Progress in Nucleic Acid Research and Molecular Biology

• Some Articles Planned for Future Volumes.DNA Modifications by Antitumor Platinum and Ruthenium Compounds: Their Recognition and Repair,V. Brabec.AMP- and Stress-Activated Protein Kinases: Key Regulators of Glucose-Dependent Gene Transcription in Mammalian Cells?,I. Leclerc, G. da Silva Xavier, G.A. Rutter.Molecular Basis of Fidelity of DNA Synthesis and Nucleotide Specificity of Retroviral Reverse Transcriptases,L. Menendez-Arias.Muc4/Sialomucin Complex, the Intramembrane ErbB2 Ligand, in Cancer and Epithelia: To Protect and to Survive,K.L. Carraway, A. Perez, N. Idris, S. Jepson, M. Arango, M. Komatsu, B. Haq, S.A. Price-Schiavi, J. Zhang, and C.A. Carothers Carraway.Functions of Alphavirus Nonstructural Proteins in RNA Replication,L. Kaariainen and T. Ahola.The Unique Biochemistry of Methonogenesis,U. Deppenmeier.A History of Poly A Sequences: From Formation to Factors to Function,M. Edmonds.A Growing Family of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors Is Responsible for Activation of Ras-Family GTPases,L.A. Quilliam, J.F. Rebhun, and A.F. Castro.Practical Approaches to Long Oligonucleotide-Based DNA Microarray: Lessons from Herpesviruses,E.K. Wagner, J.J. Garcia Ramirez, S.W. Stingely, S.A. Aguilar, L. Buehler, G.B. Devi-Rao, and P. Ghazal.Sphingosine Kinases: A Novel Family of Lipid Kinases,H. Liu, D. Chakravarty, M. Maceyka, S. Milstien, and S. Spiegel.Mechanisms of EF-Tu, a Pioneer GTPase,I.M. Krab and A. Parmeggiani.Index.

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