Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • David Shechter
    • and Jean Gautier

    MCM proteins and checkpoint kinases get together at the fork

    PNAS 2004 101:10845-10846; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404143101
    • See companion article on page 10078 in issue 27 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Karen Rosenberg

    Living longer: Information revolution, population expansion, and modern human origins

    PNAS 2004 101:10847-10848; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404198101
    • See companion article on page 10895 in issue 30 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Lars O. Hedin

    Global organization of terrestrial plant–nutrient interactions

    PNAS 2004 101:10849-10850; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404222101
    • See companion article on page 11001 in issue 30 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Social Sciences - Psychology:
    • Peter A. van der Helm

    Transparallel processing by hyperstrings

    PNAS 2004 101:10862-10867; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403402101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics - Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo,
    • Michael B. Elowitz,
    • and Steven H. Strogatz

    Modeling a synthetic multicellular clock: Repressilators coupled by quorum sensing

    PNAS 2004 101:10955-10960; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307095101

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Golam Rasul,
    • George A. Olah,
    • and G. K. Surya Prakash

    Density functional theory study of adamantanediyl dications C 10 H 14 2+ and protio -adamantyl dications C 10 H 16 2+

    PNAS 2004 101:10868-10871; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404137101
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Gonen Ashkenasy,
    • Reshma Jagasia,
    • Maneesh Yadav,
    • and M. Reza Ghadiri

    Design of a directed molecular network

    PNAS 2004 101:10872-10877; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402674101

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • David K. Keefer
    • and Michael E. Moseley

    From the Cover: Southern Peru desert shattered by the great 2001 earthquake: Implications for paleoseismic and paleo-El Niño–Southern Oscillation records

    PNAS 2004 101:10878-10883; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404320101

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
    • Victor Guillemin
    • and Etienne Rassart

    Signature quantization and representations of compact Lie groups

    PNAS 2004 101:10884-10889; published ahead of print July 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403173101

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • A. S. Mikhailov,
    • D. H. Zanette,
    • Y. M. Zhai,
    • I. Z. Kiss,
    • and J. L. Hudson

    Cooperative action of coherent groups in broadly heterogeneous populations of interacting chemical oscillators

    PNAS 2004 101:10890-10894; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402899101

Social Sciences

Psychology

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • David K. Keefer
    • and Michael E. Moseley

    From the Cover: Southern Peru desert shattered by the great 2001 earthquake: Implications for paleoseismic and paleo-El Niño–Southern Oscillation records

    PNAS 2004 101:10878-10883; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404320101
  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Rachel Caspari
    • and Sang-Hee Lee

    From the Cover: Older age becomes common late in human evolution

    PNAS 2004 101:10895-10900; published ahead of print July 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402857101
    • See commentary article on page 10847 in issue 30 of volume 101

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Erik M. Shapiro,
    • Stanko Skrtic,
    • Kathryn Sharer,
    • Jonathan M. Hill,
    • Cynthia E. Dunbar,
    • and Alan P. Koretsky

    MRI detection of single particles for cellular imaging

    PNAS 2004 101:10901-10906; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403918101

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Joseph S. Pitula,
    • Kathryn M. Deck,
    • Stephen L. Clarke,
    • Sheila A. Anderson,
    • Aparna Vasanthakumar,
    • and Richard S. Eisenstein

    Selective inhibition of the citrate-to-isocitrate reaction of cytosolic aconitase by phosphomimetic mutation of serine-711

    PNAS 2004 101:10907-10912; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404308101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ellen J. Leggate,
    • Eckhard Bill,
    • Timm Essigke,
    • G. Matthias Ullmann,
    • and Judy Hirst

    Formation and characterization of an all-ferrous Rieske cluster and stabilization of the [2Fe-2S] 0 core by protonation

    PNAS 2004 101:10913-10918; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402711101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Charity Fix,
    • Cynthia Jordan,
    • Patricia Cano,
    • and William H. Walker

    Testosterone activates mitogen-activated protein kinase and the cAMP response element binding protein transcription factor in Sertoli cells

