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Note from the editor: Because of computer-failure, The LITE and CALL messages of HUM-MOLGEN experienced some delay and other problems over the last few weeks. Our apologies for the inconveniance, Arthur Bergen ========================================== Nucleic Acids Research - ISSN 0305 1048 Volume 24:13 1 July 1996 ========================================== 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 ========================================== NOTE: Abstracts of all these papers are available at the NAR Online Web site at: http://www.oup.co.uk/nar/ If you are a subscriber to the print version of NAR, you can also access the full text of these articles online. For more details of this service, please see the notes at the foot of this posting, under the heading 'NAR Online - mini-FAQ'. ============================================ Molecular cloning of the three base restriction endonuclease R. C viJI from eukaryotic Chlorella virus IL-3A Neela Swaminathan, David A. Mead, Karolyn McMaster, David George, James L. Van Etten and Piotr M. Skowron Pages 2463-2470 ------------------------------------------------- G/C-modified oligodeoxynucleotides with selective complementarity: synthesis and hybridization properties Jinsuk Woo, Rich B. Meyer, Jr and Howard B. Gamper Pages 2470-2475 ------------------------------------------------- The telomeric GGGTTA repeats of Trypanosoma brucei contain the hypermodified base J in both strands Fred van Leeuwen, Eric R. Wijsman, Esther Kuyl- Yeheskiely, Gijs A.van der Marel, Jacques H. van Boom and Piet Borst Pages 2476-2483 ------------------------------------------------- A new class of genome rare cutters Alexei G. Veselkov, Vadim V. Demidov, Peter E. Nielsen and Maxim D. Frank-Kamenetskii Pages 2483-2488 ------------------------------------------------- The helix-hairpin-helix DNA-binding motif: a structural basis for non-sequence-specific recognition of DNA Aidan J. Doherty, Louise C. Serpell and Christopher P. Ponting Pages 2488-2498 ------------------------------------------------- Dominant negative mutator mutations in the mutL gene of Escherichia coli Alexander Aronshtam and M. G. Marinus Pages 2498-2505 ------------------------------------------------- Proofreading in trans by an aminoacyl-tRNA synthetase:a model for single site editing by isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase Hieronim Jakubowski Pages 2505-2510 ------------------------------------------------- Genetic regulation of [delta]-aminolevulinate dehydratase during erythropoiesis Terry Rogers Bishop, Miles W. Miller, Jennifer Beall, Leonard I. Zon and Peter Dierks3,[sect] Pages 2511-2519 ------------------------------------------------- A new efficient gene disruption cassette for repeated use in budding yeast Ulrich Guldener, Susanne Heck, Thomas Fiedler, Jens Beinhauer and Johannes H. Hegemann Pages 2519-2524 ------------------------------------------------- Preference for guanosine at first codon position in highly expressed Escherichia coli genes. A relationship with translational efficiency Gabriel Gutierrez, Lorenzo Marquez and Antonio Marin Pages 2525-2528 ------------------------------------------------- MoMuLV proviral integrations identified by Sup-F selection in tumours from infected myc / pim bitransgenic mice correlate with activation of the gfi-1 gene Thorsten Schmidt, Martin Zornig, Ralph Beneke and Tarik Moroy Pages 2528-2534 ------------------------------------------------- The human hnRNP-M proteins: structure and relation with early heat shock-induced splicing arrest and chromosome mapping Renata Gattoni, Dominique Mahe, Philippe Mahl, Nadine Fischer, Marie-Genevieve Mattei, James Stevenin and Jean-Paul Fuchs Pages 2535-2543 ------------------------------------------------- Related enhancers in the intron of the [beta] 1 tubulin gene of Drosophila melanogaster are essential for maternal and CNS- specific expression during embryogenesis Jorg Kohler, Sabine Schafer-Preuss and Detlev Buttgereit Pages 2543-2550 ------------------------------------------------- XPC and human homologs of RAD23: intracellular localization and relationship to other nucleotide excision repair complexes Peter J. van der Spek, Andre Eker, Suzanne Rademakers, Cecile Visser, Jan H. J. Hoeijmakers Pages 2551-2560 ------------------------------------------------- Functional interaction between TFIIB and the Rpb9 (Ssu73) subunit of RNA polymerase II in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Zu-Wen Sun, Amy Tessmer and Michael Hampsey Pages 