1. High-cell-density cultivation of the lipid accumulating yeast Cryptococcus curvatus using glycerol as a carbon source

   • P. A. E. P. Meesters
   • G. N. M. Huijberts
   • G. Eggink

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 575 - 579

2. Ethanol production by a mixed culture of flocculent strains of Zymomonas mobilis and Saccharomyces sp.

   • C. Abate
   • D. Callieri
   • Oscar Garro

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 580 - 583

3. Kinetics of Thermoascus aurantiacus solid-state fermentation on sugar-beet pulp – polysaccharide alteration and production of related enzymatic activities

   • N. Roche
   • A. Durand

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 584 - 588

4. Continuous production of pediocin by immobilized Pediococcus acidilactici PO2 in a packed-bed bioreactor

   • H.-Y. Cho
   • A. E. Yousef
   • S.-T. Yang

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 589 - 594

5. Stereoselectivity of microbial oxygenation of metallocene sulphides with different substituent size and central atom

   • Y. Yamazaki
   • C. Hesse
   • W.-R. Abraham

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 595 - 599

6. Purification and some properties of a novel microbial lactate oxidase

   • H. Sztajer
   • W. Wang
   • R. D. Schmid

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 600 - 606

7. Characteristics of a chimeric enzyme engineered from two rice α-amylase isozymes

   • M. Terashima
   • M. Kawai
   • S. Katoh

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 607 - 611

8. Engineering the homoserine dehydrogenase and threonine dehydratase control points to analyse flux towards L-isoleucine in Corynebacterium glutamicum

   • S. Morbach
   • R. Kelle
   • L. Eggeling

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 612 - 620

9. Effect of amplification or targeted disruption of the β-lactamase gene of Nocardia lactamdurans on cephamycin biosynthesis

   • V. Kumar
   • J. L. de la Fuente
   • J. F. Martin

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 621 - 628

10. Extracellular PagC-HlyA_S fusion protein for the generation and identification of Salmonella-specific antibodies

    • H.-J. Mollenkopf
    • I. Gentschev
    • W. Goebelc

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 629 - 637

11. Molecular characterization, over-expression and purification of a novel dipeptidase from Lactobacillus helveticus

    • E. Vesanto
    • K. Peltoniemi
    • A. Palva

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 638 - 645

12. Expression and secretion of β-glucuronidase and Pertussis toxin S1 by Streptomyces lividans

    • F. W. Paradis
    • F. Shareck
    • R. Morosoli

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 646 - 651

13. Integrative transformation of the zygomycete Rhizomucor pusillus by homologous recombination

    • M. Wada
    • T. Beppu
    • S. Horinouchi

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 652 - 657

14. Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b whole-cell methane monooxygenase activity in a biphasic matrix

    • T. R. Clark
    • F. F. Roberto

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 658 - 663

15. Production of rhizoferrin and new analogues obtained by directed fermentation

    • M. Tschierske
    • H. Drechsel
    • H. Zähner

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 664 - 670

16. Growth and production of xylanolytic enzymes by the extreme thermophilic anaerobic bacterium Thermotoga thermarum

    • A. Sunna
    • G. Antranikian

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 671 - 676

17. Formation of sulfate and glucoside conjugates of benzo[e]pyrene by Cunninghamella elegans

    • J. V. Pothuluri
    • F. E. Evans
    • C. E. Cerniglia

    ORIGNAL PAPER Pages: 677 - 683

18. Isolation of mutants of Penicillium purpurogenum resistant to catabolite repression

    • M. N. Anwar
    • M. Suto
    • F. Tomita

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 684 - 687

19. The effect of ferric ion on the rate of ferrous oxidation by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans

    • K. Nyavor
    • N. O. Egiebor
    • P. M. Fedorak

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 688 - 691

20. Degradation efficiency and molecular size alteration during the aerobic microbial treatment of lignite pyrolysis deposit water

    • G. G. S. Martius
    • A. Wießner
    • U. Stottmeister

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 692 - 699

21. Total reductive dechlorination of chlorobenzenes to benzene by a methanogenic mixed culture enriched from Saale river sediment

    • J. Nowak
    • N. H. Kirsch
    • H.-J. Stan

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 700 - 709

22. The ubiquity of natural adsorbable organic halogen production among basidiomycetes

    • F. J. M. Verhagen
    • H. J. Swarts
    • J. A. Field

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 710 - 718

23. Aerobic and anaerobic biodegradability of 1-Anthraquinone sulphonate

    • C. Seignez
    • N. Adler
    • P. Péringer

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 719 - 722