| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Inaugural Article Gravitational dynamos and the low-frequency geomagnetic secular variation P. Olson PMCID: PMC2154401 Letter Raman vs. Fourier transform spectroscopy in diagnostic medicine Francis L. Martin and Nigel J. Fullwood PMCID: PMC2154486 This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 18; 104(51): 20145–20146. doi: 10.1073/iti5107104.PMCID: PMC2154397 Commentaries The drifting human genome Jianzhi Zhang PMCID: PMC2154398 Small RNAs making a small protein Teppei Morita and Hiroji Aiba PMCID: PMC2154399 Perspective Chemokines and the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain Fletcher A. White, Hosung Jung, and Richard J. Miller PMCID: PMC2154400 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of matrices Edo Liberty, Franco Woolfe, Per-Gunnar Martinsson, Vladimir Rokhlin, and Mark Tygert PMCID: PMC2154402 Applied Physical Sciences From the Cover:
Li-decorated metal–organic framework 5: A route to achieving a suitable hydrogen storage medium A. Blomqvist, C. Moysés Araújo, P. Srepusharawoot, and R. Ahuja PMCID: PMC2154403 Water-like solvation thermodynamics in a spherically symmetric solvent model with two characteristic lengths Sergey V. Buldyrev, Pradeep Kumar, Pablo G. Debenedetti, Peter J. Rossky, and H. Eugene Stanley PMCID: PMC2154404 Sickle cell vasoocclusion and rescue in a microfluidic device J. M. Higgins, D. T. Eddington, S. N. Bhatia, and L. Mahadevan PMCID: PMC2154459 Chemistry Revealing the multiple structures of serine Susana Blanco, M. Eugenia Sanz, Juan C. López, and José L. Alonso PMCID: PMC2154405 Dynamic Stokes shift in green fluorescent protein variants Paul Abbyad, William Childs, Xinghua Shi, and Steven G. Boxer PMCID: PMC2154406 Environmental Sciences Indicators of 21st century socioclimatic exposure Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Filippo Giorgi, Leigh Raymond, and Xunqiang Bi PMCID: PMC2154407 Geophysics Gravitational dynamos and the low-frequency geomagnetic secular variation P. Olson PMCID: PMC2154401 Physics From the Cover:
Glass transition and rheological redundancy in F-actin solutions Christine Semmrich, Tobias Storz, Jens Glaser, Rudolf Merkel, Andreas R. Bausch, and Klaus Kroy PMCID: PMC2154408 Intrinsic single-domain switching in ferroelectric materials on a nearly ideal surface S. V. Kalinin, B. J. Rodriguez, S. Jesse, Y. H. Chu, T. Zhao, R. Ramesh, S. Choudhury, L. Q. Chen, E. A. Eliseev, and A. N. Morozovska PMCID: PMC2154409 Statistics A unified framework for linkage and association analysis of quantitative traits Josée Dupuis, David O. Siegmund, and Benjamin Yakir PMCID: PMC2154410 Estimation of multiple transmission rates for epidemics in heterogeneous populations Alex R. Cook, Wilfred Otten, Glenn Marion, Gavin J. Gibson, and Christopher A. Gilligan PMCID: PMC2154441 Biological Sciences Anthropology Life history trade-offs explain the evolution of human pygmies Andrea Bamberg Migliano, Lucio Vinicius, and Marta Mirazón Lahr PMCID: PMC2154411 Rapid dental development in a Middle Paleolithic Belgian Neanderthal Tanya M. Smith, Michel Toussaint, Donald J. Reid, Anthony J. Olejniczak, and Jean-Jacques Hublin PMCID: PMC2154412 Biochemistry Structural elements of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysins that are responsible for their cholesterol-sensitive membrane interactions Casie E. Soltani, Eileen M. Hotze, Arthur E. Johnson, and Rodney K. Tweten PMCID: PMC2154413 Autophosphorylation-dependent activation of human Mps1 is required for the spindle checkpoint Jungseog Kang, Yue Chen, Yingming Zhao, and Hongtao Yu PMCID: PMC2154414 Characterization and engineering of the bifunctional N- and O-glucosyltransferase involved in xenobiotic metabolism in plants Melissa Brazier-Hicks, Wendy A. Offen, Markus C. Gershater, Timothy J. Revett, Eng-Kiat Lim, Dianna J. Bowles, Gideon J. Davies, and Robert Edwards PMCID: PMC2154415 Melanocortin-2 receptor accessory protein MRAP forms antiparallel homodimers Julien A. Sebag and Patricia M. Hinkle PMCID: PMC2154416 The Na+/I− symporter (NIS) mediates electroneutral active transport of the environmental pollutant perchlorate Orsolya Dohán, Carla Portulano, Cécile Basquin, Andrea Reyna-Neyra, L. Mario Amzel, and Nancy Carrasco PMCID: PMC2154417 Dodecamer rotor ring defines H+/ATP ratio for ATP synthesis of prokaryotic V-ATPase from Thermus thermophilus Masashi Toei, Christoph Gerle, Masahiro Nakano, Kazutoshi Tani, Nobuhiko Gyobu, Masatada Tamakoshi, Nobuhito Sone, Masasuke Yoshida, Yoshinori Fujiyoshi, Kaoru Mitsuoka, and Ken Yokoyama PMCID: PMC2154418 Human neutrophils uniquely release TIMP-free MMP-9 to provide a potent catalytic stimulator of angiogenesis Veronica C. Ardi, Tatyana A. Kupriyanova, Elena I. Deryugina, and James P. Quigley PMCID: PMC2154419 Biophysics Revealing the multiple structures of serine Susana Blanco, M. Eugenia Sanz, Juan C. López, and José L. Alonso PMCID: PMC2154405 Dynamic Stokes shift in green fluorescent protein variants Paul Abbyad, William Childs, Xinghua Shi, and Steven G. Boxer PMCID: PMC2154406 From the Cover:
Glass transition and rheological redundancy in F-actin solutions Christine Semmrich, Tobias Storz, Jens Glaser, Rudolf Merkel, Andreas R. Bausch, and Klaus Kroy PMCID: PMC2154408 Revealing the bifurcation in the unfolding pathways of GFP by using single-molecule experiments and simulations Moritz Mickler, Ruxandra I. Dima, Hendrik Dietz, Changbong Hyeon, D. Thirumalai, and Matthias Rief PMCID: PMC2154420 Positive selection at the protein network periphery: Evaluation in terms of structural constraints and cellular context Philip M. Kim, Jan O. Korbel, and Mark B. Gerstein PMCID: PMC2154421 Refinement of the x-ray structure of the RC–LH1 core complex from Rhodopseudomonas palustris by single-molecule spectroscopy Martin F. Richter, Jürgen Baier, June Southall, Richard J. Cogdell, Silke Oellerich, and Jörgen Köhler PMCID: PMC2154422 Processing and classification of chemical data inspired by insect olfaction Michael Schmuker and Gisbert Schneider PMCID: PMC2154423 Sequence of late molecular events in the activation of rhodopsin Bernhard Knierim, Klaus Peter Hofmann, Oliver P. Ernst, and Wayne L. Hubbell PMCID: PMC2154424 Cell Biology Mechanisms for segregating T cell receptor and adhesion molecules during immunological synapse formation in Jurkat T cells Yoshihisa Kaizuka, Adam D. Douglass, Rajat Varma, Michael L. Dustin, and Ronald D. Vale PMCID: PMC2154425 Mammary epithelial-specific disruption of the focal adhesion kinase blocks mammary tumor progression Hicham Lahlou, Virginie Sanguin-Gendreau, Dongmei Zuo, Robert. D. Cardiff, Gordon W. McLean, Margaret C. Frame, and William J. Muller PMCID: PMC2154426 Dual-color superresolution imaging of genetically expressed probes within individual adhesion complexes Hari Shroff, Catherine G. Galbraith, James A. Galbraith, Helen White, Jennifer Gillette, Scott Olenych, Michael W. Davidson, and Eric Betzig PMCID: PMC2154427 A coactivator trap identifies NONO (p54nrb) as a component of the cAMP-signaling pathway Antonio L. Amelio, Loren J. Miraglia, Juliana J. Conkright, Becky A. Mercer, Serge Batalov, Valerie Cavett, Anthony P. Orth, Jennifer Busby, John B. Hogenesch, and Michael D. Conkright PMCID: PMC2154428 Mapping dynamic protein interactions in MAP kinase signaling using live-cell fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy and imaging Brian D. Slaughter, Joel W. Schwartz, and Rong Li PMCID: PMC2154429 Soj (ParA) DNA binding is mediated by conserved arginines and is essential for plasmid segregation Christina M. Hester and Joe Lutkenhaus PMCID: PMC2154430 A chemical approach to unraveling the biological function of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor Margot G. Paulick, Martin B. Forstner, Jay T. Groves, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi PMCID: PMC2154431 Oncogenic H-Ras V12 promotes anchorage-independent cytokinesis in human fibroblasts Minna Thullberg, Annica Gad, Sylvie Le Guyader, and Staffan Strömblad PMCID: PMC2154432 The tumor suppressor Fhit acts as a repressor of β-catenin transcriptional activity Jörg Weiske, Kai Frederik Albring, and Otmar Huber PMCID: PMC2154433 MicroRNA-378 promotes cell survival, tumor growth, and angiogenesis by targeting SuFu and Fus-1 expression Daniel Y. Lee, Zhaoqun Deng, Chia-Hui Wang, and Burton B. Yang PMCID: PMC2154434 Reciprocity between phase shifts and amplitude changes in the mammalian circadian clock Sandhya R. Pulivarthy, Nobushige Tanaka, David K. Welsh, Luciano De Haro, Inder M. Verma, and Satchidananda Panda PMCID: PMC2154435 Developmental Biology Fat and Expanded act in parallel to regulate growth through Warts Yongqiang Feng and Kenneth D. Irvine PMCID: PMC2154436 Wnt signal from multiple tissues and lin-3/EGF signal from the gonad maintain vulval precursor cell competence in Caenorhabditis elegans Toshia R. Myers and Iva Greenwald PMCID: PMC2154437 Loss of polyadenylation protein τCstF-64 causes spermatogenic defects and male infertility Brinda Dass, Steve Tardif, Ji Yeon Park, Bin Tian, Harry M. Weitlauf, Rex A. Hess, Kay Carnes, Michael D. Griswold, Christopher L. Small, and Clinton C. MacDonald PMCID: PMC2154438 BMP signaling mediates stem/progenitor cell-induced retina regeneration Tracy Haynes, Christian Gutierrez, Juan-Carlos Aycinena, Panagiotis A. Tsonis, and Katia Del Rio-Tsonis PMCID: PMC2154439 Mutations of HNF-1β inhibit epithelial morphogenesis through dysregulation of SOCS-3 Zhendong Ma, Yimei Gong, Vishal Patel, Courtney M. Karner, Evelyne Fischer, Thomas Hiesberger, Thomas J. Carroll, Marco Pontoglio, and Peter Igarashi PMCID: PMC2154440 Ecology Estimation of multiple transmission rates for epidemics in heterogeneous populations Alex R. Cook, Wilfred Otten, Glenn Marion, Gavin J. Gibson, and Christopher A. Gilligan PMCID: PMC2154441 A learning program that ensures prompt and versatile vocal imitation Wan-chun Liu and Fernando Nottebohm PMCID: PMC2154442 The power of species sorting: Local factors drive bacterial community composition over a wide range of spatial scales Katleen Van der Gucht, Karl Cottenie, Koenraad Muylaert, Nele Vloemans, Sylvie Cousin, Steven