1. Spotlights on advances in mycotoxin research

   • Markus Bohnert
   • Barbara Wackler
   • Dirk Hoffmeister

   Mini-Review 08 April 2010 Pages: 1 - 7

   

2. Biotransformation of ginsenosides by hydrolyzing the sugar moieties of ginsenosides using microbial glycosidases

   • Chang-Su Park
   • Mi-Hyun Yoo
   • Deok-Kun Oh

   Mini-Review 08 April 2010 Pages: 9 - 19

   

3. Bikaverin production and applications

   • M. Carmen Limón
   • Roberto Rodríguez-Ortiz
   • Javier Avalos

   Mini-Review 08 April 2010 Pages: 21 - 29

   

4. Pathogenicity, virulence factors, and strategies to fight against Burkholderia cepacia complex pathogens and related species

   • Jorge H. Leitão
   • Sílvia A. Sousa
   • Leonilde M. Moreira

   Mini-Review 14 April 2010 Pages: 31 - 40

   

5. Enatiomerically pure hydroxycarboxylic acids: current approaches and future perspectives

   • Qun Ren
   • Katinka Ruth
   • Manfred Zinn

   Mini-Review Open access 15 April 2010 Pages: 41 - 52

   

6. Engineering of microorganisms towards recovery of rare metal ions

   • Kouichi Kuroda
   • Mitsuyoshi Ueda

   Mini-Review 15 April 2010 Pages: 53 - 60

   

7. Removal of the endocrine disrupter butyl benzyl phthalate from the environment

   • Subhankar Chatterjee
   • Petr Karlovsky

   Mini-Review Open access 16 April 2010 Pages: 61 - 73

   

8. Synthetic biology approaches in drug discovery and pharmaceutical biotechnology

   • Heinz Neumann
   • Petra Neumann-Staubitz

   Mini-Review Open access 16 April 2010 Pages: 75 - 86

   

9. Honey bee pathology: current threats to honey bees and beekeeping

   • Elke Genersch

   Mini-Review 17 April 2010 Pages: 87 - 97

   

10. Current state and perspectives of fungal DNA barcoding and rapid identification procedures

    • Dominik Begerow
    • Henrik Nilsson
    • Wolfgang Maier

    Mini-Review 20 April 2010 Pages: 99 - 108

    

11. Repeated batch fermentation from raw starch using a maltose transporter and amylase expressing diploid yeast strain

    • Syun-ichi Yamakawa
    • Ryosuke Yamada
    • Akihiko Kondo

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 24 February 2010 Pages: 109 - 115

    

12. Evaluation of the biocompatibile ionic liquid 1-methyl-3-methylimidazolium dimethylphosphite pretreatment of corn cob for improved saccharification

    • Qiang Li
    • Xinglin Jiang
    • Jianming Yang

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 25 February 2010 Pages: 117 - 126

    

13. Fermentation and metabolic characteristics of Gluconacetobacter oboediens for different carbon sources

    • Dayanidhi Sarkar
    • Masahiro Yabusaki
    • Kazuyuki Shimizu

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 27 February 2010 Pages: 127 - 136

    

14. Effects of biotic and abiotic elicitors on cell growth and tanshinone accumulation in Salvia miltiorrhiza cell cultures

    • Jiang-Lin Zhao
    • Li-Gang Zhou
    • Jian-Yong Wu

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 02 March 2010 Pages: 137 - 144

    

15. Development of a fermentation process based on a defined medium for the production of pregallidermin, a nontoxic precursor of the lantibiotic gallidermin

    • Giovanni Medaglia
    • Sven Panke

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 06 March 2010 Pages: 145 - 157

    

16. Engineering of sugar metabolism of Corynebacterium glutamicum for production of amino acid l-alanine under oxygen deprivation

    • Toru Jojima
    • Miho Fujii
    • Hideaki Yukawa

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 09 March 2010 Pages: 159 - 165

    

17. Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 as a model for rhamnolipid production in bioreactor systems

    • Markus Michael Müller
    • Barbara Hörmann
    • Rudolf Hausmann

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 09 March 2010 Pages: 167 - 174

    

18. Glutathione accumulation in ethanol-stat fed-batch culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with a switch to cysteine feeding

    • Ildar Nisamedtinov
    • Kaspar Kevvai
    • Toomas Paalme

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 10 March 2010 Pages: 175 - 183

    

19. Asymmetric synthesis of (S)-3-chloro-1-phenyl-1-propanol using Saccharomyces cerevisiae reductase with high enantioselectivity

    • Yun Hee Choi
    • Hye Jeong Choi
    • Hyung-Kwoun Kim

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 29 January 2010 Pages: 185 - 193

    

20. Thermostable feruloyl esterase for the bioproduction of ferulic acid from triticale bran

    • Kofi Abokitse
    • Meiqun Wu
    • Peter C. K. Lau

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 02 February 2010 Pages: 195 - 203

    

21. Cloning and characterization of a ribitol dehydrogenase from Zymomonas mobilis

    • Hee-Jung Moon
    • Manish Tiwari
    • Jung-Kul Lee

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 02 February 2010 Pages: 205 - 214

    

22. Characterization of a Δ12-fatty acid desaturase gene from Ceriporiopsis subvermispora, a selective lignin-degrading fungus

    • Takahito Watanabe
    • Saeko Tsuda
    • Takashi Watanabe

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 13 February 2010 Pages: 215 - 224

    

23. Cloning, expression, and characterization of a thermostable glucoamylase from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis MB4

    • Yingying Zheng
    • Yanfen Xue
    • Yanhe Ma

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 13 February 2010 Pages: 225 - 233

    

24. Enzymatic fragmentation of the antimicrobial peptides casocidin and isracidin by Streptococcus thermophilus and Lactobacillus delbrueckii ssp. bulgaricus

    • George A. Somkuti
    • Moushumi Paul

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 18 February 2010 Pages: 235 - 242

    

25. Construction of a Bacillus thuringiensis engineered strain with high toxicity and broad pesticidal spectrum against coleopteran insects

    • Jingjing Liu
    • Guixin Yan
    • Dafang Huang

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 18 February 2010 Pages: 243 - 249

    

26. A novel family 9 β-1,3(4)-glucanase from thermoacidophilic Alicyclobacillus sp. A4 with potential applications in the brewing industry

    • Yingguo Bai
    • Jianshe Wang
    • Bin Yao

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 19 February 2010 Pages: 251 - 259

    

27. Use of an inducible promoter for antibiotic production in a heterologous host

    • Volker Dangel
    • Lucia Westrich
    • Bertolt Gust

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 02 February 2010 Pages: 261 - 269

    

28. Increasing unsaturated fatty acid contents in Escherichia coli by coexpression of three different genes

    • Yujin Cao
    • Jianming Yang
    • Wei Liu

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 05 February 2010 Pages: 271 - 280

    

29. Construction of an engineered strain free of antibiotic resistance gene markers for simultaneous mineralization of methyl parathion and ortho-nitrophenol

    • Yan Liu
    • Qing Wei
    • Ning-Yi Zhou

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 16 February 2010 Pages: 281 - 287

    

30. Construction of a BmNPV polyhedrin-plus Bac-to-Bac baculovirus expression system for application in silkworm, Bombyx mori

    • Xingwei Xiang
    • Rui Yang
    • J. L. Cenis

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 24 February 2010 Pages: 289 - 295

    

31. Identification and characterization of genes involved in naphthalene degradation in Rhodococcus opacus R7

    • Patrizia Di Gennaro
    • Paola Terreni
    • Giuseppina Bestetti

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 02 March 2010 Pages: 297 - 308

    

32. Chemoinformatics-assisted development of new anti-biofilm compounds

    • Anna Dürig
    • Irene Kouskoumvekaki
    • Per Klemm

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 05 March 2010 Pages: 309 - 317

    

33. Searching for monooxygenases and hydrolases in bacteria from an extreme environment

    • Georgiana F. da Cruz
    • Célio F. F. Angolini
    • Anita J. Marsaioli

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 05 March 2010 Pages: 319 - 329

    

34. Effects of chemically and electrochemically dosed chlorine on Escherichia coli and Legionella beliardensis assessed by flow cytometry

    • Yingying Wang
    • Lieve Claeys
    • Nico Boon

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 30 March 2010 Pages: 331 - 341

    

35. An optimized RNA amplification method for prokaryotic expression profiling analysis

    • Feng-Lin Cao
    • Han-Hua Liu
    • Liang Zhang

    Methods 02 May 2010 Pages: 343 - 352

    

36. Microbial community dynamics in anaerobic bioreactors and algal tanks treating piggery wastewater

    • Sayali S. Patil
    • Martin S. Kumar
    • Andrew S. Ball

    Environmental Biotechnology 27 March 2010 Pages: 353 - 363

    

37. The trans/cis ratio of unsaturated fatty acids is not applicable as biomarker for environmental stress in case of long-term contaminated habitats

    • Janett Fischer
    • Frieder Schauer
    • Hermann J. Heipieper

    Environmental Biotechnology 30 March 2010 Pages: 365 - 371

    

38. Formation of soluble microbial products by activated sludge under anoxic conditions

    • Wen-Ming Xie
    • Bing-Jie Ni
    • Min Yang

    Environmental Biotechnology 02 April 2010 Pages: 373 - 382

    

39. Electricity generation from glucose by a Klebsiella sp. in microbial fuel cells

    • Xue Xia
    • Xiao-xin Cao
    • Gen-gui Zhao

    Bioenergy and Biofuels 24 April 2010 Pages: 383 - 390