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This Week in PNAS

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PNAS 2007 104:20637-20638; doi:10.1073/iti5207104

Letters (Online Only)

Letter:
- Per J. Palsbøll,
- Martine Bérubé,
- and Finn Larsen
Could genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?
PNAS 2007 104:E2; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710072105
Letter:
- S. E. Alter
- and S. R. Palumbi
Could genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?
PNAS 2007 104:E3; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710472105

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Rob W. H. Ruigrok
- and Denis Gerlier
Structure of the measles virus H glycoprotein sheds light on an efficient vaccine
PNAS 2007 104:20639-20640; published online before print December 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709995105
- See companion article on page 19535 in issue 49 of volume 104
Commentary:
- Thomas C. Brunold
Synthetic iron-oxo “diamond core” mimics structure of key intermediate in methane monooxygenase catalytic cycle
PNAS 2007 104:20641-20642; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710734105
- See companion article on page 20713 in issue 52 of volume 104
Commentary:
- Andreas Taubert
Controlling water transport through artificial polymer/protein hybrid membranes
PNAS 2007 104:20643-20644; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710864105
- See companion article on page 20719 in issue 52 of volume 104
Commentary:
- Xiaohong H. Yang
- and Lee Zou
Launching a ubiquitination cascade at DNA breaks
PNAS 2007 104:20645-20646; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710916105
- See companion article on page 20759 in issue 52 of volume 104
Commentary:
- Oliver Haworth
- and Christopher D. Buckley
Resolving the problem of persistence in the switch from acute to chronic inflammation
PNAS 2007 104:20647-20648; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710633105
- See companion article on page 20979 in issue 52 of volume 104
Commentary:
- Marc R. Knight
New ideas on root hair growth appear from the flanks
PNAS 2007 104:20649-20650; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710632105
- See companion article on page 20996 in issue 52 of volume 104

Profiles

Profile:
- Farooq Ahmed
Profile of Mark E. Davis
PNAS 2007 104:20651-20653; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704959105
Profile:
- Kaspar Mossman
Profile of George Schatz
PNAS 2007 104:20654-20655; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710466104
- See commentary article on page 6885 in issue 17 of volume 104
Profile:
- Tinsley H. Davis
Profile of Christopher Miller
PNAS 2007 104:20656-20658; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710738105
- See commentary article on page 20659 in issue 52 of volume 104

Land Change Science Special Feature

Perspective

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Land Change Science Special Feature - Perspective:
- B. L. Turner II,
- Eric F. Lambin,
- and Anette Reenberg
Land Change Science Special Feature: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability
PNAS 2007 104:20666-20671; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704119104

Research Articles

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Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Elena G. Irwin
- and Nancy E. Bockstael
From the Cover: Land Change Science Special Feature: The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
PNAS 2007 104:20672-20677; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705527105
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Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Steven M. Manson
- and Tom Evans
Land Change Science Special Feature: Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States
PNAS 2007 104:20678-20683; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705802104
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Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Ecology - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Sandra Díaz,
- Sandra Lavorel,
- Francesco de Bello,
- Fabien Quétier,
- Karl Grigulis,
- and T. Matthew Robson
Land Change Science Special Feature: Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments
PNAS 2007 104:20684-20689; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704716104
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Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- D. Mark Stafford Smith,
- Greg M. McKeon,
- Ian W. Watson,
- Beverley K. Henry,
- Grant S. Stone,
- Wayne B. Hall,
- and S. Mark Howden
Land Change Science Special Feature: Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands
PNAS 2007 104:20690-20695; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704837104
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Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Deborah Lawrence,
- Paolo D'Odorico,
- Lucy Diekmann,
- Marcia DeLonge,
- Rishiraj Das,
- and James Eaton
Land Change Science Special Feature: Ecological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forest
PNAS 2007 104:20696-20701; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705005104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Sandeep Krishna,
- Szabolcs Semsey,
- and Kim Sneppen
Combinatorics of feedback in cellular uptake and metabolism of small molecules
PNAS 2007 104:20815-20819; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706231105

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Plamen Ch. Ivanov,
- Kun Hu,
- Michael F. Hilton,
- Steven A. Shea,
- and H. Eugene Stanley
Endogenous circadian rhythm in human motor activity uncoupled from circadian influences on cardiac dynamics
PNAS 2007 104:20702-20707; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709957104
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Unyoung Kim,
- Chih-Wen Shu,
- Karen Y. Dane,
- Patrick S. Daugherty,
- Jean Y. J. Wang,
- and H. T. Soh
Selection of mammalian cells based on their cell-cycle phase using dielectrophoresis
PNAS 2007 104:20708-20712; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708760104

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Genqiang Xue,
- Dong Wang,
- Raymond De Hont,
- Adam T. Fiedler,
- Xiaopeng Shan,
- Eckard Münck,
- and Lawrence Que, Jr.
A synthetic precedent for the [Fe^IV₂(μ-O)₂] diamond core proposed for methane monooxygenase intermediate Q
PNAS 2007 104:20713-20718; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708516105
- See commentary article on page 20641 in issue 52 of volume 104
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Manish Kumar,
- Mariusz Grzelakowski,
- Julie Zilles,
- Mark Clark,
- and Wolfgang Meier
From the Cover: Highly permeable polymeric membranes based on the incorporation of the functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z
PNAS 2007 104:20719-20724; published online before print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708762104
- See commentary article on page 20643 in issue 52 of volume 104
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Eduard Schreiner,
- Nisanth N. Nair,
- Rodolphe Pollet,
- Volker Staemmler,
- and Dominik Marx
Dynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxin
PNAS 2007 104:20725-20730; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706740104
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Arthur J. Olson,
- Yunfeng H. E. Hu,
- and Ehud Keinan
Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly
PNAS 2007 104:20731-20736; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709489104
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Rene A. Nome,
- Jason Ming Zhao,
- Wouter D. Hoff,
- and Norbert F. Scherer
Axis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulation
PNAS 2007 104:20799-20804; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701281105

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
- John Hawks,
- Eric T. Wang,
- Gregory M. Cochran,
- Henry C. Harpending,
- and Robert K. Moyzis
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution
PNAS 2007 104:20753-20758; published online before print December 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707650104
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Social Sciences

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Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Elena G. Irwin
- and Nancy E. Bockstael
From the Cover: Land Change Science Special Feature: The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation
PNAS 2007 104:20672-20677; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705527105
Select this article
Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Steven M. Manson
- and Tom Evans
Land Change Science Special Feature: Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States
PNAS 2007 104:20678-20683; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705802104

Sustainability Science

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Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Steven M. Manson
- and Tom Evans
Land Change Science Special Feature: Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States
PNAS 2007 104:20678-20683; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705802104
Select this article
Land Change Science Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- D. Mark Stafford Smith,
- Greg M. McKeon,
- Ian W. Watson,
- Beverley K. Henry,
- Grant S. Stone,
- Wayne B. Hall,
- and S. Mark Howden
Land Change Science Special Feature: Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands
PNAS 2007 104:20690-20695; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704837104

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
- John Hawks,
- Eric T. Wang,
- Gregory M. Cochran,
- Henry C. Harpending,
- and Robert K. Moyzis
Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution
PNAS 2007 104:20753-20758; published online before print December 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707650104
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Biochemistry

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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Wang Nguitragool
- and Christopher Miller
Inaugural Article: CLC Cl⁻/H⁺ transporters constrained by covalent cross-linking
PNAS 2007 104:20659-20665; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708639104
- See commentary article on page 20656 in issue 52 of volume 104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Bin Wang
- and Stephen J. Elledge
Ubc13/Rnf8 ubiquitin ligases control foci formation of the Rap80/Abraxas/Brca1/Brcc36 complex in response to DNA damage
PNAS 2007 104:20759-20763; published online before print December 5, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710061104
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
- See commentary article on page 20645 in issue 52 of volume 104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Oriol Gallego,
- F. Xavier Ruiz,
- Albert Ardèvol,
- Marta Domínguez,
- Rosana Alvarez,
- Angel R. de Lera,
- Carme Rovira,
- Jaume Farrés,
- Ignacio Fita,
- and Xavier Parés
Structural basis for the high all-trans-retinaldehyde reductase activity of the tumor marker AKR1B10
PNAS 2007 104:20764-20769; published online before print December 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705659105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Martin T. Croft,
- Michael Moulin,
- Michael E. Webb,
- and Alison G. Smith
Thiamine biosynthesis in algae is regulated by riboswitches
PNAS 2007 104:20770-20775; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705786105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Toshiharu Suzuki,
- Yoko Ozaki,
- Nobuhito Sone,
- Boris A. Feniouk,
- and Masasuke Yoshida
The product of uncI gene in F₁F_o-ATP synthase operon plays a chaperone-like role to assist c-ring assembly
PNAS 2007 104:20776-20781; published online before print December 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708075105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Ian C. Dews
- and Kevin R. MacKenzie
Transmembrane domains of the syndecan family of growth factor coreceptors display a hierarchy of homotypic and heterotypic interactions
PNAS 2007 104:20782-20787; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708909105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Reto Horst,
- Wayne A. Fenton,
- S. Walter Englander,
- Kurt Wüthrich,
- and Arthur L. Horwich
Folding trajectories of human dihydrofolate reductase inside the GroEL–GroES chaperonin cavity and free in solution
PNAS 2007 104:20788-20792; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710042105
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Jung Hwa Kim,
- Ji Min Lee,
- Hye Jin Nam,
- Hee June Choi,
- Jung Woo Yang,
- Jason S. Lee,
- Mi Hyang Kim,
- Su-Il Kim,
- Chin Ha Chung,
- Keun Il Kim,
- and Sung Hee Baek
SUMOylation of pontin chromatin-remodeling complex reveals a signal integration code in prostate cancer cells
PNAS 2007 104:20793-20798; published online before print December 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710343105

Biophysics

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Eduard Schreiner,
- Nisanth N. Nair,
- Rodolphe Pollet,
- Volker Staemmler,
- and Dominik Marx
Dynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxin
PNAS 2007 104:20725-20730; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706740104
Select this article
Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Arthur J. Olson,
- Yunfeng H. E. Hu,
- and Ehud Keinan
Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly
PNAS 2007 104:20731-20736; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709489104
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
Select this article
Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Rene A. Nome,
- Jason Ming Zhao,
- Wouter D. Hoff,
- and Norbert F. Scherer
Axis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulation
PNAS 2007 104:20799-20804; published online before print December 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701281105
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Henry D. Herce
- and Angel E. Garcia
Molecular dynamics simulations suggest a mechanism for translocation of the HIV-1 TAT peptide across lipid membranes
PNAS 2007 104:20805-20810; published online before print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706574105
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Audrius Jasaitis,
- Mikael P. Johansson,
- Mårten Wikström,
- Marten H. Vos,
- and Michael I. Verkhovsky
Nanosecond electron tunneling between the hemes in cytochrome bo₃
PNAS

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Could genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?

Could genetic diversity in eastern North Pacific gray whales reflect global historic abundance?

Structure of the measles virus H glycoprotein sheds light on an efficient vaccine

Synthetic iron-oxo “diamond core” mimics structure of key intermediate in methane monooxygenase catalytic cycle

Controlling water transport through artificial polymer/protein hybrid membranes

Launching a ubiquitination cascade at DNA breaks

Resolving the problem of persistence in the switch from acute to chronic inflammation

New ideas on root hair growth appear from the flanks

Profile of Mark E. Davis

Profile of George Schatz

Profile of Christopher Miller

Land Change Science Special Feature: The emergence of land change science for global environmental change and sustainability

From the Cover: Land Change Science Special Feature: The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation

Land Change Science Special Feature: Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States

Land Change Science Special Feature: Incorporating plant functional diversity effects in ecosystem service assessments

Land Change Science Special Feature: Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands

Land Change Science Special Feature: Ecological feedbacks following deforestation create the potential for a catastrophic ecosystem shift in tropical dry forest

Combinatorics of feedback in cellular uptake and metabolism of small molecules

Endogenous circadian rhythm in human motor activity uncoupled from circadian influences on cardiac dynamics

Selection of mammalian cells based on their cell-cycle phase using dielectrophoresis

A synthetic precedent for the [FeIV2(μ-O)2] diamond core proposed for methane monooxygenase intermediate Q

From the Cover: Highly permeable polymeric membranes based on the incorporation of the functional water channel protein Aquaporin Z

Dynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxin

Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly

Axis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulation

Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution

From the Cover: Land Change Science Special Feature: The evolution of urban sprawl: Evidence of spatial heterogeneity and increasing land fragmentation

Land Change Science Special Feature: Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States

Land Change Science Special Feature: Agent-based modeling of deforestation in southern Yucatán, Mexico, and reforestation in the Midwest United States

Land Change Science Special Feature: Learning from episodes of degradation and recovery in variable Australian rangelands

Recent acceleration of human adaptive evolution

Inaugural Article: CLC Cl−/H+ transporters constrained by covalent cross-linking

Ubc13/Rnf8 ubiquitin ligases control foci formation of the Rap80/Abraxas/Brca1/Brcc36 complex in response to DNA damage

Structural basis for the high all-trans-retinaldehyde reductase activity of the tumor marker AKR1B10

Thiamine biosynthesis in algae is regulated by riboswitches

The product of uncI gene in F1Fo-ATP synthase operon plays a chaperone-like role to assist c-ring assembly

Transmembrane domains of the syndecan family of growth factor coreceptors display a hierarchy of homotypic and heterotypic interactions

Folding trajectories of human dihydrofolate reductase inside the GroEL–GroES chaperonin cavity and free in solution

SUMOylation of pontin chromatin-remodeling complex reveals a signal integration code in prostate cancer cells

Dynamical magnetostructural properties of Anabaena ferredoxin

Chemical mimicry of viral capsid self-assembly

Axis-dependent anisotropy in protein unfolding from integrated nonequilibrium single-molecule experiments, analysis, and simulation

Molecular dynamics simulations suggest a mechanism for translocation of the HIV-1 TAT peptide across lipid membranes

Nanosecond electron tunneling between the hemes in cytochrome bo3

A synthetic precedent for the [Fe^IV₂(μ-O)₂] diamond core proposed for methane monooxygenase intermediate Q

Inaugural Article: CLC Cl⁻/H⁺ transporters constrained by covalent cross-linking

The product of uncI gene in F₁F_o-ATP synthase operon plays a chaperone-like role to assist c-ring assembly

Nanosecond electron tunneling between the hemes in cytochrome bo₃