MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David Lloyd and Giancarlo A. Biagini

Too much O₂?
Microbiology 1998 144: 1131. [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Peter Gacesa

Bacterial alginate biosynthesis - recent progress and future prospects
Microbiology 1998 144: 1133-1143. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ANTIGENS AND IMMUNITY:

Rama Rao Amara, S. Shanti, and Vijaya Satchidanandam

Characterization of novel immunodominant antigens of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 1998 144: 1197-1203. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Steffi Kolbe, Sabine Fischer, Ardina Becirevic, Petra Hinz, and Hildgund Schrempf

The Streptomyces reticuli -chitin-binding protein CHB2 and its gene
Microbiology 1998 144: 1291-1297. [PDF]  

Maria A. Papathanasopoulos, Gary A. Dykes, Anne-Marie Revol-Junelles, Antoine Delfour, Alexander von Holy, and John W. Hastings

Sequence and structural relationships of leucocins A-, B- and C-TA33a from Leuconostoc mesenteroides TA33a
Microbiology 1998 144: 1343-1348. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kohji Murakami, Kyoko Takeuchi, Teruhiko Beppu, and Sueharu Horinouch

Structure of asparagine-linked oligosaccharides of an aspartic proteinase from the zygomycete fungus Rhizomucor pusillus
Microbiology 1998 144: 1369-1374. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

Arjan Narbad and Michael J. Gasson

Metabolism of ferulic acid via vanillin using a novel CoA-dependent pathway in a newly-isolated strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens
Microbiology 1998 144: 1397-1405. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Chris White and Geoffrey M. Gadd

Accumulation and effects of cadmium on sulphate-reducing bacterial biofilms
Microbiology 1998 144: 1407-1415. [Abstract] [PDF]  

DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE:

Olivier Neyrolles, Catherine Brenner, Marie-Christine Prevost, Thierry Fontaine, Luc Montagnier, and Alain Blanchard

Identification of two glycosylated components of Mycoplasma penetrans: a surface-exposed capsular polysaccharide and a glycolipid fraction
Microbiology 1998 144: 1247-1255. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. Sipiczki, K. Takeo, M. Yamaguchi, S. Yoshida, and I. Miklos

Environmentally controlled dimorphic cycle in a fission yeast
Microbiology 1998 144: 1319-1330. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sonja Offner, Ulrike Ziese, Gerhard Wanner, Dieter Typke, and Felicitas Pfeifer

Structural characteristics of halobacterial gas vesicles
Microbiology 1998 144: 1331-1342. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Richard Frothingham and Winifred A Meeker-O'Connell

Genetic diversity in the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on variable numbers of tandem DNA repeats
Microbiology 1998 144: 1189-1196. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yen-Ling Yu, Kai-Wun Yeh, and Chan-Pin Lin

An antigenic protein gene of a phytoplasma associated with sweet potato witches’ broom
Microbiology 1998 144: 1257-1262. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Andrea Wilcks, Nicole Jayaswal, Didier Lereclus, and Lars Andrup

Characterization of plasmid pAW63, a second self-transmissible plasmid in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki HD73
Microbiology 1998 144: 1263-1270. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jutta Kalkus, Renate Menne, Michael Reh, and Hans G. Schlegel

The terminal structures of linear plasmids from Rhodococcus opacus
Microbiology 1998 144: 1271-1279. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Dagmara Jakimowicz, Jerzy Majka, Walter Messer, Christian Speck, Marisol Fernandez, M Cruz Martin, Jesus Sanchez, Florian Schauwecker, Ullrich Keller, Hildgund Schrempf, and Jolanta Zakrzewska-CzerwinAska

Structural elements of the Streptomyces oriC region and their interactions with the DnaA protein
Microbiology 1998 144: 1281-1290. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Amy L. Svitil and David L. Kirchman

A chitin-binding domain in a marine bacterial chitinase and other microbial chitinases: implications for the ecology and evolution of 1,4-β-glycanases
Microbiology 1998 144: 1299-1308. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sirinun Aemprapa and Peter A. Williams

Implications of the xylQ gene of TOL plasmid pWW102 for the evolution of aromatic catabolic pathways
Microbiology 1998 144: 1387-1396. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lorraine T. Stauffer and George V. Stauffer

