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Academy of Sciences on May 2, 2000: 60 New Members Chosen by the Academy Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5037–5038. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC33985 Commentaries Sortase, a universal target for therapeutic agents against
Gram-positive bacteria? Pascale Cossart and Renaud Jonquières Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5013–5015. PMCID: PMC33977 Supramolecular complexes in photosynthetic bacteria Paul A. Loach Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5016–5018. PMCID: PMC33978 Microcolumns in the cerebral cortex Edward G. Jones Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5019–5021. PMCID: PMC33979 Gene therapy for the hemoglobin disorders: Past, present,
and future Derek A. Persons and Arthur W. Nienhuis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5022–5024. PMCID: PMC33980 The making of infectious viral RNA: No size limit in sight Michael M. C. Lai Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5025–5027. PMCID: PMC33981 Correlation between the structure of the bacterial peptidoglycan
monomer unit, the specificity of transpeptidation, and
susceptibility to β-lactams Jean van Heijenoort and Laurent Gutmann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5028–5030. PMCID: PMC33982 Cell signaling pathways as control modules: Complexity for
simplicity? Douglas A. Lauffenburger Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5031–5033. PMCID: PMC33983 Perspective National security and scientific communication Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5034–5036. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC33984 Physical Sciences Applied Physical Sciences From the Cover: Description of microcolumnar ensembles in association cortex and their disruption in Alzheimer and Lewy body dementias S. V. Buldyrev, L. Cruz, T. Gomez-Isla, E. Gomez-Tortosa, S. Havlin, R. Le, H. E. Stanley, B. Urbanc, and B. T. Hyman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5039–5043. Published online 2000 April 18. PMCID: PMC25777 Chemistry Exceptionally potent inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase: The enzyme responsible for degradation of endogenous oleamide and anandamide Dale L. Boger, Haruhiko Sato, Aaron E. Lerner, Michael P. Hedrick, Robert A. Fecik, Hiroshi Miyauchi, Gordon D. Wilkie, Bryce J. Austin, Matthew P. Patricelli, and Benjamin F. Cravatt Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5044–5049. PMCID: PMC25778 Selective disruption of protein aggregation by cyclodextrin dimers David K. Leung, Zhiwei Yang, and Ronald Breslow Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5050–5053. PMCID: PMC25779 Engineering Peptide interfacial adsorption is kinetically limited by the thermodynamic stability of self association Anton P. J. Middelberg, Clay J. Radke, and Harvey W. Blanch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5054–5059. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25780 Physics New patterns of centrifugally driven thermal convection M. Jaletzky and F. H. Busse Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5060–5064. PMCID: PMC25781 Biological Sciences Agricultural Sciences A highly digestible sorghum mutant cultivar exhibits a unique folded structure of endosperm protein bodies Maria P. Oria, Bruce R. Hamaker, John D. Axtell, and Chia-Ping Huang Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5065–5070. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25782 Applied Biological Sciences Peptide interfacial adsorption is kinetically limited by the thermodynamic stability of self association Anton P. J. Middelberg, Clay J. Radke, and Harvey W. Blanch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5054–5059. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25780 Blood glutathione synthesis rates in healthy adults receiving a sulfur amino acid-free diet J. Lyons, A. Rauh-Pfeiffer, Y. M. Yu, X.-M. Lu, D. Zurakowski, R. G. Tompkins, A. M. Ajami, V. R. Young, and L. Castillo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5071–5076. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25783 Biochemistry Selective disruption of protein aggregation by cyclodextrin dimers David K. Leung, Zhiwei Yang, and Ronald Breslow Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5050–5053. PMCID: PMC25779 Binding of bisubstrate analog promotes large structural changes in the unregulated catalytic trimer of aspartate transcarbamoylase: Implications for allosteric regulation James A. Endrizzi, Peter T. Beernink, Tom Alber, and H. K. Schachman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5077–5082. Published online 2000 April 18. PMCID: PMC25784 Uracil-DNA glycosylase–DNA substrate and product structures: Conformational strain promotes catalytic efficiency by coupled stereoelectronic effects Sudip S. Parikh, Gunter Walcher, Garry D. Jones, Geir Slupphaug, Hans E. Krokan, G. Michael Blackburn, and John A. Tainer Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5083–5088. PMCID: PMC25785 Phosphorylation of protein kinase N by phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 mediates insulin signals to the actin cytoskeleton Lily Q. Dong, Luis R. Landa, Michael J. Wick, Li Zhu, Hideyuki Mukai, Yoshitaka Ono, and Feng Liu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5089–5094. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25786 DNA polymerase active site is highly mutable: Evolutionary consequences Premal H. Patel and Lawrence A. Loeb Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5095–5100. PMCID: PMC25787 Glutathione synthesis is essential for mouse development but not for cell growth in culture Zheng-Zheng Shi, Joseph Osei-Frimpong, Geeta Kala, Subbarao V. Kala, Roberto J. Barrios, Geetha M. Habib, Dana J. Lukin, Christopher M. Danney, Martin M. Matzuk, and Michael W. Lieberman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5101–5106. PMCID: PMC25788 The crystal structure of the Rev binding element of HIV-1 reveals novel base pairing and conformational variability Li-Wei Hung, Elizabeth L. Holbrook, and Stephen R. Holbrook Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5107–5112. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25789 (4-Aminomethyl)phenylguanidine derivatives as nonpeptidic highly selective inhibitors of human urokinase Stefan Sperl, Uwe Jacob, Nuria Arroyo de Prada, Jörg Stürzebecher, Olaf G. Wilhelm, Wolfram Bode, Viktor Magdolen, Robert Huber, and Luis Moroder Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5113–5118. PMCID: PMC25790 Misactivated amino acids translocate at similar rates across surface of a tRNA synthetase Tyzoon K. Nomanbhoy and Paul R. Schimmel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5119–5122. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25791 Asparagine-proline sequence within membrane-spanning segment of SREBP triggers intramembrane cleavage by Site-2 protease Jin Ye, Utpal P. Davé, Nick V. Grishin, Joseph L. Goldstein, and Michael S. Brown Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5123–5128. PMCID: PMC25792 Assembly of τ protein into Alzheimer paired helical filaments depends on a local sequence motif (306VQIVYK311) forming β structure M. von Bergen, P. Friedhoff, J. Biernat, J. Heberle, E.-M. Mandelkow, and E. Mandelkow Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5129–5134. PMCID: PMC25793 5-Methylcytosine-DNA glycosylase activity is present in a cloned G/T mismatch DNA glycosylase associated with the chicken embryo DNA demethylation complex Bing Zhu, Yong Zheng, Daniel Hess, Herbert Angliker, Steffen Schwarz, Michel Siegmann, Stéphane Thiry, and Jean-Pierre Jost Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5135–5139. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25794 Bepridil opens the regulatory N-terminal lobe of cardiac troponin C Yu Li, Michael L. Love, John A. Putkey, and Carolyn Cohen Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5140–5145. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25795 Direct nitric oxide signal transduction via nitrosylation of iron-sulfur centers in the SoxR transcription activator Huangen Ding and Bruce Demple Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5146–5150. PMCID: PMC25796 Noninvasive measurement of gene expression in skeletal muscle Glenn Walter, Elisabeth R. Barton, and H. Lee Sweeney Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5151–5155. PMCID: PMC25797 Conversion of a c type cytochrome to a b type that spontaneously forms in vitro from apo protein and heme: Implications for c type cytochrome biogenesis and folding Esther J. Tomlinson and Stuart J. Ferguson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5156–5160. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25798 Estimating the probability for a protein to have a new fold: A statistical computational model Elon Portugaly and Michal Linial Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5161–5166. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25799 Characterization of PDZ-binding kinase, a mitotic kinase Suzanne Gaudet, Daniel Branton, and Robert A. Lue Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5167–5172. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25800 The Gcd10p/Gcd14p complex is the essential two-subunit
tRNA(1-methyladenosine) methyltransferase of
Saccharomyces cerevisiae James Anderson, Lon Phan, and Alan G. Hinnebusch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5173–5178. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25801 Biophysics Single-molecule protein folding: Diffusion fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies of the denaturation of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2 Ashok A. Deniz, Ted A. Laurence, Gangamani S. Beligere, Maxime Dahan, Andrew B. Martin, Daniel S. Chemla, Philip E. Dawson, Peter G. Schultz, and Shimon Weiss Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5179–5184. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25802 Detection and selective dissociation of intact ribosomes in a mass spectrometer Adam A. Rostom, Paola Fucini, Dennis R. Benjamin, Ralf Juenemann, Knud H. Nierhaus, F. Ulrich Hartl, Christopher M. Dobson, and Carol V. Robinson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5185–5190. PMCID: PMC25803 Mapping the interface between calmodulin and MARCKS-related protein by fluorescence spectroscopy Andreas Ulrich, Arndt A. P. Schmitz, Thomas Braun, Tao Yuan, Hans J. Vogel, and Guy Vergères Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5191–5196. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25804 From the Cover: The long-range supraorganization of the bacterial photosynthetic unit: A key role for PufX Raoul N. Frese, John D. Olsen, Rikard Branvall, Willem H. J. Westerhuis, C. Neil Hunter, and Rienk van Grondelle Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5197–5202. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25805 Separation of the glucose-stimulated cytoplasmic and mitochondrial NAD(P)H responses in pancreatic islet β cells George H. Patterson, Susan M. Knobel, Per Arkhammar, Ole Thastrup, and David W. Piston Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5203–5207. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25806 Cell Biology Collaboration of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) and BRCA1 in differential regulation of IFN-γ target genes Toru Ouchi, Sam W. Lee, Mutsuko Ouchi, Stuart A. Aaronson, and Curt M. Horvath Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5208–5213. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25807 Nuclear structure in normal and Bloom syndrome cells Victor Yankiwski, Robert A. Marciniak, Leonard Guarente, and Norma F. Neff Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5214–5219. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25808 A green fluorescent protein-reporter mammalian two-hybrid system with extrachromosomal maintenance of a prey expression plasmid: Application to interaction screening Toshi Shioda, Stephanie Andriole, Tetsuro Yahata, and Kurt J. Isselbacher Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5220–5224. PMCID: PMC25809 Role of Rac in controlling the actin cytoskeleton and chemotaxis in motile cells Chang Y. Chung, Susan Lee, Celia Briscoe, Charlene Ellsworth, and Richard A. Firtel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5225–5230. PMCID: PMC25810 NMR and mutagenesis evidence for an I domain allosteric site that regulates lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 ligand binding Jeffrey R. Huth, Edward T. Olejniczak, Renaldo Mendoza, Heng Liang, Edith A. S. Harris, Mark L. Lupher, Jr., Amy E. Wilson, Stephen W. Fesik, and Donald E. Staunton Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5231–5236. PMCID: PMC25811 Non-CpG methylation is prevalent in embryonic stem cells and may be mediated by DNA methyltransferase 3a Bernard H. Ramsahoye, Detlev Biniszkiewicz, Frank Lyko, Victoria Clark, Adrian P. Bird, and Rudolf Jaenisch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5237–5242. PMCID: PMC25812 MEK kinase 1 is critically required for c-Jun N-terminal kinase activation by proinflammatory stimuli and growth factor-induced cell migration Ying Xia, Constantin Makris, Bing Su, Erguang Li, Jianhua Yang, Glen R. Nemerow, and Michael Karin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5243–5248. PMCID: PMC25813 Sid4p is required to localize components of the septation initiation pathway to the spindle pole body in fission yeast Louise Chang and Kathleen L. Gould Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5249–5254. PMCID: PMC25814 Tissue factor- and factor X-dependent activation of protease-activated receptor 2 by factor VIIa Eric Camerer, Wei Huang, and Shaun R. Coughlin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5255–5260. PMCID: PMC25815 5-Lipoxygenase is phosphorylated by p38 kinase-dependent MAPKAP kinases Oliver Werz, Jenny Klemm, Bengt Samuelsson, and Olof Rådmark Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5261–5266. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25816 Distinct roles of the NH2- and COOH-terminal domains of the protein inhibitor of activated signal transducer and activator of transcription (STAT) 1 (PIAS1) in cytokine-induced PIAS1–Stat1 interaction Jiayu Liao, Yubin Fu, and Ke Shuai Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5267–5272. PMCID: PMC25817 The myosin motor, Myo4p, binds Ash1 mRNA via the adapter protein, She3p Peter A. Takizawa and Ronald D. Vale Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5273–5278. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25818 Developmental Biology Increased IGF-II protein affects p57kip2 expression in vivo and in vitro: Implications for Beckwith–Wiedemann syndrome Valérie Grandjean, Janet Smith, Paul N. Schofield, and Anne C. Ferguson-Smith Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5279–5284. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25819 Somatic polyploidization and cellular proliferation drive body size evolution in nematodes Anthony J. Flemming, Zai-Zhong Shen, Ana Cunha, Scott W. Emmons, and Armand M. Leroi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5285–5290. PMCID: PMC25820 Xenopus Kielin: A dorsalizing factor containing multiple chordin-type repeats secreted from the embryonic midline Masaru Matsui, Kenji Mizuseki, Jin Nakatani, Shigetada Nakanishi, and Yoshiki Sasai Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5291–5296. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25821 Ecology Rapid transition in the structure of a coral reef community: The effects of coral bleaching and physical disturbance Gary K. Ostrander, Kelley Meyer Armstrong, Edward T. Knobbe, Donald Gerace, and Erik P. Scully Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5297–5302. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25822 Density-dependent decline of host abundance resulting from a new infectious disease Wesley M. Hochachka and André A. Dhondt Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5303–5306. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25823 Evolution Novel gene conversion between X-Y homologues located in the nonrecombining region of the Y chromosome in Felidae (Mammalia) Jill Pecon Slattery, Leslie Sanner-Wachter, and Stephen J. O'Brien Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5307–5312. PMCID: PMC25824 The phylogeny of closely related species as revealed by the genealogy of a speciation gene, Odysseus Chau-Ti Ting, Shun-Chern Tsaur, and Chung-I Wu Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5313–5316. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25825 INAUGURAL ARTICLE by a Recently Elected Academy Member: Permanence or change? The meaning of genetic variation Francisco M. Salzano Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5317–5321. PMCID: PMC25826 Rapid evolution in plant chitinases: Molecular targets of selection in plant-pathogen coevolution J. G. Bishop, A. M. Dean, and T. Mitchell-Olds Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5322–5327. PMCID: PMC25827 An ancestral MADS-box gene duplication occurred before the divergence of plants and animals Elena R. Alvarez-Buylla, Soraya Pelaz, Sarah J. Liljegren, Scott E. Gold, Caroline Burgeff, Gary S. Ditta, Lluis Ribas de Pouplana, León Martínez-Castilla, and Martin F. Yanofsky Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5328–5333. PMCID: PMC25828 Gene content phylogeny of herpesviruses Michael G. Montague and Clyde A. Hutchison, III Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5334–5339. PMCID: PMC25829 Genetics The fourth chromosome of Drosophila melanogaster: Interspersed euchromatic and heterochromatic domains Fang-Lin Sun, Matthew H. Cuaycong, Carolyn A. Craig, Lori L. Wallrath, John Locke, and Sarah C. R. Elgin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5340–5345. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25830 Behavioral alterations associated with apoptosis and down-regulation of presenilin 1 in the brains of p53-deficient mice Robert Amson, Jean-Michel Lassalle, Hélène Halley, Sylvie Prieur, Florence Lethrosne, Jean-Pierre Roperch, David Israeli, Marie-Claude Gendron, Charles Duyckaerts, Frédéric Checler, Jean Dausset, Daniel Cohen, Moshe Oren, and Adam Telerman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5346–5350. PMCID: PMC25831 LexA chimeras reveal the function of Drosophila Fos as a context-dependent transcriptional activator David Szüts and Mariann Bienz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5351–5356. PMCID: PMC25832 Chromosomal breakage-fusion-bridge events cause genetic intratumor heterogeneity David Gisselsson, Louise Pettersson, Mattias Höglund, Markus Heidenblad, Ludmila Gorunova, Joop Wiegant, Fredrik Mertens, Paola Dal Cin, Felix Mitelman, and Nils Mandahl Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5357–5362. Published online 2000 April 18. PMCID: PMC25833 Rescue of dystrophin expression in mdx mouse muscle by RNA/DNA oligonucleotides Thomas A. Rando, Marie-Helene Disatnik, and Lucy Z.