COLLOQUIUM:
Papers from an NAS Colloquium on Genetics and the Origin of Species

Francisco J. Ayala and Walter M. Fitch

Genetics and the origin of species: An introduction
PNAS 1997 94: 7691-7697. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Walter Gilbert, Sandro J. de Souza, and Manyuan Long

Origin of Genes
PNAS 1997 94: 7698-7703. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret G. Kidwell and Damon Lisch

Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants
PNAS 1997 94: 7704-7711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Walter M. Fitch, Robin M. Bush, Catherine A. Bender, and Nancy J. Cox

Long term trends in the evolution of H(3) HA1 human influenza type A
PNAS 1997 94: 7712-7718. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza

Genes, peoples, and languages
PNAS 1997 94: 7719-7724. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard R. Hudson, Alberto G. Sáez, and Francisco J. Ayala

DNA variation at the Sod locus of Drosophila melanogaster: An unfolding story of natural selection
PNAS 1997 94: 7725-7729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew G. Clark

Neutral behavior of shared polymorphism
PNAS 1997 94: 7730-7734. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Natalia A. Tamarina, Michael Z. Ludwig, and Rollin C. Richmond

Divergent and conserved features in the spatial expression of the Drosophila pseudoobscura esterase-5B gene and the esterase-6 gene of Drosophila melanogaster
PNAS 1997 94: 7735-7741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wyatt W. Anderson and Takao K. Watanabe

A demographic approach to selection
PNAS 1997 94: 7742-7747. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John C. Avise and Kurt Wollenberg

Phylogenetics and the origin of species
PNAS 1997 94: 7748-7755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Therese Ann Markow

Assortative fertilization in Drosophila
PNAS 1997 94: 7756-7760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David B. Wake

Incipient species formation in salamanders of the Ensatina complex
PNAS 1997 94: 7761-7767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter R. Grant and B. Rosemary Grant

Genetics and the origin of bird species
PNAS 1997 94: 7768-7775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco J. Ayala

Vagaries of the molecular clock
PNAS 1997 94: 7776-7783. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey R. Powell and Etsuko N. Moriyama

Evolution of codon usage bias in Drosophila
PNAS 1997 94: 7784-7790. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael T. Clegg, Michael P. Cummings, and Mary L. Durbin

The evolution of plant nuclear genes
PNAS 1997 94: 7791-7798. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masatoshi Nei, Xun Gu, and Tatyana Sitnikova

Evolution by the birth-and-death process in multigene families of the vertebrate immune system
PNAS 1997 94: 7799-7806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PERSPECTIVES

Anthony Turkevich, Lester Winsberg, Howard Flotow, and Richard M. Adams

The radioactivity of atmospheric krypton in 1949-1950
PNAS 1997 94: 7807-7810. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEWS

Kim J. Hasenkrug and Bruce Chesebro

Immunity to retroviral infection: The Friend virus model
PNAS 1997 94: 7811-7816. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

G. I. Barenblatt, A. J. Chorin, O. H. Hald, and V. M. Prostokishin

Structure of the zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer
PNAS 1997 94: 7817-7819. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Applied Physical Sciences

R. D. Leapman, P. E. Gallant, T. S. Reese, and S. B. Andrews

Phosphorylation and subunit organization of axonal neurofilaments determined by scanning transmission electron microscopy
PNAS 1997 94: 7820-7824. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chemistry

Stephen D. Liberles, Steven T. Diver, David J. Austin, and Stuart L. Schreiber

Inducible gene expression and protein translocation using nontoxic ligands identified by a mammalian three-hybrid screen
PNAS 1997 94: 7825-7830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

Jukka Saarinen, Dennis M. Levi, and Bridgitte Shen

Integration of local pattern elements into a global shape in human vision
PNAS 1997 94: 8267-8271. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

Gyongyi M. Molnar, Anne Crozat, Stine-Kathrein Kraeft, Qing Ping Dou, Lan Bo Chen, and Arthur B. Pardee

Association of the mammalian helicase MAH with the pre-mRNA splicing complex
PNAS 1997 94: 7831-7836. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Konstantin Kiianitsa and Andrzej Stasiak

