COMMENTARIES

Paul J. Hagerman

Do basic region-leucine zipper proteins bend their DNA targets ... does it matter?
PNAS 1996 93: 9993-9996. [Abstract] [PDF]

Michael Botchan

Coordinating DNA replication with cell division: Current status of the licensing concept
PNAS 1996 93: 9997-10000. [Abstract]

Michael A. White

The yeast two-hybrid system: Forward and reverse
PNAS 1996 93: 10001-10003. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jack Maniloff

The minimal cell genome: "On being the right size"
PNAS 1996 93: 10004-10006. [Abstract] [PDF]

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

Zhong-Hui Duan and Louis N. Howard

A modified gambler's ruin model of polyethylene chains in the amorphous region
PNAS 1996 93: 10007-10011. [Abstract] [PDF]

Chemistry

Ronald M. Kim, Mahua Manna, Steven M. Hutchins, Patrick R. Griffin, Nathan A. Yates, Amy M. Bernick, and Kevin T. Chapman

Dendrimer-supported combinatorial chemistry
PNAS 1996 93: 10012-10017. [Abstract] [PDF]

Ronald Breslow and William H. Chapman, Jr.

On the mechanism of action of ribonuclease A: Relevance of enzymatic studies with a p-nitrophenylphosphate ester and a thiophosphate ester
PNAS 1996 93: 10018-10021. [Abstract] [PDF]

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

Yong-Di Zhou and Joaquín M. Fuster

Mnemonic neuronal activity in somatosensory cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 10533-10537. [Abstract] [PDF]

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Patricia-Ann K. Bourassa, Patrice M. Milos, B. J. Gaynor, Jan L. Breslow, and Robert J. Aiello

Estrogen reduces atherosclerotic lesion development in apolipoprotein E-deficient mice
PNAS 1996 93: 10022-10027. [Abstract] [PDF]

Yves R. Boisclair, Donald Seto, Susan Hsieh, Kelley R. Hurst, and Guck T. Ooi

Organization and chromosomal localization of the gene encoding the mouse acid labile subunit of the insulin-like growth factor binding complex
PNAS 1996 93: 10028-10033. [Abstract] [PDF]

Biochemistry

A. M. Silva, A. Y. Lee, S. V. Gulnik, P. Majer, J. Collins, T. N. Bhat, P. J. Collins, R. E. Cachau, K. E. Luker, I. Y. Gluzman, S. E. Francis, A. Oksman, D. E. Goldberg, and J. W. Erickson

Structure and inhibition of plasmepsin II, a hemoglobin-degrading enzyme from Plasmodium falciparum
PNAS 1996 93: 10034-10039. [Abstract] [PDF]

László Hunyady, Meng Zhang, Gowraganahalli Jagadeesh, Márta Bor, Tamás Balla, and Kevin J. Catt

Dependence of agonist activation on a conserved apolar residue in the third intracellular loop of the AT₁ angiotensin receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 10040-10045. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jui-Yun Lu, Linda A. Verkruyse, and Sandra L. Hofmann

Lipid thioesters derived from acylated proteins accumulate in infantile neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis: Correction of the defect in lymphoblasts by recombinant palmitoyl-protein thioesterase
PNAS 1996 93: 10046-10050. [Abstract] [PDF]

Isaac Wong and Timothy M. Lohman

ATPase activity of Escherichia coli Rep helicase crosslinked to single-stranded DNA: Implications for ATP driven helicase translocation
PNAS 1996 93: 10051-10056. [Abstract] [PDF]

Shin-Tai Chen, Akihiro Iida, Lin Guo, Theodore Friedmann, and Jiing-Kuan Yee

Generation of packaging cell lines for pseudotyped retroviral vectors of the G protein of vesicular stomatitis virus by using a modified tetracycline inducible system
PNAS 1996 93: 10057-10062. [Abstract] [PDF]

Eric J. Arts, Scott R. Stetor, Xuguang Li, Jason W. Rausch, Kathyrn J. Howard, Bernard Ehresmann, Thomas W. North, Birgitta M. Wöhrl, Roger S. Goody, Mark A. Wainberg, and Stuart F. J. Le Grice

