COMMENTARIES

Angelika Amon

Controlling cell cycle and cell fate: Common strategies in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
PNAS 1998 95: 85-86. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alain Nicolas

Relationship between transcription and initiation of meiotic recombination: Toward chromatin accessibility
PNAS 1998 95: 87-89. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carol W. Greider

Telomerase activity, cell proliferation, and cancer
PNAS 1998 95: 90-92. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joachim Messing

Plant science in lac: A continuation of using tools from Escherichia coli in studying gene function in heterologous systems
PNAS 1998 95: 93-94. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COLLOQUIUM:
Papers from an NAS Colloquium on The Age of the Universe, Dark Matter, and Structure Formation

David N. Schramm

The age of the universe, dark matter, and structure formation
PNAS 1998 95: 1. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wendy L. Freedman

Measuring cosmological parameters
PNAS 1998 95: 2-7. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neill Reid

Globular clusters, Hipparcos, and the age of the galaxy
PNAS 1998 95: 8-12. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raul Jimenez

Globular cluster ages
PNAS 1998 95: 13-17. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. W. Truran

The age of the universe from nuclear chronometers
PNAS 1998 95: 18-21. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles C. Steidel

Galaxies and large scale structure at high redshifts
PNAS 1998 95: 22-28. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Wilkinson

The microwave background anisotropies: Observations
PNAS 1998 95: 29-34. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Richard Bond

Cosmic microwave background theory
PNAS 1998 95: 35-41. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David N. Schramm

Primordial nucleosynthesis
PNAS 1998 95: 42-46. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin J. Rees

The universe at z > 5: When and how did the "dark age" end?
PNAS 1998 95: 47-52. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Ellis

Particle components of dark matter
PNAS 1998 95: 53-58. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leslie J. Rosenberg

Direct searches for dark matter: Recent results
PNAS 1998 95: 59-66. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. J. E. Peebles

Galaxy formation
PNAS 1998 95: 67-71. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Mushotzky

X-ray emission from clusters and groups of galaxies
PNAS 1998 95: 72-77. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marc Davis

Cosmic velocity fields and their interpretation
PNAS 1998 95: 78-81. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neil J. Cornish, David N. Spergel, and Glenn D. Starkman

Measuring the topology of the universe
PNAS 1998 95: 82-84. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Computer Sciences

Michael H. Freedman

Limit, logic, and computation
PNAS 1998 95: 95-97. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael H. Freedman

P/NP, and the quantum field computer
PNAS 1998 95: 98-101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

W. A. LaMarr, L. Yu, K. C. Nicolaou, and P. C. Dedon

Supercoiling affects the accessibility of glutathione to DNA-bound molecules: Positive supercoiling inhibits calicheamicin-induced DNA damage
PNAS 1998 95: 102-107. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anja Kunzmann, Axel Brennicke, and Anita Marchfelder

5 end maturation and RNA editing have to precede tRNA 3 processing in plant mitochondria
PNAS 1998 95: 108-113. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Douglas J. Hilton, Rachael T. Richardson, Warren S. Alexander, Elizabeth M. Viney, Tracy A. Willson, Naomi S. Sprigg, Robyn Starr, Sandra E. Nicholson, Donald Metcalf, and Nicos A. Nicola

Twenty proteins containing a C-terminal SOCS box form five structural classes
PNAS 1998 95: 114-119. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kim C. Quon, Bing Yang, Ibrahim J. Domian, Lucy Shapiro, and Gregory T. Marczynski

Negative control of bacterial DNA replication by a cell cycle regulatory protein that binds at the chromosome origin
PNAS 1998 95: 120-125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roy J. Duhé, Gerald A. Evans, Rebecca A. Erwin, Robert A. Kirken, George W. Cox, and William L. Farrar

Nitric oxide and thiol redox regulation of Janus kinase activity
PNAS 1998 95: 126-131. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marian A. Martínez-Balbás, Toshio Tsukiyama, David Gdula, and Carl Wu

Drosophila NURF-55, a WD repeat protein involved in histone metabolism
PNAS 1998 95: 132-137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Ramkrishna Sadhukhan, Ganes C. Sen, Ramaswamy Ramchandran, and Indira Sen

The distal ectodomain of angiotensin-converting enzyme regulates its cleavage-secretion from the cell surface
PNAS 1998 95: 138-143. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jun Wada and Yashpal S. Kanwar

Characterization of mammalian translocase of inner mitochondrial membrane (Tim44) isolated from diabetic newborn mouse kidney
PNAS 1998 95: 144-149. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suzanne M. Mandala, Rosemary Thornton, Zhenxing Tu, Myra B. Kurtz, Joseph Nickels, James Broach, Ramil Menzeleev, and Sarah Spiegel

Sphingoid base 1-phosphate phosphatase: A key regulator of sphingolipid metabolism and stress response
PNAS 1998 95: 150-155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chuanshu Huang, Wei-Ya Ma, Matthew R. Young, Nancy Colburn, and Zigang Dong

Shortage of mitogen-activated protein kinase is responsible for resistance to AP-1 transactivation and transformation in mouse JB6 cells
PNAS 1998 95: 156-161. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. S. Siegel, X. Zhang, R. Feinman, T. Teitz, A. Zelenetz, V. M. Richon, R. A. Rifkind, P. A. Marks, and J. Michaeli

Hexamethylene bisacetamide induces programmed cell death (apoptosis) and down-regulates BCL-2 expression in human myeloma cells
PNAS 1998 95: 162-166. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Duncan J. Clarke, Juan F. Giménez-Abián, Holger Tönnies, Heidemarie Neitzel, Karl Sperling, C. Stephen Downes, and Robert T. Johnson

Creation of monosomic derivatives of human cultured cell lines
PNAS 1998 95: 167-171. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bharvin K. R. Patel, Jacalyn H. Pierce, and William J. LaRochelle

Regulation of interleukin 4-mediated signaling by naturally occurring dominant negative and attenuated forms of human Stat6
PNAS 1998 95: 172-177. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michiyuki Kanai, Colleen Mullen, and Daniel K. Podolsky

Intestinal trefoil factor induces inactivation of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase in intestinal epithelial cells
PNAS 1998 95: 178-182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Galini Thoidis, Peng Chen, Alexander V. Pushkin, Gino Vallega, Susan E. Leeman, Richard E. Fine, and Konstantin V. Kandror

Two distinct populations of synaptic-like vesicles from rat brain
PNAS 1998 95: 183-188. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephanie R. Amoroso, Naihui Huang, Anita B. Roberts, Michael Potter, and John J. Letterio

Consistent loss of functional transforming growth factor  receptor expression in murine plasmacytomas
PNAS 1998 95: 189-194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lihong Chen, Sudhir Agrawal, Wenqiang Zhou, Ruiwen Zhang, and Jiandong Chen

Synergistic activation of p53 by inhibition of MDM2 expression and DNA damage
PNAS 1998 95: 195-200. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Birgit E. Scharf, Karen A. Fahrner, Linda Turner, and Howard C. Berg

Control of direction of flagellar rotation in bacterial chemotaxis
PNAS 1998 95: 201-206. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecology

William E. Kunin

Biodiversity at the edge: A test of the importance of spatial "mass effects" in the Rothamsted Park Grass experiments
PNAS 1998 95: 207-212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine A. Pfister

Patterns of variance in stage-structured populations: Evolutionary predictions and ecological implications
PNAS 1998 95: 213-218. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

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

Relationship between "proto-splice sites" and intron phases: Evidence from dicodon analysis
PNAS 1998 95: 219-223. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nikos C. Kyrpides and Carl R. Woese

Universally conserved translation initiation factors
PNAS 1998 95: 224-228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew J. Roger, Staffan G. Svärd, Jorge Tovar, C. Graham Clark, Michael W. Smith, Frances D. Gillin, and Mitchell L. Sogin

A mitochondrial-like chaperonin 60 gene in Giardia lamblia: Evidence that diplomonads once harbored an endosymbiont related to the progenitor of mitochondria
PNAS 1998 95: 229-234. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pablo Vargas, Bruce G. Baldwin, and Lincoln Constance

Nuclear ribosomal DNA evidence for a western North American origin of Hawaiian and South American species of Sanicula (Apiaceae)
PNAS 1998 95: 235-240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Derek J. Blake, Ralph Nawrotzki, Nellie Y. Loh, Dariusz C. Górecki, and Kay E. Davies

-dystrobrevin, a member of the dystrophin-related protein family
PNAS 1998 95: 241-246. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gregory P. Copenhaver, William E. Browne, and Daphne Preuss

Assaying genome-wide recombination and centromere functions with Arabidopsis tetrads
PNAS 1998 95: 247-252. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. W. Thatcher, Janet M. Shaw, and W. J. Dickinson

Marginal fitness contributions of nonessential genes in yeast
PNAS 1998 95: 253-257. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Michael D. Gunn, Kirsten Tangemann, Carmen Tam, Jason G. Cyster, Steven D. Rosen, and Lewis T. Williams

A chemokine expressed in lymphoid high endothelial venules promotes the adhesion and chemotaxis of naive T lymphocytes
PNAS 1998 95: 258-263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lindsay B. Nicholson, Hanspeter Waldner, Ana M. Carrizosa, Alessandro Sette, Mary Collins, and Vijay K. Kuchroo

Heteroclitic proliferative responses and changes in cytokine profile induced by altered peptides: Implications for autoimmunity
PNAS 1998 95: 264-269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ajit Lalvani, Roger Brookes, Robert J. Wilkinson, Adam S. Malin, Ansar A. Pathan, Peter Andersen, Hazel Dockrell, Geoffrey Pasvol, and Adrian V. S. Hill

Human cytolytic and interferon -secreting CD8⁺ T lymphocytes specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
PNAS 1998 95: 270-275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sybille Müller, David H. Margolin, Peter L. Nara, W. Gregory Alvord, and Heinz Köhler

Stimulation of HIV-1-neutralizing antibodies in simian HIV-IIIB-infected macaques
PNAS 1998 95: 276-281. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

J. Marleen L. de Vree, Emmanuel Jacquemin, Ekkehard Sturm, Danièle Cresteil, Piter J. Bosma, Jan Aten, Jean-François Deleuze, Marc Desrochers, Martin Burdelski, Olivier Bernard, Ronald P. J. Oude Elferink, and Michelle Hadchouel

Mutations in the MDR3 gene cause progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
PNAS 1998 95: 282-287. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harold J. Helbock, Kenneth B. Beckman, Mark K. Shigenaga, Patrick B. Walter, Alan A. Woodall, Helen C. Yeo, and Bruce N. Ames

DNA oxidation matters: The HPLC-electrochemical detection assay of 8-oxo-deoxyguanosine and 8-oxo-guanine
PNAS 1998 95: 288-293. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David W. Schmidtke, Angela C. Freeland, Adam Heller, and Roger T. Bonnecaze

Measurement and modeling of the transient difference between blood and subcutaneous glucose concentrations in the rat after injection of insulin
PNAS 1998 95: 294-299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

George Vasmatzis, Magnus Essand, Ulrich Brinkmann, Byungkook Lee, and Ira Pastan

Discovery of three genes specifically expressed in human prostate by expressed sequence tag database analysis
PNAS 1998 95: 300-304. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard B. White, Jonathan A. Eisen, Thomas L. Kasten, and Russell D. Fernald

Second gene for gonadotropin-releasing hormone in humans
PNAS 1998 95: 305-309. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Joerg Petersen, Maura Dandri, Sanjeev Gupta, and Charles E. Rogler

Liver repopulation with xenogenic hepatocytes in B and T cell-deficient mice leads to chronic hepadnavirus infection and clonal growth of hepatocellular carcinoma
PNAS 1998 95: 310-315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Nicola R. Sibson, Ajay Dhankhar, Graeme F. Mason, Douglas L. Rothman, Kevin L. Behar, and Robert G. Shulman

Stoichiometric coupling of brain glucose metabolism and glutamatergic neuronal activity
PNAS 1998 95: 316-321. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. de Lecea, T. S. Kilduff, C. Peyron, X.-B. Gao, P. E. Foye, P. E. Danielson, C. Fukuhara, E. L. F. Battenberg, V. T. Gautvik, F. S. Bartlett II, W. N. Frankel, A. N. van den Pol, F. E. Bloom, K. M. Gautvik, and J. G. Sutcliffe

The hypocretins: Hypothalamus-specific peptides with neuroexcitatory activity
PNAS 1998 95: 322-327. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Artur V. Cideciyan, Xinyu Zhao, Lori Nielsen, Shahrokh C. Khani, Samuel G. Jacobson, and Krzysztof Palczewski

Null mutation in the rhodopsin kinase gene slows recovery kinetics of rod and cone phototransduction in man
PNAS 1998 95: 328-333. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiling Wen, Stefanie Fuhrman, George S. Michaels, Daniel B. Carr, Susan Smith, Jeffery L. Barker, and Roland Somogyi

Large-scale temporal gene expression mapping of central nervous system development
PNAS 1998 95: 334-339. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ignacio Provencio, Guisen Jiang, Willem J. De Grip, William Pär Hayes, and Mark D. Rollag

Melanopsin: An opsin in melanophores, brain, and eye
PNAS 1998 95: 340-345. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

M. Hohenegger, M. Waldhoer, W. Beindl, B. Böing, A. Kreimeyer, P. Nickel, C. Nanoff, and M. Freissmuth

G_s-selective G protein antagonists
PNAS 1998 95: 346-351. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Coward, H. Gary Wada, Matthew S. Falk, Sam D. H. Chan, Fan Meng, Huda Akil, and Bruce R. Conklin

Controlling signaling with a specifically designed G_i-coupled receptor
PNAS 1998 95: 352-357. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

J. H. Beattie, A. M. Wood, A. M. Newman, I. Bremner, K. H. A. Choo, A. E. Michalska, J. S. Duncan, and P. Trayhurn

Obesity and hyperleptinemia in metallothionein (-I and -II) null mice
PNAS 1998 95: 358-363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Douglas Campbell, Mats-Jerry Eriksson, Gunnar Öquist, Petter Gustafsson, and Adrian K. Clarke

The cyanobacterium Synechococcus resists UV-B by exchanging photosystem II reaction-center D1 proteins
PNAS 1998 95: 364-369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dario Leister, Joachim Kurth, David A. Laurie, Masahiro Yano, Takuji Sasaki, Katrien Devos, Andreas Graner, and Paul Schulze-Lefert

Rapid reorganization of resistance gene homologues in cereal genomes
PNAS 1998 95: 370-375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ian Moore, Leo Gälweiler, Debora Grosskopf, Jeff Schell, and Klaus Palme

A transcription activation system for regulated gene expression in transgenic plants
PNAS 1998 95: 376-381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tiesheng Gu, Maria Mazzurco, Waheeda Sulaman, Dinah D. Matias, and Daphne R. Goring

Binding of an arm repeat protein to the kinase domain of the S-locus receptor kinase
PNAS 1998 95: 382-387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Biology

David M. Geiser, John I. Pitt, and John W. Taylor

Cryptic speciation and recombination in the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus flavus
PNAS 1998 95: 388-393. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel J. Schoen, Jacques L. David, and Thomas M. Bataillon

Deleterious mutation accumulation and the regeneration of genetic resources
PNAS 1998 95: 394-399. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Psychology

Ching Elizabeth Ho

Letter recognition reveals pathways of second-order and third-order motion
PNAS 1998 95: 400-404. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 94, p. 9684 [Full Text]