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Volume 105(37);  September 16, 2008
Letters
Orbital origin of field-induced “quantum criticality” in overdoped Tl2Ba2CuO6+x
M. M. J. French and N. E. Hussey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): E58. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805887105.
PMCID: PMC2656354
Reply to French and Hussey: Evidence against orbital origin of field-induced quantum criticality in Tl2Ba2CuO6+x superconductors
Takasada Shibauchi, Lia Krusin-Elbaum, and Yuji Matsuda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): E59. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806589105.
PMCID: PMC2544608
This Week in PNAS
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13697–13698. doi: 10.1073/iti3708105.
PMCID: PMC2544512
Commentaries
Proofreading optimizes iodotyrosine insertion into the genetic code
Tamara L. Hendrickson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13699–13700. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807442105.
PMCID: PMC2544513
Detecting multiple origins of domesticated crops
Kenneth M. Olsen and Briana L. Gross
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13701–13702. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807439105.
PMCID: PMC2544514
Sortases make pili from three ingredients
So-Young Oh, Jonathan M. Budzik, and Olaf Schneewind
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13703–13704. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807334105.
PMCID: PMC2544515
Environmental estrogens impact primate brain
John H. Morrison
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13705–13706. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807272105.
PMCID: PMC2544516
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
Characterization of reconnecting vortices in superfluid helium
Gregory P. Bewley, Matthew S. Paoletti, Katepalli R. Sreenivasan, and Daniel P. Lathrop
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13707–13710. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806002105.
PMCID: PMC2544517
Hierarchies of networked phases induced by multiple liquid–liquid critical points
Chia Wei Hsu, Julio Largo, Francesco Sciortino, and Francis W. Starr
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13711–13715. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804854105.
PMCID: PMC2544518
Three-dimensional analysis of tokamaks and stellarators
Paul R. Garabedian
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13716–13719. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806354105.
PMCID: PMC2544519
Chemistry
Calculated interactions of a nitro group with aromatic rings of crystalline picryl bromide
Lulu Huang, Lou Massa, and Jerome Karle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13720–13723. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807218105.
PMCID: PMC2544520
Diffusive reaction dynamics on invariant free energy profiles
Sergei V. Krivov and Martin Karplus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13841–13846. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800228105.
PMCID: PMC2544541
Computer Sciences
From the Cover:
Experience versus talent shapes the structure of the Web
Joseph S. Kong, Nima Sarshar, and Vwani P. Roychowdhury
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13724–13729. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805921105.
PMCID: PMC2544521
Engineering
Refractive index maps and membrane dynamics of human red blood cells parasitized by Plasmodium falciparum
YongKeun Park, Monica Diez-Silva, Gabriel Popescu, George Lykotrafitis, Wonshik Choi, Michael S. Feld, and Subra Suresh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13730–13735. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806100105.
PMCID: PMC2529332
Geology
A scale of greatness and causal classification of mass extinctions: Implications for mechanisms
A. M. Celâl Şengör, Saniye Atayman, and Sinan Özeren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13736–13740. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805482105.
PMCID: PMC2544523
Global synchronous changes in the carbon isotopic composition of carbonate sediments unrelated to changes in the global carbon cycle
Peter K. Swart
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13741–13745. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802841105.
PMCID: PMC2544524
Mathematics
On the best possible remaining term in the Hardy inequality
Nassif Ghoussoub and Amir Moradifam
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13746–13751. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803703105.
PMCID: PMC2544525
Physics
An integrated mechanobiochemical feedback mechanism describes chromosome motility from prometaphase to anaphase in mitosis
Jian Liu, Arshad Desai, José N. Onuchic, and Terence Hwa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13752–13757. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807007105.
PMCID: PMC2544526
Development of input connections in neural cultures
Jordi Soriano, María Rodríguez Martínez, Tsvi Tlusty, and Elisha Moses
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13758–13763. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707492105.
PMCID: PMC2544527
Biological Sciences
Anthropology
From the Cover:
Neanderthal brain size at birth provides insights into the evolution of human life history
Marcia S. Ponce de León, Lubov Golovanova, Vladimir Doronichev, Galina Romanova, Takeru Akazawa, Osamu Kondo, Hajime Ishida, and Christoph P. E. Zollikofer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13764–13768. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803917105.
PMCID: PMC2533682
Applied Biological Sciences
Metabolic engineering of a thermophilic bacterium to produce ethanol at high yield
A. Joe Shaw, Kara K. Podkaminer, Sunil G. Desai, John S. Bardsley, Stephen R. Rogers, Philip G. Thorne, David A. Hogsett, and Lee R. Lynd
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13769–13774. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801266105.
PMCID: PMC2544529
A systematic methodology for proteome-wide identification of peptides inhibiting the proliferation and migration of endothelial cells
Emmanouil D. Karagiannis and Aleksander S. Popel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13775–13780. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803241105.
PMCID: PMC2544530
Highly efficient transient gene expression and gene targeting in primate embryonic stem cells with helper-dependent adenoviral vectors
Keiichiro Suzuki, Kaoru Mitsui, Emi Aizawa, Kouichi Hasegawa, Eihachiro Kawase, Toshiyuki Yamagishi, Yoshihiko Shimizu, Hirofumi Suemori, Norio Nakatsuji, and Kohnosuke Mitani
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13781–13786. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806976105.
PMCID: PMC2544531
Biochemistry
Effects of local mRNA structure on posttranscriptional gene silencing
Stephen I. Rudnick, Jyothishmathi Swaminathan, Marina Sumaroka, Stephen Liebhaber, and Alan M. Gewirtz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13787–13792. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805781105.
PMCID: PMC2544532
Cross-talk between GlcNAcylation and phosphorylation: Site-specific phosphorylation dynamics in response to globally elevated O-GlcNAc
Zihao Wang, Marjan Gucek, and Gerald W. Hart
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13793–13798. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806216105.
PMCID: PMC2544533
Granzyme B delivery via perforin is restricted by size, but not by heparan sulfate-dependent endocytosis
Florian C. Kurschus, Edward Fellows, Elisabeth Stegmann, and Dieter E. Jenne
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13799–13804. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801724105.
PMCID: PMC2544534
STAT92E is a positive regulator of Drosophila inhibitor of apoptosis 1 (DIAP/1) and protects against radiation-induced apoptosis
Aurel Betz, Hyung Don Ryoo, Hermann Steller, and James E. Darnell, Jr
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13805–13810. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806291105.
PMCID: PMC2544535
Oleic acid content is responsible for the reduction in blood pressure induced by olive oil
S. Terés, G. Barceló-Coblijn, M. Benet, R. Álvarez, R. Bressani, J. E. Halver, and P. V. Escribá
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13811–13816. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807500105.
PMCID: PMC2544536
Crystal structure of the β-finger domain of Prp8 reveals analogy to ribosomal proteins
Kui Yang, Lingdi Zhang, Tao Xu, Annie Heroux, and Rui Zhao
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13817–13822. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805960105.
PMCID: PMC2544537
Periplasmic orientation of nascent lipid A in the inner membrane of an Escherichia coli LptA mutant
Bing Ma, C. Michael Reynolds, and Christian R. H. Raetz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13823–13828. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807028105.
PMCID: PMC2544538
Enzymes with lid-gated active sites must operate by an induced fit mechanism instead of conformational selection
Sarah M. Sullivan and Todd Holyoak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13829–13834. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805364105.
PMCID: PMC2544539
The A-kinase anchoring protein Yotiao binds and regulates adenylyl cyclase in brain
Leslie A. Piggott, Andrea L. Bauman, John D. Scott, and Carmen W. Dessauer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13835–13840. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712100105.
PMCID: PMC2544540
Biophysics
An integrated mechanobiochemical feedback mechanism describes chromosome motility from prometaphase to anaphase in mitosis
Jian Liu, Arshad Desai, José N. Onuchic, and Terence Hwa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13752–13757. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807007105.
PMCID: PMC2544526
Diffusive reaction dynamics on invariant free energy profiles
Sergei V. Krivov and Martin Karplus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13841–13846. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800228105.
PMCID: PMC2544541
Flow induces loop-to-β-hairpin transition on the β-switch of platelet glycoprotein Ibα
Jizhong Lou and Cheng Zhu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13847–13852. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801965105.
PMCID: PMC2544542
Single-molecule studies of group II intron ribozymes
Miriam Steiner, Krishanthi S. Karunatilaka, Roland K. O. Sigel, and David Rueda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13853–13858. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804034105.
PMCID: PMC2544543
Hierarchical folding mechanism of apomyoglobin revealed by ultra-fast H/D exchange coupled with 2D NMR
Takanori Uzawa, Chiaki Nishimura, Shuji Akiyama, Koichiro Ishimori, Satoshi Takahashi, H. Jane Dyson, and Peter E. Wright
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13859–13864. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804033105.
PMCID: PMC2544544
Cooperativity, connectivity, and folding pathways of multidomain proteins
Kazuhito Itoh and Masaki Sasai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13865–13870. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804512105.
PMCID: PMC2544545
Global jumping and domain-specific intersegment transfer between DNA cognate sites of the multidomain transcription factor Oct-1
Michaeleen Doucleff and G. Marius Clore
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13871–13876. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805050105.
PMCID: PMC2544546
On the relationship between folding and chemical landscapes in enzyme catalysis
Maite Roca, Benjamin Messer, Donald Hilvert, and Arieh Warshel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13877–13882. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803405105.
PMCID: PMC2544547
Modes of heme binding and substrate access for cytochrome P450 CYP74A revealed by crystal structures of allene oxide synthase
Lenong Li, Zhenzhan Chang, Zhiqiang Pan, Zheng-Qing Fu, and Xiaoqiang Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13883–13888. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804099105.
PMCID: PMC2533679
Cell Biology
Refractive index maps and membrane dynamics of human red blood cells parasitized by Plasmodium falciparum
YongKeun Park, Monica Diez-Silva, Gabriel Popescu, George Lykotrafitis, Wonshik Choi, Michael S. Feld, and Subra Suresh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13730–13735. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806100105.
PMCID: PMC2529332
Pim-1 kinase antagonizes aspects of myocardial hypertrophy and compensation to pathological pressure overload
John A. Muraski, Kimberlee M. Fischer, Weitao Wu, Christopher T. Cottage, Pearl Quijada, Matt Mason, Shabana Din, Natalie Gude, Roberto Alvarez, Jr, Marcello Rota, Jan Kajstura, Zeping Wang, Erik Schaefer, Xiongen Chen, Scott MacDonnel, Nancy Magnuson, Stephen R. Houser, Piero Anversa, and Mark A. Sussman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13889–13894. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709135105.
PMCID: PMC2544549
A system for Cre-regulated RNA interference in vivo
Patrick Stern, Sophie Astrof, Stefan J. Erkeland, Joshua Schustak, Phillip A. Sharp, and Richard O. Hynes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13895–13900. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806907105.
PMCID: PMC2532697
A fluorescent reporter of caspase activity for live imaging
Pierre-Luc Bardet, Golnar Kolahgar, Anita Mynett, Irene Miguel-Aliaga, James Briscoe, Pascal Meier, and Jean-Paul Vincent
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13901–13905. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806983105.
PMCID: PMC2544551
A microRNA signature for a BMP2-induced osteoblast lineage commitment program
Zhaoyong Li, Mohammad Q. Hassan, Stefano Volinia, Andre J. van Wijnen, Janet L. Stein, Carlo M. Croce, Jane B. Lian, and Gary S. Stein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13906–13911. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804438105.
PMCID: PMC2544552
Developmental Biology
Mating induces an immune response and developmental switch in the Drosophila oviduct
Anat Kapelnikov, Einat Zelinger, Yuval Gottlieb, Kahn Rhrissorrakrai, Kristin C. Gunsalus, and Yael Heifetz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13912–13917. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710997105.
PMCID: PMC2544553
Transmission of Y chromosomes from XY female mice was made possible by the replacement of cytoplasm during oocyte maturation
Yayoi Obata, Michele Villemure, Tomohiro Kono, and Teruko Taketo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13918–13923. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802680105.
PMCID: PMC2544554
Direct and indirect roles for Nodal signaling in two axis conversions during asymmetric morphogenesis of the zebrafish heart
Kari Baker, Nathalia G. Holtzman, and Rebecca D. Burdine
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13924–13929. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802159105.
PMCID: PMC2544555
Ecology
Stage-specific predator species help each other to persist while competing for a single prey
A. M. De Roos, T. Schellekens, T. Van Kooten, and L. Persson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13930–13935. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803834105.
PMCID: PMC2532698
When to stop managing or surveying cryptic threatened species
Iadine Chadès, Eve McDonald-Madden, Michael A. McCarthy, Brendan Wintle, Matthew Linkie, and Hugh P. Possingham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13936–13940. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805265105.
PMCID: PMC2544557
Environmental Sciences
Middle East coastal ecosystem response to middle-to-late Holocene abrupt climate changes
D. Kaniewski, E. Paulissen, E. Van Campo, M. Al-Maqdissi, J. Bretschneider, and K. Van Lerberghe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13941–13946. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803533105.
PMCID: PMC2544558
Evolution
A scale of greatness and causal classification of mass extinctions: Implications for mechanisms
A. M. Celâl Şengör, Saniye Atayman, and Sinan Özeren
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13736–13740. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805482105.
PMCID: PMC2544523
Multiple deleterious effects of experimentally aged sperm in a monogamous bird
Joël White, Richard H. Wagner, Fabrice Helfenstein, Scott A. Hatch, Hervé Mulard, Liliana C. Naves, and Etienne Danchin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13947–13952. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803067105.
PMCID: PMC2544559
Molecular signatures of ribosomal evolution
Elijah Roberts, Anurag Sethi, Jonathan Montoya, Carl R. Woese, and Zaida Luthey-Schulten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13953–13958. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804861105.
PMCID: PMC2528867
The hearing gene Prestin reunites echolocating bats
Gang Li, Jinhong Wang, Stephen J. Rossiter, Gareth Jones, James A. Cotton, and Shuyi Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13959–13964. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802097105.
PMCID: PMC2544561
Demography and weak selection drive patterns of transposable element diversity in natural populations of Arabidopsis lyrata
Steven Lockton, Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra, and Brandon S. Gaut
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13965–13970. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804671105.
PMCID: PMC2544562
The short-sequence designs of isochores from the human genome
Maria Costantini and Giorgio Bernardi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13971–13976. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803916105.
PMCID: PMC2532971
Accelerated evolution of resistance in multidrug environments
Matthew Hegreness, Noam Shoresh, Doris Damian, Daniel Hartl, and Roy Kishony
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13977–13981. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805965105.
PMCID: PMC2544564
From the Cover:
The genetic expectations of a protracted model for the origins of domesticated crops
Robin G. Allaby, Dorian Q. Fuller, and Terence A. Brown
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13982–13986. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803780105.
PMCID: PMC2544565
Genetics
FOXO3A genotype is strongly associated with human longevity
Bradley J. Willcox, Timothy A. Donlon, Qimei He, Randi Chen, John S. Grove, Katsuhiko Yano, Kamal H. Masaki, D. Craig Willcox, Beatriz Rodriguez, and J. David Curb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13987–13992. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801030105.
PMCID: PMC2544566
Apoptotic function of human PMS2 compromised by the nonsynonymous single-nucleotide polymorphic variant R20Q
Ivana Marinovic-Terzic, Atsuko Yoshioka-Yamashita, Hideki Shimodaira, Elena Avdievich, Irina C. Hunton, Richard D. Kolodner, Winfried Edelmann, and Jean Y. J. Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13993–13998. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806435105.
PMCID: PMC2528866
A powerful method combining homologous recombination and site-specific recombination for targeted mutagenesis in Drosophila
Guanjun Gao, Conor McMahon, Jie Chen, and Yikang S. Rong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13999–14004. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805843105.
PMCID: PMC2529331
Positional cloning of the Igl genes controlling rheumatoid factor production and allergic bronchitis in rats
Carola Rintisch, Jacqueline Ameri, Peter Olofsson, Holger Luthman, and Rikard Holmdahl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14005–14010. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803956105.
PMCID: PMC2544569
Immunology
Transcriptional impact of Aire varies with cell type
Mireia Guerau-de-Arellano, Diane Mathis, and Christophe Benoist
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14011–14016. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806616105.
PMCID: PMC2544570
Memory CD8 T cell responses exceeding a large but definable threshold provide long-term immunity to malaria
Nathan W. Schmidt, Rebecca L. Podyminogin, Noah S. Butler, Vladimir P. Badovinac, Brad J. Tucker, Keith S. Bahjat, Peter Lauer, Arturo Reyes-Sandoval, Claire L. Hutchings, Anne C. Moore, Sarah C. Gilbert, Adrian V. Hill, Lyric C. Bartholomay, and John T. Harty
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14017–14022. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805452105.
PMCID: PMC2544571
TGF-β and IL-6 signals modulate chromatin binding and promoter occupancy by acetylated FOXP3
Arabinda Samanta, Bin Li, Xiaomin Song, Kathryn Bembas, Geng Zhang, Makoto Katsumata, Sandra J. Saouaf, Qiang Wang, Wayne W. Hancock, Yuan Shen, and Mark I. Greene
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14023–14027. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806726105.
PMCID: PMC2544572
IL-21 signaling is critical for the development of type I diabetes in the NOD mouse
Rosanne Spolski, Mohit Kashyap, Constance Robinson, Zuxi Yu, and Warren J. Leonard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14028–14033. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804358105.
PMCID: PMC2544573
Molecular amino acid signatures in the MHC class II peptide-binding pocket predispose to autoimmune thyroiditis in humans and in mice
Francesca Menconi, Maria C. Monti, David A. Greenberg, Taiji Oashi, Roman Osman, Terry F. Davies, Yoshiyuki Ban, Eric M. Jacobson, Erlinda S. Concepcion, Cheuk Wun Li, and Yaron Tomer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14034–14039. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806584105.
PMCID: PMC2544574
Crosspresentation by nonhematopoietic and direct presentation by hematopoietic cells induce central tolerance to myelin basic protein
Antoine Perchellet, Thea Brabb, and Joan M. Goverman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14040–14045. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804970105.
PMCID: PMC2544575
MAVS and MyD88 are essential for innate immunity but not cytotoxic T lymphocyte response against respiratory syncytial virus
Vijay G. Bhoj, Qinmiao Sun, Elizabeth J. Bhoj, Cynthia Somers, Xiang Chen, Juan-Pablo Torres, Asuncion Mejias, Ana M. Gomez, Hasan Jafri, Octavio Ramilo, and Zhijian J. Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14046–14051. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804717105.
PMCID: PMC2532974
Medical Sciences
Peripheral Aβ subspecies as risk biomarkers of Alzheimer's disease
Nicole Schupf, Ming X. Tang, Hide Fukuyama, Jennifer Manly, Howard Andrews, Pankaj Mehta, Jeffery Ravetch, and Richard Mayeux
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14052–14057. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805902105.
PMCID: PMC2544577
The neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (NGAL), a NF-κB-regulated gene, is a survival factor for thyroid neoplastic cells
Alessio Iannetti, Francesco Pacifico, Renato Acquaviva, Alfonso Lavorgna, Elvira Crescenzi, Carlo Vascotto, Gianluca Tell, Anna Maria Salzano, Andrea Scaloni, Emilia Vuttariello, Gennaro Chiappetta, Silvestro Formisano, and Antonio Leonardi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14058–14063. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0710846105.
PMCID: PMC2544578
Loss of PIP5KIβ demonstrates that PIP5KI isoform-specific PIP2 synthesis is required for IP3 formation
Yanfeng Wang, Xinsheng Chen, Lurong Lian, Tang Tang, Timothy J. Stalker, Takehiko Sasaki, Lawrence F. Brass, John K. Choi, John H. Hartwig, and Charles S. Abrams
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14064–14069. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804139105.
PMCID: PMC2544579
Making insulin-deficient type 1 diabetic rodents thrive without insulin
Xinxin Yu, Byung-Hyun Park, May-Yun Wang, Zhao V. Wang, and Roger H. Unger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14070–14075. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806993105.
PMCID: PMC2544580
Cell type-specific DNA methylation patterns in the human breast
Noga Bloushtain-Qimron, Jun Yao, Eric L. Snyder, Michail Shipitsin, Lauren L. Campbell, Sendurai A. Mani, Min Hu, Haiyan Chen, Vadim Ustyansky, Jessica E. Antosiewicz, Pedram Argani, Marc K. Halushka, James A. Thomson, Paul Pharoah, Angel Porgador, Saraswati Sukumar, Ramon Parsons, Andrea L. Richardson, Martha R. Stampfer, Rebecca S. Gelman, Tatiana Nikolskaya, Yuri Nikolsky, and Kornelia Polyak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14076–14081. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805206105.
PMCID: PMC2532972
Dicer-dependent endothelial microRNAs are necessary for postnatal angiogenesis
Yajaira Suárez, Carlos Fernández-Hernando, Jun Yu, Scott A. Gerber, Kenneth D. Harrison, Jordan S. Pober, M. Luisa Iruela-Arispe, Matthias Merkenschlager, and William C. Sessa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14082–14087. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804597105.
PMCID: PMC2544582
Transplantation of a myelodysplastic syndrome by a long-term repopulating hematopoietic cell
Yang Jo Chung, Chul Won Choi, Christopher Slape, Terry Fry, and Peter D. Aplan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14088–14093. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804507105.
PMCID: PMC2544583
High Myc pathway activity and low stage of neuronal differentiation associate with poor outcome in neuroblastoma
Erik Fredlund, Markus Ringnér, John M. Maris, and Sven Påhlman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14094–14099. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804455105.
PMCID: PMC2544584
Minimally invasive neuroradiologic model of preclinical transient middle cerebral artery occlusion in canines
Cameron Rink, Greg Christoforidis, Amir Abduljalil, Marinos Kontzialis, Valerie Bergdall, Sashwati Roy, Savita Khanna, Andrew Slivka, Michael Knopp, and Chandan K. Sen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14100–14105. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806678105.
PMCID: PMC2544585
Mpv17l protects against mitochondrial oxidative stress and apoptosis by activation of Omi/HtrA2 protease
Stefanie Krick, Shaolin Shi, Wenjun Ju, Christian Faul, Su-yi Tsai, Peter Mundel, and Erwin P. Böttinger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14106–14111. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801146105.
PMCID: PMC2529330
Comparisons of tyrosine phosphorylated proteins in cells expressing lung cancer-specific alleles of EGFR and KRAS
Udayan Guha, Raghothama Chaerkady, Arivusudar Marimuthu, A. Scott Patterson, Manoj K. Kashyap, H. C. Harsha, Mitsuo Sato, Joel S. Bader, Alex E. Lash, John D. Minna, Akhilesh Pandey, and Harold E. Varmus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14112–14117. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806158105.
PMCID: PMC2531065
Microbiology
HCMV gH/gL/UL128–131 interferes with virus entry into epithelial cells: Evidence for cell type-specific receptors
Brent J. Ryckman, Marie C. Chase, and David C. Johnson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14118–14123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804365105.
PMCID: PMC2544588
Identification of cardioviruses related to Theiler's murine encephalomyelitis virus in human infections
Charles Y. Chiu, Alexander L. Greninger, Kimberly Kanada, Thomas Kwok, Kael F. Fischer, Charles Runckel, Janice K. Louie, Carol A. Glaser, Shigeo Yagi, David P. Schnurr, Tom D. Haggerty, Julie Parsonnet, Don Ganem, and Joseph L. DeRisi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14124–14129. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805968105.
PMCID: PMC2528868
Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
Ulrich Nübel, Philippe Roumagnac, Mirjam Feldkamp, Jae-Hoon Song, Kwan Soo Ko, Yhu-Chering Huang, Geoffrey Coombs, Margaret Ip, Henrik Westh, Robert Skov, Marc J. Struelens, Richard V. Goering, Birgit Strommenger, Annette Weller, Wolfgang Witte, and Mark Achtman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14130–14135. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804178105.
PMCID: PMC2544590
Spatial organization of a replicating bacterial chromosome
Idit Anna Berlatzky, Alex Rouvinski, and Sigal Ben-Yehuda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14136–14140. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804982105.
PMCID: PMC2544591
The Salmonella virulence protein SifA is a G protein antagonist
Laurie K. Jackson, Parwez Nawabi, Cristiana Hentea, Everett A. Roark, and Kasturi Haldar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14141–14146. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801872105.
PMCID: PMC2544592
Neuroscience
Development of input connections in neural cultures
Jordi Soriano, María Rodríguez Martínez, Tsvi Tlusty, and Elisha Moses
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13758–13763. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707492105.
PMCID: PMC2544527
Genetic variation in the vasopressin receptor 1a gene (AVPR1A) associates with pair-bonding behavior in humans
Hasse Walum, Lars Westberg, Susanne Henningsson, Jenae M. Neiderhiser, David Reiss, Wilmar Igl, Jody M. Ganiban, Erica L. Spotts, Nancy L. Pedersen, Elias Eriksson, and Paul Lichtenstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14153–14156. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803081105.
PMCID: PMC2533683
Development of hippocampal mossy fiber synaptic outputs by new neurons in the adult brain
Regina L. Faulkner, Mi-Hyeon Jang, Xiao-Bo Liu, Xin Duan, Kurt A. Sailor, Ju Young Kim, Shaoyu Ge, Edward G. Jones, Guo-li Ming, Hongjun Song, and Hwai-Jong Cheng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14157–14162. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806658105.
PMCID: PMC2544594
Rules of engagement for NMDA receptor subunits
Maximilian H. Ulbrich and Ehud Y. Isacoff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14163–14168. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802075105.
PMCID: PMC2544595
The combination of huperzine A and imidazenil is an effective strategy to prevent diisopropyl fluorophosphate toxicity in mice
Fabio Pibiri, Alan P. Kozikowski, Graziano Pinna, James Auta, Bashkim Kadriu, Erminio Costa, and Alessandro Guidotti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14169–14174. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807172105.
PMCID: PMC2544596
C-terminal peptides coassemble into Aβ42 oligomers and protect neurons against Aβ42-induced neurotoxicity
Erica A. Fradinger, Bernhard H. Monien, Brigita Urbanc, Aleksey Lomakin, Miao Tan, Huiyuan Li, Sean M. Spring, Margaret M. Condron, Luis Cruz, Cui-Wei Xie, George B. Benedek, and Gal Bitan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14175–14180. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807163105.
PMCID: PMC2544597
Intraretinal signaling by ganglion cell photoreceptors to dopaminergic amacrine neurons
Dao-Qi Zhang, Kwoon Y. Wong, Patricia J. Sollars, David M. Berson, Gary E. Pickard, and Douglas G. McMahon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14181–14186. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803893105.
PMCID: PMC2544598
From the Cover:
Bisphenol A prevents the synaptogenic response to estradiol in hippocampus and prefrontal cortex of ovariectomized nonhuman primates
Csaba Leranth, Tibor Hajszan, Klara Szigeti-Buck, Jeremy Bober, and Neil J. MacLusky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14187–14191. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806139105.
PMCID: PMC2544599
Dopamine transporter/syntaxin 1A interactions regulate transporter channel activity and dopaminergic synaptic transmission
Lucia Carvelli, Randy D. Blakely, and Louis J. DeFelice
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14192–14197. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802214105.
PMCID: PMC2528871
Physiology
The guanylate kinase domain of the β-subunit of voltage-gated calcium channels suffices to modulate gating
Giovanni Gonzalez-Gutierrez, Erick Miranda-Laferte, Doreen Nothmann, Silke Schmidt, Alan Neely, and Patricia Hidalgo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14198–14203. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806558105.
PMCID: PMC2544601
Plant Biology
Licorice β-amyrin 11-oxidase, a cytochrome P450 with a key role in the biosynthesis of the triterpene sweetener glycyrrhizin
Hikaru Seki, Kiyoshi Ohyama, Satoru Sawai, Masaharu Mizutani, Toshiyuki Ohnishi, Hiroshi Sudo, Tomoyoshi Akashi, Toshio Aoki, Kazuki Saito, and Toshiya Muranaka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14204–14209. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803876105.
PMCID: PMC2532699
A transcript profiling approach reveals an epicatechin-specific glucosyltransferase expressed in the seed coat of Medicago truncatula
Yongzhen Pang, Gregory J. Peel, Shashi B. Sharma, Yuhong Tang, and Richard A. Dixon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14210–14215. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805954105.
PMCID: PMC2544603
Population Biology
Benefits of using multiple first-line therapies against malaria
Maciej F. Boni, David L. Smith, and Ramanan Laxminarayan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14216–14221. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804628105.
PMCID: PMC2544604
Psychology
The neonate brain detects speech structure
Judit Gervain, Francesco Macagno, Silvia Cogoi, Marcela Peña, and Jacques Mehler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14222–14227. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806530105.
PMCID: PMC2544605
Neural correlates of access to short-term memory
Derek Evan Nee and John Jonides
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14228–14233. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802081105.
PMCID: PMC2544606
Social Sciences
Environmental Sciences
Middle East coastal ecosystem response to middle-to-late Holocene abrupt climate changes
D. Kaniewski, E. Paulissen, E. Van Campo, M. Al-Maqdissi, J. Bretschneider, and K. Van Lerberghe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13941–13946. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803533105.
PMCID: PMC2544558
Social Sciences
From the Cover:
Experience versus talent shapes the structure of the Web
Joseph S. Kong, Nima Sarshar, and Vwani P. Roychowdhury
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 13724–13729. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805921105.
PMCID: PMC2544521
Correction
Correction for Gongora et al., Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 16; 105(37): 14234. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807512105.
PMCID: PMC2544607
Corrects: Jaime Gongora, et al. From the Cover:
Indo-European and Asian origins for Chilean and Pacific chickens revealed by mtDNA.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 July 29; 105(30): 10308–10313.
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