REVIEWS

Nelson R. Barton and Lawrence S. B. Goldstein

Going mobile: Microtubule motors and chromosome segregation
PNAS 1996 93: 1735-1742. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

David M. Summers and Alexandre J. Chorin

Numerical vorticity creation based on impulse conservation
PNAS 1996 93: 1881-1885. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chemistry

Ryszard J. Wawak, Kenneth D. Gibson, Adam Liwo, and Harold A. Scheraga

Theoretical prediction of a crystal structure
PNAS 1996 93: 1743-1746. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Steve Pincus and Burton H. Singer

Randomness and degrees of irregularity
PNAS 1996 93: 2083-2088. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Hongbing Hsu, Yong M. Yu, John W. Babich, John F. Burke, E. Livni, Ronald G. Tompkins, Vernon R. Young, Nathaniel M. Alpert, and Alan J. Fischman

Measurement of muscle protein synthesis by positron emission tomography with L-[methyl-¹¹C]methionine
PNAS 1996 93: 1841-1846. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Christian Damblon, Xavier Raquet, Lu-Yun Lian, Josette Lamotte-Brasseur, Eveline Fonze, Paulette Charlier, Gordon C. K. Roberts, and Jean-Marie Frère

The catalytic mechanism of -lactamases: NMR titration of an active-site lysine residue of the TEM-1 enzyme
PNAS 1996 93: 1747-1752. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Csaba Szabó, Basilia Zingarelli, Michael O'Connor, and Andrew L. Salzman

DNA strand breakage, activation of poly(ADP-ribose) synthetase, and cellular energy depletion are involved in the cytotoxicity in macrophages and smooth muscle cells exposed to peroxynitrite
PNAS 1996 93: 1753-1758. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Domenico Rosa, Susanna Campagnoli, Carlo Moretto, Eric Guenzi, Lawrence Cousens, Michael Chin, Christine Dong, Amy J. Weiner, Johnson Y. N. Lau, Qui-Lim Choo, David Chien, Piero Pileri, Michael Houghton, and Sergio Abrignani

A quantitative test to estimate neutralizing antibodies to the hepatitis C virus: Cytofluorimetric assessment of envelope glycoprotein 2 binding to target cells
PNAS 1996 93: 1759-1763. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hailan Zhang, Katrina M. Catron, and Cory Abate-Shen

A role for the Msx-1 homeodomain in transcriptional regulation: Residues in the N-terminal arm mediate TATA binding protein interaction and transcriptional repression
PNAS 1996 93: 1764-1769. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen Lee, David Y. T. Chen, Jeffrey S. Humphrey, James R. Gnarra, W. Marston Linehan, and Richard D. Klausner

Nuclear/cytoplasmic localization of the von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor gene product is determined by cell density
PNAS 1996 93: 1770-1775. [Abstract] [PDF]  

B. S. Berlett, B. Friguet, M. B. Yim, P. B. Chock, and E. R. Stadtman

Peroxynitrite-mediated nitration of tyrosine residues in Escherichia coli glutamine synthetase mimics adenylylation: Relevance to signal transduction.
PNAS 1996 93: 1776-1780. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Henrik S. Olsen, Mario A. Cepeda, Qing-Qing Zhang, Craig A. Rosen, Benito L. Vozzolo, and Graham F. Wagner

Human stanniocalcin: A possible hormonal regulator of mineral metabolism
PNAS 1996 93: 1792-1796. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cordula Harter, Jochen Pavel, Francesco Coccia, Esther Draken, Sabine Wegehingel, Herbert Tschochner, and Felix Wieland

Nonclathrin coat protein , a subunit of coatomer, binds to the cytoplasmic dilysine motif of membrane proteins of the early secretory pathway
PNAS 1996 93: 1902-1906. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nicolas Vitale, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan

ARD1, a 64-kDa bifunctional protein containing an 18-kDa GTP-binding ADP-ribosylation factor domain and a 46-kDa GTPase-activating domain
PNAS 1996 93: 1941-1944. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Long T. Quan, Muneesh Tewari, Karen O'Rourke, Vishva Dixit, Scott J. Snipas, Guy G. Poirier, Carol Ray, David J. Pickup, and Guy S. Salvesen

Proteolytic activation of the cell death protease Yama/CPP32 by granzyme B
PNAS 1996 93: 1972-1976. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zhanglin Lin and Edward Eisenstein

Nucleotide binding-promoted conformational changes release a nonnative polypeptide from the Escherichia coli chaperonin GroEL
PNAS 1996 93: 1977-1981. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stewart N. Loh, Carol A. Rohl, Thomas Kiefhaber, and Robert L. Baldwin

A general two-process model describes the hydrogen exchange behavior of RNase A in unfolding conditions
PNAS 1996 93: 1982-1987. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Y.-C. Jack Chen, Kathy Delbrook, Chris Dealwis, Larry Mimms, Isa K. Mushahwar, and Wlodek Mandecki

Discontinuous epitopes of hepatitis B surface antigen derived from a filamentous phage peptide library
PNAS 1996 93: 1997-2001. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chunxia Lu and Rostom Bablanian

Characterization of small nontranslated polyadenylylated RNAs in vaccinia virus-infected cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2037-2042. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sayeon Cho and Pieter C. Wensink

Purification and physical properties of the male and female double sex proteins of Drosophila
PNAS 1996 93: 2043-2047. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gopinath Mavankal, S. H. Ignatius Ou, Holt Oliver, David Sigman, and Richard B. Gaynor

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 and 2 Tat proteins specifically interact with RNA polymerase II
PNAS 1996 93: 2089-2094. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jackob Moskovitz, Herbert Weissbach, and Nathan Brot

Cloning and expression of a mammalian gene involved in the reduction of methionine sulfoxide residues in proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 2095-2099. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Schröder and Martin J. Lohse

Inhibition of G-protein -subunit functions by phosducin-like protein
PNAS 1996 93: 2100-2104. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rainer Winstel, Sebastian Freund, Cornelius Krasel, Edmund Hoppe, and Martin J. Lohse

Protein kinase cross-talk: Membrane targeting of the -adrenergic receptor kinase by protein kinase C
PNAS 1996 93: 2105-2109. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christophe Bosc, Jeff D. Cronk, Fabienne Pirollet, Daniel M. Watterson, Jacques Haiech, Didier Job, and Robert L. Margolis

Cloning, expression, and properties of the microtubule-stabilizing protein STOP
PNAS 1996 93: 2125-2130. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Masashi Adachi, Sachiko Suematsu, Takashi Suda, Daisuke Watanabe, Hidehiro Fukuyama, Jun Ogasawara, Takashi Tanaka, Nobuaki Yoshida, and Shigekazu Nagata

Enhanced and accelerated lymphoproliferation in Fas-null mice
PNAS 1996 93: 2131-2136. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Susan Hill, Sara Austin, Trevor Eydmann, Tamera Jones, and Ray Dixon

Azotobacter vinelandii NIFL is a flavoprotein that modulates transcriptional activation of nitrogen-fixation genes via a redox-sensitive switch
PNAS 1996 93: 2143-2148. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patrick Stanssens, Peter W. Bergum, Yannick Gansemans, Laurent Jespers, Yves Laroche, Stephen Huang, Steven Maki, Joris Messens, Marc Lauwereys, Michael Cappello, Peter J. Hotez, Ignace Lasters, and George P. Vlasuk

Anticoagulant repertoire of the hookworm Ancylostoma caninum
PNAS 1996 93: 2149-2154. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Celik Kayalar, Tõnis Örd, M. Pia Testa, Li-tao Zhong, and Dale E. Bredesen

Cleavage of actin by interleukin 1-converting enzyme to reverse DNase I inhibition
PNAS 1996 93: 2234-2238. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Eva G. Lovett, D. André d'Avignon, Marilyn Emerson Holtzer, Emory H. Braswell, Dan Zhu, and Alfred Holtzer

Observation via one-dimensional ¹³C NMR of local conformational substates in thermal unfolding equilibria of a synthetic analog of the GCN4 leucine zipper
PNAS 1996 93: 1781-1785. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David A. Edwards, Keith J. Gooch, Ingrid Zhang, Gareth H. McKinley, and Robert Langer

The nucleation of receptor-mediated endocytosis
PNAS 1996 93: 1786-1791. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marian Mosior, Erin S. Golini, and Richard M. Epand

Chemical specificity and physical properties of the lipid bilayer in the regulation of protein kinase C by anionic phospholipids: Evidence for the lack of a specific binding site for phosphatidylserine
PNAS 1996 93: 1907-1912. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chris M. Coppin, Jeffrey T. Finer, James A. Spudich, and Ronald D. Vale

Detection of sub-8-nm movements of kinesin by high-resolution optical-trap microscopy
PNAS 1996 93: 1913-1917. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anna R. Panchenko, Zaida Luthey-Schulten, and Peter G. Wolynes

Foldons, protein structural modules, and exons
PNAS 1996 93: 2008-2013. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

A. W. Henkel, J. Lübke, and W. J. Betz

FM1-43 dye ultrastructural localization in and release from frog motor nerve terminals
PNAS 1996 93: 1918-1923. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James Lee, Alane Gray, Jean Yuan, Shiuh-Ming Luoh, Hava Avraham, and William I. Wood

Vascular endothelial growth factor-related protein: A ligand and specific activator of the tyrosine kinase receptor Flt4
PNAS 1996 93: 1988-1992. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cungui Mao, Stella H. Kim, June S. Almenoff, X. L. Rudner, Denise M. Kearney, and L. Allen Kindman

Molecular cloning and characterization of SCaMPER, a sphingolipid Ca²⁺ release-mediating protein from endoplasmic reticulum
PNAS 1996 93: 1993-1996. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen R. Hughes, Shefali Goyal, Jeannie E. Sun, Patricia Gonzalez-DeWhitt, MaryAnn Fortes, Norbert G. Riedel, and Sudhir R. Sahasrabudhe

Two-hybrid system as a model to study the interaction of -amyloid peptide monomers
PNAS 1996 93: 2065-2070. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Saverio Minucci, Jean-Pierre Saint-Jeannet, Reiko Toyama, Giorgio Scita, Luigi M. DeLuca, Masanori Taira, Arthur A. Levin, Keiko Ozato, and Igor B. Dawid

Retinoid X receptor-selective ligands produce malformations in Xenopus embryos
PNAS 1996 93: 1803-1807. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Donald D. Brown, Zhou Wang, J. David Furlow, Akira Kanamori, Robert A. Schwartzman, Benjamin F. Remo, and Allison Pinder

The thyroid hormone-induced tail resorption program during Xenopus laevis metamorphosis
PNAS 1996 93: 1924-1929. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John A. Howe and John W. Newport

A developmental timer regulates degradation of cyclin E1 at the midblastula transition during Xenopus embryogenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 2060-2064. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Henk Visscher, Henk Brinkhuis, David L. Dilcher, William C. Elsik, Yoram Eshet, Cindy V. Looy, Michael R. Rampino, and Alfred Traverse

The terminal Paleozoic fungal event: Evidence of terrestrial ecosystem destabilization and collapse
PNAS 1996 93: 2155-2158. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Peter J. Lockhart, Anthony W. D. Larkum, Michael A. Steel, Peter J. Waddell, and David Penny

Evolution of chlorophyll and bacteriochlorophyll: The problem of invariant sites in sequence analysis
PNAS 1996 93: 1930-1934. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David J. Able

The contagion indicator hypothesis for parasite-mediated sexual selection
PNAS 1996 93: 2229-2233. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Benny Motro, J. Martin Wojtowicz, Alan Bernstein, and Derek van der Kooy

Steel mutant mice are deficient in hippocampal learning but not long-term potentiation
PNAS 1996 93: 1808-1813. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. C. Ghozi, Y. Bernstein, V. Negreanu, D. Levanon, and Y. Groner

Expression of the human acute myeloid leukemia gene AML1 is regulated by two promoter regions
PNAS 1996 93: 1935-1940. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kyonggeun Yoon, Allyson Cole-Strauss, and Eric B. Kmiec

Targeted gene correction of episomal DNA in mammalian cells mediated by a chimeric RNA·DNA oligonucleotide
PNAS 1996 93: 2071-2076. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joseph A. Gogos, Jingmin Jin, Hong Wan, Michael Kokkinidis, and Fotis C. Kafatos

Recognition of diverse sequences by class I zinc fingers: Asymmetries and indirect effects on specificity in the interaction between CF2II and A+T-rich sequence elements
PNAS 1996 93: 2159-2164. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Eric Zanelli, Christopher J. Krco, Jeanine M. Baisch, Shen Cheng, and Chella S. David

Immune response of HLA-DQ8 transgenic mice to peptides from the third hypervariable region of HLA-DRB1 correlates with predisposition to rheumatoid arthritis
PNAS 1996 93: 1814-1819. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter S. Andersen, Anette Stryhn, Bjarke E. Hansen, Lars Fugger, Jan Engberg, and Søren Buus

A recombinant antibody with the antigen-specific, major histocompatibility complex-restricted specificity of T cells
PNAS 1996 93: 1820-1824. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tomihisa Takahashi, Takashi Iwase, Nobuko Takenouchi, Manabu Saito, Kunihiko Kobayashi, Zina Moldoveanu, Jiri Mestecky, and Itaru Moro

The joining (J) chain is present in invertebrates that do not express immunoglobulins
PNAS 1996 93: 1886-1891. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pavlos I. Neophytou, Bart O. Roep, Susan D. Arden, Elizabeth M. Muir, Gaby Duinkerken, Aram Kallan, René R. P. de Vries, and John C. Hutton

T-cell epitope analysis using subtracted expression libraries (TEASEL): Application to a 38-kDa autoantigen recognized by T cells from an insulin-dependent diabetic patient
PNAS 1996 93: 2014-2018. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Subhransu K. Ray, Chaim Putterman, and Betty Diamond

Pathogenic autoantibodies are routinely generated during the response to foreign antigen: A paradigm for autoimmune disease
PNAS 1996 93: 2019-2024. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael C. Friedmann, Thi-Sau Migone, Sarah M. Russell, and Warren J. Leonard

Different interleukin 2 receptor -chain tyrosines couple to at least two signaling pathways and synergistically mediate interleukin 2-induced proliferation
PNAS 1996 93: 2077-2082. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Emilian Racila, Robert Hsueh, Radu Marches, Thomas F. Tucker, Peter H. Krammer, Richard H. Scheuermann, and Jonathan W. Uhr

Tumor dormancy and cell signaling: Anti-µ-induced apoptosis in human B-lymphoma cells is not caused by an APO-1-APO-1 ligand interaction
PNAS 1996 93: 2165-2168. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yang Xu, Laurie Davidson, Frederick W. Alt, and David Baltimore

Function of the pre-T-cell receptor  chain in T-cell development and allelic exclusion at the T-cell receptor  locus
PNAS 1996 93: 2169-2173. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Harry Rubin, Ming Chow, and Adam Yao

Cellular aging, destabilization, and cancer
PNAS 1996 93: 1825-1830. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marc Mesnil, Colette Piccoli, Gérard Tiraby, Klaus Willecke, and Hiroshi Yamasaki

Bystander killing of cancer cells by herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase gene is mediated by connexins
PNAS 1996 93: 1831-1835. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. Pilar Zamora-León, David W. Golde, Ilona I. Concha, Coralia I. Rivas, Fernando Delgado-López, José Baselga, Francisco Nualart, and Juan Carlos Vera

Expression of the fructose transporter GLUT5 in human breast cancer
PNAS 1996 93: 1847-1852. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Milo L. Hibbert, Richard L. Stouffer, Don P. Wolf, and Mary B. Zelinski-Wooten

Midcycle administration of a progesterone synthesis inhibitor prevents ovulation in primates
PNAS 1996 93: 1897-1901. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sareh Parangi, Michael O'Reilly, Gerhard Christofori, Lars Holmgren, Jeffrey Grosfeld, Judah Folkman, and Douglas Hanahan

Antiangiogenic therapy of transgenic mice impairs de novo tumor growth
PNAS 1996 93: 2002-2007. [Abstract] [PDF]  

L. J. Fairbairn, L. S. Lashford, E. Spooncer, R. H. McDermott, G. Lebens, J. E. Arrand, J. R. Arrand, I. Bellantuono, R. Holt, C. E. Hatton, A. Cooper, G. T. N. Besley, J. E. Wraith, D. S. Anson, J. J. Hopwood, and T. M. Dexter

Long-term in vitro correction of -L-iduronidase deficiency (Hurler syndrome) in human bone marrow
PNAS 1996 93: 2025-2030. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark A. Perrella, Chung-Ming Hsieh, Wen-Sen Lee, Sherry Shieh, Jer-Chia Tsai, Cam Patterson, Charles J. Lowenstein, Nancy C. Long, Edgar Haber, Stephanie Shore, and Mu-En Lee

Arrest of endotoxin-induced hypotension by transforming growth factor 1
PNAS 1996 93: 2054-2059. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Min Wu, Dong Feng Chen, Toshikuni Sasaoka, and Susumu Tonegawa

Neural tube defects and abnormal brain development in F52-deficient mice
PNAS 1996 93: 2110-2115. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Daniel C. Bullard, Karin Scharffetter-Kochanek, Mark J. McArthur, John G. Chosay, Mollie E. McBride, Charles A. Montgomery, and Arthur L. Beaudet

A polygenic mouse model of psoriasiform skin disease in CD18-deficient mice
PNAS 1996 93: 2116-2121. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. J. Playford, T. Marchbank, R. A. Goodlad, R. A. Chinery, R. Poulsom, A. M. Hanby, and N. A. Wright

Transgenic mice that overexpress the human trefoil peptide pS2 have an increased resistance to intestinal damage
PNAS 1996 93: 2137-2142. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Erlinda M. Gordon, Natarajan Venkatesan, Roberto Salazar, Hui Tang, Katherine Schmeidler-Sapiro, Susan Buckley, David Warburton, and Frederick L. Hall

Factor XII-induced mitogenesis is mediated via a distinct signal transduction pathway that activates a mitogen-activated protein kinase
PNAS 1996 93: 2174-2179. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Faheem A. Sandhu, Yong Kim, Kirsty A. Lapan, Mohammed Salim, Viqar Aliuddin, and Sayeeda B. Zain

Expression of the C terminus of the amyloid precursor protein alters growth factor responsiveness in stably transfected PC12 cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2180-2185. [Abstract] [PDF]  

D. M. Lambert, S. Barney, A. L. Lambert, K. Guthrie, R. Medinas, D. E. Davis, T. Bucy, J. Erickson, G. Merutka, and S. R. Petteway Jr.

Peptides from conserved regions of paramyxovirus fusion (F) proteins are potent inhibitors of viral fusion
PNAS 1996 93: 2186-2191. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Saibal Dey, Marc Ouellette, James Lightbody, Barbara Papadopoulou, and Barry P. Rosen

An ATP-dependent As(III)-glutathione transport system in membrane vesicles of Leishmania tarentolae
PNAS 1996 93: 2192-2197. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Efren Riu, Fatima Bosch, and Alfons Valera

Prevention of diabetic alterations in transgenic mice overexpressing Myc in the liver
PNAS 1996 93: 2198-2202. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Tianmin Huang and Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume

Anti-idiotypic antibodies mimicking glycoprotein D of herpes simplex virus identify a cellular protein required for virus spread from cell to cell and virus-induced polykaryocytosis
PNAS 1996 93: 1836-1840. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Bertrand Lambolez, Nicole Ropert, David Perrais, Jean Rossier, and Shaul Hestrin

Correlation between kinetics and RNA splicing of -amino-3-hydroxy-5-methylisoxazole-4-propionic acid receptors in neocortical neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 1797-1802. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jean-Luc Galzi, Stuart J. Edelstein, and Jean-Pierre Changeux

The multiple phenotypes of allosteric receptor mutants
PNAS 1996 93: 1853-1858. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xiao Ping Sun and Elis Frank Stanley

An ATP-activated, ligand-gated ion channel on a cholinergic presynaptic nerve terminal
PNAS 1996 93: 1859-1863. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anne Herb, Miyoko Higuchi, Rolf Sprengel, and Peter H. Seeburg

Q/R site editing in kainate receptor GluR5 and GluR6 pre-mRNAs requires distant intronic sequences
PNAS 1996 93: 1875-1880. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yibin Wang, Frederick S. Jones, Leslie A. Krushel, and Gerald M. Edelman

Embryonic expression patterns of the neural cell adhesion molecule gene are regulated by homeodomain binding sites
PNAS 1996 93: 1892-1896. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Domenico Accili, C. Simone Fishburn, John Drago, Heinz Steiner, Jean E. Lachowicz, Bae-Hang Park, Estelle B. Gauda, Eric J. Lee, Martha H. Cool, David R. Sibley, Charles R. Gerfen, Heiner Westphal, and Sara Fuchs

A targeted mutation of the D₃ dopamine receptor gene is associated with hyperactivity in mice
PNAS 1996 93: 1945-1949. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sek Jin Chew, David S. Vicario, and Fernando Nottebohm

A large-capacity memory system that recognizes the calls and songs of individual birds
PNAS 1996 93: 1950-1955. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Teresa G. Hastings, David A. Lewis, and Michael J. Zigmond

Role of oxidation in the neurotoxic effects of intrastriatal dopamine injections
PNAS 1996 93: 1956-1961. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elly Nedivi, Sheila Fieldust, Lars E. Theill, and Dana Hevroni

A set of genes expressed in response to light in the adult cerebral cortex and regulated during development
PNAS 1996 93: 2048-2053. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ravi Mahalingam, Mary Wellish, Randall Cohrs, Serge Debrus, Jacques Piette, Bernard Rentier, and Donald H. Gilden

Expression of protein encoded by varicella-zoster virus open reading frame 63 in latently infected human ganglionic neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 2122-2124. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard G. Walker and A. J. Hudspeth

Calmodulin controls adaptation of mechanoelectrical transduction by hair cells of the bullfrog's sacculus
PNAS 1996 93: 2203-2207. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Jean E. Rivier, Guangcheng Jiang, Steven C. Koerber, John Porter, Lajos Simon, A. Grey Craig, and Carl A. Hoeger

Betidamino acids: Versatile and constrained scaffolds for drug discovery
PNAS 1996 93: 2031-2036. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Randall L. Duncan, Neil Kizer, Elizabeth L. R. Barry, Peter A. Friedman, and Keith A. Hruska

Antisense oligodeoxynucleotide inhibition of a swelling-activated cation channel in osteoblast-like osteosarcoma cells
PNAS 1996 93: 1864-1869. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yuka Isozaki, William E. Mitch, Brian K. England, and S. Russ Price

Protein degradation and increased mRNAs encoding proteins of the ubiquitin-proteasome proteolytic pathway in BC₃H1 myocytes require an interaction between glucocorticoids and acidification
PNAS 1996 93: 1967-1971. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael C. Sanguinetti, Mark E. Curran, Peter S. Spector, and Mark T. Keating

Spectrum of HERG K⁺-channel dysfunction in an inherited cardiac arrhythmia
PNAS 1996 93: 2208-2212. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

J. Podkowinski, G. E. Sroga, R. Haselkorn, and P. Gornicki

Structure of a gene encoding a cytosolic acetyl-CoA carboxylase of hexaploid wheat
PNAS 1996 93: 1870-1874. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonathan M. Shaver, Douglas C. Bittel, Janita M. Sellner, David A. Frisch, David A. Somers, and Burle G. Gengenbach

Single-amino acid substitutions eliminate lysine inhibition of maize dihydrodipicolinate synthase
PNAS 1996 93: 1962-1966. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Esa Tyystjärvi and Eva-Mari Aro

The rate constant of photoinhibition, measured in lincomycin-treated leaves, is directly proportional to light intensity
PNAS 1996 93: 2213-2218. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fang-Cheng Gong, Thomas H. Giddings, Janet B. Meehl, L. Andrew Staehelin, and David W. Galbraith

Z-membranes: Artificial organelles for overexpressing recombinant integral membrane proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 2219-2223. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Miguel A. Quiñones, Zhenmin Lu, and Eduardo Zeiger

Close correspondence between the action spectra for the blue light responses of the guard cell and coleoptile chloroplasts, and the spectra for blue light-dependent stomatal opening and coleoptile phototropism
PNAS 1996 93: 2224-2228. [Abstract] [PDF]