Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • James Lepowsky

    From the representation theory of vertex operator algebras to modular tensor categories in conformal field theory

    PNAS 2005 102:5304-5305; published ahead of print April 5, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501135102
    • See companion article on page 5352 in issue 15 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Lori Marino

    Big brains do matter in new environments

    PNAS 2005 102:5306-5307; published ahead of print April 5, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501695102
    • See companion article on page 5460 in issue 15 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Steven Henikoff

    Histone modifications: Combinatorial complexity or cumulative simplicity?

    PNAS 2005 102:5308-5309; published ahead of print April 5, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501853102
    • See companion article on page 5501 in issue 15 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • John W. Little

    Threshold effects in gene regulation: When some is not enough

    PNAS 2005 102:5310-5311; published ahead of print April 5, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501645102
    • See companion article on page 4470 in issue 12 of volume 102

In This Issue

Editorial

  • Editorial:
    • Nicholas R. Cozzarelli

    Making research accessible: National Institutes of Health (NIH) public access and PNAS open access policies

    PNAS 2005 102:5303; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502201102

Biography

  • Biography:
    • Tinsley H. Davis

    Inaugural Article: Biography of George W. Flynn

    PNAS 2005 102:5312-5314; published ahead of print April 5, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500648102
    • See commentary article on page 5315 in issue 15 of volume 102
  • Biography:
    • Regina Nuzzo

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Veerabhadran Ramanathan

    PNAS 2005 102:5323-5325; published ahead of print April 5, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501756102
    • See commentary article on page 5326 in issue 15 of volume 102

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Thomas Müller,
    • Tova L. Werblowsky,
    • Gina M. Florio,
    • Bruce J. Berne,
    • and George W. Flynn

    Inaugural Article: Ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy and theoretical studies of 1-halohexane monolayers on graphite

    PNAS 2005 102:5315-5322; published ahead of print March 9, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409576102
    • See commentary article on page 5312 in issue 15 of volume 102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Ivano Bertini,
    • Vito Calderone,
    • Marta Cosenza,
    • Marco Fragai,
    • Yong-Min Lee,
    • Claudio Luchinat,
    • Stefano Mangani,
    • Beatrice Terni,
    • and Paola Turano

    Conformational variability of matrix metalloproteinases: Beyond a single 3D structure

    PNAS 2005 102:5334-5339; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407106102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Xiaopeng Shan
    • and Lawrence Que, Jr.

    Intermediates in the oxygenation of a nonheme diiron(II) complex, including the first evidence for a bound superoxo species

    PNAS 2005 102:5340-5345; published ahead of print March 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409640102

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Ernest K. Lewis,
    • Wade C. Haaland,
    • Freddy Nguyen,
    • Daniel A. Heller,
    • Matthew J. Allen,
    • Robert R. MacGregor,
    • C. Scott Berger,
    • Britain Willingham,
    • Lori A. Burns,
    • Graham B. I. Scott,
    • Carter Kittrell,
    • Bruce R. Johnson,
    • Robert F. Curl,
    • and Michael L. Metzker

    Color-blind fluorescence detection for four-color DNA sequencing

    PNAS 2005 102:5346-5351; published ahead of print March 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501606102

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • V. Ramanathan,
    • C. Chung,
    • D. Kim,
    • T. Bettge,
    • L. Buja,
    • J. T. Kiehl,
    • W. M. Washington,
    • Q. Fu,
    • D. R. Sikka,
    • and M. Wild

    Inaugural Article: Atmospheric brown clouds: Impacts on South Asian climate and hydrological cycle

    PNAS 2005 102:5326-5333; published ahead of print March 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500656102
    • See commentary article on page 5323 in issue 15 of volume 102

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
    • Yi-Zhi Huang

    Vertex operator algebras, the Verlinde conjecture, and modular tensor categories

    PNAS 2005 102:5352-5356; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409901102
    • See commentary article on page 5304 in issue 15 of volume 102

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Heather McKillop

    Finds in Belize document Late Classic Maya salt making and canoe transport

    PNAS 2005 102:5630-5634; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408486102

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kenneth P. Holbourn,
    • J. Mark Sutton,
    • Hazel R. Evans,
    • Clifford C. Shone,
    • and K. Ravi Acharya

    Molecular recognition of an ADP-ribosylating Clostridium botulinum C3 exoenzyme by RalA GTPase

    PNAS 2005 102:5357-5362; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501525102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ronnie R. Wei,
    • Peter K. Sorger,
    • and Stephen C. Harrison

    Molecular organization of the Ndc80 complex, an essential kinetochore component

    PNAS 2005 102:5363-5367; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501168102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Katie E. Padfield,
    • Loukas G. Astrakas,
    • Qunhao Zhang,
    • Suresh Gopalan,
    • George Dai,
    • Michael N. Mindrinos,
    • Ronald G. Tompkins,
    • Laurence G. Rahme,
    • and A. Aria Tzika

    Burn injury causes mitochondrial dysfunction in skeletal muscle

    PNAS 2005 102:5368-5373; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501211102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Shirya Rashid,
    • David E. Curtis,
    • Rita Garuti,
    • Norma N. Anderson,
    • Yuriy Bashmakov,
    • Y. K. Ho,
    • Robert E. Hammer,
    • Young-Ah Moon,
    • and Jay D. Horton

    Decreased plasma cholesterol and hypersensitivity to statins in mice lacking Pcsk9

    PNAS 2005 102:5374-5379; published ahead of print April 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501652102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • D. Allan Drummond,
    • Jonathan J. Silberg,
    • Michelle M. Meyer,
    • Claus O. Wilke,
    • and Frances H. Arnold

    On the conservative nature of intragenic recombination

    PNAS 2005 102:5380-5385; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500729102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Walter S. Leal,
    • Angela M. Chen,
    • Yuko Ishida,
    • Vicky P. Chiang,
    • Melissa L. Erickson,
    • Tania I. Morgan,
    • and Jennifer M. Tsuruda

    Kinetics and molecular properties of pheromone binding and release

    PNAS 2005 102:5386-5391; published ahead of print March 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501447102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alex H. de Vries,
    • Serge Yefimov,
    • Alan E. Mark,
    • and Siewert J. Marrink

    Molecular structure of the lecithin ripple phase

    PNAS 2005 102:5392-5396; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408249102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Quan Du,
    • Chaim Smith,
    • Nahum Shiffeldrim,
    • Maria Vologodskaia,
    • and Alexander Vologodskii

    Cyclization of short DNA fragments and bending fluctuations of the double helix

    PNAS 2005 102:5397-5402; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500983102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yechun Xu,
    • Jianhua Shen,
    • Xiaomin Luo,
    • Weiliang Zhu,
    • Kaixian Chen,
    • Jianpeng Ma,
    • and Hualiang Jiang

    Conformational transition of amyloid β-peptide

    PNAS 2005 102:5403-5407; published ahead of print March 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501218102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • David C. Bouck
    • and Kerry S. Bloom

    The kinetochore protein Ndc10p is required for spindle stability and cytokinesis in yeast

    PNAS 2005 102:5408-5413; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405925102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Stuart A. Ralph,
    • Christine Scheidig-Benatar,
    • and Artur Scherf

    Antigenic variation in Plasmodium falciparum is associated with movement of var loci between subnuclear locations

    PNAS 2005 102:5414-5419; published ahead of print March 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408883102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Taofei Yin,
    • Spiro Getsios,
    • Reto Caldelari,
    • Andrew P. Kowalczyk,
    • Eliane J. Müller,
    • Jonathan C. R. Jones,
    • and Kathleen J. Green

    Plakoglobin suppresses keratinocyte motility through both cell–cell adhesion-dependent and -independent mechanisms

    PNAS 2005 102:5420-5425; published ahead of print April 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501676102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Osamu Hashimoto,
    • R. Kelly Moore,
    • and Shunichi Shimasaki

    Posttranslational processing of mouse and human BMP-15: Potential implication in the determination of ovulation quota

    PNAS 2005 102:5426-5431; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409533102

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Marie Voisin,
    • Carolyn R. Engel,
    • and Frédérique Viard

    Differential shuffling of native genetic diversity across introduced regions in a brown alga: Aquaculture vs. maritime traffic effects

    PNAS 2005 102:5432-5437; published ahead of print March 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501754102
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Sarah J. Bearchell,
    • Bart A. Fraaije,
    • Michael W. Shaw,
    • and Bruce D. L. Fitt

    From the Cover: Wheat archive links long-term fungal pathogen population dynamics to air pollution

    PNAS 2005 102:5438-5442; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501596102
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Jordi Bascompte,
    • Carlos J. Melián,
    • and Enric Sala

    Interaction strength combinations and the overfishing of a marine food web

    PNAS 2005 102:5443-5447; published ahead of print March 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501562102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Tohru Sugawara,
    • Yohey Terai,
    • Hiroo Imai,
    • George F. Turner,
    • Stephan Koblmüller,
    • Christian Sturmbauer,
    • Yoshinori Shichida,
    • and Norihiro Okada

    Parallelism of amino acid changes at the RH1 affecting spectral sensitivity among deep-water cichlids from Lakes Tanganyika and Malawi

    PNAS 2005 102:5448-5453; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405302102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Steven Maere,
    • Stefanie De Bodt,
    • Jeroen Raes,
    • Tineke Casneuf,
    • Marc Van Montagu,
    • Martin Kuiper,
    • and Yves Van de Peer

    Modeling gene and genome duplications in eukaryotes

    PNAS 2005 102:5454-5459; published ahead of print March 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501102102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Daniel Sol,
    • Richard P. Duncan,
    • Tim M. Blackburn,
    • Phillip Cassey,
    • and Louis Lefebvre

    Big brains, enhanced cognition, and response of birds to novel environments

    PNAS 2005 102:5460-5465; published ahead of print March 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408145102
    • See commentary article on page 5306 in issue 15 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Roy J. Britten

    The majority of human genes have regions repeated in other human genes

    PNAS 2005 102:5466-5470; published ahead of print March 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501008102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Julien Meunier,
    • Adel Khelifi,
    • Vincent Navratil,
    • and Laurent Duret

    Homology-dependent methylation in primate repetitive DNA

    PNAS 2005 102:5471-5476; published ahead of print March 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408986102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Atsushi Nakabachi,
    • Shuji Shigenobu,
    • Naoko Sakazume,
    • Toshiyuki Shiraki,
    • Yoshihide Hayashizaki,
    • Piero Carninci,
    • Hajime Ishikawa,
    • Toshiaki Kudo,
    • and Takema Fukatsu

    Transcriptome analysis of the aphid bacteriocyte, the symbiotic host cell that harbors an endocellular mutualistic bacterium, Buchnera

    PNAS 2005 102:5477-5482; published ahead of print March 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409034102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Dennis P. Wall,
    • Aaron E. Hirsh,
    • Hunter B. Fraser,
    • Jochen Kumm,
    • Guri Giaever,
    • Michael B. Eisen,
    • and Marcus W. Feldman

    Functional genomic analysis of the rates of protein evolution

    PNAS 2005 102:5483-5488; published ahead of print March 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501761102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Patrick Pfister
    • and Ivan Rodriguez

    Olfactory expression of a single and highly variable V1r pheromone receptor-like gene in fish species

    PNAS 2005 102:5489-5494; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0402581102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Jonathan L. Tupy,
    • Adina M. Bailey,
    • Gina Dailey,
    • Martha Evans-Holm,
    • Christian W. Siebel,
    • Sima Misra,
    • Susan E. Celniker,
    • and Gerald M. Rubin

    Identification of putative noncoding polyadenylated transcripts in Drosophila melanogaster

    PNAS 2005 102:5495-5500; published ahead of print April 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501422102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Michael F. Dion,
    • Steven J. Altschuler,
    • Lani F. Wu,
    • and Oliver J. Rando

    From the Cover: Genomic characterization reveals a simple histone H4 acetylation code

    PNAS 2005 102:5501-5506; published ahead of print March 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500136102
    • See commentary article on page 5308 in issue 15 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Sarah K. Tate,
    • Chantal Depondt,
    • Sanjay M. Sisodiya,
    • Gianpiero L. Cavalleri,
    • Stephanie Schorge,
    • Nicole Soranzo,
    • Maria Thom,
    • Arjune Sen,
    • Simon D. Shorvon,
    • Josemir W. Sander,
    • Nicholas W. Wood,
    • and David B. Goldstein

    Genetic predictors of the maximum doses patients receive during clinical use of the anti-epileptic drugs carbamazepine and phenytoin

    PNAS 2005 102:5507-5512; published ahead of print April 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407346102