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Volume 102(3);  January 18, 2005
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This Week in PNAS
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 517–518. doi: 10.1073/iti0305102.
PMCID: PMC548599
Commentary
Accessorizing natural products: Adding to nature's toolbox
Sherry S. Lamb and Gerard D. Wright
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 519–520. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408858102.
PMCID: PMC545579
Biography
Biography of William T. Newsome
Emma Hitt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 521–523. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409116102.
PMCID: PMC545564
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
The fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) gate: A time-resolved study
Qing-Hua Xu, Shu Wang, Dmitry Korystov, Alexander Mikhailovsky, Guillermo C. Bazan, Daniel Moses, and Alan J. Heeger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 530–535. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408568102.
PMCID: PMC545565
Physics
Formation and structure of ramified charge transportation networks in an electromechanical system
Joseph K. Jun and Alfred H. Hübler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 536–540. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406025102.
PMCID: PMC545530
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
Enhanced in vivo fitness of fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter jejuni in the absence of antibiotic selection pressure
Naidan Luo, Sonia Pereira, Orhan Sahin, Jun Lin, Shouxiong Huang, Linda Michel, and Qijing Zhang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 541–546. Published online 2005 January 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408966102.
PMCID: PMC545549
Applied Biological Sciences
Profiling the humoral immune response to infection by using proteome microarrays: High-throughput vaccine and diagnostic antigen discovery
D. Huw Davies, Xiaowu Liang, Jenny E. Hernandez, Arlo Randall, Siddiqua Hirst, Yunxiang Mu, Kimberly M. Romero, Toai T. Nguyen, Mina Kalantari-Dehaghi, Shane Crotty, Pierre Baldi, Luis P. Villarreal, and Philip L. Felgner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 547–552. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408782102.
PMCID: PMC545576
Biochemistry
The carboligation reaction of acetohydroxyacid synthase II: Steady-state intermediate distributions in wild type and mutants by NMR
Kai Tittmann, Maria Vyazmensky, Gerhard Hübner, Ze'ev Barak, and David M. Chipman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 553–558. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408210101.
PMCID: PMC545553
Altered pharmacology and distinct coactivator usage for estrogen receptor-dependent transcription through activating protein-1
Edwin Cheung, Mari Luz Acevedo, Philip A. Cole, and W. Lee Kraus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 559–564. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407113102.
PMCID: PMC545529
The Birc6 (Bruce) gene regulates p53 and the mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis and is essential for mouse embryonic development
Jinyu Ren, Mingan Shi, Renshui Liu, Qi-Heng Yang, Teri Johnson, William C. Skarnes, and Chunying Du
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 565–570. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408744102.
PMCID: PMC543482
From the Cover:
In vitro characterization of IroB, a pathogen-associated C-glycosyltransferase
Michael A. Fischbach, Hening Lin, David R. Liu, and Christopher T. Walsh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 571–576. Published online 2004 December 14. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408463102.
PMCID: PMC545562
Active site restructuring regulates ligand recognition in class A penicillin-binding proteins
Pauline Macheboeuf, Anne Marie Di Guilmi, Viviana Job, Thierry Vernet, Otto Dideberg, and Andréa Dessen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 577–582. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407186102.
PMCID: PMC545533
Zinc fingers as protein recognition motifs: Structural basis for the GATA-1/Friend of GATA interaction
Chu Kong Liew, Raina J. Y. Simpson, Ann H. Y. Kwan, Linda A. Crofts, Fionna E. Loughlin, Jacqueline M. Matthews, Merlin Crossley, and Joel P. Mackay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 583–588. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407511102.
PMCID: PMC545545
Methods for strand-specific DNA detection with cationic conjugated polymers suitable for incorporation into DNA chips and microarrays
Bin Liu and Guillermo C. Bazan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 589–593. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408561102.
PMCID: PMC545563
Heme-assisted S-nitrosation of a proximal thiolate in a nitric oxide transport protein
Andrzej Weichsel, Estelle M. Maes, John F. Andersen, Jesus G. Valenzuela, Tatjana Kh. Shokhireva, F. Ann Walker, and William R. Montfort
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 594–599. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406549102.
PMCID: PMC545542
Insights into the action of the superfamily of cholesterol-dependent cytolysins from studies of intermedilysin
Galina Polekhina, Kara Sue Giddings, Rodney K. Tweten, and Michael W. Parker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 600–605. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0403229101.
PMCID: PMC545513
Thermodynamic prediction of protein neutrality
Jesse D. Bloom, Jonathan J. Silberg, Claus O. Wilke, D. Allan Drummond, Christoph Adami, and Frances H. Arnold
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 606–611. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406744102.
PMCID: PMC545518
Biophysics
From the Cover:
Conformational changes during the nanosecond-to-millisecond unfolding of ubiquitin
Hoi Sung Chung, Munira Khalil, Adam W. Smith, Ziad Ganim, and Andrei Tokmakoff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 612–617. Published online 2005 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408646102.
PMCID: PMC545570
Protein conformational space in higher order ϕ-Ψ maps
Gregory E. Sims, In-Geol Choi, and Sung-Hou Kim
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 618–621. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408746102.
PMCID: PMC543483
Solution NMR-derived global fold of a monomeric 82-kDa enzyme
Vitali Tugarinov, Wing-Yiu Choy, Vladislav Yu. Orekhov, and Lewis E. Kay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 622–627. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407792102.
PMCID: PMC545550
Φ-Value analysis by molecular dynamics simulations of reversible folding
Giovanni Settanni, Francesco Rao, and Amedeo Caflisch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 628–633. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406754102.
PMCID: PMC545520
From the Cover:
An interlocked dimeric parallel-stranded DNA quadruplex: A potent inhibitor of HIV-1 integrase
Anh Tuân Phan, Vitaly Kuryavyi, Jin-Biao Ma, Aurélie Faure, Marie-Line Andréola, and Dinshaw J. Patel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 634–639. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406278102.
PMCID: PMC545538
Prion protein NMR structures of cats, dogs, pigs, and sheep
Dominikus A. Lysek, Christian Schorn, Lucas G. Nivon, Vicent Esteve-Moya, Barbara Christen, Luigi Calzolai, Christine von Schroetter, Francesco Fiorito, Torsten Herrmann, Peter Güntert, and Kurt Wüthrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 640–645. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408937102.
PMCID: PMC545531
Prion protein NMR structures of elk and of mouse/elk hybrids
Alvar D. Gossert, Sophie Bonjour, Dominikus A. Lysek, Francesco Fiorito, and Kurt Wüthrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 646–650. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409008102.
PMCID: PMC545551
Prion protein NMR structures of chickens, turtles, and frogs
Luigi Calzolai, Dominikus A. Lysek, Daniel R. Pérez, Peter Güntert, and Kurt Wüthrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 651–655. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408939102.
PMCID: PMC545536
Mini-thin filaments regulated by troponin–tropomyosin
Huiyu Gong, Victoria Hatch, Laith Ali, William Lehman, Roger Craig, and Larry S. Tobacman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 656–661. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407225102.
PMCID: PMC545539
Cell Biology
Mg2+ as activator of uridine phosphorylation in coordination with other cellular responses to growth factors
Charles Vidair and Harry Rubin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 662–666. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409082102.
PMCID: PMC545559
Quantitative phosphorylation profiling of the ERK/p90 ribosomal S6 kinase-signaling cassette and its targets, the tuberous sclerosis tumor suppressors
Bryan A. Ballif, Philippe P. Roux, Scott A. Gerber, Jeffrey P. MacKeigan, John Blenis, and Steven P. Gygi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 667–672. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409143102.
PMCID: PMC545566
Role of thioredoxin in the response of normal and transformed cells to histone deacetylase inhibitors
J. S. Ungerstedt, Y. Sowa, W.-S. Xu, Y. Shao, M. Dokmanovic, G. Perez, L. Ngo, A. Holmgren, X. Jiang, and P. A. Marks
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 673–678. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408732102.
PMCID: PMC543461
Developmental Biology
A saturation screen for cis-acting regulatory DNA in the Hox genes of Ciona intestinalis
David N. Keys, Byung-in Lee, Anna Di Gregorio, Naoe Harafuji, J. Chris Detter, Mei Wang, Orsalem Kahsai, Sylvia Ahn, Cindy Zhang, Sharon A. Doyle, Noriyuki Satoh, Yutaka Satou, Hidetoshi Saiga, Allen T. Christian, Dan S. Rokhsar, Trevor L. Hawkins, Mike Levine, and Paul M. Richardson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 679–683. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408952102.
PMCID: PMC544341
Ecology
Body sizes of hosts and parasitoids in individual feeding relationships
Joel E. Cohen, Tomas Jonsson, Christine B. Müller, H. C. J. Godfray, and Van M. Savage
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 684–689. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408780102.
PMCID: PMC545575
Carbon starvation in glacial trees recovered from the La Brea tar pits, southern California
Joy K. Ward, John M. Harris, Thure E. Cerling, Alex Wiedenhoeft, Michael J. Lott, Maria-Denise Dearing, Joan B. Coltrain, and James R. Ehleringer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 690–694. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408315102.
PMCID: PMC544040
Diversity–productivity relationships: Initial effects, long-term patterns, and underlying mechanisms
Jasper van Ruijven and Frank Berendse
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 695–700. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407524102.
PMCID: PMC545547
Environmental Sciences
Enantioselectivity in environmental safety of current chiral insecticides
Weiping Liu, Jianying Gan, Daniel Schlenk, and William A. Jury
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 701–706. Published online 2005 January 4. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408847102.
PMCID: PMC545578
Evolution
Rapid evolution of expression and regulatory divergences after yeast gene duplication
Xun Gu, Zhongqi Zhang, and Wei Huang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 707–712. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409186102.
PMCID: PMC545572
The pattern of intron loss
Scott W. Roy and Walter Gilbert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 713–718. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408274102.
PMCID: PMC545554
Genetics
mtDNA mutations increase tumorigenicity in prostate cancer
John A. Petros, Amanda K. Baumann, Eduardo Ruiz-Pesini, Mahul B. Amin, Carrie Qi Sun, John Hall, SoDug Lim, Muta M. Issa, W. Dana Flanders, Seyed H. Hosseini, Fray F. Marshall, and Douglas C. Wallace
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 719–724. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408894102.
PMCID: PMC545582
Syncytin-A and syncytin-B, two fusogenic placenta-specific murine envelope genes of retroviral origin conserved in Muridae
Anne Dupressoir, Geoffroy Marceau, Cécile Vernochet, Laurence Bénit, Colette Kanellopoulos, Vincent Sapin, and Thierry Heidmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 725–730. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406509102.
PMCID: PMC545540
The p53 regulatory gene MDM2 is a direct transcriptional target of MYCN in neuroblastoma
Andrew Slack, Zaowen Chen, Roberto Tonelli, Martin Pule, Lisa Hunt, Andrea Pession, and Jason M. Shohet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 731–736. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405495102.
PMCID: PMC545522
Distinct DNA-damage-dependent and -independent responses drive the loss of oocytes in recombination-defective mouse mutants
Monica Di Giacomo, Marco Barchi, Frédéric Baudat, Winfried Edelmann, Scott Keeney, and Maria Jasin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 737–742. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406212102.
PMCID: PMC545532
Two cleavage products of the Drosophila accessory gland protein ovulin can independently induce ovulation
Yael Heifetz, Laura N. Vandenberg, Heather I. Cohn, and Mariana F. Wolfner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 743–748. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407692102.
PMCID: PMC545548
Medical Sciences
Menin and MLL cooperatively regulate expression of cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors
Thomas A. Milne, Christina M. Hughes, Ricardo Lloyd, Zhaohai Yang, Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen, Yali Dou, Robert W. Schnepp, Cynthia Krankel, Virginia A. LiVolsi, Denise Gibbs, Xianxin Hua, Robert G. Roeder, Matthew Meyerson, and Jay L. Hess
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 749–754. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408836102.
PMCID: PMC545577
Tumor-targeting bacterial therapy with amino acid auxotrophs of GFP-expressing Salmonella typhimurium
Ming Zhao, Meng Yang, Xiao-Ming Li, Ping Jiang, Eugene Baranov, Shukuan Li, Mingxu Xu, Sheldon Penman, and Robert M. Hoffman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 755–760. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408422102.
PMCID: PMC545558
Dissecting the molecular control of endothelial NO synthase by caveolin-1 using cell-permeable peptides
Pascal N. Bernatchez, Philip M. Bauer, Jun Yu, Jay S. Prendergast, Pingnian He, and William C. Sessa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 761–766. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407224102.
PMCID: PMC545535
Dual oxidase 1-dependent MUC5AC mucin expression in cultured human airway epithelial cells
Matt X. G. Shao and Jay A. Nadel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 767–772. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408932102.
PMCID: PMC545521
Clearance of hepatitis B virus from the liver of transgenic mice by short hairpin RNAs
Susan L. Uprichard, Bryan Boyd, Alana Althage, and Francis V. Chisari
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 773–778. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409028102.
PMCID: PMC545555
Use of targeted glycoproteomics to identify serum glycoproteins that correlate with liver cancer in woodchucks and humans
Timothy M. Block, Mary Ann Comunale, Melissa Lowman, Laura F. Steel, Patrick R. Romano, Claus Fimmel, Bud C. Tennant, W. Thomas London, Alison A. Evans, Baruch S. Blumberg, Raymond A. Dwek, Tajinder S. Mattu, and Anand S. Mehta
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 779–784. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408928102.
PMCID: PMC545516
Hypertension in mice lacking the proatrial natriuretic peptide convertase corin
Joyce C. Y. Chan, Ole Knudson, Faye Wu, John Morser, William P. Dole, and Qingyu Wu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 785–790. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407234102.
PMCID: PMC545541
From the Cover:
Distinct roles of insulin and liver X receptor in the induction and cleavage of sterol regulatory elementbinding protein-1c
Bronwyn D. Hegarty, Alexandre Bobard, Isabelle Hainault, Pascal Ferré, Pascale Bossard, and Fabienne Foufelle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 791–796. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405067102.
PMCID: PMC545517
Evasion of antibody neutralization in emerging severe acute respiratory syndrome coronaviruses
Zhi-yong Yang, Heidi C. Werner, Wing-pui Kong, Kwanyee Leung, Elisabetta Traggiai, Antonio Lanzavecchia, and Gary J. Nabel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 797–801. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409065102.
PMCID: PMC545557
Phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase mutations identified in human cancer are oncogenic
Sohye Kang, Andreas G. Bader, and Peter K. Vogt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 802–807. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408864102.
PMCID: PMC545580
ATP flux through creatine kinase in the normal, stressed, and failing human heart
Robert G. Weiss, Gary Gerstenblith, and Paul A. Bottomley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 808–813. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408962102.
PMCID: PMC545546
Microbiology
A genetic approach to the de novo identification of targets of strain-specific immunity in malaria parasites
Axel Martinelli, Sandra Cheesman, Paul Hunt, Richard Culleton, Ahmed Raza, Margaret Mackinnon, and Richard Carter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 814–819. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405097102.
PMCID: PMC545519
Epstein-Barr virus nuclear antigen 1 does not induce lymphoma in transgenic FVB mice
Myung-Soo Kang, Hongxiang Lu, Teruhito Yasui, Arlene Sharpe, Henry Warren, Ellen Cahir-McFarland, Roderick Bronson, Siu Chun Hung, and Elliott Kieff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 820–825. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408774102.
PMCID: PMC545574
A C-terminal translocation signal required for Dot/Icm-dependent delivery of the Legionella RalF protein to host cells
Hiroki Nagai, Eric D. Cambronne, Jonathan C. Kagan, Juan Carlos Amor, Richard A. Kahn, and Craig R. Roy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 826–831. Published online 2004 December 21. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406239101.
PMCID: PMC545534
Positive charge is an important feature of the C-terminal transport signal of the VirB/D4-translocated proteins of Agrobacterium
Annette C. Vergunst, Miranda C. M. van Lier, Amke den Dulk-Ras, Thomas A. Grosse Stüve, Anette Ouwehand, and Paul J. J. Hooykaas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 832–837. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406241102.
PMCID: PMC545537
The genome of the heartwater agent Ehrlichia ruminantium contains multiple tandem repeats of actively variable copy number
Nicola E. Collins, Junita Liebenberg, Etienne P. de Villiers, Kelly A. Brayton, Elmarié Louw, Alri Pretorius, F. Erika Faber, Henriette van Heerden, Antoinette Josemans, Mirinda van Kleef, Helena C. Steyn, M. Fransie van Strijp, Erich Zweygarth, Frans Jongejan, Jean Charles Maillard, David Berthier, Marli Botha, Fourie Joubert, Craig H. Corton, Nicholas R. Thomson, Maria T. Allsopp, and Basil A. Allsopp
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 838–843. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406633102.
PMCID: PMC545511
Complete genome sequencing of Anaplasma marginale reveals that the surface is skewed to two superfamilies of outer membrane proteins
Kelly A. Brayton, Lowell S. Kappmeyer, David R. Herndon, Michael J. Dark, David L. Tibbals, Guy H. Palmer, Travis C. McGuire, and Donald P. Knowles, Jr.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 844–849. Published online 2004 December 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406656102.
PMCID: PMC545514
Discovery of a free-living chlorophyll d-producing cyanobacterium with a hybrid proteobacterial/cyanobacterial small-subunit rRNA gene
Scott R. Miller, Sunny Augustine, Tien Le Olson, Robert E. Blankenship, Jeanne Selker, and A. Michelle Wood
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 850–855. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405667102.
PMCID: PMC545527
A bipartite signal mediates the transfer of type IV secretion substrates of Bartonella henselae into human cells
Ralf Schulein, Patrick Guye, Thomas A. Rhomberg, Michael C. Schmid, Gunnar Schröder, Annette C. Vergunst, Ilaria Carena, and Christoph Dehio
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 856–861. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406796102.
PMCID: PMC545523
Neuroscience
Microstimulation of the superior colliculus focuses attention without moving the eyes
James R. Müller, Marios G. Philiastides, and William T. Newsome
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 524–529. Published online 2004 December 15. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408311101.
PMCID: PMC545556
A hematopoietic growth factor, thrombopoietin, has a proapoptotic role in the brain
Hannelore Ehrenreich, Martin Hasselblatt, Friederike Knerlich, Nico von Ahsen, Sonja Jacob, Swetlana Sperling, Helge Woldt, Katalin Vehmeyer, Klaus-Armin Nave, and Anna-Leena Sirén
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 862–867. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406008102.
PMCID: PMC545528
Calcineurin/NFAT-induced up-regulation of the Fas ligand/Fas death pathway is involved in methamphetamine-induced neuronal apoptosis
Subramaniam Jayanthi, Xiaolin Deng, Bruce Ladenheim, Michael T. McCoy, Andrew Cluster, Ning-sheng Cai, and Jean Lud Cadet
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 868–873. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0404990102.
PMCID: PMC545515
A role for galanin in antidepressant actions with a focus on the dorsal raphe nucleus
Xiaoying Lu, Alasdair M. Barr, Jefferson W. Kinney, Pietro Sanna, Bruno Conti, M. Margarita Behrens, and Tamas Bartfai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 874–879. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408891102.
PMCID: PMC545581
The neocortical microcircuit as a tabula rasa
Nir Kalisman, Gilad Silberberg, and Henry Markram
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 880–885. Published online 2005 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407088102.
PMCID: PMC545526
Notch-1 activation and dendritic atrophy in prion disease
Nako Ishikura, Jared L. Clever, Essia Bouzamondo-Bernstein, Erik Samayoa, Stanley B. Prusiner, Eric J. Huang, and Stephen J. DeArmond
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 886–891. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408612101.
PMCID: PMC545568
A potent small molecule inhibits polyglutamine aggregation in Huntington's disease neurons and suppresses neurodegeneration in vivo
Xiaoqian Zhang, Donna L. Smith, Anatoli B. Meriin, Sabine Engemann, Deborah E. Russel, Margo Roark, Shetia L. Washington, Michele M. Maxwell, J. Lawrence Marsh, Leslie Michels Thompson, Erich E. Wanker, Anne B. Young, David E. Housman, Gillian P. Bates, Michael Y. Sherman, and Aleksey G. Kazantsev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 892–897. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408936102.
PMCID: PMC545525
A cortico-cortical mechanism mediating object-driven grasp in humans
L. Cattaneo, M. Voss, T. Brochier, G. Prabhu, D. M. Wolpert, and R. N. Lemon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 898–903. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409182102.
PMCID: PMC545569
Pharmacology
Endothelial nitric oxide synthase activation is critical for vascular leakage during acute inflammation in vivo
Mariarosaria Bucci, Fiorentina Roviezzo, Inmaculada Posadas, Jun Yu, Luca Parente, William C. Sessa, Louis J. Ignarro, and Giuseppe Cirino
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 904–908. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408906102.
PMCID: PMC545512
Phosphodiesterase 4D is required for β2 adrenoceptor subtype-specific signaling in cardiac myocytes
Yang Xiang, Fabio Naro, Maria Zoudilova, S.-L. Catherine Jin, Marco Conti, and Brian Kobilka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 909–914. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405263102.
PMCID: PMC544184
Different GABAA receptor subtypes mediate the anxiolytic, abuse-related, and motor effects of benzodiazepine-like drugs in primates
James K. Rowlett, Donna M. Platt, Snjezana Lelas, John R. Atack, and Gerard R. Dawson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 915–920. Published online 2005 January 11. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0405621102.
PMCID: PMC545524
Physiology
Fluorescent imaging of Cl- in Amphiuma red blood cells: How the nuclear exclusion of Cl- affects the plasma membrane potential
Joseph F. Hoffman and John P. Geibel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 921–926. Published online 2005 January 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408597102.
PMCID: PMC545567
Rapid hyperosmotic coinduction of two tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus) transcription factors in gill cells
Diego F. Fiol and Dietmar Kültz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 927–932. Published online 2005 January 10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408956102.
PMCID: PMC545544
Plant Biology
From the Cover:
The nonmevalonate pathway supports both monoterpene and sesquiterpene formation in snapdragon flowers
Natalia Dudareva, Susanna Andersson, Irina Orlova, Nathalie Gatto, Michael Reichelt, David Rhodes, Wilhelm Boland, and Jonathan Gershenzon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 933–938. Published online 2005 January 3. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0407360102.
PMCID: PMC545543
Psychology
Visual extrapolation of contour geometry
Manish Singh and Jacqueline M. Fulvio
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 939–944. Published online 2005 January 12. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408444102.
PMCID: PMC545560
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
A simple test of expected utility theory using professional traders
John A. List and Michael S. Haigh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 945–948. Published online 2005 January 5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408022101.
PMCID: PMC545552
Environmental Sciences
Maize diversity and ethnolinguistic diversity in Chiapas, Mexico
Hugo R. Perales, Bruce F. Benz, and Stephen B. Brush
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 949–954. Published online 2005 January 7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0408701102.
PMCID: PMC545571
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 955. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409105101.
PMCID: PMC545561
Corrects: Blaise R. Boles, et al. From the Cover:
Self-generated diversity produces “insurance effects” in biofilm communities.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 November 23; 101(47): 16630–16635.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2005 January 18; 102(3): 955. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0409392102.
PMCID: PMC545573
Corrects: David W. Colby, et al. Potent inhibition of huntingtin aggregation and cytotoxicity by a disulfide bond-free single-domain intracellular antibody. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 December 21; 101(51): 17616–17621.
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