Table of Contents

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Larry Gerace
TorsinA and torsion dystonia: Unraveling the architecture of the nuclear envelope
PNAS 2004 101:8839-8840; published ahead of print June 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402441101
- See companion article on page 7612 in issue 20 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Harvey E. Marshall,
- Douglas T. Hess,
- and Jonathan S. Stamler
S-nitrosylation: Physiological regulation of NF-κB
PNAS 2004 101:8841-8842; published ahead of print June 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403034101
- See companion article on page 8945 in issue 24 of volume 101
Commentary:
- Bruno Amati
Myc degradation: Dancing with ubiquitin ligases
PNAS 2004 101:8843-8844; published ahead of print June 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403046101
- See companion article on page 9085 in issue 24 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Vasiliki Demas,
- Dimitris Sakellariou,
- Carlos A. Meriles,
- Songi Han,
- Jeffrey Reimer,
- and Alexander Pines
Three-dimensional phase-encoded chemical shift MRI in the presence of inhomogeneous fields
PNAS 2004 101:8845-8847; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403016101

Geophysics

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Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
- Paolo D'Odorico
- and Amilcare Porporato
Preferential states in soil moisture and climate dynamics
PNAS 2004 101:8848-8851; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401428101

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Population Biology - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- E. Matisoo-Smith
- and J. H. Robins
From the Cover: Origins and dispersals of Pacific peoples: Evidence from mtDNA phylogenies of the Pacific rat
PNAS 2004 101:9167-9172; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403120101

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- James P. McClung,
- Carol A. Roneker,
- Weipeng Mu,
- Donald J. Lisk,
- Paul Langlais,
- Feng Liu,
- and Xin Gen Lei
Development of insulin resistance and obesity in mice overexpressing cellular glutathione peroxidase
PNAS 2004 101:8852-8857; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308096101

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ty E. Adams,
- Matthew F. Hockin,
- Kenneth G. Mann,
- and Stephen J. Everse
The crystal structure of activated protein C-inactivated bovine factor Va: Implications for cofactor function
PNAS 2004 101:8918-8923; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403072101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Vannakambadi K. Ganesh,
- Scott A. Smith,
- Girish J. Kotwal,
- and Krishna H. M. Murthy
Structure of vaccinia complement protein in complex with heparin and potential implications for complement regulation
PNAS 2004 101:8924-8929; published ahead of print June 3, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400744101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Dipesh Risal,
- S. Gourinath,
- Daniel M. Himmel,
- Andrew G. Szent-Györgyi,
- and Carolyn Cohen
Myosin subfragment 1 structures reveal a partially bound nucleotide and a complex salt bridge that helps couple nucleotide and actin binding
PNAS 2004 101:8930-8935; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403002101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Achillefs N. Kapanidis,
- Nam Ki Lee,
- Ted A. Laurence,
- Sören Doose,
- Emmanuel Margeat,
- and Shimon Weiss
Fluorescence-aided molecule sorting: Analysis of structure and interactions by alternating-laser excitation of single molecules
PNAS 2004 101:8936-8941; published ahead of print June 2, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401690101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Dmitry N. Ivankov
- and Alexei V. Finkelstein
Prediction of protein folding rates from the amino acid sequence-predicted secondary structure
PNAS 2004 101:8942-8944; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402659101

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Niki L. Reynaert,
- Karina Ckless,
- Solange H. Korn,
- Nanda Vos,
- Amy S. Guala,
- Emiel F. M. Wouters,
- Albert van der Vliet,
- and Yvonne M. W. Janssen-Heininger
From the Cover: Nitric oxide represses inhibitory κB kinase through S-nitrosylation
PNAS 2004 101:8945-8950; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400588101
- See commentary article on page 8841 in issue 24 of volume 101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Chris Janetopoulos,
- Lan Ma,
- Peter N. Devreotes,
- and Pablo A. Iglesias
Chemoattractant-induced phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate accumulation is spatially amplified and adapts, independent of the actin cytoskeleton
PNAS 2004 101:8951-8956; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402152101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Megan C. King,
- Graça Raposo,
- and Mark A. Lemmon
Inhibition of nuclear import and cell-cycle progression by mutated forms of the dynamin-like GTPase MxB
PNAS 2004 101:8957-8962; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403167101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Robert D. Goldman,
- Dale K. Shumaker,
- Michael R. Erdos,
- Maria Eriksson,
- Anne E. Goldman,
- Leslie B. Gordon,
- Yosef Gruenbaum,
- Satya Khuon,
- Melissa Mendez,
- Renée Varga,
- and Francis S. Collins
Accumulation of mutant lamin A causes progressive changes in nuclear architecture in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome
PNAS 2004 101:8963-8968; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402943101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Natarajan Venkatesh,
- Yan Feng,
- Brian DeDecker,
- Patrick Yacono,
- David Golan,
- Timothy Mitchison,
- and Frank McKeon
Chemical genetics to identify NFAT inhibitors: Potential of targeting calcium mobilization in immunosuppression
PNAS 2004 101:8969-8974; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402803101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Jian Du
- and Gregory J. Hannon
Suppression of p160ROCK bypasses cell cycle arrest after Aurora-A/STK15 depletion
PNAS 2004 101:8975-8980; published ahead of print June 3, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308484101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Shoichi Suzuki,
- Kiri Honma,
- Toshifumi Matsuyama,
- Kazuo Suzuki,
- Kan Toriyama,
- Ichinose Akitoyo,
- Kazuo Yamamoto,
- Takashi Suematsu,
- Michio Nakamura,
- Katsuyuki Yui,
- and Atsushi Kumatori
From the Cover: Critical roles of interferon regulatory factor 4 in CD11b high CD8α – dendritic cell development
PNAS 2004 101:8981-8986; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402139101

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Ayala Luria
- and J. David Furlow
Spatiotemporal retinoid-X receptor activation detected in live vertebrate embryos
PNAS 2004 101:8987-8992; published ahead of print June 3, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307053101

Ecology

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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Consuelo M. De Moraes
- and Mark C. Mescher
Biochemical crypsis in the avoidance of natural enemies by an insect herbivore
PNAS 2004 101:8993-8997; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403248101
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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- A. Randall Hughes
- and John J. Stachowicz
Genetic diversity enhances the resistance of a seagrass ecosystem to disturbance
PNAS 2004 101:8998-9002; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402642101

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Karin Kiontke,
- Nicholas P. Gavin,
- Yevgeniy Raynes,
- Casey Roehrig,
- Fabio Piano,
- and David H. A. Fitch
Caenorhabditis phylogeny predicts convergence of hermaphroditism and extensive intron loss
PNAS 2004 101:9003-9008; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403094101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Laura K. Reed
- and Therese A. Markow
Early events in speciation: Polymorphism for hybrid male sterility in Drosophila
PNAS 2004 101:9009-9012; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403106101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Marta Puig,
- Mario Cáceres,
- and Alfredo Ruiz
Silencing of a gene adjacent to the breakpoint of a widespread Drosophila inversion by a transposon-induced antisense RNA
PNAS 2004 101:9013-9018; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403090101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Alexander A. Gimelbrant,
- Helen Skaletsky,
- and Andrew Chess
From the Cover: Selective pressures on the olfactory receptor repertoire since the human-chimpanzee divergence
PNAS 2004 101:9019-9022; published ahead of print June 3, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401566101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Noriko Suzuki,
- Michael Laskowski,, Jr.,
- and Yuan C. Lee
Phylogenetic expression of Galα1-4Gal on avian glycoproteins: Glycan differentiation inscribed in the early history of modern birds
PNAS 2004 101:9023-9028; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402822101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Alexander Bezzerides,
- Tze-Hei Yong,
- Julie Bezzerides,
- Jad Husseini,
- Joshua Ladau,
- Maria Eisner,
- and Thomas Eisner
Plant-derived pyrrolizidine alkaloid protects eggs of a moth ( Utetheisa ornatrix ) against a parasitoid wasp ( Trichogramma ostriniae )
PNAS 2004 101:9029-9032; published ahead of print June 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402480101
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Hunter B. Fraser,
- Aaron E. Hirsh,
- Dennis P. Wall,
- and Michael B. Eisen
Coevolution of gene expression among interacting proteins
PNAS 2004 101:9033-9038; published ahead of print June 2, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402591101

