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Volume 102(19);  May 10, 2005
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This Week in PNAS
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6637–6638. doi: 10.1073/iti1905102.
PMCID: PMC1100804
Introduction
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Chemical theory and computation
Bruce J. Berne
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6647. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503208102.
PMCID: PMC1100803
Commentary
Remarkable diversity of mammalian pheromone receptor repertoires
Ivan Rodriguez
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6639–6640. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502318102.
PMCID: PMC1100792
Perspective
Proof of physical exchange of genes on the chromosomes
Edward Coe and Lee B. Kass
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6641–6646. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407340102.
PMCID: PMC1100733
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature
Perspective
Ab initio quantum chemistry: Methodology and applications
Richard A. Friesner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6648–6653. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408036102.
PMCID: PMC1100737
Ab initio molecular dynamics: Concepts, recent developments, and future trends
Radu Iftimie, Peter Minary, and Mark E. Tuckerman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6654–6659. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500193102.
PMCID: PMC1100773
Quantum dynamics of complex molecular systems
William H. Miller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6660–6664. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408043102.
PMCID: PMC1100740
Potential energy functions for atomic-level simulations of water and organic and biomolecular systems
William L. Jorgensen and Julian Tirado-Rives
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6665–6670. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408037102.
PMCID: PMC1100738
Materials by numbers: Computations as tools of discovery
Uzi Landman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6671–6678. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408038102.
PMCID: PMC1100739
Molecular dynamics and protein function
M. Karplus and J. Kuriyan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6679–6685. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408930102.
PMCID: PMC1100762
Molecular dynamics studies of heterogeneous dynamics and dynamic crossover in supercooled atomic liquids
Hans C. Andersen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6686–6691. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500946102.
PMCID: PMC1100779
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Auxiliary basis expansions for large-scale electronic structure calculations
Yousung Jung, Alex Sodt, Peter M. W. Gill, and Martin Head-Gordon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6692–6697. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408475102.
PMCID: PMC1100752
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: (G–H)–C and G–(C–H) radicals derived from the guanine·cytosine base pair cause DNA subunit lesions
Partha Pratim Bera and Henry F. Schaefer, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6698–6703. Published online 2005 April 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408644102.
PMCID: PMC1100756
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Ab initio molecular dynamics and quasichemical study of H+(aq)
D. Asthagiri, L. R. Pratt, and J. D. Kress
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6704–6708. Published online 2005 April 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408071102.
PMCID: PMC1100742
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Static and dynamic quantum effects in molecular liquids: A linearized path integral description of water
Jens Aage Poulsen, Gunnar Nyman, and Peter J. Rossky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6709–6714. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408647102.
PMCID: PMC1100757
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Linearized path integral approach for calculating nonadiabatic time correlation functions
Sara Bonella, Daniel Montemayor, and David F. Coker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6715–6719. Published online 2005 April 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408326102.
PMCID: PMC1100750
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Quantum corrections in vibrational and electronic condensed phase spectroscopy: Line shapes and echoes
C. P. Lawrence and J. L. Skinner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6720–6725. Published online 2005 April 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408813102.
PMCID: PMC1100759
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Vibrational energy relaxation in proteins
Hiroshi Fujisaki and John E. Straub
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6726–6731. Published online 2005 March 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409083102.
PMCID: PMC1100765
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Reaction coordinates and rates from transition paths
Robert B. Best and Gerhard Hummer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6732–6737. Published online 2005 April 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408098102.
PMCID: PMC1100744
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Finding transition states for crystalline solid–solid phase transformations
Kyle J. Caspersen and Emily A. Carter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6738–6743. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408127102.
PMCID: PMC1100746
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Quantum mechanical reaction rate constants by vibrational configuration interaction: The OH + H2→H2O + H reaction as a function of temperature
Arindam Chakraborty and Donald G. Truhlar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6744–6749. Published online 2005 March 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408048102.
PMCID: PMC1100741
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Free energies of ligand binding for structurally diverse compounds
Chris Oostenbrink and Wilfred F. van Gunsteren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6750–6754. Published online 2005 March 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407404102.
PMCID: PMC1100734
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Perspective on the reactions between F and CH3CH2F: The free energy landscape of the E2 and SN2 reaction channels
Bernd Ensing and Michael L. Klein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6755–6759. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408094102.
PMCID: PMC1100743
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Comparative study of generalized Born models: Protein dynamics
Hao Fan, Alan E. Mark, Jiang Zhu, and Barry Honig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6760–6764. Published online 2005 April 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408857102.
