1. Yeast secretory expression of insulin precursors

   • T. Kjeldsen

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 277 - 286

2. Improvement of microbial strains and fermentation processes

   • S. Parekh
   • V. A. Vinci
   • R. J. Strobel

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 287 - 301

3. Enslaved bacteria as new hope for plant biotechnologists

   • M. Hager
   • R. Bock

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 302 - 310

4. Intestinal receptors for adhesive fimbriae of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) K88 in swine – a review

   • L. Z. Jin
   • X. Zhao

   MINI-REVIEW Pages: 311 - 318

5. Polymer production by two newly isolated extremely halophilic archaea: application of a novel corrosion-resistant bioreactor

   • F. F. Hezayen
   • B. H. A. Rehm
   • A. Steinbüchel

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 319 - 325

6. Growth of Photorhabdus luminescens in batch and glucose fed-batch culture

   • T. Jeffke
   • D. Jende
   • L. Berthe-Corti

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 326 - 330

7. 3-Carbamoyl-α-picolinic acid production by imidase-catalyzed regioselective hydrolysis of 2,3-pyridinedicarboximide in a water-organic solvent, two-phase system

   • J. Ogawa
   • C.-L. Soong
   • S. Shimizu

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 331 - 334

8. Immobilisation of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans cells on nickel alloy fibre for ferrous sulfate oxidation

   • J. M. Gómez
   • D. Cantero
   • C. Webb

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 335 - 340

9. Saccharide production from methanol by transposon 5 mutants derived from the extracellular polysaccharide-producing bacterium Methylobacillus sp. strain 12S

   • T. Yoshida
   • M. Horinouchi
   • T. Omori

   ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 341 - 347

10. Overproduction of d-hydantoinase and carbamoylase in a soluble form in Escherichia coli

    • Y.-P. Chao
    • C.-J. Chiang
    • H. Fu

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 348 - 353

11. Molecular cloning and characterization of a chitosanase from the chitosanolytic bacterium Burkholderia gladioli strain CHB101

    • M. Shimosaka
    • Y. Fukumori
    • M. Okazaki

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 354 - 360

12. Fed-batch production of recombinant human calcitonin precursor fusion protein using Staphylococcus carnosus as an expression-secretion system

    • S. Dilsen
    • W. Paul
    • D. Weuster-Botz

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 361 - 369

13. Regulation of xyn3 gene expression in Trichoderma reesei PC-3–7

    • J. Xu
    • M. Nogawa
    • Y. Morikawa

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 370 - 375

14. Isolation, identification, and accumulation of 2-acetamidophenol in liquid cultures of the wheat take-all biocontrol agent Pseudomonas fluorescens 2-79

    • P. J. Slininger
    • K. D. Burkhead
    • R. J. Bothast

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 376 - 381

15. Phospholipid compositional changes of five pseudomonad archetypes grown with and without toluene

    • J. Fang
    • M. J. Barcelona
    • P. J. J. Alvarez

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 382 - 389

16. Screening for and characterization of phospholipase A₁ hypersecretory mutants of Tetrahymena thermophila

    • M. Hartmann
    • A. Guberman
    • A. Tiedtke

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 390 - 396

17. Purification, characterization, and primary structure of a chitinase from Pseudomonas sp. YHS-A2

    • H.-S. Lee
    • D.-S. Han
    • J.-H. Yu

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 397 - 405

18. A cephalosporin C acetylhydrolase is present in the cultures of Nocardia lactamdurans

    • R. E. Cardoza
    • J. Velasco
    • P. Liras

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 406 - 412

19. Application of an amperometric immunosensor for the enumeration of Nitrobacter in activated sludge

    • B. Sandén
    • G. Dalhammar

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 413 - 417

20. Use of microorganism-immobilized polyurethane foams to absorb and degrade oil on water surface

    • Y.-S. Oh
    • J. Maeng
    • S.-J. Kim

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 418 - 423

21. Biodegradation of propanol and isopropanol by a mixed microbial consortium

    • M. T. Bustard
    • E. M. McEvoy
    • P. C. Wright

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 424 - 431

22. Development of a rapid and sensitive bioassay device using human cells immobilized in macroporous microcarriers for the on-site evaluation of environmental waters

    • R. Shoji
    • Y. Sakai
    • M. Suzuki

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 432 - 438

23. Thermophilic acidification of dairy wastewater

    • H. Q. Yu
    • H. H. P. Fang

    ORIGINAL PAPER Pages: 439 - 444

24. Screening of hexavalent chromium biosorbent from marine algae

    • D.-C. Lee
    • C.-J. Park
    • H.-I. Rhee

    SHORT CONTRIBUTION Pages: 445 - 448