PERSPECTIVES

Saunders Mac Lane

What ranks for research doctoral programs?
PNAS 1996 93: 8816-8817. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen M. Stigler

Rating, not ranking
PNAS 1996 93: 8818-8819. [Abstract] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

W. Ford Doolittle

At the core of the Archaea
PNAS 1996 93: 8797-8799. [Abstract] [PDF]  

B. J. Berne

Inferring the hydrophobic interaction from the properties of neat water
PNAS 1996 93: 8800-8803. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Maria Jasin, Mary Ellen Moynahan, and Christine Richardson

Targeted transgenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 8804-8808. [Abstract] [PDF]  

REVIEWS

Olli V. Lounasmaa, Matti Hämäläinen, Riitta Hari, and Riitta Salmelin

Information processing in the human brain: Magnetoencephalographic approach
PNAS 1996 93: 8809-8815. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES

SOCIAL SCIENCES

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Sciences

P. F. Byrne, M. D. McMullen, M. E. Snook, T. A. Musket, J. M. Theuri, N. W. Widstrom, B. R. Wiseman, and E. H. Coe

Quantitative trait loci and metabolic pathways: Genetic control of the concentration of maysin, a corn earworm resistance factor, in maize silks
PNAS 1996 93: 8820-8825. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Applied Biological Sciences

D. P. Allison, P. S. Kerper, M. J. Doktycz, J. A. Spain, P. Modrich, F. W. Larimer, T. Thundat, and R. J. Warmack

Direct atomic force microscope imaging of EcoRI endonuclease site specifically bound to plasmid DNA molecules
PNAS 1996 93: 8826-8829. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Shmuel Yitzhaki, Elana Miriami, Ruth Sperling, and Joseph Sperling

Phosphorylated Ser/Arg-rich proteins: Limiting factors in the assembly of 200S large nuclear ribonucleoprotein particles
PNAS 1996 93: 8830-8835. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zbigniew Dauter, Keith S. Wilson, Larry C. Sieker, Jean-Marc Moulis, and Jacques Meyer

Zinc- and iron-rubredoxins from Clostridium pasteurianum at atomic resolution: A high-precision model of a ZnS₄ coordination unit in a protein
PNAS 1996 93: 8836-8840. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lewis V. Wray Jr., Amy E. Ferson, Kellie Rohrer, and Susan H. Fisher

TnrA, a transcription factor required for global nitrogen regulation in Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 1996 93: 8841-8845. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert Huber, Peter Hof, Rui O. Duarte, Jose J. G. Moura, Isabel Moura, Ming-Yih Liu, Jean LeGall, Russ Hille, Margarida Archer, and Maria J. Romão

A structure-based catalytic mechanism for the xanthine oxidase family of molybdenum enzymes
PNAS 1996 93: 8846-8851. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey S. Bartlett, Manjiri Sethna, Lakshman Ramamurthy, Sally A. Gowen, R. Jude Samulski, and William F. Marzluff

Efficient expression of protein coding genes from the murine U1 small nuclear RNA promoters
PNAS 1996 93: 8852-8857. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alicia J. Dombroski, Bradley D. Johnson, Michael Lonetto, and Carol A. Gross

The sigma subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase senses promoter spacing
PNAS 1996 93: 8858-8862. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yuh-Hwa Wang and Jack D. Griffith

The [(G/C)₃NN]_n motif: A common DNA repeat that excludes nucleosomes
PNAS 1996 93: 8863-8867. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tracy L. Smith and Robert T. Sauer

Dual regulation of open-complex formation and promoter clearance by Arc explains a novel repressor to activator switch
PNAS 1996 93: 8868-8872. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xiao-yan Qian, Zhong-ying Chen, Jianbo Zhang, Arnold B. Rabson, and Robert M. Krug

New approach for inhibiting REV function and HIV-1 production using the influenza virus NS1 protein
PNAS 1996 93: 8873-8877. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter M. Siegel and William J. Muller

Mutations affecting conserved cysteine residues within the extracellular domain of Neu promote receptor dimerization and activation
PNAS 1996 93: 8878-8883. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Carolyn L. Smith, Sergio A. Oñate, Ming-Jer Tsai, and Bert W. O'Malley

