PNAS — Table of Contents — June 14, 2005, 102 (24)

June 14, 2005; 102 (24)

FROM THE COVER

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Harry W. Greene
Historical influences on community ecology
PNAS 2005 102:8395-8396; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503367102
- See companion article on page 7877 in issue 22 of volume 102
Commentary:
- Daniel D. Carson
Uterine sensing of the embryo
PNAS 2005 102:8397-8398; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503417102
- See companion article on page 8579 in issue 24 of volume 102
Commentary:
- Steven A. Porcelli
Bird genes give new insights into the origins of lipid antigen presentation
PNAS 2005 102:8399-8400; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503313102
- See companion article on page 8674 in issue 24 of volume 102
- See companion article on page 8668 in issue 24 of volume 102
Commentary:
- M. S. Gilmore
- and W. Haas
The selective advantage of microbial fratricide
PNAS 2005 102:8401-8402; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503828102
- See companion article on page 8710 in issue 24 of volume 102

Perspective

Perspective:
- Frank Wilczek
Nobel Lecture: Asymptotic freedom: From paradox to paradigm
PNAS 2005 102:8403-8413; published ahead of print June 8, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501642102

In This Issue

In This Issue:
This Week in PNAS
PNAS 2005 102:8393-8394; doi:10.1073/iti2405102

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Hidenori Yokoi,
- Takatoshi Kinoshita,
- and Shuguang Zhang
Dynamic reassembly of peptide RADA16 nanofiber scaffold
PNAS 2005 102:8414-8419; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407843102

Social Sciences

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Li Hai Tan,
- John A. Spinks,
- Guinevere F. Eden,
- Charles A. Perfetti,
- and Wai Ting Siok
Reading depends on writing, in Chinese
PNAS 2005 102:8781-8785; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503523102

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Zewen Liu,
- Martin S. Williamson,
- Stuart J. Lansdell,
- Ian Denholm,
- Zhaojun Han,
- and Neil S. Millar
From the Cover: A nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mutation conferring target-site resistance to imidacloprid in Nilaparvata lugens (brown planthopper)
PNAS 2005 102:8420-8425; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502901102
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Jian-Zhou Zhao,
- Jun Cao,
- Hilda L. Collins,
- Sarah L. Bates,
- Richard T. Roush,
- Elizabeth D. Earle,
- and Anthony M. Shelton
Concurrent use of transgenic plants expressing a single and two Bacillus thuringiensis genes speeds insect adaptation to pyramided plants
PNAS 2005 102:8426-8430; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409324102
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Cecilia Anderung,
- Abigail Bouwman,
- Per Persson,
- José Miguel Carretero,
- Ana Isabel Ortega,
- Rengert Elburg,
- Colin Smith,
- Juan Luis Arsuaga,
- Hans Ellegren,
- and Anders Götherström
Prehistoric contacts over the Straits of Gibraltar indicated by genetic analysis of Iberian Bronze Age cattle
PNAS 2005 102:8431-8435; published ahead of print June 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503396102

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
- Laurent Marivaux,
- Pierre-Olivier Antoine,
- Syed Rafiqul Hassan Baqri,
- Mouloud Benammi,
- Yaowalak Chaimanee,
- Jean-Yves Crochet,
- Dario de Franceschi,
- Nayyer Iqbal,
- Jean-Jacques Jaeger,
- Grégoire Métais,
- Ghazala Roohi,
- and Jean-Loup Welcomme
Anthropoid primates from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills): Data on early anthropoid evolution and biogeography
PNAS 2005 102:8436-8441; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503469102

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Katsueki Ogiwara,
- Naoharu Takano,
- Masakazu Shinohara,
- Masahiro Murakami,
- and Takayuki Takahashi
Gelatinase A and membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases 1 and 2 are responsible for follicle rupture during ovulation in the medaka
PNAS 2005 102:8442-8447; published ahead of print June 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502423102

