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Volume 105(3);  January 22, 2008
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
In This Issue
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.
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