PMCID: PMC1100760
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Simulations of the pressure and temperature unfolding of an α-helical peptide
Dietmar Paschek, S. Gnanakaran, and Angel E. Garcia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6765–6770. Published online 2005 March 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408527102.
PMCID: PMC1100754
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Interfacial folding and membrane insertion of designed peptides studied by molecular dynamics simulations
Wonpil Im and Charles L. Brooks, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6771–6776. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408135102.
PMCID: PMC1100747
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Nonpolar solutes enhance water structure within hydration shells while reducing interactions between them
Tanya M. Raschke and Michael Levitt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6777–6782. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500225102.
PMCID: PMC1100774
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Structural dynamics of the lac repressor–DNA complex revealed by a multiscale simulation
Elizabeth Villa, Alexander Balaeff, and Klaus Schulten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6783–6788. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409387102.
PMCID: PMC1100768
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Mechanical unfolding of RNA hairpins
Changbong Hyeon and D. Thirumalai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6789–6794. Published online 2005 March 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408314102.
PMCID: PMC1100749
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Computer simulation of explicit proton translocation in cytochrome c oxidase: The D-pathway
Jiancong Xu and Gregory A. Voth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6795–6800. Published online 2005 April 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408117102.
PMCID: PMC1100745
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Protein folding pathways from replica exchange simulations and a kinetic network model
Michael Andrec, Anthony K. Felts, Emilio Gallicchio, and Ronald M. Levy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6801–6806. Published online 2005 March 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408970102.
PMCID: PMC1100763
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Impact of distal mutations on the network of coupled motions correlated to hydride transfer in dihydrofolate reductase
Kim F. Wong, Tzvia Selzer, Stephen J. Benkovic, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6807–6812. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408343102.
PMCID: PMC1100751
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: A gating mechanism proposed from a simulation of a human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
Richard J. Law, Richard H. Henchman, and J. Andrew McCammon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6813–6818. Published online 2005 April 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407739102.
PMCID: PMC1100735
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Computer simulations of protein functions: Searching for the molecular origin of the replication fidelity of DNA polymerases
Jan Florián, Myron F. Goodman, and Arieh Warshel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6819–6824. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408173102.
PMCID: PMC1100748
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Calculation of absolute protein–ligand binding free energy from computer simulations
Hyung-June Woo and Benoît Roux
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6825–6830. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409005102.
PMCID: PMC1100764
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Auxiliary basis expansions for large-scale electronic structure calculations
Yousung Jung, Alex Sodt, Peter M. W. Gill, and Martin Head-Gordon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6692–6697. Published online 2005 April 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408475102.
PMCID: PMC1100752
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: (G–H)–C and G–(C–H) radicals derived from the guanine·cytosine base pair cause DNA subunit lesions
Partha Pratim Bera and Henry F. Schaefer, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6698–6703. Published online 2005 April 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408644102.
PMCID: PMC1100756
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Ab initio molecular dynamics and quasichemical study of H+(aq)
D. Asthagiri, L. R. Pratt, and J. D. Kress
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6704–6708. Published online 2005 April 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408071102.
PMCID: PMC1100742
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Static and dynamic quantum effects in molecular liquids: A linearized path integral description of water
Jens Aage Poulsen, Gunnar Nyman, and Peter J. Rossky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6709–6714. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408647102.
PMCID: PMC1100757
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Linearized path integral approach for calculating nonadiabatic time correlation functions
Sara Bonella, Daniel Montemayor, and David F. Coker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6715–6719. Published online 2005 April 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408326102.
PMCID: PMC1100750
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Quantum corrections in vibrational and electronic condensed phase spectroscopy: Line shapes and echoes
C. P. Lawrence and J. L. Skinner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6720–6725. Published online 2005 April 22. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408813102.
PMCID: PMC1100759
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Reaction coordinates and rates from transition paths
Robert B. Best and Gerhard Hummer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6732–6737. Published online 2005 April 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408098102.
PMCID: PMC1100744
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Finding transition states for crystalline solid–solid phase transformations
Kyle J. Caspersen and Emily A. Carter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6738–6743. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408127102.
PMCID: PMC1100746
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Quantum mechanical reaction rate constants by vibrational configuration interaction: The OH + H2→H2O + H reaction as a function of temperature
Arindam Chakraborty and Donald G. Truhlar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6744–6749. Published online 2005 March 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408048102.
PMCID: PMC1100741
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Free energies of ligand binding for structurally diverse compounds
Chris Oostenbrink and Wilfred F. van Gunsteren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6750–6754. Published online 2005 March 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407404102.
PMCID: PMC1100734
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Perspective on the reactions between F and CH3CH2F: The free energy landscape of the E2 and SN2 reaction channels
Bernd Ensing and Michael L. Klein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6755–6759. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408094102.
PMCID: PMC1100743
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Comparative study of generalized Born models: Protein dynamics
Hao Fan, Alan E. Mark, Jiang Zhu, and Barry Honig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6760–6764. Published online 2005 April 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408857102.
PMCID: PMC1100760
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Simulations of the pressure and temperature unfolding of an α-helical peptide
Dietmar Paschek, S. Gnanakaran, and Angel E. Garcia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6765–6770. Published online 2005 March 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408527102.
PMCID: PMC1100754
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Interfacial folding and membrane insertion of designed peptides studied by molecular dynamics simulations
Wonpil Im and Charles L. Brooks, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6771–6776. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408135102.
PMCID: PMC1100747
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Nonpolar solutes enhance water structure within hydration shells while reducing interactions between them
Tanya M. Raschke and Michael Levitt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6777–6782. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500225102.
PMCID: PMC1100774
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Structural dynamics of the lac repressor–DNA complex revealed by a multiscale simulation
Elizabeth Villa, Alexander Balaeff, and Klaus Schulten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6783–6788. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409387102.
PMCID: PMC1100768
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Mechanical unfolding of RNA hairpins
Changbong Hyeon and D. Thirumalai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6789–6794. Published online 2005 March 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408314102.
PMCID: PMC1100749
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Computer simulation of explicit proton translocation in cytochrome c oxidase: The D-pathway
Jiancong Xu and Gregory A. Voth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6795–6800. Published online 2005 April 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408117102.
PMCID: PMC1100745
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Protein folding pathways from replica exchange simulations and a kinetic network model
Michael Andrec, Anthony K. Felts, Emilio Gallicchio, and Ronald M. Levy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6801–6806. Published online 2005 March 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408970102.
PMCID: PMC1100763
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Impact of distal mutations on the network of coupled motions correlated to hydride transfer in dihydrofolate reductase
Kim F. Wong, Tzvia Selzer, Stephen J. Benkovic, and Sharon Hammes-Schiffer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6807–6812. Published online 2005 April 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408343102.
PMCID: PMC1100751
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: A gating mechanism proposed from a simulation of a human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
Richard J. Law, Richard H. Henchman, and J. Andrew McCammon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6813–6818. Published online 2005 April 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407739102.
PMCID: PMC1100735
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Computer simulations of protein functions: Searching for the molecular origin of the replication fidelity of DNA polymerases
Jan Florián, Myron F. Goodman, and Arieh Warshel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6819–6824. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408173102.
PMCID: PMC1100748
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Calculation of absolute protein–ligand binding free energy from computer simulations
Hyung-June Woo and Benoît Roux
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6825–6830. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409005102.
PMCID: PMC1100764
Calix[6]tren and copper(II): A third generation of funnel complexes on the way to redox calix-zymes
Guillaume Izzet, Bénédicte Douziech, Thierry Prangé, Alain Tomas, Ivan Jabin, Yves Le Mest, and Olivia Reinaud
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6831–6836. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500240102.
PMCID: PMC1100775
Computer Sciences
Spatiotemporal maturation patterns of murine brain quantified by diffusion tensor MRI and deformation-based morphometry
Ragini Verma, Susumu Mori, Dinggang Shen, Paul Yarowsky, Jiangyang Zhang, and Christos Davatzikos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6978–6983. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407828102.
PMCID: PMC1100736
Mathematics
Lower bounds for moments of L-functions
Z. Rudnick and K. Soundararajan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6837–6838. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501723102.
PMCID: PMC1100781
Physics
Origin of the long-range attraction between surfactant-coated surfaces
Emily E. Meyer, Qi Lin, Tue Hassenkam, Emin Oroudjev, and Jacob N. Israelachvili
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6839–6842. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502110102.
PMCID: PMC1100788
Biological Sciences
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Comparative study of generalized Born models: Protein dynamics
Hao Fan, Alan E. Mark, Jiang Zhu, and Barry Honig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6760–6764. Published online 2005 April 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408857102.
