This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Christopher Dean

    Growing up slowly 160,000 years ago

    PNAS 2007 104:6093-6094; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701317104
    • See companion article on page 6128 in issue 15 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Edward C. Holmes

    Ancient lentiviruses leave their mark

    PNAS 2007 104:6095-6096; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701578104
    • See companion article on page 6261 in issue 15 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Joseph T. Coyle

    What can a clock mutation in mice tell us about bipolar disorder?

    PNAS 2007 104:6097-6098; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701491104
    • See companion article on page 6406 in issue 15 of volume 104

From the Academy

Colloquium Paper

  • From the Academy - Colloquium Paper - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Johan Rockström,
    • Mats Lannerstad,
    • and Malin Falkenmark

    Assessing the water challenge of a new green revolution in developing countries

    PNAS 2007 104:6253-6260; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605739104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Population Biology:
    • Peter Jagers,
    • Fima C. Klebaner,
    • and Serik Sagitov

    On the path to extinction

    PNAS 2007 104:6107-6111; published ahead of print April 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610816104
    Open Access Article

Computer Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences:
    • Raissa M. D'Souza,
    • Christian Borgs,
    • Jennifer T. Chayes,
    • Noam Berger,
    • and Robert D. Kleinberg

    From the Cover: Emergence of tempered preferential attachment from optimization

    PNAS 2007 104:6112-6117; published ahead of print March 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606779104
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nuno Bandeira,
    • Dekel Tsur,
    • Ari Frank,
    • and Pavel A. Pevzner

    Protein identification by spectral networks analysis

    PNAS 2007 104:6140-6145; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701130104

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Matthew L. Kirwan
    • and A. Brad Murray

    A coupled geomorphic and ecological model of tidal marsh evolution

    PNAS 2007 104:6118-6122; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700958104

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Angela Kopp,
    • Amit Ghosal,
    • and Sudip Chakravarty

    Competing ferromagnetism in high-temperature copper oxide superconductors

    PNAS 2007 104:6123-6127; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701265104

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Tanya M. Smith,
    • Paul Tafforeau,
    • Donald J. Reid,
    • Rainer Grün,
    • Stephen Eggins,
    • Mohamed Boutakiout,
    • and Jean-Jacques Hublin

    From the Cover: Earliest evidence of modern human life history in North African early Homo sapiens

    PNAS 2007 104:6128-6133; published ahead of print March 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700747104
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 6093 in issue 15 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • T. W. McDade,
    • V. Reyes-García,
    • P. Blackinton,
    • S. Tanner,
    • T. Huanca,
    • and W. R. Leonard

    Ethnobotanical knowledge is associated with indices of child health in the Bolivian Amazon

    PNAS 2007 104:6134-6139; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609123104

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Computer Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nuno Bandeira,
    • Dekel Tsur,
    • Ari Frank,
    • and Pavel A. Pevzner

    Protein identification by spectral networks analysis

    PNAS 2007 104:6140-6145; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701130104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nader Pourmand,
    • Stefano Caramuta,
    • Andrea Villablanca,
    • Silvia Mori,
    • Miloslav Karhanek,
    • Shan X. Wang,
    • and Ronald W. Davis

    Branch migration displacement assay with automated heuristic analysis for discrete DNA length measurement using DNA microarrays

    PNAS 2007 104:6146-6151; published ahead of print March 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700921104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Craig W. Vander Kooi,
    • Manuel A. Jusino,
    • Benjamin Perman,
    • David B. Neau,
    • Henry D. Bellamy,
    • and Daniel J. Leahy

    Structural basis for ligand and heparin binding to neuropilin B domains

    PNAS 2007 104:6152-6157; published ahead of print April 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700043104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ngolela Esther Babady,
    • Yuan-Ping Pang,
    • Orly Elpeleg,
    • and Grazia Isaya

    Cryptic proteolytic activity of dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase

    PNAS 2007 104:6158-6163; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610618104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • M. Kenzelmann,
    • S. Maertens,
    • M. Hergenhahn,
    • S. Kueffer,
    • A. Hotz-Wagenblatt,
    • L. Li,
    • S. Wang,
    • C. Ittrich,
    • T. Lemberger,
    • R. Arribas,
    • S. Jonnakuty,
    • M. C. Hollstein,
    • W. Schmid,
    • N. Gretz,
    • H. J. Gröne,
    • and G. Schütz

