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Volume 104(43);  October 23, 2007
Inaugural Articles
Hydrogen bond dynamics in aqueous NaBr solutions
Sungnam Park and M. D. Fayer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16731–16738. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707824104.
PMCID: PMC2040434
Drosophila follicle cell amplicons as models for metazoan DNA replication: A cyclinE mutant exhibits increased replication fork elongation
Eugenia A. Park, David M. MacAlpine, and Terry L. Orr-Weaver
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16739–16746. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707804104.
PMCID: PMC2040429
This Week in PNAS
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16721–16722. doi: 10.1073/iti4307104.
PMCID: PMC2040462
Commentaries
The transience of interneuron circuit diversity just “sped” up
Esther Krook-Magnuson and Molly M. Huntsman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16723–16724. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708149104.
PMCID: PMC2040444
Bringing the genetics of macular degeneration into focus
Jonathan L. Haines, Kylee M. Spencer, and Margaret A. Pericak-Vance
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16725–16726. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708151104.
PMCID: PMC2040461
The cyanobacterial circadian clock is based on the intrinsic ATPase activity of KaiC
C. Robertson McClung
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16727–16728. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708757104.
PMCID: PMC2040479
The emergence of grass root chemical ecology
Stephen O. Duke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16729–16730. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707837104.
PMCID: PMC2040442
Poverty and Hunger Special Feature
Introduction
African poverty: A grand challenge for sustainability science
Robert W. Kates and Partha Dasgupta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16747–16750. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708566104.
PMCID: PMC2040431
Research Articles
Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981–2004
Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16757–16762. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702930104.
PMCID: PMC2040450
Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Poverty reduction in Africa
Paul Collier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16763–16768. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611702104.
PMCID: PMC2040421
From the Cover: Poverty And Hunger Special Feature:
Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya
Paul O. Okwi, Godfrey Ndeng'e, Patti Kristjanson, Mike Arunga, An Notenbaert, Abisalom Omolo, Norbert Henninger, Todd Benson, Patrick Kariuki, and John Owuor
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16769–16774. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611107104.
PMCID: PMC2040447
Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: The African Millennium Villages
Pedro Sanchez, Cheryl Palm, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Denning, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Bashir Jama, Tsegazeab Kiflemariam, Bronwen Konecky, Raffaela Kozar, Eliud Lelerai, Alia Malik, Vijay Modi, Patrick Mutuo, Amadou Niang, Herine Okoth, Frank Place, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Amir Said, David Siriri, Awash Teklehaimanot, Karen Wang, Justine Wangila, and Colleen Zamba
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16775–16780. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700423104.
PMCID: PMC2040451
Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Tackling the African “poverty trap”: The Ijebu-Ode experiment
Akin L. Mabogunje
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16781–16786. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704765104.
PMCID: PMC2040443
Perspective
Governance and poverty reduction in Africa
Goran Hyden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16751–16756. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700696104.
PMCID: PMC2040419
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
High-resolution timing of cell cycle-regulated gene expression
Maga Rowicka, Andrzej Kudlicki, Benjamin P. Tu, and Zbyszek Otwinowski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16892–16897. Published online 2007 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706022104.
PMCID: PMC2040468
Chemistry
Hydrogen bond dynamics in aqueous NaBr solutions
Sungnam Park and M. D. Fayer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16731–16738. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707824104.
PMCID: PMC2040434
Enantioselective hydrogenation of α-aminomethylacrylates containing a free NAn external file that holds a picture, illustration, etc., usually as some form of binary object. The name of referred object is cjs0807.jpgH group for the synthesis of β-amino acid derivatives
Liqin Qiu, Mahavir Prashad, Bin Hu, Kapa Prasad, Oljan Repič, Thomas J. Blacklock, Fuk Yee Kwong, Stanton H. L. Kok, Hang Wai Lee, and Albert S. C. Chan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16787–16792. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704461104.
PMCID: PMC2040417
From the Cover:
Copper-free click chemistry for dynamic in vivo imaging
Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher, Scott T. Laughlin, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Isaac A. Miller, Anderson Lo, Julian A. Codelli, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16793–16797. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707090104.
