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Volume 105(39);  September 30, 2008
Letters
Contradictory saltation height measurements and unphysical assumptions
Bruno Andreotti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): E60. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804431105.
PMCID: PMC2567522
Reply to Andreotti: Consistent saltation height measurements and physical assumptions
Murilo P. Almeida, Eric J. R. Parteli, José S. Andrade, Jr., and Hans J. Herrmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): E61. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805637105.
PMCID: PMC2567523
This Week in PNAS
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14745–14746. doi: 10.1073/iti3908105.
PMCID: PMC2567435
Commentaries
Engineering G protein-coupled receptor expression in bacteria
Georgios Skretas and George Georgiou
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14747–14748. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807741105.
PMCID: PMC2567436
Predators avoiding predation
Oswald J. Schmitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14749–14750. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808033105.
PMCID: PMC2567437
Is getting older all that rewarding?
Dean F. Wong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14751–14752. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807850105.
PMCID: PMC2567438
Circadian glucose homeostasis requires compensatory interference between brain and liver clocks
David Gatfield and Ueli Schibler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14753–14754. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807861105.
PMCID: PMC2567439
Perspective
Navigating from hippocampus to parietal cortex
Jonathan R. Whitlock, Robert J. Sutherland, Menno P. Witter, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14755–14762. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804216105.
PMCID: PMC2567440
Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
Kinetic regulation of coated vesicle secretion
Lionel Foret and Pierre Sens
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14763–14768. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801173105.
PMCID: PMC2567441
Experimental characterization of shear transformation zones for plastic flow of bulk metallic glasses
D. Pan, A. Inoue, T. Sakurai, and M. W. Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14769–14772. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806051105.
PMCID: PMC2567442
Chemistry
Fabrication of ZnPc/protein nanohorns for double photodynamic and hyperthermic cancer phototherapy
Minfang Zhang, Tatsuya Murakami, Kumiko Ajima, Kunihiro Tsuchida, Atula S. D. Sandanayaka, Osamu Ito, Sumio Iijima, and Masako Yudasaka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14773–14778. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801349105.
PMCID: PMC2567443
Physics
Melting of ice under pressure
Eric Schwegler, Manu Sharma, François Gygi, and Giulia Galli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14779–14783. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808137105.
PMCID: PMC2547417
Probing atomic ordering and multiple twinning in metal nanocrystals through their vibrations
H. Portales, N. Goubet, L. Saviot, S. Adichtchev, D. B. Murray, A. Mermet, E. Duval, and M.-P. Pileni
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14784–14789. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803748105.
PMCID: PMC2567445
Statistics
Higher criticism thresholding: Optimal feature selection when useful features are rare and weak
David Donoho and Jiashun Jin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14790–14795. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807471105.
PMCID: PMC2553037
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
Sequence and genetic map of Meloidogyne hapla: A compact nematode genome for plant parasitism
Charles H. Opperman, David M. Bird, Valerie M. Williamson, Dan S. Rokhsar, Mark Burke, Jonathan Cohn, John Cromer, Steve Diener, Jim Gajan, Steve Graham, T. D. Houfek, Qingli Liu, Therese Mitros, Jennifer Schaff, Reenah Schaffer, Elizabeth Scholl, Bryon R. Sosinski, Varghese P. Thomas, and Eric Windham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14802–14807. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805946105.
PMCID: PMC2547418
Applied Biological Sciences
From the Cover:
Directed evolution of a G protein-coupled receptor for expression, stability, and binding selectivity
Casim A. Sarkar, Igor Dodevski, Manca Kenig, Stefan Dudli, Anja Mohr, Emmanuel Hermans, and Andreas Plückthun
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14808–14813. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803103105.
PMCID: PMC2567449
Effective rescue of dystrophin improves cardiac function in dystrophin-deficient mice by a modified morpholino oligomer
Bo Wu, Hong M. Moulton, Patrick L. Iversen, Jiangang Jiang, Juan Li, Jianbin Li, Christopher F. Spurney, Arpana Sali, Alfredo D. Guerron, Kanneboyina Nagaraju, Timothy Doran, Peijuan Lu, Xiao Xiao, and Qi Long Lu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14814–14819. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805676105.
