| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 March 27; 104(13): 5253–5254. doi: 10.1073/iti1307104.PMCID: PMC1838458 Commentaries Slip sliding away with myosin V John A. Hammer, III and Xufeng Wu PMCID: PMC1838462 Plant volatiles carry both public and private
messages Jonathan Gershenzon PMCID: PMC1838470 Coral reef bleaching and global climate change: Can corals survive the next century? Michael P. Lesser PMCID: PMC1838477 Physical Sciences Chemistry Microfluidic immunoassays as rapid saliva-based clinical diagnostics Amy E. Herr, Anson V. Hatch, Daniel J. Throckmorton, Huu M. Tran, James S. Brennan, William V. Giannobile, and Anup K. Singh PMCID: PMC1828942 Zwitterionic self-assembly of l-methionine nanogratings on the Ag(111) surface Agustin Schiffrin, Andreas Riemann, Willi Auwärter, Yan Pennec, Alex Weber-Bargioni, Dean Cvetko, Albano Cossaro, Alberto Morgante, and Johannes V. Barth PMCID: PMC1838441 The answer to concerted versus step-wise controversy for the double proton transfer mechanism of 7-azaindole dimer in solution Satoshi Takeuchi and Tahei Tahara PMCID: PMC1838493 Electron transfer in Me-blocked heterodimeric α,γ-peptide nanotubular donor–acceptor hybrids Roberto J. Brea, Luis Castedo, Juan R. Granja, M. Ángeles Herranz, Luis Sánchez, Nazario Martín, Wolfgang Seitz, and Dirk M. Guldi PMCID: PMC1838467 Dissection of complex protein dynamics in human thioredoxin Weihong Qiu, Lijuan Wang, Wenyun Lu, Amanda Boechler, David A. R. Sanders, and Dongping Zhong PMCID: PMC1838516 Sensitivity of T cells to antigen and antagonism emerges from differential regulation of the same molecular signaling module Dennis C. Wylie, Jayajit Das, and Arup K. Chakraborty PMCID: PMC1838481 Environmental Sciences Intensification of Pacific storm track linked to Asian pollution Renyi Zhang, Guohui Li, Jiwen Fan, Dong L. Wu, and Mario J. Molina PMCID: PMC1828943 Geology From the Cover:
Environmental change preceded Caribbean extinction by 2 million years Aaron O'Dea, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Helena Fortunato, J. Travis Smith, Luis D'Croz, Kenneth G. Johnson, and Jonathan A. Todd PMCID: PMC1838446 Geophysics From the Cover:
Model-based assessment of the role of human-induced climate change in
the 2005 Caribbean coral bleaching event Simon D. Donner, Thomas R. Knutson, and Michael Oppenheimer PMCID: PMC1838457 Physics Hierarchy and feedback in the evolution of the Escherichia coli transcription network M. Cosentino Lagomarsino, P. Jona, B. Bassetti, and H. Isambert PMCID: PMC1838485 Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences High-throughput telomere length quantification by FISH and its application to human population studies Andrés Canela, Elsa Vera, Peter Klatt, and María A. Blasco PMCID: PMC1828130 Biochemistry Utilizing the activation mechanism of serine proteases to engineer hepatocyte growth factor into a Met antagonist Daniel Kirchhofer, Michael T. Lipari, Lydia Santell, Karen L. Billeci, Henry R. Maun, Wendy N. Sandoval, Paul Moran, John Ridgway, Charles Eigenbrot, and Robert A. Lazarus PMCID: PMC1828710 Exchange of DNA polymerases at the replication fork of bacteriophage T7 Donald E. Johnson, Masateru Takahashi, Samir M. Hamdan, Seung-Joo Lee, and Charles C. Richardson PMCID: PMC1838503 MitoNEET