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 [August 25, 2020; Vol. 117, No. 34](
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This Week in PNAS
[In This Issue](
This week's research highlights
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Opinion
[Opinion: To understand how migrations affect human securities, look to the past](
Jeffrey H. Altschul, Keith W. Kintigh, Mark Aldenderfer, Elise Alonzi, Ian Armit, Juan Antonio Barceló, Christopher S. Beekman, Penny Bickle, Douglas W. Bird, Scott E. Ingram, Elena Isayev, Andrew W. Kandel, Rachael Kiddey, Hélène Timpoko Kienon-Kaboré, Franco Niccolucci, Corey S. Ragsdale, Beth K. Scaffidi, and Scott G. Ortman
Leading scientists discuss current issues.
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QnAs
[QnAs with Mark T. Nelson](
Sandeep Ravindran
Interviews with leading scientific researchers and newsmakers
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Profile
[Profile of James R. Ehleringer](
Beth Azar
The life and work of NAS members
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Commentaries
[MutS sliding clamps on an uncertain track to DNA mismatch repair](
Christopher D. Putnam
[Role of Hippo signaling pathway in early placental development](
Francesca Soncin and Mana M. Parast
[Reinventing the wheel with a synthetic plant inflammasome](
Adam M. Bayless and Marc T. Nishimura
[Seeing is believing: Visualizing immune cells and calcium signals at different stages of neuroinflammation](
Liwei Wang and Stefan Feske
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Perspective
[Attuning to a changing ocean](
Nils Chr. Stenseth, Mark R. Payne, Erik Bonsdorff, Dorothy J. Dankel, Joël M. Durant, Leif G. Anderson, Claire W. Armstrong, Thorsten Blenckner, Ailin Brakstad, Sam Dupont, Anne M. Eikeset, Anders Goksøyr, SteingrÃmur Jónsson, Anna Kuparinen, Kjetil VÃ¥ge, Henrik Österblom, and Øyvind Paasche
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Letters
[One size does not fit all in Drosophila olfactory habituation](
Ourania Semelidou and Efthimios M. C. Skoulakis
[Reply to Semelidou and Skoulakis: “Short-term†habituation has multiple distinct mechanisms](
Yang Shen, Sanjoy Dasgupta, and Saket Navlakha
[Does the brain encode the gaze of others as beams emitted by their eyes?](
Marius Görner, Hamidreza Ramezanpour, Ian Chong, and Peter Thier
[Reply to Görner et al.: Encoding gaze as implied motion](
Arvid Guterstam and Michael S. A. Graziano
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Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
[Mathematical model of colorectal cancer initiation](
Chay Paterson, Hans Clevers, and Ivana Bozic
Applied Physical Sciences
[Optical properties of metasurfaces infiltrated with liquid crystals](
Andrew Lininger, Alexander Y. Zhu, Joon-Suh Park, Giovanna Palermo, Sharmistha Chatterjee, Jonathan Boyd, Federico Capasso, and Giuseppe Strangi
[Noncovalent π-stacked robust topological organic framework](
Dong Meng, Jonathan Lee Yang, Chengyi Xiao, Rui Wang, Xiaofei Xing, Olkan Kocak, Gulsevim Aydin, Ilhan Yavuz, Selbi Nuryyeva, Lei Zhang, Guogang Liu, Zhenxing Li, Shuai Yuan, Zhao-Kui Wang, Wei Wei, Zhaohui Wang, K. N. Houk, and Yang Yang
[Optimal control of aging in complex networks](
Eric D. Sun, Thomas C. T. Michaels, and L. Mahadevan
