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Commentaries

Commentary:
- S. L. Alam,
- J. F. Atkins,
- and R. F. Gesteland
Programmed ribosomal frameshifting: Much ado about knotting!
PNAS 1999 96:14177-14179
- See companion article on page 14234 in issue 25 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Christine M. Disteche
Escapees on the X chromosome
PNAS 1999 96:14180-14182
- See companion article on page 14440 in issue 25 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Mehmet Sarikaya
Biomimetics: Materials fabrication through biology
PNAS 1999 96:14183-14185
- See companion article on page 13611 in issue 24 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Takuro Nakagawa,
- Abhijit Datta,
- and Richard D. Kolodner
Multiple functions of MutS- and MutL-related heterocomplexes
PNAS 1999 96:14186-14188
- See companion article on page 13914 in issue 24 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Kristen L. Kroll
- and Marc W. Kirschner
Easy passage: Germline transgenesis in frogs
PNAS 1999 96:14189-14190
- See companion article on page 14389 in issue 25 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Jeffrey S. Flier
- and Anthony N. Hollenberg
ADD-1 provides major new insight into the mechanism of insulin action
PNAS 1999 96:14191-14192
- See companion article on page 12737 in issue 22 of volume 96
- See companion article on page 13656 in issue 24 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Ihor Lemischka
The power of stem cells reconsidered?
PNAS 1999 96:14193-14195
- See companion article on page 14482 in issue 25 of volume 96

From the Academy

From the Academy:
From the Academy: Introduction to German-American Frontiers of Science
PNAS 1999 96:14196
From the Academy:
- Joan Najita,
- Willy Benz,
- and Artie Hatzes
From the Academy: Extra-solar planetary systems
PNAS 1999 96:14197-14198
From the Academy:
- P. M. Ajayan,
- J.-C. Charlier,
- and A. G. Rinzler
From the Academy: Carbon nanotubes: From macromolecules to nanotechnology
PNAS 1999 96:14199-14200
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From the Academy:
- Dave Besson,
- Doug Cowen,
- Mats Selen,
- and Christopher Wiebusch
From the Academy: Neutrinos
PNAS 1999 96:14201-14202
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From the Academy:
- Joachim M. Buhmann,
- Jitendra Malik,
- and Pietro Perona
From the Academy: Image recognition: Visual grouping, recognition, and learning
PNAS 1999 96:14203-14204
From the Academy:
- Bradford Clement,
- Rob McCaffrey,
- and William Holt
From the Academy: Neotectonics: Watching the earth move
PNAS 1999 96:14205
From the Academy:
- Jörg Durner,
- Andrew J. Gow,
- Jonathan S. Stamler,
- and Jane Glazebrook
From the Academy: Ancient origins of nitric oxide signaling in biological systems
PNAS 1999 96:14206-14207
From the Academy:
- Michael H. Dickinson
From the Academy: Bionics: Biological insight into mechanical design
PNAS 1999 96:14208-14209

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
- George Sugihara,
- Martin Casdagli,
- Edward Habjan,
- Dale Hess,
- Paul Dixon,
- and Greg Holland
Residual delay maps unveil global patterns of atmospheric nonlinearity and produce improved local forecasts
PNAS 1999 96:14210-14215
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
- David Cai,
- Andrew J. Majda,
- David W. McLaughlin,
- and Esteban G. Tabak
Spectral bifurcations in dispersive wave turbulence
PNAS 1999 96:14216-14221
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Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Plant Biology:
- D. J. Brabander,
- N. Keon,
- R. H. R. Stanley,
- and H. F. Hemond
Intra-ring variability of Cr, As, Cd, and Pb in red oak revealed by secondary ion mass spectrometry: Implications for environmental biomonitoring
PNAS 1999 96:14635-14640

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Fu-Ren F. Fan
- and Allen J. Bard
Imaging of biological macromolecules on mica in humid air by scanning electrochemical microscopy
PNAS 1999 96:14222-14227
- See commentary article on page 14678 in issue 26 of volume 96
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Pharmacology:
- L. Hanuš,
- A. Breuer,
- S. Tchilibon,
- S. Shiloah,
- D. Goldenberg,
- M. Horowitz,
- R. G. Pertwee,
- R. A. Ross,
- R. Mechoulam,
- and E. Fride
HU-308: A specific agonist for CB 2 , a peripheral cannabinoid receptor
PNAS 1999 96:14228-14233

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Meike Köhler
- and Salvador Moyà-Solà
A finding of Oligocene primates on the European continent
PNAS 1999 96:14664-14667

FROM THE COVER

Programmed ribosomal frameshifting: Much ado about knotting!

Escapees on the X chromosome

Biomimetics: Materials fabrication through biology

Multiple functions of MutS- and MutL-related heterocomplexes

Easy passage: Germline transgenesis in frogs

ADD-1 provides major new insight into the mechanism of insulin action

The power of stem cells reconsidered?

From the Academy: Introduction to German-American Frontiers of Science

From the Academy: Extra-solar planetary systems

From the Academy: Carbon nanotubes: From macromolecules to nanotechnology

From the Academy: Neutrinos

From the Academy: Image recognition: Visual grouping, recognition, and learning

From the Academy: Neotectonics: Watching the earth move

From the Academy: Ancient origins of nitric oxide signaling in biological systems

From the Academy: Bionics: Biological insight into mechanical design

Residual delay maps unveil global patterns of atmospheric nonlinearity and produce improved local forecasts

Spectral bifurcations in dispersive wave turbulence

Intra-ring variability of Cr, As, Cd, and Pb in red oak revealed by secondary ion mass spectrometry: Implications for environmental biomonitoring

Imaging of biological macromolecules on mica in humid air by scanning electrochemical microscopy

HU-308: A specific agonist for CB 2 , a peripheral cannabinoid receptor

A finding of Oligocene primates on the European continent

From the Cover: Specific mutations in a viral RNA pseudoknot drastically change ribosomal frameshifting efficiency

Structural origins of the exonuclease resistance of a zwitterionic RNA

Structure of the glycosylphosphatidylinositol anchor of an arabinogalactan protein from Pyrus communis suspension-cultured cells

The small ribosomal subunit from Thermus thermophilus at 4.5 Å resolution: Pattern fittings and the identification of a functional site

A physical basis for protein secondary structure

Inorganic polyphosphate kinase is required to stimulate protein degradation and for adaptation to amino acid starvation in Escherichia coli

The mechanism of pseudouridine synthase I as deduced from its interaction with 5-fluorouracil-tRNA

Inhibition of human telomerase in immortal human cells leads to progressive telomere shortening and cell death

A conserved serine-rich stretch in the glutamate transporter family forms a substrate-sensitive reentrant loop

Photoassembly of the manganese cluster and oxygen evolution from monomeric and dimeric CP47 reaction center photosystem II complexes

Transcriptional coupling between the divergent promoters of a prototypic LysR-type regulatory system, the ilvYC operon of Escherichia coli

Modification of EWS/WT1 functional properties by phosphorylation

Active hair-bundle movements can amplify a hair cell’s response to oscillatory mechanical stimuli

Network formation of lipid membranes: Triggering structural transitions by chain melting

Detection of protein fold similarity based on correlation of amino acid properties

Vibrational population relaxation of carbon monoxide in the heme pocket of photolyzed carbonmonoxy myoglobin: Comparison of time-resolved mid-IR absorbance experiments and molecular dynamics simulations

Molecular dynamics and free-energy calculations applied to affinity maturation in antibody 48G7

Correlation of the structural and functional domains in the membrane protein Vpu from HIV-1

Transport of torsional stress in DNA

Proton uptake by bacterial reaction centers: The protein complex responds in a similar manner to the reduction of either quinone acceptor

Positional enhancer-blocking activity of the chicken β-globin insulator in transiently transfected cells

The polo-box-dependent induction of ectopic septal structures by a mammalian polo kinase, Plk, in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Nuclear tRNA aminoacylation and its role in nuclear export of endogenous tRNAs in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Mammalian Trithorax and Polycomb -group homologues are antagonistic regulators of homeotic development

Pax6 is essential for establishing ventral-dorsal cell boundaries in pituitary gland development

Activation of a Frizzled-2/β-adrenergic receptor chimera promotes Wnt signaling and differentiation of mouse F9 teratocarcinoma cells via Gαo and Gαt

From the Cover: Germ-line transmission of transgenes in Xenopus laevis

Chloroplast small heat shock proteins: Evidence for atypical evolution of an organelle-localized protein

Phylogeny of rice genomes with emphasis on origins of allotetraploid species

Duplicated genes evolve independently after polyploid formation in cotton