1. Special content of this issue

   • Alexander Steinbüchel

   Editorial 01 February 2011 Pages: 1265 - 1265

2. Glucoamylases: structural and biotechnological aspects

   • Julia Marín-Navarro
   • Julio Polaina

   Mini-Review 09 December 2010 Pages: 1267 - 1273

   

3. Light requirements in microalgal photobioreactors: an overview of biophotonic aspects

   • Ana P. Carvalho
   • Susana O. Silva
   • F. Xavier Malcata

   Mini-Review 23 December 2010 Pages: 1275 - 1288

   

4. Weedy lignocellulosic feedstock and microbial metabolic engineering: advancing the generation of ‘Biofuel’

   • Anuj K. Chandel
   • Om V. Singh

   Mini-Review 23 December 2010 Pages: 1289 - 1303

   

5. High hydrostatic pressure and biology: a brief history

   • Gérard Demazeau
   • Nolwennig Rivalain

   Mini-Review 24 December 2010 Pages: 1305 - 1314

6. Strategies to extend the lifetime of bioelectrochemical enzyme electrodes for biosensing and biofuel cell applications

   • Stefanie Rubenwolf
   • Sven Kerzenmacher
   • Felix von Stetten

   Mini-Review 29 December 2010 Pages: 1315 - 1322

   

7. Current findings, future trends, and unsolved problems in studies of medicinal mushrooms

   • Solomon P. Wasser

   Mini-Review 29 December 2010 Pages: 1323 - 1332

8. Chemical inhibitors of methanogenesis and putative applications

   • He Liu
   • Jin Wang
   • Jian Chen

   Mini-Review 31 December 2010 Pages: 1333 - 1340

   

9. State of the art molecular markers for fecal pollution source tracking in water

   • Peter Roslev
   • Annette S. Bukh

   Mini-Review 06 January 2011 Pages: 1341 - 1355

   

10. Bacteria-mediated PAH degradation in soil and sediment

    • Xiao-Ying Lu
    • Tong Zhang
    • Herbert Han-Ping Fang

    Mini-Review 06 January 2011 Pages: 1357 - 1371

11. Synthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoate from palm oil and some new applications

    • Kumar Sudesh
    • Kesaven Bhubalan
    • Yan-Fen Lee

    Mini-review 29 January 2011 Pages: 1373 - 1386

    

12. Production of serotonin by dual expression of tryptophan decarboxylase and tryptamine 5-hydroxylase in Escherichia coli

    • Sangkyu Park
    • Kiyoon Kang
    • Kyoungwhan Back

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 16 November 2010 Pages: 1387 - 1394

    

13. Production of rhamnolipids in solid-state cultivation using a mixture of sugarcane bagasse and corn bran supplemented with glycerol and soybean oil

    • Doumit Camilios-Neto
    • Cryshelen Bugay
    • Nadia Krieger

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 16 November 2010 Pages: 1395 - 1403

    

14. Metabolism of glucose and xylose as single and mixed feed in Debaryomyces nepalensis NCYC 3413: production of industrially important metabolites

    • Sawan Kumar
    • Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 18 November 2010 Pages: 1405 - 1415

    

15. Efficient and direct glutathione production from raw starch using engineered Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    • Hideyo Yoshida
    • Shogo Arai
    • Akihiko Kondo

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 23 November 2010 Pages: 1417 - 1422

    

16. Sustained release of PI3K inhibitor from PHA nanoparticles and in vitro growth inhibition of cancer cell lines

    • Xiao-Yun Lu
    • Elisa Ciraolo
    • Emilio Hirsch

    Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering 01 February 2011 Pages: 1423 - 1433

    

17. Enhanced activity and stability of l-arabinose isomerase by immobilization on aminopropyl glass

    • Ye-Wang Zhang
    • Marimuthu Jeya
    • Jung-Kul Lee

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 31 October 2010 Pages: 1435 - 1442

    

18. The tyrosine O-prenyltransferase SirD catalyzes O-, N-, and C-prenylations

    • Hui-Xi Zou
    • Xiulan Xie
    • Shu-Ming Li

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 31 October 2010 Pages: 1443 - 1451

    

19. A novel bifunctional endo-/exo-type cellulase from an anaerobic ruminal bacterium

    • Kyong-Cheol Ko
    • Yunjon Han
    • Jae Jun Song

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 03 November 2010 Pages: 1453 - 1462

    

20. Fervidobacterium changbaicum Lip1: identification, cloning, and characterization of the thermophilic lipase as a new member of bacterial lipase family V

    • Jingang Cai
    • Yuan Xie
    • Yan Feng

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 03 November 2010 Pages: 1463 - 1473

    

