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December 4, 2007; 104 (49)

FROM THE COVER

This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
PNAS 2007 104:19161-19162; doi:10.1073/iti4907104

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Bernabé Santelices
The discovery of kelp forests in deep-water habitats of tropical regions
PNAS 2007 104:19163-19164; published ahead of print November 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708963104
- See companion article on page 16576 in issue 42 of volume 104
Commentary:
- Joseph Bonaventura
Clinical implications of the loss of vasoactive nitric oxide during red blood cell storage
PNAS 2007 104:19165-19166; published ahead of print November 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708871105
- See companion article on page 17058 in issue 43 of volume 104
- See companion article on page 17063 in issue 43 of volume 104
Commentary:
- W. C. McGrew
Savanna chimpanzees dig for food
PNAS 2007 104:19167-19168; published ahead of print November 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710330105
- See companion article on page 19210 in issue 49 of volume 104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Paolo E. Barbano,
- Marina Spivak,
- Marc Flajolet,
- Angus C. Nairn,
- Paul Greengard,
- and Leslie Greengard
Inaugural Article: A mathematical tool for exploring the dynamics of biological networks
PNAS 2007 104:19169-19174; published ahead of print November 21, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709955104
Open Access Article
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Carsten Conradi,
- Dietrich Flockerzi,
- Jörg Raisch,
- and Jörg Stelling
Subnetwork analysis reveals dynamic features of complex (bio)chemical networks
PNAS 2007 104:19175-19180; published ahead of print November 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705731104

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Chivukula V. Sastri,
- Jimin Lee,
- Kyungeun Oh,
- Yoon Jin Lee,
- Junghyun Lee,
- Timothy A. Jackson,
- Kallol Ray,
- Hajime Hirao,
- Woonsup Shin,
- Jason A. Halfen,
- Jinheung Kim,
- Lawrence Que, Jr,
- Sason Shaik,
- and Wonwoo Nam
Axial ligand tuning of a nonheme iron(IV)–oxo unit for hydrogen atom abstraction
PNAS 2007 104:19181-19186; published ahead of print November 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709471104

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- Antonio Trovato,
- Trinh Xuan Hoang,
- Jayanth R. Banavar,
- and Amos Maritan
Symmetry, shape, and order
PNAS 2007 104:19187-19192; published ahead of print November 21, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707523104
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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- J. E. Hirsch
Does the h index have predictive power?
PNAS 2007 104:19193-19198; published ahead of print November 26, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707962104

Statistics

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Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Xiang Chen,
- Ching-Ti Liu,
- Meizhuo Zhang,
- and Heping Zhang
A forest-based approach to identifying gene and gene–gene interactions
PNAS 2007 104:19199-19203; published ahead of print November 28, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709868104
Open Access Article

Social Sciences

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- Rufin VanRullen,
- Thomas Carlson,
- and Patrick Cavanagh
The blinking spotlight of attention
PNAS 2007 104:19204-19209; published ahead of print November 27, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707316104

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

The discovery of kelp forests in deep-water habitats of tropical regions

Clinical implications of the loss of vasoactive nitric oxide during red blood cell storage

Savanna chimpanzees dig for food

Inaugural Article: A mathematical tool for exploring the dynamics of biological networks

Subnetwork analysis reveals dynamic features of complex (bio)chemical networks

Axial ligand tuning of a nonheme iron(IV)–oxo unit for hydrogen atom abstraction

Symmetry, shape, and order

Does the h index have predictive power?

A forest-based approach to identifying gene and gene–gene interactions

The blinking spotlight of attention

From the Cover: Savanna chimpanzees use tools to harvest the underground storage organs of plants

Global climate change, war, and population decline in recent human history

A new Late Miocene great ape from Kenya and its implications for the origins of African great apes and humans

Inaugural Article: A mathematical tool for exploring the dynamics of biological networks

JARID1B is a histone H3 lysine 4 demethylase up-regulated in prostate cancer

Directed selection of a conformational antibody domain that prevents mature amyloid fibril formation by stabilizing Aβ protofibrils

Epidermal growth factor receptor juxtamembrane region regulates allosteric tyrosine kinase activation

Antiinflammatory glucocorticoid receptor ligand with reduced side effects exhibits an altered protein–protein interaction profile

Mitochondrial origin-binding protein UMSBP mediates DNA replication and segregation in trypanosomes

Protein–protein interaction inhibition (2P2I) combining high throughput and virtual screening: Application to the HIV-1 Nef protein

Laforin is a glycogen phosphatase, deficiency of which leads to elevated phosphorylation of glycogen in vivo

A novel polydnavirus protein inhibits the insect prophenoloxidase activation pathway

The all-trans -retinal dimer series of lipofuscin pigments in retinal pigment epithelial cells in a recessive Stargardt disease model

Structure of the Nitrosomonas europaea Rh protein

Regulation of hypothalamic malonyl-CoA by central glucose and leptin

A biochemical approach to identifying microRNA targets

Construction of effective free energy landscape from single-molecule time series

The 1.3-Å resolution structure of Nitrosomonas europaea Rh50 and mechanistic implications for NH 3 transport by Rhesus family proteins

Disulfide bond influence on protein structural dynamics probed with 2D-IR vibrational echo spectroscopy

Cryo-EM study of the spinach chloroplast ribosome reveals the structural and functional roles of plastid-specific ribosomal proteins

Mechanoenzymes under superstall and large assisting loads reveal structural features

Subnetwork analysis reveals dynamic features of complex (bio)chemical networks

Matrix metalloproteinase 7 controls pancreatic acinar cell transdifferentiation by activating the Notch signaling pathway

Essential role of Epac2/Rap1 signaling in regulation of insulin granule dynamics by cAMP

Structural differentiation of skeletal muscle fibers in the absence of innervation in humans

Beyond aerobic glycolysis: Transformed cells can engage in glutamine metabolism that exceeds the requirement for protein and nucleotide synthesis

DNA methylation, insulin resistance, and blood pressure in offspring determined by maternal periconceptional B vitamin and methionine status

From the Cover: Blocking LIF action in the uterus by using a PEGylated antagonist prevents implantation: A nonhormonal contraceptive strategy

Using plastid genome-scale data to resolve enigmatic relationships among basal angiosperms