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Volume 101(43);  October 26, 2004
Commentary
The many faces of Cockayne syndrome
Graciela Spivak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15273–15274. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406894101.
PMCID: PMC524466
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
From the Cover:
Triggered amplification by hybridization chain reaction
Robert M. Dirks and Niles A. Pierce
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15275–15278. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407024101.
PMCID: PMC524468
Fusogenic supramolecular vesicle systems induced by metal ion binding to amphiphilic ligands
Antoine Richard, Valérie Marchi-Artzner, Marie-Noëlle Lalloz, Marie-Josèphe Brienne, Franck Artzner, Thaddée Gulik-Krzywicki, Marie-Alice Guedeau-Boudeville, and Jean-Marie Lehn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15279–15284. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406625101.
PMCID: PMC524461
Geology
Evidence for cooler European summers during periods of changing meltwater flux to the North Atlantic
Oliver Heiri, Willy Tinner, and André F. Lotter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15285–15288. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406594101.
PMCID: PMC524458
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
Estimating genome conservation between crop and model legume species
Hong-Kyu Choi, Jeong-Hwan Mun, Dong-Jin Kim, Hongyan Zhu, Jong-Min Baek, Joanne Mudge, Bruce Roe, Noel Ellis, Jeff Doyle, Gyorgy B. Kiss, Nevin D. Young, and Douglas R. Cook
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15289–15294. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402251101.
PMCID: PMC524433
Applied Biological Sciences
Metal ion-mediated polymer superquenching for highly sensitive detection of kinase and phosphatase activities
Frauke Rininsland, Wensheng Xia, Shannon Wittenburg, Xiaobo Shi, Casey Stankewicz, Komandoor Achyuthan, Duncan McBranch, and David Whitten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15295–15300. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406832101.
PMCID: PMC524457
Biochemistry
Imp3p and Imp4p mediate formation of essential U3–precursor rRNA (pre-rRNA) duplexes, possibly to recruit the small subunit processome to the pre-rRNA
Tímea Gérczei and Carl C. Correll
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15301–15306. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406819101.
PMCID: PMC524450
The beginnings of mucin biosynthesis: The crystal structure of UDP-GalNAc:polypeptide α-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase-T1
Timothy A. Fritz, James H. Hurley, Loc-Ba Trinh, Joseph Shiloach, and Lawrence A. Tabak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15307–15312. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405657101.
PMCID: PMC524453
Survival factor-induced extracellular signal-regulated kinase phosphorylates BIM, inhibiting its association with BAX and proapoptotic activity
Hisashi Harada, Bonnie Quearry, Antonio Ruiz-Vela, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15313–15317. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406837101.
PMCID: PMC524459
TIFA activates IκB kinase (IKK) by promoting oligomerization and ubiquitination of TRAF6
Chee-Kwee Ea, Lijun Sun, Jun-Ichiro Inoue, and Zhijian J. Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15318–15323. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404132101.
PMCID: PMC524439
Biophysics
From the Cover:
De novo design of defined helical bundles in membrane environments
Başar Bilgiçer and Krishna Kumar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15324–15329. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403314101.
PMCID: PMC524440
Unveiling functional protein motions with picosecond x-ray crystallography and molecular dynamics simulations
Gerhard Hummer, Friedrich Schotte, and Philip A. Anfinrud
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15330–15334. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405295101.
PMCID: PMC523450
Probing the instabilities in the dynamics of helical fragments from mouse PrPC
Ruxandra I. Dima and D. Thirumalai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15335–15340. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404235101.
PMCID: PMC524442
Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance MS reveals the presence of a water molecule in an enzyme transition-state analogue complex
Christoph H. Borchers, Victor E. Marquez, Gottfried K. Schroeder, Steven A. Short, Mark J. Snider, J. Paul Speir, and Richard Wolfenden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15341–15345. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406781101.
PMCID: PMC524446
Improvement of comparative model accuracy by free-energy optimization along principal components of natural structural variation
Bin Qian, Angel R. Ortiz, and David Baker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15346–15351. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404703101.
PMCID: PMC524448
The polyproline II conformation in short alanine peptides is noncooperative
Kang Chen, Zhigang Liu, and Neville R. Kallenbach
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15352–15357. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406657101.
PMCID: PMC524463
Cell Biology
grb2 heterozygosity rescues embryonic lethality but not tumorigenesis in pten+/- mice
Megan Cully, Andrew Elia, Siew-Hwa Ong, Vuk Stambolic, Tony Pawson, Ming-Sound Tsao, and Tak W. Mak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15358–15363. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406613101.
PMCID: PMC524460
Translationally controlled tumor protein is a target of tumor reversion
Marcel Tuynder, Giusy Fiucci, Sylvie Prieur, Alexandra Lespagnol, Anne Géant, Séverine Beaucourt, Dominique Duflaut, Stéphanie Besse, Laurent Susini, Jean Cavarelli, Dino Moras, Robert Amson, and Adam Telerman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15364–15369. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406776101.
PMCID: PMC523462
Developmental Biology
Proteomic analysis identifies that 14-3-3ζ interacts with β-catenin and facilitates its activation by Akt
Qiang Tian, Megan C. Feetham, W. Andy Tao, Xi C. He, Linheng Li, Ruedi Aebersold, and Leroy Hood
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15370–15375. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406499101.
PMCID: PMC524456
Evolution
The contribution of epistasis to the architecture of fitness in an RNA virus
Rafael Sanjuán, Andrés Moya, and Santiago F. Elena
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15376–15379. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404125101.
PMCID: PMC524436
A class of eukaryotic GTPase with a punctate distribution suggesting multiple functional replacements of translation elongation factor 1α
Patrick J. Keeling and Yuji Inagaki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15380–15385. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404505101.
PMCID: PMC524445
The timing of eukaryotic evolution: Does a relaxed molecular clock reconcile proteins and fossils?
Emmanuel J. P. Douzery, Elizabeth A. Snell, Eric Bapteste, Frédéric Delsuc, and Hervé Philippe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15386–15391. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403984101.
PMCID: PMC524432
Genetics
Gene targeting in yeast is initiated by two independent strand invasions
Lance D. Langston and Lorraine S. Symington
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15392–15397. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403748101.
PMCID: PMC524428
Coding single-nucleotide polymorphisms associated with complex vs. Mendelian disease: Evolutionary evidence for differences in molecular effects
Paul D. Thomas and Anish Kejariwal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15398–15403. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404380101.
PMCID: PMC523449
Microarray-based rapid cloning of an ion accumulation deletion mutant in Arabidopsis thaliana
Ji-Ming Gong, David A. Waner, Tomoaki Horie, Shi Lun Li, Rie Horie, Khush B. Abid, and Julian I. Schroeder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15404–15409. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404780101.
PMCID: PMC524449
From the Cover:
Complete absence of Cockayne syndrome group B gene product gives rise to UV-sensitive syndrome but not Cockayne syndrome
Katsuyoshi Horibata, Yuka Iwamoto, Isao Kuraoka, Nicolaas G. J. Jaspers, Akihiro Kurimasa, Mitsuo Oshimura, Masamitsu Ichihashi, and Kiyoji Tanaka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15410–15415. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404587101.
PMCID: PMC524447
Immunology
Role of a transductional-transcriptional processor complex involving MyD88 and IRF-7 in Toll-like receptor signaling
Kenya Honda, Hideyuki Yanai, Tatsuaki Mizutani, Hideo Negishi, Naoya Shimada, Nobutaka Suzuki, Yusuke Ohba, Akinori Takaoka, Wen-Chen Yeh, and Tadatsugu Taniguchi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15416–15421. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406933101.
PMCID: PMC523464
The integrin α-subunit leg extends at a Ca2+-dependent epitope in the thigh/genu interface upon activation
Can Xie, Motomu Shimaoka, Tsan Xiao, Pascale Schwab, Lloyd B. Klickstein, and Timothy A. Springer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15422–15427. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406680101.
PMCID: PMC524430
Differential regulation of histone acetylation and generation of mutations in switch regions is associated with Ig class switching
Ziqiang Li, Zhonghui Luo, and Matthew D. Scharff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15428–15433. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406827101.
PMCID: PMC524454
Myelin proteolipid protein-specific CD4+CD25+ regulatory cells mediate genetic resistance to experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis
Jayagopala Reddy, Zsolt Illes, Xingmin Zhang, Jeffrey Encinas, Jason Pyrdol, Lindsay Nicholson, Raymond A. Sobel, Kai W. Wucherpfennig, and Vijay K. Kuchroo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15434–15439. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404444101.
PMCID: PMC524444
A totally synthetic vaccine of generic structure that targets Toll-like receptor 2 on dendritic cells and promotes antibody or cytotoxic T cell responses
David C. Jackson, Yuk Fai Lau, Thuy Le, Andreas Suhrbier, Georgia Deliyannis, Christina Cheers, Corey Smith, Weiguang Zeng, and Lorena E. Brown
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15440–15445. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406740101.
PMCID: PMC523460
Medical Sciences
Development of hydrocephalus in mice lacking SOCS7
Danielle L. Krebs, Donald Metcalf, Tobias D. Merson, Anne K. Voss, Tim Thomas, Jian-Guo Zhang, Steven Rakar, Moira K. O'Bryan, Tracy A. Willson, Elizabeth M. Viney, Lisa A. Mielke, Nicos A. Nicola, Douglas J. Hilton, and Warren S. Alexander
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15446–15451. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406870101.
PMCID: PMC524464
Ceramide, a target for antiretroviral therapy
Catherine M. Finnegan, Satinder S. Rawat, Anu Puri, Ji Ming Wang, Francis W. Ruscetti, and Robert Blumenthal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15452–15457. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402874101.
