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Volume 96(4);  February 16, 1999
From the Academy
Academy Honors 17 for Major Contributions to Science
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1173–1174.
PMCID: PMC33551
Commentaries
An arrayable flow-through microcentrifuge for high-throughput instrumentation–a matter of scale
Thomas M. Laue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1163.
PMCID: PMC33547
1918 Spanish influenza: The secrets remain elusive
Robert G. Webster
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1164–1166.
PMCID: PMC33548
Malaria vaccines
Anthony A. Holder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1167–1169.
PMCID: PMC33549
Genetic isolates: Separate but equal?
Leonid Kruglyak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1170–1172.
PMCID: PMC33550
Perspective
Nitrogen fertilizer: Retrospect and prospect
Charles R. Frink, Paul E. Waggoner, and Jesse H. Ausubel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1175–1180.
PMCID: PMC33552
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
Accelerated chemical synthesis of peptides and small proteins
Les P. Miranda and Paul F. Alewood
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1181–1186.
PMCID: PMC15437
Femtosecond dynamics of the DNA intercalator ethidium and electron transfer with mononucleotides in water
Torsten Fiebig, Chaozhi Wan, Shana O. Kelley, Jacqueline K. Barton, and Ahmed H. Zewail
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1187–1192.
PMCID: PMC15438
Brominated 7-hydroxycoumarin-4-ylmethyls: Photolabile protecting groups with biologically useful cross-sections for two photon photolysis
Toshiaki Furuta, Samuel S.-H. Wang, Jami L. Dantzker, Timothy M. Dore, Wendy J. Bybee, Edward M. Callaway, Winfried Denk, and Roger Y. Tsien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1193–1200.
PMCID: PMC15439
Volatile buffers can override the “pH memory” of subtilisin catalysis in organic media
Evagelos Zacharis, Peter J. Halling, and D. Gareth Rees
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1201–1205.
PMCID: PMC15440
Geophysics
Separation of a midlevel density current from the bottom of a continental slope
M. E. Stern
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1206–1211.
PMCID: PMC15441
Biological Sciences
Applied Biological Sciences
Volatile buffers can override the “pH memory” of subtilisin catalysis in organic media
Evagelos Zacharis, Peter J. Halling, and D. Gareth Rees
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1201–1205.
PMCID: PMC15440
A plant virus-encoded protein facilitates long-distance movement of heterologous viral RNA
Eugene V. Ryabov, David J. Robinson, and Michael E. Taliansky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1212–1217.
PMCID: PMC15442
Biochemistry
Structure-activity analysis of synthetic autoinducing thiolactone peptides from Staphylococcus aureus responsible for virulence
Patricia Mayville, Guangyong Ji, Ronald Beavis, Hongmei Yang, Michael Goger, Richard P. Novick, and Tom W. Muir
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1218–1223.
PMCID: PMC15443
Receptor-induced polymerization of coatomer
Constanze Reinhard, Cordula Harter, Martina Bremser, Britta Brügger, Kai Sohn, J. Bernd Helms, and Felix Wieland
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1224–1228.
PMCID: PMC15444
Nuclear localization of the C1 factor (host cell factor) in sensory neurons correlates with reactivation of herpes simplex virus from latency
Thomas M. Kristie, Jodi L. Vogel, and Amy E. Sears
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1229–1233.
PMCID: PMC15445
Two differently regulated nuclear factor κB activation pathways triggered by the cytoplasmic tail of CD40
Nobuo Tsukamoto, Norihiko Kobayashi, Sakura Azuma, Tadashi Yamamoto, and Jun-ichiro Inoue
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1234–1239.
PMCID: PMC15446
Principles of quasi-equivalence and Euclidean geometry govern the assembly of cubic and dodecahedral cores of pyruvate dehydrogenase complexes
Tina Izard, Arnthor Ævarsson, Mark D. Allen, Adrie H. Westphal, Richard N. Perham, Aart de Kok, and Wim G. J. Hol
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1240–1245.
