This Week in PNAS

Letter (Online Only)

  • Letter:
    • Francis L. Martin
    • and Nigel J. Fullwood

    Raman vs. Fourier transform spectroscopy in diagnostic medicine

    PNAS 2007 104:E1; published ahead of print December 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710307105

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Jianzhi Zhang

    The drifting human genome

    PNAS 2007 104:20147-20148; doi:10.1073/pnas.0710524105
    • See companion article on page 20421 in issue 51 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Teppei Morita
    • and Hiroji Aiba

    Small RNAs making a small protein

    PNAS 2007 104:20149-20150; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710634105
    • See companion article on page 20454 in issue 51 of volume 104

Perspective

  • Perspective:
    • Fletcher A. White,
    • Hosung Jung,
    • and Richard J. Miller

    Chemokines and the pathophysiology of neuropathic pain

    PNAS 2007 104:20151-20158; published ahead of print December 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709250104

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • Edo Liberty,
    • Franco Woolfe,
    • Per-Gunnar Martinsson,
    • Vladimir Rokhlin,
    • and Mark Tygert

    Randomized algorithms for the low-rank approximation of matrices

    PNAS 2007 104:20167-20172; published ahead of print December 4, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709640104

Applied Physical Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • A. Blomqvist,
    • C. Moysés Araújo,
    • P. Srepusharawoot,
    • and R. Ahuja

    From the Cover: Li-decorated metal–organic framework 5: A route to achieving a suitable hydrogen storage medium

    PNAS 2007 104:20173-20176; published ahead of print December 18, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708603104
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
    • Sergey V. Buldyrev,
    • Pradeep Kumar,
    • Pablo G. Debenedetti,
    • Peter J. Rossky,
    • and H. Eugene Stanley

    Water-like solvation thermodynamics in a spherically symmetric solvent model with two characteristic lengths

    PNAS 2007 104:20177-20182; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708427104
  • Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
    • J. M. Higgins,
    • D. T. Eddington,
    • S. N. Bhatia,
    • and L. Mahadevan

    Sickle cell vasoocclusion and rescue in a microfluidic device

    PNAS 2007 104:20496-20500; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707122105

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Susana Blanco,
    • M. Eugenia Sanz,
    • Juan C. López,
    • and José L. Alonso

    Revealing the multiple structures of serine

    PNAS 2007 104:20183-20188; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705676104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Paul Abbyad,
    • William Childs,
    • Xinghua Shi,
    • and Steven G. Boxer

    Dynamic Stokes shift in green fluorescent protein variants

    PNAS 2007 104:20189-20194; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706185104

Environmental Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Noah S. Diffenbaugh,
    • Filippo Giorgi,
    • Leigh Raymond,
    • and Xunqiang Bi

    Indicators of 21st century socioclimatic exposure

    PNAS 2007 104:20195-20198; published ahead of print December 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706680105

Geophysics

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Christine Semmrich,
    • Tobias Storz,
    • Jens Glaser,
    • Rudolf Merkel,
    • Andreas R. Bausch,
    • and Klaus Kroy

    From the Cover: Glass transition and rheological redundancy in F-actin solutions

    PNAS 2007 104:20199-20203; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705513104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • S. V. Kalinin,
    • B. J. Rodriguez,
    • S. Jesse,
    • Y. H. Chu,
    • T. Zhao,
    • R. Ramesh,
    • S. Choudhury,
    • L. Q. Chen,
    • E. A. Eliseev,
    • and A. N. Morozovska

    Intrinsic single-domain switching in ferroelectric materials on a nearly ideal surface

    PNAS 2007 104:20204-20209; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709316104

Statistics

  • Physical Sciences - Statistics:
    • Josée Dupuis,
    • David O. Siegmund,
    • and Benjamin Yakir

    A unified framework for linkage and association analysis of quantitative traits

    PNAS 2007 104:20210-20215; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707138105
  • Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Alex R. Cook,
    • Wilfred Otten,
    • Glenn Marion,
    • Gavin J. Gibson,
    • and Christopher A. Gilligan

    Estimation of multiple transmission rates for epidemics in heterogeneous populations

    PNAS 2007 104:20392-20397; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706461104

Social Sciences

Sustainability Science

  • Physical Sciences - Environmental Sciences - Social Sciences - Sustainability Science:
    • Noah S. Diffenbaugh,
    • Filippo Giorgi,
    • Leigh Raymond,
    • and Xunqiang Bi

    Indicators of 21st century socioclimatic exposure

    PNAS 2007 104:20195-20198; published ahead of print December 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706680105

Biological Sciences

Anthropology

  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Andrea Bamberg Migliano,
    • Lucio Vinicius,
    • and Marta Mirazón Lahr

    Life history trade-offs explain the evolution of human pygmies

    PNAS 2007 104:20216-20219; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708024105
  • Biological Sciences - Anthropology:
    • Tanya M. Smith,
    • Michel Toussaint,
    • Donald J. Reid,
    • Anthony J. Olejniczak,
    • and Jean-Jacques Hublin

    Rapid dental development in a Middle Paleolithic Belgian Neanderthal

    PNAS 2007 104:20220-20225; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707051104
    Open Access Article

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Casie E. Soltani,
    • Eileen M. Hotze,
    • Arthur E. Johnson,
    • and Rodney K. Tweten

    Structural elements of the cholesterol-dependent cytolysins that are responsible for their cholesterol-sensitive membrane interactions

    PNAS 2007 104:20226-20231; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708104105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jungseog Kang,
    • Yue Chen,
    • Yingming Zhao,
    • and Hongtao Yu

    Autophosphorylation-dependent activation of human Mps1 is required for the spindle checkpoint

    PNAS 2007 104:20232-20237; published ahead of print December 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710519105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Melissa Brazier-Hicks,
    • Wendy A. Offen,
    • Markus C. Gershater,
    • Timothy J. Revett,
    • Eng-Kiat Lim,
    • Dianna J. Bowles,
    • Gideon J. Davies,
    • and Robert Edwards

    Characterization and engineering of the bifunctional N - and O -glucosyltransferase involved in xenobiotic metabolism in plants

    PNAS 2007 104:20238-20243; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706421104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Julien A. Sebag
    • and Patricia M. Hinkle

    Melanocortin-2 receptor accessory protein MRAP forms antiparallel homodimers

    PNAS 2007 104:20244-20249; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708916105
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Orsolya Dohán,
    • Carla Portulano,
    • Cécile Basquin,
    • Andrea Reyna-Neyra,
    • L. Mario Amzel,
    • and Nancy Carrasco

    The Na + /I − symporter (NIS) mediates electroneutral active transport of the environmental pollutant perchlorate

    PNAS 2007 104:20250-20255; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707207104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Masashi Toei,
    • Christoph Gerle,
    • Masahiro Nakano,
    • Kazutoshi Tani,
    • Nobuhiko Gyobu,
    • Masatada Tamakoshi,
    • Nobuhito Sone,
    • Masasuke Yoshida,
    • Yoshinori Fujiyoshi,
    • Kaoru Mitsuoka,
    • and Ken Yokoyama

    Dodecamer rotor ring defines H + /ATP ratio for ATP synthesis of prokaryotic V-ATPase from Thermus thermophilus

    PNAS 2007 104:20256-20261; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706914105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Veronica C. Ardi,
    • Tatyana A. Kupriyanova,
    • Elena I. Deryugina,
    • and James P. Quigley

    Human neutrophils uniquely release TIMP-free MMP-9 to provide a potent catalytic stimulator of angiogenesis

    PNAS 2007 104:20262-20267; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706438104

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Susana Blanco,
    • M. Eugenia Sanz,
    • Juan C. López,
    • and José L. Alonso

    Revealing the multiple structures of serine

    PNAS 2007 104:20183-20188; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705676104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Paul Abbyad,
    • William Childs,
    • Xinghua Shi,
    • and Steven G. Boxer

    Dynamic Stokes shift in green fluorescent protein variants

    PNAS 2007 104:20189-20194; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706185104
  • Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Christine Semmrich,
    • Tobias Storz,
    • Jens Glaser,
    • Rudolf Merkel,
    • Andreas R. Bausch,
    • and Klaus Kroy

