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This Week in PNAS

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PNAS 2006 103:2003-2004; doi:10.1073/iti0706103

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Robert D. Holt
Making a virtue out of a necessity: Hurricanes and the resilience of community organization
PNAS 2006 103:2005-2006; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600289103
- See companion article on page 2220 in issue 7 of volume 103
Commentary:
- William G. Kelly
Standing guard: Perinuclear localization of an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase
PNAS 2006 103:2007-2008; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600085103
- See companion article on page 2243 in issue 7 of volume 103

Profiles

Profile:
- Nick Zagorski
Profile of Don Helmberger
PNAS 2006 103:2009-2011; published ahead of print February 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510010103
- See commentary article on page 17257 in issue 48 of volume 102
Profile:
- Bijal Trivedi
Profile of Isaac M. Held
PNAS 2006 103:2012-2014; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511071103
- See commentary article on page 17891 in issue 50 of volume 102

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Vittoria Colizza,
- Alain Barrat,
- Marc Barthélemy,
- and Alessandro Vespignani
The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics
PNAS 2006 103:2015-2020; published ahead of print February 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510525103

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Joel H. Collier
- and Milan Mrksich
Engineering a biospecific communication pathway between cells and electrodes
PNAS 2006 103:2021-2025; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0504349103
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Yuhuang Wang,
- Daniel Maspoch,
- Shengli Zou,
- George C. Schatz,
- Richard E. Smalley,
- and Chad A. Mirkin
Controlling the shape, orientation, and linkage of carbon nanotube features with nano affinity templates
PNAS 2006 103:2026-2031; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511022103

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Peter G. Casazza
- and Janet Crandell Tremain
The Kadison–Singer Problem in mathematics and engineering
PNAS 2006 103:2032-2039; published ahead of print February 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507888103

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Y. Gambin,
- R. Lopez-Esparza,
- M. Reffay,
- E. Sierecki,
- N. S. Gov,
- M. Genest,
- R. S. Hodges,
- and W. Urbach
Lateral mobility of proteins in liquid membranes revisited
PNAS 2006 103:2098-2102; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511026103

Social Sciences

Environmental Sciences

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Social Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
- Marcia Caldas de Castro,
- Roberto L. Monte-Mór,
- Diana O. Sawyer,
- and Burton H. Singer
Malaria risk on the Amazon frontier
PNAS 2006 103:2452-2457; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510576103

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Angela D. Friederici,
- Jörg Bahlmann,
- Stefan Heim,
- Ricarda I. Schubotz,
- and Alfred Anwander
The brain differentiates human and non-human grammars: Functional localization and structural connectivity
PNAS 2006 103:2458-2463; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509389103

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Wolfgang Eisenreich,
- Jörg Slaghuis,
- Ralf Laupitz,
- Johanna Bussemer,
- Jochen Stritzker,
- Christine Schwarz,
- Roland Schwarz,
- Thomas Dandekar,
- Werner Goebel,
- and Adelbert Bacher
13 C isotopologue perturbation studies of Listeria monocytogenes carbon metabolism and its modulation by the virulence regulator PrfA
PNAS 2006 103:2040-2045; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507580103

Biochemistry

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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Li-Mei Yan,
- Marianna Tatarek-Nossol,
- Aleksandra Velkova,
- Athanasios Kazantzis,
- and Aphrodite Kapurniotu
Design of a mimic of nonamyloidogenic and bioactive human islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) as nanomolar affinity inhibitor of IAPP cytotoxic fibrillogenesis
PNAS 2006 103:2046-2051; published ahead of print February 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507471103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Vadim V. Demidov,
- Nikolay V. Dokholyan,
- Carlos Witte-Hoffmann,
- Poornima Chalasani,
- Hung-Wei Yiu,
- Feng Ding,
- Yong Yu,
- Charles R. Cantor,
- and Natalia E. Broude
Fast complementation of split fluorescent protein triggered by DNA hybridization
PNAS 2006 103:2052-2056; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511078103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Guoping Da,
- Jeffrey Lenkart,
- Kehao Zhao,
- Ramin Shiekhattar,
- Bradley R. Cairns,
- and Ronen Marmorstein
Structure and function of the SWIRM domain, a conserved protein module found in chromatin regulatory complexes
PNAS 2006 103:2057-2062; published ahead of print February 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510949103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Maria C. Bewley,
- Vito Graziano,
- Jiangsheng Jiang,
- Eileen Matz,
- F. William Studier,
- Anthony E. Pegg,
- Catherine S. Coleman,
- and John M. Flanagan
Structures of wild-type and mutant human spermidine/spermine N 1 -acetyltransferase, a potential therapeutic drug target
PNAS 2006 103:2063-2068; published ahead of print February 2, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511008103
Open Access Article
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- R. Krithika,
- Uttara Marathe,
- Priti Saxena,
- Mohd. Zeeshan Ansari,
- Debasisa Mohanty,
- and Rajesh S. Gokhale
A genetic locus required for iron acquisition in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
PNAS 2006 103:2069-2074; published ahead of print February 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507924103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Jie Qin,
- Barry P. Rosen,
- Yang Zhang,
- Gejiao Wang,
- Sylvia Franke,
- and Christopher Rensing
Arsenic detoxification and evolution of trimethylarsine gas by a microbial arsenite S -adenosylmethionine methyltransferase
PNAS 2006 103:2075-2080; published ahead of print February 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506836103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Esther Eytan,
- Yakir Moshe,
- Ilana Braunstein,
- and Avram Hershko
Roles of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome and of its activator Cdc20 in functional substrate binding
PNAS 2006 103:2081-2086; published ahead of print February 2, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510695103
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Xiaoqing Tang,
- Adilson Guilherme,
- Abhijit Chakladar,
- Aimee M. Powelka,
- Silvana Konda,
- Joseph V. Virbasius,
- Sarah M. C. Nicoloro,
- Juerg Straubhaar,
- and Michael P. Czech
An RNA interference-based screen identifies MAP4K4/NIK as a negative regulator of PPARγ, adipogenesis, and insulin-responsive hexose transport
PNAS 2006 103:2087-2092; published ahead of print February 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0507660103
Open Access Article

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Dayle McClintock,
- Leslie B. Gordon,
- and Karima Djabali
Hutchinson–Gilford progeria mutant lamin A primarily targets human vascular cells as detected by an anti-Lamin A G608G antibody
PNAS 2006 103:2154-2159; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0511133103
Open Access Article
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Per Uhlén,
- Peter M. Burch,
- Christina Ivins Zito,
- Manuel Estrada,
- Barbara E. Ehrlich,
- and Anton M. Bennett
Gain-of-function/Noonan syndrome SHP-2/ Ptpn11 mutants enhance calcium oscillations and impair NFAT signaling
PNAS 2006 103:2160-2165; published ahead of print February 3, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510876103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Sergio Rossell,
- Coen C. van der Weijden,
- Alexander Lindenbergh,
- Arjen van Tuijl,
- Christof Francke,
- Barbara M. Bakker,
- and Hans V. Westerhoff
Unraveling the complexity of flux regulation: A new method demonstrated for nutrient starvation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 2006 103:2166-2171; published ahead of print February 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0509831103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Damien Devos,
- Svetlana Dokudovskaya,
- Rosemary Williams,
- Frank Alber,
- Narayanan Eswar,
- Brian T. Chait,
- Michael P. Rout,
- and Andrej Sali
Simple fold composition and modular architecture of the nuclear pore complex
PNAS 2006 103:2172-2177; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506345103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Nuri Ozturk,
- Esra Erdal,
- Mine Mumcuoglu,
- Kamil C. Akcali,
- Ozden Yalcin,
- Serif Senturk,
- Ayca Arslan-Ergul,
- Bala Gur,
- Isik Yulug,
- Rengul Cetin-Atalay,
- Cengiz Yakicier,
- Tamer Yagci,
- Mesut Tez,
- and Mehmet Ozturk
Reprogramming of replicative senescence in hepatocellular carcinoma-derived cells
PNAS 2006 103:2178-2183; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510877103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Cheng Cheng Zhang,
- Andrew D. Steele,
- Susan Lindquist,
- and Harvey F. Lodish
Prion protein is expressed on long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells and is important for their self-renewal
PNAS 2006 103:2184-2189; published ahead of print February 7, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510577103
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Craig J. Burd,
- Christin E. Petre,
- Lisa M. Morey,
- Ying Wang,
- Monica P. Revelo,
- Christopher A. Haiman,
- Shan Lu,
- Cecilia M. Fenoglio-Preiser,
- Jiwen Li,
- Erik S. Knudsen,
- Jiemin Wong,
- and Karen E. Knudsen
Cyclin D1b variant influences prostate cancer growth through aberrant androgen receptor regulation
PNAS 2006 103:2190-2195; published ahead of print February 6, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0506281103

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Sonia Mallepell,
- Andrée Krust,
- Pierre Chambon,
- and Cathrin Brisken
Paracrine signaling through the epithelial estrogen receptor α is required for proliferation and morphogenesis in the mammary gland
PNAS 2006 103:2196-2201; published ahead of print February 1, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0510974103
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Norio Suzuki,
- Osamu Ohneda,
- Naoko Minegishi,
- Mitsuo Nishikawa,
- Takayuki Ohta,
- Satoru Takahashi,
- James Douglas Engel,
- and Masayuki Yamamoto
Combinatorial Gata2 and Sca1 expression defines hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow niche
PNAS 2006

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Making a virtue out of a necessity: Hurricanes and the resilience of community organization

Standing guard: Perinuclear localization of an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase

Profile of Don Helmberger

Profile of Isaac M. Held

The role of the airline transportation network in the prediction and predictability of global epidemics

Engineering a biospecific communication pathway between cells and electrodes

Controlling the shape, orientation, and linkage of carbon nanotube features with nano affinity templates

The Kadison–Singer Problem in mathematics and engineering

Lateral mobility of proteins in liquid membranes revisited

Malaria risk on the Amazon frontier

The brain differentiates human and non-human grammars: Functional localization and structural connectivity

13 C isotopologue perturbation studies of Listeria monocytogenes carbon metabolism and its modulation by the virulence regulator PrfA

Design of a mimic of nonamyloidogenic and bioactive human islet amyloid polypeptide (IAPP) as nanomolar affinity inhibitor of IAPP cytotoxic fibrillogenesis

Fast complementation of split fluorescent protein triggered by DNA hybridization

Structure and function of the SWIRM domain, a conserved protein module found in chromatin regulatory complexes

Structures of wild-type and mutant human spermidine/spermine N 1 -acetyltransferase, a potential therapeutic drug target

A genetic locus required for iron acquisition in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Arsenic detoxification and evolution of trimethylarsine gas by a microbial arsenite S -adenosylmethionine methyltransferase

Roles of the anaphase-promoting complex/cyclosome and of its activator Cdc20 in functional substrate binding

An RNA interference-based screen identifies MAP4K4/NIK as a negative regulator of PPARγ, adipogenesis, and insulin-responsive hexose transport

Monitoring bacterial chemotaxis by using bioluminescence resonance energy transfer: Absence of feedback from the flagellar motors

Lateral mobility of proteins in liquid membranes revisited

Dictyostelium myosin II mechanochemistry promotes active behavior of the cortex on long time scales

Solution structure of p53 core domain: Structural basis for its instability

Core domain interactions in full-length p53 in solution

Nanomechanics of the subtectorial space caused by electromechanics of cochlear outer hair cells

Crystal structure of human apolipoprotein A-I: Insights into its protective effect against cardiovascular diseases

Roles of static and dynamic domains in stability and catalysis of adenylate kinase

FRET imaging reveals that functional neurokinin-1 receptors are monomeric and reside in membrane microdomains of live cells

Directing electron transfer within Photosystem I by breaking H-bonds in the cofactor branches

Monitoring the direct and indirect damage of DNA bases and polynucleotides by using time-resolved infrared spectroscopy

Hutchinson–Gilford progeria mutant lamin A primarily targets human vascular cells as detected by an anti-Lamin A G608G antibody

Gain-of-function/Noonan syndrome SHP-2/ Ptpn11 mutants enhance calcium oscillations and impair NFAT signaling

Unraveling the complexity of flux regulation: A new method demonstrated for nutrient starvation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Simple fold composition and modular architecture of the nuclear pore complex

Reprogramming of replicative senescence in hepatocellular carcinoma-derived cells

Prion protein is expressed on long-term repopulating hematopoietic stem cells and is important for their self-renewal

Cyclin D1b variant influences prostate cancer growth through aberrant androgen receptor regulation

Paracrine signaling through the epithelial estrogen receptor α is required for proliferation and morphogenesis in the mammary gland

Combinatorial Gata2 and Sca1 expression defines hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow niche