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CONTENTSO F VOLUME 5] . 1 (pp 1-124) published January 1999 . 2 (pp 125-292) published February 1999 . 3 (pp 293-406) published March 1999 . 4 (pp 407-544) published April 1999 . 5 (pp 545-702) published May 1999 . 6 (pp 703-898) published June 1999 Ansell RJ, Lowe CR: Artifical redox coenzymes: biomimetic ana- De Angelis M, Gobbetti M: Lactobacillus sanfranciscensis CB: logues of NAD* 703 Manganese, oxygen, superoxide dismutase and metabolism Asperger O, Steinbrenner H, Lehmann A, Petsch M, Griengl H: 358 Induction and functional role of cytochromes P450 in the fil- de Best JH, Hage A, Doddema HJ, Janssen DB, Harder W: amentous fungi Mortierella alpina ATCC 8979 and Cunningha- Complete transformation of 1,1,1-trichloroethane to chloro- mella blakesleeana DSM 1906 during hydroxylation of cycloal- ethane by a methanogenic mixed population 277 kylbenzoxazoles 516 de Fatima Silva Lopes M, Cunha AE, Clemente JJ, Teixeira Car- Bandhyopadhyay K, Das D, Maiti BR: Solid matrix characteriza- rondo MJ, Barreto Crespo MT: Influence of environmental tion of immozilized Pseudomonas putida MTCC 1194 used for factors on lipase production by Lactobacillus plantarum 249 phenol degradation (short contribution) 891 Domingues L, Teixeira JA, Lima N: Construction of a flocculent Bang ML, Villadsen I, Sandal T: Cloning and characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae fermenting lactose 621 an endo-B-1,3(4)glucanase and an aspartic protease from Phaf- Eda S, Hoshino T, Oda M: A novel mutation of the Bacillus sub- fia rhodozyma CBS 6938 215 tilis hut operon that relieves both catabolite repression and am- Barriault D, Sylvestre M: Functionality of biphenyl 2,3-dioxygen- ino acid repression 85 ase components in naphthalene 1,2-dioxygenase 592 Efiuvwevwere BJO, Gorris LGM, Smid EJ, Kets EPW: Manni- Bashan Y, Gonzalez LE: Long-term survival of the plant-growth- tol-enhanced survival of Lactococcus lactis subjected to drying promoting bacteria Azospirillum brasilense and Pseudomonas (Short contribution) 100 fluorescens in dry alginate inoculant 262 Eriksson M, Dalhammar G, Borg-Karlson A-K: Aerobic degrad- Bledsoe TL, Cantafio AW, Macy JM: Fermented whey — an inex- ation of a hydrocarbon mixture in natural uncontaminated pot- pensive feed source for a laboratory-scale selenium-bioreme- ting soil by indigenous microorganisms at 20°C and 6°C (short diation reactor system inoculated with Thauera selenatis 682 contribution) 532 Boon M, Meeder TA, Théne C, Ras C, Heijnen JJ: The ferrous Felse PA, Panda T: Regulation and cloning of microbial chitinase iron oxidation kinetics of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans in contin- genes 141 uous cultures 820 Ford CZ, Sayler GS, Burlage RS: Containment of a genetically Boon M, Ras C, Heiynen JJ: The ferrous iron oxidation kinetics engineered microorganism during a field bioremediation appli- of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans in batch cultures 813 cation 401 Borgdorf R, Warwel S: Substrate selectivity of various lipases in Garnier PM, Auria R, Augur C, Revah S: Cometabolic biode- the esterification of cis- and trans-9-octadecenoic acid 480 gradation of methyl t-butyl ether by Pseudomonas aeruginosa Bruno-Bareena JM, Ragout AL, Cordoba PR, Sifieriz F: Contin- grown on pentane 498 uous production of L(+)-lactic acid by Lactobacillus casei in Gawande BN, Goel A, Patkar AY, Nene SN: Purification and two-stage systems 316 properties of a novel raw starch degrading cyclomaltodextrin Brunswick JM, Kelly CT, Fogarty WM: The amylopullulanase of glucanotransferase from Bacillus firmus 504 Bacillus sp. DSM 405 170 Gebendinger N, Radosevich M: Inhibition of atrazine degrada- Cary JW, Barnaby N, Ehrlich KC, Bhatnagar D: Isolation and tion by cyanazine and exogenous nitrogen in bacterial isolate characterization of experimentally induced, aflatoxin biosyn- M91-3 375 thetic pathway deletion mutants of Aspergillus parasiticus Gorenflo V, Steinbiichel A, Marose 9, Rieseberg M, Scheper T: 808 Quantification of bacterial polyhydroxyalkanoic acids by Nile Chen D-C, Chen S-Y, Gee M-F, Pan J-T, Kuo T-T: A variant of red staining 765 Saccharomyces cerevisiae pep4 strain with improved oligo- Goswami P, Cooney JJ: Subcellular location of enzymes involved trophic proliferation, cell survival and heterologous secretion in oxidation of n-alkane by Cladosporium resinae 860 of a-amylase 185 Goudar CT, Strevett KA, Shah SN: Influence of microbial con- Choi J, Lee SY: Factors affecting the economics of polyhydrox- centration on the rheology of non-Newtonian fermentation yalkanoate production by bacterial fermentation 13 broths 310 Corroler D, Desmasures N, Gueguen M: Correlation between Guillouet S, Choi JH, Rha CK, Sinskey AJ: Effects of yeast ex- polymerase chain reaction analysis of the histidine biosynthesis tract on the production and the quality of the exopolysacchar- operon, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis and ide, zooglan, produced by Zoogloea ramigera 115SLR = 235 phenotypic characterization of dairy Lactococcus isolates 91 Hayashi H, Takehara M, Hattori T, Kimura T, Karita S, Sakka K, Cruz HJ, Ferreira AS, Freitas CM, Moreira JL, Carrondo MJT: Ohmiya K: Nucleotide sequences of two contiguous and highly Metabolic responses to different glucose and glutamine levels homologous xylanase genes xynA and xynB and characteriza- in baby hamster kidney cell culture 579 tion of XynA from Clostridium thermocellum 348 Daniel H-J, Otto RT, Binder M, Reuss M, Syldatk C: Production Hellenbroich D, Valley U, Ryll T, Wagner R, Tekkanat N, Kess- of sophorolipids from whey: development of a two-stage pro- ler W, RoB A, Deckwer W.-D: Cultivation of Tetrahymena cess with Cryptococcus curvatus ATCC 20509 and Candida thermophila in a 1.5-m? airlift bioreactor 447 bombicola ATCC 22214 using deproteinized whey concen- Hill GA, Daugulis AJ: Phenol inhibition kinetics for growth of trates as substrates 40 Acetobacter aceti on ethanol 841 IV Horber C, Christensen N, Arvin E, Kier Ahring B: Tetrachloro- Laplace JM, Sauvageot N, Hartke A, Auffray Y: Characteriza- ethene dechlorination kinetics by Dehalospirillum multivorans tion of Lactobacillus collinoides response to heat, acid and immobilized in upflow anaerobic sludge blanket reactors ethanol treatments 659 694 Launen LA, Pinto L, Moore M: Optimization of pyrene oxida- Hofvendahl K, van Niel EWJ, Hahn-Hagerdal B: Effect of tem- tion by Penicillium janthinellum using response-surface meth- perature and pH on growth and product formation of Lacto- odology 5i0 coccus lactis spp. lactis ATCC 19435 growing on maltose (Short Ledent P, Michels H, Blackman G, Naveau H, Agathos SN: Re- contribution) 669 versal of the inhibitory effect of surfactants upon germination Holubar P, Andorfer C, Braun R: Effects of nitrogen limitation and growth of a consortium of two strains of Bacillus 370 on biofilm formation in a hydrocarbon-degrading trickle-bed Lee B-S, Holler E: Effects of culture conditions on B-poly(L-mal- filter (short contribution) 536 ate) production by Physarum polycephalum 647 Hong K, Sun S, Tian W, Chen G, Huang W: A rapid method for Liu JQ, Odini M, Dairi T, Itoh N, Shimizu S, Yamada H: A new detecting bacterial polyhydoxyalkanoates in intact cells by route to L-threo-3-[4-(methylthio)phenylserine], a key interme- Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (short contribution) diate for the synthesis of antibiotics: recombinant low-specifici- §23 ty D-threonine aldolase-catalyzed stereospecific resolution Ikeda M, Okamoto K, Katsumata R: Cloning of the transketolase 586 gene and the effect of its dosage on aromatic amino acid pro- Léser C, Seidel H, Hoffmann P, Zehnsdorf A: Bioavailability of duction in Corynebacterium glutamicum 201 hydrocarbons during microbial remediation of a sandy soil Ishikawa H, Yamanaka H, Kawamoto T, Tanaka A: Enzymatic 105 synthesis of silicon-containing dipeptides with 3-trimethylsily- Mai C, Milstein O, Hiittermann A: Fungal laccase grafts acrylam- lalanine 470 ide onto lignin in presence of peroxides (short contribution) Itoh N, Tujibata Y, Liu JQ: Cloning and overexpression in Es- 527 cherichia coli of the gene encoding dihydroxyacetone kinase Majcherezyk A, Johannes C, Hiittermann A: Oxidation of aro- isoenzyme I from Schizosaccharomyces pombe, and its applica- matic alcohols by laccase from Trametes versicolor mediated by tion to dihydroxyacetone phosphate production 193 the 2,2’-azino-bis-(3-ethylbenzothiazoline-6-sulphonic acid) Jolivalt C, Raynal A, Caminade E, Kokel B, Le Goffic F, Mougin cation radical and dication 267 C: Transformation of N’-N ’-dimethyl-N-(hydroxyphenyl)ur- Margalith PZ: Production of ketocarotenoids by microalgae eas by laccase from the white rot fungus Trametes versicolor 431 676 Miksch G, Neitzel R, Friehs K, Flaschel E: High-level expression Jung C, Wyss U: New approaches to control plant parasitic nema- of a recombinant protein in Klebsiella planticola owing to in- todes 439 duced secretion into the culture medium 627 Kacena MA, Merrell GA, Manfredi B, Smith EE, Klaus DM, Miron J, Forsberg CW: Characierisation of cellulose-binding pro- Todd P: Bacterial growth in space flight: logistic growth curve teins that are involved in the adhesion mechanism of Fibro- parameters for Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis 229 bacter intestinalis DR7 491 Kahala M, Palva A: The expression signals of the Lactobacillus Morimoto K, Karita S, Kimura T, Sakka K, Ohmiya K: Sequenc- brevis slpA gene direct efficient heterologous protein produc- ing, expression, and transcription analysis of the Clostridium tion in lactic acid bacteria 71 paraputrificum chiA gene encoding chitinase ChiA 340 Karaffa L, Sandor E, Kozma J, Kubicek CP, Szentirmai A: The Morrison SC, Wood DA, Wood PM: Characterization of a glu- role of the alternative respiratory pathway in the stimulation of cose 3-dehydrogenase from the cultivated mushroom (Agaricus cephalosporin C formation by soybean oil in Acremonium bisporus) 58 chrysogenum 633 Muheim A, Lerch K: Towards a high-yield bioconversion of fe- Kastner JR, Jones WJ, Roberts RS: Oxygen starvation induces rulic acid to vanillin 456 cell death in Candida shehatae fermentations of D-xylose, but Murai T, Ueda M, Shibasaki Y, Kamasawa N, Osumi M, Imana- not D-glucose 780 ka T, Tanaka A: Development of an arming yeast strain for Kataoka M, Yamamoto K, Kawabata H, Wada M, Kita K, Ya- efficient utilization of starch by co-display of sequential amylo- nase H, Shimizu S: Stereoselective reduction of ethyl 4-chloro- lytic enzymes on the cell surface 65 3-oxobutanoate by Escherichia coli transformant cells coex- pressing the aldehyde reductase and glucose dehydrogenase Nakajima-Kambe T, Shigeno-Akutsu Y, Nomura N, Onuma F, genes 486 Nakahara T: Microbial degradation of polyurethane, polyester polyurethanes and polyether polyurethanes 134 Khampang P, Chungjatupornchai W, Luxananil P, Panyim S: Ef- ficient expression of mosquito-larvicidal proteins in a gram-ne- Newcombe DA, Crowley DE: Bioremediation of atrazine-con- gative bacterium capable of recolonization in the guts of Ano- taminated soil by repeated applications of atrazine-degrading pheles dirus larva 79 bacteria 877 Kimura T, Komiyama T, Furuichi Y, limura Y, Karita S, Sakka Niehaus F, Bertoldo C, Kahler M, Antranikian G: Extremophiles K, Ohmiya K: N-glycosylation is involved in the sensitivity of as a source of novel enzymes for industrial application 711 Saccharomyces cerevisiae to HM-1 killer toxin secreted from Nies DH: Microbial heavy-metal resistance 730 Hansenula mrakii 1FO 0895 176 Nértemann B: Biodegradation of EDTA 751 Klostermaier P, Scheyhing CH, Ehrmann M, Vogel RF: Mathe- Obojska