PMCID: PMC15447
Opposing actions of intact and N-terminal fragments of the human prolactin/growth hormone family members on angiogenesis: An efficient mechanism for the regulation of angiogenesis
Ingrid Struman, Frauke Bentzien, Hsinyu Lee, Véronique Mainfroid, Gisela D’Angelo, Vincent Goffin, Richard I. Weiner, and Joseph A. Martial
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1246–1251.
PMCID: PMC15448
Dissecting Fas signaling with an altered-specificity death-domain mutant: Requirement of FADD binding for apoptosis but not Jun N-terminal kinase activation
Howard Y. Chang, Xiaolu Yang, and David Baltimore
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1252–1256.
PMCID: PMC15449
Crystal structure of a dimeric chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 mutant containing an inserted glutamine repeat
Yu Wai Chen, Kelvin Stott, and Max F. Perutz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1257–1261.
PMCID: PMC15450
Structure, thermostability, and conformational flexibility of hen egg-white lysozyme dissolved in glycerol
Tatyana Knubovets, John J. Osterhout, Peter J. Connolly, and Alexander M. Klibanov
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1262–1267.
PMCID: PMC15451
Cooperative binding of ATP and MgADP in the sulfonylurea receptor is modulated by glibenclamide
Kazumitsu Ueda, Jun Komine, Michinori Matsuo, Susumu Seino, and Teruo Amachi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1268–1272.
PMCID: PMC15452
Folding pathway of a lattice model for proteins
Vijay S. Pande and Daniel S. Rokhsar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1273–1278.
PMCID: PMC15453
Role of calpain in adipocyte differentiation
Yashomati M. Patel and M. Daniel Lane
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1279–1284.
PMCID: PMC15454
Interactions between human cyclin T, Tat, and the transactivation response element (TAR) are disrupted by a cysteine to tyrosine substitution found in mouse cyclin T
Koh Fujinaga, Ran Taube, Jörg Wimmer, Thomas P. Cujec, and B. Matija Peterlin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1285–1290.
PMCID: PMC15455
Modulation of type M2 pyruvate kinase activity by the human papillomavirus type 16 E7 oncoprotein
Werner Zwerschke, Sybille Mazurek, Paola Massimi, Lawrence Banks, Erich Eigenbrodt, and Pidder Jansen-Dürr
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1291–1296.
PMCID: PMC15456
The charged region of Hsp90 modulates the function of the N-terminal domain
Thomas Scheibel, Heiko Ingo Siegmund, Rainer Jaenicke, Peter Ganz, Hauke Lilie, and Johannes Buchner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1297–1302.
PMCID: PMC15457
A role for FEN-1 in nonhomologous DNA end joining: The order of strand annealing and nucleolytic processing events
Xiantuo Wu, Thomas E. Wilson, and Michael R. Lieber
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1303–1308.
PMCID: PMC15458
Dimethylallyl pyrophosphate is not the committed precursor of isopentenyl pyrophosphate during terpenoid biosynthesis from 1-deoxyxylulose in higher plants
Duilio Arigoni, Wolfgang Eisenreich, Christoph Latzel, Silvia Sagner, Tanja Radykewicz, Meinhart H. Zenk, and Adelbert Bacher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1309–1314.
PMCID: PMC15459
The retinitis pigmentosa GTPase regulator, RPGR, interacts with the delta subunit of rod cyclic GMP phosphodiesterase
Marco Linari, Marius Ueffing, Forbes Manson, Alan Wright, Thomas Meitinger, and Jörg Becker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1315–1320.
PMCID: PMC15460
Mammalian subtilisin/kexin isozyme SKI-1: A widely expressed proprotein convertase with a unique cleavage specificity and cellular localization
Nabil G. Seidah, Seyed J. Mowla, Josée Hamelin, Aida M. Mamarbachi, Suzanne Benjannet, Barry B. Touré, Ajoy Basak, Jon Scott Munzer, Jadwiga Marcinkiewicz, Mei Zhong, Jean-Christophe Barale, Claude Lazure, Richard A. Murphy, Michel Chrétien, and Mieczyslaw Marcinkiewicz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1321–1326.
PMCID: PMC15461
Posttranslational modification of Gαo1 generates Gαo3, an abundant G protein in brain
Torsten Exner, Ole N. Jensen, Matthias Mann, Christiane Kleuss, and Bernd Nürnberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1327–1332.
