This Week in PNAS

Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Giulia Galli

    Dissecting hydrophobicity

    PNAS 2007 104:2557-2558; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700176104
    • See companion article on page 2626 in issue 8 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • John S. Parkinson

    Ancient chemoreceptors retain their flexibility

    PNAS 2007 104:2559-2560; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700278104
    • See companion article on page 2885 in issue 8 of volume 104
  • Commentary:
    • Marcelino T. Suzuki
    • and Oded Béjà

    An elusive marine photosynthetic bacterium is finally unveiled

    PNAS 2007 104:2561-2562; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0700175104
    • See companion article on page 2891 in issue 8 of volume 104

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Malcolm H. Chisholm

    Inaugural Article: Metal to metal multiple bonds in ordered assemblies

    PNAS 2007 104:2563-2570; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610364104
    • See commentary article on page 10759 in issue 26 of volume 104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Phillip W. Snyder,
    • Gwangrog Lee,
    • Piotr E. Marszalek,
    • Robert L. Clark,
    • and Eric J. Toone

    A stochastic, cantilever approach to the evaluation of solution phase thermodynamic quantities

    PNAS 2007 104:2579-2584; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606604104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Je-Luen Li,
    • Roberto Car,
    • Chao Tang,
    • and Ned S. Wingreen

    From the Cover: Hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen-bond network for a methane pair in liquid water

    PNAS 2007 104:2626-2630; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610945104
    • See commentary article on page 2557 in issue 8 of volume 104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Peter J. Bond
    • and Mark S. P. Sansom

    Bilayer deformation by the Kv channel voltage sensor domain revealed by self-assembly simulations

    PNAS 2007 104:2631-2636; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606822104
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ilya J. Finkelstein,
    • Haruto Ishikawa,
    • Seongheun Kim,
    • Aaron M. Massari,
    • and M. D. Fayer

    Substrate binding and protein conformational dynamics measured by 2D-IR vibrational echo spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:2637-2642; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610027104

Engineering

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Yun-Ling Wong,
    • Samantha Sampson,
    • Willem Andreas Germishuizen,
    • Sunali Goonesekera,
    • Giovanni Caponetti,
    • Jerry Sadoff,
    • Barry R. Bloom,
    • and David Edwards

    Drying a tuberculosis vaccine without freezing

    PNAS 2007 104:2591-2595; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611430104

Physics

  • Physical Sciences - Physics:
    • Mirjam E. Leunissen,
    • Alfons van Blaaderen,
    • Andrew D. Hollingsworth,
    • Matthew T. Sullivan,
    • and Paul M. Chaikin

    Electrostatics at the oil–water interface, stability, and order in emulsions and colloids

    PNAS 2007 104:2585-2590; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610589104
    Open Access Article

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Yun-Ling Wong,
    • Samantha Sampson,
    • Willem Andreas Germishuizen,
    • Sunali Goonesekera,
    • Giovanni Caponetti,
    • Jerry Sadoff,
    • Barry R. Bloom,
    • and David Edwards

    Drying a tuberculosis vaccine without freezing

    PNAS 2007 104:2591-2595; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611430104
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Masanori Takehashi,
    • Mito Kanatsu-Shinohara,
    • Kimiko Inoue,
    • Narumi Ogonuki,
    • Hiromi Miki,
    • Shinya Toyokuni,
    • Atsuo Ogura,
    • and Takashi Shinohara

    Adenovirus-mediated gene delivery into mouse spermatogonial stem cells

    PNAS 2007 104:2596-2601; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0609282104
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Lisa M. Eubanks,
    • Mark S. Hixon,
    • Wei Jin,
    • Sukwon Hong,
    • Colin M. Clancy,
    • William H. Tepp,
    • Michael R. Baldwin,
    • Carl J. Malizio,
    • Michael C. Goodnough,
    • Joseph T. Barbieri,
    • Eric A. Johnson,
    • Dale L. Boger,
    • Tobin J. Dickerson,
    • and Kim D. Janda

    An in vitro and in vivo disconnect uncovered through high-throughput identification of botulinum neurotoxin A antagonists

    PNAS 2007 104:2602-2607; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611213104

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yan Li,
    • R. Barry Hough,
    • and Joram Piatigorsky

    Tissue-specific activity of the blind mole rat and the two nucleotide-mutated mouse αB-crystallin promoter in transgenic mice

    PNAS 2007 104:2608-2613; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611684104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tsui-Ling Hsu,
    • Sarah R. Hanson,
    • Kuniyuki Kishikawa,
    • Sheng-Kai Wang,
    • Masaaki Sawa,
    • and Chi-Huey Wong

    Alkynyl sugar analogs for the labeling and visualization of glycoconjugates in cells

    PNAS 2007 104:2614-2619; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611307104
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Satwik Kamtekar,
    • Michael J. Hohn,
    • Hee-Sung Park,
    • Michael Schnitzbauer,
    • Anselm Sauerwald,
    • Dieter Söll,
    • and Thomas A. Steitz

    Toward understanding phosphoseryl-tRNA Cys formation: The crystal structure of Methanococcus maripaludis phosphoseryl-tRNA synthetase

    PNAS 2007 104:2620-2625; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611504104

Biophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Phillip W. Snyder,
    • Gwangrog Lee,
    • Piotr E. Marszalek,
    • Robert L. Clark,
    • and Eric J. Toone

    A stochastic, cantilever approach to the evaluation of solution phase thermodynamic quantities

    PNAS 2007 104:2579-2584; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606604104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Je-Luen Li,
    • Roberto Car,
    • Chao Tang,
    • and Ned S. Wingreen

    From the Cover: Hydrophobic interaction and hydrogen-bond network for a methane pair in liquid water

    PNAS 2007 104:2626-2630; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610945104
    • See commentary article on page 2557 in issue 8 of volume 104
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Peter J. Bond
    • and Mark S. P. Sansom

    Bilayer deformation by the Kv channel voltage sensor domain revealed by self-assembly simulations

    PNAS 2007 104:2631-2636; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606822104
    Open Access Article
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ilya J. Finkelstein,
    • Haruto Ishikawa,
    • Seongheun Kim,
    • Aaron M. Massari,
    • and M. D. Fayer

    Substrate binding and protein conformational dynamics measured by 2D-IR vibrational echo spectroscopy

    PNAS 2007 104:2637-2642; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610027104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Wilfried Weber,
    • Jörg Stelling,
    • Markus Rimann,
    • Bettina Keller,
    • Marie Daoud-El Baba,
    • Cornelia C. Weber,
    • Dominique Aubel,
    • and Martin Fussenegger

    A synthetic time-delay circuit in mammalian cells and mice

    PNAS 2007 104:2643-2648; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606398104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Samrat Mukhopadhyay,
    • Rajaraman Krishnan,
    • Edward A. Lemke,
    • Susan Lindquist,
    • and Ashok A. Deniz

    A natively unfolded yeast prion monomer adopts an ensemble of collapsed and rapidly fluctuating structures

    PNAS 2007 104:2649-2654; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611503104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Daniel Nettels,
    • Irina V. Gopich,
    • Armin Hoffmann,
    • and Benjamin Schuler

    Ultrafast dynamics of protein collapse from single-molecule photon statistics

    PNAS 2007 104:2655-2660; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611093104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kathryn A. Scott,
    • Darwin O. V. Alonso,
    • Satoshi Sato,
    • Alan R. Fersht,
    • and Valerie Daggett

    Conformational entropy of alanine versus glycine in protein denatured states

    PNAS 2007 104:2661-2666; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611182104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Björn M. Reinhard,
    • Sassan Sheikholeslami,
    • Alexander Mastroianni,
    • A. Paul Alivisatos,
    • and Jan Liphardt

    Use of plasmon coupling to reveal the dynamics of DNA bending and cleavage by single EcoRV restriction enzymes

    PNAS 2007 104:2667-2672; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607826104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Kyubong Jo,
    • Dalia M. Dhingra,
    • Theo Odijk,
    • Juan J. de Pablo,
    • Michael D. Graham,
    • Rod Runnheim,
    • Dan Forrest,
    • and David C. Schwartz

    A single-molecule barcoding system using nanoslits for DNA analysis

    PNAS 2007 104:2673-2678; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611151104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Alan R. Lowe
    • and Laura S. Itzhaki

    Rational redesign of the folding pathway of a modular protein

    PNAS 2007 104:2679-2684; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0604653104
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Ilya Belevich,
    • Dmitry A. Bloch,
    • Nikolai Belevich,
    • Mårten Wikström,
    • and Michael I. Verkhovsky

    Exploring the proton pump mechanism of cytochrome c oxidase in real time

    PNAS 2007 104:2685-2690; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608794104
    Open Access Article

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Varvara Trachana,
    • Karel H. M. van Wely,
    • Astrid Alonso Guerrero,
    • Agnes Fütterer,
    • and Carlos Martínez-A

    Dido disruption leads to centrosome amplification and mitotic checkpoint defects compromising chromosome stability

    PNAS 2007 104:2691-2696; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611132104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Irina Dulubova,
    • Mikhail Khvotchev,
    • Siqi Liu,
    • Iryna Huryeva,
    • Thomas C. Südhof,
    • and Josep Rizo

    Munc18-1 binds directly to the neuronal SNARE complex

    PNAS 2007 104:2697-2702; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611318104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Nadine Wiper-Bergeron,
    • Houssein Abdou Salem,
    • Julianna J. Tomlinson,
    • Dongmei Wu,
    • and Robert J. G. Haché

    Glucocorticoid-stimulated preadipocyte differentiation is mediated through acetylation of C/EBPβ by GCN5

    PNAS 2007 104:2703-2708; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0607378104
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Xinsheng Nan,
    • Jianghui Hou,
    • Alan Maclean,
    • Jamal Nasir,
    • Maria Jose Lafuente,
    • Xinhua Shu,
    • Skirmantas Kriaucionis,
    • and Adrian Bird

    Interaction between chromatin proteins MECP2 and ATRX is disrupted by mutations that cause inherited mental retardation

    PNAS 2007 104:2709-2714; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608056104
    Open Access Article

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Michael A. Ensslin
    • and Barry D. Shur

    The EGF repeat and discoidin domain protein, SED1/MFG-E8, is required for mammary gland branching morphogenesis

    PNAS 2007 104:2715-2720; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610296104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Ajay Srivastava,
    • Jose Carlos Pastor-Pareja,
    • Tatsushi Igaki,
    • Raymond Pagliarini,
    • and Tian Xu

    Basement membrane remodeling is essential for Drosophila disc eversion and tumor invasion

    PNAS 2007 104:2721-2726; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611666104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Patrick R. H. Steinmetz,
    • Fabiola Zelada-Gonzáles,
    • Carola Burgtorf,
    • Joachim Wittbrodt,
    • and Detlev Arendt

    Polychaete trunk neuroectoderm converges and extends by mediolateral cell intercalation

    PNAS 2007 104:2727-2732; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606589104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Yong Cang,
    • Jianxuan Zhang,
    • Sally A. Nicholas,
    • Arianna L. Kim,
    • Pengbo Zhou,
    • and Stephen P. Goff

    DDB1 is essential for genomic stability in developing epidermis

    PNAS 2007 104:2733-2737; published ahead of print February 14, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611311104
    Open Access Article
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Jinsong Li,
    • Valentina Greco,
    • Géraldine Guasch,
    • Elaine Fuchs,
    • and Peter Mombaerts

    Mice cloned from skin cells

    PNAS 2007 104:2738-2743; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0611358104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Tadahiro Iimura,
    • Xuesong Yang,
    • Cornelis J. Weijer,
    • and Olivier Pourquié

    Dual mode of paraxial mesoderm formation during chick gastrulation

    PNAS 2007 104:2744-2749; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610997104
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Robert W. Georgantas, III,
    • Richard Hildreth,
    • Sebastien Morisot,
    • Jonathan Alder,
    • Chang-gong Liu,
    • Shelly Heimfeld,
    • George A. Calin,
    • Carlo M. Croce,
    • and Curt I. Civin

    CD34+ hematopoietic stem-progenitor cell microRNA expression and function: A circuit diagram of differentiation control

    PNAS 2007 104:2750-2755; published ahead of print February 9, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610983104
    Open Access Article

Ecology

  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Robert C. Godfree,
    • Peter H. Thrall,
    • and Andrew G. Young

    Enemy release after introduction of disease-resistant genotypes into plant–pathogen systems

    PNAS 2007 104:2756-2760; published ahead of print February 13, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0608356104
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology:
    • Alban Ramette
    • and James M. Tiedje

    Multiscale responses of microbial life to spatial distance and environmental heterogeneity in a patchy ecosystem

    PNAS 2007 104:2761-2766; published ahead of print February 12, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0610671104

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Andrew M. Shedlock,
    • Christopher W. Botka,
    • Shaying Zhao,
    • Jyoti Shetty,
    • Tingting Zhang,
    • Jun S. Liu,
    • Patrick J. Deschavanne,
    • and Scott V. Edwards

    Phylogenomics of nonavian reptiles and the structure of the ancestral amniote genome

    PNAS 2007 104:2767-2772; published ahead of print February 16, 2007, doi:10.1073/pnas.0606204104