COLLOQUIUM:
Papers from an NAS Colloquium on Elliptic Curves and Modular Forms

Barry Mazur and Karl Rubin

Introduction
PNAS 1997 94: 11109-11109. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenneth A. Ribet and Shuzo Takahashi

Parametrizations of elliptic curves by Shimura curves and by classical modular curves
PNAS 1997 94: 11110-11114. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Coates and Susan Howson

Euler characteristics and elliptic curves
PNAS 1997 94: 11115-11117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernadette Perrin-Riou

p-adic L functions and trivial zeroes
PNAS 1997 94: 11118-11120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Haruzo Hida, Jacques Tilouine, and Eric Urban

Adjoint modular Galois representations and their Selmer groups
PNAS 1997 94: 11121-11124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ralph Greenberg

The structure of Selmer groups
PNAS 1997 94: 11125-11128. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert F. Coleman

On the coefficients of the characteristic series of the U-operator
PNAS 1997 94: 11129-11132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Goro Shimura

Zeta functions and Eisenstein series on classical groups
PNAS 1997 94: 11133-11137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Marc Fontaine

Deforming semistable Galois representations
PNAS 1997 94: 11138-11141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerd Faltings

Integrality of Tate-cycles
PNAS 1997 94: 11142-11142. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fred Diamond

Congruences between modular forms: Raising the level and dropping Euler factors
PNAS 1997 94: 11143-11146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicholas Shepherd-Barron and Richard Taylor

On degree 2 Galois representations over ₄
PNAS 1997 94: 11147-11148. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

Marion Nestle

Broccoli sprouts as inducers of carcinogen-detoxifying enzyme systems: Clinical, dietary, and policy implications
PNAS 1997 94: 11149-11151. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jules A. Hoffmann

Immune responsiveness in vector insects
PNAS 1997 94: 11152-11153. [Full Text] [PDF]  

John H. Werren

Wolbachia run amok
PNAS 1997 94: 11154-11155. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Ronald Breslow, Ying Huang, Xiaojun Zhang, and Jerry Yang

An artificial cytochrome P450 that hydroxylates unactivated carbons with regio- and stereoselectivity and useful catalytic turnovers
PNAS 1997 94: 11156-11158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Golam Rasul, G. K. Surya Prakash, and George A. Olah

Comparison of structures and energies of CH₅²⁺ with CH₄⁺ and their possible role in superacidic methane activation
PNAS 1997 94: 11159-11162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geology

Richard L. Cifelli, James I. Kirkland, Anne Weil, Alan L. Deino, and Bart J. Kowallis

High-precision ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology and the advent of North America's Late Cretaceous terrestrial fauna
PNAS 1997 94: 11163-11167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

Meike Köhler and Salvador Moyà-Solà

Ape-like or hominid-like? The positional behavior of Oreopithecus bambolii reconsidered
PNAS 1997 94: 11747-11750. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Psychology

Uk Namgung, Shogo Matsuyama, and Aryeh Routtenberg

Long-term potentiation activates the GAP-43 promoter: Selective participation of hippocampal mossy cells
PNAS 1997 94: 11675-11680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dennis M. Levi, Vineeta Sharma, and Stanley A. Klein

Feature integration in pattern perception
PNAS 1997 94: 11742-11746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

Ronald Breslow, Ying Huang, Xiaojun Zhang, and Jerry Yang

An artificial cytochrome P450 that hydroxylates unactivated carbons with regio- and stereoselectivity and useful catalytic turnovers
PNAS 1997 94: 11156-11158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liang-Jun Yan, Rodney L. Levine, and Rajindar S. Sohal

Oxidative damage during aging targets mitochondrial aconitase
PNAS 1997 94: 11168-11172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Gachotte, C. A. Pierson, N. D. Lees, R. Barbuch, C. Koegel, and M. Bard

