Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Barbara L. Parsons

    MED1: A central molecule for maintenance of genome integrity and response to DNA damage

    PNAS 2003 100:14601-14602; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2637169100
    • See companion article on page 15071 in issue 25 of volume 100

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Gunte P. Wagner,
    • Chris Amemiya,
    • and Frank Ruddle

    Hox cluster duplications and the opportunity for evolutionary novelties

    PNAS 2003 100:14603-14606; published ahead of print November 24, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2536656100

Biography

  • Biography:
    • Christen Brownlee

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Robert A. Lamb

    PNAS 2003 100:14607-14609; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2636927100
    • See commentary article on page 14610 in issue 25 of volume 100

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • J. Patrick Shelby,
    • John White,
    • Karthikeyan Ganesan,
    • Pradipsinh K. Rathod,
    • and Daniel T. Chiu

    A microfluidic model for single-cell capillary obstruction by Plasmodium falciparum -infected erythrocytes

    PNAS 2003 100:14618-14622; published ahead of print November 24, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2433968100

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Haimei Chen,
    • John A. Parkinson,
    • Olga Nováková,
    • Juraj Bella,
    • Fuyi Wang,
    • Alice Dawson,
    • Robert Gould,
    • Simon Parsons,
    • Viktor Brabec,
    • and Peter J. Sadler

    Induced-fit recognition of DNA by organometallic complexes with dynamic stereogenic centers

    PNAS 2003 100:14623-14628; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2434016100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Liming Ying,
    • Jeremy J. Green,
    • Haitao Li,
    • David Klenerman,
    • and Shankar Balasubramanian

    Studies on the structure and dynamics of the human telomeric G quadruplex by single-molecule fluorescence resonance energy transfer

    PNAS 2003 100:14629-14634; published ahead of print November 25, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2433350100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Vladimir K. Vanag
    • and Irving R. Epstein

    From the Cover: Segmented spiral waves in a reaction-diffusion system

    PNAS 2003 100:14635-14638; published ahead of print November 26, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2534816100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Robert S. H. Liu
    • and Leticia U. Colmenares

    The molecular basis for the high photosensitivity of rhodopsin

    PNAS 2003 100:14639-14644; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2536769100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Serguei Patchkovskii
    • and John S. Tse

    Thermodynamic stability of hydrogen clathrates

    PNAS 2003 100:14645-14650; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2430913100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lidia Cristian,
    • James D. Lear,
    • and William F. DeGrado

    Use of thiol-disulfide equilibria to measure the energetics of assembly of transmembrane helices in phospholipid bilayers

    PNAS 2003 100:14772-14777; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2536751100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Michele Vendruscolo,
    • Emanuele Paci,
    • Martin Karplus,
    • and Christopher M. Dobson

    Structures and relative free energies of partially folded states of proteins

    PNAS 2003 100:14817-14821; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2036516100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Howard C. Hang,
    • Chong Yu,
    • Darryl L. Kato,
    • and Carolyn R. Bertozzi

    A metabolic labeling approach toward proteomic analysis of mucin-type O-linked glycosylation

    PNAS 2003 100:14846-14851; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2335201100

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Ming Chen,
    • Jinfu Shu,
    • Ho-kwang Mao,
    • Xiande Xie,
    • and Russell J. Hemley

    From the Cover: Natural occurrence and synthesis of two new postspinel polymorphs of chromite

    PNAS 2003 100:14651-14654; published ahead of print November 25, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2136599100
    • See commentary article on page 6 in issue 1 of volume 101

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • P. J. DeMott,
    • D. J. Cziczo,
    • A. J. Prenni,
    • D. M. Murphy,
    • S. M. Kreidenweis,
    • D. S. Thomson,
    • R. Borys,
    • and D. C. Rogers

    Measurements of the concentration and composition of nuclei for cirrus formation

    PNAS 2003 100:14655-14660; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2532677100

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Oded Hod
    • and Eran Rabani

    A coarse-grained model for a nanometer-scale molecular pump

    PNAS 2003 100:14661-14665; published ahead of print November 25, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2436170100

Statistics

  • Physical Sciences - Statistics:
    • Wei Zhu,
    • Xuena Wang,
    • Yeming Ma,
    • Manlong Rao,
    • James Glimm,
    • and John S. Kovach

