CONTENTSO F VOLUME 3? No. 1 (pp 1-134) published July 1999 No. 2 (pp 135-288) published August 1999 No. 3 (pp 289-454) published September 1999 No. 4 (pp 455-616) published October 1999 No. 5 (pp 617-740) published November 1999 No. 6 (pp 741-870) published December 1999 Aikawa M, Lopes-Shikida SAR, Lemos MF, Pradella JGC, Padil- Claassen PAM, van Lier JB, Lopez Contreras AM, van Niel la G: Screening of spontaneous and induced mutants in Strep- EWJ, Sijtsma L, Stams AJM, de Vries SS, Weusthuis RA: Util- tomyces avermitilis enhances avermectin production 558 isation of biomass for the supply of energy carriers 741 Akimoto C, Aoyagi H, Tanaka H: Endogenous elicitor-like ef- Collins LD, Daugulis AJ: Benzene/toluene/p-xylene degradation. fects of alginate on physiological activities of plant cells 429 Part I. Solvent selection and toluene degradation in a two- Ascon MA, Lebeault J-M: High efficiency of a coupled aerobic- phase partitioning bioreactor 354 anaerobic recycling biofilm reactor system in the degradation Collins LD, Daugulis AJ: Benzene/toluene/p-xylene degradation. of recalcitrant chloroaromatic xenobiotic compounds 592 Part II. Effect of substrate interactions and feeding strategies Ashkenazy R, Yannai S, Rahman R, Rabinovitz E, Gottlieb L: in toluene/benzene and toluene/p-xylene fermentations in a Fixation of spent Saccharomyces cerevisiae biomass for lead partitioning bioreactor 360 sorption 608 Cybinski DH, Layton I, Lowry JB, Dalrymple BP: An acetylxy- lan esterase and a xylanase expressed from genes cloned from Bae CS, Yang DS, Lee J, Park Y-H: Improved process for pro- the ruminal fungus Neocallimastix patriciarum act synergistical- duction of recombinant yeast-derived monomeric human G- ly to degrade acetylated xylans 221 CSF 338 Demain AL: Pharmaceutically active secondary metabolites of Baumgarten E, Nagel M, Tischner R: Reduction of the nitrogen microorganisms 455 and carbon content in swine waste with algae and bacteria Dermlim W, Prasertsan P, Doelle H: Screening and characteriza- 281 tion of bioflocculant produced by isolated Klebsiella sp. 698 Biebl H, Menzel K, Zeng A-P, Deckwer W-D: Microbial produc- Dicko MH, Searle-van Leeuwen MJF, Beldman G, Ouedraogo tion of 1,3-propanediol 289 OG, Hilhorst R, Traoré AS: Purification and characterization Billingsley KA, Backus SM, Ward OP: Effect of surfactant solu- of B-amylase from Curculigo pilosa (Short contribution) 802 bilization on biodegradation of polychlorinated biphenyl con- Diez B, Mellado E, Rodriguez M, Bernasconi E, Barredo JL: The geners by Pseudomonas LB400 255 NADP-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase gene from Peni- Burger C, Carrondo MJT, Cruz H, Cuffe M, Dias E, Griffiths JB, cillium chrysogenum and the construction of expression vectors Hayes K, Hauser H, Looby D, Mielke C, Moreira J-L, Rieke for filamentous fungi 196 E, Savage AV, Stacey GN, Welge T: An integrated strategy for Dilek FB, Taplamacioglu HM, Tarlan E: Colour and AOX re- the process development of a recombinant antibody-cytokine moval from pulping effluents by algae 585 fusion protein expressed in BHK cells 345 Durand R, Rascle C, Févre M: Expression of a catalytic domain Caldeira M, Heald SC, Carvalho MF, Vasconcelos I, Bull AT, of a Neocallimastix frontalis endoxylanase gene (xyn3) in Kluy- Castro PML: 4-Chlorophenol degradation by a bacterial con- veromyces lactis and Penicillium roqueforti 208 sortium: development of a granular activated carbon biofilm Eggeling L, Sahm H: L-Glutamate and L-lysine: traditional prod- reactor 722 ucts with impetuous developments 146 Cassland P, Jonsson LJ: Characterization of a gene encoding Tra- Eneyskaya EV, Kulminskaya AA, Savel’ev AN, Savel’eva NV, metes versicolor laccase A and improved heterologous expres- Shabalin KA, Neustroev KN: Acid protease from Trichoderma sion in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by decreased cultivation tem- reesei: limited proteolysis of fungal carbohydrases 226 perature 393 Escalante L, Ramos I, Imriskova I, Langley E, Sanchez S: Glu- cose repression of anthracycline formation in Streptomyces Catcheside DEA, Ralph JP: Biological processing of coal 16 peucetius var. caesius 572 Cazemier AE, Verdoes JC, Op den Camp HJM, Hackstein JHP, Fakoussa RM, Frost PJ: In vivo-decolorization of coal-derived van Ooyen AJJ: A B-1,4-endoglucanase-encoding gene from humic acids by laccase-excreting fungus Trametes versicolor Cellulomonas pachnodae 232 60 Chauhan S, Yankelevich E, Bystritskii VM, Wood TK: Degrada- Fakoussa RM, Hofrichter M: Biotechnology and microbiology of tion of 2,4,5-trichlorophenol and 2,3,5,6-tetrachlorophenol by coal degradation 25 combining pulse electric discharge with bioremediation 261 Farooqi M, Sosnitza P, Saleemuddin M, Ulber R, Scheper T: Im- Chen C-K, Blaschek HP: Acetate enhances solvent production munoaffinity layering of enzymes, Stabilization and use in flow and prevents degeneration in Clostridium beijerinckii BA101 injection analysis of glucose and hydrogen peroxide 373 170 Fernandez M-J, Adrio JL, Piret JM, Wolfe S, Ro S, Demain AL: Chen T-Y, Shang H-F, Chen T-L, Lin C-P, Hui C-F, Hwang J: Stimulatory effect of growth in the presence of alcohols on bio- Recombinant protein composed of Pseudomonas exotoxin A, transformation of penicillin G into cephalosporin-type antibio- outer membrane proteins I and F as vaccine against P. aerugi- tics by resting cells of Streptomyces clavuligerus NP1 484 nosa infection 524 Ferreira Jorge RM, Livingston AG: A novel method for charac- Chen X, Romaine CP, Ospina-Giraldo MD, Royse DJ: A poly- terisation of microbial growth kinetics on volatile organic com- merase chain reaction-based test for the identification of Tri- pounds 174 choderma harzianum biotypes 2 and 4, responsible for the Fiichtenbusch B, Steinbiichel A: Biosynthesis of polyhydroxyal- worldwide green mold epidemic in cultivated Agaricus bispo- kanoates from low-rank coal liquefaction products by Pseudo- rus 246 monas oleovorans and Rhodococcus ruber 91 IV Gavagan JE, DiCosimo R, Eisenberg A, Fager SK, Folsom PW, Klein J: Biological processing of fossil fuels, Résumé of the Bio- Hann EC, Schneider KJ, Fallon RD: A Gram-negative bacteri- conversion Session of ICCS’97_ 2 um producing a heat-stable nitrilase highly active on aliphatic Klein J: Preface 1 dinitriles 654 Koops BC, Papadimou E, Verheij HM, Slotboom AJ, Egmond Gétz GKE, Fakoussa RM: Fungal biosolubilization of Rhenish MR: Activity and stability of chemically modified Candida ant- brown coal monitored by Curie-point pyrolysis/gas chromato- arctica lipase B adsorbed on solid supports 791 graphy/mass spectrometry using tetraethylammonium hydrox- Kriiger K, Lang G, Weidner T, Engel AM: Cloning and function- ide 41 al expression of the D-B-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase gene Gomez F, Amils R, Marin I: Bioremoval of organic and inorganic of Rhdobacter sp. DSMZ 12077 (Short contribution) 666 sulphur from coal samples (Short contribution) 118 Laborda F, Monistrol IF, Luna N, Fernandez M: Processes of Guieysse B, Mattiasson B: Fast remediation of coal-tar-related liquefaction/solubilization of Spanish coals by microorgan- compounds in biofilm bioreactors 600 isms 49 Guo X-X, Shi D-J, Xu X-D, Ouyang Y-X, Ru B-G: Metal- Lee B-S, Maurer T, Kalbitzer HR, Holler E: B-Poly(L-malate) induced expressing of mammal Metallothionein-1 gene in