Initiation of () strand DNA synthesis from tRNA₃^Lys on lentiviral RNAs: Implications of specific HIV-1 RNA-tRNA₃^Lys interactions inhibiting primer utilization by retroviral reverse transcriptases
PNAS 1996 93: 10063-10068. [Abstract] [PDF]

Eileen M. McInerney, Ming-Jer Tsai, Bert W. O'Malley, and Benita S. Katzenellenbogen

Analysis of estrogen receptor transcriptional enhancement by a nuclear hormone receptor coactivator
PNAS 1996 93: 10069-10073. [Abstract] [PDF]

Pak Phi Poon, Xiangmin Wang, Miriam Rotman, Irit Huber, Edna Cukierman, Dan Cassel, Richard A. Singer, and Gerald C. Johnston

Saccharomyces cerevisiae Gcs1 is an ADP-ribosylation factor GTPase-activating protein
PNAS 1996 93: 10074-10077. [Abstract] [PDF]

Chi-Ying F. Huang and James E. Ferrell, Jr.

Ultrasensitivity in the mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade
PNAS 1996 93: 10078-10083. [Abstract] [PDF]

Vyacheslav A. Bespalov, Igor B. Zhulin, and Barry L. Taylor

Behavioral responses of Escherichia coli to changes in redox potential
PNAS 1996 93: 10084-10089. [Abstract] [PDF]

Anat Bren, Martin Welch, Yuval Blat, and Michael Eisenbach

Signal termination in bacterial chemotaxis: CheZ mediates dephosphorylation of free rather than switch-bound CheY
PNAS 1996 93: 10090-10093. [Abstract] [PDF]

Philippe Gaudu and Bernard Weiss

SoxR, a [2Fe-2S] transcription factor, is active only in its oxidized form
PNAS 1996 93: 10094-10098. [Abstract] [PDF]

Lori K. Taylor, Hwa-Chain R. Wang, and Raymond L. Erikson

Newly identified stress-responsive protein kinases, Krs-1 and Krs-2
PNAS 1996 93: 10099-10104. [Abstract] [PDF]

Erich F. Greiner, Jutta Kirfel, Holger Greschik, Ulrike Dörflinger, Peter Becker, Ankica Mercep, and Roland Schüle

Functional analysis of retinoid Z receptor , a brain-specific nuclear orphan receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 10105-10110. [Abstract] [PDF]

Alex P. Neeleman and Dirk H. van den Eijnden

-Lactalbumin affects the acceptor specificity of Lymnaea stagnalis albumen gland UDP-GalNAc:GlcNAc-R 14-N-acetylgalactosaminyltransferase: Synthesis of GalNAc14Glc
PNAS 1996 93: 10111-10116. [Abstract] [PDF]

Tom K. Kerppola

Fos and Jun bend the AP-1 site: Effects of probe geometry on the detection of protein-induced DNA bending
PNAS 1996 93: 10117-10122. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jianhua Wu, John Voss, Wayne L. Hubbell, and H. Ronald Kaback

Site-directed spin labeling and chemical crosslinking demonstrate that helix V is close to helices VII and VIII in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 10123-10127. [Abstract] [PDF]

Seung Bae Rho, Kyoung Hoa Lee, Jung Woo Kim, Kiyotaka Shiba, Yeong Joon Jo, and Sunghoon Kim

Interaction between human tRNA synthetases involves repeated sequence elements
PNAS 1996 93: 10128-10133. [Abstract] [PDF]

Rong Yao, Erasmus Schneider, Thomas J. Ryan, and John Galivan

Human -glutamyl hydrolase: Cloning and characterization of the enzyme expressed in vitro
PNAS 1996 93: 10134-10138. [Abstract] [PDF]

Vildan N. Civelek, James A. Hamilton, Keith Tornheim, Kathleen L. Kelly, and Barbara E. Corkey

Intracellular pH in adipocytes: Effects of free fatty acid diffusion across the plasma membrane, lipolytic agonists, and insulin
PNAS 1996 93: 10139-10144. [Abstract] [PDF]

Stefan Danner and Martin J. Lohse

Phosducin is a ubiquitous G-protein regulator
PNAS 1996 93: 10145-10150. [Abstract] [PDF]

Peter Birk Rasmussen, Bjørn Holst, and Poul Valentin-Hansen

Dual-function regulators: The cAMP receptor protein and the CytR regulator can act either to repress or to activate transcription depending on the context
PNAS 1996 93: 10151-10155. [Abstract] [PDF]

Isabelle Varlet, Bruno Canard, Peter Brooks, Gordana Cerovic, and Miroslav Radman

Mismatch repair in Xenopus egg extracts: DNA strand breaks act as signals rather than excision points
PNAS 1996 93: 10156-10161. [Abstract] [PDF]

Tomasz Heyduk, Ewa Heyduk, Konstantin Severinov, Hong Tang, and Richard H. Ebright

Determinants of RNA polymerase  subunit for interaction with , ', and  subunits: Hydroxyl-radical protein footprinting
PNAS 1996 93: 10162-10166. [Abstract] [PDF]

Biophysics

Mark Gerstein and Cyrus Chothia

Packing at the protein-water interface
PNAS 1996 93: 10167-10172. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jan Norberg and Lennart Nilsson

Glass transition in DNA from molecular dynamics simulations
PNAS 1996 93: 10173-10176. [Abstract] [PDF]

Christopher E. White, Michael J. Hunter, David P. Meininger, Siv Garrod, and Elizabeth A. Komives

The fifth epidermal growth factor-like domain of thrombomodulin does not have an epidermal growth factor-like disulfide bonding pattern
PNAS 1996 93: 10177-10182. [Abstract] [PDF]

Cell Biology

Tetsuya Mori, Brian Binder, and Carl Hirschie Johnson

Circadian gating of cell division in cyanobacteria growing with average doubling times of less than 24 hours
PNAS 1996 93: 10183-10188. [Abstract] [PDF]

Piotr Romanowski, Mark A. Madine, and Ronald A. Laskey

XMCM7, a novel member of the Xenopus MCM family, interacts with XMCM3 and colocalizes with it throughout replication
PNAS 1996 93: 10189-10194. [Abstract] [PDF]

Hideyuki Mukai, Masako Miyahara, Hiroko Sunakawa, Hideki Shibata, Masanao Toshimori, Michinori Kitagawa, Masaki Shimakawa, Hiromi Takanaga, and Yoshitaka Ono

Translocation of PKN from the cytosol to the nucleus induced by stresses
PNAS 1996 93: 10195-10199. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jaclyn M. Watson, Julianne Meyne, and Jennifer A. Marshall Graves

Ordered tandem arrangement of chromosomes in the sperm heads of monotreme mammals
PNAS 1996 93: 10200-10205. [Abstract] [PDF]

Susan R. Brill, Karen E. Ross, Clarissa J. Davidow, Min Ye, Jared J. Grantham, and Michael J. Caplan

Immunolocalization of ion transport proteins in human autosomal dominant polycystic kidney epithelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 10206-10211. [Abstract] [PDF]

Deborah J. Stearns-Kurosawa, Shinichiro Kurosawa, Jeffery S. Mollica, Gary L. Ferrell, and Charles T. Esmon

The endothelial cell protein C receptor augments protein C activation by the thrombin-thrombomodulin complex
PNAS 1996 93: 10212-10216. [Abstract] [PDF]

Douglas P. Dohrman, Ivan Diamond, and Adrienne S. Gordon

Ethanol causes translocation of cAMP-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit to the nucleus
PNAS 1996 93: 10217-10221. [Abstract] [PDF]

Ming-Jie Li, Marie-Claire Peakman, Efim I. Golub, Gurucharan Reddy, David C. Ward, Charles M. Radding, and Nancy Maizels

Rad51 expression and localization in B cells carrying out class switch recombination
PNAS 1996 93: 10222-10227. [Abstract] [PDF]

Hagit Eldar-Finkelman, Gretchen M. Argast, Orit Foord, Edmond H. Fischer, and Edwin G. Krebs

Expression and characterization of glycogen synthase kinase-3 mutants and their effect on glycogen synthase activity in intact cells
PNAS 1996 93: 10228-10233. [Abstract] [PDF]

M. Knehr, M. Poppe, D. Schroeter, W. Eickelbaum, E.-M. Finze, U.-L. Kiesewetter, M. Enulescu, M. Arand, and N. Paweletz

Cellular expression of human centromere protein C demonstrates a cyclic behavior with highest abundance in the G₁ phase
PNAS 1996 93: 10234-10239. [Abstract] [PDF]

Developmental Biology

Eleanor C. Weir, William M. Philbrick, Michael Amling, Lynn A. Neff, Roland Baron, and Arthur E. Broadus

Targeted overexpression of parathyroid hormone-related peptide in chondrocytes causes chondrodysplasia and delayed endochondral bone formation
PNAS 1996 93: 10240-10245. [Abstract] [PDF]

HeeKyung Song, Yuying Wang, and Paul F. Goetinck

Fibroblast growth factor 2 can replace ectodermal signaling for feather development
PNAS 1996 93: 10246-10249. [Abstract] [PDF]

Marta Prymakowska-Bosak, Marcin R. Przewloka, Jacek Iwkiewicz, Stefania Egierszdorff, Mieczyslaw Kuras, Nicole Chaubet, Claude Gigot, Steven Spiker, and Andrzej Jerzmanowski

Histone H1 overexpressed to high level in tobacco affects certain developmental programs but has limited effect on basal cellular functions
PNAS 1996 93: 10250-10255. [Abstract] [PDF]

Sonali Majumdar, David M. Irwin, and Harry P. Elsholtz

Selective constraints on the activation domain of transcription factor Pit-1
PNAS 1996 93: 10256-10261. [Abstract] [PDF]

Ecology

Jean-Guy J. Godin and Lee Alan Dugatkin

Female mating preference for bold males in the guppy, Poecilia reticulata
PNAS 1996 93: 10262-10267. [Abstract] [PDF]

Evolution

Arcady R. Mushegian and Eugene V. Koonin

A minimal gene set for cellular life derived by comparison of complete bacterial genomes
PNAS 1996 93: 10268-10273. [Abstract] [PDF]

Brandon S. Gaut, Brian R. Morton, Bonnie C. McCaig, and Michael T. Clegg

Substitution rate comparisons between grasses and palms: Synonymous rate differences at the nuclear gene Adh parallel rate differences at the plastid gene rbcL
PNAS 1996 93: 10274-10279. [Abstract] [PDF]

J. E. Rigden, I. B. Dry, L. R. Krake, and M. A. Rezaian

Plant virus DNA replication processes in Agrobacterium: Insight into the origins of geminiviruses?
PNAS 1996 93: 10280-10284. [Abstract] [PDF]

Genetics

Tracy Blunt, David Gell, Margaret Fox, Guillermo E. Taccioli, Alan R. Lehmann, Stephen P. Jackson, and Penny A. Jeggo

Identification of a nonsense mutation in the carboxyl-terminal region of DNA-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit in the scid mouse
PNAS 1996 93: 10285-10290. [Abstract] [PDF]

Ekaterina G. Frank, Don G. Ennis, Martín Gonzalez, Arthur S. Levine, and Roger Woodgate

Regulation of SOS mutagenesis by proteolysis
PNAS 1996 93: 10291-10296. [Abstract] [PDF]

Robert G. Hawley, Teresa S. Hawley, Andrew Z. C. Fong, Charlene Quinto, Mark Collins, John P. Leonard, and Samuel J. Goldman

Thrombopoietic potential and serial repopulating ability of murine hematopoietic stem cells constitutively expressing interleukin 11
PNAS 1996 93: 10297-10302. [Abstract] [PDF]

Shu-Lin Liu and Kenneth E. Sanderson

Highly plastic chromosomal organization in Salmonella typhi
PNAS 1996 93: 10303-10308. [Abstract] [PDF]

Valeria S. Ossovskaya, Ilya A. Mazo, Michail V. Chernov, Olga B. Chernova, Zaklina Strezoska, Roman Kondratov, George R. Stark, Peter M. Chumakov, and Andrei V. Gudkov

Use of genetic suppressor elements to dissect distinct biological effects of separate p53 domains
PNAS 1996 93: 10309-10314. [Abstract] [PDF]

Marc Vidal, Rainer K. Brachmann, Ali Fattaey, Ed Harlow, and Jef D. Boeke

Reverse two-hybrid and one-hybrid systems to detect dissociation of protein-protein and DNA-protein interactions
PNAS 1996 93: 10315-10320. [Abstract] [PDF]

Marc Vidal, Pascal Braun, Elbert Chen, Jef D. Boeke, and Ed Harlow

Genetic characterization of a mammalian protein-protein interaction domain by using a yeast reverse two-hybrid system
PNAS 1996 93: 10321-10326. [Abstract] [PDF]

José Casal and Maria Leptin

Identification of novel genes in Drosophila reveals the complex regulation of early gene activity in the mesoderm
PNAS 1996 93: 10327-10332. [Abstract] [PDF]

David Z. Rudner, Roland Kanaar, Kevin S. Breger, and Donald C. Rio

Mutations in the small subunit of the Drosophila U2AF splicing factor cause lethality and developmental defects
PNAS 1996 93: 10333-10337. [Abstract] [PDF]

Immunology

Anette Stryhn, Peter S. Andersen, Lars Ø. Pedersen, Arne Svejgaard, Arne Holm, Christopher J. Thorpe, Lars Fugger, Søren Buus, and Jan Engberg

Shared fine specificity between T-cell receptors and an antibody recognizing a peptide/major histocompatibility class I complex
PNAS 1996 93: 10338-10342. [Abstract] [PDF]

Mitchell S. Dushay, Bengt Åsling, and Dan Hultmark

Origins of immunity: Relish, a compound Rel-like gene in the antibacterial defense of Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 10343-10347. [Abstract] [PDF]

Julie A. R. Pribyl and Tucker W. LeBien

Interleukin 7 independent development of human B cells
PNAS 1996 93: 10348-10353. [Abstract] [PDF]

Chikako Nishigori, Daniel B. Yarosh, Stephen E. Ullrich, Arie A. Vink, Corazon D. Bucana, Len Roza, and Margaret L. Kripke

Evidence that DNA damage triggers interleukin 10 cytokine production in UV-irradiated murine keratinocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 10354-10359. [Abstract] [PDF]

Luigi Racioppi, Giuseppe Matarese, Ugo D'Oro, Mariateresa De Pascale, Anna Maria Masci, Silvia Fontana, and Serafino Zappacosta

The role of CD4-Lck in T-cell receptor antagonism: Evidence for negative signaling
PNAS 1996 93: 10360-10365. [Abstract] [PDF]

Medical Sciences

Peter J. Lee, Laraine L. Washer, David J. Law, C. Richard Boland, Isabelle L. Horon, and Andrew P. Feinberg

Limited up-regulation of DNA methyltransferase in human colon cancer reflecting increased cell proliferation
PNAS 1996 93: 10366-10370. [Abstract] [PDF]

Monica B. Mathor, Giuliana Ferrari, Elena Dellambra, Michele Cilli, Fulvio Mavilio, Ranieri Cancedda, and Michele De Luca

Clonal analysis of stably transduced human epidermal stem cells in culture
PNAS 1996 93: 10371-10376. [Abstract] [PDF]

Éva Mezey, Graeme Eisenhofer, Gyöngyi Harta, Stefan Hansson, Lydia Gould, Béla Hunyady, and Beth J. Hoffman

A novel nonneuronal catecholaminergic system: Exocrine pancreas synthesizes and releases dopamine
PNAS 1996 93: 10377-10382. [Abstract] [PDF]

Rita Mukhopadhyay, Saibal Dey, Naxing Xu, Douglas Gage, James Lightbody, Marc Ouellette, and Barry P. Rosen

Trypanothione overproduction and resistance to antimonials and arsenicals in Leishmania
PNAS 1996 93: 10383-10387. [Abstract] [PDF]

N. D. Volkow, G.-J. Wang, J. S. Fowler, S. J. Gatley, Y.-S. Ding, J. Logan, S. L. Dewey, R. Hitzemann, and J. Lieberman

Relationship between psychostimulant-induced "high" and dopamine transporter occupancy
PNAS 1996 93: 10388-10392. [Abstract] [PDF]

Patty J. Lee, Jawed Alam, Gordon W. Wiegand, and Augustine M. K. Choi

Overexpression of heme oxygenase-1 in human pulmonary epithelial cells results in cell growth arrest and increased resistance to hyperoxia
PNAS 1996 93: 10393-10398. [Abstract] [PDF]

John H. Sampson, Gerald E. Archer, David M. Ashley, Herbert E. Fuchs, Laura P. Hale, Glenn Dranoff, and Darell D. Bigner

Subcutaneous vaccination with irradiated, cytokine-producing tumor cells stimulates CD8⁺ cell-mediated immunity against tumors located in the "immunologically privileged" central nervous system
PNAS 1996 93: 10399-10404. [Abstract] [PDF]

Elizabeth Leef Jacobson, Fairley Pilaro, and Kendall A. Smith

Rational interleukin 2 therapy for HIV positive individuals: Daily low doses enhance immune function without toxicity
PNAS 1996 93: 10405-10410. [Abstract] [PDF]

A. Polack, K. Hörtnagel, A. Pajic, B. Christoph, B. Baier, M. Falk, J. Mautner, C. Geltinger, G.W. Bornkamm, and B. Kempkes

c-myc activation renders proliferation of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV)-transformed cells independent of EBV nuclear antigen 2 and latent membrane protein 1
PNAS 1996 93: 10411-10416. [Abstract] [PDF]

James N. Topper, Jiexing Cai, Dean Falb, and Michael A. Gimbrone, Jr.

Identification of vascular endothelial genes differentially responsive to fluid mechanical stimuli: Cyclooxygenase-2, manganese superoxide dismutase, and endothelial cell nitric oxide synthase are selectively up-regulated by steady laminar shear stress
PNAS 1996 93: 10417-10422. [Abstract] [PDF]

Microbiology

Renato Bruni and Bernard Roizman

Open reading frame Pa herpes simplex virus gene repressed during productive infection encodes a protein that binds a splicing factor and reduces synthesis of viral proteins made from spliced mRNA
PNAS 1996 93: 10423-10427. [Abstract] [PDF]

E. Rieder, A. Berinstein, B. Baxt, A. Kang, and P. W. Mason

Propagation of an attenuated virus by design: Engineering a novel receptor for a noninfectious foot-and-mouth disease virus
PNAS 1996 93: 10428-10433. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jingyi Wang, Arcady Mushegian, Stephen Lory, and Shouguang Jin

Large-scale isolation of candidate virulence genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa by in vivo selection
PNAS 1996 93: 10434-10439. [Abstract] [PDF]

Neurobiology

Paul A. Kingston, Frank Zufall, and Colin J. Barnstable

Rat hippocampal neurons express genes for both rod retinal and olfactory cyclic nucleotide-gated channels: Novel targets for cAMP/cGMP function
PNAS 1996 93: 10440-10445. [Abstract] [PDF]

Meiqiu Lin and Howard A. Nash

Influence of general anesthetics on a specific neural pathway in Drosophila melanogaster
PNAS 1996 93: 10446-10451. [Abstract] [PDF]

J. A. P. Rostas, V. A. Brent, K. Voss, M. L. Errington, T. V. P. Bliss, and J. W. Gurd

Enhanced tyrosine phosphorylation of the 2B subunit of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor in long-term potentiation
PNAS 1996 93: 10452-10456. [Abstract] [PDF]

Kobi Rosenblum, Yadin Dudai, and Gal Richter-Levin

Long-term potentiation increases tyrosine phosphorylation of the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit 2B in rat dentate gyrus in vivo
PNAS 1996 93: 10457-10460. [Abstract] [PDF]

James F. F. Powell, Sabina M. Reska-Skinner, Manish Om Prakash, Wolfgang H. Fischer, Minkyu Park, Jean E. Rivier, A. Grey Craig, George O. Mackie, and Nancy M. Sherwood

Two new forms of gonadotropin-releasing hormone in a protochordate and the evolutionary implications
PNAS 1996 93: 10461-10464. [Abstract] [PDF]

Fumio Nakamura and Stephen M. Strittmatter

P2Y₁ purinergic receptors in sensory neurons: Contribution to touch-induced impulse generation
PNAS 1996 93: 10465-10470. [Abstract] [PDF]

Prashant P. Mehta, Elena Battenberg, and Michael C. Wilson

SNAP-25 and synaptotagmin involvement in the final Ca²⁺-dependent triggering of neurotransmitter exocytosis
PNAS 1996 93: 10471-10476. [Abstract] [PDF]

Pharmacology

David W. Schulz, Robert S. Mansbach, Jeffrey Sprouse, John P. Braselton, Judy Collins, Michael Corman, Audrey Dunaiskis, Steve Faraci, Anne W. Schmidt, Thomas Seeger, Patricia Seymour, F. David Tingley, III, Elizabeth N. Winston, Yuhpyng L. Chen, and James Heym

CP-154,526: A potent and selective nonpeptide antagonist of corticotropin releasing factor receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 10477-10482. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jamal Turki, John N. Lorenz, Stuart A. Green, Elizabeth T. Donnelly, Marie Jacinto, and Stephen B. Liggett

Myocardial signaling defects and impaired cardiac function of a human ₂-adrenergic receptor polymorphism expressed in transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 10483-10488. [Abstract] [PDF]

Xiao-Jian Yuan, Mary L. Tod, Lewis J. Rubin, and Mordecai P. Blaustein

NO hyperpolarizes pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells and decreases the intracellular Ca²⁺ concentration by activating voltage-gated K⁺ channels
PNAS 1996 93: 10489-10494. [Abstract] [PDF]

Physiology

Harold M. Hastings, Steven J. Evans, Weilun Quan, Martha L. Chong, and Obi Nwasokwa

Nonlinear dynamics in ventricular fibrillation
PNAS 1996 93: 10495-10499. [Abstract] [PDF]

Michael Gekle, Nikola Golenhofen, Hans Oberleithner, and Stefan Silbernagl

Rapid activation of Na⁺/H⁺ exchange by aldosterone in renal epithelial cells requires Ca²⁺ and stimulation of a plasma membrane proton conductance
PNAS 1996 93: 10500-10504. [Abstract] [PDF]

Iskander I. Ismailov, Catherine M. Fuller, Bakhram K. Berdiev, Vadim G. Shlyonsky, Dale J. Benos, and Kim E. Barrett

A biologic function for an "orphan" messenger: D-myo-Inositol 3,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphate selectively blocks epithelial calcium-activated chloride channels
PNAS 1996 93: 10505-10509. [Abstract] [PDF]

Plant Biology

David J. Walker, Roger A. Leigh, and Anthony J. Miller

Potassium homeostasis in vacuolate plant cells
PNAS 1996 93: 10510-10514. [Abstract] [PDF]

Clive R. Spray, Masatomo Kobayashi, Yoshihito Suzuki, Bernard O. Phinney, Paul Gaskin, and Jake MacMillan

The dwarf-1 (d1) mutant of Zea mays blocks three steps in the gibberellin-biosynthetic pathway
PNAS 1996 93: 10515-10518. [Abstract] [PDF]

Umesh S. Muchhal, Jose M. Pardo, and K. G. Raghothama

Phosphate transporters from the higher plant Arabidopsis thaliana
PNAS 1996 93: 10519-10523. [Abstract] [PDF]

Laszlo Mustardy, Dmitry A. Los, Zoltan Gombos, and Norio Murata

Immunocytochemical localization of acyl-lipid desaturases in cyanobacterial cells: Evidence that both thylakoid membranes and cytoplasmic membranes are sites of lipid desaturation
PNAS 1996 93: 10524-10527. [Abstract] [PDF]

Population Biology

Bryan K. Epperson and Tianquan Li

Measurement of genetic structure within populations using Moran's spatial autocorrelation statistics
PNAS 1996 93: 10528-10532. [Abstract] [PDF]

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 93, p. 6482 [Abstract] [PDF]