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Commentaries

Commentary:
- Helen M. Blau
- and Fabio M. V. Rossi
Tet B or not tet B: Advances in tetracycline-inducible gene expression
PNAS 1999 96:797-799
- See companion article on page 1013 in issue 3 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Simon A. Levin
- and Viggo Andreasen
Disease transmission dynamics and the evolution of antibiotic resistance in hospitals and communal settings
PNAS 1999 96:800-801
- See companion article on page 1152 in issue 3 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Jay A. Levy
Xenotropism: The elusive viral receptor finally uncovered
PNAS 1999 96:802-804
- See companion article on page 927 in issue 3 of volume 96

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- John G. Fleagle
- and W. Scott McGraw
Skeletal and dental morphology supports diphyletic origin of baboons and mandrills
PNAS 1999 96:1157-1161

Biological Sciences

Biophysics

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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Taekjip Ha,
- Alice Y. Ting,
- Joy Liang,
- W. Brett Caldwell,
- Ashok A. Deniz,
- Daniel S. Chemla,
- Peter G. Schultz,
- and Shimon Weiss
Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of enzyme conformational dynamics and cleavage mechanism
PNAS 1999 96:893-898
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ole Farver,
- Yi Lu,
- Majorie C. Ang,
- and Israel Pecht
Enhanced rate of intramolecular electron transfer in an engineered purple Cu A azurin
PNAS 1999 96:899-902
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Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Monika Siedlecka,
- Grażyna Goch,
- Andrzej Ejchart,
- Heinrich Sticht,
- and Andrzej Bierzyǹski
α-Helix nucleation by a calcium-binding peptide loop
PNAS 1999 96:903-908

Cell Biology

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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Jussi Jäntti,
- Johanna Lahdenranta,
- Vesa M. Olkkonen,
- Hans Söderlund,
- and Sirkka Keränen
SEM1 , a homologue of the split hand/split foot malformation candidate gene Dss1 , regulates exocytosis and pseudohyphal differentiation in yeast
PNAS 1999 96:909-914
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Jon E. Chatterton,
- David Hirsch,
- John J. Schwartz,
- Perry E. Bickel,
- Robert D. Rosenberg,
- Harvey F. Lodish,
- and Monty Krieger
Expression cloning of LDLB , a gene essential for normal Golgi function and assembly of the ldlCp complex
PNAS 1999 96:915-920
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Christian Rotsch,
- Ken Jacobson,
- and Manfred Radmacher
Dimensional and mechanical dynamics of active and stable edges in motile fibroblasts investigated by using atomic force microscopy
PNAS 1999 96:921-926
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Chetankumar S. Tailor,
- Ali Nouri,
- Chun G. Lee,
- Christine Kozak,
- and David Kabat
Cloning and characterization of a cell surface receptor for xenotropic and polytropic murine leukemia viruses
PNAS 1999 96:927-932
- See commentary article on page 802 in issue 3 of volume 96
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Katherine M. Wan,
- Jeffrey A. Nickerson,
- Gabriela Krockmalnic,
- and Sheldon Penman
The nuclear matrix prepared by amine modification
PNAS 1999 96:933-938
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Yinghua Zhang,
- Paul J. Gardina,
- Ann S. Kuebler,
- Hui S. Kang,
- Jon A. Christopher,
- and Michael D. Manson
Model of maltose-binding protein/chemoreceptor complex supports intrasubunit signaling mechanism
PNAS 1999 96:939-944
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Biological Sciences - Cell Biology:
- Haruo Kasai,
- Takuya Kishimoto,
- Ting-Ting Liu,
- Yasushi Miyashita,
- Paola Podini,
- Fabio Grohovaz,
- and Jacopo Meldolesi
Multiple and diverse forms of regulated exocytosis in wild-type and defective PC12 cells
PNAS 1999 96:945-949

Developmental Biology

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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Sergei G. Tevosian,
- Anne E. Deconinck,
- Alan B. Cantor,
- Heather I. Rieff,
- Yuko Fujiwara,
- Gabriel Corfas,
- and Stuart H. Orkin
FOG-2: A novel GATA-family cofactor related to multitype zinc-finger proteins Friend of GATA-1 and U-shaped
PNAS 1999 96:950-955
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Eric C. Svensson,
- Rachel L. Tufts,
- Christine E. Polk,
- and Jeffrey M. Leiden
Molecular cloning of FOG-2: A modulator of transcription factor GATA-4 in cardiomyocytes
PNAS 1999 96:956-961
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Haochu Huang,
- Nicholas Marsh-Armstrong,
- and Donald D. Brown
Metamorphosis is inhibited in transgenic Xenopus laevis tadpoles that overexpress type III deiodinase
PNAS 1999 96:962-967
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Tory Herman,
- Erika Hartwieg,
- and H. Robert Horvitz
sqv mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans are defective in vulval epithelial invagination
PNAS 1999 96:968-973
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Biological Sciences - Developmental Biology:
- Tory Herman
- and H. Robert Horvitz
Three proteins involved in Caenorhabditis elegans vulval invagination are similar to components of a glycosylation pathway
PNAS 1999 96:974-979