-H. Zhou Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5363–5368. PMCID: PMC25834 Automated parallel DNA sequencing on multiple channel microchips Shaorong Liu, Hongji Ren, Qiufeng Gao, David J. Roach, Robert T. Loder, Jr., Thomas M. Armstrong, Qinglu Mao, Iuliu Blaga, David L. Barker, and Stevan B. Jovanovich Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5369–5374. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25835 Computation, prediction, and experimental tests of fitness for bacteriophage T7 mutants with permuted genomes Drew Endy, Lingchong You, John Yin, and Ian J. Molineux Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5375–5380. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25836 Inverse radiation dose-rate effects on somatic and germ-line mutations and DNA damage rates Michael M. Vilenchik and Alfred G. Knudson, Jr. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5381–5386. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25837 Immunology In vitro evolution of a T cell receptor with high affinity for peptide/MHC Phillip D. Holler, Philmore O. Holman, Eric V. Shusta, Sean O'Herrin, K. Dane Wittrup, and David M. Kranz Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5387–5392. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25838 Long-term kinetics of T cell production in HIV-infected subjects treated with highly active antiretroviral therapy S. Fleury, G. P. Rizzardi, A. Chapuis, G. Tambussi, C. Knabenhans, E. Simeoni, J.-Y. Meuwly, J.-M. Corpataux, A. Lazzarin, F. Miedema, and G. Pantaleo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5393–5398. PMCID: PMC25839 Crystal structure of a Staphylococcus aureus protein A domain complexed with the Fab fragment of a human IgM antibody: Structural basis for recognition of B-cell receptors and superantigen activity Marc Graille, Enrico A. Stura, Adam L. Corper, Brian J. Sutton, Michael J. Taussig, Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier, and Gregg J. Silverman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5399–5404. PMCID: PMC25840 Signals transducers and activators of transcription (STAT)-induced STAT inhibitor-1 (SSI-1)/suppressor of cytokine signaling-1 (SOCS-1) suppresses tumor necrosis factor α-induced cell death in fibroblasts Yoshiaki Morita, Tetsuji Naka, Yoshinori Kawazoe, Minoru Fujimoto, Masashi Narazaki, Reiko Nakagawa, Hidehiro Fukuyama, Shigekazu Nagata, and Tadamitsu Kishimoto Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5405–5410. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25841 Medical Sciences From the Cover: Preselection of retrovirally transduced bone marrow avoids subsequent stem cell gene silencing and age-dependent extinction of expression of human β-globin in engrafted mice Christian P. Kalberer, Robert Pawliuk, Suzan Imren, Thomas Bachelot, Ken J. Takekoshi, Mary Fabry, Connie J. Eaves, Irving M. London, R. Keith Humphries, and Philippe Leboulch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5411–5415. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25842 Myogenic stem cell function is impaired in mice lacking the forkhead/winged helix protein MNF Daniel J. Garry, Annette Meeson, Joel Elterman, Yuhe Zhao, Peng Yang, Rhonda Bassel-Duby, and R. Sanders Williams Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5416–5421. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25843 Epithelial and endothelial expression of the green fluorescent protein reporter gene under the control of bovine prion protein (PrP) gene regulatory sequences in transgenic mice Catherine Lemaire-Vieille, Tobias Schulze, Valérie Podevin-Dimster, Jérome Follet, Yannick Bailly, Françoise Blanquet-Grossard, Jean-Pierre Decavel, Ernst Heinen, and Jean-Yves Cesbron Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5422–5427. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25844 Preservation of myocardial β-adrenergic receptor signaling delays the development of heart failure after myocardial infarction David C. White, Jonathan A. Hata, Ashish S. Shah, Donald D. Glower, Robert J. Lefkowitz, and Walter J. Koch Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5428–5433. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25845 Uncompensated polyuria in a mouse model of Bartter's syndrome Nobuyuki Takahashi, Daniel R. Chernavvsky, R. Ariel Gomez, Peter Igarashi, Hillel J. Gitelman, and Oliver Smithies Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5434–5439. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25846 d-β-Hydroxybutyrate protects neurons in models of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease Yoshihiro Kashiwaya, Takao Takeshima, Nozomi Mori, Kenji Nakashima, Kieran Clarke, and Richard L. Veech Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5440–5444. PMCID: PMC25847 Gain of imprinting at chromosome 11p15: A pathogenetic mechanism identified in human hepatocarcinomas Christine Schwienbacher, Laura Gramantieri, Rosaria Scelfo, Angelo Veronese, George A. Calin, Luigi Bolondi, Carlo M. Croce, Giuseppe Barbanti-Brodano, and Massimo Negrini Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5445–5449. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25848 Molecular basis for a link between complement and the vascular complications of diabetes Juan Acosta, Judith Hettinga, Rudolf Flückiger, Nicole Krumrei, Allison Goldfine, Luis Angarita, and Jose Halperin Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5450–5455. PMCID: PMC25849 Endogenous tumor necrosis factor protects the adult cardiac myocyte against ischemic-induced apoptosis in a murine model of acute myocardial infarction Karla M. Kurrelmeyer, Lloyd H. Michael, Georg Baumgarten, George E. Taffet, Jacques J. Peschon, Natarajan Sivasubramanian, Mark L. Entman, and Douglas L. Mann Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5456–5461. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25850 AIS is an oncogene amplified in squamous cell carcinoma Kenji Hibi, Barry Trink, Meera Patturajan, William H. Westra, Otávia L. Caballero, David E. Hill, Edward A. Ratovitski, Jin Jen, and David Sidransky Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5462–5467. PMCID: PMC25851 Ultrasensitive detection of pathological prion protein aggregates by dual-color scanning for intensely fluorescent targets J. Bieschke, A. Giese, W. Schulz-Schaeffer, I. Zerr, S. Poser, M. Eigen, and H. Kretzschmar Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5468–5473. PMCID: PMC25852 Estrogen receptor specificity in the regulation of skeletal growth and maturation in male mice Olle Vidal, Marie K. Lindberg, Karin Hollberg, David J. Baylink, Göran Andersson, Dennis B. Lubahn, Subburaman Mohan, Jan-Åke Gustafsson, and Claes Ohlsson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5474–5479. PMCID: PMC25853 Nitric oxide inhibits tumor necrosis factor-α-induced apoptosis by reducing the generation of ceramide Céline De Nadai, Piero Sestili, Orazio Cantoni, Jean-Philippe Lièvremont, Clara Sciorati, Rico Barsacchi, Salvador Moncada, Jacopo Meldolesi, and Emilio Clementi Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5480–5485. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25854 c-Abl is required for development and optimal cell proliferation in the context of p53 deficiency Young E. Whang, Chris Tran, Cailin Henderson, Randi G. Syljuasen, Nora Rozengurt, William H. McBride, and Charles L. Sawyers Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5486–5491. PMCID: PMC25855 An autologous oral DNA vaccine protects against murine melanoma Rong Xiang, Holger N. Lode, Ta-Hsiang Chao, J. Michael Ruehlmann, Carrie S. Dolman, Fernando Rodriguez, J. Lindsay Whitton, Willem W. Overwijk, Nicholas P. Restifo, and Ralph A. Reisfeld Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5492–5497. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25856 Critical contribution of liver natural killer T cells to a murine model of hepatitis Kazuyoshi Takeda, Yoshihiro Hayakawa, Luc Van Kaer, Hironori Matsuda, Hideo Yagita, and Ko Okumura Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5498–5503. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25857 Aberrant B cell receptor signaling from B29 (Igβ, CD79b) gene mutations of chronic lymphocytic leukemia B cells Melinda S. Gordon, Roberta M. Kato, Frederick Lansigan, Alexis A. Thompson, Randolph Wall, and David J. Rawlings Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5504–5509. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25858 Microbiology From the Cover: Staphylococcus aureus sortase mutants defective in the display of surface proteins and in the pathogenesis of animal infections Sarkis K. Mazmanian, Gwen Liu, Eric R. Jensen, Eileen Lenoy, and Olaf Schneewind Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5510–5515. Published online 2000 April 18. PMCID: PMC25859 From the Cover: Engineering the largest RNA virus genome as an infectious bacterial artificial chromosome Fernando Almazán, José M. González, Zoltan Pénzes, Ander Izeta, Enrique Calvo, Juan Plana-Durán, and Luis Enjuanes Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5516–5521. PMCID: PMC25860 Cyclin A activates the DNA polymerase δ-dependent elongation machinery in vitro: A parvovirus DNA replication model Tarig Bashir, Rita Hörlein, Jean Rommelaere, and Kurt Willwand Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5522–5527. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25861 The Escherichia coli MG1655 in silico metabolic genotype: Its definition, characteristics, and capabilities J. S. Edwards and B. O. Palsson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5528–5533. PMCID: PMC25862 Production of infectious bovine papillomavirus from cloned viral DNA by using an organotypic raft/xenograft technique Alison A. McBride, Andrzej Dlugosz, and Carl C. Baker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5534–5539. PMCID: PMC25863 Neurobiology Neonatal lead exposure impairs development of rodent barrel field cortex Mary Ann Wilson, Michael V. Johnston, Gary W. Goldstein, and Mary E. Blue Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5540–5545. PMCID: PMC25864 Growth of new brainstem connections in adult monkeys with massive sensory loss Neeraj Jain, Sherre L. Florence, Hui-Xin Qi, and Jon H. Kaas Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5546–5550. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25865 A deletion in a photoreceptor-specific nuclear receptor mRNA causes retinal degeneration in the rd7 mouse Novrouz B. Akhmedov, Natik I. Piriev, Bo Chang, Ana Lia Rapoport, Norman L. Hawes, Patsy M. Nishina, Steven Nusinowitz, John R. Heckenlively, Thomas H. Roderick, Christine A. Kozak, Michael Danciger, Muriel T. Davisson, and Debora B. Farber Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5551–5556. PMCID: PMC25866 Noise in neurons is message dependent Guillermo A. Cecchi, Mariano Sigman, José-Manuel Alonso, Luis Martínez, Dante R. Chialvo, and Marcelo O. Magnasco Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5557–5561. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25867 A neuronal β subunit (KCNMB4) makes the large conductance, voltage- and Ca2+-activated K+ channel resistant to charybdotoxin and iberiotoxin Pratap Meera, Martin Wallner, and Ligia Toro Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5562–5567. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25868 Coexistence of linear zones and pinwheels within orientation maps in cat visual cortex Amir Shmuel and Amiram Grinvald Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5568–5573. PMCID: PMC25869 Accumulation of protease-resistant prion protein (PrP) and apoptosis of cerebellar granule cells in transgenic mice expressing a PrP insertional mutation Roberto Chiesa, Bettina Drisaldi, Elena Quaglio, Antonio Migheli, Pedro Piccardo, Bernardino Ghetti, and David A. Harris Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5574–5579. PMCID: PMC25870 Cortical cell death induced by IL-1 is mediated via actions in the hypothalamus of the rat Stuart M. Allan, Lisa C. Parker, Barry Collins, Ralph Davies, Giamal N. Luheshi, and Nancy J. Rothwell Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5580–5585. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25871 Establishment and persistence of photoperiodic memory in hamsters Brian J. Prendergast, Michael R. Gorman, and Irving Zucker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5586–5591. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25872 Why are angles misperceived? Surajit Nundy, Beau Lotto, David Coppola, Amita Shimpi, and Dale Purves Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5592–5597. PMCID: PMC25873 Deficits in memory and motor performance in synaptotagmin IV mutant mice Gregory D. Ferguson, Stephan G. Anagnostaras, Alcino J. Silva, and Harvey R. Herschman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5598–5603. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25874 Inhibition of calcium/calmodulin kinase II alpha subunit expression results in epileptiform activity in cultured hippocampal neurons Severn B. Churn, Sompong Sombati, Emma R. Jakoi, Lawrence Sievert, and Robert J. DeLorenzo Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5604–5609. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25875 Acute decrease in net glutamate uptake during energy deprivation Denis Jabaudon, Massimo Scanziani, Beat H. Gähwiler, and Urs Gerber Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5610–5615. PMCID: PMC25876 Sodium channel Nav1.6 is localized at nodes of Ranvier, dendrites, and synapses John H. Caldwell, Kristin L. Schaller, Robert S. Lasher, Elior Peles, and S. Rock Levinson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5616–5620. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25877 A universal scaling law between gray matter and white matter of cerebral cortex Kechen Zhang and Terrence J. Sejnowski Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5621–5626. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25878 Rapid regulated dense-core vesicle exocytosis requires the CAPS protein M. Rupnik, M. Kreft, S. K. Sikdar, S. Grilc, R. Romih, G. Zupan ![c](corehtml/pmc/pmcents/x0063x0306.gif) i ![c](corehtml/pmc/pmcents/x0063x0306.gif) , T. F. J. Martin, and R. Zorec Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5627–5632. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25879 Pharmacology Potent and nontoxic antisense oligonucleotides containing locked nucleic acids Claes Wahlestedt, Peter Salmi, Liam Good, Johanna Kela, Thomas Johnsson, Tomas Hökfelt, Christian Broberger, Frank Porreca, Josephine Lai, Kunkun Ren, Michael Ossipov, Alexei Koshkin, Nana Jakobsen, Jan Skouv, Henrik Oerum, Mogens Havsteen Jacobsen, and Jesper Wengel Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5633–5638. PMCID: PMC25880 A binding pocket for a small molecule inhibitor of HIV-1 entry within the transmembrane helices of CCR5 Tatjana Dragic, Alexandra Trkola, Daniah A. D. Thompson, Emmanuel G. Cormier, Francis A. Kajumo, Elizabeth Maxwell, Steven W. Lin, Weiwen Ying, Steven O. Smith, Thomas P. Sakmar, and John P. Moore Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5639–5644. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25881 Physiology Early-life exposure to endotoxin alters hypothalamic–pituitary–adrenal function and predisposition to inflammation Nola Shanks, Richard J. Windle, Paula A. Perks, Michael S. Harbuz, David S. Jessop, Colin D. Ingram, and Stafford L. Lightman Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5645–5650. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25882 The role of members of the pertussis toxin-sensitive family of G proteins in coupling receptors to the activation of the G protein-gated inwardly rectifying potassium channel Joanne Louise Leaney and Andrew Tinker Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5651–5656. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC25883 A functional R domain from cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator is predominantly unstructured in solution Lynda S. Ostedgaard, Olafur Baldursson, Daniel W. Vermeer, Michael J. Welsh, and Andrew D. Robertson Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5657–5662. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25884 Plant Biology The tomato ethylene receptors NR and LeETR4 are negative regulators of ethylene response and exhibit functional compensation within a multigene family Denise M. Tieman, Mark G. Taylor, Joseph A. Ciardi, and Harry J. Klee Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5663–5668. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC25885 Postgerminative growth and lipid catabolism in oilseeds lacking the glyoxylate cycle Peter J. Eastmond, Veronique Germain, Peter R. Lange, James H. Bryce, Steven M. Smith, and Ian A. Graham Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5669–5674. PMCID: PMC25886 Social Sciences Economic Sciences Nas–Walras equilibria of a large economy E. Minelli and H. M. Polemarchakis Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5675–5678. PMCID: PMC25887 Corrections Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5679. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC55987 Corrects: Min Liu, et al. Loss of BETA2/NeuroD leads to malformation of the dentate gyrus and epilepsy. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 January 18; 97(2): 865–870. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5679. Published online 2000 April 25. PMCID: PMC55988 Corrects: Sazuku Nisitani, et al. Posttranscriptional regulation of Bruton's tyrosine kinase
expression in antigen receptor-stimulated splenic B cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 March 14; 97(6): 2737–2742. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 May 9; 97(10): 5679. Published online 2000 May 2. PMCID: PMC55989 Corrects: Mohammad Asif, et al. An advanced glycation endproduct cross-link breaker can reverse
age-related increases in myocardial stiffness. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2000 March 14; 97(6): 2809–2813. |