCID: PMC1750909 Interstrain transfer of the large pathogenicity island (PAPI-1) of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Xiaoyun Qiu, Aditi U. Gurkar, and Stephen Lory PMCID: PMC1750864 Genetics Filamin A (FLNA) is required for cell–cell contact in vascular development and cardiac morphogenesis Yuanyi Feng, Ming Hui Chen, Ivan P. Moskowitz, Ashley M. Mendonza, Luis Vidali, Fumihiko Nakamura, David J. Kwiatkowski, and Christopher A. Walsh PMCID: PMC1702530 p21 delays tumor onset by preservation of chromosomal stability Juan A. Barboza, Geng Liu, Zhenlin Ju, Adel K. El-Naggar, and Guillermina Lozano PMCID: PMC1702317 Identification of alterations in DNA copy number in host stromal cells during tumor progression Robert J. Pelham, Linda Rodgers, Ira Hall, Robert Lucito, Ken C. Q. Nguyen, Nicholas Navin, James Hicks, David Mu, Scott Powers, Michael Wigler, and David Botstein PMCID: PMC1698871 Immunology From the Cover:
Human lupus autoantibodies against NMDA receptors mediate cognitive impairment Czeslawa Kowal, Lorraine A. DeGiorgio, Ji Y. Lee, Mark A. Edgar, Patricio T. Huerta, Bruce T. Volpe, and Betty Diamond PMCID: PMC1702320 Medical Sciences Identification of quantitative trait loci affecting body composition in a mouse intercross James A. Vitarius, Ephraim Sehayek, and Jan L. Breslow PMCID: PMC1750913 Phosphoinositide 3-kinase γ/δ inhibition limits infarct size after myocardial ischemia/reperfusion injury John Doukas, Wolfgang Wrasidlo, Glenn Noronha, Elena Dneprovskaia, Richard Fine, Sara Weis, John Hood, Anthony DeMaria, Richard Soll, and David Cheresh PMCID: PMC1702529 Discs-large homolog 1 regulates smooth muscle orientation in the mouse ureter Zhen X. Mahoney, Bénédicte Sammut, Ramnik J. Xavier, Jeanette Cunningham, Gloriosa Go, Karry L. Brim, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, Jeffrey H. Miner, and Wojciech Swat PMCID: PMC1750896 Impairments in frontal cortical γ synchrony and cognitive control in schizophrenia R. Y. Cho, R. O. Konecky, and C. S. Carter PMCID: PMC1750867 Microbiology Filamentation by Escherichia coli subverts innate defenses during urinary tract infection Sheryl S. Justice, David A. Hunstad, Patrick C. Seed, and Scott J. Hultgren PMCID: PMC1750882 Selection for Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants due to growth in the presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lucas R. Hoffman, Eric Déziel, David A. D'Argenio, François Lépine, Julia Emerson, Sharon McNamara, Ronald L. Gibson, Bonnie W. Ramsey, and Samuel I. Miller PMCID: PMC1750898 Nisin-induced changes in Bacillus morphology suggest a paradigm of antibiotic action Alexander J. Hyde, Judicaël Parisot, Adam McNichol, and Boyan B. Bonev PMCID: PMC1750868 Neuroscience PSD-95 and PKC converge in regulating NMDA receptor trafficking and gating Ying Lin, Teresa Jover-Mengual, Judy Wong, Michael V. L. Bennett, and R. Suzanne Zukin PMCID: PMC1750863 Calorie restriction up-regulates the plasma membrane redox system in brain cells and suppresses oxidative stress during aging Dong-Hoon Hyun, Scott S. Emerson, Dong-Gyu Jo, Mark P. Mattson, and Rafael de Cabo PMCID: PMC1750890 Identification of a biomarker for sleep drive in flies and humans Laurent Seugnet, Jaime Boero, Laura Gottschalk, Stephen P. Duntley, and Paul J. Shaw PMCID: PMC1750902 Axonal mRNA transport and localized translational regulation of κ-opioid receptor in primary neurons of dorsal root ganglia Jing Bi, Nien-Pei Tsai, Ya-Ping Lin, Horace H. Loh, and Li-Na Wei PMCID: PMC1750870 Pharmacology Modulation of Leydig cell function by cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase 8A Valeria Vasta, Masami Shimizu-Albergine, and Joseph A. Beavo PMCID: PMC1750886 Social Sciences Sustainability Science INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: An approach to designing a national climate service E. L. Miles, A. K. Snover, L. C. Whitely Binder, E. S. Sarachik, P. W. Mote, and N. Mantua PMCID: PMC1750869 From the Cover:
Integrated model shows that atmospheric brown clouds and greenhouse gases have reduced rice harvests in India Maximilian Auffhammer, V. Ramanathan, and Jeffrey R. Vincent PMCID: PMC1693867 Corrections Correction for Liberati et al., An ordered, nonredundant library of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA14 transposon insertion mutants PMCID: PMC1750905 Corrects: Nicole T. Liberati, et al. An ordered, nonredundant library of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PA14 transposon insertion mutants. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 February 21; 103(8): 2833–2838. Correction for Berk et al., Structural basis for mRNA and tRNA positioning on the ribosome Veysel Berk, Wen Zhang, Raj D. Pai, and Jamie H. D. Cate PMCID: PMC1750884 Corrects: Veysel Berk, et al. Structural basis for mRNA and tRNA positioning on the ribosome. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 October 24; 103(43): 15830–15834. |
