Contents

Vol. 55 No. 4/2008
QUARTERLY
PL ISSN 0001-527X
31 11 13
on-line at: www.actabp.pl
Contents
Reviews
SNARE proteins and schizophrenia: linking synaptic and
neurodevelopmental hypotheses
Reuben D. Johnson, Peter L. Oliver and Kay E. Davies
619
The role of nuclear factor-κB in the development of autoimmune diseases:
a link between genes and environment
Alina Kuryłowicz and Janusz Nauman
629
The role of Rsp5 ubiquitin ligase in regulation of diverse processes in yeast
cells
Paweł Kaliszewski and Teresa Żołądek
649
The plant Nudix hydrolase family
Elżbieta Kraszewska
663
Regular papers
Reversal of drug resistance by silencing Survivin gene expression in acute
myeloid leukemia cells
Yao-Hui Wu, Yong You, Zhi-Chao Chen and Ping Zou
673
Developmental regulation of Ubc9 in the rat nervous system
Mutsufusa Watanabe, Kaoru Takahashi, Kayoko Tomizawa,
Hidehiro Mizusawa and Hiroshi Takahashi
681
Genotype-specific human papillomavirus detection in cervical smears
Slawa Szostek, Malgorzata Klimek, Barbara Zawilinska
and Magdalena Kosz-Vnenchak
687
Detection of specific lytic and latent transcripts can help to predictthe status
of Epstein–Barr virus infection in transplant recipientswith high virus load
Barbara Zawilinska, Anna Kosinska, Marzena Lenart, Jolanta Kopec,
Beata Piatkowska-Jakubas, Aleksander Skotnicki
and Magdalena Kosz-Vnenchak
693
Self-association of Chaetopterus variopedatus sperm histone H1-like.
Relevance of arginine content and possible physiological role
Daniela Salvati, Salvatore Conforti, Mariachiara Conte, Danilo Swann Matassa,
Laura Fucci and Marina Piscopo
701
Specific binding sites for progesterone and 17β-estradiol in cells of Triticum
aestivum L.
Anna Janeczko, Bogusława Budziszewska, Andrzej Skoczowski
and Małgorzata Dybała
707
Effects of mismatches and insertions on discrimination accuracy of nucleic
acid probes
Xianyu Piao, Liancheng Sun, Tianbiao Zhang, Youlin Gan and Yifu Guan
713
Physicochemical analysis of phosphatidylcholine-ceramide system in bilayer
lipid membranes
Monika Naumowicz, Aneta Dorota Petelska and Zbigniew Artur Figaszewski
721
Complete nucleotide sequence of a Polish strain of Peanut stunt virus
(PSV-P) that is related to but not a typical member of subgroup I
Aleksandra Obrepalska-Steplowska, Marta Budziszewska
and Henryk Pospieszny
731
TNFα-induced activation of NFκB protects against UV-induced apoptosis
specifically in p53-proficient cells
Katarzyna Szołtysek, Katarzyna Pietranek, Magdalena Kalinowska-Herok,
Monika Pietrowska, Marek Kimmel and Piotr Widłak
741
Identification of 2-[2-nitro-4-(trifluoromethyl)benzoyl]-cyclohexane-1,3-dione
metabolites in urine of patients suffering from tyrosinemia type I with the
use of 1H and 19F NMR spectroscopy
Przemysław Szczeciński, Diana Lamparska, Adam Gryff-Keller
and Wanda Gradowska
749
Mass spectrometry identification of membrane-bound respiratory nitrate
reductase from Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus)
Władysław Polcyn
753
Nitrate-related down-regulation of respiratory nitrate reductase from
Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lupinus)
Władysław Polcyn
