Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Austin L. Hughes

    Gene duplication and the origin of novel proteins

    PNAS 2005 102:8791-8792; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503922102
    • See companion article on page 8933 in issue 25 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Paul S.-H. Park
    • and Krzysztof Palczewski

    Diversifying the repertoire of G protein-coupled receptors through oligomerization

    PNAS 2005 102:8793-8794; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504016102
    • See companion article on page 9050 in issue 25 of volume 102

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Esther M. Conwell

    Charge transport in DNA in solution: The role of polarons

    PNAS 2005 102:8795-8799; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501406102

In This Issue

Introduction

  • Introduction:
    • Christian Joachim
    • and Mark A. Ratner

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: Molecular electronics

    PNAS 2005 102:8800; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504046102

Molecular Electronics Special Feature

Perspectives

  • Molecular Electronics Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Christian Joachim
    • and Mark A. Ratner

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: Molecular electronics: Some views on transport junctions and beyond

    PNAS 2005 102:8801-8808; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500075102
  • Molecular Electronics Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Francesca Moresco
    • and André Gourdon

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: Scanning tunneling microscopy experiments on single molecular landers

    PNAS 2005 102:8809-8814; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500915102

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Art B. Owen
    • and Seth D. Tribble

    A quasi-Monte Carlo Metropolis algorithm

    PNAS 2005 102:8844-8849; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409596102
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • G. I. Barenblatt,
    • A. J. Chorin,
    • and V. M. Prostokishin

    The turbulent wall jet: A triple-layered structure and incomplete similarity

    PNAS 2005 102:8850-8853; published online before print June 9, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503186102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Molecular Electronics Special Feature:
    • Mark Elbing,
    • Rolf Ochs,
    • Max Koentopp,
    • Matthias Fischer,
    • Carsten von Hänisch,
    • Florian Weigend,
    • Ferdinand Evers,
    • Heiko B. Weber,
    • and Marcel Mayor

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: A single-molecule diode

    PNAS 2005 102:8815-8820; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408888102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Molecular Electronics Special Feature:
    • Dwight S. Seferos,
    • Scott A. Trammell,
    • Guillermo C. Bazan,
    • and James G. Kushmerick

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: Probing π-coupling in molecular junctions

    PNAS 2005 102:8821-8825; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500002102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Molecular Electronics Special Feature:
    • H. Ness
    • and A. J. Fisher

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: Vibrational inelastic scattering effects in molecular electronics

    PNAS 2005 102:8826-8831; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500389102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Molecular Electronics Special Feature:
    • G. V. Nazin,
    • S. W. Wu,
    • and W. Ho

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: Tunneling rates in electron transport through double-barrier molecular junctions in a scanning tunneling microscope

    PNAS 2005 102:8832-8837; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501171102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Molecular Electronics Special Feature:
    • Nathan P. Guisinger,
    • Nathan L. Yoder,
    • and Mark C. Hersam

    Molecular Electronics Special Feature: Probing charge transport at the single-molecule level on silicon by using cryogenic ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy

    PNAS 2005 102:8838-8843; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501214102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Songye Chen,
    • Marco T. Seidel,
    • and Ahmed H. Zewail

    Atomic-scale dynamical structures of fatty acid bilayers observed by ultrafast electron crystallography

    PNAS 2005 102:8854-8859; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504022102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Brandon-Luke L. Seagle,
    • Kourous A. Rezai,
    • Yasuhiro Kobori,
    • Elzbieta M. Gasyna,
    • Kasra A. Rezaei,
    • and James R. Norris, Jr.

    Melanin photoprotection in the human retinal pigment epithelium and its correlation with light-induced cell apoptosis

    PNAS 2005 102:8978-8983; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501971102

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Benjamin B. Yellen,
    • Ondrej Hovorka,
    • and Gary Friedman

    Arranging matter by magnetic nanoparticle assemblers

    PNAS 2005 102:8860-8864; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500409102

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • K. J. Brown,
    • J. S. Clark,
    • E. C. Grimm,
    • J. J. Donovan,
    • P. G. Mueller,
    • B. C. S. Hansen,
    • and I. Stefanova

    Fire cycles in North American interior grasslands and their relation to prairie drought

    PNAS 2005 102:8865-8870; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503621102

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Stephen Higgs,
    • Bradley S. Schneider,
    • Dana L. Vanlandingham,
    • Kimberly A. Klingler,
    • and Ernest A. Gould

    Nonviremic transmission of West Nile virus

    PNAS 2005 102:8871-8874; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503835102

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ana P. Vivancos,
    • Esther A. Castillo,
    • Benoît Biteau,
    • Carine Nicot,
    • José Ayté,
    • Michel B. Toledano,
    • and Elena Hidalgo

    A cysteine-sulfinic acid in peroxiredoxin regulates H2O2-sensing by the antioxidant Pap1 pathway

    PNAS 2005 102:8875-8880; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503251102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jie Wang,
    • Kimberly A. Stieglitz,
    • James P. Cardia,
    • and Evan R. Kantrowitz

    Structural basis for ordered substrate binding and cooperativity in aspartate transcarbamoylase

    PNAS 2005 102:8881-8886; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503742102

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Songye Chen,
    • Marco T. Seidel,
    • and Ahmed H. Zewail

    Atomic-scale dynamical structures of fatty acid bilayers observed by ultrafast electron crystallography

    PNAS 2005 102:8854-8859; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504022102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Robert J. Keenan,
    • Daniel L. Siehl,
    • Rebecca Gorton,
    • and Linda A. Castle

    DNA shuffling as a tool for protein crystallization

    PNAS 2005 102:8887-8892; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502497102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Manuela Zoonens,
    • Laurent J. Catoire,
    • Fabrice Giusti,
    • and Jean-Luc Popot

    From the Cover: NMR study of a membrane protein in detergent-free aqueous solution

    PNAS 2005 102:8893-8898; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503750102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • K. Hun Mok,
    • Toshio Nagashima,
    • Iain J. Day,
    • P. J. Hore,
    • and Christopher M. Dobson

    Multiple subsets of side-chain packing in partially folded states of α-lactalbumins

    PNAS 2005 102:8899-8904; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500661102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Oliver Mortusewicz,
    • Lothar Schermelleh,
    • Joachim Walter,
    • M. Cristina Cardoso,
    • and Heinrich Leonhardt

    Recruitment of DNA methyltransferase I to DNA repair sites

    PNAS 2005 102:8905-8909; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501034102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Fangfang Hu
    • and Oscar M. Aparicio

    Swe1 regulation and transcriptional control restrict the activity of mitotic cyclins toward replication proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    PNAS 2005 102:8910-8915; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406987102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Jian Li,
    • Xiaohong Zhu,
    • Mary Chen,
    • Lan Cheng,
    • Deying Zhou,
    • Min Min Lu,
    • Kevin Du,
    • Jonathan A. Epstein,
    • and Michael S. Parmacek

    Myocardin-related transcription factor B is required in cardiac neural crest for smooth muscle differentiation and cardiovascular development

    PNAS 2005 102:8916-8921; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503741102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Catherine Ledent,
    • Isabelle Demeestere,
    • David Blum,
    • Julien Petermans,
    • Tuula Hämäläinen,
    • Guillaume Smits,
    • and Gilbert Vassart

    Premature ovarian aging in mice deficient for Gpr3

    PNAS 2005 102:8922-8926; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503840102

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Zoe V. Finkel,
    • Miriam E. Katz,
    • James D. Wright,
    • Oscar M. E. Schofield,
    • and Paul G. Falkowski

    Climatically driven macroevolutionary patterns in the size of marine diatoms over the Cenozoic

    PNAS 2005 102:8927-8932; published online before print June 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409907102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Giuseppe D. Tocchini-Valentini,
    • Paolo Fruscoloni,
    • and Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini

    From the Cover: Structure, function, and evolution of the tRNA endonucleases of Archaea: An example of subfunctionalization

    PNAS 2005 102:8933-8938; published online before print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502350102
    • See commentary article on page 8791 in issue 25 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Michael Krützen,
    • Janet Mann,
    • Michael R. Heithaus,
    • Richard C. Connor,
    • Lars Bejder,
    • and William B. Sherwin

    Cultural transmission of tool use in bottlenose dolphins

    PNAS 2005 102:8939-8943; published online before print June 9, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500232102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Peter Wilf,
    • Conrad C. Labandeira,
    • Kirk R. Johnson,
    • and N. Rubén Cúneo

    Richness of plant–insect associations in Eocene Patagonia: A legacy for South American biodiversity

    PNAS 2005 102:8944-8948; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500516102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Carl S. Kashuk,
    • Eric A. Stone,
    • Elizabeth A. Grice,
    • Matthew E. Portnoy,
    • Eric D. Green,
    • Arend Sidow,
    • Aravinda Chakravarti,
    • and Andrew S. McCallion

    Phenotype–genotype correlation in Hirschsprung disease is illuminated by comparative analysis of the RET protein sequence

    PNAS 2005 102:8949-8954; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503259102

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Ivana De Domenico,
    • Diane McVey Ward,
    • Elizabeta Nemeth,
    • Michael B. Vaughn,
    • Giovanni Musci,
    • Tomas Ganz,
    • and Jerry Kaplan

    The molecular basis of ferroportin-linked hemochromatosis

    PNAS 2005 102:8955-8960; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503804102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Kuang-Hung Pan,
    • Chih-Jian Lih,
    • and Stanley N. Cohen

    Effects of threshold choice on biological conclusions reached during analysis of gene expression by DNA microarrays

    PNAS 2005 102:8961-8965; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502674102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Axel Linke,
    • Patrick Müller,
    • Daria Nurzynska,
    • Claudia Casarsa,
    • Daniele Torella,
    • Angelo Nascimbene,
    • Clotilde Castaldo,
    • Stefano Cascapera,
    • Michael Böhm,
    • Federico Quaini,
    • Konrad Urbanek,
    • Annarosa Leri,
    • Thomas H. Hintze,
    • Jan Kajstura,
    • and Piero Anversa

    Stem cells in the dog heart are self-renewing, clonogenic, and multipotent and regenerate infarcted myocardium, improving cardiac function

    PNAS 2005 102:8966-8971; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502678102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Peter Mastrangelo,
    • Paul M. Mathews,
    • M. Azhar Chishti,
    • Stephen D. Schmidt,
    • Yongjun Gu,
    • Jing Yang,
    • Matthew J. Mazzella,
    • Janaky Coomaraswamy,
    • Patrick Horne,
    • Bob Strome,
    • Heather Pelly,
    • Georges Levesque,
    • Chris Ebeling,
    • Ying Jiang,
    • Ralph A. Nixon,
    • Richard Rozmahel,
    • Paul E. Fraser,
    • Peter St George-Hyslop,
    • George A. Carlson,
    • and David Westaway

    Dissociated phenotypes in presenilin transgenic mice define functionally distinct γ-secretases

    PNAS 2005 102:8972-8977; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500940102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Brandon-Luke L. Seagle,
    • Kourous A. Rezai,
    • Yasuhiro Kobori,
    • Elzbieta M. Gasyna,
    • Kasra A. Rezaei,
    • and James R. Norris, Jr.

    Melanin photoprotection in the human retinal pigment epithelium and its correlation with light-induced cell apoptosis

    PNAS 2005 102:8978-8983; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501971102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Markus Löbrich,
    • Nicole Rief,
    • Martin Kühne,
    • Martina Heckmann,
    • Jochen Fleckenstein,
    • Christian Rübe,
    • and Michael Uder

    In vivo formation and repair of DNA double-strand breaks after computed tomography examinations

    PNAS 2005 102:8984-8989; published online before print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501895102

Microbiology

  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Herman W. Favoreel,
    • Geert Van Minnebruggen,
    • Dirk Adriaensen,
    • and Hans J. Nauwynck

    Cytoskeletal rearrangements and cell extensions induced by the US3 kinase of an alphaherpesvirus are associated with enhanced spread

    PNAS 2005 102:8990-8995; published online before print June 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409099102