Table of Contents

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Willie J. Swanson
Sex peptide and the sperm effect in Drosophila melanogaster
PNAS 2003 100:9643-9644; published ahead of print August 11, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1834127100
- See companion article on page 9923 in issue 17 of volume 100
- See companion article on page 9929 in issue 17 of volume 100
Commentary:
- Patricia K. Kuhl
Human speech and birdsong: Communication and the social brain
PNAS 2003 100:9645-9646; published ahead of print August 11, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1733998100
- See companion article on page 8030 in issue 13 of volume 100
Commentary:
- Donald A. Bryant
The beauty in small things revealed
PNAS 2003 100:9647-9649; published ahead of print August 13, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1834558100
- See companion article on page 10020 in issue 17 of volume 100
Commentary:
- Christopher Francklyn
tRNA synthetase paralogs: Evolutionary links in the transition from tRNA-dependent amino acid biosynthesis to de novo biosynthesis
PNAS 2003 100:9650-9652; published ahead of print August 11, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1934245100
- See companion article on page 9837 in issue 17 of volume 100
Commentary:
- Michel Goedert
Neurodegenerative tauopathy in the worm
PNAS 2003 100:9653-9655; published ahead of print August 11, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1834191100
- See companion article on page 9980 in issue 17 of volume 100
Commentary:
- Philip K. Maini
How the mouse got its stripes
PNAS 2003 100:9656-9657; published ahead of print August 11, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1734061100
- See companion article on page 9680 in issue 17 of volume 100

Perspective

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Perspective:
- C. G. Kurland,
- B. Canback,
- and Otto G. Berg
Horizontal gene transfer: A critical view
PNAS 2003 100:9658-9662; published ahead of print August 5, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1632870100

FROM THE COVER

Sex peptide and the sperm effect in Drosophila melanogaster

Human speech and birdsong: Communication and the social brain

The beauty in small things revealed

tRNA synthetase paralogs: Evolutionary links in the transition from tRNA-dependent amino acid biosynthesis to de novo biosynthesis

Neurodegenerative tauopathy in the worm

How the mouse got its stripes

Horizontal gene transfer: A critical view

Optimal design of a bistable switch

Shrinkage-based similarity metric for cluster analysis of microarray data

Averaging and renormalization for the Korteveg–deVries–Burgers equation

From the Cover: Traveling stripes on the skin of a mutant mouse

On the interactions between atmospheric radicals and cloud droplets: A molecular picture of the interface

Advantages of external periodic events to the evolution of biochemical oscillatory reactions

Enhanced diffusion-edited NMR spectroscopy of mixtures using chromatographic stationary phases

Tuning and switching a DNA polymerase motor with mechanical tension

Coexistence of periodic modulation of quasiparticle states and superconductivity in Bi 2 Sr 2 CaCu 2 O 8 +δ

Coarse-grained microscopic model of glass formers

Nonparametric regression to the mean

Identification of a G protein-coupled receptor for pheromone biosynthesis activating neuropeptide from pheromone glands of the moth Helicoverpa zea

Targeted gene evolution in Escherichia coli using a highly error-prone DNA polymerase I

Regulation of the murine renal vitamin D receptor by 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D 3 and calcium

A modular, bifunctional RNA that integrates itself into a target RNA

Defective mammary gland morphogenesis in mice lacking the progesterone receptor B isoform

Insights into the mode of inhibition of human mitochondrial monoamine oxidase B from high-resolution crystal structures

Protein grafting of an HIV-1-inhibiting epitope

Subcellular compartmentalization of human Nfu, an iron–sulfur cluster scaffold protein, and its ability to assemble a [4Fe–4S] cluster

Characterization of myotubularin-related protein 7 and its binding partner, myotubularin-related protein 9

Engineered biosynthesis of an ansamycin polyketide precursor in Escherichia coli

MicroRNAs and small interfering RNAs can inhibit mRNA expression by similar mechanisms

Glutathione synthetase homologs encode α- l -glutamate ligases for methanogenic coenzyme F 420 and tetrahydrosarcinapterin biosyntheses

Repression of Smad transcriptional activity by PIASy, an inhibitor of activated STAT

Determination of the protein composition of the occlusion-derived virus of Autographa californica nucleopolyhedrovirus

Replication-initiator protein (UL9) of the herpes simplex virus 1 binds NFB42 and is degraded via the ubiquitin–proteasome pathway

Molecular cloning and functional expression of the first two specific insect myosuppressin receptors

Tuning and switching a DNA polymerase motor with mechanical tension

Rapid amyloid fiber formation from the fast-folding WW domain FBP28

Single-molecule study of DNA unlinking by eukaryotic and prokaryotic type-II topoisomerases

Ordering of water molecules between phospholipid bilayers visualized by coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy

Dissociation of amyloid fibrils of α-synuclein and transthyretin by pressure reveals their reversible nature and the formation of water-excluded cavities

From the Cover: When contemporary aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases invent their cognate amino acid metabolism

Morphogenesis of the telencephalic commissure requires scaffold protein JNK-interacting protein 3 (JIP3)

Nuclear import of hepatitis B virus capsids and release of the viral genome

Targeted disruption of p185/Cul7 gene results in abnormal vascular morphogenesis

A high-molecular-weight complex of membrane proteins BAP29/BAP31 is involved in the retention of membrane-bound IgD in the endoplasmic reticulum

The phosphatidylinositol (PI)-5-phosphate 4-kinase type II enzyme controls insulin signaling by regulating PI-3,4,5-trisphosphate degradation