COMMENTARIES

Alan M. Gewirtz, Cy A. Stein, and Peter M. Glazer

Facilitating oligonucleotide delivery: Helping antisense deliver on its promise
PNAS 1996 93: 3161-3163. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ilya Raskin

Plant genetic engineering may help with environmental cleanup
PNAS 1996 93: 3164-3166. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joshua Lederberg

Smaller fleas ... ad infinitum: Therapeutic bacteriophage redux
PNAS 1996 93: 3167-3168. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Paul A. Bash, L. Lawrence Ho, Alexander D. MacKerell Jr., David Levine, and Philip Hallstrom

Progress toward chemical accuracy in the computer simulation of condensed phase reactions
PNAS 1996 93: 3698-3703. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

G. Brozek, I. A. Zhuravin, D. Megirian, and J. Bures

Localization of the central rhythm generator involved in spontaneous consummatory licking in rats: Functional ablation and electrical brain stimulation studies
PNAS 1996 93: 3325-3329. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. Moghaddam, Yu. L. Kaminsky, A. Zahalka, and J. Bures

Vestibular navigation directed by the slope of terrain
PNAS 1996 93: 3439-3443. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Henry E. Spinnler, Christian Ginies, Jeffrey A. Khan, and Evgeny N. Vulfson

Analysis of metabolic pathways by the growth of cells in the presence of organic solvents
PNAS 1996 93: 3373-3376. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lisbeth Gath Jensen, Ole Olsen, Oliver Kops, Norbert Wolf, Karl Kristian Thomsen, and Diter von Wettstein

Transgenic barley expressing a protein-engineered, thermostable (1,3-1,4)--glucanase during germination
PNAS 1996 93: 3487-3491. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Jason G. Lewis, Kuei-Ying Lin, Avinash Kothavale, W. Michael Flanagan, Mark D. Matteucci, Randolph B. DePrince, Robert A. Mook Jr., R. Wayne Hendren, and Richard W. Wagner

A serum-resistant cytofectin for cellular delivery of antisense oligodeoxynucleotides and plasmid DNA
PNAS 1996 93: 3176-3181. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Irina Afonina, Igor Kutyavin, Eugeny Lukhtanov, Rich B. Meyer, and Howard Gamper

Sequence-specific arrest of primer extension on single-stranded DNA by an oligonucleotide-minor groove binder conjugate
PNAS 1996 93: 3199-3204. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jackob Moskovitz, Nancy A. Jenkins, Debra J. Gilbert, Neal G. Copeland, Frantisek Jursky, Herbert Weissbach, and Nathan Brot

Chromosomal localization of the mammalian peptide-methionine sulfoxide reductase gene and its differential expression in various tissues
PNAS 1996 93: 3205-3208. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Uwe Rudolph, Karsten Spicher, and Lutz Birnbaumer

Adenylyl cyclase inhibition and altered G protein subunit expression and ADP-ribosylation patterns in tissues and cells from G_i2/ mice
PNAS 1996 93: 3209-3214. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Masa-aki Ikeda, Laszlo Jakoi, and Joseph R. Nevins

A unique role for the Rb protein in controlling E2F accumulation during cell growth and differentiation
PNAS 1996 93: 3215-3220. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Vadim Markovtsov, Arkady Mustaev, and Alex Goldfarb

Protein-RNA interactions in the active center of transcription elongation complex
PNAS 1996 93: 3221-3226. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David S. Auld, Kenneth H. Falchuk, Ke Zhang, Marcelo Montorzi, and Bert L. Vallee

X-ray absorption fine structure as a monitor of zinc coordination sites during oogenesis of Xenopus laevis
PNAS 1996 93: 3227-3231. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nello Russo, Valentina Nobile, Alberto Di Donato, James F. Riordan, and Bert L. Vallee

The C-terminal region of human angiogenin has a dual role in enzymatic activity
PNAS 1996 93: 3243-3247. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ayesha Sitlani and Donald M. Crothers

Fos and Jun do not bend the AP-1 recognition site
PNAS 1996 93: 3248-3252. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Adhar C. Manna, Karnire S. Pai, Dirksen E. Bussiere, Stephen W. White, and Deepak Bastia

The dimer-dimer interaction surface of the replication terminator protein of Bacillus subtilis and termination of DNA replication
PNAS 1996 93: 3253-3258. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Norbert Sträter, Kjell Håkansson, Georg Schnappauf, Gerhard Braus, and William N. Lipscomb

Crystal structure of the T state of allosteric yeast chorismate mutase and comparison with the R state
PNAS 1996 93: 3330-3334. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Siow-Kee Kong, Moon Bin Yim, Earl R. Stadtman, and P. Boon Chock

Peroxynitrite disables the tyrosine phosphorylation regulatory mechanism: Lymphocyte-specific tyrosine kinase fails to phosphorylate nitrated cdc2(6-20)NH₂ peptide
PNAS 1996 93: 3377-3382. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Richard J. Maraia

Transcription termination factor La is also an initiation factor for RNA polymerase III
PNAS 1996 93: 3383-3387. [Abstract] [PDF]  

N. G. Seidah, J. Hamelin, M. Mamarbachi, W. Dong, H. Tadros, M. Mbikay, M. Chretien, and R. Day

cDNA structure, tissue distribution, and chromosomal localization of rat PC7, a novel mammalian proprotein convertase closest to yeast kexin-like proteinases
PNAS 1996 93: 3388-3393. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anne E. Luebke, Gerhard P. Dahl, Bernard A. Roos, and Ian M. Dickerson

Identification of a protein that confers calcitonin gene-related peptide responsiveness to oocytes by using a cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator assay
PNAS 1996 93: 3455-3460. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hong Wang, Clinton Jones, Janice Ciacci-Zanella, Todd Holt, David G. Gilchrist, and Martin B. Dickman

Fumonisins and Alternaria alternata lycopersici toxins: Sphinganine analog mycotoxins induce apoptosis in monkey kidney cells
PNAS 1996 93: 3461-3465. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter W. Jurutka, J.-C. Hsieh, Shigeo Nakajima, Carol A. Haussler, G. Kerr Whitfield, and Mark R. Haussler

Human vitamin D receptor phosphorylation by casein kinase II at Ser-208 potentiates transcriptional activation
PNAS 1996 93: 3519-3524. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Guillaume Adelmant, Agnès Bègue, Dominique Stéhelin, and Vincent Laudet

A functional Rev-erb responsive element located in the human Rev-erb promoter mediates a repressing activity
PNAS 1996 93: 3553-3558. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alessandra Blasina, Barbara L. Kittell, Aresa E. Toukdarian, and Donald R. Helinski

Copy-up mutants of the plasmid RK2 replication initiation protein are defective in coupling RK2 replication origins
PNAS 1996 93: 3559-3564. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James A. Coyer, Alejandro Cabello-Pasini, Hewson Swift, and Randall S. Alberte

N₂ fixation in marine heterotrophic bacteria: Dynamics of environmental and molecular regulation
PNAS 1996 93: 3575-3580. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter M. Gehrig, Andrzej Krzyzaniak, Jan Barciszewski, and Klaus Biemann

Mass spectrometric amino acid sequencing of a mixture of seed storage proteins (napin) from Brassica napus, products of a multigene family
PNAS 1996 93: 3647-3652. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ryo Hanai, Paul R. Caron, and James C. Wang

Human TOP3: A single-copy gene encoding DNA topoisomerase III
PNAS 1996 93: 3653-3657. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Wölfl, Camilo Martinez, Alexander Rich, and Joseph A. Majzoub

Transcription of the human corticotropin-releasing hormone gene in NPLC cells is correlated with Z-DNA formation
PNAS 1996 93: 3664-3668. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Theo A. Roelofs, Wenchuan Liang, Matthew J. Latimer, Roehl M. Cinco, Annette Rompel, Joy C. Andrews, Kenneth Sauer, Vittal K. Yachandra, and Melvin P. Klein

Oxidation states of the manganese cluster during the flash-induced S-state cycle of the photosynthetic oxygen-evolving complex
PNAS 1996 93: 3335-3340. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sridhar Govindarajan and Richard A. Goldstein

