COMMENTARIES

Ross C. Hardison

A brief history of hemoglobins: Plant, animal, protist, and bacteria
PNAS 1996 93: 5675-5679. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William F. DeGrado and Tobin R. Sosnick

Protein minimization: Downsizing through mutation
PNAS 1996 93: 5680-5681. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

Henrik Flyvbjerg, Elmar Jobs, and Stanislas Leibler

Kinetics of self-assembling microtubules: An "inverse problem" in biochemistry
PNAS 1996 93: 5975-5979. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chemistry

R. M. Ballew, J. Sabelko, and M. Gruebele

Direct observation of fast protein folding: The initial collapse of apomyoglobin
PNAS 1996 93: 5759-5764. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yuriy M. Dunayevskiy, Paul Vouros, Edward A. Wintner, Gerald W. Shipps, Thomas Carell, and Julius Rebek Jr.

Application of capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization mass spectrometry in the determination of molecular diversity
PNAS 1996 93: 6152-6157. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Geology

Laurel S. Collins, Ann F. Budd, and Anthony G. Coates

Earliest evolution associated with closure of the Tropical American Seaway
PNAS 1996 93: 6069-6072. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Economic Sciences

Hirofumi Uzawa INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: An endogenous rate of time preference, the Penrose effect, and dynamic optimality of environmental quality PNAS 1996 93: 5770-5776. [Abstract] [PDF]

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

Andrew C. Braisted and James A. Wells

Minimizing a binding domain from protein A
PNAS 1996 93: 5688-5692. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Panagoula Kollia, Eitan Fibach, Sonia M. Najjar, Alan N. Schechter, and Constance Tom Noguchi

Modifications of RNA processing modulate the expression of hemoglobin genes
PNAS 1996 93: 5693-5698. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mirjana Andjelkovic, Teresa Jakubowicz, Peter Cron, Xiu-Fen Ming, Jeung-Whan Han, and Brian A. Hemmings

Activation and phosphorylation of a pleckstrin homology domain containing protein kinase (RAC-PK/PKB) promoted by serum and protein phosphatase inhibitors
PNAS 1996 93: 5699-5704. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Moon Bin Yim, Jung-Hoon Kang, Hyung-Soon Yim, Hahn-Shik Kwak, P. Boon Chock, and Earl R. Stadtman

A gain-of-function of an amyotrophic lateral sclerosis-associated Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase mutant: An enhancement of free radical formation due to a decrease in K_m for hydrogen peroxide
PNAS 1996 93: 5709-5714. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Qing Lu and Masayori Inouye

Adenylate kinase complements nucleoside diphosphate kinase deficiency in nucleotide metabolism
PNAS 1996 93: 5720-5725. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anthony P. Schmitt and Kevin McEntee

Msn2p, a zinc finger DNA-binding protein, is the transcriptional activator of the multistress response in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1996 93: 5777-5782. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard J. Austin and Mark D. Biggin

Purification of the Drosophila RNA polymerase II general transcription factors
PNAS 1996 93: 5788-5792. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Markus Rohrwild, Olivier Coux, H.-C. Huang, Richard P. Moerschell, Soon Ji Yoo, Jae Hong Seol, Chin Ha Chung, and Alfred L. Goldberg

HslV-HslU: A novel ATP-dependent protease complex in Escherichia coli related to the eukaryotic proteasome
PNAS 1996 93: 5808-5813. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Takeshi Tomonaga and David Levens

Activating transcription from single stranded DNA
PNAS 1996 93: 5830-5835. [Abstract] [PDF]  

George G. J. M. Kuiper, Eva Enmark, Markku Pelto-Huikko, Stefan Nilsson, and Jan-Åke Gustafsson

Cloning of a novel estrogen receptor expressed in rat prostate and ovary
PNAS 1996 93: 5925-5930. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Martin J. Mueller, Martina Blomster, Udo C. T. Oppermann, Hans Jörnvall, Bengt Samuelsson, and Jesper Z. Haeggström

Leukotriene A₄ hydrolase: Protection from mechanism-based inactivation by mutation of tyrosine-378
PNAS 1996 93: 5931-5935. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patrick Schultz, Stéphane Olland, Pierre Oudet, and Ronald Hancock

Structure and conformational changes of DNA topoisomerase II visualized by electron microscopy
PNAS 1996 93: 5936-5940. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wan-Pin Chang and Charles V. Clevenger

