COMMENTARIES

Edmond H. Fischer and Earl W. Davie

Recent excitement regarding metallothionein
PNAS 1998 95: 3333-3334. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin L. Privalsky

Depudecin makes a debut
PNAS 1998 95: 3335-3337. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel T. Chiu and Richard N. Zare

Assaying for peptides in individual Aplysia neurons with mass spectrometry
PNAS 1998 95: 3338-3340. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcie Colledge and Stanley C. Froehner

To muster a cluster: Anchoring neurotransmitter receptors at synapses
PNAS 1998 95: 3341-3343. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edward M. Callaway

Visual scenes and cortical neurons: What you see is what you get
PNAS 1998 95: 3344-3345. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco J. Ayala

Is sex better? Parasites say "no"
PNAS 1998 95: 3346-3348. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret G. Kidwell and Alice R. Wattam

An important step forward in the genetic manipulation of mosquito vectors of human disease
PNAS 1998 95: 3349-3350. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Astronomy

Roy J. Britten

A gravitational diffusion model without dark matter
PNAS 1998 95: 3351-3355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chemistry

Ho Jeong Kwon, Takashi Owa, Christian A. Hassig, Junichi Shimada, and Stuart L. Schreiber

Depudecin induces morphological reversion of transformed fibroblasts via the inhibition of histone deacetylase
PNAS 1998 95: 3356-3361. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Troy D. Wood, Ziqiang Guan, Charles L. Borders Jr., Lorenzo H. Chen, George L. Kenyon, and Fred W. McLafferty

Creatine kinase: Essential arginine residues at the nucleotide binding site identified by chemical modification and high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry
PNAS 1998 95: 3362-3365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rebecca W. Garden, Scott A. Shippy, Lingjun Li, Tatiana P. Moroz, and Jonathan V. Sweedler

Proteolytic processing of the Aplysia egg-laying hormone prohormone
PNAS 1998 95: 3972-3977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geology

Joseph V. Smith

Atmospheric weathering and silica-coated feldspar: Analogy with zeolite molecular sieves, granite weathering, soil formation, ornamental slabs, and ceramics
PNAS 1998 95: 3366-3369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph V. Smith

Biochemical evolution. I. Polymerization on internal, organophilic silica surfaces of dealuminated zeolites and feldspars
PNAS 1998 95: 3370-3375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Allan M. Sinclair and Roger R. Smith

The Hochschild cohomology problem for von Neumann algebras
PNAS 1998 95: 3376-3379. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Economic Sciences

Wiliam Segal and I. E. Segal

The Black-Scholes pricing formula in the quantum context
PNAS 1998 95: 4072-4075. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Sciences

Nianbai Fang and John E. Casida

Anticancer action of cubé insecticide: Correlation for rotenoid constituents between inhibition of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase and induced ornithine decarboxylase activities
PNAS 1998 95: 3380-3384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Applied Biological Sciences

Mohammed Shahabuddin and Paulo F. P. Pimenta

Plasmodium gallinaceum preferentially invades vesicular ATPase-expressing cells in Aedes aegypti midgut
PNAS 1998 95: 3385-3389. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Weiwen Cai, Junping Jing, Benjamin Irvin, Lynne Ohler, Elise Rose, Hiroaki Shizuya, Ung-Jim Kim, Melvin Simon, Thomas Anantharaman, Bhubaneswar Mishra, and David C. Schwartz

High-resolution restriction maps of bacterial artificial chromosomes constructed by optical mapping
PNAS 1998 95: 3390-3395. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Woojin An, Sanford H. Leuba, Kensal van Holde, and Jordanka Zlatanova

Linker histone protects linker DNA on only one side of the core particle and in a sequence-dependent manner
PNAS 1998 95: 3396-3401. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mekbib Astatke, Kimmie Ng, Nigel D. F. Grindley, and Catherine M. Joyce

A single side chain prevents Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment) from incorporating ribonucleotides
PNAS 1998 95: 3402-3407. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Klaus Maskos, Carlos Fernandez-Catalan, Robert Huber, Gleb P. Bourenkov, Hans Bartunik, George A. Ellestad, Pranitha Reddy, Martin F. Wolfson, Charles T. Rauch, Beverly J. Castner, Raymond Davis, Howard R. G. Clarke, Melissa Petersen, Jeffrey N. Fitzner, Douglas Pat Cerretti, Carl J. March, Raymond J. Paxton, Roy A. Black, and Wolfram Bode

Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of human tumor necrosis factor--converting enzyme
PNAS 1998 95: 3408-3412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zheng-Qing Fu, Garrett C. Du Bois, Sherry P. Song, Irina Kulikovskaya, Laura Virgilio, Jay L. Rothstein, Carlo M. Croce, Irene T. Weber, and Robert W. Harrison

Crystal structure of MTCP-1: Implications for role of TCL-1 and MTCP-1 in T cell malignancies
PNAS 1998 95: 3413-3418. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sundarasamy Mahalingam, Velpandi Ayyavoo, Mamata Patel, Thomas Kieber-Emmons, Gary D. Kao, Ruth J. Muschel, and David B. Weiner

HIV-1 Vpr interacts with a human 34-kDa mov34 homologue, a cellular factor linked to the G₂/M phase transition of the mammalian cell cycle
PNAS 1998 95: 3419-3424. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Diane Z. Cleverley and John Lenard

The transmembrane domain in viral fusion: Essential role for a conserved glycine residue in vesicular stomatitis virus G protein
PNAS 1998 95: 3425-3430. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ronald A. Albright and Brian W. Matthews

How Cro and -repressor distinguish between operators: The structural basis underlying a genetic switch
PNAS 1998 95: 3431-3436. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yanshun Liu, P. John Hart, Michael P. Schlunegger, and David Eisenberg

The crystal structure of a 3D domain-swapped dimer of RNase A at a 2.1-Å resolution
PNAS 1998 95: 3437-3442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Albrecht Messerschmidt, Lars Prade, Sandra J. Kroes, Joann Sanders-Loehr, Robert Huber, and Gerard W. Canters

Rack-induced metal binding vs. flexibility: Met121His azurin crystal structures at different pH
PNAS 1998 95: 3443-3448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Domenico Praticò, Orla P. Barry, John A. Lawson, Mustafa Adiyaman, Seong-Woo Hwang, Subhash P. Khanapure, Luigi Iuliano, Joshua Rokach, and Garret A. FitzGerald

IPF₂-I: An index of lipid peroxidation in humans
PNAS 1998 95: 3449-3454. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nobuya Sasaki, Masaki Izawa, Masanori Watahiki, Kaori Ozawa, Takumi Tanaka, Yuko Yoneda, Shuji Matsuura, Piero Carninci, Masami Muramatsu, Yasushi Okazaki, and Yoshihide Hayashizaki

Transcriptional sequencing: A method for DNA sequencing using RNA polymerase
PNAS 1998 95: 3455-3460. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kasumi Murai, Hiroshi Murakami, and Shigekazu Nagata

Myeloid-specific transcriptional activation by murine myeloid zinc-finger protein 2
PNAS 1998 95: 3461-3466. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Man-Shiow Jiang, Qi-Qun Tang, John McLenithan, Deb Geiman, Wendy Shillinglaw, William J. Henzel, and M. Daniel Lane

Derepression of the C/EBP gene during adipogenesis: Identification of AP-2 as a repressor
PNAS 1998 95: 3467-3471. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. C. J. Wilce, C. S. Bond, N. E. Dixon, H. C. Freeman, J. M. Guss, P. E. Lilley, and J. A. Wilce

Structure and mechanism of a proline-specific aminopeptidase from Escherichia coli
PNAS 1998 95: 3472-3477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Maret and Bert L. Vallee

Thiolate ligands in metallothionein confer redox activity on zinc clusters
PNAS 1998 95: 3478-3482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Li-Juan Jiang, Wolfgang Maret, and Bert L. Vallee

The glutathione redox couple modulates zinc transfer from metallothionein to zinc-depleted sorbitol dehydrogenase
PNAS 1998 95: 3483-3488. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claus Jacob, Wolfgang Maret, and Bert L. Vallee

Control of zinc transfer between thionein, metallothionein, and zinc proteins
PNAS 1998 95: 3489-3494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pei-Qi Liu and Giovanna Ferro-Luzzi Ames

In vitro disassembly and reassembly of an ABC transporter, the histidine permease
PNAS 1998 95: 3495-3500. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gail Williams Wertz, Victoria P. Perepelitsa, and L. Andrew Ball

Gene rearrangement attenuates expression and lethality of a nonsegmented negative strand RNA virus
PNAS 1998 95: 3501-3506. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rosanna P. Baker and Linda J. Reha-Krantz

Identification of a transient excision intermediate at the crossroads between DNA polymerase extension and proofreading pathways
PNAS 1998 95: 3507-3512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ibolya Horváth, Attila Glatz, Viktória Varvasovszki, Zsolt Török, Tibor Páli, Gábor Balogh, Eszter Kovács, Levente Nádasdi, Sándor Benkö, Ferenc Joó, and László Vígh

Membrane physical state controls the signaling mechanism of the heat shock response in Synechocystis PCC 6803: Identification of hsp17 as a "fluidity gene"
PNAS 1998 95: 3513-3518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian A. Hassig, Jeffrey K. Tong, Tracey C. Fleischer, Takashi Owa, Phyllis G. Grable, Donald E. Ayer, and Stuart L. Schreiber

A role for histone deacetylase activity in HDAC1-mediated transcriptional repression
PNAS 1998 95: 3519-3524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maurizio Bocchetta, Liqun Xiong, and Alexander S. Mankin

23S rRNA positions essential for tRNA binding in ribosomal functional sites
PNAS 1998 95: 3525-3530. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James D. Colandene and Michael D. Topal

The domain organization of NaeI endonuclease: Separation of binding and catalysis
PNAS 1998 95: 3531-3536. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroyasu Nakano, Masahisa Shindo, Sachiko Sakon, Shigeyuki Nishinaka, Motoyuki Mihara, Hideo Yagita, and Ko Okumura

Differential regulation of IB kinase  and  by two upstream kinases, NF-B-inducing kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase/ERK kinase kinase-1
PNAS 1998 95: 3537-3542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenneth V. Mills, Belinda M. Lew, Shu-qin Jiang, and Henry Paulus

Protein splicing in trans by purified N- and C-terminal fragments of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis RecA intein
PNAS 1998 95: 3543-3548. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon J. MacKenzie, Stephen J. Yarwood, Alexander H. Peden, Graeme B. Bolger, Richard G. Vernon, and Miles D. Houslay

Stimulation of p70S6 kinase via a growth hormone-controlled phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway leads to the activation of a PDE4A cyclic AMP-specific phosphodiesterase in 3T3-F442A preadipocytes
PNAS 1998 95: 3549-3554. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alfin D. N. Vaz, Dermot F. McGinnity, and Minor J. Coon

Epoxidation of olefins by cytochrome P450: Evidence from site-specific mutagenesis for hydroperoxo-iron as an electrophilic oxidant
PNAS 1998 95: 3555-3560. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edwin R. Smith, Arri Eisen, Weigang Gu, Martin Sattah, Antonio Pannuti, Jianxin Zhou, Richard G. Cook, John C. Lucchesi, and C. David Allis

ESA1 is a histone acetyltransferase that is essential for growth in yeast
PNAS 1998 95: 3561-3565. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ana Denicola, José M. Souza, and Rafael Radi

Diffusion of peroxynitrite across erythrocyte membranes
PNAS 1998 95: 3566-3571. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marisa W. Friederich, Elsi Vacano, and Paul J. Hagerman

Global flexibility of tertiary structure in RNA: Yeast tRNA^Phe as a model system
PNAS 1998 95: 3572-3577. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deborah A. Kreutzer and John M. Essigmann

Oxidized, deaminated cytosines are a source of C  T transitions in vivo
PNAS 1998 95: 3578-3582. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Kevin R. MacKenzie and Donald M. Engelman INAUGURAL ARTICLE: Structure-based prediction of the stability of transmembrane helix-helix interactions: The sequence dependence of glycophorin A dimerization PNAS 1998 95: 3583-3590. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Christophe Escudé, Chi Hung Nguyen, Shrikant Kukreti, Yves Janin, Jian-Sheng Sun, Emile Bisagni, Thérèse Garestier, and Claude Hélène

Rational design of a triple helix-specific intercalating ligand
PNAS 1998 95: 3591-3596. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Hisataka Yasuda, Nobuyuki Shima, Nobuaki Nakagawa, Kyoji Yamaguchi, Masahiko Kinosaki, Shin-ichi Mochizuki, Akihiro Tomoyasu, Kazuki Yano, Masaaki Goto, Akihiko Murakami, Eisuke Tsuda, Tomonori Morinaga, Kanji Higashio, Nobuyuki Udagawa, Naoyuki Takahashi, and Tatsuo Suda

Osteoclast differentiation factor is a ligand for osteoprotegerin/osteoclastogenesis-inhibitory factor and is identical to TRANCE/RANKL
PNAS 1998 95: 3597-3602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhen Yan, James DeGregori, Ralph Shohet, Gustavo Leone, Bruce Stillman, Joseph R. Nevins, and R. Sanders Williams

Cdc6 is regulated by E2F and is essential for DNA replication in mammalian cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3603-3608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Futoshi Okada, Janusz W. Rak, Brad St. Croix, Blandine Lieubeau, Mitsunori Kaya, Luba Roncari, Senji Shirasawa, Takehiko Sasazuki, and Robert S. Kerbel

Impact of oncogenes in tumor angiogenesis: Mutant K-ras up-regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor/vascular permeability factor is necessary, but not sufficient for tumorigenicity of human colorectal carcinoma cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3609-3614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ahmed A. K. Hasan, Timothy Zisman, and Alvin H. Schmaier

Identification of cytokeratin 1 as a binding protein and presentation receptor for kininogens on endothelial cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3615-3620. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomokazu Yoshizaki, Hiroshi Sato, Mitsuru Furukawa, and Joseph S. Pagano

The expression of matrix metalloproteinase 9 is enhanced by Epstein-Barr virus latent membrane protein 1
PNAS 1998 95: 3621-3626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giuseppe Calamita, Bettina Kempf, Mélanie Bonhivers, William R. Bishai, Erhard Bremer, and Peter Agre

Regulation of the Escherichia coli water channel gene aqpZ
PNAS 1998 95: 3627-3631. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jing-Qing Luo, Xin Liu, Paul Frankel, Thuy Rotunda, Miguel Ramos, Judith Flom, Hong Jiang, Larry A. Feig, Andrew J. Morris, Richard A. Kahn, and David A. Foster

Functional association between Arf and RalA in active phospholipase D complex
PNAS 1998 95: 3632-3637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Tomiuk, Kay Hofmann, Michael Nix, Markus Zumbansen, and Wilhelm Stoffel

Cloned mammalian neutral sphingomyelinase: Functions in sphingolipid signaling?
PNAS 1998 95: 3638-3643. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yun Qiu, Dan Robinson, Tom G. Pretlow, and Hsing-Jien Kung

Etk/Bmx, a tyrosine kinase with a pleckstrin-homology domain, is an effector of phosphatidylinositol 3'-kinase and is involved in interleukin 6-induced neuroendocrine differentiation of prostate cancer cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3644-3649. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ke-Jun Li and Henrik Garoff

Packaging of intron-containing genes into retrovirus vectors by alphavirus vectors
PNAS 1998 95: 3650-3654. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rebecca A. MacCorkle, Kevin W. Freeman, and David M. Spencer

Synthetic activation of caspases: Artificial death switches
PNAS 1998 95: 3655-3660. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Müller-Reichert, Denis Chrétien, Fedor Severin, and Anthony A. Hyman

Structural changes at microtubule ends accompanying GTP hydrolysis: Information from a slowly hydrolyzable analogue of GTP, guanylyl (,)methylenediphosphonate
PNAS 1998 95: 3661-3666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Xiao Yang, Cuiling Li, Xiaoling Xu, and Chuxia Deng

The tumor suppressor SMAD4/DPC4 is essential for epiblast proliferation and mesoderm induction in mice
PNAS 1998 95: 3667-3672. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ofer Mokady, Matthew H. Dick, Dagmar Lackschewitz, Bernd Schierwater, and Leo W. Buss

Over one-half billion years of head conservation? Expression of an ems class gene in Hydractinia symbiolongicarpus (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa)
PNAS 1998 95: 3673-3678. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yunhan Hong, Christoph Winkler, and Manfred Schartl

Production of medakafish chimeras from a stable embryonic stem cell line
PNAS 1998 95: 3679-3684. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

H. F. Nijhout and D. J. Emlen

Competition among body parts in the development and evolution of insect morphology
PNAS 1998 95: 3685-3689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sassan Asgari, Ulrich Theopold, Craig Wellby, and Otto Schmidt

A protein with protective properties against the cellular defense reactions in insects
PNAS 1998 95: 3690-3695. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecology

Vincent A. A. Jansen and Jin Yoshimura

Populations can persist in an environment consisting of sink habitats only
PNAS 1998 95: 3696-3698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kaustuv Roy, David Jablonski, James W. Valentine, and Gary Rosenberg

Marine latitudinal diversity gradients: Tests of causal hypotheses
PNAS 1998 95: 3699-3702. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

H. F. Nijhout and D. J. Emlen

Competition among body parts in the development and evolution of insect morphology
PNAS 1998 95: 3685-3689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jose Castresana, Gertraud Feldmaier-Fuchs, and Svante Pääbo

Codon reassignment and amino acid composition in hemichordate mitochondria
PNAS 1998 95: 3703-3707. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianzhi Zhang, Helene F. Rosenberg, and Masatoshi Nei

Positive Darwinian selection after gene duplication in primate ribonuclease genes
PNAS 1998 95: 3708-3713. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Paterson, K. Wilson, and J. M. Pemberton

Major histocompatibility complex variation associated with juvenile survival and parasite resistance in a large unmanaged ungulate population (Ovis aries L.)
PNAS 1998 95: 3714-3719. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jan Mrázek and Samuel Karlin

Strand compositional asymmetry in bacterial and large viral genomes
PNAS 1998 95: 3720-3725. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nikos C. Kyrpides and Carl R. Woese

Archaeal translation initiation revisited: The initiation factor 2 and eukaryotic initiation factor 2B -- subunit families
PNAS 1998 95: 3726-3730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Maleszka, H. G. de Couet, and George L. Gabor Miklos

Data transferability from model organisms to human beings: Insights from the functional genomics of the flightless region of Drosophila
PNAS 1998 95: 3731-3736. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Tomoko Nagao, Sandra Leuzinger, Dario Acampora, Antonio Simeone, Robert Finkelstein, Heinrich Reichert, and Katsuo Furukubo-Tokunaga

Developmental rescue of Drosophila cephalic defects by the human Otx genes
PNAS 1998 95: 3737-3742. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nijole Jasinskiene, Craig J. Coates, Mark Q. Benedict, Anthony J. Cornel, Cristina Salazar Rafferty, Anthony A. James, and Frank H. Collins

Stable transformation of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti, with the Hermes element from the housefly
PNAS 1998 95: 3743-3747. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Craig J. Coates, Nijole Jasinskiene, Linda Miyashiro, and Anthony A. James

Mariner transposition and transformation of the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti
PNAS 1998 95: 3748-3751. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raymond J. Cho, Micheline Fromont-Racine, Lisa Wodicka, Becket Feierbach, Timothy Stearns, Pierre Legrain, David J. Lockhart, and Ronald W. Davis

Parallel analysis of genetic selections using whole genome oligonucleotide arrays
PNAS 1998 95: 3752-3757. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mario Sirito, Qun Lin, Jian Min Deng, Richard R. Behringer, and Michèle Sawadogo

Overlapping roles and asymmetrical cross-regulation of the USF proteins in mice
PNAS 1998 95: 3758-3763. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masaaki Hamaguchi, Elizabeth A. O'Connor, Tong Chen, Larry Parnell, Richard W. McCombie, and Michael H. Wigler

Rapid isolation of cDNA by hybridization
PNAS 1998 95: 3764-3769. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olga N. Danilevskaya, Chen Tan, Jimmy Wong, Minna Alibhai, and Mary-Lou Pardue

Unusual features of the Drosophila melanogaster telomere transposable element HeT-A are conserved in Drosophila yakuba telomere elements
PNAS 1998 95: 3770-3775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Riva P. Oliveira, Natalia E. Broude, Andrea M. Macedo, Charles R. Cantor, Cassandra L. Smith, and Sérgio D. J. Pena

Probing the genetic population structure of Trypanosoma cruzi with polymorphic microsatellites
PNAS 1998 95: 3776-3780. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hong Liang, Jeff Fairman, David F. Claxton, Peter C. Nowell, Eric D. Green, and Lalitha Nagarajan

Molecular anatomy of chromosome 7q deletions in myeloid neoplasms: Evidence for multiple critical loci
PNAS 1998 95: 3781-3785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Vladimir N. Loparev, Joseph M. Parsons, Janice C. Knight, Joanne Fanelli Panus, Caroline A. Ray, R. Mark L. Buller, David J. Pickup, and Joseph J. Esposito

A third distinct tumor necrosis factor receptor of orthopoxviruses
PNAS 1998 95: 3786-3791. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lei Ling, Zhaodan Cao, and David V. Goeddel

NF-B-inducing kinase activates IKK- by phosphorylation of Ser-176
PNAS 1998 95: 3792-3797. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ofer Mandelboim, Sally Kent, Daniel M. Davis, S. Brian Wilson, Taku Okazaki, Richard Jackson, David Hafler, and Jack L. Strominger

Natural killer activating receptors trigger interferon  secretion from T cells and natural killer cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3798-3803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rongfang Wang, Andrew Nelson, Kazuhiko Kimachi, Howard M. Grey, and Andrew G. Farr

The role of peptides in thymic positive selection of class II major histocompatibility complex-restricted T cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3804-3809. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anthony T. Vella, Steven Dow, Terry A. Potter, John Kappler, and Philippa Marrack

Cytokine-induced survival of activated T cells in vitro and in vivo
PNAS 1998 95: 3810-3815. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Annette L. Rothermel and Dario C. Altieri

High affinity cross-reacting mAb generated by minimal mimicry: Implications for the pathogenesis of anti-nuclear autoantibodies and immunosuppression
PNAS 1998 95: 3816-3820. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. P. Basadonna, L. Auersvald, C. Q. Khuong, X. X. Zheng, N. Kashio, D. Zekzer, M. Minozzo, H.-Y. Qian, L. Visser, A. Diepstra, A. I. Lazarovits, S. Poppema, T. B. Strom, and D. M. Rothstein

Antibody-mediated targeting of CD45 isoforms: A novel immunotherapeutic strategy
PNAS 1998 95: 3821-3826. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christos Tsatsanis, Christos Patriotis, Susan E. Bear, and Philip N. Tsichlis

The Tpl-2 protooncoprotein activates the nuclear factor of activated T cells and induces interleukin 2 expression in T cell lines
PNAS 1998 95: 3827-3832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mauro Congia, Salil Patel, Andrew P. Cope, Stefano De Virgiliis, and Grete Sønderstrup

T cell epitopes of insulin defined in HLA-DR4 transgenic mice are derived from preproinsulin and proinsulin
PNAS 1998 95: 3833-3838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chia-Lam Kuo, Mei-Ling Chen, Kai Wang, Chuan-Kai Chou, Bernard Vernooij, Donald Seto, Ben F. Koop, and Leroy Hood

A conserved sequence block in murine and human T cell receptor (TCR) J region is a composite element that enhances TCR  enhancer activity and binds multiple nuclear factors
PNAS 1998 95: 3839-3844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thi-Sau Migone, Nicholas A. Cacalano, Naomi Taylor, Taolin Yi, Thomas A. Waldmann, and James A. Johnston

Recruitment of SH2-containing protein tyrosine phosphatase SHP-1 to the interleukin 2 receptor; loss of SHP-1 expression in human T-lymphotropic virus type I-transformed T cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3845-3850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Daniel Zagury, Abderrahim Lachgar, Vida Chams, Lat S. Fall, Jacky Bernard, Jean-François Zagury, Bernard Bizzini, Alessandro Gringeri, Elena Santagostino, Jay Rappaport, Michael Feldman, Arsène Burny, and Robert C. Gallo

Interferon  and Tat involvement in the immunosuppression of uninfected T cells and C-C chemokine decline in AIDS
PNAS 1998 95: 3851-3856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Zagury, Abderrahim Lachgar, Vida Chams, Lat S. Fall, Jacky Bernard, Jean-François Zagury, Bernard Bizzini, Alessandro Gringeri, Elena Santagostino, Jay Rappaport, Michael Feldman, Stephen J. O'Brien, Arsene Burny, and Robert C. Gallo

C-C chemokines, pivotal in protection against HIV type 1 infection
PNAS 1998 95: 3857-3861. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janis L. Abkowitz, Monica Taboada, Grady H. Shelton, Sandra N. Catlin, Peter Guttorp, and J. Veronika Kiklevich

An X chromosome gene regulates hematopoietic stem cell kinetics
PNAS 1998 95: 3862-3866. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Csaba Szabó, László Virág, Salvatore Cuzzocrea, Gwen S. Scott, Paul Hake, Michael P. O'Connor, Basilia Zingarelli, Andrew Salzman, and Ernest Kun

Protection against peroxynitrite-induced fibroblast injury and arthritis development by inhibition of poly(ADP-ribose) synthase
PNAS 1998 95: 3867-3872. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine Schwienbacher, Silvia Sabbioni, Marco Campi, Angelo Veronese, Guido Bernardi, Agnese Menegatti, Izuho Hatada, Tsunehiro Mukai, Hirofumi Ohashi, Giuseppe Barbanti-Brodano, Carlo M. Croce, and Massimo Negrini

Transcriptional map of 170-kb region at chromosome 11p15.5: Identification and mutational analysis of the BWR1A gene reveals the presence of mutations in tumor samples
PNAS 1998 95: 3873-3878. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erik M. Schwiebert, Luis P. Cid-Soto, Diane Stafford, Mark Carter, Carol J. Blaisdell, Pamela L. Zeitlin, William B. Guggino, and Garry R. Cutting

Analysis of ClC-2 channels as an alternative pathway for chloride conduction in cystic fibrosis airway cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3879-3884. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura Virgilio, Cristina Lazzeri, Roberta Bichi, Ken-ichi Nibu, Maria Grazia Narducci, Giandomenico Russo, Jay L. Rothstein, and Carlo M. Croce

Deregulated expression of TCL1 causes T cell leukemia in mice
PNAS 1998 95: 3885-3889. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yoshihiro Yamada, Alan J. Warren, Claire Dobson, Alan Forster, Richard Pannell, and Terence H. Rabbitts

The T cell leukemia LIM protein Lmo2 is necessary for adult mouse hematopoiesis
PNAS 1998 95: 3890-3895. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philip J. Moos and F. A. Fitzpatrick

Taxane-mediated gene induction is independent of microtubule stabilization: Induction of transcription regulators and enzymes that modulate inflammation and apoptosis
PNAS 1998 95: 3896-3901. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amy Li, Paul J. Simmons, and Pritinder Kaur

Identification and isolation of candidate human keratinocyte stem cells based on cell surface phenotype
PNAS 1998 95: 3902-3907. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Ausim Azizi, David Stokes, Brian J. Augelli, Carla DiGirolamo, and Darwin J. Prockop

Engraftment and migration of human bone marrow stromal cells implanted in the brains of albino ratssimilarities to astrocyte grafts
PNAS 1998 95: 3908-3913. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Walter J. Lukiw, Ricardo Palacios Pelaez, Jorge Martinez, and Nicolas G. Bazan

Budesonide epimer R or dexamethasone selectively inhibit platelet-activating factor-induced or interleukin 1-induced DNA binding activity of cis-acting transcription factors and cyclooxygenase-2 gene expression in human epidermal keratinocytes
PNAS 1998 95: 3914-3919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Shiroh Onodera, Xueying Qiao, Jian Qiao, and Leonard Mindich

Directed changes in the number of double-stranded RNA genomic segments in bacteriophage 6
PNAS 1998 95: 3920-3924. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janaki L. Guruge, Per G. Falk, Robin G. Lorenz, Maria Dans, Hans-Peter Wirth, Martin J. Blaser, Douglas E. Berg, and Jeffrey I. Gordon

Epithelial attachment alters the outcome of Helicobacter pylori infection
PNAS 1998 95: 3925-3930. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Veronica Galvan and Bernard Roizman

Herpes simplex virus 1 induces and blocks apoptosis at multiple steps during infection and protects cells from exogenous inducers in a cell-type-dependent manner
PNAS 1998 95: 3931-3936. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gabriele Hahn, Rita Jores, and Edward S. Mocarski

Cytomegalovirus remains latent in a common precursor of dendritic and myeloid cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3937-3942. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anthony T. Maurelli, Reinaldo E. Fernández, Craig A. Bloch, Christopher K. Rode, and Alessio Fasano

"Black holes" and bacterial pathogenicity: A large genomic deletion that enhances the virulence of Shigella spp. and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli
PNAS 1998 95: 3943-3948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johanna Björkman, Diarmaid Hughes, and Dan I. Andersson

Virulence of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella typhimurium
PNAS 1998 95: 3949-3953. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Y. Miyahira, A. García-Sastre, D. Rodriguez, J. R. Rodriguez, K. Murata, M. Tsuji, P. Palese, M. Esteban, F. Zavala, and R. S. Nussenzweig

Recombinant viruses expressing a human malaria antigen can elicit potentially protective immune CD8⁺ responses in mice
PNAS 1998 95: 3954-3959. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Markus Steinmayr, Elisabeth André, François Conquet, Laure Rondi-Reig, Nicole Delhaye-Bouchaud, Nathalie Auclair, Hervé Daniel, Francis Crépel, Jean Mariani, Constantino Sotelo, and Michael Becker-André

staggerer phenotype in retinoid-related orphan receptor -deficient mice
PNAS 1998 95: 3960-3965. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria Dolores Ledesma, Kai Simons, and Carlos G. Dotti

Neuronal polarity: Essential role of protein-lipid complexes in axonal sorting
PNAS 1998 95: 3966-3971. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rebecca W. Garden, Scott A. Shippy, Lingjun Li, Tatiana P. Moroz, and Jonathan V. Sweedler

Proteolytic processing of the Aplysia egg-laying hormone prohormone
PNAS 1998 95: 3972-3977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adriana Di Polo, Ludwig J. Aigner, Robert J. Dunn, Garth M. Bray, and Albert J. Aguayo

Prolonged delivery of brain-derived neurotrophic factor by adenovirus-infected Müller cells temporarily rescues injured retinal ganglion cells
PNAS 1998 95: 3978-3983. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chantal E. Bazenet, Mónica A. Mota, and Lee L. Rubin

The small GTP-binding protein Cdc42 is required for nerve growth factor withdrawal-induced neuronal death
PNAS 1998 95: 3984-3989. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luc Pellerin, Giovanni Pellegri, Jean-Luc Martin, and Pierre J. Magistretti

Expression of monocarboxylate transporter mRNAs in mouse brain: Support for a distinct role of lactate as an energy substrate for the neonatal vs. adult brain
PNAS 1998 95: 3990-3995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mahendra S. Rao, Mark Noble, and Margot Mayer-Pröschel

A tripotential glial precursor cell is present in the developing spinal cord
PNAS 1998 95: 3996-4001. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David M. Coppola, Harriett R. Purves, Allison N. McCoy, and Dale Purves

The distribution of oriented contours in the real world
PNAS 1998 95: 4002-4006. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Manjunath K. Ramarao and Jonathan B. Cohen

Mechanism of nicotinic acetylcholine receptor cluster formation by rapsyn
PNAS 1998 95: 4007-4012. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Odila Saucedo-Cardenas, Juan D. Quintana-Hau, Wei-Dong Le, Marten P. Smidt, Joke J. Cox, Francesco De Mayo, J. Peter H. Burbach, and Orla M. Conneely

Nurr1 is essential for the induction of the dopaminergic phenotype and the survival of ventral mesencephalic late dopaminergic precursor neurons
PNAS 1998 95: 4013-4018. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ataúlfo Martínez-Torres, Ana E. Vazquez, Mitradas M. Panicker, and Ricardo Miledi

Cloning and functional expression of alternative spliced variants of the 1 -aminobutyrate receptor
PNAS 1998 95: 4019-4022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William R. Shankle, A. Kimball Romney, Benjamin H. Landing, and Junko Hara

Developmental patterns in the cytoarchitecture of the human cerebral cortex from birth to 6 years examined by correspondence analysis
PNAS 1998 95: 4023-4028. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sara R. Jones, Raul R. Gainetdinov, Mohamed Jaber, Bruno Giros, R. Mark Wightman, and Marc G. Caron

Profound neuronal plasticity in response to inactivation of the dopamine transporter
PNAS 1998 95: 4029-4034. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerald W. Zamponi and Terry P. Snutch

Decay of prepulse facilitation of N type calcium channels during G protein inhibition is consistent with binding of a single G subunit
PNAS 1998 95: 4035-4039. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Edward F. Nemeth, Michael E. Steffey, Lance G. Hammerland, Benjamin C. P. Hung, Bradford C. Van Wagenen, Eric G. DelMar, and Manuel F. Balandrin

Calcimimetics with potent and selective activity on the parathyroid calcium receptor
PNAS 1998 95: 4040-4045. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

Roberto A. Gaxiola, Daniel S. Yuan, Richard D. Klausner, and Gerald R. Fink

The yeast CLC chloride channel functions in cation homeostasis
PNAS 1998 95: 4046-4050. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Uyen Tram and Mariana F. Wolfner

Seminal fluid regulation of female sexual attractiveness in Drosophila melanogaster
PNAS 1998 95: 4051-4054. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toshio Ichikawa

Activity patterns of neurosecretory cells releasing pheromonotropic neuropeptides in the moth Bombyx mori
PNAS 1998 95: 4055-4060. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard S. Surwit, Shiying Wang, Ann E. Petro, Daniel Sanchis, Serge Raimbault, Daniel Ricquier, and Sheila Collins

Diet-induced changes in uncoupling proteins in obesity-prone and obesity-resistant strains of mice
PNAS 1998 95: 4061-4065. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Psychology

Gwendolyn E. Wood and Tracey J. Shors

Stress facilitates classical conditioning in males, but impairs classical conditioning in females through activational effects of ovarian hormones
PNAS 1998 95: 4066-4071. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]