This Week in PNAS

Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Jonathan A. Foley,
    • Chad Monfreda,
    • Navin Ramankutty,
    • and David Zaks

    Our share of the planetary pie

    PNAS 2007 104:12585-12586; published ahead of print July 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705190104
    • See companion article on page 12942 in issue 31 of volume 104

Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature

Introductory Perspective

  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Introductory Perspective:
    • Robert J. Silbey

    Single-Molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Introduction to the Special Feature on Single-Molecule Chemistry and Biology

    PNAS 2007 104:12595; published ahead of print July 30, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705693104

Perspectives

  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Perspective:
    • W. E. Moerner

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: New directions in single-molecule imaging and analysis

    PNAS 2007 104:12596-12602; published ahead of print July 30, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610081104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Maarten B. J. Roeffaers,
    • Gert De Cremer,
    • Hiroshi Uji-i,
    • Benîot Muls,
    • Bert F. Sels,
    • Pierre A. Jacobs,
    • Frans C. De Schryver,
    • Dirk E. De Vos,
    • and Johan Hofkens

    From the Cover: Single-molecule Chemistry And Biology Special Feature: Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy in (bio)catalysis

    PNAS 2007 104:12603-12609; published ahead of print July 30, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610755104

Research Articles

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Guobin Luo,
    • Mina Wang,
    • William H. Konigsberg,
    • and X. Sunney Xie

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Single-molecule and ensemble fluorescence assays for a functionally important conformational change in T7 DNA polymerase

    PNAS 2007 104:12610-12615; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700920104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Tom Vosch,
    • Yasuko Antoku,
    • Jung-Cheng Hsiang,
    • Chris I. Richards,
    • Jose I. Gonzalez,
    • and Robert M. Dickson

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Strongly emissive individual DNA-encapsulated Ag nanoclusters as single-molecule fluorophores

    PNAS 2007 104:12616-12621; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610677104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Adam E. Cohen
    • and W. E. Moerner

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Principal-components analysis of shape fluctuations of single DNA molecules

    PNAS 2007 104:12622-12627; published ahead of print May 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610396104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Rob Zondervan,
    • Florian Kulzer,
    • Gregorius C. G. Berkhout,
    • and Michel Orrit

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Local viscosity of supercooled glycerol near T g probed by rotational diffusion of ensembles and single dye molecules

    PNAS 2007 104:12628-12633; published ahead of print May 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610521104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Shixin Liu,
    • Gregory Bokinsky,
    • Nils G. Walter,
    • and Xiaowei Zhuang

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Dissecting the multistep reaction pathway of an RNA enzyme by single-molecule kinetic “fingerprinting”

    PNAS 2007 104:12634-12639; published ahead of print May 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610597104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Devdoot S. Majumdar,
    • Irina Smirnova,
    • Vladimir Kasho,
    • Eyal Nir,
    • Xiangxu Kong,
    • Shimon Weiss,
    • and H. Ronald Kaback

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Single-molecule FRET reveals sugar-induced conformational dynamics in LacY

    PNAS 2007 104:12640-12645; published ahead of print May 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700969104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ibrahim Cisse,
    • Burak Okumus,
    • Chirlmin Joo,
    • and Taekjip Ha

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Fueling protein–DNA interactions inside porous nanocontainers

    PNAS 2007 104:12646-12650; published ahead of print June 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610673104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yining Zeng,
    • Hsiao-Wei Liu,
    • Christy F. Landes,
    • Yoen Joo Kim,
    • Xiaojing Ma,
    • Yongjin Zhu,
    • Karin Musier-Forsyth,
    • and Paul F. Barbara

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Probing nucleation, reverse annealing, and chaperone function along the reaction path of HIV-1 single-strand transfer

    PNAS 2007 104:12651-12656; published ahead of print June 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700350104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Jonathan Weare

    Efficient Monte Carlo sampling by parallel marginalization

    PNAS 2007 104:12657-12662; published ahead of print July 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705418104
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kevin F. Murphy,
    • Gábor Balázsi,
    • and James J. Collins

    Combinatorial promoter design for engineering noisy gene expression

    PNAS 2007 104:12726-12731; published ahead of print July 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608451104
    Open Access Article

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Guobin Luo,
    • Mina Wang,
    • William H. Konigsberg,
    • and X. Sunney Xie

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Single-molecule and ensemble fluorescence assays for a functionally important conformational change in T7 DNA polymerase

    PNAS 2007 104:12610-12615; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700920104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Tom Vosch,
    • Yasuko Antoku,
    • Jung-Cheng Hsiang,
    • Chris I. Richards,
    • Jose I. Gonzalez,
    • and Robert M. Dickson

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Strongly emissive individual DNA-encapsulated Ag nanoclusters as single-molecule fluorophores

    PNAS 2007 104:12616-12621; published ahead of print May 22, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610677104

Physics

  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Adam E. Cohen
    • and W. E. Moerner

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Principal-components analysis of shape fluctuations of single DNA molecules

    PNAS 2007 104:12622-12627; published ahead of print May 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610396104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Rob Zondervan,
    • Florian Kulzer,
    • Gregorius C. G. Berkhout,
    • and Michel Orrit

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Local viscosity of supercooled glycerol near T g probed by rotational diffusion of ensembles and single dye molecules

    PNAS 2007 104:12628-12633; published ahead of print May 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610521104

Statistics

  • Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Q. K. Beg,
    • A. Vazquez,
    • J. Ernst,
    • M. A. de Menezes,
    • Z. Bar-Joseph,
    • A.-L. Barabási,
    • and Z. N. Oltvai

    Intracellular crowding defines the mode and sequence of substrate uptake by Escherichia coli and constrains its metabolic activity

    PNAS 2007 104:12663-12668; published ahead of print July 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609845104

Social Sciences

Psychology

  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
    • Gordon Binsted,
    • Kyle Brownell,
    • Zofia Vorontsova,
    • Matthew Heath,
    • and Deborah Saucier

    Visuomotor system uses target features unavailable to conscious awareness

    PNAS 2007 104:12669-12672; published ahead of print July 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702307104

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Guobin Luo,
    • Mina Wang,
    • William H. Konigsberg,
    • and X. Sunney Xie

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Single-molecule and ensemble fluorescence assays for a functionally important conformational change in T7 DNA polymerase

    PNAS 2007 104:12610-12615; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700920104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • David E. Prosser,
    • Martin Kaufmann,
    • Brendan O'Leary,
    • Valarie Byford,
    • and Glenville Jones

    Single A326G mutation converts human CYP24A1 from 25-OH-D 3 -24-hydroxylase into -23-hydroxylase, generating 1α,25-(OH) 2 D 3 -26,23-lactone

    PNAS 2007 104:12673-12678; published ahead of print July 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702093104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Chun-Te Wu,
    • Saleh Altuwaijri,
    • William A. Ricke,
    • Shu-Pin Huang,
    • Shuyuan Yeh,
    • Caixia Zhang,
    • Yuanjie Niu,
    • Meng-Ying Tsai,
    • and Chawnshang Chang

    Increased prostate cell proliferation and loss of cell differentiation in mice lacking prostate epithelial androgen receptor

    PNAS 2007 104:12679-12684; published ahead of print July 25, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704940104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Y. Paul Chang,
    • Ganggang Wang,
    • Vladimir Bermudez,
    • Jerard Hurwitz,
    • and Xiaojiang S. Chen

    Crystal structure of the GINS complex and functional insights into its role in DNA replication

    PNAS 2007 104:12685-12690; published ahead of print July 25, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705558104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tsai-Yu Tzeng,
    • Chi-Hua Lee,
    • Li-Wei Chan,
    • and C.-K. James Shen

    Epigenetic regulation of the Drosophila chromosome 4 by the histone H3K9 methyltransferase dSETDB1

    PNAS 2007 104:12691-12696; published ahead of print July 25, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705534104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kenneth Segers,
    • Olivier Sperandio,
    • Markus Sack,
    • Rainer Fischer,
    • Maria A. Miteva,
    • Jan Rosing,
    • Gerry A. F. Nicolaes,
    • and Bruno O. Villoutreix

    Design of protein–membrane interaction inhibitors by virtual ligand screening, proof of concept with the C2 domain of factor V

    PNAS 2007 104:12697-12702; published ahead of print July 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701051104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tobin J. Dickerson,
    • Kathleen M. McKenzie,
    • Amanda S. Hoyt,
    • Malcolm R. Wood,
    • Kim D. Janda,
    • Sydney B. Brenner,
    • and Richard A. Lerner

