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October 30, 2007; 104 (44)
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FROM THE COVER
Cilia and sensation
Greenland dust echoes Antarctic climate
Leptin controls metabolism in brain
Variation in HIV viral load
PROK2 key in sexual development
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The tangled web of self-tying knots
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Hongtao Yu
PP2A as a mercenary for warring kinases in the egg
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J. Larry Jameson
Rites of passage through puberty: A complex genetic ensemble
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Kaspar Mossman
Profile of Eugenia M. del Pino
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Nick Zagorski
Profile of Christian R. H. Raetz
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Irving Itzkan
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Le Qiu
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Hui Fang
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Munir M. Zaman
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Edward Vitkin
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Ionita C. Ghiran
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Saira Salahuddin
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Mark Modell
,
Charlotte Andersson
,
Lauren M. Kimerer
,
Patsy B. Cipolloni
,
Kee-Hak Lim
,
Steven D. Freedman
,
Irving Bigio
,
Benjamin P. Sachs
,
Eugene B. Hanlon
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and
Lev T. Perelman
Confocal light absorption and scattering spectroscopic microscopy monitors organelles in live cells with no exogenous labels
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Ulrich Rant
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Simon Scherer
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Erika Pringsheim
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Shozo Fujita
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Naoki Yokoyama
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Marc Tornow
,
and
Gerhard Abstreiter
Switchable DNA interfaces for the highly sensitive detection of label-free DNA targets
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Samuel T. Hess
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Travis J. Gould
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Manasa V. Gudheti
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Sarah A. Maas
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Kevin D. Mills
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and
Joshua Zimmerberg
Dynamic clustered distribution of hemagglutinin resolved at 40 nm in living cell membranes discriminates between raft theories
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2007
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Lars Meinhold
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Picosecond fluctuating protein energy landscape mapped by pressure–temperature molecular dynamics simulation
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2007
104
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Jishan Wu
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Ken Cham-Fai Leung
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Efficient production of [ n ]rotaxanes by using template-directed clipping reactions
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Debjani Roy
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Katayoun Najafian
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Chemical evolution: The mechanism of the formation of adenine under prebiotic conditions
PNAS
2007
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Sung-Jin Park
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Miriam B. Goodman
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Analysis of nematode mechanics by piezoresistive displacement clamp
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2007
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From the Cover: Antarctic climate signature in the Greenland ice core record
PNAS
2007
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October 22, 2007
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Jayanth R. Banavar
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Trinh Xuan Hoang
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John H. Maddocks
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Amos Maritan
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Chiara Poletto
,
Andrzej Stasiak
,
and
Antonio Trovato
Structural motifs of biomolecules
PNAS
2007
104
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Nonstationary increments, scaling distributions, and variable diffusion processes in financial markets
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2007
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Liang Jiang
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Jacob M. Taylor
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Optimal approach to quantum communication using dynamic programming
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2007
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M. I. McMahon
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C. Guillaume
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R. J. Nelmes
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A. K. Kleppe
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M. Amboage
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H. Wilhelm
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and
A. P. Jephcoat
Structure of sodium above 100 GPa by single-crystal x-ray diffraction
PNAS
2007
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October 18, 2007
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Mechanical control of the directional stepping dynamics of the kinesin motor
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Nonstationary increments, scaling distributions, and variable diffusion processes in financial markets
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2007
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Ralf D. Sommerfeld
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Hans-Jürgen Krambeck
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Dirk Semmann
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Manfred Milinski
Gossip as an alternative for direct observation in games of indirect reciprocity
PNAS
2007
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Katie Brenner
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David K. Karig
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Ron Weiss
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Frances H. Arnold
Engineered bidirectional communication mediates a consensus in a microbial biofilm consortium
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2007
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Yong-Sik Bong
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Laura Carim-Todd
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Kathleen Mood
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Tagvor G. Nishanian
,
Lino Tessarollo
,
and
Ira O. Daar
ephrinB1 signals from the cell surface to the nucleus by recruitment of STAT3
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F. S. Mathews
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M. M. Gordon
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K. R. Rajashankar
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S. E. Ealick
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D. H. Alpers
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and
N. Sukumar
Crystal structure of human intrinsic factor: Cobalamin complex at 2.6-Å resolution
PNAS
2007
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Christopher A. Johnston
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Adam J. Kimple
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Jeffrey C. Grigston
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Jin-Gui Chen
,
David P. Siderovski
,
Alan M. Jones
,
and
Francis S. Willard
GTPase acceleration as the rate-limiting step in Arabidopsis G protein-coupled sugar signaling
PNAS
2007
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Fabio Manzo
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Sabrina Kammerer
,
Geraldine Lemaire
,
Oliver Hirsch
,
Catherine A. Royer
,
Hinrich Gronemeyer
,
Angel R. de Lera
,
and
William Bourguet
Modulators of the structural dynamics of the retinoid X receptor to reveal receptor function
PNAS
2007
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Ke Xia
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Marta Manning
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Helai Hesham
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Qishan Lin
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Christopher Bystroff
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Wilfredo Colón
Identifying the subproteome of kinetically stable proteins via diagonal 2D SDS/PAGE
PNAS
2007
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A. Lahm
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M. Pallaoro
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M. C. Nardi
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P. Jones
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P. Neddermann
,
S. Sambucini
,
M. J. Bottomley
,
P. Lo Surdo
,
A. Carfı́
,
U. Koch
,
R. De Francesco
,
C. Steinkühler
,
and
P. Gallinari
Unraveling the hidden catalytic activity of vertebrate class IIa histone deacetylases
PNAS
2007
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Gaetano Malgieri
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Sabrina Esposito
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Ilaria Baglivo
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Laura Zaccaro
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Emilia M. Pedone
,
Benedetto Di Blasio
,
Carla Isernia
,
Paolo V. Pedone
,
and
Roberto Fattorusso
The prokaryotic Cys 2 His 2 zinc-finger adopts a novel fold as revealed by the NMR structure of Agrobacterium tumefaciens Ros DNA-binding domain
PNAS
2007
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Anne De Cian
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Gael Cristofari
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Patrick Reichenbach
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Elsa De Lemos
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David Monchaud
,
Marie-Paule Teulade-Fichou
,
Kazuo Shin-ya
,
Laurent Lacroix
,
Joachim Lingner
,
and
Jean-Louis Mergny
Reevaluation of telomerase inhibition by quadruplex ligands and their mechanisms of action
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2007
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Yifeng Yin
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Identification of functional paralog shift mutations: Conversion of Escherichia coli malate dehydrogenase to a lactate dehydrogenase
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2007
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Wendy Keung
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Sandra Kelly
,
Ken Strynadka
,
Shigeru Chohnan
,
Wanli W. Smith
,
Kellie L. K. Tamashiro
,
Ellen E. Ladenheim
,
Gabriele V. Ronnett
,
Yajun Tu
,
Morris J. Birnbaum
,
Gary D. Lopaschuk
,
and
Timothy H. Moran
From the Cover: Leptin activates hypothalamic acetyl-CoA carboxylase to inhibit food intake
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2007
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Munir M. Zaman
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,
Ionita C. Ghiran
,
Saira Salahuddin
,
Mark Modell
,
Charlotte Andersson
,
Lauren M. Kimerer
,
Patsy B. Cipolloni
,
Kee-Hak Lim
,
Steven D. Freedman
,
Irving Bigio
,
Benjamin P. Sachs
,
Eugene B. Hanlon
,
and
Lev T. Perelman
Confocal light absorption and scattering spectroscopic microscopy monitors organelles in live cells with no exogenous labels
PNAS
2007
104
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17255
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17260
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Lars Meinhold
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Jeremy C. Smith
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Ahmed H. Zewail
Picosecond fluctuating protein energy landscape mapped by pressure–temperature molecular dynamics simulation
PNAS
2007
104
:
17261
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17265
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October 23, 2007
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doi:10.1073/pnas.0708199104
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Jayanth R. Banavar
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Trinh Xuan Hoang
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John H. Maddocks
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Amos Maritan
,
Chiara Poletto
,
Andrzej Stasiak
,
and
Antonio Trovato
Structural motifs of biomolecules
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2007
104
:
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17286
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Ulrich Rant
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Kenji Arinaga
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Simon Scherer
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Erika Pringsheim
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Shozo Fujita
,
Naoki Yokoyama
,
Marc Tornow
,
and
Gerhard Abstreiter
Switchable DNA interfaces for the highly sensitive detection of label-free DNA targets
PNAS
2007
104
:
17364
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17369
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Samuel T. Hess
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Travis J. Gould
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Manasa V. Gudheti
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Sarah A. Maas
,
Kevin D. Mills
,
and
Joshua Zimmerberg
Dynamic clustered distribution of hemagglutinin resolved at 40 nm in living cell membranes discriminates between raft theories
PNAS
2007
104
:
17370
-
17375
;
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Analysis of nematode mechanics by piezoresistive displacement clamp
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2007
104
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17376
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Changbong Hyeon
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Mechanical control of the directional stepping dynamics of the kinesin motor
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2007
104
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17382
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17387
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Rafael Giraldo
Defined DNA sequences promote the assembly of a bacterial protein into distinct amyloid nanostructures
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Jean-René Alattia
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Molecular imaging of membrane interfaces reveals mode of β-glucosidase activation by saposin C
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2007
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