Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Michael J. Waters
    • and Becky L. Conway-Campbell

    The oncogenic potential of autocrine human growth hormone in breast cancer

    PNAS 2004 101:14992-14993; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406396101
    • See companion article on page 15166 in issue 42 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Grant McFadden

    Smallpox: An ancient disease enters the modern era of virogenomics

    PNAS 2004 101:14994-14995; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406207101
    • See companion article on page 15190 in issue 42 of volume 101
    • See companion article on page 15196 in issue 42 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • John Browse
    • and B. Markus Lange

    Counting the cost of a cold-blooded life: Metabolomics of cold acclimation

    PNAS 2004 101:14996-14997; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406389101
    • See companion article on page 15243 in issue 42 of volume 101

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • W. G. Ernst

    Regional crustal thickness and precipitation in young mountain chains

    PNAS 2004 101:14998-15001; published ahead of print October 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406557101

From the Academy

  • From the Academy:
    • Nicholas R. Cozzarelli,
    • Kenneth R. Fulton,
    • and Diane M. Sullenberger

    From the Academy: Editorial: National Academy of Sciences endorses National Institutes of Health plan for enhanced access to research information

    PNAS 2004 101:14991; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407071101

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Alexandre J. Chorin
    • and Paul Krause

    Dimensional reduction for a Bayesian filter

    PNAS 2004 101:15013-15017; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406222101
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Joel E. Cohen,
    • J. H. B. Kemperman,
    • and Gheorghe Zbăganu

    Elementary inequalities that involve two nonnegative vectors or functions

    PNAS 2004 101:15018-15022; published ahead of print September 27, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405413101
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Grigory Isaakovich Barenblatt
    • and Alexandre J. Chorin

    A mathematical model for the scaling of turbulence

    PNAS 2004 101:15023-15026; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406291101

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Xiaojun Zhao,
    • Lisa R. Hilliard,
    • Shelly John Mechery,
    • Yanping Wang,
    • Rahul P. Bagwe,
    • Shouguang Jin,
    • and Weihong Tan

    From the Cover: A rapid bioassay for single bacterial cell quantitation using bioconjugated nanoparticles

    PNAS 2004 101:15027-15032; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404806101

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Ming Chen,
    • Ahmed El Goresy,
    • and Philippe Gillet

    Ringwoodite lamellae in olivine: Clues to olivine–ringwoodite phase transition mechanisms in shocked meteorites and subducting slabs

    PNAS 2004 101:15033-15037; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405048101

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • E. H. Trepagnier,
    • C. Jarzynski,
    • F. Ritort,
    • G. E. Crooks,
    • C. J. Bustamante,
    • and J. Liphardt

    Experimental test of Hatano and Sasa's nonequilibrium steady-state equality

    PNAS 2004 101:15038-15041; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406405101

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Sofia Zabalou,
    • Markus Riegler,
    • Marianna Theodorakopoulou,
    • Christian Stauffer,
    • Charalambos Savakis,
    • and Kostas Bourtzis

    Wolbachia -induced cytoplasmic incompatibility as a means for insect pest population control

    PNAS 2004 101:15042-15045; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403853101

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tinsley H. Davis

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Arthur L. Horwich

    PNAS 2004 101:15002-15004; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406924101
    • See commentary article on page 15005 in issue 42 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Fumihiro Motojima,
    • Charu Chaudhry,
    • Wayne A. Fenton,
    • George W. Farr,
    • and Arthur L. Horwich

    Inaugural Article: Substrate polypeptide presents a load on the apical domains of the chaperonin GroEL

    PNAS 2004 101:15005-15012; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406132101
    • See commentary article on page 15002 in issue 42 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Christopher Cianci,
    • David R. Langley,
    • Douglas D. Dischino,
    • Yaxiong Sun,
    • Kuo-Long Yu,
    • Anne Stanley,
    • Julia Roach,
    • Zhufang Li,
    • Richard Dalterio,
    • Richard Colonno,
    • Nicholas A. Meanwell,
    • and Mark Krystal

    Targeting a binding pocket within the trimer-of-hairpins: Small-molecule inhibition of viral fusion

    PNAS 2004 101:15046-15051; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406696101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Takao Hibi,
    • Hiroshi Nii,
    • Toru Nakatsu,
    • Akira Kimura,
    • Hiroaki Kato,
    • Jun Hiratake,
    • and Jun'ichi Oda

    Crystal structure of γ-glutamylcysteine synthetase: Insights into the mechanism of catalysis by a key enzyme for glutathione homeostasis

    PNAS 2004 101:15052-15057; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403277101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Loretta L. Collins,
    • Yi-Fen Lee,
    • Cynthia A. Heinlein,
    • Ning-Chun Liu,
    • Yei-Tsung Chen,
    • Chih-Rong Shyr,
    • Charles K. Meshul,
    • Hideo Uno,
    • Kenneth A. Platt,
    • and Chawnshang Chang

    Growth retardation and abnormal maternal behavior in mice lacking testicular orphan nuclear receptor 4

    PNAS 2004 101:15058-15063; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405700101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Alessandro Vannini,
    • Cinzia Volpari,
    • Gessica Filocamo,
    • Elena Caroli Casavola,
    • Mirko Brunetti,
    • Debora Renzoni,
    • Prasun Chakravarty,
    • Chantal Paolini,
    • Raffaele De Francesco,
    • Paola Gallinari,
    • Christian Steinkühler,
    • and Stefania Di Marco

    Crystal structure of a eukaryotic zinc-dependent histone deacetylase, human HDAC8, complexed with a hydroxamic acid inhibitor

    PNAS 2004 101:15064-15069; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404603101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yohei Kirino,
    • Takehiro Yasukawa,
    • Shigeo Ohta,
    • Shigeo Akira,
    • Kaisuke Ishihara,
    • Kimitsuna Watanabe,
    • and Tsutomu Suzuki

    Codon-specific translational defect caused by a wobble modification deficiency in mutant tRNA from a human mitochondrial disease

    PNAS 2004 101:15070-15075; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405173101

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Seiji Takeuchi,
    • Wengeng Zhang,
    • Kazumasa Wakamatsu,
    • Shosuke Ito,
    • Vincent J. Hearing,
    • Kenneth H. Kraemer,
    • and Douglas E. Brash

    Melanin acts as a potent UVB photosensitizer to cause an atypical mode of cell death in murine skin

    PNAS 2004 101:15076-15081; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403994101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Monique Dubois,
    • Vladimir Lizunov,
    • Annette Meister,
    • Thadeus Gulik-Krzywicki,
    • Jean Marc Verbavatz,
    • Emile Perez,
    • Joshua Zimmerberg,
    • and Thomas Zemb

    Shape control through molecular segregation in giant surfactant aggregates

    PNAS 2004 101:15082-15087; published ahead of print October 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400837101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • M. R. Ejtehadi,
    • S. P. Avall,
    • and S. S. Plotkin

    Three-body interactions improve the prediction of rate and mechanism in protein folding models

    PNAS 2004 101:15088-15093; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403486101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sagar D. Khare,
    • Michael Caplow,
    • and Nikolay V. Dokholyan

    The rate and equilibrium constants for a multistep reaction sequence for the aggregation of superoxide dismutase in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

    PNAS 2004 101:15094-15099; published ahead of print October 8, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406650101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Dun Yang,
    • Alana Welm,
    • and J. Michael Bishop

    Cell division and cell survival in the absence of survivin

    PNAS 2004 101:15100-15105; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406665101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Danyang Chen,
    • Andrew S. Belmont,
    • and Sui Huang

    Upstream binding factor association induces large-scale chromatin decondensation

    PNAS 2004 101:15106-15111; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404767101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • David A. Schneider
    • and Masayasu Nomura

    RNA polymerase I remains intact without subunit exchange through multiple rounds of transcription in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    PNAS 2004 101:15112-15117; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406746101

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Tetsuro Ikuta,
    • Natsue Yoshida,
    • Nori Satoh,
    • and Hidetoshi Saiga

    Ciona intestinalis Hox gene cluster: Its dispersed structure and residual colinear expression in development

    PNAS 2004 101:15118-15123; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401389101

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • L. Hufnagel,
    • D. Brockmann,
    • and T. Geisel

    Forecast and control of epidemics in a globalized world

    PNAS 2004 101:15124-15129; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308344101
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Debra P. C. Peters,
    • Roger A. Pielke, Sr.,
    • Brandon T. Bestelmeyer,
    • Craig D. Allen,
    • Stuart Munson-McGee,
    • and Kris M. Havstad

    Cross-scale interactions, nonlinearities, and forecasting catastrophic events

    PNAS 2004 101:15130-15135; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403822101
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Hans-Peter Horz,
    • Adrian Barbrook,
    • Christopher B. Field,
    • and Brendan J. M. Bohannan

    Ammonia-oxidizing bacteria respond to multifactorial global change

    PNAS 2004 101:15136-15141; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406616101

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Christopher M. Seabury,
    • Rodney L. Honeycutt,
    • Alejandro P. Rooney,
    • Natalie D. Halbert,
    • and James N. Derr

    Prion protein gene ( PRNP ) variants and evidence for strong purifying selection in functionally important regions of bovine exon 3

    PNAS 2004 101:15142-15147; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406403101
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Michael Krauthammer,
    • Charles A. Kaufmann,
    • T. Conrad Gilliam,
    • and Andrey Rzhetsky

    Molecular triangulation: Bridging linkage and molecular-network information for identifying candidate genes in Alzheimer's disease

    PNAS 2004 101:15148-15153; published ahead of print October 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404315101

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • SangKon Oh,
    • Liyanage P. Perera,
    • Donald S. Burke,
    • Thomas A. Waldmann,
    • and Jay A. Berzofsky

    IL-15/IL-15Rα-mediated avidity maturation of memory CD8 + T cells

    PNAS 2004 101:15154-15159; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406649101

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Gabor L. Toller,
    • Judit E. Horvath,
    • Andrew V. Schally,
    • Gabor Halmos,
    • Jozsef L. Varga,
    • Kate Groot,
    • David Chism,
    • and Marta Zarandi

    Development of a polyclonal antiserum for the detection of the isoforms of the receptors for human growth hormone-releasing hormone on tumors

    PNAS 2004 101:15160-15165; published ahead of print October 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406348101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Svetlana Mukhina,
    • Hichem C. Mertani,
    • Ke Guo,
    • Kok-Onn Lee,
    • Peter D. Gluckman,
    • and Peter E. Lobie

    From the Cover: Phenotypic conversion of human mammary carcinoma cells by autocrine human growth hormone

    PNAS 2004 101:15166-15171; published ahead of print September 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405881101
    • See commentary article on page 14992 in issue 42 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Nishant Agrawal,
    • Chetan Bettegowda,
    • Ian Cheong,
    • Jean-Francois Geschwind,
    • Charles G. Drake,
    • Edward L. Hipkiss,
    • Mitsuaki Tatsumi,
    • Long H. Dang,
    • Luis A. Diaz, Jr.,
    • Martin Pomper,
    • Mohammad Abusedera,
    • Richard L. Wahl,
    • Kenneth W. Kinzler,
    • Shibin Zhou,
    • David L. Huso,
    • and Bert Vogelstein

    Bacteriolytic therapy can generate a potent immune response against experimental tumors

    PNAS 2004 101:15172-15177; published ahead of print October 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406242101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Nan Chiang,
    • Edmund A. Bermudez,
    • Paul M. Ridker,
    • Shelley Hurwitz,
    • and Charles N. Serhan

    Aspirin triggers antiinflammatory 15-epi-lipoxin A 4 and inhibits thromboxane in a randomized human trial

    PNAS 2004 101:15178-15183; published ahead of print October 7, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405445101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Timothy S. Fenske,
    • Gina Pengue,
    • Vikram Mathews,
    • Piia T. Hanson,
    • Sarah E. Hamm,
    • Noor Riaz,
    • and Timothy A. Graubert

    Stem cell expression of the AML1/ETO fusion protein induces a myeloproliferative disorder in mice

    PNAS 2004 101:15184-15189; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400751101

Microbiology

  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Kathleen H. Rubins,
    • Lisa E. Hensley,
    • Peter B. Jahrling,
    • Adeline R. Whitney,
    • Thomas W. Geisbert,
    • John W. Huggins,
    • Art Owen,
    • James W. LeDuc,
    • Patrick O. Brown,
    • and David A. Relman

    From the Cover: The host response to smallpox: Analysis of the gene expression program in peripheral blood cells in a nonhuman primate model

    PNAS 2004 101:15190-15195; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405759101
    • See commentary article on page 14994 in issue 42 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Peter B. Jahrling,
    • Lisa E. Hensley,
    • Mark J. Martinez,
    • James W. LeDuc,
    • Kathleen H. Rubins,
    • David A. Relman,
    • and John W. Huggins

    From the Cover: Exploring the potential of variola virus infection of cynomolgus macaques as a model for human smallpox

    PNAS 2004 101:15196-15200; published ahead of print October 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405954101
    • See commentary article on page 14994 in issue 42 of volume 101

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