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Volume 94(5);  March 4, 1997
From the Academy
Introduction to “From the Academy”
Nicholas R. Cozzarelli
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1605.
PMCID: PMC34136
The U.S. National Academy of Sciences—In service to science and society
Jack Halpern
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1606–1608.
PMCID: PMC34137
Opportunities await
Ronald L. Phillips
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1609.
PMCID: PMC34138
Colleges of agriculture at the land grant universities: Public service and public policy
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1610–1611.
PMCID: PMC34139
Workshop on Schizophrenia
Samuel H. Barondes, Bruce M. Alberts, Nancy C. Andreasen, Cornelia Bargmann, Francine Benes, Patricia Goldman-Rakic, Irving Gottesman, Stephen F. Heinemann, Edward G. Jones, Marc Kirschner, David Lewis, Martin Raff, Allen Roses, John Rubenstein, Solomon Snyder, Stanley J. Watson, Daniel R. Weinberger, and Robert H. Yolken
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1612–1614.
PMCID: PMC34140
Commentaries
Expression pattern of HIV-1 coreceptors on T cells: Implications for viral transmission and lymphocyte homing
Derya Unutmaz and Dan R. Littman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1615–1618.
PMCID: PMC34141
Choosing the right sugar: How polymerases select a nucleotide substrate
Catherine M. Joyce
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1619–1622.
PMCID: PMC34142
Physical Sciences
Chemistry
Analysis of highly disfavored processes through pathway-specific correlated fluorescence
James J. La Clair
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1623–1628.
PMCID: PMC19966
Rapid, sensitive structure analysis of oligosaccharides
Yingming Zhao, Stephen B. H. Kent, and Brian T. Chait
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1629–1633.
PMCID: PMC19967
Computer Sciences
Ensemble quantum computing by NMR spectroscopy
David G. Cory, Amr F. Fahmy, and Timothy F. Havel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1634–1639.
PMCID: PMC19968
Biological Sciences
Agricultural Sciences
One gene in diamondback moth confers resistance to four Bacillus thuringiensis toxins
Bruce E. Tabashnik, Yong-Biao Liu, Naomi Finson, Luke Masson, and David G. Heckel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1640–1644.
PMCID: PMC19969
Applied Biological Sciences
Persistence in muscle of an adenoviral vector that lacks all viral genes
Hsiao-Huei Chen, Lisa M. Mack, Robert Kelly, Marcia Ontell, Stefan Kochanek, and Paula R. Clemens
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1645–1650.
PMCID: PMC19970
Gene transfer by guanidinium-cholesterol cationic lipids into airway epithelial cells in vitro and in vivo
Noufissa Oudrhiri, Jean-Pierre Vigneron, Michel Peuchmaur, Tony Leclerc, Jean-Marie Lehn, and Pierre Lehn
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1651–1656.
PMCID: PMC19971
Biochemistry
A mixed-charge pair in human interleukin 4 dominates high-affinity interaction with the receptor α chain
Yonghong Wang, Bo-Jiang Shen, and Walter Sebald
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1657–1662.
PMCID: PMC19972
“Peptabody”: A new type of high avidity binding protein
Alexey V. Terskikh, Jean-Marc Le Doussal, Reto Crameri, Igor Fisch, Jean-Pierre Mach, and Andrey V. Kajava
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1663–1668.
PMCID: PMC19973
Unexpected genetic and structural relationships of a long-forgotten flavoenzyme to NAD(P)H:quinone reductase (DT-diaphorase)
Qinjian Zhao, Xiao Ling Yang, W. David Holtzclaw, and Paul Talalay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1669–1674.
PMCID: PMC19974
Daidzin inhibits mitochondrial aldehyde dehydrogenase and suppresses ethanol intake of Syrian golden hamsters
Wing Ming Keung, Anatole A. Klyosov, and Bert L. Vallee
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1675–1679.
PMCID: PMC19975
Development of “substrate-trapping” mutants to identify physiological substrates of protein tyrosine phosphatases
Andrew J. Flint, Tony Tiganis, David Barford, and Nicholas K. Tonks
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1680–1685.
PMCID: PMC19976
Conformation-dependent phosphorylation of p53
Victor Adler, Matthew R. Pincus, Toshinari Minamoto, Serge Y. Fuchs, Mark J. Bluth, Paul W. Brandt-Rauf, Fred K. Friedman, Richard C. Robinson, James M. Chen, Xin Wei Wang, Curtis C. Harris, and Ze’ev Ronai
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1686–1691.
PMCID: PMC19977
Chirality of DNA trefoils: Implications in intramolecular synapsis of distant DNA segments
Stanley Y. Shaw and James C. Wang
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1692–1697.
PMCID: PMC19978
Detection of changes in pairwise interactions during allosteric transitions: Coupling between local and global conformational changes in GroEL
Amir Aharoni and Amnon Horovitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1698–1702.
PMCID: PMC19979
A Xenopus oocyte β subunit: Evidence for a role in the assembly/expression of voltage-gated calcium channels that is separate from its role as a regulatory subunit
Erwin Tareilus, Michel Roux, Ning Qin, Riccardo Olcese, Jianming Zhou, Enrico Stefani, and Lutz Birnbaumer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1703–1708.
PMCID: PMC19980
The two α subunits of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase are asymmetrically arranged and contact different halves of the DNA upstream element
Katsuhiko Murakami, Makoto Kimura, Jeffrey T. Owens, Claude F. Meares, and Akira Ishihama
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1709–1714.
PMCID: PMC19981
Structure and function in rhodopsin: Peptide sequences in the cytoplasmic loops of rhodopsin are intimately involved in interaction with rhodopsin kinase
Robin L. Thurmond, Carole Creuzenet, Philip J. Reeves, and H. Gobind Khorana
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1715–1720.
PMCID: PMC19982
Galactose-dependent reversible interaction of Gal3p with Gal80p in the induction pathway of Gal4p-activated genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Ken-ichi Yano and Toshio Fukasawa
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1721–1726.
PMCID: PMC19983
o is necessary for muscarinic regulation of Ca2+ channels in mouse heart
D. Valenzuela, X. Han, U. Mende, C. Fankhauser, H. Mashimo, P. Huang, J. Pfeffer, E. J. Neer, and M. C. Fishman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1727–1732.
PMCID: PMC19984
Cloning of murine RNA polymerase I-specific TAF factors: Conserved interactions between the subunits of the species-specific transcription initiation factor TIF-IB/SL1
Jutta Heix, Joost C. B. M. Zomerdijk, Ali Ravanpay, Robert Tjian, and Ingrid Grummt
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1733–1738.
PMCID: PMC19985
A heparin-binding synthetic peptide of heparin/heparan sulfateinteracting protein modulates blood coagulation activities
Shouchun Liu, Fanyu Zhou, Magnus Höök, and Daniel D. Carson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1739–1744.
PMCID: PMC19986
Cytohesin-1, a cytosolic guanine nucleotide-exchange protein for ADP-ribosylation factor
Elisabetta Meacci, Su-Chen Tsai, Ronald Adamik, Joel Moss, and Martha Vaughan
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1745–1748.
PMCID: PMC19987
Benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-DNA cis adduct formation through a trans chlorohydrin intermediate
Thomas Meehan, Alan R. Wolfe, George R. Negrete, and Qi Song
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1749–1754.
PMCID: PMC19988
Transcriptional arrest: Escherichia coli RNA polymerase translocates backward, leaving the 3′ end of the RNA intact and extruded
Natalia Komissarova and Mikhail Kashlev
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1755–1760.
PMCID: PMC19989
Site-specific mutagenesis reveals differences in the structural bases for tight binding of RNase inhibitor to angiogenin and RNase A
Chang-Zheng Chen and Robert Shapiro
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1761–1766.
PMCID: PMC19990
Biophysics
Electron diffraction studies of light-induced conformational changes in the Leu-93 → Ala bacteriorhodopsin mutant
Sriram Subramaniam, A. R. Faruqi, Dieter Oesterhelt, and Richard Henderson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1767–1772.
PMCID: PMC19991
Cooperative effects of photodynamic treatment of cells in microcolonies
Jostein Dahle, Olav Kaalhus, Johan Moan, and Harald B. Steen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1773–1778.
PMCID: PMC19992
Submillisecond protein folding kinetics studied by ultrarapid mixing
Chi-Kin Chan, Yi Hu, Satoshi Takahashi, Denis L. Rousseau, William A. Eaton, and James Hofrichter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1779–1784.
PMCID: PMC19993
Direct in vivo measurement of targeted binding in a human tumor xenograft
David A. Berk, Fan Yuan, Michael Leunig, and Rakesh K. Jain
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1785–1790.
PMCID: PMC19994
Direct phase determination in protein electron crystallography: The pseudo-atom approximation
Douglas L. Dorset
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1791–1794.
PMCID: PMC19995
Cell Biology
Inhibition by uridine but not thymidine of p53-dependent intestinal apoptosis initiated by 5-fluorouracil: Evidence for the involvement of RNA perturbation
D. Mark Pritchard, Alastair J. M. Watson, Christopher S. Potten, Ann L. Jackman, and John A. Hickman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1795–1799.
PMCID: PMC19996
Na+ pump low and high ouabain affinity α subunit isoforms are differently distributed in cells
Magdalena Juhaszova and Mordecai P. Blaustein
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1800–1805.
PMCID: PMC19997
Functional interaction of erythropoietin and stem cell factor receptors is essential for erythroid colony formation
Hong Wu, Ursula Klingmüller, Adriana Acurio, Jonathan G. Hsiao, and Harvey F. Lodish
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1806–1810.
PMCID: PMC19998
DEK, an autoantigen involved in a chromosomal translocation in acute myelogenous leukemia, binds to the HIV-2 enhancer
Glenn K. Fu, Gerard Grosveld, and David M. Markovitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1811–1815.
PMCID: PMC19999
Multiple mechanisms of N-phosphonacetyl-l-aspartate resistance in human cell lines: Carbamyl-P synthetase/aspartate transcarbamylase/dihydro-orotase gene amplification is frequent only when chromosome 2 is rearranged
Kathleen A. Smith, Olga B. Chernova, Richard P. Groves, Mary B. Stark, José L. Martínez, Jeffrey N. Davidson, Jeffrey M. Trent, Thomas E. Patterson, Archana Agarwal, Pamela Duncan, Munna L. Agarwal, and George R. Stark
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1816–1821.
PMCID: PMC20000
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) envelope glycoproteins vary drastically in their sensitivity to glycan processing: Evidence that alteration of a single N-linked glycosylation site can regulate HBV secretion
Anand Mehta, Xuanyong Lu, Timothy M. Block, Baruch S. Blumberg, and Raymond A. Dwek
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1822–1827.
PMCID: PMC20001
GTP-bound forms of rab6 induce the redistribution of Golgi proteins into the endoplasmic reticulum
Olivier Martinez, Claude Antony, Gérard Pehau-Arnaudet, Eric G. Berger, Jean Salamero, and Bruno Goud
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1828–1833.
PMCID: PMC20002
Apical sorting of hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg) is independent of N-glycosylation and glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored protein segregation
María Paz Marzolo, Paulina Bull, and Alfonso González
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1834–1839.
PMCID: PMC20003
The ataxia-telangiectasia gene product, a constitutively expressed nuclear protein that is not up-regulated following genome damage
Kevin D. Brown, Yael Ziv, Sunanda N. Sadanandan, Luciana Chessa, Francis S. Collins, Yosef Shiloh, and Danilo A. Tagle
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1840–1845.
PMCID: PMC20004
Developmental Biology
Multiple promoter elements differentially regulate the expression of the mouse tenascin gene
Donald W. Copertino, Gerald M. Edelman, and Frederick S. Jones
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1846–1851.
PMCID: PMC20005
Type III collagen is crucial for collagen I fibrillogenesis and for normal cardiovascular development
Xin Liu, Hong Wu, Michael Byrne, Stephen Krane, and Rudolf Jaenisch
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1852–1856.
