Extremophiles (1997-2011)

Volume 1, Number 1 / February 1997

2-13Glycosyl hydrolases from hyperthermophilesAnwar Sunna, Marco Moracci, Mose Rossi and Garabed Antranikian
14-21Pyrolobus fumarii
22-28Diverse genes of alkaliphilic
29-35Cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding the cell surface glycoprotein of
36-52A fosmid-based genomic map and identification of 474 genes of the hyperthermophilic archaeon
53-61Glutamate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium

Volume 1, Number 2 / May 1997

61-66Alkaline cellulases from alkaliphilic
67-73Stetteria hydrogenophila
74-78Purification and properties of mangano-superoxide dismutase from a strain of alkaliphilic
79-88DNA binding and nuclease protection by the HMf histones from the hyperthermophilic archaeon
89-93Vacuolar acidification in
94-99Silicibacter lacuscaerulensis
100-105Biodegradation of indole at high concentration by persolvent
106-109Fe(III) as an electron acceptor for H2 oxidation in thermophilic anaerobic enrichment cultures from geothermal areasAlexander I. Slobodkin and Juergen Wiegel

Volume 1, Number 3 / August 1997

111-116The molecular biology of barophilic bacteriaChiaki Kato and Douglas H. Bartlett
117-123Molecular analyses of the sediment of the 11000-m deep Mariana TrenchChiaki Kato, Lina Li, Jin Tamaoka and Koki Horikoshi
125-134Random sequence analysis of genomic DNA of a hyperthermophile:
135-141K+/H+ antiporter in alkaliphilic
143-149Occurrence of virus-like particles in the Dead SeaAharon Oren, Gunnar Bratbak and Mikal Heldal
151-156Thermostable alkaline cellulase from an alkaliphilic isolate,
157-162Highly efficient production of enzymes of an extreme thermophile,

Volume 1, Number 4 / October 1997

163-170Mechanisms of cytoplasmic pH regulation in alkaliphilic strains of
171-182Purification and characterization of thermostable pectate-lyases from a newly isolated thermophilic bacterium,
183-192Shuttle vectors for hyperthermophilic archaeaRajagopal N. Aravalli and R. A. Garrett
193-198Effects of oxygen and nitrate on growth of
199-206Isolation and characterization of bacteriophage BCJA1, a novel temperate bacteriophage active against the alkaliphilic bacterium,
207-211A denitrifying bacterium from the deep sea at 11 000-m depthH. Tamegai, Lina Li, Noriaki Masui and Chiaki Kato

Volume 2, Number 1 / February 1998

1-8Photobacterium profundum
9-14Expression and secretion of a xylanase from the extreme thermophile,
15-22Overproduction and one-step purification of the
23-32Extracellular α-amylase from
33-40Detection and expression of a gene encoding a new bacteriorhodopsin from an extreme halophile strain HT (JCM 9743) which does not possess bacteriorhodopsin activityM. Kamekura, Yukio Seno and Hiroaki Tomioka
41-50Heat shock response in psychrophilic and psychrotrophic yeast from AntarcticaMichelle L. Deegenaars and K. Watson

Volume 2, Number 2 / May 1998

53-60Cellulosome and noncellulosomal cellulases of
61-66Cloning and overexpression in Escherichia coli of the gene encoding citrate synthase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusH. Connaris, Shauna M. West, David W. Hough and Michael J. Danson
67-74Bioenergetics and cytoplasmic membrane stability of the extremely acidophilic, thermophilic archaeon
75-81Archaeal histone stability, DNA binding, and transcription inhibition above 90°CDivya Soares, Isabel Dahlke, Wen-Tyng Li, Kathleen Sandman and Carina Hethke, et al.
83-92Studies on the respiratory system in alkaliphilic Bacillus; a proposed new respiratory mechanismAkira Higashibata, Taketomo Fujiwara and Y. Fukumori
93-99Purification of a
101-108Estimation of genome sizes of hyperthermophilesChristian Baumann, Martin Judex, Harald Huber and R. Wirth
109-114Thermococcus acidaminovorans
115-122Protection of DNA by salts against thermodegradation at temperatures typical for hyperthermophilesEvelyne Marguet and P. Forterre
123-130Pyrococcus horikoshii

Volume 2, Number 3 / August 1998

131-140Genetic elements in the extremely thermophilic archaeon
141-148Histones and nucleosomes in Archaea and Eukarya: a comparative analysisSuzette L. Pereira and J. N. Reeve
149-154Mechanisms of gene expression controlled by pressure in deep-sea microorganismsKaoru Nakasone, Akihiko Ikegami, C. Kato, R. Usami and Koki Horikoshi
155-161Molecular phylogenetic identification of the intestinal anaerobic microbial community in the hindgut of the termite,
163-170The essence of being extremophilic: the role of the unique archaeal membrane lipidsJack L. C. M. van de Vossenberg, Arnold J. M. Driessen and W. N. Konings
171-177Domain organization and biochemical features of
179-183Thermozymes: biotechnology and structure–function relationshipsJ. G. Zeikus, Claire Vieille and Alexei Savchenko
185-190Alkaline detergent enzymes from alkaliphiles: enzymatic properties, genetics, and structuresS. Ito, Tohru Kobayashi, Katsutoshi Ara, Katsuya Ozaki and Shuji Kawai, et al.
191-200Microbial diversity of soda lakesB. E. Jones, William D. Grant, A. W. Duckworth and G. G. Owenson
201-205Sugar utilization and its control in hyperthermophilesW. M. de Vos, Servé W. M. Kengen, Wilfried G. B. Voorhorst and John van der Oost
207-216Biochemistry and biotechnology of mesophilic and thermophilic nitrile metabolizing enzymesD. Cowan, Rebecca Cramp, R. Pereira, D. Graham and Qadreyah Almatawah
217-222pH homeostasis and ATP synthesis: studies of two processes that necessitate inward proton translocation in extremely alkaliphilic
223-228Analysis of intracellular pH in the yeast
229-238Bacteria tolerant to organic solventsS. Isken and Jan A. M. de Bont
239-248Improvement of organic solvent tolerance level of
249-256Developments toward large-scale bacterial bioprocesses in the presence of bulk amounts of organic solventsA. Schmid, A. Kollmer, R. G. Mathys and B. Witholt
257-267Anaerobic alkalithermophiles, a novel group of extremophilesJuergen Wiegel
269-277Taxonomy and biotransformation activities of some deep-sea actinomycetesJoy A. Colquhoun, Stephen C. Heald, Lina Li, J. Tamaoka and Chiaki Kato, et al.
279-287Halobacteria: the evidence for longevityW. D. Grant, Renia T. Gemmell and Terry J. McGenity
289-295Diversity of extremely halophilic bacteriaMasahiro Kamekura
297-304Moderately halophilic gram-positive bacterial diversity in hypersaline environmentsA. Ventosa, M. Carmen Márquez, María J. Garabito and David R. Arahal
305-312Completing the sequence of the
313-319Life on Mars: chemical arguments and clues from Martian meteoritesAndré Brack and Colin T. Pillinger
321-331Distribution and diversity of halophilic bacteria in a subsurface salt formationR. H. Vreeland, A. F. Piselli Jr., S. McDonnough and S. S. Meyers
333-338Nucleoside diphosphate kinase from haloalkaliphilic archaeon
339-345Pressure enhances thermal stability of DNA polymerase from three thermophilic organismsM. Summit, Brad Scott, Kirk Nielson, Eric Mathur and John Baross
347-357A novel thermostable nitrile hydrataseRui A. Pereira, D. Graham, Fred A. Rainey and D. A. Cowan
359-366Dietzia natronolimnaios
367-373Extremophile microorganisms as cell factories: support from the European UnionA. Aguilar, Torbjörn Ingemansson and Etienne Magnien
375-377Was the environment for primordial life hypersaline?Ian Dundas

Volume 2, Number 4 / November 1998

379-389A histidine gene cluster of the hyperthermophile
391-393Sulfolobus islandicus
395-400Isolation and transposon mutagenesis of a
401-407Characterization of α-maltotetraohydrolase produced by
409-416Enzymes from
417-425Genetic profile of pNOB8 from
427-433Kreb's TCA cycle in
435-438Analysis of the genome of the gram-negative moderate halophiles
439-446Gentisate 1,2-dioxygenase from
447-453Physical map of alkaliphilic

Volume 3, Number 1 / January 1999

1-2Holger Windekilde Jannasch, 1927–1998
3-9Purification and characterization of an intracellular heat-stable proteinase (pernilase) from the marine hyperthermophilic archaeon
11-19Heterologous expression in the Archaea: transcription from
21-28An improved physical and genetic map of the genome of alkaliphilic
29-34Sequencing of three lambda clones from the genome of alkaliphilic
35-43The mer operon of the acidophilic bacterium
45-53Degradation of 3-phenylpropionic acid by
55-62Thermococcus siculi
63-70Dissimilatory sulfite reductase from
71-77Taxonomic studies of extremely barophilic bacteria isolated from the Mariana Trench and description of

Volume 3, Number 2 / May 1999

81-87Polymer hydrolysis in a cold climateS. P. Cummings and Gary W. Black
89-95NH4+ transport system of a psychrophilic marine bacterium,
97-102Biodiversity in deep-sea sites located near the south part of JapanH. Takami, Kuniko Kobata, Takahiko Nagahama, Hideki Kobayashi and Akira Inoue, et al.
103-111Family 10 and 11 xylanase genes from
113-120Sequence analysis and functional studies of a chromosomal region of alkaliphilic
121-129Purification and characterization of an ADP-dependent phosphofructokinase from
131-137Purification and properties of the pyrophosphate-dependent phosphofructokinase from
139-145Novel archaeal phylotypes from an East African alkaline salternS. Grant, William D. Grant, Brian E. Jones, Chiaki Kato and Lina Li
147-152Heat-stable pullulanase from
153-161Isolation of a chymotrypsinogen B-like enzyme from the archaeon
163-172Combined effect of the growth temperature and salinity of the medium on the accumulation of compatible solutes by

Volume 3, Number 3 / August 1999

173-174Benjamin Elazari Volcani, 1915–1999Aharon Oren and Antonio Ventosa
175-183Molecular cloning, expression, and characterization of a thermostable glutamate racemase from a hyperthermophilic bacterium,
185-190Catechol 2,3-dioxygenase from the thermophilic, phenol-degrading
191-198Extrinsic protein stabilization by the naturally occurring osmolytes β-hydroxyectoine and betaineS. Knapp, Rudolf Ladenstein and Erwin A. Galinski
199-204A microfiltration bioreactor to achieve high cell density in
205-219Residue determinants and sequence analysis of cold-adapted trypsinsH.-K. Schrøder Leiros, Nils Peder Willassen and A. O. Smalås
221-226Protein adaptation to low temperatures: a comparative study of α-tubulin sequences in mesophilic and psychrophilic algaeSabine Willem, Mohammed Srahna, Nathalie Devos, C. Gerday and Roland Loppes, et al.
227-233Genetic analysis of the chromosome of alkaliphilic

Volume 3, Number 4 / November 1999

235-238Characterization and radiation resistance of new isolates of
239-246Investigation of structure and antigenic capacities of
247-251Isolation and characterization of
253-257Lipid membranes from halophilic and alkali-halophilic Archaea have a low H+ and Na+ permeability at high salt concentrationJ.L.C.M. van de Vossenberg, A. J. M. Driessen, D. Grant and W. N. Konings
259-262Studies on interdomain interaction of 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase from an extreme thermophile,
263-267The first description of an archaeal hemicellulase: the xylanase from
269-276Catabolic pathways of glucose in
277-282A stress protein is induced in the deep-sea barophilic hyperthermophile
283-291Characterization of an inducible nitrilase from a thermophilic bacillusQadreyah A. Almatawah, Rebecca Cramp and Don A. Cowan
293-296Reidentification of the keratinase-producing facultatively alkaliphilic

Volume 4, Number 1 / February 2000

1-7An archaeal chaperonin-based reactor for renaturation of denatured proteinsL. Cerchia, M. Rossi and A. Guagliardi
9-17Thermosipho japonicus
19-22Reidentification of facultatively alkaliphilic
23-33The structure of the α-galactosidase gene loci in
35-41Halocins: are they involved in the competition between halobacteria in saltern ponds?T. Kis-Papo and Aharon Oren
43-51MJ1647, an open reading frame in the genome of the hyperthermophile
53-60Halomonas magadii
61-67Microbial diversity at 83°C in Calcite Springs, Yellowstone National Park: another environment where the

Volume 4, Number 2 / April 2000

71-76Acidophiles in bioreactor mineral processingP. R. Norris, N. P. Burton and N. A. M. Foulis
77-82Heavy metal-resistant bacteria as extremophiles: molecular physiology and biotechnological use of
83-90Toward a molecular understanding of cold activity of enzymes from psychrophilesN. J. Russell
91-98Halophilic adaptation of enzymesD. Madern, C. Ebel and G. Zaccai
99-108Analysis of the genome of an alkaliphilic
109-114A novel bacteriorhodopsin-like protein from
115-122Molecular cloning, sequencing, and expression of the heat-labile uracil-DNA glycosylase from a marine psychrophilic bacterium, strain BMTU3346S. Jaeger, R. Schmuck and H. Sobek
123-130Structural analysis of the elongation factor G protein from the low-temperature-adapted bacterium

Volume 4, Number 3 / June 2000

131-136A novel microbial interaction: obligate commensalism between a new gram-negative thermophile and a thermophilic
137-144Xylanase from the psychrophilic yeast
145-155An obligate methylotrophic, methane-oxidizing
157-164Activity and stability of hyperthermophilic enzymes: a comparative study on two archaeal β-glycosidasesJeroen Pouwels, Marco Moracci, Beatrice Cobucci-Ponzano, Giuseppe Perugino and John van der Oost, et al.
165-173Low-temperature recovery strategies for the isolation of bacteria from ancient permafrost sedimentsTatiana Vishnivetskaya, Sophia Kathariou, John McGrath, David Gilichinsky and J. M. Tiedje
175-179Two different and highly organized mechanisms of translation initiation in the archaeon
181-188Extracellular protease of

Volume 4, Number 4 / August 2000

189-200Thermotoga maritima
201-208Bacillus
209-214Characterization and comparative study of the
215-225Cloning, expression, and characterization of DNA polymerase I from the hyperthermophilic archaea
227-235Thermolabile xylanase of the Antarctic yeast
237-245A new facultatively autotrophic hydrogen- and sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from an alkaline environmentD. Yu. Sorokin, T. P. Tourova and J. G. Kuenen
247-252A simplified method for the cultivation of extreme anaerobic Archaea based on the use of sodium sulfite as reducing agentOliver Rothe and M. Thomm

Volume 4, Number 5 / October 2000

253-258The Na+/H+ antiporter of alkaliphilic
259-265Comparisons of the polar lipid and pigment profiles of two solar salterns located in Newark, California, U.S.A., and Eilat, IsraelC. D. Litchfield, Amy Irby, T. Kis-Papo and Aharon Oren
267-274Genetic diversity analysis of
275-277Straight-chain fatty alcohols in the hyperthermophilic archaeon
279-284The intracellular pH of the thermophilic bacterium
285-290Identification of facultatively alkaliphilic
291-296Sucrose transport by the alkaliphilic, thermophilic
297-303Cloning, expression, and characterization of pyrrolidone carboxyl peptidase from the archaeon
305-313A microbiological survey of Montserrat Island hydrothermal biotopesTony Atkinson, Steven Cairns, D. A. Cowan, Michael J. Danson and David W. Hough, et al.
315-320Microbiology of acidic, geothermal springs of Montserrat: environmental rDNA analysisNicolas P. Burton and P. R. Norris

Volume 4, Number 6 / December 2000

321-331Cold stress response in ArchaeaR. Cavicchioli, Torsten Thomas and Paul M. G. Curmi
333-341Glutamate dehydrogenase from the aerobic hyperthermophilic archaeon
343-349Diverse genes of cellulase homologues of glycosyl hydrolase family 45 from the symbiotic protists in the hindgut of the termite
351-356Archaeal promoter-directed expression of the
357-364Phylogenetic analysis of archaeal PCNA homologuesToshie Iwai, N. Kurosawa, Yuko H. Itoh and Tadao Horiuchi
365-371Isolation and characterization of lipid-degrading
373-376Direct proof for the presence and expression of two 5% different 16S rRNA genes in individual cells of
377-383Highly alkaline pectate lyase Pel-4A from alkaliphilic
385-389Tissue culture of the deep-sea bivalve

Volume 5, Number 1 / February 2001

1Online First publicationThe Editor-in-Chief and Springer-Verlag
3-10Probing stability-activity relationships in the thermophilic proteasome from Thermoplasma acidophilum by random mutagenesisJon S. Beadell and Douglas S. Clark
11-15Evaluation of the growth inhibition strength of hydrocarbon solvents against Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida grown in a two-liquid phase culture system consisting of a medium and organic solventRikizo Aono, Norihiko Tsukagoshi and Toshiyuki Miyamoto
17-22Selection of stabilized 3-isopropylmalate dehydrogenase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae using the host-vector system of an extreme thermophile, Thermus thermophilusMasatada Tamakoshi, Yumiko Nakano, Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Akihiko Yamagishi and Tairo Oshima
23-3316S rDNA diversity of cultured and uncultured prokaryotes of a mat sample from Lake Fryxell, McMurdo Dry Valleys, AntarcticaEvelyne Brambilla, Hans Hippe, Anja Hagelstein, Brian J. Tindall and Erko Stackebrandt
35-44Cloning of two pectate lyase genes from the marine Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis strain ANT/505 and characterization of the enzymesLe Van Truong, Ho Tuyen, Elisabeth Helmke, Le Tran Binh and Thomas Schweder
45-51Isolation and characterization of a mixotrophic sulfur-oxidizing Thermus scotoductusSigurlaug Skirnisdottir, Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson, Olle Holst and Jakob K. Kristjansson
53-60Liposome-mediated DNA uptake and transient expression in ThermotogaJae-Sung Yu, Madeline Vargas, Christina Mityas and Kenneth M. Noll
61-69Random sequence analysis of genomic DNA of an anaerobic, thermophilic, halophilic bacterium, Halothermothrix oreniiBenjamin N. Mijts and Bharat K.C. Patel
72Tissue culture of the deep-sea bivalve Calyptogena soyoaeSumihiro Koyama and Masuo Aizawa

Volume 5, Number 2 / April 2001

73-83Potential of halotolerant and halophilic microorganisms for biotechnologyRosa Margesin and Franz Schinner
85-91Isolation and characterization of Thermococcus sibiricus sp. nov. from a Western Siberia high-temperature oil reservoirMargarita L. Miroshnichenko, Hans Hippe, Erko Stackebrandt, Nadezhda A. Kostrikina and Nikolai A. Chernyh, et al.
93-99A WbpL mutant of Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E strain, which lacks the O-antigenic side chain of lipopolysaccharides, is tolerant to organic solvent shocksFrank Junker, Juan J. Rodríguez-Herva, Estrella Duque, María Ramos-González and Marían Llamas, et al.
101-109Role of two different glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases in controlling the reversible Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas pathway in Thermoproteus tenax: regulation on protein and transcript levelNina A. Brunner, Bettina Siebers and Reinhard Hensel
111-117The novel function of a short region K253XRXXXD259 conserved in the exonuclease domain of hyperthermostable DNA polymerase I from Pyrococcus horikoshiiRong Zheng, Eriko Matsui, Yulong Shen, Krishnasastry V. Musti and Yan Feng, et al.
119-126Cloning, expression, and characterization of a chitinase gene from the Antarctic psychrotolerant bacterium Vibrio sp. strain Fi:7Anne Bendt, Heike Hüller, Ulrike Kammel, Elisabeth Helmke and Thomas Schweder
127-133Enzymatic properties of the highly thermophilic and alkaline pectate lyase Pel-4B from alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. strain P-4-N and the entire nucleotide and amino acid sequencesYuji Hatada, Tohru Kobayashi and Susumu Ito
135-144Starch-hydrolyzing bacteria from Ethiopian soda lakesRita F. Martins, Wagied Davids, Waleed Al-Soud, Fredrik Levander and Peter Rådström, et al.

Volume 5, Number 3 / June 2001

145-152Enzymatic synthesis of oligosaccharides by two glycosyl hydrolases of Sulfolobus solfataricusMarco Moracci, Antonio Trincone, Beatrice Cobucci-Ponzano, Giuseppe Perugino and Maria Ciaramella, et al.
153-159Thermoadaptation of a mesophilic hygromycin B phosphotransferase by directed evolution in hyperthermophilic Archaea: selection of a stable genetic marker for DNA transfer into Sulfolobus solfataricusRaffaele Cannio, Patrizia Contursi, Mosè Rossi and Simonetta Bartolucci
161-168Molecular cloning and characterization of thermostable DNA ligase from Aquifex pyrophilus, a hyperthermophilic bacteriumJae-Hwan Lim, Juhyun Choi, Soo-Jin Han, Sung Kim and Hye-Zin Hwang, et al.
169-175Isolation of the fibrocrystalline body, a structure present in haloarchaeal species, from Halobacterium salinarumItziar Alba, Marina Torreblanca, Manuel Sánchez, María Colom and Inmaculada Meseguer
177-182Interaction of TIP26 from a hyperthermophilic archaeon with TFB/TBP/DNA ternary complexTomoki Matsuda, Makoto Fujikawa, Mitsuru Haruki, Xiao-Feng Tang and Satoshi Ezaki, et al.
183-192Molecular and biochemical characterization of the recombinant amidase from hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusAnna d' Abusco, Sergio Ammendola, Roberto Scandurra and Laura Politi
193-198Innovative fermentation strategies for the production of extremophilic enzymesChiara Schiraldi, Margherita Acone, Mariateresa Giuliano, Isabella Di Lernia and Carmelina Maresca, et al.
199-211Characterization of alanine and malate dehydrogenases from a marine psychrophile strain PA-43Jane A. Irwin, Haflidi M. Gudmundsson, Viggo T. Marteinsson, Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson and Anthony J. Lanzetti, et al.

