Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Bill Costerton

    Microbial ecology comes of age and joins the general ecology community

    PNAS 2004 101:16983-16984; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407886101
    • See companion article on page 16630 in issue 47 of volume 101
  • Commentary:
    • Jay L. Hess
    • and Bruce A. Hug

    Fusion-protein truncation provides new insights into leukemogenesis

    PNAS 2004 101:16985-16986; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407898101
    • See companion article on page 17186 in issue 49 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Johanna M. Dela Cruz,
    • Igor Pastirk,
    • Matthew Comstock,
    • Vadim V. Lozovoy,
    • and Marcos Dantus

    Use of coherent control methods through scattering biological tissue to achieve functional imaging

    PNAS 2004 101:16996-17001; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407733101

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Subramanian Vaitheeswaran,
    • Hao Yin,
    • Jayendran C. Rasaiah,
    • and Gerhard Hummer

    Water clusters in nonpolar cavities

    PNAS 2004 101:17002-17005; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407968101

Computer Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences:
    • Siwei Lyu,
    • Daniel Rockmore,
    • and Hany Farid

    A digital technique for art authentication

    PNAS 2004 101:17006-17010; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406398101

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Sadik Hafizovic,
    • Diego Barrettino,
    • Tormod Volden,
    • Jan Sedivy,
    • Kay-Uwe Kirstein,
    • Oliver Brand,
    • and Andreas Hierlemann

    Single-chip mechatronic microsystem for surface imaging and force response studies

    PNAS 2004 101:17011-17015; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405725101

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
    • Sharon Frechette,
    • Ken Ono,
    • and Matthew Papanikolas

    Combinatorics of traces of Hecke operators

    PNAS 2004 101:17016-17020; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407223101

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Michael E. Steiper,
    • Nathan M. Young,
    • and Tika Y. Sukarna

    Genomic data support the hominoid slowdown and an Early Oligocene estimate for the hominoid–cercopithecoid divergence

    PNAS 2004 101:17021-17026; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407270101

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Melissa Marino

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Jennifer A. Doudna

    PNAS 2004 101:16987-16989; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408147101
    • See commentary article on page 16990 in issue 49 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hong Ji,
    • Christopher S. Fraser,
    • Yonghao Yu,
    • Julie Leary,
    • and Jennifer A. Doudna

    Inaugural Article: Coordinated assembly of human translation initiation complexes by the hepatitis C virus internal ribosome entry site RNA

    PNAS 2004 101:16990-16995; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407402101
    • See commentary article on page 16987 in issue 49 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Karin Kühnel,
    • Thomas Jarchau,
    • Eva Wolf,
    • Ilme Schlichting,
    • Ulrich Walter,
    • Alfred Wittinghofer,
    • and Sergei V. Strelkov

    The VASP tetramerization domain is a right-handed coiled coil based on a 15-residue repeat

    PNAS 2004 101:17027-17032; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403069101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ola Blixt,
    • Steve Head,
    • Tony Mondala,
    • Christopher Scanlan,
    • Margaret E. Huflejt,
    • Richard Alvarez,
    • Marian C. Bryan,
    • Fabio Fazio,
    • Daniel Calarese,
    • James Stevens,
    • Nahid Razi,
    • David J. Stevens,
    • John J. Skehel,
    • Irma van Die,
    • Dennis R. Burton,
    • Ian A. Wilson,
    • Richard Cummings,
    • Nicolai Bovin,
    • Chi-Huey Wong,
    • and James C. Paulson

    Printed covalent glycan array for ligand profiling of diverse glycan binding proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:17033-17038; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407902101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jenn-Han Chen,
    • Yu-Wang Chang,
    • Chen-Wen Yao,
    • Tzong-Shi Chiueh,
    • Su-Chin Huang,
    • Ko-Yi Chien,
    • An Chen,
    • Feng-Yee Chang,
    • Chi-Huey Wong,
    • and Yu-Ju Chen

    Plasma proteome of severe acute respiratory syndrome analyzed by two-dimensional gel electrophoresis and mass spectrometry

    PNAS 2004 101:17039-17044; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407992101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Francis I. Valiyaveetil,
    • Matthew Sekedat,
    • Roderick MacKinnon,
    • and Tom W. Muir

    Glycine as a d -amino acid surrogate in the K + -selectivity filter

    PNAS 2004 101:17045-17049; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407820101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Leonid Tarassishin,
    • Ye Ingrid Yin,
    • Bhramdeo Bassit,
    • and Yue-Ming Li

