| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 18; 104(38): 14879–14880. doi: 10.1073/iti3807104.PMCID: PMC1986578 Commentaries Targeted cleavage: Tuneable cis-cleaving ribozymes John J. Rossi PMCID: PMC1986579 Water pulls the strings in hydrophobic polymer collapse Gerhard Hummer PMCID: PMC1986580 Coupling of predation intensity and global diversity over geologic time Steven M. Holland PMCID: PMC1986581 Sweet taste signaling in the gut Anthony Sclafani PMCID: PMC1986582 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics On the trend, detrending, and variability of nonlinear and nonstationary time series Zhaohua Wu, Norden E. Huang, Steven R. Long, and Chung-Kang Peng PMCID: PMC1986583 Chemistry From the Cover:
Energetics of water permeation through fullerene membrane Hiroyuki Isobe, Tatsuya Homma, and Eiichi Nakamura PMCID: PMC1975687 A proposed signaling motif for nuclear import in mRNA processing via the formation of arginine claw Donald Hamelberg, Tongye Shen, and J. Andrew McCammon PMCID: PMC1968059 Geology Biosynthesis of 2-methylbacteriohopanepolyols by an anoxygenic phototroph Sky E. Rashby, Alex L. Sessions, Roger E. Summons, and Dianne K. Newman PMCID: PMC1986619 Physics Generalization of distance to higher dimensional objects Steven S. Plotkin PMCID: PMC1986585 Biological Sciences Biochemistry A structural gap in Dpo4 supports mutagenic bypass of a major benzo[a]pyrene dG adduct in DNA through template misalignment Jacob Bauer, Guangxin Xing, Haruhiko Yagi, Jane M. Sayer, Donald M. Jerina, and Hong Ling PMCID: PMC1986586 Interaction of signal-recognition particle 54 GTPase domain and signal-recognition particle RNA in the free signal-recognition particle Tobias Hainzl, Shenghua Huang, and A. Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson PMCID: PMC1986587 TRRAP and GCN5 are used by c-Myc to activate RNA polymerase III transcription Niall S. Kenneth, Ben A. Ramsbottom, Natividad Gomez-Roman, Lynne Marshall, Philip A. Cole, and Robert J. White PMCID: PMC1986588 Structural insights into the Slit-Robo complex Cecile Morlot, Nicole M. Thielens, Raimond B. G. Ravelli, Wieger Hemrika, Roland A. Romijn, Piet Gros, Stephen Cusack, and Andrew A. McCarthy PMCID: PMC1975871 Tipin is required for stalled replication forks to resume DNA replication after removal of aphidicolin in Xenopus egg extracts Alessia Errico, Vincenzo Costanzo, and Tim Hunt PMCID: PMC1975688 From the Cover:
Targeting the absence: Homozygous DNA deletions as immutable signposts for cancer therapy Alexander Varshavsky PMCID: PMC1986591 Getting specificity from simplicity in putative proteins from the prebiotic Earth Jaime López de la Osa, David A. Bateman, Sylvia Ho, Carlos González, Avijit Chakrabartty, and Douglas V. Laurents PMCID: PMC1986592 Biophysics Generalization of distance to higher dimensional objects Steven S. Plotkin PMCID: PMC1986585 A proposed signaling motif for nuclear import in mRNA processing via the formation of arginine claw Donald Hamelberg, Tongye Shen, and J. Andrew McCammon PMCID: PMC1968059 Robust protein–protein interactions in crowded cellular environments Eric J. Deeds, Orr Ashenberg, Jaline Gerardin, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich PMCID: PMC1986594 Analysis of ryanodine receptor clusters in rat and human cardiac myocytes Christian Soeller, David Crossman, Ray Gilbert, and Mark B. Cannell PMCID: PMC1986595 Cell Biology Ribonucleoprotein-masked nicks at 50-kbp intervals in the eukaryotic genomic DNA Lóránt Székvölgyi, Zsuzsa Rákosy, Bálint L. Bálint, Endre Kókai, László Imre, György Vereb, Zsolt Bacsó, Katalin Goda, Sándor Varga, Margit Balázs, Viktor Dombrádi, László Nagy, and Gábor Szabó PMCID: PMC1986596 Maintenance of imprinting and nuclear architecture in cycling cells Kathrin Teller, Irina Solovei, Karin Buiting, Bernhard Horsthemke, and Thomas Cremer PMCID: PMC1986597 The Rho GTPase-activating proteins RGA-3 and RGA-4 are required to set the initial size of PAR domains in Caenorhabditis elegans one-cell embryos Stephanie Schonegg, Alexandru T. Constantinescu, Carsten Hoege, and Anthony A. Hyman PMCID: PMC1986598 Inhibition of histone deacetylase activity induces developmental plasticity in oligodendrocyte