2560-2566 ------------------------------------------------- Assessment of major and minor groove DNA interactions by the zinc fingers of Xenopus transcription factor IIIA Steven J. McBryant, Benjamin Gedulin, Karen R. Clemens, Peter E. Wright and Joel M. Gottesfeld Pages 2567-2574 ------------------------------------------------- Obligatory activator-polymerase addition order at promoters Xin Zhang and Robert Schleif Pages 2575-2577 ------------------------------------------------- The CtBP binding domain in the adenovirus E1A protein controls CR1-dependent transactivation Kerstin Sollerbrant, G. Chinnadurai and Catharina Svensson Pages 2578-2585 ------------------------------------------------- The Schizosaccharomyces pombe pla1 gene encodes a poly(A) polymerase and can functionally replace its Saccharomyces cerevisiae homologue Martin Ohnacker, Lionel Minvielle-Sebastia and Walter Keller Pages 2585-2591 ------------------------------------------------- Detection of multiple conformations of the E-domain of 5S rRNA from Escherichia coli in solution and in crystals by NMR spectroscopy Matthias Grune, Jens P. Furste, Sven Klusszlig;mann, Volker A. Erdmann and Larry R. Brown Pages 2592-2596 ------------------------------------------------- Comparative and functional analysis of the AP2 promoter indicates that conserved octamer and initiator elements are critical for activity Peter C. Creaser, David A. D'Argenio and Trevor Williams Pages 2597-2606 ------------------------------------------------- Triplex formation by oligonucleotides containing novel deoxycytidine derivatives Chin-Yi Huang, Guixia Bi and Paul S. Miller Pages 2606-2613 ------------------------------------------------- DOP-vector PCR: a method for rapid isolation and sequencing of insert termini from PAC clones Chenyan Wu, Shigui Zhu, Stacey Simpson and Pieter J. de Jong Pages 2614-2616 ------------------------------------------------- AFLP-based mRNA fingerprinting Tracy Money, Steve Reader, Li Jia Qu, Roy P. Dunford and Graham Moore Pages 2616-2617 ------------------------------------------------- Fractionation of nucleic acids into single-stranded and double-stranded forms Marcel Beld, Cees Sol, Jaap Goudsmit and Rene Boom Pages 2618-2619 ------------------------------------------------- High efficiency, long-term clinical expression of cottontail rabbit papillomavirus (CRPV) DNA in rabbit skin following particle-mediated DNA transfer Wei Xiao and Janet L. Brandsma Pages 2620-2622 ------------------------------------------------- PicoGreen quantitation of DNA: effective evaluation of samples pre- or post-PCR Susan J. Ahn, Jose Costa and Janet Rettig Emanuel Pages 2623-2625 ========================================== Nucleic Acids Research is published 25 times a year by Oxford University Press. The papers listed above appear in the 1 July 1996 issue. If you would like further details about Nucleic Acids Research, including instructions for authors or details of subscription rates, please contact:- Richard Gedye Oxford University Press Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP United Kingdom Tel: +44 1865 267785 Fax: +44 1865 267782 E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk Copyright in the table of contents listed above is held by Oxford University Press, but you are welcome to circulate it further, provided that Oxford University Press is credited as publisher and copyright holder. =============================================== NAR ONLINE - MINI-FAQ WHAT SPECIAL FEATURES DOES NAR ONLINE OFFER? * You can obtain articles online in advance of hard copy. * You can browse current and forthcoming issues, as well as a three year back file * You can search all the issues, by author and keyword (in title, abstract, or full text) * You can choose the format in which you want your articles delivered:- HTML for quick and easy screen reading, as well as easy printability PDF for quick screen browsing and superb printing quality Postscript for superb printing quality without the need to view the article first Printerleaf if you want to use the same software as NAR on CD-ROM * You can go directly from references to their Medline Abstracts * You can go directly to genetic sequencing databases referred to in articles * You can receive advance notice by e-mail of papers to be published. 