Fostering global communication to advance the emerging areas of biotechnology

Biotechnology and Applied Biochemistry publishes original research papers, reviews and minireviews in biotechnology, with a focus on diagnostics, therapeutics and human healthcare.

Full papers are published online as Immediate Publications in PDF format as soon as they are accepted.

This month's issue (Volume 53, Part 3) is now available online.
The Versions of Record of articles to appear in future issues are also available.

A highlight of this issue are two further minireviews in the series Yeast Biotechnology in Japan. The first, by Kitagaki (Saga, Japan), describes how a fis1 disruptant of a sake yeast strain has been generated which has a networked mitochondrial structure throughout sake brewing and which produces a high content of malate, which produces a desired crisp taste in the beverage. Thus mitochondrial morphology is emerging as a promising target for breeding of practical industrial yeast strains. In the second minireview, Shima and Takagi (Ibaraki and Nara, Japan) describe how, to avoid lethal damage during baking-associated stresses, baker's-yeast cells need to acquire a variety of stress-tolerant mechanisms, e.g., the induction of stress proteins, accumulation of stress protectants, change of membrane composition, and repression of translation, by regulating the corresponding gene expression via stress-triggered signal-transduction pathways.

- now fully compliant with funding body mandates including NIH. Read our FAQs