    Detection of cancer-specific markers amid massive mass spectral data

    PNAS 2003 100:14666-14671; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2532248100

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • S. L. Singla-Pareek,
    • M. K. Reddy,
    • and S. K. Sopory

    Genetic engineering of the glyoxalase pathway in tobacco leads to enhanced salinity tolerance

    PNAS 2003 100:14672-14677; published ahead of print November 24, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2034667100

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Ipsita A. Banerjee,
    • Lingtao Yu,
    • and Hiroshi Matsui

    Cu nanocrystal growth on peptide nanotubes by biomineralization: Size control of Cu nanocrystals by tuning peptide conformation

    PNAS 2003 100:14678-14682; published ahead of print November 25, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2433456100
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Vassilios I. Sikavitsas,
    • Gregory N. Bancroft,
    • Heidi L. Holtorf,
    • John A. Jansen,
    • and Antonios G. Mikos

    Mineralized matrix deposition by marrow stromal osteoblasts in 3D perfusion culture increases with increasing fluid shear forces

    PNAS 2003 100:14683-14688; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2434367100

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Francisco J. López de Saro,
    • Roxana E. Georgescu,
    • and Mike O'Donnell

    A peptide switch regulates DNA polymerase processivity

    PNAS 2003 100:14689-14694; published ahead of print November 20, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2435454100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Douglas N. Roberts,
    • Allen J. Stewart,
    • Jason T. Huff,
    • and Bradley R. Cairns

    The RNA polymerase III transcriptome revealed by genome-wide localization and activity–occupancy relationships

    PNAS 2003 100:14695-14700; published ahead of print November 21, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2435566100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ken R. Rosendal,
    • Klemens Wild,
    • Guillermo Montoya,
    • and Irmgard Sinning

    Crystal structure of the complete core of archaeal signal recognition particle and implications for interdomain communication

    PNAS 2003 100:14701-14706; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2436132100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sungsoo Lee,
    • Xiaofeng Lin,
    • Nguyen Hai Nam,
    • Keykavous Parang,
    • and Gongqin Sun

    Determination of the substrate-docking site of protein tyrosine kinase C-terminal Src kinase

    PNAS 2003 100:14707-14712; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2534493100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • K. Christopher Min,
    • Rhett A. Kovall,
    • and Wayne A. Hendrickson

    Crystal structure of human α-tocopherol transfer protein bound to its ligand: Implications for ataxia with vitamin E deficiency

    PNAS 2003 100:14713-14718; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2136684100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Conceição A. S. A. Minetti,
    • David P. Remeta,
    • Holly Miller,
    • Craig A. Gelfand,
    • G. Eric Plum,
    • Arthur P. Grollman,
    • and Kenneth J. Breslauer

    The thermodynamics of template-directed DNA synthesis: Base insertion and extension enthalpies

    PNAS 2003 100:14719-14724; published ahead of print November 17, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2336142100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • John B. Knight,
    • Craig A. Eyster,
    • Beth A. Griesel,
    • and Ann Louise Olson

    Regulation of the human GLUT4 gene promoter: Interaction between a transcriptional activator and myocyte enhancer factor 2A

    PNAS 2003 100:14725-14730; published ahead of print November 20, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2432756100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Katsuya Shimabukuro,
    • Ryohei Yasuda,
    • Eiro Muneyuki,
    • Kiyotaka Y. Hara,
    • Kazuhiko Kinosita, Jr.,
    • and Masasuke Yoshida

    Catalysis and rotation of F 1 motor: Cleavage of ATP at the catalytic site occurs in 1 ms before 40° substep rotation

    PNAS 2003 100:14731-14736; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2434983100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Teresa Laragione,
    • Valentina Bonetto,
    • Filippo Casoni,
    • Tania Massignan,
    • Giancarlo Bianchi,
    • Elisabetta Gianazza,
    • and Pietro Ghezzi

    Redox regulation of surface protein thiols: Identification of integrin α-4 as a molecular target by using redox proteomics

    PNAS 2003 100:14737-14741; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2434516100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Inna Nusinzon
    • and Curt M. Horvath

    Interferon-stimulated transcription and innate antiviral immunity require deacetylase activity and histone deacetylase 1