Declerck, Erik Jeppesen, Jose-Maria Conde-Porcuna, Klaus Schwenk, Gabriel Zwart, Hanne Degans, Wim Vyverman, and Luc De Meester PMCID: PMC2154443 Environmental Sciences Biogenic formation of photoactive arsenic-sulfide nanotubes by Shewanella sp. strain HN-41 Ji-Hoon Lee, Min-Gyu Kim, Bongyoung Yoo, Nosang V. Myung, Jongsun Maeng, Takhee Lee, Alice C. Dohnalkova, James K. Fredrickson, Michael J. Sadowsky, and Hor-Gil Hur PMCID: PMC2154444 A universal driver of macroevolutionary change in the size of marine phytoplankton over the Cenozoic Z. V. Finkel, J. Sebbo, S. Feist-Burkhardt, A. J. Irwin, M. E. Katz, O. M. E. Schofield, J. R. Young, and P. G. Falkowski PMCID: PMC2154445 Evolution From the Cover:
Genomic drift and copy number variation of sensory receptor genes in humans Masafumi Nozawa, Yoshihiro Kawahara, and Masatoshi Nei PMCID: PMC2154446 The genetic basis of a plant–insect coevolutionary key innovation Christopher W. Wheat, Heiko Vogel, Ute Wittstock, Michael F. Braby, Dessie Underwood, and Thomas Mitchell-Olds PMCID: PMC2154447 The role of Pleistocene refugia and rivers in shaping gorilla genetic diversity in central Africa Nicola M. Anthony, Mireille Johnson-Bawe, Kathryn Jeffery, Stephen L. Clifford, Kate A. Abernethy, Caroline E. Tutin, Sally A. Lahm, Lee J. T. White, John F. Utley, E. Jean Wickings, and Michael W. Bruford PMCID: PMC2154448 Developmental processes underlying the evolution of a derived foot morphology in salamanders Martin Jaekel and David B. Wake PMCID: PMC2154449 Life-history traits drive the evolutionary rates of mammalian coding and noncoding genomic elements Sergey I. Nikolaev, Juan I. Montoya-Burgos, Konstantin Popadin, Leila Parand, Elliott H. Margulies, National Institutes of Health Intramural Sequencing Center Comparative Sequencing Program, and Stylianos E. Antonarakis PMCID: PMC2154450 Reconstruction of ancestral protein interaction networks for the bZIP transcription factors John W. Pinney, Grigoris D. Amoutzias, Magnus Rattray, and David L. Robertson PMCID: PMC2154451 Genetics From the Cover:
A dual function for a bacterial small RNA: SgrS performs base pairing-dependent regulation and encodes a functional polypeptide Caryn S. Wadler and Carin K. Vanderpool PMCID: PMC2154452 Immunology Evasion of myofibroblasts from immune surveillance: A mechanism for tissue fibrosis Shulamit B. Wallach-Dayan, Regina Golan-Gerstl, and Raphael Breuer PMCID: PMC2154453 From the Cover:
Diet-induced obesity in mice causes changes in immune responses and bone loss manifested by bacterial challenge Salomon Amar, Qingde Zhou, Yazdani Shaik-Dasthagirisaheb, and Susan Leeman PMCID: PMC2154454 Perceiving the avidity of T cell activation can be translated into peripheral T cell regulation Weiling Chen, Linging Zhang, Bitao Liang, Yvonne Saenger, Jianfeng Li, Leonard Chess, and Hong Jiang PMCID: PMC2154455 Pulmonary CXCR2 regulates VCAM-1 and antigen-induced recruitment of mast cell progenitors Jenny Hallgren, Tatiana G. Jones, J. Pablo Abonia, Wei Xing, Alison Humbles, K. Frank Austen, and Michael F. Gurish PMCID: PMC2154456 Replacement of Iγ3 germ-line promoter by Iγ1 inhibits class-switch recombination to IgG3 Zeliha Oruc, Ahmed Boumédiène, Marc Le Bert, and Ahmed Amine Khamlichi PMCID: PMC2154457 Modulation of human natural killer T cell ligands on TLR-mediated antigen-presenting cell activation Mariolina Salio, Anneliese O. Speak, Dawn