Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • Benjamin Wolozin

    A fluid connection: Cholesterol and Aβ

    PNAS 2001 98:5371-5373; doi:10.1073/pnas.101123198
    • See companion article on page 5815 in issue 10 of volume 98
    • See companion article on page 5856 in issue 10 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Huntington F. Willard

    Neocentromeres and human artificial chromosomes: An unnatural act

    PNAS 2001 98:5374-5376; doi:10.1073/pnas.111167398
    • See companion article on page 5705 in issue 10 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Thomas Gridley

    Notch signaling during vascular development

    PNAS 2001 98:5377-5378; doi:10.1073/pnas.101138098
    • See companion article on page 5643 in issue 10 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Jarle Breivik

    Don't stop for repairs in a war zone: Darwinian evolution unites genes and environment in cancer development

    PNAS 2001 98:5379-5381; doi:10.1073/pnas.101137698
    • See companion article on page 5770 in issue 10 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • David E. MacHugh
    • and Daniel G. Bradley

    Livestock genetic origins: Goats buck the trend

    PNAS 2001 98:5382-5384; doi:10.1073/pnas.111163198
    • See companion article on page 5927 in issue 10 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • G. Karsenty

    When developmental biology meets human pathology

    PNAS 2001 98:5385-5386; doi:10.1073/pnas.121162198
    • See companion article on page 5798 in issue 10 of volume 98

From the Academy

  • From the Academy:

    From the Academy: New Members and Foreign Associates Elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 1, 2001: 72 New Members Chosen by the Academy

    PNAS 2001 98:5387-5388; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101188198

Colloquium Paper

  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Norman Myers
    • and Andrew H. Knoll

    Colloquium Paper: The biotic crisis and the future of evolution

    PNAS 2001 98:5389-5392; doi:10.1073/pnas.091092498
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • David Jablonski

    Colloquium Paper: Lessons from the past: Evolutionary impacts of mass extinctions

    PNAS 2001 98:5393-5398; doi:10.1073/pnas.101092598
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Douglas H. Erwin

    Colloquium Paper: Lessons from the past: Biotic recoveries from mass extinctions

    PNAS 2001 98:5399-5403; doi:10.1073/pnas.091092698
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Michael L. Rosenzweig

    Colloquium Paper: Loss of speciation rate will impoverish future diversity

    PNAS 2001 98:5404-5410; doi:10.1073/pnas.101092798
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Jeremy B. C. Jackson

    Colloquium Paper: What was natural in the coastal oceans?

    PNAS 2001 98:5411-5418; doi:10.1073/pnas.091092898
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Nancy Knowlton

    Colloquium Paper: The future of coral reefs

    PNAS 2001 98:5419-5425; doi:10.1073/pnas.091092998
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Alan R. Templeton,
    • Robert J. Robertson,
    • Jennifer Brisson,
    • and Jared Strasburg

    Colloquium Paper: Disrupting evolutionary processes: The effect of habitat fragmentation on collared lizards in the Missouri Ozarks

    PNAS 2001 98:5426-5432; doi:10.1073/pnas.091093098
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • David Tilman
    • and Clarence Lehman

    Colloquium Paper: Human-caused environmental change: Impacts on plant diversity and evolution

    PNAS 2001 98:5433-5440; doi:10.1073/pnas.091093198
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • F. A. Bazzaz

    Colloquium Paper: Plant biology in the future

    PNAS 2001 98:5441-5445; doi:10.1073/pnas.101093298
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • H. A. Mooney
    • and E. E. Cleland

    Colloquium Paper: The evolutionary impact of invasive species

    PNAS 2001 98:5446-5451; doi:10.1073/pnas.091093398
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • R. M. Cowling
    • and R. L. Pressey

    Colloquium Paper: Rapid plant diversification: Planning for an evolutionary future

    PNAS 2001 98:5452-5457; doi:10.1073/pnas.101093498
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • David Western

    Colloquium Paper: Human-modified ecosystems and future evolution

    PNAS 2001 98:5458-5465; doi:10.1073/pnas.101093598
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Michael J. Novacek
    • and Elsa E. Cleland

    Colloquium Paper: The current biodiversity extinction event: Scenarios for mitigation and recovery

    PNAS 2001 98:5466-5470; doi:10.1073/pnas.091093698
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • David S. Woodruff

