COLLOQUIUM:
Papers from an NAS Colloquium on Vision: From Photon to Perception

Lubert Stryer

Vision: From photon to perception
PNAS 1996 93: 557-559. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Denis Baylor

How photons start vision
PNAS 1996 93: 560-565. [Abstract] [PDF]  

T. D. Lamb

Gain and kinetics of activation in the G-protein cascade of phototransduction
PNAS 1996 93: 566-570. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Charles S. Zuker

The biology of vision in Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 571-576. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gerald H. Jacobs

Primate photopigments and primate color vision
PNAS 1996 93: 577-581. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dennis M. Dacey

Circuitry for color coding in the primate retina
PNAS 1996 93: 582-588. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Constance L. Cepko, Christopher P. Austin, Xianjie Yang, Macrene Alexiades, and Diala Ezzeddine

Cell fate determination in the vertebrate retina
PNAS 1996 93: 589-595. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mengqing Xiang, Hao Zhou, and Jeremy Nathans

Molecular biology of retinal ganglion cells
PNAS 1996 93: 596-601. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Carla J. Shatz

Emergence of order in visual system development
PNAS 1996 93: 602-608. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Markus Meister

Multineuronal codes in retinal signaling
PNAS 1996 93: 609-614. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Charles D. Gilbert, Aniruddha Das, Minami Ito, Mitesh Kapadia, and Gerald Westheimer

Spatial integration and cortical dynamics
PNAS 1996 93: 615-622. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David J. Heeger, Eero P. Simoncelli, and J. Anthony Movshon

Computational models of cortical visual processing
PNAS 1996 93: 623-627. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael N. Shadlen and William T. Newsome

Motion perception: Seeing and deciding
PNAS 1996 93: 628-633. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ken Nakayama

Binocular visual surface perception
PNAS 1996 93: 634-639. [Abstract] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

John J. Holland

Evolving virus plagues
PNAS 1996 93: 545-546. [Abstract] [PDF]  

H. M. Reimann

Commentary on "From local to global in quasiconformal structures"
PNAS 1996 93: 547. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

V. I. Abkevich, A. M. Gutin, and E. I. Shakhnovich

How the first biopolymers could have evolved
PNAS 1996 93: 839-844. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Geophysics

J. Marvin Herndon

Substructure of the inner core of the Earth
PNAS 1996 93: 646-648. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Juha Heinonen and Pekka Koskela

From local to global in quasiconformal structures
PNAS 1996 93: 554-556. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

Rhonda A. Torres and Thomas C. Bruice

Interresidue hydrogen bonding in a peptide nucleic acid·RNA heteroduplex
PNAS 1996 93: 649-653. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Roberta A. Gottlieb, Judy Nordberg, Evan Skowronski, and Bernard M. Babior

Apoptosis induced in Jurkat cells by several agents is preceded by intracellular acidification
PNAS 1996 93: 654-658. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yatindra Prashar and Sherman M. Weissman

Analysis of differential gene expression by display of 3' end restriction fragments of cDNAs
PNAS 1996 93: 659-663. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bandana Chatterjee, Chung S. Song, Myeong H. Jung, Shuo Chen, Christi A. Walter, Damon C. Herbert, Frank J. Weaker, Michael A. Mancini, and Arun K. Roy

Targeted overexpression of androgen receptor with a liver-specific promoter in transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 728-733. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hiroyuki Mutoh, Toru Fukuda, Takuya Kitamaoto, Shoichi Masushige, Haruna Sasaki, Takao Shimizu, and Shigeaki Kato

Tissue-specific response of the human platelet-activating factor receptor gene to retinoic acid and thyroid hormone by alternative promoter usage
PNAS 1996 93: 774-779. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Verena Müller, Mieko Takeya, Susanne Brendel, Burghardt Wittig, and Alexander Rich

Z-DNA-forming sites within the human -globin gene cluster
PNAS 1996 93: 780-784. [Abstract] [PDF]  

JoAnn Sekiguchi, Nadrian C. Seeman, and Stewart Shuman

Resolution of Holliday junctions by eukaryotic DNA topoisomerase I
PNAS 1996 93: 785-789. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paul Wentworth, Anita Datta, David Blakey, Tom Boyle, Lynda J. Partridge, and G. Michael Blackburn

Toward antibody-directed "abzyme" prodrug therapy, ADAPT: Carbamate prodrug activation by a catalytic antibody and its in vitro application to human tumor cell killing
PNAS 1996 93: 799-803. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nello Russo, K. Ravi Acharya, Bert L. Vallee, and Robert Shapiro

A combined kinetic and modeling study of the catalytic center subsites of human angiogenin
PNAS 1996 93: 804-808. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steven van Nocker, Quinn Deveraux, Martin Rechsteiner, and Richard D. Vierstra

Arabidopsis MBP1 gene encodes a conserved ubiquitin recognition component of the 26S proteasome
PNAS 1996 93: 856-860. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard Beal, Quinn Deveraux, Gang Xia, Martin Rechsteiner, and Cecile Pickart

Surface hydrophobic residues of multiubiquitin chains essential for proteolytic targeting
PNAS 1996 93: 861-866. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cheng-Shine Hwang, Susanne Mandrup, Ormond A. MacDougald, Deborah E. Geiman, and M. Daniel Lane

Transcriptional activation of the mouse obese (ob) gene by CCAAT/enhancer binding protein
PNAS 1996 93: 873-877. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Malcolm Buckle, Roy M. Williams, Matteo Negroni, and Henri Buc

Real time measurements of elongation by a reverse transcriptase using surface plasmon resonance
PNAS 1996 93: 889-894. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chen Liu, Brian M. Smith, Keiichi Ajito, Hironori Komatsu, Luigi Gomez-Paloma, Tianhu Li, Emmanuel A. Theodorakis, K. C. Nicolaou, and Peter K. Vogt

Sequence-selective carbohydrate-DNA interaction: Dimeric and monomeric forms of the calicheamicin oligosaccharide interfere with transcription factor function
PNAS 1996 93: 940-944. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Johan Ericsson, Simon M. Jackson, Bernard C. Lee, and Peter A. Edwards

Sterol regulatory element binding protein binds to a cis element in the promoter of the farnesyl diphosphate synthase gene
PNAS 1996 93: 945-950. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Nickolay Brustovetsky, Anja Becker, Martin Klingenberg, and Ernst Bamberg

Electrical currents associated with nucleotide transport by the reconstituted mitochondrial ADP/ATP carrier
PNAS 1996 93: 664-668. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ganesh Venkataraman, V. Sasisekharan, Andrew B. Herr, David M. Ornitz, Gabriel Waksman, Charles L. Cooney, Robert Langer, and Ram Sasisekharan

Preferential self-association of basic fibroblast growth factor is stabilized by heparin during receptor dimerization and activation
PNAS 1996 93: 845-850. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Diana L. Griffith, Peter C. Keck, T. Kuber Sampath, David C. Rueger, and William D. Carlson

Three-dimensional structure of recombinant human osteogenic protein 1: Structural paradigm for the transforming growth factor  superfamily
PNAS 1996 93: 878-883. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Armin Hallmann and Manfred Sumper

The Chlorella hexose/H⁺ symporter is a useful selectable marker and biochemical reagent when expressed in Volvox
PNAS 1996 93: 669-673. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Quintus G. Medley, Nancy Kedersha, Stephen O'Brien, Quinsheng Tian, Stuart F. Schlossman, Michel Streuli, and Paul Anderson

Characterization of GMP-17, a granule membrane protein that moves to the plasma membrane of natural killer cells following target cell recognition
PNAS 1996 93: 685-689. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Randolph Y. Hampton, Ann Koning, Robin Wright, and Jasper Rine

In vivo examination of membrane protein localization and degradation with green fluorescent protein
PNAS 1996 93: 828-833. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gilbert F. Morris, James R. Bischoff, and Michael B. Mathews

Transcriptional activation of the human proliferating-cell nuclear antigen promoter by p53
PNAS 1996 93: 895-899. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Marco Milán, Sonsoles Campuzano, and Antonio García-Bellido

Cell cycling and patterned cell proliferation in the wing primordium of Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 640-645. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cathy Savage, Pradeep Das, Alyce L. Finelli, Scott R. Townsend, Ching-Yu Sun, Scott E. Baird, and Richard W. Padgett

Caenorhabditis elegans genes sma-2, sma-3, and sma-4 define a conserved family of transforming growth factor  pathway components
PNAS 1996 93: 790-794. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ren-He Xu, Zigang Dong, Mitsugu Maeno, Jaebong Kim, Atsushi Suzuki, Naoto Ueno, Dvora Sredni, Nancy H. Colburn, and Hsiang-fu Kung

Involvement of Ras/Raf/AP-1 in BMP-4 signaling during Xenopus embryonic development
PNAS 1996 93: 834-838. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph M. Miano, Anthony B. Firulli, Eric N. Olson, Paul Hara, Cecilia M. Giachelli, and Stephen M. Schwartz

Restricted expression of homeobox genes distinguishes fetal from adult human smooth muscle cells
PNAS 1996 93: 900-905. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Scott R. Smedley and Thomas Eisner

Sodium: A male moth's gift to its offspring
PNAS 1996 93: 809-813. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Paolo M. de A. Zanotto, Ernest A. Gould, George F. Gao, Paul H. Harvey, and Edward C. Holmes

Population dynamics of flaviviruses revealed by molecular phylogenies
PNAS 1996 93: 548-553. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dan I. Andersson and Diarmaid Hughes

Muller's ratchet decreases fitness of a DNA-based microbe
PNAS 1996 93: 906-907. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

E. Maestrini, L. Tamagnone, P. Longati, O. Cremona, M. Gulisano, S. Bione, F. Tamanini, B. G. Neel, D. Toniolo, and P. M. Comoglio

A family of transmembrane proteins with homology to the MET-hepatocyte growth factor receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 674-678. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bei Shan, Tim Durfee, and Wen-Hwa Lee

Disruption of RB/E2F-1 interaction by single point mutations in E2F-1 enhances S-phase entry and apoptosis
PNAS 1996 93: 679-684. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stuart G. Fischer, Eftihia Cayanis, Maria de Fatima Bonaldo, Anne M. Bowcock, Larry L. Deaven, Isidore S. Edelman, Theresa Gallardo, Sergei Kalachikov, Lee Lawton, J. L. Longmire, Michael Lovett, Sherri Osborne-Lawrence, Rodney Rothstein, James J. Russo, Marcelo Bento Soares, Ivana Sunjevaric, V. S. Venkatraj, Dorothy Warburton, Peisen Zhang, and Argiris Efstratiadis

A high-resolution annotated physical map of the human chromosome 13q12-13 region containing the breast cancer susceptibility locus BRCA2
PNAS 1996 93: 690-694. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Carla Tribioli, Sara Droetto, Silvia Bione, Gianni Cesareni, Maria Rosaria Torrisi, Lavinia Vittoria Lotti, Luisa Lanfrancone, Daniela Toniolo, and PierGiuseppe Pelicci

An X chromosome-linked gene encoding a protein with characteristics of a rhoGAP predominantly expressed in hematopoietic cells
PNAS 1996 93: 695-699. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xin Bi and Leroy F. Liu

DNA rearrangement mediated by inverted repeats
PNAS 1996 93: 819-823. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Juergen Bachl and Matthias Wabl

An immunoglobulin mutator that targets G·C base pairs
PNAS 1996 93: 851-855. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Susan L. Sullivan, M. Charlene Adamson, Kerry J. Ressler, Christine A. Kozak, and Linda B. Buck

The chromosomal distribution of mouse odorant receptor genes
PNAS 1996 93: 884-888. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John Birdsell and Christopher Wills

Significant competitive advantage conferred by meiosis and syngamy in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1996 93: 908-912. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter P. Jiang, Kathy Frederick, Ted H. Hansen, and Raymond D. Miller

Localization of the mouse gene releasing sex-limited expression of Slp
PNAS 1996 93: 913-917. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Theodore S. Jardetzky, Jerry H. Brown, Joan C. Gorga, Lawrence J. Stern, Robert G. Urban, Jack L. Strominger, and Don C. Wiley

Crystallographic analysis of endogenous peptides associated with HLA-DR1 suggests a common, polyproline II-like conformation for bound peptides
PNAS 1996 93: 734-738. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter J. Murray, Anna Aldovini, and Richard A. Young

Manipulation and potentiation of antimycobacterial immunity using recombinant bacille Calmette-Guérin strains that secrete cytokines
PNAS 1996 93: 934-939. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anthony T. Vella, Mark T. Scherer, Leonard Shultz, John W. Kappler, and Philippa Marrack

B cells are not essential for peripheral T-cell tolerance
PNAS 1996 93: 951-955. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dylan Daniel and Dale R. Wegmann

Protection of nonobese diabetic mice from diabetes by intranasal or subcutaneous administration of insulin peptide B-(9-23)
PNAS 1996 93: 956-960. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Helena Schmidtmayerova, Hans S. L. M. Nottet, Gerard Nuovo, Tobias Raabe, Clinton R. Flanagan, Larisa Dubrovsky, Howard E. Gendelman, Anthony Cerami, Michael Bukrinsky, and Barbara Sherry

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 infection alters chemokine  peptide expression in human monocytes: Implications for recruitment of leukocytes into brain and lymph nodes
PNAS 1996 93: 700-704. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Diana W. Bianchi, Gretchen K. Zickwolf, Gary J. Weil, Shelley Sylvester, and Mary Ann DeMaria

Male fetal progenitor cells persist in maternal blood for as long as 27 years postpartum
PNAS 1996 93: 705-708. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eliezer Rapaport, Asya Levina, Valeri Metelev, and Paul C. Zamecnik

Antimycobacterial activities of antisense oligodeoxynucleotide phosphorothioates in drug-resistant strains
PNAS 1996 93: 709-713. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael S. Halpern, James M. England, Gene C. Kopen, Alexander A. Christou, and Robert L. Taylor Jr.

