1. Physiological characteristics and competitive ability of plasmid-cured derivatives of Rhizobium fredii USDA 206

   • W. Mark Barbour
   • G. H. Elkan

   Original Papers Pages: 1 - 4

2. The effect of carbon dioxide on the growth kinetics of fructose-limited chemostat cultures of Acetobacterium woodii DSM 1030

   • Andrew R. Godley
   • Paul E. Linnett
   • John P. Robinson

   Original Papers Pages: 5 - 11

3. Energy coupling in Mn²⁺ oxidation by a marine bacterium

   • Henry L. Ehrich
   • John C. Salerno

   Original Papers Pages: 12 - 17

4. Intercellular structure in a many-celled magnetotactic prokaryote

   • Frank G. Rodgers
   • Richard P. Blakemore
   • Christine Rodgers

   Original Papers Pages: 18 - 22

5. Desulfomonile tiedjei gen. nov. and sp. nov., a novel anaerobic, dehalogenating, sulfate-reducing bacterium

   • Kim A. DeWeerd
   • Linda Mandelco
   • Joseph M. Suflita

   Original Papers Pages: 23 - 30

6. Growth of Synthrophomonas wolfei on unsaturated short chain fatty acids

   • Dale A. Amos
   • Michael J. McInerney

   Original Papers Pages: 31 - 36

7. Staphylolytic enzyme from Pseudomonas aeruginosa: characterization and immunocytochemical localization

   • Ana Carnicero
   • Teresa B. Mansito
   • Miguel A. Falcón

   Original Papers Pages: 37 - 41

8. Inhibitor effects on the accumulation and efflux of nickel ions in plasmid pMOL28-harboring strains of Alcaligenes eutrophus

   • Ajit K. Varma
   • Christiane Sensfuß
   • Hans G. Schlegel

   Original Papers Pages: 42 - 49

9. Involvement of pyruvate dehydrogenase in product formation in pyruvate-limited anaerobic chemostat cultures of Enterococcus faecalis NCTC 775

   • Jacky L. Snoep
   • M. Joost Teixeira de Mattos
   • Oense M. Neijssel

   Original Papers Pages: 50 - 55

10. Cyanobacterial glutamate 1-semialdehyde aminotransferase: requirement for pyridoxamine phosphate

    • Alan D. Bull
    • Volker Breu
    • Arnold J. Smith

    Original Papers Pages: 56 - 59

11. The specific functions of menaquinone and demethylmenaquinone in anaerobic respiration with fumarate, dimethylsulfoxide, trimethylamine N-oxide and nitrate by Escherichia coli

    • U. Wissenbach
    • A. Kröger
    • G. Unden

    Original Papers Pages: 60 - 66

12. The cis-acting DNA sequences required in vivo for bacteriophage Mu helper-mediated transposition and packaging

    • Josée Harel
    • Linda Duplessis
    • Michael S. DuBow

    Original Papers Pages: 67 - 72

13. Penicillin-induced changes in the cell wall composition of Staphylococcus aureus before the onset of bacteriolysis

    • Thomas Sidow
    • Lars Johannsen
    • Harald Labischinski

    Original Papers Pages: 73 - 81

14. Detection and determination of factor C — a regulatory protein —in Streptomyces strains by antiserum and monoclonal antibody

    • F. Szeszák
    • S. Vitális
    • G. Szabó

    Original Papers Pages: 82 - 84

15. On the operon structure of the cfx gene clusters in Alcaligenes eutrophus

    • Ute Windhövel
    • Botho Bowien

    Original Papers Pages: 85 - 91

16. Fructose utilization by the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis studied using whole filaments and isolated heterocysts

    • Bent Borg Jensen

    Original Papers Pages: 92 - 98

17. Molecular cloning and expression of a proteinase gene from Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris H2 and construction of a new lactococcal vector pFX1

    • Feng-Feng Xu
    • Lindsay E. Pearce
    • Pak-Lam Yu

    Original Papers Pages: 99 - 104