PNAS — Table of Contents — September 17, 2002, 99 (19)

September 17, 2002; 99 (19)

FROM THE COVER

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Ronald L. Sass
- and Ralph J. Cicerone
Photosynthate allocations in rice plants: Food production or atmospheric methane?
PNAS 2002 99:11993-11995; published ahead of print September 9, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.202483599
- See companion article on page 12021 in issue 19 of volume 99
Commentary:
- Brian Palenik
The genomics of symbiosis: Hosts keep the baby and the bath water
PNAS 2002 99:11996-11997; published ahead of print September 9, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.202486299
- See companion article on page 12246 in issue 19 of volume 99
Commentary:
- James J. Champoux
Type IA DNA topoisomerases: Strictly one step at a time
PNAS 2002 99:11998-12000; published ahead of print September 9, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.202483499
- See companion article on page 12126 in issue 19 of volume 99

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- N. Tsapis,
- D. Bennett,
- B. Jackson,
- D. A. Weitz,
- and D. A. Edwards
Trojan particles: Large porous carriers of nanoparticles for drug delivery
PNAS 2002 99:12001-12005; published ahead of print August 28, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.182233999
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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Franz J. Giessibl,
- Markus Herz,
- and Jochen Mannhart
Friction traced to the single atom
PNAS 2002 99:12006-12010; published ahead of print August 27, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.182160599

Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology:
- Friederike Wagner,
- Bent Aaby,
- and Henk Visscher
Rapid atmospheric CO 2 changes associated with the 8,200-years-B.P. cooling event
PNAS 2002 99:12011-12014; published ahead of print August 29, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.182420699

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ulrich Gerland,
- J. David Moroz,
- and Terence Hwa
Physical constraints and functional characteristics of transcription factor–DNA interaction
PNAS 2002 99:12015-12020; published ahead of print September 6, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.192693599

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- H. A. C. Denier van der Gon,
- M. J. Kropff,
- N. van Breemen,
- R. Wassmann,
- R. S. Lantin,
- E. Aduna,
- T. M. Corton,
- and H. H. van Laar
From the Cover: Optimizing grain yields reduces CH 4 emissions from rice paddy fields
PNAS 2002 99:12021-12024; published ahead of print August 20, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.192276599
- See commentary article on page 11993 in issue 19 of volume 99
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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- N. H. Dekker,
- V. V. Rybenkov,
- M. Duguet,
- N. J. Crisona,
- N. R. Cozzarelli,
- D. Bensimon,
- and V. Croquette
From the Cover: The mechanism of type IA topoisomerases
PNAS 2002 99:12126-12131; published ahead of print August 7, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.132378799
- See commentary article on page 11998 in issue 19 of volume 99

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Eben Alsberg,
- Kenneth W. Anderson,
- Amru Albeiruti,
- Jon A. Rowley,
- and David J. Mooney
Engineering growing tissues
PNAS 2002 99:12025-12030; published ahead of print September 6, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.192291499

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Juliane P. Caviston,
- Serguei E. Tcheperegine,
- and Erfei Bi
Singularity in budding: A role for the evolutionarily conserved small GTPase Cdc42p
PNAS 2002 99:12185-12190; published ahead of print September 6, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.182370299
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Kaisa Haglund,
- Noriaki Shimokawa,
- Iwona Szymkiewicz,
- and Ivan Dikic
Cbl-directed monoubiquitination of CIN85 is involved in regulation of ligand-induced degradation of EGF receptors
PNAS 2002 99:12191-12196; published ahead of print September 6, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.192462299
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Yuan Luo,
- Julie V. Smith,
- Vijaykumar Paramasivam,
- Adam Burdick,
- Kenneth J. Curry,
- Justin P. Buford,
- Ikhlas Khan,
- William J. Netzer,
- Huaxi Xu,
- and Peter Butko
Inhibition of amyloid-β aggregation and caspase-3 activation by the Ginkgo biloba extract EGb761
PNAS 2002 99:12197-12202; published ahead of print September 4, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.182425199
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Zhaolan Zhou,
- Jeonggu Sim,
- Jack Griffith,
- and Robin Reed
Purification and electron microscopic visualization of functional human spliceosomes
PNAS 2002 99:12203-12207; published ahead of print September 5, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.182427099
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Marco Gallio,
- Gwen Sturgill,
- Philip Rather,
- and Per Kylsten
A conserved mechanism for extracellular signaling in eukaryotes and prokaryotes
PNAS 2002 99:12208-12213; published ahead of print September 9, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.192138799
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Sangwon Kim
- and Prem Ponka
Nitrogen monoxide-mediated control of ferritin synthesis: Implications for macrophage iron homeostasis
PNAS 2002 99:12214-12219; published ahead of print September 3, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.192316099
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Theodore T. Puck,
- Robert Johnson,
- Patricia Webb,
- Helen Cui,
- Joseph G. Valdez,
- and Harry Crissman
Mutagenesis and repair by low doses of α radiation in mammalian cells
PNAS 2002 99:12220-12223; published ahead of print August 27, 2002, doi:10.1073/pnas.152433699

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

Photosynthate allocations in rice plants: Food production or atmospheric methane?

The genomics of symbiosis: Hosts keep the baby and the bath water

Type IA DNA topoisomerases: Strictly one step at a time

Trojan particles: Large porous carriers of nanoparticles for drug delivery

Friction traced to the single atom

Rapid atmospheric CO 2 changes associated with the 8,200-years-B.P. cooling event

Physical constraints and functional characteristics of transcription factor–DNA interaction

From the Cover: Optimizing grain yields reduces CH 4 emissions from rice paddy fields

From the Cover: The mechanism of type IA topoisomerases

Engineering growing tissues

The ribosome filter hypothesis

Crystal structure of calcineurin–cyclophilin–cyclosporin shows common but distinct recognition of immunophilin–drug complexes

Crosslinking of membrane-embedded cysteines reveals contact points in the EmrE oligomer

G βγ -independent constitutive association of G αs with SHP-1 and angiotensin II receptor AT 2 is essential in AT 2 -mediated ITIM-independent activation of SHP-1

The binding protein of corticotropin-releasing factor: Ligand-binding site and subunit structure

Inhibition of hypochlorous acid-induced cellular toxicity by nitrite

Convergent evolution sheds light on the anti-β-elimination mechanism common to family 1 and 10 polysaccharide lyases

Molecular cloning and functional expression of the first insect FMRFamide receptor

Cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerases mediate cellular responses to S phase arrest

The semaphorin receptor plexin-B1 signals through a direct interaction with the Rho-specific nucleotide exchange factor, LARG

RecX protein abrogates ATP hydrolysis and strand exchange promoted by RecA: Insights into negative regulation of homologous recombination

Revisiting the kinetics of nitric oxide (NO) binding to soluble guanylate cyclase: The simple NO-binding model is incorrect

8-Oxoguanine rearranges the active site of human topoisomerase I

Biosynthesis of terpenes: Studies on 1-hydroxy-2-methyl-2-( E )-butenyl 4-diphosphate reductase

Dual localization of human DNA topoisomerase IIIα to mitochondria and nucleus

Crystal structure of DhbE, an archetype for aryl acid activating domains of modular nonribosomal peptide synthetases

Physical constraints and functional characteristics of transcription factor–DNA interaction

From the Cover: The mechanism of type IA topoisomerases

Application of charge density methods to a protein model compound: Calculation of Coulombic intermolecular interaction energies from the experimental charge density

The structural basis for the transition from Ras-GTP to Ras-GDP

A simple method for probing the mechanical unfolding pathway of proteins in detail

Protein assembly and heat stability in developing thylakoid membranes during greening

The skeletal muscle Ca 2+ release channel has an oxidoreductase-like domain

A protease assay for two-photon crosscorrelation and FRET analysis based solely on fluorescent proteins

M-FISH analysis shows that complex chromosome aberrations induced by α-particle tracks are cumulative products of localized rearrangements

Cytochrome c folding pathway: Kinetic native-state hydrogen exchange

Mechanism by which 2,2,2-trifluoroethanol/water mixtures stabilize secondary-structure formation in peptides: A molecular dynamics study

Singularity in budding: A role for the evolutionarily conserved small GTPase Cdc42p

Cbl-directed monoubiquitination of CIN85 is involved in regulation of ligand-induced degradation of EGF receptors

Inhibition of amyloid-β aggregation and caspase-3 activation by the Ginkgo biloba extract EGb761

Purification and electron microscopic visualization of functional human spliceosomes

A conserved mechanism for extracellular signaling in eukaryotes and prokaryotes

Nitrogen monoxide-mediated control of ferritin synthesis: Implications for macrophage iron homeostasis

Mutagenesis and repair by low doses of α radiation in mammalian cells