This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Marcus S. Cooke
    • and Mark D. Evans

    8-Oxo-deoxyguanosine: Reduce, reuse, recycle?

    PNAS 2007 104:13535-13536; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706878104
    • See companion article on page 11203 in issue 27 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Joan B. Silk

    Chimps don't just get mad, they get even

    PNAS 2007 104:13537-13538; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706166104
    • See companion article on page 13046 in issue 32 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Daniel R. Papaj
    • and Emilie C. Snell-Rood

    Memory flies sooner from flies that learn faster

    PNAS 2007 104:13539-13540; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706165104
    • See companion article on page 13051 in issue 32 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Thomas C. Südhof

    Membrane fusion as a team effort

    PNAS 2007 104:13541-13542; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706168104
    • See companion article on page 13551 in issue 34 of volume 104

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Michael G. Pontin,
    • Dana N. Moses,
    • J. Herbert Waite,
    • and Frank W. Zok

    A nonmineralized approach to abrasion-resistant biomaterials

    PNAS 2007 104:13559-13564; published ahead of print August 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702034104
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Q. S. Zeng,
    • Y. C. Li,
    • C. M. Feng,
    • P. Liermann,
    • M. Somayazulu,
    • G. Y. Shen,
    • H.-k. Mao,
    • R. Yang,
    • J. Liu,
    • T. D. Hu,
    • and J. Z. Jiang

    Anomalous compression behavior in lanthanum/cerium-based metallic glass under high pressure

    PNAS 2007 104:13565-13568; published ahead of print August 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705999104

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Vincent Lavallo,
    • Guido D. Frey,
    • Shazia Kousar,
    • Bruno Donnadieu,
    • and Guy Bertrand

    From the Cover: Allene formation by gold catalyzed cross-coupling of masked carbenes and vinylidenes

    PNAS 2007 104:13569-13573; published ahead of print August 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705809104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jungjoo Yoon,
    • Barry D. Liboiron,
    • Ritimukta Sarangi,
    • Keith O. Hodgson,
    • Britt Hedman,
    • and Edward I. Solomon

    The two oxidized forms of the trinuclear Cu cluster in the multicopper oxidases and mechanism for the decay of the native intermediate

    PNAS 2007 104:13609-13614; published ahead of print August 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705137104

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering:
    • Victor L. Pushparaj,
    • Manikoth M. Shaijumon,
    • Ashavani Kumar,
    • Saravanababu Murugesan,
    • Lijie Ci,
    • Robert Vajtai,
    • Robert J. Linhardt,
    • Omkaram Nalamasu,
    • and Pulickel M. Ajayan

    Flexible energy storage devices based on nanocomposite paper

    PNAS 2007 104:13574-13577; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706508104

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Gustavo Gioia,
    • Pinaki Chakraborty,
    • Stephen Marshak,
    • and Susan W. Kieffer

    From the Cover: Unified model of tectonics and heat transport in a frigid Enceladus

    PNAS 2007 104:13578-13581; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706018104

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Céline Bonfils
    • and David Lobell

    Empirical evidence for a recent slowdown in irrigation-induced cooling

    PNAS 2007 104:13582-13587; published ahead of print August 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700144104
  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
    • Dmitry L. Lakshtanov,
    • Stanislav V. Sinogeikin,
    • Konstantin D. Litasov,
    • Vitali B. Prakapenka,
    • Holger Hellwig,
    • Jingyun Wang,
    • Carmen Sanches-Valle,
    • Jean-Philippe Perrillat,
    • Bin Chen,
    • Maddury Somayazulu,
    • Jie Li,
    • Eiji Ohtani,
    • and Jay D. Bass

    The post-stishovite phase transition in hydrous alumina-bearing SiO 2 in the lower mantle of the earth

    PNAS 2007 104:13588-13590; published ahead of print August 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706113104

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • S. Ciliberti,
    • O. C. Martin,
    • and A. Wagner

    Innovation and robustness in complex regulatory gene networks

    PNAS 2007 104:13591-13596; published ahead of print August 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705396104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Ch. Jooss,
    • L. Wu,
    • T. Beetz,
    • R. F. Klie,
    • M. Beleggia,
    • M. A. Schofield,
    • S. Schramm,
    • J. Hoffmann,
    • and Y. Zhu

    Polaron melting and ordering as key mechanisms for colossal resistance effects in manganites

    PNAS 2007 104:13597-13602; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702748104

