Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • David Zenisek

    Vesicle reuse revisited

    PNAS 2005 102:7407-7408; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502910102
    • See companion article on page 6131 in issue 17 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Nigel W. Bunnett

    The stressed gut: Contributions of intestinal stress peptides to inflammation and motility

    PNAS 2005 102:7409-7410; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503092102
    • See companion article on page 7647 in issue 21 of volume 102

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Edward O. Wilson
    • and Bert Hölldobler

    The rise of the ants: A phylogenetic and ecological explanation

    PNAS 2005 102:7411-7414; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502264102

In This Issue

From the Academy

Biography

  • Biography:
    • Regina Nuzzo

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Douglas T. Fearon

    PNAS 2005 102:7415-7417; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502415102
    • See commentary article on page 7418 in issue 21 of volume 102

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • R. R. Coifman,
    • S. Lafon,
    • A. B. Lee,
    • M. Maggioni,
    • B. Nadler,
    • F. Warner,
    • and S. W. Zucker

    Geometric diffusions as a tool for harmonic analysis and structure definition of data: Diffusion maps

    PNAS 2005 102:7426-7431; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500334102
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • R. R. Coifman,
    • S. Lafon,
    • A. B. Lee,
    • M. Maggioni,
    • B. Nadler,
    • F. Warner,
    • and S. W. Zucker

    Geometric diffusions as a tool for harmonic analysis and structure definition of data: Multiscale methods

    PNAS 2005 102:7432-7437; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500896102

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Yue Zhao,
    • Nidhi Mahajan,
    • Ruibo Lu,
    • and Jiyu Fang

    Liquid-crystal imaging of molecular-tilt ordering in self-assembled lipid tubules

    PNAS 2005 102:7438-7442; published ahead of print May 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409366102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Wei Zhuang,
    • Darius Abramavicius,
    • and Shaul Mukamel

    Dissecting coherent vibrational spectra of small proteins into secondary structural elements by sensitivity analysis

    PNAS 2005 102:7443-7448; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408781102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Geophysics:
    • Jamie Matthews,
    • Amitabha Sinha,
    • and Joseph S. Francisco

    The importance of weak absorption features in promoting tropospheric radical production

    PNAS 2005 102:7449-7452; published ahead of print May 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502687102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Nenad M. Grubor,
    • John Hayes,
    • Gerald J. Small,
    • and Ryszard Jankowiak

    Cross-reactivity and conformational multiplicity of an anti-polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon mAb

    PNAS 2005 102:7453-7458; published ahead of print May 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502540102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Bernd Knobloch,
    • Wolfgang Linert,
    • and Helmut Sigel

    Metal ion-binding properties of (N3)-deprotonated uridine, thymidine, and related pyrimidine nucleosides in aqueous solution

    PNAS 2005 102:7459-7464; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501446102

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Terry L. Root,
    • Dena P MacMynowski,
    • Michael D. Mastrandrea,
    • and Stephen H. Schneider

    From the Cover: Human-modified temperatures induce species changes: Joint attribution

    PNAS 2005 102:7465-7469; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502286102

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Geophysics:
    • Jamie Matthews,
    • Amitabha Sinha,
    • and Joseph S. Francisco

    The importance of weak absorption features in promoting tropospheric radical production

    PNAS 2005 102:7449-7452; published ahead of print May 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502687102

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
    • Lawrence M. Wein
    • and Manas Baveja

    Using fingerprint image quality to improve the identification performance of the U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology Program

    PNAS 2005 102:7772-7775; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407496102

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • Xiaolong Yang
    • and Diana L. Cox-Foster

    Impact of an ectoparasite on the immunity and pathology of an invertebrate: Evidence for host immunosuppression and viral amplification

    PNAS 2005 102:7470-7475; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501860102

Anthropology

  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Grant Hamilton,
    • Mark Stoneking,
    • and Laurent Excoffier

    Molecular analysis reveals tighter social regulation of immigration in patrilocal populations than in matrilocal populations

    PNAS 2005 102:7476-7480; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409253102

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Abdullah Ozer,
    • Leeju C. Wu,
    • and Richard K. Bruick

    The candidate tumor suppressor ING4 represses activation of the hypoxia inducible factor (HIF)

    PNAS 2005 102:7481-7486; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502716102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kotaro Nakanishi,
    • Shuya Fukai,
    • Yoshiho Ikeuchi,
    • Akiko Soma,
    • Yasuhiko Sekine,
    • Tsutomu Suzuki,
    • and Osamu Nureki

    Structural basis for lysidine formation by ATP pyrophosphatase accompanied by a lysine-specific loop and a tRNA-recognition domain

    PNAS 2005 102:7487-7492; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501003102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lakshmanane Premkumar,
    • Harry M. Greenblatt,
    • Umesh K. Bageshwar,
    • Tatyana Savchenko,
    • Irena Gokhman,
    • Joel L. Sussman,
    • and Ada Zamir

    Three-dimensional structure of a halotolerant algal carbonic anhydrase predicts halotolerance of a mammalian homolog

    PNAS 2005 102:7493-7498; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502829102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Shuxia Zhou,
    • Hua Zhou,
    • Peter J. Walian,
    • and Bing K. Jap

    CD147 is a regulatory subunit of the γ-secretase complex in Alzheimer's disease amyloid β-peptide production

    PNAS 2005 102:7499-7504; published ahead of print May 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502768102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Weiru Wang,
    • Chao Zhang,
    • Adhirai Marimuthu,
    • Heike I. Krupka,
    • Maryam Tabrizizad,
    • Rafe Shelloe,
    • Upasana Mehra,
    • Kevin Eng,
    • Hoa Nguyen,
    • Calvin Settachatgul,
    • Ben Powell,
    • Michael V. Milburn,
    • and Brian L. West

    The crystal structures of human steroidogenic factor-1 and liver receptor homologue-1

    PNAS 2005 102:7505-7510; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409482102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lucia B. Jilaveanu,
    • Christopher R. Zito,
    • and Donald Oliver

    Dimeric SecA is essential for protein translocation

    PNAS 2005 102:7511-7516; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502774102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Thang K. Chiu,
    • Jan Kubelka,
    • Regine Herbst-Irmer,
    • William A. Eaton,
    • James Hofrichter,
    • and David R. Davies

    High-resolution x-ray crystal structures of the villin headpiece subdomain, an ultrafast folding protein

    PNAS 2005 102:7517-7522; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502495102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Rajan P. Kulkarni,
    • David D. Wu,
    • Mark E. Davis,
    • and Scott E. Fraser

    Quantitating intracellular transport of polyplexes by spatio-temporal image correlation spectroscopy

    PNAS 2005 102:7523-7528; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501950102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yumin Li,
    • Zhigang Zhou,
    • and Carol Beth Post

    From the Cover: Dissociation of an antiviral compound from the internal pocket of human rhinovirus 14 capsid

    PNAS 2005 102:7529-7534; published ahead of print May 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408749102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alfonso De Simone,
    • Guy G. Dodson,
    • Chandra S. Verma,
    • Adriana Zagari,
    • and Franca Fraternali

    Prion and water: Tight and dynamical hydration sites have a key role in structural stability

    PNAS 2005 102:7535-7540; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501748102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Lucia Banci,
    • Ivano Bertini,
    • Vito Calderone,
    • Fiorenza Cramaro,
    • Rebecca Del Conte,
    • Adele Fantoni,
    • Stefano Mangani,
    • Alessandro Quattrone,
    • and Maria Silvia Viezzoli

    A prokaryotic superoxide dismutase paralog lacking two Cu ligands: From largely unstructured in solution to ordered in the crystal

    PNAS 2005 102:7541-7546; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502450102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • S. Ołdziej,
    • C. Czaplewski,
    • A. Liwo,
    • M. Chinchio,
    • M. Nanias,
    • J. A. Vila,
    • M. Khalili,
    • Y. A. Arnautova,
    • A. Jagielska,
    • M. Makowski,
    • H. D. Schafroth,
    • R. Kaźmierkiewicz,
    • D. R. Ripoll,
    • J. Pillardy,
    • J. A. Saunders,
    • Y. K. Kang,
    • K. D. Gibson,
    • and H. A. Scheraga

    Physics-based protein-structure prediction using a hierarchical protocol based on the UNRES force field: Assessment in two blind tests

    PNAS 2005 102:7547-7552; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502655102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ariana Hemara-Wahanui,
    • Stanislav Berjukow,
    • Carolyn I. Hope,
    • Peter K. Dearden,
    • Shu-Biao Wu,
    • Jane Wilson-Wheeler,
    • Dianne M. Sharp,
    • Patricia Lundon-Treweek,
    • Gillian M. Clover,
    • Jean-Charles Hoda,
    • Jörg Striessnig,
    • Rainer Marksteiner,
    • Steffen Hering,
    • and Marion A. Maw

    A CACNA1F mutation identified in an X-linked retinal disorder shifts the voltage dependence of Ca v 1.4 channel activation

    PNAS 2005 102:7553-7558; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501907102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Daniel R. Ripoll,
    • Jorge A. Vila,
    • and Harold A. Scheraga

    On the orientation of the backbone dipoles in native folds

    PNAS 2005 102:7559-7564; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502754102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • N. A. C. S. Wong,
    • J. Wilding,
    • S. Bartlett,
    • Y. Liu,
    • B. F. Warren,
    • J. Piris,
    • N. Maynard,
    • R. Marshall,
    • and W. F. Bodmer

    CDX1 is an important molecular mediator of Barrett's metaplasia

    PNAS 2005 102:7565-7570; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502031102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Haidong Gu,
    • Yu Liang,
    • Gail Mandel,
    • and Bernard Roizman

    Components of the REST/CoREST/histone deacetylase repressor complex are disrupted, modified, and translocated in HSV-1-infected cells

    PNAS 2005 102:7571-7576; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502658102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Sabine Kupzig,
    • Simon A. Walker,
    • and Peter J. Cullen

    The frequencies of calcium oscillations are optimized for efficient calcium-mediated activation of Ras and the ERK/MAPK cascade

    PNAS 2005 102:7577-7582; published ahead of print May 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409611102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Mark Howarth,
    • Keizo Takao,
    • Yasunori Hayashi,
    • and Alice Y. Ting

    Targeting quantum dots to surface proteins in living cells with biotin ligase

    PNAS 2005 102:7583-7588; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503125102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Sarmishtha De,
    • Olga Razorenova,
    • Noel Patrick McCabe,
    • Timothy O'Toole,
    • Jun Qin,
    • and Tatiana V. Byzova

    VEGF–integrin interplay controls tumor growth and vascularization

    PNAS 2005 102:7589-7594; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502935102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Debra S. Regier,
    • Jared Higbee,
    • Katrina M. Lund,
    • Fumio Sakane,
    • Stephen M. Prescott,
    • and Matthew K. Topham

    Diacylglycerol kinase ι regulates Ras guanyl-releasing protein 3 and inhibits Rap1 signaling

    PNAS 2005 102:7595-7600; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500663102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Stefan Diez,
    • Günther Gerisch,
    • Kurt Anderson,
    • Annette Müller-Taubenberger,
    • and Till Bretschneider

    Subsecond reorganization of the actin network in cell motility and chemotaxis

    PNAS 2005 102:7601-7606; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408546102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Christophe Anjard
    • and William F. Loomis

    Peptide signaling during terminal differentiation of Dictyostelium

    PNAS 2005 102:7607-7611; published ahead of print May 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501820102

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Line J. Gordon,
    • Will Steffen,
    • Bror F. Jönsson,
    • Carl Folke,
    • Malin Falkenmark,
    • and Åse Johannessen

    Human modification of global water vapor flows from the land surface

    PNAS 2005 102:7612-7617; published ahead of print May 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500208102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • R. Brian Langerhans,
    • Craig A. Layman,
    • and Thomas J. DeWitt

    Male genital size reflects a tradeoff between attracting mates and avoiding predators in two live-bearing fish species

    PNAS 2005 102:7618-7623; published ahead of print May 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500935102