823-835
Mini-Review
Open AccessEngineering of cyclodextrin glucanotransferases and the impact for biotechnological applications
Hans Leemhuis, Ronan M. Kelly and Lubbert Dijkhuizen
837-848
Mini-Review
Pyranose dehydrogenases: biochemical features and perspectives of technological applications
Clemens K. Peterbauer and Jindřich Volc
849-860
Mini-Review
Biogas production: current state and perspectives
Peter Weiland
861-867
Mini-Review
High-temperature fermentation: how can processes for ethanol production at high temperatures become superior to the traditional process using mesophilic yeast?
Babiker M. A. Abdel-Banat, Hisashi Hoshida, Akihiko Ano, Sanom Nonklang and Rinji Akada
869-883
Mini-Review
Biotechnological production and applications of statins
Javier Barrios-González and Roxana U. Miranda
885-891
Mini-Review
Open AccessSpaceflight and modeled microgravity effects on microbial growth and virulence
Jason A. Rosenzweig, Ohunene Abogunde, Kayama Thomas, Abidat Lawal and Y-Uyen Nguyen, et al.
893-899
Mini-Review
Open AccessPentanol isomer synthesis in engineered microorganisms
Anthony F. Cann and James C. Liao
901-907
Mini-Review
Genetic engineering of fungal biocontrol agents to achieve greater efficacy against insect pests
Raymond J. St. Leger and Chengshu Wang
909-919
Mini-Review
New perspective for phage display as an efficient and versatile technology of functional proteomics
Wei Li and Nora B. Caberoy
921-932
Mini-Review
Enzymatic and whole-cell synthesis of lactate-containing polyesters: toward the complete biological production of polylactate
Ken’ichiro Matsumoto and Seiichi Taguchi
933-940
Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering
Biotransformation of steriodal saponins in Dioscorea zingiberensis C. H. Wright to diosgenin by Trichoderma harzianum
Lin Liu, Yue-Sheng Dong, Shan-Shan Qi, Hui Wang and Zhi-Long Xiu
941-948
Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering
Production of individual ganoderic acids and expression of biosynthetic genes in liquid static and shaking cultures of Ganoderma lucidum
Jun-Wei Xu, Yi-Ning Xu and Jian-Jiang Zhong
949-954
Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering
Biosynthesis of novel terpolymers poly(lactate-co-3-hydroxybutyrate-co-3-hydroxyvalerate)s in lactate-overproducing mutant Escherichia coli JW0885 by feeding propionate as a precursor of 3-hydroxyvalerate
Fumi Shozui, Ken’ichiro Matsumoto, Takanori Nakai, Miwa Yamada and Seiichi Taguchi
955-964
Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering
Simple adaptive pH control in bioreactors using gain-scheduling methods
S. Gnoth, A. Kuprijanov, R. Simutis and A. Lübbert
965-974
Biotechnological Products and Process Engineering
Influence of culture aeration on the cellulase activity of Thermobifida fusca
Yu Deng and Stephen S. Fong
975-984
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
A new non-hydrophobic cell wall protein (CWP10) of Metarhizium anisopliae enhances conidial hydrophobicity when expressed in Beauveria bassiana
Jun Li, Sheng-Hua Ying, Le-Tian Shan and Ming-Guang Feng
985-993
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
The mushroom ribosome-inactivating protein lyophyllin exerts deleterious effects on mouse embryonic development in vitro
W. Y. Chan, T. B. Ng, Joyce S. Y. Lam, Jack H. Wong and K. T. Chu, et al.
995-1004
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
In vitro evolution of styrene monooxygenase from Pseudomonas putida CA-3 for improved epoxide synthesis
Lucas J. Gursky, Jasmina Nikodinovic-Runic, K. Anton Feenstra and Kevin E. O’Connor
1005-1014
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
Characterization of endo-β-1,4-glucanase from a novel strain of Penicillium pinophilum KMJ601
Marimuthu Jeya, Ah-Reum Joo, Kyoung-Mi Lee, Won-Il Sim and Deok-Kun Oh, et al.
1015-1023
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
Gene cloning and expression of a new acidic family 7 endo-β-1,3-1,4-glucanase from the acidophilic fungus Bispora sp. MEY-1
Huiying Luo, Jun Yang, Peilong Yang, Jiang Li and Huoqing Huang, et al.
