PNAS Table of Contents for December 10, 2019; Vol. 116, No. 50

[PNAS] [Cozzarelli Prize Nominations](/cgi/adclick/?ad=54532&adclick=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fpage%2Fabout%2Fcozzarelli-prize)   [December 10, 2019; Vol. 116, No. 50]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( --------------------------------------------------------------- News Feature [News Feature: Getting the world’s fastest cat to breed with speed]( Amy McDermott An in-depth look at trending science issues. --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [Demographic change, political backlash, and challenges in the study of geography]( Ryan D. Enos [Shining light on dark matter in the genome]( Dongyin Guan and Mitchell A. Lazar [Remyelination and the gut−brain axis]( Ian D. Duncan and Jyoti J. Watters --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters [Water limitations to large-scale desert agroforestry projects for carbon sequestration]( Lixin Wang and Paolo D’Odorico [Reply to Wang and D’Odorico: On the sustainability of large-scale desert plantations as a partial solution for climate change]( Oliver Branch and Volker Wulfmeyer [Focus on an island rule may hide morphological disparity in insular plants]( Joshua I. Brian and Nathanael Walker-Hale [Reply to Brian and Walker-Hale: Support for the island rule does not hide morphological disparity in insular plants]( M. Biddick and K. C. Burns --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics [Evolutionary regain of lost gene circuit function]( Mirna Kheir Gouda, Michael Manhart, and Gábor Balázsi Applied Physical Sciences [Fresnel drag in space–time-modulated metamaterials]( Paloma A. Huidobro, Emanuele Galiffi, Sébastien Guenneau, Richard V. Craster, and J. B. Pendry [Drastic enhancement of crystal nucleation in a molecular liquid by its liquid–liquid transition]( Rei Kurita and Hajime Tanaka [Mechanisms for bacterial gliding motility on soft substrates]( Joël Tchoufag, Pushpita Ghosh, Connor B. Pogue, Beiyan Nan, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu Biophysics and Computational Biology [Chromosome disentanglement driven via optimal compaction of loop-extruded brush structures]( Sumitabha Brahmachari and John F. Marko [Extensive free-energy simulations identify water as the base in nucleotide addition by DNA polymerase]( Daniel Roston, Darren Demapan, and Qiang Cui [How the phage T4 injection machinery works including energetics, forces, and dynamic pathway]( Ameneh Maghsoodi, Anupam Chatterjee, Ioan Andricioaei, and Noel C. Perkins [Single-molecule imaging of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein dynamics and Gag lattice association exposes determinants responsible for virus incorporation]( Nairi Pezeshkian, Nicholas S. Groves, and Schuyler B. van Engelenburg Chemistry [Unexpected quenching effect on new particle formation from the atmospheric reaction of methanol with SO3]( Ling Liu, Jie Zhong, Hanna Vehkamäki, Theo Kurtén, Lin Du, Xiuhui Zhang, Joseph S. Francisco, and Xiao Cheng Zeng Computer Sciences [Social behavior for autonomous vehicles]( Wilko Schwarting, Alyssa Pierson, Javier Alonso-Mora, Sertac Karaman, and Daniela Rus Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [Fundamentally different global marine nitrogen cycling in response to severe ocean deoxygenation]( B. David A. Naafs, Fanny M. Monteiro, Ann Pearson, Meytal B. Higgins, Richard D. Pancost, and Andy Ridgwell [Resolving seasonal rainfall changes in the Middle East during the last interglacial period]( Ian J. Orland, Feng He, Miryam Bar-Matthews, Guangshan Chen, Avner Ayalon, and John E. Kutzbach [Atmospheric modeling and source reconstruction of radioactive ruthenium from an undeclared major release in 2017]( O. Saunier, D. Didier, A. Mathieu, O. Masson, and J. Dumont Le Brazidec Engineering [Integration of thermochemical water splitting with CO2 direct air capture]( Casper Brady, Mark E. Davis, and Bingjun Xu [Mapping micrometer-scale wetting properties of superhydrophobic surfaces]( Dan Daniel, Chee Leng Lay, Anqi Sng, Coryl Jing Jun Lee, Darren Chi Jin Neo, Xing Yi Ling, and Nikodem Tomczak [High-throughput assessment of hemoglobin polymer in single red blood cells from sickle cell patients under controlled oxygen tension]( Giuseppe Di Caprio, Ethan Schonbrun, Bronner P. Gonçalves, Jose M. Valdez, David K. Wood, and John M. Higgins Physics [Understanding, predicting, and tuning the fragility of vitrimeric polymers]( Simone Ciarella, Rutger A. Biezemans, and Liesbeth M. C. Janssen --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Political Sciences [Local demographic changes and US presidential voting, 2012 to 2016]( Seth J. Hill, Daniel J. Hopkins, and Gregory A. Huber Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Social behavior for autonomous vehicles]( Wilko Schwarting, Alyssa Pierson, Javier Alonso-Mora, Sertac Karaman, and Daniela Rus [Status anxiety mediates the positive relationship between income inequality and sexualization]( Khandis R. Blake and Robert C. Brooks Sustainability Science [Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India]( Kyle Frankel Davis, Ashwini Chhatre, Narasimha D. Rao, Deepti Singh, Suparna Ghosh-Jerath, Anvi Mridul, Miguel Poblete-Cazenave, Nabin Pradhan, and Ruth DeFries --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences [Oral ionic liquid for the treatment of diet-induced obesity]( Md Nurunnabi, Kelly N. Ibsen, Eden E. L. Tanner, and Samir Mitragotri Biochemistry [Fundamentally different global marine nitrogen cycling in response to severe ocean deoxygenation]( B. David A. Naafs, Fanny M. Monteiro, Ann Pearson, Meytal B. Higgins, Richard D. Pancost, and Andy Ridgwell [Extensive free-energy simulations identify water as the base in nucleotide addition by DNA polymerase]( Daniel Roston, Darren Demapan, and Qiang Cui [A structural basis for antibody-mediated neutralization of Nipah virus reveals a site of vulnerability at the fusion glycoprotein apex]( Victoria A. Avanzato, Kasopefoluwa Y. Oguntuyo, Marina Escalera-Zamudio, Bernardo Gutierrez, Michael Golden, Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond, Rhys Pryce, Thomas S. Walter, Jeffrey Seow, Katie J. Doores, Oliver G. Pybus, Vincent J. Munster, Benhur Lee, and Thomas A. Bowden [The extracellular DNA lattice of bacterial biofilms is structurally related to Holliday junction recombination intermediates]( Aishwarya Devaraj, John R. Buzzo, Lauren Mashburn-Warren, Erin S. Gloag, Laura A. Novotny, Paul Stoodley, Lauren O. Bakaletz, and Steven D. Goodman [Biosynthesis of the nitrogenase active-site cofactor precursor NifB-co in Saccharomyces cerevisiae]( Stefan Burén, Katelin Pratt, Xi Jiang, Yisong Guo, Emilio Jimenez-Vicente, Carlos Echavarri-Erasun, Dennis R. Dean, Ishtiaq Saaem, D. Benjamin Gordon, Christopher A. Voigt, and Luis M. Rubio Biophysics and Computational Biology [Mechanisms for bacterial gliding motility on soft substrates]( Joël Tchoufag, Pushpita Ghosh, Connor B. Pogue, Beiyan Nan, and Kranthi K. Mandadapu [How the phage T4 injection machinery works including energetics, forces, and dynamic pathway]( Ameneh Maghsoodi, Anupam Chatterjee, Ioan Andricioaei, and Noel C. Perkins [Geometrical reorganization of Dectin-1 and TLR2 on single phagosomes alters their synergistic immune signaling]( Wenqian Li, Jun Yan, and Yan Yu Cell Biology [Chromosome disentanglement driven via optimal compaction of loop-extruded brush structures]( Sumitabha Brahmachari and John F. Marko [Neogenin-1 distinguishes between myeloid-biased and balanced Hoxb5+ mouse long-term hematopoietic stem cells]( Gunsagar S. Gulati, Monika Zukowska, Joseph J. Noh, Allison Zhang, Daniel J. Wesche, Rahul Sinha, Benson M. George, Irving L. Weissman, and Krzysztof Szade [Resolving titin’s lifecycle and the spatial organization of protein turnover in mouse cardiomyocytes]( Franziska Rudolph, Judith Hüttemeister, Katharina da Silva Lopes, René Jüttner, Lily Yu, Nora Bergmann, Dhana Friedrich, Stephan Preibisch, Eva Wagner, Stephan E. Lehnart, Carol C. Gregorio, and Michael Gotthardt Developmental Biology [A universal transportin protein drives stochastic choice of olfactory neurons via specific nuclear import of a sox-2-activating factor]( Amel Alqadah, Yi-Wen Hsieh, Rui Xiong, Bluma J. Lesch, Chieh Chang, and Chiou-Fen Chuang Ecology [Native habitat mitigates feast–famine conditions faced by honey bees in an agricultural landscape]( Adam G. Dolezal, Ashley L. St. Clair, Ge Zhang, Amy L. Toth, and Matthew E. O’Neal Environmental Sciences [Artificial turf infill associated with systematic toxicity in an amniote vertebrate]( Elvis Genbo Xu, Nicholas Lin, Rachel S. Cheong, Charlotte Ridsdale, Rui Tahara, Trina Y. Du, Dharani Das, Jiping Zhu, Laura Peña Silva, Agil Azimzada, Hans C. E. Larsson, and Nathalie Tufenkji Evolution [Evolutionary regain of lost gene circuit function]( Mirna Kheir Gouda, Michael Manhart, and Gábor Balázsi [Bottleneck and selection in the germline and maternal age influence transmission of mitochondrial DNA in human pedigrees]( Arslan A. Zaidi, Peter R. Wilton, Marcia Shu-Wei Su, Ian M. Paul, Barbara Arbeithuber, Kate Anthony, Anton Nekrutenko, Rasmus Nielsen, and Kateryna D. Makova [Adaptational lag to temperature in valley oak (Quercus lobata) can be mitigated by genome-informed assisted gene flow]( Luke Browne, Jessica W. Wright, Sorel Fitz-Gibbon, Paul F. Gugger, and Victoria L. Sork Genetics [Deciphering essential cistromes using genome-wide CRISPR screens]( Teng Fei, Wei Li, Jingyu Peng, Tengfei Xiao, Chen-Hao Chen, Alexander Wu, Jialiang Huang, Chongzhi Zang, X. Shirley Liu, and Myles Brown [Galnt11 regulates kidney function by glycosylating the endocytosis receptor megalin to modulate ligand binding]( E. Tian, Shengjun Wang, Liping Zhang, Ying Zhang, May C. Malicdan, Yang Mao, Christina Christoffersen, Lawrence A. Tabak, Katrine T. Schjoldager, and Kelly G. Ten Hagen [Increased Muscleblind levels by chloroquine treatment improve myotonic dystrophy type 1 phenotypes in in vitro and in vivo models]( Ariadna Bargiela, Maria Sabater-Arcis, Jorge Espinosa-Espinosa, Miren Zulaica, Adolfo Lopez de Munain, and Ruben Artero [Photoperiodic and clock regulation of the vitamin A pathway in the brain mediates seasonal responsiveness in the monarch butterfly]( Samantha E. Iiams, Aldrin B. Lugena, Ying Zhang, Ashley N. Hayden, and Christine Merlin Immunology and Inflammation [Transcriptomic, epigenetic, and functional analyses implicate neutrophil diversity in the pathogenesis of systemic lupus erythematosus]( Pragnesh Mistry, Shuichiro Nakabo, Liam O’Neil, Rishi R. Goel, Kan Jiang, Carmelo Carmona-Rivera, Sarthak Gupta, Diana W. Chan, Philip M. Carlucci, Xinghao Wang, Faiza Naz, Zerai Manna, Amit Dey, Nehal N. Mehta, Sarfaraz Hasni, Stefania Dell’Orso, Gustavo Gutierrez-Cruz, Hong-Wei Sun, and Mariana J. Kaplan [Enterotoxins can support CAR T cells against solid tumors]( Bianca von Scheidt, Minyu Wang, Amanda J. Oliver, Jack D. Chan, Metta K. Jana, Aesha I. Ali, Fiona Clow, John D. Fraser, Kylie M. Quinn, Phillip K. Darcy, Michael H. Kershaw, and Clare Y. Slaney Medical Sciences [High-throughput assessment of hemoglobin polymer in single red blood cells from sickle cell patients under controlled oxygen tension]( Giuseppe Di Caprio, Ethan Schonbrun, Bronner P. Gonçalves, Jose M. Valdez, David K. Wood, and John M. Higgins [Cardiovascular risks impact human brain N-acetylaspartate in regionally specific patterns]( Joshua Chiappelli, Laura M. Rowland, S. Andrea Wijtenburg, Hongji Chen, Andrew A. Maudsley, Sulaiman Sheriff, Shuo Chen, Anya Savransky, Wyatt Marshall, Meghann C. Ryan, Heather A. Bruce, Alan R. Shuldiner, Braxton D. Mitchell, Peter Kochunov, and L. Elliot Hong [Distinct metabolic adaptation of liver circadian pathways to acute and chronic patterns of alcohol intake]( Jonathan Gaucher, Kenichiro Kinouchi, Nicholas Ceglia, Emilie Montellier, Shahaf Peleg, Carolina Magdalen Greco, Andreas Schmidt, Ignasi Forne, Selma Masri, Pierre Baldi, Axel Imhof, and Paolo Sassone-Corsi [Interaction of the oncoprotein transcription factor MYC with its chromatin cofactor WDR5 is essential for tumor maintenance]( Lance R. Thomas, Clare M. Adams, Jing Wang, April M. Weissmiller, Joy Creighton, Shelly L. Lorey, Qi Liu, Stephen W. Fesik, Christine M. Eischen, and William P. Tansey Microbiology [Single-molecule imaging of HIV-1 envelope glycoprotein dynamics and Gag lattice association exposes determinants responsible for virus incorporation]( Nairi Pezeshkian, Nicholas S. Groves, and Schuyler B. van Engelenburg [Architecture and modular assembly of Sulfolobus S-layers revealed by electron cryotomography]( Lavinia Gambelli, Benjamin H. Meyer, Mathew McLaren, Kelly Sanders, Tessa E. F. Quax, Vicki A. M. Gold, Sonja-Verena Albers, and Bertram Daum [Adaptive evolution reveals a tradeoff between growth rate and oxidative stress during naphthoquinone-based aerobic respiration]( Amitesh Anand, Ke Chen, Laurence Yang, Anand V. Sastry, Connor A. Olson, Saugat Poudel, Yara Seif, Ying Hefner, Patrick V. Phaneuf, Sibei Xu, Richard Szubin, Adam M. Feist, and Bernhard O. Palsson Neuroscience [Human iPSC-derived microglia assume a primary microglia-like state after transplantation into the neonatal mouse brain]( Devon S. Svoboda, M. Inmaculada Barrasa, Jian Shu, Rosalie Rietjens, Shupei Zhang, Maya Mitalipova, Peter Berube, Dongdong Fu, Leonard D. Shultz, George W. Bell, and Rudolf Jaenisch [Arousal regulates frequency tuning in primary auditory cortex]( Pei-Ann Lin, Samuel K. Asinof, Nicholas J. Edwards, and Jeffry S. Isaacson [The microbiota regulates murine inflammatory responses to toxin-induced CNS demyelination but has minimal impact on remyelination]( Christopher E. McMurran, Alerie Guzman de la Fuente, Rosana Penalva, Ofra Ben Menachem-Zidon, Yvonne Dombrowski, John Falconer, Ginez A. Gonzalez, Chao Zhao, Fynn N. Krause, Adam M. H. Young, Julian L. Griffin, Clare A. Jones, Claire Hollins, Markus M. Heimesaat, Denise C. Fitzgerald, and Robin J. M. Franklin [DJ-1 regulates the integrity and function of ER-mitochondria association through interaction with IP3R3-Grp75-VDAC1]( Yi Liu, Xiaopin Ma, Hisashi Fujioka, Jun Liu, Shengdi Chen, and Xiongwei Zhu Physiology [Extreme bradycardia and tachycardia in the world’s largest animal]( J. A. Goldbogen, D. E. Cade, J. Calambokidis, M. F. Czapanskiy, J. Fahlbusch, A. S. Friedlaender, W. T. Gough, S. R. Kahane-Rapport, M. S. Savoca, K. V. Ponganis, and P. J. Ponganis Plant Biology [The iron deficiency response in Arabidopsis thaliana requires the phosphorylated transcription factor URI]( Sun A. Kim, Ian S. LaCroix, Scott A. Gerber, and Mary Lou Guerinot [Growth dynamics of the Arabidopsis fruit is mediated by cell expansion]( Juan-José Ripoll, Mingyuan Zhu, Stephanie Brocke, Cindy T. Hon, Martin F. Yanofsky, Arezki Boudaoud, and Adrienne H. K. Roeder [HISTONE DEACETYLASE 9 stimulates auxin-dependent thermomorphogenesis in Arabidopsis thaliana by mediating H2A.Z depletion]( Lennard C. van der Woude, Giorgio Perrella, Basten L. Snoek, Mark van Hoogdalem, Ondřej Novák, Marcel C. van Verk, Heleen N. van Kooten, Lennert E. Zorn, Rolf Tonckens, Joram A. Dongus, Myrthe Praat, Evelien A. Stouten, Marcel C. G. Proveniers, Elisa Vellutini, Eirini Patitaki, Umidjon Shapulatov, Wouter Kohlen, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian, Karin Ljung, Alexander R. van der Krol, Sjef Smeekens, Eirini Kaiserli, and Martijn van Zanten Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Status anxiety mediates the positive relationship between income inequality and sexualization]( Khandis R. Blake and Robert C. Brooks [Ecological origins of perceptual grouping principles in the auditory system]( Wiktor Młynarski and Josh H. McDermott Sustainability Science [Assessing the sustainability of post-Green Revolution cereals in India]( Kyle Frankel Davis, Ashwini Chhatre, Narasimha D. Rao, Deepti Singh, Suparna Ghosh-Jerath, Anvi Mridul, Miguel Poblete-Cazenave, Nabin Pradhan, and Ruth DeFries [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. [Unsubscribe]( from or [edit]( your subscription for this service. Or by mail: Customer Service * 973 University Avenue * Los Gatos, CA 95032 * U.S.A. Copyright © 2019 by the National Academy of Sciences