| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Letters Range expansion of the Humboldt squid was not caused by tuna fishing George M. Watters, Robert J. Olson, John C. Field, and Timothy E. Essington Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): E5. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710369105.PMCID: PMC2242678 Reply to Watters et al.: Range expansion of the Humboldt squid Louis D. Zeidberg and Bruce H. Robison Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): E6. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710602105.PMCID: PMC2242720 This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 827–828. doi: 10.1073/iti0308105.PMCID: PMC2242717 Commentaries Revisiting neural stem cell identity Masato Nakafuku, Motoshi Nagao, Andrew Grande, and Alessandro Cancelliere Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 829–830. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711637105.PMCID: PMC2242694 Arresting serotonin Atheir Abbas and Bryan L. Roth Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 831–832. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711335105.PMCID: PMC2242676 Perspective The logic of indirect speech Steven Pinker, Martin A. Nowak, and James J. Lee Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 833–838. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707192105.PMCID: PMC2242675 Profiles Profile of Rafael Palacios Kaspar Mossman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 839–841. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712233105.PMCID: PMC2242702 Profile of Robert J. Sampson Melissa Marino Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 842–844. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711294105.PMCID: PMC2242697 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics Physical modeling of cell geometric order in an epithelial tissue Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Sinem Erisken, and Richard W. Carthew Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 907–911. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711077105.PMCID: PMC2242709 Chemistry Energy transformations early in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle revealed by DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR Melody L. Mak-Jurkauskas, Vikram S. Bajaj, Melissa K. Hornstein, Marina Belenky, Robert G. Griffin, and Judith Herzfeld Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 883–888. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706156105.PMCID: PMC2242711 Geology Rethinking early Earth phosphorus geochemistry Matthew A. Pasek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 853–858. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708205105.PMCID: PMC2242691 Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences The intersection between cell wall disassembly, ripening, and fruit susceptibility to Botrytis cinerea D. Cantu, A. R. Vicente, L. C. Greve, F. M. Dewey, A. B. Bennett, J. M. Labavitch, and A. L. T. Powell Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 859–864. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709813105.PMCID: PMC2242701 Biochemistry Rethinking early Earth phosphorus geochemistry Matthew A. Pasek Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 853–858. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708205105.PMCID: PMC2242691 The elongation factor RfaH and the initiation factor σ bind to the same site on the transcription elongation complex Anastasiya Sevostyanova, Vladimir Svetlov, Dmitry G. Vassylyev, and Irina Artsimovitch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 865–870. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708432105.PMCID: PMC2242686 Direct transfer of starter substrates from type I fatty acid synthase to type III polyketide synthases in phenolic lipid synthesis Akimasa Miyanaga, Nobutaka Funa, Takayoshi Awakawa, and Sueharu Horinouchi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 871–876. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709819105.PMCID: PMC2242712 Conformational thermostabilization of the β1-adrenergic receptor in a detergent-resistant form Maria J. Serrano-Vega, Francesca Magnani, Yoko Shibata, and Christopher G. Tate Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 877–882. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711253105.PMCID: PMC2242685 Biophysics Energy transformations early in the bacteriorhodopsin photocycle revealed by DNP-enhanced solid-state NMR Melody L. Mak-Jurkauskas, Vikram S. Bajaj, Melissa K. Hornstein, Marina Belenky, Robert G. Griffin, and Judith Herzfeld Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 883–888. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706156105.PMCID: PMC2242711 Micromechanical properties of keratin intermediate filament networks Sivaraj Sivaramakrishnan, James V. DeGiulio, Laszlo Lorand, Robert D. Goldman, and Karen M. Ridge Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 889–894. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710728105.PMCID: PMC2242724 Universality and diversity of folding mechanics for three-helix bundle proteins Jae Shick Yang, Stefan Wallin, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 895–900. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707284105.PMCID: PMC2242684 Allosteric effects in the marginally stable von Hippel–Lindau tumor suppressor protein and allostery-based rescue mutant design Jin Liu and Ruth Nussinov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 901–906. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707401105.PMCID: PMC2242715 Cell Biology Physical modeling of cell geometric order in an epithelial tissue Sascha Hilgenfeldt, Sinem Erisken, and Richard W. Carthew Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 907–911. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711077105.PMCID: PMC2242709 Developmental Biology Patched, the receptor of Hedgehog, is a lipoprotein receptor Ainhoa Callejo, Joaquim Culi, and Isabel Guerrero Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 912–917. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705603105.PMCID: PMC2242683 mef2 activity levels differentially affect gene expression during Drosophila muscle development Stuart J. Elgar, Jun Han, and Michael V. Taylor Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 918–923. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711255105.PMCID: PMC2242723 Ecology Functional consequences of realistic biodiversity changes in a marine ecosystem Matthew E. S. Bracken, Sara E. Friberg, Cirse A. Gonzalez-Dorantes, and Susan L. Williams Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 924–928. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704103105.PMCID: PMC2242673 Sex-specific perceptual spaces for a vertebrate basal social aggregative behavior Raymond E. Engeszer, George Wang, Michael J. Ryan, and David M. Parichy Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 929–933. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708778105.PMCID: PMC2242707 Evolution High-confidence prediction of global interactomes based on genome-wide coevolutionary networks David Juan, Florencio Pazos, and Alfonso Valencia Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 934–939. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709671105.PMCID: PMC2242690 From the Cover: Specificity and transmission mosaic of ant nest-wall fungi Birgit C. Schlick-Steiner, Florian M. Steiner, Heino Konrad, Bernhard Seifert, Erhard Christian, Karl Moder, Christian Stauffer, and Ross H. Crozier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 940–943. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708320105.PMCID: PMC2242721 Functional evolution of the p53 regulatory network through its target response elements Anil G. Jegga, Alberto Inga, Daniel Menendez, Bruce J. Aronow, and Michael A. Resnick Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 944–949. Published online 2008 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704694105.PMCID: PMC2242714 The evolutionary dynamics of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae protein interaction network after duplication Aviva Presser, Michael B. Elowitz, Manolis Kellis, and Roy Kishony Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 950–954. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707293105.PMCID: PMC2242688 Genetics Genome-wide transcriptional analysis of the human cell cycle identifies genes differentially regulated in normal and cancer cells Ziv Bar-Joseph, Zahava Siegfried, Michael Brandeis, Benedikt Brors, Yong Lu, Roland Eils, Brian D. Dynlacht, and Itamar Simon Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 955–960. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704723105.PMCID: PMC2242708 Immunology Identification of Plet-1 as a specific marker of early thymic epithelial progenitor cells Marianne G. L. Depreter, Natalie F. Blair, Terri L. Gaskell, Craig S. Nowell, Kathleen Davern, Adelina Pagliocca, Frances H. Stenhouse, Alison M. Farley, Adrian Fraser, Jan Vrana, Kevin Robertson, Grant Morahan, Simon R. Tomlinson, and C. Clare Blackburn Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 961–966. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711170105.PMCID: PMC2242700 From the Cover: Podocytes use FcRn to clear IgG from the glomerular basement membrane Shreeram Akilesh, Tobias B. Huber, Hui Wu, Gary Wang, Björn Hartleben, Jeffrey B. Kopp, Jeffrey H. Miner, Derry C. Roopenian, Emil R. Unanue, and Andrey S. Shaw Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 967–972. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711515105.PMCID: PMC2242706 Foxp3+ regulatory T cells promiscuously accept thymic signals critical for their development Philip J. Spence and E. Allison Green Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 973–978. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709071105.PMCID: PMC2242703 Defective signal transduction in B lymphocytes lacking presenilin proteins Tomohito Yagi, Cosmas Giallourakis, Subhasis Mohanty, Christina Scheidig, Jie Shen, Hui Zheng, Ramnik J. Xavier, and Albert C. Shaw Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 979–984. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707755105.PMCID: PMC2242696 Medical Sciences PPARα agonist fenofibrate suppresses tumor growth through direct and indirect angiogenesis inhibition Dipak Panigrahy, Arja Kaipainen, Sui Huang, Catherine E. Butterfield, Carmen M. Barnés, Michael Fannon, Andrea M. Laforme, Deviney M. Chaponis, Judah Folkman, and Mark W. Kieran Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 985–990. Published online 2008 January 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711281105.PMCID: PMC2242705 Impaired cytoadherence of Plasmodium falciparum-infected erythrocytes containing sickle hemoglobin Rushina Cholera, Nathaniel J. Brittain, Mark R. Gillrie, Tatiana M. Lopera-Mesa, Séidina A. S. Diakité, Takayuki Arie, Michael A. Krause, Aldiouma Guindo, Abby Tubman, Hisashi Fujioka, Dapa A. Diallo, Ogobara K. Doumbo, May Ho, Thomas E. Wellems, and Rick M. Fairhurst Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 991–996. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711401105.PMCID: PMC2242681 Development of JFH1-based cell culture systems for hepatitis C virus genotype 4a and evidence for cross-genotype neutralization Troels K. H. Scheel, Judith M. Gottwein, Tanja B. Jensen, Jannick C. Prentoe, Anne M. Hoegh, Harvey J. Alter, Jesper Eugen-Olsen, and Jens Bukh Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 997–1002. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711044105.PMCID: PMC2242719 Transgenic expression of Helicobacter pylori CagA induces gastrointestinal and hematopoietic neoplasms in mouse Naomi Ohnishi, Hitomi Yuasa, Shinya Tanaka, Hirofumi Sawa, Motohiro Miura, Atsushi Matsui, Hideaki Higashi, Manabu Musashi, Kazuya Iwabuchi, Misao Suzuki, Gen Yamada, Takeshi Azuma, and Masanori Hatakeyama Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1003–1008. Published online 2008 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711183105.PMCID: PMC2242726 Microbiology Bacillus anthracis-derived nitric oxide is essential for pathogen virulence and survival in macrophages Konstantin Shatalin, Ivan Gusarov, Ekaterina Avetissova, Yelena Shatalina, Lindsey E. McQuade, Stephen J. Lippard, and Evgeny Nudler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1009–1013. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710950105.PMCID: PMC2242674 Bacillus subtilis glutamine synthetase regulates its own synthesis by acting as a chaperone to stabilize GlnR–DNA complexes Susan H. Fisher and Lewis V. Wray, Jr. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1014–1019. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709949105.PMCID: PMC2242682 Manipulating and understanding antibiotic production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) with decoy oligonucleotides Michael McArthur and Mervyn J. Bibb Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1020–1025. Published online 2008 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710724105.PMCID: PMC2242687 Neuroscience From the Cover: CD133+ neural stem cells in the ependyma of mammalian postnatal forebrain Volkan Coskun, Hao Wu, Bruno Blanchi, Sean Tsao, Kevin Kim, Jing Zhao, Juan Carlos Biancotti, Leah Hutnick, Richard C. Krueger, Jr., Guoping Fan, Jean de Vellis, and Yi E. Sun Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1026–1031. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710000105.PMCID: PMC2242680 Synaptic AMPA receptor subunit trafficking is independent of the C terminus in the GluR2-lacking mouse Sandip Panicker, Keith Brown, and Roger A. Nicoll Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1032–1037. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711313105.PMCID: PMC2242677 Endocytosis and recycling of AMPA receptors lacking GluR2/3 Virginie Biou, Samarjit Bhattacharyya, and Robert C. Malenka Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1038–1043. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711412105.PMCID: PMC2242698 Slow-wave sleep and the risk of type 2 diabetes in humans Esra Tasali, Rachel Leproult, David A. Ehrmann, and Eve Van Cauter Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1044–1049. Published online 2008 January 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706446105.PMCID: PMC2242689 Marketing actions can modulate neural representations of experienced pleasantness Hilke Plassmann, John O'Doherty, Baba Shiv, and Antonio Rangel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1050–1054. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706929105.PMCID: PMC2242704 Sensory neuron targeting by self-complementary AAV8 via lumbar puncture for chronic pain Benjamin Storek, Matthias Reinhardt, Cheng Wang, William G. M. Janssen, Nina M. Harder, Michaela S. Banck, John H. Morrison, and Andreas S. Beutler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1055–1060. Published online 2008 January 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708003105.PMCID: PMC2242718 Risperidone and ritanserin but not haloperidol block effect of dizocilpine on the active allothetic place avoidance task Vera Bubenikova-Valesova, Ales Stuchlik, Jan Svoboda, Jan Bures, and Karel Vales Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1061–1066. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711273105.PMCID: PMC2242716 A human mutation in Phox2b causes lack of CO2 chemosensitivity, fatal central apnea, and specific loss of parafacial neurons Véronique Dubreuil, Nélina Ramanantsoa, Delphine Trochet, Vanessa Vaubourg, Jeanne Amiel, Jorge Gallego, Jean-François Brunet, and Christo Goridis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1067–1072. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709115105.PMCID: PMC2242699 Key role of tissue plasminogen activator in neurovascular coupling Laibaik Park, Eduardo F. Gallo, Josef Anrather, Gang Wang, Erin H. Norris, Justin Paul, Sidney Strickland, and Costantino Iadecola Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1073–1078. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708823105.PMCID: PMC2242693 Pharmacology From the Cover: Agonist-directed signaling of the serotonin 2A receptor depends on β-arrestin-2 interactions in vivo Cullen L. Schmid, Kirsten M. Raehal, and Laura M. Bohn Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1079–1084. Published online 2008 January 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708862105.PMCID: PMC2242710 Plant Biology Functional plasticity of paralogous diterpene synthases involved in conifer defense Christopher I. Keeling, Sabrina Weisshaar, Roy P. C. Lin, and Jörg Bohlmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1085–1090. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709466105.PMCID: PMC2242725 Recognition of the Hyaloperonospora parasitica effector ATR13 triggers resistance against oomycete, bacterial, and viral pathogens Maike C. Rentel, Lauriebeth Leonelli, Douglas Dahlbeck, Bingyu Zhao, and Brian J. Staskawicz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1091–1096. Published online 2008 January 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711215105.PMCID: PMC2242713 Social Sciences Social Sciences From the Cover: Inaugural Article: Durable effects of concentrated disadvantage on verbal ability among African-American children Robert J. Sampson, Patrick Sharkey, and Stephen W. Raudenbush Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 845–852. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710189104.PMCID: PMC2242679 Corrections Correction for Wada et al., Conditioned eyeblink learning is formed and stored without cerebellar granule cell transmission Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1097. Published online 2008 January 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711631105.PMCID: PMC2242695 Corrects: Norio Wada, et al. Conditioned eyeblink learning is formed and stored without cerebellar granule cell transmission. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 16; 104(42): 16690–16695. Correction for Pau et al., Substrate activation for O2 reactions by oxidized metal centers in biology Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1098. Published online 2008 January 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711661105.PMCID: PMC2242722 Corrects: Monita Y. M. Pau, et al. Substrate activation for O2 reactions by oxidized metal centers in biology. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 November 20; 104(47): 18355–18362. Correction for Kim et al., Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisions Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 January 22; 105(3): 1098. Published online 2008 January 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711498105.PMCID: PMC2242692 Corrects: Hackjin Kim, et al. Temporal isolation of neural processes underlying face preference decisions. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 November 13; 104(46): 18253–18258. |