This Week in PNAS

Commentary

  • Commentary:
    • Scott A. Oakes

    Mitochondria control calcium entry at the immunological synapse

    PNAS 2007 104:15171-15172; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707798104
    • See companion article on page 14418 in issue 36 of volume 104

Profile

  • Profile:
    • Philip Downey

    Profile of Ding-Shinn Chen

    PNAS 2007 104:15173-15175; published ahead of print September 17, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704698104
    • See commentary article on page 2571 in issue 8 of volume 104

Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature

Perspectives

  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Elinor Ostrom,
    • Marco A. Janssen,
    • and John M. Anderies

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Going beyond panaceas

    PNAS 2007 104:15176-15178; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701886104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Charles Perrings

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Future challenges

    PNAS 2007 104:15179-15180; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701957104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Perspective:
    • Elinor Ostrom

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: A diagnostic approach for going beyond panaceas

    PNAS 2007 104:15181-15187; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702288104

Research Articles

  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Fikret Berkes

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Community-based conservation in a globalized world

    PNAS 2007 104:15188-15193; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702098104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • John M. Anderies,
    • Armando A. Rodriguez,
    • Marco A. Janssen,
    • and Oguzhan Cifdaloz

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Panaceas, uncertainty, and the robust control framework in sustainability science

    PNAS 2007 104:15194-15199; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702655104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Ruth Meinzen-Dick

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Beyond panaceas in water institutions

    PNAS 2007 104:15200-15205; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702296104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • William A. Brock
    • and Stephen R. Carpenter

    From the Cover: Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Panaceas and diversification of environmental policy

    PNAS 2007 104:15206-15211; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702096104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • James Wilson,
    • Liying Yan,
    • and Carl Wilson

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: The precursors of governance in the Maine lobster fishery

    PNAS 2007 104:15212-15217; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702241104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Harini Nagendra

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Drivers of reforestation in human-dominated forests

    PNAS 2007 104:15218-15223; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702319104

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Marta Sales-Pardo,
    • Roger Guimerà,
    • André A. Moreira,
    • and Luís A. Nunes Amaral

    Extracting the hierarchical organization of complex systems

    PNAS 2007 104:15224-15229; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703740104
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • V. V. Volkov,
    • R. Chelli,
    • W. Zhuang,
    • F. Nuti,
    • Y. Takaoka,
    • A. M. Papini,
    • S. Mukamel,
    • and R. Righini

    Electrostatic interactions in phospholipid membranes revealed by coherent 2D IR spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:15323-15327; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706426104

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Isabella Daidone,
    • Martin B. Ulmschneider,
    • Alfredo Di Nola,
    • Andrea Amadei,
    • and Jeremy C. Smith

    Dehydration-driven solvent exposure of hydrophobic surfaces as a driving force in peptide folding

    PNAS 2007 104:15230-15235; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701401104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Rebecca Schulman
    • and Erik Winfree

    Synthesis of crystals with a programmable kinetic barrier to nucleation

    PNAS 2007 104:15236-15241; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701467104
    Open Access Article

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • Shilong Piao,
    • Pierre Friedlingstein,
    • Philippe Ciais,
    • Nathalie de Noblet-Ducoudré,
    • David Labat,
    • and Sönke Zaehle

    Changes in climate and land use have a larger direct impact than rising CO 2 on global river runoff trends

    PNAS 2007 104:15242-15247; published ahead of print September 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707213104
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences:
    • B. D. Santer,
    • C. Mears,
    • F. J. Wentz,
    • K. E. Taylor,
    • P. J. Gleckler,
    • T. M. L. Wigley,
    • T. P. Barnett,
    • J. S. Boyle,
    • W. Brüggemann,
    • N. P. Gillett,
    • S. A. Klein,
    • G. A. Meehl,
    • T. Nozawa,
    • D. W. Pierce,
    • P. A. Stott,
    • W. M. Washington,
    • and M. F. Wehner

    Identification of human-induced changes in atmospheric moisture content

    PNAS 2007 104:15248-15253; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702872104
    Open Access Article

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Stephen D. Wilson,
    • Shiliang Li,
    • Jun Zhao,
    • Gang Mu,
    • Hai-Hu Wen,
    • Jeffrey W. Lynn,
    • Paul G. Freeman,
    • Louis-Pierre Regnault,
    • Klaus Habicht,
    • and Pengcheng Dai

    Quantum spin correlations through the superconducting-to-normal phase transition in electron-doped superconducting Pr 0.88 LaCe 0.12 CuO 4-δ

    PNAS 2007 104:15259-15263; published ahead of print September 20, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704822104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • N. B. Christensen,
    • H. M. Rønnow,
    • D. F. McMorrow,
    • A. Harrison,
    • T. G. Perring,
    • M. Enderle,
    • R. Coldea,
    • L. P. Regnault,
    • and G. Aeppli

    Quantum dynamics and entanglement of spins on a square lattice

    PNAS 2007 104:15264-15269; published ahead of print September 20, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703293104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Giovanni Cappello,
    • Paolo Pierobon,
    • Clémentine Symonds,
    • Lorenzo Busoni,
    • J. Christof,
    • M. Gebhardt,
    • Matthias Rief,
    • and Jacques Prost

    Myosin V stepping mechanism

    PNAS 2007 104:15328-15333; published ahead of print September 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706653104

Social Sciences

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Greger Larson,
    • Umberto Albarella,
    • Keith Dobney,
    • Peter Rowley-Conwy,
    • Jörg Schibler,
    • Anne Tresset,
    • Jean-Denis Vigne,
    • Ceiridwen J. Edwards,
    • Angela Schlumbaum,
    • Alexandru Dinu,
    • Adrian Bălăçsescu,
    • Gaynor Dolman,
    • Antonio Tagliacozzo,
    • Ninna Manaseryan,
    • Preston Miracle,
    • Louise Van Wijngaarden-Bakker,
    • Marco Masseti,
    • Daniel G. Bradley,
    • and Alan Cooper

    From the Cover: Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe

    PNAS 2007 104:15276-15281; published ahead of print September 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703411104
    Open Access Article

Political Sciences

  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Ruth Meinzen-Dick

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Beyond panaceas in water institutions

    PNAS 2007 104:15200-15205; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702296104

Sustainability Science

  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Fikret Berkes

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Community-based conservation in a globalized world

    PNAS 2007 104:15188-15193; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702098104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • John M. Anderies,
    • Armando A. Rodriguez,
    • Marco A. Janssen,
    • and Oguzhan Cifdaloz

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Panaceas, uncertainty, and the robust control framework in sustainability science

    PNAS 2007 104:15194-15199; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702655104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Political Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Ruth Meinzen-Dick

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Beyond panaceas in water institutions

    PNAS 2007 104:15200-15205; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702296104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • William A. Brock
    • and Stephen R. Carpenter

    From the Cover: Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Panaceas and diversification of environmental policy

    PNAS 2007 104:15206-15211; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702096104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • James Wilson,
    • Liying Yan,
    • and Carl Wilson

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: The precursors of governance in the Maine lobster fishery

    PNAS 2007 104:15212-15217; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702241104
  • Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature - Research Articles - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science - Biological Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Harini Nagendra

    Going Beyond Panaceas Special Feature: Drivers of reforestation in human-dominated forests

    PNAS 2007 104:15218-15223; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702319104

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
    • Aarati Karaba,
    • Shital Dixit,
    • Raffaella Greco,
    • Asaph Aharoni,
    • Kurniawan R. Trijatmiko,
    • Nayelli Marsch-Martinez,
    • Arjun Krishnan,
    • Karaba N. Nataraja,
    • Makarla Udayakumar,
    • and Andy Pereira

    Improvement of water use efficiency in rice by expression of HARDY , an Arabidopsis drought and salt tolerance gene

    PNAS 2007 104:15270-15275; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707294104
    Open Access Article

