Editorial

Efficient targeting of foreign genes into the tobacco plastid genome.

Cloning and functional analysis of spliced isoforms of human nuclear factor I-X: interference with transcriptional activation by NFI/CTF in a cell-type specific manner.

Base sequence-independent distorsions induced by interstrand cross-links in cis-diamminedichloroplatinum (II)-modified DNA.

Thermal energy requirement for strand separation during transcription initiation: the effect of supercoiling and extended protein DNA contacts.

Comparative study of mutagenesis by O6-methylguanine in the human Ha-ras oncogene in E. coli and in vitro.

Polypyrimidine tract sequences direct selection of alternative branch sites and influence protein binding.

Cloning of a complementary DNA encoding an 80 kilodalton nuclear cap binding protein.

Matrix assisted laser desorption/ionization mass spectrometry of enzymatically synthesized RNA up to 150 kDa.

A residue of the ETS domain mutated in the v-ets oncogene is essential for the DNA-binding and transactivating properties of the ETS-1 and ETS-2 proteins.

Molecular basis of nitrogen mustard effects on transcription processes: role of depurination.

Gene expression mediated by bacteriophage T3 and T7 RNA polymerases in transgenic trypanosomes.

Negative electrospray ionization mass spectrometry of synthetic and chemically modified oligonucleotides.

Transcription through the yeast origin of replication ARS1 ends at the ABFI binding site and affects extrachromosomal maintenance of minichromosomes.

The nucleic acid-binding zinc finger protein of potato virus M is translated by internal initiation as well as by ribosomal frameshifting involving a shifty stop codon and a novel mechanism of P-site slippage.

Production and characterization of recombinant human Ku antigen.

Loss of the ORF in the SSUrDNA group I intron of one Naegleria lineage.

New restriction endonuclease CviRI cleaves DNA at TG/CA sequences.

5-Hydroxypyrimidine deoxynucleoside triphosphates are more efficiently incorporated into DNA by exonuclease-free Klenow fragment than 8-oxopurine deoxynucleoside triphosphates.

Phylogenetically preserved inter-rRNA base pairs: involvement in ribosomal subunit association.

Recognition and cleavage of hairpin structures in nucleic acids by oligodeoxynucleotides.

Extension of helix II of an HIV-1-directed hammerhead ribozyme with long antisense flanks does not alter kinetic parameters in vitro but causes loss of the inhibitory potential in living cells.

A three-nucleotide helix I is sufficient for full activity of a hammerhead ribozyme: advantages of an asymmetric design.

RNA tertiary structure of the HIV RRE domain II containing non-Watson-Crick base pairs GG and GA: molecular modeling studies.

Comparison of antiparallel A.AT and T.AT triplets within an alternate strand DNA triple helix.

Plant activating sequences: positively charged peptides are functional as transcriptional activation domains.

Novel HOX, POU and FKH genes expressed during bFGF-induced mesodermal differentiation in Xenopus.

Internal fluorescence labeling with fluorescent deoxynucleotides in two-label peak-height encoded DNA sequencing by capillary electrophoresis.

Capillary electrophoresis as a technique to analyze sequence-induced anomalously migrating DNA fragments.

A rapid and simple PCR-based method for isolation of cDNAs from differentially expressed genes.

Ligation of multiple DNA fragments through uracil-DNA glycosylase generated ligation sites.

Solid phase assays for the detection of inhibitors of HIV reverse transcriptase.