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Yue-Jin Huang,
    • Yue Huang,
    • Hernan Baldassarre,
    • Bin Wang,
    • Anthoula Lazaris,
    • Martin Leduc,
    • Annie S. Bilodeau,
    • Annie Bellemare,
    • Mélanie Côté,
    • Peter Herskovits,
    • Madjid Touati,
    • Carl Turcotte,
    • Loredana Valeanu,
    • Nicolas Lemée,
    • Harvey Wilgus,
    • Isabelle Bégin,
    • Bhim Bhatia,
    • Khalid Rao,
    • Nathalie Neveu,
    • Eric Brochu,
    • Janice Pierson,
    • Duncan K. Hockley,
    • Douglas M. Cerasoli,
    • David E. Lenz,
    • Costas N. Karatzas,
    • and Solomon Langermann

    Recombinant human butyrylcholinesterase from milk of transgenic animals to protect against organophosphate poisoning

    PNAS 2007 104:13603-13608; published ahead of print July 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702756104
    Open Access Article
    • See commentary article on page 13859 in issue 35 of volume 104

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Allison H. Williams
    • and Christian R. H. Raetz

    Inaugural Article: Structural basis for the acyl chain selectivity and mechanism of UDP- N -acetylglucosamine acyltransferase

    PNAS 2007 104:13543-13550; published ahead of print August 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705833104
    • See commentary article on page 17252 in issue 44 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Vincent J. Starai,
    • Youngsoo Jun,
    • and William Wickner

    From the Cover: Feature Article: Excess vacuolar SNAREs drive lysis and Rab bypass fusion

    PNAS 2007 104:13551-13558; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704741104
    • See commentary article on page 13541 in issue 34 of volume 104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jungjoo Yoon,
    • Barry D. Liboiron,
    • Ritimukta Sarangi,
    • Keith O. Hodgson,
    • Britt Hedman,
    • and Edward I. Solomon

    The two oxidized forms of the trinuclear Cu cluster in the multicopper oxidases and mechanism for the decay of the native intermediate

    PNAS 2007 104:13609-13614; published ahead of print August 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705137104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Aurélie Mousnier,
    • Nicole Kubat,
    • Aurélie Massias-Simon,
    • Emmanuel Ségéral,
    • Jean-Christophe Rain,
    • Richard Benarous,
    • Stéphane Emiliani,
    • and Catherine Dargemont

    von Hippel–Lindau binding protein 1-mediated degradation of integrase affects HIV-1 gene expression at a postintegration step

    PNAS 2007 104:13615-13620; published ahead of print August 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705162104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Gert Bange,
    • Georg Petzold,
    • Klemens Wild,
    • Richard O. Parlitz,
    • and Irmgard Sinning

    The crystal structure of the third signal-recognition particle GTPase FlhF reveals a homodimer with bound GTP

    PNAS 2007 104:13621-13625; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702570104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Laurent Loiseau,
    • Catherine Gerez,
    • Martijn Bekker,
    • Sandrine Ollagnier-de Choudens,
    • Béatrice Py,
    • Yannis Sanakis,
    • Joost Teixeira de Mattos,
    • Marc Fontecave,
    • and Frédéric Barras

    ErpA, an iron–sulfur (Fe–S) protein of the A-type essential for respiratory metabolism in Escherichia coli

    PNAS 2007 104:13626-13631; published ahead of print August 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705829104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jonathan R. Gledhill,
    • Martin G. Montgomery,
    • Andrew G. W. Leslie,
    • and John E. Walker

    Mechanism of inhibition of bovine F 1 -ATPase by resveratrol and related polyphenols

    PNAS 2007 104:13632-13637; published ahead of print August 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706290104
    Open Access Article

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Pan-Jun Kim,
    • Dong-Yup Lee,
    • Tae Yong Kim,
    • Kwang Ho Lee,
    • Hawoong Jeong,
    • Sang Yup Lee,
    • and Sunwon Park

    Metabolite essentiality elucidates robustness of Escherichia coli metabolism

    PNAS 2007 104:13638-13642; published ahead of print August 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703262104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • José D. Faraldo-Gómez
    • and Benoît Roux

    On the importance of a funneled energy landscape for the assembly and regulation of multidomain Src tyrosine kinases

    PNAS 2007 104:13643-13648; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704041104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Padinhateeri Ranjith,
    • Jie Yan,
    • and John F. Marko

    Nucleosome hopping and sliding kinetics determined from dynamics of single chromatin fibers in Xenopus egg extracts

    PNAS 2007 104:13649-13654; published ahead of print August 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701459104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Sergei Maslov
    • and I. Ispolatov

    Propagation of large concentration changes in reversible protein-binding networks

