COMMENTARIES

Ben F. Koop and Joseph H. Nadeau

Pufferfish and a new paradigm for comparative genome analysis
PNAS 1996 93: 1363-1365. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

J. A. Sethian

A fast marching level set method for monotonically advancing fronts
PNAS 1996 93: 1591-1595. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Astronomy

Paul J. Crutzen and Christoph Brühl

Mass extinctions and supernova explosions
PNAS 1996 93: 1582-1584. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chemistry

Bernold Hasenknopf, Jean-Marie Lehn, Gerhard Baum, and Dieter Fenske

Self-assembly of a heteroduplex helicate from two different ligand strands and Cu(II) cations
PNAS 1996 93: 1397-1400. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Persi Diaconis INAUGURAL ARTICLE: The cutoff phenomenon in finite Markov chains PNAS 1996 93: 1659-1664. [Abstract] [PDF]

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

Marshall I. Weisler and Patrick V. Kirch

Interisland and interarchipelago transfer of stone tools in prehistoric Polynesia
PNAS 1996 93: 1381-1385. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Psychology

Marc D. Hauser, Pogen MacNeilage, and Molly Ware

Numerical representations in primates
PNAS 1996 93: 1514-1517. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

Andrew Flaus, Karolin Luger, Song Tan, and Timothy J. Richmond

Mapping nucleosome position at single base-pair resolution by using site-directed hydroxyl radicals
PNAS 1996 93: 1370-1375. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Guy Tomer, Orna Cohen-Fix, Michael O'Donnell, Myron Goodman, and Zvi Livneh

Reconstitution of repair-gap UV mutagenesis with purified proteins from Escherichia coli: A role for DNA polymerases III and II
PNAS 1996 93: 1376-1380. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sandra Clarke, David R. Greaves, Lap-Ping Chung, Peter Tree, and Siamon Gordon

The human lysozyme promoter directs reporter gene expression to activated myelomonocytic cells in transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 1434-1438. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Didier Trouche and Tony Kouzarides

E2F1 and E1A_12S have a homologous activation domain regulated by RB and CBP
PNAS 1996 93: 1439-1442. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Daniela S. Dimitrova, Mauro Giacca, Francesca Demarchi, Giuseppe Biamonti, Silvano Riva, and Arturo Falaschi

In vivo protein-DNA interactions at a human DNA replication origin
PNAS 1996 93: 1498-1503. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elisabeth A. Bailey, Rajkumar S. Iyer, Michael P. Stone, Thomas M. Harris, and John M. Essigmann

Mutational properties of the primary aflatoxin B₁-DNA adduct
PNAS 1996 93: 1535-1539. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrew B. Sparks, James E. Rider, Noah G. Hoffman, Dana M. Fowlkes, Lawrence A. Quilliam, and Brian K. Kay

Distinct ligand preferences of Src homology 3 domains from Src, Yes, Abl, Cortactin, p53bp2, PLC, Crk, and Grb2
PNAS 1996 93: 1540-1544. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anne Puustinen, Michael I. Verkhovsky, Joel E. Morgan, Nikolai P. Belevich, and Mårten Wikström

Reaction of the Escherichia coli quinol oxidase cytochrome bo₃ with dioxygen: The role of a bound ubiquinone molecule
PNAS 1996 93: 1545-1548. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Geoffrey J. Clark, Jonelle K. Drugan, Regina S. Terrell, Cynthia Bradham, Channing J. Der, Robert M. Bell, and Sharon Campbell

Peptides containing a consensus Ras binding sequence from Raf-1 and the GTPase activating protein NF1 inhibit Ras function
PNAS 1996 93: 1577-1581. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Suzanne Walker, Michael J. Sofia, Ramesh Kakarla, Natan A. Kogan, Leigh Wierichs, Clifford B. Longley, Karen Bruker, Helena R. Axelrod, Sunita Midha, Suresh Babu, and Daniel Kahne

Cationic facial amphiphiles: A promising class of transfection agents
PNAS 1996 93: 1585-1590. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Baojie Li, Josep Vilardell, and Jonathan R. Warner

An RNA structure involved in feedback regulation of splicing and of translation is critical for biological fitness
PNAS 1996 93: 1596-1600. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Katherine L. B. Borden, John M. Lally, Stephen R. Martin, Nicola J. O'Reilly, Ellen Solomon, and Paul S. Freemont

In vivo and in vitro characterization of the B1 and B2 zinc-binding domains from the acute promyelocytic leukemia protooncoprotein PML
PNAS 1996 93: 1601-1606. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jacqueline E. Damen, Ling Liu, Patricia Rosten, R. Keith Humphries, Anne B. Jefferson, Philip W. Majerus, and Gerald Krystal

