This Week in PNAS

Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Jeffery L. Dangl
    • and John M. McDowell

    Two modes of pathogen recognition by plants

    PNAS 2006 103:8575-8576; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603183103
    • See companion article on page 8888 in issue 23 of volume 103

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • M. E. J. Newman

    From the Cover: Modularity and community structure in networks

    PNAS 2006 103:8577-8582; published ahead of print May 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601602103
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Gheorghe Craciun,
    • Yangzhong Tang,
    • and Martin Feinberg

    Understanding bistability in complex enzyme-driven reaction networks

    PNAS 2006 103:8697-8702; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602767103

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Branden Brough,
    • Brian H. Northrop,
    • Jacob J. Schmidt,
    • Hsian-Rong Tseng,
    • Kendall N. Houk,
    • J. Fraser Stoddart,
    • and Chih-Ming Ho

    Evaluation of synthetic linear motor-molecule actuation energetics

    PNAS 2006 103:8583-8588; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509645103
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Christopher N. LaFratta,
    • Linjie Li,
    • and John T. Fourkas

    Soft-lithographic replication of 3D microstructures with closed loops

    PNAS 2006 103:8589-8594; published ahead of print May 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603247103
    Open Access Article

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Lucia Banci,
    • Ivano Bertini,
    • Vito Calderone,
    • Simone Ciofi-Baffoni,
    • Stefano Mangani,
    • Manuele Martinelli,
    • Peep Palumaa,
    • and Shenlin Wang

    A hint for the function of human Sco1 from different structures

    PNAS 2006 103:8595-8600; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601375103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yongdong Jin,
    • Noga Friedman,
    • Mordechai Sheves,
    • Tao He,
    • and David Cahen

    Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) as an electronic conduction medium: Current transport through bR-containing monolayers

    PNAS 2006 103:8601-8606; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511234103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Luis Serrano-Andrés,
    • Manuela Merchán,
    • and Antonio C. Borin

    Adenine and 2-aminopurine: Paradigms of modern theoretical photochemistry

    PNAS 2006 103:8691-8696; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602991103

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Ben Brooksby,
    • Brian W. Pogue,
    • Shudong Jiang,
    • Hamid Dehghani,
    • Subhadra Srinivasan,
    • Christine Kogel,
    • Tor D. Tosteson,
    • John Weaver,
    • Steven P. Poplack,
    • and Keith D. Paulsen

    Imaging breast adipose and fibroglandular tissue molecular signatures by using hybrid MRI-guided near-infrared spectral tomography

    PNAS 2006 103:8828-8833; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509636103

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Benjamin A. S. Van Mooy,
    • Gabrielle Rocap,
    • Helen F. Fredricks,
    • Colleen T. Evans,
    • and Allan H. Devol

    Sulfolipids dramatically decrease phosphorus demand by picocyanobacteria in oligotrophic marine environments

    PNAS 2006 103:8607-8612; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600540103

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • A. G. Donchev,
    • N. G. Galkin,
    • A. A. Illarionov,
    • O. V. Khoruzhii,
    • M. A. Olevanov,
    • V. D. Ozrin,
    • M. V. Subbotin,
    • and V. I. Tarasov

    Water properties from first principles: Simulations by a general-purpose quantum mechanical polarizable force field

    PNAS 2006 103:8613-8617; published ahead of print May 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602982103
    Open Access Article

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • N. Jessel,
    • M. Oulad-Abdelghani,
    • F. Meyer,
    • P. Lavalle,
    • Y. Haîkel,
    • P. Schaaf,
    • and J.-C. Voegel

    Multiple and time-scheduled in situ DNA delivery mediated by β-cyclodextrin embedded in a polyelectrolyte multilayer

    PNAS 2006 103:8618-8621; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508246103

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Naoki Yamanaka,
    • Dušan Žitňan,
    • Young-Joon Kim,
    • Michael E. Adams,
    • Yue-Jin Hua,
    • Yusuke Suzuki,
    • Minoru Suzuki,
    • Akemi Suzuki,
    • Honoo Satake,
    • Akira Mizoguchi,
    • Kiyoshi Asaoka,
    • Yoshiaki Tanaka,
    • and Hiroshi Kataoka

    From the Cover: Regulation of insect steroid hormone biosynthesis by innervating peptidergic neurons

