1. Roles and applications of probiotic Lactobacillus strains

   • Zhongwang Zhang
   • Jianliang Lv
   • Yongguang Zhang

   Mini-Review 21 July 2018 Pages: 8135 - 8143

   

2. Recent progress on biological production of α-arbutin

   • Xingtong Zhu
   • Yuqing Tian
   • Wanmeng Mu

   Mini-Review 21 July 2018 Pages: 8145 - 8152

   

3. Bacterial steroid hydroxylases: enzyme classes, their functions and comparison of their catalytic mechanisms

   • Maciej Szaleniec
   • Agnieszka M. Wojtkiewicz
   • Marina Donova

   Mini-Review Open access 21 July 2018 Pages: 8153 - 8171

   

4. Correction to: Bacterial steroid hydroxylases: enzyme classes, their functions and comparison of their catalytic mechanisms

   • Maciej Szaleniec
   • Agnieszka M. Wojtkiewicz
   • Marina Donova

   Correction 23 August 2018 Pages: 8173 - 8173

5. On the road towards tailor-made rhamnolipids: current state and perspectives

   • Andreas Wittgens
   • Frank Rosenau

   Mini-Review 21 July 2018 Pages: 8175 - 8185

   

6. Thermostable alpha-glucan phosphorylases: characteristics and industrial applications

   • Zorica Ubiparip
   • Koen Beerens
   • Tom Desmet

   Mini-Review 24 July 2018 Pages: 8187 - 8202

   

7. Current understanding of sulfur assimilation metabolism to biosynthesize l-cysteine and recent progress of its fermentative overproduction in microorganisms

   • Yusuke Kawano
   • Kengo Suzuki
   • Iwao Ohtsu

   Mini-Review 26 July 2018 Pages: 8203 - 8211

   

8. From radioactive ligands to biosensors: binding methods with olfactory proteins

   • Paolo Pelosi
   • Jiao Zhu
   • Wolfgang Knoll

   Mini-Review 27 July 2018 Pages: 8213 - 8227

   

9. The retrospect and prospect of the applications of biotechnology in Phoenix dactylifera L.

   • Saikat Gantait
   • Maiada M. El-Dawayati
   • Sandeep Kumar Verma

   Mini-Review 27 July 2018 Pages: 8229 - 8259

   

10. The occurrence, maintenance, and proliferation of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in the environment: influencing factors, mechanisms, and elimination strategies

    • Qian-Qian Zhang
    • Guang-Ming Tian
    • Ren-Cun Jin

    Mini-Review 28 July 2018 Pages: 8261 - 8274

11. Origination, change, and modulation of geriatric disease-related gut microbiota during life

    • Muhammad Shahid Riaz Rajoka
    • Haobin Zhao
    • Junling Shi

    Mini-Review 31 July 2018 Pages: 8275 - 8289

    

12. Stability and oscillatory behavior of microbial consortium in continuous conversion of crude glycerol to 1,3-propanediol

    • Jin-Jie Zhou
    • Jun-Tao Shen
    • Zhi-Long Xiu

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 26 July 2018 Pages: 8291 - 8305

    

13. Immune response characterization of mice immunized with Lactobacillus plantarum expressing spike antigen of transmissible gastroenteritis virus

    • Wen-Tao Yang
    • Qiong-Yan Li
    • Chun-Feng Wang

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 28 July 2018 Pages: 8307 - 8318

    

14. Metabolic engineering of Clostridium acetobutylicum for the production of butyl butyrate

    • Hyeon Ji Noh
    • Ji Eun Woo
    • Yu-Sin Jang

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 03 August 2018 Pages: 8319 - 8327

    

15. Improved ZnS nanoparticle properties through sequential NanoFermentation

    • Ji-Won Moon
    • Jeremy R. Eskelsen
    • David E. Graham

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 04 August 2018 Pages: 8329 - 8339

    

16. Synergism between high hydrostatic pressure and glutaraldehyde for the inactivation of Staphylococcus aureus at moderate temperature

    • Marriam Yamin
    • Ancelmo R. Souza
    • Carlos Francisco Sampaio Bonafe

    Biotechnological products and process engineering 08 August 2018 Pages: 8341 - 8350

    

17. A novel β-propeller phytase from the dioxin-degrading bacterium Sphingomonas wittichii RW-1

    • Anna Maria Sanangelantoni
    • Marina Malatrasi
    • Caterina Agrimonti

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 27 July 2018 Pages: 8351 - 8358

    

18. Extended substrate range of thiamine diphosphate-dependent MenD enzyme by coupling of two C–C-bonding reactions

    • Matthias Schapfl
    • Shiromi Baier
    • Georg A. Sprenger

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 31 July 2018 Pages: 8359 - 8372

    

19. Building a toolbox of protein scaffolds for future immobilization of biocatalysts

    • Sarah Schmidt-Dannert
    • Guoqiang Zhang
    • Claudia Schmidt-Dannert

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 31 July 2018 Pages: 8373 - 8388

    

