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Volume 102(8);  February 22, 2005
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This Week in PNAS
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2673–2674. doi: 10.1073/iti0805102.
PMCID: PMC549503
Commentaries
Cholesterol detoxification by the nuclear pregnane X receptor
Steven A. Kliewer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2675–2676. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500159102.
PMCID: PMC549480
Phosphatase and tensin homologue growth suppression without phosphatase
David Stokoe and Joseph F. Costello
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2677–2678. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500089102.
PMCID: PMC549471
Endocytosis of membrane receptors: Two pathways are better than one
Rubén Claudio Aguilar and Beverly Wendland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2679–2680. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500213102.
PMCID: PMC549498
Eukaryotic-like signaling and gene regulation in a prokaryote that undergoes multicellular development
Lee Kroos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2681–2682. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500157102.
PMCID: PMC549479
The community-wide dilemma of hospital-acquired drug resistance
Leslie A. Real
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2683–2684. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500088102.
PMCID: PMC549469
Physical Sciences
Engineering
Uncovering transcriptional regulation of metabolism by using metabolic network topology
Kiran Raosaheb Patil and Jens Nielsen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2685–2689. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406811102.
PMCID: PMC549453
Mathematics
From the Cover:
Combinatorial theory of Macdonald polynomials I: Proof of Haglund's formula
J. Haglund, M. Haiman, and N. Loehr
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2690–2696. Published online 2005 January 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408497102.
PMCID: PMC549509
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
Tailored catalysts for plant cell-wall degradation: Redesigning the exo/endo preference of Cellvibrio japonicus arabinanase 43A
Mark R. Proctor, Edward J. Taylor, Didier Nurizzo, Johan P. Turkenburg, Ruth M. Lloyd, Maria Vardakou, Gideon J. Davies, and Harry J. Gilbert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2697–2702. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500051102.
PMCID: PMC549454
Biochemistry
From the Cover:
Cellular transformation by the MSP58 oncogene is inhibited by its physical interaction with the PTEN tumor suppressor
Koichi Okumura, Mujun Zhao, Ronald A. DePinho, Frank B. Furnari, and Webster K. Cavenee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2703–2706. Published online 2005 January 19. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409370102.
PMCID: PMC549467
A critical role of helix 3–helix 5 interaction in steroid hormone receptor function
Junhui Zhang, Jessica Simisky, Francis T. F. Tsai, and David S. Geller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2707–2712. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409663102.
PMCID: PMC549476
Sulfide binding is mediated by zinc ions discovered in the crystal structure of a hydrothermal vent tubeworm hemoglobin
Jason F. Flores, Charles R. Fisher, Susan L. Carney, Brian N. Green, John K. Freytag, Stephen W. Schaeffer, and William E. Royer, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2713–2718. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407455102.
PMCID: PMC549462
Disulfide trapping to localize small-molecule agonists and antagonists for a G protein-coupled receptor
Elizabeth Buck and James A. Wells
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2719–2724. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500016102.
PMCID: PMC549436
Interruption of ganglioside synthesis produces central nervous system degeneration and altered axon–glial interactions
Tadashi Yamashita, Yun-Ping Wu, Roger Sandhoff, Norbert Werth, Hiroki Mizukami, Jessica M. Ellis, Jeffrey L. Dupree, Rudolf Geyer, Konrad Sandhoff, and Richard L. Proia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2725–2730. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407785102.
PMCID: PMC549464
Inorganic polyphosphate in Dictyostelium discoideum: Influence on development, sporulation, and predation
Haiyu Zhang, María R. Gómez-García, Michael R. W. Brown, and Arthur Kornberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2731–2735. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500023102.
PMCID: PMC549442
Biophysics
Surviving heat shock: Control strategies for robustness and performance
H. El-Samad, H. Kurata, J. C. Doyle, C. A. Gross, and M. Khammash
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2736–2741. Published online 2005 January 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403510102.
PMCID: PMC549435
The carboxyl-terminal region of cyclic nucleotide-modulated channels is a gating ring, not a permeation path
J. P. Johnson, Jr. and William N. Zagotta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2742–2747. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408323102.
