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This Week in PNAS

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PNAS 2006 103:18381-18382; doi:10.1073/iti4906103

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Jeremy F. Reiter
- and Keith Mostov
Vesicle transport, cilium formation, and membrane specialization: The origins of a sensory organelle
PNAS 2006 103:18383-18384; published online before print November 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609324103
- See companion article on page 18556 in issue 49 of volume 103
Commentary:
- Patrick Hayes
- and Péter Szűcs
Disequilibrium and association in barley: Thinking outside the glass
PNAS 2006 103:18385-18386; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609405103
- See companion article on page 18656 in issue 49 of volume 103
Commentary:
- Tim G. Benton
Revealing the ghost in the machine: Using spectral analysis to understand the influence of noise on population dynamics
PNAS 2006 103:18387-18388; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609323103
- See companion article on page 18860 in issue 49 of volume 103

Perspective

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Perspective:
- R. James Cook
From the Academy: Colloquium Perspective: Toward cropping systems that enhance productivity and sustainability
PNAS 2006 103:18389-18394; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605946103

Review

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Review:
- Sang-Won Lee,
- Sang-Wook Han,
- Laura E. Bartley,
- and Pamela C. Ronald
From the Academy: Colloquium Review: Unique characteristics of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae AvrXa21 and implications for plant innate immunity
PNAS 2006 103:18395-18400; published online before print November 2, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605508103

Biological Science

Developmental Biology

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Biological Science - Developmental Biology:
- Elina Järvinen,
- Isaac Salazar-Ciudad,
- Walter Birchmeier,
- Makoto M. Taketo,
- Jukka Jernvall,
- and Irma Thesleff
Continuous tooth generation in mouse is induced by activated epithelial Wnt/β-catenin signaling
PNAS 2006 103:18627-18632; published online before print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607289103

BLiological Sciences

Plant Biology

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BLiological Sciences - Plant Biology:
- Jitka Zluvova,
- Michaël Nicolas,
- Adeline Berger,
- Ioan Negrutiu,
- and Françoise Monéger
Premature arrest of the male flower meristem precedes sexual dimorphism in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia
PNAS 2006 103:18854-18859; published online before print November 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606622103

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Douglas L. Theobald
- and Deborah S. Wuttke
Empirical Bayes hierarchical models for regularizing maximum likelihood estimation in the matrix Gaussian Procrustes problem
PNAS 2006 103:18521-18527; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508445103
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Population Biology:
- Daniel C. Reuman,
- Robert A. Desharnais,
- Robert F. Costantino,
- Omar S. Ahmad,
- and Joel E. Cohen
From the Cover: Power spectra reveal the influence of stochasticity on nonlinear population dynamics
PNAS 2006 103:18860-18865; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608571103
- See commentary article on page 18387 in issue 49 of volume 103

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Markus Mezger,
- Harald Reichert,
- Sebastian Schöder,
- John Okasinski,
- Heiko Schröder,
- Helmut Dosch,
- Dennis Palms,
- John Ralston,
- and Veijo Honkimäki
High-resolution in situ x-ray study of the hydrophobic gap at the water–octadecyl-trichlorosilane interface
PNAS 2006 103:18401-18404; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608827103
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Liguo Wang,
- Pulkit S. Bose,
- and Fred J. Sigworth
Using cryo-EM to measure the dipole potential of a lipid membrane
PNAS 2006 103:18528-18533; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608714103

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- J. U. Reveles,
- S. N. Khanna,
- P. J. Roach,
- and A. W. Castleman, Jr.
Multiple valence superatoms
PNAS 2006 103:18405-18410; published online before print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608781103
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Belén Ferrer,
- Guillaume Rogez,
- Alberto Credi,
- Roberto Ballardini,
- Maria Teresa Gandolfi,
- Vincenzo Balzani,
- Yi Liu,
- Hsian-Rong Tseng,
- and J. Fraser Stoddart
Photoinduced electron flow in a self-assembling supramolecular extension cable
PNAS 2006 103:18411-18416; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606459103
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Y. L. A. Rezus
- and H. J. Bakker
Effect of urea on the structural dynamics of water
PNAS 2006 103:18417-18420; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606538103

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Hyun Joon Kong,
- Tanyarut Boontheekul,
- and David J. Mooney
Quantifying the relation between adhesion ligand–receptor bond formation and cell phenotype
PNAS 2006 103:18534-18539; published online before print November 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605960103

Geophysics

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Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
- Jonathan L. Mitchell,
- Raymond T. Pierrehumbert,
- Dargan M. W. Frierson,
- and Rodrigo Caballero
The dynamics behind Titan's methane clouds
PNAS 2006 103:18421-18426; published online before print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605074103

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- Michael S. Grinolds,
- Vladimir A. Lobastov,
- Jonas Weissenrieder,
- and Ahmed H. Zewail
From the Cover: Four-dimensional ultrafast electron microscopy of phase transitions
PNAS 2006 103:18427-18431; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609233103
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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Jian Liu
- and José N. Onuchic
A driving and coupling “Pac-Man” mechanism for chromosome poleward translocation in anaphase A
PNAS 2006 103:18432-18437; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608962103

