COMMENTARIES

Paul Schimmel

Origin of genetic code: A needle in the haystack of tRNA sequences
PNAS 1996 93: 4521-4522. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ajit Varki

Does DG42 synthesize hyaluronan or chitin?: A controversy about oligosaccharides in vertebrate development
PNAS 1996 93: 4523-4525. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eliot L. Berson

Retinitis pigmentosa: Unfolding its mystery
PNAS 1996 93: 4526-4528. [Abstract] [PDF]  

REVIEWS

Robert B. Darnell

Onconeural antigens and the paraneoplastic neurologic disorders: At the intersection of cancer, immunity, and the brain
PNAS 1996 93: 4529-4536. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Peter J. Belshaw, Steffan N. Ho, Gerald R. Crabtree, and Stuart L. Schreiber

Controlling protein association and subcellular localization with a synthetic ligand that induces heterodimerization of proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 4604-4607. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Geology

Mark A. S. McMenamin

Ediacaran biota from Sonora, Mexico
PNAS 1996 93: 4990-4993. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

A. Kimball Romney, John P. Boyd, Carmella C. Moore, William H. Batchelder, and Timothy J. Brazill INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Culture as shared cognitive representations PNAS 1996 93: 4699-4705. [Abstract] [PDF]

Daniel G. Bradley, David E. MacHugh, Patrick Cunningham, and Ronan T. Loftus

Mitochondrial diversity and the origins of African and European cattle
PNAS 1996 93: 5131-5135. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Psychology

Michael E. Ragozzino, Katharine E. Unick, and Paul E. Gold

Hippocampal acetylcholine release during memory testing in rats: Augmentation by glucose
PNAS 1996 93: 4693-4698. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. T. Morgan, J. C. Hansen, and S. A. Hillyard

Selective attention to stimulus location modulates the steady-state visual evoked potential
PNAS 1996 93: 4770-4774. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

Michael F. Meyer and Günther Kreil

Cells expressing the DG42 gene from early Xenopus embryos synthesize hyaluronan
PNAS 1996 93: 4543-4547. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xun Liu, Pere Garriga, and H. Gobind Khorana

Structure and function in rhodopsin: Correct folding and misfolding in two point mutants in the intradiscal domain of rhodopsin identified in retinitis pigmentosa
PNAS 1996 93: 4554-4559. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pere Garriga, Xun Liu, and H. Gobind Khorana

Structure and function in rhodopsin: Correct folding and misfolding in point mutants at and in proximity to the site of the retinitis pigmentosa mutation Leu-125  Arg in the transmembrane helix C
PNAS 1996 93: 4560-4564. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rosario Leopardi and Bernard Roizman

Functional interaction and colocalization of the herpes simplex virus 1 major regulatory protein ICP4 with EAP, a nucleolar-ribosomal protein
PNAS 1996 93: 4572-4576. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yan Li and Jeremy N. S. Evans

The hard-soft acid-base principle in enzymatic catalysis: Dual reactivity of phosphoenolpyruvate
PNAS 1996 93: 4612-4616. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Meei-Hua Lin, Hanh T. Nguyen, Claire Dybala, and Robert V. Storti

Myocyte-specific enhancer factor 2 acts cooperatively with a muscle activator region to regulate Drosophila tropomyosin gene muscle expression
PNAS 1996 93: 4623-4628. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shinichi Ichikawa, Hisako Sakiyama, Gen Suzuki, Kazuya I.-P. Jwa Hidari, and Yoshio Hirabayashi

Expression cloning of a cDNA for human ceramide glucosyltransferase that catalyzes the first glycosylation step of glycosphingolipid synthesis
PNAS 1996 93: 4638-4643. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alfin D. N. Vaz, Steven J. Pernecky, Gregory M. Raner, and Minor J. Coon

Peroxo-iron and oxenoid-iron species as alternative oxygenating agents in cytochrome P450-catalyzed reactions: Switching by Threonine-302 to Alanine mutagenesis of cytochrome P450 2B4
PNAS 1996 93: 4644-4648. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Janice M. Huss, Steven I. Wang, Anders Astrom, Patricia McQuiddy, and Charles B. Kasper

Dexamethasone responsiveness of a major glucocorticoid-inducible CYP3A gene is mediated by elements unrelated to a glucocorticoid receptor binding motif
PNAS 1996 93: 4666-4670. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark T. Roskey, Peter Juhasz, Igor P. Smirnov, Edward J. Takach, Stephen A. Martin, and Lawrence A. Haff

DNA sequencing by delayed extraction-matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionizaton time of flight mass spectrometry
PNAS 1996 93: 4724-4729. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Abul K. Azad, Tatiana D. Sirakova, Linda M. Rogers, and Pappachan E. Kolattukudy

Targeted replacement of the mycocerosic acid synthase gene in Mycobacterium bovis BCG produces a mutant that lacks mycosides
PNAS 1996 93: 4787-4792. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bruce Blumberg, Jack Bolado Jr., Fadila Derguini, A. Grey Craig, Tanya A. Moreno, Debabrata Chakravarti, Richard A. Heyman, Jochen Buck, and Ronald M. Evans

Novel retinoic acid receptor ligands in Xenopus embryos
PNAS 1996 93: 4873-4878. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Qiao-wen Xie, Mary Leung, Michele Fuortes, Shigeru Sassa, and Carl Nathan

Complementation analysis of mutants of nitric oxide synthase reveals that the active site requires two hemes
PNAS 1996 93: 4891-4896. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frédéric Lévy, Nils Johnsson, Tillmann Rümenapf, and Alexander Varshavsky

Using ubiquitin to follow the metabolic fate of a protein
PNAS 1996 93: 4907-4912. [Abstract] [PDF]  

X. Zhu, Y. Rouille, N. S. Lamango, D. F. Steiner, and I. Lindberg

Internal cleavage of the inhibitory 7B2 carboxyl-terminal peptide by PC2: A potential mechanism for its inactivation
PNAS 1996 93: 4919-4924. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nicola K. Gray, Kostas Pantopoulos, Thomas Dandekar, Brian A. C. Ackrell, and Matthias W. Hentze

Translational regulation of mammalian and Drosophila citric acid cycle enzymes via iron-responsive elements
PNAS 1996 93: 4925-4930. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jiangong Yan, Janet E. Lawson, and Lester J. Reed

Role of the regulatory subunit of bovine pyruvate dehydrogenase phosphatase
PNAS 1996 93: 4953-4956. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chaitali Banerjee, Scott W. Hiebert, Janet L. Stein, Jane B. Lian, and Gary S. Stein

An AML-1 consensus sequence binds an osteoblast-specific complex and transcriptionally activates the osteocalcin gene
PNAS 1996 93: 4968-4973. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ludmil Benov and Irwin Fridovich

Escherichia coli exhibits negative chemotaxis in gradients of hydrogen peroxide, hypochlorite, and N-chlorotaurine: Products of the respiratory burst of phagocytic cells
PNAS 1996 93: 4999-5002. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Aleksey Kazantsev, David Mu, Anne F. Nichols, Xiaodong Zhao, Stuart Linn, and Aziz Sancar

Functional complementation of xeroderma pigmentosum complementation group E by replication protein A in an in vitro system
PNAS 1996 93: 5014-5018. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter Kast, M. Asif-Ullah, Ning Jiang, and Donald Hilvert

Exploring the active site of chorismate mutase by combinatorial mutagenesis and selection: The importance of electrostatic catalysis
PNAS 1996 93: 5043-5048. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. Le Ricousse, F. Gouilleux, D. Fortin, V. Joulin, and H. Richard-Foy

Glucocorticoid and progestin receptors are differently involved in the cooperation with a structural element of the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter
PNAS 1996 93: 5072-5077. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frantisek Supek, Lubica Supekova, Hannah Nelson, and Nathan Nelson

