Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Kenneth H. Nealson

    Hydrogen and energy flow as “sensed” by molecular genetics

    PNAS 2005 102:3889-3890; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500211102
    • See companion article on page 2555 in issue 7 of volume 102

In This Issue

Review

  • Review:
    • Adriano Garsia
    • and Jeffrey B. Remmel

    Breakthroughs in the theory of Macdonald polynomials

    PNAS 2005 102:3891-3894; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409705102

Biography

  • Biography:
    • Philip Downey

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Francisco de la Cruz

    PNAS 2005 102:3895-3897; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409556102
    • See commentary article on page 3898 in issue 11 of volume 102
  • Biography:
    • Emma Hitt

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Todd R. Klaenhammer

    PNAS 2005 102:3903-3905; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500351102
    • See commentary article on page 3906 in issue 11 of volume 102

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Alexandre J. Chorin
    • and Ole H. Hald

    Viscosity-dependent inertial spectra of the Burgers and Korteweg–deVries–Burgers equations

    PNAS 2005 102:3921-3923; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500335102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Mila Boncheva,
    • Stefan A. Andreev,
    • L. Mahadevan,
    • Adam Winkleman,
    • David R. Reichman,
    • Mara G. Prentiss,
    • Sue Whitesides,
    • and George M. Whitesides

    Magnetic self-assembly of three-dimensional surfaces from planar sheets

    PNAS 2005 102:3924-3929; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500807102

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Y. Fasano,
    • M. De Seta,
    • M. Menghini,
    • H. Pastoriza,
    • and F. de la Cruz

    Inaugural Article: Commensurability and stability in nonperiodic systems

    PNAS 2005 102:3898-3902; published ahead of print January 24, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408016102
    • See commentary article on page 3895 in issue 11 of volume 102

Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Joyce Berg,
    • John Dickhaut,
    • and Kevin McCabe

    Risk preference instability across institutions: A dilemma

    PNAS 2005 102:4209-4214; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500333102

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Gabriele Toietta,
    • Viraj P. Mane,
    • Wilma S. Norona,
    • Milton J. Finegold,
    • Philip Ng,
    • Antony F. McDonagh,
    • Arthur L. Beaudet,
    • and Brendan Lee

    Lifelong elimination of hyperbilirubinemia in the Gunn rat with a single injection of helper-dependent adenoviral vector

    PNAS 2005 102:3930-3935; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500930102
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Ka Bian,
    • Meng Zhong,
    • Yael Harari,
    • Mildred Lai,
    • Norman Weisbrodt,
    • and Ferid Murad

    From the Cover: Helminth regulation of host IL-4Rα/Stat6 signaling: Mechanism underlying NOS-2 inhibition by Trichinella spiralis

    PNAS 2005 102:3936-3941; published ahead of print March 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409461102

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Marta Radman-Livaja,
    • Tapan Biswas,
    • Dale Mierke,
    • and Arthur Landy

    Inaugural Article: Architecture of recombination intermediates visualized by in-gel FRET of λ integrase–Holliday junction–arm DNA complexes

    PNAS 2005 102:3913-3920; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500844102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Adam M. Breier,
    • Heinz-Ulrich G. Weier,
    • and Nicholas R. Cozzarelli

    Independence of replisomes in Escherichia coli chromosomal replication

    PNAS 2005 102:3942-3947; published ahead of print February 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500812102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hanno Steen,
    • Judith A. Jebanathirajah,
    • Michael Springer,
    • and Marc W. Kirschner

    Stable isotope-free relative and absolute quantitation of protein phosphorylation stoichiometry by MS

    PNAS 2005 102:3948-3953; published ahead of print March 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409536102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Victor Guallar
    • and Kenneth W. Borrelli

    A binding mechanism in protein–nucleotide interactions: Implication for U1A RNA binding

    PNAS 2005 102:3954-3959; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500888102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ellen Yeh,
    • Sylvie Garneau,
    • and Christopher T. Walsh

    Robust in vitro activity of RebF and RebH, a two-component reductase/halogenase, generating 7-chlorotryptophan during rebeccamycin biosynthesis

    PNAS 2005 102:3960-3965; published ahead of print March 2, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500755102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Minghao Zhong,
    • Melissa A. Henriksen,
    • Kenji Takeuchi,
    • Olaf Schaefer,
    • Bin Liu,
    • Johanna ten Hoeve,
    • Zhiyong Ren,
    • Xiang Mao,
    • Xiaomin Chen,
    • Ke Shuai,
    • and James E. Darnell, Jr.

    Implications of an antiparallel dimeric structure of nonphosphorylated STAT1 for the activation–inactivation cycle

    PNAS 2005 102:3966-3971; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501063102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Zhiyuan Hu,
    • Seung Hun Cha,
    • Goedelle van Haasteren,
    • Jing Wang,
    • and M. Daniel Lane

    From the Cover: Effect of centrally administered C75, a fatty acid synthase inhibitor, on ghrelin secretion and its downstream effects

    PNAS 2005 102:3972-3977; published ahead of print February 23, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500619102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Irantzu Pallarès,
    • Roman Bonet,
    • Raquel García-Castellanos,
    • Salvador Ventura,
    • Francesc X. Avilés,
    • Josep Vendrell,
    • and F. Xavier Gomis-Rüth

    Structure of human carboxypeptidase A4 with its endogenous protein inhibitor, latexin

    PNAS 2005 102:3978-3983; published ahead of print February 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500678102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Corey J. Wilson
    • and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

    Role of structural determinants in folding of the sandwich-like protein Pseudomonas aeruginosa azurin

    PNAS 2005 102:3984-3987; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501038102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Buyong Ma,
    • Yongping Pan,
    • K. Gunasekaran,
    • R. Babu Venkataraghavan,
    • Arnold J. Levine,
    • and Ruth Nussinov

    Comparison of the protein–protein interfaces in the p53–DNA crystal structures: Towards elucidation of the biological interface

    PNAS 2005 102:3988-3993; published ahead of print February 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500215102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Lucia Banci,
    • Ivano Bertini,
    • Simone Ciofi-Baffoni,
    • Efthalia Katsari,
    • Nikolaos Katsaros,
    • Karel Kubicek,
    • and Stefano Mangani

    A copper(I) protein possibly involved in the assembly of Cu A center of bacterial cytochrome c oxidase

    PNAS 2005 102:3994-3999; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406150102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wendy D. Nelson,
    • Sarah E. Blakely,
    • Yuri E. Nesmelov,
    • and David D. Thomas

    Site-directed spin labeling reveals a conformational switch in the phosphorylation domain of smooth muscle myosin

    PNAS 2005 102:4000-4005; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401664102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Harlan Robins,
    • Ying Li,
    • and Richard W. Padgett

    Incorporating structure to predict microRNA targets

    PNAS 2005 102:4006-4009; published ahead of print February 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500775102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Lalita Gupta,
    • Sanjeev Kumar,
    • Yeon Soo Han,
    • Paulo F. P. Pimenta,
    • and Carolina Barillas-Mury

    Midgut epithelial responses of different mosquito– Plasmodium combinations: The actin cone zipper repair mechanism in Aedes aegypti

    PNAS 2005 102:4010-4015; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409642102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • James C. Mulloy,
    • Vladimir Jankovic,
    • Mark Wunderlich,
    • Ruud Delwel,
    • Jorg Cammenga,
    • Ondrej Krejci,
    • Hui Zhao,
    • Peter J. M. Valk,
    • Bob Lowenberg,
    • and Stephen D. Nimer

    AML1-ETO fusion protein up-regulates TRKA mRNA expression in human CD34 + cells, allowing nerve growth factor-induced expansion

    PNAS 2005 102:4016-4021; published ahead of print February 24, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404701102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Thalia Becker,
    • Allen Volchuk,
    • and James E. Rothman

    Differential use of endoplasmic reticulum membrane for phagocytosis in J774 macrophages

    PNAS 2005 102:4022-4026; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409219102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Zhong Yu,
    • Nuria Sánchez-Velar,
    • Irina E. Catrina,
    • Ellen L. W. Kittler,
    • Enyeneama B. Udofia,
    • and Maria L. Zapp

    The cellular HIV-1 Rev cofactor hRIP is required for viral replication

    PNAS 2005 102:4027-4032; published ahead of print March 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408889102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Isabelle Vergne,
    • Jennifer Chua,
    • Hwang-Ho Lee,
    • Megan Lucas,
    • John Belisle,
    • and Vojo Deretic

    Mechanism of phagolysosome biogenesis block by viable Mycobacterium tuberculosis

    PNAS 2005 102:4033-4038; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409716102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Ayako Isotani,
    • Tomoko Nakanishi,
    • Shin Kobayashi,
    • Jiyoung Lee,
    • Shinichiro Chuma,
    • Norio Nakatsuji,
    • Fumitoshi Ishino,
    • and Masaru Okabe

    Genomic imprinting of XX spermatogonia and XX oocytes recovered from XX↔XY chimeric testes

    PNAS 2005 102:4039-4044; published ahead of print March 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406769102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Anurag Sethi,
    • Patrick O'Donoghue,
    • and Zaida Luthey-Schulten

    Evolutionary profiles from the QR factorization of multiple sequence alignments

    PNAS 2005 102:4045-4050; published ahead of print March 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409715102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Yi Zhou
    • and Bud Mishra

    Quantifying the mechanisms for segmental duplications in mammalian genomes by statistical analysis and modeling

    PNAS 2005 102:4051-4056; published ahead of print March 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407957102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Nikolas Nikolaidis,
    • Izabela Makalowska,
    • Dimitra Chalkia,
    • Wojciech Makalowski,
    • Jan Klein,
    • and Masatoshi Nei

    Origin and evolution of the chicken leukocyte receptor complex

    PNAS 2005 102:4057-4062; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501040102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Jian Lu
    • and Chung-I Wu

    Weak selection revealed by the whole-genome comparison of the X chromosome and autosomes of human and chimpanzee

    PNAS 2005 102:4063-4067; published ahead of print February 23, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500436102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Kylie E. Webster,
    • Moira K. O'Bryan,
    • Stephen Fletcher,
    • Pauline E. Crewther,
    • Ulla Aapola,
    • Jeff Craig,
    • Dion K. Harrison,
    • Hnin Aung,
    • Nawapen Phutikanit,
    • Robert Lyle,
    • Sarah J. Meachem,
    • Stylianos E. Antonarakis,
    • David M. de Kretser,
    • Mark P. Hedger,
    • Pärt Peterson,
    • Bernard J. Carroll,
    • and Hamish S. Scott

    Meiotic and epigenetic defects in Dnmt3L-knockout mouse spermatogenesis

    PNAS 2005 102:4068-4073; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500702102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Krasimir Slanchev,
    • Jürg Stebler,
    • Guillermo de la Cueva-Méndez,
    • and Erez Raz

    From the Cover: Development without germ cells: The role of the germ line in zebrafish sex differentiation

    PNAS 2005 102:4074-4079; published ahead of print February 23, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407475102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Jean-Philippe David,
    • Clare Strode,
    • John Vontas,
    • Dimitra Nikou,
    • Ashley Vaughan,
    • Patricia M. Pignatelli,
    • Christos Louis,
    • Janet Hemingway,
    • and Hilary Ranson

    The Anopheles gambiae detoxification chip: A highly specific microarray to study metabolic-based insecticide resistance in malaria vectors

    PNAS 2005 102:4080-4084; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409348102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Dirk Prawitt,
    • Thorsten Enklaar,
    • Barbara Gärtner-Rupprecht,
    • Christian Spangenberg,
    • Monika Oswald,
    • Ekkehart Lausch,
    • Peter Schmidtke,
    • Dirk Reutzel,
    • Stephan Fees,
    • Rob Lucito,
    • Maria Korzon,
    • Izabela Brozek,
    • Janusz Limon,
    • David E. Housman,
    • Jerry Pelletier,
    • and Bernhard Zabel

    Microdeletion of target sites for insulator protein CTCF in a chromosome 11p15 imprinting center in Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome and Wilms' tumor

    PNAS 2005 102:4085-4090; published ahead of print March 2, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500037102

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Santiago Zelenay,
    • Thiago Lopes-Carvalho,
    • Iris Caramalho,
    • Maria Francisca Moraes-Fontes,
    • Manuel Rebelo,
    • and Jocelyne Demengeot

    Foxp3 + CD25 – CD4 T cells constitute a reservoir of committed regulatory cells that regain CD25 expression upon homeostatic expansion

    PNAS 2005 102:4091-4096; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408679102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Yosef Refaeli,
    • Kenneth A. Field,
    • Brian C. Turner,
    • Andreas Trumpp,
    • and J. Michael Bishop

    The protooncogene MYC can break B cell tolerance

    PNAS 2005 102:4097-4102; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409832102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Mindi R. Walker,
    • Bryan D. Carson,
    • Gerald T. Nepom,
    • Steven F. Ziegler,
    • and Jane H. Buckner

    De novo generation of antigen-specific CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells from human CD4 + CD25 – cells

    PNAS 2005 102:4103-4108; published ahead of print March 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407691102