CREB binding protein acts synergistically with steroid receptor coactivator-1 to enhance steroid receptor-dependent transcription
PNAS 1996 93: 8884-8888. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lorraine B. Anderson, Ann Vogel Hertzel, and Anath Das

Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB7 and VirB9 form a disulfide-linked protein complex
PNAS 1996 93: 8889-8894. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ding-Fang Yun and Fred Sherman

Degradation of CYC1 mRNA in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae does not require translation
PNAS 1996 93: 8895-8900. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jorge Cruz-Reyes and Barbara Sollner-Webb

Trypanosome U-deletional RNA editing involves guide RNA-directed endonuclease cleavage, terminal U exonuclease, and RNA ligase activities
PNAS 1996 93: 8901-8906. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chun Luo, Karen T.-Y. Shaw, Anuradha Raghavan, Jose Aramburu, Francisco Garcia-Cozar, Brian A. Perrino, Patrick G. Hogan, and Anjana Rao

Interaction of calcineurin with a domain of the transcription factor NFAT1 that controls nuclear import
PNAS 1996 93: 8907-8912. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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

Protein p4 represses phage 29 A2c promoter by interacting with the  subunit of Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase
PNAS 1996 93: 8913-8918. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steven Xanthoudakis, Richard J. Smeyne, James D. Wallace, and Tom Curran

The redox/DNA repair protein, Ref-1, is essential for early embryonic development in mice
PNAS 1996 93: 8919-8923. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jens M. Warnecke, Jens Peter Fürste, Wolf-Dietrich Hardt, Volker A. Erdmann, and Roland K. Hartmann

Ribonuclease P (RNase P) RNA is converted to a Cd²⁺-ribozyme by a single Rp-phosphorothioate modification in the precursor tRNA at the RNase P cleavage site
PNAS 1996 93: 8924-8928. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Feng Liang, Peter J. Romanienko, David T. Weaver, Penny A. Jeggo, and Maria Jasin

Chromosomal double-strand break repair in Ku80-deficient cells
PNAS 1996 93: 8929-8933. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas W. Sappington, Vladimir A. Kokoza, Wen-Long Cho, and Alexander S. Raikhel

Molecular characterization of the mosquito vitellogenin receptor reveals unexpected high homology to the Drosophila yolk protein receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 8934-8939. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonathan M. Yingling, Pradeep Das, Cathy Savage, Ming Zhang, Richard W. Padgett, and Xiao-Fan Wang

Mammalian dwarfins are phosphorylated in response to transforming growth factor  and are implicated in control of cell growth
PNAS 1996 93: 8940-8944. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Paul A. Rejto and Gennady M. Verkhivker

Unraveling principles of lead discovery: From unfrustrated energy landscapes to novel molecular anchors
PNAS 1996 93: 8945-8950. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gerhard Hummer, Shekhar Garde, Angel E. García, Andrew Pohorille, and Lawrence R. Pratt

An information theory model of hydrophobic interactions
PNAS 1996 93: 8951-8955. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Matthew V. Lorenzi, Yoshihiro Horii, Ryuya Yamanaka, Kazushige Sakaguchi, and Toru Miki

FRAG1, a gene that potently activates fibroblast growth factor receptor by C-terminal fusion through chromosomal rearrangement
PNAS 1996 93: 8956-8961. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gideon Grafi, Ronald J. Burnett, Tim Helentjaris, Brian A. Larkins, James A. DeCaprio, William R. Sellers, and William G. Kaelin Jr.

A maize cDNA encoding a member of the retinoblastoma protein family: Involvement in endoreduplication
PNAS 1996 93: 8962-8967. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lelio Orci, Randy Schekman, and Alain Perrelet

Interleaflet clear space is reduced in the membrane of COP I and COP II-coated buds/vesicles
PNAS 1996 93: 8968-8970. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karen A. Westerman and Philippe Leboulch

Reversible immortalization of mammalian cells mediated by retroviral transfer and site-specific recombination
PNAS 1996 93: 8971-8976. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael L. Lu, Mitsuhiro Sato, Boliang Cao, and Jerome P. Richie

UV irradiation-induced apoptosis leads to activation of a 36-kDa myelin basic protein kinase in HL-60 cells
PNAS 1996 93: 8977-8982. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chantal Wicky, Anne M. Villeneuve, Nathalie Lauper, Laurence Codourey, Heinz Tobler, and Fritz Müller

Telomeric repeats (TTAGGC)_n are sufficient for chromosome capping function in Caenorhabditis elegans
PNAS 1996 93: 8983-8988. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shu-Hsing Wu and J. Clark Lagarias

The methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris synthesizes a functionally active chromophore precursor of the plant photoreceptor phytochrome
PNAS 1996 93: 8989-8994. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Baoxi Qu, Martin Ziak, Christian Zuber, and Jürgen Roth

Poly(2,8-deaminoneuraminic acid) is expressed in lung on a single 150-kDa glycoprotein and is an oncodevelopmental antigen
PNAS 1996 93: 8995-8998. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrea Weisberg and Saul Winegrad

Alteration of myosin cross bridges by phosphorylation of myosin-binding protein C in cardiac muscle
PNAS 1996 93: 8999-9003. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Brigitte Dauwalder, Felipe Amaya-Manzanares, and William Mattox

A human homologue of the Drosophila sex determination factor transformer-2 has conserved splicing regulatory functions
PNAS 1996 93: 9004-9009. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Valerie Dupé, Manuel Mark, Andrée Dierich, Philippe Kastner, and Pierre Chambon

RXR null mice are apparently normal and compound RXR^+//RXR^//RXR^/ mutant mice are viable
PNAS 1996 93: 9010-9014. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Palle Serup, Jan Jensen, Frank G. Andersen, Mette C. Jørgensen, Niels Blume, Jens J. Holst, and Ole D. Madsen

Induction of insulin and islet amyloid polypeptide production in pancreatic islet glucagonoma cells by insulin promoter factor 1
PNAS 1996 93: 9015-9020. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Slobodan Vukicevic, Jeffrey B. Kopp, Frank P. Luyten, and T. Kuber Sampath

Induction of nephrogenic mesenchyme by osteogenic protein 1 (bone morphogenetic protein 7)
PNAS 1996 93: 9021-9026. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Arturo C. Verrotti, Sunnie R. Thompson, Christopher Wreden, Sidney Strickland, and Marvin Wickens

Evolutionary conservation of sequence elements controlling cytoplasmic polyadenylylation
PNAS 1996 93: 9027-9032. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Yrjö Helariutta, Mika Kotilainen, Paula Elomaa, Nisse Kalkkinen, Kåre Bremer, Teemu H. Teeri, and Victor A. Albert

Duplication and functional divergence in the chalcone synthase gene family of Asteraceae: Evolution with substrate change and catalytic simplification
PNAS 1996 93: 9033-9038. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Mona Nemani, Gustavo Linares-Cruz, Heriberto Bruzzoni-Giovanelli, Jean-Pierre Roperch, Marcel Tuynder, Lydie Bougueleret, Dorra Cherif, Monia Medhioub, Patricia Pasturaud, Véronique Alvaro, Hera Der Sarkissan, Lucien Cazes, Denis Le Paslier, Isabelle Le Gall, David Israeli, Jean Dausset, François Sigaux, Ilya Chumakov, Moshe Oren, Fabien Calvo, Robert B. Amson, Daniel Cohen, and Adam Telerman

Activation of the human homologue of the Drosophila sina gene in apoptosis and tumor suppression
PNAS 1996 93: 9039-9042. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Aurora Storlazzi, Liuzhong Xu, Anthony Schwacha, and Nancy Kleckner

Synaptonemal complex (SC) component Zip1 plays a role in meiotic recombination independent of SC polymerization along the chromosomes
PNAS 1996 93: 9043-9048. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jian Huang, Nickolas Papadopoulos, Aileen J. McKinley, Susan M. Farrington, Lucy J. Curtis, Andrew H. Wyllie, Shu Zheng, James K. V. Willson, Sanford D. Markowitz, Pat Morin, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, and Malcolm G. Dunlop

APC mutations in colorectal tumors with mismatch repair deficiency
PNAS 1996 93: 9049-9054. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. Vittoria Schiaffino, Cinzia Baschirotto, Graziella Pellegrini, Simona Montalti, Carlo Tacchetti, Michele De Luca, and Andrea Ballabio

The ocular albinism type 1 gene product is a membrane glycoprotein localized to melanosomes
PNAS 1996 93: 9055-9060. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mikhail S. Gelfand, Andrey A. Mironov, and Pavel A. Pevzner

Gene recognition via spliced sequence alignment
PNAS 1996 93: 9061-9066. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sarah K. Bronson, Elizabeth G. Plaehn, Kimberly D. Kluckman, John R. Hagaman, Nobuyo Maeda, and Oliver Smithies

Single-copy transgenic mice with chosen-site integration
PNAS 1996 93: 9067-9072. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John L. Jakubczak, Glenn Merlino, John E. French, William J. Muller, Brian Paul, Sankar Adhya, and Susan Garges

Analysis of genetic instability during mammary tumor progression using a novel selection-based assay for in vivo mutations in a bacteriophage  transgene target
PNAS 1996 93: 9073-9078. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jai Uttam, Elizabeth Hutton, Pierre A. Coulombe, Ingrun Anton-Lamprecht, Qian-Chun Yu, Tobias Gedde-Dahl Jr., Jo-David Fine, and Elaine Fuchs

The genetic basis of epidermolysis bullosa simplex with mottled pigmentation
PNAS 1996 93: 9079-9084. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Kazunori Kato, Osamu Shimozato, Kenichi Hoshi, Hiroaki Wakimoto, Hirofumi Hamada, Hideo Yagita, and Ko Okumura

Local production of the p40 subunit of interleukin 12 suppresses T-helper 1-mediated immune responses and prevents allogeneic myoblast rejection
PNAS 1996 93: 9085-9089. [Abstract] [PDF]  

K. Natarajan, Sanjaya Singh, Terrence R. Burke Jr., Dezider Grunberger, and Bharat B. Aggarwal

Caffeic acid phenethyl ester is a potent and specific inhibitor of activation of nuclear transcription factor NF-B
PNAS 1996 93: 9090-9095. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Masanori Kasahara, Masaru Hayashi, Keiji Tanaka, Hidetoshi Inoko, Kimihiko Sugaya, Toshimichi Ikemura, and Teruo Ishibashi

Chromosomal localization of the proteasome Z subunit gene reveals an ancient chromosomal duplication involving the major histocompatibility complex
PNAS 1996 93: 9096-9101. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Siegfried Weiss, Andrew Mellor, and Brigitta Stockinger

Expression of a second receptor rescues self-specific T cells from thymic deletion and allows activation of autoreactive effector function
PNAS 1996 93: 9102-9107. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joanne L. Macen, Rosemary S. Garner, Pierre Y. Musy, Michael A. Brooks, Peter C. Turner, Richard W. Moyer, Grant McFadden, and R. Chris Bleackley

Differential inhibition of the Fas- and granule-mediated cytolysis pathways by the orthopoxvirus cytokine response modifier A/SPI-2 and SPI-1 protein
PNAS 1996 93: 9108-9113. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bobby V. Khan, David G. Harrison, Matthew T. Olbrych, R. Wayne Alexander, and Russell M. Medford

Nitric oxide regulates vascular cell adhesion molecule 1 gene expression and redox-sensitive transcriptional events in human vascular endothelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 9114-9119. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Etienne Marbaix, Isabelle Kokorine, Pierre Moulin, Jacques Donnez, Yves Eeckhout, and Pierre J. Courtoy

Menstrual breakdown of human endometrium can be mimicked in vitro and is selectively and reversibly blocked by inhibitors of matrix metalloproteinases
PNAS 1996 93: 9120-9125. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark W. Kieran, Andrew C. Perkins, Stuart H. Orkin, and Leonard I. Zon

Thrombopoietin rescues in vitro erythroid colony formation from mouse embryos lacking the erythropoietin receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 9126-9131. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ninel S. Logvinenko, Irina Dulubova, Natalya Fedosova, Stefan H. Larsson, Angus C. Nairn, Mikael Esmann, Paul Greengard, and Anita Aperia

Phosphorylation by protein kinase C of serine-23 of the -1 subunit of rat Na⁺,K⁺-ATPase affects its conformational equilibrium
PNAS 1996 93: 9132-9137. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wieslaw M. Kazmierski, Gerald Wolberg, Joan G. Wilson, Sheila R. Smith, Darryl S. Williams, H. Holden Thorp, and Luis Molina

Iron chelates bind nitric oxide and decrease mortality in an experimental model of septic shock
PNAS 1996 93: 9138-9141. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wen-Jinn Chang, Susan T. Iannaccone, Kim S. Lau, Bettie Sue S. Masters, Timothy J. McCabe, Kirk McMillan, Roanna C. Padre, Melissa J. Spencer, James G. Tidball, and James T. Stull

Neuronal nitric oxide synthase and dystrophin-deficient muscular dystrophy
PNAS 1996 93: 9142-9147. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Qian Zhang, Irena Nowak, Eric C. Vonderheid, Alain H. Rook, Marshall E. Kadin, Peter C. Nowell, Leslie M. Shaw, and Mariusz A. Wasik

Activation of Jak/STAT proteins involved in signal transduction pathway mediated by receptor for interleukin 2 in malignant T lymphocytes derived from cutaneous anaplastic large T-cell lymphoma and Sezary syndrome
PNAS 1996 93: 9148-9153. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fang Jin, Ralf Wienecke, Guang-Hui Xiao, John C. Maize Jr., Jeffrey E. DeClue, and Raymond S. Yeung

Suppression of tumorigenicity by the wild-type tuberous sclerosis 2 (Tsc2) gene and its C-terminal region
PNAS 1996 93: 9154-9159. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hongping Jiang, Zao-Zhong Su, Jiao Jiao Lin, Neil I. Goldstein, Charles S. H. Young, and Paul B. Fisher

The melanoma differentiation associated gene mda-7 suppresses cancer cell growth
PNAS 1996 93: 9160-9165. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph Lotem, Mira Peled-Kamar, Yoram Groner, and Leo Sachs

Cellular oxidative stress and the control of apoptosis by wild-type p53, cytotoxic compounds, and cytokines
PNAS 1996 93: 9166-9171. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mike Visser, Johannes Bras, Carin Sijmons, Peter Devilee, Liliane C. D. Wijnaendts, J. C. van der Linden, P. A. Voûte, and Frank Baas

Microsatellite instability in childhood rhabdomyosarcoma is locus specific and correlates with fractional allelic loss
PNAS 1996 93: 9172-9176. [Abstract] [PDF]  

A. Collins, C. J. MacLean, and N. E. Morton

Trials of the  model for complex inheritance
PNAS 1996 93: 9177-9181. [Abstract] [PDF]  

K.-L. Paul Sung, Li Yang, Darren E. Whittemore, Yan Shi, Gang Jin, Adam H. Hsieh, Wayne H. Akeson, and L. Amy Sung

The differential adhesion forces of anterior cruciate and medial collateral ligament fibroblasts: Effects of tropomodulin, talin, vinculin, and -actinin
PNAS 1996 93: 9182-9187. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Susan M. Barns, Charles F. Delwiche, Jeffrey D. Palmer, and Norman R. Pace

Perspectives on archaeal diversity, thermophily and monophyly from environmental rRNA sequences
PNAS 1996 93: 9188-9193. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sunita Zalani, Elizabeth Holley-Guthrie, and Shannon Kenney

Epstein-Barr viral latency is disrupted by the immediate-early BRLF1 protein through a cell-specific mechanism
PNAS 1996 93: 9194-9199. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Julie Tseng-Crank, Nathalie Godinot, Teit E. Johansen, Philip K. Ahring, Dorte Strøbæk, Robert Mertz, Christine D. Foster, Søren-Peter Olesen, and Peter H. Reinhart

Cloning, expression, and distribution of a Ca²⁺-activated K⁺ channel -subunit from human brain
PNAS 1996 93: 9200-9205. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kuo Ching Feng-Chen and Jonathan R. Wolpaw

Operant conditioning of H-reflex changes synaptic terminals on primate motoneurons
PNAS 1996 93: 9206-9211. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Adrian M. Owen, Brenda Milner, Michael Petrides, and Alan C. Evans

Memory for object features versus memory for object location: A positron-emission tomography study of encoding and retrieval processes
PNAS 1996 93: 9212-9217. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pasko Rakic, Elizabeth Knyihar-Csillik, and Bertalan Csillik

Polarity of microtubule assemblies during neuronal cell migration
PNAS 1996 93: 9218-9222. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David G. Cook, Jane C. Sung, Todd E. Golde, Kevin M. Felsenstein, Boguslaw S. Wojczyk, Rudolph E. Tanzi, John Q. Trojanowski, Virginia M.-Y. Lee, and Robert W. Doms

Expression and analysis of presenilin 1 in a human neuronal system: Localization in cell bodies and dendrites
PNAS 1996 93: 9223-9228. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Daniel E. Syroid, Peter R. Maycox, Patrick G. Burrola, Naili Liu, Duanzhi Wen, Kuo-Fen Lee, Greg Lemke, and Trevor J. Kilpatrick

Cell death in the Schwann cell lineage and its regulation by neuregulin
PNAS 1996 93: 9229-9234. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marc Laruelle, Anissa Abi-Dargham, Christopher H. van Dyck, Roberto Gil, Cyril D. D'Souza, Joseph Erdos, Elinore McCance, William Rosenblatt, Christine Fingado, Sami S. Zoghbi, Ronald M. Baldwin, John P. Seibyl, John H. Krystal, Dennis S. Charney, and Robert B. Innis

Single photon emission computerized tomography imaging of amphetamine-induced dopamine release in drug-free schizophrenic subjects
PNAS 1996 93: 9235-9240. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Catia Sternini, Marvin Spann, Benito Anton, Duane E. Keith Jr., Nigel W. Bunnett, Mark von Zastrow, Christopher Evans, and Nicholas C. Brecha

Agonist-selective endocytosis of µ opioid receptor by neurons in vivo
PNAS 1996 93: 9241-9246. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Annalise Di Marco, Isabelle Gloaguen, Rita Graziani, Giacomo Paonessa, Isabella Saggio, Keith R. Hudson, and Ralph Laufer

Identification of ciliary neurotrophic factor (CNTF) residues essential for leukemia inhibitory factor receptor binding and generation of CNTF receptor antagonists
PNAS 1996 93: 9247-9252. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nicolas C. Schaad, Edouard De Castro, Serge Nef, Sarah Hegi, Robert Hinrichsen, Maryann E. Martone, Mark H. Ellisman, Robert Sikkink, Frank Rusnak, Jurgen Sygush, and Patrick Nef

Direct modulation of calmodulin targets by the neuronal calcium sensor NCS-1
PNAS 1996 93: 9253-9258. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Geeta Sharma and Charles F. Stevens

A mutation that alters magnesium block of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor channels
PNAS 1996 93: 9259-9263. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kelly D. García, Michelle Mynlieff, Donald B. Sanders, Kurt G. Beam, and John P. Walrond

Lambert-Eaton sera reduce low-voltage and high-voltage activated Ca²⁺ currents in murine dorsal root ganglion neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 9264-9269. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

David S. Ragsdale, Jancy C. McPhee, Todd Scheuer, and William A. Catterall

Common molecular determinants of local anesthetic, antiarrhythmic, and anticonvulsant block of voltage-gated Na⁺ channels
PNAS 1996 93: 9270-9275. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kerstin Wieland, Helene M. Zuurmond, Cornelius Krasel, Ad P. IJzerman, and Martin J. Lohse

Involvement of Asn-293 in stereospecific agonist recognition and in activation of the ₂-adrenergic receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 9276-9281. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Claes Uggla, Thomas Moritz, Göran Sandberg, and Björn Sundberg

Auxin as a positional signal in pattern formation in plants
PNAS 1996 93: 9282-9286. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ute C. Vothknecht, C. Gamini Kannangara, and Diter von Wettstein

Expression of catalytically active barley glutamyl tRNA^Glu reductase in Escherichia coli as a fusion protein with glutathione S-transferase
PNAS 1996 93: 9287-9291. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steven E. Jacobsen, Kalli A. Binkowski, and Neil E. Olszewski

SPINDLY, a tetratricopeptide repeat protein involved in gibberellin signal transduction in Arabidopsis
PNAS 1996 93: 9292-9296. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rongchen Wang and Nigel M. Crawford

Genetic identification of a gene involved in constitutive, high-affinity nitrate transport in higher plants
PNAS 1996 93: 9297-9301. [Abstract] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 92, p. 7090 [Abstract]