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Volume 104(52);  December 26, 2007
Land Change Science Special Feature
Research Article
The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20672–20677. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705527105.
PMCID: PMC2410062
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States
Steven M. Manson and Tom Evans
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20678–20683. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705802104.
PMCID: PMC2413086
Research Articles
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20684–20689. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704716104.
PMCID: PMC2410063
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands
D. Mark Stafford Smith, Greg M. McKeon, Ian W. Watson, Beverley K. Henry, Grant S. Stone, Wayne B. Hall, and S. Mark Howden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20690–20695. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704837104.
PMCID: PMC2410064
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Ecological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forest
Deborah Lawrence, Paolo D'Odorico, Lucy Diekmann, Marcia DeLonge, Rishiraj Das, and James Eaton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20696–20701. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705005104.
PMCID: PMC2410065
Perspective
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability
B. L. Turner, II, Eric F. Lambin, and Anette Reenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20666–20671. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704119104.
PMCID: PMC2409212
Letters
Could genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?
Per J. Palsbøll, Martine Bérubé, and Finn Larsen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): E2. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710072105.
PMCID: PMC2409264
Could genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?
S. E. Alter and S. R. Palumbi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): E3. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710472105.
PMCID: PMC2409265
This Week in PNAS
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20637–20638. doi: 10.1073/iti5207104.
PMCID: PMC2409201
Commentaries
Structure of the measles virus H glycoprotein sheds light on an efficient vaccine
Rob W. H. Ruigrok and Denis Gerlier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20639–20640. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709995105.
PMCID: PMC2409202
Synthetic iron-oxo “diamond core” mimics structure of key intermediate in methane monooxygenase catalytic cycle
Thomas C. Brunold
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20641–20642. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710734105.
PMCID: PMC2409203
Controlling water transport through artificial polymer/protein hybrid membranes
Andreas Taubert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20643–20644. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710864105.
PMCID: PMC2409204
Launching a ubiquitination cascade at DNA breaks
Xiaohong H. Yang and Lee Zou
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20645–20646. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710916105.
PMCID: PMC2409205
Resolving the problem of persistence in the switch from acute to chronic inflammation
Oliver Haworth and Christopher D. Buckley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20647–20648. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710633105.
PMCID: PMC2409206
New ideas on root hair growth appear from the flanks
Marc R. Knight
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20649–20650. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710632105.
PMCID: PMC2409207
Profiles
Profile of Mark E. Davis
Farooq Ahmed
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20651–20653. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704959105.
PMCID: PMC2409208
Profile of George Schatz
Kaspar Mossman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20654–20655. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710466104.
PMCID: PMC2409209
Profile of Christopher Miller
Tinsley H. Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20656–20658. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710738105.
PMCID: PMC2409210
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Combinatorics of feedback in cellular uptake and metabolism of small molecules
Sandeep Krishna, Szabolcs Semsey, and Kim Sneppen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20815–20819. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706231105.
PMCID: PMC2409224
Applied Physical Sciences
Endogenous circadian rhythm in human motor activity uncoupled from circadian influences on cardiac dynamics
Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Kun Hu, Michael F. Hilton, Steven A. Shea, and H. Eugene Stanley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20702–20707. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709957104.
PMCID: PMC2410066
Selection of mammalian cells based on their cell-cycle phase using dielectrophoresis
Unyoung Kim, Chih-Wen Shu, Karen Y. Dane, Patrick S. Daugherty, Jean Y. J. Wang, and H. T. Soh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20708–20712. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708760104.
PMCID: PMC2410067
Chemistry
A synthetic precedent for the [FeIV2(μ-O)2] diamond core proposed for methane monooxygenase intermediate Q
Genqiang Xue, Dong Wang, Raymond De Hont, Adam T. Fiedler, Xiaopeng Shan, Eckard Münck, and Lawrence Que, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20713–20718. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708516105.
PMCID: PMC2409154
From the Cover:
Highly permeable polymeric membranes based on the incorporation of the functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z
Manish Kumar, Mariusz Grzelakowski, Julie Zilles, Mark Clark, and Wolfgang Meier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20719–20724. Published online 2007 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708762104.
PMCID: PMC2410068
Dynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxin
Eduard Schreiner, Nisanth N. Nair, Rodolphe Pollet, Volker Staemmler, and Dominik Marx
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20725–20730. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706740104.
