Commentaries

  • Commentary:
    • John Damuth

    Scaling of growth: Plants and animals are not so different

    PNAS 2001 98:2113-2114; doi:10.1073/pnas.051011198
    • See companion article on page 2922 in issue 5 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Joshua Lederberg

    H1N1-influenza as Lazarus: Genomic resurrection from the tomb of an unknown

    PNAS 2001 98:2115-2116; doi:10.1073/pnas.051000798
    • See companion article on page 2746 in issue 5 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Robert C. Robinson,
    • Senyon Choe,
    • and Leslie D. Burtnick

    The disintegration of a molecule: The role of gelsolin in FAF, familial amyloidosis (Finnish type)

    PNAS 2001 98:2117-2118; doi:10.1073/pnas.051635098
    • See companion article on page 2334 in issue 5 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Beverley R. Green

    Was “molecular opportunism” a factor in the evolution of different photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment systems?

    PNAS 2001 98:2119-2121; doi:10.1073/pnas.061023198
    • See companion article on page 2911 in issue 5 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Gerald J. Chader

    PEDF: Raising both hopes and questions in controlling angiogenesis

    PNAS 2001 98:2122-2124; doi:10.1073/pnas.061024098
    • See companion article on page 2593 in issue 5 of volume 98
  • Commentary:
    • Margaret E. Saks

    Making sense out of nonsense

    PNAS 2001 98:2125-2127; doi:10.1073/pnas.061021098
    • See companion article on page 2268 in issue 5 of volume 98

Special Feature

  • Perspective - Special Feature:
    • John D. Rummel

    Special Feature: Planetary exploration in the time of astrobiology: Protecting against biological contamination

    PNAS 2001 98:2128-2131; doi:10.1073/pnas.061021398

Perspective

  • Perspective - Special Feature:
    • John D. Rummel

    Special Feature: Planetary exploration in the time of astrobiology: Protecting against biological contamination

    PNAS 2001 98:2128-2131; doi:10.1073/pnas.061021398

Special Feature

  • Perspective - Special Feature:
    • John D. Rummel

    Special Feature: Planetary exploration in the time of astrobiology: Protecting against biological contamination

    PNAS 2001 98:2128-2131; doi:10.1073/pnas.061021398
  • Physical Sciences - Astronomy - Special Feature:
    • Brad Lobitz,
    • Byron L. Wood,
    • Maurice M. Averner,
    • and Christopher P. McKay

    Special Feature: Use of spacecraft data to derive regions on Mars where liquid water would be stable

    PNAS 2001 98:2132-2137; doi:10.1073/pnas.031581098
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Special Feature:
    • Pascale Ehrenfreund,
    • Daniel P. Glavin,
    • Oliver Botta,
    • George Cooper,
    • and Jeffrey L. Bada

    Special Feature: Extraterrestrial amino acids in Orgueil and Ivuna: Tracing the parent body of CI type carbonaceous chondrites

    PNAS 2001 98:2138-2141; doi:10.1073/pnas.051502898
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Special Feature:
    • Friedemann Freund,
    • Aaron Staple,
    • and John Scoville

    Special Feature: Organic protomolecule assembly in igneous minerals

    PNAS 2001 98:2142-2147; doi:10.1073/pnas.061513298
  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Special Feature:
    • Ruth E. Blake,
    • Jeffrey C. Alt,
    • and Anna M. Martini

    Special Feature: Oxygen isotope ratios of PO 4 : An inorganic indicator of enzymatic activity and P metabolism and a new biomarker in the search for life

    PNAS 2001 98:2148-2153; doi:10.1073/pnas.051515898
  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics - Special Feature:
    • M. F. Gerstell,
    • J. S. Francisco,
    • Y. L. Yung,
    • C. Boxe,
    • and E. T. Aaltonee

    Special Feature: Keeping Mars warm with new super greenhouse gases

    PNAS 2001 98:2154-2157; doi:10.1073/pnas.051511598
  • Biological Sciences - Ecology - Special Feature:
    • Melanie Summit
    • and John A. Baross

    Special Feature: A novel microbial habitat in the mid-ocean ridge subseafloor

    PNAS 2001 98:2158-2163; doi:10.1073/pnas.051516098
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution - Special Feature:
    • Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta,
    • Simon J. Clemett,
    • Dennis A. Bazylinski,
    • Joseph L. Kirschvink,
    • David S. McKay,
    • Susan J. Wentworth,
    • Hojatollah Vali,
    • Everett K. Gibson, Jr.,
    • Mary Fae McKay,
    • and Christopher S. Romanek

    Special Feature: Truncated hexa-octahedral magnetite crystals in ALH84001: Presumptive biosignatures

    PNAS 2001 98:2164-2169; doi:10.1073/pnas.051500898
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution - Special Feature:
    • G. C. Dismukes,
    • V. V. Klimov,
    • S. V. Baranov,
    • Yu. N. Kozlov,
    • J. DasGupta,
    • and A. Tyryshkin

    Special Feature: The origin of atmospheric oxygen on Earth: The innovation of oxygenic photosynthesis

    PNAS 2001 98:2170-2175; doi:10.1073/pnas.061514798
  • Biological Sciences - Microbiology - Special Feature:
    • E. Imre Friedmann,
    • Jacek Wierzchos,
    • Carmen Ascaso,
    • and Michael Winklhofer

    Special Feature: Chains of magnetite crystals in the meteorite ALH84001: Evidence of biological origin

    PNAS 2001 98:2176-2181; doi:10.1073/pnas.051514698
  • Review - Special Feature:
    • Hugh G. M. Hill,
    • Carol A. Grady,
    • Joseph A. Nuth, III,
    • Susan L. Hallenbeck,
    • and Michael L. Sitko

    Special Feature: Constraints on nebular dynamics and chemistry based on observations of annealed magnesium silicate grains in comets and in disks surrounding Herbig Ae/Be stars

    PNAS 2001 98:2182-2187; doi:10.1073/pnas.051530998

Review

  • Review - Special Feature:
    • Hugh G. M. Hill,
    • Carol A. Grady,
    • Joseph A. Nuth, III,
    • Susan L. Hallenbeck,
    • and Michael L. Sitko

    Special Feature: Constraints on nebular dynamics and chemistry based on observations of annealed magnesium silicate grains in comets and in disks surrounding Herbig Ae/Be stars

    PNAS 2001 98:2182-2187; doi:10.1073/pnas.051530998

Physical Sciences

Astronomy

  • Physical Sciences - Astronomy - Special Feature:
    • Brad Lobitz,
    • Byron L. Wood,
    • Maurice M. Averner,
    • and Christopher P. McKay

    Special Feature: Use of spacecraft data to derive regions on Mars where liquid water would be stable

    PNAS 2001 98:2132-2137; doi:10.1073/pnas.031581098

Chemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Special Feature:
    • Pascale Ehrenfreund,
    • Daniel P. Glavin,
    • Oliver Botta,
    • George Cooper,
    • and Jeffrey L. Bada

    Special Feature: Extraterrestrial amino acids in Orgueil and Ivuna: Tracing the parent body of CI type carbonaceous chondrites

    PNAS 2001 98:2138-2141; doi:10.1073/pnas.051502898
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Special Feature:
    • Friedemann Freund,
    • Aaron Staple,
    • and John Scoville

    Special Feature: Organic protomolecule assembly in igneous minerals

    PNAS 2001 98:2142-2147; doi:10.1073/pnas.061513298
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
    • Yaakov Levy,
    • Joshua Jortner,
    • and Oren M. Becker

    Solvent effects on the energy landscapes and folding kinetics of polyalanine

    PNAS 2001 98:2188-2193; published ahead of print February 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.041611998
  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Michael D. Bartberger,
    • Jon M. Fukuto,
    • and K. N. Houk

    On the acidity and reactivity of HNO in aqueous solution and biological systems

    PNAS 2001 98:2194-2198; doi:10.1073/pnas.041481598

Geology

  • Physical Sciences - Geology - Special Feature:
    • Ruth E. Blake,
    • Jeffrey C. Alt,
    • and Anna M. Martini

    Special Feature: Oxygen isotope ratios of PO 4 : An inorganic indicator of enzymatic activity and P metabolism and a new biomarker in the search for life

    PNAS 2001 98:2148-2153; doi:10.1073/pnas.051515898

Geophysics

  • Physical Sciences - Geophysics - Special Feature:
    • M. F. Gerstell,
    • J. S. Francisco,
    • Y. L. Yung,
    • C. Boxe,
    • and E. T. Aaltonee

    Special Feature: Keeping Mars warm with new super greenhouse gases

    PNAS 2001 98:2154-2157; doi:10.1073/pnas.051511598

Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Rika Miki,
    • Koji Kadota,
    • Hidemasa Bono,
    • Yosuke Mizuno,
    • Yasuhiro Tomaru,
    • Piero Carninci,
    • Masayoshi Itoh,
    • Kazuhiro Shibata,
    • Jun Kawai,
    • Hideaki Konno,
    • Sachihiko Watanabe,
    • Kenjiro Sato,
    • Yumiko Tokusumi,
    • Noriko Kikuchi,
    • Yoshiyuki Ishii,
    • Yohei Hamaguchi,
    • Itaru Nishizuka,
    • Hitoshi Goto,
    • Hiroyuki Nitanda,
    • Susumu Satomi,
    • Atsushi Yoshiki,
    • Moriaki Kusakabe,
    • Joseph L. DeRisi,
    • Michael B. Eisen,
    • Vishwnath R. Iyer,
    • Patrick O. Brown,
    • Masami Muramatsu,
    • Hiroshi Shimada,
    • Yasushi Okazaki,
    • and Yoshihide Hayashizaki

    Delineating developmental and metabolic pathways in vivo by expression profiling using the RIKEN set of 18,816 full-length enriched mouse cDNA arrays

    PNAS 2001 98:2199-2204; doi:10.1073/pnas.041605498
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • William S. Sly,
    • Carole Vogler,
    • Jeffrey H. Grubb,
    • Mi Zhou,
    • Jinxing Jiang,
    • Xiao Yan Zhou,
    • Shunji Tomatsu,
    • Yanhua Bi,
    • and Elizabeth M. Snella

    Active site mutant transgene confers tolerance to human β-glucuronidase without affecting the phenotype of MPS VII mice

    PNAS 2001 98:2205-2210; published ahead of print February 13, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.051623698
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Teresa Johnson-Pais,
    • Catherine Degnin,
    • and Mathew J. Thayer

    pRB induces Sp1 activity by relieving inhibition mediated by MDM2

    PNAS 2001 98:2211-2216; doi:10.1073/pnas.051415898
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Jennifer E. Padilla,
    • Christos Colovos,
    • and Todd O. Yeates

    Nanohedra: Using symmetry to design self assembling protein cages, layers, crystals, and filaments

    PNAS 2001 98:2217-2221; published ahead of print February 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.041614998
  • Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
    • Mijung Yim,
    • Takashi Ono,
    • and Tatsuro Irimura

    Mutated plant lectin library useful to identify different cells

    PNAS 2001 98:2222-2225; doi:10.1073/pnas.041621998

Biochemistry

  • Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Michael D. Bartberger,
    • Jon M. Fukuto,
    • and K. N. Houk

    On the acidity and reactivity of HNO in aqueous solution and biological systems

    PNAS 2001 98:2194-2198; doi:10.1073/pnas.041481598
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Takashi Kanazawa,
    • Masahiko Watanabe,
    • Yuko Matsushima-Hibiya,
    • Takuo Kono,
    • Noriaki Tanaka,
    • Kotaro Koyama,
    • Takashi Sugimura,
    • and Keiji Wakabayashi

    Distinct roles for the N- and C-terminal regions in the cytotoxicity of pierisin-1, a putative ADP-ribosylating toxin from cabbage butterfly, against mammalian cells

    PNAS 2001 98:2226-2231; doi:10.1073/pnas.051628898
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Francesca Cutruzzolà,
    • Kieron Brown,
    • Emma K. Wilson,
    • Andrea Bellelli,
    • Marzia Arese,
    • Mariella Tegoni,
    • Christian Cambillau,
    • and Maurizio Brunori

    The nitrite reductase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa : Essential role of two active-site histidines in the catalytic and structural properties

    PNAS 2001 98:2232-2237; doi:10.1073/pnas.041365298
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Edward B. Little,
    • Kathryn L. Crossin,
    • Leslie A. Krushel,
    • Gerald M. Edelman,
    • and Bruce A. Cunningham

    A short segment within the cytoplasmic domain of the neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) is essential for N-CAM-induced NF-κB activity in astrocytes

    PNAS 2001 98:2238-2243; published ahead of print February 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.041597098
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Norihito Shibata,
    • Makoto Arita,
    • Yuko Misaki,
    • Naoshi Dohmae,
    • Koji Takio,
    • Teruo Ono,
    • Keizo Inoue,
    • and Hiroyuki Arai

    Supernatant protein factor, which stimulates the conversion of squalene to lanosterol, is a cytosolic squalene transfer protein and enhances cholesterol biosynthesis

    PNAS 2001 98:2244-2249; doi:10.1073/pnas.041620398
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Fang Xiao Zhou,
    • Helen J. Merianos,
    • Axel T. Brunger,
    • and Donald M. Engelman

    Polar residues drive association of polyleucine transmembrane helices

    PNAS 2001 98:2250-2255; published ahead of print February 13, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.041593698
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Akiko Maekawa,
    • Yoshihide Kanaoka,
    • Bing K. Lam,
    • and K. Frank Austen

    Identification in mice of two isoforms of the cysteinyl leukotriene 1 receptor that result from alternative splicing

    PNAS 2001 98:2256-2261; published ahead of print February 13, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.041624398
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Wolfgang Lukowitz,
    • Todd C. Nickle,
    • David W. Meinke,
    • Robert L. Last,
    • Patricia L. Conklin,
    • and Christopher R. Somerville

    Arabidopsis cyt1 mutants are deficient in a mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase and point to a requirement of N-linked glycosylation for cellulose biosynthesis

    PNAS 2001 98:2262-2267; published ahead of print February 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.051625798
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Anne K. Kowal,
    • Caroline Köhrer,
    • and Uttam L. RajBhandary

    From the Cover: Twenty-first aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase–suppressor tRNA pairs for possible use in site-specific incorporation of amino acid analogues into proteins in eukaryotes and in eubacteria

    PNAS 2001 98:2268-2273; published ahead of print January 23, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.031488298
    • See commentary article on page 2125 in issue 5 of volume 98
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Klas Broo,
    • Jing Wei,
    • Dawn Marshall,
    • Fred Brown,
    • Thomas J. Smith,
    • John E. Johnson,
    • Anette Schneemann,
    • and Gary Siuzdak

    Viral capsid mobility: A dynamic conduit for inactivation

    PNAS 2001 98:2274-2277; published ahead of print February 13, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.051598298
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jason E. Kokoszka,
    • Pinar Coskun,
    • Luke A. Esposito,
    • and Douglas C. Wallace

    Increased mitochondrial oxidative stress in the Sod2 (+/−) mouse results in the age-related decline of mitochondrial function culminating in increased apoptosis

    PNAS 2001 98:2278-2283; published ahead of print February 13, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.051627098
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Vincenza Dolce,
    • Giuseppe Fiermonte,
    • Michael J. Runswick,
    • Ferdinando Palmieri,
    • and John E. Walker

    The human mitochondrial deoxynucleotide carrier and its role in the toxicity of nucleoside antivirals

    PNAS 2001 98:2284-2288; published ahead of print February 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.031430998
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Mahipal Singh,
    • Alexander Boutanaev,
    • Paola Zucchi,
    • and Lawrence Bogorad

    Gene elements that affect the longevity of rbcL sequence-containing transcripts in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts

    PNAS 2001 98:2289-2294; published ahead of print February 13, 2001