Volume 5, Number 4 / August 2001

213-219Identification and molecular characterization of an endoglucanase gene, celS, from the extremely thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusDanila Limauro, Raffaele Cannio, Gabriella Fiorentino, Mosè Rossi and Simonetta Bartolucci
221-228Novel haloarchaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences from Alpine Permo-Triassic rock saltChristian Radax, Claudia Gruber and Helga Stan-Lotter
229-239Cloning, expression, and structure analysis of carbamate kinase-like carbamoyl phosphate synthetase from Pyrococcus abyssiCristina Purcarea, Guy Hervé, Raymond Cunin and David R. Evans
241-245Metallosphaera sedula TA-2, a calditoglycerocaldarchaeol deletion strain of a thermoacidophilic archaeonYuko H. Itoh, Norio Kurosawa, Ikuko Uda, Akihiko Sugai and Shin Tanoue, et al.
247-255Chromosomally encoded arsenical resistance of the moderately thermophilic acidophile Acidithiobacillus caldusMark Dopson, Börje E. Lindström and Kevin B. Hallberg
257-264A novel replication element from an Antarctic plasmid as a tool for the expression of proteins at low temperatureMaria Tutino, Angela Duilio, Ermenegilda Parrilli, Erik Remaut and Giovanni Sannia, et al.
265-275Archaeal RecA homologues: different response to DNA-damaging agents in mesophilic and thermophilic ArchaeaClaudia I. Reich, Leslie K. McNeil, Jennifer L. Brace, Jacqueline K. Brucker and Gary J. Olsen
277-282Enzymatic synthesis and hydrolysis of xylogluco-oligosaccharides using the first archaeal a-xylosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricusAntonio Trincone, Beatrice Cobucci-Ponzano, Barbara Di Lauro, Mosè Rossi and Yasushi Mitsuishi, et al.
283Interaction of TIP26 from a hyperthermophilic archaeon with TFB/TBP/DNA ternary complexTomoki Matsuda, Makoto Fujikawa, Mitsuru Haruki, Xiao-Feng Tang and Satoshi Ezaki, et al.

Volume 5, Number 5 / October 2001

285-294Bioenergetics and solute uptake under extreme conditionsSonja-V. Albers, Jack L. Vossenberg, Arnold J. Driessen and Wil N. Konings
295-302Conformational changes and stabilization induced by phosphate binding to 5'-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusGiovanna Cacciapuoti, Luigi Servillo, Maria Moretti and Marina Porcelli
303-311NMR structure of Desulfovibrio gigas rubredoxin: a model for studying protein stabilization by compatible solutesPedro Lamosa, Lorraine Brennan, Hans Vis, David L. Turner and Helena Santos
313-321Did psychrophilic enzymes really win the challenge?Laurent Zecchinon, Paule Claverie, Tony Collins, Salvino D'Amico and Daniel Delille, et al.
323-332Characterization of a catalase-peroxidase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidusServé W. Kengen, Floris J. Bikker, Wilfred R. Hagen, Willem M. Vos and John Oost
333-341Cloning and expression of an endocellulase gene from a novel streptomycete isolated from an East African soda lakePieter Solingen, Daan Meijer, Wilhelmus A. Kleij, Christopher Barnett and Robertus Bolle, et al.
343-349Assignment of Pseudomonas sp. strain E-3 to Pseudomonas psychrophila sp. nov., a new facultatively psychrophilic bacteriumIsao Yumoto, Teruo Kusano, Tomohiro Shingyo, Yoshinobu Nodasaka and Hidetoshi Matsuyama, et al.
351-354A globin-coupled oxygen sensor from the facultatively alkaliphilic Bacillus halodurans C-125Shaobin Hou, Claude Belisle, Summer Lam, Mikhail Piatibratov and Victor Sivozhelezov, et al.

Volume 5, Number 6 / December 2001

357-373The biochemical properties and phylogenies of phosphofructokinases from extremophilesRon S. Ronimus and Hugh W. Morgan
375-384Expression of the 2,4-D degradative pathway of pJP4 in an alkaliphilic, moderately halophilic soda lake isolate, Halomonas sp. EF43Sabine Kleinsteuber, Roland H. Müller and Wolfgang Babel
385-392Archaeology of Archaea: geomicrobiological record of Pleistocene thermal events concealed in a deep-sea subseafloor environmentFumio Inagaki, Ken Takai, Tetsushi Komatsu, Toshiya Kanamatsu and Kantaro Fujioka, et al.
393-398Characterization of pyridine nucleotide coenzymes in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosusGuangliang Pan, Marc F. Verhagen and Michael W. Adams
399-408Isolation of Thermoanaerobacter keratinophilus sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, anaerobic bacterium with keratinolytic activitySabine Riessen and Garabed Antranikian
409-415Optical chamber system designed for microscopic observation of living cells under extremely high hydrostatic pressureSumihiro Koyama, Tetsuya Miwa, Takako Sato and Masuo Aizawa
417-421Contribution of Hsc70 to barotolerance in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaeHitoshi Iwahashi, Solomon Nwaka and Kaoru Obuchi
423-429A catalase-peroxidase from a newly isolated thermoalkaliphilic Bacillus sp. with potential for the treatment of textile bleaching effluentsMarinka Gudelj, Gilbert Fruhwirth, Andreas Paar, Fritz Lottspeich and Karl-Heinz Robra, et al.
431Innovative fermentation strategies for the production of extremophilic enzymesChiara Schiraldi, Margherita Acone, Mariateresa Giuliano, Isabella Di Lernia and Carmelina Maresca, et al.
432Assignment of Pseudomonas sp. strain E-3 to Pseudomonas psychrophila sp. nov., a new facultatively psychrophilic bacteriumIsao Yumoto, Teruo Kusano, Tomohiro Shingyo, Yoshinobu Nodasaka and Hidetoshi Matsuyama, et al.

Volume 6, Number 1 / February 2002

1-14Archaeal DNA replication: spotlight on a rapidly moving fieldKristina Böhlke, Francesca M. Pisani, Mosè Rossi and Garabed Antranikian
15-20Investigation into a stress-inducible promoter region from Marinococcus halophilus using green fluorescent proteinThorsten Bestvater and Erwin A. Galinski
21-31The thermostability of DNA-binding protein HU from mesophilic, thermophilic, and extreme thermophilic bacteriaEvangelos Christodoulou and Constantinos E. Vorgias
33-37Marinospirillum alkaliphilum sp. nov., a new alkaliphilic helical bacterium from Haoji soda lake in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region of ChinaWeizhou Zhang, Yanfen Xue, Yanhe Ma, William D. Grant and Antonio Ventosa, et al.
39-44Sulfolobus tokodaii sp. nov. (f. Sulfolobus sp. strain 7), a new member of the genus Sulfolobus isolated from Beppu Hot Springs, JapanToshiharu Suzuki, Toshio Iwasaki, Taketoshi Uzawa, Kurt Hara and Naoki Nemoto, et al.
45-50Thermostable Pyrococcus furiosus DNA ligase catalyzes the synthesis of (di)nucleoside polyphosphatesMaria A. Günther Sillero, María Montes, Anabel de Diego, Mercedes del Valle and Eva Atencia, et al.
51-56Rhodothermus marinus: a thermophilic bacterium producing dimeric and hexameric citrate synthase isoenzymesEva Nordberg Karlsson, Maher Abou-Hachem, Olle Holst, Michael J. Danson and David W. Hough
57-64Characterization of Symbiobacterium toebii, an obligate commensal thermophile isolated from compostSung-Keun Rhee, Che Jeon, Jin-Woo Bae, Kwang Kim and Jae Song, et al.
65-72A novel species of alkaliphilic Bacillus that produces an oxidatively stable alkaline serine proteaseKatsuhisa Saeki, Jun Hitomi, Mitsuyoshi Okuda, Yuji Hatada and Yasushi Kageyama, et al.
73-86Identification, cloning, and expression of uracil-DNA glycosylase from Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua): characterization and homology modeling of the cold-active catalytic domainOlav Lanes, Ingar Leiros, Arne O. Smalås and Nils Willassen

Volume 6, Number 2 / April 2002

89-95Transcriptional regulation under pressure conditions by RNA polymerase s54 factor with a two-component regulatory system in Shewanella violaceaKaoru Nakasone, Akihiko Ikegami, Hiroaki Kawano, Chiaki Kato and Ron Usami, et al.
97-102Purification and characterization of an extremely halophilic acetoacetyl-CoA thiolase from a newly isolated Halobacterium strain ZP-6Tiehan Liu, Shuang-Jiang Liu, Yanfen Xue, Yanhe Ma and Peijin Zhou
103-110Methanosarcina baltica, sp. nov., a novel methanogen isolated from the Gotland Deep of the Baltic SeaDominique von Klein, Hocine Arab, Horst Völker and Michael Thomm
111-122A thermostable L-aminoacylase from Thermococcus litoralis: cloning, overexpression, characterization, and applications in biotransformationsHelen S. Toogood, Edward J. Hollingsworth, Rob C. Brown, Ian N. Taylor and Stephen J. Taylor, et al.
123-129ATP generation during reduced inorganic sulfur compound oxidation by Acidithiobacillus caldus is exclusively due to electron transport phosphorylationMark Dopson, Börje E. Lindström and Kevin B. Hallberg
131-134Evidence of interspecies hydrogen transfer from glycerol in saline environmentsJean-Luc Cayol, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Jean-Louis Garcia and Bernard Ollivier
135-142Stability of Natrialba magadii NDP kinase: comparisons with other halophilic proteinsYaroslava Y. Polosina, Dmitry F. Zamyatkin, Alla S. Kostyukova, Vladimir V. Filimonov and Oleg V. Fedorov
143-150Thermodynamic activation properties of elongation factor 2 (EF-2) proteins from psychrotolerant and thermophilic ArchaeaKhawar Siddiqui, Ricardo Cavicchioli and Torsten Thomas
151-159Extremely thermostable glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) from the freshwater archaeon Thermococcus waiotapuensis: cloning and comparison with two marine hyperthermophilic GDHsMi-Kyung Lee, Juan M. González and Frank T. Robb
161-166Effect of glucose, maltose, soluble starch, and CO2 on the growth of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosusKai F. Biller, Isao Kato and Herbert Märkl
167-174Aminoacyl-tRNA formation in the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilusLiang Feng, Constantinos Stathopoulos, Ivan Ahel, Anusri Mitra and Debra Tumbula-Hansen, et al.
175Optical chamber system designed for microscopic observation of living cells under extremely high hydrostatic pressureSumihiro Koyama, Tetsuya Miwa, Takako Sato and Masuo Aizawa

Volume 6, Number 3 / June 2002

177-184Expression of xylanase enzymes from thermophilic microorganisms in fungal hostsPeter Bergquist, Valentino Te'o, Moreland Gibbs, Angela Cziferszky and Fabricia de Faria, et al.
185-194Molecular characterization of fervidolysin, a subtilisin-like serine protease from the thermophilic bacterium Fervidobacterium pennivoransLeon D. Kluskens, Wilfried G. Voorhorst, Roland J. Siezen, Ruth M. Schwerdtfeger and Garabed Antranikian, et al.
195-199Molecular identification of alkaliphilic and halotolerant strain Bacillus sp. FTU as Bacillus pseudofirmus FTUMaria S. Muntyan, Tatiana P. Tourova, Anatolij M. Lysenko, Tatiana V. Kolganova and Dagmar Fritze, et al.
201-207Acidophiles of saline water at thermal vents of Vulcano, ItalySusan Simmons and Paul Norris
209-216Comparative study of the thermostabilizing properties of mannosylglycerate and other compatible solutes on model enzymesNuno Borges, Ana Ramos, Neil D. Raven, Richard J. Sharp and Helena Santos
217-223Amino acid composition of bulk protein and salt relationships of selected enzymes of Salinibacter ruber, an extremely halophilic bacteriumAharon Oren and Lili Mana
225-232The periplasmic space in Thermus thermophilus: evidence from a regulation-defective S-layer mutant overexpressing an alkaline phosphatasePablo Castán, Olga Zafra, Renata Moreno, Miguel A. de Pedro and Cristina Vallés, et al.
233-243A novel subtilisin-like serine protease from Thermoanaerobacter yonseiensis KB-1: its cloning, expression, and biochemical propertiesHyeung Jang, Byoung Kim, Yu Pyun and Yu Kim
245-251A new type of dihydroorotate dehydrogenase, type 1S, from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusPalle Sørensen and Gert Dandanell
253-261Planococcus antarcticus and Planococcus psychrophilus spp. nov. isolated from cyanobacterial mat samples collected from ponds in AntarcticaG. Reddy, J. Prakash, M. Vairamani, S. Prabhakar and G. Matsumoto, et al.

Volume 6, Number 4 / August 2002

263-264Donn J. Kushner, 1927-2001Masahiro Kamekura and William D. Grant
265-266David Wynn-Williams, 1947-2002Nick Russell
267-274Diversity of Archaea in hypersaline environments characterized by molecular-phylogenetic and cultivation studiesTorsten Ochsenreiter, Felicitas Pfeifer and Christa Schleper
275-281L-Aspartate oxidase is present in the anaerobic hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii OT-3: characteristics and role in the de novo biosynthesis of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide proposed by genome sequencingHaruhiko Sakuraba, Takenori Satomura, Ryushi Kawakami, Sanae Yamamoto and Yutaka Kawarabayasi, et al.
283-289Cloning, expression, and characterization of the gsdA gene encoding thermophilic glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase from Aquifex aeolicusRamesh B. Iyer, Jianquan Wang and Leonidas G. Bachas
291-299Cloning and transcriptional analysis of the Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus strain 39E maltose ABC transport systemChris R. Jones, Myrna Ray and Herbert J. Strobel
301-308Isolation of a novel Thermus thermophilus metal efflux protein that improves Escherichia coli growth under stress conditionsStefania Spada, Tony J. Pembroke and Gerard J. Wall
309-318New isolates and physiological properties of the Aquificales and description of Thermocrinis albus sp. nov.Wolfgang Eder and Robert Huber
319-323Biodegradation of high-concentration isopropanol by a solvent-tolerant thermophile, Bacillus pallidusMark T. Bustard, Samantha Whiting, Don A. Cowan and Phillip C. Wright
325-331Modification of the enantioselectivity of two homologous thermophilic carboxylesterases from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldarius and Archaeoglobus fulgidus by random mutagenesis and screeningGiuseppe Manco, Giacomo Carrea, Elena Giosuè, Gianluca Ottolina and Giovanna Adamo, et al.
333-340Identification of thermoacidophilic bacteria and a new Alicyclobacillus genomic species isolated from acidic environments in JapanKeiichi Goto, Yasuhide Tanimoto, Takashi Tamura, Kaoru Mochida and Daisuke Arai, et al.
341-347Trehalose production at high temperature exploiting an immobilized cell bioreactorIsabella Di Lernia, Chiara Schiraldi, Maddalena Generoso and Mario De Rosa
349-350Comment on "The first description of an archaeal hemicellulase: the xylanase from Thermococcus zilligii strain AN1": evidence that the unique N-terminal sequence proposed comes from a maltodextrin phosphorylaseJean-Luc Rolland, Yannick Gueguen, Didier Flament, Yann Pouliquen and Peter F. Street, et al.

Volume 6, Number 5 / October 2002

351-358Genes and derived amino acid sequences of S-layer proteins from mesophilic, thermophilic, and extremely thermophilic methanococciErol Akca, Harald Claus, Nina Schultz, Gilbert Karbach and Bernhard Schlott, et al.
359-367Holliday junction-resolving enzymes from eight hyperthermophilic archaea differ in reactions with cruciform DNAKlaus Neef, Rainer P. Birkenbihl and Börries Kemper
369-375F- and V-type ATPases in the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga neapolitanaToshii Iida, Ken-ichi Inatomi, Yoichi Kamagata and Tadashi Maruyama
377-383Comparison of high pressure-induced dissociation of single-stranded DNA-binding protein (SSB) from high pressure-sensitive and high pressure-adapted marine Shewanella speciesLakshmi N. Chilukuri, Douglas H. Bartlett and George P. Fortes
385-389Characterization of the cold-adapted a-tubulin from the psychrophilic ciliate Euplotes focardiiSandra Pucciarelli and Cristina Miceli
391-395Revision of the taxonomic position of the xylanolytic Bacillus sp. MIR32 reidentified as Bacillus halodurans and plasmid-mediated transformation of B. haloduransAlejandra M. Martínez, Osvaldo D. Delgado, Javier D. Breccia, Mario D. Baigorí and Faustino Siñeriz
397-405Purification and characterization of a cold-adapted isocitrate lyase and expression analysis of the cold-inducible isocitrate lyase gene from the psychrophilic bacterium Colwellia psychrerythraeaSeiya Watanabe, Naoto Yamaoka, Noriyuki Fukunaga and Yasuhiro Takada
407-412Increased stability of malate dehydrogenase from Halobacterium salinarum at low salt concentration in reverse micellesSonsoles Piera-Velázquez, Frutos Marhuenda-Egea and Eduardo Cadenas
413-418PKC-dependent IL-6 production and inhibition of IL-8 production by PKC activation in normal human skin fibroblasts under extremely high hydrostatic pressureSumihiro Koyama and Masuo Aizawa
419-425Microbial community in acidic hydrothermal waters of volcanically active White Island, New ZealandStuart P. Donachie, Bruce W. Christenson, Dennis D. Kunkel, Alexander Malahoff and Maqsudul Alam
427-430The search for traces of life: the protective effect of salt on biological macromoleculesMoeava Tehei, Bruno Franzetti, Marie-Christine Maurel, Jacques Vergne and Codjo Hountondji, et al.
431-436Antarctic Dry Valley mineral soils contain unexpectedly high levels of microbial biomassDon A. Cowan, Nick J. Russell, Adam Mamais and Devon M. Sheppard

Volume 6, Number 6 / December 2002

437-444Presence of two novel cardiolipins in the halophilic archaeal community in the crystallizer brines from the salterns of Margherita di Savoia (Italy) and Eilat (Israel)Veronica M. Lattanzio, Angela Corcelli, Giuseppe Mascolo and Aharon Oren
445-452Halosimplex carlsbadense gen. nov., sp. nov., a unique halophilic archaeon, with three 16S rRNA genes, that grows only in defined medium with glycerol and acetate or pyruvateRussell H. Vreeland, Scott Straight, Jessica Krammes, Kevin Dougherty and William D. Rosenzweig, et al.
453-462Novel insights into the role of potassium for osmoregulation in Halomonas elongataAnnette Kraegeloh and Hans Kunte
463-468A novel thermophilic fusion enzyme for trehalose productionD. de Pascale, I. Di Lernia, M. Sasso, A. Furia and M. De Rosa, et al.
469-477Biochemical characterization of an ATP-dependent DNA ligase from the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus shibataeXiaoqin Lai, Hongbing Shao, Fuying Hao and Li Huang
479-483Taxonomic characterization of Haloferax sp. ("H. alicantei") strain Aa 2.2: description of Haloferax lucentensis sp. nov.Carmen M. Gutierrez, Masahiro Kamekura, Melissa L. Holmes, Michael L. Dyall-Smith and Antonio Ventosa
485-490Thermal stability of aminoacyl-tRNAs in aqueous solutionsVictor G. Stepanov and Jens Nyborg
491-498Intracellular ion and organic solute concentrations of the extremely halophilic bacterium Salinibacter ruberAharon Oren, Mikal Heldal, Svein Norland and Erwin A. Galinski
499-506Isolation and characterization of a halotolerant Bacillus subtilis BBK-1 which produces three kinds of lipopeptides: bacillomycin L, plipastatin, and surfactinNiran Roongsawang, Jiraporn Thaniyavarn, Suthep Thaniyavarn, Takayuki Kameyama and Mitsuru Haruki, et al.
507-514Solute accumulation in the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundumDeana Martin, Douglas H. Bartlett and Mary F. Roberts

Volume 7, Number 1 / February 2003

1-7Differential expression of genes influenced by changing salinity using RNA arbitrarily primed PCR in the archaeal halophile Haloferax volcaniiKelly A. Bidle
9-16Citrate synthase from Thermus aquaticus: a thermostable bacterial enzyme with a five-membered inter-subunit ionic networkEva Nordberg Karlsson, Susan J. Crennell, Catherine Higgins, Salina Nawaz and Louisa Yeoh, et al.
17-28GroEL from the psychrophilic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC 125: molecular characterization and gene cloningAlessandra Tosco, Leila Birolo, Stefania Madonna, Graziano Lolli and Giovanni Sannia, et al.
29-34Salinisphaera shabanensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel, moderately halophilic bacterium from the brine-seawater interface of the Shaban Deep, Red SeaAndré Antunes, Wolfgang Eder, Paula Fareleira, Helena Santos and Robert Huber
35-41Purification and characterization of Thermus thermophilus UvrDRuairi Collins and Tommie V. McCarthy
43-53Purification and characterization of a new hyperthermostable, allosamidin-insensitive and denaturation-resistant chitinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus chitonophagusEvi Andronopoulou and Constantinos E. Vorgias
55-61Halomonas glaciei sp. nov. isolated from fast ice of Adelie Land, AntarcticaG. Reddy, P. Raghavan, N. Sarita, J. Prakash and Narayana Nagesh, et al.
63-70A gene encoding a novel extremely thermostable 1,4-ß-xylanase isolated directly from an environmental DNA sampleAnwar Sunna and Peter L. Bergquist
71-77Isolation of fusion proteins containing SecY and SecE, components of the protein translocation complex from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcaniiVered Irihimovitch, Gabriela Ring, Tsiona Elkayam, Zvia Konrad and Jerry Eichler
79-83Multi-subunit assembly of the Pyrococcus furiosus small heat shock protein is essential for cellular protection at high temperatureP. Laksanalamai, A. Jiemjit, Z. Bu, D. Maeder and F. Robb

