1. Preface

   • S C Lakhotia
   • A K Tripathi

   EditorialNotes 01 October 1998 Pages: 285 - 285

2. Heat induced stress proteins and the concept of molecular chaperones

   • Christoph Forreiter
   • Lutz Nover

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 287 - 302

3. Biochemical events in the activation and attenuation of the heat shock transcriptional response

   • Sanjeev H Satyal
   • Richard I Morimoto

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 303 - 311

4. Heat stress response and heat stress transcription factors

   • Klaus-Dieter Scharf
   • Ingo Höhfeld
   • Lutz Nover

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 313 - 329

5. Modulation of polymerase II composition: A possible mode of transcriptional regulation of stress response in eukaryotes

   • Parag Sadhale
   • Nimisha Sharma
   • Sanjay K Singh

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 331 - 335

6. Plant Hsp100 family with special reference to rice

   • Sneh Lata Singla
   • Ashwani Pareek
   • Anil Grover

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 337 - 345

7. Characterization of the nucleotide binding properties of the 90 kDa heat shock protein (Hsp90)

   • Csaba Sőti
   • Péter Csermely

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 347 - 352

8. Hsp90 regulates protein synthesis by activating the heme-regulated eukaryotic initiation factor 2α (eIF-2α) kinase in rabbit reticulocyte lysates

   • Jayanta K Pal

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 353 - 360

9. Plant Hsp90 family with special reference to rice

   • Ashwani Pareek
   • Sneh Lata Singla
   • Anil Grover

   OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 361 - 367

10. Small heat shock proteins ofDrosophila: Developmental expression and functions

    • D R Joanisse
    • S Michaud
    • R M Tanguay

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 369 - 376

11. Interaction of the non-protein-coding developmental and stress-induciblehsrω gene withRas genes ofDrosophila melanogaster

    • Pritha Ray
    • S C Lakhotia

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 377 - 386

12. Mechanism of heat induction of albumin in early embryonic rat liver

    • Usha K Srinivas
    • S K Swamynathan
    • C J Revathi

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 387 - 398

13. Expression and possible role of stress-responsive proteins inAnabaena

    • S K Apte
    • T Fernandes
    • A Ballal

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 399 - 406

14. Conserved function and regulation ofσ ³² homologues in Gram-negative bacteria

    • K Nakahigashi
    • M Kanemori
    • T Yura

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 407 - 414

15. The GroE chaperonin machine is the major modulator of the CIRCE heat shock regulon ofBacillus subtilis

    • Wolfgang Schumann
    • Georg Homuth
    • Axel Mogk

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 415 - 422

16. Adaptation to low temperature and regulation of gene expression in antarctic psychrotrophic bacteria

    • Malay K Ray
    • G Seshu Kumar
    • S Shivaji

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 423 - 435

17. Osmoregulation in the model organismEscherichia coli: genes governing the synthesis of glycine betaine and trehalose and their use in metabolic engineering of stress tolerance

    • Arne R Strøm

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 437 - 445

18. Stress responses ofBacillus subtilis to high osmolarity environments: Uptake and synthesis of osmoprotectants

    • Bettina Kempf
    • Erhard Bremer

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 447 - 455

19. Isolation and molecular characterization of theSinorhizobium meliloti bet locus encoding glycine betaine biosynthesis

    • M Østeras
    • E Boncompagni
    • D Le Rudulier

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 457 - 462

20. Salinity stress responses in the plant growth promoting rhizobacteria,Azospirillum spp

    • A K Tripathi
    • B M Mishra
    • P Tripathi

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 463 - 471

21. Genetic engineering of polyamine and carbohydrate metabolism for osmotic stress tolerance in higher plants

    • M V Rajam
    • S Dagar
    • R Kumria

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 473 - 482

22. Regulation of iron uptake minimizes iron-mediated oxidative stress

    • V Braun

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 483 - 489

    

23. Regulation of bacterial phosphate taxis and polyphosphate accumulation in response to phosphate starvation stress

    • H Ohtake
    • J Kato
    • T Ikeda

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 491 - 499

24. Cycles of famine and feast: the starvation and outgrowth strategies of a marineVibrio

    • Sujatha Srinivasan
    • Staffan Kjelleberg

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 501 - 511

25. Stress-inducible transgenic nematodes as biomonitors of soil and water pollution

    • R S Power
    • H E David
    • D I de Pomerai

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 513 - 526

26. Heat shock protein-peptide interaction as the basis for a new generation of vaccines against cancers and infectious diseases

    • Pramod K Srivastava

    OriginalPaper 01 October 1998 Pages: 527 - 531