1. Not quite dead enough: on bacterial life, culturability, senescence, and death

   • Thomas Nyström

   Mini-Review Pages: 159 - 164

2. Two distinct enzyme systems are responsible for tetrachloroethene and chlorophenol reductive dehalogenation in Desulfitobacterium strain PCE1

   • Bram A. van de Pas
   • Jan Gerritse
   • Alfons J. Stams

   Original Paper Pages: 165 - 169

3. Isolation and properties of obligately chemolithoautotrophic and extremely alkali-tolerant ammonia-oxidizing bacteria from Mongolian soda lakes

   • Dimitry Sorokin
   • Tat'jana Tourova
   • Mike Jetten

   Original Paper Pages: 170 - 177

4. Screening of basidiomycete fungi for the quinone-dependent sugar C-2/C-3 oxidoreductase, pyranose dehydrogenase, and properties of the enzyme from Macrolepiota rhacodes

   • Jindřich Volc
   • Elena Kubátová
   • Dietmar Haltrich

   Original Paper Pages: 178 - 186

5. Organization of genes responsible for the stereospecific conversion of hydantoins to α-amino acids in Arthrobacter aurescens DSM 3747

   • Anja Wiese
   • Christoph Syldatk
   • Josef Altenbuchner

   Original Paper Pages: 187 - 196

6. The C-terminal part of the surface-associated protein MopE of the methanotroph Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is secreted into the growth medium

   • Anne Fjellbirkeland
   • Per G. Kruger
   • Harald B. Jensen

   Original Paper Pages: 197 - 203

7. Characterization by genotypic methods of symbiotic Nostoc strains isolated from five species of Gunnera

   • Ulla Rasmussen
   • Mette M. Svenning

   Original Paper Pages: 204 - 210

8. Analysis of phenotypic diversity among host-independent mutants of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J

   • Gili Barel
   • Edouard Jurkevitch

   Original Paper Pages: 211 - 216

9. Detailed biosynthetic pathway to decaprenoxanthin diglucoside in Corynebacterium glutamicum and identification of novel intermediates

   • Philipp Krubasik
   • Shinichi Takaichi
   • Gerhard Sandmann

   Original Paper Pages: 217 - 223

10. DctA- and Dcu-independent transport of succinate in Escherichia coli: contribution of diffusion and of alternative carriers

    • Ingo Janausch
    • Ok Kim
    • Gottfried Unden

    Original Paper Pages: 224 - 230

11. Molecular characterization and heterologous expression of hypCD, the first two [NiFe] hydrogenase accessory genes of Thermococcus litoralis

    • Mária Takács
    • Gábor Rákhely
    • Kornél L. Kovács

    Short Communication Pages: 231 - 235