Purification of polygalacturonase from solid-state cultures of Aspergillus carbonarius
Ekambaram Nakkeeran, Rangaswamy Subramanian, Sukumaran Umesh-Kumar

In vitro synthesis of high molecular weight rubber by Hevea small rubber particles
Porntip Rojruthai, Jitladda Tangpakdee Sakdapipanich, Seiji Takahashi, Lee Hyegin, Motoyoshi Noike, Tanetoshi Koyama, Yasuyuki Tanaka

Characterization of Aspergillus oryzae glycoside hydrolase family 43 β-xylosidase expressed in Escherichia coli
Satoshi Suzuki, Mari Fukuoka, Hikaru Ookuchi, Motoaki Sano, Kenji Ozeki, Emi Nagayoshi, Yukio Takii, Mayumi Matsushita, Sawaki Tada, Ken-Ichi Kusumoto, Yutaka Kashiwagi

Protection against diesel oil toxicity by sodium chloride-induced exopolysaccharides in Acinetobacter sp. strain DR1
Yoon-Suk Kang, Woojun Park

Enhanced heavy metal phytoextraction by Echinochloa crus-galli using root exudates
Sunghyun Kim, Hyewon Lim, Insook Lee

Partial nitrification treatment for high ammonium wastewater from magnesium ammonium phosphate process of methane fermentation digester liquor
Sen Qiao, Ryuichi Kanda, Takashi Nishiyama, Takao Fujii, Zafar Bhatti, Kenji Furukawa

Characterization of microorganisms at different landfill depths using carbon-utilization patterns and 16S rRNA gene based T-RFLP
Hiromi Sawamura, Masato Yamada, Kazuto Endo, Satoshi Soda, Tomonori Ishigaki, Michihiko Ike

Scale-up fermentation of echinocandin type antibiotic FR901379
Munekazu Kanda, Eiji Yamamoto, Akihiro Hayashi, Tetsuya Yabutani, Michio Yamashita, Hiroyuki Honda

Aβ/Cu-catalyzed oxidation of cholesterol in 1,2-dipalmitoyl phosphatidylcholine liposome membrane
Toshinori Shimanouchi, Makoto Tasaki, Huong Thi Vu, Haruyuki Ishii, Noriko Yoshimoto, Hiroshi Umakoshi, Ryoichi Kuboi

Favorable effect of very low initial KLa value on xylitol production from xylose by a self-isolated strain of Pichia guilliermondii
Yun-zhi Zou, Kai Qi, Xiang Chen, Xiao-ling Miao, Jian-Jiang Zhong

Monitoring growth and movement of Ralstonia solanacearum cells harboring plasmid pRSS12 derived from bacteriophage ^φRSS1
Makoto Fujie, Hirofumi Takamoto, Takeru Kawasaki, Akiko Fujiwara, Takashi Yamada

The impact of the overexpression of human UDP-galactose transporter gene hUGT1 in tobacco plants
Mohamed Farouk Mohamed Khalil, Hiroyuki Kajiura, Kazuhito Fujiyama, Kanae Koike, Nobuhiro Ishida, Nobukazu Tanaka

Effect of the sequence context of the AUG initiation codon on the rate of translation in dicotyledonous and monocotyledonous plant cells
Tadatoshi Sugio, Hideyuki Matsuura, Takeshi Matsui, Manabu Matsunaga, Tatsuya Nosho, Shigehiko Kanaya, Atsuhiko Shinmyo, Ko Kato

Micropatterning of single myotubes on a thermoresponsive culture surface using elastic stencil membranes for single-cell analysis
Kazunori Shimizu, Hideaki Fujita, Eiji Nagamori

Albumin production activity of primary rat hepatocytes is improved on type V collagen
Hiroyuki Ijima, Ryohei Ogata, Yusuke Murasawa, Pi-Chao Wang

Magnetic manipulation device for the optimization of cell processing conditions
Hiroshi Ito, Ryuji Kato, Kosuke Ino, Hiroyuki Honda

Lactobacillus-mediated RNA interference in nematode
Ai Kuwahara, Masashi Arita, Akira Kushiro, Yasuji Sakube, Masahiko Sisido, Takashi Ohtsuki

Droplet-based gene expression analysis using a device with magnetic force-based-droplet-handling system
Mina Okochi, Hiroyoshi Tsuchiya, Fumitaka Kumazawa, Mitsuhiro Shikida, Hiroyuki Honda

Visualizing "green oil" in live algal cells
Mark Scott Cooper, William Robert Hardin, Timothy Wayne Petersen, Rose Ann Cattolico

Quantification and improvement of error rate during ligase detection reaction
Harumi Ginya, Ryouhei Matsushita, Masafumi Yohda

Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize

Young Asian Biotechnologist Prize Nomination Form