1. Expression of the linear DNA plasmid pRS64 in the plant pathogenic fungus Rhizoctonia solani

   • Masashi Hongo
   • Atsushi Miyasaka
   • Teruyoshi Hashiba

   Original Paper Pages: 265 - 271

2. PET1402, a nuclear gene required for proteolytic processing of cytochrome oxidase subunit 2 in yeast

   • Mathias Bauer
   • Meinhardt Behrens
   • Elke Pratje

   Original Paper Pages: 272 - 278

3. MucAB but not UmuDC proteins enhance −2 frameshift mutagenesis induced by N-2-acetylaminofluorene at alternating GC sequences

   • R. Janel-Bintz
   • G. Maenhaut-Michel
   • R. P. P. Fuchs

   OriginalPaper Pages: 279 - 285

4. Evolution of the C₄ phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase promoter of the C₄ dicot Flaveria trinervia: an expression analysis in the C₃ plant tobacco

   • Jörg Stockhaus
   • Winfried Poetsch
   • Peter Westhoff

   Original Paper Pages: 286 - 293

5. Recombination between repeats in Escherichia coli by a recA-independent, proximity-sensitive mechanism

   • S. T. Lovett
   • T. J. Gluckman
   • P. T. Drapkin

   Original Paper Pages: 294 - 300

6. Positive and negative transcriptional regulation by the yeast GAL11 protein depends on the structure of the promoter and a combination of cis elements

   • Masafumi Nishizawa
   • Seiko Taga
   • Aki Matsubara

   Original Paper Pages: 301 - 312

7. Oxygen sensitivity and metal ion-dependent transcriptional activation by NIFA protein from Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii

   • Steven Screen
   • John Watson
   • Ray Dixon

   Original Paper Pages: 313 - 322

8. Inactivation of SSM4, a new Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene, suppresses mRNA instability due to rna14 mutations

   • E. Mandart
   • M. -E. Dufour
   • F. Lacroute

   Original Paper Pages: 323 - 333

9. ISL2, a new mobile genetic element in Lactobacillus helveticus

   • Marie-Camille Zwahlen
   • Beat Mollet

   Original Paper Pages: 334 - 338

10. Pot2, an inverted repeat transposon from the rice blast fungus Magnaporthe grisea

    • P. Kachroo
    • S. A. Leong
    • B. B. Chattoo

    Original Paper Pages: 339 - 348

11. A family of related sequences associated with (TTTAGGG)_n repeats are located in the interstitial regions of wheat chromosomes

    • W. Y. Cheung
    • T. A. Money
    • G. Moore

    Original Paper Pages: 349 - 354

12. Role of guanosine tetraphosphate in gene expression and the survival of glucose or seryl-tRNA starved cells of Escherichia coli K12

    • T. Nyström

    Original Paper Pages: 355 - 362

13. In planta transformation of Arabidopsis thaliana

    • Vesna Katavic
    • George W. Haughn
    • Ljerka Kunst

    Original Paper Pages: 363 - 370

14. Two distinct cis-acting elements are involved in light-dependent activation of the pea elip promoter

    • Jens Blecken
    • Bernd Weisshaar
    • Frank Herzfeld

    OriginalPaper Pages: 371 - 379

15. Organ-specific expression of highly divergent thionin variants that are distinct from the seed-specific crambin in the crucifer Crambe abyssinica

    • Gesine Schrader-Fischer
    • Klaus Apel

    Original Paper Pages: 380 - 389

16. Gene density and organization in a small region of the Arabidopsis thaliana genome

    • L. Le Guen
    • M. Thomas
    • M. Kreis

    Short Communication Pages: 390 - 396