PERSPECTIVES

Ludwik Gross

How Charles Nicolle of the Pasteur Institute discovered that epidemic typhus is transmitted by lice: Reminiscences from my years at the Pasteur Institute in Paris
PNAS 1996 93: 10539-10540. [Abstract] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Karl Herrup

The weaver mouse: A most cantankerous rodent
PNAS 1996 93: 10541-10542. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey T. Laitman, Joy S. Reidenberg, Samuel Marquez, and Patrick J. Gannon

What the nose knows: New understandings of Neanderthal upper respiratory tract specializations
PNAS 1996 93: 10543-10545. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Charles D. Gilbert

Learning and receptive field plasticity
PNAS 1996 93: 10546-10547. [Abstract] [PDF]  

REVIEWS

Kensal van Holde and Jordanka Zlatanova

What determines the folding of the chromatin fiber?
PNAS 1996 93: 10548-10555. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Physical Sciences

Paolo Facci, Victor Erokhin, Sandro Carrara, and Claudio Nicolini

Room-temperature single-electron junction
PNAS 1996 93: 10556-10559. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chemistry

Heather L. Sings, Keith C. Bible, and Kenneth L. Rinehart

Acyl tunichlorins: A new class of nickel chlorins isolated from the Caribbean tunicate Trididemnum solidum
PNAS 1996 93: 10560-10565. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sandro Mecozzi, Anthony P. West Jr., and Dennis A. Dougherty

Cation- interactions in aromatics of biological and medicinal interest: Electrostatic potential surfaces as a useful qualitative guide
PNAS 1996 93: 10566-10571. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

Lars Nyberg, Anthony R. McIntosh, Roberto Cabeza, Reza Habib, Sylvain Houle, and Endel Tulving

General and specific brain regions involved in encoding and retrieval of events: What, where, and when
PNAS 1996 93: 11280-11285. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Hidenobu Komeda, Yuji Hori, Michihiko Kobayashi, and Sakayu Shimizu

Transcriptional regulation of the Rhodococcus rhodochrous J1 nitA gene encoding a nitrilase
PNAS 1996 93: 10572-10577. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Ishtiaq Qadri, Joan W. Conaway, Ronald C. Conaway, Jerome Schaack, and Aleem Siddiqui

Hepatitis B virus transactivator protein, HBx, associates with the components of TFIIH and stimulates the DNA helicase activity of TFIIH
PNAS 1996 93: 10578-10583. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Steinbacher, Ulrich Baxa, Stefan Miller, Andrej Weintraub, Robert Seckler, and Robert Huber

Crystal structure of phage P22 tailspike protein complexed with Salmonella sp. O-antigen receptors
PNAS 1996 93: 10584-10588. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James R. Gnarra, Shubo Zhou, Marsha J. Merrill, Joseph R. Wagner, Anton Krumm, Efstathios Papavassiliou, Edward H. Oldfield, Richard D. Klausner, and W. Marston Linehan

Post-transcriptional regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor mRNA by the product of the VHL tumor suppressor gene
PNAS 1996 93: 10589-10594. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Othon Iliopoulos, Andrew P. Levy, Chian Jiang, William G. Kaelin Jr., and Mark A. Goldberg

Negative regulation of hypoxia-inducible genes by the von Hippel-Lindau protein
PNAS 1996 93: 10595-10599. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan M. V. Freund, Kam-Bo Wong, and Alan R. Fersht

Initiation sites of protein folding by NMR analysis
PNAS 1996 93: 10600-10603. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paul E. Morin, Donald E. Awrey, Aled M. Edwards, and Cheryl H. Arrowsmith

Elongation factor TFIIS contains three structural domains: Solution structure of domain II
PNAS 1996 93: 10604-10608. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andreas Rühmann, Andreas K. E. Köpke, Frank M. Dautzenberg, and Joachim Spiess

Synthesis and characterization of a photoactivatable analog of corticotropin-releasing factor for specific receptor labeling
PNAS 1996 93: 10609-10613. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark Schena, Dari Shalon, Renu Heller, Andrew Chai, Patrick O. Brown, and Ronald W. Davis

Parallel human genome analysis: Microarray-based expression monitoring of 1000 genes
PNAS 1996 93: 10614-10619. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thierry Lagrange, Tae-Kyung Kim, George Orphanides, Yon W. Ebright, Richard H. Ebright, and Danny Reinberg

