1. Propionibacterium spp.—source of propionic acid, vitamin B12, and other metabolites important for the industry

   • Kamil Piwowarek
   • Edyta Lipińska
   • Iwona Ścibisz

   Mini-Review Open access 22 November 2017 Pages: 515 - 538

   

2. Expression of single-domain antibody in different systems

   • Yongkang Liu
   • He Huang

   Mini-Review 25 November 2017 Pages: 539 - 551

   

3. Is bacterial vaginosis a disease?

   • Gregor Reid

   Mini-Review 25 November 2017 Pages: 553 - 558

4. From molecular engineering to process engineering: development of high-throughput screening methods in enzyme directed evolution

   • Lidan Ye
   • Chengcheng Yang
   • Hongwei Yu

   Mini-Review 27 November 2017 Pages: 559 - 567

   

5. Starter cultures as biocontrol strategy to prevent Brettanomyces bruxellensis proliferation in wine

   • Carmen Berbegal
   • Giuseppe Spano
   • Vittorio Capozzi

   Mini-Review Open access 30 November 2017 Pages: 569 - 576

   

6. The implication of probiotics in the prevention of dental caries

   • Tzu-Hsing Lin
   • Chih-Hui Lin
   • Tzu-Ming Pan

   Mini-Review 30 November 2017 Pages: 577 - 586

   

7. Erythritol as sweetener—wherefrom and whereto?

   • K. Regnat
   • R. L. Mach
   • A. R. Mach-Aigner

   Mini-Review Open access 01 December 2017 Pages: 587 - 595

   

8. Bacterial perspectives on the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes in domestic wastewater bio-treatment systems: beneficiary to victim

   • Dong Wu
   • Jan Dolfing
   • Bing Xie

   Mini-Review 02 December 2017 Pages: 597 - 604

   

9. Fibroblast growth factor 9 subfamily and the heart

   • Shen Wang
   • Yong Li
   • Haishan Tian

   Mini-Review 02 December 2017 Pages: 605 - 613

   

10. Secondary metabolism in Fusarium fujikuroi: strategies to unravel the function of biosynthetic pathways

    • Slavica Janevska
    • Bettina Tudzynski

    Mini-Review 04 December 2017 Pages: 615 - 630

    

11. Novel polycondensed biopolyamide generated from biomass-derived 4-aminohydrocinnamic acid

    • Yukie Kawasaki
    • Nag Aniruddha
    • Naoki Takaya

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 17 November 2017 Pages: 631 - 639

    

12. Production of arabitol from enzymatic hydrolysate of soybean flour by Debaryomyces hansenii fermentation

    • Abdullah A. Loman
    • S. M. M. Islam
    • Lu-Kwang Ju

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 17 November 2017 Pages: 641 - 653

    

13. RMCE-based insect cell platform to produce membrane proteins captured on HIV-1 Gag virus-like particles

    • João Vidigal
    • Bárbara Fernandes
    • Ana P. Teixeira

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 16 November 2017 Pages: 655 - 666

    

14. Teaching an old pET new tricks: tuning of inclusion body formation and properties by a mixed feed system in E. coli

    • David J. Wurm
    • Julian Quehenberger
    • Oliver Spadiut

    Biotechnological products and process engineering Open access 20 November 2017 Pages: 667 - 676

    

15. Production of Monascus pigments as extracellular crystals by cell suspension culture

    • Fengling Lu
    • Lujie Liu
    • Zhilong Wang

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 25 November 2017 Pages: 677 - 687

    

16. Amexanthomycins A–J, pentangular polyphenols produced by Amycolatopsis mediterranei S699∆rifA

    • Xiaomei Li
    • Xingkang Wu
    • Yuemao Shen

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 27 November 2017 Pages: 689 - 702

    

17. Enhanced avermectin production by Streptomyces avermitilis ATCC 31267 using high-throughput screening aided by fluorescence-activated cell sorting

    • Xiaomei Cao
    • Zhengshan Luo
    • Jingwen Zhou

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 29 November 2017 Pages: 703 - 712

    

18. Fusion of DNA-binding domain of Pyrococcus furiosus ligase with TaqStoffel DNA polymerase as a useful tool in PCR with difficult targets

    • Marta Śpibida
    • Beata Krawczyk
    • Marcin Olszewski

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins Open access 04 November 2017 Pages: 713 - 721

    

19. Whole-cell-dependent biosynthesis of sulfo-conjugate using human sulfotransferase expressing budding yeast

    • Miyu Nishikawa
    • Yuuka Masuyama
    • Shinichi Ikushiro

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 13 November 2017 Pages: 723 - 732

    

20. Enhanced catalytic efficiency and enantioselectivity of epoxide hydrolase from Agrobacterium radiobacter AD1 by iterative saturation mutagenesis for (R)-epichlorohydrin synthesis

    • Shu-Ping Zou
    • Yu-Guo Zheng
    • Zhi-Qiang Liu

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 18 November 2017 Pages: 733 - 742

    

21. Extensive hydrolysis of raw rice starch by a chimeric α-amylase engineered with α-amylase (AmyP) and a starch-binding domain from Cryptococcus sp. S-2

    • Hui Peng
    • Rui Li
    • Yi Gao

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 20 November 2017 Pages: 743 - 750

    

22. KfoA, the UDP-glucose-4-epimerase of Escherichia coli strain O5:K4:H4, shows preference for acetylated substrates

    • Hao-Miao Zhu
    • Bin Sun
    • Ju-Zheng Sheng

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 20 November 2017 Pages: 751 - 761

    

23. ATPase activity regulation by leader peptide processing of ABC transporter maturation and secretion protein, NukT, for lantibiotic nukacin ISK-1

    • Sen Zheng
    • Jun-ichi Nagao
    • Kenji Sonomoto

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 22 November 2017 Pages: 763 - 772

    

24. Stabilization of multimeric sucrose synthase from Acidithiobacillus caldus via immobilization and post-immobilization techniques for synthesis of UDP-glucose

    • Lara Trobo-Maseda
    • Alejandro H. Orrego
    • Javier Rocha-Martin

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 25 November 2017 Pages: 773 - 787

    

25. Biosynthesis of 2-aminooctanoic acid and its use to terminally modify a lactoferricin B peptide derivative for improved antimicrobial activity

    • Sarah A. Almahboub
    • Tanja Narancic
    • Kevin E. O’Connor

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 25 November 2017 Pages: 789 - 799

    

26. Metabolic pathway of 6-aminohexanoate in the nylon oligomer-degrading bacterium Arthrobacter sp. KI72: identification of the enzymes responsible for the conversion of 6-aminohexanoate to adipate

    • Ikki Takehara
    • Tsubasa Fujii
    • Seiji Negoro

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 29 November 2017 Pages: 801 - 814

    

27. Correction to: Metabolic pathway of 6-aminohexanoate in the nylon oligomer-degrading bacterium Arthrobacter sp. KI72: identification of the enzymes responsible for the conversion of 6-aminohexanoate to adipate

    • Ikki Takehara
    • Tsubasa Fujii
    • Seiji Negoro

    Correction 12 December 2017 Pages: 815 - 815

28. Fluorescent pseudomonads pursue media-dependent strategies to inhibit growth of pathogenic Verticillium fungi

    • Kai Nesemann
    • Susanna A. Braus-Stromeyer
    • Gerhard H. Braus

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 18 November 2017 Pages: 817 - 831

    

29. Type IV pilus biogenesis genes and their roles in biofilm formation in the biological control agent Lysobacter enzymogenes OH11

    • Jing Xia
    • Jiaojiao Chen
    • Fengquan Liu

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 13 November 2017 Pages: 833 - 846

    

30. Functional analysis of the dehydratase domains of a PUFA synthase from Thraustochytrium in Escherichia coli

    • Xi Xie
    • Dauenpen Meesapyodsuk
    • Xiao Qiu

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 25 November 2017 Pages: 847 - 856

    

31. Increased heterologous production of the antitumoral polyketide mithramycin A by engineered Streptomyces lividans TK24 strains

    • Renata Novakova
    • Luz Elena Núñez
    • Jan Kormanec

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 01 December 2017 Pages: 857 - 869

    

32. Correction to: Increased heterologous production of the antitumoral polyketide mithramycin a by engineered Streptomyces lividans TK24 strains

    • Renata Novakova
    • Luz Elena Núñez
    • Jan Kormanec

    Correction 27 December 2017 Pages: 871 - 871

33. Development of a high-copy-number plasmid via adaptive laboratory evolution of Corynebacterium glutamicum

    • Jae Woong Choi
    • Sung Sun Yim
    • Ki Jun Jeong

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 25 November 2017 Pages: 873 - 883

    

34. Novel biotechnological platform based on baculovirus occlusion bodies carrying Babesia bovis small antigenic peptides for the design of a diagnostic enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA)

    • M. G. López
    • H. M. Pallarés
    • S. E. Wilkowsky

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 27 November 2017 Pages: 885 - 896

    

35. Deep sequencing analysis of transcriptomes in Aspergillus oryzae in response to salinity stress

    • Bin He
    • Long Ma
    • Bin Zeng

    Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics 03 November 2017 Pages: 897 - 906

    

36. Identification of tomato miRNAs responsive to root colonization by endophytic Pochonia chlamydosporia

    • Isabella Pentimone
    • Ricardo Lebrón
    • Aurelio Ciancio

    Genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics 05 November 2017 Pages: 907 - 919

    

37. Application of directed evolution to develop ethanol tolerant Oenococcus oeni for more efficient malolactic fermentation

    • Alice L. Betteridge
    • Krista M. Sumby
    • Vladimir Jiranek

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 17 November 2017 Pages: 921 - 932

    

38. Encapsulation of E. coli in biomimetic and Fe₃O₄-doped hydrogel: structural and viability analyses

    • Sabella Jelimo Kiprono
    • Muhammad Wajid Ullah
    • Guang Yang

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 23 November 2017 Pages: 933 - 944

    

39. Improved production of dibenzocyclooctadiene lignans in the elicited microshoot cultures of Schisandra chinensis (Chinese magnolia vine)

    • Agnieszka Szopa
    • Adam Kokotkiewicz
    • Halina Ekiert

    Applied microbial and cell physiology Open access 27 November 2017 Pages: 945 - 959

    

40. Expression and characterization of a recombinant porcinized antibody against the E2 protein of classical swine fever virus

    • Shucheng Chen
    • Su Li
    • Hua-Ji Qiu

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 28 November 2017 Pages: 961 - 970

    

41. A guard-killer phage cocktail effectively lyses the host and inhibits the development of phage-resistant strains of Escherichia coli

    • Ling Yu
    • Shuang Wang
    • Liancheng Lei

    Methods and protocols 17 November 2017 Pages: 971 - 983

    

42. Simultaneous detection of NADPH consumption and H₂O₂ production using the Ampliflu™ Red assay for screening of P450 activities and uncoupling

    • Lisa K. Morlock
    • Dominique Böttcher
    • Uwe T. Bornscheuer

    Methods and protocols 17 November 2017 Pages: 985 - 994

    

43. Characterization of oligotrophic AnAOB culture: morphological, physiological, and ecological features

    • Qian-Yi Hu
    • Da Kang
    • Ping Zheng

    Environmental biotechnology 27 November 2017 Pages: 995 - 1003

    

44. Influence of polyaluminum chloride on microbial characteristics in anaerobic membrane bioreactors for sludge digestion

    • Wanlin Zheng
    • Zhiyong Yu
    • Xianghua Wen

    Environmental biotechnology 14 November 2017 Pages: 1005 - 1017

    

45. Metabolic synergies in the biotransformation of organic and metallic toxic compounds by a saprotrophic soil fungus

    • Andrea Ceci
    • Flavia Pinzari
    • Anna Maria Persiani

    Environmental biotechnology 14 November 2017 Pages: 1019 - 1033

    

46. Enrichment of lignocellulose-degrading microbial communities from natural and engineered methanogenic environments

    • Emine Gozde Ozbayram
    • Sabine Kleinsteuber
    • Orhan Ince

    Environmental biotechnology 19 November 2017 Pages: 1035 - 1043