REVIEWS

D. L. Vaux and A. Strasser

The molecular biology of apoptosis
PNAS 1996 93: 2239-2244. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anna Mondino, Alexander Khoruts, and Marc K. Jenkins

The anatomy of T-cell activation and tolerance
PNAS 1996 93: 2245-2252. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lawrence Steinman

A few autoreactive cells in an autoimmune infiltrate control a vast population of nonspecific cells: A tale of smart bombs and the infantry
PNAS 1996 93: 2253-2256. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Roberto Gianani and Nora Sarvetnick

Viruses, cytokines, antigens, and autoimmunity
PNAS 1996 93: 2257-2259. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Isabelle André, Antonio Gonzalez, Bo Wang, Jonathan Katz, Christophe Benoist, and Diane Mathis

Checkpoints in the progression of autoimmune disease: Lessons from diabetes models
PNAS 1996 93: 2260-2263. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christopher C. Goodnow

Balancing immunity and tolerance: Deleting and tuning lymphocyte repertoires
PNAS 1996 93: 2264-2271. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan H. E. Kaufmann

/ and other unconventional T lymphocytes: What do they see and what do they do?
PNAS 1996 93: 2272-2279. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

R. S. Chadwick, E. K. Dimitriadis, and K. H. Iwasa

Active control of waves in a cochlear model with subpartitions
PNAS 1996 93: 2564-2569. [Abstract] [PDF]  

George Sugihara, Walter Allan, Daniel Sobel, and Kenneth D. Allan

Nonlinear control of heart rate variability in human infants
PNAS 1996 93: 2608-2613. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Richard P. Stanley INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Hyperplane arrangements, interval orders, and trees PNAS 1996 93: 2620-2625. [Abstract] [PDF]

Physics

M. V. Berry and S. Klein INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Colored diffraction catastrophes PNAS 1996 93: 2614-2619. [Abstract] [PDF]

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

Eric R. Wolf INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Unforeseen Americas: The making of New World societies in anthropological perspective PNAS 1996 93: 2603-2607. [Abstract] [PDF]

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Sciences

Christopher J. Jolly, Gregory M. Glenn, and Sadequr Rahman

GSP-1 genes are linked to the grain hardness locus (Ha) on wheat chromosome 5D
PNAS 1996 93: 2408-2413. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Rui Chen, Sidney Udenfriend, Gregory M. Prince, Stephen E. Maxwell, Sandhya Ramalingam, Louise D. Gerber, Jansen Knez, and M. Edward Medof

A defect in glycosylphosphatidylinositol (GPI) transamidase activity in mutant K cells is responsible for their inability to display GPI surface proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 2280-2284. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrey A. Bobkov, Elena A. Bobkova, Shwu-Hwa Lin, and Emil Reisler

The role of surface loops (residues 204-216 and 627-646) in the motor function of the myosin head
PNAS 1996 93: 2285-2289. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jin-Young K. Park, Mark K. Shigenaga, and Bruce N. Ames

Induction of cytochrome P4501A1 by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin or indolo(3,2-b)carbazole is associated with oxidative DNA damage
PNAS 1996 93: 2322-2327. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Milan Jucovic and Robert W. Hartley

Protein-protein interaction: A genetic selection for compensating mutations at the barnase-barstar interface
PNAS 1996 93: 2343-2347. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rivka Dikstein, Reuven Agami, Daphna Heffetz, and Yosef Shaul

p140/c-Abl that binds DNA is preferentially phosphorylated at tyrosine residues
PNAS 1996 93: 2387-2391. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hui Zhao and David Eide

The yeast ZRT1 gene encodes the zinc transporter protein of a high-affinity uptake system induced by zinc limitation
PNAS 1996 93: 2454-2458. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hanjing Yang, Alex Sasarman, Hachiro Inokuchi, and Julius Adler

Non-iron porphyrins cause tumbling to blue light by an Escherichia coli mutant defective in hemG
PNAS 1996 93: 2459-2463. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John Moffett, Erica Kratz, Robert Florkiewicz, and Michal K. Stachowiak

Promoter regions involved in density-dependent regulation of basic fibroblast growth factor gene expression in human astrocytic cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2470-2475. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Vladimir Volloch, Bruce Schweitzer, and Sophia Rits

Antisense globin RNA in mouse erythroid tissues: Structure, origin, and possible function
PNAS 1996 93: 2476-2481. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John M. Denu, Daniel L. Lohse, J. Vijayalakshmi, Mark A. Saper, and Jack E. Dixon

Visualization of intermediate and transition-state structures in protein-tyrosine phosphatase catalysis
PNAS 1996 93: 2493-2498. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nicholas J. Keen, Michael J. Gait, and Jonathan Karn

Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 Tat is an integral component of the activated transcription-elongation complex
PNAS 1996 93: 2505-2510. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wentao Zhang, Jeffrey P. Bond, Charles F. Anderson, Timothy M. Lohman, and M. Thomas Record Jr.

Large electrostatic differences in the binding thermodynamics of a cationic peptide to oligomeric and polymeric DNA
PNAS 1996 93: 2511-2516. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Martin Lackmann, Tamara Bucci, Richard J. Mann, Lucy A. Kravets, Elizabeth Viney, Fiona Smith, Robert L. Moritz, Wendy Carter, Richard J. Simpson, Nicos A. Nicola, Karen Mackwell, Edouard C. Nice, Andrew F. Wilks, and Andrew W. Boyd

Purification of a ligand for the EPH-like receptor HEK using a biosensor-based affinity detection approach
PNAS 1996 93: 2523-2527. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert E. Beyer, Juan Segura-Aguilar, Salvatore Di Bernardo, Marika Cavazzoni, Romana Fato, Diana Fiorentini, Maria Cristina Galli, Massimo Setti, Laura Landi, and Giorgio Lenaz

The role of DT-diaphorase in the maintenance of the reduced antioxidant form of coenzyme Q in membrane systems
PNAS 1996 93: 2528-2532. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Z.-D. Su, M. T. Arooz, H. M. Chen, Carol J. Gross, and T. Y. Tsong

Least activation path for protein folding: Investigation of staphylococcal nuclease folding by stopped-flow circular dichroism
PNAS 1996 93: 2539-2544. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen A. Chervitz and Joseph J. Falke

Molecular mechanism of transmembrane signaling by the aspartate receptor: A model
PNAS 1996 93: 2545-2550. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gary Lee, Jun Wu, Percy Luu, Peter Ghazal, and Osvaldo Flores

Inhibition of the association of RNA polymerase II with the preinitiation complex by a viral transcriptional repressor
PNAS 1996 93: 2570-2575. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Dietmar Haidacher, Anant Vailaya, and Csaba Horváth

Temperature effects in hydrophobic interaction chromatography
PNAS 1996 93: 2290-2295. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. S. Chadwick, E. K. Dimitriadis, and K. H. Iwasa

Active control of waves in a cochlear model with subpartitions
PNAS 1996 93: 2564-2569. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

John R. Zupan, Vitaly Citovsky, and Patricia Zambryski

Agrobacterium VirE2 protein mediates nuclear uptake of single-stranded DNA in plant cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2392-2397. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John I. Jones, Tracy Prevette, Amy Gockerman, and David R. Clemmons

Ligand occupancy of the V3 integrin is necessary for smooth muscle cells to migrate in response to insulin-like growth factor I
PNAS 1996 93: 2482-2487. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Birgitta Olofsson, Katri Pajusola, Arja Kaipainen, Gabriel von Euler, Vladimir Joukov, Olli Saksela, Arto Orpana, Ralf F. Pettersson, Kari Alitalo, and Ulf Eriksson

Vascular endothelial growth factor B, a novel growth factor for endothelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2576-2581. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

M. Suzanne Bradshaw, Cooduvalli S. Shashikant, Heinz-Georg Belting, Jacques A. Bollekens, and Frank H. Ruddle

A long-range regulatory element of Hoxc8 identified by using the pClasper vector
PNAS 1996 93: 2426-2430. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Gertraud Burger, B. Franz Lang, Michael Reith, and Michael W. Gray

Genes encoding the same three subunits of respiratory complex II are present in the mitochondrial DNA of two phylogenetically distant eukaryotes
PNAS 1996 93: 2328-2332. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

Frederick M. Boyce and Nancy L. R. Bucher

Baculovirus-mediated gene transfer into mammalian cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2348-2352. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Victor Canfield, A. Brian West, James R. Goldenring, and Robert Levenson

Genetic ablation of parietal cells in transgenic mice: A new model for analyzing cell lineage relationships in the gastric mucosa
PNAS 1996 93: 2431-2435. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Leslie A. Pratt and Thomas J. Silhavy

The response regulator SprE controls the stability of RpoS
PNAS 1996 93: 2488-2492. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yury O. Chernoff, Gary P. Newnam, and Susan W. Liebman

The translational function of nucleotide C1054 in the small subunit rRNA is conserved throughout evolution: Genetic evidence in yeast
PNAS 1996 93: 2517-2522. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yolanda Sanchez, Mercedes Lovell, Maria C. Marin, Patricia E. Wong, M. Elizabeth Wolf-Ledbetter, Timothy J. McDonnell, and Ann McNeill Killary

Tumor suppression and apoptosis of human prostate carcinoma mediated by a genetic locus within human chromosome 10pter-q11
PNAS 1996 93: 2551-2556. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zhenwu Lin, Xiangfeng Cui, and Honghua Li

Multiplex genotype determination at a large number of gene loci
PNAS 1996 93: 2582-2587. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Christopher A. J. Roman and David Baltimore

Genetic evidence that the RAG1 protein directly participates in V(D)J recombination through substrate recognition
PNAS 1996 93: 2333-2338. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joshua A. Boyce, Daniel Friend, Michael F. Gurish, K. Frank Austen, and William F. Owen

Constitutive production of granulocyte/macrophage colony- stimulating factor by hypodense mononuclear eosinophils developed in vitro from hybrid eosinophil/basophil granulocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 2436-2441. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Koen Gerritse, Jon D. Laman, Randolph J. Noelle, Alejandro Aruffo, Jeffrey A. Ledbetter, Wim J. A. Boersma, and Eric Claassen

CD40-CD40 ligand interactions in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis and multiple sclerosis
PNAS 1996 93: 2499-2504. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Liang-Ji Zhou and Thomas F. Tedder

CD14⁺ blood monocytes can differentiate into functionally mature CD83⁺ dendritic cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2588-2592. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Jia Lu, Qing Li, Hong Xie, Zhi-Jian Chen, Anna E. Borovitskaya, Noel K. Maclaren, Abner Louis Notkins, and Michael S. Lan

Identification of a second transmembrane protein tyrosine phosphatase, IA-2, as an autoantigen in insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus: Precursor of the 37-kDa tryptic fragment
PNAS 1996 93: 2307-2311. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nina B. Radford, Maggy Fina, Ivor J. Benjamin, Randall W. Moreadith, Kathy H. Graves, Piyu Zhao, Sandhya Gavva, Andrea Wiethoff, A. Dean Sherry, Craig R. Malloy, and R. Sanders Williams

Cardioprotective effects of 70-kDa heat shock protein in transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 2339-2342. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Toshio Miyata, Shinji Taneda, Ryuko Kawai, Yasuhiko Ueda, Seikoh Horiuchi, Mitsuru Hara, Kenji Maeda, and Vincent M. Monnier

Identification of pentosidine as a native structure for advanced glycation end products in ₂-microglobulin-containing amyloid fibrils in patients with dialysis-related amyloidosis
PNAS 1996 93: 2353-2358. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gabor Halmos, Andrew V. Schally, Jacek Pinski, Manuel Vadillo-Buenfil, and Kate Groot

Down-regulation of pituitary receptors for luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LH-RH) in rats by LH-RH antagonist Cetrorelix
PNAS 1996 93: 2398-2402. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jan A. Nolta, Mo A. Dao, Susie Wells, E. Monika Smogorzewska, and Donald B. Kohn

Transduction of pluripotent human hematopoietic stem cells demonstrated by clonal analysis after engraftment in immune-deficient mice
PNAS 1996 93: 2414-2419. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kathleen Forrester, Stefan Ambs, Shawn E. Lupold, Rachel B. Kapust, Elisa A. Spillare, Wendy C. Weinberg, Emanuela Felley-Bosco, Xin W. Wang, David A. Geller, Edith Tzeng, Timothy R. Billiar, and Curtis C. Harris

Nitric oxide-induced p53 accumulation and regulation of inducible nitric oxide synthase expression by wild-type p53
PNAS 1996 93: 2442-2447. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Attila Nagy, Patricia Armatis, and Andrew V. Schally

High yield conversion of doxorubicin to 2-pyrrolinodoxorubicin, an analog 500-1000 times more potent: Structure-activity relationship of daunosamine-modified derivatives of doxorubicin
PNAS 1996 93: 2464-2469. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Donald C. Malins, Nayak L. Polissar, and Sandra J. Gunselman INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Progression of human breast cancers to the metastatic state is linked to hydroxyl radical-induced DNA damage PNAS 1996 93: 2557-2563. [Abstract] [PDF]

George Sugihara, Walter Allan, Daniel Sobel, and Kenneth D. Allan

Nonlinear control of heart rate variability in human infants
PNAS 1996 93: 2608-2613. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

A. E. McBride, A. Schlegel, and K. Kirkegaard

Human protein Sam68 relocalization and interaction with poliovirus RNA polymerase in infected cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2296-2301. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Matthias Gromeier, Louis Alexander, and Eckard Wimmer

Internal ribosomal entry site substitution eliminates neurovirulence in intergeneric poliovirus recombinants
PNAS 1996 93: 2370-2375. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Takaaki Akaike, Yoichiro Noguchi, Sumiko Ijiri, Keisuke Setoguchi, Moritaka Suga, Yong Mu Zheng, Bernhard Dietzschold, and Hiroshi Maeda

Pathogenesis of influenza virus-induced pneumonia: Involvement of both nitric oxide and oxygen radicals
PNAS 1996 93: 2448-2453. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jacqueline E. Shea, Michael Hensel, Colin Gleeson, and David W. Holden

Identification of a virulence locus encoding a second type III secretion system in Salmonella typhimurium
PNAS 1996 93: 2593-2597. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

M. Piccolino, A. L. Byzov, D. E. Kurennyi, A. Pignatelli, F. Sappia, M. Wilkinson, and S. Barnes

Low-calcium-induced enhancement of chemical synaptic transmission from photoreceptors to horizontal cells in the vertebrate retina
PNAS 1996 93: 2302-2306. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Annadora J. Bruce, Bernard Malfroy, and Michel Baudry

-Amyloid toxicity in organotypic hippocampal cultures: Protection by EUK-8, a synthetic catalytic free radical scavenger
PNAS 1996 93: 2312-2316. [Abstract] [PDF]  

H.-Y. Li, A. Ericsson, and P. E. Sawchenko

Distinct mechanisms underlie activation of hypothalamic neurosecretory neurons and their medullary catecholaminergic afferents in categorically different stress paradigms
PNAS 1996 93: 2359-2364. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anna Berghard, Linda B. Buck, and Emily R. Liman

Evidence for distinct signaling mechanisms in two mammalian olfactory sense organs
PNAS 1996 93: 2365-2369. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Edgar A. DeYoe, George J. Carman, Peter Bandettini, Seth Glickman, Jon Wieser, Robert Cox, David Miller, and Jay Neitz

Mapping striate and extrastriate visual areas in human cerebral cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 2382-2386. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pierre-Marie Lledo, Patrick Tremblay, Stephen J. DeArmond, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Roger A. Nicoll

Mice deficient for prion protein exhibit normal neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission in the hippocampus
PNAS 1996 93: 2403-2407. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert G. Heiman, Richard C. Atkinson, Bernard F. Andruss, Clare Bolduc, Gae E. Kovalick, and Kathy Beckingham

Spontaneous avoidance behavior in Drosophila null for calmodulin expression
PNAS 1996 93: 2420-2425. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mircea Steriade and Florin Amzica

Intracortical and corticothalamic coherency of fast spontaneous oscillations
PNAS 1996 93: 2533-2538. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Walter E. Kaufmann, Paul F. Worley, Jodi Pegg, Margaret Bremer, and Peter Isakson

COX-2, a synaptically induced enzyme, is expressed by excitatory neurons at postsynaptic sites in rat cerebral cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 2317-2321. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Q. Hou, B. C. Paria, Cecily Mui, S. K. Dey, and J. Gorski

Immunolocalization of estrogen receptor protein in the mouse blastocyst during normal and delayed implantation
PNAS 1996 93: 2376-2381. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Xiaoquan Wang, Patricia Zafian, Mewa Choudhary, and Michael Lawton

The PR5K receptor protein kinase from Arabidopsis thaliana is structurally related to a family of plant defense proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 2598-2602. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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