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March 18, 2008; 105 (11)

FROM THE COVER

This Week in PNAS

This Week in PNAS:
In This Issue
PNAS 2008 105:4075-4076; doi:10.1073/iti1108105

Letters (Online Only)

Letter:
- Aurora Grandal d'Anglade
- and Daniel Fernández Mosquera
Hibernation can also cause high δ 15 N values in cave bears: A response to Richards et al
PNAS 2008 105:E14; published ahead of print March 6, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800915105
Letter:
- Erik Trinkaus
- and Michael P. Richards
Reply to Grandal and Fernández: Hibernation can also cause high δ 15 N values in cave bears
PNAS 2008 105:E15; published ahead of print March 6, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801137105

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Donald K. Grayson
Holocene underkill
PNAS 2008 105:4077-4078; published ahead of print March 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801272105
- See companion article on page 4105 in issue 11 of volume 105
Commentary:
- Eric L. Berlow,
- Ulrich Brose,
- and Neo D. Martinez
The “Goldilocks factor” in food webs
PNAS 2008 105:4079-4080; published ahead of print March 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800967105
- See companion article on page 4191 in issue 11 of volume 105
Commentary:
- Christopher N. Scanlan,
- Dennis R. Burton,
- and Raymond A. Dwek
Making autoantibodies safe
PNAS 2008 105:4081-4082; published ahead of print March 14, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0801192105
- See companion article on page 4265 in issue 11 of volume 105

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Choongrak Kim,
- Mookyung Cheon,
- Minho Kang,
- and Iksoo Chang
A simple and exact Laplacian clustering of complex networking phenomena: Application to gene expression profiles
PNAS 2008 105:4083-4087; published ahead of print March 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708598105

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Syed Alipayam Rizvi,
- David S. Courson,
- Valerie A. Keller,
- Ronald S. Rock,
- and Sergey A. Kozmin
The dual mode of action of bistramide A entails severing of filamentous actin and covalent protein modification
PNAS 2008 105:4088-4092; published ahead of print March 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710727105
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Doug Phanstiel,
- Justin Brumbaugh,
- W. Travis Berggren,
- Kevin Conard,
- Xuezhu Feng,
- Mark E. Levenstein,
- Graeme C. McAlister,
- James A. Thomson,
- and Joshua J. Coon
Mass spectrometry identifies and quantifies 74 unique histone H4 isoforms in differentiating human embryonic stem cells
PNAS 2008 105:4093-4098; published ahead of print March 7, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0710515105
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- L. Lizana,
- B. Bauer,
- and O. Orwar
Controlling the rates of biochemical reactions and signaling networks by shape and volume changes
PNAS 2008 105:4099-4104; published ahead of print March 12, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0709932105
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Supratim Datta,
- Markos Koutmos,
- Katherine A. Pattridge,
- Martha L. Ludwig,
- and Rowena G. Matthews
A disulfide-stabilized conformer of methionine synthase reveals an unexpected role for the histidine ligand of the cobalamin cofactor
PNAS 2008 105:4115-4120; published ahead of print March 10, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0800329105
Open Access Article

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- T. L. Jones,
- J. F. Porcasi,
- J. M. Erlandson,
- H. Dallas, Jr.,
- T. A. Wake,
- and R. Schwaderer
From the Cover: The protracted Holocene extinction of California's flightless sea duck ( Chendytes lawi ) and its implications for the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis
PNAS 2008 105:4105-4108; published ahead of print March 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0711140105
Open Access Article
- See commentary article on page 4077 in issue 11 of volume 105

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Neuroscience:
- Pejman Sehatpour,
- Sophie Molholm,
- Theodore H. Schwartz,
- Jeannette R. Mahoney,
- Ashesh D. Mehta,
- Daniel C. Javitt,
- Patric K. Stanton,
- and John J. Foxe
A human intracranial study of long-range oscillatory coherence across a frontal–occipital–hippocampal brain network during visual object processing
PNAS 2008 105:4399-4404; published ahead of print March 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708418105
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Social Sciences - Psychology - Biological Sciences - Psychology:
- Adrianna C. Jenkins,
- C. Neil Macrae,
- and Jason P. Mitchell
From the Cover: Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and others
PNAS 2008 105:4507-4512; published ahead of print March 17, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708785105
Open Access Article

Social Sciences

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Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
- William A. V. Clark
- and Mark Fossett
Understanding the social context of the Schelling segregation model
PNAS 2008 105:4109-4114; published ahead of print March 11, 2008, doi:10.1073/pnas.0708155105

FROM THE COVER

In This Issue

Hibernation can also cause high δ 15 N values in cave bears: A response to Richards et al

Reply to Grandal and Fernández: Hibernation can also cause high δ 15 N values in cave bears

Holocene underkill

The “Goldilocks factor” in food webs

Making autoantibodies safe

A simple and exact Laplacian clustering of complex networking phenomena: Application to gene expression profiles

The dual mode of action of bistramide A entails severing of filamentous actin and covalent protein modification

Mass spectrometry identifies and quantifies 74 unique histone H4 isoforms in differentiating human embryonic stem cells

Controlling the rates of biochemical reactions and signaling networks by shape and volume changes

A disulfide-stabilized conformer of methionine synthase reveals an unexpected role for the histidine ligand of the cobalamin cofactor

From the Cover: The protracted Holocene extinction of California's flightless sea duck ( Chendytes lawi ) and its implications for the Pleistocene overkill hypothesis

A human intracranial study of long-range oscillatory coherence across a frontal–occipital–hippocampal brain network during visual object processing

From the Cover: Repetition suppression of ventromedial prefrontal activity during judgments of self and others

Understanding the social context of the Schelling segregation model

The dual mode of action of bistramide A entails severing of filamentous actin and covalent protein modification

Mass spectrometry identifies and quantifies 74 unique histone H4 isoforms in differentiating human embryonic stem cells

A disulfide-stabilized conformer of methionine synthase reveals an unexpected role for the histidine ligand of the cobalamin cofactor

Crystal structure of the [2Fe-2S] oxidative-stress sensor SoxR bound to DNA

Contribution of positively charged flanking residues to the insertion of transmembrane helices into the endoplasmic reticulum

Confinement of caspase-12 proteolytic activity to autoprocessing

Comparing bird and human soaring strategies

Structural inference of native and partially folded RNA by high-throughput contact mapping

Manipulation of the mechanical properties of a virus by protein engineering

Fluorescence resonance energy transfer in near-infrared fluorescent oligonucleotide probes for detecting protein–DNA interactions

Isoform-specific monoubiquitination, endocytosis, and degradation of alternatively spliced ErbB4 isoforms

Specific requirement of the chromatin modifier mSin3B in cell cycle exit and cellular differentiation

NFAR-1 and -2 modulate translation and are required for efficient host defense

Histone deacetylase 3 localizes to the mitotic spindle and is required for kinetochore–microtubule attachment

Unique SMAD1/5/8 activity at the phalanx-forming region determines digit identity

From the Cover: Size, foraging, and food web structure

A rapid upward shift of a forest ecotone during 40 years of warming in the Green Mountains of Vermont

Heat stress causes inhibition of the de novo synthesis of antenna proteins and photobleaching in cultured Symbiodinium

Rapid chemotactic response enables marine bacteria to exploit ephemeral microscale nutrient patches

From the Cover: Active tails enhance arboreal acrobatics in geckos

Possible involvement of SINEs in mammalian-specific brain formation

Insulin signaling is involved in the regulation of worker division of labor in honey bee colonies

Mutations in the very low-density lipoprotein receptor VLDLR cause cerebellar hypoplasia and quadrupedal locomotion in humans

A mitotic recombination system for mouse chromosome 17

Bardet–Biedl syndrome proteins are required for the localization of G protein-coupled receptors to primary cilia

Distinct effects of the recurrent Mlh1 G67R mutation on MMR functions, cancer, and meiosis