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Volume 98(5);  February 27, 2001
Commentaries
Scaling of growth: Plants and animals are not so different
John Damuth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2113–2114. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051011198.
PMCID: PMC33381
H1N1-influenza as Lazarus: Genomic resurrection from the tomb of an unknown
Joshua Lederberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2115–2116. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051000798.
PMCID: PMC33382
The disintegration of a molecule: The role of gelsolin in FAF, familial amyloidosis (Finnish type)
Robert C. Robinson, Senyon Choe, and Leslie D. Burtnick
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2117–2118. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051635098.
PMCID: PMC33383
Was “molecular opportunism” a factor in the evolution of different photosynthetic light-harvesting pigment systems?
Beverley R. Green
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2119–2121. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061023198.
PMCID: PMC33384
PEDF: Raising both hopes and questions in controlling angiogenesis
Gerald J. Chader
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2122–2124. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061024098.
PMCID: PMC33385
Making sense out of nonsense
Margaret E. Saks
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2125–2127. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061021098.
PMCID: PMC33386
Perspective
Special Feature: Planetary exploration in the time of astrobiology: Protecting against biological contamination
John D. Rummel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2128–2131. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061021398.
PMCID: PMC33387
Review
Special Feature: Constraints on nebular dynamics and chemistry based on observations of annealed magnesium silicate grains in comets and in disks surrounding Herbig Ae/Be stars
Hugh G. M. Hill, Carol A. Grady, Joseph A. Nuth, III, Susan L. Hallenbeck, and Michael L. Sitko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2182–2187. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051530998.
PMCID: PMC33388
Special Features
Special Feature: Planetary exploration in the time of astrobiology: Protecting against biological contamination
John D. Rummel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2128–2131. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061021398.
PMCID: PMC33387
Special Feature: Use of spacecraft data to derive regions on Mars where liquid water would be stable
Brad Lobitz, Byron L. Wood, Maurice M. Averner, and Christopher P. McKay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2132–2137. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031581098.
PMCID: PMC30104
Special Feature: Extraterrestrial amino acids in Orgueil and Ivuna: Tracing the parent body of CI type carbonaceous chondrites
Pascale Ehrenfreund, Daniel P. Glavin, Oliver Botta, George Cooper, and Jeffrey L. Bada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2138–2141. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051502898.
PMCID: PMC30105
Special Feature: Organic protomolecule assembly in igneous minerals
Friedemann Freund, Aaron Staple, and John Scoville
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2142–2147. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061513298.
PMCID: PMC30106
Special Feature: Oxygen isotope ratios of PO4: An inorganic indicator of enzymatic activity and P metabolism and a new biomarker in the search for life
Ruth E. Blake, Jeffrey C. Alt, and Anna M. Martini
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2148–2153. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051515898.
PMCID: PMC30107
Special Feature: Keeping Mars warm with new super greenhouse gases
M. F. Gerstell, J. S. Francisco, Y. L. Yung, C. Boxe, and E. T. Aaltonee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2154–2157. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051511598.
PMCID: PMC30108
Special Feature: A novel microbial habitat in the mid-ocean ridge subseafloor
Melanie Summit and John A. Baross
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2158–2163. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051516098.
PMCID: PMC30109
Special Feature: Truncated hexa-octahedral magnetite crystals in ALH84001: Presumptive biosignatures
Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta, Simon J. Clemett, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Joseph L. Kirschvink, David S. McKay, Susan J. Wentworth, Hojatollah Vali, Everett K. Gibson, Jr., Mary Fae McKay, and Christopher S. Romanek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2164–2169. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051500898.
PMCID: PMC30110
Special Feature: The origin of atmospheric oxygen on Earth: The innovation of oxygenic photosynthesis
G. C. Dismukes, V. V. Klimov, S. V. Baranov, Yu. N. Kozlov, J. DasGupta, and A. Tyryshkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2170–2175. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061514798.
PMCID: PMC30111
Special Feature: Chains of magnetite crystals in the meteorite ALH84001: Evidence of biological origin
E. Imre Friedmann, Jacek Wierzchos, Carmen Ascaso, and Michael Winklhofer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2176–2181. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051514698.
PMCID: PMC30112
Special Feature: Constraints on nebular dynamics and chemistry based on observations of annealed magnesium silicate grains in comets and in disks surrounding Herbig Ae/Be stars
Hugh G. M. Hill, Carol A. Grady, Joseph A. Nuth, III, Susan L. Hallenbeck, and Michael L. Sitko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2182–2187. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051530998.
PMCID: PMC33388
Physical Sciences
Astronomy
Special Feature: Use of spacecraft data to derive regions on Mars where liquid water would be stable
Brad Lobitz, Byron L. Wood, Maurice M. Averner, and Christopher P. McKay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2132–2137. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031581098.
PMCID: PMC30104
Chemistry
Special Feature: Extraterrestrial amino acids in Orgueil and Ivuna: Tracing the parent body of CI type carbonaceous chondrites
Pascale Ehrenfreund, Daniel P. Glavin, Oliver Botta, George Cooper, and Jeffrey L. Bada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2138–2141. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051502898.
PMCID: PMC30105
Special Feature: Organic protomolecule assembly in igneous minerals
Friedemann Freund, Aaron Staple, and John Scoville
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2142–2147. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061513298.
PMCID: PMC30106
Solvent effects on the energy landscapes and folding kinetics of polyalanine
Yaakov Levy, Joshua Jortner, and Oren M. Becker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2188–2193. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041611998.
PMCID: PMC30113
On the acidity and reactivity of HNO in aqueous solution and biological systems
Michael D. Bartberger, Jon M. Fukuto, and K. N. Houk
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2194–2198. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041481598.
PMCID: PMC30114
Geology
Special Feature: Oxygen isotope ratios of PO4: An inorganic indicator of enzymatic activity and P metabolism and a new biomarker in the search for life
Ruth E. Blake, Jeffrey C. Alt, and Anna M. Martini
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2148–2153. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051515898.
PMCID: PMC30107
Geophysics
Special Feature: Keeping Mars warm with new super greenhouse gases
M. F. Gerstell, J. S. Francisco, Y. L. Yung, C. Boxe, and E. T. Aaltonee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2154–2157. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051511598.