20. Rational engineering of Cel5E from Clostridium thermocellum to improve its thermal stability and catalytic activity

    • Ibrahim Torktaz
    • Ali Asghar Karkhane
    • Jafar Hemmat

    Biotechnologically relevant enzymes and proteins 03 August 2018 Pages: 8389 - 8402

    

21. Immune responses induced by recombinant Lactobacillus plantarum expressing the spike protein derived from transmissible gastroenteritis virus in piglets

    • Yu-Bei Jin
    • Wen-Tao Yang
    • Chun-Feng Wang

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 18 July 2018 Pages: 8403 - 8417

    

22. Heterologous AdpA transcription factors enhance landomycin production in Streptomyces cyanogenus S136 under a broad range of growth conditions

    • Oleksandr Yushchuk
    • Iryna Ostash
    • Bohdan Ostash

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 28 July 2018 Pages: 8419 - 8428

    

23. A new approach for detection and quantification of microalgae in industrial-scale microalgal cultures

    • Peter Beatrice-Lindner
    • Jose Antonio Garrido-Cardenas
    • Francisco Gabriel Acien-Fernandez

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 02 August 2018 Pages: 8429 - 8436

    

24. Engineering Salinispora tropica for heterologous expression of natural product biosynthetic gene clusters

    • Jia Jia Zhang
    • Bradley S. Moore
    • Xiaoyu Tang

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 13 August 2018 Pages: 8437 - 8446

    

25. Autophagy gene overexpression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae perturbs subcellular organellar function and accumulates ROS to accelerate cell death with relevance to sparkling wine production

    • Richard Preiss
    • Caroline Tyrawa
    • George van der Merwe

    Applied genetics and molecular biotechnology 17 August 2018 Pages: 8447 - 8464

    

26. Thermoanaerobacter species differ in their potential to reduce organic acids to their corresponding alcohols

    • Lisa Hitschler
    • Michelle Kuntz
    • Mirko Basen

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 10 July 2018 Pages: 8465 - 8476

    

27. Secondary metabolite production by cereal-associated penicillia during cultivation on cereal grains

    • Magnus Hallas-Møller
    • Kristian Fog Nielsen
    • Jens Christian Frisvad

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 11 July 2018 Pages: 8477 - 8491

    

28. Imaging mass spectrometry-guided fast identification of antifungal secondary metabolites from Penicillium polonicum

    • Jing Bai
    • Peng Zhang
    • Yuquan Xu

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 23 July 2018 Pages: 8493 - 8500

    

29. Analytical impact of Metschnikowia pulcherrima in the volatile profile of Verdejo white wines

    • Javier Ruiz
    • Ignacio Belda
    • Santiago Benito

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 27 July 2018 Pages: 8501 - 8509

    

30. Medium chain unsaturated fatty acid ethyl esters inhibit persister formation of Escherichia coli via antitoxin HipB

    • Mengya Wang
    • Kuili Fang
    • Seok Hoon Hong

    Applied microbial and cell physiology 07 August 2018 Pages: 8511 - 8524

    

31. Adhesion of Rhodococcus ruber IEGM 342 to polystyrene studied using contact and non-contact temperature measurement techniques

    • Anastasiia V. Krivoruchko
    • Anastasia Yu Iziumova
    • Irina B. Ivshina

    Methods and protocols 17 August 2018 Pages: 8525 - 8536

    

32. Identification and characterisation of short chain rhamnolipid production in a previously uninvestigated, non-pathogenic marine pseudomonad

    • Matthew S. Twigg
    • L. Tripathi
    • I. M. Banat

    Environmental biotechnology Open access 10 July 2018 Pages: 8537 - 8549

    

33. Comprehensive analyses of functional bacteria and genes in a denitrifying EGSB reactor under Cd(II) stress

    • Yu Miao
    • Xu-Xiang Zhang
    • Aimin Li

    Environmental biotechnology 18 July 2018 Pages: 8551 - 8560

    

34. Diversity and community structure of ammonia oxidizers in a marsh wetland of the northeast China

    • Dawen Gao
    • Fengqin Liu
    • Hong Liang

    Environmental biotechnology 20 July 2018 Pages: 8561 - 8571

    

35. Biotransformation of ciprofloxacin by Xylaria longipes: structure elucidation and residual antibacterial activity of metabolites

    • Marina Rusch
    • Astrid Spielmeyer
    • Gerd Hamscher

    Environmental biotechnology 21 July 2018 Pages: 8573 - 8584

    

36. Microbiota assemblages of water, sediment, and intestine and their associations with environmental factors and shrimp physiological health

    • Fei Huang
    • Luqing Pan
    • Shuo Gao

    Environmental biotechnology 23 July 2018 Pages: 8585 - 8598

    

37. Microbial community composition and diversity in rice straw digestion bioreactors with and without dairy manure

    • A. M. Zealand
    • R. Mei
    • David W. Graham

    Bioenergy and biofuels Open access 27 July 2018 Pages: 8599 - 8612