COMMENTARIES

Christine Jacobs and Lucy Shapiro

Bacterial cell division: A moveable feast
PNAS 1999 96: 5891-5893. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan P. Wolffe, Peter L. Jones, and Paul A. Wade

DNA demethylation
PNAS 1999 96: 5894-5896. [Full Text] [PDF]  

William A. Eaton

Searching for "downhill scenarios" in protein folding
PNAS 1999 96: 5897-5899. [Full Text] [PDF]  

COLLOQUIUM:
Papers from a NAS Colloquium on Plants and Population: Is There Time?

Nina V. Fedoroff and Joel E. Cohen

Plants and population: Is there time?
PNAS 1999 96: 5903-5907. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nikos Alexandratos

World food and agriculture: Outlook for the medium and longer term
PNAS 1999 96: 5908-5914. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Gale Johnson

The growth of demand will limit output growth for food over the next quarter century
PNAS 1999 96: 5915-5920. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert E. Evenson

Global and local implications of biotechnology and climate change for future food supplies
PNAS 1999 96: 5921-5928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tim Dyson

World food trends and prospects to 2025
PNAS 1999 96: 5929-5936. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Hoisington, Mireille Khairallah, Timothy Reeves, Jean-Marcel Ribaut, Bent Skovmand, Suketoshi Taba, and Marilyn Warburton

Plant genetic resources: What can they contribute toward increased crop productivity?
PNAS 1999 96: 5937-5943. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew B. Thomas

Ecological approaches and the development of "truly integrated" pest management
PNAS 1999 96: 5944-5951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenneth G. Cassman

Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: Yield potential, soil quality, and precision agriculture
PNAS 1999 96: 5952-5959. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vernon W. Ruttan

The transition to agricultural sustainability
PNAS 1999 96: 5960-5967. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ganesh M. Kishore and Christine Shewmaker

Biotechnology: Enhancing human nutrition in developing and developed worlds
PNAS 1999 96: 5968-5972. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Doloressa Gleba, Nikolai V. Borisjuk, Ludmyla G. Borisjuk, Ralf Kneer, Alexander Poulev, Marina Skarzhinskaya, Slavik Dushenkov, Sithes Logendra, Yuri Y. Gleba, and Ilya Raskin

Use of plant roots for phytoremediation and molecular farming
PNAS 1999 96: 5973-5977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luis Herrera-Estrella

Transgenic plants for tropical regions: Some considerations about their development and their transfer to the small farmer
PNAS 1999 96: 5978-5981. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arturo Gómez-Pompa and Andrea Kaus

From pre-Hispanic to future conservation alternatives: Lessons from Mexico
PNAS 1999 96: 5982-5986. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Janzen

Gardenification of tropical conserved wildlands: Multitasking, multicropping, and multiusers
PNAS 1999 96: 5987-5994. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Tilman

Global environmental impacts of agricultural expansion: The need for sustainable and efficient practices
PNAS 1999 96: 5995-6000. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert H. Socolow

Nitrogen management and the future of food: Lessons from the management of energy and carbon
PNAS 1999 96: 6001-6008. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PERSPECTIVES

M. P. Sarachik and S. V. Kravchenko

Novel phenomena in dilute electron systems in two dimensions
PNAS 1999 96: 5900-5902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Applied Mathematics

Mark T. DiBattista and Andrew J. Majda

An equilibrium statistical model for the spreading phase of open-ocean convection
PNAS 1999 96: 6009-6013. [Abstract] [TeX] [PDF]  

Chemistry

Chaozhi Wan, Torsten Fiebig, Shana O. Kelley, Christopher R. Treadway, Jacqueline K. Barton, and Ahmed H. Zewail

Femtosecond dynamics of DNA-mediated electron transfer
PNAS 1999 96: 6014-6019. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David A. Fancy and Thomas Kodadek

Chemistry for the analysis of protein-protein interactions: Rapid and efficient cross-linking triggered by long wavelength light
PNAS 1999 96: 6020-6024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Changshou Gao, Shenlan Mao, Chih-Hung L. Lo, Peter Wirsching, Richard A. Lerner, and Kim D. Janda

Making artificial antibodies: A format for phage display of combinatorial heterodimeric arrays
PNAS 1999 96: 6025-6030. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Sabelko, J. Ervin, and M. Gruebele

Observation of strange kinetics in protein folding
PNAS 1999 96: 6031-6036. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Paul H. Rabinowitz INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Solutions of a Lagrangian system on T2 PNAS 1999 96: 6037-6041. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Physics

G. E. Volovik

Field theory in superfluid ³He: What are the lessons for particle physics, gravity, and high-temperature superconductivity?
PNAS 1999 96: 6042-6047. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

Joyce Marcus, Jeffrey D. Sommer, and Christopher P. Glew INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Fish and mammals in the economy of an ancient Peruvian kingdom PNAS 1999 96: 6564-6570. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Biochemistry

David A. Fancy and Thomas Kodadek

Chemistry for the analysis of protein-protein interactions: Rapid and efficient cross-linking triggered by long wavelength light
PNAS 1999 96: 6020-6024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel P. Morse and Brenda L. Bass

Long RNA hairpins that contain inosine are present in Caenorhabditis elegans poly(A)⁺ RNA
PNAS 1999 96: 6048-6053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akira Mitsui and Phillip A. Sharp

Ubiquitination of RNA polymerase II large subunit signaled by phosphorylation of carboxyl-terminal domain
PNAS 1999 96: 6054-6059. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Silvina Ponce Dawson, Joel Keizer, and John E. Pearson

Fire-diffuse-fire model of dynamics of intracellular calcium waves
PNAS 1999 96: 6060-6063. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laurence Van Melderen and Susan Gottesman INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Substrate sequestration by a proteolytically inactive Lon mutant PNAS 1999 96: 6064-6071. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Paul G. Alloway and Patrick J. Dolph

A role for the light-dependent phosphorylation of visual arrestin
PNAS 1999 96: 6072-6077. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Sagermann, Walter A. Baase, and Brian W. Matthews

Structural characterization of an engineered tandem repeat contrasts the importance of context and sequence in protein folding
PNAS 1999 96: 6078-6083. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joost G. J. Hoenderop, Arie B. Vaandrager, Lisette Dijkink, Albert Smolenski, Stepan Gambaryan, Suzanne M. Lohmann, Hugo R. de Jonge, Peter H. G. M. Willems, and René J. M. Bindels

Atrial natriuretic peptide-stimulated Ca²⁺ reabsorption in rabbit kidney requires membrane-targeted, cGMP-dependent protein kinase type II
PNAS 1999 96: 6084-6089. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neda Buschta-Hedayat, Tonko Buterin, Martin T. Hess, Miriam Missura, and Hanspeter Naegeli

Recognition of nonhybridizing base pairs during nucleotide excision repair of DNA
PNAS 1999 96: 6090-6095. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joachim Klein and Ingrid Grummt

Cell cycle-dependent regulation of RNA polymerase I transcription: The nucleolar transcription factor UBF is inactive in mitosis and early G₁
PNAS 1999 96: 6096-6101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer L. Oberfield, Jon L. Collins, Christopher P. Holmes, Donna M. Goreham, Joel P. Cooper, Jeffery E. Cobb, James M. Lenhard, Emily A. Hull-Ryde, Christopher P. Mohr, Steven G. Blanchard, Derek J. Parks, Linda B. Moore, Jürgen M. Lehmann, Kelli Plunket, Ann B. Miller, Michael V. Milburn, Steven A. Kliewer, and Timothy M. Willson

A peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor  ligand inhibits adipocyte differentiation
PNAS 1999 96: 6102-6106. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shyam Ramchandani, Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya, Nadia Cervoni, and Moshe Szyf

DNA methylation is a reversible biological signal
PNAS 1999 96: 6107-6112. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Craig A. Gelfand, G. Eric Plum, Slawomir Mielewczyk, David P. Remeta, and Kenneth J. Breslauer

A quantitative method for evaluating the stabilities of nucleic acids
PNAS 1999 96: 6113-6118. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guangshun Wang, Gregory P. Wylie, Pamela D. Twigg, Donald L. D. Caspar, John R. Murphy, and Timothy M. Logan

Solution structure and peptide binding studies of the C-terminal Src homology 3-like domain of the diphtheria toxin repressor protein
PNAS 1999 96: 6119-6124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adam G. Eldridge, Yu Li, Phillip A. Sharp, and Benjamin J. Blencowe

The SRm160/300 splicing coactivator is required for exon-enhancer function
PNAS 1999 96: 6125-6130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dilara Grate and Charles Wilson

Laser-mediated, site-specific inactivation of RNA transcripts
PNAS 1999 96: 6131-6136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael P. Bova, Orna Yaron, Qingling Huang, Linlin Ding, Dana A. Haley, Phoebe L. Stewart, and Joseph Horwitz

Mutation R120G in B-crystallin, which is linked to a desmin-related myopathy, results in an irregular structure and defective chaperone-like function
PNAS 1999 96: 6137-6142. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Victor Lyamichev, Mary Ann D. Brow, Virgil E. Varvel, and James E. Dahlberg

Comparison of the 5' nuclease activities of Taq DNA polymerase and its isolated nuclease domain
PNAS 1999 96: 6143-6148. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jie Pan, D. Thirumalai, and Sarah A. Woodson

Magnesium-dependent folding of self-splicing RNA: Exploring the link between cooperativity, thermodynamics, and kinetics
PNAS 1999 96: 6149-6154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nils E. Mikkelsen, Mathias Brännvall, Anders Virtanen, and Leif A. Kirsebom

Inhibition of RNase P RNA cleavage by aminoglycosides
PNAS 1999 96: 6155-6160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fredrik Åslund, Ming Zheng, Jon Beckwith, and Gisela Storz

Regulation of the OxyR transcription factor by hydrogen peroxide and the cellular thioldisulfide status
PNAS 1999 96: 6161-6165. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

D. K. Klimov and D. Thirumalai

Stretching single-domain proteins: Phase diagram and kinetics of force-induced unfolding
PNAS 1999 96: 6166-6170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grégoire Bonnet, Sanjay Tyagi, Albert Libchaber, and Fred Russell Kramer

Thermodynamic basis of the enhanced specificity of structured DNA probes
PNAS 1999 96: 6171-6176. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Weber, Volkhard Helms, J. Andrew McCammon, and Peter W. Langhoff

Shedding light on the dark and weakly fluorescent states of green fluorescent proteins
PNAS 1999 96: 6177-6182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. L. Paddock, M. S. Graige, G. Feher, and M. Y. Okamura

Identification of the proton pathway in bacterial reaction centers: Inhibition of proton transfer by binding of Zn²⁺ or Cd²⁺
PNAS 1999 96: 6183-6188. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masashi Nakagawa, Tatsuo Iwasa, Satoshi Kikkawa, Motoyuki Tsuda, and Thomas G. Ebrey

How vertebrate and invertebrate visual pigments differ in their mechanism of photoactivation
PNAS 1999 96: 6189-6192. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Wei Jiang, Nicholas J. Wells, and Tony Hunter

Multistep regulation of DNA replication by Cdk phosphorylation of HsCdc6
PNAS 1999 96: 6193-6198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hong Sun, Ralf Lesche, Da-Ming Li, Joanna Liliental, Hui Zhang, Jing Gao, Nadia Gavrilova, Brenda Mueller, Xin Liu, and Hong Wu

PTEN modulates cell cycle progression and cell survival by regulating phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5,-trisphosphate and Akt/protein kinase B signaling pathway
PNAS 1999 96: 6199-6204. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah Elliott, Michael Knop, Gabriel Schlenstedt, and Elmar Schiebel

Spc29p is a component of the Spc110p subcomplex and is essential for spindle pole body duplication
PNAS 1999 96: 6205-6210. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kathrin H. Kirsch, Maria-Magdalena Georgescu, Satoshi Ishimaru, and Hidesaburo Hanafusa

CMS: An adapter molecule involved in cytoskeletal rearrangements
PNAS 1999 96: 6211-6216. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Birong Liao, Bryce M. Paschal, and Katherine Luby-Phelps

Mechanism of Ca²⁺-dependent nuclear accumulation of calmodulin
PNAS 1999 96: 6217-6222. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oliver Ullrich, Thomas Reinheckel, Nicolle Sitte, Ralf Hass, Tilman Grune, and Kelvin J. A. Davies

Poly-ADP ribose polymerase activates nuclear proteasome to degrade oxidatively damaged histones
PNAS 1999 96: 6223-6228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia Elfgang, Olaf Rosorius, Lotte Hofer, Herbert Jaksche, Joachim Hauber, and Dorian Bevec

Evidence for specific nucleocytoplasmic transport pathways used by leucine-rich nuclear export signals
PNAS 1999 96: 6229-6234. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jianying Dong, Lee K. Opresko, Peter J. Dempsey, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Robert J. Coffey, and H. Steven Wiley

Metalloprotease-mediated ligand release regulates autocrine signaling through the epidermal growth factor receptor
PNAS 1999 96: 6235-6240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kwang Ho Cheong, Daniele Zacchetti, Eveline E. Schneeberger, and Kai Simons INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: VIP17/MAL, a lipid raft-associated protein, is involved in apical transport in MDCK cells PNAS 1999 96: 6241-6248. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Nelly Auersperg, Jie Pan, Bryon D. Grove, Todd Peterson, Janet Fisher, Sarah Maines-Bandiera, Aruna Somasiri, and Calvin D. Roskelley

E-cadherin induces mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition in human ovarian surface epithelium
PNAS 1999 96: 6249-6254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philip E. Hockberger, Timothy A. Skimina, Victoria E. Centonze, Colleen Lavin, Su Chu, Soheil Dadras, Janardan K. Reddy, and John G. White

Activation of flavin-containing oxidases underlies light-induced production of H₂O₂ in mammalian cells
PNAS 1999 96: 6255-6260. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claire Coeshott, Christie Ohnemus, Anna Pilyavskaya, Sherman Ross, Maciej Wieczorek, Heather Kroona, Axel H. Leimer, and John Cheronis

Converting enzyme-independent release of tumor necrosis factor  and IL-1 from a stimulated human monocytic cell line in the presence of activated neutrophils or purified proteinase 3
PNAS 1999 96: 6261-6266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Francisco Miralles, Paul Czernichow, Keiichi Ozaki, Nobuyuki Itoh, and Raphael Scharfmann

Signaling through fibroblast growth factor receptor 2b plays a key role in the development of the exocrine pancreas
PNAS 1999 96: 6267-6272. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chunming Liu, Yoichi Kato, Zhuohua Zhang, Viet Minh Do, Bruce A. Yankner, and Xi He

-Trcp couples -catenin phosphorylation-degradation and regulates Xenopus axis formation
PNAS 1999 96: 6273-6278. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]  

Evolution

Shozo Yokoyama, Huan Zhang, F. Bernhard Radlwimmer, and Nathan S. Blow

Adaptive evolution of color vision of the Comoran coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
PNAS 1999 96: 6279-6284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gang Wu, András Fiser, Benno ter Kuile, Andrej Sali, and Miklós Müller

Convergent evolution of Trichomonas vaginalis lactate dehydrogenase from malate dehydrogenase
PNAS 1999 96: 6285-6290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Aya Leder, Edith Wiener, Matthew J. Lee, Sunitha N. Wickramasinghe, and Philip Leder

A normal -globin allele as a modifier gene ameliorating the severity of -thalassemia in mice
PNAS 1999 96: 6291-6295. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Barbara Triggs-Raine, Timothy J. Salo, Hong Zhang, Brandy A. Wicklow, and Marvin R. Natowicz

Mutations in HYAL1, a member of a tandemly distributed multigene family encoding disparate hyaluronidase activities, cause a newly described lysosomal disorder, mucopolysaccharidosis IX
PNAS 1999 96: 6296-6300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy J. Griffin, Jeff G. Hall, James R. Prudent, and Lloyd M. Smith

Direct genetic analysis by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
PNAS 1999 96: 6301-6306. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian L. Lorson, Eric Hahnen, Elliot J. Androphy, and Brunhilde Wirth

A single nucleotide in the SMN gene regulates splicing and is responsible for spinal muscular atrophy
PNAS 1999 96: 6307-6311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrés Ruiz-Linares, Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos, Mauricio Figueroa, Natalia Mesa, Juan G. Múnera, Gabriel Bedoya, Iván D. Vélez, Luis F. García, Anna Pérez-Lezaun, Jaume Bertranpetit, Marcus W. Feldman, and David B. Goldstein

Microsatellites provide evidence for Y chromosome diversity among the founders of the New World
PNAS 1999 96: 6312-6317. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G.-X. Cheng, X.-H. Zhu, X.-Q. Men, L. Wang, Q.-H. Huang, X. L. Jin, S.-M. Xiong, J. Zhu, W.-M. Guo, J.-Q. Chen, S.-F. Xu, E. So, L.-C. Chan, S. Waxman, A. Zelent, G.-Q. Chen, S. Dong, J.-X. Liu, and S.-J. Chen

Distinct leukemia phenotypes in transgenic mice and different corepressor interactions generated by promyelocytic leukemia variant fusion genes PLZF-RAR and NPM-RAR
PNAS 1999 96: 6318-6323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Irina M. Conboy, Devanand Manoli, Vidula Mhaiskar, and Patricia P. Jones

Calcineurin and vacuolar-type H⁺-ATPase modulate macrophage effector functions
PNAS 1999 96: 6324-6329. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Azza H. Idris, Hamish R. C. Smith, Llewellyn H. Mason, John R. Ortaldo, Anthony A. Scalzo, and Wayne M. Yokoyama

The natural killer gene complex genetic locus Chok encodes Ly-49D, a target recognition receptor that activates natural killing
PNAS 1999 96: 6330-6335. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Koho Iizuka, David D. Chaplin, Yang Wang, Qiang Wu, Lyle E. Pegg, Wayne M. Yokoyama, and Yang-Xin Fu

Requirement for membrane lymphotoxin in natural killer cell development
PNAS 1999 96: 6336-6340. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomoki Yamadori, Yoshihiro Baba, Masato Matsushita, Shoji Hashimoto, Mari Kurosaki, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, and Satoshi Tsukada

Bruton's tyrosine kinase activity is negatively regulated by Sab, the Btk-SH3 domain-binding protein
PNAS 1999 96: 6341-6346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

David A. Bird, Kristin L. Gillotte, Sohvi Hörkkö, Peter Friedman, Edward A. Dennis, Joseph L. Witztum, and Daniel Steinberg

Receptors for oxidized low-density lipoprotein on elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages can recognize both the modified lipid moieties and the modified protein moieties: Implications with respect to macrophage recognition of apoptotic cells
PNAS 1999 96: 6347-6352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mi-Kyung Chang, Claes Bergmark, Aino Laurila, Sohvi Hörkkö, Ki-Hoon Han, Peter Friedman, Edward A. Dennis, and Joseph L. Witztum

Monoclonal antibodies against oxidized low-density lipoprotein bind to apoptotic cells and inhibit their phagocytosis by elicited macrophages: Evidence that oxidation-specific epitopes mediate macrophage recognition
PNAS 1999 96: 6353-6358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Trevor L. Hoffman, Celia C. LaBranche, Wentao Zhang, Gabriella Canziani, James Robinson, Irwin Chaiken, James A. Hoxie, and Robert W. Doms

Stable exposure of the coreceptor-binding site in a CD4-independent HIV-1 envelope protein
PNAS 1999 96: 6359-6364. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason P. Eiserich, Alvaro G. Estévez, Thaddeus V. Bamberg, Yao Zu Ye, Phillip H. Chumley, Joseph S. Beckman, and Bruce A. Freeman

Microtubule dysfunction by posttranslational nitrotyrosination of -tubulin: A nitric oxide-dependent mechanism of cellular injury
PNAS 1999 96: 6365-6370. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emily Kim, Thierry Arnould, Lorenz Sellin, Thomas Benzing, Natalia Comella, Olivier Kocher, Leonidas Tsiokas, Vikas P. Sukhatme, and Gerd Walz

Interaction between RGS7 and polycystin
PNAS 1999 96: 6371-6376. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bruce N. Cronstein, M. Carmen Montesinos, and Gerald Weissmann

Salicylates and sulfasalazine, but not glucocorticoids, inhibit leukocyte accumulation by an adenosine-dependent mechanism that is independent of inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis and p105 of NFB
PNAS 1999 96: 6377-6381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michele S. Park, Juan Rosai, Hai T. Nguyen, Paola Capodieci, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, and Andrew Koff

p27 and Rb are on overlapping pathways suppressing tumorigenesis in mice
PNAS 1999 96: 6382-6387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Terry D. Butters, Mario Cortina-Borja, Victoria Hunnam, Richard L. Proia, V. Hugh Perry, Raymond A. Dwek, and Frances M. Platt

Delayed symptom onset and increased life expectancy in Sandhoff disease mice treated with N-butyldeoxynojirimycin
PNAS 1999 96: 6388-6393. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jacqueline A. M. Vet, Amit R. Majithia, Salvatore A. E. Marras, Sanjay Tyagi, Syamalima Dube, Bernard J. Poiesz, and Fred Russell Kramer

Multiplex detection of four pathogenic retroviruses using molecular beacons
PNAS 1999 96: 6394-6399. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerald W. Dorn II, Nicole M. Tepe, John N. Lorenz, Walter J. Koch, and Stephen B. Liggett

Low- and high-level transgenic expression of ₂-adrenergic receptors differentially affect cardiac hypertrophy and function in Gq-overexpressing mice
PNAS 1999 96: 6400-6405. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Debra A. Feakes, R. Corey Waller, Deborah K. Hathaway, and Veronica S. Morton

Synthesis and in vivo murine evaluation of Na₄[1-(1'-B₁₀H₉)-6-SHB₁₀H₈] as a potential agent for boron neutron capture therapy
PNAS 1999 96: 6406-6410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael J. Mann, Gary H. Gibbons, Howard Hutchinson, Robert S. Poston, E. Grant Hoyt, Robert C. Robbins, and Victor J. Dzau

Pressure-mediated oligonucleotide transfection of rat and human cardiovascular tissues
PNAS 1999 96: 6411-6416. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gabriella Rizzuto, Manuela Cappelletti, Domenico Maione, Rocco Savino, Domenico Lazzaro, Patrizia Costa, Iacob Mathiesen, Riccardo Cortese, Gennaro Ciliberto, Ralph Laufer, Nicola La Monica, and Elena Fattori

Efficient and regulated erythropoietin production by naked DNA injection and muscle electroporation
PNAS 1999 96: 6417-6422. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toshio Ohshima, Raphael Schiffmann, Gary J. Murray, Jeffrey Kopp, Jane M. Quirk, Stefanie Stahl, Chi-Chao Chan, Patricia Zerfas, Jung-Hwa Tao-Cheng, J. M. Ward, Roscoe O. Brady, and Ashok B. Kulkarni

Aging accentuates and bone marrow transplantation ameliorates metabolic defects in Fabry disease mice
PNAS 1999 96: 6423-6427. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mitsuhiko Osaka, Janet D. Rowley, and Nancy J. Zeleznik-Le

MSF (MLL septin-like fusion), a fusion partner gene of MLL, in a therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia with a t(11;17)(q23;q25)
PNAS 1999 96: 6428-6433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Byeong-Woo Park, Donald M. O'Rourke, Qiang Wang, James G. Davis, Andrew Post, Xiaolan Qian, and Mark I. Greene

Induction of the Tat-binding protein 1 gene accompanies the disabling of oncogenic erbB receptor tyrosine kinases
PNAS 1999 96: 6434-6438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Gisela Becker, Eberhard Klauck, and Regine Hengge-Aronis

Regulation of RpoS proteolysis in Escherichia coli: The response regulator RssB is a recognition factor that interacts with the turnover element in RpoS
PNAS 1999 96: 6439-6444. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Christophe Barale, Thierry Blisnick, Hisashi Fujioka, Pedro M. Alzari, Masamishi Aikawa, Catherine Braun-Breton, and Gordon Langsley

Plasmodium falciparum subtilisin-like protease 2, a merozoite candidate for the merozoite surface protein 1-42 maturase
PNAS 1999 96: 6445-6450. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle R. Rondon, Sandra J. Raffel, Robert M. Goodman, and Jo Handelsman

Toward functional genomics in bacteria: Analysis of gene expression in Escherichia coli from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of Bacillus cereus
PNAS 1999 96: 6451-6455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Glenn M. Young, Deborah H. Schmiel, and Virginia L. Miller

A new pathway for the secretion of virulence factors by bacteria: The flagellar export apparatus functions as a protein-secretion system
PNAS 1999 96: 6456-6461. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Henk Schulz, Renata A. Fabianek, Erica C. Pellicioli, Hauke Hennecke, and Linda Thöny-Meyer

Heme transfer to the heme chaperone CcmE during cytochrome c maturation requires the CcmC protein, which may function independently of the ABC-transporter CcmAB
PNAS 1999 96: 6462-6467. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

John E. Donahue, Tyler M. Berzin, Michael S. Rafii, David J. Glass, George D. Yancopoulos, Justin R. Fallon, and Edward G. Stopa

Agrin in Alzheimer's disease: Altered solubility and abnormal distribution within microvasculature and brain parenchyma
PNAS 1999 96: 6468-6472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paola Tirassa, Luigi Aloe, Carina Stenfors, Paolo Turrini, and Thomas Lundeberg

Cholecystokinin-8 protects central cholinergic neurons against fimbria-fornix lesion through the up-regulation of nerve growth factor synthesis
PNAS 1999 96: 6473-6477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María Isabel Miranda and Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni

Reversible inactivation of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis induces disruption of cortical acetylcholine release and acquisition, but not retrieval, of aversive memories
PNAS 1999 96: 6478-6482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Srikantan Nagarajan, Henry Mahncke, Talya Salz, Paula Tallal, Timothy Roberts, and Michael M. Merzenich

Cortical auditory signal processing in poor readers
PNAS 1999 96: 6483-6488. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pharmacology

Bryan E. Snow, Laurie Betts, Joan Mangion, John Sondek, and David P. Siderovski

Fidelity of G protein -subunit association by the G protein -subunit-like domains of RGS6, RGS7, and RGS11
PNAS 1999 96: 6489-6494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

Ding Sheng He, Jean X. Jiang, Steven M. Taffet, and Janis M. Burt

Formation of heteromeric gap junction channels by connexins 40 and 43 in vascular smooth muscle cells
PNAS 1999 96: 6495-6500. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mirela Cuculescu, Timothy Pearson, David Hyde, and Ken Bowler

Heterothermal acclimation: An experimental paradigm for studying the control of thermal acclimation in crabs
PNAS 1999 96: 6501-6505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helmy M. Siragy, Tadashi Inagami, Toshihiro Ichiki, and Robert M. Carey

Sustained hypersensitivity to angiotensin II and its mechanism in mice lacking the subtype-2 (AT₂) angiotensin receptor
PNAS 1999 96: 6506-6510. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carlos G. Vanoye and Luis Reuss

Stretch-activated single K⁺ channels account for whole-cell currents elicited by swelling
PNAS 1999 96: 6511-6516. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maurice B. Burg, Eugenia M. Peters, Kurt M. Bohren, and Kenneth H. Gabbay

Factors affecting counteraction by methylamines of urea effects on aldose reductase
PNAS 1999 96: 6517-6522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Yuelin Zhang, Weihua Fan, Mark Kinkema, Xin Li, and Xinnian Dong

Interaction of NPR1 with basic leucine zipper protein transcription factors that bind sequences required for salicylic acid induction of the PR-1 gene
PNAS 1999 96: 6523-6528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hanma Zhang, Andrea Jennings, Peter W. Barlow, and Brian G. Forde

Dual pathways for regulation of root branching by nitrate
PNAS 1999 96: 6529-6534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yao-Guang Liu, Yumiko Shirano, Hidehiro Fukaki, Yukihiro Yanai, Masao Tasaka, Satoshi Tabata, and Daisuke Shibata

Complementation of plant mutants with large genomic DNA fragments by a transformation-competent artificial chromosome vector accelerates positional cloning
PNAS 1999 96: 6535-6540. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seth J. Davis, Jasmina Kurepa, and Richard D. Vierstra

The Arabidopsis thaliana HY1 locus, required for phytochrome-chromophore biosynthesis, encodes a protein related to heme oxygenases
PNAS 1999 96: 6541-6546. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cornelia Spetea, Torill Hundal, Felix Lohmann, and Bertil Andersson

GTP bound to chloroplast thylakoid membranes is required for light-induced, multienzyme degradation of the photosystem II D1 protein
PNAS 1999 96: 6547-6552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martha Orozco-Cardenas and Clarence A. Ryan

Hydrogen peroxide is generated systemically in plant leaves by wounding and systemin via the octadecanoid pathway
PNAS 1999 96: 6553-6557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Psychology

Bart Rypma and Mark D'Esposito

The roles of prefrontal brain regions in components of working memory: Effects of memory load and individual differences
PNAS 1999 96: 6558-6563. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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