COMMENTARIES

James E. Darnell Jr.

Reflections on STAT3, STAT5, and STAT6 as fat STATs
PNAS 1996 93: 6221-6224. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Winfried Edelmann and Raju Kucherlapati

Role of recombination enzymes in mammalian cell survival
PNAS 1996 93: 6225-6227. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey L. Stein and Melvin I. Simon

Archaeal ubiquity
PNAS 1996 93: 6228-6230. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

G. I. Barenblatt and Alexandre J. Chorin

Small viscosity asymptotics for the inertial range of local structure and for the wall region of wall-bounded turbulent shear flow
PNAS 1996 93: 6749-6752. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physics

Herbert Levine, Igor Aranson, Lev Tsimring, and Thai Viet Truong

Positive genetic feedback governs cAMP spiral wave formation in Dictyostelium
PNAS 1996 93: 6382-6386. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Statistics

A. Y. Yakovlev, L. G. Hanin, S. T. Rachev, and A. D. Tsodikov

A distribution of tumor size at detection and its limiting form
PNAS 1996 93: 6671-6675. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

N. V. Joshi, Madhav Gadgil, and Suresh Patil

Correlates of the desired family size among Indian communities
PNAS 1996 93: 6387-6392. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Sciences

Raymond J. St. Leger, Lokesh Joshi, Michael J. Bidochka, and Donald W. Roberts

Construction of an improved mycoinsecticide overexpressing a toxic protease
PNAS 1996 93: 6349-6354. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Applied Biological Sciences

Phil J. L'Huillier, Solange Soulier, Marie-Georges Stinnakre, Laurence Lepourry, Stephen R. Davis, Jean-Claude Mercier, and Jean-Luc Vilotte

Efficient and specific ribozyme-mediated reduction of bovine -lactalbumin expression in double transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 6698-6703. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Nico Ghilardi, Sandra Ziegler, Adrian Wiestner, Ruedi Stoffel, Markus H. Heim, and Radek C. Skoda

Defective STAT signaling by the leptin receptor in diabetic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 6231-6235. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ramachandran Murali, Patrick J. Brennan, Thomas Kieber-Emmons, and Mark I. Greene

Structural analysis of p185^c-neu and epidermal growth factor receptor tyrosine kinases: Oligomerization of kinase domains
PNAS 1996 93: 6252-6257. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rui-Ming Xu, Gilles Carmel, Jeff Kuret, and Xiaodong Cheng

Structural basis for selectivity of the isoquinoline sulfonamide family of protein kinase inhibitors
PNAS 1996 93: 6308-6313. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ellen Quardokus, Neena Din, and Yves V. Brun

Cell cycle regulation and cell type-specific localization of the FtsZ division initiation protein in Caulobacter
PNAS 1996 93: 6314-6319. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonathan G. Sheldon, Simon-Peter Williams, Alexandra M. Fulton, and Kevin M. Brindle

³¹P NMR magnetization transfer study of the control of ATP turnover in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1996 93: 6399-6404. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Eisenreich, Birgitta Menhard, Peter J. Hylands, Meinhart H. Zenk, and Adelbert Bacher

Studies on the biosynthesis of taxol: The taxane carbon skeleton is not of mevalonoid origin
PNAS 1996 93: 6431-6436. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kin-Fu Chak, Martin K. Safo, Wen-Yen Ku, Shih-Yang Hsieh, and Hanna S. Yuan

The crystal structure of the immunity protein of colicin E7 suggests a possible colicin-interacting surface
PNAS 1996 93: 6437-6442. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Derek R. Duckett, James T. Drummond, Alastair I. H. Murchie, Joyce T. Reardon, Aziz Sancar, David M. J. Lilley, and Paul Modrich

Human MutS recognizes damaged DNA base pairs containing O⁶-methylguanine, O⁴-methylthymine, or the cisplatin-d(GpG) adduct
PNAS 1996 93: 6443-6447. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joyce T. Reardon, Hui Ge, Emma Gibbs, Aziz Sancar, Jerard Hurwitz, and Zhen-Qiang Pan

Isolation and characterization of two human transcription factor IIH (TFIIH)-related complexes: ERCC2/CAK and TFIIH^*
PNAS 1996 93: 6482-6487. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ronny Drapkin, Gary Le Roy, Helen Cho, Sasha Akoulitchev, and Danny Reinberg

Human cyclin-dependent kinase-activating kinase exists in three distinct complexes
PNAS 1996 93: 6488-6493. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frank Uhlmann, Jinsong Cai, Hernan Flores-Rozas, Frank B. Dean, Jeff Finkelstein, Mike O'Donnell, and Jerard Hurwitz

In vitro reconstitution of human replication factor C from its five subunits
PNAS 1996 93: 6521-6526. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter G. Zaphiropoulos

Circular RNAs from transcripts of the rat cytochrome P450 2C24 gene: Correlation with exon skipping
PNAS 1996 93: 6536-6541. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dongmin Ma, Ivan Olave, Alejandro Merino, and Danny Reinberg

Separation of the transcriptional coactivator and antirepression functions of transcription factor IIA
PNAS 1996 93: 6583-6588. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Emer Cunningham, Siow Khoon Tan, Philip Swigart, Justin Hsuan, Vytas Bankaitis, and Shamshad Cockcroft

The yeast and mammalian isoforms of phosphatidylinositol transfer protein can all restore phospholipase C-mediated inositol lipid signaling in cytosol-depleted RBL-2H3 and HL-60 cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6589-6593. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ben Shen and C. Richard Hutchinson

Deciphering the mechanism for the assembly of aromatic polyketides by a bacterial polyketide synthase
PNAS 1996 93: 6600-6604. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mario Mencía, María Monsalve, Fernando Rojo, and Margarita Salas

Transcription activation by phage 29 protein p4 is mediated by interaction with the  subunit of Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase
PNAS 1996 93: 6616-6620. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard E. Whisnant, Alfred G. Gilman, and Carmen W. Dessauer

Interaction of the two cytosolic domains of mammalian adenylyl cyclase
PNAS 1996 93: 6621-6625. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chenhui Zeng, Andrew I. Spielman, Benjamin R. Vowels, James J. Leyden, Klaus Biemann, and George Preti

A human axillary odorant is carried by apolipoprotein D
PNAS 1996 93: 6626-6630. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sigrun Mink, Bettina Mutschler, Ralf Weiskirchen, Klaus Bister, and Karl-Heinz Klempnauer

A novel function for Myc: Inhibition of C/EBP-dependent gene activation
PNAS 1996 93: 6635-6640. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Danielle Canceill and S. Dusko Ehrlich

Copy-choice recombination mediated by DNA polymerase III holoenzyme from Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 6647-6652. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shun-Cheng Li, Natalie K. Goto, Karen A. Williams, and Charles M. Deber

-Helical, but not -sheet, propensity of proline is determined by peptide environment
PNAS 1996 93: 6676-6681. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph F. Maher and Daniel Nathans

Multivalent DNA-binding properties of the HMG-I proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 6716-6720. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ho Yeong Song, Mike Rothe, and David V. Goeddel

The tumor necrosis factor-inducible zinc finger protein A20 interacts with TRAF1/TRAF2 and inhibits NF-B activation
PNAS 1996 93: 6721-6725. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James B. Konopka, Steluta Mariana Margarit, and Peter Dube

Mutation of Pro-258 in transmembrane domain 6 constitutively activates the G protein-coupled -factor receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 6764-6769. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Polly S. Ledvina, Nanhua Yao, Abha Choudhary, and Florante A. Quiocho

Negative electrostatic surface potential of protein sites specific for anionic ligands
PNAS 1996 93: 6786-6791. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eric Scott Bachman and David R. McClay

Molecular cloning of the first metazoan -1,3 glucanase from eggs of the sea urchin Strongylocentrotus purpuratus
PNAS 1996 93: 6808-6813. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kyoungwhan Back and Joseph Chappell

Identifying functional domains within terpene cyclases using a domain-swapping strategy
PNAS 1996 93: 6841-6845. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

T. Ha, Th. Enderle, D. F. Ogletree, D. S. Chemla, P. R. Selvin, and S. Weiss

Probing the interaction between two single molecules: Fluorescence resonance energy transfer between a single donor and a single acceptor
PNAS 1996 93: 6264-6268. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. L. Bernstein and E. Kempner

Radiation target analysis of RNA
PNAS 1996 93: 6410-6414. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kwang-Hwan Jung and John L. Spudich

Protonatable residues at the cytoplasmic end of transmembrane helix-2 in the signal transducer HtrI control photochemistry and function of sensory rhodopsin I
PNAS 1996 93: 6557-6561. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lars Edman, Ülo Mets, and Rudolf Rigler

Conformational transitions monitored for single molecules in solution
PNAS 1996 93: 6710-6715. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Imre Derényi and Tamás Vicsek

The kinesin walk: A dynamic model with elastically coupled heads
PNAS 1996 93: 6775-6779. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lisa M. Hays, Robert E. Feeney, Lois M. Crowe, John H. Crowe, and Ann E. Oliver

Antifreeze glycoproteins inhibit leakage from liposomes during thermotropic phase transitions
PNAS 1996 93: 6835-6840. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Guillermo García-Cardeña, Phil Oh, Jianwei Liu, Jan E. Schnitzer, and William C. Sessa

Targeting of nitric oxide synthase to endothelial cell caveolae via palmitoylation: Implications for nitric oxide signaling
PNAS 1996 93: 6448-6453. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Véronique Le Cabec, Jack B. Cowland, Jero Calafat, and Niels Borregaard

Targeting of proteins to granule subsets is determined by timing and not by sorting: The specific granule protein NGAL is localized to azurophil granules when expressed in HL-60 cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6454-6457. [Abstract] [PDF]  

B. S. Polla, S. Kantengwa, D. François, S. Salvioli, C. Franceschi, C. Marsac, and A. Cossarizza

Mitochondria are selective targets for the protective effects of heat shock against oxidative injury
PNAS 1996 93: 6458-6463. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cosima Härle-Bachor and Petra Boukamp

Telomerase activity in the regenerative basal layer of the epidermis in human skin and in immortal and carcinoma-derived skin keratinocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 6476-6481. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Manjari Mazumdar, Atsushi Mikami, Melissa A. Gee, and Richard B. Vallee

In vitro motility from recombinant dynein heavy chain
PNAS 1996 93: 6552-6556. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Junona Moroianu, Günter Blobel, and Aurelian Radu

The binding site of karyopherin  for karyopherin  overlaps with a nuclear localization sequence
PNAS 1996 93: 6572-6576. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rina Plattner, Michael J. Anderson, Kevin Y. Sato, Clare L. Fasching, Channing J. Der, and Eric J. Stanbridge

Loss of oncogenic ras expression does not correlate with loss of tumorigenicity in human cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6665-6670. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

David Trisler, Jacques Rutin, and Bernard Pessac

Retinal engineering: Engrafted neural cell lines locate in appropriate layers
PNAS 1996 93: 6269-6274. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jianmin Chen, Sandy Chang, Stephen A. Duncan, Hirotaka J. Okano, Gord Fishell, and Alan Aderem

Disruption of the MacMARCKS gene prevents cranial neural tube closure and results in anencephaly
PNAS 1996 93: 6275-6279. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Herbert Levine, Igor Aranson, Lev Tsimring, and Thai Viet Truong

Positive genetic feedback governs cAMP spiral wave formation in Dictyostelium
PNAS 1996 93: 6382-6386. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Katherine Tidman Ault, Marie-Luise Dirksen, and Milan Jamrich

A novel homeobox gene PV.1 mediates induction of ventral mesoderm in Xenopus embryos
PNAS 1996 93: 6415-6420. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph E. Rabinowitz, Urs Rutishauser, and Terry Magnuson

Targeted mutation of Ncam to produce a secreted molecule results in a dominant embryonic lethality
PNAS 1996 93: 6421-6424. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kenneth R. Peterson, Christopher H. Clegg, Patrick A. Navas, Elizabeth J. Norton, Tyler G. Kimbrough, and George Stamatoyannopoulos

Effect of deletion of 5'HS3 or 5'HS2 of the human -globin locus control region on the developmental regulation of globin gene expression in -globin locus yeast artificial chromosome transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 6605-6609. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrew Ransick, R. Andrew Cameron, and Eric H. Davidson

Postembryonic segregation of the germ line in sea urchins in relation to indirect development
PNAS 1996 93: 6759-6763. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Koyomi Miyazaki, Kohji Uchiyama, Yutaka Imokawa, and Katsutoshi Yoshizato

Cloning and characterization of cDNAs for matrix metalloproteinases of regenerating newt limbs
PNAS 1996 93: 6819-6824. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Thomas Eisner, Scott R. Smedley, Daniel K. Young, Maria Eisner, Braden Roach, and Jerrold Meinwald

Chemical basis of courtship in a beetle (Neopyrochroa flabellata): Cantharidin as precopulatory "enticing" agent
PNAS 1996 93: 6494-6498. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas Eisner, Scott R. Smedley, Daniel K. Young, Maria Eisner, Braden Roach, and Jerrold Meinwald

Chemical basis of courtship in a beetle (Neopyrochroa flabellata): Cantharidin as "nuptial gift"
PNAS 1996 93: 6499-6503. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Christina M. Preston, Ke Ying Wu, Tadeusz F. Molinski, and Edward F. DeLong

A psychrophilic crenarchaeon inhabits a marine sponge: Cenarchaeum symbiosum gen. nov., sp. nov.
PNAS 1996 93: 6241-6246. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Castor Cartelle and Walter Carl Hartwig

A new extinct primate among the Pleistocene megafauna of Bahia, Brazil
PNAS 1996 93: 6405-6409. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eyal Nadir, Hanah Margalit, Tamar Gallily, and Shmuel A. Ben-Sasson

Microsatellite spreading in the human genome: Evolutionary mechanisms and structural implications
PNAS 1996 93: 6470-6475. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chi-hua Chiu, Horacio Schneider, Maria P. C. Schneider, Iracilda Sampaio, Carla Meireles, Jerry L. Slightom, Deborah L. Gumucio, and Morris Goodman

Reduction of two functional -globin genes to one: An evolutionary trend in New World monkeys (infraorder Platyrrhini)
PNAS 1996 93: 6510-6515. [Abstract] [PDF]  

V. M. Kirzhner, A. B. Korol, and E. Nevo

Complex dynamics of multilocus systems subjected to cyclical selection
PNAS 1996 93: 6532-6535. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David Haig

Gestational drive and the green-bearded placenta
PNAS 1996 93: 6547-6551. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter Baumann and Stephen P. Jackson

An archaebacterial homologue of the essential eubacterial cell division protein FtsZ
PNAS 1996 93: 6726-6730. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Akishinonomiya Fumihito, Tetsuo Miyake, Masaru Takada, Ryosuke Shingu, Toshinori Endo, Takashi Gojobori, Norio Kondo, and Susumu Ohno

Monophyletic origin and unique dispersal patterns of domestic fowls
PNAS 1996 93: 6792-6795. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Teruhisa Tsuzuki, Yoshimitsu Fujii, Kunihiko Sakumi, Yohei Tominaga, Kazuki Nakao, Mutsuo Sekiguchi, Aizo Matsushiro, Yasuhide Yoshimura, and Takashi Morita

Targeted disruption of the Rad51 gene leads to lethality in embryonic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 6236-6240. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ung-Jin Kim, Hiroaki Shizuya, Hyung-Lyun Kang, Sun-Shim Choi, Charmain L. Garrett, Luc J. Smink, Bruce W. Birren, Julie R. Korenberg, Ian Dunham, and Melvin I. Simon

A bacterial artificial chromosome-based framework contig map of human chromosome 22q
PNAS 1996 93: 6297-6301. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ruth Shemer, Yehudit Birger, Wendy L. Dean, Wolf Reik, Arthur D. Riggs, and Aharon Razin

Dynamic methylation adjustment and counting as part of imprinting mechanisms
PNAS 1996 93: 6371-6376. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kenneth W. Dobie, Muriel Lee, Judith A. Fantes, Elizabeth Graham, A. John Clark, Anthea Springbett, Richard Lathe, and Margaret McClenaghan

Variegated transgene expression in mouse mammary gland is determined by the transgene integration locus
PNAS 1996 93: 6659-6664. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Garret M. Hampton, Amy A. Larson, Rebecca N. Baergen, Robin L. Sommers, Suzanne Kern, and Webster K. Cavenee

Simultaneous assessment of loss of heterozygosity at multiple microsatellite loci using semi-automated fluorescence-based detection: Subregional mapping of chromosome 4 in cervical carcinoma
PNAS 1996 93: 6704-6709. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Yasuhiko Makino, Rieko Kanno, Haruhiko Koseki, and Masaru Taniguchi

Development of V14⁺ NK T cells in the early stages of embryogenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 6516-6520. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karyn L. Cepek, David L. Rimm, and Michael B. Brenner

Expression of a candidate cadherin in T lymphocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 6567-6571. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Simon A. Jones, Marlene Wolf, Shixin Qin, Charles R. Mackay, and Marco Baggiolini

Different functions for the interleukin 8 receptors (IL-8R) of human neutrophil leukocytes: NADPH oxidase and phospholipase D are activated through IL-8R1 but not IL-8R2
PNAS 1996 93: 6682-6686. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ri-Yao Yang, Daniel K. Hsu, and Fu-Tong Liu

Expression of galectin-3 modulates T-cell growth and apoptosis
PNAS 1996 93: 6737-6742. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Theodore G. Clark, Tian-Long Lin, and Harry W. Dickerson

Surface antigen cross-linking triggers forced exit of a protozoan parasite from its host
PNAS 1996 93: 6825-6829. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Edna Furman-Haran, Raanan Margalit, Dov Grobgeld, and Hadassa Degani

Dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging reveals stress-induced angiogenesis in MCF7 human breast tumors
PNAS 1996 93: 6247-6251. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas H. Bugge, Qing Xiao, Keith W. Kombrinck, Matthew J. Flick, Kenn Holmbäck, Mary Jo S. Danton, Melissa C. Colbert, David P. Witte, Kazuo Fujikawa, Earl W. Davie, and Jay L. Degen

Fatal embryonic bleeding events in mice lacking tissue factor, the cell-associated initiator of blood coagulation
PNAS 1996 93: 6258-6263. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xiaohong Cai and Alan Garen

A melanoma-specific V_H antibody cloned from a fusion phage library of a vaccinated melanoma patient
PNAS 1996 93: 6280-6285. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alexander L. Rakhmilevich, Joel Turner, Maura J. Ford, Dennis McCabe, Wenn H. Sun, Paul M. Sondel, Karen Grota, and Ning-Sun Yang

Gene gun-mediated skin transfection with interleukin 12 gene results in regression of established primary and metastatic murine tumors
PNAS 1996 93: 6291-6296. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dieter E. Jenne, Klaus Denzel, Petra Blätzinger, Pia Winter, Brigitte Obermaier, Reinhold P. Linke, and Klaus Altland

A new isoleucine substitution of Val-20 in transthyretin tetramers selectively impairs dimer-dimer contacts and causes systemic amyloidosis
PNAS 1996 93: 6302-6307. [Abstract] [PDF]  

W. Edward Robinson Jr., Manfred G. Reinecke, Samia Abdel-Malek, Qi Jia, and Samson A. Chow

Inhibitors of HIV-1 replication that inhibit HIV integrase
PNAS 1996 93: 6326-6331. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael S. Lan, Clive Wasserfall, Noel K. Maclaren, and Abner Louis Notkins

IA-2, a transmembrane protein of the protein tyrosine phosphatase family, is a major autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus
PNAS 1996 93: 6367-6370. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephane Emiliani, Carine Van Lint, Wolfgang Fischle, Peter Paras Jr., Melanie Ott, John Brady, and Eric Verdin

A point mutation in the HIV-1 Tat responsive element is associated with postintegration latency
PNAS 1996 93: 6377-6381. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert V. Farese Jr., Murielle M. Véniant, Candace M. Cham, Laura M. Flynn, Vincenzo Pierotti, Jeanne F. Loring, Maret Traber, Sandra Ruland, Renée S. Stokowski, Dennis Huszar, and Stephen G. Young

Phenotypic analysis of mice expressing exclusively apolipoprotein B48 or apolipoprotein B100
PNAS 1996 93: 6393-6398. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alexander M. Scharko, Scott B. Perlman, Paul W. Hinds II, Joan M. Hanson, Hideo Uno, and C. David Pauza

Whole body positron emission tomography imaging of simian immunodeficiency virus-infected rhesus macaques
PNAS 1996 93: 6425-6430. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tai-Soon Yong, Ellen Li, David Clark, and Samuel L. Stanley Jr

Complementation of an Escherichia coli adhE mutant by the Entamoeba histolytica EhADH2 gene provides a method for the identification of new antiamebic drugs
PNAS 1996 93: 6464-6469. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert J. H. Payne, Martin A. Nowak, and Baruch S. Blumberg

The dynamics of hepatitis B virus infection
PNAS 1996 93: 6542-6546. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Erik Forsberg, Emilio Hirsch, Leopold Fröhlich, Michael Meyer, Peter Ekblom, Attila Aszodi, Sabine Werner, and Reinhard Fässler

Skin wounds and severed nerves heal normally in mice lacking tenascin-C
PNAS 1996 93: 6594-6599. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stuart W. Young, Fan Qing, Anthony Harriman, Jonathan L. Sessler, William C. Dow, Tarak D. Mody, Gregory W. Hemmi, Yunpeng Hao, and Richard A. Miller

Gadolinium(III) texaphyrin: A tumor selective radiation sensitizer that is detectable by MRI
PNAS 1996 93: 6610-6615. [Abstract] [PDF]  

D. Höfer, B. Püschel, and D. Drenckhahn

Taste receptor-like cells in the rat gut identified by expression of -gustducin
PNAS 1996 93: 6631-6634. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Weidong Zhong, Hao Wang, Brian Herndier, and Don Ganem

Restricted expression of Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (human herpesvirus 8) genes in Kaposi sarcoma
PNAS 1996 93: 6641-6646. [Abstract] [PDF]  

T. M. Zhao, M. A. Robinson, F. S. Bowers, and T. J. Kindt

Infectivity of chimeric human T-cell leukemia virus type I molecular clones assessed by naked DNA inoculation
PNAS 1996 93: 6653-6658. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wei-Kung Wang, Max Essex, Mary Fran McLane, Kenneth H. Mayer, Chung-Cheng Hsieh, Hunter G. Brumblay, George Seage, and Tun-Hou Lee

Pattern of gp120 sequence divergence linked to a lack of clinical progression in human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection
PNAS 1996 93: 6693-6697. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Roberto Tommasini, Raymond Evers, Esther Vogt, Clotilde Mornet, Guido J. R. Zaman, Alfred H. Schinkel, Piet Borst, and Enrico Martinoia

The human multidrug resistance-associated protein functionally complements the yeast cadmium resistance factor 1
PNAS 1996 93: 6743-6748. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yong Xia, Valina L. Dawson, Ted M. Dawson, Solomon H. Snyder, and Jay L. Zweier

Nitric oxide synthase generates superoxide and nitric oxide in arginine-depleted cells leading to peroxynitrite-mediated cellular injury
PNAS 1996 93: 6770-6774. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bao-Kuan Ho, Maria E. Alexianu, Luis V. Colom, A. Habib Mohamed, Fernando Serrano, and Stanley H. Appel

Expression of calbindin-D_28K in motoneuron hybrid cells after retroviral infection with calbindin-D_28K cDNA prevents amyotrophic lateral sclerosis IgG-mediated cytotoxicity
PNAS 1996 93: 6796-6801. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Judith M. Connett, Carolyn J. Anderson, Li-Wu Guo, Sally W. Schwarz, Kurt R. Zinn, Buck E. Rogers, Barry A. Siegel, Gordon W. Philpott, and Michael J. Welch

Radioimmunotherapy with a ⁶⁴Cu-labeled monoclonal antibody: A comparison with ⁶⁷Cu
PNAS 1996 93: 6814-6818. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

B. Brahamsha

An abundant cell-surface polypeptide is required for swimming by the nonflagellated marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus
PNAS 1996 93: 6504-6509. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dalai Yan, Timothy P. Ikeda, Andrea E. Shauger, and Sydney Kustu

Glutamate is required to maintain the steady-state potassium pool in Salmonella typhimurium
PNAS 1996 93: 6527-6531. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mårten Hammar, Zhao Bian, and Staffan Normark

Nucleator-dependent intercellular assembly of adhesive curli organelles in Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 6562-6566. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Alberto Martínez-Serrano, Walter Fischer, Stine Söderström, Ted Ebendal, and Anders Björklund

Long-term functional recovery from age-induced spatial memory impairments by nerve growth factor gene transfer to the rat basal forebrain
PNAS 1996 93: 6355-6360. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. A. McCall, R. G. Gregg, R. R. Behringer, M. Brenner, C. L. Delaney, E. J. Galbreath, C. L. Zhang, R. A. Pearce, S. Y. Chiu, and A. Messing

Targeted deletion in astrocyte intermediate filament (Gfap) alters neuronal physiology
PNAS 1996 93: 6361-6366. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Guoqiang Gu, Guy A. Caldwell, and Martin Chalfie

Genetic interactions affecting touch sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans
PNAS 1996 93: 6577-6582. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kevin K. W. Wang, Rathna Nath, Avigail Posner, Kadee J. Raser, Michelle Buroker-Kilgore, Iradj Hajimohammadreza, Albert W. Probert Jr., Frank W. Marcoux, Qizhuang Ye, Emiko Takano, Masakazu Hatanaka, Masatoshi Maki, Hakan Caner, Jennifer L. Collins, Andrea Fergus, Kevin S. Lee, Elizabeth A. Lunney, Sheryl J. Hays, and Po-wai Yuen

An alpha-mercaptoacrylic acid derivative is a selective nonpeptide cell-permeable calpain inhibitor and is neuroprotective
PNAS 1996 93: 6687-6692. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeremiah F. Kelly, Katsutoshi Furukawa, Steven W. Barger, Mohan R. Rengen, Robert J. Mark, Emmanuelle M. Blanc, George S. Roth, and Mark P. Mattson

Amyloid -peptide disrupts carbachol-induced muscarinic cholinergic signal transduction in cortical neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 6753-6758. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dennis M. Levi and Uri Polat

Neural plasticity in adults with amblyopia
PNAS 1996 93: 6830-6834. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Jennifer V. Schmidt, Gloria Huei-Ting Su, Janardan K. Reddy, M. Celeste Simon, and Christopher A. Bradfield

Characterization of a murine Ahr null allele: Involvement of the Ah receptor in hepatic growth and development
PNAS 1996 93: 6731-6736. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Martine J. Smit, Rob Leurs, Astrid E. Alewijnse, Joeri Blauw, Gerard P. Van Nieuw Amerongen, Yvonne Van De Vrede, Edwin Roovers, and Henk Timmerman

Inverse agonism of histamine H₂ antagonists accounts for upregulation of spontaneously active histamine H₂ receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 6802-6807. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Pádraig Hart, John D. Warth, Paul C. Levesque, Mei Lin Collier, Yvonne Geary, Burton Horowitz, and Joseph R. Hume

Cystic fibrosis gene encodes a cAMP-dependent chloride channel in heart
PNAS 1996 93: 6343-6348. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Simon Santa Cruz, Sean Chapman, Alison G. Roberts, Ian M. Roberts, Denton A. M. Prior, and Karl J. Oparka

Assembly and movement of a plant virus carrying a green fluorescent protein overcoat
PNAS 1996 93: 6286-6290. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert C. Bugos and Harry Y. Yamamoto

Molecular cloning of violaxanthin de-epoxidase from romaine lettuce and expression in Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 6320-6325. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pablo Tornero, Vicente Conejero, and Pablo Vera

Primary structure and expression of a pathogen-induced protease (PR-P69) in tomato plants: Similarity of functional domains to subtilisin-like endoproteases
PNAS 1996 93: 6332-6337. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Limor Minai, Yuval Cohen, Parag R. Chitnis, and Rachel Nechushtai

The precursor of PsaD assembles into the photosystem I complex in two steps
PNAS 1996 93: 6338-6342. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Amitava Mitra, Dan W. Higgins, Willem G. Langenberg, Huiqin Nie, Dibyendu N. Sengupta, and Robert H. Silverman

A mammalian 2-5A system functions as an antiviral pathway in transgenic plants
PNAS 1996 93: 6780-6785. [Abstract] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 92, p. 11385 [Abstract]  

Correction for vol. 93, p. 2822 [Abstract]