    Colloquium Paper: Declines of biomes and biotas and the future of evolution

    PNAS 2001 98:5471-5476; doi:10.1073/pnas.101093798
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Paul R. Ehrlich

    Colloquium Paper: Intervening in evolution: Ethics and actions

    PNAS 2001 98:5477-5480; doi:10.1073/pnas.091093898

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Jaroslav Vacek
    • and Josef Michl

    Molecular dynamics of a grid-mounted molecular dipolar rotor in a rotating electric field

    PNAS 2001 98:5481-5486; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091100598
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mark I. Wallace,
    • Liming Ying,
    • Shankar Balasubramanian,
    • and David Klenerman

    Non-Arrhenius kinetics for the loop closure of a DNA hairpin

    PNAS 2001 98:5584-5589; published online before print April 24, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101523498

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology:
    • Robert M. Hazen,
    • Timothy R. Filley,
    • and Glenn A. Goodfriend

    Selective adsorption of l- and d-amino acids on calcite: Implications for biochemical homochirality

    PNAS 2001 98:5487-5490; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101085998

Statistics

  • Physical Sciences - Statistics - Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Lue Ping Zhao,
    • Ross Prentice,
    • and Linda Breeden

    Statistical modeling of large microarray data sets to identify stimulus-response profiles

    PNAS 2001 98:5631-5636; doi:10.1073/pnas.101013198

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • G. Tocchini-Valentini,
    • N. Rochel,
    • J. M. Wurtz,
    • A. Mitschler,
    • and D. Moras

    Crystal structures of the vitamin D receptor complexed to superagonist 20-epi ligands

    PNAS 2001 98:5491-5496; doi:10.1073/pnas.091018698
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hong-Tao Zhang,
    • Janet E. Kacharmina,
    • Kevin Miyashiro,
    • Mark I. Greene,
    • and James Eberwine

    Protein quantification from complex protein mixtures using a proteomics methodology with single-cell resolution

    PNAS 2001 98:5497-5502; published online before print April 24, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101124598
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Christian Hammann,
    • David G. Norman,
    • and David M. J. Lilley

    Dissection of the ion-induced folding of the hammerhead ribozyme using 19F NMR

    PNAS 2001 98:5503-5508; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091097498
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Charles S. Bond,
    • Mamuka Kvaratskhelia,
    • Derek Richard,
    • Malcolm F. White,
    • and William N. Hunter

    Structure of Hjc, a Holliday junction resolvase, from Sulfolobus solfataricus

    PNAS 2001 98:5509-5514; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091613398
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Julie C. Lougheed,
    • James M. Holton,
    • Tom Alber,
    • J. Fernando Bazan,
    • and Tracy M. Handel

    Structure of melanoma inhibitory activity protein, a member of a recently identified family of secreted proteins

    PNAS 2001 98:5515-5520; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091601698
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Markus W. Ribbe
    • and Barbara K. Burgess

    The chaperone GroEL is required for the final assembly of the molybdenum-iron protein of nitrogenase

    PNAS 2001 98:5521-5525; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101119498
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Toru Kumagai,
    • James G. Davis,
    • Takeo Horie,
    • Donald M. O'Rourke,
    • and Mark I. Greene

    The role of distinct p185neu extracellular subdomains for dimerization with the epidermal growth factor (EGF) receptor and EGF-mediated signaling

    PNAS 2001 98:5526-5531; published online before print April 24, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.071060598
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Cameron Mura,
    • Duilio Cascio,
    • Michael R. Sawaya,
    • and David S. Eisenberg

    The crystal structure of a heptameric archaeal Sm protein: Implications for the eukaryotic snRNP core

    PNAS 2001 98:5532-5537; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091102298
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hitoshi Kurumizaka,
    • Shukuko Ikawa,
    • Maki Nakada,
    • Keiko Eda,
    • Wataru Kagawa,
    • Minoru Takata,
    • Shunichi Takeda,
    • Shigeyuki Yokoyama,
    • and Takehiko Shibata

    Homologous-pairing activity of the human DNA-repair proteins Xrcc3⋅Rad51C

    PNAS 2001 98:5538-5543; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091603098
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lori Spangler,
    • Xiaoxue Wang,
    • Joan W. Conaway,
    • Ronald C. Conaway,
    • and Arik Dvir

    TFIIH action in transcription initiation and promoter escape requires distinct regions of downstream promoter DNA

