PNAS — Table of Contents — May 18, 2004, 101 (20)

May 18, 2004; 101 (20)

FROM THE COVER

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Michael Ibba
- and Christopher Francklyn
Turning tRNA upside down: When aminoacylation is not a prerequisite to protein synthesis
PNAS 2004 101:7493-7494; published ahead of print May 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402276101
- See companion article on page 7530 in issue 20 of volume 101
- See companion article on page 7536 in issue 20 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Roger W. Hendrix
Hot new virus, deep connections
PNAS 2004 101:7495-7496; published ahead of print May 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402151101
- See companion article on page 7716 in issue 20 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Aaron Kaplan,
- Judy Lieman-Hurwitz,
- and Dan Tchernov
Resolving the biological role of the Rhesus (Rh) proteins of red blood cells with the aid of a green alga
PNAS 2004 101:7497-7498; published ahead of print May 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402527101
- See companion article on page 7787 in issue 20 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
- Michael T. Gastner
- and M. E. J. Newman
From the Cover: Diffusion-based method for producing density-equalizing maps
PNAS 2004 101:7499-7504; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400280101

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Mauricio R. Pinto
- and Kirk S. Schanze
Amplified fluorescence sensing of protease activity with conjugated polyelectrolytes
PNAS 2004 101:7505-7510; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402280101
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Sriram Kumaraswamy,
- Troy Bergstedt,
- Xiaobo Shi,
- Frauke Rininsland,
- Stuart Kushon,
- Wensheng Xia,
- Kevin Ley,
- Komandoor Achyuthan,
- Duncan McBranch,
- and David Whitten
Fluorescent-conjugated polymer superquenching facilitates highly sensitive detection of proteases
PNAS 2004 101:7511-7515; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402367101

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering:
- Chuanwu Xi,
- Daniel L. Marks,
- Devang S. Parikh,
- Lutgarde Raskin,
- and Stephen A. Boppart
Structural and functional imaging of 3D microfluidic mixers using optical coherence tomography
PNAS 2004 101:7516-7521; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402433101

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Charles Akemann
- and Nik Weaver
Consistency of a counterexample to Naimark's problem
PNAS 2004 101:7522-7525; published ahead of print May 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401489101

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Charles F. Chilcutt
- and Bruce E. Tabashnik
Contamination of refuges by Bacillus thuringiensis toxin genes from transgenic maize
PNAS 2004 101:7526-7529; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400546101

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Yang Zhang
- and Jeffrey Skolnick
Automated structure prediction of weakly homologous proteins on a genomic scale
PNAS 2004 101:7594-7599; published ahead of print May 4, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0305695101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- I. L. Ivanovska,
- P. J. de Pablo,
- B. Ibarra,
- G. Sgalari,
- F. C. MacKintosh,
- J. L. Carrascosa,
- C. F. Schmidt,
- and G. J. L. Wuite
Bacteriophage capsids: Tough nanoshells with complex elastic properties
PNAS 2004 101:7600-7605; published ahead of print May 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308198101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Linda Hedberg
- and Mikael Oliveberg
Scattered Hammond plots reveal second level of site-specific information in protein folding: φ′ (β ‡ )
PNAS 2004 101:7606-7611; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308497101

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Teresa V. Naismith,
- John E. Heuser,
- Xandra O. Breakefield,
- and Phyllis I. Hanson
From the Cover: TorsinA in the nuclear envelope
PNAS 2004 101:7612-7617; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308760101
- See commentary article on page 8839 in issue 24 of volume 101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Yuan Gao,
- J. Bradley Dickerson,
- Fukun Guo,
- Jie Zheng,
- and Yi Zheng
Rational design and characterization of a Rac GTPase-specific small molecule inhibitor
PNAS 2004 101:7618-7623; published ahead of print May 5, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307512101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Andrei Seluanov,
- David Mittelman,
- Olivia M. Pereira-Smith,
- John H. Wilson,
- and Vera Gorbunova
DNA end joining becomes less efficient and more error-prone during cellular senescence
PNAS 2004 101:7624-7629; published ahead of print April 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400726101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Miriam Palacios-Callender,
- Marisol Quintero,
- Veronica S. Hollis,
- Roger J. Springett,
- and Salvador Moncada
Endogenous NO regulates superoxide production at low oxygen concentrations by modifying the redox state of cytochrome c oxidase
PNAS 2004 101:7630-7635; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401723101

