Oral Streptococci Exhibit Diverse Susceptibility to Human β-Defensin-2: Antimicrobial Effects of hBD-2 on Oral Streptococci Eisaku Nishimura Akiko Eto Nobuhiro Hanada OriginalPaper Pages: 85 - 87
Mercury Volatilization by R Factor Systems in Escherichia coli Isolated from Aquatic Environments of India Neerja Gupta Arif Ali OriginalPaper Pages: 88 - 96
Effect of 3′ Terminal Codon Pairs with Different Frequency of Occurrence on the Expression of cat Gene in Escherichia coli Svetlana S. Boycheva Boris I. Bachvarov Ivan G. Ivanov OriginalPaper Pages: 97 - 101
Distribution of Chitinases in the Entomopathogen Metarhizium anisopliae and Effect of N-Acetylglucosamine in Protein Secretion Cristine Chaves Barreto Charley Christian Staats Marilene Henning Vainstein OriginalPaper Pages: 102 - 107
The Induction of Intercellular Adhesion Molecule-1 on Human Umbilical Vein Endothelial Cells by a Heat-Stable Component of Porphyromonas gingivalis Song Mao Nobuaki Maeno Hiroshi Oda OriginalPaper Pages: 108 - 112
Predation Pattern and Phylogenetic Analysis of Bdellovibrionaceae from the Great Salt Lake, Utah Silvia A. Pineiro Guillermo E. Sahaniuk Henry N. Williams OriginalPaper Pages: 113 - 117
Specificity of DNA Methylation Changes During Fungal Dimorphism and Its Relationship to Polyamines Georgina E. Reyna-López José Ruiz-Herrera OriginalPaper Pages: 118 - 123
Decolorization of Azo Dyes with Enterobacter agglomerans Immobilized in Different Supports by Using Fluidized Bed Bioreactor Adnane Moutaouakkil Youssef Zeroual Mohamed Blaghen OriginalPaper Pages: 124 - 129
Isolation of Carotenoid-deficient Mutant from Alkylated Dibenzothiophene Desulfurizing Nocardioform Bacteria, Gordonia sp. TM414 Toru Matsui Kenji Maruhashi OriginalPaper Pages: 130 - 134
Growth Inhibition of Toxigenic Fungi by a Proteinaceous Compound from Streptomyces sp. C/33-6 Cecilia L. Fulgueira Susana L. Amigot Christian Magni OriginalPaper Pages: 135 - 139
Evidence for Multiple Acquisition of Arsenophonus by Whitefly Species (Sternorrhyncha: Aleyrodidae) MyLo Ly Thao Paul Baumann OriginalPaper Pages: 140 - 144
Identification of a Second Flagellin Gene and Functional Characterization of a ς70-like Promoter Upstream of a Leptospira borgpetersenii flaB Gene Min Lin Hanhong Dan Yijing Li OriginalPaper Pages: 145 - 152
Endospore Degradation in an Oligosporogenic, Crystalliferous Mutant of Bacillus thuringiensis Pável Sierra-Martínez Jorge E. Ibarra Gabriela Olmedo OriginalPaper Pages: 153 - 158
Acidianus tengchongensis sp. nov., a New Species of Acidothermophilic Archaeon Isolated from an Acidothermal Spring Zheng-Guo He Huifang Zhong Yaqin Li OriginalPaper Pages: 159 - 163