    PNAS 2003 100:14742-14747; published ahead of print November 25, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2433987100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Douglas M. Yau,
    • Nobuhiko Yokoyama,
    • Yoshio Goshima,
    • Zeba K. Siddiqui,
    • Shahid S. Siddiqui,
    • and Tohru Kozasa

    Identification and molecular characterization of the Gα12–Rho guanine nucleotide exchange factor pathway in Caenorhabditis elegans

    PNAS 2003 100:14748-14753; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2533143100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • O. Guryev,
    • R. A. Carvalho,
    • S. Usanov,
    • A. Gilep,
    • and R. W. Estabrook

    A pathway for the metabolism of vitamin D 3 : Unique hydroxylated metabolites formed during catalysis with cytochrome P450scc (CYP11A1)

    PNAS 2003 100:14754-14759; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2336107100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ayelet Maor-Shoshani,
    • Vered Ben-Ari,
    • and Zvi Livneh

    Lesion bypass DNA polymerases replicate across non-DNA segments

    PNAS 2003 100:14760-14765; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2433503100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Semira Galijasevic,
    • Ghassan M. Saed,
    • Michael P. Diamond,
    • and Husam M. Abu-Soud

    Myeloperoxidase up-regulates the catalytic activity of inducible nitric oxide synthase by preventing nitric oxide feedback inhibition

    PNAS 2003 100:14766-14771; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2435008100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lidia Cristian,
    • James D. Lear,
    • and William F. DeGrado

    Use of thiol-disulfide equilibria to measure the energetics of assembly of transmembrane helices in phospholipid bilayers

    PNAS 2003 100:14772-14777; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2536751100

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Voichita M. Dadarlat
    • and Carol Beth Post

    Adhesive–cohesive model for protein compressibility: An alternative perspective on stability

    PNAS 2003 100:14778-14783; published ahead of print November 24, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2434157100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mu Gao,
    • David Craig,
    • Olivier Lequin,
    • Iain D. Campbell,
    • Viola Vogel,
    • and Klaus Schulten

    Structure and functional significance of mechanically unfolded fibronectin type III 1 intermediates

    PNAS 2003 100:14784-14789; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2334390100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kazuo Kuwata,
    • Tomoharu Matumoto,
    • Hong Cheng,
    • Kuniaki Nagayama,
    • Thomas L. James,
    • and Heinrich Roder

    NMR-detected hydrogen exchange and molecular dynamics simulations provide structural insight into fibril formation of prion protein fragment 106–126

    PNAS 2003 100:14790-14795; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2433563100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Stuart Kauffman,
    • Carsten Peterson,
    • Björn Samuelsson,
    • and Carl Troein

    Random Boolean network models and the yeast transcriptional network

    PNAS 2003 100:14796-14799; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2036429100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Keith Weninger,
    • Mark E. Bowen,
    • Steven Chu,
    • and Axel T. Brunger

    Single-molecule studies of SNARE complex assembly reveal parallel and antiparallel configurations

    PNAS 2003 100:14800-14805; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2036428100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Daniel B. Forger
    • and Charles S. Peskin

    A detailed predictive model of the mammalian circadian clock

    PNAS 2003 100:14806-14811; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2036281100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jorge A. Vila,
    • Daniel R. Ripoll,
    • and Harold A. Scheraga

    Atomically detailed folding simulation of the B domain of staphylococcal protein A from random structures

    PNAS 2003 100:14812-14816; published ahead of print November 24, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2436463100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Michele Vendruscolo,
    • Emanuele Paci,
    • Martin Karplus,
    • and Christopher M. Dobson

    Structures and relative free energies of partially folded states of proteins

    PNAS 2003 100:14817-14821; published ahead of print December 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2036516100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Hong Wang,
    • Yong Yang,
    • Mark J. Schofield,
    • Chunwei Du,
    • Yonatan Fridman,
    • Susan D. Lee,
    • Erik D. Larson,
    • James T. Drummond,
    • Eric Alani,
    • Peggy Hsieh,
    • and Dorothy A. Erie

    DNA bending and unbending by MutS govern mismatch recognition and specificity

    PNAS 2003 100:14822-14827; published ahead of print November 21, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.2433654100