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Nathalie Beaujean,
- Jane E. Taylor,
- Michelle McGarry,
- John O. Gardner,
- Ian Wilmut,
- Pasqualino Loi,
- Grazyna Ptak,
- Cesare Galli,
- Giovanna Lazzari,
- Adrian Bird,
- Lorraine E. Young,
- and Richard R. Meehan
The effect of interspecific oocytes on demethylation of sperm DNA
PNAS 2004 101:7636-7640; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400730101
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Kallayanee Chawengsaksophak,
- Wim de Graaff,
- Janet Rossant,
- Jacqueline Deschamps,
- and Felix Beck
Cdx2 is essential for axial elongation in mouse development
PNAS 2004 101:7641-7645; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401654101

Ecology

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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Vance T. Vredenburg
Reversing introduced species effects: Experimental removal of introduced fish leads to rapid recovery of a declining frog
PNAS 2004 101:7646-7650; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402321101
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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Benjamin Gilbert
- and Martin J. Lechowicz
Neutrality, niches, and dispersal in a temperate forest understory
PNAS 2004 101:7651-7656; published ahead of print May 5, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400814101

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Kate F. Darling,
- Michal Kucera,
- Carol J. Pudsey,
- and Christopher M. Wade
Molecular evidence links cryptic diversification in polar planktonic protists to Quaternary climate dynamics
PNAS 2004 101:7657-7662; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402401101

Genetics

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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Gary N. Landis,
- Diana Abdueva,
- Dmitriy Skvortsov,
- Junsheng Yang,
- Beth E. Rabin,
- James Carrick,
- Simon Tavaré,
- and John Tower
Similar gene expression patterns characterize aging and oxidative stress in Drosophila melanogaster
PNAS 2004 101:7663-7668; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307605101

Immunology

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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Angela Granelli-Piperno,
- Angelika Golebiowska,
- Christine Trumpfheller,
- Frederick P. Siegal,
- and Ralph M. Steinman
HIV-1-infected monocyte-derived dendritic cells do not undergo maturation but can elicit IL-10 production and T cell regulation
PNAS 2004 101:7669-7674; published ahead of print May 5, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402431101
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Lars Kjer-Nielsen,
- Michelle A. Dunstone,
- Lyudmila Kostenko,
- Lauren K. Ely,
- Travis Beddoe,
- Nicole A. Mifsud,
- Anthony W. Purcell,
- Andrew G. Brooks,
- James McCluskey,
- and Jamie Rossjohn
Crystal structure of the human T cell receptor CD3εγ heterodimer complexed to the therapeutic mAb OKT3
PNAS 2004 101:7675-7680; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402295101
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Yanan Zhu,
- Bradley J. Swanson,
- Michael Wang,
- David A. Hildeman,
- Brian C. Schaefer,
- Xinqi Liu,
- Hiroyuki Suzuki,
- Katsuyoshi Mihara,
- John Kappler,
- and Philippa Marrack
Constitutive association of the proapoptotic protein Bim with Bcl-2-related proteins on mitochondria in T cells
PNAS 2004 101:7681-7686; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402293101

Medical Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Feng Chen,
- M. Axel Wollmer,
- Frederic Hoerndli,
- Gerald Münch,
- Björn Kuhla,
- Evgeny I. Rogaev,
- Magdalini Tsolaki,
- Andreas Papassotiropoulos,
- and Jürgen Götz
Role for glyoxalase I in Alzheimer's disease
PNAS 2004 101:7687-7692; published ahead of print May 5, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402338101
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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Meera Srivastava,
- Ofer Eidelman,
- Jian Zhang,
- Cloud Paweletz,
- Hung Caohuy,
- QingFeng Yang,
- Kenneth A. Jacobson,
- Eliahu Heldman,
- Wei Huang,
- Catherine Jozwik,
- Bette S. Pollard,
- and Harvey B. Pollard
Digitoxin mimics gene therapy with CFTR and suppresses hypersecretion of IL-8 from cystic fibrosis lung epithelial cells
PNAS 2004 101:7693-7698; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402030101
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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Chinnaswamy Tiruppathi,
- Tabassum Naqvi,
- Yubin Wu,
- Stephen M. Vogel,
- Richard D. Minshall,
- and Asrar B. Malik
Albumin mediates the transcytosis of myeloperoxidase by means of caveolae in endothelial cells
PNAS 2004 101:7699-7704; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401712101
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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Mei-ying W. Yu,
- Birke Bartosch,
- Pei Zhang,
- Zheng-ping Guo,
- Paula M. Renzi,
- Li-ming Shen,
- Christelle Granier,
- Stephen M. Feinstone,
- François-Loïc Cosset,
- and Robert H. Purcell
Neutralizing antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in immune globulins derived from anti-HCV-positive plasma
PNAS 2004 101:7705-7710; published ahead of print May 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402458101
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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Jeffrey B. Cheng,
- Michael A. Levine,
- Norman H. Bell,
- David J. Mangelsdorf,
- and David W. Russell
Genetic evidence that the human CYP2R1 enzyme is a key vitamin D 25-hydroxylase
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Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

Turning tRNA upside down: When aminoacylation is not a prerequisite to protein synthesis

Hot new virus, deep connections

Resolving the biological role of the Rhesus (Rh) proteins of red blood cells with the aid of a green alga

From the Cover: Diffusion-based method for producing density-equalizing maps

Amplified fluorescence sensing of protease activity with conjugated polyelectrolytes

Fluorescent-conjugated polymer superquenching facilitates highly sensitive detection of proteases

Structural and functional imaging of 3D microfluidic mixers using optical coherence tomography

Consistency of a counterexample to Naimark's problem

Contamination of refuges by Bacillus thuringiensis toxin genes from transgenic maize

From the Cover: An aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase-like protein encoded by the Escherichia coli yadB gene glutamylates specifically tRNA Asp

From the Cover: A truncated aminoacyl–tRNA synthetase modifies RNA

Blarina toxin, a mammalian lethal venom from the short-tailed shrew Blarina brevicauda : Isolation and characterization

Inducing and modulating anisotropic DNA bends by pseudocomplementary peptide nucleic acids

Selective inhibition of calcineurin-NFAT signaling by blocking protein–protein interaction with small organic molecules

Uncoupling conformational change from GTP hydrolysis in a heterotrimeric G protein α-subunit

An expanded genetic code with a functional quadruplet codon

Functional interactions of RNA-capping enzyme with factors that positively and negatively regulate promoter escape by RNA polymerase II

The UbcH8 ubiquitin E2 enzyme is also the E2 enzyme for ISG15, an IFN-α/β-induced ubiquitin-like protein

SecB is a bona fide generalized chaperone in Escherichia coli

Reduction in DNA-binding affinity of Cys 2 His 2 zinc finger proteins by linker phosphorylation

Automated structure prediction of weakly homologous proteins on a genomic scale

Bacteriophage capsids: Tough nanoshells with complex elastic properties

Scattered Hammond plots reveal second level of site-specific information in protein folding: φ′ (β ‡ )

From the Cover: TorsinA in the nuclear envelope

Rational design and characterization of a Rac GTPase-specific small molecule inhibitor

DNA end joining becomes less efficient and more error-prone during cellular senescence

Endogenous NO regulates superoxide production at low oxygen concentrations by modifying the redox state of cytochrome c oxidase

The effect of interspecific oocytes on demethylation of sperm DNA

Cdx2 is essential for axial elongation in mouse development

Reversing introduced species effects: Experimental removal of introduced fish leads to rapid recovery of a declining frog

Neutrality, niches, and dispersal in a temperate forest understory

Molecular evidence links cryptic diversification in polar planktonic protists to Quaternary climate dynamics

Similar gene expression patterns characterize aging and oxidative stress in Drosophila melanogaster

HIV-1-infected monocyte-derived dendritic cells do not undergo maturation but can elicit IL-10 production and T cell regulation

Crystal structure of the human T cell receptor CD3εγ heterodimer complexed to the therapeutic mAb OKT3

Constitutive association of the proapoptotic protein Bim with Bcl-2-related proteins on mitochondria in T cells

Role for glyoxalase I in Alzheimer's disease

Digitoxin mimics gene therapy with CFTR and suppresses hypersecretion of IL-8 from cystic fibrosis lung epithelial cells

Albumin mediates the transcytosis of myeloperoxidase by means of caveolae in endothelial cells

Neutralizing antibodies to hepatitis C virus (HCV) in immune globulins derived from anti-HCV-positive plasma

Genetic evidence that the human CYP2R1 enzyme is a key vitamin D 25-hydroxylase