RESEARCH PAPERS

GENETICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, AND GENE ENGINEERING

Expression of Rhodococcus opacus alkB Genes in Anhydrous Organic Solvents
Yuka Sameshima, Kohsuke Honda, Junichi Kato, Takeshi Omasa, and Hisao Ohtake

ENZYMOLOGY, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, AND ENZYME TECHNOLOGY

Protein Engineering on Biphenyl Dioxygenase for Conferring Activity to Convert 7-Hydroxyflavone and 5,7-Dihydroxyflavone (Chrysin)
Osamu Kagami, Kazutoshi Shindo, Akiko Kyojima, Kazuyo Takeda, Hiroshi Ikenaga, Kensuke Furukawa, and Norihiko Misawa

Novel Catalytic Activity of Nitrile Hydratase from Rhodococcus sp. N771
Kayoko Taniguchi, Kensuke Murata, Yoshihiko Murakami, Shunya Takahashi, Takemichi Nakamura, Koichi Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Koshino, Naoshi Dohmae, Masafumi Yohda, Takuji Hirose, Mizuo Maeda, and Masafumi Odaka

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Lactose Enhances Cellulase Production by the Filamentous Fungus Acremonium cellulolyticus
Xu Fang, Shinichi Yano, Hiroyuki Inoue, and Shigeki Sawayama

Investigations of Saccharothrix algeriensis Growth on Synthetic Media
Caroline Strub, Cedric Brandam, Xuan Meyer, and Ahmed Lebrihi

Simple Enrichment and Independent Cultures to Expand Bacterial Community Analysis from Gedongsongo Hot Spring
Agustina Lulustyaningati Nurul Aminin, Fida Madayanti Warganegara, Pingkan Aditiawati, and Akhmaloka

BREWING AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Chemical Composition and Bioactivity Changes in Stale Rice after Fermentation with Cordyceps sinensis
Zhenya Zhang, Zhongfang Lei, Yun Lu, Zhongzhi Lu, and Ye Chen

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Applicability of Random Cloning Method to Analyze Microbial Community in Full-Scale Anaerobic Digesters
JiHoon Cheon, Taira Hidaka, Shuichi Mori, Hiromoto Koshikawa, and Hiroshi Tsuno

Enzymatic Saccharification of Biologically Pretreated Pinus densiflora Using Enzymes from Brown Rot Fungi
Jae-Won Lee, Ho-Yong Kim, Bon-Wook Koo, Don-Ha Choi, Mi Kwon, and In-Gyu Choi

Effect of Temperature on Microbial Community of a Glucose-Degrading Methanogenic Consortium under Hyperthermophilic Chemostat Cultivation
Yue-Qin Tang, Toru Matsui, Shigeru Morimura, Xiao-Lei Wu, and Kenji Kida

Actinomycete Bacteria Isolated from the Sediments at Coastal and Offshore Area of Nagasaki Prefecture, Japan: Diversity and Biological Activity
Kozue Anzai, Takuji Nakashima, Natsumi Kuwahara, Rieko Suzuki, Yuko Ohfuku, Satoshi Takeshita, and Katsuhiko Ando

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Biological Detoxification of Waste House Wood Hydrolysate Using Ureibacillus thermosphaericus for Bioethanol Production
Naoyuki Okuda, Mayumi Soneura, Kazuaki Ninomiya, Yoshio Katakura, and Suteaki Shioya

High Efficiency Production of Astaxanthin in an Airlift Photobioreactor
Reza Ranjbar, Ryota Inoue, Tomohisa Katsuda, Hideki Yamaji, and Shigeo Katoh

Temperature Dependences of the Distribution Coefficients of Hydrophobic Solutes onto Porous Styrene Divinylbenzene Resin for the Eluent with a Low Methanol Content
Sho Kikuchi, Takashi Kobayashi, and Shuji Adachi

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Transient Gene Expression in Guard Cell Chloroplasts of Tobacco Using ArF Excimer Laser Microablation
Shin'ichiro Kajiyama, Benesh Joseph, Fumihide Inoue, Masaki Shimamura, Eiichiro Fukusaki, Kenichi Tomizawa, and Akio Kobayashi

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

CoCl₂ Inhibits Neural Differentiation of Retinoic Acid-Treated Embryoid Bodies
Jun-ichi Nonaka, Masahide Yoshikawa, Yukiteru Ouji, Ryosuke Matsuda, Fumihiko Nishimura, Shuichi Yamada, Hiroyuki Nakase, Kei Moriya, Mariko Nishiofuku, Shigeaki Ishizaka, and Toshisuke Sakaki

Decrease in Antithrombin III Fucosylation by Expressing GDP-fucose Transporter siRNA in Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells
Takeshi Omasa, Ryo Tanaka, Tomohiro Doi, Masayuki Ando, Yuka Kitamoto, Kohsuke Honda, Michimasa Kishimoto, and Hisao Ohtake

BIOINFORMATICS

A Motif Detection and Classification Method for Peptide Sequences Using Genetic Programming
Yasuyuki Tomita, Ryuji Kato, Mina Okochi, and Hiroyuki Honda