    PNAS 2007 104:13655-13660; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702905104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Tae-Hee Lee,
    • Scott C. Blanchard,
    • Harold D. Kim,
    • Joseph D. Puglisi,
    • and Steven Chu

    From the Cover: The role of fluctuations in tRNA selection by the ribosome

    PNAS 2007 104:13661-13665; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705988104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Bianxiao Cui,
    • Chengbiao Wu,
    • Liang Chen,
    • Alfredo Ramirez,
    • Elaine L. Bearer,
    • Wei-Ping Li,
    • William C. Mobley,
    • and Steven Chu

    One at a time, live tracking of NGF axonal transport using quantum dots

    PNAS 2007 104:13666-13671; published ahead of print August 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706192104

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Miguel A. Lanaspa,
    • Nestor E. Almeida,
    • Ana Andres-Hernando,
    • Christopher J. Rivard,
    • Juan M. Capasso,
    • and Tomas Berl

    The tight junction protein, MUPP1, is up-regulated by hypertonicity and is important in the osmotic stress response in kidney cells

    PNAS 2007 104:13672-13677; published ahead of print August 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702752104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Kazuya Kabayama,
    • Takashige Sato,
    • Kumiko Saito,
    • Nicoletta Loberto,
    • Alessandro Prinetti,
    • Sandro Sonnino,
    • Masataka Kinjo,
    • Yasuyuki Igarashi,
    • and Jin-ichi Inokuchi

    Dissociation of the insulin receptor and caveolin-1 complex by ganglioside GM3 in the state of insulin resistance

    PNAS 2007 104:13678-13683; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703650104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Ichiro Taniguchi,
    • Kaoru Masuyama,
    • and Mutsuhito Ohno

    Role of purine-rich exonic splicing enhancers in nuclear retention of pre-mRNAs

    PNAS 2007 104:13684-13689; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704922104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Dwayne A. Bisgrove,
    • Tokameh Mahmoudi,
    • Peter Henklein,
    • and Eric Verdin

    Conserved P-TEFb-interacting domain of BRD4 inhibits HIV transcription

    PNAS 2007 104:13690-13695; published ahead of print August 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705053104

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Xiaotang Fan,
    • Hyun-Jin Kim,
    • Margaret Warner,
    • and Jan-Åke Gustafsson

    Estrogen receptor β is essential for sprouting of nociceptive primary afferents and for morphogenesis and maintenance of the dorsal horn interneurons

    PNAS 2007 104:13696-13701; published ahead of print August 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705936104

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Jens Roland
    • and Stephen F. Matter

    Encroaching forests decouple alpine butterfly population dynamics

    PNAS 2007 104:13702-13704; published ahead of print August 15, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705511104
    Open Access Article

Environmental Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • M. Biuw,
    • L. Boehme,
    • C. Guinet,
    • M. Hindell,
    • D. Costa,
    • J.-B. Charrassin,
    • F. Roquet,
    • F. Bailleul,
    • M. Meredith,
    • S. Thorpe,
    • Y. Tremblay,
    • B. McDonald,
    • Y.-H. Park,
    • S. R. Rintoul,
    • N. Bindoff,
    • M. Goebel,
    • D. Crocker,
    • P. Lovell,
    • J. Nicholson,
    • F. Monks,
    • and M. A. Fedak

    Variations in behavior and condition of a Southern Ocean top predator in relation to in situ oceanographic conditions

    PNAS 2007 104:13705-13710; published ahead of print August 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701121104

Evolution

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • S. Ciliberti,
    • O. C. Martin,
    • and A. Wagner

    Innovation and robustness in complex regulatory gene networks

    PNAS 2007 104:13591-13596; published ahead of print August 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705396104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Nadav Kashtan,
    • Elad Noor,
    • and Uri Alon

    Varying environments can speed up evolution

    PNAS 2007 104:13711-13716; published ahead of print August 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611630104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Megan C. Hall,
    • Ian Dworkin,
    • Mark C. Ungerer,
    • and Michael Purugganan

    Genetics of microenvironmental canalization in Arabidopsis thaliana

    PNAS 2007 104:13717-13722; published ahead of print August 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701936104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Robert E. Dewar
    • and Alison F. Richard

    Evolution in the hypervariable environment of Madagascar

    PNAS 2007 104:13723-13727; published ahead of print August 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704346104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Alfonso Navas,
    • Guillermo Cobas,
    • Miguel Talavera,
    • Juan A. Ayala,
    • Juan A. López,
    • and José L. Martínez

    Experimental validation of Haldane's hypothesis on the role of infection as an evolutionary force for Metazoans

    PNAS 2007 104