PMCID: PMC549449
Specific collapse followed by slow hydrogen-bond formation of β-sheet in the folding of single-chain monellin
Tetsunari Kimura, Takanori Uzawa, Koichiro Ishimori, Isao Morishima, Satoshi Takahashi, Takashi Konno, Shuji Akiyama, and Tetsuro Fujisawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2748–2753. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407982102.
PMCID: PMC549438
Polyproline and the “spectroscopic ruler” revisited with single-molecule fluorescence
Benjamin Schuler, Everett A. Lipman, Peter J. Steinbach, Michael Kumke, and William A. Eaton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2754–2759. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408164102.
PMCID: PMC549440
Cell Biology
From the Cover:
Clathrin-independent endocytosis of ubiquitinated cargos
Sara Sigismund, Tanja Woelk, Claudia Puri, Elena Maspero, Carlo Tacchetti, Pietro Transidico, Pier Paolo Di Fiore, and Simona Polo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2760–2765. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409817102.
PMCID: PMC549482
From the Cover:
The association of epsin with ubiquitinated cargo along the endocytic pathway is negatively regulated by its interaction with clathrin
Hong Chen and Pietro De Camilli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2766–2771. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409719102.
PMCID: PMC549477
Cryo-electron tomography of vaccinia virus
Marek Cyrklaff, Cristina Risco, Jose Jesús Fernández, Maria Victoria Jiménez, Mariano Estéban, Wolfgang Baumeister, and José L. Carrascosa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2772–2777. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409825102.
PMCID: PMC549483
Nucleoplasmin regulates chromatin condensation during apoptosis
Zhigang Lu, Chuanmao Zhang, and Zhonghe Zhai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2778–2783. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405374102.
PMCID: PMC549441
Interaction of BIG2, a brefeldin A-inhibited guanine nucleotide-exchange protein, with exocyst protein Exo70
Kai-Feng Xu, Xiaoyan Shen, Hewang Li, Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2784–2789. Published online 2005 February 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409871102.
PMCID: PMC549493
β-Arrestins bind and decrease cell-surface abundance of the Na+/H+ exchanger NHE5 isoform
Elöd Z. Szabó, Masayuki Numata, Viktoria Lukashova, Pietro Iannuzzi, and John Orlowski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2790–2795. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407444102.
PMCID: PMC549460
Mouse Na+/K+-ATPase β1-subunit has a K+-dependent cell adhesion activity for β-GlcNAc-terminating glycans
Noriaki Kitamura, Masahiko Ikekita, Takeshi Sato, Yoshihiro Akimoto, Yasumaru Hatanaka, Hayato Kawakami, Mitsushi Inomata, and Kiyoshi Furukawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2796–2801. Published online 2005 February 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409344102.
PMCID: PMC549466
Homeodomain-interacting protein kinase-2 mediates CtBP phosphorylation and degradation in UV-triggered apoptosis
Qinghong Zhang, Amanda Nottke, and Richard H. Goodman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2802–2807. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409373102.
PMCID: PMC549470
Developmental Biology
Polar nuclear localization of H1T2, a histone H1 variant, required for spermatid elongation and DNA condensation during spermiogenesis
Igor Martianov, Stefano Brancorsini, Raffaella Catena, Anne Gansmuller, Noora Kotaja, Martti Parvinen, Paolo Sassone-Corsi, and Irwin Davidson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2808–2813. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406060102.
PMCID: PMC549447
Early onset of puberty and early ovarian failure in CYP7B1 knockout mice
Yoko Omoto, Richard Lathe, Margaret Warner, and Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2814–2819. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500198102.
PMCID: PMC549492
Bursicon, the insect cuticle-hardening hormone, is a heterodimeric cystine knot protein that activates G protein-coupled receptor LGR2
Ching-Wei Luo, Elizabeth M. Dewey, Satoko Sudo, John Ewer, Sheau Yu Hsu, Hans-Willi Honegger, and Aaron J. W. Hsueh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2820–2825. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409916102.
