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July 22, 1997; 94 (15)

Perspective

  • Perspective - Perspective:
    • Anthony Turkevich,
    • Lester Winsberg,
    • Howard Flotow,
    • and Richard M. Adams

    The radioactivity of atmospheric krypton in 1949–1950

    PNAS 1997 94:7807-7810

Colloquium Paper

  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Francisco J. Ayala
    • and Walter M. Fitch

    Colloquium Paper: Genetics and the origin of species: An introduction

    PNAS 1997 94:7691-7697
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Walter Gilbert,
    • Sandro J. de Souza,
    • and Manyuan Long

    Colloquium Paper: Origin of Genes

    PNAS 1997 94:7698-7703
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Margaret G. Kidwell
    • and Damon Lisch

    Colloquium Paper: Transposable elements as sources of variation in animals and plants

    PNAS 1997 94:7704-7711
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Walter M. Fitch,
    • Robin M. Bush,
    • Catherine A. Bender,
    • and Nancy J. Cox

    Colloquium Paper: Long term trends in the evolution of H(3) HA1 human influenza type A

    PNAS 1997 94:7712-7718
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza

    Colloquium Paper: Genes, peoples, and languages

    PNAS 1997 94:7719-7724
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Richard R. Hudson,
    • Alberto G. Sáez,
    • and Francisco J. Ayala

    Colloquium Paper: DNA variation at the Sod locus of Drosophila melanogaster : An unfolding story of natural selection

    PNAS 1997 94:7725-7729
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Andrew G. Clark

    Colloquium Paper: Neutral behavior of shared polymorphism

    PNAS 1997 94:7730-7734
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Natalia A. Tamarina,
    • Michael Z. Ludwig,
    • and Rollin C. Richmond

    Colloquium Paper: Divergent and conserved features in the spatial expression of the Drosophila pseudoobscura esterase-5 B gene and the esterase-6 gene of Drosophila melanogaster

    PNAS 1997 94:7735-7741
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Wyatt W. Anderson
    • and Takao K. Watanabe

    Colloquium Paper: A demographic approach to selection

    PNAS 1997 94:7742-7747
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • John C. Avise
    • and Kurt Wollenberg

    Colloquium Paper: Phylogenetics and the origin of species

    PNAS 1997 94:7748-7755
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Therese Ann Markow

    Colloquium Paper: Assortative fertilization in  Drosophila

    PNAS 1997 94:7756-7760
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • David B. Wake

    Colloquium Paper: Incipient species formation in salamanders of the Ensatina  complex

    PNAS 1997 94:7761-7767
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Peter R. Grant
    • and B. Rosemary Grant

    Colloquium Paper: Genetics and the origin of bird species

    PNAS 1997 94:7768-7775
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Francisco J. Ayala

    Colloquium Paper: Vagaries of the molecular clock

    PNAS 1997 94:7776-7783
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Jeffrey R. Powell
    • and Etsuko N. Moriyama

    Colloquium Paper: Evolution of codon usage bias in  Drosophila

    PNAS 1997 94:7784-7790
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Michael T. Clegg,
    • Michael P. Cummings,
    • and Mary L. Durbin

    Colloquium Paper: The evolution of plant nuclear genes

    PNAS 1997 94:7791-7798
  • Colloquium Paper:
    • Masatoshi Nei,
    • Xun Gu,
    • and Tatyana Sitnikova

    Colloquium Paper: Evolution by the birth-and-death process in multigene families of the vertebrate immune system

    PNAS 1997 94:7799-7806

Review

  • Review:
    • Kim J. Hasenkrug
    • and Bruce Chesebro

    Immunity to retroviral infection: The Friend virus model

    PNAS 1997 94:7811-7816

Physical Sciences

Applied Mathematics

  • Physical Sciences - Applied Mathematics:
    • G. I. Barenblatt,
    • A. J. Chorin,
    • O. H. Hald,
    • and V. M. Prostokishin

    Structure of the zero-pressure-gradient turbulent boundary layer

    PNAS 1997 94:7817-7819

Social Sciences

Psychology

  • Social Sciences - Psychology:
    • Jukka Saarinen,
    • Dennis M. Levi,
    • and Bridgitte Shen

    Integration of local pattern elements into a global shape in human vision

    PNAS 1997 94:8267-8271

Biological Sciences

Biochemistry

  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Gyongyi M. Molnar,
    • Anne Crozat,
    • Stine-Kathrein Kraeft,
    • Qing Ping Dou,
    • Lan Bo Chen,
    • and Arthur B. Pardee