PMCID: PMC2040404
The structures of cyclic dihydronium cations
Sonjae Wallace, Lulu Huang, Lou Massa, Uday Mukhopadhyay, Ivan Bernal, and Jerome Karle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16798–16803. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708249104.
PMCID: PMC2040416
From the Cover:
Altered phase diagram due to a single point mutation in human γD-crystallin
Jennifer J. McManus, Aleksey Lomakin, Olutayo Ogun, Ajay Pande, Markus Basan, Jayanti Pande, and George B. Benedek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16856–16861. Published online 2007 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707412104.
PMCID: PMC2040415
α-Helices direct excitation energy flow in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson protein
Frank Müh, Mohamed El-Amine Madjet, Julia Adolphs, Ayjamal Abdurahman, Björn Rabenstein, Hiroshi Ishikita, Ernst-Walter Knapp, and Thomas Renger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16862–16867. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708222104.
PMCID: PMC2040394
Geophysics
Modeling river delta formation
Hansjörg Seybold, José S. Andrade, Jr., and Hans J. Herrmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16804–16809. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705265104.
PMCID: PMC2040410
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
Activated vitamin D attenuates left ventricular abnormalities induced by dietary sodium in Dahl salt-sensitive animals
Natalya Bodyak, Juan Carlos Ayus, Steven Achinger, Venkatesha Shivalingappa, Qingen Ke, Yee-Shiuan Chen, Debra L. Rigor, Isaac Stillman, Hector Tamez, Paul E. Kroeger, Ruth R. Wu-Wong, S. Ananth Karumanchi, Ravi Thadhani, and Peter M. Kang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16810–16815. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611202104.
PMCID: PMC2040477
Enhanced phytoremediation of volatile environmental pollutants with transgenic trees
Sharon L. Doty, C. Andrew James, Allison L. Moore, Azra Vajzovic, Glenda L. Singleton, Caiping Ma, Zareen Khan, Gang Xin, Jun Won Kang, Jin Young Park, Richard Meilan, Steven H. Strauss, Jasmine Wilkerson, Federico Farin, and Stuart E. Strand
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16816–16821. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703276104.
PMCID: PMC2040402
Exploring the biochemical properties and remediation applications of the unusual explosive-degrading P450 system XplA/B
Rosamond G. Jackson, Elizabeth L. Rylott, Diane Fournier, Jalal Hawari, and Neil C. Bruce
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16822–16827. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705110104.
PMCID: PMC2040458
Biochemistry
Potent D-peptide inhibitors of HIV-1 entry
Brett D. Welch, Andrew P. VanDemark, Annie Heroux, Christopher P. Hill, and Michael S. Kay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16828–16833. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708109104.
PMCID: PMC2040420
Type I phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate 4-phosphatase regulates stress-induced apoptosis
Jun Zou, Jasna Marjanovic, Marina V. Kisseleva, Monita Wilson, and Philip W. Majerus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16834–16839. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708189104.
PMCID: PMC2040409
Interactions and dynamics of the Shine–Dalgarno helix in the 70S ribosome
Andrei Korostelev, Sergei Trakhanov, Haruichi Asahara, Martin Laurberg, Laura Lancaster, and Harry F. Noller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16840–16843. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707850104.
PMCID: PMC2040411
Architecture of the yeast Rrp44–exosome complex suggests routes of RNA recruitment for 3′ end processing
Hong-Wei Wang, Jianjun Wang, Fang Ding, Kevin Callahan, Matthew A. Bratkowski, J. Scott Butler, Eva Nogales, and Ailong Ke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16844–16849. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705526104.
PMCID: PMC2040474
Activation-dependent intrachromosomal interactions formed by the TNF gene promoter and two distal enhancers
Alla V. Tsytsykova, Ricardo Rajsbaum, James V. Falvo, Filipa Ligeiro, Simon R. Neely, and Anne E. Goldfeld
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16850–16855. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708210104.
PMCID: PMC2040403
Cyclic changes in metabolic state during the life of a yeast cell
Benjamin P. Tu, Rachel E. Mohler, Jessica C. Liu, Kenneth M. Dombek, Elton T. Young, Robert E. Synovec, and Steven L. McKnight
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16886–16891. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708365104.
