Lactic-acid stress causes vacuolar fragmentation and impairs intracellular amino-acid homeostasis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Toshihiro Suzuki, Minetaka Sugiyama, Kenta Wakazono, Yoshinobu Kaneko, Satoshi Harashima

Nuclear localization of reporter genes activated by curved DNA
Koji Udagawa, Hajime Kimura, Hideyuki Tanabe, Takashi Ohyama

Lack of endoplasmic reticulum 1,2-α-mannosidase activity that trims N-glycan Man₉GlcNAc₂ to Man₈GlcNAc₂ isomer B in a manE gene disruptant of Aspergillus oryzae
Takeshi Akao, Akinori Yahara, Kazutoshi Sakamoto, Osamu Yamada, Osamu Akita, Takashi Yoshida

Determination of the ribosome-binding sequence and spacer length between binding site and initiation codon for efficient protein expression in Bifidobacterium longum 105-A
Jianlong He, Kouta Sakaguchi, Tohru Suzuki

Isolation and characterization of a soluble and thermostable phosphite dehydrogenase from Ralstonia sp. strain 4506
Ryuichi Hirota, Sho-taro Yamane, Tatsuya Fujibuchi, Kei Motomura, Takenori Ishida, Takeshi Ikeda, Akio Kuroda

Overexpression of the yeast transcription activator Msn2 confers furfural resistance and increases the initial fermentation rate in ethanol production
Yu Sasano, Daisuke Watanabe, Ken Ukibe, Tomomi Inai, Iwao Ohtsu, Hitoshi Shimoi, Hiroshi Takagi

Taxonomic characterization and metabolic analysis of the Halomonas sp. KM-1, a highly bioplastic poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)-producing bacterium
Yoshikazu Kawata, Lian-Hua Shi, Kazunori Kawasaki, Yasushi Shigeri

Enhancement of retinal production by supplementing the surfactant Span 80 using metabolically engineered Escherichia coli
Jae-Hee Lee, Jin-Geun Choi, Yeong-Su Kim, Kyoung-Rok Kim, Seon-Won Kim, Deok-Kun Oh

Mechanism of increased respiration in an H⁺-ATPase-defective mutant of Corynebacterium glutamicum
Kazunori Sawada, Yui Kato, Keita Imai, Liyuan Li, Masaru Wada, Kazunobu Matsushita, Atsushi Yokota

Isolation, characterization of melanin derived from Ophiocordyceps sinensis, an entomogenous fungus endemic to the Tibetan Plateau
Caihong Dong, Yijian Yao

Precise control of repeating unit composition in biodegradable poly(3-hydroxyalkanoate) polymers synthesized by Escherichia coli
Ryan C. Tappel, Qin Wang, Christopher T. Nomura

Mechanical damage to Escherichia coli cells in a model of amino-acid crystal fermentation
Satoshi Okutani, Takayoshi Iwai, Shintaro Iwatani, Kazuya Kondo, Tsuyoshi Osumi, Nobuharu Tsujimoto, Kiyoshi Matsuno

Immunosuppressive drug rapamycin restores sporulation competence in industrial yeasts
Nobushige Nakazawa, Seiko Niijima, Yukari Tanaka, Toshihiko Ito

Multi-locus genotyping of bottom fermenting yeasts by single nucleotide polymorphisms indicative of brewing characteristics
Shigehito Ikushima, Yoshiyuki Tateishi, Keiko Kanai, Emiko Shimada, Misa Tanaka, Tatsuji Ishiguro, Satoru Mizutani, Osamu Kobayashi

Deciphering simultaneous bioelectricity generation and dye decolorization using Proteus hauseri
Bor-Yann Chen, Yu-Min Wang, I-Son Ng, Shi-Qi Liu, Jhao-Yin Hung

Exploring new strains of dye-decolorizing bacteria
Jing-Long Han, I-Son Ng, Yanni Wang, Xuesong Zheng, Wen-Ming Chen, Chung-Chuan Hsueh, Shi-Qi Liu, Bor-Yann Chen

Temperature effect on nitrogen removal performance and bacterial community in culture of marine anammox bacteria derived from sea-based waste disposal site
Yasunori Kawagoshi, Koichiro Fujisaki, Yuki Tomoshige, Kento Yamashiro, Yanwei Qiao

Construction of membrane-anchoring fusion protein of Thermococcus kodakaraensis glycerol kinase and its application to repetitive batchwise reactions
Elvi Restiawaty, Kohsuke Honda, Kenji Okano, Ryuichi Hirota, Takeshi Omasa, Akio Kuroda, Hisao Ohtake

Understanding the mechanism of heat stress tolerance caused by high trehalose accumulation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae using DNA microarray
Siraje Arif Mahmud, Takashi Hirasawa, Chikara Furusawa, Katsunori Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Shimizu

Comprehensive evaluation of leukocyte lineage derived from human hematopoietic cells in humanized mice
Masayuki Takahashi, Noriyuki Tsujimura, Kensuke Otsuka, Tomoko Yoshino, Tetsushi Mori, Tadashi Matsunaga, Satoshi Nakasono

Prophylactic effect of Lactobacillus oral vaccine expressing a Japanese cedar pollen allergen
Kayo Ohkouchi, Seiji Kawamoto, Kenji Tatsugawa, Noboru Yoshikawa, Yuki Takaoka, Sayumi Miyauchi, Tsunehiro Aki, Mitsuo Yamashita, Yoshikatsu Murooka, Kazuhisa Ono

Efficient purification of native recombinant proteins using proteases immobilized on cellulose
Dongming Lan, Yan Tai, Yanfei Shen, Fanghua Wang, Bo Yang, Yonghua Wang

Intramolecular acyl migration and enzymatic hydrolysis of 2-O-α-d-glucopyranosyl-6-O-(2-pentylheptanoyl)-L-ascorbic acid
Akihiro Tai, Sayoko Ikeda, Futoshi Yazama, Hideyuki Ito