MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Mark Caddick, David Archer, Susan Assinder, David Catcheside, and John Clutterbuck

Meeting report
Microbiology 1996 142: 213-215. [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Milton H. Saier, Sylvie Chauvaux, Jr, Gregory M. Cook, Josef Deutscher, Ian T. Paulsen, Jonathan Reizer, and Jing-Jing Ye

Catabolite repression and inducer control in Gram-positive bacteria
Microbiology 1996 142: 217-230. [PDF]  

ANTIGENS AND IMMUNITY:

Shin-ichi Yokota

Novel O-polysaccharide expression, as a lipid A-core-free form, in a lipopolysaccharide-core-defective mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 1996 142: 289-297. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Jonathan Reizer, Tom M. Ramseier, Aiala Reizer, Alain Charbit, and Milton H. Saier, jr

Novel phosphotransferase genes revealed by bacterial genome sequencing: a gene cluster encoding a putative N-acetylgalactosamine metabolic pathway in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1996 142: 231-250. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Timothy P. Higgins, Margaret Davey, Jim Trickett, Don P. Kelly, and J. Colin Murrell

Metabolism of methanesulfonic acid involves a multicomponent monooxygenase enzyme
Microbiology 1996 142: 251-260. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

Georg Schmidt, K.-Peter Stahmann, and Hermann Sahm

Inhibition of purified isocitrate lyase identified itaconate and oxalate as potential antimetabolites for the riboflavin overproducer Ashbya gossypii
Microbiology 1996 142: 411-417. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Georg Schmidt, K.-Peter Stahmann, Bruno Kaesler, and Hermann Sahm

Correlation of isocitrate lyase activity and riboflavin formation in the riboflavin overproducer Ashbya gossypii
Microbiology 1996 142: 419-426. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Patti Matsushima and Richard H. Baltz

A gene cloning system for ‘Streptomyces toyocaensis’
Microbiology 1996 142: 261-267. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Mark A. Gallo, Joanne Ward, and C. R. Hutchinson

The dnrM gene in Streptomyces peucetius contains a naturally occurring frameshift mutation that is suppressed by another locus outside of the daunorubicin-production gene cluster
Microbiology 1996 142: 269-275. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lijuan Zhang, Paavo Toivanen, and Mikael Skurnik

The gene cluster directing O-antigen biosynthesis in Yersinia enterocolitica serotype O:8: identification of the genes for mannose and galactose biosynthesis and the gene for the O-antigen polymerase
Microbiology 1996 142: 277-288. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jonas Ankarloo, Min-Ying Zhang, and Ann Lövgren

Regulatory sequences of two flagellin genes in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. alesti
Microbiology 1996 142: 315-320. [Abstract] [PDF]  

George J. Fennington, Jr and Thomas A. Hughes

The fructokinase from Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii belongs to group I fructokinase enzymes and is encoded separately from other carbohydrate metabolism enzymes
Microbiology 1996 142: 321-330. [Abstract] [PDF]  

A. M. Osborn, K. D. Bruce, D. A. Ritchie, and P. Strike

The mercury resistance operon of the IncJ plasmid pMERPH exhibits structural and regulatory divergence from other Gramnegative mer operons
Microbiology 1996 142: 337-345. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Laurie F. Caslake and Donald A. Bryant

The sigA gene encoding the major factor of RNA polymerase from the marine cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7002: cloning and characterization
Microbiology 1996 142: 347-357. [Abstract] [PDF]  

David A. Post, Robert L. Switzer, and Bjarne Hove-Jensen

The defective phosphoribosyl diphosphate synthase in a temperature-sensitive prs-2 mutant of Escherichia coli is compensated by increased enzyme synthesis
Microbiology 1996 142: 359-365. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rita Zilhão, Jacqueline Plumbridge, Eliane Hajnsdorf, Philippe Régnier, and Cecília M. Arraiano

Escherichia coli RNase II: characterization of the promoters involved in the transcription of rnb
Microbiology 1996 142: 367-375. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Beatriz Xoconostle-Cázares, Claudia León-Ramirez, and José Ruiz-Herrera

Two chitin synthase genes from Ustilago maydis
Microbiology 1996 142: 377-387. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Alan J. Bradbury, Megan J. Gruer, Kenneth E. Rudd, and John R. Guest

The second aconitase (AcnB) of Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1996 142: 389-400. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Noboru Nakasone, Masaaki Iwanaga, Tetsu Yamashiro, Kazutoshi Nakashima, and M. John Albert

Aeromonas trota strains, which agglutinate with Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal antiserum, possess a serologically distinct fimbrial colonization factor
Microbiology 1996 142: 309-313. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Stephen A. Makin and Terrance J. Beveridge

The influence of A-band and B-band lipopolysaccharide on the surface characteristics and adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to surfaces
Microbiology 1996 142: 299-307. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ansley J. Crockford, Cecile Behncke, and Huw D. Williams

The adaptation of Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. phaseoli to oxidative stress and its overlap with other environmental stress responses
Microbiology 1996 142: 331-336. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Asita Mukherjee, Yaya Cui, Yang Liu, C. Korsi Dumenyo, and Arun K. Chatterjee

Global regulation in Erwinia species by Erwinia carotovora rsmA, a homologue of Escherichia coli csrA: repression of secondary metabolites, pathogenicity and hypersensitive reaction
Microbiology 1996 142: 427-434. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gary Strobel, Xianshu Yang, Joe Sears, Robert Kramer, Rajinder S. Sidhu, and W. M. Hess

Taxol from Pestalotiopsis microspora, an endophytic fungus of Taxus wallachiana
Microbiology 1996 142: 435-440. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENOME ANALYSIS:

Kazuyuki Tabata and Takayuki Hoshino

Mapping of 61 genes on the refined physical map of the chromosome of Thermus thermophilus HB27 and comparison of genome organization with that of T. thermophilus HB8
Microbiology 1996 142: 401-410. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS:

Ellen V. G. Frandsen and William G. Wade

Differentiation of human Capnocytophaga species by multilocus enzyme electrophoretic analysis and serotyping of immunoglobulin A1 proteases
Microbiology 1996 142: 441-448. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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