SYMPOSIUM:
Papers presented at the Symposium "Frontiers in Plant Biology: How Plants Communicate"

Daniel R. Bergey, Gregg A. Howe, and Clarence A. Ryan

Polypeptide signaling for plant defensive genes exhibits analogies to defense signaling in animals
PNAS 1996 93: 12053-12058. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Teh-hui Kao and Andrew G. McCubbin

How flowering plants discriminate between self and non-self pollen to prevent inbreeding
PNAS 1996 93: 12059-12065. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. Chory, M. Chatterjee, R. K. Cook, T. Elich, C. Fankhauser, J. Li, P. Nagpal, M. Neff, A. Pepper, D. Poole, J. Reed, and V. Vitart

From seed germination to flowering, light controls plant development via the pigment phytochrome
PNAS 1996 93: 12066-12071. [Abstract] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Manikkam Suthanthiran

Transplantation tolerance: Fooling mother nature
PNAS 1996 93: 12072-12075. [Abstract] [PDF]  

W. Zacheus Cande and Harrison J. Wein

Anaphase in vitro
PNAS 1996 93: 12076-12077. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard Giegé

Interplay of tRNA-like structures from plant viral RNAs with partners of the translation and replication machineries
PNAS 1996 93: 12078-12081. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Candace H. Haigler and Richard L. Blanton

New hope for old dreams: Evidence that plant cellulose synthase genes have finally been identified
PNAS 1996 93: 12082-12085. [Abstract] [PDF]  

REVIEWS

Pamela Sears and Chi-Huey Wong

Intervention of carbohydrate recognition by proteins and nucleic acids
PNAS 1996 93: 12086-12093. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jean T. Greenberg

Programmed cell death: A way of life for plants
PNAS 1996 93: 12094-12097. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Physical Sciences

Y. R. Shen INAUGURAL ARTICLE: A few selected applications of surface nonlinear optical spectroscopy PNAS 1996 93: 12104-12111. [Abstract] [PDF]

Chemistry

Walter Soares Leal

Chemical communication in scarab beetles: Reciprocal behavioral agonist-antagonist activities of chiral pheromones
PNAS 1996 93: 12112-12115. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Imre Berger, Martin Egli, and Alexander Rich

Inter-strand C---H···O hydrogen bonds stabilizing four-stranded intercalated molecules: Stereoelectronic effects of O4' in cytosine-rich DNA
PNAS 1996 93: 12116-12121. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Taishin Akiyama and Michael E. Hogan

The design of an agent to bend DNA
PNAS 1996 93: 12122-12127. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Statistics

Peter J. Bickel and Peter Bühlmann

What is a linear process?
PNAS 1996 93: 12128-12131. [Abstract] [PDF]  

C. Radhakrishna Rao and Shailaja Suryawanshi INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Statistical analysis of shape of objects based on landmark data PNAS 1996 93: 12132-12136. [Abstract] [PDF]

SOCIAL SCIENCES

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Carole L. Yauk and James S. Quinn

Multilocus DNA fingerprinting reveals high rate of heritable genetic mutation in herring gulls nesting in an industrialized
PNAS 1996 93: 12137-12141. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Burkhard Morgenstern, Andreas Dress, and Thomas Werner

Multiple DNA and protein sequence alignment based on segment-to-segment comparison
PNAS 1996 93: 12098-12103. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alexander Varshavsky INAUGURAL ARTICLE: The N-end rule: Functions, mysteries, uses PNAS 1996 93: 12142-12149. [Abstract] [PDF]

Piotr Zielenkiewicz

Three-dimensional model of the potyviral genome-linked protein
PNAS 1996 93: 12150-12154. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nadine C. Gassner, Walter A. Baase, and Brian W. Matthews

A test of the "jigsaw puzzle" model for protein folding by multiple methionine substitutions within the core of T4 lysozyme
PNAS 1996 93: 12155-12158. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Leiming Zhu, Shan-Ho Chou, and Brian R. Reid

A single G-to-C change causes human centromere TGGAA repeats to fold back into hairpins
PNAS 1996 93: 12159-12164. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Philip V. LoGrasso, Julio Hawkins, Lori J. Frank, Douglas Wisniewski, and Alice Marcy

Mechanism of activation for Zap-70 catalytic activity
PNAS 1996 93: 12165-12170. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ridong Chen, Ann Greer, and Antony M. Dean

Redesigning secondary structure to invert coenzyme specificity in isopropylmalate dehydrogenase
PNAS 1996 93: 12171-12176. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shinae Kizaka-Kondoh, Michiyuki Matsuda, and Hiroto Okayama

CrkII signals from epidermal growth factor receptor to Ras
PNAS 1996 93: 12177-12182. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yuri P. Semenkov, Marina V. Rodnina, and Wolfgang Wintermeyer

The "allosteric three-site model" of elongation cannot be confirmed in a well-defined ribosome system from Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 12183-12188. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pietro Gervasoni, Werner Staudenmann, Peter James, Peter Gehrig, and Andreas Plückthun

-Lactamase binds to GroEL in a conformation highly protected against hydrogen/deuterium exchange
PNAS 1996 93: 12189-12194. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jianming Xu, Zafar Nawaz, Sophia Y. Tsai, Ming-Jer Tsai, and Bert W. O'Malley

The extreme C terminus of progesterone receptor contains a transcriptional repressor domain that functions through a putative corepressor
PNAS 1996 93: 12195-12199. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chien-Fu Hung, Ryan Holzmacher, Eileen Connolly, May R. Berenbaum, and Mary A. Schuler

Conserved promoter elements in the CYP6B gene family suggest common ancestry for cytochrome P450 monooxygenases mediating furanocoumarin detoxification
PNAS 1996 93: 12200-12205. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Erik Boye, Trond Stokke, Nancy Kleckner, and Kirsten Skarstad

Coordinating DNA replication initiation with cell growth: Differential roles for DnaA and SeqA proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 12206-12211. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Theo W. Dreher, Ching-Hsiu Tsai, and James M. Skuzeski

Aminoacylation identity switch of turnip yellow mosaic virus RNA from valine to methionine results in an infectious virus
PNAS 1996 93: 12212-12216. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard J. Bennett and Stephen C. West

Resolution of Holliday junctions in genetic recombination: RuvC protein nicks DNA at the point of strand exchange
PNAS 1996 93: 12217-12222. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mary Hendrickson, Mark Madine, Stephen Dalton, and Jean Gautier

Phosphorylation of MCM4 by cdc2 protein kinase inhibits the activity of the minichromosome maintenance complex
PNAS 1996 93: 12223-12228. [Abstract] [PDF]  

A. Louise Creagh, Edgar Ong, Eric Jervis, Douglas G. Kilburn, and Charles A. Haynes

Binding of the cellulose-binding domain of exoglucanase Cex from Cellulomonas fimi to insoluble microcrystalline cellulose is entropically driven
PNAS 1996 93: 12229-12234. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael I. Verkhovsky, Joel E. Morgan, and Mårten Wikström

Redox transitions between oxygen intermediates in cytochrome-c oxidase
PNAS 1996 93: 12235-12239. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas J. Lyons, Hongbin Liu, Joy J. Goto, Aram Nersissian, James A. Roe, Janet A. Graden, Carla Café, Lisa M. Ellerby, Dale E. Bredesen, Edith Butler Gralla, and Joan Selverstone Valentine

Mutations in copper-zinc superoxide dismutase that cause amyotrophic lateral sclerosis alter the zinc binding site and the redox behavior of the protein
PNAS 1996 93: 12240-12244. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonathan D. Groves, Pierre Falson, Marc le Maire, and Michael J. A. Tanner

Functional cell surface expression of the anion transport domain of human red cell band 3 (AE1) in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1996 93: 12245-12250. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Markus Linder and Tuula T. Teeri

The cellulose-binding domain of the major cellobiohydrolase of Trichoderma reesei exhibits true reversibility and a high exchange rate on crystalline cellulose
PNAS 1996 93: 12251-12255. [Abstract] [PDF]  

René C. L. Olsthoorn and Jan van Duin

Evolutionary reconstruction of a hairpin deleted from the genome of an RNA virus
PNAS 1996 93: 12256-12261. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yudong Zhou, Zuoming Sun, Anthony R. Means, Paolo Sassone-Corsi, and Kenneth E. Bernstein

cAMP-response element modulator  is a positive regulator of testis angiotensin converting enzyme transcription
PNAS 1996 93: 12262-12266. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrew C. Perkins, Karin M. L. Gaensler, and Stuart H. Orkin

Silencing of human fetal globin expression is impaired in the absence of the adult -globin gene activator protein EKLF
PNAS 1996 93: 12267-12271. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nina Y. Sidorova and Donald C. Rau

Differences in water release for the binding of EcoRI to specific and nonspecific DNA sequences
PNAS 1996 93: 12272-12277. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Carlos E. Alvarez, Keith Robison, and Walter Gilbert

Novel G_q isoform is a candidate transducer of rhodopsin signaling in a Drosophila testes-autonomous pacemaker
PNAS 1996 93: 12278-12282. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Joseph E. Coury, Lori McFail-Isom, Loren Dean Williams, and Lawrence A. Bottomley

A novel assay for drug-DNA binding mode, affinity, and exclusion number: Scanning force microscopy
PNAS 1996 93: 12283-12286. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. F. Mooney, A. J. Hunt, J. R. McIntosh, C. A. Liberko, D. M. Walba, and C. T. Rogers

Patterning of functional antibodies and other proteins by photolithography of silane monolayers
PNAS 1996 93: 12287-12291. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pia Ädelroth, Håkan Sigurdson, Stefan Hallén, and Peter Brzezinski

Kinetic coupling between electron and proton transfer in cytochrome c oxidase: Simultaneous measurements of conductance and absorbance changes
PNAS 1996 93: 12292-12297. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Toshihiro Shioda, Martin H. Fenner, and Kurt J. Isselbacher

msg1, a novel melanocyte-specific gene, encodes a nuclear protein and is associated with pigmentation
PNAS 1996 93: 12298-12303. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sidney V. Scott, Ann Hefner-Gravink, Kevin A. Morano, Takeshi Noda, Yoshinori Ohsumi, and Daniel J. Klionsky

Cytoplasm-to-vacuole targeting and autophagy employ the same machinery to deliver proteins to the yeast vacuole
PNAS 1996 93: 12304-12308. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Blair Hopwood and Stephen Dalton

Cdc45p assembles into a complex with Cdc46p/Mcm5p, is required for minichromosome maintenance, and is essential for chromosomal
PNAS 1996 93: 12309-12314. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Edith Hintermann, Nicole C. Grieder, Remo Amherd, Daniela Brodbeck, and Urs A. Meyer

Cloning of an arylalkylamine N-acetyltransferase (aaNAT1) from Drosophila melanogaster expressed in the nervous system and the gut
PNAS 1996 93: 12315-12320. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Janet L. Smith, Linda A. Silveira, and James A. Spudich

Myosin light chain kinase (MLCK) gene disruption in Dictyostelium: A role for MLCK-A in cytokinesis and evidence for multiple MLCKs
PNAS 1996 93: 12321-12326. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrew W. Murray, Arshad B. Desai, and E. D. Salmon

Real time observation of anaphase in vitro
PNAS 1996 93: 12327-12332. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cesar V. Mujer, David L. Andrews, James R. Manhart, Sidney K. Pierce, and Mary E. Rumpho

Chloroplast genes are expressed during intracellular symbiotic association of Vaucheria litorea plastids with the sea slug Elysia chlorotica
PNAS 1996 93: 12333-12338. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kirsten Sandvig, Øystein Garred, and Bo van Deurs

Thapsigargin-induced transport of cholera toxin to the endoplasmic reticulum
PNAS 1996 93: 12339-12343. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Henk Jansz, Kelly Martial, Johanna Zandberg, Gérard Milhaud, A. A. Benson, Annick Julienne, M. S. Moukhtar, and Michèle Cressent

Identification of a new calcitonin gene in the salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha
PNAS 1996 93: 12344-12348. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kimberly A. Mislick and John D. Baldeschwieler

Evidence for the role of proteoglycans in cation-mediated gene transfer
PNAS 1996 93: 12349-12354. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Yuko Fujiwara, Carol P. Browne, Kerrianne Cunniff, Sabra C. Goff, and Stuart H. Orkin

Arrested development of embryonic red cell precursors in mouse embryos lacking transcription factor GATA-1
PNAS 1996 93: 12355-12358. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Koichi Sasaki, Hideshi Yagi, Roderick T. Bronson, Kumi Tominaga, Tatsuro Matsunashi, Kenji Deguchi, Yoshihiko Tani, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, and Toshihisa Komori

Absence of fetal liver hematopoiesis in mice deficient in transcriptional coactivator core binding factor
PNAS 1996 93: 12359-12363. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cooduvalli S. Shashikant and Frank H. Ruddle

Combinations of closely situated cis-acting elements determine tissue-specific patterns and anterior extent of early Hoxc8 expression
PNAS 1996 93: 12364-12369. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Kirsten A. Larson, Eric V. Olson, Benjamin J. Madden, Gerald J. Gleich, Nancy A. Lee, and James J. Lee

Two highly homologous ribonuclease genes expressed in mouse eosinophils identify a larger subgroup of the mammalian ribonuclease superfamily
PNAS 1996 93: 12370-12375. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Monty A. Montano, Katharine Kripke, Carl D. Norina, Philip Achacoso, Leonard A. Herzenberg, Ananda L. Roy, and Garry P. Nolan

NF-B homodimer binding within the HIV-1 initiator region and interactions with TFII-I
PNAS 1996 93: 12376-12381. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elena E. Jazin, Lucia Cavelier, Inger Eriksson, Lars Oreland, and Ulf Gyllensten

Human brain contains high levels of heteroplasmy in the noncoding regions of mitochondrial DNA
PNAS 1996 93: 12382-12387. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David G. Grenache, Ian Caldicott, Patrice S. Albert, Donald L. Riddle, and Samuel M. Politz

Environmental induction and genetic control of surface antigen switching in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
PNAS 1996 93: 12388-12393. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. L. Stallings-Mann, R. L. Ludwiczak, K. W. Klinger, and F. Rottman

Alternative splicing of exon 3 of the human growth hormone receptor is the result of an unusual genetic polymorphism
PNAS 1996 93: 12394-12399. [Abstract] [PDF]  

I. Elisabeth Johansen

Intron insertion facilitates amplification of cloned virus cDNA in Escherichia coli while biological activity is reestablished after transcription in vivo

PNAS 1996 93: 12400-12405. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tetsuji Kakutani, Jeffrey A. Jeddeloh, Susan K. Flowers, Kyoko Munakata, and Eric J. Richards

Developmental abnormalities and epimutations associated with DNA hypomethylation mutations
PNAS 1996 93: 12406-12411. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Klaus Harbers, Ursula Müller, Anja Grams, En Li, Rudolf Jaenisch, and Thomas Franz

Provirus integration into a gene encoding a ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme results in a placental defect and embryonic lethality
PNAS 1996 93: 12412-12417. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pernille Rørth

A modular misexpression screen in Drosophila detecting tissue-specific phenotypes
PNAS 1996 93: 12418-12422. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William A. Mohler and Helen M. Blau

Gene expression and cell fusion analyzed by lacZ complementation in mammalian cells
PNAS 1996 93: 12423-12427. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sabire Özcan, Jim Dover, Anne G. Rosenwald, Stefan Wölfl, and Mark Johnston

Two glucose transporters in Saccharomyces cerevisiae are glucose sensors that generate a signal for induction of gene expression
PNAS 1996 93: 12428-12432. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Maria Cristina Mingari, Francesca Schiavetti, Marco Ponte, Chiara Vitale, Enrico Maggi, Sergio Romagnani, James Demarest, Giuseppe Pantaleo, Anthony S. Fauci, and Lorenzo Moretta

Human CD8⁺ T lymphocyte subsets that express HLA class I-specific inhibitory receptors represent oligoclonally or monoclonally expanded cell populations
PNAS 1996 93: 12433-12438. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Haruhito Azuma, Anil Chandraker, Kari Nadeau, Wayne W. Hancock, Charles B. Carpenter, Nicholas L. Tilney, and Mohamed H. Sayegh

Blockade of T-cell costimulation prevents development of experimental chronic renal allograft rejection
PNAS 1996 93: 12439-12444. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Veronika Groh, Seiamak Bahram, Stefan Bauer, Andrew Herman, Mary Beauchamp, and Thomas Spies

Cell stress-regulated human major histocompatibility complex class I gene expressed in gastrointestinal epithelium
PNAS 1996 93: 12445-12450. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael C. Yeung, Jun Liu, and Allan S. Lau

An essential role for the interferon-inducible, double-stranded RNA-activated protein kinase PKR in the tumor necrosis factor-induced apoptosis in U937 cells
PNAS 1996 93: 12451-12455. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nick Platt, Hiroshi Suzuki, Yukiko Kurihara, Tatsuhiko Kodama, and Siamon Gordon

Role for the class A macrophage scavenger receptor in the phagocytosis of apoptotic thymocytes in vitro
PNAS 1996 93: 12456-12460. [Abstract] [PDF]  

P. Musette, D. Bequet, C. Delarbre, G. Gachelin, P. Kourilsky, and D. Dormont

Expansion of a recurrent V5.3⁺ T-cell population in newly diagnosed and untreated HLA-DR2 multiple sclerosis patients
PNAS 1996 93: 12461-12466. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James D. Gorham, Mehmet L. Güler, Robert G. Steen, Aaron J. Mackey, Mark J. Daly, Kathy Frederick, William F. Dietrich, and Kenneth M. Murphy

Genetic mapping of a murine locus controlling development of T helper 1/T helper 2 type responses
PNAS 1996 93: 12467-12472. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Yvonne Gräser, Miguel Volovsek, Jennifer Arrington, Gabriele Schönian, Wolfgang Presber, Thomas G. Mitchell, and Rytas Vilgalys

Molecular markers reveal that population structure of the human pathogen Candida albicans exhibits both clonality and recombination
PNAS 1996 93: 12473-12477. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rolf Ziesche, Venzeslav Petkov, John Williams, Schaker M. Zakeri, Wilhelm Mosgöller, Martin Knöfler, and Lutz H. Block

Lipopolysaccharide and interleukin 1 augment the effects of hypoxia and inflammation in human pulmonary arterial tissue
PNAS 1996 93: 12478-12483. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joachim Biwersi, Neil Emans, and A. S. Verkman

Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator activation stimulates endosome fusion in vivo
PNAS 1996 93: 12484-12489. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lício A. Velloso, Franco Folli, Xiao J. Sun, Morris F. White, Mario J. A. Saad, and C. Ronald Kahn

Cross-talk between the insulin and angiotensin signaling systems
PNAS 1996 93: 12490-12495. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Maryline Mancini, Michelle Hadchouel, Heather L. Davis, Robert G. Whalen, Pierre Tiollais, and Marie-Louise Michel

DNA-mediated immunization in a transgenic mouse model of the hepatitis B surface antigen chronic carrier state
PNAS 1996 93: 12496-12501. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Beatrice Stefana, David W. Ray, and Shlomo Melmed

Leukemia inhibitory factor induces differentiation of pituitary corticotroph function: An immuno-neuroendocrine phenotypic switch
PNAS 1996 93: 12502-12506. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph Lotem and Leo Sachs

Differential suppression by protease inhibitors and cytokines of apoptosis induced by wild-type p53 and cytotoxic agents
PNAS 1996 93: 12507-12512. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gy. Kéri, J. Érchegyi, A. Horváth, I. Mezõ, M. Idei, T. Vántus, Á. Balogh, Zs. Vadász, Gy. Bökönyi, J. Seprõdi, I. Teplán, O. Csuka, M. Tejeda, D. Gaál, Zs. Szegedi, B. Szende, C. Roze, H. Kalthoff, and A. Ullrich

A tumor-selective somatostatin analog (TT-232) with strong in vitro and in vivo antitumor activity
PNAS 1996 93: 12513-12518. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hui Zhang, Geethanjali Dornadula, Prasad Alur, Mark A. Laughlin, and Roger J. Pomerantz

Amphipathic domains in the C terminus of the transmembrane protein (gp41) permeabilize HIV-1 virions: A molecular mechanism underlying natural endogenous reverse transcription
PNAS 1996 93: 12519-12524. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hye-Sun Oh and Robert C. Smart

An estrogen receptor pathway regulates the telogen-anagen hair follicle transition and influences epidermal cell proliferation
PNAS 1996 93: 12525-12530. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Jimmy D. Ballard, R. John Collier, and Michael N. Starnbach

Anthrax toxin-mediated delivery of a cytotoxic T-cell epitope in vivo
PNAS 1996 93: 12531-12534. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kara L. Carter and Bernard Roizman

Alternatively spliced mRNAs predicted to yield frame-shift proteins and stable intron 1 RNAs of the herpes simplex virus 1 regulatory gene 0 accumulate in the cytoplasm of infected cells
PNAS 1996 93: 12535-12540. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shaohua Huang and Said A. Ghabrial

Organization and expression of the double-stranded RNA genome of Helminthosporium victoriae 190S virus, a totivirus infecting a plant pathogenic filamentous fungus
PNAS 1996 93: 12541-12546. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Martin Korte, Oliver Griesbeck, Claude Gravel, Patrick Carroll, Volker Staiger, Hans Thoenen, and Tobias Bonhoeffer

Virus-mediated gene transfer into hippocampal CA1 region restores long-term potentiation in brain-derived neurotrophic factor mutant mice
PNAS 1996 93: 12547-12552. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shoki Okuda, Nobuyoshi Nishiyama, Hiroshi Saito, and Hiroshi Katsuki