PMCID: PMC549504
Ecology
Ecosystem recovery after climatic extremes enhanced by genotypic diversity
Thorsten B. H. Reusch, Anneli Ehlers, August Hämmerli, and Boris Worm
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2826–2831. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500008102.
PMCID: PMC549506
Evolution
Positive selection of primate TRIM5α identifies a critical species-specific retroviral restriction domain
Sara L. Sawyer, Lily I. Wu, Michael Emerman, and Harmit S. Malik
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2832–2837. Published online 2005 February 2. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409853102.
PMCID: PMC549489
Heritability and genetic constraints of life-history trait evolution in preindustrial humans
Jenni E. Pettay, Loeske E. B. Kruuk, Jukka Jokela, and Virpi Lummaa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2838–2843. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406709102.
PMCID: PMC549452
Synthesis and degradation of dinoflagellate plastid-encoded psbA proteins are light-regulated, not circadian-regulated
Yunling Wang, Lene Jensen, Peter Højrup, and David Morse
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2844–2849. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406522102.
PMCID: PMC549448
Genetics
Uncovering transcriptional regulation of metabolism by using metabolic network topology
Kiran Raosaheb Patil and Jens Nielsen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2685–2689. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406811102.
PMCID: PMC549453
Identification and analysis of alternative splicing events conserved in human and mouse
Gene W. Yeo, Eric Van Nostrand, Dirk Holste, Tomaso Poggio, and Christopher B. Burge
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2850–2855. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409742102.
PMCID: PMC548664
Multiple homeostatic mechanisms in the control of P1 plasmid replication
Nilangshu Das, Majda Valjavec-Gratian, Ashish N. Basuray, Richard A. Fekete, Peter P. Papp, Johan Paulsson, and Dhruba K. Chattoraj
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2856–2861. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409790102.
PMCID: PMC549481
Dissecting the PhoP regulatory network of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica
Igor Zwir, Dongwoo Shin, Akinori Kato, Kunihiko Nishino, Tammy Latifi, Felix Solomon, Janelle M. Hare, Henry Huang, and Eduardo A. Groisman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2862–2867. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408238102.
PMCID: PMC548500
Genetic basis of variation in adenoma multiplicity in ApcMin/+ Mom1S mice
Jackie Haines, Victoria Johnson, Kevin Pack, Nirosha Suraweera, Predrag Slijepcevic, Erik Cabuy, Margaret Coster, Mohammad Ilyas, Jennifer Wilding, Oliver Sieber, Walter Bodmer, Ian Tomlinson, and Andrew Silver
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2868–2873. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500039102.
PMCID: PMC549446
Immunology
TNF receptor (TNFR)-associated factor (TRAF) 3 serves as an inhibitor of TRAF2/5-mediated activation of the noncanonical NF-κB pathway by TRAF-binding TNFRs
Julia Hauer, Stephanie Püschner, Parameswaran Ramakrishnan, Ute Simon, Martina Bongers, Christine Federle, and Hartmut Engelmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2874–2879. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500187102.
PMCID: PMC549490
Lactobacilli activate human dendritic cells that skew T cells toward T helper 1 polarization
Mansour Mohamadzadeh, Scott Olson, Warren V. Kalina, Gordon Ruthel, Gretchen L. Demmin, Kelly L. Warfield, Sina Bavari, and Todd R. Klaenhammer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2880–2885. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500098102.
PMCID: PMC549474
Characterization of CD56/CD16+ natural killer (NK) cells: A highly dysfunctional NK subset expanded in HIV-infected viremic individuals
Domenico Mavilio, Gabriella Lombardo, Janet Benjamin, Diana Kim, Dean Follman, Emanuela Marcenaro, M. Angeline O'Shea, Audrey Kinter, Colin Kovacs, Alessandro Moretta, and Anthony S. Fauci
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2886–2891. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409872102.
PMCID: PMC549494
The induction of matrix metalloproteinase and cytokine expression in synovial fibroblasts stimulated with immune cell microparticles
Jörg H. W. Distler, Astrid Jüngel, Lars C. Huber, Christian A. Seemayer, Charles F. Reich, III, Renate E. Gay, Beat A. Michel, Adriano Fontana, Steffen Gay, David S. Pisetsky, and Oliver Distler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2892–2897. Published online 2005 February 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409781102.
PMCID: PMC548330
T cells from epicutaneously immunized mice are prone to T cell receptor revision
Margaret S. Bynoe, Christophe Viret, Richard A. Flavell, and Charles A. Janeway, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2898–2903. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409880102.
PMCID: PMC549496
T cell receptor (TCR) clustering in the immunological synapse integrates TCR and costimulatory signaling in selected T cells
Bozidar Purtic, Lisa A. Pitcher, Nicolai S. C. van Oers, and Christoph Wülfing
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2904–2909. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406867102.
PMCID: PMC549456
Selective blockade of inhibitory Fcγ receptor enables human dendritic cell maturation with IL-12p70 production and immunity to antibody-coated tumor cells
Kavita M. Dhodapkar, Jacob L. Kaufman, Marc Ehlers, Devi K. Banerjee, Ezio Bonvini, Scott Koenig, Ralph M. Steinman, Jeffrey V. Ravetch, and Madhav V. Dhodapkar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2910–2915. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500014102.
PMCID: PMC549508
Medical Sciences
Role of the intestinal tight junction modulator zonulin in the pathogenesis of type I diabetes in BB diabetic-prone rats
Tammara Watts, Irene Berti, Anna Sapone, Tania Gerarduzzi, Tarcisio Not, Ronald Zielke, and Alessio Fasano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2916–2921. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500178102.
PMCID: PMC549484
Near-infrared-emissive polymersomes: Self-assembled soft matter for in vivo optical imaging
P. Peter Ghoroghchian, Paul R. Frail, Kimihiro Susumu, Dana Blessington, Aaron K. Brannan, Frank S. Bates, Britton Chance, Daniel A. Hammer, and Michael J. Therien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2922–2927. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409394102.
PMCID: PMC549472
Embryonic pig liver, pancreas, and lung as a source for transplantation: Optimal organogenesis without teratoma depends on distinct time windows
Smadar Eventov-Friedman, Helena Katchman, Elias Shezen, Anna Aronovich, Dalit Tchorsh, Benjamin Dekel, Enrique Freud, and Yair Reisner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2928–2933. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500177102.
PMCID: PMC548800
Function of endogenous inhibitors of angiogenesis as endothelium-specific tumor suppressors
Malin Sund, Yuki Hamano, Hikaru Sugimoto, Akulapalli Sudhakar, Mary Soubasakos, Udaya Yerramalla, Laura E. Benjamin, Jack Lawler, Mark Kieran, Amish Shah, and Raghu Kalluri
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2934–2939. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500180102.
PMCID: PMC549486
Vaccinia viruses with a serpin gene deletion and expressing IFN-γ induce potent immune responses without detectable replication in vivo
Fatema A. Legrand, Paulo H. Verardi, Kenneth S. Chan, Yue Peng, Leslie A. Jones, and Tilahun D. Yilma
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2940–2945. Published online 2005 February 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409846102.
PMCID: PMC548597
Altered vascular remodeling in fibulin-5-deficient mice reveals a role of fibulin-5 in smooth muscle cell proliferation and migration
Jeffrey A. Spencer, Shelby L. Hacker, Elaine C. Davis, Robert P. Mecham, Russ H. Knutsen, Dean Y. Li, Robert D. Gerard, James A. Richardson, Eric N. Olson, and Hiromi Yanagisawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2946–2951. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500058102.
PMCID: PMC549459
A shortened adeno-associated virus expression cassette for CFTR gene transfer to cystic fibrosis airway epithelia
Lynda S. Ostedgaard, Tatiana Rokhlina, Philip H. Karp, Philip Lashmit, Sandra Afione, Michael Schmidt, Joseph Zabner, Mark F. Stinski, Jay A. Chiorini, and Michael J. Welsh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2952–2957. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409845102.
PMCID: PMC549485
Correction of factor IX deficiency in mice by embryonic stem cells differentiated in vitro
Jeffrey H. Fair, Bruce A. Cairns, Michael A. LaPaglia, Montserrat Caballero, W. Andrew Pleasant, Seigo Hatada, Hyung-suk Kim, Tong Gui, Larysa Pevny, Anthony A. Meyer, Darrel W. Stafford, Oliver Smithies, and Jeffrey A. Frelinger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2958–2963. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409840102.
PMCID: PMC548326
Karyotypic “state” as a potential determinant for anticancer drug discovery
Anna V. Roschke, Samir Lababidi, Giovanni Tonon, Kristen S. Gehlhaus, Kimberly Bussey, John N. Weinstein, and Ilan R. Kirsch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2964–2969. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405578102.
PMCID: PMC549443
Concurrent suppression of hyperlipidemia and intestinal polyp formation by NO-1886, increasing lipoprotein lipase activity in Min mice
Naoko Niho, Michihiro Mutoh, Mami Takahashi, Kazuhiko Tsutsumi, Takashi Sugimura, and Keiji Wakabayashi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2970–2974. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500153102.
PMCID: PMC549478
Syndromic patent ductus arteriosus: Evidence for haploinsufficient TFAP2B mutations and identification of a linked sleep disorder
Arya Mani, Jayaram Radhakrishnan, Anita Farhi, Khary S. Carew, Carole A. Warnes, Carol Nelson-Williams, Ronald W. Day, Barbara Pober, Matthew W. State, and Richard P. Lifton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2975–2979. Published online 2005 January 31. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409852102.
PMCID: PMC549488
Microbiology
Tetracycline analogue-regulated transgene expression in Plasmodium falciparum blood stages using Toxoplasma gondii transactivators
Markus Meissner, Efrosinia Krejany, Paul R. Gilson, Tania F. de Koning-Ward, Dominique Soldati, and Brendan S. Crabb
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2980–2985. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500112102.
PMCID: PMC548799
Control of antiviral defenses through hepatitis C virus disruption of retinoic acid-inducible gene-I signaling
Eileen Foy, Kui Li, Rhea Sumpter, Jr., Yueh-Ming Loo, Cynthia L. Johnson, Chunfu Wang, Penny Mar Fish, Mitsutoshi Yoneyama, Takashi Fujita, Stanley M. Lemon, and Michael Gale, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2986–2991. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408707102.
PMCID: PMC549461
Immune evasion by hepatitis C virus NS3/4A protease-mediated cleavage of the Toll-like receptor 3 adaptor protein TRIF
Kui Li, Eileen Foy, Josephine C. Ferreon, Mitsuyasu Nakamura, Allan C. M. Ferreon, Masanori Ikeda, Stuart C. Ray, Michael Gale, Jr., and Stanley M. Lemon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2992–2997. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408824102.
PMCID: PMC548795
Reconstitution of papillomavirus E2-mediated plasmid maintenance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by the Brd4 bromodomain protein
Angela R. Brannon, Julia A. Maresca, Jef D. Boeke, Munira A. Basrai, and Alison A. McBride
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 2998–3003. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407818102.
PMCID: PMC549465
Complete genome sequence of Vibrio fischeri: A symbiotic bacterium with pathogenic congeners
E. G. Ruby, M. Urbanowski, J. Campbell, A. Dunn, M. Faini, R. Gunsalus, P. Lostroh, C. Lupp, J. McCann, D. Millikan, A. Schaefer, E. Stabb, A. Stevens, K. Visick, C. Whistler, and E. P. Greenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3004–3009. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409900102.
PMCID: PMC549501
Enhancer-binding proteins with a forkhead-associated domain and the σ54 regulon in Myxococcus xanthus fruiting body development
Lars Jelsbak, Michael Givskov, and Dale Kaiser
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3010–3015. Published online 2005 January 24. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409371102.
