■　REVIEWS

Functional Effects of Japanese Style Fermented Soy Sauce (Shoyu) and Its Components.
Shigehiro Kataoka

Bioreactor Design for Tissue Engineering.
Ralf Portner, Stephanie Nagel-Heyer, Christiane Goepfert, Peter Adamietz, and Norbert M. Meenen

Directed Evolution of Bacterial Alanine Racemases with Higher Expression Level.
Jiansong Ju, Haruo Misono, and Kouhei Ohnishi

Dibenzothiophene Desulfurizing Enzymes from Moderately Thermophilic Bacterium Bacillus subtilis WU-S2B: Purification, Characterization and Overexpression.
Takashi Ohshiro, Yoshitaka Ishii, Toshiyuki Matsubara, Koichi Ueda, Yoshikazu Izumi, Kuniki Kino, and Kohtaro Kirimura

Synthesis of Linoleoyl Disaccharides through Lipase-Catalyzed Condensation and Their Surface Activities.
Jie Chen, Yukitaka Kimura, and Shuji Adachi

Purification and Characterization of the Alcohol Dehydrogenase with a Broad Substrate Specificity Originated from 2-Phenylethanol-Assimilating Brevibacterium sp. KU 1309.
Jun-ichiro Hirano, Kenji Miyamoto, and Hiromichi Ohta

Active Lactonizing Lipase (LipL) Efficiently Overproduced by Pseudomonas Strains as Heterologous Expression Hosts.
Ken Omori, Junko Isoyama-Tanaka, Fumio Ihara, Yasuhiro Yamada, and Takuya Nihira

Hyper Expression of Kojibiose Phosphorylase Gene and Trehalose Phosphorylase Gene from Thermoanaerobacter brockii ATCC35047 in Bacillus subtilis and Selaginose Synthesis Utilizing Two Phosphorylases.
Takuo Yamamoto, Kazuhisa Mukai, Kazuhiko Maruta, Hikaru Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamashita, Tomoyuki Nishimoto, Michio Kubota, Hiroto Chaen, and Shigeharu Fukuda

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

A New Microbial Method for More Efficient Production of N^α-Benzyloxycarbonyl-L-Aminoadipate δ-Semialdehyde and N^α-Benzyloxycarbonyl-D-Aminoadipate δ-Semialdehyde.
Kimiyasu Isobe, Shouko Nagasawa, Keigo Tokuta, Akira Matuura, Takehiko Sakaguchi, and Norio Wakao

BREWING AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Production of L-Talitol from L-Psicose by Metschnikowia koreensis LA1 Isolated from Soy Sauce Mash.
Hiroyuki Sasahara and Ken Izumori

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Hydrogen and Ethanol Production from Glycerol-Containing Wastes Discharged after Biodiesel Manufacturing Process.
Takeshi Ito, Yutaka Nakashimada, Koichiro Senba, Tomoaki Matsui, and Naomichi Nishio

Performance of a Styrene-Degrading Biofilter Inoculated with Pseudomonas sp. SR-5.
Jong Hee Jang, Mitsuyo Hirai, and Makoto Shoda

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Fed-Batch Culture under Illumination with Blue Light Emitting Diodes (LEDs) for Astaxanthin Production by Haematococcus pluvialis.
Abdolmajid Lababpour, Kazumichi Shimahara, Keishi Hada, Yoshiaki Kyoui, Tomohisa Katsuda, and Shigeo Katoh

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Cell Microarray for Screening Feeder Cells for Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells.
Hironori Yamazoe and Hiroo Iwata

Effect of Bcl-2 Overexpression on Cell Cycle and Antibody Productivity in Chemostat Cultures of Myeloma NS0 Cells.
Beng Ti Tey and Mohamed Al-Rubeai

Patterning Cultured Cells by Visible Light Illumination with Photosensitizers.
Ryoji Waki, Sumiko Gamo, Masahiko Bessho, and Masayuki Hara

MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

O-Palmitoylcurdlan Sulfate (OPCurS)-Coated Liposomes for Oral Drug De-livery.
Chang-Moon Lee, Hyun-Chul Lee, and Ki-Young Lee

Therapeutic Use of Phage Cocktail for Controlling Escherichia coli O157:H7 in Gastrointestinal Tract of Mice.
Yasunori Tanji, Takuya Shimada, Hiroshi Fukudomi, Kazuhiko Miyanaga, Yutaka Nakai, and Hajime Unno

METHODS

Determination of Concentration and Binding Affinity of Antibody Fragments by Use of Surface Plasmon Resonance.
Yasufumi Kikuchi, Shinsuke Uno, Masahiko Nanami, Yasushi Yoshimura, Shin-ichiro Iida, Naoshi Fukushima, and Masayuki Tsuchiya