PMCID: PMC2040445
Biophysics
From the Cover:
Altered phase diagram due to a single point mutation in human γD-crystallin
Jennifer J. McManus, Aleksey Lomakin, Olutayo Ogun, Ajay Pande, Markus Basan, Jayanti Pande, and George B. Benedek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16856–16861. Published online 2007 October 8. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707412104.
PMCID: PMC2040415
α-Helices direct excitation energy flow in the Fenna–Matthews–Olson protein
Frank Müh, Mohamed El-Amine Madjet, Julia Adolphs, Ayjamal Abdurahman, Björn Rabenstein, Hiroshi Ishikita, Ernst-Walter Knapp, and Thomas Renger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16862–16867. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708222104.
PMCID: PMC2040394
Single phage T4 DNA packaging motors exhibit large force generation, high velocity, and dynamic variability
Derek N. Fuller, Dorian M. Raymer, Vishal I. Kottadiel, Venigalla B. Rao, and Douglas E. Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16868–16873. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704008104.
PMCID: PMC2040459
Structural basis for receptor specificity of influenza B virus hemagglutinin
Qinghua Wang, Xia Tian, Xiaorui Chen, and Jianpeng Ma
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16874–16879. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708363104.
PMCID: PMC2040455
Linking folding with aggregation in Alzheimer's β-amyloid peptides
Jana Khandogin and Charles L. Brooks, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16880–16885. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703832104.
PMCID: PMC2040412
Cell Biology
From the Cover:
Copper-free click chemistry for dynamic in vivo imaging
Jeremy M. Baskin, Jennifer A. Prescher, Scott T. Laughlin, Nicholas J. Agard, Pamela V. Chang, Isaac A. Miller, Anderson Lo, Julian A. Codelli, and Carolyn R. Bertozzi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16793–16797. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707090104.
PMCID: PMC2040404
Cyclic changes in metabolic state during the life of a yeast cell
Benjamin P. Tu, Rachel E. Mohler, Jessica C. Liu, Kenneth M. Dombek, Elton T. Young, Robert E. Synovec, and Steven L. McKnight
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16886–16891. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708365104.
PMCID: PMC2040445
High-resolution timing of cell cycle-regulated gene expression
Maga Rowicka, Andrzej Kudlicki, Benjamin P. Tu, and Zbyszek Otwinowski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16892–16897. Published online 2007 September 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706022104.
PMCID: PMC2040468
Nitric oxide regulates matrix metalloproteinase-9 activity by guanylyl-cyclase-dependent and -independent pathways
Lisa A. Ridnour, Alisha N. Windhausen, Jeffrey S. Isenberg, Nolan Yeung, Douglas D. Thomas, Michael P. Vitek, David D. Roberts, and David A. Wink
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16898–16903. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702761104.
PMCID: PMC2040425
EGF receptor ubiquitination is not necessary for its internalization
Fangtian Huang, Lai Kuan Goh, and Alexander Sorkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16904–16909. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707416104.
PMCID: PMC2040475
RIDDLE immunodeficiency syndrome is linked to defects in 53BP1-mediated DNA damage signaling
Grant S. Stewart, Tatjana Stankovic, Philip J. Byrd, Thomas Wechsler, Edward S. Miller, Aarn Huissoon, Mark T. Drayson, Stephen C. West, Stephen J. Elledge, and A. Malcolm R. Taylor
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16910–16915. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708408104.
PMCID: PMC2040433
Quantification of dynamic protein complexes using Renilla luciferase fragment complementation applied to protein kinase A activities in vivo
E. Stefan, S. Aquin, N. Berger, C. R. Landry, B. Nyfeler, M. Bouvier, and S. W. Michnick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16916–16921. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704257104.
PMCID: PMC2040481
SIK1 is part of a cell sodium-sensing network that regulates active sodium transport through a calcium-dependent process
Mattias Sjöström, Karin Stenström, Kristina Eneling, Jean Zwiller, Adrian I. Katz, Hiroshi Takemori, and Alejandro M. Bertorello
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16922–16927. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706838104.
PMCID: PMC2040423
ARF1-mediated actin polymerization produces movement of artificial vesicles
Julien Heuvingh, Michel Franco, Philippe Chavrier, and Cécile Sykes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16928–16933. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704749104.
PMCID: PMC2040406
Chromosome mobility during meiotic prophase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Harry Scherthan, Hailin Wang, Caroline Adelfalk, Eric J. White, Carrie Cowan, W. Zacheus Cande, and David B. Kaback
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16934–16939. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704860104.
PMCID: PMC2040470
A role for IκB kinase 2 in bipolar spindle assembly
Jeffrey T. Irelan, Thomas J. Murphy, Paul D. DeJesus, Hsiangling Teo, DingYue Xu, Maria A. Gomez-Ferreria, Yingyao Zhou, Loren J. Miraglia, Daniel R. Rines, Inder M. Verma, David J. Sharp, Vinay Tergaonkar, and Sumit K. Chanda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16940–16945. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706493104.
PMCID: PMC2040438
Developmental Biology
A unique Extradenticle recruitment mode in the Drosophila Hox protein Ultrabithorax
Samir Merabet, Mehdi Saadaoui, Nagraj Sambrani, Bruno Hudry, Jacques Pradel, Markus Affolter, and Yacine Graba
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16946–16951. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705832104.
PMCID: PMC2040397
HOXB4's road map to stem cell expansion
Bernhard Schiedlmeier, Ana Cristina Santos, Ana Ribeiro, Natalia Moncaut, Dietrich Lesinski, Herbert Auer, Karl Kornacker, Wolfram Ostertag, Christopher Baum, Moises Mallo, and Hannes Klump
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16952–16957. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703082104.
PMCID: PMC2040480
Germ cells are essential for sexual dimorphism in the medaka gonad
Hiromi Kurokawa, Daisuke Saito, Shuhei Nakamura, Yuko Katoh-Fukui, Kohei Ohta, Takashi Baba, Ken-ichiro Morohashi, and Minoru Tanaka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16958–16963. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609932104.
PMCID: PMC2040408
Ecology
From the Cover:
Grass roots chemistry: meta-Tyrosine, an herbicidal nonprotein amino acid
Cécile Bertin, Leslie A. Weston, Tengfang Huang, Georg Jander, Thomas Owens, Jerrold Meinwald, and Frank C. Schroeder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16964–16969. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707198104.
PMCID: PMC2040483
Active root-inhabiting microbes identified by rapid incorporation of plant-derived carbon into RNA
Philippe Vandenkoornhuyse, Stéphane Mahé, Philip Ineson, Phil Staddon, Nick Ostle, Jean-Bernard Cliquet, André-Jean Francez, Alastair H. Fitter, and J. Peter W. Young
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16970–16975. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705902104.
PMCID: PMC2040396
Fluctuations in density of an outbreak species drive diversity cascades in food webs
Eldon S. Eveleigh, Kevin S. McCann, Peter C. McCarthy, Steven J. Pollock, Christopher J. Lucarotti, Benoit Morin, George A. McDougall, Douglas B. Strongman, John T. Huber, James Umbanhowar, and Lucas D. B. Faria
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16976–16981. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704301104.
PMCID: PMC2040472
Evolution
Negative correlation does not imply a tradeoff between growth and reproduction in California oaks
Johannes M. H. Knops, Walter D. Koenig, and William J. Carmen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16982–16985. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704251104.
PMCID: PMC2040414
Antagonistic pleiotropic effects reduce the potential adaptive value of the FRIGIDA locus
Nora Scarcelli, James M. Cheverud, Barbara A. Schaal, and Paula X. Kover
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16986–16991. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708209104.
PMCID: PMC2040464
The other side of the nearly neutral theory, evidence of slightly advantageous back-mutations
Jane Charlesworth and Adam Eyre-Walker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16992–16997. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705456104.
PMCID: PMC2040392
The relationship between evolutionary and physiological variation in hemoglobin
Ron Milo, Jennifer H. Hou, Michael Springer, Michael P. Brenner, and Marc W. Kirschner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16998–17003. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707673104.
