Essential involvement of the Bacillus subtilis ABC transporter, EcsB, in genetic transformation of purified DNA but not native DNA from protoplast lysates
Masaomi Takeno, Hisataka Taguchi, Takashi Akamatsu

Antioxidant treatment with quercetin ameliorates erectile dysfunction in streptozotocin-induced diabetic rats
Wei Zhang, Yong Wang, Zengyue Yang, Jianxin Qiu, Jianjun Ma, Zhiguang Zhao, Tingyi Bao

Magnetic purification of plasminogen from human plasma by specific lysine affinity
Chi-Hsien Liu, Wei-Chi Wu, Hsuan-Yu Lai, Hau-Yaun Hou

Cloning and characterization of β-agarase AgaYT from Flammeovirga yaeyamensis strain YT
Jing-Iong Yang, Lei-Chin Chen, Yuan-Yuan Shih, Chienyan Hsieh, Chien-Yen Chen, Wen-Ming Chen, Chien-Cheng Chen

Molecular biological researches of Kuro-Koji molds, their classification and safety
Osamu Yamada, Ryo Takara, Ryoko Hamada, Risa Hayashi, Masatoshi Tsukahara, Shigeaki Mikami

Analyses of peptides in sake mash: Forming a profile of bitter-tasting peptides
Yukiko Maeda, Masaki Okuda, Katsumi Hashizume, Midori Joyo, Shigeaki Mikami, Nami Goto-Yamamoto

Application of Fourier transform near-infrared spectroscopy to optimization of green tea steaming process conditions
Daiki Ono, Takeshi Bamba, Yuichi Oku, Tsutomu Yonetani, Eiichiro Fukusaki

Predication of Japanese green tea (Sen-cha) ranking by volatile profiling using gas chromatography mass spectrometry and multivariate analysis
Kanokwan Jumtee, Hajime Komura, Takeshi Bamba, Eiichiro Fukusaki

Amino acid components of lees in salmon fish sauce are tyrosine and phenylalanine
Taketo Ohmori, Yuta Mutaguchi, Shuji Yoshikawa, Katsumi Doi, Toshihisa Ohshima

Characterization of Pseudomonas stutzeri NT-I capable of removing soluble selenium from the aqueous phase under aerobic conditions
Masashi Kuroda, Emi Notaguchi, Akiko Sato, Masaya Yoshioka, Ai Hasegawa, Tsubasa Kagami, Takanobu Narita, Mitsuo Yamashita, Kazunari Sei, Satoshi Soda, Michihiko Ike

Growth factor/heparin-immobilized collagen gel system enhances viability of transplanted hepatocytes and induces angiogenesis
Yung-Te Hou, Hiroyuki Ijima, Takayuki Takei, Koei Kawakami

Enhanced contractile force generation by artificial skeletal muscle tissues using IGF-I gene-engineered myoblast cells
Masanori Sato, Akira Ito, Yoshinori Kawabe, Eiji Nagamori, Masamichi Kamihira

Evaluation of sericin/collagen membranes as prospective wound dressing biomaterial
Omer Akturk, Aysen Tezcaner, Hasan Bilgili, M. Salih Deveci, M. Rusen Gecit, Dilek Keskin

Characterization of spatial cell distribution in multilayer sheet of human keratinocytes through a stereoscopic cell imaging system
Mee-Hae Kim, Naoki Tsubakino, Shogo Kagita, Masahito Taya, Masahiro Kino-oka

Practical non-targeted gas chromatography/mass spectrometry-based metabolomics platform for metabolic phenotype analysis
Hiroshi Tsugawa, Takeshi Bamba, Masakazu Shinohara, Shin Nishiumi, Masaru Yoshida, Eiichiro Fukusaki

Emulsion culture: A miniaturized library screening system based on micro-droplets in an emulsified medium
Takaaki Kojima, Nobuhito Nagao, Daisuke Ando, Teruyo Ojima, Yasuaki Kawarasaki, Isao Kobayashi, Mitsutoshi Nakajima, Hideo Nakano

Detecting weak protein–protein interactions by modified far-western blotting
Yuya Sato, Masafumi Kameya, Hiroyuki Arai, Masaharu Ishii, Yasuo Igarashi