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Volume 97(10);  May 9, 2000
From the Academy
New Members and Foreign Associates Elected to the National 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
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. Zupancic, 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.
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