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Contents (Continued from outside back cover)

600-604 T.- W. Jeng, R. A. Hendon, and H. Fraenkel-Conrat Search for relationships among the hemolytic, phospholipoly

bungarotoxins/phospholipase A2)

605-609 Kirston Koths and David Dressler Analysis of the XX DNA replication cycle by electron microsc

positive strand DNAlsynthesis of negative stran, circles)

610-614 Henri J. Grosjean, Suzanne de Henau, and Donald On the physical basis for ambiguity in genetic coding interact

pairing)

615-619 Hisako Ohtsubo and Eiichi Ohtsubo Nucleotide sequence of an insertion element, IS1 (Escherichi

repeat sequences)

620-624 Era Cassuto, Jane Mursalim, and Paul Howard-Fla) Homology-dependent cutting in trans of DNA in extracts of

recombination (OX replicative form I DNA/excis

625-629 Michael McGrogan and Heschel J. Raskas Two regions of the adenovirus 2 genome specify families of la

transcriptional mapping/RNA-DNA hybridizati

630-634 Martin P. N. Gent, Patricia F. Cottam, and Chien H Fluorine-19 nuclear magnetic resonance studies of Escherich

membranes/E. coli membrane vesicle/membrane

635-639 Richard L. Garber, M. A. Q. Siddiqui, and Sidney Ai Identification of precursor molecules to individual tRNA spe

640-644 M. Levitt How many base-pairs per turn does DNA have in solution an

chromatin structure/energy calculations)

645-649 Klaus Geider, Ewald Beck, and Heinz Schaller An RNA transcribed from DNA at the origin of phage fd sing

replication/RNA at origin/nucleotide sequence)

650-654 Raymond Kaempfer, Haim Rosen, and Ruth Israeli Translational control: Recognition of the methylated 5' end

that binds methionyl-tRNAfet (eukaryotic initia recognition of mRNA)

655-659 A. R. Cashmore, M. K. Broadhurst, and R. E. Gray Cell-free synthesis of leaf protein: Identification of an appa]

carboxylase (immunoprecipitation/tryptic pepti

660-663 V. C. Gordon, C. M. Knobler, D. E. Olins, and V. N., Conformational changes of the chromatin subunit (vl bodies,

664-668 H. Suzuki, Y. Nishimura, and Y. Hirota On the process of cellular division in Escherichia coli: A ser

(murein synthesis/penicillin target/gene mappis

669-671 Menachem Rubinstein, Stanley Stein, and Sidney I Characterization of pro-opiocortin, a precursor to opioid pep

chromatography/radioreceptor assay) 672-676 David B. Donner, Dwight W. Martin, and Martin S(

Accumulation of a slowly dissociable peptide hormone bindii cooperativity/membrane receptors/hepatocytes,

677-681 Amanda M. Gillum and David A. Clayton Displacement-loop replication initiation sequence in animal

replication/5'-terminal labeling/nucleotide sequ 682-685 Jaime Kapitulnik and J. Donald Ostrow

Stimulation of bilirubin catabolism in jaundiced Gunn rats b flow/bile acids/bilirubin-UDPglucuronate trans,

686-690 M. Chi Nguyen-Huu, Albrecht A. Sippel, Nancy E. Preferential transcription of the ovalbumin gene in isolated I

polynucleotides/complementary DNA/affinity c

691-695 Kenichi K. Yabusaki and Clinton E. Ballou Interaction of mycobacterial polymethylpolysaccharides witl

monomeric dissociation constants (polysaccharic fatty acid synthetase)

696-700 B. Burr, F. A. Burr, I. Rubenstein, and M. N. Simon Purification and translation of zein messenger RNA from me

polyacrylamide gels/signal peptide/electron mic

tic, and neurotoxic activities of snake venoms (crotoxin components/

opy (rolling circle intermediate/partially duplex ring/synthesis of I DNA/synthesis of single-stranded and double-stranded DNA

Wf. Crothers ions (wobble rules/tRNA/codon-anticodon interactions/base

a coli plasmidsldeletion events/illegitimate recombination/inverted

lders Escherichia coli: An approach to the enzymology of genetic ion/X precA+)

te polysomal RNAs containing common sequences (adenovirus RNA/ n)

o ia coli membranes (fluorinated myristic acid/fluorinated fluidity) tman cies from Bombyx mori (tRNA biosynthesis)

d in chromatin? Some theoretical calculations (DNA double helix/

le strand to replicative form conversion (initiation of DNA

and an internal sequence in eukaryotic mRNA by the initiation factor tion factor 2/cap/globin mRNA/picornavirus RNA/differential

ent precursor of the small subunit of ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate des/organelle protein biosynthesis) Schumaker ionic strength effects/hydrodynamic models/crosslinking)

ies of mutants of E. coli altered in the penicillin-binding proteins tg)