Volume 7, Number 2 / April 2003

87-93Production of ß-xylanase and ß-xylosidase by the extremely halophilic archaeon Halorhabdus utahensisMichael Wainø and Kjeld Ingvorsen
95-99Marine acidophilic sulfur-oxidizing bacterium requiring salts for the oxidation of reduced inorganic sulfur compoundsKazuo Kamimura, Emi Higashino, Souichi Moriya and Tsuyoshi Sugio
101-109Extremophiles, Thermophily section, species description Thermococcus atlanticus sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic Archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Mid-Atlantic RidgeMarie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita, Françoise Lesongeur, Patricia Pignet, Nathalie Wery and Christophe Lambert, et al.
111-122High-resolution X-ray structure of the DNA-binding protein HU from the hyper-thermophilic Thermotoga maritima and the determinants of its thermostabilityEvangelos Christodoulou, Wojciech R. Rypniewski and Constantinos E. Vorgias
123-130Arsenic resistance in the archaeon "Ferroplasma acidarmanus": new insights into the structure and evolution of the ars genesThomas M. Gihring, Philip L. Bond, Stephen C. Peters and Jillian F. Banfield
131-134Purification and properties of the sulfur oxygenase/reductase from the acidothermophilic archaeon, Acidianus strain S5Cui-wei Sun, Zhi-wei Chen, Zheng-guo He, Pei-jin Zhou and Shuang-Jiang Liu
135-143Alanine dehydrogenase from the psychrophilic bacterium strain PA-43: overexpression, molecular characterization, and sequence analysisJane A. Irwin, Susan V. Lynch, Suzie Coughlan, Patrick J. Baker and Haflidi M. Gudmundsson, et al.
145-157[NiFe] hydrogenases from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex aeolicus: properties, function, and phylogeneticsMarianne Brugna-Guiral, Pascale Tron, Wolfgang Nitschke, Karl-Otto Stetter and Benedicte Burlat, et al.
159-168Purification and characterization of 5'-methylthioadenosine phosphorylase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus

Volume 7, Number 3 / June 2003

169-175Mutational analysis of Pyrococcus furiosus replication factor C based on the three-dimensional structureSonoko Ishino, Takuji Oyama, Mihoko Yuasa, Kosuke Morikawa and Yoshizumi Ishino
177-183Molecular identification of Bacteria and Eukarya inhabiting an Antarctic cryoconite holeBrent C. Christner, Brian H. Kvitko and John N. Reeve
185-193Cold-adapted yeasts as producers of cold-active polygalacturonasesHákon Birgisson, Osvaldo Delgado, Leticia García Arroyo, Rajni Hatti-Kaul and Bo Mattiasson
195-203Growth physiology and competitive interaction of obligately chemolithoautotrophic, haloalkaliphilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacteria from soda lakesDimitry Y. Sorokin, Horia Banciu, Mark van Loosdrecht and J. Gijs Kuenen
205-211Identification and characterization of the carAB genes responsible for encoding carbamoylphosphate synthetase in Halomonas eurihalinaInmaculada Llamas, Antonio Suárez, Emilia Quesada, Victoria Béjar and Ana del Moral
213-220Anoxynatronum sibiricum gen.nov., sp.nov. alkaliphilic saccharolytic anaerobe from cellulolytic community of Nizhnee Beloe (Transbaikal region)Elena S. Garnova, Tatjana N. Zhilina, Tatjana P. Tourova and Anatoli M. Lysenko
221-228Screening and characterization of the protease CP1 produced by the moderately halophilic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. strain CP76Cristina Sánchez-Porro, Encarnación Mellado, Costanzo Bertoldo, Garo Antranikian and Antonio Ventosa
229-233Distribution of 16S rRNA introns among the family Thermoproteaceae and their evolutionary implicationsTakashi Itoh, Norimichi Nomura and Yoshihiko Sako
235-243Characterization of the precursor of tetraether lipid biosynthesis in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilumNaoki Nemoto, Yasuo Shida, Haruo Shimada, Tairo Oshima and Akihiko Yamagishi
245-248Tissue culture of the deep-sea eel Simenchelys parasiticus collected at 1,162 mSumihiro Koyama, Masae Horii, Tetsuya Miwa and Masuo Aizawa
249-257Isolation of a complete A1AO ATP synthase comprising nine subunits from the hyperthermophile Methanococcus jannaschiiAstrid Lingl, Harald Huber, Karl O. Stetter, Frank Mayer and Josef Kellermann, et al.
259Novel insights into the role of potassium for osmoregulation in Halomonas elongataAnnette Kraegeloh and Hans Kunte

Volume 7, Number 4 / August 2003

261-266Metabolism of chloride in halophilic prokaryotesVolker Müller and Aharon Oren
267-274Cultivation and properties of Echinamoeba thermarum n. sp., an extremely thermophilic amoeba thriving in hot springsManuela Baumgartner, Ahoua Yapi, Regina Gröbner-Ferreira and Karl O. Stetter
275-282High 16S rDNA bacterial diversity in glacial meltwater lake sediment, Bratina Island, AntarcticaSara Sjöling and Don A. Cowan
283-290A novel lineage of sulfate-reducing microorganisms: Thermodesulfobiaceae fam. nov., Thermodesulfobium narugense, gen. nov., sp. nov., a new thermophilic isolate from a hot springKoji Mori, Hongik Kim, Takeshi Kakegawa and Satoshi Hanada
291-298Piezophysiology of genome wide gene expression levels in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaeHitoshi Iwahashi, Hisayo Shimizu, Mine Odani and Yasuhiko Komatsu
299-306a-Amylase activity from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax mediterraneiF. Pérez-Pomares, V. Bautista, J. Ferrer, C. Pire and F. C. Marhuenda-Egea, et al.
307-317Distribution and phylogenetic diversity of the subsurface microbial community in a Japanese epithermal gold mineFumio Inagaki, Ken Takai, Hisako Hirayama, Yu Yamato and Kenneth H. Nealson, et al.
319-326Mauran, an exopolysaccharide produced by the halophilic bacterium Halomonas maura, with a novel composition and interesting properties for biotechnologySoledad Arias, Ana del Moral, Maria Rita Ferrer, Richard Tallon and Emilia Quesada, et al.
327-334Tindallia californiensis sp. nov., a new anaerobic, haloalkaliphilic, spore-forming acetogen isolated from Mono Lake in CaliforniaElena V. Pikuta, Richard B. Hoover, Asim K. Bej, Damien Marsic and Ekaterina N. Detkova, et al.
335-337Cold-active serine alkaline protease from the psychrophilic bacterium Pseudomonas strain DY-A: enzyme purification and characterizationRunying Zeng, Rui Zhang, Jing Zhao and Nianwei Lin
339Thermococcus atlanticus sp. nov., a hyperthermophilic Archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal vent in the Mid-Atlantic RidgeMarie-Anne Cambon-Bonavita, Françoise Lesongeur, Patricia Pignet, Nathalie Wery and Christophe Lambert, et al.
340Tissue culture of the deep-sea eel Simenchelys parasiticus collected at 1,162 mSumihiro Koyama, Masae Horii, Tetsuya Miwa and Masuo Aizawa

Volume 7, Number 5 / October 2003

341-345Phylogenetic analysis of different isolates of Sulfobacillus spp. isolated from uranium-rich environments and recovery of genes using integron-specific primersMuhammadA. Ghauri, AhmadM. Khalid, Susan Grant, Shaun Heaphy and WilliamD. Grant
347-351Virioplankton community structure along a salinity gradient in a solar salternRuth-Anne Sandaa, Evy Foss Skjoldal and Gunnar Bratbak
353-360Effect of temperature and pressure on the proteolytic specificity of the recombinant 20S proteasome from Methanococcus jannaschiiRobJ. Frankenberg, Maria Andersson and DouglasS. Clark
361-370Desulfurobacterium crinifex sp. nov., a novel thermophilic, pinkish-streamer forming, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium isolated from a Juan de Fuca Ridge hydrothermal vent and amendment of the genus DesulfurobacteriumKarine Alain, Sophie Rolland, Philippe Crassous, Françoise Lesongeur and Magali Zbinden, et al.
371-376Comparative genomic analysis of solvent extrusion pumps in Pseudomonas strains exhibiting different degrees of solvent toleranceAna Segura, Antonia Rojas, Ana Hurtado, María-José Huertas and JuanL. Ramos
377-384Isolation and characterization of marine psychrophilic phage-host systems from Arctic sea iceMichael Borriss, Elisabeth Helmke, Renate Hanschke and Thomas Schweder
385-390Mode of action and antifungal properties of two cold-adapted chitinasesKonstantinos Mavromatis, Matteo Lorito, SheridanL. Woo and Vassilis Bouriotis
391-399A novel extracellular subtilisin-like protease from the hyperthermophile Aeropyrum pernix K1: biochemical properties, cloning, and expressionG. Catara, G. Ruggiero, F. Cara, F.A. Digilio and A. Capasso, et al.
401-407Purification and biological characterization of halocin C8, a novel peptide antibiotic from Halobacterium strain AS7092Yun Li, Hua Xiang, Jingfang Liu, Meixian Zhou and Huarong Tan
409-413Substrate uptake in extremely halophilic microbial communities revealed by microautoradiography and fluorescence in situ hybridizationRamon Rosselló-Mora, Natuschka Lee, Josefa Antón and Michael Wagner
415-421Detecting cellulase and esterase enzyme activities encoded by novel genes present in environmental DNA librariesHelenC. Rees, Susan Grant, Brian Jones, WilliamD. Grant and Shaun Heaphy
423-431Purification and characterisation of two extremely halotolerant xylanases from a novel halophilic bacteriumPeterLangborg Wejse, Kjeld Ingvorsen and KimKusk Mortensen
433Piezophysiology of genome wide gene expression levels in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiaeHitoshi Iwahashi, Hisayo Shimizu, Mine Odani and Yasuhiko Komatsu

Volume 7, Number 6 / December 2003

435-442A cold-adapted extracellular serine proteinase of the yeast Leucosporidium antarcticumMarianna Turkiewicz, Marzena Pazgier, Halina Kalinowska and Stanisław Bielecki
443-450Optimum growth temperature and the base composition of open reading frames in prokaryotesR.J. Lambros, J.R. Mortimer and D.R. Forsdyke
451-458Hydrocarbon degradation and enzyme activities of cold-adapted bacteria and yeastsRosa Margesin, Silvia Gander, Gabriele Zacke, AnneMonique Gounot and Franz Schinner
459-469Identification and characterization of three novel cold acclimation-responsive genes from the extremophile hair grass Deschampsia antarctica Desv.Manuel Gidekel, Luis Destefano-Beltrán, Patricia García, Lorena Mujica and Pamela Leal, et al.
471-481Cloning, expression, and biochemical characterization of 3-deoxy-d- manno-2-octulosonate-8-phosphate (KDO8P) synthase from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Aquifex pyrophilusSmadar Shulami, Orit Yaniv, Emilia Rabkin, Yuval Shoham and Timor Baasov
483-491Probing the stability of the modular family 10 xylanase from Rhodothermus marinusMaher Abou-Hachem, Fredrik Olsson and Eva Nordberg Karlsson
493-498Sulfolobus tengchongensis sp. nov., a novel thermoacidophilic archaeon isolated from a hot spring in Tengchong, ChinaXiaoyu Xiang, Xiuzhu Dong and Li Huang
499-504Na +-mediated piezoprotection in Rhodotorula rubraAbram Aertsen, Barbara Masschalck, ElkeY. Wuytack and ChrisW. Michiels
505-509Identification of essential histidine residues in a recombinant a-amylase of thermophilic and alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. strain TS-23Chen-Tien Chang, Huei-Fen Lo, Meng-Chun Chi, Chia-Yu Yao and Wen-Hwei Hsu, et al.
511-516Effects of pressure on cell morphology and cell division of lactic acid bacteriaAdriana Molina-Höppner, Takako Sato, Chiaki Kato, MichaelG. Gänzle and RudiF. Vogel

Volume 8, Number 1 / February 2004

1-11Small heat shock proteins from extremophiles: a reviewPongpan Laksanalamai and FrankT. Robb
13-21Production of C 35 isoprenoids depends on H 2 availability during cultivation of the hyperthermophile Methanococcus jannaschiiBrendanP. Manquin, JohnA. Morgan, Jaeyeong Ju, Thomas Müller-Späth and DouglasS. Clark
23-28Halobacillus locisalis sp. nov., a halophilic bacterium isolated from a marine solar saltern of the Yellow Sea in KoreaJung-Hoon Yoon, KookHee Kang, Tae-Kwang Oh and Yong-Ha Park
29-35ADP-dependent 6-phosphofructokinase, an extremely thermophilic, non-allosteric enzyme from the hyperthermophilic, sulfate-reducing archaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus strain 7324Thomas Hansen and Peter Schönheit
37-44Identification of iron-reducing Thermus strains as Thermus scotoductusD.L. Balkwill, T.L. Kieft, T. Tsukuda, H.M. Kostandarithes and T.C. Onstott, et al.
45-51Bacterial diversity of the Inner Mongolian Baer Soda Lake as revealed by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysesYanhe Ma, Weizhou Zhang, Yanfen Xue, Peijin Zhou and Antonio Ventosa, et al.
53-61Salt-induced changes in lipid composition and membrane fluidity of halophilic yeast-like melanized fungiMartina Turk, Laurence Méjanelle, Marjeta Šentjurc, JoanO. Grimalt and Nina Gunde-Cimerman, et al.
63-71Diversity of Kenyan soda lake alkaliphiles assessed by molecular methodsHelenC. Rees, WilliamD. Grant, BrianE. Jones and Shaun Heaphy
73-77A rapid and effective method of extracting fully intact RNA from thermophilic geobacilli that is suitable for gene expression analysisFreddieH. Sharkey, IbrahimM. Banat and Roger Marchant
79-87A thermostable leucine aminopeptidase from Bacillus kaustophilus CCRC 11223Long-Liu Lin, Wen-Hwei Hsu, Cheng-Pu Wu, Meng-Chun Chi and Wei-Mou Chou, et al.

Volume 8, Number 2 / April 2004

91-98Complete sequence and molecular characterization of pNB101, a rolling-circle replicating plasmid from the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronobacterium sp. strain AS7091Meixian Zhou, Hua Xiang, Chaomin Sun, Yun Li and Jingfang Liu, et al.
99-108Gene and primary structures of dye-linked l-proline dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus profundus show the presence of a novel heterotetrameric amino acid dehydrogenase complexRyushi Kawakami, Haruhiko Sakuraba and Toshihisa Ohshima
109-115Phytoplankton diversity and cyanobacterial dominance in a hypereutrophic shallow lake with biologically produced alkaline pHAnaIsabel López-Archilla, David Moreira, Purificación López-García and Carmen Guerrero
117-124A xylan-degrading strain of Sulfolobus solfataricus: isolation and characterization of the xylanase activityRaffaele Cannio, Natascia Prizito, Mosè Rossi and Alessandra Morana
125-132Promoters from a cold-adapted bacterium: definition of a consensus motif and molecular characterization of UP regulative elementsAngela Duilio, Stefania Madonna, MariaLuisa Tutino, Marinella Pirozzi and Giovanni Sannia, et al.
133-141Carbon and energy fluxes during haloadaptation of Halomonas sp. EF11 growing on phenolThomas Maskow and Sabine Kleinsteuber
143-149The N- and C-terminal mutations in tryptophan permease Tat2 confer cell growth in Saccharomyces cerevisiae under high-pressure and low-temperature conditionsAi Nagayama, Chiaki Kato and Fumiyoshi Abe
151-164Distribution, diversity and activity of microorganisms in the hyper-alkaline spring waters of Maqarin in JordanKarsten Pedersen, Emma Nilsson, Johanna Arlinger, Lotta Hallbeck and Andrew O’Neill
165-168Isolation of extremophiles with the detection and retrieval of Shewanella strains in deep-sea sediments from the west PacificFengping Wang, Peng Wang, Mingxia Chen and Xiang Xiao
169-173Pressure effects on Clostridium strains isolated from a cold deep-sea environmentFedericoM. Lauro, Giulio Bertoloni, Anna Obraztsova, Chiaki Kato and BradleyM. Tebo, et al.

Volume 8, Number 3 / June 2004

175-184Marinococcus halophilus DSM 20408 Tencodes two transporters for compatible solutes belonging to the betaine-carnitine-choline transporter family: identification and characterization of ectoine transporter EctM and glycine betaine transporter BetMVerena Vermeulen and HansJörg Kunte
185-192Growth kinetics of haloalkaliphilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thioalkalivibrio versutus strain ALJ 15 in continuous cultureHoria Banciu, DimitryY. Sorokin, Robbert Kleerebezem, Gerard Muyzer and ErwinA. Galinski, et al.
193-200Alkalimonas amylolytica gen. nov., sp. nov., and Alkalimonas delamerensis gen. nov., sp. nov., novel alkaliphilic bacteria from soda lakes in China and East AfricaYanhe Ma, Yanfen Xue, WilliamD. Grant, NadineC. Collins and AndrewW. Duckworth, et al.
201-207Degradation of phenol and toxicity of phenolic compounds: a comparison of cold-tolerant Arthrobacter sp. and mesophilic Pseudomonas putidaRosa Margesin, Philipp Bergauer and Silvia Gander
209-217Transcriptional analysis of dynamic heat-shock response by the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritimaMarybethA. Pysz, DonaldE. Ward, KeithR. Shockley, ClementeI. Montero and ShannonB. Conners, et al.
219-227Thermococcus marinus sp. nov. and Thermococcus radiotolerans sp. nov., two hyperthermophilic archaea from deep-sea hydrothermal vents that resist ionizing radiationEdmond Jolivet, Erwan Corre, Stéphane L’Haridon, Patrick Forterre and Daniel Prieur
229-235A new subtilisin family: nucleotide and deduced amino acid sequences of new high-molecular-mass alkaline proteases from Bacillus spp.Mitsuyoshi Okuda, Nobuyuki Sumitomo, Yasushi Takimura, Akinori Ogawa and Katsuhisa Saeki, et al.
237-242Purification and some properties of superoxide dismutase from Deinococcus radiophilus, the UV-resistant bacteriumYoungSun Yun and YoungNam Lee
243-251Thermophilic bacterial DNA polymerases with reverse-transcriptase activityHarini Shandilya, Kate Griffiths, ElizabethK. Flynn, Mekbib Astatke and Po-Jen Shih, et al.
253-258Identification of replication origins in the genome of the methanogenic archaeon, Methanocaldococcus jannaschiiRen Zhang and Chun-Ting Zhang

Volume 8, Number 4 / August 2004

259-268Identification of archaea and some extremophilic bacteria using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometryPaul Krader and David Emerson
269-282Geochemical and microbiological evidence for a hydrogen-based, hyperthermophilic subsurface lithoautotrophic microbial ecosystem (HyperSLiME) beneath an active deep-sea hydrothermal fieldKen Takai, Toshitaka Gamo, Urumu Tsunogai, Noriko Nakayama and Hisako Hirayama, et al.
283-290Gene structure and transcriptional regulation of dnaK and dnaJ genes from a psychrophilic bacterium, Colwellia marisSeiji Yamauchi, Hidetoshi Okuyama, Yoshitaka Nishiyama and Hidenori Hayashi
291-299Revealing gene transcription and translation initiation patterns in archaea, using an interactive clustering modelXiu-Feng Wan, Susan M. Bridges and John A. Boyle
301-308Molecular and biochemical characterization of a fructose-6-phosphate-forming and ATP-dependent fructokinase of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus litoralisQiuhao Qu, Sung-Jae Lee and Winfried Boos
309-316Anaerobic, alkaliphilic, saccharolytic bacterium Alkalibacter saccharofermentans gen. nov., sp. nov. from a soda lake in the Transbaikal region of RussiaElena S. Garnova, Tatjana N. Zhilina, Tatjana P. Tourova, Nadezhda A. Kostrikina and Georgy A. Zavarzin
317-323The first evidence of anaerobic CO oxidation coupled with H 2 production by a hyperthermophilic archaeon isolated from a deep-sea hydrothermal ventTatyana G. Sokolova, Christian Jeanthon, Nadezhda A. Kostrikina, Nikolai A. Chernyh and Alexander V. Lebedinsky, et al.
325-334Thialkalivibrio halophilus sp. nov., a novel obligately chemolithoautotrophic, facultatively alkaliphilic, and extremely salt-tolerant, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium from a hypersaline alkaline lakeHoria Banciu, Dimitry Y. Sorokin, Erwin A. Galinski, Gerard Muyzer and Robbert Kleerebezem, et al.
335-343Characterization of the trehalosyl dextrin-forming enzyme from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus ATCC 35092Tsuei-Yun Fang, Xing-Guang Hung, Tong-Yuan Shih and Wen-Chi Tseng

Volume 8, Number 5 / October 2004

345-349Isolation and characterization of a cellulolytic Geobacillus thermoleovorans T4 strain from sugar refinery wastewaterShang-Kai Tai, Hsiu-Ping Pearl Lin, Jimmy Kuo and Jong-Kang Liu
351-356Genomic characterization of thermophilic Geobacillus species isolated from the deepest sea mud of the Mariana TrenchHideto Takami, Shinro Nishi, Jei Lu, Shigeru Shimamura and Yoshihiro Takaki
357-366Order-specific 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for (hyper)thermophilic archaea and bacteriaAntje Rusch and Jan P. Amend
367-375Differential pressure resistance in the activity of RNA polymerase isolated from Shewanella violacea and Escherichia coliHiroaki Kawano, Kaoru Nakasone, Masamitsu Matsumoto, Yasuhiko Yoshida and Ron Usami, et al.
377-384Salt-dependent studies of NADP-dependent isocitrate dehydrogenase from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax volcaniiDominique Madern, Mónica Camacho, Adoración Rodríguez-Arnedo, María-José Bonete and Giuseppe Zaccai
385-391Identification and autonomous replication capability of a chromosomal replication origin from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusPatrizia Contursi, Francesca M. Pisani, Andrei Grigoriev, Raffaele Cannio and Simonetta Bartolucci, et al.
393-400Engineering the thermostability of Trichoderma reesei endo-1,4-ß-xylanase II by combination of disulphide bridgesHairong Xiong, Fred Fenel, Matti Leisola and Ossi Turunen
401-410Psychrophilic Pseudomonas syringae requires trans-monounsaturated fatty acid for growth at higher temperatureM. D. Kiran, J. S. S. Prakash, S. Annapoorni, S. Dube and T. Kusano, et al.
411-419Tetraether-linked membrane monolayers in Ferroplasma spp: a key to survival in acidJennifer L. Macalady, Martha M. Vestling, David Baumler, Nick Boekelheide and Charles W. Kaspar, et al.
421-429A phylogenetic analysis of Wadi el Natrun soda lake cellulase enrichment cultures and identification of cellulase genes from these culturesSusan Grant, Dimitry Y. Sorokin, William D. Grant, Brian E. Jones and Shaun Heaphy

Volume 8, Number 6 / December 2004

431-439Halobacterium noricense sp. nov., an archaeal isolate from a bore core of an alpine Permian salt deposit, classification of Halobacterium sp. NRC-1 as a strain of H. salinarum and emended description of H. salinarumClaudia Gruber, Andrea Legat, Marion Pfaffenhuemer, Christian Radax and Gerhard Weidler, et al.
441-446Digestion by serine proteases enhances salt tolerance of glutaminase in the marine bacterium Micrococcus luteus K-3Kazuaki Yoshimune, Ryoko Yamashita, Naohisa Masuo, Mamoru Wakayama and Mitsuaki Moriguchi
447-454Characterization and gene cloning of a novel ß-mannanase from alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. N16-5Yanhe Ma, Yanfen Xue, Yuetan Dou, Zhenghong Xu and Wenyi Tao, et al.
455-462Extrinsic factors potassium chloride and glycerol induce thermostability in recombinant anthranilate synthase from Archaeoglobus fulgidusW. Malcolm Byrnes and Vincent L. Vilker
463-473Community structure and photosynthetic activity of epilithon from a highly acidic (pH=2) mountain stream in Patagonia, ArgentinaGustavo D. Baffico, Mónica M. Diaz, M. Teresa Wenzel, Matthias Koschorreck and Michael Schimmele, et al.
475-488Diversity and cold-active hydrolytic enzymes of culturable bacteria associated with Arctic sea ice, SpitzbergenTatiana Groudieva, Margarita Kambourova, Hoda Yusef, Maryna Royter and Ralf Grote, et al.
489-498Thermoactive extracellular proteases of Geobacillus caldoproteolyticus, sp. nov., from sewage sludgeXiao-Ge Chen, Olena Stabnikova, Joo-Hwa Tay, Jing-Yuan Wang and Stephen Tiong-Lee Tay
499-505Archaeal elongation factor 1a from Sulfolobus solfataricus interacts with the eubacterial antibiotic GE2270AMariorosario Masullo, Piergiuseppe Cantiello and Paolo Arcari
507-512Bifunctional phosphoglucose/phosphomannose isomerase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilumThomas Hansen, Claus Urbanke and Peter Schönheit

Volume 9, Number 1 / February 2005

1-6A thermostable manganese-containing superoxide dismutase from the thermophilic fungus Thermomyces lanuginosusDuo-Chuan Li, Jing Gao, Ya-Ling Li and Jing Lu
7-16Comparative analysis of trehalose production by Debaryomyces hansenii and Saccharomyces cerevisiae under saline stressJ. C. González-Hernández, M. Jiménez-Estrada and A. Peña
17-27Marinobacter alkaliphilus sp. nov., a novel alkaliphilic bacterium isolated from subseafloor alkaline serpentine mud from Ocean Drilling Program Site 1200 at South Chamorro Seamount, Mariana ForearcKen Takai, Craig L. Moyer, Masayuki Miyazaki, Yuichi Nogi and Hisako Hirayama, et al.
29-36Trehalose biosynthesis in Thermus thermophilus RQ-1: biochemical properties of the trehalose-6-phosphate synthase and trehalose-6-phosphate phosphataseZélia Silva, Susana Alarico and Milton S. da Costa
37-43Analysis of the function of a hyperthermophilic endoglucanase from Pyrococcus horikoshii that hydrolyzes crystalline celluloseYasuhiro Kashima, Kazushige Mori, Harumi Fukada and Kazuhiko Ishikawa
45-51Effects of inhibitors and NaCl on the oxidation of reduced inorganic sulfur compounds by a marine acidophilic, sulfur-oxidizing bacterium, Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans strain SHKazuo Kamimura, Emi Higashino, Tadayoshi Kanao and Tsuyoshi Sugio
53-64Cloning, expression, and characterization of a highly thermostable family 18 chitinase from Rhodothermus marinusCédric F. V. Hobel, Gudmundur Ó. Hreggvidsson, Viggó T. Marteinsson, Farah Bahrani-Mougeot and Jón M. Einarsson, et al.
65-73Analysis of hydrostatic pressure effects on transcription in Escherichia coli by DNA microarray procedureAkihiro Ishii, Taku Oshima, Takako Sato, Kaoru Nakasone and Hirotada Mori, et al.
75-79A simple fluorimetric method for the estimation of DNA–DNA relatedness between closely related microorganisms by thermal denaturation temperaturesJuan M. Gonzalez and Cesareo Saiz-Jimenez
81-84Thermus kawarayensis sp. nov., a new member of the genus Thermus, isolated from Japanese hot springsNorio Kurosawa, Yuko H. Itoh and Takashi Itoh
85-89Organic solvent tolerance of halophilic a-amylase from a Haloarchaeon, Haloarcula sp. strain S-1Tadamasa Fukushima, Toru Mizuki, Akinobu Echigo, Akira Inoue and Ron Usami

Volume 9, Number 2 / April 2005

93-98Distinctions in adenylate metabolism among organisms inhabiting temperature extremesMichael J. Napolitano and Daniel H. Shain
99-109The genome of BCJA1c: a bacteriophage active against the alkaliphilic bacterium, Bacillus clarkiiAndrew M. Kropinski, Melissa Hayward, M. Dorothy Agnew and Ken F. Jarrell
111-116Natronolimnobius baerhuensis gen. nov., sp. nov. and Natronolimnobius innermongolicus sp. nov., novel haloalkaliphilic archaea isolated from soda lakes in Inner Mongolia, ChinaTakashi Itoh, Takashi Yamaguchi, Peijin Zhou and Tomonori Takashina
117-125Cistrans isomerase gene in psychrophilic Pseudomonas syringae is constitutively expressed during growth and under conditions of temperature and solvent stressMadanahally D. Kiran, Sampath Annapoorni, Iwane Suzuki, Norio Murata and Sisinthy Shivaji
127-134Molecular characterization of the group II chaperonin from the hyperthermophilic archaeum Pyrococcus horikoshii OT3Mina Okochi, Hiroki Matsuzaki, Tomoko Nomura, Noriyuki Ishii and Masafumi Yohda
135-144Gene replacement of adenylate kinase in the gram-positive thermophile Geobacillus stearothermophilus disrupts adenine nucleotide homeostasis and reduces cell viabilityRafael Couñago and Yousif Shamoo
145-150Cold-active DnaK of an Antarctic psychrotroph Shewanella sp. Ac10 supporting the growth of dnaK-null mutant of Escherichia coli at cold temperaturesKazuaki Yoshimune, Andrey Galkin, Ljudmila Kulakova, Tohru Yoshimura and Nobuyoshi Esaki
151-161Intraspecific comparative analysis of the species Salinibacter ruberArantxa Peña, Maria Valens, Fernando Santos, Sandra Buczolits and Josefa Antón, et al.
163-168Cells of Pseudomonas putida and Enterobacter sp. adapt to toxic organic compounds by increasing their sizeGrit Neumann, Y. Veeranagouda, T. B. Karegoudar, Özlem Sahin and Ines Mäusezahl, et al.
169-184Bacterial community shift along a subsurface geothermal water stream in a Japanese gold mineHisako Hirayama, Ken Takai, Fumio Inagaki, Yu Yamato and Masae Suzuki, et al.

Volume 9, Number 3 / June 2005

185-196Genetic diversity of microbial eukaryotes in anoxic sediment around fumaroles on a submarine caldera floor based on the small-subunit rDNA phylogenyKiyotaka Takishita, Hiroshi Miyake, Masaru Kawato and Tadashi Maruyama
197-207Permeability and reactivity of Thermotoga maritima in latex bimodal blend coatings at 80°C: a model high temperature biocatalytic coatingOlav K. Lyngberg, Chris Solheid, Salim Charaniya, Yue Ma and Venkata Thiagarajan, et al.
209-217Phylogenetic analysis of Archaea in the deep-sea sediments of west Pacific Warm PoolPeng Wang, Xiang Xiao and Fengping Wang
219-227Physiological responses of the halophilic archaeon Halobacterium sp. strain NRC1 to desiccation and gamma irradiationMolly Kottemann, Adrienne Kish, Chika Iloanusi, Sarah Bjork and Jocelyne DiRuggiero
229-238Comparison of bacterial communities in the alkaline gut segment among various species of higher termitesTaksawan Thongaram, Yuichi Hongoh, Saori Kosono, Moriya Ohkuma and Savitr Trakulnaleamsai, et al.
239-246Novel psychrophilic anaerobic spore-forming bacterium from the overcooled water brine in permafrost: description Clostridium algoriphilum sp. nov.V. A. Shcherbakova, N. A. Chuvilskaya, E. M. Rivkina, S. A. Pecheritsyna and K. S. Laurinavichius, et al.
247-253Pressure-regulated biosynthesis of cytochrome bd in piezo- and psychrophilic deep-sea bacterium Shewanella violacea DSS12Hideyuki Tamegai, Hiroaki Kawano, Akihiro Ishii, Sayaka Chikuma and Kaoru Nakasone, et al.
255-261Desulfovibrio brasiliensis sp. nov., a moderate halophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium from Lagoa Vermelha (Brazil) mediating dolomite formationRolf Warthmann, Crisogono Vasconcelos, Henrik Sass and Judith A. McKenzie

Volume 9, Number 4 / August 2005

263-274Bacterial diversity and carbonate precipitation in the giant microbialites from the highly alkaline Lake Van, TurkeyPurificación López-García, Józef Kazmierczak, Karim Benzerara, Stephan Kempe and François Guyot, et al.
275-279How to be moderately halophilic with broad salt tolerance: clues from the genome of Chromohalobacter salexigensAharon Oren, Frank Larimer, Paul Richardson, Alla Lapidus and Laszlo N. Csonka
281-288Gene cloning, expression and partial characterization of cell division protein FtsZ1 from extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula japonica strain TR-1Kazumichi Ozawa, Takeyori Harashina, Rie Yatsunami and Satoshi Nakamura
289-296A diversity of bacteriophage forms and genomes can be isolated from the surface sands of the Sahara DesertMagali Prigent, Magali Leroy, Fabrice Confalonieri, Murielle Dutertre and Michael S. DuBow
297-305A thermostable phosphotriesterase from the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus: cloning, overexpression and propertiesLuigia Merone, Luigi Mandrich, Mosè Rossi and Giuseppe Manco
307-316Functional and structural characterization of the minimal Sec translocase of the hyperthermophile Thermotoga maritimaMonika G. Pretz, Hervé Remigy, Jelto Swaving, Sonja V. Albers and Victoria G. Garrido, et al.
317-324L
325-332Community phylogenetic analysis of moderately thermophilic cyanobacterial mats from China, the Philippines and ThailandJing Hongmei, Jonathan C. Aitchison, Donnabella C. Lacap, Yuwadee Peerapornpisal and Udomluk Sompong, et al.
333-341Quorum sensing in halophilic bacteria: detection of N-acyl-homoserine lactones in the exopolysaccharide-producing species of HalomonasInmaculada Llamas, Emilia Quesada, Maria José Martínez-Cánovas, Matthew Gronquist and Anatol Eberhard, et al.

Volume 9, Number 5 / October 2005

343-344Wolfram Zillig (1925–2005)Felicitas Pfeifer
345-354The Mrp system: a giant among monovalent cation/proton antiporters?Talia H. Swartz, Sayuri Ikewada, Osamu Ishikawa, Masahiro Ito and Terry Ann Krulwich
355-365AMP-forming acetyl-CoA synthetase from the extremely halophilic archaeon Haloarcula marismortui: purification, identification and expression of the encoding gene, and phylogenetic affiliationChristopher Bräsen and Peter Schönheit
367-373Aluminum-tolerant Pseudomonas fluorescens: ROS toxicity and enhanced NADPH productionRanji Singh, Robin Beriault, Jeffrey Middaugh, Robert Hamel and Daniel Chenier, et al.
375-383Thermosediminibacter oceani gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thermosediminibacter litoriperuensis sp. nov., new anaerobic thermophilic bacteria isolated from Peru MarginYong-Jin Lee, Isaac D. Wagner, Mary E. Brice, Vadim V. Kevbrin and Gary L. Mills, et al.
385-389Dissemination and survival of non-indigenous bacterial genomes in pristine Antarctic environmentsLemese Ah Tow and Don A. Cowan
391-398Anoxybacillus kamchatkensis sp. nov., a novel thermophilic facultative aerobic bacterium with a broad pH optimum from the Geyser valley, KamchatkaVadim V. Kevbrin, Karsten Zengler, Anatolii M. Lysenko and Juergen Wiegel
399-406Hyperthermophilic α-L
407-414Microbial community in a geothermal aquifer associated with the subsurface of the Great Artesian Basin, AustraliaHiroyuki Kimura, Maki Sugihara, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Bharat K. C. Patel and Kenji Kato, et al.

Volume 9, Number 6 / December 2005

415-425A hyperthermophilic laccase from Thermus thermophilus HB27Kentaro Miyazaki
427-435Gene replacement in Haloarcula marismortui: construction of a strain with two of its three chromosomal rRNA operons deletedDaqi Tu, Gregor Blaha, Peter B. Moore and Thomas A. Steitz
437-448Cultivated anaerobic acidophilic/acidotolerant thermophiles from terrestrial and deep-sea hydrothermal habitatsMaria I. Prokofeva, Ilya V. Kublanov, Olivier Nercessian, Tatjana P. Tourova and Tatjana V. Kolganova, et al.
449-460Effects of the piezo-tolerance of cultured deep-sea eel cells on survival rates, cell proliferation, and cytoskeletal structuresSumihiro Koyama, Hiromi Kobayashi, Akira Inoue, Tetsuya Miwa and Masuo Aizawa
461-470Degradation of crude oil by an arctic microbial consortiumUta Deppe, Hans-Hermann Richnow, Walter Michaelis and Garabed Antranikian
471-476Improved thermal stability and activity in the cold-adapted lipase B from Candida antarctica following chemical modification with oxidized polysaccharidesKhawar Sohail Siddiqui and Ricardo Cavicchioli
477-485Isolation of uncultivated anaerobic thermophiles from compost by supplementing cell extract of Geobacillus toebii in enrichment culture mediumJin-Woo Bae, Sung-Keun Rhee, Ja Ryeong Park, Byung-Chun Kim and Yong-Ha Park
487-495Characterisation of a highly stable α-amylase from the halophilic archaeon Haloarcula hispanicaGeorge W. Hutcheon, Nishi Vasisht and Albert Bolhuis
497-500Sequence of the gene for a high-alkaline mannanase from an alkaliphilic Bacillus sp. strain JAMB-750, its expression in Bacillus subtilis and characterization of the recombinant enzymeYuji Hatada, Nobuhiro Takeda, Kazumichi Hirasawa, Yukari Ohta and Ron Usami, et al.
501-504Oxidation of thiosulfate to tetrathionate by an haloarchaeon isolated from hypersaline habitatDimitry Y. Sorokin, Tatjana P. Tourova and Gerard Muyzer

Volume 10, Number 1 / February 2006

1-16Rhodothermus marinus: physiology and molecular biologySnaedis H. Bjornsdottir, Thorarinn Blondal, Gudmundur O. Hreggvidsson, Gudmundur Eggertsson and Solveig Petursdottir, et al.
17-28Plasmids and viruses of the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeote SulfolobusGeorg Lipps
29-33Genetic cloning and functional expression in Escherichia coli of an archaerhodopsin gene from Halorubrum xinjiangenseJie Feng, Hong-Can Liu, Jin-Fang Chu, Pei-Jin Zhou and Ji-An Tang, et al.
35-40Tepidimonas taiwanensis sp. nov., a novel alkaline-protease-producing bacterium isolated from a hot springTien-Lai Chen, Yi-Ju Chou, Wen-Ming Chen, Bhagwath Arun and Chiu-Chung Young
41-51The thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase system in the cold-adapted bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC 125: discovery of a novel disulfide oxidoreductase enzymeStefania Madonna, Rosanna Papa, Leila Birolo, Flavia Autore and Nunzianna Doti, et al.
53-60Cellulase activity of a haloalkaliphilic anaerobic bacterium, strain Z-7026E. A. Zvereva, T. V. Fedorova, V. V. Kevbrin, T. N. Zhilina and M. L. Rabinovich
61-70Biochemical characterization of two Cdc6/ORC1-like proteins from the crenarchaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusMariarita De Felice, Luca Esposito, Mosè Rossi and Francesca M. Pisani
71-78Fatty acid and DNA analyses of Permian bacteria isolated from ancient salt crystals reveal differences with their modern relativesRussell H. Vreeland, William D. Rosenzweig, Tim Lowenstein, Cindy Satterfield and Antonio Ventosa
79-82Characterization and gene cloning of a cold-active cellulase from a deep-sea psychrotrophic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. DY3Runying Zeng, Pengjun Xiong and Jianjun Wen
83Acknowledgement

Volume 10, Number 2 / April 2006

85-96Recent developments in the thermophilic microbiology of deep-sea hydrothermal ventsMargarita L. Miroshnichenko and Elizaveta A. Bonch-Osmolovskaya
97-104Identification of genes regulated by changing salinity in the deep-sea bacterium Shewanella sp. WP3 using RNA arbitrarily primed PCRShengkang Li, Xiang Xiao, Jinyuan Li, Jinxian Luo and Fengping Wang
105-115Gene cloning, heterologous overexpression and optimized refolding of the NAD-glutamate dehydrogenase from Haloferax mediterraneiSusana Díaz, Francisco Pérez-Pomares, Carmen Pire, Juan Ferrer and María-José Bonete
117-128Genome-wide expression analysis of yeast response during exposure to 4°CYoshinori Murata, Takayuki Homma, Emiko Kitagawa, Yuko Momose and Masanori S. Sato, et al.
129-138Isolation and characterization of novel organic solvent-tolerant bacteriaZileena Zahir, Kimberley D. Seed and Jonathan J. Dennis
139-148A highly thermostable ferritin from the hyperthermophilic archaeal anaerobe Pyrococcus furiosusJana Tatur, Peter-Leon Hagedoorn, Marieke L. Overeijnder and Wilfred R. Hagen
149-158The rpoH gene encoding heat shock sigma factor σ32 of psychrophilic bacterium Colwellia marisSeiji Yamauchi, Hidetoshi Okuyama, Yoshitaka Nishiyama and Hidenori Hayashi
159-163Community phylogenetic diversity of cyanobacterial mats associated with geothermal springs along a tropical intertidal gradientHongmei Jing, Donnabella C. Lacap, Chui Yim Lau and Stephen B. Pointing
165-169Molecular evidence demonstrating the basidiomycetous fungus Cryptococcus curvatus is the dominant microbial eukaryote in sediment at the Kuroshima Knoll methane seepKiyotaka Takishita, Masashi Tsuchiya, James D. Reimer and Tadashi Maruyama

Volume 10, Number 3 / June 2006

171-179Bioremediation of hydrocarbon-contaminated polar soilsJackie Aislabie, David J. Saul and Julia M. Foght
181-189Diversity of actinomycetes isolated from Challenger Deep sediment (10,898 m) from the Mariana TrenchWasu Pathom-aree, James E. M. Stach, Alan C. Ward, Koki Horikoshi and Alan T. Bull, et al.
191-198Structural analysis of the HiPIP from the acidophilic bacteria: Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidansMatthieu Nouailler, Patrice Bruscella, Elisabeth Lojou, Régine Lebrun and Violaine Bonnefoy, et al.
199-211Vertical distribution and diversity of bacteria and archaea in sulfide and methane-rich cold seep sediments located at the base of the Florida EscarpmentAndrew J. Reed, Richard A. Lutz and Costantino Vetriani
213-220Metabolic versatility of haloalkaliphilic bacteria from soda lakes belonging to the Alkalispirillum–Alkalilimnicola groupDimitry Y. Sorokin, Tatjana N. Zhilina, Anatoly M. Lysenko, Tatjana P. Tourova and Elizaveta M. Spiridonova
221-227Influence of temperature on the production of an archaeal thermoactive alcohol dehydrogenase from Pyrococcus furiosus with recombinant Escherichia coliJürgen Kube, Christian Brokamp, Ronnie Machielsen, John van der Oost and Herbert Märkl
229-235Isolation and characterization of a feather-degrading enzyme from Bacillus pseudofirmus FA30-01Mio Kojima, Mieko Kanai, Mari Tominaga, Shunichi Kitazume and Akira Inoue, et al.
237-249Two isocitrate dehydrogenases from a psychrophilic bacterium, Colwellia psychrerythraeaShinsuke Maki, Mizuho Yoneta and Yasuhiro Takada
251-255Molecular identification of a novel β-1,3-glucanase from alkaliphilic Nocardiopsis sp. strain F96Sumiko Masuda, Kimiko Endo, Naoya Koizumi, Tokusuke Hayami and Tetsuya Fukazawa, et al.
257Thermosediminibacter oceani gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thermosediminibacter litoriperuensis sp. nov., new anaerobic thermophilic bacteria isolated from Peru MarginYong-Jin Lee, Isaac D. Wagner, Mary E. Brice, Vadim V. Kevbrin and Gary L. Mills, et al.