Shepherd, Paolo Polzella, Petr A. Illarionov, Natacha Veerapen, Gurdyal S. Besra, Frances M. Platt, and Vincenzo Cerundolo PMCID: PMC2154458 Medical Sciences Sickle cell vasoocclusion and rescue in a microfluidic device J. M. Higgins, D. T. Eddington, S. N. Bhatia, and L. Mahadevan PMCID: PMC2154459 Sustained suppression of Bcr-Abl-driven lymphoid leukemia by microRNA mimics Jami McLaughlin, Donghui Cheng, Oded Singer, Rita U. Lukacs, Caius G. Radu, Inder M. Verma, and Owen N. Witte PMCID: PMC2154460 Repopulation of adult and neonatal mice with human hepatocytes: A chimeric animal model Karl-Dimiter Bissig, Tam T. Le, Niels-Bjarne Woods, and Inder M. Verma PMCID: PMC2154461 Gap junction remodeling and cardiac arrhythmogenesis in a murine model of oculodentodigital dysplasia Nellie Kalcheva, Jiaxiang Qu, Nefthi Sandeep, Luis Garcia, Jie Zhang, Zhiyong Wang, Paul D. Lampe, Sylvia O. Suadicani, David C. Spray, and Glenn I. Fishman PMCID: PMC2154462 FoxO transcription factors activate Akt and attenuate insulin signaling in heart by inhibiting protein phosphatases Yan G. Ni, Na Wang, Dian J. Cao, Nita Sachan, David J. Morris, Robert D. Gerard, Makoto Kuro-o, Beverly A. Rothermel, and Joseph A. Hill PMCID: PMC2154463 A systematic interaction map of validated kinase inhibitors with Ser/Thr kinases Oleg Fedorov, Brian Marsden, Vanda Pogacic, Peter Rellos, Susanne Müller, Alex N. Bullock, Juerg Schwaller, Michael Sundström, and Stefan Knapp PMCID: PMC2154464 Microbiology Molecular identification of bacteria in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid from children with cystic fibrosis J. Kirk Harris, Mary Ann De Groote, Scott D. Sagel, Edith T. Zemanick, Robert Kapsner, Churee Penvari, Heidi Kaess, Robin R. Deterding, Frank J. Accurso, and Norman R. Pace PMCID: PMC2154465 Placental syncytins: Genetic disjunction between the fusogenic and immunosuppressive activity of retroviral envelope proteins Marianne Mangeney, Martial Renard, Géraldine Schlecht-Louf, Isabelle Bouallaga, Odile Heidmann, Claire Letzelter, Aurélien Richaud, Bertrand Ducos, and Thierry Heidmann PMCID: PMC2154466 Activation mechanism of a noncanonical RNA-dependent RNA polymerase Damià Garriga, Aitor Navarro, Jordi Querol-Audí, Fernando Abaitua, José F. Rodríguez, and Núria Verdaguer PMCID: PMC2154467 Neuroscience Energetics of neuronal signaling and fMRI activity Natasja J. G. Maandag, Daniel Coman, Basavaraju G. Sanganahalli, Peter Herman, Arien J. Smith, Hal Blumenfeld, Robert G. Shulman, and Fahmeed Hyder PMCID: PMC2154468 Polymorphisms in human dopamine D2 receptor gene affect gene expression, splicing, and neuronal activity during working memory Ying Zhang, Alessandro Bertolino, Leonardo Fazio, Giuseppe Blasi, Antonio Rampino, Raffaella Romano, Mei-Ling T. Lee, Tao Xiao, Audrey Papp, Danxin Wang, and Wolfgang Sadée PMCID: PMC2154469 Notch regulates cell fate and dendrite morphology of newborn neurons in the postnatal dentate gyrus Joshua J. Breunig, John Silbereis, Flora M. Vaccarino, Nenad Šestan, and Pasko Rakic PMCID: PMC2154470 Retrograde endocannabinoid signaling at striatal synapses requires a regulated postsynaptic release step Louise Adermark and David M. Lovinger PMCID: PMC2154471 Intracellular complexes of the β2 subunit of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor in brain identified by proteomics Nadine Kabbani, Matthew P. Woll, Robert Levenson, Jon M. Lindstrom, and Jean-Pierre Changeux PMCID: PMC2154472 Single-vesicle imaging reveals that synaptic vesicle exocytosis and endocytosis are coupled by a single stochastic mode J. Balaji and T. A. Ryan PMCID: PMC2154473 Neural representations of kinematic laws of motion: Evidence for action-perception coupling Eran Dayan, Antonino Casile, Nava Levit-Binnun, Martin A. Giese, Talma Hendler, and Tamar Flash PMCID: PMC2154474 Hemopressin is an inverse agonist of CB1 cannabinoid receptors Andrea S. Heimann, Ivone Gomes, Camila S. Dale, Rosana L. Pagano, Achla Gupta, Laura L. de Souza, Augusto D. Luchessi, Leandro M. Castro, Renata Giorgi, Vanessa Rioli, Emer S. Ferro, and Lakshmi A. Devi PMCID: PMC2154475 The α10 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor subunit is required for normal synaptic function and integrity of the olivocochlear system Douglas E. Vetter, Eleonora Katz, Stéphane F. Maison, Julián Taranda, Sevin Turcan, Jimena Ballestero, M. Charles Liberman, A. Belén Elgoyhen, and Jim Boulter PMCID: PMC2154476 Individual faces elicit distinct response patterns in human anterior temporal cortex Nikolaus Kriegeskorte, Elia Formisano, Bettina Sorger, and Rainer Goebel PMCID: PMC2154477 Deletion of the BH3-only protein puma protects motoneurons from ER stress-induced apoptosis and delays motoneuron loss in ALS mice Dairín Kieran, Ina Woods, Andreas Villunger, Andreas Strasser, and Jochen H. M. Prehn PMCID: PMC2154478 Physiology Deficient ryanodine receptor S-nitrosylation increases sarcoplasmic reticulum calcium leak and arrhythmogenesis in cardiomyocytes Daniel R. Gonzalez, Farideh Beigi, Adriana V. Treuer, and Joshua M. Hare PMCID: PMC2154479 Hydrogen sulfide increases thermotolerance and lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans Dana L. Miller and Mark B. Roth PMCID: PMC2154480 Plant Biology Functional analysis of AHK1/ATHK1 and cytokinin receptor histidine kinases in response to abscisic acid, drought, and salt stress in Arabidopsis Lam-Son Phan Tran, Takeshi Urao, Feng Qin, Kyonoshin Maruyama, Tatsuo Kakimoto, Kazuo Shinozaki, and Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki PMCID: PMC2154481 Sustainability Science Environmental impacts of divorce Eunice Yu and Jianguo Liu PMCID: PMC2154482 Social Sciences Sustainability Science Indicators of 21st century socioclimatic exposure Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Filippo Giorgi, Leigh Raymond, and Xunqiang Bi PMCID: PMC2154407 Corrections Correction for Barth et al., Toward high-resolution prediction and design of transmembrane helical protein structures PMCID: PMC2154483 Corrects: P. Barth, et al. Toward high-resolution prediction and design of transmembrane helical protein structures. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 2; 104(40): 15682–15687. Correction for Johnson et al., Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair PMCID: PMC2154484 Corrects: Sarah Stewart Johnson, et al. Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14401–14405. Correction for Danelishvili et al., Identification of Mycobacterium avium pathogenicity island important for macrophage and amoeba infection PMCID: PMC2154485 Corrects: Lia Danelishvili, et al. Identification of Mycobacterium avium pathogenicity island important for macrophage and amoeba infection. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 June 26; 104(26): 11038–11043. |
