REVIEW

Chemical Reactivities and Physical Effects in Comparison between Tocopherols and Tocotrienols: Physiological Significance and Prospects as Antioxidants.
Yasukazu Yoshida, Yoshiro Saito, Leslie Sargent Jones, and Yasushi Shigeri

RESEARCH PAPERS

GENETICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, AND GENE ENGINEERING

Monitoring of Phytopathogenic Ralstonia solanacearum Cells Using Green Fluorescent Protein-Expressing Plasmid Derived from Bacteriophage ΦRSS1.
Takeru Kawasaki, Hideki Satsuma, Makoto Fujie, Shoji Usami, and Takashi Yamada

Sequencing and Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-PCR) Analysis of Four Hydrogenase Gene Clusters from an Obligately Autotrophic Hydrogen-Oxidizing Bacterium, Hydrogenobacter thermophilus TK-6.
Yasufumi Ueda, Masahiro Yamamoto, Takashi Urasaki, Hiroyuki Arai, Masaharu Ishii, and Yasuo Igarashi

Genetic Organization of Nylon-Oligomer-Degrading Enzymes from Alkalophilic Bacterium, Agromyces sp. KY5R.
Kengo Yasuhira, Yuki Uedo, Masahiro Takeo, Dai-ichiro Kato, and Seiji Negoro

ENZYMOLOGY, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, AND ENZYME TECHNOLOGY

Improvement of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB)] Production in Corynebacterium glutamicum by Codon Optimization, Point Mutation and Gene Dosage of P(3HB) Biosynthetic Genes.
Sung-Jin Jo, Ken'ichiro Matsumoto, Chean Ring Leong, Toshihiko Ooi, and Seiichi Taguchi

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Application of Brown-Rot Basidiomycete Fomitopsis sp. IMER2 for Biological　Treatment of Black Liquor.
Zheng Xiong, Xiaoyu Zhang, Hongxun Wang, Fuying Ma, Li Li, and Wei Li

Effects of H₂O₂ under Low- and High-Aeration-Level Conditions on Growth and Catalase Activity in Exiguobacterium oxidotolerans T-2-2^T.
Fumihiko Takebe, Isao Hara, Hidetoshi Matsuyama, and Isao Yumoto

Molecular Monitoring of Bacterial Community Structure in Long-Aged Nukadoko: Pickling Bed of Fermented Rice Bran Dominated by Slow-Growing Lactobacilli.
Jiro Nakayama, Hiroyuki Hoshiko, Mizuki Fukuda, Hidetoshi Tanaka, Naoshige Sakamoto, Shigemitsu Tanaka, Kazutoshi Ohue, Kenji Sakai, and Kenji Sonomoto

Selection of Entomopathogenic Fungi for Aphid Control.
Van Hanh Vu, Suk Il Hong, and Keun Kim

Microbial Community that Catalyzes Partial Nitrification at Low Oxygen Atmosphere as Revealed by 16S rRNA and amoA Genes.
Hui-Ping Chuang, Hiroyuki Imachi, Madan Tandukar, Shuji Kawakami, Hideki Harada, and Akiyoshi Ohashi

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Anaerobic Biodegradation of Sterols Contained in Kraft Mill Effluents.
Gladys Vidal, Jose Becerra, Victor Hernandez, Jacqueline Decap, and Claudia R. Xavier

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Growth Medium Selection and Its Economic Impact on Plasmid DNA Production.
Michael K. Danquah and Gareth M. Forde

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Role of Jasmonic Acid in Alteration of Ginsenoside Heterogeneity in Elicited Cell Cultures of Panax notoginseng.
Feng-Xian Hu and Jian-Jiang Zhong

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Effect of Static Pressure on Intracellular pH of Adhesive Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells.
Masashi Fujiwara, Satoru Koizumi, and Mutsumi Takagi

BIOINFORMATICS

Possible Role of Extracellular Signal-Regulated Kinase Pathway in Regulation of Sox9 mRNA Expression in Chondrocytes under Hydrostatic Pressure.
Kensuke Mio, Jennifer Kirkham, and William A. Bonass

METHODS

Convenient Transformation of Anamorphic Basidiomycetous Yeasts Belonging to Genus Pseudozyma Induced by Electroporation.
Tomotake Morita, Hiroshi Habe, Tokuma Fukuoka, Tomohiro Imura, and Dai Kitamoto

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