1. Previously unknown and phylogenetically diverse members of the green nonsulfur bacteria are indigenous to freshwater lakes

   • Frederic Gich
   • Jesús Garcia-Gil
   • Jörg Overmann

   Original Paper Pages: 1 - 10

2. Assay of ATP in intact cells of the facultative phototroph Rhodobacter capsulatus expressing recombinant firefly luciferase

   • Giovanna Di Tomaso
   • Roberto Borghese
   • Davide Zannoni

   Original Paper Pages: 11 - 19

3. Preparative isolation of lipid inclusions from Rhodococcus opacus and Rhodococcus ruber and identification of granule-associated proteins

   • Rainer Kalscheuer
   • Marc Wältermann
   • Alexander Steinbüchel

   Original Paper Pages: 20 - 28

4. Conservation and release of osmolytes by yeasts during hypo-osmotic stress

   • Gerald Kayingo
   • Stephanus G. Kilian
   • Bernard A. Prior

   Original Paper Pages: 29 - 35

5. Efficient protoplast regeneration for some homofermentative lactobacilli and pediococci

   • Osamu Tanaka
   • Sadahiro Ohmomo

   Original Paper Pages: 36 - 40

6. Temperature- and growth-phase-regulated changes in lipid fatty acid structures of psychrotolerant groundwater Proteobacteria

   • Minna K. Männistö
   • Jaakko A. Puhakka

   Original Paper Pages: 41 - 46

7. Pseudomonas aeruginosa corneal infection affects cholinergic enzymes in rat lacrimal gland

   • Kathleen H. Dannelly
   • Yanwen Liu
   • Swapan K. Ghosh

   Original Paper Pages: 47 - 53

8. Casitone-mediated expression of the prtP and prtM genes in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis BGIS29

   • Natasa Miladinov
   • Oscar P. Kuipers
   • Ljubisa Topisirovic

   Original Paper Pages: 54 - 61

9. Sequence, expression, and characterization of the first archaeal ATP-dependent 6-phosphofructokinase, a non-allosteric enzyme related to the phosphofructokinase-B sugar kinase family, from the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeote Aeropyrum pernix

   • Thomas Hansen
   • Peter Schönheit

   Original Paper Pages: 62 - 69

10. Characterization of an S-layer glycoprotein produced in the course of S-layer variation of Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC 12980 and sequencing and cloning of the sbsD gene encoding the protein moiety

    • Eva M. Egelseer
    • Thomas Danhorn
    • Margit Sára

    Original Paper Pages: 70 - 80

11. Biochemical and antigenic characterisation of Mycoplasma gallisepticum membrane proteins P52 and P67 (pMGA)

    • Gwénaël Jan
    • Michel Le Hénaff
    • Henri Wróblewski

    Original Paper Pages: 81 - 90

12. Expression of the genes coding for the xylanase Xys1 and the cellulase Cel1 from the straw-decomposing Streptomyces halstedii JM8 cloned into the amino-acid producer Brevibacterium lactofermentum ATCC13869

    • Sirin A. Adham
    • Pilar Honrubia
    • José A. Gil

    Original Paper Pages: 91 - 97

13. Stress-response sigma factor σ^Η is essential for morphological differentiation of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

    • Beatrica Sevciková
    • Oldrich Benada
    • Jan Kormanec

    Original Paper Pages: 98 - 106

14. A genetic screen for suppressors of Escherichia coli Tat signal peptide mutations establishes a critical role for the second arginine within the twin-arginine motif

    • Grant Buchanan
    • Frank Sargent
    • Tracy Palmer

    Original Paper Pages: 107 - 112

15. Selenium-dependent growth of Treponema denticola: evidence for a clostridial-type glycine reductase

    • Michael Rother
    • August Böck
    • Chris Wyss

    Short Communication Pages: 113 - 116

16. A novel pmoA lineage represented by the acidophilic methanotrophic bacterium Methylocapsa acidophila B2

    • Svetlana N. Dedysh
    • Hans-Peter Horz
    • Werner Liesack

    Short Communication Pages: 117 - 121