Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Christopher W. Dick
    • and S. Joseph Wright

    Tropical mountain cradles of dry forest diversity

    PNAS 2005 102:10757-10758; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505013102
    • See companion article on page 10919 in issue 31 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Ormond A. MacDougald
    • and Charles F. Burant

    Obesity and metabolic perturbations after loss of aquaporin 7, the adipose glycerol transporter

    PNAS 2005 102:10759-10760; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504965102
    • See companion article on page 10993 in issue 31 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Bevil R. Conway
    • and Margaret S. Livingstone

    A different point of hue

    PNAS 2005 102:10761-10762; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504742102
    • See companion article on page 9720 in issue 27 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Willem M. de Vos

    Lipotechoic acid in lactobacilli: d -Alanine makes the difference

    PNAS 2005 102:10763-10764; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504966102
    • See companion article on page 10321 in issue 29 of volume 102

In This Issue

Introduction

  • Introduction:
    • Nicholas J. Turro

    Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature: Supramolecular structure and dynamics

    PNAS 2005 102:10765; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505645102

Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature

Perspectives

  • Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Nicholas J. Turro

    Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature: Molecular structure as a blueprint for supramolecular structure chemistry in confined spaces

    PNAS 2005 102:10766-10770; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501376102
  • Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Miguel A. Garcia-Garibay

    Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature: Crystalline molecular machines: Encoding supramolecular dynamics into molecular structure

    PNAS 2005 102:10771-10776; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502816102

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
    • Lorens A. Imhof,
    • Drew Fudenberg,
    • and Martin A. Nowak

    From the Cover: Evolutionary cycles of cooperation and defection

    PNAS 2005 102:10797-10800; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502589102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature:
    • Byron W. Purse
    • and Julius Rebek, Jr.

    Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature: Functional cavitands: Chemical reactivity in structured environments

    PNAS 2005 102:10777-10782; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501731102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature:
    • Robert S. H. Liu,
    • George S. Hammond,
    • and Taraneh Mirzadegan

    Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature: Possible role of the 11- cis -retinyl conformation in controlling the dual decay processes of excited rhodopsin

    PNAS 2005 102:10783-10787; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501665102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature:
    • Anatoly L. Buchachenko,
    • Dmitri A. Kouznetsov,
    • Marina A. Orlova,
    • and Artyom A. Markarian

    Supramolecular Structure and Dynamics Special Feature: Magnetic isotope effect of magnesium in phosphoglycerate kinase phosphorylation

    PNAS 2005 102:10793-10796; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504876102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Wusong Jin,
    • Takanori Fukushima,
    • Makiko Niki,
    • Atsuko Kosaka,
    • Noriyuki Ishii,
    • and Takuzo Aida

    Self-assembled graphitic nanotubes with one-handed helical arrays of a chiral amphiphilic molecular graphene

    PNAS 2005 102:10801-10806; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500852102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Hans-Philipp Lerch,
    • Rudolf Rigler,
    • and Alexander S. Mikhailov

    Functional conformational motions in the turnover cycle of cholesterol oxidase

    PNAS 2005 102:10807-10812; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504995102

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Greg C. Randall
    • and Patrick S. Doyle

    Permeation-driven flow in poly(dimethylsiloxane) microfluidic devices

    PNAS 2005 102:10813-10818; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503287102

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Paolo D'Odorico,
    • Francesco Laio,
    • and Luca Ridolfi

    Noise-induced stability in dryland plant ecosystems

    PNAS 2005 102:10819-10822; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502884102

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • A. Angert,
    • S. Biraud,
    • C. Bonfils,
    • C. C. Henning,
    • W. Buermann,
    • J. Pinzon,
    • C. J. Tucker,
    • and I. Fung

    Drier summers cancel out the CO 2 uptake enhancement induced by warmer springs

    PNAS 2005 102:10823-10827; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501647102
  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Artem R. Oganov
    • and Shigeaki Ono

    The high-pressure phase of alumina and implications for Earth's D″ layer

    PNAS 2005 102:10828-10831; published ahead of print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501800102
  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Pierre Friedlingstein
    • and Susan Solomon

    Contributions of past and present human generations to committed warming caused by carbon dioxide

    PNAS 2005 102:10832-10836; published ahead of print July 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504755102

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Mauro Merolle,
    • Juan P. Garrahan,
    • and David Chandler

    Space–time thermodynamics of the glass transition

    PNAS 2005 102:10837-10840; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504820102

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
    • Lorens A. Imhof,
    • Drew Fudenberg,
    • and Martin A. Nowak

    From the Cover: Evolutionary cycles of cooperation and defection

    PNAS 2005 102:10797-10800; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502589102

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Jonathan E. Kohn
    • and Kevin W. Plaxco

    Engineering a signal transduction mechanism for protein-based biosensors

    PNAS 2005 102:10841-10845; published ahead of print July 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503055102
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • He Zhou,
    • Yunping Luo,
    • Jeng-fan Lo,
    • Charles D. Kaplan,
    • Masato Mizutani,
    • Noriko Mizutani,
    • Jiing-Dwan Lee,
    • F. James Primus,
    • Jürgen C. Becker,
    • Rong Xiang,
    • and Ralph A. Reisfeld

    DNA-based vaccines activate innate and adaptive antitumor immunity by engaging the NKG2D receptor

    PNAS 2005 102:10846-10851; published ahead of print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502208102

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Dobrin Nedelkov,
    • Urban A. Kiernan,
    • Eric E. Niederkofler,
    • Kemmons A. Tubbs,
    • and Randall W. Nelson

    Investigating diversity in human plasma proteins

    PNAS 2005 102:10852-10857; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500426102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Mohammed Akbar,
    • Frances Calderon,
    • Zhiming Wen,
    • and Hee-Yong Kim

    Docosahexaenoic acid: A positive modulator of Akt signaling in neuronal survival

    PNAS 2005 102:10858-10863; published ahead of print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502903102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Arthur J. Zaug,
    • Elaine R. Podell,
    • and Thomas R. Cech

    Human POT1 disrupts telomeric G-quadruplexes allowing telomerase extension in vitro

    PNAS 2005 102:10864-10869; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504744102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kirill Oxenoid
    • and James J. Chou

    The structure of phospholamban pentamer reveals a channel-like architecture in membranes

    PNAS 2005 102:10870-10875; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504920102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sebastian Hiller,
    • Francesco Fiorito,
    • Kurt Wüthrich,
    • and Gerhard Wider

    Automated projection spectroscopy (APSY)

    PNAS 2005 102:10876-10881; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504818102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Audrius Jasaitis,
    • Fabrice Rappaport,
    • Eric Pilet,
    • Ursula Liebl,
    • and Marten H. Vos

    Activationless electron transfer through the hydrophobic core of cytochrome c oxidase

    PNAS 2005 102:10882-10886; published ahead of print July 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503001102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Hideyuki Mukai,
    • Takayuki Isagawa,
    • Emiko Goyama,
    • Shuhei Tanaka,
    • Neil F. Bence,
    • Atsuo Tamura,
    • Yoshitaka Ono,
    • and Ron R. Kopito

    Formation of morphologically similar globular aggregates from diverse aggregation-prone proteins in mammalian cells

    PNAS 2005 102:10887-10892; published ahead of print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409283102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Jennifer L. Bachorik
    • and Judith Kimble

    Redundant control of the Caenorhabditis elegans sperm/oocyte switch by PUF-8 and FBF-1, two distinct PUF RNA-binding proteins

    PNAS 2005 102:10893-10897; published ahead of print July 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504593102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Brian D. Harfe,
    • Michael T. McManus,
    • Jennifer H. Mansfield,
    • Eran Hornstein,
    • and Clifford J. Tabin

    The RNaseIII enzyme Dicer is required for morphogenesis but not patterning of the vertebrate limb

    PNAS 2005 102:10898-10903; published ahead of print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504834102

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Timme H. Donders,
    • Friederike Wagner,
    • David L. Dilcher,
    • and Henk Visscher

    Mid- to late-Holocene El Niño-Southern Oscillation dynamics reflected in the subtropical terrestrial realm

    PNAS 2005 102:10904-10908; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505015102
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Stephen Porder,
    • Gregory P. Asner,
    • and Peter M. Vitousek

    Ground-based and remotely sensed nutrient availability across a tropical landscape

    PNAS 2005 102:10909-10912; published ahead of print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504929102

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Barbara A. Methé,
    • Karen E. Nelson,
    • Jody W. Deming,
    • Bahram Momen,
    • Eugene Melamud,
    • Xijun Zhang,
    • John Moult,
    • Ramana Madupu,
    • William C. Nelson,
    • Robert J. Dodson,
    • Lauren M. Brinkac,
    • Sean C. Daugherty,
    • Anthony S. Durkin,
    • Robert T. DeBoy,
    • James F. Kolonay,
    • Steven A. Sullivan,
    • Liwei Zhou,
    • Tanja M. Davidsen,
    • Martin Wu,
    • Adrienne L. Huston,
    • Matthew Lewis,
    • Bruce Weaver,
    • Janice F. Weidman,
    • Hoda Khouri,
    • Terry R. Utterback,
    • Tamara V. Feldblyum,
    • and Claire M. Fraser

    The psychrophilic lifestyle as revealed by the genome sequence of Colwellia psychrerythraea 34H through genomic and proteomic analyses

    PNAS 2005 102:10913-10918; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504766102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Judith X. Becerra

    From the Cover: Timing the origin and expansion of the Mexican tropical dry forest

    PNAS 2005 102:10919-10923; published ahead of print July 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409127102
    • See commentary article on page 10757 in issue 31 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Pavel Dolezal,
    • Ondrej Smíd,
    • Petr Rada,
    • Zuzana Zubácová,
    • Dejan Bursać,
    • Robert Suták,
    • Jana Nebesárová,
    • Trevor Lithgow,
    • and Jan Tachezy

    Giardia mitosomes and trichomonad hydrogenosomes share a common mode of protein targeting

    PNAS 2005 102:10924-10929; published ahead of print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500349102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Julian Mintseris
    • and Zhiping Weng

    Structure, function, and evolution of transient and obligate protein–protein interactions

    PNAS 2005 102:10930-10935; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502667102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Bryony A. P. Williams,
    • Claudio H. Slamovits,
    • Nicola J. Patron,
    • Naomi M. Fast,
    • and Patrick J. Keeling

    A high frequency of overlapping gene expression in compacted eukaryotic genomes

    PNAS 2005 102:10936-10941; published ahead of print July 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501321102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Muir D. Eaton

    Human vision fails to distinguish widespread sexual dichromatism among sexually “monochromatic” birds

    PNAS 2005 102:10942-10946; published ahead of print July 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501891102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Alessandra Drusco,
    • Nicola Zanesi,
    • Claudia Roldo,
    • Francesco Trapasso,
    • John L. Farber,
    • Louise Y. Fong,
    • and Carlo M. Croce

    Knockout mice reveal a tumor suppressor function for Testin

    PNAS 2005 102:10947-10951; published ahead of print July 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504934102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Chad Ellermeier
    • and Gerald R. Smith

    Cohesins are required for meiotic DNA breakage and recombination in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    PNAS 2005 102:10952-10957; published ahead of print July 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504805102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Jiro C. Yasuhara,
    • Christine H. DeCrease,
    • and Barbara T. Wakimoto

    Evolution of heterochromatic genes of Drosophila

    PNAS 2005 102:10958-10963; published ahead of print July 20, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503424102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics: