PNAS Table of Contents for November 16, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 46 is now complete

[PNAS] [Language loss and medicinal plant knowledge. Listen here.](/cgi/adclick/?ad=56212&adclick=true&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.pnas.org%2Fpage%2Fmedia%2Fpodcasts%23language-loss)   [November 16, 2021; Vol. 118, No. 46]( ) This Week in PNAS [In This Issue]( This week's research highlights --------------------------------------------------------------- News Feature [News Feature: Biology research, no cells required]( David Adam An in-depth look at trending science issues --------------------------------------------------------------- Commentaries [Atmospheric variability contributes to increasing wildfire weather but not as much as global warming]( Noah S. Diffenbaugh, Alexandra G. Konings, and Christopher B. Field [Unifying guiding principles for designing optimized superconductors]( Cedric Weber [Minimal surfaces unveiled from the statistics of turbulent circulation fluctuations]( Luca Moriconi [A soft-electronic sensor network tracks neuromotor development in infants]( Yasser Khan and Zhenan Bao --------------------------------------------------------------- Perspective [A layperson encounter, on the “modified” RNA world]( Thoru Pederson [Lessons learned from urgent computing in Europe: Tackling the COVID-19 pandemic]( Núria López, Luigi Del Debbio, Marc Baaden, Matej Praprotnik, Laura Grigori, Catarina Simões, Serge Bogaerts, Florian Berberich, Thomas Lippert, Janne Ignatius, Philippe Lavocat, Oriol Pineda, Maria Grazia Giuffreda, Sergi Girona, Dieter Kranzlmüller, Michael M. Resch, Gabriella Scipione, and Thomas Schulthess --------------------------------------------------------------- Letters [Land carbon sink of the Tibetan Plateau may be overestimated without accounting for the aquatic carbon export]( Chunlin Song and Genxu Wang [Reply to Song and Wang: Terrestrial CO2 sink dominates net ecosystem carbon balance of the Tibetan Plateau]( Da Wei, Yulan Zhang, Tanguang Gao, Lei Wang, and Xiaodan Wang [Best-practice healthy life expectancy vs. life expectancy: Catching up or lagging behind?]( Iñaki Permanyer, Sergi Trias-Llimós, and Jeroen J. A. Spijker [Reply to Permanyer et al.: The uncertainty surrounding healthy life expectancy indicators]( Francisco Villavicencio, Marie-Pier Bergeron-Boucher, and James W. Vaupel --------------------------------------------------------------- Inaugural Article [Fluid intelligence and the locus coeruleus–norepinephrine system]( Jason S. Tsukahara and Randall W. Engle --------------------------------------------------------------- Brief Report [Active math and grammar learning engages overlapping brain networks]( Sara Stillesjö, Linnea Karlsson Wirebring, Micael Andersson, Carina Granberg, Johan Lithner, Bert Jonsson, Lars Nyberg, and Carola Wiklund-Hörnqvist --------------------------------------------------------------- Physical Sciences Applied Mathematics [Comparing information diffusion mechanisms by matching on cascade size]( Jonas L. Juul and Johan Ugander [Taylor’s law of fluctuation scaling for semivariances and higher moments of heavy-tailed data]( Mark Brown, Joel E. Cohen, Chuan-Fa Tang, and Sheung Chi Phillip Yam Applied Physical Sciences [How the interplay of molecular and colloidal scales controls drying of microgel dispersions]( Kevin Roger and Jérôme J. Crassous [Stochastic chromatin packing of 3D mitotic chromosomes revealed by coherent X-rays]( Daeho Sung, Chan Lim, Masatoshi Takagi, Chulho Jung, Heemin Lee, Do Hyung Cho, Jae-Yong Shin, Kangwoo Ahn, Junha Hwang, Daewoong Nam, Yoshiki Kohmura, Tetsuya Ishikawa, Do Young Noh, Naoko Imamoto, Jae-Hyung Jeon, and Changyong Song [Programmable droplet manipulation and wetting with soft magnetic carpets]( Ahmet F. Demirörs, Sümeyye Aykut, Sophia Ganzeboom, Yuki A. Meier, and Erik Poloni Biophysics and Computational Biology [Rational prioritization strategy allows the design of macrolide derivatives that overcome antibiotic resistance]( Gerhard König, Pandian Sokkar, Niclas Pryk, Sascha Heinrich, David Möller, Giuseppe Cimicata, Donna Matzov, Pascal Dietze, Walter Thiel, Anat Bashan, Julia Elisabeth Bandow, Johannes Zuegg, Ada Yonath, Frank Schulz, and Elsa Sanchez-Garcia [Drifting assemblies for persistent memory: Neuron transitions and unsupervised compensation]( Yaroslav Felipe Kalle Kossio, Sven Goedeke, Christian Klos, and Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer Chemistry [Probing the electronic properties of the electrified silicon/water interface by combining simulations and experiments]( Zifan Ye, Aleksander Prominski, Bozhi Tian, and Giulia Galli [Combining pressure and electrochemistry to synthesize superhydrides]( Pin-Wen Guan, Russell J. Hemley, and Venkatasubramanian Viswanathan [Intracellular nanoscale architecture as a master regulator of calcium carbonate crystallization in marine microalgae]( Yuval Kadan, Fergus Tollervey, Neta Varsano, Julia Mahamid, and Assaf Gal Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences [Temporal and spatial distribution of health, labor, and crop benefits of climate change mitigation in the United States]( Drew Shindell, Muye Ru, Yuqiang Zhang, Karl Seltzer, Greg Faluvegi, Larissa Nazarenko, Gavin A. Schmidt, Luke Parsons, Ariyani Challapalli, Longyi Yang, and Alex Glick [Evidence for a Northern Hemispheric trigger of the 100,000-y glacial cyclicity]( Maayan Yehudai, Joohee Kim, Leopoldo D. Pena, Maria Jaume-Seguí, Karla P. Knudson, Louise Bolge, Alberto Malinverno, Torsten Bickert, and Steven L. Goldstein [Magmatic thickening of crust in non–plate tectonic settings initiated the subaerial rise of Earth’s first continents 3.3 to 3.2 billion years ago]( Priyadarshi Chowdhury, Jacob A. Mulder, Peter A. Cawood, Surjyendu Bhattacharjee, Subhajit Roy, Ashlea N. Wainwright, Oliver Nebel, and Subham Mukherjee [Societal shifts due to COVID-19 reveal large-scale complexities and feedbacks between atmospheric chemistry and climate change]( Joshua L. Laughner, Jessica L. Neu, David Schimel, Paul O. Wennberg, Kelley Barsanti, Kevin W. Bowman, Abhishek Chatterjee, Bart E. Croes, Helen L. Fitzmaurice, Daven K. Henze, Jinsol Kim, Eric A. Kort, Zhu Liu, Kazuyuki Miyazaki, Alexander J. Turner, Susan Anenberg, Jeremy Avise, Hansen Cao, David Crisp, Joost de Gouw, Annmarie Eldering, John C. Fyfe, Daniel L. Goldberg, Kevin R. Gurney, Sina Hasheminassab, Francesca Hopkins, Cesunica E. Ivey, Dylan B. A. Jones, Junjie Liu, Nicole S. Lovenduski, Randall V. Martin, Galen A. McKinley, Lesley Ott, Benjamin Poulter, Muye Ru, Stanley P. Sander, Neil Swart, Yuk L. Yung, and Zhao-Cheng Zeng [Anammox bacteria drive fixed nitrogen loss in hadal trench sediments]( Bo Thamdrup, Clemens Schauberger, Morten Larsen, Blandine Trouche, Lois Maignien, Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Frank Wenzhöfer, and Ronnie N. Glud Engineering [Thermodynamic feasibility of shipboard conversion of marine plastics to blue diesel for self-powered ocean cleanup]( Elizabeth R. Belden, Nikolaos K. Kazantzis, Christopher M. Reddy, Hauke Kite-Powell, Michael T. Timko, Eduardo Italiani, and Dudley R. Herschbach [A solar-to-chemical conversion efficiency up to 0.26% achieved in ambient conditions]( Yu-Xin Ye, Jinhui Pan, Yong Shen, Minhui Shen, Huijie Yan, Jian He, Xin Yang, Fang Zhu, Jianqiao Xu, Jianguo He, and Gangfeng Ouyang [Biological signal processing filters via engineering allosteric transcription factors]( Thomas M. Groseclose, Ashley N. Hersey, Brian D. Huang, Matthew J. Realff, and Corey J. Wilson Environmental Sciences [Global rates and patterns of channel migration in river deltas]( Teresa Jarriel, John Swartz, and Paola Passalacqua [Nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils challenge climate sustainability in the US Corn Belt]( Nathaniel C. Lawrence, Carlos G. Tenesaca, Andy VanLoocke, and Steven J. Hall Physics [Geometric frustration produces long-sought Bose metal phase of quantum matter]( Anthony Hegg, Jinning Hou, and Wei Ku [DNA self-organization controls valence in programmable colloid design]( Angus McMullen, Sascha Hilgenfeldt, and Jasna Brujic [Trading bits in the readout from a genetic network]( Marianne Bauer, Mariela D. Petkova, Thomas Gregor, Eric F. Wieschaus, and William Bialek --------------------------------------------------------------- Social Sciences Environmental Sciences [Air pollution interacts with genetic risk to influence cortical networks implicated in depression]( Zhi Li, Hao Yan, Xiao Zhang, Shefali Shah, Guang Yang, Qiang Chen, Shizhong Han, Dai Zhang, Daniel R. Weinberger, Weihua Yue, and Hao Yang Tan Economic Sciences [COVID-19 within families amplifies the prosociality gap between adolescents of high and low socioeconomic status]( Camille Terrier, Daniel L. Chen, and Matthias Sutter [Estimating experienced racial segregation in US cities using large-scale GPS data]( Susan Athey, Billy Ferguson, Matthew Gentzkow, and Tobias Schmidt Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Emergence of a compositional neural code for written words: Recycling of a convolutional neural network for reading]( T. Hannagan, A. Agrawal, L. Cohen, and S. Dehaene Social Sciences [Comparing information diffusion mechanisms by matching on cascade size]( Jonas L. Juul and Johan Ugander [Within and between classroom transmission patterns of seasonal influenza among primary school students in Matsumoto city, Japan]( Akira Endo, Mitsuo Uchida, Naoki Hayashi, Yang Liu, Katherine E. Atkins, Adam J. Kucharski, and Sebastian Funk --------------------------------------------------------------- Biological Sciences Applied Biological Sciences [Biological signal processing filters via engineering allosteric transcription factors]( Thomas M. Groseclose, Ashley N. Hersey, Brian D. Huang, Matthew J. Realff, and Corey J. Wilson Biophysics and Computational Biology [Geometry and dynamics link form, function, and evolution of finch beaks]( Salem al-Mosleh, Gary P. T. Choi, Arhat Abzhanov, and L. Mahadevan [Rational prioritization strategy allows the design of macrolide derivatives that overcome antibiotic resistance]( Gerhard König, Pandian Sokkar, Niclas Pryk, Sascha Heinrich, David Möller, Giuseppe Cimicata, Donna Matzov, Pascal Dietze, Walter Thiel, Anat Bashan, Julia Elisabeth Bandow, Johannes Zuegg, Ada Yonath, Frank Schulz, and Elsa Sanchez-Garcia [Mutation in Abl kinase with altered drug-binding kinetics indicates a novel mechanism of imatinib resistance]( Agatha Lyczek, Benedict-Tilman Berger, Aziz M. Rangwala, YiTing Paung, Jessica Tom, Hannah Philipose, Jiaye Guo, Steven K. Albanese, Matthew B. Robers, Stefan Knapp, John D. Chodera, and Markus A. Seeliger [Within and between classroom transmission patterns of seasonal influenza among primary school students in Matsumoto city, Japan]( Akira Endo, Mitsuo Uchida, Naoki Hayashi, Yang Liu, Katherine E. Atkins, Adam J. Kucharski, and Sebastian Funk [The structure of the Aquifex aeolicus MATE family multidrug resistance transporter and sequence comparisons suggest the existence of a new subfamily]( Jiangfeng Zhao, Hao Xie, Ahmad Reza Mehdipour, Schara Safarian, Ulrich Ermler, Cornelia Münke, Yvonne Thielmann, Gerhard Hummer, Ingo Ebersberger, Jingkang Wang, and Hartmut Michel [Mechanisms underlying drug-mediated regulation of membrane protein function]( Radda Rusinova, Changhao He, and Olaf S. Andersen [The A39G FF domain folds on a volcano-shaped free energy surface via separate pathways]( Ved P. Tiwari, Yuki Toyama, Debajyoti De, Lewis E. Kay, and Pramodh Vallurupalli Biochemistry [Improved RAD51 binders through motif shuffling based on the modularity