PMCID: PMC2410069
Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly
Arthur J. Olson, Yunfeng H. E. Hu, and Ehud Keinan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20731–20736. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709489104.
PMCID: PMC2410070
Axis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulation
Rene A. Nome, Jason Ming Zhao, Wouter D. Hoff, and Norbert F. Scherer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20799–20804. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701281105.
PMCID: PMC2410074
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution
John Hawks, Eric T. Wang, Gregory M. Cochran, Henry C. Harpending, and Robert K. Moyzis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20753–20758. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707650104.
PMCID: PMC2410101
Biochemistry
CLC Cl/H+ transporters constrained by covalent cross-linking
Wang Nguitragool and Christopher Miller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20659–20665. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708639104.
PMCID: PMC2409211
Ubc13/Rnf8 ubiquitin ligases control foci formation of the Rap80/Abraxas/Brca1/Brcc36 complex in response to DNA damage
Bin Wang and Stephen J. Elledge
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20759–20763. Published online 2007 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710061104.
PMCID: PMC2410075
Structural basis for the high all-trans-retinaldehyde reductase activity of the tumor marker AKR1B10
Oriol Gallego, F. Xavier Ruiz, Albert Ardèvol, Marta Domínguez, Rosana Alvarez, Angel R. de Lera, Carme Rovira, Jaume Farrés, Ignacio Fita, and Xavier Parés
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20764–20769. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705659105.
PMCID: PMC2410076
Thiamine biosynthesis in algae is regulated by riboswitches
Martin T. Croft, Michael Moulin, Michael E. Webb, and Alison G. Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20770–20775. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705786105.
PMCID: PMC2410077
The product of uncI gene in F1Fo-ATP synthase operon plays a chaperone-like role to assist c-ring assembly
Toshiharu Suzuki, Yoko Ozaki, Nobuhito Sone, Boris A. Feniouk, and Masasuke Yoshida
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20776–20781. Published online 2007 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708075105.
PMCID: PMC2410078
Transmembrane domains of the syndecan family of growth factor coreceptors display a hierarchy of homotypic and heterotypic interactions
Ian C. Dews and Kevin R. MacKenzie
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20782–20787. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708909105.
PMCID: PMC2410079
Folding trajectories of human dihydrofolate reductase inside the GroEL–GroES chaperonin cavity and free in solution
Reto Horst, Wayne A. Fenton, S. Walter Englander, Kurt Wüthrich, and Arthur L. Horwich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20788–20792. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710042105.
PMCID: PMC2410080
SUMOylation of pontin chromatin-remodeling complex reveals a signal integration code in prostate cancer cells
Jung Hwa Kim, Ji Min Lee, Hye Jin Nam, Hee June Choi, Jung Woo Yang, Jason S. Lee, Mi Hyang Kim, Su-Il Kim, Chin Ha Chung, Keun Il Kim, and Sung Hee Baek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20793–20798. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710343105.
PMCID: PMC2410081
Biophysics
Dynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxin
Eduard Schreiner, Nisanth N. Nair, Rodolphe Pollet, Volker Staemmler, and Dominik Marx
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20725–20730. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706740104.
PMCID: PMC2410069
Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly
Arthur J. Olson, Yunfeng H. E. Hu, and Ehud Keinan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20731–20736. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709489104.
PMCID: PMC2410070
Axis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulation
Rene A. Nome, Jason Ming Zhao, Wouter D. Hoff, and Norbert F. Scherer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20799–20804. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701281105.
PMCID: PMC2410074
Molecular dynamics simulations suggest a mechanism for translocation of the HIV-1 TAT peptide across lipid membranes
Henry D. Herce and Angel E. Garcia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20805–20810. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706574105.
PMCID: PMC2409222
Nanosecond electron tunneling between the hemes in cytochrome bo3
Audrius Jasaitis, Mikael P. Johansson, Mårten Wikström, Marten H. Vos, and Michael I. Verkhovsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20811–20814. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709876105.
PMCID: PMC2409223
Cell Biology
Combinatorics of feedback in cellular uptake and metabolism of small molecules
Sandeep Krishna, Szabolcs Semsey, and Kim Sneppen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20815–20819. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706231105.
