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Volume 81, Number 6

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Table of Contents

AUTHOR INDEX

Biological Sciences

BIOCHEMISTRY

Monoclonal antibodies against the rat liver glucocorticoid receptor
Evidence that phosphorylation and dephosphorylation regulate the distribution of excitation energy between the two photosystems of photosynthesis in vivo: Photoacoustic and fluorimetric study of an intact leaf ATP-dependent degradation of ubiquitin-protein conjugates Possible ideal lac operator: Escherichia coli lac operator-like sequences from eukaryotic genomes lack the central G&C pair Purified reconstituted lac carrier protein from Escherichia coli is fully functional T-cell growth factor: Complete nucleotide sequence and organization of the gene in normal and malignant cells
Sam Okret, Ann-Charlotte Wikstrom, OQan Wrange, Birger Andersson, and Jan-Ake Gustafsson Ora Canaani, James Barber, and Shmuel Malkin
Avram Hershko, Esther Leshinsky, Dvorah Ganoth, and Hannah Heller Annemarie Simons, Daniela Tils, Brigitte von Wilcken-Bergmann, and Benno Muller-Hill Paul Viitanen, Maria Luisa Garcia, and H. Ronald Kaback Nikki J. Holbrook, Kendall A. Smith, Albert J. Fornace, Jr., Claudette M. Comeau, Robert L. Wiskocil, and Gerald R. Crabtree Ignacio Prieto, Jose M. Ldzaro, Juan A. Garcia, Josd M. Hermoso, and Margarita Salas

Max, E. E. 1789 Mears, J. G. 1771 Mellor, A. L. 1804 Meruelo, D. 1804 Mezey, E. 1854 Mohandas, T. 1759 Moll, W. 1710 Montoya, A. 1728 Moran, T. 1809 Moscarello, M. A. 1871 Muller-Hill, B. 1624 Muramatsu, M. 1649 Nagasawa, H. 1827 Nagel, R. L. 1771 Nakazawa, A. 1688 Nakazawa, T. 1688 Nazar, R. N. 1768 Nester, E. 1728 Oh, E. Y. 1911 Ohmori, H. 1888 Okret, S. 1609 Ott, M.-O. 1738 Pagnier, J. 1771 Pampeno, C. 1804 Pardoen, J. A. 1706 Park, J. T. 1844 Pasternack, M. S. 1799 Patel, P. 1759 Pellicer, A. 1804 Peruzzi, G. 1880 Peschon, J. 1728 Pochon, F. 1710 Poduslo, J. F. 1864 Pogo, B. G.-T. 1831 Ponte, P. 1813 Popp, J. A. 1692 Prieto, I. 1639 Radner, B. S. 1827 Rajewsky, M. F. 1692 Rehfeld, J. F. 1902 Rhodes, G. H. 1784 Rochon, D. 1719 Rossomando, A. 1804 Rothenberg, E. 1742 Rudnick, G. 1867 Rudnick, M. S. 1867 Rutishauser, U. 1906 Salas, M. 1639 Sawchenko, P. E. 1883 Schaefer-Rego, K. E. 1771 Schiebler, W. 1684 Schonbrunn, A. 1822 Schuller, E. 1774 Schulman, J. L. 1809 Sen, I. 1679 Shapiro, L. J. 1759 Shows, T. 1813 Siegel, A. 1719 Simoni, R. D. 1674 Simons, A. 1624 Skehel, J. J. 1779 Skirboll, L. 1854 Skurla, R. M., Jr. 1794 Slatkin, M. 1764 Smith, K. A. 1634 Smith, M. T. 1696 Smith, S. 0. 1706 Soffer, R. L. 1679 Sogawa, K. 1649 Sogn, J. A. 1789 Sperling, L. 1738 Staerz, U. D. 1799 Stalenhoef, A. F. H. 1839 Stein, D. L. 1751 Stengaard-Pedersen, K. 1902 Stevens, D. J. 1779 Suzuki, Y. 1644
Swanson, L. W. 1883 Swenberg, J. A. 1692 Swope, S. L. 1822 Tagashira, Y. 1649 Takahata, N. 1764 Thanos, S. 1906 Thimann, K. V. 1724 Thompson, J. E. 1871 Thorn, N. A. 1902 Tils, D. 1624 Trinh, D. 1789 Tsujimoto, Y. 1644 Vadas, M. A. 1818 Vale, W. W. 1883 Vaughan, J. H. 1784 Viitanen, P. 1629 von Wilcken-Bergmann, B. 1624 Weiss, E. H. 1804 Weiss, M. C. 1738 Wikstrom, A.-C. 1609 Wiley, D. C. 1779 Wilson, I. A. 1779 Winkel, C. 1706 Wise, G. E. 1733 Wiskocil, R. L. 1634 Wong, W. M. 1768 Woo, D. D. L. 1654 Wrange, O. 1609 Yanagihara, R. 1875 Yatvin, M. B. 1715 Yen, P. H. 1759 Yeung, A. T. 1911 Yoakum, G. H. 1911
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DANIEL E. KOSHLAND, JR., Chairman ROBERT E. MARSHAK J. EDWIN SEEGMILLER DANIEL NATHANS ROBERT L. SINSHEIMER PETER H. RAVEN SOLOMON H. SNYDER JOHN RODGERS FRANK H. WESTHEIMER NEVIN S. SCRIMSHAW JAMES B. WYNGAARDEN Managing Editor: FRANCES R. ZWANZIG Senior Associate Editor: GARY T. COCKS Associate Editor: CAY BUTLER Associate Editor: TERRY W. PEARSON Associate Editor: DOROTHY P. SMITH Assistant Managing Editor: JOANNE D'AMIco
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Proceedilngs

National Academy

1609-1930

Biological Sciences Physical Sciences

CHEMISTRY

The pre-melt phase of n-alkanes: Crystallographic evidence for a kinked chain structure Evidence from bond lengths and bond angles for enneacovalence of cobalt, rhodium, iridium, iron, ruthenium, and osmium in compounds with elements of medium electronegativity
D. L. Dorset, B. Moss, J. C. Wittmann, and B. Lotz Linus Pauling

1913 1918

GEOPHYSICS
Yields of Soviet underground nuclear explosions from seismic surface waves: Compliance with the Threshold Test Ban Treaty
Lynn R. Sykes and Inds L. Cifuentes 1922

MATHEMATICS

applications of diophantine approximations

G. V. Chudnovsky

Chudnovsky, G. V. 1926 Cifuentes, I. L. 1922 Dorset, D. L. 1913 Lotz, B. 1913
Moss, B. 1913 Pauling, L. 1918 Sykes, L. R. 1922 Wittmann, J. C. 1913