21. Characterization of cytochrome P450 monooxygenase CYP154H1 from the thermophilic soil bacterium Thermobifida fusca

    • Anett Schallmey
    • Gijs den Besten
    • Dick B. Janssen

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins Open access 06 November 2010 Pages: 1475 - 1485

    

22. Biochemical characterization of a new type of intracellular PHB depolymerase from Rhodospirillum rubrum with high hydrolytic activity on native PHB granules

    • Anna Sznajder
    • Dieter Jendrossek

    Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins 28 January 2011 Pages: 1487 - 1495

    

23. Biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoate homopolymers by Pseudomonas putida

    • Hong-hui Wang
    • Xin-rong Zhou
    • Guo-Qiang Chen

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 03 November 2010 Pages: 1497 - 1507

    

24. Propeptide of Bacillus subtilis amylase enhances extracellular production of human interferon-α in Bacillus subtilis

    • Hiroshi Kakeshita
    • Yasushi Kageyama
    • Kouji Nakamura

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 30 October 2010 Pages: 1509 - 1517

    

25. Overexpression of alpha-ketoglutarate dehydrogenase in Yarrowia lipolytica and its effect on production of organic acids

    • Martina Holz
    • Christina Otto
    • Gerold Barth

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 30 October 2010 Pages: 1519 - 1526

    

26. Evaluation of promoters for gene expression in polyhydroxyalkanoate-producing Cupriavidus necator H16

    • Toshiaki Fukui
    • Kei Ohsawa
    • Satoshi Nakamura

    Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology 29 January 2011 Pages: 1527 - 1536

    

27. Effects of nitrogen catabolite repression and di-ammonium phosphate addition during wine fermentation by a commercial strain of S. cerevisiae

    • Nathan K. Deed
    • Hennie J. J. van Vuuren
    • Richard C. Gardner

    Genomics, Transcriptomics, Proteomics 19 January 2011 Pages: 1537 - 1549

    

28. Towards an understanding of the adaptation of wine yeasts to must: relevance of the osmotic stress response

    • Elena Jiménez-Martí
    • Mercè Gomar-Alba
    • Marcel-li del Olmo

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 13 October 2010 Pages: 1551 - 1561

    

29. Characterization of extracellular polymeric substances from biofilm in the process of starting-up a partial nitrification process under salt stress

    • Zhao-Ji Zhang
    • Shao-Hua Chen
    • Hong-Yuan Luo

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 30 October 2010 Pages: 1563 - 1571

    

30. Long-term influence of the presence of a non-aqueous phase on the cell surface hydrophobicity of Pseudomonas in two-phase partitioning bioreactors

    • María Hernández
    • Raúl Muñoz Torre

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 06 November 2010 Pages: 1573 - 1581

    

31. Disruption of β-oxidation pathway in Pseudomonas putida KT2442 to produce new functionalized PHAs with thioester groups

    • Isabel F. Escapa
    • Valle Morales
    • María A. Prieto

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 26 January 2011 Pages: 1583 - 1598

    

32. Formation of new polyhydroxyalkanoate containing 3-hydroxy-4-methylvalerate monomer in Burkholderia sp.

    • Nyok-Sean Lau
    • Takeharu Tsuge
    • Kumar Sudesh

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 29 January 2011 Pages: 1599 - 1609

    

33. Growth and polyhydroxybutyrate production by Ralstonia eutropha in emulsified plant oil medium

    • Charles F. Budde
    • Sebastian L. Riedel
    • Anthony J. Sinskey

    Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology 29 January 2011 Pages: 1611 - 1619

    

34. Microvinification—how small can we go?

    • Tommaso Liccioli
    • Tina M. T. Tran
    • Simon A. Schmidt

    Methods and Protocols 13 November 2010 Pages: 1621 - 1628

    

35. Microorganism-immobilized carbon nanoparticle anode for microbial fuel cells based on direct electron transfer

    • Yong Yuan
    • Shungui Zhou
    • Li Zhuang

    Methods and Protocols 01 December 2010 Pages: 1629 - 1635

    

36. Isolation and characterization of endophytic bacterium LRE07 from cadmium hyperaccumulator Solanum nigrum L. and its potential for remediation

    • Shenglian Luo
    • Yong Wan
    • Jueliang Chen

    Environmental Biotechnology 16 October 2010 Pages: 1637 - 1644

    

37. Comparison of biological removal via nitrite with real-time control using aerobic granular sludge and flocculent activated sludge

    • Dawen Gao
    • Xiangjuan Yuan
    • Wei-Min Wu

    Environmental Biotechnology 23 October 2010 Pages: 1645 - 1652

    

38. Trichoderma harzianum SQR-T037 rapidly degrades allelochemicals in rhizospheres of continuously cropped cucumbers

    • Lihua Chen
    • Xingming Yang
    • Qirong Shen

    Environmental Biotechnology 24 October 2010 Pages: 1653 - 1663