RESEARCH PAPERS

GENETICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, AND GENE ENGINEERING

Identification of Salt-Inducible Peptide with Putative Kinase Activity in Halophilic Bacterium Virgibacillus halodenitrificans.
Mahmoud-Reza Rafiee, Ashrafaddin Sokhansanj, Mitra Yoosefi, and Mohammad-Ali Naghizadeh

ENZYMOLOGY, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, AND ENZYME TECHNOLOGY

Biochemical Characterization of Deblocking Aminopeptidase from Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus onnurineus NA1.
Hyun Sook Lee, Yona Cho, Yun Jae Kim, Kwanghyun Nam, Jung-Hyun Lee, and Sung Gyun Kang

Functional Immobilization of Recombinant Alkaline Phosphatases Bearing a Glutamyl Donor Substrate Peptide of Microbial Transglutaminase.
Noriho Kamiya, Satoshi Doi, Yusuke Tanaka, Hirofumi Ichinose, and Masahiro Goto

Characterization of N^α-Benzyloxycarbonyl-L-Lysine Oxidizing Enzyme from Rhodococcus sp. AIU Z-35-1.
Kimiyasu Isobe and Shouko Nagasawa

Purification and Molecular Cloning of an Intracellular 3-Hydroxybutyrate-Oligomer Hydrolase from Paucimonas lemoignei.
Keiichi Uchino, Yoko Katsumata, Tomoko Takeda, Hiroki Arai, Mari Shiraki, and Terumi Saito

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Nutritional Enrichment of Larval Fish Feed with Thraustochytrid Producing Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Xanthophylls.
Takashi Yamasaki, Tsunehiro Aki, Yuhsuke Mori, Takeki Yamamoto, Masami Shinozaki, Seiji Kawamoto, and Kazuhisa Ono

BREWING AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Elevated Expression of Genes under the Control of Stress Response Element (STRE) and Msn2p in an Ethanol-Tolerance Sake Yeast Kyokai No. 11.
Mamoru Watanabe, Kenichi Tamura, Jose Paolo Magbanua, Kaname Takano, Katsuhiko Kitamoto, Hiroshi Kitagaki, Takeshi Akao, and Hitoshi Shimoi

Mitochondrial Dynamics of Yeast during Sake Brewing.
Hiroshi Kitagaki and Hitoshi Shimoi

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Partial Nitrification of Ammonium-Rich Wastewater as Pretreatment for Anaerobic Ammonium Oxidation (Anammox) Using Membrane Aeration Bioreactor.
Yu-Jou Feng, Szu-Kung Tseng, Tsung-Hui Hsia, Chun-Ming Ho, and Wen-Po Chou

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Alginate-Loofa as Carrier Matrix for Ethanol Production.
Muenduen Phisalaphong, Rusdianto Budiraharjo, Phoowit Bangrak, Jirawan Mongkolkajit, and Savitree Limtong

Enhancement of the Activity of Renatured Lysozyme by Protein Disulfide Isomerase.
Daisuke Nohara, Hiroshi Hizikata, and Osamu Asami

Novel High-Efficient Butanol Production from Butyrate by Non-Growing Clostridium saccharoperbutylacetonicum N1-4 (ATCC 13564) with Methyl Viologen.
Yukihiro Tashiro, Hideaki Shinto, Miki Hayashi, Shun-ichi Baba, Genta Kobayashi, and Kenji Sonomoto

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Artificial Control of Transgene Expression in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Chloroplast Using the lac Regulation System from Escherichia coli.
Ko Kato, Takahiro Marui, Seitaro Kasai, and Astuhiko Shinmyo

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Mag-Seeding of Rat Bone Marrow Stromal Cells into Porous Hydroxyapatite Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering.
Kazunori Shimizu, Akira Ito, and Hiroyuki Honda

Observational Examination of Aggregation and Migration during Early Phase of Neurosphere Culture of Mouse Neural Stem Cells.
Hideki Mori, Toshika Fujitani, Yonehiro Kanemura, Masahiro Kino-oka, and Masahito Taya

METHODS

Development of High-Throughput Screening System by Single-Cell Reaction Using Microchamber Array Chip.
Takeshi Fukuda, Michiko Kato-Murai, Shin-ichiro Suye, and Mitsuyoshi Ueda

MISCELLANEOUS

Superoxide Counteracts Low-Density Lipoprotein-Induced Human Aortic Smooth Muscle Cell Proliferation.
Chi-Chao Yin, Tin-Kwang Lin, and Kuang-Tse Huang