GENE Vol. 176 No. 1/2 17 October 1996 AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON GENES AND GENOMES CONTENTS Bowman, T.L., Kaludov, N.K., Klein, M. and An, Z., Farman, M.L., Budde, A., Taura, S. and | S.-C 1-8 STIS TRIED Scbilinbhincnsncgnenensnscesentaiedhenstenmaieninnintnnt 93-96 An H3 coding region regulatory element is common to all New cosmid vectors for library construction, chromosome four nucleosomal classes of mouse histone-encoding walking and restriction mapping in filamentous fungi genes Chenal, V., Souque, P., Markovits, A. and Islam, N., Poitras, L., Gagnon, F. and Moss, T. 9-16 SEITIIITIES Ths. scensecstnsetsentepntbddntincsnenectll aneebiageetaneinadens 97-101 Antisense and sense poly(ARN)As from the Xenopus Choosing highly specific primers for the polymerase chain laevis pyruvate dehydrogenase gene loci are regulated reaction using the octomer frequency disparity method: with message production during embryogenesis application to Chlamydia trachomatis Kuo, J.S., Veale, R., Maxwell, B. and Sive, H. 17-21 Panaccione, D.G., Pitkin, J.W., Walton, J.D. and Translational inhibition by 5’-polycytidine tracts in A rea . 103-109 Xenopus embryos and in vitro Transposon-like sequences at the TOX2 locus of the plant- Ainsa, J.A., Martin, C., Cabeza, M., De la Cruz, F. and pathogenic fungus Cochliobolus carbonum 8 RA LeEE 23-26 Bordonné, R. and Tarassovy, I. .................cceeeeeeeees 111-117 Construction of a family of Mycobacterium/Escherichia coli The yeast SME7 gene encodes the homologue of the shuttle vectors derived from pAL5000 and pACYC184: human E core protein their use for cloning an antibiotic-resistance gene from Linker, R.A., Baeuerle, P.A. and Mycobacterium fortuitum ITIL Wl cnithnscncthencsccnansiiditonaibnaediiaimniiiess 119-124 De Vendittis, E. and Bocchini, V. ....................... 27-33 Cloning of the murine relA (p65 NF-«xB) gene and compari- Protein-encoding genes in the sulfothermophilic archaea son to the human gene reveals a distinct first intron Sulfolobus and Pyrococcus Biegel Carson, S.D., Thomas, C.E. and Tsuchiya, E., Matsuzaki, G., Kurano, K., Fukuchi, T., Se Ya Sn ae 125-129 Tsukao, A. and Miyakawa, T. ....................00. 35-38 Cloning and sequencing of a Haemophilus ducreyi fur The Saccharomyces cerevisiae SSD1 gene is involved in homolog the tolerance to high concentration of Ca?* with the partici- Pfleiderer, M., Falkner, F.G. and Dorner, F. ..... 131-137 pation of HST1/NRC1/BFR1 Deletion of the myristylation signal allows high-level pro- Alves, G., Tatro, A. and Fanning, T. .................. 39-44 duction of the hepatitis B virus large surface glycoprotein Differential methylation of human L/NE-1 retrotransposons preS1 with vaccinia virus recombinants in malignant cells Niforas, P., Chu, M.D. and Bird, P. ..................... 139-147 Shimizu, E., Shirasawa, H., Kodama, K., Sato, T. and A retinoic acid/cAMP-responsive enhancer containing a PETE TPs censenccsenentedihbchnnchendidesstMnsic ttasililnsisnndsetn e 45-48 cAMP responsive element is required for the activation of Expression, regulation and polymorphism of the mxi7 the mouse thrombomodulin-encoding gene in differentiat- genes ing F9 cells Love, C.A., Lilley, P.E. and Dixon, N.E. ............. 49-53 Baulard, A., Kremer, L., Supply, P., Vidaud, D., Stable high-copy-number bacteriophage A promoter vec- Bidart, J.-M., Bellet, D. and Locht, C. .......... 149-154 tors for overproduction of proteins in Escherichia coli A new series of mycobacterial expression vectors for the McMorran, B.J., Merriman, M.E., Rombel, |.T. and development of live recombinant vaccines | a 55-59 Hsia, R.-c. and Bavoil, P.M. .00.......0:ccccceeeeeeeeeeees 155-162 Characterisation of the pvdE gene which is required for Sequence analysis of the omp2 region of Chlamydia psit- pyoverdine synthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa taci strain GPIC: structural and functional implications Blanco, J., José, J., Coque, R. and Martin, J.F. 61-65 Hsia, R.-c. and Bavoil, P.M. ............::ccccccceeeeeeeeeees 163-169 Characterization of the secA gene of Streptomyces lividans Homologs of Escherichia coli recJ, gitX and of a putative encoding a protein translocase which complements an ‘early’ gene of avian Chlamydia psittaci are located up- Escherichia coli mutant defective in the ATPase activity stream of the ‘late’ omp2 locus of Chlamydia psittaci strain of SecA guinea pig inclusion conjunctivitis Winkler, H., Brostjan, C., Csizmadia, V., Natarajan, G., Braibant, M., Lefévre, P., de Wit, L., Peirs, P., Anrather, J. and Bach, F.H. ..................:cccc00es 67-72 Ooms, J., Huygen, K., Andersen, A.B. and The intron-exon structure of the porcine E-selectin- GRGIRIIIR,, Bs. crcoreneccvecssnttanestencesstinessthillinebtdeganeenten 171-176 encoding gene A Mycobacterium tuberculosis gene cluster encoding pro- Krath, B.N. and Hove-Jensen, B. ........................ 73-79 teins of a phosphate transporter homologous to the Bacillus caldolyticus prs gene encoding phosphoribosyl- Escherichia coli Pst system diphosphate synthase Pasternak, C., Chen, W., Heck, C. and Klug, G. 177-184 Moriya, S. and Ogasawara, N. .................0ccc0ee000 81-84 Cloning, nucleotide sequence and characterization of the Mapping of the replication origin of the Bacillus subtilis rpoD gene encoding the primary sigma factor of chromosome by the two-dimensional gel method Rhodobacter capsulatus Lee, Y.-J., Chen, Y.-P., Wang, S.-H., Chow, W.-Y. and SERIkAA C N a 85-92 Structure and expression of metallothionein gene in ducks , (continued on inside back cover) Kindly note that the scope of the journal has recently changed. Several articles in this issue were under consideration before this change was initiated. For insight into the present scope, potential authors of Gene articles are referred to the A description published at the front of this issue, as well as to the Editorial and contents of issue 174/1. All information about Gene, including tables of contents, can also be found at: http://www.elsevier.nl/locate/gene or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/gene 0378-1119¢ 19960205 )176:1-2;1-J Contents (cont.) Rocco, L., Stingo, V. and Bellitti, M. ................. 185-189 Gao, Y.C., Chauthaiwale, V.M., Rampalli, A.M. and Cloning and characterization of a repetitive DNA detected I, thai ainnnadinn niece iteeeneenaiamtietnmmnenn 243-247 by Hindill in the genome of Raja montagui (Batoidea, Expression of alternatively spliced PCTAIRE-1 mRNA in Chondrichthyes) PC12 cells and neonatal rat brain Konopinski, R., Nowak, R. and Siedlecki, J.A. 191-195 Ghosh, S. and Lowenstein, J.M. .....................0 249-255 Alternative polyadenylation of the gene transcripts encod- A multifunctional vector system for heterologous expres- ing a rat DNA polymerase f sion of proteins in Escherichia coli Battista, M.C., Bergamini, G., Campanini, F., Bolivar, J., Goenechea, L.G., Grenett, H., Pendon, C. Landini, M.P. and Ripalti, A. ....................:00008 197-201 and Valdivia, MM. ...............cccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee 257-258 Intracellular production of a major cytomegalovirus anti- Cloning and sequencing of the genes encoding the ham- genic protein in the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris ster ribosomal transcription factors UBF1 and UBF2' Neeper, M., Lowe, R., Galuska, S., Hofmann, K.J., Smith, R.G. and Elbrecht, A. ......................00 203-209 Short Communications Molecular cloning of an avian anti-Millerian hormone Shamsher, M. and Montano, X. ....................0006 259-262 homologue Analysis of intron 4 of the p53 gene in human cutaneous Hamada, T., Tashiro, K., Tada, H., Inazawa, J., melanoma Shirozu, M., Shibahara, K., Nakamura, T., Hiltonen, T., Clarke, A.K., Karlsson, J. and Martina, N., Nakano, T. and Honjo, T. ........ 211-214 IIR: GIRL: vntcnsccensnsenisnnonsilenssnntbencsesietanvesenenn 263-264 Isolation and characterization of a novel secretory protein, A cDNA coding for glutathione S-transferase from the stromal cell-derived factor-2 (SDF-2) using the signal unicellular green algae Coccomyxa sp.' sequence trap method Ostiguy, S., Gilbert, M., Shareck, F., Kluepfel, D. and Oki, M., Kakikawa, M., Yamada, K., Taketo, A. and TETTRIIIIE: Gly. connipeeneneasuneptiepndeteinintennesiantennneetiins 265-267 EEE eeee e ee 215-223 Cloning and sequencing of the secY homolog from Cloning, sequence analysis, and expression of the genes Streptomyces lividans 1326 encoding lytic functions of Bacteriophage ¢g1e Gao, B., Flores, S.C., Bose, S.K. and McCord, J.M. Carbonell, X. and Villaverde, A. ....................0.. 225-229 sueligsionaiieneeinanscaptiaieiiaeisistiadiiiatabiiitaiidbittahabadialiciatateniligpapitiiis 269-272 Peptide display on functional tailspike protein of bacterio- A novel Escherichia coli vector for oxygen-inducible high phage P22 level expression of foreign genes Okano, K. and Kambara, H. .....................00000000000 231-235 Mertens, B., Gobright, E. and Seow, H.-F. ...... 273-274 Fragment walking for long DNA sequencing by using a The nucleotide sequence of the bovine interleukin- library as small as 16 primers 5-encoding cDNA' Ruiz, A., Bhat, S.P. and Bok, D. ......................0... 237-242 Expression and synthesis of the Na,K-ATPase f2 subunit in human retinal pigment epithelium Author Index Vol. 176 (1966)..........:ssssscccccccsrsesssseees 275-277