1. Announcements

   Announcement Pages: i - i

2. Isolation of coal-solubilizing microorganisms and utilization of the solubilized product

   • Keiko Kitamura
   • Naoya Ohmura
   • Hiroshi Saiki

   OriginalPaper Pages: 1 - 13

3. Colorimetric determination of reactive primary amino groups of macro- and microsolid supports

   • Philemon E. Tyllianakis
   • Sotiris E. Kakabakos
   • Dionyssis S. Ithakissios

   OriginalPaper Pages: 15 - 25

4. The effect of carbon dioxide on xylose fermentation byPichia stipitis

   • Gunnar Lidén
   • Viktoria Jacobsson
   • Claes Niklasson

   OriginalPaper Pages: 27 - 40

5. Hydrodynamics and mixing in three-phase fluidized bed bioreactors

   • Y. Kawase
   • S. Uchiyama

   OriginalPaper Pages: 41 - 55

6. Immobilization as a tool for the stabilization of lignin peroxidase produced byPhanerochaete chrysosporium INA-12

   • Michele Asther
   • Jean-Claude Meunier

   OriginalPaper Pages: 57 - 67

7. Immobilization ofAspergillus niger NRC 107 xylanase and β-xylosidase, and properties of the immobilized enzymes

   • Mohamed A. Abdel-Naby

   OriginalPaper Pages: 69 - 81

8. Salt-tolerant and thermostable alkaline protease fromBacillus subtilis NCIM No. 64

   • Asha A. Kembhavi
   • Anuradha Kulkarni
   • Aditi Pant

   OriginalPaper Pages: 83 - 92

9. Light and nitrogen deficiency effects on the growth and composition ofPhaeodactylum tricornutum

   • Qian KaiXian
   • Michael A. Borowitzka

   OriginalPaper Pages: 93 - 103

10. Cellular and metabolic engineering

    • Douglas C. Cameron
    • I-Teh Tong

    OriginalPaper Pages: 105 - 140

11. High-throughput microtiter plate-based chromogenic assays for glycosidase inhibitors

    • John M. Walker
    • Julia S. Winder
    • Stephen J. Kellam

    Protocols in Biotechnology Pages: 141 - 146

12. DNA sequencing

    • H. G. Griffin
    • A. M. Griffin

    Protocols in Biotechnology Pages: 147 - 159

13. Methods for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

    • J. T. Den Dunnen
    • G. J. B. Van Ommen

    Protocols in Biotechnology Pages: 161 - 177