This Week in PNAS

Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • David A. Puts,
    • Cynthia L. Jordan,
    • and S. Marc Breedlove

    O brother, where art thou? The fraternal birth-order effect on male sexual orientation

    PNAS 2006 103:10531-10532; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604102103
    • See companion article on page 10771 in issue 28 of volume 103

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Janet E. Lindsley
    • and Jared Rutter

    Whence cometh the allosterome?

    PNAS 2006 103:10533-10535; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604452103

Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature

Introductory Perspectives

  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Introductory Perspective:
    • A. W. Castleman, Jr.
    • and Puru Jena

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Clusters: A bridge between disciplines

    PNAS 2006 103:10552-10553; doi:10.1073/pnas.0601783103
  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Introductory Perspective:
    • A. W. Castleman, Jr.
    • and Puru Jena

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Clusters: A bridge across the disciplines of environment, materials science, and biology

    PNAS 2006 103:10554-10559; doi:10.1073/pnas.0601780103
  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Introductory Perspective:
    • Puru Jena
    • and A. W. Castleman, Jr.

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Clusters: A bridge across the disciplines of physics and chemistry

    PNAS 2006 103:10560-10569; doi:10.1073/pnas.0601782103

Perspectives

  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Po-Yuan Cheng,
    • J. Spencer Baskin,
    • and Ahmed H. Zewail

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Dynamics of clusters: From elementary to biological structures

    PNAS 2006 103:10570-10576; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507114103
  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Gabor A. Somorjai,
    • Anthony M. Contreras,
    • Max Montano,
    • and Robert M. Rioux

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Clusters, surfaces, and catalysis

    PNAS 2006 103:10577-10583; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507691103

Research Articles

  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Andreas Heidenreich,
    • Joshua Jortner,
    • and Isidore Last

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Cluster dynamics transcending chemical dynamics toward nuclear fusion

    PNAS 2006 103:10589-10593; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508622103
  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký,
    • Roland Mitrić,
    • Ute Werner,
    • Ludger Wöste,
    • and R. Stephen Berry

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Ultrafast dynamics in atomic clusters: Analysis and control

    PNAS 2006 103:10594-10599; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600151103
  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Constantine Yannouleas
    • and Uzi Landman

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Electron and boson clusters in confined geometries: Symmetry breaking in quantum dots and harmonic traps

    PNAS 2006 103:10600-10605; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509041103

Review

  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Review:
    • William Klemperer
    • and Veronica Vaida

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Molecular complexes in close and far away

    PNAS 2006 103:10584-10588; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508231103

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Monica Gallego,
    • Erik J. Eide,
    • Margaret F. Woolf,
    • David M. Virshup,
    • and Daniel B. Forger

    An opposite role for tau in circadian rhythms revealed by mathematical modeling

    PNAS 2006 103:10618-10623; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604511103

Chemistry

  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Andreas Heidenreich,
    • Joshua Jortner,
    • and Isidore Last

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Cluster dynamics transcending chemical dynamics toward nuclear fusion

    PNAS 2006 103:10589-10593; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508622103
  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Vlasta Bonačić-Koutecký,
    • Roland Mitrić,
    • Ute Werner,
    • Ludger Wöste,
    • and R. Stephen Berry

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Ultrafast dynamics in atomic clusters: Analysis and control

    PNAS 2006 103:10594-10599; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600151103

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Lonnie G. Thompson,
    • Ellen Mosley-Thompson,
    • Henry Brecher,
    • Mary Davis,
    • Blanca León,
    • Don Les,
    • Ping-Nan Lin,
    • Tracy Mashiotta,
    • and Keith Mountain

    Inaugural Article: Abrupt tropical climate change: Past and present

    PNAS 2006 103:10536-10543; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603900103
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 11437 in issue 31 of volume 103

Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
    • J. H. Conway
    • and S. Torquato

    Packing, tiling, and covering with tetrahedra

    PNAS 2006 103:10612-10617; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601389103

Physics

  • Cluster Chemistry and Dynamics Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Constantine Yannouleas
    • and Uzi Landman

    Cluster Chemistry And Dynamics Special Feature: Electron and boson clusters in confined geometries: Symmetry breaking in quantum dots and harmonic traps

    PNAS 2006 103:10600-10605; published ahead of print June 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509041103

Social Sciences

Psychology

  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience - Social Sciences - Psychology:
    • Anthony F. Bogaert

    From the Cover: Biological versus nonbiological older brothers and men’s sexual orientation

    PNAS 2006 103:10771-10774; published ahead of print June 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511152103
    • See commentary article on page 10531 in issue 28 of volume 103
  • Biological Sciences - Neuroscience - Social Sciences - Psychology:
    • Yiyuan Tang,
    • Wutian Zhang,
    • Kewei Chen,
    • Shigang Feng,
    • Ye Ji,
    • Junxian Shen,
    • Eric M. Reiman,
    • and Yijun Liu

    Arithmetic processing in the brain shaped by cultures

    PNAS 2006 103:10775-10780; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604416103

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Monica Gallego,
    • Erik J. Eide,
    • Margaret F. Woolf,
    • David M. Virshup,
    • and Daniel B. Forger

    An opposite role for tau in circadian rhythms revealed by mathematical modeling

    PNAS 2006 103:10618-10623; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604511103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Esther Biemans-Oldehinkel,
    • Nik A. B. N. Mahmood,
    • and Bert Poolman

    A sensor for intracellular ionic strength

    PNAS 2006 103:10624-10629; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603871103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kanjana Thumanu,
    • Jooyoung Cha,
    • Jed F. Fisher,
    • Richard Perrins,
    • Shahriar Mobashery,
    • and Christopher Wharton

    Discrete steps in sensing of β-lactam antibiotics by the BlaR1 protein of the methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacterium

    PNAS 2006 103:10630-10635; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601971103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jie Wang,
    • Yun Cao,
    • Ying Chen,
    • Yimei Chen,
    • Paul Gardner,
    • and Donald F. Steiner

    Pancreatic β cells lack a low glucose and O 2 -inducible mitochondrial protein that augments cell survival

    PNAS 2006 103:10636-10641; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604194103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Satwik Kamtekar,
    • Roger S. Ho,
    • Melanie J. Cocco,
    • Weikai Li,
    • Sandra V. C. T. Wenwieser,
    • Martin R. Boocock,
    • Nigel D. F. Grindley,
    • and Thomas A. Steitz

    Implications of structures of synaptic tetramers of γδ resolvase for the mechanism of recombination

    PNAS 2006 103:10642-10647; published ahead of print June 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604062103
    Open Access Article

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Marcus Jäger,
    • Yan Zhang,
    • Jan Bieschke,
    • Houbi Nguyen,
    • Maria Dendle,
    • Marianne E. Bowman,
    • Joseph P. Noel,
    • Martin Gruebele,
    • and Jeffery W. Kelly

    Structure–function–folding relationship in a WW domain

    PNAS 2006 103:10648-10653; published ahead of print June 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600511103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yifeng Liu,
    • Yongxing Guo,
    • James M. Valles, Jr.,
    • and Jay X. Tang

    Microtubule bundling and nested buckling drive stripe formation in polymerizing tubulin solutions

    PNAS 2006 103:10654-10659; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510381103

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Lyubomir T. Vassilev,
    • Christian Tovar,
    • Shaoqing Chen,
    • Dejan Knezevic,
    • Xiaolan Zhao,
    • Hongmao Sun,
    • David C. Heimbrook,
    • and Li Chen

    Selective small-molecule inhibitor reveals critical mitotic functions of human CDK1

    PNAS 2006 103:10660-10665; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600447103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Katia Evans,
    • Christian Keller,
    • Karen Pavur,
    • Kristen Glasgow,
    • Bryan Conn,
    • and Brett Lauring

    Interaction of two hereditary spastic paraplegia gene products, spastin and atlastin, suggests a common pathway for axonal maintenance

    PNAS 2006 103:10666-10671; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510863103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Toyoko Hiroi,
    • Akimasa Someya,
    • Walter Thompson,
    • Joel Moss,
    • and Martha Vaughan

    GEP 100 /BRAG2: Activator of ADP-ribosylation factor 6 for regulation of cell adhesion and actin cytoskeleton via E-cadherin and α-catenin

    PNAS 2006 103:10672-10677; published ahead of print June 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604091103

Chemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Andrea Nören-Müller,
    • Ivan Reis-Corrêa, Jr,
    • Heino Prinz,
    • Claudia Rosenbaum,
    • Krishna Saxena,
    • Harald J. Schwalbe,
    • Dietmar Vestweber,
    • Guiseppe Cagna,
    • Stefan Schunk,
    • Oliver Schwarz,
    • Hajo Schiewe,
    • and Herbert Waldmann

    From the Cover: Discovery of protein phosphatase inhibitor classes by biology-oriented synthesis

    PNAS 2006 103:10606-10611; published ahead of print June 29, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601490103

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Osamu Yoshino,
    • Heather E. McMahon,
    • Shweta Sharma,
    • and Shunichi Shimasaki

    A unique preovulatory expression pattern plays a key role in the physiological functions of BMP-15 in the mouse

    PNAS 2006 103:10678-10683; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600507103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Sreenivasulu Kurukuti,
    • Vijay Kumar Tiwari,
    • Gholamreza Tavoosidana,
    • Elena Pugacheva,
    • Adele Murrell,
    • Zhihu Zhao,
    • Victor Lobanenkov,
    • Wolf Reik,
    • and Rolf Ohlsson

    CTCF binding at the H19 imprinting control region mediates maternally inherited higher-order chromatin conformation to restrict enhancer access to Igf2

    PNAS 2006 103:10684-10689; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600326103
    Open Access Article

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Justin R. Meyer,
    • Stephen P. Ellner,
    • Nelson G. Hairston, Jr.,
    • Laura E. Jones,
    • and Takehito Yoshida

    Prey evolution on the time scale of predator–prey dynamics revealed by allele-specific quantitative PCR

    PNAS 2006 103:10690-10695; published ahead of print June 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600434103

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Kalin Vetsigian,
    • Carl Woese,
    • and Nigel Goldenfeld

    Collective evolution and the genetic code

    PNAS 2006 103:10696-10701; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603780103
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Alexander S. Mikheyev,
    • Ulrich G. Mueller,
    • and Patrick Abbot

    Cryptic sex and many-to-one coevolution in the fungus-growing ant symbiosis

    PNAS 2006 103:10702-10706; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601441103

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Ruth Janoschek,
    • Leona Plum,
    • Linda Koch,
    • Heike Münzberg,
    • Sabrina Diano,
    • Marya Shanabrough,
    • Werner Müller,
    • Tamas L. Horvath,
    • and Jens C. Brüning

    gp130 signaling in proopiomelanocortin neurons mediates the acute anorectic response to centrally applied ciliary neurotrophic factor

    PNAS 2006 103:10707-10712; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600425103
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Rajdeep Das,
    • Nevenka Dimitrova,
    • Zhenyu Xuan,
    • Robert A. Rollins,
    • Fatemah Haghighi,
    • John R. Edwards,
    • Jingyue Ju,
    • Timothy H. Bestor,
    • and Michael Q. Zhang

    Computational prediction of methylation status in human genomic sequences

    PNAS 2006 103:10713-10716; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602949103

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Robin Lesley,
    • Lisa M. Kelly,
    • Ying Xu,
    • and Jason G. Cyster

    Naive CD4 T cells constitutively express CD40L and augment autoreactive B cell survival

    PNAS 2006 103:10717-10722; published ahead of print June 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601539103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Yuko Ohta
    • and Martin Flajnik

    IgD, like IgM, is a primordial immunoglobulin class perpetuated in most jawed vertebrates

    PNAS 2006 103:10723-10728; published ahead of print July 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601407103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Petra Schnorrer,
    • Georg M. N. Behrens,
    • Nicholas S. Wilson,
    • Joanne L. Pooley,
    • Christopher M. Smith,
    • Dima El-Sukkari,
    • Gayle Davey,
    • Fiona Kupresanin,
    • Ming Li,
    • Eugene Maraskovsky,
    • Gabrielle T. Belz,
    • Francis R. Carbone,
    • Ken Shortman,
    • William R. Heath,
    • and Jose A. Villadangos

    The dominant role of CD8 + dendritic cells in cross-presentation is not dictated by antigen capture

    PNAS 2006 103:10729-10734; published ahead of print June 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601956103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Joyce Jing Yi Wong,
    • Yuh Fen Pung,