COMMENTARIES

Robert L. Baldwin

Why is protein folding so fast?
PNAS 1996 93: 2627-2628. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Rajesh Patel, Claire Lin, Maureen Laney, Nurith Kurn, Sam Rose, and Edwin F. Ullman

Formation of chimeric DNA primer extension products by template switching onto an annealed downstream oligonucleotide
PNAS 1996 93: 2969-2974. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Deborah S. Gross, Paul D. Schnier, Sandra E. Rodriguez-Cruz, Clifton K. Fagerquist, and Evan R. Williams

Conformations and folding of lysozyme ions in vacuo
PNAS 1996 93: 3143-3148. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

Donald A. Redelmeier and Amos Tversky

On the belief that arthritis pain is related to the weather
PNAS 1996 93: 2895-2896. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

Carey D. Waldburger, Thorlakur Jonsson, and Robert T. Sauer

Barriers to protein folding: Formation of buried polar interactions is a slow step in acquisition of structure
PNAS 1996 93: 2629-2634. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Qi Chen, Irwin D. Kuntz, and Richard H. Shafer

Spectroscopic recognition of guanine dimeric hairpin quadruplexes by a carbocyanine dye
PNAS 1996 93: 2635-2639. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gregory Tombline, Dina Bellizzi, and Vittorio Sgaramella

Heterogeneity of primer extension products in asymmetric PCR is due both to cleavage by a structure-specific exo/endonuclease activity of DNA polymerases and to premature stops
PNAS 1996 93: 2724-2728. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John P. O'Bryan, Zhou Songyang, Lewis Cantley, Channing J. Der, and Tony Pawson

A mammalian adaptor protein with conserved Src homology 2 and phosphotyrosine-binding domains is related to Shc and is specifically expressed in the brain
PNAS 1996 93: 2729-2734. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Walter Filgueira de Azevedo Jr., Hans-Joachim Mueller-Dieckmann, Ursula Schulze-Gahmen, Peter J. Worland, Edward Sausville, and Sung-Hou Kim

Structural basis for specificity and potency of a flavonoid inhibitor of human CDK2, a cell cycle kinase
PNAS 1996 93: 2735-2740. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Istvan Botos, Leonardo Scapozza, Dachuan Zhang, Lance A. Liotta, and Edgar F. Meyer

Batimastat, a potent matrix metalloproteinase inhibitor, exhibits an unexpected mode of binding
PNAS 1996 93: 2749-2754. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stephen P. Hale and Paul Schimmel

Protein synthesis editing by a DNA aptamer
PNAS 1996 93: 2755-2758. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paul Hardenbol and Michael W. Van Dyke

Sequence specificity of triplex DNA formation: Analysis by a combinatorial approach, restriction endonuclease protection selection and amplification
PNAS 1996 93: 2811-2816. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Barbara R. Steiner, Kyoko Hidaka, and Bruce Futcher

Association of the Est1 protein with telomerase activity in yeast
PNAS 1996 93: 2817-2821. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paolo V. Pedone, Rodolfo Ghirlando, G. Marius Clore, Angela M. Gronenborn, Gary Felsenfeld, and James G. Omichinski

The single Cys₂-His₂ zinc finger domain of the GAGA protein flanked by basic residues is sufficient for high-affinity specific DNA binding
PNAS 1996 93: 2822-2826. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xi Zhu and Lutz Birnbaumer

G protein subunits and the stimulation of phospholipase C by G_s- and G_i-coupled receptors: Lack of receptor selectivity of G₁₆ and evidence for a synergic interaction between G and the  subunit of a receptor-activated G protein
PNAS 1996 93: 2827-2831. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gopal C. Kundu, Giuditta Mantile, Lucio Miele, Eleonora Cordella-Miele, and Anil B. Mukherjee

Recombinant human uteroglobin suppresses cellular invasiveness via a novel class of high-affinity cell surface binding site
PNAS 1996 93: 2915-2919. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Takashi Sera and Peter G. Schultz

In vivo selection of basic region-leucine zipper proteins with altered DNA-binding specificities
PNAS 1996 93: 2920-2925. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert A. Fridell, Utz Fischer, Reinhard Lührmann, Barbara E. Meyer, Judy L. Meinkoth, Michael H. Malim, and Bryan R. Cullen