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But you won't be able to access the full text of articles. I'M THINKING OF SUBSCRIBING - CAN I SEE A SAMPLE ONLINE ISSUE FIRST? Yes. You'll find when you come to our site as a visitor that you can access the full text of Volume 23, Issue 24 (the last issue of 1995) ------------------------------------- We hope you find this information helpful. All questions, comments and suggestions, etc. on NAR Online's quality, speed, ease of use, facilities, and options will continue to be greatly welcomed. We've already done a lot to enhance NAR Online as a result of the feedback so far, and we look forward to continuing to do so. Best wishes, =========================== Richard Gedye Oxford University Press Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP England Tel: +44 1865 267785 (direct) Fax: +44 1865 267835 E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk World Wide Web site: http://www.oup.co.uk/ ========================================== Nucleic Acids Research - ISSN 0305 1048 Volume 24:14 15 July 1996 ========================================== 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 ========================================== NOTE: Abstracts of all these papers are available at the NAR Online Web site at: http://www.oup.co.uk/nar/ If you are a subscriber to the print version of NAR, you can also access the full text of these articles online. For more details of this service, please see the notes at the foot of this posting, under the heading 'NAR Online - mini-FAQ'. ========================================== Hypermutagenic PCR involving all four transitions and a sizeable proportion of transversions Jean-Pierre Vartanian, Michel Henry and Simon Wain- Hobson Pages 2627-2632 ------------------------------------------------- Analysis of the mechanism of the Serratia nuclease using site- directed mutagenesis Peter Friedhoff, Bettina Kolmes, Oleg Gimadutdinow, Wolfgang Wende, Kurt L. Krause and Alfred Pingoud Pages 2632-2640 ------------------------------------------------- DNA bending by the silencer protein NeP1 is modulated by TR and RXR Rudiger Arnold, Mark Burcin, Burkhard Kaiser, Marc Muller and Rainer Renkawitz Pages 2640-2648 ------------------------------------------------- Asn-tRNA in Lactobacillus bulgaricus is formed by asparaginylation of tRNA and not by transamidation of Asp- tRNA Sung Il Kim, Margaret Nalaskowska, Jacques-Edouard Germond, David Pridmore and Dieter Soll Pages 2648-2651 ------------------------------------------------- Solid-phase synthesis of oligo-2-pyrimidinone-2 ' - deoxyribonucleotides and oligo-2-pyrimidinone- 2 '- deoxyriboside methylphosphonates Yuanzhong Zhou and Paul O. P. Ts'o Pages 2652-2659 ------------------------------------------------- Structural elements of the 3 '-terminal coat protein binding site in alfalfa mosaic virus RNAs Chantal B. E. M. Reusken and John F. Bol Pages 2660-2666 ------------------------------------------------- Structure of a U @U pair within a conserved ribosomal RNA hairpin Yun-Xing Wang, Shengrong Huang and David E. Draper Pages 2666-2673 ------------------------------------------------- Is the in-frame termination signal of the Escherichia coli release factor-2 frameshift site weakened by a particularly poor context? Louise L. Major, Elizabeth S. Poole, Mark E. Dalphin, Sally A. Mannering and Warren P. Tate Pages 2673-2678 ------------------------------------------------- Unexpected anisotropy in substrate cleavage rates by asymmetric hammerhead ribozymes Philip Hendry and Maxine McCall Pages 2679-2684 ------------------------------------------------- The loop B domain is physically separable from the loop A domain in the hairpin ribozyme Chanseok Shin, Jin Nam Choi, Sang Ik Song, Jong Tae Song, Ji Hoon Ahn, Jong Seob Lee and Yang Do Choi Pages 2685-2689 ------------------------------------------------- Requirements for cleavage by a modified RNase P of a small model substrate Fenyong Liu and Sidney Altman Pages 2690-2697 ------------------------------------------------- High-titer bicistronic retroviral vectors employing foot-and- mouth disease virus internal ribosome entry site N. Ramesh, Seung-Taik Kim, Ming Q. Wei, Mehraneh Khalighi and William R. A. Osborne Pages 2697-2700 ------------------------------------------------- The influence of base identity and base pairing on the function of the [alpha]-sarcin loop of 23S rRNA Michael O'Connor and Albert E. Dahlberg Pages 2701-2706 ------------------------------------------------- In vitro and in vivo function of the C-terminus of Escherichia coli single-stranded DNA binding protein Ute Curth, Jochen Genschel, Claus Urbanke and Joachim Greipel Pages 2706-2712 ------------------------------------------------- Site-specific recombination by the [beta] protein from the streptococcal plasmid pSM19035: minimal recombination sequences and crossing over site Ines Canosa, Fernando Rojo and Juan C. Alonso Pages 2712-2718 ------------------------------------------------- In differentiating mouse myoblasts DNA methyltransferase is posttranscriptionally and posttranslationally regulated Yongliang Liu, Lijie Sun and Jean-Pierre Jost Pages 2718-2722 ------------------------------------------------- Transcription activation by GC-boxes: evaluation of kinetic and equilibrium contributions Dawn Yean and Jay Gralla Pages 2723-2730 ------------------------------------------------- PairWise and SearchWise: finding the optimal alignment in a simultaneous comparison of a protein profile against all DNA translation frames Ewan Birney, Julie D. Thompson and Toby J. Gibson Pages 2730-2739 ------------------------------------------------- 1H NMR studies of the 5-(hydroxymethyl)-2 '- deoxyuridine containing TF1 binding site Laura B. Pasternack, Janice Bramham, Luciano Mayol , Aldo Galeone , Xin Jia and David R. Kearns Pages 2740-2745 ------------------------------------------------- A novel promoter sequence is involved in the oxidative stress- induced expression of the adult T-cell leukemia-derived factor (ADF)/human thioredoxin (Trx) gene Yoshihisa Taniguchi, Yasuyo Taniguchi-Ueda, Kenjiro Mori and Junji Yodoi Pages 2746-2753 ------------------------------------------------- Mitochondrial DNA polymerase [gamma] is expressed and translated in the absence of mitochondrial DNA maintenance and replication Alison F. Davis, Philip A. Ropp, David A. Clayton and William C. Copeland Pages 2753-2760 ------------------------------------------------- Cloning and analysis of the genes encoding the type IIS restriction-modification system Hph I from Haemophilus parahaemolyticus Arvydas Lubys, Judita Lubiene, Saulius Kulakauskas, Kornelijus Stankevicius, Albertas Timinskas and Arvydas Janulaitis Pages 2760-2766 ------------------------------------------------- Analysis of co-crystal structures to identify the stereochemical determinants of the orientation of TBP on the TATA box Masashi Suzuki, Mark D. Allen, Naoto Yagi and John T. Finch Pages 2767-2773 ------------------------------------------------- Analysis and suppression of DNA polymerase pauses associated with a trinucleotide consensus Daniel S. Mytelka and Michael J. Chamberlin Pages 2774-2782 ------------------------------------------------- A dominant transcriptional silencer located 5 ' to the human T- cell receptor V [beta]2.2 gene segment which is activated in cell lines of thymic phenotype Herve Dombret, Marie-Pierre Font and Francois Sigaux Pages 2782-2790 ------------------------------------------------- Cloning and characterization of Sse 9I DNA-methyltransferase recognizing 5 ' -AATT-3 ' Danila A. Gonchar, Yury I. Wolf and Sergey Kh. Degtyarev Pages 2790-2792 ------------------------------------------------- A new universal linker for solid phase DNA synthesis Matthew H. Lyttle, Derek Hudson and Ronald M. Cook Pages 2793-2798 ------------------------------------------------- Characterization of the single-strand-specific BPV-1 origin binding protein, SPSF I, as the HeLa Pur [alpha] factor Marion Jurk, Florian Weissinger, Friedrich Lottspeich [sect], Ursula Schwarz and Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker Pages 2799-2807 ------------------------------------------------- Sequence analysis and characterization of stutter products at the tetranucleotide repeat locus vWA P. Sean Walsh,, Nicola J. Fildes and Rebecca Reynolds Pages 2807-2812 ------------------------------------------------- E2A basic-helix-loop-helix transcription factors are negatively regulated by serum growth factors and by the Id3 protein Deborah A. Loveys, Michael B. Streiff and Gregory J. Kato Pages 2813-2821 ------------------------------------------------- A viral genome containing an unstable aflatoxin B 1 -N7- guanine DNA adduct situated at a unique site Elisabeth A. Bailey, Rajkumar S. Iyer, Thomas M. Harris and John M. Essigmann Pages 2821-2828 ------------------------------------------------- De novo generation of simple sequence during gene amplification Lawrence S. Kirschner Pages 2829-2834 ------------------------------------------------- In vitro expansion of GGC:GCC repeats: identification of the preferred strand of expansion Jiuping Ji, Nigel J. Clegg, Karen R. Peterson, Aimee L. Jackson, Charles D. Laird and Lawrence A. Loeb Pages 2835-2840 ------------------------------------------------- Structural features and stability of an RNA triple helix in solution Jason A. Holland