Table of Contents

• G. I. Barenblatt,
• J. B. Bell,
• and W. Y. Crutchfield

The thermal explosion revisited

• Frank C. Schroeder,
• Scott R. Smedley,
• Leah K. Gibbons,
• Jay J. Farmer,
• Athula B. Attygalle,
• Thomas Eisner,
• and Jerrold Meinwald

Polyazamacrolides from ladybird beetles: Ring-size selective oligomerization

• Richard V. Kadison

On representations of finite type

• Merritt Ruhlen

The origin of the Na-Dene

• Volker Mittendorf,
• Elizabeth J. Robertson,
• Rachel M. Leech,
• Niels Krüger,
• Alexander Steinbüchel,
• and Yves Poirier

Synthesis of medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates in Arabidopsis thaliana using intermediates of peroxisomal fatty acid β-oxidation

• N. Mouz,
• E. Gordon,
• A.-M. Di Guilmi,
• I. Petit,
• Y. Pétillot,
• Y. Dupont,
• R. Hakenbeck,
• T. Vernet,
• and O. Dideberg

Identification of a structural determinant for resistance to β-lactam antibiotics in Gram-positive bacteria

• Tammie L. S. Benzinger,
• David M. Gregory,
• Timothy S. Burkoth,
• Hélène Miller-Auer,
• David G. Lynn,
• Robert E. Botto,
• and Stephen C. Meredith

Propagating structure of Alzheimer’s β-amyloid (10–35) is parallel β-sheet with residues in exact register

• Sam A. Bruschi,
• J. Gordon Lindsay,
• and John W. Crabb

Mitochondrial stress protein recognition of inactivated dehydrogenases during mammalian cell death

• Richard A. Kammerer,
• Therese Schulthess,
• Ruth Landwehr,
• Ariel Lustig,
• Jürgen Engel,
• Ueli Aebi,
• and Michel O. Steinmetz

An autonomous folding unit mediates the assembly of two-stranded coiled coils

• Ines Möller,
• Martin Jung,
• Birgitta Beatrix,
• Robert Levy,
• Gert Kreibich,
• Richard Zimmermann,
• Martin Wiedmann,
• and Brett Lauring

A general mechanism for regulation of access to the translocon: Competition for a membrane attachment site on ribosomes

• Codrina V. Popescu,
• Donna M. Bates,
• Helmut Beinert,
• Eckard Münck,
• and Patricia J. Kiley

Mössbauer spectroscopy as a tool for the study of activation/inactivation of the transcription regulator FNR in whole cells of Escherichia coli

• Carl C. Correll,
• Alexander Munishkin,
• Yuen-Ling Chan,
• Zhong Ren,
• Ira G. Wool,
• and Thomas A. Steitz

Crystal structure of the ribosomal RNA domain essential for binding elongation factors

• Zdenek Kostrouch,
• Marta Kostrouchova,
• William Love,
• Emmanuele Jannini,
• Joram Piatigorsky,
• and J. Edward Rall

Retinoic acid X receptor in the diploblast, Tripedalia cystophora

• Igor A. Kozlov,
• Stefan Pitsch,
• and Leslie E. Orgel

Oligomerization of activated d - and l -guanosine mononucleotides on templates containing d - and l -deoxycytidylate residues

• Paul Saftig,
• Ernst Hunziker,
• Olaf Wehmeyer,
• Sheila Jones,
• Alan Boyde,
• Winfried Rommerskirch,
• Jörg Detlev Moritz,
• Peter Schu,
• and Kurt von Figura

Impaired osteoclastic bone resorption leads to osteopetrosis in cathepsin-K-deficient mice

• Jeffrey C. White,
• V. Narayanaswamy Shankar,
• Margaret Highland,
• Miles L. Epstein,
• Hector F. DeLuca,
• and Margaret Clagett-Dame

Defects in embryonic hindbrain development and fetal resorption resulting from vitamin A deficiency in the rat are prevented by feeding pharmacological levels of all- trans- retinoic acid

• Charles Schick,
• Dieter Brömme,
• Allison J. Bartuski,
• Yoshiki Uemura,
• Norman M. Schechter,
• and Gary A. Silverman

The reactive site loop of the serpin SCCA1 is essential for cysteine proteinase inhibition

• Peter R. Meyer,
• Suzanne E. Matsuura,
• Antero G. So,
• and Walter A. Scott

Unblocking of chain-terminated primer by HIV-1 reverse transcriptase through a nucleotide-dependent mechanism

• Juan E. González,
• Carlos E. Semino,
• Lai-Xi Wang,
• Laura E. Castellano-Torres,
• and Graham C. Walker

Biosynthetic control of molecular weight in the polymerization of the octasaccharide subunits of succinoglycan, a symbiotically important exopolysaccharide of Rhizobium meliloti

• Jumin Zhou,
• Jörk Zwicker,
• Paul Szymanski,
• Michael Levine,
• and Robert Tjian

TAF II mutations disrupt Dorsal activation in the Drosophila embryo

• Nancy C. Horton,
• Kate Juliet Newberry,
• and John J. Perona

Metal ion-mediated substrate-assisted catalysis in type II restriction endonucleases