PMCID: PMC2409224
Differential Apaf-1 levels allow cytochrome c to induce apoptosis in brain tumors but not in normal neural tissues
Carrie E. Johnson, Yolanda Y. Huang, Amanda B. Parrish, Michelle I. Smith, Allyson E. Vaughn, Qian Zhang, Kevin M. Wright, Terry Van Dyke, Robert J. Wechsler-Reya, Sally Kornbluth, and Mohanish Deshmukh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20820–20825. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709101105.
PMCID: PMC2409225
Regulation of p53 tetramerization and nuclear export by ARC
Roger S.-Y. Foo, Young-Jae Nam, Marc Jason Ostreicher, Mark D. Metzl, Russell S. Whelan, Chang-Fu Peng, Anthony W. Ashton, Weimin Fu, Kartik Mani, Suet-Feung Chin, Elena Provenzano, Ian Ellis, Nichola Figg, Sarah Pinder, Martin R. Bennett, Carlos Caldas, and Richard N. Kitsis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20826–20831. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710017104.
PMCID: PMC2409226
Three-dimensional structure of cytoplasmic dynein bound to microtubules
Naoko Mizuno, Akihiro Narita, Takahide Kon, Kazuo Sutoh, and Masahide Kikkawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20832–20837. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710406105.
PMCID: PMC2409227
Chemistry
A synthetic host-guest system achieves avidin-biotin affinity by overcoming enthalpy–entropy compensation
Mikhail V. Rekharsky, Tadashi Mori, Cheng Yang, Young Ho Ko, N. Selvapalam, Hyunuk Kim, David Sobransingh, Angel E. Kaifer, Simin Liu, Lyle Isaacs, Wei Chen, Sarvin Moghaddam, Michael K. Gilson, Kimoon Kim, and Yoshihisa Inoue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20737–20742. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706407105.
PMCID: PMC2410071
A potent cytotoxic photoactivated platinum complex
Fiona S. Mackay, Julie A. Woods, Pavla Heringová, Jana Kašpárková, Ana M. Pizarro, Stephen A. Moggach, Simon Parsons, Viktor Brabec, and Peter J. Sadler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20743–20748. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707742105.
PMCID: PMC2410072
An extended dynamical hydration shell around proteins
Simon Ebbinghaus, Seung Joong Kim, Matthias Heyden, Xin Yu, Udo Heugen, Martin Gruebele, David M. Leitner, and Martina Havenith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20749–20752. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709207104.
PMCID: PMC2410073
Developmental Biology
Embryonic stromal clones reveal developmental regulators of definitive hematopoietic stem cells
Charles Durand, Catherine Robin, Karine Bollerot, Margaret H. Baron, Katrin Ottersbach, and Elaine Dzierzak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20838–20843. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706923105.
PMCID: PMC2409228
An intragenic MEF2-dependent enhancer directs muscle-specific expression of microRNAs 1 and 133
Ning Liu, Andrew H. Williams, Yuri Kim, John McAnally, Svetlana Bezprozvannaya, Lillian B. Sutherland, James A. Richardson, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, and Eric N. Olson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20844–20849. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710558105.
PMCID: PMC2409229
Site-directed, virus-free, and inducible RNAi in embryonic stem cells
Jianlong Wang, Thorold W. Theunissen, and Stuart H. Orkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20850–20855. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710565105.
PMCID: PMC2409230
Ecology
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20684–20689. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704716104.
PMCID: PMC2410063
Trophic ecology of invasive Argentine ants in their native and introduced ranges
Chadwick V. Tillberg, David A. Holway, Edward G. LeBrun, and Andrew V. Suarez
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20856–20861. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706903105.
PMCID: PMC2409231
Spatial heterogeneity of mesopredator release within an oceanic island system
Matt J. Rayner, Mark E. Hauber, Michael J. Imber, Rosalie K. Stamp, and Mick N. Clout
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20862–20865. Published online 2007 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707414105.
PMCID: PMC2409232
Cold- and exercise-induced peak metabolic rates in tropical birds
Popko Wiersma, Mark A. Chappell, and Joseph B. Williams
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20866–20871. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707683104.
