1. Alternative sources of natural rubber

   • H. Mooibroek
   • K. Cornish

   MINI REVIEW Pages: 355 - 365

2. Perspectives in the biological function and the technological application of polygalacturonases

   • C. Lang
   • H. Dörnenburg

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 366 - 375

3. Xylulose fermentation by mutant and wild-type strains of Zygosaccharomyces and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

   • A. Eliasson
   • E. Boles
   • B. Hahn-Hägerdal

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 376 - 382

4. Axenic cultivation of anoxygenic phototrophic bacteria, cyanobacteria, and microalgae in a new closed tubular glass photobioreactor

   • T. Hai
   • H. Ahlers
   • A. Steinbüchel

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 383 - 389

5. Soybean-milk-coagulating activity of Bacillus pumilus derives from a serine proteinase

   • M. Aoyama
   • M. Yasuda
   • F. Kato

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 390 - 395

6. Metabolic engineering of carotenoid accumulation in Escherichia coli by modulation of the isoprenoid precursor pool with expression of deoxyxylulose phosphate synthase

   • P. D. Matthews
   • E. T. Wurtzel

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 396 - 400

7. Biosynthesis of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyalkanoates) by recombinant bacteria expressing the PHA synthase gene phaC1 from Pseudomonas sp. 61-3

   • H. Matsusaki
   • H. Abe
   • Y. Doi

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 401 - 409

8. His-tagged tryparedoxin peroxidase of Trypanosoma cruzi as a tool for drug screening

   • S. A. Guerrero
   • J. A. Lopez
   • L. Flohé

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 410 - 414

9. Cloning and characterization of an epoxide hydrolase-encoding gene from Rhodotorula glutinis

   • H. Visser
   • S. Vreugdenhil
   • J. C. Verdoes

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 415 - 419

10. Sequence of PHA synthase gene from two strains of Rhodospirillum rubrum and in vivo substrate specificity of four PHA synthases across two heterologous expression systems

    • T. Clemente
    • D. Shah
    • T. Mitsky

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 420 - 429

11. Cloning of the cyclodextrin glucanotransferase gene from alkalophilic Bacillus sp. A2-5a and analysis of the raw starch-binding domain

    • K. Ohdan
    • T. Kuriki
    • S. Okada

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 430 - 434

12. Propionic acid fermentation of glycerol and glucose by Propionibacterium acidipropionici and Propionibacterium freudenreichii ssp.shermanii

    • E. H. Himmi
    • A. Bories
    • L. Hassani

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 435 - 440

13. Formation and degradation of a synthetic humic acid derived from 3-fluorocatechol

    • U. Wunderwald
    • G. Kreisel
    • M. Hofrichter

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 441 - 446

14. Evidence for diverse oxidations in the catabolism of toluene by Rhodococcus rhodochrous strain OFS

    • L. A. Vanderberg
    • R. Krieger-Grumbine
    • M. N. Taylor

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 447 - 452

15. Polyhydroxyalkanoate accumulation in Burkholderia sp.: a molecular approach to elucidate the genes involved in the formation of two homopolymers consisting of short-chain-length 3-hydroxyalkanoic acids

    • M. F. de Andrade Rodrigues
    • H. E. Valentin
    • A. Steinbüchel

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 453 - 460

16. Simultaneous production of high activities of thermostable endoglucanase and β-glucosidase by the wild thermophilic fungus Thermoascus aurantiacus

    • I. Gomes
    • J. Gomes
    • W. Steiner

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 461 - 468

17. Characteristics of glycosylated streptokinase secreted from Pichia pastoris: enhanced resistance of SK to proteolysis by glycosylation

    • J. Pratap
    • G. Rajamohan
    • K. L. Dikshit

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 469 - 475

18. Combined action of redox potential and pH on heat resistance and growth recovery of sublethally heat-damaged Escherichia coli

    • C. Riondet
    • R. Cachon
    • C. Diviès

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 476 - 479

19. APHE-3, a spore-associated antibiotic of Streptomyces griseocarneus NCIMB 40447

    • R. Cruz
    • M. E. Arias
    • J. Soliveri

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 480 - 483

20. Dechlorination of polychlorinated methanes by a sequential methanogenic-denitrifying bioreactor system

    • Z. Yu
    • G. B. Smith

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 484 - 489