Amphibian transcription factor IIIA proteins contain a sequence element functionally equivalent to the nuclear export signal of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 Rev
PNAS 1996 93: 2936-2940. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Manidipa Raha, Gan Wang, Michael M. Seidman, and Peter M. Glazer

Mutagenesis by third-strand-directed psoralen adducts in repair-deficient human cells: High frequency and altered spectrum in a xeroderma pigmentosum variant
PNAS 1996 93: 2941-2946. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Oleg V. Kovalenko, Annemieke W. Plug, Thomas Haaf, David K. Gonda, Terry Ashley, David C. Ward, Charles M. Radding, and Efim I. Golub INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Mammalian ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc9 interacts with Rad51 recombination protein and localizes in synaptonemal complexes PNAS 1996 93: 2958-2963. [Abstract] [PDF]

Yanan Kuang, Yaqing Wu, Alan Smrcka, Huiping Jiang, and Dianqing Wu

Identification of a phospholipase C ₂ region that interacts with G
PNAS 1996 93: 2964-2968. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Janet E. Lindsley

Intradimerically tethered DNA topoisomerase II is catalytically active in DNA transport
PNAS 1996 93: 2975-2980. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Xiaojie Wu and John Shaw

Bidirectional uncoating of the genomic RNA of a helical virus
PNAS 1996 93: 2981-2984. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William C. Wimley, Klaus Gawrisch, Trevor P. Creamer, and Stephen H. White

Direct measurement of salt-bridge solvation energies using a peptide model system: Implications for protein stability
PNAS 1996 93: 2985-2990. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James W. Brown, James M. Nolan, Elizabeth S. Haas, Mary Anne T. Rubio, Francois Major, and Norman R. Pace

Comparative analysis of ribonuclease P RNA using gene sequences from natural microbial populations reveals tertiary structural elements
PNAS 1996 93: 3001-3006. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yoichi Kato, Takanori Muto, Takafumi Tomura, Haruhiko Tsumura, Hiroshi Watarai, Toshifumi Mikayama, Kimishige Ishizaka, and Ryota Kuroki

The crystal structure of human glycosylation-inhibiting factor is a trimeric barrel with three 6-stranded -sheets
PNAS 1996 93: 3007-3010. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kumaravel Somasundaram, Gopalswamy Jayaraman, Trevor Williams, Elizabeth Moran, Steven Frisch, and Bayar Thimmapaya

Repression of a matrix metalloprotease gene by E1A correlates with its ability to bind to cell type-specific transcription factor AP-2
PNAS 1996 93: 3088-3093. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christopher P. Hill, David Worthylake, Daniel P. Bancroft, Allyson M. Christensen, and Wesley I. Sundquist

Crystal structures of the trimeric human immunodeficiency virus type 1 matrix protein: Implications for membrane association and assembly
PNAS 1996 93: 3099-3104. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Eiji Takahashi and Colin A. Wraight

Potentiation of proton transfer function by electrostatic interactions in photosynthetic reaction centers from Rhodobacter sphaeroides: First results from site-directed mutation of the H subunit
PNAS 1996 93: 2640-2645. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Azeddine Ibrahimi, Zeina Sfeir, Hengameh Magharaie, Ez-Zoubir Amri, Paul Grimaldi, and Nada A. Abumrad

Expression of the CD36 homolog (FAT) in fibroblast cells: Effects on fatty acid transport
PNAS 1996 93: 2646-2651. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Osnat Herzberg, Celia C. H. Chen, Geeta Kapadia, Marielena McGuire, Lawrence J. Carroll, Seong J. Noh, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano

Swiveling-domain mechanism for enzymatic phosphotransfer between remote reaction sites
PNAS 1996 93: 2652-2657. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Antonio V. Ferrer-Montiel and Mauricio Montal

Pentameric subunit stoichiometry of a neuronal glutamate receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 2741-2744. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Th. Schmidt, G. J. Schütz, W. Baumgartner, H. J. Gruber, and H. Schindler

Imaging of single molecule diffusion
PNAS 1996 93: 2926-2929. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Olga Gursky and David Atkinson

Thermal unfolding of human high-density apolipoprotein A-1: Implications for a lipid-free molten globular state
PNAS 1996 93: 2991-2995. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Uwe Scherf, Ira Pastan, Mark C. Willingham, and Ulrich Brinkmann

