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GENE Vol. 177 No. 1/2 24 October 1996 AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON GENES AND GENOMES CONTENTS Doerig, C.M., Parzy, D., Langsley, G., Horrocks, P., Gusberti, L., Cantoni, R., De Rossi, E., Branzoni, M. Carter, R. and Doerig, C.D. ............ccccceeceeeeeee 1-6 CRED TERE hs: cscosccccnscsesillitnserecscnnecessnsscccenonseeesce 83-85 A MAP kinase homologue from the human malaria para- Cloning and sequencing of the i/vBNC gene cluster from site, Plasmodium falciparum Mycobacterium avium Chajut, A., Gazit, A. and Yaniv, A. ..................... 7-10 Folch, J.M., Coll, A., Hayes, H.C. and The turkey c-rap1A proto-oncogene is expressed via two Ae Ss Aa. Om 87-91 distinct promoters Characterization of a caprine B-lactoglobulin pseudogene, Kato, H., Youn, H.-Y., Ohashi, T., Watari, T., identification and chromosomal localization by in situ Goitsuka, R., Tsujimoto, H. and hybridization in goat, sheep and cow UITIIITIIING Uiliy cebisstcecbbbkaceieseenenedtbhenesnennsnnnsgsiceeenanse 11-16 Park, C.Y., LaMontagne, K.R., Tonks, N.K. and Identification of an alternatively spliced transcript of equine PIII, TERED sntnctitnsnensnoscstcceernnnestennenittiinitaiiniiahiseiteen 93-97 interleukin-1B Cloning and expression of the chicken protein tyrosine Porcelli, M., Cacciapuoti, G., Fusco, S., Bertoldo, C., phosphatase SH-PTP2 De Rosa, M. and Zappia, V. ...................0000000 17-22 RPOUSE, GB. BIE GIB, J. cecececessesccvesscscescoscvsesescessese 99-102 Cloning and sequencing of the gene coding for S-adenosyl- A new cat reporter gene vector designed for rapid and homocysteine hydrolase in the thermophilic archaeon efficient cloning of PCR products Sulfolobus solfataricus Oguiza, J.A., Marcos, A.T., Malumbres, M. and De la Morena, M.L., Hendrixson, D.R. and SESUIUES GUNG: secicininncttennensinemnisieitneiibianiiniitinhiniealais 103-107 SE. ]Gerree, J.W., OE .ccccccsoccccccccccccsccscccccsceccccescoeces 23-28 The ga/E gene encoding the UDP-galactose 4-epimerase Isolation and characterization of the Haemophilus influen- of Brevibacterium lactofermentum is coupled transcrip- zae uvrA gene tionally to the dmdR gene Driscoll, J., Duan, C., Zuo, Y., Xu, T., Troxler, R. and Hsiang, C.-y., Ho, T.-y. and Chang, T.-j. ........... 109-113 Oppenheim, F.G.. ..........cccccccccceeceeeeeeseeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 29-34 Identification of a pseudorabies virus UL 12 (deoxyribonu- Candidacidal activity of human salivary histatin recombi- clease) gene nant variants produced by site-directed mutagenesis Porcella, S.F., Popova, T.G., Hagman, K.E., Penn, C.W., Vrati, S., Brookes, D.E., Boyle, D.B. and Radolf, J.D. and Norgard, M.V. .................... 115-121 SEIAITITIIIIED. -cd gdedbcneesepeecasnsbictecuninsnsgussetecsnsepnennnlipatons 35-41 A mgl-like operon in Treponema pallidum, the syphilis Nucleotide sequence of ovine adenovirus tripartite leader spirochete sequence and homologues of the |Va2, DNA polymerase Akbar, S. and Price, C.W. .0........ccccccecceeeeeeeeeeeees 123-128 and terminal proteins Isolation and characterization of csbB, a gene controlled Antoine, G., Scheiflinger, F., Holzer, G., Langmann, T., by Bacillus subtilis general stress transckiption factor o® Falkner, F.G. and Dorner, F. ......................00005 43-46 Seyler, R.W., Jr. and Moran, C.P., Jr. ............... 129-132 Characterization of the vaccinia MVA hemagglutinin gene Potassium permanganate susceptibility of o®-RNA poly- locus and its evaluation as an insertion site for foreign merase-promoter complexes genes Dykxhoorn, D.M., St. Pierre, R. and Linn, T.... 133-136 Sharp, R., Jansons, |.S., Gertman, E. and A set of compatible tac promoter expression vectors STII: SMITE. ccedepttncpicnstiantncnssasnnicipesnesevesscsuesnes 47-53 Podbielski, A., Spellerberg, B., Woischnik, M., Pohl, B. Genetic and sequence analysis of the cos region of the BNE LOCISHOIMN, FR. ..cccccccccccccccccccccccccscscssssscsesenescese 137-147 temperate Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage, D3 Novel series of plasmid vectors for gene inactivation and Southworth, M.W., Fuhrman, J.A., Robbins, P.W., expression analysis in group A streptococci (GAS) Beauregard, K. and Perler, F.B. ..................... 55-58 Warren, W.D., Phillips, A.M. and Gene cloning and production of active recombinant Brugia PEI GIIADS crnnsceseesnessiesunescnecnesiecscéqenmbeniibdiennenseies 149-153 malayi microfilarial chitinase Drosophila melanogaster contains both X-linked and Tyagi, J.S., Das, T.K. and Kinger, A.K. .............. 59-67 autosomal homologues of the gene encoding calcineurin B An M. tuberculosis DNA fragment contains genes encod- Wang, L., Huang, J.-a., Phelps, A., Firth, S., ing cell division proteins ftsX and ftsE, a basic protein and Holmes, I.H. and Reeves, P.R. ....................064. 