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Biomembranes B B A Biochimica Vol. 1284, 1996 et Biophysica Acta Cumulative Contents Information for Contributors Complexes of non-cationic liposomes and histone H1 mediate efficient transfection of DNA without Rapid report encapsulation J.E. Hagstrom, M.G. Sebestyen, V. Budker, J.J. Both the H13 gene product and 4F2 antigen are Ludtke, J.D. Fritz and J.A. Wolff (USA) Glucose transport activity and ligand binding (cyto- involved in the induction of system y” cationic chalasin B, IAPS-forskolin) of chimeric con- amino-acid transport following activation of human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBM) structs of GLUT2 and GLUT4 expressed in COS- 7-cells S. Chen, D. Meredith and C.A.R. Boyd (UK) S. Wandel, A. Buchs, A. Schiirmann, S.A. Sum- mers, A.C. Powers, M.F. Shanahan and H.-G. Short sequence-papers Joost (Germany, USA) Aldosterone-induced proteins in primary cultures of A liver-specific isoform of the betaine /GABA trans- rabbit renal cortical collecting system porter in the rat: CDNA sequence and organ distri- R.J.M. Bindels, A.M.T. Engbersen, A. Hartog and bution B.L. Blazer-Yost (The Netherlands, USA) C.E. Burnham, B. Buerk, C. Schmidt and J.C. Kinetic characterization of zinc binding to brush Bucuvalas (USA) border membranes from rat kidney cortex: interac- Cloning and sequencing of the bovine cDNA encod- tion with cadmium ing the mitochondrial tricarboxylate carrier pro- R. Prasad, D. Kaur and V. Kumar (India) tein Voltage-dependent absorbance change of carotenoids V. lacobazzi, A. De Palma and F. Palmieri (Italy) in halophilic archaebacteria S. Ichi Seki, H. Sasabe and H. Tomioka (Japan) Regular papers A combined SAXS/WAXS investigation of the phase behaviour of di-polyenoic membrane lipids Stability and pH sensitivity of sulfatide-containing W.P. Williams, B.A. Cunningham, D.H. Wolfe, phosphatidylethanolamine small unilamellar vesi- G.E. Derbyshire, G.R. Mant and W. Bras (UK, cles USA, The Netherlands) X. Wu, K.H. Lee and Q.-T. Li (Singapore) Occlusion of K* in the Na*/K*/2Cl~ cotrans- Carvedilol-liposome interaction: evidence for strong porter of Ehrlich ascites tumor cells association with the hydrophobic region of the T. Krarup, B.S. Jensen and E.K. Hoffmann (Den- lipid bilayers mark) H.-Y. Cheng, C.S. Randall, W.W. Holl, P.P. Con- Sodium-dependent carnitine transport in human pla- stantinides, T.-L. Yue and G.Z. Feuerstein (USA) cental choriocarcinoma cells Europium chelate-loaded liposomes: a tool for the P.D. Prasad, W. Huang, S. Ramamoorthy, A.L. study of binding and integrity of liposomes Carter, F.H. Leibach and V. Ganapathy (USA) A. Orellana, M.-L. Laukkanen and K. Keindnen (Finland) Loss of lysosomal integrity caused by the decrease Erratum of proton translocation in Methylene blue-media- ted photosensitization J. Yao and G.-J. Zhang (People’s Republic of Erratum to ‘Fluorescence studies of the effect of China) pH, guanidine hydrochloride and urea on equina- Purification of a cortisol binding protein from hep- toxin II conformation’’ [Biochim. Biophys. Acta atic plasma membrane 1280 (1996) 65-72] I. Ibarrola, M. Andrés, A. Marino, J.M. Macarulla M. MalavaSié, N. Poklar, P. Maéek and G. Ves- and M. Trueba (Spain) naver 254 Cumulative contents Information for Contributors Proton gradient formation in early endosomes from proximal tubules Rapid reports V. Marshansky and P. Vinay (Canada) Functional complementation between transmembrane Ammonium inhibition of Ca?*-dependent inwardly loops of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Candida rectifying K* currents in HeLa cells albicans plasma membrane H*-ATPases M. Diaz, G. Riquelme and F.V. Sepiilveda (Spain, A.B. Mason, T.B. Kardos, D.S. Perlin and B.C. Chile) Monk (New Zealand, USA) Mechanism of action of hemolysin III from Bacillus Fluorescent probes of membrane surface properties cereus R.F. Epand, R. Kraayenhof, G.J. Sterk, H.W. G.E. Baida and N.P. Kuzmin (Russia) Wong Fong Sang and R.M. Epand (Canada, The The human intestinal H* /oligopeptide cotransporter Netherlands) hPEPT! transports differently-charged dipeptides Composition and phase behaviour of polar lipids with identical electrogenic properties isolated from Spirulina maxima cells grown in a B. Mackenzie, Y.-J. Fei, V. Ganapathy and F.H. perdeuterated medium Leibach (USA) M. Tropis, F. Bardou, B. Bersch, M. Daffé and A. Sphingolipid-derived signalling modulators: interac- Milon (France) tion with phosphatidylserine Potassium and voltage dependence of the inorganic A.C. Rigby, K.R. Barber and C.W.M. Grant pyrophosphatase of intact vacuoles from (Canada) Chenopodium rubrum G. Obermeyer, A. Sommer and F.-W. Bentrup Short sequence-paper (Austria) Regulation of nucleobase transport in LLC-PK, re- Cloning and functional expression of a cDNA encod- nal epithelia by protein kinase C D.A. Griffith and S.M. Jarvis (UK) ing a mouse type 2 neuropeptide Y receptor Angiotensin II receptor type | on granulosa and M. Nakamura, Y. Aoki and D. Hirano (Japan) thecal cells of rabbit preovulatory follicles C. Féral, A. Benhaim and P. Leymarie (France) Regular papers The effect of BCECF on intracellular pH of human platelets Polymer ultrathin films with immobilized photosyn- O. Aharonovitz, H. Fridman, A.A. Livne and Y. thetic reaction center proteins Granot (Israel) N.A. Kalabina, S.Yu. Zaitsev, V.P. Zubov, E.P. Organic solvents induce interdigitated gel structures Lukashev and A.A. Kononenko (Russia) in multilamellar vesicles of dipalmitoylphospha- Effect of medium conductivity and composition on tidylcholine the uptake of propidium iodide into electroperme- K. Kinoshita and M. Yamazaki (Japan) abilized myeloma cells Transport of the anti-cancer drug doxorubicin across C.S. Djuzenova, U. Zimmermann, H. Frank, V.L. cytoplasmic membranes and membranes com- Sukhorukov, E. Richter and G. Fuhr (Germany) posed of phospholipids derived from Escherichia Co-existence of serum-dependent and serum-inde- coli occurs via a similar mechanism pendent mechanisms for liposome clearance and G. Speelmans, R.W.H.M. Staffhorst, H.G. Steen- involvement of non-Kupffer cells in liposome up- bergen and B. De Kruijff (The Netherlands) take by mouse liver Spermine binding to liver mitochondria Q. Hu and D. Liu (USA) L. Dalla Via, V. Di Noto, D. Siliprandi and A. The lytic activity of the bee venom peptide melittin Toninello (Italy) is strongly reduced by the presence of negatively charged phospholipids or chloroplast galactolipids in the membranes of phosphatidylcholine large Cumulative Contents, Vol. 1284 unilamellar vesicles D.K. Hincha and J.H. Crowe (Germany, USA) Author index