| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. This Week in PNAS Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14175–14176. doi: 10.1073/iti3607104.PMCID: PMC1964839 Commentary Feeling the heat: Ground squirrels heat their tails to discourage rattlesnake attack Daniel T. Blumstein Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14177–14178. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707286104.PMCID: PMC1964846 Profile Profile of Richard P. Novick Melissa Marino Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14179–14181. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707438104.PMCID: PMC1964851 Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature Introduction Multidimensional ultrafast spectroscopy Robin M. Hochstrasser Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14189. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706002104.PMCID: PMC1964836 Research Articles Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide Sang-Hee Shim, David B. Strasfeld, Yun L. Ling, and Martin T. Zanni Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14197–14202. Published online 2007 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700804104.PMCID: PMC1964818 Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy Elizabeth L. Read, Gregory S. Engel, Tessa R. Calhoun, Tomáš Mančal, Tae Kyu Ahn, Robert E. Blankenship, and Graham R. Fleming Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14203–14208. Published online 2007 June 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701201104.PMCID: PMC1964816 A relaxation-assisted 2D IR spectroscopy method Dmitry V. Kurochkin, Sri Ram G. Naraharisetty, and Igor V. Rubtsov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14209–14214. Published online 2007 June 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700560104.PMCID: PMC1964833 Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2D-IR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D2O B. Auer, R. Kumar, J. R. Schmidt, and J. L. Skinner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14215–14220. Published online 2007 June 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701482104.PMCID: PMC1964876 Dynamics around solutes and solute–solvent complexes in mixed solvents Kyungwon Kwak, Sungnam Park, and M. D. Fayer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14221–14226. Published online 2007 June 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701710104.PMCID: PMC1964852 Polarization-dependent optical 2D Fourier transform spectroscopy of semiconductors Tianhao Zhang, Irina Kuznetsova, Torsten Meier, Xiaoqin Li, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Thomas, and Steven T. Cundiff Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14227–14232. Published online 2007 July 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701273104.PMCID: PMC1964869 Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils Wei Zhuang, Darius Abramavicius, Dimitrii V. Voronine, and Shaul Mukamel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14233–14236. Published online 2007 August 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700392104.PMCID: PMC1964843 Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics Hoi Sung Chung, Ziad Ganim, Kevin C. Jones, and Andrei Tokmakoff Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14237–14242. Published online 2007 June 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700959104.PMCID: PMC1964855 Protein ligand migration mapped by nonequilibrium 2D-IR exchange spectroscopy Jens Bredenbeck, Jan Helbing, Karin Nienhaus, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, and Peter Hamm Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14243–14248. Published online 2007 January 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607758104.PMCID: PMC1964829 Perspective From the Cover: Multidimensional Ultrafast Spectroscopy Special Feature: Two-dimensional spectroscopy at infrared and optical frequencies Robin M. Hochstrasser Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14190–14196. Published online 2007 July 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704079104.PMCID: PMC1964834 Physical Sciences Chemistry Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide Sang-Hee Shim, David B. Strasfeld, Yun L. Ling, and Martin T. Zanni Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14197–14202. Published online 2007 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700804104.PMCID: PMC1964818 Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy Elizabeth L. Read, Gregory S. Engel, Tessa R. Calhoun, Tomáš Mančal, Tae Kyu Ahn, Robert E. Blankenship, and Graham R. Fleming Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14203–14208. Published online 2007 June 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701201104.PMCID: PMC1964816 A relaxation-assisted 2D IR spectroscopy method Dmitry V. Kurochkin, Sri Ram G. Naraharisetty, and Igor V. Rubtsov Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14209–14214. Published online 2007 June 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700560104.PMCID: PMC1964833 Hydrogen bonding and Raman, IR, and 2D-IR spectroscopy of dilute HOD in liquid D2O B. Auer, R. Kumar, J. R. Schmidt, and J. L. Skinner Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14215–14220. Published online 2007 June 18. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701482104.PMCID: PMC1964876 Dynamics around solutes and solute–solvent complexes in mixed solvents Kyungwon Kwak, Sungnam Park, and M. D. Fayer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14221–14226. Published online 2007 June 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701710104.PMCID: PMC1964852 Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils Wei Zhuang, Darius Abramavicius, Dimitrii V. Voronine, and Shaul Mukamel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14233–14236. Published online 2007 August 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700392104.PMCID: PMC1964843 Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics Hoi Sung Chung, Ziad Ganim, Kevin C. Jones, and Andrei Tokmakoff Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14237–14242. Published online 2007 June 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700959104.PMCID: PMC1964855 Evidence for a diffusion-controlled mechanism for fluorescence blinking of colloidal quantum dots Matthew Pelton, Glenna Smith, Norbert F. Scherer, and Rudolph A. Marcus Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14249–14254. Published online 2007 August 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706164104.PMCID: PMC1964845 Tracing electronic pathways in molecules by using inelastic tunneling spectroscopy Alessandro Troisi, Jeremy M. Beebe, Laura B. Picraux, Roger D. van Zee, Duncan R. Stewart, Mark A. Ratner, and James G. Kushmerick Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14255–14259. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704208104.PMCID: PMC1964821 Engineering From the Cover: A modular and extensible RNA-based gene-regulatory platform for engineering cellular function Maung Nyan Win and Christina D. Smolke Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14283–14288. Published online 2007 August 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703961104.PMCID: PMC1964840 Geology Molecular evidence of Late Archean archaea and the presence of a subsurface hydrothermal biosphere Gregory T. Ventura, Fabien Kenig, Christopher M. Reddy, Juergen Schieber, Glenn S. Frysinger, Robert K. Nelson, Etienne Dinel, Richard B. Gaines, and Philippe Schaeffer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14260–14265. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610903104.PMCID: PMC1964827 Geophysics Time variability in Cenozoic reconstructions of mantle heat flow: Plate tectonic cycles and implications for Earth's thermal evolution S. J. Loyd, T. W. Becker, C. P. Conrad, C. Lithgow-Bertelloni, and F. A. Corsetti Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14266–14271. Published online 2007 August 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706667104.PMCID: PMC1964844 Physics Polarization-dependent optical 2D Fourier transform spectroscopy of semiconductors Tianhao Zhang, Irina Kuznetsova, Torsten Meier, Xiaoqin Li, Richard P. Mirin, Peter Thomas, and Steven T. Cundiff Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14227–14232. Published online 2007 July 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701273104.PMCID: PMC1964869 Sustainability Science-PS Development at the wildland–urban interface and the mitigation of forest-fire risk Vassilis Spyratos, Patrick S. Bourgeron, and Michael Ghil Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14272–14276. Published online 2007 August 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704488104.PMCID: PMC1950891 Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences From the Cover: A modular and extensible RNA-based gene-regulatory platform for engineering cellular function Maung Nyan Win and Christina D. Smolke Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14283–14288. Published online 2007 August 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703961104.PMCID: PMC1964840 Effects of light on development of mammalian zygotes Manami Takenaka, Toshitaka Horiuchi, and Ryuzo Yanagimachi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14289–14293. Published online 2007 August 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706687104.PMCID: PMC1964859 Biochemistry Proteome-wide identification of family member-specific natural substrate repertoire of caspases Wujian Ju, C. Alexander Valencia, Hao Pang, Yan Ke, Weiyi Gao, Biao Dong, and Rihe Liu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14294–14299. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702251104.PMCID: PMC1958819 Phycobilin:cystein-84 biliprotein lyase, a near-universal lyase for cysteine-84-binding sites in cyanobacterial phycobiliproteins Kai-Hong Zhao, Ping Su, Jun-Ming Tu, Xing Wang, Hui Liu, Matthias Plöscher, Lutz Eichacker, Bei Yang, Ming Zhou, and Hugo Scheer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14300–14305. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706209104.PMCID: PMC1955460 Gαi generates multiple Pins activation states to link cortical polarity and spindle orientation in Drosophila neuroblasts Rick W. Nipper, Karsten H. Siller, Nicholas R. Smith, Chris Q. Doe, and Kenneth E. Prehoda Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14306–14311. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701812104.PMCID: PMC1964812 Structure of the Cyclin T binding domain of Hexim1 and molecular basis for its recognition of P-TEFb Sonja A. Dames, André Schönichen, Antje Schulte, Matjaz Barboric, B. Matija Peterlin, Stephan Grzesiek, and Matthias Geyer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14312–14317. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701848104.PMCID: PMC1955226 A metabolic pathway leading to mannosylfructose biosynthesis in Agrobacterium tumefaciens uncovers a family of mannosyltransferases Leticia L. Torres and Graciela L. Salerno Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14318–14323. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706709104.PMCID: PMC1964871 Enhanced subunit interactions with gemcitabine-5′-diphosphate inhibit ribonucleotide reductases Jun Wang, Gregory J. S. Lohman, and JoAnne Stubbe Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14324–14329. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706803104.PMCID: PMC1964847 Identification of membrane proteins by tandem mass spectrometry of protein ions Joe Carroll, Matthew C. Altman, Ian M. Fearnley, and John E. Walker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14330–14335. Published online 2007 August 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706817104.PMCID: PMC1952138 Biophysics Automated 2D IR spectroscopy using a mid-IR pulse shaper and application of this technology to the human islet amyloid polypeptide Sang-Hee Shim, David B. Strasfeld, Yun L. Ling, and Martin T. Zanni Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14197–14202. Published online 2007 May 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700804104.PMCID: PMC1964818 Cross-peak-specific two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy Elizabeth L. Read, Gregory S. Engel, Tessa R. Calhoun, Tomáš Mančal, Tae Kyu Ahn, Robert E. Blankenship, and Graham R. Fleming Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14203–14208. Published online 2007 June 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701201104.PMCID: PMC1964816 Simulation of two-dimensional infrared spectroscopy of amyloid fibrils Wei Zhuang, Darius Abramavicius, Dimitrii V. Voronine, and Shaul Mukamel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14233–14236. Published online 2007 August 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700392104.PMCID: PMC1964843 Transient 2D IR spectroscopy of ubiquitin unfolding dynamics Hoi Sung Chung, Ziad Ganim, Kevin C. Jones, and Andrei Tokmakoff Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14237–14242. Published online 2007 June 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700959104.PMCID: PMC1964855 Protein ligand migration mapped by nonequilibrium 2D-IR exchange spectroscopy Jens Bredenbeck, Jan Helbing, Karin Nienhaus, G. Ulrich Nienhaus, and Peter Hamm Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14243–14248. Published online 2007 January 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0607758104.PMCID: PMC1964829 Conformational instability of the MARK3 UBA domain compromises ubiquitin recognition and promotes interaction with the adjacent kinase domain James M. Murphy, Dmitry M. Korzhnev, Derek F. Ceccarelli, Douglas J. Briant, Arash Zarrine-Afsar, Frank Sicheri, Lewis E. Kay, and Tony Pawson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14336–14341. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703012104.PMCID: PMC1964837 MitoNEET is a uniquely folded 2Fe–2S outer mitochondrial membrane protein stabilized by pioglitazone Mark L. Paddock, Sandra E. Wiley, Herbert L. Axelrod, Aina E. Cohen, Melinda Roy, Edward C. Abresch, Dominique Capraro, Anne N. Murphy, Rachel Nechushtai, Jack E. Dixon, and Patricia A. Jennings Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14342–14347. Published online 2007 August 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707189104.PMCID: PMC1963346 Cell Biology Spatial regulation of Raf kinase signaling by RKTG Lin Feng, Xiaoduo Xie, Qiurong Ding, Xiaolin Luo, Jing He, Fengjuan Fan, Weizhong Liu, Zhenzhen Wang, and Yan Chen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14348–14353. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701298104.PMCID: PMC1964828 Negative feedback regulation of Rac in leukocytes from mice expressing a constitutively active phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase γ Carlotta Costa, Laura Barberis, Chiara Ambrogio, Andrea D. Manazza, Enrico Patrucco, Ornella Azzolino, Paul O. Neilsen, Elisa Ciraolo, Fiorella Altruda, Glenn D. Prestwich, Roberto Chiarle, Matthias Wymann, Anne Ridley, and Emilio Hirsch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14354–14359. Published online 2007 August 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703175104.PMCID: PMC1952139 An extracellular region of the erythropoietin receptor of the subterranean blind mole rat Spalax enhances receptor maturation Orly Ravid, Imad Shams, Nathalie Ben Califa, Eviatar Nevo, Aaron Avivi, and Drorit Neumann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14360–14365. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706777104.PMCID: PMC1964849 Developmental Biology Lsh controls Hox gene silencing during development Sichuan Xi, Heming Zhu, Hong Xu, Anja Schmidtmann, Theresa M. Geiman, and Kathrin Muegge Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14366–14371. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703669104.PMCID: PMC1955459 Ecology From the Cover: Ground squirrels use an infrared signal to deter rattlesnake predation Aaron S. Rundus, Donald H. Owings, Sanjay S. Joshi, Erin Chinn, and Nicolas Giannini Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14372–14376. Published online 2007 August 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702599104.PMCID: PMC1950100 Risky prey behavior evolves in risky habitats Mark C. Urban Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14377–14382. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704645104.PMCID: PMC1964820 A honey bee odorant receptor for the queen substance 9-oxo-2-decenoic acid Kevin W. Wanner, Andrew S. Nichols, Kimberly K. O. Walden, Axel Brockmann, Charles W. Luetje, and Hugh M. Robertson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14383–14388. Published online 2007 August 30. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705459104.PMCID: PMC1964862 Evolution Molecular evidence of Late Archean archaea and the presence of a subsurface hydrothermal biosphere Gregory T. Ventura, Fabien Kenig, Christopher M. Reddy, Juergen Schieber, Glenn S. Frysinger, Robert K. Nelson, Etienne Dinel, Richard B. Gaines, and Philippe Schaeffer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14260–14265. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610903104.PMCID: PMC1964827 Serendipitous backyard hybridization and the origin of crops Colin E. Hughes, Rajanikanth Govindarajulu, Ashley Robertson, Denis L. Filer, Stephen A. Harris, and C. Donovan Bailey Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14389–14394. Published online 2007 August 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702193104.PMCID: PMC1964811 Genomics, biogeography, and the diversification of placental mammals Derek E. Wildman, Monica Uddin, Juan C. Opazo, Guozhen Liu, Vincent Lefort, Stephane Guindon, Olivier Gascuel, Lawrence I. Grossman, Roberto Romero, and Morris Goodman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14395–14400. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704342104.PMCID: PMC1958817 Ancient bacteria show evidence of DNA repair Sarah Stewart Johnson, Martin B. Hebsgaard, Torben R. Christensen, Mikhail Mastepanov, Rasmus Nielsen, Kasper Munch, Tina Brand, M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Maria T. Zuber, Michael Bunce, Regin Rønn, David Gilichinsky, Duane Froese, and Eske Willerslev Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14401–14405. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706787104.PMCID: PMC1958816 Genetics Large-scale, saturating insertional mutagenesis of the mouse genome Alexander Gragerov, Kyoji Horie, Maria Pavlova, Linda Madisen, Hongkui Zeng, Galina Gragerova, Alex Rhode, Io Dolka, Patricia Roth, Amanda Ebbert, Stephanie Moe, Christopher Navas, Eric Finn, John Bergmann, Demetrios K. Vassilatis, George N. Pavlakis, and George A. Gaitanaris Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14406–14411. Published online 2007 August 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700608104.PMCID: PMC1964832 Aryl hydrocarbon receptor nuclear translocator-like (BMAL1) is associated with susceptibility to hypertension and type 2 diabetes Peng Y. Woon, Pamela J. Kaisaki, José Bragança, Marie-Thérèse Bihoreau, Jonathan C. Levy, Martin Farrall, and Dominique Gauguier Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14412–14417. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703247104.PMCID: PMC1958818 Immunology T cell activation requires mitochondrial translocation to the immunological synapse Ariel Quintana, Christian Schwindling, Anna S. Wenning, Ute Becherer, Jens Rettig, Eva C. Schwarz, and Markus Hoth Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14418–14423. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703126104.PMCID: PMC1964825 Medical Sciences Analysis of potential transcriptomic biomarkers for Huntington's disease in peripheral blood Heike Runne, Alexandre Kuhn, Edward J. Wild, Wirahpati Pratyaksha, Mark Kristiansen, Jeremy D. Isaacs, Etienne Régulier, Mauro Delorenzi, Sarah J. Tabrizi, and Ruth Luthi-Carter Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14424–14429. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703652104.PMCID: PMC1964868 Inhibition of the leucine-rich repeat protein LINGO-1 enhances survival, structure, and function of dopaminergic neurons in Parkinson's disease models Haruhisa Inoue, Ling Lin, Xinhua Lee, Zhaohui Shao, Shannon Mendes, Pamela Snodgrass-Belt, Harry Sweigard, Tom Engber, Blake Pepinsky, Lichuan Yang, M. Flint Beal, Sha Mi, and Ole Isacson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14430–14435. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700901104.PMCID: PMC1955463 CD200 and its receptor, CD200R, modulate bone mass via the differentiation of osteoclasts Weiguo Cui, Esteban Cuartas, Juan Ke, Qing Zhang, Halldor B. Einarsson, Jonathon D. Sedgwick, Jun Li, and Agnès Vignery Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14436–14441. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702811104.PMCID: PMC1955461 ALL1 fusion proteins induce deregulation of EphA7 and ERK phosphorylation in human acute leukemias Hiroshi Nakanishi, Tatsuya Nakamura, Eli Canaani, and Carlo M. Croce Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14442–14447. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703211104.PMCID: PMC1964835 Role of VEGF in maintaining renal structure and function under normotensive and hypertensive conditions Andrew Advani, Darren J. Kelly, Suzanne L. Advani, Alison J. Cox, Kerri Thai, Yuan Zhang, Kathryn E. White, Renae M. Gow, Sally M. Marshall, Brent M. Steer, Philip A. Marsden, P. Elizabeth Rakoczy, and Richard E. Gilbert Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14448–14453. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703577104.PMCID: PMC1964850 Breaking up the correlation between efficacy and toxicity for nonviral gene delivery Miriam Breunig, Uta Lungwitz, Renate Liebl, and Achim Goepferich Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14454–14459. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703882104.PMCID: PMC1964826 Reprogramming of keratin biosynthesis by sulforaphane restores skin integrity in epidermolysis bullosa simplex Michelle L. Kerns, Daryle DePianto, Albena T. Dinkova-Kostova, Paul Talalay, and Pierre A. Coulombe Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14460–14465. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706486104.PMCID: PMC1964870 Sonic hedgehog-induced type 3 deiodinase blocks thyroid hormone action enhancing proliferation of normal and malignant keratinocytes Monica Dentice, Cristina Luongo, Stephen Huang, Raffaele Ambrosio, Antonia Elefante, Delphine Mirebeau-Prunier, Ann Marie Zavacki, Gianfranco Fenzi, Marina Grachtchouk, Mark Hutchin, Andrzej A. Dlugosz, Antonio C. Bianco, Caterina Missero, P. Reed Larsen, and Domenico Salvatore Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14466–14471. Published online 2007 August 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706754104.PMCID: PMC1964817 Transcriptome-wide analysis of blood vessels laser captured from human skin and chronic wound-edge tissue Sashwati Roy, Darshan Patel, Savita Khanna, Gayle M. Gordillo, Sabyasachi Biswas, Avner Friedman, and Chandan K. Sen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14472–14477. Published online 2007 August 29. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706793104.PMCID: PMC1964861 Effect of the nonreducing end of Shigella dysenteriae type 1 O-specific oligosaccharides on their immunogenicity as conjugates in mice Vince Pozsgay, Joanna Kubler-Kielb, Rachel Schneerson, and John B. Robbins Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14478–14482. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706969104.PMCID: PMC1955462 Microbiology INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: A pathogenicity island replicon in Staphylococcus aureus replicates as an unstable plasmid Carles Úbeda, Peter Barry, José R. Penadés, and Richard P. Novick Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14182–14188. Published online 2007 August 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705994104.PMCID: PMC1964853 An inducible lambdoid prophage encoding cytolethal distending toxin (Cdt-I) and a type III effector protein in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Masahiro Asakura, Atsushi Hinenoya, Mohammad S. Alam, Kensuke Shima, Shamim Hasan Zahid, Lei Shi, Norihiko Sugimoto, A. N. Ghosh, T. Ramamurthy, Shah M. Faruque, G. Balakrish Nair, and Shinji Yamasaki Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14483–14488. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706695104.PMCID: PMC1964815 Neuroscience Essential role for autophagy protein Atg7 in the maintenance of axonal homeostasis and the prevention of axonal degeneration Masaaki Komatsu, Qing Jun Wang, Gay R. Holstein, Victor L. Friedrich, Jr., Jun-ichi Iwata, Eiki Kominami, Brian T. Chait, Keiji Tanaka, and Zhenyu Yue Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14489–14494. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701311104.PMCID: PMC1964831 Gamma oscillations dynamically couple hippocampal CA3 and CA1 regions during memory task performance Sean M. Montgomery and György Buzsáki Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14495–14500. Published online 2007 August 28. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701826104.PMCID: PMC1964875 From the Cover: Dominant-negative DISC1 transgenic mice display schizophrenia-associated phenotypes detected by measures translatable to humans Takatoshi Hikida, Hanna Jaaro-Peled, Saurav Seshadri, Kenichi Oishi, Caroline Hookway, Stephanie Kong, Di Wu, Rong Xue, Manuella Andradé, Stephanie Tankou, Susumu Mori, Michela Gallagher, Koko Ishizuka, Mikhail Pletnikov, Satoshi Kida, and Akira Sawa Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14501–14506. Published online 2007 August 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704774104.PMCID: PMC1964873 Contribution of the receptor guanylyl cyclase GC-D to chemosensory function in the olfactory epithelium Trese Leinders-Zufall, Renee E. Cockerham, Stylianos Michalakis, Martin Biel, David L. Garbers, Randall R. Reed, Frank Zufall, and Steven D. Munger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14507–14512. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704965104.PMCID: PMC1964822 Neuronal population coding of continuous and discrete quantity in the primate posterior parietal cortex Oana Tudusciuc and Andreas Nieder Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 4; 104(36): 14513–14518. Published online 2007 August 27. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705495104.PMCID: PMC1964866 Central serotonergic neurons are differentially required for opioid analgesia but not for morphine tolerance or morphine reward Zhong-Qiu Zhao, Yong-Jing Gao, Yan-Gang Sun, Cheng-Shui Zhao, Robert W. 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