[Defect tolerant zero-bias topological photocurrent in a ferroelectric semiconductor](
Hiroki Hatada, Masao Nakamura, Masato Sotome, Yoshio Kaneko, Naoki Ogawa, Takahiro Morimoto, Yoshinori Tokura, and Masashi Kawasaki
[Dimple drainage before the coalescence of a droplet deposited on a smooth substrate](
Laurent Duchemin and Christophe Josserand
[Multicolor 3D MINFLUX nanoscopy of mitochondrial MICOS proteins](
Jasmin K. Pape, Till Stephan, Francisco Balzarotti, Rebecca Büchner, Felix Lange, Dietmar Riedel, Stefan Jakobs, and Stefan W. Hell
Biophysics and Computational Biology
[Physical modeling of the heritability and maintenance of epigenetic modifications](
Sarah H. Sandholtz, Quinn MacPherson, and Andrew J. Spakowitz
Chemistry
[Electronic structure and photophysics of a supermolecular iron complex having a long MLCT-state lifetime and panchromatic absorption](
Ting Jiang, Yusong Bai, Peng Zhang, Qiwei Han, David B. Mitzi, and Michael J. Therien
[The roles of long-range proton-coupled electron transfer in the directionality and efficiency of [FeFe]-hydrogenases](
Oliver Lampret, Jifu Duan, Eckhard Hofmann, Martin Winkler, Fraser A. Armstrong, and Thomas Happe
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
[Large stocks of peatland carbon and nitrogen are vulnerable to permafrost thaw](
Gustaf Hugelius, Julie Loisel, Sarah Chadburn, Robert B. Jackson, Miriam Jones, Glen MacDonald, Maija Marushchak, David Olefeldt, Maara Packalen, Matthias B. Siewert, Claire Treat, Merritt Turetsky, Carolina Voigt, and Zicheng Yu
[Constraining the atmospheric OCS budget from sulfur isotopes](
Shohei Hattori, Kazuki Kamezaki, and Naohiro Yoshida
[Abiotic redox reactions in hydrothermal mixing zones: Decreased energy availability for the subsurface biosphere](
Jill M. McDermott, Sean P. Sylva, Shuhei Ono, Christopher R. German, and Jeffrey S. Seewald
Physics
[Magnon Bose–Einstein condensation and superconductivity in a frustrated Kondo lattice](
Pavel A. Volkov, Snir Gazit, and Jedediah H. Pixley
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Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
[Social distancing laws cause only small losses of economic activity during the COVID-19 pandemic in Scandinavia](
Adam Sheridan, Asger Lau Andersen, Emil Toft Hansen, and Niels Johannesen
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
[Virtuous violence from the war room to death row](
Paul Slovic, C. K. Mertz, David M. Markowitz, Andrew Quist, and Daniel Västfjäll
[An exploratory data analysis of word form prediction during word-by-word reading](
Thomas P. Urbach, Katherine A. DeLong, Wen-Hsuan Chan, and Marta Kutas
[Brain circuits signaling the absence of emotion in body language](
Arseny A. Sokolov, Peter Zeidman, Michael Erb, Frank E. Pollick, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Philippe Ryvlin, Karl J. Friston, and Marina A. Pavlova
Social Sciences
[Collective property rights reduce deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon](
Kathryn Baragwanath and Ella Bayi
Sustainability Science
[Field experimental evidence shows that self-interest attracts more sunlight](
Bryan Bollinger, Kenneth T. Gillingham, and Marten Ovaere
[Assessing multidimensional sustainability: Lessons from Brazil’s social protection programs](
Cecilie Dyngeland, Johan A. Oldekop, and Karl L. Evans
