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Volume 101(51);  December 21, 2004
Commentaries
Macroscopic fast neuronal oscillations and synchrony in schizophrenia
Odin van der Stelt, Aysenil Belger, and Jeffrey A. Lieberman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17567–17568. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407688101.
PMCID: PMC539755
Two minds about odors
Leslie M. Kay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17569–17570. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408190101.
PMCID: PMC539756
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Speed-up of Monte Carlo simulations by sampling of rejected states
Daan Frenkel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17571–17575. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407950101.
PMCID: PMC539769
Chemistry
“Shim pulses” for NMR spectroscopy and imaging
Daniel Topgaard, Rachel W. Martin, Dimitris Sakellariou, Carlos A. Meriles, and Alexander Pines
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17576–17581. Published online 2004 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408296102.
PMCID: PMC539781
Menadione metabolism to thiodione in hepatoblastoma by scanning electrochemical microscopy
Janine Mauzeroll, Allen J. Bard, Omeed Owhadian, and Terrence J. Monks
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17582–17587. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407613101.
PMCID: PMC539751
Direct experimental observation of the low ionization potentials of guanine in free oligonucleotides by using photoelectron spectroscopy
Xin Yang, Xue-Bin Wang, Erich R. Vorpagel, and Lai-Sheng Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17588–17592. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405157101.
PMCID: PMC539719
Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China
Patrick E. McGovern, Juzhong Zhang, Jigen Tang, Zhiqing Zhang, Gretchen R. Hall, Robert A. Moreau, Alberto Nuñez, Eric D. Butrym, Michael P. Richards, Chen-shan Wang, Guangsheng Cheng, Zhijun Zhao, and Changsui Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17593–17598. Published online 2004 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407921102.
PMCID: PMC539767
Computer Sciences
Who gets acknowledged: Measuring scientific contributions through automatic acknowledgment indexing
C. Lee Giles and Isaac G. Councill
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17599–17604. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407743101.
PMCID: PMC539757
Geology
Rapid recovery from the Late Ordovician mass extinction
A. Z. Krug and M. E. Patzkowsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17605–17610. Published online 2004 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405199102.
PMCID: PMC539723
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
The analysis of large-scale gene expression correlated to the phase changes of the migratory locust
Le Kang, XiangYong Chen, Yan Zhou, BoWan Liu, Wei Zheng, RuiQiang Li, Jun Wang, and Jun Yu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17611–17615. Published online 2004 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407753101.
PMCID: PMC535406
Applied Biological Sciences
Potent inhibition of huntingtin aggregation and cytotoxicity by a disulfide bond-free single-domain intracellular antibody
David W. Colby, YiJia Chu, John P. Cassady, Martin Duennwald, Helen Zazulak, Jack M. Webster, Anne Messer, Susan Lindquist, Vernon Martin Ingram, and K. Dane Wittrup
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17616–17621. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408134101.
PMCID: PMC539732
Biochemistry
Identification of small-molecule antagonists that inhibit an activator:coactivator interaction
Jennifer L. Best, Carlos A. Amezcua, Bernhard Mayr, Lawrence Flechner, Christopher M. Murawsky, Beverly Emerson, Tsaffrir Zor, Kevin H. Gardner, and Marc Montminy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17622–17627. Published online 2004 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406374101.
PMCID: PMC539725
Crystal structure of the human ATP-dependent splicing and export factor UAP56
Hang Shi, Olivier Cordin, C. Michael Minder, Patrick Linder, and Rui-Ming Xu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17628–17633. Published online 2004 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408172101.
PMCID: PMC539749
Per-Arnt-Sim domain-dependent association of cAMP-phosphodiesterase 8A1 with IκB proteins
Ping Wu and Peng Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17634–17639. Published online 2004 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407649101.
PMCID: PMC539753
Biophysics
A quantitative assessment of models for voltage-dependent gating of ion channels
Michael Grabe, Harold Lecar, Yuh Nung Jan, and Lily Yeh Jan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17640–17645. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408116101.
PMCID: PMC539724
Exploring protein-folding ensembles: A variable-barrier model for the analysis of equilibrium unfolding experiments
Victor Muñoz and Jose M. Sanchez-Ruiz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17646–17651. Published online 2004 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405829101.
PMCID: PMC539728
Vibration pattern of the organ of Corti up to 50 kHz: Evidence for resonant electromechanical force
Marc P. Scherer and Anthony W. Gummer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17652–17657. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408232101.
PMCID: PMC535427
Phylogeny of protein-folding trajectories reveals a unique pathway to native structure
Motonori Ota, Mitsunori Ikeguchi, and Akinori Kidera
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17658–17663. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407015102.
PMCID: PMC539736
Actin-destabilizing factors disrupt filaments by means of a time reversal of polymerization
Albina Orlova, Alexander Shvetsov, Vitold E. Galkin, Dmitry S. Kudryashov, Peter A. Rubenstein, Edward H. Egelman, and Emil Reisler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17664–17668. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407525102.
PMCID: PMC539747
A vesicle bioreactor as a step toward an artificial cell assembly
Vincent Noireaux and Albert Libchaber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17669–17674. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408236101.
PMCID: PMC539773
Protein engineering of cytochrome b562 for quinone binding and light-induced electron transfer
Sam Hay, Brett B. Wallace, Trevor A. Smith, Kenneth P. Ghiggino, and Tom Wydrzynski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17675–17680. Published online 2004 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406192101.
PMCID: PMC539716
Ultrarapid mixing experiments shed new light on the characteristics of the initial conformational ensemble during the folding of ribonuclease A
Ervin Welker, Kosuke Maki, M. C. Ramachandra Shastry, Darmawi Juminaga, Rajiv Bhat, Harold A. Scheraga, and Heinrich Roder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17681–17686. Published online 2004 December 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407999101.
PMCID: PMC539777
Cell Biology
Dynamics of cellular level function and regulation derived from murine expression array data
Benjamin de Bivort, Sui Huang, and Yaneer Bar-Yam
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17687–17692. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406707102.
PMCID: PMC539730
CrkII regulates focal adhesion kinase activation by making a complex with Crk-associated substrate, p130Cas
Toshinori Iwahara, Tsuyoshi Akagi, Yuki Fujitsuka, and Hidesaburo Hanafusa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17693–17698. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408413102.
PMCID: PMC539787
Failure to degrade poly(ADP-ribose) causes increased sensitivity to cytotoxicity and early embryonic lethality
David W. Koh, Ann M. Lawler, Marc F. Poitras, Masayuki Sasaki, Sigrid Wattler, Michael C. Nehls, Tobias Stöger, Guy G. Poirier, Valina L. Dawson, and Ted M. Dawson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17699–17704. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406182101.
PMCID: PMC539714
Ezrin–radixin–moesin (ERM)-binding phosphoprotein 50 organizes ERM proteins at the apical membrane of polarized epithelia
Fabiana C. Morales, Yoko Takahashi, Erica L. Kreimann, and Maria-Magdalena Georgescu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17705–17710. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407974101.
PMCID: PMC539771
Developmental Biology
From the Cover:
Ancestral role of caudal genes in axis elongation and segmentation
Tijana Copf, Reinhard Schröder, and Michalis Averof
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17711–17715. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407327102.
PMCID: PMC539741
The origin of the parathyroid gland
Masataka Okabe and Anthony Graham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17716–17719. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406116101.
PMCID: PMC539734
Ecology
Turbulence increases the average settling velocity of phytoplankton cells
Javier Ruiz, Diego Macías, and Francesc Peters
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17720–17724. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0401539101.
PMCID: PMC539715
Environmental Sciences
From the Cover:
Linking economic activities to the distribution of exotic plants
Brad W. Taylor and Rebecca E. Irwin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17725–17730. Published online 2004 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405176101.
PMCID: PMC539721
Evolution
Resolution of a paradox: Hummingbird flight at high elevation does not come without a cost
Douglas L. Altshuler, Robert Dudley, and Jimmy A. McGuire
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17731–17736. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405260101.
PMCID: PMC539726
Mitochondrial cytochrome c1 is a collapsed di-heme cytochrome
Frauke Baymann, Evelyne Lebrun, and Wolfgang Nitschke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17737–17740. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407442101.
PMCID: PMC539742
From the Cover:
Mitochondrial substitution rates are extraordinarily elevated and variable in a genus of flowering plants
Yangrae Cho, Jeffrey P. Mower, Yin-Long Qiu, and Jeffrey D. Palmer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17741–17746. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408302101.