PMCID: PMC524434
Prodrugs of bisthiazolium salts are orally potent antimalarials
Henri J. Vial, Sharon Wein, Christine Farenc, Clemens Kocken, Olivier Nicolas, Marie Laure Ancelin, Francoise Bressolle, Alan Thomas, and Michèle Calas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15458–15463. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404037101.
PMCID: PMC523447
Pleiotropic effects of the 8.1 HLA haplotype in patients with autoimmune myasthenia gravis and thymus hyperplasia
Claire Vandiedonck, Geneviève Beaurain, Matthieu Giraud, Catherine Hue-Beauvais, Bruno Eymard, Christine Tranchant, Philippe Gajdos, Jean Dausset, and Henri-Jean Garchon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15464–15469. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406756101.
PMCID: PMC524438
Microbiology
Cellular integrins function as entry receptors for human cytomegalovirus via a highly conserved disintegrin-like domain
Adam L. Feire, Heidi Koss, and Teresa Compton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15470–15475. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406821101.
PMCID: PMC524452
Neuroscience
From the Cover:
The Rai (Shc C) adaptor protein regulates the neuronal stress response and protects against cerebral ischemia
Flavia Troglio, Cinara Echart, Alberto Gobbi, Tony Pawson, Pier Giuseppe Pelicci, Maria Grazia De Simoni, and Giuliana Pelicci
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15476–15481. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403283101.
PMCID: PMC524437
Chemical and electrical synapses perform complementary roles in the synchronization of interneuronal networks
Nancy Kopell and Bard Ermentrout
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15482–15487. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406343101.
PMCID: PMC524455
From the Cover:
Glutamate and acetylcholine corelease at developing synapses
W.-C. Li, S. R. Soffe, and Alan Roberts
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15488–15493. Published online 2004 October 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404864101.
PMCID: PMC524451
Clues to understanding cold sensation: Thermodynamics and electrophysiological analysis of the cold receptor TRPM8
Sebastian Brauchi, Patricio Orio, and Ramon Latorre
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15494–15499. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406773101.
PMCID: PMC523461
Default brain functionality in blind people
H. Burton, A. Z. Snyder, and M. E. Raichle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15500–15505. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406676101.
PMCID: PMC524465
Dysregulation of the fibroblast growth factor system in major depression
S. J. Evans, P. V. Choudary, C. R. Neal, J. Z. Li, M. P. Vawter, H. Tomita, J. F. Lopez, R. C. Thompson, F. Meng, J. D. Stead, D. M. Walsh, R. M. Myers, W. E. Bunney, S. J. Watson, E. G. Jones, and H. Akil
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15506–15511. Published online 2004 October 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406788101.
PMCID: PMC523463
Feeding status and serotonin rapidly and reversibly modulate a Caenorhabditis elegans chemosensory circuit
Michael Y. Chao, Hidetoshi Komatsu, Hana S. Fukuto, Heather M. Dionne, and Anne C. Hart
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15512–15517. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403369101.
PMCID: PMC524441
Dissociation of experience-dependent and -independent changes in excitatory synaptic transmission during development of barrel cortex
Susanna B. Mierau, Rhiannon M. Meredith, A. Louise Upton, and Ole Paulsen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15518–15523. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402916101.
PMCID: PMC524435
Preserving properties of object shape by computations in primary visual cortex
Charles F. Stevens
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15524–15529. Published online 2004 October 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406664101.
PMCID: PMC523458
Physiology
Multiarm spirals in a two-dimensional cardiac substrate
Nenad Bursac, Felipe Aguel, and Leslie Tung
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15530–15534. Published online 2004 October 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0400984101.
PMCID: PMC524429
Functional coupling of intracellular calcium and inactivation of voltage-gated Kv1.1/Kvβ1.1 A-type K+ channels
Flora Jow, Zhi-Hao Zhang, David C. Kopsco, Karen C. Carroll, and KeWei Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15535–15540. Published online 2004 October 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0402081101.
PMCID: PMC524431
Psychology
Dissociation of spatial attention and saccade preparation
Chi-Hung Juan, Stephanie M. Shorter-Jacobi, and Jeffrey D. Schall
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15541–15544. Published online 2004 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403507101.
PMCID: PMC524443
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15545. Published online 2004 October 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406868101.
PMCID: PMC524462
Corrects: Susan S. Golden. Meshing the gears of the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 21; 101(38): 13697–13698.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15546. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406979101.
PMCID: PMC524467
Corrects: Mark Veugelers, et al. Comparative PRKAR1A genotype–phenotype analyses in humans with Carney complex and prkar1a haploinsufficient mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 September 28; 101(39): 14222–14227.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 26; 101(43): 15546. Published online 2004 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407091101.
PMCID: PMC524469
Corrects: Sylvestre Marillonnet, et al. In planta engineering of viral RNA replicons: Efficient assembly by recombination of DNA modules delivered by Agrobacterium. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 May 4; 101(18): 6852–6857.
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