Table of Contents

Volume 3, Issue 1

  January/February 2012

This issue is still being formatted, but here is what we've published so far:

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HOT TOPIC

Molecular diagnostics: the changing culture of medical microbiology

Susan Bullman, Brigid Lucey and Roy D. Sleator





COMMENTARY

Genetic analysis of Down syndrome facilitated by mouse chromosome engineering

Li Zhang, Dawei Fu, Pavel V. Belichenko, Chunhong Liu, Alexander M. Kleschevnikov, Annie Pao, Ping Liang, Steven J. Clapcote, William C. Mobley and Y. Eugene Yu





REVIEW

Open Access Article

Evolutionary, ecological, and biotechnological perspectives on plasmids resident in the human gut mobile metagenome

Lesley A. Ogilvie, Sepinoud Firouzmand and Brian V. Jones





REPORT

A color-based stable multi-copy integrant selection system for Pichia pastoris using the attenuated ADE1 and ADE2 genes as auxotrophic markers

Min Du, Michael B. Battles and Juergen H. Nett





RESEARCH NOTES

Fast track assembly of multigene constructs using golden gate cloning and the MoClo system

Stefan Werner, Carola Engler, Ernst Weber, Ramona Gruetzner and Sylvestre Marillonnet


Recombinant D. radiodurans cells for bioremediation of heavy metals from acidic/neutral aqueous wastes

Chitra S. Misra, Deepti Appukuttan, Venkata S.S. Kantamreddi, Amara S. Rao and Shree K. Apte





ADDENDA

Bench-top fermentative production of plant benzylisoquinoline alkaloids using a bacterial platform

Akira Nakagawa, Hiromichi Minami, Ju-Sung Kim, Takashi Koyanagi, Takane Katayama, Fumihiko Sato and Hidehiko Kumagai


Differentiation of programmed Arabidopsis cells

De-Yu Xie and Ming-Zhu Shi


Computational studies on a new cationic peroxidase isoenzyme from artichoke leaves

Angela Cardinali, Isabella D’Antuono, Benny Danilo Belviso and Rocco Caliandro


Biomedicals from a soil bug: Expanding scFv production host range

Thorben Dammeyer