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============================================= Nucleic Acids Research - ISSN 0305 1048 Volume 23:12 25 June 1995 ============================================= Executive Editors:- R. T. Walker, Birmingham, UK R. J. Roberts, Beverly, MA, USA K. Calame, New York, NY, USA I. C. Eperon, Leicester, UK M. J. Gait, Cambridge, UK H. J. Gross, Wurzburg, Germany R. I. Gumport, Urbana, IL, USA R. B. Hallick, Tucson, AZ, USA S. Linn, Berkeley, CA, USA R. T. Simpson, University Park, PA, USA ============================================= CONTENTS ============================================= Stereochemistry-dependent bending in oligonucleotide duplexes induced by site-specific covalent benzo[a]pyrene diol epoxide-guanine lesions Rong Xu, Bing Mao, Jing Xu, Bin Li, Sheryl Birke, Charles E. Swenberg and Nicholas E. Geacintov DNase I-hypersensitive sites in the chromatin of rat growth hormone gene locus and enhancer activity of regions with these sites Akira Aizawa, Tadashi Yoneyama, Koji Kazahari and Masao Ono Characterization of a glucocorticoid responsive element and identification of an AT-rich element that regulate the link protein gene Craig Rhodes and Yoshihiko Yamada Molecular cloning of LSIRF, a lymphoid-specific member of the interferon regulatory factor family that binds the interferon-stimulated response element (ISRE) Toshifumi Matsuyama, Alex Grossman, Hans-Willi Mittrucker, David P. Siderovski, Friedemann Kiefer, Takatoshi Kawakami, Christopher D. Richardson, Tadatsugu Taniguchi, Steven K. Yoshinaga and Tak W. Mak Fluorescent dye-primer cycle sequencing using unpurified PCR products as templates; development of a protocol amenable to high-throughput DNA sequencing Michael K. Trower, Doreen Burt, Ian J. Purvis, Colin W. Dykes and Chris Christodoulou Stability of lac repressor-operator complexes in a new agarose-based gel matrix Karen M. Vossen and Michael G. Fried Structural and functional characterization of the promoter regions of the NFKB2 gene Luigia Lombardi, Paolo Ciana, Catarina Cappellini, Dino Trecca, Luisa Guerrini, Anna Migliazza, Anna Teresa Maiolo and Antonino Neri Polyamine effects on purine-purine-pyrimidine triple helix formation by phosphodiester and phosphorothioate oligodeoxyribonucleotides Marco Musso and Michael W. Van Dyke Mammalian assay for site-specific DNA damage processing using the human H-ras proto-oncogene Loretta Arcangeli and Kandace J. Williams The Xenopus 9 bp ribosomal terminator (T3 box) is a pause signal for the RNA polymerase I elongation complex Paul Labhart Human helicase gene SKI2W in the HLA class III region exhibits striking structural similarities to the yeast antiviral gene SKI2 and to the human gene KIAA0052: emergence of a new gene family Andrew W. Dangel, Liming Shen, Anna R. Mendoza, Lai-chu Wu and C. Yung Yu The interaction of DNA duplexes containing 2-aminopurine with restriction endonucleases EcoRII and SsoII O. V. Petrauskene, S. Schmidt, A. S. Karyagina, I. I. Nikolskaya, E.S. Gromova and D. Cech Autoregulation of poly(A) binding protein synthesis in vitro Osvaldo P. de Melo Neto, Nancy Standart and Cezar Martins de Sa The DNA repair genes RAD54 and UNG1 are cell cycle regulated in budding yeast but MCB promoter elements have no essential role in the DNA damage response Leland H. Johnston and Anthony L. Johnson Stereochemical basis of DNA bending by transcription factors Masashi Suzuki and Naoto Yagi Triple helix DNA alters nucleosomal histone-DNA interactions and acts as a nucleosome barrier Lorelei Westin, Patrik Blomquist, John F. Milligan and Orjan Wrange Human DNA polymerase epsilon is expressed during cell proliferation in a manner characteristic of replicative DNA polymerases Jussi Tuusa, Lahja Uitto and Juhani E. Syvaoja ZEMa, a member of a novel group of MADS box genes, is alternatively spliced in maize endosperm Katharina Montag, Francesco Salamini and Richard D. Thompson DNA binding and regulatory effects of transcription factors SP1 and USF at the rat amyloid precursor protein gene promoter Peter W. Hoffman and Jeffrey M. Chernak Relative stabilities of DNA three-way, four-way and five-way junctions (multi-helix junction loops): unpaired nucleotides can be stabilizing or destabilizing Julie L. Kadrmas, Amy J. Ravin and Neocles B. Leontis Improved accumulation and activity of ribozymes expressed from a tRNA-based RNA polymerase III promoter James D. Thompson, David F. Ayers, Terra A. Malmstrom, Timothy L. McKenzie, Louis Ganousis, Bharat M. Chowrira, Larry Couture and Dan T. Stinchcomb cIRF-3, a new member of the interferon regulatory factor (IRF) family that is rapidly and transiently induced by dsRNA Caroline E. Grant, Monika Z. Vasa, and Roger G. Deeley Solution structure of a DNA hairpin and its disulfide cross-linked analog Robert J. Cain, Erik R. P. Zuiderweg and Gary D. Glick Gram-scale purification of phosphorothioate oligonucleotides using ion-exchange displacement chromatography Joseph A. Gerstner, Paula Pedroso, Joseph Morris and B. John Bergot SSCP primer design based on single-strand DNA structure predicted by a DNA folding program David A. Nielsen, Alexey Novoradovsky and David Goldman Transcription and processing of the rodent ID repeat family in germline and somatic cells Joomyeong Kim, David H. Kass and Prescott L. Deininger Ribozyme-mediated RNA degradation in nuclei suspension Olaf Heidenreich, Shin-Heh Kang, David A. Brown, Xiao Xu, Piotr Swiderski, John J. Rossi, Fritz Eckstein and Michael Nerenberg Analysis of the Escherichia coli genome VI: DNA sequence of the region from 92.8 through 100 minutes Valerie Burland, Guy Plunkett III, Heidi J. Sofia, Donna L. Daniels and Frederick R. Blattner Transcription of the human transferrin gene in neuronal cells Bassel E. Sawaya and Evelyne Schaeffer A family of cold-regulated RNA-binding protein genes in the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis M3 Naoki Sato Molecular cloning of cDNA encoding mouse Cdc21 and CDC46 homologs and characterization of the products: physical interaction between P1(MCM3) and CDC46 proteins Hiroshi Kimura, Nanako Takizawa, Nobuo Nozaki and Kazunori Sugimoto A new affinity purification procedure for DNA-binding proteins using bromoacetyl agarose Shin-Heh Kang, Xiao Xu, Olaf Heidenreich, Sergei Gryaznov and Michael Nerenberg Dexamethasone inducible gene expression optimised by glucocorticoid antagonists Wolfgang Mikulits, Doris Chen and Ernst W. Mullner Chasing dideoxy-mediated sequencing reactions with terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase may result in nucleotide inversions in sequencing gels Claire Simard and Isabelle Langlois Improved phenol enhanced DNA reassociation technique (PERT) using thermal cycling Robert D. Miller and Roy Riblet Increasing the size of PCR products without redesigning primer binding sequences Brian J. McKeown and Romelle Piercy The effect of base mismatches in the substrate recognition helices of hammerhead ribozymes on binding and catalysis Martina Werner and Olke C. Uhlenbeck Phylogenetic analysis of Leishmania RNA virus and Leishmania suggests ancient virus-parasite association Giovanni Widmer and Sheryl Dooley Functional domains of the heavy metal-responsive transcription regulator MTF-1 Freddy Radtke, Oleg Georgiev, Hans-Peter Muller, Enrico Brugnera and Walter Schaffner ============================================= Nucleic Acids Research is published 25 times a year by Oxford University Press. The papers listed above will appear in the 25 June 1995 issue. 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