Endogenous c-src as a determinant of the tumorigenicity of src oncogenes
PNAS 1996 93: 824-827. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cheryl E. Gariepy, Daniel T. Cass, and Masashi Yanagisawa

Null mutation of endothelin receptor type B gene in spotting lethal rats causes aganglionic megacolon and white coat color
PNAS 1996 93: 867-872. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Anat Barnea and Fernando Nottebohm

Recruitment and replacement of hippocampal neurons in young and adult chickadees: An addition to the theory of hippocampal learning
PNAS 1996 93: 714-718. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anne L. Foundas, Christiana M. Leonard, Robin L. Gilmore, Eileen B. Fennell, and Kenneth M. Heilman

Pars triangularis asymmetry and language dominance
PNAS 1996 93: 719-722. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. N. Cammack and E. A. Schwartz

Channel behavior in a -aminobutyrate transporter
PNAS 1996 93: 723-727. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sei-ichi Higuchi and Yasushi Miyashita

Formation of mnemonic neuronal responses to visual paired associates in inferotemporal cortex is impaired by perirhinal and entorhinal lesions
PNAS 1996 93: 739-743. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bernardino Ghetti, Pedro Piccardo, Maria Grazia Spillantini, Yousuke Ichimiya, Monica Porro, Francesco Perini, Tetsuyuki Kitamoto, Jun Tateishi, Charles Seiler, Blas Frangione, Orso Bugiani, Giorgio Giaccone, Frances Prelli, Michel Goedert, Stephen R. Dlouhy, and Fabrizio Tagliavini

Vascular variant of prion protein cerebral amyloidosis with -positive neurofibrillary tangles: The phenotype of the stop codon 145 mutation in PRNP
PNAS 1996 93: 744-748. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ruth E. Carter, Alexis R. Feldman, and Joseph T. Coyle

Prostate-specific membrane antigen is a hydrolase with substrate and pharmacologic characteristics of a neuropeptidase
PNAS 1996 93: 749-753. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lynda J.-S. Yang, Cynthia B. Zeller, Nancy L. Shaper, Makoto Kiso, Akira Hasegawa, Robert E. Shapiro, and Ronald L. Schnaar

Gangliosides are neuronal ligands for myelin-associated glycoprotein
PNAS 1996 93: 814-818. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James V. Haxby, Leslie G. Ungerleider, Barry Horwitz, Jose Ma. Maisog, Stanley I. Rapoport, and Cheryl L. Grady

Face encoding and recognition in the human brain
PNAS 1996 93: 922-927. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Giacinto Bagetta, M. Tiziana Corasaniti, Luigi Aloe, Laura Berliocchi, Nicola Costa, Alessandro Finazzi-Agrò, and Giuseppe Nisticò

Intracerebral injection of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 coat protein gp120 differentially affects the expression of nerve growth factor and nitric oxide synthase in the hippocampus of rat
PNAS 1996 93: 928-933. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Craig M. Flory, Pamela A. Pavco, Thale C. Jarvis, Mark E. Lesch, Francine E. Wincott, Leonid Beigelman, Stephen W. Hunt III, and Denis J. Schrier

Nuclease-resistant ribozymes decrease stromelysin mRNA levels in rabbit synovium following exogenous delivery to the knee joint
PNAS 1996 93: 754-758. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Randa Zakhary, Sean P. Gaine, Jay L. Dinerman, Martial Ruat, Nicholas A. Flavahan, and Solomon H. Snyder

Heme oxygenase 2: Endothelial and neuronal localization and role in endothelium-dependent relaxation
PNAS 1996 93: 795-798. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Eduardo R. Bejarano, Alaa Khashoggi, Michael Witty, and Conrad Lichtenstein

Integration of multiple repeats of geminiviral DNA into the nuclear genome of tobacco during evolution
PNAS 1996 93: 759-764. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tsuyoshi Mizoguchi, Kenji Irie, Takashi Hirayama, Nobuaki Hayashida, Kazuko Yamaguchi-Shinozaki, Kunihiro Matsumoto, and Kazuo Shinozaki

A gene encoding a mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase is induced simultaneously with genes for a mitogen-activated protein kinase and an S6 ribosomal protein kinase by touch, cold, and water stress in Arabidopsis thaliana
PNAS 1996 93: 765-769. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Population Biology

Austin Burt, Deidre A. Carter, Gina L. Koenig, Thomas J. White, and John W. Taylor

Molecular markers reveal cryptic sex in the human pathogen Coccidioides immitis
PNAS 1996 93: 770-773. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael J. Bidochka, Scott R. A. Walsh, Mark E. Ramos, Raymond J. St. Leger, Julie C. Silver, and Donald W. Roberts

Fate of biological control introductions: Monitoring an Australian fungal pathogen of grasshoppers in North America
PNAS 1996 93: 918-921. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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