PMCID: PMC539783
From the Cover:
Massive horizontal transfer of mitochondrial genes from diverse land plant donors to the basal angiosperm Amborella
Ulfar Bergthorsson, Aaron O. Richardson, Gregory J. Young, Leslie R. Goertzen, and Jeffrey D. Palmer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17747–17752. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408336102.
PMCID: PMC539785
Postzygotic isolating factor in sympatric speciation in Rhagoletis flies: Reduced response of hybrids to parental host-fruit odors
Charles E. Linn, Jr., Hattie R. Dambroski, Jeffrey L. Feder, Stewart H. Berlocher, Satoshi Nojima, and Wendell L. Roelofs
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17753–17758. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408255101.
PMCID: PMC539775
Genetics
Gene transduction in skin cells: Preventing cancer in xeroderma pigmentosum mice
Maria Carolina N. Marchetto, Alysson R. Muotri, Dennis K. Burns, Errol C. Friedberg, and Carlos F. M. Menck
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17759–17764. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406304101.
PMCID: PMC539722
Comparative genomic hybridization using oligonucleotide microarrays and total genomic DNA
Michael T. Barrett, Alicia Scheffer, Amir Ben-Dor, Nick Sampas, Doron Lipson, Robert Kincaid, Peter Tsang, Bo Curry, Kristin Baird, Paul S. Meltzer, Zohar Yakhini, Laurakay Bruhn, and Stephen Laderman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17765–17770. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407979101.
PMCID: PMC535426
DNA replication-timing analysis of human chromosome 22 at high resolution and different developmental states
Eric J. White, Olof Emanuelsson, David Scalzo, Thomas Royce, Steven Kosak, Edward J. Oakeley, Sherman Weissman, Mark Gerstein, Mark Groudine, Michael Snyder, and Dirk Schübeler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17771–17776. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408170101.
PMCID: PMC539744
Association of RNA polymerase with transcribed regions in Escherichia coli
Joseph T. Wade and Kevin Struhl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17777–17782. Published online 2004 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404305101.
PMCID: PMC539717
Immunology
Caspases and nitric oxide broadly regulate dendritic cell maturation and surface expression of class II MHC proteins
Siew Heng Wong, Laura Santambrogio, and Jack L. Strominger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17783–17788. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408229102.
PMCID: PMC539763
Homeostatic cell-cycle control by BLyS: Induction of cell-cycle entry but not G1/S transition in opposition to p18INK4c and p27Kip1
Xiangao Huang, Maurizio Di Liberto, Adam F. Cunningham, Lin Kang, Shuhua Cheng, Scott Ely, Hsiou-chi Liou, Ian C. M. MacLennan, and Selina Chen-Kiang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17789–17794. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406111101.
PMCID: PMC535425
Medical Sciences
Major reduction of atherosclerosis in fractalkine (CX3CL1)-deficient mice is at the brachiocephalic artery, not the aortic root
Daniel Teupser, Stephanos Pavlides, Marietta Tan, Jose-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos, Roland Kolbeck, and Jan L. Breslow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17795–17800. Published online 2004 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408096101.
PMCID: PMC539720
Adaptation to fasting by glycerol transport through aquaporin 7 in adipose tissue
Norikazu Maeda, Tohru Funahashi, Toshiyuki Hibuse, Azumi Nagasawa, Ken Kishida, Hiroshi Kuriyama, Tadashi Nakamura, Shinji Kihara, Iichiro Shimomura, and Yuji Matsuzawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17801–17806. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406230101.
PMCID: PMC539718
Induction of peripheral lymph node addressin in human gastric mucosa infected by Helicobacter pylori
Motohiro Kobayashi, Junya Mitoma, Naoshi Nakamura, Tsutomu Katsuyama, Jun Nakayama, and Minoru Fukuda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17807–17812. Published online 2004 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407503101.
PMCID: PMC539746
Activation of liver X receptors and retinoid X receptors prevents bacterial-induced macrophage apoptosis
Annabel F. Valledor, Li-Chung Hsu, Sumito Ogawa, Dominique Sawka-Verhelle, Michael Karin, and Christopher K. Glass
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17813–17818. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407749101.
PMCID: PMC539759
Recessive NRL mutations in patients with clumped pigmentary retinal degeneration and relative preservation of blue cone function
Koji M. Nishiguchi, James S. Friedman, Michael A. Sandberg, Anand Swaroop, Eliot L. Berson, and Thaddeus P. Dryja
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17819–17824. Published online 2004 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408183101.
PMCID: PMC535407
γ-Tocopherol or combinations of vitamin E forms induce cell death in human prostate cancer cells by interrupting sphingolipid synthesis
Qing Jiang, Jeffrey Wong, Henrik Fyrst, Julie D. Saba, and Bruce N. Ames
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17825–17830. Published online 2004 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408340102.
PMCID: PMC535585
Microbiology
Viral DNA synthesis-dependent titration of a cellular repressor activates transcription of the human adenovirus type 2 IVa2 gene
C. Iftode and S. J. Flint
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17831–17836. Published online 2004 December 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407786101.
PMCID: PMC539761
Microevolution and history of the plague bacillus, Yersinia pestis
Mark Achtman, Giovanna Morelli, Peixuan Zhu, Thierry Wirth, Ines Diehl, Barica Kusecek, Amy J. Vogler, David M. Wagner, Christopher J. Allender, W. Ryan Easterday, Viviane Chenal-Francisque, Patricia Worsham, Nicholas R. Thomson, Julian Parkhill, Luther E. Lindler, Elisabeth Carniel, and Paul Keim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17837–17842. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408026101.
PMCID: PMC535704
Neuroscience
From the Cover:
A role for MHC class I molecules in synaptic plasticity and regeneration of neurons after axotomy
Alexandre L. R. Oliveira, Sebastian Thams, Olle Lidman, Fredrik Piehl, Tomas Hökfelt, Klas Kärre, Hans Lindå, and Staffan Cullheim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17843–17848. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408154101.
PMCID: PMC539738
Control of a two-dimensional movement signal by a noninvasive brain-computer interface in humans
Jonathan R. Wolpaw and Dennis J. McFarland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17849–17854. Published online 2004 December 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403504101.
PMCID: PMC535103
Vesicular reuptake inhibition by a synaptotagmin I C2B domain antibody at the squid giant synapse
Rodolfo R. Llinás, Mutsuyuki Sugimori, Kimberly A. Moran, Jorge E. Moreira, and Mitsunori Fukuda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17855–17860. Published online 2004 December 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408200101.
PMCID: PMC539760
From the Cover:
Mechanism and circuitry for clustering and fine discrimination of odors in insects
Ehud Sivan and Nancy Kopell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17861–17866. Published online 2004 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407858101.
PMCID: PMC539765
Pharmacology
Tumor imaging by means of proteolytic activation of cell-penetrating peptides
Tao Jiang, Emilia S. Olson, Quyen T. Nguyen, Melinda Roy, Patricia A. Jennings, and Roger Y. Tsien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17867–17872. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408191101.
PMCID: PMC539314
Physiology
Reversed voltage-dependent gating of a bacterial sodium channel with proline substitutions in the S6 transmembrane segment
Yong Zhao, Todd Scheuer, and William A. Catterall
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17873–17878. Published online 2004 December 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408270101.
PMCID: PMC539779
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Fermented beverages of pre- and proto-historic China
Patrick E. McGovern, Juzhong Zhang, Jigen Tang, Zhiqing Zhang, Gretchen R. Hall, Robert A. Moreau, Alberto Nuñez, Eric D. Butrym, Michael P. Richards, Chen-shan Wang, Guangsheng Cheng, Zhijun Zhao, and Changsui Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17593–17598. Published online 2004 December 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407921102.
PMCID: PMC539767
Psychology
The effect of midazolam on visual search: Implications for understanding amnesia
Heekyeong Park, Joseph Quinlan, Edward Thornton, and Lynne M. Reder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17879–17883. Published online 2004 December 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408075101.
PMCID: PMC535584
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17884. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408427101.
PMCID: PMC539789
Corrects: Junko Kurokawa, et al. Regulatory actions of the A-kinase anchoring protein Yotiao on a heart potassium channel downstream of PKA phosphorylation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 16; 101(46): 16374–16378.
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