VOL. 30 (No. 4)

December     2002

Contents

ARTICLES

HELICAL STRUCTURES OF HETEROCHIRAL ADENYLYL-(3'-5')-ADENOSINES AND THEIR ABILITY TO FORM TRIPLE HELIX WITH POLY(U)
Hidehito Urata, Makiko Go, Norihiko Ohmoto and Masao Akagi……………………………(173)     HTML      PDF(800k)

SPECIAL ISSUE

Preface to the Special Issue on "The origin of chirality and D-amino acids in biological world"
Noriko Fujii……………………………(182)     HTML      PDF(20k)

ASYMMETRIC AUTOCATALYSIS AND HOMOCHIRALITY OF BIOMOLECULES
Kenso Soai and Itaru Sato ……………………………(186)     HTML      PDF(280k)

A D-amino acid dehydrogenase and an alanine racemase in a hyperthermophile Pyrobaculum islandicum
Yoko Nagata, Mika Ito, Shigeru Toizaki, Takashi Sugizaki and Takaya Yamada ……………………………(199)     HTML      PDF(160k)

D-ASPARTATE IN THE MAMMALIAN BODY
Hiroshi Homma ……………………………(204)     HTML      PDF(136k)

WHAT IS THE PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTION OF D-AMINO-ACID OXIDASE?
Ryuichi Konno ……………………………(216)     HTML      PDF(280k)

PHYSIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS OF FREE D-ALANINE IN AQUATIC INVERTEBRATES
Hiroki Abe and Naoko Yoshikawa ……………………………(221)     HTML      PDF(240k)

REVIEW

Pilgrimage through the History of German Natural Science, University City Göttingen II
Kaoru Harada……………………………(229)     HTML(2.6MB)          PDF(2.9MB)     

NEWS AND VIEWS

Information from the 28th Annual Meeting of the SSOEL-Japan(Tentative Program)
Kimihiko Goto……………………………(255)      Information(Map, templates for abstract, time schedule and more)(PDF)
Tentative program(PDF)

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