1. Cloning, sequencing, and characterization of a gene (narT) encoding a transport protein involved in dissimilatory nitrate reduction inStaphylococcus carnosus

   • Beate Fast
   • Per-Eric Lindgren
   • Friedrich Götz

   Original Paper Pages: 361 - 367

2. Autotrophic carbon dioxide fixation inAcidianus brierleyi

   • Masaharu Ishii
   • Tsuyoshi Miyake
   • Yasuo Igarashi

   Original Paper Pages: 368 - 371

3. Purification and characterization of a periplasmic thiosulfate dehydrogenase from the obligately autotrophicThiobacillus sp. W5

   • Jan M. Visser
   • Govardus A. H. de Jong
   • J. Gijs Kuenen

   Original Paper Pages: 372 - 378

4. Studies on tetrachloroethene respiration inDehalospirillum multivorans

   • Evelyn Miller
   • Gert Wohlfarth
   • Gabriele Diekert

   Original Paper Pages: 379 - 387

5. Ammonia-excreting mutants ofKlebsiella pneumoniae with a pleiotropic defect in nitrogen metabolism

   • Thorsten Kuczius
   • Diethelm Kleiner

   Original Paper Pages: 388 - 393

6. Taxonomic relationships ofThiobacillus halophilus, T. aquaesulis, and other species ofThiobacillus, as determined using 16S rDNA sequencing

   • Ian R. McDonald
   • Donovan P. Kelly
   • Ann P. Wood

   Original Paper Pages: 394 - 398

7. The anaerobic fungusPiromyces sp. strain E2: nitrogen requirement and enzymes involved in primary nitrogen metabolism

   • Remberandt Dijkerman
   • Jeroen Ledeboer
   • Godfried D. Vogels

   Original Paper Pages: 399 - 404

8. Competition between β-ketothiolase and citrate synthase during poly(β-hydroxybutyrate) synthesis inMethylobacterium rhodesianum

   • Gisela Mothes
   • Ilona Skinfill Rivera
   • Wolfgang Babel

   Original Paper Pages: 405 - 410

9. Polyamines in growth and dimorphism ofParacoccidioides brasiliensis

   • Gioconda San-Blas
   • Felipe San-Blas
   • José Ruiz-Herrera

   Short Communication Pages: 411 - 413

10. A serine alkaline protease from the fungusConidiobolus coronatus with a distinctly different structure than the serine protease subtilisin Carlsberg

    • Sangita Phadtare
    • Mala Rao
    • Vasanti Deshpande

    Short Communication Pages: 414 - 417

11. The acetate kinase ofClostridum acetobutylicum strain P262

    • Francisco Diez-Gonzalez
    • James B. Russell
    • Jean B. Hunter

    Short Communication Pages: 418 - 420

12. Hydroxylamine oxidation in heterotrophic nitrate-reducing soil bacteria and purification of a hydroxylamine-cytochromec oxidoreductase from aPseudomonas species

    • Josa-Marie Wehrfritz
    • Jon P. Carter
    • David J. Richardson

    Short Communication Pages: 421 - 424