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407 General Subjects BBIOCHIBMICA ETI BIOPHWYSICA A CTA Vol. 1379, 1998 Cumulative Contents Information for Contributors vu The antibiotic ceftazidime is a _ singlet oxygen quencher as demonstrated by ultra-weak chemilu- minescence and by inhibition of AAP consump- Editorial Note Xuil tion G. Deby-Dupont, C. Deby, A. Mouithys-Mickalad, Regular papers M. Hoebeke, M. Mathy-Hartert, L. Jadoul, A. Vandenberghe and M. Lamy (Belgium) 61 Intestinal flora is not an intermediate in the phyllo- Intestinal Na* /glucose cotransporter-mediated trans- quinone-menaquinone-4 conversion in the rat port of glucose conjugate formed from disaccha- J.E. Ronden, M.-J. Drittij-Reijnders, C. Vermeer ride conjugate and H.H.W. Thijssen (The Netherlands) 69 T. Mizuma and S. Awazu (Japan) Occurrence of peptidyl D-amino acids in soluble Effects of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB) fractions of several eubacteria, archaea and eu- surfactant upon the dielectric properties of yeast karyotes cells Y. Nagata, T. Fujiwara, K. Kawaguchi-Nagata, Y. V. Raicu, C. Gusbeth, D.F. Anghel and G. Turcu Fukumori and T. Yamanaka (Japan) 76 (Romania) A Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy study Tissue distribution of K-vitamers under different nu- of sugar glasses: application to anhydrobiotic tritional regimens in the rat higher plant cells J.E. Ronden, H.H.W. Thijssen and C. Vermeer W.F. Wolkers, H. Oldenhof, M. Alberda and F.A. (Netherlands) Hoekstra (The Netherlands) The effect of corticosteroids on serum sialyltrans- Modulation of the biological functions of galectin-3 ferase enzyme activities in the rat by matrix metalloproteinases T.M. Maguire, C.M. Coughlan, J.R. Seckl and J. Ochieng, B. Green, S. Evans, O. James and P. K.C. Breen (UK) Warfield (USA) 97 nNo s) Differential inhibition of mast cell chymases by se- N-Glycosylation does not affect assembly and target- cretory leukocyte protease inhibitor ing of proglycinin in yeast A.D. Pemberton, J.F. Huntley and H.R.P. Miller T. Katsube, I.J. Kang, Y. Takenaka, M. Adachi, N. (UK) Maruyama, T. Morisaki and §. Utsumi (Japan, Aminoglycoside detection using a universal ELISA South Korea) 107 binding procedure onto polystyrene microtiter Expression of high-affinity trehalose—H * symport in plates in comparison with HPLC analysis and Saccharomyces cerevisiae microbiological agar-diffusion assay B.U. Stambuk, A.D. Panek, J.H. Crowe, L.M. S. Sachetelli, C. Beaulac and J. Lagacé (Canada) Crowe and P.S. De Araujo (Brazil, USA) 118 WwWw n Exonuclease enhances hybridization efficiency: Im- DNA-chlorpheniramine interaction studied by spec- proved direct cycle sequencing and point mutation troscopic techniques detection M.A. Medina, F.J. Ramirez, J. Ruiz-Chica, T. V.A.M.C. Somers, D.A. Leimbach, J.J. Murtagh Chavarria, J.T. Loépez-Navarrete and F. and F.B.J.M. Thunnissen (The Netherlands, USA) Sanchez-Jiménez (Spain) 129 Tepidopterin, 1-O-(L-threo-biopterin-2’-yl)-B-N- Hexokinase isoenzymes in normal and cirrhotic hu- acetylglucosamine from Chlorobium tepidum man liver: suppression of glucokinase in cirrhosis S.-H. Cho, J.-U. Na, H. Youn, C.-S. Hwang, C.-H. W. Lowes, M. Walker, K.G.M.M. Alberti and L. Lee and §.-O. Kang (South Korea) Agius (UK) 134 408 Cumulative contents Inhibitory effects of meta-iodo-benzylguanidine A. Rabinkov, T. Miron, L. Konstantinovski, M. (MIBG) on endothelial histamine receptor binding Wilchek, D. Mirelman and L. Weiner (Israel) 233 O. Jonsson, H. Halldérsson, M. Kjeld and G. Regulation of acid trehalase activity by association— Thorgeirsson (Iceland) dissociation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Effects of L-valine on growth and _ polyamine N. Biswas and A.K. Ghosh (India) metabolism in human colon carcinoma cells Bicarbonate promotes a cleavage of lactone ring of M. Selamnia, V. Robert, C. Mayeur, P.-H. Duée dehydroascorbate and F. Blachier (France) I. Koshiishi, Y. Mamura and T. Imanari (Japan) The new EPR molecular oxygen probe fusinite is not Extracellular ribonuclease from Rhizopus stolonifer: toxic to cells characteristics of an atypical — guanylic acid pref- M.T. Santini, C. Cametti, E. Straface, A. Floridi, erential — enzyme from ribonuclease T2 family F. Flamma, S. Paradisi and W. Malorni (Italy) R. Chacko and V. Shankar (India) Epitope mapping and serodiagnosis using Ata- and Information for Contributors (Lys), peptides Regular papers E.E.M.G. Loomans, L.J. Nijholt, A.J.H.F. Cre- mers, W.P. Paulij and W.J.G. Schielen (The Postmortem stability of total RNA isolated from Netherlands) rabbit ligament, tendon and cartilage Molecular structural changes in human fetal tissue L. Marchuk, P. Sciore, C. Reno, C.B. Frank and during the early stages of embryogenesis D.A. Hart (Canada) V.J. James, J.F. McConnell and Y. Amemiya In situ visualization of messenger RNA for basic (Australia, Japan) fibroblast growth factor in living cells Effect of folic acid on thymidylate synthase and T. Matsuo (Japan) thymidine kinase in regenerating rat liver after Extracellular volume in streptococcal model biofilms: partial hepatectomy effects of pH, calcium and fluoride M. Komatsu and I. Tsukamoto (Japan) R.K. Rose and S.J. Turner (UK) Small angle neutron scattering analysis of thermal Partition coefficients of a-amylase in aqueous two- stability of 23S rRNA and the intact 50S subunits phase systems PEG + MgSO,-7H,0+H,0 at of Sulfolobus solfataricus 298 K G. Briganti, R. Giordano, P. Londei and F. Pe- G. Blazquez, F. Camacho, P. Gonzdlez-Tello and done (Italy) F.J. Alarcon (Spain) Purification and preliminary characterisation of prae- Information for Contributors longin phospholipases, antiplatelet agents from the snake venom of Acanthophis praelongus Regular papers K.L. Sim (Singapore) Legume vicilins (7S storage globulins) inhibit yeast Temperature-responsive size-exclusion chromatogra- growth and glucose stimulated acidification of the phy using poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) grafted medium by yeast cells silica V.M. Gomes, L.A. Okorokov, T.L. Rose, K.V.S. H. Lakhiari, T. Okano, N. Nurdin, C. Luthi, P. Fernandes and J. Xavier-Filho (Brazil) Descouts, D. Muller and J. Jozefonvicz (France, Site-specific cleavage of tRNA by imidazole and/or Japan, Switzerland) primary amine groups bound at the 5’-end of The effect of ethanol on pancreatic enzymes—a di- oligodeoxyribonucleotides etary artefact? K. Ushijima, H. Gouzu, K. Hosono, M. Shi- M. Apte, I. Norton, P. Haber, T. Applegate, M. rakawa, K. Kagosima, K. Takai and H. Takaku Korsten, G. McCaughan, R. Pirola and J. Wilson (Japan) (Australia, USA) 'H-Nuclear magnetic resonance evidence for acto- Effects of the sulforaphane analog compound 30, myosin-dependent structural changes of the intra- indole-3-carbinol, D-limonene or relafen on glu- cellular water of frog skeletal muscle fiber tathione S-transferases and glutathione peroxidase T. Yamada (Japan) of the rat digestive tract The mode of action of allicin: trapping of radicals E.M.M. Van Lieshout, G.H. Posner, B.T. Woodard and interaction with thiol containing proteins and W.H.M. Peters (The Netherlands, USA) Cumulative contents Control analysis of metabolic systems involving R. Bourbonnais, D. Leech and M.G. Paice quasi-equilibrium reactions (Canada) B.N. Kholodenko, S. Schuster, J. Garcia, H.V. 2-Methoxy-4-nitroaniline and its isomers induce cy- Westerhoff and M. Cascante (Spain, Russian Fed- tochrome P4501A (CYPIA) enzymes with differ- eration, Germany, Netherlands) ent selectivities in the rat liver Kinetics of lactone hydrolysis in antitumor drugs of M. Degawa, M. Nakayama, Y. Konno, K. Masub- camptothecin series as studied by fluorescence uchi and Y. Yamazoe (Japan) spectroscopy Peroxisomal localization of D-aspartate oxidase and I. Chourpa, J.-M. Millot, G.D. Sockalingum, J.-F. development of peroxisomes in the yeast Crypto- Riou and M. Manfait (France) coccus humicolus UJ1 grown on D-aspartate High resolution 'H NMR spectroscopic studies on Y. Kera, A. Niino, T. Ikeda, H. Okada and R.-h. dynamic biochemical processes in incubated hu- Yamada (Japan) man seminal fluid samples A.M. Tomlins, P.J.D. Foxall, M.J. Lynch, J. Cumulative Contents, Vol. 1379 Parkinson, J.R. Everett and J.K. Nicholson (UK) Electrochemical analysis of the interactions of lac- case mediators with lignin model compounds Author Index