    PNAS 2001 98:5544-5549; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101004498
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Rebecca S. Arnold,
    • Jing Shi,
    • Emma Murad,
    • Anne M. Whalen,
    • Carrie Q. Sun,
    • Rathnagiri Polavarapu,
    • Sampath Parthasarathy,
    • John A. Petros,
    • and J. David Lambeth

    Hydrogen peroxide mediates the cell growth and transformation caused by the mitogenic oxidase Nox1

    PNAS 2001 98:5550-5555; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101505898
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Yi Yang,
    • Wolfgang Maret,
    • and Bert L. Vallee

    Differential fluorescence labeling of cysteinyl clusters uncovers high tissue levels of thionein

    PNAS 2001 98:5556-5559; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101123298
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Shelly C. Lu,
    • Luis Alvarez,
    • Zong-Zhi Huang,
    • Lixin Chen,
    • Wei An,
    • Fernando J. Corrales,
    • Matías A. Avila,
    • Gary Kanel,
    • and José M. Mato

    Methionine adenosyltransferase 1A knockout mice are predisposed to liver injury and exhibit increased expression of genes involved in proliferation

    PNAS 2001 98:5560-5565; published online before print April 24, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091016398
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Hans E. Purkey,
    • Michael I. Dorrell,
    • and Jeffery W. Kelly

    Evaluating the binding selectivity of transthyretin amyloid fibril inhibitors in blood plasma

    PNAS 2001 98:5566-5571; doi:10.1073/pnas.091431798

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Masaki Warashina,
    • Tomoko Kuwabara,
    • Yoshio Kato,
    • Masayuki Sano,
    • and Kazunari Taira

    RNA–protein hybrid ribozymes that efficiently cleave any mRNA independently of the structure of the target RNA

    PNAS 2001 98:5572-5577; doi:10.1073/pnas.091411398
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Andrea G. Cochran,
    • Nicholas J. Skelton,
    • and Melissa A. Starovasnik

    Tryptophan zippers: Stable, monomeric β-hairpins

    PNAS 2001 98:5578-5583; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091100898
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Mark I. Wallace,
    • Liming Ying,
    • Shankar Balasubramanian,
    • and David Klenerman

    Non-Arrhenius kinetics for the loop closure of a DNA hairpin

    PNAS 2001 98:5584-5589; published online before print April 24, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101523498
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • David Craig,
    • André Krammer,
    • Klaus Schulten,
    • and Viola Vogel

    Comparison of the early stages of forced unfolding for fibronectin type III modules

    PNAS 2001 98:5590-5595; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101582198
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • F. Rousseau,
    • J. W. H. Schymkowitz,
    • H. R. Wilkinson,
    • and L. S. Itzhaki

    Three-dimensional domain swapping in p13suc1 occurs in the unfolded state and is controlled by conserved proline residues

    PNAS 2001 98:5596-5601; doi:10.1073/pnas.101542098

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Aaron L. Kurtzman
    • and Nisson Schechter

    Ubc9 interacts with a nuclear localization signal and mediates nuclear localization of the paired-like homeobox protein Vsx-1 independent of SUMO-1 modification

    PNAS 2001 98:5602-5607; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101129698
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • I. Zucchi,
    • L. Bini,
    • R. Valaperta,
    • A. Ginestra,
    • D. Albani,
    • L. Susani,
    • J. C. Sanchez,
    • S. Liberatori,
    • B. Magi,
    • R. Raggiaschi,
    • D. F. Hochstrasser,
    • V. Pallini,
    • P. Vezzoni,
    • and R. Dulbecco

    Proteomic dissection of dome formation in a mammary cell line: Role of tropomyosin-5b and maspin

    PNAS 2001 98:5608-5613; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091101898
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • F.-C. Yang,
    • S. J. Atkinson,
    • Y. Gu,
    • J. B. Borneo,
    • A. W. Roberts,
    • Y. Zheng,
    • J. Pennington,
    • and D. A. Williams

    Rac and Cdc42 GTPases control hematopoietic stem cell shape, adhesion, migration, and mobilization

    PNAS 2001 98:5614-5618; published online before print April 24, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.101546898
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Luke H. Chamberlain,
    • Robert D. Burgoyne,
    • and Gwyn W. Gould

    SNARE proteins are highly enriched in lipid rafts in PC12 cells: Implications for the spatial control of exocytosis

    PNAS 2001 98:5619-5624; published online before print May 1, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.091502398