PNAS — Table of Contents — May 9, 2000, 97 (10)

Commentaries

Commentary:
- Pascale Cossart
- and Renaud Jonquières
Sortase, a universal target for therapeutic agents against Gram-positive bacteria?
PNAS 2000 97:5013-5015
- See companion article on page 5510 in issue 10 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Paul A. Loach
Supramolecular complexes in photosynthetic bacteria
PNAS 2000 97:5016-5018
- See companion article on page 5197 in issue 10 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Edward G. Jones
Microcolumns in the cerebral cortex
PNAS 2000 97:5019-5021
- See companion article on page 5039 in issue 10 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Derek A. Persons
- and Arthur W. Nienhuis
Gene therapy for the hemoglobin disorders: Past, present, and future
PNAS 2000 97:5022-5024
- See companion article on page 5411 in issue 10 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Michael M. C. Lai
The making of infectious viral RNA: No size limit in sight
PNAS 2000 97:5025-5027
- See companion article on page 5516 in issue 10 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Jean van Heijenoort
- and Laurent Gutmann
Correlation between the structure of the bacterial peptidoglycan monomer unit, the specificity of transpeptidation, and susceptibility to β-lactams
PNAS 2000 97:5028-5030
- See companion article on page 4891 in issue 9 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Douglas A. Lauffenburger
Cell signaling pathways as control modules: Complexity for simplicity?
PNAS 2000 97:5031-5033
- See companion article on page 4649 in issue 9 of volume 97

Perspective

Perspective - Perspective:
- Wolfgang K. H. Panofsky
National security and scientific communication
PNAS 2000 97:5034-5036; published ahead of print April 25, 2000

From the Academy

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From the Academy:
From the Academy: New Members and Foreign Associates Elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 2, 2000
PNAS 2000 97:5037-5038; published ahead of print May 2, 2000

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- S. V. Buldyrev,
- L. Cruz,
- T. Gomez-Isla,
- E. Gomez-Tortosa,
- S. Havlin,
- R. Le,
- H. E. Stanley,
- B. Urbanc,
- and B. T. Hyman
From the Cover: Description of microcolumnar ensembles in association cortex and their disruption in Alzheimer and Lewy body dementias
PNAS 2000 97:5039-5043; published ahead of print April 18, 2000
- See commentary article on page 5019 in issue 10 of volume 97

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Dale L. Boger,
- Haruhiko Sato,
- Aaron E. Lerner,
- Michael P. Hedrick,
- Robert A. Fecik,
- Hiroshi Miyauchi,
- Gordon D. Wilkie,
- Bryce J. Austin,
- Matthew P. Patricelli,
- and Benjamin F. Cravatt
Exceptionally potent inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase: The enzyme responsible for degradation of endogenous oleamide and anandamide
PNAS 2000 97:5044-5049
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- David K. Leung,
- Zhiwei Yang,
- and Ronald Breslow
Selective disruption of protein aggregation by cyclodextrin dimers
PNAS 2000 97:5050-5053

Engineering

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Physical Sciences - Engineering - Biological Sciences - Applied Biological Sciences:
- Anton P. J. Middelberg,
- Clay J. Radke,
- and Harvey W. Blanch
Peptide interfacial adsorption is kinetically limited by the thermodynamic stability of self association
PNAS 2000 97:5054-5059; published ahead of print May 2, 2000

Physics

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Physical Sciences - Physics:
- M. Jaletzky
- and F. H. Busse
New patterns of centrifugally driven thermal convection
PNAS 2000 97:5060-5064
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Social Sciences

Economic Sciences

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Social Sciences - Economic Sciences:
- E. Minelli
- and H. M. Polemarchakis
Nas–Walras equilibria of a large economy
PNAS 2000 97:5675-5678
- Abstract
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Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

Sortase, a universal target for therapeutic agents against Gram-positive bacteria?

Supramolecular complexes in photosynthetic bacteria

Microcolumns in the cerebral cortex

Gene therapy for the hemoglobin disorders: Past, present, and future

The making of infectious viral RNA: No size limit in sight

Correlation between the structure of the bacterial peptidoglycan monomer unit, the specificity of transpeptidation, and susceptibility to β-lactams

Cell signaling pathways as control modules: Complexity for simplicity?

National security and scientific communication

From the Academy: New Members and Foreign Associates Elected to the National Academy of Sciences on May 2, 2000

From the Cover: Description of microcolumnar ensembles in association cortex and their disruption in Alzheimer and Lewy body dementias

Exceptionally potent inhibitors of fatty acid amide hydrolase: The enzyme responsible for degradation of endogenous oleamide and anandamide

Selective disruption of protein aggregation by cyclodextrin dimers

Peptide interfacial adsorption is kinetically limited by the thermodynamic stability of self association

New patterns of centrifugally driven thermal convection

Nas–Walras equilibria of a large economy

A highly digestible sorghum mutant cultivar exhibits a unique folded structure of endosperm protein bodies

Peptide interfacial adsorption is kinetically limited by the thermodynamic stability of self association

Blood glutathione synthesis rates in healthy adults receiving a sulfur amino acid-free diet

Selective disruption of protein aggregation by cyclodextrin dimers

Binding of bisubstrate analog promotes large structural changes in the unregulated catalytic trimer of aspartate transcarbamoylase: Implications for allosteric regulation

Uracil-DNA glycosylase–DNA substrate and product structures: Conformational strain promotes catalytic efficiency by coupled stereoelectronic effects

Phosphorylation of protein kinase N by phosphoinositide-dependent protein kinase-1 mediates insulin signals to the actin cytoskeleton

DNA polymerase active site is highly mutable: Evolutionary consequences

Glutathione synthesis is essential for mouse development but not for cell growth in culture

The crystal structure of the Rev binding element of HIV-1 reveals novel base pairing and conformational variability

(4-Aminomethyl)phenylguanidine derivatives as nonpeptidic highly selective inhibitors of human urokinase

Misactivated amino acids translocate at similar rates across surface of a tRNA synthetase

Asparagine-proline sequence within membrane-spanning segment of SREBP triggers intramembrane cleavage by Site-2 protease

Assembly of τ protein into Alzheimer paired helical filaments depends on a local sequence motif ( 306 VQIVYK 311 ) forming β structure

5-Methylcytosine-DNA glycosylase activity is present in a cloned G/T mismatch DNA glycosylase associated with the chicken embryo DNA demethylation complex

Bepridil opens the regulatory N-terminal lobe of cardiac troponin C

Direct nitric oxide signal transduction via nitrosylation of iron-sulfur centers in the SoxR transcription activator

Noninvasive measurement of gene expression in skeletal muscle

Conversion of a c type cytochrome to a b type that spontaneously forms in vitro from apo protein and heme: Implications for c type cytochrome biogenesis and folding

Estimating the probability for a protein to have a new fold: A statistical computational model

Characterization of PDZ-binding kinase, a mitotic kinase

The Gcd10p/Gcd14p complex is the essential two-subunit tRNA(1-methyladenosine) methyltransferase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Single-molecule protein folding: Diffusion fluorescence resonance energy transfer studies of the denaturation of chymotrypsin inhibitor 2

Detection and selective dissociation of intact ribosomes in a mass spectrometer

Mapping the interface between calmodulin and MARCKS-related protein by fluorescence spectroscopy

From the Cover: The long-range supraorganization of the bacterial photosynthetic unit: A key role for PufX

Separation of the glucose-stimulated cytoplasmic and mitochondrial NAD(P)H responses in pancreatic islet β cells

Collaboration of signal transducer and activator of transcription 1 (STAT1) and BRCA1 in differential regulation of IFN-γ target genes

Nuclear structure in normal and Bloom syndrome cells

A green fluorescent protein-reporter mammalian two-hybrid system with extrachromosomal maintenance of a prey expression plasmid: Application to interaction screening

Role of Rac in controlling the actin cytoskeleton and chemotaxis in motile cells

NMR and mutagenesis evidence for an I domain allosteric site that regulates lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 ligand binding

Non-CpG methylation is prevalent in embryonic stem cells and may be mediated by DNA methyltransferase 3a