PMCID: PMC2546441
Biochemistry
Rifamycins do not function by allosteric modulation of binding of Mg2+ to the RNA polymerase active center
Andrey Feklistov, Vladimir Mekler, Qiaorong Jiang, Lars F. Westblade, Herbert Irschik, Rolf Jansen, Arkady Mustaev, Seth A. Darst, and Richard H. Ebright
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14820–14825. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802822105.
PMCID: PMC2567451
Control of feeding behavior in C. elegans by human G protein-coupled receptors permits screening for agonist-expressing bacteria
Michelle S. Teng, Paul Shadbolt, Andrew G. Fraser, Gert Jansen, and John McCafferty
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14826–14831. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803290105.
PMCID: PMC2553035
The crystal structure of MexR from Pseudomonas aeruginosa in complex with its antirepressor ArmR
Mark S. Wilke, Markus Heller, A. Louise Creagh, Charles A. Haynes, Lawrence P. McIntosh, Keith Poole, and Natalie C. J. Strynadka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14832–14837. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805489105.
PMCID: PMC2567453
The Saccharomyces cerevisiae linker histone Hho1p is essential for chromatin compaction in stationary phase and is displaced by transcription
Georgia Schäfer, Christopher R. E. McEvoy, and Hugh-G. Patterton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14838–14843. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806337105.
PMCID: PMC2567454
Backtracking on the folding landscape of the β-trefoil protein interleukin-1β?
Dominique T. Capraro, Melinda Roy, José N. Onuchic, and Patricia A. Jennings
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14844–14848. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807812105.
PMCID: PMC2567455
Discovery of posttranslational maturation by self-subunit swapping
Zhemin Zhou, Yoshiteru Hashimoto, Kentaro Shiraki, and Michihiko Kobayashi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14849–14854. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803428105.
PMCID: PMC2567456
Biophysics
Kinetic regulation of coated vesicle secretion
Lionel Foret and Pierre Sens
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14763–14768. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801173105.
PMCID: PMC2567441
Modeling the chemotactic response of Escherichia coli to time-varying stimuli
Yuhai Tu, Thomas S. Shimizu, and Howard C. Berg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14855–14860. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807569105.
PMCID: PMC2551628
Cell Biology
Mitochondrial potassium channel Kv1.3 mediates Bax-induced apoptosis in lymphocytes
Ildikò Szabó, Jürgen Bock, Heike Grassmé, Matthias Soddemann, Barbara Wilker, Florian Lang, Mario Zoratti, and Erich Gulbins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14861–14866. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804236105.
PMCID: PMC2567458
Sustained induction of epithelial to mesenchymal transition activates DNA methylation of genes silenced in basal-like breast cancers
Nancy Dumont, Matthew B. Wilson, Yongping G. Crawford, Paul A. Reynolds, Mahvash Sigaroudinia, and Thea D. Tlsty
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14867–14872. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807146105.
PMCID: PMC2567459
RNAi screening for kinases and phosphatases identifies FoxO regulators
Jaakko Mattila, Jukka Kallijärvi, and Oscar Puig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14873–14878. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803022105.
PMCID: PMC2567460
A search for conserved sequences in coding regions reveals that the let-7 microRNA targets Dicer within its coding sequence
Joshua J. Forman, Aster Legesse-Miller, and Hilary A. Coller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14879–14884. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803230105.
PMCID: PMC2567461
Computational prediction of RNA structural motifs involved in posttranscriptional regulatory processes
Michal Rabani, Michael Kertesz, and Eran Segal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14885–14890. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803169105.
PMCID: PMC2567462
Developmental Biology
The mammary microenvironment alters the differentiation repertoire of neural stem cells
Brian W. Booth, David L. Mack, Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis, Ronald D. G. McKay, Corinne A. Boulanger, and Gilbert H. Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14891–14896. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803214105.
PMCID: PMC2567463
From the Cover:
Boundaries of Dachsous Cadherin activity modulate the Hippo signaling pathway to induce cell proliferation
Maria Willecke, Fisun Hamaratoglu, Leticia Sansores-Garcia, Chunyao Tao, and Georg Halder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14897–14902. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805201105.
