Contents
Molecular Biology

Vol. 36, No. 2, 2002

Simultaneous English language translation of the journal is available from MAIK "Nauka / Interperiodica" (Russia). Distributed
worldwide by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. Molecular Biology ISSN 0026-8933.

R.B. Khesin 80th Anniversary Issue

Preface p. 141

The RNA Polymerase Structure–Function Study (1962–2001)

V. G. Nikiforov p. 143  abstract

RNA Polymerase As a Molecular Machine

A. S. Spirin p. 153  abstract

Horizontal Transfer of Mercury Resistance Genes in Environmental Bacterial Populations

S. Z. Mindlin, I. A. Bass, E. S. Bogdanova, Zh. M. Gorlenko, E. S. Kalyaeva^†,
M. A. Petrova, and V. G. Nikiforov p. 160  abstract

Bacterial Genomic Islands: Organization, Function, and Evolutionary Role

T. S. Ilyina and Yu. M. Romanova p. 171  abstract

Role of Double-Stranded RNA in Eukaryotic Gene Silencing

A. A. Aravin, M. S. Klenov, V. V. Vagin, Ya. M. Rozovskii, and V. A. Gvozdev p. 180  abstract

Chromatin Structure, Heterochromatin, and Transposable Genetic Elements:
Are These Teammates?

B. A. Leibovitch p. 189  abstract

Mobile Gene Cassettes and Integrons

N. P. Kovalevskaya p. 196  abstract

A Possible Role of Translation Ambiguity in Gene Evolution (A Hypothesis)

S. G. Inge-Vechtomov p. 202  abstract

New Insights into the Molecular Mechanisms of Evolution: Stress Increases Genetic Diversity

V. V. Velkov p. 209  abstract

Genome Instability in Picornaviruses

V. I. Agol p. 216  abstract

Reticulate Evolution of Parthenospecies of the Lacertidae Rock Lizards: Inheritance
of CLsat Tandem Repeats and Anonymous RAPD Markers

D. Chiobanu, I. A. Roudykh, N. L. Ryabinina, V. V. Grechko, D. A. Kramerov, and I. S. Darevsky p. 223  abstract

Biophysics of the DNA Molecule: A New Trend

M. D. Frank-Kamenetskii p. 232  abstract

Polymorphism of PNA–DNA Complexes

O. V. Krupnik, N. V. Fadeeva, and Yu. S. Lazurkin p. 236  abstract

Proteomic Code

E. N. Trifonov and I. N. Berezovsky p. 239  abstract

Accurate Diagnostics with the Use of Molecular Colonies

A. B. Chetverin and H. V. Chetverina p. 244  abstract

Development of Mammalian Somatic Cell Genetics

N. B. Varshaver p. 251  abstract

Genome Inconstancy by Roman B. Khesin in Terms of the Conceptual History
of Genetics

M. D. Golubovsky p. 259  abstract

Thinking of R.B. Khesin

S. M. Mirkin p. 267  abstract

Recollections

Yu. S. Lazurkin p. 280

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