PNAS — Table of Contents — September 12, 2006, 103 (37)

This Week in PNAS

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In This Issue
PNAS 2006 103:13561-13562; doi:10.1073/iti3706103

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Lori Marino
Absolute brain size: Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater?
PNAS 2006 103:13563-13564; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606337103
- See companion article on page 13606 in issue 37 of volume 103
Commentary:
- F. Peter Guengerich
A malleable catalyst dominates the metabolism of drugs
PNAS 2006 103:13565-13566; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606333103
- See companion article on page 13682 in issue 37 of volume 103
Commentary:
- David Mitchell
Revisiting the photochemistry of solar UVA in human skin
PNAS 2006 103:13567-13568; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605833103
- See companion article on page 13765 in issue 37 of volume 103

QnAs

QnAs:
- Regina Nuzzo
QnAs with Karl Mahlburg
PNAS 2006 103:13569; doi:10.1073/pnas.0604770103

Profile

Profile:
- Nick Zagorski
Profile of Svante Pääbo
PNAS 2006 103:13575-13577; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606596103
- See commentary article on page 13578 in issue 37 of volume 103

Biolgical Sciences

Evolution

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Physical Sciences - Geology - Biolgical Sciences - Evolution:
- Steve C. Wang
- and Peter Dodson
Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs
PNAS 2006 103:13601-13605; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606028103

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- C. Carrasco,
- A. Carreira,
- I. A. T. Schaap,
- P. A. Serena,
- J. Gómez-Herrero,
- M. G. Mateu,
- and P. J. de Pablo
DNA-mediated anisotropic mechanical reinforcement of a virus
PNAS 2006 103:13706-13711; published ahead of print August 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601881103

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Yutaka Ishida,
- Bruno Donnadieu,
- and Guy Bertrand
Stable four-π-electron, four-membered heterocyclic cations and carbenes
PNAS 2006 103:13585-13588; published ahead of print September 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604761103

Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology:
- T. M. Hill,
- J. P. Kennett,
- D. L. Valentine,
- Z. Yang,
- C. M. Reddy,
- R. K. Nelson,
- R. J. Behl,
- C. Robert,
- and L. Beaufort
Inaugural Article: Climatically driven emissions of hydrocarbons from marine sediments during deglaciation
PNAS 2006 103:13570-13574; published ahead of print August 30, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601304103
- See commentary article on page 1751 in issue 6 of volume 104
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Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Pierre-Olivier Antoine,
- Dario De Franceschi,
- John J. Flynn,
- André Nel,
- Patrice Baby,
- Mouloud Benammi,
- Ysabel Calderón,
- Nicolas Espurt,
- Anjali Goswami,
- and Rodolfo Salas-Gismondi
Amber from western Amazonia reveals Neotropical diversity during the middle Miocene
PNAS 2006 103:13595-13600; published ahead of print September 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605801103
Select this article
Physical Sciences - Geology - Biolgical Sciences - Evolution:
- Steve C. Wang
- and Peter Dodson
Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs
PNAS 2006 103:13601-13605; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606028103

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Suddhashil Chattopadhyay,
- Radu Moldovan,
- Chuck Yeung,
- and X. L. Wu
Swimming efficiency of bacterium Escherichia coli
PNAS 2006 103:13712-13717; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602043103
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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Violeta Iancu
- and Saw-Wai Hla
Realization of a four-step molecular switch in scanning tunneling microscope manipulation of single chlorophyll-a molecules
PNAS 2006 103:13718-13721; published ahead of print September 5, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603643103
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Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Absolute brain size: Did we throw the baby out with the bathwater?

A malleable catalyst dominates the metabolism of drugs

Revisiting the photochemistry of solar UVA in human skin

QnAs with Karl Mahlburg

Profile of Svante Pääbo

Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs

DNA-mediated anisotropic mechanical reinforcement of a virus

Stable four-π-electron, four-membered heterocyclic cations and carbenes

Inaugural Article: Climatically driven emissions of hydrocarbons from marine sediments during deglaciation

Amber from western Amazonia reveals Neotropical diversity during the middle Miocene

Estimating the diversity of dinosaurs

Swimming efficiency of bacterium Escherichia coli

Realization of a four-step molecular switch in scanning tunneling microscope manipulation of single chlorophyll-a molecules

From the Cover: Evolution of increased glia–neuron ratios in the human frontal cortex

Zip14 (Slc39a14) mediates non-transferrin-bound iron uptake into cells

A microrotary motor powered by bacteria

Rats produced by interspecies spermatogonial transplantation in mice and in vitro microinsemination

Accurately quantifying low-abundant targets amid similar sequences by revealing hidden correlations in oligonucleotide microarray data

Engineering RNA sequence specificity of Pumilio repeats

Structure of an RNA switch that enforces stringent retroviral genomic RNA dimerization

Enhancement of antinociception by coadministration of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and soluble epoxide hydrolase inhibitors

Purification and molecular cloning of a DNA ADP-ribosylating protein, CARP-1, from the edible clam Meretrix lamarckii

Helix-packing motifs in membrane proteins

Biosynthesis of mycobacterial lipoarabinomannan: Role of a branching mannosyltransferase

Role and timing of GTP binding and hydrolysis during EF-G-dependent tRNA translocation on the ribosome

NikR–operator complex structure and the mechanism of repressor activation by metal ions

From the Cover: Structural basis for ligand promiscuity in cytochrome P450 3A4

Intersubunit signaling in glutamate-1-semialdehyde-aminomutase

Phosphorylation of actin Tyr-53 inhibits filament nucleation and elongation and destabilizes filaments

Inhibition of a spliceosome turnover pathway suppresses splicing defects

DNA-mediated anisotropic mechanical reinforcement of a virus

Swimming efficiency of bacterium Escherichia coli

Realization of a four-step molecular switch in scanning tunneling microscope manipulation of single chlorophyll-a molecules

Antibody evolution constrains conformational heterogeneity by tailoring protein dynamics

New building blocks in the 2/1 crystalline approximant of a Bergman-type icosahedral quasicrystal

Molecular characterization of embryonic gonads by gene expression profiling in Drosophila melanogaster

Control of growth and positional information by the graded vestigial expression pattern in the wing of Drosophila melanogaster

Diverse responses of phenology to global changes in a grassland ecosystem

Foraging biology predicts food web complexity

Amber from western Amazonia reveals Neotropical diversity during the middle Miocene

Chiral-selective aminoacylation of an RNA minihelix: Mechanistic features and chiral suppression

Parallel genetic origins of pelvic reduction in vertebrates