PMCID: PMC2567464
Ecology
From the Cover:
Self-made shelters protect spiders from predation
Carryn Manicom, Lin Schwarzkopf, Ross A. Alford, and Thomas W. Schoener
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14903–14907. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807107105.
PMCID: PMC2567465
Opening the climate envelope reveals no macroscale associations with climate in European birds
Colin M. Beale, Jack J. Lennon, and Alessandro Gimona
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14908–14912. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803506105.
PMCID: PMC2567466
Evolution
Newly discovered sister lineage sheds light on early ant evolution
Christian Rabeling, Jeremy M. Brown, and Manfred Verhaagh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14913–14917. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806187105.
PMCID: PMC2567467
Drug interactions modulate the potential for evolution of resistance
Jean-Baptiste Michel, Pamela J. Yeh, Remy Chait, Robert C. Moellering, Jr., and Roy Kishony
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14918–14923. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800944105.
PMCID: PMC2567468
Prevolutionary dynamics and the origin of evolution
Martin A. Nowak and Hisashi Ohtsuki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14924–14927. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806714105.
PMCID: PMC2567469
Adaptive changes in the transcription factor HoxA-11 are essential for the evolution of pregnancy in mammals
Vincent J. Lynch, Andrea Tanzer, Yajun Wang, Frederick C. Leung, Birgit Gellersen, Deena Emera, and Gunter P. Wagner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14928–14933. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802355105.
PMCID: PMC2567470
Endosymbiont gene functions impaired and rescued by polymerase infidelity at poly(A) tracts
Ivica Tamas, Jennifer J. Wernegreen, Björn Nystedt, Seth N. Kauppinen, Alistair C. Darby, Laura Gomez-Valero, Daniel Lundin, Anthony M. Poole, and Siv G. E. Andersson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14934–14939. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806554105.
PMCID: PMC2567471
Genetics
A common variant in the 3′UTR of the GRIK4 glutamate receptor gene affects transcript abundance and protects against bipolar disorder
B. S. Pickard, H. M. Knight, R. S. Hamilton, D. C. Soares, R. Walker, J. K. F. Boyd, J. Machell, A. Maclean, K. A. McGhee, A. Condie, D. J. Porteous, D. St. Clair, I. Davis, D. H. R. Blackwood, and W. J. Muir
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14940–14945. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0800643105.
PMCID: PMC2567472
Analysis and synthesis of high-amplitude Cis-elements in the mammalian circadian clock
Yuichi Kumaki, Maki Ukai-Tadenuma, Ken-ichiro D. Uno, Junko Nishio, Koh-hei Masumoto, Mamoru Nagano, Takashi Komori, Yasufumi Shigeyoshi, John B. Hogenesch, and Hiroki R. Ueda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14946–14951. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802636105.
PMCID: PMC2553039
Salmonella pathogenesis reveals that BMP signaling regulates blood cell homeostasis and immune responses in Drosophila
Joel L. Frandsen, Bronwyn Gunn, Selen Muratoglu, Nancy Fossett, and Stuart J. Newfeld
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14952–14957. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808208105.
PMCID: PMC2553038
Distinct size distribution of endogenous siRNAs in maize: Evidence from deep sequencing in the mop1-1 mutant
Kan Nobuta, Cheng Lu, Roli Shrivastava, Manoj Pillay, Emanuele De Paoli, Monica Accerbi, Mario Arteaga-Vazquez, Lyudmila Sidorenko, Dong-Hoon Jeong, Yang Yen, Pamela J. Green, Vicki L. Chandler, and Blake C. Meyers
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14958–14963. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808066105.
PMCID: PMC2567475
piRNA-mediated nuclear accumulation of retrotransposon transcripts in the Drosophila female germline
Séverine Chambeyron, Anna Popkova, Geneviève Payen-Groschêne, Christine Brun, Dorsaf Laouini, Alain Pelisson, and Alain Bucheton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14964–14969. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805943105.
