Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Janet R. Sparrow

    Therapy for macular degeneration: Insights from acne

    PNAS 2003 100:4353-4354; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.1031478100
    • See companion article on page 4742 in issue 8 of volume 100
  • Commentary:
    • G. F. Webb

    A silent bomb: The risk of anthrax as a weapon of mass destruction

    PNAS 2003 100:4355-4356; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0830963100
    • See companion article on page 4346 in issue 7 of volume 100
  • Commentary:
    • James M. Cheverud

    Evolution in a genetically heritable social environment

    PNAS 2003 100:4357-4359; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0931311100
    • See companion article on page 4655 in issue 8 of volume 100
  • Commentary:
    • Malcolm A. Ferguson-Smith

    Placental mRNA in maternal plasma: Prospects for fetal screening

    PNAS 2003 100:4360-4362; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0830966100
    • See companion article on page 4748 in issue 8 of volume 100
  • Commentary:
    • Thomas P. Wilm
    • and Lilianna Solnica-Krezel

    Radar breaks the fog: Insights into dorsoventral patterning in zebrafish

    PNAS 2003 100:4363-4365; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0931010100
    • See companion article on page 3315 in issue 6 of volume 100
  • Commentary:
    • Vernon L. Scarborough

    How to interpret an ancient landscape

    PNAS 2003 100:4366-4368; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0831134100
    • See companion article on page 4957 in issue 8 of volume 100
  • Commentary:
    • Elizabeth A. Kellogg

    What happens to genes in duplicated genomes

    PNAS 2003 100:4369-4371; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0831050100
    • See companion article on page 4649 in issue 8 of volume 100

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Debra S. Goldberg
    • and Frederick P. Roth

    Assessing experimentally derived interactions in a small world

    PNAS 2003 100:4372-4376; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0735871100

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Ying-Zhong Ma,
    • Nancy E. Holt,
    • Xiao-Ping Li,
    • Krishna K. Niyogi,
    • and Graham R. Fleming

    Evidence for direct carotenoid involvement in the regulation of photosynthetic light harvesting

    PNAS 2003 100:4377-4382; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0736959100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Sung-Joo E. Lee,
    • Yuko Hori,
    • and Arup K. Chakraborty

    Low T cell receptor expression and thermal fluctuations contribute to formation of dynamic multifocal synapses in thymocytes

    PNAS 2003 100:4383-4388; published ahead of print April 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0630563100
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Stephen J. Haggarty,
    • Kathryn M. Koeller,
    • Jason C. Wong,
    • Christina M. Grozinger,
    • and Stuart L. Schreiber

    Domain-selective small-molecule inhibitor of histone deacetylase 6 (HDAC6)-mediated tubulin deacetylation

    PNAS 2003 100:4389-4394; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0430973100

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Barry R. Lutz,
    • Jian Chen,
    • and Daniel T. Schwartz

    Microfluidics without microfabrication

    PNAS 2003 100:4395-4398; published ahead of print April 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0831077100

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Frank A. Corsetti,
    • Stanley M. Awramik,
    • and David Pierce

    A complex microbiota from snowball Earth times: Microfossils from the Neoproterozoic Kingston Peak Formation, Death Valley, USA

    PNAS 2003 100:4399-4404; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0730560100

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Jung-Fu Lin,
    • Dion L. Heinz,
    • Ho-kwang Mao,
    • Russell J. Hemley,
    • James M. Devine,
    • Jie Li,
    • and Guoyin Shen

    Stability of magnesiowüstite in Earth's lower mantle

    PNAS 2003 100:4405-4408; published ahead of print March 26, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.252782399

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
    • Spyros Alexakis

    On conformally invariant differential operators in odd dimensions

    PNAS 2003 100:4409-4410; published ahead of print April 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0430972100

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Terence Hwa,
    • Enzo Marinari,
    • Kim Sneppen,
    • and Lei-han Tang

    Localization of denaturation bubbles in random DNA sequences

    PNAS 2003 100:4411-4416; published ahead of print April 2, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0736291100
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Steven S. Plotkin
    • and Peter G. Wolynes

    Buffed energy landscapes: Another solution to the kinetic paradoxes of protein folding

    PNAS 2003 100:4417-4422; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0330720100

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Christopher T. Fisher,
    • Helen P. Pollard,
    • Isabel Israde-Alcántara,
    • Victor H. Garduño-Monroy,
    • and Subir K. Banerjee

    From the Cover: A reexamination of human-induced environmental change within the Lake Pátzcuaro Basin, Michoacán, Mexico

    PNAS 2003 100:4957-4962; published ahead of print April 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0630493100
    • See commentary article on page 4366 in issue 8 of volume 100

Social Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
    • Norman Myers
    • and Jennifer Kent

    New consumers: The influence of affluence on the environment

    PNAS 2003 100:4963-4968; published ahead of print April 2, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0438061100

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • David T. Berg,
    • Bruce Gerlitz,
    • Jing Shang,
    • Tommy Smith,
    • Paula Santa,
    • Mark A. Richardson,
    • Ken D. Kurz,
    • Brian W. Grinnell,
    • Ken Mace,
    • and Bryan E. Jones

    Engineering the proteolytic specificity of activated protein C improves its pharmacological properties

    PNAS 2003 100:4423-4428; published ahead of print April 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0736918100
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Christoph Rudolph,
    • Peter H. Schreier,
    • and Joachim F. Uhrig

    Peptide-mediated broad-spectrum plant resistance to tospoviruses

    PNAS 2003 100:4429-4434; published ahead of print April 7, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0730832100
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Lauge Schäffer,
    • Renee E. Brissette,
    • Jane C. Spetzler,
    • Renuka C. Pillutla,
    • Søren Østergaard,
    • Michael Lennick,
    • Jakob Brandt,
    • Paul W. Fletcher,
    • Gillian M. Danielsen,
    • Ku-Chuan Hsiao,
    • Asser S. Andersen,
    • Olga Dedova,
    • Ulla Ribel,
    • Thomas Hoeg-Jensen,
    • Per Hertz Hansen,
    • Arthur J. Blume,
    • Jan Markussen,
    • and Neil I. Goldstein

    Assembly of high-affinity insulin receptor agonists and antagonists from peptide building blocks

    PNAS 2003 100:4435-4439; published ahead of print April 8, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0830026100

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Debra S. Goldberg
    • and Frederick P. Roth

    Assessing experimentally derived interactions in a small world

    PNAS 2003 100:4372-4376; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0735871100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hiroshi Miyamoto,
    • Padma Marwah,
    • Ashok Marwah,
    • Henry Lardy,
    • and Chawnshang Chang

    3β-Acetoxyandrost-1,5-diene-17-ethylene ketal functions as a potent antiandrogen with marginal agonist activity

    PNAS 2003 100:4440-4444; published ahead of print April 2, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0831001100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Neal M. Alto,
    • Scott H. Soderling,
    • Naoto Hoshi,
    • Lorene K. Langeberg,
    • Rosa Fayos,
    • Patricia A. Jennings,
    • and John D. Scott

    Bioinformatic design of A-kinase anchoring protein- in silico : A potent and selective peptide antagonist of type II protein kinase A anchoring

    PNAS 2003 100:4445-4450; published ahead of print April 2, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0330734100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Silke Suer,
    • Saurav Misra,
    • Layla F. Saidi,
    • and James H. Hurley

    Structure of the GAT domain of human GGA1: A syntaxin amino-terminal domain fold in an endosomal trafficking adaptor

    PNAS 2003 100:4451-4456; published ahead of print March 31, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0831133100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Wei Zhou,
    • Gerald M. Edelman,
    • and Vincent P. Mauro

    Isolation and identification of short nucleotide sequences that affect translation initiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    PNAS 2003 100:4457-4462; published ahead of print April 4, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0437993100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lewyn Li,
    • Eugene I. Shakhnovich,
    • and Leonid A. Mirny

    Amino acids determining enzyme-substrate specificity in prokaryotic and eukaryotic protein kinases

    PNAS 2003 100:4463-4468; published ahead of print April 4, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0737647100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • James C. Delaney,
    • Paul T. Henderson,
    • Sandra A. Helquist,
    • Juan C. Morales,
    • John M. Essigmann,
    • and Eric T. Kool

    High-fidelity in vivo replication of DNA base shape mimics without Watson–Crick hydrogen bonds

    PNAS 2003 100:4469-4473; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0837277100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tetsuro Ago,
    • Futoshi Kuribayashi,
    • Hidekazu Hiroaki,
    • Ryu Takeya,
    • Takashi Ito,
    • Daisuke Kohda,
    • and Hideki Sumimoto