761
Catalytic activity of mutants of yeast protein kinase CK2α
Ewa Sajnaga, Konrad Kubiński and Ryszard Szyszka
767
Heterologous expression and initial characterization of recombinant RbcX
protein from Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1 and the role of RbcX in
RuBisCO assembly
Miroslaw Tarnawski, Beata Gubernator, Piotr Kolesinski
and Andrzej Szczepaniak
777
Dihydropyrimidine dehydrogenase deficiency presenting with psychomotor
retardation in the first Polish patient
Artur Mazur, Szymon Figurski, Anna Płoskoń, Judith Meijer, Lida Zoetekouw,
Stanisława Wątróbska, Jolanta Sykut-Cegielska, Wanda Gradowska
and André B.P. van Kuilenburg
787
Conserved Cys residue influences catalytic properties of potato
endo-(13)-β-glucanase GLUB20-2
Agnieszka I. Witek, Kamil Witek and Jacek Hennig
791
Aldolase A is present in smooth muscle cell nuclei
Piotr Mamczur and Andrzej Dzugaj
799
Prenyl sulfates as alkylating reagents for mercapto amino acids
Sergey Maltsev, Olga Sizova, Natalia Utkina, Vladimir Shibaev,
Tadeusz Chojnacki, Wieslaw Jankowski and Ewa Swiezewska
807
Communications
SNP-minisequencing as an excellent tool for analysing degraded DNA
recovered from archival tissues
Katarzyna Bąbol-Pokora and Jarosław Berent
815
Activity of superoxide dismutase obtained from senile cataract lens —
effect of diabetes mellitus
Tomasz Panz, Rafał Wójcik and Krystyna Krukar-Baster
821
The nuclear cap-binding protein complex is not essential for
nonsense-mediated mRNA decay (NMD) in plants
Agnieszka Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk, Paulina Piontek,
Zofia Szweykowska-Kulińska and Artur Jarmołowski
825
Index of Authors
Bąbol-Pokora K
Berent J
Budziszewska B
Budziszewska M
Chen Z-C
Chojnacki T
Conforti S
Conte M
Davies KE
Dybała M
Dzikiewicz-Krawczyk A
Dzugaj A
Figaszewski ZA
Figurski S
Fucci L
Gan Y
Gradowska W
Gryff-Keller A
Guan Y
Gubernator B
Hennig J
Janeczko A
Jankowski W
Jarmołowski A
Johnson RD
Kalinowska-Herok M
Kaliszewski P
Kimmel M
Klimek M
Kolesinski P
Kopec J
Kosinska A
815
815
707
731
673
807
701
701
619
707
825
799
721
787
701
713
749, 787
749
713
777
791
707
807
825
619
741
649
741
687
777
693
693
Kosz-Vnenchak M
Kraszewska E
Krukar-Baster K
Kubiński K
Kuryłowicz A
Lamparska D
Lenart M
Maltsev S
Mamczur P
Matassa DS
Mazur A
Meijer J
Mizusawa H
Nauman J
Naumowicz M
Obrepalska-Steplowska A
Oliver PL
Panz T
Petelska A
Piao X
Piatkowska-Jakubas B
Pietranek K
Pietrowska M
Piontek P
Piscopo M
Płoskoń A
Polcyn W
Pospieszny H
Sajnaga E
Salvati D
Shibaev V
Sizova O
687, 693
663
821
767
629
749
693
807
799
701
787
787
681
629
721
731
619
821
721
713
693
741
741
825
701
787
753, 761
731
767
701
807
807
Skoczowski A
Skotnicki A
Sun L
Swiezewska E
Sykut-Cegielska J
Szczeciński P
Szczepaniak A
Szołtysek K
Szostek S
Szweykowska-Kulińska Z
Szyszka R
Takahashi H
Takahashi K
Tarnawski M
Tomizawa K
Utkina N
van Kuilenburg ABP
Watanabe M
Wątróbska S
Widłak P
Witek AI
Witek K
Wójcik R
Wu Y-H
You Y
Zawilinska B
Zhang T
Zoetekouw L
Zou P
Żołądek T
707
693
713
807
787
749
777
741
687
825
767
681
681
777
681
807
787
681
787
741
791
791
821
673
673
687, 693
713
787
673
649