High-resolution mapping of nucleoprotein complexes by site-specific protein-DNA photocrosslinking: Organization of the human TBP-TFIIA-TFIIB-DNA quaternary complex
PNAS 1996 93: 10620-10625. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tso-Pang Yao, Gregory Ku, Naidong Zhou, Ralph Scully, and David M. Livingston

The nuclear hormone receptor coactivator SRC-1 is a specific target of p300
PNAS 1996 93: 10626-10631. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William F. Burkholder, Xun Zhao, Xiaotian Zhu, Wayne A. Hendrickson, Alexander Gragerov, and Max E. Gottesman

Mutations in the C-terminal fragment of DnaK affecting peptide binding
PNAS 1996 93: 10632-10637. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ajay Shrivastava, Jin Yu, Steven Artandi, and Kathryn Calame

YY1 and c-Myc associate in vivo in a manner that depends on c-Myc levels
PNAS 1996 93: 10638-10641. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Debora Foguel, Marisa C. Suarez, Cristiane Barbosa, Jorge J. Rodrigues Jr., Martha M. Sorenson, Lawrence B. Smillie, and Jerson L. Silva

Mimicry of the calcium-induced conformational state of troponin C by low temperature under pressure
PNAS 1996 93: 10642-10646. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karnire S. Pai, Dirksen E. Bussiere, Fenggang Wang, Stephen W. White, and Deepak Bastia

Structure of the replication terminus-terminator protein complex as probed by affinity cleavage
PNAS 1996 93: 10647-10652. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Quoc D. Dang and Enrico Di Cera

Residue 225 determines the Na⁺-induced allosteric regulation of catalytic activity in serine proteases
PNAS 1996 93: 10653-10656. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Quinn C. Vega, Carolyn A. Worby, Mark S. Lechner, Jack E. Dixon, and Gregory R. Dressler

Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor activates the receptor tyrosine kinase RET and promotes kidney morphogenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 10657-10661. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kogo Takamiya, Akihito Yamamoto, Keiko Furukawa, Shuji Yamashiro, Masashi Shin, Masahiko Okada, Satoshi Fukumoto, Masashi Haraguchi, Naoki Takeda, Koichi Fujimura, Mihoko Sakae, Masao Kishikawa, Hiroshi Shiku, Koichi Furukawa, and Shinichi Aizawa

Mice with disrupted GM2/GD2 synthase gene lack complex gangliosides but exhibit only subtle defects in their nervous system
PNAS 1996 93: 10662-10667. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hendrik W. van Veen, Koen Venema, Henk Bolhuis, Irina Oussenko, Jan Kok, Bert Poolman, Arnold J. M. Driessen, and Wil N. Konings

Multidrug resistance mediated by a bacterial homolog of the human multidrug transporter MDR1
PNAS 1996 93: 10668-10672. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alexander V. Mazin and Stephen C. Kowalczykowski

The specificity of the secondary DNA binding site of RecA protein defines its role in DNA strand exchange
PNAS 1996 93: 10673-10678. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rakesh K. Mishra, Réjane Le Tinévez, and Jean-Jacques Toulmé

Targeting nucleic acid secondary structures by antisense oligonucleotides designed through in vitro selection
PNAS 1996 93: 10679-10684. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gert-Jan C. M. van den Bemd, Huibert A. P. Pols, Jan C. Birkenhäger, and Johannes P. T. M. van Leeuwen

Conformational change and enhanced stabilization of the vitamin D receptor by the 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D₃ analog KH1060
PNAS 1996 93: 10685-10690. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alessandra Cecilia Rovescalli, Sadamitsu Asoh, and Marshall Nirenberg

Cloning and characterization of four murine homeobox genes
PNAS 1996 93: 10691-10696. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David B. Haslam and Jacques U. Baenziger

Expression cloning of Forssman glycolipid synthetase: A novel member of the histo-blood group ABO gene family
PNAS 1996 93: 10697-10702. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kevin W. Plaxco, Claus Spitzfaden, Iain D. Campbell, and Christopher M. Dobson

Rapid refolding of a proline-rich all--sheet fibronectin type III module
PNAS 1996 93: 10703-10706. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jill Manchester, Alexander V. Skurat, Peter Roach, Stephen D. Hauschka, and John C. Lawrence Jr.

