GENETICS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY, AND GENE ENGINEERING

Identification of mutation sites on Δ12 desaturase genes from Mortierella alpina 1S-4 mutants
Eiji Sakuradani, Takahiro Abe, Kenji Matsumura, Akiko Tomi, and Sakayu Shimizu

ENZYMOLOGY, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, AND ENZYME TECHNOLOGY

Enhancement of over expression and chaperone assisted yield of folded recombinant aconitase in Escherichia coli in bioreactor cultures
Parul Gupta, Anand Ghosalkar, Saroj Mishra, and Tapan Kumar Chaudhuri

Production and characterization of alcohol oxidase from Penicillium purpurescens AIU 063
Kimiyasu Isobe, Toyofumi Takahashi, Jun Ogawa, Michihiko Kataoka, and Sakayu Shimizu

Purification and characterization of two DyP isozymes from Thanatephorus cucumeris Dec 1 specifically expressed in an air-membrane surface bioreactor
Takuya Shimokawa, Makoto Shoda, and Yasushi Sugano

Purification and characterization of a (S)-1-phenyl-1, 3-propanediol-producing enzyme from Williopsis saturnus var. mrakii AJ-5620
Ikuo Kira and Norimasa Onishi

MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

Streptococcus thermophilus produces exopolysaccharides including hyaluronic acid
Naoki Izawa, Tomoko Hanamizu, Ryoko Iizuka, Toshiro Sone, Harumi Mizukoshi, Kazumasa Kimura, and Katsuyoshi Chiba

Characterization of the C-terminal truncated form of amylopullulanase from Lactobacillus plantarum L137
Jong-Hyun Kim, Michihiro Sunako, Hisayo Ono, Yoshikatsu Murooka, Eiichiro Fukusaki, and Mitsuo Yamashita

ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Slurry bioreactor modeling using a dissimilatory arsenate-reducing bacterium for remediation of arsenic-contaminated soil
Satoshi Soda, Masaya Kanzaki, Shigeki Yamamuara, Masami Kashiwa, Masanori Fujita, and Michihiko Ike

Process optimization of biological hydrogen production from molasses by a newly isolated Clostridium butyricum W5
Xiaoyi Wang, and Bo Jin

Rhodococcus aetherivorans IAR1, a new bacterial strain synthesizing poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate) from toluene
Katsutoshi Hori, Atsushi Kobayashi, Hiroshi Ikeda, and Hajime Unno

Removal of Mn²⁺ from water by “aged” biofilter media: The role of catalytic oxides layers
Danladi Mahuta Sahabi, Minoru Takeda, Ichiro Suzuki, and Jun-ichi Koizumi

BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Enzymatic hydrolysis of cuttlefish (Sepia officinalis) and sardine (Sardina pilchardus) viscera using commercial proteases: Effects on lipid distribution and amino acid composition
Emna Soufi Kechaou, Justine Dumay, Claire Donnay-Moreno, Pascal Jaouen, Jean-Paul Gouygou, Jean-Pascal Berge, and Raja Ben Amar

PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY

Change in glycosylation pattern with extension of endoplasmic reticulum retention signal sequence of mouse antibody produced by suspension-cultured tobacco BY2 cells
Kazuhito Fujiyama, Ryo Misaki, Yohei Sakai, Takeshi Omasa, and Tatsuji Seki

Phytochelatins inhibit the metal-induced aggregation of α-crystallin
Yasuhisa Hori, Tomoaki Yoshikawa, Naoki Tsuji, Takeshi Bamba, Yoshikazu Aso, Motonori Kudou, Yoshiki Uchida, Masahiro Takagi, Kazuo Harada, and Kazumasa Hirata

CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Type II collagen-chondroitin sulfate-hyaluronan scaffold cross-linked by genipin for cartilage tissue engineering
Chih-Sheng Ko, Jui-Pin Huang, Chia-Wen Huang, and I-Ming Chu

Novel bench-top perfusion system improves functional performance of bioengineered heart muscle
Louise Hecker, Luda Khait, Desmond Radnoti, and Ravi Birla

Effect of lactoferrin-embedded collagen membrane on osteogenic differentiation of human osteoblast-like cells
Yoshiharu Takayama and Koko Mizumachi

Morphological regulation and aggregate formation of rabbit chondrocytes on dendrimer-immobilized surfaces with D-glucose display
Mee-Hae Kim, Masahiro Kino-oka, Yoshiki Morinaga, Yoshiko Sawada, Masaya Kawase, Kiyohito Yagi, and Masahito Taya

MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Enhancement of antibody production from a chicken B cell line DT40 by reducing Pax5 expression
Masaki Magari, Takahiro Aya, Mika Ikeda, Kagefumi Todo, Naoki Kanayama, and Hitoshi Ohmori

METHODS

Identification and validation of suitable reference genes for quantitative expression of xylA and xylE genes in Pseudomonas putida mt-2
Qing Chang, Takashi Amemiya, Jianbo Liu, Xiaojing Xu, Narasimmalu Rajendran, and Kiminori Itoh

MISCELLANEOUS

Identification of cyclophilin as a novel allergen from Platanus orientalis pollens by mass spectrometry
Nazanin Pazouki, Mojtaba Sankian, Priscilla T.Y. Leung, Taher Nejadsattari, Ramezan-Ali Khavari-Nejad, and Abdol-Reza Varasteh