1. Dear JBIC reader,

   EDITORIAL Pages: 1 - 1

2. Iron-sulfur proteins: ancient structures, still full of surprises

   • H. Beinert

   MINIREVIEW Pages: 2 - 15

3. Electronic structure contributions to electron transfer in blue Cu and Cu_A

   • D. W. Randall
   • D. R. Gamelin
   • E. I. Solomon

   MINIREVIEW Pages: 16 - 29

4. Probing the electronic structure of transition metal ion centres in proteins by coherent Raman-detected electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy

   • S. J. Bingham
   • B. Börger
   • A. J. Thomson

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 30 - 35

5. Single crystal EPR studies of the oxidized active site of [NiFe] hydrogenase from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Miyazaki F

   • O. Trofanchuk
   • M. Stein
   • W. Lubitz

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 36 - 44

6. Circular dichroism spectra of the individual rotamers of [Pt(N,N-dmen)(GpG)]⁺ (N,N-dmen=N,N-dimethylethylenediamine) indicate that the base-base oscillator coupling is not the main source of ellipticity in cis-PtG₂L₂ head-to-head complexes

   • M.-A. Elizondo-Riojas
   • V. Bas
   • J. Kozelka

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 45 - 50

7. Dynamic relaxometry: application to iron uptake by ferritin

   • V. Herynek
   • J. W. M. Bulte
   • R. A. Brooks

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 51 - 56

8. Amonabactin-mediated iron acquisition from transferrin and lactoferrin by Aeromonas hydrophila : direct measurement of individual microscopic rate constants

   • A. Stintzi
   • K. N. Raymond

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 57 - 66

9. Metal-ion stoichiometry of the HIV-1 RT ribonuclease H domain: evidence for two mutually exclusive sites leads to new mechanistic insights on metal-mediated hydrolysis in nucleic acid biochemistry

   • J. A. Cowan
   • T. Ohyama
   • S.F.J. Le Grice

   ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 67 - 74

10. Mutation of the surface valine residues 8 and 44 in the rubredoxin from Clostridium pasteurianum : solvent access versus structural changes as determinants of reversible potential

    • Z. Xiao
    • M. J. Maher
    • A. G. Wedd

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 75 - 84

11. Oligonucleotide conjugates of Eu(III) tetraazamacrocycles with pendent alcohol and amide groups promote sequence-specific RNA cleavage

    • L. Huang
    • L. L. Chappell
    • J. R. Morrow

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 85 - 92

12. Spectroscopic characterization of Co(II)-, Ni(II)-, and Cd(II)-substituted wild-type and non-native retroviral-type zinc finger peptides

    • X. Chen
    • M. Chu
    • D. P. Giedroc

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 93 - 101

13. Bathocuproine-assisted reduction of copper(II) by human albumin

    • A. I. Ivanov
    • J. A. Parkinson
    • P. J. Sadler

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 102 - 109

14. The complex of Bacillus pasteurii urease with acetohydroxamate anion from X-ray data at 1.55 Å resolution

    • S. Benini
    • W. R. Rypniewski
    • S. Mangani

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 110 - 118

15. Enantiomeric ruthenium(II) complexes binding to DNA: binding modes and enantioselectivity

    • J.-G. Liu
    • B.-H. Ye
    • L.-N. Ji

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 119 - 128

16. The binding of trivalent chromium to low-molecular-weight chromium-binding substance (LMWCr) and the transfer of chromium from transferrin and chromium picolinate to LMWCr

    • Y. Sun
    • J. Ramirez
    • J. B. Vincent

    ORIGINAL ARTICLE Pages: 129 - 136