In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry set out to publish review articles. The enterprise proved successful, resulting in high-level reviews written by well-known scientists appearing in the Journal. The reviews represent emerging and rapidly growing fields of research in fundamental as well as applied areas of biochemistry, such as medicine, biotechnology, agriculture and nutrition. Novel methodological and technological approaches which stimulate biochemical research are also included. The authors of the reviews are explicitly asked to be critical, selective, evaluative and interdisciplinarily oriented. The reviews should encourage young scientists to think independently and creatively, and inform active investigators about the state of the art in a given field.

From anemia to cerebellar dysfunction A review of the ankyrin gene family

The Ets family of transcription factors
Advances in metallo-procarboxypeptidases Emerging details on the inhibition mechanism and on the activation process
RNA polymerase III Genes, factors and transcriptional specificity
Regulation of vertebrate homeobox-containing genes by morphogens
The glutamatergic nerve terminal
Mössbauer spectroscopy of metalloproteins and the use of Fourier transforms
Intermediate filaments: regulation of gene expression and assembly
Strategies of antioxidant defense
The peripheral cholecystokinin receptors
The anatomy of a kinase and the control of phosphate transfer
Gene regulation in rodent hepatocytes during development, differentiation and disease
Peptidylproline cis-trans-isomerases: immunophilins
Protein glycosylation-Structural and functional aspects
ATP synthesis in mitochondria
Control of sex determination in animals
The biochemistry of white and brown adipocytes analysed from a selection of proteins
Author index for EJB Reviews 1989-1993.