In the mid-1980s the European Journal of Biochemistry set out to publish review articles. 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.

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.