Table of Contents

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

• Hideyuki Okano,
• Tomoo Hirano,
• and Evan Balaban

From the Academy: Learning and memory

• Jack J. Lissauer,
• Geoffrey W. Marcy,
• and Shigeru Ida

From the Academy: Extrasolar planets

• Yoshiko Takahashi,
• Makoto Kuro-o,
• and Fuyuki Ishikawa

From the Academy: Aging mechanisms

• Toshiro Tanimoto
• and Thorne Lay

From the Academy: Mantle dynamics and seismic tomography

• Stuart T. Nichol,
• Jiro Arikawa,
• and Yoshihiro Kawaoka

From the Academy: Emerging viral diseases

• Andrew J. Majda
• and Ilya Timofeyev

Remarkable statistical behavior for truncated Burgers–Hopf dynamics

• Ronald K. Castellano,
• Ross Clark,
• Stephen L. Craig,
• Colin Nuckolls,
• and Julius Rebek, Jr.

Emergent mechanical properties of self-assembled polymeric capsules

• Arun Radhakrishnan,
• Thomas G. Anderson,
• and Harden M. McConnell

Condensed complexes, rafts, and the chemical activity of cholesterol in membranes

• D. J. Beerling
• and R. A. Berner

Impact of a Permo-Carboniferous high O₂ event on the terrestrial carbon cycle

• Charles A. Perry
• and Kenneth J. Hsu

Geophysical, archaeological, and historical evidence support a solar-output model for climate change

• Dimitri Shlyakhtenko

Prime type III factors

• Donald C. Malins,
• Nayak L. Polissar,
• Gary K. Ostrander,
• and Mark A. Vinson

Single 8-oxo-guanine and 8-oxo-adenine lesions induce marked changes in the backbone structure of a 25-base DNA strand

• Qi-Qun Tang
• and M. Daniel Lane

Role of C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP-10) in the programmed activation of CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-β during adipogenesis

• Hancheng Guan
• and Anne E. Simon

Polymerization of nontemplate bases before transcription initiation at the 3′ ends of templates by an RNA-dependent RNA polymerase: An activity involved in 3′ end repair of viral RNAs

• Haris G. Vikis,
• Weiquan Li,
• Zhigang He,
• and Kun-Liang Guan

The semaphorin receptor plexin-B1 specifically interacts with active Rac in a ligand-dependent manner

• Stephan Umhau,
• Loredano Pollegioni,
• Gianluca Molla,
• Kay Diederichs,
• Wolfram Welte,
• Mirella S. Pilone,
• and Sandro Ghisla

The x-ray structure of d-amino acid oxidase at very high resolution identifies the chemical mechanism of flavin-dependent substrate dehydrogenation

• Kajal Chowdhury,
• Stanley Tabor,
• and Charles C. Richardson

A unique loop in the DNA-binding crevice of bacteriophage T7 DNA polymerase influences primer utilization

• H.-C. Huang,
• Truyen Nguyen,
• and Cecil B. Pickett

Regulation of the antioxidant response element by protein kinase C-mediated phosphorylation of NF-E2-related factor 2

• William T. Self,
• Lin Tsai,
• and Thressa C. Stadtman

Synthesis and characterization of selenotrisulfide-derivatives of lipoic acid and lipoamide

• Frank J. M. Detmers,
• Frank C. Lanfermeijer,
• Rupert Abele,
• Ralph W. Jack,
• Robert Tampé,
• Wil N. Konings,
• and Bert Poolman

Combinatorial peptide libraries reveal the ligand-binding mechanism of the oligopeptide receptor OppA of Lactococcus lactis

• Stephen S. Hecht,
• J. Bradley Hochalter,
• Peter W. Villalta,
• and Sharon E. Murphy

2′-Hydroxylation of nicotine by cytochrome P450 2A6 and human liver microsomes: Formation of a lung carcinogen precursor

• Kristopher S. Cunningham,
• Robin E. Dodson,
• Maria A. Nagel,
• David J. Shapiro,
• and Daniel R. Schoenberg

Vigilin binding selectively inhibits cleavage of the vitellogenin mRNA 3′-untranslated region by the mRNA endonuclease polysomal ribonuclease 1

• Leslie E. Orgel

Self-organizing biochemical cycles

• Amy Lew,
• William J. Rutter,
• and Giulia C. Kennedy

Unusual DNA structure of the diabetes susceptibility locus IDDM2 and its effect on transcription by the insulin promoter factor Pur-1/MAZ

• Edward C. Goodwin
• and Daniel DiMaio

Repression of human papillomavirus oncogenes in HeLa cervical carcinoma cells causes the orderly reactivation of dormant tumor suppressor pathways

• Man-Shiow Jiang
• and M. Daniel Lane

Sequential repression and activation of the CCAAT enhancer-binding protein-α (C/EBPα) gene during adipogenesis

• Ahmed Chadli,
• Ilham Bouhouche,
• William Sullivan,
• Bridget Stensgard,
• Nancy McMahon,
• Maria G. Catelli,
• and David O. Toft

Dimerization and N-terminal domain proximity underlie the function of the molecular chaperone heat shock protein 90

• Huay-Keng Loke,
• George N. Bennett,
• and Paul A. Lindahl

Active acetyl-CoA synthase from Clostridium thermoaceticum obtained by cloning and heterologous expression of acsAB in Escherichia coli

• Minna K. Tikkanen,
• Damien J. Carter,
• Alana M. Harris,
• Hung M. Le,
• David O. Azorsa,
• Paul S. Meltzer,
• and Fern E. Murdoch

Endogenously expressed estrogen receptor and coactivator AIB1 interact in MCF-7 human breast cancer cells

• Yong Liu,
• Ming Lei,
• and Charles E. Samuel

Chimeric double-stranded RNA-specific adenosine deaminase ADAR1 proteins reveal functional selectivity of double-stranded RNA-binding domains from ADAR1 and protein kinase PKR

• Eric Kobet,
• Xiaoya Zeng,
• Yong Zhu,
• David Keller,
• and Hua Lu

MDM2 inhibits p300-mediated p53 acetylation and activation by forming a ternary complex with the two proteins

• Xiong Liu,
• Shi Shu,
• Roxanne A. Yamashita,
• Yuhui Xu,
• and Edward D. Korn

Chimeras of Dictyostelium myosin II head and neck domains with Acanthamoeba or chicken smooth muscle myosin II tail domain have greatly increased and unregulated actin-dependent MgATPase activity

• Edward D. Korn

Coevolution of head, neck, and tail domains of myosin heavy chains

• Arun Radhakrishnan,
• Thomas G. Anderson,
• and Harden M. McConnell

Condensed complexes, rafts, and the chemical activity of cholesterol in membranes

• Jennifer A. Johnston,
• Muffie J. Dalton,
• Mark E. Gurney,
• and Ron R. Kopito

Formation of high molecular weight complexes of mutant Cu,Zn-superoxide dismutase in a mouse model for familial amyotrophic lateral sclerosis

• Fang Zhang,
• Raymond L. White,
• and Kristi L. Neufeld

Phosphorylation near nuclear localization signal regulates nuclear import of adenomatous polyposis coli protein

• Peter Hemmerich,
• Tanja Stoyan,
• Gerhard Wieland,
• Marianne Koch,
• Johannes Lechner,
• and Stephan Diekmann

Interaction of yeast kinetochore proteins with centromere–protein/transcription factor Cbf1

• Chin-Yo Lin,
• Matthew L. Madsen,
• Frederic R. Yarm,
• Young-Joo Jang,
• Xiaoqi Liu,
• and Raymond L. Erikson

Peripheral Golgi protein GRASP65 is a target of mitotic polo-like kinase (Plk) and Cdc2

• Teresa C. Weglarz
• and Eric P. Sandgren

Timing of hepatocyte entry into DNA synthesis after partial hepatectomy is cell autonomous

• Melissa H. Wong,
• Jennifer R. Saam,
• Thaddeus S. Stappenbeck,
• Charles H. Rexer,
• and Jeffrey I. Gordon

Genetic mosaic analysis based on Cre recombinase and navigated laser capture microdissection

• Mustafa Bayaa,
• Ronald A. Booth,
• Yinglun Sheng,
• and X. Johné Liu

The classical progesterone receptor mediates Xenopus oocyte maturation through a nongenomic mechanism