COMMENTARIES

Jasper Rine

On the mechanism of silencing in Escherichia coli
PNAS 1999 96: 8309-8311. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eckhard R. Podack

How to induce involuntary suicide: The need for dipeptidyl peptidase I
PNAS 1999 96: 8312-8314. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kunle Odunsi and Kenneth K. Kidd

A paradigm for finding genes for a complex human trait: Polycystic ovary syndrome and follistatin
PNAS 1999 96: 8315-8317. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sue Wickner and Michael R. Maurizi

Here's the hook: Similar substrate binding sites in the chaperone domains of Clp and Lon
PNAS 1999 96: 8318-8320. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Barbara Hohn and Holger Puchta

Gene therapy in plants
PNAS 1999 96: 8321-8323. [Full Text] [PDF]  

FROM THE ACADEMY

Introduction to German-American Frontiers of Science
PNAS 1999 96: 8327. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philip Anfinrud, Regina de Vivie-Riedle, and Volker Engel

Ultrafast detection and control of molecular dynamics
PNAS 1999 96: 8328-8329. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wenwu Cao, Harley H. Cudney, and Rainer Waser

Smart materials and structures
PNAS 1999 96: 8330-8331. [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. Bhattacharya, G. Friesecke, and R. D. James

The mathematics of microstructure and the design of new materials
PNAS 1999 96: 8332-8333. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hans-Walter Rix

The past and the future fate of the universe and the formation of structure in it
PNAS 1999 96: 8334-8335. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Prasanna de Silva, Jens Eilers, and Gregor Zlokarnik

Emerging fluorescence sensing technologies: From photophysical principles to cellular applications
PNAS 1999 96: 8336-8337. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PERSPECTIVES

Robert C. Gallo

Tat as one key to HIV-induced immune pathogenesis and Pat toxoid as an important component of a vaccine
PNAS 1999 96: 8324-8326. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSICAL SCIENCES
Chemistry

Javier Catalán, Juan Carlos del Valle, and Michael Kasha

Resolution of concerted versus sequential mechanisms in photo-induced double-proton transfer reaction in 7-azaindole H-bonded dimer
PNAS 1999 96: 8338-8343. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Javier Santamaría, Tomás Martín, Göran Hilmersson, Stephen L. Craig, and Julius Rebek Jr.

Guest exchange in an encapsulation complex: A supramolecular substitution reaction
PNAS 1999 96: 8344-8347. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laurence E. Burgess, Bradley J. Newhouse, Prabha Ibrahim, James Rizzi, Mohammed A. Kashem, Ann Hartman, Barbara J. Brandhuber, Clifford D. Wright, David S. Thomson, Guy P. A. Vigers, and Kevin Koch

Potent selective nonpeptidic inhibitors of human lung tryptase
PNAS 1999 96: 8348-8352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul T. Henderson, Denise Jones, Gregory Hampikian, Yongzhi Kan, and Gary B. Schuster

Long-distance charge transport in duplex DNA: The phonon-assisted polaron-like hopping mechanism
PNAS 1999 96: 8353-8358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mathematics

Martin J. Blaser and Denise Kirschner

Dynamics of Helicobacter pylori colonization in relation to the host response
PNAS 1999 96: 8359-8364. [Abstract] [Full Text] [TeX] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]  

Physics

A. J. Leggett INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: A "midinfrared" scenario for cuprate superconductivity PNAS 1999 96: 8365-8372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]

SOCIAL SCIENCES
Anthropology

Lorenzo Rook, Luca Bondioli, Meike Köhler, Salvador Moyà-Solà, and Roberto Macchiarelli

Oreopithecus was a bipedal ape after all: Evidence from the iliac cancellous architecture
PNAS 1999 96: 8795-8799. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES
Agricultural Sciences

David G. Heckel, Linda J. Gahan, Yong-Biao Liu, and Bruce E. Tabashnik

Genetic mapping of resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis toxins in diamondback moth using biphasic linkage analysis
PNAS 1999 96: 8373-8377. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biochemistry

