PNAS — Table of Contents — April 27, 2004, 101 (17)

Commentaries

Commentary:
- George P. Chrousos
Is 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 a good therapeutic target for blockade of glucocorticoid actions?
PNAS 2004 101:6329-6330; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401671101
- See companion article on page 6734 in issue 17 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Sandip Niyogi
- and Robert C. Haddon
Behavior of fluids in nanoscopic space
PNAS 2004 101:6331-6332; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401508101
- See companion article on page 4009 in issue 12 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Hugo D. Critchley
The human cortex responds to an interoceptive challenge
PNAS 2004 101:6333-6334; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401510101
- See companion article on page 6217 in issue 16 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering:
- M. A. Haque
- and M. T. A. Saif
Deformation mechanisms in free-standing nanoscale thin films: A quantitative in situ transmission electron microscope study
PNAS 2004 101:6335-6340; published ahead of print April 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400066101

Geophysics

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Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
- Ryan C. Bay,
- Nathan Bramall,
- and P. Buford Price
Bipolar correlation of volcanism with millennial climate change
PNAS 2004 101:6341-6345; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400323101
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Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
- Renyi Zhang,
- Wenfang Lei,
- Xuexi Tie,
- and Peter Hess
Industrial emissions cause extreme urban ozone diurnal variability
PNAS 2004 101:6346-6350; published ahead of print April 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401484101

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Dani Nadel,
- Ehud Weiss,
- Orit Simchoni,
- Alexander Tsatskin,
- Avinoam Danin,
- and Mordechai Kislev
From the Cover: Stone Age hut in Israel yields world's oldest evidence of bedding
PNAS 2004 101:6821-6826; published ahead of print April 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308557101
- See commentary article on page 7207 in issue 19 of volume 101

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Hans C. Lou,
- Bruce Luber,
- Michael Crupain,
- Julian P. Keenan,
- Markus Nowak,
- Troels W. Kjaer,
- Harold A. Sackeim,
- and Sarah H. Lisanby
Parietal cortex and representation of the mental Self
PNAS 2004 101:6827-6832; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400049101

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- K. Schmidt-Rohr,
- J.-D. Mao,
- and D. C. Olk
Nitrogen-bonded aromatics in soil organic matter and their implications for a yield decline in intensive rice cropping
PNAS 2004 101:6351-6354; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401349101

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Subhayu Basu,
- Rishabh Mehreja,
- Stephan Thiberge,
- Ming-Tang Chen,
- and Ron Weiss
Spatiotemporal control of gene expression with pulse-generating networks
PNAS 2004 101:6355-6360; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307571101
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Kazuhiro Saeki,
- Kazuya Matsumoto,
- Mikio Kinoshita,
- Iwane Suzuki,
- Yasushi Tasaka,
- Koichiro Kano,
- Yoshitomo Taguchi,
- Koji Mikami,
- Masumi Hirabayashi,
- Naomi Kashiwazaki,
- Yoshihiko Hosoi,
- Norio Murata,
- and Akira Iritani
From the Cover: Functional expression of a Δ12 fatty acid desaturase gene from spinach in transgenic pigs
PNAS 2004 101:6361-6366; published ahead of print April 5, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308111101
- See commentary article on page 7211 in issue 19 of volume 101

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Brian J. Bennion
- and Valerie Daggett
Counteraction of urea-induced protein denaturation by trimethylamine N -oxide: A chemical chaperone at atomic resolution
PNAS 2004 101:6433-6438; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308633101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Marie-Noëlle Dessinges,
- Timothée Lionnet,
- Xu Guang Xi,
- David Bensimon,
- and Vincent Croquette
Single-molecule assay reveals strand switching and enhanced processivity of UvrD
PNAS 2004 101:6439-6444; published ahead of print April 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0306713101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Nizar N. Batada,
- Larry A. Shepp,
- and David O. Siegmund
Stochastic model of protein–protein interaction: Why signaling proteins need to be colocalized
PNAS 2004 101:6445-6449; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401314101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Per Jemth,
- Stefano Gianni,
- Ryan Day,
- Bin Li,
- Christopher M. Johnson,
- Valerie Daggett,
- and Alan R. Fersht
Demonstration of a low-energy on-pathway intermediate in a fast-folding protein by kinetics, protein engineering, and simulation
PNAS 2004 101:6450-6455; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401732101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Young Min Rhee,
- Eric J. Sorin,
- Guha Jayachandran,
- Erik Lindahl,
- and Vijay S. Pande
Simulations of the role of water in the protein-folding mechanism
PNAS 2004 101:6456-6461; published ahead of print April 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307898101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Matthew P. Gordon,
- Taekjip Ha,
- and Paul R. Selvin
Single-molecule high-resolution imaging with photobleaching
PNAS 2004 101:6462-6465; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401638101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- L. Bongini,
- D. Fanelli,
- F. Piazza,
- P. De Los Rios,
- S. Sandin,
- and U. Skoglund
Freezing immunoglobulins to see them move
PNAS 2004 101:6466-6471; published ahead of print April 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400119101