PMCID: PMC30108
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
Delineating developmental and metabolic pathways in vivo by expression profiling using the RIKEN set of 18,816 full-length enriched mouse cDNA arrays
Rika Miki, Koji Kadota, Hidemasa Bono, Yosuke Mizuno, Yasuhiro Tomaru, Piero Carninci, Masayoshi Itoh, Kazuhiro Shibata, Jun Kawai, Hideaki Konno, Sachihiko Watanabe, Kenjiro Sato, Yumiko Tokusumi, Noriko Kikuchi, Yoshiyuki Ishii, Yohei Hamaguchi, Itaru Nishizuka, Hitoshi Goto, Hiroyuki Nitanda, Susumu Satomi, Atsushi Yoshiki, Moriaki Kusakabe, Joseph L. DeRisi, Michael B. Eisen, Vishwnath R. Iyer, Patrick O. Brown, Masami Muramatsu, Hiroshi Shimada, Yasushi Okazaki, and Yoshihide Hayashizaki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2199–2204. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041605498.
PMCID: PMC30115
Active site mutant transgene confers tolerance to human β-glucuronidase without affecting the phenotype of MPS VII mice
William S. Sly, Carole Vogler, Jeffrey H. Grubb, Mi Zhou, Jinxing Jiang, Xiao Yan Zhou, Shunji Tomatsu, Yanhua Bi, and Elizabeth M. Snella
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2205–2210. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051623698.
PMCID: PMC30116
pRB induces Sp1 activity by relieving inhibition mediated by MDM2
Teresa Johnson-Pais, Catherine Degnin, and Mathew J. Thayer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2211–2216. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051415898.
PMCID: PMC30117
Nanohedra: Using symmetry to design self assembling protein cages, layers, crystals, and filaments
Jennifer E. Padilla, Christos Colovos, and Todd O. Yeates
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2217–2221. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041614998.
PMCID: PMC30118
Mutated plant lectin library useful to identify different cells
Mijung Yim, Takashi Ono, and Tatsuro Irimura
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2222–2225. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041621998.
PMCID: PMC30119
Biochemistry
On the acidity and reactivity of HNO in aqueous solution and biological systems
Michael D. Bartberger, Jon M. Fukuto, and K. N. Houk
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2194–2198. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041481598.
PMCID: PMC30114
Distinct roles for the N- and C-terminal regions in the cytotoxicity of pierisin-1, a putative ADP-ribosylating toxin from cabbage butterfly, against mammalian cells
Takashi Kanazawa, Masahiko Watanabe, Yuko Matsushima-Hibiya, Takuo Kono, Noriaki Tanaka, Kotaro Koyama, Takashi Sugimura, and Keiji Wakabayashi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2226–2231. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051628898.
PMCID: PMC30120
The nitrite reductase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Essential role of two active-site histidines in the catalytic and structural properties
Francesca Cutruzzolà, Kieron Brown, Emma K. Wilson, Andrea Bellelli, Marzia Arese, Mariella Tegoni, Christian Cambillau, and Maurizio Brunori
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2232–2237. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041365298.
PMCID: PMC30121
A short segment within the cytoplasmic domain of the neural cell adhesion molecule (N-CAM) is essential for N-CAM-induced NF-κB activity in astrocytes
Edward B. Little, Kathryn L. Crossin, Leslie A. Krushel, Gerald M. Edelman, and Bruce A. Cunningham
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2238–2243. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041597098.
PMCID: PMC30122
Supernatant protein factor, which stimulates the conversion of squalene to lanosterol, is a cytosolic squalene transfer protein and enhances cholesterol biosynthesis
Norihito Shibata, Makoto Arita, Yuko Misaki, Naoshi Dohmae, Koji Takio, Teruo Ono, Keizo Inoue, and Hiroyuki Arai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2244–2249. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041620398.
PMCID: PMC30123
Polar residues drive association of polyleucine transmembrane helices
Fang Xiao Zhou, Helen J. Merianos, Axel T. Brunger, and Donald M. Engelman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2250–2255. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041593698.
PMCID: PMC30124
Identification in mice of two isoforms of the cysteinyl leukotriene 1 receptor that result from alternative splicing
Akiko Maekawa, Yoshihide Kanaoka, Bing K. Lam, and K. Frank Austen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2256–2261. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041624398.
PMCID: PMC30125
Arabidopsis cyt1 mutants are deficient in a mannose-1-phosphate guanylyltransferase and point to a requirement of N-linked glycosylation for cellulose biosynthesis
Wolfgang Lukowitz, Todd C. Nickle, David W. Meinke, Robert L. Last, Patricia L. Conklin, and Christopher R. Somerville
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2262–2267. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051625798.
PMCID: PMC30126
From the Cover:
Twenty-first aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase–suppressor tRNA pairs for possible use in site-specific incorporation of amino acid analogues into proteins in eukaryotes and in eubacteria
Anne K. Kowal, Caroline Köhrer, and Uttam L. RajBhandary
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2268–2273. Published online 2001 January 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031488298.
PMCID: PMC30127
Viral capsid mobility: A dynamic conduit for inactivation
Klas Broo, Jing Wei, Dawn Marshall, Fred Brown, Thomas J. Smith, John E. Johnson, Anette Schneemann, and Gary Siuzdak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2274–2277. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051598298.
PMCID: PMC30128
Increased mitochondrial oxidative stress in the Sod2 (+/−) mouse results in the age-related decline of mitochondrial function culminating in increased apoptosis
Jason E. Kokoszka, Pinar Coskun, Luke A. Esposito, and Douglas C. Wallace
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2278–2283. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051627098.
PMCID: PMC30129
The human mitochondrial deoxynucleotide carrier and its role in the toxicity of nucleoside antivirals
Vincenza Dolce, Giuseppe Fiermonte, Michael J. Runswick, Ferdinando Palmieri, and John E. Walker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2284–2288. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031430998.
PMCID: PMC30130
Gene elements that affect the longevity of rbcL sequence-containing transcripts in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii chloroplasts
Mahipal Singh, Alexander Boutanaev, Paola Zucchi, and Lawrence Bogorad
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2289–2294. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041609798.
