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Volume 96(11);  May 25, 1999
Colloquium Papers
Plants and population: Is there time?
Nina V. Fedoroff and Joel E. Cohen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5903–5907.
PMCID: PMC34204
World food and agriculture: Outlook for the medium and longer term
Nikos Alexandratos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5908–5914.
PMCID: PMC34205
The growth of demand will limit output growth for food over the next quarter century
D. Gale Johnson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5915–5920.
PMCID: PMC34206
Global and local implications of biotechnology and climate change for future food supplies
Robert E. Evenson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5921–5928.
PMCID: PMC34207
World food trends and prospects to 2025
Tim Dyson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5929–5936.
PMCID: PMC34208
Plant genetic resources: What can they contribute toward increased crop productivity?
David Hoisington, Mireille Khairallah, Timothy Reeves, Jean-Marcel Ribaut, Bent Skovmand, Suketoshi Taba, and Marilyn Warburton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5937–5943.
PMCID: PMC34209
Ecological approaches and the development of “truly integrated” pest management
Matthew B. Thomas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5944–5951.
PMCID: PMC34210
Ecological intensification of cereal production systems: Yield potential, soil quality, and precision agriculture
Kenneth G. Cassman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5952–5959.
PMCID: PMC34211
The transition to agricultural sustainability
Vernon W. Ruttan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5960–5967.
PMCID: PMC34212
Biotechnology: Enhancing human nutrition in developing and developed worlds
Ganesh M. Kishore and Christine Shewmaker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5968–5972.
PMCID: PMC34213
Use of plant roots for phytoremediation and molecular farming
Doloressa Gleba, Nikolai V. Borisjuk, Ludmyla G. Borisjuk, Ralf Kneer, Alexander Poulev, Marina Skarzhinskaya, Slavik Dushenkov, Sithes Logendra, Yuri Y. Gleba, and Ilya Raskin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5973–5977.
PMCID: PMC34214
Transgenic plants for tropical regions: Some considerations about their development and their transfer to the small farmer
Luis Herrera-Estrella
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5978–5981.
PMCID: PMC34215
From pre-Hispanic to future conservation alternatives: Lessons from Mexico
Arturo Gómez-Pompa and Andrea Kaus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5982–5986.
PMCID: PMC34216
Gardenification of tropical conserved wildlands: Multitasking, multicropping, and multiusers
Daniel Janzen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5987–5994.
PMCID: PMC34217
Global environmental impacts of agricultural expansion: The need for sustainable and efficient practices
David Tilman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5995–6000.
PMCID: PMC34218
Nitrogen management and the future of food: Lessons from the management of energy and carbon
Robert H. Socolow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6001–6008.
PMCID: PMC34219
Commentaries
Bacterial cell division: A moveable feast
Christine Jacobs and Lucy Shapiro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5891–5893.
PMCID: PMC34200
DNA demethylation
Alan P. Wolffe, Peter L. Jones, and Paul A. Wade
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5894–5896.
PMCID: PMC34201
Searching for “downhill scenarios” in protein folding
William A. Eaton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5897–5899.
PMCID: PMC34202
Perspective
Novel phenomena in dilute electron systems in two dimensions
M. P. Sarachik and S. V. Kravchenko
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 5900–5902.
PMCID: PMC34203
Physical Sciences
Applied Mathematics
An equilibrium statistical model for the spreading phase of open-ocean convection
Mark T. DiBattista and Andrew J. Majda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6009–6013.
PMCID: PMC26826
Chemistry
Femtosecond dynamics of DNA-mediated electron transfer
Chaozhi Wan, Torsten Fiebig, Shana O. Kelley, Christopher R. Treadway, Jacqueline K. Barton, and Ahmed H. Zewail
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6014–6019.
PMCID: PMC26827
Chemistry for the analysis of protein–protein interactions: Rapid and efficient cross-linking triggered by long wavelength light
David A. Fancy and Thomas Kodadek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6020–6024.
