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Volume 100(17);  August 19, 2003
Commentaries
Sex peptide and the sperm effect in Drosophila melanogaster
Willie J. Swanson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9643–9644. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1834127100.
PMCID: PMC187794
Human speech and birdsong: Communication and the social brain
Patricia K. Kuhl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9645–9646. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733998100.
PMCID: PMC187796
The beauty in small things revealed
Donald A. Bryant
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9647–9649. Published online 2003 August 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1834558100.
PMCID: PMC187798
tRNA synthetase paralogs: Evolutionary links in the transition from tRNA-dependent amino acid biosynthesis to de novo biosynthesis
Christopher Francklyn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9650–9652. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1934245100.
PMCID: PMC187799
Neurodegenerative tauopathy in the worm
Michel Goedert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9653–9655. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1834191100.
PMCID: PMC187801
How the mouse got its stripes
Philip K. Maini
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9656–9657. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734061100.
PMCID: PMC187803
Perspective
Horizontal gene transfer: A critical view
C. G. Kurland, B. Canback, and Otto G. Berg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9658–9662. Published online 2003 August 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1632870100.
PMCID: PMC187805
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
Optimal design of a bistable switch
Michael P. Brenner, Jeffrey H. Lang, Jian Li, Jin Qiu, and Alexander H. Slocum
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9663–9667. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1531507100.
PMCID: PMC187806
Shrinkage-based similarity metric for cluster analysis of microarray data
Vera Cherepinsky, Jiawu Feng, Marc Rejali, and Bud Mishra
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9668–9673. Published online 2003 August 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633770100.
PMCID: PMC187810
Averaging and renormalization for the Korteveg–deVries–Burgers equation
Alexandre J. Chorin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9674–9679. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1334126100.
PMCID: PMC187814
Applied Physical Sciences
From the Cover:
Traveling stripes on the skin of a mutant mouse
Noboru Suzuki, Masashi Hirata, and Shigeru Kondo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9680–9685. Published online 2003 July 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1731184100.
PMCID: PMC187817
Chemistry
On the interactions between atmospheric radicals and cloud droplets: A molecular picture of the interface
Qicun Shi, Stephen D. Belair, Joseph S. Francisco, and Sabre Kais
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9686–9690. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733696100.
PMCID: PMC187820
Advantages of external periodic events to the evolution of biochemical oscillatory reactions
Masa Tsuchiya and John Ross
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9691–9695. Published online 2003 July 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633771100.
PMCID: PMC187823
Enhanced diffusion-edited NMR spectroscopy of mixtures using chromatographic stationary phases
Stéphane Viel, Fabio Ziarelli, and Stefano Caldarelli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9696–9698. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1533419100.
PMCID: PMC187826
Physics
Tuning and switching a DNA polymerase motor with mechanical tension
Anita Goel, R. Dean Astumian, and Dudley Herschbach
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9699–9704. Published online 2003 July 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1033134100.
PMCID: PMC187828
Coexistence of periodic modulation of quasiparticle states and superconductivity in Bi2Sr2CaCu2O8
C. Howald, H. Eisaki, N. Kaneko, and A. Kapitulnik
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9705–9709. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1233768100.
PMCID: PMC187829
Coarse-grained microscopic model of glass formers
Juan P. Garrahan and David Chandler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9710–9714. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1233719100.
PMCID: PMC187830
Statistics
Nonparametric regression to the mean
Hans-Georg Müller, Ian Abramson, and Rahman Azari
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9715–9720. Published online 2003 August 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733547100.
PMCID: PMC187831
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
Identification of a G protein-coupled receptor for pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide from pheromone glands of the moth Helicoverpa zea
Man-Yeon Choi, Emily-Jean Fuerst, Ada Rafaeli, and Russell Jurenka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9721–9726. Published online 2003 July 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1632485100.
PMCID: PMC187832
Biochemistry
Targeted gene evolution in Escherichia coli using a highly error-prone DNA polymerase I
Manel Camps, Jussi Naukkarinen, Ben P. Johnson, and Lawrence A. Loeb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9727–9732. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1333928100.
PMCID: PMC187833
Regulation of the murine renal vitamin D receptor by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 and calcium
Kevin D. Healy, Julia B. Zella, Jean M. Prahl, and Hector F. DeLuca
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9733–9737. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633774100.
PMCID: PMC187834
A modular, bifunctional RNA that integrates itself into a target RNA
Roshan M. Kumar and Gerald F. Joyce
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9738–9743. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1334190100.
PMCID: PMC187835
Defective mammary gland morphogenesis in mice lacking the progesterone receptor B isoform
Biserka Mulac-Jericevic, John P. Lydon, Francesco J. DeMayo, and Orla M. Conneely
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9744–9749. Published online 2003 August 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1732707100.
PMCID: PMC187836
Insights into the mode of inhibition of human mitochondrial monoamine oxidase B from high-resolution crystal structures
Claudia Binda, Min Li, Frantisek Hubálek, Nadia Restelli, Dale E. Edmondson, and Andrea Mattevi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9750–9755. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633804100.
PMCID: PMC187837
Protein grafting of an HIV-1-inhibiting epitope
Samuel K. Sia and Peter S. Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9756–9761. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733910100.
PMCID: PMC187838
Subcellular compartmentalization of human Nfu, an iron–sulfur cluster scaffold protein, and its ability to assemble a [4Fe–4S] cluster
Wing-Hang Tong, Guy N. L. Jameson, Boi Hanh Huynh, and Tracey A. Rouault
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9762–9767. Published online 2003 July 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1732541100.
PMCID: PMC187839
Characterization of myotubularin-related protein 7 and its binding partner, myotubularin-related protein 9
Yasuhiro Mochizuki and Philip W. Majerus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9768–9773. Published online 2003 July 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1333958100.
PMCID: PMC187840
Engineered biosynthesis of an ansamycin polyketide precursor in Escherichia coli
Kenji Watanabe, Mathew A. Rude, Christopher T. Walsh, and Chaitan Khosla
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9774–9778. Published online 2003 July 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1632167100.
PMCID: PMC187841
MicroRNAs and small interfering RNAs can inhibit mRNA expression by similar mechanisms
Yan Zeng, Rui Yi, and Bryan R. Cullen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9779–9784. Published online 2003 August 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1630797100.
PMCID: PMC187842
Glutathione synthetase homologs encode α-l-glutamate ligases for methanogenic coenzyme F420 and tetrahydrosarcinapterin biosyntheses
Hong Li, Huimin Xu, David E. Graham, and Robert H. White
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9785–9790. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733391100.
PMCID: PMC187843
Repression of Smad transcriptional activity by PIASy, an inhibitor of activated STAT
Jianyin Long, Isao Matsuura, Dongming He, Guannan Wang, Ke Shuai, and Fang Liu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9791–9796. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733973100.
PMCID: PMC187844
Determination of the protein composition of the occlusion-derived virus of Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus
S. C. Braunagel, W. K. Russell, G. Rosas-Acosta, D. H. Russell, and M. D. Summers
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9797–9802. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733972100.
PMCID: PMC187845
Replication-initiator protein (UL9) of the herpes simplex virus 1 binds NFB42 and is degraded via the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway
Chi-Yong Eom and I. Robert Lehman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9803–9807. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733876100.
PMCID: PMC187846
Molecular cloning and functional expression of the first two specific insect myosuppressin receptors
Kristoffer Egerod, Eyjólfur Reynisson, Frank Hauser, Giuseppe Cazzamali, Michael Williamson, and Cornelis J. P. Grimmelikhuijzen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9808–9813. Published online 2003 August 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1632197100.
PMCID: PMC188343
Biophysics
Tuning and switching a DNA polymerase motor with mechanical tension
Anita Goel, R. Dean Astumian, and Dudley Herschbach
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9699–9704. Published online 2003 July 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1033134100.
PMCID: PMC187828
Rapid amyloid fiber formation from the fast-folding WW domain FBP28
Neil Ferguson, John Berriman, Miriana Petrovich, Timothy D. Sharpe, John T. Finch, and Alan R. Fersht
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9814–9819. Published online 2003 August 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1333907100.
PMCID: PMC187847
Single-molecule study of DNA unlinking by eukaryotic and prokaryotic type-II topoisomerases
G. Charvin, D. Bensimon, and V. Croquette
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9820–9825. Published online 2003 August 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1631550100.
PMCID: PMC187850
Ordering of water molecules between phospholipid bilayers visualized by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy
Ji-Xin Cheng, Sophie Pautot, David A. Weitz, and X. Sunney Xie
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9826–9830. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1732202100.
PMCID: PMC187854
Dissociation of amyloid fibrils of α-synuclein and transthyretin by pressure reveals their reversible nature and the formation of water-excluded cavities
Débora Foguel, Marisa C. Suarez, Astria D. Ferrão-Gonzales, Thais C. R. Porto, Leonardo Palmieri, Carla M. Einsiedler, Leonardo R. Andrade, Hilal A. Lashuel, Peter T. Lansbury, Jeffery W. Kelly, and Jerson L. Silva
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9831–9836. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734009100.
PMCID: PMC187855
Cell Biology
From the Cover:
When contemporary aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases invent their cognate amino acid metabolism
Hervé Roy, Hubert Dominique Becker, Joseph Reinbolt, and Daniel Kern
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9837–9842. Published online 2003 July 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1632156100.
PMCID: PMC187858
Morphogenesis of the telencephalic commissure requires scaffold protein JNK-interacting protein 3 (JIP3)
Nyaya Kelkar, Marie-Helene Delmotte, Claire R. Weston, Tamera Barrett, Barbara J. Sheppard, Richard A. Flavell, and Roger J. Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9843–9848. Published online 2003 August 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733944100.
PMCID: PMC187860
Nuclear import of hepatitis B virus capsids and release of the viral genome
Birgit Rabe, Angelika Vlachou, Nelly Panté, Ari Helenius, and Michael Kann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9849–9854. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1730940100.
PMCID: PMC187862
Targeted disruption of p185/Cul7 gene results in abnormal vascular morphogenesis
Takehiro Arai, Jocelyn S. Kasper, Jeffrey R. Skaar, Syed Hamid Ali, Chiaki Takahashi, and James A. DeCaprio
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9855–9860. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733908100.
PMCID: PMC187864
A high-molecular-weight complex of membrane proteins BAP29/BAP31 is involved in the retention of membrane-bound IgD in the endoplasmic reticulum
Wolfgang W. A. Schamel, Stephan Kuppig, Bernd Becker, Kerstin Gimborn, Hans-Peter Hauri, and Michael Reth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9861–9866. Published online 2003 July 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633363100.
PMCID: PMC187866
The phosphatidylinositol (PI)-5-phosphate 4-kinase type II enzyme controls insulin signaling by regulating PI-3,4,5-trisphosphate degradation
Valerie Carricaburu, Katja A. Lamia, Elizabeth Lo, Laetitia Favereaux, Bernard Payrastre, Lewis C. Cantley, and Lucia E. Rameh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9867–9872. Published online 2003 August 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734038100.
PMCID: PMC187868
A SNARE required for retrograde transport to the endoplasmic reticulum
Lena Burri, Oleg Varlamov, Claudia A. Doege, Kay Hofmann, Traude Beilharz, James E. Rothman, Thomas H. Söllner, and Trevor Lithgow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9873–9877. Published online 2003 July 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734000100.
PMCID: PMC187870
Developmental Biology
Long-range enhancer–promoter interactions in the Scr-Antp interval of the Drosophila Antennapedia complex
Vincent C. Calhoun and Michael Levine
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9878–9883. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1233791100.
PMCID: PMC187872
Ecology
Predator diversity hotspots in the blue ocean
Boris Worm, Heike K. Lotze, and Ransom A. Myers
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9884–9888. Published online 2003 August 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1333941100.
PMCID: PMC187874
Rapid loss of genetically based resistance to metals after the cleanup of a Superfund site
Jeffrey S. Levinton, E. Suatoni, William Wallace, Ruth Junkins, Brendan Kelaher, and Bengt J. Allen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9889–9891. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1731446100.
PMCID: PMC187876
Plants reverse warming effect on ecosystem water balance
Erika S. Zavaleta, Brian D. Thomas, Nona R. Chiariello, Gregory P. Asner, M. Rebecca Shaw, and Christopher B. Field
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9892–9893. Published online 2003 August 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1732012100.
PMCID: PMC187878
Evolution
Rapid evolution of male-biased gene expression in Drosophila
Colin D. Meiklejohn, John Parsch, José M. Ranz, and Daniel L. Hartl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9894–9899. Published online 2003 August 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1630690100.
PMCID: PMC188344
Genetics
Minimal haplotype tagging
Paola Sebastiani, Ross Lazarus, Scott T. Weiss, Louis M. Kunkel, Isaac S. Kohane, and Marco F. Ramoni
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9900–9905. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633613100.
PMCID: PMC187880
ELG1, a yeast gene required for genome stability, forms a complex related to replication factor C
Shay Ben-Aroya, Amnon Koren, Batia Liefshitz, Rivka Steinlauf, and Martin Kupiec
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9906–9911. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633757100.
PMCID: PMC187881
Comparative genomics of bacterial zinc regulons: Enhanced ion transport, pathogenesis, and rearrangement of ribosomal proteins
Ekaterina M. Panina, Andrey A. Mironov, and Mikhail S. Gelfand
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9912–9917. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733691100.
PMCID: PMC187884
A large-scale, gene-driven mutagenesis approach for the functional analysis of the mouse genome
Jens Hansen, Thomas Floss, Petra Van Sloun, Ernst-Martin Füchtbauer, Franz Vauti, Hans-Hennig Arnold, Frank Schnütgen, Wolfgang Wurst, Harald von Melchner, and Patricia Ruiz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9918–9922. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633296100.
PMCID: PMC187885
From the Cover:
The sex peptide of Drosophila melanogaster: Female post-mating responses analyzed by using RNA interference
Tracey Chapman, Jenny Bangham, Giovanna Vinti, Beth Seifried, Oliver Lung, Mariana F. Wolfner, Hazel K. Smith, and Linda Partridge
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9923–9928. Published online 2003 July 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1631635100.
PMCID: PMC187888
From the Cover:
Sex-peptide is the molecular basis of the sperm effect in Drosophila melanogaster
Huanfa Liu and Eric Kubli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9929–9933. Published online 2003 August 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1631700100.
PMCID: PMC187889
Functional mutants of the sequence-specific transcription factor p53 and implications for master genes of diversity
Michael A. Resnick and Alberto Inga
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9934–9939. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633803100.
PMCID: PMC187891
High concentrations of long interspersed nuclear element sequence distinguish monoallelically expressed genes
Elena Allen, Steve Horvath, Frances Tong, Peter Kraft, Elizabeth Spiteri, Arthur D. Riggs, and York Marahrens
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9940–9945. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1737401100.
PMCID: PMC187893
Immunology
Proteasome inhibitors disrupt the unfolded protein response in myeloma cells
Ann-Hwee Lee, Neal N. Iwakoshi, Kenneth C. Anderson, and Laurie H. Glimcher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9946–9951. Published online 2003 August 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1334037100.
PMCID: PMC187896
Identification of Plasmodium falciparum antigens by antigenic analysis of genomic and proteomic data
Denise L. Doolan, Scott Southwood, Daniel A. Freilich, John Sidney, Norma L. Graber, Lori Shatney, Lolita Bebris, Laurence Florens, Carlota Dobano, Adam A. Witney, Ettore Appella, Stephen L. Hoffman, John R. Yates, III, Daniel J. Carucci, and Alessandro Sette
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9952–9957. Published online 2003 July 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633254100.
PMCID: PMC187898
Medical Sciences
Nestin expression in hair follicle sheath progenitor cells
Lingna Li, John Mignone, Meng Yang, Maja Matic, Sheldon Penman, Grigori Enikolopov, and Robert M. Hoffman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9958–9961. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733025100.
PMCID: PMC187900
Chronic hepatitis associated with GB virus B persistence in a tamarin after intrahepatic inoculation of synthetic viral RNA
Annette Martin, Francis Bodola, David V. Sangar, Kathryn Goettge, Vsevolod Popov, Rene Rijnbrand, Robert E. Lanford, and Stanley M. Lemon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9962–9967. Published online 2003 August 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1731505100.
PMCID: PMC187902
The 15-lipoxygenase-1 product 13-S-hydroxyoctadecadienoic acid down-regulates PPAR-δ to induce apoptosis in colorectal cancer cells
Imad Shureiqi, Wei Jiang, Xiangsheng Zuo, Yuanqing Wu, Julie B. Stimmel, Lisa M. Leesnitzer, Jeffrey S. Morris, Hui-Zhen Fan, Susan M. Fischer, and Scott M. Lippman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9968–9973. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1631086100.
PMCID: PMC187904
Defective double-strand DNA break repair and chromosomal translocations by MYC overexpression
Asa Karlsson, Debabrita Deb-Basu, Athena Cherry, Stephanie Turner, James Ford, and Dean W. Felsher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9974–9979. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1732638100.
PMCID: PMC187906
From the Cover:
Neurodegeneration and defective neurotransmission in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of tauopathy
Brian C. Kraemer, Bin Zhang, James B. Leverenz, James H. Thomas, John Q. Trojanowski, and Gerard D. Schellenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9980–9985. Published online 2003 July 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1533448100.
PMCID: PMC187908
Disruption of type 5 adenylyl cyclase gene preserves cardiac function against pressure overload
Satoshi Okumura, Gen Takagi, Jun-ichi Kawabe, Guiping Yang, Ming-Chih Lee, Chull Hong, Jing Liu, Dorothy E. Vatner, Junichi Sadoshima, Stephen F. Vatner, and Yoshihiro Ishikawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9986–9990. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733772100.
PMCID: PMC187910
A gene expression-based method to diagnose clinically distinct subgroups of diffuse large B cell lymphoma
George Wright, Bruce Tan, Andreas Rosenwald, Elaine H. Hurt, Adrian Wiestner, and Louis M. Staudt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9991–9996. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1732008100.
PMCID: PMC187912
Malaria in Britain: Past, present, and future
Katrin Gaardbo Kuhn, Diarmid H. Campbell-Lendrum, Ben Armstrong, and Clive R. Davies
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 9997–10001. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1233687100.
PMCID: PMC188345
Expression of BCR/ABL and BCL-2 in myeloid progenitors leads to myeloid leukemias
Siddhartha Jaiswal, David Traver, Toshihiro Miyamoto, Koichi Akashi, Eric Lagasse, and Irving L. Weissman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10002–10007. Published online 2003 July 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633833100.
PMCID: PMC187741
A nuclear target for interleukin-1α: Interaction with the growth suppressor necdin modulates proliferation and collagen expression
Bo Hu, Shuhui Wang, Yingze Zhang, Carol A. Feghali, Jeffrey R. Dingman, and Timothy M. Wright
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10008–10013. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1737765100.
PMCID: PMC187743
Early resistance to cell death and to onset of the mitochondrial permeability transition during hepatocarcinogenesis with 2-acetylaminofluorene
Peter-Christian Klöhn, Maria Eugenia Soriano, William Irwin, Daniele Penzo, Luca Scorrano, Annette Bitsch, Hans-Günter Neumann, and Paolo Bernardi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10014–10019. Published online 2003 August 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633614100.
PMCID: PMC187745
Microbiology
From the Cover:
Genome sequence of the cyanobacterium Prochlorococcus marinus SS120, a nearly minimal oxyphototrophic genome
Alexis Dufresne, Marcel Salanoubat, Frédéric Partensky, François Artiguenave, Ilka M. Axmann, Valérie Barbe, Simone Duprat, Michael Y. Galperin, Eugene V. Koonin, Florence Le Gall, Kira S. Makarova, Martin Ostrowski, Sophie Oztas, Catherine Robert, Igor B. Rogozin, David J. Scanlan, Nicole Tandeau de Marsac, Jean Weissenbach, Patrick Wincker, Yuri I. Wolf, and Wolfgang R. Hess
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10020–10025. Published online 2003 August 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733211100.
PMCID: PMC187748
The role of RelMtb-mediated adaptation to stationary phase in long-term persistence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in mice
John L. Dahl, Carl N. Kraus, Helena I. M. Boshoff, Bernard Doan, Korrie Foley, David Avarbock, Gilla Kaplan, Valerie Mizrahi, Harvey Rubin, and Clifton E. Barry, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10026–10031. Published online 2003 August 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1631248100.
PMCID: PMC187750
Neuroscience
Caspase cleavage of tau: Linking amyloid and neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease
T. Chris Gamblin, Feng Chen, Angara Zambrano, Aida Abraha, Sarita Lagalwar, Angela L. Guillozet, Meiling Lu, Yifan Fu, Francisco Garcia-Sierra, Nichole LaPointe, Richard Miller, Robert W. Berry, Lester I. Binder, and Vincent L. Cryns
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10032–10037. Published online 2003 July 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1630428100.
PMCID: PMC187753
Separating pitch chroma and pitch height in the human brain
J. D. Warren, S. Uppenkamp, R. D. Patterson, and T. D. Griffiths
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10038–10042. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1730682100.
PMCID: PMC187755
Atypical expansion in mice of the sensory neuron-specific Mrg G protein-coupled receptor family
Mark J. Zylka, Xinzhong Dong, Amber L. Southwell, and David J. Anderson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10043–10048. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1732949100.
PMCID: PMC187757
A morphometric analysis of auditory brain regions in congenitally deaf adults
Karen Emmorey, John S. Allen, Joel Bruss, Natalie Schenker, and Hanna Damasio
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10049–10054. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1730169100.
PMCID: PMC187761
Developmental amnesia: Effect of age at injury
F. Vargha-Khadem, C. H. Salmond, K. E. Watkins, K. J. Friston, D. G. Gadian, and M. Mishkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10055–10060. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1233756100.
PMCID: PMC187763
β1 subunits facilitate gating of BK channels by acting through the Ca2+, but not the Mg2+, activating mechanisms
Xiang Qian and Karl L. Magleby
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10061–10066. Published online 2003 July 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1731650100.
PMCID: PMC187764
Pharmacology
Selective thyroid hormone receptor-β activation: A strategy for reduction of weight, cholesterol, and lipoprotein (a) with reduced cardiovascular liability
Gary J. Grover, Karin Mellström, Liu Ye, Johan Malm, Yi-Lin Li, Lars-Göran Bladh, Paul G. Sleph, Mark A. Smith, Rocco George, Björn Vennström, Kasim Mookhtiar, Ryan Horvath, Jessica Speelman, Donald Egan, and John D. Baxter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10067–10072. Published online 2003 July 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633737100.
PMCID: PMC187768
Physiology
Induction of sensory long-term facilitation in the carotid body by intermittent hypoxia: Implications for recurrent apneas
Ying-Jie Peng, Jeffrey L. Overholt, David Kline, Ganesh K. Kumar, and Nanduri R. Prabhakar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10073–10078. Published online 2003 August 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734109100.
PMCID: PMC187770
Four functionally distinct C-type natriuretic peptides found in fish reveal evolutionary history of the natriuretic peptide system
Koji Inoue, Kiyoshi Naruse, Sayaka Yamagami, Hiroshi Mitani, Norio Suzuki, and Yoshio Takei
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10079–10084. Published online 2003 July 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1632368100.
PMCID: PMC187772
Melanin-concentrating hormone is a critical mediator of the leptin-deficient phenotype
Gabriella Segal-Lieberman, Richard L. Bradley, Efi Kokkotou, Michael Carlson, Daniel J. Trombly, Xiaomei Wang, Sarah Bates, Martin G. Myers, Jr., Jeffrey S. Flier, and Eleftheria Maratos-Flier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10085–10090. Published online 2003 August 1. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633636100.
PMCID: PMC187774
Plant Biology
Inositol hexakisphosphate mobilizes an endomembrane store of calcium in guard cells
Fouad Lemtiri-Chlieh, Enid A. C. MacRobbie, Alex A. R. Webb, Nick F. Manison, Colin Brownlee, Jeremy N. Skepper, Jian Chen, Glenn D. Prestwich, and Charles A. Brearley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10091–10095. Published online 2003 August 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1133289100.
PMCID: PMC187775
Polar auxin transport in the wood-forming tissues of hybrid aspen is under simultaneous control of developmental and environmental signals
J. Schrader, K. Baba, S. T. May, K. Palme, M. Bennett, R. P. Bhalerao, and G. Sandberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10096–10101. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1633693100.
PMCID: PMC187777
Attenuation of FLOWERING LOCUS C activity as a mechanism for the evolution of summer-annual flowering behavior in Arabidopsis
Scott D. Michaels, Yuehui He, Katia C. Scortecci, and Richard M. Amasino
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10102–10107. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1531467100.
PMCID: PMC187779
The VirD2 pilot protein of Agrobacterium-transferred DNA interacts with the TATA box-binding protein and a nuclear protein kinase in plants
László Bakó, Masaaki Umeda, Antonio F. Tiburcio, Jeff Schell, and Csaba Koncz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10108–10113. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733208100.
PMCID: PMC187781
Generation of systemin signaling in tobacco by transformation with the tomato systemin receptor kinase gene
Justin M. Scheer, Gregory Pearce, and Clarence A. Ryan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10114–10117. Published online 2003 August 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1432910100.
PMCID: PMC187783
Long-distance root-to-shoot transport of phytochelatins and cadmium in Arabidopsis
Ji-Ming Gong, David A. Lee, and Julian I. Schroeder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10118–10123. Published online 2003 August 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734072100.
PMCID: PMC187785
The crystal structure of polygalacturonase-inhibiting protein (PGIP), a leucine-rich repeat protein involved in plant defense
A. Di Matteo, L. Federici, B. Mattei, G. Salvi, K. A. Johnson, C. Savino, G. De Lorenzo, D. Tsernoglou, and F. Cervone
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10124–10128. Published online 2003 August 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1733690100.
PMCID: PMC187787
Population Biology
Modeling the optimum duration of antibiotic prophylaxis in an anthrax outbreak
Ron Brookmeyer, Elizabeth Johnson, and Robert Bollinger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10129–10132. Published online 2003 July 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1631983100.
PMCID: PMC187789
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10133. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734099100.
PMCID: PMC187790
Corrects: Camilo J. Cela-Conde, et al. Genera of the human lineage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 June 24; 100(13): 7684–7689.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10134. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1833959100.
PMCID: PMC187792
Corrects: A. M. Ghoumari, et al. Mifepristone (RU486) protects Purkinje cells from cell death in organotypic slice cultures of postnatal rat and mouse cerebellum. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 June 24; 100(13): 7953–7958.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 August 19; 100(17): 10135. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1734047100.
PMCID: PMC187793
Corrects: Hajime Kubo, et al. Blockade of vascular endothelial growth factor receptor-3 signaling inhibits fibroblast growth factor-2-induced lymphangiogenesis in mouse cornea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2002 June 25; 99(13): 8868–8873.
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