PMCID: PMC30131
TRM1, a YY1-like suppressor of rbcS-m3 expression in maize mesophyll cells
Tao Xu, Marc Purcell, Paola Zucchi, Tim Helentjaris, and Lawrence Bogorad
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2295–2300. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041610098.
PMCID: PMC30132
Contributions of distinct quaternary contacts to cooperative operator binding by Mnt repressor
Arie Berggrun and Robert T. Sauer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2301–2305. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041612198.
PMCID: PMC30133
Mammalian inositol polyphosphate multikinase synthesizes inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate and an inositol pyrophosphate
Adolfo Saiardi, Eiichiro Nagata, Hongbo R. Luo, Akira Sawa, Xiaojiang Luo, Adele M. Snowman, and Solomon H. Snyder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2306–2311. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041614598.
PMCID: PMC30134
Structural determinants of oxidative folding in proteins
Ervin Welker, Mahesh Narayan, William J. Wedemeyer, and Harold A. Scheraga
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2312–2316. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041615798.
PMCID: PMC30135
Zinc metallothionein imported into liver mitochondria modulates respiration
Bin Ye, Wolfgang Maret, and Bert L. Vallee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2317–2322. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041619198.
PMCID: PMC30136
Fatty acids and hypolipidemic drugs regulate peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α- and γ-mediated gene expression via liver fatty acid binding protein: A signaling path to the nucleus
Christian Wolfrum, Carola M. Borrmann, Torsten Börchers, and Friedrich Spener
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2323–2328. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051619898.
PMCID: PMC30137
Biophysics
Recent improvements in prediction of protein structure by global optimization of a potential energy function
Jarosław Pillardy, Cezary Czaplewski, Adam Liwo, Jooyoung Lee, Daniel R. Ripoll, Rajmund Kaźmierkiewicz, Stanisław Ołdziej, William J. Wedemeyer, Kenneth D. Gibson, Yelena A. Arnautova, Jeff Saunders, Yuan-Jie Ye, and Harold A. Scheraga
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2329–2333. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041609598.
PMCID: PMC30138
Destabilization of Ca2+-free gelsolin may not be responsible for proteolysis in Familial Amyloidosis of Finnish Type
Gayathri Ratnaswamy, Mary E. Huff, Andrew I. Su, Severine Rion, and Jeffery W. Kelly
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2334–2339. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041452598.
PMCID: PMC30139
Capabilities of liposomes for topological transformation
Fumimasa Nomura, Miki Nagata, Takehiko Inaba, Haruka Hiramatsu, Hirokazu Hotani, and Kingo Takiguchi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2340–2345. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041419098.
PMCID: PMC30140
Dynamics and orientation of N+(CD3)3-bromoacetylcholine bound to its binding site on the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor
P. T. F. Williamson, J. A. Watts, G. H. Addona, K. W. Miller, and A. Watts
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2346–2351. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031361698.
PMCID: PMC30141
Two different neurodegenerative diseases caused by proteins with similar structures
Huaping Mo, Richard C. Moore, Fred E. Cohen, David Westaway, Stanley B. Prusiner, Peter E. Wright, and H. Jane Dyson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2352–2357. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051627998.
PMCID: PMC30142
Transverse relaxation-optimized NMR spectroscopy with the outer membrane protein OmpX in dihexanoyl phosphatidylcholine micelles
César Fernández, Koba Adeishvili, and Kurt Wüthrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2358–2363. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051629298.
PMCID: PMC30143
An unusual pathway of excitation energy deactivation in carotenoids: Singlet-to-triplet conversion on an ultrafast timescale in a photosynthetic antenna
Claudiu C. Gradinaru, John T. M. Kennis, Emmanouil Papagiannakis, Ivo H. M. van Stokkum, Richard J. Cogdell, Graham R. Fleming, Robert A. Niederman, and Rienk van Grondelle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2364–2369. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051501298.
PMCID: PMC30144
The role of structure, energy landscape, dynamics, and allostery in the enzymatic function of myoglobin
Hans Frauenfelder, Benjamin H. McMahon, Robert H. Austin, Kelvin Chu, and John T. Groves
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2370–2374. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041614298.
PMCID: PMC30145
An amyloid-forming peptide from the yeast prion Sup35 reveals a dehydrated β-sheet structure for amyloid
Melinda Balbirnie, Robert Grothe, and David S. Eisenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2375–2380. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041617698.
PMCID: PMC30146
Cell Biology
Presenilin-1 binds cytoplasmic epithelial cadherin, inhibits cadherin/p120 association, and regulates stability and function of the cadherin/catenin adhesion complex
Lia Baki, Philippe Marambaud, Spiros Efthimiopoulos, Anastasios Georgakopoulos, Paul Wen, Wen Cui, Junichi Shioi, Eduard Koo, Masayuki Ozawa, Victor L. Friedrich, Jr., and Nikolaos K. Robakis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2381–2386. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041603398.
PMCID: PMC30147
An isolated, surface-expressed I domain of the integrin αLβ2 is sufficient for strong adhesive function when locked in the open conformation with a disulfide bond
Chafen Lu, Motomu Shimaoka, Mazen Ferzly, Claus Oxvig, Junichi Takagi, and Timothy A. Springer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2387–2392. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041606398.
PMCID: PMC30148
Locking in alternate conformations of the integrin αLβ2 I domain with disulfide bonds reveals functional relationships among integrin domains
Chafen Lu, Motomu Shimaoka, Qun Zang, Junichi Takagi, and Timothy A. Springer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2393–2398. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041618598.
PMCID: PMC30149
Organellar relationships in the Golgi region of the pancreatic beta cell line, HIT-T15, visualized by high resolution electron tomography
Brad J. Marsh, David N. Mastronarde, Karolyn F. Buttle, Kathryn E. Howell, and J. Richard McIntosh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2399–2406. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051631998.
PMCID: PMC30150
Kinetics of protein import into isolated Xenopus oocyte nuclei
Thomas Radtke, Dirk Schmalz, Elias Coutavas, Tarik M. Soliman, and Reiner Peters
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2407–2412. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051616598.
PMCID: PMC30151
ARF-GEP100, a guanine nucleotide-exchange protein for ADP-ribosylation factor 6
Akimasa Someya, Makoto Sata, Kazuyo Takeda, Gustavo Pacheco-Rodriguez, Victor J. Ferrans, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2413–2418. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051634798.
PMCID: PMC30152
Identification of the endogenous smooth muscle myosin phosphatase-associated kinase
Justin A. MacDonald, Meredith A. Borman, Andrea Murányi, Avril V. Somlyo, David J. Hartshorne, and Timothy A. J. Haystead
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2419–2424. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041331498.
PMCID: PMC30153
FKBP12, the 12-kDa FK506-binding protein, is a physiologic regulator of the cell cycle
Bahman Aghdasi, Keqiang Ye, Adam Resnick, Alex Huang, Hyo Chol Ha, Xin Guo, Ted M. Dawson, Valina L. Dawson, and Solomon H. Snyder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2425–2430. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041614198.
PMCID: PMC30154
Analysis of endoplasmic reticulum trafficking signals by combinatorial screening in mammalian cells
Noa Zerangue, Michael J. Malan, Sharon R. Fried, Paul F. Dazin, Yuh Nung Jan, Lily Yeh Jan, and Blanche Schwappach
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2431–2436. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051630198.
PMCID: PMC30155
Spatiotemporal dynamics of guanosine 3′,5′-cyclic monophosphate revealed by a genetically encoded, fluorescent indicator
Akira Honda, Stephen R. Adams, Carolyn L. Sawyer, Varda Lev-Ram, Roger Y. Tsien, and Wolfgang R. G. Dostmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2437–2442. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051631298.
PMCID: PMC30156
IL-4 inhibits osteoclast formation through a direct action on osteoclast precursors via peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ1
Amy C. Bendixen, Nirupama K. Shevde, Krista M. Dienger, Timothy M. Willson, Colin D. Funk, and J. Wesley Pike
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2443–2448. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041493198.
PMCID: PMC30157
Activation and targeting of extracellular signal-regulated kinases by β-arrestin scaffolds
Louis M. Luttrell, Francine L. Roudabush, Eric W. Choy, William E. Miller, Michael E. Field, Kristen L. Pierce, and Robert J. Lefkowitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2449–2454. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041604898.
PMCID: PMC30158
Identification and dissection of an enhancer controlling epithelial gene expression in skin
Satrajit Sinha and Elaine Fuchs
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2455–2460. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051633598.
PMCID: PMC30159
Developmental Biology
Production of zebrafish germ-line chimeras from embryo cell cultures
Chunguang Ma, Lianchun Fan, Rosemarie Ganassin, Niels Bols, and Paul Collodi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2461–2466. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041449398.
PMCID: PMC30160
An efficient system for conditional gene expression in embryonic stem cells and in their in vitro and in vivo differentiated derivatives
Ludovic Vallier, Jimmy Mancip, Suzy Markossian, Agnès Lukaszewicz, Colette Dehay, Daniel Metzger, Pierre Chambon, Jacques Samarut, and Pierre Savatier
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2467–2472. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041617198.
PMCID: PMC30161
Ecology
Special Feature: A novel microbial habitat in the mid-ocean ridge subseafloor
Melanie Summit and John A. Baross
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2158–2163. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051516098.
PMCID: PMC30109
Plant growth in elevated CO2 alters mitochondrial number and chloroplast fine structure
Kevin L. Griffin, O. Roger Anderson, Mary D. Gastrich, James D. Lewis, Guanghui Lin, William Schuster, Jeffrey R. Seemann, David T. Tissue, Matthew H. Turnbull, and David Whitehead
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2473–2478. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041620898.
PMCID: PMC30162
Effects of elevated atmospheric CO2 concentration on leaf dark respiration of Xanthium strumarium in light and in darkness
Xianzhong Wang, James D. Lewis, David T. Tissue, Jeffrey R. Seemann, and Kevin L. Griffin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2479–2484. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051622998.
PMCID: PMC30163
Paleoclimate and Amerindians: Evidence from stable isotopes and atmospheric circulation
Marjorie Brooks Lovvorn, George C. Frison, and Larry L. Tieszen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2485–2490. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041616098.
PMCID: PMC30164
Predator-induced stress makes the pesticide carbaryl more deadly to gray treefrog tadpoles (Hyla versicolor)
Rick A. Relyea and Nathan Mills
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2491–2496. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031076198.
PMCID: PMC30165
Evolution
Special Feature: Truncated hexa-octahedral magnetite crystals in ALH84001: Presumptive biosignatures
Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta, Simon J. Clemett, Dennis A. Bazylinski, Joseph L. Kirschvink, David S. McKay, Susan J. Wentworth, Hojatollah Vali, Everett K. Gibson, Jr., Mary Fae McKay, and Christopher S. Romanek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2164–2169. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051500898.
PMCID: PMC30110
Special Feature: The origin of atmospheric oxygen on Earth: The innovation of oxygenic photosynthesis
G. C. Dismukes, V. V. Klimov, S. V. Baranov, Yu. N. Kozlov, J. DasGupta, and A. Tyryshkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2170–2175. doi: 10.1073/pnas.061514798.
PMCID: PMC30111
Estimation of divergence times from multiprotein sequences for a few mammalian species and several distantly related organisms
Masatoshi Nei, Ping Xu, and Galina Glazko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2497–2502. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051611498.
PMCID: PMC30166
Phylogeny of genes for secretion NTPases: Identification of the widespread tadA subfamily and development of a diagnostic key for gene classification
Paul J. Planet, Scott C. Kachlany, Rob DeSalle, and David H. Figurski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2503–2508. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051436598.
PMCID: PMC30167
Positive Darwinian selection drives the evolution of several female reproductive proteins in mammals
Willie J. Swanson, Ziheng Yang, Mariana F. Wolfner, and Charles F. Aquadro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2509–2514. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051605998.
PMCID: PMC30168
Genetics
Role of the F-box protein Skp2 in lymphomagenesis
Esther Latres, Roberto Chiarle, Brenda A. Schulman, Nikola P. Pavletich, Angel Pellicer, Giorgio Inghirami, and Michele Pagano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2515–2520. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041475098.
PMCID: PMC30169
Genomic and genetic dissection of an archaeal regulon
Nitin S. Baliga, Sean P. Kennedy, Wailap Victor Ng, Leroy Hood, and Shiladitya DasSarma
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2521–2525. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051632498.
PMCID: PMC30170
Targeted disruption of the Kcnq1 gene produces a mouse model of Jervell and Lange– Nielsen Syndrome
Mathew C. Casimiro, Björn C. Knollmann, Steven N. Ebert, Jay C. Vary, Jr., Anne E. Greene, Michael R. Franz, Alexander Grinberg, Sing Ping Huang, and Karl Pfeifer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2526–2531. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041398998.
PMCID: PMC30171
Somatic mosaicism in Fanconi anemia: Evidence of genotypic reversion in lymphohematopoietic stem cells
John J. Gregory, Jr., John E. Wagner, Peter C. Verlander, Orna Levran, Sat Dev Batish, Cindy R. Eide, Amy Steffenhagen, Betsy Hirsch, and Arleen D. Auerbach
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2532–2537. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051609898.
PMCID: PMC30172
Spectral karyotyping suggests additional subsets of colorectal cancers characterized by pattern of chromosome rearrangement
Wael M. Abdel-Rahman, Kanade Katsura, Willem Rens, Patricia A. Gorman, Denise Sheer, David Bicknell, Walter F. Bodmer, Mark J. Arends, Andrew H. Wyllie, and Paul A. W. Edwards
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2538–2543. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041603298.
PMCID: PMC30173
Establishment of medaka (Oryzias latipes) transgenic lines with the expression of green fluorescent protein fluorescence exclusively in germ cells: A useful model to monitor germ cells in a live vertebrate
Minoru Tanaka, Masato Kinoshita, Daisuke Kobayashi, and Yoshitaka Nagahama
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2544–2549. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041315498.
PMCID: PMC30174
Interaction of a transcriptional repressor with the RNA polymerase II holoenzyme plays a crucial role in repression
Zafar Zaman, Aseem Z. Ansari, Sang Seok Koh, Richard Young, and Mark Ptashne
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2550–2554. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041611198.
PMCID: PMC30175
A genomic approach to gene fusion technology
Tina K. Van Dyk, Yan Wei, Michael K. Hanafey, Maureen Dolan, Mary Jane G. Reeve, J. Antoni Rafalski, Lucia B. Rothman-Denes, and Robert A. LaRossa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2555–2560. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041620498.
PMCID: PMC30176
Immunology
Defective localization of the NADPH phagocyte oxidase to Salmonella-containing phagosomes in tumor necrosis factor p55 receptor-deficient macrophages
Andrés Vázquez-Torres, Giamila Fantuzzi, Carl K. Edwards, III, Charles A. Dinarello, and Ferric C. Fang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2561–2565. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041618998.
PMCID: PMC30177
Impaired survival of T helper cells in the absence of CD4
Julie Strong, Qi Wang, and Nigel Killeen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2566–2571. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051329698.
PMCID: PMC30178
Spontaneous retinopathy in HLA-A29 transgenic mice
Yann Szpak, Jean-Claude Vieville, Thierry Tabary, Marie-Christine Naud, Martine Chopin, Catherine Edelson, Jacques H. M. Cohen, Jean Dausset, Yvonne de Kozak, and Marika Pla
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2572–2576. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051595998.
PMCID: PMC30179
Requirement for natural killer T (NKT) cells in the induction of allograft tolerance
Ken-ichiro Seino, Katashi Fukao, Kenzo Muramoto, Kazuhiko Yanagisawa, Yasutsugu Takada, Shigeru Kakuta, Yoichiro Iwakura, Luc Van Kaer, Kazuyoshi Takeda, Toshinori Nakayama, Masaru Taniguchi, Hisashi Bashuda, Hideo Yagita, and Ko Okumura
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2577–2581. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041608298.
PMCID: PMC30180
BLNK mediates Syk-dependent Btk activation
Yoshihiro Baba, Shoji Hashimoto, Masato Matsushita, Dai Watanabe, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Tomohiro Kurosaki, and Satoshi Tsukada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2582–2586. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051626198.
PMCID: PMC30181
Lack of a role for transforming growth factor-β in cytotoxic T lymphocyte antigen-4-mediated inhibition of T cell activation
Timothy J. Sullivan, John J. Letterio, Andreas van Elsas, Mizuko Mamura, Jocea van Amelsfort, Shellyann Sharpe, Barbara Metzler, Cynthia A. Chambers, and James P. Allison
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2587–2592. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051632398.
PMCID: PMC30182
Medical Sciences
Prevention of ischemia-induced retinopathy by the natural ocular antiangiogenic agent pigment epithelium-derived factor
Veronica Stellmach, Susan E. Crawford, Wei Zhou, and Noël Bouck
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2593–2597. Published online 2001 January 23. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031252398.
PMCID: PMC30183
Genetic disruption of PPARδ decreases the tumorigenicity of human colon cancer cells
Ben Ho Park, Bert Vogelstein, and Kenneth W. Kinzler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2598–2603. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051630998.
PMCID: PMC30184
Predominant role of endothelial nitric oxide synthase in vascular endothelial growth factor-induced angiogenesis and vascular permeability
Dai Fukumura, Takeshi Gohongi, Ananth Kadambi, Yotaro Izumi, Jennifer Ang, Chae-Ok Yun, Donald G. Buerk, Paul L. Huang, and Rakesh K. Jain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2604–2609. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041359198.
PMCID: PMC30185
Reduction of atherosclerosis in apolipoprotein E knockout mice by activation of the retinoid X receptor
Thierry Claudel, Mark D. Leibowitz, Catherine Fiévet, Anne Tailleux, Brandee Wagner, Joyce J. Repa, Gérard Torpier, Jean-Marc Lobaccaro, James R. Paterniti, David J. Mangelsdorf, Richard A. Heyman, and Johan Auwerx
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2610–2615. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041609298.
PMCID: PMC30186
Whole-body and intravital optical imaging of angiogenesis in orthotopically implanted tumors
Meng Yang, Eugene Baranov, Xiao-Ming Li, Jin Wei Wang, Ping Jiang, Lingna Li, A. R. Moossa, Sheldon Penman, and Robert M. Hoffman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2616–2621. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051626698.
PMCID: PMC30187
NO chemical events in the human airway during the immediate and late antigen-induced asthmatic response
Raed A. Dweik, Suzy A. A. Comhair, Benjamin Gaston, Frederik B. J. M. Thunnissen, Carol Farver, Mary Jane Thomassen, Mani Kavuru, Jeffrey Hammel, Husam M. Abu-Soud, and Serpil C. Erzurum
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2622–2627. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051629498.
PMCID: PMC30188
Trichostatin A reverses skewed expression of CD154, interleukin-10, and interferon-γ gene and protein expression in lupus T cells
Nilamadhab Mishra, Doris R. Brown, Irene M. Olorenshaw, and Gary M. Kammer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2628–2633. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051507098.
PMCID: PMC30189
Cardiovascular abnormalities with normal blood pressure in tissue kallikrein-deficient mice
Pierre Meneton, May Bloch-Faure, Albert A. Hagege, Hartmut Ruetten, Wei Huang, Sonia Bergaya, Debbie Ceiler, Doris Gehring, Isabelle Martins, Georges Salmon, Chantal M. Boulanger, Jürg Nussberger, Bertrand Crozatier, Jean-Marie Gasc, Didier Heudes, Patrick Bruneval, Tom Doetschman, Joël Ménard, and François Alhenc-Gelas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2634–2639. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051619598.
PMCID: PMC30190
Top-down morphogenesis of colorectal tumors
Ie-Ming Shih, Tian-Li Wang, Giovanni Traverso, Kathy Romans, Stanley R. Hamilton, Shmuel Ben-Sasson, Kenneth W. Kinzler, and Bert Vogelstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2640–2645. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051629398.
PMCID: PMC30191
High-sensitivity array analysis of gene expression for the early detection of disseminated breast tumor cells in peripheral blood
Katherine J. Martin, Edgard Graner, Yi Li, Laura M. Price, Brian M. Kritzman, Marcia V. Fournier, Esther Rhei, and Arthur B. Pardee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2646–2651. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041622398.
PMCID: PMC30192
An NO derivative of ursodeoxycholic acid protects against Fas-mediated liver injury by inhibiting caspase activity
Stefano Fiorucci, Andrea Mencarelli, Barbara Palazzetti, Piero Del Soldato, Antonio Morelli, and Louis J. Ignarro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2652–2657. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041603898.
PMCID: PMC30193
Anti-PSCA mAbs inhibit tumor growth and metastasis formation and prolong the survival of mice bearing human prostate cancer xenografts
Douglas C. Saffran, Arthur B. Raitano, Rene S. Hubert, Owen N. Witte, Robert E. Reiter, and Aya Jakobovits
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2658–2663. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051624698.
PMCID: PMC30194
The surface variant antigens of Plasmodium falciparum contain cross-reactive epitopes
Benoit Gamain, Louis H. Miller, and Dror I. Baruch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2664–2669. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041602598.
PMCID: PMC30195
DC-SIGNR, a DC-SIGN homologue expressed in endothelial cells, binds to human and simian immunodeficiency viruses and activates infection in trans
Stefan Pöhlmann, Elizabeth J. Soilleux, Frédéric Baribaud, George J. Leslie, Lesley S. Morris, John Trowsdale, Benhur Lee, Nicholas Coleman, and Robert W. Doms
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2670–2675. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051631398.
PMCID: PMC30196
Adeno-associated viral vector-mediated gene transfer results in long-term enzymatic and functional correction in multiple organs of Fabry mice
Sung-Chul Jung, Ina P. Han, Advait Limaye, Ruian Xu, Monique P. Gelderman, Patricia Zerfas, Kamala Tirumalai, Gary J. Murray, Matthew J. During, Roscoe O. Brady, and Pankaj Qasba
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2676–2681. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051634498.
PMCID: PMC30197
Antibodies to human fetal erythroid cells from a nonimmune phage antibody library
Michael A. Huie, Mei-Chi Cheung, Marcus O. Muench, Baltazar Becerril, Yuet W. Kan, and James D. Marks
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2682–2687. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051631798.
PMCID: PMC30198
Chronic elevation of plasma thioredoxin: Inhibition of chemotaxis and curtailment of life expectancy in AIDS
Hajime Nakamura, Stephen C. De Rosa, Junji Yodoi, Arne Holmgren, Pietro Ghezzi, Leonard A. Herzenberg, and Leonore A. Herzenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2688–2693. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041624998.
PMCID: PMC30199
Alkaline-mediated differential interaction (AMDI): A simple automatable single-nucleotide polymorphism assay
Sylvia Bartlett, Josef Straub, Susan Tonks, Rush Spencer Wells, Julia G. Bodmer, and Walter F. Bodmer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2694–2697. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041619998.
PMCID: PMC30200
Mechanisms underlying losses of heterozygosity in human colorectal cancers
Sam Thiagalingam, Steve Laken, James K. V. Willson, Sanford D. Markowitz, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Bert Vogelstein, and Christoph Lengauer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2698–2702. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051625398.
PMCID: PMC30201
A genetic model provides evidence that the receptor for atrial natriuretic peptide (guanylyl cyclase-A) inhibits cardiac ventricular myocyte hypertrophy
Ichiro Kishimoto, Kristen Rossi, and David L. Garbers
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2703–2706. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051625598.
PMCID: PMC30202
Mouse strain differences determine severity of iron accumulation in Hfe knockout model of hereditary hemochromatosis
Robert E. Fleming, Christopher C. Holden, Shunji Tomatsu, Abdul Waheed, Elizabeth M. Brunt, Robert S. Britton, Bruce R. Bacon, Derry C. Roopenian, and William S. Sly
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2707–2711. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051630898.
PMCID: PMC30203
Transcriptome of a mouse kidney cortical collecting duct cell line: Effects of aldosterone and vasopressin
Maya Robert-Nicoud, Marjorie Flahaut, Jean-Marc Elalouf, Marie Nicod, Miguel Salinas, Marcelle Bens, Alain Doucet, Patrick Wincker, François Artiguenave, Jean-Daniel Horisberger, Alain Vandewalle, Bernard C. Rossier, and Dmitri Firsov
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2712–2716. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051603198.
PMCID: PMC30204
Microbiology
Special Feature: Chains of magnetite crystals in the meteorite ALH84001: Evidence of biological origin
E. Imre Friedmann, Jacek Wierzchos, Carmen Ascaso, and Michael Winklhofer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2176–2181. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051514698.
PMCID: PMC30112
Evaluation of the role of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein A1 as a host factor in murine coronavirus discontinuous transcription and genome replication
Xiaolan Shen and Paul S. Masters
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2717–2722. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031424298.
PMCID: PMC30205
Subcellular localization of acetyl-CoA carboxylase in the apicomplexan parasite Toxoplasma gondii
J. Jelenska, M. J. Crawford, O. S. Harb, E. Zuther, R. Haselkorn, D. S. Roos, and P. Gornicki
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2723–2728. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051629998.
PMCID: PMC30206
Expression of the Anabaena hetR gene from a copper-regulated promoter leads to heterocyst differentiation under repressing conditions
William J. Buikema and Robert Haselkorn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2729–2734. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051624898.
PMCID: PMC30207
Programmed cell death mediated by ced-3 and ced-4 protects Caenorhabditis elegans from Salmonella typhimurium-mediated killing
Alejandro Aballay and Frederick M. Ausubel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2735–2739. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041613098.
PMCID: PMC30208
Comparative genomics of the restriction-modification systems in Helicobacter pylori
Lee-Fong Lin, Janos Posfai, Richard J. Roberts, and Huimin Kong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2740–2745. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051612298.
PMCID: PMC30209
From the Cover:
Sequence of the 1918 pandemic influenza virus nonstructural gene (NS) segment and characterization of recombinant viruses bearing the 1918 NS genes
Christopher F. Basler, Ann H. Reid, Jody K. Dybing, Thomas A. Janczewski, Thomas G. Fanning, Hongyong Zheng, Mirella Salvatore, Michael L. Perdue, David E. Swayne, Adolfo García-Sastre, Peter Palese, and Jeffery K. Taubenberger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2746–2751. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031575198.
PMCID: PMC30210
QscR, a modulator of quorum-sensing signal synthesis and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Sudha A. Chugani, Marvin Whiteley, Kimberly M. Lee, David D'Argenio, Colin Manoil, and E. P. Greenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2752–2757. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051624298.
PMCID: PMC30211
Effect of rabies virus infection on gene expression in mouse brain
Mikhail Prosniak, D. Craig Hooper, Bernhard Dietzschold, and Hilary Koprowski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2758–2763. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051630298.
PMCID: PMC30212
Neurobiology
Synergistic contributions of cyclin-dependant kinase 5/p35 and Reelin/Dab1 to the positioning of cortical neurons in the developing mouse brain
Toshio Ohshima, Masaharu Ogawa, Veeranna, Motoyuki Hirasawa, Glenn Longenecker, Koichi Ishiguro, Harish C. Pant, Roscoe O. Brady, Ashok B. Kulkarni, and Katsuhiko Mikoshiba
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2764–2769. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051628498.
PMCID: PMC30213
Internal initiation of translation of five dendritically localized neuronal mRNAs
Jason K. Pinkstaff, Stephen A. Chappell, Vincent P. Mauro, Gerald M. Edelman, and Les A. Krushel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2770–2775. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051623398.
PMCID: PMC30214
Coinciding early activation of the human primary visual cortex and anteromedial cuneus
Simo Vanni, Topi Tanskanen, Mika Seppä, Kimmo Uutela, and Riitta Hari
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2776–2780. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041600898.
PMCID: PMC30215
Characteristics of glycine receptors expressed by embryonic rat brain mRNAs
Guadalupe García-Alcocer, Jesús García-Colunga, Ataúlfo Martínez-Torres, and Ricardo Miledi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2781–2785. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031580798.
PMCID: PMC30216
Point mutant mice with hypersensitive α4 nicotinic receptors show dopaminergic deficits and increased anxiety
Cesar Labarca, Johannes Schwarz, Purnima Deshpande, Sigrid Schwarz, Mark W. Nowak, Carlos Fonck, Raad Nashmi, Paulo Kofuji, Hong Dang, Wenmei Shi, Melihat Fidan, Baljit S. Khakh, Zhoufeng Chen, Barbara J. Bowers, Jim Boulter, Jeanne M. Wehner, and Henry A. Lester
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2786–2791. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041582598.
PMCID: PMC30217
Morphological abnormalities in the brains of estrogen receptor β knockout mice
Ling Wang, Sandra Andersson, Margaret Warner, and Jan-Åke Gustafsson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2792–2796. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041617498.
PMCID: PMC30218
Theory for normal and impaired experience-dependent plasticity in neocortex of adult rats
Lubica Beňušková, Velayudhan Rema, Michael Armstrong-James, and Ford F. Ebner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2797–2802. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051346398.
PMCID: PMC30219
Tonic nicotinic modulation of serotoninergic transmission in the spinal cord
Matilde Cordero-Erausquin and Jean-Pierre Changeux
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2803–2807. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041600698.
PMCID: PMC30220
Activity-dependent CREB phosphorylation: Convergence of a fast, sensitive calmodulin kinase pathway and a slow, less sensitive mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway
Gang-Yi Wu, Karl Deisseroth, and Richard W. Tsien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2808–2813. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051634198.
PMCID: PMC30221
An orchestrated gene expression component of neuronal programmed cell death revealed by cDNA array analysis
Lillian W. Chiang, Jill M. Grenier, Laurence Ettwiller, Lorayne P. Jenkins, Dave Ficenec, John Martin, Fenyu Jin, Peter S. DiStefano, and Andrew Wood
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2814–2819. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051630598.
PMCID: PMC30222
Localization and regulation of GLUTx1 glucose transporter in the hippocampus of streptozotocin diabetic rats
Lawrence P. Reagan, Naira Gorovits, Elena K. Hoskin, Stephen E. Alves, Ellen B. Katz, Claudia A. Grillo, Gerardo G. Piroli, Bruce S. McEwen, and Maureen J. Charron
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2820–2825. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051629798.
