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Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Shaobing Peng,
- Jianliang Huang,
- John E. Sheehy,
- Rebecca C. Laza,
- Romeo M. Visperas,
- Xuhua Zhong,
- Grace S. Centeno,
- Gurdev S. Khush,
- and Kenneth G. Cassman
Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming
PNAS 2004 101:9971-9975; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403720101

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
- I. Martínez,
- M. Rosa,
- J.-L. Arsuaga,
- P. Jarabo,
- R. Quam,
- C. Lorenzo,
- A. Gracia,
- J.-M. Carretero,
- J.-M. Bermúdez de Castro,
- and E. Carbonell
Auditory capacities in Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sierra de Atapuerca in Spain
PNAS 2004 101:9976-9981; published ahead of print June 22, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403595101

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Kevin M. Marks,
- Patrick D. Braun,
- and Garry P. Nolan
A general approach for chemical labeling and rapid, spatially controlled protein inactivation
PNAS 2004 101:9982-9987; published ahead of print June 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401609101

Biochemistry

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Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Rivka Adar,
- Yaakov Benenson,
- Gregory Linshiz,
- Amit Rosner,
- Naftali Tishby,
- and Ehud Shapiro
Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata
PNAS 2004 101:9960-9965; published ahead of print June 23, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400731101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Dmitry V. Bugreev
- and Alexander V. Mazin
Ca 2+ activates human homologous recombination protein Rad51 by modulating its ATPase activity
PNAS 2004 101:9988-9993; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402105101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Matthew K. Higgins,
- Evert Bokma,
- Eva Koronakis,
- Colin Hughes,
- and Vassilis Koronakis
Structure of the periplasmic component of a bacterial drug efflux pump
PNAS 2004 101:9994-9999; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400375101
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Alan Saghatelian,
- Nadim Jessani,
- Arul Joseph,
- Mark Humphrey,
- and Benjamin F. Cravatt
Activity-based probes for the proteomic profiling of metalloproteases
PNAS 2004 101:10000-10005; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402784101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Thota Ganesh,
- Rebecca C. Guza,
- Susan Bane,
- Rudravajhala Ravindra,
- Natasha Shanker,
- Ami S. Lakdawala,
- James P. Snyder,
- and David G. I. Kingston
The bioactive Taxol conformation on β-tubulin: Experimental evidence from highly active constrained analogs
PNAS 2004 101:10006-10011; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403459101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Chung-Yi Wu,
- Jia-Tsrong Jan,
- Shiou-Hwa Ma,
- Chih-Jung Kuo,
- Hsueh-Fen Juan,
- Yih-Shyun E. Cheng,
- Hsien-Hua Hsu,
- Hsuan-Cheng Huang,
- Douglass Wu,
- Ashraf Brik,
- Fu-Sen Liang,
- Rai-Shung Liu,
- Jim-Min Fang,
- Shui-Tein Chen,
- Po-Huang Liang,
- and Chi-Huey Wong
Small molecules targeting severe acute respiratory syndrome human coronavirus
PNAS 2004 101:10012-10017; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403596101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Laura Segatori,
- Paul J. Paukstelis,
- Hiram F. Gilbert,
- and George Georgiou
Engineered DsbC chimeras catalyze both protein oxidation and disulfide-bond isomerization in Escherichia coli : Reconciling two competing pathways
PNAS 2004 101:10018-10023; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403003101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- David C. Zappulla
- and Thomas R. Cech
From the Cover: Yeast telomerase RNA: A flexible scaffold for protein subunits
PNAS 2004 101:10024-10029; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403641101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Deviprasad R. Gollapalli
- and Robert R. Rando
The specific binding of retinoic acid to RPE65 and approaches to the treatment of macular degeneration
PNAS 2004 101:10030-10035; published ahead of print June 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401936101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Na Pi,
- Caren L. Freel Meyers,
- Michelle Pacholec,
- Christopher T. Walsh,
- and Julie A. Leary
Mass spectrometric characterization of a three-enzyme tandem reaction for assembly and modification of the novobiocin skeleton
PNAS 2004 101:10036-10041; published ahead of print June 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403526101
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Hiroaki Daitoku,
- Mitsutoki Hatta,
- Hitomi Matsuzaki,
- Satoko Aratani,
- Takayuki Ohshima,
- Makoto Miyagishi,
- Toshihiro Nakajima,
- and Akiyoshi Fukamizu
Silent information regulator 2 potentiates Foxo1-mediated transcription through its deacetylase activity
PNAS 2004 101:10042-10047; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400593101