Anthropology

  • Social Sciences - Anthropology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Greger Larson,
    • Umberto Albarella,
    • Keith Dobney,
    • Peter Rowley-Conwy,
    • Jörg Schibler,
    • Anne Tresset,
    • Jean-Denis Vigne,
    • Ceiridwen J. Edwards,
    • Angela Schlumbaum,
    • Alexandru Dinu,
    • Adrian Bălăçsescu,
    • Gaynor Dolman,
    • Antonio Tagliacozzo,
    • Ninna Manaseryan,
    • Preston Miracle,
    • Louise Van Wijngaarden-Bakker,
    • Marco Masseti,
    • Daniel G. Bradley,
    • and Alan Cooper

    From the Cover: Ancient DNA, pig domestication, and the spread of the Neolithic into Europe

    PNAS 2007 104:15276-15281; published ahead of print September 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703411104
    Open Access Article

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • GuoQiang Sun,
    • Ruth T. Yu,
    • Ronald M. Evans,
    • and Yanhong Shi

    Orphan nuclear receptor TLX recruits histone deacetylases to repress transcription and regulate neural stem cell proliferation

    PNAS 2007 104:15282-15287; published ahead of print September 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704089104

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Sarah B. Voytek
    • and Gerald F. Joyce

    Emergence of a fast-reacting ribozyme that is capable of undergoing continuous evolution

    PNAS 2007 104:15288-15293; published ahead of print September 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707490104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lan Guan,
    • Osman Mirza,
    • Gillian Verner,
    • So Iwata,
    • and H. Ronald Kaback

    Structural determination of wild-type lactose permease

    PNAS 2007 104:15294-15298; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707688104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jiqiang Ling,
    • Hervé Roy,
    • Daoming Qin,
    • Mary Anne T. Rubio,
    • Juan D. Alfonzo,
    • Kurt Fredrick,
    • and Michael Ibba

    Pathogenic mechanism of a human mitochondrial tRNA Phe mutation associated with myoclonic epilepsy with ragged red fibers syndrome

    PNAS 2007 104:15299-15304; published ahead of print September 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704441104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Rashna Bhandari,
    • Adolfo Saiardi,
    • Yousef Ahmadibeni,
    • Adele M. Snowman,
    • Adam C. Resnick,
    • Troels Z. Kristiansen,
    • Henrik Molina,
    • Akhilesh Pandey,
    • J. Kent Werner, Jr.,
    • Krishna R. Juluri,
    • Yong Xu,
    • Glenn D. Prestwich,
    • Keykavous Parang,
    • and Solomon H. Snyder

    Protein pyrophosphorylation by inositol pyrophosphates is a posttranslational event

    PNAS 2007 104:15305-15310; published ahead of print September 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707338104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Katherine S. Ryan,
    • Annaleise R. Howard-Jones,
    • Michael J. Hamill,
    • Sean J. Elliott,
    • Christopher T. Walsh,
    • and Catherine L. Drennan

    From the Cover: Crystallographic trapping in the rebeccamycin biosynthetic enzyme RebC

    PNAS 2007 104:15311-15316; published ahead of print September 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707190104
    • See commentary article on page 15587 in issue 40 of volume 104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Matthew Auton,
    • Luis Marcelo F. Holthauzen,
    • and D. Wayne Bolen

    Anatomy of energetic changes accompanying urea-induced protein denaturation

    PNAS 2007 104:15317-15322; published ahead of print September 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706251104

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Isabella Daidone,
    • Martin B. Ulmschneider,
    • Alfredo Di Nola,
    • Andrea Amadei,
    • and Jeremy C. Smith

    Dehydration-driven solvent exposure of hydrophobic surfaces as a driving force in peptide folding

    PNAS 2007 104:15230-15235; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701401104
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • V. V. Volkov,
    • R. Chelli,
    • W. Zhuang,
    • F. Nuti,
    • Y. Takaoka,
    • A. M. Papini,
    • S. Mukamel,
    • and R. Righini

    Electrostatic interactions in phospholipid membranes revealed by coherent 2D IR spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:15323-15327; published ahead of print September 19, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706426104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Giovanni Cappello,
    • Paolo Pierobon,
    • Clémentine Symonds,
    • Lorenzo Busoni,
    • J. Christof,
    • M. Gebhardt,
    • Matthias Rief,
    • and Jacques Prost

    Myosin V stepping mechanism

    PNAS 2007 104:15328-15333; published ahead of print September 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706653104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics