MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

J. Reizer, A. Reizer, and M. H. Saier, Jr

Is the ribulose monophosphate pathway widely distributed in bacteria?
Microbiology 1997 143: 2519-2520. [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Tsunenobu Tamura, Joseph E. Baggott, Kelley E. Johnston, Qing-Jun Li, and Asok C. Antony

The form of folate affects the mechanisms of methotrexate resistance in Enterococcus faecium
Microbiology 1997 143: 2639-2646. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Rachael Metheringham and Jeff A. Cole

A reassessment of the genetic determinants, the effect of growth conditions and the availability of an electron donor on the nitrosating activity of Escherichia coli K-12
Microbiology 1997 143: 2647-2656. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS AND TRANSPORT:

Ian T. Paulsen, Alison M. Beness, and Milton H. Saier, Jr

Computer-based analyses of the protein constituents of transport systems catalysing export of complex carbohydrates in bacteria
Microbiology 1997 143: 2685-2699. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

Justin D. Holmes, David J. Richardson, Shaheen Saed, Richard Evans-Gowing, David A. Russell, and John R. Sodeau

Cadmium-specific formation of metal sulfide ‘Q-particles’ by Klebsiella pneumoniae
Microbiology 1997 143: 2521-2530. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Haruko Takeyama, Daisuke Takeda, Kazunaga Yazawa, Akiko Yamada, and Tadashi Matsunaga

Expression of the eicosapentaenoic acid synthesis gene cluster from Shewanella sp. in a transgenic marine cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp.
Microbiology 1997 143: 2725-2731. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

G. Ya. Kholodii, O. V. Yurieva, Zh. M. Gorlenko, S. Z. Mindlin, I. A. Bass, O. L. Lomovskay, A. V. Kopteva, and V. G. Nikiforov

Tn5041: a chimeric mercury resistance transposon closely related to the toluene degradative transposon Tn4651
Microbiology 1997 143: 2549-2556. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marc B. Habash, Henny C. van der Mei, Gregor Reid, and Henk J. Busscher

Adhesion of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to silicone rubber in a parallel plate flow chambe in the absence and presence of nutrient broth
Microbiology 1997 143: 2569-2574. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

M. Schmid-Appert, K. Zoller, H. Traber, S. Vuilleumier, and T. Leisinger

Association of newly discovered IS elements with the dichloromethane utilization genes of methylotrophic bacteria
Microbiology 1997 143: 2557-2567. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Brian P. Dalrymple, Daisy H. Cybinski, Ingrid Layton, Christopher S. McSweeney, Gang-Ping Xue, Yolande J. Swadling, and J. Brian Lowry

Three Neocallimastix patriciarum esterases associated with the degradation of complex polysaccharides are members of a new family of hydrolases
Microbiology 1997 143: 2605-2614. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Encarnación Fermiñán and Angel Domínguez

The KIPHO5 gene encoding a repressible acid phosphatase in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis: cloning, sequencing and transcriptional analysis of the gene, and purification and properties of the enzyme
Microbiology 1997 143: 2615-2625. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Graça Ribeiro, Miguel Viveiros, H. L. David, and João V. Costa

Mycobacteriophage D29 contains an integration system similar to that of the temperate mycobacteriophage L5
Microbiology 1997 143: 2701-2708. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pascal Hols, Philippe Slos, Philippe Dutot, Jacqueline Reymund, Paul Chabot, Brigitte Delplace, Jean Delcour, and Annick Mercenier

Efficient secretion of the model antigen M6-gp41E in Lactobacillus plantarum NCIMB 8826
Microbiology 1997 143: 2733-2741. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sandrine Poncet, Etienne Dervyn, André Klier, and Georges Rapoport

SpoOA represses transcription of the cry toxin genes in Bacillus thuringiensis
Microbiology 1997 143: 2743-2751. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. Arturo Londoño-Vallejo

Mutational analysis of the early forespore/mother-cell signalling pathway in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 1997 143: 2753-2761. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jo-Anne Hutsul and Elizabeth Worobec

Molecular characterization of the Serratia marcescens OmpF porin, and analysis of S. marcescens OmpF and OmpC osmoregulation
Microbiology 1997 143: 2797-2806. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Miguel A. Ramírez-Romero, Patricia Bustos, Lourdes Girard, Oscar Rodríguez, Miguel A. Cevallos, and Guillermo Dávila

Sequence, localization and characteristics of the replicator region of the symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium etli
Microbiology 1997 143: 2825-2831. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chew Chieng Yeo, Jill Maelan Tham, Melvyn Wee-Ching Yap, and Chit Laa Poh

Group II intron from Pseudomonas alcaligenes NCIB 9867 (P25X): entrapment in plasmid RP4 and sequence analysis
Microbiology 1997 143: 2833-2840. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

David A. Haake, Theresa A. Summers, Adam M. McCoy, and William Schwartzman

Heat shock response and groEL sequence of Bartonella henselae and Bartonella quintana
Microbiology 1997 143: 2807-2815. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Rikizo Aono, Masahiro Ito, and Koki Horikoshi

Measurement of cytoplasmic pH of the alkaliphile Bacillus lentus C-125 with a fluorescent pH probe
Microbiology 1997 143: 2531-2536. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Linda V. Thomas, Julian W. T. Wimpenny, and Gary C. Barker

Spatial interactions between subsurface bacterial colonies in a model system: a territory model describing the inhibition of Listeria monocytogenes by a nisin-producing lactic acid bacterium
Microbiology 1997 143: 2575-2582. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Rosén, Klaas Sjollema, Marten Veenhuis, and Anders Tunlid

A cytoplasmic lectin produced by the fungus Arthrobotrys oligospora functions as a storage protein during saprophytic and parasitic growth
Microbiology 1997 143: 2593-2604. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Marion Crauwels, Monica C. V. Donaton, Maria Beatriz Pernambuco, Joris Winderickx, Johannes H. de Winde, and Johan M. Thevelein

The Sch9 protein kinase in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae controls cAPK activity and is required for nitrogen activation of the fermentable-growth-medium-induced (FGM) pathway
Microbiology 1997 143: 2627-2637. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hafid Abaibou, Gérard Giordano, and Marie-Andrée Mandrand-Berthelot

Suppression of Escherichia coli formate hydrogenlyase activity by trimethylamine N-oxide is due to drainage of the inducer formate
Microbiology 1997 143: 2657-2664. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Inés Contreras, Cecilia S. Toro, Gonzalo Troncoso, and Guido C. Mora

Salmonella typhi mutants defective in anaerobic respiration are impaired in their ability to replicate within epithelial cells
Microbiology 1997 143: 2665-2672. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Navtej S. Juty, Farhad Moshiri, Mike Merrick, Christopher Anthony, and Susan Hill

The Klebsiella pneumoniae cytochrome bd’ terminal oxidase complex and its role in microaerobic nitrogen fixation
Microbiology 1997 143: 2673-2683. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sung Gyun Kang and Kye Joon Lee

Kinetic analysis of morphological differentiation and protease production in Streptomyces albidoflavus SMF301
Microbiology 1997 143: 2709-2714. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Noriko Ando, Kenji Ueda, and Sueharu Horinouchi

A Streptomyces griseus gene (sgaA) suppresses the growth disturbance caused by high osmolality and a high concentration of A-factor during early growth
Microbiology 1997 143: 2715-2723. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Robert H. Proctor, Thomas M. Hohn, and Susan P. McCormick

Restoration of wild-type virulence to Tri5 disruption mutants of Gibberella zeae via gene reversion and mutant complementation
Microbiology 1997 143: 2583-2591. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yiu-Kwok Chan, Wayne A. McCormic, and Robert J. Watson

A new nos gene downstream from nosDFY is essential for dissimilatory reduction of nitrous oxide by Rhizobium (Sinorhizobium) meliloti
Microbiology 1997 143: 2817-2824. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENOME ANALYSIS:

Hongtu Liu, Koki Haga, Kenji Yasumoto, Yukio Ohashi, Hirofumi Yoshikawa, and Hideo Takahashi

Sequence and analysis of a 31 kb segment of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome in the area of the rrnH and rrnG operons
Microbiology 1997 143: 2763-2767. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bauke Oudega, Gregory Koningstein, Luísa Rodrigues, Maria de Sales Ramon, Helmut Hilbert, Andreas Düsterhöft, Thomas M. Pohl, and Thomas Weitzenegger

Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis genome: cloning and nucleotide sequence of a 62 kb region between 275° (rrnB) and 284° (pai)
Microbiology 1997 143: 2769-2774. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Miyuki Kumano, Atsuo Tamakoshi, and Kunio Yamane

A 32 kb nucleotide sequence from the region of the lincomycin-resistance gene (22°-25°) of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome and identification of the site of the lin-2 mutation
Microbiology 1997 143: 2775-2782. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jan O. Andersson and Siv G. E. Andersson

Genomic rearrangements during evolution of the obligate intracellular parasite Rickettsia prowazekii as inferred from an analysis of 52015 bp nucleotide sequence
Microbiology 1997 143: 2783-2795. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS:

Catherine Léonard, Yahua Chen, and Jacques Mahillon

Diversity and differential distribution of IS231, IS232 and IS240 among Bacillus cereus, Bacillus thuringiensis and Bacillus mycoides
Microbiology 1997 143: 2537-2547. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Robert L. Davies, Scott Arkinsaw, and Robert K. Selander

Genetic relationships among Pasteurella trehalosi isolates based on multilocus enzyme electrophoresis
Microbiology 1997 143: 2841-2849. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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