The human CAS protein which is homologous to the CSE1 yeast chromosome segregation gene product is associated with microtubules and mitotic spindle
PNAS 1996 93: 2670-2674. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mariella Ravazzola, Philippe A. Halban, and Lelio Orci

Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate receptor subtype 3 in pancreatic islet cell secretory granules revisited
PNAS 1996 93: 2745-2748. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Martin Ziak, Baoxi Qu, Xulei Zuo, Christian Zuber, Akiko Kanamori, Ken Kitajima, Sadako Inoue, Yasuo Inuoe, and Jürgen Roth

Occurrence of poly(2,8-deaminoneuraminic acid) in mammalian tissues: Widespread and developmentally regulated but highly selective expression on glycoproteins
PNAS 1996 93: 2759-2763. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert A. Stoltz, Nader G. Abraham, and Michal Laniado Schwartzman

The role of NF-B in the angiogenic response of coronary microvessel endothelial cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2832-2837. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Judianne Davis and William E. Van Nostrand

Enhanced pathologic properties of Dutch-type mutant amyloid -protein
PNAS 1996 93: 2996-3000. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Lotte Søgaard-Andersen and Dale Kaiser

C factor, a cell-surface-associated intercellular signaling protein, stimulates the cytoplasmic Frz signal transduction system in Myxococcus xanthus
PNAS 1996 93: 2675-2679. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Johannes Walter and Mark D. Biggin

DNA binding specificity of two homeodomain proteins in vitro and in Drosophila embryos
PNAS 1996 93: 2680-2685. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Catherine Corbel, Olivier Pourquié, Françoise Cormier, Pierre Vaigot, and Nicole M. Le Douarin

BEN/SC1/DM-GRASP, a homophilic adhesion molecule, is required for in vitro myeloid colony formation by avian hemopoietic progenitors
PNAS 1996 93: 2844-2849. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Russell L. Finley Jr., Barbara J. Thomas, S. Lawrence Zipursky, and Roger Brent

Isolation of Drosophila cyclin D, a protein expressed in the morphogenetic furrow before entry into S phase
PNAS 1996 93: 3011-3015. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pedro Tranque, Kathryn L. Crossin, Chiara Cirelli, Gerald M. Edelman, and Vincent P. Mauro

Identification and characterization of a RING zinc finger gene (C-RZF) expressed in chicken embryo cells
PNAS 1996 93: 3105-3109. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Claes Båvik, Simon J. Ward, and Pierre Chambon

Developmental abnormalities in cultured mouse embryos deprived of retinoic acid by inhibition of yolk-sac retinol binding protein synthesis
PNAS 1996 93: 3110-3114. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Norman Myers

Environmental services of biodiversity
PNAS 1996 93: 2764-2769. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

Felix Loosli, Marie Kmita-Cunisse, and Walter J. Gehring

Isolation of a Pax-6 homolog from the ribbonworm Lineus sanguineus
PNAS 1996 93: 2658-2663. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Claus Wedekind and Manfred Milinski

Human cooperation in the simultaneous and the alternating Prisoner's Dilemma: Pavlov versus Generous Tit-for-Tat
PNAS 1996 93: 2686-2689. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lee Alan Dugatkin

Interface between culturally based preferences and genetic preferences: Female mate choice in Poecilia reticulata
PNAS 1996 93: 2770-2773. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nancy A. Moran

Accelerated evolution and Muller's rachet in endosymbiotic bacteria
PNAS 1996 93: 2873-2878. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Russell Ciochon, Vu The Long, Roy Larick, Luis González, Rainer Grün, John de Vos, Charles Yonge, Lois Taylor, Hiroyuki Yoshida, and Mark Reagan

Dated co-occurrence of Homo erectus and Gigantopithecus from Tham Khuyen Cave, Vietnam
PNAS 1996 93: 3016-3020. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kenneth G. Ross, Edward L. Vargo, and Laurent Keller

Social evolution in a new environment: The case of introduced fire ants
PNAS 1996 93: 3021-3025. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

J. V. Neel, E. O. Major, A. A. Awa, T. Glover, A. Burgess, R. Traub, B. Curfman, and C. Satoh

Hypothesis: "Rogue cell"-type chromosomal damage in lymphocytes is associated with infection with the JC human polyoma virus and has implications for oncopenesis
PNAS 1996 93: 2690-2695. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Henry H. Q. Heng, John W. Chamberlain, Xiao-Mei Shi, Barbara Spyropoulos, Lap-Chee Tsui, and Peter B. Moens

Regulation of meiotic chromatin loop size by chromosomal position
PNAS 1996 93: 2795-2800. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Brian A. Morgan, Frank L. Conlon, Miguel Manzanares, Jonathan B. A. Millar, Naheed Kanuga, James Sharpe, Robb Krumlauf, James C. Smith, and Steven G. Sedgwick

Transposon tools for recombinant DNA manipulation: Characterization of transcriptional regulators from yeast, Xenopus, and mouse
PNAS 1996 93: 2801-2806. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Charles L. Leeck and James D. Forney

The 5' coding region of Paramecium surface antigen genes controls mutually exclusive transcription
PNAS 1996 93: 2838-2843. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karlene A. Cimprich, Tae Bum Shin, Curtis T. Keith, and Stuart L. Schreiber

cDNA cloning and gene mapping of a candidate human cell cycle checkpoint protein
PNAS 1996 93: 2850-2855. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Iwona J. Fijalkowska and Roel M. Schaaper

Mutants in the Exo I motif of Escherichia coli dnaQ: Defective proofreading and inviability due to error catastrophe
PNAS 1996 93: 2856-2861. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shuhei Matsuoka, Jeffrey S. Thompson, Michael C. Edwards, Janet M. Barletta, Paul Grundy, Linda M. Kalikin, J. Wade Harper, Stephen J. Elledge, and Andrew P. Feinberg

Imprinting of the gene encoding a human cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor, p57^KIP2, on chromosome 11p15
PNAS 1996 93: 3026-3030. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bernd Reiss, Manfred Klemm, Hans Kosak, and Jeff Schell

RecA protein stimulates homologous recombination in plants
PNAS 1996 93: 3094-3098. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shizhen Qin, Norma J. Nowak, Jialu Zhang, Sheila N. J. Sait, Peter G. Mayers, Michael J. Higgins, Yi-jun Cheng, Li Li, David J. Munroe, Daniela S. Gerhard, Bernhard H. Weber, Eva Bric, David E. Housman, Glen A. Evans, and Thomas B. Shows

A high-resolution physical map of human chromosome 11
PNAS 1996 93: 3149-3154. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Jürgen C. Becker, James D. Pancook, Stephen D. Gillies, John Mendelsohn, and Ralph A. Reisfeld

Eradication of human hepatic and pulmonary melanoma metastases in SCID mice by antibody-interleukin 2 fusion proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 2702-2707. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Julie Hambleton, Steven L. Weinstein, Lawrence Lem, and Anthony L. DeFranco

Activation of c-Jun N-terminal kinase in bacterial lipopolysaccharide-stimulated macrophages
PNAS 1996 93: 2774-2778. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Benny P. Shum, Kaoru Azumi, Siwei Zhang, Susan R. Kehrer, Robert L. Raison, H. William Detrich, and Peter Parham

Unexpected ₂-microglobulin sequence diversity in individual rainbow trout
PNAS 1996 93: 2779-2784. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dennis M. Klinman, Ae-Kyung Yi, Serge L. Beaucage, Jacqueline Conover, and Arthur M. Krieg

CpG motifs present in bacterial DNA rapidly induce lymphocytes to secrete interleukin 6, interleukin 12, and interferon
PNAS 1996 93: 2879-2883. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard N. Bamford, Andrew P. Battiata, Jack D. Burton, Harmesh Sharma, and Thomas A. Waldmann

Interleukin (IL) 15/IL-T production by the adult T-cell leukemia cell line HuT-102 is associated with a human T-cell lymphotrophic virus type I R region/IL-15 fusion message that lacks many upstream AUGs that normally attenuate IL-15 mRNA translation
PNAS 1996 93: 2897-2902. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ziba Razi-Wolf, Georg A. Holländer, and Hans Reiser

Activation of CD4⁺ T lymphocytes from interleukin 2-deficient mice by costimulatory B7 molecules
PNAS 1996 93: 2903-2908. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steven M. Singer, Dale T. Umetsu, and Hugh O. McDevitt

High copy number I-Ab transgenes induce production of IgE through an interleukin 4-dependent mechanism
PNAS 1996 93: 2947-2952. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Roland S. Liblau, Roland Tisch, Kevan Shokat, Xiao-dong Yang, Nicole Dumont, Christopher C. Goodnow, and Hugh O. McDevitt

