■　REVIEWS

Cell Processing Engineering for Ex-Vivo Expansion of Hematopoietic Cells.
Mutsumi Takagi

A Kinetic Modeling of Chondrocyte Culture for Manufacture of Tissue-Engineered Cartilage.
Masahiro Kino-oka, Yoshikatsu Maeda, Takeyuki Yamamoto, Katsura Sugawara, and Masahito Taya 　

■　ACCELERATED PUBLICATION

Development of a Novel System for Producing Ajmalicine and Serpentine Using Direct Culture of Leaves in Catharanthus roseus Intact Plant.
Akira Iwase, Hideki Aoyagi, Masaru Ohme-Takagi, and Hideo Tanaka 　

Site-Directed Mutagenesis Study of the Antibody 2D7 which Catalyzes a Reaction for Insertion of Cu²⁺ into Mesoporphyrin.
Naoki Hosomi, Yasuko Kawamura-Konishi, Ryota Kawano, Ikuo Fujii, and Haruo Suzuki

Syntheses of α-Arbutin-α-Glycosides and Their Inhibitory Effects on Human Tyrosinase.
Kazuhisa Sugimoto, Koji Nomura, Takahisa Nishimura, Taro Kiso, Kenji Sugimoto, and Takashi Kuriki 　

Microbial Physiology and Biotechnology

Production of Recombinant Human Antithrombin by Pichia pastoris.
Shinobu Kuwae, Masao Ohyama, Tomoshi Ohya, Hideyuki Ohi, and Kaoru Kobayashi

Inducible Production of Alcohol Oxidase and Catalase in a Pectin Medium by Thermoascus aurantiacus IFO 31693.
Hee-Sun Ko, Hidenori Fujiwara, Yuichi Yokoyama, Nobuko Ohno, Seigo Amachi, Hirofumi Shinoyama, and Takaaki Fujii

Identification of Mutation Sites on Δ5 Desaturase Genes from Mortierella alpina 1S-4 Mutants.
Takahiro Abe, Eiji Sakuradani, Takuji Ueda, and Sakayu Shimizu

Environmental Biotechnology

Monitoring the Lactic Acid Bacterial Diversity during Shochu Fermentation by PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis.
Akihito Endo and Sanae Okada

Effects of Difructose Anhydride III (DFA III) Administration on Rat Intestinal Microbiota.
Kimiko Minamida, Kazuki Shiga, I Nengah Sujaya, Teruo Sone, Atsushi Yokota, Hiroshi Hara, Kozo Asano, and Fusao Tomita

Proposals for Wastewater Treatment by Applying Flocculating Activity of Cross-linked Poly-γ-Glutamic Acid.
Makoto Taniguchi, Kouji Kato, Ayako Shimauchi, Xu Ping, Hirokazu Nakayama, Ken-ichi Fujita, Toshio Tanaka, Yutaka Tarui, and Eiji Hirasawa

Suppression of Arsenopyrite Surface Oxidation by Sol-Gel Coatings.
Nitinai Khummalai and Virote Boonamnuayvitaya　

Biochemical Engineering

Three-Dimensional High-Density Culture of HepG2 Cells in a 5-ml Radial-Flow Bioreactor for Construction of Artificial Liver.
Tomokatsu Hongo, Mariko Kajikawa, Seiichi Ishida, Shogo Ozawa, Yasuo Ohno, Jun-ichi Sawada, Akira Umezawa, Yoichi Ishikawa, Takeshi Kobayashi, and Hiroyuki Honda

Acetate and Ethanol Production from H₂ and CO₂ by Moorella sp. Using a Repeated Batch Culture.
Shinsuke Sakai, Yutaka Nakashimada, Kentaro Inokuma, Masayuki Kita, Hideki Okada, and Naomichi Nishio

Effect of Sulfur Sources on Specific Desulfurization Activity of Rhodococcus erythropolis KA2-5-1 in Exponential Fed-Batch Culture.
Masaaki Konishi, Michimasa Kishimoto, Takeshi Omasa, Yoshio Katakura, Suteaki Shioya, and Hisao Ohtake 　

Cell and Tissue Engineering

Specific Interaction of Mannosylated Glycopolymers with Macrophage Cells Mediated by Mannose Receptor.
Keun-Hong Park, Won Jun Sung, Sungwon Kim, Doo Han Kim, Toshihiro Akaike, and Hyung-Min Chung

Static Suspension Culture of Carrot Somatic Embryos.
Hongmei Li and Kenji Kurata

Methods

Single-Molecule Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction Using Water-in-Oil Emulsion.
Michihiko Nakano, Naohito Nakai, Hirofumi Kurita, Jun Komatsu, Kazunori Takashima, Shinji Katsura, and Akira Mizuno