Increased glycogen accumulation in transgenic mice overexpressing glycogen synthase in skeletal muscle
PNAS 1996 93: 10707-10711. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joachim Lingner and Thomas R. Cech

Purification of telomerase from Euplotes aediculatus: Requirement of a primer 3' overhang
PNAS 1996 93: 10712-10717. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yvette Habraken, Patrick Sung, Satya Prakash, and Louise Prakash

Transcription factor TFIIH and DNA endonuclease Rad2 constitute yeast nucleotide excision repair factor 3: Implications for nucleotide excision repair and Cockayne syndrome
PNAS 1996 93: 10718-10722. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Florence Dastot, Marie-Laure Sobrier, Philippe Duquesnoy, Bénédicte Duriez, Michel Goossens, and Serge Amselem

Alternatively spliced forms in the cytoplasmic domain of the human growth hormone (GH) receptor regulate its ability to generate a soluble GH-binding protein
PNAS 1996 93: 10723-10728. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Uffe H. Mortensen, Christian Bendixen, Ivana Sunjevaric, and Rodney Rothstein

DNA strand annealing is promoted by the yeast Rad52 protein
PNAS 1996 93: 10729-10734. [Abstract] [PDF]  

L. Eide, M. Bjørås, M. Pirovano, I. Alseth, K. G. Berdal, and E. Seeberg

Base excision of oxidative purine and pyrimidine DNA damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by a DNA glycosylase with sequence similarity to endonuclease III from Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 10735-10740. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jörg Bartsch, Mathias Truss, Jürgen Bode, and Miguel Beato

Moderate increase in histone acetylation activates the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter and remodels its nucleosome structure
PNAS 1996 93: 10741-10746. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

E. Nachliel, M. Gutman, S. Kiryati, and N. A. Dencher

Protonation dynamics of the extracellular and cytoplasmic surface of bacteriorhodopsin in the purple membrane
PNAS 1996 93: 10747-10752. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Matthew M. Skinner and Thomas C. Terwilliger

Potential use of additivity of mutational effects in simplifying protein engineering
PNAS 1996 93: 10753-10757. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kai Sun and David Mauzerall

A simple light-driven transmembrane proton pump
PNAS 1996 93: 10758-10762. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chris Xu, Warren Zipfel, Jason B. Shear, Rebecca M. Williams, and Watt W. Webb

Multiphoton fluorescence excitation: New spectral windows for biological nonlinear microscopy
PNAS 1996 93: 10763-10768. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alexander Pertsemlidis, Anand M. Saxena, Alan K. Soper, Teresa Head-Gordon, and Robert M. Glaeser

Direct evidence for modified solvent structure within the hydration shell of a hydrophobic amino acid
PNAS 1996 93: 10769-10774. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Milan Mrksich, Christopher S. Chen, Younan Xia, Laura E. Dike, Donald E. Ingber, and George M. Whitesides

Controlling cell attachment on contoured surfaces with self-assembled monolayers of alkanethiolates on gold
PNAS 1996 93: 10775-10778. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cara J. Gottardi, Monique Arpin, Alan S. Fanning, and Daniel Louvard

The junction-associated protein, zonula occludens-1, localizes to the nucleus before the maturation and during the remodeling of cell-cell contacts
PNAS 1996 93: 10779-10784. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alicia Matayoshi, Chris Brown, John F. DiPersio, Jeff Haug, Yousef Abu-Amer, Helen Liapis, Rolf Kuestner, and Roberto Pacifici

Human blood-mobilized hematopoietic precursors differentiate into osteoclasts in the absence of stromal cells
PNAS 1996 93: 10785-10790. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mary J. Stewart, Christopher O. A. Berry, Frederic Zilberman, George Thomas, and Sara C. Kozma

The Drosophila p70^s6k homolog exhibits conserved regulatory elements and rapamycin sensitivity
PNAS 1996 93: 10791-10796. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hung Caohuy, Meera Srivastava, and Harvey B. Pollard

Membrane fusion protein synexin (annexin VII) as a Ca²⁺/GTP sensor in exocytotic secretion
PNAS 1996 93: 10797-10802. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hervé Enslen, Hiroshi Tokumitsu, Philip J. S. Stork, Roger J. Davis, and Thomas R. Soderling

Regulation of mitogen-activated protein kinases by a calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase cascade
PNAS 1996 93: 10803-10808. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Howard R. Katz, Eric Vivier, Mariana C. Castells, Michael J. McCormick, Jean M. Chambers, and K. Frank Austen

Mouse mast cell gp49B1 contains two immunoreceptor tyrosine-based inhibition motifs and suppresses mast cell activation when coligated with the high-affinity Fc receptor for IgE
PNAS 1996 93: 10809-10814. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cornelia Dietrich, Thomas Bartsch, Frank Schanz, Franz Oesch, and Raimund J. Wieser

p53-Dependent cell cycle arrest induced by N-acetyl-L-leucinyl-L-leucinyl-L-norleucinal in platelet-derived growth factor-stimulated human fibroblasts
PNAS 1996 93: 10815-10819. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christopher A. Bunker and Robert E. Kingston

Activation domain-mediated enhancement of activator binding to chromatin in mammalian cells
PNAS 1996 93: 10820-10825. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Li-Ping Zhao, Janet S. Koslovsky, Jutta Reinhard, Martin Bähler, Andrea E. Witt, D. William Provance Jr., and John A. Mercer

Cloning and characterization of myr 6, an unconventional myosin of the dilute/myosin-V family
PNAS 1996 93: 10826-10831. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Suzanne Y. Guénette, Jing Chen, Paul D. Jondro, and Rudolph E. Tanzi

Association of a novel human FE65-like protein with the cytoplasmic domain of the -amyloid precursor protein
PNAS 1996 93: 10832-10837. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Anthony M. Ford, Caroline A. Bennett, Lyn E. Healy, Masayuki Towatari, Melvyn F. Greaves, and Tariq Enver

Regulation of the myeloperoxidase enhancer binding proteins Pu1, C-EBP, -, and - during granulocyte-lineage specification
PNAS 1996 93: 10838-10843. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Gilbert Cabana and Joseph B. Rasmussen

Comparison of aquatic food chains using nitrogen isotopes
PNAS 1996 93: 10844-10847. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, and Mark Deyrup

Millipede defense: Use of detachable bristles to entangle ants
PNAS 1996 93: 10848-10851. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Jeffrey H. Schwartz and Ian Tattersall

Significance of some previously unrecognized apomorphies in the nasal region of Homo neanderthalensis
PNAS 1996 93: 10852-10854. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christian Sturmbauer, Jeffrey S. Levinton, and John Christy

Molecular phylogeny analysis of fiddler crabs: Test of the hypothesis of increasing behavioral complexity in evolution
PNAS 1996 93: 10855-10857. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David W. Stock, Debra L. Ellies, Zhiyong Zhao, Marc Ekker, Frank H. Ruddle, and Kenneth M. Weiss

The evolution of the vertebrate Dlx gene family
PNAS 1996 93: 10858-10863. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas Leitner, David Escanilla, Christer Franzén, Mathias Uhlén, and Jan Albert

Accurate reconstruction of a known HIV-1 transmission history by phylogenetic tree analysis
PNAS 1996 93: 10864-10869. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Wan L. Lam, Tien-Shun Lee, and Walter Gilbert

Active transposition in zebrafish
PNAS 1996 93: 10870-10875. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sandeep K. Tripathy, Eric C. Svensson, Hugh B. Black, Eugene Goldwasser, Michal Margalith, Peter M. Hobart, and Jeffrey M. Leiden

Long-term expression of erythropoietin in the systemic circulation of mice after intramuscular injection of a plasmid DNA vector
PNAS 1996 93: 10876-10880. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fei Ye and Ethan R. Signer

RIGS (repeat-induced gene silencing) in Arabidopsis is transcriptional and alters chromatin configuration
PNAS 1996 93: 10881-10886. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. Feil, J. Brocard, B. Mascrez, M. LeMeur, D. Metzger, and P. Chambon

Ligand-activated site-specific recombination in mice
PNAS 1996 93: 10887-10890. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dmitri Rebatchouk, Nikolai Daraselia, and Jonathon O. Narita

NOMAD: A versatile strategy for in vitro DNA manipulation applied to promoter analysis and vector design
PNAS 1996 93: 10891-10896. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Laurie Issel-Tarver and Jasper Rine

Organization and expression of canine olfactory receptor genes
PNAS 1996 93: 10897-10902. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Li-Shin Huang, Emanuel Voyiaziakis, Hsiang Lih Chen, Edward M. Rubin, and Jon W. Gordon

A novel functional role for apolipoprotein B in male infertility in heterozygous apolipoprotein B knockout mice
PNAS 1996 93: 10903-10907. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mingqi Lu, M. Douglas Lee, Barbara L. Smith, Jin Sup Jung, Peter Agre, Marian A. J. Verdijk, Gerard Merkx, Johan P. L. Rijss, and Peter M. T. Deen

The human AQP4 gene: Definition of the locus encoding two water channel polypeptides in brain
PNAS 1996 93: 10908-10912. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Akira Shimamoto, Saori Kitao, Koji Ichikawa, Noriyuki Suzuki, Yukako Yamabe, Osamu Imamura, Yoshiki Tokutake, Misako Satoh, Takehisa Matsumoto, Junro Kuromitsu, Hiroshi Kataoka, Kahori Sugawara, Minoru Sugawara, Masanobu Sugimoto, Makoto Goto, and Yasuhiro Furuichi

A unique human gene that spans over 230 kb in the human chromosome 8p11-12 and codes multiple family proteins sharing RNA-binding motifs
PNAS 1996 93: 10913-10917. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. Tavoletti, E. T. Bingham, B. S. Yandell, F. Veronesi, and T. C. Osborn

Half tetrad analysis in alfalfa using multiple restriction fragment length polymorphism markers
PNAS 1996 93: 10918-10922. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Grimm, Ben Z. Stanger, and Philip Leder

RIP and FADD: Two "death domain"-containing proteins can induce apoptosis by convergent, but dissociable, pathways
PNAS 1996 93: 10923-10927. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Haley A. Perlick, Susan M. Medghalchi, Forrest A. Spencer, Raymond J. Kendzior Jr., and Harry C. Dietz

Mammalian orthologues of a yeast regulator of nonsense transcript stability
PNAS 1996 93: 10928-10932. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andreas Kistner, Manfred Gossen, Frank Zimmermann, Jasna Jerecic, Christoph Ullmer, Hermann Lübbert, and Hermann Bujard

Doxycycline-mediated quantitative and tissue-specific control of gene expression in transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 10933-10938. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Christian Weber, Joji Kitayama, and Timothy A. Springer

Differential regulation of 1 and 2 integrin avidity by chemoattractants in eosinophils
PNAS 1996 93: 10939-10944. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gregory A. Weiss, Robert J. Valentekovich, Edward J. Collins, David N. Garboczi, William S. Lane, Stuart L. Schreiber, and Don C. Wiley

Covalent HLA-B27/peptide complex induced by specific recognition of an aziridine mimic of arginine
PNAS 1996 93: 10945-10948. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sanghoon Cha, Patrick S. C. Leung, Judy Van de Water, Koichi Tsuneyama, Ruth E. Joplin, Aftab A. Ansari, Yasuni Nakanuma, Peter J. Schatz, Steve Cwirla, Luca E. Fabris, James M. Neuberger, M. Eric Gershwin, and Ross L. Coppel

Random phage mimotopes recognized by monoclonal antibodies against the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex-E2 (PDC-E2)
PNAS 1996 93: 10949-10954. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sergio Bonini, Alessandro Lambiase, Stefano Bonini, Francesco Angelucci, Laura Magrini, Luigi Manni, and Luigi Aloe

Circulating nerve growth factor levels are increased in humans with allergic diseases and asthma
PNAS 1996 93: 10955-10960. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rafael Arguello, Hovanes Avakian, John M. Goldman, and J. Alejandro Madrigal

A novel method for simultaneous high resolution identification of HLA-A, HLA-B, and HLA-Cw alleles
PNAS 1996 93: 10961-10965. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. Simon Anderson, Mark Teutsch, Zengjun Dong, and Henry H. Wortis

An essential role for tyrosine kinase in the regulation of Bruton's B-cell apoptosis
PNAS 1996 93: 10966-10971. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Larry W. Kwak, Howard A. Young, Robin W. Pennington, and Steve D. Weeks

Vaccination with syngeneic, lymphoma-derived immunoglobulin idiotype combined with granulocyte/macrophage colony-stimulating factor primes mice for a protective T-cell response
PNAS 1996 93: 10972-10977. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eric R. Fedyk and Richard P. Phipps

Prostaglandin E₂ receptors of the EP₂ and EP₄ subtypes regulate activation and differentiation of mouse B lymphocytes to IgE-secreting cells
PNAS 1996 93: 10978-10983. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lorna Proudfoot, Andrei V. Nikolaev, Gui-jie Feng, Xiao-qing Wei, Michael A. J. Ferguson, John S. Brimacombe, and F. Y. Liew

Regulation of the expression of nitric oxide synthase and leishmanicidal activity by glycoconjugates of Leishmania lipophosphoglycan in murine macrophages
PNAS 1996 93: 10984-10989. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kwangseog Ahn, Ana Angulo, Peter Ghazal, Per A. Peterson, Young Yang, and Klaus Früh