Ecology

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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Carlos A. Mazza,
- Jorge Zavala,
- Ana L. Scopel,
- and Carlos L. Ballaré
Perception of solar UVB radiation by phytophagous insects: Behavioral responses and ecosystem implications
PNAS 1999 96:980-985
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Biological Sciences - Ecology:
- Thomas F. Hansen,
- Nils C. Stenseth,
- Heikki Henttonen,
- and Johan Tast
Interspecific and intraspecific competition as causes of direct and delayed density dependence in a fluctuating vole population
PNAS 1999 96:986-991

Evolution

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Biological Sciences - Evolution:
- John C. Avise
- and DeEtte Walker
Species realities and numbers in sexual vertebrates: Perspectives from an asexually transmitted genome
PNAS 1999 96:992-995

Genetics

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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Isaac Engel
- and Cornelis Murre
Ectopic expression of E47 or E12 promotes the death of E2A-deficient lymphomas
PNAS 1999 96:996-1001
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- James Brugarolas,
- Ken Moberg,
- Scott D. Boyd,
- Yoichi Taya,
- Tyler Jacks,
- and Jacqueline A. Lees
Inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 by p21 is necessary for retinoblastoma protein-mediated G 1 arrest after γ-irradiation
PNAS 1999 96:1002-1007
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Dietrich A. Stephan,
- Elizabeth Gillanders,
- Deborah Vanderveen,
- Diana Freas-Lutz,
- Graeme Wistow,
- Andreas D. Baxevanis,
- Christiane M. Robbins,
- Ann Van Auken,
- Matthew I. Quesenberry,
- Joan Bailey-Wilson,
- Suh-Hang Hank Juo,
- Jeffrey M. Trent,
- Lois Smith,
- and Michael J. Brownstein
Progressive juvenile-onset punctate cataracts caused by mutation of the γD-crystallin gene
PNAS 1999 96:1008-1012
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Biological Sciences - Genetics:
- Udo Baron,
- Dirk Schnappinger,
- Vera Helbl,
- Manfred Gossen,
- Wolfgang Hillen,
- and Hermann Bujard
Generation of conditional mutants in higher eukaryotes by switching between the expression of two genes
PNAS 1999 96:1013-1018
- See commentary article on page 797 in issue 3 of volume 96

Immunology

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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Jesús González-Cabrero,
- Catherine J. Wise,
- Yvette Latchman,
- Gordon J. Freeman,
- Arlene H. Sharpe,
- and Hans Reiser
CD48-deficient mice have a pronounced defect in CD4 + T cell activation
PNAS 1999 96:1019-1023
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Masakatsu Yamashita,
- Motoko Kimura,
- Masato Kubo,
- Chiori Shimizu,
- Tomio Tada,
- Roger M. Perlmutter,
- and Toshinori Nakayama
T cell antigen receptor-mediated activation of the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway controls interleukin 4 receptor function and type-2 helper T cell differentiation
PNAS 1999 96:1024-1029
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Sharon A. Stranford,
- Joan Skurnick,
- Donald Louria,
- Dennis Osmond,
- Sheng-Yung Chang,
- John Sninsky,
- Guido Ferrari,
- Kent Weinhold,
- Craig Lindquist,
- and Jay A. Levy
Lack of infection in HIV-exposed individuals is associated with a strong CD8 + cell noncytotoxic anti-HIV response
PNAS 1999 96:1030-1035
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- B. Pulendran,
- J. L. Smith,
- G. Caspary,
- K. Brasel,
- D. Pettit,
- E. Maraskovsky,
- and C. R. Maliszewski
Distinct dendritic cell subsets differentially regulate the class of immune response in vivo
PNAS 1999 96:1036-1041
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Biological Sciences - Immunology:
- Yongan Li,
- Jian Kang,
- Joshua Friedman,
- Leonid Tarassishin,
- Jianjiang Ye,
- Andrei Kovalenko,
- David Wallach,
- and Marshall S. Horwitz
Identification of a cell protein (FIP-3) as a modulator of NF-κB activity and as a target of an adenovirus inhibitor of tumor necrosis factor α-induced apoptosis
PNAS 1999 96:1042-1047

Medical Sciences

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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Ramesh Vemuri,
- Edward B. Lankford,
- Karl Poetter,
- Shahin Hassanzadeh,
- Kazuyo Takeda,
- Zu-Xi Yu,
- Victor J. Ferrans,
- and Neal D. Epstein
The stretch-activation response may be critical to the proper functioning of the mammalian heart
PNAS 1999 96:1048-1053
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Biological Sciences - Medical Sciences:
- Ruud A. Bank,
- Simon P. Robins,
- Cisca Wijmenga,
- Liesbeth J. Breslau-Siderius,
- Alfons F. J. Bardoel,
- Hans A. Van der Sluijs,
- Hans E. H. Pruijs,
- and Johan M. TeKoppele
Defective collagen crosslinking in bone, but not in ligament or cartilage, in Bruck syndrome:

Tet B or not tet B: Advances in tetracycline-inducible gene expression

Disease transmission dynamics and the evolution of antibiotic resistance in hospitals and communal settings

Xenotropism: The elusive viral receptor finally uncovered

Skeletal and dental morphology supports diphyletic origin of baboons and mandrills

Niemann-Pick C1 protein: Obligatory roles for N-terminal domains and lysosomal targeting in cholesterol mobilization

Inaugural Article: Origins of DNA-binding specificity: Role of protein contacts with the DNA backbone

Trimeric domain-swapped barnase

Three-dimensional structure of phospho enol pyruvate carboxylase: A proposed mechanism for allosteric inhibition

Xenopus laevis sperm receptor gp69/64 glycoprotein is a homolog of the mammalian sperm receptor ZP2

Levels of major selenoproteins in T cells decrease during HIV infection and low molecular mass selenium compounds increase

Structure of the ternary complex of human 17β-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase type 1 with 3-hydroxyestra-1,3,5,7-tetraen-17-one (equilin) and NADP +

Mitochondrial disease in superoxide dismutase 2 mutant mice

U1 small nuclear RNA and spliceosomal introns in Euglena gracilis

The specificity of interaction of archaeal transducers with their cognate sensory rhodopsins is determined by their transmembrane helices

TOXCAT: A measure of transmembrane helix association in a biological membrane

The C-terminal domain of the regulatory protein NOVH is sufficient to promote interaction with fibulin 1C: A clue for a role of NOVH in cell-adhesion signaling

Induced fit of a peptide loop of methionyl-tRNA formyltransferase triggered by the initiator tRNA substrate

Similarity in the catalysis of DNA breakage and rejoining by type IA and IIA DNA topoisomerases

The minimal gene set member msrA , encoding peptide methionine sulfoxide reductase, is a virulence determinant of the plant pathogen Erwinia chrysanthemi

Single-molecule fluorescence spectroscopy of enzyme conformational dynamics and cleavage mechanism

Enhanced rate of intramolecular electron transfer in an engineered purple Cu A azurin

α-Helix nucleation by a calcium-binding peptide loop

SEM1 , a homologue of the split hand/split foot malformation candidate gene Dss1 , regulates exocytosis and pseudohyphal differentiation in yeast

Expression cloning of LDLB , a gene essential for normal Golgi function and assembly of the ldlCp complex

Dimensional and mechanical dynamics of active and stable edges in motile fibroblasts investigated by using atomic force microscopy

Cloning and characterization of a cell surface receptor for xenotropic and polytropic murine leukemia viruses

The nuclear matrix prepared by amine modification

Model of maltose-binding protein/chemoreceptor complex supports intrasubunit signaling mechanism

Multiple and diverse forms of regulated exocytosis in wild-type and defective PC12 cells

FOG-2: A novel GATA-family cofactor related to multitype zinc-finger proteins Friend of GATA-1 and U-shaped

Molecular cloning of FOG-2: A modulator of transcription factor GATA-4 in cardiomyocytes

Metamorphosis is inhibited in transgenic Xenopus laevis tadpoles that overexpress type III deiodinase

sqv mutants of Caenorhabditis elegans are defective in vulval epithelial invagination

Three proteins involved in Caenorhabditis elegans vulval invagination are similar to components of a glycosylation pathway

Perception of solar UVB radiation by phytophagous insects: Behavioral responses and ecosystem implications

Interspecific and intraspecific competition as causes of direct and delayed density dependence in a fluctuating vole population

Species realities and numbers in sexual vertebrates: Perspectives from an asexually transmitted genome

Ectopic expression of E47 or E12 promotes the death of E2A-deficient lymphomas

Inhibition of cyclin-dependent kinase 2 by p21 is necessary for retinoblastoma protein-mediated G 1 arrest after γ-irradiation

Progressive juvenile-onset punctate cataracts caused by mutation of the γD-crystallin gene

Generation of conditional mutants in higher eukaryotes by switching between the expression of two genes

CD48-deficient mice have a pronounced defect in CD4 + T cell activation

T cell antigen receptor-mediated activation of the Ras/mitogen-activated protein kinase pathway controls interleukin 4 receptor function and type-2 helper T cell differentiation

Lack of infection in HIV-exposed individuals is associated with a strong CD8 + cell noncytotoxic anti-HIV response

Distinct dendritic cell subsets differentially regulate the class of immune response in vivo

Identification of a cell protein (FIP-3) as a modulator of NF-κB activity and as a target of an adenovirus inhibitor of tumor necrosis factor α-induced apoptosis

The stretch-activation response may be critical to the proper functioning of the mammalian heart

Defective collagen crosslinking in bone, but not in ligament or cartilage, in Bruck syndrome: