1. Characterization of Porins Isolated from the Outer Membrane of Vibrio damsela

   • Yeshayahu Nitzan
   • Anna Gribun
   • Izabella Pechatnikov

   Pages: 1 - 8

2. Polyphosphate-Accumulating and Denitrifying Bacteria Isolated from Anaerobic-Anoxic and Anaerobic-Aerobic Sequencing Batch Reactors

   • Mohamed Merzouki
   • Jean-Philippe Delgenès
   • Mohamed Benlemlih

   Pages: 9 - 17

3. Purification and Characterization of a Low-Molecular-Weight Xylanase Produced by Acrophialophora nainiana

   • Fabiano de Aquino Ximenes
   • Marcelo Valle de Sousa
   • Edivaldo Ximenes Ferreira Filho

   Pages: 18 - 21

4. The Translational Hop Junction and the 5′ Transcriptional Start Site for the Prevotella loescheii Adhesin Encoded by plaA

   • Jean N. Manch-Citron
   • Anjana Dey
   • Nga Y. Nguyen

   Pages: 22 - 26

5. Industrial Dye Decolorization by Laccases from Ligninolytic Fungi

   • Elizabeth Rodríguez
   • Michael A. Pickard
   • Rafael Vazquez-Duhalt

   Pages: 27 - 32

6. Continually Measured Fungal Profiles in Sick Building Syndrome

   • James J. McGrath
   • Wing C. Wong
   • David C. Straus

   Pages: 33 - 36

7. Cell Surface Hydrophobicity of Sucrose Fermenting and Nonfermenting Corynebacterium diphtheriae Strains Evaluated by Different Methods

   • Ana Luiza Mattos-Guaraldi
   • Luiz Carlos Duarte Formiga
   • Arnaldo Feitosa Braga Andrade

   Pages: 37 - 42

8. Distribution of Plasmid-Borne Stress Protein Genes in Streptococcus thermophilus and Other Lactic Acid Bacteria

   • George A. Somkuti
   • Dennis H. Steinberg

   Pages: 43 - 47

9. Changes in Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Patterns in Clinical Isolates of Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 Associated with Loss of Shiga Toxin Genes

   • Toshiyuki Murase
   • Shiro Yamai
   • Haruo Watanabe

   Pages: 48 - 50

10. Metabolism of L-Phenylalanine and L-Tyrosine by the Phototrophic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus

    • Lara P. Sáez
    • Francisco Castillo
    • Francisco J. Caballero

    Pages: 51 - 56

11. Quantitation of the Effects of Disruption of Catabolite (De)Repression Genes on the Cell Cycle Behavior of Saccharomyces cerevisiae

    • Miguel A. Aon
    • Sonia Cortassa

    Pages: 57 - 60

12. Sequence Analysis of 18S-28S rRNA Spacer Regions from Saccharomyces kunashirensis, S. martiniae, S. rosinii, and S. transvaalensis

    • Yuji Oda
    • Mihe Yabuki
    • Masahito Fukunaga

    Pages: 61 - 63

13. Secretion of Proteases from Pasteurella multocida Isolates

    • Erasmo Negrete-Abascal
    • Victor R. Tenorio
    • Mireya de la Garza

    Pages: 64 - 67