Statistics

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Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- E. L. Ionides,
- C. Bretó,
- and A. A. King
Inference for nonlinear dynamical systems
PNAS 2006 103:18438-18443; published online before print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603181103
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Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- R. Khanin,
- V. Vinciotti,
- and E. Wit
Reconstructing repressor protein levels from expression of gene targets in Escherichia coli
PNAS 2006 103:18592-18596; published online before print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603390103

Social Sciences

Psychology

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Biological Sciences - Neuroscience - Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Jeroen B. J. Smeets,
- John J. van den Dobbelsteen,
- Denise D. J. de Grave,
- Robert J. van Beers,
- and Eli Brenner
Sensory integration does not lead to sensory calibration
PNAS 2006 103:18781-18786; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607687103

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Zhiwei David Fang,
- James G. Laskey,
- Shaoxing Huang,
- Kristin D. Bilyeu,
- Roy O. Morris,
- Francis J. Schmidt,
- and James T. English
Colloquium Paper: Combinatorially selected defense peptides protect plant roots from pathogen infection
PNAS 2006 103:18444-18449; published online before print October 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605542103
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Sachin Deshmukh,
- Ralph Hückelhoven,
- Patrick Schäfer,
- Jafargholi Imani,
- Monica Sharma,
- Michael Weiss,
- Frank Waller,
- and Karl-Heinz Kogel
Colloquium Paper: The root endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica requires host cell death for proliferation during mutualistic symbiosis with barley
PNAS 2006 103:18450-18457; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605697103

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Xia You,
- Annalee W. Nguyen,
- Abeer Jabaiah,
- Mark A. Sheff,
- Kurt S. Thorn,
- and Patrick S. Daugherty
Intracellular protein interaction mapping with FRET hybrids
PNAS 2006 103:18458-18463; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605422103

Biochemistry

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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Amit Das,
- Vishal Prashar,
- Smita Mahale,
- L. Serre,
- J.-L. Ferrer,
- and M. V. Hosur
Crystal structure of HIV-1 protease in situ product complex and observation of a low-barrier hydrogen bond between catalytic aspartates
PNAS 2006 103:18464-18469; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605809103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Jing-Jiang Wu,
- Kazuo Fujikawa,
- Brad A. McMullen,
- and Dominic W. Chung
Characterization of a core binding site for ADAMTS-13 in the A2 domain of von Willebrand factor
PNAS 2006 103:18470-18474; published online before print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609190103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Indrani Paul,
- Jian Cui,
- and Ernest L. Maynard
Zinc binding to the HCCH motif of HIV-1 virion infectivity factor induces a conformational change that mediates protein–protein interactions
PNAS 2006 103:18475-18480; published online before print November 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604150103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Michael K. Swan,
- Deepak Bastia,
- and Christopher Davies
Crystal structure of π initiator protein–iteron complex of plasmid R6K: Implications for initiation of plasmid DNA replication
PNAS 2006 103:18481-18486; published online before print November 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609046103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- L. Fang,
- D. Ricketson,
- L. Getubig,
- and B. Darimont
Unliganded and hormone-bound glucocorticoid receptors interact with distinct hydrophobic sites in the Hsp90 C-terminal domain
PNAS 2006 103:18487-18492; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609163103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Brad Bennett,
- Paul Langan,
- Leighton Coates,
- Marat Mustyakimov,
- Benno Schoenborn,
- Elizabeth E. Howell,
- and Chris Dealwis
Neutron diffraction studies of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase complexed with methotrexate
PNAS 2006 103:18493-18498; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604977103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Rebecca J. Abergel,
- Melissa K. Wilson,
- Jean E. L. Arceneaux,
- Trisha M. Hoette,
- Roland K. Strong,
- B. Rowe Byers,
- and Kenneth N. Raymond
Anthrax pathogen evades the mammalian immune system through stealth siderophore production
PNAS 2006 103:18499-18503; published online before print November 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607055103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Melanie Stumpf,
- Claudia Waskow,
- Marit Krötschel,
- Dominic van Essen,
- Patrick Rodriguez,
- Xiaoting Zhang,
- Boris Guyot,
- Robert G. Roeder,
- and Tilman Borggrefe
The mediator complex functions as a coactivator for GATA-1 in erythropoiesis via subunit Med1/TRAP220
PNAS 2006 103:18504-18509; published online before print November 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604494103

Biophysics

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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Jian Liu
- and José N. Onuchic
A driving and coupling “Pac-Man” mechanism for chromosome poleward translocation in anaphase A
PNAS 2006 103:18432-18437; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608962103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Sawako Sugimura
- and Donald M. Crothers
Stepwise binding and bending of DNA by Escherichia coli integration host factor
PNAS 2006 103:18510-18514; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608337103
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- See commentary article on page 19217 in issue 51 of volume 103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Serguei V. Kuznetsov,
- Sawako Sugimura,
- Paula Vivas,
- Donald M. Crothers,
- and Anjum Ansari
Direct observation of DNA bending/unbending kinetics in complex with DNA-bending protein IHF
PNAS 2006 103:18515-18520; published online before print November 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608394103
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- See commentary article on page 19217 in issue 51 of volume 103
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Douglas L. Theobald
- and Deborah S. Wuttke
Empirical Bayes hierarchical models for regularizing maximum likelihood estimation in the matrix Gaussian Procrustes problem
PNAS 2006 103:18521-18527; published online before print November 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508445103
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Liguo Wang,
- Pulkit S. Bose,
- and Fred J. Sigworth
Using cryo-EM to measure the dipole potential of a lipid membrane
PNAS 2006 103:18528-18533; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608714103
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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Hyun Joon Kong,
- Tanyarut Boontheekul,
- and David J. Mooney
Quantifying the relation between adhesion ligand–receptor bond formation and cell phenotype
PNAS 2006 103:18534-18539; published online before print November 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605960103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Adrian W. R. Serohijos,
- Yiwen Chen,
- Feng Ding,
- Timothy C. Elston,
- and Nikolay V. Dokholyan
A structural model reveals energy transduction in dynein
PNAS 2006 103:18540-18545; published online before print November 22, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602867103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Jana Khandogin,
- Jianhan Chen,
- and Charles L. Brooks III
Exploring atomistic details of pH-dependent peptide folding
PNAS 2006 103:18546-18550; published online before print November 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605216103
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Gareth J. Rylance,
- Roy L. Johnston,
- Yasuhiro Matsunaga,
- Chun-Biu Li,
- Akinori Baba,
- and Tamiki Komatsuzaki
Topographical complexity of multidimensional energy landscapes
PNAS 2006 103:18551-18555; published online before print November 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608517103

Cell Biology

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FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Vesicle transport, cilium formation, and membrane specialization: The origins of a sensory organelle

Disequilibrium and association in barley: Thinking outside the glass

Revealing the ghost in the machine: Using spectral analysis to understand the influence of noise on population dynamics

From the Academy: Colloquium Perspective: Toward cropping systems that enhance productivity and sustainability

From the Academy: Colloquium Review: Unique characteristics of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae AvrXa21 and implications for plant innate immunity

Continuous tooth generation in mouse is induced by activated epithelial Wnt/β-catenin signaling

Premature arrest of the male flower meristem precedes sexual dimorphism in the dioecious plant Silene latifolia

Empirical Bayes hierarchical models for regularizing maximum likelihood estimation in the matrix Gaussian Procrustes problem

From the Cover: Power spectra reveal the influence of stochasticity on nonlinear population dynamics

High-resolution in situ x-ray study of the hydrophobic gap at the water–octadecyl-trichlorosilane interface

Using cryo-EM to measure the dipole potential of a lipid membrane

Multiple valence superatoms

Photoinduced electron flow in a self-assembling supramolecular extension cable

Effect of urea on the structural dynamics of water

Quantifying the relation between adhesion ligand–receptor bond formation and cell phenotype

The dynamics behind Titan's methane clouds

From the Cover: Four-dimensional ultrafast electron microscopy of phase transitions

A driving and coupling “Pac-Man” mechanism for chromosome poleward translocation in anaphase A

Inference for nonlinear dynamical systems

Reconstructing repressor protein levels from expression of gene targets in Escherichia coli

Sensory integration does not lead to sensory calibration

Colloquium Paper: Combinatorially selected defense peptides protect plant roots from pathogen infection

Colloquium Paper: The root endophytic fungus Piriformospora indica requires host cell death for proliferation during mutualistic symbiosis with barley

Intracellular protein interaction mapping with FRET hybrids

Crystal structure of HIV-1 protease in situ product complex and observation of a low-barrier hydrogen bond between catalytic aspartates

Characterization of a core binding site for ADAMTS-13 in the A2 domain of von Willebrand factor

Zinc binding to the HCCH motif of HIV-1 virion infectivity factor induces a conformational change that mediates protein–protein interactions

Crystal structure of π initiator protein–iteron complex of plasmid R6K: Implications for initiation of plasmid DNA replication

Unliganded and hormone-bound glucocorticoid receptors interact with distinct hydrophobic sites in the Hsp90 C-terminal domain

Neutron diffraction studies of Escherichia coli dihydrofolate reductase complexed with methotrexate

Anthrax pathogen evades the mammalian immune system through stealth siderophore production

The mediator complex functions as a coactivator for GATA-1 in erythropoiesis via subunit Med1/TRAP220

A driving and coupling “Pac-Man” mechanism for chromosome poleward translocation in anaphase A

Stepwise binding and bending of DNA by Escherichia coli integration host factor

Direct observation of DNA bending/unbending kinetics in complex with DNA-bending protein IHF

Empirical Bayes hierarchical models for regularizing maximum likelihood estimation in the matrix Gaussian Procrustes problem

Using cryo-EM to measure the dipole potential of a lipid membrane

Quantifying the relation between adhesion ligand–receptor bond formation and cell phenotype

A structural model reveals energy transduction in dynein

Exploring atomistic details of pH-dependent peptide folding

Topographical complexity of multidimensional energy landscapes