Volume 10, Number 4 / August 2006

259-267Microbial ecology and biodiversity in permafrostBlaire Steven, Richard Léveillé, Wayne H. Pollard and Lyle G. Whyte
269-277Purification, characterization, and molecular cloning of organic-solvent-tolerant cholesterol esterase from cyclohexane-tolerant Burkholderia cepacia strain ST-200Yasuhiko Takeda, Rikizo Aono and Noriyuki Doukyu
279-284Systematic analysis of HSP gene expression and effects on cell growth and survival at high hydrostatic pressure in Saccharomyces cerevisiaeTakeshi Miura, Hiroaki Minegishi, Ron Usami and Fumiyoshi Abe
285-294Characterization of Exiguobacterium isolates from the Siberian permafrost. Description of Exiguobacterium sibiricum sp. nov.Debora Frigi Rodrigues, Johan Goris, Tatiana Vishnivetskaya, David Gilichinsky and Michael F. Thomashow, et al.
295-300Cloning and characterization of a cold-active xylanase enzyme from an environmental DNA libraryCharles C. Lee, Rena E. Kibblewhite-Accinelli, Kurt Wagschal, George H. Robertson and Dominic W. S. Wong
301-310Characterization of a β-glycosidase from the thermoacidophilic bacterium Alicyclobacillus acidocaldariusBarbara Di Lauro, Mosè Rossi and Marco Moracci
311-319Molecular phylogenetic and chemical analyses of the microbial mats in deep-sea cold seep sediments at the northeastern Japan SeaShizuka Arakawa, Takako Sato, Rumi Sato, Jing Zhang and Toshitaka Gamo, et al.
321-326Biosynthesis of a thermostable gellan lyase by newly isolated and characterized strain of Geobacillus stearothermophilus 98Anna Derekova, Carsten Sjøholm, Rossica Mandeva, Lilia Michailova and Margarita Kambourova
327-335Structural analysis of the plasmid pTA1 isolated from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilumKan Yamashiro, Shin-ichi Yokobori, Tairo Oshima and Akihiko Yamagishi
337-345Thermalkalibacillus uzonensis gen. nov. sp. nov, a novel aerobic alkali-tolerant thermophilic bacterium isolated from a hot spring in Uzon Caldera, KamchatkaWeidong Zhao, Carolyn Weber, Chuanlun L. Zhang, Christopher S. Romanek and Gary M. King, et al.
347-356Isolation and characterization of a novel thermophilic Bacillus strain degrading long-chain n-alkanesLei Wang, Yun Tang, Shuo Wang, Ru-Lin Liu and Mu-Zhi Liu, et al.

Volume 10, Number 5 / October 2006

357-362History of discovery of the first hyperthermophilesKarl O. Stetter
363-372Isolation and characterization of two novel ethanol-tolerant facultative-anaerobic thermophilic bacteria strains from waste compostJiunn C. N. Fong, Charles J. Svenson, Kenlee Nakasugi, Caine T. C. Leong and John P. Bowman, et al.
373-381Comparative characterization of deletion derivatives of the modular xylanase XynA of
383-391Regulation of expression of the arabinose and glucose transporter genes in the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusJoanna M. Lubelska, Melanie Jonuscheit, Christa Schleper, Sonja-Verena Albers and Arnold J. M. Driessen
393-402Identification of the first archaeal oligopeptide-binding protein from the hyperthermophile Aeropyrum pernixGianna Palmieri, Annarita Casbarra, Immacolata Fiume, Giuliana Catara and Antonio Capasso, et al.
403-410Heliorestis convoluta
411-419A membrane-bound nitrate reductase encoded by the narGHJI operon is responsible for anaerobic respiration in Halomonas mauraMontserrat Argandoña, Fernando Martínez-Checa, Inmaculada Llamas, Yolanda Arco and Emilia Quesada, et al.
421-426Isolation and characterization of novel denitrifying alkalithermophiles, AT-1 and AT-2Mami Yamamoto, Akihiro Ishii, Yuichi Nogi, Akira Inoue and Masahiro Ito
427-440Cold adapted features of Vibrio salmonicida catalase: characterisation and comparison to the mesophilic counterpart from Proteus mirabilisMarit Sjo Lorentzen, Elin Moe, Hélène Marie Jouve and Nils Peder Willassen
441-449Phenol degradation by immobilized cold-adapted yeast strains of Cryptococcus terreus and Rhodotorula creatinivoraIrina Krallish, Svetlana Gonta, Ludmila Savenkova, Phillip Bergauer and Rosa Margesin
451-459Contribution of the
461-467Bacterial community along a historic lake sediment core of Ardley Island, west AntarcticaShengkang Li, Xiang Xiao, Xuebin Yin and Fengping Wang
469-478Purification and characterization of Thermotoga maritima homoserine transsuccinylase indicates it is a transacetylaseMaryam Goudarzi and Timothy L. Born
479-481Correlation between codon usage and thermostabilityMarx Gomes Van der Linden and Sávio Torres de Farias

Volume 10, Number 6 / December 2006

483-491Proteomic identification of a two-component regulatory system in Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125Rosanna Papa, Susanne Glagla, Antoine Danchin, Thomas Schweder and Gennaro Marino, et al.
493-504Halocafeteria seosinensis gen. et sp. nov. (Bicosoecida), a halophilic bacterivorous nanoflagellate isolated from a solar salternJong S. Park, Byung C. Cho and Alastair G. B. Simpson
505-513Microbial diversity in hypersaline wastewater: the example of tanneriesO. Lefebvre, N. Vasudevan, K. Thanasekaran, R. Moletta and J. J. Godon
515-524Protein engineering of a cold-active β-galactosidase from Arthrobacter sp. SB to increase lactose hydrolysis reveals new sites affecting low temperature activityJames A. Coker and Jean E. Brenchley
525-530Ferroplasma cupricumulans sp. nov., a novel moderately thermophilic, acidophilic archaeon isolated from an industrial-scale chalcocite bioleach heapRebecca B. Hawkes, Peter D. Franzmann, Graham O’hara and Jason J. Plumb
531-536Salinicoccus salsiraiae sp. nov.: a new moderately halophilic gram-positive bacterium isolated from salted skateLuís França, Fred A. Rainey, M. Fernanda Nobre and Milton S. da Costa
537-549Characterization of the cytoplasmic chaperonin containing TCP-1 from the Antarctic fish Notothenia coriicepsSandra Pucciarelli, Sandra K. Parker, H. William Detrich and Ronald Melki
551-562Bacterial diversity in permanently cold and alkaline ikaite columns from GreenlandMariane Schmidt, Anders Priemé and Peter Stougaard
563-575Polyphasic analysis of Thermus isolates from geothermal areas in IcelandGudmundur O. Hreggvidsson, Sigurlaug Skirnisdottir, Bart Smit, Sigridur Hjorleifsdottir and Viggo Th. Marteinsson, et al.
577-585Life on the edge: hydrogen sulfide and the fish communities of a Mexican cave and surrounding watersMichael Tobler, Ingo Schlupp, Katja U. Heubel, Rüdiger Riesch and Francisco J. García de León, et al.
587-598A novel thermostable sulfite oxidase from Thermus thermophilus: characterization of the enzyme, gene cloning and expression in Escherichia coliAnna Di Salle, Giovanni D’Errico, Francesco La Cara, Raffaele Cannio and Mosè Rossi
599-606An extracellular halophilic protease SptA from a halophilic archaeon Natrinema sp. J7: gene cloning, expression and characterizationWanliang Shi, Xiao-Feng Tang, Yuping Huang, Fei Gan and Bing Tang, et al.
607-614A highly thermostable, homodimeric single-stranded DNA-binding protein from Deinococcus radiopugnansPaweł Filipkowski, Magdalena Koziatek and Józef Kur
615-627Characterization of the Sulfolobus host–SSV2 virus interactionPatrizia Contursi, Susanne Jensen, Tiziana Aucelli, Mosé Rossi and Simonetta Bartolucci, et al.
629-634Characterisation of the novel restriction endonuclease SuiI from Sulfolobus islandicusStefan Söllner, Silvia Berkner and Georg Lipps

Volume 11, Number 1 / January 2007

1-7Thermincola ferriacetica sp. nov., a new anaerobic, thermophilic, facultatively chemolithoautotrophic bacterium capable of dissimilatory Fe(III) reductionDaria G. Zavarzina, Tatyana G. Sokolova, Tatyana P. Tourova, Nikolai A. Chernyh and Nadezhda A. Kostrikina, et al.
9-18Prokaryotes that grow optimally in acid have purine-poor codons in long open reading framesFeng-Hsu Lin and Donald R. Forsdyke
19-29Microarray analysis of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus exposed to gamma irradiationErnest Williams, Todd M. Lowe, Jeffrey Savas and Jocelyne DiRuggiero
31-32Microarray analysis of the hyperthermophilic archaeon
33-39Tindallia texcoconensis sp. nov., a new haloalkaliphilic bacterium isolated from lake Texcoco, MexicoDidier Alazard, Claudia Badillo, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Jean-Luc Cayol and Pierre Thomas, et al.
41-47Haloarcula marismortui cytochrome b-561 is encoded by the narC gene in the dissimilatory nitrate reductase operonKatsuhiko Yoshimatsu, Osamu Araya and Taketomo Fujiwara
49-55HMG-CoA reductase is regulated by salinity at the level of transcription in HaloferaxvolcaniiKelly A. Bidle, Thomas E. Hanson, Koko Howell and Jennifer Nannen
57-64Diversity of 16S rRNA gene, ITS region and aclB gene of the AquificalesI. Ferrera, S. Longhorn, A. B. Banta, Y. Liu and D. Preston, et al.
65-73Biochemical and phylogenetic characterization of a novel terrestrial hyperthermophilic archaeon pertaining to the genus Pyrococcus from an Algerian hydrothermal hot springMouloud Kecha, Said Benallaoua, Jean Pierre Touzel, Roger Bonaly and Francis Duchiron
75-83Cloning and characterization of dihydrofolate reductase from a facultative alkaliphilic and halotolerant bacillus strainLars Redecke, Maria A. Brehm and Reinhard Bredehorst
85-94Functional similarities of a thermostable protein-disulfide oxidoreductase identified in the archaeon
95-104Genome and proteome characterization of the psychrophilic Flavobacterium bacteriophage 11bMichael Borriss, Thierry Lombardot, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Dörte Becher and Dirk Albrecht, et al.
105-114The phosphofructokinase-B (MJ0406) from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii represents a nucleoside kinase with a broad substrate specificityThomas Hansen, Linda Arnfors, Rudolf Ladenstein and Peter Schönheit
115-122A highly thermostable trehalase from the thermophilic bacterium Rhodothermus marinusCarla D. Jorge, Maria Manuel Sampaio, Gudmundur Ó. Hreggvidsson, Jakob K. Kristjánson and Helena Santos
123-132Gene cloning and expression in Escherichia coli of a bi-functional β-d-xylosidase/α-l-arabinosidase from Sulfolobus solfataricus involved in xylan degradationAlessandra Morana, Ornella Paris, Luisa Maurelli, Mosé Rossi and Raffaele Cannio
133-143A catalytic carbohydrate contributes to bacterial antibiotic resistancePaul de Figueiredo, Becky Terra, Jasbir Kaur Anand, Toshiyuki Hikita and Martin Sadilek, et al.
145-157Novel chemolithotrophic, thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria Thermolithobacter ferrireducens gen. nov., sp. nov. and Thermolithobacter carboxydivorans sp. nov.T. Sokolova, J. Hanel, R. U. Onyenwoke, A.-L. Reysenbach and A. Banta, et al.
159-168Towards determining details of anaerobic growth coupled to ferric iron reduction by the acidophilic archaeon ‘
169-177Fusion of carbohydrate binding modules from Thermotoga neapolitana with a family 10 xylanase from Bacillus halodurans S7Gashaw Mamo, Rajni Hatti-Kaul and Bo Mattiasson
179-189Denaturation of an extremely stable hyperthermophilic protein occurs via a dimeric intermediateSara Lawrence Powers, Clifford R. Robinson and Anne Skaja Robinson
191-202Composition of archaeal, bacterial, and eukaryal RuBisCO genotypes in three Western Pacific arc hydrothermal vent systemsHosam Easa Elsaied, Hiroyuki Kimura and Takeshi Naganuma
203-210Analysis of intergenic spacer region length polymorphisms to investigate the halophilic archaeal diversity of stromatolites and microbial matsS. Leuko, F. Goh, M. A. Allen, B. P. Burns and M. R. Walter, et al.

Volume 11, Number 2 / March 2007

211-216Life at low temperatures: is disorder the driving force?Georges Feller
217-224A novel highly boron tolerant bacterium, Bacillus boroniphilus sp. nov., isolated from soil, that requires boron for its growthIftikhar Ahmed, Akira Yokota and Toru Fujiwara
225-235Comparative analysis of the protein folding activities of two chaperonin subunits of Thermococcus strain KS-1: the effects of beryllium fluorideTakao Yoshida, Ryo Iizuka, Keisuke Itami, Takuo Yasunaga and Haruhiko Sakuraba, et al.
237-243Purification and biochemical characterization of a protease secreted by the Salinivibrio sp. strain AF-2004 and its behavior in organic solventsHamid Reza Karbalaei-Heidari, Abed-Ali Ziaee and Mohammad Ali Amoozegar
245-250New violet 3,3′-bipyridyl pigment purified from deep-sea microorganism Shewanella violacea DSS12Hideki Kobayashi, Yuichi Nogi and Koki Horikoshi
251-256Improvement of the enzymatic activity of the hyperthermophilic cellulase from Pyrococcus horikoshiiHee-Jin Kang, Koichi Uegaki, Harumi Fukada and Kazuhiko Ishikawa
257-267A cold-active and thermostable alcohol dehydrogenase of a psychrotorelant from Antarctic seawater, Flavobacterium frigidimaris KUC-1Takayuki Kazuoka, Tadao Oikawa, Ikuo Muraoka, Shun’ichi Kuroda and Kenji Soda
269-275Molecular analysis of the nitrogen cycle in deep-sea microorganisms from the Nankai Trough: genes for nitrification and denitrification from deep-sea environmental DNAHideyuki Tamegai, Rie Aoki, Shizuka Arakawa and Chiaki Kato
277-282Biochemical evidence of a physical interaction between Sulfolobus solfataricus B-family and Y-family DNA polymerasesMariarita De Felice, Barbara Medagli, Luca Esposito, Mariarosaria De Falco and Biagio Pucci, et al.
283-293Cloning and expression of heterologous genes in Rhodothermus marinusSnaedis H. Bjornsdottir, Olafur H. Fridjonsson, Jakob K. Kristjansson and Gudmundur Eggertsson
295-303Desulfomicrobium thermophilum sp. nov., a novel thermophilic sulphate-reducing bacterium isolated from a terrestrial hot spring in ColombiaFrance Thevenieau, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Bernard Ollivier, Catherine Joulian and Sandra Baena
305-314Molecular diversity of microbial community in acid mine drainages of Yunfu sulfide mineZhiguo He, Shengmu Xiao, Xuehui Xie, Hui Zhong and Yuehua Hu, et al.
315-327Characterization of an ATP-dependent DNA ligase from the acidophilic archaeon “Ferroplasma acidarmanus” Fer1Brian R. Jackson, Catherine Noble, Manuel Lavesa-Curto, Philip L. Bond and Richard P. Bowater
329-342Survival and growth of two heterotrophic hydrothermal vent archaea, Pyrococcus strain GB-D and Thermococcus fumicolans, under low pH and high sulfide concentrations in combination with high temperature and pressure regimesVirginia P. Edgcomb, Stephen J. Molyneaux, Simone Böer, Carl O. Wirsen and Mak Saito, et al.
343-354Proteomic analysis of Psychrobacter cryohalolentis K5 during growth at subzero temperaturesCorien Bakermans, Sandra L. Tollaksen, Carol S. Giometti, Curtis Wilkerson and James M. Tiedje, et al.
355-362Isolation of bisphenol A-tolerant/degrading Pseudomonas monteilii strain N-502Midori Masuda, Yoshiki Yamasaki, Shun Ueno and Akira Inoue
363-370Desulfurispirillum alkaliphilum gen. nov. sp. nov., a novel obligately anaerobic sulfur- and dissimilatory nitrate-reducing bacterium from a full-scale sulfide-removing bioreactorD. Yu. Sorokin, M. Foti, B. J. Tindall and G. Muyzer
371-382Continuous enrichment culturing of thermophiles under sulfate and nitrate-reducing conditions and at deep-sea hydrostatic pressuresJ. L. Houghton, W. E. Seyfried, A. B. Banta and A.- L. Reysenbach
383-396The lysogenic region of virus φCh1: identification of a repressor-operator system and determination of its activity in halophilic ArchaeaM. Iro, R. Klein, B. Gálos, U. Baranyi and N. Rössler, et al.
397-402Thermal stability and biochemical properties of isocitrate dehydrogenase from the thermoacidophilic archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilumRunar Stokke, Nils-Kåre Birkeland and Ida Helene Steen
403-413Pichia pastoris is a valuable host for the expression of genes encoding membrane proteins from the hyperthermophilic Archeon Pyrococcus abyssiCécile Labarre, Herman van Tilbeurgh and Karine Blondeau

Volume 11, Number 3 / May 2007

415-424Diversity and distribution of alkaliphilic psychrotolerant bacteria in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau permafrost regionGaosen Zhang, Xiaojun Ma, Fujun Niu, Maoxing Dong and Huyuan Feng, et al.
425-434Extreme arsenic resistance by the acidophilic archaeon ‘
435-443Intracellular sequestration of manganese and phosphorus in a metal-resistant fungus Cladosporium cladosporioides from deep-sea sedimentZongze Shao and Fengqin Sun
445-452In situ monitoring by quantitative Raman spectroscopy of alcoholic fermentation by Saccharomyces cerevisiae under high pressureA. Picard, I. Daniel, G. Montagnac and P. Oger
453-461Microbial diversity and methanogenic potential in a high temperature natural gas field in JapanHanako Mochimaru, Hideyoshi Yoshioka, Hideyuki Tamaki, Kohei Nakamura and Nobuyuki Kaneko, et al.
463-467Chitinase gene diversity at a deep sea station of the east Pacific nodule provinceMingzhu Lian, Shu Lin and Runying Zeng
469-479The isolation and initial characterization of mercury resistant chemolithotrophic thermophilic bacteria from mercury rich geothermal springsAspassia D. Chatziefthimiou, Melitza Crespo-Medina, Yanping Wang, Costantino Vetriani and Tamar Barkay
481-493Thermal stability of isocitrate dehydrogenase from Archaeoglobus fulgidus studied by crystal structure analysis and engineering of chimersRunar Stokke, Mikael Karlström, Nannan Yang, Ingar Leiros and Rudolf Ladenstein, et al.
495-503Transcriptional responses of the deep-sea hyperthermophile Methanocaldococcus jannaschii under shifting extremes of temperature and pressureBoonchai B. Boonyaratanakornkit, Li Yan Miao and Douglas S. Clark
505-515Intrinsic halotolerance of the psychrophilic α-amylase from Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktisSoundararajan Srimathi, Gurunathan Jayaraman, Georges Feller, Bengt Danielsson and Paranji R. Narayanan
517-526Diversity and enzyme properties of protease-producing bacteria isolated from sub-Antarctic sediments of Isla de Los Estados, ArgentinaNelda L. Olivera, Cynthia Sequeiros and Marina L. Nievas
527-535A thermoalkaliphilic lipase of
537-541Characterization of a thermostable cyclodextrin glucanotransferase from Pyrococcus furiosus DSM3638Myoung-Hee Lee, Sung-Jae Yang, Jung-Woo Kim, Hee-Seob Lee and Jung-Wan Kim, et al.
543-548Multiplex specific PCR for identification of the genera Actinopolyspora and Streptomonospora, two groups of strictly halophilic filamentous actinomycetesXiao-Yang Zhi, Ling-Ling Yang, Jin-Yuan Wu, Shu-Kun Tang and Wen-Jun Li
549-550Acknowledgment to reviewers 2006

Volume 11, Number 4 / July 2007

551-562Stress responses and metal tolerance of Chlamydomonas acidophila in metal-enriched lake water and artificial mediumElly Spijkerman, Deepak Barua, Antje Gerloff-Elias, Jürgen Kern and Ursula Gaedke, et al.
563-576Diversity of microbial eukaryotes in sediment at a deep-sea methane cold seep: surveys of ribosomal DNA libraries from raw sediment samples and two enrichment culturesKiyotaka Takishita, Naoji Yubuki, Natsuki Kakizoe, Yuji Inagaki and Tadashi Maruyama
577-583Anoxybacillus rupiensis sp. Nov., a novel thermophilic bacterium isolated from Rupi basin (Bulgaria)Anna Derekova, Carsten Sjøholm, Rossica Mandeva and Margarita Kambourova
585-596Structure-dependent relationships between growth temperature of prokaryotes and the amino acid frequency in their proteinsGisle Sælensminde, Øyvind Halskau, Ronny Helland, Nils-Peder Willassen and Inge Jonassen
597-603Intragenomic diversity of the V1 regions of 16S rRNA genes in high-alkaline protease-producing Bacillus clausii sppYasushi Kageyama, Yoshihiro Takaki, Shigeru Shimamura, Shinro Nishi and Yuichi Nogi, et al.
605-614Microbial life in Champagne Pool, a geothermal spring in Waiotapu, New ZealandAdrian Hetzer, Hugh W. Morgan, Ian R. McDonald and Christopher J. Daughney
615-625Kinetics of salt-dependent unfolding of [2Fe–2S] ferredoxin of Halobacterium salinarumAmal K. Bandyopadhyay, G. Krishnamoorthy, Lakshmi C. Padhy and Haripalsingh M. Sonawat
627-635The highly tolerant acetic acid bacterium Gluconacetobacter europaeus adapts to the presence of acetic acid by changes in lipid composition, morphological properties and PQQ-dependent ADH expressionJanja Trček, Katarina Jernejc and Kazunobu Matsushita
637-646Phylotype diversity of deep-sea hydrothermal vent prokaryotes trapped by 0.2- and 0.1-μm-pore-size filtersTakeshi Naganuma, Tatsuo Miyoshi and Hiroyuki Kimura

Volume 11, Number 5 / September 2007

647-657Characterization of cofactor-dependent and cofactor-independent phosphoglycerate mutases from ArchaeaUlrike Johnsen and Peter Schönheit
659-666Small heat shock proteins prevent aggregation of citrate synthase and bind to the N-terminal region which is absent in thermostable forms of citrate synthaseEmma Åhrman, Niklas Gustavsson, Claus Hultschig, Wilbert C. Boelens and Cecilia Sundby Emanuelsson
667-673Organic solutes in Rubrobacter xylanophilus: the first example of di-myo-inositol-phosphate in a thermophileNuno Empadinhas, Vítor Mendes, Catarina Simões, Maria S. Santos and Ana Mingote, et al.
675-684A single amino acid substitution in the DNA-binding domain of Aeropyrum pernix DNA ligase impairs its interaction with proliferating cell nuclear antigenShinichi Kiyonari, Toru Kamigochi and Yoshizumi Ishino
685-692Effect of restriction endonucleases on assessment of biodiversity of cultivable polar marine planktonic bacteria by amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysisYinxin Zeng, Wenqi Liu, Huirong Li, Yong Yu and Bo Chen
693-698Viability and cellulose synthesizing ability of
699-709Molecular and functional properties of the psychrophilic elongation factor G from the Antarctic Eubacterium
711-717Glutamate restores growth but not motility in the absence of chloride in the moderate halophile
719-732Molecular characterization of cold adaptation based on ortholog protein sequences from Vibrionaceae speciesSteinar Thorvaldsen, Erik Hjerde, Chris Fenton and Nils P. Willassen
733-739A unique highly thermostable 2-phosphoglycerate forming glycerate kinase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshii: gene cloning, expression and characterizationBo Liu, Ye Hong, Lei Wu, Zhuo Li and Jinfeng Ni, et al.
741-746Characterization of malate dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon

Volume 11, Number 6 / November 2007

747-757Continuous enrichment cultures: insights into prokaryotic diversity and metabolic interactions in deep-sea vent chimneysAnne Postec, Françoise Lesongeur, Patricia Pignet, Bernard Ollivier and Joël Querellou, et al.
759-767The effect of ammonium on assimilatory nitrate reduction in the haloarchaeon Haloferax mediterraneiRosa María Martínez-Espinosa, Belén Lledó, Frutos C. Marhuenda-Egea and María José Bonete
769-779Overexpression and characterization of thermostable serine protease in Escherichia coli encoded by the ORF TTE0824 from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensisD. Koma, H. Yamanaka, K. Moriyoshi, T. Ohmoto and K. Sakai
781-788Purification and characterization of a maltooligosaccharide-forming amylase that improves product selectivity in water-miscible organic solvents, from dimethylsulfoxide-tolerant
789-796Halomonas sinaiensis sp. nov., a novel halophilic bacterium isolated from a salt lake inside Ras Muhammad Park, EgyptIda Romano, Licia Lama, Pierangelo Orlando, Barbara Nicolaus and Assunta Giordano, et al.
797-807Roles of a short connecting disulfide bond in the stability and function of psychrophilic Shewanella violacea cytochrome c5*Keiko Ogawa, Takafumi Sonoyama, Taku Takeda, Shin-ichi Ichiki and Shota Nakamura, et al.
809-817Cloning and expression of gene, and activation of an organic solvent-stable lipase from
819-826Proteomic studies of an Antarctic cold-adapted bacterium,
827-832Bicarbonate is a stimulus in the inter-species induced sporulation of strict anaerobic Syntrophomonas erecta subsp. sporosyntrophaChenggang Wu, Guishan Zhang, Xiaoli Liu and Xiuzhu Dong
833-840Mannosylglycerate is essential for osmotic adjustment in Thermus thermophilus strains HB27 and RQ-1Susana Alarico, Nuno Empadinhas, Ana Mingote, Catarina Simões and Maria S. Santos, et al.
841-851Production of methanethiol and volatile sulfur compounds by the archaeon “Ferroplasma acidarmanusDavid J. Baumler, Kai-Foong Hung, Kwang Cheol Jeong and Charles W. Kaspar
853-858Biosorption and bioaccumulation of lead by Penicillium sp. Psf-2 isolated from the deep sea sediment of the Pacific OceanFengqin Sun and Zongze Shao
859-867Microbial formation of lanthanide-substituted magnetites by Thermoanaerobacter sp. TOR-39Ji-Won Moon, Yul Roh, Lucas W. Yeary, Robert J. Lauf and Claudia J. Rawn, et al.

Volume 12, Number 1 / January 2008

1-2Past, present and future of extremophilesKoki Horikoshi
3Handing over of the EditorshipGarabed Antranikian
5-14Interrelationships between Dunaliella and halophilic prokaryotes in saltern crystallizer pondsRahel Elevi Bardavid, Polina Khristo and Aharon Oren
15-25Prokaryotic lifestyles in deep sea habitatsFederico M. Lauro and Douglas H. Bartlett
27Prokaryotic lifestyles in deep sea habitatsFederico M. Lauro and Douglas H. Bartlett
29-38Reconsideration of an early dogma, saying “there is no evidence for disulfide bonds in proteins from archaea”Rudolf Ladenstein and Bin Ren
39-50The impact of extremophiles on structural genomics (and vice versa)Francis E. Jenney Jr and Michael W. W. Adams
51-59The effect of temperature on enzyme activity: new insights and their implicationsRoy M. Daniel, Michael J. Danson, Robert Eisenthal, Charles K. Lee and Michelle E. Peterson
61-68The α-l
69-73Enzymes and proteins from extremophiles as hyperstable probes in nanotechnology: the use of D-trehalose/D-maltose-binding protein from the hyperthermophilic archaeon
75-88The non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (GAPN) of Sulfolobus solfataricus: a key-enzyme of the semi-phosphorylative branch of the Entner–Doudoroff pathwayThijs J. G. Ettema, Hatim Ahmed, Ans C. M. Geerling, John van der Oost and Bettina Siebers
89-96The 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase multienzyme complex of Haloferax volcaniiDina M. Al-Mailem, David W. Hough and Michael J. Danson
97-105Phylogenetic analysis of type I polyketide synthase and nonribosomal peptide synthetase genes in Antarctic sedimentJing Zhao, Ning Yang and Runying Zeng
107-117Gene cloning of cold-adapted isocitrate lyase from a psychrophilic bacterium, Colwellia psychrerythraea, and analysis of amino acid residues involved in cold adaptation of this enzymeYuhya Sato, Seiya Watanabe, Naoto Yamaoka and Yasuhiro Takada
119-124Tetraether membrane lipids of
125-131Dihydroxyacetone metabolism in Salinibacter ruber and in Haloquadratum walsbyiRahel Elevi Bardavid and Aharon Oren
133-145Bacterial diversity and activity along a salinity gradient in soda lakes of the Kulunda Steppe (Altai, Russia)Mirjam J. Foti, Dimitry Yu. Sorokin, Elena E. Zacharova, Nicolai V. Pimenov and J. Gijs Kuenen, et al.
147-157The in vitro activity of a Rad55 homologue from
159-163Isolation and identification of species of Alicyclobacillus from orchard soil in the Western Cape, South AfricaWillem H. Groenewald, Pieter A. Gouws and R. Corli Witthuhn
165-166Acknowledgment to reviewers 2007

Volume 12, Number 2 / March 2008

167-175Bacteriophage in polar inland watersChristin Säwström, John Lisle, Alexandre M. Anesio, John C. Priscu and Johanna Laybourn-Parry
177-196Metabolism of halophilic archaeaMichaela Falb, Kerstin Müller, Lisa Königsmaier, Tanja Oberwinkler and Patrick Horn, et al.
197-203Salinicoccus salitudinis sp. nov., a new moderately halophilic bacterium isolated from a saline soil sampleYi-Guang Chen, Xiao-Long Cui, Wen-Jun Li, Li-Hua Xu and Meng-Liang Wen, et al.
205-215First characterisation of the active oligomer form of sulfur oxygenase reductase from the bacterium
217-223Insights into different dependence of dNTP triphosphohydrolase on metal ion species from intracellular ion concentrations in Thermus thermophilusNaoyuki Kondo, Takashi Nishikubo, Taisuke Wakamatsu, Hirohito Ishikawa and Noriko Nakagawa, et al.
225-234Microbial diversity in acid mineral bioleaching systems of dongxiang copper mine and Yinshan lead–zinc mineZhiguo He, Shengmu Xiao, Xuehui Xie and Yuehua Hu
235-246Biochemical characterization of DNA-binding proteins from
247-254Phylogenetic analysis of the archaeal community in an alkaline-saline soil of the former lake Texcoco (Mexico)César Valenzuela-Encinas, Isabel Neria-González, Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernández, J. Arturo Enríquez-Aragón and Isabel Estrada-Alvarado, et al.
255-262Isolation and characterization of alkane hydroxylases from a metagenomic library of Pacific deep-sea sedimentMeixiang Xu, Xiang Xiao and Fengping Wang
263-270Mutation and reversion frequencies of different Sulfolobus species and strainsSilvia Berkner and Georg Lipps
271-278Effect of growth temperature on ether lipid biochemistry in Archaeoglobus fulgidusDenton Lai, James R. Springstead and Harold G. Monbouquette
279-284Morphological changes in an acidophilic bacterium induced by heavy metalsRajdeep Chakravarty and Pataki C. Banerjee
285-296Characterization of three putative Lon proteases of Thermus thermophilus HB27 and use of their defective mutants as hosts for production of heterologous proteinsTomoko Maehara, Takayuki Hoshino and Akira Nakamura
297-299Tolerance of plastic-encapsulated
301-308Lysis efficiency of standard DNA extraction methods for
309Characterization of a β-glycosidase from the thermoacidophilic bacterium

Volume 12, Number 3 / May 2008

311-323The cold-active Lip1 lipase from the Antarctic bacterium Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis TAC125 is a member of a new bacterial lipolytic enzyme familyDonatella de Pascale, Angela M. Cusano, Flavia Autore, Ermenegilda Parrilli and Guido di Prisco, et al.
325-333Purine nucleoside phosphorylase from Pseudoalteromonas sp. Bsi590: molecular cloning, gene expression and characterization of the recombinant proteinXiaohui Li, Xinyin Jiang, Huirong Li and Daming Ren
335-342Isolation, gene detection and solvent tolerance of benzene, toluene and xylene degrading bacteria from nearshore surface water and Pacific Ocean sedimentLin Wang, Nan Qiao, Fengqin Sun and Zongze Shao
343-349Membrane fatty acids adaptive profile in the simultaneous presence of arsenic and toluene in Bacillus sp. ORAs2 and Pseudomonas sp. ORAs5 strainsMilva Pepi, Hermann J. Heipieper, Janett Fischer, Marcella Ruta and Margherita Volterrani, et al.
351-364Extremely thermostable esterases from the thermoacidophilic euryarchaeon Picrophilus torridusMatthias Hess, Moritz Katzer and Garabed Antranikian
365-374Reductive genome evolution in chemoautotrophic intracellular symbionts of deep-sea
375-381Rhodotorula himalayensis sp. nov., a novel psychrophilic yeast isolated from Roopkund Lake of the Himalayan mountain ranges, IndiaSisinthy Shivaji, Bhaskar Bhadra, Ravella Sreenivas Rao and Suman Pradhan
383-389Di-myo-inositol phosphate and novel UDP-sugars accumulate in the extreme hyperthermophile Pyrolobus fumariiLuís G. Gonçalves, Pedro Lamosa, Robert Huber and Helena Santos
391-404Influence of salts and pH on growth and activity of a novel facultatively alkaliphilic, extremely salt-tolerant, obligately chemolithoautotrophic sufur-oxidizing Gammaproteobacterium Thioalkalibacter halophilus gen. nov., sp. nov. from South-Western Siberian soda lakesHoria L. Banciu, Dimitry Y. Sorokin, Tatyana P. Tourova, Erwin A. Galinski and Maria S. Muntyan, et al.
405-414Molecular analysis of enrichment cultures of ammonia oxidizers from the Salar de Huasco, a high altitude saline wetland in northern ChileCristina Dorador, Annika Busekow, Irma Vila, Johannes F. Imhoff and Karl-Paul Witzel
415-429Complete nucleotide sequence of pGS18, a 62.8-kb plasmid from Geobacillus stearothermophilus strain 18Milda Stuknyte, Simone Guglielmetti, Diego Mora, Nomeda Kuisiene and Carlo Parini, et al.
431-439Dethiobacter alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov., and Desulfurivibrio alkaliphilus gen. nov. sp. nov.: two novel representatives of reductive sulfur cycle from soda lakesD. Yu. Sorokin, T. P. Tourova, Marc Mußmann and G. Muyzer
441-449Characterization of a cryptic plasmid from a Greenland ice core
451-459A novel metabolic network leads to enhanced citrate biogenesis in Pseudomonas fluorescens exposed to aluminum toxicityRyan J. Mailloux, Joseph Lemire, Sergey Kalyuzhnyi and Vasu Appanna
461-469Characterization of a thermostable dihydrodipicolinate synthase from Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensisSuzanne Wolterink-van Loo, Mark Levisson, Maud C. Cabrières, Maurice C. R. Franssen and John van der Oost
471-476Characterization of alcohol dehydrogenase from the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonisYi Cao, Li Liao, Xue-wei Xu, Aharon Oren and Ce Wang, et al.
477-480Pressure-adaptive differences in lactate dehydrogenases of three hagfishes:

Volume 12, Number 4 / July 2008

481-490Metabolic activity of Siberian permafrost isolates, Psychrobacter arcticus and Exiguobacterium sibiricum, at low water activitiesMonica A. Ponder, Michael F. Thomashow and James M. Tiedje
491-504Novelty and spatio–temporal heterogeneity in the bacterial diversity of hypersaline Lake Tebenquiche (Salar de Atacama)Cecilia Demergasso, Lorena Escudero, Emilio O. Casamayor, Guillermo Chong and Vanessa Balagué, et al.
505-518Prokaryotic diversity of a Tunisian multipond solar salternHouda Baati, Sonda Guermazi, Ridha Amdouni, Neji Gharsallah and Abdelghani Sghir, et al.
519-527Phylogenetic and enzymatic diversity of deep subseafloor aerobic microorganisms in organics- and methane-rich sediments off Shimokita PeninsulaTohru Kobayashi, Osamu Koide, Kozue Mori, Shigeru Shimamura and Takae Matsuura, et al.
529-539Novel halophilic aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs from a Canadian hypersaline spring systemJulius T. Csotonyi, Jolantha Swiderski, Erko Stackebrandt and Vladimir V. Yurkov
541-552Molecular analysis of the gene encoding a new chitinase from the marine psychrophilic bacterium Moritella marina and biochemical characterization of the recombinant enzymeEleni Stefanidi and Constantinos E. Vorgias
553-562Characterisation of the components of the thioredoxin system in the archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusPasquale Grimaldi, Maria Rosaria Ruocco, Maria Angela Lanzotti, Alessia Ruggiero and Immacolata Ruggiero, et al.
563-571Archaeal diversity in a Fe–As rich acid mine drainage at Carnoulès (France)O. Bruneel, N. Pascault, M. Egal, C. Bancon-Montigny and M. S. Goñi-Urriza, et al.
573-585Vertical distribution of bacterial and archaeal communities along discrete layers of a deep-sea cold sediment sample at the East Pacific Rise (∼13°N)Youxun Li, Fuchao Li, Xiaowen Zhang, Song Qin and Zhigang Zeng, et al.
587-594Laboratory evolution of
595-604Prokaryotic diversity in one of the largest hypersaline coastal lagoons in the worldM. M. Clementino, R. P. Vieira, A. M. Cardoso, A. P. A. Nascimento and C. B. Silveira, et al.
605-615Comparative analysis of archaeal 16S rRNA and amoA genes to estimate the abundance and diversity of ammonia-oxidizing archaea in marine sedimentsSoo-Je Park, Byoung-Joon Park and Sung-Keun Rhee
617Microbial diversity and methanogenic potential in a high temperature natural gas field in JapanHanako Mochimaru, Hideyoshi Yoshioka, Hideyuki Tamaki, Kohei Nakamura and Nobuyuki Kaneko, et al.

Volume 12, Number 5 / September 2008

619-625Heterotrophic denitrification at extremely high salt and pH by haloalkaliphilic Gammaproteobacteria from hypersaline soda lakesA. A. Shapovalova, T. V. Khijniak, T. P. Tourova, G. Muyzer and D. Y. Sorokin
627-640Culture dependent and independent analyses of 16S rRNA and ATP citrate lyase genes: a comparison of microbial communities from different black smoker chimneys on the Mid-Atlantic RidgeJames W. Voordeckers, My H. Do, Michael Hügler, Vivian Ko and Stefan M. Sievert, et al.
641-650Biochemical characterization of engineered amylopullulanase from Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus 39E-implicating the non-necessity of its 100 C-terminal amino acid residuesHsu-Yang Lin, Hsu-Han Chuang and Fu-Pang Lin
651-656Nanoarchaeal 16S rRNA gene sequences are widely dispersed in hyperthermophilic and mesophilic halophilic environmentsAna Casanueva, Ncebakazi Galada, Gillian C. Baker, William D. Grant and Shaun Heaphy, et al.
657-664Culturable and molecular phylogenetic diversity of microorganisms in an open-dumped, extremely acidic Pb/Zn mine tailingsGui-Liang Tan, Wen-Sheng Shu, Kevin B. Hallberg, Fang Li and Chong-Yu Lan, et al.
665-676A thermostable dolichol phosphoryl mannose synthase responsible for glycoconjugate synthesis of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus horikoshiiYuji Urushibata, Shogo Ebisu and Ikuo Matsui
677-687Gene cloning and heterologous synthesis of a haloalkaliphilic extracellular protease of Natrialba magadii (Nep)Rosana E. De Castro, Diego M. Ruiz, María I. Giménez, María X. Silveyra and Roberto A. Paggi, et al.
689-700Evidence that the xylanase activity from Sulfolobus solfataricus Oα is encoded by the endoglucanase precursor gene (sso1354) and characterization of the associated cellulase activityLuisa Maurelli, Alfonso Giovane, Alessandra Esposito, Marco Moracci and Immacolata Fiume, et al.
701-711Identity and physiology of a new psychrophilic eukaryotic green alga, Chlorella sp., strain BI, isolated from a transitory pond near Bratina Island, AntarcticaRachael M. Morgan-Kiss, Alexander G. Ivanov, Shannon Modla, Kirk Czymmek and Norman P. A. Hüner, et al.
713-717A bacterial ice-binding protein from the Vostok ice coreJames A. Raymond, Brent C. Christner and Stephan C. Schuster
719-728Irreversible inhibition of the thermophilic esterase EST2 from Alicyclobacillus acidocaldariusFerdinando Febbraio, Sandro Esposito D’Andrea, Luigi Mandrich, Luigia Merone and Mosè Rossi, et al.
729-734Acinetobacter sp. strain Ths, a novel psychrotolerant and alkalitolerant bacterium that utilizes hydrocarbonKeiko Yamahira, Kikue Hirota, Kenji Nakajima, Naoki Morita and Yoshinobu Nodasaka, et al.
735-739Molecular characteristics of the tubeworm, Ridgeia piscesae, from the deep-sea hydrothermal ventLingwei Ruan, Xiaofang Bian, Xin Wang, Xiumin Yan and Fang Li, et al.

Volume 12, Number 6 / November 2008

741-752The extremely halophilic archaeon Halobacterium salinarum R1 responds to potassium limitation by expression of the K+-transporting KdpFABC P-type ATPase and by a decrease in intracellular K+Henrik Strahl and Jörg-Christian Greie
753-761Cold adaptation of eicosapentaenoic acid-less mutant of
763-773Phylogenetic and metabolic bacterial diversity of Phragmites australis periphyton communities in two Hungarian soda pondsAnna Rusznyák, Péter Vladár, Gitta Szabó, Károly Márialigeti and Andrea K. Borsodi
775-788New DNA polymerase from the hyperthermophilic marine archaeon
789-798Sulfobacillus benefaciens sp. nov., an acidophilic facultative anaerobic Firmicute isolated from mineral bioleaching operationsD. Barrie Johnson, Catherine Joulian, Patrick d’Hugues and Kevin B. Hallberg
799-809Transcriptional analysis of the two reverse gyrase encoding genes of
811-817Archaeal chromatin proteins histone HMtB and Alba have lost DNA-binding ability in laboratory strains of Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicusKathleen Sandman, Hélène Louvel, Rachel Y. Samson, Suzette L. Pereira and John N. Reeve
819-827Natronobacillus azotifigens gen. nov., sp. nov., an anaerobic diazotrophic haloalkaliphile from soda-rich habitatsI. D. Sorokin, E. V. Zadorina, I. K. Kravchenko, E. S. Boulygina and T. P. Tourova, et al.
829-835Halomonas sediminis sp. nov., a new halophilic bacterium isolated from salt-lake sediment in ChinaHeng-Yu Huang, Yi-Guang Chen, Yong-Xia Wang, Ji-Hui Liu and Shu-Kun Tang, et al.
837-848Electricity generation by anaerobic bacteria and anoxic sediments from hypersaline soda lakesLaurence G. Miller and Ronald S. Oremland
849-854Aldehyde dehydrogenase of the haloalkaliphilic archaeon Natronomonas pharaonis and its function in ethanol metabolismYi Cao, Li Liao, Xue-wei Xu, Aharon Oren and Min Wu

Volume 13, Number 1 / January 2009

1-10The stability of the archaeal HU histone-like DNA-binding protein from Thermoplasma volcaniumFotini Orfaniotou, Pavlos Tzamalis, Angelos Thanassoulas, Eleni Stefanidi and Athanassios Zees, et al.
11-20Amino acid contacts in proteins adapted to different temperatures: hydrophobic interactions and surface charges play a key roleGisle Sælensminde, Øyvind Halskau and Inge Jonassen
21-30Development and use of genetic system to identify genes required for efficient low-temperature growth of Psychrobacter arcticus 273-4Corien Bakermans, Rudolph E. Sloup, Daniel G. Zarka, James M. Tiedje and Michael F. Thomashow
31-37Intraspecific polymorphism of 16S rRNA genes in two halophilic archaeal genera, Haloarcula and HalomicrobiumHeng-Lin Cui, Pei-Jin Zhou, Aharon Oren and Shuang-Jiang Liu
39-48Isolation and diversity analysis of arsenite-resistant bacteria in communities enriched from deep-sea sediments of the Southwest Indian Ocean RidgeShuangxi Chen and Zongze Shao
49-57Subcellular integrities in Chroococcidiopsis sp. CCMEE 029 survivors after prolonged desiccation revealed by molecular probes and genome stability assaysDaniela Billi
59-66Polyhydroxyalkanoates are essential for maintenance of redox state in the Antarctic bacterium
67-79Proteomic analysis of secreted membrane vesicles of archaeal Sulfolobus species reveals the presence of endosome sorting complex componentsAlbert F. Ellen, Sonja-Verena Albers, Wim Huibers, Angela Pitcher and Cedric F. V. Hobel, et al.
81-88Biochemical characterization of the minichromosome maintenance protein from the archaeon Thermoplasma acidophilumGyri Teien Haugland, Claire R. Rollor, Nils-Kåre Birkeland and Zvi Kelman
89-99Culturable bacteria in glacial meltwater at 6,350 m on the East Rongbuk Glacier, Mount EverestYongqin Liu, Tandong Yao, Nianzhi Jiao, Shichang Kang and Sijun Huang, et al.
101-109Fatty acids, unusual glycophospholipids and DNA analyses of thermophilic bacteria isolated from hot springsLucie Siristova, Karel Melzoch and Tomas Rezanka
111-120Cold-adapted microorganisms as a source of new antimicrobialsLeandro A. Sánchez, Fiorella F. Gómez and Osvaldo D. Delgado
121-129A new high-alkaline alginate lyase from a deep-sea bacterium
131-137Refolding of the hyperthermophilic protein Ssh10b involves a kinetic dimeric intermediateMeng Ge, Yong-Jin Mao and Xian-Ming Pan
139-149Bacterial community composition in thermophilic microbial mats from five hot springs in central TibetMaggie C. Y. Lau, Jonathan C. Aitchison and Stephen B. Pointing
151-167Protistan community patterns within the brine and halocline of deep hypersaline anoxic basins in the eastern Mediterranean SeaVirginia Edgcomb, William Orsi, Chesley Leslin, Slava S. Epstein and John Bunge, et al.
169-178Respiratory and dissimilatory nitrate-reducing communities from an extreme saline alkaline soil of the former lake Texcoco (Mexico)Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernández, César Valenzuela-Encinas, Rodolfo Marsch and Luc Dendooven
179-190Biochemical and structural studies of a l-haloacid dehalogenase from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus tokodaiiCarrie A. Rye, Michail N. Isupov, Andrey A. Lebedev and Jennifer A. Littlechild
191-198Characterization of a key trifunctional enzyme for aromatic amino acid biosynthesis in
199-212Bacterial and archaeal populations at two shallow hydrothermal vents off Panarea Island (Eolian Islands, Italy)Teresa Luciana Maugeri, Valeria Lentini, Concetta Gugliandolo, Francesco Italiano and Sylvie Cousin, et al.

Volume 13, Number 2 / March 2009

213-231Thermus thermophilus as biological modelFelipe Cava, Aurelio Hidalgo and José Berenguer
233-246Bacterial diversity in surface sediments from the Pacific Arctic OceanHuirong Li, Yong Yu, Wei Luo, Yinxin Zeng and Bo Chen
247-255Desulfonauticus autotrophicus sp. nov., a novel thermophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from oil-production water and emended description of the genus DesulfonauticusShanmugam Mayilraj, Anna H. Kaksonen, Ralf Cord-Ruwisch, Peter Schumann and Cathrin Spröer, et al.
257-262Effect of temperature on growth parameters of psychrophilic bacteria and yeastsRosa Margesin
263-271Archaeal and bacterial communities of heavy metal contaminated acidic waters from zinc mine residues in Sepetiba BayWelington I. Almeida, Ricardo P. Vieira, Alexander Machado Cardoso, Cynthia B. Silveira and Rebeca G. Costa, et al.
273-281Temperature downshift induces antioxidant response in fungi isolated from AntarcticaYana G. Gocheva, Solveig Tosi, Ekaterina Tz. Krumova, Lyudmila S. Slokoska and Jeny G. Miteva, et al.
283-297TrgI
299-311Molecular characterization of the recombinant iron-containing alcohol dehydrogenase from the hyperthermophilic Archaeon,
313-319Characterization of Halanaerobaculum tunisiense gen. nov., sp. nov., a new halophilic fermentative, strictly anaerobic bacterium isolated from a hypersaline lake in TunisiaAbdeljabbar Hedi, Marie-Laure Fardeau, Najla Sadfi, Abdellatif Boudabous and Bernard Ollivier, et al.
321-331Differential microbial communities in hot spring mats from Western ThailandM. C. Portillo, V. Sririn, W. Kanoksilapatham and J. M. Gonzalez
333-343Recovery of ionizing-radiation damage after high doses of gamma ray in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus gammatoleransAngels Tapias, Christophe Leplat and Fabrice Confalonieri
345-354Purification and biochemical characterization of a native invertase from the hydrogen-producing Thermotoganeapolitana (DSM 4359)Laura Dipasquale, Agata Gambacorta, Rosa Anna Siciliano, Maria Fiorella Mazzeo and Licia Lama
355-361Competitive exclusion of Cyanobacterial species in the Great Salt LakeHillary C. Roney, Gary M. Booth and Paul Alan Cox
363-370Characterization of the smallest dimeric bile salt hydrolase from a thermophile Brevibacillus sp.N. Sridevi, Sameer Srivastava, Bashir Mohammad Khan and Asmita Ashutosh Prabhune
371-377A PPM-family protein phosphatase from the thermoacidophile Thermoplasma volcanium hydrolyzes protein-bound phosphotyrosineHanan Dahche, AbdulShakur Abdullah, M. Ben Potters and Peter J. Kennelly
379-387Proteomic characterization of the sulfur-reducing hyperthermophilic archaeon

Volume 13, Number 3 / May 2009

389-401Applications of flow cytometry in environmental microbiology and biotechnologyPeter L. Bergquist, Elizabeth M. Hardiman, Belinda C. Ferrari and Tristrom Winsley
403-410Diversity of archaeal type IV pilin-like structuresSonja-Verena Albers and Mecky Pohlschröder
411-423Bacterial diversity in the snow over Tibetan Plateau GlaciersYongqin Liu, Tandong Yao, Nianzhi Jiao, Shichang Kang and Baiqin Xu, et al.
425-435A novel endo-glucanase from the thermophilic bacterium Geobacillus sp. 70PC53 with high activity and stability over a broad range of temperaturesI-Son Ng, Chen-Wei Li, Yi-Fang Yeh, Po Ting Chen and Jiun-Ly Chir, et al.
437-445Construction and characterization of the hetero-oligomer of the group II chaperonin from the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus sp. strain KS-1Muhamad Sahlan, Taro Kanzaki and Masafumi Yohda
447-459Microbiology and geochemistry of great boiling and mud hot springs in the United States Great BasinKyle C. Costa, Jason B. Navarro, Everett L. Shock, Chuanlun L. Zhang and Debbie Soukup, et al.
461-470Structural determinants of the high thermal stability of SsoPox from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusPompea Del Vecchio, Mikael Elias, Luigia Merone, Giuseppe Graziano and Jérôme Dupuy, et al.
471-479Identification of PprM: a modulator of the PprI-dependent DNA damage response in Deinococcus radioduransHirofumi Ohba, Katsuya Satoh, Haïtham Sghaier, Tadashi Yanagisawa and Issay Narumi
481-489The contribution of proline residues to protein stability is associated with isomerization equilibrium in both unfolded and folded statesMeng Ge and Xian-Ming Pan
491-504A novel membrane-anchored cytochrome c-550 of alkaliphilic Bacillus clarkii K24-1U: expression, molecular features and properties of redox potentialShinichi Ogami, Shoichi Hijikata, Tamotsu Tsukahara, Yasuhiro Mie and Toshihide Matsuno, et al.
505-510Thermovorax subterraneus, gen. nov., sp. nov., a thermophilic hydrogen-producing bacterium isolated from geothermally active underground mineAnnukka E. Mäkinen, Anna H. Kaksonen and Jaakko A. Puhakka
511-519Biogenic methane production in formation waters from a large gas field in the North SeaNeil D. Gray, Angela Sherry, Stephen R. Larter, Michael Erdmann and Juliette Leyris, et al.
521-531Tolerance of thermophilic and hyperthermophilic microorganisms to desiccationKristina Beblo, Elke Rabbow, Reinhard Rachel, Harald Huber and Petra Rettberg
533-540Vertical partitioning and expression of primary metabolic genes in a thermophilic microbial matMaggie C. Y. Lau and Stephen B. Pointing
541-555The Exiguobacterium genus: biodiversity and biogeographyTatiana A. Vishnivetskaya, Sophia Kathariou and James M. Tiedje
557-565Occurrence of Halococcus spp. in the nostrils salt glands of the seabird Calonectris diomedeaJocelyn Brito-Echeverría, Arantxa López-López, Pablo Yarza, Josefa Antón and Ramon Rosselló-Móra

Volume 13, Number 4 / July 2009

567-581Carboxylic ester hydrolases from hyperthermophilesMark Levisson, John van der Oost and Servé W. M. Kengen
583-594Cultivating the uncultured: limits, advances and future challengesKarine Alain and Joël Querellou
595-608Effect of variation of environmental conditions on the microbial communities of deep-sea vent chimneys, cultured in a bioreactorNathalie Byrne, Françoise Lesongeur, Nadège Bienvenu, Claire Geslin and Karine Alain, et al.
609-621Changes in the bacterial populations of the highly alkaline saline soil of the former lake Texcoco (Mexico) following floodingCésar Valenzuela-Encinas, Isabel Neria-González, Rocio J. Alcántara-Hernández, Isabel Estrada-Alvarado and Francisco Javier Zavala-Díaz de la Serna, et al.
623-632Diversity of Actinobacterial community in saline sediments from Yunnan and Xinjiang, ChinaJinyuan Wu, Tongwei Guan, Hongchen Jiang, Xiaoyang Zhi and Shukun Tang, et al.
633-641Identification of several intracellular carbohydrate-degrading activities from the halophilic archaeon Haloferax mediterraneiF. Pérez-Pomares, S. Díaz, V. Bautista, C. Pire and G. Bravo, et al.
643-656Characterization of halophiles isolated from solar salterns in Baja California, MexicoShereen Sabet, Lamine Diallo, Lauren Hays, Woosung Jung and Jesse G. Dillon
657-667Characterization of DNA polymerase from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus marinus and its application to PCRHeejin Bae, Kee Pum Kim, Jong Il Lee, Jae-Geun Song and Eui-Joon Kil, et al.
669-678Transcriptional analysis of the hsp70 gene in a haloarchaeon Natrinema sp. J7 under heat and cold stressHao Zhang, Peng Cui, Lu Lin, Ping Shen and Bing Tang, et al.
679-685Characterization of the intestinal microbiota of two Antarctic notothenioid fish speciesNaomi L. Ward, Blaire Steven, Kevin Penn, Barbara A. Methé and William H. Detrich
687-693Characterization of a soluble oxidoreductase from the thermophilic bacterium Carboxydothermus ferrireducensRob Uche Onyenwoke, R. Geyer and Juergen Wiegel
695-705Enrichment and isolation of Bacillus beveridgei sp. nov., a facultative anaerobic haloalkaliphile from Mono Lake, California, that respires oxyanions of tellurium, selenium, and arsenicS. M. Baesman, J. F. Stolz, T. R. Kulp and Ronald S. Oremland
707-716An unusual cyanobacterium from saline thermal waters with relatives from unexpected habitatsMeenakshi Banerjee, R. Craig Everroad and Richard W. Castenholz
717-724Efficient production of ectoine using ectoine-excreting strainLing-hua Zhang, Ya-jun Lang and Shinichi Nagata
725-733Molecular analysis of the gene encoding a cold-adapted halophilic subtilase from deep-sea psychrotolerant bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM9913: cloning, expression, characterization and function analysis of the C-terminal PPC domainsBing-Qiang Yan, Xiu-Lan Chen, Xiao-Yan Hou, Hailun He and Bai-Cheng Zhou, et al.
735-746Unmarked gene deletion and host–vector system for the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus islandicusLing Deng, Haojun Zhu, Zhengjun Chen, Yun Xiang Liang and Qunxin She
747-749Acknowledgment to reviewers 2008

Volume 13, Number 5 / September 2009

751-761Role of Tryptophan 95 in substrate specificity and structural stability of Sulfolobus solfataricus alcohol dehydrogenaseAngela Pennacchio, Luciana Esposito, Adriana Zagari, Mosè Rossi and Carlo A. Raia
763-768Selection of a cold-adapted bacterium for bioremediation of wastewater at low temperaturesEmmanuelle Gratia, Frédéric Weekers, Rosa Margesin, Salvino D’Amico and Philippe Thonart, et al.
769-783Thermostable lipases from the extreme thermophilic anaerobic bacteria Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus SOL1 and Caldanaerobacter subterraneus subsp. tengcongensisMarina Royter, M. Schmidt, C. Elend, H. Höbenreich and T. Schäfer, et al.
785-792NO3/NO2 assimilation in halophilic archaea: physiological analysis, nasA and nasD expressionsRosa María Martínez-Espinosa, Belén Lledó, Frutos C. Marhuenda-Egea, Susana Díaz and María José Bonete
793-805Osmotic adaptation in halotolerant yeast, Debaryomyces nepalensis NCYC 3413: role of osmolytes and cation transportSawan Kumar and Sathyanarayana N. Gummadi
807-816Microbial activity and diversity during extreme freeze–thaw cycles in periglacial soils, 5400 m elevation, Cordillera Vilcanota, PerúS. K. Schmidt, D. R. Nemergut, A. E. Miller, K. R. Freeman and A. J. King, et al.
817-826Molecular diversity and catalytic activity of Thermus DNA polymerasesMoreland D. Gibbs, Rosalind A. Reeves, David Mandelman, Qingli Mi and Jun Lee, et al.
827-837The Deinococcus radiodurans SMC protein is dispensable for cell viability yet plays a role in DNA foldingClaire Bouthier de la Tour, Magali Toueille, Edmond Jolivet, Hong-Ha Nguyen and Pascale Servant, et al.
839-848Two naphthalene degrading bacteria belonging to the genera Paenibacillus and Pseudomonas isolated from a highly polluted lagoon perform different sensitivities to the organic and heavy metal contaminantsMilva Pepi, Arianna Lobianco, Monia Renzi, Guido Perra and Emanuele Bernardini, et al.
849-857A thermophilic and acid stable family-10 xylanase from the acidophilic fungus Bispora sp. MEY-1Huiying Luo, Jiang Li, Jun Yang, Hui Wang and Yuhui Yang, et al.

Volume 13, Number 6 / November 2009

859-865Membrane-bound acid pyrophosphatase from Sulfolobus tokodaii, a thermoacidophilic archaeon: heterologous expression of the gene and characterization of the productFumitoshi Manabe, Yuko H. Itoh, Hirofumi Shoun and Takayoshi Wakagi
867-874Anoxybacillus thermarum sp. nov., a novel thermophilic bacterium isolated from thermal mud in Euganean hot springs, Abano Terme, ItalyAnnarita Poli, Ida Romano, Paolo Cordella, Pierangelo Orlando and Barbara Nicolaus, et al.
875-884Molecular cloning and stress-dependent expression of a gene encoding Δ12-fatty acid desaturase in the Antarctic microalga Chlorella vulgaris NJ-7Yandu Lu, Xiaoyuan Chi, Qingli Yang, Zhaoxin Li and Shaofang Liu, et al.
885-894Isolation and characterization of a new CO-utilizing strain, Thermoanaerobacter thermohydrosulfuricus subsp. carboxydovorans, isolated from a geothermal spring in TurkeyMelike Balk, Hans G. H. J. Heilig, Miriam H. A. van Eekert, Alfons J. M. Stams and Irene C. Rijpstra, et al.
895-903Expression of genes for sulfur oxidation in the intracellular chemoautotrophic symbiont of the deep-sea bivalve Calyptogena okutaniiMaiko Harada, Takao Yoshida, Hirokazu Kuwahara, Shigeru Shimamura and Yoshihiro Takaki, et al.
905-915A molecular and physiological survey of a diverse collection of hydrothermal vent Thermococcus and Pyrococcus isolatesAndreas Teske, Virginia Edgcomb, Adam R. Rivers, Janelle R. Thompson and Alvin de Vera Gomez, et al.
917-923Characterization of two genes involved in chromate resistance in a Cr(VI)-hyper-resistant bacteriumFrancesca Decorosi, Enrico Tatti, Annalisa Mini, Luciana Giovannetti and Carlo Viti

Volume 14, Number 1 / January 2010

1-8Overexpression and characterization of a thermostable trehalose synthase from Meiothermus ruberYueming Zhu, Dongsheng Wei, Jun Zhang, Yufan Wang and Hengyi Xu, et al.
9-19Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans, sp. nov.; facultatively anaerobic, psychrotolerant iron-, and sulfur-oxidizing acidophiles isolated from metal mine-impacted environmentsKevin B. Hallberg, Elena González-Toril and D. Barrie Johnson
21-31Localized melting of duplex DNA by Cdc6/Orc1 at the DNA replication origin in the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus furiosusFujihiko Matsunaga, Kie Takemura, Masaki Akita, Akinori Adachi and Takeshi Yamagami, et al.
33-39Gene cloning and characterization of an aldehyde dehydrogenase from long-chain alkane-degrading Geobacillusthermoleovorans B23Tomohisa Kato, Asuka Miyanaga, Shigenori Kanaya and Masaaki Morikawa
41-46Bacterial dissimilatory MnO2 reduction at extremely haloalkaline conditionsDimitri Yu. Sorokin and G. Muyzer
47-59Cold-adapted yeasts from Antarctica and the Italian Alps—description of three novel species: Mrakia robertii sp. nov., Mrakia blollopis sp. nov. and Mrakiella niccombsii sp. nov.Skye Robin Thomas-Hall, Benedetta Turchetti, Pietro Buzzini, Eva Branda and Teun Boekhout, et al.
61-69Novel ultramicrobacterial isolates from a deep Greenland ice core represent a proposed new species, Chryseobacterium greenlandense sp. nov.Jennifer Loveland-Curtze, Vanya Miteva and Jean Brenchley
71-77Propionate and butyrate dependent bacterial sulfate reduction at extremely haloalkaline conditions and description of Desulfobotulus alkaliphilus sp. nov.D. Y. Sorokin, E. N. Detkova and G. Muyzer
79-85Carboxylation reaction catalyzed by 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin oxidoreductases from Hydrogenobacter thermophilusMasahiro Yamamoto, Takeshi Ikeda, Hiroyuki Arai, Masaharu Ishii and Yasuo Igarashi
87-98Comparative study of the extracellular proteome of Sulfolobus species reveals limited secretionAlbert F. Ellen, Sonja-Verena Albers and Arnold J. M. Driessen
99-106Carboxyl ester hydrolases production and growth of a halophilic archaeon, Halobacterium sp. NRC-1Rosa María Camacho, Juan Carlos Mateos-Díaz, Dulce María Diaz-Montaño, Orfil González-Reynoso and Jesús Córdova
107-117Accurate DNA synthesis by Sulfolobus solfataricus DNA polymerase B1 at high temperatureLikui Zhang, Huiqiang Lou, Li Guo, Zhengyan Zhan and Zhenhong Duan, et al.
119-142“Hot standards” for the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricusMelanie Zaparty, Dominik Esser, Susanne Gertig, Patrick Haferkamp and Theresa Kouril, et al.
143-144Acknowledgment to reviewers 2009

Volume 14, Number 2 / March 2010

145-159Biodiversity of air-borne microorganisms at Halley station, AntarcticaDavid A. Pearce, K. A. Hughes, T. Lachlan-Cope, S. A. Harangozo and A. E. Jones
161-169Diversity of Haloquadratum and other haloarchaea in three, geographically distant, Australian saltern crystallizer pondsDickson Oh, Kate Porter, Brendan Russ, David Burns and Mike Dyall-Smith
171-183Occurrence and distribution of capB in Antarctic microorganisms and study of its structure and regulation in the Antarctic biodegradative Pseudomonas sp. 30/3Gitika Panicker, Nazia Mojib, Teruaki Nakatsuji, Jackie Aislabie and Asim K. Bej
185-192Cloning, purification and characterisation of a recombinant purine nucleoside phosphorylase from Bacillus halodurans Alk36Daniel F. Visser, Fritha Hennessy, Konanani Rashamuse, Maureen E. Louw and Dean Brady
193-204Biochemical characterization of a recombinant short-chain NAD(H)-dependent dehydrogenase/reductase from Sulfolobus acidocaldariusAngela Pennacchio, Assunta Giordano, Biagio Pucci, Mosè Rossi and Carlo A. Raia
205-212Microbial sequences retrieved from environmental samples from seasonal Arctic snow and meltwater from Svalbard, NorwayCatherine Larose, Sibel Berger, Christophe Ferrari, Elisabeth Navarro and Aurélien Dommergue, et al.
213-223Thermodynamic and kinetic stability of a large multi-domain enzyme from the hyperthermophile Aeropyrum pernixMikael Karlström, Roberta Chiaraluce, Laura Giangiacomo, Ida Helene Steen and Nils-Kåre Birkeland, et al.
225-231Isolation of hydrocarbon-degrading extremely halophilic archaea from an uncontaminated hypersaline pond (Camargue, France)Yosmina H. Tapilatu, Vincent Grossi, Monique Acquaviva, Cécile Militon and Jean-Claude Bertrand, et al.
233-240Thermoanaerobacterium thermostercus sp. nov., a new anaerobic thermophilic hydrogen-producing bacterium from buffalo-dungIda Romano, Laura Dipasquale, Pierangelo Orlando, Licia Lama and Giuliana d’Ippolito, et al.

Volume 14, Number 3 / May 2010

241-247Caldinitratiruptor microaerophilus, gen. nov., sp. nov. isolated from a French hot spring (Chaudes-Aigues, Massif Central): a novel cultivated facultative microaerophilic anaerobic thermophile pertaining to the Symbiobacterium branch within the FirmicutesMarie-Laure Fardeau, Vanessa Barsotti, Jean-Luc Cayol, Sophie Guasco and Valérie Michotey, et al.
249-259Inducible and constitutive promoters for genetic systems in Sulfolobus acidocaldariusSilvia Berkner, Alexander Wlodkowski, Sonja-Verena Albers and Georg Lipps
261-272Physiological adaptations and tolerance towards higher concentration of selenite (Se+4) in Enterobacter sp. AR-4, Bacillus sp. AR-6 and Delftia tsuruhatensis AR-7Dhan Prakash, Janmejay Pandey, B. N. Tiwary and Rakesh K. Jain
273-285A cold-adapted esterase of a novel marine isolate, Pseudoalteromonas arctica: gene cloning, enzyme purification and characterizationRami Al Khudary, Ramprasath Venkatachalam, Moritz Katzer, Skander Elleuche and Garabed Antranikian
287-296Diversity of Crenarchaeota in terrestrial hot springs in Tengchong, ChinaZhao-Qi Song, Jing-Quan Chen, Hong-Chen Jiang, En-Min Zhou and Shu-Kun Tang, et al.
297-304Characterization of Microaerobacter geothermalis gen. nov., sp. nov., a novel microaerophilic, nitrate- and nitrite-reducing thermophilic bacterium isolated from a terrestrial hot spring in TunisiaNadia Khelifi, Emna Ben Romdhane, Abdeljabbar Hedi, Anne Postec and Marie-Laure Fardeau, et al.
305-312Desulfosporosinus acidiphilus sp. nov.: a moderately acidophilic sulfate-reducing bacterium isolated from acid mining drainage sediments
313-320Haloalkaliphilic spore-forming sulfidogens from soda lake sediments and description of Desulfitispora alkaliphila gen. nov., sp. nov.Dimitry Y. Sorokin and Gerard Muyzer
321-328Biodegradation of crude oil and pure hydrocarbons by extreme halophilic archaea from hypersaline coasts of the Arabian GulfD. M. Al-Mailem, N. A. Sorkhoh, H. Al-Awadhi, M. Eliyas and S. S. Radwan
329-337Molecular cloning and expression analysis of a cytosolic Hsp70 gene from Antarctic ice algae Chlamydomonas sp. ICE-LShenghao Liu, Pengying Zhang, Bailin Cong, Chenlin Liu and Xuezheng Lin, et al.

Volume 14, Number 4 / July 2010

339-348Isolation and characterisation of bacteria from the haloalkaline Lake Elmenteita, KenyaRomano Mwirichia, A. W. Muigai, B. Tindall, H. I. Boga and E. Stackebrandt
349-355Desulfurispira natronophila gen. nov. sp. nov.: an obligately anaerobic dissimilatory sulfur-reducing bacterium from soda lakesD. Y. Sorokin and G. Muyzer
357-366Temperature and nutrient induced responses of Lake Fryxell sulfate-reducing prokaryotes and description of Desulfovibrio lacusfryxellense, sp. nov., a pervasive, cold-active, sulfate-reducing bacterium from Lake Fryxell, AntarcticaW. Matthew Sattley and Michael T. Madigan
367-376Planktonic actinobacterial diversity along a salinity gradient of a river and five lakes on the Tibetan PlateauHongchen Jiang, Qiuyuan Huang, Shicai Deng, Hailiang Dong and Bingsong Yu
377-395Bacterial biodiversity from Roopkund Glacier, Himalayan mountain ranges, IndiaSuman Pradhan, T. N. R. Srinivas, Pavan Kumar Pindi, K. Hara Kishore and Z. Begum, et al.
397-402Zhihengliuella salsuginis sp. nov., a moderately halophilic actinobacterium from a subterranean brineYi-Guang Chen, Shu-Kun Tang, Yu-Qin Zhang, Zhu-Xiang Liu and Qi-Hui Chen, et al.
403-407Proliferation of the hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrobaculum islandicum by cell fissionSeiji Sonobe, Kazue Aoyama, Chihiro Suzuki, Ko-hei Saito and Kumiko Nagata, et al.
409-415Glutamate kinase from Thermotoga maritima: characterization of a thermophilic enzyme for proline biosynthesisIsabel Pérez-Arellano and Javier Cervera

Volume 14, Number 5 / September 2010

417-425Can zoosporic true fungi grow or survive in extreme or stressful environments?Frank H. Gleason, Steve K. Schmidt and Agostina V. Marano
427-441Cytoplasmic membrane fluidity and fatty acid composition of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans in response to pH stressN. C. S. Mykytczuk, J. T. Trevors, G. D. Ferroni and L. G. Leduc
443-452A novel subaerial Dunaliella species growing on cave spiderwebs in the Atacama DesertA. Azúa-Bustos, C. González-Silva, L. Salas, R. E. Palma and R. Vicuña
453-463Transcription termination in the plasmid/virus hybrid pSSVx from Sulfolobus islandicusPatrizia Contursi, Raffaele Cannio and Qunxin She
465-474Microbial diversity in acid mine drainage of Xiang Mountain sulfide mine, Anhui Province, ChinaChunbo Hao, Lihua Wang, Yanan Gao, Lina Zhang and Hailiang Dong
475-481Characterization of bacterial strains capable of desulphurisation in soil and sediment samples from AntarcticaDouglas Boniek, Débora Figueiredo, Victor Satler Pylro and Gabriela Frois Duarte

Volume 14, Number 6 / November 2010

483-484Helge Larsen (1922–2005)A. Oren
485-491Biofilm development in the extremely acidophilic archaeon ‘Ferroplasma acidarmanus’ Fer1Craig Baker-Austin, Joanna Potrykus, Margaret Wexler, Philip L. Bond and Mark Dopson
493-499Halorussus rarus gen. nov., sp. nov., a new member of the family Halobacteriaceae isolated from a marine solar salternHeng-Lin Cui, Xia Gao, Xin Yang and Xue-Wei Xu
501-514Microbial diversity in Tunisian geothermal springs as detected by molecular and culture-based approachesRaja Sayeh, Jean Louis Birrien, Karine Alain, Georges Barbier and Mokhtar Hamdi, et al.
515-521Production of a novel and cold-active killer toxin by Mrakia frigida 2E00797 isolated from sea sediment in AntarcticaMing-Xia Hua, Zhe Chi, Guang-Lei Liu, Muhammad Aslam Buzdar and Zhen-Ming Chi

Volume 15, Number 1 / January 2011

1-22Bacterial diversity of soil in the vicinity of Pindari glacier, Himalayan mountain ranges, India, using culturable bacteria and soil 16S rRNA gene clonesS. Shivaji, M. S. Pratibha, B. Sailaja, K. Hara Kishore and Ashish K. Singh, et al.
23-29Expression and characterization of a novel mesophilic protease from metagenomic library derived from Antarctic coastal sedimentYingjing Zhang, Jing Zhao and Runying Zeng
31-38Cyanobacteria and chloroflexi-dominated hypolithic colonization of quartz at the hyper-arid core of the Atacama Desert, ChileDonnabella C. Lacap, Kimberley A. Warren-Rhodes, Christopher P. McKay and Stephen B. Pointing
39-44Mercury resistance and volatilization by oil utilizing haloarchaea under hypersaline conditionsD. M. Al-Mailem, H. Al-Awadhi, N. A. Sorkhoh, M. Eliyas and S. S. Radwan
45-57Characterization of Hymenobacter isolates from Victoria Upper Glacier, Antarctica reveals five new species and substantial non-vertical evolution within this genusJonathan L. Klassen and Julia M. Foght
59-65Temperature and pH controls on glycerol dibiphytanyl glycerol tetraether lipid composition in the hyperthermophilic crenarchaeon Acidilobus sulfurireducensEric S. Boyd, Ann Pearson, Yundan Pi, Wen-Jun Li and Yi Ge Zhang, et al.
67-76Single-stranded DNA binding activity of XPBI, but not XPBII, from Sulfolobus tokodaii causes double-stranded DNA meltingXiaoqing Ma, Ye Hong, Wenyuan Han, Duohong Sheng and Jinfeng Ni, et al.
77-87Probing the redox metabolism in the strictly anaerobic, extremely thermophilic, hydrogen-producing Caldicellulosiruptorsaccharolyticus using amperometryNatalie Kostesha, Karin Willquist, Jenny Emneus and Ed W. J. van Niel
89-103In silico characterization of thermostable lipasesDebamitra Chakravorty, Saravanan Parameswaran, Vikash Kumar Dubey and Sanjukta Patra
105-11616S rRNA phylogenetic analysis and quantification of Korarchaeota indigenous to the hot springs of Kamchatka, RussiaThomas A. Auchtung, Galina Shyndriayeva and Colleen M. Cavanaugh
117-118Acknowledgment to reviewers 2010

Volume 15, Number 2 / March 2011

119-128Temperature and pH optima of extremely halophilic archaea: a mini-reviewKaren J. Bowers and Juergen Wiegel
129-153Diversity in transcripts and translational pattern of stress proteins in marine extremophilesI. V. Ambily Nath and P. A. Loka Bharathi
155-163Autotrophic, sulfur-oxidizing actinobacteria in acidic environmentsPaul R. Norris, Carol S. Davis-Belmar, Carly F. Brown and Leonides A. Calvo-Bado
165-175Comparative study on dihydrofolate reductases from Shewanella species living in deep-sea and ambient atmospheric-pressure environmentsChiho Murakami, Eiji Ohmae, Shin-ichi Tate, Kunihiko Gekko and Kaoru Nakasone, et al.
177-189Chemosynthetic activity prevails in deep-sea sediments of the Central Indian BasinAnindita Das, P. P. Sujith, Babu Shashikant Mourya, Sushanta U. Biche and P. A. LokaBharathi
191-202Identification and characterization of a unique, zinc-containing transport ATPase essential for natural transformation in Thermus thermophilus HB27Ilona Rose, Goran Biuković, Patrick Aderhold, Volker Müller and Gerhard Grüber, et al.
203-211Molecular cloning, over expression and characterization of thermoalkalophilic esterases isolated from Geobacillus sp.Hasan Cihad Tekedar and Gülşah Şanlı-Mohamed
213-220Salinivibrio sharmensis sp. nov., a novel haloalkaliphilic bacterium from a saline lake in Ras Mohammed Park (Egypt)Ida Romano, Pierangelo Orlando, Agata Gambacorta, Barbara Nicolaus and Laura Dipasquale, et al.
221-226Purification and characterization of a hyperthermostable Mn-superoxide dismutase from Thermus thermophilus HB27Jianguo Liu, Mengmeng Yin, Hu Zhu, Jianren Lu and Zhanfeng Cui
227-234The carboxyl terminal of the archaeal nuclease NurA is involved in the interaction with single-stranded DNA-binding protein and dimer formationTao Wei, Songtao Zhang, Linlin Hou, Jinfeng Ni and Duohong Sheng, et al.
235-244The bindosome is a structural component of the Sulfolobus solfataricus cell envelopeBenham Zolghadr, Andreas Klingl, Reinard Rachel, Arnold J. M. Driessen and Sonja-Verena Albers
245-252Mutational analysis of conserved aspartic acid residues in the Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus MCM helicaseNozomi Sakakibara, Rajesh Kasiviswanathan and Zvi Kelman
253-258Isolation and characterization of a new bacteriophage MMP17 from MeiothermusLianbing Lin, Jian Han, Xiuling Ji, Wei Hong and Li Huang, et al.
259-270Gene cloning and protein expression of γ-glutamyltranspeptidases from Thermus thermophilus and Deinococcus radiodurans: comparison of molecular and structural properties with mesophilic counterpartsImmacolata Castellano, Anna Di Salle, Antonello Merlino, Mosè Rossi and Francesco La Cara
271-279Acidiferrobacter thiooxydans, gen. nov. sp. nov.; an acidophilic, thermo-tolerant, facultatively anaerobic iron- and sulfur-oxidizer of the family EctothiorhodospiraceaeKevin B. Hallberg, Sabrina Hedrich and D. Barrie Johnson
281-291Functional evaluation of four putative DNA-binding regions in Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis reverse gyraseJie Li, Jingfang Liu, Jian Zhou and Hua Xiang
293-301Heterologous expression and characterization of a recombinant thermostable alkylsulfatase (sdsAP)Mengxian Long, Lingwei Ruan, Fuying Li, Ziniu Yu and Xun Xu
303-310Production of ectoine through a combined process that uses both growing and resting cells of Halomonas salina DSM 5928TYa-jun Lang, Lin Bai, Ya-nan Ren, Ling-hua Zhang and Shinichi Nagata
311-317Fusion of the OsmC domain from esterase EstO confers thermolability to the cold-active xylanase Xyn8 from Pseudoalteromonas arcticaSkander Elleuche, Henning Piascheck and Garabed Antranikian

Volume 15, Number 3 / May 2011

319-325Anaerobic transformation of carbon monoxide by microbial communities of Kamchatka hot springsTatiana V. Kochetkova, Igor I. Rusanov, Nikolay V. Pimenov, Tatyana V. Kolganova and Alexander V. Lebedinsky, et al.
327-336Contribution of inter-subunit interactions to the thermostability of Pyrococcus furiosus citrate synthaseVicky Moore, Ami Kanu, Olwyn Byron, Gordon Campbell and Michael J. Danson, et al.
337-346Biochemical characterization of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase from Thermococcus kodakarensis KOD1Baolei Jia, Le Thuy Linh, Sangmin Lee, Bang Phuong Pham and Jinliang Liu, et al.
347-358Characterization of heterotrophic prokaryote subgroups in the Sfax coastal solar salterns by combining flow cytometry cell sorting and phylogenetic analysisHana Trigui, Salma Masmoudi, Céline Brochier-Armanet, Aude Barani and Gérald Grégori, et al.
359-364Conserved residues in membrane-bound acid pyrophosphatase from Sulfolobus tokodaii, a thermoacidophilic archaeonFumitoshi Manabe, Hirofumi Shoun and Takayoshi Wakagi
365-372Uncultured archaea dominate in the thermal groundwater of Uzon Caldera, KamchatkaAndrey V. Mardanov, Vadim M. Gumerov, Alexey V. Beletsky, Anna A. Perevalova and Gennady A. Karpov, et al.
373-378Saccharopolyspora lacisalsi sp. nov., a novel halophilic actinomycete isolated from a salt lake in Xinjiang, ChinaTong-Wei Guan, Nan Wu, Zhan-Feng Xia, Ji-Sheng Ruan and Xiao-Ping Zhang, et al.
379-389Response to adverse conditions in two strains of the extremely halophilic species Salinibacter ruberJocelyn Brito-Echeverría, Marianna Lucio, Arantxa López-López, Josefa Antón and Philippe Schmitt-Kopplin, et al.
391-401Culturable diversity of lithotrophic haloalkaliphilic sulfate-reducing bacteria in soda lakes and the description of Desulfonatronumthioautotrophicum sp. nov., Desulfonatronum thiosulfatophilum sp. nov., Desulfonatronovibrio thiodismutans sp. nov., and Desulfonatronovibrio magnus sp. nov.D. Y. Sorokin, T. P. Tourova, T. V. Kolganova, E. N. Detkova and E. A. Galinski, et al.
403-410Characterization of an OmpA-like outer membrane protein of the acidophilic iron-oxidizing bacterium, Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidansMohammed Abul Manchur, Mei Kikumoto, Tadayoshi Kanao, Jun Takada and Kazuo Kamimura
411-421Microbial diversity in the snow, a moraine lake and a stream in Himalayan glacierYongqin Liu, Tandong Yao, Nianzhi Jiao, Lide Tian and Anyi Hu, et al.
423-429Biosynthesis of ω-alicyclic fatty acids induced by cyclic precursors and change of membrane fluidity in thermophilic bacteria Geobacillus stearothermophilus and MeiothermusruberLucie Siristova, Radek Luhovy, Karel Sigler and Tomas Rezanka
431-439The characterization of Thermotoga maritima ferritin reveals an unusual subunit dissociation behavior and efficient DNA protection from iron-mediated oxidative stressPierpaolo Ceci, Elena Forte, Gisa Di Cecca, Manuela Fornara and Emilia Chiancone
441-450Identification and characterization of a novel l-arabinose isomerase from Anoxybacillus flavithermus useful in d-tagatose productionYanjun Li, Yueming Zhu, Anjun Liu and Yuanxia Sun

Volume 15, Number 4 / July 2011

451-461Enrichment and proteome analysis of a hyperthermostable protein set of archaeon Thermococcus onnurineus NA1Sung-Ho Yun, Chi-Won Choi, Sang Oh Kwon, Yeol Gyun Lee and Young-Ho Chung, et al.
463-472Gluconeotrehalose is the principal organic solute in the psychrotolerant bacterium Carnobacterium strain 17-4Pedro Lamosa, Ana I. Mingote, Tatiana Groudieva, Barbara Klippel and Ksenia Egorova, et al.
473-485Bacterial diversity in five Icelandic geothermal waters: temperature and sinter growth rate effectsDominique J. Tobler and Liane G. Benning
487-497Genomic analysis of Acidianus hospitalis W1 a host for studying crenarchaeal virus and plasmid life cyclesXiao-Yan You, Chao Liu, Sheng-Yue Wang, Cheng-Ying Jiang and Shiraz A. Shah, et al.
499-508Regulation of expression of trehalose-6-phosphate synthase during cold shock in Arthrobacter strain A3Xi-Ming Chen, Ying Jiang, Yuan-Ting Li, Hai-Hong Zhang and Jie Li, et al.
509-516Evolution of temperature optimum in Thermotogaceae and the prediction of trait values of uncultured organismsHåkon Dahle, Bjarte Hannisdal, Bjørn Olav Steinsbu, Hege Ommedal and Jørn Einen, et al.
517-528The major lipid cores of the archaeon Ignisphaera aggregans: implications for the phylogeny and biosynthesis of glycerol monoalkyl glycerol tetraether isoprenoid lipidsChris S. Knappy, Charlotte E. M. Nunn, Hugh W. Morgan and Brendan J. Keely
529-539The GINS complex from the thermophilic archaeon, Thermoplasma acidophilum may function as a homotetramer in DNA replicationHiromi Ogino, Sonoko Ishino, Kouta Mayanagi, Gyri Teien Haugland and Nils-Kåre Birkeland, et al.

Volume 15, Number 5 / September 2011

541-547Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) influences biofilm formation and motility in the novel Antarctic species Pseudomonas extremaustralis under cold conditionsPaula M. Tribelli and Nancy I. López
549-563Archaeal and bacterial diversity in hot springs on the Tibetan Plateau, ChinaQiuyuan Huang, Christina Z. Dong, Raymond M. Dong, Hongchen Jiang and Shang Wang, et al.
565-571Characterization of Halanaerocella petrolearia gen. nov., sp. nov., a new anaerobic moderately halophilic fermentative bacterium isolated from a deep subsurface hypersaline oil reservoir
573-586Psychrophilic yeasts from Antarctica and European glaciers: description of Glaciozyma gen. nov., Glaciozyma martinii sp. nov. and Glaciozyma watsonii sp. nov.Benedetta Turchetti, Skye R. Thomas Hall, Laurie B. Connell, Eva Branda and Pietro Buzzini, et al.
587-596The relationship between a coiled morphology and Mbl in alkaliphilic Bacillus halodurans C-125 at neutral pH valuesShun Fujinami, Takako Sato and Masahiro Ito
597-609Interactions between P-limitation and different C conditions on the fatty acid composition of an extremophile microalgaElly Spijkerman and Alexander Wacker
611-618Bioprocessing of agricultural residues to ethanol utilizing a cellulolytic extremophileVasudeo P. Zambare, Aditya Bhalla, Kasiviswanath Muthukumarappan, Rajesh K. Sani and Lew P. Christopher
619-624Characterization of Sulfolobus islandicus rod-shaped virus 2 gp19, a single-strand specific endonucleaseAndrew F. Gardner, David Prangishvili and William E. Jack

Volume 15, Number 6 / November 2011

625-631Salinarchaeum laminariae gen. nov., sp. nov.: a new member of the family Halobacteriaceae isolated from salted brown alga LaminariaHeng-Lin Cui, Xin Yang and Yun-Zhuang Mou
633-642Archaea-based microbial fuel cell operating at high ionic strength conditionsXimena C. Abrevaya, Natalia Sacco, Pablo J. D. Mauas and Eduardo Cortón
643-652Archaeal transcriptional regulation of the prokaryotic KdpFABC complex mediating K+ uptake in H. salinarumDorthe Kixmüller, Henrik Strahl, Andy Wende and Jörg-Christian Greie
653-663Diversity and phylogeny of the ectoine biosynthesis genes in aerobic, moderately halophilic methylotrophic bacteriaAlexander S. Reshetnikov, Valentina N. Khmelenina, Ildar I. Mustakhimov, Marina Kalyuzhnaya and Mary Lidstrom, et al.
665-672Cloning and characterization of the TneDI restriction–modification system of Thermotoga neapolitanaZhaohui Xu, Dongmei Han, Jingjing Cao and Uksha Saini
673-690Comparison of bacterial diversity in proglacial soil from Kafni Glacier, Himalayan Mountain ranges, India, with the bacterial diversity of other glaciers in the worldT. N. R. Srinivas, S. M. Singh, Suman Pradhan, M. S. Pratibha and K. Hara Kishore, et al.
691-696Natronoflexus pectinivorans gen. nov. sp. nov., an obligately anaerobic and alkaliphilic fermentative member of Bacteroidetes from soda lakesD. Y. Sorokin, A. N. Panteleeva, T. P. Tourova, E. N. Kaparullina and G. Muyzer
697-709Rhamnolipid-producing thermophilic bacteria of species Thermus and MeiothermusTomáš Řezanka, Lucie Siristova and Karel Sigler
711-712Functional curation of the Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 and S. acidocaldarius 98-3 complete genome sequencesDomink Esser, Theresa Kouril, Melanie Zaparty, Pawel Sierocinski and Patricia P. Chan, et al.