is an iron-containing outer mitochondrial membrane protein that regulates oxidative capacity Sandra E. Wiley, Anne N. Murphy, Stuart A. Ross, Peter van der Geer, and Jack E. Dixon PMCID: PMC1838440 Endoproteolytic processing of C-terminally truncated NF-κB2 precursors at κB-containing promoters Guoliang Qing, Zhaoxia Qu, and Gutian Xiao PMCID: PMC1838492 Nonnatural protein–protein interaction-pair design by key residues grafting Sen Liu, Shiyong Liu, Xiaolei Zhu, Huanhuan Liang, Aoneng Cao, Zhijie Chang, and Luhua Lai PMCID: PMC1838465 The crystal structure of two macrolide glycosyltransferases provides a blueprint for host cell antibiotic immunity David N. Bolam, Shirley Roberts, Mark R. Proctor, Johan P. Turkenburg, Eleanor J. Dodson, Carlos Martinez-Fleites, Min Yang, Benjamin G. Davis, Gideon J. Davies, and Harry J. Gilbert PMCID: PMC1838483 Perturbed ATPase activity and not “close confinement” of substrate in the cis cavity affects rates of folding by tail-multiplied GroEL George W. Farr, Wayne A. Fenton, and Arthur L. Horwich PMCID: PMC1828711 Crystal structure of a peptidoglycan glycosyltransferase suggests a model for processive glycan chain synthesis Yanqiu Yuan, Dianah Barrett, Yi Zhang, Daniel Kahne, Piotr Sliz, and Suzanne Walker PMCID: PMC1817829 Crystal structure of the carbapenemase OXA-24 reveals insights into the mechanism of carbapenem hydrolysis Elena Santillana, Alejandro Beceiro, Germán Bou, and Antonio Romero PMCID: PMC1838445 Structure of limonene synthase, a simple model for terpenoid cyclase catalysis David C. Hyatt, Buhyun Youn, Yuxin Zhao, Bindu Santhamma, Robert M. Coates, Rodney B. Croteau, and ChulHee Kang PMCID: PMC1838495 Biophysics INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Insights on the role of nucleic acid/protein interactions in chaperoned nucleic acid rearrangements of HIV-1 reverse transcription Hsiao-Wei Liu, Yining Zeng, Christy F. Landes, Yoen Joo Kim, Yongjin Zhu, Xiaojing Ma, My-Nuong Vo, Karin Musier-Forsyth, and Paul F. Barbara PMCID: PMC1828707 Dissection of complex protein dynamics in human thioredoxin Weihong Qiu, Lijuan Wang, Wenyun Lu, Amanda Boechler, David A. R. Sanders, and Dongping Zhong PMCID: PMC1838516 Assess the nature of cholesterol–lipid interactions through the chemical potential of cholesterol in phosphatidylcholine bilayers Md Rejwan Ali, Kwan Hon Cheng, and Juyang Huang PMCID: PMC1838487 Tracking melanosomes inside a cell to study molecular motors and their interaction Comert Kural, Anna S. Serpinskaya, Ying-Hao Chou, Robert D. Goldman, Vladimir I. Gelfand, and Paul R. Selvin PMCID: PMC1838505 Folding and unfolding of a photoswitchable peptide from picoseconds to microseconds Janne A. Ihalainen, Jens Bredenbeck, Rolf Pfister, Jan Helbing, Lei Chi, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, G. Andrew Woolley, and Peter Hamm PMCID: PMC1838511 Cell Biology Role of the chromobox protein CBX7 in lymphomagenesis Clare L. Scott, Jésus Gil, Eva Hernando, Julie Teruya-Feldstein, Masako Narita, Dolores Martínez, Tapio Visakorpi, David Mu, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Gordon Peters, David Beach, and Scott W. Lowe PMCID: PMC1828941 A role for a complex between activated G protein-coupled receptors in yeast cellular mating Chunhua Shi, Susan Kaminskyj, Sarah Caldwell, and Michèle C. Loewen PMCID: PMC1838501 p53 targets identified by protein expression profiling Rubaiyat Rahman-Roblick, Uwe Johannes Roblick, Ulf Hellman, Paolo Conrotto, Tao Liu, Susanne Becker, Daniel Hirschberg, Hans Jörnvall, Gert Auer, and Klas G. Wiman PMCID: PMC1828709 Endocytosis provides a major alternative pathway for lysosomal biogenesis in kidney proximal tubular cells Rikke Nielsen, Pierre J. Courtoy, Christian Jacobsen, Geneviève Dom, Wânia Rezende Lima, Michel Jadot, Thomas E. Willnow, Olivier Devuyst, and Erik I. Christensen PMCID: PMC1838438 A critical role for the E3-ligase activity of c-Cbl in VEGFR-2-mediated PLCγ1 activation and angiogenesis Amrik J. Singh, Rosana D. Meyer, Gyulmagomed Navruzbekov, Rajani Shelke, Lei Duan, Hamid Band, Susan E. Leeman, and Nader Rahimi PMCID: PMC1828708 SHP-2 tyrosine phosphatase inhibits p73-dependent apoptosis and expression of a subset of p53 target genes induced by EGCG A. R. M. Ruhul Amin, Vijay S. Thakur, Rajib K. Paul, Gen Sheng Feng, Cheng-Kui Qu, Hasan Mukhtar, and Munna L. Agarwal PMCID: PMC1838507 Microtubule function in fibroblast spreading is modulated according to the tension state of cell–matrix interactions Sangmyung Rhee, Hongmei Jiang, Chin-Han Ho, and Frederick Grinnell PMCID: PMC1838480 Distribution of hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow according to regional hypoxia Kalindi Parmar, Peter Mauch, Jo-Anne Vergilio, Robert Sackstein, and Julian D. Down PMCID: PMC1838452 Arabidopsis primary microRNA processing proteins HYL1 and DCL1 define a nuclear body distinct from the Cajal body Liang Song, Meng-Hsuan Han, Joanna Lesicka, and Nina Fedoroff PMCID: PMC1838471 An acquired hypocalciuric hypercalcemia autoantibody induces allosteric transition among active human Ca-sensing receptor conformations Noriko Makita, Junichiro Sato, Katsunori Manaka, Yuki Shoji, Atsuro Oishi, Makiko Hashimoto, Toshiro Fujita, and Taroh Iiri PMCID: PMC1838439 Chemistry From the Cover:
Charged polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon clusters and the galactic extended red emission Young Min Rhee, Timothy J. Lee, Murthy S. Gudipati, Louis J. Allamandola, and Martin Head-Gordon PMCID: PMC1838469 Developmental Biology From the Cover:
Mouse embryo culture induces changes in postnatal phenotype including raised systolic blood pressure Adam J. Watkins, Duncan Platt, Tom Papenbrock, Adrian Wilkins, Judith J. Eckert, Wing Yee Kwong, Clive Osmond, Mark Hanson, and Tom P. Fleming PMCID: PMC1838459 Amphiregulin is an essential mediator of estrogen receptor α function in mammary gland development Laura Ciarloni, Sonia Mallepell, and Cathrin Brisken PMCID: PMC1838509 Stereotypic founder cell patterning and embryonic muscle formation in Drosophila require nautilus (MyoD) gene function Qin Wei, Yikang Rong, and Bruce M. Paterson PMCID: PMC1838484 Ecology From the Cover:
Within-plant signaling by volatiles leads to induction and priming of an indirect plant defense in nature Martin Heil and Juan Carlos Silva Bueno PMCID: PMC1838500 Pathogen-induced reversal of native dominance in a grassland community Elizabeth T. Borer, Parviez R. Hosseini, Eric W. Seabloom, and Andrew P. Dobson PMCID: PMC1838473 Nuthatches eavesdrop on variations in heterospecific chickadee mobbing alarm calls Christopher N. Templeton and Erick Greene PMCID: PMC1838489 Environmental Sciences From the Cover:
Model-based assessment of the role of human-induced climate change in
the 2005 Caribbean coral bleaching event Simon D. Donner, Thomas R. Knutson, and Michael Oppenheimer PMCID: PMC1838457 An explicit test of the phospholipid saturation hypothesis of acquired cold tolerance in Caenorhabditis elegans Patricia Murray, Scott A. L. Hayward, Gregor G. Govan, Andrew Y. Gracey, and Andrew R. Cossins PMCID: PMC1838478 Evolution The implications of alternative splicing in the ENCODE protein complement Michael L. Tress, Pier Luigi Martelli, Adam Frankish, Gabrielle A. Reeves, Jan Jaap Wesselink, Corin Yeats, Páll ĺsólfur Ólason, Mario Albrecht, Hedi Hegyi, Alejandro Giorgetti, Domenico Raimondo, Julien Lagarde, Roman A. Laskowski, Gonzalo López, Michael I. Sadowski, James D. Watson, Piero Fariselli, Ivan Rossi, Alinda Nagy, Wang Kai, Zenia Størling, Massimiliano Orsini, Yassen Assenov, Hagen Blankenburg, Carola Huthmacher, Fidel Ramírez, Andreas Schlicker, France Denoeud, Phil Jones, Samuel Kerrien, Sandra Orchard, Stylianos E. Antonarakis, Alexandre Reymond, Ewan Birney, Søren Brunak, Rita Casadio, Roderic Guigo, Jennifer Harrow, Henning Hermjakob, David T. Jones, Thomas Lengauer, Christine A. Orengo, László Patthy, Janet M. Thornton, Anna Tramontano, and Alfonso Valencia PMCID: PMC1838448 From the Cover:
Environmental change preceded Caribbean extinction by 2 million years Aaron O'Dea, Jeremy B. C. Jackson, Helena Fortunato, J. Travis Smith, Luis D'Croz, Kenneth G. Johnson, and Jonathan A. Todd PMCID: PMC1838446 A gliding lizard from the Early Cretaceous of China Pi-Peng Li, Ke-Qin Gao, Lian-Hai Hou, and Xing Xu PMCID: PMC1838464 Additional material of the enigmatic Early Miocene mammal Kelba and its relationship to the order Ptolemaiida Susanne Cote, Lars Werdelin, Erik R. Seiffert, and John C. Barry PMCID: PMC1838468 Genetics Hierarchy and feedback in the evolution of the Escherichia coli transcription network M. Cosentino Lagomarsino, P. Jona, B. Bassetti, and H. Isambert PMCID: PMC1838485 Hyperconserved CpG domains underlie Polycomb-binding sites Amos Tanay, Anne H. O'Donnell, Marc Damelin, and Timothy H. Bestor PMCID: PMC1838490 Homeobox gene methylation in lung cancer studied by genome-wide analysis with a microarray-based methylated CpG island recovery assay Tibor Rauch, Zunde Wang, Xinmin Zhang, Xueyan Zhong, Xiwei Wu, Sean K. Lau, Kemp H. Kernstine, Arthur D. Riggs, and Gerd P. Pfeifer PMCID: PMC1838508 Immunology Sensitivity of T cells to antigen and antagonism emerges from differential regulation of the same molecular signaling module Dennis C. Wylie, Jayajit Das, and Arup K. Chakraborty PMCID: PMC1838481 Alteration in the gene expression pattern of primary monocytes after adhesion to endothelial cells Sybill Thomas-Ecker, Antje Lindecke, Wolfgang Hatzmann, Christian Kaltschmidt, Kurt S. Zänker, and Thomas Dittmar PMCID: PMC1838499 Control of human thymocyte migration by Neuropilin-1/Semaphorin-3A-mediated interactions Yves Lepelletier, Salete Smaniotto, Réda Hadj-Slimane, Déa Maria Serra Villa-Verde, Ana Cristina Nogueira, Mireille Dardenne, Olivier Hermine, and Wilson Savino PMCID: PMC1838472 Saposin B is the dominant saposin that facilitates lipid binding to human CD1d molecules Weiming Yuan, Xiaoyang Qi, Pansy Tsang, Suk-Jo Kang, Petr A. Illarionov, Gurdyal S. Besra, Jenny Gumperz, and Peter Cresswell PMCID: PMC1838443 Bacterial superantigen facilitates epithelial presentation of allergen to T helper 2 cells Michael R. Ardern-Jones, Antony P. Black, Elizabeth A. Bateman, and Graham S. Ogg PMCID: PMC1838460 Medical Sciences Microfluidic immunoassays as rapid saliva-based clinical diagnostics Amy E. Herr, Anson V. Hatch, Daniel J. Throckmorton, Huu M. Tran, James S. Brennan, William V. Giannobile, and Anup K. Singh PMCID: PMC1828942 Insulin growth factor-binding protein 2 is a candidate biomarker for PTEN status and PI3K/Akt pathway activation in glioblastoma and prostate cancer R. Mehrian-Shai, C. D. Chen, T. Shi, S. Horvath, S. F. Nelson, J. K. V. Reichardt, and C. L. Sawyers PMCID: PMC1838515 Rare cancer-specific mutations in PIK3CA show gain of function Marco Gymnopoulos, Marc-André Elsliger, and Peter K. Vogt PMCID: PMC1838453 Stimulation of proliferation of MCF-7 breast cancer cells by a transfected splice variant of growth hormone-releasing hormone receptor Nektarios Barabutis, Erasmia Tsellou, Andrew V. Schally, Stavroula Kouloheri, Anastasios Kalofoutis, and Hippokratis Kiaris PMCID: PMC1838504 Transgenic malaria-resistant mosquitoes have a fitness advantage when feeding on Plasmodium-infected blood Mauro T. Marrelli, Chaoyang Li, Jason L. Rasgon, and Marcelo Jacobs-Lorena PMCID: PMC1838510 Synthesis of the next-generation therapeutic antibodies that combine cell targeting and antibody-catalyzed prodrug activation Sunny Abraham, Fang Guo, Lian-Sheng Li, Christoph Rader, Cheng Liu, Carlos F. Barbas, III, Richard A. Lerner, and Subhash C. Sinha PMCID: PMC1838444 Microbiology Proteorhodopsin photosystem gene expression enables photophosphorylation in a heterologous host A. Martinez, A. S. Bradley, J. R. Waldbauer, R. E. Summons, and E. F. DeLong PMCID: PMC1838496 Genome plasticity of BCG and impact on vaccine efficacy Roland Brosch, Stephen V. Gordon, Thierry Garnier, Karin Eiglmeier, Wafa Frigui, Philippe Valenti, Sandrine Dos Santos, Stéphanie Duthoy, Céline Lacroix, Carmen Garcia-Pelayo, Jacqueline K. Inwald, Paul Golby, Javier Nuñez Garcia, R. Glyn Hewinson, Marcel A. Behr, Michael A. Quail, Carol Churcher, Bart G. Barrell, Julian Parkhill, and Stewart T. Cole PMCID: PMC1838518 Genome and proteome of long-chain alkane degrading Geobacillus thermodenitrificans NG80-2 isolated from a deep-subsurface oil reservoir Lu Feng, Wei Wang, Jiansong Cheng, Yi Ren, Guang Zhao, Chunxu Gao, Yun Tang, Xueqian Liu, Weiqing Han, Xia Peng, Rulin Liu, and Lei Wang PMCID: PMC1838512 Genome-wide coorientation of replication and transcription reduces adverse effects on replication in Bacillus subtilis Jue D. Wang, Melanie B. Berkmen, and Alan D. Grossman PMCID: PMC1838449 Neuroscience Influence of odorant receptor repertoire on odor perception in humans and fruit flies Andreas Keller and Leslie B. Vosshall PMCID: PMC1838502 Context-dependent perceptual modulation of single neurons in primate visual cortex Alexander Maier, Nikos K. Logothetis, and David A. Leopold PMCID: PMC1828131 RNA interference screen to identify genes required for Drosophila embryonic nervous system development Keita Koizumi, Haruhiro Higashida, Siuk Yoo, Mohamad Saharul Islam, Andrej I. Ivanov, Vicky Guo, Paola Pozzi, Shu-Hua Yu, Alessandra C. Rovescalli, Derek Tang, and Marshall Nirenberg PMCID: PMC1838491 Consolidation of learning strategies during spatial working memory task requires protein synthesis in the prefrontal cortex K. Touzani, S. V. Puthanveettil, and E. R. Kandel PMCID: PMC1838463 An in vivo correlate of exercise-induced neurogenesis in the adult dentate gyrus Ana C. Pereira, Dan E. Huddleston, Adam M. Brickman, Alexander A. Sosunov, Rene Hen, Guy M. McKhann, Richard Sloan, Fred H. Gage, Truman R. Brown, and Scott A. Small PMCID: PMC1838482 Learning-related coordination of striatal and hippocampal theta rhythms during acquisition of a procedural maze task William E. DeCoteau, Catherine Thorn, Daniel J. Gibson, Richard Courtemanche, Partha Mitra, Yasuo Kubota, and Ann M. Graybiel PMCID: PMC1838454 Impaired clock output by altered connectivity in the circadian network María de la Paz Fernández, Jessie Chu, Adriana Villella, Nigel Atkinson, Steve A. Kay, and María Fernanda Ceriani PMCID: PMC1838506 Loss of blood–brain barrier integrity in the spinal cord is common to experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in knockout mouse models Marzena J. Fabis, Gwen S. Scott, Rhonda B. Kean, Hilary Koprowski, and D. Craig Hooper PMCID: PMC1838442 Pharmacology Protease-activated receptor-3 (PAR3) regulates PAR1 signaling by receptor dimerization Joseph N. McLaughlin, Myla M. Patterson, and Asrar B. Malik PMCID: PMC1838494 Wnt/β-catenin/CBP signaling maintains long-term murine embryonic stem cell pluripotency Tomoyuki Miyabayashi, Jia-Ling Teo, Masashi Yamamoto, Michael McMillan, Cu Nguyen, and Michael Kahn PMCID: PMC1838514 Physiology Activation of trypsinogen in large endocytic vacuoles of pancreatic acinar cells Mark W. Sherwood, Ian A. Prior, Svetlana G. Voronina, Stephanie L. Barrow, Jonathan D. Woodsmith, Oleg V. Gerasimenko, Ole H. Petersen, and Alexei V. Tepikin PMCID: PMC1838486 Loss of the Par-1b/MARK2 polarity kinase leads to increased metabolic rate, decreased adiposity, and insulin hypersensitivity in vivo Jonathan B. Hurov, Mei Huang, Lynn S. White, Jochen Lennerz, Cheol Soo Choi, You-Ree Cho, Hyo-Jeong Kim, Julie L. Prior, David Piwnica-Worms, Lewis C. Cantley, Jason K. Kim, Gerald I. Shulman, and Helen Piwnica-Worms PMCID: PMC1838456 Plant Biology Chloroplast iron-sulfur cluster protein maturation requires the essential cysteine desulfurase CpNifS Douglas Van Hoewyk, Salah E. Abdel-Ghany, Christopher M. Cohu, Stephen K. Herbert, Paul Kugrens, Marinus Pilon, and Elizabeth A. H. Pilon-Smits PMCID: PMC1838476 Population Biology Long-standing influenza vaccination policy is in accord with individual self-interest but not with the utilitarian optimum Alison P. Galvani, Timothy C. Reluga, and Gretchen B. Chapman PMCID: PMC1838447 Extreme genomic variation in a natural population Kerrin S. Small, Michael Brudno, Matthew M. Hill, and Arend Sidow PMCID: PMC1838466 Correction Correction for Wuchter et al., Archaeal nitrification in the ocean PMCID: PMC1838461 Corrects: Cornelia Wuchter, et al. Archaeal nitrification in the ocean. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 August 15; 103(33): 12317–12322. |
