Table of Contents

April 22, 2008; 105 (16)

FROM THE COVER

This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
PNAS 2008 105:5947-5948; doi:10.1073/iti1608105

Letters (Online Only)

Letter:
- Richard S. Bedlack,
- Nicholas Maragakis,
- and Terry Heiman-Patterson
Lithium may slow progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but further study is needed
PNAS 2008 105:E17; published online before print April 16, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801762105
Letter:
- Francesco Fornai,
- Gabriele Siciliano,
- Maria Laura Manca,
- Luigi Murri,
- Antonio Paparelli,
- and Stefano Ruggieri
Reply to Bedlack et al.: A small pilot study calls for large clinical trials to evaluate the effects of lithium before prescribing the drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
PNAS 2008 105:E18; published online before print April 16, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802915105

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Gary Rudnick
Vesicular ATP transport is a hard (V)NUT to crack
PNAS 2008 105:5949-5950; published online before print April 15, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802774105
Commentary:
- Leroy Hood
Gene regulatory networks and embryonic specification
PNAS 2008 105:5951-5952; published online before print April 15, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801434105
- See companion article on page 5955 in issue 16 of volume 105
Commentary:
- Astrid A. Prinz
Understanding epilepsy through network modeling
PNAS 2008 105:5953-5954; published online before print April 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0802299105
- See companion article on page 6179 in issue 16 of volume 105

Feature Article

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Feature Article - Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Paola Oliveri,
- Qiang Tu,
- and Eric H. Davidson
From the Cover: Feature Article: Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage
PNAS 2008 105:5955-5962; published online before print April 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711220105
- See commentary article on page 5951 in issue 16 of volume 105

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- Daphne Manoussaki,
- Richard S. Chadwick,
- Darlene R. Ketten,
- Julie Arruda,
- Emilios K. Dimitriadis,
- and Jen T. O'Malley
The influence of cochlear shape on low-frequency hearing
PNAS 2008 105:6162-6166; published online before print April 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710037105
OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- David J. Belton,
- Siddharth V. Patwardhan,
- Vadim V. Annenkov,
- Elena N. Danilovtseva,
- and Carole C. Perry
From biosilicification to tailored materials: Optimizing hydrophobic domains and resistance to protonation of polyamines
PNAS 2008 105:5963-5968; published online before print April 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710809105

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- V. Buch,
- H. Groenzin,
- I. Li,
- M. J. Shultz,
- and E. Tosatti
Proton order in the ice crystal surface
PNAS 2008 105:5969-5974; published online before print April 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710129105

Social Sciences

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Jeffrey N. Rouder,
- Richard D. Morey,
- Nelson Cowan,
- Christopher E. Zwilling,
- Candice C. Morey,
- and Michael S. Pratte
An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory
PNAS 2008 105:5975-5979; published online before print April 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711295105

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Lithium may slow progression of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, but further study is needed

Reply to Bedlack et al.: A small pilot study calls for large clinical trials to evaluate the effects of lithium before prescribing the drug for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

Vesicular ATP transport is a hard (V)NUT to crack

Gene regulatory networks and embryonic specification

Understanding epilepsy through network modeling

From the Cover: Feature Article: Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage

The influence of cochlear shape on low-frequency hearing

From biosilicification to tailored materials: Optimizing hydrophobic domains and resistance to protonation of polyamines

Proton order in the ice crystal surface

An assessment of fixed-capacity models of visual working memory

Mitochondrial heteroplasmy and the evolution of insecticide resistance: Non-Mendelian inheritance in action

From the Cover: Combinatorial antibody libraries from survivors of the Turkish H5N1 avian influenza outbreak reveal virus neutralization strategies

Mechanism of Cu+-transporting ATPases: Soluble Cu+ chaperones directly transfer Cu+ to transmembrane transport sites

Dephosphorylation of 2,3-bisphosphoglycerate by MIPP expands the regulatory capacity of the Rapoport–Luebering glycolytic shunt

Alteration of cyclin D1 transcript elongation by a mutated transcription factor up-regulates the oncogenic D1b splice isoform in cancer

Identification and evolution of fungal mitochondrial tyrosyl-tRNA synthetases with group I intron splicing activity

The mitotic kinesin CENP-E is a processive transport motor

Conservation of the regulated structure of folded myosin 2 in species separated by at least 600 million years of independent evolution

Role of the familial Dutch mutation E22Q in the folding and aggregation of the 15–28 fragment of the Alzheimer amyloid-β protein

Membrane damage by human islet amyloid polypeptide through fibril growth at the membrane

Intrinsic noise, dissipation cost, and robustness of cellular networks: The underlying energy landscape of MAPK signal transduction

TRIM21 is an IgG receptor that is structurally, thermodynamically, and kinetically conserved

Multiple kinases in the interferon-γ response

PU.1 and C/EBPα/β convert fibroblasts into macrophage-like cells

Cardiogenic small molecules that enhance myocardial repair by stem cells

Different phosphorylation states of the anaphase promoting complex in response to antimitotic drugs: A quantitative proteomic analysis

Effective chromosome pairing requires chromatin remodeling at the onset of meiosis

From the Cover: Feature Article: Global regulatory logic for specification of an embryonic cell lineage

Deletion of G protein-coupled receptor 48 leads to ocular anterior segment dysgenesis (ASD) through down-regulation of Pitx2

From the Cover: Higher effect of plant species diversity on productivity in natural than artificial ecosystems

Transfer of a large gene regulatory apparatus to a new developmental address in echinoid evolution

Higher origination and extinction rates in larger mammals

Adenovirus E1A targets p400 to induce the cellular oncoprotein Myc

The antibody zalutumumab inhibits epidermal growth factor receptor signaling by limiting intra- and intermolecular flexibility

Sparse production but preferential incorporation of recently produced naïve T cells in the human peripheral pool

Dendritic cells in islets of Langerhans constitutively present β cell-derived peptides bound to their class II MHC molecules

Global metabolic responses of mice to Trypanosoma brucei brucei infection

The evolutionarily conserved G protein-coupled receptor SREB2/GPR85 i

Mechanism of Cu⁺-transporting ATPases: Soluble Cu⁺ chaperones directly transfer Cu⁺ to transmembrane transport sites