PNAS — Table of Contents — May 2, 2006, 103 (18)

This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6777-6778; doi:10.1073/iti1806103

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Rodney S. Ruoff
Time, temperature, and load: The flaws of carbon nanotubes
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6779-6780; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601753103
- See companion article on page 6105 in issue 16 of volume 103
Commentary:
- Susan S. Golden
Good old-fashioned (anti)sense
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6781-6782; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601872103
- See companion article on page 7054 in issue 18 of volume 103

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

Select this article
Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Norbert Müller
- and Alexej Jerschow
Nuclear spin noise imaging
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6790-6792; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601743103

Chemistry

Select this article
Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- F. Remacle
- and R. D. Levine
An electronic time scale in chemistry
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6793-6798; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601855103
Select this article
Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Alexei A. Kornyshev,
- Alexander M. Kuznetsov,
- and Jens Ulstrup
In situ superexchange electron transfer through a single molecule: A rectifying effect
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6799-6804; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511188103

Physics

Select this article
Physical Sciences - Physics:
- M. B. Maple,
- N. P. Butch,
- N. A. Frederick,
- P.-C. Ho,
- J. R. Jeffries,
- T. A. Sayles,
- T. Yanagisawa,
- W. M. Yuhasz,
- Songxue Chi,
- H. J. Kang,
- J. W. Lynn,
- Pengcheng Dai,
- S. K. McCall,
- M. W. McElfresh,
- M. J. Fluss,
- Z. Henkie,
- and A. Pietraszko
Inaugural Article: Field-dependent ordered phases and Kondo phenomena in the filled skutterudite compound PrOs 4 As 12
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6783-6789; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601541103

Social Sciences

Psychology

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Psychology - Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Marc Hauser
- and Bailey Spaulding
Wild rhesus monkeys generate causal inferences about possible and impossible physical transformations in the absence of experience
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:7181-7185; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601247103

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Ruth A. Swanson-Wagner,
- Yi Jia,
- Rhonda DeCook,
- Lisa A. Borsuk,
- Dan Nettleton,
- and Patrick S. Schnable
All possible modes of gene action are observed in a global comparison of gene expression in a maize F 1 hybrid and its inbred parents
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6805-6810; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510430103
Open Access Article

Biochemistry

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Qian Yang,
- Ken Inoki,
- Eunjung Kim,
- and Kun-Liang Guan
TSC1/TSC2 and Rheb have different effects on TORC1 and TORC2 activity
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6811-6816; published ahead of print April 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602282103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Jodi L. Vogel
- and Thomas M. Kristie
Site-specific proteolysis of the transcriptional coactivator HCF-1 can regulate its interaction with protein cofactors
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6817-6822; published ahead of print April 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602109103
Open Access Article
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Thomas U. Schwartz,
- Daniel Schmidt,
- Stephen G. Brohawn,
- and Günter Blobel
Homodimerization of the G protein SRβ in the nucleotide-free state involves proline cis/trans isomerization in the switch II region
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6823-6828; published ahead of print April 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602083103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Petra Hänzelmann
- and Hermann Schindelin
Binding of 5′-GTP to the C-terminal FeS cluster of the radical S -adenosylmethionine enzyme MoaA provides insights into its mechanism
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6829-6834; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510711103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Evette S. Radisky,
- Justin M. Lee,
- Chia-Jung Karen Lu,
- and Daniel E. Koshland, Jr.
Insights into the serine protease mechanism from atomic resolution structures of trypsin reaction intermediates
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6835-6840; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601910103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Edmund A. Rossi,
- David M. Goldenberg,
- Thomas M. Cardillo,
- William J. McBride,
- Robert M. Sharkey,
- and Chien-Hsing Chang
Stably tethered multifunctional structures of defined composition made by the dock and lock method for use in cancer targeting
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6841-6846; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600982103
Open Access Article
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Fabien Charrière,
- Sunna Helgadóttir,
- Elke K. Horn,
- Dieter Söll,
- and André Schneider
Dual targeting of a single tRNA Trp requires two different tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetases in Trypanosoma brucei
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6847-6852; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602362103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Teresa Morales-Ruiz,
- Ana Pilar Ortega-Galisteo,
- María Isabel Ponferrada-Marín,
- María Isabel Martínez-Macías,
- Rafael R. Ariza,
- and Teresa Roldán-Arjona
DEMETER and REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 encode 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6853-6858; published ahead of print April 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601109103