PMCID: PMC1100760
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Simulations of the pressure and temperature unfolding of an α-helical peptide
Dietmar Paschek, S. Gnanakaran, and Angel E. Garcia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6765–6770. Published online 2005 March 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408527102.
PMCID: PMC1100754
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Structural dynamics of the lac repressor–DNA complex revealed by a multiscale simulation
Elizabeth Villa, Alexander Balaeff, and Klaus Schulten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6783–6788. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409387102.
PMCID: PMC1100768
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Protein folding pathways from replica exchange simulations and a kinetic network model
Michael Andrec, Anthony K. Felts, Emilio Gallicchio, and Ronald M. Levy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6801–6806. Published online 2005 March 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408970102.
PMCID: PMC1100763
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: A gating mechanism proposed from a simulation of a human α7 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
Richard J. Law, Richard H. Henchman, and J. Andrew McCammon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6813–6818. Published online 2005 April 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407739102.
PMCID: PMC1100735
Applied Biological Sciences
Interleukin-6 regulates the zinc transporter Zip14 in liver and contributes to the hypozincemia of the acute-phase response
Juan P. Liuzzi, Louis A. Lichten, Seth Rivera, Raymond K. Blanchard, Tolunay Beker Aydemir, Mitchell D. Knutson, Tomas Ganz, and Robert J. Cousins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6843–6848. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502257102.
PMCID: PMC1100791
Biochemistry
A single intermolecular contact mediates intramolecular stabilization of both RNA and protein
Valerie Calabro, Matthew D. Daugherty, and Alan D. Frankel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6849–6854. Published online 2005 April 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409282102.
PMCID: PMC1100766
Engineering of protease variants exhibiting high catalytic activity and exquisite substrate selectivity
Navin Varadarajan, Jongsik Gam, Mark J. Olsen, George Georgiou, and Brent L. Iverson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6855–6860. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500063102.
PMCID: PMC1100772
A unified assembly mode revealed by the structures of tetrameric L27 domain complexes formed by mLin-2/mLin-7 and Patj/Pals1 scaffold proteins
Wei Feng, Jia-fu Long, and Mingjie Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6861–6866. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409346102.
PMCID: PMC1100767
Holliday junction-binding peptides inhibit distinct junction-processing enzymes
Kevin V. Kepple, Jeffrey L. Boldt, and Anca M. Segall
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6867–6872. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409496102.
PMCID: PMC1100769
Biophysics
Chemical Theory and Computation Special Feature: Vibrational energy relaxation in proteins
Hiroshi Fujisaki and John E. Straub
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6726–6731. Published online 2005 March 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409083102.
PMCID: PMC1100765
From the Cover:
Structural mechanism of the recovery stroke in the Myosin molecular motor
Stefan Fischer, Björn Windshügel, Daniel Horak, Kenneth C. Holmes, and Jeremy C. Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6873–6878. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408784102.
PMCID: PMC1100758
From the Cover:
Leptosphaeria rhodopsin: Bacteriorhodopsin-like proton pump from a eukaryote
Stephen A. Waschuk, Arandi G. Bezerra, Jr., Lichi Shi, and Leonid S. Brown
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6879–6883. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409659102.
PMCID: PMC1100770
Cell Biology
Neutrophil microtubules suppress polarity and enhance directional migration
Jingsong Xu, Fei Wang, Alexandra Van Keymeulen, Maike Rentel, and Henry R. Bourne
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6884–6889. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502106102.
PMCID: PMC1087512
Developmental Biology
p130Rb2 and p27kip1 cooperate to control mobilization of angiogenic progenitors from the bone marrow
Anxo Vidal, Stergios Zacharoulis, Wenjun Guo, David Shaffer, Filippo Giancotti, Anna H. Bramley, Carmen de la Hoz, Kristian K. Jensen, Daniel Kato, Daniel D. MacDonald, Joseph Knowles, Nancy Yeh, Lawrence A. Frohman, Shahin Rafii, David Lyden, and Andrew Koff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6890–6895. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405823102.
PMCID: PMC1088064
Genetics
Fine-mapping milk production quantitative trait loci on BTA6: Analysis of the bovine osteopontin gene
Robert D. Schnabel, Jong-Joo Kim, Melissa S. Ashwell, Tad S. Sonstegard, Curtis P. Van Tassell, Erin E. Connor, and Jeremy F. Taylor
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6896–6901. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502398102.