The 145-kDa protein induced to associate with Shc by multiple cytokines is an inositol tetraphosphate and phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate 5-phosphatase
PNAS 1996 93: 1689-1693. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Hironari Kamikubo, Mikio Kataoka, György Váró, Toshihiko Oka, Fumio Tokunaga, Richard Needleman, and Janos K. Lanyi

Structure of the N intermediate of bacteriorhodopsin revealed by x-ray diffraction
PNAS 1996 93: 1386-1390. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Leonid S. Brown and Janos K. Lanyi

Determination of the transiently lowered pK_a of the retinal Schiff base during the photocycle of bacteriorhodopsin
PNAS 1996 93: 1731-1734. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Edgar Dippel, Frank Kalkbrenner, Burghardt Wittig, and Günter Schultz

A heterotrimeric G protein complex couples the muscarinic m1 receptor to phospholipase C-
PNAS 1996 93: 1391-1396. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Marta Perego and James A. Hoch

Cell-cell communication regulates the effects of protein aspartate phosphatases on the phosphorelay controlling development in Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 1996 93: 1549-1553. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lesley M. Forrester, Andras Nagy, Mehran Sam, Alistair Watt, Lois Stevenson, Alan Bernstein, Alexandra L. Joyner, and Wolfgang Wurst

An induction gene trap screen in embryonic stem cells: Identification of genes that respond to retinoic acid in vitro
PNAS 1996 93: 1677-1682. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Raphael Kopan, Eric H. Schroeter, Harold Weintraub, and Jeffrey S. Nye

Signal transduction by activated mNotch: Importance of proteolytic processing and its regulation by the extracellular domain
PNAS 1996 93: 1683-1688. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Somdatta Sinha and S. Parthasarathy

Unusual dynamics of extinction in a simple ecological model
PNAS 1996 93: 1504-1508. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Arian F. A. Smit and Arthur D. Riggs

Tiggers and other DNA transposon fossils in the human genome
PNAS 1996 93: 1443-1448. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elizabeth R. Waters and Barbara A. Schaal

Heat shock induces a loss of rRNA-encoding DNA repeats in Brassica nigra
PNAS 1996 93: 1449-1452. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frédéric Marin, Mark Smith, Yeishin Isa, Gerard Muyzer, and Peter Westbroek

Skeletal matrices, muci, and the origin of invertebrate calcification
PNAS 1996 93: 1554-1559. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kenneth D. Rose

On the origin of the order Artiodactyla
PNAS 1996 93: 1705-1709. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Michael K. Trower, Suzanne M. Orton, Ian J. Purvis, Philippe Sanseau, John Riley, Chris Christodoulou, Doreen Burt, Chee Gee See, Greg Elgar, Robin Sherrington, Evgeny I. Rogaev, Peter St. George-Hyslop, Sydney Brenner, and Colin W. Dykes

Conservation of synteny between the genome of the pufferfish (Fugu rubripes) and the region on human chromosome 14 (14q24.3) associated with familial Alzheimer disease (AD3 locus)
PNAS 1996 93: 1366-1369. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Samuel Karlin and Chris Burge

Trinucleotide repeats and long homopeptides in genes and proteins associated with nervous system disease and development
PNAS 1996 93: 1560-1565. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marco Muzi-Falconi, Grant W. Brown, and Thomas J. Kelly

cdc18⁺ regulates initiation of DNA replication in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
PNAS 1996 93: 1566-1570. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Akos Szakmary, Shu-Mei Huang, David T. Chang, Philip A. Beachy, and Miriam Sander

Overexpression of a Rrp1 transgene reduces the somatic mutation and recombination frequency induced by oxidative DNA damage in Drosophila melanogaster
PNAS 1996 93: 1607-1612. [Abstract] [PDF]  

H.-C. Leonard Liang, Hung Li, Ross A. McKinnon, John J. Duffy, S. Steven Potter, Alvaro Puga, and Daniel W. Nebert

Cyp1a2(/) null mutant mice develop normally but show deficient drug metabolism
PNAS 1996 93: 1671-1676. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Craig Beeson, Daniel S. Lyons, Mark M. Davis, and Harden M. McConnell

Kinetic discrimination in T-cell activation
PNAS 1996 93: 1401-1405. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Massimo Vitale, Simona Sivori, Daniela Pende, Raffaella Augugliaro, Carolina Di Donato, Antonio Amoroso, Mauro Malnati, Cristina Bottino, Lorenzo Moretta, and Alessandro Moretta

Physical and functional independency of p70 and p58 natural killer (NK) cell receptors for HLA class I: Their role in the definition of different groups of alloreactive NK cell clones
PNAS 1996 93: 1453-1457. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jürgen Hess, Ivo Gentschev, Diana Miko, Manuela Welzel, Christoph Ladel, Werner Goebel, and Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

Superior efficacy of secreted over somatic antigen display in recombinant Salmonella vaccine induced protection against listeriosis
PNAS 1996 93: 1458-1463. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sylvie Tourne, Hisse Martien van Santen, Marian van Roon, Anton Berns, Christophe Benoist, Diane Mathis, and Hidde Ploegh

Biosynthesis of major histocompatibility complex molecules and generation of T cells in Ii TAP1 double-mutant mice
PNAS 1996 93: 1464-1469. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Livia Casciola-Rosen, Antony Rosen, Michelle Petri, and Mark Schlissel

Surface blebs on apoptotic cells are sites of enhanced procoagulant activity: Implications for coagulation events and antigenic spread in systemic lupus erythematosus
PNAS 1996 93: 1624-1629. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gabriele Pecher and Olivera J. Finn

Induction of cellular immunity in chimpanzees to human tumor-associated antigen mucin by vaccination with MUC-1 cDNA-transfected Epstein-Barr virus-immortalized autologous B cells
PNAS 1996 93: 1699-1704. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Felipe F. Casanueva, Francisco R. Perez, Xesus Casabiell, Jesus P. Camiña, Ren-Zhi Cai, and Andrew V. Schally

Correlation between the effects of bombesin antagonists on cell proliferation and intracellular calcium concentration in Swiss 3T3 and HT-29 cell lines
PNAS 1996 93: 1406-1411. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andreas L. Petzer, Donna E. Hogge, Peter M. Lansdorp, Dianne S. Reid, and Connie J. Eaves

Self-renewal of primitive human hematopoietic cells (long-term-culture-initiating cells) in vitro and their expansion in defined medium
PNAS 1996 93: 1470-1474. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christopher J. Ward, Helen Turley, Albert C. M. Ong, Margaret Comley, Simon Biddolph, Rungen Chetty, Peter J. Ratcliffe, Kevin Gatter, and Peter C. Harris

Polycystin, the polycystic kidney disease 1 protein, is expressed by epithelial cells in fetal, adult, and polycystic kidney
PNAS 1996 93: 1524-1528. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Barry E. Rothenberg and Joseph R. Voland

₂ Knockout mice develop parenchymal iron overload: A putative role for class I genes of the major histocompatibility complex in iron metabolism
PNAS 1996 93: 1529-1534. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cisca Wijmenga, Paula E. Gregory, Amitav Hajra, Evelin Schröck, Thomas Ried, Roland Eils, P. Paul Liu, and Francis S. Collins

Core binding factor smooth muscle myosin heavy chain chimeric protein involved in acute myeloid leukemia forms unusual nuclear rod-like structures in transformed NIH 3T3 cells
PNAS 1996 93: 1630-1635. [Abstract] [PDF]  

C. N. Venkateshan, R. Narayanan, M. G. Espey, J. R. Moffett, D. Carleton Gajdusek, C. J. Gibbs Jr., and M. A. A. Namboodiri

Immunocytochemical localization of the endogenous neuroexcitotoxin quinolinate in human peripheral blood monocytes/macrophages and the effect of human T-cell lymphotropic virus type I infection
PNAS 1996 93: 1636-1641. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Scott Fears, Carol Mathieu, Nancy Zeleznik-Le, Shi Huang, Janet D. Rowley, and Giuseppina Nucifora

Intergenic splicing of MDS1 and EVI1 occurs in normal tissues as well as in myeloid leukemia and produces a new member of the PR domain family
PNAS 1996 93: 1642-1647. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ronald E. Rose, Yi-Fei Gong, Jill A. Greytok, Clifford M. Bechtold, Brian J. Terry, Brett S. Robinson, Masud Alam, Richard J. Colonno, and Pin-Fang Lin

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 viral background plays a major role in development of resistance to protease inhibitors
PNAS 1996 93: 1648-1653. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David Gems and Rick M. Maizels

An abundantly expressed mucin-like protein from Toxocara canis infective larvae: The precursor of the larval surface coat glycoproteins
PNAS 1996 93: 1665-1670. [Abstract] [PDF]  

E. Beutler, J. C. Sipe, J. S. Romine, J. A. Koziol, R. McMillan, and J. Zyroff

The treatment of chronic progressive multiple sclerosis with cladribine
PNAS 1996 93: 1716-1720. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Hui-hua Lu and Eckard Wimmer

Poliovirus chimeras replicating under the translational control of genetic elements of hepatitis C virus reveal unusual properties of the internal ribosomal entry site of hepatitis C virus
PNAS 1996 93: 1412-1417. [Abstract] [PDF]  

D. W. Brown, J.-H. Yu, H. S. Kelkar, M. Fernandes, T. C. Nesbitt, N. P. Keller, T. H. Adams, and T. J. Leonard

Twenty-five coregulated transcripts define a sterigmatocystin gene cluster in Aspergillus nidulans
PNAS 1996 93: 1418-1422. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kevin L. Piers, Joe Don Heath, Xiaoyou Liang, Kathryn M. Stephens, and Eugene W. Nester

Agrobacterium tumefaciens-mediated transformation of yeast
PNAS 1996 93: 1613-1618. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology

Dmitry I. Nurminsky and Daniel L. Hartl

Sequence scanning: A method for rapid sequence acquisition from large-fragment DNA clones
PNAS 1996 93: 1694-1698. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

A. G. Mensah-Nyagan, M. Feuilloley, J. L. Do-Rego, A. Marcual, C. Lange, M. C. Tonon, G. Pelletier, and H. Vaudry

Localization of 17-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase and characterization of testosterone in the brain of the male frog
PNAS 1996 93: 1423-1428. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Benno Roozendaal, Osnat Carmi, and James L. McGaugh

Adrenocortical suppression blocks the memory-enhancing effects of amphetamine and epinephrine
PNAS 1996 93: 1429-1433. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Barry M. Willardson, Jon F. Wilkins, Tatsuro Yoshida, and Mark W. Bitensky

Regulation of phosducin phosphorylation in retinal rods by Ca²⁺/calmodulin-dependent adenylyl cyclase
PNAS 1996 93: 1475-1479. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Minoru Hoshimaru, Jasodhara Ray, Dinah W. Y. Sah, and Fred H. Gage

Differentiation of the immortalized adult neuronal progenitor cell line HC2S2 into neurons by regulatable suppression of the v-myc oncogene
PNAS 1996 93: 1518-1523. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ming Qi, Min Zhuo, Bjørn S. Skålhegg, Eugene P. Brandon, Eric R. Kandel, G. Stanley McKnight, and Rejean L. Idzerda

Impaired hippocampal plasticity in mice lacking the C₁ catalytic subunit of cAMP-dependent protein kinase
PNAS 1996 93: 1571-1576. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeremy D. Coplan, Michael W. Andrews, Leonard A. Rosenblum, Michael J. Owens, Steven Friedman, Jack M. Gorman, and Charles B. Nemeroff

Persistent elevations of cerebrospinal fluid concentrations of corticotropin-releasing factor in adult nonhuman primates exposed to early-life stressors: Implications for the pathophysiology of mood and anxiety disorders
PNAS 1996 93: 1619-1623. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen G. Lomber, Bertram R. Payne, and Paul Cornwell

Learning and recall of form discriminations during reversible cooling deactivation of ventral-posterior suprasylvian cortex in the cat
PNAS 1996 93: 1654-1658. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nelson Arispe, Harvey B. Pollard, and Eduardo Rojas

Zn²⁺ interaction with Alzheimer amyloid  protein calcium channels
PNAS 1996 93: 1710-1715. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yu Tian Wang, Xian-Min Yu, and Michael W. Salter

Ca²⁺-independent reduction of N-methyl-D-aspartate channel activity by protein tyrosine phosphatase
PNAS 1996 93: 1721-1725. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

María A. Moro, Rachel J. Russell, Selim Cellek, Ignacio Lizasoain, Yunchao Su, Victor M. Darley-Usmar, Marek W. Radomski, and Salvador Moncada

cGMP mediates the vascular and platelet actions of nitric oxide: Confirmation using an inhibitor of the soluble guanylyl cyclase
PNAS 1996 93: 1480-1485. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Emmanuel Bourinet, Tuck Wah Soong, Anthony Stea, and Terry P. Snutch

Determinants of the G protein-dependent opioid modulation of neuronal calcium channels
PNAS 1996 93: 1486-1491. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Nancy Levin, Chris Nelson, Austin Gurney, Richard Vandlen, and Frederic de Sauvage

Decreased food intake does not completely account for adiposity reduction after ob protein infusion
PNAS 1996 93: 1726-1730. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Denise Phillip, Alexander V. Ruban, Peter Horton, Al Asato, and Andrew J. Young

Quenching of chlorophyll fluorescence in the major light-harvesting complex of photosystem II: A systematic study of the effect of carotenoid structure
PNAS 1996 93: 1492-1497. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas W. Greene, Sue Ellen Chantler, Michael L. Kahn, Gerard F. Barry, Jack Preiss, and Thomas W. Okita

Mutagenesis of the potato ADPglucose pyrophosphorylase and characterization of an allosteric mutant defective in 3-phosphoglycerate activation
PNAS 1996 93: 1509-1513. [Abstract] [PDF]