[PNAS]
[December 3, 2019; Vol. 116, No. 49](
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This Week in PNAS
[In This Issue](
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Core Concepts
[Core Concept: The rise of bioelectric medicine sparks interest among researchers, patients, and industry](
Lynne Peeples
A brief introduction to emerging topics in science.
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Commentaries
[Smallest water clusters supporting the ice I structure](
Kenneth D. Jordan
[Tunable superlubricity of 2-dimensional materials](
Daniel Bonn and Joost Frenken
[Glia modulate growth of the fly neurovascular unit](
Amin Ghabrial
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Perspective
[The scientific challenge of understanding and estimating climate change](
Tim Palmer and Bjorn Stevens
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Letters
[Questionnaires and task-based measures assess different aspects of self-regulation: Both are needed](
Naomi P. Friedman and Marie T. Banich
[Reply to Friedman and Banich: Right measures for the research question](
A. Zeynep Enkavi, Ian W. Eisenberg, Patrick G. Bissett, Gina L. Mazza, David P. MacKinnon, Lisa A. Marsch, and Russell A. Poldrack
[Diversification rates, clade ages, and macroevolutionary methods](
John J. Wiens and Joshua P. Scholl
[Reply to Wiens and Scholl: The time dependency of diversification rates is a widely observed phenomenon](
L. Francisco Henao Diaz, Luke J. Harmon, Mauro T. C. Sugawara, Eliot T. Miller, and Matthew W. Pennell
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Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
[Magnetic handshake materials as a scale-invariant platform for programmed self-assembly](
Ran Niu, Chrisy Xiyu Du, Edward Esposito, Jakin Ng, Michael P. Brenner, Paul L. McEuen, and Itai Cohen
Biophysics and Computational Biology
[A high-affinity human PD-1/PD-L2 complex informs avenues for small-molecule immune checkpoint drug discovery](
Shaogeng Tang and Peter S. Kim
[A locomotor assay reveals deficits in heterozygous Parkinson’s disease model and proprioceptive mutants in adult Drosophila](
Aman Aggarwal, Heinrich Reichert, and K. VijayRaghavan
Chemistry
[Proof of concept for identifying cystic fibrosis from perspiration samples](
Zhenpeng Zhou, Daniel Alvarez, Carlos Milla, and Richard N. Zare
[The end of ice I](
Daniel R. Moberg, Daniel Becker, Christoph W. Dierking, Florian Zurheide, Bernhard Bandow, Udo Buck, Arpa Hudait, Valeria Molinero, Francesco Paesani, and Thomas Zeuch
[Thermal reaction and luminescence of long-lived N 2D in N2 ice](
Jen-Iu Lo, Sheng-Lung Chou, Yu-Chain Peng, Hsiao-Chi Lu, and Bing-Ming Cheng
[Octahedral spinel electrocatalysts for alkaline fuel cells](
Yao Yang, Yin Xiong, Megan E. Holtz, Xinran Feng, Rui Zeng, Gary Chen, Francis J. DiSalvo, David A. Muller, and Héctor D. Abruña
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
[A diurnal carbon engine explains 13C-enriched carbonates without increasing the global production of oxygen](
Emily C. Geyman and Adam C. Maloof
[Extraterrestrial ribose and other sugars in primitive meteorites](
Yoshihiro Furukawa, Yoshito Chikaraishi, Naohiko Ohkouchi, Nanako O. Ogawa, Daniel P. Glavin, Jason P. Dworkin, Chiaki Abe, and Tomoki Nakamura
Engineering
[Honeybees use their wings for water surface locomotion](
Chris Roh and Morteza Gharib
[Tuning friction to a superlubric state via in-plane straining](
Shuai Zhang, Yuan Hou, Suzhi Li, Luqi Liu, Zhong Zhang, Xi-Qiao Feng, and Qunyang Li
[Bone-inspired microarchitectures achieve enhanced fatigue life](
Ashley M. Torres, Adwait A. Trikanad, Cameron A. Aubin, Floor M. Lambers, Marysol Luna, Clare M. Rimnac, Pablo Zavattieri, and Christopher J. Hernandez
Environmental Sciences
[Drivers of improved PM2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017](
Qiang Zhang, Yixuan Zheng, Dan Tong, Min Shao, Shuxiao Wang, Yuanhang Zhang, Xiangde Xu, Jinnan Wang, Hong He, Wenqing Liu, Yihui Ding, Yu Lei, Junhua Li, Zifa Wang, Xiaoye Zhang, Yuesi Wang, Jing Cheng, Yang Liu, Qinren Shi, Liu Yan, Guannan Geng, Chaopeng Hong, Meng Li, Fei Liu, Bo Zheng, Junji Cao, Aijun Ding, Jian Gao, Qingyan Fu, Juntao Huo, Baoxian Liu, Zirui Liu, Fumo Yang, Kebin He, and Jiming Hao
Physics
[Dichotomy of superconductivity between monolayer FeS and FeSe](
Koshin Shigekawa, Kosuke Nakayama, Masato Kuno, Giao N. Phan, Kenta Owada, Katsuaki Sugawara, Takashi Takahashi, and Takafumi Sato
[A nonlinear, geometric Hall effect without magnetic field](
Nicholas B. Schade, David I. Schuster, and Sidney R. Nagel
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Social Sciences
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
[Similarity in transgender and cisgender children’s gender development](
Selin Gülgöz, Jessica J. Glazier, Elizabeth A. Enright, Daniel J. Alonso, Lily J. Durwood, Anne A. Fast, Riley Lowe, Chonghui Ji, Jeffrey Heer, Carol Lynn Martin, and Kristina R. Olson
Sustainability Science
[Drivers of improved PM2.5 air quality in China from 2013 to 2017](
Qiang Zhang, Yixuan Zheng, Dan Tong, Min Shao, Shuxiao Wang, Yuanhang Zhang, Xiangde Xu, Jinnan Wang, Hong He, Wenqing Liu, Yihui Ding, Yu Lei, Junhua Li, Zifa Wang, Xiaoye Zhang, Yuesi Wang, Jing Cheng, Yang Liu, Qinren Shi, Liu Yan, Guannan Geng, Chaopeng Hong, Meng Li, Fei Liu, Bo Zheng, Junji Cao, Aijun Ding, Jian Gao, Qingyan Fu, Juntao Huo, Baoxian Liu, Zirui Liu, Fumo Yang, Kebin He, and Jiming Hao
[Stakeholder engagement increases transparency, satisfaction, and civic action](
Eric A. Coleman, Jacob Manyindo, A. Rani Parker, and Bill Schultz
[Evidence that a national REDD+ program reduces tree cover loss and carbon emissions in a high forest cover, low deforestation country](
Anand Roopsind, Brent Sohngen, and Jodi Brandt
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Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
[Honeybees use their wings for water surface locomotion](
Chris Roh and Morteza Gharib
Biochemistry
[A high-affinity human PD-1/PD-L2 complex informs avenues for small-molecule immune checkpoint drug discovery](
Shaogeng Tang and Peter S. Kim
[Structures and single-molecule analysis of bacterial motor nuclease AdnAB illuminate the mechanism of DNA double-strand break resection](
Ning Jia, Mihaela C. Unciuleac, Chaoyou Xue, Eric C. Greene, Dinshaw J. Patel, and Stewart Shuman
[Effects of ALS-associated TANK binding kinase 1 mutations on protein–protein interactions and kinase activity](
Junqiang Ye, Jonah Cheung, Valeria Gerbino, Göran Ahlsén, Christina Zimanyi, David Hirsh, and Tom Maniatis
[Vitamin D binding protein is required to utilize skin-generated vitamin D](
Elizabeth G. Duchow, Nancy E. Cooke, Jeremy Seeman, Lori A. Plum, and Hector F. DeLuca
[Branched unwinding mechanism of the Pif1 family of DNA helicases](
Saurabh P. Singh, Andrea Soranno, Melanie A. Sparks, and Roberto Galletto
[The conserved structure of plant telomerase RNA provides the missing link for an evolutionary pathway from ciliates to humans](
Jiarui Song, Dhenugen Logeswaran, Claudia Castillo-González, Yang Li, Sreyashree Bose, Behailu Birhanu Aklilu, Zeyang Ma, Alexander Polkhovskiy, Julian J.-L. Chen, and Dorothy E. Shippen
[ITPK1 mediates the lipid-independent synthesis of inositol phosphates controlled by metabolism](
Yann Desfougères, Miranda S. C. Wilson, Debabrata Laha, Gregory J. Miller, and Adolfo Saiardi
Biophysics and Computational Biology
[Clustering and dynamics of crowded proteins near membranes and their influence on membrane bending](
Grzegorz Nawrocki, Wonpil Im, Yuji Sugita, and Michael Feig
[Protein-assisted RNA fragment docking (RnaX) for modeling RNA–protein interactions using ModelX](
Javier Delgado Blanco, Leandro G. Radusky, Damiano Cianferoni, and Luis Serrano
[RNA base-pairing complexity in living cells visualized by correlated chemical probing](
Anthony M. Mustoe, Nicole N. Lama, Patrick S. Irving, Samuel W. Olson, and Kevin M. Weeks
Cell Biology
[Combined mTORC1/mTORC2 inhibition blocks growth and induces catastrophic macropinocytosis in cancer cells](
Ritesh K. Srivastava, Changzhao Li, Jasim Khan, Nilam Sanjib Banerjee, Louise T. Chow, and Mohammad Athar
[Differentiation of leukemic blasts is not completely blocked in acute myeloid leukemia](
Anupriya Agarwal, William J. Bolosky, David B. Wilson, Christopher A. Eide, Susan B. Olson, Guang Fan, and Brian J. Druker
[Cell adhesion signals regulate the nuclear receptor activity](
Kotaro Sugimoto, Naoki Ichikawa-Tomikawa, Korehito Kashiwagi, Chihiro Endo, Satoshi Tanaka, Norimasa Sawada, Tetsuya Watabe, Tomohito Higashi, and Hideki Chiba
[ROS-mediated PI3K activation drives mitochondrial transfer from stromal cells to hematopoietic stem cells in response to infection](
Jayna J. Mistry, Christopher R. Marlein, Jamie A. Moore, Charlotte Hellmich, Edyta E. Wojtowicz, James G. W. Smith, Iain Macaulay, Yu Sun, Adam Morfakis, Angela Patterson, Rebecca H. Horton, Devina Divekar, Christopher J. Morris, Anna Haestier, Federica Di Palma, Naiara Beraza, Kristian M. Bowles, and Stuart A. Rushworth
[HERES, a lncRNA that regulates canonical and noncanonical Wnt signaling pathways via interaction with EZH2](
Bo-Hyun You, Jung-Ho Yoon, Hoin Kang, Eun Kyung Lee, Sang Kil Lee, and Jin-Wu Nam
[Four-dimensional analyses show that replication compartments are clonal factories in which Epstein–Barr viral DNA amplification is coordinated](
Thejaswi Nagaraju, Arthur U. Sugden, and Bill Sugden
Developmental Biology
[The proteasome regulator PI31 is required for protein homeostasis, synapse maintenance, and neuronal survival in mice](
Adi Minis, Jose A. Rodriguez, Avi Levin, Kai Liu, Eve-Ellen Govek, Mary E. Hatten, and Hermann Steller
[Glia-derived exosomal miR-274 targets Sprouty in trachea and synaptic boutons to modulate growth and responses to hypoxia](
Yi-Wei Tsai, Hsin-Ho Sung, Jian-Chiuan Li, Chun-Yen Yeh, Pei-Yi Chen, Ying-Ju Cheng, Chun-Hong Chen, Yu-Chen Tsai, and Cheng-Ting Chien
Ecology
[Pervasive decreases in living vegetation carbon turnover time across forest climate zones](
Kailiang Yu, William K. Smith, Anna T. Trugman, Richard Condit, Stephen P. Hubbell, Jordi Sardans, Changhui Peng, Kai Zhu, Josep Peñuelas, Maxime Cailleret, Tom Levanic, Arthur Gessler, Marcus Schaub, Marco Ferretti, and William R. L. Anderegg
[Defense of Scots pine against sawfly eggs (Diprion pini) is primed by exposure to sawfly sex pheromones](
Norbert Bittner, Janik Hundacker, Ander Achotegui-Castells, Olle Anderbrant, and Monika Hilker
Environmental Sciences
