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General Subjects Biochimica Vol. 1244, 1995 et Biophysica Acta Cumulative Contents Information for Contributors a possible role for calcium in mediating auxinic herbicide resistance S. Deshpande and J.C. Hall (Canada) A double-labelling fluorescent assay for concomitant Regular Papers measurements of [Ca**], and O; production in human macrophages J.-L. Bueb, A. Gallois, J.-C. Schneider, J.-P. a-1,4-Glucan lyase, a new class of starch/glycogen Parini and E. Tschirhart (Luxembourg) degrading enzyme. III. Substrate specificity, mode Changes in mobility of synaptic vesicles with assem- of action, and cleavage mechanism bly and disassembly of actin network S. Yu, T. Ahmad, L. Kenne and M. Pedersén S. Miyamoto (Japan) (Sweden) Stimulation of gluconeogenesis leads to an increased Catalysis of reduction of carbohydrate 2-oxoalde- rate of B-oxidation in hepatocytes from fasted hydes (osones) by mammalian aldose reductase diabetic but not from fasted normal rats and aldehyde reductase D.C. Henly, J.W. Phillips and M.N. Berry M.S. Feather, T.G. Flynn, K.A. Munro, T.J. Ku- (Australia) biseski and D.J. Walton (USA, Canada) On the reduction potentials of Fe and Cu-Zn contain- Keratanase digestion of keratan sulphates: characteri- ing superoxide dismutases zation of large oligosaccharides from the N- M.F.J.M. Verhagen, E.T.M. Meussen and W.R. acetyllactosamine repeat sequence and from the Hagen (The Netherlands) non-reducing terminal chain caps Molecular structure of heparan sulphate synthesised T.N. Huckerby, J.M. Dickenson, G.M. Brown and by bovine aortic endothelial cells L.A. Nieduszynski (UK) D.R.R. Hiscock, A. Canfield and J.T. Gallagher Structural differences between complex-type Asn- (UK) linked glycan chains of glycoproteins in rat hepa- Origin of the nitrogen atom of pyridoxine in Saccha- tocytes and Zajdela hepatoma cells romyces cerevisiae C. Goulut-Chassaing and R. Bourrillon (France) K. Tazuya, Y. Adachi, K. Masuda, K. Yamada and Characterization of the signal transduction of prosta- H. Kumaoka (Japan) glandin E receptor EP! subtype in cDNA-trans- Androgen hormone binding to adipose tissue in rats fected Chinese hamster ovary cells J. Sjogren, M. Li and P. Bjérntorp (Sweden) H. Katoh, A. Watabe, Y. Sugimoto, A. Ichikawa Small proteoglycans from different regions of the and M. Negishi (Japan) fibrocartilaginous temporomandibular joint disc Identification of a mitochondrial inhibitor of rat liver P.G. Scott, T. Nakano and C.M. Dodd (Canada) L-threonine dehydrogenase Purification and characterization of an N-acetyllac- R. Pagani, R. Guerranti, S. Righi, L. Lazzeretti, tosamine-specific lectin from tubers of Arum R. Leoncini, E. Marinello and M. Pizzichini (Italy) maculatum Enzymatic characterization of a novel bovine liver A.K. Allen (UK) dihydrodiol dehydrogenase — reaction mechanism HeLa plasma membranes bind the antitumor sulfo- and bile acid dehydrogenase activity nylurea LY 181984 with high affinity H. Nanjo, H. Adachi, S. Morihana, T. Mizoguchi, D.J. Morré, D.M. Morré, J. Stevenson, W. T. Nishihara and T. Terada (Japan) MacKellar and D. McClure (USA) Does peroxynitrite generate hydroxyl radical? Inhibition of glycolysis in boar spermatozoa by 1,6- S. Pou, S.¥. Nguyen, T. Gladwell and G.M. Rosen dichloro- | ,6-dideoxy-D-fructose (USA) A.R. Jones and C. Morin (Australia, France) Comparison of flash-induced light-scattering tran- Cerastocytin, a new thrombin-like platelet activator sients and proton efflux from auxinic-herbicide from the venom of the Tunisian viper Cerastes resistant and susceptible wild mustard protoplasts: cerastes 424 Cumulative Contents N. Marrakchi, R.B. Zingali, H. Karoui, C. Bon Rapid Report and M. El Ayeb (France, Tunisia) 147 Human cytosolic phospholipase A, expressed in in- Insulin-mediated activation of glycogen synthase in sect cells is extensively phosphorylated on Ser-505 isolated skeletal muscle: role of mitochondrial K. Abdullah, W.A. Cromlish, P. Payette, F. Lali- respiration berté, Z. Huang, I. Street and B.P. Kennedy A. Katz and H. Westerblad (Sweden) (Canada) Effect of ultraviolet-A (UV-A) light on growth, pho- Short Sequence-Papers tosynthetic activity and production of biopterin glucoside by the marine UV-A resistant cyanobac- terium Oscillatoria sp. Molecular cloning of two glutamate transporter sub- Y. Wachi, J.G. Burgess, K. Iwamoto, N. Yamada, types from mouse brain N. Nakamura and T. Matsunaga (Japan) Y. Mukainaka, K. Tanaka, T. Hagiwara and K. The action of glucagon infused via the hepatic artery Wada (Japan) in anterograde and retrograde perfusion of the rat Nucleotide sequences of xylan-inducible xylanase liver is not a function of the accessible cellular and xylosidase/arabinosidase genes from Bac- spaces teroides ovatus V975 J. Constantin, E.L. Ishii-Iwamoto, F. Suzuki-Kem- T.R. Whitehead (USA) melmeier, N.S. Yamamoto and A. Bracht (Brazil) Changes in the molecular types of connectin and Erratum nebulin during development of chicken skeletal muscle Erratum to ‘‘A sheep hydatid cyst glycoprotein as A. Hattori, T. Ishii, R. Tatsumi and K. Takahashi receptors for three toxic lectins, as well as Abrus (Japan) precatorius and Ricinis communis agglutinins’ B/PI-derived synthetic peptides: synergistic effects [Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1243 (1995) 124-128] in tethered bactericidal and endotoxin neutralizing A.M. Wu, S.-C. Song, J.H. Wu, U. Pfiiller, L.-P. peptides Chow and J.-W. Lin (Taiwan, Germany) B.H. Gray, J.R. Haseman and K.H. Mayo (USA) Subcellular localization of 12(S)-hydroxy-5,8,10,14- Regular Papers eicosatetraenoic acid binding sites in Lewis lung carcinoma cells H. Herbertsson and S. Hammarstriém (Sweden) The chemical modification of glycosaminoglycan Diamine and polyamine oxidase activities in phyto- structure by oxygen-derived species in vitro haemagglutinin-induced growth of rat small intes- R. Moseley, R. Waddington, P. Evans, B. Halli- tine well and G. Embery (UK) A. Sessa, P. Tunici, S.W.B. Ewen, G. Grant, A. Observation of reorientationally hindered water in Pusztai, S. Bardocz and A. Perin (Italy, UK) biological tissue using triple quantum filtered '’0- Effect of glucose phosphorylation on the activation NMR by insulin of skeletal muscle glycogen synthase C.W. Flesche, M.L.H. Gruwel, A. Deussen and J. C. Villar-Palasi (USA) Schrader (Germany) A new approach to examine conformational changes Synthesis and characterisation of fluorescent occurring upon binding of ligand by biomolecules oligonucleotides. Effect of internal labelling on C. Wingren and U.-B. Hansson (Sweden) protein recognition Molecular cloning and expression of chick Gal- P. Hagmar, M. Bailey, G. Tong, J. Haralambidis, B1,3GalNAc @2,3-sialyltransferase W.H. Sawyer and B.E. Davidson (Australia) N. Kurosawa, T. Hamamoto, M. Inoue and S. Characterisation of glucose transport in Helicobacter Tsuji (Japan) pylori Donor substrate specificities of Gal B1,4GIlcNAc G.L. Mendz, B.P. Burns and S.L. Hazell a 2,6-sialyltransferase and Gal B 1,3GalNAc a@2,3- (Australia) sialyltransferase: comparison of N-acetyl and N- Binding of lithocholate and its glucuronide and sul- glycolylneuraminic acids fate by human serum albumin T. Hamamoto, N. Kurosawa, Y.-C. Lee and S. H. Takikawa, Y. Sekiya, M. Yamanaka and Y. Tsuji (Japan) Sugiyama (Japan) Cumulative Contents Microcalorimetric evaluation of the effect of com- Study of stimulation-secretion coupling in a flow bined chemotherapeutic drugs culture system: periodic secretion of hepatocyte T. Roig and J. Bermiidez (Spain) growth factor by interleukin-1! a@-stimulated human Diffusion characteristics of chitosan-entrapped mi- embryonic lung fibroblasts crosomal UDP-glucurony] transferase gel beads M. Shimizu, Y. Takakuwa and S. Nitta (Japan) F. Zihnioglu and A. Telefoncu (Turkey) Degradation of trans-ferulic and p-coumaric acid by Trehazolin, a slow, tight-binding inhibitor of silk- Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DSM 586 worm trehalase D. Delneri, G. Degrassi, R. Rizzo and C.V. O. Ando, M. Nakajima, M. Kifune, H. Fang and Bruschi (Italy) K. Tanzawa (Japan) Identification and evaluation of the role of endoge- Abolition of the inhibitory effect of ethanol oxida- nous tyrosine kinases in azoxymethane induction tion on gluconeogenesis from lactate by as- of proliferative processes in the colonic mucosa of paragine or low concentrations of ammonia rats M.-A. Efthivoulou, J.W. Phillips and M.N. Berry N.K. Relan, A. Saeed, K. Ponduri, S.E.G. Fligiel, (Australia) S. Dutta and A.P.N. Majumdar (USA) Reconstitution of lysosomal sulfate transport in pro- Carbohydrate specificity of the Escherichia coli P- teoliposomes pilus papG protein is mediated by its N-terminal P.J. Koetters, H.-F. Chou and A.J. Jonas (USA) part Purification and characterization of a heat-stable L. Hansson, P. Wallbrandt, J.-O. Andersson, M. wheat substrate for wheat embryo calcium-depen- Bystrém, A. Backman, A. Carlstein, K. Enquist, dent protein kinase H. Lonn, C. Otter and M. Striémqvist (Sweden) A. Chang, R. Condron, G.M. Neumann and G.M. Precursor—product relationship between chicken Polya (Australia) vitellogenin and the yolk proteins: the 40 kDa Presence of elastin-related 45-kDa fragment in cul- yolk plasma glycoprotein is derived from the ture medium: specific cleavage product of tropo- C-terminal cysteine-rich domain of vitellogenin II elastin in vascular smooth muscle cell culture J.-i. Yamamura, T. Adachi, N. Aoki, H. Nakajima, A. Hayashi, H. Wachi and S. Tajima (Japan) R. Nakamura and T. Matsuda (Japan) Flavocetin-A and -B, two high molecular mass The dynamics of cobalamin utilization in L-1210 glycoprotein Ib binding proteins with high affinity mouse leukemia cells: a model of cellular cobal- purified from Trimeresurus flavoviridis venom, amin metabolism inhibit platelet aggregation at high shear stress E.V. Quadros and D.W. Jacobsen (USA) Y. Taniuchi, T. Kawasaki, Y. Fujimura, M. Suzuki, D-myo-Inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate analogues substi- K. Titani, Y. Sakai, S. Kaku, N. Hisamichi, N. tuted at the 3-hydroxyl group Satoh, T. Takenaka, M. Handa and Y. Sawai M. Hirata, Y. Watanabe, T. Kanematsu, S$. Ozaki (Japan) and T. Koga (Japan) Properties of base-pairing in the stem region of Sheep «-casein peptides inhibit platelet aggregation hairpin antisense oligonucleotides containing 2’- Z.-Y. Qian, P. Jollés, D. Migliore-Samour, F. methoxynucleosides Schoentgen and A.-M. Fiat (France) K. Hosono, T. Kuwasaki, S. Tsukahara, K. Takai Optimal conditions to radiolabel @H or “C) and H. Takaku (Japan) aminosugar-containing glycosphingolipids by de- Mixed valence state in ironporphyrin aggregates N-acetylation and re-N-acetylation K. Burda, A. Hrynkiewicz, H. Kotoczek, J. Stanek A. Rebbaa and J. Portoukalian (France) and K. Strzatka (Poland) Kinetics of adenylate metabolism in human and rat Cumulative Conents, Vol. 1244 myocardium M. Tavenier, A.C. Skladanowski, R.A. De Abreu Author Index and J.W. De Jong (Netherlands, Poland)