    PNAS 2006 103:8622-8627; published ahead of print May 17, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511196103
    • See commentary article on page 8909 in issue 24 of volume 103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sophia Diamant,
    • Erez Podoly,
    • Assaf Friedler,
    • Hagai Ligumsky,
    • Oded Livnah,
    • and Hermona Soreq

    Butyrylcholinesterase attenuates amyloid fibril formation in vitro

    PNAS 2006 103:8628-8633; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602922103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Almer M. van der Sloot,
    • Vicente Tur,
    • Eva Szegezdi,
    • Margaret M. Mullally,
    • Robbert H. Cool,
    • Afshin Samali,
    • Luis Serrano,
    • and Wim J. Quax

    Designed tumor necrosis factor-related apoptosis-inducing ligand variants initiating apoptosis exclusively via the DR5 receptor

    PNAS 2006 103:8634-8639; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510187103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jane E. Jackman
    • and Eric M. Phizicky

    tRNA His guanylyltransferase catalyzes a 3′-5′ polymerization reaction that is distinct from G −1 addition

    PNAS 2006 103:8640-8645; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603068103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Matthew W. Bowler,
    • Martin G. Montgomery,
    • Andrew G. W. Leslie,
    • and John E. Walker

    How azide inhibits ATP hydrolysis by the F-ATPases

    PNAS 2006 103:8646-8649; published ahead of print May 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602915103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Erik A. Rodriguez,
    • Henry A. Lester,
    • and Dennis A. Dougherty

    In vivo incorporation of multiple unnatural amino acids through nonsense and frameshift suppression

    PNAS 2006 103:8650-8655; published ahead of print May 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510817103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Daphna Sagher,
    • David Brunell,
    • J. Fielding Hejtmancik,
    • Marc Kantorow,
    • Nathan Brot,
    • and Herbert Weissbach

    Thionein can serve as a reducing agent for the methionine sulfoxide reductases

    PNAS 2006 103:8656-8661; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602826103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Qingjun Ma,
    • Xin Zhao,
    • Ali Nasser Eddine,
    • Arie Geerlof,
    • Xinping Li,
    • John E. Cronan,
    • Stefan H. E. Kaufmann,
    • and Matthias Wilmanns

    The Mycobacterium tuberculosis LipB enzyme functions as a cysteine/lysine dyad acyltransferase

    PNAS 2006 103:8662-8667; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510436103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Bindu Pillai,
    • Maia M. Cherney,
    • Christopher M. Diaper,
    • Andrew Sutherland,
    • John S. Blanchard,
    • John C. Vederas,
    • and Michael N. G. James

    Structural insights into stereochemical inversion by diaminopimelate epimerase: An antibacterial drug target

    PNAS 2006 103:8668-8673; published ahead of print May 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602537103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Wei Qiao,
    • Michelle Mooney,
    • Amanda J. Bird,
    • Dennis R. Winge,
    • and David J. Eide

    Zinc binding to a regulatory zinc-sensing domain monitored in vivo by using FRET

    PNAS 2006 103:8674-8679; published ahead of print May 23, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600928103

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yongdong Jin,
    • Noga Friedman,
    • Mordechai Sheves,
    • Tao He,
    • and David Cahen

    Bacteriorhodopsin (bR) as an electronic conduction medium: Current transport through bR-containing monolayers

    PNAS 2006 103:8601-8606; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511234103
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • A. G. Donchev,
    • N. G. Galkin,
    • A. A. Illarionov,
    • O. V. Khoruzhii,
    • M. A. Olevanov,
    • V. D. Ozrin,
    • M. V. Subbotin,
    • and V. I. Tarasov

    Water properties from first principles: Simulations by a general-purpose quantum mechanical polarizable force field

    PNAS 2006 103:8613-8617; published ahead of print May 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602982103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • J. Christof M. Gebhardt,
    • Anabel E.-M. Clemen,
    • Johann Jaud,
    • and Matthias Rief

    From the Cover: Myosin-V is a mechanical ratchet

    PNAS 2006 103:8680-8685; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510191103
    • See commentary article on page 8911 in issue 24 of volume 103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Iris Visoly-Fisher,
    • Kayvon Daie,
    • Yuichi Terazono,
    • Christian Herrero,
    • Fernando Fungo,
    • Luis Otero,
    • Edgardo Durantini,
    • Juana J. Silber,
    • Leonides Sereno,
    • Devens Gust,
    • Thomas A. Moore,
    • Ana L. Moore,
    • and Stuart M. Lindsay

    Conductance of a biomolecular wire

    PNAS 2006 103:8686-8690; published ahead of print May 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600593103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Luis Serrano-Andrés,
    • Manuela Merchán,
    • and Antonio C. Borin

    Adenine and 2-aminopurine: Paradigms of modern theoretical photochemistry

    PNAS 2006 103:8691-8696; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602991103

Cell Biology

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Gheorghe Craciun,
    • Yangzhong Tang,
    • and Martin Feinberg

    Understanding bistability in complex enzyme-driven reaction networks

    PNAS 2006 103:8697-8702; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602767103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Dale K. Shumaker,
    • Thomas Dechat,
    • Alexander Kohlmaier,
    • Stephen A. Adam,
    • Matthew R. Bozovsky,
    • Michael R. Erdos,
    • Maria Eriksson,
    • Anne E. Goldman,
    • Satya Khuon,
    • Francis S. Collins,
    • Thomas Jenuwein,
    • and Robert D. Goldman

    From the Cover: Mutant nuclear lamin A leads to progressive alterations of epigenetic control in premature aging

    PNAS 2006 103:8703-8708; published ahead of print May 31, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602569103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Haniaa Bouzinba-Segard,
    • Adeline Guais,
    • and Claire Francastel

    Accumulation of small murine minor satellite transcripts leads to impaired centromeric architecture and function

    PNAS 2006 103:8709-8714; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508006103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Lars Hinrichsen,
    • Anika Meyerholz,
    • Stephanie Groos,
    • and Ernst J. Ungewickell

    Bending a membrane: How clathrin affects budding

    PNAS 2006 103:8715-8720; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600312103

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Prakash K. Rao,
    • Roshan M. Kumar,
    • Mina Farkhondeh,
    • Scott Baskerville,
    • and Harvey F. Lodish

    Myogenic factors that regulate expression of muscle-specific microRNAs

    PNAS 2006 103:8721-8726; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602831103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Héloïse D. Dufour,
    • Zoubida Chettouh,
    • Carole Deyts,
    • Renaud de Rosa,
    • Christo Goridis,
    • Jean-Stéphane Joly,
    • and Jean-François Brunet

    Precraniate origin of cranial motoneurons

    PNAS 2006 103:8727-8732; published ahead of print May 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600805103

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Astrid Kodric-Brown,
    • Richard M. Sibly,
    • and James H. Brown

    The allometry of ornaments and weapons

    PNAS 2006 103:8733-8738; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602994103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Ángel López-Urrutia,
    • Elena San Martin,
    • Roger P. Harris,
    • and Xabier Irigoien

    Scaling the metabolic balance of the oceans

    PNAS 2006 103:8739-8744; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601137103

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Benjamin Z. Houlton,
    • Daniel M. Sigman,
    • and Lars O. Hedin

    Isotopic evidence for large gaseous nitrogen losses from tropical rainforests

    PNAS 2006 103:8745-8750; published ahead of print May 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510185103
    Open Access Article

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Stephen L. Dellaporta,
    • Anthony Xu,
    • Sven Sagasser,
    • Wolfgang Jakob,
    • Maria A. Moreno,
    • Leo W. Buss,
    • and Bernd Schierwater

    Mitochondrial genome of Trichoplax adhaerens supports Placozoa as the basal lower metazoan phylum

    PNAS 2006 103:8751-8756; published ahead of print May 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602076103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • C. J. Hartley,
    • R. D. Newcomb,
    • R. J. Russell,
    • C. G. Yong,
    • J. R. Stevens,
    • D. K. Yeates,
    • J. La Salle,
    • and J. G. Oakeshott

    Amplification of DNA from preserved specimens shows blowflies were preadapted for the rapid evolution of insecticide resistance

    PNAS 2006 103:8757-8762; published ahead of print May 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509590103
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Fabrice Lihoreau,
    • Jean-Renaud Boisserie,
    • Laurent Viriot,
    • Yves Coppens,
    • Andossa Likius,
    • Hassane Taisso Mackaye,
    • Paul Tafforeau,
    • Patrick Vignaud,
    • and Michel Brunet

    Anthracothere dental anatomy reveals a late Miocene Chado-Libyan bioprovince

    PNAS 2006 103:8763-8767; published ahead of print May 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603126103

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Hiroshi Saeki,
    • Nicolas Siaud,
    • Nicole Christ,
    • Wouter W. Wiegant,
    • Paul P. W. van Buul,
    • Mingguang Han,
    • Małgorzata Z. Zdzienicka,