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Volume 99(11);  May 28, 2002
Commentaries
The galvanization of β-amyloid in Alzheimer's disease
Ashley I. Bush and Rudolph E. Tanzi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7317–7319. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122249699.
PMCID: PMC124227
Activating calcium release through inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors without inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate
Martin D. Bootman, Michael J. Berridge, and H. Llewelyn Roderick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7320–7322. doi: 10.1073/pnas.132254299.
PMCID: PMC124228
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Probabilistic clustering of sequences: Inferring new bacterial regulons by comparative genomics
Erik van Nimwegen, Mihaela Zavolan, Nikolaus Rajewsky, and Eric D. Siggia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7323–7328. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112690399.
PMCID: PMC124229
Fast-phase space computation of multiple arrivals
S. Fomel and J. A. Sethian
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7329–7334. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102476599.
PMCID: PMC124230
A dynamic programming algorithm for haplotype block partitioning
Kui Zhang, Minghua Deng, Ting Chen, Michael S. Waterman, and Fengzhu Sun
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7335–7339. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102186799.
PMCID: PMC124231
Chemistry
Nitroxyl and its anion in aqueous solutions: Spin states, protic equilibria, and reactivities toward oxygen and nitric oxide
Vladimir Shafirovich and Sergei V. Lymar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7340–7345. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112202099.
PMCID: PMC124232
Engineering
Sensor-independent stimulus representations
David N. Levin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7346–7351. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102170499.
PMCID: PMC124233
Geophysics
Electric and magnetic phenomena observed before the volcano-seismic activity in 2000 in the Izu Island Region, Japan
S. Uyeda, M. Hayakawa, T. Nagao, O. Molchanov, K. Hattori, Y. Orihara, K. Gotoh, Y. Akinaga, and H. Tanaka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7352–7355. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072208499.
PMCID: PMC124234
Mathematics
Traces, ideals, and arithmetic means
Victor Kaftal and Gary Weiss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7356–7360. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112074699.
PMCID: PMC124235
The structure of a class of finite ramified coverings and canonical forms of analytic matrix-functions in a neighborhood of a ramified turning point
Yevsey A. Nisnevich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7361–7366. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.082074899.
PMCID: PMC124236
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
15-Deoxy-Δ12,14-prostaglandin J2: The endogenous electrophile that induces neuronal apoptosis
Mitsuhiro Kondo, Takahiro Shibata, Takeshi Kumagai, Toshihiko Osawa, Noriyuki Shibata, Makio Kobayashi, Shoichi Sasaki, Makoto Iwata, Noriko Noguchi, and Koji Uchida
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7367–7372. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112212599.
PMCID: PMC124237
Long-term and homogeneous regulation of the Escherichia coli araBAD promoter by use of a lactose transporter of relaxed specificity
Rachael M. Morgan-Kiss, Caryn Wadler, and John E. Cronan, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7373–7377. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122227599.
PMCID: PMC124238
The crystal structure of the C-terminal fragment of striated-muscle α-tropomyosin reveals a key troponin T recognition site
Yu Li, Suet Mui, Jerry H. Brown, James Strand, Ludmilla Reshetnikova, Larry S. Tobacman, and Carolyn Cohen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7378–7383. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102179999.
PMCID: PMC124239
Complexation of peptidoglycan intermediates by the lipoglycodepsipeptide antibiotic ramoplanin: Minimal structural requirements for intermolecular complexation and fibril formation
Predrag Cudic, James K. Kranz, Douglas C. Behenna, Ryan G. Kruger, Hellina Tadesse, A. Joshua Wand, Yuri I. Veklich, John W. Weisel, and Dewey G. McCafferty
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7384–7389. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102192099.
PMCID: PMC124240
Elucidation of the function of lipoprotein-sorting signals that determine membrane localization
Kazuhiro Masuda, Shin-ichi Matsuyama, and Hajime Tokuda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7390–7395. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112085599.
PMCID: PMC124241
Functional interactions of HslV (ClpQ) with the ATPase HslU (ClpY)
Ravishankar Ramachandran, Claudia Hartmann, Hyun Kyu Song, Robert Huber, and Matthias Bochtler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7396–7401. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102188799.
PMCID: PMC124242
Amyloid aggregates of the HET-s prion protein are infectious
Marie-Lise Maddelein, Suzana Dos Reis, Stéphane Duvezin-Caubet, Bénédicte Coulary-Salin, and Sven J. Saupe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7402–7407. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072199199.
PMCID: PMC124243
Vitamin E succinate inhibits the function of androgen receptor and the expression of prostate-specific antigen in prostate cancer cells
Yu Zhang, Jing Ni, Edward M. Messing, Eugene Chang, Chin-Rang Yang, and Shuyuan Yeh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7408–7413. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102014399.
PMCID: PMC124244
Structural insight into the complex formation of latent matrix metalloproteinase 2 with tissue inhibitor of metalloproteinase 2
Ekaterina Morgunova, Ari Tuuttila, Ulrich Bergmann, and Karl Tryggvason
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7414–7419. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102185399.
PMCID: PMC124245
A core–BRAF35 complex containing histone deacetylase mediates repression of neuronal-specific genes
Mohamed-Ali Hakimi, Daniel A. Bochar, Josh Chenoweth, William S. Lane, Gail Mandel, and Ramin Shiekhattar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7420–7425. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112008599.
PMCID: PMC124246
Biophysics
Binding strength and activation state of single fibrinogen-integrin pairs on living cells
Rustem I. Litvinov, Henry Shuman, Joel S. Bennett, and John W. Weisel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7426–7431. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112194999.
PMCID: PMC124247
Evaluating conformational free energies: The colony energy and its application to the problem of loop prediction
Zhexin Xiang, Cinque S. Soto, and Barry Honig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7432–7437. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102179699.
PMCID: PMC124248
Cell Biology
Mutation of the Drosophila homologue of the Myb protooncogene causes genomic instability
J. Robert Manak, Nesanet Mitiku, and Joseph S. Lipsick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7438–7443. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122231599.
PMCID: PMC124249
A fragment of the HMGN2 protein homes to the nuclei of tumor cells and tumor endothelial cells in vivo
Kimmo Porkka, Pirjo Laakkonen, Jason A. Hoffman, Michele Bernasconi, and Erkki Ruoslahti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7444–7449. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062189599.
PMCID: PMC124250
Identification of residues in TIP47 essential for Rab9 binding
John Hanna, Kate Carroll, and Suzanne R. Pfeffer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7450–7454. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112198799.
PMCID: PMC124251
From the Cover:
Insulin-like growth factor 2 and potential regulators of hemangioma growth and involution identified by large-scale expression analysis
Matthew R. Ritter, Michael I. Dorrell, Joseph Edmonds, Sheila Fallon Friedlander, and Martin Friedlander
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7455–7460. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102185799.
PMCID: PMC124252
Subunit composition of mammalian transient receptor potential channels in living cells
Thomas Hofmann, Michael Schaefer, Günter Schultz, and Thomas Gudermann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7461–7466. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102596199.
PMCID: PMC124253
Structure and function correlation in histone H2A peptide-mediated gene transfer
Danuta Balicki, Christopher D. Putnam, Puthupparampil V. Scaria, and Ernest Beutler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7467–7471. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102168299.
PMCID: PMC124254
A single unbranched S-phase DNA damage and replication fork blockage checkpoint pathway
Maria A. Marchetti, Sanjay Kumar, Edgar Hartsuiker, Mohamed Maftahi, Antony M. Carr, Greg A. Freyer, William C. Burhans, and Joel A. Huberman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7472–7477. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112702399.
PMCID: PMC124255
Defective lymphocyte chemotaxis in β-arrestin2- and GRK6-deficient mice
Alan M. Fong, Richard T. Premont, Ricardo M. Richardson, Yen-Rei A. Yu, Robert J. Lefkowitz, and Dhavalkumar D. Patel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7478–7483. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112198299.
PMCID: PMC124256
Adenoviral vectors can impair adrenocortical steroidogenesis: Clinical implications for natural infections and gene therapy
Salvatore Alesci, Walter J. Ramsey, Stefan R. Bornstein, George P. Chrousos, Peter J. Hornsby, Salvatore Benvenga, Francesco Trimarchi, and Monika Ehrhart-Bornstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7484–7489. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062170099.
PMCID: PMC124257
Developmental Biology
Placental overgrowth in mice lacking the imprinted gene Ipl
Dale Frank, Weiwei Fortino, Lorraine Clark, Raymond Musalo, Wenxian Wang, Anjana Saxena, Chi-Ming Li, Wolf Reik, Thomas Ludwig, and Benjamin Tycko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7490–7495. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122039999.
PMCID: PMC124258
ERK2 enters the nucleus by a carrier-independent mechanism
Angelique W. Whitehurst, Julie L. Wilsbacher, Youngjai You, Kate Luby-Phelps, Mary Shannon Moore, and Melanie H. Cobb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7496–7501. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112495999.
PMCID: PMC124259
Determining the role of patterned cell proliferation in the shape and size of the Drosophila wing
Jaime Resino, Patricia Salama-Cohen, and Antonio García-Bellido
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7502–7507. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072208199.
PMCID: PMC124260
Evolution
Estimating the age of the polydnavirus/braconid wasp symbiosis
James B. Whitfield
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7508–7513. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112067199.
PMCID: PMC124262
Importance of compartment formation for a self-encoding system
Tomoaki Matsuura, Muneyoshi Yamaguchi, Elizabeth P. Ko-Mitamura, Yasufumi Shima, Itaru Urabe, and Tetsuya Yomo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7514–7517. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062710399.
PMCID: PMC124265
Genetics
Probabilistic clustering of sequences: Inferring new bacterial regulons by comparative genomics
Erik van Nimwegen, Mihaela Zavolan, Nikolaus Rajewsky, and Eric D. Siggia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7323–7328. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112690399.
PMCID: PMC124229
From flies' eyes to our ears: Mutations in a human class III myosin cause progressive nonsyndromic hearing loss DFNB30
Tom Walsh, Vanessa Walsh, Sarah Vreugde, Ronna Hertzano, Hashem Shahin, Smadar Haika, Ming K. Lee, Moien Kanaan, Mary-Claire King, and Karen B. Avraham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7518–7523. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102091699.
PMCID: PMC124268
Restoration of spermatogenesis by lentiviral gene transfer: Offspring from infertile mice
Masahito Ikawa, Vinay Tergaonkar, Atsuo Ogura, Narumi Ogonuki, Kimiko Inoue, and Inder M. Verma
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7524–7529. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072207299.
PMCID: PMC124271
A rice spotted leaf gene, Spl7, encodes a heat stress transcription factor protein
Utako Yamanouchi, Masahiro Yano, Hongxuan Lin, Motoyuki Ashikari, and Kyoji Yamada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7530–7535. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112209199.
PMCID: PMC124274
Identification of 86 candidates for small non-messenger RNAs from the archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus
Thean-Hock Tang, Jean-Pierre Bachellerie, Timofey Rozhdestvensky, Marie-Line Bortolin, Harald Huber, Mario Drungowski, Thorsten Elge, Jürgen Brosius, and Alexander Hüttenhofer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7536–7541. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112047299.
PMCID: PMC124276
Noncoding RNA genes identified in AT-rich hyperthermophiles
Robert J. Klein, Ziva Misulovin, and Sean R. Eddy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7542–7547. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112063799.
PMCID: PMC124278
Disruption of a long-range cis-acting regulator for Shh causes preaxial polydactyly
Laura A. Lettice, Taizo Horikoshi, Simon J. H. Heaney, Marijke J. van Baren, Herma C. van der Linde, Guido J. Breedveld, Marijke Joosse, Nurten Akarsu, Ben A. Oostra, Naoto Endo, Minoru Shibata, Mikio Suzuki, Eiichi Takahashi, Toshikatsu Shinka, Yutaka Nakahori, Dai Ayusawa, Kazuhiko Nakabayashi, Stephen W. Scherer, Peter Heutink, Robert E. Hill, and Sumihare Noji
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7548–7553. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112212199.
PMCID: PMC124279
Measuring absolute expression with microarrays with a calibrated reference sample and an extended signal intensity range
Aimée M. Dudley, John Aach, Martin A. Steffen, and George M. Church
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7554–7559. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112683499.
PMCID: PMC124281
BRCA1 transcriptionally regulates genes involved in breast tumorigenesis
Piri L. Welcsh, Ming K. Lee, Rachel M. Gonzalez-Hernandez, Daniel J. Black, Mamatha Mahadevappa, Elizabeth M. Swisher, Janet A. Warrington, and Mary-Claire King
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7560–7565. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062181799.
PMCID: PMC124283
Analysis of a library of macaque nuclear mitochondrial sequences confirms macaque origin of divergent sequences from old oral polio vaccine samples
Jean-Pierre Vartanian and Simon Wain-Hobson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7566–7569. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112205999.
PMCID: PMC124285
Immunology
From the Cover:
UL40-mediated NK evasion during productive infection with human cytomegalovirus
Eddie C. Y. Wang, Brian McSharry, Christelle Retiere, Peter Tomasec, Sheila Williams, Leszek K. Borysiewicz, Veronique M. Braud, and Gavin W. G. Wilkinson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7570–7575. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112680099.
PMCID: PMC124287
Antigen-specific and persistent tuberculin anergy in a cohort of pulmonary tuberculosis patients from rural Cambodia
Julio C. Delgado, Eunice Y. Tsai, Sok Thim, Andres Baena, Vassiliki A. Boussiotis, Jean-Marc Reynes, Sun Sath, Pierre Grosjean, Edmond J. Yunis, and Anne E. Goldfeld
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7576–7581. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062056099.
PMCID: PMC124289
CD2 molecules redistribute to the uropod during T cell scanning: Implications for cellular activation and immune surveillance
Elena V. Tibaldi, Ravi Salgia, and Ellis L. Reinherz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7582–7587. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112212699.
PMCID: PMC124291
Immunoglobulin heavy chain constant regions regulate immunity and tolerance to idiotypes of antibody variable regions
Solveig Klaebo Reitan and Kristian Hannestad
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7588–7593. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.052150899.
PMCID: PMC124293
Scavenger endothelial cells of vertebrates: A nonperipheral leukocyte system for high-capacity elimination of waste macromolecules
Tore Seternes, Karen Sørensen, and Bård Smedsrød
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7594–7597. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102173299.
PMCID: PMC124295
Medical Sciences
Symptomatic and asymptomatic benign prostatic hyperplasia: Molecular differentiation by using microarrays
Kulkarni Prakash, Gregorio Pirozzi, Michael Elashoff, William Munger, Iwao Waga, Rajiv Dhir, Yoshiyuki Kakehi, and Robert H. Getzenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7598–7603. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112191399.
PMCID: PMC124296
Synthetic LXR ligand inhibits the development of atherosclerosis in mice
Sean B. Joseph, Elaine McKilligin, Liming Pei, Michael A. Watson, Alan R. Collins, Bryan A. Laffitte, Mingyi Chen, Grace Noh, Joanne Goodman, Graham N. Hagger, Jonathan Tran, Tim K. Tippin, Xuping Wang, Aldons J. Lusis, Willa A. Hsueh, Ronald E. Law, Jon L. Collins, Timothy M. Willson, and Peter Tontonoz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7604–7609. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112059299.
PMCID: PMC124297
Sulforaphane inhibits extracellular, intracellular, and antibiotic-resistant strains of Helicobacter pylori and prevents benzo[a]pyrene-induced stomach tumors
Jed W. Fahey, Xavier Haristoy, Patrick M. Dolan, Thomas W. Kensler, Isabelle Scholtus, Katherine K. Stephenson, Paul Talalay, and Alain Lozniewski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7610–7615. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112203099.
PMCID: PMC124299
The phytoestrogen genistein induces thymic and immune changes: A human health concern?
Srikanth Yellayi, Afia Naaz, Melissa A. Szewczykowski, Tomomi Sato, Jeffrey A. Woods, Jongsoo Chang, Mariangela Segre, Clint D. Allred, William G. Helferich, and Paul S. Cooke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7616–7621. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102650199.
PMCID: PMC124301
A murine model of CML blast crisis induced by cooperation between BCR/ABL and NUP98/HOXA9
Ajeeta B. Dash, Ifor R. Williams, Jeffery L. Kutok, Michael H. Tomasson, Ema Anastasiadou, Kathleen Lindahl, Shaoguang Li, Richard A. Van Etten, Julian Borrow, David Housman, Brian Druker, and D. Gary Gilliland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7622–7627. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102583199.
PMCID: PMC124303
Induction of the cyclic nucleotide phosphodiesterase PDE4B is essential for LPS-activated TNF-α responses
S.-L. Catherine Jin and Marco Conti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7628–7633. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122041599.
PMCID: PMC124305
Cyclooxygenase-2 expression is induced during human megakaryopoiesis and characterizes newly formed platelets
Bianca Rocca, Paola Secchiero, Giovanni Ciabattoni, Franco O. Ranelletti, Lucia Catani, Lia Guidotti, Elisabetta Melloni, Nicola Maggiano, Giorgio Zauli, and Carlo Patrono
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7634–7639. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112202999.
PMCID: PMC124306
Variant-type PML-RARα fusion transcript in acute promyelocytic leukemia: Use of a cryptic coding sequence from intron 2 of the RARα gene and identification of a new clinical subtype resistant to retinoic acid therapy
Bai-Wei Gu, Hui Xiong, Yan Zhou, Bing Chen, Li Wang, Shuo Dong, Zhi-Yuan Yu, Ling-Feng Lu, Ming Zhong, Hai-Feng Yin, Gen-Feng Zhu, Wei Huang, Shuang-Xi Ren, Robert E. Gallagher, Samuel Waxman, Guo-Qiang Chen, Zhu-Gang Wang, Zhu Chen, Gang Fu, and Sai-Juan Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7640–7645. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112194799.
PMCID: PMC124308
Microbiology
Insight into the molecular basis of pathogen abundance: Group A Streptococcus inhibitor of complement inhibits bacterial adherence and internalization into human cells
Nancy P. Hoe, Robin M. Ireland, Frank R. DeLeo, Brian B. Gowen, David W. Dorward, Jovanka M. Voyich, Mengyao Liu, Eugene H. Burns, Jr., Derek M. Culnan, Anthony Bretscher, and James M. Musser
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7646–7651. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112039899.
PMCID: PMC124310
Genomewide identification of proteins secreted by the Hrp type III protein secretion system of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000
Tanja Petnicki-Ocwieja, David J. Schneider, Vincent C. Tam, Scott T. Chancey, Libo Shan, Yashitola Jamir, Lisa M. Schechter, Misty D. Janes, C. Robin Buell, Xiaoyan Tang, Alan Collmer, and James R. Alfano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7652–7657. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112183899.
PMCID: PMC124312
Benthic eukaryotic diversity in the Guaymas Basin hydrothermal vent environment
Virginia P. Edgcomb, David T. Kysela, Andreas Teske, Alvin de Vera Gomez, and Mitchell L. Sogin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7658–7662. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.062186399.
PMCID: PMC124314
From the Cover:
Multiple archaeal groups mediate methane oxidation in anoxic cold seep sediments
Victoria J. Orphan, Christopher H. House, Kai-Uwe Hinrichs, Kevin D. McKeegan, and Edward F. DeLong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7663–7668. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.072210299.
PMCID: PMC124316
A therapeutic agent with oriented carbohydrates for treatment of infections by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7
Kiyotaka Nishikawa, Koji Matsuoka, Eiji Kita, Noriko Okabe, Masashi Mizuguchi, Kumiko Hino, Shinobu Miyazawa, Chisato Yamasaki, Junken Aoki, Sachio Takashima, Yoshio Yamakawa, Masahiro Nishijima, Daiyo Terunuma, Hiroyoshi Kuzuhara, and Yasuhiro Natori
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7669–7674. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112058999.
PMCID: PMC124317
Inorganic polyphosphate is essential for long-term survival and virulence factors in Shigella and Salmonella spp.
Kwang-Seo Kim, Narayana N. Rao, Cresson D. Fraley, and Arthur Kornberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7675–7680. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112210499.
PMCID: PMC124319
Induction of natural competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae triggers lysis and DNA release from a subfraction of the cell population
Hilde Steinmoen, Eivind Knutsen, and Leiv Sigve Håvarstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7681–7686. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112464599.
PMCID: PMC124321
The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
Mark C. Enright, D. Ashley Robinson, Gaynor Randle, Edward J. Feil, Hajo Grundmann, and Brian G. Spratt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7687–7692. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122108599.
PMCID: PMC124322
Synergistic transcriptional activation by one regulatory protein in response to two metabolites
Becky M. Bundy, Lauren S. Collier, Timothy R. Hoover, and Ellen L. Neidle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7693–7698. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102605799.
PMCID: PMC124324
Neurobiology
Neuronal deactivation explains decreased cerebellar blood flow in response to focal cerebral ischemia or suppressed neocortical function
Lorenz Gold and Martin Lauritzen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7699–7704. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112012499.
PMCID: PMC124326
From the Cover:
Contribution by synaptic zinc to the gender-disparate plaque formation in human Swedish mutant APP transgenic mice
Joo-Yong Lee, Toby B. Cole, Richard D. Palmiter, Sang Won Suh, and Jae-Young Koh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7705–7710. Published online 2002 April 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.092034699.
PMCID: PMC124328
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Identification of a family of calcium sensors as protein ligands of inositol trisphosphate receptor Ca2+ release channels
Jun Yang, Sean McBride, Don-On Daniel Mak, Noga Vardi, Krzysztof Palczewski, Françoise Haeseleer, and J. Kevin Foskett
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7711–7716. Published online 2002 May 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102006299.
PMCID: PMC124329
Permissive proteolytic activity for visual cortical plasticity
Nobuko Mataga, Nobuo Nagai, and Takao K. Hensch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7717–7721. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102088899.
PMCID: PMC124331
Opposing actions of adrenal androgens and glucocorticoids on alternative splicing of Slo potassium channels in bovine chromaffin cells
Guey-Jen Lai and David P. McCobb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7722–7727. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112619799.
PMCID: PMC124333
Bimodal regulation of mPeriod promoters by CREB-dependent signaling and CLOCK/BMAL1 activity
Zdenka Travnickova-Bendova, Nicolas Cermakian, Steven M. Reppert, and Paolo Sassone-Corsi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7728–7733. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102075599.
PMCID: PMC124335
Corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 2 is a tonic suppressor of vascularization
Tracy L. Bale, Frank J. Giordano, Reed P. Hickey, Yan Huang, Anjali K. Nath, Kirk L. Peterson, Wylie W. Vale, and Kuo-Fen Lee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7734–7739. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102187099.
PMCID: PMC124337
Molecular dissection of hippocampal theta-burst pairing potentiation
D. A. Hoffman, R. Sprengel, and B. Sakmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7740–7745. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.092157999.
PMCID: PMC124338
Altered synaptic plasticity in a mouse model of fragile X mental retardation
Kimberly M. Huber, Sean M. Gallagher, Stephen T. Warren, and Mark F. Bear
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7746–7750. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122205699.
PMCID: PMC124340
A polymorphic gene nested within an intron of the tau gene: Implications for Alzheimer's disease
Chris Conrad, Cintia Vianna, Melissa Freeman, and Peter Davies
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7751–7756. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112194599.
PMCID: PMC124341
Pharmacology
Stage-specific modulation of skeletal myogenesis by inhibitors of nuclear deacetylases
Simona Iezzi, Giulio Cossu, Clara Nervi, Vittorio Sartorelli, and Pier Lorenzo Puri
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7757–7762. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112218599.
PMCID: PMC124343
Physiology
Nitric oxide reaction with red blood cells and hemoglobin under heterogeneous conditions
Tae H. Han, Daniel R. Hyduke, Mark W. Vaughn, Jon M. Fukuto, and James C. Liao
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7763–7768. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122118299.
PMCID: PMC124345
Rhesus expression in a green alga is regulated by CO2
Eric Soupene, Natalie King, Eithne Feild, Phillip Liu, Krishna K. Niyogi, Cheng-Han Huang, and Sydney Kustu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7769–7773. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112225599.
PMCID: PMC124347
Heteromerization of Kir2.x potassium channels contributes to the phenotype of Andersen's syndrome
Regina Preisig-Müller, Günter Schlichthörl, Tobias Goerge, Steffen Heinen, Andrea Brüggemann, Sindhu Rajan, Christian Derst, Rüdiger W. Veh, and Jürgen Daut
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7774–7779. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102609499.
PMCID: PMC124349
Shear stress regulates the endothelial Kir2.1 ion channel
Jeff H. Hoger, Victor I. Ilyin, Scott Forsyth, and Anne Hoger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7780–7785. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102184999.
PMCID: PMC124350
Plant Biology
An Arabidopsis mutation in translation elongation factor 2 causes superinduction of CBF/DREB1 transcription factor genes but blocks the induction of their downstream targets under low temperatures
Yan Guo, Liming Xiong, Manabu Ishitani, and Jian-Kang Zhu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7786–7791. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112040099.
PMCID: PMC124352
Induced instability of two Arabidopsis constitutive pathogen-response alleles
Trevor L. Stokes and Eric J. Richards
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7792–7796. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112040999.
PMCID: PMC124354
An Arabidopsis gene encoding an α-xylosyltransferase involved in xyloglucan biosynthesis
Ahmed Faik, Nicholas J. Price, Natasha V. Raikhel, and Kenneth Keegstra
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7797–7802. Published online 2002 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.102644799.
PMCID: PMC124356
Psychology
Hemispheric asymmetry in human lateral prefrontal cortex during cognitive set shifting
Seiki Konishi, Toshihiro Hayashi, Idai Uchida, Hideyuki Kikyo, Emi Takahashi, and Yasushi Miyashita
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7803–7808. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122644899.
PMCID: PMC124358
Corrections
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7809. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122187199.
PMCID: PMC124223
Corrects: Monica V. Kumar, et al. Differential effects of a centrally acting fatty acid synthase inhibitor in lean and obese mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 February 19; 99(4): 1921–1925.
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7809. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112147399.
PMCID: PMC124426
Corrects: Brian Kuhlman, et al. Conversion of monomeric protein L to an obligate dimer by computational protein design. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 September 11; 98(19): 10687–10691.
Correction
Eleonora Palma, Anna M. Mileo, Ataúlfo Martínez-Torres, Fabrizio Eusebi, and Ricardo Miledi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7809. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122189499.
PMCID: PMC124224
Corrects: Eleonora Palma, et al. Some properties of human neuronal α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptors fused to the green fluorescent protein. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 19; 99(6): 3950–3955.
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7809. Published online 2002 May 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.112147699.
PMCID: PMC124225
Corrects: Thomas Weber, et al. Thyroid hormone is a critical determinant for the regulation of the cochlear motor protein prestin. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 March 5; 99(5): 2901–2906.
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 May 28; 99(11): 7809. doi: 10.1073/pnas.122207399.
PMCID: PMC124226
Corrects: Gabriella Colucci, et al. GCR1, the putative Arabidopsis G protein-coupled receptor gene is cell cycle-regulated, and its overexpression abolishes seed dormancy and shortens time to flowering. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 April 2; 99(7): 4736–4741.
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