FROM THE ACADEMY

Introduction to German-American Frontiers of Science
PNAS 1997 94: 12733-12733. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas S. Schulz, David B. Shmoys, and David P. Williamson

Approximation algorithms
PNAS 1997 94: 12734-12735. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcus E. Peter, Armin E. Heufelder, and Michael O. Hengartner

Advances in apoptosis research
PNAS 1997 94: 12736-12737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. W. Czarnik

Encoding strategies in combinatorial chemistry
PNAS 1997 94: 12738-12739. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wulfram Gerstner, Andreas K. Kreiter, Henry Markram, and Andreas V. M. Herz

Neural codes: Firing rates and beyond
PNAS 1997 94: 12740-12741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bradford M. Clement, Astrid Holzheid, and Andreas Tilgner

Core geophysics
PNAS 1997 94: 12742-12743. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark A. Kay, Dexi Liu, and Peter M. Hoogerbrugge

Gene therapy
PNAS 1997 94: 12744-12746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Andrew Hoyt, Anthony A. Hyman, and Martin Bähler

Motor proteins of the eukaryotic cytoskeleton
PNAS 1997 94: 12747-12748. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roland Wiesendanger

Scanning-probe-based science and technology
PNAS 1997 94: 12749-12750. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COMMENTARIES

W. Ford Doolittle

Fun with genealogy
PNAS 1997 94: 12751-12753. [Full Text] [PDF]  

David M. Wilson III and Larry H. Thompson

Life without DNA repair
PNAS 1997 94: 12754-12757. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stewart Shuman

Origins of mRNA identity: Capping enzymes bind to the phosphorylated C-terminal domain of RNA polymerase II
PNAS 1997 94: 12758-12760. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Constantin

The elusive singularity
PNAS 1997 94: 12761-12761. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

G. I. Barenblatt, A. J. Chorin, and A. Kast

The influence of the flow of the reacting gas on the conditions for a thermal explosion
PNAS 1997 94: 12762-12764. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chemistry

A. De Wit, P. Borckmans, and G. Dewel

Twist grain boundaries in three-dimensional lamellar Turing structures
PNAS 1997 94: 12765-12768. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Diego Cordoba

On the geometry of solutions of the quasi-geostrophic and Euler equations
PNAS 1997 94: 12769-12770. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physics

J. C. Phillips

Filamentary microstructure and linear temperature dependence of normal state transport in optimized high temperature superconductors
PNAS 1997 94: 12771-12775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Statistics

Kenneth M. Boucher and Andrej Y. Yakovlev

Estimating the probability of initiated cell death before tumor induction
PNAS 1997 94: 12776-12779. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

Erik Trinkaus INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Appendicular robusticity and the paleobiology of modern human emergence PNAS 1997 94: 13367-13373. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Sciences

Bruce E. Tabashnik, Yong-Biao Liu, Thomas Malvar, David G. Heckel, Luke Masson, Victoria Ballester, Francisco Granero, José L. Ménsua, and Juan Ferré

Global variation in the genetic and biochemical basis of diamondback moth resistance to thuringiensis
PNAS 1997 94: 12780-12785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

S. K. Das, Julia A. Taylor, Kenneth S. Korach, B. C. Paria, S. K. Dey, and Dennis B. Lubahn

Estrogenic responses in estrogen receptor- deficient mice reveal a distinct estrogen signaling pathway
PNAS 1997 94: 12786-12791. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neil R. Michaud, Marc Therrien, Angela Cacace, Lisa C. Edsall, Sarah Spiegel, Gerald M. Rubin, and Deborah K. Morrison

KSR stimulates Raf-1 activity in a kinase-independent manner
PNAS 1997 94: 12792-12796. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian J. Bahnson, Thomas D. Colby, Jodie K. Chin, Barry M. Goldstein, and Judith P. Klinman

A link between protein structure and enzyme catalyzed hydrogen tunneling
PNAS 1997 94: 12797-12802. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Virginie Durbecq, Christianne Legrain, Martine Roovers, André Piérard, and Nicolas Glansdorff

The carbamate kinase-like carbamoyl phosphate synthetase of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus, a missing link in the evolution of carbamoyl phosphate biosynthesis
PNAS 1997 94: 12803-12808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sancai Xie, Jonathan Green, James B. Bixby, Bozena Szafranska, James C. DeMartini, Steven Hecht, and R. Michael Roberts INAUGURAL ARTICLE: The diversity and evolutionary relationships of the pregnancy-associated glycoproteins, an aspartic proteinase subfamily consisting of many trophoblast-expressed genes PNAS 1997 94: 12809-12816. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Wande Li, Kaliappanadar Nellaiappan, Timothy Strassmaier, Lila Graham, Kathleen M. Thomas, and Herbert M. Kagan

Localization and activity of lysyl oxidase within nuclei of fibrogenic cells
PNAS 1997 94: 12817-12822. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Schnitzer and Uwe von Ahsen

Identification of specific Rp-phosphate oxygens in the tRNA anticodon loop required for ribosomal P-site binding
PNAS 1997 94: 12823-12828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianing Huang, Xiong Gao, Shyun Li, and Zhaodan Cao

Recruitment of IRAK to the interleukin 1 receptor complex requires interleukin 1 receptor accessory protein
PNAS 1997 94: 12829-12832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Crock, Mark Wildung, and Rodney Croteau

Isolation and bacterial expression of a sesquiterpene synthase cDNA clone from peppermint (Mentha x piperita, L.) that produces the aphid alarm pheromone (E)--farnesene
PNAS 1997 94: 12833-12838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jörg Hamm, Jochen Huber, and Reinhard Lührmann

Anti-idiotype RNA selected with an anti-nuclear export signal antibody is actively transported in oocytes and inhibits Rev- and cap-dependent RNA export
PNAS 1997 94: 12839-12844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Klaus Giese, John Pagel, and Rudolf Grosschedl

Functional analysis of DNA bending and unwinding by the high mobility group domain of LEF-1
PNAS 1997 94: 12845-12850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kirk M. Druey and John H. Kehrl

Inhibition of regulator of G protein signaling function by two mutant RGS4 proteins
PNAS 1997 94: 12851-12856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Georg A. Sprenger, Ulrich Schörken, Thomas Wiegert, Sigrid Grolle, Albert A. de Graaf, Sean V. Taylor, Tadhg P. Begley, Stephanie Bringer-Meyer, and Hermann Sahm

Identification of a thiamin-dependent synthase in Escherichia coli required for the formation of the 1-deoxy-D-xylulose 5-phosphate precursor to isoprenoids, thiamin, and pyridoxol
PNAS 1997 94: 12857-12862. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David S. Levin, Wei Bai, Nina Yao, Michael O'Donnell, and Alan E. Tomkinson

An interaction between DNA ligase I and proliferating cell nuclear antigen: Implications for Okazaki fragment synthesis and joining
PNAS 1997 94: 12863-12868. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Hang, B. Singer, G. P. Margison, and R. H. Elder

Targeted deletion of alkylpurine-DNA-N-glycosylase in mice eliminates repair of 1,N⁶-ethenoadenine and hypoxanthine but not of 3,N⁴-ethenocytosine or 8-oxoguanine
PNAS 1997 94: 12869-12874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yang-Gyun Kim, Pearl S. Kim, Alan Herbert, and Alexander Rich

Construction of a Z-DNA-specific restriction endonuclease
PNAS 1997 94: 12875-12879. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher J. Walkey, Leah Rae Donohue, Rod Bronson, Luis B. Agellon, and Dennis E. Vance

Disruption of the murine gene encoding phosphatidylethanolamine N-methyltransferase
PNAS 1997 94: 12880-12885. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Theodore C. Lee, Linheng Li, Lennart Philipson, and Edward B. Ziff

Myc represses transcription of the growth arrest gene gas1
PNAS 1997 94: 12886-12891. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dmitry E. Agafonov, Vyacheslav A. Kolb, and Alexander S. Spirin

Proteins on ribosome surface: Measurements of protein exposure by hot tritium bombardment technique
PNAS 1997 94: 12892-12897. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhenyu Yue, Edio Maldonado, Renuka Pillutla, Helen Cho, Danny Reinberg, and Aaron J. Shatkin

Mammalian capping enzyme complements mutant Saccharomyces cerevisiae lacking mRNA guanylyltransferase and selectively binds the elongating form of RNA polymerase II
PNAS 1997 94: 12898-12903. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ick Young Kim and Thressa C. Stadtman

Inhibition of NF-B DNA binding and nitric oxide induction in human T cells and lung adenocarcinoma cells by selenite treatment
PNAS 1997 94: 12904-12907. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eugene B. Mechetner, Brigitte Schott, Brian S. Morse, Wilfred D. Stein, Todd Druley, Kenneth A. Davis, Takashi Tsuruo, and Igor B. Roninson

P-glycoprotein function involves conformational transitions detectable by differential immunoreactivity
PNAS 1997 94: 12908-12913. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keiko Kimata, Hideyuki Takahashi, Toshifumi Inada, Pieter Postma, and Hiroji Aiba

cAMP receptor protein-cAMP plays a crucial role in glucose-lactose diauxie by activating the major glucose transporter gene in coli
PNAS 1997 94: 12914-12919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toshimasa Shinki, Hiroko Shimada, Shu Wakino, Hideharu Anazawa, Matsuhiko Hayashi, Takao Saruta, Hector F. DeLuca, and Tatsuo Suda

Cloning and expression of rat 25-hydroxyvitamin D₃-1-hydroxylase cDNA
PNAS 1997 94: 12920-12925. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Naoko Morinaga, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan

Cloning and expression of a cDNA encoding a bovine brain brefeldin A-sensitive guanine nucleotide-exchange protein for ADP-ribosylation factor
PNAS 1997 94: 12926-12931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Silvia C. Finnemann, Vera L. Bonilha, Alan D. Marmorstein, and Enrique Rodriguez-Boulan

Phagocytosis of rod outer segments by retinal pigment epithelial cells requires v5 integrin for binding but not for internalization
PNAS 1997 94: 12932-12937. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yan Chen, Anil Bhushan, and Wylie Vale

Smad8 mediates the signaling of the receptor serine kinase
PNAS 1997 94: 12938-12943. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Randolph Y. Hampton and Hetal Bhakta

Ubiquitin-mediated regulation of 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-CoA reductase
PNAS 1997 94: 12944-12948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Debra F. Nathan, Melissa Harju Vos, and Susan Lindquist INAUGURAL ARTICLE: In vivo functions of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hsp90 chaperone PNAS 1997 94: 12949-12956. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Shmuel Tuvia, Timothy D. Garver, and Vann Bennett

The phosphorylation state of the FIGQY tyrosine of neurofascin determines ankyrin-binding activity and patterns of cell segregation
PNAS 1997 94: 12957-12962. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liqun Luo, Tzumin Lee, Linus Tsai, Gale Tang, Lily Y. Jan, and Yuh Nung Jan

Genghis Khan (Gek) as a putative effector for Drosophila Cdc42 and regulator of actin polymerization
PNAS 1997 94: 12963-12968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David W. Knowles, Leann Tilley, Narla Mohandas, and Joel Anne Chasis

Erythrocyte membrane vesiculation: Model for the molecular mechanism of protein sorting
PNAS 1997 94: 12969-12974. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johannes V. Swinnen, William Ulrix, Walter Heyns, and Guido Verhoeven

Coordinate regulation of lipogenic gene expression by androgens: Evidence for a cascade mechanism involving sterol regulatory element binding proteins
PNAS 1997 94: 12975-12980. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ho-Seong Kim, Srinivasa R. Nagalla, Youngman Oh, Elizabeth Wilson, Charles T. Roberts Jr., and Ron G. Rosenfeld

Identification of a family of low-affinity insulin-like growth factor binding proteins (IGFBPs): Characterization of connective tissue growth factor as a member of the IGFBP superfamily
PNAS 1997 94: 12981-12986. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Jean-Stephane Joly, Franck Bourrat, Van Nguyen, and Daniel Chourrout

Ol-Prx 3, a member of an additional class of homeobox genes, is unimodally expressed in several domains of the developing and adult central nervous system of the medaka (latipes)
PNAS 1997 94: 12987-12992. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hermien S. A. van Schaick, Marten P. Smidt, Alessandra Cecilia Rovescalli, Mirjam Luijten, Arno A. M. van der Kleij, Sadamitsu Asoh, Christine A. Kozak, Marshall Nirenberg, and J. Peter H. Burbach

Homeobox gene Prx3 expression in rodent brain and extraneural tissues
PNAS 1997 94: 12993-12998. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhou Wang, Rachel Tufts, Riffat Haleem, and Xiaoyan Cai

Genes regulated by androgen in the rat ventral prostate
PNAS 1997 94: 12999-13004. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Juergen A. Knoblich, Lily Y. Jan, and Yuh Nung Jan

The N terminus of the Drosophila Numb protein directs membrane association and actin-dependent asymmetric localization
PNAS 1997 94: 13005-13010. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald D. Brown

The role of thyroid hormone in zebrafish and axolotl development
PNAS 1997 94: 13011-13016. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel S. Kessler

Siamois is required for formation of Spemann's organizer
PNAS 1997 94: 13017-13022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecology

Richard F. Kay, Richard H. Madden, Carel Van Schaik, and David Higdon

Primate species richness is determined by plant productivity: Implications for conservation
PNAS 1997 94: 13023-13027. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Da-Fei Feng, Glen Cho, and Russell F. Doolittle

Determining divergence times with a protein clock: Update and reevaluation
PNAS 1997 94: 13028-13033. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Svetlana A. Shabalina, Lev Yu. Yampolsky, and Alexey S. Kondrashov

Rapid decline of fitness in panmictic populations of Drosophila melanogaster maintained under relaxed natural selection
PNAS 1997 94: 13034-13039. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen M. Rich, Richard R. Hudson, and Francisco J. Ayala

Plasmodium falciparum antigenic diversity: Evidence of clonal population structure
PNAS 1997 94: 13040-13045. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenichi Aoki and Marcus W. Feldman

A gene-culture coevolutionary model for brother-sister mating
PNAS 1997 94: 13046-13050. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Orna Levran, Tamar Erlich, Neiva Magdalena, John J. Gregory, Sat Dev Batish, Peter C. Verlander, and Arleen D. Auerbach

Sequence variation in the Fanconi anemia gene FAA
PNAS 1997 94: 13051-13056. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deval A. Lashkari, Joseph L. DeRisi, John H. McCusker, Allen F. Namath, Cristl Gentile, Seung Y. Hwang, Patrick O. Brown, and Ronald W. Davis

Yeast microarrays for genome wide parallel genetic and gene expression analysis
PNAS 1997 94: 13057-13062. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianwei Zhu and C. Ronald Kahn

Analysis of a peptide hormone-receptor interaction in the yeast two-hybrid system
PNAS 1997 94: 13063-13068. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anand K. Srivastava, Johanna Pispa, Andrew J. Hartung, Yangzhu Du, Sini Ezer, Ted Jenks, Tokihiko Shimada, Maija Pekkanen, Marja L. Mikkola, Minoru S. H. Ko, Irma Thesleff, Juha Kere, and David Schlessinger

The Tabby phenotype is caused by mutation in a mouse homologue of the EDA gene that reveals novel mouse and human exons and encodes a protein (ectodysplasin-A) with collagenous domains
PNAS 1997 94: 13069-13074. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yi Yang, Yan Yang, and Harold C. Smith

Multiple protein domains determine the cell type-specific nuclear distribution of the catalytic subunit required for apolipoprotein B mRNA editing
PNAS 1997 94: 13075-13080. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ellen K. Monson, Derik de Bruin, and Virginia A. Zakian

The yeast Cac1 protein is required for the stable inheritance of transcriptionally repressed chromatin at telomeres
PNAS 1997 94: 13081-13086. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bevin P. Engelward, Geert Weeda, Michael D. Wyatt, José L. M. Broekhof, Jan de Wit, Ingrid Donker, James M. Allan, Barry Gold, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers, and Leona D. Samson

Base excision repair deficient mice lacking the Aag alkyladenine DNA glycosylase
PNAS 1997 94: 13087-13092. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kara Dolinski, Scott Muir, Maria Cardenas, and Joseph Heitman

All cyclophilins and FK506 binding proteins are, individually and collectively, dispensable for viability in cerevisiae
PNAS 1997 94: 13093-13098. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pavlos Alifragis, Gretchen Poortinga, Susan M. Parkhurst, and Christos Delidakis

A network of interacting transcriptional regulators involved in Drosophila neural fate specification revealed by the yeast two-hybrid system
PNAS 1997 94: 13099-13104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Myung K. Shin, Liane B. Russell, and Shirley M. Tilghman

Molecular characterization of four induced alleles at the Ednrb locus
PNAS 1997 94: 13105-13110. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Ehrmann, Petra Bolek, Martin Mondigler, Dana Boyd, and Roland Lange

TnTIN and TnTAP: Mini-transposons for site-specific proteolysis vivo
PNAS 1997 94: 13111-13115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiangyang Ni and Janet Westpheling

Direct repeat sequences in the Streptomyces chitinase-63 promoter direct both glucose repression and chitin induction
PNAS 1997 94: 13116-13121. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Geoffrey Sargent, Rhonda L. Rolig, April E. Kilburn, Gerald M. Adair, John H. Wilson, and Rodney S. Nairn

Recombination-dependent deletion formation in mammalian cells deficient in the nucleotide excision repair gene ERCC1
PNAS 1997 94: 13122-13127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Harbinder, Nektarios Tavernarakis, Laura A. Herndon, Maud Kinnell, Si Qun Xu, Andrew Fire, and Monica Driscoll

Genetically targeted cell disruption in elegans
PNAS 1997 94: 13128-13133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Sándor Damjanovich, László Bene, János Matkó, Abdelkrim Alileche, Carolyn K. Goldman, Susan Sharrow, and Thomas A. Waldmann

Preassembly of interleukin 2 (IL-2) receptor subunits on resting Kit 225 K6 T cells and their modulation by IL-2, IL-7, and IL-15: A fluorescence resonance energy transfer study
PNAS 1997 94: 13134-13139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Angel Porgador, Ofer Mandelboim, Nicholas P. Restifo, and Jack L. Strominger

Natural killer cell lines kill autologous ₂-microglobulin-deficient melanoma cells: Implications for cancer immunotherapy
PNAS 1997 94: 13140-13145. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kimiko Suzue, Xianzheng Zhou, Herman N. Eisen, and Richard A. Young

Heat shock fusion proteins as vehicles for antigen delivery into the major histocompatibility complex class I presentation pathway
PNAS 1997 94: 13146-13151. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne B. Satterthwaite, Hilde Cheroutre, Wasif N. Khan, Pascalis Sideras, and Owen N. Witte

Btk dosage determines sensitivity to B cell antigen receptor cross-linking
PNAS 1997 94: 13152-13157. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shinichi Sato, Paul J. Jansen, and Thomas F. Tedder

CD19 and CD22 expression reciprocally regulates tyrosine phosphorylation of Vav protein during B lymphocyte signaling
PNAS 1997 94: 13158-13162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

H. Joachim Ullrich, Klaus Döring, Ulrike Grüneberg, Fritz Jähnig, John Trowsdale, and S. Marieke van Ham

Interaction between HLA-DM and HLA-DR involves regions that undergo conformational changes at lysosomal pH
PNAS 1997 94: 13163-13168. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edward D. Chan, Brent W. Winston, Matthew B. Jarpe, Murry W. Wynes, and David W. H. Riches

Preferential activation of the p46 isoform of JNK/SAPK in mouse macrophages by TNF
PNAS 1997 94: 13169-13174. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Nicholas C. Nicolaides, Kenneth J. Holroyd, Susan L. Ewart, Scott M. Eleff, Matthew B. Kiser, Carl R. Dragwa, Christine D. Sullivan, Luigi Grasso, Liu-Yi Zhang, Carol J. Messler, Tingyi Zhou, Steven R. Kleeberger, Kenneth H. Buetow, and Roy C. Levitt

Interleukin 9: A candidate gene for asthma
PNAS 1997 94: 13175-13180. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Huizhou Fan, Aiping Huang, Cristy Villegas, and Jim A. Wright

The R1 component of mammalian ribonucleotide reductase has malignancy-suppressing activity as demonstrated by gene transfer experiments
PNAS 1997 94: 13181-13186. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ryuya Yamanaka, Carrolee Barlow, Julie Lekstrom-Himes, Lucio H. Castilla, Pu P. Liu, Michael Eckhaus, Thomas Decker, Anthony Wynshaw-Boris, and Kleanthis G. Xanthopoulos

Impaired granulopoiesis, myelodysplasia, and early lethality in CCAAT/enhancer binding protein -deficient mice
PNAS 1997 94: 13187-13192. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tae-Wook Chun, Lieven Stuyver, Stephanie B. Mizell, Linda A. Ehler, Jo Ann M. Mican, Michael Baseler, Alun L. Lloyd, Martin A. Nowak, and Anthony S. Fauci

Presence of an inducible HIV-1 latent reservoir during highly active antiretroviral therapy
PNAS 1997 94: 13193-13197. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seppo Parkkila, Abdul Waheed, Robert S. Britton, Bruce R. Bacon, Xiao Yan Zhou, Shunji Tomatsu, Robert E. Fleming, and William S. Sly

Association of the transferrin receptor in human placenta with HFE, the protein defective in hereditary hemochromatosis
PNAS 1997 94: 13198-13202. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yael S. Schiffenbauer, Rinat Abramovitch, Gila Meir, Nava Nevo, Michael Holzinger, Ahuva Itin, Eli Keshet, and Michal Neeman

Loss of ovarian function promotes angiogenesis in human ovarian carcinoma
PNAS 1997 94: 13203-13208. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Markus Stoffel and Stephen A. Duncan

The maturity-onset diabetes of the young (MODY1) transcription factor HNF4 regulates expression of genes required for glucose transport and metabolism
PNAS 1997 94: 13209-13214. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yihua Zhou, Bixiong C. Xu, Hiralal G. Maheshwari, Li He, Michael Reed, Maria Lozykowski, Shigeru Okada, Lori Cataldo, Karen Coschigamo, Thomas E. Wagner, Gerhard Baumann, and John J. Kopchick

A mammalian model for Laron syndrome produced by targeted disruption of the mouse growth hormone receptor/binding protein gene (the Laron mouse)
PNAS 1997 94: 13215-13220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Roberts, Nikolaj A. Timchenko, Jill W. Miller, Sita Reddy, C. Thomas Caskey, Maurice S. Swanson, and Lubov T. Timchenko

Altered phosphorylation and intracellular distribution of a (CUG)_n triplet repeat RNA-binding protein in patients with myotonic dystrophy and in myotonin protein kinase knockout mice
PNAS 1997 94: 13221-13226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra O. Sousa, Julia I. Salem, Francis K. Lee, Maria C. Verçosa, Philippe Cruaud, Barry R. Bloom, Philippe H. Lagrange, and Hugo L. David

An epidemic of tuberculosis with a high rate of tuberculin anergy among a population previously unexposed to tuberculosis, the Yanomami Indians of the Brazilian Amazon
PNAS 1997 94: 13227-13232. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Priit Kogerman, Man-Sun Sy, and Lloyd A. Culp

Overexpressed human CD44s promotes lung colonization during micrometastasis of murine fibrosarcoma cells: Facilitated retention in the lung vasculature
PNAS 1997 94: 13233-13238. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. García-Hernández, A. Castellanos, A. López, A. Orfao, and I. Sánchez-García

Murine hematopoietic reconstitution after tagging and selection of retrovirally transduced bone marrow cells
PNAS 1997 94: 13239-13244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Laurence G. Rahme, Man-Wah Tan, Long Le, Sandy M. Wong, Ronald G. Tompkins, Stephen B. Calderwood, and Frederick M. Ausubel

Use of model plant hosts to identify Pseudomonas aeruginosa virulence factors
PNAS 1997 94: 13245-13250. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jing Li, Dennis L. Kasper, Frederick M. Ausubel, Bernard Rosner, and James L. Michel

Inactivation of the  C protein antigen gene, bca, by a novel shuttle/suicide vector results in attenuation of virulence and immunity in group B Streptococcus
PNAS 1997 94: 13251-13256. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karl Voegele, Harry Sakellaris, and June R. Scott

CooB plays a chaperone-like role for the proteins involved in formation of CS1 pili of enterotoxigenic coli
PNAS 1997 94: 13257-13261. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Zhi-Qing David Xu, Xu Zhang, Sten Grillner, and Tomas Hökfelt

Electrophysiological studies on rat dorsal root ganglion neurons after peripheral axotomy: Changes in responses to neuropeptides
PNAS 1997 94: 13262-13266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margarita Diez, Jari Koistinaho, Stephen J. Dearmond, Darlene Groth, Stanley B. Prusiner, and Tomas Hökfelt

Marked decrease of neuropeptide Y Y2 receptor binding sites in the hippocampus in murine prion disease
PNAS 1997 94: 13267-13272. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kuo Wu, Chiye Aoki, Alice Elste, Adrienne A. Rogalski-Wilk, and Philip Siekevitz

The synthesis of ATP by glycolytic enzymes in the postsynaptic density and the effect of endogenously generated nitric oxide
PNAS 1997 94: 13273-13278. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marco Canossa, Oliver Griesbeck, Benedikt Berninger, Gabriele Campana, Roland Kolbeck, and Hans Thoenen INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Neurotrophin release by neurotrophins: Implications for activity-dependent neuronal plasticity PNAS 1997 94: 13279-13286. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Christine Sturchler-Pierrat, Dorothee Abramowski, Mairead Duke, Karl-Heinz Wiederhold, Claudia Mistl, Sabin Rothacher, Birgit Ledermann, Kurt Bürki, Peter Frey, Paolo A. Paganetti, Caroline Waridel, Michael E. Calhoun, Mathias Jucker, Alphonse Probst, Matthias Staufenbiel, and Bernd Sommer

Two amyloid precursor protein transgenic mouse models with Alzheimer disease-like pathology
PNAS 1997 94: 13287-13292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stanislas Dehaene and Jean-Pierre Changeux

A hierarchical neuronal network for planning behavior
PNAS 1997 94: 13293-13298. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Psyche H. Lee, Matthew C. Helms, George J. Augustine, and William C. Hall

Role of intrinsic synaptic circuitry in collicular sensorimotor integration
PNAS 1997 94: 13299-13304. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marten P. Smidt, Hermien S. A. van Schaick, Christian Lanctôt, Jacques J. Tremblay, Joke J. Cox, Arno A. M. van der Kleij, Gerrit Wolterink, Jacques Drouin, and J. Peter H. Burbach

A homeodomain gene Ptx3 has highly restricted brain expression in mesencephalic dopaminergic neurons
PNAS 1997 94: 13305-13310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan E. Hamilton, Michael D. Loose, Ming Qi, Allan I. Levey, Bertil Hille, G. Stanley McKnight, Rejean L. Idzerda, and Neil M. Nathanson

Disruption of the m1 receptor gene ablates muscarinic receptor-dependent M current regulation and seizure activity in mice
PNAS 1997 94: 13311-13316. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

Bhanu P. Jena, Stefan W. Schneider, John P. Geibel, Paul Webster, Hans Oberleithner, and Kumudesh C. Sritharan

G_i regulation of secretory vesicle swelling examined by atomic force microscopy
PNAS 1997 94: 13317-13322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steffen Hering, Stefan Aczél, Richard L. Kraus, Stanislav Berjukow, Jörg Striessnig, and Eugen N. Timin

Molecular mechanism of use-dependent calcium channel block by phenylalkylamines: Role of inactivation
PNAS 1997 94: 13323-13328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sophie Le Maout, Manuel Brejon, Olav Olsen, Jean Merot, and Paul A. Welling

Basolateral membrane targeting of a renal-epithelial inwardly rectifying potassium channel from the cortical collecting duct, CCD-IRK3, in MDCK cells
PNAS 1997 94: 13329-13334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kamran Khodakhah, Alexey Melishchuk, and Clay M. Armstrong

Killing K Channels with TEA⁺
PNAS 1997 94: 13335-13338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susumu Hyodo, Susumu Ishii, and Jean M. P. Joss

Australian lungfish neurohypophysial hormone genes encode vasotocin and [Phe²]mesotocin precursors homologous to tetrapod-type precursors
PNAS 1997 94: 13339-13344. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Denise Melanson, Mary-Dell Chilton, David Masters-Moore, and W. Scott Chilton

A deletion in an indole synthase gene is responsible for the DIMBOA-deficient phenotype of bxbx maize
PNAS 1997 94: 13345-13350. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mats Hansson and C. Gamini Kannangara

ATPases and phosphate exchange activities in magnesium chelatase subunits of sphaeroides
PNAS 1997 94: 13351-13356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yoshikatsu Matsubayashi, Leiko Takagi, and Youji Sakagami

Phytosulfokine-, a sulfated pentapeptide, stimulates the proliferation of rice cells by means of specific high- and low-affinity binding sites
PNAS 1997 94: 13357-13362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Psychology

Jonathan B. Demb, Geoffrey M. Boynton, and David J. Heeger

Brain activity in visual cortex predicts individual differences in reading performance
PNAS 1997 94: 13363-13366. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]