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ABSTRACTS OF PAPERS PRESENTED AT THE AUTUMN MEETING OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES (USA), WASHINGTON, D.C., 25-27 OCTOBER 1971

• Elizabeth P. Schulenburg,
• Ernest S. Simms,
• Richard G. Lynch,
• Ralph A. Bradshaw,
• and Herman N. Eisen

Amino Acid Sequence of the Light Chain from a Mouse Myeloma Protein with Anti-Hapten Activity: Evidence for a Third Type of Light Chain

• James J. Thompson
• and Louis G. Hoffmann

Homotropic Cooperative Binding of the First Component of Guinea Pig Complement to Rabbit IgG-Erythrocyte Complexes: A Possible Allosteric Effect

• Jean-Francois Bach,
• Mireille Dardenne,
• Allan L. Goldstein,
• Arabinda Guha,
• and Abraham White

Appearance of T-cell Markers in Bone Marrow Rosette-Forming Cells after Incubation with Thymosin, a Thymic Hormone

• Noel L. Warner,
• Malcolm R. Mackenzie,
• and H. Hugh Fudenberg

Anti-Antibody Activity of a Monoclonal Macroglobulin

• Alexander Tomasz
• and Monika Westphal

Abnormal Autolytic Enzyme in a Pneumococcus with Altered Teichoic Acid Composition

• Allan Lipton,
• Ingrid Klinger,
• Dieter Paul,
• and Robert W. Holley

Migration of Mouse 3T3 Fibroblasts in Response to a Serum Factor

• Peter M. Blumberg
• and Jack L. Strominger

Inactivation of D-Alanine Carboxypeptidase by Penicillins and Cephalosporins Is Not Lethal in Bacillus subtilis

• D. F. Summers
• and J. V. Maizel, Jr.

Determination of the Gene Sequence of Poliovirus with Pactamycin

• Earl J. Taft

The Order of the Antipode of Finite-dimensional Hopf Algebra

• Charles E. King

Resource Specialization and Equilibrium Population Size in Patchy Environments

• Joe Grossfield

Geographic Distribution and Light-Dependent Behavior in Drosophila

• Jared M. Diamond

Comparison of Faunal Equilibrium Turnover Rates on a Tropical Island and a Temperate Island

• R. L. Church,
• S. E. Pfeiffer,
• and M. L. Tanzer

Collagen Biosynthesis: Synthesis and Secretion of a High Molecular Weight Collagen Precursor (Procollagen)

• Gustave C. Strain,
• Kathleen P. Mullinix,
• and Lawrence Bogorad

RNA Polymerases of Maize: Nuclear RNA Polymerases

• John E. Mayfield
• and James Bonner

Tissue Differences in Rat Chromosomal RNA

• Martin A. Kramen
• and John D. Biggers

Uptake of Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle Intermediates by Preimplantation Mouse Embryos In Vitro

• Utpalendu S. Maitra
• and Helmut Ankel

Uridine Diphosphate-4-Keto-Glucose, an Intermediate in the Uridine Diphosphate-Galactose-4-Epimerase Reaction

• Kenneth D. Johnson
• and Hans Kende

Hormonal Control of Lecithin Synthesis in Barley Aleurone Cells: Regulation of the CDP-Choline Pathway by Gibberellin

• Robert S. Adelstein,
• Thomas D. Pollard,
• and W. Michael Kuehl

Isolation and Characterization of Myosin and Two Myosin Fragments from Human Blood Platelets

• T. Y. Tsong,
• R. L. Baldwin,
• and E. L. Elson

The Sequential Unfolding of Ribonuclease A: Detection of a Fast Initial Phase in the Kinetics of Unfolding

• David Housman,
• Russell Pemberton,
• and Robert Taber

Synthesis of α and β Chains of Rabbit Hemoglobin in a Cell-Free Extract from Krebs II Ascites Cells

• Harry Roy
• and Evangelos N. Moudrianakis

Synthesis and Discharge of the Coupling Factor·Adenosine Diphosphate Complex in Spinach Chloroplast Lamellae

• P. M. Prichard,
• D. J. Picciano,
• D. G. Laycock,
• and W. F. Anderson

Translation of Exogenous Messenger RNA for Hemoglobin on Reticulocyte and Liver Ribosomes

• Richard B. Clark
• and John P. Perkins

Regulation of Adenosine 3′:5′-Cyclic Monophosphate Concentration in Cultured Human Astrocytoma Cells by Catecholamines and Histamine

• S. S. Husain,
• John B. Ferguson,
• and Joseph S. Fruton

Bifunctional Inhibitors of Pepsin

• Joseph A. Fontana
• and Walter Lovenberg

A Cyclic AMP-Dependent Protein Kinase of the Bovine Pineal Gland

• Alan Peterkofsky
• and Celia Gazdar

Glucose and the Metabolism of Adenosine 3′:5′-Cyclic Monophosphate in Escherichia coli

• L. Philipson,
• R. Wall,
• G. Glickman,
• and J. E. Darnell

Addition of Polyadenylate Sequences to Virus-Specific RNA during Adenovirus Replication

• Wade Gibson
• and Bernard Roizman

Compartmentalization of Spermine and Spermidine in the Herpes Simplex Virion

• M. García-Patrone,
• N. S. González,
• and I. D. Algranati

Association Factor of Ribosomal Subunits from Bacillus stearothermophilus

• Douglas Brutlag,
• Randy Schekman,
• and Arthur Kornberg

A Possible Role for RNA Polymerase in the Initiation of M13 DNA Synthesis

• B. D. Reid
• and Peter Parsons

Partial Purification of Mitochondrial RNA Polymerase from Rat Liver

• Joseph Inselburg
• and Motohiro Fuke

Isolation of Catenated and Replicating DNA Molecules of Colicin Factor E1 from Minicells

• S. Spiegelman,
• K. F. Watson,
• and D. L. Kacian

Synthesis of DNA Complements of Natural RNAs: A General Approach

• Nicolas H. Behrens,
• Armando J. Parodi,
• and Luis F. Leloir

Glucose Transfer from Dolichol Monophosphate Glucose: The Product Formed with Endogenous Microsomal Acceptor

• Rollin D. Hotchkiss,
• Ryushi Nozawa,
• and Magda Gabor

Lactobacillus Exonuclease Mutants: Selection of Mutants with Altered Ability to Utilize Deoxyribonucleotides

• J. L. Lovasich,
• J. Neyman,
• E. L. Scott,
• and M. A. Wells

Hypothetical Explanations of the Negative Apparent Effects of Cloud Seeding in the Whitetop Experiment

• Hans Meier
• and Robert J. Huebner

Host-Gene Control of C-Type Tumor Virus-Expression and Tumorigenesis: Relevance of Studies in Inbred Mice to Cancer in Man and Other Species

• D. A. Miller,
• R. E. Kouri,
• V. G. Dev,
• M. S. Grewal,
• J. J. Hutton,
• and O. J. Miller

Assignment of Four Linkage Groups to Chromosomes in Mus musculus and a Cytogenetic Method for Locating Their Centromeric Ends

• Linus Pauling

The Significance of the Evidence about Ascorbic Acid and the Common Cold

• H. L. Bonkowsky,
• D. P. Tschudy,
• A. Collins,
• J. Doherty,
• I. Bossenmaier,
• R. Cardinal,
• and C. J. Watson

Repression of the Overproduction of Porphyrin Precursors in Acute Intermittent Porphyria by Intravenous Infusions of Hematin

• Michael Inbar,
• Hannah Ben-Bassat,
• and Leo Sachs

A Specific Metabolic Activity on the Surface Membrane in Malignant Cell-Transformation

• Taketoshi Sugiyama

Role of Erythropoietin in 7,12-Dimethylbenz(a)anthracene Induction of Acute Chromosome Aberration and Leukemia in the Rat

• Peter N. Gillette,
• James M. Manning,
• and Anthony Cerami

Increased Survival of Sickle-Cell Erythrocytes after Treatment In Vitro with Sodium Cyanate

• Mae Wan Ho
• and John S. O'Brien

Gaucher's Disease: Deficiency of “cid”β-Glucosidase and Reconstitution of Enzyme Activity In Vitro

• E. J. Wawszkiewicz,
• H. A. Schneider,
• B. Starcher,
• J. Pollack,
• and J. B. Neilands

Salmonellosis Pacifarin Activity of Enterobactin

• Charles Delisi
• and Donald M. Crothers

Prediction of RNA Secondary Structure

• Paul Haake
• and Gary W. Allen

Studies on Phosphorylation by Phosphoroguanidinates. The Mechanism of Action of Creatine: ATP Transphosphorylase (Creatine Kinase)

• Fritz A. Henn
• and Anders Hamberger

Glial Cell Function: Uptake of Transmitter Substances

• G. S. Martin,
• S. Venuta,
• M. Weber,
• and H. Rubin

Temperature-Dependent Alterations in Sugar Transport in Cells Infected by a Temperature-Sensitive Mutant of Rous Sarcoma Virus

• Marco Crippa
• and Glauco P. Tocchini-Valentini

Synthesis of Amplified DNA That Codes for Ribosomal RNA

• A. Ficq
• and J. Brachet

RNA-Dependent DNA Polymerase: Possible Role in the Amplification of Ribosomal DNA in Xenopus oocytes

• H. Sachs,
• R. Goodman,
• J. Osinchak,
• and J. McKelvy

Supraoptic Neurosecretory Neurons of the Guinea Pig in Organ Culture. Biosynthesis of Vasopressin and Neurophysin

• Victor E. Shashoua

Dibutyryl Adenosine Cyclic 3′:5′-Monophosphate Effects on Goldfish Behavior and Brain RNA Metabolism

• Ester A. Zylber
• and Sheldon Penman

Products of RNA Polymerases in HeLa Cell Nuclei

• Anne B. Johnson,
• Henryk M. Wiśniewski,
• Cedric S. Raine,
• E. H. Eylar,
• and Robert D. Terry

Specific Binding of Peroxidase-Labeled Myelin Basic Protein in Allergic Encephalomyelitis

• Ernest Glen Wever,
• James G. Mccormick,
• Jerry Palin,
• and S. H. Ridgway

Cochlea of the Dolphin, Tursiops truncatus: The Basilar Membrane

• Dominic M. K. Lam
• and Lawrence Steinman

The Uptake of [γ- 3 H] Aminobutyric Acid in the Goldfish Retina

• H. Spekreijse,
• D. Van Norren,
• and T. J. T. P. Van Den Berg

Flicker Responses in Monkey Lateral Geniculate Nucleus and Human Perception of Flicker

• C. Kittel

Postulational Basis of the Law of Increase of Entropy

Cytoplasmic DNA synthesis induced by RNA tumor viruses

• Kenneth V. Thimann

Photosynthesis Bicentennial Symposium: Introduction by the Chairman