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Commentaries

Commentary:
- Ann M. Stock
A nonlinear stimulus-response relation in bacterial chemotaxis
PNAS 1999 96:10945-10947
- See companion article on page 11346 in issue 20 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Jerry Kaplan
Friedreich’s ataxia is a mitochondrial disorder
PNAS 1999 96:10948-10949
- See companion article on page 11492 in issue 20 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Mason W. Freeman
Effluxed lipids: Tangier Island’s latest export
PNAS 1999 96:10950-10952
- See companion article on page 11358 in issue 20 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Charles J. Lowenstein
NO news is good news
PNAS 1999 96:10953-10954
- See companion article on page 11507 in issue 20 of volume 96

Perspectives

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Perspective - Perspective:
- Robert A. Berner
Atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time
PNAS 1999 96:10955-10957
Perspective - Perspective:
- Tae-Wook Chun
- and Anthony S. Fauci
Latent reservoirs of HIV: Obstacles to the eradication of virus
PNAS 1999 96:10958-10961

From the Academy

From the Academy:
From the Academy: Introduction to Chinese-American Frontiers of Science
PNAS 1999 96:11062
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From the Academy:
- Wendy L. Freedman
- and Long Long Feng
From the Academy: Determination of the Hubble constant
PNAS 1999 96:11063-11064
From the Academy:
- Weicheng Shen
- and Tieniu Tan
From the Academy: Automated biometrics-based personal identification
PNAS 1999 96:11065-11066
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From the Academy:
- Laura F. Landweber
From the Academy: Testing ancient RNA–protein interactions
PNAS 1999 96:11067-11068
From the Academy:
- Z. Zhang
From the Academy: Crystal growth
PNAS 1999 96:11069-11070
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From the Academy:
- Hui-Jun Wang,
- Ren-He Zhang,
- Julie Cole,
- and Francisco Chavez
From the Academy: El Niño and the related phenomenon Southern Oscillation (ENSO): The largest signal in interannual climate variation
PNAS 1999 96:11071-11072
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From the Academy:
- Xuchu Weng,
- Yu-Shin Ding,
- and Nora D. Volkow
From the Academy: Imaging the functioning human brain
PNAS 1999 96:11073-11074
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From the Academy:
- Chunli Bai,
- Chen Wang,
- X. Sunney Xie,
- and Peter G. Wolynes
From the Academy: Single molecule physics and chemistry
PNAS 1999 96:11075-11076

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Peijun Cong,
- Ahmad Dehestani,
- Robert Doolen,
- Daniel M. Giaquinta,
- Shenheng Guan,
- Victor Markov,
- Damodara Poojary,
- Kyle Self,
- Howard Turner,
- and W. Henry Weinberg
Combinatorial discovery of oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts within the Mo-V-Nb-O system
PNAS 1999 96:11077-11080

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Xiaopeng Wang,
- Linda J. Krebs,
- Mohammed Al-Nuri,
- Haridas E. Pudavar,
- Saswati Ghosal,
- Charles Liebow,
- Attila A. Nagy,
- Andrew V. Schally,
- and Paras N. Prasad
A chemically labeled cytotoxic agent: Two-photon fluorophore for optical tracking of cellular pathway in chemotherapy
PNAS 1999 96:11081-11084
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Ralf Metzler,
- Joseph Klafter,
- and Joshua Jortner
Hierarchies and logarithmic oscillations in the temporal relaxation patterns of proteins and other complex systems
PNAS 1999 96:11085-11089
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Victor Muñoz
- and William A. Eaton
A simple model for calculating the kinetics of protein folding from three-dimensional structures
PNAS 1999 96:11311-11316
- See commentary article on page 11698 in issue 21 of volume 96

Geophysics

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Physical Sciences - Geophysics:
- Dan M. Davis
- and Lynn R. Sykes
Geologic constraints on clandestine nuclear testing in South Asia
PNAS 1999 96:11090-11095

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- William Arveson
The curvature of a Hilbert module over ℂ[z₁, … , z_d]
PNAS 1999 96:11096-11099
- Abstract
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Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- P. Lavalle,
- P. Schaaf,
- M. Ostafin,
- J.-C. Voegel,
- and B. Senger
Extended random sequential adsorption model of irreversible deposition processes: From simulations to experiments
PNAS 1999 96:11100-11105

Statistics

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Physical Sciences - Statistics:
- Zhidong Bai,
- Calyampudi R. Rao,
- Yuehua Wu,
- Mei-Mei Zen,
- and Lincheng Zhao
The simultaneous estimation of the number of signals and frequencies of multiple sinusoids when some observations are missing: I. Asymptotics
PNAS 1999 96:11106-11110
- Abstract
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A nonlinear stimulus-response relation in bacterial chemotaxis

Friedreich’s ataxia is a mitochondrial disorder

Effluxed lipids: Tangier Island’s latest export

NO news is good news

Atmospheric oxygen over Phanerozoic time

Latent reservoirs of HIV: Obstacles to the eradication of virus

Colloquium Paper: Proteolytic enzymes, past and future

Colloquium Paper: Caspase activation: The induced-proximity model

Colloquium Paper: Structural aspects of activation pathways of aspartic protease zymogens and viral 3C protease precursors

Colloquium Paper: The catalytic sites of 20S proteasomes and their role in subunit maturation: A mutational and crystallographic study

Colloquium Paper: The structure of the human βII-tryptase tetramer: Fo(u)r better or worse

Colloquium Paper: Sonic hedgehog protein signals not as a hydrolytic enzyme but as an apparent ligand for Patched

Colloquium Paper: Structure-assisted design of mechanism-based irreversible inhibitors of human rhinovirus 3C protease with potent antiviral activity against multiple rhinovirus serotypes

Colloquium Paper: Kinetic stability as a mechanism for protease longevity

Colloquium Paper: Cysteine protease inhibitors as chemotherapy: Lessons from a parasite target

Colloquium Paper: How the protease thrombin talks to cells

Colloquium Paper: VanX, a bacterial d-alanyl-d-alanine dipeptidase: Resistance, immunity, or survival function?

Colloquium Paper: Chaperone rings in protein folding and degradation

Colloquium Paper: A proteolytic pathway that controls the cholesterol content of membranes, cells, and blood

Colloquium Paper: Cellular mechanisms of β-amyloid production and secretion

Colloquium Paper: Reverse biochemistry: Use of macromolecular protease inhibitors to dissect complex biological processes and identify a membrane-type serine protease in epithelial cancer and normal tissue

From the Academy: Introduction to Chinese-American Frontiers of Science

From the Academy: Determination of the Hubble constant

From the Academy: Automated biometrics-based personal identification

From the Academy: Testing ancient RNA–protein interactions

From the Academy: Crystal growth

From the Academy: El Niño and the related phenomenon Southern Oscillation (ENSO): The largest signal in interannual climate variation

From the Academy: Imaging the functioning human brain

From the Academy: Single molecule physics and chemistry

Combinatorial discovery of oxidative dehydrogenation catalysts within the Mo-V-Nb-O system

A chemically labeled cytotoxic agent: Two-photon fluorophore for optical tracking of cellular pathway in chemotherapy

Hierarchies and logarithmic oscillations in the temporal relaxation patterns of proteins and other complex systems

A simple model for calculating the kinetics of protein folding from three-dimensional structures

Geologic constraints on clandestine nuclear testing in South Asia

The curvature of a Hilbert module over ℂ[z1, … , zd]

Extended random sequential adsorption model of irreversible deposition processes: From simulations to experiments

The simultaneous estimation of the number of signals and frequencies of multiple sinusoids when some observations are missing: I. Asymptotics

Tissue concentration of heparin, not administered dose, correlates with the biological response of injured arteries in vivo

Single-copy transgenic wheat generated through the resolution of complex integration patterns

Ligand-receptor binding measured by laser-scanning imaging

Transient expression of a tumor-specific single-chain fragment and a chimeric antibody in tobacco leaves

Purification and DNA binding properties of the ataxia-telangiectasia gene product ATM

GTP-dependent activation of urease apoprotein in complex with the UreD, UreF, and UreG accessory proteins

Tanford–Kirkwood electrostatics for protein modeling

A bicarbonate ion as a general base in the mechanism of peptide hydrolysis by dizinc leucine aminopeptidase

Regulation of cyclin-dependent kinase 5 catalytic activity by phosphorylation

Conversion of mammalian 3α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase to 20α-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase using loop chimeras: Changing specificity from androgens to progestins

SMN mutants of spinal muscular atrophy patients are defective in binding to snRNP proteins

Suppression of Δ5-androstenediol-induced androgen receptor transactivation by selective steroids in human prostate cancer cells

Conformational flexibility at the substrate binding site in the lactose permease of Escherichia coli

An important base triple anchors the substrate helix recognition surface within the Tetrahymena ribozyme active site

Protease-activated receptor 1 is the primary mediator of thrombin-stimulated platelet procoagulant activity

The curvature of a Hilbert module over ℂ[z₁, … , z_d]

Suppression of Δ⁵-androstenediol-induced androgen receptor transactivation by selective steroids in human prostate cancer cells