PMCID: PMC2567476
The stem rust resistance gene Rpg5 encodes a protein with nucleotide-binding-site, leucine-rich, and protein kinase domains
R. Brueggeman, A. Druka, J. Nirmala, T. Cavileer, T. Drader, N. Rostoks, A. Mirlohi, H. Bennypaul, U. Gill, D. Kudrna, C. Whitelaw, A. Kilian, F. Han, Y. Sun, K. Gill, B. Steffenson, and A. Kleinhofs
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14970–14975. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807270105.
PMCID: PMC2567477
Stra8 and its inducer, retinoic acid, regulate meiotic initiation in both spermatogenesis and oogenesis in mice
Ericka L. Anderson, Andrew E. Baltus, Hermien L. Roepers-Gajadien, Terry J. Hassold, Dirk G. de Rooij, Ans M. M. van Pelt, and David C. Page
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14976–14980. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807297105.
PMCID: PMC2542382
Immunology
Chemical targeting of the innate antiviral response by histone deacetylase inhibitors renders refractory cancers sensitive to viral oncolysis
Thi Lien-Anh Nguyên, Hesham Abdelbary, Meztli Arguello, Caroline Breitbach, Simon Leveille, Jean-Simon Diallo, Amber Yasmeen, Tarek A. Bismar, David Kirn, Theresa Falls, Valerie E. Snoulten, Barbara C. Vanderhyden, Joel Werier, Harold Atkins, Markus J. V. Vähä-Koskela, David F. Stojdl, John C. Bell, and John Hiscott
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14981–14986. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803988105.
PMCID: PMC2567479
CTLA-4 blockade increases IFNγ-producing CD4+ICOShi cells to shift the ratio of effector to regulatory T cells in cancer patients
Chrysoula I. Liakou, Ashish Kamat, Derek Ng Tang, Hong Chen, Jingjing Sun, Patricia Troncoso, Christopher Logothetis, and Padmanee Sharma
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14987–14992. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806075105.
PMCID: PMC2567480
Local BAFF gene silencing suppresses Th17-cell generation and ameliorates autoimmune arthritis
Queenie Lai Kwan Lam, Otis King Hung Ko, Bo-Jian Zheng, and Liwei Lu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14993–14998. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806044105.
PMCID: PMC2567481
Respiratory syncytial virus impairs T cell activation by preventing synapse assembly with dendritic cells
Pablo A. González, Carolina E. Prado, Eduardo D. Leiva, Leandro J. Carreño, Susan M. Bueno, Claudia A. Riedel, and Alexis M. Kalergis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14999–15004. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802555105.
PMCID: PMC2567482
In vivo enzymatic modulation of IgG glycosylation inhibits autoimmune disease in an IgG subclass-dependent manner
Heike Albert, Mattias Collin, Diana Dudziak, Jeffrey V. Ravetch, and Falk Nimmerjahn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15005–15009. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808248105.
PMCID: PMC2567483
Distinct sets of αβ TCRs confer similar recognition of tumor antigen NY-ESO-1157–165 by interacting with its central Met/Trp residues
Laurent Derré, Marc Bruyninx, Petra Baumgaertner, Mathias Ferber, Daphné Schmid, Antoine Leimgruber, Vincent Zoete, Pedro Romero, Olivier Michielin, Daniel E. Speiser, and Nathalie Rufer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15010–15015. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807954105.
PMCID: PMC2567484
Selective expansion of a subset of exhausted CD8 T cells by αPD-L1 blockade
Shawn D. Blackburn, Haina Shin, Gordon J. Freeman, and E. John Wherry
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15016–15021. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801497105.
PMCID: PMC2567485
NF-IL6 (C/EBPβ) induces HIV-1 replication by inhibiting cytidine deaminase APOBEC3G
Shigemi M. Kinoshita and Shizuka Taguchi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15022–15027. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807269105.
PMCID: PMC2567486
Inflammation and autoimmunity caused by a SHP1 mutation depend on IL-1, MyD88, and a microbial trigger
Ben A. Croker, Brian R. Lawson, Michael Berger, Celine Eidenschenk, Amanda L. Blasius, Eva Marie Y. Moresco, Sosathya Sovath, Louise Cengia, Leonard D. Shultz, Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos, Sven Pettersson, and Bruce Alan Beutler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15028–15033. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806619105.
PMCID: PMC2567487
Medical Sciences
Preneoplastic lesion growth driven by the death of adjacent normal stem cells
Dennis L. Chao, J. Thomas Eck, Douglas E. Brash, Carlo C. Maley, and E. Georg Luebeck
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15034–15039. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802211105.
PMCID: PMC2567488
Identification of amino acids essential for the antiangiogenic activity of tumstatin and its use in combination antitumor activity
Hans Petter Eikesdal, Hikaru Sugimoto, Gabriel Birrane, Yohei Maeshima, Vesselina G. Cooke, Mark Kieran, and Raghu Kalluri
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15040–15045. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807055105.
PMCID: PMC2567489
AP4 encodes a c-MYC-inducible repressor of p21
Peter Jung, Antje Menssen, Doris Mayr, and Heiko Hermeking
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15046–15051. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801773105.
PMCID: PMC2553359
Pancreatic exocrine insufficiency in LXRβ−/− mice is associated with a reduction in aquaporin-1 expression
Chiara Gabbi, Hyun-Jin Kim, Kjell Hultenby, Didier Bouton, Gudrun Toresson, Margaret Warner, and Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15052–15057. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808097105.
PMCID: PMC2567491
Opposing functions of IKKβ during acute and chronic intestinal inflammation
Lars Eckmann, Tim Nebelsiek, Alexander A. Fingerle, Sara M. Dann, Jörg Mages, Roland Lang, Sylvie Robine, Martin F. Kagnoff, Roland M. Schmid, Michael Karin, Melek C. Arkan, and Florian R. Greten
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15058–15063. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808216105.
PMCID: PMC2567492
The inner of the two Muc2 mucin-dependent mucus layers in colon is devoid of bacteria
Malin E. V. Johansson, Mia Phillipson, Joel Petersson, Anna Velcich, Lena Holm, and Gunnar C. Hansson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15064–15069. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803124105.
PMCID: PMC2567493
Microbiology
A polymicrobial perspective of pulmonary infections exposes an enigmatic pathogen in cystic fibrosis patients
Christopher D. Sibley, Michael D. Parkins, Harvey R. Rabin, Kangmin Duan, Jens C. Norgaard, and Michael G. Surette
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15070–15075. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804326105.
PMCID: PMC2567494
The convergence of carbohydrate active gene repertoires in human gut microbes
Catherine A. Lozupone, Micah Hamady, Brandi L. Cantarel, Pedro M. Coutinho, Bernard Henrissat, Jeffrey I. Gordon, and Rob Knight
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15076–15081. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807339105.
PMCID: PMC2546442
Role of selection in the emergence of lineages and the evolution of virulence in Neisseria meningitidis
Caroline O. Buckee, Keith A. Jolley, Mario Recker, Bridget Penman, Paula Kriz, Sunetra Gupta, and Martin C. J. Maiden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15082–15087. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712019105.
PMCID: PMC2553036
An insect symbiosis is influenced by bacterium-specific polymorphisms in outer-membrane protein A
Brian L. Weiss, Yineng Wu, Jonathon J. Schwank, Nicholas S. Tolwinski, and Serap Aksoy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15088–15093. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805666105.
PMCID: PMC2567497
The genome of Cyanothece 51142, a unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium important in the marine nitrogen cycle
Eric A. Welsh, Michelle Liberton, Jana Stöckel, Thomas Loh, Thanura Elvitigala, Chunyan Wang, Aye Wollam, Robert S. Fulton, Sandra W. Clifton, Jon M. Jacobs, Rajeev Aurora, Bijoy K. Ghosh, Louis A. Sherman, Richard D. Smith, Richard K. Wilson, and Himadri B. Pakrasi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15094–15099. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805418105.
PMCID: PMC2567498
A channel connecting the mother cell and forespore during bacterial endospore formation
Jeffrey Meisner, Xin Wang, Monica Serrano, Adriano O. Henriques, and Charles P. Moran, Jr
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15100–15105. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806301105.
PMCID: PMC2567499
Neuroscience
From the Cover:
Age-related changes in midbrain dopaminergic regulation of the human reward system
Jean-Claude Dreher, Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg, Philip Kohn, and Karen Faith Berman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15106–15111. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802127105.
PMCID: PMC2567500
Human gene therapy for RPE65 isomerase deficiency activates the retinoid cycle of vision but with slow rod kinetics
Artur V. Cideciyan, Tomas S. Aleman, Sanford L. Boye, Sharon B. Schwartz, Shalesh Kaushal, Alejandro J. Roman, Ji-jing Pang, Alexander Sumaroka, Elizabeth A. M. Windsor, James M. Wilson, Terence R. Flotte, Gerald A. Fishman, Elise Heon, Edwin M. Stone, Barry J. Byrne, Samuel G. Jacobson, and William W. Hauswirth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15112–15117. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807027105.
PMCID: PMC2567501
Adenosine receptor antagonists alter the stability of human epileptic GABAA receptors
Cristina Roseti, Katiuscia Martinello, Sergio Fucile, Vanessa Piccari, Addolorata Mascia, Giancarlo Di Gennaro, Pier Paolo Quarato, Mario Manfredi, Vincenzo Esposito, Gianpaolo Cantore, Antonella Arcella, Michele Simonato, Bertil B. Fredholm, Cristina Limatola, Ricardo Miledi, and Fabrizio Eusebi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15118–15123. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807277105.
PMCID: PMC2567502
Mutational analysis of the neurexin/neuroligin complex reveals essential and regulatory components
Carsten Reissner, Martin Klose, Richard Fairless, and Markus Missler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15124–15129. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801639105.
PMCID: PMC2551626
cAMP/PKA signaling and RIM1α mediate presynaptic LTP in the lateral amygdala
Elodie Fourcaudot, Frédéric Gambino, Yann Humeau, Guillaume Casassus, Hamdy Shaban, Bernard Poulain, and Andreas Lüthi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15130–15135. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806938105.
PMCID: PMC2567504
Mitochondrial complex I inhibition is not required for dopaminergic neuron death induced by rotenone, MPP+, or paraquat
Won-Seok Choi, Shane E. Kruse, Richard D. Palmiter, and Zhengui Xia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15136–15141. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807581105.
PMCID: PMC2567505
Disulfide locking a sodium channel voltage sensor reveals ion pair formation during activation
Paul G. DeCaen, Vladimir Yarov-Yarovoy, Yong Zhao, Todd Scheuer, and William A. Catterall
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15142–15147. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806486105.
PMCID: PMC2567506
Estrogens directly potentiate neuronal L-type Ca2+ channels
Saumyendra N. Sarkar, Ren-Qi Huang, Shaun M. Logan, Kun Don Yi, Glenn H. Dillon, and James W. Simpkins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15148–15153. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802379105.
PMCID: PMC2575342
The BK-mediated fAHP is modulated by learning a hippocampus-dependent task
Elizabeth A. Matthews, Aldis P. Weible, Samit Shah, and John F. Disterhoft
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15154–15159. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805855105.
PMCID: PMC2567507
Spontaneous neural activity during human slow wave sleep
Thien Thanh Dang-Vu, Manuel Schabus, Martin Desseilles, Geneviève Albouy, Mélanie Boly, Annabelle Darsaud, Steffen Gais, Géraldine Rauchs, Virginie Sterpenich, Gilles Vandewalle, Julie Carrier, Gustave Moonen, Evelyne Balteau, Christian Degueldre, André Luxen, Christophe Phillips, and Pierre Maquet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15160–15165. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801819105.
PMCID: PMC2567508
Pharmacology
Fabrication of ZnPc/protein nanohorns for double photodynamic and hyperthermic cancer phototherapy
Minfang Zhang, Tatsuya Murakami, Kumiko Ajima, Kunihiro Tsuchida, Atula S. D. Sandanayaka, Osamu Ito, Sumio Iijima, and Masako Yudasaka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14773–14778. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0801349105.
PMCID: PMC2567443
Superoxide anions regulate TORC1 and its ability to bind Fpr1:rapamycin complex
Taavi K. Neklesa and Ronald W. Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15166–15171. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807712105.
PMCID: PMC2567509
Physiology
From the Cover:
Physiological significance of a peripheral tissue circadian clock
Katja A. Lamia, Kai-Florian Storch, and Charles J. Weitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15172–15177. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806717105.