Helical repeat of DNA in the region of homologous pairing
PNAS 1997 94: 7837-7840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria A. Schumacher, Ekaterina E. Zheleznova, Kitty S. Poundstone, Ronald Kluger, Richard T. Jones, and Richard G. Brennan

Allosteric intermediates indicate R2 is the liganded hemoglobin end state
PNAS 1997 94: 7841-7844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tilman M. Hackeng, Carine M. Mounier, Cassian Bon, Philip E. Dawson, John H. Griffin, and Stephen B. H. Kent

Total chemical synthesis of enzymatically active human type II secretory phospholipase A₂
PNAS 1997 94: 7845-7850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiang-Qin Liu and Zhuma Hu

A DnaB intein in Rhodothermus marinus: Indication of recent intein homing across remotely related organisms
PNAS 1997 94: 7851-7856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Benoît Gigant, Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier, Zelig Eshhar, Bernard S. Green, and Marcel Knossow

X-ray structures of a hydrolytic antibody and of complexes elucidate catalytic pathway from substrate binding and transition state stabilization through water attack and product release
PNAS 1997 94: 7857-7861. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kei Tashiro, Matthew P. Pando, Yumi Kanegae, Penny M. Wamsley, Satoshi Inoue, and Inder M. Verma

Direct involvement of the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc9/Hus5 in the degradation of IB
PNAS 1997 94: 7862-7867. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leonard Buckbinder, Susana Velasco-Miguel, Yan Chen, Ningzhi Xu, Randy Talbott, Larry Gelbert, Jizong Gao, Bernd R. Seizinger, J. Silvio Gutkind, and Nikolai Kley

The p53 tumor suppressor targets a novel regulator of G protein signaling
PNAS 1997 94: 7868-7872. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul A. Colussi, Christopher H. Taron, Jamey C. Mack, and Peter Orlean

Human and Saccharomyces cerevisiae dolichol phosphate mannose synthases represent two classes of the enzyme, but both function in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
PNAS 1997 94: 7873-7878. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guido Jenster, Thomas E. Spencer, Mark M. Burcin, Sophia Y. Tsai, Ming-Jer Tsai, and Bert W. O'Malley

Steroid receptor induction of gene transcription: A two-step model
PNAS 1997 94: 7879-7884. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jirí Neuzil, Paul K. Witting, and Roland Stocker

-Tocopheryl hydroquinone is an efficient multifunctional inhibitor of radical-initiated oxidation of low density lipoprotein lipids
PNAS 1997 94: 7885-7890. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rosario Leopardi, Charles Van Sant, and Bernard Roizman

The herpes simplex virus 1 protein kinase U_S3 is required for protection from apoptosis induced by the virus
PNAS 1997 94: 7891-7896. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lionel Minvielle-Sebastia, Pascal J. Preker, Thomas Wiederkehr, Yvan Strahm, and Walter Keller

The major yeast poly(A)-binding protein is associated with cleavage factor IA and functions in premessenger RNA 3-end formation
PNAS 1997 94: 7897-7902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christoph E. Nabholz, Remy Hauser, and André Schneider

Leishmania tarentolae contains distinct cytosolic and mitochondrial glutaminyl-tRNA synthetase activities
PNAS 1997 94: 7903-7908. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ann Marie Zavacki, Jürgen M. Lehmann, Wongi Seol, Timothy M. Willson, Steven A. Kliewer, and David D. Moore

Activation of the orphan receptor RIP14 by retinoids
PNAS 1997 94: 7909-7914. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David M. Irwin, Malathy Satkunarajah, Yi Wen, Patricia L. Brubaker, Raymond A. Pederson, and Michael B. Wheeler

The Xenopus proglucagon gene encodes novel GLP-1-like peptides with insulinotropic properties
PNAS 1997 94: 7915-7920. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret O. Sowell, Chianping Ye, Dennis A. Ricupero, Sherry Hansen, Stephen J. Quinn, Peter M. Vassilev, and Richard M. Mortensen

Targeted inactivation of _i2 or _i3 disrupts activation of the cardiac muscarinic K⁺ channel, I_K^+Ach, in intact cells
PNAS 1997 94: 7921-7926. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

A. D. Mehta, J. T. Finer, and J. A. Spudich

Detection of single-molecule interactions using correlated thermal diffusion
PNAS 1997 94: 7927-7931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yiwei Jia, Alexander Sytnik, Liangquan Li, Serguei Vladimirov, Barry S. Cooperman, and Robin M. Hochstrasser

Nonexponential kinetics of a single tRNA^Phe molecule under physiological conditions
PNAS 1997 94: 7932-7936. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Itay Rousso, Edward Khachatryan, Yahaloma Gat, Igor Brodsky, Michael Ottolenghi, Mordechai Sheves, and Aaron Lewis

Microsecond atomic force sensing of protein conformational dynamics: Implications for the primary light-induced events in bacteriorhodopsin
PNAS 1997 94: 7937-7941. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aleksey Lomakin, David B. Teplow, Daniel A. Kirschner, and George B. Benedek

Kinetic theory of fibrillogenesis of amyloid -protein
PNAS 1997 94: 7942-7947. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Shiro Iuchi and Howard Green

Nuclear localization of basonuclin in human keratinocytes and the role of phosphorylation
PNAS 1997 94: 7948-7953. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roderick Bronson, Clyde Dawe, John Carroll, and Thomas Benjamin

Tumor induction by a transformation-defective polyoma virus mutant blocked in signaling through Shc
PNAS 1997 94: 7954-7958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hirokazu Nakahara, Linda Howard, Erik W. Thompson, Hiroshi Sato, Motoharu Seiki, Yunyun Yeh, and Wen-Tien Chen

Transmembrane/cytoplasmic domain-mediated membrane type 1-matrix metalloprotease docking to invadopodia is required for cell invasion
PNAS 1997 94: 7959-7964. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiangwei He, Thomas E. Patterson, and Shelley Sazer

The Schizosaccharomyces pombe spindle checkpoint protein mad2p blocks anaphase and genetically interacts with the anaphase-promoting complex
PNAS 1997 94: 7965-7970. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Huiping Jiang, Yanan Kuang, Yanping Wu, Wei Xie, Melvin I. Simon, and Dianqing Wu

Roles of phospholipase C 2 in chemoattractant-elicited responses
PNAS 1997 94: 7971-7975. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Michael A. McDevitt, Yuko Fujiwara, Ramesh A. Shivdasani, and Stuart H. Orkin

An upstream, DNase I hypersensitive region of the hematopoietic-expressed transcription factor GATA-1 gene confers developmental specificity in transgenic mice
PNAS 1997 94: 7976-7981. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeroen Bakkers, Carlos E. Semino, Henri Stroband, Jan W. Kijne, Phillips W. Robbins, and Herman P. Spaink

An important developmental role for oligosaccharides during early embryogenesis of cyprinid fish
PNAS 1997 94: 7982-7986. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Dan E. Parfitt and Maria L. Badenes

Phylogeny of the genus Pistacia as determined from analysis of the chloroplast genome
PNAS 1997 94: 7987-7992. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elwyn L. Simons and Ellen R. Miller

An upper dentition of Aframonius dieides (Primates) from the Fayum, Egyptian Eocene
PNAS 1997 94: 7993-7996. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Huimin Zhao and Frances H. Arnold

Functional and nonfunctional mutations distinguished by random recombination of homologous genes
PNAS 1997 94: 7997-8000. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James W. Valentine

Cleavage patterns and the topology of the metazoan tree of life
PNAS 1997 94: 8001-8005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Damhnait McHugh

Molecular evidence that echiurans and pogonophorans are derived annelids
PNAS 1997 94: 8006-8009. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

J. Pablo Radicella, Claudine Dherin, Chantal Desmaze, Maurice S. Fox, and Serge Boiteux

Cloning and characterization of hOGG1, a human homolog of the OGG1 gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1997 94: 8010-8015. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Teresa Roldán-Arjona, Ying-Fei Wei, Kenneth C. Carter, Arne Klungland, Catherine Anselmino, Rui-Ping Wang, Meena Augustus, and Tomas Lindahl

Molecular cloning and functional expression of a human cDNA encoding the antimutator enzyme 8-hydroxyguanine-DNA glycosylase
PNAS 1997 94: 8016-8020. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ning Zhang, Philip Chen, Kum Kum Khanna, Shaun Scott, Magtouf Gatei, Sergei Kozlov, Dianne Watters, Kevin Spring, Tim Yen, and Martin F. Lavin

