Organization of the capsule biosynthesis gene locus of the oral streptococcus Streptococcus anginosus
Hiroyuki Tsunashima, Katsuhide Miyake, Makoto Motono, Shinji Iijima

The 24-bp consensus sequence responsible for regulation of the BphS1T1 two-component system in a hybrid promoter
Jun Shimodaira, Yuki Furusawa, Yuta Miyazawa, Daisuke Kasai, Keisuke Miyauchi, Eiji Masai, Masao Fukuda

Development and validation of an HPLC-based screening method to acquire polyhydroxyalkanoate synthase mutants with altered substrate specificity
Yoriko Watanabe, Yousuke Ichinomiya, Daisuke Shimada, Azusa Saika, Hideki Abe, Seiichi Taguchi, Takeharu Tsuge

Isolation of genes coding for chitin-degrading enzymes in the novel chitinolytic bacterium, Chitiniphilus shinanonensis, and characterization of a gene coding for a family 19 chitinase
Lanxiang Huang, Ewelina Garbulewska, Kazuaki Sato, Yuichi Kato, Masahiro Nogawa, Goro Taguchi, Makoto Shimosaka

Mutations to the active site of 3-ketoacyl-ACP synthase III (FabH) increase polyhydroxyalkanoate biosynthesis in transgenic Escherichia coli
Alexander P. Mueller, Christopher T. Nomura

Fibrinolytic enzyme from newly isolated marine bacterium Bacillus subtilis ICTF-1: Media optimization, purification and characterization
Prafulla M. Mahajan, Shubhada Nayak, Smita S. Lele

Mutations to create thermostable reverse transcriptase with bacterial family A DNA polymerase from Thermotoga petrophila K4
Sotaro Sano, Yosuke Yamada, Tomoki Shinkawa, Satoru Kato, Takashi Okada, Hiroki Higashibata, Shinsuke Fujiwara

Interaction of modified tail-anchored proteins with liposomes: Effect of extensions of hydrophilic segment at the COOH-terminus of holo-cytochromes b⁵
Yoichi Sakamoto, Masahiro Miura, Fusako Takeuchi, Sam-Yong Park, Motonari Tsubaki

Intracellular co-expression of Vitreoscilla hemoglobin enhances cell performance and β-galactosidase production in Pichia pastoris
Jyh-Ming Wu, Wei-Chang Fu

Visual expression analysis of the responses of the alternative oxidase gene (aox1) to heat shock, oxidative, and osmotic stresses in conidia of citric acid-producing Aspergillus niger
Yuki Honda, Takasumi Hattori, Kohtaro Kirimura

Changes in the gene expression profile of Acetobacter aceti during growth on ethanol
Kenta Sakurai, Hiroyuki Arai, Masaharu Ishii, Yasuo Igarashi

Development of a heat-processing method for koji to enhance its antioxidant activity
Kayu Okutsu, Yumiko Yoshizaki, Kazunori Takamine, Hisanori Tamaki, Kiyoshi Ito, Yoshihiro Sameshima

Effect of temperature on the stability of various peptidases during peptide-enriched soy sauce fermentation
Takeharu Nakahara, Hitomi Yamaguchi, Riichiro Uchida

Metabolic engineering of hydrophobic Rhodococcus opacus for biodesulfurization in oil–water biphasic reaction mixtures
Hideo Kawaguchi, Hajime Kobayashi, Kozo Sato

Hexavalent chromium reduction by an actinobacterium Flexivirga alba ST13^T in the family Dermacoccaceae
Tomoyasu Sugiyama, Hironori Sugito, Kho Mamiya, Yoshinori Suzuki, Katsuhiko Ando, Toshihiko Ohnuki

Use of poly(ether-block-amide) in pervaporation coupling with a fermentor to enhance butanol production in the cultivation of Clostridium acetobutylicum
Hong-Wei Yen, Shang-Fu Lin, I-Kuan Yang

Evaluation of Indian sacred tree Crataeva magna (Lour.) DC. for antioxidant activity and inhibition of key enzymes relevant to hyperglycemia
Nataraj Loganayaki, Sellamuthu Manian

Accumulative gene integration into a pre-determined site using Cre/loxP
Hirokazu Obayashi, Yoshinori Kawabe, Hirokatsu Makitsubo, Ryoko Watanabe, Yujiro Kameyama, Shuohao Huang, Yuta Takenouchi, Akira Ito, Masamichi Kamihira

Effects of mixed feeder cells on the expansion of CD34⁺ cells
Yong-Soo Choi, Dae-Seog Lim, Sang-Min Lim, Dong-Il Kim

Improvement of neuronal cell adhesiveness on parylene with oxygen plasma treatment
Takayuki Hoshino, Itsuro Saito, Reo Kometani, Kazuyuki Samejima, Shinji Matsui, Takafumi Suzuki, Kunihiko Mabuchi, Yasuhiro X. Kato

On-line carbon balance of yeast fermentations using miniaturized optical sensors
Thomas Beuermann, Dominik Egly, Daniel Geoerg, Kerris Isolde Klug, Winfried Storhas, Frank-Juergen Methner

Simplified preparation of crude and functional coagulogen by thermal inactivation of serine proteases in Limulus amebocyte lysate and its application for rapid endotoxin determination
Katsumi Yabusaki, Hideki Aoyagi

Application of electrospray ionization ion trap/time-of-flight mass spectrometry for chemically-synthesized small RNAs
Yoshihiro Izumi, Shin Takimura, Shinichi Yamaguchi, Junko Iida, Takeshi Bamba, Eiichiro Fukusaki