Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • J. Jeremy Rice,
    • Aaron Kershenbaum,
    • and Gustavo Stolovitzky

    Lasting impressions: Motifs in protein–protein maps may provide footprints of evolutionary events

    PNAS 2005 102:3173-3174; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500130102
    • See companion article on page 3192 in issue 9 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Rusty Rodriguez
    • and Regina Redman

    Balancing the generation and elimination of reactive oxygen species

    PNAS 2005 102:3175-3176; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500367102
    • See companion article on page 3459 in issue 9 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Elizabeth M. Brannon

    The independence of language and mathematical reasoning

    PNAS 2005 102:3177-3178; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500328102
    • See companion article on page 3519 in issue 9 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Ziheng Yang

    The power of phylogenetic comparison in revealing protein function

    PNAS 2005 102:3179-3180; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500371102
    • See companion article on page 2832 in issue 8 of volume 102

In This Issue

Biography

  • Biography:
    • Melissa Marino

    Inaugural Article: Biography of Cornelia I. Bargmann

    PNAS 2005 102:3181-3183; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500025102
    • See commentary article on page 3184 in issue 9 of volume 102

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Manuel Middendorf,
    • Etay Ziv,
    • and Chris H. Wiggins

    From the Cover: Inferring network mechanisms: The Drosophila melanogaster protein interaction network

    PNAS 2005 102:3192-3197; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409515102
    • See commentary article on page 3173 in issue 9 of volume 102

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Xiao-Jia Chen,
    • Viktor V. Struzhkin,
    • Zhigang Wu,
    • Maddury Somayazulu,
    • Jiang Qian,
    • Simon Kung,
    • Axel Nørlund Christensen,
    • Yusheng Zhao,
    • Ronald E. Cohen,
    • Ho-kwang Mao,
    • and Russell J. Hemley

    Hard superconducting nitrides

    PNAS 2005 102:3198-3201; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500174102

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • J. J. Gilijamse,
    • A. J. Lock,
    • and H. J. Bakker

    Dynamics of confined water molecules

    PNAS 2005 102:3202-3207; published ahead of print February 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404916102
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wayne U. Wang,
    • Chuo Chen,
    • Keng-hui Lin,
    • Ying Fang,
    • and Charles M. Lieber

    Label-free detection of small-molecule–protein interactions by using nanowire nanosensors

    PNAS 2005 102:3208-3212; published ahead of print February 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406368102

Engineering

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics - Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • V. B. Shenoy
    • and L. B. Freund

    Growth and shape stability of a biological membrane adhesion complex in the diffusion-mediated regime

    PNAS 2005 102:3213-3218; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500368102

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • V. Gupta,
    • J. L. Carey,
    • H. Kawakubo,
    • A. Muzikansky,
    • J. E. Green,
    • P. K. Donahoe,
    • D. T. MacLaughlin,
    • and S. Maheswaran

    Mullerian inhibiting substance suppresses tumor growth in the C3(1)T antigen transgenic mouse mammary carcinoma model

    PNAS 2005 102:3219-3224; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409709102

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Natalia V. Dudkina,
    • Holger Eubel,
    • Wilko Keegstra,
    • Egbert J. Boekema,
    • and Hans-Peter Braun

    Structure of a mitochondrial supercomplex formed by respiratory-chain complexes I and III

    PNAS 2005 102:3225-3229; published ahead of print February 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408870102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Anna Y. Kornilova,
    • Frédéric Bihel,
    • Chittaranjan Das,
    • and Michael S. Wolfe

    The initial substrate-binding site of γ-secretase is located on presenilin near the active site

    PNAS 2005 102:3230-3235; published ahead of print February 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407640102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yilin Hu,
    • Aaron W. Fay,
    • and Markus W. Ribbe

    Identification of a nitrogenase FeMo cofactor precursor on NifEN complex

    PNAS 2005 102:3236-3241; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409201102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jamison D. Feramisco,
    • Arun Radhakrishnan,
    • Yukio Ikeda,
    • Julian Reitz,
    • Michael S. Brown,
    • and Joseph L. Goldstein

    Intramembrane aspartic acid in SCAP protein governs cholesterol-induced conformational change

    PNAS 2005 102:3242-3247; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500206102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jeong-Sun Kim,
    • Andy DeGiovanni,
    • Jaru Jancarik,
    • Paul D. Adams,
    • Hisao Yokota,
    • Rosalind Kim,
    • and Sung-Hou Kim

    Crystal structure of DNA sequence specificity subunit of a type I restriction-modification enzyme and its functional implications

    PNAS 2005 102:3248-3253; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409851102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Zhiquan Zhang,
    • Michelle M. Spiering,
    • Michael A. Trakselis,
    • Faoud T. Ishmael,
    • Jun Xi,
    • Stephen J. Benkovic,
    • and Gordon G. Hammes

    Assembly of the bacteriophage T4 primosome: Single-molecule and ensemble studies

    PNAS 2005 102:3254-3259; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500327102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Clément Lieutaud,
    • Jean Alric,
    • Marielle Bauzan,
    • Wolfgang Nitschke,
    • and Barbara Schoepp-Cothenet

    Study of the high-potential iron sulfur protein in Halorhodospira halophila confirms that it is distinct from cytochrome c as electron carrier

    PNAS 2005 102:3260-3265; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407768102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Anja Hausmann,
    • Daili J. Aguilar Netz,
    • Janneke Balk,
    • Antonio J. Pierik,
    • Ulrich Mühlenhoff,
    • and Roland Lill

    The eukaryotic P loop NTPase Nbp35: An essential component of the cytosolic and nuclear iron–sulfur protein assembly machinery

    PNAS 2005 102:3266-3271; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406447102
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kirsten Bacia,
    • Petra Schwille,
    • and Teymuras Kurzchalia

    From the Cover: Sterol structure determines the separation of phases and the curvature of the liquid-ordered phase in model membranes

    PNAS 2005 102:3272-3277; published ahead of print February 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408215102

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wayne U. Wang,
    • Chuo Chen,
    • Keng-hui Lin,
    • Ying Fang,
    • and Charles M. Lieber

    Label-free detection of small-molecule–protein interactions by using nanowire nanosensors

    PNAS 2005 102:3208-3212; published ahead of print February 16, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406368102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics - Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • V. B. Shenoy
    • and L. B. Freund

    Growth and shape stability of a biological membrane adhesion complex in the diffusion-mediated regime

    PNAS 2005 102:3213-3218; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500368102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Miroslav Tomschik,
    • Haocheng Zheng,
    • Ken van Holde,
    • Jordanka Zlatanova,
    • and Sanford H. Leuba

    Fast, long-range, reversible conformational fluctuations in nucleosomes revealed by single-pair fluorescence resonance energy transfer

    PNAS 2005 102:3278-3283; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500189102
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Robert H. Havlin
    • and Robert Tycko

    Probing site-specific conformational distributions in protein folding with solid-state NMR

    PNAS 2005 102:3284-3289; published ahead of print February 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406130102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Ayelet Margalit,
    • Miriam Segura-Totten,
    • Yosef Gruenbaum,
    • and Katherine L. Wilson

    Barrier-to-autointegration factor is required to segregate and enclose chromosomes within the nuclear envelope and assemble the nuclear lamina

    PNAS 2005 102:3290-3295; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408364102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Takashi Yokoo,
    • Toya Ohashi,
    • Jin Song Shen,
    • Ken Sakurai,
    • Yoichi Miyazaki,
    • Yasunori Utsunomiya,
    • Masanori Takahashi,
    • Yoshio Terada,
    • Yoshikatsu Eto,
    • Tetsuya Kawamura,
    • Noriko Osumi,
    • and Tatsuo Hosoya

    Human mesenchymal stem cells in rodent whole-embryo culture are reprogrammed to contribute to kidney tissues

    PNAS 2005 102:3296-3300; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0406878102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Dusanka Deretic,
    • Andrew H. Williams,
    • Nancy Ransom,
    • Valerie Morel,
    • Paul A. Hargrave,
    • and Anatol Arendt

    Rhodopsin C terminus, the site of mutations causing retinal disease, regulates trafficking by binding to ADP-ribosylation factor 4 (ARF4)

    PNAS 2005 102:3301-3306; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500095102
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Eda Yildirim,
    • Brian T. Kawasaki,
    • and Lutz Birnbaumer

    Molecular cloning of TRPC3a, an N-terminally extended, store-operated variant of the human C3 transient receptor potential channel

    PNAS 2005 102:3307-3311; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409908102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Toshiyuki Yamane,
    • Scott J. Dylla,
    • Manja Muijtjens,
    • and Irving L. Weissman

    Enforced Bcl-2 expression overrides serum and feeder cell requirements for mouse embryonic stem cell self-renewal

    PNAS 2005 102:3312-3317; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500167102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Boris I. Shraiman