and David W. Hoffman Pages 2841-2848 ------------------------------------------------- Functional interaction between a RARE and an AP-2 binding site in the regulation of the human HOX A4 gene promoter Lesah Fry Doerksen, Anuradha Bhattacharya, Perry Kannan, David Pratt and Michael A. Tainsky Pages 2849-2857 ========================================== Nucleic Acids Research is published 25 times a year by Oxford University Press. The papers listed above appear in the 15 July 1996 issue. If you would like further details about Nucleic Acids Research, including instructions for authors or details of subscription rates, please contact:- Richard Gedye Oxford University Press Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP United Kingdom Tel: +44 1865 267785 Fax: +44 1865 267782 E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk Copyright in the table of contents listed above is held by Oxford University Press, but you are welcome to circulate it further, provided that Oxford University Press is credited as publisher and copyright holder. =============================================== NAR ONLINE - MINI-FAQ WHAT SPECIAL FEATURES DOES NAR ONLINE OFFER? * You can obtain articles online in advance of hard copy. * You can browse current and forthcoming issues, as well as a three year back file * You can search all the issues, by author and keyword (in title, abstract, or full text) * You can choose the format in which you want your articles delivered:- HTML for quick and easy screen reading, as well as easy printability PDF for quick screen browsing and superb printing quality Postscript for superb printing quality without the need to view the article first Printerleaf if you want to use the same software as NAR on CD-ROM * You can go directly from references to their Medline Abstracts * You can go directly to genetic sequencing databases referred to in articles * You can receive advance notice by e-mail of papers to be published. 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But you won't be able to access the full text of articles. I'M THINKING OF SUBSCRIBING - CAN I SEE A SAMPLE ONLINE ISSUE FIRST? Yes. You'll find when you come to our site as a visitor that you can access the full text of Volume 23, Issue 24 (the last issue of 1995) ------------------------------------- We hope you find this information helpful. All questions, comments and suggestions, etc. on NAR Online's quality, speed, ease of use, facilities, and options will continue to be greatly welcomed. We've already done a lot to enhance NAR Online as a result of the feedback so far, and we look forward to continuing to do so. Best wishes, =========================== Richard Gedye Oxford University Press Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP England Tel: +44 1865 267785 (direct) Fax: +44 1865 267835 E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk World Wide Web site: http://www.oup.co.uk/ =========================== ************************************************************************ ========================================== Nucleic Acids Research - ISSN 0305 1048 Volume 24:12 15 June 1996 ========================================== 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 ========================================== NOTE: Abstracts of all these papers are available at the NAR Online Web site at: http://www.oup.co.uk/nar/ If you are a subscriber to the print version of NAR, you can also access the full text of these articles online. For more details of this service, please see the notes at the foot of this posting, under the heading 'NAR Online - mini-FAQ'. Compilation and classification of higher plant mitochondrial tRNA genes P. Veronico , R. Gallerani and L. R. Ceci Pages 2199-2203 Common DNA structural features exhibited by eukaryotic ribosomal gene promoters Monique Marilley and Philippe Pasero Pages 2204-2212 Another heritage from the RNA world: self-excision of intron sequences from nuclear pre-tRNAs Ute Weber , Hildburg Beier and Hans J. Gross Pages 2212-2220 Characterisation of antibody-binding RNAs selected from structurally constrained libraries Joerg Hamm Pages 2220-2228 Interaction of mRNA with the Escherichia coli ribosome: accessibility of phosphorothioate-containing mRNA bound to ribosomes for iodine cleavage Ekaterina V. Alexeeva , Olga V. Shpanchenko , Olga A. Dontsova , Alexey A. Bogdanov and Knud H. Nierhaus Pages 2228-2235 Inhibition of NF- [kappa]B DNA binding by nitric oxide James R. Matthews , Catherine H. Botting , Maria Panico , Howard R. Morris and Ronald T. Hay Pages 2236-2243 Location of the C-terminal domain of the RNA polymerase [alpha] subunit in different open complexes at the Escherichia coli galactose operon regulatory region Tamara A. Belyaeva , Jon A. Bown , Nobuyuki Fujita , Akira Ishihama and Stephen J. W. Busby Pages 2243-2251 Transactivation by the thyroid hormone receptor is dependent on the spacer sequence in hormone response elements containing directly repeated half-sites Matthias Harbers , Gunilla M. Wahlstroem and Bjoern Vennstroem Pages 2252-2259 Modelling extreme stretching of DNA Anne Lebrun and Richard Lavery Pages 2260-2267 Cloning and expression of the Bal I restriction-modification system Harumi Ueno , Ikunoshin Kato and Yoshizumi Ishino Pages 2268-2271 Replication of yeast DNA and novel chromosome formation in mouse cells Amanda McGuigan and Clare Huxley Pages 2271-2280 Characterization of proteolytic fragments of bacteriophage T7 DNA ligase Aidan J. Doherty , Stephen R. Ashford and Dale B. Wigley Pages 2281-2288 Pbx1-Hox heterodimers bind DNA on inseparable half-sites that permit intrinsic DNA binding specificity of the Hox partner at nucleotides 3 ' to a TAAT motif Paul S. Knoepfler , Qiang Lu and Mark P. Kamps Pages 2288-2295 rep E-the Dictyostelium homolog of the human xeroderma pigmentosum group E gene is developmentally regulated and contains a leucine zipper motif Hannah Alexander , Sung-Keun Lee , Sung-Lim Yu and Stephen Alexander Pages 2295-2301 Characterization of several kinds of dimer minizyme: simultaneous cleavage at two sites in HIV-1 tat mRNA by dimer minizymes Tomoko Kuwabara , Sergei V. Amontov , Masaki Warashina , Jun Ohkawa and Kazunari Taira Pages 2302-2310 Cold shock domain proteins repress transcription from the GM-CSF promoter Leeanne S. Coles , Peter Diamond , Filomena Occhiodoro , Matthew A. Vadas and M. Frances Shannon Pages 2311-2318 Stabilization of triple-stranded oligonucleotide complexes: use of probes containing alternating phosphodiester and stereo-uniform cationic phosphoramidate linkages Surendra Chaturvedi , Thomas Horn and Robert L. Letsinger Pages 2318-2324 Characterization of the interaction between the acidic activation domain of VP16 and the RNA polymerase II initiation factor TFIIB Rajesh Gupta , Andrew Emili , Guohua Pan , Hua Xiao , Michael Shales , Jack Greenblatt and C. James Ingles Pages 2324-2331 Dual influence of the yeast Cat1p (Snf1p) protein kinase on carbon source-dependent transcriptional activation of gluconeogenic genes by the regulatory gene CAT8 Antje Rahner , Anja Schoeler , Erika Martens , Boris Gollwitzer and Hans-Joachim Schueller Pages 2331-2338 Yeast retrotransposon Ty4: the majority of the rare transcripts lack a U3-R sequence Agnes M. Hug and Horst Feldmann Pages 2338-2346 Exon skipping induced by cold stress in a potato invertase gene transcript Anne-Sophie Bournay , Peter E. Hedley , Anne Maddison , Robbie Waugh and Gordon C. Machray Pages 2347-2351 Complementation of RNA binding site mutations in MS2 coat protein heterodimers David S. Peabody and Francis Lim Pages 2352-2360 The complete nucleotide sequence of bacteriophage HP1 DNA Dominic Esposito , Wayne P. Fitzmaurice , Robert C. Benjamin w , Steven D. Goodman W , Alan S. Waldman and John J. Scocca Pages 2360-2369 A cell-free transcription system for the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus Carina Hethke , Ans C. M. Geerling , Winfried Hausner , Willem M. de Vos and Michael Thomm Pages 2369-2376 Purification and characterization of the Pac1 ribonuclease of Schizosaccharomyces pombe Giuseppe Rotondo and David Frendewey Pages 2377-2387 The Drosophila Fork head factor directly controls larval salivary gland-specific expression of the glue protein gene Sgs3 Vaclav Mach , Kaoru Ohno , Hiroki Kokubo and Yoshiaki Suzuki Pages 2387-2395 Interactions of the yeast centromere and promoter factor, Cpf1p, with the cytochrome c 1 upstream region and functional implications on regulated gene expression Ulrich Oechsner and Wolfhard Bandlow Pages 2395-2404 A novel family of TRF (DNA topoisomerase I-related function) genes required for proper nuclear segregation Irene B. Castano , Sharon Heath-Pagliuso , Ben U. Sadoff , David J. Fitzhugh and Michael F. Christman Pages 2404-2410 Pseudouridine synthases: four families of enzymes containing a putative uridine-binding motif also conserved in dUTPases and dCTP deaminases Eugene V. Koonin Pages 2411-2416 CTF5-a new transcriptional activator of the NFI/CTF family Susanne Wenzelides , Herbert Altmann , Wolfgang Wendler and Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker Pages 2416-2421 Silencing of the Escherichia coli bgl promoter: effects of template supercoiling and cell extracts on promoter activity in vitro Karin Schnetz and James C. Wang Pages 2422-2429 Factors affecting fidelity of DNA synthesis during PCR amplification of d(C-A) n . d(G-T) n microsatellite repeats Jill M. Hite , Kristin A. Eckert and Keith C. Cheng Pages 2429-2435 Type IIS restriction enzyme footprinting I. Measurement of a triple helix dissociation constant with Eco 57I at 25 oC Brian Ward Pages 2435-2440 Sequence and structure determinants of Drosophila Hsp70 mRNA translation: 5 '-UTR secondary structure specifically inhibits heat shock protein mRNA translation Mark A. Hess and Roger F. Duncan Pages 2441-2450 Selective cloning of a defined number of tandem DNA repeats in Escherichia coli F. Boe and J. M. Masson Pages 2450-2451 A strong ubiquitous promoter-enhancer for development and aging of Drosophila melanogaster Ruedi Ackermann and Christine Brack Pages 2452-2453 Differential screening of gene expression difference enriched by differential display Hong Zhang , Rong Zhang and Peng Liang Pages 2454-2456 The use of [alpha] -DNA as an internal standard in the detection and quantitation of DNA damage in specific genes using Southern blotting Andrew Sunters , Keith A. Grimaldi , Robert L. Souhami and John A. Hartley Pages 2456-2457 Hetero-stagger cloning: efficient and rapid cloning of PCR products Zhanjiang Liu Pages 2458-2460 'Long distance sequencer' method; a novel strategy for large DNA sequencing projects Koichi Hagiwara and Curtis C. Harris Pages 2460-2462 ========================================== Nucleic Acids Research is published 25 times a year by Oxford University Press. The papers listed above appear in the 15 June 1996 issue. If you would like further details about Nucleic Acids Research, including instructions for authors or details of subscription rates, please contact:- Richard Gedye Oxford University Press Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP United Kingdom Tel: +44 1865 267785 Fax: +44 1865 267782 E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk Copyright in the table of contents listed above is held by Oxford University Press, but you are welcome to circulate it further, provided that Oxford University Press is credited as publisher and copyright holder. =============================================== NAR ONLINE - MINI-FAQ WHAT SPECIAL FEATURES DOES NAR ONLINE OFFER? * You can obtain articles online in advance of hard copy. * You can browse current and forthcoming issues, as well as a three year back file * You can search all the issues, by author and keyword (in title, abstract, or full text) * You can choose the format in which you want your articles delivered:- HTML for quick and easy screen reading, as well as easy printability PDF for quick screen browsing and superb printing quality Postscript for superb printing quality without the need to view the article first Printerleaf if you want to use the same software as NAR on CD-ROM * You can go directly from references to their Medline Abstracts * You can go directly to genetic sequencing databases referred to in articles * You can receive advance notice by e-mail of papers to be published. 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But you won't be able to access the full text of articles. I'M THINKING OF SUBSCRIBING - CAN I SEE A SAMPLE ONLINE ISSUE FIRST? Yes. You'll find when you come to our site as a visitor that you can access the full text of Volume 23, Issue 24 (the last issue of 1995) ------------------------------------- We hope you find this information helpful. All questions, comments and suggestions, etc. on NAR Online's quality, speed, ease of use, facilities, and options will continue to be greatly welcomed. We've already done a lot to enhance NAR Online as a result of the feedback so far, and we look forward to continuing to do so. Best wishes, =========================== Richard Gedye Oxford University Press Walton Street Oxford OX2 6DP England Tel: +44 1865 267785 (direct) Fax: +44 1865 267835 E-mail: gedyer@oup.co.uk World Wide Web site: http://www.oup.co.uk/ =========================== ************************************************************************ Dr. Arthur A.B. Bergen Department of Ophthalmogenetics The Netherlands Ophthalmic Research Institute (IOI) Royal Academy of Sciences of the Netherlands (KNAW) ** Snail-mail: ** ** FAX: ** ** E-mail: ** P.O.Box 12141 (+31)206916521 A.A.Bergen@amc.uva.nl 1100 AC Amsterdam The Netherlands ************************************************************************