Part I. Microbial and Biochemical Fundamentals. 1. Breeding of Amino Acid-Overproducing Mutants (K. Nakayama). 2. Application of Intracellular Genetic Recombination to Strain Construction (M. Kisumi). 3. Application of Recombinant DNA Technology of Breeding of Amino Acid-Producing Strains (T. Beppu). 4. Biosynthetic and Metabolic Enzymes of Amino Acids (K. Soda, T. Yoshimura). II. Biochemical Engineering and Fermentation Technology. 5. Raw Materials for Amino Acid Fermentation (Y. Minoda). 6. Biochemical Effects of Oxygen Supply and Carbon Dioxide Removal (Y. Hirose). 7. Automatic Analysis of Amino Acids Using Biosensors (I. Karube, S. Suzuki). 8. Computer Control of Fermentation Processes (Y. Goto). III. Production of Individual Amino Acids. 9. Glutamic Acid (M. Kikuchi, Y. Nakao). 10. Proline (F. Yoshinaga). 11. Glutamine (T. Tachiki, T. Tochikura). 12. Arginine, Citrulline, and Ornithine (H. Yoshida). 13. Aspartic Acid (I. Chibata, T. Tosa, T. Sato). 14. Lysine (O. Tosaka, K. Takinami). 15. Threonine and Homoserine (S. Nakamori). 16. Methionine (H. Tanaka, K. Soda). 17. Tryptophan, Phenylalanine, and Tyrosine (I. Shiio). 18. Serine (Y. Morinaga, H. Yamada). 19. Cysteine (T. Nagasawa, H. Yamada). 20. Alanine (I. Chibata, T. Tosa, T. Kakimoto). 21. Isoleucine, Valine, and Leucine (S. Komatsubara, M. Kisumi). 22. Histidine (K. Araki). IV. Production of Amino Acid-Related Substances. 23. Glutathinone and g-Glutamylpeptides (H. Kumagai). 24. Microbial Production of D-p-Hydroxyphenylglycine (S. Takahashi). 25. 3,4-Dihydroxyphenylaline (H. Enei, H. Yamada). 26. Microbial Amino Acid Antimetabolites (H. Sakai). 27. b-Lactam Antibiotics - Biosynthesis of Amino Acid Precursors and Ring Systems (S. Ichikawa, M. Shibukawa). 28. Lipoamino Acid (A. Kimura). Index.
