REVIEW

Stoichiometric Modelling of Cell Metabolism
Francisco Llaneras and Jesus Pico

RESEARCH PAPERS

ENZYMOLOGY, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, AND ENZYME TECHNOLOGY

Inhibition of RuBisCO Cloned from Thermosynechococcus vulcanus and Expressed in Escherichia coli with Compounds Predicted by Molecular Operation Environment (MOE)
Toshio Iwaki, Kazunori Shiota, Khaled Al-Taweel, Daisuke Kobayashi, Atsushi Kobayashi, Kensaku Suzuki, Toshifumi Yui, and Akira Wadano

Transient Cell Proliferation with Polyethylenimine-Cationized N-Terminal Domain of Simian Virus 40 Large T-Antigen
Hitoshi Murata, Junichiro Futami, Midori Kitazoe, Megumi Kosaka, Hiroko Tada, Masaharu Seno, and Hidenori Yamada

Lipase-Catalyzed Butanolysis of Triolein in Ionic Liquid and Selective Extraction of Product Using Supercritical Carbon Dioxide
Osato Miyawaki and Michiko Tatsuno

Screening and Investigation of Dye Decolorization Activities of Basidiomycetes
Kouichi Nozaki, Chee Hai Beh, Masahiro Mizuno, Tetsuhiro Isobe, Masahiro Shiroishi, Takahisa Kanda, and Yoshihiko Amano

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Changes in Enzyme Activities at the Pyruvate Node in Glutamate-Overproducing Corynebacterium glutamicum
Takuo Hasegawa, Ken-ichi Hashimoto, Hisashi Kawasaki, and Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu

Formation of Filamentous Appendages by Acinetobacter sp. Tol 5 for Adhering to Solid Surfaces
Shun'ichi Ishii, Shunsuke Miyata, Yasuaki Hotta, Koji Yamamoto, Hajime Unno, and Katsutoshi Hori

Expression of Alternative Oxidase Gene (aox1) at the Stage of Single-Cell Conidium in Citric Acid-Producing Aspergillus niger
Takasumi Hattori, Yuki Honda, Kuniki Kino, and Kohtaro Kirimura

BREWING AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Microbiological Quality of Fermented Milk Produced by Repeated-Batch Culture
Kiyohiko Nakasaki, Mitsunori Yanagisawa, and Koji Kobayashi

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Comparison of Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion Characteristics between Single-Phase and Two-Phase Systems for Kitchen Garbage Treatment
YongJin Park, Feng Hong, JiHoon Cheon, Taira Hidaka, and Hiroshi Tsuno

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Preferential Translation Mediated by Hsp81-3 5'-UTR during Heat Shock Involves Ribosome Entry at the 5'-end Rather than an Internal Site in Arabidopsis Suspension Cells
Hideyuki Matsuura, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, and Ko Kato

Improvement of Transformation Efficiency by Bioactive-Beads-Mediated Gene Transfer Using DNA-Lipofectin Complex as Entrapped Genetic Material
Tomoko Murakawa, Shin'ichiro Kajiyama, Tomohiko Ikeuchi, Shigeki Kawakami, and Kiichi Fukui

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Relationship between Degree of Dynamic Morphological Change and Proliferative Potential of Murine Embryonic Stem Cells
Hideki Matsune, Daisuke Sakurai, Yasuro Niidome, Sakae Takenaka, and Masahiro Kishida

BIOINFORMATICS

Proposal of New Gene Filtering Method, BagPART, for Gene Expression Analysis with Small Sample
Takashi Kawamura, Hiro Takahashi, and Hiroyuki Honda

MISCELLANEOUS

Combination of Poly(ethylenimine) and Chitosan Induces High Gene Transfection Efficiency and Low Cytotoxicity
Qing-Qing Zhao, Jin-Liang Chen, Min Han, Wen-Quan Liang, Yasuhiko Tabata, and Jian-Qing Gao