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Commentaries

Commentary:
- John Hardy
The Alzheimer family of diseases: Many etiologies, one pathogenesis?
PNAS 1997 94:2095-2097
Commentary:
- William A. Harris
Pax-6: Where to be conserved is not conservative
PNAS 1997 94:2098-2100
Commentary:
- G. J. Gleich
- and H. Kita
Bronchial asthma: Lessons from murine models
PNAS 1997 94:2101-2102
Commentary:
- Peter A. Jones
- and Mark L. Gonzalgo
Altered DNA methylation and genome instability: A new pathway to cancer?
PNAS 1997 94:2103-2105

Perspective

Perspective - Perspective:
- Ernst Mayr
The objects of selection
PNAS 1997 94:2091-2094

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Ivan Huc
- and Jean-Marie Lehn
Virtual combinatorial libraries: Dynamic generation of molecular and supramolecular diversity by self-assembly
PNAS 1997 94:2106-2110

Social Sciences

Psychology

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Social Sciences - Psychology:
- András Czurkó,
- Boldizsár Czéh,
- László Seress,
- Lynn Nadel,
- and Jan Bures
Severe spatial navigation deficit in the Morris water maze after single high dose of neonatal x-ray irradiation in the rat
PNAS 1997 94:2766-2771

Social Sciences

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Social Sciences - Social Sciences:
- Kenneth G. Manton,
- Larry Corder,
- and Eric Stallard
Chronic disability trends in elderly United States populations: 1982–1994
PNAS 1997 94:2593-2598

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Pritilata Nayak,
- Debabrata Basu,
- Sampa Das,
- Asitava Basu,
- Dipankar Ghosh,
- Neeliyath A. Ramakrishnan,
- Maloy Ghosh,
- and Soumitra K. Sen
Transgenic elite indica rice plants expressing CryIAc ∂-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis are resistant against yellow stem borer (Scirpophaga incertulas)
PNAS 1997 94:2111-2116

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Hiroyasu Ebinuma,
- Koichi Sugita,
- Etsuko Matsunaga,
- and Mikiko Yamakado
Selection of marker-free transgenic plants using the isopentenyl transferase gene
PNAS 1997 94:2117-2121
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Jim Haseloff,
- Kirby R. Siemering,
- Douglas C. Prasher,
- and Sarah Hodge
Removal of a cryptic intron and subcellular localization of green fluorescent protein are required to mark transgenic Arabidopsis plants brightly
PNAS 1997 94:2122-2127
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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Claytus A. Davis
- and Seymour Benzer
Generation of cDNA expression libraries enriched for in-frame sequences
PNAS 1997 94:2128-2132

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Jianming Zhou,
- Riccardo Olcese,
- Ning Qin,
- Francesca Noceti,
- Lutz Birnbaumer,
- and Enrico Stefani
Feedback inhibition of Ca²⁺ channels by Ca²⁺ depends on a short sequence of the C terminus that does not include the Ca²⁺-binding function of a motif with similarity to Ca²⁺-binding domains
PNAS 1997 94:2301-2305
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Katjuša Brejc,
- Titia K. Sixma,
- Paul A. Kitts,
- Steven R. Kain,
- Roger Y. Tsien,
- Mats Ormö,
- and S. James Remington
Structural basis for dual excitation and photoisomerization of the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein
PNAS 1997 94:2306-2311
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Dirk Sabbert
- and Wolfgang Junge
Stepped versus continuous rotatory motors at the molecular scale
PNAS 1997 94:2312-2317
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Shoji Takada,
- John J. Portman,
- and Peter G. Wolynes
An elementary mode coupling theory of random heteropolymer dynamics
PNAS 1997 94:2318-2321
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Hiroo Imai,
- Daisuke Kojima,
- Tomonori Oura,
- Shuji Tachibanaki,
- Akihisa Terakita,
- and Yoshinori Shichida
Single amino acid residue as a functional determinant of rod and cone visual pigments
PNAS 1997 94:2322-2326
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Zhulun Wang,
- Paul C. Harkins,
- Richard J. Ulevitch,
- Jiahuai Han,
- Melanie H. Cobb,
- and Elizabeth J. Goldsmith
The structure of mitogen-activated protein kinase p38 at 2.1-Å resolution
PNAS 1997 94:2327-2332

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Kiyotoshi Kaneko,
- Martin Vey,
- Michael Scott,
- Susanne Pilkuhn,
- Fred E. Cohen,
- and Stanley B. Prusiner
COOH-terminal sequence of the cellular prion protein directs subcellular trafficking and controls conversion into the scrapie isoform
PNAS 1997 94:2333-2338
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- B. Brügger,
- G. Erben,
- R. Sandhoff,
- F. T. Wieland,
- and W. D. Lehmann
Quantitative analysis of biological membrane lipids at the low picomole level by nano-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry
PNAS 1997 94:2339-2344
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Mila E. McCurrach,
- Thomas M. F. Connor,
- C. Michael Knudson,
- Stanley J. Korsmeyer,
- and Scott W. Lowe
bax-deficiency promotes drug resistance and oncogenic transformation by attenuating p53-dependent apoptosis
PNAS 1997 94:2345-2349
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Jonathan G. Drachman
- and Kenneth Kaushansky
Dissecting the thrombopoietin receptor: Functional elements of the Mpl cytoplasmic domain
PNAS 1997 94:2350-2355
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Shinya Tanaka,
- Toru Ouchi,
- and Hidesaburo Hanafusa
Downstream of Crk adaptor signaling pathway: Activation of Jun kinase by v-Crk through the guanine nucleotide exchange protein C3G

The Alzheimer family of diseases: Many etiologies, one pathogenesis?

Pax-6: Where to be conserved is not conservative

Bronchial asthma: Lessons from murine models

Altered DNA methylation and genome instability: A new pathway to cancer?

The objects of selection

Virtual combinatorial libraries: Dynamic generation of molecular and supramolecular diversity by self-assembly

Severe spatial navigation deficit in the Morris water maze after single high dose of neonatal x-ray irradiation in the rat

Chronic disability trends in elderly United States populations: 1982–1994

Transgenic elite indica rice plants expressing CryIAc ∂-endotoxin of Bacillus thuringiensis are resistant against yellow stem borer (Scirpophaga incertulas)

Selection of marker-free transgenic plants using the isopentenyl transferase gene

Removal of a cryptic intron and subcellular localization of green fluorescent protein are required to mark transgenic Arabidopsis plants brightly

Generation of cDNA expression libraries enriched for in-frame sequences

Identification of a functional water channel in cytochrome P450 enzymes

Structural features of the binding site for ribosomal protein S8 in Escherichia coli 16S rRNA defined using NMR spectroscopy

From phosphatases to vanadium peroxidases: A similar architecture of the active site

Discovery and analysis of inflammatory disease-related genes using cDNA microarrays

The von Hippel-Lindau tumor-suppressor gene product forms a stable complex with human CUL-2, a member of the Cdc53 family of proteins

Nucleoprotein-based nanoscale assembly

Cell cycle-dependent phosphorylation of mammalian protein phosphatase 1 by cdc2 kinase

Supercoil-induced extrusion of a regulatory DNA hairpin

Receptor and Gβγ isoform-specific interactions with G protein-coupled receptor kinases

Silent information regulator protein complexes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae: A SIR2/SIR4 complex and evidence for a regulatory domain in SIR4 that inhibits its interaction with SIR3

Evidence for a lipochaperonin: Association of active proteinfolding GroESL oligomers with lipids can stabilize membranes under heat shock conditions

Identification of an alternative form of human lactoferrin mRNA that is expressed differentially in normal tissues and tumor-derived cell lines

A putative angiogenin receptor in angiogenin-responsive human endothelial cells

Volatile signals of the major histocompatibility complex in male mouse urine

DNA damage can alter the stability of nucleosomes: Effects are dependent on damage type

Regulation of E2F through ubiquitin–proteasome-dependent degradation: Stabilization by the pRB tumor suppressor protein

Identification of a novel negative retinoic acid responsive element in the promoter of the human matrix Gla protein gene

Coordination dynamics of biological zinc “clusters” in metallothioneins and in the DNA-binding domain of the transcription factor Gal4

Molecular characterization of human and mouse fatty acid amide hydrolases

Sequence requirements of the HIV-1 protease flap region determined by saturation mutagenesis and kinetic analysis of flap mutants

The La antigen binds 5′ noncoding region of the hepatitis C virus RNA in the context of the initiator AUG codon and stimulates internal ribosome entry site-mediated translation

The biochemical basis for l-canavanine tolerance by the tobacco budworm Heliothis virescens (Noctuidae)

Poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase enhances activator-dependent transcription in vitro

UV-induced mutagenesis of human p53 in a vector replicated in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Enhancer blocking activity located near the 3′ end of the sea urchin early H2A histone gene

Coexpression of nuclear receptor partners increases their solubility and biological activities

Establishment of methylation-sensitive–representational difference analysis and isolation of hypo- and hypermethylated genomic fragments in mouse liver tumors

Observations on catalysis by hammerhead ribozymes are consistent with a two-divalent-metal-ion mechanism

Stat5 is a physiological substrate of the insulin receptor

Feedback inhibition of Ca2+ channels by Ca2+ depends on a short sequence of the C terminus that does not include the Ca2+-binding function of a motif with similarity to Ca2+-binding domains

Structural basis for dual excitation and photoisomerization of the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein

Stepped versus continuous rotatory motors at the molecular scale

An elementary mode coupling theory of random heteropolymer dynamics

Single amino acid residue as a functional determinant of rod and cone visual pigments

The structure of mitogen-activated protein kinase p38 at 2.1-Å resolution

COOH-terminal sequence of the cellular prion protein directs subcellular trafficking and controls conversion into the scrapie isoform

Quantitative analysis of biological membrane lipids at the low picomole level by nano-electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

bax-deficiency promotes drug resistance and oncogenic transformation by attenuating p53-dependent apoptosis

Dissecting the thrombopoietin receptor: Functional elements of the Mpl cytoplasmic domain

Downstream of Crk adaptor signaling pathway: Activation of Jun kinase by v-Crk through the guanine nucleotide exchange protein C3G

Feedback inhibition of Ca²⁺ channels by Ca²⁺ depends on a short sequence of the C terminus that does not include the Ca²⁺-binding function of a motif with similarity to Ca²⁺-binding domains