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Commentaries

Commentary:
- Wolfgang Junge
ATP synthase and other motor proteins
PNAS 1999 96:4735-4737
- See companion article on page 4924 in issue 9 of volume 96
Commentary:
- R. G. Will
- and J. W. Ironside
Oral infection by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion
PNAS 1999 96:4738-4739
- See companion article on page 4046 in issue 7 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Alan Feduccia
1,2,3 = 2,3,4: Accommodating the cladogram
PNAS 1999 96:4740-4742
- See companion article on page 5111 in issue 9 of volume 96
Commentary:
- J. D. Mollon
Color vision: Opsins and options
PNAS 1999 96:4743-4745
- See companion article on page 5251 in issue 9 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Susan I. Gibson
- and Ian A. Graham
Another player joins the complex field of sugar-regulated gene expression in plants
PNAS 1999 96:4746-4748
- See companion article on page 5322 in issue 9 of volume 96

Perspectives

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Perspective - Perspective:
- Andrew C. Fabian
Active galactic nuclei
PNAS 1999 96:4749-4751
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Perspective - Perspective:
- Dieter H. Hartmann
Afterglows from the largest explosions in the universe
PNAS 1999 96:4752-4755
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Perspective - Perspective:
- J. J. Condon
Very large radio surveys of the sky
PNAS 1999 96:4756-4758

Review

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Review:
- Edward C. Cooper
- and Lily Yeh Jan
Ion channel genes and human neurological disease: Recent progress, prospects, and challenges
PNAS 1999 96:4759-4766

From the Academy

From the Academy:
From the Academy: List of New Members
PNAS 1999 96:4767-4768
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Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Oscar Gonzalez
- and John H. Maddocks
Global curvature, thickness, and the ideal shapes of knots
PNAS 1999 96:4769-4773
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
- Ole H. Hald
Optimal prediction and the Klein–Gordon equation
PNAS 1999 96:4774-4779
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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Vincent Detours
- and Alan S. Perelson
Explaining high alloreactivity as a quantitative consequence of affinity-driven thymocyte selection
PNAS 1999 96:5153-5158
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Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- David R. Liu
- and Peter G. Schultz
Progress toward the evolution of an organism with an expanded genetic code
PNAS 1999 96:4780-4785

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Neurobiology - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Esther A. Nimchinsky,
- Emmanuel Gilissen,
- John M. Allman,
- Daniel P. Perl,
- Joseph M. Erwin,
- and Patrick R. Hof
A neuronal morphologic type unique to humans and great apes
PNAS 1999 96:5268-5273

Social Sciences

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Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
- Douglas S. Massey
- and Rene M. Zenteno
Inaugural Article: The dynamics of mass migration
PNAS 1999 96:5328-5335

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Kevin P. Smith,
- Jo Handelsman,
- and Robert M. Goodman
Genetic basis in plants for interactions with disease-suppressive bacteria
PNAS 1999 96:4786-4790

Biophysics

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Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Oscar Gonzalez
- and John H. Maddocks
Global curvature, thickness, and the ideal shapes of knots
PNAS 1999 96:4769-4773
- Abstract
- Full Text (PDF)
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Scott M. Crowder,
- Roland Kanaar,
- Donald C. Rio,
- and Tom Alber
Absence of interdomain contacts in the crystal structure of the RNA recognition motifs of Sex-lethal
PNAS 1999 96:4892-4897
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Oleg G. Kisselev,
- Christoph K. Meyer,
- Martin Heck,
- Oliver P. Ernst,
- and Klaus Peter Hofmann
Signal transfer from rhodopsin to the G-protein: Evidence for a two-site sequential fit mechanism
PNAS 1999 96:4898-4903
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ruxandra I. Dima,
- Jayanth R. Banavar,
- Marek Cieplak,
- and Amos Maritan
Statistical mechanics of protein-like heteropolymers
PNAS 1999 96:4904-4907
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Lisa A. Cameron,
- Matthew J. Footer,
- Alexander van Oudenaarden,
- and Julie A. Theriot
Motility of ActA protein-coated microspheres driven by actin polymerization
PNAS 1999 96:4908-4913
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Tomáš Polívka,
- Jennifer L. Herek,
- Donatas Zigmantas,
- Hans-Erik Åkerlund,
- and Villy Sundström
Direct observation of the (forbidden) S 1 state in carotenoids
PNAS 1999 96:4914-4917
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Roland Riek,
- Gerhard Wider,
- Konstantin Pervushin,
- and Kurt Wüthrich
Polarization transfer by cross-correlated relaxation in solution NMR with very large molecules
PNAS 1999 96:4918-4923
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Peter Dimroth,
- Hongyun Wang,
- Michael Grabe,
- and George Oster
Energy transduction in the sodium F-ATPase of Propionigenium modestum
PNAS 1999 96:4924-4929
- See commentary article on page 4735 in issue 9 of volume 96
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Peizhi Luo
- and Robert L. Baldwin
Interaction between water and polar groups of the helix backbone: An important determinant of helix propensities
PNAS 1999 96:4930-4935

