Maintenance of an undifferentiated state of human induced pluripotent stem cells through migration-dependent regulation of the balance between cell–cell and cell–substrate interactions
Mee-Hae Kim, Masahiro Kino-oka

Analyses of chicken sialyltransferases related to N-glycosylation
Yusuke Kojima, Akifumi Mizutani, Yuya Okuzaki, Ken-ichi Nishijima, Hidenori Kaneoka, Takako Sasamoto, Katsuhide Miyake, Shinji Iijima

Characterization of two amine oxidases from Aspergillus carbonarius AIU 205
Asami Sugawara, Daisuke Matsui, Miwa Yamada, Yasuhisa Asano, Kimiyasu Isobe

Characterization of the linoleic acid Δ9 hydratase catalyzing the first step of polyunsaturated fatty acid saturation metabolism in Lactobacillus plantarum AKU 1009a
Michiki Takeuchi, Shigenobu Kishino, Akiko Hirata, Si-Bum Park, Nahoko Kitamura, Jun Ogawa

Crystal structure of streptavidin mutant with low immunogenicity
Tatsuya Kawato, Eiichi Mizohata, Tomohiro Meshizuka, Hirofumi Doi, Takeshi Kawamura, Hiroyoshi Matsumura, Kyohei Yumura, Kouhei Tsumoto, Tatsuhiko Kodama, Tsuyoshi Inoue, Akira Sugiyama

Purification and characterization of a novel NADPH-dependent 2-aminoacetophenone reductase from Arthrobacter sulfureus
Guogang Zhao, Wanru Sun, Jianjun Wang

Production and application of a rare disaccharide using sucrose phosphorylase from Leuconostoc mesenteroides
Kenji Morimoto, Akihide Yoshihara, Toshio Furumoto, Goro Takata

Faster in vivo clearance of human embryonic kidney than Chinese hamster ovary cell derived protein: Role of glycan mediated clearance
Mengmeng Wang, Tetsuya Ishino, Alison Joyce, Amy Tam, Weili Duan, Laura Lin, William S. Somers, Ronald Kriz, Denise M. O'Hara

Change in the plasmid copy number in acetic acid Bacteria in response to growth phase and acetic acid Concentration
Naoki Akasaka, Wiwik Astuti, Yuri Ishii, Ryota Hidese, Hisao Sakoda, Shinsuke Fujiwara

Pichia anomala, a new species of yeast-like endosymbionts and its variation in small brown planthopper (Laodelphax striatellus)
Wei Cao, Zheng Ma, Yolanda H. Chen, Xiaoping Yu

Change in enzyme production by gradually drying culture substrate during solid-state fermentation
Kazunari Ito, Katsuya Gomi, Masahiro Kariyama, Tsuyoshi Miyake

Conductive iron oxides accelerate thermophilic methanogenesis from acetate and propionate
Chihaya Yamada, Souichiro Kato, Yoshiyuki Ueno, Masaharu Ishii, Yasuo Igarashi

Highlights

• The effects of iron oxides on thermophilic methanogenesis were examined.
• Conductive iron oxides facilitated methanogenic degradation of acetate and propionate.
• The bacterial population was greatly affected by conductive iron oxides.
• Promotion of interspecies electron transfer is the plausible mechanism.
  

Prospecting cold deserts of north western Himalayas for microbial diversity and plant growth promoting attributes
Ajar Nath Yadav, Shashwati Ghosh Sachan, Priyanka Verma, Anil Kumar Saxena

Lactic acid production from biomass-derived sugars via co-fermentation of Lactobacillus brevis and Lactobacillus plantarum
Yixing Zhang, Praveen V. Vadlani

Highlights

• Complete utilization of hexose and pentose sugars from different biomass.
• Lactic acid production was enhanced with co-culture fermentation.
• Significant by-products reduction (63%) was achieved by co-cultivation.
• Lactic acid productivity was increased when operating under SSF process.
• The novel co-culture fermentation system has enormous potential for scalability.
  

Effect of temperature shift on levels of acidic charge variants in IgG monoclonal antibodies in Chinese hamster ovary cell culture
Shohei Kishishita, Tomoko Nishikawa, Yasuharu Shinoda, Hiroaki Nagashima, Hiroshi Okamoto, Shinya Takuma, Hideki Aoyagi

Production of biodiesel from vegetable oil and microalgae by fatty acid extraction and enzymatic esterification
Beatriz Castillo López, Luis Esteban Cerdán, Alfonso Robles Medina, Elvira Navarro López, Lorena Martín Valverde, Estrella Hita Peña, Pedro A. González Moreno, Emilio Molina Grima

Highlights

• Biodiesel production from free fatty acids extracted from wet microalgal biomass.
• 92.6% yield was attained in soft conditions by lipase catalyzed esterification.
• Biodiesel is purer (78.6 %) than the produced by transesterification of lipids.
• The lipase is very stable in the esterification conditions.
• Enzymatic catalysis consumes less methanol and energy than acid catalysis.

Production of biomass and bioactive compounds from adventitious roots by optimization of culturing conditions of Eurycoma longifolia in balloon-type bubble bioreactor system
Tao Lulu, So-Young Park, Rusli Ibrahim, Kee-Yoeup Paek

Development of carboxymethyl cellulose nonwoven sheet as a novel hemostatic agent
Seiichi Ohta, Toru Nishiyama, Megumu Sakoda, Kyoko Machioka, Masaya Fuke, Shigetoshi Ichimura, Fuyuki Inagaki, Atsushi Shimizu, Kiyoshi Hasegawa, Norihiro Kokudo, Makoto Kaneko, Yutaka Yatomi, Taichi Ito

Microbial degradation of linear peptides by strain B-9 of Sphingosinicella and its application in peptide quantification using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry
Atsushi Miyachi, Fumio Kondo, Miki Kurita, Kiyomi Tsuji, Ken-ichi Harada