PMCID: PMC1100795
Targeting c-Myc-activated genes with a correlation method: Detection of global changes in large gene expression network dynamics
D. Remondini, B. O'Connell, N. Intrator, J. M. Sedivy, N. Neretti, G. C. Castellani, and L. N. Cooper
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6902–6906. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502081102.
PMCID: PMC1100785
The THAP domain of THAP1 is a large C2CH module with zinc-dependent sequence-specific DNA-binding activity
Thomas Clouaire, Myriam Roussigne, Vincent Ecochard, Catherine Mathe, François Amalric, and Jean-Philippe Girard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6907–6912. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406882102.
PMCID: PMC1100732
Evidence in vivo that the DEAD-box RNA helicase RhlB facilitates the degradation of ribosome-free mRNA by RNase E
Vanessa Khemici, Leonora Poljak, Isabelle Toesca, and Agamemnon J. Carpousis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6913–6918. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501129102.
PMCID: PMC1100780
Immunology
Discovery of a unique Ig heavy-chain isotype (IgT) in rainbow trout: Implications for a distinctive B cell developmental pathway in teleost fish
John D. Hansen, Eric D. Landis, and Ruth B. Phillips
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6919–6924. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500027102.
PMCID: PMC1100771
Immunomodulatory oligonucleotides containing a cytosine-phosphate-2′-deoxy-7-deazaguanosine motif as potent Toll-like receptor 9 agonists
Ekambar R. Kandimalla, Lakshmi Bhagat, Yukui Li, Dong Yu, Daqing Wang, Yan-Ping Cong, Sam S. Song, Jimmy X. Tang, Tim Sullivan, and Sudhir Agrawal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6925–6930. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501729102.
PMCID: PMC1100782
Disruption of the Jnk2 (Mapk9) gene reduces destructive insulitis and diabetes in a mouse model of type I diabetes
Anja Jaeschke, Mercedes Rincón, Beth Doran, Judith Reilly, Donna Neuberg, Dale L. Greiner, Leonard D. Shultz, Aldo A. Rossini, Richard A. Flavell, and Roger J. Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6931–6935. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502143102.
PMCID: PMC1100789
Medical Sciences
A genetically defined mouse ovarian carcinoma model for the molecular characterization of pathway-targeted therapy and tumor resistance
Deyin Xing and Sandra Orsulic
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6936–6941. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502256102.
PMCID: PMC1087513
The Sca-1 cell surface marker enriches for a prostate-regenerating cell subpopulation that can initiate prostate tumorigenesis
Li Xin, Devon A. Lawson, and Owen N. Witte
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6942–6947. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502320102.
PMCID: PMC1087514
STAT3- and DNA methyltransferase 1-mediated epigenetic silencing of SHP-1 tyrosine phosphatase tumor suppressor gene in malignant T lymphocytes
Qian Zhang, Hong Y. Wang, Michal Marzec, Puthiyaveettil N. Raghunath, Tomohiko Nagasawa, and Mariusz A. Wasik
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6948–6953. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501959102.
PMCID: PMC1100783
Caspase inhibition reduces tubular apoptosis and proliferation and slows disease progression in polycystic kidney disease
Yunxia Tao, Jun Kim, Sarah Faubel, Joe C. Wu, Sandor A. Falk, Robert W. Schrier, and Charles L. Edelstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6954–6959. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408518102.
PMCID: PMC1100753
From the Cover:
Polyclonality of familial murine adenomas: Analyses of mouse chimeras with low tumor multiplicity suggest short-range interactions
Andrew T. Thliveris, Richard B. Halberg, Linda Clipson, William F. Dove, Ruth Sullivan, Mary Kay Washington, Stephen Stanhope, and Michael A. Newton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6960–6965. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502662102.
PMCID: PMC1100801
Exogenous nitric oxide reduces glucose transporters translocation and lactate production in ischemic myocardium in vivo
Biao Lei, Ken Matsuo, Volodymyr Labinskyy, Naveen Sharma, Margaret P. Chandler, Anna Ahn, Thomas H. Hintze, William C. Stanley, and Fabio A. Recchia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6966–6971. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500768102.
PMCID: PMC1100777
Microbiology
bptA (bbe16) is essential for the persistence of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, in its natural tick vector
Andrew T. Revel, Jon S. Blevins, Consuelo Almazán, Lori Neil, Katherine M. Kocan, José de la Fuente, Kayla E. Hagman, and Michael V. Norgard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6972–6977. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502565102.
PMCID: PMC1100799
Neuroscience
Spatiotemporal maturation patterns of murine brain quantified by diffusion tensor MRI and deformation-based morphometry
Ragini Verma, Susumu Mori, Dinggang Shen, Paul Yarowsky, Jiangyang Zhang, and Christos Davatzikos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6978–6983. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407828102.
PMCID: PMC1100736
Bone morphogenetic protein 9 induces the transcriptome of basal forebrain cholinergic neurons
Ignacio Lopez-Coviella, Maximillian T. Follettie, Tiffany J. Mellott, Vesela P. Kovacheva, Barbara E. Slack, Veronica Diesl, Brygida Berse, R. Scott Thies, and Jan Krzysztof Blusztajn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6984–6989. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502097102.
PMCID: PMC1088172
Inhibition of glycogen synthase kinase-3 by lithium correlates with reduced tauopathy and degeneration in vivo
Wendy Noble, Emmanuel Planel, Cindy Zehr, Vicki Olm, Jordana Meyerson, Farhana Suleman, Kate Gaynor, Lili Wang, John LaFrancois, Boris Feinstein, Mark Burns, Pavan Krishnamurthy, Yi Wen, Ratan Bhat, Jada Lewis, Dennis Dickson, and Karen Duff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6990–6995. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500466102.
PMCID: PMC1088065
Representations of faces and body parts in macaque temporal cortex: A functional MRI study
Mark A. Pinsk, Kevin DeSimone, Tirin Moore, Charles G. Gross, and Sabine Kastner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 6996–7001. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502605102.
PMCID: PMC1100800
Background gamma rhythmicity and attention in cortical local circuits: A computational study
Christoph Börgers, Steven Epstein, and Nancy J. Kopell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7002–7007. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502366102.
PMCID: PMC1100794
Pharmacology
5-Methyltetrahydrofolate and tetrahydrobiopterin can modulate electrotonically mediated endothelium-dependent vascular relaxation
Tudor M. Griffith, Andrew T. Chaytor, Linda M. Bakker, and David H. Edwards
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7008–7013. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408919102.
PMCID: PMC1100761
Physiology
Estrogenic chemicals in plastic and oral contraceptives disrupt development of the fetal mouse prostate and urethra
Barry G. Timms, Kembra L. Howdeshell, Lesley Barton, Sarahann Bradley, Catherine A. Richter, and Frederick S. vom Saal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7014–7019. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502544102.
PMCID: PMC1088066
Plant Biology
Enhanced dihydroflavonol-4-reductase activity and NAD homeostasis leading to cell death tolerance in transgenic rice
Mitsunori Hayashi, Hideyuki Takahashi, Katsunori Tamura, Jirong Huang, Li-Hua Yu, Maki Kawai-Yamada, Takafumi Tezuka, and Hirofumi Uchimiya
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7020–7025. Published online 2005 April 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502556102.
PMCID: PMC1100798
Inhibition of tumor growth by plant-derived mAb
Kisung Ko, Zenon Steplewski, Magdalena Glogowska, and Hilary Koprowski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7026–7030. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502533102.
PMCID: PMC1100796
Release of oxidized plastocyanin from photosystem I limits electron transfer between photosystem I and cytochrome b6f complex in vivo
Giovanni Finazzi, Frederik Sommer, and Michael Hippler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7031–7036. Published online 2005 May 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406288102.
PMCID: PMC1100731
From the Cover:
Winter disruption of the circadian clock in chestnut
Alberto Ramos, Estefanía Pérez-Solís, Cristian Ibáñez, Rosa Casado, Carmen Collada, Luis Gómez, Cipriano Aragoncillo, and Isabel Allona
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7037–7042. Published online 2005 April 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408549102.
PMCID: PMC1100755
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Chayanov revisited: A model for the economics of complex kin units
E. A. Hammel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7043–7046. Published online 2005 May 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501987102.
PMCID: PMC1100784
Social Sciences
Altruistic punishment and the origin of cooperation
James H. Fowler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7047–7049. Published online 2005 April 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500938102.
PMCID: PMC1100778
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 May 10; 102(19): 7050. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502971102.
PMCID: PMC1100802
Corrects: Ning Zhang, et al. A proinflammatory chemokine, CCL3, sensitizes the heat- and capsaicin-gated ion channel TRPV1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 March 22; 102(12): 4536–4541.
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