    PNAS 2004 101:10919-10924; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404278101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ioannis Vakonakis
    • and Andy C. LiWang

    Structure of the C-terminal domain of the clock protein KaiA in complex with a KaiC-derived peptide: Implications for KaiC regulation

    PNAS 2004 101:10925-10930; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403037101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Klára Kitajka,
    • Andrew J. Sinclair,
    • Richard S. Weisinger,
    • Harrison S. Weisinger,
    • Michael Mathai,
    • Anura P. Jayasooriya,
    • John E. Halver,
    • and László G. Puskás

    Effects of dietary omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids on brain gene expression

    PNAS 2004 101:10931-10936; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402342101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Andrew R. Osborne,
    • William M. Clemons, Jr.,
    • and Tom A. Rapoport

    A large conformational change of the translocation ATPase SecA

    PNAS 2004 101:10937-10942; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401742101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Qi Meng,
    • Charles L. Turnbough, Jr.,
    • and Robert L. Switzer

    Attenuation control of pyrG expression in Bacillus subtilis is mediated by CTP-sensitive reiterative transcription

    PNAS 2004 101:10943-10948; published ahead of print July 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403755101

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • John Christodoulou,
    • Göran Larsson,
    • Paola Fucini,
    • Sean R. Connell,
    • Thelma A. Pertinhez,
    • Charlotte L. Hanson,
    • Christina Redfield,
    • Knud H. Nierhaus,
    • Carol V. Robinson,
    • Jürgen Schleucher,
    • and Christopher M. Dobson

    Heteronuclear NMR investigations of dynamic regions of intact Escherichia coli ribosomes

    PNAS 2004 101:10949-10954; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400928101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics - Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Jordi Garcia-Ojalvo,
    • Michael B. Elowitz,
    • and Steven H. Strogatz

    Modeling a synthetic multicellular clock: Repressilators coupled by quorum sensing

    PNAS 2004 101:10955-10960; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307095101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Berenike Maier,
    • Michael Koomey,
    • and Michael P. Sheetz

    A force-dependent switch reverses type IV pilus retraction

    PNAS 2004 101:10961-10966; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402305101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Franc Avbelj
    • and Robert L. Baldwin

    Origin of the neighboring residue effect on peptide backbone conformation

    PNAS 2004 101:10967-10972; published ahead of print July 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404050101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jennifer J. Sherwood,
    • Guillermina S. Waller,
    • David M. Warshaw,
    • and Susan Lowey

    A point mutation in the regulatory light chain reduces the step size of skeletal muscle myosin

    PNAS 2004 101:10973-10978; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401699101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jonas O. Tegenfeldt,
    • Christelle Prinz,
    • Han Cao,
    • Steven Chou,
    • Walter W. Reisner,
    • Robert Riehn,
    • Yan Mei Wang,
    • Edward C. Cox,
    • James C. Sturm,
    • Pascal Silberzan,
    • and Robert H. Austin

    From the Cover: The dynamics of genomic-length DNA molecules in 100-nm channels

    PNAS 2004 101:10979-10983; published ahead of print July 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403849101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Robert Kurzbauer,
    • David Teis,
    • Mariana E. G. de Araujo,
    • Sebastian Maurer-Stroh,
    • Frank Eisenhaber,
    • Gleb P. Bourenkov,
    • Hans D. Bartunik,
    • Mirko Hekman,
    • Ulf R. Rapp,
    • Lukas A. Huber,
    • and Tim Clausen

    Crystal structure of the p14/MP1 scaffolding complex: How a twin couple attaches mitogen-activated protein kinase signaling to late endosomes

    PNAS 2004 101:10984-10989; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403435101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Dennis H. Kim,
    • Nicole T. Liberati,
    • Tomoaki Mizuno,
    • Hideki Inoue,
    • Naoki Hisamoto,
    • Kunihiro Matsumoto,
    • and Frederick M. Ausubel

    From the Cover: Integration of Caenorhabditis elegans MAPK pathways mediating immunity and stress resistance by MEK-1 MAPK kinase and VHP-1 MAPK phosphatase