PMCID: PMC26828
Making artificial antibodies: A format for phage display of combinatorial heterodimeric arrays
Changshou Gao, Shenlan Mao, Chih-Hung L. Lo, Peter Wirsching, Richard A. Lerner, and Kim D. Janda
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6025–6030.
PMCID: PMC26829
Observation of strange kinetics in protein folding
J. Sabelko, J. Ervin, and M. Gruebele
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6031–6036.
PMCID: PMC26830
Mathematics
Solutions of a Lagrangian system on T2
Paul H. Rabinowitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6037–6041.
PMCID: PMC26831
Physics
Field theory in superfluid 3He: What are the lessons for particle physics, gravity, and high-temperature superconductivity?
G. E. Volovik
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6042–6047.
PMCID: PMC26832
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
Chemistry for the analysis of protein–protein interactions: Rapid and efficient cross-linking triggered by long wavelength light
David A. Fancy and Thomas Kodadek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6020–6024.
PMCID: PMC26828
Long RNA hairpins that contain inosine are present in Caenorhabditis elegans poly(A)+ RNA
Daniel P. Morse and Brenda L. Bass
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6048–6053.
PMCID: PMC26833
Ubiquitination of RNA polymerase II large subunit signaled by phosphorylation of carboxyl-terminal domain
Akira Mitsui and Phillip A. Sharp
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6054–6059.
PMCID: PMC26834
Fire–diffuse–fire model of dynamics of intracellular calcium waves
Silvina Ponce Dawson, Joel Keizer, and John E. Pearson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6060–6063.
PMCID: PMC26835
Substrate sequestration by a proteolytically inactive Lon mutant
Laurence Van Melderen and Susan Gottesman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6064–6071.
PMCID: PMC26836
A role for the light-dependent phosphorylation of visual arrestin
Paul G. Alloway and Patrick J. Dolph
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6072–6077.
PMCID: PMC26837
Structural characterization of an engineered tandem repeat contrasts the importance of context and sequence in protein folding
Martin Sagermann, Walter A. Baase, and Brian W. Matthews
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6078–6083.
PMCID: PMC26838
Atrial natriuretic peptide-stimulated Ca2+ reabsorption in rabbit kidney requires membrane-targeted, cGMP-dependent protein kinase type II
Joost G. J. Hoenderop, Arie B. Vaandrager, Lisette Dijkink, Albert Smolenski, Stepan Gambaryan, Suzanne M. Lohmann, Hugo R. de Jonge, Peter H. G. M. Willems, and René J. M. Bindels
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6084–6089.
PMCID: PMC26839
Recognition of nonhybridizing base pairs during nucleotide excision repair of DNA
Neda Buschta-Hedayat, Tonko Buterin, Martin T. Hess, Miriam Missura, and Hanspeter Naegeli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6090–6095.
PMCID: PMC26840
Cell cycle-dependent regulation of RNA polymerase I transcription: The nucleolar transcription factor UBF is inactive in mitosis and early G1
Joachim Klein and Ingrid Grummt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6096–6101.
PMCID: PMC26841
A peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ ligand inhibits adipocyte differentiation
Jennifer L. Oberfield, Jon L. Collins, Christopher P. Holmes, Donna M. Goreham, Joel P. Cooper, Jeffery E. Cobb, James M. Lenhard, Emily A. Hull-Ryde, Christopher P. Mohr, Steven G. Blanchard, Derek J. Parks, Linda B. Moore, Jürgen M. Lehmann, Kelli Plunket, Ann B. Miller, Michael V. Milburn, Steven A. Kliewer, and Timothy M. Willson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6102–6106.
PMCID: PMC26842
DNA methylation is a reversible biological signal
Shyam Ramchandani, Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya, Nadia Cervoni, and Moshe Szyf
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6107–6112.
PMCID: PMC26843
A quantitative method for evaluating the stabilities of nucleic acids
Craig A. Gelfand, G. Eric Plum, Slawomir Mielewczyk, David P. Remeta, and Kenneth J. Breslauer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6113–6118.
PMCID: PMC26844
Solution structure and peptide binding studies of the C-terminal Src homology 3-like domain of the diphtheria toxin repressor protein
Guangshun Wang, Gregory P. Wylie, Pamela D. Twigg, Donald L. D. Caspar, John R. Murphy, and Timothy M. Logan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6119–6124.
PMCID: PMC26845
The SRm160/300 splicing coactivator is required for exon-enhancer function
Adam G. Eldridge, Yu Li, Phillip A. Sharp, and Benjamin J. Blencowe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6125–6130.
PMCID: PMC26846
Laser-mediated, site-specific inactivation of RNA transcripts
Dilara Grate and Charles Wilson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6131–6136.
PMCID: PMC26847
Mutation R120G in αB-crystallin, which is linked to a desmin-related myopathy, results in an irregular structure and defective chaperone-like function
Michael P. Bova, Orna Yaron, Qingling Huang, Linlin Ding, Dana A. Haley, Phoebe L. Stewart, and Joseph Horwitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6137–6142.
PMCID: PMC26848
Comparison of the 5′ nuclease activities of Taq DNA polymerase and its isolated nuclease domain
Victor Lyamichev, Mary Ann D. Brow, Virgil E. Varvel, and James E. Dahlberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6143–6148.
PMCID: PMC26849
Magnesium-dependent folding of self-splicing RNA: Exploring the link between cooperativity, thermodynamics, and kinetics
Jie Pan, D. Thirumalai, and Sarah A. Woodson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6149–6154.
PMCID: PMC26850
Inhibition of RNase P RNA cleavage by aminoglycosides
Nils E. Mikkelsen, Mathias Brännvall, Anders Virtanen, and Leif A. Kirsebom
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6155–6160.
PMCID: PMC26851
Regulation of the OxyR transcription factor by hydrogen peroxide and the cellular thiol—disulfide status
Fredrik Åslund, Ming Zheng, Jon Beckwith, and Gisela Storz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6161–6165.
PMCID: PMC26852
Biophysics
Stretching single-domain proteins: Phase diagram and kinetics of force-induced unfolding
D. K. Klimov and D. Thirumalai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6166–6170.
PMCID: PMC26853
Thermodynamic basis of the enhanced specificity of structured DNA probes
Grégoire Bonnet, Sanjay Tyagi, Albert Libchaber, and Fred Russell Kramer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6171–6176.
PMCID: PMC26854
Shedding light on the dark and weakly fluorescent states of green fluorescent proteins
Wolfgang Weber, Volkhard Helms, J. Andrew McCammon, and Peter W. Langhoff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6177–6182.
PMCID: PMC26855
Identification of the proton pathway in bacterial reaction centers: Inhibition of proton transfer by binding of Zn2+ or Cd2+
M. L. Paddock, M. S. Graige, G. Feher, and M. Y. Okamura
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6183–6188.
PMCID: PMC26856
How vertebrate and invertebrate visual pigments differ in their mechanism of photoactivation
Masashi Nakagawa, Tatsuo Iwasa, Satoshi Kikkawa, Motoyuki Tsuda, and Thomas G. Ebrey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6189–6192.
PMCID: PMC26857
Cell Biology
Multistep regulation of DNA replication by Cdk phosphorylation of HsCdc6
Wei Jiang, Nicholas J. Wells, and Tony Hunter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6193–6198.
PMCID: PMC26858
PTEN modulates cell cycle progression and cell survival by regulating phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5,-trisphosphate and Akt/protein kinase B signaling pathway
Hong Sun, Ralf Lesche, Da-Ming Li, Joanna Liliental, Hui Zhang, Jing Gao, Nadia Gavrilova, Brenda Mueller, Xin Liu, and Hong Wu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6199–6204.
PMCID: PMC26859
Spc29p is a component of the Spc110p subcomplex and is essential for spindle pole body duplication
Sarah Elliott, Michael Knop, Gabriel Schlenstedt, and Elmar Schiebel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6205–6210.
PMCID: PMC26860
CMS: An adapter molecule involved in cytoskeletal rearrangements
Kathrin H. Kirsch, Maria-Magdalena Georgescu, Satoshi Ishimaru, and Hidesaburo Hanafusa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6211–6216.