Jdenfriend tides and corticotropin (fluorescence/high-performance liquid

nenberg ig component by isolated target cells (growth hormone/negative affinity changes)

mitochondrial DNA exists as a family of discrete lengths (DNA ence/RNA primer/Hae III endonuclease)

y an inducer of microsomal mixed-function monooxygenases (bile 'erase)

Hynes, Bernd Groner, and Gunther Schlitz ien oviduct nuclei by RNA polymerase B (RNA synthesis/mercurated hromatography/a-amanitin )

i paranaric acid and palmitoyl-coenzyme A: Structural specificity and le-lipid interaction/fluorescence/circular dichroism/tryptophan/

ize endosperm protein bodies (storage protein/denaturing roscopy)

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Contents

i-iv INFORMATION TO CONTRIBUTORS

v-vi AUTHOR INDEX

Review

588-599 Edward D. Korn Biochemistry of actomyosin-dependent cell motility (actin/r

Physical Sciences

ASTRONOMY

535-539 J. F. Nicoll and I. E. Segal Observational validation of the chronometric cosmology: TI

statistics/Hubble law)

540-544 Donald E. Osterbrock Observational model of the ionized gas in Seyfert and radio-I

CHEMISTRY

545-548 George A. Olah, Henry C. Lin, Judith A. Olah, and ' Variation of isomer distribution in electrophilic nitration of t

from reactivity of reagent (nitration/toluene/ani 549-553 Aaron Lewis

The molecular mechanism of excitation in visual transductio dynamics/dipolar states and allosteric mechanis

554-558 Arnold T. Hagler and Barry Honig On the formation of protein tertiary structure on a computer

glycines) 559-563 Nobuhiro Go and Hiroshi Taketomi

Respective roles of short- and long-range interactions in prot model/Monte Carlo method)

564-568 James P. Collman, John I. Brauman, Kenneth M. D Model compounds for the T state of hemoglobin (cobalt-sub,

oxygen binding) 569-572 Linus Pauling

Bond angles in transition metal tetracarbonyl compounds: 2

cobalt tetracarbonyls/iron tetracarbonyls/mangc 573-577 L. J. Noe, W. G. Eisert, and P. M. Rentzepis

Picosecond photodissociation and subsequent recombination CO ligand/hemes)

905-908 Thomas Eisner, David F. Wiemer, LeRoy W. Hayne. Lucibufagins: Defensive steroids from the fireflies Photinus

defensive substances/antifeedants/bufadienolid,

MATHEMATICS

578-579 J. Lepowsky and S. Milne Lie algebras and classical partition identities (Macdonald id(

generalized Cartan matrix Lie algebras) 580-581 Casper Goffman and Daniel Waterman

On localization for double Fourier series (generalized bounde series)

582-585 Alexander Nagel and E. M. Stein A new class of pseudo-differential operators (singular intervs

STATISTICS

586-587 T. L. Lai and Herbert Robbins Adaptive design in regression and control (iterated least squ

theory/optimal dosage estimation)

Biological Sciences

BIOCHEMISTRY

588-599 Edward D. Korn Biochemistry of actomyosin-dependent cell motility (A Revi<

Vol. 75, No. 2 February 1978

syosin/microfilaments)

Le redshift-magnitude relation for quasi-stellar objects (extragalactic

:alaxy nuclei (emission lines/plasma/extinction/rotation/turbulence)

)ubhash C. Narang oluene, anisole, and o-xylene: Independence of high regioselectivity sole/o-xylene/selectivity)

n and bacteriorhodopsin (rhodopsin photochemistry/protein ms in biology/proton translocation/ion gate molecular regulation)

(protein folding/computer simulation/protein evolution/role of

ein folding (mechanism of folding/range of interactions/lattice

oxsee, Thomas R. Halbert, and Kenneth S. Suslick tituted hemoproteins/cooperativity/hemoproteins/myoglobin/

further test of the theory of hybrid bond orbitals (enneacovalence/ nese tetracarbonyls/chromium tetracarbonyls)

processes in carbon monoxide hemoglobin (picosecond spectroscopy/

s, and Jerrold Meinwald ignitus and P. marginellus (Coleoptera: Lympyridae) (arthropod ?s/emetics/cardiotonics )

'ntities/Rogers-Ramanujan identities/Weyl-Kac character formula/

d variation/multiple Fourier series/harmonic analysis/orthogonal

zls/LP estimates/oblique derivative problem)

xres/adaptive stochastic approximation/nonlinear regression/control

w) (actin/myosin/microfilaments) (Continued on inside back cover)

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