• Richard S. A. Lipman
• and Ya-Ming Hou

Aminoacylation of tRNA in the evolution of an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase

• Anton Krumm,
• Linda Madisen,
• Xiang-Jiao Yang,
• Richard Goodman,
• Yoshihiro Nakatani,
• and Mark Groudine

Long-distance transcriptional enhancement by the histone acetyltransferase PCAF

• Gary J. Sharples,
• Lisa M. Corbett,
• and Ian R. Graham

λ Rap protein is a structure-specific endonuclease involved in phage recombination

• Michael P. Myers,
• Ian Pass,
• Ian H. Batty,
• Jeroen Van der Kaay,
• Javor P. Stolarov,
• Brian A. Hemmings,
• Michael H. Wigler,
• C. Peter Downes,
• and Nicholas K. Tonks

The lipid phosphatase activity of PTEN is critical for its tumor supressor function

• Giuseppe Marzio,
• Mudit Tyagi,
• Maria Ines Gutierrez,
• and Mauro Giacca

HIV-1 Tat transactivator recruits p300 and CREB-binding protein histone acetyltransferases to the viral promoter

• Gabriel O. Reznik,
• Sandor Vajda,
• Takeshi Sano,
• and Charles R. Cantor

A streptavidin mutant with altered ligand-binding specificity

• Yan Kwok,
• Qingping Zeng,
• and Laurence H. Hurley

Topoisomerase II-mediated site-directed alkylation of DNA by psorospermin and its use in mapping other topoisomerase II poison binding sites

• N. Ramadevi,
• Nicholas J. Burroughs,
• Peter P. C. Mertens,
• Ian M. Jones,
• and Polly Roy

Capping and methylation of mRNA by purified recombinant VP4 protein of bluetongue virus

• Aseem Z. Ansari,
• Richard J. Reece,
• and Mark Ptashne

A transcriptional activating region with two contrasting modes of protein interaction

• Yuji Nishiuchi,
• Tatsuya Inui,
• Hideki Nishio,
• József Bódi,
• Terutoshi Kimura,
• Frederick I. Tsuji,
• and Shumpei Sakakibara

Chemical synthesis of the precursor molecule of the Aequorea green fluorescent protein, subsequent folding, and development of fluorescence

• Hui Bin Sun,
• Yuan Xiao Zhu,
• Tinggui Yin,
• George Sledge,
• and Yu-Chung Yang

MRG1, the product of a melanocyte-specific gene related gene, is a cytokine-inducible transcription factor with transformation activity

• B. Hang,
• M. Medina,
• H. Fraenkel-Conrat,
• and B. Singer

A 55-kDa protein isolated from human cells shows DNA glycosylase activity toward 3, N 4 -ethenocytosine and the G/T mismatch

• Gen Matsumoto,
• Hiroyuki Mori,
• and Koreaki Ito

Roles of SecG in ATP- and SecA-dependent protein translocation

• Ulrich Haupts,
• Sudipta Maiti,
• Petra Schwille,
• and Watt W. Webb

Dynamics of fluorescence fluctuations in green fluorescent protein observed by fluorescence correlation spectroscopy

• Alexei A. Kornyshev
• and Sergey Leikin

Electrostatic interaction between helical macromolecules in dense aggregates: An impetus for DNA poly- and meso-morphism

• Michael Salzmann,
• Konstantin Pervushin,
• Gerhard Wider,
• Hans Senn,
• and Kurt Wüthrich

TROSY in triple-resonance experiments: New perspectives for sequential NMR assignment of large proteins

• Kevin W. Plaxco
• and David Baker

Limited internal friction in the rate-limiting step of a two-state protein folding reaction

• Roberto Sánchez
• and Andrej Sali

Large-scale protein structure modeling of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae genome

• Linda Yu Zhang
• and Richard A. Friesner

Ab initio calculation of electronic coupling in the photosynthetic reaction center

• Martin Karpefors,
• Pia Ädelroth,
• Yuejun Zhen,
• Shelagh Ferguson-Miller,
• and Peter Brzezinski

Proton uptake controls electron transfer in cytochrome c oxidase

• Andrée Dierich,
• M. Ram Sairam,
• Lucia Monaco,
• Gian Maria Fimia,
• Anne Gansmuller,
• Marianne LeMeur,
• and Paolo Sassone-Corsi

Impairing follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH) signaling in vivo : Targeted disruption of the FSH receptor leads to aberrant gametogenesis and hormonal imbalance

• Timothy S. Zheng,
• Stephan F. Schlosser,
• Tao Dao,
• Ravi Hingorani,
• I. Nicholas Crispe,
• James L. Boyer,
• and Richard A. Flavell

Caspase-3 controls both cytoplasmic and nuclear events associated with Fas-mediated apoptosis in vivo

• Hui Huang,
• Emily A. Wiley,
• Craig R. Lending,
• and C. David Allis

An HP1-like protein is missing from transcriptionally silent micronuclei of Tetrahymena

• David Carpenter,
• Donna M. Stone,
• Jennifer Brush,
• Anne Ryan,
• Mark Armanini,
• Gretchen Frantz,
• Arnon Rosenthal,