This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Laura A. Lindsey-Boltz
    • and Aziz Sancar

    RNA polymerase: The most specific damage recognition protein in cellular responses to DNA damage?

    PNAS 2007 104:13213-13214; published ahead of print August 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706316104
    • See companion article on page 12778 in issue 31 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Judith M. Gottwein
    • and Jens Bukh

    Hepatitis C virus–host cell interactions uncovered

    PNAS 2007 104:13215-13216; published ahead of print August 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705890104
    • See companion article on page 12884 in issue 31 of volume 104

Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature

Introduction

  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Introduction:
    • Dora L. Costa

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The economics and demography of aging

    PNAS 2007 104:13217-13218; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702940104

Research Articles

  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Dora L. Costa,
    • Lorens A. Helmchen,
    • and Sven Wilson

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past

    PNAS 2007 104:13219-13224; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611077104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • James P. Smith

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Nature and causes of trends in male diabetes prevalence, undiagnosed diabetes, and the socioeconomic status health gradient

    PNAS 2007 104:13225-13231; doi:10.1073/pnas.0611234104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Angus Deaton

    From the Cover: Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Height, health, and development

    PNAS 2007 104:13232-13237; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611500104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • James Poterba,
    • Steven Venti,
    • and David A. Wise

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The shift from defined benefit pensions to 401(k) plans and the pension assets of the baby boom cohort

    PNAS 2007 104:13238-13243; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611596104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • David M. Cutler,
    • Grant Miller,
    • and Douglas M. Norton

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Evidence on early-life income and late-life health from America's Dust Bowl era

    PNAS 2007 104:13244-13249; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700035104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • James J. Heckman

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation

    PNAS 2007 104:13250-13255; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701362104

physical Sciences

Geology

  • physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Kay D. Bidle,
    • SangHoon Lee,
    • David R. Marchant,
    • and Paul G. Falkowski

    From the Cover: Fossil genes and microbes in the oldest ice on Earth

    PNAS 2007 104:13455-13460; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702196104
    Open Access Article

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Benjamin M. Friedrich
    • and Frank Jülicher

    Chemotaxis of sperm cells

    PNAS 2007 104:13256-13261; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703530104

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jason W. Locasale,
    • Andrey S. Shaw,
    • and Arup K. Chakraborty

    Scaffold proteins confer diverse regulatory properties to protein kinase cascades

    PNAS 2007 104:13307-13312; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706311104

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Amanda M. D. Malone,
    • Charles T. Anderson,
    • Padmaja Tummala,
    • Ronald Y. Kwon,
    • Tyler R. Johnston,
    • Tim Stearns,
    • and Christopher R. Jacobs

    Primary cilia mediate mechanosensing in bone cells by a calcium-independent mechanism

    PNAS 2007 104:13325-13330; published ahead of print August 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700636104
    Open Access Article

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • John M. Bane,
    • Yvette H. Spitz,
    • Ricardo M. Letelier,
    • and William T. Peterson

    From the Cover: Jet stream intraseasonal oscillations drive dominant ecosystem variations in Oregon's summertime coastal upwelling system

    PNAS 2007 104:13262-13267; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700926104

Sustainability Science

Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Dora L. Costa,
    • Lorens A. Helmchen,
    • and Sven Wilson

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Race, infection, and arteriosclerosis in the past

    PNAS 2007 104:13219-13224; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611077104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • James P. Smith

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Nature and causes of trends in male diabetes prevalence, undiagnosed diabetes, and the socioeconomic status health gradient

    PNAS 2007 104:13225-13231; doi:10.1073/pnas.0611234104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • Angus Deaton

    From the Cover: Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Height, health, and development

    PNAS 2007 104:13232-13237; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611500104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • James Poterba,
    • Steven Venti,
    • and David A. Wise

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The shift from defined benefit pensions to 401(k) plans and the pension assets of the baby boom cohort