PMCID: PMC30223
In vivo evidence for a cochlear amplifier in the hair-cell bundle of lizards
Geoffrey A. Manley, Des L. Kirk, Christine Köppl, and Graeme K. Yates
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2826–2831. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041604998.
PMCID: PMC30224
β-Neuregulin-1 is required for the in vivo development of functional Ca2+-activated K+ channels in parasympathetic neurons
Jill S. Cameron, Laurence Dryer, and Stuart E. Dryer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2832–2836. Published online 2001 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041394098.
PMCID: PMC30225
Bax ablation prevents dopaminergic neurodegeneration in the 1-methyl- 4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine mouse model of Parkinson's disease
Miquel Vila, Vernice Jackson-Lewis, Slobodanka Vukosavic, Ruth Djaldetti, Gabriel Liberatore, Daniel Offen, Stanley J. Korsmeyer, and Serge Przedborski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2837–2842. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051633998.
PMCID: PMC30226
Urocortin II: A member of the corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) neuropeptide family that is selectively bound by type 2 CRF receptors
T. M. Reyes, K. Lewis, M. H. Perrin, K. S. Kunitake, J. Vaughan, C. A. Arias, J. B. Hogenesch, J. Gulyas, J. Rivier, W. W. Vale, and P. E. Sawchenko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2843–2848. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051626398.
PMCID: PMC30227
Brain 5α-dihydroprogesterone and allopregnanolone synthesis in a mouse model of protracted social isolation
Erbo Dong, Kinzo Matsumoto, Veska Uzunova, Ikuko Sugaya, Hiroki Takahata, Hiroaki Nomura, Hiroshi Watanabe, Erminio Costa, and Alessandro Guidotti
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2849–2854. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051628598.
PMCID: PMC30228
Pharmacology
Coupling of histamine H3 receptors to neuronal Na+/H+ exchange: A novel protective mechanism in myocardial ischemia
Randi B. Silver, Christina J. Mackins, Neil C. E. Smith, Irina L. Koritchneva, Kara Lefkowitz, Timothy W. Lovenberg, and Roberto Levi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2855–2859. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051599198.
PMCID: PMC30229
Effects of nitric oxide-releasing aspirin versus aspirin on restenosis in hypercholesterolemic mice
Claudio Napoli, Giuseppe Cirino, Piero Del Soldato, Raffaella Sorrentino, Vincenzo Sica, Mario Condorelli, Aldo Pinto, and Louis J. Ignarro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2860–2864. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041602898.
PMCID: PMC30230
Ryanodine receptor point mutant E4032A reveals an allosteric interaction with ryanodine
James D. Fessenden, Lili Chen, Yaming Wang, Cecilia Paolini, Clara Franzini-Armstrong, Paul D. Allen, and Isaac N. Pessah
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2865–2870. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041608898.
PMCID: PMC30231
Physiology
Inhibition of caspase 1 reduces human myocardial ischemic dysfunction via inhibition of IL-18 and IL-1β
Benjamin J. Pomerantz, Leonid L. Reznikov, Alden H. Harken, and Charles A. Dinarello
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2871–2876. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041611398.
PMCID: PMC30232
Calmodulin kinase is a molecular switch for cardiac excitation –contraction coupling
Yuejin Wu, Roger J. Colbran, and Mark E. Anderson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2877–2881. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051449198.
PMCID: PMC30233
Defective trafficking and function of KATP channels caused by a sulfonylurea receptor 1 mutation associated with persistent hyperinsulinemic hypoglycemia of infancy
Etienne A. Cartier, Lisa R. Conti, Carol A. Vandenberg, and Show-Ling Shyng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2882–2887. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051499698.
PMCID: PMC30234
Reconstitution and functional comparison of purified GlpF and AqpZ, the glycerol and water channels from Escherichia coli
Mario J. Borgnia and Peter Agre
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2888–2893. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051628098.
PMCID: PMC30235
Altered ubiquitination and stability of aquaporin-1 in hypertonic stress
Virginia Leitch, Peter Agre, and Landon S. King
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2894–2898. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041616498.
PMCID: PMC30236
Plant Biology
Galactose-extended glycans of antibodies produced by transgenic plants
Hans Bakker, Muriel Bardor, Jos W. Molthoff, Véronique Gomord, Ingrid Elbers, Lucas H. Stevens, Wilco Jordi, Arjen Lommen, Loïc Faye, Patrice Lerouge, and Dirk Bosch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2899–2904. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031419998.
PMCID: PMC30237
One ring or two? Determination of ring number in carotenoids by lycopene [var epsilon]-cyclases
Francis X. Cunningham, Jr. and Elisabeth Gantt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2905–2910. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051618398.
PMCID: PMC30238
Chlorophyll and carotenoid binding in a simple red algal light-harvesting complex crosses phylogenetic lines
Beatrice Grabowski, Francis X. Cunningham, Jr., and Elisabeth Gantt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2911–2916. Published online 2001 February 13. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031587198.
PMCID: PMC30239
KAT1 is not essential for stomatal opening
Alexander Szyroki, Natalya Ivashikina, Petra Dietrich, M. Rob G. Roelfsema, Peter Ache, Birgit Reintanz, Rosalia Deeken, Matthias Godde, Hubert Felle, Ralf Steinmeyer, Klaus Palme, and Rainer Hedrich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2917–2921. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.051616698.
PMCID: PMC30240
From the Cover:
Invariant scaling relationships for interspecific plant biomass production rates and body size
Karl J. Niklas and Brian J. Enquist
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2922–2927. Published online 2001 February 6. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041590298.
PMCID: PMC30241
Population Biology
Metapopulation extinction caused by mutation accumulation
Kevin Higgins and Michael Lynch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2928–2933. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.031358898.
PMCID: PMC30242
Social Sciences
Social Sciences
Lifespan depends on month of birth
Gabriele Doblhammer and James W. Vaupel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 February 27; 98(5): 2934–2939. Published online 2001 February 20. doi: 10.1073/pnas.041431898.
PMCID: PMC30243
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