    PNAS 2004 101:10990-10994; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403546101
    • See commentary article on page 12781 in issue 35 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Danielle L. Huffman,
    • Laurence Abrami,
    • Roman Sasik,
    • Jacques Corbeil,
    • F. Gisou van der Goot,
    • and Raffi V. Aroian

    From the Cover: Mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways defend against bacterial pore-forming toxins

    PNAS 2004 101:10995-11000; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404073101
    • See commentary article on page 12781 in issue 35 of volume 101

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Tinsley H. Davis

    Inaugural Article: Biography of David Tilman

    PNAS 2004 101:10851-10853; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404605101
    • See commentary article on page 10854 in issue 30 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • David Tilman

    Inaugural Article: Niche tradeoffs, neutrality, and community structure: A stochastic theory of resource competition, invasion, and community assembly

    PNAS 2004 101:10854-10861; published ahead of print July 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403458101
    • See commentary article on page 10851 in issue 30 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Peter B. Reich
    • and Jacek Oleksyn

    From the Cover: Global patterns of plant leaf N and P in relation to temperature and latitude

    PNAS 2004 101:11001-11006; published ahead of print June 22, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403588101
    • See commentary article on page 10849 in issue 30 of volume 101

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Andrew Millard,
    • Martha R. J. Clokie,
    • David A. Shub,
    • and Nicholas H. Mann

    Genetic organization of the psbAD region in phages infecting marine Synechococcus strains

    PNAS 2004 101:11007-11012; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401478101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Debbie Lindell,
    • Matthew B. Sullivan,
    • Zackary I. Johnson,
    • Andrew C. Tolonen,
    • Forest Rohwer,
    • and Sallie W. Chisholm

    Transfer of photosynthesis genes to and from Prochlorococcus viruses

    PNAS 2004 101:11013-11018; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401526101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Justin Werfel
    • and Yaneer Bar-Yam

    The evolution of reproductive restraint through social communication

    PNAS 2004 101:11019-11024; published ahead of print July 15, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0305059101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Linda E. Graham,
    • Lee W. Wilcox,
    • Martha E. Cook,
    • and Patricia G. Gensel

    Resistant tissues of modern marchantioid liverworts resemble enigmatic Early Paleozoic microfossils

    PNAS 2004 101:11025-11029; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400484101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Koichiro Tamura,
    • Masatoshi Nei,
    • and Sudhir Kumar

    Prospects for inferring very large phylogenies by using the neighbor-joining method

    PNAS 2004 101:11030-11035; published ahead of print July 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404206101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Scott L. Nuismer
    • and Sarah P. Otto

    Host–parasite interactions and the evolution of ploidy

    PNAS 2004 101:11036-11039; published ahead of print July 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403151101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • F. Keith Barker,
    • Alice Cibois,
    • Peter Schikler,
    • Julie Feinstein,
    • and Joel Cracraft

    Phylogeny and diversification of the largest avian radiation

    PNAS 2004 101:11040-11045; published ahead of print July 19, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401892101

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Robert G. Eason,
    • Nader Pourmand,
    • Waraporn Tongprasit,
    • Zelek S. Herman,
    • Kevin Anthony,
    • Olufisayo Jejelowo,
    • Ronald W. Davis,
    • and Viktor Stolc

    Characterization of synthetic DNA bar codes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene-deletion strains

    PNAS 2004 101:11046-11051; published ahead of print July 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403672101
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Aleksandr V. Makeyev,
    • Lkhamsuren Erdenechimeg,
    • Ognoon Mungunsukh,
    • Jutta J. Roth,
    • Badam Enkhmandakh,
    • Frank H. Ruddle,
    • and Dashzeveg Bayarsaihan

    GTF2IRD2 is located in the Williams–Beuren syndrome critical region 7q11.23 and encodes a protein with two TFII-I-like helix–loop–helix repeats

    PNAS 2004 101:11052-11057; published ahead of print July 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404150101

Immunology