Intravenous injection of soluble antigen induces thymic and peripheral T-cell apoptosis
PNAS 1996 93: 3031-3036. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tobias R. Kollmann, Massimo Pettoello-Mantovani, Nikos F. Katopodis, Moshe Hachamovitch, Arye Rubinstein, Ana Kim, and Harris Goldstein

Inhibition of acute in vivo human immunodeficiency virus infection by human interleukin 10 treatment of SCID mice implanted with human fetal thymus and liver
PNAS 1996 93: 3126-3131. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Asako Yoritaka, Nobutaka Hattori, Koji Uchida, Masashi Tanaka, Earl R. Stadtman, and Yoshikuni Mizuno

Immunohistochemical detection of 4-hydroxynonenal protein adducts in Parkinson disease
PNAS 1996 93: 2696-2701. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Odile Mansoor, Bernard Beaufrere, Yves Boirie, Cecile Ralliere, Daniel Taillandier, Eveline Aurousseau, Pierre Schoeffler, Maurice Arnal, and Didier Attaix

Increased mRNA levels for components of the lysosomal, Ca²⁺-activated, and ATP-ubiquitin-dependent proteolytic pathways in skeletal muscle from head trauma patients
PNAS 1996 93: 2714-2718. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Per O. Iversen, Luen B. To, and Angel F. Lopez

Apoptosis of hemopoietic cells by the human granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor mutant E21R
PNAS 1996 93: 2785-2789. [Abstract] [PDF]  

S. Mosselman, L. H. J. Looijenga, A. J. M. Gillis, M. A. van Rooijen, H. J. Kraft, E. J. J. van Zoelen, and J. W. Oosterhuis

Aberrant platelet-derived growth factor -receptor transcript as a diagnostic marker for early human germ cell tumors of the adult testis
PNAS 1996 93: 2884-2888. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Clive Woffendin, Udaykumar Ranga, Zhi-yong Yang, Ling Xu, and Gary J. Nabel

Expression of a protective gene prolongs survival of T cells in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients
PNAS 1996 93: 2889-2894. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Habib Fakhrai, Oliver Dorigo, Daniel L. Shawler, Hong Lin, Dan Mercola, Keith L. Black, Ivor Royston, and Robert E. Sobol

Eradication of established intracranial rat gliomas by transforming growth factor  antisense gene therapy
PNAS 1996 93: 2909-2914. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey M. Arbeit, Peter M. Howley, and Douglas Hanahan

Chronic estrogen-induced cervical and vaginal squamous carcinogenesis in human papillomavirus type 16 transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 2930-2935. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark F. Kozacko, Thomas S. Mang, Andrew V. Schally, Roger L. Priore, and Charles Liebow

Bombesin antagonist prevents CO₂ laser-induced promotion of oral cancer
PNAS 1996 93: 2953-2957. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andreas C. Häffner, Karoline Zepter, and Craig A. Elmets

Major histocompatibility complex class I molecule serves as a ligand for presentation of the superantigen staphylococcal enterotoxin B to T cells
PNAS 1996 93: 3037-3042. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Janice K. Kiecolt-Glaser, Ronald Glaser, Stefan Gravenstein, William B. Malarkey, and John Sheridan

Chronic stress alters the immune response to influenza virus vaccine in older adults
PNAS 1996 93: 3043-3047. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Johannes Walter, Qimin You, J. Nathan Hagstrom, Mark Sands, and Katherine A. High

Successful expression of human factor IX following repeat administration of an adenoviral vector in mice
PNAS 1996 93: 3056-3061. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Emily B. Cullinan, Susan J. Abbondanzo, Patrick S. Anderson, Jeffrey W. Pollard, Bruce A. Lessey, and Colin L. Stewart

Leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and LIF receptor expression in human endometrium suggests a potential autocrine/paracrine function in regulating embryo implantation
PNAS 1996 93: 3115-3120. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

James DeMaio, Ying Zhang, Chiew Ko, Douglas B. Young, and William R. Bishai

A stationary-phase stress-response sigma factor from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
PNAS 1996 93: 2790-2794. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark G. Frattini, Hock B. Lim, and Laimonis A. Laimins

