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Volume 95(1);  January 6, 1998
Colloquium Papers
The age of the universe, dark matter, and structure formation
David N. Schramm
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 1.
PMCID: PMC34180
Measuring cosmological parameters
Wendy L. Freedman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 2–7.
PMCID: PMC34181
Globular clusters, Hipparcos, and the age of the galaxy
Neill Reid
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 8–12.
PMCID: PMC34182
Globular cluster ages
Raul Jimenez
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 13–17.
PMCID: PMC34183
The age of the universe from nuclear chronometers
J. W. Truran
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 18–21.
PMCID: PMC34184
Galaxies and large scale structure at high redshifts
Charles C. Steidel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 22–28.
PMCID: PMC34185
The microwave background anisotropies: Observations
David Wilkinson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 29–34.
PMCID: PMC34186
Cosmic microwave background theory
J. Richard Bond
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 35–41.
PMCID: PMC34187
Primordial nucleosynthesis
David N. Schramm
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 42–46.
PMCID: PMC34188
The universe at z > 5: When and how did the “dark age” end?
Martin J. Rees
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 47–52.
PMCID: PMC34189
Particle components of dark matter
John Ellis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 53–58.
PMCID: PMC34190
Direct searches for dark matter: Recent results
Leslie J. Rosenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 59–66.
PMCID: PMC34191
Galaxy formation
P. J. E. Peebles
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 67–71.
PMCID: PMC34192
X-ray emission from clusters and groups of galaxies
Richard Mushotzky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 72–77.
PMCID: PMC34193
Cosmic velocity fields and their interpretation
Marc Davis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 78–81.
PMCID: PMC34194
Measuring the topology of the universe
Neil J. Cornish, David N. Spergel, and Glenn D. Starkman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 82–84.
PMCID: PMC34195
Commentaries
Controlling cell cycle and cell fate: Common strategies in prokaryotes and eukaryotes
Angelika Amon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 85–86.
PMCID: PMC34196
Relationship between transcription and initiation of meiotic recombination: Toward chromatin accessibility
Alain Nicolas
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 87–89.
PMCID: PMC34197
Telomerase activity, cell proliferation, and cancer
Carol W. Greider
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 90–92.
PMCID: PMC34198
Plant science in lac: A continuation of using tools from Escherichia coli in studying gene function in heterologous systems
Joachim Messing
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 93–94.
PMCID: PMC34199
Physical Sciences
Computer Sciences
Limit, logic, and computation
Michael H. Freedman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 95–97.
PMCID: PMC18137
P/NP, and the quantum field computer
Michael H. Freedman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 98–101.
PMCID: PMC18139
Biological Sciences
Biochemistry
Supercoiling affects the accessibility of glutathione to DNA-bound molecules: Positive supercoiling inhibits calicheamicin-induced DNA damage
W. A. LaMarr, L. Yu, K. C. Nicolaou, and P. C. Dedon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 102–107.
PMCID: PMC18140
5′ end maturation and RNA editing have to precede tRNA 3′ processing in plant mitochondria
Anja Kunzmann, Axel Brennicke, and Anita Marchfelder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 108–113.
PMCID: PMC18142
Twenty proteins containing a C-terminal SOCS box form five structural classes
Douglas J. Hilton, Rachael T. Richardson, Warren S. Alexander, Elizabeth M. Viney, Tracy A. Willson, Naomi S. Sprigg, Robyn Starr, Sandra E. Nicholson, Donald Metcalf, and Nicos A. Nicola
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 114–119.
PMCID: PMC18144
Negative control of bacterial DNA replication by a cell cycle regulatory protein that binds at the chromosome origin
Kim C. Quon, Bing Yang, Ibrahim J. Domian, Lucy Shapiro, and Gregory T. Marczynski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 120–125.
PMCID: PMC18146
Nitric oxide and thiol redox regulation of Janus kinase activity
Roy J. Duhé, Gerald A. Evans, Rebecca A. Erwin, Robert A. Kirken, George W. Cox, and William L. Farrar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 126–131.
PMCID: PMC18148
Drosophila NURF-55, a WD repeat protein involved in histone metabolism
Marian A. Martínez-Balbás, Toshio Tsukiyama, David Gdula, and Carl Wu
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 132–137.
PMCID: PMC18150
Cell Biology
The distal ectodomain of angiotensin-converting enzyme regulates its cleavage-secretion from the cell surface
Ramkrishna Sadhukhan, Ganes C. Sen, Ramaswamy Ramchandran, and Indira Sen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 138–143.
PMCID: PMC18152
Characterization of mammalian translocase of inner mitochondrial membrane (Tim44) isolated from diabetic newborn mouse kidney
Jun Wada and Yashpal S. Kanwar
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 144–149.
PMCID: PMC18154
Sphingoid base 1-phosphate phosphatase: A key regulator of sphingolipid metabolism and stress response
Suzanne M. Mandala, Rosemary Thornton, Zhenxing Tu, Myra B. Kurtz, Joseph Nickels, James Broach, Ramil Menzeleev, and Sarah Spiegel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 150–155.
PMCID: PMC18156
Shortage of mitogen-activated protein kinase is responsible for resistance to AP-1 transactivation and transformation in mouse JB6 cells
Chuanshu Huang, Wei-Ya Ma, Matthew R. Young, Nancy Colburn, and Zigang Dong
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 156–161.
PMCID: PMC18158
Hexamethylene bisacetamide induces programmed cell death (apoptosis) and down-regulates BCL-2 expression in human myeloma cells
D. S. Siegel, X. Zhang, R. Feinman, T. Teitz, A. Zelenetz, V. M. Richon, R. A. Rifkind, P. A. Marks, and J. Michaeli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 162–166.
PMCID: PMC18160
Creation of monosomic derivatives of human cultured cell lines
Duncan J. Clarke, Juan F. Giménez-Abián, Holger Tönnies, Heidemarie Neitzel, Karl Sperling, C. Stephen Downes, and Robert T. Johnson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 167–171.
PMCID: PMC18162
Regulation of interleukin 4-mediated signaling by naturally occurring dominant negative and attenuated forms of human Stat6
Bharvin K. R. Patel, Jacalyn H. Pierce, and William J. LaRochelle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 172–177.
PMCID: PMC18165
Intestinal trefoil factor induces inactivation of extracellular signal-regulated protein kinase in intestinal epithelial cells
Michiyuki Kanai, Colleen Mullen, and Daniel K. Podolsky
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 178–182.
PMCID: PMC18167
Two distinct populations of synaptic-like vesicles from rat brain
Galini Thoidis, Peng Chen, Alexander V. Pushkin, Gino Vallega, Susan E. Leeman, Richard E. Fine, and Konstantin V. Kandror
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 183–188.
PMCID: PMC18168
Consistent loss of functional transforming growth factor β receptor expression in murine plasmacytomas
Stephanie R. Amoroso, Naihui Huang, Anita B. Roberts, Michael Potter, and John J. Letterio
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 189–194.
PMCID: PMC18171
Synergistic activation of p53 by inhibition of MDM2 expression and DNA damage
Lihong Chen, Sudhir Agrawal, Wenqiang Zhou, Ruiwen Zhang, and Jiandong Chen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 195–200.
PMCID: PMC18173
Control of direction of flagellar rotation in bacterial chemotaxis
Birgit E. Scharf, Karen A. Fahrner, Linda Turner, and Howard C. Berg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 201–206.
PMCID: PMC18175
Ecology
Biodiversity at the edge: A test of the importance of spatial “mass effects” in the Rothamsted Park Grass experiments
William E. Kunin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 207–212.
PMCID: PMC18177
Patterns of variance in stage-structured populations: Evolutionary predictions and ecological implications
Catherine A. Pfister
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 213–218.
PMCID: PMC34554
Evolution
Relationship between “proto-splice sites” and intron phases: Evidence from dicodon analysis
Manyuan Long, Sandro J. de Souza, Carl Rosenberg, and Walter Gilbert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 219–223.
PMCID: PMC18181
Universally conserved translation initiation factors
Nikos C. Kyrpides and Carl R. Woese
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 224–228.
PMCID: PMC18182
A mitochondrial-like chaperonin 60 gene in Giardia lamblia: Evidence that diplomonads once harbored an endosymbiont related to the progenitor of mitochondria
Andrew J. Roger, Staffan G. Svärd, Jorge Tovar, C. Graham Clark, Michael W. Smith, Frances D. Gillin, and Mitchell L. Sogin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 229–234.
PMCID: PMC18184
Nuclear ribosomal DNA evidence for a western North American origin of Hawaiian and South American species of Sanicula (Apiaceae)
Pablo Vargas, Bruce G. Baldwin, and Lincoln Constance
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 235–240.
PMCID: PMC18186
Genetics
β-dystrobrevin, a member of the dystrophin-related protein family
Derek J. Blake, Ralph Nawrotzki, Nellie Y. Loh, Dariusz C. Górecki, and Kay E. Davies
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 241–246.
PMCID: PMC18188
Assaying genome-wide recombination and centromere functions with Arabidopsis tetrads
Gregory P. Copenhaver, William E. Browne, and Daphne Preuss
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 247–252.
PMCID: PMC18190
Marginal fitness contributions of nonessential genes in yeast
J. W. Thatcher, Janet M. Shaw, and W. J. Dickinson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 253–257.
PMCID: PMC18192
Immunology
A chemokine expressed in lymphoid high endothelial venules promotes the adhesion and chemotaxis of naive T lymphocytes
Michael D. Gunn, Kirsten Tangemann, Carmen Tam, Jason G. Cyster, Steven D. Rosen, and Lewis T. Williams
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 258–263.
PMCID: PMC18193
Heteroclitic proliferative responses and changes in cytokine profile induced by altered peptides: Implications for autoimmunity
Lindsay B. Nicholson, Hanspeter Waldner, Ana M. Carrizosa, Alessandro Sette, Mary Collins, and Vijay K. Kuchroo
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 264–269.
PMCID: PMC18196
Human cytolytic and interferon γ-secreting CD8+ T lymphocytes specific for Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Ajit Lalvani, Roger Brookes, Robert J. Wilkinson, Adam S. Malin, Ansar A. Pathan, Peter Andersen, Hazel Dockrell, Geoffrey Pasvol, and Adrian V. S. Hill
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 270–275.
PMCID: PMC18198
Stimulation of HIV-1-neutralizing antibodies in simian HIV-IIIB-infected macaques
Sybille Müller, David H. Margolin, Peter L. Nara, W. Gregory Alvord, and Heinz Köhler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 276–281.
PMCID: PMC18200
Medical Sciences
Mutations in the MDR3 gene cause progressive familial intrahepatic cholestasis
J. Marleen L. de Vree, Emmanuel Jacquemin, Ekkehard Sturm, Danièle Cresteil, Piter J. Bosma, Jan Aten, Jean-François Deleuze, Marc Desrochers, Martin Burdelski, Olivier Bernard, Ronald P. J. Oude Elferink, and Michelle Hadchouel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 282–287.
PMCID: PMC18201
DNA oxidation matters: The HPLC–electrochemical detection assay of 8-oxo-deoxyguanosine and 8-oxo-guanine
Harold J. Helbock, Kenneth B. Beckman, Mark K. Shigenaga, Patrick B. Walter, Alan A. Woodall, Helen C. Yeo, and Bruce N. Ames
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 288–293.
PMCID: PMC18204
Measurement and modeling of the transient difference between blood and subcutaneous glucose concentrations in the rat after injection of insulin
David W. Schmidtke, Angela C. Freeland, Adam Heller, and Roger T. Bonnecaze
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 294–299.
PMCID: PMC18205
Discovery of three genes specifically expressed in human prostate by expressed sequence tag database analysis
George Vasmatzis, Magnus Essand, Ulrich Brinkmann, Byungkook Lee, and Ira Pastan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 300–304.
PMCID: PMC18207
Second gene for gonadotropin-releasing hormone in humans
Richard B. White, Jonathan A. Eisen, Thomas L. Kasten, and Russell D. Fernald
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 305–309.
PMCID: PMC18209
Microbiology
Liver repopulation with xenogenic hepatocytes in B and T cell-
deficient mice leads to chronic hepadnavirus infection and clonal growth of hepatocellular carcinoma
Joerg Petersen, Maura Dandri, Sanjeev Gupta, and Charles E. Rogler
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 310–315.
PMCID: PMC18210
Neurobiology
Stoichiometric coupling of brain glucose metabolism and glutamatergic neuronal activity
Nicola R. Sibson, Ajay Dhankhar, Graeme F. Mason, Douglas L. Rothman, Kevin L. Behar, and Robert G. Shulman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 316–321.
PMCID: PMC18211
The hypocretins: Hypothalamus-specific peptides with neuroexcitatory activity
L. de Lecea, T. S. Kilduff, C. Peyron, X.-B. Gao, P. E. Foye, P. E. Danielson, C. Fukuhara, E. L. F. Battenberg, V. T. Gautvik, F. S. Bartlett, II, W. N. Frankel, A. N. van den Pol, F. E. Bloom, K. M. Gautvik, and J. G. Sutcliffe
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 322–327.
PMCID: PMC18213
Null mutation in the rhodopsin kinase gene slows recovery kinetics of rod and cone phototransduction in man
Artur V. Cideciyan, Xinyu Zhao, Lori Nielsen, Shahrokh C. Khani, Samuel G. Jacobson, and Krzysztof Palczewski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 328–333.
PMCID: PMC18214
Large-scale temporal gene expression mapping of central nervous system development
Xiling Wen, Stefanie Fuhrman, George S. Michaels, Daniel B. Carr, Susan Smith, Jeffery L. Barker, and Roland Somogyi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 334–339.
PMCID: PMC18216
Melanopsin: An opsin in melanophores, brain, and eye
Ignacio Provencio, Guisen Jiang, Willem J. De Grip, William Pär Hayes, and Mark D. Rollag
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 340–345.
PMCID: PMC18217
Pharmacology
G-selective G protein antagonists
M. Hohenegger, M. Waldhoer, W. Beindl, B. Böing, A. Kreimeyer, P. Nickel, C. Nanoff, and M. Freissmuth
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 346–351.
PMCID: PMC18220
Controlling signaling with a specifically designed Gi-coupled receptor
Peter Coward, H. Gary Wada, Matthew S. Falk, Sam D. H. Chan, Fan Meng, Huda Akil, and Bruce R. Conklin
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 352–357.
PMCID: PMC18222
Physiology
Obesity and hyperleptinemia in metallothionein (-I and -II) null mice
J. H. Beattie, A. M. Wood, A. M. Newman, I. Bremner, K. H. A. Choo, A. E. Michalska, J. S. Duncan, and P. Trayhurn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 358–363.
PMCID: PMC18223
Plant Biology
The cyanobacterium Synechococcus resists UV-B by exchanging photosystem II reaction-center D1 proteins
Douglas Campbell, Mats-Jerry Eriksson, Gunnar Öquist, Petter Gustafsson, and Adrian K. Clarke
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 364–369.
PMCID: PMC18225
Rapid reorganization of resistance gene homologues in cereal genomes
Dario Leister, Joachim Kurth, David A. Laurie, Masahiro Yano, Takuji Sasaki, Katrien Devos, Andreas Graner, and Paul Schulze-Lefert
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 370–375.
PMCID: PMC18227
A transcription activation system for regulated gene expression in transgenic plants
Ian Moore, Leo Gälweiler, Debora Grosskopf, Jeff Schell, and Klaus Palme
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 376–381.
PMCID: PMC18229
Binding of an arm repeat protein to the kinase domain of the S-locus receptor kinase
Tiesheng Gu, Maria Mazzurco, Waheeda Sulaman, Dinah D. Matias, and Daphne R. Goring
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 382–387.
PMCID: PMC18231
Population Biology
Cryptic speciation and recombination in the aflatoxin-producing fungus Aspergillus flavus
David M. Geiser, John I. Pitt, and John W. Taylor
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 388–393.
PMCID: PMC18233
Deleterious mutation accumulation and the regeneration of genetic resources
Daniel J. Schoen, Jacques L. David, and Thomas M. Bataillon
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 394–399.
PMCID: PMC18235
Psychology
Letter recognition reveals pathways of second-order and third-order motion
Ching Elizabeth Ho
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 400–404.
PMCID: PMC18237
Correction
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1998 January 6; 95(1): 405.
PMCID: PMC56001
Corrects: Carmen Aguado-Velasco, et al. Dictyostelium myosin II null mutant can still cap Con A receptors. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 September 2; 94(18): 9684–9686.
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