PMCID: PMC15462
The neurotransmitter receptor-anchoring protein gephyrin reconstitutes molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis in bacteria, plants, and mammalian cells
B. Stallmeyer, G. Schwarz, J. Schulze, A. Nerlich, J. Reiss, J. Kirsch, and R. R. Mendel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1333–1338.
PMCID: PMC15463
rRNA-complementarity in the 5′ untranslated region of mRNA specifying the Gtx homeodomain protein: Evidence that base- pairing to 18S rRNA affects translational efficiency
Michael C.-Y. Hu, Pedro Tranque, Gerald M. Edelman, and Vincent P. Mauro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1339–1344.
PMCID: PMC15464
Histone modification governs the cell cycle regulation of a replication-independent chromatin assembly pathway in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Brent A. Altheim and Michael C. Schultz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1345–1350.
PMCID: PMC15465
Biophysics
Forced unfolding of the fibronectin type III module reveals a tensile molecular recognition switch
André Krammer, Hui Lu, Barry Isralewitz, Klaus Schulten, and Viola Vogel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1351–1356.
PMCID: PMC15466
Critical role of conserved proline residues in the transmembrane segment 4 voltage sensor function and in the gating of L-type calcium channels
Hiroshi Yamaguchi, James N. Muth, Maria Varadi, Arnold Schwartz, and Gyula Varadi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1357–1362.
PMCID: PMC15467
Structural analysis at 2.2 Å of orthorhombic crystals presents the asymmetry of the allophycocyanin–linker complex, AP[center dot]LC7.8, from phycobilisomes of Mastigocladus laminosus
Wolfgang Reuter, Georg Wiegand, Robert Huber, and Manuel E. Than
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1363–1368.
PMCID: PMC15468
Coevolutionary analysis of resistance-evading peptidomimetic inhibitors of HIV-1 protease
Christopher D. Rosin, Richard K. Belew, Garrett M. Morris, Arthur J. Olson, and David S. Goodsell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1369–1374.
PMCID: PMC15469
Confocal fluorescence coincidence analysis: An approach to ultra high-throughput screening
Thorsten Winkler, Ulrich Kettling, Andre Koltermann, and Manfred Eigen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1375–1378.
PMCID: PMC15470
An approach to long-range electron transfer mechanisms in metalloproteins: In situ scanning tunneling microscopy with submolecular resolution
Esben P. Friis, Jens E. T. Andersen, Yu. I. Kharkats, A. M. Kuznetsov, R. J. Nichols, J.-D. Zhang, and Jens Ulstrup
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1379–1384.
PMCID: PMC15471
Cell Biology
A human cell-surface receptor for xenotropic and polytropic murine leukemia viruses: Possible role in G protein-coupled signal transduction
Jean-Luc Battini, John E. J. Rasko, and A. Dusty Miller
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1385–1390.
PMCID: PMC15472
Phosphorylation of presenilin-2 regulates its cleavage by caspases and retards progression of apoptosis
Jochen Walter, Alice Schindzielorz, Jürgen Grünberg, and Christian Haass
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1391–1396.
PMCID: PMC15473
Differential regulation of maternal vs. paternal centrosomes
Xingyong Wu and Robert E. Palazzo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1397–1402.
PMCID: PMC15474
Catalytic subunit of DNA-dependent protein kinase: Impact on lymphocyte development and tumorigenesis
Akihiro Kurimasa, Honghai Ouyang, Li-jin Dong, Sa Wang, Xiaoling Li, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, David J. Chen, and Gloria C. Li
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1403–1408.
PMCID: PMC15475
Identification of SSF1, CNS1, and HCH1 as multicopy suppressors of a Saccharomyces cerevisiae Hsp90 loss-of-function mutation
Debra F. Nathan, Melissa Harju Vos, and Susan Lindquist
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1409–1414.
PMCID: PMC15476
Mechanism of biological synergy between cellular Src and epidermal growth factor receptor
David A. Tice, Jacqueline S. Biscardi, Amanda L. Nickles, and Sarah J. Parsons
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1415–1420.
PMCID: PMC15477
Specificities of CD40 signaling: Involvement of TRAF2 in CD40-induced NF-κB activation and intercellular adhesion molecule-1 up-regulation
Ho H. Lee, Paul W. Dempsey, Thomas P. Parks, Xiaoqing Zhu, David Baltimore, and Genhong Cheng
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1421–1426.
PMCID: PMC15478
G1 cell cycle arrest and apoptosis induction by nuclear Smad4/Dpc4: Phenotypes reversed by a tumorigenic mutation
Jia Le Dai, Ravi K. Bansal, and Scott E. Kern
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1427–1432.
PMCID: PMC15479
Identification of the cyclin D1 gene as a target of activating transcription factor 2 in chondrocytes
Frank Beier, Richard J. Lee, Allison C. Taylor, Richard G. Pestell, and Phyllis LuValle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1433–1438.
PMCID: PMC15480
The molecular chaperone Hsp90 can negatively regulate the activity of a glucocorticosteroid-dependent promoter
Kwang Il Kang, Xia Meng, Jocelyne Devin-Leclerc, Ilham Bouhouche, Ahmed Chadli, Françoise Cadepond, Etienne-Emile Baulieu, and Maria-Grazia Catelli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1439–1444.
PMCID: PMC15481
Developmental Biology
Head-specific gene expression in Hydra: Complexity of DNA– protein interactions at the promoter of ks1 is inversely correlated to the head activation potential
Ingrid Endl, Jan U. Lohmann, and Thomas C. G. Bosch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1445–1450.
PMCID: PMC15482
Targeted disruption of gene function in Drosophila by RNA interference (RNA-i): A role for nautilus in embryonic somatic muscle formation
Leonie Misquitta and Bruce M. Paterson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1451–1456.
PMCID: PMC15483
Expression of a murine homologue of the inhibitor of apoptosis protein is related to cell proliferation
Koichi Kobayashi, Masahiko Hatano, Masayuki Otaki, Takeshi Ogasawara, and Takeshi Tokuhisa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1457–1462.
PMCID: PMC15484
Ecology
Biodiversity and ecosystem productivity in a fluctuating environment: The insurance hypothesis
Shigeo Yachi and Michel Loreau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1463–1468.
PMCID: PMC15485
Evolution
Organization of an echinoderm Hox gene cluster
Pedro Martinez, Jonathan P. Rast, César Arenas-Mena, and Eric H. Davidson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1469–1474.
PMCID: PMC15486
Patterns of nucleotide substitution in Drosophila and mammalian genomes
Dmitri A. Petrov and Daniel L. Hartl
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1475–1479.
PMCID: PMC15487
Genetics
The Arabidopsis thaliana proton transporters, AtNhx1 and Avp1, can function in cation detoxification in yeast
Roberto A. Gaxiola, Rajini Rao, Amir Sherman, Paula Grisafi, Seth L. Alper, and Gerald R. Fink
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1480–1485.
PMCID: PMC15488
Global response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to an alkylating agent
Scott A. Jelinsky and Leona D. Samson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1486–1491.
PMCID: PMC15489
Lethal mutagenesis of HIV with mutagenic nucleoside analogs
Lawrence A. Loeb, John M. Essigmann, Farhad Kazazi, Jue Zhang, Karl D. Rose, and James I. Mullins
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1492–1497.
PMCID: PMC15492
The [URE3] prion is an aggregated form of Ure2p that can be cured by overexpression of Ure2p fragments
Herman K. Edskes, Vaughn T. Gray, and Reed B. Wickner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1498–1503.
PMCID: PMC15494
Triplet repeats form secondary structures that escape DNA repair in yeast
Hutton Moore, Patricia W. Greenwell, Chin-Pin Liu, Norman Arnheim, and Thomas D. Petes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1504–1509.
PMCID: PMC15496
The identification of markers segregating with resistance to Schistosoma mansoni infection in the snail Biomphalaria glabrata
Matty Knight, Andre N. Miller, Carolyn N. Patterson, Christopher G. Rowe, George Michaels, Daniel Carr, Charles S. Richards, and Fred A. Lewis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1510–1515.