PMCID: PMC26861
Mechanism of Ca2+-dependent nuclear accumulation of calmodulin
Birong Liao, Bryce M. Paschal, and Katherine Luby-Phelps
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6217–6222.
PMCID: PMC26862
Poly-ADP ribose polymerase activates nuclear proteasome to degrade oxidatively damaged histones
Oliver Ullrich, Thomas Reinheckel, Nicolle Sitte, Ralf Hass, Tilman Grune, and Kelvin J. A. Davies
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6223–6228.
PMCID: PMC26863
Evidence for specific nucleocytoplasmic transport pathways used by leucine-rich nuclear export signals
Claudia Elfgang, Olaf Rosorius, Lotte Hofer, Herbert Jaksche, Joachim Hauber, and Dorian Bevec
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6229–6234.
PMCID: PMC26864
Metalloprotease-mediated ligand release regulates autocrine signaling through the epidermal growth factor receptor
Jianying Dong, Lee K. Opresko, Peter J. Dempsey, Douglas A. Lauffenburger, Robert J. Coffey, and H. Steven Wiley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6235–6240.
PMCID: PMC26865
VIP17/MAL, a lipid raft-associated protein, is involved in apical transport in MDCK cells
Kwang Ho Cheong, Daniele Zacchetti, Eveline E. Schneeberger, and Kai Simons
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6241–6248.
PMCID: PMC26866
E-cadherin induces mesenchymal-to-epithelial transition in human ovarian surface epithelium
Nelly Auersperg, Jie Pan, Bryon D. Grove, Todd Peterson, Janet Fisher, Sarah Maines-Bandiera, Aruna Somasiri, and Calvin D. Roskelley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6249–6254.
PMCID: PMC26867
Activation of flavin-containing oxidases underlies light-induced production of H2O2 in mammalian cells
Philip E. Hockberger, Timothy A. Skimina, Victoria E. Centonze, Colleen Lavin, Su Chu, Soheil Dadras, Janardan K. Reddy, and John G. White
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6255–6260.
PMCID: PMC26868
Converting enzyme-independent release of tumor necrosis factor α and IL-1β from a stimulated human monocytic cell line in the presence of activated neutrophils or purified proteinase 3
Claire Coeshott, Christie Ohnemus, Anna Pilyavskaya, Sherman Ross, Maciej Wieczorek, Heather Kroona, Axel H. Leimer, and John Cheronis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6261–6266.
PMCID: PMC26869
Developmental Biology
Signaling through fibroblast growth factor receptor 2b plays a key role in the development of the exocrine pancreas
Francisco Miralles, Paul Czernichow, Keiichi Ozaki, Nobuyuki Itoh, and Raphael Scharfmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6267–6272.
PMCID: PMC26870
β-Trcp couples β-catenin phosphorylation-degradation and regulates Xenopus axis formation
Chunming Liu, Yoichi Kato, Zhuohua Zhang, Viet Minh Do, Bruce A. Yankner, and Xi He
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6273–6278.
PMCID: PMC26871
Evolution
Adaptive evolution of color vision of the Comoran coelacanth (Latimeria chalumnae)
Shozo Yokoyama, Huan Zhang, F. Bernhard Radlwimmer, and Nathan S. Blow
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6279–6284.
PMCID: PMC26872
Convergent evolution of Trichomonas vaginalis lactate dehydrogenase from malate dehydrogenase
Gang Wu, András Fiser, Benno ter Kuile, Andrej Šali, and Miklós Müller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6285–6290.
PMCID: PMC26873
Genetics
A normal β-globin allele as a modifier gene ameliorating the severity of α-thalassemia in mice
Aya Leder, Edith Wiener, Matthew J. Lee, Sunitha N. Wickramasinghe, and Philip Leder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6291–6295.
PMCID: PMC26874
Mutations in HYAL1, a member of a tandemly distributed multigene family encoding disparate hyaluronidase activities, cause a newly described lysosomal disorder, mucopolysaccharidosis IX
Barbara Triggs-Raine, Timothy J. Salo, Hong Zhang, Brandy A. Wicklow, and Marvin R. Natowicz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6296–6300.
PMCID: PMC26875
Direct genetic analysis by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry
Timothy J. Griffin, Jeff G. Hall, James R. Prudent, and Lloyd M. Smith
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6301–6306.
PMCID: PMC26876
A single nucleotide in the SMN gene regulates splicing and is responsible for spinal muscular atrophy
Christian L. Lorson, Eric Hahnen, Elliot J. Androphy, and Brunhilde Wirth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6307–6311.
PMCID: PMC26877
Microsatellites provide evidence for Y chromosome diversity among the founders of the New World
Andrés Ruiz-Linares, Daniel Ortíz-Barrientos, Mauricio Figueroa, Natalia Mesa, Juan G. Múnera, Gabriel Bedoya, Iván D. Vélez, Luis F. García, Anna Pérez-Lezaun, Jaume Bertranpetit, Marcus W. Feldman, and David B. Goldstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6312–6317.
PMCID: PMC26878
Distinct leukemia phenotypes in transgenic mice and different corepressor interactions generated by promyelocytic leukemia variant fusion genes PLZF–RARα and NPM–RARα
G.-X. Cheng, X.-H. Zhu, X.-Q. Men, L. Wang, Q.-H. Huang, X. L. Jin, S.-M. Xiong, J. Zhu, W.-M. Guo, J.-Q. Chen, S.-F. Xu, E. So, L.-C. Chan, S. Waxman, A. Zelent, G.-Q. Chen, S. Dong, J.-X. Liu, and S.-J. Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6318–6323.
PMCID: PMC26879
Immunology
Calcineurin and vacuolar-type H+-ATPase modulate macrophage effector functions
Irina M. Conboy, Devanand Manoli, Vidula Mhaiskar, and Patricia P. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6324–6329.
PMCID: PMC26880
The natural killer gene complex genetic locus Chok encodes Ly-49D, a target recognition receptor that activates natural killing
Azza H. Idris, Hamish R. C. Smith, Llewellyn H. Mason, John R. Ortaldo, Anthony A. Scalzo, and Wayne M. Yokoyama
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6330–6335.
PMCID: PMC26881
Requirement for membrane lymphotoxin in natural killer cell development
Koho Iizuka, David D. Chaplin, Yang Wang, Qiang Wu, Lyle E. Pegg, Wayne M. Yokoyama, and Yang-Xin Fu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6336–6340.
PMCID: PMC26882
Bruton’s tyrosine kinase activity is negatively regulated by Sab, the Btk-SH3 domain-binding protein
Tomoki Yamadori, Yoshihiro Baba, Masato Matsushita, Shoji Hashimoto, Mari Kurosaki, Tomohiro Kurosaki, Tadamitsu Kishimoto, and Satoshi Tsukada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6341–6346.
PMCID: PMC26883
Medical Sciences
Receptors for oxidized low-density lipoprotein on elicited mouse peritoneal macrophages can recognize both the modified lipid moieties and the modified protein moieties: Implications with respect to macrophage recognition of apoptotic cells
David A. Bird, Kristin L. Gillotte, Sohvi Hörkkö, Peter Friedman, Edward A. Dennis, Joseph L. Witztum, and Daniel Steinberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6347–6352.
PMCID: PMC26884
Monoclonal antibodies against oxidized low-density lipoprotein bind to apoptotic cells and inhibit their phagocytosis by elicited macrophages: Evidence that oxidation-specific epitopes mediate macrophage recognition
Mi-Kyung Chang, Claes Bergmark, Aino Laurila, Sohvi Hörkkö, Ki-Hoon Han, Peter Friedman, Edward A. Dennis, and Joseph L. Witztum
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6353–6358.
PMCID: PMC26885
Stable exposure of the coreceptor-binding site in a CD4-independent HIV-1 envelope protein
Trevor L. Hoffman, Celia C. LaBranche, Wentao Zhang, Gabriella Canziani, James Robinson, Irwin Chaiken, James A. Hoxie, and Robert W. Doms
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6359–6364.
