| | This journal provides immediate access to some articles. 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 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. 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