1. Photobacterium profundum sp. nov., a new, moderately barophilic bacterial species isolated from a deep-sea sediment

   • Yuichi Nogi
   • Noriaki Masui
   • C. Kato

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 1 - 8

2. Expression and secretion of a xylanase from the extreme thermophile, Thermotoga strain FjSS3B.1, in Kluyveromyces lactis

   • David J. Walsh
   • Moreland D. Gibbs
   • Peter L. Bergquist

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 9 - 14

3. Overproduction and one-step purification of the N ⁵,N ¹⁰-methenyltetrahydro-methanopterin cyclohydrolase (Mch) from the hyperthermophilic Methanopyrus kandleri

   • Martin Vaupel
   • Julia A. Vorholt
   • R. K. Thauer

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 15 - 22

4. Extracellular α-amylase from Thermus filiformis Ork A2: purification and biochemical characterization

   • M. C. V. Egas
   • M. S. da Costa
   • Euclides M. V. Pires

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 23 - 32

5. Detection and expression of a gene encoding a new bacteriorhodopsin from an extreme halophile strain HT (JCM 9743) which does not possess bacteriorhodopsin activity

   • M. Kamekura
   • Yukio Seno
   • Hiroaki Tomioka

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 33 - 40

6. Heat shock response in psychrophilic and psychrotrophic yeast from Antarctica

   • Michelle L. Deegenaars
   • K. Watson

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 41 - 50