PNAS — Table of Contents — May 27, 2003, 100 (11)

May 27, 2003; 100 (11)

FROM THE COVER

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Andrew Dillin
The specifics of small interfering RNA specificity
PNAS 2003 100:6289-6291; published ahead of print May 16, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1232238100
- See companion article on page 6343 in issue 11 of volume 100
- See companion article on page 6347 in issue 11 of volume 100
Commentary:
- David D. Perkins
A fratricidal fungal prion
PNAS 2003 100:6292-6294; published ahead of print May 16, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1332353100
- See companion article on page 6616 in issue 11 of volume 100
Commentary:
- Peter Henson
Suppression of macrophage inflammatory responses by PPARs
PNAS 2003 100:6295-6296; published ahead of print May 19, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1232410100
- See companion article on page 6712 in issue 11 of volume 100

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Chunhai Fan,
- Shu Wang,
- Janice W. Hong,
- Guillermo C. Bazan,
- Kevin W. Plaxco,
- and Alan J. Heeger
Beyond superquenching: Hyper-efficient energy transfer from conjugated polymers to gold nanoparticles
PNAS 2003 100:6297-6301; published ahead of print May 15, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1132025100

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- David Gidalevitz,
- Yuji Ishitsuka,
- Adrian S. Muresan,
- Oleg Konovalov,
- Alan J. Waring,
- Robert I. Lehrer,
- and Ka Yee C. Lee
Interaction of antimicrobial peptide protegrin with biomembranes
PNAS 2003 100:6302-6307; published ahead of print May 8, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0934731100

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering:
- David Gabriel
- and Marc A. Deshusses
Retrofitting existing chemical scrubbers to biotrickling filters for H 2 S emission control
PNAS 2003 100:6308-6312; published ahead of print May 9, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0731894100

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Fan Chung,
- Linyuan Lu,
- and Van Vu
Spectra of random graphs with given expected degrees
PNAS 2003 100:6313-6318; published ahead of print May 12, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0937490100

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Makiko Sato,
- James Hansen,
- Dorothy Koch,
- Andrew Lacis,
- Reto Ruedy,
- Oleg Dubovik,
- Brent Holben,
- Mian Chin,
- and Tica Novakov
Global atmospheric black carbon inferred from AERONET
PNAS 2003 100:6319-6324; published ahead of print May 13, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0731897100
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Carrie A. Hendricks,
- Karen H. Almeida,
- Molly S. Stitt,
- Vidya S. Jonnalagadda,
- Rebecca E. Rugo,
- G. Foster Kerrison,
- and Bevin P. Engelward
Spontaneous mitotic homologous recombination at an enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (EYFP) cDNA direct repeat in transgenic mice
PNAS 2003 100:6325-6330; published ahead of print May 15, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1232231100
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Lorcan T. Allen,
- Edward J. P. Fox,
- Irena Blute,
- Zoe D. Kelly,
- Yuri Rochev,
- Alan K. Keenan,
- Kenneth A. Dawson,
- and William M. Gallagher
Interaction of soft condensed materials with living cells: Phenotype/transcriptome correlations for the hydrophobic effect
PNAS 2003 100:6331-6336; published ahead of print May 13, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1031426100

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Walter Steffen,
- David Smith,
- and John Sleep
The working stroke upon myosin–nucleotide complexes binding to actin
PNAS 2003 100:6434-6439; published ahead of print May 15, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1231998100
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Isabelle Petitpas,
- Charles E. Petersen,
- Chung-Eun Ha,
- Ananyo A. Bhattacharya,
- Patricia A. Zunszain,
- Jamie Ghuman,
- Nadhipuram V. Bhagavan,
- and Stephen Curry
Structural basis of albumin–thyroxine interactions and familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia
PNAS 2003 100:6440-6445; published ahead of print May 12, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1137188100
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ariel Fernández,
- József Kardos,
- L. Ridgway Scott,
- Yuji Goto,
- and R. Stephen Berry
Structural defects and the diagnosis of amyloidogenic propensity
PNAS 2003 100:6446-6451; published ahead of print May 12, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0731893100
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Jens Bredenbeck,
- Jan Helbing,
- Arne Sieg,
- Tobias Schrader,
- Wolfgang Zinth,
- Christian Renner,
- Raymond Behrendt,
- Luis Moroder,
- Josef Wachtveitl,
- and Peter Hamm
Picosecond conformational transition and equilibration of a cyclic peptide
PNAS 2003 100:6452-6457; published ahead of print May 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1036583100
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ana Carolina Zeri,
- Michael F. Mesleh,
- Alexander A. Nevzorov,
- and Stanley J. Opella
Structure of the coat protein in fd filamentous bacteriophage particles determined by solid-state NMR spectroscopy
PNAS 2003 100:6458-6463; published ahead of print May 15, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1132059100

