GENE Vol. 198 No. 1/2 1 October 1997 AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL ON GENES AND GENOMES CONTENTS Robinson, C.A., Hayward-Lester, A., Hewetson, A., Hayes, F., Lubetzki, S.A. and Sherratt, D.J. ..... 105-110 Oefner, P.J., Doris, P.A. and Chilton, B.S. .. 1-4 Salmonella typhimurium specifies a circular chromosome Quantification of alternatively spliced RUSH mRNA iso- dimer resolution system which is homologous to the Xer forms by QRT-PCR and IP-RP-HPLC analysis: a new site-specific recombination system of Escherichia coli approach to measuring regulated splicing efficiency Sugiyama, T., Kido, N., Kato, Y., Koide, N., Yoshida, T. Franco, G.R., Garratt, R.C., Tanaka, M., Oe IT This ciniettinteheiceentiossiniticisetiiditedactbaaininten 111-113 Simpson, A.J.G. and Pena, S.D.J. ................. 5-16 Evolutionary relationship among rfb gene clusters synthe- Characterization of a Schistosoma mansoni gene encoding sizing mannose homopolymer as O-specific polysaccha- a homologue of the Y-box binding protein rides in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella Yasothornsrikul, S., Davis, W.J., Cramer, G., Narumi, |., Cherdchu, K., Kitayama, S. and Kimbrell, D.A. and Dearolf, C.R. .................. 17-25 UII: UIT stasiessicanneiseaspeildeebaaneabibsenaliiadasadibastnietiiiad 115-126 viking: identification and characterization of a second type The Deinococcus radiodurans uvrA gene: identification of IV collagen in Drosophila mutation sites in two mitomycin-sensitive strains and the Garraway, L.A., Tosi, L.R.O., Wang, Y., Moore, J.B., first discovery of insertion sequence element from Dobson, D.E. and Beverley, S.M. .................. 27-35 deinobacteria Insertional mutagenesis by a modified in vitro Ty1 transpo- Janel, N., Dosne, A.-M., Obert, B., Meyer, D. and sition system ai cdidiebtaiesionbiiion 127-134 Dierick, H.A., Mercer, J.F.B. and Glover, T.W. . 37-41 Functional characterization of bovine von Willebrand factor A phosphoglycerate mutase brain isoform (PGAM 1) pseu- gene promoter in bovine endothelial cells demonstrates dogene is localized within the human Menkes disease species-specific properties gene (ATP7A) Quillet, L., Bensmail, L., Barray, S. and van Gemeren, 1.A., Punt, P.J., Drint-Kuyvenhoven, A., ee eee . 135-140 Broekhuijsen, M.P., van ‘t Hoog, A., Cloning and sequencing of two genes, prtA and prtB, from Beijersbergen, A., Verrips, C.T. and Myxococcus xanthus, encoding PrtA and PrtB proteases, van den Hondel, C.A.M.J.J. ........ccccccccccecesseeees 43-52 both of which are required for the protease activity The ER chaperone encoding bipA gene of black Aspergilli Okuda, M., Minehata, K.-i., Setoguchi, A., Cho, K.-W., is induced by heat shock and unfolded proteins Nakamura, N., Nishigaki, K., Watari, T., Cevario, S., Martinez-Barbera, J.P., Toresson, H., Rocha, S.D. and O’Brien, S.J., Tsujimoto, H. and es A nieciisieisingdiacboaincnieuincanesornienpinniddaniiiaantciitadeni 53-59 SINE: Ric: cnicubcaisincencanensiicionnbieytcicnieiniihtahantenniininiieniion 141-147 Cloning and expression of three members of the zebrafish Cloning and chromosome mapping of the feline genes Bmp family: Bmp2a, Bmp2b and Bmp4 p21WAF1 and p27Kip1 Salimi-Tari, P., Cheung, M., Safar, C.A., i ee HN Ny ile scitvninvenensccnscinsnsenioennisaiventiiinn 149-157 Tracy, J.T., Tran, |., Harbers, K. and Molecular characterization of the x-amylase genes of SII eeceteniincalineslanactctiaiiiclgslarnienibsiinenentpumannes 61-72 Lactobacillus plantarum A6 and Lactobacillus amylovorus Molecular cloning and chromatin structure analysis of the reveals an unusual 3’ end structure with direct tandem murine «1(1) collagen gene domain repeats and suggests a common evolutionary origin EF Oa & ccrerensessniensrinncetnensenese 73-82 I, Wr NE ly Wl citcietntinsesssinsinietiteintiininnecitaintine 159-164 Cloning, sequencing and regulation of thiA, a thiamin bio- Identification of a functional CT-element in the synthesis gene from Bacillus subtilis Phytophthora infestans piypt1 gene promoter Sugino, H., Oshimura, M. and Mastubara, K. 83-87 Chaves, R.S., Herrero, P., Ordiz, |., del Brio, M.A. and Distribution of human endogenous retroviral RTVL-H2 LTR IT ITT <iitintcdescsetecihliaiasiniicttiai ieaaplimetstaicalliaedilie 165-169 sequences among human chromosomes Isocitrate lyase localisation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Carrick, C.S., Fyfe, J.A.M. and Davies, J.K. ..... 89-97 cells The normally silent o®* promoters upstream of the pilE Lin, Z., Yang, S. and Mallavia, L.P. ................... 171-180 genes of both Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria menin- Codon usage and nucleotide composition in Coxiella gitidis are functional when transferred to Pseudomonas burnetii aeruginosa Albert, S., Twardzik, T., Heisenberg, M. and Rakonjac, J., Jovanovic, G. and Model, P. ...... 99-103 IIE, TIE nicscicstcitincssiishiaiicdislasbitiesAliganitboonitidemaentinns 181-189 Filamentous phage infection-mediated gene expression: Isolation and characterization of the droP/K57 gene encod- construction and propagation of the g/// deletion mutant ing a new regulatory subunit of phosphatidylinositol helper phage R408d3 3-kinase from Drosophila melanogaster Continued on inside back cover The table of contents of Gene is included in ESTOC — Elsevier Science Tables of Contents service — which can be accessed on the World Wide Web at the following URL addresses: http://www.elsevier.ni/locate/estoc or http://www.elsevier.com/locate/estoc 03781-997110011 )11989:1-¢2;1 -D Contents (cont.) Nogami, H., Ohmori, H., Li, J.-D., Gallup, M., Gum, J., I, TR. cciccnisircrsencertinvtnsincseinnisentintin 305-312 Es Wu CN IIIS ibe -cicenvonsccnsststisiiasenmerienties 191-201 Upregulation of a novel gene by freezing exposure in the Sp1 protein contributes to airway-specific rat MUC 2 mucin freeze-tolerant wood frog (Rana sylvatica) gene transcription Lafreniére, R.G., Kibar, Z., Rochefort, D.L., Han, F.-Y., Wheeler, V.C., Aitken, M. and Coutelle, C. ..... 203-209 Fon, E.A., Dubé, M.-P., Kang, X., Baird, S., Modification of the mouse mitochondrial genome by inser- Korneluk, R.G., Rommens, J.M. and tion of an exogenous gene RTE RTE EE oer een ee ee 313-321 Radiwimmer, F.B. and Yokoyama, S&S. ............... 211-215 Genomic structure of the human GT334 (EHOC-1) gene Cloning and expression of the red visual pigment gene of mapping to 21q22.3 goat (Capra hircus) Kazahari, K., Nomoto, K., Nakazato, S. and Ramos, A., Macias, J.R. and Gil, J.A. ............... 217-222 NIL: acecesiisrecisscsiedontsbailsSciohsipstnines eeanetbidibasatimiadiialagea teeta 323-327 Cloning, sequencing and expression of the gene encoding Gene coding for the transcription factor, SUG/proteasome, elongation factor P in the amino-acid producer p45 is located nearly 40 kb downstream from the rat Brevibacterium lactofermentum (Corynebacterium glu- growth hormone gene Clay, F.J., Ernst, M.R., Trueman, J.W.H., Flegg, R. and tamicum ATCC 13869) I NIN Faisins site hsccescsassssiaasnichissaiceshiaiiabicbesiinedeisacadlitae 329-339 Koh, C.G., Oon, S.H. and Brenner, S. ............... 223-228 The mouse Pik gene: structural characterization, chromo- Serine/threonine phosphatases of the pufferfish, Fugu somal localization and identification of a processed Pik rubripes pseudogene Mottus, R.C., Whitehead, |.P., O'Grady, M., Kobayashi, T., Sugimoto, T., Saijoh, K., Fukase, M. Sobel, R.E., Burr, R.H.L., Spiegelman, G.B. and I 6s cioninscohcinanasiniieabiesticstasbaaioeioon 341-349 I TEENS: siceunincuhcunesinsouiiecianinindiecakbotiopisdsevenieiias 229-236 Cloning of mouse diastrophic dysplasia sulfate transporter Unique gene organization: alternative splicing in gene induced during osteoblast differentiation by bone Drosophila produces two structurally unrelated proteins morphogenetic protein-2 Habenicht, A., Quesada, A. and Cerff, R. ......... 