■　REVIEW

In Vitro Evolution of Proteins.
Tomoaki Matsuura and Tetsuya Yomo

Different Specificity of Two Types of Pseudomonas Lipases for C20 Fatty Acids with a Δ5 Unsaturated Double Bond and Their Application for Selective Concentration of Fatty Acids.
Yuzo Kojima, Eiji Sakuradani, and Sakayu Shimizu

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Characterization of Two 3-Hydroxybutyrate Dehydrogenases in Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate)-Degradable Bacterium, Ralstonia pickettii T1.
Masahiko Takanashi and Terumi Saito

High-Hydrostatic-Pressure Treatment Impairs Actin Cables and Budding in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Taketo Kawarai, Seisuke Arai, Soichi Furukawa, Hirokazu Ogihara, and Makari Yamasaki

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Open L-Lactic Acid Fermentation of Food Refuse Using Thermophilic Bacillus coagulans and Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization Analysis of Microflora.
Kenji Sakai and Yutaka Ezaki

Influence of Temperature on Growth of Legionella pneumophila Biofilm Determined by Precise Temperature Gradient Incubator.
Tadashi Konishi, Tetsu Yamashiro, Michio Koide, and Akira Nishizono

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Aerobic Culture of Propionibacterium freudenreichii ET-3 Can Increase Production Ratio of 1,4-Dihydroxy-2-Naphthoic Acid to Menaquinone.
Keisuke Furuichi, Ken-ichi Hojo, Yoshio Katakura, Kazuaki Ninomiya, and Suteaki Shioya

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Efficient Translation Destabilizes Transcripts in Chloroplasts of Chlamydomonas reinhardtii.
Ko Kato, Kiyohide Ishikura, Seitaro Kasai, and Atsuhiko Shinmyo

Evidence of Frequent Integration of Non-T-DNA Vector Backbone Sequences in Transgenic Strawberry Plant.
Samia Abdallah Abdal-Aziz, Fernando Pliego-Alfaro, Miguel A. Quesada, and Jose A. Mercado

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Activities of MC3T3-E1 Cells Cultured on γ-Irradiated Salmon Atelocollagen Scaffold.
Nobuhiro Nagai, Takafumi Anzawa, Yasuharu Satoh, Takeshi Suzuki, Kenji Tajima, and Masanobu Munekata

BIOINFORMATICS

Peptide Array-Based Interaction Assay of Solid-Bound Peptides and Anchorage-Dependant Cells and Its Effectiveness in Cell-Adhesive Peptide Design.
Ryuji Kato, Chiaki Kaga, Mitoshi Kunimatsu, Takeshi Kobayashi, and Hiroyuki Honda

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