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Commentaries

Commentary:
- Mircea Steriade
The GABAergic reticular nucleus: A preferential target of corticothalamic projections
PNAS 2001 98:3625-3627; published online before print March 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.071051998
- See companion article on page 4172 in issue 7 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Stanley G. Schultz
Epithelial water absorption: Osmosis or cotransport?
PNAS 2001 98:3628-3630; doi:10.1073/pnas.081073298
- See companion article on page 3796 in issue 7 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Murali Krishna Temburni
- and Michele H. Jacob
New functions for glia in the brain
PNAS 2001 98:3631-3632; doi:10.1073/pnas.081073198
- See companion article on page 4148 in issue 7 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Diter von Wettstein
Discovery of a protein required for photosynthetic membrane assembly
PNAS 2001 98:3633-3635; doi:10.1073/pnas.071056598
- See companion article on page 4238 in issue 7 of volume 98
- See companion article on page 4243 in issue 7 of volume 98
Commentary:
- C. Jarzynski
How does a system respond when driven away from thermal equilibrium?
PNAS 2001 98:3636-3638; doi:10.1073/pnas.081074598
- See companion article on page 3658 in issue 7 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Lee A. Segel
Computing an organism
PNAS 2001 98:3639-3640; doi:10.1073/pnas.081081998
- See companion article on page 3879 in issue 7 of volume 98
Commentary:
- Kai Yu
- and David M. Ornitz
Uncoupling fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 ligand binding specificity leads to Apert syndrome-like phenotypes
PNAS 2001 98:3641-3643; doi:10.1073/pnas.081082498
- See companion article on page 3855 in issue 7 of volume 98

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- William R. Schowalter
- and Alec B. Eidsath
Inaugural Article: Brownian flocculation of polymer colloids in the presence of a secondary minimum
PNAS 2001 98:3644-3651; doi:10.1073/pnas.061028498

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Guofeng Xu,
- Weixun Wang,
- John T. Groves,
- and Michael H. Hecht
Self-assembled monolayers from a designed combinatorial library of de novo β-sheet proteins
PNAS 2001 98:3652-3657; doi:10.1073/pnas.071400098
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Gerhard Hummer
- and Attila Szabo
From the Cover: Free energy reconstruction from nonequilibrium single-molecule pulling experiments
PNAS 2001 98:3658-3661; doi:10.1073/pnas.071034098
- See commentary article on page 3636 in issue 7 of volume 98
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Lumír Hanuš,
- Saleh Abu-Lafi,
- Ester Fride,
- Aviva Breuer,
- Zvi Vogel,
- Deborah E. Shalev,
- Irina Kustanovich,
- and Raphael Mechoulam
2-Arachidonyl glyceryl ether, an endogenous agonist of the cannabinoid CB₁ receptor
PNAS 2001 98:3662-3665; published online before print March 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.061029898

Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology - Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- N. H. Sleep,
- K. Zahnle,
- and P. S. Neuhoff
Inaugural Article: Initiation of clement surface conditions on the earliest Earth
PNAS 2001 98:3666-3672; published online before print March 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.071045698

Social Sciences

Psychology

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Biological Sciences - Psychology - Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Debra A. Gusnard,
- Erbil Akbudak,
- Gordon L. Shulman,
- and Marcus E. Raichle
Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity: Relation to a default mode of brain function
PNAS 2001 98:4259-4264; published online before print March 20, 2001, doi:10.1073/pnas.071043098
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Biological Sciences - Psychology - Social Sciences - Psychology:
- Michael H. Herzog
- and Christof Koch
Seeing properties of an invisible object: Feature inheritance and shine-through
PNAS 2001 98:4271-4275; doi:10.1073/pnas.071047498

FROM THE COVER

The GABAergic reticular nucleus: A preferential target of corticothalamic projections

Epithelial water absorption: Osmosis or cotransport?

New functions for glia in the brain

Discovery of a protein required for photosynthetic membrane assembly

How does a system respond when driven away from thermal equilibrium?