PMCID: PMC26886
Microtubule dysfunction by posttranslational nitrotyrosination of α-tubulin: A nitric oxide-dependent mechanism of cellular injury
Jason P. Eiserich, Alvaro G. Estévez, Thaddeus V. Bamberg, Yao Zu Ye, Phillip H. Chumley, Joseph S. Beckman, and Bruce A. Freeman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6365–6370.
PMCID: PMC26887
Interaction between RGS7 and polycystin
Emily Kim, Thierry Arnould, Lorenz Sellin, Thomas Benzing, Natalia Comella, Olivier Kocher, Leonidas Tsiokas, Vikas P. Sukhatme, and Gerd Walz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6371–6376.
PMCID: PMC26888
Salicylates and sulfasalazine, but not glucocorticoids, inhibit leukocyte accumulation by an adenosine-dependent mechanism that is independent of inhibition of prostaglandin synthesis and p105 of NFκB
Bruce N. Cronstein, M. Carmen Montesinos, and Gerald Weissmann
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6377–6381.
PMCID: PMC26889
p27 and Rb are on overlapping pathways suppressing tumorigenesis in mice
Michele S. Park, Juan Rosai, Hai T. Nguyen, Paola Capodieci, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, and Andrew Koff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6382–6387.
PMCID: PMC26890
Delayed symptom onset and increased life expectancy in Sandhoff disease mice treated with N-butyldeoxynojirimycin
Mylvaganam Jeyakumar, Terry D. Butters, Mario Cortina-Borja, Victoria Hunnam, Richard L. Proia, V. Hugh Perry, Raymond A. Dwek, and Frances M. Platt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6388–6393.
PMCID: PMC26891
Multiplex detection of four pathogenic retroviruses using molecular beacons
Jacqueline A. M. Vet, Amit R. Majithia, Salvatore A. E. Marras, Sanjay Tyagi, Syamalima Dube, Bernard J. Poiesz, and Fred Russell Kramer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6394–6399.
PMCID: PMC26892
Low- and high-level transgenic expression of β2-adrenergic receptors differentially affect cardiac hypertrophy and function in Gαq-overexpressing mice
Gerald W. Dorn, II, Nicole M. Tepe, John N. Lorenz, Walter J. Koch, and Stephen B. Liggett
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6400–6405.
PMCID: PMC26893
Synthesis and in vivo murine evaluation of Na4[1-(1′-B10H9)-6-SHB10H8] as a potential agent for boron neutron capture therapy
Debra A. Feakes, R. Corey Waller, Deborah K. Hathaway, and Veronica S. Morton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6406–6410.
PMCID: PMC26894
Pressure-mediated oligonucleotide transfection of rat and human cardiovascular tissues
Michael J. Mann, Gary H. Gibbons, Howard Hutchinson, Robert S. Poston, E. Grant Hoyt, Robert C. Robbins, and Victor J. Dzau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6411–6416.
PMCID: PMC26895
Efficient and regulated erythropoietin production by naked DNA injection and muscle electroporation
Gabriella Rizzuto, Manuela Cappelletti, Domenico Maione, Rocco Savino, Domenico Lazzaro, Patrizia Costa, Iacob Mathiesen, Riccardo Cortese, Gennaro Ciliberto, Ralph Laufer, Nicola La Monica, and Elena Fattori
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6417–6422.
PMCID: PMC26896
Aging accentuates and bone marrow transplantation ameliorates metabolic defects in Fabry disease mice
Toshio Ohshima, Raphael Schiffmann, Gary J. Murray, Jeffrey Kopp, Jane M. Quirk, Stefanie Stahl, Chi-Chao Chan, Patricia Zerfas, Jung-Hwa Tao-Cheng, J. M. Ward, Roscoe O. Brady, and Ashok B. Kulkarni
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6423–6427.
PMCID: PMC26897
MSF (MLL septin-like fusion), a fusion partner gene of MLL, in a therapy-related acute myeloid leukemia with a t(11;17)(q23;q25)
Mitsuhiko Osaka, Janet D. Rowley, and Nancy J. Zeleznik-Le
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6428–6433.
