PNAS — Table of Contents — April 29, 1997, 94 (9)

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Tim Tully
Regulation of gene expression and its role in long-term memory and synaptic plasticity
PNAS 1997 94:4239-4241
Commentary:
- Jeffrey S. Flier
Leptin expression and action: New experimental paradigms
PNAS 1997 94:4242-4245

Perspective

Perspective - Perspective:
- Ludwik Gross
The role of viruses in the etiology of cancer and leukemia in animals and in humans
PNAS 1997 94:4237-4238

From the Academy

From the Academy:
From the Academy: Newly Elected Members and Foreign Associates of the National Academy of Sciences April 29, 1997
PNAS 1997 94:4235-4236

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Naoyuki Takahata
- and Yoko Satta
Evolution of the primate lineage leading to modern humans: Phylogenetic and demographic inferences from DNA sequences
PNAS 1997 94:4811-4815

Biological Sciences

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Jennifer L. Schmitke,
- Lawrence J. Stern,
- and Alexander M. Klibanov
The crystal structure of subtilisin Carlsberg in anhydrous dioxane and its comparison with those in water and acetonitrile
PNAS 1997 94:4250-4255

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Jay R. Winkler,
- Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede,
- Johan Leckner,
- Bo G. Malmström,
- and Harry B. Gray
Effects of folding on metalloprotein active sites
PNAS 1997 94:4246-4249
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Haruo Sugi,
- Tsuyoshi Akimoto,
- Kazuo Sutoh,
- Shigeru Chaen,
- Noboru Oishi,
- and Suechika Suzuki
Dynamic electron microscopy of ATP-induced myosin head movement in living muscle thick filaments
PNAS 1997 94:4378-4382
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Sébastien J. F. Vincent,
- Catherine Zwahlen,
- Carol Beth Post,
- John W. Burgner,
- and Geoffrey Bodenhausen
The conformation of NAD + bound to lactate dehydrogenase determined by nuclear magnetic resonance with suppression of spin diffusion
PNAS 1997 94:4383-4388
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Marie-Louise Groot,
- Frank van Mourik,
- Camiel Eijckelhoff,
- Ivo H. M. van Stokkum,
- Jan P. Dekker,
- and Rienk van Grondelle
Charge separation in the reaction center of photosystem II studied as a function of temperature
PNAS 1997 94:4389-4394
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Hideo Higuchi,
- Etsuko Muto,
- Yuichi Inoue,
- and Toshio Yanagida
Kinetics of force generation by single kinesin molecules activated by laser photolysis of caged ATP
PNAS 1997 94:4395-4400
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- D. Sabbert,
- S. Engelbrecht,
- and W. Junge
Functional and idling rotatory motion within F 1 -ATPase
PNAS 1997 94:4401-4405

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Stephen A. Boppart,
- Gary J. Tearney,
- Brett E. Bouma,
- James F. Southern,
- Mark E. Brezinski,
- and James G. Fujimoto
Noninvasive assessment of the developing Xenopus cardiovascular system using optical coherence tomography
PNAS 1997 94:4256-4261
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Ko Onodera,
- Satoru Takahashi,
- Shigeko Nishimura,
- Jun Ohta,
- Hozumi Motohashi,
- Kentaro Yomogida,
- Norio Hayashi,
- James Douglas Engel,
- and Masayuki Yamamoto
GATA-1 transcription is controlled by distinct regulatory mechanisms during primitive and definitive erythropoiesis
PNAS 1997 94:4487-4492
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Masamitsu Tanaka,
- Wange Lu,
- Ruchika Gupta,
- and Bruce J. Mayer
Expression of mutated Nck SH2/SH3 adaptor respecifies mesodermal cell fate in Xenopus laevis development
PNAS 1997 94:4493-4498

Ecology

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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- G. E. Likens,
- S. L. Tartowski,
- T. W. Berger,
- D. G. Richey,
- C. T. Driscoll,
- H. G. Frank,
- and A. Klein
Transport and fate of trifluoroacetate in upland forest and wetland ecosystems
PNAS 1997 94:4499-4503

Table of Contents

Regulation of gene expression and its role in long-term memory and synaptic plasticity

Leptin expression and action: New experimental paradigms

The role of viruses in the etiology of cancer and leukemia in animals and in humans

From the Academy: Newly Elected Members and Foreign Associates of the National Academy of Sciences April 29, 1997

Evolution of the primate lineage leading to modern humans: Phylogenetic and demographic inferences from DNA sequences

The crystal structure of subtilisin Carlsberg in anhydrous dioxane and its comparison with those in water and acetonitrile

A general purpose RNA-cleaving DNA enzyme

DNA looping by Ku and the DNA-dependent protein kinase

A novel bHLH-PAS factor with close sequence similarity to hypoxia-inducible factor 1α regulates the VEGF expression and is potentially involved in lung and vascular development

RhoGDIγ: A GDP-dissociation inhibitor for Rho proteins with preferential expression in brain and pancreas

Is strong hydrogen bonding in the transition state enough to account for the observed rate acceleration in a mutant of papain?

Gene induction in response to unfolded protein in the endoplasmic reticulum is mediated through Ire1p kinase interaction with a transcriptional coactivator complex containing Ada5p

Microperoxidase/H 2 O 2 -mediated alkoxylating dehalogenation of halophenol derivatives in alcoholic media

Obese gene expression at in vivo levels by fat pads derived from s.c. implanted 3T3-F442A preadipocytes

Reduced RNA polymerase II transcription in intact and permeabilized Cockayne syndrome group B cells

Hypolipidemic drugs, polyunsaturated fatty acids, and eicosanoids are ligands for peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α and δ

Fatty acids and eicosanoids regulate gene expression through direct interactions with peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors α and γ

Insertional editing of nascent mitochondrial RNAs in Physarum

p110δ, a novel phosphoinositide 3-kinase in leukocytes

Bacterial nodulation protein NodZ is a chitin oligosaccharide fucosyltransferase which can also recognize related substrates of animal origin

Identification of ERF-1 as a member of the AP2 transcription factor family

Cytoplasmic sequestration of an O 6 -methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase enhancer binding protein in DNA repair-deficient human cells

Purification and characterization of a human RNA adenosine deaminase for glutamate receptor B pre-mRNA editing

Regulation of insulin preRNA splicing by glucose

The rational design of allosteric interactions in a monomeric protein and its applications to the construction of biosensors

Modulation of glucose responsiveness of insulinoma β-cells by graded overexpression of glucokinase

Effects of folding on metalloprotein active sites

Dynamic electron microscopy of ATP-induced myosin head movement in living muscle thick filaments

The conformation of NAD + bound to lactate dehydrogenase determined by nuclear magnetic resonance with suppression of spin diffusion

Charge separation in the reaction center of photosystem II studied as a function of temperature

Kinetics of force generation by single kinesin molecules activated by laser photolysis of caged ATP

Functional and idling rotatory motion within F 1 -ATPase

Rescue of cardiac α-actin-deficient mice by enteric smooth muscle γ-actin

The bovine papillomavirus E6 oncoprotein interacts with paxillin and disrupts the actin cytoskeleton

Direct and GTP-dependent interaction of ADP ribosylation factor 1 with coatomer subunit β

Intracellular activation of gelatinase A (72-kDa type IV collagenase) by normal fibroblasts

Reversible antisense inhibition of Shaker-like Kv1.1 potassium channel expression impairs associative memory in mouse and rat

Inositol hexakisphosphate stimulates non-Ca 2+ -mediated and primes Ca 2+ -mediated exocytosis of insulin by activation of protein kinase C

Cloning and characterization of a putative human serine/threonine protein kinase transcriptionally modified during anisotonic and isotonic alterations of cell volume

The nuclear matrix revealed by eluting chromatin from a cross-linked nucleus

Cloning and characterization of human karyopherin β3

Transport of a novel complex in the cytoplasmic matrix of Chlamydomonas flagella

Two active states of the Ras-related Bud1/Rsr1 protein bind to different effectors to determine yeast cell polarity

A 60-kDa plant microtubule-associated protein promotes the growth and stabilization of neurotubules in vitro

A fibroblast cell line defective in alkyl-dihydroxyacetone phosphate synthase: A novel defect in plasmalogen biosynthesis

Transcriptional coactivator cAMP response element binding protein mediates induction of the human proliferating cell nuclear antigen promoter by the adenovirus E1A oncoprotein

Noninvasive assessment of the developing Xenopus cardiovascular system using optical coherence tomography

GATA-1 transcription is controlled by distinct regulatory mechanisms during primitive and definitive erythropoiesis

Expression of mutated Nck SH2/SH3 adaptor respecifies mesodermal cell fate in Xenopus laevis development

Transport and fate of trifluoroacetate in upland forest and wetland ecosystems