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Recent Development of Anaerobic Digestion Processes for Energy Recovery from Wastes.
Naomichi Nishio and Yutaka Nakashimada

Inhibition of Rhizomucor miehei and Candida rugosa Lipases by D-Glucose in Esterification between L-Alanine and D-Glucose.
Bhandya R. Somashekar, Kenchaiah Lohith, Balaraman Manohar, and Soundar Divakar

Bacillus cereus Strain 10-L-2 Produces Two Arylamine N-Acetyltransferases That Transform 4-Phenylenediamine into 4-Aminoacetanilide.
Mulyono, Shinji Takenaka, Yasuhiro Sasano, Shuichiro Murakami, and Kenji Aoki

Effective Selection System for Experimental Evolution of Random Polypeptides Towards DNA-Binding Protein.
Toshihiro Nakashima, Hitoshi Toyota, Itaru Urabe, and Tetsuya Yomo

Function of Second Glucan Binding Site Including Tyrosines 54 and 101 in Thermus aquaticus Amylomaltase.
Kazutoshi Fujii, Hirotaka Minagawa, Yoshinobu Terada, Takeshi Takaha, Takashi Kuriki, Jiro Shimada, and Hiroki Kaneko

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Saccharomyces cerevisiae Mutant Displaying β-Glucans on Cell Surface.
Yumiko Sakai, Masayuki Azuma, Yuki Takada, Takashi Umeyama, Aki Kaneko, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Koichi Igarashi, and Hiroshi Ooshima

Purification and Characterization of Alcohol Dehydrogenase Reducing N-Benzyl-3-Pyrrolidinone from Geotrichum capitatum.
Keiko Yamada-Onodera, Masato Fukui, and Yoshiki Tani

Simultaneous Production of Glucoamylase and Acid-Stable α-Amylase Using Novel Submerged Culture of Aspergillus kawachii NBRC4308.
Hiroshi Shoji, Toshikazu Sugimoto, Kenji Hosoi, Kazunori Shibata, Masayuki Tanabe, and Katsuyuki Kawatsura

BREWING AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Influence of Heat Shock on Glycerol Production in Alcohol Fermentation.
Marin Berovic, Aleksandra Pivec, Tatjana Kosmerl, Mojmir Wondra, and Stefan Celan

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Production of Dye-Decolorizing Peroxidase (rDyP) from Complex Substrates by Repeated-Batch and Fed-Batch Cultures of Recombinant Aspergillus oryzae.
Mozaffar Shakeri, Yasushi Sugano, and Makoto Shoda

Screening and Characterization of Bacteria That Can Utilize Ammonium and Nitrate Ions Simultaneously under Controlled Cultural Conditions.
Qi Zhou, Shinji Takenaka, Shuichiro Murakami, Phisit Seesuriyachan, Ampin Kuntiya, and Kenji Aoki

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Thermostable ATP Regeneration System Using Polyphosphate Kinase from Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1 for D-Amino Acid Dipeptide Synthesis.
Masaru Sato, Yusuke Masuda, Kohtaro Kirimura, and Kuniki Kino

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Chemically Fixed Nurse Cells for Culturing Murine or Primate Embryonic Stem Cells.
Yoshihiro Ito, Makiko Kawamorita, Toshio Yamabe, Toru Kiyono, and Kanji Miyamoto

Possibility of Insulin-Producing Cells Derived from Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells for Diabetes Treatment.
Takahisa Ibii, Hideaki Shimada, Suguru Miura, Eisai Fukuma, Hideki Sato, and Hiroo Iwata

Response of Human Epithelial Cells to Culture Surfaces with Varied Roughnesses Prepared by Immobilizing Dendrimers with/without D-Glucose Display.
Mee-Hae Kim, Masahiro Kino-oka, Masaya Kawase, Kiyohito Yagi, and Masahito Taya

Expression of a Liver-Specific Function by a Hepatoblastoma Cell Line Cocultured with Three-Dimensional Endothelialized Tubes in Collagen Gels.
Takayuki Takei, Shinji Sakai, Hiroyuki Ijima, and Koei Kawakami