1. Wide pH range tolerance in extremophiles: towards understanding an important phenomenon for future biotechnology

   • Kusum Dhakar
   • Anita Pandey

   Mini-Review 16 January 2016 Pages: 2499 - 2510

   

2. Natural colorants from filamentous fungi

   • Fábio Aurélio Esteves Torres
   • Bruna Regina Zaccarim
   • Valéria Carvalho Santos-Ebinuma

   Mini-Review 18 January 2016 Pages: 2511 - 2521

   

3. Metabolic engineering for amino-, oligo-, and polysugar production in microbes

   • Gazi Sakir Hossain
   • Hyun-dong Shin
   • Long Liu

   Mini-Review 19 January 2016 Pages: 2523 - 2533

   

4. Immobilization of cells and enzymes to LentiKats®

   • Vladimír Krasňan
   • Radek Stloukal
   • Martin Rebroš

   Mini-Review 21 January 2016 Pages: 2535 - 2553

   

5. Biogenic selenium nanoparticles: current status and future prospects

   • Sweety A. Wadhwani
   • Utkarsha U. Shedbalkar
   • Balu A. Chopade

   Mini-Review 22 January 2016 Pages: 2555 - 2566

   

6. Fungal biodiversity to biotechnology

   • Felipe S. Chambergo
   • Estela Y. Valencia

   Mini-Review 25 January 2016 Pages: 2567 - 2577

7. Threonine aldolases: perspectives in engineering and screening the enzymes with enhanced substrate and stereo specificities

   • Kateryna Fesko

   Mini-Review Open access 26 January 2016 Pages: 2579 - 2590

   

8. Bioconcrete: next generation of self-healing concrete

   • Mostafa Seifan
   • Ali Khajeh Samani
   • Aydin Berenjian

   Mini-Review 29 January 2016 Pages: 2591 - 2602

   

9. An update on polysaccharide-based nanomaterials for antimicrobial applications

   • Divya Arora
   • Nisha Sharma
   • Sundeep Jaglan

   Mini-Review 30 January 2016 Pages: 2603 - 2615

10. Microbial degradation of fluorinated drugs: biochemical pathways, impacts on the environment and potential applications

    • Cormac D. Murphy

    Mini-Review 01 February 2016 Pages: 2617 - 2627

    

11. Optimization of Lactobacillus acidophilus cultivation using taro waste and evaluation of its biological activity

    • Shu-Chen Hsieh
    • Jui-Ming Liu
    • Kuan-Chen Cheng

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 17 November 2015 Pages: 2629 - 2639

    

12. Constitutive overexpression of asm18 increases the production and diversity of maytansinoids in Actinosynnema pretiosum

    • Shanren Li
    • Chunhua Lu
    • Yuemao Shen

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 17 November 2015 Pages: 2641 - 2649

    

13. Enhancement of UDPG synthetic pathway improves ansamitocin production in Actinosynnem pretiosum

    • Yuxiang Fan
    • Mengjiang Zhao
    • Qiang Hua

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 19 November 2015 Pages: 2651 - 2662

    

14. Effects of genetic modifications and fermentation conditions on 2,3-butanediol production by alkaliphilic Bacillus subtilis

    • Aneta M. Białkowska
    • Marzena Jędrzejczak-Krzepkowska
    • Marianna Turkiewicz

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 21 November 2015 Pages: 2663 - 2676

    

15. TNF-α produced by SEC2 mutant (SAM-3)-activated human T cells induces apoptosis of HepG2 cells

    • Guojun Zhang
    • Mingkai Xu
    • Chenggang Zhang

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 04 November 2015 Pages: 2677 - 2684

    

16. FudC, a protein primarily responsible for furfural detoxification in Corynebacterium glutamicum

    • Yota Tsuge
    • Motonori Kudou
    • Akihiko Kondo

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 06 November 2015 Pages: 2685 - 2692

    

17. Evaluation of a recombinant insect-derived amylase performance in simultaneous saccharification and fermentation process with industrial yeasts

    • Ewelina Celińska
    • Monika Borkowska
    • Wojciech Białas

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins Open access 07 November 2015 Pages: 2693 - 2707

    

18. Overcoming hydrolysis of raw corn starch under industrial conditions with Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 9945a α-amylase

    • Marinela Šokarda Slavić
    • Milja Pešić
    • Nataša Božić

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 07 November 2015 Pages: 2709 - 2719

    

19. Application of urea–agarose gel electrophoresis to select non-redundant 16S rRNAs for taxonomic studies: palladium(II) removal bacteria

    • Ana Assunção
    • Maria Clara Costa
    • Jorge Dias Carlier

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 21 November 2015 Pages: 2721 - 2735

    

