1. Biotechnology of succinic acid production and markets for derived industrial products

   • J. G. Zeikus
   • M. K. Jain
   • P. Elankovan

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 545 - 552

2. Recent trends in the biochemistry of surfactin

   • F. Peypoux
   • J. M. Bonmatin
   • J. Wallach

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 553 - 563

3. Glucose overflow metabolism and mixed-acid fermentation in aerobic large-scale fed-batch processes with Escherichia coli

   • B. Xu
   • M. Jahic
   • S.-O. Enfors

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 564 - 571

4. Colonisation of phase II compost by biotypes of Trichoderma harzianum and their effect on mushroom yield and quality

   • H. S. S. Sharma
   • M. Kilpatrick
   • L. Burns

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 572 - 578

5. Metabolic responses to different glucose and glutamine levels in baby hamster kidney cell culture

   • H. J. Cruz
   • A. S. Ferreira
   • M. J. T. Carrondo

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 579 - 585

6. A new route to l-threo-3-[4-(methylthio)phenylserine], a key intermediate for the synthesis of antibiotics: recombinant low-specificity d-threonine aldolase-catalyzed stereospecific resolution

   • J. Q. Liu
   • M. Odani
   • H. Yamada

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 586 - 591

7. Functionality of biphenyl 2,3-dioxygenase components in naphthalene 1,2-dioxygenase

   • D. Barriault
   • M. Sylvestre

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 592 - 597

8. Substrate specificities of the chloromuconate cycloisomerases from Pseudomonas sp. B13, Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 and Pseudomonas sp. P51

   • M. D. Vollmer
   • U. Schell
   • M. Schlömann

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 598 - 605

9. Purification and mode of action of two different arabinoxylan arabinofuranohydrolases from Bifidobacterium adolescentis DSM 20083

   • K. M. J. Van Laere
   • C. H. L. Voragen
   • A. G. J. Voragen

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 606 - 613

10. Development of a bioconversion process for production of cis-1S,2R-indandiol from indene by recombinant Escherichia coli constructs

    • J. Reddy
    • C. Lee
    • J. Zhang

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 614 - 620

11. Construction of a flocculent Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermenting lactose

    • L. Domingues
    • J. A. Teixeira
    • N. Lima

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 621 - 626

12. High-level expression of a recombinant protein in Klebsiella planticola owing to induced secretion into the culture medium

    • G. Miksch
    • R. Neitzel
    • E. Flaschel

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 627 - 632

13. The role of the alternative respiratory pathway in the stimulation of cephalosporin C formation by soybean oil in Acremonium chrysogenum

    • L. Karaffa
    • E. Sándor
    • A. Szentirmai

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 633 - 638

14. Polyphosphate formation by Acinetobacter johnsonii 210A: effect of cellular energy status and phosphate-specific transport system

    • E. W. J. van Niel
    • J. H. de Best
    • G. J. J. Kortstee

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 639 - 646

15. Effects of culture conditions on β-poly(l-malate) production by Physarum polycephalum

    • B. S. Lee
    • E. Holler

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 647 - 652

16. An image analysis method for determination of spatial colonization patterns of bacteria in plant rhizosphere

    • D. P. Roberts
    • D. Y. Kobayashi
    • N. M. Short Jr

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 653 - 658

17. Characterization of Lactobacillus collinoides response to heat, acid and ethanol treatments

    • J. M. Laplace
    • N. Sauvageot
    • Y. Auffray

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 659 - 663

18. An electrochemical method for the measurements of substrate-oxidizing activity of acetic acid bacteria using a carbon-paste electrode modified with immobilized bacteria

    • T. Kondo
    • T. Ikeda

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 664 - 668

19. Effect of temperature and pH on growth and product formation of Lactococcus lactis ssp. lactis ATCC 19435 growing on maltose

    • K. Hofvendahl
    • E. W. J. van Niel
    • B. Hahn-Hägerdal

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 669 - 672

20. Characterisation of a starch-hydrolysing enzyme of Aspergillus niger

    • C. Suresh
    • A. K. Dubey
    • N. G. Karanth

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 673 - 675

21. Transformation of N ′,N ′-dimethyl-N -(hydroxyphenyl)ureas by laccase from the white rot fungus Trametes versicolor

    • C. Jolivalt
    • A. Raynal
    • C. Mougin

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 676 - 681

22. Fermented whey – an inexpensive feed source for a laboratory-scale selenium-bioremediation reactor system inoculated with Thauera selenatis

    • T. L. Bledsoe
    • A. W. Cantafio
    • J. M. Macy

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 682 - 685

23. Zn biosorption by Rhizopus arrhizus and other fungi

    • J. L. Zhou

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 686 - 693

24. Tetrachloroethene dechlorination kinetics by Dehalospirillum multivorans immobilized in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors

    • C. Hörber
    • N. Christensen
    • B. Kiær Ahring

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 694 - 699