This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Heather E. Fleming
    • and David T. Scadden

    Embryonic stem cells make human T cells

    PNAS 2006 103:12213-12214; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605344103
    • See companion article on page 11742 in issue 31 of volume 103
  • Commentary:
    • Jonathan Gressel
    • and Avraham A. Levy

    Agriculture: The selector of improbable mutations

    PNAS 2006 103:12215-12216; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603666103
    • See companion article on page 12329 in issue 33 of volume 103
  • Commentary:
    • Marc Y. Donath
    • and Jan A. Ehses

    Type 1, type 1.5, and type 2 diabetes: NOD the diabetes we thought it was

    PNAS 2006 103:12217-12218; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605480103
    • See companion article on page 12475 in issue 33 of volume 103
  • Commentary:
    • Richard S. Nowakowski

    Stable neuron numbers from cradle to grave

    PNAS 2006 103:12219-12220; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605605103
    • See companion article on page 12564 in issue 33 of volume 103
  • Commentary:
    • Ben Cooper

    Poxy models and rash decisions

    PNAS 2006 103:12221-12222; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605502103
    • See companion article on page 12637 in issue 33 of volume 103

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Bruce D. Smith

    Eastern North America as an independent center of plant domestication

    PNAS 2006 103:12223-12228; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604335103

Profile

  • Profile:
    • Nick Zagorski

    Profile of Ewine F. van Dishoeck

    PNAS 2006 103:12229-12231; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604740103
    • See commentary article on page 12249 in issue 33 of volume 103

Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature

Introductory Perspective

  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Introductory Perspective:
    • William Klemperer

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Interstellar chemistry

    PNAS 2006 103:12232-12234; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605352103

Perspective

  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Lewis E. Snyder

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Interferometric observations of large biologically interesting interstellar and cometary molecules

    PNAS 2006 103:12243-12248; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601750103

Perspective

  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Takeshi Oka

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Interstellar H3+

    PNAS 2006 103:12235-12242; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601242103

Research Article

  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • Ewine F. van Dishoeck

    Inaugural Article: Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Chemistry in low-mass protostellar and protoplanetary regions

    PNAS 2006 103:12249-12256; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602207103
    • See commentary article on page 12229 in issue 33 of volume 103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • Eric Herbst
    • and Herma M. Cuppen

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Monte Carlo studies of surface chemistry and nonthermal desorption involving interstellar grains

    PNAS 2006 103:12257-12262; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601556103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • M. C. McCarthy,
    • S. Mohamed,
    • J. M. Brown,
    • and P. Thaddeus

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Detection of low-frequency lambda-doublet transitions of the free 12CH and 13CH radicals

    PNAS 2006 103:12263-12268; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601746103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • A. Dalgarno

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: The galactic cosmic ray ionization rate

    PNAS 2006 103:12269-12273; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602117103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • Lucy M. Ziurys

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: The chemistry in circumstellar envelopes of evolved stars: Following the origin of the elements to the origin of life

    PNAS 2006 103:12274-12279; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602277103

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Emil P. Kartalov,
    • Christopher Walker,
    • Clive R. Taylor,
    • W. French Anderson,
    • and Axel Scherer

    Microfluidic vias enable nested bioarrays and autoregulatory devices in Newtonian fluids

    PNAS 2006 103:12280-12284; published online before print August 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602890103
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Markus J. Buehler

    Nature designs tough collagen: Explaining the nanostructure of collagen fibrils

    PNAS 2006 103:12285-12290; published online before print August 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603216103
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Kurt Zenz House,
    • Daniel P. Schrag,
    • Charles F. Harvey,
    • and Klaus S. Lackner

    Permanent carbon dioxide storage in deep-sea sediments

    PNAS 2006 103:12291-12295; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605318103

Astronomy

  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • Ewine F. van Dishoeck

    Inaugural Article: Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Chemistry in low-mass protostellar and protoplanetary regions

    PNAS 2006 103:12249-12256; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602207103
    • See commentary article on page 12229 in issue 33 of volume 103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • Eric Herbst
    • and Herma M. Cuppen

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Monte Carlo studies of surface chemistry and nonthermal desorption involving interstellar grains

    PNAS 2006 103:12257-12262; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601556103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • M. C. McCarthy,
    • S. Mohamed,
    • J. M. Brown,
    • and P. Thaddeus

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: Detection of low-frequency lambda-doublet transitions of the free 12CH and 13CH radicals

    PNAS 2006 103:12263-12268; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601746103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • A. Dalgarno

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: The galactic cosmic ray ionization rate

    PNAS 2006 103:12269-12273; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602117103
  • Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature - Research Article - Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
    • Lucy M. Ziurys

    Interstellar Chemistry Special Feature: The chemistry in circumstellar envelopes of evolved stars: Following the origin of the elements to the origin of life

    PNAS 2006 103:12274-12279; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602277103

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Tamar Evan-Salem,
    • Inbal Baruch,
    • Liat Avram,
    • Yoram Cohen,
    • Liam C. Palmer,
    • and Julius Rebek, Jr.

    Resorcinarenes are hexameric capsules in solution

    PNAS 2006 103:12296-12300; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604757103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • U. Heugen,
    • G. Schwaab,
    • E. Bründermann,
    • M. Heyden,
    • X. Yu,
    • D. M. Leitner,
    • and M. Havenith

    Solute-induced retardation of water dynamics probed directly by terahertz spectroscopy

    PNAS 2006 103:12301-12306; published online before print August 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604897103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kari L. Stone,
    • Rachel K. Behan,
    • and Michael T. Green

    Resonance Raman spectroscopy of chloroperoxidase compound II provides direct evidence for the existence of an iron(IV)–hydroxide

    PNAS 2006 103:12307-12310; published online before print August 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603159103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Fu-Sen Liang,
    • William A. Greenberg,
    • Jennifer A. Hammond,
    • Julia Hoffmann,
    • Steven R. Head,
    • and Chi-Huey Wong

    Evaluation of RNA-binding specificity of aminoglycosides with DNA microarrays

    PNAS 2006 103:12311-12316; published online before print August 4, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605264103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Masaaki Sawa,
    • Tsui-Ling Hsu,
    • Takeshi Itoh,
    • Masakazu Sugiyama,
    • Sarah R. Hanson,
    • Peter K. Vogt,
    • and Chi-Huey Wong

    Glycoproteomic probes for fluorescent imaging of fucosylated glycans in vivo

    PNAS 2006 103:12371-12376; published online before print August 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605418103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Andreas Möglich,
    • Karin Joder,
    • and Thomas Kiefhaber

    End-to-end distance distributions and intrachain diffusion constants in unfolded polypeptide chains indicate intramolecular hydrogen bond formation

    PNAS 2006 103:12394-12399; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604748103

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Cornelia Wuchter,
    • Ben Abbas,
    • Marco J. L. Coolen,
    • Lydie Herfort,
    • Judith van Bleijswijk,
    • Peer Timmers,
    • Marc Strous,
    • Eva Teira,
    • Gerhard J. Herndl,
    • Jack J. Middelburg,
    • Stefan Schouten,
    • and Jaap S. Sinninghe Damsté

    Archaeal nitrification in the ocean

    PNAS 2006 103:12317-12322; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600756103
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Vincenzo Vitelli,
    • J. B. Lucks,
    • and D. R. Nelson

    Crystallography on curved surfaces

    PNAS 2006 103:12323-12328; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602755103
    OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jérôme Solon,
    • Pia Streicher,
    • Ralf Richter,
    • Françoise Brochard-Wyart,
    • and Patricia Bassereau

    Vesicles surfing on a lipid bilayer: Self-induced haptotactic motion

    PNAS 2006 103:12382-12387; published online before print August 4, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601400103

Statistics

  • Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • W. Evan Johnson,
    • Wei Li,
    • Clifford A. Meyer,
    • Raphael Gottardo,
    • Jason S. Carroll,
    • Myles Brown,
    • and X. Shirley Liu

    Model-based analysis of tiling-arrays for ChIP-chip

    PNAS 2006 103:12457-12462; published online before print August 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601180103

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
    • João Zilhão,
    • Francesco d’Errico,
    • Jean-Guillaume Bordes,
    • Arnaud Lenoble,
    • Jean-Pierre Texier,
    • and Jean-Philippe Rigaud

    Analysis of Aurignacian interstratification at the Châtelperronian-type site and implications for the behavioral modernity of Neandertals

    PNAS 2006 103:12643-12648; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605128103

Psychology

  • Social Sciences - Psychology:
    • Andrea Berger,
    • Gabriel Tzur,
    • and Michael I. Posner

    Infant brains detect arithmetic errors

    PNAS 2006 103:12649-12653; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605350103

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • William L. Patzoldt,
    • Aaron G. Hager,
    • Joel S. McCormick,
    • and Patrick J. Tranel

    From the Cover: A codon deletion confers resistance to herbicides inhibiting protoporphyrinogen oxidase

    PNAS 2006 103:12329-12334; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603137103
    • See commentary article on page 12215 in issue 33 of volume 103

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Markus J. Buehler

    Nature designs tough collagen: Explaining the nanostructure of collagen fibrils

    PNAS 2006 103:12285-12290; published online before print August 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603216103
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Derrick C. Wan,
    • Yun-Ying Shi,
    • Randall P. Nacamuli,
    • Natalina Quarto,
    • Karen M. Lyons,
    • and Michael T. Longaker

    Osteogenic differentiation of mouse adipose-derived adult stromal cells requires retinoic acid and bone morphogenetic protein receptor type IB signaling

    PNAS 2006 103:12335-12340; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604849103

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Fu-Sen Liang,
    • William A. Greenberg,
    • Jennifer A. Hammond,
    • Julia Hoffmann,
    • Steven R. Head,
    • and Chi-Huey Wong

    Evaluation of RNA-binding specificity of aminoglycosides with DNA microarrays

    PNAS 2006 103:12311-12316; published online before print August 4, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605264103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ashraf Alhapel,
    • Daniel J. Darley,
    • Nadine Wagener,
    • Elke Eckel,
    • Nora Elsner,
    • and Antonio J. Pierik

    Molecular and functional analysis of nicotinate catabolism in Eubacterium barkeri

    PNAS 2006 103:12341-12346; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601635103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kevin J. Wright,
    • Michael T. Marr II,
    • and Robert Tjian

    TAF4 nucleates a core subcomplex of TFIID and mediates activated transcription from a TATA-less promoter

    PNAS 2006 103:12347-12352; published online before print August 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605499103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Steven R. Loftus,
    • Daniel Walker,
    • Maria J. Maté,
    • Daniel A. Bonsor,
    • Richard James,
    • Geoffrey R. Moore,
    • and Colin Kleanthous

    Competitive recruitment of the periplasmic translocation portal TolB by a natively disordered domain of colicin E9

    PNAS 2006 103:12353-12358; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603433103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Stephen P. Muench,
    • Ling Xu,
    • Svetlana E. Sedelnikova,
    • and David W. Rice

    The essential GTPase YphC displays a major domain rearrangement associated with nucleotide binding

    PNAS 2006 103:12359-12364; published online before print August 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602585103