Modulation of growth factor receptor function by isoform heterodimerization
PNAS 1996 93: 5947-5952. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dan Robinson, Feng He, Tom Pretlow, and Hsing-Jien Kung

A tyrosine kinase profile of prostate carcinoma
PNAS 1996 93: 5958-5962. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Claudia Abeijon, Phillips W. Robbins, and Carlos B. Hirschberg

Molecular cloning of the Golgi apparatus uridine diphosphate-N-acetylglucosamine transporter from Kluyveromyces lactis
PNAS 1996 93: 5963-5968. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Oded Béjà and Eitan Bibi

Functional expression of mouse Mdr1 in an outer membrane permeability mutant of Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 5969-5974. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Henrik Flyvbjerg, Elmar Jobs, and Stanislas Leibler

Kinetics of self-assembling microtubules: An "inverse problem" in biochemistry
PNAS 1996 93: 5975-5979. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Insil Joung, Jack L. Strominger, and Jaekyoon Shin

Molecular cloning of a phosphotyrosine-independent ligand of the p56^lck SH2 domain
PNAS 1996 93: 5991-5995. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William J. Wechter, Darko Kantoci, E. David Murray Jr., Derin C. D'Amico, Michael E. Jung, and Wen-Hui Wang

A new endogenous natriuretic factor: LLU-
PNAS 1996 93: 6002-6007. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Luda Diatchenko, Yun-Fai Chris Lau, Aaron P. Campbell, Alex Chenchik, Fauzia Moqadam, Betty Huang, Sergey Lukyanov, Konstantin Lukyanov, Nadya Gurskaya, Eugene D. Sverdlov, and Paul D. Siebert

Suppression subtractive hybridization: A method for generating differentially regulated or tissue-specific cDNA probes and libraries
PNAS 1996 93: 6025-6030. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jookyung Lee, Ying Chen, Tatiana Tolstykh, and Jeff Stock

A specific protein carboxyl methylesterase that demethylates phosphoprotein phosphatase 2A in bovine brain
PNAS 1996 93: 6043-6047. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joanna Kufel and Leif A. Kirsebom

Different cleavage sites are aligned differently in the active site of M1 RNA, the catalytic subunit of Escherichia coli RNase P
PNAS 1996 93: 6085-6090. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Vadim N. Gladyshev, Kuan-Teh Jeang, and Thressa C. Stadtman

Selenocysteine, identified as the penultimate C-terminal residue in human T-cell thioredoxin reductase, corresponds to TGA in the human placental gene
PNAS 1996 93: 6146-6151. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frank Stahl, Wolfgang Wende, Albert Jeltsch, and Alfred Pingoud

Introduction of asymmetry in the naturally symmetric restriction endonuclease EcoRV to investigate intersubunit communication in the homodimeric protein
PNAS 1996 93: 6175-6180. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeng-Shong Chen and Alexander S. Raikhel

Subunit cleavage of mosquito pro-vitellogenin by a subtilisin-like convertase
PNAS 1996 93: 6186-6190. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Joel R. Stiles, Dirk Van Helden, Thomas M. Bartol Jr., Edwin E. Salpeter, and Miriam M. Salpeter

Miniature endplate current rise times <100 µs from improved dual recordings can be modeled with passive acetylcholine diffusion from a synaptic vesicle
PNAS 1996 93: 5747-5752. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. M. Ballew, J. Sabelko, and M. Gruebele

Direct observation of fast protein folding: The initial collapse of apomyoglobin
PNAS 1996 93: 5759-5764. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karen F. Han and David Baker

Global properties of the mapping between local amino acid sequence and local structure in proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 5814-5818. [Abstract] [PDF]  

E. Brady Trexler, Michael V. L. Bennett, Thaddeus A. Bargiello, and Vytas K. Verselis

Voltage gating and permeation in a gap junction hemichannel
PNAS 1996 93: 5836-5841. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. Arumugam, S. Pascal, C. L. North, W. Hu, K.-C. Lee, M. Cotten, R. R. Ketchem, F. Xu, M. Brenneman, F. Kovacs, F. Tian, A. Wang, S. Huo, and T. A. Cross

Conformational trapping in a membrane environment: A regulatory mechanism for protein activity?
PNAS 1996 93: 5872-5876. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Caleb B. Kallen and Mitchell A. Lazar

Antidiabetic thiazolidinediones inhibit leptin (ob) gene expression in 3T3-L1 adipocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 5793-5796. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dan O'Connell, Andrea Koenig, Susan Jennings, Brian Hicke, Hui-Ling Han, Tim Fitzwater, Ying-Fon Chang, Nissi Varki, David Parma, and Ajit Varki

Calcium-dependent oligonucleotide antagonists specific for L-selectin
PNAS 1996 93: 5883-5887. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joachim B. Schnier, Kayoko Nishi, David W. Goodrich, and E. Morton Bradbury

G₁ arrest and down-regulation of cyclin E/cyclin-dependent kinase 2 by the protein kinase inhibitor staurosporine are dependent on the retinoblastoma protein in the bladder carcinoma cell line 5637
PNAS 1996 93: 5941-5946. [Abstract] [PDF]  

H. Gonzalez-Serratos, M. Rozycka, R. Cordoba-Rodriguez, and A. Ortega

Membrane healing and restoration of contractility after mechanical injury in isolated skeletal muscle fibers of the frog
PNAS 1996 93: 5996-6001. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeremy C. Mottram, Augustine E. Souza, J. Elizabeth Hutchison, Roderick Carter, Mhairi J. Frame, and Graham H. Coombs

Evidence from disruption of the lmcpb gene array of Leishmania mexicana that cysteine proteinases are virulence factors
PNAS 1996 93: 6008-6013. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xueli Zhu, Rakesh Kumar, Mahitosh Mandal, Neeta Sharma, Harsh W. Sharma, Urvashi Dhingra, John A. Sokoloski, Rongshen Hsiao, and Ramaswamy Narayanan

Cell cycle-dependent modulation of telomerase activity in tumor cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6091-6095. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Kwang-Wook Choi, Brian Mozer, and Seymour Benzer

Independent determination of symmetry and polarity in the Drosophila eye
PNAS 1996 93: 5737-5741. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffery DeFalco and Geoffrey Childs

The embryonic transcription factor stage specific activator protein contains a potent bipartite activation domain that interacts with several RNA polymerase II basal transcription factors
PNAS 1996 93: 5802-5807. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hisashi Takayama, William J. LaRochelle, Miriam Anver, Dale E. Bockman, and Glenn Merlino

Scatter factor/hepatocyte growth factor as a regulator of skeletal muscle and neural crest development
PNAS 1996 93: 5866-5871. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Enrique Martín-Blanco and Antonio García-Bellido

Mutations in the rotated abdomen locus affect muscle development and reveal an intrinsic asymmetry in Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 6048-6052. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Reshma Taneja, Bidyut Roy, Jean-Luc Plassat, Chris F. Zusi, Jacek Ostrowski, Peter R. Reczek, and Pierre Chambon

Cell-type and promoter-context dependent retinoic acid receptor (RAR) redundancies for RAR2 and Hoxa-1 activation in F9 and P19 cells can be artefactually generated by gene knockouts
PNAS 1996 93: 6197-6202. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Santiago Merino, Jaime Potti, and Juan Moreno

Maternal effort mediates the prevalence of trypanosomes in the offspring of a passerine bird
PNAS 1996 93: 5726-5730. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

B. Edwin Blaisdell, Allan M. Campbell, and Samuel Karlin

Similarities and dissimilarities of phage genomes
PNAS 1996 93: 5854-5859. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Laurel S. Collins, Ann F. Budd, and Anthony G. Coates

Earliest evolution associated with closure of the Tropical American Seaway
PNAS 1996 93: 6069-6072. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Sheldon Wolff and Veena Afzal

Segregation of DNA polynucleotide strands into sister chromatids and the use of endoreduplicated cells to track sister chromatid exchanges induced by crosslinks, alkylations, or x-ray damage
PNAS 1996 93: 5765-5769. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael J. Giroux, Janine Shaw, Gerard Barry, B. Greg Cobb, Thomas Greene, Thomas Okita, and L. Curtis Hannah

A single gene mutation that increases maize seed weight
PNAS 1996 93: 5824-5829. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Riqiang Yan, Hong Luo, James E. Darnell Jr., and Charles R. Dearolf

A JAK-STAT pathway regulates wing vein formation in Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 5842-5847. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Therese M. Poole and Norman R. Drinkwater

Two genes abrogate the inhibition of murine hepatocarcinogenesis by ovarian hormones
PNAS 1996 93: 5848-5853. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Merja Lakso, José G. Pichel, James R. Gorman, Brian Sauer, Yo Okamoto, Eric Lee, Frederick W. Alt, and Heiner Westphal

Efficient in vivo manipulation of mouse genomic sequences at the zygote stage
PNAS 1996 93: 5860-5865. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Charles M. Perou, Monica J. Justice, Robert J. Pryor, and Jerry Kaplan

Complementation of the beige mutation in cultured cells by episomally replicating murine yeast artificial chromosomes
PNAS 1996 93: 5905-5909. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mao Mao, Man Yu, Jian-Hua Tong, Jing Ye, Jun Zhu, Qiu-Hua Huang, Gang Fu, Long Yu, Shou-Yuan Zhao, Samuel Waxman, Michel Lanotte, Zhen-Yi Wang, Jia-Zhen Tan C. C. Tan, Sai-Juan Chan, and Zhu Chen

RIG-E, a human homolog of the murine Ly-6 family, is induced by retinoic acid during the differentiation of acute promyelocytic leukemia cell
PNAS 1996 93: 5910-5914. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Annemieke W. Plug, Jihong Xu, Gurucharan Reddy, Efim I. Golub, and Terry Ashley

Presynaptic association of Rad51 protein with selected sites in meiotic chromatin
PNAS 1996 93: 5920-5924. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Einat Aizenman, Hanna Engelberg-Kulka, and Gad Glaser

An Escherichia coli chromosomal "addiction module" regulated by 3',5'-bispyrophosphate: A model for programmed bacterial cell death
PNAS 1996 93: 6059-6063. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fred C. Christians and Lawrence A. Loeb

Novel human DNA alkyltransferases obtained by random substitution and genetic selection in bacteria
PNAS 1996 93: 6124-6128. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Brian Charlesworth and Kimberly A. Hughes

Age-specific inbreeding depression and components of genetic variance in relation to the evolution of senescence
PNAS 1996 93: 6140-6145. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zhi-Wei Li, Gerlinde Stark, Jürgen Götz, Thomas Rülicke, Ulrike Müller, and Charles Weissmann

Generation of mice with a 200-kb amyloid precursor protein gene deletion by Cre recombinase-mediated site-specific recombination in embryonic stem cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6158-6162. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kuldeep Singh, Takashige Ishii, Arnold Parco, Ning Huang, Darshan S. Brar, and Gurdev S. Khush

Centromere mapping and orientation of the molecular linkage map of rice (Oryza sativa L.)
PNAS 1996 93: 6163-6168. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tomoyo Matsubara, Richard W. Beeman, Hiroko Shike, Nora J. Besansky, Odette Mukabayire, Stephen Higgs, Anthony A. James, and Jane C. Burns

Pantropic retroviral vectors integrate and express in cells of the malaria mosquito, Anopheles gambiae
PNAS 1996 93: 6181-6185. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Susan M. Dymecki

Flp recombinase promotes site-specific DNA recombination in embryonic stem cells and transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 6191-6196. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

C. C. Blackburn, C. L. Augustine, R. Li, R. P. Harvey, M. A. Malin, R. L. Boyd, J. F. A. P. Miller, and G. Morahan

The nu gene acts cell-autonomously and is required for differentiation of thymic epithelial progenitors
PNAS 1996 93: 5742-5746. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Arno Müllbacher, Klaus Ebnet, Robert V. Blanden, Ron Tha Hla, Thomas Stehle, Crisan Museteanu, and Markus M. Simon

Granzyme A is critical for recovery of mice from infection with the natural cytopathic viral pathogen, ectromelia
PNAS 1996 93: 5783-5787. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yao-Tseng Chen, Elisabeth Stockert, Achim Jungbluth, Solam Tsang, Keren A. Coplan, Matthew J. Scanlan, and Lloyd J. Old

Serological analysis of Melan-A(MART-1), a melanocyte-specific protein homogeneously expressed in human melanomas
PNAS 1996 93: 5915-5919. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Krishnan Rajagopalan, Gabriela Pavlinkova, Shoshana Levy, Phani Raj Pokkuluri, Marianne Schiffer, Boyd E. Haley, and Heinz Kohler

Novel unconventional binding site in the variable region of immunoglobulins
PNAS 1996 93: 6019-6024. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Keith R. Solomon, Christopher E. Rudd, and Robert W. Finberg

The association between glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored proteins and heterotrimeric G protein  subunits in lymphocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 6053-6058. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas J. F. Nieland, M. C. Agnes A. Tan, Monique Monnee-van Muijen, Frits Koning, Ada M. Kruisbeek, and Grada M. van Bleek

