REVIEW

Microbial Degradation of Polychlorinated Biphenyls: Biochemical and Molecular Features
Kensuke Furukawa and Hidehiko Fujihara

RESEARCH PAPERS

GENETICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, AND GENE ENGINEERING

Production of Recombinant Tumor Necrosis Factor Receptor/Fc Fusion Protein by Genetically Manipulated Chickens
Kenji Kyogoku, Kazuhiro Yoshida, Hiroyuki Watanabe, Takashi Yamashita, Yoshinori Kawabe, Makoto Motono, Ken-ichi Nishijima, Masamichi Kamihira, and Shinji Iijima

D-Allose Protects Against Endotoxemic Acute Renal Injury
Masaaki Ueki, Takehiko Asaga, Kousuke Chujo, Junichiro Ono, Yasuyuki Iwanaga, and Satoshi Taie

Production of Glycerol from Glucose by Coexpressing Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase and Glycerol-3-Phosphatase in Klebsiella pneumoniae
Yu Zheng, Li Zhao, Jianguo Zhang, Haiyi Zhang, Xingyuan Ma, and Dongzhi Wei

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Production of Glycolipid Biosurfactants, Mannosylerythritol Lipids, by Pseudozyma siamensis CBS 9960 and Their Interfacial Properties
Tomotake Morita, Masaaki Konishi, Tokuma Fukuoka, Tomohiro Imura, and Dai Kitamoto

Pediocin PA-1 Production during Repeated-Cycle Batch Culture of Immobilized Pediococcus acidilactici UL5 Cells
Karim Naghmouchi, Ismail Fliss, Djamel Drider, and Christophe Lacroix

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Identification of Novel Derivative of Helvolic Acid from Metarhizium anisopliae Grown in Medium with Insect Component
Si-Young Lee, Hiroshi Kinoshita, Fumio Ihara, Yasuhiro Igarashi, and Takuya Nihira

New Strategy for Enhancement of Microbial Viability in Simulated Gastric Conditions Based on Display of Starch-Binding Domain on Cell Surface
Shirin Tarahomjoo, Yoshio Katakura, and Suteaki Shioya

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Overexpression of 1-Deoxy-D-Xylulose-5-Phosphate Reductoisomerase Gene in Chloroplast Contributes to Increment of Isoprenoid Production
Tomohisa Hasunuma, Shinya Takeno, Shunsuke Hayashi, Mayumi Sendai, Takeshi Bamba, Satomi Yoshimura, Ken-ichi Tomizawa, Eiichiro Fukusaki, and Chikahiro Miyake

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Reconstruction of Cartilage Tissue Using Scaffold-Free Organoid Culture Technique
Yutaka Irie, Hiroshi Mizumoto, Shigeru Fujino, and Toshihisa Kajiwara

Application of Elastic Salmon Collagen Gel to Uniaxial Stretching Culture of Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells
Toshiyuki Kanayama, Nobuhiro Nagai, Kazuo Mori, and Masanobu Munekata

Cell Behavior Analysis to Evaluate Proliferative Potentials of Human Lymphocytes Expanded and Activated for Therapeutic Use
Norihiko Hata, Hidemasa Jinguji, Masahiro Kino-oka, and Masahito Taya

MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Epigenetic Disregulation Induces Cell Growth Retardation in Primary Cultured Glial Cells
Kaoru Nagai, Takamitsu Natori, Toru Nishino, and Fumiaki Kodaira

Potential Inhibitory Effects of D-Allose, a Rare Sugar, on Liver Preneoplastic Lesion Development in F344 Rat Medium-Term Bioassay
Masanao Yokohira, Kyoko Hosokawa, Keiko Yamakawa, Kousuke Saoo, Yoko Matsuda, Yu Zeng, Toshiya Kuno, and Katsumi Imaida

Biotransformation of β-Amyrin Acetate by Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Guan-e Yang, Zhaoming Zhang, Hongjun Bai, Jun Gong, Yufen Wang, Baozhen Li, and Jiankuan Li

BIOINFORMATICS

Effect of Sodium Hypochlorite on Zebrafish Swimming Behavior Estimated by Fractal Dimension Analysis
Kittiwann Nimkerdphol and Masahiro Nakagawa

METHODS

High Throughput and Exhaustive Analysis of Diverse Lipids by Using Supercritical Fluid Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry for Metabolomics
Takeshi Bamba, Naruto Shimonishi, Atsuki Matsubara, Kazumasa Hirata, Yoshihisa Nakazawa, Akio Kobayashi, and Eiichiro Fukusaki

Biotin-Containing Phospholipid Vesicle Layer Formed on Self-Assembled Monolayer of a Saccharide-Terminated Alkyl Disulfide for Surface Plasmon Resonance Biosensing
Yoshiko Ishizuka-Katsura, Tetsuichi Wazawa, Tadato Ban, Kenichi Morigaki, and Shigeru Aoyama

Effect of Addition of Tween 80 and Potassium Dihydrogenphosphate to Basal Medium on the Isolation of Marine Eukaryotes, Thraustochytrids
Yousuke Taoka, Naoki Nagano, Yuji Okita, Hitoshi Izumida, Shinichi Sugimoto, and Masahiro Hayashi

MISCELLANEOUS

Bicompartmental Device for Dynamic Cell Coculture: Design, Realisation and Preliminary Results
Gianni Ciofani, Antonio Migliore, Vittoria Raffa, Arianna Menciassi, and Paolo Dario

ERRATUM

Glucose Transporter Mediation Responsible for Morphological Changes of Human Epithelial Cells on Glucose-Displayed Surfaces
Mee-Hae Kim, Masahiro Kino-oka, Masaya Kawase, Kiyohito Yagi, and Masahito Taya