Human cytomegalovirus inhibits antigen presentation by a sequential multistep process
PNAS 1996 93: 10990-10995. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ajay K. Sharma and Michael K. Pangburn

Identification of three physically and functionally distinct binding sites for C3b in human complement factor H by deletion mutagenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 10996-11001. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lianfa Shi, Gao Chen, Glen MacDonald, Louise Bergeron, Honglin Li, Masayuki Miura, Rocco J. Rotello, Douglas K. Miller, Ping Li, Tara Seshadri, Junying Yuan, and Arnold H. Greenberg

Activation of an interleukin 1 converting enzyme-dependent apoptosis pathway by granzyme B
PNAS 1996 93: 11002-11007. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Emmet Hirsch, Vera M. Irikura, Sarah M. Paul, and David Hirsh

Functions of interleukin 1 receptor antagonist in gene knockout and overproducing mice
PNAS 1996 93: 11008-11013. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Julie Desbarats, John H. Freed, Priscilla A. Campbell, and M. Karen Newell

Fas (CD95) expression and death-mediating function are induced by CD4 cross-linking on CD4⁺ T cells
PNAS 1996 93: 11014-11018. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Reina E. Mebius, Philip R. Streeter, Sara Michie, Eugene C. Butcher, and Irving L. Weissman

A developmental switch in lymphocyte homing receptor and endothelial vascular addressin expression regulates lymphocyte homing and permits CD4+CD3 cells to colonize lymph nodes
PNAS 1996 93: 11019-11024. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Masaru Taniguchi, Haruhiko Koseki, Takeshi Tokuhisa, Kimio Masuda, Hiroshi Sato, Eisuke Kondo, Tetsu Kawano, Junqing Cui, Alysia Perkes, Shigeo Koyasu, and Yasuhiko Makino

Essential requirement of an invariant V14 T cell antigen receptor expression in the development of natural killer T cells
PNAS 1996 93: 11025-11028. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Antonio Alcamí and Geoffrey L. Smith

A mechanism for the inhibition of fever by a virus
PNAS 1996 93: 11029-11034. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Young-Ae Lee, Chang-Seng Liang, Min-Ae Lee, and Klaus Lindpaintner

Local stress, not systemic factors, regulate gene expression of the cardiac renin-angiotensin system in vivo: A comprehensive study of all its components in the dog
PNAS 1996 93: 11035-11040. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ella Ioffe, Yun Liu, and Pamela Stanley

Essential role for complex N-glycans in forming an organized layer of bronchial epithelium
PNAS 1996 93: 11041-11046. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yong Ming Li, Tomoko Mitsuhashi, Donald Wojciechowicz, Nobuyoshi Shimizu, Jenny Li, Alan Stitt, Cijiang He, Deben Banerjee, and Helen Vlassara

Molecular identity and cellular distribution of advanced glycation endproduct receptors: Relationship of p60 to OST-48 and p90 to 80K-H membrane proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 11047-11052. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Akihiko Itoh and Takashi Maki

Protection of nonobese diabetic mice from autoimmune diabetes by reduction of islet mass before insulitis
PNAS 1996 93: 11053-11056. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alessandra Amendola, Marie-Lise Gougeon, Fabrizio Poccia, Alain Bondurand, Laszlo Fesus, and Mauro Piacentini

Induction of "tissue" transglutaminase in HIV pathogenesis: Evidence for high rate of apoptosis of CD4⁺ T lymphocytes and accessory cells in lymphoid tissues
PNAS 1996 93: 11057-11062. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Irene Cortese, Rosalba Tafi, Luigi M. E. Grimaldi, Gianvito Martino, Alfredo Nicosia, and Riccardo Cortese

Identification of peptides specific for cerebrospinal fluid antibodies in multiple sclerosis by using phage libraries
PNAS 1996 93: 11063-11067. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wing-Fai Cheung, Jacob van den Born, Klaus Kühn, Lena Kjellén, Billy G. Hudson, and Darrel W. Stafford

Identification of the endothelial cell binding site for factor IX
PNAS 1996 93: 11068-11073. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Naoki Shimojo, Yoichi Kohno, Ken-ichi Yamaguchi, Schu-ichi Kikuoka, Akira Hoshioka, Hiroo Niimi, Aizan Hirai, Yasushi Tamura, Yasushi Saito, Leonard D. Kohn, and Kazuo Tahara

Induction of Graves-like disease in mice by immunization with fibroblasts transfected with the thyrotropin receptor and a class II molecule
PNAS 1996 93: 11074-11079. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sahadia Koop, Eric E. Schmidt, Ian C. MacDonald, Vincent L. Morris, Rama Khokha, Marsha Grattan, James Leone, Ann F. Chambers, and Alan C. Groom

Independence of metastatic ability and extravasation: Metastatic ras-transformed and control fibroblasts extravasate equally well
PNAS 1996 93: 11080-11084. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kenneth M. Kaye, Odile Devergne, Josephine N. Harada, Kenneth M. Izumi, Ramana Yalamanchili, Elliott Kieff, and George Mosialos

Tumor necrosis factor receptor associated factor 2 is a mediator of NF-B activation by latent infection membrane protein 1, the Epstein-Barr virus transforming protein
PNAS 1996 93: 11085-11090. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patricia T. Bozza, Jennifer L. Payne, Scott G. Morham, Robert Langenbach, Oliver Smithies, and Peter F. Weller

Leukocyte lipid body formation and eicosanoid generation: Cyclooxygenase-independent inhibition by aspirin
PNAS 1996 93: 11091-11096. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Donald Orlic, Laurie J. Girard, Craig T. Jordan, Stacie M. Anderson, Amanda P. Cline, and David M. Bodine

The level of mRNA encoding the amphotropic retrovirus receptor in mouse and human hematopoietic stem cells is low and correlates with the efficiency of retrovirus transduction
PNAS 1996 93: 11097-11102. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Boro Dropulic, Monika Hermankova, and Paula M. Pitha

A conditionally replicating HIV-1 vector interferes with wild-type HIV-1 replication and spread
PNAS 1996 93: 11103-11108. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

C. R. Tinsley and X. Nassif

Analysis of the genetic differences between Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Two closely related bacteria expressing two different pathogenicities
PNAS 1996 93: 11109-11114. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lawrence B. Blyn, Kristine M. Swiderek, Oliver Richards, Douglas C. Stahl, Bert L. Semler, and Ellie Ehrenfeld

Poly(rC) binding protein 2 binds to stem-loop IV of the poliovirus RNA 5' noncoding region: Identification by automated liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry
PNAS 1996 93: 11115-11120. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Derek W. Hood, Mary E. Deadman, Michael P. Jennings, Marina Bisercic, Robert D. Fleischmann, J. Craig Venter, and E. Richard Moxon

DNA repeats identify novel virulence genes in Haemophilus influenzae
PNAS 1996 93: 11121-11125. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wolfgang R. Hess, Frédéric Partensky, Georg W. M. van der Staay, José M. Garcia-Fernandez, Thomas Börner, and Daniel Vaulot

Coexistence of phycoerythrin and a chlorophyll a/b antenna in a marine prokaryote
PNAS 1996 93: 11126-11130. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Egbert Mundt and Vikram N. Vakharia

Synthetic transcripts of double-stranded Birnavirus genome are infectious
PNAS 1996 93: 11131-11136. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kazuhiro Kondo, Jiake Xu, and Edward S. Mocarski

Human cytomegalovirus latent gene expression in granulocyte- macrophage progenitors in culture and in seropositive individuals
PNAS 1996 93: 11137-11142. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hua Su, Lynne Raymond, Daniel D. Rockey, Elizabeth Fischer, Ted Hackstadt, and Harlan D. Caldwell

A recombinant Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein binds to heparan sulfate receptors on epithelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 11143-11148. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter K. Brown and Roy Curtiss III

Unique chromosomal regions associated with virulence of an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli strain
PNAS 1996 93: 11149-11154. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xinshun Ding, Michael H. Shintaku, Shelly A. Carter, and Richard S. Nelson

Invasion of minor veins of tobacco leaves inoculated with tobacco mosaic virus mutants defective in phloem-dependent movement
PNAS 1996 93: 11155-11160. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

P.-P. Gao, J.-H. Zhang, M. Yokoyama, B. Racey, C. F. Dreyfus, I. B. Black, and R. Zhou

Regulation of topographic projection in the brain: Elf-1 in the hippocamposeptal system
PNAS 1996 93: 11161-11166. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey S. Mumm, Jianyong Shou, and Anne L. Calof

Colony-forming progenitors from mouse olfactory epithelium: Evidence for feedback regulation of neuron production
PNAS 1996 93: 11167-11172. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Toshio Ohshima, Jerrold M. Ward, Chang-Goo Huh, Glenn Longenecker, Veeranna, Harish C. Pant, Roscoe O. Brady, Lee J. Martin, and Ashok B. Kulkarni

Targeted disruption of the cyclin-dependent kinase 5 gene results in abnormal corticogenesis, neuronal pathology and perinatal death
PNAS 1996 93: 11173-11178. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nurit Kalderon and Zvi Fuks

Structural recovery in lesioned adult mammalian spinal cord by x-irradiation of the lesion site
PNAS 1996 93: 11179-11184. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nurit Kalderon and Zvi Fuks

Severed corticospinal axons recover electrophysiologic control of muscle activity after x-ray therapy in lesioned adult spinal cord
PNAS 1996 93: 11185-11190. [Abstract] [PDF]  

D. James Surmeier, Paul G. Mermelstein, and Dan Goldowitz

The weaver mutation of GIRK2 results in a loss of inwardly rectifying K⁺ current in cerebellar granule cells
PNAS 1996 93: 11191-11195. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kaoru Goto and Hisatake Kondo

A 104-kDa diacylglycerol kinase containing ankyrin-like repeats localizes in the cell nucleus
PNAS 1996 93: 11196-11201. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Liora Sklair-Tavron, Wei-Xing Shi, Sarah B. Lane, Herbert W. Harris, Benjamin S. Bunney, and Eric J. Nestler

Chronic morphine induces visible changes in the morphology of mesolimbic dopamine neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 11202-11207. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eleni Th. Tzavara, Yves Pouille, Nicole Defer, and Jacques Hanoune

Diurnal variation of the adenylyl cyclase type 1 in the rat pineal gland
PNAS 1996 93: 11208-11212. [Abstract] [PDF]  

C. M. Wischik, P. C. Edwards, R. Y. K. Lai, M. Roth, and C. R. Harrington

Selective inhibition of Alzheimer disease-like tau aggregation by phenothiazines
PNAS 1996 93: 11213-11218. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonathan S. Bakin and Norman M. Weinberger

Induction of a physiological memory in the cerebral cortex by stimulation of the nucleus basalis
PNAS 1996 93: 11219-11224. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dominique Debanne, Beat H. Gähwiler, and Scott M. Thompson

Cooperative interactions in the induction of long-term potentiation and depression of synaptic excitation between hippocampal CA3-CA1 cell pairs in vitro
PNAS 1996 93: 11225-11230. [Abstract] [PDF]  

E. Palma, A. M. Mileo, F. Eusebi, and R. Miledi

Threonine-for-leucine mutation within domain M2 of the neuronal ₇ nicotinic receptor converts 5-hydroxytryptamine from antagonist to agonist
PNAS 1996 93: 11231-11235. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Xin Jiang, Jianping Li, Michael Paskind, and Paul M. Epstein

Inhibition of calmodulin-dependent phosphodiesterase induces apoptosis in human leukemic cells
PNAS 1996 93: 11236-11241. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

David M. Cohen

Urea-inducible Egr-1 transcription in renal inner medullary collecting duct (mIMCD3) cells is mediated by extracellular signal-regulated kinase activation
PNAS 1996 93: 11242-11247. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Carol L. Beck, Christoph Fahlke, and Alfred L. George Jr.

Molecular basis for decreased muscle chloride conductance in the myotonic goat
PNAS 1996 93: 11248-11252. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. Hoyer, R. Köhler, W. Haase, and A. Distler

Up-regulation of pressure-activated Ca²⁺-permeable cation channel in intact vascular endothelium of hypertensive rats
PNAS 1996 93: 11253-11258. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Eduardo Zabaleta, Armand Mouras, Michel Hernould, Suharsono, and Alejandro Araya

Transgenic male-sterile plant induced by an unedited atp9 gene is restored to fertility by inhibiting its expression with antisense RNA
PNAS 1996 93: 11259-11263. [Abstract] [PDF]  

H. James Price and J. Spencer Johnston

Influence of light on DNA content of Helianthus annuus Linnaeus
PNAS 1996 93: 11264-11267. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xavier Gidrol, Paolo A. Sabelli, Yip Soo Fern, and Anil K. Kush

Annexin-like protein from Arabidopsis thaliana rescues oxyR mutant of Escherichia coli from H₂O₂ stress
PNAS 1996 93: 11268-11273. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Claudia Jonak, Stefan Kiegerl, Wilco Ligterink, Patrick J. Barker, Neville S. Huskisson, and Heribert Hirt

Stress signaling in plants: A mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway is activated by cold and drought
PNAS 1996 93: 11274-11279. [Abstract] [PDF]