PNAS — Table of Contents — March 30, 1999, 96 (7)

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Richard Horn
The dual role of calcium: Pore blocker and modulator of gating
PNAS 1999 96:3331-3332
- See companion article on page 4154 in issue 7 of volume 96
- See companion article on page 4158 in issue 7 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Howard L. Weiner
Oral tolerance with Copolymer 1 for the treatment of multiple sclerosis
PNAS 1999 96:3333-3335
- See companion article on page 3842 in issue 7 of volume 96
Commentary:
- C. Richard Hutchinson
Microbial polyketide synthases: More and more prolific
PNAS 1999 96:3336-3338
- See companion article on page 3622 in issue 7 of volume 96
- See companion article on page 1846 in issue 5 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Arthur J. Lustig
Crisis intervention: The role of telomerase
PNAS 1999 96:3339-3341
- See companion article on page 14723 in issue 25 of volume 95
- See companion article on page 3723 in issue 7 of volume 96
Commentary:
- Peter T. Lansbury, Jr.
Evolution of amyloid: What normal protein folding may tell us about fibrillogenesis and disease
PNAS 1999 96:3342-3344
- See companion article on page 3590 in issue 7 of volume 96
Commentary:
- David Balshaw,
- Ling Gao,
- and Gerhard Meissner
Luminal loop of the ryanodine receptor: A pore-forming segment?
PNAS 1999 96:3345-3347
- See companion article on page 4164 in issue 7 of volume 96

Colloquium Paper

From the Academy

From the Academy:
From the Academy: Keeping America Secure for the 21st Century
PNAS 1999 96:3486-3488

Physical Sciences

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- David H. Live,
- Lawrence J. Williams,
- Scott D. Kuduk,
- Jacob B. Schwarz,
- Peter W. Glunz,
- Xiao-Tao Chen,
- Dalibor Sames,
- R. Ajay Kumar,
- and Samuel J. Danishefsky
Probing cell-surface architecture through synthesis: An NMR-determined structural motif for tumor-associated mucins
PNAS 1999 96:3489-3493
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- George A. Olah,
- G. K. Surya Prakash,
- and Golam Rasul
Helionitronium trication (NO 2 He 3+ ) and helionitrosonium trication (HeNO 3+ )
PNAS 1999 96:3494-3495
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Eduardo J. Martinez,
- Takashi Owa,
- Stuart L. Schreiber,
- and E. J. Corey
Phthalascidin, a synthetic antitumor agent with potency and mode of action comparable to ecteinascidin 743
PNAS 1999 96:3496-3501

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- Anja König
- and N. David Mermin
Screw rotations and glide mirrors: Crystallography in Fourier space
PNAS 1999 96:3502-3506

Social Sciences

Anthropology

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Biological Sciences - Evolution - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Li Jin,
- Peter A. Underhill,
- Vishal Doctor,
- Ronald W. Davis,
- Peidong Shen,
- L. Luca Cavalli-Sforza,
- and Peter J. Oefner
Distribution of haplotypes from a chromosome 21 region distinguishes multiple prehistoric human migrations
PNAS 1999 96:3796-3800
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Biological Sciences - Genetics - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- Rick A. Kittles,
- Jeffrey C. Long,
- Andrew W. Bergen,
- Monica Eggert,
- Matti Virkkunen,
- Markku Linnoila,
- and David Goldman
Cladistic association analysis of Y chromosome effects on alcohol dependence and related personality traits
PNAS 1999 96:4204-4209
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Biological Sciences - Evolution - Social Sciences - Anthropology:
- J. M. Bermúdez de Castro,
- A. Rosas,
- E. Carbonell,
- M. E. Nicolás,
- J. Rodríguez,
- and J. L. Arsuaga
A modern human pattern of dental development in Lower Pleistocene hominids from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain)
PNAS 1999 96:4210-4213

Table of Contents

The dual role of calcium: Pore blocker and modulator of gating

Oral tolerance with Copolymer 1 for the treatment of multiple sclerosis

Microbial polyketide synthases: More and more prolific

Crisis intervention: The role of telomerase

Evolution of amyloid: What normal protein folding may tell us about fibrillogenesis and disease

Luminal loop of the ryanodine receptor: A pore-forming segment?

