Contents

Vol. 52 No. 4/2005
QUARTERLY
PL ISSN 0001-527X
31 11 13
on-line at: www.actabp.pl
Contents
In Memoriam
Professor Maciej Wiewiórowski
Reviews
Protein modeling with reduced representation: statistical potentials and protein folding mechanism
Dariusz Ekonomiuk, Marcin Kielbasinski and Andrzej Kolinski
741
Recent advances in studies on biochemical and structural properties of
equilibrative and concentrative nucleoside transporters
Marzena Podgorska, Katarzyna Kocbuch and Tadeusz Pawelczyk
749
Short-term regulation of the mammalian pyruvate dehydrogenase complex
Sławomir Strumiło
759
Regular papers
Kinetic analysis of the transient phase and steady state of open multicyclic
enzyme cascades
Ramón Varón, Bent H. Havsteen, Edelmira Valero, Milagros Molina-Alarcón,
Francisco García-Cánovas and Manuela García-Moreno
765
Thermostable Pyrococcus woesei β-�-galactosidase — high level expression,
purification and biochemical properties
Marta Wanarska, Józef Kur, Radosław Pladzyk and Marianna Turkiewicz
781
Isolation and characterization of pigeon breast muscle cytosolic 5´-nucleotidase-I (cN-I)
Kinga Tkacz-Stachowska, Katarzyna Lechward and Andrzej C. Skladanowski
789
The role of benzoate secreted by Desulfotomaculum acetoxidans DSM 771 in
sulfate uptake
Lucyna Pawłowska-Ćwięk and Ryszard Pado
797
Time-dependent effect of leptin on renal Na+,K+-ATPase activity
Andrzej Marciniak, Anna Jamroz-Wiśniewska, Ewelina Borkowska
and Jerzy Bełtowski
803
The role of Na+/H+ exchanger in serotonin secretion from porcine blood
platelets
Marian Tomasiak, Michal Ciborowski and Halina Stelmach
811
The HPV16 E2 transcriptional regulator mode of action depends on the
physical state of the viral genome
Marcin T. Schmidt, Agnieszka K. Olejnik and Anna Goździcka-Józefiak
823
Two types of non-homologous RNA recombination in brome mosaic virus
Magdalena Alejska, Nelli Malinowska, Anna Urbanowicz, Marek Figlerowicz
833
Influence of reagent formulation on mRNA quantification by RT-PCR using
imported external standard curves
Mireia Farriol and Xavi Orta
845
Tissue distribution of a menthyl-conjugated oligodeoxyribonucleotide antisense to PAI-1 mRNA
Janusz Szemraj, Khalid N.I. Al-Nedawi, Ewa Chabielska,
Wlodzimierz Buczko and Zofia Pawlowska
849
Ribosomal proteins L34 and S29 of amphioxus Branchiostoma belcheri tsingtauense: cDNAs cloning and gene copy number
Lina Liu, Shicui Zhang, Zhenhui Liu, Hongyan Li, Mei Liu, Yongjun Wang
and Lifang Ma
857
Expression of recombinant forms of human 21.5 kDa myelin basic protein
and proteolipid protein in CHO cells
Ewa Jaśkiewicz, Anna Jedynak and Ewa Zioło
863
Characterization of a novel protein that specifically binds to DNA modified
by N-acetoxy-acetylaminofluorene and cis-diamminedichloroplatinum
Monika Pietrowska and Piotr Widłak
867
Recombinant angioarrestin secreted from mouse melanoma cells
inhibits growth of primary tumours
Andrzej Smagur, Jarosław Szary and Stanisław Szala
875
Expression and hypoxia-responsiveness of 6-phosphofructo-2-kinase/fructose-2,6-bisphosphatase 4 in mammary gland malignant cell lines
Oleksandr H. Minchenko, Iryna L. Opentanova, Tsutomu Ogura,
Dmytro O. Minchenko, Sergiy V. Komisarenko, Jaime Caro and Hiroyasu Esumi 881
The importance of abrogation of G2-phase arrest in combined effect of
TRAIL and ionizing radiation
Martina Řezáčová, Jiřina Vávrová, Doris Vokurková, Aleš Tichý, Jiří Knížek
and Jan Psutka
889
The effect of Topotecan on oxidative stress in MCF-7 human breast cancer
cell line
Mujgan Timur, S. Halide Akbas and Tomris Ozben
897
Kinobeon A, purified from cultured safflower cells, is a novel and potent
singlet oxygen quencher
Yasuhiro Kambayashi, Susumu Takekoshi, Minoru Nakano, Masafumi Shibamori,
Yoshiaki Hitomi and Keiki Ogino
903
Effect of aging and oxidative/genotoxic stress on poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase-1 activity in rat brain
Robert P. Strosznajder, Henryk Jesko and Agata Adamczyk
909
New spectrophotometric methods for the determination of nifedipine in
pharmaceutical formulations
Nafisur Rahman and Syed Najmul Hejaz Azmi
915
Communications
Methylxanthines (caffeine, pentoxifylline and theophylline) decrease the
mutagenic effect of daunomycin, doxorubicin and mitoxantrone
Jacek Piosik, Anna Gwizdek-Wiśniewska, Katarzyna Ulanowska,
Jakub Ochociński, Agata Czyż and Grzegorz Węgrzyn
923
Modulation of ERK1/2 activity is crucial for sphingosine-induced death of
glioma C6 cells
Patryk Krzemiński
927
Does in vitro replicative senescence of human CD8+ cells reflect the phenotypic changes observed during in vivo ageing?