    PNAS 2007 104:13238-13243; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611596104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • David M. Cutler,
    • Grant Miller,
    • and Douglas M. Norton

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: Evidence on early-life income and late-life health from America's Dust Bowl era

    PNAS 2007 104:13244-13249; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700035104
  • Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
    • James J. Heckman

    Economics of Health and Mortality Special Feature: The economics, technology, and neuroscience of human capability formation

    PNAS 2007 104:13250-13255; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701362104

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • M. Martinón-Torres,
    • J. M. Bermúdez de Castro,
    • A. Gómez-Robles,
    • J. L. Arsuaga,
    • E. Carbonell,
    • D. Lordkipanidze,
    • G. Manzi,
    • and A. Margvelashvili

    Dental evidence on the hominin dispersals during the Pleistocene

    PNAS 2007 104:13279-13282; published ahead of print August 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706152104

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Oliver Hantschel,
    • Uwe Rix,
    • Uwe Schmidt,
    • Tilmann Bürckstümmer,
    • Michael Kneidinger,
    • Gregor Schütze,
    • Jacques Colinge,
    • Keiryn L. Bennett,
    • Wilfried Ellmeier,
    • Peter Valent,
    • and Giulio Superti-Furga

    The Btk tyrosine kinase is a major target of the Bcr-Abl inhibitor dasatinib

    PNAS 2007 104:13283-13288; published ahead of print August 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702654104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Makoto Fujisawa,
    • Masahiro Ito,
    • and Terry A. Krulwich

    Three two-component transporters with channel-like properties have monovalent cation/proton antiport activity

    PNAS 2007 104:13289-13294; published ahead of print August 6, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703709104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Carole Mathevon,
    • Fabien Pierrel,
    • Jean-Louis Oddou,
    • Ricardo Garcia-Serres,
    • Geneviève Blondin,
    • Jean-Marc Latour,
    • Stéphane Ménage,
    • Serge Gambarelli,
    • Marc Fontecave,
    • and Mohamed Atta

    tRNA-modifying MiaE protein from Salmonella typhimurium is a nonheme diiron monooxygenase

    PNAS 2007 104:13295-13300; published ahead of print August 6, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704338104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jun-Hyuk Choi,
    • Laura A. Lindsey-Boltz,
    • and Aziz Sancar

    Reconstitution of a human ATR-mediated checkpoint response to damaged DNA

    PNAS 2007 104:13301-13306; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706013104
    Open Access Article

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Benjamin M. Friedrich
    • and Frank Jülicher

    Chemotaxis of sperm cells

    PNAS 2007 104:13256-13261; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703530104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jason W. Locasale,
    • Andrey S. Shaw,
    • and Arup K. Chakraborty

    Scaffold proteins confer diverse regulatory properties to protein kinase cascades

    PNAS 2007 104:13307-13312; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706311104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jijun Dong,
    • Jeffrey M. Canfield,
    • Anil K. Mehta,
    • Jacob E. Shokes,
    • Bo Tian,
    • W. Seth Childers,
    • James A. Simmons,
    • Zixu Mao,
    • Robert A. Scott,
    • Kurt Warncke,
    • and David G. Lynn

    Engineering metal ion coordination to regulate amyloid fibril assembly and toxicity

    PNAS 2007 104:13313-13318; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702669104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Jan Saam,
    • Igor Ivanov,
    • Matthias Walther,
    • Hermann-Georg Holzhütter,
    • and Hartmut Kuhn

    Molecular dioxygen enters the active site of 12/15-lipoxygenase via dynamic oxygen access channels

    PNAS 2007 104:13319-13324; published ahead of print August 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702401104

Cell Biology

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Amanda M. D. Malone,
    • Charles T. Anderson,
    • Padmaja Tummala,
    • Ronald Y. Kwon,
    • Tyler R. Johnston,
    • Tim Stearns,
    • and Christopher R. Jacobs

    Primary cilia mediate mechanosensing in bone cells by a calcium-independent mechanism

    PNAS 2007 104:13325-13330; published ahead of print August 2, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700636104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Becky L. Conway-Campbell,
    • Jong Wei Wooh,
    • Andrew J. Brooks,
    • David Gordon,
    • Richard J. Brown,
    • Agnieszka M. Lichanska,
    • Hong Soon Chin,
    • Chenoa L. Barton,
    • Glen M. Boyle,
    • Peter G. Parsons,
    • David A. Jans,
    • and Michael J. Waters

    Nuclear targeting of the growth hormone receptor results in dysregulation of cell proliferation and tumorigenesis

    PNAS 2007 104:13331-13336; published ahead of print August 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0600181104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Abha Khandelwal,
    • Dilip Chandu,
    • Catherine M. Roe,
    • Raphael Kopan,
    • and Ralph S. Quatrano

    Moonlighting activity of presenilin in plants is independent of γ-secretase and evolutionarily conserved

    PNAS 2007 104:13337-13342; published ahead of print August 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702038104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Juan C. del Álamo,
    • Ruedi Meili,
    • Baldomero Alonso-Latorre,
    • Javier Rodríguez-Rodríguez,
    • Alberto Aliseda,
    • Richard A. Firtel,
    • and Juan C. Lasheras

    Spatio-temporal analysis of eukaryotic cell motility by improved force cytometry

    PNAS 2007 104:13343-13348; published ahead of print August 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705815104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Paul Herzmark,
    • Kyle Campbell,
    • Fei Wang,
    • Kit Wong,
    • Hana El-Samad,
    • Alex Groisman,
    • and Henry R. Bourne

    Bound attractant at the leading vs. the trailing edge determines chemotactic prowess

    PNAS 2007 104:13349-13354; published ahead of print August 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705889104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Johannes H. Bauer,
    • Chengyi Chang,
    • Siti Nur Sarah Morris,
    • Suzanne Hozier,
    • Sandra Andersen,
    • Joshua S. Waitzman,
    • and Stephen L. Helfand

    Expression of dominant-negative Dmp53 in the adult fly brain inhibits insulin signaling

    PNAS 2007 104:13355-13360; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706121104

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Servane Tauszig-Delamasure,
    • Li-Ying Yu,
    • Jorge Ruben Cabrera,
    • Jimena Bouzas-Rodriguez,
    • Catherine Mermet-Bouvier,
    • Catherine Guix,
    • Marie-Claire Bordeaux,
    • Urmas Arumäe,
    • and Patrick Mehlen

    The TrkC receptor induces apoptosis when the dependence receptor notion meets the neurotrophin paradigm

    PNAS 2007 104:13361-13366; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701243104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Kiwamu Takemoto,
    • Erina Kuranaga,
    • Ayako Tonoki,
    • Takeharu Nagai,
    • Atsushi Miyawaki,
    • and Masayuki Miura

    Local initiation of caspase activation in Drosophila salivary gland programmed cell death in vivo

    PNAS 2007 104:13367-13372; published ahead of print August 6, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702733104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Cristina González-Estévez,
    • Daniel A. Felix,
    • Aziz A. Aboobaker,
    • and Emili Saló

    Gtdap-1 promotes autophagy and is required for planarian remodeling during regeneration and starvation

    PNAS 2007 104:13373-13378; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703588104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Raquel Sussman

    DNA repair capacity of zebrafish

    PNAS 2007 104:13379-13383; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706157104

Ecology

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • John M. Bane,
    • Yvette H. Spitz,
    • Ricardo M. Letelier,
    • and William T. Peterson

    From the Cover: Jet stream intraseasonal oscillations drive dominant ecosystem variations in Oregon's summertime coastal upwelling system

    PNAS 2007 104:13262-13267; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700926104
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Allen H. Hurlbert
    • and Walter Jetz

    Species richness, hotspots, and the scale dependence of range maps in ecology and conservation

    PNAS 2007 104:13384-13389; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704469104

Evolution