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Commentaries

Commentary:
- Edmond H. Fischer
- and Earl W. Davie
Recent excitement regarding metallothionein
PNAS 1998 95:3333-3334
Commentary:
- Martin L. Privalsky
Depudecin makes a debut
PNAS 1998 95:3335-3337
Commentary:
- Daniel T. Chiu
- and Richard N. Zare
Assaying for peptides in individual Aplysia neurons with mass spectrometry
PNAS 1998 95:3338-3340
Commentary:
- Marcie Colledge
- and Stanley C. Froehner
To muster a cluster: Anchoring neurotransmitter receptors at synapses
PNAS 1998 95:3341-3343
Commentary:
- Edward M. Callaway
Visual scenes and cortical neurons: What you see is what you get
PNAS 1998 95:3344-3345
Commentary:
- Francisco J. Ayala
Is sex better? Parasites say “no”
PNAS 1998 95:3346-3348
Commentary:
- Margaret G. Kidwell
- and Alice R. Wattam
An important step forward in the genetic manipulation of mosquito vectors of human disease
PNAS 1998 95:3349-3350

Physical Sciences

Astronomy

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Physical Sciences - Astronomy:
- Roy J. Britten
A gravitational diffusion model without dark matter
PNAS 1998 95:3351-3355

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Ho Jeong Kwon,
- Takashi Owa,
- Christian A. Hassig,
- Junichi Shimada,
- and Stuart L. Schreiber
Depudecin induces morphological reversion of transformed fibroblasts via the inhibition of histone deacetylase
PNAS 1998 95:3356-3361
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Troy D. Wood,
- Ziqiang Guan,
- Charles L. Borders, Jr.,
- Lorenzo H. Chen,
- George L. Kenyon,
- and Fred W. McLafferty
Creatine kinase: Essential arginine residues at the nucleotide binding site identified by chemical modification and high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry
PNAS 1998 95:3362-3365
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Neurobiology:
- Rebecca W. Garden,
- Scott A. Shippy,
- Lingjun Li,
- Tatiana P. Moroz,
- and Jonathan V. Sweedler
Proteolytic processing of the Aplysia egg-laying hormone prohormone
PNAS 1998 95:3972-3977

Geology

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Physical Sciences - Geology:
- Joseph V. Smith
Atmospheric weathering and silica-coated feldspar: Analogy with zeolite molecular sieves, granite weathering, soil formation, ornamental slabs, and ceramics
PNAS 1998 95:3366-3369
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Physical Sciences - Geology:
- Joseph V. Smith
Biochemical evolution. I. Polymerization on internal, organophilic silica surfaces of dealuminated zeolites and feldspars
PNAS 1998 95:3370-3375

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Allan M. Sinclair
- and Roger R. Smith
The Hochschild cohomology problem for von Neumann algebras
PNAS 1998 95:3376-3379

Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

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Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
- Wiliam Segal
- and I. E. Segal
The Black–Scholes pricing formula in the quantum context
PNAS 1998 95:4072-4075

Biological Sciences

Agricultural Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Agricultural Sciences:
- Nianbai Fang
- and John E. Casida
Anticancer action of cubé insecticide: Correlation for rotenoid constituents between inhibition of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase and induced ornithine decarboxylase activities
PNAS 1998 95:3380-3384

Applied Biological Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Mohammed Shahabuddin
- and Paulo F. P. Pimenta
Plasmodium gallinaceum preferentially invades vesicular ATPase-expressing cells in Aedes aegypti midgut
PNAS 1998 95:3385-3389

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Kevin R. MacKenzie
- and Donald M. Engelman
Inaugural Article: Structure-based prediction of the stability of transmembrane helix–helix interactions: The sequence dependence of glycophorin A dimerization
PNAS 1998 95:3583-3590
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:

Recent excitement regarding metallothionein

Depudecin makes a debut

Assaying for peptides in individual Aplysia neurons with mass spectrometry

To muster a cluster: Anchoring neurotransmitter receptors at synapses

Visual scenes and cortical neurons: What you see is what you get

Is sex better? Parasites say “no”

An important step forward in the genetic manipulation of mosquito vectors of human disease

A gravitational diffusion model without dark matter

Depudecin induces morphological reversion of transformed fibroblasts via the inhibition of histone deacetylase

Creatine kinase: Essential arginine residues at the nucleotide binding site identified by chemical modification and high-resolution tandem mass spectrometry

Proteolytic processing of the Aplysia egg-laying hormone prohormone

Atmospheric weathering and silica-coated feldspar: Analogy with zeolite molecular sieves, granite weathering, soil formation, ornamental slabs, and ceramics

Biochemical evolution. I. Polymerization on internal, organophilic silica surfaces of dealuminated zeolites and feldspars

The Hochschild cohomology problem for von Neumann algebras

The Black–Scholes pricing formula in the quantum context

Anticancer action of cubé insecticide: Correlation for rotenoid constituents between inhibition of NADH:ubiquinone oxidoreductase and induced ornithine decarboxylase activities

Plasmodium gallinaceum preferentially invades vesicular ATPase-expressing cells in Aedes aegypti midgut

High-resolution restriction maps of bacterial artificial chromosomes constructed by optical mapping

Linker histone protects linker DNA on only one side of the core particle and in a sequence-dependent manner

A single side chain prevents Escherichia coli DNA polymerase I (Klenow fragment) from incorporating ribonucleotides

Crystal structure of the catalytic domain of human tumor necrosis factor-α-converting enzyme

Crystal structure of MTCP-1: Implications for role of TCL-1 and MTCP-1 in T cell malignancies

HIV-1 Vpr interacts with a human 34-kDa mov34 homologue, a cellular factor linked to the G2/M phase transition of the mammalian cell cycle

The transmembrane domain in viral fusion: Essential role for a conserved glycine residue in vesicular stomatitis virus G protein

How Cro and λ-repressor distinguish between operators: The structural basis underlying a genetic switch

The crystal structure of a 3D domain-swapped dimer of RNase A at a 2.1-Å resolution

Rack-induced metal binding vs. flexibility: Met121His azurin crystal structures at different pH

IPF2α-I: An index of lipid peroxidation in humans

Transcriptional sequencing: A method for DNA sequencing using RNA polymerase

Myeloid-specific transcriptional activation by murine myeloid zinc-finger protein 2

Derepression of the C/EBPα gene during adipogenesis: Identification of AP-2α as a repressor

Structure and mechanism of a proline-specific aminopeptidase from Escherichia coli

Thiolate ligands in metallothionein confer redox activity on zinc clusters

The glutathione redox couple modulates zinc transfer from metallothionein to zinc-depleted sorbitol dehydrogenase

Control of zinc transfer between thionein, metallothionein, and zinc proteins

In vitro disassembly and reassembly of an ABC transporter, the histidine permease

Gene rearrangement attenuates expression and lethality of a nonsegmented negative strand RNA virus

Identification of a transient excision intermediate at the crossroads between DNA polymerase extension and proofreading pathways

Membrane physical state controls the signaling mechanism of the heat shock response in Synechocystis PCC 6803: Identification of hsp17 as a “fluidity gene”

A role for histone deacetylase activity in HDAC1-mediated transcriptional repression

23S rRNA positions essential for tRNA binding in ribosomal functional sites

The domain organization of NaeI endonuclease: Separation of binding and catalysis

Differential regulation of IκB kinase α and β by two upstream kinases, NF-κB-inducing kinase and mitogen-activated protein kinase/ERK kinase kinase-1

Protein splicing in trans by purified N- and C-terminal fragments of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis RecA intein

Stimulation of p70S6 kinase via a growth hormone-controlled phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase pathway leads to the activation of a PDE4A cyclic AMP-specific phosphodiesterase in 3T3-F442A preadipocytes

Epoxidation of olefins by cytochrome P450: Evidence from site-specific mutagenesis for hydroperoxo-iron as an electrophilic oxidant

ESA1 is a histone acetyltransferase that is essential for growth in yeast

Diffusion of peroxynitrite across erythrocyte membranes

Global flexibility of tertiary structure in RNA: Yeast tRNAPhe as a model system

Oxidized, deaminated cytosines are a source of C → T transitions in vivo

Inaugural Article: Structure-based prediction of the stability of transmembrane helix–helix interactions: The sequence dependence of glycophorin A dimerization

HIV-1 Vpr interacts with a human 34-kDa mov34 homologue, a cellular factor linked to the G₂/M phase transition of the mammalian cell cycle

IPF_2α-I: An index of lipid peroxidation in humans

Global flexibility of tertiary structure in RNA: Yeast tRNA^Phe as a model system