Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Karla Holmboe
    • and Mark H. Johnson

    Educating executive attention

    PNAS 2005 102:14479-14480; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507522102
    • See companion article on page 14931 in issue 41 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Robert K. Slany

    Chromatin control of gene expression: Mixed-lineage leukemia methyltransferase SETs the stage for transcription

    PNAS 2005 102:14481-14482; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507401102
    • See companion article on page 14765 in issue 41 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Laurence L. Brunton

    A positive feedback loop contributes to the deleterious effects of angiotensin

    PNAS 2005 102:14483-14484; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507070102
    • See companion article on page 14771 in issue 41 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Jonathan H. LeBowitz

    A breach in the blood-brain barrier

    PNAS 2005 102:14485-14486; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507523102
    • See companion article on page 14777 in issue 41 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Robert B. Jackson
    • and Esteban G. Jobbágy

    From icy roads to salty streams

    PNAS 2005 102:14487-14488; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507389102
    • See companion article on page 13517 in issue 38 of volume 102

In This Issue

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Dmitri Bratsun,
    • Dmitri Volfson,
    • Lev S. Tsimring,
    • and Jeff Hasty

    Delay-induced stochastic oscillations in gene regulation

    PNAS 2005 102:14593-14598; published ahead of print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503858102

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • John C. Doyle,
    • David L. Alderson,
    • Lun Li,
    • Steven Low,
    • Matthew Roughan,
    • Stanislav Shalunov,
    • Reiko Tanaka,
    • and Walter Willinger

    The “robust yet fragile” nature of the Internet

    PNAS 2005 102:14497-14502; published ahead of print October 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501426102
  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Yong Zhu
    • and Horacio D. Espinosa

    An electromechanical material testing system for in situ electron microscopy and applications

    PNAS 2005 102:14503-14508; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506544102
  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Kjirste C. Morrell,
    • W. Andrew Hodge,
    • David E. Krebs,
    • and Robert W. Mann

    Corroboration of in vivo cartilage pressures with implications for synovial joint tribology and osteoarthritis causation

    PNAS 2005 102:14819-14824; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507117102

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Giovanna Basile,
    • Orazio Taglialatela-Scafati,
    • Gianluca Damonte,
    • Andrea Armirotti,
    • Santina Bruzzone,
    • Lucrezia Guida,
    • Luisa Franco,
    • Cesare Usai,
    • Ernesto Fattorusso,
    • Antonio De Flora,
    • and Elena Zocchi

    From the Cover: ADP-ribosyl cyclases generate two unusual adenine homodinucleotides with cytotoxic activity on mammalian cells

    PNAS 2005 102:14509-14514; published ahead of print September 19, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503691102
    • See commentary article on page 14941 in issue 42 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Moritoshi Sato,
    • Naoki Hida,
    • and Yoshio Umezawa

    Imaging the nanomolar range of nitric oxide with an amplifier-coupled fluorescent indicator in living cells

    PNAS 2005 102:14515-14520; published ahead of print September 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505136102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nobutaka Numoto,
    • Taro Nakagawa,
    • Akiko Kita,
    • Yuichi Sasayama,
    • Yoshihiro Fukumori,
    • and Kunio Miki

    Structure of an extracellular giant hemoglobin of the gutless beard worm Oligobrachia mashikoi

    PNAS 2005 102:14521-14526; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501541102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • John S. Allingham,
    • Angela Zampella,
    • Maria Valeria D'Auria,
    • and Ivan Rayment

    Structures of microfilament destabilizing toxins bound to actin provide insight into toxin design and activity

    PNAS 2005 102:14527-14532; published ahead of print September 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502089102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Krishnamurthy Malathi,
    • Jayashree M. Paranjape,
    • Elena Bulanova,
    • Minsub Shim,
    • Jeanna M. Guenther-Johnson,
    • Pieter W. Faber,
    • Thomas E. Eling,
    • Bryan R. G. Williams,
    • and Robert H. Silverman

    A transcriptional signaling pathway in the IFN system mediated by 2′-5′-oligoadenylate activation of RNase L

    PNAS 2005 102:14533-14538; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507551102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Marylynn Snyder,
    • Wei He,
    • and J. Jillian Zhang

    The DNA replication factor MCM5 is essential for Stat1-mediated transcriptional activation

    PNAS 2005 102:14539-14544; published ahead of print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507479102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nora S. Green,
    • Ted R. Foss,
    • and Jeffery W. Kelly

