■　REVIEW

Extreme Catalysts from Low-Temperature Environments.
Anne Hoyoux, Vinciane Blaise, Tony Collins, Salvino D'Amico, Emmanelle Gratia, Adrienne Louise Huston, Jean-Claude Marx, Guillaume Sonan, Yinxin Zeng, Georges Feller, and Charles Gerday

Carbochips: a New Energy for Old Biobuilders.
Imran Khan, Dattatraya V. Desai, and Anil Kumar

■　ENZYMOLOGY, PROTEIN ENGINEERING, AND ENZYME TECHNOLOGY

Acidophilic Xylanase from Aureobasidium pullulans: Efficient Expression and Secretion in Pichia pastoris and Mutational Analysis.
Hidenori Tanaka, Tomoko Okuno, Satoshi Moriyama, Michio Muguruma, and Kazuyoshi Ohta

Crystallographic Studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Polyphosphate/ATP-NAD Kinase Complexed with NAD.
Shigetarou Mori, Masayuki Yamasaki, Yukie Maruyama, Keiko Momma, Shigeyuki Kawai, Wataru Hashimoto, Bunzo Mikami, and Kousaku Murata

■　MICROBIAL PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOTECHNOLOGY

A Novel Amine Oxidase-Encoding Gene from Aspergillus oryzae.
Kengo Matsumura, Hiromoto Hisada, Hiroshi Obata, Yoji Hata, Akitsugu Kawato, Yasuhisa Abe, and Osamu Akita

Production of Recombinant Human Lysosomal Acid Lipase in Schizosaccharomyces pombe: Development of a Fed-Batch Fermentation and Purification Process.
Soichiro Ikeda, Kiyokazu Nikaido, Keita Araki, Akifumi Yoshitake, Hiromichi Kumagai, and Atsushi Isoai

Identification of Genus Nitrosovibrio, Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria, by Comparison of N-Terminal Amino Acid Sequences of Phosphoglycerate Kinase.
Takeshi Ida, Masayuki Satoh, Ryuichi Yabe, Reiji Takahashi, and Tatsuaki Tokuyama

■　BREWING AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY

Efficient Selection of Hybrids by Protoplast Fusion Using Drug Resistance Markers and Reporter Genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Nobushige Nakazawa and Kimio Iwano

Distribution of the Sulfite Resistance Gene SSU1-R and the Variation in Its Promoter Region in Wine Yeasts.
Noriyuki Yuasa, Youji Nakagawa, Masayuki Hayakawa, and Yuzuru Iimura

■　ENVIRONMENTAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Photoenhancement of Biogas Production from Thermophilic Anaerobic Digestion.
Chika Tada and Shigeki Sawayama

■　BIOCHEMICAL ENGINEERING

Toxicity of Ionic Liquids and Organic Solvents to Lactic Acid-Producing Bacteria.
Michiaki Matsumoto, Kenji Mochiduki, and Kazuo Kondo

■　CELL AND TISSUE ENGINEERING

Immobilization of Leukemia Inhibitory Factor (LIF) to Culture Murine Embryonic Stem Cells.
Hiroshi Makino, Hirokazu Hasuda, and Yoshihiro Ito

■　MEDICAL BIOTECHNOLOGY

Neurite Outgrowths of Neurons Using Neurotrophin-Coated Nanoscale Magnetic Beads.
Yukie Naka, Ayako Kitazawa, Yukie Akaishi, and Norio Shimizu

■　METHODS

Development of New Dosimetry Using Extended DNA Fibers.
Sachihiro Matsunaga, Kazutaka Ohshio, Erimu Harada, Shinsuke Fujiwara, Susumu Uchiyama, and Kiichi Fukui