1. Production of cell wall accumulative enzymes using immobilized protoplasts of Catharanthus roseus in agarose gel

   • Nobuaki Mera
   • Hideki Aoyagi
   • Hideo Tanaka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1687 - 1693

2. Surface charge engineering of PQQ glucose dehydrogenase for downstream processing

   • Hideharu Koh
   • Satoshi Igarashi
   • Koji Sode

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1695 - 1701

3. High throughput detection of small genomic insertions or deletions by Pyrosequencing

   • Dong-chuan Guo
   • Yuhua Qi
   • Dianna M. Milewicz

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1703 - 1707

4. Antifreeze activities of poly(γ-glutamic acid) produced by Bacillus licheniformis

   • Ing-Lung Shih
   • Yi-Tsong Van
   • Yi-Yuan Sau

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1709 - 1712

5. Optimization of alkyl ester production from grease using a phyllosilicate sol-gel immobilized lipase^**,***

   • An-Fei Hsu
   • Kerby C. Jones
   • William N. Marmer

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1713 - 1716

6. Protein fraction of barley spent grain as a new simple medium for growth and sporulation of soil actinobacteria

   • Bogumila Szponar
   • Krzysztof J. Pawlik
   • Estera Szwajcer Dey

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1717 - 1721

7. Anti-oxidant activity of acyl ascorbates in intestinal epithelial cells

   • Yukitaka Kimura
   • Hiroyuki Kanatani
   • Ryuichi Matsuno

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1723 - 1727

8. Refolding of a recombinant full-length non-structural (NS3) protein from hepatitis C virus by chromatographic procedures

   • Ming Li
   • Anton Poliakov
   • Jan-Christer Janson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1729 - 1734

9. The first isolation of two types of trifluoroleucine resistant mutants of Saccharomyces servazzii

   • Tatsuya Tominaga
   • Yohei Okuzawa
   • Motofumi Suzuki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1735 - 1738

10. A colorimetric confirmation method for DNA amplification in PCR and its application to the detection of Giardia lamblia cysts

    • Kisay Lee
    • Kyungju Kim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1739 - 1742

11. Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic bacterium, Geobacillus thermocatenulatus, degrading nylon 12 and nylon 66

    • Kosuke Tomita
    • Noritoshi Ikeda
    • Ayumi Ueno

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1743 - 1746

12. Biodegradation of exploded cotton stalk by Bacillus sp.

    • Lianshuang Zheng
    • Xiaofang Han
    • Yumin Du

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1747 - 1750

13. Production of 5-aminolevulinic acid by an Escherichia coli aminolevulinate dehydratase mutant that overproduces Rhodobacter sphaeroides aminolevulinate synthase

    • L. Xie
    • M.A. Eiteman
    • E. Altman

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1751 - 1755

14. Development and operation of a trickling biofilter system for continuous treatment of gas-phase trichloroethylene

    • Eun Yeol Lee
    • Byung Dae Ye
    • Sunghoon Park

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1757 - 1761

15. Rapid monitoring of autolysis process of proteases by capillary electrophoresis

    • Xiu-Lan Chen
    • Cai-Yun Shun
    • Pei-Ji Gao

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1763 - 1767

16. Expression and characterization of Kluyveromyces lactis β-galactosidase in Escherichia coli

    • Chang Sup Kim
    • Eun-Su Ji
    • Deok-Kun Oh

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1769 - 1774

17. Calcium alginate entrapment of the yeast Rhodosporidium toruloides for the kinetic resolution of 1,2-epoxyoctane

    • J. Maritz
    • H.M. Krieg
    • J.C. Breytenbach

    OriginalPaper Pages: 1775 - 1781