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Some Articles Planned for Future Volumes The RNA World of Plant Mitochondria STEFAN BINDER, MICHAELAHOFMANN, JOSEF KUHN, AND KLAUSDASCHNER Multiple Controlling Mechanisms of FGF-I Gene Expression through Multiple Tissue-Specific Promoters ING-MING CHIU, KATHYTOUHLISKY,AND CHRIS BARAN CTD Phosphatase, Role in RNA Polymerase II Cycling, and Regulation of Transcript Elongation MICHAEL E. DAHMUS, NICK MARSHALL,AND PATRICKLIN HIV-1 Nucleoprotein: Retroviral/Retrotransposons Nucleoproteins JEAN-LUC DARLIX Biochemistry of Methiogenesis: Pathways, Genes, and Evolutionary Aspects UWE DEPPENMEIER Manipulation of Aminoacylation Properties of tRNAs by Structure-Based and Combinational in Vitro Approaches RICHARD GIEGE AND JOEM PUETZ Shunting and Reinitiation: Viral Strategies to Control Initiation of Translation THOMAS HaHN Regulation of Yeast Glycolytic Gene Expression MICHAEL J. HOLLANDAND KATEWILLETT Functions of Alphavirus Nonstructural Proteins in RNA Replication LEEVI KAARIAINENAND TERO AHOLA DNA-Protein Interactions Involved in the Initiation and Termination of Plasmid Rolling Circle Replication SALEEM A. KAHN, T.-L. CHANG, M. G. KRAMER,AND M. ESPINOSA Nonribosomal Synthesis of Chromopeptides and Related Compounds from Streptomycetesand Fungi ULLRICH KELLER AND FLORIANSCHAUWECKER FGF3: A Gene with a Finely Tuned Spatiotemporal Pattern of Expression during Development CHRISTIAN LAVIALLE X SOME ARTICLES PLANNED FOR FUTURE VOLUMES Specificity and Diversity in DNA Recognition by E. colt Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein JAMES C. LEE Functional Significance and Mechanism of elF5-Promoted Hydrolysis in Eukaryotic Translation Initiation UMADAS MAITRA AND SUPRATIK DAS DNA PolymeraseIll Holoenzyme: A Prototypical Replicative Complex CHARLES MCHENRY Molecular Basisof Fidelity of DNA Synthesis and Nucleotide Specificity of Retroviral ReverseTranscriptase LUIS MENENDEZ-ARIAS Catalytic Properties of the Translation Factors Necessary for mRNA Activation and Binding to 40S Subunits WILLIAM C. MERBICK Initiation of Eukaryotic DNA Replication and Mechanisms HEINZ-PETER NASHEUER, KLAUS WEISSHART, AND FRANK GROSSE Mechanisms of EF-Tu,a Pioneer GTPase ANDREA PARMEGGIANI AND I v o M. KRAB Protein Kinase CK2-Linked Gone Expression Control WALTER PYERIN AND KARIN ACKERMANN k Growing Family of Guanine Nucleotide Exchange Factors Is Responsiblefor the Activation of Ras Family GTPases LAWRENCE A. QUILLIAM Steroid Hormone Regulation of mRNA Stability DAVID J. SHAPIRO AND ROBIN E. DODSON HIV Transcriptional Regulation in the Context of Chromatin ERIC VERDIN A Tale of Two Helicases: Rolesof Phage and Animal Virus Helicases in DNA Replication and Recombination SANDRA K. WELLER AND BORIANA MARINTCHEVA Modulation of RNA Function by Oligonucleotides Recognizing RNA Structure J. J. TOULM~,.3'1 C . D I P R I M O , *'t AND S. M O R E A U * *INSERM U 386 IFR Pathologies Infectieuses Universit# Victor Segalen 146 rue L#o-Saignat 33076 Bordeaux c6dex, France t lnstitut Europ6en de Chimie et Biologie CNRS FRE 2247 Avenue Pey Berland, B.P. 108 33402 Talence c#dex, France I. RNA Structures: Targets of Interest . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . A. Functional RNA Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B. RNA Ligands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . II. Antisense Oligonueleotides . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .