COMMENTARIES

Thomas J. Grabowski and Antonio R. Damasio

Improving functional imaging techniques: The dream of a single image for a single mental event
PNAS 1996 93: 14302-14303. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ranjit Kumar Chandra

Nutrition, immunity and infection: From basic knowledge of dietary manipulation of immune responses to practical application of ameliorating suffering and improving survival
PNAS 1996 93: 14304-14307. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles J. Weitz

Circadian timekeeping: Loops and layers of transcriptional control
PNAS 1996 93: 14308-14309. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laszlo Lorand

Neurodegenerative diseases and transglutaminase
PNAS 1996 93: 14310-14313. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COLLOQUIUM:

Ernest M. Henley

Introduction to colloquium
PNAS 1996 93: 14215. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martha P. Haynes

Mapping the universe in three dimensions
PNAS 1996 93: 14216-14220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Virginia Trimble

Astrophysical symmetries
PNAS 1996 93: 14221-14224. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Howard C. Berg

Symmetries in bacterial motility
PNAS 1996 93: 14225-14228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antonio García-Bellido

Symmetries throughout organic evolution
PNAS 1996 93: 14229-14232. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. D. Mostow

A brief survey of symmetry in mathematics
PNAS 1996 93: 14233-14237. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michèle Vergne

Convex polytopes and quantization of symplectic manifolds
PNAS 1996 93: 14238-14242. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom L. Blundell and N. Srinivasan

Symmetry, stability, and dynamics of multidomain and multicomponent protein systems
PNAS 1996 93: 14243-14248. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter G. Wolynes

Symmetry and the energy landscapes of biomolecules
PNAS 1996 93: 14249-14255. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Gross

The role of symmetry in fundamental physics
PNAS 1996 93: 14256-14259. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jack D. Dunitz

Symmetry arguments in chemistry
PNAS 1996 93: 14260-14266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul J. Steinhardt

New perspectives on forbidden symmetries, quasicrystals, and Penrose tilings
PNAS 1996 93: 14267-14270. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald L. D. Caspar and Eric Fontano

Five-fold symmetry in crystalline quasicrystal lattices
PNAS 1996 93: 14271-14278. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Richard Palmer

From symmetry to asymmetry: Phylogenetic patterns of asymmetry variation in animals and their evolutionary significance
PNAS 1996 93: 14279-14286. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael E. Kellman

Symmetry in chemistry from the hydrogen atom to proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 14287-14294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald L. Turcotte and William I. Newman

Symmetries in geology and geophysics
PNAS 1996 93: 14295-14300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ernest M. Henley

Concluding talk
PNAS 1996 93: 14301. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

John Ross

Comments on the article "Persistent confusion of total entropy and chemical system entropy in chemical thermodynamics" [(1996) Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 93, 7452-7453]
PNAS 1996 93: 14314. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gregorio Weber

Response by the author
PNAS 1996 93: 14315. [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Ian Scott, Neal J. Stolowich, Jianji Wang, Oliver Gawatz, Erwin Fridrich, and Gerhard Müller

Biosynthesis of vitamin B₁₂: Factor IV, a new intermediate in the anaerobic pathway
PNAS 1996 93: 14316-14319. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianji Wang, Neal J. Stolowich, Patricio J. Santander, Jeong Ho Park, and A. Ian Scott

Biosynthesis of vitamin B₁₂: Concerning the identity of the two-carbon fragment eliminated during anaerobic formation of cobyrinic acid
PNAS 1996 93: 14320-14322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clayton H. Heathcock INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Nature knows best: An amazing reaction cascade is uncovered by design and discovery PNAS 1996 93: 14323-14327. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Terrell L. Hill

Adsorption from a one-dimensional lattice gas and the Brunauer-Emmett-Teller equation
PNAS 1996 93: 14328-14332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cecile Roselli, Alain Boussac, Tony A. Mattioli, Jennifer A. Griffiths, and Mostafa A. El-Sayed

Detection of a Yb³⁺ binding site in regenerated bacteriorhodopsin that is coordinated with the protein and phospholipid head groups
PNAS 1996 93: 14333-14337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

Randy L. Buckner, Peter A. Bandettini, Kathleen M. O'Craven, Robert L. Savoy, Steven E. Petersen, Marcus E. Raichle, and Bruce R. Rosen

Detection of cortical activation during averaged single trials of a cognitive task using functional magnetic resonance imaging
PNAS 1996 93: 14878-14883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Social Sciences

B. L. Turner II and A. M. Shajaat Ali INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Induced intensification: Agricultural change in Bangladesh with implications for Malthus and Boserup PNAS 1996 93: 14984-14991. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Francis Rajamohan, Oscar Alzate, Jeffrey A. Cotrill, April Curtiss, and Donald H. Dean

Protein engineering of Bacillus thuringiensis -endotoxin: Mutations at domain II of CryIAb enhance receptor affinity and toxicity toward gypsy moth larvae
PNAS 1996 93: 14338-14343. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vernon R. Young

Evidence for a recommended dietary allowance for vitamin C from pharmacokinetics: A comment and analysis
PNAS 1996 93: 14344-14348. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andres F. Oberhauser and Julio M. Fernandez

A fusion pore phenotype in mast cells of the ruby-eye mouse
PNAS 1996 93: 14349-14354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

David L. Roberts, Frank E. Frerman, and Jung-Ja P. Kim

Three-dimensional structure of human electron transfer flavoprotein to 2.1-Å resolution
PNAS 1996 93: 14355-14360. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Haldimann, Murali K. Prahalad, Stewart L. Fisher, Soo-Ki Kim, Christopher T. Walsh, and Barry L. Wanner

Altered recognition mutants of the response regulator PhoB: A new genetic strategy for studying protein-protein interactions
PNAS 1996 93: 14361-14366. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhong Guo, Károly Liliom, David J. Fischer, Ian C. Bathurst, L. David Tomei, Michael C. Kiefer, and Gábor Tigyi

Molecular cloning of a high-affinity receptor for the growth factor-like lipid mediator lysophosphatidic acid from Xenopus oocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 14367-14372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea Musacchio, Lewis C. Cantley, and Stephen C. Harrison

Crystal structure of the breakpoint cluster region-homology domain from phosphoinositide 3-kinase p85 subunit
PNAS 1996 93: 14373-14378. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Craig D. Dickinson, Curtis R. Kelly, and Wolfram Ruf

Identification of surface residues mediating tissue factor binding and catalytic function of the serine protease factor VIIa
PNAS 1996 93: 14379-14384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ning Ma, Seiichiro Ikeda, Shenyuan Guo, Angela Fieno, Inshik Park, Stephen Grimme, Takehisa Ikeda, and David H. Ives

Deoxycytidine kinase and deoxyguanosine kinase of Lactobacillus acidophilus R-26 are colinear products of a single gene
PNAS 1996 93: 14385-14390. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Krishnanand D. Kumble, Kyunghye Ahn, and Arthur Kornberg

Phosphohistidyl active sites in polyphosphate kinase of Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 14391-14395. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lucia Banci, Ivano Bertini, Mireille Bruschi, Pornthep Sompornpisut, and Paola Turano

NMR characterization and solution structure determination of the oxidized cytochrome c₇ from Desulfuromonas acetoxidans
PNAS 1996 93: 14396-14400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria Mittag

Conserved circadian elements in phylogenetically diverse algae
PNAS 1996 93: 14401-14404. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroshi Sugiyama, Chenyang Lian, Mariko Isomura, Isao Saito, and Andrew H.-J. Wang

Distamycin A modulates the sequence specificity of DNA alkylation by duocarmycin A
PNAS 1996 93: 14405-14410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irving M. Klotz

Equilibrium constants and free energies in unfolding of proteins in urea solutions
PNAS 1996 93: 14411-14415. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sotirios C. Kampranis and Anthony Maxwell

Conversion of DNA gyrase into a conventional type II topoisomerase
PNAS 1996 93: 14416-14421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew S. Fitzgerald, Thomas D. McKnight, and Dorothy E. Shippen

Characterization and developmental patterns of telomerase expression in plants
PNAS 1996 93: 14422-14427. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. P. Singh, J. S. Wishnok, M. Keshive, W. M. Deen, and S. R. Tannenbaum

The chemistry of the S-nitrosoglutathione/glutathione system
PNAS 1996 93: 14428-14433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard J. McCormick, Tina Badalian, and David E. Fisher