    Phage escape libraries for checkmate analysis

    PNAS 2007 104:12703-12708; published ahead of print July 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705362104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Anna Pluciennik
    • and Paul Modrich

    From the Cover: Protein roadblocks and helix discontinuities are barriers to the initiation of mismatch repair

    PNAS 2007 104:12709-12713; published ahead of print July 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705129104
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 12953 in issue 32 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hirofumi Onishi
    • and Manuel F. Morales

    A closer look at energy transduction in muscle

    PNAS 2007 104:12714-12719; published ahead of print July 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705525104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Gregory Yakovlev,
    • Torsten Reda,
    • and Judy Hirst

    Reevaluating the relationship between EPR spectra and enzyme structure for the iron–sulfur clusters in NADH:quinone oxidoreductase

    PNAS 2007 104:12720-12725; published ahead of print July 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705593104
    Open Access Article

Biophysics

  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Adam E. Cohen
    • and W. E. Moerner

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Principal-components analysis of shape fluctuations of single DNA molecules

    PNAS 2007 104:12622-12627; published ahead of print May 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610396104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Shixin Liu,
    • Gregory Bokinsky,
    • Nils G. Walter,
    • and Xiaowei Zhuang

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Dissecting the multistep reaction pathway of an RNA enzyme by single-molecule kinetic “fingerprinting”

    PNAS 2007 104:12634-12639; published ahead of print May 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610597104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Devdoot S. Majumdar,
    • Irina Smirnova,
    • Vladimir Kasho,
    • Eyal Nir,
    • Xiangxu Kong,
    • Shimon Weiss,
    • and H. Ronald Kaback

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Single-molecule FRET reveals sugar-induced conformational dynamics in LacY

    PNAS 2007 104:12640-12645; published ahead of print May 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700969104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ibrahim Cisse,
    • Burak Okumus,
    • Chirlmin Joo,
    • and Taekjip Ha

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Fueling protein–DNA interactions inside porous nanocontainers

    PNAS 2007 104:12646-12650; published ahead of print June 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610673104
  • Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature - Research Articles - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yining Zeng,
    • Hsiao-Wei Liu,
    • Christy F. Landes,
    • Yoen Joo Kim,
    • Xiaojing Ma,
    • Yongjin Zhu,
    • Karin Musier-Forsyth,
    • and Paul F. Barbara

    Single-molecule Chemistry and Biology Special Feature: Probing nucleation, reverse annealing, and chaperone function along the reaction path of HIV-1 single-strand transfer

    PNAS 2007 104:12651-12656; published ahead of print June 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700350104
  • Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Q. K. Beg,
    • A. Vazquez,
    • J. Ernst,
    • M. A. de Menezes,
    • Z. Bar-Joseph,
    • A.-L. Barabási,
    • and Z. N. Oltvai

    Intracellular crowding defines the mode and sequence of substrate uptake by Escherichia coli and constrains its metabolic activity

    PNAS 2007 104:12663-12668; published ahead of print July 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609845104
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kevin F. Murphy,
    • Gábor Balázsi,
    • and James J. Collins

    Combinatorial promoter design for engineering noisy gene expression

    PNAS 2007 104:12726-12731; published ahead of print July 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608451104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sune Danø,
    • Mads Find Madsen,
    • and Preben Graae Sørensen

    Quantitative characterization of cell synchronization in yeast

    PNAS 2007 104:12732-12736; published ahead of print July 25, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702560104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Trevor Huyton,
    • Jian-Guo Zhang,
    • Cindy S. Luo,
    • Mei-Zhen Lou,
    • Douglas J. Hilton,
    • Nicos A. Nicola,
    • and Thomas P. J. Garrett

    An unusual cytokine:Ig-domain interaction revealed in the crystal structure of leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) in complex with the LIF receptor

    PNAS 2007 104:12737-12742; published ahead of print July 24, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705577104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ronen Benjamine Kopito
    • and Michael Elbaum

    Reversibility in nucleocytoplasmic transport

    PNAS 2007 104:12743-12748; published ahead of print July 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702690104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Virgiliu Botan,
    • Ellen H. G. Backus,
    • Rolf Pfister,
    • Alessandro Moretto,
    • Marco Crisma,
    • Claudio Toniolo,
    • Phuong H. Nguyen,
    • Gerhard Stock,
    • and Peter Hamm

    Energy transport in peptide helices

    PNAS 2007 104:12749-12754; published ahead of print July 23, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701762104