A yeast sterol auxotroph (erg25) is rescued by addition of azole antifungals and reduced levels of heme
PNAS 1997 94: 11173-11178. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sigrid Scheek, Michael S. Brown, and Joseph L. Goldstein

Sphingomyelin depletion in cultured cells blocks proteolysis of sterol regulatory element binding proteins at site 1
PNAS 1997 94: 11179-11183. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lily Jun-shen Huang, Kyle Durick, Joshua A. Weiner, Jerold Chun, and Susan S. Taylor

D-AKAP2, a novel protein kinase A anchoring protein with a putative RGS domain
PNAS 1997 94: 11184-11189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joachim Lingner, Thomas R. Cech, Timothy R. Hughes, and Victoria Lundblad

Three Ever Shorter Telomere (EST) genes are dispensable for in vitro yeast telomerase activity
PNAS 1997 94: 11190-11195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keming Lin, Shouwen Wang, Martin A. Julius, Jan Kitajewski, Malcolm Moos Jr., and Frank P. Luyten

The cysteine-rich frizzled domain of Frzb-1 is required and sufficient for modulation of Wnt signaling
PNAS 1997 94: 11196-11200. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen M. Ottemann and Daniel E. Koshland Jr.

Converting a transmembrane receptor to a soluble receptor: Recognition domain to effector domain signaling after excision of the transmembrane domain
PNAS 1997 94: 11201-11204. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher P. Selby and Aziz Sancar

Cockayne syndrome group B protein enhances elongation by RNA polymerase II
PNAS 1997 94: 11205-11209. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toshikazu Shiba, Kaori Tsutsumi, Hiroyuki Yano, Yoshiharu Ihara, Atsushi Kameda, Kan Tanaka, Hideo Takahashi, Masanobu Munekata, Narayana N. Rao, and Arthur Kornberg

Inorganic polyphosphate and the induction of rpoS expression
PNAS 1997 94: 11210-11215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Shelver, Robert L. Kerby, Yiping He, and Gary P. Roberts

CooA, a CO-sensing transcription factor from Rhodospirillum rubrum, is a CO-binding heme protein
PNAS 1997 94: 11216-11220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhufang Li, Efim I. Golub, Ravindra Gupta, and Charles M. Radding

Recombination activities of HsDmc1 protein, the meiotic human homolog of RecA protein
PNAS 1997 94: 11221-11226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Avery August, Ali Sadra, Bo Dupont, and Hidesaburo Hanafusa

Src-induced activation of inducible T cell kinase (ITK) requires phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase activity and the Pleckstrin homology domain of inducible T cell kinase
PNAS 1997 94: 11227-11232. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroaki Konishi, Motonari Tanaka, Yukitoshi Takemura, Hidenori Matsuzaki, Yoshitaka Ono, Ushio Kikkawa, and Yasutomi Nishizuka

Activation of protein kinase C by tyrosine phosphorylation in response to H₂O₂
PNAS 1997 94: 11233-11237. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert W. Siegel, Scott Adkins, and C. Cheng Kao

Sequence-specific recognition of a subgenomic RNA promoter by a viral RNA polymerase
PNAS 1997 94: 11238-11243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shaojun Zuo, Emma Gibbs, Zvi Kelman, Teresa S.-F. Wang, Mike O'Donnell, Stuart A. MacNeill, and Jerard Hurwitz

DNA polymerase  isolated from Schizosaccharomyces pombe contains five subunits
PNAS 1997 94: 11244-11249. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Priya Rangaraj, Vinod K. Shah, and Paul W. Ludden

ApoNifH functions in iron-molybdenum cofactor synthesis and apodinitrogenase maturation
PNAS 1997 94: 11250-11255. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dorothy Fiete, Mary C. Beranek, and Jacques U. Baenziger

The macrophage/endothelial cell mannose receptor cDNA encodes a protein that binds oligosaccharides terminating with SO₄-4-GalNAc1,4GlcNAc or Man at independent sites
PNAS 1997 94: 11256-11261. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beatriz Navarro and Ricardo Flores

Chrysanthemum chlorotic mottle viroid: Unusual structural properties of a subgroup of self-cleaving viroids with hammerhead ribozymes
PNAS 1997 94: 11262-11267. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Didier Trouche, Catherine Le Chalony, Christian Muchardt, Moshe Yaniv, and Tony Kouzarides

RB and hbrm cooperate to repress the activation functions of E2F1
PNAS 1997 94: 11268-11273. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katsuhiko Murakami, Jeffrey T. Owens, Tamara A. Belyaeva, Claude F. Meares, Stephen J. W. Busby, and Akira Ishihama

Positioning of two alpha subunit carboxy-terminal domains of RNA polymerase at promoters by two transcription factors
PNAS 1997 94: 11274-11278. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bruno Canard, Robert Sarfati, and Charles C. Richardson

Binding of RNA template to a complex of HIV-1 reverse transcriptase/primer/template
PNAS 1997 94: 11279-11284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kelly P. Williams, Xiao-Hong Liu, Ton N. M. Schumacher, Herbert Y. Lin, Dennis A. Ausiello, Peter S. Kim, and David P. Bartel

Bioactive and nuclease-resistant L-DNA ligand of vasopressin
PNAS 1997 94: 11285-11290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Magali Frugier and Paul Schimmel

Subtle atomic group discrimination in the RNA minor groove
PNAS 1997 94: 11291-11294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Saverio Minucci, Valerie Horn, Nisan Bhattacharyya, Valya Russanova, Vasily V. Ogryzko, Lucia Gabriele, Bruce H. Howard, and Keiko Ozato

A histone deacetylase inhibitor potentiates retinoid receptor action in embryonal carcinoma cells
PNAS 1997 94: 11295-11300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Lawrence H. Pinto, Gregg R. Dieckmann, Chris S. Gandhi, Carol G. Papworth, Jeffrey Braman, Margaret A. Shaughnessy, James D. Lear, Robert A. Lamb, and William F. DeGrado

A functionally defined model for the M₂ proton channel of influenza A virus suggests a mechanism for its ion selectivity
PNAS 1997 94: 11301-11306. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edward M. Purcell

The efficiency of propulsion by a rotating flagellum
PNAS 1997 94: 11307-11311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Leikin, V. A. Parsegian, W.-H. Yang, and G. E. Walrafen

Raman spectral evidence for hydration forces between collagen triple helices
PNAS 1997 94: 11312-11317. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jacques Breton

Efficient exchange of the primary quinone acceptor Q_A in isolated reaction centers of viridis
PNAS 1997 94: 11318-11323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seiji Saito, Masaki Sasai, and Tetsuya Yomo

Evolution of the folding ability of proteins through functional selection
PNAS 1997 94: 11324-11328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reuben Hiller, Zhi H. Zhou, Michael W. W. Adams, and S. Walter Englander

Stability and dynamics in a hyperthermophilic protein with melting temperature close to 200°C
PNAS 1997 94: 11329-11332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

David K. M. Han, Preet M. Chaudhary, Michael E. Wright, Cynthia Friedman, Barbara J. Trask, Rodney T. Riedel, Dale G. Baskin, Stephen M. Schwartz, and Leroy Hood

MRIT, a novel death-effector domain-containing protein, interacts with caspases and BclX_L and initiates cell death
PNAS 1997 94: 11333-11338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudio Moser, Olaf Mol, Roger S. Goody, and Irmgard Sinning

The signal recognition particle receptor of Escherichia coli (FtsY) has a nucleotide exchange factor built into the GTPase domain
PNAS 1997 94: 11339-11344. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhou Songyang, David Baltimore, Lewis C. Cantley, David R. Kaplan, and Thomas F. Franke

Interleukin 3-dependent survival by the Akt protein kinase
PNAS 1997 94: 11345-11350. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael J. McManus, Wilma L. Lingle, Jeffrey L. Salisbury, and Nita J. Maihle

A transformation-associated complex involving tyrosine kinase signal adapter proteins and caldesmon links v-ErbB signaling to actin stress fiber disassembly
PNAS 1997 94: 11351-11356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul H. Schlesinger, Atan Gross, Xiao-Ming Yin, Kazuhito Yamamoto, Mitsuyoshi Saito, Gabriel Waksman, and Stanley J. Korsmeyer

Comparison of the ion channel characteristics of proapoptotic BAX and antiapoptotic BCL-2
PNAS 1997 94: 11357-11362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marina Shenkman, Michal Ayalon, and Gerardo Z. Lederkremer

Endoplasmic reticulum quality control of asialoglycoprotein receptor H2a involves a determinant for retention and not retrieval
PNAS 1997 94: 11363-11368. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nirao M. Shah and David J. Anderson

Integration of multiple instructive cues by neural crest stem cells reveals cell-intrinsic biases in relative growth factor responsiveness
PNAS 1997 94: 11369-11374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pablo V. Escribá, Andrés Ozaita, Catalina Ribas, Antonio Miralles, Elfrieda Fodor, Tibor Farkas, and Jesús A. García-Sevilla

Role of lipid polymorphism in G protein-membrane interactions: Nonlamellar-prone phospholipids and peripheral protein binding to membranes
PNAS 1997 94: 11375-11380. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kin-Chuen Leung, Michael J. Waters, Irit Markus, William R. Baumbach, and Ken K. Y. Ho

Insulin and insulin-like growth factor-I acutely inhibit surface translocation of growth hormone receptors in osteoblasts: A novel mechanism of growth hormone receptor regulation
PNAS 1997 94: 11381-11386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rudolf F. Zirwes, Marion S. Schmidt-Zachmann, and Werner W. Franke

Identification of a small, very acidic constitutive nucleolar protein (NO29) as a member of the nucleoplasmin family
PNAS 1997 94: 11387-11392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Walter Nickel, Kai Sohn, Carsten Bünning, and Felix T. Wieland

p23, a major COPI-vesicle membrane protein, constitutively cycles through the early secretory pathway
PNAS 1997 94: 11393-11398. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle R. Bootcov, Asne R. Bauskin, Stella M. Valenzuela, Anthony G. Moore, Mohinder Bansal, Xiao Yan He, Hong Ping Zhang, Melissa Donnellan, Stephen Mahler, Kimberley Pryor, Bradley J. Walsh, Richard C. Nicholson, W. Douglas Fairlie, Suzanne B. Por, Joan M. Robbins, and Samuel N. Breit

MIC-1, a novel macrophage inhibitory cytokine, is a divergent member of the TGF- superfamily
PNAS 1997 94: 11514-11519. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Yang Xia, L. Maximilian Buja, Richard C. Scarpulla, and Jeanie B. McMillin

Electrical stimulation of neonatal cardiomyocytes results in the sequential activation of nuclear genes governing mitochondrial proliferation and differentiation
PNAS 1997 94: 11399-11404. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco J. Cifuentes and Antonio García-Bellido

Proximo-distal specification in the wing disc of Drosophila by the nubbin gene
PNAS 1997 94: 11405-11410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Richard L. Cifelli, James I. Kirkland, Anne Weil, Alan L. Deino, and Bart J. Kowallis

High-precision ⁴⁰Ar/³⁹Ar geochronology and the advent of North America's Late Cretaceous terrestrial fauna
PNAS 1997 94: 11163-11167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Linda Amaral Zettler, Mitchell L. Sogin, and David A. Caron

Phylogenetic relationships between the Acantharea and the Polycystinea: A molecular perspective on Haeckel's Radiolaria
PNAS 1997 94: 11411-11416. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey L. Feder, Joseph B. Roethele, Brian Wlazlo, and Stewart H. Berlocher

