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Volume 105(16);  April 22, 2008
Feature Article
From the Cover: Feature Article:
Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage
Paola Oliveri, Qiang Tu, and Eric H. Davidson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5955–5962. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711220105.
PMCID: PMC2329687
Letters
Lithium may slow progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but further study is needed
Richard S. Bedlack, Nicholas Maragakis, and Terry Heiman-Patterson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): E17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801762105.
PMCID: PMC2329692
Reply to Bedlack et al.: A small pilot study calls for large clinical trials to evaluate the effects of lithium before prescribing the drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
Francesco Fornai, Gabriele Siciliano, Maria Laura Manca, Luigi Murri, Antonio Paparelli, and Stefano Ruggieri
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): E18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802915105.
PMCID: PMC2329707
This Week in PNAS
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5947–5948. doi: 10.1073/iti1608105.
PMCID: PMC2329723
Commentaries
Vesicular ATP transport is a hard (V)NUT to crack
Gary Rudnick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5949–5950. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802774105.
PMCID: PMC2329674
Gene regulatory networks and embryonic specification
Leroy Hood
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5951–5952. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801434105.
PMCID: PMC2329716
Understanding epilepsy through network modeling
Astrid A. Prinz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5953–5954. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802299105.
PMCID: PMC2329695
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
The influence of cochlear shape on low-frequency hearing
Daphne Manoussaki, Richard S. Chadwick, Darlene R. Ketten, Julie Arruda, Emilios K. Dimitriadis, and Jen T. O'Malley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6162–6166. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710037105.
PMCID: PMC2299218
Chemistry
From biosilicification to tailored materials: Optimizing hydrophobic domains and resistance to protonation of polyamines
David J. Belton, Siddharth V. Patwardhan, Vadim V. Annenkov, Elena N. Danilovtseva, and Carole C. Perry
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5963–5968. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710809105.
PMCID: PMC2329702
Physics
Proton order in the ice crystal surface
V. Buch, H. Groenzin, I. Li, M. J. Shultz, and E. Tosatti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5969–5974. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710129105.
PMCID: PMC2329717
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
Mitochondrial heteroplasmy and the evolution of insecticide resistance: Non-Mendelian inheritance in action
Thomas Van Leeuwen, Bartel Vanholme, Steven Van Pottelberge, Pieter Van Nieuwenhuyse, Ralf Nauen, Luc Tirry, and Ian Denholm
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5980–5985. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802224105.
PMCID: PMC2329677
Biochemistry
From the Cover:
Combinatorial antibody libraries from survivors of the Turkish H5N1 avian influenza outbreak reveal virus neutralization strategies
Arun K. Kashyap, John Steel, Ahmet F. Oner, Michael A. Dillon, Ryann E. Swale, Katherine M. Wall, Kimberly J. Perry, Aleksandr Faynboym, Mahmut Ilhan, Michael Horowitz, Lawrence Horowitz, Peter Palese, Ramesh R. Bhatt, and Richard A. Lerner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5986–5991. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801367105.
PMCID: PMC2329690
Mechanism of Cu+-transporting ATPases: Soluble Cu+ chaperones directly transfer Cu+ to transmembrane transport sites
Manuel González-Guerrero and José M. Argüello
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5992–5997. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711446105.
PMCID: PMC2329688
Dephosphorylation of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate by MIPP expands the regulatory capacity of the Rapoport–Luebering glycolytic shunt
Jaiesoon Cho, Jason S. King, Xun Qian, Adrian J. Harwood, and Stephen B. Shears
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5998–6003. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710980105.
PMCID: PMC2329705
Alteration of cyclin D1 transcript elongation by a mutated transcription factor up-regulates the oncogenic D1b splice isoform in cancer
Gabriel Sanchez, Danielle Bittencourt, Karine Laud, Jérôme Barbier, Olivier Delattre, Didier Auboeuf, and Martin Dutertre
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6004–6009. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710748105.
PMCID: PMC2329709
Identification and evolution of fungal mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases with group I intron splicing activity
Paul J. Paukstelis and Alan M. Lambowitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6010–6015. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801722105.
