PNAS — Table of Contents — August 3, 1999, 96 (16)

August 3, 1999; 96 (16)

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Leo W. Buss
Slime molds, ascidians, and the utility of evolutionary theory
PNAS 1999 96:8801-8803
- See companion article on page 9148 in issue 16 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Andrew Pekosz,
- Biao He,
- and Robert A. Lamb
Reverse genetics of negative-strand RNA viruses: Closing the circle
PNAS 1999 96:8804-8806
- See companion article on page 9345 in issue 16 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Rolf Sternglanz
- and Hermann Schindelin
Structure and mechanism of action of the histone acetyltransferase Gcn5 and similarity to other N -acetyltransferases
PNAS 1999 96:8807-8808
- See companion article on page 8931 in issue 16 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Ernst Ungewickell
Wrapping the package
PNAS 1999 96:8809-8810
- See companion article on page 8907 in issue 16 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Michael W. Frohlich
MADS about Gnetales
PNAS 1999 96:8811-8813
- See companion article on page 7342 in issue 13 of volume 96

Perspective

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Perspective - Perspective:
- V. J. Emery,
- S. A. Kivelson,
- and J. M. Tranquada
Stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors
PNAS 1999 96:8814-8817

From the Academy

From the Academy:
From the Academy: Introduction to Japanese-American Frontiers of Science
PNAS 1999 96:8818
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From the Academy:
- Norio Ishida,
- Maki Kaneko,
- and Ravi Allada
From the Academy: Biological clocks
PNAS 1999 96:8819-8820
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From the Academy:
- Yasuhiro Iye
From the Academy: Composite fermions and bosons: An invitation to electron masquerade in Quantum Hall
PNAS 1999 96:8821-8822
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From the Academy:
- Yoshitaka Tanimura,
- Koichi Yamashita,
- and Philip A. Anfinrud
From the Academy: Femtochemistry
PNAS 1999 96:8823-8824
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From the Academy:
- Stanley Fields,
- Yuji Kohara,
- and David J. Lockhart
From the Academy: Functional genomics
PNAS 1999 96:8825-8826
From the Academy:
- Samuel A. Bowring,
- Douglas H. Erwin,
- and Yukio Isozaki
From the Academy: The tempo of mass extinction and recovery: The end-Permian example
PNAS 1999 96:8827-8828

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences - Biological Sciences - Physiology:
- Michiaki Mishima,
- Toyohiro Hirai,
- Harumi Itoh,
- Yasutaka Nakano,
- Hiroaki Sakai,
- Shigeo Muro,
- Koichi Nishimura,
- Yoshitaka Oku,
- Kazuo Chin,
- Motoharu Ohi,
- Takashi Nakamura,
- Jason H. T. Bates,
- Adriano M. Alencar,
- and Bèla Suki
Complexity of terminal airspace geometry assessed by lung computed tomography in normal subjects and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
PNAS 1999 96:8829-8834

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Daniel P. Glavin,
- Jeffrey L. Bada,
- Karen L. F. Brinton,
- and Gene D. McDonald
Amino acids in the Martian meteorite Nakhla
PNAS 1999 96:8835-8838

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Geoffrey L. Price
On the classification of binary shifts of minimal commutant index
PNAS 1999 96:8839-8844
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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Shlomo Sternberg
General covariance and harmonic maps
PNAS 1999 96:8845-8848
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Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Evolution - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- David S. Strait
- and Bernard A. Wood
Early hominid biogeography
PNAS 1999 96:9196-9200

Table of Contents

Slime molds, ascidians, and the utility of evolutionary theory

Reverse genetics of negative-strand RNA viruses: Closing the circle

Structure and mechanism of action of the histone acetyltransferase Gcn5 and similarity to other N -acetyltransferases

Wrapping the package

MADS about Gnetales

Stripe phases in high-temperature superconductors

From the Academy: Introduction to Japanese-American Frontiers of Science

From the Academy: Biological clocks

From the Academy: Composite fermions and bosons: An invitation to electron masquerade in Quantum Hall