237-243 Wakamatsu, N., Gotoda, Y., Saito, S. and Sequence of the non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde- SL eeeORD ee NG Oe 351-357 3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Nicotiana plumbagini- Characterization of the human MANB gene encoding lyso- folia and phylogenetic origin of the gene family somal «-D-mannosidase Nam, S.-y., Nakamuta, N., Kurohmaru, M. and Komatsu, S., Murata-Hori, M., Totsukawa, G., I I baci lah sseaccapcasianb csaniiaadeonaucib ie 245-249 Murai, N., Fujimoto, H., Mabuchi, |. and Cloning and sequencing of the mouse cDNA encoding a NINE ccsccicecracitamrccsccsnahencieiicaiceibiatiiapii phospholipid hydroperoxide glutathione peroxidase identification of p34? kinase from sea Bharathi, A., Ghosh, A., Whalen, W.A., Yoon, J.H., Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus and its involvement in the Pu, R., Dasso, M. and Dhar, R. ....................... 251-258 phosphorylation of myosin || regulatory light chain in the The human RAE7 gene is a functional homologue of metaphase extract Schizosaccharomyces pombe rael gene involved in CUTE, ee GREE PO, IP. .nnsesireciesscenscrossevonessscs 367-372 nuclear export of Poly(A)* RNA A cassette for high-level expression in the mouse sali- Billaut-Mulot, O., Fernandez-Gomez, R. and vary glands Ouaissi, A 259-267 Hong, S.-B., Kim, S.J., Noh, M.J., Lee, Y.M., Kim, Y. Phenotype of recombinant Trypanosoma cruzi which gS RTE SY, RMA ae Re a Te ae eA 373-378 overexpress elongation factor 1-y: possible involvement Identification of the transcription termination site of the of EF-1)y GST-like domain in the resistance to mouse nkx-7.2 gene: involvement of sequence-specific clomipramine factors Wilke, K., Wiemann, S., Gaul, R., Gong, W. and Goldmuntz, E., Fedon, J., Roe, B. and AS RREN ESS EEIEE SUS REM eerie aero ee 269-274 I icc lscissinscaniineennsisianeheniaaeoaninenain 379-386 Isolation of human and mouse HMG2a cDNAs: evidence Molecular characterization of a serine/threonine kinase in for an HMG2a-specific 3’ untranslated region the DiGeorge minimal critical region Ladomery, M., Lyons, S. and Yu, J.-J., Smithson, S.L., Thomas, P.W., Kirkland, T.N. ES EERE Laeeaer oa are 275-280 a i ih iene icticieentieniennenninatcinbenicniie 387-391 Xenopus HDm, a maternally expressed histone deacetyl- Isolation and characterization of the urease gene (URE) ase, belongs to an ancient family of acetyl-metabolizing from the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis enzymes Suzuki, A., Suzuki, T., Tanabe, F., Toki, S., Ladeira de Campos, C.B. and Lopes, U.G. ...... 281-288 Washida, H., Wu, C.-Y. and Takaiwa, F. ...... 393-398 Leishmania braziliensis, molecular characterization of an Cloning and expression of five myb-related genes from elongation factor 1% gene rice seed Jacobs, K.A., Collins-Racie, L.A., Colbert, M., Echeverry, F., Bergeron, J., Kaupp, W., Guertin, C. and Duckett, M., Golden-Fleet, M., Kelleher, K., Kriz, R., LT Tact asasetinhete sdtaeeilbiansdinlaiabislbstacnigentabiibae 399-406 LaVallie, E.R., Merberg, D., Spaulding, V., Sequence analysis and expression of the polyhedrin gene Stover, J., Williamson, M.J. and of Choristoneura fumiferana cytoplasmic polyhedrosis I I iat cleat 289-296 virus (CfCPV) A genetic selection for isolating cDNAs_ encoding Widom, R.L., Culic, |., Lee, J.Y. and ECE: SS REER eect er ee See eer eae 407-420 secreted proteins Cloning and characterization of hcKrox, a transcriptional Skorupski, K. and Taylor, R.K. ................ccccceeeee 297-303 regulator of extracellular matrix gene expression Sequence and functional analysis of the gene encoding Vibrio cholerae cAMP receptor protein Author Index Vol. 198 (1997) 421-424 e iarly es eeA a Oeea vaA erneeA s toe co“a4 t7 - - OME SAP LE ha qb a” o>. torr © ae Pc ef e h 5 eae e 7 Sa= y :