PERSPECTIVES [2]

• Neural patterning: The role of Nkx genes in the ventral spinal cord

  Andrew P. McMahon
• Where the cell cycle and histones meet

  Mark E. Ewen

RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS [2]

• Dual role for Drosophila epidermal growth factor receptor signaling in early wing disc development

  Shu-Huei Wang ... Gerard Campbell
• Bub3 gene disruption in mice reveals essential mitotic spindle checkpoint function during early embryogenesis

  Paul Kalitsis ... K.H. Andy Choo

RESEARCH PAPERS [8]

• NPAT links cyclin E–Cdk2 to the regulation of replication-dependent histone gene transcription

  Jiyong Zhao ... Ed Harlow
• Cell cycle–regulated phosphorylation of p220 ^NPAT by cyclin E/Cdk2 in Cajal bodies promotes histone gene transcription

  Tianlin Ma ... J. Wade Harper
• The glucocorticoid receptor inhibits NFκB by interfering with serine-2 phosphorylation of the RNA polymerase II carboxy-terminal domain

  Robert M. Nissen, Keith R. Yamamoto
• Cell cycle– and cell growth–regulated proteolysis of mammalian CDC6 is dependent on APC–CDH1

  Birgit Otzen Petersen ... Kristian Helin
• A nonproteolytic function of the proteasome is required for the dissociation of Cdc2 and cyclin B at the end of M phase

  Atsuya Nishiyama ... Takeo Kishimoto
• p53-independent functions of the p19 ^ARF tumor suppressor

  Jason D. Weber ... Gerard P. Zambetti
• The AGAMOUS-LIKE 20 MADS domain protein integrates floral inductive pathways in Arabidopsis

  Horim Lee ... Ilha Lee
• HFR1 encodes an atypical bHLH protein that acts in phytochrome A signal transduction

  Craig D. Fairchild ... Peter H. Quail