155-162 homologues of PemK and Small protein B Periplasmic expression of part of the major rotavirus Okabayashi, K., Tsujikawa, M., Morita, M., Einaga, K., capsid protein VP7 containing all the three antigenic Tanaka, K., Tanabe, T., Yamanouchi, K., Hirama, M., regions in Escherichia coli Tait, J.F. and Fujikawa, K. ....................00eeee 69-76 Raschke, W.C., Neiditch, B.R., Hendricks, M. and Secretory production of recombinant urokinase-type plas- IL, RED «s ciencensssensicrtenmtbicnenensniateniasieastininaienitin 163-167 minogen activator-annexin V chimeras in Pichia pastoris Inducible expression of a _ heterologous protein in Sundin, G.W., Kidambi, S.P., Ullrich, M. and Hansenula polymorpha using the alcohol oxidase 1 pro- SUTIN, IIIs. “adnusibentivanennbabienenninendibibetanduaniieennnenidens 77-81 moter of Pichia pastoris Resistance to ultraviolet light in Pseudomonas syringae: sequence and functional analysis of the plasmid-encoded rulAB genes (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 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.n!/locate/gene or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/gene 0927-7765(19961101)177:1-2;1-D Contents (cont.) Ramesh, K.H., Gupta, S. and Verma, R.S. ....... 169-172 Nagiec, M.M., Lester, R.L. and Dickson, R.C. . 237-241 Assignment of human MYCN proto-oncogene to chromo- Sphingolipid synthesis: identification and characterization some band 12q24 in higher primates of mammalian cDNAs encoding the Lcb2 subunit of serine Kim, H.S., Kim, Y.K., Ryu, S,-E. and palmitoyltransferase SII: WERE. scniensensennensnsnbinenegpsenennaniosntaceumevmnccouseansne 173-177 Schneider, D., Bruton, C.J. and Chater, K.F. .. 243-251 Production of hepatitis B virus preS polypeptide in Characterization of spaA, a Streptomyces coelicolor gene Escherichia coli by mutation of the 5’-end coding sequence homologous to a gene involved in sensing starvation in and its purification and characterization Escherichia coli Franklin, J.L. and Mosig, G. ............ccccccccceeeereeeees 179-189 Expression of the bacteriophage T4 DNA terminase genes 16 and 17 yields multiple proteins Short Communications Chen, N., Upcroft, J.A. and Upcroft, P. ............ 191-194 Tevzadze, G.G., Mushegian, A.R. and A novel protein kinase gene family in Giardia duodenalis III UII cnniscnensedndsegsibsieeiineiieeemmmianeante 253-255 Popov, A.V., Bitzler, C., Frippiat, J.-P., Lefranc, M.-P. The SPO7 gene product required for meiosis in yeast has and Briiggemann, M.. 2...............ccccccceeeeeeeneeeeeees 195-201 a high similarity to phospholipase B enzymes Assembly and extension of yeast artificial chromosomes Zhou, Y., He, L. and Kopchick, J.J. .................... 257-259 to build up a large locus Structural comparison of a portion of the rat and mouse Pysh, L.D. and Schmidt, Rid. 20.0.0... ccccccccceeeeeeeees 203-208 growth hormone receptor/binding protein genes Characterization of the maize OHP7 gene: evidence of gene Deane, S.M. and Rawlings, D.E. ........................ 261-263 copy variability among inbreds Cloning and sequencing of the gene for the Thiobacillus McFarlane, R.J. and Saunders, J.R. .................. 209-216 ferrooxidans ATCC33020 glutamate synthase (GOGAT) Molecular mechanisms of intramolecular recombination- small subunit and complementation of an Escherichia coli dependent recircularization of linearized plasmid DNA in gitD mutant Escherichia coli: requirements for the ruvA, ruvB, recG, Navani, N.K., Joshi, M.A. and Dikshit, K.L. ..... 265-266 recF and recR gene products Genetic transformation of Vitreoscilla sp. Leiser, A., Birch, A. and Robinson, J.A. ........... 217-222 Fedorova, N.D., Peredelchuk, M.Y., Kirpichnikov, M.P. Cloning, sequencing, overexpression in Escherichia coli, Ee ly CI -csntdeidchtdncicsinticenentensintestnannninenans 267-268 and inactivation of the valine dehydrogenase gene in the Escherichia coli strain for thermoinducible T7 RNA polyether antibiotic producer Streptomyces _ cinna- polymerase-driven expression monensis Hayakawa, T., Xu, J. and Hukuhara, T. ............ 269-270 Cruz, A.A., Newbury, S.F. and Cloning and sequencing of the gene for an enhancing I are anieeaesneninitinenengnnenen 223-228 factor from Pseudaletia separata entomopoxvirus Degradation products of the cytochrome cz; mRNA are Datukishvili, N., Pokholok, D., Lottspeich, F., similar in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough and Prangishvili, D. and Rechinsky, V. ................ 271-273 Escherichia coli The DNA polymerase-encoding gene from a thermoacido- Memisoglu, A. and Samson, L. ..............:..0.00008 229-235 philic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Cloning and characterization of a cDNA encoding a 3- Park, S.G. and Yudkin, M.D. .0..............ccccccccceeeeees 275-276 methyladenine DNA glycosylase from the fission yeast Nucleotide sequence of the Bacillus coagulans homologue Schizosaccharomyces pombe of the spollA operon of Bacillus subtilis