| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. 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. |