This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • John J. Rossi

    Targeted cleavage: Tuneable cis-cleaving ribozymes

    PNAS 2007 104:14881-14882; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707141104
    • See companion article on page 14283 in issue 36 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Gerhard Hummer

    Water pulls the strings in hydrophobic polymer collapse

    PNAS 2007 104:14883-14884; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706633104
    • See companion article on page 14559 in issue 37 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Steven M. Holland

    Coupling of predation intensity and global diversity over geologic time

    PNAS 2007 104:14885-14886; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707409104
    • See companion article on page 15006 in issue 38 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Anthony Sclafani

    Sweet taste signaling in the gut

    PNAS 2007 104:14887-14888; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707410104
    • See companion article on page 15075 in issue 38 of volume 104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Zhaohua Wu,
    • Norden E. Huang,
    • Steven R. Long,
    • and Chung-Kang Peng

    On the trend, detrending, and variability of nonlinear and nonstationary time series

    PNAS 2007 104:14889-14894; published ahead of print September 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701020104

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Hiroyuki Isobe,
    • Tatsuya Homma,
    • and Eiichi Nakamura

    From the Cover: Energetics of water permeation through fullerene membrane

    PNAS 2007 104:14895-14898; published ahead of print September 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705010104
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Donald Hamelberg,
    • Tongye Shen,
    • and J. Andrew McCammon

    A proposed signaling motif for nuclear import in mRNA processing via the formation of arginine claw

    PNAS 2007 104:14947-14951; published ahead of print September 6, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703151104
    Open Access Article

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Microbiology:
    • Sky E. Rashby,
    • Alex L. Sessions,
    • Roger E. Summons,
    • and Dianne K. Newman

    Biosynthesis of 2-methylbacteriohopanepolyols by an anoxygenic phototroph

    PNAS 2007 104:15099-15104; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704912104

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Steven S. Plotkin

    Generalization of distance to higher dimensional objects

    PNAS 2007 104:14899-14904; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607833104

Social Sciences

Psychology

  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Peter M. Todd,
    • Lars Penke,
    • Barbara Fasolo,
    • and Alison P. Lenton

    Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences

    PNAS 2007 104:15011-15016; published ahead of print September 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705290104

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jacob Bauer,
    • Guangxin Xing,
    • Haruhiko Yagi,
    • Jane M. Sayer,
    • Donald M. Jerina,
    • and Hong Ling

    A structural gap in Dpo4 supports mutagenic bypass of a major benzo[ a ]pyrene dG adduct in DNA through template misalignment

    PNAS 2007 104:14905-14910; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700717104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tobias Hainzl,
    • Shenghua Huang,
    • and A. Elisabeth Sauer-Eriksson

    Interaction of signal-recognition particle 54 GTPase domain and signal-recognition particle RNA in the free signal-recognition particle

    PNAS 2007 104:14911-14916; published ahead of print September 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702467104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Niall S. Kenneth,
    • Ben A. Ramsbottom,
    • Natividad Gomez-Roman,
    • Lynne Marshall,
    • Philip A. Cole,
    • and Robert J. White

    TRRAP and GCN5 are used by c-Myc to activate RNA polymerase III transcription

    PNAS 2007 104:14917-14922; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702909104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Cecile Morlot,
    • Nicole M. Thielens,
    • Raimond B. G. Ravelli,
    • Wieger Hemrika,
    • Roland A. Romijn,
    • Piet Gros,
    • Stephen Cusack,
    • and Andrew A. McCarthy

    Structural insights into the Slit-Robo complex

    PNAS 2007 104:14923-14928; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705310104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Alessia Errico,
    • Vincenzo Costanzo,
    • and Tim Hunt

    Tipin is required for stalled replication forks to resume DNA replication after removal of aphidicolin in Xenopus egg extracts

    PNAS 2007 104:14929-14934; published ahead of print September 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706347104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Alexander Varshavsky

    From the Cover: Targeting the absence: Homozygous DNA deletions as immutable signposts for cancer therapy

    PNAS 2007 104:14935-14940; published ahead of print September 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706546104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jaime López de la Osa,
    • David A. Bateman,
    • Sylvia Ho,
    • Carlos González,
    • Avijit Chakrabartty,
    • and Douglas V. Laurents

    Getting specificity from simplicity in putative proteins from the prebiotic Earth

    PNAS 2007 104:14941-14946; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706876104
    Open Access Article

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Steven S. Plotkin

    Generalization of distance to higher dimensional objects

    PNAS 2007 104:14899-14904; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607833104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Donald Hamelberg,
    • Tongye Shen,
    • and J. Andrew McCammon

