1. Fermentation of sugar cane bagasse hemicellulose hydrolysate to l(+)-lactic acid by a thermotolerant acidophilic Bacillus sp.^**

   • Milind Patel
   • Mark Ou
   • K.T. Shanmugam

   OriginalPaper Pages: 865 - 868

2. Method for purifying porcine mature interleukin-18 from silkworm haemolymph

   • Hidekazu Nagaya
   • Yoshihiro Muneta
   • Yasuyuki Mori

   OriginalPaper Pages: 869 - 873

3. Improved cell growth and Taxol production of suspension-cultured Taxus chinensis var. mairei in alternating and direct current magnetic fields

   • Gui-Min Shang
   • Jin-Chuan Wu
   • Ying-Jin Yuan

   OriginalPaper Pages: 875 - 878

4. Chitosan/gelatin composite microcarrier for hepatocyte culture

   • Keguo Li
   • Yun Wang
   • Meifu Feng

   OriginalPaper Pages: 879 - 883

5. Establishment of a xylose metabolic pathway in an industrial strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • Ying Wang
   • Wen-Long Shi
   • Yin-Bo Qu

   OriginalPaper Pages: 885 - 890

6. Real-time quantitative assay of telomerase activity using the duplex scorpion primer

   • Yanping Huang
   • Deming Kong
   • Huaifeng Mi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 891 - 895

7. Rapid detection of `rare' actinomycetes in environmental samples

   • Esther W.N. Gathogo
   • Alastair C.W. Waugh
   • Paul F. Long

   OriginalPaper Pages: 897 - 900

8. Inhibition of matrix metalloproteinase-1 activity by the soybean Bowman–Birk inhibitor

   • Jack N. Losso
   • Cate N. Munene
   • Hiba A. Bawadi

   OriginalPaper Pages: 901 - 905

9. Production, purification, and characterization of a novel thermostable serine protease from soil isolate, Streptomyces tendae

   • Chi-Nam Seong
   • Jung-Sun Jo
   • Jin-Cheol Yoo

   OriginalPaper Pages: 907 - 909

10. 1,3-Propanediol production by Klebsiella pneumoniae under different aeration strategies

    • Ke-Ke Cheng
    • De-Hua Liu
    • Wei-Bin Liu

    OriginalPaper Pages: 911 - 915

11. Transesterification activity of lipases immobilized in a phyllosilicate sol-gel matrix^**

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

    OriginalPaper Pages: 917 - 921

12. Production of an anti-complement exo-polymer produced by Auricularia auricula-judae in submerged culture

    • Sang-Chul Jeong
    • Sung-Pill Cho
    • Chi-Hyun Song

    OriginalPaper Pages: 923 - 927

13. BpaI and BpnI: novel type II restriction endonucleases from Bacillus pasteurii and Bacillus pantothenticus

    • Pavan P. Jutur
    • Attipalli R. Reddy

    OriginalPaper Pages: 929 - 932

14. Flow process for electroextraction of intracellular enzymes from the fission yeast, Schizosaccharomyces pombe

    • V. Ganeva
    • B. Galutzov
    • J. Teissié

    OriginalPaper Pages: 933 - 937

15. Construction and application of fusion proteins of d-amino acid oxidase and glutaryl-7-aminocephalosporanic acid acylase for direct bioconversion of cephalosporin C to 7-aminocephalosporanic acid

    • Hui Luo
    • Qiang Li
    • Zhongyao Shen

    OriginalPaper Pages: 939 - 945

16. Optimization of methanol biosynthesis from methane using Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b

    • Sang Gui Lee
    • Jae Hwan Goo
    • Si Wouk Kim

    OriginalPaper Pages: 947 - 950

17. Instructions for authors

    Instructions for Authors Pages: 951 - 951