PMCID: PMC2040440
Ohno's dilemma: Evolution of new genes under continuous selection
Ulfar Bergthorsson, Dan I. Andersson, and John R. Roth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17004–17009. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707158104.
PMCID: PMC2040452
Genetics
Drosophila follicle cell amplicons as models for metazoan DNA replication: A cyclinE mutant exhibits increased replication fork elongation
Eugenia A. Park, David M. MacAlpine, and Terry L. Orr-Weaver
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16739–16746. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707804104.
PMCID: PMC2040429
Terminally differentiated muscle cells are defective in base excision DNA repair and hypersensitive to oxygen injury
Laura Narciso, Paola Fortini, Deborah Pajalunga, Annapaola Franchitto, Pingfang Liu, Paolo Degan, Mathilde Frechet, Bruce Demple, Marco Crescenzi, and Eugenia Dogliotti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17010–17015. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0701743104.
PMCID: PMC2040456
Distinctive patterns of microRNA expression in primary muscular disorders
Iris Eisenberg, Alal Eran, Ichizo Nishino, Maurizio Moggio, Costanza Lamperti, Anthony A. Amato, Hart G. Lidov, Peter B. Kang, Kathryn N. North, Stella Mitrani-Rosenbaum, Kevin M. Flanigan, Lori A. Neely, Duncan Whitney, Alan H. Beggs, Isaac S. Kohane, and Louis M. Kunkel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17016–17021. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708115104.
PMCID: PMC2040449
Immunology
Conventional dendritic cells regulate the outcome of colonic inflammation independently of T cells
Kazumichi Abe, Kim Phung Nguyen, Sean D. Fine, Ji-Hun Mo, Carol Shen, Steve Shenouda, Maripat Corr, Steffen Jung, Jongdae Lee, Lars Eckmann, and Eyal Raz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17022–17027. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708469104.
PMCID: PMC2040469
Elevated level of SUMOylated IRF-1 in tumor cells interferes with IRF-1-mediated apoptosis
Junsoo Park, Kwangsoo Kim, Eun-Ju Lee, Yun-Jee Seo, Si-Nae Lim, Kyoungsook Park, Seung Bae Rho, Seung-Hoon Lee, and Je-Ho Lee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17028–17033. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0609852104.
PMCID: PMC2040422
Optimal induction of T helper 17 cells in humans requires T cell receptor ligation in the context of Toll-like receptor-activated monocytes
Hayley G. Evans, Tesha Suddason, Ian Jackson, Leonie S. Taams, and Graham M. Lord
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17034–17039. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708426104.
PMCID: PMC2040448
The cation efflux transporter ZnT8 (Slc30A8) is a major autoantigen in human type 1 diabetes
Janet M. Wenzlau, Kirstine Juhl, Liping Yu, Ong Moua, Suparna A. Sarkar, Peter Gottlieb, Marian Rewers, George S. Eisenbarth, Jan Jensen, Howard W. Davidson, and John C. Hutton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17040–17045. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705894104.
PMCID: PMC2040407
Linking double-stranded DNA breaks to the recombination activating gene complex directs repair to the nonhomologous end-joining pathway
Xiaoping Cui and Katheryn Meek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17046–17051. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0610928104.
PMCID: PMC2040436
Demethylation of a specific hypersensitive site in the Th2 locus control region
Sean T. Kim, Patrick E. Fields, and Richard A. Flavell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17052–17057. Published online 2007 October 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708293104.
PMCID: PMC2040439
Axonal transport mediates West Nile virus entry into the central nervous system and induces acute flaccid paralysis
Melanie A. Samuel, Hong Wang, Venkatraman Siddharthan, John D. Morrey, and Michael S. Diamond
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17140–17145. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705837104.
PMCID: PMC2040476
Medical Sciences
S-nitrosohemoglobin deficiency: A mechanism for loss of physiological activity in banked blood
James D. Reynolds, Gregory S. Ahearn, Michael Angelo, Jian Zhang, Fred Cobb, and Jonathan S. Stamler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17058–17062. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707958104.
PMCID: PMC2040473
Evolution of adverse changes in stored RBCs
Elliott Bennett-Guerrero, Tim H. Veldman, Allan Doctor, Marilyn J. Telen, Thomas L. Ortel, T. Scott Reid, Melissa A. Mulherin, Hongmei Zhu, Raymond D. Buck, Robert M. Califf, and Timothy J. McMahon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17063–17068. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708160104.
PMCID: PMC2040393
Multiple circulating proangiogenic factors induced by sunitinib malate are tumor-independent and correlate with antitumor efficacy
John M. L. Ebos, Christina R. Lee, James G. Christensen, Anthony J. Mutsaers, and Robert S. Kerbel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17069–17074. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708148104.
PMCID: PMC2040401
Mitochondrial dysfunction due to long-chain Acyl-CoA dehydrogenase deficiency causes hepatic steatosis and hepatic insulin resistance
Dongyan Zhang, Zhen-Xiang Liu, Cheol Soo Choi, Liqun Tian, Richard Kibbey, Jianying Dong, Gary W. Cline, Philip A. Wood, and Gerald I. Shulman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17075–17080. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707060104.
PMCID: PMC2040460
The EGF receptor is required for efficient liver regeneration
Anuradha Natarajan, Bettina Wagner, and Maria Sibilia
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17081–17086. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704126104.
PMCID: PMC2040457
Inhibition of 5-HT neuron activity and induction of depressive-like behavior by high-frequency stimulation of the subthalamic nucleus
Yasin Temel, Laura J. Boothman, Arjan Blokland, Peter J. Magill, Harry W. M. Steinbusch, Veerle Visser-Vandewalle, and Trevor Sharp
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17087–17092. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704144104.
PMCID: PMC2040465
HOXB13 promotes ovarian cancer progression
Jiangyong Miao, Zuncai Wang, Heather Provencher, Beth Muir, Sonika Dahiya, Erin Carney, Chee-Onn Leong, Dennis C. Sgroi, and Sandra Orsulic
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17093–17098. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707938104.
PMCID: PMC2040435
Immunotoxin and Taxol synergy results from a decrease in shed mesothelin levels in the extracellular space of tumors
Yujian Zhang, Laiman Xiang, Raffit Hassan, and Ira Pastan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17099–17104. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708101104.
PMCID: PMC2040446
Hepatocyte survival in acute hepatitis is due to c-Jun/AP-1-dependent expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase
Peter Hasselblatt, Martina Rath, Vukoslav Komnenovic, Kurt Zatloukal, and Erwin F. Wagner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17105–17110. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706272104.
PMCID: PMC2040484
Microbiology
A DNA methylation ratchet governs progression through a bacterial cell cycle
Justine Collier, Harley H. McAdams, and Lucy Shapiro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17111–17116. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708112104.
PMCID: PMC2040471
Arp2/3-independent assembly of actin by Vibrio type III effector VopL
Amy D. B. Liverman, Hui-Chun Cheng, Jennifer E. Trosky, Daisy W. Leung, Melanie L. Yarbrough, Dara L. Burdette, Michael K. Rosen, and Kim Orth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17117–17122. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703196104.
PMCID: PMC2040399
Isolates of Zaire ebolavirus from wild apes reveal genetic lineage and recombinants
Tatiana J. Wittmann, Roman Biek, Alexandre Hassanin, Pierre Rouquet, Patricia Reed, Philippe Yaba, Xavier Pourrut, Leslie A. Real, Jean-Paul Gonzalez, and Eric M. Leroy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17123–17127. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704076104.
PMCID: PMC2040453
Proteomic identification of tmRNA substrates
Sue-Jean Hong, Faith H. Lessner, Elisabeth M. Mahen, and Kenneth C. Keiler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17128–17133. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707671104.
PMCID: PMC2040454
Herpes simplex virus-infected cell protein 0 blocks the silencing of viral DNA by dissociating histone deacetylases from the CoREST–REST complex
Haidong Gu and Bernard Roizman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17134–17139. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707266104.
PMCID: PMC2040395
Neuroscience
A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees
James K. Rilling, Sarah K. Barks, Lisa A. Parr, Todd M. Preuss, Tracy L. Faber, Giuseppe Pagnoni, J. Douglas Bremner, and John R. Votaw
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17146–17151. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705132104.
PMCID: PMC2040430
Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Yi-Yuan Tang, Yinghua Ma, Junhong Wang, Yaxin Fan, Shigang Feng, Qilin Lu, Qingbao Yu, Danni Sui, Mary K. Rothbart, Ming Fan, and Michael I. Posner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17152–17156. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707678104.
PMCID: PMC2040428
Imaging cortical dynamics of language processing with the event-related optical signal
Chun-Yu Tse, Chia-Lin Lee, Jason Sullivan, Susan M. Garnsey, Gary S. Dell, Monica Fabiani, and Gabriele Gratton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17157–17162. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707901104.
PMCID: PMC2040398
Symmetries in human brain language pathways correlate with verbal recall
Marco Catani, Matthew P. G. Allin, Masud Husain, Luca Pugliese, Marsel M. Mesulam, Robin M. Murray, and Derek K. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17163–17168. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702116104.
PMCID: PMC2040413
Diminished adult neurogenesis in the marmoset brain precedes old age
Benedetta Leuner, Yevgenia Kozorovitskiy, Charles G. Gross, and Elizabeth Gould
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17169–17173. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708228104.
PMCID: PMC2040400
Neural correlates of a postponed decision report
Luis Lemus, Adrián Hernández, Rogelio Luna, Antonio Zainos, Verónica Nácher, and Ranulfo Romo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17174–17179. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707961104.
PMCID: PMC2040441
Optimally wired subnetwork determines neuroanatomy of Caenorhabditis elegans
Alfonso Pérez-Escudero and Gonzalo G. de Polavieja
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17180–17185. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703183104.
PMCID: PMC2040432
Dissociating the neural mechanisms of memory-based guidance of visual selection
David Soto, Glyn W. Humphreys, and Pia Rotshtein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17186–17191. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0703706104.
PMCID: PMC2040391
Dendritic spikes induce single-burst long-term potentiation
Stefan Remy and Nelson Spruston
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17192–17197. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707919104.
PMCID: PMC2040482
CRF–CRF1 system activation mediates withdrawal-induced increases in nicotine self-administration in nicotine-dependent rats
Olivier George, Sandy Ghozland, Marc R. Azar, Pietro Cottone, Eric P. Zorrilla, Loren H. Parsons, Laura E. O'Dell, Heather N. Richardson, and George F. Koob
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17198–17203. Published online 2007 October 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707585104.
PMCID: PMC2040467
Therapeutic silencing of mutant huntingtin with siRNA attenuates striatal and cortical neuropathology and behavioral deficits
M. DiFiglia, M. Sena-Esteves, K. Chase, E. Sapp, E. Pfister, M. Sass, J. Yoder, P. Reeves, R. K. Pandey, K. G. Rajeev, M. Manoharan, D. W. Y. Sah, P. D. Zamore, and N. Aronin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17204–17209. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708285104.
PMCID: PMC2040405
Adenosine receptor A2A-R contributes to motoneuron survival by transactivating the tyrosine kinase receptor TrkB
Stefan Wiese, Sibylle Jablonka, Bettina Holtmann, Nadiya Orel, Rithwick Rajagopal, Moses V. Chao, and Michael Sendtner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17210–17215. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705267104.
PMCID: PMC2040418
Plant Biology
Galactolipid synthesis in chloroplast inner envelope is essential for proper thylakoid biogenesis, photosynthesis, and embryogenesis
Koichi Kobayashi, Maki Kondo, Hiroaki Fukuda, Mikio Nishimura, and Hiroyuki Ohta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17216–17221. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704680104.
PMCID: PMC2040463
The basic helix–loop–helix domain of maize R links transcriptional regulation and histone modifications by recruitment of an EMSY-related factor
J. Marcela Hernandez, Antje Feller, Kengo Morohashi, Kenneth Frame, and Erich Grotewold
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17222–17227. Published online 2007 October 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705629104.
PMCID: PMC2040437
Psychology
Chimpanzees modify recruitment screams as a function of audience composition
Katie E. Slocombe and Klaus Zuberbühler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17228–17233. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0706741104.
PMCID: PMC2040427
Impaired face and body perception in developmental prosopagnosia
Ruthger Righart and Beatrice de Gelder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17234–17238. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707753104.
PMCID: PMC2040466
Social Sciences
Anthropology
A comparison of resting-state brain activity in humans and chimpanzees
James K. Rilling, Sarah K. Barks, Lisa A. Parr, Todd M. Preuss, Tracy L. Faber, Giuseppe Pagnoni, J. Douglas Bremner, and John R. Votaw
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17146–17151. Published online 2007 October 16. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0705132104.
PMCID: PMC2040430
Economic Sciences
Absolute poverty measures for the developing world, 1981–2004
Shaohua Chen and Martin Ravallion
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16757–16762. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0702930104.
PMCID: PMC2040450
Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Poverty reduction in Africa
Paul Collier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16763–16768. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611702104.
PMCID: PMC2040421
Environmental Sciences
From the Cover: Poverty And Hunger Special Feature:
Spatial determinants of poverty in rural Kenya
Paul O. Okwi, Godfrey Ndeng'e, Patti Kristjanson, Mike Arunga, An Notenbaert, Abisalom Omolo, Norbert Henninger, Todd Benson, Patrick Kariuki, and John Owuor
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16769–16774. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0611107104.
PMCID: PMC2040447
Psychology
Short-term meditation training improves attention and self-regulation
Yi-Yuan Tang, Yinghua Ma, Junhong Wang, Yaxin Fan, Shigang Feng, Qilin Lu, Qingbao Yu, Danni Sui, Mary K. Rothbart, Ming Fan, and Michael I. Posner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17152–17156. Published online 2007 October 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707678104.
PMCID: PMC2040428
Imaging cortical dynamics of language processing with the event-related optical signal
Chun-Yu Tse, Chia-Lin Lee, Jason Sullivan, Susan M. Garnsey, Gary S. Dell, Monica Fabiani, and Gabriele Gratton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17157–17162. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0707901104.
PMCID: PMC2040398
Sustainability Science
Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: The African Millennium Villages
Pedro Sanchez, Cheryl Palm, Jeffrey Sachs, Glenn Denning, Rafael Flor, Rebbie Harawa, Bashir Jama, Tsegazeab Kiflemariam, Bronwen Konecky, Raffaela Kozar, Eliud Lelerai, Alia Malik, Vijay Modi, Patrick Mutuo, Amadou Niang, Herine Okoth, Frank Place, Sonia Ehrlich Sachs, Amir Said, David Siriri, Awash Teklehaimanot, Karen Wang, Justine Wangila, and Colleen Zamba
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16775–16780. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0700423104.
PMCID: PMC2040451
Poverty And Hunger Special Feature: Tackling the African “poverty trap”: The Ijebu-Ode experiment
Akin L. Mabogunje
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 16781–16786. Published online 2007 October 17. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0704765104.
PMCID: PMC2040443
Corrections
Correction for Güngör et al., Proteasomal selection of multiprotein complexes recruited by LIM homeodomain transcription factors
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17239. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0709141104.
PMCID: PMC2040426
Corrects: Cenap Güngör, et al. Proteasomal selection of multiprotein complexes recruited by LIM homeodomain transcription factors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 18; 104(38): 15000–15005.
Correction for Bauer et al., A structural gap in Dpo4 supports mutagenic bypass of a major benzo[a]pyrene dG adduct in DNA through template misalignment
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17240. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708950104.
PMCID: PMC2040478
Corrects: Jacob Bauer, et al. A structural gap in Dpo4 supports mutagenic bypass of a major benzo[a]pyrene dG adduct in DNA through template misalignment. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 September 18; 104(38): 14905–14910.
Correction for Wu et al., Increased prostate cell proliferation and loss of cell differentiation in mice lacking prostate epithelial androgen receptor
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 October 23; 104(43): 17240. Published online 2007 October 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0708993104.
PMCID: PMC2040424
Corrects: Chun-Te Wu, et al. Increased prostate cell proliferation and loss of cell differentiation in mice lacking prostate epithelial androgen receptor. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2007 July 31; 104(31): 12679–12684.
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