1. The 51,409-bp R-plasmid pTP10 from the multiresistant clinical isolate Corynebacterium striatum M82B is composed of DNA segments initially identified in soil bacteria and in plant, animal, and human pathogens

   • A. Tauch
   • S. Krieft
   • A. Pühler

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 1 - 11

2. HD-Zip proteins of families I and II from rice: interactions and functional properties

   • A. H. Meijer
   • R. J. de Kam
   • J. H. C. Hoge

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 12 - 21

3. Intrachromosomal homologous recombination in Arabidopsis induced by a maize transposon

   • Y. -L. Xiao
   • T. Peterson

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 22 - 29

4. Rapid systemic accumulation of transcripts encoding a tobacco WRKY transcription factor upon wounding

   • K. Hara
   • M. Yagi
   • H. Sano

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 30 - 37

5. Histone hyperacetylation facilitates chromatin remodelling in a Drosophila embryo cell-free system

   • W. A. Krajewski

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 38 - 47

6. Activation of basal transcription by a mutation in SIN4, a yeast global repressor, occurs through a mechanism different from activator-mediated transcriptional enhancement

   • T. Mizuno
   • S. Harashima

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 48 - 59

7. Mutations in CDC14 result in high sensitivity to cyclin gene dosage in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • M. Yuste-Rojas
   • F. R. Cross

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 60 - 72

8. RAD52-dependent and -independent homologous recombination initiated by Flp recombinase at a single FRT site flanked by direct repeats

   • F. Prado
   • S. González-Barrera
   • A. Aguilera

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 73 - 80

9. Involvement of the Inverted Repeat of the yeast 2-micron plasmid in Flp site-specific and RAD52-dependent homologous recombination

   • F. Storici
   • C. V. Bruschi

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 81 - 89

10. Acquisition of a potential marker for insect transformation: isolation of a novel alcohol dehydrogenase gene from Bactrocera oleae by functional complementation in yeast

    • P. Benos
    • N. Tavernarakis
    • C. Savakis

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 90 - 95

11. Functional analysis of the minor subunits of S fimbrial adhesin (SfaI) in pathogenic Escherichia coli

    • A. S. Khan
    • I. Mühldorfer
    • J. Hacker

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 96 - 105

12. Alternative silencing effects involve distinct types of non-spreading cytosine methylation at a three-gene, single-copy transgenic locus in rice

    • X. Fu
    • A. Kohli
    • P. Christou

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 106 - 118

13. Thermostability, oligomerization and DNA-binding properties of the regulatory protein ArgR from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga neapolitana

    • D. Dimova
    • P. Weigel
    • V. Sakanyan

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 119 - 130

14. SecG is an auxiliary component of the protein export apparatus of Escherichia coli

    • A. M. Flower
    • L. L. Hines
    • P. L. Pfennig

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 131 - 136

15. Genetic characterization of the 44D-45B region of the Drosophila melanogaster genome based on an F₂ lethal screen

    • T. C. Dockendorff
    • S. E. Robertson
    • T. A. Jongens

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 137 - 143

16. The mus308 locus of Drosophila melanogaster is implicated in the bypass of ENU-induced O-alkylpyrimidine adducts

    • L. Tosal
    • M. A. Comendador
    • L. M. Sierra

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 144 - 151

17. Minicircular plastid DNA in the dinoflagellate Amphidinium operculatum

    • A. C. Barbrook
    • C. J. Howe

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 152 - 158

18. The lipopolysaccharide of recipient cells is a specific receptor for PilV proteins, selected by shufflon DNA rearrangement, in liquid matings with donors bearing the R64 plasmid

    • A. Ishiwa
    • T. Komano

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 159 - 164

19. Mapping of centromeric regions on the molecular linkage map of rice (Oryza sativa L.) using centromere-associated sequences

    • S. Wang
    • J. Wang
    • Q. Zhang

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 165 - 172