Introductory Remarks. The Initiation ofEukaryotic DNA Replication and Its Control.- Regulation of DNA Replication in Model Systems.- Regulation of DNA Replication in Escherichia coli.- Protein-Primed Replication of Bacteriophage ø29 DNA.- Initiation of Bacteriophage ? DNA Replication in Vitro in a System Reconstituted with Purified Proteins.- Mechanisms Controlling Hepadnaviral Nucleocapsid Assembly and Replication.- Basic Elements of the Eukaryotic Replication Process.- Mammalian DNA Helicases, DNA Polymerases and DNA Polymerase Auxiliary Proteins.- Protein-DNA Interaction at Yeast Replication Origins: An Ars Consensus Binding Protein.- Eukaryotic Origins of DNA Replication.- Protein-Induced Alterations in DNA Structure at the dhfr Origin of Replication.- Mechanism and Control of Cellular DNA Replication.- Protein Kinases and Replication Control.- Regulation of the Mitotic CDC2 Protein Kinase.- Control of SV 40 DNA Replication by Protein Phosphorylation.- The Mitogen/Oncogene-Activated p70s6k: Its Role in the G0/G1 Transition.- Ubiquitin-Dependent Protein Degradation.- Transcriptional Control of Cell Proliferation.- Ternary Complex Formation at the Human cfos Serum Response Element.- Function and Regulation of DNA Replication Genes in Budding Yeast An Overview.- Functional Analysis of Recombinant mUBF, a Murine rDNA Transcription Initiation Factor Which is Phosphorylated by Casein Kinase II.- Antisense Strategies for Modulating the Repression of Cell Division.- Growth Suppressors and the Decision to Replicate the Genome.- Biological Phenotypes of Tumor-Derived Human p53 Mutants.- Association of Wild Type P-53 with Cell Differentiation: Induction of Pre-b Cell Maturation in Vitro.- The Growing Biological Scenario of Growth Arrest.