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ashish B. Patel,
- Evan Crocker,
- Markus Eilers,
- Amiram Hirshfeld,
- Mordechai Sheves,
- and Steven O. Smith
Coupling of retinal isomerization to the activation of rhodopsin
PNAS 2004 101:10048-10053; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402848101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Fatma Eker,
- Kai Griebenow,
- Xiaolin Cao,
- Laurence A. Nafie,
- and Reinhard Schweitzer-Stenner
Preferred peptide backbone conformations in the unfolded state revealed by the structure analysis of alanine-based (AXA) tripeptides in aqueous solution
PNAS 2004 101:10054-10059; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402623101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- David S. Long,
- Michael L. Smith,
- Axel R. Pries,
- Klaus Ley,
- and Edward R. Damiano
Microviscometry reveals reduced blood viscosity and altered shear rate and shear stress profiles in microvessels after hemodilution
PNAS 2004 101:10060-10065; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402937101
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- David Rueda,
- Gregory Bokinsky,
- Maria M. Rhodes,
- Michael J. Rust,
- Xiaowei Zhuang,
- and Nils G. Walter
Single-molecule enzymology of RNA: Essential functional groups impact catalysis from a distance
PNAS 2004 101:10066-10071; published ahead of print June 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403575101

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- M. M. Zarei,
- M. Eghbali,
- A. Alioua,
- M. Song,
- H.-G. Knaus,
- E. Stefani,
- and L. Toro
An endoplasmic reticulum trafficking signal prevents surface expression of a voltage- and Ca 2+ -activated K + channel splice variant
PNAS 2004 101:10072-10077; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0302919101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- David Cortez,
- Gloria Glick,
- and Stephen J. Elledge
From the Cover: Minichromosome maintenance proteins are direct targets of the ATM and ATR checkpoint kinases
PNAS 2004 101:10078-10083; published ahead of print June 21, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403410101
- See commentary article on page 10845 in issue 30 of volume 101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Sherry L. Ogg,
- Anne K. Weldon,
- Lorraine Dobbie,
- Andrew J. H. Smith,
- and Ian H. Mather
Expression of butyrophilin (Btn1a1) in lactating mammary gland is essential for the regulated secretion of milk–lipid droplets
PNAS 2004 101:10084-10089; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402930101
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Lisa Juntti-Berggren,
- Essam Refai,
- Ioulia Appelskog,
- Mats Andersson,
- Gabriela Imreh,
- Nancy Dekki,
- Sabine Uhles,
- Lina Yu,
- William J. Griffiths,
- Sergei Zaitsev,
- Ingo Leibiger,
- Shao-Nian Yang,
- Gunilla Olivecrona,
- Hans Jörnvall,
- and Per-Olof Berggren
Apolipoprotein CIII promotes Ca 2+ -dependent β cell death in type 1 diabetes
PNAS 2004 101:10090-10094; published ahead of print June 21, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403551101

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- David M. Donnell,
- Laura S. Corley,
- Gang Chen,
- and Michael R. Strand
Caste determination in a polyembryonic wasp involves inheritance of germ cells
PNAS 2004 101:10095-10100; published ahead of print June 28, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403625101

Ecology

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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Peter B. Reich,
- David Tilman,
- Shahid Naeem,
- David S. Ellsworth,
- Johannes Knops,
- Joseph Craine,
- David Wedin,
- and Jared Trost
Species and functional group diversity independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to CO 2 and N
PNAS 2004 101:10101-10106; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0306602101
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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Rebecca J. Ganley,
- Steven J. Brunsfeld,
- and George Newcombe
A community of unknown, endophytic fungi in western white pine
PNAS 2004 101:10107-10112; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401513101

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- R. A. Barton
From the Cover: Binocularity and brain evolution in primates
PNAS 2004 101:10113-10115; published ahead of print June 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401955101

Immunology

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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Simona Sivori,
- Michela Falco,
- Mariella Della Chiesa,
- Simona Carlomagno,
- Massimo Vitale,
- Lorenzo Moretta,
- and Alessandro Moretta
CpG and double-stranded RNA trigger human NK cells by Toll-like receptors: Induction of cytokine release and cytotoxicity against tumors and dendritic cells
PNAS 2004 101:10116-10121; published ahead of print June 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403744101
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Luis Graca,
- Alain Le Moine,
- Chun-Yen Lin,
- Paul J. Fairchild,
- Stephen P. Cobbold,
- and Herman Waldmann
Donor-specific transplantation tolerance: The paradoxical behavior of CD4 + CD25 + T cells
PNAS 2004 101:10122-10126; published ahead of print June 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400084101
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Misao Matsushita,
- Akiko Matsushita,
- Yuichi Endo,
- Munehiro Nakata,
- Naoya Kojima,
- Tsuguo Mizuochi,
- and Teizo Fujita
Origin of the classical complement pathway: Lamprey orthologue of mammalian C1q acts as a lectin
PNAS 2004 101:10127-10131; published ahead of print June 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402180101

Medical Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Atsushi Sanbe,
- Hanna Osinska,
- Jeffrey E. Saffitz,
- Charles G. Glabe,
- Rakez Kayed,
- Alina Maloyan,
- and Jeffrey Robbins
Desmin-related cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice: A cardiac amyloidosis
PNAS 2004 101:10132-10136; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401900101
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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Debajit K. Biswas,
- Qian Shi,
- Shanon Baily,
- Ian Strickland,
- Sankar Ghosh,
- Arthur B. Pardee,
- and J. Dirk Iglehart
NF-κB activation in human breast cancer specimens and its role in cell proliferation and apoptosis
PNAS 2004 101:10137-10142; published ahead of print June 25, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403621101
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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Avrum Spira,
- Jennifer Beane,
- Vishal Shah,
- Gang Liu,
- Frank Schembri,
- Xuemei Yang,
- John Palma,
- and Jerome S. Brody
Effects of cigarette smoke on the human airway epithelial cell transcriptome
PNAS 2004

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Tarp and Arp: How Chlamydia induces its own entry

Connecting genes to metabolites by a systems biology approach

Localized chemical release from an artificial synapse chip

Labeling of fusion proteins with synthetic fluorophores in live cells

Activity-based probes for the proteomic profiling of metalloproteases

Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata

A large-area, flexible pressure sensor matrix with organic field-effect transistors for artificial skin applications

The evolution of culture: From primate social learning to human culture

Rice yields decline with higher night temperature from global warming

Auditory capacities in Middle Pleistocene humans from the Sierra de Atapuerca in Spain

A general approach for chemical labeling and rapid, spatially controlled protein inactivation

Stochastic computing with biomolecular automata

Ca 2+ activates human homologous recombination protein Rad51 by modulating its ATPase activity

Structure of the periplasmic component of a bacterial drug efflux pump

Activity-based probes for the proteomic profiling of metalloproteases

The bioactive Taxol conformation on β-tubulin: Experimental evidence from highly active constrained analogs

Small molecules targeting severe acute respiratory syndrome human coronavirus

Engineered DsbC chimeras catalyze both protein oxidation and disulfide-bond isomerization in Escherichia coli : Reconciling two competing pathways

From the Cover: Yeast telomerase RNA: A flexible scaffold for protein subunits

The specific binding of retinoic acid to RPE65 and approaches to the treatment of macular degeneration

Mass spectrometric characterization of a three-enzyme tandem reaction for assembly and modification of the novobiocin skeleton

Silent information regulator 2 potentiates Foxo1-mediated transcription through its deacetylase activity

Coupling of retinal isomerization to the activation of rhodopsin

Preferred peptide backbone conformations in the unfolded state revealed by the structure analysis of alanine-based (AXA) tripeptides in aqueous solution

Microviscometry reveals reduced blood viscosity and altered shear rate and shear stress profiles in microvessels after hemodilution

Single-molecule enzymology of RNA: Essential functional groups impact catalysis from a distance

An endoplasmic reticulum trafficking signal prevents surface expression of a voltage- and Ca 2+ -activated K + channel splice variant

From the Cover: Minichromosome maintenance proteins are direct targets of the ATM and ATR checkpoint kinases

Expression of butyrophilin (Btn1a1) in lactating mammary gland is essential for the regulated secretion of milk–lipid droplets

Apolipoprotein CIII promotes Ca 2+ -dependent β cell death in type 1 diabetes

Caste determination in a polyembryonic wasp involves inheritance of germ cells

Species and functional group diversity independently influence biomass accumulation and its response to CO 2 and N

A community of unknown, endophytic fungi in western white pine

From the Cover: Binocularity and brain evolution in primates

CpG and double-stranded RNA trigger human NK cells by Toll-like receptors: Induction of cytokine release and cytotoxicity against tumors and dendritic cells

Donor-specific transplantation tolerance: The paradoxical behavior of CD4 + CD25 + T cells

Origin of the classical complement pathway: Lamprey orthologue of mammalian C1q acts as a lectin

Desmin-related cardiomyopathy in transgenic mice: A cardiac amyloidosis

NF-κB activation in human breast cancer specimens and its role in cell proliferation and apoptosis

Effects of cigarette smoke on the human airway epithelial cell transcriptome