PNAS — Table of Contents — June 24, 1997, 94 (13)

From the Academy

From the Academy:
- David N. Spergel,
- Michael Bolte,
- and Wendy Freedman
From the Academy: The age of the universe
PNAS 1997 94:6579-6584
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From the Academy:
- Tandy Warnow
From the Academy: Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics
PNAS 1997 94:6585-6590

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Andreas H. Maulitz,
- Felice C. Lightstone,
- Ya-Jun Zheng,
- and Thomas C. Bruice
Nonenzymatic and enzymatic hydrolysis of alkyl halides: A theoretical study of the S N 2 reactions of acetate and hydroxide ions with alkyl chlorides
PNAS 1997 94:6591-6595

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering:
- Ronald C. Henry,
- Clifford H. Spiegelman,
- John F. Collins,
- and EunSug Park
Reported emissions of organic gases are not consistent with observations
PNAS 1997 94:6596-6599

Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology:
- Alan J. Kaufman,
- Andrew H. Knoll,
- and Guy M. Narbonne
Isotopes, ice ages, and terminal Proterozoic earth history
PNAS 1997 94:6600-6605

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Jonathan D. Dinman,
- Maria J. Ruiz-Echevarria,
- Kevin Czaplinski,
- and Stuart W. Peltz
Peptidyl-transferase inhibitors have antiviral properties by altering programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting efficiencies: Development of model systems
PNAS 1997 94:6606-6611
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Sozos Ch. Papasozomenos
The heat shock-induced hyperphosphorylation of τ is estrogen-independent and prevented by androgens: Implications for Alzheimer disease
PNAS 1997 94:6612-6617

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Tobias Moser
- and Erwin Neher
Estimation of mean exocytic vesicle capacitance in mouse adrenal chromaffin cells
PNAS 1997 94:6735-6740
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Prashant S. Phale,
- Tilman Schirmer,
- Alexej Prilipov,
- Kuo-Long Lou,
- Ariane Hardmeyer,
- and Jurg P. Rosenbusch
Voltage gating of Escherichia coli porin channels: Role of the constriction loop
PNAS 1997 94:6741-6745

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Congmei Zeng,
- André J. van Wijnen,
- Janet L. Stein,
- Shari Meyers,
- Wuhua Sun,
- Lindsay Shopland,
- Jeanne B. Lawrence,
- Sheldon Penman,
- Jane B. Lian,
- Gary S. Stein,
- and Scott W. Hiebert
Identification of a nuclear matrix targeting signal in the leukemia and bone-related AML/CBF-α transcription factors
PNAS 1997 94:6746-6751
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Martin B. Wax,
- Isao Saito,
- Tatyana Tenkova,
- Theodore Krupin,
- Bernard Becker,
- Nathan Nelson,
- Dennis Brown,
- and Stephen L. Gluck
Vacuolar H + -ATPase in ocular ciliary epithelium
PNAS 1997 94:6752-6757
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Zheng Z. Liu,
- Anil Kumar,
- Kosuke Ota,
- Elisabeth I. Wallner,
- and Yashpal S. Kanwar
Developmental regulation and the role of insulin and insulin receptor in metanephrogenesis
PNAS 1997 94:6758-6763
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Mette Nielsen,
- Keld Kaltoft,
- Mette Nordahl,
- Carsten Röpke,
- Carsten Geisler,
- Tomas Mustelin,
- Pauline Dobson,
- Arne Svejgaard,
- and Niels Ødum
Constitutive activation of a slowly migrating isoform of Stat3 in mycosis fungoides: Tyrphostin AG490 inhibits Stat3 activation and growth of mycosis fungoides tumor cell lines
PNAS 1997 94:6764-6769

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Paul W. Finch,
- Xi He,
- Michael J. Kelley,
- Aykut Üren,
- R. Paul Schaudies,
- Nicholas C. Popescu,
- Stuart Rudikoff,
- Stuart A. Aaronson,
- Harold E. Varmus,
- and Jeffrey S. Rubin
Purification and molecular cloning of a secreted, Frizzled-related antagonist of Wnt action
PNAS 1997 94:6770-6775
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Mervin C. Yoder,
- Kelly Hiatt,
- and Pinku Mukherjee
In vivo repopulating hematopoietic stem cells are present in the murine yolk sac at day 9.0 postcoitus
PNAS 1997 94:6776-6780
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Michael A. McDevitt,
- Ramesh A. Shivdasani,
- Yuko Fujiwara,
- Haidi Yang,
- and Stuart H. Orkin
A “knockdown” mutation created by cis-element gene targeting reveals the dependence of erythroid cell maturation on the level of transcription factor GATA-1
PNAS 1997 94:6781-6785
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Claudia F. Golenda,
- Jun Li,
- and Ronald Rosenberg
Continuous in vitro propagation of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax
PNAS 1997 94:6786-6791

Ecology

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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Carmen Rossini,
- Athula B. Attygalle,
- Andrés González,
- Scott R. Smedley,
- Maria Eisner,
- Jerrold Meinwald,
- and Thomas Eisner
Defensive production of formic acid (80%) by a carabid beetle ( Galerita lecontei )
PNAS 1997 94:6792-6797

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Miguel A. Martínez,
- Nuria Verdaguer,
- Mauricio G. Mateu,
- and Esteban Domingo
Evolution subverting essentiality: Dispensability of the cell attachment Arg-Gly-Asp motif in multiply passaged foot-and-mouth disease virus
PNAS 1997 94:6798-6802
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Hector Escriva,
- Rachid Safi,
- Catherine Hänni,
- Marie-Claire Langlois,
- Pierre Saumitou-Laprade,
- Dominique Stehelin,
- André Capron,
- Raymond Pierce,
- and Vincent Laudet
Ligand binding was acquired during evolution of nuclear receptors
PNAS 1997 94:6803-6808
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Brandon S. Gaut
- and John F. Doebley
DNA sequence evidence for the segmental allotetraploid origin of maize
PNAS 1997 94:6809-6814
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Korbinian Strimmer
- and Arndt von Haeseler
Likelihood-mapping: A simple method to visualize phylogenetic content of a sequence alignment
PNAS 1997 94:6815-6819
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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- Andrey Rzhetsky,
- Francisco José Ayala,
- Lily C. Hsu,
- Cheng Chang,
- and Akira Yoshida
Exon/intron structure of aldehyde dehydrogenase genes supports the “ introns-late ” theory
PNAS 1997 94:6820-6825

Genetics

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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Michael R. Roner,
- Igor Nepliouev,
- Barbara Sherry,
- and Wolfgang K. Joklik
Construction and characterization of a reovirus double temperature-sensitive mutant
PNAS 1997 94:6826-6830
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Daniel J. Lavery,
- Luis Lopez-Molina,
- Fabienne Fleury-Olela,
- and Ueli Schibler
Selective amplification via biotin- and restriction-mediated enrichment (SABRE), a novel selective amplification procedure for detection of differentially expressed mRNAs
PNAS 1997 94:6831-6836
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Constanze Ahrens,
- Markus Grewe,
- Mark Berneburg,
- Susanne Grether-Beck,
- Xavier Quilliet,
- Mauro Mezzina,
- Alain Sarasin,
- Alan R. Lehmann,
- Colin F. Arlett,
- and Jean Krutmann
Photocarcinogenesis and inhibition of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 expression in cells of DNA-repair-defective individuals
PNAS 1997 94:6837-6841
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Majambu Mbikay,
- Haidy Tadros,
- Norito Ishida,
- Charlie P. Lerner,
- Eve De Lamirande,
- Andrew Chen,
- Mohamed El-Alfy,
- Yves Clermont,
- Nabil G. Seidah,
- Michel Chrétien,
- Claude Gagnon,
- and Elizabeth M. Simpson
Impaired fertility in mice deficient for the testicular germ-cell protease PC4
PNAS 1997 94:6842-6846
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Jane Smith
- and Paul Modrich
Removal of polymerase-produced mutant sequences from PCR products
PNAS 1997 94:6847-6850
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:

Table of Contents

From the Academy: The age of the universe

From the Academy: Mathematical approaches to comparative linguistics

Nonenzymatic and enzymatic hydrolysis of alkyl halides: A theoretical study of the S N 2 reactions of acetate and hydroxide ions with alkyl chlorides

Reported emissions of organic gases are not consistent with observations

Isotopes, ice ages, and terminal Proterozoic earth history

Peptidyl-transferase inhibitors have antiviral properties by altering programmed −1 ribosomal frameshifting efficiencies: Development of model systems

The heat shock-induced hyperphosphorylation of τ is estrogen-independent and prevented by androgens: Implications for Alzheimer disease

Prion-inducing domain 2–114 of yeast Sup35 protein transforms in vitro into amyloid-like filaments

An extended DNA structure through deoxyribose-base stacking induced by RecA protein

Covalent modification of the active site threonine of proteasomal β subunits and the Escherichia coli homolog HslV by a new class of inhibitors

The rational design and construction of a cuboidal iron–sulfur protein

Modular organization of the catalytic center of RNA polymerase

Defective prohormone processing and altered pancreatic islet morphology in mice lacking active SPC2

Crystal structure of the homo-tetrameric DNA binding domain of Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA-binding protein determined by multiwavelength x-ray diffraction on the selenomethionyl protein at 2.9-Å resolution

c-Myc transactivation of LDH-A : Implications for tumor metabolism and growth

Bipartite substrate discrimination by human nucleotide excision repair

Binding of human virus oncoproteins to hDlg/SAP97, a mammalian homolog of the Drosophila discs large tumor suppressor protein

In vitro and in vivo characterization of novel mRNA motifs that bind special elongation factor SelB

Pacifastin, a novel 155-kDa heterodimeric proteinase inhibitor containing a unique transferrin chain

DNA damage-dependent transcriptional arrest and termination of RNA polymerase II elongation complexes in DNA template containing HIV-1 promoter

Monomeric isomers of human interleukin 5 show that 1:1 receptor recruitment is sufficient for function

Mutations in HIV reverse transcriptase which alter RNase H activity and decrease strand transfer efficiency are suppressed by HIV nucleocapsid protein

The recombination hotspot Chi is recognized by the translocating RecBCD enzyme as the single strand of DNA containing the sequence 5′-GCTGGTGG-3′

Alterations of the outer membrane composition in Escherichia coli lacking the histone-like protein HU

Activation of RNA polymerase II by topologically linked DNA-tracking proteins

The abalone egg vitelline envelope receptor for sperm lysin is a giant multivalent molecule

Similar processes mediate glycopeptide export from the endoplasmic reticulum in mammalian cells and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Estimation of mean exocytic vesicle capacitance in mouse adrenal chromaffin cells

Voltage gating of Escherichia coli porin channels: Role of the constriction loop

Identification of a nuclear matrix targeting signal in the leukemia and bone-related AML/CBF-α transcription factors

Vacuolar H + -ATPase in ocular ciliary epithelium

Developmental regulation and the role of insulin and insulin receptor in metanephrogenesis

Constitutive activation of a slowly migrating isoform of Stat3 in mycosis fungoides: Tyrphostin AG490 inhibits Stat3 activation and growth of mycosis fungoides tumor cell lines

Purification and molecular cloning of a secreted, Frizzled-related antagonist of Wnt action

In vivo repopulating hematopoietic stem cells are present in the murine yolk sac at day 9.0 postcoitus

A “knockdown” mutation created by cis-element gene targeting reveals the dependence of erythroid cell maturation on the level of transcription factor GATA-1

Continuous in vitro propagation of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax

Defensive production of formic acid (80%) by a carabid beetle ( Galerita lecontei )

Evolution subverting essentiality: Dispensability of the cell attachment Arg-Gly-Asp motif in multiply passaged foot-and-mouth disease virus

Ligand binding was acquired during evolution of nuclear receptors

DNA sequence evidence for the segmental allotetraploid origin of maize

Likelihood-mapping: A simple method to visualize phylogenetic content of a sequence alignment

Exon/intron structure of aldehyde dehydrogenase genes supports the “ introns-late ” theory

Construction and characterization of a reovirus double temperature-sensitive mutant

Selective amplification via biotin- and restriction-mediated enrichment (SABRE), a novel selective amplification procedure for detection of differentially expressed mRNAs

Photocarcinogenesis and inhibition of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 expression in cells of DNA-repair-defective individuals

Impaired fertility in mice deficient for the testicular germ-cell protease PC4

Removal of polymerase-produced mutant sequences from PCR products