Computing an organism

Uncoupling fibroblast growth factor receptor 2 ligand binding specificity leads to Apert syndrome-like phenotypes

Inaugural Article: Brownian flocculation of polymer colloids in the presence of a secondary minimum

Self-assembled monolayers from a designed combinatorial library of de novo β-sheet proteins

From the Cover: Free energy reconstruction from nonequilibrium single-molecule pulling experiments

2-Arachidonyl glyceryl ether, an endogenous agonist of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor

Inaugural Article: Initiation of clement surface conditions on the earliest Earth

Medial prefrontal cortex and self-referential mental activity: Relation to a default mode of brain function

Seeing properties of an invisible object: Feature inheritance and shine-through

Selenoprotein oxidoreductase with specificity for thioredoxin and glutathione systems

Covalent intermediate trapped in 2-keto-3-deoxy-6- phosphogluconate (KDPG) aldolase structure at 1.95-Å resolution

The Sm domain is an ancient RNA-binding motif with oligo(U) specificity

Akt phosphorylates and regulates the orphan nuclear receptor Nur77

Formation of a GNRA tetraloop in P5abc can disrupt an interdomain interaction in the Tetrahymena group I ribozyme

Electrostatic surface plasmon resonance: Direct electric field-induced hybridization and denaturation in monolayer nucleic acid films and label-free discrimination of base mismatches

A human protein containing multiple types of protease-inhibitory modules

Identification, retinoid binding, and x-ray analysis of a human retinol-binding protein

Peptide hybrids containing α- and β-amino acids: Structure of a decapeptide β-hairpin with two facing β-phenylalanine residues

Solution structure of the A loop of 23S ribosomal RNA

A novel site of antibiotic action in the ribosome: Interaction of evernimicin with the large ribosomal subunit

Allosteric crosstalk between peptide-binding, transport, and ATP hydrolysis of the ABC transporter TAP

SQV-7, a protein involved in Caenorhabditis elegans epithelial invagination and early embryogenesis, transports UDP-glucuronic acid, UDP-N- acetylgalactosamine, and UDP-galactose

Crystal structure of the ectodomain of Methuselah, a Drosophila G protein-coupled receptor associated with extended lifespan

The use of mRNA display to select high-affinity protein-binding peptides

Insulin inhibits transcription of IRS-2 gene in rat liver through an insulin response element (IRE) that resembles IREs of other insulin-repressed genes

RAC, a stable ribosome-associated complex in yeast formed by the DnaK-DnaJ homologs Ssz1p and zuotin

ClpA mediates directional translocation of substrate proteins into the ClpP protease

From the Cover: Free energy reconstruction from nonequilibrium single-molecule pulling experiments

A signature of the T → R transition in human hemoglobin

Computational method to reduce the search space for directed protein evolution

Chemically distinct transition states govern rapid dissociation of single L-selectin bonds under force

Computational adaptive optics for live three-dimensional biological imaging

Local osmotic gradients drive the water flux associated with Na+/glucose cotransport

Cell autonomous regulation of multiple Dishevelled-dependent pathways by mammalian Nkd

Role of the cytoplasmic tyrosines of β1A integrins in transformation by v-src

The human brm protein is cleaved during apoptosis: The role of cathepsin G

Restoration of insulin-sensitive glucose transporter (GLUT4) gene expression in muscle cells by the transcriptional coactivator PGC-1

Switch from Myc/Max to Mad1/Max binding and decrease in histone acetylation at the telomerase reverse transcriptase promoter during differentiation of HL60 cells

Profilin I is essential for cell survival and cell division in early mouse development

Inactivation of menin, a Smad3-interacting protein, blocks transforming growth factor type β signaling

Analysis of transforming activity of human synovial sarcoma-associated chimeric protein SYT-SSX1 bound to chromatin remodeling factor hBRM/hSNF2α

2-Arachidonyl glyceryl ether, an endogenous agonist of the cannabinoid CB₁ receptor

Local osmotic gradients drive the water flux associated with Na⁺/glucose cotransport