Why are some protein structures so common?
PNAS 1996 93: 3341-3345. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter Hinterdorfer, Werner Baumgartner, Hermann J. Gruber, Kurt Schilcher, and Hansgeorg Schindler

Detection and localization of individual antibody-antigen recognition events by atomic force microscopy
PNAS 1996 93: 3477-3481. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Mong-Hong Lee, Margareta Nikolic, Carlos A. Baptista, Eseng Lai, Li-Huei Tsai, and Joan Massagué

The brain-specific activator p35 allows Cdk5 to escape inhibition by p27^Kip1 in neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 3259-3263. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yuan Zhu, Martin Carroll, Feroz R. Papa, Mark Hochstrasser, and Alan D. D'Andrea

DUB-1, a deubiquitinating enzyme with growth-suppressing activity
PNAS 1996 93: 3275-3279. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dong X. Yin and Robert T. Schimke

Inhibition of apoptosis by overexpressing Bcl-2 enhances gene amplification by a mechanism independent of aphidicolin pretreatment
PNAS 1996 93: 3394-3398. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nancy Boudreau, Zena Werb, and Mina J. Bissell

Suppression of apoptosis by basement membrane requires three-dimensional tissue organization and withdrawal from the cell cycle
PNAS 1996 93: 3509-3513. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yoshihiro Ito, Ji Zheng, Yukio Imanishi, Kazuyoshi Yonezawa, and Masato Kasuga

Protein-free cell culture on an artificial substrate with covalently immobilized insulin
PNAS 1996 93: 3598-3601. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Patrick J. Skelly and Charles B. Shoemaker

Rapid appearance and asymmetric distribution of glucose transporter SGTP4 at the apical surface of intramammalian-stage Schistosoma mansoni
PNAS 1996 93: 3642-3646. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Dominique Weil, Gallia Lévy, Iman Sahly, Fabienne Lévi-Acobas, Stéphane Blanchard, Aziz El-Amraoui, Fabien Crozet, Hervé Philippe, Marc Abitbol, and Christine Petit

Human myosin VIIA responsible for the Usher 1B syndrome: A predicted membrane-associated motor protein expressed in developing sensory epithelia
PNAS 1996 93: 3232-3237. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fabrizio Arigoni, Leonard Duncan, Scott Alper, Richard Losick, and Patrick Stragier

SpoIIE governs the phosphorylation state of a protein regulating transcription factor ^F during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis
PNAS 1996 93: 3238-3242. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David J. Dix, James W. Allen, Barbara W. Collins, Chisato Mori, Noriko Nakamura, Patricia Poorman-Allen, Eugenia H. Goulding, and E. M. Eddy

Targeted gene disruption of Hsp70-2 results in failed meiosis, germ cell apoptosis, and male infertility
PNAS 1996 93: 3264-3268. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Qing Wang, Terryl Stacy, Michael Binder, Miguel Marín-Padilla, Arlene H. Sharpe, and Nancy A. Speck

Disruption of the Cbfa2 gene causes necrosis and hemorrhaging in the central nervous system and blocks definitive hematopoiesis
PNAS 1996 93: 3444-3449. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Monica Carabelli, Giorgio Morelli, Garry Whitelam, and Ida Ruberti

Twilight-zone and canopy shade induction of the Athb-2 homeobox gene in green plants
PNAS 1996 93: 3530-3535. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ecology

Clayton L. Rugh, H. Dayton Wilde, Nicole M. Stack, Deborah Marin Thompson, Anne O. Summers, and Richard B. Meagher

Mercuric ion reduction and resistance in transgenic Arabidopsis thaliana plants expressing a modified bacterial merA gene
PNAS 1996 93: 3182-3187. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas Eisner, Athula B. Attygalle, William E. Conner, Maria Eisner, Ellis MacLeod, and Jerrold Meinwald

Chemical egg defense in a green lacewing (Ceraeochrysa smithi)
PNAS 1996 93: 3280-3283. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Evolution

David P. Mindell

Positive selection and rates of evolution in immunodeficiency viruses from humans and chimpanzees
PNAS 1996 93: 3284-3288. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Genetics

David No, Tso-Pang Yao, and Ronald M. Evans

Ecdysone-inducible gene expression in mammalian cells and transgenic mice
PNAS 1996 93: 3346-3351. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrea Amalfitano, Catherine R. Begy, and Jeffrey S. Chamberlain

Improved adenovirus packaging cell lines to support the growth of replication-defective gene-delivery vectors
PNAS 1996 93: 3352-3356. [Abstract] [PDF]  

F. Abel Ponce de León, Sakthikumar Ambady, Gregory A. Hawkins, Steven M. Kappes, Michael D. Bishop, James M. Robl, and Craig W. Beattie

Development of a bovine X chromosome linkage group and painting probes to assess cattle, sheep, and goat X chromosome segment homologies
PNAS 1996 93: 3450-3454. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jenn-Kan Lu, Thomas T. Chen, Standish K. Allen, Tomoyo Matsubara, and Jane C. Burns

Production of transgenic dwarf surfclams, Mulinia lateralis, with pantropic retroviral vectors
PNAS 1996 93: 3482-3486. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karen J. Kotkow and Stuart H. Orkin

Complexity of the erythroid transcription factor NF-E2 as revealed by gene targeting of the mouse p18 NF-E2 locus
PNAS 1996 93: 3514-3518. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Margaret E. Black, Terry G. Newcomb, Heather-Marie P. Wilson, and Lawrence A. Loeb

Creation of drug-specific herpes simplex virus type 1 thymidine kinase mutants for gene therapy
PNAS 1996 93: 3525-3529. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark Brenneman, Frederick S. Gimble, and John H. Wilson

Stimulation of intrachromosomal homologous recombination in human cells by electroporation with site-specific endonucleases
PNAS 1996 93: 3608-3612. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shuo Dong, Jun Zhu, Alan Reid, Philip Strutt, Fabien Guidez, Hao-Jie Zhong, Zhen-Yi Wang, Jonathan Licht, Samuel Waxman, Christine Chomienne, Zhu Chen, Arthur Zelent, and Sai-Juan Chen

Amino-terminal protein-protein interaction motif (POZ-domain) is responsible for activities of the promyelocytic leukemia zinc finger-retinoic acid receptor- fusion protein
PNAS 1996 93: 3624-3629. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Immunology

Christina S. Hirsch, Rabia Hussain, Zahra Toossi, Ghaffar Dawood, Firdaus Shahid, and Jerrold J. Ellner

Cross-modulation by transforming growth factor  in human tuberculosis: Suppression of antigen-driven blastogenesis and interferon  production
PNAS 1996 93: 3193-3198. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ralph M. Bernstein, Samuel F. Schluter, Shanxiang Shen, and John J. Marchalonis

A new high molecular weight immunoglobulin class from the carcharhine shark: Implications for the properties of the primordial immunoglobulin
PNAS 1996 93: 3289-3293. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hector Molina, V. Michael Holers, Bin Li, Yi-Fu Fang, Sanjeev Mariathasan, Joseph Goellner, Jena Strauss-Schoenberger, Robert W. Karr, and David D. Chaplin

Markedly impaired humoral immune response in mice deficient in complement receptors 1 and 2
PNAS 1996 93: 3357-3361. [Abstract] [PDF]  

F. D. Batista, D. G. Efremov, and O. R. Burrone

Characterization of a second secreted IgE isoform and identification of an asymmetric pathway of IgE assembly
PNAS 1996 93: 3399-3404. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steve Gerondakis, Andreas Strasser, Donald Metcalf, George Grigoriadis, Jean-Pierre Y. Scheerlinck, and Raelene J. Grumont

Rel-deficient T cells exhibit defects in production of interleukin 3 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor
PNAS 1996 93: 3405-3409. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Florence Boisgérault, Iman Khalil, Vannary Tieng, Francine Connan, Thierry Tabary, Jacques H. M. Cohen, Jeannine Choppin, Dominique Charron, and Antoine Toubert

Definition of the HLA-A29 peptide ligand motif allows prediction of potential T-cell epitopes from the retinal soluble antigen, a candidate autoantigen in birdshot retinopathy
PNAS 1996 93: 3466-3470. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kohtaro Fujihashi, Shigetada Kawabata, Takachika Hiroi, Masafumi Yamamoto, Jerry R. McGhee, Shin-ichi Nishikawa, and Hiroshi Kiyono

Interleukin 2 (IL-2) and interleukin 7 (IL-7) reciprocally induce IL-7 and IL-2 receptors on T-cell receptor-positive intraepithelial lymphocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 3613-3618. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Beth A. Pulaski, Kun-Yun Yeh, Nilabh Shastri, Kathleen M. Maltby, David P. Penney, Edith M. Lord, and John G. Frelinger

Interleukin 3 enhances cytotoxic T lymphocyte development and class I major histocompatibility complex "re-presentation" of exogenous antigen by tumor-infiltrating antigen-presenting cells
PNAS 1996 93: 3669-3674. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Israel M. Gelfand, Alexander E. Kister, and Dmitry Leshchiner

The invariant system of coordinates of antibody molecules: Prediction of the "standard" C framework of V_L and V_H domains
PNAS 1996 93: 3675-3678. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Masao Mato, Shigeo Ookawara, Atsushi Sakamoto, Eizo Aikawa, Tsuyoshi Ogawa, Umehachi Mitsuhashi, Toshio Masuzawa, Hiroshi Suzuki, Makoto Honda, Yoshio Yazaki, Eiju Watanabe, Jukka Luoma, Seppo Yla-Herttuala, Iain Fraser, Siamon Gordon, and Tatsuhiko Kodama

Involvement of specific macrophage-lineage cells surrounding arterioles in barrier and scavenger function in brain cortex
PNAS 1996 93: 3269-3274. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Joachim G. Liehr and Mary Jo Ricci

4-Hydroxylation of estrogens as marker of human mammary tumors
PNAS 1996 93: 3294-3296. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steven J. Hecht, Kim E. Stedman, Jonathan O. Carlson, and James C. DeMartini

Distribution of endogenous type B and type D sheep retrovirus sequences in ungulates and other mammals
PNAS 1996 93: 3297-3302. [Abstract] [PDF]  

N. E. Morton

Logarithm of odds (lods) for linkage in complex inheritance
PNAS 1996 93: 3471-3476. [Abstract] [PDF]  

C. Bruce Verchere, David A. D'Alessio, Richard D. Palmiter, Gordon C. Weir, Susan Bonner-Weir, Denis G. Baskin, and Steven E. Kahn

Islet amyloid formation associated with hyperglycemia in transgenic mice with pancreatic beta cell expression of human islet amyloid polypeptide
PNAS 1996 93: 3492-3496. [Abstract] [PDF]  

D. I. Baruch, J. A. Gormley, C. Ma, R. J. Howard, and B. L. Pasloske

Plasmodium falciparum erythrocyte membrane protein 1 is a parasitized erythrocyte receptor for adherence to CD36, thrombospondin, and intercellular adhesion molecule 1
PNAS 1996 93: 3497-3502. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. P. Gardner, R. A. Pinches, D. J. Roberts, and C. I. Newbold

Variant antigens and endothelial receptor adhesion in Plasmodium falciparum
PNAS 1996 93: 3503-3508. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Josef Bodor, Anna-Lena Spetz, Jack L. Strominger, and Joel F. Habener

cAMP inducibility of transcriptional repressor ICER in developing and mature human T lymphocytes
PNAS 1996 93: 3536-3541. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonathan L. Miller and Vicki A. Lyle

Mimotope/anti-mimotope probing of structural relationships in platelet glycoprotein Ib
PNAS 1996 93: 3565-3569. [Abstract] [PDF]  

N. Deconinck, T. Ragot, G. Maréchal, M. Perricaudet, and J. M. Gillis

Functional protection of dystrophic mouse (mdx) muscles after adenovirus-mediated transfer of a dystrophin minigene
PNAS 1996 93: 3570-3574. [Abstract] [PDF]  

R. Schneppenheim, J. Brassard, S. Krey, U. Budde, T. J. Kunicki, L. Holmberg, J. Ware, and Z. M. Ruggeri

Defective dimerization of von Willebrand factor subunits due to a Cys  Arg mutation in type IID von Willebrand disease
PNAS 1996 93: 3581-3586. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Roberta A. Gottlieb and Amrita Dosanjh

Mutant cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator inhibits acidification and apoptosis in C127 cells: Possible relevance to cystic fibrosis
PNAS 1996 93: 3587-3591. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William Lewis, Eric S. Levine, Brone Griniuviene, Kevin O. Tankersley, Joseph M. Colacino, Jean-Pierre Sommadossi, Kyoichi A. Watanabe, and Fred W. Perrino

Fialuridine and its metabolites inhibit DNA polymerase  at sites of multiple adjacent analog incorporation, decrease mtDNA abundance, and cause mitochondrial structural defects in cultured hepatoblasts
PNAS 1996 93: 3592-3597. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jin Quan Cheng, Bruce Ruggeri, Walter M. Klein, Gonosuke Sonoda, Deborah A. Altomare, Dennis K. Watson, and Joseph R. Testa

Amplification of AKT2 in human pancreatic cancer cells and inhibition of AKT2 expression and tumorigenicity by antisense RNA
PNAS 1996 93: 3636-3641. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Olivier Benveniste, Bruno Vaslin, Roger Le Grand, Arnaud Cheret, Franck Matheux, Frédéric Theodoro, Martin P. Cranage, and Dominique Dormont

Comparative interleukin (IL)-2/interferon (IFN)- and IL-4/IL-10 responses during acute infection of macaques inoculated with attenuated nef-truncated or pathogenic SIVmac251 virus
PNAS 1996 93: 3658-3663. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark Levine, Cathy Conry-Cantilena, Yaohui Wang, Richard W. Welch, Philip W. Washko, Kuldeep R. Dhariwal, Jae B. Park, Alexander Lazarev, James F. Graumlich, Jean King, and Louis R. Cantilena

Vitamin C pharmacokinetics in healthy volunteers: Evidence for a recommended dietary allowance
PNAS 1996 93: 3704-3709. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Carl R. Merril, Biswajit Biswas, Richard Carlton, Nicole C. Jensen, G. Joseph Creed, Steve Zullo, and Sankar Adhya

Long-circulating bacteriophage as antibacterial agents
PNAS 1996 93: 3188-3192. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hafida Fsihi, Veronique Vincent, and Stewart T. Cole

Homing events in the gyrA gene of some mycobacteria
PNAS 1996 93: 3410-3415. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lisa A. Alex, Katherine A. Borkovich, and Melvin I. Simon

Hyphal development in Neurospora crassa: Involvement of a two-component histidine kinase
PNAS 1996 93: 3416-3421. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anthony Sanchez, Sam G. Trappier, Brian W. J. Mahy, Clarence J. Peters, and Stuart T. Nichol

The virion glycoproteins of Ebola viruses are encoded in two reading frames and are expressed through transcriptional editing
PNAS 1996 93: 3602-3607. [Abstract] [PDF]  

I. T. Paulsen, M. H. Brown, T. G. Littlejohn, B. A. Mitchell, and R. A. Skurray

Multidrug resistance proteins QacA and QacB from Staphylococcus aureus: Membrane topology and identification of residues involved in substrate specificity
PNAS 1996 93: 3630-3635. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Osamu Hoshino, Yoshiki Kashimori, and Takeshi Kambara

Self-organized phase transitions in neural networks as a neural mechanism of information processing
PNAS 1996 93: 3303-3307. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Johannes W. Hell, Ruth E. Westenbroek, Liam J. Breeze, Kevin K. W. Wang, Charles Chavkin, and William A. Catterall

N-Methyl-D-aspartate receptor-induced proteolytic conversion of postsynaptic class C L-type calcium channels in hippocampal neurons
PNAS 1996 93: 3362-3367. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Giulio Tononi, Olaf Sporns, and Gerald M. Edelman

A complexity measure for selective matching of signals by the brain
PNAS 1996 93: 3422-3427. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kathryn E. Saatman, Hisayuki Murai, Raymond T. Bartus, Douglas H. Smith, Neil J. Hayward, Brian R. Perri, and Tracy K. McIntosh

Calpain inhibitor AK295 attenuates motor and cognitive deficits following experimental brain injury in the rat
PNAS 1996 93: 3428-3433. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eberhard Weihe, Jung-Hwa Tao-Cheng, Martin K.-H. Schäfer, Jeffrey D. Erickson, and Lee E. Eiden

Visualization of the vesicular acetylcholine transporter in cholinergic nerve terminals and its targeting to a specific population of small synaptic vesicles
PNAS 1996 93: 3547-3552. [Abstract] [PDF]  

P. Read Montague

The resource consumption principle: Attention and memory in volumes of neural tissue
PNAS 1996 93: 3619-3623. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jasmina N. Jovanovic, Fabio Benfenati, Yaw L. Siow, Talvinder S. Sihra, Jasbinder S. Sanghera, Steven L. Pelech, Paul Greengard, and Andrew J. Czernik

Neurotrophins stimulate phosphorylation of synapsin I by MAP kinase and regulate synapsin I-actin interactions
PNAS 1996 93: 3679-3683. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Florentina Soto, Miguel Garcia-Guzman, Juan Manuel Gomez-Hernandez, Michael Hollmann, Christine Karschin, and Walter Stühmer

P2X₄: An ATP-activated ionotropic receptor cloned from rat brain
PNAS 1996 93: 3684-3688. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Timothy J. Andrews, Leonard E. White, Devin Binder, and Dale Purves

Temporal events in cyclopean vision
PNAS 1996 93: 3689-3692. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dale Purves, Joseph A. Paydarfar, and Timothy J. Andrews

The wagon wheel illusion in movies and reality
PNAS 1996 93: 3693-3697. [Abstract] [PDF]  

V. I. Koroleva and J. Bures

The use of spreading depression waves for acute and long-term monitoring of the penumbra zone of focal ischemic damage in rats
PNAS 1996 93: 3710-3714. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Jeanette M. Griscavage, Sherwin Wilk, and Louis J. Ignarro

Inhibitors of the proteasome pathway interfere with induction of nitric oxide synthase in macrophages by blocking activation of transcription factor NF-B
PNAS 1996 93: 3308-3312. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jing X. Kang and Alexander Leaf

Evidence that free polyunsaturated fatty acids modify Na⁺ channels by directly binding to the channel proteins
PNAS 1996 93: 3542-3546. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Physiology

Xanthe Vafopoulou and Colin G. H. Steel

The insect neuropeptide prothoracicotropic hormone is released with a daily rhythm: Re-evaluation of its role in development
PNAS 1996 93: 3368-3372. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tooru M. Mizuno, Hugo Bergen, Toshiya Funabashi, Steven P. Kleopoulos, You-Gong Zhong, William A. Bauman, and Charles V. Mobbs

Obese gene expression: Reduction by fasting and stimulation by insulin and glucose in lean mice, and persistent elevation in acquired (diet-induced) and genetic (yellow agouti) obesity
PNAS 1996 93: 3434-3438. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Isabelle Besse, Joshua H. Wong, Karoly Kobrehel, and Bob B. Buchanan INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Thiocalsin: A thioredoxin-linked, substrate-specific protease dependent on calcium PNAS 1996 93: 3169-3175. [Abstract] [PDF]

Bin Liu and Robert F. Troxler

Molecular characterization of a positively photoregulated nuclear gene for a chloroplast RNA polymerase  factor in Cyanidium caldarium
PNAS 1996 93: 3313-3318. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Arun Goyal and N. Edward Tolbert

Association of glycolate oxidation with photosynthetic electron transport in plant and algal chloroplasts
PNAS 1996 93: 3319-3324. [Abstract] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 92, p. 12210 [Abstract]  

Correction for vol. 93, p. 1093 [Abstract]