Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Ingrid M. Parker

    Mating patterns and rates of biological invasion

    PNAS 2004 101:13695-13696; published ahead of print September 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405787101
    • See companion article on page 13804 in issue 38 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Susan S. Golden

    Meshing the gears of the cyanobacterial circadian clock

    PNAS 2004 101:13697-13698; published ahead of print September 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405623101
    • See companion article on page 13933 in issue 38 of volume 101
    • See companion article on page 13927 in issue 38 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Zhongwu Wang,
    • Yusheng Zhao,
    • Kimberly Tait,
    • Xiaozhou Liao,
    • David Schiferl,
    • Changsheng Zha,
    • Robert T. Downs,
    • Jiang Qian,
    • Yuntian Zhu,
    • and Tongde Shen

    A quenchable superhard carbon phase synthesized by cold compression of carbon nanotubes

    PNAS 2004 101:13699-13702; published ahead of print September 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405877101

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Peggy A. O'Day,
    • Dimitri Vlassopoulos,
    • Robert Root,
    • and Nelson Rivera

    The influence of sulfur and iron on dissolved arsenic concentrations in the shallow subsurface under changing redox conditions

    PNAS 2004 101:13703-13708; published ahead of print September 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402775101

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Steve Pincus
    • and Rudolf E. Kalman

    Irregularity, volatility, risk, and financial market time series

    PNAS 2004 101:13709-13714; published ahead of print September 9, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405168101

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • H. J. Jänsch,
    • P. Gerhard,
    • and M. Koch

    129 Xe on Ir(111): NMR study of xenon on a metal single crystal surface

    PNAS 2004 101:13715-13719; published ahead of print September 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405426101

Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Steve Pincus
    • and Rudolf E. Kalman

    Irregularity, volatility, risk, and financial market time series

    PNAS 2004 101:13709-13714; published ahead of print September 9, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405168101

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Rocío Díaz de la Garza,
    • Eoin P. Quinlivan,
    • Sebastian M. J. Klaus,
    • Gilles J. C. Basset,
    • Jesse F. Gregory, III,
    • and Andrew D. Hanson

    Folate biofortification in tomatoes by engineering the pteridine branch of folate synthesis

    PNAS 2004 101:13720-13725; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404208101
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Hiroshi Fukatsu,
    • Yoshiteru Hashimoto,
    • Masahiko Goda,
    • Hiroki Higashibata,
    • and Michihiko Kobayashi

    Amine-synthesizing enzyme N-substituted formamide deformylase: Screening, purification, characterization, and gene cloning

    PNAS 2004 101:13726-13731; published ahead of print September 9, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405082101

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Mark A. Rishavy,
    • B. Nirmala Pudota,
    • Kevin W. Hallgren,
    • Wen Qian,
    • Anna V. Yakubenko,
    • Jee-Hyeon Song,
    • Kurt W. Runge,
    • and Kathleen L. Berkner

    A new model for vitamin K-dependent carboxylation: The catalytic base that deprotonates vitamin K hydroquinone is not Cys but an activated amine

    PNAS 2004 101:13732-13737; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404989101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Li Lan,
    • Satoshi Nakajima,
    • Yoshitsugu Oohata,
    • Masashi Takao,
    • Satoshi Okano,
    • Mitsuko Masutani,
    • Samuel H. Wilson,
    • and Akira Yasui

    In situ analysis of repair processes for oxidative DNA damage in mammalian cells

    PNAS 2004 101:13738-13743; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406048101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Koichi Fujii,
    • Guozhi Zhu,
    • Yin Liu,
    • John Hallam,
    • Lin Chen,
    • Juan Herrero,
    • and Stephen Shaw

    Kinase peptide specificity: Improved determination and relevance to protein phosphorylation

    PNAS 2004 101:13744-13749; published ahead of print September 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401881101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yoshiya Ikawa,
    • Kentaro Tsuda,
    • Shigeyoshi Matsumura,
    • and Tan Inoue

    De novo synthesis and development of an RNA enzyme

    PNAS 2004 101:13750-13755; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405886101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nadim Jessani,
    • Mark Humphrey,
    • W. Hayes McDonald,
    • Sherry Niessen,
    • Kim Masuda,
    • Beena Gangadharan,
    • John R. Yates, III,
    • Barbara M. Mueller,
    • and Benjamin F. Cravatt

    Carcinoma and stromal enzyme activity profiles associated with breast tumor growth in vivo

    PNAS 2004 101:13756-13761; published ahead of print September 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404727101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Irena Bonin,
    • Rene Mühlberger,
    • Gleb P. Bourenkov,
    • Robert Huber,
    • Adelbert Bacher,
    • Gerald Richter,
    • and Markus C. Wahl

    Structural basis for the interaction of Escherichia coli NusA with protein N of phage λ