    Processing of Notch and amyloid precursor protein by γ-secretase is spatially distinct

    PNAS 2004 101:17050-17055; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408007101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nataliya Rybalchenko,
    • Efim I. Golub,
    • Baoyuan Bi,
    • and Charles M. Radding

    Strand invasion promoted by recombination protein β of coliphage λ

    PNAS 2004 101:17056-17060; published ahead of print December 1, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408046101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Xiaobing Shi,
    • Narayana N. Rao,
    • and Arthur Kornberg

    Inorganic polyphosphate in Bacillus cereus : Motility, biofilm formation, and sporulation

    PNAS 2004 101:17061-17065; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407787101

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mary F. Roberts
    • and Alfred G. Redfield

    Phospholipid bilayer surface configuration probed quantitatively by 31 P field-cycling NMR

    PNAS 2004 101:17066-17071; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407565101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ady Vaknin
    • and Howard C. Berg

    Single-cell FRET imaging of phosphatase activity in the Escherichia coli chemotaxis system

    PNAS 2004 101:17072-17077; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407812101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Scott T. R. Walsh,
    • Juliesta E. Sylvester,
    • and Anthony A. Kossiakoff

    The high- and low-affinity receptor binding sites of growth hormone are allosterically coupled

    PNAS 2004 101:17078-17083; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0403336101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Carmen Chan,
    • Ralf Paul,
    • Dietrich Samoray,
    • Nicolas C. Amiot,
    • Bernd Giese,
    • Urs Jenal,
    • and Tilman Schirmer

    Structural basis of activity and allosteric control of diguanylate cyclase

    PNAS 2004 101:17084-17089; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406134101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Lei Zheng,
    • Dirk Kostrewa,
    • Simon Bernèche,
    • Fritz K. Winkler,
    • and Xiao-Dan Li

    The mechanism of ammonia transport based on the crystal structure of AmtB of Escherichia coli

    PNAS 2004 101:17090-17095; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406475101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Cécile Leduc,
    • Otger Campàs,
    • Konstantin B. Zeldovich,
    • Aurélien Roux,
    • Pascale Jolimaitre,
    • Line Bourel-Bonnet,
    • Bruno Goud,
    • Jean-François Joanny,
    • Patricia Bassereau,
    • and Jacques Prost

    From the Cover: Cooperative extraction of membrane nanotubes by molecular motors

    PNAS 2004 101:17096-17101; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406598101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Stuart Kauffman,
    • Carsten Peterson,
    • Björn Samuelsson,
    • and Carl Troein

    Genetic networks with canalyzing Boolean rules are always stable

    PNAS 2004 101:17102-17107; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407783101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Rui-Hong Wang,
    • Hongtao Yu,
    • and Chu-Xia Deng

    A requirement for breast-cancer-associated gene 1 (BRCA1) in the spindle checkpoint

    PNAS 2004 101:17108-17113; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407585101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Yoko Sekine-Aizawa
    • and Richard L. Huganir

    From the Cover: Imaging of receptor trafficking by using α-bungarotoxin-binding-site-tagged receptors

    PNAS 2004 101:17114-17119; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407563101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Joshi Venugopal,
    • Kazuhiko Hanashiro,
    • Zhong-Zhou Yang,
    • and Yoshikuni Nagamine

    Identification and modulation of a caveolae-dependent signal pathway that regulates plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 in insulin-resistant adipocytes

    PNAS 2004 101:17120-17125; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405278101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Qing Lu,
    • David C. Pallas,
    • Howard K. Surks,
    • Wendy E. Baur,
    • Michael E. Mendelsohn,
    • and Richard H. Karas

    Striatin assembles a membrane signaling complex necessary for rapid, nongenomic activation of endothelial NO synthase by estrogen receptor α

    PNAS 2004 101:17126-17131; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407492101

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Joseph M. Miano,
    • Narendrakumar Ramanan,
    • Mary A. Georger,
    • Karen L. de Mesy Bentley,
    • Rachael L. Emerson,
    • Robert O. Balza, Jr.,
    • Qi Xiao,
    • Hartmut Weiler,
    • David D. Ginty,
    • and Ravi P. Misra

