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Table of Contents (PDF) August 31, 2010 u vol. 107 u no. 35 u 15307–15658 Cover image: Pictured is the left hind limb of Balaur bondoc, a dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous paleoislands of Transylvania, Romania. One of approx- imately 20 unique features of this new species is a double set of hyperextensible pedal claws on the foot, which likely were used to seize and disembowel prey. Zoltán Csiki et al. find that this morphology is a dramatic example of the “island effect,” a phenomenon in which island- dwelling animals are anatomically modified compared with mainland relatives. See the article by Csiki et al. on pages 15357–15361. Image courtesy of Mick Ellison (America Museum of Natural History, New York, NY). From the Cover 15357 Morphology of an island dinosaur 15379 Solubilizing starch 15508 Ice Age savanna in Southeast Asia 15517 Transcription-coupled DNA repair 15613 Olfaction in the aging brain Contents COMMENTARIES 15310 An unusual dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous of Romania and the island rule Hans-Dieter Sues THIS WEEK IN PNAS See companion article on page 15357 15312 Insights into the mechanism of polysaccharide 15307 In This Issue dephosphorylation by a glucan phosphatase Vincent S. Tagliabracci and Peter J. Roach See companion article on page 15379 LETTERS (ONLINE ONLY) 15314 Linking transcription with DNA repair, damage tolerance, and genome duplication Peter McGlynn E135 Adult testicular dysgenesis of Inhba conditional See companion article on page 15517 knockout mice may also be caused by disruption ’ fi of cross-talk between Leydig cells and germ cells 15316 The brain s ght against aging Zhijian Sun, Zhen Li, and Yuanqiang Zhang Nathalie Mandairon and Anne Didier See companion article on page 15613 E136 Reply to Sun et al.: Roles of adult Leydig cell-derived activin A remain to be determined PERSPECTIVE Denise R. Archambeault and Humphrey H. Yao 15318 Tracing the protectors path from the germ line to the genome EDITORIAL Daniel Coutandin, Horng Der Ou, Frank Löhr, and Volker Dötsch 15309 Creating a new option for online-only research articles: PNAS Plus Randy Schekman PROFILE 15326 Profile of Thure E. Cerling Philip Downey Free online through the PNAS open access option. See Inaugural Article on page 8093 in issue 20 of volume 106 PNAS u August 31, 2010 u vol. 107 u no. 35 u iii–vii Downloaded by guest on September 26, 2021 15512 Megafaunal meiolaniid horned turtles survived until PHYSICAL SCIENCES early human settlement in Vanuatu, Southwest Pacific Arthur W. White, Trevor H. Worthy, Stuart Hawkins, CHEMISTRY Stuart Bedford, and Matthew Spriggs 15329 New strategy for the synthesis of chemically modified RNA constructs exemplified by hairpin and SUSTAINABILITY SCIENCE hammerhead ribozymes 15367 Temperatures and cyclones strongly associated with Afaf H. El-Sagheer and Tom Brown economic production in the Caribbean and 2+ Central America 15335 Probing in vivo Mn speciation and oxidative stress resistance in yeast cells with electron-nuclear Solomon M. Hsiang double resonance spectroscopy Rebecca L. McNaughton, Amit R. Reddi, Matthew H. S. Clement, Ajay Sharma, Kevin Barnese, Leah Rosenfeld, Edith Butler Gralla, Joan Selverstone Valentine, BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES Valeria C. Culotta, and Brian M. Hoffman 15595 Stabilization of neurotoxic Alzheimer amyloid-β APPLIED BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES oligomers by protein engineering 15373 Quantitative selection of DNA aptamers through Anders Sandberg, Leila M. Luheshi, Sofia Söllvander, microfluidic selection and high-throughput sequencing Teresa Pereira de Barros, Bertil Macao, Tuomas P. J. Minseon Cho, Yi Xiao, Jeff Nie, Ron Stewart, Andrew T. Knowles, Henrik Biverstål, Christofer Lendel, Frida Csordas, Seung Soo Oh, James A. Thomson, and H. Tom Soh Ekholm-Petterson, Anatoly Dubnovitsky, Lars Lannfelt, Christopher M. Dobson, and Torleif Härd BIOCHEMISTRY 15329 New strategy for the synthesis of chemically modified ENGINEERING RNA constructs exemplified by hairpin and 15340 Highly sensitive and selective odorant sensor using hammerhead ribozymes living cells expressing insect olfactory receptors Afaf H. El-Sagheer and Tom Brown Nobuo Misawa, Hidefumi Mitsuno, Ryohei Kanzaki, 15379 Structural basis for the glucan phosphatase activity of and Shoji Takeuchi Starch Excess4 Craig W. Vander Kooi, Adam O. Taylor, Rachel M. Pace, David A. Meekins, Hou-Fu Guo, Youngjun Kim, ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES and Matthew S. Gentry 15345 Combined niche and neutral effects in a microbial See Commentary on page 15312 wastewater treatment community Irina Dana Ofiţeru, Mary Lunn, Thomas P. Curtis, 15385 Mechanism for pH-dependent gene regulation by George F. Wells, Craig S. Criddle, Christopher A. amino-terminus-mediated homooligomerization Francis, and William T. Sloan of Bacillus subtilis anti-trp RNA-binding attenuation protein Joseph R. Sachleben, Craig A. McElroy, Paul Gollnick, GEOLOGY and Mark P. Foster 15351 An explanation for conflicting records of Triassic–Jurassic 15391 A family of diiron monooxygenases catalyzing amino plant diversity acid beta-hydroxylation in antibiotic biosynthesis Luke Mander, Wolfram M. Kürschner, Thomas M. Makris, Mrinmoy Chakrabarti, and Jennifer C. McElwain Eckard Münck, and John D. Lipscomb 15357 An aberrant island-dwelling theropod dinosaur from the 15397 Structural basis for the regulation of NtcA-dependent Late Cretaceous of Romania transcription by proteins PipX and PII Zoltán Csiki, Mátyás Vremir, Stephen L. Brusatte, José L. Llácer, Javier Espinosa, Miguel A. Castells, Asunción and Mark A. Norell Contreras, Karl Forchhammer, and Vicente Rubio See Commentary on page 15310 BIOPHYSICS AND COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY PHYSICS 15403 Slipknotting upon native-like loop formation in a trefoil 15403 Slipknotting upon native-like loop formation in a trefoil knot protein ł knot protein Jeffrey K. Noel, Joanna I. Su kowska, and José N. Onuchic Jeffrey K. Noel, Joanna I. Sułkowska, and José N. Onuchic 15409 Proton and cation transport activity of the M2 proton channel from influenza A virus Thom Leiding, Jun Wang, Jonas Martinsson, William F. DeGrado, and Sindra Peterson Årsköld SOCIAL SCIENCES 15415 Dynamical organization of the cytoskeletal cortex probed by micropipette aspiration ANTHROPOLOGY Jan Brugués, Benoit Maugis, Jaume Casademunt, Pierre Nassoy, François Amblard, and Pierre Sens 15362 Early evidence (ca. 12,000 B.P.) for feasting at a burial cave in Israel 15421 Sequence dependence of DNA bending rigidity Natalie D. Munro and Leore Grosman Stephanie Geggier and Alexander Vologodskii iv u www.pnas.org Downloaded by guest on September 26, 2021 15427 Amphiphile regulation of ion channel function by DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY changes in the bilayer spring constant 15479 Six and Eya promote apoptosis through direct Jens A. Lundbæk, Roger E. Koeppe II, and Olaf S. Andersen transcriptional activation of the proapoptotic 15431 Single-molecule derivation of salt dependent base-pair BH3-only gene egl-1 in Caenorhabditis elegans free energies in DNA Takashi Hirose, Brendan D. Galvin, and H. Robert Horvitz Josep M. Huguet, Cristiano V. Bizarro, Núria Forns, 15485 CpG island clusters and pro-epigenetic selection for CpGs Steven B. Smith, Carlos Bustamante, and Felix Ritort in protein-coding exons of HOX and other transcription factors 15437 Direct mapping of nanoscale compositional connectivity Sergio Branciamore, Zhao-Xia Chen, Arthur D. Riggs, on intact cell membranes and Sergei N. Rodin Thomas S. van Zanten, Jordi Gómez, Carlo Manzo, Alessandra Cambi, Javier Buceta, Ramon Reigada, 15491 miR-204 is required for lens and retinal development and Maria F. Garcia-Parajo via Meis2 targeting Ivan Conte, Sabrina Carrella, Raffaella Avellino, Marianthi Karali, Raquel Marco-Ferreres, Paola CELL BIOLOGY Bovolenta, and Sandro Banfi 15335 Probing in vivo Mn2+ speciation and oxidative stress 15497 Patterning by heritage in mouse molar row development resistance in yeast cells with electron-nuclear Jan Prochazka, Sophie Pantalacci, Svatava Churava, Michaela double resonance spectroscopy Rothova, Anne Lambert, Hervé Lesot, Ophir Klein, Miroslav Rebecca L. McNaughton, Amit R. Reddi, Matthew H. S. Peterka, Vincent Laudet, and Renata Peterkova Clement, Ajay Sharma, Kevin Barnese, Leah Rosenfeld, Edith Butler Gralla, Joan Selverstone Valentine, Valeria C. Culotta, and Brian M. Hoffman ECOLOGY 15345 Combined niche and neutral effects in a microbial fi 15443 Comprehensive microRNA expression pro ling of the wastewater treatment community hematopoietic hierarchy Irina Dana Ofiţeru, Mary Lunn, Thomas P. Curtis, O. I. Petriv, F. Kuchenbauer, A. D. Delaney, V. Lecault, George F. Wells, Craig S. Criddle, Christopher A. A. White, D. Kent, L. Marmolejo, M. Heuser, T. Berg, Francis, and William T. Sloan M. Copley, J. Ruschmann, S. Sekulovic, C. Benz, E. Kuroda, V. Ho, F. Antignano, T. Halim, V. Giambra, G. Krystal, 15351 An explanation for conflicting records of Triassic–Jurassic C. J. F. Takei, A. P. Weng, J. Piret, C. Eaves, M. A. Marra, plant diversity R. K. Humphries, and C. L. Hansen Luke Mander, Wolfram M. Kürschner, and Jennifer C. McElwain 15449 Core epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition interactome gene-expression signature is associated with 15503 Herbivore physiological response to predation risk and claudin-low and metaplastic breast cancer subtypes implications for ecosystem nutrient dynamics Joseph H. Taube, Jason I. Herschkowitz, Kakajan Komurov, Dror Hawlena and Oswald J. Schmitz Alicia Y. Zhou, Supriya Gupta, Jing Yang, Kimberly Hartwell, Tamer T. Onder, Piyush B. Gupta, Kurt W. Evans, Brett G. ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
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