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Sylvia N. Schreiber,
- Roger Emter,
- M. Benjamin Hock,
- Darko Knutti,
- Jessica Cardenas,
- Michael Podvinec,
- Edward J. Oakeley,
- and Anastasia Kralli
The estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα) functions in PPARγ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α)-induced mitochondrial biogenesis
PNAS 2004 101:6472-6477; published ahead of print April 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308686101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Ricardo D. Coletta,
- Kimberly Christensen,
- Kelly J. Reichenberger,
- Justin Lamb,
- Damian Micomonaco,
- Lili Huang,
- Douglas M. Wolf,
- Carsten Müller-Tidow,
- Todd R. Golub,
- Kiyoshi Kawakami,
- and Heide L. Ford
The Six1 homeoprotein stimulates tumorigenesis by reactivation of cyclin A1
PNAS 2004 101:6478-6483; published ahead of print April 26, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401139101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Shiaw-Yih Lin,
- Kaiyi Li,
- Grant S. Stewart,
- and Stephen J. Elledge
Human Claspin works with BRCA1 to both positively and negatively regulate cell proliferation
PNAS 2004 101:6484-6489; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401847101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- NanLing Gong,
- Heming Wei,
- Sanaul Haq Chowdhury,
- and Subroto Chatterjee
Lactosylceramide recruits PKCα/ε and phospholipase A 2 to stimulate PECAM-1 expression in human monocytes and adhesion to endothelial cells
PNAS 2004 101:6490-6495; published ahead of print April 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308684101

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Lin Liu,
- Sonia Franco,
- Barbara Spyropoulos,
- Peter B. Moens,
- Maria A. Blasco,
- and David L. Keefe
Irregular telomeres impair meiotic synapsis and recombination in mice
PNAS 2004 101:6496-6501; published ahead of print April 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400755101
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Haruhiko Akiyama,
- Marie-Christine Chaboissier,
- Richard R. Behringer,
- David H. Rowitch,
- Andreas Schedl,
- Jonathan A. Epstein,
- and Benoit de Crombrugghe
Essential role of Sox9 in the pathway that controls formation of cardiac valves and septa
PNAS 2004 101:6502-6507; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401711101
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Yuval Kluger,
- David P. Tuck,
- Joseph T. Chang,
- Yasuhiro Nakayama,
- Ranjana Poddar,
- Naohiko Kohya,
- Zheng Lian,
- Abdelhakim Ben Nasr,
- H. Ruth Halaban,
- Diane S. Krause,
- Xueqing Zhang,
- Peter E. Newburger,
- and Sherman M. Weissman
Lineage specificity of gene expression patterns
PNAS 2004 101:6508-6513; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401136101

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Luciano B. Beheregaray,
- James P. Gibbs,
- Nathan Havill,
- Thomas H. Fritts,
- Jeffrey R. Powell,
- and Adalgisa Caccone
Giant tortoises are not so slow: Rapid diversification and biogeographic consensus in the Galápagos
PNAS 2004 101:6514-6519; published ahead of print April 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400393101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Emily A. Dyson
- and Gregory D. D. Hurst
Persistence of an extreme sex-ratio bias in a natural population
PNAS 2004 101:6520-6523; published ahead of print April 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0304068101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Ho-Sung Yoon
- and David A. Baum
Transgenic study of parallelism in plant morphological evolution
PNAS 2004 101:6524-6529; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401824101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Patricia L. M. Lee
- and Graeme C. Hays
Polyandry in a marine turtle: Females make the best of a bad job
PNAS 2004 101:6530-6535; published ahead of print April 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307982101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Kevin J. Peterson,
- Jessica B. Lyons,
- Kristin S. Nowak,
- Carter M. Takacs,
- Matthew J. Wargo,
- and Mark A. McPeek
Estimating metazoan divergence times with a molecular clock
PNAS 2004 101:6536-6541; published ahead of print April 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401670101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- David J. Amor,
- Karen Bentley,
- Jacinta Ryan,
- Jo Perry,
- Lee Wong,
- Howard Slater,
- and K. H. Andy Choo
Human centromere repositioning “in progress”
PNAS 2004

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

Is 11β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 a good therapeutic target for blockade of glucocorticoid actions?

Behavior of fluids in nanoscopic space

The human cortex responds to an interoceptive challenge

Deformation mechanisms in free-standing nanoscale thin films: A quantitative in situ transmission electron microscope study

Bipolar correlation of volcanism with millennial climate change

Industrial emissions cause extreme urban ozone diurnal variability

From the Cover: Stone Age hut in Israel yields world's oldest evidence of bedding

Parietal cortex and representation of the mental Self

Nitrogen-bonded aromatics in soil organic matter and their implications for a yield decline in intensive rice cropping

Spatiotemporal control of gene expression with pulse-generating networks

From the Cover: Functional expression of a Δ12 fatty acid desaturase gene from spinach in transgenic pigs

Crystal structure of the von Willebrand factor A domain of human capillary morphogenesis protein 2: An anthrax toxin receptor

Gonadotropin-regulated testicular RNA helicase (GRTH/Ddx25) is essential for spermatid development and completion of spermatogenesis

Small Maf proteins serve as transcriptional cofactors for keratinocyte differentiation in the Keap1–Nrf2 regulatory pathway

BofA protein inhibits intramembrane proteolysis of pro-σ K in an intercompartmental signaling pathway during Bacillus subtilis sporulation

Escherichia coli nucleoside diphosphate kinase does not act as a uracil-processing DNA repair nuclease

Semisynthesis of a segmental isotopically labeled protein splicing precursor: NMR evidence for an unusual peptide bond at the N-extein–intein junction

From the Cover: Genome-wide RNA interference screen identifies previously undescribed regulators of polyglutamine aggregation

Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 deficiency increases fatty acid oxidation by activating AMP-activated protein kinase in liver

A signal-arrest-release sequence mediates export and control of the phage P1 endolysin

New RNA motifs suggest an expanded scope for riboswitches in bacterial genetic control

Modulation of mammalian cell growth and death by prokaryotic and eukaryotic cytochrome c

Counteraction of urea-induced protein denaturation by trimethylamine N -oxide: A chemical chaperone at atomic resolution

Single-molecule assay reveals strand switching and enhanced processivity of UvrD

Stochastic model of protein–protein interaction: Why signaling proteins need to be colocalized

Demonstration of a low-energy on-pathway intermediate in a fast-folding protein by kinetics, protein engineering, and simulation

Simulations of the role of water in the protein-folding mechanism

Single-molecule high-resolution imaging with photobleaching

Freezing immunoglobulins to see them move

The estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα) functions in PPARγ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α)-induced mitochondrial biogenesis

The Six1 homeoprotein stimulates tumorigenesis by reactivation of cyclin A1

Human Claspin works with BRCA1 to both positively and negatively regulate cell proliferation

Lactosylceramide recruits PKCα/ε and phospholipase A 2 to stimulate PECAM-1 expression in human monocytes and adhesion to endothelial cells

Irregular telomeres impair meiotic synapsis and recombination in mice

Essential role of Sox9 in the pathway that controls formation of cardiac valves and septa

Lineage specificity of gene expression patterns

Giant tortoises are not so slow: Rapid diversification and biogeographic consensus in the Galápagos

Persistence of an extreme sex-ratio bias in a natural population

Transgenic study of parallelism in plant morphological evolution

Polyandry in a marine turtle: Females make the best of a bad job

Estimating metazoan divergence times with a molecular clock

Human centromere repositioning “in progress”