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

The specifics of small interfering RNA specificity

A fratricidal fungal prion

Suppression of macrophage inflammatory responses by PPARs

Beyond superquenching: Hyper-efficient energy transfer from conjugated polymers to gold nanoparticles

Interaction of antimicrobial peptide protegrin with biomembranes

Retrofitting existing chemical scrubbers to biotrickling filters for H 2 S emission control

Spectra of random graphs with given expected degrees

Global atmospheric black carbon inferred from AERONET

Spontaneous mitotic homologous recombination at an enhanced yellow fluorescent protein (EYFP) cDNA direct repeat in transgenic mice

Interaction of soft condensed materials with living cells: Phenotype/transcriptome correlations for the hydrophobic effect

ATP hydrolysis on actin-related protein 2/3 complex causes debranching of dendritic actin arrays

From the Cover: Genomewide view of gene silencing by small interfering RNAs

From the Cover: Specificity of short interfering RNA determined through gene expression signatures

Programming peptidomimetic syntheses by translating genetic codes designed de novo

Fatty acid synthesis is essential in embryonic development: Fatty acid synthase null mutants and most of the heterozygotes die in utero

Genomewide demarcation of RNA polymerase II transcription units revealed by physical fractionation of chromatin

Spherical aggregates of β-amyloid (amylospheroid) show high neurotoxicity and activate tau protein kinase I/glycogen synthase kinase-3β

Structural and biochemical studies of p21 Ras S-nitrosylation and nitric oxide-mediated guanine nucleotide exchange

γ-Secretase is a membrane protein complex comprised of presenilin, nicastrin, aph-1, and pen-2

Quality control of ribosomal RNA mediated by polynucleotide phosphorylase and RNase R

Understanding tubulin–Taxol interactions: Mutations that impart Taxol binding to yeast tubulin

Vam10p defines a Sec18p-independent step of priming that allows yeast vacuole tethering

Molecular genetic analysis of the glycosyltransferase Fringe in Drosophila

How the Bfi I restriction enzyme uses one active site to cut two DNA strands

Exponential growth by cross-catalytic cleavage of deoxyribozymogens

TRAP230/ARC240 and TRAP240/ARC250 Mediator subunits are functionally conserved through evolution

Chloride, not sodium, stimulates expression of the γ subunit of Na/K-ATPase and activates JNK in response to hypertonicity in mouse IMCD3 cells

The working stroke upon myosin–nucleotide complexes binding to actin

Structural basis of albumin–thyroxine interactions and familial dysalbuminemic hyperthyroxinemia

Structural defects and the diagnosis of amyloidogenic propensity

Picosecond conformational transition and equilibration of a cyclic peptide

Structure of the coat protein in fd filamentous bacteriophage particles determined by solid-state NMR spectroscopy

Specific protein methylation defects and gene expression perturbations in coactivator-associated arginine methyltransferase 1-deficient mice

Exo1: A new chemical inhibitor of the exocytic pathway

An actin–ribonucleoprotein interaction is involved in transcription by RNA polymerase II

Abnormal phagocytosis by retinal pigmented epithelium that lacks myosin VIIa, the Usher syndrome 1B protein

Spermatogonial stem cells share some, but not all, phenotypic and functional characteristics with other stem cells

Compression forces generated by actin comet tails on lipid vesicles

Dictyostelium and Acanthamoeba myosin II assembly domains go to the cleavage furrow of Dictyostelium myosin II-null cells

Epidermal growth factor receptor signaling intensity determines intracellular protein interactions, ubiquitination, and internalization

The phosphorylation of caveolin-2 on serines 23 and 36 modulates caveolin-1-dependent caveolae formation

The basic helix–loop–helix–PAS protein ARNT functions as a potent coactivator of estrogen receptor-dependent transcription

Cytokines and BCR-ABL mediate suppression of TRAIL-induced apoptosis through inhibition of forkhead FOXO3a transcription factor