COMMENTARIES

Huntington F. Willard

Chromosome manipulation: A systematic approach toward understanding human chromosome structure and function
PNAS 1996 93: 6847-6850. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Michael C. Fitzgerald, Igor Chernushevich, Kenneth G. Standing, Christian P. Whitman, and Stephen B. H. Kent

Probing the oligomeric structure of an enzyme by electrospray ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry
PNAS 1996 93: 6851-6856. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physics

Hans Dehmelt, Xinxin Zhao, Nan Yu, and Warren Nagourney

Excitation transfer spectroscopy with two metastable ¹³⁸Ba⁺ ions in same trap
PNAS 1996 93: 6861-6862. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

Per Møller and Anya C. Hurlbert

Psychophysical evidence for fast region-based segmentation processes in motion and color
PNAS 1996 93: 7421-7426. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Raymond K. Blanchard and Robert J. Cousins

Differential display of intestinal mRNAs regulated by dietary zinc
PNAS 1996 93: 6863-6868. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Knut Meyer, Joanne C. Cusumano, Chris Somerville, and Clint C. S. Chapple

Ferulate-5-hydroxylase from Arabidopsis thaliana defines a new family of cytochrome P450-dependent monooxygenases
PNAS 1996 93: 6869-6874. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rhonda A. Torres, Örn Almarsson, and Thomas C. Bruice

Molecular mechanics calculations of the riboacetal internucleotide linkage in double and triple helices
PNAS 1996 93: 6875-6880. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Francisco J. Nicolás, María L. Cayuela, Isabel M. Martínez-Argudo, Rosa M. Ruiz-Vázquez, and Francisco J. Murillo

High mobility group I(Y)-like DNA-binding domains on a bacterial transcription factor
PNAS 1996 93: 6881-6885. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David S. Wilson, Guojun Sheng, Susie Jun, and Claude Desplan

Conservation and diversification in homeodomain-DNA interactions: A comparative genetic analysis
PNAS 1996 93: 6886-6891. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Edith H. Postel, Valerie H. Weiss, Jutta Beneken, and Ajay Kirtane

Mutational analysis of NM23-H2/NDP kinase identifies the structural domains critical to recognition of a c-myc regulatory element
PNAS 1996 93: 6892-6897. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Surender Kharbanda, Ajit Bharti, Dehua Pei, Jun Wang, Pramod Pandey, Ruibao Ren, Ralph Weichselbaum, Christopher T. Walsh, and Donald Kufe

The stress response to ionizing radiation involves c-Abl-dependent phosphorylation of SHPTP1
PNAS 1996 93: 6898-6901. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mi Li, Fred Dyda, Itai Benhar, Ira Pastan, and David R. Davies

Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of Pseudomonas exotoxin A complexed with a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide analog: Implications for the activation process and for ADP ribosylation
PNAS 1996 93: 6902-6906. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Holger Hausmann, Anke Richters, Hans-Jürgen Kreienkamp, Wolfgang Meyerhof, Henri Mattes, Karl Lederis, Henk Zwiers, and Dietmar Richter

Mutational analysis and molecular modeling of the nonapeptide hormone binding domains of the [Arg⁸]vasotocin receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 6907-6912. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark J. van Raaij, Jan Pieter Abrahams, Andrew G. W. Leslie, and John E. Walker

The structure of bovine F₁-ATPase complexed with the antibiotic inhibitor aurovertin B
PNAS 1996 93: 6913-6917. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rita Ghosh, Chuan-Hsien Peng, and David L. Mitchell

Evidence for a novel DNA damage binding protein in human cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6918-6923. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sean M. Oldham, Geoffrey J. Clark, Lisa M. Gangarosa, Robert J. Coffey Jr., and Channing J. Der

Activation of the Raf-1/MAP kinase cascade is not sufficient for Ras transformation of RIE-1 epithelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 6924-6928. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Saptarshi Paul, Lisa M. Breuninger, Kenneth D. Tew, Hongxie Shen, and Gary D. Kruh

ATP-dependent uptake of natural product cytotoxic drugs by membrane vesicles establishes MRP as a broad specificity transporter
PNAS 1996 93: 6929-6934. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Weigang Gu, Megan Wind, and Daniel Reines

Increased accommodation of nascent RNA in a product site on RNA polymerase II during arrest
PNAS 1996 93: 6935-6940. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John R. Silber, A. Blank, Michael S. Bobola, Beth A. Mueller, Douglas D. Kolstoe, George A. Ojemann, and Mitchel S. Berger

Lack of the DNA repair protein O⁶-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase in histologically normal brain adjacent to primary human brain tumors
PNAS 1996 93: 6941-6946. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chih-Chao Chang, Bihui H. Ye, R. S. K. Chaganti, and Riccardo Dalla-Favera

BCL-6, a POZ/zinc-finger protein, is a sequence-specific transcriptional repressor
PNAS 1996 93: 6947-6952. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael Ibba, Kwang-Won Hong, Joyce M. Sherman, Sanja Sever, and Dieter Söll

Interactions between tRNA identity nucleotides and their recognition sites in glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase determine the cognate amino acid affinity of the enzyme
PNAS 1996 93: 6953-6958. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrea Huwiler, Josef Brunner, Richard Hummel, Margriet Vervoordeldonk, Silvia Stabel, Henk van den Bosch, and Josef Pfeilschifter

Ceramide-binding and activation defines protein kinase c-Raf as a ceramide-activated protein kinase
PNAS 1996 93: 6959-6963. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sheng Luan, Jörg Kudla, Wilhelm Gruissem, and Stuart L. Schreiber

Molecular characterization of a FKBP-type immunophilin from higher plants
PNAS 1996 93: 6964-6969. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Maria Ivanchenko, Jordanka Zlatanova, Patrick Varga-Weisz, Ahmed Hassan, and Kensal van Holde

Linker histones affect patterns of digestion of supercoiled plasmids by single-strand-specific nucleases
PNAS 1996 93: 6970-6974. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anton Yuryev, Meera Patturajan, Ying Litingtung, Ravi V. Joshi, Cristl Gentile, Maha Gebara, and Jeffry L. Corden

The C-terminal domain of the largest subunit of RNA polymerase II interacts with a novel set of serine/arginine-rich proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 6975-6980. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James J. Kelly, Eldon E. Baird, and Peter B. Dervan

Binding site size limit of the 2:1 pyrrole-imidazole polyamide-DNA motif
PNAS 1996 93: 6981-6985. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christopher E. Smith, Thomas Ruttledge, Zhaoxian Zeng, Ronan C. O'Malley, and David G. Lynn

A mechanism for inducing plant development: The genesis of a specific inhibitor
PNAS 1996 93: 6986-6991. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ciarán Condon, Harald Putzer, and Marianne Grunberg-Manago

Processing of the leader mRNA plays a major role in the induction of thrS expression following threonine starvation in Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 1996 93: 6992-6997. [Abstract] [PDF]  

A. Hochkoeppler, D. Zannoni, S. Ciurli, T. E. Meyer, M. A. Cusanovich, and G. Tollin

Kinetics of photo-induced electron transfer from high-potential iron-sulfur protein to the photosynthetic reaction center of the purple phototroph Rhodoferax fermentans
PNAS 1996 93: 6998-7002. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Berkenkamp, Michael Karas, and Franz Hillenkamp

Ice as a matrix for IR-matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization: Mass spectra from a protein single crystal
PNAS 1996 93: 7003-7007. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Martín G. Zysmilich and Ann McDermott

Natural abundance solid-state carbon NMR studies of photosynthetic reaction centers with photoinduced polarization
PNAS 1996 93: 6857-6860. [Abstract] [PDF]  

W.-J. Sun, S. Tristram-Nagle, R. M. Suter, and J. F. Nagle

Structure of the ripple phase in lecithin bilayers
PNAS 1996 93: 7008-7012. [Abstract] [PDF]  

H. Hartmann, S. Zinser, P. Komninos, R. T. Schneider, G. U. Nienhaus, and F. Parak

X-ray structure determination of a metastable state of carbonmonoxy myoglobin after photodissociation
PNAS 1996 93: 7013-7016. [Abstract] [PDF]  

De-Bin Huang, Clint F. Ainsworth, Fred J. Stevens, and Marianne Schiffer

Three quaternary structures for a single protein
PNAS 1996 93: 7017-7021. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xueheng Cheng, Amy C. Harms, Paul N. Goudreau, Thomas C. Terwilliger, and Richard D. Smith

Direct measurement of oligonucleotide binding stoichiometry of gene V protein by mass spectrometry
PNAS 1996 93: 7022-7027. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Françoise Chauvin, Alexey Fomenkov, Craig R. Johnson, and Saul Roseman

The N-terminal domain of Escherichia coli enzyme I of the phosphoenolpyruvate/glycose phosphotransferase system: Molecular cloning and characterization
PNAS 1996 93: 7028-7031. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Taesaeng Choi, Kenji Fukasawa, Renping Zhou, Lino Tessarollo, Kristina Borror, James Resau, and George F. Vande Woude

The Mos/mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway regulates the size and degradation of the first polar body in maturing mouse oocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 7032-7035. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Harry Heimberg, Anick De Vos, Karen Moens, Erik Quartier, Luc Bouwens, Danny Pipeleers, Emile Van Schaftingen, Ole Madsen, and Frans Schuit

The glucose sensor protein glucokinase is expressed in glucagon-producing -cells
PNAS 1996 93: 7036-7041. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeannie Chen, John G. Flannery, Matthew M. LaVail, Roy H. Steinberg, Jun Xu, and Melvin I. Simon

bcl-2 overexpression reduces apoptotic photoreceptor cell death in three different retinal degenerations
PNAS 1996 93: 7042-7047. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Katsunori Sugimoto, Toshiyasu Shimomura, Keiji Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Araki, Akio Sugino, and Kunihiro Matsumoto

Rfc5, a small subunit of replication factor C complex, couples DNA replication and mitosis in budding yeast
PNAS 1996 93: 7048-7052. [Abstract] [PDF]  

A. Durrbach, K. Collins, P. Matsudaira, D. Louvard, and E. Coudrier

Brush border myosin-I truncated in the motor domain impairs the distribution and the function of endocytic compartments in an hepatoma cell line
PNAS 1996 93: 7053-7058. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Junona Moroianu, Günter Blobel, and Aurelian Radu

Nuclear protein import: Ran-GTP dissociates the karyopherin heterodimer by displacing  from an overlapping binding site on 
PNAS 1996 93: 7059-7062. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hong-Gang Wang, Shinichi Takayama, Ulf R. Rapp, and John C. Reed

Bcl-2 interacting protein, BAG-1, binds to and activates the kinase Raf-1
PNAS 1996 93: 7063-7068. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ehud Levi, Rafael Fridman, Hua-Quan Miao, Yong-Cheng Ma, Avner Yayon, and Israel Vlodavsky

Matrix metalloproteinase 2 releases active soluble ectodomain of fibroblast growth factor receptor 1
PNAS 1996 93: 7069-7074. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gregor Zünd, David P. Nelson, Ellis J. Neufeld, Andrea L. Dzus, Joyce Bischoff, John E. Mayer, and Sean P. Colgan

Hypoxia enhances stimulus-dependent induction of E-selectin on aortic endothelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 7075-7080. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patricia C. Galipeau, David S. Cowan, Carissa A. Sanchez, Michael T. Barrett, Mary J. Emond, Douglas S. Levine, Peter S. Rabinovitch, and Brian J. Reid

17p (p53) allelic losses, 4N (G₂/tetraploid) populations, and progression to aneuploidy in Barrett's esophagus
PNAS 1996 93: 7081-7084. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Bradley Efron, Elizabeth Halloran, and Susan Holmes

Bootstrap confidence levels for phylogenetic trees
PNAS 1996 93: 7085-7090. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patricia L. M. Lee, Dale H. Clayton, Richard Griffiths, and Roderic D. M. Page

Does behavior reflect phylogeny in swiftlets (Aves: Apodidae)? A test using cytochrome b mitochondrial DNA sequences
PNAS 1996 93: 7091-7096. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lilya V. Matyunina, I. King Jordan, and John F. McDonald

Naturally occurring variation in copia expression is due to both element (cis) and host (trans) regulatory variation
PNAS 1996 93: 7097-7102. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Degui Wang, J. Lawrence Marsh, and Francisco J. Ayala

Evolutionary changes in the expression pattern of a developmentally essential gene in three Drosophila species
PNAS 1996 93: 7103-7107. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Robert D. Klein, Qimin Gu, Audrey Goddard, and Arnon Rosenthal

Selection for genes encoding secreted proteins and receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 7108-7113. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ortrun Mittelsten Scheid, Ludmila Jakovleva, Karin Afsar, Jolanta Maluszynska, and Jerzy Paszkowski

A change of ploidy can modify epigenetic silencing
PNAS 1996 93: 7114-7119. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Susan T. Lovett and Vladimir V. Feschenko

Stabilization of diverged tandem repeats by mismatch repair: Evidence for deletion formation via a misaligned replication intermediate
PNAS 1996 93: 7120-7124. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. Heller, K. E. Brown, C. Burgtorf, and W. R. A. Brown

Mini-chromosomes derived from the human Y chromosome by telomere directed chromosome breakage
PNAS 1996 93: 7125-7130. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anna Malkova, Evgeny L. Ivanov, and James E. Haber

Double-strand break repair in the absence of RAD51 in yeast: A possible role for break-induced DNA replication
PNAS 1996 93: 7131-7136. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David G. Stokes, Kenneth D. Tartof, and Robert P. Perry

CHD1 is concentrated in interbands and puffed regions of Drosophila polytene chromosomes
PNAS 1996 93: 7137-7142. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Oren Schuldiner, Amir Eden, Tamar Ben-Yosef, Ofra Yanuka, Giora Simchen, and Nissim Benvenisty

ECA39, a conserved gene regulated by c-Myc in mice, is involved in G₁/S cell cycle regulation in yeast
PNAS 1996 93: 7143-7148. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Charles De Smet, Olivier De Backer, Isabella Faraoni, Christophe Lurquin, Francis Brasseur, and Thierry Boon

The activation of human gene MAGE-1 in tumor cells is correlated with genome-wide demethylation
PNAS 1996 93: 7149-7153. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John R. Morrison, Chris Pászty, Mary E. Stevens, Steven D. Hughes, Trudy Forte, James Scott, and Edward M. Rubin

Apolipoprotein B RNA editing enzyme-deficient mice are viable despite alterations in lipoprotein metabolism
PNAS 1996 93: 7154-7159. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patricie Burda, Stephan te Heesen, Arndt Brachat, Achim Wach, Andreas Düsterhöft, and Markus Aebi

Stepwise assembly of the lipid-linked oligosaccharide in the endoplasmic reticulum of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: Identification of the ALG9 gene encoding a putative mannosyl transferase
PNAS 1996 93: 7160-7165. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. P. Elsevier, L. Wells, B. B. Quimby, and J. L. Fridovich-Keil

Heterodimer formation and activity in the human enzyme galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase
PNAS 1996 93: 7166-7171. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Kazushige Maki, Shinji Sunaga, Yoshinori Komagata, Yuzo Kodaira, Ayako Mabuchi, Hajime Karasuyama, Kozo Yokomuro, Jun-ichi Miyazaki, and Koichi Ikuta

Interleukin 7 receptor-deficient mice lack T cells
PNAS 1996 93: 7172-7177. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Qing R. Fan, David N. Garboczi, Christine C. Winter, Nicolai Wagtmann, Eric O. Long, and Don C. Wiley

Direct binding of a soluble natural killer cell inhibitory receptor to a soluble human leukocyte antigen-Cw4 class I major histocompatibility complex molecule
PNAS 1996 93: 7178-7183. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Claude Grégoire, Shih-Yao Lin, Gilbert Mazza, Najet Rebaï, Immanuel F. Luescher, and Bernard Malissen

Covalent assembly of a soluble T cell receptor-peptide-major histocompatibility class I complex
PNAS 1996 93: 7184-7189. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ajay Sharma, Jeannine Okabe, Patrick Birch, Steven B. McClellan, Michael J. Martin, Jeffery L. Platt, and John S. Logan

Reduction in the level of Gal(1,3)Gal in transgenic mice and pigs by the expression of an (1,2)fucosyltransferase
PNAS 1996 93: 7190-7195. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jia-Bin Sun, Carola Rask, Tomas Olsson, Jan Holmgren, and Cecil Czerkinsky

Treatment of experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis by feeding myelin basic protein conjugated to cholera toxin B subunit
PNAS 1996 93: 7196-7201. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Barbara S. Nepom, Gerald T. Nepom, Marilyn Coleman, and William W. Kwok

Critical contribution of  chain residue 57 in peptide binding ability of both HLA-DR and -DQ molecules
PNAS 1996 93: 7202-7206. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yasuyuki Ishii, Tatsumi Nakano, and Kimishige Ishizaka

Cellular mechanisms for the formation of a soluble form derivative of T-cell receptor  chain by suppressor T cells
PNAS 1996 93: 7207-7212. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Heather L. Davis, Michael J. McCluskie, John L. Gerin, and Robert H. Purcell

DNA vaccine for hepatitis B: Evidence for immunogenicity in chimpanzees and comparison with other vaccines
PNAS 1996 93: 7213-7218. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Alessandro Michienzi, Silvia Prislei, and Irene Bozzoni

U1 small nuclear RNA chimeric ribozymes with substrate specificity for the Rev pre-mRNA of human immunodeficiency virus
PNAS 1996 93: 7219-7224. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tura Ferre, Anna Pujol, Efren Riu, Fatima Bosch, and Alfons Valera

Correction of diabetic alterations by glucokinase
PNAS 1996 93: 7225-7230. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neil M. Ferguson, Roy M. Anderson, and Geoff P. Garnett

Mass vaccination to control chickenpox: The influence of zoster
PNAS 1996 93: 7231-7235. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph Rosenecker, Weiming Zhang, Keelung Hong, James Lausier, Pierangelo Geppetti, Shigemi Yoshihara, Demetrios Papahadjopoulos, and Jay A. Nadel

Increased liposome extravasation in selected tissues: Effect of substance P
PNAS 1996 93: 7236-7241. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Masako Shimada, Shun Ishibashi, Toshimori Inaba, Hiroaki Yagyu, Kenji Harada, Jun-ichi Osuga, Ken Ohashi, Yoshio Yazaki, and Nobuhiro Yamada

Suppression of diet-induced atherosclerosis in low density lipoprotein receptor knockout mice overexpressing lipoprotein lipase
PNAS 1996 93: 7242-7246. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andreas V. M. Herz, Sebastian Bonhoeffer, Roy M. Anderson, Robert M. May, and Martin A. Nowak

Viral dynamics in vivo: Limitations on estimates of intracellular delay and virus decay
PNAS 1996 93: 7247-7251. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zao-zhong Su, Jian Lin, Ruoqian Shen, Peter E. Fisher, Neil I. Goldstein, and Paul B. Fisher

Surface-epitope masking and expression cloning identifies the human prostate carcinoma tumor antigen gene PCTA-1 a member of the galectin gene family
PNAS 1996 93: 7252-7257. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Magnus Johansson and Anna Karlsson

Cloning and expression of human deoxyguanosine kinase cDNA
PNAS 1996 93: 7258-7262. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter Burfeind, Cheryl L. Chernicky, Frauke Rininsland, Joseph Ilan, and Judith Ilan

Antisense RNA to the type I insulin-like growth factor receptor suppresses tumor growth and prevents invasion by rat prostate cancer cells in vivo
PNAS 1996 93: 7263-7268. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Attila Nagy, Andrew V. Schally, Patricia Armatis, Karoly Szepeshazi, Gabor Halmos, Magdolna Kovacs, Marta Zarandi, Kate Groot, Masahiro Miyazaki, Andreas Jungwirth, and Judit Horvath

Cytotoxic analogs of luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone containing doxorubicin or 2-pyrrolinodoxorubicin, a derivative 500-1000 times more potent
PNAS 1996 93: 7269-7273. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xiao-Song He, Huo-Sheng Chen, Keting Chu, Marianne Rivkina, and William S. Robinson

Costimulatory protein B7-1 enhances the cytotoxic T cell response and antibody response to hepatitis B surface antigen
PNAS 1996 93: 7274-7278. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. Anthony Williamson, David Peretz, Nechama Smorodinsky, Raiza Bastidas, Hana Serban, Ingrid Mehlhorn, Stephen J. DeArmond, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Dennis R. Burton

Circumventing tolerance to generate autologous monoclonal antibodies to the prion protein
PNAS 1996 93: 7279-7282. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Juliette Janson, Walter C. Soeller, Patrick C. Roche, Robin T. Nelson, Anthony J. Torchia, David K. Kreutter, and Peter C. Butler

Spontaneous diabetes mellitus in transgenic mice expressing human islet amyloid polypeptide
PNAS 1996 93: 7283-7288. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Brendan S. Crabb and Alan F. Cowman

Characterization of promoters and stable transfection by homologous and nonhomologous recombination in Plasmodium falciparum
PNAS 1996 93: 7289-7294. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. Balzarini, A. Karlsson, S. Aquaro, C.-F. Perno, D. Cahard, L. Naesens, E. De Clercq, and C. McGuigan

Mechanism of anti-HIV action of masked alaninyl d4T-MP derivatives
PNAS 1996 93: 7295-7299. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hiroshi Aoki, Kazunori Kajino, Yasuyuki Arakawa, and Okio Hino

Molecular cloning of a rat chromosome putative recombinogenic sequence homologous to the hepatitis B virus encapsidation signal
PNAS 1996 93: 7300-7304. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hans E. J. Hofland, Lee Shephard, and Sean M. Sullivan

Formation of stable cationic lipid/DNA complexes for gene transfer
PNAS 1996 93: 7305-7309. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Teshome Mebatsion, Matthias J. Schnell, James H. Cox, Stefan Finke, and Karl-Klaus Conzelmann

Highly stable expression of a foreign gene from rabies virus vectors
PNAS 1996 93: 7310-7314. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ching-Hong Yang, Hamid R. Azad, and Donald A. Cooksey

A chromosomal locus required for copper resistance, competitive fitness, and cytochrome c biogenesis in Pseudomonas fluorescens
PNAS 1996 93: 7315-7320. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Arcady R. Mushegian, Karla Jean Fullner, Eugene V. Koonin, and Eugene W. Nester

A family of lysozyme-like virulence factors in bacterial pathogens of plants and animals
PNAS 1996 93: 7321-7326. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Brian L. Wickes, María E. Mayorga, Ursula Edman, and Jeffrey C. Edman

Dimorphism and haploid fruiting in Cryptococcus neoformans: Association with the -mating type
PNAS 1996 93: 7327-7331. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Xiao-Bo Liu and Edward G. Jones

Localization of alpha type II calcium calmodulin-dependent protein kinase at glutamatergic but not -aminobutyric acid (GABAergic) synapses in thalamus and cerebral cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 7332-7336. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ladislav Mrzljak, Allan I. Levey, and Pasko Rakic

Selective expression of m2 muscarinic receptor in the parvocellular channel of the primate visual cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 7337-7340. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Caroline E. Fisher, Jay A. Sutherland, James E. Krause, John R. Murphy, Susan E. Leeman, and Johanna C. vanderSpek

Genetic construction and properties of a diphtheria toxin-related substance P fusion protein: In vitro destruction of cells bearing substance P receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 7341-7345. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Keith D. Anderson, Nikos Panayotatos, Thomas L. Corcoran, Ronald M. Lindsay, and Stanley J. Wiegand

Ciliary neurotrophic factor protects striatal output neurons in an animal model of Huntington disease
PNAS 1996 93: 7346-7351. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Adrienne Rencic, Jennifer Gordon, Jessica Otte, Mark Curtis, Albert Kovatich, Philip Zoltick, Kamel Khalili, and David Andrews

Detection of JC virus DNA sequence and expression of the viral oncoprotein, tumor antigen, in brain of immunocompetent patient with oligoastrocytoma
PNAS 1996 93: 7352-7357. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Aniek A. Schoups and Guy A. Orban

Interocular transfer in perceptual learning of a pop-out discrimination task
PNAS 1996 93: 7358-7362. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jens Rettig, Zu-Hang Sheng, D. Kyle Kim, Connie D. Hodson, Terry P. Snutch, and William A. Catterall

Isoform-specific interaction of the _1A subunits of brain Ca²⁺ channels with the presynaptic proteins syntaxin and SNAP-25
PNAS 1996 93: 7363-7368. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John J. O'Toole, Katherine A. Deyst, Mark A. Bowe, Mary A. Nastuk, Beth A. McKechnie, and Justin R. Fallon

Alternative splicing of agrin regulates its binding to heparin, -dystroglycan, and the cell surface
PNAS 1996 93: 7369-7374. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Daniel K. Rohrer, Kavin H. Desai, Jeffrey R. Jasper, Mary E. Stevens, Donald P. Regula Jr., Gregory S. Barsh, Daniel Bernstein, and Brian K. Kobilka

Targeted disruption of the mouse 1-adrenergic receptor gene: Developmental and cardiovascular effects
PNAS 1996 93: 7375-7380. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen D. Yanofsky, David N. Baldwin, John H. Butler, Frank R. Holden, Jeffrey W. Jacobs, Palaniappan Balasubramanian, Jason P. Chinn, Steven E. Cwirla, Elizabeth Peters-Bhatt, Erik A. Whitehorn, Emily H. Tate, Ann Akeson, Terry L. Bowlin, William J. Dower, and Ronald W. Barrett

High affinity type I interleukin 1 receptor antagonists discovered by screening recombinant peptide libraries
PNAS 1996 93: 7381-7386. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Masanori Kitamura

Creation of a reversible on/off system for site-specific in vivo control of exogenous gene activity in the renal glomerulus
PNAS 1996 93: 7387-7391. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jean-Pierre Bénitah, Gordon F. Tomaselli, and Eduardo Marban

Adjacent pore-lining residues within sodium channels identified by paired cysteine mutagenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 7392-7396. [Abstract] [PDF]  

D. A. Denton, M. J. McKinley, and R. S. Weisinger INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Hypothalamic integration of body fluid regulation PNAS 1996 93: 7397-7404. [Abstract] [PDF]

Ann Kitchen, Derek Denton, and Linda Brent INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Self-recognition and abstraction abilities in the common chimpanzee studied with distorting mirrors PNAS 1996 93: 7405-7408. [Abstract] [PDF]

C. M. Hartmann, A. S. Hewson, C. H. Kos, H. Hilfiker, Y. Soumounou, H. Murer, and H. S. Tenenhouse

Structure of murine and human renal type II Na⁺-phosphate cotransporter genes (Npt2 and NPT2)
PNAS 1996 93: 7409-7414. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

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