437 BBIOCHIMBICA E!T BIOPH YSICA ACTA Gene Structure and Expression vik Vol. 1442, 1998 Cumulative Contents Information for Contributors Regular papers Review Potato protein kinase StCPK1: a putative evolutionary link between CDPKs and CRKs Homeoboxes in plant development L. Lakatos, G. Hutvagner and Z. Banfalvi ( Hungary) R.L. Chan, G.M. Gago, C.M. Palena and D.H. Deletional and mutational analyses of the human CD4 Gonzalez ( Argentina) gene promoter: characterization of a minimal tissue- specific promoter Regular papers J.C. Zhao-Emonet, O. Boyer, J.L. Cohen and D. Klatzmann (F rance ) Treatment with anti-transforming growth factor B anti- Regulation of telomerase activity in quiescent immortal- bodies influences an altered pattern of cytokines gene ized human cells expression in injured rat liver W. Klapper, K.K. Singh, K. Heidorn, R. Parwaresch V. Delgado-Rizo, A. Salazar, A. Panduro and J. and G. Krupp (Germany) Armendariz-Borunda ( Mexico) Effect of glucocorticoids on the mouse methionine ad- Herpesvirus thymidine kinase transgenes that do not enosyltransferase Al gene expression, which is regu- cause male sterility are aberrantly transcribed and lated by two promoters translated in the testis S.F. Sakata, K. Tamaoka, K. Matsuda, Masae A.R. Ellison and J.O. Bishop (UK, USA) Kaneko, J.Y. Chou and N. Tamaki (Japan, USA) Role of adenine nucleotides, molecular chaperones and NMR study on the binding of dGGAAATTTCC), with chaperonins in stabilization of DnaA initiator protein a positively charged pentacosapeptide of Escherichia coli E. van Lieshout and M.A. Hemminga (Netherlands) B. Banecki, J.M. Kaguni and J. Marszalek (Poland, The PecT repressor interacts with regulatory regions of USA) pectate lyase genes in Erwinia chrysanthemi cDNA cloning and Escherichia coli expression of UK114 A. Castillo, W. Nasser, G. Condemine and S. tumor antigen Reverchon (France) I. Colombo, F. Ceciliani, S. Ronchi, A. Bartorelli and Transcriptional activation of the alternative oxidase gene B. Berra (Italy) of the fungus Magnaporthe grisea by a respiratory- Insulin inhibits surfactant protein A and B gene expres- inhibiting fungicide and hydrogen peroxide sion in the H441 cell line H. Yukioka, S. Inagaki, R. Tanaka, K. Katoh, N. O.L. Miakotina, S.A. Dekowski and J.M. Snyder Miki, A. Mizutani and M. Masuko (Japan) (USA) Polymorphisms in the human CC chemokine receptor-3 Chemical cross-linking of ethidium to DNA by glyoxal gene F. Leng, D. Graves and J.B. Chaires (USA) N. Zimmermann, J.A. Bernstein and M.E. Rothenberg Selective expression of specific histone H4 genes reflects (USA) distinctions in transcription factor interactions with Molecular cloning and expression of rat bradykinin B, divergent H4 promoter elements receptor C.M.J. van der Meijden, P.S. Vaughan, A. Staal, W. A. Ni, K.X. Chai, L. Chao and J. Chao (USA) Albig, D. Doenecke, J.L. Stein, G.S. Stein and A.J. Clone-specific high-frequency retrotransposition of a re- van Wijnen (Germany, USA) combinant virus containing a VL30 promoter in $V40-transformed NIH3T3 cells Information for Contributors T. Tzavaras, C. Kalogera, S. Eftaxia, S. Saragosti and G.N. Pagoulatos (France, Greece) 438 Cumulative Contents Cloning of the Xenopus laevis aldolase C gene and anal- Molecular cloning and characterization of the rat NHE- ysis of its promoter function in developing Xenopus 2 gene promoter embryos and A6 cells Y.L. Muller, J.F. Collins, L. Bai, H. Xu and F.K. H. Yatsuki, M. Outida, Y. Atsuchi, T. Mukai, K. Ghishan (USA) Shiokawa and K. Hori (Japan) Promoter analysis of the acetate-inducible isocitrate Characterisation of inducible DNase I hypersensitive lyase gene (acu-3) from Neurospora crassa sites flanking the human interleukin-5 gene M. Bibbins, P.J. Sheffield, L.D.S. Gainey, T. Mizote J.E. Valentine and W.A. Sewell (A ustralia) and I.F. Connerton (UK) The expression of the Leishmania infantum KMP-11 pro- tein is developmentally regulated and stage specific Rapid report C. Berberich, G. Machado, G. Morales, G. Carrillo, A. Jiménez-Ruiz and C. Alonso (Colombia, Spain) The secondary structure of Nosema apis large subunit A direct correlation between nicotinamide N-methyl- ribosomal RNA transferase activity and protein levels in human liver P. De Rijk, H.S. Gatehouse and R. De Wachter cytosol (Belgium, New Zealand) M.