Colloquium Paper: Geology, mineralogy, and human welfare

Colloquium Paper: Characterization of complex mineral assemblages: Implications for contaminant transport and environmental remediation

Colloquium Paper: Surface geochemistry of the clay minerals

Colloquium Paper: Contaminant bioavailability in soils, sediments, and aquatic environments

Colloquium Paper: Airborne minerals and related aerosol particles: Effects on climate and the environment

Colloquium Paper: Oceanic minerals: Their origin, nature of their environment, and significance

Colloquium Paper: Mineral surfaces and bioavailability of heavy metals: A molecular-scale perspective

Colloquium Paper: Long-range transport of mineral dust in the global atmosphere: Impact of African dust on the environment of the southeastern United States

Colloquium Paper: Biological impact on mineral dissolution: Application of the lichen model to understanding mineral weathering in the rhizosphere

Colloquium Paper: A risk assessment for exposure to grunerite asbestos (amosite) in an iron ore mine

Colloquium Paper: Potential effects of gas hydrate on human welfare

Colloquium Paper: Health impacts of domestic coal use in China

Colloquium Paper: Nuclear waste forms for actinides

Colloquium Paper: Illite and hydrocarbon exploration

Colloquium Paper: Manganese oxide minerals: Crystal structures and economic and environmental significance

Colloquium Paper: Negative pH, efflorescent mineralogy, and consequences for environmental restoration at the Iron Mountain Superfund site, California

Colloquium Paper: La roca magica : Uses of natural zeolites in agriculture and industry

Colloquium Paper: Synthetic zeolites and other microporous oxide molecular sieves

Colloquium Paper: Biochemical evolution III: Polymerization on organophilic silica-rich surfaces, crystal–chemical modeling, formation of first cells, and geological clues

From the Academy: Keeping America Secure for the 21st Century

Probing cell-surface architecture through synthesis: An NMR-determined structural motif for tumor-associated mucins

Helionitronium trication (NO 2 He 3+ ) and helionitrosonium trication (HeNO 3+ )

Phthalascidin, a synthetic antitumor agent with potency and mode of action comparable to ecteinascidin 743

Screw rotations and glide mirrors: Crystallography in Fourier space

Distribution of haplotypes from a chromosome 21 region distinguishes multiple prehistoric human migrations

Cladistic association analysis of Y chromosome effects on alcohol dependence and related personality traits

A modern human pattern of dental development in Lower Pleistocene hominids from Atapuerca-TD6 (Spain)

Design of highly specific cytotoxins by using trans-splicing ribozymes

A cytosine analog that confers enhanced potency to antisense oligonucleotides

SMRTe, a silencing mediator for retinoid and thyroid hormone receptors-extended isoform that is more related to the nuclear receptor corepressor

Deduction of consensus binding sequences on proteins that bind IIA Glc of the phospho enol pyruvate:sugar phosphotransferase system by cysteine scanning mutagenesis of Escherichia coli lactose permease

Crystal structure of human type II inosine monophosphate dehydrogenase: Implications for ligand binding and drug design

Nitroreductase A is regulated as a member of the soxRS regulon of Escherichia coli

Tumor necrosis factor receptor family member RANK mediates osteoclast differentiation and activation induced by osteoprotegerin ligand

Biochemical characterization of Wnt-Frizzled interactions using a soluble, biologically active vertebrate Wnt protein

Replication fork assembly at recombination intermediates is required for bacterial growth

The role of threonine 37 in flavin reactivity of the old yellow enzyme

Combinatorial protein engineering by incremental truncation

Rational design of a scytalone dehydratase-like enzyme using a structurally homologous protein scaffold

Crystal structure of human p32, a doughnut-shaped acidic mitochondrial matrix protein

Thermal adaptation analyzed by comparison of protein sequences from mesophilic and extremely thermophilic Methanococcus species

Engineering precision RNA molecular switches

Designing conditions for in vitro formation of amyloid protofilaments and fibrils

Mutually compensatory mutations during evolution of the tetramerization domain of tumor suppressor p53 lead to impaired hetero-oligomerization

Crystal structure of a thermostable type B DNA polymerase from Thermococcus gorgonarius

Cytoplasmic RNA modulators of an inside-out signal-transduction cascade

Expression of Batis maritima methyl chloride transferase in Escherichia coli

Telomerase in kinetoplastid parasitic protozoa