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Volume 101(50);  December 14, 2004
Commentaries
Organismal stress and telomeric aging: An unexpected connection
Robert M. Sapolsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17323–17324. Published online 2004 December 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408041101.
PMCID: PMC536029
A multiple-levels-of-analysis approach to the study of developmental processes in maltreated children
Dante Cicchetti and Jennifer A. Blender
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17325–17326. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408033101.
PMCID: PMC536022
Φ value versus ψ analysis
Alan R. Fersht
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17327–17328. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407863101.
PMCID: PMC536033
Fragile X syndrome: (What's) lost in translation?
Kevin Miyashiro and James Eberwine
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17329–17330. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408034101.
PMCID: PMC536026
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
From the Cover:
Ordered patterns of liquid crystal toroidal defects by microchannel confinement
Myung Chul Choi, Thomas Pfohl, Zhiyu Wen, Youli Li, Mahn Won Kim, Jacob N. Israelachvili, and Cyrus R. Safinya
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17340–17344. Published online 2004 November 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407925101.
PMCID: PMC536040
In silico study of amyloid β-protein folding and oligomerization
B. Urbanc, L. Cruz, S. Yun, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Bitan, D. B. Teplow, and H. E. Stanley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17345–17350. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408153101.
PMCID: PMC536046
Chemistry
The structure of carbonmonoxy neuroglobin reveals a heme-sliding mechanism for control of ligand affinity
Beatrice Vallone, Karin Nienhaus, Annemarie Matthes, Maurizio Brunori, and G. Ulrich Nienhaus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17351–17356. Published online 2004 November 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407633101.
PMCID: PMC536024
Mathematics
Unexpected connections between Burnside groups and knot theory
Mieczyslaw K. Dabkowski and Józef H. Przytycki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17357–17360. Published online 2004 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406098101.
PMCID: PMC536021
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
The structure of carbonmonoxy neuroglobin reveals a heme-sliding mechanism for control of ligand affinity
Beatrice Vallone, Karin Nienhaus, Annemarie Matthes, Maurizio Brunori, and G. Ulrich Nienhaus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17351–17356. Published online 2004 November 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407633101.
PMCID: PMC536024
Diffusion of nucleoside triphosphates and role of the entry site to the RNA polymerase II active center
Nizar N. Batada, Kenneth D. Westover, David A. Bushnell, Michael Levitt, and Roger D. Kornberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17361–17364. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408168101.
PMCID: PMC536049
The bacteriophage T4 late-transcription coactivator gp33 binds the flap domain of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase
Sergei Nechaev, Masood Kamali-Moghaddam, Estelle André, Jean-Paul Léonetti, and E. Peter Geiduschek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17365–17370. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408028101.
PMCID: PMC535105
Structure of the streptococcal endopeptidase IdeS, a cysteine proteinase with strict specificity for IgG
Katja Wenig, Lorenz Chatwell, Ulrich von Pawel-Rammingen, Lars Björck, Robert Huber, and Peter Sondermann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17371–17376. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407965101.
PMCID: PMC536041
Biophysics
In silico study of amyloid β-protein folding and oligomerization
B. Urbanc, L. Cruz, S. Yun, S. V. Buldyrev, G. Bitan, D. B. Teplow, and H. E. Stanley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17345–17350. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408153101.
PMCID: PMC536046
Differences in the folding transition state of ubiquitin indicated by [var phi] and ψ analyses
Tobin R. Sosnick, Robin S. Dothager, and Bryan A. Krantz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17377–17382. Published online 2004 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407683101.
PMCID: PMC536030
Inhaling to mitigate exhaled bioaerosols
David A. Edwards, Jonathan C. Man, Peter Brand, Jeffrey P. Katstra, K. Sommerer, Howard A. Stone, Edward Nardell, and Gerhard Scheuch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17383–17388. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408159101.
PMCID: PMC536048
Catalysis of protein folding by chaperones in pathogenic bacteria
James G. Bann, Jerome S. Pinkner, Carl Frieden, and Scott J. Hultgren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17389–17393. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408072101.
PMCID: PMC536034
Protein chemical shifts arising from α-helices and β-sheets depend on solvent exposure
Franc Avbelj, Darko Kocjan, and Robert L. Baldwin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17394–17397. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407969101.
PMCID: PMC536043
Cell Biology
Regulation of flagellar dynein activity by a central pair kinesin
Ruth Yokoyama, Eileen O'Toole, Sudipto Ghosh, and David R. Mitchell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17398–17403. Published online 2004 November 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406817101.
PMCID: PMC536025
Bcl-2-mediated alterations in endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ analyzed with an improved genetically encoded fluorescent sensor
Amy E. Palmer, Can Jin, John C. Reed, and Roger Y. Tsien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17404–17409. Published online 2004 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408030101.
PMCID: PMC535104
Structure of the complex between the cytosolic chaperonin CCT and phosducin-like protein
Jaime Martín-Benito, Sara Bertrand, Ting Hu, Paul J. Ludtke, Joseph N. McLaughlin, Barry M. Willardson, José L. Carrascosa, and José M. Valpuesta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17410–17415. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405070101.
PMCID: PMC536017
IκB kinase β phosphorylates Dok1 serines in response to TNF, IL-1, or γ radiation
Sanghoon Lee, Charlotte Andrieu, Frédéric Saltel, Olivier Destaing, Jessie Auclair, Véronique Pouchkine, Jocelyne Michelon, Bruno Salaun, Ryuji Kobayashi, Pierre Jurdic, Elliott D. Kieff, and Bakary S. Sylla
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17416–17421. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408061101.
PMCID: PMC536032
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae aquaporin Aqy1 is involved in sporulation
Frédéric Sidoux-Walter, Nina Pettersson, and Stefan Hohmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17422–17427. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404337101.
PMCID: PMC536013
Transport of Drosophila fragile X mental retardation protein-containing ribonucleoprotein granules by kinesin-1 and cytoplasmic dynein
Shuo-Chien Ling, Peter S. Fahrner, William T. Greenough, and Vladimir I. Gelfand
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17428–17433. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408114101.
PMCID: PMC536039
The kidney-specific WNK1 isoform is induced by aldosterone and stimulates epithelial sodium channel-mediated Na+ transport
Anikó Náray-Fejes-Tóth, Peter M. Snyder, and Géza Fejes-Tóth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17434–17439. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408146101.
PMCID: PMC536044
Ecology
Familiar route loyalty implies visual pilotage in the homing pigeon
Dora Biro, Jessica Meade, and Tim Guilford
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17440–17443. Published online 2004 November 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406984101.
PMCID: PMC536010
Evolution
Heterogeneous evolutionary processes affect R gene diversity in natural populations of Solanum pimpinellifolium
Ana L. Caicedo and Barbara A. Schaal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17444–17449. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407899101.
PMCID: PMC536038
Genetics
Multiple spatially distinct types of facultative heterochromatin on the human inactive X chromosome
Brian P. Chadwick and Huntington F. Willard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17450–17455. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408021101.
PMCID: PMC534659
Medical Sciences
Sole BCR-ABL inhibition is insufficient to eliminate all myeloproliferative disorder cell populations
S. Wong, J. McLaughlin, D. Cheng, C. Zhang, K. M. Shokat, and O. N. Witte
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17456–17461. Published online 2004 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407061101.
PMCID: PMC524218
Molecular and genetic analysis of disseminated neoplastic cells in lymphangioleiomyomatosis
Denise M. Crooks, Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez, Rosamma M. DeCastro, J. Philip McCoy, Jr., Ji-an Wang, Fumiyuki Kumaki, Thomas Darling, and Joel Moss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17462–17467. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407971101.
PMCID: PMC536045
From the Cover:
15-Hydroxyprostaglandin dehydrogenase, a COX-2 oncogene antagonist, is a TGF-β-induced suppressor of human gastrointestinal cancers
Min Yan, Ronald M. Rerko, Petra Platzer, Dawn Dawson, Joseph Willis, Min Tong, Earl Lawrence, James Lutterbaugh, Shilong Lu, James K. V. Willson, Guangbin Luo, Jack Hensold, Hsin-Hsiung Tai, Keith Wilson, and Sanford D. Markowitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17468–17473. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406142101.
PMCID: PMC536023
Microbiology
Cell-surface expression of a mutated Epstein–Barr virus glycoprotein B allows fusion independent of other viral proteins
Marisa P. McShane and Richard Longnecker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17474–17479. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404535101.
PMCID: PMC536015
From the Cover:
Three-dimensional structure and organization of a receptor/signaling complex
Noreen R. Francis, Peter M. Wolanin, Jeffry B. Stock, David J. DeRosier, and Dennis R. Thomas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17480–17485. Published online 2004 November 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407826101.
PMCID: PMC536031
Subcellular distribution of enzyme I of the Escherichia coli phosphoenolpyruvate:glycose phosphotransferase system depends on growth conditions
Himatkumar V. Patel, Kavita A. Vyas, Xibing Li, Regina Savtchenko, and Saul Roseman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17486–17491. Published online 2004 November 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407865101.
PMCID: PMC536035
Vi polysaccharide of Salmonella typhi targets the prohibitin family of molecules in intestinal epithelial cells and suppresses early inflammatory responses
Amita Sharma and Ayub Qadri
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17492–17497. Published online 2004 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407536101.
PMCID: PMC536020
Use of herpes simplex virus and pseudorabies virus chimeric glycoprotein D molecules to identify regions critical for membrane fusion
Anna Zago, Cheryl R. Jogger, and Patricia G. Spear
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17498–17503. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408186101.
PMCID: PMC536050
Neuroscience
From the Cover:
Fragile X mental retardation protein is necessary for neurotransmitter-activated protein translation at synapses
Ivan Jeanne Weiler, Chad C. Spangler, Anna Y. Klintsova, Aaron W. Grossman, Soong Ho Kim, Valerie Bertaina-Anglade, Hooma Khaliq, Froukje E. de Vries, Femke A. E. Lambers, Fatima Hatia, Christine K. Base, and William T. Greenough
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17504–17509. Published online 2004 November 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407533101.
PMCID: PMC536018
Lentiviral vector delivery of parkin prevents dopaminergic degeneration in an α-synuclein rat model of Parkinson's disease
Christophe Lo Bianco, Bernard L. Schneider, Matthias Bauer, Ali Sajadi, Alexis Brice, Takeshi Iwatsubo, and Patrick Aebischer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17510–17515. Published online 2004 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405313101.
PMCID: PMC536019
Toward an evolutionary perspective on conceptual representation: Species-specific calls activate visual and affective processing systems in the macaque
Ricardo Gil-da-Costa, Allen Braun, Marco Lopes, Marc D. Hauser, Richard E. Carson, Peter Herscovitch, and Alex Martin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17516–17521. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408077101.
PMCID: PMC536037
Evidence that injury-induced changes in hippocampal neuronal calcium dynamics during epileptogenesis cause acquired epilepsy
Mohsin Raza, Robert E. Blair, Sompong Sombati, Dawn S. Carter, Laxmikant S. Deshpande, and Robert J. DeLorenzo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17522–17527. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408155101.
PMCID: PMC535000
Radial glia give rise to adult neural stem cells in the subventricular zone
Florian T. Merkle, Anthony D. Tramontin, José Manuel García-Verdugo, and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17528–17532. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407893101.
PMCID: PMC536036
Physiology
Nav1.5 E1053K mutation causing Brugada syndrome blocks binding to ankyrin-G and expression of Nav1.5 on the surface of cardiomyocytes
Peter J. Mohler, Ilaria Rivolta, Carlo Napolitano, Guy LeMaillet, Stephen Lambert, Silvia G. Priori, and Vann Bennett
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17533–17538. Published online 2004 December 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403711101.
PMCID: PMC536011
Molecular basis of Kir6.2 mutations associated with neonatal diabetes or neonatal diabetes plus neurological features
Peter Proks, Jennifer F. Antcliff, Jon Lippiat, Anna L. Gloyn, Andrew T. Hattersley, and Frances M. Ashcroft
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17539–17544. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404756101.
PMCID: PMC536014
Common scale-invariant patterns of sleep–wake transitions across mammalian species
Chung-Chuan Lo, Thomas Chou, Thomas Penzel, Thomas E. Scammell, Robert E. Strecker, H. Eugene Stanley, and Plamen Ch. Ivanov
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17545–17548. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408242101.
PMCID: PMC536051
Plant Biology
Biography of J. Clark Lagarias
Tinsley H. Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17331–17333. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408338102.
PMCID: PMC536052
Harnessing phytochrome's glowing potential
Amanda J. Fischer and J. Clark Lagarias
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17334–17339. Published online 2004 November 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407645101.
PMCID: PMC536027
Two perfectly conserved arginine residues are required for substrate binding in a high-affinity nitrate transporter
Shiela E. Unkles, Duncan A. Rouch, Ye Wang, M. Yaeesh Siddiqi, Anthony D. M. Glass, and James R. Kinghorn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17549–17554. Published online 2004 December 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405054101.
PMCID: PMC536016
Evolution of xylem lignification and hydrogel transport regulation
C. Kevin Boyce, Maciej A. Zwieniecki, George D. Cody, Chris Jacobsen, Sue Wirick, Andrew H. Knoll, and N. Michele Holbrook
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17555–17558. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408024101.
PMCID: PMC536047
Population Biology
From the Cover:
Regulation of behavioral maturation by a primer pheromone produced by adult worker honey bees
Isabelle Leoncini, Yves Le Conte, Guy Costagliola, Erika Plettner, Amy L. Toth, Mianwei Wang, Zachary Huang, Jean-Marc Bécard, Didier Crauser, Keith N. Slessor, and Gene E. Robinson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17559–17564. Published online 2004 November 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407652101.
PMCID: PMC536028
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17565. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404694101.
PMCID: PMC536009
Corrects: Bibiana Bielekova, et al. Humanized anti-CD25 (daclizumab) inhibits disease activity in multiple sclerosis patients failing to respond to interferon β. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 June 8; 101(23): 8705–8708.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17565. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408124101.
PMCID: PMC536042
Corrects: Dafang Wan, et al. Large-scale cDNA transfection screening for genes related to cancer development and progression. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 2; 101(44): 15724–15729.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 14; 101(50): 17565. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408339101.
PMCID: PMC536053
Corrects: Joshua I. Armstrong, et al. Identification of inhibitors of auxin transcriptional activation by means of chemical genetics in Arabidopsis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 October 12; 101(41): 14978–14983.
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