PMCID: PMC26898
Induction of the Tat-binding protein 1 gene accompanies the disabling of oncogenic erbB receptor tyrosine kinases
Byeong-Woo Park, Donald M. O’Rourke, Qiang Wang, James G. Davis, Andrew Post, Xiaolan Qian, and Mark I. Greene
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6434–6438.
PMCID: PMC26899
Microbiology
Regulation of RpoS proteolysis in Escherichia coli: The response regulator RssB is a recognition factor that interacts with the turnover element in RpoS
Gisela Becker, Eberhard Klauck, and Regine Hengge-Aronis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6439–6444.
PMCID: PMC26900
Plasmodium falciparum subtilisin-like protease 2, a merozoite candidate for the merozoite surface protein 1–42 maturase
Jean-Christophe Barale, Thierry Blisnick, Hisashi Fujioka, Pedro M. Alzari, Masamishi Aikawa, Catherine Braun-Breton, and Gordon Langsley
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6445–6450.
PMCID: PMC26901
Toward functional genomics in bacteria: Analysis of gene expression in Escherichia coli from a bacterial artificial chromosome library of Bacillus cereus
Michelle R. Rondon, Sandra J. Raffel, Robert M. Goodman, and Jo Handelsman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6451–6455.
PMCID: PMC26902
A new pathway for the secretion of virulence factors by bacteria: The flagellar export apparatus functions as a protein-secretion system
Glenn M. Young, Deborah H. Schmiel, and Virginia L. Miller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6456–6461.
PMCID: PMC26903
Heme transfer to the heme chaperone CcmE during cytochrome c maturation requires the CcmC protein, which may function independently of the ABC-transporter CcmAB
Henk Schulz, Renata A. Fabianek, Erica C. Pellicioli, Hauke Hennecke, and Linda Thöny-Meyer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6462–6467.
PMCID: PMC26904
Neurobiology
Agrin in Alzheimer’s disease: Altered solubility and abnormal distribution within microvasculature and brain parenchyma
John E. Donahue, Tyler M. Berzin, Michael S. Rafii, David J. Glass, George D. Yancopoulos, Justin R. Fallon, and Edward G. Stopa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6468–6472.
PMCID: PMC26905
Cholecystokinin-8 protects central cholinergic neurons against fimbria–fornix lesion through the up-regulation of nerve growth factor synthesis
Paola Tirassa, Luigi Aloe, Carina Stenfors, Paolo Turrini, and Thomas Lundeberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6473–6477.
PMCID: PMC26906
Reversible inactivation of the nucleus basalis magnocellularis induces disruption of cortical acetylcholine release and acquisition, but not retrieval, of aversive memories
María Isabel Miranda and Federico Bermúdez-Rattoni
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6478–6482.
PMCID: PMC26907
Cortical auditory signal processing in poor readers
Srikantan Nagarajan, Henry Mahncke, Talya Salz, Paula Tallal, Timothy Roberts, and Michael M. Merzenich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6483–6488.
PMCID: PMC26908
Pharmacology
Fidelity of G protein β-subunit association by the G protein γ-subunit-like domains of RGS6, RGS7, and RGS11
Bryan E. Snow, Laurie Betts, Joan Mangion, John Sondek, and David P. Siderovski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6489–6494.
PMCID: PMC26909
Physiology
Formation of heteromeric gap junction channels by connexins 40 and 43 in vascular smooth muscle cells
Ding Sheng He, Jean X. Jiang, Steven M. Taffet, and Janis M. Burt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6495–6500.
PMCID: PMC26910
Heterothermal acclimation: An experimental paradigm for studying the control of thermal acclimation in crabs
Mirela Cuculescu, Timothy Pearson, David Hyde, and Ken Bowler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6501–6505.
PMCID: PMC26911
Sustained hypersensitivity to angiotensin II and its mechanism in mice lacking the subtype-2 (AT2) angiotensin receptor
Helmy M. Siragy, Tadashi Inagami, Toshihiro Ichiki, and Robert M. Carey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6506–6510.
PMCID: PMC26912
Stretch-activated single K+ channels account for whole-cell currents elicited by swelling
Carlos G. Vanoye and Luis Reuss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6511–6516.
PMCID: PMC26913
Factors affecting counteraction by methylamines of urea effects on aldose reductase
Maurice B. Burg, Eugenia M. Peters, Kurt M. Bohren, and Kenneth H. Gabbay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6517–6522.
PMCID: PMC26914
Plant Biology
Interaction of NPR1 with basic leucine zipper protein transcription factors that bind sequences required for salicylic acid induction of the PR-1 gene
Yuelin Zhang, Weihua Fan, Mark Kinkema, Xin Li, and Xinnian Dong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6523–6528.
PMCID: PMC26915
Dual pathways for regulation of root branching by nitrate
Hanma Zhang, Andrea Jennings, Peter W. Barlow, and Brian G. Forde
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6529–6534.
PMCID: PMC26916
Complementation of plant mutants with large genomic DNA fragments by a transformation-competent artificial chromosome vector accelerates positional cloning
Yao-Guang Liu, Yumiko Shirano, Hidehiro Fukaki, Yukihiro Yanai, Masao Tasaka, Satoshi Tabata, and Daisuke Shibata
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6535–6540.
PMCID: PMC26917
The Arabidopsis thaliana HY1 locus, required for phytochrome-chromophore biosynthesis, encodes a protein related to heme oxygenases
Seth J. Davis, Jasmina Kurepa, and Richard D. Vierstra
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6541–6546.
PMCID: PMC26918
GTP bound to chloroplast thylakoid membranes is required for light-induced, multienzyme degradation of the photosystem II D1 protein
Cornelia Spetea, Torill Hundal, Felix Lohmann, and Bertil Andersson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6547–6552.
PMCID: PMC26919
Hydrogen peroxide is generated systemically in plant leaves by wounding and systemin via the octadecanoid pathway
Martha Orozco-Cardenas and Clarence A. Ryan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6553–6557.
PMCID: PMC26920
Psychology
The roles of prefrontal brain regions in components of working memory: Effects of memory load and individual differences
Bart Rypma and Mark D’Esposito
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6558–6563.
PMCID: PMC26921
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Fish and mammals in the economy of an ancient Peruvian kingdom
Joyce Marcus, Jeffrey D. Sommer, and Christopher P. Glew
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6564–6570.
PMCID: PMC26922
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6571.
PMCID: PMC56090
Corrects: Takahiro S. Doi, et al. Absence of tumor necrosis factor rescues RelA-deficient mice from embryonic lethality. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 March 16; 96(6): 2994–2999.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6571.
PMCID: PMC56091
Corrects: Alexander Yu. Nikitin, et al. RB-mediated suppression of spontaneous multiple neuroendocrine neoplasia and lung metastases in Rb+/− mice. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 March 30; 96(7): 3916–3921.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6571.
PMCID: PMC56092
Corrects: Shigetsugu Hatakeyama, et al. Ubiquitin-dependent degradation of IκBα is mediated by a ubiquitin ligase Skp1/Cul 1/F-box protein FWD1. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 March 30; 96(7): 3859–3863.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6571.
PMCID: PMC56093
Corrects: A. Joshua Wand, et al. High-resolution NMR of encapsulated proteins dissolved in low-viscosity fluids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 December 22; 95(26): 15299–15302.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6571.
PMCID: PMC56094
Corrects: Mousumi Bhattacharya, et al. Nuclear localization of prostaglandin E2 receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 December 22; 95(26): 15792–15797.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6571.
PMCID: PMC56095
Corrects: Isa K. Mushahwar, et al. Molecular and biophysical characterization of TT virus: Evidence for a new virus family infecting humans. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 March 16; 96(6): 3177–3182.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 May 25; 96(11): 6571.
PMCID: PMC56096
Corrects: Markus F. Pfister, et al. Parathyroid hormone leads to the lysosomal degradation of the renal type II Na/Pi cotransporter. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 February 17; 95(4): 1909–1914.
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