Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Jonathan W. Yewdell

    Immunoproteasomes: Regulating the regulator

    PNAS 2005 102:9089-9090; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504018102
    • See companion article on page 9241 in issue 26 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Michael G. Garelick
    • and Daniel R. Storm

    The relationship between memory retrieval and memory extinction

    PNAS 2005 102:9091-9092; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504017102
    • See companion article on page 9347 in issue 26 of volume 102

Perspectives

  • Perspective:
    • Vincent T. Marchesi

    An alternative interpretation of the amyloid Aβ hypothesis with regard to the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease

    PNAS 2005 102:9093-9098; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503181102
  • Perspective:
    • David J. Gross

    The discovery of asymptotic freedom and the emergence of QCD

    PNAS 2005 102:9099-9108; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503831102

In This Issue

Profile

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Cristian Ionescu-Zanetti,
    • Robin M. Shaw,
    • Jeonggi Seo,
    • Yuh-Nung Jan,
    • Lily Y. Jan,
    • and Luke P. Lee

    Mammalian electrophysiology on a microfluidic platform

    PNAS 2005 102:9112-9117; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503418102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Liangfang Zhang
    • and Steve Granick

    Slaved diffusion in phospholipid bilayers

    PNAS 2005 102:9118-9121; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502723102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Che-Chang Hsu,
    • Zhangyong Hong,
    • Masaru Wada,
    • Dirk Franke,
    • and Chi-Huey Wong

    Directed evolution of d -sialic acid aldolase to l -3-deoxy- manno -2-octulosonic acid ( l -KDO) aldolase

    PNAS 2005 102:9122-9126; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504033102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Michal Tokarz,
    • Björn Åkerman,
    • Jessica Olofsson,
    • Jean-Francois Joanny,
    • Paul Dommersnes,
    • and Owe Orwar

    Single-file electrophoretic transport and counting of individual DNA molecules in surfactant nanotubes

    PNAS 2005 102:9127-9132; published ahead of print June 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500081102

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Brenda J. Bradley,
    • Martha M. Robbins,
    • Elizabeth A. Williamson,
    • H. Dieter Steklis,
    • Netzin Gerald Steklis,
    • Nadin Eckhardt,
    • Christophe Boesch,
    • and Linda Vigilant

    Mountain gorilla tug-of-war: Silverbacks have limited control over reproduction in multimale groups

    PNAS 2005 102:9418-9423; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502019102

Economic Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Kazuko Yamasaki,
    • Lev Muchnik,
    • Shlomo Havlin,
    • Armin Bunde,
    • and H. Eugene Stanley

    Scaling and memory in volatility return intervals in financial markets

    PNAS 2005 102:9424-9428; published ahead of print June 24, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502613102

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jean-Philippe Collet,
    • Henry Shuman,
    • Robert E. Ledger,
    • Seungtaek Lee,
    • and John W. Weisel

    The elasticity of an individual fibrin fiber in a clot

    PNAS 2005 102:9133-9137; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504120102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kailash C. Pandey,
    • Stephanie X. Wang,
    • Puran S. Sijwali,
    • Anthony L. Lau,
    • James H. McKerrow,
    • and Philip J. Rosenthal

    The Plasmodium falciparum cysteine protease falcipain-2 captures its substrate, hemoglobin, via a unique motif

    PNAS 2005 102:9138-9143; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502368102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jung-Hoon Lee,
    • Jung Min Choi,
    • Changwook Lee,
    • Ki Joung Yi,
    • and Yunje Cho

    Structure of a peptide: N -glycanase-Rad23 complex: Insight into the deglycosylation for denatured glycoproteins

    PNAS 2005 102:9144-9149; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502082102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Damon A. Clark
    • and Lars C. Grant

    The bacterial chemotactic response reflects a compromise between transient and steady-state behavior

    PNAS 2005 102:9150-9155; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407659102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Karin Nienhaus,
    • G. Ulrich Nienhaus,
    • Jörg Wiedenmann,
    • and Herbert Nar

    Structural basis for photo-induced protein cleavage and green-to-red conversion of fluorescent protein EosFP

    PNAS 2005 102:9156-9159; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501874102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Thuc T. Le,
    • Sébastien Harlepp,
    • Călin C. Guet,
    • Kimberly Dittmar,
    • Thierry Emonet,
    • Tao Pan,
    • and Philippe Cluzel

