Genetics, Molecular Biology, and Gene Engineering

Biological properties of loop-replaced mutants of Bacillus thuringiensis mosquitocidal Cry4Aa
Mohammad Tofazzal Hossain Howlader, Yasuhiro Kagawa, Hiroshi Sakai, Tohru Hayakawa

Enhancement of l-tryptophan 5-hydroxylation activity by structure-based modification of l-phenylalanine 4-hydroxylase from Chromobacterium violaceum
Kuniki Kino, Ryotaro Hara, Ai Nozawa

Screening, purification, and identification of the enzyme producing N-(l-α-l-aspartyl)-l-phenylalanine methyl ester from l-isoasparagine and l-phenylalanine methyl ester
Ikuo Kira, Yasuhisa Asano, Kenzo Yokozeki

Characterization of Lactobacillus spp. isolated from the feces of breast-feeding piglets
Il Jae Cho, Nam Keun Lee, Young Tae Hahm

Ethanol-tolerant Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains isolated under selective conditions by over-expression of a proofreading-deficient DNA polymerase δ
Hiroko Abe, Yasuko Fujita, Yuki Takaoka, Eri Kurita, Shuntaro Yano, Naotaka Tanaka, Ken-ichi Nakayama

Effect of moderate salinity stress treatment on the stimulation of proline uptake and growth in Escherichia coli CSH4 and its mutants under high salinity
Shinichi Nagata, Yaoqiang Wang, Hongyan Zhang, Hideaki Sasaki, Akinobu Oshima, Akio Ishida

Enzymatic degradation of fibroin fiber by a fibroinolytic enzyme of Brevibacillus thermoruber YAS-1
Yasunori Suzuki, Hiroshi Matsui, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Kunihiko Watanabe

Prevention of bacterial contamination using acetate-tolerant Schizosaccharomyces pombe during bioethanol production from molasses
Pramuan Saithong, Toshihide Nakamura, Jun Shima

Ecological study of lactic acid microbiota isolated from Tempranillo wines of Castilla-La Mancha
Pedro Miguel Izquierdo Can~as, Patricia Ruiz Pe'rez, Susana Sesen~a Prieto, Maria Llanos Palop Herreros

Cloning and characterization of a novel phytase from wastewater treatment yeast Hansenula fabianii J640 and expression in Pichia pastoris
Takashi Watanabe, Hiroko Ikeda, Kazuo Masaki, Tsutomu Fujii, Haruyuki Iefuji

Occurrence and persistence of indigenous transconjugants carrying conjugative plasmids in soil
Daisuke Inoue, Satoshi Soda, Hirofumi Tsutsui, Yuji Yamazaki, Katsushi Murashige, Kazunari Sei, Masanori Fujita, Michihiko Ike

Cell adhesion and tissue response to hydroxyapatite nanocrystal-coated poly(l-lactic acid) fabric
Hiroshi Yanagida, Masahiro Okada, Miwa Masuda, Mitsuki Ueki, Isao Narama, Satoshi Kitao, Yoshihisa Koyama, Tsutomu Furuzono, Kazuo Takakuda

Human beta defensin-3 engineered keratinocyte sheets constructed by a magnetic force-based tissue engineering technique
Akira Ito, Tetsuya Takahashi, Yoshinori Kawabe, Masamichi Kamihira

Induction of apoptotic cell death preferentially in reactive astrocytes by concanavalin A
Hideki Yoshida, Kaoru Nagai

A weighted sample size for microarray datasets that considers the variability of variance and multiplicity
Ki-Yeol Kim, Hyun Cheol Chung, Sun Young Rha

Campesin, a thermostable antifungal peptide with highly potent antipathogenic activities
Peng Lin, Jack Ho Wong, Lixin Xia, Tzi Bun Ng