    Genistein, a natural product from soy, is a potent inhibitor of transthyretin amyloidosis

    PNAS 2005 102:14545-14550; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0501609102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Fang Xu,
    • Scott D. Rychnovsky,
    • Jitendra D. Belani,
    • Helen H. Hobbs,
    • Jonathan C. Cohen,
    • and Robert B. Rawson

    Dual roles for cholesterol in mammalian cells

    PNAS 2005 102:14551-14556; published ahead of print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503590102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Seung Hun Cha,
    • Zhiyuan Hu,
    • Shigeru Chohnan,
    • and M. Daniel Lane

    Inhibition of hypothalamic fatty acid synthase triggers rapid activation of fatty acid oxidation in skeletal muscle

    PNAS 2005 102:14557-14562; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507300102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Koji Obara,
    • Naoyuki Miyashita,
    • Cheng Xu,
    • Itaru Toyoshima,
    • Yuji Sugita,
    • Giuseppe Inesi,
    • and Chikashi Toyoshima

    Inaugural Article: Structural role of countertransport revealed in Ca 2+ pump crystal structure in the absence of Ca 2+

    PNAS 2005 102:14489-14496; published ahead of print September 6, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506222102
    • See commentary article on page 1165 in issue 5 of volume 103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Corey J. Wilson,
    • Payel Das,
    • Cecilia Clementi,
    • Kathleen S. Matthews,
    • and Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

    The experimental folding landscape of monomeric lactose repressor, a large two-domain protein, involves two kinetic intermediates

    PNAS 2005 102:14563-14568; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505808102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Payel Das,
    • Corey J. Wilson,
    • Giovanni Fossati,
    • Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede,
    • Kathleen S. Matthews,
    • and Cecilia Clementi

    Characterization of the folding landscape of monomeric lactose repressor: Quantitative comparison of theory and experiment

    PNAS 2005 102:14569-14574; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505844102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Tongqing Zhou,
    • Dean H. Hamer,
    • Wayne A. Hendrickson,
    • Quentin J. Sattentau,
    • and Peter D. Kwong

    Interfacial metal and antibody recognition

    PNAS 2005 102:14575-14580; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507267102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • I-Jin Lin,
    • Erika B. Gebel,
    • Timothy E. Machonkin,
    • William M. Westler,
    • and John L. Markley

    Changes in hydrogen-bond strengths explain reduction potentials in 10 rubredoxin variants

    PNAS 2005 102:14581-14586; published ahead of print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505521102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Natalija Backmann,
    • Christian Zahnd,
    • Francois Huber,
    • Alexander Bietsch,
    • Andreas Plückthun,
    • Hans-Peter Lang,
    • Hans-Joachim Güntherodt,
    • Martin Hegner,
    • and Christoph Gerber

    A label-free immunosensor array using single-chain antibody fragments

    PNAS 2005 102:14587-14592; published ahead of print September 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504917102
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Dmitri Bratsun,
    • Dmitri Volfson,
    • Lev S. Tsimring,
    • and Jeff Hasty

    Delay-induced stochastic oscillations in gene regulation

    PNAS 2005 102:14593-14598; published ahead of print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503858102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Shinji Makino,
    • Geoffrey G. Whitehead,
    • Ching-Ling Lien,
    • Soo Kim,
    • Payal Jhawar,
    • Akane Kono,
    • Yasushi Kawata,
    • and Mark T. Keating

    Heat-shock protein 60 is required for blastema formation and maintenance during regeneration

    PNAS 2005 102:14599-14604; published ahead of print October 4, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507408102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Jing Zhang
    • and Harvey F. Lodish

    Identification of K-ras as the major regulator for cytokine-dependent Akt activation in erythroid progenitors in vivo

    PNAS 2005 102:14605-14610; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507446102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Zuyao Ni,
    • Elizabeth Karaskov,
    • Tao Yu,
    • Steven M. Callaghan,
    • Sandy Der,
    • David S. Park,
    • Zhaodong Xu,
    • Samantha G. Pattenden,
    • and Rod Bremner

    Apical role for BRG1 in cytokine-induced promoter assembly

    PNAS 2005 102:14611-14616; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503070102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Jeremy Gunawardena

    Multisite protein phosphorylation makes a good threshold but can be a poor switch

    PNAS 2005 102:14617-14622; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507322102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Kuan Onn Tan,
    • Nai Yang Fu,
    • Sunil K. Sukumaran,
    • Shing-Leng Chan,
    • Jiunn Hian Kang,
    • Kar Lai Poon,
    • Bin Shun Chen,
    • and Victor C. Yu