PMCID: PMC15498
Trapping cDNAs encoding secreted proteins from the salivary glands of the malaria vector Anopheles gambiae
Bruno Arcà, Fabrizio Lombardo, Margareth de Lara Capurro, Alessandra della Torre, George Dimopoulos, Anthony A. James, and Mario Coluzzi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1516–1521.
PMCID: PMC15500
Immunology
Odortypes: Their origin and composition
Kunio Yamazaki, Gary K. Beauchamp, Alan Singer, Judith Bard, and Edward A. Boyse
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1522–1525.
PMCID: PMC15502
Recombination and transcription of the endogenous Ig heavy chain locus is effected by the Ig heavy chain intronic enhancer core region in the absence of the matrix attachment regions
Eiko Sakai, Andrea Bottaro, Laurie Davidson, Barry P. Sleckman, and Frederick W. Alt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1526–1531.
PMCID: PMC15504
Immune regulatory loops determine productive interactions within human T lymphocyte–dendritic cell clusters
G. Stuhler, A. Zobywalski, F. Grünebach, P. Brossart, V. L. Reichardt, H. Barth, S. Stevanovic, W. Brugger, L. Kanz, and S. F. Schlossman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1532–1535.
PMCID: PMC15506
T cell receptor gene deletion circles identify recent thymic emigrants in the peripheral T cell pool
Fan-kun Kong, Chen-lo H. Chen, Adrien Six, Richard D. Hockett, and Max D. Cooper
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1536–1540.
PMCID: PMC15507
GA-binding protein factors, in concert with the coactivator CREB binding protein/p300, control the induction of the interleukin 16 promoter in T lymphocytes
Norbert Bannert, Andris Avots, Michael Baier, Edgar Serfling, and Reinhard Kurth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1541–1546.
PMCID: PMC15509
Multivalent structure of an αβT cell receptor
Gemma Fernández-Miguel, Balbino Alarcón, Antonio Iglesias, Horst Bluethmann, Melchor Alvarez-Mon, Eva Sanz, and Antonio de la Hera
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1547–1552.
PMCID: PMC15512
Medical Sciences
A gene therapy for cancer using intramuscular injection of plasmid DNA encoding interferon α
Holly M. Horton, Deborah Anderson, Pepe Hernandez, Kerry M. Barnhart, Jon A. Norman, and Suezanne E. Parker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1553–1558.
PMCID: PMC15514
On the mechanism by which vascular endothelial cells regulate their oxygen consumption
Emilio Clementi, Guy Charles Brown, Neale Foxwell, and Salvador Moncada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1559–1562.
PMCID: PMC15516
Mutation of Pten/Mmac1 in mice causes neoplasia in multiple organ systems
Katrina Podsypanina, Lora Hedrick Ellenson, Adriana Nemes, Jianguo Gu, Masahito Tamura, Kenneth M. Yamada, Carlos Cordon-Cardo, Giorgio Catoretti, Peter E. Fisher, and Ramon Parsons
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1563–1568.
PMCID: PMC15517
Prototypic G protein-coupled receptor for the intestinotrophic factor glucagon-like peptide 2
Donald G. Munroe, Ashwani K. Gupta, Fatemeh Kooshesh, Tejal B. Vyas, Geihan Rizkalla, Hong Wang, Lidia Demchyshyn, Zhi-Jie Yang, Rajender K. Kamboj, Hongyun Chen, Kirk McCallum, Martin Sumner-Smith, Daniel J. Drucker, and Anna Crivici
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1569–1573.
PMCID: PMC15520
Multinuclear solid-state three-dimensional MRI of bone and synthetic calcium phosphates
Yaotang Wu, David A. Chesler, Melvin J. Glimcher, Leoncio Garrido, Jinxi Wang, Hong J. Jiang, and Jerome L. Ackerman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1574–1578.
PMCID: PMC15521
Association of HFE protein with transferrin receptor in crypt enterocytes of human duodenum
Abdul Waheed, Seppo Parkkila, Juha Saarnio, Robert E. Fleming, Xiao Yan Zhou, Shunji Tomatsu, Robert S. Britton, Bruce R. Bacon, and William S. Sly
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1579–1584.
PMCID: PMC15523
Mouse steroid receptor coactivator-1 is not essential for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor α-regulated gene expression
Chao Qi, Yijun Zhu, Jie Pan, Anjana V. Yeldandi, M. Sambasiva Rao, Nobuyo Maeda, V. Subbarao, Sujata Pulikuri, Takashi Hashimoto, and Janardan K. Reddy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1585–1590.
PMCID: PMC15526
Synergy between an antiangiogenic integrin αv antagonist and an antibody–cytokine fusion protein eradicates spontaneous tumor metastases
Holger N. Lode, Thomas Moehler, Rong Xiang, Alfred Jonczyk, Stephen D. Gillies, David A. Cheresh, and Ralph A. Reisfeld
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1591–1596.
PMCID: PMC15528
Regulation of selectin binding activity by cyclization of sialic acid moiety of carbohydrate ligands on human leukocytes
Chikako Mitsuoka, Katsuyuki Ohmori, Naoko Kimura, Akiko Kanamori, Shiro Komba, Hideharu Ishida, Makoto Kiso, and Reiji Kannagi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1597–1602.
PMCID: PMC15530
Target genes of β-catenin–T cell-factor/lymphoid-enhancer-factor signaling in human colorectal carcinomas
B. Mann, M. Gelos, A. Siedow, M. L. Hanski, A. Gratchev, M. Ilyas, W. F. Bodmer, M. P. Moyer, E. O. Riecken, H. J. Buhr, and C. Hanski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1603–1608.
PMCID: PMC15532
Activating and dominant inactivating c-KIT catalytic domain mutations in distinct clinical forms of human mastocytosis
B. Jack Longley, Jr., Dean D. Metcalfe, Michael Tharp, Xiaomei Wang, Lynda Tyrrell, Shu-zhuang Lu, David Heitjan, and Yongsheng Ma
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1609–1614.
PMCID: PMC15534
Immunogenicity and in vitro protective efficacy of a recombinant multistage Plasmodium falciparum candidate vaccine
Ya Ping Shi, Seyed E. Hasnain, John B. Sacci, Brian P. Holloway, Hisashi Fujioka, Nirbhay Kumar, Robert Wohlhueter, Stephen L. Hoffman, William E. Collins, and Altaf A. Lal
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1615–1620.
PMCID: PMC15536
Allelic association between marker loci
C. Lonjou, A. Collins, and N. E. Morton
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1621–1626.
PMCID: PMC15538
Human single-chain Fv immunoconjugates targeted to a melanoma-associated chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan mediate specific lysis of human melanoma cells by natural killer cells and complement
Baiyang Wang, Yi-Bin Chen, Oran Ayalon, Jeffrey Bender, and Alan Garen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1627–1632.
PMCID: PMC15540
Epiregulin is a potent vascular smooth muscle cell-derived mitogen induced by angiotensin II, endothelin-1, and thrombin
David S. Taylor, Xinbo Cheng, John E. Pawlowski, Alison R. Wallace, Patricia Ferrer, and Christopher J. Molloy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1633–1638.
PMCID: PMC15542
Microbiology
Quorum sensing in Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, and Vibrio harveyi: A new family of genes responsible for autoinducer production
Michael G. Surette, Melissa B. Miller, and Bonnie L. Bassler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1639–1644.
PMCID: PMC15544
In vivo transposition of mariner-based elements in enteric bacteria and mycobacteria
Eric J. Rubin, Brian J. Akerley, Veronica N. Novik, David J. Lampe, Robert N. Husson, and John J. Mekalanos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1645–1650.
PMCID: PMC15546
Origin and evolution of the 1918 “Spanish” influenza virus hemagglutinin gene
Ann H. Reid, Thomas G. Fanning, Johan V. Hultin, and Jeffery K. Taubenberger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1651–1656.
PMCID: PMC15547
Neurobiology
Brominated 7-hydroxycoumarin-4-ylmethyls: Photolabile protecting groups with biologically useful cross-sections for two photon photolysis
Toshiaki Furuta, Samuel S.-H. Wang, Jami L. Dantzker, Timothy M. Dore, Wendy J. Bybee, Edward M. Callaway, Winfried Denk, and Roger Y. Tsien
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1193–1200.
