REGULATION OF PROTEIN METABOLISM – M. Salinas and J. Burda -- CELL ADHESION MOLECULES OF THE IMMUNOGLOBULIN SUPERFAMILY IN THE NERVOUS SYSTEM – P. S. Walmod, M. V. Pedersen, V. Berezin, and E. Bock -- NEUROSECRETORY PROTEIN TRAFFICKING AND DENSE-CORE GRANULE BIOGENESIS IN NEUROENDOCRINE CELLS – T. Kim, M. Gondré-Lewis, I. Arnaoutova, N. Cawley, Y. Peng Loh -- PROTEIN SYNTHESIS AT SYNAPTIC SITES ON DENDRITES – O. Steward -- EMERGING FUNCTIONS OF THE "CA2+ BUFFERS" PARVALBUMIN, CALBINDIN D-28k AND CALRETININ IN THE BRAIN – B. Schwaller -- ACTIN, ACTIN-BINDING PROTEINS AND MYOSINS IN NERVOUS SYSTEM – R. Ishikawa -- TRANSGLUTAMINASE – A. J. L. Cooper, S.-Y. Kim -- PROTEIN ALTERATION IN MENTAL RETARDATION – M. A. Junaid, W. T. Brown -- PROTEIN SULFATION – S. Hemmerich -- PROTEIN FOLDING – A. Szilágyi, J. Kardos, S. Osváth, L. Barna, and P. Závodszky -- NEURODEGENERATIVE DEMENTIAS INVOLVING ABERRANT PROTEIN AGGREGATION – T. Kudo and M. Takeda -- POLYGLUTAMINE DISEASES – H. Okazawa -- THE PROTEASOME, PROTEIN AGGREGATION, AND NEURODEGENERATION – S. Wilk -- SERINE PROTEASES – J. Tóth, P. Medveczky, L. Szilágyi, and L. Gráf -- CALPAIN AS A TARGET FOR PREVENTION OF NEURONAL DEATH IN INJURIES AND DISEASES OF THE CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM – S. K. Ray, M. K. Guyton, E. A. Sribnick, and N. L. Banik -- SECRETASE PROCESSING OF AMYLOID PRECURSOR PROTEIN (APP) AND NEURODEGENERATION (APP) – N. Marks and M. J. Berg -- THE BIOLOGY OF CASPASES IN CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM TRAUMA – M. L. McEwen, J. E. Springer -- MICROGLIAL PROTEASES – H. Nakanishi -- MMPs AND OTHER MATRIX-DEGRADING METALLOPROTEINASES IN NEUROLOGICAL DISEASE – P. E. Gottschall and K. Conant -- PROTEASE INHIBITORS AND THEIR INVOLVEMENT IN NEUROLOGICAL DISORDERS – B. Tizon and E. Levy -- NEUROPEPTIDASES – K.-S. Hui -- UBIQUITINATION AND PROTEASOMAL PROTEIN DEGRADATION IN NEURONS – L. Klimaschewski -- PROTEASE ACTIVITY IN THE AGING BRAIN – D. A. Gray -- FROM CONCEPT TO POTENTIAL THERAPEUTICS: NEUROPROTECTIVE PEPTIDES – I. Gozes and J. Tiong.