1. Trehalose degradation and glucose efflux precede cell ejection during germination of heat-resistant ascospores of Talaromyces macrosporus

   • Jan Dijksterhuis
   • Kenneth G. van Driel
   • Edwin P. Kets

   Original Paper Pages: 1 - 7

2. Isolation of an anaerobic intestinal bacterium capable of cleaving the C-ring of the isoflavonoid daidzein

   • Hor-Gil Hur
   • Richard D. Beger
   • Fatemeh Rafii

   Original Paper Pages: 8 - 12

3. TfdD_II, one of the two chloromuconate cycloisomerases of Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 (pJP4), cannot efficiently convert 2-chloro-cis,cis-muconate to trans-dienelactone to allow growth on 3-chlorobenzoate

   • Caroline M. Laemmli
   • René Schönenberger
   • Jan R. van der Meer

   Original Paper Pages: 13 - 25

4. Phylogenetic and metabolic diversity of bacteria degrading aromatic compounds under denitrifying conditions, and description of Thauera phenylacetica sp. nov., Thauera aminoaromatica sp. nov., and Azoarcus buckelii sp. nov.

   • Tahar Mechichi
   • Erko Stackebrandt
   • Georg Fuchs

   Original Paper Pages: 26 - 35

5. Involvement of the Sinorhizobium meliloti leuA gene in activation of nodulation genes by NodD1 and luteolin

   • Julio M. Sanjuán-Pinilla
   • Socorro Muñoz
   • Juan Sanjuán

   Original Paper Pages: 36 - 44

6. Characterization of Porphyrobacter sanguineus sp. nov., an aerobic bacteriochlorophyll-containing bacterium capable of degrading biphenyl and dibenzofuran

   • Akira Hiraishi
   • Yoshitomo Yonemitsu
   • Kazuyoshi Kawahara

   Original Paper Pages: 45 - 52

7. Cysteine-mediated electron transfer in syntrophic acetate oxidation by cocultures of Geobacter sulfurreducens and Wolinella succinogenes

   • Jan Kaden
   • Alexander S. Galushko
   • Bernhard Schink

   Original Paper Pages: 53 - 58

8. Intracellular localization of the particulate methane monooxygenase and methanol dehydrogenase in Methylomicrobium album BG8

   • Christine A. Brantner
   • Charles C. Remsen
   • Mary Collins

   Original Paper Pages: 59 - 64

9. Aciduric Proteobacteria isolated from pH 2.9 soil

   • Patrick Curtis
   • Cindy H. Nakatsu
   • Allan Konopka

   Original Paper Pages: 65 - 70

10. Purification and characterization of an NADH oxidase from Eubacterium ramulus

    • Claudia Herles
    • Annett Braune
    • Michael Blaut

    Original Paper Pages: 71 - 74

11. Isolation of an anaerobic intestinal bacterium capable of cleaving the C-ring of the isoflavonoid daidzein

    • Hor-Gil Hur
    • Richard D. Beger
    • Fatemeh Rafii

    Erratum Pages: 75 - 75