PMCID: PMC15439
Localization of Niemann–Pick C1 protein in astrocytes: Implications for neuronal degeneration in Niemann– Pick type C disease
Shutish C. Patel, Sundar Suresh, Ujendra Kumar, C. Y. Hu, Adele Cooney, E. Joan Blanchette-Mackie, Edward B. Neufeld, Ramesh C. Patel, Roscoe O. Brady, Yogesh C. Patel, Peter G. Pentchev, and Wei-Yi Ong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1657–1662.
PMCID: PMC15549
Functional MRI reveals spatially specific attentional modulation in human primary visual cortex
David C. Somers, Anders M. Dale, Adriane E. Seiffert, and Roger B. H. Tootell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1663–1668.
PMCID: PMC15552
Covariation of activity in visual and prefrontal cortex associated with subjective visual perception
Erik D. Lumer and Geraint Rees
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1669–1673.
PMCID: PMC15554
Dynamics of tremor-related oscillations in the human globus pallidus: A single case study
José M. Hurtado, Charles M. Gray, Laszlo B. Tamas, and Karen A. Sigvardt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1674–1679.
PMCID: PMC15556
A subcortical pathway to the right amygdala mediating “unseen” fear
J. S. Morris, A. Öhman, and R. J. Dolan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1680–1685.
PMCID: PMC15559
The 70-kDa heat shock cognate protein (Hsc73) gene is enhanced by ovarian hormones in the ventromedial hypothalamus
Christopher J. Krebs, Erich D. Jarvis, and Donald W. Pfaff
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1686–1691.
PMCID: PMC15561
Pronounced pharmacologic deficits in M2 muscarinic acetylcholine receptor knockout mice
Jesus Gomeza, Harlan Shannon, Evi Kostenis, Christian Felder, Lu Zhang, Jesse Brodkin, Alexander Grinberg, Hui Sheng, and Jürgen Wess
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1692–1697.
PMCID: PMC15563
Increased anxiety and altered responses to anxiolytics in mice deficient in the 65-kDa isoform of glutamic acid decarboxylase
Shera F. Kash, Laurence H. Tecott, Clyde Hodge, and Steinunn Baekkeskov
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1698–1703.
PMCID: PMC15565
Control of spine formation by electrical activity in the adult rat cerebellum
Monica Bravin, Laura Morando, Alessandro Vercelli, Ferdinando Rossi, and Piergiorgio Strata
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1704–1709.
PMCID: PMC15567
Two serine residues of the glutamate transporter GLT-1 are crucial for coupling the fluxes of sodium and the neurotransmitter
Yumin Zhang and Baruch I. Kanner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1710–1715.
PMCID: PMC15569
Elimination of zinc from synaptic vesicles in the intact mouse brain by disruption of the ZnT3 gene
Toby B. Cole, H. Jürgen Wenzel, Kathy E. Kafer, Philip A. Schwartzkroin, and Richard D. Palmiter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1716–1721.
PMCID: PMC15571
Physiology
β-Endorphin blocks luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone release by inhibiting the nitricoxidergic pathway controlling its release
Alicia G. Faletti, Claudio A. Mastronardi, Alejandro Lomniczi, Adriana Seilicovich, Martha Gimeno, Samuel M. McCann, and Valeria Rettori
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1722–1726.
PMCID: PMC15573
Disruption of the β subunit of the epithelial Na+ channel in mice: Hyperkalemia and neonatal death associated with a pseudohypoaldosteronism phenotype
Fiona J. McDonald, Baoli Yang, Ron F. Hrstka, Heather A. Drummond, Deirdre E. Tarr, Paul B. McCray, Jr., John B. Stokes, Michael J. Welsh, and Roger A. Williamson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1727–1731.
PMCID: PMC15575
Salt restriction induces pseudohypoaldosteronism type 1 in mice expressing low levels of the β-subunit of the amiloride-sensitive epithelial sodium channel
Sylvain Pradervand, Pierre M. Barker, Qing Wang, Stephen A. Ernst, Friedrich Beermann, Barbara R. Grubb, Michel Burnier, Andrea Schmidt, Rene J. M. Bindels, John T. Gatzy, Bernard C. Rossier, and Edith Hummler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1732–1737.
