SGM SPECIAL LECTURES:

Keith F. Chater

Taking a genetic scalpel to the Streptomyces colony
Microbiology 1998 144: 1465-1478. [Abstract] [PDF]  

MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Jonathan Reizer, Aiala Reizer, Mamoru Yamada, and Milton H. Saier, Jr

The glucitol permease of Escherichia coli: a tripartite permease of the phosphotransferase system
Microbiology 1998 144: 1463-1464. [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS AND TRANSPORT:

Nien-Tai Hu, Ming-Ni Hung, David Chanhan Chen, and Rong-Tzong Tsai

Insertion mutagenesis of XpsD, an outer-membrane protein involved in extracellular protein secretion in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris
Microbiology 1998 144: 1479-1486. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

José-Antonio Bengoechea, Buko Lindner, Ulrich Seydel, Díaz Ramón, and Moriyón Ignacio

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis are more resistant to bactericidal cationic peptides than Yersinia enterocolitica
Microbiology 1998 144: 1509-1515. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jose-Antonio Bengoechea, Klaus Brandenburg, Ulrich Seydel, Ramón Díaz, and Ignacio Moriyón

Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis show increased outer membrane permeability to hydrophobic agents which correlates with lipopolysaccharide acyl-chain fluidity
Microbiology 1998 144: 1517-1526. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Willem M. R. van den Akker

Lipopolysaccharide expression within the genus Bordetella: influence of temperature and phase variation
Microbiology 1998 144: 1527-1535. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Romilio T. Espejo, Carmen Gloria Feijóo, Jaime Romero, and Mónica Vásquez

PAGE analysis of the heteroduplexes formed between PCR-amplified 16S rRNA genes: estimation of sequence similarity and rDNA complexity
Microbiology 1998 144: 1611-1617. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Matthew T. G. Holden, Simon J. McGowan, Barrie W. Bycroft, Gordon S. A. B. Stewart, Paul Williams, and George P. C. Salmond

Cryptic carbapenem antibiotic production genes are widespread in Erwinia carotovora: facile trans activation by the carR transcriptional regulator
Microbiology 1998 144: 1495-1508. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas E. Hanson, Karl Forchhammer, Nicole Tandeau de Marsac, and John C. Meeks

Characterization of the glnB gene product of Nostoc punctiforme strain ATCC 29133: glnB or the P_II protein may be essential
Microbiology 1998 144: 1537-1547. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anthony J. Chubb, Zenda L. Woodman, Fernanda M. P. R. da Silva Tatley, Hans Jürgen Hoffmann, Renate R. Scholle, and Mario R. W. Ehlers

Identification of Mycobacterium tuberculosis signal sequences that direct the export of a leaderless β-lactamase gene product in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1998 144: 1619-1629. [Abstract] [PDF]  

H. Heuel, A. Shakeri-Garakani, S. Turgut, and J. W. Lengeler

Genes for D-arabinitol and ribitol catabolism from Klebsiella pneumoniae
Microbiology 1998 144: 1631-1639. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yossi Paitan, Neil Boulton, Eliora Z. Ron, Eugene Rosenberg, and Elisha Orr

Molecular analysis of the DNA gyrB gene from Myxococcus xanthus
Microbiology 1998 144: 1641-1647. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Farnaz Ghané and Dennis W. Grogan

Chromosomal marker exchange in the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: physiological and cellular aspects
Microbiology 1998 144: 1649-1657. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Garth L. Abrahams and Valerie R. Abratt

The NADH-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase enzyme of Bacteroides fragilis Bf1 is induced by peptides in the growth medium
Microbiology 1998 144: 1659-1667. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Adrián A. Vojnov, Angeles Zorreguieta, J. Maxwell Dow, Michael J. Daniels, and Marcelo A. Dankert

Evidence for a role for the gumB and gumC gene products in the formation of xanthan from its pentasaccharide repeating unit by Xanthomonas campestris
Microbiology 1998 144: 1487-1493. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Shanthy Sundaram, Haydar Karakaya, David J. Scanlan, and Nicholas H. Mann

Multiple oligomieric forms of glucoses-6-phosphate dehydrogenase in cyanobacteria and the role of OpeA in the assembly process
Microbiology 1998 144: 1549-1556. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Anuradha Alahari and Shree K. Apte

Pleiotropic effects of potassium deficiency in a heterocystous, nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium, Anabaena torulosa
Microbiology 1998 144: 1557-1563. [Abstract] [PDF]  

L. J. Yanke, H. D. Bae, L. B. Selinger, and K. J. Cheng

Phytase activity of anaerobic ruminal bacteria
Microbiology 1998 144: 1565-1573. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Gemma M. Escott, Veronica M. Hearn, and David J. Adams

Inducible chitinolytic system of Aspergillus fumigatus
Microbiology 1998 144: 1575-1581. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nada Slakeski, Peter S. Bhogal, Neil M. O'Brien-Simpson, and Eric C. Reynolds

Characterization of a second cell-associated Arg-specific cysteine proteinase of Porphyromonas gingivals and identification of an adhesin-binding motif involved in association of the prtR and prtK proteinases and adhesins into large complexes
Microbiology 1998 144: 1583-1892. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wouter A. Duetz, Bea Wind, Johan G. van Andel, Michael R. Barnes, Peter A. Williams, and Michiel Rutgers

Biodegradation kinetics of toluene, m-xylene, p-xylene and their intermediates through the upper TOL pathway in Pseudomonas putida (pWWO)
Microbiology 1998 144: 1669-1675. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Atsushi Watanabe, Kazuyoshi Yano, Kazunori Ikebukuro, and Isao Karube

Cyanide hydrolysis in a cyanide-degrading bacterium, Pseudomonas stutzeri AK61, by cyanidase
Microbiology 1998 144: 1677-1682. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Eva Albers, Lena Gustafsson, Claes Niklasson, and Gunnar Lidén

Distribution of ¹⁴C-labelleed carbon from glucose and glutamate during anaerobic growth of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 1998 144: 1683-1690. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hui Dong and William Courchesne

A novel quantitative mating assay for the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans provides insight into signalling pathways responding to nutrients and temperature
Microbiology 1998 144: 1691-1697. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENOME ANALYSIS:

Anil Wipat, S. Caroline Brignell, B. Jane Guy, Matthias Rose, Peter T. Emmerson, and Colin R. Harwood

The yvsA-yvqA (293°-289°) region of the Bacillus subtilis chromosome containing genes involved in metal ion uptake and a putative sigma factor
Microbiology 1998 144: 1593-1600. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS:

John P. Bowman, Sharee A. McCammon, Tom Lewis, Jennifer H. Skerratt, Janelle L. Brown, David S. Nichols, and Tom A. McMeekin

Psychroflexus torquis gen. nov., sp. nov. a psychrophilic species from Antarctic sea ice, and reclassification of Flavobacterium gondwanense (Dobson et al. 1993) as Psychroflexus gondwanense gen. nov., comb. nov.
Microbiology 1998 144: 1601-1609. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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