    Phosphorylation of p47 phox directs phox homology domain from SH3 domain toward phosphoinositides, leading to phagocyte NADPH oxidase activation

    PNAS 2003 100:4474-4479; published ahead of print April 2, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0735712100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Shu-ou Shan
    • and Peter Walter

    Induced nucleotide specificity in a GTPase

    PNAS 2003 100:4480-4485; published ahead of print March 27, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0737693100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Christopher I. Keeling,
    • Keith N. Slessor,
    • Heather A. Higo,
    • and Mark L. Winston

    New components of the honey bee ( Apis mellifera L.) queen retinue pheromone

    PNAS 2003 100:4486-4491; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0836984100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Soo-A Kim,
    • Panayiotis O. Vacratsis,
    • Ron Firestein,
    • Michael L. Cleary,
    • and Jack E. Dixon

    Regulation of myotubularin-related (MTMR)2 phosphatidylinositol phosphatase by MTMR5, a catalytically inactive phosphatase

    PNAS 2003 100:4492-4497; published ahead of print March 31, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0431052100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jason P. Gardner,
    • Robert J. Durso,
    • Robert R. Arrigale,
    • Gerald P. Donovan,
    • Paul J. Maddon,
    • Tatjana Dragic,
    • and William C. Olson

    L-SIGN (CD 209L) is a liver-specific capture receptor for hepatitis C virus

    PNAS 2003 100:4498-4503; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0831128100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jeffrey Van Ness,
    • Lori K. Van Ness,
    • and David J. Galas

    Isothermal reactions for the amplification of oligonucleotides

    PNAS 2003 100:4504-4509; published ahead of print April 4, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0730811100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hang Gyeong Chin,
    • Gun-Do Kim,
    • Ivan Marin,
    • Fana Mersha,
    • Thomas C. Evans, Jr.,
    • Lixin Chen,
    • Ming-Qun Xu,
    • and Sriharsa Pradhan

    Protein trans-splicing in transgenic plant chloroplast: Reconstruction of herbicide resistance from split genes

    PNAS 2003 100:4510-4515; published ahead of print April 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0736538100

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Terence Hwa,
    • Enzo Marinari,
    • Kim Sneppen,
    • and Lei-han Tang

    Localization of denaturation bubbles in random DNA sequences

    PNAS 2003 100:4411-4416; published ahead of print April 2, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0736291100
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Steven S. Plotkin
    • and Peter G. Wolynes

    Buffed energy landscapes: Another solution to the kinetic paradoxes of protein folding

    PNAS 2003 100:4417-4422; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0330720100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Lachlan Coin,
    • Alex Bateman,
    • and Richard Durbin

    Enhanced protein domain discovery by using language modeling techniques from speech recognition

    PNAS 2003 100:4516-4520; published ahead of print March 31, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0737502100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Arpita Upadhyaya,
    • Jeffrey R. Chabot,
    • Albina Andreeva,
    • Azadeh Samadani,
    • and Alexander van Oudenaarden

    Probing polymerization forces by using actin-propelled lipid vesicles

    PNAS 2003 100:4521-4526; published ahead of print March 25, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0837027100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Thomas Scheibel,
    • Raghuveer Parthasarathy,
    • George Sawicki,
    • Xiao-Min Lin,
    • Heinrich Jaeger,
    • and Susan L. Lindquist

    Conducting nanowires built by controlled self-assembly of amyloid fibers and selective metal deposition

    PNAS 2003 100:4527-4532; published ahead of print April 2, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0431081100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Randall G. Worth,
    • Moo-Kyung Kim,
    • Andrei L. Kindzelskii,
    • Howard R. Petty,
    • and Alan D. Schreiber

    Signal sequence within FcγRIIA controls calcium wave propagation patterns: Apparent role in phagolysosome fusion

    PNAS 2003 100:4533-4538; published ahead of print April 3, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0836650100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Cameron Mura,
    • Martin Phillips,
    • Anna Kozhukhovsky,
    • and David Eisenberg

    Structure and assembly of an augmented Sm-like archaeal protein 14-mer

    PNAS 2003 100:4539-4544; published ahead of print March 31, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0538042100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Martin Tollinger,
    • Karin A. Crowhurst,
    • Lewis E. Kay,
    • and Julie D. Forman-Kay

    Site-specific contributions to the pH dependence of protein stability

    PNAS 2003 100:4545-4550; published ahead of print April 1, 2003, doi:10.1073/pnas.0736600100
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics: