1. Preface

   OriginalPaper Pages: 447 - 447

2. Alexander S. Spirin (to the 70th birthday)

   OriginalPaper Pages: 448 - 461

3. Major mRNP Proteins in the Structural Organization and Function of mRNA in Eukaryotic Cells

   • L. P. Ovchinnikov
   • M. A. Skabkin
   • V. M. Evdokimova

   OriginalPaper Pages: 462 - 471

4. Chemical Methods for the Structural Study of the Ribosome: Judgment Day

   • P. V. Sergiev
   • O. A. Dontsova
   • A. A. Bogdanov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 472 - 496

5. Structural and Functional Topography of Human Ribosomes Deduced from Crosslinking with mRNA Analogs, Oligoribonucleotide Derivatives

   • D. M. Graifer
   • G. G. Karpova

   OriginalPaper Pages: 496 - 508

6. Ribosomal Antibiotics

   • A. S. Mankin

   OriginalPaper Pages: 509 - 520

7. The Thermus thermophilus5S rRNA–Protein Complex: Identification of Specific Binding Sites for Proteins L5 and L18 in the 5S rRNA

   • G. M. Gongadze
   • A. A. Perederina
   • M. B. Garber

   OriginalPaper Pages: 521 - 526

8. Binding of the S7 Protein with Fragment 926–986/1219–1393 of the 16S rRNA As a Key Step in the Assembly of the Small Subunit of Prokaryotic Ribosomes

   • T. I. Rassokhin
   • A. V. Golovin
   • A. M. Kopylov

   OriginalPaper Pages: 527 - 535

9. Molecular Mechanisms of Translation Initiation in Mammals Studied by in vitroReconstruction of Initiation Complexes

   • I. N. Shatsky

   OriginalPaper Pages: 536 - 543

10. Translation Initiation Factor eIF3 Probably Binds with Microtubules in Mammalian Cells

    • N. A. Shanina
    • P. A. Ivanov
    • E. S. Nadezhdina

    OriginalPaper Pages: 544 - 551

11. Structure and Functions of the Prokaryotic Elongation Factor G

    • A. T. Gudkov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 552 - 558

12. Mechanism of tRNA Translocation on the Ribosome

    • M. V. Rodnina
    • Yu. P. Semenkov
    • W. Wintermeyer

    OriginalPaper Pages: 559 - 568

13. Mutations in the Escherichia coli23S rRNA Increase the Rate of Peptidyl-tRNA Dissociation from the Ribosome

    • Ü. Maiväli
    • U. Saarma
    • J. Remme

    OriginalPaper Pages: 569 - 574

14. Identification of eRF3b, a Human Polypeptide Chain Release Factor with eRF3 Activity in vitroand in vivo

    • C. G. Jakobsen
    • T. M. M. Søgaard
    • J. Justesen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 575 - 583

15. Cotranslational Protein Folding

    • V. A. Kolb

    OriginalPaper Pages: 584 - 590

16. Translational Control of the Picornavirus Phenotype

    • V. I. Agol

    OriginalPaper Pages: 591 - 599

17. Functional Compartmentalization of the Translation Apparatus and Channeling of tRNA/Aminoacyl-tRNA in Cells of Higher Eukaryotes

    • B. S. Negrutskii
    • A. V. El'skaya

    OriginalPaper Pages: 600 - 604

18. Folding Nuclei in Proteins

    • O. V. Galzitskaya
    • D. N. Ivankov
    • A. V. Finkelstein

    OriginalPaper Pages: 605 - 613

19. Why Termination tRNAs Have Not Been Found? Because They Are Hidden in the Large Ribosomal RNA (A Hypothesis)

    • V. I. Ivanov
    • A. D. Beniaminov
    • E. E. Minyat

    OriginalPaper Pages: 614 - 622

20. Ribosome and the Secret of Longevity (A Hypothesis)

    • A. G. Ryazanov

    OriginalPaper Pages: 623 - 625