Isolation of full-length ATM cDNA and correction of the ataxia-telangiectasia cellular phenotype
PNAS 1997 94: 8021-8026. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcel Tijsterman, Richard A. Verhage, Pieter van de Putte, Judith G. Tasseron-de Jong, and Jaap Brouwer

Transitions in the coupling of transcription and nucleotide excision repair within RNA polymerase II-transcribed genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1997 94: 8027-8032. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susumu Ohno

The one ancestor per generation rule and three other rules of mitochondrial inheritance
PNAS 1997 94: 8033-8035. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eduardo Gonzalez-Couto, Natacha Klages, and Michel Strubin

Synergistic and promoter-selective activation of transcription by recruitment of transcription factors TFIID and TFIIB
PNAS 1997 94: 8036-8041. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Holly Kloos Dressman, Chien-Chia Wang, Jim D. Karam, and John W. Drake

Retention of replication fidelity by a DNA polymerase functioning in a distantly related environment
PNAS 1997 94: 8042-8046. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard J. Davis and Frederic G. Barr

Fusion genes resulting from alternative chromosomal translocations are overexpressed by gene-specific mechanisms in alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma
PNAS 1997 94: 8047-8051. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrizio Dimitri, Bruno Arcà, Libera Berghella, and Elisabetta Mei

High genetic instability of heterochromatin after transposition of the LINE-like I factor in Drosophila melanogaster
PNAS 1997 94: 8052-8057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan Boulton, Richard S. Myers, and Rosemary J. Redfield

The hotspot conversion paradox and the evolution of meiotic recombination
PNAS 1997 94: 8058-8063. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Patricia M. Day, Jonathan W. Yewdell, Angel Porgador, Ronald N. Germain, and Jack R. Bennink

Direct delivery of exogenous MHC class I molecule-binding oligopeptides to the endoplasmic reticulum of viable cells
PNAS 1997 94: 8064-8069. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Kelso and Penny Groves

A single peripheral CD8⁺ T cell can give rise to progeny expressing type 1 and/or type 2 cytokine genes and can retain its multipotentiality through many cell divisions
PNAS 1997 94: 8070-8075. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yansong Gu, Shengfang Jin, Yijie Gao, David T. Weaver, and Frederick W. Alt

Ku70-deficient embryonic stem cells have increased ionizing radiosensitivity, defective DNA end-binding activity, and inability to support V(D)J recombination
PNAS 1997 94: 8076-8081. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Salil D. Patel, Andrew P. Cope, Mauro Congia, Teddy T. Chen, Eugene Kim, Lars Fugger, Diane Wherrett, and Grete Sonderstrup-McDevitt

Identification of immunodominant T cell epitopes of human glutamic acid decarboxylase 65 by using HLA-DR(1*0101,1*0401) transgenic mice
PNAS 1997 94: 8082-8087. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna Cambiaggi, Christophe Verthuy, Philippe Naquet, François Romagné, Pierre Ferrier, Roberto Biassoni, Alessandro Moretta, Lorenzo Moretta, and Eric Vivier

Natural killer cell acceptance of H-2 mismatch bone marrow grafts in transgenic mice expressing HLA-Cw3 specific killer cell inhibitory receptor (CD158b)
PNAS 1997 94: 8088-8092. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael W. Marino, Ashley Dunn, Dianne Grail, Melissa Inglese, Yuji Noguchi, Elizabeth Richards, Achim Jungbluth, Hisashi Wada, Malcolm Moore, Barbara Williamson, Sunanda Basu, and Lloyd J. Old

Characterization of tumor necrosis factor-deficient mice
PNAS 1997 94: 8093-8098. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Eugene D. Kwon, Arthur A. Hurwitz, Barbara A. Foster, Christopher Madias, Andrew L. Feldhaus, Norman M. Greenberg, Maurice B. Burg, and James P. Allison

Manipulation of T cell costimulatory and inhibitory signals for immunotherapy of prostate cancer
PNAS 1997 94: 8099-8103. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. H. Maxwell, G. U. Dachs, J. M. Gleadle, L. G. Nicholls, A. L. Harris, I. J. Stratford, O. Hankinson, C. W. Pugh, and P. J. Ratcliffe

Hypoxia-inducible factor-1 modulates gene expression in solid tumors and influences both angiogenesis and tumor growth
PNAS 1997 94: 8104-8109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Henrik J. Ditzel, Ursula Garrigues, Claus B. Andersen, Morten K. Larsen, H. Jacques Garrigues, Arne Svejgaard, Ingegerd Hellström, Karl Erik Hellström, and Jens C. Jensenius

Modified cytokeratins expressed on the surface of carcinoma cells undergo endocytosis upon binding of human monoclonal antibody and its recombinant Fab fragment
PNAS 1997 94: 8110-8115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chiang J. Li, Yutaka Ueda, Bin Shi, Laura Borodyansky, Lili Huang, You-Zhi Li, and Arthur B. Pardee

Tat protein induces self-perpetuating permissivity for productive HIV-1 infection
PNAS 1997 94: 8116-8120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Drew D. D'Angelo, Yoshihito Sakata, John N. Lorenz, Gregory P. Boivin, Richard A. Walsh, Stephen B. Liggett, and Gerald W. Dorn II

Transgenic Gq overexpression induces cardiac contractile failure in mice
PNAS 1997 94: 8121-8126. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Valeska Terpstra, Nonna Kondratenko, and Daniel Steinberg

Macrophages lacking scavenger receptor A show a decrease in binding and uptake of acetylated low-density lipoprotein and of apoptotic thymocytes, but not of oxidatively damaged red blood cells
PNAS 1997 94: 8127-8131. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gary B. Silberstein, Katharine Van Horn, Phyllis Strickland, Charles T. Roberts Jr., and Charles W. Daniel

Altered expression of the WT1 Wilms tumor suppressor gene in human breast cancer
PNAS 1997 94: 8132-8137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yujing Liu, Alexander Hoffmann, Alexander Grinberg, Heiner Westphal, Michael P. McDonald, Katherine M. Miller, Jacqueline N. Crawley, Konrad Sandhoff, Kinuko Suzuki, and Richard L. Proia

Mouse model of G_M2 activator deficiency manifests cerebellar pathology and motor impairment
PNAS 1997 94: 8138-8143. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janet A. Houghton, Franklin G. Harwood, and David M. Tillman

Thymineless death in colon carcinoma cells is mediated via Fas signaling
PNAS 1997 94: 8144-8149. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susanna Morelli, Domenico Delia, Sergio Capaccioli, Alessandro Quattrone, Nicola Schiavone, Anna Bevilacqua, Silvia Tomasini, and Angelo Nicolin

The antisense bcl-2-IgH transcript is an optimal target for synthetic oligonucleotides
PNAS 1997 94: 8150-8155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shuang Huang, Dwayne Stupack, Patricia Mathias, Yibing Wang, and Glen Nemerow

Growth arrest of Epstein-Barr virus immortalized B lymphocytes by adenovirus-delivered ribozymes
PNAS 1997 94: 8156-8161. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Paolo Chirillo, Sabrina Pagano, Gioacchino Natoli, Pier Lorenzo Puri, Vito Lelio Burgio, Clara Balsano, and Massimo Levrero

The hepatitis B virus X gene induces p53-mediated programmed cell death
PNAS 1997 94: 8162-8167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deborah A. Siegele and James C. Hu

Gene expression from plasmids containing the araBAD promoter at subsaturating inducer concentrations represents mixed populations
PNAS 1997 94: 8168-8172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Christian Andres, Rachel Beeri, Alon Friedman, Efrat Lev-Lehman, Sivan Henis, Rina Timberg, Moshe Shani, and Hermona Soreq

Acetylcholinesterase-transgenic mice display embryonic modulations in spinal cord choline acetyltransferase and neurexin I gene expression followed by late-onset neuromotor deterioration
PNAS 1997 94: 8173-8178. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takakazu Kawamata, W. Dalton Dietrich, Timothy Schallert, Jeffrey E. Gotts, Robert R. Cocke, Larry I. Benowitz, and Seth P. Finklestein