PMCID: PMC20006
Ecology
Plant diversity and ecosystem productivity: Theoretical considerations
David Tilman, Clarence L. Lehman, and Kendall T. Thomson
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1857–1861.
PMCID: PMC20007
Evolution
Analysis of HIV-1 env gene sequences reveals evidence for a low effective number in the viral population
Andrew J. Leigh Brown
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1862–1865.
PMCID: PMC20008
A single and early migration for the peopling of the Americas supported by mitochondrial DNA sequence data
Sandro L. Bonatto and Francisco M. Salzano
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1866–1871.
PMCID: PMC20009
Genetics
Sequence patterns indicate an enzymatic involvement in integration of mammalian retroposons
Jerzy Jurka
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1872–1877.
PMCID: PMC20010
Immunology
Requirement for an initial signal from the membrane-proximal region of the interleukin 2 receptor γc chain for Janus kinase activation leading to T cell proliferation
Brad H. Nelson, Bryan C. McIntosh, Lori L. Rosencrans, and Philip D. Greenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1878–1883.
PMCID: PMC20011
Incomplete endoplasmic reticulum (ER) retention in immature thymocytes as revealed by surface expression of “ER-resident” molecular chaperones
David L. Wiest, Avinash Bhandoola, Jennifer Punt, Gert Kreibich, David McKean, and Alfred Singer
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1884–1889.
PMCID: PMC20012
Positive selection of HIV-1 cytotoxic T lymphocyte escape variants during primary infection
David A. Price, Philip J. R. Goulder, Paul Klenerman, Andrew K. Sewell, Philippa J. Easterbrook, Maxine Troop, Charles R. M. Bangham, and Rodney E. Phillips
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1890–1895.
PMCID: PMC20013
Misfolded major histocompatibility complex class I heavy chains are translocated into the cytoplasm and degraded by the proteasome
Eric A. Hughes, Craig Hammond, and Peter Cresswell
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1896–1901.
PMCID: PMC20014
The antigen-binding domain of a human IgG-anti-F(ab′)2 autoantibody
Martin Welschof, Peter Terness, Sergey M. Kipriyanov, Diana Stanescu, Frank Breitling, Heinz Dörsam, Stefan Dübel, Melvyn Little, and Gerhard Opelz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1902–1907.
PMCID: PMC20015
Cyclophosphamide/granulocyte colony-stimulating factor induces hematopoietic stem cells to proliferate prior to mobilization
Sean J. Morrison, Douglas E. Wright, and Irving L. Weissman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1908–1913.
PMCID: PMC20016
A testicular antigen aberrantly expressed in human cancers detected by autologous antibody screening
Yao-Tseng Chen, Matthew J. Scanlan, Ugur Sahin, Özlem Türeci, Ali O. Gure, Solam Tsang, Barbara Williamson, Elisabeth Stockert, Michael Pfreundschuh, and Lloyd J. Old
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1914–1918.
PMCID: PMC20017
syk kinase activation by a src kinase-initiated activation loop phosphorylation chain reaction
O. El-Hillal, T. Kurosaki, H. Yamamura, J.-P. Kinet, and A. M. Scharenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1919–1924.
PMCID: PMC20018
The HIV coreceptors CXCR4 and CCR5 are differentially expressed and regulated on human T lymphocytes
Conrad C. Bleul, Lijun Wu, James A. Hoxie, Timothy A. Springer, and Charles R. Mackay
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1925–1930.
PMCID: PMC20019
Medical Sciences
Functional CD40 ligand is expressed on human vascular endothelial cells, smooth muscle cells, and macrophages: Implications for CD40–CD40 ligand signaling in atherosclerosis
François Mach, Uwe Schönbeck, Galina K. Sukhova, Todd Bourcier, Jean-Yves Bonnefoy, Jordan S. Pober, and Peter Libby
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1931–1936.
PMCID: PMC20020
Targeting RNA decay with 2′,5′ oligoadenylate-antisense in respiratory syncytial virus-infected cells
Nick M. Cirino, Guiying Li, Wei Xiao, Paul F. Torrence, and Robert H. Silverman
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1937–1942.
PMCID: PMC20021
Antigen presentation in retroviral vector-mediated gene transfer in vivo
Elizabeth S. Song, Virginia Lee, Charles D. Surh, Andrea Lynn, Duane Brumm, Douglas J. Jolly, John F. Warner, and Sunil Chada
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1943–1948.
PMCID: PMC20022
Functional characterization of ETV6 and ETV6/CBFA2 in the regulation of the MCSFR proximal promoter
S. Fears, M. Gavin, D.-E. Zhang, C. Hetherington, Y. Ben-David, J. D. Rowley, and G. Nucifora
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1949–1954.
PMCID: PMC20023
Peptide inhibition of glomerular deposition of an anti-DNA antibody
Bruce Gaynor, Chaim Putterman, Philippe Valadon, Linda Spatz, Matthew D. Scharff, and Betty Diamond
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1955–1960.
PMCID: PMC20024
Transfection and overexpression of the calcium binding protein calbindin-D28k results in a stimulatory effect on insulin synthesis in a rat β cell line (RIN 1046-38)
Daphne Reddy, Allan S. Pollock, Samuel A. Clark, Karen Sooy, Rupangi C. Vasavada, Andrew F. Stewart, Thomas Honeyman, and Sylvia Christakos
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1961–1966.
PMCID: PMC20025
Glutathione deficiency is associated with impaired survival in HIV disease
Leonore A. Herzenberg, Stephen C. De Rosa, J. Gregson Dubs, Mario Roederer, Michael T. Anderson, Stephen W. Ela, Stanley C. Deresinski, and Leonard A. Herzenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1967–1972.
PMCID: PMC20026
A genetic analysis of integrin function: Glanzmann thrombasthenia in vitro
Elizabeth K. Baker, Eileen Collins Tozer, Martin Pfaff, Sanford J. Shattil, Joseph C. Loftus, and Mark H. Ginsberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1973–1978.
PMCID: PMC20027
Microbiology
σ54, a vital protein for Myxococcus xanthus
Ingrid M. Keseler and Dale Kaiser
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1979–1984.
PMCID: PMC20028
Neurobiology
Instrumental conditioning of fast (20- to 50-Hz) oscillations in corticothalamic networks
Florin Amzica, Dag Neckelmann, and Mircea Steriade
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1985–1989.
PMCID: PMC20029
Differential pre- and postsynaptic modulation of chemical transmission in the squid giant synapse by tyrosine phosphorylation
Rodolfo Llinás, Herman Moreno, Mutsuyuki Sugimori, Moosa Mohammadi, and Joseph Schlessinger
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1990–1994.
PMCID: PMC20030
Identification of components of a phosphoinositide signaling pathway in retinal rod outer segments
Y.-W. Peng, S. G. Rhee, W.-P. Yu, Y.-K. Ho, T. Schoen, G. J. Chader, and K.-W. Yau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 1995–2000.
PMCID: PMC20031
Changes in multiple brain regions underlie species differences in a complex, congenital behavior
Evan Balaban
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2001–2006.
PMCID: PMC20032
Inhibition of interleukin 1β converting enzyme family proteases reduces ischemic and excitotoxic neuronal damage
Hideaki Hara, Robert M. Friedlander, Valeria Gagliardini, Cenk Ayata, Klaus Fink, Zhihong Huang, Masao Shimizu-Sasamata, Junying Yuan, and Michael A. Moskowitz
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2007–2012.
PMCID: PMC20033
d-aspartate localizations imply neuronal and neuroendocrine roles
Michael J. Schell, Odelia B. Cooper, and Solomon H. Snyder
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2013–2018.
PMCID: PMC20034
Neurotrophic immunophilin ligands stimulate structural and functional recovery in neurodegenerative animal models
Joseph P. Steiner, Gregory S. Hamilton, Douglas T. Ross, Heather L. Valentine, Hongzhi Guo, Maureen A. Connolly, Shi Liang, Cynthia Ramsey, Jia-He J. Li, Wei Huang, Pamela Howorth, Rajat Soni, Michael Fuller, Hans Sauer, Alison C. Nowotnik, and Peter D. Suzdak
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2019–2024.
PMCID: PMC20035
The presenilin 2 mutation (N141I) linked to familial Alzheimer disease (Volga German families) increases the secretion of amyloid β protein ending at the 42nd (or 43rd) residue
Taisuke Tomita, Kei Maruyama, Takaomi C. Saido, Hideaki Kume, Kohki Shinozaki, Shinya Tokuhiro, Anja Capell, Jochen Walter, Jürgen Grünberg, Christian Haass, Takeshi Iwatsubo, and Kunihiko Obata
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2025–2030.
PMCID: PMC20036
Pharmacology
Limited oral bioavailability and active epithelial excretion of paclitaxel (Taxol) caused by P-glycoprotein in the intestine
Alex Sparreboom, Judith van Asperen, Ulrich Mayer, Alfred H. Schinkel, Johan W. Smit, Dirk K. F. Meijer, Piet Borst, Willem J. Nooijen, Jos H. Beijnen, and Olaf van Tellingen
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2031–2035.
PMCID: PMC20037
Blockage of 5HT2C serotonin receptors by fluoxetine (Prozac)
Y. G. Ni and R. Miledi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2036–2040.
PMCID: PMC20038
Blockage of muscle and neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors by fluoxetine (Prozac)
J. García-Colunga, J. N. Awad, and R. Miledi
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2041–2044.
PMCID: PMC20039
Physiology
Pore size of the malaria parasite’s nutrient channel
Sanjay A. Desai and Robert L. Rosenberg
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2045–2049.
PMCID: PMC20040
Cloning of cDNA and estrogen-induced hepatic gene expression for choriogenin H, a precursor protein of the fish egg envelope (chorion)
Kenji Murata, Hitoshi Sugiyama, Shigeki Yasumasu, Ichiro Iuchi, Ikuo Yasumasu, and Kenjiro Yamagami
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2050–2055.
PMCID: PMC20041
Prostate enlargement in mice due to fetal exposure to low doses of estradiol or diethylstilbestrol and opposite effects at high doses
Frederick S. vom Saal, Barry G. Timms, Monica M. Montano, Paola Palanza, Kristina A. Thayer, Susan C. Nagel, Minati D. Dhar, V. K. Ganjam, Stefano Parmigiani, and Wade V. Welshons
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2056–2061.
PMCID: PMC20042
Working underground: Respiratory adaptations in the blind mole rat
Hans R. Widmer, Hans Hoppeler, Eviatar Nevo, C. Richard Taylor, and Ewald R. Weibel
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2062–2067.
PMCID: PMC20043
Somatotropic actions of the homologous growth hormone and prolactins in the euryhaline teleost, the tilapia, Oreochromis mossambicus
Brian S. Shepherd, Tatsuya Sakamoto, Richard S. Nishioka, Nurney H. Richman, III, Ikue Mori, Steffen S. Madsen, Thomas T. Chen, Tetsuya Hirano, Howard A. Bern, and E. Gordon Grau
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2068–2072.
PMCID: PMC20044
Plant Biology
A mutation in the putative RNA polymerase gene inhibits nonhomologous, but not homologous, genetic recombination in an RNA virus
M. Figlerowicz, P. D. Nagy, and J. J. Bujarski
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2073–2078.
PMCID: PMC20045
Rapid, transient, and highly localized induction of plastidial ω-3 fatty acid desaturase mRNA at fungal infection sites in Petroselinum crispum
Christoph Kirsch, Monica Takamiya-Wik, Susanne Reinold, Klaus Hahlbrock, and Imre E. Somssich
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2079–2084.
PMCID: PMC20046
The MUR1 gene of Arabidopsis thaliana encodes an isoform of GDP-d-mannose-4,6-dehydratase, catalyzing the first step in the de novo synthesis of GDP-l-fucose
Christopher P. Bonin, Ian Potter, Gary F. Vanzin, and Wolf-Dieter Reiter
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997 March 4; 94(5): 2085–2090.
PMCID: PMC20047
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