Sirano Dhe-Paganon, Elizabeth A. Ottinger, Robert T. Nolte, Michael J. Eck, and Steven E. Shoelson

Crystal structure of the pleckstrin homology-phosphotyrosine binding (PH-PTB) targeting region of insulin receptor substrate 1
PNAS 1999 96: 8378-8383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefanie Freitag, Vano Chu, Julie E. Penzotti, Lisa A. Klumb, Richard To, David Hyre, Isolde Le Trong, Terry P. Lybrand, Ronald E. Stenkamp, and Patrick S. Stayton

A structural snapshot of an intermediate on the streptavidin-biotin dissociation pathway
PNAS 1999 96: 8384-8389. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shirley S. Daube and Peter H. von Hippel

Interactions of Escherichia coli ⁷⁰ within the transcription elongation complex
PNAS 1999 96: 8390-8395. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xin Chen, Donald L. Court, and Xinhua Ji

Crystal structure of ERA: A GTPase-dependent cell cycle regulator containing an RNA binding motif
PNAS 1999 96: 8396-8401. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zoltán Nemes, Lyuben N. Marekov, Lázló Fésüs, and Peter M. Steinert

A novel function for transglutaminase 1: Attachment of long-chain -hydroxyceramides to involucrin by ester bond formation
PNAS 1999 96: 8402-8407. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Materials and Methods]  

Sarah M. McWhirter, Steven S. Pullen, James M. Holton, James J. Crute, Marilyn R. Kehry, and Tom Alber

Crystallographic analysis of CD40 recognition and signaling by human TRAF2
PNAS 1999 96: 8408-8413. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sotirios C. Kampranis, Andrew D. Bates, and Anthony Maxwell

A model for the mechanism of strand passage by DNA gyrase
PNAS 1999 96: 8414-8419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elena V. Orlova, Michael B. Sherman, Wah Chiu, Hiro Mowri, Louis C. Smith, and Antonio M. Gotto Jr.

Three-dimensional structure of low density lipoproteins by electron cryomicroscopy
PNAS 1999 96: 8420-8425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hendrik N. Poinar and B. Artur Stankiewicz

Protein preservation and DNA retrieval from ancient tissues
PNAS 1999 96: 8426-8431. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey R. Allen, Daniel D. Clark, Jonathan G. Krum, and Scott A. Ensign

A role for coenzyme M (2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid) in a bacterial pathway of aliphatic epoxide carboxylation
PNAS 1999 96: 8432-8437. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kam-Bo Wong, Brian S. DeDecker, Stefan M. V. Freund, Mark R. Proctor, Mark Bycroft, and Alan R. Fersht

Hot-spot mutants of p53 core domain evince characteristic local structural changes
PNAS 1999 96: 8438-8442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grant W. Brown and Thomas J. Kelly

Cell cycle regulation of Dfp1, an activator of the Hsk1 protein kinase
PNAS 1999 96: 8443-8448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer T. Thomas, Walter G. Hubert, Margaret N. Ruesch, and Laimonis A. Laimins

Human papillomavirus type 31 oncoproteins E6 and E7 are required for the maintenance of episomes during the viral life cycle in normal human keratinocytes
PNAS 1999 96: 8449-8454. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michele L. Engel and Dan S. Ray

The kinetoplast structure-specific endonuclease I is related to the 5' exo/endonuclease domain of bacterial DNA polymerase I and colocalizes with the kinetoplast topoisomerase II and DNA polymerase  during replication
PNAS 1999 96: 8455-8460. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sook-Kyung Kim and James C. Wang

Gene silencing via protein-mediated subcellular localization of DNA
PNAS 1999 96: 8557-8561. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Biophysics

Jonas Korlach, Petra Schwille, Watt W. Webb, and Gerald W. Feigenson

Characterization of lipid bilayer phases by confocal microscopy and fluorescence correlation spectroscopy
PNAS 1999 96: 8461-8466. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kyoung Joon Oh, Lisa Senzel, R. John Collier, and Alan Finkelstein

Translocation of the catalytic domain of diphtheria toxin across planar phospholipid bilayers by its own T domain
PNAS 1999 96: 8467-8470. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xunbin Wei, Bruce J. Tromberg, and Michael D. Cahalan