    From the Cover: Glass transition and rheological redundancy in F-actin solutions

    PNAS 2007 104:20199-20203; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705513104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Moritz Mickler,
    • Ruxandra I. Dima,
    • Hendrik Dietz,
    • Changbong Hyeon,
    • D. Thirumalai,
    • and Matthias Rief

    Revealing the bifurcation in the unfolding pathways of GFP by using single-molecule experiments and simulations

    PNAS 2007 104:20268-20273; published ahead of print December 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705458104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Philip M. Kim,
    • Jan O. Korbel,
    • and Mark B. Gerstein

    Positive selection at the protein network periphery: Evaluation in terms of structural constraints and cellular context

    PNAS 2007 104:20274-20279; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710183104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Martin F. Richter,
    • Jürgen Baier,
    • June Southall,
    • Richard J. Cogdell,
    • Silke Oellerich,
    • and Jörgen Köhler

    Refinement of the x-ray structure of the RC–LH1 core complex from Rhodopseudomonas palustris by single-molecule spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:20280-20284; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0704599105
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Michael Schmuker
    • and Gisbert Schneider

    Processing and classification of chemical data inspired by insect olfaction

    PNAS 2007 104:20285-20289; published ahead of print December 10, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705683104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Bernhard Knierim,
    • Klaus Peter Hofmann,
    • Oliver P. Ernst,
    • and Wayne L. Hubbell

    Sequence of late molecular events in the activation of rhodopsin

    PNAS 2007 104:20290-20295; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710393104

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Yoshihisa Kaizuka,
    • Adam D. Douglass,
    • Rajat Varma,
    • Michael L. Dustin,
    • and Ronald D. Vale

    Mechanisms for segregating T cell receptor and adhesion molecules during immunological synapse formation in Jurkat T cells

    PNAS 2007 104:20296-20301; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710258105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Hicham Lahlou,
    • Virginie Sanguin-Gendreau,
    • Dongmei Zuo,
    • Robert. D. Cardiff,
    • Gordon W. McLean,
    • Margaret C. Frame,
    • and William J. Muller

    Mammary epithelial-specific disruption of the focal adhesion kinase blocks mammary tumor progression

    PNAS 2007 104:20302-20307; published ahead of print December 3, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710091104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Hari Shroff,
    • Catherine G. Galbraith,
    • James A. Galbraith,
    • Helen White,
    • Jennifer Gillette,
    • Scott Olenych,
    • Michael W. Davidson,
    • and Eric Betzig

    Dual-color superresolution imaging of genetically expressed probes within individual adhesion complexes

    PNAS 2007 104:20308-20313; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710517105
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Antonio L. Amelio,
    • Loren J. Miraglia,
    • Juliana J. Conkright,
    • Becky A. Mercer,
    • Serge Batalov,
    • Valerie Cavett,
    • Anthony P. Orth,
    • Jennifer Busby,
    • John B. Hogenesch,
    • and Michael D. Conkright

    A coactivator trap identifies NONO (p54 nrb ) as a component of the cAMP-signaling pathway

    PNAS 2007 104:20314-20319; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0707999105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Brian D. Slaughter,
    • Joel W. Schwartz,
    • and Rong Li

    Mapping dynamic protein interactions in MAP kinase signaling using live-cell fluorescence fluctuation spectroscopy and imaging

    PNAS 2007 104:20320-20325; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710336105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Christina M. Hester
    • and Joe Lutkenhaus

    Soj (ParA) DNA binding is mediated by conserved arginines and is essential for plasmid segregation

    PNAS 2007 104:20326-20331; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0705196105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Margot G. Paulick,
    • Martin B. Forstner,
    • Jay T. Groves,
    • and Carolyn R. Bertozzi

    A chemical approach to unraveling the biological function of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor

    PNAS 2007 104:20332-20337; published ahead of print December 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710139104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Minna Thullberg,
    • Annica Gad,
    • Sylvie Le Guyader,
    • and Staffan Strömblad

    Oncogenic H-Ras V12 promotes anchorage-independent cytokinesis in human fibroblasts

    PNAS 2007 104:20338-20343; published ahead of print December 11, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0706609105
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology: