In This Issue

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Howard Ochman

    Genomes on the shrink

    PNAS 2005 102:11959-11960; published online before print August 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505863102
    • See companion article on page 12112 in issue 34 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Holger Puchta
    • and Barbara Hohn

    Green light for gene targeting in plants

    PNAS 2005 102:11961-11962; published online before print August 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505202102
    • See companion article on page 12265 in issue 34 of volume 102

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Douglas B. Weibel,
    • Piotr Garstecki,
    • Declan Ryan,
    • Willow R. DiLuzio,
    • Michael Mayer,
    • Jennifer E. Seto,
    • and George M. Whitesides

    Microoxen: Microorganisms to move microscale loads

    PNAS 2005 102:11963-11967; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505481102
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Michael N Dawson,
    • Alex Sen Gupta,
    • and Matthew H. England

    Coupled biophysical global ocean model and molecular genetic analyses identify multiple introductions of cryptogenic species

    PNAS 2005 102:11968-11973; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503811102

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Michael J. Vogel,
    • Peter Ehrhard,
    • and Paul H. Steen

    The electroosmotic droplet switch: Countering capillarity with electrokinetics

    PNAS 2005 102:11974-11979; published online before print August 9, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505324102

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Caroline A. E. Strömberg

    Decoupled taxonomic radiation and ecological expansion of open-habitat grasses in the Cenozoic of North America

    PNAS 2005 102:11980-11984; published online before print August 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505700102

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Anatoly A. Svidzinsky,
    • Marlan O. Scully,
    • and Dudley R. Herschbach

    Bohr's 1913 molecular model revisited

    PNAS 2005 102:11985-11988; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505778102
  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Mariangela Lisanti,
    • Davide Iannuzzi,
    • and Federico Capasso

    Observation of the skin-depth effect on the Casimir force between metallic surfaces

    PNAS 2005 102:11989-11992; published online before print August 9, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505614102

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Michael N Dawson,
    • Alex Sen Gupta,
    • and Matthew H. England

    Coupled biophysical global ocean model and molecular genetic analyses identify multiple introductions of cryptogenic species

    PNAS 2005 102:11968-11973; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503811102
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Srinivas Rao,
    • Stella Hu,
    • Louise McHugh,
    • Kira Lueders,
    • Ken Henry,
    • Qi Zhao,
    • Richard A. Fekete,
    • Sudeshna Kar,
    • Sankar Adhya,
    • and Dean H. Hamer

    From the Cover: Toward a live microbial microbicide for HIV: Commensal bacteria secreting an HIV fusion inhibitor peptide

    PNAS 2005 102:11993-11998; published online before print July 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504881102
    • See commentary article on page 12294 in issue 35 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Chunping Qiao,
    • Jianbin Li,
    • Tong Zhu,
    • Romesh Draviam,
    • Simon Watkins,
    • Xiaojing Ye,
    • Chunlian Chen,
    • Juan Li,
    • and Xiao Xiao

    Amelioration of laminin-α2-deficient congenital muscular dystrophy by somatic gene transfer of miniagrin

    PNAS 2005 102:11999-12004; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502137102

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Anna C. Schinzel,
    • Osamu Takeuchi,
    • Zhihong Huang,
    • Jill K. Fisher,
    • Zhipeng Zhou,
    • Jeffery Rubens,
    • Claudio Hetz,
    • Nika N. Danial,
    • Michael A. Moskowitz,
    • and Stanley J. Korsmeyer

    Cyclophilin D is a component of mitochondrial permeability transition and mediates neuronal cell death after focal cerebral ischemia

    PNAS 2005 102:12005-12010; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505294102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lutfi Abu-Elheiga,
    • Martin M. Matzuk,
    • Parichher Kordari,
    • WonKeun Oh,
    • Tattym Shaikenov,
    • Ziwei Gu,
    • and Salih J. Wakil

    Mutant mice lacking acetyl-CoA carboxylase 1 are embryonically lethal

    PNAS 2005 102:12011-12016; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505714102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • David Baram,
    • Erez Pyetan,
    • Assa Sittner,
    • Tamar Auerbach-Nevo,
    • Anat Bashan,
    • and Ada Yonath

    Structure of trigger factor binding domain in biologically homologous complex with eubacterial ribosome reveals its chaperone action

    PNAS 2005 102:12017-12022; published online before print August 9, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505581102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kenji Nakahara,
    • Kevin Kim,
    • Christin Sciulli,
    • Susan R. Dowd,
    • Jonathan S. Minden,
    • and Richard W. Carthew

    Targets of microRNA regulation in the Drosophila oocyte proteome

    PNAS 2005 102:12023-12028; published online before print August 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500053102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kemberly G. Patteson,
    • Neel Trivedi,
    • and Thressa C. Stadtman

    Methanococcus vannielii selenium-binding protein (SeBP): Chemical reactivity of recombinant SeBP produced in Escherichia coli

    PNAS 2005 102:12029-12034; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505650102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Raj Chakrabarti,
    • Alexander M. Klibanov,
    • and Richard A. Friesner

    Sequence optimization and designability of enzyme active sites

    PNAS 2005 102:12035-12040; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505397102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Svetlana V. Antonyuk,
    • Richard W. Strange,
    • Gary Sawers,
    • Robert R. Eady,
    • and S. Samar Hasnain

    Atomic resolution structures of resting-state, substrate- and product-complexed Cu-nitrite reductase provide insight into catalytic mechanism

    PNAS 2005 102:12041-12046; published online before print August 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504207102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Junko Yano,
    • Jan Kern,
    • Klaus-Dieter Irrgang,
    • Matthew J. Latimer,
    • Uwe Bergmann,
    • Pieter Glatzel,
    • Yulia Pushkar,
    • Jacek Biesiadka,
    • Bernhard Loll,
    • Kenneth Sauer,
    • Johannes Messinger,
    • Athina Zouni,
    • and Vittal K. Yachandra

    From the Cover: X-ray damage to the Mn4Ca complex in single crystals of photosystem II: A case study for metalloprotein crystallography

    PNAS 2005 102:12047-12052; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505207102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mai Marie Holm,
    • Marie-Louise Lunn,
    • Stephen F. Traynelis,
    • Jette S. Kastrup,
    • and Jan Egebjerg

    Structural determinants of agonist-specific kinetics at the ionotropic glutamate receptor 2

    PNAS 2005 102:12053-12058; published online before print August 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505522102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Manoranjan P. Singh,
    • Roop Mallik,
    • Steven P. Gross,
    • and Clare C. Yu

    Monte Carlo modeling of single-molecule cytoplasmic dynein

    PNAS 2005 102:12059-12064; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501570102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Alessia Pascale,
    • Marialaura Amadio,
    • Giovanni Scapagnini,
    • Cristina Lanni,
    • Marco Racchi,
    • Alessandro Provenzani,
    • Stefano Govoni,
    • Daniel L. Alkon,
    • and Alessandro Quattrone

    Neuronal ELAV proteins enhance mRNA stability by a PKCα-dependent pathway

    PNAS 2005 102:12065-12070; published online before print August 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504702102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Shigeki Shimba,
    • Norimasa Ishii,
    • Yuki Ohta,
    • Toshiharu Ohno,
    • Yuichi Watabe,
    • Mitsuaki Hayashi,
    • Taira Wada,
    • Toshinori Aoyagi,
    • and Masakatsu Tezuka

    Brain and muscle Arnt-like protein-1 (BMAL1), a component of the molecular clock, regulates adipogenesis

    PNAS 2005 102:12071-12076; published online before print August 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502383102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Ayala Hezi-Yamit,
    • Paul W. Wong,
    • Nga Bien-Ly,
    • Laszlo G. Komuves,
    • K. S. Srinivasa Prasad,
    • David R. Phillips,
    • and Uma Sinha

    Synergistic induction of tissue factor by coagulation factor Xa and TNF: Evidence for involvement of negative regulatory signaling cascades

    PNAS 2005 102:12077-12082; published online before print August 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504526102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Jie Zheng,
    • Scott W. Edelman,
    • Grace Tharmarajah,
    • David W. Walker,
    • Scott D. Pletcher,
    • and Laurent Seroude

    Differential patterns of apoptosis in response to aging in Drosophila

    PNAS 2005 102:12083-12088; published online before print August 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503374102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Shoko Ueki
    • and Vitaly Citovsky

    Identification of an interactor of cadmium ion-induced glycine-rich protein involved in regulation of callose levels in plant vasculature

    PNAS 2005 102:12089-12094; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505927102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Shailaja Kasibhatla,
    • Katayoun A. Jessen,
    • Sergei Maliartchouk,
    • Jean Yu Wang,
    • Nicole M. English,
    • John Drewe,
    • Ling Qiu,
    • Shannon P. Archer,
    • Anthony E. Ponce,
    • Nilantha Sirisoma,
    • Songchun Jiang,
    • Han-Zhong Zhang,
    • Kurt R. Gehlsen,
    • Sui Xiong Cai,
    • Douglas R. Green,
    • and Ben Tseng

    A role for transferrin receptor in triggering apoptosis when targeted with gambogic acid

    PNAS 2005 102:12095-12100; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406731102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Sandra Pilat,
    • Sebastian Carotta,
    • Bernhard Schiedlmeier,
    • Kenji Kamino,
    • Andreas Mairhofer,
    • Elke Will,
    • Ute Modlich,
    • Peter Steinlein,
    • Wolfram Ostertag,
    • Christopher Baum,
    • Hartmut Beug,
    • and Hannes Klump

    HOXB4 enforces equivalent fates of ES-cell-derived and adult hematopoietic cells

    PNAS 2005 102:12101-12106; published online before print August 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505624102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Leslie A. Real,
    • J. Caroline Henderson,
    • Roman Biek,
    • Jennifer Snaman,
    • Tracy Lambert Jack,
    • James E. Childs,
    • Eli Stahl,
    • Lance Waller,
    • Rowland Tinline,
    • and Susan Nadin-Davis

    Unifying the spatial population dynamics and molecular evolution of epidemic rabies virus

    PNAS 2005 102:12107-12111; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500057102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • A. I. Nilsson,
    • S. Koskiniemi,
    • S. Eriksson,
    • E. Kugelberg,
    • J. C. D. Hinton,
    • and D. I. Andersson

    From the Cover: Bacterial genome size reduction by experimental evolution

    PNAS 2005 102:12112-12116; published online before print August 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503654102
    • See commentary article on page 11959 in issue 34 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Giovanni Perini,
    • Daniel Diolaiti,
    • Antonio Porro,
    • and Giuliano Della Valle

    In vivo transcriptional regulation of N-Myc target genes is controlled by E-box methylation

    PNAS 2005 102:12117-12122; published online before print August 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409097102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • John P. Miller,
    • Russell S. Lo,
    • Asa Ben-Hur,
    • Cynthia Desmarais,
    • Igor Stagljar,
    • William Stafford Noble,
    • and Stanley Fields

    Large-scale identification of yeast integral membrane protein interactions

    PNAS 2005 102:12123-12128; published online before print August 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505482102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Mary Tsikitis,
    • Zhikai Zhang,
    • Winfried Edelman,
    • David Zagzag,
    • and Ganjam V. Kalpana

    Genetic ablation of Cyclin D1 abrogates genesis of rhabdoid tumors resulting from Ini1 loss

    PNAS 2005 102:12129-12134; published online before print August 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505300102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Elizabeth P. Murchison,
    • Janet F. Partridge,
    • Oliver H. Tam,
    • Sihem Cheloufi,
    • and Gregory J. Hannon

    Characterization of Dicer-deficient murine embryonic stem cells

    PNAS 2005 102:12135-12140; published online before print August 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505479102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Silvia Herranz,
    • José M. Rodríguez,
    • Henk-Jan Bussink,
    • Juan C. Sánchez-Ferrero,
    • Herbert N. Arst, Jr.,
    • Miguel A. Peñalva,
    • and Olivier Vincent

    Arrestin-related proteins mediate pH signaling in fungi

    PNAS 2005 102:12141-12146; published online before print August 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504776102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • M. Anaul Kabir,
    • Ausaf Ahmad,
    • Jay R. Greenberg,
    • Ying-Kai Wang,
    • and Elena Rustchenko

    Loss and gain of chromosome 5 controls growth of Candida albicans on sorbose due to dispersed redundant negative regulators

    PNAS 2005 102:12147-12152; published online before print August 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505625102

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Eli C. Lewis,
    • Leland Shapiro,
    • Owen J. Bowers,
    • and Charles A. Dinarello

    α1-Antitrypsin monotherapy prolongs islet allograft survival in mice

    PNAS 2005 102:12153-12158; published online before print August 10, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505579102
    • See commentary article on page 12651 in issue 36 of volume 102

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Zhiqiang Chen,
    • Matthew W. Foster,
    • Jian Zhang,
    • Lan Mao,
    • Howard A. Rockman,
    • Toshihiro Kawamoto,
    • Kyoko Kitagawa,
    • Keiichi I. Nakayama,
    • Douglas T. Hess,
    • and Jonathan S. Stamler

    An essential role for mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase in nitroglycerin bioactivation

    PNAS 2005 102:12159-12164; published online before print August 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503723102