    Mechanical feedback as a possible regulator of tissue growth

    PNAS 2005 102:3318-3323; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0404782102
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Christina N. Bennett,
    • Kenneth A. Longo,
    • Wendy S. Wright,
    • Larry J. Suva,
    • Timothy F. Lane,
    • Kurt D. Hankenson,
    • and Ormond A. MacDougald

    Regulation of osteoblastogenesis and bone mass by Wnt10b

    PNAS 2005 102:3324-3329; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408742102

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Tugrul Giray,
    • Manuela Giovanetti,
    • and Mary Jane West-Eberhard

    Juvenile hormone, reproduction, and worker behavior in the neotropical social wasp Polistes canadensis

    PNAS 2005 102:3330-3335; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409560102

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Fei Song,
    • Joseph F. Smith,
    • Makoto T. Kimura,
    • Arlene D. Morrow,
    • Tomoki Matsuyama,
    • Hiroki Nagase,
    • and William A. Held

    Association of tissue-specific differentially methylated regions (TDMs) with differential gene expression

    PNAS 2005 102:3336-3341; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408436102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • John C. Schimenti,
    • Jennifer L. Reynolds,
    • and Antonio Planchart

    Mutations in Serac1 or Synj2 cause proximal t haplotype-mediated male mouse sterility but not transmission ratio distortion

    PNAS 2005 102:3342-3347; published ahead of print February 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407970102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Zeki Topcu,
    • Kristy Nickles,
    • Charity Davis,
    • and Michael J. McEachern

    Abrupt disruption of capping and a single source for recombinationally elongated telomeres in Kluyveromyces lactis

    PNAS 2005 102:3348-3353; published ahead of print February 15, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408770102
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Elliott H. Margulies,
    • NISC Comparative Sequencing Program,
    • Valerie V. B. Maduro,
    • Pamela J. Thomas,
    • Jeffery P. Tomkins,
    • Chris T. Amemiya,
    • Meizhong Luo,
    • and Eric D. Green

    Comparative sequencing provides insights about the structure and conservation of marsupial and monotreme genomes

    PNAS 2005 102:3354-3359; published ahead of print February 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408539102

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Craig S. Clements,
    • Lars Kjer-Nielsen,
    • Lyudmila Kostenko,
    • Hilary L. Hoare,
    • Michelle A. Dunstone,
    • Eric Moses,
    • Katy Freed,
    • Andrew G. Brooks,
    • Jamie Rossjohn,
    • and James McCluskey

    Crystal structure of HLA-G: A nonclassical MHC class I molecule expressed at the fetal–maternal interface

    PNAS 2005 102:3360-3365; published ahead of print February 17, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409676102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Gang Song,
    • Yuting Yang,
    • Jin-huan Liu,
    • Jose M. Casasnovas,
    • Motomu Shimaoka,
    • Timothy A. Springer,
    • and Jia-huai Wang

    An atomic resolution view of ICAM recognition in a complex between the binding domains of ICAM-3 and integrin α L β 2

    PNAS 2005 102:3366-3371; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0500200102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • A. Karolina Palucka,
    • Jean-Philippe Blanck,
    • Lynda Bennett,
    • Virginia Pascual,
    • and Jacques Banchereau

    Cross-regulation of TNF and IFN-α in autoimmune diseases

    PNAS 2005 102:3372-3377; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0408506102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Yasmin Thanavala,
    • Martin Mahoney,
    • Sribani Pal,
    • Adrienne Scott,
    • Liz Richter,
    • Nachimuthu Natarajan,
    • Patti Goodwin,
    • Charles J. Arntzen,
    • and Hugh S. Mason

    Immunogenicity in humans of an edible vaccine for hepatitis B

    PNAS 2005 102:3378-3382; published ahead of print February 22, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0409899102
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Karl O. A. Yu,
    • Jin S. Im,
    • Alberto Molano,
    • Yves Dutronc,
    • Petr A. Illarionov,
    • Claire Forestier,
    • Nagatoshi Fujiwara,
    • Isa Arias,
    • Sachiko Miyake,
    • Takashi Yamamura,
    • Young-Tae Chang,
    • Gurdyal S. Besra,
    • and Steven A. Porcelli

    Modulation of CD1d-restricted NKT cell responses by using N- acyl variants of α-galactosylceramides

    PNAS 2005 102:3383-3388; published ahead of print February 18, 2005, doi:10.1073/pnas.0407488102