    Association of the mammalian helicase MAH with the pre-mRNA splicing complex

    PNAS 1997 94:7831-7836
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Konstantin Kiianitsa
    • and Andrzej Stasiak

    Helical repeat of DNA in the region of homologous pairing

    PNAS 1997 94:7837-7840
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Maria A. Schumacher,
    • Ekaterina E. Zheleznova,
    • Kitty S. Poundstone,
    • Ronald Kluger,
    • Richard T. Jones,
    • and Richard G. Brennan

    Allosteric intermediates indicate R2 is the liganded hemoglobin end state

    PNAS 1997 94:7841-7844
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Tilman M. Hackeng,
    • Carine M. Mounier,
    • Cassian Bon,
    • Philip E. Dawson,
    • John H. Griffin,
    • and Stephen B. H. Kent

    Total chemical synthesis of enzymatically active human type II secretory phospholipase A 2

    PNAS 1997 94:7845-7850
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Xiang-Qin Liu
    • and Zhuma Hu

    A DnaB intein in Rhodothermus marinus : Indication of recent intein homing across remotely related organisms

    PNAS 1997 94:7851-7856
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Benoît Gigant,
    • Jean-Baptiste Charbonnier,
    • Zelig Eshhar,
    • Bernard S. Green,
    • and Marcel Knossow

    X-ray structures of a hydrolytic antibody and of complexes elucidate catalytic pathway from substrate binding and transition state stabilization through water attack and product release

    PNAS 1997 94:7857-7861
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Kei Tashiro,
    • Matthew P. Pando,
    • Yumi Kanegae,
    • Penny M. Wamsley,
    • Satoshi Inoue,
    • and Inder M. Verma

    Direct involvement of the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme Ubc9/Hus5 in the degradation of IκBα

    PNAS 1997 94:7862-7867
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Leonard Buckbinder,
    • Susana Velasco-Miguel,
    • Yan Chen,
    • Ningzhi Xu,
    • Randy Talbott,
    • Larry Gelbert,
    • Jizong Gao,
    • Bernd R. Seizinger,
    • J. Silvio Gutkind,
    • and Nikolai Kley

    The p53 tumor suppressor targets a novel regulator of G protein signaling

    PNAS 1997 94:7868-7872
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Paul A. Colussi,
    • Christopher H. Taron,
    • Jamey C. Mack,
    • and Peter Orlean

    Human and Saccharomyces cerevisiae dolichol phosphate mannose synthases represent two classes of the enzyme, but both function in Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    PNAS 1997 94:7873-7878
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Guido Jenster,
    • Thomas E. Spencer,
    • Mark M. Burcin,
    • Sophia Y. Tsai,
    • Ming-Jer Tsai,
    • and Bert W. O’Malley

    Steroid receptor induction of gene transcription: A two-step model

    PNAS 1997 94:7879-7884
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Jiří Neužil,
    • Paul K. Witting,
    • and Roland Stocker

    α-Tocopheryl hydroquinone is an efficient multifunctional inhibitor of radical-initiated oxidation of low density lipoprotein lipids

    PNAS 1997 94:7885-7890
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Rosario Leopardi,
    • Charles Van Sant,
    • and Bernard Roizman

    The herpes simplex virus 1 protein kinase U S 3 is required for protection from apoptosis induced by the virus

    PNAS 1997 94:7891-7896
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Lionel Minvielle-Sebastia,
    • Pascal J. Preker,
    • Thomas Wiederkehr,
    • Yvan Strahm,
    • and Walter Keller

    The major yeast poly(A)-binding protein is associated with cleavage factor IA and functions in premessenger RNA 3′-end formation

    PNAS 1997 94:7897-7902
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Christoph E. Nabholz,
    • Remy Hauser,
    • and André Schneider

    Leishmania tarentolae contains distinct cytosolic and mitochondrial glutaminyl–tRNA synthetase activities

    PNAS 1997 94:7903-7908
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Ann Marie Zavacki,
    • Jürgen M. Lehmann,
    • Wongi Seol,
    • Timothy M. Willson,
    • Steven A. Kliewer,
    • and David D. Moore

    Activation of the orphan receptor RIP14 by retinoids

    PNAS 1997 94:7909-7914
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • David M. Irwin,
    • Malathy Satkunarajah,
    • Yi Wen,
    • Patricia L. Brubaker,
    • Raymond A. Pederson,
    • and Michael B. Wheeler

    The Xenopus proglucagon gene encodes novel GLP-1-like peptides with insulinotropic properties

    PNAS 1997 94:7915-7920
  • Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
    • Margaret O. Sowell,
    • Chianping Ye,
    • Dennis A. Ricupero,
    • Sherry Hansen,
    • Stephen J. Quinn,
    • Peter M. Vassilev,
    • and Richard M. Mortensen

    Targeted inactivation of α i2 or α i3 disrupts activation of the cardiac muscarinic K + channel, I K + Ach , in intact cells

    PNAS 1997 94:7921-7926

Biophysics

  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • A. D. Mehta,
    • J. T. Finer,
    • and J. A. Spudich

    Detection of single-molecule interactions using correlated thermal diffusion

    PNAS 1997 94:7927-7931
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Yiwei Jia,
    • Alexander Sytnik,
    • Liangquan Li,
    • Serguei Vladimirov,
    • Barry S. Cooperman,
    • and Robin M. Hochstrasser

    Nonexponential kinetics of a single tRNA Phe molecule under physiological conditions

    PNAS 1997 94:7932-7936
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Itay Rousso,
    • Edward Khachatryan,
    • Yahaloma Gat,
    • Igor Brodsky,
    • Michael Ottolenghi,
    • Mordechai Sheves,
    • and Aaron Lewis

    Microsecond atomic force sensing of protein conformational dynamics: Implications for the primary light-induced events in bacteriorhodopsin

    PNAS 1997 94:7937-7941
  • Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
    • Aleksey Lomakin,
    • David B. Teplow,
    • Daniel A. Kirschner,
    • and George B. Benedek

    Kinetic theory of fibrillogenesis of amyloid β-protein

    PNAS 1997 94:7942-7947

Cell Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • R. D. Leapman,
    • P. E. Gallant,
    • T. S. Reese,
    • and S. B. Andrews

    Phosphorylation and subunit organization of axonal neurofilaments determined by scanning transmission electron microscopy

    PNAS 1997 94:7820-7824
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Stephen D. Liberles,
    • Steven T. Diver,
    • David J. Austin,
    • and Stuart L. Schreiber

    Inducible gene expression and protein translocation using nontoxic ligands identified by a mammalian three-hybrid screen

    PNAS 1997 94:7825-7830
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Shiro Iuchi
    • and Howard Green

    Nuclear localization of basonuclin in human keratinocytes and the role of phosphorylation

    PNAS 1997 94:7948-7953
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Roderick Bronson,
    • Clyde Dawe,
    • John Carroll,
    • and Thomas Benjamin

    Tumor induction by a transformation-defective polyoma virus mutant blocked in signaling through Shc

    PNAS 1997 94:7954-7958
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Hirokazu Nakahara,
    • Linda Howard,
    • Erik W. Thompson,
    • Hiroshi Sato,
    • Motoharu Seiki,
    • Yunyun Yeh,
    • and Wen-Tien Chen

    Transmembrane/cytoplasmic domain-mediated membrane type 1-matrix metalloprotease docking to invadopodia is required for cell invasion

    PNAS 1997 94:7959-7964
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Xiangwei He,
    • Thomas E. Patterson,
    • and Shelley Sazer

    The Schizosaccharomyces pombe spindle checkpoint protein mad2p blocks anaphase and genetically interacts with the anaphase-promoting complex

    PNAS 1997 94:7965-7970
  • Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
    • Huiping Jiang,
    • Yanan Kuang,
    • Yanping Wu,
    • Wei Xie,
    • Melvin I. Simon,
    • and Dianqing Wu

    Roles of phospholipase C β2 in chemoattractant-elicited responses

    PNAS 1997 94:7971-7975

Developmental Biology

  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Michael A. McDevitt,
    • Yuko Fujiwara,
    • Ramesh A. Shivdasani,
    • and Stuart H. Orkin

    An upstream, DNase I hypersensitive region of the hematopoietic-expressed transcription factor GATA-1 gene confers developmental specificity in transgenic mice

    PNAS 1997 94:7976-7981
  • Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
    • Jeroen Bakkers,
    • Carlos E. Semino,
    • Henri Stroband,
    • Jan W. Kijne,
    • Phillips W. Robbins,
    • and Herman P. Spaink

    An important developmental role for oligosaccharides during early embryogenesis of cyprinid fish

    PNAS 1997 94:7982-7986

Evolution

  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Dan E. Parfitt
    • and Maria L. Badenes

    Phylogeny of the genus Pistacia as determined from analysis of the chloroplast genome

    PNAS 1997 94:7987-7992
  • Biological Sciences - Evolution:
    • Elwyn L. Simons
    • and Ellen R. Miller

    An upper dentition of Aframonius dieides (Primates) from the Fayum, Egyptian Eocene

    PNAS 1997 94: