Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Leon Glass

    Multistable spatiotemporal patterns of cardiac activity

    PNAS 2005 102:10409-10410; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504511102
    • See companion article on page 10363 in issue 29 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • D. G. Higgins,
    • G. Blackshields,
    • and I. M. Wallace

    Mind the gaps: Progress in progressive alignment

    PNAS 2005 102:10411-10412; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504801102
    • See companion article on page 10557 in issue 30 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • George M. Martin

    Epigenetic drift in aging identical twins

    PNAS 2005 102:10413-10414; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504743102
    • See companion article on page 10604 in issue 30 of volume 102

In This Issue

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Daniel P. Dougherty,
    • Geraldine A. Wright,
    • and Alice C. Yew

    Computational model of the cAMP-mediated sensory response and calcium-dependent adaptation in vertebrate olfactory receptor neurons

    PNAS 2005 102:10415-10420; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504099102

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • M. Tumminello,
    • T. Aste,
    • T. Di Matteo,
    • and R. N. Mantegna

    A tool for filtering information in complex systems

    PNAS 2005 102:10421-10426; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500298102
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Arjan Quist,
    • Ivo Doudevski,
    • Hai Lin,
    • Rushana Azimova,
    • Douglas Ng,
    • Blas Frangione,
    • Bruce Kagan,
    • Jorge Ghiso,
    • and Ratnesh Lal

    Amyloid ion channels: A common structural link for protein-misfolding disease

    PNAS 2005 102:10427-10432; published ahead of print July 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502066102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Andrew P. Brogan,
    • Tobin J. Dickerson,
    • Grant E. Boldt,
    • and Kim D. Janda

    Altered retinoid homeostasis catalyzed by a nicotine metabolite: Implications in macular degeneration and normal development

    PNAS 2005 102:10433-10438; published ahead of print July 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504721102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Serguei Patchkovskii,
    • John S. Tse,
    • Sergei N. Yurchenko,
    • Lyuben Zhechkov,
    • Thomas Heine,
    • and Gotthard Seifert

    From the Cover: Graphene nanostructures as tunable storage media for molecular hydrogen

    PNAS 2005 102:10439-10444; published ahead of print July 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501030102

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Chuen Ho,
    • Rui Qiao,
    • Jiunn B. Heng,
    • Aveek Chatterjee,
    • Rolf J. Timp,
    • Narayana R. Aluru,
    • and Gregory Timp

    Electrolytic transport through a synthetic nanometer-diameter pore

    PNAS 2005 102:10445-10450; published ahead of print July 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500796102

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • K. S. Novoselov,
    • D. Jiang,
    • F. Schedin,
    • T. J. Booth,
    • V. V. Khotkevich,
    • S. V. Morozov,
    • and A. K. Geim

    Two-dimensional atomic crystals

    PNAS 2005 102:10451-10453; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502848102

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kazuhiro Yamada,
    • John R. Strahler,
    • Philip C. Andrews,
    • and Rowena G. Matthews

    Regulation of human methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase by phosphorylation

    PNAS 2005 102:10454-10459; published ahead of print July 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504786102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Marie-Eve Bordeleau,
    • James Matthews,
    • Joanna M. Wojnar,
    • Lisa Lindqvist,
    • Olivia Novac,
    • Eckhard Jankowsky,
    • Nahum Sonenberg,
    • Peter Northcote,
    • Paul Teesdale-Spittle,
    • and Jerry Pelletier

    Stimulation of mammalian translation initiation factor eIF4A activity by a small molecule inhibitor of eukaryotic translation

    PNAS 2005 102:10460-10465; published ahead of print July 19, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504249102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Robert E. Johnson,
    • Louise Prakash,
    • and Satya Prakash

    Biochemical evidence for the requirement of Hoogsteen base pairing for replication by human DNA polymerase ι

    PNAS 2005 102:10466-10471; published ahead of print July 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503859102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hirofumi Arai,
    • Barbara S. Berlett,
    • P. Boon Chock,
    • and Earl R. Stadtman

    Effect of bicarbonate on iron-mediated oxidation of low-density lipoprotein

    PNAS 2005 102:10472-10477; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504685102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Mårten Wikström,
    • Camilla Ribacka,
    • Mika Molin,
    • Liisa Laakkonen,
    • Michael Verkhovsky,
    • and Anne Puustinen

    Gating of proton and water transfer in the respiratory enzyme cytochrome c oxidase

    PNAS 2005 102:10478-10481; published ahead of print July 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502873102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ulrich Gohlke,
    • Lee Pullan,
    • Christopher A. McDevitt,
    • Ida Porcelli,
    • Erik de Leeuw,
    • Tracy Palmer,
    • Helen R. Saibil,
    • and Ben C. Berks

    The TatA component of the twin-arginine protein transport system forms channel complexes of variable diameter

    PNAS 2005 102:10482-10486; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503558102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Gaohua Liu,
    • Yang Shen,
    • Hanudatta S. Atreya,
    • David Parish,
    • Ying Shao,
    • Dinesh K. Sukumaran,
    • Rong Xiao,
    • Adelinda Yee,
    • Alexander Lemak,
    • Aneerban Bhattacharya,
    • Thomas A. Acton,
    • Cheryl H. Arrowsmith,
    • Gaetano T. Montelione,
    • and Thomas Szyperski

    NMR data collection and analysis protocol for high-throughput protein structure determination

    PNAS 2005 102:10487-10492; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504338102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Giuseppe Nicastro,
    • Rajesh P. Menon,
    • Laura Masino,
    • Philip P. Knowles,
    • Neil Q. McDonald,
    • and Annalisa Pastore

    The solution structure of the Josephin domain of ataxin-3: Structural determinants for molecular recognition

    PNAS 2005 102:10493-10498; published ahead of print July 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501732102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wojciech W. Krajewski,
    • T. Alwyn Jones,
    • and Sherry L. Mowbray

    Structure of Mycobacterium tuberculosis glutamine synthetase in complex with a transition-state mimic provides functional insights

    PNAS 2005 102:10499-10504; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502248102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jose H. Hodak,
    • Julie L. Fiore,
    • David J. Nesbitt,
    • Christopher D. Downey,
    • and Arthur Pardi

    Docking kinetics and equilibrium of a GAAA tetraloop-receptor motif probed by single-molecule FRET

    PNAS 2005 102:10505-10510; published ahead of print July 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408645102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Joshua M. Rausch,
    • Jessica R. Marks,
    • and William C. Wimley

    Rational combinatorial design of pore-forming β-sheet peptides

    PNAS 2005 102:10511-10515; published ahead of print July 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502013102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jorge A. Rodriguez,
    • Bryan Francis Shaw,
    • Armando Durazo,
    • Se Hui Sohn,
    • Peter A. Doucette,
    • Aram M. Nersissian,
    • Kym F. Faull,
    • Daryl K. Eggers,
    • Ashutosh Tiwari,
    • Lawrence J. Hayward,
    • and Joan Selverstone Valentine

    Destabilization of apoprotein is insufficient to explain Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase-linked ALS pathogenesis

    PNAS 2005 102:10516-10521; published ahead of print July 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502515102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Hongjun Liu,
    • Mark S. Miller,
    • Douglas M. Swank,
    • William A. Kronert,
    • David W. Maughan,
    • and Sanford I. Bernstein

    Paramyosin phosphorylation site disruption affects indirect flight muscle stiffness and power generation in Drosophila melanogaster

    PNAS 2005 102:10522-10527; published ahead of print July 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500945102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Chong-Feng Gao,
    • Qian Xie,
    • Yan-Li Su,
    • Julie Koeman,
    • Sok Kean Khoo,
    • Margaret Gustafson,
    • Beatrice S. Knudsen,
    • Rick Hay,
    • Nariyoshi Shinomiya,
    • and George F. Vande Woude

    Proliferation and invasion: Plasticity in tumor cells

    PNAS 2005 102:10528-10533; published ahead of print July 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504367102

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Heather M. Leslie,
    • Erin N. Breck,
    • Francis Chan,
    • Jane Lubchenco,
    • and Bruce A. Menge

    Barnacle reproductive hotspots linked to nearshore ocean conditions

    PNAS 2005 102:10534-10539; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503874102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Angela T. Moles,
    • David D. Ackerly,
    • Campbell O. Webb,
    • John C. Tweddle,
    • John B. Dickie,
    • Andy J. Pitman,
    • and Mark Westoby

    Factors that shape seed mass evolution

    PNAS 2005 102:10540-10544; published ahead of print July 19, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501473102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Elena Serviene,
    • Natalia Shapka,
    • Chi-Ping Cheng,
    • Tadas Panavas,
    • Bencharong Phuangrat,
    • Jannine Baker,
    • and Peter D. Nagy

    Genome-wide screen identifies host genes affecting viral RNA recombination

    PNAS 2005 102:10545-10550; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504844102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Blake Wiedenheft,
    • Jesse Mosolf,
    • Deborah Willits,
    • Mark Yeager,
    • Kelly A. Dryden,
    • Mark Young,
    • and Trevor Douglas

    From the Cover: An archaeal antioxidant: Characterization of a Dps-like protein from Sulfolobus solfataricus

    PNAS 2005 102:10551-10556; published ahead of print July 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501497102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Ari Löytynoja
    • and Nick Goldman

    From the Cover: An algorithm for progressive multiple alignment of sequences with insertions

    PNAS 2005 102:10557-10562; published ahead of print July 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409137102
    • See commentary article on page 10411 in issue 30 of volume 102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Mary G. Schueler,
    • John M. Dunn,
    • Christine P. Bird,
    • Mark T. Ross,
    • Luigi Viggiano,
    • NISC Comparative Sequencing Program,
    • Mariano Rocchi,
    • Huntington F. Willard,
    • and Eric D. Green

    Progressive proximal expansion of the primate X chromosome centromere

    PNAS 2005 102:10563-10568; published ahead of print July 19, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503346102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Kamal Datta,
    • Ronald D. Neumann,
    • and Thomas A. Winters

    Characterization of complex apurinic/apyrimidinic-site clustering associated with an authentic site-specific radiation-induced DNA double-strand break

    PNAS 2005 102:10569-10574; published ahead of print July 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503975102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Toru Nakayashiki,
    • Cletus P. Kurtzman,
    • Herman K. Edskes,
    • and Reed B. Wickner

    Yeast prions [URE3] and [PSI + ] are diseases

    PNAS 2005 102:10575-10580; published ahead of print July 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504882102

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Andréa Toma,
    • Samy Haddouk,
    • Jean-Paul Briand,
    • Luc Camoin,
    • Hanne Gahery,
    • Francine Connan,
    • Danielle Dubois-Laforgue,
    • Sophie Caillat-Zucman,
    • Jean-Gérard Guillet,
    • Jean-Claude Carel,
    • Sylviane Muller,
    • Jeannine Choppin,
    • and Christian Boitard

    Recognition of a subregion of human proinsulin by class I-restricted T cells in type 1 diabetic patients

    PNAS 2005 102:10581-10586; published ahead of print July 19, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504230102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Susanna M. Müller,
    • Grzegorz Terszowski,
    • Carmen Blum,
    • Corinne Haller,
    • Viviane Anquez,
    • Stephen Kuschert,
    • Peter Carmeliet,
    • Hellmut G. Augustin,
    • and Hans-Reimer Rodewald

    Gene targeting of VEGF-A in thymus epithelium disrupts thymus blood vessel architecture

    PNAS 2005 102:10587-10592; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502752102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Thomas R. Hawn,
    • Hui Wu,
    • Jennifer M. Grossman,
    • Bevra H. Hahn,
    • Betty P. Tsao,
    • and Alan Aderem

    A stop codon polymorphism of Toll-like receptor 5 is associated with resistance to systemic lupus erythematosus

    PNAS 2005 102:10593-10597; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501165102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Ofer Fainaru,
    • David Shseyov,
    • Shay Hantisteanu,
    • and Yoram Groner

    Accelerated chemokine receptor 7-mediated dendritic cell migration in Runx3 knockout mice and the spontaneous development of asthma-like disease

    PNAS 2005 102:10598-10603; published ahead of print July 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504787102

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Mario F. Fraga,
    • Esteban Ballestar,
    • Maria F. Paz,
    • Santiago Ropero,
    • Fernando Setien,
    • Maria L. Ballestar,
    • Damia Heine-Suñer,
    • Juan C. Cigudosa,
    • Miguel Urioste,
    • Javier Benitez,
    • Manuel Boix-Chornet,
    • Abel Sanchez-Aguilera,
    • Charlotte Ling,
    • Emma Carlsson,
    • Pernille Poulsen,
    • Allan Vaag,
    • Zarko Stephan,
    • Tim D. Spector,
    • Yue-Zhong Wu,
    • Christoph Plass,
    • and Manel Esteller

    From the Cover: Epigenetic differences arise during the lifetime of monozygotic twins

    PNAS 2005 102:10604-10609; published ahead of print July 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500398102
    • See commentary article on page 10413 in issue 30 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Kazuyuki Hida,
    • Jun Wada,
    • Jun Eguchi,
    • Hong Zhang,
    • Masako Baba,
    • Aya Seida,
    • Izumi Hashimoto,
    • Tatsuo Okada,
    • Akihiro Yasuhara,
    • Atsuko Nakatsuka,
    • Kenichi Shikata,
    • Shinji Hourai,
    • Junichiro Futami,
    • Eijiro Watanabe,
    • Yasushi Matsuki,
    • Ryuji Hiramatsu,
    • Shigeru Akagi,
    • Hirofumi Makino,
    • and Yashpal S. Kanwar

    Visceral adipose tissue-derived serine protease inhibitor: A unique insulin-sensitizing adipocytokine in obesity

    PNAS 2005 102:10610-10615; published ahead of print July 19, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504703102