This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Eric Camerer
    • and JoAnn Trejo

    Cryptic messages: Is noncoagulant tissue factor reserved for cell signaling?

    PNAS 2006 103:14259-14260; published ahead of print September 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606888103
    • See companion article on page 13932 in issue 38 of volume 103
  • Commentary:
    • Carlos M. Souza, Jr.

    Mapping land use of tropical regions from space

    PNAS 2006 103:14261-14262; published ahead of print September 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606804103
    • See companion article on page 14637 in issue 39 of volume 103

Profile

  • Profile:
    • Philip Downey

    Profile of Ranulfo Romo

    PNAS 2006 103:14263-14265; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607434103
    • See commentary article on page 14266 in issue 39 of volume 103

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Daniel D. Joseph

    Helmholtz decomposition coupling rotational to irrotational flow of a viscous fluid

    PNAS 2006 103:14272-14277; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605792103
    Open Access Article

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Laurel M. Pegram
    • and M. Thomas Record, Jr.

    Partitioning of atmospherically relevant ions between bulk water and the water/vapor interface

    PNAS 2006 103:14278-14281; published ahead of print September 15, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606256103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • John M. Herbert
    • and Martin Head-Gordon

    First-principles, quantum-mechanical simulations of electron solvation by a water cluster

    PNAS 2006 103:14282-14287; published ahead of print September 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603679103

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • James Hansen,
    • Makiko Sato,
    • Reto Ruedy,
    • Ken Lo,
    • David W. Lea,
    • and Martin Medina-Elizade

    Global temperature change

    PNAS 2006 103:14288-14293; published ahead of print September 25, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606291103
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Dana L. Miller,
    • Claudia I. Mora,
    • Henri D. Grissino-Mayer,
    • Cary J. Mock,
    • Maria E. Uhle,
    • and Zachary Sharp

    Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

    PNAS 2006 103:14294-14297; published ahead of print September 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606549103
    Open Access Article

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Claudius Gros,
    • Bernhard Edegger,
    • V. N. Muthukumar,
    • and P. W. Anderson

    Determining the underlying Fermi surface of strongly correlated superconductors

    PNAS 2006 103:14298-14301; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606219103

Social Sciences

Sustainability Science

  • Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Douglas C. Morton,
    • Ruth S. DeFries,
    • Yosio E. Shimabukuro,
    • Liana O. Anderson,
    • Egidio Arai,
    • Fernando del Bon Espirito-Santo,
    • Ramon Freitas,
    • and Jeff Morisette

    Cropland expansion changes deforestation dynamics in the southern Brazilian Amazon

    PNAS 2006 103:14637-14641; published ahead of print September 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606377103
    • See commentary article on page 14261 in issue 39 of volume 103

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • Guozhong Huang,
    • Rex Allen,
    • Eric L. Davis,
    • Thomas J. Baum,
    • and Richard S. Hussey

    Engineering broad root-knot resistance in transgenic plants by RNAi silencing of a conserved and essential root-knot nematode parasitism gene

    PNAS 2006 103:14302-14306; published ahead of print September 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604698103
    Open Access Article

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Shana Frederickson,
    • Mark W. Renshaw,
    • Bing Lin,
    • Lynette M. Smith,
    • Peter Calveley,
    • Jeremy P. Springhorn,
    • Krista Johnson,
    • Yi Wang,
    • Xiao Su,
    • Yamin Shen,
    • and Katherine S. Bowdish

    A rationally designed agonist antibody fragment that functionally mimics thrombopoietin

    PNAS 2006 103:14307-14312; published ahead of print September 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602658103

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Peter M. Wolanin,
    • Melinda D. Baker,
    • Noreen R. Francis,
    • Dennis R. Thomas,
    • David J. DeRosier,
    • and Jeffry B. Stock

    Self-assembly of receptor/signaling complexes in bacterial chemotaxis

    PNAS 2006 103:14313-14318; published ahead of print September 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606350103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ngoc-Quynh-Nhu Nguyen,
    • Sebastien P. Tabruyn,
    • Laurence Lins,
    • Michelle Lion,
    • Anne M. Cornet,
    • Florence Lair,
    • Francoise Rentier-Delrue,
    • Robert Brasseur,
    • Joseph A. Martial,
    • and Ingrid Struman

    Prolactin/growth hormone–derived antiangiogenic peptides highlight a potential role of tilted peptides in angiogenesis

    PNAS 2006 103:14319-14324; published ahead of print September 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606638103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • V. Jacquier,
    • M. Prummer,
    • J.-M. Segura,
    • H. Pick,
    • and H. Vogel

    Visualizing odorant receptor trafficking in living cells down to the single-molecule level

    PNAS 2006 103:14325-14330; published ahead of print September 15, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603942103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tatiana Svetlitchnaia,
    • Vitali Svetlitchnyi,
    • Ortwin Meyer,
    • and Holger Dobbek

    Structural insights into methyltransfer reactions of a corrinoid iron–sulfur protein involved in acetyl-CoA synthesis

    PNAS 2006 103:14331-14336; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601420103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Constanze Breithaupt,
    • Robert Kurzbauer,
    • Hauke Lilie,
    • Andreas Schaller,
    • Jochen Strassner,
    • Robert Huber,
    • Peter Macheroux,
    • and Tim Clausen

    Crystal structure of 12-oxophytodienoate reductase 3 from tomato: Self-inhibition by dimerization

    PNAS 2006 103:14337-14342; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606603103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jiahai Zhou,
    • Chuan Yin Liu,
    • Sung Hoon Back,
    • Robert L. Clark,
    • Daniel Peisach,
    • Zhaohui Xu,
    • and Randal J. Kaufman

    The crystal structure of human IRE1 luminal domain reveals a conserved dimerization interface required for activation of the unfolded protein response

    PNAS 2006 103:14343-14348; published ahead of print September 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606480103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yolande A. Chan,
    • Michael T. Boyne, II,
    • Angela M. Podevels,
    • Amy K. Klimowicz,
    • Jo Handelsman,
    • Neil L. Kelleher,
    • and Michael G. Thomas

    Hydroxymalonyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) and aminomalonyl-ACP are two additional type I polyketide synthase extender units

    PNAS 2006 103:14349-14354; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603748103

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Delphine Bichet,
    • Michael Grabe,
    • Yuh Nung Jan,
    • and Lily Yeh Jan

    Electrostatic interactions in the channel cavity as an important determinant of potassium channel selectivity

    PNAS 2006 103:14355-14360; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606660103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Michael Grabe,
    • Delphine Bichet,
    • Xiang Qian,
    • Yuh Nung Jan,
    • and Lily Yeh Jan

    K + channel selectivity depends on kinetic as well as thermodynamic factors

    PNAS 2006 103:14361-14366; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606662103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Natalia Slepko,
    • Anusri M. Bhattacharyya,
    • George R. Jackson,
    • Joan S. Steffan,
    • J. Lawrence Marsh,
    • Leslie Michels Thompson,
    • and Ronald Wetzel

    Normal-repeat-length polyglutamine peptides accelerate aggregation nucleation and cytotoxicity of expanded polyglutamine proteins

    PNAS 2006 103:14367-14372; published ahead of print September 15, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602348103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Rumiana Koynova,
    • Li Wang,
    • and Robert C. MacDonald

    An intracellular lamellar–nonlamellar phase transition rationalizes the superior performance of some cationic lipid transfection agents

    PNAS 2006 103:14373-14378; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603085103

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Zhidan Wu,
    • Xueming Huang,
    • Yajun Feng,
    • Christoph Handschin,
    • Yan Feng,
    • P. Scott Gullicksen,
    • Olivia Bare,
    • Mark Labow,
    • Bruce Spiegelman,
    • and Susan C. Stevenson

    Transducer of regulated CREB-binding proteins (TORCs) induce PGC-1α transcription and mitochondrial biogenesis in muscle cells

    PNAS 2006 103:14379-14384; published ahead of print September 15, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606714103
    Open Access Article

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Brandon Ason,
    • Diana K. Darnell,
    • Beate Wittbrodt,
    • Eugene Berezikov,
    • Wigard P. Kloosterman,
    • Jochen Wittbrodt,
    • Parker B. Antin,
    • and Ronald H. A. Plasterk

    From the Cover: Differences in vertebrate microRNA expression

    PNAS 2006 103:14385-14389; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603529103
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Kathrin A. Dunlap,
    • Massimo Palmarini,
    • Mariana Varela,
    • Robert C. Burghardt,
    • Kanako Hayashi,
    • Jennifer L. Farmer,
    • and Thomas E. Spencer

    Endogenous retroviruses regulate periimplantation placental growth and differentiation

    PNAS 2006 103:14390-14395; published ahead of print September 15, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603836103

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Catherine Dreanno,
    • Kiyotaka Matsumura,
    • Naoshi Dohmae,
    • Koji Takio,
    • Hiroshi Hirota,
    • Richard R. Kirby,
    • and Anthony S. Clare

    An α 2 -macroglobulin-like protein is the cue to gregarious settlement of the barnacle Balanus amphitrite

    PNAS 2006 103:14396-14401; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602763103

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Dana L. Miller,
    • Claudia I. Mora,
    • Henri D. Grissino-Mayer,
    • Cary J. Mock,
    • Maria E. Uhle,
    • and Zachary Sharp

    Tree-ring isotope records of tropical cyclone activity

    PNAS 2006 103:14294-14297; published ahead of print September 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606549103
    Open Access Article

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Rafael Sanjuán
    • and Santiago F. Elena

    Epistasis correlates to genomic complexity

    PNAS 2006 103:14402-14405; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604543103
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Alexander V. Badyaev,
    • Terri L. Hamstra,
    • Kevin P. Oh,
    • and Dana A. Acevedo Seaman

    Sex-biased maternal effects reduce ectoparasite-induced mortality in a passerine bird

    PNAS 2006 103:14406-14411; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602452103
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Yeong-Shin Lin,
    • Jake K. Byrnes,
    • Jenn-Kang Hwang,
    • and Wen-Hsiung Li

    Codon-usage bias versus gene conversion in the evolution of yeast duplicate genes

    PNAS 2006 103:14412-14416; published ahead of print September 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606348103

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Masatomo Kobayashi,
    • Lydia Michaut,
    • Ayako Ino,
    • Ken Honjo,
    • Taiki Nakajima,
    • Yasushi Maruyama,
    • Hiroaki Mochizuki,
    • Mai Ando,
    • Indrayani Ghangrekar,
    • Kuniaki Takahashi,
    • Kaoru Saigo,
    • Ryu Ueda,
    • Walter J. Gehring,
    • and Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga

    Differential microarray analysis of Drosophila mushroom body transcripts using chemical ablation

    PNAS 2006 103:14417-14422; published ahead of print September 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606571103
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Vladimir Voynov,
    • Kevin J. Verstrepen,
    • An Jansen,
    • Vanessa M. Runner,
    • Stephen Buratowski,
    • and Gerald R. Fink

    Genes with internal repeats require the THO complex for transcription

    PNAS 2006 103:14423-14428; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606546103
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Todd E. Scheetz,
    • Kwang-Youn A. Kim,
    • Ruth E. Swiderski,
    • Alisdair R. Philp,
    • Terry A. Braun,
    • Kevin L. Knudtson,
    • Anne M. Dorrance,
    • Gerald F. DiBona,
    • Jian Huang,
    • Thomas L. Casavant,
    • Val C. Sheffield,
    • and Edwin M. Stone

    Regulation of gene expression in the mammalian eye and its relevance to eye disease

    PNAS 2006 103:14429-14434; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602562103

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Marianne M. Martinic,
    • Maries F. van den Broek,
    • Thomas Rülicke,
    • Christoph Huber,
    • Bernhard Odermatt,
    • Walter Reith,
    • Edit Horvath,
    • Raphael Zellweger,
    • Katja Fink,
    • Mike Recher,
    • Bruno Eschli,
    • Hans Hengartner,
    • and Rolf M. Zinkernagel

    From the Cover: Functional CD8 + but not CD4 + T cell responses develop independent of thymic epithelial MHC

    PNAS 2006 103:14435-14440; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606707103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Kerstin Puellmann,
    • Wolfgang E. Kaminski,
    • Mandy Vogel,
    • C. Thomas Nebe,
    • Josef Schroeder,
    • Hans Wolf,
    • and Alexander W. Beham

    From the Cover: A variable immunoreceptor in a subpopulation of human neutrophils

    PNAS 2006 103:14441-14446; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603406103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Cuiping Gu,
    • Stuart G. Tangye,
    • Xiaoqing Sun,
    • Ying Luo,
    • Zhixin Lin,
    • and Jun Wu

    The X-linked lymphoproliferative disease gene product SAP associates with PAK-interacting exchange factor and participates in T cell activation

    PNAS 2006 103:14447-14452; published ahead of print September 18, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606624103
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Elke Jäger,
    • Julia Karbach,
    • Sacha Gnjatic,
    • Antje Neumann,
    • Armin Bender,
    • Danila Valmori,
    • Maha Ayyoub,
    • Erika Ritter,
    • Gerd Ritter,
    • Dirk Jäger,
    • Dennis Panicali,
    • Eric Hoffman,
    • Linda Pan,
    • Herbert Oettgen,
    • Lloyd J. Old,
    • and Alexander Knuth

    Recombinant vaccinia/fowlpox NY-ESO-1 vaccines induce both humoral and cellular NY-ESO-1-specific immune responses in cancer patients

    PNAS 2006 103:14453-14458; published ahead of print September 19, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606512103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology: