This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Russell N. Van Gelder

    Timeless genes and jetlag

    PNAS 2006 103:17583-17584; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608751103
    • See companion article on page 17313 in issue 46 of volume 103
  • Commentary:
    • Eduardo R. S. Roldan

    Better intracytoplasmic sperm injection without sperm membranes and acrosome

    PNAS 2006 103:17585-17586; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608752103
    • See companion article on page 17661 in issue 47 of volume 103
  • Commentary:
    • Michael P. Koonce

    Dynein shifts into second gear

    PNAS 2006 103:17587-17588; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608935103
    • See companion article on page 17736 in issue 47 of volume 103

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Bruce N. Ames

    Low micronutrient intake may accelerate the degenerative diseases of aging through allocation of scarce micronutrients by triage

    PNAS 2006 103:17589-17594; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608757103

Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature

Introduction

  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Introduction:
    • Susan R. Wessler

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Transposable elements and the evolution of eukaryotic genomes

    PNAS 2006 103:17600-17601; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607612103

Research Articles

  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Shawn M. Christensen,
    • Junqiang Ye,
    • and Thomas H. Eickbush

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: RNA from the 5′ end of the R2 retrotransposon controls R2 protein binding to and cleavage of its DNA target site

    PNAS 2006 103:17602-17607; published ahead of print November 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605476103
  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Jinchuan Xing,
    • Hui Wang,
    • Victoria P. Belancio,
    • Richard Cordaux,
    • Prescott L. Deininger,
    • and Mark A. Batzer

    From the Cover: Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Emergence of primate genes by retrotransposon-mediated sequence transduction

    PNAS 2006 103:17608-17613; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603224103
  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Sara L. Sawyer
    • and Harmit S. Malik

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Positive selection of yeast nonhomologous end-joining genes and a retrotransposon conflict hypothesis

    PNAS 2006 103:17614-17619; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605468103
  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Ken Naito,
    • Eunyoung Cho,
    • Guojun Yang,
    • Matthew A Campbell,
    • Kentaro Yano,
    • Yutaka Okumoto,
    • Takatoshi Tanisaka,
    • and Susan R. Wessler

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Dramatic amplification of a rice transposable element during recent domestication

    PNAS 2006 103:17620-17625; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605421103
  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Matthew E. Johnson,
    • Ze Cheng,
    • V. Anne Morrison,
    • Steven Scherer,
    • Mario Ventura,
    • Richard A. Gibbs,
    • Eric D. Green,
    • and Evan E. Eichler

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Recurrent duplication-driven transposition of DNA during hominoid evolution

    PNAS 2006 103:17626-17631; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605426103
  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Sarah J. Wheelan,
    • Lisa Z. Scheifele,
    • Francisco Martínez-Murillo,
    • Rafael A. Irizarry,
    • and Jef D. Boeke

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Transposon insertion site profiling chip (TIP-chip)

    PNAS 2006 103:17632-17637; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605450103
  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Plant Biology:
    • Qinghua Wang
    • and Hugo K. Dooner

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Remarkable variation in maize genome structure inferred from haplotype diversity at the bz locus

    PNAS 2006 103:17644-17649; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603080103

Eukaryotic Transposable Elements And Genome Evolution Special Feature

Research Articles

  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements And Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Clémentine Vitte
    • and Jeffrey L. Bennetzen

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: Analysis of retrotransposon structural diversity uncovers properties and propensities in angiosperm genome evolution

    PNAS 2006 103:17638-17643; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605618103

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Himadri S. Gupta,
    • Jong Seto,
    • Wolfgang Wagermaier,
    • Paul Zaslansky,
    • Peter Boesecke,
    • and Peter Fratzl

    Cooperative deformation of mineral and collagen in bone at the nanoscale

    PNAS 2006 103:17741-17746; published ahead of print November 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604237103
    Open Access Article

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Fabio Biscarini,
    • Massimiliano Cavallini,
    • Rajendra Kshirsagar,
    • Giovanni Bottari,
    • David A. Leigh,
    • Salvador León,
    • and Francesco Zerbetto

    Self-organization of nano-lines and dots triggered by a local mechanical stimulus

    PNAS 2006 103:17650-17654; published ahead of print November 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605192103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Marie Hutin,
    • Gérald Bernardinelli,
    • and Jonathan R. Nitschke

    Synthetic selectivity through avoidance of valence frustration

    PNAS 2006 103:17655-17660; published ahead of print November 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607786103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Jayanta Haldar,
    • Deqiang An,
    • Luis Álvarez de Cienfuegos,
    • Jianzhu Chen,
    • and Alexander M. Klibanov

    Polymeric coatings that inactivate both influenza virus and pathogenic bacteria

    PNAS 2006 103:17667-17671; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608803103

Computer Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences - Biological Sciences - Psychology:
    • Jacob Feldman
    • and Manish Singh

    Bayesian estimation of the shape skeleton

    PNAS 2006 103:18014-18019; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608811103
    Open Access Article

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Kazuto Morozumi,
    • Tomohide Shikano,
    • Shunichi Miyazaki,
    • and Ryuzo Yanagimachi

    From the Cover: Simultaneous removal of sperm plasma membrane and acrosome before intracytoplasmic sperm injection improves oocyte activation/embryonic development

    PNAS 2006 103:17661-17666; published ahead of print November 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608183103
    • See commentary article on page 17585 in issue 47 of volume 103
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Jayanta Haldar,
    • Deqiang An,
    • Luis Álvarez de Cienfuegos,
    • Jianzhu Chen,
    • and Alexander M. Klibanov

    Polymeric coatings that inactivate both influenza virus and pathogenic bacteria

    PNAS 2006 103:17667-17671; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608803103
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Stefano Manzini,
    • Alessia Vargiolu,
    • Isa M Stehle,
    • Maria Laura Bacci,
    • Maria Grazia Cerrito,
    • Roberto Giovannoni,
    • Augusta Zannoni,
    • Maria Rosaria Bianco,
    • Monica Forni,
    • Pierluigi Donini,
    • Michele Papa,
    • Hans J Lipps,
    • and Marialuisa Lavitrano

    Genetically modified pigs produced with a nonviral episomal vector

    PNAS 2006 103:17672-17677; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604938103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Stefan Werner,
    • Sylvestre Marillonnet,
    • Gerd Hause,
    • Victor Klimyuk,
    • and Yuri Gleba

    Immunoabsorbent nanoparticles based on a tobamovirus displaying protein A

    PNAS 2006 103:17678-17683; published ahead of print November 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608869103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Stéphanie Philippe,
    • Chamsy Sarkis,
    • Martine Barkats,
    • Hamid Mammeri,
    • Charline Ladroue,
    • Caroline Petit,
    • Jacques Mallet,
    • and Che Serguera

    Lentiviral vectors with a defective integrase allow efficient and sustained transgene expression in vitro and in vivo

    PNAS 2006 103:17684-17689; published ahead of print November 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606197103

Biochemistry

  • Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Shawn M. Christensen,
    • Junqiang Ye,
    • and Thomas H. Eickbush

    Eukaryotic Transposable Elements and Genome Evolution Special Feature: RNA from the 5′ end of the R2 retrotransposon controls R2 protein binding to and cleavage of its DNA target site

    PNAS 2006 103:17602-17607; published ahead of print November 14, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605476103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Mikhail A. Rubtsov,
    • Yury S. Polikanov,
    • Vladimir A. Bondarenko,
    • Yuh-Hwa Wang,
    • and Vasily M. Studitsky

    Chromatin structure can strongly facilitate enhancer action over a distance

    PNAS 2006 103:17690-17695; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603819103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Christopher P. Selby
    • and Aziz Sancar

    A cryptochrome/photolyase class of enzymes with single-stranded DNA-specific photolyase activity

    PNAS 2006 103:17696-17700; published ahead of print October 24, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607993103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yihua Huang,
    • Richard Baxter,
    • Barbara S. Smith,
    • Carrie L. Partch,
    • Christopher L. Colbert,
    • and Johann Deisenhofer

    Crystal structure of cryptochrome 3 from Arabidopsis thaliana and its implications for photolyase activity

    PNAS 2006 103:17701-17706; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608554103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Xiaojun Zhao,
    • Yusuke Nagai,
    • Philip J. Reeves,
    • Patrick Kiley,
    • H. Gobind Khorana,
    • and Shuguang Zhang

    Designer short peptide surfactants stabilize G protein-coupled receptor bovine rhodopsin

    PNAS 2006 103:17707-17712; published ahead of print November 10, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607167103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Wulf Blankenfeldt,
    • Nicolas H. Thomä,
    • John S. Wray,
    • Mathias Gautel,
    • and Ilme Schlichting

    Crystal structures of human cardiac β-myosin II S2-Δ provide insight into the functional role of the S2 subfragment

