Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Joshua Schimel

    Playing scales in the methane cycle: From microbial ecology to the globe

    PNAS 2004 101:12400-12401; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405075101
    • See companion article on page 12583 in issue 34 of volume 101

Editorial

  • Editorial:
    • Nicholas R. Cozzarelli,
    • Kenneth R. Fulton,
    • and Diane M. Sullenberger

    Liberalization of PNAS copyright policy: Noncommercial use freely allowed

    PNAS 2004 101:12399; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405514101

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Katharine Hayhoe,
    • Daniel Cayan,
    • Christopher B. Field,
    • Peter C. Frumhoff,
    • Edwin P. Maurer,
    • Norman L. Miller,
    • Susanne C. Moser,
    • Stephen H. Schneider,
    • Kimberly Nicholas Cahill,
    • Elsa E. Cleland,
    • Larry Dale,
    • Ray Drapek,
    • R. Michael Hanemann,
    • Laurence S. Kalkstein,
    • James Lenihan,
    • Claire K. Lunch,
    • Ronald P. Neilson,
    • Scott C. Sheridan,
    • and Julia H. Verville

    Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California

    PNAS 2004 101:12422-12427; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404500101
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Seokwoo Jeon,
    • Jang-Ung Park,
    • Ray Cirelli,
    • Shu Yang,
    • Carla E. Heitzman,
    • Paul V. Braun,
    • Paul J. A. Kenis,
    • and John A. Rogers

    From the Cover: Fabricating complex three-dimensional nanostructures with high-resolution conformable phase masks

    PNAS 2004 101:12428-12433; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403048101
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Daniel B. Wolfe,
    • Richard S. Conroy,
    • Piotr Garstecki,
    • Brian T. Mayers,
    • Michael A. Fischbach,
    • Kateri E. Paul,
    • Mara Prentiss,
    • and George M. Whitesides

    Dynamic control of liquid-core/liquid-cladding optical waveguides

    PNAS 2004 101:12434-12438; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404423101

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Vincent Gauci,
    • Elaine Matthews,
    • Nancy Dise,
    • Bernadette Walter,
    • Dorothy Koch,
    • Gunnar Granberg,
    • and Melanie Vile

    From the Cover: Sulfur pollution suppression of the wetland methane source in the 20th and 21st centuries

    PNAS 2004 101:12583-12587; published ahead of print August 5, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404412101
    • See commentary article on page 12400 in issue 34 of volume 101

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alice Nicolas,
    • Benjamin Geiger,
    • and Samuel A. Safran

    Cell mechanosensitivity controls the anisotropy of focal adhesions

    PNAS 2004 101:12520-12525; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403539101

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lee Hoang,
    • Kurt Fredrick,
    • and Harry F. Noller

    Creating ribosomes with an all-RNA 30S subunit P site

    PNAS 2004 101:12439-12443; published ahead of print August 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405227101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • V. A. Streltsov,
    • J. N. Varghese,
    • J. A. Carmichael,
    • R. A. Irving,
    • P. J. Hudson,
    • and S. D. Nuttall

    Structural evidence for evolution of shark Ig new antigen receptor variable domain antibodies from a cell-surface receptor

    PNAS 2004 101:12444-12449; published ahead of print August 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403509101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Carla Polycarpo,
    • Alexandre Ambrogelly,
    • Amélie Bérubé,
    • SusAnn M. Winbush,
    • James A. McCloskey,
    • Pamela F. Crain,
    • John L. Wood,
    • and Dieter Söll

    An aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase that specifically activates pyrrolysine

    PNAS 2004 101:12450-12454; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405362101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • J. Anson James,
    • Aneel K. Aggarwal,
    • R. Michael Linden,
    • and Carlos R. Escalante

    Structure of adeno-associated virus type 2 Rep40–ADP complex: Insight into nucleotide recognition and catalysis by superfamily 3 helicases

    PNAS 2004 101:12455-12460; published ahead of print August 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403454101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jeanne A. Hardy,
    • Joni Lam,
    • Jack T. Nguyen,
    • Tom O'Brien,
    • and James A. Wells

    Discovery of an allosteric site in the caspases

    PNAS 2004 101:12461-12466; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404781101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Frederic A. Fellouse,
    • Christian Wiesmann,
    • and Sachdev S. Sidhu

    Synthetic antibodies from a four-amino-acid code: A dominant role for tyrosine in antigen recognition

    PNAS 2004 101:12467-12472; published ahead of print August 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401786101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nobutaka Ohgami,
    • Dennis C. Ko,
    • Matthew Thomas,
    • Matthew P. Scott,
    • Catherine C. Y. Chang,
    • and Ta-Yuan Chang

    Binding between the Niemann–Pick C1 protein and a photoactivatable cholesterol analog requires a functional sterol-sensing domain

    PNAS 2004 101:12473-12478; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405255101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yoonjung Kho,
    • Sung Chan Kim,
    • Chen Jiang,
    • Deb Barma,
    • Sung Won Kwon,
    • Jinke Cheng,
    • Janis Jaunbergs,
    • Carolyn Weinbaum,
    • Fuyuhiko Tamanoi,
    • John Falck,
    • and Yingming Zhao

    A tagging-via-substrate technology for detection and proteomics of farnesylated proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:12479-12484; published ahead of print August 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403413101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Stefan I. Liochev
    • and Irwin Fridovich

    Carbon dioxide mediates Mn(II)-catalyzed decomposition of hydrogen peroxide and peroxidation reactions

    PNAS 2004 101:12485-12490; published ahead of print August 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404911101

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jonathan E. Kohn,
    • Ian S. Millett,
    • Jaby Jacob,
    • Bojan Zagrovic,
    • Thomas M. Dillon,
    • Nikolina Cingel,
    • Robin S. Dothager,
    • Soenke Seifert,
    • P. Thiyagarajan,
    • Tobin R. Sosnick,
    • M. Zahid Hasan,
    • Vijay S. Pande,
    • Ingo Ruczinski,
    • Sebastian Doniach,
    • and Kevin W. Plaxco

    Random-coil behavior and the dimensions of chemically unfolded proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:12491-12496; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403643101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Nicholas C. Fitzkee
    • and George D. Rose

    Reassessing random-coil statistics in unfolded proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:12497-12502; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404236101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • C. Stroh,
    • H. Wang,
    • R. Bash,
    • B. Ashcroft,
    • J. Nelson,
    • H. Gruber,
    • D. Lohr,
    • S. M. Lindsay,
    • and P. Hinterdorfer

    Single-molecule recognition imaging microscopy

    PNAS 2004 101:12503-12507; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403538101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jong-Myoung Kim,
    • Christian Altenbach,
    • Masahiro Kono,
    • Daniel D. Oprian,
    • Wayne L. Hubbell,
    • and H. Gobind Khorana

    Structural origins of constitutive activation in rhodopsin: Role of the K296/E113 salt bridge

    PNAS 2004 101:12508-12513; published ahead of print August 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404519101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Angela M. Bertagna
    • and Doug Barrick

    Nonspecific hydrophobic interactions stabilize an equilibrium intermediate of apomyoglobin at a key position within the AGH region

    PNAS 2004 101:12514-12519; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404760101
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alice Nicolas,
    • Benjamin Geiger,
    • and Samuel A. Safran

    Cell mechanosensitivity controls the anisotropy of focal adhesions

    PNAS 2004 101:12520-12525; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403539101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • J. M. Vasiliev,
    • T. Omelchenko,
    • I. M. Gelfand,
    • H. H. Feder,
    • and E. M. Bonder

    From the Cover: Rho overexpression leads to mitosis-associated detachment of cells from epithelial sheets: A link to the mechanism of cancer dissemination

    PNAS 2004 101:12526-12530; published ahead of print August 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404723101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Keita Ohsumi,
    • Ayako Koyanagi,
    • Tomomi M. Yamamoto,
    • Tetsuya Gotoh,
    • and Takeo Kishimoto

    Emi1-mediated M-phase arrest in Xenopus eggs is distinct from cytostatic factor arrest

    PNAS 2004 101:12531-12536; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405300101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Suraj Saksena,
    • Yuanlong Shao,
    • Sharon C. Braunagel,
    • Max D. Summers,
    • and Arthur E. Johnson

    Cotranslational integration and initial sorting at the endoplasmic reticulum translocon of proteins destined for the inner nuclear membrane

    PNAS 2004 101:12537-12542; published ahead of print August 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404934101

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Anselme L. Perrier,
    • Viviane Tabar,
    • Tiziano Barberi,
    • Maria E. Rubio,
    • Juan Bruses,
    • Norbert Topf,
    • Neil L. Harrison,
    • and Lorenz Studer

    From the Cover: Derivation of midbrain dopamine neurons from human embryonic stem cells

    PNAS 2004 101:12543-12548; published ahead of print August 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404700101
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Sibylle Jäger,
    • Hillel T. Schwartz,
    • H. Robert Horvitz,
    • and Barbara Conradt

    The Caenorhabditis elegans F-box protein SEL-10 promotes female development and may target FEM-1 and FEM-3 for degradation by the proteasome

    PNAS 2004 101:12549-12554; published ahead of print August 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405087101
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Veraragavan P. Eswarakumar,
    • Mark C. Horowitz,
    • Rachel Locklin,
    • Gillian M. Morriss-Kay,
    • and Peter Lonai

    A gain-of-function mutation of Fgfr2c demonstrates the roles of this receptor variant in osteogenesis

    PNAS 2004 101:12555-12560; published ahead of print August 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405031101
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Pilar Sanchez,
    • Ana Maria Hernández,
    • Barbara Stecca,
    • Andrea J. Kahler,
    • Amy M. DeGueme,
    • Andrea Barrett,
    • Mercedes Beyna,
    • Milton W. Datta,
    • Sumana Datta,
    • and Ariel Ruiz i Altaba

    Inhibition of prostate cancer proliferation by interference with SONIC HEDGEHOG-GLI1 signaling

    PNAS 2004 101:12561-12566; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404956101
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Zhe Han,
    • Xiumin Li,
    • Jiang Wu,
    • and Eric N. Olson

    A myocardin-related transcription factor regulates activity of serum response factor in Drosophila

    PNAS 2004 101:12567-12572; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405085101
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Alistair J. Watt,
    • Michele A. Battle,
    • Jixuan Li,
    • and Stephen A. Duncan

    GATA4 is essential for formation of the proepicardium and regulates cardiogenesis

    PNAS 2004 101:12573-12578; published ahead of print August 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400752101

Ecology

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Katharine Hayhoe,
    • Daniel Cayan,
    • Christopher B. Field,
    • Peter C. Frumhoff,
    • Edwin P. Maurer,
    • Norman L. Miller,
    • Susanne C. Moser,
    • Stephen H. Schneider,
    • Kimberly Nicholas Cahill,
    • Elsa E. Cleland,
    • Larry Dale,
    • Ray Drapek,
    • R. Michael Hanemann,
    • Laurence S. Kalkstein,
    • James Lenihan,
    • Claire K. Lunch,
    • Ronald P. Neilson,
    • Scott C. Sheridan,
    • and Julia H. Verville

    Emissions pathways, climate change, and impacts on California

    PNAS 2004 101:12422-12427; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404500101
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Taylor H. Ricketts,
    • Gretchen C. Daily,
    • Paul R. Ehrlich,
    • and Charles D. Michener

    Economic value of tropical forest to coffee production

    PNAS 2004 101:12579-12582; published ahead of print August 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405147101

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Vincent Gauci,
    • Elaine Matthews,
    • Nancy Dise,
    • Bernadette Walter,
    • Dorothy Koch,
    • Gunnar Granberg,
    • and Melanie Vile

    From the Cover: Sulfur pollution suppression of the wetland methane source in the 20th and 21st centuries

    PNAS 2004 101:12583-12587; published ahead of print August 5, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404412101
    • See commentary article on page 12400 in issue 34 of volume 101

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Joshua B. Plotkin,
    • Harlan Robins,
    • and Arnold J. Levine

    Tissue-specific codon usage and the expression of human genes

    PNAS 2004 101:12588-12591; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404957101

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Emma Hitt

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

    PNAS 2004 101:12402-12403; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405476101
    • See commentary article on page 12404 in issue 34 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Jianxin Ma
    • and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

    Inaugural Article: Rapid recent growth and divergence of rice nuclear genomes

    PNAS 2004 101:12404-12410; published ahead of print July 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403715101
    • See commentary article on page 12402 in issue 34 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Nancy Kleckner,
    • Denise Zickler,
    • Gareth H. Jones,
    • Job Dekker,
    • Ruth Padmore,
    • Jim Henle,
    • and John Hutchinson

    A mechanical basis for chromosome function

    PNAS 2004 101:12592-12597; published ahead of print August 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402724101
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Jessica L. Flint,
    • Joseph C. Kowalski,
    • Pavan K. Karnati,
    • and Keith M. Derbyshire

    The RD1 virulence locus of Mycobacterium tuberculosis regulates DNA transfer in Mycobacterium smegmatis

    PNAS 2004 101:12598-12603; published ahead of print August 16, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404892101
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Michael F. Egan,
    • Richard E. Straub,
    • Terry E. Goldberg,
    • Imtiaz Yakub,
    • Joseph H. Callicott,
    • Ahmad R. Hariri,
    • Venkata S. Mattay,
    • Alessandro Bertolino,
    • Thomas M. Hyde,
    • Cynthia Shannon-Weickert