of BRC repeats]( Laurens H. Lindenburg, Teodors Pantelejevs, Fabrice Gielen, Pedro Zuazua-Villar, Maren Butz, Eric Rees, Clemens F. Kaminski, Jessica A. Downs, Marko Hyvönen, and Florian Hollfelder Cell Biology [Different SP1 binding dynamics at individual genomic loci in human cells]( Yuko Hasegawa and Kevin Struhl [Introns encode dsRNAs undetected by RIG-I/MDA5/interferons and sensed via RNase L]( Alisha Chitrakar, Kristina Solorio-Kirpichyan, Eliza Prangley, Sneha Rath, Jin Du, and Alexei Korennykh Developmental Biology [The Shh/Gli3 gene regulatory network precedes the origin of paired fins and reveals the deep homology between distal fins and digits]( Joaquín Letelier, Silvia Naranjo, Ismael Sospedra-Arrufat, Juan Ramón Martinez-Morales, Javier Lopez-Rios, Neil Shubin, and José Luis Gómez-Skarmeta Evolution [Linked supergenes underlie split sex ratio and social organization in an ant]( German Lagunas-Robles, Jessica Purcell, and Alan Brelsford Genetics [Haplotype-aware inference of human chromosome abnormalities]( Daniel Ariad, Stephanie M. Yan, Andrea R. Victor, Frank L. Barnes, Christo G. Zouves, Manuel Viotti, and Rajiv C. McCoy Immunology and Inflammation [Mass spectrometric identification of immunogenic SARS-CoV-2 epitopes and cognate TCRs]( Ke Pan, Yulun Chiu, Eric Huang, Michelle Chen, Junmei Wang, Ivy Lai, Shailbala Singh, Rebecca M. Shaw, Michael J. MacCoss, and Cassian Yee [A regulatory network of microRNAs confers lineage commitment during early developmental trajectories of B and T lymphocytes]( Sameena Nikhat, Anurupa D. Yadavalli, Arpita Prusty, Priyanka K. Narayan, Dasaradhi Palakodeti, Cornelis Murre, and Jagan M. R. Pongubala [Preferential and persistent impact of acute HIV-1 infection on CD4+ iNKT cells in colonic mucosa]( Dominic Paquin-Proulx, Kerri G. Lal, Yuwadee Phuang-Ngern, Matthew Creegan, Andrey Tokarev, Suchada Suhkumvittaya, Aljawharah Alrubayyi, Eugène Kroon, Suteeraporn Pinyakorn, Bonnie M. Slike, Diane L. Bolton, Shelly J. Krebs, Leigh Anne Eller, Chayada Sajjaweerawan, Amélie Pagliuzza, Nicolas Chomont, Rungsun Rerknimitr, Nitiya Chomchey, Nittaya Phanuphak, Mark S. de Souza, Nelson L. Michael, Merlin L. Robb, Jintanat Ananworanich, Johan K. Sandberg, Michael A. Eller, Alexandra Schuetz, RV217, RV254/SEARCH010, RV304/SEARCH013, and Study Groups [iNKT subsets differ in their developmental and functional requirements on Foxo1]( Huimin Zhang, Yuwei Zhang, Jun Pan, Qielan Wu, Yuanyuan Huang, Shiyu Bai, Chenxi Tian, Mingzhao Zhu, Zhexiong Lian, Fengyin Li, Zhigang Tian, and Li Bai [Vaccine-elicited CD4 T cells prevent the deletion of antiviral B cells in chronic infection]( Kerstin Narr, Yusuf I. Ertuna, Benedict Fallet, Karen Cornille, Mirela Dimitrova, Anna-Friederike Marx, Katrin Martin, Tiago Jose Abreu Mota, Marco Künzli, David Schreiner, Tobias M. Brunner, Mario Kreutzfeldt, Ingrid Wagner, Florian Geier, Lukas Bestmann, Max Löhning, Doron Merkler, Carolyn G. King, and Daniel D. Pinschewer Medical Sciences [Csi-let-7a-5p delivered by extracellular vesicles from a liver fluke activates M1-like macrophages and exacerbates biliary injuries]( Chao Yan, Qian-Yang Zhou, Jing Wu, Na Xu, Ying Du, Jing Li, Ji-Xin Liu, Stephane Koda, Bei-Bei Zhang, Qian Yu, Hui-Min Yang, Xiang-Yang Li, Bo Zhang, Yin-Hai Xu, Jia-Xu Chen, Zhongdao Wu, Xing-Quan Zhu, Ren-Xian Tang, and Kui-Yang Zheng Microbiology [Discovery of nondiazotrophic Trichodesmium species abundant and widespread in the open ocean]( Tom O. Delmont [Anammox bacteria drive fixed nitrogen loss in hadal trench sediments]( Bo Thamdrup, Clemens Schauberger, Morten Larsen, Blandine Trouche, Lois Maignien, Sophie Arnaud-Haond, Frank Wenzhöfer, and Ronnie N. Glud Neuroscience [Emergence of a compositional neural code for written words: Recycling of a convolutional neural network for reading]( T. Hannagan, A. Agrawal, L. Cohen, and S. Dehaene [Modular origins of high-amplitude cofluctuations in fine-scale functional connectivity dynamics]( Maria Pope, Makoto Fukushima, Richard F. Betzel, and Olaf Sporns [Functional alterations in cortical processing of speech in glioma-infiltrated cortex]( Alexander A. Aabedi, Benjamin Lipkin, Jasleen Kaur, Sofia Kakaizada, Claudia Valdivia, Sheantel Reihl, Jacob S. Young, Anthony T. Lee, Saritha Krishna, Mitchel S. Berger, Edward F. Chang, David Brang, and Shawn L. Hervey-Jumper [Altered synaptic connectivity and brain function in mice lacking microglial adapter protein Iba1]( Pablo J. Lituma, Evan Woo, Bruce F. O’Hara, Pablo E. Castillo, Nicholas E. S. Sibinga, and Sayan Nandi [Divisive normalization unifies disparate response signatures throughout the human visual hierarchy]( Marco Aqil, Tomas Knapen, and Serge O. Dumoulin [Drifting assemblies for persistent memory: Neuron transitions and unsupervised compensation]( Yaroslav Felipe Kalle Kossio, Sven Goedeke, Christian Klos, and Raoul-Martin Memmesheimer Physiology [Regulation of neuronal excitation–transcription coupling by Kv2.1-induced clustering of somatic L-type Ca2+ channels at ER-PM junctions]( Nicholas C. Vierra, Samantha C. O’Dwyer, Collin Matsumoto, L. Fernando Santana, and James S. Trimmer Plant Biology [Plant ecological genomics at the limits of life in the Atacama Desert]( Gil Eshel, Viviana Araus, Soledad Undurraga, Daniela C. Soto, Carol Moraga, Alejandro Montecinos, Tomás Moyano, Jonathan Maldonado, Francisca P. Díaz, Kranthi Varala, Chase W. Nelson, Orlando Contreras-López, Henrietta Pal-Gabor, Tatiana Kraiser, Gabriela Carrasco-Puga, Ricardo Nilo-Poyanco, Charles M. Zegar, Ariel Orellana, Martín Montecino, Alejandro Maass, Miguel L. Allende, Robert DeSalle, Dennis W. Stevenson, Mauricio González, Claudio Latorre, Gloria M. Coruzzi, and Rodrigo A. Gutiérrez [Cell division in the shoot apical meristem is a trigger for miR156 decline and vegetative phase transition in Arabidopsis]( Ying-Juan Cheng, Guan-Dong Shang, Zhou-Geng Xu, Sha Yu, Lian-Yu Wu, Dong Zhai, Shi-Long Tian, Jian Gao, Long Wang, and Jia-Wei Wang [Coordinated bacterial and plant sulfur metabolism in Enterobacter sp. SA187–induced plant salt stress tolerance]( Cristina Andrés-Barrao, Hanin Alzubaidy, Rewaa Jalal, Kiruthiga G. Mariappan, Axel de Zélicourt, Ameerah Bokhari, Olga Artyukh, Khairiah Alwutayd, Anamika Rawat, Kirti Shekhawat, Marília Almeida-Trapp, Maged M. Saad, and Heribert Hirt Psychological and Cognitive Sciences [Air pollution interacts with genetic risk to influence cortical networks implicated in depression]( Zhi Li, Hao Yan, Xiao Zhang, Shefali Shah, Guang Yang, Qiang Chen, Shizhong Han, Dai Zhang, Daniel R. Weinberger, Weihua Yue, and Hao Yang Tan Sustainability Science [Nitrous oxide emissions from agricultural soils challenge climate sustainability in the US Corn Belt]( Nathaniel C. Lawrence, Carlos G. Tenesaca, Andy VanLoocke, and Steven J. Hall --------------------------------------------------------------- Corrections [Correction for Hu et al., COS-derived GPP relationships with temperature and light help explain high-latitude atmospheric CO2 seasonal cycle amplification]( [Correction for Wolfsberger et al., TAp73 represses NF-κB–mediated recruitment of tumor-associated macrophages in breast cancer]( [Correction for Kolincio et al., Large Hall and Nernst responses from thermally induced spin chirality in a spin-trimer ferromagnet]( --------------------------------------------------------------- SI Corrections [Correction to Supporting Information for Choi et al., Identifying an ovarian cancer cell hierarchy regulated by bone morphogenetic protein 2]( [Correction to Supporting Information for Blokhuis et al., Universal motifs and the diversity of autocatalytic systems]( [Cover] --------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to {EMAIL}. 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