Description:Content: Metals and molecular biology / Thomas D. Tullius -- Chemical nuclease activity of 1,10-phenanthrolinecopper : a new reagent for molecular biology / David S. Sigman and Chi-hong B. Chen -- Excited-state modalities for studying the binding of copper phenanthrolines to DNA / Ramasamy Tamilarasan, David R. McMillin, and Fang Liu -- Interaction of porphyrins and metalloporphyrins with nucleic acids / Robert F. Pasternack and Esther J. Gibbs -- Porphyrins as probes of DNA structure and drug-DNA interactions / G. Raner, J. Goodisman, and J.C. Dabrowiak -- Searching for metal-binding domains / Jeremy M. Berg -- Inorganic reagents as probes for the mechanism of a metal-responsive genetic switch / Betsy Frantz and Thomas V. O'Halloran -- The Fur regulon of Escherichia coli K-12 / Kayoko Nakamura, Victor de Lorenzo, and J.B. Neilands -- Platinum anticancer drug binding to oligonucleotide models of DNA : ³¹P NMR spectroscopic investigations / Luigi G. Marzilli, Tammy Page Kline, David Live, and Gerald Zon -- Base-selective DNA cleavage with a cyclometalated palladium complex / J. William Suggs, John D. Higgins, III, Richard W. Wagner, and Julie T. Millard -- Metal-nucleotide interactions / Helmut Sigel.