MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Paul M. Sharp and Margaret C. M. Smith

Identifying bacterial genes - a cautionary tale
Microbiology 1996 142: 717-718. [PDF]  

Gary J. Sharples

Haemophilus virulence
Microbiology 1996 142: 717. [PDF]  

Identifying bacterial genes - a cautionary tale
Microbiology 1996 142: 717-718. [PDF]  

James Moir

Aerotactic response
Microbiology 1996 142: 718-719. [PDF]  

Barry L. Taylor

Author's reply
Microbiology 1996 142: 719. [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Joäo C. S. Varela and Willem H. Mager

Response of Saccharomyces cerevisiae to changes in external osmolarity
Microbiology 1996 142: 721-731. [PDF]  

ANTIGENS AND IMMUNITY:

Daniel D. Rockey, Brian B. Chesebro, Robert A. Heinzen, and Ted Hackstadt

A 28 kDa major immunogen of Chlamydia psittaci shares identity with Mip proteins of Legionella spp. and Chlamydia trachomatis - cloning and characterization of the C. psittaci mip-like gene
Microbiology 1996 142: 945-953. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Karine Le Blay, Martine Caroff, Frédéric Blanchard, Malcolm B. Perry, and Richard Chaby

Epitopes of Bordetella pertussis lipopolysaccharides as potential markers for typing of isolates with monoclonal antibodies
Microbiology 1996 142: 971-978. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Lynn Kennedy and Ian W. Sutherland

Polysaccharide lyases from gellan-producing Sphingomonas spp.
Microbiology 1996 142: 867-872. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Günther Wendlinger, Martin J. Loessner, and Siegfried Scherer

Bacteriophage receptors on Listeria monocytogenes cells are the N-acetylglucosamine and rhamnose substituents of teichoic acids or the peptidoglycan itself
Microbiology 1996 142: 985-992. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS AND TRANSPORT:

Rita D'mello, Susan Hill, and Robert K. Poole

The cytochrome bd quinol oxidase in Escherichia coli has an extremely high oxygen affinity and two oxygen-binding haems: implications for regulation of activity in vivo by oxygen inhibition
Microbiology 1996 142: 755-763. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Paul S. Dobbin, Louise H. Warren, Nicola J. Cook, Alastair G. McEwan, Anne K. Powell, and David J. Richardson

Dissimilatory iron(III) reduction by Rhodobacter capsulatus
Microbiology 1996 142: 765-774. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

Masahiro Sasaki, Boukje W. Bosman, and Paris S. T. Tan

A new, broad-substrate-specificity aminopeptidase from the dairy organism Lactobacillus helveticus SBT 2171
Microbiology 1996 142: 799-808. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rolf Müller, Michael Breuer, Andreas Wagener, Karsten Schmidt, and Eckhard Leistner

Bacterial production of trans-dihydroxycyclohexadiene carboxylates by metabolic pathway engineering
Microbiology 1996 142: 1005-1012. [Abstract] [PDF]  

DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE:

H. Gorham and C. S. Dow

A bacteriophage of Rhodopseudomonas blastica
Microbiology 1996 142: 979-983. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ines Carrin, Irene Murgia, Andrew McLachlan, and Robert R. Kay

A mutational analysis of Dictyostelium discoideum multicellular development
Microbiology 1996 142: 993-1003. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Dieter Weichart and Staffan Kjelleberg

Stress resistance and recovery potential of culturable and viable but nonculturable cells of Vibrio vulnificus
Microbiology 1996 142: 845-853. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yves F. Dufrene, Hans Vermeiren, Jos Vanderleyden, and Paul G. Rouxhet

Direct evidence for the involvement of extracellular proteins in the adhesion of Azospirillum brasilense
Microbiology 1996 142: 855-865. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Peter J. Lewis and Jeffery Errington

Use of green fluorescent protein for detection of cell-specific gene expression and subcellular protein localization during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 1996 142: 733-740. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andreas Pospiech, Jürg Bietenhader, and Thomas Schupp

Two multifunctional peptide synthetases and an O-methyltransferase are involved in the biosynthesis of the DNA-binding antibiotic and antitumour agent saframycin Mx1 from Myxococcus xanthus
Microbiology 1996 142: 741-746. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yunzheng Le, Jianyong He, and Leo C. Vining

Streptomyces akiyoshiensis differs from other Gram-positive bacteria in the organization of a core biosynthetic pathway gene for aspartate family amino acids
Microbiology 1996 142: 791-798. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pekka Varmanen, James Steele, and Airi Palva

Characterization of a prolinase gene and its product and an adjacent ABC transporter gene from Lactobacillus helveticus
Microbiology 1996 142: 809-816. [Abstract] [PDF]  

G. M. Mura, P. Pedroni, C. Pratesi, G. Galli, L. Serbolisca, and G. Grandi

The [Ni-Fe] hydrogenase from the thermophilic bacterium Acetomicrobium flavidum
Microbiology 1996 142: 829-836. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bernd H. A. Rehm

The Azotobacter vinelandii gene algJ encodes an outer-membrane protein presumably involved in export of alginate
Microbiology 1996 142: 873-880. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sharon La Fontaine and Julian I. Rood

Organization of ribosomal RNA genes from the footrot pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus
Microbiology 1996 142: 889-899. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lyudmila P. Aniskovitch and Herbert H. Winkler

Rickettsia prowazekii sigma factor ⁷³ can be overexpressed in Escherichia coli and promotes RNA polymerase binding and transcription
Microbiology 1996 142: 901-906. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Herbert Schmidt, Christian Kernbach, and Helge Karch

Analysis of the EHEC hly operon and its location in the physical map of the large plasmid of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7
Microbiology 1996 142: 907-914. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Siv G. E. Andersson and Paul M. Sharp

Codon usage in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Microbiology 1996 142: 915-925. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Corinne Reverbel-Leroy, Anne Belaich, Alain Bernadac, Christian Gaudin, Jean-Pierre Belaich, and Chantal Tardif

Molecular study and overexpression of the Clostridium cellulolyticum celF cellulase gene in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1996 142: 1013-1023. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Peter J. G. Rauch, Ronald Palmen, Aurora A. Burds, Leslie A. Gregg-Jolly, J. Rob van der Zee, and Klaas J. Hellingwerf

The expression of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus recA gene increases in response to DNA damage independently of RecA and of development of competence for natural transformation
Microbiology 1996 142: 1025-1032. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Saranga P. Kidambi, Melissa G. Booth, Tyler A. Kokjohn, and Robert V. Miller

recA-dependence of the response of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to UVA and UVB irradiation
Microbiology 1996 142: 1033-1040. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Li-Fong Lee, Yi-Jiun Huang, and Carton W. Chen

Two classes of ethidium-bromide-resistant mutants of Streptomyces lividans 66
Microbiology 1996 142: 1041-1047. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Annick Ortalo-Magné, Åse B. Andersen, and Mamadou Daffé

The outermost capsular arabinomannans and other mannoconjugates of virulent and avirulent tubercle bacilli
Microbiology 1996 142: 927-935. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Vishnu Chaturvedi, Timothy Flynn, Walter G. Niehaus, and Brian Wong

Stress tolerance and pathogenic potential of a mannitol mutant of Cryptococcus neoformans
Microbiology 1996 142: 937-943. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Daniel Grenier

Degradation of host protease inhibitors and activation of plasminogen by proteolytic enzymes from Porphyromonas gingivalis and Treponema denticola
Microbiology 1996 142: 955-961. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

David S. Nichols and Nicholas J. Russell

Fatty acid adaptation in an Antarctic bacterium - changes in primer utilization
Microbiology 1996 142: 747-754. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Luc De Vuyst, Raf Callewaert, and Kurt Crabbé

Primary metabolite kinetics of bacteriocin biosynthesis by Lactobacillus amylovorus and evidence for stimulation of bacteriocin production under unfavourable growth conditions
Microbiology 1996 142: 817-827. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. D. Dubreuil, M. Jacques, D. Brochu, M. Frenette, and C. Vadeboncoeur

Surface location of HPr, a phosphocarrier of the phosphoenolpyruvate: sugar phosphotransferase system in Streptococcus suis
Microbiology 1996 142: 837-843. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steven G. Williams, Jacqueline A. Greenwood, and Colin W. Jones

Physiological and biochemical changes accompanying the loss of mucoidy by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 1996 142: 881-888. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hiroyuki Ohta, Atsushi Miyagi, Keijiro Kato, and Kazuhiro Fukui

The relationships between leukotoxin production, growth rate and the bicarbonate concentration in a toxin-production-variable strain of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
Microbiology 1996 142: 963-970. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS:

Paul R. Norris, Darren A. Clark, Jonathan P. Owen, and Sara Waterhouse

Characteristics of Sulfobacillus acidophilus sp. nov. and other moderately thermophilic mineral-sulphide-oxidizing bacteria
Microbiology 1996 142: 775-783. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Darren A. Clark and Paul R. Norris

Acidimicrobium ferrooxidans gen. nov., sp. nov.: mixed-culture ferrous iron oxidation with Sulfobacillus species
Microbiology 1996 142: 785-790. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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