[Production dynamics reveal hidden overharvest of inland recreational fisheries](
Holly S. Embke, Andrew L. Rypel, Stephen R. Carpenter, Greg G. Sass, Derek Ogle, Thomas Cichosz, Joseph Hennessy, Timothy E. Essington, and M. Jake Vander Zanden
[Molybdenum threshold for ecosystem scale alternative vanadium nitrogenase activity in boreal forests](
Romain Darnajoux, Nicolas Magain, Marie Renaudin, François Lutzoni, Jean-Philippe Bellenger, and Xinning Zhang
[Chemical and microbial diversity covary in fresh water to influence ecosystem functioning](
Andrew J. Tanentzap, Amelia Fitch, Chloe Orland, Erik J. S. Emilson, Kurt M. Yakimovich, Helena Osterholz, and Thorsten Dittmar
Evolution
[Origin of the avian predentary and evidence of a unique form of cranial kinesis in Cretaceous ornithuromorphs](
Alida M. Bailleul, Zhiheng Li, Jingmai O’Connor, and Zhonghe Zhou
[Pollination of Cretaceous flowers](
Tong Bao, Bo Wang, Jianguo Li, and David Dilcher
[Obligate bacterial endosymbionts limit thermal tolerance of insect host species](
Bo Zhang, Sean P. Leonard, Yiyuan Li, and Nancy A. Moran
[BMP signaling inhibition in Drosophila secondary cells remodels the seminal proteome and self and rival ejaculate functions](
Ben R. Hopkins, Irem Sepil, Sarah Bonham, Thomas Miller, Philip D. Charles, Roman Fischer, Benedikt M. Kessler, Clive Wilson, and Stuart Wigby
[The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity](
Duane D. McKenna, Seunggwan Shin, Dirk Ahrens, Michael Balke, Cristian Beza-Beza, Dave J. Clarke, Alexander Donath, Hermes E. Escalona, Frank Friedrich, Harald Letsch, Shanlin Liu, David Maddison, Christoph Mayer, Bernhard Misof, Peyton J. Murin, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Lars Podsiadlowski, Hans Pohl, Erin D. Scully, Evgeny V. Yan, Xin Zhou, Adam Ślipiński, and Rolf G. Beutel
Genetics
[Vertical transmission in Caenorhabditis nematodes of RNA molecules encoding a viral RNA-dependent RNA polymerase](
Aurélien Richaud, Lise Frézal, Stephen Tahan, Hongbing Jiang, Joshua A. Blatter, Guoyan Zhao, Taniya Kaur, David Wang, and Marie-Anne Félix
Immunology and Inflammation
[Contribution of proteasome-catalyzed peptide cis-splicing to viral targeting by CD8+ T cells in HIV-1 infection](
Wayne Paes, German Leonov, Thomas Partridge, Takayuki Chikata, Hayato Murakoshi, Anna Frangou, Simon Brackenridge, Annalisa Nicastri, Andrew G. Smith, Gerald H. Learn, Yingying Li, Robert Parker, Shinichi Oka, Pierre Pellegrino, Ian Williams, Barton F. Haynes, Andrew J. McMichael, George M. Shaw, Beatrice H. Hahn, Masafumi Takiguchi, Nicola Ternette, and Persephone Borrow
[Dichotomous regulation of group 3 innate lymphoid cells by nongastric Helicobacter species](
John W. Bostick, Yetao Wang, Zeli Shen, Yong Ge, Jeffrey Brown, Zong-ming E. Chen, Mansour Mohamadzadeh, James G. Fox, and Liang Zhou
Medical Sciences
[Proof of concept for identifying cystic fibrosis from perspiration samples](
Zhenpeng Zhou, Daniel Alvarez, Carlos Milla, and Richard N. Zare
[N-acyl taurines are endogenous lipid messengers that improve glucose homeostasis](
Trisha J. Grevengoed, Samuel A. J. Trammell, Michele K. McKinney, Natalia Petersen, Rebecca L. Cardone, Jens S. Svenningsen, Daisuke Ogasawara, Christina C. Nexøe-Larsen, Filip K. Knop, Thue W. Schwartz, Richard G. Kibbey, Benjamin F. Cravatt, and Matthew P. Gillum
[A high-resolution landscape of mutations in the BCL6 super-enhancer in normal human B cells](
Jiang-Cheng Shen, Ashwini S. Kamath-Loeb, Brendan F. Kohrn, Keith R. Loeb, Bradley D. Preston, and Lawrence A. Loeb
Microbiology
[High-resolution view of the type III secretion export apparatus in situ reveals membrane remodeling and a secretion pathway](
Carmen Butan, Maria Lara-Tejero, Wenwei Li, Jun Liu, and Jorge E. Galán
[Imaging the dynamic recruitment of monocytes to the blood–brain barrier and specific brain regions during Toxoplasma gondii infection](
Christine A. Schneider, Dario X. Figueroa Velez, Ricardo Azevedo, Evelyn M. Hoover, Cuong J. Tran, Chelsie Lo, Omid Vadpey, Sunil P. Gandhi, and Melissa B. Lodoen
[Self-identity barcodes encoded by six expansive polymorphic toxin families discriminate kin in myxobacteria](
Christopher N. Vassallo and Daniel Wall
[PPARα-targeted mitochondrial bioenergetics mediate repair of intestinal barriers at the host–microbe intersection during SIV infection](
Katti R. Crakes, Clarissa Santos Rocha, Irina Grishina, Lauren A. Hirao, Eleonora Napoli, Christopher A. Gaulke, Anne Fenton, Sandipan Datta, Juan Arredondo, Maria L. Marco, Sumathi Sankaran-Walters, Gino Cortopassi, Cecilia Giulivi, and Satya Dandekar
Neuroscience
[A locomotor assay reveals deficits in heterozygous Parkinson’s disease model and proprioceptive mutants in adult Drosophila](
Aman Aggarwal, Heinrich Reichert, and K. VijayRaghavan
[Early epigenomic and transcriptional changes reveal Elk-1 transcription factor as a therapeutic target in Huntington’s disease](
Ferah Yildirim, Christopher W. Ng, Vincent Kappes, Tobias Ehrenberger, Siobhan K. Rigby, Victoria Stivanello, Theresa A. Gipson, Anthony R. Soltis, Peter Vanhoutte, Jocelyne Caboche, David E. Housman, and Ernest Fraenkel
[Roles of ErbB3-binding protein 1 (EBP1) in embryonic development and gene-silencing control](
Hyo Rim Ko, Inwoo Hwang, Eun-Ju Jin, Taegwan Yun, Dongryeol Ryu, Jong-Sun Kang, Kye Won Park, Joo-Ho Shin, Sung-Woo Cho, Kyung-Hoon Lee, Keqiang Ye, and Jee-Yin Ahn
[Body map proto-organization in newborn macaques](
Michael J. Arcaro, Peter F. Schade, and Margaret S. Livingstone
[Learning optimal decisions with confidence](
Jan Drugowitsch, André G. Mendonça, Zachary F. Mainen, and Alexandre Pouget
Pharmacology
[Inhibition of dual-specificity tyrosine phosphorylation-regulated kinase 2 perturbs 26S proteasome-addicted neoplastic progression](
Sourav Banerjee, Tiantian Wei, Jue Wang, Jenna J. Lee, Haydee L. Gutierrez, Owen Chapman, Sandra E. Wiley, Joshua E. Mayfield, Vasudha Tandon, Edwin F. Juarez, Lukas Chavez, Ruqi Liang, Robert L. Sah, Caitlin Costello, Jill P. Mesirov, Laureano de la Vega, Kimberly L. Cooper, Jack E. Dixon, Junyu Xiao, and Xiaoguang Lei
Plant Biology
[A ligand-independent origin of abscisic acid perception](
Yufei Sun, Ben Harpazi, Akila Wijerathna-Yapa, Ebe Merilo, Jan de Vries, Daphna Michaeli, Maayan Gal, Andrew C. Cuming, Hannes Kollist, and Assaf Mosquna
[The retrograde signaling protein GUN1 regulates tetrapyrrole biosynthesis](
Takayuki Shimizu, Sylwia M. Kacprzak, Nobuyoshi Mochizuki, Akira Nagatani, Satoru Watanabe, Tomohiro Shimada, Kan Tanaka, Yuuki Hayashi, Munehito Arai, Dario Leister, Haruko Okamoto, Matthew J. Terry, and Tatsuru Masuda
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Correction
[Correction for Amirbeigiarab et al., Invariable stoichiometry of ribosomal proteins in mouse brain tissues with aging](
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Retraction
[Retraction for Cifuentes-Rojas et al., Two RNA subunits and POT1a are components of Arabidopsis telomerase](
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