precursor cells Costas A. Lyssiotis, John Walker, Chunlei Wu, Toru Kondo, Peter G. Schultz, and Xu Wu PMCID: PMC1986599 Epidermal terminal differentiation depends on B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1 Erna Magnúsdóttir, Sergey Kalachikov, Koji Mizukoshi, David Savitsky, Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto, Andrey A. Panteleyev, and Kathryn Calame PMCID: PMC1986600 Developmental Biology Correct dosage of Fog2 and Gata4 transcription factors is critical for fetal testis development in mice Gerrit J. Bouma, Linda L. Washburn, Kenneth H. Albrecht, and Eva M. Eicher PMCID: PMC1986601 Proteasomal selection of multiprotein complexes recruited by LIM homeodomain transcription factors Cenap Güngör, Naoko Taniguchi-Ishigaki, Hong Ma, Alexander Drung, Baris Tursun, Heather P. Ostendorff, Michael Bossenz, Catherina G. Becker, Thomas Becker, and Ingolf Bach PMCID: PMC1986602 Evolution From the Cover:
Strong coupling of predation intensity and diversity in the Phanerozoic fossil record John Warren Huntley and Michał Kowalewski PMCID: PMC1986603 Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences Peter M. Todd, Lars Penke, Barbara Fasolo, and Alison P. Lenton PMCID: PMC1986604 From the Cover:
Coupling of dispersal and aggression facilitates the rapid range expansion of a passerine bird Renée A. Duckworth and Alexander V. Badyaev PMCID: PMC1986605 The hypothesis of reproductive compensation and its assumptions about mate preferences and offspring viability Patricia Adair Gowaty, Wyatt W. Anderson, Cynthia K. Bluhm, Lee C. Drickamer, Yong-Kyu Kim, and Allen J. Moore PMCID: PMC1986606 Genetics Dual-specificity splice sites function alternatively as 5′ and 3′ splice sites Chaolin Zhang, Michelle L. Hastings, Adrian R. Krainer, and Michael Q. Zhang PMCID: PMC1986607 Visualizing the dynamics of p21Waf1/Cip1 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor expression in living animals Naoko Ohtani, Yuko Imamura, Kimi Yamakoshi, Fumiko Hirota, Rika Nakayama, Yoshiaki Kubo, Naozumi Ishimaru, Akiko Takahashi, Atsushi Hirao, Takatsune Shimizu, David J. Mann, Hideyuki Saya, Yoshio Hayashi, Seiji Arase, Mitsuru Matsumoto, Nakao Kazuki, and Eiji Hara PMCID: PMC1975854 Insulin gene mutations as a cause of permanent neonatal diabetes Julie Støy, Emma L. Edghill, Sarah E. Flanagan, Honggang Ye, Veronica P. Paz, Anna Pluzhnikov, Jennifer E. Below, M. Geoffrey Hayes, Nancy J. Cox, Gregory M. Lipkind, Rebecca B. Lipton, Siri Atma W. Greeley, Ann-Marie Patch, Sian Ellard, Donald F. Steiner, Andrew T. Hattersley, Louis H. Philipson, Graeme I. Bell, and Neonatal Diabetes International Collaborative Group PMCID: PMC1986609 Immunology Increased competition for antigen during priming negatively impacts the generation of memory CD4 T cells David A. Blair and Leo Lefrançois PMCID: PMC1986610 Structural basis for evasion of IgA immunity by Staphylococcus aureus revealed in the complex of SSL7 with Fc of human IgA1 Paul A. Ramsland, Natasha Willoughby, Halina M. Trist, William Farrugia, P. Mark Hogarth, John D. Fraser, and Bruce D. Wines PMCID: PMC1986611 Activation of naturally occurring lung CD4+CD25+ regulatory T cells requires CD8 and MHC I interaction Anthony Joetham, Katsuyuki Takeda, Nobuaki Miyahara, Shigeki Matsubara, Hiroshi Ohnishi, Toshiyuki Koya, Azzeddine Dakhama, and Erwin W. Gelfand PMCID: PMC1986612 Chicken cathelicidin-B1, an antimicrobial guardian at the mucosal M cell gateway Ryo Goitsuka, Chen-lo H. Chen, Lesley Benyon, Yusuke Asano, Daisuke Kitamura, and Max D. Cooper PMCID: PMC1986613 Medical Sciences Gut-expressed gustducin and taste receptors regulate secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1 Hyeung-Jin Jang, Zaza Kokrashvili, Michael J. Theodorakis, Olga D. Carlson, Byung-Joon Kim, Jie Zhou, Hyeon Ho Kim, Xiangru Xu, Sic L. Chan, Magdalena Juhaszova, Michel Bernier, Bedrich Mosinger, Robert F. Margolskee, and Josephine M. Egan PMCID: PMC1986614 From the Cover:
T1R3 and gustducin in gut sense sugars to regulate expression of Na+-glucose cotransporter 1 Robert F. Margolskee, Jane Dyer, Zaza Kokrashvili, Kieron S. H. Salmon, Erwin Ilegems, Kristian Daly, Emeline L. Maillet, Yuzo Ninomiya, Bedrich Mosinger, and Soraya P. Shirazi-Beechey PMCID: PMC1986615 Myocardial ischemia results in tetrahydrobiopterin (BH4) oxidation with impaired endothelial function ameliorated by BH4 Cristian Dumitrescu, Roberto Biondi, Yong Xia, Arturo J. Cardounel, Lawrence J. Druhan, Giuseppe Ambrosio, and Jay L. Zweier PMCID: PMC1986616 Oxidative stress causes bone loss in estrogen-deficient mice through enhanced bone marrow dendritic cell activation Francesco Grassi, Gianluca Tell, Michaela Robbie-Ryan, Yuhao Gao, Masakazu Terauchi, Xiaoying Yang, Milena Romanello, Dean P. Jones, M. Neale Weitzmann, and Roberto Pacifici PMCID: PMC1986617 High-density lipoprotein protects macrophages from oxidized low-density lipoprotein-induced apoptosis by promoting efflux of 7-ketocholesterol via ABCG1 Naoki Terasaka, Nan Wang, Laurent Yvan-Charvet, and Alan R. Tall PMCID: PMC1986618 Microbiology Biosynthesis of 2-methylbacteriohopanepolyols by an anoxygenic phototroph Sky E. Rashby, Alex L. Sessions, Roger E. Summons, and Dianne K. Newman PMCID: PMC1986619 Envelope variation as a primary determinant of lentiviral vaccine efficacy Jodi K. Craigo, Baoshan Zhang, Shannon Barnes, Tara L. Tagmyer, Sheila J. Cook, Charles J. Issel, and Ronald C. Montelaro PMCID: PMC1986620 Neuroscience Nonhuman primate event-related potentials indexing covert shifts of attention Geoffrey F. Woodman, Min-Suk Kang, Andrew F. Rossi, and Jeffrey D. Schall PMCID: PMC1986621 Genetic contributions to white matter architecture revealed by diffusion tensor imaging in Williams syndrome Stefano Marenco, Michael A. Siuta, J. Shane Kippenhan, Samuel Grodofsky, Wei-li Chang, Philip Kohn, Carolyn B. Mervis, Colleen A. Morris, Daniel R. Weinberger, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Carlo Pierpaoli, and Karen Faith Berman PMCID: PMC1986622 Human cone photoreceptor dependence on RPE65 isomerase Samuel G. Jacobson, Tomas S. Aleman, Artur V. Cideciyan, Elise Heon, Marcin Golczak, William A. Beltran, Alexander Sumaroka, Sharon B. Schwartz, Alejandro J. Roman, Elizabeth A. M. Windsor, James M. Wilson, Gustavo D. Aguirre, Edwin M. Stone, and Krzysztof Palczewski PMCID: PMC1986623 Color contrast processing in human striate cortex R. W. Kentridge, C. A. Heywood, and L. Weiskrantz PMCID: PMC1986624 Caenorhabditis elegans neuronal regeneration is influenced by life stage, ephrin signaling, and synaptic branching Zilu Wu, Anindya Ghosh-Roy, Mehmet Fatih Yanik, Jin Z. Zhang, Yishi Jin, and Andrew D. Chisholm PMCID: PMC1975853 Effects of simian immunodeficiency virus on the circadian rhythms of body temperature and gross locomotor activity Salvador Huitron-Resendiz, Maria Cecilia G. Marcondes, Claudia T. Flynn, Caroline M. S. Lanigan, and Howard S. Fox PMCID: PMC1986626 Physiology MicroRNA regulation of cyclooxygenase-2 during embryo implantation Anindita Chakrabarty, Susanne Tranguch, Takiko Daikoku, Kevin Jensen, Henry Furneaux, and Sudhansu K. Dey PMCID: PMC1986627 Plant Biology Silencing of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase in plants alters abiotic stress signal transduction Sandy Vanderauwera, Marc De Block, Nancy Van de Steene, Brigitte van de Cotte, Michael Metzlaff, and Frank Van Breusegem PMCID: PMC1986628 RNAi-mediated gene silencing reveals involvement of Arabidopsis chromatin-related genes in Agrobacterium-mediated root transformation Yan Ma Crane and Stanton B. Gelvin PMCID: PMC1986629 Population Biology DNA evidence for historic population size and past ecosystem impacts of gray whales S. Elizabeth Alter, Eric Rynes, and Stephen R. Palumbi PMCID: PMC1975855 Social Sciences Psychology Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences Peter M. Todd, Lars Penke, Barbara Fasolo, and Alison P. Lenton PMCID: PMC1986604 Correction Correction for Bock-Axelsen et al., Genes overexpressed in different human solid cancers exhibit different tissue-specific expression profiles Jacob Bock Axelsen, Joseph Lotem, Leo Sachs, and Eytan Domany PMCID: PMC1986631 Corrects: Jacob Bock Axelsen, et al. Genes overexpressed in different human solid cancers exhibit different tissue-specific expression profiles. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 August 7; 104(32): 13122–13127. |
