COMMENTARIES

Hermann Steller

Artificial death switches: Induction of apoptosis by chemically induced caspase multimerization
PNAS 1998 95: 5421-5422. [Full Text] [PDF]  

SYMPOSIUM:
Papers presented at the Symposium "A Song Among the Ruins: 50 Years of Japanese/Academy Cooperative Studies of Atomic Bomb Survivors"

John E. Dowling

An Introduction to "A Song Among the Ruins"
PNAS 1998 95: 5423. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Itsuzo Shigematsu

Greetings: 50 years of Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission-Radiation Effects Research Foundation studies
PNAS 1998 95: 5424-5425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank W. Putnam

The Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission in retrospect
PNAS 1998 95: 5426-5431. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James V. Neel

Genetic studies at the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission-Radiation Effects Research Foundation: 1946-1997
PNAS 1998 95: 5432-5436. [Full Text] [PDF]  

William J. Schull

The somatic effects of exposure to atomic radiation: The Japanese experience, 1947-1997
PNAS 1998 95: 5437-5441. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Brett J. Doleman, Erik J. Severin, and Nathan S. Lewis

Trends in odor intensity for human and electronic noses: Relative roles of odorant vapor pressure vs. molecularly specific odorant binding
PNAS 1998 95: 5442-5447. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Engineering

V. Radhakrishnan INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Locomotion: Dealing with friction PNAS 1998 95: 5448-5455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Statistics

Andrzej Polanski, Marek Kimmel, and Ranajit Chakraborty

Application of a time-dependent coalescence process for inferring the history of population size changes from DNA sequence data
PNAS 1998 95: 5456-5461. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

Erik Trinkaus, Christopher B. Ruff, Steven E. Churchill, and Bernard Vandermeersch

Locomotion and body proportions of the Saint-Césaire 1 Châtelperronian Neandertal
PNAS 1998 95: 5836-5840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Applied Biological Sciences

Qing Yang, Irwin J. Goldstein, Houng-Yau Mei, and David R. Engelke

DNA ligands that bind tightly and selectively to cellobiose
PNAS 1998 95: 5462-5467. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Lothar Trieschmann, Brian Martin, and Michael Bustin

The chromatin unfolding domain of chromosomal protein HMG-14 targets the N-terminal tail of histone H3 in nucleosomes
PNAS 1998 95: 5468-5473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John B. Hogenesch, Yi-Zhong Gu, Sanjay Jain, and Christopher A. Bradfield

The basic-helix-loop-helix-PAS orphan MOP3 forms transcriptionally active complexes with circadian and hypoxia factors
PNAS 1998 95: 5474-5479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vladimir N. Uversky, Daniel J. Segel, Sebastian Doniach, and Anthony L. Fink

Association-induced folding of globular proteins
PNAS 1998 95: 5480-5483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helen C. Pace, Preston N. Garrison, Angela K. Robinson, Larry D. Barnes, Alexandra Draganescu, Angelika Rösler, G. Michael Blackburn, Zurab Siprashvili, Carlo M. Croce, Kay Huebner, and Charles Brenner

Genetic, biochemical, and crystallographic characterization of Fhit-substrate complexes as the active signaling form of Fhit
PNAS 1998 95: 5484-5489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon J. Davis, Elizabeth A. Davies, Michael G. Tucknott, E. Yvonne Jones, and P. Anton van der Merwe

The role of charged residues mediating low affinity protein-protein recognition at the cell surface by CD2
PNAS 1998 95: 5490-5494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helena Käck, Katharine J. Gibson, Ylva Lindqvist, and Gunter Schneider

Snapshot of a phosphorylated substrate intermediate by kinetic crystallography
PNAS 1998 95: 5495-5500. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isabella L. Karle, Mary Ann Perozzo, Vinod K. Mishra, and Padmanabhan Balaram

Crystal structure of the channel-forming polypeptide antiamoebin in a membrane-mimetic environment
PNAS 1998 95: 5501-5504. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helena M. Thorpe and Margaret C. M. Smith

In vitro site-specific integration of bacteriophage DNA catalyzed by a recombinase of the resolvase/invertase family
PNAS 1998 95: 5505-5510. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takato Yano, Shinya Oue, and Hiroyuki Kagamiyama

Directed evolution of an aspartate aminotransferase with new substrate specificities
PNAS 1998 95: 5511-5515. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nikolay O. Bukanov, Vadim V. Demidov, Peter E. Nielsen, and Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii

PD-loop: A complex of duplex DNA with an oligonucleotide
PNAS 1998 95: 5516-5520. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tzu-Hao Cheng, Yao-Cheng Li, and Marc R. Gartenberg

Persistence of an alternate chromatin structure at silenced loci in the absence of silencers
PNAS 1998 95: 5521-5526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shuyuan Yeh, Hiroshi Miyamoto, Hiroki Shima, and Chawnshang Chang

From estrogen to androgen receptor: A new pathway for sex hormones in prostate
PNAS 1998 95: 5527-5532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank W. R. Chaplen, William E. Fahl, and Douglas C. Cameron

Evidence of high levels of methylglyoxal in cultured Chinese hamster ovary cells
PNAS 1998 95: 5533-5538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edith Pfitzner, Jutta Kirfel, Peter Becker, Andreas Rolke, and Roland Schüle

Physical interaction between retinoic acid receptor and the oncoprotein Myb inhibits retinoic acid-dependent transactivation
PNAS 1998 95: 5539-5544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Sridhar Govindarajan and Richard A. Goldstein

On the thermodynamic hypothesis of protein folding
PNAS 1998 95: 5545-5549. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harshica Fernando, George A. Papadantonakis, Nancy S. Kim, and Pierre R. LeBreton

Conduction-band-edge ionization thresholds of DNA components in aqueous solution
PNAS 1998 95: 5550-5555. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Andrew S. Weyrich, Dan A. Dixon, Ravinder Pabla, Mark R. Elstad, Thomas M. McIntyre, Stephen M. Prescott, and Guy A. Zimmerman

Signal-dependent translation of a regulatory protein, Bcl-3, in activated human platelets
PNAS 1998 95: 5556-5561. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antonella Favit, Maurizio Grimaldi, Thomas J. Nelson, and Daniel L. Alkon

Alzheimer's-specific effects of soluble -amyloid on protein kinase C- and - degradation in human fibroblasts
PNAS 1998 95: 5562-5567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chuan-He Yang, Aruna Murti, and Lawrence M. Pfeffer

STAT3 complements defects in an interferon-resistant cell line: Evidence for an essential role for STAT3 in interferon signaling and biological activities
PNAS 1998 95: 5568-5572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hjalmar Brismar, Mohammad Asghar, Robert M. Carey, Paul Greengard, and Anita Aperia

Dopamine-induced recruitment of dopamine D1 receptors to the plasma membrane
PNAS 1998 95: 5573-5578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lena Claesson-Welsh, Michael Welsh, Nobuyuki Ito, Bela Anand-Apte, Shay Soker, Bruce Zetter, Michael O'Reilly, and Judah Folkman

Angiostatin induces endothelial cell apoptosis and activation of focal adhesion kinase independently of the integrin-binding motif RGD
PNAS 1998 95: 5579-5583. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sreesha P. Srinivasa, Leah S. Bernstein, Kendall J. Blumer, and Maurine E. Linder

Plasma membrane localization is required for RGS4 function in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
PNAS 1998 95: 5584-5589. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eduardo Mascareno, Manya Dhar, and M. A. Q. Siddiqui

Signal transduction and activator of transcription (STAT) protein-dependent activation of angiotensinogen promoter: A cellular signal for hypertrophy in cardiac muscle
PNAS 1998 95: 5590-5594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph C. Deak, Janet V. Cross, Margaret Lewis, Yongyi Qian, Louis A. Parrott, Clark W. Distelhorst, and Dennis J. Templeton

Fas-induced proteolytic activation and intracellular redistribution of the stress-signaling kinase MEKK1
PNAS 1998 95: 5595-5600. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandre Avrameas, Thérèse Ternynck, Faridabano Nato, Gérard Buttin, and Stratis Avrameas

Polyreactive anti-DNA monoclonal antibodies and a derived peptide as vectors for the intracytoplasmic and intranuclear translocation of macromolecules
PNAS 1998 95: 5601-5606. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert W. Frenck Jr., Elizabeth H. Blackburn, and Kevin M. Shannon

The rate of telomere sequence loss in human leukocytes varies with age
PNAS 1998 95: 5607-5610. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Atsuo Ogura, Osamu Suzuki, Kentaro Tanemura, Keiji Mochida, Yoshiro Kobayashi, and Junichiro Matsuda

Development of normal mice from metaphase I oocytes fertilized with primary spermatocytes
PNAS 1998 95: 5611-5615. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ronald D. Flannagan, Steven P. Tammariello, Karl H. Joplin, Rebecca A. Cikra-Ireland, George D. Yocum, and David L. Denlinger

Diapause-specific gene expression in pupae of the flesh fly Sarcophaga crassipalpis
PNAS 1998 95: 5616-5620. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Habib Sassi, Raymond Pictet, and Thierry Grange

Glucocorticoids are insufficient for neonatal gene induction in the liver
PNAS 1998 95: 5621-5625. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melinda J. Fan, Wolfram Grüning, Gerd Walz, and Sergei Y. Sokol

Wnt signaling and transcriptional control of Siamois in Xenopus embryos
PNAS 1998 95: 5626-5631. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecology

Michel Loreau

Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: A mechanistic model
PNAS 1998 95: 5632-5636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Michael P. Cummings and Michael T. Clegg

Nucleotide sequence diversity at the alcohol dehydrogenase 1 locus in wild barley (Hordeum vulgare ssp. spontaneum): An evaluation of the background selection hypothesis
PNAS 1998 95: 5637-5642. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Travis J. Ryan and Raymond D. Semlitsch

Intraspecific heterochrony and life history evolution: Decoupling somatic and sexual development in a facultatively paedomorphic salamander
PNAS 1998 95: 5643-5648. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Stephan, Lin Xing, David A. Kirby, and John M. Braverman

A test of the background selection hypothesis based on nucleotide data from Drosophila ananassae
PNAS 1998 95: 5649-5654. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erik Trinkaus, Christopher B. Ruff, Steven E. Churchill, and Bernard Vandermeersch

Locomotion and body proportions of the Saint-Césaire 1 Châtelperronian Neandertal
PNAS 1998 95: 5836-5840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Judith Bender and Gerald R. Fink

A Myb homologue, ATR1, activates tryptophan gene expression in Arabidopsis
PNAS 1998 95: 5655-5660. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jichen Xu, Daichang Yang, Jessica Domingo, Junjian Ni, and Ning Huang

Screening for overlapping bacterial artificial chromosome clones by PCR analysis with an arbitrary primer
PNAS 1998 95: 5661-5666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karla A. Henning, Naomi Moskowitz, Melissa A. Ashlock, and Pu P. Liu

Humanizing the yeast telomerase template
PNAS 1998 95: 5667-5671. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sagrario Ortega, Michael Ittmann, Stephen H. Tsang, Michelle Ehrlich, and Claudio Basilico

Neuronal defects and delayed wound healing in mice lacking fibroblast growth factor 2
PNAS 1998 95: 5672-5677. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stacey Broomfield, Barbara L. Chow, and Wei Xiao

MMS2, encoding a ubiquitin-conjugating-enzyme-like protein, is a member of the yeast error-free postreplication repair pathway
PNAS 1998 95: 5678-5683. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Franz Dürrenberger, Katherine Wong, and James W. Kronstad

Identification of a cAMP-dependent protein kinase catalytic subunit required for virulence and morphogenesis in Ustilago maydis
PNAS 1998 95: 5684-5689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Tetsu Kawano, Junqing Cui, Yasuhiko Koezuka, Isao Toura, Yoshikatsu Kaneko, Hiroshi Sato, Eisuke Kondo, Michishige Harada, Haruhiko Koseki, Toshinori Nakayama, Yujiro Tanaka, and Masaru Taniguchi

Natural killer-like nonspecific tumor cell lysis mediated by specific ligand-activated V14 NKT cells
PNAS 1998 95: 5690-5693. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ferenc Livák and David G. Schatz

Alternative splicing of rearranged T cell receptor  sequences to the constant region of the  locus
PNAS 1998 95: 5694-5699. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shirley Luckhart, Yoram Vodovotz, Liwang Cui, and Ronald Rosenberg

The mosquito Anopheles stephensi limits malaria parasite development with inducible synthesis of nitric oxide
PNAS 1998 95: 5700-5705. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Owen Williams, Raquel Tarazona, Andreas Wack, Nicola Harker, Kathleen Roderick, and Dimitris Kioussis

Interactions with multiple peptide ligands determine the fate of developing thymocytes
PNAS 1998 95: 5706-5711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Cornel Popovici, José Adélaïde, Vincent Ollendorff, Max Chaffanet, Géraldine Guasch, Michèle Jacrot, Dominique Leroux, Daniel Birnbaum, and Marie-Josèphe Pébusque

Fibroblast growth factor receptor 1 is fused to FIM in stem-cell myeloproliferative disorder with t(8;13)(p12;q12)
PNAS 1998 95: 5712-5717. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jian-Dong Li, Weijun Feng, Marianne Gallup, Jae-Ho Kim, James Gum, Young Kim, and Carol Basbaum

Activation of NF-B via a Src-dependent Ras-MAPK-pp90rsk pathway is required for Pseudomonas aeruginosa-induced mucin overproduction in epithelial cells
PNAS 1998 95: 5718-5723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Motoo Nagane, Alexander Levitzki, Aviv Gazit, Webster K. Cavenee, and H.-J. Su Huang

Drug resistance of human glioblastoma cells conferred by a tumor-specific mutant epidermal growth factor receptor through modulation of Bcl-X_L and caspase-3-like proteases
PNAS 1998 95: 5724-5729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. A. Lorimore, M. A. Kadhim, D. A. Pocock, D. Papworth, D. L. Stevens, D. T. Goodhead, and E. G. Wright

Chromosomal instability in the descendants of unirradiated surviving cells after -particle irradiation
PNAS 1998 95: 5730-5733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gregory L. Evans and Richard A. Morgan

Genetic induction of immune tolerance to human clotting factor VIII in a mouse model for hemophilia A
PNAS 1998 95: 5734-5739. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wei-Kung Wang, Tim Dudek, Yun-Juan Zhao, Hunter G. Brumblay, Max Essex, and Tun-Hou Lee

CCR5 coreceptor utilization involves a highly conserved arginine residue of HIV type 1 gp120
PNAS 1998 95: 5740-5745. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Paul C. Roberts and Richard W. Compans

Host cell dependence of viral morphology
PNAS 1998 95: 5746-5751. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gouzel Karimova, Josette Pidoux, Agnes Ullmann, and Daniel Ladant

A bacterial two-hybrid system based on a reconstituted signal transduction pathway
PNAS 1998 95: 5752-5756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert E. Lanford, Deborah Chavez, Kathleen M. Brasky, Roy B. Burns III, and Rebeca Rico-Hesse

Isolation of a hepadnavirus from the woolly monkey, a New World primate
PNAS 1998 95: 5757-5761. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Viktor E. Volchkov, Heinz Feldmann, Valentina A. Volchkova, and Hans-Dieter Klenk

Processing of the Ebola virus glycoprotein by the proprotein convertase furin
PNAS 1998 95: 5762-5767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Brett J. Doleman, Erik J. Severin, and Nathan S. Lewis

Trends in odor intensity for human and electronic noses: Relative roles of odorant vapor pressure vs. molecularly specific odorant binding
PNAS 1998 95: 5442-5447. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald C. Shields, William R. Tyor, Gladys E. Deibler, Edward L. Hogan, and Naren L. Banik

Increased calpain expression in activated glial and inflammatory cells in experimental allergic encephalomyelitis
PNAS 1998 95: 5768-5772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hye-Young Yun, Mirella Gonzalez-Zulueta, Valina L. Dawson, and Ted M. Dawson

Nitric oxide mediates N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor-induced activation of p21^ras
PNAS 1998 95: 5773-5778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harald Neumann, Thomas Misgeld, Kenji Matsumuro, and Hartmut Wekerle

Neurotrophins inhibit major histocompatibility class II inducibility of microglia: Involvement of the p75 neurotrophin receptor
PNAS 1998 95: 5779-5784. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. A. Highfield, D. Hu, and A. Amsel

Alleviation of x-irradiation-based deficit in memory-based learning by D-amphetamine: Suggestions for attention deficit-hyperactivity disorder
PNAS 1998 95: 5785-5788. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Offen, Philip M. Beart, Nam S. Cheung, Catherine J. Pascoe, Ayala Hochman, Svetlana Gorodin, Eldad Melamed, Rozenn Bernard, and Ora Bernard

Transgenic mice expressing human Bcl-2 in their neurons are resistant to 6-hydroxydopamine and 1-methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6- tetrahydropyridine neurotoxicity
PNAS 1998 95: 5789-5794. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keith T. Akama, Chris Albanese, Richard G. Pestell, and Linda J. Van Eldik

Amyloid -peptide stimulates nitric oxide production in astrocytes through an NFB-dependent mechanism
PNAS 1998 95: 5795-5800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert H. Baloh, Alexander Gorodinsky, Judith P. Golden, Malú G. Tansey, Catherine L. Keck, Nicholas C. Popescu, Eugene M. Johnson Jr., and Jeffrey Milbrandt

GFR3 is an orphan member of the GDNF/neurturin/persephin receptor family
PNAS 1998 95: 5801-5806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. A. Whittington, R. D. Traub, H. J. Faulkner, J. G. R. Jefferys, and K. Chettiar

Morphine disrupts long-range synchrony of gamma oscillations in hippocampal slices
PNAS 1998 95: 5807-5811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Hajime Sakai, Jian Hua, Qianhong G. Chen, Caren Chang, Leonard J. Medrano, Anthony B. Bleecker, and Elliot M. Meyerowitz

ETR2 is an ETR1-like gene involved in ethylene signaling in Arabidopsis
PNAS 1998 95: 5812-5817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sangpen Chamnongpol, Hilde Willekens, Wolfgang Moeder, Christian Langebartels, Heinrich Sandermann Jr., Marc Van Montagu, Dirk Inzé, and Wim Van Camp

Defense activation and enhanced pathogen tolerance induced by H₂O₂ in transgenic tobacco
PNAS 1998 95: 5818-5823. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

E. J. Finnegan, R. K. Genger, K. Kovac, W. J. Peacock, and E. S. Dennis

DNA methylation and the promotion of flowering by vernalization
PNAS 1998 95: 5824-5829. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qingfang He and Wim Vermaas

Chlorophyll a availability affects psbA translation and D1 precursor processing in vivo in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
PNAS 1998 95: 5830-5835. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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