Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Yoram Gerchman
    • and Ron Weiss

    Teaching bacteria a new language

    PNAS 2004 101:2221-2222; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400473101
    • See companion article on page 2299 in issue 8 of volume 101

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Maki Ohgishi,
    • Kensuke Saji,
    • Kiyotaka Okada,
    • and Tatsuya Sakai

    Functional analysis of each blue light receptor, cry1, cry2, phot1, and phot2, by using combinatorial multiple mutants in Arabidopsis

    PNAS 2004 101:2223-2228; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0305984101
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • H. Delanoë-Ayari,
    • R. Al Kurdi,
    • M. Vallade,
    • D. Gulino-Debrac,
    • and D. Riveline

    Membrane and acto-myosin tension promote clustering of adhesion proteins

    PNAS 2004 101:2229-2234; published ahead of print February 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0304297101

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • T. B. Causey,
    • K. T. Shanmugam,
    • L. P. Yomano,
    • and L. O. Ingram

    Engineering Escherichia coli for efficient conversion of glucose to pyruvate

    PNAS 2004 101:2235-2240; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308171100

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yan Pan,
    • Thomas Kislinger,
    • Anthony O. Gramolini,
    • Elena Zvaritch,
    • Evangelia G. Kranias,
    • David H. MacLennan,
    • and Andrew Emili

    Identification of biochemical adaptations in hyper- or hypocontractile hearts from phospholamban mutant mice by expression proteomics

    PNAS 2004 101:2241-2246; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308174101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Xueyong Zhu,
    • Paul Wentworth, Jr.,
    • Anita D. Wentworth,
    • Albert Eschenmoser,
    • Richard A. Lerner,
    • and Ian A. Wilson

    Probing the antibody-catalyzed water-oxidation pathway at atomic resolution

    PNAS 2004 101:2247-2252; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307311101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Huib Ovaa,
    • Benedikt M. Kessler,
    • Ulrika Rolén,
    • Paul J. Galardy,
    • Hidde L. Ploegh,
    • and Maria G. Masucci

    Activity-based ubiquitin-specific protease (USP) profiling of virus-infected and malignant human cells

    PNAS 2004 101:2253-2258; published ahead of print February 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308411100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jianyuan Luo,
    • Muyang Li,
    • Yi Tang,
    • Monika Laszkowska,
    • Robert G. Roeder,
    • and Wei Gu

    Acetylation of p53 augments its site-specific DNA binding both in vitro and in vivo

    PNAS 2004 101:2259-2264; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308762101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hong Ling,
    • Jane M. Sayer,
    • Brian S. Plosky,
    • Haruhiko Yagi,
    • François Boudsocq,
    • Roger Woodgate,
    • Donald M. Jerina,
    • and Wei Yang

    Crystal structure of a benzo[ a ]pyrene diol epoxide adduct in a ternary complex with a DNA polymerase

    PNAS 2004 101:2265-2269; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308332100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Didier Auboeuf,
    • Dennis H. Dowhan,
    • Yun Kyoung Kang,
    • Kimberly Larkin,
    • Jae Woon Lee,
    • Susan M. Berget,
    • and Bert W. O'Malley

    Differential recruitment of nuclear receptor coactivators may determine alternative RNA splice site choice in target genes

    PNAS 2004 101:2270-2274; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308133100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Atsunari Tsuchisaka
    • and Athanasios Theologis

    Heterodimeric interactions among the 1-amino-cyclopropane-1-carboxylate synthase polypeptides encoded by the Arabidopsis gene family

    PNAS 2004 101:2275-2280; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308515101
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • John Deaton,
    • Jingchuan Sun,
    • Andreas Holzenburg,
    • Douglas K. Struck,
    • Joel Berry,
    • and Ry Young

    Functional bacteriorhodopsin is efficiently solubilized and delivered to membranes by the chaperonin GroEL

    PNAS 2004 101:2281-2286; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307759100
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Thomas Scheibel,
    • Jesse Bloom,
    • and Susan L. Lindquist

    The elongation of yeast prion fibers involves separable steps of association and conversion

    PNAS 2004 101:2287-2292; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308754101

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mari L. DeMarco
    • and Valerie Daggett

    From conversion to aggregation: Protofibril formation of the prion protein

    PNAS 2004 101:2293-2298; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307178101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Thomas Bulter,
    • Sun-Gu Lee,
    • Wilson WaiChun Wong,
    • Eileen Fung,
    • Michael R. Connor,
    • and James C. Liao

    From the Cover: Design of artificial cell–cell communication using gene and metabolic networks

    PNAS 2004 101:2299-2304; published ahead of print February 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0306484101
    • See commentary article on page 2221 in issue 8 of volume 101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Krzysztof Ginalski,
    • Leszek Rychlewski,
    • David Baker,
    • and Nick V. Grishin

    Protein structure prediction for the male-specific region of the human Y chromosome

    PNAS 2004 101:2305-2310; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0306306101

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Ming-Zhi Zhang,
    • Weiyi Mai,
    • Cunxi Li,
    • Sae-youll Cho,
    • Chuanming Hao,
    • Gilbert Moeckel,
    • Runxiang Zhao,
    • Ingyu Kim,
    • Jikui Wang,
    • Huaqi Xiong,
    • Hong Wang,
    • Yasunori Sato,
    • Yizhong Wu,
    • Yasuni Nakanuma,
    • Marusia Lilova,
    • York Pei,
    • Raymond C. Harris,
    • Song Li,
    • Robert J. Coffey,
    • Le Sun,
    • Dianqing Wu,
    • Xing-Zhen Chen,
    • Matthew D. Breyer,
    • Zhizhuang Joe Zhao,
    • James A. McKanna,
    • and Guanqing Wu

    PKHD1 protein encoded by the gene for autosomal recessive polycystic kidney disease associates with basal bodies and primary cilia in renal epithelial cells

    PNAS 2004 101:2311-2316; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0400073101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Natalia I. Dmitrieva,
    • Qi Cai,
    • and Maurice B. Burg

    Cells adapted to high NaCl have many DNA breaks and impaired DNA repair both in cell culture and in vivo

    PNAS 2004 101:2317-2322; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308463100
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Damian B. van Rossum,
    • Randen L. Patterson,
    • Kirill Kiselyov,
    • Darren Boehning,
    • Roxanne K. Barrow,
    • Donald L. Gill,
    • and Solomon H. Snyder

    Agonist-induced Ca 2+ entry determined by inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate recognition

    PNAS 2004 101:2323-2327; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308565100
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Randen L. Patterson,
    • Damian B. van Rossum,
    • Roxanne K. Barrow,
    • and Solomon H. Snyder

    RACK1 binds to inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptors and mediates Ca 2+ release

    PNAS 2004 101:2328-2332; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308567100
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Wei Yang,
    • Motomu Shimaoka,
    • JianFeng Chen,
    • and Timothy A. Springer

    Activation of integrin β-subunit I-like domains by one-turn C-terminal α-helix deletions

    PNAS 2004 101:2333-2338; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307291101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Fajun Yang,
    • Rosalie DeBeaumont,
    • Sharleen Zhou,
    • and Anders M. Näär

    The activator-recruited cofactor/Mediator coactivator subunit ARC92 is a functionally important target of the VP16 transcriptional activator

    PNAS 2004 101:2339-2344; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308676100
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Caroline Saucier,
    • Hanane Khoury,
    • Ka-Man Venus Lai,
    • Pascal Peschard,
    • David Dankort,
    • Monica A. Naujokas,
    • Jocelyn Holash,
    • George D. Yancopoulos,
    • William J. Muller,
    • Tony Pawson,
    • and Morag Park

    The Shc adaptor protein is critical for VEGF induction by Met/HGF and ErbB2 receptors and for early onset of tumor angiogenesis

    PNAS 2004 101:2345-2350; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308065101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Jingyung Hur,
    • Jessica Chesnes,
    • Kathryn R. Coser,
    • Roseanna S. Lee,
    • Peter Geck,
    • Kurt J. Isselbacher,
    • and Toshi Shioda

    The Bik BH3-only protein is induced in estrogen-starved and antiestrogen-exposed breast cancer cells and provokes apoptosis

    PNAS 2004 101:2351-2356; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307337101
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Sharon Cantor,
    • Ronny Drapkin,
    • Fan Zhang,
    • Yafang Lin,
    • Juliana Han,
    • Sushmita Pamidi,
    • and David M. Livingston

    The BRCA1-associated protein BACH1 is a DNA helicase targeted by clinically relevant inactivating mutations

    PNAS 2004 101:2357-2362; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308717101

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Kostas Kaloulis,
    • Simona Chera,
    • Monika Hassel,
    • Dominique Gauchat,
    • and Brigitte Galliot

    Reactivation of developmental programs: The cAMP-response element-binding protein pathway is involved in hydra head regeneration

    PNAS 2004 101:2363-2368; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0306512101

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Alexander M. Koch,
    • Gerrit Kuhn,
    • Pierre Fontanillas,
    • Luca Fumagalli,
    • Jérôme Goudet,
    • and Ian R. Sanders

    High genetic variability and low local diversity in a population of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi

    PNAS 2004 101:2369-2374; published ahead of print February 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0306441101
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Guofa Zhou,
    • Noboru Minakawa,
    • Andrew K. Githeko,
    • and Guiyun Yan

    Association between climate variability and malaria epidemics in the East African highlands

    PNAS 2004 101:2375-2380; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308714100

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Bryan D. Neff

    From the Cover: Stabilizing selection on genomic divergence in a wild fish population

    PNAS 2004 101:2381-2385; published ahead of print February 6, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307522100

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Terje Raudsepp,
    • Eun-Joon Lee,
    • Srinivas R. Kata,
    • Candice Brinkmeyer,
    • James R. Mickelson,
    • Loren C. Skow,
    • James E. Womack,
    • and Bhanu P. Chowdhary

    Exceptional conservation of horse–human gene order on X chromosome revealed by high-resolution radiation hybrid mapping

    PNAS 2004 101:2386-2391; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308513100
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Cristina López-Rodríguez,
    • Christopher L. Antos,
    • John M. Shelton,
    • James A. Richardson,
    • Fangming Lin,
    • Tatiana I. Novobrantseva,
    • Roderick T. Bronson,
    • Peter Igarashi,
    • Anjana Rao,
    • and Eric N. Olson

    Loss of NFAT5 results in renal atrophy and lack of tonicity-responsive gene expression

    PNAS 2004 101:2392-2397; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308703100
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Bernard Grisart,
    • Frédéric Farnir,
    • Latifa Karim,
    • Nadine Cambisano,
    • Jong-Joo Kim,
    • Alex Kvasz,
    • Myriam Mni,
    • Patricia Simon,
    • Jean-Marie Frère,
    • Wouter Coppieters,
    • and Michel Georges

    Genetic and functional confirmation of the causality of the DGAT1 K232A quantitative trait nucleotide in affecting milk yield and composition

    PNAS 2004 101:2398-2403; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308518100
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • C. T. Brown
    • and C. G. Callan, Jr.

    Evolutionary comparisons suggest many novel cAMP response protein binding sites in Escherichia coli

    PNAS 2004 101:2404-2409; published ahead of print February 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308628100
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Sean Rooney,
    • JoAnn Sekiguchi,
    • Scott Whitlow,
    • Mark Eckersdorff,
    • John P. Manis,
    • Charles Lee,
    • David O. Ferguson,
    • and Frederick W. Alt

    Artemis and p53 cooperate to suppress oncogenic N-myc amplification in progenitor B cells

    PNAS 2004 101:2410-2415; published ahead of print February 12, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308757101

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Kenya Honda,
    • Tatsuaki Mizutani,
    • and Tadatsugu Taniguchi

    Negative regulation of IFN-α/β signaling by IFN regulatory factor 2 for homeostatic development of dendritic cells

    PNAS 2004 101:2416-2421; published ahead of print February 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0307336101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Carrie M. Rosenberger,
    • Richard L. Gallo,
    • and B. Brett Finlay

    Interplay between antibacterial effectors: A macrophage antimicrobial peptide impairs intracellular Salmonella replication

    PNAS 2004 101:2422-2427; published ahead of print February 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0304455101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Christian Skulina,
    • Stephan Schmidt,
    • Klaus Dornmair,
    • Holger Babbe,
    • Axel Roers,
    • Klaus Rajewsky,
    • Hartmut Wekerle,
    • Reinhard Hohlfeld,
    • and Norbert Goebels

    Multiple sclerosis: Brain-infiltrating CD8 + T cells persist as clonal expansions in the cerebrospinal fluid and blood

    PNAS 2004 101:2428-2433; published ahead of print February 17, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308689100
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Ariel Werman,
    • Rachel Werman-Venkert,
    • Rosalyn White,
    • Jae-Kwon Lee,
    • Batsheva Werman,
    • Yakov Krelin,
    • Elena Voronov,
    • Charles A. Dinarello,
    • and Ron N. Apte

    The precursor form of IL-1α is an intracrine proinflammatory activator of transcription

    PNAS 2004 101:2434-2439; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308705101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Weisong Zhou,
    • Shaojing Chang,
    • and Thomas M. Aune

    From the Cover: Long-range histone acetylation of the Ifng gene is an essential feature of T cell differentiation

    PNAS 2004 101:2440-2445; published ahead of print February 13, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0306002101
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • David F. Rogan,
    • David J. Cousins,
    • Samantha Santangelo,
    • Panayiotis A. Ioannou,
    • Michael Antoniou,
    • Tak H. Lee,
    • and Dontcho Z. Staynov

    Analysis of intergenic transcription in the human IL-4/IL-13 gene cluster

    PNAS 2004 101:2446-2451; published ahead of print February 11, 2004, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308327100