A yeast manganese transporter related to the macrophage protein involved in conferring resistance to mycobacteria
PNAS 1996 93: 5105-5110. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gill Diamond, John P. Russell, and Charles L. Bevins

Inducible expression of an antibiotic peptide gene in lipopolysaccharide-challenged tracheal epithelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 5156-5160. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Gwenn Langlois, Ching-Kang Chen, Krzysztof Palczewski, James B. Hurley, and T. Minh Vuong

Responses of the phototransduction cascade to dim light
PNAS 1996 93: 4677-4682. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas Lundbäck and Torleif Härd

Sequence-specific DNA-binding dominated by dehydration
PNAS 1996 93: 4754-4759. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Frey, William R. Schief Jr., Daniel W. Pack, Chao-Tsen Chen, Ashutosh Chilkoti, Patrick Stayton, Viola Vogel, and Frances H. Arnold

Two-dimensional protein crystallization via metal-ion coordination by naturally occurring surface histidines
PNAS 1996 93: 4937-4941. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ming-Hong Hao and Harold A. Scheraga

How optimization of potential functions affects protein folding
PNAS 1996 93: 4984-4989. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Maria A. DeBernardi and Gary Brooker

Single cell Ca²⁺/cAMP cross-talk monitored by simultaneous Ca²⁺/cAMP fluorescence ratio imaging
PNAS 1996 93: 4577-4582. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter J. Belshaw, Steffan N. Ho, Gerald R. Crabtree, and Stuart L. Schreiber

Controlling protein association and subcellular localization with a synthetic ligand that induces heterodimerization of proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 4604-4607. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chih-Jian Lih, Stanley N. Cohen, Chiayeng Wang, and Sue Lin-Chao

The platelet-derived growth factor -receptor is encoded by a growth-arrest-specific (gas) gene
PNAS 1996 93: 4617-4622. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zhi-Xiong Xiao, Doron Ginsberg, Mark Ewen, and David M. Livingston INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Regulation of the retinoblastoma protein-related protein p107 by G1 cyclin-associated kinases PNAS 1996 93: 4633-4637. [Abstract] [PDF]

Taesaeng Choi, Shen Rulong, James Resau, Kenji Fukasawa, Wayne Matten, Ryoko Kuriyama, Sam Mansour, Natalie Ahn, and George F. Vande Woude

Mos/mitogen-activated protein kinase can induce early meiotic phenotypes in the absence of maturation-promoting factor: A novel system for analyzing spindle formation during meiosis I
PNAS 1996 93: 4730-4735. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fabio Grohovaz, Mario Bossi, Roberta Pezzati, Jacopo Meldolesi, and Francesca Torri Tarelli

High resolution ultrastructural mapping of total calcium: Electron spectroscopic imaging/electron energy loss spectroscopy analysis of a physically/chemically processed nerve-muscle preparation
PNAS 1996 93: 4799-4803. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Li-chun Huang, Kristie C. Clarkin, and Geoffrey M. Wahl

Sensitivity and selectivity of the DNA damage sensor responsible for activating p53-dependent G₁ arrest
PNAS 1996 93: 4827-4832. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Han Htun, Julia Barsony, Istvan Renyi, Daniel L. Gould, and Gordon L. Hager

Visualization of glucocorticoid receptor translocation and intranuclear organization in living cells with a green fluorescent protein chimera
PNAS 1996 93: 4845-4850. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dimitar B. Nikolov, Hua Chen, Elaine D. Halay, Alexander Hoffmann, Robert G. Roeder, and Stephen K. Burley

Crystal structure of a human TATA box-binding protein/TATA element complex
PNAS 1996 93: 4862-4867. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Orit Shaul, Vladimir Mironov, Sylvia Burssens, Marc Van Montagu, and Dirk Inzé

Two Arabidopsis cyclin promoters mediate distinctive transcriptional oscillation in synchronized tobacco BY-2 cells
PNAS 1996 93: 4868-4872. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Heng Hong, Kulwant Kohli, Alpa Trivedi, Deborah L. Johnson, and Michael R. Stallcup

GRIP1, a novel mouse protein that serves as a transcriptional coactivator in yeast for the hormone binding domains of steroid receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 4948-4952. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anthony G. Uren, Miha Pakusch, Christine J. Hawkins, Kirsten L. Puls, and David L. Vaux

Cloning and expression of apoptosis inhibitory protein homologs that function to inhibit apoptosis and/or bind tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factors
PNAS 1996 93: 4974-4978. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karen M. Hahnenberger, Zhengping Jia, and Paul G. Young

Functional expression of the Schizosaccharomyces pombe Na⁺/H⁺ antiporter gene, sod2, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1996 93: 5031-5036. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ingrid Lundell, Michael A. Statnick, Dwayne Johnson, Douglas A. Schober, Paula Starbäck, Donald R. Gehlert, and Dan Larhammar

The cloned rat pancreatic polypeptide receptor exhibits profound differences to the orthologous human receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 5111-5115. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shi-Wu Li, Aleksander L. Sieron, Andrzej Fertala, Yoshio Hojima, William V. Arnold, and Darwin J. Prockop

The C-proteinase that processes procollagens to fibrillar collagens is identical to the protein previously identified as bone morphogenic protein-1
PNAS 1996 93: 5127-5130. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mindong Ren, Jianbo Zeng, Carmen De Lemos-Chiarandini, Melvin Rosenfeld, Milton Adesnik, and David D. Sabatini

In its active form, the GTP-binding protein rab8 interacts with a stress-activated protein kinase
PNAS 1996 93: 5151-5155. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Olof Larsson, Henrik Kindmark, Robert Bränström, Bertil Fredholm, and Per-Olof Berggren

Oscillations in K_ATP channel activity promote oscillations in cytoplasmic free Ca²⁺ concentration in the pancreatic  cell
PNAS 1996 93: 5161-5165. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Carlos E. Semino, Charles A. Specht, Alejandra Raimondi, and Phillips W. Robbins

Homologs of the Xenopus developmental gene DG42 are present in zebrafish and mouse and are involved in the synthesis of Nod-like chitin oligosaccharides during early embryogenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 4548-4553. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard H. Kessin, Gregg G. Gundersen, Victor Zaydfudim, Mark Grimson, and R. Lawrence Blanton

How cellular slime molds evade nematodes
PNAS 1996 93: 4857-4861. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Timothy P. Spann, Debra A. Brock, David F. Lindsey, Salli A. Wood, and Richard H. Gomer

Mutagenesis and gene identification in Dictyostelium by shotgun antisense
PNAS 1996 93: 5003-5007. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Wendy L. Mechaber, Durwood B. Marshall, Richard A. Mechaber, Renee T. Jobe, and Frances S. Chew

Mapping leaf surface landscapes
PNAS 1996 93: 4600-4603. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter Arcese, James N. M. Smith, and Margret I. Hatch

Nest predation by cowbirds and its consequences for passerine demography
PNAS 1996 93: 4608-4611. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonathan Roughgarden and Fraser Smith

Why fisheries collapse and what to do about it
PNAS 1996 93: 5078-5083. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Sergei Rodin, Andrei Rodin, and Susumu Ohno

The presence of codon-anticodon pairs in the acceptor stem of tRNAs
PNAS 1996 93: 4537-4542. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xun Gu and Wen-Hsiung Li

A general additive distance with time-reversibility and rate variation among nucleotide sites
PNAS 1996 93: 4671-4676. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark A. S. McMenamin

Ediacaran biota from Sonora, Mexico
PNAS 1996 93: 4990-4993. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Norman C. Ellstrand, Richard Whitkus, and Loren H. Rieseberg

Distribution of spontaneous plant hybrids
PNAS 1996 93: 5090-5093. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anne D. Yoder, Matt Cartmill, Maryellen Ruvolo, Kathleen Smith, and Rytas Vilgalys

Ancient single origin for Malagasy primates
PNAS 1996 93: 5122-5126. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Daniel G. Bradley, David E. MacHugh, Patrick Cunningham, and Ronan T. Loftus

Mitochondrial diversity and the origins of African and European cattle
PNAS 1996 93: 5131-5135. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Alfonso Baldi, Vincenzo Boccia, Pier Paolo Claudio, Antonio De Luca, and Antonio Giordano

Genomic structure of the human retinoblastoma-related Rb2/p130 gene
PNAS 1996 93: 4629-4632. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kenneth S. Bruno, John H. Tinsley, Peter F. Minke, and Michael Plamann

Genetic interactions among cytoplasmic dynein, dynactin, and nuclear distribution mutants of Neurospora crassa
PNAS 1996 93: 4775-4780. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jolanta F. Kukowska-Latallo, Anna U. Bielinska, Jennifer Johnson, Ralph Spindler, Donald A. Tomalia, and James R. Baker Jr.

Efficient transfer of genetic material into mammalian cells using Starburst polyamidoamine dendrimers
PNAS 1996 93: 4897-4902. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gennady Yershov, Victor Barsky, Alexander Belgovskiy, Eugene Kirillov, Edward Kreindlin, Igor Ivanov, Sergei Parinov, Dmitri Guschin, Aleksei Drobishev, Svetlana Dubiley, and Andrei Mirzabekov

DNA analysis and diagnostics on oligonucleotide microchips
PNAS 1996 93: 4913-4918. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lyle O. Ross, Rebecca Maxfield, and Dean Dawson

Exchanges are not equally able to enhance meiotic chromosome segregation in yeast
PNAS 1996 93: 4979-4983. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zoltán Ivics, Zsuzsanna Izsvák, Adam Minter, and Perry B. Hackett

Identification of functional domains and evolution of Tc1-like transposable elements
PNAS 1996 93: 5008-5013. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zhi-Chun Lai, Stephen D. Harrison, Felix Karim, Ying Li, and Gerald M. Rubin

Loss of tramtrack gene activity results in ectopic R7 cell formation, even in a sina mutant background
PNAS 1996 93: 5025-5030. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Holger Puchta, Bernard Dujon, and Barbara Hohn

Two different but related mechanisms are used in plants for the repair of genomic double-strand breaks by homologous recombination
PNAS 1996 93: 5055-5060. [Abstract] [PDF]  

N. Rothman, V. K. Bhatnagar, R. B. Hayes, T. V. Zenser, S. K. Kashyap, M. A. Butler, D. A. Bell, V. Lakshmi, M. Jaeger, R. Kashyap, A. Hirvonen, P. A. Schulte, M. Dosemeci, F. Hsu, D. J. Parikh, B. B. Davis, and G. Talaska

The impact of interindividual variation in NAT2 activity on benzidine urinary metabolites and urothelial DNA adducts in exposed workers
PNAS 1996 93: 5084-5089. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Marlène Bouvier and Don C. Wiley

Antigenic peptides containing large PEG loops designed to extend out of the HLA-A2 binding site form stable complexes with class I major histocompatibility complex molecules
PNAS 1996 93: 4583-4588. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Luca G. Guidotti, Persephone Borrow, Monte V. Hobbs, Brent Matzke, Ion Gresser, Michael B. A. Oldstone, and Francis V. Chisari

Viral cross talk: Intracellular inactivation of the hepatitis B virus during an unrelated viral infection of the liver
PNAS 1996 93: 4589-4594. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anjali Yadava, Sanjai Kumar, James A. Dvorak, Genevieve Milon, and Louis H. Miller

Trafficking of Plasmodium chabaudi adami-infected erythrocytes within the mouse spleen
PNAS 1996 93: 4595-4599. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wojciech Swat, Yoichi Shinkai, Hwei-Ling Cheng, Laurie Davidson, and Frederick W. Alt

Activated Ras signals differentiation and expansion of CD4⁺8⁺ thymocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 4683-4687. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Roger M. Hinson, Joy A. Williams, and Emily Shacter

Elevated interleukin 6 is induced by prostaglandin E₂ in a murine model of inflammation: Possible role of cyclooxygenase-2
PNAS 1996 93: 4885-4890. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Georg A. Holländer, Emanuela Castigli, Robert Kulbacki, Michael Su, Steven J. Burakoff, José-Carlos Gutierrez-Ramos, and Raif S. Geha

Induction of alloantigen-specific tolerance by B cells from CD40-deficient mice
PNAS 1996 93: 4994-4998. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elias T. Zambidis and David W. Scott

Epitope-specific tolerance induction with an engineered immunoglobulin
PNAS 1996 93: 5019-5024. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paul G. Schlegel, Rina Aharoni, Yanfei Chen, Jun Chen, Dvora Teitelbaum, Ruth Arnon, Michael Sela, and Nelson J. Chao

A synthetic random basic copolymer with promiscuous binding to class II major histocompatibility complex molecules inhibits T-cell proliferative responses to major and minor histocompatibility antigens in vitro and confers the capacity to prevent murine graft-versus-host disease in vivo
PNAS 1996 93: 5061-5066. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Toshiro Hara, Shizuko Ohashi, Yushiro Yamashita, Toshiaki Abe, Hajime Hisaeda, Kunisuke Himeno, Robert A. Good, and Kenzo Takeshita

Human V2⁺ T-cell tolerance to foreign antigens of Toxoplasma gondii
PNAS 1996 93: 5136-5140. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eyal Raz, Helen Tighe, Yukio Sato, Maripat Corr, Jean A. Dudler, Mark Roman, Susan L. Swain, Hans L. Spiegelberg, and Dennis A. Carson

Preferential induction of a Th₁ immune response and inhibition of specific IgE antibody formation by plasmid DNA immunization
PNAS 1996 93: 5141-5145. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Sami I. Said, Hasan I. Berisha, and Hedayatollah Pakbaz

Excitotoxicity in the lung: N-Methyl-D-aspartate-induced, nitric oxide-dependent, pulmonary edema is attenuated by vasoactive intestinal peptide and by inhibitors of poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase
PNAS 1996 93: 4688-4692. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Leo Sachs INAUGURAL ARTICLE: The control of hematopoiesis and leukemia: From basic biology to the clinic PNAS 1996 93: 4742-4749. [Abstract] [PDF]

Judith Roth, Dirk Dittmer, Delphine Rea, James Tartaglia, Enzo Paoletti, and Arnold J. Levine

p53 as a target for cancer vaccines: Recombinant canarypox virus vectors expressing p53 protect mice against lethal tumor cell challenge
PNAS 1996 93: 4781-4786. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. H. Dreyling, J. A. Martinez-Climent, M. Zheng, J. Mao, J. D. Rowley, and S. K. Bohlander

The t(10;11)(p13;q14) in the U937 cell line results in the fusion of the AF10 gene and CALM, encoding a new member of the AP-3 clathrin assembly protein family
PNAS 1996 93: 4804-4809. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William Kutchera, David A. Jones, Norisada Matsunami, Joanna Groden, Thomas M. McIntyre, Guy A. Zimmerman, Raymond L. White, and Stephen M. Prescott

Prostaglandin H synthase 2 is expressed abnormally in human colon cancer: Evidence for a transcriptional effect
PNAS 1996 93: 4816-4820. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Uwe Gosslar, Petra Jonas, Arne Luz, Alexandra Lifka, David Naor, Alf Hamann, and Bernhard Holzmann

Predominant role of 4-integrins for distinct steps of lymphoma metastasis
PNAS 1996 93: 4821-4826. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gregory S. Robinson, Eric A. Pierce, Susan L. Rook, Elliot Foley, Ruth Webb, and Lois E. H. Smith

