COLLOQUIUM:
Papers from an NAS Colloquium on Carbon Dioxide and Climate Change

Charles D. Keeling

Climate change and carbon dioxide: An introduction
PNAS 1997 94: 8273-8274. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Walter H. Munk

Tribute to Roger Revelle and his contribution to studies of carbon dioxide and climate change
PNAS 1997 94: 8275-8279. [Full Text] [PDF]  

David S. Schimel, B. H. Braswell, and W. J. Parton

Equilibration of the terrestrial water, nitrogen, and carbon cycles
PNAS 1997 94: 8280-8283. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan E. Trumbore

Potential responses of soil organic carbon to global environmental change
PNAS 1997 94: 8284-8291. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Taro Takahashi, Richard A. Feely, Ray F. Weiss, Rik H. Wanninkhof, David W. Chipman, Stewart C. Sutherland, and Timothy T. Takahashi

Global air-sea flux of CO₂: An estimate based on measurements of sea-air pCO₂ difference
PNAS 1997 94: 8292-8299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edward A. Boyle

Characteristics of the deep ocean carbon system during the past 150,000 years: CO₂ distributions, deep water flow patterns, and abrupt climate change
PNAS 1997 94: 8300-8307. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter G. Brewer, Catherine Goyet, and Gernot Friederich

Direct observation of the oceanic CO₂ increase revisited
PNAS 1997 94: 8308-8313. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. M. L. Wigley, P. D. Jones, and S. C. B. Raper

The observed global warming record: What does it tell us?
PNAS 1997 94: 8314-8320. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles D. Keeling and Timothy P. Whorf

Possible forcing of global temperature by the oceanic tides
PNAS 1997 94: 8321-8328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard A. Muller and Gordon J. MacDonald

Spectrum of 100-kyr glacial cycle: Orbital inclination, not eccentricity
PNAS 1997 94: 8329-8334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard S. Lindzen

Can increasing carbon dioxide cause climate change?
PNAS 1997 94: 8335-8342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Bender, Todd Sowers, and Edward Brook

Gases in ice cores
PNAS 1997 94: 8343-8349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gordon C. Jacoby and Rosanne D. D'Arrigo

Tree rings, carbon dioxide, and climatic change
PNAS 1997 94: 8350-8353. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ellen R. M. Druffel

Geochemistry of corals: Proxies of past ocean chemistry, ocean circulation, and climate
PNAS 1997 94: 8354-8361. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy D. Herbert

A long marine history of carbon cycle modulation by orbital-climatic changes
PNAS 1997 94: 8362-8369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Thomson

Dependence of global temperatures on atmospheric CO₂ and solar irradiance
PNAS 1997 94: 8370-8377. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Jacob Israelachvili

The different faces of poly(ethylene glycol)
PNAS 1997 94: 8378-8379. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEWS

James F. Crow

The high spontaneous mutation rate: Is it a health risk?
PNAS 1997 94: 8380-8386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Charles S. Parmenter, Samuel M. Clegg, Douglas J. Krajnovich, and Shao-ping Lu INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Factors controlling the competition among rotational and vibrational energy transfer channels in glyoxal PNAS 1997 94: 8387-8392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Psychology

Mayank R. Mehta, Carol A. Barnes, and Bruce L. McNaughton

Experience-dependent, asymmetric expansion of hippocampal place fields
PNAS 1997 94: 8918-8921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Sciences

Lisa Molvig, Linda M. Tabe, Bjorn O. Eggum, Andrew E. Moore, Stuart Craig, Donald Spencer, and Thomas J. V. Higgins

Enhanced methionine levels and increased nutritive value of seeds of transgenic lupins (Lupinus angustifolius L.) expressing a sunflower seed albumin gene
PNAS 1997 94: 8393-8398. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Applied Biological Sciences