Hydrogen peroxide-mediated neuronal cell death induced by an endogenous neurotoxin, 3-hydroxykynurenine
PNAS 1996 93: 12553-12558. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. Vreugdenhil, C. Bruehl, R. A. Voskuyl, J. X. Kang, A. Leaf, and W. J. Wadman

Polyunsaturated fatty acids modulate sodium and calcium currents in CA1 neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 12559-12563. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dennis W. Rickman and Catherine Bowes Rickman

Suppression of trk_B expression by antisense oligonucleotides alters a neuronal phenotype in the rod pathway of the developing rat retina
PNAS 1996 93: 12564-12569. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter McCaffery, Jörg Mey, and Ursula C. Dräger

Light-mediated retinoic acid production
PNAS 1996 93: 12570-12574. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nazneen N. Dewji and S. J. Singer

Specific transcellular binding between membrane proteins crucial to Alzheimer disease
PNAS 1996 93: 12575-12580. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tammy L. Dellovade, Yuan-Shan Zhu, Lewis Krey, and Donald W. Pfaff

Thyroid hormone and estrogen interact to regulate behavior
PNAS 1996 93: 12581-12586. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yuan-Shan Zhu, Paul M. Yen, William W. Chin, and Donald W. Pfaff

Estrogen and thyroid hormone interaction on regulation of gene expression
PNAS 1996 93: 12587-12592. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kenneth G. Miller, Aixa Alfonso, Minh Nguyen, John A. Crowell, Carl D. Johnson, and James B. Rand

A genetic selection for Caenorhabditis elegans synaptic transmission mutants
PNAS 1996 93: 12593-12598. [Abstract] [PDF]  

D. P. Uzunov, T. B. Cooper, E. Costa, and A. Guidotti

Fluoxetine-elicited changes in brain neurosteroid content measured by negative ion mass fragmentography
PNAS 1996 93: 12599-12604. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Herve Tostivint, Isabelle Lihrmann, Christine Bucharles, Didier Vieau, Yolaine Coulouarn, Alain Fournier, J. Michael Conlon, and Hubert Vaudry

Occurrence of two somatostatin variants in the frog brain: Characterization of the cDNAs, distribution of the mRNAs, and receptor-binding affinities of the peptides
PNAS 1996 93: 12605-12610. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ignazio Castagliuolo, Susan E. Leeman, Erzsebet Bartolak-Suki, Sigfus Nikulasson, Bosheng Qiu, Robert E. Carraway, and Charalabos Pothoulakis

A neurotensin antagonist, SR 48692, inhibits colonic responses to immobilization stress in rats
PNAS 1996 93: 12611-12615. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. K. Suarez, J. R. B. Lighton, B. Joos, S. P. Roberts, and J. F. Harrison

Energy metabolism, enzymatic flux capacities, and metabolic flux rates in flying honeybees
PNAS 1996 93: 12616-12620. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. L. Abernathy, P. E. A. Teal, J. A. Meredith, and R. J. Nachman

Induction of pheromone production in a moth by topical application of a pseudopeptide mimic of a pheromonotropic neuropeptide
PNAS 1996 93: 12621-12625. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sylvia W. Curtis, Todd Washburn, Charles Sewall, Richard DiAugustine, Jonathan Lindzey, John F. Couse, and Kenneth S. Korach

Physiological coupling of growth factor and steroid receptor signaling pathways: Estrogen receptor knockout mice lack estrogen-like response to epidermal growth factor
PNAS 1996 93: 12626-12630. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xia Lin and Diane L. Barber

A calcineurin homologous protein inhibits GTPase-stimulated Na-H exchange
PNAS 1996 93: 12631-12636. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Julie R. Pear, Yasushi Kawagoe, William E. Schreckengost, Deborah P. Delmer, and David M. Stalker

Higher plants contain homologs of the bacterial celA genes encoding the catalytic subunit of cellulose synthase
PNAS 1996 93: 12637-12642. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lynda Nguyen, William J. Lucas, Biao Ding, and Milton Zaitlin

Viral RNA trafficking is inhibited in replicase-mediated resistant transgenic tobacco plants
PNAS 1996 93: 12643-12647. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Population Biology

B. M. Bolker and B. T. Grenfell

Impact of vaccination on the spatial correlation and persistence of measles dynamics
PNAS 1996 93: 12648-12653. [Abstract] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 93, p. 4638 [Abstract]