Intracisternal basic fibroblast growth factor enhances functional recovery and up-regulates the expression of a molecular marker of neuronal sprouting following focal cerebral infarction
PNAS 1997 94: 8179-8184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luciano Conti, Claudio De Fraja, Massimo Gulisano, Enrica Migliaccio, Stefano Govoni, and Elena Cattaneo

Expression and activation of SH2/PTB-containing ShcA adaptor protein reflects the pattern of neurogenesis in the mammalian brain
PNAS 1997 94: 8185-8190. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Piin-Chau Suen, Kuo Wu, Eric S. Levine, Howard T. J. Mount, Jia-Ling Xu, Siang-Yo Lin, and Ira B. Black

Brain-derived neurotrophic factor rapidly enhances phosphorylation of the postsynaptic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor subunit 1
PNAS 1997 94: 8191-8195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazunori Nakajima, Katsuhiko Mikoshiba, Takaki Miyata, Chikako Kudo, and Masaharu Ogawa

Disruption of hippocampal development in vivo by CR-50 mAb against Reelin
PNAS 1997 94: 8196-8201. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anke Watty, Christoph Methfessel, and Ferdinand Hucho

Fixation of allosteric states of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor by chemical cross-linking
PNAS 1997 94: 8202-8207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Weiming Xia, Jimin Zhang, Ruth Perez, Edward H. Koo, and Dennis J. Selkoe

Interaction between amyloid precursor protein and presenilins in mammalian cells: Implications for the pathogenesis of Alzheimer disease
PNAS 1997 94: 8208-8213. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark G. Darlison, Florian R. Greten, Robert J. Harvey, Hans-Jürgen Kreienkamp, Thorsten Stühmer, Henk Zwiers, Karl Lederis, and Dietmar Richter

Opioid receptors from a lower vertebrate (Catostomus commersoni): Sequence, pharmacology, coupling to a G-protein-gated inward-rectifying potassium channel (GIRK1), and evolution
PNAS 1997 94: 8214-8219. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Yuri A. Kolesnikov, Ying-Xian Pan, Anna-Marie Babey, Subash Jain, Roger Wilson, and Gavril W. Pasternak

Functionally differentiating two neuronal nitric oxide synthase isoforms through antisense mapping: Evidence for opposing NO actions on morphine analgesia and tolerance
PNAS 1997 94: 8220-8225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Selim Cellek and Salvador Moncada

Nitrergic control of peripheral sympathetic responses in the human corpus cavernosum: A comparison with other species
PNAS 1997 94: 8226-8231. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bruno van Swinderen, David R. Shook, Robert H. Ebert, Vera A. Cherkasova, Thomas E. Johnson, Robert J. Shmookler Reis, and C. Michael Crowder

Quantitative trait loci controlling halothane sensitivity in Caenorhabditis elegans
PNAS 1997 94: 8232-8237. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

Myriam Cayre, Colette Strambi, Pierre Charpin, Roger Augier, and Alain Strambi

Specific requirement of putrescine for the mitogenic action of juvenile hormone on adult insect neuroblasts
PNAS 1997 94: 8238-8242. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Yu-Ping Lu, Ze-Sheng Li, and Philip A. Rea

AtMRP1 gene of Arabidopsis encodes a glutathione S-conjugate pump: Isolation and functional definition of a plant ATP-binding cassette transporter gene
PNAS 1997 94: 8243-8248. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mario García-Ríos, Tomomichi Fujita, P. Christopher LaRosa, Robert D. Locy, Jean M. Clithero, Ray A. Bressan, and Laszlo N. Csonka

Cloning of a polycistronic cDNA from tomato encoding -glutamyl kinase and -glutamyl phosphate reductase
PNAS 1997 94: 8249-8254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John J. MacKay, David M. O'Malley, Timothy Presnell, Fitzgerald L. Booker, Malcolm M. Campbell, Ross W. Whetten, and Ronald R. Sederoff

Inheritance, gene expression, and lignin characterization in a mutant pine deficient in cinnamyl alcohol dehydrogenase
PNAS 1997 94: 8255-8260. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sheng-Zhi Pang, Fuh-Jyh Jan, and Dennis Gonsalves

Nontarget DNA sequences reduce the transgene length necessary for RNA-mediated tospovirus resistance in transgenic plants
PNAS 1997 94: 8261-8266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 94, p. 2106 [Full Text]  

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