Genetics

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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Stephanie Smith,
- Ji-Young Hwang,
- Soma Banerjee,
- Anju Majeed,
- Amitabha Gupta,
- and Kyungjaem Myung
Mutator genes for suppression of gross chromosomal rearrangements identified by a genome-wide screening in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 2004 101:9039-9044; published ahead of print June 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403093101
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Andrew N. Doust,

FROM THE COVER

TorsinA and torsion dystonia: Unraveling the architecture of the nuclear envelope

S-nitrosylation: Physiological regulation of NF-κB

Myc degradation: Dancing with ubiquitin ligases

Three-dimensional phase-encoded chemical shift MRI in the presence of inhomogeneous fields

Preferential states in soil moisture and climate dynamics

From the Cover: Origins and dispersals of Pacific peoples: Evidence from mtDNA phylogenies of the Pacific rat

Development of insulin resistance and obesity in mice overexpressing cellular glutathione peroxidase

Kinetic isotope effects in Ras-catalyzed GTP hydrolysis: Evidence for a loose transition state

Human RAD9 checkpoint control/proapoptotic protein can activate transcription of p21

Modification of the erythroid transcription factor GATA-1 by SUMO-1

Crystal structures of the DsbG disulfide isomerase reveal an unstable disulfide

Selective incorporation of 5-hydroxytryptophan into proteins in mammalian cells

Phosphoprotein inhibitor CPI-17 specificity depends on allosteric regulation of protein phosphatase-1 by regulatory subunits

Hypoxic inducible factor 1α, extracellular signal-regulated kinase, and p53 are regulated by distinct threshold concentrations of nitric oxide

Visualization of ribosome-recycling factor on the Escherichia coli 70S ribosome: Functional implications

Interplay between Drosophila Bloom's syndrome helicase and Ku autoantigen during nonhomologous end joining repair of P element-induced DNA breaks

Regulation of PPARγ coactivator 1α (PGC-1α) signaling by an estrogen-related receptor α (ERRα) ligand

The Parkinson's disease protein DJ-1 is neuroprotective due to cysteine-sulfinic acid-driven mitochondrial localization

The crystal structure of activated protein C-inactivated bovine factor Va: Implications for cofactor function

Structure of vaccinia complement protein in complex with heparin and potential implications for complement regulation

Myosin subfragment 1 structures reveal a partially bound nucleotide and a complex salt bridge that helps couple nucleotide and actin binding

Fluorescence-aided molecule sorting: Analysis of structure and interactions by alternating-laser excitation of single molecules

Prediction of protein folding rates from the amino acid sequence-predicted secondary structure

From the Cover: Nitric oxide represses inhibitory κB kinase through S-nitrosylation

Chemoattractant-induced phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate accumulation is spatially amplified and adapts, independent of the actin cytoskeleton

Inhibition of nuclear import and cell-cycle progression by mutated forms of the dynamin-like GTPase MxB

Accumulation of mutant lamin A causes progressive changes in nuclear architecture in Hutchinson–Gilford progeria syndrome

Chemical genetics to identify NFAT inhibitors: Potential of targeting calcium mobilization in immunosuppression

Suppression of p160ROCK bypasses cell cycle arrest after Aurora-A/STK15 depletion

From the Cover: Critical roles of interferon regulatory factor 4 in CD11b high CD8α – dendritic cell development

Spatiotemporal retinoid-X receptor activation detected in live vertebrate embryos

Biochemical crypsis in the avoidance of natural enemies by an insect herbivore

Genetic diversity enhances the resistance of a seagrass ecosystem to disturbance

Caenorhabditis phylogeny predicts convergence of hermaphroditism and extensive intron loss

Early events in speciation: Polymorphism for hybrid male sterility in Drosophila

Silencing of a gene adjacent to the breakpoint of a widespread Drosophila inversion by a transposon-induced antisense RNA

From the Cover: Selective pressures on the olfactory receptor repertoire since the human-chimpanzee divergence

Phylogenetic expression of Galα1-4Gal on avian glycoproteins: Glycan differentiation inscribed in the early history of modern birds

Plant-derived pyrrolizidine alkaloid protects eggs of a moth ( Utetheisa ornatrix ) against a parasitoid wasp ( Trichogramma ostriniae )

Coevolution of gene expression among interacting proteins

Mutator genes for suppression of gross chromosomal rearrangements identified by a genome-wide screening in Saccharomyces cerevisiae