A, Lejczak B, Kubrak M: Degradation of phosphonates matical evaluation of plantaricin formation supports an auto- by streptomycete isolates (short contribution) 872 induced production mechanism 462 Ob6n JM, Maiquez JR, Canovas M, Kleber H-P, Iborra JL: High- Kénig A, Bachmann TT, Metzger JW, Schmid RD: Disposable density Escherichia coli cultures for continuous L( — )-carnitine sensor for measuring the biochemical oxygen demand for ni- production 760 trification and inhibition of nitrification in wastewater 112 Ogawa J, Xie S-X, Shimizu S: Production of (R)-3-pentyn-2-ol Kondo T, Ikeda T: An electrochemical method for the measure- through stereospecific hydrolysis of racemic 3-pentyn-2-ol es- ments of substrate-oxidizing activity of acetic acid bacteria us- ters with microbial enzymes 53 ing a carbon-paste electrode modified with immobilized bacte- Okochi M, Taguchi T, Tsuboi M, Nakamura N, Matsunaga T: ria 664 Fluorometric observation of viable and dead adhering diatoms Lang S, Wullbrandt D: Rhamnose lipids — biosynthesis, microbial using TO-PRO-1 iodide and its application to the estimation of production and application potential 22 electrochemical treatment 364 Vv Onken J, Berger RG: Biotransformation of citronellol by the ba- Swamy J, Ramsay JA: Effects of Mn** and NH; concentrations sidiomycete Cystoderma carcharias in an aerated-membrane on laccase and manganese peroxidase production and Ama- bioreactor 158 ranth decoloration by Trametes versicolor 391 Otte S, Schalk J, Kuenen JG, Jetten MSM: Hydroxylamine oxida- Syldatk C, May O, Altenbuchner J, Mattes R, Siemann M: Micro- tion and subsequent nitrous oxide production by the hetero- bial hydantoinases — industrial enzymes from the origin of trophic ammonia oxidizer Alcaligenes faecalis 255 life? 293 Pagga U: Compostable packaging materials — test methods and Tal Y, Rijin J van, Nussinovitch A: Improvement of mechanical limit values for biodegradation 125 and biological properties of freeze-dried denitrifying alginate Parekh M, Formanek J, Blaschek HP: Pilot-scale production of beads by using starch as a filler and carbon source 773 butanol by Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 using a low-cost fer- Tan H-M: Bacterial catabolic transposons 1 mentation medium based on corn steep water 152 Tan NCG, Prenafeta-Buldi FX, Opsteeg JL, Lettinga G, Field Peypoux F, Bonmatin JM, Wallach J: Recent trends in the bio- JA: Biodegradation of azo dyes in cocultures of anaerobic chemistry of surfactin 553 granular sludge with aerobic aromatic amine degrading enrich- Pyun YR, Jo JS, Park JW, Shin HH: Effects of oxygen on inver- ment cultures 865 tase expression in continuous culture of recombinant Saccharo- Tenkanen M, Tamminen T, Hortling B: Investigation of lignin- myces cerevisiae containing the SUC2 gene 334 carbohydrate complexes in kraft pulps by selective enzymatic Radnoti de Lipthay J, Barkay T, Vekova J, Sgrensen SJ: Utiliza- treatments 241 tion of phenoxyacetic acid, by strains using either the ortho or Treadway SL, Yanagimachi KS, Lankenau E, Lessard PA, Ste- meta cleavage of catechol during phenol degradation, after phanopoulos G, Sinskey AJ: Isolation and characterization of conjugal transfer of tfdA, the gene encoding a 2,4-dichloro- indene bioconversion genes from Rhodococcus strain 124 phenoxyacetic acid/2-oxoglutarate dioxygenase 207 786 Ray P, Ait Oubelli M, Léser C: Aerobic 4-nitrophenol degrada- van Eekert MHA, Stams AJM, Field JA, Schraa G: Gratuitous tion by microorganisms fixed in a continuously working aer- dechlorination of chloroethanes by methanogenic granular ated solid-bed reactor 284 sludge 46 Reddy J, Lee C, Neeper M, Greasham R, Zhang J: Development Van Laere KMJ, Voragen CHL, Kroef T, Van den Broek LAM, of a bioconversion process for production of cis-1$,2R-indan- Beldman G, Voragen AGJ: Purification and mode of action of diol from indene by recombinant Escherichia coli constructs two different arabinoxylan arabinofuranohydrolases from Bifi- 614 dobacterium adolescentis DSM 20083 606 Regalado V, Perestelo F, Rodriguez A, Carnicero A, Sosa FJ, De van Niel EWJ, de Best JH, Kets EPW, Bonting CFC, Kortstee la Fuente G, Falc6n MA: Activated oxygen species and two GJJ: Polyphosphate formation by Acinetobacter johnsonii extracellular enzymes: laccase and aryl-alcohol oxidase, novel 210A: effect of cellular energy status and phosphate-specific for the lignin-degrading fungus Fusarium proliferatum 388 transport system 639 Riesenberg D, Guthke R: High-cell-density cultivation of micro- Villaverde S, Fernandez-Polanco F: Spatial distribution of respi- organisms 422 ratory activity in Pseudomonas putida 54G biofilms degrading Roberts DP, Kobayashi DY, Dery PD, Short Jr NM: An image volatile organic compounds (VOC) 382 analysis method for determination of spatial colonization pat- Vollmer MD, Schell U, Seibert V, Lakner S, Schlomann M: Sub- terns of bacteria in plant rhizosphere 653 strate specificities of the chloromuconate cycloisomerases from Rocher M, Goma G, Pilas Begue A, Louvel L, Rols JL: Towards Pseudomonas sp. B13, Ralstonia eutropha JMP134 and Pseudo- a reduction in excess sludge production in activated sludge monas sp. P51 598 processes: biomass physicochemical treatment and biodegrada- Wachi M, Wijayarathna CD, Teraoka H, Nagai K: A murC gene tion 883 from coryneform bacteria 223 Sharma HSS, Kilpatrick M, Ward F, Lyons G, Burns L: Colonis- Weber N, Klein E, Mukherjee KD: Long-chain acyl thioesters ation of phase II compost by biotypes of Trichoderma harzian- prepared by solvent-free thioesterification and transthioesterif- um and their effect on mushroom yield and quality 572 ication catalysed by microbial lipases 401 Shaw-Reid CA, McCormick MM, Sinskey AJ, Stephanopoulos Xu B, Jahic M, Blomsten G, Enfors S-O: Glucose overflow meta- G: Flux through the tetrahydrodipicolinate succinylase path- bolism and mixed-acid fermentation in aerobic large-scale fed- way is dispensable for L-lysine production in Corynebacterium batch processes with Escherichia coli 564 glutamicum 325 Yap LF, Lee YK, Poh CL: Mechanism for phenol tolerance in Shen G-J, Shieh J-S, Grethlein AJ, Jain MK, Zeikus JG: Bio- phenol-degrading Comamonas testosteroni strain 833 chemical basis for carbon monoxide tolerance and butanol pro- Yasohara Y, Kizaki N, Hasegawa J, Takahashi S, Wada M, Ka- duction by Butyribacterium methylotrophicum 827 taoka M, Shimizu S: Synthesis of optically active ethyl 4-chlo- Shioya S, Morikawa M, Kajihara Y, Shimizu H: Optimization of ro-3-hydroxybutanoate by microbial reduction 847 agitation and aeration conditions for maximum virginiamycin Yasuda M, Aoyama M, Sakaguchi M, Nakachi K, Kobamoto N: production 164 Purification and characterization of a soybean-milk-coagulat- Sohn J-H, Choi E-S, Kang HA, Rhee J-S, Agaphonov MO, Ter- ing enzyme from Bacillus pumilus TY0-67 474 Avanesyan MD, Rhee SK: A dominant selection system de- Zeikus JG, Jain MK, Elankovan P: Biotechnology of succinic signed for copy-number-controlled gene integration in Hanse- acid production and markets for derived industrial products nula polymorpha DL-1 800 545 Spoeckner S, Wray V, Nimtz M, Lang S: Glycolipids of the smut Zhang J, Greasham R: Chemically defined media for commercial fungus Ustilago maydis from cultivation on renewable re- fermentations 407 sources 33 Zhou JL: Zn biosorption by Rhizopus arrhizus and other fungi Suresh C, Dubey AK, Srikanta S$, Umesh Kumar S, Karanth NG: 686 Characterisation of a starch-hydrolysing enzyme of Aspergillus Zverlov VV, Velikodvorskaya GA, Schwarz WH, Kellermann J, niger (Short contribution) 673 Staudenbauer WL: Duplicated Clostridium thermocellum cello- Suwanto A: Genetically engineered Rhodobacter sphaeroides for biohydrolase gene encoding cellulosomal subunits $3 and $5 the overproduction of 5-aminolevulinic acid 794 852