PMCID: PMC2409233
Genetics
Association of yeast Upf1p with direct substrates of the NMD pathway
Marcus J. O. Johansson, Feng He, Phyllis Spatrick, Chunfang Li, and Allan Jacobson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20872–20877. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709257105.
PMCID: PMC2409234
Immunology
Therapeutic B cell depletion impairs adaptive and autoreactive CD4+ T cell activation in mice
Jean-David Bouaziz, Koichi Yanaba, Guglielmo M. Venturi, Yaming Wang, Roland M. Tisch, Jonathan C. Poe, and Thomas F. Tedder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20878–20883. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709205105.
PMCID: PMC2409235
Circulating tumor antigen-specific regulatory T cells in patients with metastatic melanoma
Luis Vence, A. Karolina Palucka, Joseph W. Fay, Tomoki Ito, Yong-Jun Liu, Jacques Banchereau, and Hideki Ueno
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20884–20889. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710557105.
PMCID: PMC2409236
Medical Sciences
Endogenous circadian rhythm in human motor activity uncoupled from circadian influences on cardiac dynamics
Plamen Ch. Ivanov, Kun Hu, Michael F. Hilton, Steven A. Shea, and H. Eugene Stanley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20702–20707. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709957104.
PMCID: PMC2410066
The lipodystrophy protein seipin is found at endoplasmic reticulum lipid droplet junctions and is important for droplet morphology
Kimberly M. Szymanski, Derk Binns, René Bartz, Nick V. Grishin, Wei-Ping Li, Anil K. Agarwal, Abhimanyu Garg, Richard G. W. Anderson, and Joel M. Goodman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20890–20895. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704154104.
PMCID: PMC2409237
An extremes of outcome strategy provides evidence that multiple sclerosis severity is determined by alleles at the HLA-DRB1 locus
G. C. DeLuca, S. V. Ramagopalan, B. M. Herrera, D. A. Dyment, M. R. Lincoln, A. Montpetit, M. Pugliatti, M. C. N. Barnardo, N. J. Risch, A. D. Sadovnick, M. Chao, S. Sotgiu, T. J. Hudson, and G. C. Ebers
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20896–20901. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707731105.
PMCID: PMC2409238
Defects in XRCC4 and KU80 differentially affect the joining of distal nonhomologous ends
Josée Guirouilh-Barbat, Emilie Rass, Isabelle Plo, Pascale Bertrand, and Bernard S. Lopez
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20902–20907. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708541104.
PMCID: PMC2409239
Prion strain discrimination in cell culture: The cell panel assay
Sukhvir P. Mahal, Christopher A. Baker, Cheryl A. Demczyk, Emery W. Smith, Christian Julius, and Charles Weissmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20908–20913. Published online 2007 December 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710054104.
PMCID: PMC2409240
Prion detection by an amyloid seeding assay
David W. Colby, Qiang Zhang, Shuyi Wang, Darlene Groth, Giuseppe Legname, Detlev Riesner, and Stanley B. Prusiner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20914–20919. Published online 2007 December 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710152105.
PMCID: PMC2409241
Embryonic stem cell-derived tissues are immunogenic but their inherent immune privilege promotes the induction of tolerance
Nathan J. Robertson, Frances A. Brook, Richard L. Gardner, Stephen P. Cobbold, Herman Waldmann, and Paul J. Fairchild
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20920–20925. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710265105.
PMCID: PMC2409242
Enhanced sensitivity to IGF-II signaling links loss of imprinting of IGF2 to increased cell proliferation and tumor risk
Atsushi Kaneda, Chiaochun J. Wang, Raymond Cheong, Winston Timp, Patrick Onyango, Bo Wen, Christine A. Iacobuzio-Donahue, Rolf Ohlsson, Rita Andraos, Mark A. Pearson, Alexei A. Sharov, Dan L. Longo, Minoru S. H. Ko, Andre Levchenko, and Andrew P. Feinberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20926–20931. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710359105.
PMCID: PMC2409243
MET amplification occurs with or without T790M mutations in EGFR mutant lung tumors with acquired resistance to gefitinib or erlotinib
James Bean, Cameron Brennan, Jin-Yuan Shih, Gregory Riely, Agnes Viale, Lu Wang, Dhananjay Chitale, Noriko Motoi, Janos Szoke, Stephen Broderick, Marissa Balak, Wen-Cheng Chang, Chong-Jen Yu, Adi Gazdar, Harvey Pass, Valerie Rusch, William Gerald, Shiu-Feng Huang, Pan-Chyr Yang, Vincent Miller, Marc Ladanyi, Chih-Hsin Yang, and William Pao
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20932–20937. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710370104.