    Real-time RNA profiling within a single bacterium

    PNAS 2005 102:9160-9164; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503311102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Javier Arsuaga,
    • Mariel Vazquez,
    • Paul McGuirk,
    • Sonia Trigueros,
    • De Witt Sumners,
    • and Joaquim Roca

    DNA knots reveal a chiral organization of DNA in phage capsids

    PNAS 2005 102:9165-9169; published ahead of print June 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409323102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Daniel Schlieper,
    • María A. Oliva,
    • José M. Andreu,
    • and Jan Löwe

    Structure of bacterial tubulin BtubA/B: Evidence for horizontal gene transfer

    PNAS 2005 102:9170-9175; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502859102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Saori Furuta,
    • Xianzhi Jiang,
    • Bingnan Gu,
    • Eric Cheng,
    • Phang-Lang Chen,
    • and Wen-Hwa Lee

    Depletion of BRCA1 impairs differentiation but enhances proliferation of mammary epithelial cells

    PNAS 2005 102:9176-9181; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503793102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Thorsten Maretzky,
    • Karina Reiss,
    • Andreas Ludwig,
    • Julian Buchholz,
    • Felix Scholz,
    • Erhardt Proksch,
    • Bart de Strooper,
    • Dieter Hartmann,
    • and Paul Saftig

    ADAM10 mediates E-cadherin shedding and regulates epithelial cell-cell adhesion, migration, and β-catenin translocation

    PNAS 2005 102:9182-9187; published ahead of print June 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500918102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Nikos Tapinos
    • and Anura Rambukkana

    Insights into regulation of human Schwann cell proliferation by Erk1/2 via a MEK-independent and p56Lck-dependent pathway from leprosy bacilli

    PNAS 2005 102:9188-9193; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501196102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Derrick J. Rossi,
    • David Bryder,
    • Jacob M. Zahn,
    • Henrik Ahlenius,
    • Rebecca Sonu,
    • Amy J. Wagers,
    • and Irving L. Weissman

    Cell intrinsic alterations underlie hematopoietic stem cell aging

    PNAS 2005 102:9194-9199; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503280102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Chiara Gorrini,
    • Fabrizio Loreni,
    • Valentina Gandin,
    • Leonardo A. Sala,
    • Nahum Sonenberg,
    • Pier Carlo Marchisio,
    • and Stefano Biffo

    Fibronectin controls cap-dependent translation through β1 integrin and eukaryotic initiation factors 4 and 2 coordinated pathways

    PNAS 2005 102:9200-9205; published ahead of print June 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409513102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Kazuhiro Kawamura,
    • Nanami Kawamura,
    • Sabine M. Mulders,
    • Maarten D. Sollewijn Gelpke,
    • and Aaron J. W. Hsueh

    Ovarian brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) promotes the development of oocytes into preimplantation embryos

    PNAS 2005 102:9206-9211; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502442102

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Tanguy Daufresne
    • and Lars O. Hedin

    Plant coexistence depends on ecosystem nutrient cycles: Extension of the resource-ratio theory

    PNAS 2005 102:9212-9217; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406427102

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Barbara Oesch-Bartlomowicz,
    • Andrea Huelster,
    • Oliver Wiss,
    • Patricia Antoniou-Lipfert,
    • Cornelia Dietrich,
    • Michael Arand,
    • Carsten Weiss,
    • Ernesto Bockamp,
    • and Franz Oesch

    Aryl hydrocarbon receptor activation by cAMP vs. dioxin: Divergent signaling pathways

    PNAS 2005 102:9218-9223; published ahead of print June 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503488102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Zeev Pancer,
    • Nil Ratan Saha,
    • Jun Kasamatsu,
    • Takashi Suzuki,
    • Chris T. Amemiya,
    • Masanori Kasahara,
    • and Max D. Cooper

    Variable lymphocyte receptors in hagfish

    PNAS 2005 102:9224-9229; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503792102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Kaoru Fukami-Kobayashi,
    • Takashi Shiina,
    • Tatsuya Anzai,
    • Kazumi Sano,
    • Masaaki Yamazaki,
    • Hidetoshi Inoko,
    • and Yoshio Tateno

    Genomic evolution of MHC class I region in primates

    PNAS 2005 102:9230-9234; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500770102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Michael N Dawson
    • and William M. Hamner

    From the Cover: Rapid evolutionary radiation of marine zooplankton in peripheral environments

    PNAS 2005 102:9235-9240; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503635102

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Sylvia Heink,
    • Daniela Ludwig,
    • Peter-M. Kloetzel,
    • and Elke Krüger

    From the Cover: IFN-γ-induced immune adaptation of the proteasome system is an accelerated and transient response

    PNAS 2005 102:9241-9246; published ahead of print June 8, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501711102
    • See commentary article on page 9089 in issue 26 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Erica Andersen-Nissen,
    • Kelly D. Smith,
    • Katie L. Strobe,
    • Sara L. Rassoulian Barrett,
    • Brad T. Cookson,
    • Susan M. Logan,
    • and Alan Aderem

    Evasion of Toll-like receptor 5 by flagellated bacteria

    PNAS 2005 102:9247-9252; published ahead of print June 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502040102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Hiroyoshi Nishikawa,
    • Takuma Kato,
    • Isao Tawara,
    • Tetsushi Takemitsu,
    • Kanako Saito,
    • Linan Wang,
    • Yoshinori Ikarashi,
    • Hiro Wakasugi,
    • Toshinori Nakayama,
    • Masaru Taniguchi,
    • Kagemasa Kuribayashi,
    • Lloyd J. Old,
    • and Hiroshi Shiku

    Accelerated chemically induced tumor development mediated by CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells in wild-type hosts

    PNAS 2005 102:9253-9257; published ahead of print June 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503852102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Ute Wellmann,
    • Miriam Letz,
    • Martin Herrmann,
    • Sieglinde Angermüller,
    • Joachim R. Kalden,
    • and Thomas H. Winkler

    The evolution of human anti-double-stranded DNA autoantibodies

    PNAS 2005 102:9258-9263; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500132102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Michael Uhlin,
    • Maria G. Masucci,
    • and Victor Levitsky

    Regulation of lck degradation and refractory state in CD8 + cytotoxic T lymphocytes

    PNAS 2005 102:9264-9269; published ahead of print June 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406333102

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Yasuhiro Gon,
    • Malcolm R. Wood,
    • William B. Kiosses,
    • Euijung Jo,
    • M. Germana Sanna,
    • Jerold Chun,
    • and Hugh Rosen

    S1P 3 receptor-induced reorganization of epithelial tight junctions compromises lung barrier integrity and is potentiated by TNF

    PNAS 2005 102:9270-9275; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501997102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Harry Rubin

    Degrees and kinds of selection in spontaneous neoplastic transformation: An operational analysis

    PNAS 2005 102:9276-9281; published ahead of print June 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503688102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Helen A. Seow,
    • Philip G. Penketh,
    • Krishnamurthy Shyam,
    • Sara Rockwell,
    • and Alan C. Sartorelli

    1,2-Bis(methylsulfonyl)-1-(2-chloroethyl)-2-[[1-(4-nitrophenyl)ethoxy]carbonyl]hydrazine: An anticancer agent targeting hypoxic cells

    PNAS 2005 102:9282-9287; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409013102

Microbiology

  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Hsien-Sheng Yin,
    • Reay G. Paterson,
    • Xiaolin Wen,
    • Robert A. Lamb,
    • and Theodore S. Jardetzky

    Structure of the uncleaved ectodomain of the paramyxovirus (hPIV3) fusion protein

    PNAS 2005 102:9288-9293; published ahead of print June 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503989102
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Jin Zhong,
    • Pablo Gastaminza,
    • Guofeng Cheng,
    • Sharookh Kapadia,
    • Takanobu Kato,
    • Dennis R. Burton,
    • Stefan F. Wieland,
    • Susan L. Uprichard,
    • Takaji Wakita,
    • and Francis V. Chisari

    Robust hepatitis C virus infection in vitro

    PNAS 2005 102:9294-9299; published ahead of print June 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503596102
    • See commentary article on page 9739 in issue 28 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Sabine Brandt,
    • Terry Kwok,
    • Roland Hartig,
    • Wolfgang König,
    • and Steffen Backert

    NF-κB activation and potentiation of proinflammatory responses by the Helicobacter pylori CagA protein

    PNAS 2005 102:9300-9305; published ahead of print June 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409873102