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Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
[The roles of long-range proton-coupled electron transfer in the directionality and efficiency of [FeFe]-hydrogenases](
Oliver Lampret, Jifu Duan, Eckhard Hofmann, Martin Winkler, Fraser A. Armstrong, and Thomas Happe
[Sarecycline interferes with tRNA accommodation and tethers mRNA to the 70S ribosome](
Zahra Batool, Ivan B. Lomakin, Yury S. Polikanov, and Christopher G. Bunick
[Mechanism of PRL2 phosphatase-mediated PTEN degradation and tumorigenesis](
Qinglin Li, Yunpeng Bai, L. Tiffany Lyle, Guimei Yu, Ovini Amarasinghe, Frederick Nguele Meke, Colin Carlock, and Zhong-Yin Zhang
[Mismatch sensing by nucleofilament deciphers mechanism of RecA-mediated homologous recombination](
Xingyuan Huang, Ying Lu, Shuang Wang, Mingyu Sui, Jinghua Li, Jianbing Ma, Dongfei Ma, Qi Jia, Shuxin Hu, Chunhua Xu, and Ming Li
[Mitochondrial [4Fe-4S] protein assembly involves reductive [2Fe-2S] cluster fusion on ISCA1–ISCA2 by electron flow from ferredoxin FDX2](
Benjamin Dennis Weiler, Marie-Christin Brück, Isabell Kothe, Eckhard Bill, Roland Lill, and Ulrich Mühlenhoff
Biophysics and Computational Biology
[Physical modeling of the heritability and maintenance of epigenetic modifications](
Sarah H. Sandholtz, Quinn MacPherson, and Andrew J. Spakowitz
[In-cell destabilization of a homodimeric protein complex detected by DEER spectroscopy](
Yin Yang, Shen-Na Chen, Feng Yang, Xia-Yan Li, Akiva Feintuch, Xun-Cheng Su, and Daniella Goldfarb
[Revealing the mechanism of repressor inactivation during switching of a temperate bacteriophage](
Kim Krighaar Rasmussen, Andrés Palencia, Anders K. Varming, Habiba El-Wali, Elisabetta Boeri Erba, Martin Blackledge, Karin Hammer, Torsten Herrmann, Mogens Kilstrup, Leila Lo Leggio, and Malene Ringkjøbing Jensen
[Nucleosome allostery in pioneer transcription factor binding](
Cheng Tan and Shoji Takada
[Atomistic structure and dynamics of the human MHC-I peptide-loading complex](
Olivier Fisette, Gunnar F. Schröder, and Lars V. Schäfer
Cell Biology
[Multicolor 3D MINFLUX nanoscopy of mitochondrial MICOS proteins](
Jasmin K. Pape, Till Stephan, Francisco Balzarotti, Rebecca Büchner, Felix Lange, Dietmar Riedel, Stefan Jakobs, and Stefan W. Hell
[Syntaxin 3 is essential for photoreceptor outer segment protein trafficking and survival](
Mashal Kakakhel, Lars Tebbe, Mustafa S. Makia, Shannon M. Conley, David M. Sherry, Muayyad R. Al-Ubaidi, and Muna I. Naash
Developmental Biology
[MicroRNA-dependent inhibition of PFN2 orchestrates ERK activation and pluripotent state transitions by regulating endocytosis](
Carolyn Sangokoya and Robert Blelloch
[Enhancer evolutionary co-option through shared chromatin accessibility input](
Yaqun Xin, Yann Le Poul, Liucong Ling, Mariam Museridze, Bettina Mühling, Rita Jaenichen, Elena Osipova, and Nicolas Gompel
Ecology
[Photoperiod and temperature as dominant environmental drivers triggering secondary growth resumption in Northern Hemisphere conifers](
