1. Professor Dr. phil. Achim Kröger

   • Bernhard Schink

   Obituary Pages: 387 - 387

2. Mycothiol biochemistry

   • Gerald L. Newton
   • Robert C. Fahey

   Mini-Review Pages: 388 - 394

3. Cellular differentiation in the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme

   • John C. Meeks
   • Elsie L. Campbell
   • Francis C. Wong

   Mini-Review Pages: 395 - 403

4. mRNA-mediated detection of environmental conditions

   • Franz Narberhaus

   Mini-Review Pages: 404 - 410

5. Identification of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium genes associated with growth suppression in stationary-phase nutrient broth cultures and in the chicken intestine

   • Ivan Rychlik
   • Gerald Martin
   • Paul A. Barrow

   Original Paper Pages: 411 - 420

6. Detection of hepatotoxic Microcystis strains by PCR with intact cells from both culture and environmental samples

   • Hui Pan
   • Lirong Song
   • Thomas Börner

   Original Paper Pages: 421 - 427

7. Validation of Cdc68p as a novel antifungal target

   • Ed T. Buurman
   • Weidong Jiang
   • Richard C. Wobbe

   Original Paper Pages: 428 - 436

8. Effect of redox potential on activity of hydrogenase 1 and hydrogenase 2 in Escherichia coli

   • Tatyana V. Laurinavichene
   • Nikolai A. Zorin
   • Anatoly A. Tsygankov

   Original Paper Pages: 437 - 442

9. A non-dechlorinating strain of Dehalospirillum multivorans: evidence for a key role of the corrinoid cofactor in the synthesis of an active tetrachloroethene dehalogenase

   • Anke Siebert
   • Anke Neumann
   • Gabriele Diekert

   Original Paper Pages: 443 - 449

10. Localization of Mn(II)-oxidizing activity and the putative multicopper oxidase, MnxG, to the exosporium of the marine Bacillus sp. strain SG-1

    • Chris A. Francis
    • Karen L. Casciotti
    • Bradley M. Tebo

    Original Paper Pages: 450 - 456

11. Influence of nitrate on oxalate- and glyoxylate-dependent growth and acetogenesis by Moorella thermoacetica

    • Corinna Seifritz
    • Jürgen M. Fröstl
    • Steven L. Daniel

    Original Paper Pages: 457 - 464

12. Evidence for MoeA-dependent formation of the molybdenum cofactor from molybdate and molybdopterin in Escherichia coli

    • Cristinel Sandu
    • Roderich Brandsch

    Original Paper Pages: 465 - 470

13. The roles of the three gene copies encoding hydroxylamine oxidoreductase in Nitrosomonas europaea

    • Norman G. Hommes
    • Luis A. Sayavedra-Soto
    • Daniel J. Arp

    Original Paper Pages: 471 - 476

14. Different effectors of dimorphism in Yarrowia lipolytica

    • José Ruiz-Herrera
    • Rafael Sentandreu

    Original Paper Pages: 477 - 483

15. Characterisation, genome size and genetic manipulation of the myxobacterium Sorangium cellulosum So ce56

    • Silke Pradella
    • Astrid Hans
    • Stefan Beyer

    Original Paper Pages: 484 - 492

16. Intracellular pyruvate flux in the methane-producing archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis

    • Yu-Ling Yang
    • John N. Glushka
    • William B. Whitman

    Original Paper Pages: 493 - 498

17. Tricarboxylic acid cycle aconitase activity during the life cycle of Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tü494

    • Konstanze Muschko
    • Grit Kienzlen
    • Dirk Schwartz

    Original Paper Pages: 499 - 505

18. Genes involved in the anaerobic degradation of ethylbenzene in a denitrifying bacterium, strain EbN1

    • Ralf Rabus
    • Michael Kube
    • Richard Reinhardt

    Original Paper Pages: 506 - 516

19. (R)-Benzylsuccinyl-CoA dehydrogenase of Thauera aromatica, an enzyme of the anaerobic toluene catabolic pathway

    • Christina Leutwein
    • Johann Heider

    Original Paper Pages: 517 - 524

20. Amino acid replacements in transmembrane domain 1 influence osmosensing but not K⁺ sensing by the sensor kinase KdpD of Escherichia coli

    • Iris Stallkamp
    • Karlheinz Altendorf
    • Kirsten Jung

    Original Paper Pages: 525 - 530

21. Genetic groups of the insect-pathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana are associated with habitat and thermal growth preferences

    • Michael J. Bidochka
    • Fiona V. Menzies
    • Andrena M. Kamp

    Original Paper Pages: 531 - 537

22. Native-feather degradation by Fervidobacterium islandicum AW-1, a newly isolated keratinase-producing thermophilic anaerobe

    • Gae-Won Nam
    • Dong-Woo Lee
    • Yu-Ryang Pyun

    Original Paper Pages: 538 - 547

23. In vivo assessment of the Tat signal peptide specificity in Escherichia coli

    • Bérengère Ize
    • Fabien Gérard
    • Long-Fei Wu

    Original Paper Pages: 548 - 553

24. Inducible aluminum resistance of Acidiphilium cryptum and aluminum tolerance of other acidophilic bacteria

    • Jörg Fischer
    • Armin Quentmeier
    • Cornelius G. Friedrich

    Short Communication Pages: 554 - 558