1. Bacterial catabolic transposons

   • H.-M. Tan

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 1 - 12

2. Factors affecting the economics of polyhydroxyalkanoate production by bacterial fermentation

   • J. Choi
   • S. Y. Lee

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 13 - 21

3. Rhamnose lipids – biosynthesis, microbial production and application potential

   • S. Lang
   • D. Wullbrandt

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 22 - 32

4. Glycolipids of the smut fungus Ustilago maydis from cultivation on renewable resources

   • S. Spoeckner
   • V. Wray
   • S. Lang

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 33 - 39

5. Production of sophorolipids from whey: development of a two-stage process with Cryptococcus curvatus ATCC 20509 and Candida bombicola ATCC 22214 using deproteinized whey concentrates as substrates

   • H.-J. Daniel
   • R. T. Otto
   • C. Syldatk

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 40 - 45

6. Gratuitous dechlorination of chloroethanes by methanogenic granular sludge

   • M. H. A. van Eekert
   • A. J. M. Stams
   • G. Schraa

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 46 - 52

7. Production of (R )-3-pentyn-2-ol through stereospecific hydrolysis of racemic 3-pentyn-2-ol esters with microbial enzymes

   • J. Ogawa
   • S.-X. Xie
   • S. Shimizu

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 53 - 57

8. Characterization of a glucose 3-dehydrogenase from the cultivated mushroom (Agaricus bisporus )

   • S. C. Morrison
   • D. A. Wood
   • P. M. Wood

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 58 - 64

9. Development of an arming yeast strain for efficient utilization of starch by co-display of sequential amylolytic enzymes on the cell surface

   • T. Murai
   • M. Ueda
   • A. Tanaka

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 65 - 70

10. The expression signals of the Lactobacillus brevis slpA gene direct efficient heterologous protein production in lactic acid bacteria

    • M. Kahala
    • A. Palva

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 71 - 78

11. Efficient expression of mosquito-larvicidal proteins in a gram-negative bacterium capable of recolonization in the guts of Anopheles dirus larva

    • P. Khampang
    • W. Chungjatupornchai
    • S. Panyim

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 79 - 84

12. A novel mutation of the Bacillus subtilis hut operon that relieves both catabolite repression and amino acid repression

    • S. Eda
    • T. Hoshino
    • M. Oda

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 85 - 90

13. Correlation between polymerase chain reaction analysis of the histidine biosynthesis operon, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis and phenotypic characterization of dairy Lactococcus isolates

    • D. Corroler
    • N. Desmasures
    • M. Gueguen

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 91 - 99

14. Mannitol-enhanced survival of Lactococcus lactis subjected to drying

    • B. J. O. Efiuvwevwere
    • L. G. M. Gorris
    • E. P. W. Kets

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 100 - 104

15. Bioavailability of hydrocarbons during microbial remediation of a sandy soil

    • C. Löser
    • H. Seidel
    • A. Zehnsdorf

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 105 - 111

16. Disposable sensor for measuring the biochemical oxygen demand for nitrification and inhibition of nitrification in wastewater

    • A. König
    • T. T. Bachmann
    • R. D. Schmid

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 112 - 117