PMCID: PMC2409244
Staged in vitro reconstitution and implantation of engineered rat kidney tissue
E. Rosines, R. V. Sampogna, K. Johkura, D. A. Vaughn, Y. Choi, H. Sakurai, M. M. Shah, and S. K. Nigam
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20938–20943. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710428105.
PMCID: PMC2409245
GABAA-current rundown of temporal lobe epilepsy is associated with repetitive activation of GABAA “phasic” receptors
Eleonora Palma, Cristina Roseti, Francesca Maiolino, Sergio Fucile, Katiuscia Martinello, Manuela Mazzuferi, Eleonora Aronica, Mario Manfredi, Vincenzo Esposito, Gianpaolo Cantore, Ricardo Miledi, Michele Simonato, and Fabrizio Eusebi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20944–20948. Published online 2007 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710522105.
PMCID: PMC2409246
Microbiology
Identification of H2N3 influenza A viruses from swine in the United States
Wenjun Ma, Amy L. Vincent, Marie R. Gramer, Christy B. Brockwell, Kelly M. Lager, Bruce H. Janke, Phillip C. Gauger, Devi P. Patnayak, Richard J. Webby, and Jürgen A. Richt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20949–20954. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710286104.
PMCID: PMC2409247
Neuroscience
Amygdala depotentiation and fear extinction
Jeongyeon Kim, Sukwon Lee, Kyungjoon Park, Ingie Hong, Beomjong Song, Gihoon Son, Heewoo Park, Woon Ryoung Kim, Eunjin Park, Han Kyung Choe, Hyun Kim, Changjoong Lee, Woong Sun, Kyungjin Kim, Ki Soon Shin, and Sukwoo Choi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20955–20960. Published online 2007 December 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710548105.
PMCID: PMC2409248
Evoked brain responses are generated by feedback loops
Marta I. Garrido, James M. Kilner, Stefan J. Kiebel, and Karl J. Friston
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20961–20966. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706274105.
PMCID: PMC2409249
Evidence for a vascular contribution to diffusion FMRI at high b value
Karla L. Miller, Daniel P. Bulte, Hannah Devlin, Matthew D. Robson, Richard G. Wise, Mark W. Woolrich, Peter Jezzard, and Timothy E. J. Behrens
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20967–20972. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707257105.
PMCID: PMC2409250
Nck adaptor proteins control the organization of neuronal circuits important for walking
James P. Fawcett, John Georgiou, Julie Ruston, Friedhelm Bladt, Andrew Sherman, Neil Warner, Bechara J. Saab, Rizaldy Scott, John C. Roder, and Tony Pawson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20973–20978. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710316105.
PMCID: PMC2409251
Pharmacology
From the Cover:
Hematopoietic prostaglandin D2 synthase controls the onset and resolution of acute inflammation through PGD2 and 15-deoxyΔ12–14 PGJ2
Ravindra Rajakariar, Mark Hilliard, Toby Lawrence, Seema Trivedi, Paul Colville-Nash, Geoff Bellingan, Desmond Fitzgerald, Muhammad M. Yaqoob, and Derek W. Gilroy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20979–20984. Published online 2007 December 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707394104.
PMCID: PMC2409252
Physiology
Universal scaling law of electrical turbulence in the mammalian heart
Sami F. Noujaim, Omer Berenfeld, Jérôme Kalifa, Marina Cerrone, Kumaraswamy Nanthakumar, Felipe Atienza, Javier Moreno, Sergey Mironov, and José Jalife
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20985–20989. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709758104.
PMCID: PMC2409253
Mutation of an A-kinase-anchoring protein causes long-QT syndrome
Lei Chen, Michelle L. Marquardt, David J. Tester, Kevin J. Sampson, Michael J. Ackerman, and Robert S. Kass
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20990–20995. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710527105.
PMCID: PMC2409254
Plant Biology
From the Cover:
Oscillations in extracellular pH and reactive oxygen species modulate tip growth of Arabidopsis root hairs
G. B. Monshausen, T. N. Bibikova, M. A. Messerli, C. Shi, and S. Gilroy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20996–21001. Published online 2007 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708586104.
PMCID: PMC2409255
Arabidopsis CBF1 and CBF3 have a different function than CBF2 in cold acclimation and define different gene classes in the CBF regulon
Fernando Novillo, Joaquín Medina, and Julio Salinas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21002–21007. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705639105.
PMCID: PMC2409256
The subunit composition of hinokiresinol synthase controls geometrical selectivity in norlignan formation
Shiro Suzuki, Masaomi Yamamura, Takefumi Hattori, Tomoyuki Nakatsubo, and Toshiaki Umezawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21008–21013. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710357105.
PMCID: PMC2409257
Psychology
Global topological dominance in the left hemisphere
Bo Wang, Tian Gang Zhou, Yan Zhuo, and Lin Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21014–21019. Published online 2007 December 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709664104.
PMCID: PMC2409258
Sustainability Science
The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20672–20677. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705527105.
PMCID: PMC2410062
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
Sandra Díaz, Sandra Lavorel, Francesco de Bello, Fabien Quétier, Karl Grigulis, and T. Matthew Robson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20684–20689. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704716104.
PMCID: PMC2410063
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands
D. Mark Stafford Smith, Greg M. McKeon, Ian W. Watson, Beverley K. Henry, Grant S. Stone, Wayne B. Hall, and S. Mark Howden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20690–20695. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704837104.
PMCID: PMC2410064
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Ecological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forest
Deborah Lawrence, Paolo D'Odorico, Lucy Diekmann, Marcia DeLonge, Rishiraj Das, and James Eaton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20696–20701. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705005104.
PMCID: PMC2410065
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution
John Hawks, Eric T. Wang, Gregory M. Cochran, Henry C. Harpending, and Robert K. Moyzis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20753–20758. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707650104.
PMCID: PMC2410101
Sustainability Science
From The Cover:Land Change Science Special Feature:
Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands
D. Mark Stafford Smith, Greg M. McKeon, Ian W. Watson, Beverley K. Henry, Grant S. Stone, Wayne B. Hall, and S. Mark Howden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20690–20695. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704837104.
PMCID: PMC2410064
Social Sciences
The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
Elena G. Irwin and Nancy E. Bockstael
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 20672–20677. Published online 2007 December 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705527105.
PMCID: PMC2410062
Corrections
Correction for Jones, Calcium channels in higher-level brain function
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21020. Published online 2007 December 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711056105.
PMCID: PMC2409259
Corrects: Edward G. Jones. Calcium channels in higher-level brain function. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 November 13; 104(46): 17903–17904.
Correction for Calabrese et al., RNA sequence analysis defines Dicer's role in mouse embryonic stem cells
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21021. Published online 2007 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711071105.
PMCID: PMC2409260
Corrects: J. Mauro Calabrese, et al. RNA sequence analysis defines Dicer's role in mouse embryonic stem cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 November 13; 104(46): 18097–18102.
Correction for Rohde and Price, Diffusion-controlled metabolism for long-term survival of single isolated microorganisms trapped within ice crystals
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21021. Published online 2007 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710898105.
PMCID: PMC2409261
Corrects: Robert A. Rohde, et al. From the Cover:
Diffusion-controlled metabolism for long-term survival of single isolated microorganisms trapped within ice crystals.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 16; 104(42): 16592–16597.
Correction for Liu et al., Activation of tissue transglutaminase transcription by histone deacetylase inhibition as a therapeutic approach for Myc oncogenesis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21021. Published online 2007 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711060105.
PMCID: PMC2409262
Corrects: Tao Liu, et al. Activation of tissue transglutaminase transcription by histone deacetylase inhibition as a therapeutic approach for Myc oncogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 November 20; 104(47): 18682–18687.
Correction for Berndt et al., Evidence for a signaling axis by which intestinal phosphate rapidly modulates renal phosphate reabsorption
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 26; 104(52): 21021. Published online 2007 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0711057105.
PMCID: PMC2409263
Corrects: Theresa Berndt, et al. Evidence for a signaling axis by which intestinal phosphate rapidly modulates renal phosphate reabsorption. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 June 26; 104(26): 11085–11090.
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