Table of Contents

From the Academy: Introduction to the Chinese–American Frontiers of Science

• Ellen E. Wohl,
• Roger S. Pulwarty,
• and Jian Yun Zhang

From the Academy: Assessing climate impacts

• Bin Wang,
• Xiaolei Zou,
• and Jiang Zhu

From the Academy: Data assimilation and its applications

• Hai-Hu Wen

From the Academy: Macroscopic phase separation in high-temperature superconductors

• Karen L. Wooley,
• Jeffrey S. Moore,
• Chi Wu,
• and Yulian Yang

From the Academy: Novel polymers: Molecular to nanoscale order in three dimensions

• L. A. N. Amaral,
• A. Scala,
• M. Barthélémy,
• and H. E. Stanley

Classes of small-world networks

• Robert S. H. Liu
• and George S. Hammond

The case of medium-dependent dual mechanisms for photoisomerization: One-bond-flip and Hula-Twist

• Zhaochun Ma
• and John-Stephen Taylor

Nucleic acid-triggered catalytic drug release

• Gustavo Stolovitzky
• and B. J. Berne

Catalytic tempering: A method for sampling rough energy landscapes by Monte Carlo

• Shoichiro Ozaki,
• Daryll B. DeWald,
• Joseph C. Shope,
• Jian Chen,
• and Glenn D. Prestwich

Intracellular delivery of phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates using polyamine carriers

• In Jae Myung,
• Vijay Balasubramanian,
• and Mark A. Pitt

Counting probability distributions: Differential geometry and model selection

• Claudio Vita-Finzi

Deformation and seismicity of Taiwan

• Thomas Huser,
• Ming Yan,
• and Lewis J. Rothberg

Single chain spectroscopy of conformational dependence of conjugated polymer photophysics

• Ariella V. Popple
• and Dennis M. Levi

Amblyopes see true alignment where normal observers see illusory tilt

• T. A. Thorup,
• B. Tanyolac,
• K. D. Livingstone,
• S. Popovsky,
• I. Paran,
• and Molly Jahn

Candidate gene analysis of organ pigmentation loci in the Solanaceae

• Sunkyu Kim,
• Qing Li,
• Chi V. Dang,
• and Linda A. Lee

Induction of ribosomal genes and hepatocyte hypertrophy by adenovirus-mediated expression of c-Myc in vivo

• Hirofumi Onishi,
• Kaoru Konishi,
• Keigi Fujiwara,
• Kazuyoshi Hayakawa,
• Masaru Tanokura,
• Hugo M. Martinez,
• and Manuel F. Morales

On the tryptophan residue of smooth muscle myosin that responds to binding of nucleotide

• Jan B. Koenderink,
• Harm P. H. Hermsen,
• Herman G. P. Swarts,
• Peter H. G. M. Willems,
• and Jan Joep H. H. M. De Pont

High-affinity ouabain binding by a chimeric gastric H + ,K + -ATPase containing transmembrane hairpins M3-M4 and M5-M6 of the α 1 -subunit of rat Na + ,K + -ATPase

• Trevor L. Hoffman,
• Gabriela Canziani,
• Li Jia,
• Joseph Rucker,
• and Robert W. Doms

A biosensor assay for studying ligand-membrane receptor interactions: Binding of antibodies and HIV-1 Env to chemokine receptors

• Carlos González,
• Grant M. Langdon,
• Marta Bruix,
• Antonio Gálvez,
• Eva Valdivia,
• Mercedes Maqueda,
• and Manuel Rico

Bacteriocin AS-48, a microbial cyclic polypeptide structurally and functionally related to mammalian NK-lysin

• Moshe Goldsmith,
• Lea Sarov-Blat,
• and Zvi Livneh

Plasmid-encoded MucB protein is a DNA polymerase (pol RI) specialized for lesion bypass in the presence of MucA′, RecA, and SSB

• Jhang Ho Pak,
• Freesia L. Huang,
• Junfa Li,
• Detlef Balschun,
• Klaus G. Reymann,
• Chin Chiang,
• Heiner Westphal,
• and Kuo-Ping Huang

Involvement of neurogranin in the modulation of calcium/calmodulin-dependent protein kinase II, synaptic plasticity, and spatial learning: A study with knockout mice

• A. Houdusse,
• A. G. Szent-Györgyi,
• and C. Cohen

Three conformational states of scallop myosin S1

• Amy S. Espeseth,
• Peter Felock,
• Abigail Wolfe,
• Marc Witmer,
• Jay Grobler,
• Neville Anthony,
• Melissa Egbertson,
• Jeffrey Y. Melamed,
• Steve Young,
• Terence Hamill,
• James L. Cole,
• and Daria J. Hazuda

HIV-1 integrase inhibitors that compete with the target DNA substrate define a unique strand transfer conformation for integrase

• Ruth Lev Bar-Or,
• Ruth Maya,
• Lee A. Segel,
• Uri Alon,
• Arnold J. Levine,
• and Moshe Oren

Generation of oscillations by the p53-Mdm2 feedback loop: A theoretical and experimental study

• Shuyuan Yeh,
• Yueh-Chiang Hu,
• Mujib Rahman,
• Hui-Kuan Lin,
• Cheng-Lung Hsu,
• Huei-Ju Ting,
• Hong-Yo Kang,
• and Chawnshang Chang

Increase of androgen-induced cell death and androgen receptor transactivation by BRCA1 in prostate cancer cells

• Gustavo Stolovitzky
• and B. J. Berne

Catalytic tempering: A method for sampling rough energy landscapes by Monte Carlo

• Kai-Chien Chang,
• David F. J. Tees,
• and Daniel A. Hammer

The state diagram for cell adhesion under flow: Leukocyte rolling and firm adhesion

• Marijke van Oosten,
• Heggert Rebel,
• Errol C. Friedberg,
• Harry van Steeg,
• Gijsbertus T. J. van der Horst,
• Henk J. van Kranen,
• Anja Westerman,
• Albert A. van Zeeland,
• Leon H. F. Mullenders,
• and Frank R. de Gruijl

Differential role of transcription-coupled repair in UVB-induced G 2 arrest and apoptosis in mouse epidermis

• Cynthia M. Simbulan-Rosenthal,
• Danith H. Ly,
• Dean S. Rosenthal,
• Genevieve Konopka,
• RuiBai Luo,
• Zhao-Qi Wang,
• Peter G. Schultz,
• and Mark E. Smulson

Misregulation of gene expression in primary fibroblasts lacking poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase

• Yang Cao,
• A. Terrece Pearman,
• Guy A. Zimmerman,
• Thomas M. McIntyre,
• and Stephen M. Prescott

Intracellular unesterified arachidonic acid signals apoptosis

• Shoichiro Ozaki,
• Daryll B. DeWald,
• Joseph C. Shope,
• Jian Chen,
• and Glenn D. Prestwich

Intracellular delivery of phosphoinositides and inositol phosphates using polyamine carriers

• Jeong-a Kim,
• Jingfang Lu,
• and Patrick G. Quinn

Distinct cAMP response element-binding protein (CREB) domains stimulate different steps in a concerted mechanism of transcription activation

• Zhennan Lai,
• Ina Han,
• Gregory Zirzow,
• Roscoe O. Brady,
• and Jakob Reiser

Intercellular delivery of a herpes simplex virus VP22 fusion protein from cells infected with lentiviral vectors

• Teruo Yamauchi,
• Jun Yamauchi,
• Takeshi Kuwata,
• Tomohiko Tamura,
• Tsuyoshi Yamashita,
• Nancy Bae,
• Heiner Westphal,
• Keiko Ozato,
• and Yoshihiro Nakatani

Distinct but overlapping roles of histone acetylase PCAF and of the closely related PCAF-B/GCN5 in mouse embryogenesis

• Thomas Eisner
• and Daniel J. Aneshansley

Chemical defense: Aquatic beetle ( Dineutes hornii ) vs. fish ( Micropterus salmoides )

• L. Aravind,
• Hidemi Watanabe,
• David J. Lipman,
• and Eugene V. Koonin

Lineage-specific loss and divergence of functionally linked genes in eukaryotes

• Anne D. Yoder,
• Rodin M. Rasoloarison,
• Steven M. Goodman,
• Jodi A. Irwin,
• Sylvia Atsalis,
• Matthew J. Ravosa,
• and Jörg U. Ganzhorn

Remarkable species diversity in Malagasy mouse lemurs (primates, Microcebus )

• Martin Perron,
• Daniel J. Perry,
• Christophe Andalo,
• and Jean Bousquet

Evidence from sequence-tagged-site markers of a recent progenitor-derivative species pair in conifers

• Michael B. Evgen'ev,
• Helena Zelentsova,
• Helena Poluectova,
• George T. Lyozin,
• Vera Veleikodvorskaja,
• K. I. Pyatkov,
• Lev A. Zhivotovsky,
• and Margaret G. Kidwell

Mobile elements and chromosomal evolution in the virilis group of Drosophila

• Insa Cassens,
• Saverio Vicario,
• Victor G. Waddell,
• Heather Balchowsky,
• Daniel Van Belle,
• Wang Ding,
• Chen Fan,
• R. S. Lal Mohan,
• Paulo C. Simões-Lopes,
• Ricardo Bastida,
• Axel Meyer,
• Michael J. Stanhope,
• and Michel C. Milinkovitch

Independent adaptation to riverine habitats allowed survival of ancient cetacean lineages

• Samuel Karlin
• and Luciano Brocchieri

Heat shock protein 60 sequence comparisons: Duplications, lateral transfer, and mitochondrial evolution