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April 21, 2020; vol. 117 no. 16
This Week in PNAS
Opinion
Leading scientists discuss current issues.
- You have accessOpinion: Why carbon pricing is not sufficient to mitigate climate change—and how “sustainability transition policy” can help
- Front Matter
Daniel Rosenbloom, Jochen Markard, Frank W. Geels, and Lea FuenfschillingPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8664-8668; first published April 8, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004093117
Perspective
- Open AccessEarth 2020: Science, society, and sustainability in the AnthropocenePhilippe D. TortellPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8683-8691; first published April 20, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001919117
Letters
- Open AccessThe phylogenetic tree of boosting has a bushy carriage but a single trunkRichard Nock and Frank NielsenPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8692-8693; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001971117
- Open AccessReply to Nock and Nielsen: On the work of Nock and Nielsen and its relationship to the additive treeGilmer Valdes, José Marcio Luna, Efstathios D. Gennatas, Lyle H. Ungar, Eric Eaton, Eric S. Diffenderfer, Shane T. Jensen, Charles B. Simone II, Jerome H. Friedman, and Timothy D. SolbergPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8694-8695; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2002399117
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- You have accessReplications provide mixed evidence that inequality moderates the association between income and generosityStéphane Côté and Robb WillerPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8696-8697; first published March 31, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918979117
- You have accessReply to Côté and Willer: New replication attempts provide no evidence that inequality moderates the effect of income on generosityStefan C. Schmukle and Boris EgloffPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8698-8699; first published March 31, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000311117
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Physical Sciences
Applied Physical Sciences
- You have accessScale-free, programmable design of morphable chain loops of kilobots and colloidal motorsMayank Agrawal and Sharon C. GlotzerPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8700-8710; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922635117
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- Open AccessActuation and locomotion driven by moisture in paper made with natural pollenZe Zhao, Youngkyu Hwang, Yun Yang, Tengfei Fan, Juha Song, Subra Suresh, and Nam-Joon ChoPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8711-8718; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922560117
- Open AccessComputational design of probes to detect bacterial genomes by multivalent bindingTine Curk, Chris A. Brackley, James D. Farrell, Zhongyang Xing, Darshana Joshi, Susana Direito, Urban Bren, Stefano Angioletti-Uberti, Jure Dobnikar, Erika Eiser, Daan Frenkel, and Rosalind J. AllenPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8719-8726; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918274117
- You have accessA model for the interplay between plastic tradeoffs and evolution in changing environmentsMikhail Tikhonov, Shamit Kachru, and Daniel S. FisherPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8934-8940; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915537117
Chemistry
- You have accessUltratough graphene–black phosphorus filmsTianzhu Zhou, Hong Ni, Yanlei Wang, Chao Wu, Hao Zhang, Jianqi Zhang, Antoni P. Tomsia, Lei Jiang, and Qunfeng ChengPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8727-8735; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916610117
- You have accessPressure-induced amorphization and existence of molecular and polymeric amorphous forms in dense SO2Huichao Zhang, Ondrej Tóth, Xiao-Di Liu, Roberto Bini, Eugene Gregoryanz, Philip Dalladay-Simpson, Simone De Panfilis, Mario Santoro, Federico Aiace Gorelli, and Roman MartoňákPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8736-8742; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917749117
Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
- You have accessThe carbon content of Earth and its core
- From the Cover
Rebecca A. Fischer, Elizabeth Cottrell, Erik Hauri, Kanani K. M. Lee, and Marion Le VoyerPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8743-8749; first published March 30, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919930117 - You have accessDepth-dependent soil mixing persists across climate zonesHarrison J. Gray, Amanda Keen-Zebert, David J. Furbish, Gregory E. Tucker, and Shannon A. MahanPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8750-8756; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914140117
- You have accessDry and moist dynamics shape regional patterns of extreme precipitation sensitivityJi Nie, Panxi Dai, and Adam H. SobelPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8757-8763; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913584117
Engineering
- You have accessMultifunctional composites for elastic and electromagnetic wave propagationJaeuk Kim and Salvatore TorquatoPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8764-8774; first published April 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914086117
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessThe spatiotemporal spread of human migrations during the European HoloceneFernando Racimo, Jessie Woodbridge, Ralph M. Fyfe, Martin Sikora, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Kristian Kristiansen, and Marc Vander LindenPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8989-9000; first published April 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920051117
Physics
- You have accessSignature of a pair of Majorana zero modes in superconducting gold surface statesSujit Manna, Peng Wei, Yingming Xie, Kam Tuen Law, Patrick A. Lee, and Jagadeesh S. MooderaPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8775-8782; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919753117
- You have accessRoom-temperature skyrmion phase in bulk Cu2OSeO3 under high pressuresLiangzi Deng, Hung-Cheng Wu, Alexander P. Litvinchuk, Noah F. Q. Yuan, Jey-Jau Lee, Rabin Dahal, Helmuth Berger, Hung-Duen Yang, and Ching-Wu ChuPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8783-8787; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922108117
- You have accessCoherent modulation of the electron temperature and electron–phonon couplings in a 2D materialYingchao Zhang, Xun Shi, Wenjing You, Zhensheng Tao, Yigui Zhong, Fairoja Cheenicode Kabeer, Pablo Maldonado, Peter M. Oppeneer, Michael Bauer, Kai Rossnagel, Henry Kapteyn, and Margaret MurnanePNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8788-8793; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917341117
Social Sciences
Economic Sciences
- You have accessThe impact of penalties for wrong answers on the gender gap in test scoresKatherine B. Coffman and David KlinowskiPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8794-8803; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920945117
Environmental Sciences
- Open AccessThe European Union Emissions Trading System reduced CO2 emissions despite low prices
- From the Cover
Patrick Bayer and Michaël AklinPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8804-8812; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918128117 - Open AccessHuman settlement of East Polynesia earlier, incremental, and coincident with prolonged South Pacific droughtDavid A. Sear, Melinda S. Allen, Jonathan D. Hassall, Ashley E. Maloney, Peter G. Langdon, Alex E. Morrison, Andrew C. G. Henderson, Helen Mackay, Ian W. Croudace, Charlotte Clarke, Julian P. Sachs, Georgiana Macdonald, Richard C. Chiverrell, Melanie J. Leng, L. M. Cisneros-Dozal, and Thierry FonvillePNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8813-8819; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920975117
Psychological and Cognitive Sciences
- Open AccessInconsistent allocations of harms versus benefits may exacerbate environmental inequalityTamar Makov, George E. Newman, and Gal ZaubermanPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8820-8824; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1911116117
- You have accessScaling up psychology via Scientific Regret MinimizationMayank Agrawal, Joshua C. Peterson, and Thomas L. GriffithsPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8825-8835; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915841117
Social Sciences
- You have accessLatinos’ deportation fears by citizenship and legal status, 2007 to 2018Asad L. AsadPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8836-8844; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915460117
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
- Open AccessActuation and locomotion driven by moisture in paper made with natural pollenZe Zhao, Youngkyu Hwang, Yun Yang, Tengfei Fan, Juha Song, Subra Suresh, and Nam-Joon ChoPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8711-8718; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922560117
Biochemistry
- You have accessExpanding the genetic code of the human hematopoietic systemSida Shao, Minseob Koh, and Peter G. SchultzPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8845-8849; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914408117
- Open AccessReconstitution of polythioamide antibiotic backbone formation reveals unusual thiotemplated assembly strategyKyle L. Dunbar, Maria Dell, Finn Gude, and Christian HertweckPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8850-8858; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918759117
- You have accessCtIP promotes the motor activity of DNA2 to accelerate long-range DNA end resectionIlaria Ceppi, Sean M. Howard, Kristina Kasaciunaite, Cosimo Pinto, Roopesh Anand, Ralf Seidel, and Petr CejkaPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8859-8869; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001165117
Biophysics and Computational Biology
- Open AccessModular repeat protein sculpting using rigid helical junctionsTJ Brunette, Matthew J. Bick, Jesse M. Hansen, Cameron M. Chow, Justin M. Kollman, and David BakerPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8870-8875; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1908768117
- You have accessTubulin tails and their modifications regulate protein diffusion on microtubulesLavi S. Bigman and Yaakov LevyPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8876-8883; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914772117
- You have accessKinetic control of stationary flux ratios for a wide range of biochemical processesJoel D. Mallory, Anatoly B. Kolomeisky, and Oleg A. IgoshinPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8884-8889; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920873117
- You have accessCryo-EM structure of eastern equine encephalitis virus in complex with heparan sulfate analoguesChun-Liang Chen, S. Saif Hasan, Thomas Klose, Yingyuan Sun, Geeta Buda, Chengqun Sun, William B. Klimstra, and Michael G. RossmannPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8890-8899; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1910670117
Cell Biology
- You have accessAminoacyl-tRNA synthetase inhibition activates a pathway that branches from the canonical amino acid response in mammalian cellsYeonjin Kim, Mark S. Sundrud, Changqian Zhou, Maja Edenius, Davide Zocco, Kristen Powers, Miao Zhang, Ralph Mazitschek, Anjana Rao, Chang-Yeol Yeo, Erika H. Noss, Michael B. Brenner, Malcolm Whitman, and Tracy L. KellerPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8900-8911; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1913788117
- Open AccessPrimary cilia control glucose homeostasis via islet paracrine interactionsJing W. Hughes, Jung Hoon Cho, Hannah E. Conway, Michael R. DiGruccio, Xue Wen Ng, Henry F. Roseman, Damien Abreu, Fumihiko Urano, and David W. PistonPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8912-8923; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2001936117
- Open AccessHog1 activation delays mitotic exit via phosphorylation of Net1Silvia Tognetti, Javier Jiménez, Matteo Viganò, Alba Duch, Ethel Queralt, Eulàlia de Nadal, and Francesc PosasPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8924-8933; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918308117
Evolution
- You have accessA model for the interplay between plastic tradeoffs and evolution in changing environmentsMikhail Tikhonov, Shamit Kachru, and Daniel S. FisherPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8934-8940; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1915537117
- Open AccessBacterial flagellar motor PL-ring disassembly subcomplexes are widespread and ancientMohammed Kaplan, Michael J. Sweredoski, João P. G. L. M. Rodrigues, Elitza I. Tocheva, Yi-Wei Chang, Davi R. Ortega, Morgan Beeby, and Grant J. JensenPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8941-8947; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916935117
- You have accessExceptional diversity of opsin expression patterns in Neogonodactylus oerstedii (Stomatopoda) retinas
- From the Cover
Megan L. Porter, Hiroko Awata, Michael J. Bok, and Thomas W. CroninPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8948-8957; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917303117 - You have accessConvergent evolution of olfactory and thermoregulatory capacities in small amphibious mammalsQuentin Martinez, Julien Clavel, Jacob A. Esselstyn, Anang S. Achmadi, Camille Grohé, Nelly Pirot, and Pierre-Henri FabrePNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8958-8965; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917836117
- You have accessAquatic stem group myriapods close a gap between molecular divergence dates and the terrestrial fossil recordGregory D. Edgecombe, Christine Strullu-Derrien, Tomasz Góral, Alexander J. Hetherington, Christine Thompson, and Markus KochPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8966-8972; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920733117
- Open AccessTrade-off between somatic and germline repair in a vertebrate supports the expensive germ line hypothesisHwei-yen Chen, Cecile Jolly, Kasparas Bublys, Daniel Marcu, and Simone ImmlerPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8973-8979; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918205117
- Open AccessDerived alleles of two axis proteins affect meiotic traits in autotetraploid Arabidopsis arenosaChris Morgan, Huakun Zhang, Clare E. Henry, F. Chris H. Franklin, and Kirsten BombliesPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8980-8988; first published April 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919459117
Genetics
- Open AccessThe spatiotemporal spread of human migrations during the European HoloceneFernando Racimo, Jessie Woodbridge, Ralph M. Fyfe, Martin Sikora, Karl-Göran Sjögren, Kristian Kristiansen, and Marc Vander LindenPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 8989-9000; first published April 1, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920051117
- You have accessMapping the cis-regulatory architecture of the human retina reveals noncoding genetic variation in diseaseTimothy J. Cherry, Marty G. Yang, David A. Harmin, Peter Tao, Andrew E. Timms, Miriam Bauwens, Rando Allikmets, Evan M. Jones, Rui Chen, Elfride De Baere, and Michael E. GreenbergPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9001-9012; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922501117
- Open AccessGene drive and resilience through renewal with next generation Cleave and Rescue selfish genetic elementsGeorg Oberhofer, Tobin Ivy, and Bruce A. HayPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9013-9021; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1921698117
- You have accessThe T1D-associated lncRNA Lnc13 modulates human pancreatic β cell inflammation by allele-specific stabilization of STAT1 mRNAItziar Gonzalez-Moro, Ane Olazagoitia-Garmendia, Maikel L. Colli, Nadia Cobo-Vuilleumier, Thomas S. Postler, Lorella Marselli, Piero Marchetti, Sankar Ghosh, Benoit R. Gauthier, Decio L. Eizirik, Ainara Castellanos-Rubio, and Izortze SantinPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9022-9031; first published April 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914353117
- You have accessCell-autonomous expression of the acid hydrolase galactocerebrosidaseChristina R. Mikulka, Joshua T. Dearborn, Bruno A. Benitez, Amy Strickland, Lin Liu, Jeffrey Milbrandt, and Mark S. SandsPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9032-9041; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1917675117
Immunology and Inflammation
- You have accessNoncoding RNA MaIL1 is an integral component of the TLR4–TRIF pathwayMarina Aznaourova, Harshavardhan Janga, Stephanie Sefried, Andreas Kaufmann, Jens Dorna, Sarah M. Volkers, Philipp Georg, Marcus Lechner, Judith Hoppe, Simon Dökel, Nils Schmerer, Achim D. Gruber, Uwe Linne, Stefan Bauer, Leif E. Sander, Bernd Schmeck, and Leon N. SchultePNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9042-9053; first published April 2, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920393117
- Open AccessCombined proinflammatory cytokine and cognate activation of invariant natural killer T cells enhances anti-DNA antibody responsesSaikiran K. Sedimbi, Thomas Hägglöf, Manasa G. Garimella, Shan Wang, Amanda Duhlin, Ana Coelho, Katrine Ingelshed, Emma Mondoc, Stephen G. Malin, Rikard Holmdahl, David P. Lane, Elizabeth A. Leadbetter, and Mikael C. I. KarlssonPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9054-9063; first published April 15, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1920463117
Medical Sciences
- You have accessPHIP drives glioblastoma motility and invasion by regulating the focal adhesion complexDavid de Semir, Vladimir Bezrookove, Mehdi Nosrati, Kara R. Scanlon, Eric Singer, Jonathon Judkins, Christopher Rieken, Clayton Wu, Julia Shen, Christina Schmudermayer, Altaf A. Dar, James R. Miller III, Charles Cobbs, Garret Yount, Pierre-Yves Desprez, Robert J. Debs, Nathan Salomonis, Sean McAllister, James E. Cleaver, Liliana Soroceanu, and Mohammed Kashani-SabetPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9064-9073; first published April 9, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1914505117
Microbiology
- Open AccessA common polymorphism in the mechanosensitive ion channel PIEZO1 is associated with protection from severe malaria in humansChristian N. Nguetse, Natasha Purington, Emily R. Ebel, Bikash Shakya, Marilou Tetard, Peter G. Kremsner, Thirumalaisamy P. Velavan, and Elizabeth S. EganPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9074-9081; first published April 7, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1919843117
Neuroscience
- You have accessA dual effect of ursolic acid to the treatment of multiple sclerosis through both immunomodulation and direct remyelinationYuan Zhang, Xing Li, Bogoljub Ciric, Mark T. Curtis, Wan-Jun Chen, Abdolmohamad Rostami, and Guang-Xian ZhangPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9082-9093; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000208117
- You have accessActivity in grafted human iPS cell–derived cortical neurons integrated in stroke-injured rat brain regulates motor behaviorSara Palma-Tortosa, Daniel Tornero, Marita Grønning Hansen, Emanuela Monni, Mazin Hajy, Sopiko Kartsivadze, Sibel Aktay, Oleg Tsupykov, Malin Parmar, Karl Deisseroth, Galyna Skibo, Olle Lindvall, and Zaal KokaiaPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9094-9100; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2000690117
Plant Biology
- Open AccessA Sec14 domain protein is required for photoautotrophic growth and chloroplast vesicle formation in Arabidopsis thaliana
- From the Cover
Alexander P. Hertle, José G. García-Cerdán, Ute Armbruster, Robert Shih, Jimmy J. Lee, Winnie Wong, and Krishna K. NiyogiPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9101-9111; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1916946117 - You have accessDistinct modes of manipulation of rice auxin response factor OsARF17 by different plant RNA viruses for infectionHehong Zhang, Lulu Li, Yuqing He, Qingqing Qin, Changhai Chen, Zhongyan Wei, Xiaoxiang Tan, Kaili Xie, Ruifang Zhang, Gaojie Hong, Jing Li, Junmin Li, Chengqi Yan, Fei Yan, Yi Li, Jianping Chen, and Zongtao SunPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9112-9121; first published April 6, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1918254117
Population Biology
- Open AccessProjecting hospital utilization during the COVID-19 outbreaks in the United States
- From the Cover
Seyed M. Moghadas, Affan Shoukat, Meagan C. Fitzpatrick, Chad R. Wells, Pratha Sah, Abhishek Pandey, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Zheng Wang, Lauren A. Meyers, Burton H. Singer, and Alison P. GalvaniPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9122-9126; first published April 3, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004064117
Correction
- You have accessCorrection for Johnson et al., Officer characteristics and racial disparities in fatal officer-involved shootingsPNAS April 21, 2020 117 (16) 9127; first published April 13, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2004734117
Commentaries
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