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- W. N. Haining,
- C. Carboy-Newcomb,
- C. L. Wei,
- and H. Steller
The proapoptotic function of Drosophila Hid is conserved in mammalian cells
PNAS 1999 96:4936-4941
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Min Zhao,
- John V. Forrester,
- and Colin D. McCaig
A small, physiological electric field orients cell division
PNAS 1999 96:4942-4946
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Angela I. M. Barth,
- Daniel B. Stewart,
- and W. James Nelson
T cell factor-activated transcription is not sufficient to induce anchorage-independent growth of epithelial cells expressing mutant β-catenin
PNAS 1999 96:4947-4952
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Judy Hickman-Davis,
- Julie Gibbs-Erwin,
- J. Russell Lindsey,
- and Sadis Matalon
Surfactant protein A mediates mycoplasmacidal activity of alveolar macrophages by production of peroxynitrite
PNAS 1999 96:4953-4958
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Li-Jun Wu,
- Gerhard Randers-Pehrson,
- An Xu,
- Charles A. Waldren,
- Charles R. Geard,
- ZengLiang Yu,
- and Tom K. Hei
Targeted cytoplasmic irradiation with alpha particles induces mutations in mammalian cells
PNAS 1999 96:4959-4964
- See commentary article on page 5346 in issue 10 of volume 96
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Maria G. Ivanchenko,
- Jennifer P. Lerner,
- Renee S. McCormick,
- Arazdordi Toumadje,
- Brady Allen,
- Kay Fischer,
- Olaf Hedstrom,
- Angela Helmrich,
- David W. Barnes,
- and Christopher J. Bayne
Continuous in vitro propagation and differentiation of cultures of the intramolluscan stages of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni
PNAS 1999 96:4965-4970
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- David M. Raskin
- and Piet A. J. de Boer
Rapid pole-to-pole oscillation of a protein required for directing division to the middle of Escherichia coli
PNAS 1999 96:4971-4976
- See commentary article on page 5891 in issue 11 of volume 96
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Shawn M. Ahern-Djamali,
- Christiane Bachmann,
- Ping Hua,
- Srinevas K. Reddy,
- Andrew S. Kastenmeier,
- Ulrich Walter,
- and F. M. Hoffmann
Identification of profilin and src homology 3 domains as binding partners for Drosophila Enabled
PNAS 1999 96:4977-4982
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Ronit I. Yarden
- and Lawrence C. Brody
BRCA1 interacts with components of the histone deacetylase complex
PNAS 1999 96:4983-4988

ATP synthase and other motor proteins

Oral infection by the bovine spongiform encephalopathy prion

1,2,3 = 2,3,4: Accommodating the cladogram

Color vision: Opsins and options

Another player joins the complex field of sugar-regulated gene expression in plants

Active galactic nuclei

Afterglows from the largest explosions in the universe

Very large radio surveys of the sky

Ion channel genes and human neurological disease: Recent progress, prospects, and challenges

From the Academy: List of New Members

Global curvature, thickness, and the ideal shapes of knots

Optimal prediction and the Klein–Gordon equation

Explaining high alloreactivity as a quantitative consequence of affinity-driven thymocyte selection

Progress toward the evolution of an organism with an expanded genetic code

A neuronal morphologic type unique to humans and great apes

Inaugural Article: The dynamics of mass migration

Genetic basis in plants for interactions with disease-suppressive bacteria

Progress toward the evolution of an organism with an expanded genetic code

TATA box-binding protein (TBP)-related factor 2 (TRF2), a third member of the TBP family

A cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor inducing cancer cell differentiation: Biochemical identification using Xenopus egg extracts

Cytosolic phospholipase A 2 is essential for both the immediate and the delayed phases of eicosanoid generation in mouse bone marrow-derived mast cells

Formation of the covalent serpin-proteinase complex involves translocation of the proteinase by more than 70 Å and full insertion of the reactive center loop into β-sheet A

Identification of a photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptor

Mitochondrial disease in mouse results in increased oxidative stress

G protein βγ subunit-dependent Rac-guanine nucleotide exchange activity of Ras-GRF1/CDC25 Mm

Autoinducer binding by the quorum-sensing regulator TraR increases affinity for target promoters in vitro and decreases TraR turnover rates in whole cells

The baculovirus antiapoptotic p35 gene also functions via an oxidant-dependent pathway

Smads bind directly to the Jun family of AP-1 transcription factors

Hyaluronan forms specific stable tertiary structures in aqueous solution: A 13 C NMR study

Transfer of plastid RNA-editing activity to novel sites suggests a critical role for spacing in editing-site recognition

Protein footprinting at cysteines: Probing ATP-modulated contacts in cysteine-substitution mutants of yeast DNA topoisomerase II

Three proteins define a class of human histone deacetylases related to yeast Hda1p

Dedifferentiation of adenocarcinomas by activation of phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase

Physical evidence for a phosphorylation-dependent conformational change in the enhancer-binding protein NtrC

A mimic of HIV-1 nucleocapsid protein impairs reverse transcription and displays antiviral activity

Global curvature, thickness, and the ideal shapes of knots

Absence of interdomain contacts in the crystal structure of the RNA recognition motifs of Sex-lethal

Signal transfer from rhodopsin to the G-protein: Evidence for a two-site sequential fit mechanism

Statistical mechanics of protein-like heteropolymers

Motility of ActA protein-coated microspheres driven by actin polymerization

Direct observation of the (forbidden) S 1 state in carotenoids

Polarization transfer by cross-correlated relaxation in solution NMR with very large molecules

Energy transduction in the sodium F-ATPase of Propionigenium modestum

Interaction between water and polar groups of the helix backbone: An important determinant of helix propensities

The proapoptotic function of Drosophila Hid is conserved in mammalian cells

A small, physiological electric field orients cell division

T cell factor-activated transcription is not sufficient to induce anchorage-independent growth of epithelial cells expressing mutant β-catenin

Surfactant protein A mediates mycoplasmacidal activity of alveolar macrophages by production of peroxynitrite

Targeted cytoplasmic irradiation with alpha particles induces mutations in mammalian cells

Continuous in vitro propagation and differentiation of cultures of the intramolluscan stages of the human parasite Schistosoma mansoni

Rapid pole-to-pole oscillation of a protein required for directing division to the middle of Escherichia coli

Identification of profilin and src homology 3 domains as binding partners for Drosophila Enabled

BRCA1 interacts with components of the histone deacetylase complex