Mapping the sensitivity of T cells with an optical trap: Polarity and minimal number of receptors for Ca²⁺ signaling
PNAS 1999 96: 8471-8476. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ilya A. Vakser, Omar G. Matar, and Chan F. Lam

A systematic study of low-resolution recognition in protein-protein complexes
PNAS 1999 96: 8477-8482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cell Biology

Xiao-Jing Wang, Kristin M. Liefer, Sophia Tsai, Bert W. O'Malley, and Dennis R. Roop

Development of gene-switch transgenic mice that inducibly express transforming growth factor 1 in the epidermis
PNAS 1999 96: 8483-8488. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura Sard, Paola Accornero, Silvana Tornielli, Domenico Delia, Giuseppe Bunone, Manuela Campiglio, Mario P. Colombo, Marcella Gramegna, Carlo M. Croce, Marco A. Pierotti, and Gabriella Sozzi

The tumor-suppressor gene FHIT is involved in the regulation of apoptosis and in cell cycle control
PNAS 1999 96: 8489-8492. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria J. Martinez-Exposito, Kenneth B. Kaplan, Jay Copeland, and Peter K. Sorger

Retention of the Bub3 checkpoint protein on lagging chromosomes
PNAS 1999 96: 8493-8498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Josh Syken, Tali De-Medina, and Karl Münger

TID1, a human homolog of the Drosophila tumor suppressor l(2)tid, encodes two mitochondrial modulators of apoptosis with opposing functions
PNAS 1999 96: 8499-8504. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph W. Brewer, Linda M. Hendershot, Charles J. Sherr, and J. Alan Diehl

Mammalian unfolded protein response inhibits cyclin D1 translation and cell-cycle progression
PNAS 1999 96: 8505-8510. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lixin Zhang, Jing Chen, and Haian Fu

Suppression of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1-induced cell death by 14-3-3 proteins
PNAS 1999 96: 8511-8515. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Craig M. Story, Margo H. Furman, and Hidde L. Ploegh

The cytosolic tail of class I MHC heavy chain is required for its dislocation by the human cytomegalovirus US2 and US11 gene products
PNAS 1999 96: 8516-8521. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atsushi Fujita, Akio Tonouchi, Takatoshi Hiroko, Fumika Inose, Takeyuki Nagashima, Rika Satoh, and Shigeko Tanaka

Hsl7p, a negative regulator of Ste20p protein kinase in the Saccharomyces cerevisiae filamentous growth-signaling pathway
PNAS 1999 96: 8522-8527. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Developmental Biology

Cheng-Kui Qu, Wen-Mei Yu, Biagio Azzarelli, and Gen-Sheng Feng

Genetic evidence that Shp-2 tyrosine phosphatase is a signal enhancer of the epidermal growth factor receptor in mammals
PNAS 1999 96: 8528-8533. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ecology

Peter Högberg, Agneta H. Plamboeck, Andrew F. S. Taylor, and Petra M. A. Fransson

Natural ¹³C abundance reveals trophic status of fungi and host-origin of carbon in mycorrhizal fungi in mixed forests
PNAS 1999 96: 8534-8539. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolution

Annika Sääf, Marie Johansson, Erik Wallin, and Gunnar von Heijne

Divergent evolution of membrane protein topology: The Escherichia coli RnfA and RnfE homologues
PNAS 1999 96: 8540-8544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nikos C. Kyrpides and Christos A. Ouzounis

Transcription in Archaea
PNAS 1999 96: 8545-8550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics

Valeri Vasioukhin, Linda Degenstein, Bart Wise, and Elaine Fuchs

The magical touch: Genome targeting in epidermal stem cells induced by tamoxifen application to mouse skin
PNAS 1999 96: 8551-8556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sook-Kyung Kim and James C. Wang

Gene silencing via protein-mediated subcellular localization of DNA
PNAS 1999 96: 8557-8561. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ehud Goldin, Adele Cooney, Christine R. Kaneski, Roscoe O. Brady, and Raphael Schiffmann

Mucolipidosis IV consists of one complementation group
PNAS 1999 96: 8562-8566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Ronald Geyer, Alejandro Colman-Lerner, and Roger Brent

"Mutagenesis" by peptide aptamers identifies genetic network members and pathway connections
PNAS 1999 96: 8567-8572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margrit Urbanek, Richard S. Legro, Deborah A. Driscoll, Ricardo Azziz, David A. Ehrmann, Robert J. Norman, Jerome F. Strauss III, Richard S. Spielman, and Andrea Dunaif

Thirty-seven candidate genes for polycystic ovary syndrome: Strongest evidence for linkage is with follistatin
PNAS 1999 96: 8573-8578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. J. Miltenberger, R. L. Mynatt, B. D. Bruce, W. O. Wilkison, R. P. Woychik, and E. J. Michaud

An agouti mutation lacking the basic domain induces yellow pigmentation but not obesity in transgenic mice
PNAS 1999 96: 8579-8584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Immunology

Aurore Coulomb-L'Herminé, Ali Amara, Claudine Schiff, Ingrid Durand-Gasselin, Arnaud Foussat, Thierry Delaunay, Gérard Chaouat, Frédérique Capron, Nathalie Ledee, Pierre Galanaud, Fernando Arenzana-Seisdedos, and Dominique Emilie

Stromal cell-derived factor 1 (SDF-1) and antenatal human B cell lymphopoiesis: Expression of SDF-1 by mesothelial cells and biliary ductal plate epithelial cells
PNAS 1999 96: 8585-8590. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Holger N. Lode, Rong Xiang, Steven R. Duncan, Argyrios N. Theofilopoulos, Stephen D. Gillies, and Ralph A. Reisfeld

Tumor-targeted IL-2 amplifies T cell-mediated immune response induced by gene therapy with single-chain IL-12
PNAS 1999 96: 8591-8596. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kirsten J. Flynn, Janice M. Riberdy, Jan P. Christensen, John D. Altman, and Peter C. Doherty

In vivo proliferation of naïve and memory influenza-specific CD8⁺ T cells
PNAS 1999 96: 8597-8602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cynthia A. Chambers, Michael S. Kuhns, and James P. Allison

Cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) regulates primary and secondary peptide-specific CD4⁺ T cell responses
PNAS 1999 96: 8603-8608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yubin Kang, Marco Melo, Edward Deng, Roland Tisch, Moustapha El-Amine, and David W. Scott

Induction of hyporesponsiveness to intact foreign protein via retroviral-mediated gene expression: The IgG scaffold is important for induction and maintenance of immune hyporesponsiveness
PNAS 1999 96: 8609-8614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carla Wofsy, Becky M. Vonakis, Henry Metzger, and Byron Goldstein

One Lyn molecule is sufficient to initiate phosphorylation of aggregated high-affinity IgE receptors
PNAS 1999 96: 8615-8620. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Eugenio Carrasco-Marin, Osami Kanagawa, and Emil R. Unanue

The lack of consensus for I-A^g7-peptide binding motifs: Is there a requirement for anchor amino acid side chains?
PNAS 1999 96: 8621-8626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine T. N. Pham and Timothy J. Ley

Dipeptidyl peptidase I is required for the processing and activation of granzymes A and B in vivo
PNAS 1999 96: 8627-8632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dominik Mumberg, Paul A. Monach, Sherry Wanderling, Mary Philip, Alicia Y. Toledano, Robert D. Schreiber, and Hans Schreiber

CD4⁺ T cells eliminate MHC class II-negative cancer cells in vivo by indirect effects of IFN-
PNAS 1999 96: 8633-8638. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Medical Sciences

Laurence E. Burgess, Bradley J. Newhouse, Prabha Ibrahim, James Rizzi, Mohammed A. Kashem, Ann Hartman, Barbara J. Brandhuber, Clifford D. Wright, David S. Thomson, Guy P. A. Vigers, and Kevin Koch