    A proposed signaling motif for nuclear import in mRNA processing via the formation of arginine claw

    PNAS 2007 104:14947-14951; published ahead of print September 6, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703151104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Eric J. Deeds,
    • Orr Ashenberg,
    • Jaline Gerardin,
    • and Eugene I. Shakhnovich

    Robust protein–protein interactions in crowded cellular environments

    PNAS 2007 104:14952-14957; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702766104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Christian Soeller,
    • David Crossman,
    • Ray Gilbert,
    • and Mark B. Cannell

    Analysis of ryanodine receptor clusters in rat and human cardiac myocytes

    PNAS 2007 104:14958-14963; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703016104

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Lóránt Székvölgyi,
    • Zsuzsa Rákosy,
    • Bálint L. Bálint,
    • Endre Kókai,
    • László Imre,
    • György Vereb,
    • Zsolt Bacsó,
    • Katalin Goda,
    • Sándor Varga,
    • Margit Balázs,
    • Viktor Dombrádi,
    • László Nagy,
    • and Gábor Szabó

    Ribonucleoprotein-masked nicks at 50-kbp intervals in the eukaryotic genomic DNA

    PNAS 2007 104:14964-14969; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702269104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Kathrin Teller,
    • Irina Solovei,
    • Karin Buiting,
    • Bernhard Horsthemke,
    • and Thomas Cremer

    Maintenance of imprinting and nuclear architecture in cycling cells

    PNAS 2007 104:14970-14975; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704285104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Stephanie Schonegg,
    • Alexandru T. Constantinescu,
    • Carsten Hoege,
    • and Anthony A. Hyman

    The Rho GTPase-activating proteins RGA-3 and RGA-4 are required to set the initial size of PAR domains in Caenorhabditis elegans one-cell embryos

    PNAS 2007 104:14976-14981; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706941104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Costas A. Lyssiotis,
    • John Walker,
    • Chunlei Wu,
    • Toru Kondo,
    • Peter G. Schultz,
    • and Xu Wu

    Inhibition of histone deacetylase activity induces developmental plasticity in oligodendrocyte precursor cells

    PNAS 2007 104:14982-14987; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707044104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Erna Magnúsdóttir,
    • Sergey Kalachikov,
    • Koji Mizukoshi,
    • David Savitsky,
    • Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto,
    • Andrey A. Panteleyev,
    • and Kathryn Calame

    Epidermal terminal differentiation depends on B lymphocyte-induced maturation protein-1

    PNAS 2007 104:14988-14993; published ahead of print September 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707323104

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Gerrit J. Bouma,
    • Linda L. Washburn,
    • Kenneth H. Albrecht,
    • and Eva M. Eicher

    Correct dosage of Fog2 and Gata4 transcription factors is critical for fetal testis development in mice

    PNAS 2007 104:14994-14999; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701677104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Cenap Güngör,
    • Naoko Taniguchi-Ishigaki,
    • Hong Ma,
    • Alexander Drung,
    • Baris Tursun,
    • Heather P. Ostendorff,
    • Michael Bossenz,
    • Catherina G. Becker,
    • Thomas Becker,
    • and Ingolf Bach

    Proteasomal selection of multiprotein complexes recruited by LIM homeodomain transcription factors

    PNAS 2007 104:15000-15005; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703738104

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • John Warren Huntley
    • and Michał Kowalewski

    From the Cover: Strong coupling of predation intensity and diversity in the Phanerozoic fossil record

    PNAS 2007 104:15006-15010; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704960104
    • See commentary article on page 14885 in issue 38 of volume 104
  • Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Peter M. Todd,
    • Lars Penke,
    • Barbara Fasolo,
    • and Alison P. Lenton

    Different cognitive processes underlie human mate choices and mate preferences

    PNAS 2007 104:15011-15016; published ahead of print September 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705290104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Renée A. Duckworth
    • and Alexander V. Badyaev

    From the Cover: Coupling of dispersal and aggression facilitates the rapid range expansion of a passerine bird

    PNAS 2007 104:15017-15022; published ahead of print September 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706174104
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Patricia Adair Gowaty,
    • Wyatt W. Anderson,
    • Cynthia K. Bluhm,
    • Lee C. Drickamer,
    • Yong-Kyu Kim,
    • and Allen J. Moore

    The hypothesis of reproductive compensation and its assumptions about mate preferences and offspring viability

    PNAS 2007 104:15023-15027; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706622104