    PNAS 2004 101:13762-13767; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405883101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Troy Bankhead
    • and George Chaconas

    Mixing active-site components: A recipe for the unique enzymatic activity of a telomere resolvase

    PNAS 2004 101:13768-13773; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405762101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Samiksha Katiyar,
    • Guangtao Li,
    • and William J. Lennarz

    A complex between peptide: N -glycanase and two proteasome-linked proteins suggests a mechanism for the degradation of misfolded glycoproteins

    PNAS 2004 101:13774-13779; published ahead of print September 9, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405663101

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kornelius Zeth,
    • Stefanie Offermann,
    • Lars-Oliver Essen,
    • and Dieter Oesterhelt

    Iron-oxo clusters biomineralizing on protein surfaces: Structural analysis of Halobacterium salinarum DpsA in its low- and high-iron states

    PNAS 2004 101:13780-13785; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401821101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sichun Yang,
    • Samuel S. Cho,
    • Yaakov Levy,
    • Margaret S. Cheung,
    • Herbert Levine,
    • Peter G. Wolynes,
    • and José N. Onuchic

    From the Cover: Domain swapping is a consequence of minimal frustration

    PNAS 2004 101:13786-13791; published ahead of print September 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403724101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • David Cohen,
    • Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan,
    • and Anne Müsch

    Par-1 promotes a hepatic mode of apical protein trafficking in MDCK cells

    PNAS 2004 101:13792-13797; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403684101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Min Wu,
    • David Holowka,
    • Harold G. Craighead,
    • and Barbara Baird

    Visualization of plasma membrane compartmentalization with patterned lipid bilayers

    PNAS 2004 101:13798-13803; published ahead of print September 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403835101

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Heather G. Davis,
    • Caz M. Taylor,
    • John G. Lambrinos,
    • and Donald R. Strong

    From the Cover: Pollen limitation causes an Allee effect in a wind-pollinated invasive grass ( Spartina alterniflora )

    PNAS 2004 101:13804-13807; published ahead of print August 18, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405230101
    • See commentary article on page 13695 in issue 38 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Jürgen Kuhn,
    • Eva M. Pettersson,
    • Birte K. Feld,
    • Antje Burse,
    • Arnaud Termonia,
    • Jacques M. Pasteels,
    • and Wilhelm Boland

    Selective transport systems mediate sequestration of plant glucosides in leaf beetles: A molecular basis for adaptation and evolution

    PNAS 2004 101:13808-13813; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402576101

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Intikhab Alam,
    • Andreas Dress,
    • Marc Rehmsmeier,
    • and Georg Fuellen

    Comparative homology agreement search: An effective combination of homology-search methods

    PNAS 2004 101:13814-13819; published ahead of print September 14, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405612101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Rachel Lockridge Mueller,
    • J. Robert Macey,
    • Martin Jaekel,
    • David B. Wake,
    • and Jeffrey L. Boore

    Morphological homoplasy, life history evolution, and historical biogeography of plethodontid salamanders inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes

    PNAS 2004 101:13820-13825; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405785101
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • P. S. G. Chain,
    • E. Carniel,
    • F. W. Larimer,
    • J. Lamerdin,
    • P. O. Stoutland,
    • W. M. Regala,
    • A. M. Georgescu,
    • L. M. Vergez,
    • M. L. Land,
    • V. L. Motin,
    • R. R. Brubaker,
    • J. Fowler,
    • J. Hinnebusch,
    • M. Marceau,
    • C. Medigue,
    • M. Simonet,
    • V. Chenal-Francisque,
    • B. Souza,
    • D. Dacheux,
    • J. M. Elliott,
    • A. Derbise,
    • L. J. Hauser,
    • and E. Garcia

    Insights into the evolution of Yersinia pestis through whole-genome comparison with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

    PNAS 2004 101:13826-13831; published ahead of print September 9, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404012101

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Dirk G. Brockstedt,
    • Martin A. Giedlin,
    • Meredith L. Leong,
    • Keith S. Bahjat,
    • Yi Gao,
    • William Luckett,
    • Weiqun Liu,
    • David N. Cook,
    • Daniel A. Portnoy,
    • and Thomas W. Dubensky, Jr.

    Listeria -based cancer vaccines that segregate immunogenicity from toxicity

    PNAS 2004 101:13832-13837; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406035101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Danqing Zhang,
    • Keishi Fujio,
    • Yi Jiang,
    • Jingyuan Zhao,
    • Norihiro Tada,
    • Katsuko Sudo,
    • Hiromichi Tsurui,
    • Kazuhiro Nakamura,
    • Kazuhiko Yamamoto,
    • Hiroyuki Nishimura,
    • Toshikazu Shira,
    • and Sachiko Hirose

    Dissection of the role of MHC class II A and E genes in autoimmune susceptibility in murine lupus models with intragenic recombination

    PNAS 2004 101:13838-13843; published ahead of print September 10, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405807101

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Tasneem Motiwala,
    • Huban Kutay,
    • Kalpana Ghoshal,
    • Shoumei Bai,
    • Hiroyuki Seimiya,
    • Takashi Tsuruo,
    • Saul Suster,
    • Carl Morrison,
    • and Samson T. Jacob

    Protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor-type O (PTPRO) exhibits characteristics of a candidate tumor suppressor in human lung cancer

    PNAS 2004 101:13844-13849; published ahead of print September 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405451101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Paul Hahn,
    • Ying Qian,
    • Tzvete Dentchev,
    • Lin Chen,
    • John Beard,
    • Zena Leah Harris,
    • and Joshua L. Dunaief

    Disruption of ceruloplasmin and hephaestin in mice causes retinal iron overload and retinal degeneration with features of age-related macular degeneration

    PNAS 2004 101:13850-13855; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405146101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Thomas O. B. Krag,
    • Sasha Bogdanovich,
    • Claus J. Jensen,
    • M. Dominik Fischer,
    • Jacob Hansen-Schwartz,
    • Elisabeth H. Javazon,
    • Alan W. Flake,
    • Lars Edvinsson,
    • and Tejvir S. Khurana

    Heregulin ameliorates the dystrophic phenotype in mdx mice

    PNAS 2004 101:13856-13860; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405972101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Ying Yu,
    • Ivana Fantozzi,
    • Carmelle V. Remillard,
    • Judd W. Landsberg,
    • Naomi Kunichika,
    • Oleksandr Platoshyn,
    • Donna D. Tigno,
    • Patricia A. Thistlethwaite,
    • Lewis J. Rubin,
    • and Jason X.-J. Yuan

    Enhanced expression of transient receptor potential channels in idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension

    PNAS 2004 101:13861-13866; published ahead of print September 9, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405908101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Jacob M. Rothfork,
    • Graham S. Timmins,
    • Michael N. Harris,
    • Xian Chen,
    • Aldons J. Lusis,
    • Michael Otto,
    • Ambrose L. Cheung,
    • and Hattie D. Gresham

    Inactivation of a bacterial virulence pheromone by phagocyte-derived oxidants: New role for the NADPH oxidase in host defense

    PNAS 2004 101:13867-13872; published ahead of print September 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402996101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Nabendu Murmu,
    • Jesse Jung,
    • Debnath Mukhopadhyay,
    • Courtney W. Houchen,
    • Terrence E. Riehl,
    • William F. Stenson,
    • Aubrey R. Morrison,
    • Thiruvengadam Arumugam,
    • Brian K. Dieckgraefe,
    • and Shrikant Anant

    Dynamic antagonism between RNA-binding protein CUGBP2 and cyclooxygenase-2-mediated prostaglandin E 2 in radiation damage

    PNAS 2004 101:13873-13878; published ahead of print September 9, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406066101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • S. C. Burgess,
    • J. R. Young,
    • B. J. G. Baaten,
    • L. Hunt,
    • L. N. J. Ross,
    • M. S. Parcells,
    • P. M. Kumar,
    • C. A. Tregaskes,
    • L. F. Lee,
    • and T. F. Davison

    Marek's disease is a natural model for lymphomas overexpressing Hodgkin's disease antigen (CD30)

    PNAS 2004 101:13879-13884; published ahead of print September 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0305789101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Yoshihiro Oka,
    • Akihiro Tsuboi,
    • Tetsuya Taguchi,
    • Tadashi Osaki,
    • Taiichi Kyo,
    • Hiroko Nakajima,
    • Olga A. Elisseeva,
    • Yusuke Oji,
    • Manabu Kawakami,
    • Kazuhiro Ikegame,
    • Naoki Hosen,
    • Satoshi Yoshihara,
    • Fei Wu,
    • Fumihiro Fujiki,
    • Masaki Murakami,
    • Tomoki Masuda,
    • Sumiyuki Nishida,
    • Toshiaki Shirakata,
    • Shin-ichi Nakatsuka,
    • Ayako Sasaki,
    • Keiko Udaka,
    • Hiroo Dohy,
    • Katsuyuki Aozasa,
    • Shinzaburo Noguchi,
    • Ichiro Kawase,
    • and Haruo Sugiyama

    Induction of WT1 (Wilms' tumor gene)-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes by WT1 peptide vaccine and the resultant cancer regression

    PNAS 2004 101:13885-13890; published ahead of print September 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405884101

Neuroscience

  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Jan Grimm,
    • Anne Mueller,
    • Franz Hefti,
    • and Arnon Rosenthal

    Molecular basis for catecholaminergic neuron diversity

    PNAS 2004 101:13891-13896; published ahead of print September 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405340101
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Visvanathan Ramamurthy,
    • Gregory A.