PMCID: PMC549468
Engineering N-linked protein glycosylation with diverse O antigen lipopolysaccharide structures in Escherichia coli
Mario F. Feldman, Michael Wacker, Marcela Hernandez, Paul G. Hitchen, Cristina L. Marolda, Michael Kowarik, Howard R. Morris, Anne Dell, Miguel A. Valvano, and Markus Aebi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3016–3021. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500044102.
PMCID: PMC549450
Plasmodium liver stage developmental arrest by depletion of a protein at the parasite–host interface
Ann-Kristin Mueller, Nelly Camargo, Karine Kaiser, Cathy Andorfer, Ute Frevert, Kai Matuschewski, and Stefan H. I. Kappe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3022–3027. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408442102.
PMCID: PMC548321
Bile acids induce cholera toxin expression in Vibrio cholerae in a ToxT-independent manner
Deborah T. Hung and John J. Mekalanos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3028–3033. Published online 2005 February 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409559102.
PMCID: PMC549475
Neuroscience
β-Arrestin2, interacting with phosphodiesterase 4, regulates synaptic release probability and presynaptic inhibition by opioids
Amyaouch Bradaïa, Frédérique Berton, Serge Ferrari, and Christian Lüscher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3034–3039. Published online 2005 February 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406632102.
PMCID: PMC549451
Honey bees navigate according to a map-like spatial memory
Randolf Menzel, Uwe Greggers, Alan Smith, Sandra Berger, Robert Brandt, Sascha Brunke, Gesine Bundrock, Sandra Hülse, Tobias Plümpe, Frank Schaupp, Elke Schüttler, Silke Stach, Jan Stindt, Nicola Stollhoff, and Sebastian Watzl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3040–3045. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408550102.
PMCID: PMC549458
Chronic nicotine administration exacerbates tau pathology in a transgenic model of Alzheimer's disease
Salvatore Oddo, Antonella Caccamo, Kim N. Green, Kevin Liang, Levina Tran, Yiling Chen, Frances M. Leslie, and Frank M. LaFerla
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3046–3051. Published online 2005 February 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408500102.
PMCID: PMC549455
Melatonin induces the expression of gonadotropin-inhibitory hormone in the avian brain
Takayoshi Ubuka, George E. Bentley, Kazuyoshi Ukena, John C. Wingfield, and Kazuyoshi Tsutsui
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3052–3057. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403840102.
PMCID: PMC549437
Amyloid-β neurotoxicity is mediated by FISH adapter protein and ADAM12 metalloprotease activity
Nikolay L. Malinin, Sarah Wright, Peter Seubert, Dale Schenk, and Irene Griswold-Prenner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3058–3063. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408237102.
PMCID: PMC549444
Transcellular induction of neuropeptide Y expression by NT4 and BDNF
Marcus J. Wirth, Silke Patz, and Petra Wahle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3064–3069. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404712102.
PMCID: PMC549439
Cognitive deficit associated with cholinergic and nerve growth factor down-regulation in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis in rats
Giulia D'Intino, Michela Paradisi, Mercedes Fernandez, Alessandro Giuliani, Luigi Aloe, Luciana Giardino, and Laura Calzà
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3070–3075. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500073102.
PMCID: PMC548798
Shared and specific muscle synergies in natural motor behaviors
Andrea d'Avella and Emilio Bizzi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3076–3081. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500199102.
PMCID: PMC549495
Pharmacology
Crystal structure of the tandem GAF domains from a cyanobacterial adenylyl cyclase: Modes of ligand binding and dimerization
Sergio E. Martinez, Sandra Bruder, Anita Schultz, Ning Zheng, Joachim E. Schultz, Joseph A. Beavo, and Jürgen U. Linder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3082–3087. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409913102.
PMCID: PMC549502
The cyanobacterial tandem GAF domains from the cyaB2 adenylyl cyclase signal via both cAMP-binding sites
Sandra Bruder, Jürgen U. Linder, Sergio E. Martinez, Ning Zheng, Joseph A. Beavo, and Joachim E. Schultz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3088–3092. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409917102.
