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Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Yaniv Semel,
- Jonathan Nissenbaum,
- Naama Menda,
- Michael Zinder,
- Uri Krieger,
- Noa Issman,
- Tzili Pleban,
- Zachary Lippman,
- Amit Gur,
- and Dani Zamir
From the Cover: Overdominant quantitative trait loci for yield and fitness in tomato
PNAS 2006 103:12981-12986; published online before print August 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604635103
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- See commentary article on page 12957 in issue 35 of volume 103
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Honghong Hu,
- Mingqiu Dai,
- Jialing Yao,
- Benze Xiao,
- Xianghua Li,
- Qifa Zhang,
- and Lizhong Xiong
Overexpressing a NAM, ATAF, and CUC (NAC) transcription factor enhances drought resistance and salt tolerance in rice
PNAS 2006 103:12987-12992; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604882103

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Maria P. Limberis
- and James M. Wilson
Adeno-associated virus serotype 9 vectors transduce murine alveolar and nasal epithelia and can be readministered
PNAS 2006 103:12993-12998; published online before print August 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601433103

Biochemistry

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Haeshin Lee,
- Norbert F. Scherer,
- and Phillip B. Messersmith
Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion
PNAS 2006 103:12999-13003; published online before print August 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605552103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Archana Belle,
- Amos Tanay,
- Ledion Bitincka,
- Ron Shamir,
- and Erin K. O’Shea
Quantification of protein half-lives in the budding yeast proteome
PNAS 2006 103:13004-13009; published online before print August 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605420103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Todd Funke,
- Huijong Han,
- Martha L. Healy-Fried,
- Markus Fischer,
- and Ernst Schönbrunn
Molecular basis for the herbicide resistance of Roundup Ready crops
PNAS 2006 103:13010-13015; published online before print August 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603638103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Masaaki Sokabe,
- Min Yao,
- Naoki Sakai,
- Shingo Toya,
- and Isao Tanaka
Structure of archaeal translational initiation factor 2 βγ–GDP reveals significant conformational change of the β-subunit and switch 1 region
PNAS 2006 103:13016-13021; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604165103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Robert R. Bowers,
- Jae Woo Kim,
- Tamara C. Otto,
- and M. Daniel Lane
Stable stem cell commitment to the adipocyte lineage by inhibition of DNA methylation: Role of the BMP-4 gene
PNAS 2006 103:13022-13027; published online before print August 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605789103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Tomasz Sitar,
- Grzegorz M. Popowicz,
- Igor Siwanowicz,
- Robert Huber,
- and Tad A. Holak
Structural basis for the inhibition of insulin-like growth factors by insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins
PNAS 2006 103:13028-13033; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605652103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Tom Peeters,
- Wendy Louwet,
- Ruud Geladé,
- David Nauwelaers,
- Johan M. Thevelein,
- and Matthias Versele
Kelch-repeat proteins interacting with the G_α protein Gpa2 bypass adenylate cyclase for direct regulation of protein kinase A in yeast
PNAS 2006 103:13034-13039; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509644103
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Biophysics

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Michael L. Neidig,
- Andrea Decker,
- Oliver W. Choroba,
- Fanglu Huang,
- Michael Kavana,
- Graham R. Moran,
- Jonathan B. Spencer,
- and Edward I. Solomon
Inaugural Article: Spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of aromatic electrophilic attack and hydrogen-atom abstraction by non-heme iron enzymes
PNAS 2006 103:12966-12973; published online before print August 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605067103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Robert G. Endres
- and Ned S. Wingreen
Precise adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through “assistance neighborhoods”
PNAS 2006 103:13040-13044; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603101103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Lothar Esser,
- Xing Gong,
- Shaoqing Yang,
- Linda Yu,
- Chang-An Yu,
- and Di Xia
Surface-modulated motion switch: Capture and release of iron–sulfur protein in the cytochrome bc₁ complex
PNAS 2006 103:13045-13050; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601149103
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Karine Guevorkian
- and James M. Valles, Jr.
Swimming Paramecium in magnetically simulated enhanced, reduced, and inverted gravity environments
PNAS 2006 103:13051-13056; published online before print August 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601839103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- H. Jane Dyson,
- Peter E. Wright,
- and Harold A. Scheraga
The role of hydrophobic interactions in initiation and propagation of protein folding
PNAS 2006 103:13057-13061; published online before print August 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605504103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- JianFeng Chen,
- Wei Yang,
- Minsoo Kim,
- Christopher V. Carman,
- and Timothy A. Springer
Regulation of outside-in signaling and affinity by the β₂ I domain of integrin α_Lβ₂
PNAS 2006 103:13062-13067; published online before print August 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605666103

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- David Maussang,
- Dennis Verzijl,
- Marijke van Walsum,
- Rob Leurs,
- Jens Holl,
- Olivier Pleskoff,
- Detlef Michel,
- Guus A. M. S. van Dongen,
- and Martine J. Smit
Human cytomegalovirus-encoded chemokine receptor US28 promotes tumorigenesis
PNAS 2006 103:13068-13073; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604433103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Mi-Young Kim,
- Byung Chul Jeong,
- Ji Hee Lee,
- Hae Jin Kee,
- Hyun Kook,
- Nack Sung Kim,
- Yoon Ha Kim,
- Jong-Keun Kim,
- Kyu Youn Ahn,
- and Kyung Keun Kim
A repressor complex, AP4 transcription factor and geminin, negatively regulates expression of target genes in nonneuronal cells
PNAS 2006 103:13074-13079; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601915103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Lynn Margulis,
- Michael Chapman,
- Ricardo Guerrero,
- and John Hall
The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon
PNAS 2006 103:13080-13085; published online before print August 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604985103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Niki L. Reynaert,
- Albert van der Vliet,
- Amy S. Guala,
- Toby McGovern,
- Milena Hristova,
- Cristen Pantano,
- Nicholas H. Heintz,
- John Heim,
- Ye-Shih Ho,
- Dwight E. Matthews,
- Emiel F. M. Wouters,
- and Yvonne M. W. Janssen-Heininger
Dynamic redox control of NF-κB through glutaredoxin-regulated S-glutathionylation of inhibitory κB kinase β
PNAS 2006 103:13086-13091; published online before print August 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603290103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Varsha Singh
- and Alejandro Aballay
Heat-shock transcription factor (HSF)-1 pathway required for Caenorhabditis elegans immunity
PNAS 2006 103:13092-13097; published online before print August 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604050103

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Narumi Ogonuki,
- Keiji Mochida,
- Hiromi Miki,
- Kimiko Inoue,
- Martin Fray,
- Takamasa Iwaki,
- Kazuo Moriwaki,
- Yuichi Obata,
- Kazuto Morozumi,
- Ryuzo Yanagimachi,
- and Atsuo Ogura
Spermatozoa and spermatids retrieved from frozen reproductive organs or frozen whole bodies of male mice can produce normal offspring
PNAS 2006 103:13098-13103; published online before print August 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605755103
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Ecology

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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Jed A. Fuhrman,
- Ian Hewson,
- Michael S. Schwalbach,
- Joshua A. Steele,
- Mark V. Brown,
- and Shahid Naeem
Annually reoccurring bacterial communities are predictable from ocean conditions
PNAS 2006 103:13104-13109; published online before print August 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602399103

Environmental Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
- Nils Chr. Stenseth,
- Noelle I. Samia,
- Hildegunn Viljugrein,
- Kyrre Linné Kausrud,
- Mike Begon,
- Stephen Davis,
- Herwig Leirs,
- V. M. Dubyanskiy,
- Jan Esper,
- Vladimir S. Ageyev,
- Nikolay L. Klassovskiy,
- Sergey B. Pole,
- and Kung-Sik Chan
Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation
PNAS 2006 103:13110-13115; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602447103
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Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
- Marko Scholze,
- Wolfgang Knorr,
- Nigel W. Arnell,
- and I. Colin Prentice
A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems
PNAS 2006 103:13116-13120; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601816103