Agnieszka Brzezinska
931
Role of NAD(P)H : quinone oxidoreductase (NQO1) in apoptosis induction
by aziridinylbenzoquinones RH1 and MeDZQ
Aušra Nemeikaitė-Čėnienė, Aldona Dringelienė, Jonas Šarlauskas
and Narimantas Čėnas
937
Isolation and expression pa�ern of RGS21 gene, a novel RGS member
Xin Li, Lei Chen, Chaoneng Ji, Bing Liu, Jiefeng Gu, Jian Xu , Xianqiong Zou,
Shaohua Gu and Yumin Mao
943
Different properties of four molecular forms of protein kinase CK2 from
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Katarzyna Domańska, Rafał Zieliński, Konrad Kubiński, Ewa Sajnaga,
Maciej Masłyk, Maria Bretner and Ryszard Szyszka
947
The effect of new non-cross resistant antitumour agents on the energy state
of human erythrocytes
Robert Nowak, Irena Baranowska-Bosiacka, Barbara Stefańska,
Bogusław Machaliński, Alina J. Hłyńczak and Jolanta Tarasiuk
953
Index of Authors
Adamczyk AA
Akbas SH
Alejska M
Al-Nedawi KNI
Azmi SNH
Baranowska-Bosiacka I
Bełtowski J
Borkowska E
Bretner M
Brzezinska A
Buczko W
Caro J
Čėnas N
Chabielska E
Chen L
Ciborowski M
Czyż A
Domańska K
Dringelienė A
Ekonomiuk D
Esumi H
Figlerowicz M
Farriol M
García-Cánovas F
García-Moreno M
Goździcka-Józefiak A
Gu J
Gu S
Gwizdek-Wiśniewska A
Havsteen BH
Hitomi Y
Hłyńczak AJ
Jamroz-Wiśniewska A
Jaśkiewicz E
Jedynak A
Jesko H
Ji Ch
Kambayashi Y
Kielbasinski M
Knížek J
909
897
833
849
915
953
803
803
947
931
849
881
937
849
943
811
923
947
937
741
881
833
845
765
765
823
943
943
923
765
903
953
803
863
863
909
943
903
741
889
Kocbuch K
Kolinski A
Komisarenko SV
Krzemiński P
Kubiński K
Kur J
Lechward K
Li H
Li X
Liu B
Liu L
Liu M
Liu Z
Ma L
Machaliński B
Malinowska N
Mao Y
Marciniak A
Masłyk M
Minchenko DO
Minchenko OH
Molina-Alarcón M
Nakano M
Nemeikaitė-Čėnienė A
Nowak R
Ochociński J
Ogino K
Ogura T
Olejnik AK
Opentanova IL
Orta X
Ozben T
Pado R
Pawelczyk T
Pawlowska Z
Pawłowska-Ćwięk L
Pietrowska M
Piosik J
Pladzyk R
Podgorska M
749
741
881
927
947
781
789
857
943
943
857
857
857
857
953
833
943
803
947
881
881
765
903
937
953
923
903
881
823
881
845
897
797
749
849
797
867
923
781
749
Psutka J
Rahman N
Řezáčová M
Sajnaga E
Šarlauskas J
Shibamori M
Skladanowski AC
Smagur A
Stefańska B
Stelmach H
Schmidt MT
Strosznajder RP
Strumiło S
Szala S
Szary J
Szemraj J
Szyszka R
Takekoshi S
Tarasiuk J
Tichý A
Timur M
Tomasiak M
Turkiewicz M
Tkacz-Stachowska K
Ulanowska K
Urbanowicz A
Valero E
Varón R
Vávrová J
Vokurková D
Wanarska M
Wang Y
Węgrzyn G
Widłak P
Xu J
Zhang S
Zieliński R
Zioło E
Zou X
889
915
889
947
937
903
789
875
953
811
823
909
759
875
875
849
947
903
953
889
897
811
781
789
923
833
765
765
889
889
781
857
923
867
943
857
947
863
943