PMCID: PMC2532700
Plant Biology
Tetrapyrrole profiling in Arabidopsis seedlings reveals that retrograde plastid nuclear signaling is not due to Mg-protoporphyrin IX accumulation
Michael Moulin, Alex C. McCormac, Matthew J. Terry, and Alison G. Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15178–15183. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803054105.
PMCID: PMC2567511
The steady-state level of Mg-protoporphyrin IX is not a determinant of plastid-to-nucleus signaling in Arabidopsis
Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Ryouichi Tanaka, Ayumi Tanaka, Tatsuru Masuda, and Akira Nagatani
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15184–15189. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0803245105.
PMCID: PMC2567512
New auxin analogs with growth-promoting effects in intact plants reveal a chemical strategy to improve hormone delivery
Sigal Savaldi-Goldstein, Thomas J. Baiga, Florence Pojer, Tsegeye Dabi, Cristina Butterfield, Geraint Parry, Aaron Santner, Nihal Dharmasiri, Yi Tao, Mark Estelle, Joseph P. Noel, and Joanne Chory
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15190–15195. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0806324105.
PMCID: PMC2567513
sparse inflorescence1 encodes a monocot-specific YUCCA-like gene required for vegetative and reproductive development in maize
Andrea Gallavotti, Solmaz Barazesh, Simon Malcomber, Darren Hall, David Jackson, Robert J. Schmidt, and Paula McSteen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15196–15201. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805596105.
PMCID: PMC2567514
Evolutionary linkage between eukaryotic cytokinesis and chloroplast division by dynamin proteins
Shin-ya Miyagishima, Hidekazu Kuwayama, Hideko Urushihara, and Hiromitsu Nakanishi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15202–15207. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0802412105.
PMCID: PMC2567515
Non-cell-autonomous control of vascular stem cell fate by a CLE peptide/receptor system
Yuki Hirakawa, Hidefumi Shinohara, Yuki Kondo, Asuka Inoue, Ikuko Nakanomyo, Mari Ogawa, Shinichiro Sawa, Kyoko Ohashi-Ito, Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi, and Hiroo Fukuda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15208–15213. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808444105.
PMCID: PMC2567516
Psychology
Unconscious processing dissociates along categorical lines
Jorge Almeida, Bradford Z. Mahon, Ken Nakayama, and Alfonso Caramazza
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15214–15218. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0805867105.
PMCID: PMC2567517
Social Sciences
Anthropology
The “fire stick farming” hypothesis: Australian Aboriginal foraging strategies, biodiversity, and anthropogenic fire mosaics
R. Bliege Bird, D. W. Bird, B. F. Codding, C. H. Parker, and J. H. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 14796–14801. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0804757105.
PMCID: PMC2567447
Corrections
Correction for Eitas et al., Arabidopsis TAO1 is a TIR-NB-LRR protein that contributes to disease resistance induced by the Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrB
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15219. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0807853105.
PMCID: PMC2567518
Corrects: Timothy K. Eitas, et al. Arabidopsis TAO1 is a TIR-NB-LRR protein that contributes to disease resistance induced by the Pseudomonas syringae effector AvrB. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 29; 105(17): 6475–6480.
Correction for Rakic, Confusing cortical columns
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15220. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808511105.
PMCID: PMC2567519
Corrects: Pasko Rakic. Confusing cortical columns. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 August 26; 105(34): 12099–12100.
Correction for Shroff et al., Dual-color superresolution imaging of genetically expressed probes within individual adhesion complexes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15220. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808557105.
PMCID: PMC2567520
Corrects: Hari Shroff, et al. Dual-color superresolution imaging of genetically expressed probes within individual adhesion complexes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 December 18; 104(51): 20308–20313.
Correction for Sidhu et al., Fine structure mapping of a gene-rich region of wheat carrying Ph1, a suppressor of crossing over between homoeologous chromosomes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 September 30; 105(39): 15220. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0808507105.
PMCID: PMC2567521
Corrects: Gaganpreet K. Sidhu, et al. Fine structure mapping of a gene-rich region of wheat carrying Ph1, a suppressor of crossing over between homoeologous chromosomes. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 April 15; 105(15): 5815–5820.
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