-L. Smith, D. Burnett, P. Bennett, R.H. Waring, Short sequence-papers H.M. Brown, A.C. Williams and D.B. Ramsden (UK) Down-regulation of CCAAT/enhancer binding proteins a, B and 6 in adipose tissue by intracerebroventricu- Sequence characterisation and expression of homeobox lar leptin in rats HOX A7 in the multi-potential erythroleukaemic cell H. Qian, G.J. Hausman, M.M. Compton, M.J. Azain, line TF-1 D.L. Hartzell and C.A. Baile (USA) M.A. Mcllhatton, P. Bremner, M.F. McMullin, A.P. Nucleosome positioning in the rat protamine | gene in Maxwell, P.C. Winter and T.R.J. Lappin (UK) vivo and in vitro Characterization of a cDNA homologous to carotenoid- R. Adroer and R. Oliva (Spain) associated protein in citrus fruits An evolutionary conserved group of plant GSK-3/ T. Moriguchi, M. Kita, T. Endo-Inagaki, Y. Ikoma shaggy-like protein kinase genes preferentially ex- and M. Omura (Japan) pressed in developing pollen Sequence of murine CDC10 cDNA, gene organization G. Tichtinsky, R. Tavares, A. Takvorian, N. Schwebel- and expression analysis Dugue, D. Twell and M. Kreis (France, UK) S. Soulier and J.-L. Vilotte (France) The human Pim-2 proto-oncogene and its testicular ex- Characterization of a GTP-binding protein in the ADP- pression ribosylation factor subfamily from Leishmania taren- D. Baytel, S. Shalom, I. Madgar, R. Weissenberg and tolae J. Don (Israel) N.R. Sturm, H. Van Valkenburgh, R.A. Kahn and Transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of D.A. Campbell (USA) complement factor I (CFI) gene expression in Hep Molecular characterization of two novel transporters G2 cells by interleukin-6 from human and mouse kidney and from LLC-PK1 J.O. Minta, M. Fung and B. Paramaswara (Canada) cells reveals a novel conserved family that is homol- ogous to bacterial and Aspergillus nucleobase trans- Promotor papers porters C.A. Faaland, J.E. Race, G. Ricken, F.J. Warner, Specific recognition of the cyanobacterial psbA promoter W.J. Williams and E.J. Holtzman (USA) by RNA polymerases containing principal sigma fac- Cloning and characterization of two genes encoding di- tors hydroxyacetone kinase from Schizosaccharomyces J. Shibato, M. Asayama and M. Shirai (Japan) pombe IFO 0354 Identification in the rat prolactin gene of sequences ho- T. Kimura, M. Takahashi, K. Yoshihara, T. Furuichi, mologous to the distal promoter of the human pro- K. Suzuki, K. Imai, S. Karita, K. Sakka and K. lactin gene Ohmiya (Japan) C.M. Shaw-Bruha, K.L. Pennington and J.D. Shull (USA) Cumulative Contents A novel variant of translation elongation factor-1B: iso- Expression of a novel rat protein tyrosine phosphatase lation and characterization of the rice gene encoding gene EF-1B2 D.A. Carter (UK) Y. Terui, K. Tsutsumi, S. Kidou, T. Sawazaki, Y. A gene cluster for 6-deoxy-L-talan synthesis in Actino- Kuroiwa, M. Yamaki and S. Ejiri (Japan) bacillus actinomycetemcomitans Molecular characterization of guanosine kinase gene Y. Nakano, Y. Yoshida, Y. Yamashita and T. Koga from a facultative alkalophile, Exiguobacterium au- (J apan ) rantiacum ATCC 35652 Saccharomyces cerevisiae MLF3/YNLO074C gene, encod- Y. Usuda, H. Kawasaki, M. Shimaoka and T. ing a serine-rich protein of unknown function, deter- Utagawa (Japan) mines the level of resistance to the novel immunosup- Isolation, cloning, and characterization of a novel rat pressive drug leflunomide lung zinc finger gene, RLZF-Y H. Fujimura (Japan) S. Dovat, K.A. Gilbert, L. Petrovic-Dovat and D.E. Cloning and sequencing of an o-tubulin cDNA from Rannels (USA) Artemia franciscana: evidence for translational regu- Structure and organization of the human reduced folate lation of a-tubulin synthesis carrier gene Y. Zheng, P.J. Roy, P. Liang and T.H. MacRae L. Zhang, S.C. Wong and L.H. Matherly (USA) ( Canada ) Structure and chromosomal mapping of the TNF-o in- A zebrafish Six4 homologue with early expression in ducible endothelial protein 1 (Edp/) gene in the head mesoderm mouse H.-C. Seo, &. Drivenes and A. Fjose (Norway) S. Swift, C. Blackburn, G. Morahan and A. Ashworth The genomic structure of DCTN1/, a candidate gene for (Australia, UK) limb-girdle muscular dystrophy (LGMD2B) Cloning, characterisation and expression of the apolipo- M.K. Tokito and E.L.F. Holzbaur (USA) protein A-I gene in the sea bream (Sparus aurata) L. Llewellyn, V.P. Ramsurn, T. Wigham, G.E. Cumulative Contents, Vol. 1442 Sweeney and D.M. Power (Portugal, UK) Author Index