S. R. Sheth and D. Leckband

Measurements of attractive forces between proteins and end-grafted poly(ethylene glycol) chains
PNAS 1997 94: 8399-8404. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Fabio Rossi, Carol A. Charlton, and Helen M. Blau

Monitoring protein-protein interactions in intact eukaryotic cells by -galactosidase complementation
PNAS 1997 94: 8405-8410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ming Wang, David L. Roberts, Rosemary Paschke, Thomas M. Shea, Bettie Sue Siler Masters, and Jung-Ja P. Kim

Three-dimensional structure of NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase: Prototype for FMN- and FAD-containing enzymes
PNAS 1997 94: 8411-8416. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Felice C. Lightstone, Ya-Jun Zheng, Andreas H. Maulitz, and Thomas C. Bruice

Non-enzymatic and enzymatic hydrolysis of alkyl halides: A haloalkane dehalogenation enzyme evolved to stabilize the gas-phase transition state of an S_N2 displacement reaction
PNAS 1997 94: 8417-8420. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan Herbert, Jens Alfken, Yang-Gyun Kim, I. Saira Mian, Kazuko Nishikura, and Alexander Rich

A Z-DNA binding domain present in the human editing enzyme, double-stranded RNA adenosine deaminase
PNAS 1997 94: 8421-8426. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joon-Kyu Lee, Joel A. Huberman, and Jerard Hurwitz

Purification and characterization of a CENP-B homologue protein that binds to the centromeric K-type repeat DNA of Schizosaccharomyces pombe
PNAS 1997 94: 8427-8432. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daguang Wang, Konstantin Severinov, and Robert Landick

Preferential interaction of the his pause RNA hairpin with RNA polymerase  subunit residues 904-950 correlates with strong transcriptional pausing
PNAS 1997 94: 8433-8438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Galinier, Jacques Haiech, Marie-Claude Kilhoffer, Michel Jaquinod, Jörg Stülke, Josef Deutscher, and Isabelle Martin-Verstraete

The Bacillus subtilis crh gene encodes a HPr-like protein involved in carbon catabolite repression
PNAS 1997 94: 8439-8444. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Huangen Ding and Bruce Demple

In vivo kinetics of a redox-regulated transcriptional switch
PNAS 1997 94: 8445-8449. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michele A. Cleary, P. Shannon Pendergrast, and Winship Herr

Structural flexibility in transcription complex formation revealed by protein-DNA photocrosslinking
PNAS 1997 94: 8450-8455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Miriam K. Sluis and Scott A. Ensign

Purification and characterization of acetone carboxylase from Xanthobacter strain Py2
PNAS 1997 94: 8456-8461. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hidemichi Watari, Futoshi Arakane, Christel Moog-Lutz, Caleb B. Kallen, Catherine Tomasetto, George L. Gerton, Marie-Christine Rio, Michael E. Baker, and Jerome F. Strauss III

MLN64 contains a domain with homology to the steroidogenic acute regulatory protein (StAR) that stimulates steroidogenesis
PNAS 1997 94: 8462-8467. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cecilia Guerrier-Takada, Reza Salavati, and Sidney Altman

Phenotypic conversion of drug-resistant bacteria to drug sensitivity
PNAS 1997 94: 8468-8472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yu-xin Xu, Herzel Ben-Shlomo, and Shulamit Michaeli

The U5 RNA of trypanosomes deviates from the canonical U5 RNA: The Leptomonas collosoma U5 RNA and its coding gene
PNAS 1997 94: 8473-8478. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hui Li, Paulo J. Gomes, and J. Don Chen

RAC3, a steroid/nuclear receptor-associated coactivator that is related to SRC-1 and TIF2
PNAS 1997 94: 8479-8484. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Iain J. McEwan and Jan-Åke Gustafsson

Interaction of the human androgen receptor transactivation function with the general transcription factor TFIIF
PNAS 1997 94: 8485-8490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

A glutamate residue in the catalytic center of the yeast chorismate mutase restricts enzyme activity to acidic conditions
PNAS 1997 94: 8491-8496. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Klemens J. Hertel, Alessio Peracchi, Olke C. Uhlenbeck, and Daniel Herschlag

Use of intrinsic binding energy for catalysis by an RNA enzyme
PNAS 1997 94: 8497-8502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joanna Szczepanowska, Xiaolong Zhang, Christopher J. Herring, Jun Qin, Edward D. Korn, and Hanna Brzeska

Identification by mass spectrometry of the phosphorylated residue responsible for activation of the catalytic domain of myosin I heavy chain kinase, a member of the PAK/STE20 family
PNAS 1997 94: 8503-8508. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Franz E. Weber, Gianluca Minestrini, James H. Dyer, Moritz Werder, Dario Boffelli, Sabina Compassi, Ernst Wehrli, Richard M. Thomas, Georg Schulthess, and Helmut Hauser

Molecular cloning of a peroxisomal Ca²⁺-dependent member of the mitochondrial carrier superfamily
PNAS 1997 94: 8509-8514. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Heintzen, Mena Nater, Klaus Apel, and Dorothee Staiger

AtGRP7, a nuclear RNA-binding protein as a component of a circadian-regulated negative feedback loop in Arabidopsis thaliana
PNAS 1997 94: 8515-8520. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aurelia A. Haller and Peter Sarnow

In vitro selection of a 7-methyl-guanosine binding RNA that inhibits translation of capped mRNA molecules
PNAS 1997 94: 8521-8526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine C. Thompson and Margaret C. Bottcher

The product of a thyroid hormone-responsive gene interacts with thyroid hormone receptors
PNAS 1997 94: 8527-8532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Robert Mendelson and Edward P. Morris

The structure of the acto-myosin subfragment 1 complex: Results of searches using data from electron microscopy and x-ray crystallography
PNAS 1997 94: 8533-8538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chris M. Coppin, Daniel W. Pierce, Long Hsu, and Ronald D. Vale

The load dependence of kinesin's mechanical cycle
PNAS 1997 94: 8539-8544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. R. Sosnick, M. D. Shtilerman, L. Mayne, and S. W. Englander

Ultrafast signals in protein folding and the polypeptide contracted state
PNAS 1997 94: 8545-8550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francesca M. Marassi, A. Ramamoorthy, and Stanley J. Opella

Complete resolution of the solid-state NMR spectrum of a uniformly ¹⁵N-labeled membrane protein in phospholipid bilayers
PNAS 1997 94: 8551-8556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Jäger, James W. Lewis, Tatyana A. Zvyaga, Istvan Szundi, Thomas P. Sakmar, and David S. Kliger

Chromophore structural changes in rhodopsin from nanoseconds to microseconds following pigment photolysis
PNAS 1997 94: 8557-8562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

S. Jaharul Haque, Qian Wu, Winfried Kammer, Karlheinz Friedrich, Jonathan M. Smith, Ian M. Kerr, George R. Stark, and Bryan R. G. Williams

Receptor-associated constitutive protein tyrosine phosphatase activity controls the kinase function of JAK1
PNAS 1997 94: 8563-8568. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Niels Ringstad, Yasuo Nemoto, and Pietro De Camilli

The SH3p4/Sh3p8/SH3p13 protein family: Binding partners for synaptojanin and dynamin via a Grb2-like Src homology 3 domain
PNAS 1997 94: 8569-8574. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria L. Niswonger and Theresa J. O'Halloran

A novel role for clathrin in cytokinesis
PNAS 1997 94: 8575-8578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Feng Liang, Kyle W. Cunningham, Jeffrey F. Harper, and Heven Sze

ECA1 complements yeast mutants defective in Ca²⁺ pumps and encodes an endoplasmic reticulum-type Ca²⁺-ATPase in Arabidopsis thaliana
PNAS 1997 94: 8579-8584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

W. I. Lencer, G. Cheung, G. R. Strohmeier, M. G. Currie, A. J. Ouellette, M. E. Selsted, and J. L. Madara

Induction of epithelial chloride secretion by channel-forming cryptdins 2 and 3
PNAS 1997 94: 8585-8589. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthias Seedorf and Pamela A. Silver

Importin/karyopherin protein family members required for mRNA export from the nucleus
PNAS 1997 94: 8590-8595. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Jeremy B. A. Green, T. Les Cook, J. C. Smith, and Robert M. Grainger

Anteroposterior neural tissue specification by activin-induced mesoderm
PNAS 1997 94: 8596-8601. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philippe Ravassard, Jérome Vallin, Jacques Mallet, and Christine Icard-Liepkalns

Relax promotes ectopic neuronal differentiation in Xenopus embryos
PNAS 1997 94: 8602-8605. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerd Vorbrüggen and Herbert Jäckle

Epidermal muscle attachment site-specific target gene expression and interference with myotube guidance in response to ectopic stripe expression in the developing Drosophila epidermis
PNAS 1997 94: 8606-8611. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marta Perego

A peptide export-import control circuit modulating bacterial development regulates protein phosphatases of the phosphorelay
PNAS 1997 94: 8612-8617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecology

Andrew T. D. Bennett, Innes C. Cuthill, Julian C. Partridge, and Klaus Lunau

Ultraviolet plumage colors predict mate preferences in starlings
PNAS 1997 94: 8618-8621. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Patrick J. Babin, Christine Thisse, Michele Durliat, Michele Andre, Marie-Andree Akimenko, and Bernard Thisse

Both apolipoprotein E and A-I genes are present in a nonmammalian vertebrate and are highly expressed during embryonic development
PNAS 1997 94: 8622-8627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

W. Owen McMillan, Chris D. Jiggins, and James Mallet

What initiates speciation in passion-vine butterflies?
PNAS 1997 94: 8628-8633. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrick J. Ferris, Christopher Pavlovic, Stefan Fabry, and Ursula W. Goodenough

Rapid evolution of sex-related genes in Chlamydomonas
PNAS 1997 94: 8634-8639. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Barbara S. Schnierle, Jörn Stitz, Valerie Bosch, Frank Nocken, Heike Merget-Millitzer, Martin Engelstädter, Reinhard Kurth, Bernd Groner, and Klaus Cichutek

Pseudotyping of murine leukemia virus with the envelope glycoproteins of HIV generates a retroviral vector with specificity of infection for CD4-expressing cells
PNAS 1997 94: 8640-8645. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Stewart, A. Terry, M. Hu, M. O'Hara, K. Blyth, E. Baxter, E. Cameron, D. E. Onions, and J. C. Neil

Proviral insertions induce the expression of bone-specific isoforms of PEBP2A (CBFA1): Evidence for a new myc collaborating oncogene
PNAS 1997 94: 8646-8651. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen P. Fink, G. Ramachandra Reddy, and Lawrence J. Marnett

Mutagenicity in Escherichia coli of the major DNA adduct derived from the endogenous mutagen malondialdehyde
PNAS 1997 94: 8652-8657. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elaine M. Taylor, Bernard C. Broughton, Elena Botta, Miria Stefanini, Alain Sarasin, Nicolaas G. J. Jaspers, Heather Fawcett, Susan A. Harcourt, Colin F. Arlett, and Alan R. Lehmann

Xeroderma pigmentosum and trichothiodystrophy are associated with different mutations in the XPD (ERCC2) repair/transcription gene
PNAS 1997 94: 8658-8663. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric H. Radany, Karen Hong, Sima Kesharvarzi, Eric S. Lander, and J. Michael Bishop

Mouse mammary tumor virus/v-Ha-ras transgene-induced mammary tumors exhibit strain-specific allelic loss on mouse chromosome 4
PNAS 1997 94: 8664-8669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francesco Colucci, Marie-Louise Bergman, Carlos Penha-Gonçalves, Corrado M. Cilio, and Dan Holmberg

Apoptosis resistance of nonobese diabetic peripheral lymphocytes linked to the Idd5 diabetes susceptibility region
PNAS 1997 94: 8670-8674. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chiyoko Machida, Hitoshi Onouchi, Jun Koizumi, Susumu Hamada, Endang Semiarti, Satomi Torikai, and Yasunori Machida

Characterization of the transposition pattern of the Ac element in Arabidopsis thaliana using endonuclease I-SceI
PNAS 1997 94: 8675-8680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William H. Hanneman, Marie E. Legare, Shannon Sweeney, and John C. Schimenti

Cisplatin increases meiotic crossing-over in mice
PNAS 1997 94: 8681-8685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Ethan D. Stolzenberg, G. Mark Anderson, Mark R. Ackermann, Robert H. Whitlock, and Michael Zasloff

Epithelial antibiotic induced in states of disease
PNAS 1997 94: 8686-8690. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Coen M. Adema, Lynn A. Hertel, Robert D. Miller, and Eric S. Loker

A family of fibrinogen-related proteins that precipitates parasite-derived molecules is produced by an invertebrate after infection
PNAS 1997 94: 8691-8696. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fernando A. Goldbaum, C. Alejandro Velikovsky, William Dall'Acqua, Carlos A. Fossati, Barry A. Fields, Bradford C. Braden, Roberto J. Poljak, and Roy A. Mariuzza

Characterization of anti-anti-idiotypic antibodies that bind antigen and an anti-idiotype
PNAS 1997 94: 8697-8701. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joshua D. Rabinowitz, Michael N. Liang, Keri Tate, Christopher Lee, Craig Beeson, and Harden M. McConnell

Specific T cell recognition of kinetic isomers in the binding of peptide to class II major histocompatibility complex
PNAS 1997 94: 8702-8707. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suling Li, Hans-Olov Sjögren, Ulf Hellman, Ralf F. Pettersson, and Ping Wang

Cloning and functional characterization of a subunit of the transporter associated with antigen processing
PNAS 1997 94: 8708-8713. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. J. Henderson and K. L. Calame

CCAAT/enhancer binding protein (C/EBP) sites are required for HIV-1 replication in primary macrophages but not CD4⁺ T cells
PNAS 1997 94: 8714-8719. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuru Matsumoto, Wataru Fukuda, Antonella Circolo, Joseph Goellner, Jena Strauss-Schoenberger, Xuefeng Wang, Shigeru Fujita, Tunde Hidvegi, David D. Chaplin, and Harvey R. Colten

Abrogation of the alternative complement pathway by targeted deletion of murine factor B
PNAS 1997 94: 8720-8725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xavier Martinez, Christian Brandt, Fatiha Saddallah, Chantal Tougne, Christy Barrios, Fabian Wild, Gordan Dougan, Paul-Henri Lambert, and Claire-Anne Siegrist

DNA immunization circumvents deficient induction of T helper type 1 and cytotoxic T lymphocyte responses in neonates and during early life
PNAS 1997 94: 8726-8731. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Olatoyosi M. Sobulo, Julian Borrow, Ronald Tomek, Shalini Reshmi, Alanna Harden, Brigitte Schlegelberger, David Housman, Norman A. Doggett, Janet D. Rowley, and Nancy J. Zeleznik-Le

MLL is fused to CBP, a histone acetyltransferase, in therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia with a t(11;16)(q23;p13.3)
PNAS 1997 94: 8732-8737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayuki Yanagi, Robert H. Purcell, Suzanne U. Emerson, and Jens Bukh

Transcripts from a single full-length cDNA clone of hepatitis C virus are infectious when directly transfected into the liver of a chimpanzee
PNAS 1997 94: 8738-8743. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fei Su and Robert J. Schneider

Hepatitis B virus HBx protein sensitizes cells to apoptotic killing by tumor necrosis factor 
PNAS 1997 94: 8744-8749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jagadeesh Gabbeta, Xu Yang, M. Anna Kowalska, Ling Sun, N. Dhanasekaran, and A. Koneti Rao

Platelet signal transduction defect with G subunit dysfunction and diminished G_q in a patient with abnormal platelet responses
PNAS 1997 94: 8750-8755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert A. Brodsky, Milada S. Vala, James P. Barber, M. Edward Medof, and Richard J. Jones

Resistance to apoptosis caused by PIG-A gene mutations in paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria
PNAS 1997 94: 8756-8760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura E. Benjamin and Eli Keshet

Conditional switching of vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) expression in tumors: Induction of endothelial cell shedding and regression of hemangioblastoma-like vessels by VEGF withdrawal
PNAS 1997 94: 8761-8766. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Parvez Sultan, Allan G. Murray, Jennifer M. McNiff, Marc I. Lorber, Philip W. Askenase, Alfred L. M. Bothwell, and Jordan S. Pober

Pig but not human interferon- initiates human cell-mediated rejection of pig tissue in vivo
PNAS 1997 94: 8767-8772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ming Chow and Harry Rubin

Ubiquitous, heritable damage in cell populations that survive treatment with methotrexate
PNAS 1997 94: 8773-8778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nighat N. Kahn, William A. Bauman, and Asru K. Sinha

Demonstration of a novel circulating anti-prostacyclin receptor antibody
PNAS 1997 94: 8779-8782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jun Wu, Lev Perelman, Ramachandra R. Dasari, and Michael S. Feld

Fluorescence tomographic imaging in turbid media using early-arriving photons and Laplace transforms
PNAS 1997 94: 8783-8788. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Allan D. Kirk, David M. Harlan, Nicholas N. Armstrong, Thomas A. Davis, Yinchen Dong, Gary S. Gray, Xuening Hong, David Thomas, John H. Fechner Jr., and Stuart J. Knechtle

CTLA4-Ig and anti-CD40 ligand prevent renal allograft rejection in primates
PNAS 1997 94: 8789-8794. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David D. Spragg, Dennis R. Alford, Ruth Greferath, Charles E. Larsen, Kyung-Dall Lee, Geoffrey C. Gurtner, Myron I. Cybulsky, P. Francois Tosi, Claude Nicolau, and Michael A. Gimbrone Jr.

Immunotargeting of liposomes to activated vascular endothelial cells: A strategy for site-selective delivery in the cardiovascular system
PNAS 1997 94: 8795-8800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Wanzhi Huang and Timothy Palzkill

A natural polymorphism in -lactamase is a global suppressor
PNAS 1997 94: 8801-8806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wen-Wei Zhang and Greg Matlashewski

Loss of virulence in Leishmania donovani deficient in an amastigote-specific protein, A2
PNAS 1997 94: 8807-8811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Upinder Singh, Joshua B. Rogers, Barbara J. Mann, and William A. Petri Jr.

Transcription initiation is controlled by three core promoter elements in the hgl5 gene of the protozoan parasite Entamoeba histolytica
PNAS 1997 94: 8812-8817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Alicia Bilang-Bleuel, Frédéric Revah, Phillippe Colin, Isabelle Locquet, Jean-Jacques Robert, Jacques Mallet, and Philippe Horellou

Intrastriatal injection of an adenoviral vector expressing glial-cell-line-derived neurotrophic factor prevents dopaminergic neuron degeneration and behavioral impairment in a rat model of Parkinson disease
PNAS 1997 94: 8818-8823. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Buhr and Erwin Sigel

A point mutation in the ₂ subunit of -aminobutyric acid type A receptors results in altered benzodiazepine binding site specificity
PNAS 1997 94: 8824-8829. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carlos Matute, M. Victoria Sánchez-Gómez, Luis Martínez-Millán, and Ricardo Miledi

Glutamate receptor-mediated toxicity in optic nerve oligodendrocytes
PNAS 1997 94: 8830-8835. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen Faith Berman, Peter J. Schmidt, David R. Rubinow, Merry A. Danaceau, John D. Van Horn, Giuseppe Esposito, Jill L. Ostrem, and Daniel R. Weinberger

Modulation of cognition-specific cortical activity by gonadal steroids: A positron-emission tomography study in women
PNAS 1997 94: 8836-8841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald B. Arnold and Nathaniel Heintz

A calcium responsive element that regulates expression of two calcium binding proteins in Purkinje cells
PNAS 1997 94: 8842-8847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Glass, Elizabeth D. Apel, Sonal Shah, David C. Bowen, Thomas M. DeChiara, Trevor N. Stitt, Joshua R. Sanes, and George D. Yancopoulos

Kinase domain of the muscle-specific receptor tyrosine kinase (MuSK) is sufficient for phosphorylation but not clustering of acetylcholine receptors: Required role for the MuSK ectodomain?
PNAS 1997 94: 8848-8853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles L. Cox, John R. Huguenard, and David A. Prince

Nucleus reticularis neurons mediate diverse inhibitory effects in thalamus
PNAS 1997 94: 8854-8859. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hui Sun, Jennifer P. Macke, and Jeremy Nathans

Mechanisms of spectral tuning in the mouse green cone pigment
PNAS 1997 94: 8860-8865. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ning Qin, Daniela Platano, Riccardo Olcese, Enrico Stefani, and Lutz Birnbaumer

Direct interaction of G with a C-terminal G-binding domain of the Ca²⁺ channel ₁ subunit is responsible for channel inhibition by G protein-coupled receptors
PNAS 1997 94: 8866-8871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

Stefan Trapp, Stephen J. Tucker, and Frances M. Ashcroft

Activation and inhibition of K-ATP currents by guanine nucleotides is mediated by different channel subunits
PNAS 1997 94: 8872-8877. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey L. Halaas, Carol Boozer, John Blair-West, Naseem Fidahusein, Derek A. Denton, and Jeffrey M. Friedman

Physiological response to long-term peripheral and central leptin infusion in lean and obese mice
PNAS 1997 94: 8878-8883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wuyi Kong, Karen McConalogue, Lev M. Khitin, Morley D. Hollenberg, Donald G. Payan, Stephan K. Böhm, and Nigel W. Bunnett

Luminal trypsin may regulate enterocytes through proteinase-activated receptor 2
PNAS 1997 94: 8884-8889. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Christiane Reinbothe, Nikolai Lebedev, Klaus Apel, and Steffen Reinbothe

Regulation of chloroplast protein import through a protochlorophyllide-responsive transit peptide
PNAS 1997 94: 8890-8894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Inna Lermontova, Elisabeth Kruse, Hans-Peter Mock, and Bernhard Grimm

Cloning and characterization of a plastidal and a mitochondrial isoform of tobacco protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase
PNAS 1997 94: 8895-8900. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Celine Charon, Christina Johansson, Eva Kondorosi, Adam Kondorosi, and Martin Crespi

enod40 induces dedifferentiation and division of root cortical cells in legumes
PNAS 1997 94: 8901-8906. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David N. Martin, William M. Proebsting, and Peter Hedden

Mendel's dwarfing gene: cDNAs from the Le alleles and function of the expressed proteins
PNAS 1997 94: 8907-8911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Biology

Nancy N. FitzSimmons, Colin J. Limpus, Janette A. Norman, Alan R. Goldizen, Jeffrey D. Miller, and Craig Moritz

Philopatry of male marine turtles inferred from mitochondrial DNA markers
PNAS 1997 94: 8912-8917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]