Isolation of an immunodominant viral peptide that is endogenously bound to the stress protein GP96/GRP94
PNAS 1996 93: 6135-6139. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

V. M. Richon, Y. Webb, R. Merger, T. Sheppard, B. Jursic, L. Ngo, F. Civoli, R. Breslow, R. A. Rifkind, and P. A. Marks

Second generation hybrid polar compounds are potent inducers of transformed cell differentiation
PNAS 1996 93: 5705-5708. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Kochanek, Paula R. Clemens, Kohnosuke Mitani, Hsiao-Huei Chen, Suzanne Chan, and C. Thomas Caskey

A new adenoviral vector: Replacement of all viral coding sequences with 28 kb of DNA independently expressing both full-length dystrophin and -galactosidase
PNAS 1996 93: 5731-5736. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jianming Fang, Yao-Yao Zhu, Elizabeth Smiley, Jeffrey Bonadio, Jeffrey P. Rouleau, Steven A. Goldstein, Laurie K. McCauley, Beverly L. Davidson, and Blake J. Roessler

Stimulation of new bone formation by direct transfer of osteogenic plasmid genes
PNAS 1996 93: 5753-5758. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Erwin P. Böttinger, Valentina M. Factor, Monica L.-S. Tsang, James A. Weatherbee, Jeffrey B. Kopp, Su Wen Qian, Lalage M. Wakefield, Anita B. Roberts, Snorri S. Thorgeirsson, and Michael B. Sporn

The recombinant proregion of transforming growth factor 1 (Latency-associated peptide) inhibits active transforming growth factor 1 in transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 5877-5882. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stacie M. Anderson, Gang Yu, Mara Giattina, and Jeffery L. Miller

Intercellular transfer of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI)-linked protein: Release and uptake of CD4-GPI from recombinant adeno-associated virus-transduced HeLa cells
PNAS 1996 93: 5894-5898. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas H. Bugge, Matthew J. Flick, Mary Jo S. Danton, Cynthia C. Daugherty, John Rømer, Keld Danø, Peter Carmeliet, Désiré Collen, and Jay L. Degen

Urokinase-type plasminogen activator is effective in fibrin clearance in the absence of its receptor or tissue-type plasminogen activator
PNAS 1996 93: 5899-5904. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jishu Shi, Christopher R. Ross, Thomas L. Leto, and Frank Blecha

PR-39, a proline-rich antibacterial peptide that inhibits phagocyte NADPH oxidase activity by binding to Src homology 3 domains of p47^phox
PNAS 1996 93: 6014-6018. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Siyamak Rasty, Prakash Thatikunta, Jennifer Gordon, Kamel Khalili, Shohreh Amini, and Joseph C. Glorioso

Human immunodeficiency virus tat gene transfer to the murine central nervous system using a replication-defective herpes simplex virus vector stimulates transforming growth factor beta 1 gene expression
PNAS 1996 93: 6073-6078. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hong G. Zhao, Hong Hua Li, Gideon Bach, Artur Schmidtchen, and Elizabeth F. Neufeld

The molecular basis of Sanfilippo syndrome type B
PNAS 1996 93: 6101-6105. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Laure Moutouh, Jacques Corbeil, and Douglas D. Richman

Recombination leads to the rapid emergence of HIV-1 dually resistant mutants under selective drug pressure
PNAS 1996 93: 6106-6111. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Meinrad Busslinger, Norman Klix, Peter Pfeffer, Paula G. Graninger, and Zbynek Kozmik

Deregulation of PAX-5 by translocation of the Eµ enhancer of the IgH locus adjacent to two alternative PAX-5 promoters in a diffuse large-cell lymphoma
PNAS 1996 93: 6129-6134. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ana-Maria Bamberger, Christoph M. Bamberger, Birgit Gellersen, and Heinrich M. Schulte

Modulation of AP-1 activity by the human progesterone receptor in endometrial adenocarcinoma cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6169-6174. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tsutomu Nobori, Kenji Takabayashi, Phuoc Tran, Lisa Orvis, Ayse Batova, Alice L. Yu, and Dennis A. Carson

Genomic cloning of methylthioadenosine phosphorylase: A purine metabolic enzyme deficient in multiple different cancers
PNAS 1996 93: 6203-6208. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Nico Nouwen, Ben de Kruijff, and Jan Tommassen

prlA suppressors in Escherichia coli relieve the proton electrochemical gradient dependency of translocation of wild-type precursors
PNAS 1996 93: 5953-5957. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sam R. Telford III, Jacqueline E. Dawson, Paula Katavolos, Cynthia K. Warner, Christopher P. Kolbert, and David H. Persing

Perpetuation of the agent of human granulocytic ehrlichiosis in a deer tick-rodent cycle
PNAS 1996 93: 6209-6214. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Erhard Wischmeyer and Andreas Karschin

Receptor stimulation causes slow inhibition of IRK1 inwardly rectifying K⁺ channels by direct protein kinase A-mediated phosphorylation
PNAS 1996 93: 5819-5823. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shinsuke Satoh, Hitoshi Matsumura, Fumio Suzuki, and Osamu Hayaishi

Promotion of sleep mediated by the A_2a-adenosine receptor and possible involvement of this receptor in the sleep induced by prostaglandin D₂ in rats
PNAS 1996 93: 5980-5984. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Graham Jones, Alexander Herczeg, Markus A. Ruegg, Marianne Lichtsteiner, Stephan Kröger, and Hans Rudolf Brenner

Substrate-bound agrin induces expression of acetylcholine receptor -subunit gene in cultured mammalian muscle cells
PNAS 1996 93: 5985-5990. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hirokazu Hirai, Joachim Kirsch, Bodo Laube, Heinrich Betz, and Jochen Kuhse

The glycine binding site of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit NR1: Identification of novel determinants of co-agonist potentiation in the extracellular M3-M4 loop region
PNAS 1996 93: 6031-6036. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wei Huang, Ildikó Pályka, HaiFang Li, Edward M. Eisenstein, Nora D. Volkow, and Charles S. Springer Jr.

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) detection of the murine brain response to light: Temporal differentiation and negative functional MRI changes
PNAS 1996 93: 6037-6042. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elaine L. Bearer, Joseph A. DeGiorgis, Howard Jaffe, Nelson A. Medeiros, and Thomas S. Reese

An axoplasmic myosin with a calmodulin-like light chain
PNAS 1996 93: 6064-6068. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Omer Sayeed and Seymour Benzer

Behavioral genetics of thermosensation and hygrosensation in Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 6079-6084. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael Schäfer, Shaaban A. Mousa, Qin Zhang, Laurenda Carter, and Christoph Stein

Expression of corticotropin-releasing factor in inflamed tissue is required for intrinsic peripheral opioid analgesia
PNAS 1996 93: 6096-6100. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Kruse and Reinhard Eckhorn

Inhibition of sustained gamma oscillations (35-80 Hz) by fast transient responses in cat visual cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 6112-6117. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Antonio Campos-Caro, Salvador Sala, Juan José Ballesta, Francisco Vicente-Agulló, Manuel Criado, and Francisco Sala

A single residue in the M2-M3 loop is a major determinant of coupling between binding and gating in neuronal nicotinic receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 6118-6123. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Patricia A. Claude, Diane R. Wotta, X. H. Zhang, Paul L. Prather, Terry M. McGinn, Laurie J. Erickson, Horace H. Loh, and P. Y. Law

Mutation of a conserved serine in TM4 of opioid receptors confers full agonistic properties to classical antagonists
PNAS 1996 93: 5715-5719. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Ichiro Kishimoto, Susan K. Dubois, and David L. Garbers

The heart communicates with the kidney exclusively through the guanylyl cyclase-A receptor: Acute handling of sodium and water in response to volume expansion
PNAS 1996 93: 6215-6219. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Carol R. Andersson, Erik Ostergaard Jensen, Danny J. Llewellyn, Elizabeth S. Dennis, and W. James Peacock

A new hemoglobin gene from soybean: A role for hemoglobin in all plants
PNAS 1996 93: 5682-5687. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christoph Reichel, Jaideep Mathur, Peter Eckes, Kerstin Langenkemper, Csaba Koncz, Jeff Schell, Bernd Reiss, and Christoph Maas

Enhanced green fluorescence by the expression of an Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein mutant in mono- and dicotyledonous plant cells
PNAS 1996 93: 5888-5893. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Population Biology

Jeanne Altmann, Susan C. Alberts, Susan A. Haines, Jean Dubach, Philip Muruthi, Trevor Coote, Eli Geffen, David J. Cheesman, Raphael S. Mututua, Serah N. Saiyalel, Robert K. Wayne, Robert C. Lacy, and Michael W. Bruford

Behavior predicts genetic structure in a wild primate group
PNAS 1996 93: 5797-5801. [Abstract] [PDF]