Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Stephen B. Shears

    Telomere maintenance by intracellular signals: New kid on the block?

    PNAS 2005 102:1811-1812; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409801102
    • See companion article on page 1911 in issue 6 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Arieh Warshel

    Inverting the selectivity of aquaporin 6: Gating versus direct electrostatic interaction

    PNAS 2005 102:1813-1814; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409788102
    • See companion article on page 2192 in issue 6 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Kanwarpal S. Dhugga

    Plant Golgi cell wall synthesis: From genes to enzyme activities

    PNAS 2005 102:1815-1816; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409649102
    • See companion article on page 2221 in issue 6 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Shoko Ueki
    • and Vitaly Citovsky

    Control improves with age: Intercellular transport in plant embryos and adults

    PNAS 2005 102:1817-1818; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409785102
    • See companion article on page 2227 in issue 6 of volume 102

In This Issue

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Médéric Argentina
    • and L. Mahadevan

    Fluid-flow-induced flutter of a flag

    PNAS 2005 102:1829-1834; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408383102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • V. Barsegov
    • and D. Thirumalai

    Dynamics of unbinding of cell adhesion molecules: Transition from catch to slip bonds

    PNAS 2005 102:1835-1839; doi:10.1073/pnas.0406938102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Carlos A. Meriles,
    • Dimitris Sakellariou,
    • Andreas H. Trabesinger,
    • Vasiliki Demas,
    • and Alexander Pines

    Zero- to low-field MRI with averaging of concomitant gradient fields

    PNAS 2005 102:1840-1842; published ahead of print January 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409115102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • R. Dean Astumian

    Chemical peristalsis

    PNAS 2005 102:1843-1847; published ahead of print January 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409341102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Ralf Seemann,
    • Martin Brinkmann,
    • Edward J. Kramer,
    • Frederick F. Lange,
    • and Reinhard Lipowsky

    Wetting morphologies at microstructured surfaces

    PNAS 2005 102:1848-1852; published ahead of print January 27, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407721102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Graham E. Ball,
    • Tamim A. Darwish,
    • Spili Geftakis,
    • Michael W. George,
    • Douglas J. Lawes,
    • Peter Portius,
    • and Jonathan P. Rourke

    Characterization of an organometallic xenon complex using NMR and IR spectroscopy

    PNAS 2005 102:1853-1858; published ahead of print January 27, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406527102

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Tinsley H. Davis

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Edward Irving

    PNAS 2005 102:1819-1820; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407301101
    • See commentary article on page 1821 in issue 6 of volume 102
  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Edward Irving

    Inaugural Article: The role of latitude in mobilism debates

    PNAS 2005 102:1821-1828; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408162101
    • See commentary article on page 1819 in issue 6 of volume 102

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • E. A. Hammel

    Demographic dynamics and kinship in anthropological populations

    PNAS 2005 102:2248-2253; published ahead of print January 27, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409762102

Economic Sciences

  • Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • J. Doyne Farmer,
    • Paolo Patelli,
    • and Ilija I. Zovko

    The predictive power of zero intelligence in financial markets

    PNAS 2005 102:2254-2259; published ahead of print February 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409157102

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Andrei Kuzmichev,
    • Raphael Margueron,
    • Alejandro Vaquero,
    • Tanja S. Preissner,
    • Michael Scher,
    • Antonis Kirmizis,
    • Xuesong Ouyang,
    • Neil Brockdorff,
    • Cory Abate-Shen,
    • Peggy Farnham,
    • and Danny Reinberg

    Composition and histone substrates of polycomb repressive group complexes change during cellular differentiation

    PNAS 2005 102:1859-1864; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409875102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • John Dresios,
    • Armaz Aschrafi,
    • Geoffrey C. Owens,
    • Peter W. Vanderklish,
    • Gerald M. Edelman,
    • and Vincent P. Mauro

    Cold stress-induced protein Rbm3 binds 60S ribosomal subunits, alters microRNA levels, and enhances global protein synthesis

    PNAS 2005 102:1865-1870; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409764102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • George Kontopidis,
    • Su-Ying Wu,
    • Daniella I. Zheleva,
    • Paul Taylor,
    • Campbell McInnes,
    • David P. Lane,
    • Peter M. Fischer,
    • and Malcolm D. Walkinshaw

    From the Cover: Structural and biochemical studies of human proliferating cell nuclear antigen complexes provide a rationale for cyclin association and inhibitor design

    PNAS 2005 102:1871-1876; published ahead of print January 28, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406540102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Boris Kysela,
    • Miroslav Chovanec,
    • and Penny A. Jeggo

    Phosphorylation of linker histones by DNA-dependent protein kinase is required for DNA ligase IV-dependent ligation in the presence of histone H1

    PNAS 2005 102:1877-1882; published ahead of print January 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401179102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sinisa Urban
    • and Michael S. Wolfe

    Reconstitution of intramembrane proteolysis in vitro reveals that pure rhomboid is sufficient for catalysis and specificity

    PNAS 2005 102:1883-1888; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408306102

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sherry L. LaPorte,
    • Charles M. Forsyth,
    • Brian C. Cunningham,
    • Larry J. Miercke,
    • David Akhavan,
    • and Robert M. Stroud

    De novo design of an IL-4 antagonist and its structure at 1.9 Å

    PNAS 2005 102:1889-1894; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408890102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • José Manuel González,
    • Marisela Vélez,
    • Mercedes Jiménez,
    • Carlos Alfonso,
    • Peter Schuck,
    • Jesús Mingorance,
    • Miguel Vicente,
    • Allen P. Minton,
    • and Germán Rivas

    Cooperative behavior of Escherichia coli cell-division protein FtsZ assembly involves the preferential cyclization of long single-stranded fibrils

    PNAS 2005 102:1895-1900; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409517102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Rebecca Page,
    • Wolfgang Peti,
    • Ian A. Wilson,
    • Raymond C. Stevens,
    • and Kurt Wüthrich

    NMR screening and crystal quality of bacterially expressed prokaryotic and eukaryotic proteins in a structural genomics pipeline

    PNAS 2005 102:1901-1905; published ahead of print January 27, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408490102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Pauline Lee,
    • Hongfan Peng,
    • Terri Gelbart,
    • Lei Wang,
    • and Ernest Beutler

    Regulation of hepcidin transcription by interleukin-1 and interleukin-6

    PNAS 2005 102:1906-1910; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409808102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Adolfo Saiardi,
    • Adam C. Resnick,
    • Adele M. Snowman,
    • Beverly Wendland,
    • and Solomon H. Snyder

    From the Cover: Inositol pyrophosphates regulate cell death and telomere length through phosphoinositide 3-kinase-related protein kinases

    PNAS 2005 102:1911-1914; published ahead of print January 21, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409322102
    • See commentary article on page 1811 in issue 6 of volume 102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Lilach M. Friedman,
    • Ariel Rinon,
    • Bilha Schechter,
    • Ljuba Lyass,
    • Sara Lavi,
    • Sarah S. Bacus,
    • Michael Sela,
    • and Yosef Yarden

    Synergistic down-regulation of receptor tyrosine kinases by combinations of mAbs: Implications for cancer immunotherapy

    PNAS 2005 102:1915-1920; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409610102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Laura Larson,
    • Serge Arnaudeau,
    • Bruce Gibson,
    • Wei Li,
    • Ryoko Krause,
    • Binghua Hao,
    • James R. Bamburg,
    • Daniel P. Lew,
    • Nicolas Demaurex,
    • and Frederick Southwick

    Gelsolin mediates calcium-dependent disassembly of Listeria actin tails

    PNAS 2005 102:1921-1926; published ahead of print January 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409062102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Jun Liu,
    • Anne G. Bang,
    • Chris Kintner,
    • Anthony P. Orth,
    • Sumit K. Chanda,
    • Sheng Ding,
    • and Peter G. Schultz

    Identification of the Wnt signaling activator leucine-rich repeat in Flightless interaction protein 2 by a genome-wide functional analysis

    PNAS 2005 102:1927-1932; published ahead of print January 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409472102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Andre Levchenko,
    • Bipin M. Mehta,
    • Xinle Niu,
    • Grace Kang,
    • Liliana Villafania,
    • Denise Way,
    • Dolores Polycarpe,
    • Michel Sadelain,
    • and Steven M. Larson

    Intercellular transfer of P-glycoprotein mediates acquired multidrug resistance in tumor cells