PMCID: PMC15577
Plant Biology
A protein phosphatase 2C gene, LjNPP2C1, from Lotus japonicus induced during root nodule development
Philipp Kapranov, Trine Juul Jensen, Carsten Poulsen, Frans J. de Bruijn, and Krzysztof Szczyglowski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1738–1743.
PMCID: PMC15579
Molecular basis for semidominance of missense mutations in the XANTHA-H (42-kDa) subunit of magnesium chelatase
Andreas Hansson, C. Gamini Kannangara, Diter von Wettstein, and Mats Hansson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1744–1749.
PMCID: PMC15580
Expression of a soybean cytochrome P450 monooxygenase cDNA in yeast and tobacco enhances the metabolism of phenylurea herbicides
Balazs Siminszky, Frederick T. Corbin, Eric R. Ward, Thomas J. Fleischmann, and Ralph E. Dewey
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1750–1755.
PMCID: PMC15582
A wound- and systemin-inducible polygalacturonase in tomato leaves
Daniel R. Bergey, Martha Orozco-Cardenas, Daniel S. de Moura, and Clarence A. Ryan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1756–1760.
PMCID: PMC15585
The tomato DWARF enzyme catalyses C-6 oxidation in brassinosteroid biosynthesis
Gerard J. Bishop, Takahito Nomura, Takao Yokota, Kate Harrison, Takahiro Noguchi, Shozo Fujioka, Suguru Takatsuto, Jonathan D. G. Jones, and Yuji Kamiya
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1761–1766.
PMCID: PMC15587
An abscisic acid-induced protein kinase, PKABA1, mediates abscisic acid-suppressed gene expression in barley aleurone layers
Aurelio Gómez-Cadenas, Steven D. Verhey, Lynn D. Holappa, Qingxi Shen, Tuan-Hua David Ho, and M. K. Walker-Simmons
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1767–1772.
PMCID: PMC15589
Chromosome regions between centromeres and proximal crossovers are the physical sites of major effect loci for yield in potato: Genetic analysis employing meiotic mutants
J. A. Buso, L. S. Boiteux, G. C. C. Tai, and S. J. Peloquin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1773–1778.
PMCID: PMC15591
Abscisic acid induces oscillations in guard-cell cytosolic free calcium that involve phosphoinositide-specific phospholipase C
Irina Staxén, Christophe Pical, Lucy T. Montgomery, Julie E. Gray, Alistair M. Hetherington, and Martin R. McAinsh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1779–1784.
PMCID: PMC15593
Population Biology
Habitat, world geographic range, and embryonic development of hosts explain the prevalence of avian hematozoa at small spatial and phylogenetic scales
José L. Tella, Guillermo Blanco, Manuela G. Forero, Álvaro Gajón, José A. Donázar, and Fernando Hiraldo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1785–1789.
PMCID: PMC15595
Psychology
Localizing the cortical region mediating visual awareness of object identity
Moshe Bar and Irving Biederman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1790–1793.
PMCID: PMC15596
Task-related and item-related brain processes of memory retrieval
Emrah Düzel, Roberto Cabeza, Terence W. Picton, Andrew P. Yonelinas, Henning Scheich, Hans-Jochen Heinze, and Endel Tulving
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1794–1799.
PMCID: PMC15598
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Hypoglossal canal size and hominid speech
David DeGusta, W. Henry Gilbert, and Scott P. Turner
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1800–1804.
PMCID: PMC15600
Neandertal nasal structures and upper respiratory tract “specialization”
Robert G. Franciscus
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1805–1809.
PMCID: PMC15602
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1810.
PMCID: PMC56017
Corrects: D. Gachotte, et al. Characterization of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae ERG26 gene encoding the C-3 sterol dehydrogenase (C-4 decarboxylase) involved in sterol biosynthesis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 November 10; 95(23): 13794–13799.
Retraction
Retraction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 16; 96(4): 1810.
PMCID: PMC56018
Retracts: S Ruetz, et al. The pfmdr1 gene of Plasmodium falciparum confers cellular resistance to antimalarial drugs in yeast cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1996 September 3; 93(18): 9942–9947.
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