PMCID: PMC2329719
Biophysics
The mitotic kinesin CENP-E is a processive transport motor
Hasan Yardimci, Marilyn van Duffelen, Yinghui Mao, Steven S. Rosenfeld, and Paul R. Selvin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6016–6021. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711314105.
PMCID: PMC2329722
Conservation of the regulated structure of folded myosin 2 in species separated by at least 600 million years of independent evolution
Hyun Suk Jung, Stan A. Burgess, Neil Billington, Melanie Colegrave, Hitesh Patel, Joseph M. Chalovich, Peter D. Chantler, and Peter J. Knight
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6022–6026. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707846105.
PMCID: PMC2329715
Role of the familial Dutch mutation E22Q in the folding and aggregation of the 15–28 fragment of the Alzheimer amyloid-β protein
Andrij Baumketner, Mary Griffin Krone, and Joan-Emma Shea
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6027–6032. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708193105.
PMCID: PMC2329720
Membrane damage by human islet amyloid polypeptide through fibril growth at the membrane
Maarten F. M. Engel, Lucie Khemtémourian, Cécile C. Kleijer, Hans J. D. Meeldijk, Jet Jacobs, Arie J. Verkleij, Ben de Kruijff, J. Antoinette Killian, and Jo W. M. Höppener
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6033–6038. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708354105.
PMCID: PMC2329711
Intrinsic noise, dissipation cost, and robustness of cellular networks: The underlying energy landscape of MAPK signal transduction
Saul Lapidus, Bo Han, and Jin Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6039–6044. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708708105.
PMCID: PMC2329678
TRIM21 is an IgG receptor that is structurally, thermodynamically, and kinetically conserved
Anthony H. Keeble, Zahra Khan, Alan Forster, and Leo C. James
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6045–6050. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800159105.
PMCID: PMC2329685
Cell Biology
Multiple kinases in the interferon-γ response
D. Watling, C. R. Carmo, I. M. Kerr, and A. P. Costa-Pereira
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6051–6056. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710814105.
PMCID: PMC2329710
PU.1 and C/EBPα/β convert fibroblasts into macrophage-like cells
Ru Feng, Sabrina C. Desbordes, Huafeng Xie, Ester Sanchez Tillo, Fiona Pixley, E. Richard Stanley, and Thomas Graf
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6057–6062. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711961105.
PMCID: PMC2327209
Cardiogenic small molecules that enhance myocardial repair by stem cells
Hesham Sadek, Britta Hannack, Elizabeth Choe, Jessica Wang, Shuaib Latif, Mary G. Garry, Daniel J. Garry, Jamie Longgood, Doug E. Frantz, Eric N. Olson, Jenny Hsieh, and Jay W. Schneider
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6063–6068. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711507105.
PMCID: PMC2329693
Different phosphorylation states of the anaphase promoting complex in response to antimitotic drugs: A quantitative proteomic analysis
Judith A. J. Steen, Hanno Steen, Ann Georgi, Kenneth Parker, Michael Springer, Marc Kirchner, Fred Hamprecht, and Marc W. Kirschner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6069–6074. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709807104.
PMCID: PMC2329673
Effective chromosome pairing requires chromatin remodeling at the onset of meiosis
Isabelle Colas, Peter Shaw, Pilar Prieto, Michael Wanous, Wolfgang Spielmeyer, Rohit Mago, and Graham Moore
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6075–6080. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801521105.
PMCID: PMC2329686
Developmental Biology
From the Cover: Feature Article:
Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage
Paola Oliveri, Qiang Tu, and Eric H. Davidson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5955–5962. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711220105.
PMCID: PMC2329687
Deletion of G protein-coupled receptor 48 leads to ocular anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD) through down-regulation of Pitx2
Jinsheng Weng, Jian Luo, Xuhong Cheng, Chang Jin, Xiangtian Zhou, Jia Qu, LiLi Tu, Di Ai, Dali Li, Jun Wang, James F. Martin, Brad A. Amendt, and Mingyao Liu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6081–6086. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708257105.
PMCID: PMC2329706
Ecology
From the Cover:
Higher effect of plant species diversity on productivity in natural than artificial ecosystems
Pedro Flombaum and Osvaldo E. Sala
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6087–6090. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704801105.
PMCID: PMC2329694
Evolution
Transfer of a large gene regulatory apparatus to a new developmental address in echinoid evolution
Feng Gao and Eric H. Davidson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6091–6096. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801201105.
PMCID: PMC2329712
Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals
Lee Hsiang Liow, Mikael Fortelius, Ella Bingham, Kari Lintulaakso, Heikki Mannila, Larry Flynn, and Nils Chr. Stenseth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6097–6102. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709763105.
PMCID: PMC2329699
Genetics
Adenovirus E1A targets p400 to induce the cellular oncoprotein Myc
Kathryn A. Tworkowski, Abhishek A. Chakraborty, Andrew V. Samuelson, Yvette R. Seger, Masako Narita, Gregory J. Hannon, Scott W. Lowe, and William P. Tansey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6103–6108. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802095105.
PMCID: PMC2329713
Immunology
The antibody zalutumumab inhibits epidermal growth factor receptor signaling by limiting intra- and intermolecular flexibility
Jeroen J. Lammerts van Bueren, Wim K. Bleeker, Annika Brännström, Anne von Euler, Magnus Jansson, Matthias Peipp, Tanja Schneider-Merck, Thomas Valerius, Jan G. J. van de Winkel, and Paul W. H. I. Parren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6109–6114. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709477105.
PMCID: PMC2329681
Sparse production but preferential incorporation of recently produced naïve T cells in the human peripheral pool
Nienke Vrisekoop, Ineke den Braber, Anne Bregje de Boer, An F. C. Ruiter, Mariëtte T. Ackermans, Saskia N. van der Crabben, Elise H. R. Schrijver, Gerrit Spierenburg, Hans P. Sauerwein, Mette D. Hazenberg, Rob J. de Boer, Frank Miedema, José A. M. Borghans, and Kiki Tesselaar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6115–6120. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709713105.
PMCID: PMC2329696
Dendritic cells in islets of Langerhans constitutively present β cell-derived peptides bound to their class II MHC molecules
Boris Calderon, Anish Suri, Mark J. Miller, and Emil R. Unanue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6121–6126. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801973105.
PMCID: PMC2329714
Medical Sciences
Global metabolic responses of mice to Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection
Yulan Wang, Jürg Utzinger, Jasmina Saric, Jia V. Li, Jean Burckhardt, Stephan Dirnhofer, Jeremy K. Nicholson, Burton H. Singer, Reto Brun, and Elaine Holmes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6127–6132. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801777105.
PMCID: PMC2329718
The evolutionarily conserved G protein-coupled receptor SREB2/GPR85 influences brain size, behavior, and vulnerability to schizophrenia
Mitsuyuki Matsumoto, Richard E. Straub, Stefano Marenco, Kristin K. Nicodemus, Shun-ichiro Matsumoto, Akihiko Fujikawa, Sosuke Miyoshi, Miwako Shobo, Shinji Takahashi, Junko Yarimizu, Masatoshi Yuri, Masashi Hiramoto, Shuji Morita, Hiroyuki Yokota, Takeshi Sasayama, Kazuhiro Terai, Masayasu Yoshino, Akira Miyake, Joseph H. Callicott, Michael F. Egan, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Lucas Kempf, Robyn Honea, Radha Krishna Vakkalanka, Jun Takasaki, Masazumi Kamohara, Takatoshi Soga, Hideki Hiyama, Hiroyuki Ishii, Ayako Matsuo, Shintaro Nishimura, Nobuya Matsuoka, Masato Kobori, Hitoshi Matsushime, Masao Katoh, Kiyoshi Furuichi, and Daniel R. Weinberger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6133–6138. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710717105.
PMCID: PMC2299221
Adipogenic capacity and the susceptibility to type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome
May-Yun Wang, Paul Grayburn, Shuyuan Chen, Mariella Ravazzola, Lelio Orci, and Roger H. Unger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6139–6144. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801981105.
PMCID: PMC2329698
Microbiology
Single-cell protein induction dynamics reveals a period of vulnerability to antibiotics in persister bacteria
Orit Gefen, Chana Gabay, Michael Mumcuoglu, Giora Engel, and Nathalie Q. Balaban
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6145–6149. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711712105.