Selective maintenance of allozyme differences among sympatric host races of the apple maggot fly
PNAS 1997 94: 11417-11421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

François Lutzoni and Mark Pagel

Accelerated evolution as a consequence of transitions to mutualism
PNAS 1997 94: 11422-11427. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathan B. Clark and Margaret G. Kidwell INAUGURAL ARTICLE: A phylogenetic perspective on P transposable element evolution in Drosophila PNAS 1997 94: 11428-11433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Brian R. Morton and Justine A. Levin

The atypical codon usage of the plant psbA gene may be the remnant of an ancestral bias
PNAS 1997 94: 11434-11438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rosanna Giordano, Jan J. Jackson, and Hugh M. Robertson

The role of Wolbachia bacteria in reproductive incompatibilities and hybrid zones of Diabrotica beetles and Gryllus crickets
PNAS 1997 94: 11439-11444. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Michael Jeffers, Laura Schmidt, Noboru Nakaigawa, Craig P. Webb, Gregor Weirich, Takeshi Kishida, Berton Zbar, and George F. Vande Woude

Activating mutations for the Met tyrosine kinase receptor in human cancer
PNAS 1997 94: 11445-11450. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian G. Condie, Gerard Bain, David I. Gottlieb, and Mario R. Capecchi

Cleft palate in mice with a targeted mutation in the -aminobutyric acid-producing enzyme glutamic acid decarboxylase 67
PNAS 1997 94: 11451-11455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paula Cramer, C. Gustavo Pesce, Francisco E. Baralle, and Alberto R. Kornblihtt

Functional association between promoter structure and transcript alternative splicing
PNAS 1997 94: 11456-11460. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. B. Zimonjic, M. J. Kelley, J. S. Rubin, S. A. Aaronson, and N. C. Popescu

Fluorescence in situ hybridization analysis of keratinocyte growth factor gene amplification and dispersion in evolution of great apes and humans
PNAS 1997 94: 11461-11465. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Victoria Derbyshire, David W. Wood, Wei Wu, John T. Dansereau, Jacob Z. Dalgaard, and Marlene Belfort

Genetic definition of a protein-splicing domain: Functional mini-inteins support structure predictions and a model for intein evolution
PNAS 1997 94: 11466-11471. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Trevor Woodage, Munira A. Basrai, Andreas D. Baxevanis, Philip Hieter, and Francis S. Collins

Characterization of the CHD family of proteins
PNAS 1997 94: 11472-11477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Otto O. Yang, Annie-Chen Tran, Spyros A. Kalams, R. Paul Johnson, Margo R. Roberts, and Bruce D. Walker

Lysis of HIV-1-infected cells and inhibition of viral replication by universal receptor T cells
PNAS 1997 94: 11478-11483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen T. Smiley, Sarah N. Boyer, Mary J. Heeb, John H. Griffin, and Michael J. Grusby

Protein S is inducible by interleukin 4 in T cells and inhibits lymphoid cell procoagulant activity
PNAS 1997 94: 11484-11489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yoshinori Aragane, Dagmar Kulms, Thomas A. Luger, and Thomas Schwarz

Down-regulation of interferon -activated STAT1 by UV light
PNAS 1997 94: 11490-11495. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elisabeth Z. Wolpert, Max Petersson, Benedict J. Chambers, Johan K. Sandberg, Rolf Kiessling, Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, and Klas Kärre

Generation of CD8⁺ T cells specific for transporter associated with antigen processing deficient cells
PNAS 1997 94: 11496-11501. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael J. Lehane, Dan Wu, and Stella M. Lehane

Midgut-specific immune molecules are produced by the blood-sucking insect calcitrans
PNAS 1997 94: 11502-11507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

George Dimopoulos, Adam Richman, Hans-Michael Müller, and Fotis C. Kafatos

Molecular immune responses of the mosquito Anopheles gambiae to bacteria and malaria parasites
PNAS 1997 94: 11508-11513. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle R. Bootcov, Asne R. Bauskin, Stella M. Valenzuela, Anthony G. Moore, Mohinder Bansal, Xiao Yan He, Hong Ping Zhang, Melissa Donnellan, Stephen Mahler, Kimberley Pryor, Bradley J. Walsh, Richard C. Nicholson, W. Douglas Fairlie, Suzanne B. Por, Joan M. Robbins, and Samuel N. Breit

MIC-1, a novel macrophage inhibitory cytokine, is a divergent member of the TGF- superfamily
PNAS 1997 94: 11514-11519. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nathalie Rouas-Freiss, Rachel Marchal-Bras Gonçalves, Catherine Menier, Jean Dausset, and Edgardo D. Carosella

Direct evidence to support the role of HLA-G in protecting the fetus from maternal uterine natural killer cytolysis
PNAS 1997 94: 11520-11525. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew I. Wahl, Anne-Catherine Fluckiger, Roberta M. Kato, Hyunsun Park, Owen N. Witte, and David J. Rawlings INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Phosphorylation of two regulatory tyrosine residues in the activation of Bruton's tyrosine kinase via alternative receptors PNAS 1997 94: 11526-11533. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Masayuki Noguchi, Apurva Sarin, M. Javad Aman, Hiroshi Nakajima, Elizabeth W. Shores, Pierre A. Henkart, and Warren J. Leonard

Functional cleavage of the common cytokine receptor  chain (_c) by calpain
PNAS 1997 94: 11534-11539. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Kathleen M. Caron, Shiu-Ching Soo, William C. Wetsel, Douglas M. Stocco, Barbara J. Clark, and Keith L. Parker

Targeted disruption of the mouse gene encoding steroidogenic acute regulatory protein provides insights into congenital lipoid adrenal hyperplasia
PNAS 1997 94: 11540-11545. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chinmay K. Mukhopadhyay, Barsanjit Mazumder, Peter F. Lindley, and Paul L. Fox

Identification of the prooxidant site of human ceruloplasmin: A model for oxidative damage by copper bound to protein surfaces
PNAS 1997 94: 11546-11551. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald Metcalf

Murine hematopoietic stem cells committed to macrophage/dendritic cell formation: Stimulation by Flk2-ligand with enhancement by regulators using the gp130 receptor chain
PNAS 1997 94: 11552-11556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hyo Chol Ha, Patrick M. Woster, James D. Yager, and Robert A. Casero Jr.

The role of polyamine catabolism in polyamine analogue-induced programmed cell death
PNAS 1997 94: 11557-11562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lili Wang, Monica Zoppè, Tilman M. Hackeng, John H. Griffin, Kuo-Fen Lee, and Inder M. Verma

A factor IX-deficient mouse model for hemophilia B gene therapy
PNAS 1997 94: 11563-11566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

An-Gang Yang, Xuefan Bai, Xue F. Huang, Changping Yao, and Si.-Yi Chen

Phenotypic knockout of HIV type 1 chemokine coreceptor CCR-5 by intrakines as potential therapeutic approach for HIV-1 infection
PNAS 1997 94: 11567-11572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takashi Chishima, Meng Yang, Yohei Miyagi, Lingna Li, Yuying Tan, Eugene Baranov, Hiroshi Shimada, A. Rahim Moossa, Sheldon Penman, and Robert M. Hoffman

Governing step of metastasis visualized vitro
PNAS 1997 94: 11573-11576. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen E. Malawista and Anne de Boisfleury Chevance

Random locomotion and chemotaxis of human blood polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMN) in the presence of EDTA: PMN in close quarters require neither leukocyte integrins nor external divalent cations
PNAS 1997 94: 11577-11582. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maureen D. Megonigal, Eric F. Rappaport, Douglas H. Jones, Caroline S. Kim, Peter C. Nowell, Beverly J. Lange, and Carolyn A. Felix

Panhandle PCR strategy to amplify MLL genomic breakpoints in treatment-related leukemias
PNAS 1997 94: 11583-11588. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antonella Cavalli, Anne-Laure Lattion, Edith Hummler, Monique Nenniger, Thierry Pedrazzini, Jean-François Aubert, Martin C. Michel, Ming Yang, Giuseppe Lembo, Carmine Vecchione, Marina Mostardini, Andrea Schmidt, Friedrich Beermann, and Susanna Cotecchia

Decreased blood pressure response in mice deficient of the _1b-adrenergic receptor
PNAS 1997 94: 11589-11594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vincent Vieillard, Isabelle Cremer, Evelyne Lauret, Willy Rozenbaum, Patrice Debré, Brigitte Autran, and Edward De Maeyer

Interferon  transduction of peripheral blood lymphocytes from HIV-infected donors increases Th1-type cytokine production and improves the proliferative response to recall antigens
PNAS 1997 94: 11595-11600. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Theodore Page, Alice Yu, John Fontanesi, and William L. Nyhan

Developmental disorder associated with increased cellular nucleotidase activity
PNAS 1997 94: 11601-11606. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Angela Valeva, Iwan Walev, Matthias Pinkernell, Barbara Walker, Hagan Bayley, Michael Palmer, and Sucharit Bhakdi

Transmembrane -barrel of staphylococcal -toxin forms in sensitive but not in resistant cells
PNAS 1997 94: 11607-11611. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tohru Kiyono, Atsuro Hiraiwa, Masatoshi Fujita, Yasuyuki Hayashi, Tetsu Akiyama, and Masahide Ishibashi

Binding of high-risk human papillomavirus E6 oncoproteins to the human homologue of the Drosophila discs large tumor suppressor protein
PNAS 1997 94: 11612-11616. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather B. Adkins, Jürgen Brojatsch, John Naughton, Melissa M. Rolls, Jean M. Pesola, and John A. T. Young

Identification of a cellular receptor for subgroup E avian leukosis virus
PNAS 1997 94: 11617-11622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yasuhiko Horiguchi, Norimitsu Inoue, Minako Masuda, Takashige Kashimoto, Jun Katahira, Nakaba Sugimoto, and Morihiro Matsuda

Bordetella bronchiseptica dermonecrotizing toxin induces reorganization of actin stress fibers through deamidation of Gln-63 of the GTP-binding protein Rho
PNAS 1997 94: 11623-11626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Sandip Patel, Stephen A. Morris, Charles E. Adkins, Gerry O'Beirne, and Colin W. Taylor

Ca²⁺-independent inhibition of inositol trisphosphate receptors by calmodulin: Redistribution of calmodulin as a possible means of regulating Ca²⁺ mobilization
PNAS 1997 94: 11627-11632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ehud Ahissar, Sebastian Haidarliu, and Miriam Zacksenhouse

Decoding temporally encoded sensory input by cortical oscillations and thalamic phase comparators
PNAS 1997 94: 11633-11638. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patti M. Sherman, Hui Sun, Jennifer P. Macke, John Williams, Philip M. Smallwood, and Jeremy Nathans

Identification and characterization of a conserved family of protein serine/threonine phosphatases homologous to Drosophila retinal degeneration C (rdgC)
PNAS 1997 94: 11639-11644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lei Li and John E. Dowling

A dominant form of inherited retinal degeneration caused by a non-photoreceptor cell-specific mutation
PNAS 1997 94: 11645-11650. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takahiro M. Ishii, Christopher Silvia, Birgit Hirschberg, Chris T. Bond, John P. Adelman, and James Maylie

A human intermediate conductance calcium-activated potassium channel
PNAS 1997 94: 11651-11656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yansheng Du, Kelly R. Bales, Richard C. Dodel, Elizabeth Hamilton-Byrd, Jeffrey W. Horn, Dan L. Czilli, Linda K. Simmons, Binhui Ni, and Steven M. Paul

Activation of a caspase 3-related cysteine protease is required for glutamate-mediated apoptosis of cultured cerebellar granule neurons
PNAS 1997 94: 11657-11662. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evan Y. Snyder, Cliff Yoon, Jonathan D. Flax, and Jeffrey D. Macklis

Multipotent neural precursors can differentiate toward replacement of neurons undergoing targeted apoptotic degeneration in adult mouse neocortex
PNAS 1997 94: 11663-11668. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akira Sawa, Adil A. Khan, Lynda D. Hester, and Solomon H. Snyder

Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase: Nuclear translocation participates in neuronal and nonneuronal cell death
PNAS 1997 94: 11669-11674. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Uk Namgung, Shogo Matsuyama, and Aryeh Routtenberg

Long-term potentiation activates the GAP-43 promoter: Selective participation of hippocampal mossy cells
PNAS 1997 94: 11675-11680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Jan A. A. M. Kamps, Henriëtte W. M. Morselt, Pieter J. Swart, Dick K. F. Meijer, and Gerrit L. Scherphof

Massive targeting of liposomes, surface-modified with anionized albumins, to hepatic endothelial cells
PNAS 1997 94: 11681-11685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. J. Small, D. G. A. Morgan, K. Meeran, M. M. Heath, I. Gunn, C. M. B. Edwards, J. Gardiner, G. M. Taylor, J. D. Hurley, M. Rossi, A. P. Goldstone, D. O'Shea, D. M. Smith, M. A. Ghatei, and S. R. Bloom

Peptide analogue studies of the hypothalamic neuropeptide Y receptor mediating pituitary adrenocorticotrophic hormone release
PNAS 1997 94: 11686-11691. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tatjana Naranda, Avram Goldstein, and Lennart Olsson

A peptide derived from an extracellular domain selectively inhibits receptor internalization: Target sequences on insulin and insulin-like growth factor 1 receptors
PNAS 1997 94: 11692-11697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maurizio Taglialatela, Pasqualina Castaldo, Silvana Iossa, Anna Pannaccione, Angela Fresi, Eckhard Ficker, and Lucio Annunziato

Regulation of the human ether-a-gogo related gene (HERG) K⁺ channels by reactive oxygen species
PNAS 1997 94: 11698-11703. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

Jolanta Gutkowska, Marek Jankowski, Chantal Lambert, Suhayla Mukaddam-Daher, Hans H. Zingg, and Samuel M. McCann

Oxytocin releases atrial natriuretic peptide by combining with oxytocin receptors in the heart
PNAS 1997 94: 11704-11709. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edith Hummler, Pierre Barker, Colleen Talbot, Qing Wang, Chantal Verdumo, Barbara Grubb, John Gatzy, Michel Burnier, Jean-Daniel Horisberger, Friedrich Beermann, Richard Boucher, and Bernard C. Rossier

A mouse model for the renal salt-wasting syndrome pseudohypoaldosteronism
PNAS 1997 94: 11710-11715. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Proks and Frances M. Ashcroft

Phentolamine block of K_ATP channels is mediated by Kir6.2
PNAS 1997 94: 11716-11720. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Edward J. Oakeley, Adriano Podestà, and Jean-Pierre Jost

Developmental changes in DNA methylation of the two tobacco pollen nuclei during maturation
PNAS 1997 94: 11721-11725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geneviève Hansen, Raymond D. Shillito, and Mary-Dell Chilton

T-strand integration in maize protoplasts after codelivery of a T-DNA substrate and virulence genes
PNAS 1997 94: 11726-11730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean E. Masson and Jerzy Paszkowski

Arabidopsis thaliana mutants altered in homologous recombination
PNAS 1997 94: 11731-11735. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine Richaud and Gérald Zabulon

The heme oxygenase gene (pbsA) in the red alga Rhodella violacea is discontinuous and transcriptionally activated during iron limitation
PNAS 1997 94: 11736-11741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]