Molecular and Structural Biology of Bleomycin and Its Resistance Determinants.
Masanori Sugiyama and Takanori Kumagai

Cloning and Expression of Aspergillus niger icdA Gene Encoding Mitochondrial NADP⁺-Specific Isocitrate Dehydrogenase.
Kohtaro Kimura, Masashi Yoda, Masaki Kumatani, Yoshitaka Ishii, Kuniki Kino, and Shoji Usami

Reduction of Protein Degradation by Use of Protease-Deficient Mutants in Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System of Escherichia coli.
Xiuping Jiang, Kazuyo Oohira, Yugo Iwasaki, Hideo Nakano, Shigeyuki Ichihara, and Tsuneo Yamane

Genome Mapping and Gene Analysis of Antheraea pernyi Nucleopolyhedrovirus for Improvement of Baculovirus Expression Vector System.
Yuan Jiao Huang, Jun Kobayashi, and Tetsuro Yoshimura

Purification and Properties of Betaine Aldehyde Dehydrogenase with High Affinity for NADP from Arthrobacter globiformis.
Nobuhiro Mori, Sayuri Fuchigami, and Yutaka Kitamoto

Role of Repetitive Nine-Residue Sequence Motifs in Secretion, Enzymatic Activity, and Protein Conformation of a Family I.3 Lipase.
Hyun-Ju Kwon, Mitsuru Haruki, Masaaki Morikawa, Kenji Omori, and Shigenori Kanaya

Importance of an N-Terminal Extension in Ribonuclease HII from Bacillus stearothermophilus for Substrate Binding.
Ayumu Muroya, Rikita Nakano, Naoto Ohtani, Mitsuru Haruki, Masaaki Morikawa, and Shigenori Kanaya

Concomitant Extracellular Accumulation of Alpha-Keto Acids and Higher Alcohols by Zygosaccharomyces rouxii.
Catrinus Van Der Sluis, Yovita S. P. Rahardjo, Bart A. Smit, Pieter J. Kroon, Sybe Hartmans, Eelko G. Ter Schure, Johannes Tramper, and Rene H. Wijffels

Oxygen Addition and Sterol Synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during Enological Fermentation.
Caroline Fornairon-Bonnefond, Veronique Demaretz, Eric Rosenfeld, and Jean-Michel Salmon

A Novel Polysaccharide Involved in the Pellicle Formation of Acetobacter aceti.
Somporn Moonmangmee, Koji Kawabata, Shuhei Tanaka, Hirohide, Toyama, Osao Adachi, and Kazunobu Matsushita

Biosynthesis of p-Anisaldehyde by the White-Rot Basidiomycete Pleurotus ostreatus.
Kenji Okamoto, Shinji Narayama, Akihisa Katsuo, Ichirou Shigematsu, and Hideshi Yanase

Analyses of Substrate Specificity of the Desulfurizing Bacterium Mycobacterium sp. G3.
Hideki Okada, Nobuhiko Nomura, Tadaatsu Nakahara, and Kenji Maruhashi

Acetylacetoin Synthase as a Marker Enzyme for Detecting the 2,3-Butanediol Cycle.
Sadaharu Ui, Takeshi Hosaka, Kimiya Mizutani, Takashi Ohtsuki, and Akio Mimura

Difference in Transcription Levels of cap Genes for γ-Polyglutamic Acid Production between Bacillus subtilis IFO16449 and Marburg 168.
Yuji Urushibata, Shinji Tokuyama, and Yasutaka Tahara

Different Missense Mutations in PDR1 and PDR3 Genes from Clotrimazole-Resistant Sake Yeast are Responsible for Pleiotropic Drug Resistance and Improved Fermentative Activity.
Hiroko Mizoguchi, Takahiro Yamauchi, Mutsumi Watanabe, Hiroshi Yamanaka, Akira Nishimura, and Hideo Hanamoto

Enhancement of Hydrogen Production by a Photosynthetic Bacterium Mutant with Reduced Pigment.
Toshihiko Kondo, Masayasu Arakawa, Toshiro Hirai, Tatsuki Wakayama, Masayuki Hara, and Jun Miyake

Effects of Gas Flow Rate, Inlet Concentration and Temperature on Biofiltration of Volatile Organic Compounds in a Peat-Packed Biofilter.
In-Kil Yoon and Chang-Ho Park

Cloning and Sequence Analysis of Poly(tetramethylene succinate) Depolymerase from Acidovorax delafieldii Strain BS-3.
Hiromi Uchida, Yukie Shigeno-Akutsu, Nobuhiko Nomura, Tadaatsu Nakahara, and Toshiaki Nakajima-Kambe

Influence of External Mass Transfer Limitation on Apparent Kinetic Parameters of Penicillin G Acylase Immobilized on NonPorous Ultrafine Silica Particles.
Azadeh Kheirolomoom, Farhad Khorasheh, and Hossein Fazelinia

Immobilization and Stabilization of Chitosanase by Multipoint Attachment to Agar Gel Support.
Sosaku Ichikawa, Kazuya Takano, Takashi Kuroiwa, Osamu Hiruta, Seigo Sato, and Sukekuni Mukataka

A Novel Industrial-Level Reactor with Two Dynamic Changes of Air for Solid-State Fermentation.
Chen Hongzhang, Xu Fujian, Tian Zhonghou, and Li Zuohu

Post-Transcriptional Regulation of Immunomodulatory Cytokines Production in Human Skin Fibroblasts by Intense Mechanical Stresses.
Sumihiro Koyama, Shinsuke Fujii, and Masuo Aizawa

Characterization of Membrane Bioreactor for Dry Wine Production.
Masamitsu Takaya, Nobuya Matsumoto, and Hideshi Yanase

Production of Podophyllotoxin by Plant Cell Cultures of Podophyllum hexandrum in Bioreactor.
Saurabh Chattopadhyay, Ashok K. Srivastava, Sant S. Bhojwani, and Virendra S. Bisaria

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KAISHI Vol. 80, Nos. 1 and 2