In vitro synthesis of oncogenic human papillomaviruses requires episomal genomes for differentiation-dependent late expression
PNAS 1996 93: 3062-3067. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wolfgang J. Philipp, Sylvie Poulet, Karin Eiglmeier, Lisa Pascopella, V. Balasubramanian, Beate Heym, Staffan Bergh, Barry R. Bloom, William R. Jacobs Jr., and Stewart T. Cole

An integrated map of the genome of the tubercle bacillus, Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv, and comparison with Mycobacterium leprae
PNAS 1996 93: 3132-3137. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Yuji Naya, Kuniyoshi Sakai, and Yasushi Miyashita

Activity of primate inferotemporal neurons related to a sought target in pair-association task
PNAS 1996 93: 2664-2669. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Minako Hoshi, Akihiko Takashima, Kaori Noguchi, Miyuki Murayama, Michio Sato, Shunzo Kondo, Yoshito Saitoh, Koichi Ishiguro, Toshimitsu Hoshino, and Kazutomo Imahori

Regulation of mitochondrial pyruvate dehydrogenase activity by tau protein kinase I/glycogen synthase kinase 3 in brain
PNAS 1996 93: 2719-2723. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sunghee Cho, Jin H. Son, Dong H. Park, Chiye Aoki, Xiuzhen Song, Gerard P. Smith, and Tong H. Joh

Reduced sympathetic innervation after alteration of target cell neurotransmitter phenotype in transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 2862-2866. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey S. Mogil, Wendy F. Sternberg, Przemyslaw Marek, Bogdan Sadowski, John K. Belknap, and John C. Liebeskind INAUGURAL ARTICLE: The genetics of pain and pain inhibition PNAS 1996 93: 3048-3055. [Abstract] [PDF]

Jeffery A. Winer and David T. Larue

Evolution of GABAergic circuitry in the mammalian medial geniculate body
PNAS 1996 93: 3083-3087. [Abstract] [PDF]  

A. H. Gazzaley, S. J. Siegel, J. H. Kordower, E. J. Mufson, and J. H. Morrison

Circuit-specific alterations of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit 1 in the dentate gyrus of aged monkeys
PNAS 1996 93: 3121-3125. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pang-Hsien Tu, Pramod Raju, Kathryn A. Robinson, Mark E. Gurney, John Q. Trojanowski, and Virginia M.-Y. Lee

Transgenic mice carrying a human mutant superoxide dismutase transgene develop neuronal cytoskeletal pathology resembling human amyotrophic lateral sclerosis lesions
PNAS 1996 93: 3155-3160. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Roderic G. Eckenhoff

An inhalational anesthetic binding domain in the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
PNAS 1996 93: 2807-2810. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Azriel Schmidt, Su Jane Rutledge, Naoto Endo, Evan E. Opas, Hirofumi Tanaka, Gregg Wesolowski, Chih Tai Leu, Zheng Huang, Chidambaram Ramachandaran, Sevgi B. Rodan, and Gideon A. Rodan

Protein-tyrosine phosphatase activity regulates osteoclast formation and function: Inhibition by alendronate
PNAS 1996 93: 3068-3073. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Max Gassmann, Joachim Fandrey, Sandrine Bichet, Maria Wartenberg, Hugo H. Marti, Christian Bauer, Roland H. Wenger, and Helmut Acker

Oxygen supply and oxygen-dependent gene expression in differentiating embryonic stem cells
PNAS 1996 93: 2867-2872. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

A. Kamm, R. L. Doudrick, J. S. Heslop-Harrison, and T. Schmidt

The genomic and physical organization of Ty1-copia-like sequences as a component of large genomes in Pinus elliottii var. elliottii and other gymnosperms
PNAS 1996 93: 2708-2713. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Serguei Lopato, Akila Mayeda, Adrian R. Krainer, and Andrea Barta

Pre-mRNA splicing in plants: Characterization of Ser/Arg splicing factors
PNAS 1996 93: 3074-3079. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Na-Sheng Lin, Yun-Shien Lee, Biing-Yuan Lin, Chin-Wei Lee, and Yau-Heiu Hsu

The open reading frame of bamboo mosaic potexvirus satellite RNA is not essential for its replication and can be replaced with a bacterial gene
PNAS 1996 93: 3138-3142. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Population Biology

Mirjana Milosevic Brockett, Hossain Alavi, and Wyatt W. Anderson

Relative effects of female fecundity and male mating success on fertility selection in Drosophila pseudoobscura
PNAS 1996 93: 3080-3082. [Abstract] [PDF]