Potent selective nonpeptidic inhibitors of human lung tryptase
PNAS 1999 96: 8348-8352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dominique Bonnet, Edus H. Warren, Philip D. Greenberg, John E. Dick, and Stanley R. Riddell

CD8⁺ minor histocompatibility antigen-specific cytotoxic T lymphocyte clones eliminate human acute myeloid leukemia stem cells
PNAS 1999 96: 8639-8644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Franck J. Barrat, Françoise Le Deist, Malika Benkerrou, Philippe Bousso, Jérome Feldmann, Alain Fischer, and Geneviève de Saint Basile

Defective CTLA-4 cycling pathway in Chediak-Higashi syndrome: A possible mechanism for deregulation of T lymphocyte activation
PNAS 1999 96: 8645-8650. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen M. Sommer, Lucinda I. Chen, Piper M. Treuting, Lynne T. Smith, and Karen Swisshelm

Elevated retinoic acid receptor ₄ protein in human breast tumor cells with nuclear and cytoplasmic localization
PNAS 1999 96: 8651-8656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Victor M. Rivera, Xuehai Ye, Nancy L. Courage, Jeff Sachar, Frank Cerasoli Jr., James M. Wilson, and Michael Gilman

Long-term regulated expression of growth hormone in mice after intramuscular gene transfer
PNAS 1999 96: 8657-8662. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keisuke Abe, Mamoru Shoji, Jiang Chen, Angelika Bierhaus, Indrani Danave, Cornelia Micko, Katherine Casper, Dirck L. Dillehay, Peter P. Nawroth, and Frederick R. Rickles

Regulation of vascular endothelial growth factor production and angiogenesis by the cytoplasmic tail of tissue factor
PNAS 1999 96: 8663-8668. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bo Häggqvist, Jan Näslund, Knut Sletten, Gunilla T. Westermark, Gerd Mucchiano, Lars O. Tjernberg, Christer Nordstedt, Ulla Engström, and Per Westermark

Medin: An integral fragment of aortic smooth muscle cell-produced lactadherin forms the most common human amyloid
PNAS 1999 96: 8669-8674. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazuhisa Yoshimura, Ryohei Kato, Keisuke Yusa, Mark F. Kavlick, Victor Maroun, Aline Nguyen, Tsutomu Mimoto, Takamasa Ueno, Makoto Shintani, Judith Falloon, Henry Masur, Hideya Hayashi, John Erickson, and Hiroaki Mitsuya

JE-2147: A dipeptide protease inhibitor (PI) that potently inhibits multi-PI-resistant HIV-1
PNAS 1999 96: 8675-8680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Minoru Toyota, Nita Ahuja, Mutsumi Ohe-Toyota, James G. Herman, Stephen B. Baylin, and Jean-Pierre J. Issa

CpG island methylator phenotype in colorectal cancer
PNAS 1999 96: 8681-8686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard E. Davis, Angelica Parra, Philip T. LoVerde, Eugenia Ribeiro, Gina Glorioso, and Scott Hodgson

Transient expression of DNA and RNA in parasitic helminths by using particle bombardment
PNAS 1999 96: 8687-8692. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]  

Hiroyuki Nunoi, Tsuyoshi Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Tsuchiya, Seishi Kato, Harry L. Malech, Ichiro Matsuda, and Shiro Kanegasaki

A heterozygous mutation of -actin associated with neutrophil dysfunction and recurrent infection
PNAS 1999 96: 8693-8698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Beltinger, Simone Fulda, Thomas Kammertoens, Eric Meyer, Wolfgang Uckert, and Klaus-Michael Debatin

Herpes simplex virus thymidine kinase/ganciclovir-induced apoptosis involves ligand-independent death receptor aggregation and activation of caspases
PNAS 1999 96: 8699-8704. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pu Zhang, Gerhard Behre, Jing Pan, Atsushi Iwama, Nawarat Wara-aswapati, Hanna S. Radomska, Philip E. Auron, Daniel G. Tenen, and Zijie Sun

Negative cross-talk between hematopoietic regulators: GATA proteins repress PU.1
PNAS 1999 96: 8705-8710. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Radu Marches, Robert Hsueh, and Jonathan W. Uhr

