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Volume 96(3);  February 2, 1999
Commentaries
Tet B or not tet B: Advances in tetracycline-inducible gene expression
Helen M. Blau and Fabio M. V. Rossi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 797–799.
PMCID: PMC33520
Disease transmission dynamics and the evolution of antibiotic resistance in hospitals and communal settings
Simon A. Levin and Viggo Andreasen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 800–801.
PMCID: PMC33521
Xenotropism: The elusive viral receptor finally uncovered
Jay A. Levy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 802–804.
PMCID: PMC33522
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
Niemann-Pick C1 protein: Obligatory roles for N-terminal domains and lysosomal targeting in cholesterol mobilization
Hidemichi Watari, E. Joan Blanchette-Mackie, Nancy K. Dwyer, Jane M. Glick, Shutish Patel, Edward B. Neufeld, Roscoe O. Brady, Peter G. Pentchev, and Jerome F. Strauss, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 805–810.
PMCID: PMC15306
Origins of DNA-binding specificity: Role of protein contacts with the DNA backbone
Joel F. Schildbach, A. Wali Karzai, Brigitte E. Raumann, and Robert T. Sauer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 811–817.
PMCID: PMC15307
Trimeric domain-swapped barnase
Ingrid Zegers, Joeri Deswarte, and Lode Wyns
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 818–822.
PMCID: PMC15308
Three-dimensional structure of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase: A proposed mechanism for allosteric inhibition
Yasushi Kai, Hiroyoshi Matsumura, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Kazutoyo Terada, Yoshitaka Nagara, Takeo Yoshinaga, Akio Kihara, Kennji Tsumura, and Katsura Izui
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 823–828.
PMCID: PMC15309
Xenopus laevis sperm receptor gp69/64 glycoprotein is a homolog of the mammalian sperm receptor ZP2
Jingdong Tian, Hui Gong, and William J. Lennarz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 829–834.
PMCID: PMC15310
Levels of major selenoproteins in T cells decrease during HIV infection and low molecular mass selenium compounds increase
Vadim N. Gladyshev, Thressa C. Stadtman, Dolph L. Hatfield, and Kuan-Teh Jeang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 835–839.
PMCID: PMC15311
Structure of the ternary complex of human 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 with 3-hydroxyestra-1,3,5,7-tetraen-17-one (equilin) and NADP+
Mark W. Sawicki, Mary Erman, Terhi Puranen, Pirkko Vihko, and Debashis Ghosh
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 840–845.
PMCID: PMC15312
Mitochondrial disease in superoxide dismutase 2 mutant mice
Simon Melov, Pinar Coskun, Manisha Patel, Robbyn Tuinstra, Barbara Cottrell, Albert S. Jun, Tomsz H. Zastawny, Miral Dizdaroglu, Stephen I. Goodman, Ting-Ting Huang, Henry Miziorko, Charles J. Epstein, and Douglas C. Wallace
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 846–851.
PMCID: PMC15313
U1 small nuclear RNA and spliceosomal introns in Euglena gracilis
David G. Breckenridge, Yoh-ichi Watanabe, Spencer J. Greenwood, Michael W. Gray, and Murray N. Schnare
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 852–856.
PMCID: PMC15314
The specificity of interaction of archaeal transducers with their cognate sensory rhodopsins is determined by their transmembrane helices
Xue-Nong Zhang, Jingya Zhu, and John L. Spudich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 857–862.
PMCID: PMC15315
TOXCAT: A measure of transmembrane helix association in a biological membrane
William P. Russ and Donald M. Engelman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 863–868.
PMCID: PMC15316
The C-terminal domain of the regulatory protein NOVH is sufficient to promote interaction with fibulin 1C: A clue for a role of NOVH in cell-adhesion signaling
Bernard Perbal, Cécile Martinerie, Richard Sainson, Michel Werner, Bin He, and Bernard Roizman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 869–874.
PMCID: PMC15317
Induced fit of a peptide loop of methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase triggered by the initiator tRNA substrate
Vaidyanathan Ramesh, Christine Mayer, Michael R. Dyson, Sadanand Gite, and Uttam L. RajBhandary
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 875–880.
PMCID: PMC15318
Similarity in the catalysis of DNA breakage and rejoining by type IA and IIA DNA topoisomerases
Qiyong Liu and James C. Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 881–886.
PMCID: PMC15319
The minimal gene set member msrA, encoding peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase, is a virulence determinant of the plant pathogen Erwinia chrysanthemi
Mohammed El Hassouni, Jean Pierre Chambost, Dominique Expert, Frederique Van Gijsegem, and Frederic Barras
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 887–892.
PMCID: PMC15320
Biophysics
Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of enzyme conformational dynamics and cleavage mechanism
Taekjip Ha, Alice Y. Ting, Joy Liang, W. Brett Caldwell, Ashok A. Deniz, Daniel S. Chemla, Peter G. Schultz, and Shimon Weiss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 893–898.
PMCID: PMC15321
Enhanced rate of intramolecular electron transfer in an engineered purple CuA azurin
Ole Farver, Yi Lu, Majorie C. Ang, and Israel Pecht
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 899–902.
PMCID: PMC15322
α-Helix nucleation by a calcium-binding peptide loop
Monika Siedlecka, Grażyna Goch, Andrzej Ejchart, Heinrich Sticht, and Andrzej Bierzynski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 903–908.
PMCID: PMC15323
Cell Biology
SEM1, a homologue of the split hand/split foot malformation candidate gene Dss1, regulates exocytosis and pseudohyphal differentiation in yeast
Jussi Jäntti, Johanna Lahdenranta, Vesa M. Olkkonen, Hans Söderlund, and Sirkka Keränen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 909–914.
PMCID: PMC15324
Expression cloning of LDLB, a gene essential for normal Golgi function and assembly of the ldlCp complex
Jon E. Chatterton, David Hirsch, John J. Schwartz, Perry E. Bickel, Robert D. Rosenberg, Harvey F. Lodish, and Monty Krieger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 915–920.
PMCID: PMC15325
Dimensional and mechanical dynamics of active and stable edges in motile fibroblasts investigated by using atomic force microscopy
Christian Rotsch, Ken Jacobson, and Manfred Radmacher
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 921–926.
PMCID: PMC15326
Cloning and characterization of a cell surface receptor for xenotropic and polytropic murine leukemia viruses
Chetankumar S. Tailor, Ali Nouri, Chun G. Lee, Christine Kozak, and David Kabat
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 927–932.
PMCID: PMC15327
The nuclear matrix prepared by amine modification
Katherine M. Wan, Jeffrey A. Nickerson, Gabriela Krockmalnic, and Sheldon Penman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 933–938.
PMCID: PMC15328
Model of maltose-binding protein/chemoreceptor complex supports intrasubunit signaling mechanism
Yinghua Zhang, Paul J. Gardina, Ann S. Kuebler, Hui S. Kang, Jon A. Christopher, and Michael D. Manson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 939–944.
PMCID: PMC15329
Multiple and diverse forms of regulated exocytosis in wild-type and defective PC12 cells
Haruo Kasai, Takuya Kishimoto, Ting-Ting Liu, Yasushi Miyashita, Paola Podini, Fabio Grohovaz, and Jacopo Meldolesi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 945–949.
PMCID: PMC15330
Developmental Biology
FOG-2: A novel GATA-family cofactor related to multitype zinc-finger proteins Friend of GATA-1 and U-shaped
Sergei G. Tevosian, Anne E. Deconinck, Alan B. Cantor, Heather I. Rieff, Yuko Fujiwara, Gabriel Corfas, and Stuart H. Orkin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 950–955.
PMCID: PMC15331
Molecular cloning of FOG-2: A modulator of transcription factor GATA-4 in cardiomyocytes
Eric C. Svensson, Rachel L. Tufts, Christine E. Polk, and Jeffrey M. Leiden
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 956–961.
PMCID: PMC15332
Metamorphosis is inhibited in transgenic Xenopus laevis tadpoles that overexpress type III deiodinase
Haochu Huang, Nicholas Marsh-Armstrong, and Donald D. Brown
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 962–967.
PMCID: PMC15333
sqv mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans are defective in vulval epithelial invagination
Tory Herman, Erika Hartwieg, and H. Robert Horvitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 968–973.
PMCID: PMC15334
Three proteins involved in Caenorhabditis elegans vulval invagination are similar to components of a glycosylation pathway
Tory Herman and H. Robert Horvitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 974–979.
PMCID: PMC15335
Ecology
Perception of solar UVB radiation by phytophagous insects: Behavioral responses and ecosystem implications
Carlos A. Mazza, Jorge Zavala, Ana L. Scopel, and Carlos L. Ballaré
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 980–985.
PMCID: PMC15336
Interspecific and intraspecific competition as causes of direct and delayed density dependence in a fluctuating vole population
Thomas F. Hansen, Nils C. Stenseth, Heikki Henttonen, and Johan Tast
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 986–991.
PMCID: PMC15337
Evolution
Species realities and numbers in sexual vertebrates: Perspectives from an asexually transmitted genome
John C. Avise and DeEtte Walker
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 992–995.
PMCID: PMC15338
Genetics
Ectopic expression of E47 or E12 promotes the death of E2A-deficient lymphomas
Isaac Engel and Cornelis Murre
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 996–1001.
PMCID: PMC15339
Inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 by p21 is necessary for retinoblastoma protein-mediated G1 arrest after γ-irradiation
James Brugarolas, Ken Moberg, Scott D. Boyd, Yoichi Taya, Tyler Jacks, and Jacqueline A. Lees
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1002–1007.
PMCID: PMC15340
Progressive juvenile-onset punctate cataracts caused by mutation of the γD-crystallin gene
Dietrich A. Stephan, Elizabeth Gillanders, Deborah Vanderveen, Diana Freas-Lutz, Graeme Wistow, Andreas D. Baxevanis, Christiane M. Robbins, Ann Van Auken, Matthew I. Quesenberry, Joan Bailey-Wilson, Suh-Hang Hank Juo, Jeffrey M. Trent, Lois Smith, and Michael J. Brownstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1008–1012.
PMCID: PMC15341
Generation of conditional mutants in higher eukaryotes by switching between the expression of two genes
Udo Baron, Dirk Schnappinger, Vera Helbl, Manfred Gossen, Wolfgang Hillen, and Hermann Bujard
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1013–1018.
PMCID: PMC15342
Immunology
CD48-deficient mice have a pronounced defect in CD4+ T cell activation
Jesús González-Cabrero, Catherine J. Wise, Yvette Latchman, Gordon J. Freeman, Arlene H. Sharpe, and Hans Reiser
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1019–1023.
PMCID: PMC15343
T cell antigen receptor-mediated activation of the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway controls interleukin 4 receptor function and type-2 helper T cell differentiation
Masakatsu Yamashita, Motoko Kimura, Masato Kubo, Chiori Shimizu, Tomio Tada, Roger M. Perlmutter, and Toshinori Nakayama
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1024–1029.
PMCID: PMC15344
Lack of infection in HIV-exposed individuals is associated with a strong CD8+ cell noncytotoxic anti-HIV response
Sharon A. Stranford, Joan Skurnick, Donald Louria, Dennis Osmond, Sheng-Yung Chang, John Sninsky, Guido Ferrari, Kent Weinhold, Craig Lindquist, and Jay A. Levy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1030–1035.
PMCID: PMC15345
Distinct dendritic cell subsets differentially regulate the class of immune response in vivo
B. Pulendran, J. L. Smith, G. Caspary, K. Brasel, D. Pettit, E. Maraskovsky, and C. R. Maliszewski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1036–1041.
PMCID: PMC15346
Identification of a cell protein (FIP-3) as a modulator of NF-κB activity and as a target of an adenovirus inhibitor of tumor necrosis factor α-induced apoptosis
Yongan Li, Jian Kang, Joshua Friedman, Leonid Tarassishin, Jianjiang Ye, Andrei Kovalenko, David Wallach, and Marshall S. Horwitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1042–1047.
PMCID: PMC15347
Medical Sciences
The stretch-activation response may be critical to the proper functioning of the mammalian heart
Ramesh Vemuri, Edward B. Lankford, Karl Poetter, Shahin Hassanzadeh, Kazuyo Takeda, Zu-Xi Yu, Victor J. Ferrans, and Neal D. Epstein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1048–1053.
PMCID: PMC15348
Defective collagen crosslinking in bone, but not in ligament or cartilage, in Bruck syndrome: Indications for a bone-specific telopeptide lysyl hydroxylase on chromosome 17
Ruud A. Bank, Simon P. Robins, Cisca Wijmenga, Liesbeth J. Breslau-Siderius, Alfons F. J. Bardoel, Hans A. Van der Sluijs, Hans E. H. Pruijs, and Johan M. TeKoppele
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1054–1058.
PMCID: PMC15349
Enhancing versus suppressive effects of stress hormones on skin immune function
Firdaus S. Dhabhar and Bruce S. McEwen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1059–1064.
PMCID: PMC15350
Gene therapy to promote thromboresistance: Local overexpression of tissue plasminogen activator to prevent arterial thrombosis in an in vivo rabbit model
J. M. Waugh, M. Kattash, J. Li, E. Yuksel, M. D. Kuo, M. Lussier, A. B. Weinfeld, R. Saxena, E. D. Rabinovsky, S. Thung, S. L. C. Woo, and S. M. Shenaq
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1065–1070.
PMCID: PMC15351
The relationship between the volume of antimicrobial consumption in human communities and the frequency of resistance
D. J. Austin, K. G. Kristinsson, and R. M. Anderson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1152–1156.
PMCID: PMC15366
Microbiology
Identification of a Vibrio cholerae RTX toxin gene cluster that is tightly linked to the cholera toxin prophage
Wei Lin, Karla Jean Fullner, Rebecca Clayton, Jessica A. Sexton, Marc B. Rogers, Kerstin E. Calia, Stephen B. Calderwood, Claire Fraser, and John J. Mekalanos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1071–1076.
PMCID: PMC15352
Variation in expression of the Haemophilus influenzae HMW adhesins: A prokaryotic system reminiscent of eukaryotes
Suzanne Dawid, Stephen J. Barenkamp, and Joseph W. St. Geme, III
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1077–1082.
PMCID: PMC15353
Neurobiology
The role of presynaptic activity in monocular deprivation: Comparison of homosynaptic and heterosynaptic mechanisms
Brian S. Blais, Harel Z. Shouval, and Leon N. Cooper
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1083–1087.
PMCID: PMC15354
Molecular and functional remodeling of electrogenic membrane of hypothalamic neurons in response to changes in their input
M. Tanaka, T. R. Cummins, K. Ishikawa, J. A. Black, Y. Ibata, and S. G. Waxman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1088–1093.
PMCID: PMC15355
A presynaptic role for the ADP ribosylation factor (ARF)-specific GDP/GTP exchange factor msec7-1
Uri Ashery, Henriette Koch, Volker Scheuss, Nils Brose, and Jens Rettig
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1094–1099.
PMCID: PMC15356
Neuroligin 1 is a postsynaptic cell-adhesion molecule of excitatory synapses
Ji-Ying Song, Konstantin Ichtchenko, Thomas C. Südhof, and Nils Brose
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1100–1105.
PMCID: PMC15357
Spatiotemporal activity patterns of rat cortical neurons predict responses in a conditioned task
Alessandro E. P. Villa, Igor V. Tetko, Brian Hyland, and Abdellatif Najem
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1106–1111.
PMCID: PMC15358
Neurotrophins regulate agrin-induced postsynaptic differentiation
David G. Wells, Beth A. McKechnie, Samir Kelkar, and Justin R. Fallon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1112–1117.
PMCID: PMC15359
Glutamate and γ-aminobutyric acid mediate a heterosynaptic depression at mossy fiber synapses in the hippocampus
Kaspar E. Vogt and Roger A. Nicoll
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1118–1122.
PMCID: PMC15360
Pharmacology
Isometric contraction induces the Ca2+-independent activation of the endothelial nitric oxide synthase
Ingrid Fleming, Johann Bauersachs, Andreas Schäfer, Dimitri Scholz, Jan Aldershvile, and Rudi Busse
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1123–1128.
PMCID: PMC15361
Physiology
Role of mitochondrial lactate dehydrogenase and lactate oxidation in the intracellular lactate shuttle
George A. Brooks, Hervé Dubouchaud, Marcia Brown, James P. Sicurello, and C. Eric Butz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1129–1134.
PMCID: PMC15362
Plant Biology
Unusual carotenoid composition and a new type of xanthophyll cycle in plants
Ralph A. Bungard, Alexander V. Ruban, Julian M. Hibberd, Malcolm C. Press, Peter Horton, and Julie D. Scholes
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1135–1139.
PMCID: PMC15363
ARG1 (Altered Response to Gravity) encodes a DnaJ-like protein that potentially interacts with the cytoskeleton
John C. Sedbrook, Rujin Chen, and Patrick H. Masson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1140–1145.
PMCID: PMC15364
Antisense-mediated depletion of a potato lipoxygenase reduces wound induction of proteinase inhibitors and increases weight gain of insect pests
Joaquín Royo, José León, Guy Vancanneyt, Juan Pablo Albar, Sabine Rosahl, Félix Ortego, Pedro Castañera, and José J. Sánchez-Serrano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1146–1151.
PMCID: PMC15365
Population Biology
The relationship between the volume of antimicrobial consumption in human communities and the frequency of resistance
D. J. Austin, K. G. Kristinsson, and R. M. Anderson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1152–1156.
PMCID: PMC15366
Social Sciences
Anthropology
Skeletal and dental morphology supports diphyletic origin of baboons and mandrills
John G. Fleagle and W. Scott McGraw
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1157–1161.
PMCID: PMC15367
Corrections
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1162.
PMCID: PMC56003
Corrects: Edward A. Berger, et al. Reconsidering targeted toxins to eliminate HIV infection: You gotta have HAART. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 September 29; 95(20): 11511–11513.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1162.
PMCID: PMC56004
Corrects: H Bang, et al. Activation of Ca2+ signaling in neutrophils by the mast cell-released immunophilin FKBP12. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1995 April 11; 92(8): 3435–3438.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1999 February 2; 96(3): 1162.
PMCID: PMC56005
Corrects: Michael J. Shamblott, et al. Derivation of pluripotent stem cells from cultured human primordial germ cells. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 November 10; 95(23): 13726–13731.
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