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Chien Peter Chen,
- Shoshana Posy,
- Avinoam Ben-Shaul,
- Lawrence Shapiro,
- and Barry H. Honig
Specificity of cell–cell adhesion by classical cadherins: Critical role for low-affinity dimerization through β-strand swapping
PNAS 2005 102:8531-8536; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503319102
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Vitold E. Galkin,
- Fumiko Esashi,
- Xiong Yu,
- Shixin Yang,
- Stephen C. West,
- and Edward H. Egelman
BRCA2 BRC motifs bind RAD51–DNA filaments
PNAS 2005 102:8537-8542; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407266102
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Dimitrios Vavylonis,
- Qingbo Yang,
- and Ben O'Shaughnessy
Actin polymerization kinetics, cap structure, and fluctuations
PNAS 2005 102:8543-8548; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501435102

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Victor Soukoulis,
- Samyukta Reddy,
- Ryan D. Pooley,
- Yuanyi Feng,
- Christopher A. Walsh,
- and David M. Bader
Cytoplasmic LEK1 is a regulator of microtubule function through its interaction with the LIS1 pathway
PNAS 2005 102:8549-8554; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502303102
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Noriaki Shimizu,
- Rika Ouchida,
- Noritada Yoshikawa,
- Tetsuya Hisada,
- Hajime Watanabe,
- Kensaku Okamoto,
- Masatoshi Kusuhara,
- Hiroshi Handa,
- Chikao Morimoto,
- and Hirotoshi Tanaka
HEXIM1 forms a transcriptionally abortive complex with glucocorticoid receptor without involving 7SK RNA and positive transcription elongation factor b
PNAS 2005 102:8555-8560; published ahead of print June 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409863102
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Alexander C. Zambon,
- Lingzhi Zhang,
- Simon Minovitsky,
- Joan R. Kanter,
- Shyam Prabhakar,
- Nathan Salomonis,
- Karen Vranizan,
- Inna Dubchak,
- Bruce R. Conklin,
- and Paul A. Insel
Gene expression patterns define key transcriptional events in cell-cycle regulation by cAMP and protein kinase A
PNAS 2005 102:8561-8566; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503363102
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Teru Hideshima,
- James E. Bradner,
- Jason Wong,
- Dharminder Chauhan,
- Paul Richardson,
- Stuart L. Schreiber,
- and Kenneth C. Anderson
Small-molecule inhibition of proteasome and aggresome function induces synergistic antitumor activity in multiple myeloma
PNAS 2005 102:8567-8572; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503221102
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Cory M. Johannessen,
- Elizabeth E. Reczek,
- Marianne F. James,
- Hilde Brems,
- Eric Legius,
- and Karen Cichowski
The NF1 tumor suppressor critically regulates TSC2 and mTOR
PNAS 2005 102:8573-8578; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503224102

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Othman A. Mohamed,
- Maud Jonnaert,
- Cassandre Labelle-Dumais,
- Kazuki Kuroda,
- Hugh J. Clarke,
- and Daniel Dufort
From the Cover: Uterine Wnt/β-catenin signaling is required for implantation
PNAS 2005 102:8579-8584; published ahead of print June 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500612102
- See commentary article on page 8397 in issue 24 of volume 102
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Rob D. Catalano,
- Martin H. Johnson,
- Elizabeth A. Campbell,
- D. Stephen Charnock-Jones,
- Stephen K. Smith,
- and Andrew M. Sharkey
Inhibition of Stat3 activation in the endometrium prevents implantation: A nonsteroidal approach to contraception
PNAS 2005 102:8585-8590; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502343102

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- James P. Balhoff
- and Gregory A. Wray
Evolutionary analysis of the well characterized endo16 promoter reveals substantial variation within functional sites
PNAS 2005 102:8591-8596; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409638102
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Daniel Riester,
- Frank Wirsching,
- Gabriela Salinas,
- Martina Keller,
- Michael Gebinoga,
- Stefan Kamphausen,
- Christian Merkwirth,
- Ruediger Goetz,
- Martin Wiesenfeldt,
- Jörg Stürzebecher,
- Wolfram Bode,
- Rainer Friedrich,
- Marcel Thürk,
- and Andreas Schwienhorst
Thrombin inhibitors identified by computer-assisted multiparameter design
PNAS 2005 102:8597-8602; published ahead of print June 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501983102

Genetics

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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Matthew G. Guenther,
- Richard G. Jenner,
- Brett Chevalier,
- Tatsuya Nakamura,
- Carlo M. Croce,
- Eli Canaani,
- and Richard A. Young
Global and Hox-specific roles for the MLL1 methyltransferase
PNAS 2005 102:8603-8608; published ahead of print June 7, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503072102
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Kenneth E. Pierce,
- J. Aquiles Sanchez,
- John E. Rice,
- and Lawrence J. Wangh
Linear-After-The-Exponential (LATE)-PCR: Primer design criteria for high yields of specific single-stranded DNA and improved real-time detection
PNAS 2005 102:8609-8614; published ahead of print

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

Historical influences on community ecology

Uterine sensing of the embryo

Bird genes give new insights into the origins of lipid antigen presentation

The selective advantage of microbial fratricide

Nobel Lecture: Asymptotic freedom: From paradox to paradigm

This Week in PNAS

Dynamic reassembly of peptide RADA16 nanofiber scaffold

Reading depends on writing, in Chinese

From the Cover: A nicotinic acetylcholine receptor mutation conferring target-site resistance to imidacloprid in Nilaparvata lugens (brown planthopper)

Concurrent use of transgenic plants expressing a single and two Bacillus thuringiensis genes speeds insect adaptation to pyramided plants

Prehistoric contacts over the Straits of Gibraltar indicated by genetic analysis of Iberian Bronze Age cattle

Anthropoid primates from the Oligocene of Pakistan (Bugti Hills): Data on early anthropoid evolution and biogeography

Gelatinase A and membrane-type matrix metalloproteinases 1 and 2 are responsible for follicle rupture during ovulation in the medaka

Disruption of the mouse inositol 1,3,4,5,6-pentakisphosphate 2-kinase gene, associated lethality, and tissue distribution of 2-kinase expression

An essential role for an inositol polyphosphate multikinase, Ipk2, in mouse embryogenesis and second messenger production

Signal peptide–chaperone interactions on the twin-arginine protein transport pathway

A general method for greatly improving the affinity of antibodies by using combinatorial libraries

Polyglutamine-expanded ataxin-7 inhibits STAGA histone acetyltransferase activity to produce retinal degeneration

Polyglutamine-expanded spinocerebellar ataxia-7 protein disrupts normal SAGA and SLIK histone acetyltransferase activity

Neuroglobin, nitric oxide, and oxygen: Functional pathways and conformational changes

Structural basis of the Sir1–origin recognition complex interaction in transcriptional silencing

How human neuroblastoma cells make morphine

From the Cover: Insights into Lafora disease: Malin is an E3 ubiquitin ligase that ubiquitinates and promotes the degradation of laforin

Engineered single-chain dimeric streptavidins with an unexpected strong preference for biotin-4-fluorescein

Experimental tests of a homology model for OxlT, the oxalate transporter of Oxalobacter formigenes

Structural basis for origin recognition complex 1 protein–silence information regulator 1 protein interaction in epigenetic silencing

S-nitrosylation of Hsp90 promotes the inhibition of its ATPase and endothelial nitric oxide synthase regulatory activities

Specificity of cell–cell adhesion by classical cadherins: Critical role for low-affinity dimerization through β-strand swapping

BRCA2 BRC motifs bind RAD51–DNA filaments

Actin polymerization kinetics, cap structure, and fluctuations

Cytoplasmic LEK1 is a regulator of microtubule function through its interaction with the LIS1 pathway

HEXIM1 forms a transcriptionally abortive complex with glucocorticoid receptor without involving 7SK RNA and positive transcription elongation factor b

Gene expression patterns define key transcriptional events in cell-cycle regulation by cAMP and protein kinase A

Small-molecule inhibition of proteasome and aggresome function induces synergistic antitumor activity in multiple myeloma

The NF1 tumor suppressor critically regulates TSC2 and mTOR

From the Cover: Uterine Wnt/β-catenin signaling is required for implantation

Inhibition of Stat3 activation in the endometrium prevents implantation: A nonsteroidal approach to contraception

Evolutionary analysis of the well characterized endo16 promoter reveals substantial variation within functional sites

Thrombin inhibitors identified by computer-assisted multiparameter design

Global and Hox-specific roles for the MLL1 methyltransferase

Linear-After-The-Exponential (LATE)-PCR: Primer design criteria for high yields of specific single-stranded DNA and improved real-time detection