Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications

Editor-in-Chief: W.J. Lennarz State University of New York (SUNY) at Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY, USA, Editors: W. Baumeister Max Planck Institut (MPI) für Biochemie, Martinsried, Germany, E. Carafoli Università degli Studi di Padova, Padova, Italy, C.H. Chung Seoul National University (SNU), Seoul, South Korea, B. Halliwell National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore, C. Hidalgo Universidad de Chile, Santiago 7, Chile, J.D. Jamieson Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA, H. Jörnvall Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, C.B. Klee National Cancer Institute (NCI), Bethesda, MD, USA, G. Kroemer INSERM, Villejuif (Paris), France, M.D. Lane Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA, M. Muramatsu Saitama Medical School, Hidaka-Shi, Japan, D. Ng National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore, Singapore, S. Orrenius Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, J. Pouysségur Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Nice, France, K.T. Takatsu University of Toyama/Graduate School of Medicine, Toyama, Japan, N. Taniguchi RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, Japan, A. Tramontano Università di Roma "La Sapienza", Rome, Italy