Title

• Characterization of transcriptional regulatory signals with novel bioinformatics tools  
  Takashi Abe, Hideaki Sugawara, Shigehiko Kanaya, Yoko Kosaka and Toshimichi Ikemura

    1

• Biochemical and microscopic analyses of DNA conformations  
  Mikio Kato

    17

• Promotion of triplex formation under the physiological condition: A strategy for the artificial regulation of gene expression  
  Hidetaka Torigoe and Atsushi Maruyama

    27

• Latest on the nucleosome positioning sequence patterns  
  Edward N. Trifonov, Simon Kogan and Amir B. Cohanim

    43

• Periodic bent DNA: A functional component of genomic DNA and chromatin  
  Ryoiti Kiyama and Yuko Wada-Kiyama

    55

• Genetic information carried in DNA conformation and properties  
  Takashi Ohyama, Noriyuki Sumida, Jun-ichi Tanase, Shotaro Inoue and Takahiro Okabe

    71

• Chromatin alteration and gene expression control by alternative DNA structures  
  Nobuyuki Morohashi and Mitsuhiro Shimizu

    85

• Dynamic chromatin remodeling at the budding yeast PHO5 promoter  
  Jessica A. Kilgore, Scott A. Hoose, Archana Dhasarathy, Daniel W. Neef Walter J. Jessen and Michael P. Kladde

    101

• Molecular and physiological roles of histone chaperones  
  Mitsuru Okuwaki, Kensaku Murano, Kohsuke Kato and Kyosuke Nagata

    121

• From the view of histone complexes: A sketch of molecular players on the chromatin assembly events  
  Hideaki Tagami

    145

• The role of GAGA factor-FACT complex in the maintenance of gene expression  
  Takahiro Nakayama, Tsukasa Shimojima and Susumu Hirose

    159

• Functional analysis of Polycomb group genes in zebrafish and medaka development  
  Toru Higashinakagawa

    167

• Nuclear actin-related proteins involved in the organization of euchromatin and heterochromatin  
  Masahiko Harata, Eri Ohfuchi and Yukako Oma

    181

• Involvement of nuclear matrix and chromatin loop formation in the function of insulators  
  Naoaki Sakamoto, Takashi Yamamoto and Koji Akasaka

    193

• Structural and biochemical analyses of human centromere proteins A and B  
  Yoshinori Tanaka and Hitoshi Kurumizaka

    207

• Centromere function and chromosome instability  
  Kinya Yoda and Takeshi Tomonaga

    219

• Molecular mechanism for kinetochore assembly in vertebrate cells  
  Tetsuya Hori, Masahiro Okada and Tatsuo Fukagawa

    237