Cancer dormancy and cell signaling: Induction of p21^waf1 initiated by membrane IgM engagement increases survival of B lymphoma cells
PNAS 1999 96: 8711-8715. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbiology

Martin J. Blaser and Denise Kirschner

Dynamics of Helicobacter pylori colonization in relation to the host response
PNAS 1999 96: 8359-8364. [Abstract] [Full Text] [TeX] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]  

Choukri Ben Mamoun, Ilya Y. Gluzman, Sophie Goyard, Stephen M. Beverley, and Daniel E. Goldberg

A set of independent selectable markers for transfection of the human malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum
PNAS 1999 96: 8716-8720. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neurobiology

Uwe Scherbel, Ramesh Raghupathi, Michio Nakamura, Kathryn E. Saatman, John Q. Trojanowski, Edmund Neugebauer, Michael W. Marino, and Tracy K. McIntosh

Differential acute and chronic responses of tumor necrosis factor-deficient mice to experimental brain injury
PNAS 1999 96: 8721-8726. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oskar Hansson, Åsa Petersén, Marcel Leist, Pierluigi Nicotera, Roger F. Castilho, and Patrik Brundin

Transgenic mice expressing a Huntington's disease mutation are resistant to quinolinic acid-induced striatal excitotoxicity
PNAS 1999 96: 8727-8732. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Jabaudon, K. Shimamoto, Y. Yasuda-Kamatani, M. Scanziani, B. H. Gähwiler, and U. Gerber

Inhibition of uptake unmasks rapid extracellular turnover of glutamate of nonvesicular origin
PNAS 1999 96: 8733-8738. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Denise Manahan-Vaughan and Karl-Heinz Braunewell

Novelty acquisition is associated with induction of hippocampal long-term depression
PNAS 1999 96: 8739-8744. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elzbieta Chalecka-Franaszek and De-Maw Chuang

Lithium activates the serine/threonine kinase Akt-1 and suppresses glutamate-induced inhibition of Akt-1 activity in neurons
PNAS 1999 96: 8745-8750. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah L. Pallas, Thomas Littman, and David R. Moore

Cross-modal reorganization of callosal connectivity without altering thalamocortical projections
PNAS 1999 96: 8751-8756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology

James C. Liao, Travis W. Hein, Mark W. Vaughn, Kuang-Tse Huang, and Lih Kuo

Intravascular flow decreases erythrocyte consumption of nitric oxide
PNAS 1999 96: 8757-8761. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Biology

Michel Havaux and Krishna K. Niyogi

The violaxanthin cycle protects plants from photooxidative damage by more than one mechanism
PNAS 1999 96: 8762-8767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tong Zhu, David J. Peterson, Laura Tagliani, Grace St. Clair, Chris L. Baszczynski, and Ben Bowen

Targeted manipulation of maize genes in vivo using chimeric RNA/DNA oligonucleotides
PNAS 1999 96: 8768-8773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter R. Beetham, Peter B. Kipp, Xenia L. Sawycky, Charles J. Arntzen, and Gregory D. May

A tool for functional plant genomics: Chimeric RNA/DNA oligonucleotides cause in vivo gene-specific mutations
PNAS 1999 96: 8774-8778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John M. Christie, Michael Salomon, Kazunari Nozue, Masamitsu Wada, and Winslow R. Briggs

LOV (light, oxygen, or voltage) domains of the blue-light photoreceptor phototropin (nph1): Binding sites for the chromophore flavin mononucleotide
PNAS 1999 96: 8779-8783. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Lohr and Christian Wilhelm

Algae displaying the diadinoxanthin cycle also possess the violaxanthin cycle
PNAS 1999 96: 8784-8789. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental Data]  

Psychology

Michel Duyme, Annick-Camille Dumaret, and Stanislaw Tomkiewicz

How can we boost IQs of "dull children"?: A late adoption study
PNAS 1999 96: 8790-8794. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRECTIONS

Correction for vol. 96, p. 4767 [Full Text]  

Correction for vol. 95, p. 4841 [Full Text]