PMCID: PMC549505
CB2 cannabinoid receptor activation produces antinociception by stimulating peripheral release of endogenous opioids
Mohab M. Ibrahim, Frank Porreca, Josephine Lai, Phillip J. Albrecht, Frank L. Rice, Alla Khodorova, Gudarz Davar, Alexandros Makriyannis, Todd W. Vanderah, Heriberto P. Mata, and T. Philip Malan, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3093–3098. Published online 2005 February 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409888102.
PMCID: PMC549497
Physiology
Ca2+ blinks: Rapid nanoscopic store calcium signaling
Didier X. P. Brochet, Dongmei Yang, Alessandro Di Maio, W. Jonathan Lederer, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, and Heping Cheng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3099–3104. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500059102.
PMCID: PMC548797
Longer lifespan, altered metabolism, and stress resistance in Drosophila from ablation of cells making insulin-like ligands
Susan J. Broughton, Matthew D. W. Piper, Tomoatsu Ikeya, Timothy M. Bass, Jake Jacobson, Yasmine Driege, Pedro Martinez, Ernst Hafen, Dominic J. Withers, Sally J. Leevers, and Linda Partridge
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3105–3110. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405775102.
PMCID: PMC549445
Differential control of peripheral circadian rhythms by suprachiasmatic-dependent neural signals
Hongnian Guo, Judy McKinley Brewer, Ameya Champhekar, Ruth B. S. Harris, and Eric L. Bittman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3111–3116. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409734102.
PMCID: PMC548796
Plant Biology
Control of seed mass and seed yield by the floral homeotic gene APETALA2
K. Diane Jofuku, Pamela K. Omidyar, Zorana Gee, and Jack K. Okamuro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3117–3122. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409893102.
PMCID: PMC549499
Control of seed mass by APETALA2
Masa-aki Ohto, Robert L. Fischer, Robert B. Goldberg, Kenzo Nakamura, and John J. Harada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3123–3128. Published online 2005 February 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409858102.
PMCID: PMC549491
Genetic and chemical analyses of the action mechanisms of sirtinol in Arabidopsis
Xinhua Dai, Ken-ichiro Hayashi, Hiroshi Nozaki, Youfa Cheng, and Yunde Zhao
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3129–3134. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500185102.
PMCID: PMC549487
Recruitment and interaction dynamics of plant penetration resistance components in a plasma membrane microdomain
Riyaz A. Bhat, Marco Miklis, Elmon Schmelzer, Paul Schulze-Lefert, and Ralph Panstruga
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3135–3140. Published online 2005 February 9. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500012102.
PMCID: PMC549507
Antioxidants and photoprotection in a lichen as compared with its isolated symbiotic partners
Ilse Kranner, W. John Cram, Margret Zorn, Sabine Wornik, Isao Yoshimura, Edith Stabentheiner, and Hartwig W. Pfeifhofer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3141–3146. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407716102.
PMCID: PMC549463
Root-knot nematodes and bacterial Nod factors elicit common signal transduction events in Lotus japonicus
Ravisha R. Weerasinghe, David McK. Bird, and Nina S. Allen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3147–3152. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407926102.
PMCID: PMC549434
Population Biology
From the Cover:
Strategic interactions in multi-institutional epidemics of antibiotic resistance
David L. Smith, Simon A. Levin, and Ramanan Laxminarayan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3153–3158. Published online 2005 January 26. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409523102.
PMCID: PMC549473
Psychology
Symmetry activates extrastriate visual cortex in human and nonhuman primates
Yuka Sasaki, Wim Vanduffel, Tamara Knutsen, Christopher Tyler, and Roger Tootell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3159–3163. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0500319102.
PMCID: PMC549500
Past trials influence perception of ambiguous motion quartets through pattern completion
L. T. Maloney, M. F. Dal Martello, C. Sahm, and L. Spillmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 February 22; 102(8): 3164–3169. Published online 2005 February 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407157102.
PMCID: PMC549457
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