GENE Vol. 182 No. 1/2 5 December 1996 AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON GENES AND GENOMES CONTENTS Min, W., Cho, M., Jang, S.I., Chang, H.-H., Andrews, B., Adari, H., Hannig, G., Lahue, E., Lee, C.-S., Jun, M.-h. and Kim, M.H. ............ 1-6 Gosselin, M., Martin, S., Ahmed, A., Ford, P.J., Sequence and functional analysis of an upstream regula- Hayman, E.G. and Makrides, S.C. ................. 101-109 tory region of human HOXA7 gene A tightly regulated high level expression vector that utilizes Wu, T.-S., Skory, C.D., Horng, J.-S. and Linz, J.E. 7-12 a thermosensitive /ac repressor: production of the human Cloning and functional analysis of a f-tubulin gene from T cell receptor V$5.3 in Escherichia coli a benomyl resistant mutant of Aspergillus parasiticus Godbout, R. and Andison, R. .....................ee00e00e 111-115 er eee 13-22 Elevated levels of cyclin D1 mRNA in the undifferentiated Generality of a functional initiator consensus sequence chick retina Monchois, V., Willemot, R.-M., Remaud-Simeon, M., Gering, M., Gétz, F. and Briickner, R. ............... 117-122 Croux, C. and Monsan, P. ................ccccccceeeeeees 23-32 Sequence and analysis of the replication region of the Cloning and sequencing of a gene coding for a novel Staphylococcus xylosus plasmid pSX267 dextransucrase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides NRRL Lyon, J.J. and Watson, Rid. .........ccccccccceeeeeeeeeeeeees 123-128 B-1299 synthesizing only «(1-6) and «(1-3) linkages Interference of Myb transactivation activity by a condi- Mogk, A., Hayward, R. and Schumann, W. .... 33-36 tional dominant negative protein: functional interference Integrative vectors for constructing single-copy transcrip- in a cytotoxic T-cell line results in G, arrest tional fusions between Bacillus subtilis promoters and Aguilar, G.R. and Soberon, M. ......................00006 129-135 various reporter genes encoding heat-stable enzymes Cloning and sequence analysis of the Rhizobium etli ccmA Elag6z, A., Abdi, A., Hubert, J.-C. and and ccmB genes involved in c-type cytochrome biogenesis I UIITIITT, ITA. studenineietusiieedtibiaditsenstonsctantnbeoentpienernsene 37-43 Genschel, J., Litz, L., Thole, H., Roemling, U. and Structure and organisation of the pyrimidine biosynthesis BIE Sits: sehebAinniscsnintarnnnetepssdeliniannvabeinanditesienititiesl 137-143 pathway genes in Lactobacillus plantarum: a PCR strategy Isolation, sequencing and overproduction of the single- for sequencing without cloning stranded DNA binding protein from Pseudomonas aerugi- Chen, J. and Post-Beittenmiller, D. ................... 45-52 nosa PAO Molecular cloning of a cDNA encoding 3-ketoacyl-acyl Wang, S., Beattie, G.M., Hayek, A. and carrier protein synthase Ill from leek SATE Uo <incscecenspstiilateitacsngnennetesiteneneettintenctsanmnnbinen 145-150 Astwood, J.D. and Hill, R.D. .................e e 53-62 Development of a VSV-G protein pseudotyped retroviral Cloning and expression pattern of Hor v 9, the group 9 vector system expressing dominant oncogenes from a pollen isoallergen from barley lacO-modified inducible LTR promoter Hishida, T., lwasaki, H., Ishioka, K. and Lareu, M.V., Pestoni, M.d.C., Barros, F., Salas, A. and STII, TUL. -s actn siteniesnahigpedodscenimmnennennetitenntensuneabes 63-70 a Ets etiicceninsseencticwmtebnnienctiemmadention 151-153 Molecular analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa genes, Sequence variation of a hypervariable short tandem repeat ruvA, ruvB and ruvC, involved in processing of homolo- at the D12S391 locus gous recombination intermediates Aizawa, S., Satoh, H., Horie, R., Ito, K., Choi, S.H., Kofler, B., Liu, M.L., Jacoby, A.S., Shine, J. and Takeuchi, H. and Watanabe, T. ...................... 155-162 SUIS WEGEIG* asidinenepinietheenineonannaneinmnssnennsemateareneeneth 71-75 Cloning and characterization of a cDNA for rat CD30 homo- Molecular cloning and characterisation of the mouse pre- log and chromosomal assignment of the genomic gene progalanin gene Sheweita, S.A., Ichi-ishi, A., Park, J.-S., Liu, C., Lamothe, B., Bucchini, D., Jami, J. and Malburg, L.M., Jr. and Doi, R.H. .................... 163-167 rrr Siti. cuneictilepsenitdasidtliainnabdleietinatinnsianiemashenendipeenpeutnees 77-80 Characterization of engF, a gene for a non-cellulosomal Reexamining interaction of the SH2 domains of SYP and Clostridium cellulovorans endoglucanase GAP with insulin and IGF-1 receptors in the two-hybrid Narita, S.-i., Tanaka, R., Ito, T., Okada, K., Taketani, S. system Te 169-175 Mythili, E., Kumar, A. and Muniyappa, K. ....... 81-87 Molecular cloning and characterization of a cDNA that Characterization of the DNA-binding domain of 6 protein, encodes protoporphyrinogen oxidase of Arabidopsis a component of phage A Red-pathway, by UV catalyzed thaliana cross-linking Vaeom, FF. BI FEIVAIB, Be cecccscsesecccccccecsbossescocccccceseoes 177-182 Rasmussen, T.P. and Culbertson, M.R. ............ 89-96 Insertion of metal-responsive elements increases the in- Analysis of yeast trimethylguanosine-capped RNAs by ducibility of the mouse mammary tumor virus promoter Midwestern blotting Guerreiro, P. and Rodrigues-Pousada, C. ........ 183-188 Wiley, L.J., Weiss, A.S., Sangster, N.C. and Characterization of a polyubiquitin gene in 7. thermophila STEEL cnsecteiubinsiabuiiitinidindeaginintaniimmetatiaendeiinnss 97-100 and of ubiquitin gene expression during sexual repro- Cloning and sequence analysis of the candidate nicotinic duction and under stress conditions acetylcholine receptor alpha subunit gene tar-7 from Trichostrongylus colubriformis (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.nl/locate/gene or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/gene 03781-9961) 1182:11-29;1- R Contents (cont.) Favaro, R., Bernasconi, C., Passini, N., Bertoni, G., Chebrou, H., Bigey, F., Arnaud, A. and Bestetti, G., Galli, E. and Deho, G. ............... 189-193 STI AD. atelieeittinicctasitsccidmneeacenitliniabbnieneciaianianetenten 215-218 Organisation of the tmb_ catabolic operons of Amide metabolism: a _ putative ABC transporter in Pseudomonas putida TMB and evolutionary relationship Rhodococcus sp. R312 with the xy/ operons of the TOL plasmid pWW0O Woods, W. and Dyall-Smith, M. ......................... 219-220 Fobis-Loisy, |. and Briat, J.-F. ...........ccccceeeeeees 195-201 Revised nucleotide sequence of an archaeal insertion ele- Characterization of a tRNA‘YS(CUU) gene located in the ment (ISH28) reveals a putative transposase gene opposite orientation upstream of a ZmFer2 ferritin gene in White, D., Hart, M.E. and Romeo, T. ................. 221-223 the maize nuclear genome Phylogenetic distribution of the global regulatory gene ide, Y., Zhang, L., Chen, M., Inchauspe, G., Bahl, C., csrA among eubacteria Sasaguri, Y. and Padmanabhan, R. .............. 203-211 de Koning-Ward, T.F. and Characterization of the nuclear localization signal and sub- Robins-Browne, R.M.. .................ccccceeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees 225-228 cellular distribution of hepatitis C virus nonstructural pro- Analysis of the urease gene complex of members of the tein NS5A genus Yersinia van Wezel, G.P. and Bibb, M.J. .......................... 229-230 A novel plasmid vector that uses the glucose kinase gene (glkA) for the positive selection of stable gene disruptants Short Communications in Streptomyces Kawamura, S. and Yokoyama, S. ...................... 213-214 Molecular characterization of the pigeon P-opsin gene Author Index Vol. 182 (1996) .......ccccccccccccceeseeseeeeeeeees 231-233