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Lynn Margulis,
- Michael Chapman,
- Ricardo Guerrero,
- and John Hall
The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon
PNAS 2006 103:13080-13085; published online before print August 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604985103
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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- William Salerno,
- Paul Havlak,
- and Jonathan Miller
Scale-invariant structure of strongly conserved sequence in genomic intersections and alignments
PNAS 2006 103:13121-13125; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605735103
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Armen Y. Mulkidjanian,
- Eugene V. Koonin,
- Kira S. Makarova,
- Sergey L. Mekhedov,
- Alexander Sorokin,
- Yuri I. Wolf,
- Alexis Dufresne,
- Frédéric Partensky,
- Henry Burd,
- Denis Kaznadzey,
- Robert Haselkorn,
- and Michael Y. Galperin
The cyanobacterial genome core and the origin of photosynthesis
PNAS 2006 103:13126-13131; published online before print August 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605709103
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FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Breakdown of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water

Unraveling the genetic basis of hybrid vigor

My O'Myeloid, a tale of two lineages

In search of an effective obesity treatment: A shot in the dark or a shot in the arm?

Profile of Edward I. Solomon

From the Cover: The violation of the Stokes–Einstein relation in supercooled water

Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion

Swimming Paramecium in magnetically simulated enhanced, reduced, and inverted gravity environments

Inaugural Article: Spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of aromatic electrophilic attack and hydrogen-atom abstraction by non-heme iron enzymes

Amplification of enantiomeric concentrations under credible prebiotic conditions

A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems

Scale-invariant structure of strongly conserved sequence in genomic intersections and alignments

From the Cover: Overdominant quantitative trait loci for yield and fitness in tomato

Overexpressing a NAM, ATAF, and CUC (NAC) transcription factor enhances drought resistance and salt tolerance in rice

Adeno-associated virus serotype 9 vectors transduce murine alveolar and nasal epithelia and can be readministered

Single-molecule mechanics of mussel adhesion

Quantification of protein half-lives in the budding yeast proteome

Molecular basis for the herbicide resistance of Roundup Ready crops

Structure of archaeal translational initiation factor 2 βγ–GDP reveals significant conformational change of the β-subunit and switch 1 region

Stable stem cell commitment to the adipocyte lineage by inhibition of DNA methylation: Role of the BMP-4 gene

Structural basis for the inhibition of insulin-like growth factors by insulin-like growth factor-binding proteins

Kelch-repeat proteins interacting with the Gα protein Gpa2 bypass adenylate cyclase for direct regulation of protein kinase A in yeast

Inaugural Article: Spectroscopic and electronic structure studies of aromatic electrophilic attack and hydrogen-atom abstraction by non-heme iron enzymes

Precise adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis through “assistance neighborhoods”

Surface-modulated motion switch: Capture and release of iron–sulfur protein in the cytochrome bc1 complex

Swimming Paramecium in magnetically simulated enhanced, reduced, and inverted gravity environments

The role of hydrophobic interactions in initiation and propagation of protein folding

Regulation of outside-in signaling and affinity by the β2 I domain of integrin αLβ2

Human cytomegalovirus-encoded chemokine receptor US28 promotes tumorigenesis

A repressor complex, AP4 transcription factor and geminin, negatively regulates expression of target genes in nonneuronal cells

The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon

Dynamic redox control of NF-κB through glutaredoxin-regulated S-glutathionylation of inhibitory κB kinase β

Heat-shock transcription factor (HSF)-1 pathway required for Caenorhabditis elegans immunity

Spermatozoa and spermatids retrieved from frozen reproductive organs or frozen whole bodies of male mice can produce normal offspring

Annually reoccurring bacterial communities are predictable from ocean conditions

Plague dynamics are driven by climate variation

A climate-change risk analysis for world ecosystems

The last eukaryotic common ancestor (LECA): Acquisition of cytoskeletal motility from aerotolerant spirochetes in the Proterozoic Eon

Scale-invariant structure of strongly conserved sequence in genomic intersections and alignments

The cyanobacterial genome core and the origin of photosynthesis

Kelch-repeat proteins interacting with the G_α protein Gpa2 bypass adenylate cyclase for direct regulation of protein kinase A in yeast

Surface-modulated motion switch: Capture and release of iron–sulfur protein in the cytochrome bc₁ complex

Regulation of outside-in signaling and affinity by the β₂ I domain of integrin α_Lβ₂