BIOCHIMICA ET BIOPHYSICA Af Lipids and Lipid Metabolism A Pe we Vol. 1390, 1998 ELSEVIER Contents Information for Contributors * paper Short sequence-paper Involvement of phospholipase D and protein kinase Complementary DNA sequence for a 42kDa rat C in phorbol ester and fatty acid stimulated kidney choline /ethanolamine kinase turnover of phosphatidylcholine and phos- C. Aoyama, K. Nakashima, M. Matsui and K. phatidylethanolamine in neural cells Ishidate (Japan) H.W. Cook, N.D. Ridgway and D.M. Byers (Canada) Regular papers Cucumber root lipoxygenase can act on acyl groups Information for Contributors in phosphatidylcholine K. Matsui, M. Nishioka, M. Ikeyoshi, Y. Mat- Regular papers sumura, T. Mori and T. Kajiwara (Japan) Enzymology of cottonseed microsomal /N- acylphosphatidylethanolamine synthase: Kinetic Effect of serum components on the physico-chemical properties and mechanism-based inactivation properties of cationic lipid /oligonucleotide com- R.S. McAndrew and K.D. Chapman (USA) plexes and on their interactions with cells Inhibition of phosphorylation of the oxysterol bind- O. Zelphati, L.S. Uyechi, L.G. Barron and F.C. ing protein by brefeldin A Szoka Jr. (USA) N.D. Ridgway, K. Badiani, D.M. Byers and H.W. The influence of dietary saturated and unsaturated fat Cook (Canada) on hepatic cholesterol metabolism and the biliary Oleic acid distribution in small intestinal epithelial excretion of chylomicron cholesterol in the rat cells expressing intestinal-fatty acid binding pro- E. Bravo, L. Flora, A. Cantafora, V. De Luca, M. tein Tripodi, M. Avella and K.M. Botham (Italy, UK) E.L. Holehouse, M.-L. Liu and G.W. Aponte (USA) Metabolic fate of exogenous diacylglycerols in Al0 Cardiolipin hydrolysis by human phospholipases A ,. smooth muscle cells The multiple enzymatic activities of human cy- M. Chuang and D.L. Severson (Canada) tosolic phospholipase A , Effect of the surface lipid composition of reconsti- A.G. Buckland, A.R. Kinkaid and D.C. Wilton tuted LPA-I on apolipoprotein A-I structure and (UK) lecithin:cholesterol acyltransferase activity Undifferentiated HL-60 cells internalize an antitumor D.L. Sparks, P.G. Frank and T.A.-M. Neville alkyl ether phospholipid more rapidly than resis- (Canada) tant K562 cells Phospholipase D and phosphatidic acid enhance the T. Tsutsumi, A. Tokumura and S. Kitazawa hydrolysis of phospholipids in vesicles and in cell (Japan) membranes by human secreted phospholipase A , A.R. Kinkaid, R. Othman, J. Voysey and D.C. Subsection Wilton (UK) Structural characterization of neutral glycosphin- Review golipids from Fusarium species The inhibition of cell signaling pathways by antitu- R.S. Duarte, C.R. Polycarpo, R. Wait, R. Hart- mor ether lipids mann and E. Barreto Bergter (Brazil, UK, Ger- G. Arthur and R. Bittman (Canada, USA) many) 348 Cumulative Contents 208-hydroxy-C2 1-steroid 20B-oxidase activity of cy- Biochemical characterization of the 7a-hydroxylase tochrome P450.,, purified from bovine adreno- activities towards 27-hydroxycholesterol and de- cortical microsomes hydroepiandrosterone in pig liver microsomes M. Tsubaki, N. Matsumoto, S. Tomita, Y. Ichikawa M. Norlin and K. Wikvall (Sweden) and H. Hori (Japan) Protein lipid interaction in bile: effects of biliary Oxidative metabolism of [1-'°C] mono-rrans isomers proteins on the stability of cholesterol—lecithin of linoleic and a-linolenic acids in the rat vesicles L. Bretillon, J.-M. Chardigny, J.-L. Sébédio, D. A.S. Luk, E.W. Kaler and S.P. Lee (USA) Poullain, J.-P. Noél and J.-M. Vatéle (France) Increased saturation of the fatty acids in the sn-2 position of phospholipids reduces cholesterol Subsection crystallization in model biles Y. Ringel, G.J. SOmjen, F.M. Konikoff, R. Rosen- Regular papers berg and T. Gilat (Israel) Type IB secretory phospholipase A, is contained in insulin secretory granules of pancreatic islet B- Substrate specificities of neuronal nuclear acetyl- cells and is co-secreted with insulin from transferases involved in the synthesis of platelet- glucose-stimulated islets activating factor: Differences in the use of |-alkyl and |-acyl lysophospholipid acceptors S. Ramanadham, Z. Ma, H. Arita, S. Zhang and J. Turk (USA, Japan) R.R. Baker and H.-y. Chang (Canada) The effects of purified eicosapentaenoic and docosa- The potent lipid mitogen sphingosylphosphocholine hexaenoic acids on arterial thrombosis tendency activates the DNA binding activity of upstream and platelet function in rats stimulating factor (USF), a basic helix-loop- helix-zipper protein C.M.A. Nieuwenhuys and G. Hornstra (The Netherlands) A. Berger, C.M. Cultaro, S. Segal and S. Spiegel (USA) Biochemical characterization of a Al2 acyl-lipid de- saturase after overexpression of the enzyme in Information for Contributors Escherichia coli S. Panpoom, D.A. Los and N. Murata (Japan) Regular papers Human long chain, very long chain and medium chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenases are specific for the S-enantiomer of 2- methylpentadecanoyl-CoA Effects of variable dietary sitostanol concentrations on plasma lipid profile and phytosterol metabolism K.P. Battaile, M. McBurney, P.P. Van Veldhoven in hamsters and J. Vockley (USA, Belgium) F.Y. Ntanios and P.J.H. Jones (Canada) A novel ether core lipid with H-shaped C,,sO- isopre- Postprandial decrease in plasma unesterified fatty noid hydrocarbon chain from the hyperther- acids during n — 3 fatty acid feeding is not caused mophilic methanogen Methanothermus fervidus by accumulation of fatty acids in adipose tissue H. Morii, T. Eguchi, M. Nishihara, K. Kakinuma, A.C. Rustan, B.-E. Hustvedt and C.A. Drevon H. Konig and Y. Koga (Japan, Germany) (Norway) Differential influence of rat liver fatty acid binding protein isoforms on phospholipid fatty acid com- Cumulative Contents position: phosphatidic acid biosynthesis and phos- pholipid fatty acid remodeling C.A. Jolly, E.J. Murphy and F. Schroeder (USA) Author Index