    PNAS 2005 102:1933-1938; published ahead of print January 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0401851102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Ryoko Nishiuchi,
    • Noriko Sanzen,
    • Shigeyuki Nada,
    • Yasuhiro Sumida,
    • Yoshinao Wada,
    • Masato Okada,
    • Junichi Takagi,
    • Hitoshi Hasegawa,
    • and Kiyotoshi Sekiguchi

    Potentiation of the ligand-binding activity of integrin α3β1 via association with tetraspanin CD151

    PNAS 2005 102:1939-1944; published ahead of print January 26, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409493102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Alessandro Vichi,
    • D. Michael Payne,
    • Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez,
    • Joel Moss,
    • and Martha Vaughan

    E3 ubiquitin ligase activity of the trifunctional ARD1 (ADP-ribosylation factor domain protein 1)

    PNAS 2005 102:1945-1950; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409800102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Jasmin Fisher,
    • Nir Piterman,
    • E. Jane Albert Hubbard,
    • Michael J. Stern,
    • and David Harel

    Computational insights into Caenorhabditis elegans vulval development

    PNAS 2005 102:1951-1956; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409433102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Ray K. Ng
    • and John B. Gurdon

    Epigenetic memory of active gene transcription is inherited through somatic cell nuclear transfer

    PNAS 2005 102:1957-1962; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409813102

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Janne S. Kotiaho,
    • Veijo Kaitala,
    • Atte Komonen,
    • and Jussi Päivinen

    Predicting the risk of extinction from shared ecological characteristics

    PNAS 2005 102:1963-1967; published ahead of print January 25, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406718102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Christophe Fraser,
    • William P. Hanage,
    • and Brian G. Spratt

    Neutral microepidemic evolution of bacterial pathogens

    PNAS 2005 102:1968-1973; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406993102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Roded Sharan,
    • Silpa Suthram,
    • Ryan M. Kelley,
    • Tanja Kuhn,
    • Scott McCuine,
    • Peter Uetz,
    • Taylor Sittler,
    • Richard M. Karp,
    • and Trey Ideker

    From the Cover: Conserved patterns of protein interaction in multiple species

    PNAS 2005 102:1974-1979; published ahead of print February 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409522102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Ananias A. Escalante,
    • Omar E. Cornejo,
    • Denise E. Freeland,
    • Amanda C. Poe,
    • Ester Durrego,
    • William E. Collins,
    • and Altaf A. Lal

    A monkey's tale: The origin of Plasmodium vivax as a human malaria parasite

    PNAS 2005 102:1980-1985; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409652102
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Scott W. Roy
    • and Walter Gilbert

    Complex early genes

    PNAS 2005 102:1986-1991; published ahead of print February 1, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408355101

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Kiranmai Gumireddy,
    • Stacey J. Baker,
    • Stephen C. Cosenza,
    • Premila John,
    • Anthony D. Kang,
    • Kimberly A. Robell,
    • M. V. Ramana Reddy,
    • and E. Premkumar Reddy

    A non-ATP-competitive inhibitor of BCR-ABL overrides imatinib resistance

    PNAS 2005 102:1992-1997; published ahead of print January 27, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408283102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Wei Wang,
    • J. Michael Cherry,
    • Yigal Nochomovitz,
    • Emmitt Jolly,
    • David Botstein,
    • and Hao Li

    Inference of combinatorial regulation in yeast transcriptional networks: A case study of sporulation

    PNAS 2005 102:1998-2003; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0405537102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Stefan Kammerer,
    • Richard B. Roth,
    • Carolyn R. Hoyal,
    • Richard Reneland,
    • George Marnellos,
    • Marion Kiechle,
    • Ulrike Schwarz-Boeger,
    • Lyn R. Griffiths,
    • Florian Ebner,
    • Joachim Rehbock,
    • Charles R. Cantor,
    • Matthew R. Nelson,
    • and Andreas Braun

    Association of the NuMA region on chromosome 11q13 with breast cancer susceptibility

    PNAS 2005 102:2004-2009; published ahead of print January 31, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409806102

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Bo Wei,
    • Peter Velazquez,
    • Olga Turovskaya,
    • Karsten Spricher,
    • Richard Aranda,
    • Mitchell Kronenberg,
    • Lutz Birnbaumer,
    • and Jonathan Braun

    Mesenteric B cells centrally inhibit CD4 + T cell colitis through interaction with regulatory T cell subsets

    PNAS 2005 102:2010