PNAS — Table of Contents — January 9, 2007, 104 (2)

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In This Issue
PNAS 2007 104:397-398; doi:10.1073/iti0207104

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Ronald E. Viola
The impact of structural biology on neurobiology
PNAS 2007 104:399-400; published ahead of print January 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610164103
- See companion article on page 456 in issue 2 of volume 104
Commentary:
- Raquel L. Lieberman
- and Michael S. Wolfe
Membrane-embedded protease poses for photoshoot
PNAS 2007 104:401-402; published ahead of print January 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610236103
- See companion article on page 462 in issue 2 of volume 104

Perspective

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Perspective:
- Jie Shen
- and Raymond J. Kelleher, III
The presenilin hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease: Evidence for a loss-of-function pathogenic mechanism
PNAS 2007 104:403-409; published ahead of print December 29, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608332104

Biological sciences

Biochemistry

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Biological sciences - Biochemistry:
- Adam Ben-Shem,
- Deborah Fass,
- and Eitan Bibi
Structural basis for intramembrane proteolysis by rhomboid serine proteases
PNAS 2007 104:462-466; published ahead of print December 26, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609773104
- See commentary article on page 401 in issue 2 of volume 104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
- V. Elser,
- I. Rankenburg,
- and P. Thibault
From the Cover: Searching with iterated maps
PNAS 2007 104:418-423; published ahead of print January 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606359104

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Francesco Mallamace,
- Matteo Broccio,
- Carmelo Corsaro,
- Antonio Faraone,
- Domenico Majolino,
- Valentina Venuti,
- Li Liu,
- Chung-Yuan Mou,
- and Sow-Hsin Chen
Evidence of the existence of the low-density liquid phase in supercooled, confined water
PNAS 2007 104:424-428; published ahead of print December 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607138104

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Valérie C. Pierre,
- Jens T. Kaiser,
- and Jacqueline K. Barton
Insights into finding a mismatch through the structure of a mispaired DNA bound by a rhodium intercalator
PNAS 2007 104:429-434; published ahead of print December 28, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610170104
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Patrick M. Hare,
- Carlos E. Crespo-Hernández,
- and Bern Kohler
Internal conversion to the electronic ground state occurs via two distinct pathways for pyrimidine bases in aqueous solution
PNAS 2007 104:435-440; published ahead of print December 29, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608055104
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Silvia N. López,
- I. Ayelen Ramallo,
- Manuel Gonzalez Sierra,
- Susana A. Zacchino,
- and Ricardo L. E. Furlan
Chemically engineered extracts as an alternative source of bioactive natural product-like compounds
PNAS 2007 104:441-444; published ahead of print December 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608438104

Environmental Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
- Susan Solomon,
- Robert W. Portmann,
- and David W. J. Thompson
Contrasts between Antarctic and Arctic ozone depletion
PNAS 2007 104:445-449; published ahead of print January 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604895104
Open Access Article

Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology:
- Achim Brauer,
- Judy R. M. Allen,
- Jens Mingram,
- Peter Dulski,
- Sabine Wulf,
- and Brian Huntley
Evidence for last interglacial chronology and environmental change from Southern Europe
PNAS 2007 104:450-455; published ahead of print January 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0603321104

Geophysics

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Physical Sciences - Geophysics - Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
- Thomas Kitzberger,
- Peter M. Brown,
- Emily K. Heyerdahl,
- Thomas W. Swetnam,
- and Thomas T. Veblen
From the Cover: Contingent Pacific–Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America
PNAS 2007 104:543-548; published ahead of print December 29, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606078104

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Evolution - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Dustin J. Penn
- and Ken R. Smith
Differential fitness costs of reproduction between the sexes
PNAS 2007 104:553-558; published ahead of print December 27, 2006, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609301103

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

The impact of structural biology on neurobiology

Membrane-embedded protease poses for photoshoot

The presenilin hypothesis of Alzheimer's disease: Evidence for a loss-of-function pathogenic mechanism

Structural basis for intramembrane proteolysis by rhomboid serine proteases

From the Cover: Searching with iterated maps

Evidence of the existence of the low-density liquid phase in supercooled, confined water

Insights into finding a mismatch through the structure of a mispaired DNA bound by a rhodium intercalator

Internal conversion to the electronic ground state occurs via two distinct pathways for pyrimidine bases in aqueous solution

Chemically engineered extracts as an alternative source of bioactive natural product-like compounds

Contrasts between Antarctic and Arctic ozone depletion

Evidence for last interglacial chronology and environmental change from Southern Europe

From the Cover: Contingent Pacific–Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America

Differential fitness costs of reproduction between the sexes

Insights into finding a mismatch through the structure of a mispaired DNA bound by a rhodium intercalator

From the Cover: Structure of aspartoacylase, the brain enzyme impaired in Canavan disease

Structural insights into the p97-Ufd1-Npl4 complex

Molecular insights into substrate recognition and catalysis by tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase

Multiple aromatic side chains within a disordered structure are critical for transcription and transforming activity of EWS family oncoproteins

Structural similarity between the flagellar type III ATPase FliI and F 1 -ATPase subunits

Site-directed alkylation and the alternating access model for LacY

Direct observation in solution of a preexisting structural equilibrium for a mutant of the allosteric aspartate transcarbamoylase

Precise physical models of protein–DNA interaction from high-throughput data

Promoting motions in enzyme catalysis probed by pressure studies of kinetic isotope effects

Signal transduction pathway of TonB-dependent transporters

The c i / b H moiety in the b 6 f complex studied by EPR: A pair of strongly interacting hemes

H2A.Z contributes to the unique 3D structure of the centromere

Inaugural Article: Lung development and repair: Contribution of the ciliated lineage

MAPK regulation of maternal and zygotic Notch transcript stability in early development

Premature myogenic differentiation and depletion of progenitor cells cause severe muscle hypotrophy in Delta1 mutants

From the Cover: Contingent Pacific–Atlantic Ocean influence on multicentury wildfire synchrony over western North America

Population size and relatedness affect fitness of a self-incompatible invasive plant

Differential fitness costs of reproduction between the sexes

Functionally important glycosyltransferase gain and loss during catarrhine primate emergence

The first fossil leaf insect: 47 million years of specialized cryptic morphology and behavior

Signatures of strong population differentiation shape extended haplotypes across the human CD28 , CTLA4 , and ICOS costimulatory genes

Lymphopenic mice reconstituted with limited repertoire T cells develop severe, multiorgan, Th2-associated inflammatory disease

Regulation of innate antiviral defenses through a shared repressor domain in RIG-I and LGP2

The IL-15/IL-15Rα on cell surfaces enables sustained IL-15 activity and contributes to the long survival of CD8 memory T cells

Alloantigen-enhanced accumulation of CCR5 + ‘effector’ regulatory T cells in the gravid uterus

Ovarian wedge resection restores fertility in estrogen receptor β knockout (ERβ −/− ) mice

Postnatal lymphatic partitioning from the blood vasculature in the small intestine requires fasting-induced adipose factor