    Microarray analysis of newly synthesized RNA in cells and animals

    PNAS 2007 104:6164-6169; published ahead of print April 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610439104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Igor Alexeev,
    • Azmiri Sultana,
    • Pekka Mäntsälä,
    • Jarmo Niemi,
    • and Gunter Schneider

    Aclacinomycin oxidoreductase (AknOx) from the biosynthetic pathway of the antibiotic aclacinomycin is an unusual flavoenzyme with a dual active site

    PNAS 2007 104:6170-6175; published ahead of print March 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700579104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Nancy C. Friedrich,
    • Eduard Torrents,
    • Ewan A. Gibb,
    • Margareta Sahlin,
    • Britt-Marie Sjöberg,
    • and David R. Edgell

    Insertion of a homing endonuclease creates a genes-in-pieces ribonucleotide reductase that retains function

    PNAS 2007 104:6176-6181; published ahead of print March 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609915104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sohail Malik,
    • María J. Barrero,
    • and Tara Jones

    Identification of a regulator of transcription elongation as an accessory factor for the human Mediator coactivator

    PNAS 2007 104:6182-6187; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608717104

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Andrea Regier Voth,
    • Franklin A. Hays,
    • and P. Shing Ho

    From the Cover: Directing macromolecular conformation through halogen bonds

    PNAS 2007 104:6188-6193; published ahead of print March 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610531104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • G. D. Jay,
    • J. R. Torres,
    • M. L. Warman,
    • M. C. Laderer,
    • and K. S. Breuer

    The role of lubricin in the mechanical behavior of synovial fluid

    PNAS 2007 104:6194-6199; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608558104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Leo C. James,
    • Anthony H. Keeble,
    • Zahra Khan,
    • David A. Rhodes,
    • and John Trowsdale

    Structural basis for PRYSPRY-mediated tripartite motif (TRIM) protein function

    PNAS 2007 104:6200-6205; published ahead of print March 30, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609174104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Justin L. MacCallum,
    • Maria Sabaye Moghaddam,
    • Hue Sun Chan,
    • and D. Peter Tieleman

    Hydrophobic association of α-helices, steric dewetting, and enthalpic barriers to protein folding

    PNAS 2007 104:6206-6210; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605859104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alessandro Arcovito,
    • Maurizio Benfatto,
    • Michele Cianci,
    • S. Samar Hasnain,
    • Karin Nienhaus,
    • G. Ulrich Nienhaus,
    • Carmelinda Savino,
    • Richard W. Strange,
    • Beatrice Vallone,
    • and Stefano Della Longa

    X-ray structure analysis of a metalloprotein with enhanced active-site resolution using in situ x-ray absorption near edge structure spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:6211-6216; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608411104

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Peter E. Czabotar,
    • Erinna F. Lee,
    • Mark F. van Delft,
    • Catherine L. Day,
    • Brian J. Smith,
    • David C. S. Huang,
    • W. Douglas Fairlie,
    • Mark G. Hinds,
    • and Peter M. Colman

    Structural insights into the degradation of Mcl-1 induced by BH3 domains

    PNAS 2007 104:6217-6222; published ahead of print March 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701297104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Juan M. Funes,
    • Marisol Quintero,
    • Stephen Henderson,
    • Dolores Martinez,
    • Uzma Qureshi,
    • Claire Westwood,
    • Mark O. Clements,
    • Dimitra Bourboulia,
    • R. Barbara Pedley,
    • Salvador Moncada,
    • and Chris Boshoff

    Transformation of human mesenchymal stem cells increases their dependency on oxidative phosphorylation for energy production

    PNAS 2007 104:6223-6228; published ahead of print March 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700690104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Martine Cohen-Salmon,
    • Béatrice Regnault,
    • Nadège Cayet,
    • Dorothée Caille,
    • Karine Demuth,
    • Jean-Pierre Hardelin,
    • Nathalie Janel,
    • Paolo Meda,
    • and Christine Petit

    Connexin30 deficiency causes instrastrial fluid–blood barrier disruption within the cochlear stria vascularis

    PNAS 2007 104:6229-6234; published ahead of print March 30, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605108104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Mara C. Duncan,
    • David G. Ho,
    • Jing Huang,
    • Michael E. Jung,
    • and Gregory S. Payne

    Composite synthetic lethal identification of membrane traffic inhibitors

    PNAS 2007 104:6235-6240; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607773104

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Amir Rubinstein,
    • Vyacheslav Gurevich,
    • Zohar Kasulin-Boneh,
    • Lilach Pnueli,
    • Yona Kassir,
    • and Ron Y. Pinter

    Faithful modeling of transient expression and its application to elucidating negative feedback regulation

    PNAS 2007 104:6241-6246; published ahead of print March 30, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611168104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Ingrid C. Rulifson,
    • Satyajit K. Karnik,
    • Patrick W. Heiser,
    • Derk ten Berge,
    • Hainan Chen,
    • Xueying Gu,
    • Makoto M. Taketo,
    • Roel Nusse,
    • Matthias Hebrok,
    • and Seung K. Kim

    Wnt signaling regulates pancreatic β cell proliferation

    PNAS 2007 104:6247-6252; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701509104
    Open Access Article

Ecology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Matthew L. Kirwan
    • and A. Brad Murray

    A coupled geomorphic and ecological model of tidal marsh evolution

    PNAS 2007 104:6118-6122; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700958104

Environmental Sciences

  • From the Academy - Colloquium Paper - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Johan Rockström,
    • Mats Lannerstad,
    • and Malin Falkenmark

    Assessing the water challenge of a new green revolution in developing countries

    PNAS 2007 104:6253-6260; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0605739104

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Aris Katzourakis,
    • Michael Tristem,
    • Oliver G. Pybus,
    • and Robert J. Gifford

    From the Cover: Discovery and analysis of the first endogenous lentivirus

    PNAS 2007 104:6261-6265; published ahead of print March 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700471104
    • See commentary article on page 6095 in issue 15 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Philip J. Gerrish,
    • Alexandre Colato,
    • Alan S. Perelson,
    • and Paul D. Sniegowski

    Complete genetic linkage can subvert natural selection

    PNAS 2007 104:6266-6271; published ahead of print April 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607280104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Marcus A. Koch
    • and Michaela Matschinger

    Evolution and genetic differentiation among relatives of Arabidopsis thaliana

    PNAS 2007 104:6272-6277; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701338104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • C. N. Ross,
    • J. A. French,
    • and G. Ortí

    Germ-line chimerism and paternal care in marmosets ( Callithrix kuhlii )

    PNAS 2007 104:6278-6282; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607426104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Arthur Chun-Chieh Shih,
    • Tzu-Chang Hsiao,
    • Mei-Shang Ho,
    • and Wen-Hsiung Li

    Simultaneous amino acid substitutions at antigenic sites drive influenza A hemagglutinin evolution

    PNAS 2007 104:6283-6288; published ahead of print March 29, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701396104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Jun-Yuan Chen,
    • J. William Schopf,
    • David J. Bottjer,
    • Chen-Yu Zhang,
    • Anatoliy B. Kudryavtsev,
    • Abhishek B. Tripathi,
    • Xiu-Qiang Wang,
    • Yong-Hua Yang,
    • Xiang Gao,
    • and Ying Yang

    Raman spectra of a Lower Cambrian ctenophore embryo from southwestern Shaanxi, China

    PNAS 2007 104:6289-6292; published ahead of print April 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701246104
    Open Access Article

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Margarita Flores,
    • Lucía Morales,
    • Claudia Gonzaga-Jauregui,
    • Rocío Domínguez-Vidaña,
    • Cinthya Zepeda,
    • Omar Yañez,
    • María Gutiérrez,
    • Tzitziki Lemus,
    • David Valle,
    • Ma. Carmen Avila,
    • Daniel Blanco,
    • Sofía Medina-Ruiz,
    • Karla Meza,
    • Erandi Ayala,
    • Delfino García,
    • Patricia Bustos,
    • Víctor González,
    • Lourdes Girard,
    • Teresa Tusie-Luna,
    • Guillermo Dávila,
    • and Rafael Palacios

    Inaugural Article: Recurrent DNA inversion rearrangements in the human genome

    PNAS 2007 104:6099-6106; published ahead of print March 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701631104
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 839 in issue 3 of volume 105
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Fabrice G. Petit,
    • Soazik P. Jamin,
    • Isao Kurihara,
    • Richard R. Behringer,
    • Francesco J. DeMayo,
    • Ming-Jer Tsai,
    • and Sophia Y. Tsai

    Deletion of the orphan nuclear receptor COUP-TFII in uterus leads to placental deficiency

    PNAS 2007 104:6293-6298; published ahead of print A