    MAP-1 is a mitochondrial effector of Bax

    PNAS 2005 102:14623-14628; published ahead of print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503524102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Annalisa Frattini,
    • Harry C. Blair,
    • Maria Grazia Sacco,
    • Francesco Cerisoli,
    • Francesca Faggioli,
    • Enrica Mira Catò,
    • Alessandra Pangrazio,
    • Antonio Musio,
    • Francesca Rucci,
    • Cristina Sobacchi,
    • Allison C. Sharrow,
    • Sara E. Kalla,
    • Maria Grazia Bruzzone,
    • Roberto Colombo,
    • Maria Cristina Magli,
    • Paolo Vezzoni,
    • and Anna Villa

    Rescue of ATPa3-deficient murine malignant osteopetrosis by hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in utero

    PNAS 2005 102:14629-14634; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507637102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Emilie Jacque,
    • Thierry Tchenio,
    • Guillaume Piton,
    • Paul-Henri Romeo,
    • and Véronique Baud

    RelA repression of RelB activity induces selective gene activation downstream of TNF receptors

    PNAS 2005 102:14635-14640; published ahead of print September 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507342102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Hongning Zhou,
    • Vladimir N. Ivanov,
    • Joseph Gillespie,
    • Charles R. Geard,
    • Sally A. Amundson,
    • David J. Brenner,
    • Zengliang Yu,
    • Howard B. Lieberman,
    • and Tom K. Hei

    Mechanism of radiation-induced bystander effect: Role of the cyclooxygenase-2 signaling pathway

    PNAS 2005 102:14641-14646; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505473102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Pierre Cosson,
    • Mariella Ravazzola,
    • Oleg Varlamov,
    • Thomas H. Söllner,
    • Maurizio Di Liberto,
    • Allen Volchuk,
    • James E. Rothman,
    • and Lelio Orci

    Dynamic transport of SNARE proteins in the Golgi apparatus

    PNAS 2005 102:14647-14652; published ahead of print September 30, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507394102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Gerard M. J. Beaudoin, III,
    • Jeanne M. Sisk,
    • Pierre A. Coulombe,
    • and Catherine C. Thompson

    Hairless triggers reactivation of hair growth by promoting Wnt signaling

    PNAS 2005 102:14653-14658; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507609102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Satyajit K. Karnik,
    • Christina M. Hughes,
    • Xueying Gu,
    • Orit Rozenblatt-Rosen,
    • Graeme W. McLean,
    • Yue Xiong,
    • Matthew Meyerson,
    • and Seung K. Kim

    Menin regulates pancreatic islet growth by promoting histone methylation and expression of genes encoding p27 Kip1 and p18 INK4c

    PNAS 2005 102:14659-14664; published ahead of print September 29, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503484102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Haruhiko Akiyama‡,
    • Jung-Eun Kim‡,
    • Kazuhisa Nakashima,
    • Gener Balmes,
    • Naomi Iwai,
    • Jian Min Deng,
    • Zhaoping Zhang,
    • James F. Martin,
    • Richard R. Behringer,
    • Takashi Nakamura,
    • and Benoit de Crombrugghe

    Osteo-chondroprogenitor cells are derived from Sox9 expressing precursors

    PNAS 2005 102:14665-14670; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504750102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Aphrodite Bilioni,
    • Gavin Craig,
    • Caroline Hill,
    • and Helen McNeill

    Iroquois transcription factors recognize a unique motif to mediate transcriptional repression in vivo

    PNAS 2005 102:14671-14676; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0502480102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Stéphanie Claudinot,
    • Michael Nicolas,
    • Hideo Oshima,
    • Ariane Rochat,
    • and Yann Barrandon

    From the Cover: Long-term renewal of hair follicles from clonogenic multipotent stem cells

    PNAS 2005 102:14677-14682; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507250102

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Christopher A. Francis,
    • Kathryn J. Roberts,
    • J. Michael Beman,
    • Alyson E. Santoro,
    • and Brian B. Oakley

    Ubiquity and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in water columns and sediments of the ocean

    PNAS 2005 102:14683-14688; published ahead of print September 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506625102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Karsten Suhre,
    • Stéphane Audic,
    • and Jean-Michel Claverie

    Mimivirus gene promoters exhibit an unprecedented conservation among all eukaryotes

    PNAS 2005 102:14689-14693; published ahead of print October 3, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506465102