Genetics

  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Chaolin Zhang,
    • Michelle L. Hastings,
    • Adrian R. Krainer,
    • and Michael Q. Zhang

    Dual-specificity splice sites function alternatively as 5′ and 3′ splice sites

    PNAS 2007 104:15028-15033; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703773104
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Naoko Ohtani,
    • Yuko Imamura,
    • Kimi Yamakoshi,
    • Fumiko Hirota,
    • Rika Nakayama,
    • Yoshiaki Kubo,
    • Naozumi Ishimaru,
    • Akiko Takahashi,
    • Atsushi Hirao,
    • Takatsune Shimizu,
    • David J. Mann,
    • Hideyuki Saya,
    • Yoshio Hayashi,
    • Seiji Arase,
    • Mitsuru Matsumoto,
    • Nakao Kazuki,
    • and Eiji Hara

    Visualizing the dynamics of p21 Waf1/Cip1 cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor expression in living animals

    PNAS 2007 104:15034-15039; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706949104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Genetics:
    • Julie Støy,
    • Emma L. Edghill,
    • Sarah E. Flanagan,
    • Honggang Ye,
    • Veronica P. Paz,
    • Anna Pluzhnikov,
    • Jennifer E. Below,
    • M. Geoffrey Hayes,
    • Nancy J. Cox,
    • Gregory M. Lipkind,
    • Rebecca B. Lipton,
    • Siri Atma W. Greeley,
    • Ann-Marie Patch,
    • Sian Ellard,
    • Donald F. Steiner,
    • Andrew T. Hattersley,
    • Louis H. Philipson,
    • Graeme I. Bell,
    • and Neonatal Diabetes International Collaborative Group

    Insulin gene mutations as a cause of permanent neonatal diabetes

    PNAS 2007 104:15040-15044; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707291104
    Open Access Article

Immunology

  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • David A. Blair
    • and Leo Lefrançois

    Increased competition for antigen during priming negatively impacts the generation of memory CD4 T cells

    PNAS 2007 104:15045-15050; published ahead of print September 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703767104
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Paul A. Ramsland,
    • Natasha Willoughby,
    • Halina M. Trist,
    • William Farrugia,
    • P. Mark Hogarth,
    • John D. Fraser,
    • and Bruce D. Wines

    Structural basis for evasion of IgA immunity by Staphylococcus aureus revealed in the complex of SSL7 with Fc of human IgA1

    PNAS 2007 104:15051-15056; published ahead of print September 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706028104
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Anthony Joetham,
    • Katsuyuki Takeda,
    • Nobuaki Miyahara,
    • Shigeki Matsubara,
    • Hiroshi Ohnishi,
    • Toshiyuki Koya,
    • Azzeddine Dakhama,
    • and Erwin W. Gelfand

    Activation of naturally occurring lung CD4 + CD25 + regulatory T cells requires CD8 and MHC I interaction

    PNAS 2007 104:15057-15062; published ahead of print September 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706765104
  • Biological Sciences - Immunology:
    • Ryo Goitsuka,
    • Chen-lo H. Chen,
    • Lesley Benyon,
    • Yusuke Asano,
    • Daisuke Kitamura,
    • and Max D. Cooper

    Chicken cathelicidin-B1, an antimicrobial guardian at the mucosal M cell gateway

    PNAS 2007 104:15063-15068; published ahead of print September 7, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707037104

Medical Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Hyeung-Jin Jang,
    • Zaza Kokrashvili,
    • Michael J. Theodorakis,
    • Olga D. Carlson,
    • Byung-Joon Kim,
    • Jie Zhou,
    • Hyeon Ho Kim,
    • Xiangru Xu,
    • Sic L. Chan,
    • Magdalena Juhaszova,
    • Michel Bernier,
    • Bedrich Mosinger,
    • Robert F. Margolskee,
    • and Josephine M. Egan

    Gut-expressed gustducin and taste receptors regulate secretion of glucagon-like peptide-1

    PNAS 2007 104:15069-15074; published ahead of print August 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706890104
  • Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • Robert F. Margolskee,
    • Jane Dyer,
    • Zaza Kokrashvili,
    • Kieron S. H. Salmon,
    • Erwin Ilegems,
    • Kristian Daly,
    • Emeline L. Maillet,
    • Yuzo Ninomiya,
    • Bedrich Mosinger,
    • and Soraya P. Shirazi-Beechey

    From the Cover: T1R3 and gustducin in gut sense sugars to regulate expression of Na + -glucose cotransporter 1

    PNAS 2007 104:15075