| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. In This Issue Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 249–250. doi: 10.1073/iti0206103.PMCID: PMC1326148 Commentary mGluR7's lucky number P. Jeffrey Conn and Colleen M. Niswender Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 251–252. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510051103.PMCID: PMC1326193 Physical Sciences Chemistry The up-regulation of ferritin expression using a small-molecule ligand to the native mRNA Jennifer D. Tibodeau, Paige M. Fox, Patricia A. Ropp, Elizabeth C. Theil, and H. Holden Thorp Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 253–257. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509744102.PMCID: PMC1326178 Primary steps of the photoactive yellow protein: Isolated chromophore dynamics and protein directed function I-Ren Lee, Wonchul Lee, and Ahmed H. Zewail Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 258–262. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510015103.PMCID: PMC1326191 Physics Phase coexistence and connectivity in the apical membrane of polarized epithelial cells Doris Meder, Maria Joao Moreno, Paul Verkade, Winchil L. C. Vaz, and Kai Simons Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 329–334. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509885103.PMCID: PMC1324955 Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli Rex A. Kerr, Herbert Levine, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and Wouter-Jan Rappel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 347–352. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505825102.PMCID: PMC1326155 Biological Sciences Biochemistry The up-regulation of ferritin expression using a small-molecule ligand to the native mRNA Jennifer D. Tibodeau, Paige M. Fox, Patricia A. Ropp, Elizabeth C. Theil, and H. Holden Thorp Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 253–257. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509744102.PMCID: PMC1326178 Flow cytometric detection of specific RNAs in native human cells with quenched autoligating FRET probes Hiroshi Abe and Eric T. Kool Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 263–268. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509938103.PMCID: PMC1326184 Point mutations in the aromatic/arginine region in aquaporin 1 allow passage of urea, glycerol, ammonia, and protons Eric Beitz, Binghua Wu, Lars M. Holm, Joachim E. Schultz, and Thomas Zeuthen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 269–274. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507225103.PMCID: PMC1326162 Harnessing the potential of communication-mediating domains for the biocombinatorial synthesis of nonribosomal peptides Martin Hahn and Torsten Stachelhaus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 275–280. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508409103.PMCID: PMC1326170 Autoantibodies to myelin basic protein catalyze site-specific degradation of their antigen Natalia A. Ponomarenko, Oxana M. Durova, Ivan I. Vorobiev, Alexey A. Belogurov, Jr., Inna N. Kurkova, Alexander G. Petrenko, Georgy B. Telegin, Sergey V. Suchkov, Sergey L. Kiselev, Maria A. Lagarkova, Vadim M. Govorun, Marina V. Serebryakova, Bérangère Avalle, Pete Tornatore, Alexander Karavanov, Herbert C. Morse, III, Daniel Thomas, Alain Friboulet, and Alexander G. Gabibov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 281–286. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509849103.PMCID: PMC1324791 Critical role of a thiolate-quinone charge transfer complex and its adduct form in de novo disulfide bond generation by DsbB Kenji Inaba, Yoh-hei Takahashi, Koreaki Ito, and Shigehiko Hayashi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 287–292. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507570103.PMCID: PMC1323469 Linoleic acid hydroperoxide reacts with hypochlorous acid, generating peroxyl radical intermediates and singlet molecular oxygen Sayuri Miyamoto, Glaucia R. Martinez, Daniel Rettori, Ohara Augusto, Marisa H. G. Medeiros, and Paolo Di Mascio Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 293–298. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508170103.PMCID: PMC1326168 Generating disulfides enzymatically: Reaction products and electron acceptors of the endoplasmic reticulum thiol oxidase Ero1p Einav Gross, Carolyn S. Sevier, Nimrod Heldman, Elvira Vitu, Moran Bentzur, Chris A. Kaiser, Colin Thorpe, and Deborah Fass Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 299–304. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506448103.PMCID: PMC1326156 Mechanism of bacterial cell-surface attachment revealed by the structure of cellulosomal type II cohesin-dockerin complex Jarrett J. Adams, Gour Pal, Zongchao Jia, and Steven P. Smith Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 305–310. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507109103.PMCID: PMC1326161 Biophysics Primary steps of the photoactive yellow protein: Isolated chromophore dynamics and protein directed function I-Ren Lee, Wonchul Lee, and Ahmed H. Zewail Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 258–262. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510015103.PMCID: PMC1326191 From the Cover: A simple physical model for scaling in protein-protein interaction networks Eric J. Deeds, Orr Ashenberg, and Eugene I. Shakhnovich Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 311–316. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509715102.PMCID: PMC1326177 Controlled uncoupling and recoupling of proton pumping in cytochrome c oxidase Gisela Brändén, Ashtamurthy S. Pawate, Robert B. Gennis, and Peter Brzezinski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 317–322. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507734103.PMCID: PMC1326165 Packing defects as selectivity switches for drug-based protein inhibitors Ariel Fernández, Ridgway Scott, and R. Stephen Berry Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 323–328. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509351102.PMCID: PMC1326172 Cell Biology Phase coexistence and connectivity in the apical membrane of polarized epithelial cells Doris Meder, Maria Joao Moreno, Paul Verkade, Winchil L. C. Vaz, and Kai Simons Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 329–334. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509885103.PMCID: PMC1324955 Role of Src in C3 transient receptor potential channel function and evidence for a heterogeneous makeup of receptor- and store-operated Ca2+ entry channels Brian T. Kawasaki, Yanhong Liao, and Lutz Birnbaumer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 335–340. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508030102.PMCID: PMC1326167 The activity of a human endoplasmic reticulum-associated degradation E3, gp78, requires its Cue domain, RING finger, and an E2-binding site Bo Chen, Jennifer Mariano, Yien Che Tsai, Anna H. Chan, Mickael Cohen, and Allan M. Weissman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 341–346. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506618103.PMCID: PMC1326157 Division accuracy in a stochastic model of Min oscillations in Escherichia coli Rex A. Kerr, Herbert Levine, Terrence J. Sejnowski, and Wouter-Jan Rappel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 347–352. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0505825102.PMCID: PMC1326155 Regulation of tyrosinase trafficking and processing by presenilins: Partial loss of function by familial Alzheimer's disease mutation Runsheng Wang, Phuong Tang, Pei Wang, Raymond E. Boissy, and Hui Zheng Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 353–358. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509822102.PMCID: PMC1326180 Developmental Biology From the Cover: A nucleoporin is required for induction of Ca2+ spiking in legume nodule development and essential for rhizobial and fungal symbiosis Norihito Kanamori, Lene Heegaard Madsen, Simona Radutoiu, Mirela Frantescu, Esben M. H. Quistgaard, Hiroki Miwa, J. Allan Downie, Euan K. James, Hubert H. Felle, Line Lindegaard Haaning, Torben Heick Jensen, Shusei Sato, Yasukazu Nakamura, Satoshi Tabata, Niels Sandal, and Jens Stougaard Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 359–364. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508883103.PMCID: PMC1326171 Constitutive activation of MKK6 in chondrocytes of transgenic mice inhibits proliferation and delays endochondral bone formation Ren Zhang, Shunichi Murakami, Françoise Coustry, Ying Wang, and Benoit de Crombrugghe Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 365–370. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507979103.PMCID: PMC1326166 Ecology Stable isotopes in elephant hair document migration patterns and diet changes Thure E. Cerling, George Wittemyer, Henrik B. Rasmussen, Fritz Vollrath, Claire E. Cerling, Todd J. Robinson, and Iain Douglas-Hamilton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 371–373. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509606102.PMCID: PMC1326175 Spread dynamics of invasive species Matías Arim, Sebastián R. Abades, Paula E. Neill, Mauricio Lima, and Pablo A. Marquet Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 374–378. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504272102.PMCID: PMC1326152 Evolution Evidence of a false thumb in a fossil carnivore clarifies the evolution of pandas Manuel J. Salesa, Mauricio Antón, Stéphane Peigné, and Jorge Morales Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 379–382. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504899102.PMCID: PMC1326154 Genetics Recombination, rearrangement, reshuffling, and divergence in a centromeric region of rice Jianxin Ma and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 383–388. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509810102.PMCID: PMC1326179 Transcriptional response of steady-state yeast cultures to transient perturbations in carbon source Michal Ronen and David Botstein Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 389–394. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509978103.PMCID: PMC1326188 Immunology From the Cover: PKA-mediated phosphorylation regulates the function of activation-induced deaminase (AID) in B cells Laura Pasqualucci, Yasuyuki Kitaura, Hua Gu, and Riccardo Dalla-Favera Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 395–400. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509969103.PMCID: PMC1326186 Medical Sciences Preclinical and phase I clinical trial of blockade of IL-15 using Mikβ1 monoclonal antibody in T cell large granular lymphocyte leukemia John C. Morris, John E. Janik, Jeffrey D. White, Thomas A. Fleisher, Margaret Brown, Mitsuru Tsudo, Carolyn K. Goldman, Bonita Bryant, Michael Petrus, Lois Top, Cathryn C. Lee, Wendy Gao, and Thomas A. Waldmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 401–406. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509575103.PMCID: PMC1326174 Screening phage display libraries for organ-specific vascular immunotargeting in vivo Philippe Valadon, Jeff D. Garnett, Jacqueline E. Testa, Marc Bauerle, Phil Oh, and Jan E. Schnitzer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 407–412. Published online 2005 December 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506938103.PMCID: PMC1326159 From the Cover: Gene expression in human thyrocytes and autonomous adenomas reveals suppression of negative feedbacks in tumorigenesis Wilma C. G. van Staveren, David Weiss Solís, Laurent Delys, David Venet, Matteo Cappello, Guy Andry, Jacques E. Dumont, Frédérick Libert, Vincent Detours, and Carine Maenhaut Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 413–418. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507354102.PMCID: PMC1326163 Enhancement of plasmid-mediated gene therapy for muscular dystrophy by directed plasmid integration Carmen Bertoni, Sohail Jarrahian, Thurman M. Wheeler, Yining Li, Eric C. Olivares, Michele P. Calos, and Thomas A. Rando Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 419–424. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0504505102.PMCID: PMC1326153 Microbiology Essential genes of a minimal bacterium John I. Glass, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, Nina Alperovich, Shibu Yooseph, Matthew R. Lewis, Mahir Maruf, Clyde A. Hutchison, III, Hamilton O. Smith, and J. Craig Venter Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 425–430. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510013103.PMCID: PMC1324956 Identification of a nitroimidazo-oxazine-specific protein involved in PA-824 resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Ujjini H. Manjunatha, Helena Boshoff, Cynthia S. Dowd, Liang Zhang, Thomas J. Albert, Jason E. Norton, Lacy Daniels, Thomas Dick, Siew Siew Pang, and Clifton E. Barry, III Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 431–436. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0508392103.PMCID: PMC1326169 The E7 proteins of low- and high-risk human papillomaviruses share the ability to target the pRB family member p130 for degradation Benyue Zhang, Wei Chen, and Ann Roman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 437–442. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510012103.PMCID: PMC1326189 Neuroscience Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs repress β-secretase gene promoter activity by the activation of PPARγ Magdalena Sastre, Ilse Dewachter, Steffen Rossner, Nenad Bogdanovic, Evan Rosen, Peter Borghgraef, Bernd O. Evert, Lucia Dumitrescu-Ozimek, Dietmar R. Thal, Gary Landreth, Jochen Walter, Thomas Klockgether, Fred van Leuven, and Michael T. Heneka Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 443–448. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0503839103.PMCID: PMC1326151 Top-down facilitation of visual recognition M. Bar, K. S. Kassam, A. S. Ghuman, J. Boshyan, A. M. Schmid, A. M. Dale, M. S. Hämäläinen, K. Marinkovic, D. L. Schacter, B. R. Rosen, and E. Halgren Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 449–454. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0507062103.PMCID: PMC1326160 Synchronous dynamic brain networks revealed by magnetoencephalography Frederick J. P. Langheim, Arthur C. Leuthold, and Apostolos P. Georgopoulos Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 455–459. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509623102.PMCID: PMC1324790 Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 489–494. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509868103.PMCID: PMC1326182 Pharmacology PDE1B2 regulates cGMP and a subset of the phenotypic characteristics acquired upon macrophage differentiation from a monocyte Andrew T. Bender and Joseph A. Beavo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 460–465. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509972102.PMCID: PMC1326187 RF9, a potent and selective neuropeptide FF receptor antagonist, prevents opioid-induced tolerance associated with hyperalgesia Frédéric Simonin, Martine Schmitt, Jean-Paul Laulin, Emilie Laboureyras, Jack H. Jhamandas, David MacTavish, Audrey Matifas, Catherine Mollereau, Patrick Laurent, Marc Parmentier, Brigitte L. Kieffer, Jean-Jacques Bourguignon, and Guy Simonnet Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 466–471. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0502090103.PMCID: PMC1326150 Plant Biology From the Cover: MAX1, a regulator of the flavonoid pathway, controls vegetative axillary bud outgrowth in Arabidopsis Gabor Lazar and Howard M. Goodman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 472–476. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509463102.PMCID: PMC1324789 Identification of the mobile light-harvesting complex II polypeptides for state transitions in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Hiroko Takahashi, Masakazu Iwai, Yuichiro Takahashi, and Jun Minagawa Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 477–482. Published online 2006 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509952103.PMCID: PMC1326185 Psychology Demonstration of cue recruitment: Change in visual appearance by means of Pavlovian conditioning Qi Haijiang, Jeffrey A. Saunders, Rebecca W. Stone, and Benjamin T. Backus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 483–488. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0506728103.PMCID: PMC1326158 Social Sciences Psychology Whorf hypothesis is supported in the right visual field but not the left Aubrey L. Gilbert, Terry Regier, Paul Kay, and Richard B. Ivry Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 489–494. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0509868103.PMCID: PMC1326182 Social Sciences Infection, inflammation, height, and longevity Eileen M. Crimmins and Caleb E. Finch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 498–503. Published online 2005 December 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0501470103.PMCID: PMC1326149 Corrections Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510045102.PMCID: PMC1326192 Corrects: Tetsuya Furuya, et al. Disruption of a Plasmodium falciparum gene linked to male sexual development causes early arrest in gametocytogenesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 November 15; 102(46): 16813–16818. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510118102.PMCID: PMC1326194 Corrects: Jena D. French, et al. γδ T cell homeostasis is established in competition with αβ T cells and NK cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 October 11; 102(41): 14741–14746. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510271102.PMCID: PMC1326195 Corrects: Peter H. Raven. Transgenes in Mexican maize: Desirability or inevitability? Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 September 13; 102(37): 13003–13004. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2006 January 10; 103(2): 504. Published online 2005 December 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0510298102.PMCID: PMC1326196 Corrects: Markus Welcker, et al. From the Cover: The Fbw7 tumor suppressor regulates glycogen synthase kinase 3 phosphorylation-dependent c-Myc protein degradation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 June 15; 101(24): 9085–9090. 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