PNAS — Table of Contents — December 19, 2000, 97 (26)

Commentaries

Commentary:
- L. Lee Grismer
Evolutionary biogeography on Mexico's Baja California peninsula: A synthesis of molecules and historical geology
PNAS 2000 97:14017-14018; published ahead of print December 12, 2000
- See companion article on page 14438 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- P. David Polly
Development and evolution occlude: Evolution of development in mammalian teeth
PNAS 2000 97:14019-14021
- See companion article on page 14444 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- J. Perry Hall,
- Eric Merithew,
- and Roger J. Davis
c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) repression during the inflammatory response? Just say NO
PNAS 2000 97:14022-14024
- See companion article on page 14382 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Andrew D. Miranker
Mass spectrometry of proteins of known mass
PNAS 2000 97:14025-14027; published ahead of print December 12, 2000
- See companion article on page 14151 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Ted R. Schultz
In search of ant ancestors
PNAS 2000 97:14028-14029; published ahead of print December 5, 2000
Commentary:
- David Shore
The Sir2 protein family: A novel deacetylase for gene silencing and more
PNAS 2000 97:14030-14032; published ahead of print December 12, 2000
- See companion article on page 14178 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- John M. Hayes
Lipids as a common interest of microorganisms and geochemists
PNAS 2000 97:14033-14034
- See companion article on page 14421 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Witold Filipowicz
Imprinted expression of small nucleolar RNAs in brain: Time for RNomics
PNAS 2000 97:14035-14037
- See companion article on page 14311 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Evan R. Simpson
- and Susan R. Davis
Another role highlighted for estrogens in the male: Sexual behavior
PNAS 2000 97:14038-14040; published ahead of print December 12, 2000
- See companion article on page 14737 in issue 26 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Andy Dobson
Raccoon rabies in space and time
PNAS 2000 97:14041-14043
- See companion article on page 13666 in issue 25 of volume 97
Commentary:
- Boris Magasanik
Global regulation of gene expression
PNAS 2000 97:14044-14045
- See companion article on page 14674 in issue 26 of volume 97

Physical Sciences

Applied Physical Sciences

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Physical Sciences - Applied Physical Sciences:
- Ilya Koltover,
- Kathrin Wagner,
- and Cyrus R. Safinya
DNA condensation in two dimensions
PNAS 2000 97:14046-14051

Chemistry

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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Chaozhi Wan,
- Torsten Fiebig,
- Olav Schiemann,
- Jacqueline K. Barton,
- and Ahmed H. Zewail
Femtosecond direct observation of charge transfer between bases in DNA
PNAS 2000 97:14052-14055; published ahead of print December 5, 2000
- See commentary article on page 387 in issue 2 of volume 98
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry:
- Dongping Zhong,
- Abderrazzak Douhal,
- and Ahmed H. Zewail
Femtosecond studies of protein–ligand hydrophobic binding and dynamics: Human serum albumin
PNAS 2000 97:14056-14061; published ahead of print December 5, 2000
- See commentary article on page 387 in issue 2 of volume 98
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biophysics:
- Ariel Fernández,
- Andrés Colubri,
- and R. Stephen Berry
Topology to geometry in protein folding: β-Lactoglobulin
PNAS 2000 97:14062-14066; published ahead of print December 12, 2000
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Physical Sciences - Chemistry - Biological Sciences - Biochemistry:
- Tilman M. Hackeng,
- José A. Fernández,
- Philip E. Dawson,
- Stephen B. H. Kent,
- and John H. Griffin
Chemical synthesis and spontaneous folding of a multidomain protein: Anticoagulant microprotein S
PNAS 2000 97:14074-14078; published ahead of print December 5, 2000

Mathematics

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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Karsten Grosse-Brauckmann,
- Robert B. Kusner,
- and John M. Sullivan
Constant mean curvature surfaces with three ends
PNAS 2000 97:14067-14068
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Physical Sciences - Mathematics:
- Feng Xu
Algebraic orbifold conformal field theories
PNAS 2000 97:14069-14073; published ahead of print December 5, 2000

Table of Contents

FROM THE COVER

Evolutionary biogeography on Mexico's Baja California peninsula: A synthesis of molecules and historical geology

Development and evolution occlude: Evolution of development in mammalian teeth

c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) repression during the inflammatory response? Just say NO

Mass spectrometry of proteins of known mass

In search of ant ancestors

The Sir2 protein family: A novel deacetylase for gene silencing and more

Lipids as a common interest of microorganisms and geochemists

Imprinted expression of small nucleolar RNAs in brain: Time for RNomics

Another role highlighted for estrogens in the male: Sexual behavior

Raccoon rabies in space and time

Global regulation of gene expression

DNA condensation in two dimensions

Femtosecond direct observation of charge transfer between bases in DNA

Femtosecond studies of protein–ligand hydrophobic binding and dynamics: Human serum albumin

Topology to geometry in protein folding: β-Lactoglobulin

Chemical synthesis and spontaneous folding of a multidomain protein: Anticoagulant microprotein S

Constant mean curvature surfaces with three ends

Algebraic orbifold conformal field theories

Chemical synthesis and spontaneous folding of a multidomain protein: Anticoagulant microprotein S

Crystal structure of an intracellular protease from Pyrococcus horikoshii at 2-Å resolution

Identifying mRNA subsets in messenger ribonucleoprotein complexes by using cDNA arrays

Cracks in the β-can: Fluorescent proteins from Anemonia sulcata (Anthozoa, Actinaria)

The structure of aspartyl dipeptidase reveals a unique fold with a Ser-His-Glu catalytic triad

Mutational studies on HslU and its docking mode with HslV

The specificity loop of T7 RNA polymerase interacts first with the promoter and then with the elongating transcript, suggesting a mechanism for promoter clearance

Stepwise assembly of initiation proteins at budding yeast replication origins in vitro

A kinetically significant intermediate in the folding of barnase

ATP-dependent structural change of the eukaryotic clamp-loader protein, replication factor C

Species-specific polyamines from diatoms control silica morphology

τ kinases in the rat heat shock model: Possible implications for Alzheimer disease

Covalent modification of the androgen receptor by small ubiquitin-like modifier 1 (SUMO-1)

Observation of the noncovalent assembly and disassembly pathways of the chaperone complex MtGimC by mass spectrometry

A model of fibrin formation based on crystal structures of fibrinogen and fibrin fragments complexed with synthetic peptides

Straightening of bulged RNA by the double-stranded RNA-binding domain from the protein kinase PKR

Inorganic polyphosphate kinase and adenylate kinase participate in the polyphosphate:AMP phosphotransferase activity of Escherichia coli

Structural characterization of the human respiratory syncytial virus fusion protein core

Silent information regulator 2 family of NAD- dependent histone/protein deacetylases generates a unique product, 1- O- acetyl-ADP-ribose

An unexpectedly high excision capacity for mispaired 5-hydroxymethyluracil in human cell extracts

Acyl-CoA hydrolysis by the high molecular weight protein 1 subunit of yersiniabactin synthetase: Mutational evidence for a cascade of four acyl-enzyme intermediates during hydrolytic editing

Catalysis of DNA cleavage and nucleoside triphosphate synthesis by NM23-H2/NDP kinase share an active site that implies a DNA repair function

A stable complex of a novel transcription factor IIB- related factor, human TFIIIB50, and associated proteins mediate selective transcription by RNA polymerase III of genes with upstream promoter elements

RbcS suppressor mutations improve the thermal stability and CO 2 /O 2 specificity of rbcL - mutant ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase

Purification and kinetic analysis of recombinant CA XII, a membrane carbonic anhydrase overexpressed in certain cancers

The inducible N -acetylglucosamine catabolic pathway gene cluster in Candida albicans : Discrete N -acetylglucosamine-inducible factors interact at the promoter of NAG1

Context-dependent anticodon recognition by class I lysyl-tRNA synthetases

From the Cover: Identification of brain-specific and imprinted small nucleolar RNA genes exhibiting an unusual genomic organization

Topology to geometry in protein folding: β-Lactoglobulin

Deciphering the folding kinetics of transmembrane helical proteins

Associative memory Hamiltonians for structure prediction without homology: Alpha-helical proteins

Fluorescence quenching: A tool for single-molecule protein-folding study