| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. Commentaries Varitint-waddler: A double whammy for hearing Karen P. Steel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14613–14615. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232585699.PMCID: PMC133623 Shedding light on an underground problem Jeanne Harris Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14616–14618. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242594599.PMCID: PMC137465 New insights and new approaches toward the study of age-related macular degeneration Dean Bok Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14619–14621. Published online 2002 November 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242607899.PMCID: PMC137466 Head to head with Boas: Did he err on the plasticity of head form? Ralph L. Holloway Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14622–14623. Published online 2002 November 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242622399.PMCID: PMC137467 Perspective Explaining the Pleistocene megafaunal extinctions: Models, chronologies, and assumptions Barry W. Brook and David M. J. S. Bowman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14624–14627. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232126899.PMCID: PMC137468 Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Finding important sites in protein sequences Peter J. Bickel, Katherina J. Kechris, Philip C. Spector, Gary J. Wedemayer, and Alexander N. Glazer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14764–14771. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222508899.PMCID: PMC137493 Chemistry Prebiotic synthesis from CO atmospheres: Implications for the origins of life Shin Miyakawa, Hiroto Yamanashi, Kensei Kobayashi, H. James Cleaves, and Stanley L. Miller Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14628–14631. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192568299.PMCID: PMC137469 Enhancing polyethylenimine's delivery of plasmid DNA into mammalian cells Mini Thomas and Alexander M. Klibanov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14640–14645. Published online 2002 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192581499.PMCID: PMC137472 Physics No time loophole in Bell's theorem: The Hess–Philipp model is nonlocal R. D. Gill, G. Weihs, A. Zeilinger, and M. Żukowski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14632–14635. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.182536499.PMCID: PMC137470 Biological Sciences Anthropology-BS A reassessment of human cranial plasticity: Boas revisited Corey S. Sparks and Richard L. Jantz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14636–14639. Published online 2002 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222389599.PMCID: PMC137471 Applied Biological Sciences Enhancing polyethylenimine's delivery of plasmid DNA into mammalian cells Mini Thomas and Alexander M. Klibanov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14640–14645. Published online 2002 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192581499.PMCID: PMC137472 S-layer-streptavidin fusion proteins as template for nanopatterned molecular arrays Dieter Moll, Carina Huber, Birgit Schlegel, Dietmar Pum, Uwe B. Sleytr, and Margit Sára Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14646–14651. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232299399.PMCID: PMC137473 A cell-free protein synthesis system for high-throughput proteomics Tatsuya Sawasaki, Tomio Ogasawara, Ryo Morishita, and Yaeta Endo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14652–14657. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232580399.PMCID: PMC137474 Biochemistry Resistance to the macrolide antibiotic tylosin is conferred by single methylations at 23S rRNA nucleotides G748 and A2058 acting in synergy Mingfu Liu and Stephen Douthwaite Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14658–14663. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232580599.PMCID: PMC137475 Short constrained peptides that inhibit HIV-1 entry Samuel K. Sia, Peter A. Carr, Andrea G. Cochran, Vladimir N. Malashkevich, and Peter S. Kim Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14664–14669. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232566599.PMCID: PMC137476 The A14–A43 heterodimer subunit in yeast RNA pol I and their relationship to Rpb4–Rpb7 pol II subunits Gérald Peyroche, Erwann Levillain, Magali Siaut, Isabelle Callebaut, Patrick Schultz, André Sentenac, Michel Riva, and Christophe Carles Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14670–14675. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232580799.PMCID: PMC137477 Posttranslational modifications in the CP43 subunit of photosystem II Lorraine B. Anderson, Melissa Maderia, Anthony J. A. Ouellette, Cindy Putnam-Evans, LeeAnn Higgins, Thomas Krick, Michael J. MacCoss, Hanjo Lim, John R. Yates, III, and Bridgette A. Barry Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14676–14681. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232591599.PMCID: PMC137478 From the Cover: Drusen proteome analysis: An approach to the etiology of age-related macular degeneration John W. Crabb, Masaru Miyagi, Xiaorong Gu, Karen Shadrach, Karen A. West, Hirokazu Sakaguchi, Motohiro Kamei, Azeem Hasan, Lin Yan, Mary E. Rayborn, Robert G. Salomon, and Joe G. Hollyfield Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14682–14687. Published online 2002 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222551899.PMCID: PMC137479 Catalysis of amide synthesis by RNA phosphodiester and hydroxyl groups Stacy I. Chamberlin, Edward J. Merino, and Kevin M. Weeks Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14688–14693. Published online 2002 October 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212527799.PMCID: PMC137480 A ligand for the aryl hydrocarbon receptor isolated from lung Jiasheng Song, Margaret Clagett-Dame, Richard E. Peterson, Mark E. Hahn, William M. Westler, Rafal R. Sicinski, and Hector F. DeLuca Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14694–14699. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232562899.PMCID: PMC137481 Conformational energetics of stable and metastable states formed by DNA triplet repeat oligonucleotides: Implications for triplet expansion diseases J. Völker, N. Makube, G. E. Plum, H. H. Klump, and K. J. Breslauer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14700–14705. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222519799.PMCID: PMC137482 Transcriptional activating regions target a cyclin-dependent kinase Aseem Z. Ansari, Sang Seok Koh, Zafar Zaman, Christine Bongards, Norbert Lehming, Richard A. Young, and Mark Ptashne Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14706–14709. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232573899.PMCID: PMC137483 A single point mutation in ecdysone receptor leads to increased ligand specificity: Implications for gene switch applications M. B. Kumar, T. Fujimoto, D. W. Potter, Q. Deng, and S. R. Palli Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14710–14715. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222278999.PMCID: PMC137484 Confirmation by FRET in individual living cells of the absence of significant amyloid β-mediated caspase 8 activation Reiko Onuki, Akira Nagasaki, Hiroaki Kawasaki, Tadashi Baba, Taro Q. P. Uyeda, and Kazunari Taira Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14716–14721. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232177599.PMCID: PMC137485 Pre-steady-state DNA unwinding by bacteriophage T4 Dda helicase reveals a monomeric molecular motor Bindu Nanduri, Alicia K. Byrd, Robert L. Eoff, Alan J. Tackett, and Kevin D. Raney Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14722–14727. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232401899.PMCID: PMC137486 Suppression of bone resorption by madindoline A, a novel nonpeptide antagonist to gp130 Masahiko Hayashi, Mun-Chual Rho, Akiko Enomoto, Akiko Fukami, Yong-Pil Kim, Yuji Kikuchi, Toshiaki Sunazuka, Tomoyasu Hirose, Kanki Komiyama, and Satoshi Omura Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14728–14733. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232562799.PMCID: PMC137487 Differentiation of Hdm2-mediated p53 ubiquitination and Hdm2 autoubiquitination activity by small molecular weight inhibitors Zhihong Lai, Tao Yang, Young B. Kim, Thais M. Sielecki, Melody A. Diamond, Peter Strack, Mark Rolfe, Maureen Caligiuri, Pamela A. Benfield, Kurt R. Auger, and Robert A. Copeland Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14734–14739. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212428599.PMCID: PMC137488 Orphan G protein-coupled receptors MrgA1 and MrgC11 are distinctively activated by RF-amide-related peptides through the Gαq/11 pathway Sang-Kyou Han, Xinzhong Dong, Jong-Ik Hwang, Mark J. Zylka, David J. Anderson, and Melvin I. Simon Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14740–14745. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192565799.PMCID: PMC137489 The catalytic domain of RNase E shows inherent 3′ to 5′ directionality in cleavage site selection Yanan Feng, Timothy A. Vickers, and Stanley N. Cohen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14746–14751. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.202590899.PMCID: PMC137490 The catalytic cycle of β-lactam synthetase observed by x-ray crystallographic snapshots Matthew T. Miller, Brian O. Bachmann, Craig A. Townsend, and Amy C. Rosenzweig Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14752–14757. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232361199.PMCID: PMC137491 Biophysics The structure and evolution of the major capsid protein of a large, lipid-containing DNA virus Narayanasamy Nandhagopal, Alan A. Simpson, James R. Gurnon, Xiadong Yan, Timothy S. Baker, Michael V. Graves, James L. Van Etten, and Michael G. Rossmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14758–14763. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232580699.PMCID: PMC137492 INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Finding important sites in protein sequences Peter J. Bickel, Katherina J. Kechris, Philip C. Spector, Gary J. Wedemayer, and Alexander N. Glazer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14764–14771. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222508899.PMCID: PMC137493 Cytoskeletal-assisted dynamics of the mitochondrial reticulum in living cells Michelle K. Knowles, Marina G. Guenza, Roderick A. Capaldi, and Andrew H. Marcus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14772–14777. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232346999.PMCID: PMC137494 Structural features of cytochrome c′ folding intermediates revealed by fluorescence energy-transfer kinetics Jennifer C. Lee, K. Cecilia Engman, F. Akif Tezcan, Harry B. Gray, and Jay R. Winkler Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14778–14782. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192574099.PMCID: PMC137495 Cell Biology Estrogen receptor-interacting protein that modulates its nongenomic activity-crosstalk with Src/Erk phosphorylation cascade Chi-Wai Wong, Christopher McNally, Elliot Nickbarg, Barry S. Komm, and Boris J. Cheskis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14783–14788. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192569699.PMCID: PMC137496 Distinct roles for CREB-binding protein and p300 in hematopoietic stem cell self-renewal Vivienne I. Rebel, Andrew L. Kung, Elizabeth A. Tanner, Hong Yang, Roderick T. Bronson, and David M. Livingston Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14789–14794. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232568499.PMCID: PMC137497 Disruption of the checkpoint kinase 1/cell division cycle 25A pathway abrogates ionizing radiation-induced S and G2 checkpoints Hui Zhao, Janis L. Watkins, and Helen Piwnica-Worms Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14795–14800. Published online 2002 October 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.182557299.PMCID: PMC137498 Coordination of the two heads of myosin during muscle contraction Diane S. Lidke and David D. Thomas Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14801–14806. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232161999.PMCID: PMC137499 Heme deficiency may be a factor in the mitochondrial and neuronal decay of aging Hani Atamna, David W. Killilea, Alison Nisbet Killilea, and Bruce N. Ames Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14807–14812. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192585799.PMCID: PMC137500 From the Cover: DE-cadherin-mediated cell adhesion is essential for maintaining somatic stem cells in the Drosophila ovary Xiaoqing Song and Ting Xie Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14813–14818. Published online 2002 October 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232389399.PMCID: PMC137501 Molecular characterization of mouse gastric epithelial progenitor cells Jason C. Mills, Niklas Andersson, Chieu V. Hong, Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck, and Jeffrey I. Gordon Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14819–14824. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192574799.PMCID: PMC137502 Transcriptome analysis during cell division in plants Peter Breyne, Rozemarijn Dreesen, Klaas Vandepoele, Lieven De Veylder, Frank Van Breusegem, Lindy Callewaert, Stephane Rombauts, Jeroen Raes, Bernard Cannoot, Gilbert Engler, Dirk Inzé, and Marc Zabeau Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14825–14830. Published online 2002 October 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222561199.PMCID: PMC137503 A chemoattractant for ascidian spermatozoa is a sulfated steroid Manabu Yoshida, Michio Murata, Kazuo Inaba, and Masaaki Morisawa Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14831–14836. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242470599.PMCID: PMC137504 Amino acids regulate the intracellular trafficking of the general amino acid permease of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Esther J. Chen and Chris A. Kaiser Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14837–14842. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232591899.PMCID: PMC137505 Nrdp1/FLRF is a ubiquitin ligase promoting ubiquitination and degradation of the epidermal growth factor receptor family member, ErbB3 Xiao-Bo Qiu and Alfred L. Goldberg Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14843–14848. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232580999.PMCID: PMC137506 Synthetic small inhibiting RNAs: Efficient tools to inactivate oncogenic mutations and restore p53 pathways Luis Alfonso Martinez, Irina Naguibneva, Heike Lehrmann, Arlette Vervisch, Thierry Tchénio, Guillermina Lozano, and Annick Harel-Bellan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14849–14854. Published online 2002 October 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222406899.PMCID: PMC137507 Developmental Biology Potentiation of serum response factor activity by a family of myocardin-related transcription factors Da-Zhi Wang, Shijie Li, Dirk Hockemeyer, Lillian Sutherland, Zhigao Wang, Gerhard Schratt, James A. Richardson, Alfred Nordheim, and Eric N. Olson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14855–14860. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222561499.PMCID: PMC137508 In vivo stabilization of the Dnmt1 (cytosine-5)- methyltransferase protein Feng Ding and J. Richard Chaillet Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14861–14866. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232565599.PMCID: PMC137509 Ecology Evidence of hybridity in invasive watermilfoil (Myriophyllum) populations Michael L. Moody and Donald H. Les Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14867–14871. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.172391499.PMCID: PMC137510 The inflationary effects of environmental fluctuations in source–sink systems Andrew Gonzalez and Robert D. Holt Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14872–14877. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232589299.PMCID: PMC137511 Evolution Dobzhansky–Muller incompatibilities in protein evolution Alexey S. Kondrashov, Shamil Sunyaev, and Fyodor A. Kondrashov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14878–14883. Published online 2002 October 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232565499.PMCID: PMC137512 Female investment is retarded pending reception of allosperm in a hermaphroditic colonial invertebrate Roger N. Hughes, Patricio H. Manríquez, and John D. D. Bishop Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14884–14886. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.162339699.PMCID: PMC137513 The evolution of fungus-growing termites and their mutualistic fungal symbionts Duur K. Aanen, Paul Eggleton, Corinne Rouland-Lefèvre, Tobias Guldberg-Frøslev, Søren Rosendahl, and Jacobus J. Boomsma Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14887–14892. Published online 2002 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222313099.PMCID: PMC137514 Origin of plant glycerol transporters by horizontal gene transfer and functional recruitment Rafael Zardoya, Xiaodong Ding, Yoshichika Kitagawa, and Maarten J. Chrispeels Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14893–14896. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192573799.PMCID: PMC137515 Uncoupling direct and indirect components of female choice in the wild Ryan Calsbeek and Barry Sinervo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14897–14902. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242645199.PMCID: PMC137516 Genetics Combining mapping and arraying: An approach to candidate gene identification M. L. Wayne and L. M. McIntyre Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14903–14906. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222549199.PMCID: PMC137517 Metabolic specialization associated with phenotypic switching in Candida albicans Chung-Yu Lan, George Newport, Luis A. Murillo, Ted Jones, Stewart Scherer, Ronald W. Davis, and Nina Agabian Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14907–14912. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232566499.PMCID: PMC137518 Coordinate regulation of energy transduction modules in Halobacterium sp. analyzed by a global systems approach Nitin S. Baliga, Min Pan, Young Ah Goo, Eugene C. Yi, David R. Goodlett, Krassen Dimitrov, Paul Shannon, Ruedi Aebersold, Wailap Victor Ng, and Leroy Hood Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14913–14918. Published online 2002 October 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192558999.PMCID: PMC137519 Production of maternal-zygotic mutant zebrafish by germ-line replacement Brian Ciruna, Gilbert Weidinger, Holger Knaut, Bernard Thisse, Christine Thisse, Erez Raz, and Alexander F. Schier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14919–14924. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222459999.PMCID: PMC137520 Expression profiling of CD34+ hematopoietic stem/ progenitor cells reveals distinct subtypes of therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia Zhijian Qian, Anthony A. Fernald, Lucy A. Godley, Richard A. Larson, and Michelle M. Le Beau Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14925–14930. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222491799.PMCID: PMC137521 Production of transgenic rats by lentiviral transduction of male germ-line stem cells F. Kent Hamra, Joel Gatlin, Karen M. Chapman, Dana M. Grellhesl, J. Victor Garcia, Robert E. Hammer, and David L. Garbers Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14931–14936. Published online 2002 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222561399.PMCID: PMC137522 Mbd4 inactivation increases C→T transition mutations and promotes gastrointestinal tumor formation Edmund Wong, Kan Yang, Mari Kuraguchi, Uwe Werling, Elena Avdievich, Kunhua Fan, Melissa Fazzari, Bo Jin, Anthony M. C. Brown, Martin Lipkin, and Winfried Edelmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14937–14942. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232579299.PMCID: PMC137523 Retroviral delivery of small interfering RNA into primary cells Gregory M. Barton and Ruslan Medzhitov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14943–14945. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242594499.PMCID: PMC137524 The Usher syndrome proteins cadherin 23 and harmonin form a complex by means of PDZ-domain interactions Jan Siemens, Piotr Kazmierczak, Anna Reynolds, Melanie Sticker, Amanda Littlewood-Evans, and Ulrich Müller Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14946–14951. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232579599.PMCID: PMC137525 The observed human sperm mutation frequency cannot explain the achondroplasia paternal age effect Irene Tiemann-Boege, William Navidi, Raji Grewal, Dan Cohn, Brenda Eskenazi, Andrew J. Wyrobek, and Norman Arnheim Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14952–14957. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232568699.PMCID: PMC137526 The Coprinus cinereus adherin Rad9 functions in Mre11-dependent DNA repair, meiotic sister-chromatid cohesion, and meiotic homolog pairing W. Jason Cummings, Sandra T. Merino, Kevin G. Young, Libo Li, Christopher W. Johnson, Elizabeth A. Sierra, and Miriam E. Zolan Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14958–14963. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232316999.PMCID: PMC137527 The phage λ CII transcriptional activator carries a C-terminal domain signaling for rapid proteolysis Oren Kobiler, Simi Koby, Dinah Teff, Donald Court, and Amos B. Oppenheim Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14964–14969. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222172499.PMCID: PMC137528 Repair of topoisomerase I covalent complexes in the absence of the tyrosyl-DNA phosphodiesterase Tdp1 Chunyan Liu, Jeffrey J. Pouliot, and Howard A. Nash Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14970–14975. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.182557199.PMCID: PMC137529 Biological models and genes of tumor reversion: Cellular reprogramming through tpt1/TCTP and SIAH-1 Marcel Tuynder, Laurent Susini, Sylvie Prieur, Stéphanie Besse, Giusy Fiucci, Robert Amson, and Adam Telerman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14976–14981. Published online 2002 October 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222470799.PMCID: PMC137530 Missense models [Gustm(E536A)Sly, Gustm(E536Q)Sly, and Gustm(L175F)Sly] of murine mucopolysaccharidosis type VII produced by targeted mutagenesis Shunji Tomatsu, Koji O. Orii, Carole Vogler, Jeffrey H. Grubb, Elizabeth M. Snella, Monica A. Gutierrez, Tatiana Dieter, Kazuko Sukegawa, Tadao Orii, Naomi Kondo, and William S. Sly Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14982–14987. Published online 2002 October 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232570999.PMCID: PMC137531 Transcriptional profiles associated with aging and middle age-onset caloric restriction in mouse hearts Cheol-Koo Lee, David B. Allison, Jaap Brand, Richard Weindruch, and Tomas A. Prolla Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14988–14993. Published online 2002 November 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232308999.PMCID: PMC137532 From the Cover: Mutations in Mcoln3 associated with deafness and pigmentation defects in varitint-waddler (Va) mice Federica Di Palma, Inna A. Belyantseva, Hung J. Kim, Thomas F. Vogt, Bechara Kachar, and Konrad Noben-Trauth Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 14994–14999. Published online 2002 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222425399.PMCID: PMC137533 Gene expression comparison of biopsies from Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) and normal skeletal muscle Judith N. Haslett, Despina Sanoudou, Alvin T. Kho, Richard R. Bennett, Steven A. Greenberg, Isaac S. Kohane, Alan H. Beggs, and Louis M. Kunkel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15000–15005. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192571199.PMCID: PMC137534 Immunology Human CD8+ T cells do not require the polarization of lipid rafts for activation and proliferation Birgit Kovacs, Marcela V. Maus, James L. Riley, Geo S. Derimanov, Gary A. Koretzky, Carl H. June, and Terri H. Finkel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15006–15011. Published online 2002 November 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232058599.PMCID: PMC137535 Presentation of antagonist peptides to naive CD4+ T cells abrogates spatial reorganization of class II MHC peptide complexes on the surface of dendritic cells Bartosz Chmielowski, Rafal Pacholczyk, Piotr Kraj, Pawel Kisielow, and Leszek Ignatowicz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15012–15017. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222463499.PMCID: PMC137536 Negative autoregulation of BCL-6 is bypassed by genetic alterations in diffuse large B cell lymphomas Xing Wang, Zhiping Li, Akira Naganuma, and B. Hilda Ye Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15018–15023. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232581199.PMCID: PMC137537 Quantifying signaling-induced reorientation of T cell receptors during immunological synapse formation William C. Moss, Darrell J. Irvine, Mark M. Davis, and Matthew F. Krummel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15024–15029. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192573999.PMCID: PMC137538 Identification of E2A target genes in B lymphocyte development by using a gene tagging-based chromatin immunoprecipitation system Stephen Greenbaum and Yuan Zhuang Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15030–15035. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232299999.PMCID: PMC137539 Medical Sciences Glycoprotein gp110 of Epstein–Barr virus determines viral tropism and efficiency of infection B. Neuhierl, R. Feederle, W. Hammerschmidt, and H. J. Delecluse Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15036–15041. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232381299.PMCID: PMC137540 Down-regulation of parkin protein in transient focal cerebral ischemia: A link between stroke and degenerative disease? Thorsten Mengesdorf, Poul H. Jensen, Günter Mies, Christoph Aufenberg, and Wulf Paschen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15042–15047. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232588799.PMCID: PMC137541 Effects of long-term treatment with the luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) agonist Decapeptyl and the LHRH antagonist Cetrorelix on the levels of pituitary LHRH receptors and their mRNA expression in rats Judit E. Horvath, Ana M. Bajo, Andrew V. Schally, Magdolna Kovacs, Francine Herbert, and Kate Groot Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15048–15053. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232579499.PMCID: PMC137542 Finding genetic contributions to sporadic disease: A recessive locus at 12q24 commonly contributes to patent ductus arteriosus Arya Mani, Seyed-Mahmoud Meraji, Roozbeh Houshyar, Jayaram Radhakrishnan, Alaleh Mani, Mehrabeh Ahangar, Tayebeh M. Rezaie, Mohammad-Ali Taghavinejad, Behrooz Broumand, Hongyu Zhao, Carol Nelson-Williams, and Richard P. Lifton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15054–15059. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192582999.PMCID: PMC137543 The lipid phosphatase myotubularin is essential for skeletal muscle maintenance but not for myogenesis in mice Anna Buj-Bello, Vincent Laugel, Nadia Messaddeq, Hala Zahreddine, Jocelyn Laporte, Jean-François Pellissier, and Jean-Louis Mandel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15060–15065. Published online 2002 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212498399.PMCID: PMC524320 Increased mitochondrial mass in mitochondrial myopathy mice Anna Wredenberg, Rolf Wibom, Hans Wilhelmsson, Caroline Graff, Heidi H. Wiener, Steven J. Burden, Anders Oldfors, Håkan Westerblad, and Nils-Göran Larsson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15066–15071. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232591499.PMCID: PMC137544 Proliferative action of mast-cell tryptase is mediated by PAR2, COX2, prostaglandins, and PPARγ: Possible relevance to human fibrotic disorders Mónica B. Frungieri, Stephan Weidinger, Viktor Meineke, Frank M. Köhn, and Artur Mayerhofer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15072–15077. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232422999.PMCID: PMC137545 Expression of human epileptic temporal lobe neurotransmitter receptors in Xenopus oocytes: An innovative approach to study epilepsy Eleonora Palma, Vincenzo Esposito, Anna Maria Mileo, Giancarlo Di Gennaro, Pierpaolo Quarato, Felice Giangaspero, Ciriaco Scoppetta, Paolo Onorati, Flavia Trettel, Ricardo Miledi, and Fabrizio Eusebi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15078–15083. Published online 2002 October 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232574499.PMCID: PMC137546 A previously undescribed chemical link between smoking and metabolic disease Tobin J. Dickerson and Kim D. Janda Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15084–15088. Published online 2002 October 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222561699.PMCID: PMC137547 Antiepileptic drugs and apoptotic neurodegeneration in the developing brain Petra Bittigau, Marco Sifringer, Kerstin Genz, Ellen Reith, Dana Pospischil, Suresh Govindarajalu, Mark Dzietko, Stefanie Pesditschek, Ingrid Mai, Krikor Dikranian, John W. Olney, and Chrysanthy Ikonomidou Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15089–15094. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222550499.PMCID: PMC137548 Multistage carcinogenesis and the incidence of colorectal cancer E. Georg Luebeck and Suresh H. Moolgavkar Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15095–15100. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222118199.PMCID: PMC137549 Site-specific translocation and evidence of postnatal origin of the t(1;19) E2A-PBX1 fusion in childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia Joseph L. Wiemels, Brian C. Leonard, Yunxia Wang, Mark R. Segal, Stephen P. Hunger, Martyn T. Smith, Vonda Crouse, Xiaomei Ma, Patricia A. Buffler, and Sharon R. Pine Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15101–15106. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222481199.PMCID: PMC137550 Microbiology East Asian genotypes of Helicobacter pylori strains in Amerindians provide evidence for its ancient human carriage Chandrabali Ghose, Guillermo I. Perez-Perez, Maria-Gloria Dominguez-Bello, David T. Pride, Claudio M. Bravi, and Martin J. Blaser Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15107–15111. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242574599.PMCID: PMC137551 Analysis of optimality in natural and perturbed metabolic networks Daniel Segrè, Dennis Vitkup, and George M. Church Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15112–15117. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232349399.PMCID: PMC137552 Replicating hepatitis delta virus RNA is edited in the nucleus by the small form of ADAR1 Swee Kee Wong and David W. Lazinski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15118–15123. Published online 2002 October 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232416799.PMCID: PMC137553 Engineered herpes simplex virus 1 is dependent on IL13Rα2 receptor for cell entry and independent of glycoprotein D receptor interaction Guoying Zhou, Guo-Jie Ye, Waldemar Debinski, and Bernard Roizman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15124–15129. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232588699.PMCID: PMC137554 Reactivation of a complex retrovirus is controlled by a molecular switch and is inhibited by a viral protein Christopher D. Meiering and Maxine L. Linial Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15130–15135. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.242491999.PMCID: PMC137555 Cag pathogenicity island-specific responses of gastric epithelial cells to Helicobacter pylori infection Karen Guillemin, Nina R. Salama, Lucy S. Tompkins, and Stanley Falkow Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15136–15141. Published online 2002 October 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.182558799.PMCID: PMC137556 Neuroscience Time-lapse imaging of a dynamic phosphorylation-dependent protein–protein interaction in mammalian cells James M. Spotts, Ricardo E. Dolmetsch, and Michael E. Greenberg Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15142–15147. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232565699.PMCID: PMC137557 Transneuronal tracing of diverse CNS circuits by Cre-mediated induction of wheat germ agglutinin in transgenic mice Joao M. Braz, Beatriz Rico, and Allan I. Basbaum Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15148–15153. Published online 2002 October 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222546999.PMCID: PMC137558 Neuroendocrine control of a sexually dimorphic behavior by a few neurons of the pars intercerebralis in Drosophila Yesser Hadj Belgacem and Jean-René Martin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15154–15158. Published online 2002 October 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232244199.PMCID: PMC137559 Motion perception of saccade-induced retinal translation Eric Castet, Sébastien Jeanjean, and Guillaume S. Masson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15159–15163. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232377199.PMCID: PMC137560 Shape perception reduces activity in human primary visual cortex Scott O. Murray, Daniel Kersten, Bruno A. Olshausen, Paul Schrater, and David L. Woods Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15164–15169. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.192579399.PMCID: PMC137561 Altered kinetics and benzodiazepine sensitivity of a GABAA receptor subunit mutation [γ2(R43Q)] found in human epilepsy David N. Bowser, David A. Wagner, Cynthia Czajkowski, Brett A. Cromer, Michael W. Parker, Robyn H. Wallace, Louise A. Harkin, John C. Mulley, Carla Marini, Samuel F. Berkovic, David A. Williams, Mathew V. Jones, and Steven Petrou Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15170–15175. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.212320199.PMCID: PMC137562 Spectral mixing of rhythmic neuronal signals in sensory cortex Kurt F. Ahrens, Herbert Levine, Harry Suhl, and David Kleinfeld Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15176–15181. Published online 2002 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222547199.PMCID: PMC137563 Laminar specificity of functional MRI onset times during somatosensory stimulation in rat Afonso C. Silva and Alan P. Koretsky Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15182–15187. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222561899.PMCID: PMC137564 Caspase activation and neuroprotection in caspase-3- deficient mice after in vivo cerebral ischemia and in vitro oxygen glucose deprivation Dean A. Le, Yongqin Wu, Zhihong Huang, Kohji Matsushita, Nikolaus Plesnila, Jean C. Augustinack, Bradley T. Hyman, Junying Yuan, Keisuke Kuida, Richard A. Flavell, and Michael A. Moskowitz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15188–15193. Published online 2002 November 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232473399.PMCID: PMC137565 RNA-binding protein Musashi family: Roles for CNS stem cells and a subpopulation of ependymal cells revealed by targeted disruption and antisense ablation Shin-ichi Sakakibara, Yuki Nakamura, Tetsu Yoshida, Shinsuke Shibata, Masato Koike, Hiroshi Takano, Shuichi Ueda, Yasuo Uchiyama, Tetsuo Noda, and Hideyuki Okano Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15194–15199. Published online 2002 October 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232087499.PMCID: PMC137566 Viable hypomorphic signaling mutant of the Met receptor reveals a role for hepatocyte growth factor in postnatal cerebellar development Alessandro Ieraci, Paolo E. Forni, and Carola Ponzetto Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15200–15205. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222362099.PMCID: PMC137567 Plant Biology From the Cover: A Lotus basic leucine zipper protein with a RING-finger motif negatively regulates the developmental program of nodulation Rieko Nishimura, Masayuki Ohmori, Hironori Fujita, and Masayoshi Kawaguchi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15206–15210. Published online 2002 October 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222302699.PMCID: PMC137568 Control of photoperiod-regulated tuberization in potato by the Arabidopsis flowering-time gene CONSTANS Jaime F. Martínez-García, Ariadna Virgós-Soler, and Salomé Prat Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15211–15216. Published online 2002 October 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.222390599.PMCID: PMC137569 Expression of the antiapoptotic baculovirus p35 gene in tomato blocks programmed cell death and provides broad-spectrum resistance to disease James E. Lincoln, Craig Richael, Bert Overduin, Kathy Smith, Richard Bostock, and David G. Gilchrist Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15217–15221. Published online 2002 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232579799.PMCID: PMC137570 PsbS-dependent enhancement of feedback de-excitation protects photosystem II from photoinhibition Xiao-Ping Li, Patricia Müller-Moulé, Adam M. Gilmore, and Krishna K. Niyogi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15222–15227. Published online 2002 November 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232447699.PMCID: PMC137571 From the Cover: A viral suppressor of RNA silencing differentially regulates the accumulation of short interfering RNAs and micro-RNAs in tobacco Allison C. Mallory, Brenda J. Reinhart, David Bartel, Vicki B. Vance, and Lewis H. Bowman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 November 12; 99(23): 15228–15233. Published online 2002 October 25. doi: 10.1073/pnas.232434999.PMCID: PMC137572 Population Biology Herpes viruses hedge their bets Michael P. H. Stumpf, Zoë Laidlaw, and Vincent A. A. 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