Oligodeoxynucleotides inhibit retinal neovascularization in a murine model of proliferative retinopathy
PNAS 1996 93: 4851-4856. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David G. Forcione, Bruce Sands, Kurt J. Isselbacher, Anil Rustgi, Daniel K. Podolsky, and Shiv Pillai

An increased risk of Crohn's disease in individuals who inherit the HLA class II DRB3*0301 allele
PNAS 1996 93: 5094-5098. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ram Parshad, Katherine K. Sanford, Floyd M. Price, Lynn K. Melnick, Linda E. Nee, Mark B. Schapiro, Robert E. Tarone, and Jay H. Robbins

Fluorescent light-induced chromatid breaks distinguish Alzheimer disease cells from normal cells in tissue culture
PNAS 1996 93: 5146-5150. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Weisheng Zhang, Alexei Brooun, Jacqueline McCandless, Phillip Banda, and Maqsudul Alam

Signal transduction in the Archaeon Halobacterium salinarium is processed through three subfamilies of 13 soluble and membrane-bound transducer proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 4649-4654. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Beth Levine, James E. Goldman, Hui Hui Jiang, Diane E. Griffin, and J. Marie Hardwick

Bcl-2 protects mice against fatal alphavirus encephalitis
PNAS 1996 93: 4810-4815. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark J. Federspiel, Deborah A. Swing, Bryn Eagleson, Susan W. Reid, and Stephen H. Hughes

Expression of transduced genes in mice generated by infecting blastocysts with avian leukosis virus-based retroviral vectors
PNAS 1996 93: 4931-4936. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John F. Davidson, Brett Whyte, Peter H. Bissinger, and Robert H. Schiestl

Oxidative stress is involved in heat-induced cell death in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1996 93: 5116-5121. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Serge Przedborski, Vernice Jackson-Lewis, Rina Yokoyama, Toshihiro Shibata, Valina L. Dawson, and Ted M. Dawson

Role of neuronal nitric oxide in 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP)-induced dopaminergic neurotoxicity
PNAS 1996 93: 4565-4571. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yu Wang and Stuart C. Mangel

A circadian clock regulates rod and cone input to fish retinal cone horizontal cells
PNAS 1996 93: 4655-4660. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hai Yan, Jie Yang, Julie Marasco, Kumiko Yamaguchi, Sydney Brenner, Frank Collins, and William Karbon

Cloning and functional expression of cDNAs encoding human and rat pancreatic polypeptide receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 4661-4665. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Danny Baranes, Juan Carlos López-García, Mary Chen, Craig H. Bailey, and Eric R. Kandel

Reconstitution of the hippocampal mossy fiber and associational-commissural pathways in a novel dissociated cell culture system
PNAS 1996 93: 4706-4711. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Juan Carlos López-García, Ottavio Arancio, Eric R. Kandel, and Danny Baranes

A presynaptic locus for long-term potentiation of elementary synaptic transmission at mossy fiber synapses in culture
PNAS 1996 93: 4712-4717. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeansok J. Kim, Michael R. Foy, and Richard F. Thompson

Behavioral stress modifies hippocampal plasticity through N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activation
PNAS 1996 93: 4750-4753. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Harvey T. McMahon, Vadim Y. Bolshakov, Roger Janz, Robert E. Hammer, Steven A. Siegelbaum, and Thomas C. Südhof

Synaptophysin, a major synaptic vesicle protein, is not essential for neurotransmitter release
PNAS 1996 93: 4760-4764. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael J. Forster, Anju Dubey, Kimberly M. Dawson, William A. Stutts, Harbans Lal, and Rajindar S. Sohal

Age-related losses of cognitive function and motor skills in mice are associated with oxidative protein damage in the brain
PNAS 1996 93: 4765-4769. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. T. Morgan, J. C. Hansen, and S. A. Hillyard

Selective attention to stimulus location modulates the steady-state visual evoked potential
PNAS 1996 93: 4770-4774. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rainer Kramer, Nathan Bucay, Darci J. Kane, Laura E. Martin, John E. Tarpley, and Lars E. Theill

Neuregulins with an Ig-like domain are essential for mouse myocardial and neuronal development
PNAS 1996 93: 4833-4838. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xiao-Jiang Li, Alan H. Sharp, Shi-Hua Li, Ted M. Dawson, Solomon H. Snyder, and Christopher A. Ross

Huntingtin-associated protein (HAP1): Discrete neuronal localizations in the brain resemble those of neuronal nitric oxide synthase
PNAS 1996 93: 4839-4844. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. A. Masino and R. D. Frostig

Quantitative long-term imaging of the functional representation of a whisker in rat barrel cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 4942-4947. [Abstract] [PDF]  

P. Thier and R. A. Andersen

Electrical microstimulation suggests two different forms of representation of head-centered space in the intraparietal sulcus of rhesus monkeys
PNAS 1996 93: 4962-4967. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jun Bao, Alan H. Sharp, Molly V. Wagster, Mark Becher, Gabriele Schilling, Christopher A. Ross, Valina L. Dawson, and Ted M. Dawson

Expansion of polyglutamine repeat in huntingtin leads to abnormal protein interactions involving calmodulin
PNAS 1996 93: 5037-5042. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fang-Jung Wan, Fulvia Berton, Samuel G. Madamba, Walter Francesconi, and George Robert Siggins

Low ethanol concentrations enhance GABAergic inhibitory postsynaptic potentials in hippocampal pyramidal neurons only after block of GABA_B receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 5049-5054. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Matthew B. McFarlane and William F. Gilly

Spatial localization of calcium channels in giant fiber lobe neurons of the squid (Loligo opalescens)
PNAS 1996 93: 5067-5071. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey D. Erickson, Martin K.-H. Schäfer, Tom I. Bonner, Lee E. Eiden, and Eberhard Weihe

Distinct pharmacological properties and distribution in neurons and endocrine cells of two isoforms of the human vesicular monoamine transporter
PNAS 1996 93: 5166-5171. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Daniel I. Simon, Mark E. Mullins, Li Jia, Ben Gaston, David J. Singel, and Jonathan S. Stamler

Polynitrosylated proteins: Characterization, bioactivity, and functional consequences
PNAS 1996 93: 4736-4741. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Charles C. Achkar, Fadila Derguini, Bruce Blumberg, Alexander Langston, Arthur A. Levin, Jeffrey Speck, Ronald M. Evans, Jack Bolado Jr., Koji Nakanishi, Jochen Buck, and Lorraine J. Gudas

4-Oxoretinol, a new natural ligand and transactivator of the retinoic acid receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 4879-4884. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Rainer Oberbauer, George F. Schreiner, Jurg Biber, Heini Murer, and Timothy W. Meyer

In vivo suppression of the renal Na⁺/P_i cotransporter by antisense oligonucleotides
PNAS 1996 93: 4903-4906. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joan A. Keiser and Michael J. Ryan

Hemodynamic effects of epidermal growth factor in conscious rats and monkeys
PNAS 1996 93: 4957-4961. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Rosana Melo-Oliveira, Igor Cunha Oliveira, and Gloria M. Coruzzi

Arabidopsis mutant analysis and gene regulation define a nonredundant role for glutamate dehydrogenase in nitrogen assimilation
PNAS 1996 93: 4718-4723. [Abstract] [PDF]  

José Luis Riechmann, Beth Allyn Krizek, and Elliot M. Meyerowitz

Dimerization specificity of Arabidopsis MADS domain homeotic proteins APETALA1, APETALA3, PISTILLATA, and AGAMOUS
PNAS 1996 93: 4793-4798. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yogesh K. Sharma, José León, Ilya Raskin, and Keith R. Davis

Ozone-induced responses in Arabidopsis thaliana: The role of salicylic acid in the accumulation of defense-related transcripts and induced resistance
PNAS 1996 93: 5099-5104. [Abstract] [PDF]