Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • George F. Sprague, Jr.

    Three-pronged genomic analysis reveals yeast cell-type regulation circuitry

    PNAS 2005 102:959-960; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409007102
    • See companion article on page 18069 in issue 52 of volume 101

In This Issue

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Boggavarapu Kiran,
    • Satya Bulusu,
    • Hua-Jin Zhai,
    • Soohaeng Yoo,
    • Xiao Cheng Zeng,
    • and Lai-Sheng Wang

    From the Cover: Planar-to-tubular structural transition in boron clusters: B 20 as the embryo of single-walled boron nanotubes

    PNAS 2005 102:961-964; published ahead of print January 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408132102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Bruce E. Cohen,
    • Arnd Pralle,
    • XiaoJie Yao,
    • Gayathri Swaminath,
    • Chris S. Gandhi,
    • Yuh Nung Jan,
    • Brian K. Kobilka,
    • Ehud Y. Isacoff,
    • and Lily Y. Jan

    A fluorescent probe designed for studying protein conformational change

    PNAS 2005 102:965-970; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409469102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Jian-Ru Gong,
    • Li-Jun Wan,
    • Qun-Hui Yuan,
    • Chun-Li Bai,
    • Hershel Jude,
    • and Peter J. Stang

    Mesoscopic self-organization of a self-assembled supramolecular rectangle on highly oriented pyrolytic graphite and Au(111) surfaces

    PNAS 2005 102:971-974; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409145102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Xingyu Jiang,
    • Derek A. Bruzewicz,
    • Amy P. Wong,
    • Matthieu Piel,
    • and George M. Whitesides

    Directing cell migration with asymmetric micropatterns

    PNAS 2005 102:975-978; published ahead of print January 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408954102

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Karim Benzerara,
    • Tae Hyun Yoon,
    • Nicolas Menguy,
    • Tolek Tyliszczak,
    • and Gordon E. Brown, Jr.

    Nanoscale environments associated with bioweathering of a Mg-Fe-pyroxene

    PNAS 2005 102:979-982; published ahead of print January 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409029102

Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Michele Boldrin
    • and David K. Levine

    The economics of ideas and intellectual property

    PNAS 2005 102:1252-1256; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407730102

Psychology

  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience - Social Sciences - Psychology:
    • Björn H. Schott,
    • Richard N. Henson,
    • Alan Richardson-Klavehn,
    • Christine Becker,
    • Volker Thoma,
    • Hans-Jochen Heinze,
    • and Emrah Düzel

    Redefining implicit and explicit memory: The functional neuroanatomy of priming, remembering, and control of retrieval

    PNAS 2005 102:1257-1262; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409070102

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Moo-Yeal Lee,
    • Chan Beum Park,
    • Jonathan S. Dordick,
    • and Douglas S. Clark

    From the Cover: Metabolizing enzyme toxicology assay chip (MetaChip) for high-throughput microscale toxicity analyses

    PNAS 2005 102:983-987; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406755102

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Manal A. Swairjo
    • and Paul R. Schimmel

    Breaking sieve for steric exclusion of a noncognate amino acid from active site of a tRNA synthetase

    PNAS 2005 102:988-993; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409024102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • R. August Estabrook,
    • Jia Luo,
    • Matthew M. Purdy,
    • Vyas Sharma,
    • Paul Weakliem,
    • Thomas C. Bruice,
    • and Norbert O. Reich

    Statistical coevolution analysis and molecular dynamics: Identification of amino acid pairs essential for catalysis

    PNAS 2005 102:994-999; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409128102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Pierre-Olivier Estève,
    • Hang Gyeong Chin,
    • and Sriharsa Pradhan

    Human maintenance DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase and p53 modulate expression of p53-repressed promoters

    PNAS 2005 102:1000-1005; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407729102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kristin Coffman Haddad,
    • James L. Sudmeier,
    • Daniel A. Bachovchin,
    • and William W. Bachovchin

    α-Lytic protease can exist in two separately stable conformations with different His 57 mobilities and catalytic activities

    PNAS 2005 102:1006-1011; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409279102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yuki Ogasawara,
    • Gerard M. Lacourciere,
    • Kazuyuki Ishii,
    • and Thressa C. Stadtman

    Characterization of potential selenium-binding proteins in the selenophosphate synthetase system

    PNAS 2005 102:1012-1016; published ahead of print January 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409042102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Xuedong Kang,
    • Kestrel Rogers,
    • Guanghan Gao,
    • Arnold M. Falick,
    • Sharleen Zhou,
    • and Larry Simpson

    Reconstitution of uridine-deletion precleaved RNA editing with two recombinant enzymes

    PNAS 2005 102:1017-1022; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409275102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry - Microbiology:
    • Yvonne Berghöfer-Hochheimer,
    • Chi Zen Lu,
    • and Carol A. Gross

    Altering the interaction between σ 70 and RNA polymerase generates complexes with distinct transcription-elongation properties

    PNAS 2005 102:1157-1162; published ahead of print January 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408973102

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Bruce E. Cohen,
    • Arnd Pralle,
    • XiaoJie Yao,
    • Gayathri Swaminath,
    • Chris S. Gandhi,
    • Yuh Nung Jan,
    • Brian K. Kobilka,
    • Ehud Y. Isacoff,
    • and Lily Y. Jan

    A fluorescent probe designed for studying protein conformational change

    PNAS 2005 102:965-970; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409469102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Tanvir R. Shaikh,
    • Dennis R. Thomas,
    • James Z. Chen,
    • Fadel A. Samatey,
    • Hideyuki Matsunami,
    • Katsumi Imada,
    • Keiichi Namba,
    • and David J. DeRosier

    A partial atomic structure for the flagellar hook of Salmonella typhimurium

    PNAS 2005 102:1023-1028; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409020102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yang Zhang
    • and Jeffrey Skolnick

    The protein structure prediction problem could be solved using the current PDB library

    PNAS 2005 102:1029-1034; published ahead of print January 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407152101
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yu Bai,
    • Rhiju Das,
    • Ian S. Millett,
    • Daniel Herschlag,
    • and Sebastian Doniach

    Probing counterion modulated repulsion and attraction between nucleic acid duplexes in solution

    PNAS 2005 102:1035-1040; published ahead of print January 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404448102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alison M. Skelley,
    • James R. Scherer,
    • Andrew D. Aubrey,
    • William H. Grover,
    • Robin H. C. Ivester,
    • Pascale Ehrenfreund,
    • Frank J. Grunthaner,
    • Jeffrey L. Bada,
    • and Richard A. Mathies

    Development and evaluation of a microdevice for amino acid biomarker detection and analysis on Mars

    PNAS 2005 102:1041-1046; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406798102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Willy Supatto,
    • Delphine Débarre,
    • Bruno Moulia,
    • Eric Brouzés,
    • Jean-Louis Martin,
    • Emmanuel Farge,
    • and Emmanuel Beaurepaire

    In vivo modulation of morphogenetic movements in Drosophila embryos with femtosecond laser pulses

    PNAS 2005 102:1047-1052; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405316102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mallela M. G. Krishna
    • and S. Walter Englander

    The N-terminal to C-terminal motif in protein folding and function

    PNAS 2005 102:1053-1058; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409114102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Zhao-Zhong Su,
    • Devanand Sarkar,
    • Luni Emdad,
    • Gregory J. Duigou,
    • Charles S. H. Young,
    • Joy Ware,
    • Aaron Randolph,
    • Kristoffer Valerie,
    • and Paul B. Fisher

    Targeting gene expression selectively in cancer cells by using the progression-elevated gene-3 promoter

    PNAS 2005 102:1059-1064; published ahead of print January 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409141102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Xingxu Huang,
    • Thanh Tran,
    • Lingna Zhang,
    • Rashieda Hatcher,
    • and Pumin Zhang

    DNA damage-induced mitotic catastrophe is mediated by the Chk1-dependent mitotic exit DNA damage checkpoint

    PNAS 2005 102:1065-1070; published ahead of print January 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409130102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Steven A. Frank

    Age-specific incidence of inherited versus sporadic cancers: A test of the multistage theory of carcinogenesis

    PNAS 2005 102:1071-1075; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407299102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Yoshiko Sakurai,
    • Kaori Ohgimoto,
    • Yuki Kataoka,
    • Nobuaki Yoshida,
    • and Masabumi Shibuya

    Essential role of Flk-1 (VEGF receptor 2) tyrosine residue 1173 in vasculogenesis in mice

    PNAS 2005 102:1076-1081; published ahead of print January 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404984102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Shijie Li,
    • Michael P. Czubryt,
    • John McAnally,
    • Rhonda Bassel-Duby,
    • James A. Richardson,
    • Franziska F. Wiebel,
    • Alfred Nordheim,
    • and Eric N. Olson

    Requirement for serum response factor for skeletal muscle growth and maturation revealed by tissue-specific gene deletion in mice

    PNAS 2005 102:1082-1087; published ahead of print January 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409103102

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Edwin D. Grosholz

    Recent biological invasion may hasten invasional meltdown by accelerating historical introductions

    PNAS 2005 102:1088-1091; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0308547102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Zhenglong Gu,
    • Lior David,
    • Dmitri Petrov,
    • Ted Jones,
    • Ronald W. Davis,
    • and Lars M. Steinmetz

    Elevated evolutionary rates in the laboratory strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    PNAS 2005 102:1092-1097; published ahead of print January 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409159102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Yan Leng,
    • Jinyi Zhang,
    • Karen Badour,
    • Enrico Arpaia,
    • Spencer Freeman,
    • Pam Cheung,
    • Michael Siu,
    • and Katherine Siminovitch

    Abelson-interactor-1 promotes WAVE2 membrane translocation and Abelson-mediated tyrosine phosphorylation required for WAVE2 activation

    PNAS 2005 102:1098-1103; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409120102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Yue-Ying Wang,
    • Guang-Biao Zhou,
    • Tong Yin,
    • Bing Chen,
    • Jing-Yi Shi,
    • Wen-Xue Liang,
    • Xiao-Long Jin,
    • Jian-Hua You,
    • Guang Yang,
    • Zhi-Xiang Shen,
    • Jue Chen,
    • Shu-Min Xiong,
    • Guo-Qiang Chen,
    • Feng Xu,
    • Yi-Wei Liu,
    • Zhu Chen,
    • and Sai-Juan Chen

    AML1-ETO and C-KIT mutation/overexpression in t(8;21) leukemia: Implication in stepwise leukemogenesis and response to Gleevec

    PNAS 2005 102:1104-1109; published ahead of print January 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408831102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Koji Nakanishi,
    • Yun-Gui Yang,
    • Andrew J. Pierce,
    • Toshiyasu Taniguchi,
    • Martin Digweed,
    • Alan D. D'Andrea,
    • Zhao-Qi Wang,
    • and Maria Jasin

    Human Fanconi anemia monoubiquitination pathway promotes homologous DNA repair

    PNAS 2005 102:1110-1115; published ahead of print January 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407796102

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Lino C. Gonzalez,
    • Kelly M. Loyet,
    • Jill Calemine-Fenaux,
    • Vandana Chauhan,
    • Bernd Wranik,
    • Wenjun Ouyang,
    • and Dan L. Eaton

    A coreceptor interaction between the CD28 and TNF receptor family members B and T lymphocyte attenuator and herpesvirus entry mediator

    PNAS 2005 102:1116-1121; published ahead of print January 12, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409071102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Kwang-Min Choe,
    • Hyangkyu Lee,
    • and Kathryn V. Anderson

    Drosophila peptidoglycan recognition protein LC (PGRP-LC) acts as a signal-transducing innate immune receptor

    PNAS 2005 102:1122-1126; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404952102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • John Schmieg,
    • Guangli Yang,
    • Richard W. Franck,
    • Nico Van Rooijen,
    • and Moriya Tsuji

    Glycolipid presentation to natural killer T cells differs in an organ-dependent fashion

    PNAS 2005 102:1127-1132; published ahead of print January 11, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408288102

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Mariko Eguchi,
    • Minenori Eguchi-Ishimae,
    • Anthony Green,
    • Tariq Enver,
    • and Mel Greaves

    Directing oncogenic fusion genes into stem cells via an SCL enhancer

    PNAS 2005 102:1133-1138; published ahead of print January 13, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405318102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • William S. Mason,
    • Allison R. Jilbert,
    • and Jesse Summers

    Clonal expansion of hepatocytes during chronic woodchuck hepatitis virus infection

    PNAS 2005 102:1139-1144; published ahead of print January 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409332102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Chetan Bettegowda,
    • Catherine A. Foss,
    • Ian Cheong,
    • Yuchuan Wang,
    • Luis Diaz,
    • Nishant Agrawal,
    • James Fox,
    • James Dick,
    • Long H. Dang,
    • Shibin Zhou,
    • Kenneth W. Kinzler,
    • Bert Vogelstein,
    • and Martin G. Pomper

    From the Cover: Imaging bacterial infections with radiolabeled 1-(2′-deoxy-2′-fluoro-β-D-arabinofuranosyl)-5-iodouracil

    PNAS 2005 102:1145-1150; published ahead of print January 14, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408861102
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Guangzhou Han,
    • Grant Buchanan,
    • Michael Ittmann,
    • Jonathan M. Harris,
    • Xiaoqing Yu,
    • Francesco J. DeMayo,
    • Wayne Tilley,
    • and Norman M. Greenberg

    Mutation of the androgen receptor causes oncogenic transformation of the