Shares vol. numbering with the other topical sections of Biochimica et biophysica acta: Bioenergetics; Biomembranes; Gene structure and expression; General subjects; Lipids and lipid metabolism (called Dec. 1998- : Molecular and cell biology of lipids); Molecular basis of disease; Molecular cell research; Protein structure and molecular enzymology (called July 2002- : Proteins and proteomics); and: Reviews on biomembranes (until May 2002)