Spacing and orientation requirements of GcvA-binding sites 3 and 2 and the Lrp-binding region for gcvT::lacZ expression in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1998 144: 1417-1422. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ken Takai, Yoshihiko Sako, and Aritsune Uchida

ppc, the gene for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Rhodothermus obamensis: cloning, sequencing and overexpression in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1998 144: 1423-1434. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ying Xu, Yuanfu Zhang, Ziyuan Liang, Mark Van de Casteele, Christianne Legrain, and Nicolas Glansdorff

Aspartate carbamoyltransferase from a psychrophilic deep-sea bacterium, Vibrio strain 2693: properties of the enzyme, genetic organization and synthesis in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1998 144: 1435-1441. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wei Liu and F. Marion Hulett

Comparison of PhoP binding to the tuaA promoter with PhoP binding to other Pho-regulon promoters establishes a Bacillus subtilis Pho core binding site
Microbiology 1998 144: 1443-1450. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Brendan W. Wren, Richard A. Stabler, Satya S. Das, Philip D. Butcher, Joseph A. Mangan, Jonathan D. Clarke, Nicola Casali, Tanya Parish, and Neil G. Stoker

Characterization of a haemolysin from Mycobacterium tuberculosis with homology to a virulence factor of Serpulina hyodysenteriae
Microbiology 1998 144: 1205-1211. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ruiting Lan and Peter R. Reeves

Recombination between rRNA operons created most of the ribotype variation observed in the seventh pandemic clone of Vibrio cholerae
Microbiology 1998 144: 1213-1221. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jeffrey D. Rogers, Elaine M. Haase, Alan E. Brown, Charles W. I Douglas, Justin P. Gwynn, and Frank A. Scannapieco

Identification and analysis of a gene (abpA) encoding a major amylase-binding protein in Streptococcus gordonii
Microbiology 1998 144: 1223-1233. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Yoshihisa Yamashita, Yuichi Tsukioka, Yoshio Nakano, Kiyotaka Tomihisa, Takahiko Oho, and Toshihiko Koga

Biological functions of UDP-glucose synthesis in Streptococcus mutans
Microbiology 1998 144: 1235-1245. [Abstract] [PDF]  

J. M. L. M Van Helvoort, P. G. Huls, N. O. E. Vischer, and C. L. Woldringh

Fused nucleoids resegregate faster than cell elongation in Escherichia coli pbpB(Ts) filaments after release from chloramphenicol inhibition
Microbiology 1998 144: 1309-1317. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Henryk Chmara, Slawomir Milewski, Ryszard Andruszkiewicz, Fiorenzo Mignini, and Edward Borowski

Antibacterial action of dipeptides containing an inhibitor of glucosamine-6-phosphate isomerase
Microbiology 1998 144: 1349-1358. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anna M. McLaughlan and Simon J. Foster

Molecular characterization of an autolytic amidase of Listeria monocytogenes EGD
Microbiology 1998 144: 1359-1367. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jörg Hummerjohann, Erika Küttel, Manfredo Quadroni, Jürgen Ragaller, Thomas Leisinger, and Michael A. Kertes

Regulation of the sulfate starvation response in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: role of cysteine biosynthetic intermediates
Microbiology 1998 144: 1375-1386. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eelko G ter Schure, Herman H. W Silljé, Edgar E. Vermeulen, Jan-Willem Kalhorn, Arie J. Verkleij, Johannes Boonstra, and C. Theo Verrips

Repression of nitrogen catabolic genes by ammonia and glutamine in nitrogen-limited continuous cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 1998 144: 1451-1462. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENOME ANALYSIS:

Líbia Zé-Zé, Rogério Tenreiro, Luisa Brito, Mário A. Santos, and Helena Paveia

Physical map of the genome of Oenococcus oeni PSU-1 and localization of genetic markers
Microbiology 1998 144: 1145-1156. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS:

Royston Goodacre, éadaoin M Timmins, Rebecca Burton, Naheed Kaderbhai, Andrew M. Woodward, Douglas B. Kell, and Paul J. Rooney

Rapid identification of urinary tract infection bacteria using hyperspectral whole-organism fingerprinting and artificial neural networks
Microbiology 1998 144: 1157-1170. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hans-Jürg Monstein, Mikael Quednau, Annika Samuelsson, Siv Ahrné, Barbro Isaksson, and Jon Jonasson

Division of the genus Enterococcus into species groups using PCR-based molecular typing methods
Microbiology 1998 144: 1171-1179. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lilian M. Mederos, JoséA Valdivia, Marco A. Sempere, and Pedro L Valero-Guillén

Analysis of lipids reveals differences between ‘Mycobacterium habana’ and Mycobacterium simiae
Microbiology 1998 144: 1181-1188. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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