Substrate specificity of β-glucosidase from Gordonia terrae for ginsenosides and its application in the production of ginsenosides Rg3, Rg2, and Rh1 from ginseng root extract
Kyung-Chul Shin, Hye-Ji Lee, Deok-Kun Oh

Pepsin immobilization on an aldehyde-modified polymethacrylate monolith and its application for protein analysis
Wenjuan Han, Mika Yamauchi, Urara Hasegawa, Masanori Noda, Kiichi Fukui, Andre J. van der Vlies, Susumu Uchiyama, Hiroshi Uyama

Characterizing activities of eukaryotic-like protein kinases with atypical catalytic loop motifs from Myxococcus xanthus
Yoshio Kimura, Maho Urata, Reiko Okamoto

Cloning and heterologous expression of the ftfCNC-2(1) gene from Weissella confusa MBFCNC-2(1) as an extracellular active fructansucrase in Bacillus subtilis
Amarila Malik, Maria Tyas Hapsari, Iwao Ohtsu, Shu Ishikawa, Hiroshi Takagi

Lactobacillus acidophilus CP23 with weak immunomodulatory activity lacks anchoring structure for surface layer protein
Sae Yanagihara, Shinji Kato, Nobuhisa Ashida, Naoyuki Yamamoto

Stabilization of mini-chromosome segregation during mitotic growth by overexpression of YCR041W and its application to chromosome engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Yu Sasano, Kazuo Yamagishi, Marie Tanikawa, Toshimasa Nakazawa, Minetaka Sugiyama, Yoshinobu Kaneko, Satoshi Harashima

Awa1p on the cell surface of sake yeast inhibits biofilm formation and the co-aggregation between sake yeasts and Lactobacillus plantarum ML11-11
Satoru Hirayama, Masashi Shimizu, Noriko Tsuchiya, Soichi Furukawa, Daisuke Watanabe, Hitoshi Shimoi, Hiroshi Takagi, Hirokazu Ogihara, Yasushi Morinaga

Isolation of the stable strain Labrys sp. BK-8 for l(+)-tartaric acid production
Wenna Bao, Haifeng Pan, Zhenhong Zhang, Yongqing Cheng, Zhipeng Xie, Jianguo Zhang

Water-insoluble material from apple pomace makes changes in intracellular NAD+/NADH ratio and pyrophosphate content and stimulates fermentative production of hydrogen
Osamu Sato, Yuma Suzuki, Yuki Sato, Shinsuke Sasaki, Tomonori Sonoki

Production of itaconic acid in Escherichia coli expressing recombinant α-amylase using starch as substrate
Shusuke Okamoto, Taejun Chin, Keisuke Nagata, Tetsuya Takahashi, Hitomi Ohara, Yuji Aso

Microbial resolution of dl-glyceric acid for l-glyceric acid production with newly isolated bacterial strains
Shun Sato, Tomotake Morita, Tokuma Fukuoka, Dai Kitamoto, Hiroshi Habe

Effects of oral administration of tripeptides derived from type I collagen (collagen tripeptide) on atherosclerosis development in hypercholesterolemic rabbits
Lihua Tang, Yasuo Sakai, Yoshimichi Ueda, Shogo Katsuda

Effect of oxygen supply on Monascus pigments and citrinin production in submerged fermentation
Jian Yang, Qi Chen, Weiping Wang, Jiajun Hu, Chuan Hu

Bioprocess of Kosa bioaerosols: Effect of ultraviolet radiation on airborne bacteria within Kosa (Asian dust)
Fumihisa Kobayashi, Teruya Maki, Makiko Kakikawa, Maromu Yamada, Findya Puspitasari, Yasunobu Iwasaka

Growth of oleaginous Rhodotorula glutinis in an internal-loop airlift bioreactor by using lignocellulosic biomass hydrolysate as the carbon source
Hong-Wei Yen, Jung-Tzu Chang

Highlights

• LCB hydrolysate as a carbon source for the cultivation of oleaginous yeast.
• Oleic acid (C18:1) and linoleic acid (C18:2) were the predominant fatty acids.
• The airlift bioreactor at 2 vvm achieved the highest biomass growth.
• This low cost feedstock has the potential of being adopted for the production of β-carotene.
  

Optimization of isopropanol production by engineered cyanobacteria with a synthetic metabolic pathway
Yasutaka Hirokawa, Iwane Suzuki, Taizo Hanai

Quantitative analyses of the effect of silk fibroin/nano-hydroxyapatite composites on osteogenic differentiation of MG-63 human osteosarcoma cells
Linxue Lin, Runsong Hao, Wei Xiong, Jian Zhong

Effects of type IV collagen on myogenic characteristics of IGF-I gene-engineered myoblasts
Akira Ito, Masahiro Yamamoto, Kazushi Ikeda, Masanori Sato, Yoshinori Kawabe, Masamichi Kamihira

Development of cytotoxicity-sensitive human cells using overexpression of long non-coding RNAs
Hidenori Tani, Masaki Torimura

Highlights

• We developed an intelligent sensor of cytotoxicity for environmental stresses.
• Overexpression of lncRNAs sensitized human cells to cell death.
• Dual overexpression of lncRNAs enabled sensitization of cells to more stresses.
  

Controlled processing of a full-sized porcine liver to a decellularized matrix in 24 h
Nicola Elena Maria Bühler, Klaus Schulze-Osthoff, Alfred Königsrainer, Martin Schenk

Magnetically labeled feeder system for mouse pluripotent stem cell culture
Masanobu Horie, Akira Ito, Takeshi Maki, Yoshinori Kawabe, Masamichi Kamihira