PMCID: PMC2329697
From the Cover:
Antiinflammatory cAMP signaling and cell migration genes co-opted by the anthrax bacillus
Chun Kim, Sarah Wilcox-Adelman, Yasuyo Sano, Wei-Jen Tang, R. John Collier, and Jin Mo Park
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6150–6155. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800105105.
PMCID: PMC2329691
Global transcriptomic analysis of Cyanothece 51142 reveals robust diurnal oscillation of central metabolic processes
Jana Stöckel, Eric A. Welsh, Michelle Liberton, Rangesh Kunnvakkam, Rajeev Aurora, and Himadri B. Pakrasi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6156–6161. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711068105.
PMCID: PMC2329701
Neuroscience
The influence of cochlear shape on low-frequency hearing
Daphne Manoussaki, Richard S. Chadwick, Darlene R. Ketten, Julie Arruda, Emilios K. Dimitriadis, and Jen T. O'Malley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6162–6166. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710037105.
PMCID: PMC2299218
Endogenous steroids and financial risk taking on a London trading floor
J. M. Coates and J. Herbert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6167–6172. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704025105.
PMCID: PMC2329689
Prediction of human errors by maladaptive changes in event-related brain networks
Tom Eichele, Stefan Debener, Vince D. Calhoun, Karsten Specht, Andreas K. Engel, Kenneth Hugdahl, D. Yves von Cramon, and Markus Ullsperger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6173–6178. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708965105.
PMCID: PMC2329680
From the Cover:
Nonrandom connectivity of the epileptic dentate gyrus predicts a major role for neuronal hubs in seizures
Robert J. Morgan and Ivan Soltesz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6179–6184. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801372105.
PMCID: PMC2299224
TNF receptor I sensitizes neurons to erythropoietin- and VEGF-mediated neuroprotection after ischemic and excitotoxic injury
Era Taoufik, Edwige Petit, Didier Divoux, Vivian Tseveleki, Manuela Mengozzi, Michael L. Roberts, Samuel Valable, Pietro Ghezzi, John Quackenbush, Michael Brines, Anthony Cerami, and Lesley Probert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6185–6190. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801447105.
PMCID: PMC2299225
Plant Biology
Partitioned expression of duplicated genes during development and evolution of a single cell in a polyploid plant
Ran Hovav, Joshua A. Udall, Bhupendra Chaudhary, Ryan Rapp, Lex Flagel, and Jonathan F. Wendel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6191–6195. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711569105.
PMCID: PMC2329682
Nonuniform distribution of glucosinolates in Arabidopsis thaliana leaves has important consequences for plant defense
Rohit Shroff, Fredd Vergara, Alexander Muck, Aleš Svatoš, and Jonathan Gershenzon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6196–6201. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711730105.
PMCID: PMC2329684
Psychology
Blood oxygenation level-dependent contrast response functions identify mechanisms of covert attention in early visual areas
Xiangrui Li, Zhong-Lin Lu, Bosco S. Tjan, Barbara A. Dosher, and Wilson Chu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6202–6207. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801390105.
PMCID: PMC2329700
Social Sciences
Psychology
An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory
Jeffrey N. Rouder, Richard D. Morey, Nelson Cowan, Christopher E. Zwilling, Candice C. Morey, and Michael S. Pratte
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 5975–5979. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711295105.
PMCID: PMC2329704
Corrections
Correction for Wood et al., 6-Ethynylthieno[3,2-d]- and 6-ethynylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-anilines as tunable covalent modifiers of ErbB kinases
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6208. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802448105.
PMCID: PMC2329721
Corrects: Edgar R. Wood, et al. 6-Ethynylthieno[3,2-d]- and 6-ethynylthieno[2,3-d]pyrimidin-4-anilines as tunable covalent modifiers of ErbB kinases. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 February 26; 105(8): 2773–2778.
Correction for del Mercato et al., Charge transport and intrinsic fluorescence in amyloid-like fibrils
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 22; 105(16): 6208. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802398105.
PMCID: PMC2329708
Corrects: Loretta Laureana del Mercato, et al. Charge transport and intrinsic fluorescence in amyloid-like fibrils. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 November 13; 104(46): 18019–18024.
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