20. Metabolic engineering and adaptive evolution for efficient production of D-lactic acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    • Seung-Ho Baek
    • Eunice Y. Kwon
    • Ji-Sook Hahn

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 23 November 2015 Pages: 2737 - 2748

    

21. Characterization of a gamma-butyrolactone synthetase gene homologue (stcA) involved in bafilomycin production and aerial mycelium formation in Streptomyces sp. SBI034

    • Bungonsiri Intra
    • Jirayut Euanorasetr
    • Watanalai Panbangred

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 25 November 2015 Pages: 2749 - 2760

    

22. Identification of beer spoilage microorganisms using the MALDI Biotyper platform

    • Michelle Elizabeth Turvey
    • Florian Weiland
    • Peter Hoffmann

    Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics 09 February 2016 Pages: 2761 - 2773

    

23. Deletion of poxB, pta, and ackA improves 1,3-propanediol production by Klebsiella pneumoniae

    • Jie Lin
    • Yongqiang Zhang
    • Heng Gong

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 23 December 2015 Pages: 2775 - 2784

    

24. TAT-BoNT/A_(1–448), a novel fusion protein as a therapeutic agent: analysis of transcutaneous delivery and enzyme activity

    • Parvaneh Saffarian
    • Shahin Najar Peerayeh
    • Abbas Ali Imani Fooladi

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 28 December 2015 Pages: 2785 - 2795

    

25. New ΦBT1 site-specific integrative vectors with neutral phenotype in Streptomyces

    • Nathaly Gonzalez-Quiñonez
    • María Teresa López-García
    • Ángel Manteca

    Methods and protocols 13 January 2016 Pages: 2797 - 2808

    

26. Development of sandwich ELISAs that can distinguish different types of coxsackievirus A16 viral particles

    • Xiangzhong Ye
    • Lisheng Yang
    • Ningshao Xia

    Methods and protocols 15 January 2016 Pages: 2809 - 2815

    

27. Temporal–spatial variation of bacterial diversity in estuary sediments in the south of Zhejiang Province, China

    • Xiao-Ming Lu
    • Chang Chen
    • Jian-Jun Chen

    Environmental biotechnology 16 November 2015 Pages: 2817 - 2828

    

28. A synergistic interaction between salt-tolerant Pseudomonas and Mesorhizobium strains improves growth and symbiotic performance of liquorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fish.) under salt stress

    • Dilfuza Egamberdieva
    • Li Li
    • Leena A. Räsänen

    Environmental biotechnology 19 November 2015 Pages: 2829 - 2841

    

29. Applying trait-function relationships for microbial plant decomposition to predict medium longevity in pollution control biofilters

    • Jason P. Oliver
    • Jonathan S. Schilling

    Environmental biotechnology 21 November 2015 Pages: 2843 - 2853

    

30. Assessment of microbial viability in municipal sludge following ultrasound and microwave pretreatments and resulting impacts on the efficiency of anaerobic sludge digestion

    • Monica Angela Cella
    • Deniz Akgul
    • Cigdem Eskicioglu

    Environmental biotechnology 21 November 2015 Pages: 2855 - 2868

    

31. Binding and molecular dynamic studies of sesquiterpenes (2R-acetoxymethyl-1,3,3-trimethyl-4t-(3-methyl-2-buten-1-yl)-1t-cyclohexanol) derived from marine Streptomyces sp. VITJS8 as potential anticancer agent

    • S. Jemimah Naine
    • C. Subathra Devi
    • D. Thirumal Kumar

    Environmental biotechnology 21 November 2015 Pages: 2869 - 2882

    

32. Synthesis and characterization of the fluorescent probes for the labeling of Microthrix parvicella

    • Songya Li
    • Xuening Fei
    • Lingyun Cao

    Environmental biotechnology 25 November 2015 Pages: 2883 - 2894

    

33. Effect of dissolved oxygen on elemental sulfur generation in sulfide and nitrate removal process: characterization, pathway, and microbial community analysis

    • Xiaowei Wang
    • Yu Zhang
    • Jiti Zhou

    Environmental biotechnology 25 November 2015 Pages: 2895 - 2905

    

34. Clostridium thermocellum releases coumaric acid during degradation of untreated grasses by the action of an unknown enzyme

    • Christopher D. Herring
    • Philip G. Thorne
    • Lee R. Lynd

    Bioenergy and biofuels 14 January 2016 Pages: 2907 - 2915

    

35. Hydrogen production under salt stress conditions by a freshwater Rhodopseudomonas palustris strain

    • Alessandra Adessi
    • Margherita Concato
    • Roberto De Philippis

    Bioenergy and biofuels 14 January 2016 Pages: 2917 - 2926