Jian-Guo Huang, Qianqian Ma, Sergio Rossi, Franco Biondi, Annie Deslauriers, Patrick Fonti, Eryuan Liang, Harri Mäkinen, Walter Oberhuber, Cyrille B. K. Rathgeber, Roberto Tognetti, Václav Treml, Bao Yang, Jiao-Lin Zhang, Serena Antonucci, Yves Bergeron, J. Julio Camarero, Filipe Campelo, Katarina ÄŒufar, Henri E. Cuny, Martin De Luis, Alessio Giovannelli, Jožica GriÄar, Andreas Gruber, VladimÃr Gryc, Aylin Güney, Xiali Guo, Wei Huang, Tuula Jyske, Jakub KaÅ¡par, Gregory King, Cornelia Krause, Audrey Lemay, Feng Liu, Fabio Lombardi, Edurne Martinez del Castillo, Hubert Morin, Cristina Nabais, Pekka Nöjd, Richard L. Peters, Peter Prislan, Antonio Saracino, Irene Swidrak, HanuÅ¡ VavrÄÃk, Joana Vieira, Biyun Yu, Shaokang Zhang, Qiao Zeng, Yaling Zhang, and Emanuele Ziaco
[A field-based quantitative analysis of sublethal effects of air pollution on pollinators](
Geetha G. Thimmegowda, Susan Mullen, Katie Sottilare, Ankit Sharma, Saptashi Soham Mohanta, Axel Brockmann, Perundurai S. Dhandapany, and Shannon B. Olsson
Evolution
[The whale shark genome reveals how genomic and physiological properties scale with body size](
Jessica A. Weber, Seung Gu Park, Victor Luria, Sungwon Jeon, Hak-Min Kim, Yeonsu Jeon, Youngjune Bhak, Je Hun Jun, Sang Wha Kim, Won Hee Hong, Semin Lee, Yun Sung Cho, Amir Karger, John W. Cain, Andrea Manica, Soonok Kim, Jae-Hoon Kim, Jeremy S. Edwards, Jong Bhak, and George M. Church
[Estimating the genome-wide contribution of selection to temporal allele frequency change](
Vince Buffalo and Graham Coop
Genetics
[Mathematical model of colorectal cancer initiation](
Chay Paterson, Hans Clevers, and Ivana Bozic
[RNA abasic sites in yeast and human cells](
Yaojuan Liu, Yesenia Rodriguez, Robert L. Ross, Ruoxia Zhao, Jason A. Watts, Christopher Grunseich, Alan Bruzel, Dongjun Li, Joshua T. Burdick, Rajendra Prasad, Robert J. Crouch, Patrick A. Limbach, Samuel H. Wilson, and Vivian G. Cheung
Immunology and Inflammation
[Proenkephalin+ regulatory T cells expanded by ultraviolet B exposure maintain skin homeostasis with a healing function](
Hiroaki Shime, Mizuyu Odanaka, Makoto Tsuiji, Takuma Matoba, Masaki Imai, Yoshiaki Yasumizu, Ryuta Uraki, Kiyoshi Minohara, Maiko Watanabe, Anthony John Bonito, Hidehiro Fukuyama, Naganari Ohkura, Shimon Sakaguchi, Akimichi Morita, and Sayuri Yamazaki
[The histone methyltransferase DOT1L prevents antigen-independent differentiation and safeguards epigenetic identity of CD8+ T cells](
Eliza Mari Kwesi-Maliepaard, Muhammad Assad Aslam, Mir Farshid Alemdehy, Teun van den Brand, Chelsea McLean, Hanneke Vlaming, Tibor van Welsem, Tessy Korthout, Cesare Lancini, Sjoerd Hendriks, Tomasz Ahrends, Dieke van Dinther, Joke M. M. den Haan, Jannie Borst, Elzo de Wit, Fred van Leeuwen, and Heinz Jacobs
[Evasion of MAIT cell recognition by the African Salmonella Typhimurium ST313 pathovar that causes invasive disease](
Lorena Preciado-Llanes, Anna Aulicino, RocÃo Canals, Patrick J. Moynihan, Xiaojun Zhu, Ndaru Jambo, Tonney S. Nyirenda, Innocent Kadwala, Ana Sousa Gerós, Siân V. Owen, Kondwani C. Jambo, Benjamin Kumwenda, Natacha Veerapen, Gurdyal S. Besra, Melita A. Gordon, Jay C. D. Hinton, Giorgio Napolitani, Mariolina Salio, and Alison Simmons
[Heterogeneous origins and functions of mouse skeletal muscle-resident macrophages](
Xingyu Wang, Adwait Amod Sathe, Gregory R. Smith, Frederique Ruf-Zamojski, Venugopalan Nair, Kory J. Lavine, Chao Xing, Stuart C. Sealfon, and Lan Zhou
[Neural transcription factor Pou4f1 promotes renal fibrosis via macrophage–myofibroblast transition](
Patrick Ming-Kuen Tang, Ying-ying Zhang, Jun Xiao, Philip Chiu-Tsun Tang, Jeff Yat-Fai Chung, Jinhong Li, Vivian Weiwen Xue, Xiao-Ru Huang, Charing Ching-Ning Chong, Chi-Fai Ng, Tin-Lap Lee, Ka-Fai To, David J. Nikolic-Paterson, and Hui-Yao Lan
Medical Sciences
[Identifying collagen VI as a target of fibrotic diseases regulated by CREBBP/EP300](
Lynn M. Williams, Fiona E. McCann, Marisa A. Cabrita, Thomas Layton, Adam Cribbs, Bogdan Knezevic, Hai Fang, Julian Knight, Mingjun Zhang, Roman Fischer, Sarah Bonham, Leenart M. Steenbeek, Nan Yang, Manu Sood, Chris Bainbridge, David Warwick, Lorraine Harry, Dominique Davidson, Weilin Xie, Michael SundstrÓ§m, Marc Feldmann, and Jagdeep Nanchahal
[Large-scale informatic analysis to algorithmically identify blood biomarkers of neurological damage](
Grant C. O’Connell, Megan L. Alder, Christine G. Smothers, and Julia H. C. Chang
[Negative MAPK-ERK regulation sustains CIC-DUX4 oncoprotein expression in undifferentiated sarcoma](
Yone Kawe Lin, Wei Wu, Rovingaile Kriska Ponce, Ji Won Kim, and Ross A. Okimoto
[Epigenetic loss of the transfer RNA-modifying enzyme TYW2 induces ribosome frameshifts in colon cancer](
Margalida Rosselló-Tortella, Pere Llinà s-Arias, Yuriko Sakaguchi, Kenjyo Miyauchi, Veronica Davalos, Fernando Setien, Maria E. Calleja-Cervantes, David Piñeyro, Jesús MartÃnez-Gómez, Sonia Guil, Ricky Joshi, Alberto Villanueva, Tsutomu Suzuki, and Manel Esteller
[Structural elucidation of the cis-prenyltransferase NgBR/DHDDS complex reveals insights in regulation of protein glycosylation](
Ban H. Edani, Kariona A. Grabińska, Rong Zhang, Eon Joo Park, Benjamin Siciliano, Liliana Surmacz, Ya Ha, and William C. Sessa
[Inhibition of PIKfyve kinase prevents infection by Zaire ebolavirus and SARS-CoV-2](
Yuan-Lin Kang, Yi-ying Chou, Paul W. Rothlauf, Zhuoming Liu, Timothy K. Soh, David Cureton, James Brett Case, Rita E. Chen, Michael S. Diamond, Sean P. J. Whelan, and Tom Kirchhausen
Microbiology
[Genesis and spread of multiple reassortants during the 2016/2017 H5 avian influenza epidemic in Eurasia](
Samantha J. Lycett, Anne Pohlmann, Christoph Staubach, Valentina Caliendo, Mark Woolhouse, Martin Beer, Thijs Kuiken, and Global Consortium for H5N8 and Related Influenza Viruses
[An ATP-dependent partner switch links flagellar C-ring assembly with gene expression](
Vitan Blagotinsek, Meike Schwan, Wieland Steinchen, Devid Mrusek, John C. Hook, Florian Rossmann, Sven A. Freibert, Hanna Kratzat, Guillaume Murat, Dieter Kressler, Roland Beckmann, Morgan Beeby, Kai M. Thormann, and Gert Bange
[A membrane-depolarizing toxin substrate of the Staphylococcus aureus type VII secretion system mediates intraspecies competition](
Fatima R. Ulhuq, Margarida C. Gomes, Gina M. Duggan, Manman Guo, Chriselle Mendonca, Grant Buchanan, James D. Chalmers, Zhenping Cao, Holger Kneuper, Sarah Murdoch, Sarah Thomson, Henrik Strahl, Matthias Trost, Serge Mostowy, and Tracy Palmer
[Mucosal delivery of ESX-1–expressing BCG strains provides superior immunity against tuberculosis in murine type 2 diabetes](
Harindra D. Sathkumara, Visai Muruganandah, Martha M. Cooper, Matt A. Field, Md Abdul Alim, Roland Brosch, Natkunam Ketheesan, Brenda Govan, Catherine M. Rush, Lars Henning, and Andreas Kupz
[Activator protein-1 transactivation of the major immediate early locus is a determinant of cytomegalovirus reactivation from latency](
Benjamin A. Krishna, Amanda B. Wass, and Christine M. O’Connor
Neuroscience
[Brain circuits signaling the absence of emotion in body language](
Arseny A. Sokolov, Peter Zeidman, Michael Erb, Frank E. Pollick, Andreas J. Fallgatter, Philippe Ryvlin, Karl J. Friston, and Marina A. Pavlova
[Chronic Gq signaling in AgRP neurons does not cause obesity](
Sedona N. Ewbank, Carlos A. Campos, Jane Y. Chen, Anna J. Bowen, Stephanie L. Padilla, Joseph L. Dempsey, Julia Yue Cui, and Richard D. Palmiter
[Neuronal spike-rate adaptation supports working memory in language processing](
Hartmut Fitz, Marvin Uhlmann, Dick van den Broek, Renato Duarte, Peter Hagoort, and Karl Magnus Petersson
[Hierarchical dynamics as a macroscopic organizing principle of the human brain](
Ryan V. Raut, Abraham Z. Snyder, and Marcus E. Raichle
Physiology
[PIP2: A critical regulator of vascular ion channels hiding in plain sight](
Osama F. Harraz, David Hill-Eubanks, and Mark T. Nelson
[Dimer interaction in the Hv1 proton channel](
Laetitia Mony, David Stroebel, and Ehud Y. Isacoff
Plant Biology
[Necrotic upper tips1 mimics heat and drought stress and encodes a protoxylem-specific transcription factor in maize](
Zhaobin Dong, Zhennan Xu, Ling Xu, Mary Galli, Andrea Gallavotti, Hugo K. Dooner, and George Chuck
[Channelrhodopsin-mediated optogenetics highlights a central role of depolarization-dependent plant proton pumps](
Antonella Reyer, Melanie Häßler, Sönke Scherzer, Shouguang Huang, Jesper Torbøl Pedersen, Khaled A. S. Al-Rascheid, Ernst Bamberg, Michael Palmgren, Ingo Dreyer, Georg Nagel, Rainer Hedrich, and Dirk Becker
[Tuning the circadian period of cyanobacteria up to 6.6 days by the single amino acid substitutions in KaiC](
Kumiko Ito-Miwa, Yoshihiko Furuike, Shuji Akiyama, and Takao Kondo
[Stomatal immunity against fungal invasion comprises not only chitin-induced stomatal closure but also chitosan-induced guard cell death](
Wenxiu Ye, Shintaro Munemasa, Tomonori Shinya, Wei Wu, Tao Ma, Jiang Lu, Toshinori Kinoshita, Hanae Kaku, Naoto Shibuya, and Yoshiyuki Murata
[From one cell to many: Morphogenetic field of lateral root founder cells in Arabidopsis thaliana is built by gradual recruitment](
Héctor H. Torres-MartÃnez, Paul Hernández-Herrera, Gabriel Corkidi, and Joseph G. Dubrovsky
Population Biology
[A 25-y longitudinal dolphin cohort supports that long-lived individuals in same environment exhibit variation in aging rates](
Stephanie Venn-Watson, Eric D. Jensen, and Nicholas J. Schork
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
[Stochastic sampling provides a unifying account of visual working memory limits](
Sebastian Schneegans, Robert Taylor, and Paul M. Bays
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Corrections
[Correction for Baresch and Garbin, Acoustic trapping of microbubbles in complex environments and controlled payload release](
[Correction for Lin et al., Induction of USP25 by viral infection promotes innate antiviral responses by mediating the stabilization of TRAF3 and TRAF6](
[Correction for Wu et al., A negative reciprocal regulatory axis between cyclin D1 and HNF4α modulates cell cycle progression and metabolism in the liver](
[Correction for Schroeder et al., Seizure pathways change on circadian and slower timescales in individual patients with focal epilepsy](
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