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========================================== Nucleic Acids Research - ISSN 0305 1048 Volume 24:09 15 May 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'. ============================================ A novel DNA damage-inducible transcript, gadd7 , inhibits cell growth, but lacks a protein product M. Christine Hollander , Isaac Alamo and Albert J. Fornace Jr Pages 1589-1593 The structure of 4-way DNA junctions: specific binding of bis- intercalators with rigid linkers Mark L. Carpenter , Gordon Lowe and Peter R. Cook Pages 1594-1601 Use of 1,2,4-dithiazolidine-3,5-dione (DtsNH) and 3-ethoxy-1,2,4-dithiazoline-5-one (EDITH) for synthesis of phosphorothioate-containing oligodeoxyribonucleotides Qinghong Xu , Karin Musier-Forsyth , Robert P. Hammer and George Barany Pages 1602-1607 The polypyrimidine tract binding (PTB) protein interacts with single-stranded DNA in a sequence- specific manner Franck Brunel , Mario M. Zakin , Henri Buc and Malcolm Buckle Pages 1608-1615 On the use of double FLP recognition targets (FRTs) in the LTR of retroviruses for the construction of high producer cell lines Simone Karreman , Hansjoerg Hauser and Christiaan Karreman Pages 1616-1624 Photolysis of N -hydroxypyridinethiones: a new source of hydroxyl radicals for the direct damage of cell-free and cellular DNA Bernd Epe , Daniel Ballmaier , Waldemar Adam , Guenther N. Grimm and Chantu R. Saha-Moeller Pages 1625-1632 Molecular modelling of (A 4 T 4 NN) n and (T 4 A 4 NN) n : sequence elements responsible for curvature Sanjay R. Sanghani , Krystyna Zakrzewska , Stephen C. Harvey and Richard Lavery Pages 1632-1638 The 5' and 3' splice sites come together via a three dimensional diffusion mechanism Zvi Pasman and Mariano A. Garcia-Blanco Pages 1638-1645 Molecular and functional analysis of the utrophin promoter Carina L. Dennis , Jonathon M. Tinsley , Anne E. Deconinck and Kay E. Davies Pages 1646-1653 Trans-splicing and alternative-tandem-cis-splicing: two ways by which mammalian cells generate a truncated SV40 T-antigen J. Eul , M. Graessmann and A. Graessmann Pages 1653-1661 Centromeric polymerase III transcription units in Chironomus pallidivittatus Carlos Rovira and Jan-Erik Edstroem Pages 1662-1669 Cloning and characterization of RAD17 , a gene controlling cell cycle responses to DNA damage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Wolfram Siede , Gretel Nusspaumer , Virginia Portillo , Rosana Rodriguez and Errol C. Friedberg Pages 1669-1676 Lack of biological significance in the 'linguistic features' of noncoding DNA-a quantitative analysis C. A. Chatzidimitriou-Dreismann , R. M. F. Streffer and D. Larhammar Pages 1676-1682 In vivo footprinting of the mouse inducible nitric oxide synthase gene: inducible protein occupation of numerous sites including Oct and NF-IL6 Christopher E. P. Goldring , Sylvie Reveneau , Michele Algarte and Jean-Francois Jeannin Pages 1682-1687 The Leishmania genome comprises 36 chromosomes conserved across widely divergent human pathogenic species Patrick Wincker , Christophe Ravel , Christine Blaineau , Michel Pages , Yann Jauffret , Jean-Pierre Dedet and Patrick Bastien Pages 1688-1695 Repression by a differentiation-specific factor of the human cytomegalovirus enhancer T.H. Huang , T. Oka , T. Asai w , T. Okada , B. W. Merrills W , P. N. Gertson , R. H.Whitson and K. Itakura Pages 1695-1702 Sequence-specific labeling of superhelical DNA by triple helix formation and psoralen crosslinking Claudia Pfannschmidt , Achim Schaper , Gudrun Heim , Thomas M. Jovin and Joerg Langowski Pages 1702-1710 Differences in mutagenesis during minus strand, plus strand and strand transfer (recombination) synthesis of the HIV-1 nef gene in vitro Weimin Wu , Chockalingam Palaniappan , Robert A. Bambara and Philip J. Fay Pages 1710-1718 Relationship between plus strand DNA synthesis and removal of downstream segments of RNA by human immunodeficiency virus, murine leukemia virus and avian myeloblastoma virus reverse transcriptases Gloria M. Fuentes , Philip J. Fay and Robert A. Bambara Pages 1719-1726 A 39 amino acid fragment of the cell cycle regulator p21 is sufficient to bind PCNA and partially inhibit DNA replication in vivo Junjie Chen , Richard Peters , Partha Saha , Patrick Lee , Annie Theodoras , Michele Pagano , Gerhard Wagner and Anindya Dutta Pages 1727-1734 Contribution of ultra-short invasive elements to the evolution of themitochondrial genome in the genus Podospora France Koll , Jocelyne Boulay , Leon Belcour and Yves d'Aubenton-Carafa Pages 1734-1741 Reduction of the toxicity and mutagenicity of aziridine in mammalian cells harboring the Escherichia coli fpg gene Catherine Cussac and Francoise Laval Pages 1742-1746 Identification of promoter and stringent regulation of transcription of the fabH , fabD and fabG genes encoding fatty acid biosynthetic enzymes of Escherichia coli Sergey M. Podkovyrov and Timothy J. Larson Pages 1747-1752 Accumulation of a mRNA decay intermediate by ribosomal pausing at a stop codon Asgeir Bjoernsson and Leif A. Isaksson Pages 1753-1758 Binding of DNA oligonucleotides to sequences in the promoter of the human bcl-2 gene Wendy M. Olivas and L. James Maher, III Pages 1758-1765 Sequence of the polypyrimidine tract of the 3 ' -terminal 3 ' splicing signal can affect intron-dependent pre-mRNA processing in vivo Xuedong Liu and Janet E. Mertz Pages 1765-1774 High-level production of recombinant proteins in CHO cells using a dicistronic DHFR intron expression vector Brian K. Lucas , Lynne M. Giere , Richard A. DeMarco , Amy Shen , Vanessa Chisholm and Craig W. Crowley Pages 1774-1779 Examining the contribution of a dA+dT element to the conformation of Escherichia coli integration host factor-DNA complexes Laura M. Hales , Richard I. Gumport and Jeffrey F. Gardner Pages 1780-1787 The human ubiquitin C promoter directs high ubiquitous expression of transgenes in mice Marina Schorpp , Richard Jaeger , Karl Schellander , Johannes Schenkel , Erwin F. Wagner , Hans Weiher and Peter Angel Pages 1787-1788 Controlled ribonucleotide tailing of cDNA ends (CRTC) by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase: a new approach in PCR- mediated analysis of mRNA sequences Wolfgang M. Schmidt and Manfred W. Mueller Pages 1789-1791 ========================================== Nucleic Acids Research is published 25 times a year by Oxford University Press. The papers listed above appear in the 15 May 1996 issue. 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