The leucine zipper may induce electrophoretic mobility anomalies without DNA bending
PNAS 1996 93: 14434-14439. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrej Shevchenko, Ole N. Jensen, Alexandre V. Podtelejnikov, Francis Sagliocco, Matthias Wilm, Ole Vorm, Peter Mortensen, Anna Shevchenko, Helian Boucherie, and Matthias Mann

Linking genome and proteome by mass spectrometry: Large-scale identification of yeast proteins from two dimensional gels
PNAS 1996 93: 14440-14445. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianbo Cheng, David B. Hicks, and Terry A. Krulwich

The purified Bacillus subtilis tetracycline efflux protein TetA(L) reconstitutes both tetracycline-cobalt/H⁺ and Na⁺(K⁺)/H⁺ exchange
PNAS 1996 93: 14446-14451. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John-Edward A. Michaels, Paul Schimmel, Kiyotaka Shiba, and W. Todd Miller

Dominant negative inhibition by fragments of a monomeric enzyme
PNAS 1996 93: 14452-14455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Feng Dong, Steven E. Weitzel, and Peter H. von Hippel

A coupled complex of T4 DNA replication helicase (gp41) and polymerase (gp43) can perform rapid and processive DNA strand-displacement synthesis
PNAS 1996 93: 14456-14461. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yang Lu, Robert J. Turner, and Robert L. Switzer

Function of RNA secondary structures in transcriptional attenuation of the Bacillus subtilis pyr operon
PNAS 1996 93: 14462-14467. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shrikanth P. Hegde, Ming-hui Qin, Xin-hui Li, Mark A. L. Atkinson, Alvin J. Clark, Malini Rajagopalan, and Murty V. V. S. Madiraju

Interactions of RecF protein with RecO, RecR, and single-stranded DNA binding proteins reveal roles for the RecF-RecO-RecR complex in DNA repair and recombination
PNAS 1996 93: 14468-14473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shu-ou Shan and Daniel Herschlag

The change in hydrogen bond strength accompanying charge rearrangement: Implications for enzymatic catalysis
PNAS 1996 93: 14474-14479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazimierz T. Tycowski, Christine M. Smith, Mei-Di Shu, and Joan A. Steitz

A small nucleolar RNA requirement for site-specific ribose methylation of rRNA in Xenopus
PNAS 1996 93: 14480-14485. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Srinivasa M. Srinivasula, Manzoor Ahmad, Teresa Fernandes-Alnemri, Gerald Litwack, and Emad S. Alnemri

Molecular ordering of the Fas-apoptotic pathway: The Fas/APO-1 protease Mch5 is a CrmA-inhibitable protease that activates multiple Ced-3/ICE-like cysteine proteases
PNAS 1996 93: 14486-14491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harald H. H. W. Schmidt, Heinrich Hofmann, Ursula Schindler, Zhanna S. Shutenko, David D. Cunningham, and Martin Feelisch

No ^·NO from NO synthase
PNAS 1996 93: 14492-14497. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianhua Wu and H. Ronald Kaback

A general method for determining helix packing in membrane proteins in situ: Helices I and II are close to helix VII in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 14498-14502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen E. Rundlett, Andrew A. Carmen, Ryuji Kobayashi, Sergei Bavykin, Bryan M. Turner, and Michael Grunstein

HDA1 and RPD3 are members of distinct yeast histone deacetylase complexes that regulate silencing and transcription
PNAS 1996 93: 14503-14508. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arumugam Jayakumar, Wei-Yong Huang, Beate Raetz, Subrahmanyam S. Chirala, and Salih J. Wakil

Cloning and expression of the multifunctional human fatty acid synthase and its subdomains in Escherichia coli
PNAS 1996 93: 14509-14514. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hemalata M. Joshi and F. Robert Tabita

A global two component signal transduction system that integrates the control of photosynthesis, carbon dioxide assimilation, and nitrogen fixation
PNAS 1996 93: 14515-14520. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

B. Gabriel and J. Teissié

Proton long-range migration along protein monolayers and its consequences on membrane coupling
PNAS 1996 93: 14521-14525. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William E. Royer Jr., Animesh Pardanani, Quentin H. Gibson, Eric S. Peterson, and Joel M. Friedman

Ordered water molecules as key allosteric mediators in a cooperative dimeric hemoglobin
PNAS 1996 93: 14526-14531. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ehud M. Landau and Jürg P. Rosenbusch

Lipidic cubic phases: A novel concept for the crystallization of membrane proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 14532-14535. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Christine Schneider, Laura Sepp-Lorenzino, Elmar Nimmesgern, Ouathek Ouerfelli, Samuel Danishefsky, Neal Rosen, and F. Ulrich Hartl

Pharmacologic shifting of a balance between protein refolding and degradation mediated by Hsp90
PNAS 1996 93: 14536-14541. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William J. Wolfgang, Ian J. H. Roberts, Frank Quan, Cahir O'Kane, and Michael Forte

Activation of protein kinase A-independent pathways by G_s in Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 14542-14547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ju-Tao Guo, Carol E. Aldrich, William S. Mason, and John C. Pugh

Characterization of serum amyloid A protein mRNA expression and secondary amyloidosis in the domestic duck
PNAS 1996 93: 14548-14553. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. William Provance Jr., Michael Wei, Vinu Ipe, and John A. Mercer

Cultured melanocytes from dilute mutant mice exhibit dendritic morphology and altered melanosome distribution
PNAS 1996 93: 14554-14558. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jialing Xiang, Debra T. Chao, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer

BAX-induced cell death may not require interleukin 1-converting enzyme-like proteases
PNAS 1996 93: 14559-14563. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy Gainsford, Tracy A. Willson, Donald Metcalf, Emanuela Handman, Clare McFarlane, Ashley Ng, Nicos A. Nicola, Warren S. Alexander, and Douglas J. Hilton

Leptin can induce proliferation, differentiation, and functional activation of hemopoietic cells
PNAS 1996 93: 14564-14568. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

H. Leighton Grimes, C. Blake Gilks, Tung O. Chan, Susan Porter, and Philip N. Tsichlis

The Gfi-1 protooncoprotein represses Bax expression and inhibits T-cell death
PNAS 1996 93: 14569-14573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas D. Sweitzer and John A. Hanover

Calmodulin activates nuclear protein import: A link between signal transduction and nuclear transport
PNAS 1996 93: 14574-14579. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. Kahlem, C. Terré, H. Green, and P. Djian

Peptides containing glutamine repeats as substrates for transglutaminase-catalyzed cross-linking: Relevance to diseases of the nervous system
PNAS 1996 93: 14580-14585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susanne Grether-Beck, Sylvia Olaizola-Horn, Heidi Schmitt, Markus Grewe, Andreas Jahnke, Judith P. Johnson, Karlis Briviba, Helmut Sies, and Jean Krutmann

Activation of transcription factor AP-2 mediates UVA radiation- and singlet oxygen-induced expression of the human intercellular adhesion molecule 1 gene
PNAS 1996 93: 14586-14591. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Taroh Iiri, Peter S. Backlund Jr., Teresa L. Z. Jones, Philip B. Wedegaertner, and Henry R. Bourne

Reciprocal regulation of G_s by palmitate and the  subunit
PNAS 1996 93: 14592-14597. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Huiping Jiang, Arkady Lyubarsky, Robert Dodd, Noga Vardi, Edward Pugh, Denis Baylor, Melvin I. Simon, and Dianqing Wu

Phospholipase C 4 is involved in modulating the visual response in mice
PNAS 1996 93: 14598-14601. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Fátima Gebauer and Joel D. Richter

Mouse cytoplasmic polyadenylylation element binding protein: An evolutionarily conserved protein that interacts with the cytoplasmic polyadenylylation elements of c-mos mRNA
PNAS 1996 93: 14602-14607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kimberly L. Mowry

Complex formation between stage-specific oocyte factors and a Xenopus mRNA localization element
PNAS 1996 93: 14608-14613. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Agnès Germot, Hervé Philippe, and Hervé Le Guyader

Presence of a mitochondrial-type 70-kDa heat shock protein in Trichomonas vaginalis suggests a very early mitochondrial endosymbiosis in eukaryotes
PNAS 1996 93: 14614-14617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew J. Roger, C. Graham Clark, and W. Ford Doolittle

A possible mitochondrial gene in the early-branching amitochondriate protist Trichomonas vaginalis
PNAS 1996 93: 14618-14622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. M. Erickson

Incremental lines of von Ebner in dinosaurs and the assessment of tooth replacement rates using growth line counts
PNAS 1996 93: 14623-14627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael G. Ritchie

The shape of female mating preferences
PNAS 1996 93: 14628-14631. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandro Jose de Souza, Manyuan Long, Lloyd Schoenbach, Scott William Roy, and Walter Gilbert

Intron positions correlate with module boundaries in ancient proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 14632-14636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Miguel A. Rodríguez-Gironés, Peter A. Cotton, and Alex Kacelnik

The evolution of begging: Signaling and sibling competition
PNAS 1996 93: 14637-14641. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco Pulido, Peter Berthold, and Arie J. van Noordwijk

Frequency of migrants and migratory activity are genetically correlated in a bird population: Evolutionary implications
PNAS 1996 93: 14642-14647. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Stefano Censini, Christina Lange, Zhaoying Xiang, Jean E. Crabtree, Paolo Ghiara, Mark Borodovsky, Rino Rappuoli, and Antonello Covacci

cag, a pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori, encodes type I-specific and disease-associated virulence factors
PNAS 1996 93: 14648-14653. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zarmik Moqtaderi, Jacqueline DePaulo Yale, Kevin Struhl, and Stephen Buratowski

Yeast homologues of higher eukaryotic TFIID subunits
PNAS 1996 93: 14654-14658. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth C. Scharl and Joan A. Steitz

Length suppression in histone messenger RNA 3-end maturation: Processing defects of insertion mutant premessenger RNAs can be compensated by insertions into the U7 small nuclear RNA
PNAS 1996 93: 14659-14664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xianhua Piao, Robert Paulson, Peter van der Geer, Tony Pawson, and Alan Bernstein

Oncogenic mutation in the Kit receptor tyrosine kinase alters substrate specificity and induces degradation of the protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1
PNAS 1996 93: 14665-14669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather Perry-O'Keefe, Xian-Wei Yao, James M. Coull, Martin Fuchs, and Michael Egholm

Peptide nucleic acid pre-gel hybridization: An alternative to Southern hybridization
PNAS 1996 93: 14670-14675. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vivian G. Cheung and Stanley F. Nelson

Whole genome amplification using a degenerate oligonucleotide primer allows hundreds of genotypes to be performed on less than one nanogram of genomic DNA
PNAS 1996 93: 14676-14679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hendrik C. Korswagen, Richard M. Durbin, Miriam T. Smits, and Ronald H. A. Plasterk

Transposon Tc1-derived, sequence-tagged sites in Caenorhabditis elegans as markers for gene mapping
PNAS 1996 93: 14680-14685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jerome Schaack, Xiaoling Guo, and Stephen J. Langer

Characterization of a replication-incompetent adenovirus type 5 mutant deleted for the preterminal protein gene
PNAS 1996 93: 14686-14691. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Maryse Guéguen and Eric O. Long

Presentation of a cytosolic antigen by major histocompatibility complex class II molecules requires a long-lived form of the antigen
PNAS 1996 93: 14692-14697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Gerber, Pablo Pereira, Shu Ying Huang, Claire Pelletier, and Susumu Tonegawa

Expression of v and 3 integrin chains on murine lymphocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 14698-14703. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mads Röpke, Jesper Hald, Per Guldberg, Jesper Zeuthen, Lars Nørgaard, Lars Fugger, Arne Svejgaard, Sjoerd Van Der Burg, Hans W. Nijman, Cornelis J. M. Melief, and Mogens H. Claesson

Spontaneous human squamous cell carcinomas are killed by a human cytotoxic T lymphocyte clone recognizing a wild-type p53-derived peptide
PNAS 1996 93: 14704-14707. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dimitrios E. Hatzigeorgiou, Jiayuan Geng, Baixin Zhu, Yihong Zhang, Ke Liu, William N. Rom, Matthew J. Fenton, Salvatore J. Turco, and John L. Ho

Lipophosphoglycan from Leishmania suppresses agonist-induced interleukin 1 gene expression in human monocytes via a unique promoter sequence
PNAS 1996 93: 14708-14713. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shivraj Tyagi, K. Bhol, K. Natarajan, C. Livir-Rallatos, C. S. Foster, and A. R. Ahmed

