PNAS — Table of Contents — October 16, 2007, 104 (42)

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Qifa Zhang
Inaugural Article: Strategies for developing Green Super Rice
PNAS 2007 104:16402-16409; published ahead of print October 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708013104
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Donald E. Nelson,
- Peter P. Repetti,
- Tom R. Adams,
- Robert A. Creelman,
- Jingrui Wu,
- David C. Warner,
- Don C. Anstrom,
- Robert J. Bensen,
- Paolo P. Castiglioni,
- Meghan G. Donnarummo,
- Brendan S. Hinchey,
- Roderick W. Kumimoto,
- Don R. Maszle,
- Roger D. Canales,
- Katherine A. Krolikowski,
- Stanton B. Dotson,
- Neal Gutterson,
- Oliver J. Ratcliffe,
- and Jacqueline E. Heard
Plant nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) B subunits confer drought tolerance and lead to improved corn yields on water-limited acres
PNAS 2007 104:16450-16455; published ahead of print October 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707193104

Anthropology

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Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
- Christopher A. Scholz,
- Thomas C. Johnson,
- Andrew S. Cohen,
- John W. King,
- John A. Peck,
- Jonathan T. Overpeck,
- Michael R. Talbot,
- Erik T. Brown,
- Leonard Kalindekafe,
- Philip Y. O. Amoako,
- Robert P. Lyons,
- Timothy M. Shanahan,
- Isla S. Castañeda,
- Clifford W. Heil,
- Steven L. Forman,
- Lanny R. McHargue,
- Kristina R. Beuning,
- Jeanette Gomez,
- and James Pierson
East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins
PNAS 2007 104:16416-16421; published ahead of print September 4, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703874104
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Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
- Andrew S. Wilson,
- Timothy Taylor,
- Maria Constanza Ceruti,
- Jose Antonio Chavez,
- Johan Reinhard,
- Vaughan Grimes,
- Wolfram Meier-Augenstein,
- Larry Cartmell,
- Ben Stern,
- Michael P. Richards,
- Michael Worobey,
- Ian Barnes,
- and M. Thomas P. Gilbert
Stable isotope and DNA evidence for ritual sequences in Inca child sacrifice
PNAS 2007 104:16456-16461; published ahead of print October 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704276104

Applied Biological Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Jian Wu,
- Shenglong Zhang,
- Qinglin Meng,
- Huanyan Cao,
- Zengmin Li,
- Xiaoxu Li,
- Shundi Shi,
- Dae Hyun Kim,
- Lanrong Bi,
- Nicholas J. Turro,
- and Jingyue Ju
3′- O -modified nucleotides as reversible terminators for pyrosequencing
PNAS 2007 104:16462-16467; published ahead of print October 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707495104
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Lei Li,
- Koji Hisamoto,
- Kyung Hee Kim,
- M. Page Haynes,
- Philip M. Bauer,
- Archana Sanjay,
- Mark Collinge,
- Roland Baron,
- William C. Sessa,
- and Jeffrey R. Bender
Variant estrogen receptor–c-Src molecular interdependence and c-Src structural requirements for endothelial NO synthase activation
PNAS 2007 104:16468-16473; published ahead of print October 5, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704315104

Biochemistry

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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Guozhou Chen,
- Philip D. Jeffrey,
- Clay Fuqua,
- Yigong Shi,
- and Lingling Chen
Structural basis for antiactivation in bacterial quorum sensing
PNAS 2007 104:16474-16479; published ahead of print October 5, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704843104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Cheol Soo Choi,
- David B. Savage,
- Lutfi Abu-Elheiga,
- Zhen-Xiang Liu,
- Sheene Kim,
- Ameya Kulkarni,
- Alberto Distefano,
- Yu-Jin Hwang,
- Richard M. Reznick,
- Roberto Codella,
- Dongyan Zhang,
- Gary W. Cline,
- Salih J. Wakil,
- and Gerald I. Shulman
Continuous fat oxidation in acetyl–CoA carboxylase 2 knockout mice increases total energy expenditure, reduces fat mass, and improves insulin sensitivity
PNAS 2007 104:16480-16485; published ahead of print October 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706794104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Haiyu Zhang,
- Marı́a R. Gómez-Garcı́a,
- Xiaobing Shi,
- Narayana N. Rao,
- and Arthur Kornberg
Polyphosphate kinase 1, a conserved bacterial enzyme, in a eukaryote, Dictyostelium discoideum , with a role in cytokinesis
PNAS 2007 104:16486-16491; published ahead of print October 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706847104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Andrés E. Ciocchini,
- L. Soledad Guidolin,
- Adriana C. Casabuono,
- Alicia S. Couto,
- Nora Iñón de Iannino,
- and Rodolfo A. Ugalde
A glycosyltransferase with a length-controlling activity as a mechanism to regulate the size of polysaccharides
PNAS 2007 104:16492-16497; published ahead of print October 5, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708025104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Danica Galonić Fujimori,
- Siniša Hrvatin,
- Christopher S. Neumann,
- Matthias Strieker,
- Mohamed A. Marahiel,
- and Christopher T. Walsh
Cloning and characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster for kutznerides
PNAS 2007 104:16498-16503; published ahead of print October 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708242104
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Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Irina Smirnova,
- Vladimir Kasho,
- Jun-Yong Choe,
- Christian Altenbach,
- Wayne L. Hubbell,
- and H. Ronald Kaback
Sugar binding induces an outward facing conformation of LacY
PNAS 2007 104:16504-16509; published ahead of print October 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708258104

Biophysics

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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Theodor Ackbarow,
- Xuefeng Chen,
- Sinan Keten,
- and Markus J. Buehler
From the Cover: Hierarchies, multiple energy barriers, and robustness govern the fracture mechanics of α-helical and β-sheet protein domains
PNAS 2007 104:16410-16415; published ahead of print October 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705759104
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Roozbeh Ghaffari,
- Alexander J. Aranyosi,
- and Dennis M. Freeman
Longitudinally propagating traveling waves of the mammalian tectorial membrane
PNAS 2007 104:16510-16515; published ahead of print October 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0703665104
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Shang-Te Danny Hsu,
- Paola Fucini,
- Lisa D. Cabrita,
- Hélène Launay,
- Christopher M. Dobson,
- and John Christodoulou
Structure and dynamics of a ribosome-bound nascent chain by NMR spectroscopy
PNAS 2007 104:16516-16521; published ahead of print October 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704664104
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Marianne A. Grant,
- Noel D. Lazo,
- Aleksey Lomakin,
- Margaret M. Condron,
- Hiromi Arai,
- Ghiam Yamin,
- Alan C. Rigby,
- and David B. Teplow
Familial Alzheimer's disease mutations alter the stability of the amyloid β-protein monomer folding nucleus
PNAS 2007 104:16522-16527; published ahead of print October 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705197104
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Patricia Khuu,
- Maurice Sandor,
- Jennifer DeYoung,
- and P. Shing Ho
Phylogenomic analysis of the emergence of GC-rich transcription elements
PNAS 2007 104:16528-16533; published ahead of print October 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707203104
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Léa Desigaux,
- Matthieu Sainlos,
- Olivier Lambert,
- Raphael Chevre,
- Emilie Letrou-Bonneval,
- Jean-Pierre Vigneron,
- Pierre Lehn,
- Jean-Marie Lehn,
- and Bruno Pitard
Self-assembled lamellar complexes of siRNA with lipidic aminoglycoside derivatives promote efficient siRNA delivery and interference
PNAS 2007 104:16534-16539; published ahead of print October 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707431104
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Wen Li
- and Joachim Frank
Transfer RNA in the hybrid P/E state: Correlating molecular dynamics simulations with cryo-EM data
PNAS 2007 104:16540-16545; published ahead of print October 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708094104
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Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Maria R. Matarazzo,
- Shelagh Boyle,
- Maurizio D'Esposito,
- and Wendy A. Bickmore
Chromosome territory reorganization in a human disease with altered DNA methylation
PNAS 2007 104:16546-16551; published ahead of print October 8, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702924104
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Atsushi Asakura,
- Hiroyuki Hirai,
- Boris Kablar,
- Shigeru Morita,
- Jeff Ishibashi,
- Bryan A. Piras,
- Amanda J. Christ,
- Mayank Verma,
- Karin A. Vineretsky,
- and Michael A. Rudnicki
Increased survival of muscle stem cells lacking the MyoD gene after transplantation into regenerating skeletal muscle
PNAS 2007 104:16552-16557; published ahead of print October 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708145104

Developmental Biology

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Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Qing Zhou,
- Hiram Chipperfield,
- Douglas A. Melton,
- and Wing Hung Wong
A gene regulatory network in mouse embryonic stem cells
PNAS 2007 104:16438-16443; published ahead of print October 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0701014104
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Yuna Kim,
- Nathan Bingham,
- Ryohei Sekido,
- Keith L. Parker,
- Robin Lovell-Badge,
- and Blanche Capel
Fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 regulates proliferation and Sertoli differentiation during male sex determination
PNAS 2007 104:16558-16563; published ahead of print October 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0702581104
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Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Fish respond when the mercury rises

Has evolution primed humans to “beware the beast”?

The TCR binding site does move

Has hair cell loss MET its match?

Introducing PNAS online letters to the editor

3′- O -modified nucleotides as reversible terminators for pyrosequencing

From the Cover: Hierarchies, multiple energy barriers, and robustness govern the fracture mechanics of α-helical and β-sheet protein domains

East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

Ecological consequences of early Late Pleistocene megadroughts in tropical Africa

Unusual lattice dynamics of vanadium under high pressure

From the Cover: Diffusion-controlled metabolism for long-term survival of single isolated microorganisms trapped within ice crystals

Spontaneous knotting of an agitated string

A gene regulatory network in mouse embryonic stem cells

A multifunctional desaturase involved in the biosynthesis of the processionary moth sex pheromone

Category-specific attention for animals reflects ancestral priorities, not expertise

Inaugural Article: Strategies for developing Green Super Rice

Plant nuclear factor Y (NF-Y) B subunits confer drought tolerance and lead to improved corn yields on water-limited acres

East African megadroughts between 135 and 75 thousand years ago and bearing on early-modern human origins

Stable isotope and DNA evidence for ritual sequences in Inca child sacrifice

3′- O -modified nucleotides as reversible terminators for pyrosequencing

Variant estrogen receptor–c-Src molecular interdependence and c-Src structural requirements for endothelial NO synthase activation

Structural basis for antiactivation in bacterial quorum sensing

Continuous fat oxidation in acetyl–CoA carboxylase 2 knockout mice increases total energy expenditure, reduces fat mass, and improves insulin sensitivity

Polyphosphate kinase 1, a conserved bacterial enzyme, in a eukaryote, Dictyostelium discoideum , with a role in cytokinesis

A glycosyltransferase with a length-controlling activity as a mechanism to regulate the size of polysaccharides

Cloning and characterization of the biosynthetic gene cluster for kutznerides

Sugar binding induces an outward facing conformation of LacY

From the Cover: Hierarchies, multiple energy barriers, and robustness govern the fracture mechanics of α-helical and β-sheet protein domains

Longitudinally propagating traveling waves of the mammalian tectorial membrane

Structure and dynamics of a ribosome-bound nascent chain by NMR spectroscopy

Familial Alzheimer's disease mutations alter the stability of the amyloid β-protein monomer folding nucleus

Phylogenomic analysis of the emergence of GC-rich transcription elements

Self-assembled lamellar complexes of siRNA with lipidic aminoglycoside derivatives promote efficient siRNA delivery and interference

Transfer RNA in the hybrid P/E state: Correlating molecular dynamics simulations with cryo-EM data

Chromosome territory reorganization in a human disease with altered DNA methylation

Increased survival of muscle stem cells lacking the MyoD gene after transplantation into regenerating skeletal muscle

A gene regulatory network in mouse embryonic stem cells

Fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 regulates proliferation and Sertoli differentiation during male sex determination