    PNAS 2006 103:17713-17717; published ahead of print November 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606741103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Caixia Zhang,
    • Shuyuan Yeh,
    • Yen-Ta Chen,
    • Cheng-Chia Wu,
    • Kuang-Hsiang Chuang,
    • Hung-Yun Lin,
    • Ruey-Sheng Wang,
    • Yu-Jia Chang,
    • Chamindrani Mendis-Handagama,
    • Liquan Hu,
    • Henry Lardy,
    • and Chawnshang Chang

    Oligozoospermia with normal fertility in male mice lacking the androgen receptor in testis peritubular myoid cells

    PNAS 2006 103:17718-17723; published ahead of print November 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608556103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Guillaume Thibault,
    • Jovana Yudin,
    • Philip Wong,
    • Vladimir Tsitrin,
    • Remco Sprangers,
    • Rongmin Zhao,
    • and Walid A. Houry

    Specificity in substrate and cofactor recognition by the N-terminal domain of the chaperone ClpX

    PNAS 2006 103:17724-17729; published ahead of print November 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0601505103
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • John Togneri,
    • Yi-Shan Cheng,
    • Mary Munson,
    • Frederick M. Hughson,
    • and Chavela M. Carr

    Specific SNARE complex binding mode of the Sec1/Munc-18 protein, Sec1p

    PNAS 2006 103:17730-17735; published ahead of print November 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605448103

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Tomohiro Shima,
    • Takahide Kon,
    • Kenji Imamula,
    • Reiko Ohkura,
    • and Kazuo Sutoh

    From the Cover: Two modes of microtubule sliding driven by cytoplasmic dynein

    PNAS 2006 103:17736-17740; published ahead of print November 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606794103
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 17587 in issue 47 of volume 103
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Himadri S. Gupta,
    • Jong Seto,
    • Wolfgang Wagermaier,
    • Paul Zaslansky,
    • Peter Boesecke,
    • and Peter Fratzl

    Cooperative deformation of mineral and collagen in bone at the nanoscale

    PNAS 2006 103:17741-17746; published ahead of print November 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604237103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Isaac A. Hubner,
    • Eric J. Deeds,
    • and Eugene I. Shakhnovich

    Understanding ensemble protein folding at atomic detail

    PNAS 2006 103:17747-17752; published ahead of print November 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605580103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Koki Makabe,
    • Dan McElheny,
    • Valentia Tereshko,
    • Aaron Hilyard,
    • Grzegorz Gawlak,
    • Shude Yan,
    • Akiko Koide,
    • and Shohei Koide

    Atomic structures of peptide self-assembly mimics

    PNAS 2006 103:17753-17758; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606690103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yun-Bi Lu,
    • Kristian Franze,
    • Gerald Seifert,
    • Christian Steinhäuser,
    • Frank Kirchhoff,
    • Hartwig Wolburg,
    • Jochen Guck,
    • Paul Janmey,
    • Er-Qing Wei,
    • Josef Käs,
    • and Andreas Reichenbach

    Viscoelastic properties of individual glial cells and neurons in the CNS

    PNAS 2006 103:17759-17764; published ahead of print November 8, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606150103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Tomoshi Kameda
    • and Shoji Takada

    Secondary structure provides a template for the folding of nearby polypeptides

    PNAS 2006 103:17765-17770; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0602632103
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yin-Biao Sun,
    • Birgit Brandmeier,
    • and Malcolm Irving

    Structural changes in troponin in response to Ca 2+ and myosin binding to thin filaments during activation of skeletal muscle

    PNAS 2006 103:17771-17776; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605430103

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Guido M. Gaietta,
    • Ben N. G. Giepmans,
    • Thomas J. Deerinck,
    • W. Bryan Smith,
    • Lucy Ngan,
    • Juan Llopis,
    • Stephen R. Adams,
    • Roger Y. Tsien,
    • and Mark H. Ellisman

    Golgi twins in late mitosis revealed by genetically encoded tags for live cell imaging and correlated electron microscopy

    PNAS 2006 103:17777-17782; published ahead of print November 13, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608509103
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Alexandr P. Kornev,
    • Nina M. Haste,
    • Susan S. Taylor,
    • and Lynn F. Ten Eyck

    Surface comparison of active and inactive protein kinases identifies a conserved activation mechanism

    PNAS 2006 103:17783-17788; published ahead of print November 9, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607656103
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