Ocular cicatricial pemphigoid antigen: Partial sequence and biochemical characterization
PNAS 1996 93: 14714-14719. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chengsheng Zhang, Yan Cui, Stan Houston, and Lung-Ji Chang

Protective immunity to HIV-1 in SCID/beige mice reconstituted with peripheral blood lymphocytes of exposed but uninfected individuals
PNAS 1996 93: 14720-14725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takashi Nagasawa, Toshihiro Nakajima, Kazunobu Tachibana, Hisashi Iizasa, Conrad C. Bleul, Osamu Yoshie, Kouji Matsushima, Nobuaki Yoshida, Timothy A. Springer, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto

Molecular cloning and characterization of a murine pre-B-cell growth-stimulating factor/stromal cell-derived factor 1 receptor, a murine homolog of the human immunodeficiency virus 1 entry coreceptor fusin
PNAS 1996 93: 14726-14729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Allan J. Zajac, Daniel G. Quinn, Philip L. Cohen, and Jeffrey A. Frelinger

Fas-dependent CD4⁺ cytotoxic T-cell-mediated pathogenesis during virus infection
PNAS 1996 93: 14730-14735. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zeling Cai, Anders Brunmark, Michael R. Jackson, Dennis Loh, Per A. Peterson, and Jonathan Sprent

Transfected Drosophila cells as a probe for defining the minimal requirements for stimulating unprimed CD8⁺ T cells
PNAS 1996 93: 14736-14741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Puel, Jean-Claude Mevel, Yolande Bouthillier, Nicole Feingold, Wolf H. Fridman, and Denise Mouton

Toward genetic dissection of high and low antibody responsiveness in Biozzi mice
PNAS 1996 93: 14742-14746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zvi Grossman and Alfred Singer

Tuning of activation thresholds explains flexibility in the selection and development of T cells in the thymus
PNAS 1996 93: 14747-14752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Frank Czubayko, Anke M. Schulte, Guy J. Berchem, and Anton Wellstein

Melanoma angiogenesis and metastasis modulated by ribozyme targeting of the secreted growth factor pleiotrophin
PNAS 1996 93: 14753-14758. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anke M. Schulte, Shoupeng Lai, Andreas Kurtz, Frank Czubayko, Anna T. Riegel, and Anton Wellstein

Human trophoblast and choriocarcinoma expression of the growth factor pleiotrophin attributable to germ-line insertion of an endogenous retrovirus
PNAS 1996 93: 14759-14764. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fan Yuan, Yi Chen, Marc Dellian, Nina Safabakhsh, Napoleone Ferrara, and Rakesh K. Jain

Time-dependent vascular regression and permeability changes in established human tumor xenografts induced by an anti-vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor antibody
PNAS 1996 93: 14765-14770. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Collins, J. Frezal, J. Teague, and N. E. Morton

A metric map of humans: 23,500 loci in 850 bands
PNAS 1996 93: 14771-14775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenzo Takahashi and Pierre A. Coulombe

A transgenic mouse model with an inducible skin blistering disease phenotype
PNAS 1996 93: 14776-14781. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Li-Sheng Lu, Shur-Jen Wang, and Robert Auerbach

In vitro and in vivo differentiation into B cells, T cells, and myeloid cells of primitive yolk sac hematopoietic precursor cells expanded >100-fold by coculture with a clonal yolk sac endothelial cell line
PNAS 1996 93: 14782-14787. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wei Weng and Jan L. Breslow INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Dramatically decreased high density lipoprotein cholesterol, increased remnant clearance, and insulin hypersensitivity in apolipoprotein A-II knockout mice suggest a complex role for apolipoprotein A-II in atherosclerosis susceptibility PNAS 1996 93: 14788-14794. [Abstract] [Full Text]

Guoxun Chen, Kazunori Koyama, Xue Yuan, Young Lee, Yan-Ting Zhou, Robert O'Doherty, Christopher B. Newgard, and Roger H. Unger

Disappearance of body fat in normal rats induced by adenovirus-mediated leptin gene therapy
PNAS 1996 93: 14795-14799. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

I. P. M. Tomlinson, M. R. Novelli, and W. F. Bodmer

The mutation rate and cancer
PNAS 1996 93: 14800-14803. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Patrick Muzzin, Randy C. Eisensmith, Kenneth C. Copeland, and Savio L. C. Woo

Correction of obesity and diabetes in genetically obese mice by leptin gene therapy
PNAS 1996 93: 14804-14808. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Clarissa Naftzger, Yoshizumi Takechi, Hironobu Kohda, Isao Hara, Setaluri Vijayasaradhi, and Alan N. Houghton

Immune response to a differentiation antigen induced by altered antigen: A study of tumor rejection and autoimmunity
PNAS 1996 93: 14809-14814. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Ian A. J. Lorimer, Andrea Keppler-Hafkemeyer, Richard A. Beers, Charles N. Pegram, Darell D. Bigner, and Ira Pastan

Recombinant immunotoxins specific for a mutant epidermal growth factor receptor: Targeting with a single chain antibody variable domain isolated by phage display
PNAS 1996 93: 14815-14820. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Barbara Hess, Paul Saftig, Dieter Hartmann, Ruth Coenen, Renate Lüllmann-Rauch, Hans H. Goebel, Meike Evers, Kurt von Figura, Rudi D'Hooge, Guy Nagels, Peter De Deyn, Christoph Peters, and Volkmar Gieselmann

Phenotype of arylsulfatase A-deficient mice: Relationship to human metachromatic leukodystrophy
PNAS 1996 93: 14821-14826. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

S. L. Carrithers, M. T. Barber, S. Biswas, S. J. Parkinson, P. K. Park, S. D. Goldstein, and S. A. Waldman

Guanylyl cyclase C is a selective marker for metastatic colorectal tumors in human extraintestinal tissues
PNAS 1996 93: 14827-14832. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Mysore P. Ramprasad, Valeska Terpstra, Nonna Kondratenko, Oswald Quehenberger, and Daniel Steinberg

Cell surface expression of mouse macrosialin and human CD68 and their role as macrophage receptors for oxidized low density lipoprotein
PNAS 1996 93: 14833-14838. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

J. V. Esplugues, M. D. Barrachina, B. Beltrán, S. Calatayud, B. J. R. Whittle, and S. Moncada

Inhibition of gastric acid secretion by stress: A protective reflex mediated by cerebral nitric oxide
PNAS 1996 93: 14839-14844. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Martin Carroll, Michael H. Tomasson, George F. Barker, Todd R. Golub, and D. Gary Gilliland

The TEL/platelet-derived growth factor  receptor (PDGFR) fusion in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia is a transforming protein that self-associates and activates PDGFR kinase-dependent signaling pathways
PNAS 1996 93: 14845-14850. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Microbiology

Tie Chen and Emil C. Gotschlich

CGM1a antigen of neutrophils, a receptor of gonococcal opacity proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 14851-14856. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

John Chan, Yu Tian, Kathryn E. Tanaka, Ming S. Tsang, Keming Yu, Padmini Salgame, Dinah Carroll, Yvonne Kress, Rachel Teitelbaum, and Barry R. Bloom

Effects of protein calorie malnutrition on tuberculosis in mice
PNAS 1996 93: 14857-14861. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

James J. Russo, Roy A. Bohenzky, Ming-Cheng Chien, Jing Chen, Ming Yan, Dawn Maddalena, J. Preston Parry, Daniela Peruzzi, Isidore S. Edelman, Yuan Chang, and Patrick S. Moore

Nucleotide sequence of the Kaposi sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (HHV8)
PNAS 1996 93: 14862-14867. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Matteo Lorito, Robert L. Mach, Paola Sposato, Joseph Strauss, Clemens K. Peterbauer, and Christian P. Kubicek

Mycoparasitic interaction relieves binding of the Cre1 carbon catabolite repressor protein to promoter sequences of the ech42 (endochitinase-encoding) gene in Trichoderma harzianum
PNAS 1996 93: 14868-14872. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

D. W. Brown, T. H. Adams, and N. P. Keller

Aspergillus has distinct fatty acid synthases for primary and secondary metabolism
PNAS 1996 93: 14873-14877. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Neurobiology

Carla B. Green and Joseph C. Besharse

Identification of a novel vertebrate circadian clock-regulated gene encoding the protein nocturnin
PNAS 1996 93: 14884-14888. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Marc L. Rosoff, Jia Wei, and Neil M. Nathanson

Isolation and characterization of the chicken m2 acetylcholine receptor promoter region: Induction of gene transcription by leukemia inhibitory factor and ciliary neurotrophic factor
PNAS 1996 93: 14889-14894. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Fiona Doetsch and Arturo Alvarez-Buylla

Network of tangential pathways for neuronal migration in adult mammalian brain
PNAS 1996 93: 14895-14900. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Zhi-Qing Xu, Tie-Jun Shi, and Tomas Hökfelt

Expression of galanin and a galanin receptor in several sensory systems and bone anlage of rat embryos
PNAS 1996 93: 14901-14905. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Enrica Strettoi and Richard H. Masland

The number of unidentified amacrine cells in the mammalian retina
PNAS 1996 93: 14906-14911. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yasuko Akiyama, Toshihiko Hosoya, Anthony M. Poole, and Yoshiki Hotta

The gcm-motif: A novel DNA-binding motif conserved in Drosophila and mammals
PNAS 1996 93: 14912-14916. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Pei-Yu Chien, Ronald H. Farkas, Shigehiro Nakajima, and Yasuko Nakajima

Single-channel properties of the nonselective cation conductance induced by neurotensin in dopaminergic neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 14917-14921. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Martin Wallner, Pratap Meera, and Ligia Toro

Determinant for -subunit regulation in high-conductance voltage-activated and Ca²⁺-sensitive K⁺ channels: An additional transmembrane region at the N terminus
PNAS 1996 93: 14922-14927. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Rosario Moratalla, Ming Xu, Susumu Tonegawa, and Ann M. Graybiel

Cellular responses to psychomotor stimulant and neuroleptic drugs are abnormal in mice lacking the D1 dopamine receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 14928-14933. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Richard D. Palmiter, Toby B. Cole, Carol J. Quaife, and Seth D. Findley

ZnT-3, a putative transporter of zinc into synaptic vesicles
PNAS 1996 93: 14934-14939. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Diane Levitan, Timothy G. Doyle, Denise Brousseau, Michael K. Lee, Gopal Thinakaran, Hilda H. Slunt, Sangram S. Sisodia, and Iva Greenwald

Assessment of normal and mutant human presenilin function in Caenorhabditis elegans
PNAS 1996 93: 14940-14944. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Martin Vey, Susanne Pilkuhn, Holger Wille, Randal Nixon, Stephen J. DeArmond, Eric J. Smart, Richard G. W. Anderson, Albert Taraboulos, and Stanley B. Prusiner

Subcellular colocalization of the cellular and scrapie prion proteins in caveolae-like membranous domains
PNAS 1996 93: 14945-14949. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

S. Dib-Hajj, J. A. Black, P. Felts, and S. G. Waxman

Down-regulation of transcripts for Na channel -SNS in spinal sensory neurons following axotomy
PNAS 1996 93: 14950-14954. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

V. Porciatti, T. Pizzorusso, M. C. Cenni, and L. Maffei

The visual response of retinal ganglion cells is not altered by optic nerve transection in transgenic mice overexpressing Bcl-2
PNAS 1996 93: 14955-14959. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Pharmacology

Radjendirane Venugopal and Anil K. Jaiswal

Nrf1 and Nrf2 positively and c-Fos and Fra1 negatively regulate the human antioxidant response element-mediated expression of NAD(P)H:quinone oxidoreductase₁ gene
PNAS 1996 93: 14960-14965. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Plant Biology

Ralf Flachmann and Werner Kühlbrandt

Crystallization and identification of an assembly defect of recombinant antenna complexes produced in transgenic tobacco plants
PNAS 1996 93: 14966-14971. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Yinong Yang and Daniel F. Klessig

Isolation and characterization of a tobacco mosaic virus-inducible myb oncogene homolog from tobacco
PNAS 1996 93: 14972-14977. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

Geneviève Hansen and Mary-Dell Chilton

"Agrolistic" transformation of plant cells: Integration of T-strands generated in planta
PNAS 1996 93: 14978-14983. [Abstract] [Full Text]  

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