Microenvironment of alginate-based microcapsules for cell culture and tissue engineering
Xiaobo Huang, Xiangyu Zhang, Xiaoguang Wang, Chan Wang, Bin Tang

Increases in GroES and GroEL from Lactobacillus acidophilus L-92 in response to a decrease in medium pH, and changes in cytokine release from splenocytes: Transcriptome and proteome analyses
Rumiko Kuwana, Naoyuki Yamamoto

Increased transcription of NOP15, involved in ribosome biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae, enhances the production yield of RNA as a source of nucleotide seasoning
Varesa Chuwattanakul, Minetaka Sugiyama, Fahmida Khatun, Kenta Kurata, Isao Tomita, Yoshinobu Kaneko, Satoshi Harashima

Indolepyruvate ferredoxin oxidoreductase: An oxygen-sensitive iron–sulfur enzyme from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus profundus
Yukiko Ozawa, Masood Ahmed Siddiqui, Yasufumi Takahashi, Akio Urushiyama, Daijiro Ohmori, Fumiyuki Yamakura, Fumio Arisaka, Takeo Imai

Cloning and sequencing of a gene encoding of aldehyde oxidase in Pseudomonas sp. AIU 362
Yasutaka Sasaki, Nobuyuki Urano, Michihiko Kataoka, Jun Ogawa, Akira Iwasaki, Junzo Hasegawa, Kimiyasu Isobe, Sakayu Shimizu

Characterization of a marine origin aerobic nitrifying–denitrifying bacterium
Hai-Yan Zheng, Ying Liu, Xi-Yan Gao, Guo-Min Ai, Li-Li Miao, Zhi-Pei Liu

Highlights
> An aerobic nitrifying–denitrifying strain was isolated from marine culture system. > Strain F6 was identified as a member of genus Marinobacter. > Both nitrate and nitrite could be served as denitrification substrate. > GC–MS and GC–IRMS revealed that N2O and N2 were emitted as denitrifying products.

A new carbon catabolite repression mutation of Escherichia coli, mlc∗, and its use for producing isobutanol
Nobutaka Nakashima, Tomohiro Tamura

Interplay of adaptive capabilities of Halomonas sp. AAD12 under salt stress
Selim Ceylan, Gulsah Yilan, Berna Sariyar Akbulut, Annarita Poli, Dilek Kazan

Carbon monoxide utilization of an extremely oligotrophic bacterium, Rhodococcus erythropolis N9T-4
Takanori Yano, Nobuyuki Yoshida, Hiroshi Takagi

Kitasetaline, a novel β-carboline alkaloid from Kitasatospora setae NBRC 14216T
Aiyada Aroonsri, Shigeru Kitani, Haruo Ikeda, Takuya Nihira

Bioelectrochemical regulation accelerates facultatively syntrophic proteolysis
Daisuke Sasaki, Kengo Sasaki, Masahiko Morita, Shin-ichi Hirano, Norio Matsumoto, Naoya Ohmura

Construction of hydrogen fermentation from garbage slurry using the membrane free bioelectrochemical system
Kengo Sasaki, Masahiko Morita, Norio Matsumoto, Daisuke Sasaki, Shin-ichi Hirano, Naoya Ohmura, Yasuo Igarashi

Quantitative analyses of the behavior of exogenously added bacteria during an acidulocomposting process
Takatoshi Suematsu, Satoshi Yamashita, Hisashi Hemmi, Ayaka Yoshinari, Takefumi Shimoyama, Toru Nakayama, Tokuzo Nishino

Effects of low-shear modeled microgravity on a microbial community filtered through a 0.2-μm filter and its potential application in screening for novel microorganisms
Hideki Aoyagi, Akiha Kuroda

Direct isopropanol production from cellobiose by engineered Escherichia coli using a synthetic pathway and a cell surface display system
Yuki Soma, Kentaro Inokuma, Tsutomu Tanaka, Chiaki Ogino, Akihiko Kondo, Masahiro Okamoto, Taizo Hanai

Metabolic profiling and identification of the genetic varieties and agricultural origin of Cnidium officinale and Ligusticum chuanxiong
Shizu Kobayashi, Saki Nagasawa, Yutaka Yamamoto, Kang Donghyo, Takeshi Bamba, Eiichiro Fukusaki

Formation of one-way-structured cultured neuronal networks in microfluidic devices combining with micropatterning techniques
Yuzo Takayama, Naoki Kotake, Tatsuya Haga, Takafumi Suzuki, Kunihiko Mabuchi

Cytotoxic activity to acute myeloid leukemia cells by Antp-TPR hybrid peptide targeting Hsp90
Tomohisa Horibe, Megumi Kawamoto, Masayuki Kohno, Koji Kawakami

Residual powders from Shochu distillation remnants induce apoptosis in human hepatoma cells via the caspase-independent pathway
Masahiro Ohgidani, Yuji Komizu, Koichi Goto, Ryuichi Ueoka

In vitro selection of bacteriophage promoters employing a terminally capped template DNA and a streptavidin-binding aptamer
Shoji Ohuchi

Regulated patterns of bacterial movements based on their secreted cellulose nanofibers interacting interfacially with ordered chitin templates
Tetsuo Kondo, Wakako Kasai, Masanobu Nojiri, Yukako Hishikawa, Eiji Togawa, Dwight Romanovicz, R. Malcolm Brown Jr.

Temperature effect on nitrogen removal performance and bacterial community in culture of marine anammox bacteria derived from sea-based waste disposal site "[J. Biosci. Bioeng. 113 (2012) 515–520]"
Yasunori Kawagoshi, Koichiro Fujisaki, Yuki Tomoshige, Kento Yamashiro, Qiaoyan Wei