    Restricted inactivation of serum response factor to the cardiovascular system

    PNAS 2004 101:17132-17137; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406041101
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Amy J. Jackson-Fisher,
    • Gary Bellinger,
    • Rajani Ramabhadran,
    • Jacqueline K. Morris,
    • Kuo-Fen Lee,
    • and David F. Stern

    ErbB2 is required for ductal morphogenesis of the mammary gland

    PNAS 2004 101:17138-17143; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407057101
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • N. Gotoh,
    • M. Ito,
    • S. Yamamoto,
    • I. Yoshino,
    • N. Song,
    • Y. Wang,
    • I. Lax,
    • J. Schlessinger,
    • M. Shibuya,
    • and R. A. Lang

    Tyrosine phosphorylation sites on FRS2α responsible for Shp2 recruitment are critical for induction of lens and retina

    PNAS 2004 101:17144-17149; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407577101

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Ben L. Phillips
    • and Richard Shine

    Adapting to an invasive species: Toxic cane toads induce morphological change in Australian snakes

    PNAS 2004 101:17150-17155; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406440101

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Hisakazu Iwama
    • and Takashi Gojobori

    Highly conserved upstream sequences for transcription factor genes and implications for the regulatory network

    PNAS 2004 101:17156-17161; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407670101

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Mollie D. Winfield
    • and Eduardo A. Groisman

    Phenotypic differences between Salmonella and Escherichia coli resulting from the disparate regulation of homologous genes

    PNAS 2004 101:17162-17167; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406038101

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Rongjin Guan,
    • Abhijit Roychowdhury,
    • Brian Ember,
    • Sanjay Kumar,
    • Geert-Jan Boons,
    • and Roy A. Mariuzza

    Structural basis for peptidoglycan binding by peptidoglycan recognition proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:17168-17173; published ahead of print November 30, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407856101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • R. Houston Thompson,
    • Michael D. Gillett,
    • John C. Cheville,
    • Christine M. Lohse,
    • Haidong Dong,
    • W. Scott Webster,
    • Kent G. Krejci,
    • John R. Lobo,
    • Shomik Sengupta,
    • Lieping Chen,
    • Horst Zincke,
    • Michael L. Blute,
    • Scott E. Strome,
    • Bradley C. Leibovich,
    • and Eugene D. Kwon

    Costimulatory B7-H1 in renal cell carcinoma patients: Indicator of tumor aggressiveness and potential therapeutic target

    PNAS 2004 101:17174-17179; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406351101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Jolanda H. M. van Bilsen,
    • Henrike van Dongen,
    • Leroy R. Lard,
    • Ellen I. H. van der Voort,
    • Diënne G. Elferink,
    • Aleida M. Bakker,
    • André M. M. Miltenburg,
    • Tom W. J. Huizinga,
    • René R. P. de Vries,
    • and René E. M. Toes

    Functional regulatory immune responses against human cartilage glycoprotein-39 in health vs. proinflammatory responses in rheumatoid arthritis

    PNAS 2004 101:17180-17185; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407704101

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Ming Yan,
    • Sebastien A. Burel,
    • Luke F. Peterson,
    • Eiki Kanbe,
    • Hiromi Iwasaki,
    • Anita Boyapati,
    • Robert Hines,
    • Koichi Akashi,
    • and Dong-Er Zhang

    From the Cover: Deletion of an AML1-ETO C-terminal NcoR/SMRT-interacting region strongly induces leukemia development

    PNAS 2004 101:17186-17191; published ahead of print November 29, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406702101
    • See commentary article on page 16985 in issue 49 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Masaki Inada,
    • Yingmin Wang,
    • Michael H. Byrne,
    • Mahboob U. Rahman,
    • Chisato Miyaura,
    • Carlos López-Otín,
    • and Stephen M. Krane

    Critical roles for collagenase-3 (Mmp13) in development of growth plate cartilage and in endochondral ossification

    PNAS 2004 101:17192-17197; published ahead of print November 24, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407788101
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Carrie Graveel,
    • Yanli Su,
    • Julie Koeman,
    • Ling-Mei Wang,
    • Lino Tessarollo,
    • Michele Fiscella,
    • Carmen Birchmeier,
    • Pamela Swiatek,
    • Roderick Bronson,
    • and George Vande Woude

    Activating Met mutations produce unique tumor profiles in mice with selective duplication of the mutant allele

    PNAS 2004 101:17198-17203; published ahead of print November 22, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407651101