1025-1031
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
Analysis of aldehyde reductases from Gluconobacter oxydans 621H
Paul Schweiger and Uwe Deppenmeier
1033-1040
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
Helicoverpa armigera cadherin fragment enhances Cry1Ac insecticidal activity by facilitating toxin-oligomer formation
Donghai Peng, Xiaohui Xu, Weixing Ye, Ziniu Yu and Ming Sun
1041-1049
Biotechnologically Relevant Enzymes and Proteins
Expression of ribonuclease A and ribonuclease N1 in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa
Silke Allgaier, Nancy Weiland, Ibtisam Hamad and Frank Kempken
1051-1060
Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology
Soluble cytoplasmic expression, rapid purification, and characterization of cyanovirin-N as a His-SUMO fusion
Xianglei Gao, Wei Chen, Chaowan Guo, Chuiwen Qian and Ge Liu, et al.
1061-1068
Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology
Characterization of an adenylate cyclase gene (cyaB) deletion mutant of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032
Pu Hyeon Cha, Sun-Yung Park, Min-Woo Moon, Bindu Subhadra and Tae-Kwang Oh, et al.
1069-1079
Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology
Characterization and analysis of the regulatory network involved in control of lipomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces aureofaciens Tü117
Liliya Horbal, Yuriy Rebets, Maria Rabyk, Andriy Luzhetskyy and Bogdan Ostash, et al.
1081-1094
Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology
Homologous recombination in the antibiotic producer Penicillium chrysogenum: strain ΔPcku70 shows up-regulation of genes from the HOG pathway
Birgit Hoff, Jens Kamerewerd, Claudia Sigl, Ivo Zadra and Ulrich Kück
1095-1104
Applied Genetics and Molecular Biotechnology
Monitoring of diguanylate cyclase activity and of cyclic-di-GMP biosynthesis by whole-cell assays suitable for high-throughput screening of biofilm inhibitors
Davide Antoniani, Paola Bocci, Anna Maciąg, Nadia Raffaelli and Paolo Landini
1105-1114
Genomics and Proteomics
Gene transcription profiling of Fusarium graminearum treated with an azole fungicide tebuconazole
Xin Liu, Jinhua Jiang, Jiaofang Shao, Yanni Yin and Zhonghua Ma
1115-1122
Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology
Antibacterial activity and mechanism of silver nanoparticles on Escherichia coli
Wen-Ru Li, Xiao-Bao Xie, Qing-Shan Shi, Hai-Yan Zeng and You-Sheng OU-Yang, et al.
1123-1130
Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology
Using regulatory information to manipulate glycerol metabolism in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Jin Hou and Goutham N. Vemuri
1131-1139
Applied Microbial and Cell Physiology
Effect of two types of biosurfactants on phenanthrene availability to the bacterial bioreporter Burkholderia sartisoli strain RP037
Robin Tecon and Jan Roelof van der Meer
1141-1149
Environmental Biotechnology
Electricity generation at high ionic strength in microbial fuel cell by a newly isolated Shewanella marisflavi EP1
Jiexun Huang, Baolin Sun and Xiaobo Zhang
1151-1166
Environmental Biotechnology
Linking performance to microbiology in biofilters treating dimethyl sulphide in the presence and absence of methanol
Alexander C. Hayes, Yuefeng Zhang, Steven N. Liss and D. Grant Allen
1167-1174
Environmental Biotechnology
Biodegradation of thiocyanate using co-culture of Klebsiella pneumoniae and Ralstonia sp.
Ashvini U. Chaudhari and Kisan M. Kodam
1175-1188
Environmental Biotechnology
Characterization of corrosive bacterial consortia isolated from petroleum-product-transporting pipelines
Aruliah Rajasekar, Balakrishnan Anandkumar, Sundaram Maruthamuthu, Yen-Peng Ting and Pattanathu K. S. M. Rahman
1189-1199
Environmental Biotechnology
Characterisation of hexane-degrading microorganisms in a biofilter by stable isotope-based fatty acid analysis, FISH and cultivation
Michèle M. Friedrich and André Lipski
1201-1209
Methods
A simple method to introduce marker-free genetic modifications into the chromosome of naturally nontransformable Bacillus amyloliquefaciens strains
Natalia P. Zakataeva, Oksana V. Nikitina, Sergey V. Gronskiy, Dmitriy V. Romanenkov and Vitaliy A. Livshits
1211-1217
Methods
Isolation of functional single cells from environments using a micromanipulator: application to study denitrifying bacteria
Naoaki Ashida, Satoshi Ishii, Sadakazu Hayano, Kanako Tago and Takashi Tsuji, et al.
1219-1225
Methods
Identification of avermectin-high-producing strains by high-throughput screening methods
Hong Gao, Mei Liu, Xianlong Zhou, Jintao Liu and Ying Zhuo, et al.