Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Philip A. Rea

    Phytochelatin synthase, papain's cousin, in stereo

    PNAS 2006 103:507-508; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509971102
    • See companion article on page 18848 in issue 52 of volume 102
  • Commentary:
    • Paul W. Frankland
    • and Bruno Bontempi

    Fast track to the medial prefrontal cortex

    PNAS 2006 103:509-510; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510133103
    • See companion article on page 756 in issue 3 of volume 103

In This Issue

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology - Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • I. M. Rouzine,
    • R. A. Sergeev,
    • and A. I. Glushtsov

    Two types of cytotoxic lymphocyte regulation explain kinetics of immune response to human immunodeficiency virus

    PNAS 2006 103:666-671; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510016103

Astronomy

  • Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • Maurice H. P. M. van Putten

    From the Cover: Global spectral representations of black hole spacetimes in the complex plane

    PNAS 2006 103:519-522; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508406103

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Ifat Kaplan-Ashiri,
    • Sidney R. Cohen,
    • Konstantin Gartsman,
    • Viktoria Ivanovskaya,
    • Thomas Heine,
    • Gotthard Seifert,
    • Inna Wiesel,
    • H. Daniel Wagner,
    • and Reshef Tenne

    On the mechanical behavior of WS 2 nanotubes under axial tension and compression

    PNAS 2006 103:523-528; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505640103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Roel P. A. Dullens,
    • Dirk G. A. L. Aarts,
    • and Willem K. Kegel

    Direct measurement of the free energy by optical microscopy

    PNAS 2006 103:529-531; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507052103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • David F. Perkins,
    • Leonard F. Lindoy,
    • Alexander McAuley,
    • George V. Meehan,
    • and Peter Turner

    Manganese(II), iron(II), cobalt(II), and copper(II) complexes of an extended inherently chiral tris-bipyridyl cage

    PNAS 2006 103:532-537; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508539103

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Manouk Abkarian,
    • Magalie Faivre,
    • and Howard A. Stone

    High-speed microfluidic differential manometer for cellular-scale hydrodynamics

    PNAS 2006 103:538-542; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507171102

Geophysics

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • L. Matthews,
    • J.C. Low,
    • D. L. Gally,
    • M. C. Pearce,
    • D. J. Mellor,
    • J. A. P. Heesterbeek,
    • M. Chase-Topping,
    • S. W. Naylor,
    • D. J. Shaw,
    • S. W. J. Reid,
    • G. J. Gunn,
    • and M. E. J. Woolhouse

    Heterogeneous shedding of Escherichia coli O157 in cattle and its implications for control

    PNAS 2006 103:547-552; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0503776103

Anthropology

  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Tom Higham,
    • Christopher Bronk Ramsey,
    • Ivor Karavanić,
    • Fred H. Smith,
    • and Erik Trinkaus

    Revised direct radiocarbon dating of the Vindija G 1 Upper Paleolithic Neandertals

    PNAS 2006 103:553-557; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510005103

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Martin T. Hess,
    • Marc L. Mendillo,
    • Dan J. Mazur,
    • and Richard D. Kolodner

    Biochemical basis for dominant mutations in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae MSH6 gene

    PNAS 2006 103:558-563; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510078103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kazunobu Konishi,
    • Takehiro Ohta,
    • Ken-Ichi Oinuma,
    • Yoshiteru Hashimoto,
    • Teizo Kitagawa,
    • and Michihiko Kobayashi

    Discovery of a reaction intermediate of aliphatic aldoxime dehydratase involving heme as an active center

    PNAS 2006 103:564-568; published ahead of print January 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505412103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jennifer A. McCourt,
    • Siew Siew Pang,
    • Jack King-Scott,
    • Luke W. Guddat,
    • and Ronald G. Duggleby

    Herbicide-binding sites revealed in the structure of plant acetohydroxyacid synthase

    PNAS 2006 103:569-573; published ahead of print January 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508701103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Chunyuan Jin
    • and Gary Felsenfeld

    Distribution of histone H3.3 in hematopoietic cell lineages

    PNAS 2006 103:574-579; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509974103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yuka Namiki
    • and Lee Zou