Biophysics

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Eric Honoré,
- Amanda Jane Patel,
- Jean Chemin,
- Thomas Suchyna,
- and Frederick Sachs
Desensitization of mechano-gated K 2P channels
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6859-6864; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600463103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Jun Hu,
- Riqiang Fu,
- Katsuyuki Nishimura,
- Li Zhang,
- Huan-Xiang Zhou,
- David D. Busath,
- Viksita Vijayvergiya,
- and Timothy A. Cross
Histidines, heart of the hydrogen ion channel from influenza A virus: Toward an understanding of conductance and proton selectivity
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6865-6870; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601944103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Libo Wang,
- Mary T. Walsh,
- and Donald M. Small
Apolipoprotein B is conformationally flexible but anchored at a triolein/water interface: A possible model for lipoprotein surfaces
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6871-6876; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602213103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Kaare Teilum,
- Flemming M. Poulsen,
- and Mikael Akke
The inverted chevron plot measured by NMR relaxation reveals a native-like unfolding intermediate in acyl-CoA binding protein
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6877-6882; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509100103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Trinh X. Hoang,
- Luca Marsella,
- Antonio Trovato,
- Flavio Seno,
- Jayanth R. Banavar,
- and Amos Maritan
Common attributes of native-state structures of proteins, disordered proteins, and amyloid
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6883-6888; published ahead of print April 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601824103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Vlado K. Lazarov,
- Patrick C. Fraering,
- Wenjuan Ye,
- Michael S. Wolfe,
- Dennis J. Selkoe,
- and Huilin Li
From the Cover: Electron microscopic structure of purified, active γ-secretase reveals an aqueous intramembrane chamber and two pores
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6889-6894; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602321103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- A. R. Holzwarth,
- M. G. Müller,
- M. Reus,
- M. Nowaczyk,
- J. Sander,
- and M. Rögner
Kinetics and mechanism of electron transfer in intact photosystem II and in the isolated reaction center: Pheophytin is the primary electron acceptor
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6895-6900; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505371103
Open Access Article

Cell Biology

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Qing Zhang,
- Sufi M. Thomas,
- Vivian Wai Yan Lui,
- Sichuan Xi,
- Jill M. Siegfried,
- Huizhou Fan,
- Thomas E. Smithgall,
- Gordon B. Mills,
- and Jennifer Rubin Grandis
Phosphorylation of TNF-α converting enzyme by gastrin-releasing peptide induces amphiregulin release and EGF receptor activation
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6901-6906; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509719103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Shuyuan Yao,
- Shuibing Chen,
- Julie Clark,
- Ergeng Hao,
- Gillian M. Beattie,
- Alberto Hayek,
- and Sheng Ding
Long-term self-renewal and directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in chemically defined conditions
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6907-6912; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602280103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Hong Qiu,
- Anne-Sofie Johansson,
- Mattias Sjöström,
- Min Wan,
- Oliver Schröder,
- Jan Palmblad,
- and Jesper Z. Haeggström
Differential induction of BLT receptor expression on human endothelial cells by lipopolysacharide, cytokines, and leukotriene B 4
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6913-6918; published ahead of print April 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602208103
Open Access Article

Developmental Biology

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Tiffany A. Heanue
- and Vassilis Pachnis
From the Cover: Expression profiling the developing mammalian enteric nervous system identifies marker and candidate Hirschsprung disease genes
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6919-6924; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602152103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Deniz F. Erezyilmaz,
- Lynn M. Riddiford,
- and James W. Truman
The pupal specifier broad directs progressive morphogenesis in a direct-developing insect
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6925-6930; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509983103

Ecology

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- T. Richard E. Southwood,
- Robert M. May,
- and George Sugihara
Observations on related ecological exponents
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6931-6933; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600988103

Environmental Sciences

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
- Giovanna Raso,
- Penelope Vounatsou,
- Burton H. Singer,
- Eliézer K. N′Goran,
- Marcel Tanner,
- and Jürg Utzinger
An integrated approach for risk profiling and spatial prediction of Schistosoma mansoni –hookworm coinfection
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6934-6939; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601559103

Evolution

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Josep M. Comeron
Weak selection and recent mutational changes influence polymorphic synonymous mutations in humans
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6940-6945; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510638103

Genetics

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Moshe Pritsker,
- Nicole R. Ford,
- Harry T. Jenq,
- and Ihor R. Lemischka
Genomewide gain-of-function genetic screen identifies functionally active genes in mouse embryonic stem cells
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6946-6951; published ahead of print April 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509861103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Bradley W. McDill,
- Song-Zhe Li,
- Paul A. Kovach,
- Li Ding,
- and Feng Chen
Congenital progressive hydronephrosis ( cph ) is caused by an S256L mutation in aquaporin-2 that affects its phosphorylation and apical membrane accumulation
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6952-6957; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602087103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Hong Fang,
- Wentian Luo,
- Jim Henkel,
- Joseph Barbieri,
- and Neil Green
A yeast assay probes the interaction between botulinum neurotoxin serotype B and its SNARE substrate
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6958-6963; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510816103
Open Access Article
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Zhen Guo,
- Leroy Hood,
- Mari Malkki,
- and Effie W. Petersdorf
Long-range multilocus haplotype phasing of the MHC
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6964-6969; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602286103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- G. Tuncman,
- E. Erbay,
- X. Hom,
- I. De Vivo,
- H. Campos,
- E. B. Rimm,
- and G. S. Hotamisligil
A genetic variant at the fatty acid-binding protein aP2 locus reduces the risk for hypertriglyceridemia, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6970-6975; published ahead of print April 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602178103
Open Access Article
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Annika I. Nilsson,
- Anna Zorzet,
- Anna Kanth,
- Sabina Dahlström,
- Otto G. Berg,
- and Dan I. Andersson
Reducing the fitness cost of antibiotic resistance by amplification of initiator tRNA genes
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6976-6981; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602171103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Andrei Petrov,
- Iryna Pirozhkova,
- Gilles Carnac,
- Dalila Laoudj,
- Marc Lipinski,
- and Yegor S. Vassetzky
Chromatin loop domain organization within the 4q35 locus in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy patients versus normal human myoblasts
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6982-6987; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511235103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- J. Recht,
- T. Tsubota,
- J. C. Tanny,
- R. L. Diaz,
- J. M. Berger,
- X. Zhang,
- B. A. Garcia,
- J. Shabanowitz,
- A. L. Burlingame,
- D. F. Hunt,
- P. D. Kaufman,
- and C. D. Allis
Histone chaperone Asf1 is required for histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation, a modification associated with S phase in mitosis and meiosis
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6988-6993; published ahead of print April 20, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601676103
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Alison P. Lee,
- Esther G. L. Koh,
- Alice Tay,
- Sydney Brenner,
- and Byrappa Venkatesh
Highly conserved syntenic blocks at the vertebrate Hox loci and conserved regulatory elements within and outside Hox gene clusters
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:6994-6999; published ahead of print April 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601492103

Immunology

Select this article
Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Jean-Philippe Herbeuval,
- Jakob Nilsson,
- Adriano Boasso,
- Andrew W. Hardy,
- Michael J. Kruhlak,
- Stephanie A. Anderson,
- Matthew J. Dolan,
- Michel Dy,
- Jan Andersson,
- and Gene M. Shearer
Differential expression of IFN-α and TRAIL/DR5 in lymphoid tissue of progressor versus nonprogressor HIV-1-infected patients
Proc Natl Acad Sci USA 2006 103:7000-7005; published ahead of print April 21, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600363103
Open Access Article
Select this article
Biological Sciences - Immunology:

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Time, temperature, and load: The flaws of carbon nanotubes

Good old-fashioned (anti)sense

Nuclear spin noise imaging

An electronic time scale in chemistry

In situ superexchange electron transfer through a single molecule: A rectifying effect

Inaugural Article: Field-dependent ordered phases and Kondo phenomena in the filled skutterudite compound PrOs 4 As 12

Wild rhesus monkeys generate causal inferences about possible and impossible physical transformations in the absence of experience

All possible modes of gene action are observed in a global comparison of gene expression in a maize F 1 hybrid and its inbred parents

TSC1/TSC2 and Rheb have different effects on TORC1 and TORC2 activity

Site-specific proteolysis of the transcriptional coactivator HCF-1 can regulate its interaction with protein cofactors

Homodimerization of the G protein SRβ in the nucleotide-free state involves proline cis/trans isomerization in the switch II region

Binding of 5′-GTP to the C-terminal FeS cluster of the radical S -adenosylmethionine enzyme MoaA provides insights into its mechanism

Insights into the serine protease mechanism from atomic resolution structures of trypsin reaction intermediates

Stably tethered multifunctional structures of defined composition made by the dock and lock method for use in cancer targeting

Dual targeting of a single tRNA Trp requires two different tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetases in Trypanosoma brucei

DEMETER and REPRESSOR OF SILENCING 1 encode 5-methylcytosine DNA glycosylases

Desensitization of mechano-gated K 2P channels

Histidines, heart of the hydrogen ion channel from influenza A virus: Toward an understanding of conductance and proton selectivity

Apolipoprotein B is conformationally flexible but anchored at a triolein/water interface: A possible model for lipoprotein surfaces

The inverted chevron plot measured by NMR relaxation reveals a native-like unfolding intermediate in acyl-CoA binding protein

Common attributes of native-state structures of proteins, disordered proteins, and amyloid

From the Cover: Electron microscopic structure of purified, active γ-secretase reveals an aqueous intramembrane chamber and two pores

Kinetics and mechanism of electron transfer in intact photosystem II and in the isolated reaction center: Pheophytin is the primary electron acceptor

Phosphorylation of TNF-α converting enzyme by gastrin-releasing peptide induces amphiregulin release and EGF receptor activation

Long-term self-renewal and directed differentiation of human embryonic stem cells in chemically defined conditions

Differential induction of BLT receptor expression on human endothelial cells by lipopolysacharide, cytokines, and leukotriene B 4

From the Cover: Expression profiling the developing mammalian enteric nervous system identifies marker and candidate Hirschsprung disease genes

The pupal specifier broad directs progressive morphogenesis in a direct-developing insect

Observations on related ecological exponents

An integrated approach for risk profiling and spatial prediction of Schistosoma mansoni –hookworm coinfection

Weak selection and recent mutational changes influence polymorphic synonymous mutations in humans

Genomewide gain-of-function genetic screen identifies functionally active genes in mouse embryonic stem cells

Congenital progressive hydronephrosis ( cph ) is caused by an S256L mutation in aquaporin-2 that affects its phosphorylation and apical membrane accumulation

A yeast assay probes the interaction between botulinum neurotoxin serotype B and its SNARE substrate

Long-range multilocus haplotype phasing of the MHC

A genetic variant at the fatty acid-binding protein aP2 locus reduces the risk for hypertriglyceridemia, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular disease

Reducing the fitness cost of antibiotic resistance by amplification of initiator tRNA genes

Chromatin loop domain organization within the 4q35 locus in facioscapulohumeral dystrophy patients versus normal human myoblasts

Histone chaperone Asf1 is required for histone H3 lysine 56 acetylation, a modification associated with S phase in mitosis and meiosis

Highly conserved syntenic blocks at the vertebrate Hox loci and conserved regulatory elements within and outside Hox gene clusters

Differential expression of IFN-α and TRAIL/DR5 in lymphoid tissue of progressor versus nonprogressor HIV-1-infected patients