1. Microbial linear plasmids

   • F. Meinhardt
   • R. Schaffrath
   • M. Larsen

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 329 - 336

2. Microbially influenced corrosion of glass

   • R. Drewello
   • R. Weissmann

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 337 - 346

3. d-Lysine production from l-lysine by successive chemical racemization and microbial asymmetric degradation

   • E. Takahashi
   • M. Furui
   • T. Shibatani

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 347 - 351

4. Immobilisation of whole bacterial cells for anaerobic biotransformations

   • S. Raihan
   • N. Ahmed
   • J. R. Lloyd

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 352 - 357

5. Application of response-surface methodology to evaluate the optimum environmental conditions for the enhanced production of surfactin

   • R. Sen
   • T. Swaminathan

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 358 - 363

6. Functional roles of protein domains on rice α-amylase activity

   • M. Terashima
   • M. Hosono
   • S. Katoh

   SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 364 - 367

7. Expression of a synthetic protein-based polymer (elastomer) gene in Aspergillus nidulans

   • R. W. Herzog
   • N. K. Singh
   • H. Daniell

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 368 - 372

8. Localization and characterization of inclusion bodies in recombinant Escherichia coli cells overproducing penicillin G acylase

   • N. Sriubolmas
   • W. Panbangred
   • V. Meevootisom

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 373 - 378

9. Cloning and expression of the Bacillus sphaericus 2362 mosquitocidal genes in a non-toxic unicellular cyanobacterium, Synechococcus PCC6301

   • K. Sangthongpitag
   • R. J. Penfold
   • P. L. Rogers

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 379 - 384

10. The Propionibacterium freudenreichii hemYHBXRL gene cluster, which encodes enzymes and a regulator involved in the biosynthetic pathway from glutamate to protoheme

    • Y. Hashimoto
    • M. Yamashita
    • Y. Murooka

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 385 - 392

11. An attempt to channel the transformation of vanillic acid into vanillin by controlling methoxyhydroquinone formation in Pycnoporus cinnabarinus with cellobiose

    • L. Lesage-Meessen
    • M. Haon
    • M. Asther

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 393 - 397

12. Isolation of isoflavones from soy-based fermentations of the erythromycin-producing bacterium Saccharopolyspora erythraea

    • P. E. Hessler
    • P. E. Larsen
    • J. M. Weber

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 398 - 404

13. Isolation of freeze-tolerant laboratory strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae from proline-analogue-resistant mutants

    • H. Takagi
    • F. Iwamoto
    • S. Nakamori

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 405 - 411

14. Patterns of ligninolytic enzymes in Trametes versicolor. Distribution of extra- and intracellular enzyme activities during cultivation on glucose, wheat straw and beech wood

    • D. Schlosser
    • R. Grey
    • W. Fritsche

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 412 - 418

15. Depolymerization of low-rank coal by extracellular fungal enzyme systems. II. The ligninolytic enzymes of the coal-humic-acid-depolymerizing fungus Nematoloma frowardii b19

    • M. Hofrichter
    • W. Fritsche

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 419 - 424

16. Growth conditions of Aspergillus sp. ATHUM-3482 for polygalacturonase production

    • M. Galiotou-Panayotou
    • M. Kapantai
    • O. Kalantzi

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 425 - 429

17. Elucidation of anaplerotic pathways in Corynebacterium glutamicum via ¹³C-NMR spectroscopy and GC-MS

    • S. M. Park
    • C. Shaw-Reid
    • G. Stephanopoulos

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 430 - 440

18. Propionic acid fermentation from glycerol: comparison with conventional substrates

    • F. Barbirato
    • D. Chedaille
    • A. Bories

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 441 - 446

19. Effect of xylitol and trehalose on dry resistance of yeasts

    • I. Krallish
    • H. Jeppsson
    • B. Hahn-Hägerdal

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 447 - 451

20. Screening for fungi intensively mineralizing 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene

    • K. Scheibner
    • M. Hofrichter
    • W. Fritsche

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 452 - 457

21. Isolation and characterization of Rhodococcus rhodochrous for the degradation of the wastewater component 2-hydroxybenzothiazole

    • H. De Wever
    • S. De Cort
    • H. Verachtert

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 458 - 461

22. Bioremediation of diesel-oil-contaminated alpine soils at low temperatures

    • R. Margesin
    • F. Schinner

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 462 - 468