cya- production by Physarum polycephalum, '*C Nuclear magnetic nobacteria to promote cadmium-binding preferences (Short resonance studies 415 contribution) 806 Lepist6 R, Rintala J: Kinetics and characteristics of 70°C, VFA- Hage A, Schoemaker HE, Field JA: Reduction of aryl acids by grown, UASB granular sludge 730 white-rot fungi for the biocatalytic production of aryl alde- Lessard PA, O’Brien XM, Ahlgren NA, Ribich SA, Sinskey AJ: hydes and alcohols 834 Characterization of IS/676 from Rhodococcus erythropolis Holker U, Ludwig S, Scheel T, H6fer M: Mechanisms of coal so- SQl1 811 lubilization by the deuteromycetes Trichoderma atroviride and Liu Y, Chen GH, Rols JL: A kinetic model incorporating energy Fusarium oxysporum 57 spilling for substrate removal in substrate-sufficient batch cul- Hofrichter M, Ziegenhagen D, Sorge S, Ullrich R, Bublitz F, ture of activated sludge 647 Fritsche W: Degradation of lignite (low-rank coal) by ligni- Lodato P, Segovia de Huergo M, Buera MP: Viability and ther- nolytic basidiomycetes and their manganese peroxidase sys- mal stability of a strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae freeze- tem 78 dried in different sugar and polymer matrices 215 Hofvendahl K, Akerberg C, Zacchi G, Hahn-Hagerdal B: Simul- Malaisse WJ, Olivares E, Belcourt A, Nilsson K: Immobilization taneous enzymatic wheat starch saccharification and fermenta- of pancreatic islet cells with preserved secretory potential tion to lactic acid by Lactococcus lactis 163 (Short contribution) 652 Jayaraman A, Hallock PJ, Carson RM, Lee C-C, Mansfeld FB, Monchois V, Vignon M, Russell RRB: Isolation of key amino Wood TK: Inhibiting sulfate-reducing bacteria in biofilms on acid residues at the N-terminal end of the core region Strepto- steel with antimicrobial peptides generated in situ 267 coccus downei glucansucrase, GTF-I 660 Jayaraman A, Ornek D, Duarte DA, Lee C-C, Mansfeld FB, Montiel MD, Rodriguez J, Pérez-Leblic MI, Hernandez M, Arias Wood TK: Axenic aerobic biofilms inhibit corrosion of copper ME, Copa-Patifio JL: Screening of mannanases in actinomy- and aluminum 787 cetes and their potential application in the biobleaching of pine Juteau P, Larocque R, Rho D, LeDuy A: Analysis of the relative kraft pulps 240 abundance of different types of bacteria capable of toluene de- Mukherjee J, Lindemann C, Scheper T: Fluorescence monitoring gradation in a compost biofilter 863 during cultivation of Enterobacter aerogenes at different oxy- Kacena MA, Smith EE, Todd P: Autolysis of Escherichia coli and gen levels 489 Bacillus subtilis cells in low gravity (Short contribution) 437 Munder T, Hinnen A: Yeast cells as tools for target-oriented Kalscheuer R, Arensk6tter M, Steinbiichel A: Establishment of a screening 311 gene transfer system for Rhodococcus opacus PD630 based on Nakamori S, Kobayashi S, Nishimura T, Takagi H: Mechanism of electroporation and its application for recombinant biosynthe- L-methionine overproduction by Escherichia coli: the replace- sis of poly(3-hydroxyalkanoic acids) 508 ment of Ser-54 by Asn in the MetJ protein causes the derepres- Kastner JR, Jones WJ, Roberts RS: Oxygen starvation induces sion of L-methionine biosynthetic enzymes 179 cell death in Candida shehatae fermentations of D-xylose, but Nandakumar MP, Sapre A, Lali A, Mattiasson B: Monitoring of not D-glucose (Erratum) 612 low concentrations of glucose in fermentation broth 502 Katsivela E, Bonse D, Kriiger A, Strémpl C, Livingston A, Wit- Ogawa J, Ryono A, Xie S-X, Vohra RM, Indrati R, Miyakawa H, tich R-M: An extractive membrane biofilm reactor for degrad- Ueno T, Ikenaka Y, Nanba H, Takahashi S, Shimizu S: B-Car- ation of 1,3-dichloropropene in industrial waste water 853 bon stereoselectivity of N-carbamoy!