    ATRIP associates with replication protein A-coated ssDNA through multiple interactions

    PNAS 2006 103:580-585; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510223103

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Samuel S. Cho,
    • Yaakov Levy,
    • and Peter G. Wolynes

    P versus Q : Structural reaction coordinates capture protein folding on smooth landscapes

    PNAS 2006 103:586-591; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509768103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ady Vaknin
    • and Howard C. Berg

    Osmotic stress mechanically perturbs chemoreceptors in Escherichia coli

    PNAS 2006 103:592-596; published ahead of print January 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510047103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Naomi E. Chayen,
    • Emmanuel Saridakis,
    • and Richard P. Sear

    Experiment and theory for heterogeneous nucleation of protein crystals in a porous medium

    PNAS 2006 103:597-601; published ahead of print January 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504860102

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Anne Gegonne,
    • Jocelyn D. Weissman,
    • Meisheng Zhou,
    • John N. Brady,
    • and Dinah S. Singer

    TAF7: A possible transcription initiation check-point regulator

    PNAS 2006 103:602-607; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510031103
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • David V. Hansen,
    • Jeffrey J. Tung,
    • and Peter K. Jackson

    CaMKII and Polo-like kinase 1 sequentially phosphorylate the cytostatic factor Emi2/XErp1 to trigger its destruction and meiotic exit

    PNAS 2006 103:608-613; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509549102

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Anna N. Ripley,
    • Megan E. Osler,
    • Christopher V. E. Wright,
    • and David Bader

    Xbves is a regulator of epithelial movement during early Xenopus laevis development

    PNAS 2006 103:614-619; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506095103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Beth E. Thompson,
    • Liana B. Lamont,
    • and Judith Kimble

    Germ-line induction of the Caenorhabditis elegans vulva

    PNAS 2006 103:620-625; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510264103

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Noah Fierer
    • and Robert B. Jackson

    From the Cover: The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities

    PNAS 2006 103:626-631; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507535103
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Catherine H. Graham,
    • Craig Moritz,
    • and Stephen E. Williams

    Habitat history improves prediction of biodiversity in rainforest fauna

    PNAS 2006 103:632-636; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505754103

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Catherine C. Fernandez,
    • James R. Shevock,
    • Alexander N. Glazer,
    • and John N. Thompson

    Cryptic species within the cosmopolitan desiccation-tolerant moss Grimmia laevigata

    PNAS 2006 103:637-642; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510267103
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Marcela Salomao,
    • Xiuli An,
    • Xinhua Guo,
    • Walter B. Gratzer,
    • Narla Mohandas,
    • and Anthony J. Baines

    Mammalian αI-spectrin is a neofunctionalized polypeptide adapted to small highly deformable erythrocytes

    PNAS 2006 103:643-648; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507661103

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Andrew W. Norris
    • and C. Ronald Kahn

    Analysis of gene expression in pathophysiological states: Balancing false discovery and false negative rates

    PNAS 2006 103:649-653; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510115103
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Melanie J. Percy,
    • Quan Zhao,
    • Adrian Flores,
    • Claire Harrison,
    • Terence R. J. Lappin,
    • Patrick H. Maxwell,
    • Mary Frances McMullin,
    • and Frank S. Lee

    From the Cover: A family with erythrocytosis establishes a role for prolyl hydroxylase domain protein 2 in oxygen homeostasis

    PNAS 2006 103:654-659; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0508423103

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Lindsey S. Garver,
    • Junlin Wu,
    • and Louisa P. Wu

    The peptidoglycan recognition protein PGRP-SC1a is essential for Toll signaling and phagocytosis of Staphylococcus aureus in Drosophila

    PNAS 2006 103:660-665; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506182103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology - Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • I. M. Rouzine,
    • R. A. Sergeev,
    • and A. I. Glushtsov

    Two types of cytotoxic lymphocyte regulation explain kinetics of immune response to human immunodeficiency virus

    PNAS 2006 103:666-671; published ahead of print January 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510016103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Chia-Lin Hsu,
    • Angela G. King-Fleischman,
    • Anne Y. Lai,
    • Yukie Matsumoto,
    • Irving L. Weissman,
    • and Motonari Kondo

    Antagonistic effect of CCAAT enhancer-binding protein-α and Pax5 in myeloid or lymphoid lineage choice in common lymphoid progenitors

    PNAS 2006 103:672-677; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510304103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Patricio T. Huerta,
    • Czeslawa Kowal,
    • Lorraine A. DeGiorgio,
    • Bruce T. Volpe,
    • and Betty Diamond

    Immunity and behavior: Antibodies alter emotion

    PNAS 2006 103:678-683; published ahead of print January 4, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510055103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Chittoor P. Swaminathan,
    • Patrick H. Brown,
    • Abhijit Roychowdhury,
    • Qian Wang,
    • Rongjin Guan,
    • Neal Silverman,
    • William E. Goldman,
    • Geert-Jan Boons,
    • and Roy A. Mariuzza

    Dual strategies for peptidoglycan discrimination by peptidoglycan recognition proteins (PGRPs)

    PNAS 2006 103:684-689; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507656103

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Xander H. T. Wehrens,
    • Stephan E. Lehnart,
    • Steven Reiken,
    • John A. Vest,
    • Anetta Wronska,
    • and Andrew R. Marks

    Inaugural Article: Ryanodine receptor/calcium release channel PKA phosphorylation: A critical mediator of heart failure progression

    PNAS 2006 103:511-518; published ahead of print January 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510113103
    • See commentary article on page 8915 in issue 24 of volume 103
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Robert B. West,
    • Brian P. Rubin,
    • Melinda A. Miller,
    • Subbaya Subramanian,
    • Gulsah Kaygusuz,
    • Kelli Montgomery,
    • Shirley Zhu,
    • Robert J. Marinelli,
    • Alessandro De Luca,
    • Erinn Downs-Kelly,
    • John R. Goldblum,
    • Christopher L. Corless,
    • Patrick O. Brown,
    • C. Blake Gilks,
    • Torsten O. Nielsen,
    • David Huntsman,
    • and Matt van de Rijn

    A landscape effect in tenosynovial giant-cell tumor from activation of CSF1 expression by a translocation in a minority of tumor cells

    PNAS 2006 103:690-695; published ahead of print January 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507321103
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Orr Ofek,
    • Meliha Karsak,
    • Nathalie Leclerc,
    • Meirav Fogel,
    • Baruch Frenkel,
    • Karen Wright,
    • Joseph Tam,
    • Malka Attar-Namdar,
    • Vardit Kram,
    • Esther Shohami,
    • Raphael Mechoulam,
    • Andreas Zimmer,
    • and Itai Bab

    Peripheral cannabinoid receptor, CB2, regulates bone mass

    PNAS 2006 103:696-701; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504187103
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Vladimir Kepe,
    • Jorge R. Barrio,
    • Sung-Cheng Huang,
    • Linda Ercoli,
    • Prabha Siddarth,
    • Kooresh Shoghi-Jadid,
    • Gregory M. Cole,
    • Nagichettiar Satyamurthy,
    • Jeffrey L. Cummings,
    • Gary W. Small,
    • and Michael E. Phelps

    Serotonin 1A receptors in the living brain of Alzheimer's disease patients

    PNAS 2006 103:702-707; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510237103
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Maria G. Mason,
    • Peter Nicholls,
    • Michael T. Wilson,
    • and Christopher E. Cooper

    Nitric oxide inhibition of respiration involves both competitive (heme) and noncompetitive (copper) binding to cytochrome c oxidase

    PNAS 2006 103:708-713; published ahead of print January 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506562103
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Laura C. Greaves,
    • Sean L. Preston,
    • Paul J. Tadrous,
    • Robert W. Taylor,
    • Martin J. Barron,
    • Dahmane Oukrif,
    • Simon J. Leedham,
    • Maesha Deheragoda,
    • Peter Sasieni,
    • Marco R. Novelli,
    • Janusz A. Z. Jankowski,
    • Douglass M. Turnbull,
    • Nicholas A. Wright,
    • and Stuart A. C. McDonald

    Mitochondrial DNA mutations are established in human colonic stem cells, and mutated clones expand by crypt fission

    PNAS 2006 103:714-719; published ahead of print January 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0505903103