1. Defective expression of the μ3 subunit of the AP-3 adaptor complex in the Drosophila pigmentation mutant carmine

   • C. Mullins
   • L. M. Hartnell
   • J. S. Bonifacino

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 401 - 412

2. The Arabidopsis transposon Tag1 is active in rice, undergoing germinal transposition and restricted, late somatic excision

   • D. Liu
   • S. Zhang
   • N. M. Crawford

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 413 - 420

3. Renilla luciferase as a vital reporter for chloroplast gene expression in Chlamydomonas

   • I. Minko
   • S. P. Holloway
   • D. L. Herrin

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 421 - 425

4. A mutation in a mitochondrial ABC transporter results in mitochondrial dysfunction through oxidative damage of mitochondrial DNA

   • H. Senbongi
   • F. Ling
   • T. Shibata

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 426 - 436

5. The mitochondrial cytochrome c peroxidase Ccp1 of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is involved in conveying an oxidative stress signal to the transcription factor Pos9 (Skn7)

   • C. Charizanis
   • H. Juhnke
   • K. -D. Entian

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 437 - 447

6. PhoB-dependent transcriptional activation of the iciA gene during starvation for phosphate in Escherichia coli

   • J. S. Han
   • J. Y. Park
   • D. S. Hwang

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 448 - 452

7. Isolation and functional characterisation of a novel type of carotenoid biosynthetic gene from Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous

   • J. C. Verdoes
   • P. Krubasik
   • A. J. J. van Ooyen

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 453 - 461

8. RNA editing sites in tobacco chloroplast transcripts: editing as a possible regulator of chloroplast RNA polymerase activity

   • T. Hirose
   • T. Kusumegi
   • M. Sugiura

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 462 - 467

9. Completion of the sexual cycle and demonstration of genetic recombination in Ustilago maydis in vitro

   • J. Ruiz-Herrera
   • C. León-Ramírez
   • L. Herrera-Estrella

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 468 - 472

10. Budding yeast Cdc6p induces re-replication in fission yeast by inhibition of SCF^Pop-mediated proteolysis

    • D. A. Wolf
    • F. McKeon
    • P. K. Jackson

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 473 - 480

11. A novel element in the promoter of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene SPS19 enhances ORE-dependent up-regulation in oleic acid and is essential for de-repression

    • A. Gurvitz
    • B. Hamilton
    • H. Rottensteiner

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 481 - 492

12. A Tourist element in the 5′-flanking region of the catalase gene CatA reveals evolutionary relationships among Oryza species with various genome types

    • M. Iwamoto
    • H. Nagashima
    • K. Higo

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 493 - 500

13. A plasmid-based vector system for the cloning and expression of Helicobacter pylori genes encoding outer membrane proteins

    • W. Fischer
    • D. Schwan
    • R. Haas

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 501 - 507

14. Mechanism of transcription termination: PTRF interacts with the largest subunit of RNA polymerase I and dissociates paused transcription complexes from yeast and mouse

    • P. Jansa
    • I. Grummt

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 508 - 514

15. PCR-based cloning and segregation analysis of functional gene homologues in Beta vulgaris

    • K. Schneider
    • D. C. Borchardt
    • F. Salamini

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 515 - 524

16. DNA helicase mutants of bacteriophage T4 that are defective in DNA recombination

    • E. Kuroki
    • T. Yonesaki

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 525 - 533

17. Involvement of a MAP kinase, ZmMPK5, in senescence and recovery from low-temperature stress in maize

    • T. Berberich
    • H. Sano
    • T. Kusano

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 534 - 542

18. RecQ and RecJ process blocked replication forks prior to the resumption of replication in UV-irradiated Escherichia coli

    • J. Courcelle
    • P. C. Hanawalt

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 543 - 551

19. Characterization of a high-affinity phenol hydroxylase from Comamonas testosteroni R5 by gene cloning, and expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1c

    • M. Teramoto
    • H. Futamata
    • K. Watanabe

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 552 - 558

20. Pk-cdcA encodes a CDC48/VCP homolog in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus kodakaraensis KOD1: transcriptional and enzymatic characterization

    • S. -J. Jeon
    • S. Fujiwara
    • T. Imanaka

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 559 - 567

21. The Corynebacterium glutamicum insertion sequence ISCg2 prefers conserved target sequences located adjacent to genes involved in aspartate and glutamate metabolism

    • K. Quast
    • B. Bathe
    • J. Kalinowski

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 568 - 578

22. Mapping of post-flowering drought resistance traits in grain sorghum: association between QTLs influencing premature senescence and maturity

    • O. R. Crasta
    • W. W. Xu
    • H. T. Nguyen

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 579 - 588