-D-a-amino acid amidohy- Kempken F: Fungal transposons: from mobile elements towards drolase for a,B-diastereomeric amino acids 797 molecular tools 756 Ott R, Kramer R: DNA hydrolysis by inorganic catalysts 761 Khashnobish A, Hamann A, Osiewacz HD: Modulation of gene Otto RT, Daniel H-J, Pekin G, Miiller-Decker K, Fiirstenberger expression by (CA), microsatellites in the filamentous ascomy- G, Reuss M, Syldatk C: Production of sophorolipids from cete Podospora anserina 191 whey. II. Product composition, surface active properties, cyto- Kim D-S, Fogler HS: The effects of exopolymers on cell morpho- toxicity and stability against hydrolases by enzymatic treat- logy and culturability of Leuconostoc mesenteroides during ment 495 starvation 839 Overhage J, Priefert H, Rabenhorst J, Steinbiichel A: Biotrans- Kim H-S, Yoon B-D, Choung D-H, Oh H-M, Katsuragi T, Tani formation of eugenol to vanillin by a mutant of Pseudomonas Y: Characterization of a biosurfactant, mannosylerythritol lip- sp. strain HR199 constructed by disruption of the vanillin de- id-produced from Candida sp. SY16 713 hydrogenase (vdh) gene 820 Kiran KR, Karanth NG, Divakar S: Preparation of stearoyl lactic Parente E, Ricciardi A: Production, recovery and purification of acid ester catalyzed by lipases from Rhizomucor miehei and bacteriocins from lactic acid bacteria 628 porcine pancreas optimization using response surface method- Parshikov IA, Freeman JP, Williams AJ, Moody JD, Sutherland ology 579 JB: Biotransformation of N-acetylphenothiazine by fungi Kirimura K, Yusa S, Rugsaseel S$, Nakagawa H, Osumi M, Usami 553 S: Amylose-like polysaccharide accumulation and hyphal cell- Payot S, Guedon E, Desvaux M, Gelhaye E, Petitdemange E: Ef- surface structure in relation to citric acid production by Asper- fect of dilution rate, cellobiose and ammonium availabilities on gillus niger in shake culture 421 Clostridium cellulolyticum sporulation 670 V Pencreac’h G, Baratti JC: Properties of free and immobilised li- Stoop JMH, Mooibroek H: Advances in genetic analysis and bio- pase from Burkholderia cepacia in organic media 276 technology of the cultivated button mushroom, Agaricus bispo- Peres CM, Van Aken B, Naveau H, Agathos SN: Continuous de- rus 474 gradation of mixtures of 4-nitrobenzoate and 4-aminobenzoate Stredansky M, Conti E: Succinoglycan production by solid-state by immobilized cells of Burkholderia cepacia strain PB4 440 fermentation with Agrobacterium tumefaciens 332 Potekhina JS, Sherisheva NG, Povetkina LP, Pospelov AP, Raki- Takahashi S, Ueda M, Tanaka A: Independent production of two tina TA, Warnecke F, Gottschalk G: Role of microorganisms molecular forms of a recombinant Rhizopus oryzae lipase by in corrosion inhibition of metals in aquatic habitats 639 KEX2-engineered strains of Saccharomoyces cerevisiae 534 Ralph JP, Catcheside DEA: Transformation of macromolecules Terashima M, Murai Y, Kawamura M, Nakanishi S, Stoltz T, from a brown coal by lignin peroxidase 70 Chen L, Drohan W, Rodriguez RL, Katoh S: Production of Roseiro JC, Partidario PJ, Lobo N, Margal MJ: Physiology and functional human q-antitrypsin by plant cell culture 516 kinetics of trimethylamine conversion by two methylotrophic Tran L-SP, Szab6 L, Ponyi T, Orosz L, Sik T, Holezinger A: strains in continuous cultivation systems 546 Phage abortive infection of Bacillus licheniformis ATCC 9800; Rosenberg E, Ron EZ: High- and low-molecular-mass microbial identification of the abiBL11 gene and localisation and se- surfactants 154 quencing of its promoter region 845 Ruff J, Hitzler T, Rein U, Ritter A, Cook AM: Bioavailability of Tudzynski B: Biosynthesis of gibberellins in Gibberella fujikuroi: water-polluting sulfonoaromatic compounds (Short contribu- biomolecular aspects 298 tion) 446 van der Rest ME, Lange C, Molenaar D: A heat shock following Sabaté J, Grifoll M, Vifias M, Solanas AM: Isolation and charac- electroporation induces highly efficient transformation of terization of a 2-methylphenanthrene utilizing bacterium: iden- Corynebacterium glutamicum with xenogeneic plasmid DNA tification of ring cleavage metabolites 704 541 Sabra W, Zeng A-P, Sabry S, Omar S, Deckwer W-D: Effect of van der Werf MJ, Orru RVA, Overkamp KM, Swarts HJ, phosphate and oxygen concentrations on alginate production Osprian I, Steinreiber A, de Bont JAM, Faber K: Substrate and stoichiometry of metabolism of Azotobacter vinelandii un- specificity and stereospecificity of limonene-1,2-epoxide hydro- der microaerobic conditions 773 lase from Rhodococcus erythropolis DCL14; an enzyme Saha BC, Bothast RJ: Production of 2,3-butanediol by newly iso- showing sequential and enantioconvergent substrate conver- lated Enterobacter cloacae 321 sion 380 Sakuma Y, Kimura M, Takabatake T, Takeshima K, Fujimura H: Van Laere KMJ, Hartemink R, Beldman G, Pitson S, Dijkema C, Expression and secretion of a biologically active mouse sonic Schols HA, Voragen AGJ: Transglycosidase activity of Bifido- hedgehog protein by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia pastoris bacterium adolescentis DSM 20083 a-galactosidase 681 410 van Niel EWJ, Hahn-Hagerdal B: Nutrient requirements of lacto- Sarnaik S, Kanekar P: Biodegradation of methyl violet by Pseu- cocci in defined growth media 617 domonas mendocina MCM B-402_ 251 van Zyl WH, Eliasson A, Hobley T, Hahn-Hiagerdal B: Xylose Schacht S, Sinder C, Pfeifer F, Klein J: Bioassays for risk assess- utilisation by recombinant strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae ment of coal conversion products (Short contribution) 127 on different carbon sources (Short contribution) 829 Scheel T, Hélker U, Ludwig S, Héfer M: Evidence for and ex- Waing M, Ingvorsen K: Production of halostable B-mannanase pression of a laccase gene in three basidiomycetes degrading and B-mannosidase by strain NN, a new extremely halotolerant humic acids 66 bacterium 675 Schippers A, Rhowerder T, Sand W: Intermediary sulfur com- Wang J-C, Sakakibara M, Liu J-Q, Dairi T, Itoh N: Cloning, se- pounds in pyrite oxidation: implications for bioleaching and quence analysis, and expression in Escherichia coli of the gene biodepyritization of coal 104 encoding phenylacetaldehyde reductase from styrene-assimi- Schiller D, Frankel RB: Bacterial magnetosomes: microbiology, lating Corynebacterium sp. strain ST-10 386 biomineralization and biotechnological applications 464 Wieckowski AB, Stowik GP, Gasiorek JA, Gasiorek P, Domka Schumacher JD, Fakoussa RM: Degradation of alicyclic mole- F, Perkowska A: EPR study and structural aspects of ferredox- cules by Rhodococcus ruber CD4_ 85 ins obtained from Thiobacillus ferrooxidans 96 Sedlaczek L, Lisowska K, Korycka M, Rumijowska A, Zidtkow- Wilke D: Chemicals from biotechnology: molecular plant ge- ski A, Dtugonski J: The effect of cell wall components on gly- netics will challenge the chemical and the fermentation indus- cine-enhanced sterol side chain degradation to androstene der- try 135 ivatives by mycobacteria 563 Wu S, Fallon RD, Payne MS: Engineering Pichia pastoris for ste- Serbolisca L, de Ferra F, Margarit I: Manipulation of the DNA reoselective nitrile hydrolysis by co-producing three heterolo- coding for the desulphurizing activity in a new isolate of gous proteins 186 Arthrobacter sp. 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