From the Academy: Femtochemistry

From the Academy: Functional genomics

From the Academy: The tempo of mass extinction and recovery: The end-Permian example

Complexity of terminal airspace geometry assessed by lung computed tomography in normal subjects and patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Amino acids in the Martian meteorite Nakhla

On the classification of binary shifts of minimal commutant index

General covariance and harmonic maps

Early hominid biogeography

Potent urea and carbamate inhibitors of soluble epoxide hydrolases

Redirected infection of directly biotinylated recombinant adenovirus vectors through cell surface receptors and antigens

Systemic correction of the muscle disorder glycogen storage disease type II after hepatic targeting of a modified adenovirus vector encoding human acid-α-glucosidase

The antioxidant neuroprotective effects of estrogens and phenolic compounds are independent from their estrogenic properties

A Holliday junction resolvase from Pyrococcus furiosus : Functional similarity to Escherichia coli RuvC provides evidence for conserved mechanism of homologous recombination in Bacteria, Eukarya, and Archaea

A catalytic switch and the conversion of streptokinase to a fibrin-targeted plasminogen activator

Crystal structure and mechanism of CO dehydrogenase, a molybdo iron-sulfur flavoprotein containing S -selanylcysteine

Domain structure and lipid interaction of recombinant yeast Tim44

Identification and characterization of a human tRNA-specific adenosine deaminase related to the ADAR family of pre-mRNA editing enzymes

Evolution of a light-harvesting protein by addition of new subunits and rearrangement of conserved elements: Crystal structure of a cryptophyte phycoerythrin at 1.63-Å resolution

Crystal structure of the α appendage of AP-2 reveals a recruitment platform for clathrin-coat assembly

An unusual structural motif of antimicrobial peptides containing end-to-end macrocycle and cystine-knot disulfides

UmuD′ 2 C is an error-prone DNA polymerase, Escherichia coli pol V

Structure of human factor VIIa and its implications for the triggering of blood coagulation

Crystal structure and mechanism of histone acetylation of the yeast GCN5 transcriptional coactivator

Characterization and catalytic properties of the sterol 14α-demethylase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

The poly(A)-limiting element is a conserved cis-acting sequence that regulates poly(A) tail length on nuclear pre-mRNAs

Structural basis of the conversion of T4 lysozyme into a transglycosidase by reengineering the active site

Coniferyl aldehyde 5-hydroxylation and methylation direct syringyl lignin biosynthesis in angiosperms

Antiglucocorticoid activity of hepatocyte nuclear factor-6

N- and C-terminal residues combine in the fusion-pH influenza hemagglutinin HA 2 subunit to form an N cap that terminates the triple-stranded coiled coil

Enhancement of translation by the downstream box does not involve base pairing of mRNA with the penultimate stem sequence of 16S rRNA

High-field EPR detection of a disulfide radical anion in the reduction of cytidine 5′-diphosphate by the E441Q R1 mutant of Escherichia coli ribonucleotide reductase

An aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase paralog with a catalytic role in histidine biosynthesis

Expression cloning of a human α1,4- N -acetylglucosaminyltransferase that forms GlcNAcα1→4Galβ→R, a glycan specifically expressed in the gastric gland mucous cell-type mucin

Subpopulations of chloroplast ribosomes change during photoregulated development of Zea mays leaves: Ribosomal proteins L2, L21, and L29

Direct crosslinking of the antitumor antibiotic sparsomycin, and its derivatives, to A2602 in the peptidyl transferase center of 23S-like rRNA within ribosome-tRNA complexes

Signal-dependent DNA binding and functional domains of the quorum-sensing activator TraR as identified by repressor activity

Genetic elimination of known pheromones reveals the fundamental chemical bases of mating and isolation in Drosophila

Focal adhesion kinase promotes phospholipase C-γ1 activity

The oxyhemoglobin reaction of nitric oxide

Binding of elongin A or a von Hippel–Lindau peptide stabilizes the structure of yeast elongin C

Biochemical analysis of a dimerization domain mutation in RetGC-1 associated with dominant cone–rod dystrophy