SGM SPECIAL LECTURES:

Rudolf K. Thauer

Biochemistry of methanogenesis: a tribute to Marjory Stephenson:1998 Marjory Stephenson Prize Lecture
Microbiology 1998 144: 2377-2406. [Abstract] [PDF]  

MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

John R. W. Govan and Peter Vandamme

Aqricultural and medical microbiology: a time for bridging gaps
Microbiology 1998 144: 2373-2375. [PDF]  

Ramiro E. Rodriguez, Adriana R. Krapp, and Néstor Carrillo

The mvrA locus of Escherichia coli does not encode a ferredoxin-NADP⁺ reductase
Microbiology 1998 144: 2375-2376. [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Lucy M. Collinson, Minnie Rangarajan, and Michael A. Curtis

Altered expression and modification of proteases from an avirulent mutant of Porphyromonas gingivalis W50 (W50/BE1)
Microbiology 1998 144: 2487-2496. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Steven C. Gilbert, John Morton, Sheena Buchanan, Christopher Oldfield, and Andrew McRoberts

Isolation of a unique benzothiophene-desulphurizing bacterium, Gordona sp. strain 213E (NCIMB 40816), and characterization of the desulphurization pathway
Microbiology 1998 144: 2545-2553. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tom W. Young, Nicholas J. Kuhn, Albert Wadeson, Simon Ward, Dan Burges, and G Dunstan Cooke

Bacillus subtilis ORF yybQ encodes a manganese-dependent inorganic pyrophosphatase with distinctive properties: the first of a new class of soluble pyrophosphatase?
Microbiology 1998 144: 2563-2571. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frances M. Jackson, Louise Michaelson, Thomas C. M Fraser, A. Keith Stobart, and Gareth Griffiths

Biosynthesis of triacylglycerol in the filamentous fungus Mucor circinelloides
Microbiology 1998 144: 2639-2645. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS AND TRANSPORT:

Fabienne Bardou, Catherine Raynaud, Corinne Ramos, Marie Antoinette Lanéelle, and Gilbert Lanrelle

Mechanism of isoniazid uptake in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 1998 144: 2539-2544. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

Peter Brünker, Wolfgang Minas, Pauli T. Kallio, and James E. Baile

Genetic engineering of an industrial strain of Saccharopolyspora erythraea for stable expression of the Vitreoscilla haemoglobin gene (vhb)
Microbiology 1998 144: 2441-2448. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Ian Miskin, Glenn Rhodes, Kirsten Lawlor, Jon R. Saunders, and Roger W. Pickup

Bacteria in post-glacial freshwater sediments
Microbiology 1998 144: 2427-2439. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yuji Sekiguchi, Yoichi Kamagata, Kazuaki Syutsubo, Akiyoshi Ohashi, Hideki Harada, and Kazunori Nakamura

Phylogenetic diversity of mesophilic and thermophilic granular sludges determined by 16S rRNA gene analysis
Microbiology 1998 144: 2655-2665. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Hironobu Nakayama, Miho Izuta, Shigehisa Nagahashi, Emi Y. Sihta, Yasuko Sato, Toshikazu Yamazaki, Mikio Arisawa, and Kunio Kitada

A controllable gene-expression system for the pathogenic fungus Candida glabrata
Microbiology 1998 144: 2407-2415. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Saradee Warit, Richard M. Walmsley, and Lubomira I. Stateva

Cloning and sequencing of the Candida albicans homologue of SRB1/PSA1/VIG9, the essential gene encoding GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 1998 144: 2417-2426. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Stefan Bereswill, Uta Waidner, Stefan Odenbreit, Flavia Lichte, Frank Fassbinder, Günter Bode, and Manfred Kist

Structural, functional and mutational analysis of the pfr gene encoding a ferritin from Helicobacter pylori
Microbiology 1998 144: 2505-2516. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tetsuya lida, Kwon-Sam Park, Orasa Suthienkul, Junji Kozawa, Yoshiharu Yamaichi, Koichiro Yamamoto, and Takeshi Honda

Close proximity of the tdh, trh and ure genes on the chromosome of Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Microbiology 1998 144: 2517-2523. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sarah L. Hosking, Mary E. Deadman, E. Richard Moxon, John F. Peden, Nigel J. Saunders, and Nicola J. High

An in silico evaluation of Tn916 as a tool for generalized mutagenesis in Haemophilus influenzae Rd
Microbiology 1998 144: 2525-2530. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lam-Son Phan Tran, Lóránd Szabó, László Orosz, Tibor Sík, and András Holczinger

Construction of a single-copy integration vector and its use to study gene expression in Bacillus licheniformis
Microbiology 1998 144: 2573-2578. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Naoki Takaya, Daisuke Yamazaki, Hiroyuki Horiuchi, Akinori Ohta, and Masamichi Takagi

Intracellular chitinase gene from Rhizopus oligosporus: molecular cloning and characterization
Microbiology 1998 144: 2647-2654. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Annette Moter, Gregor Leist, Roland Rudolph, Kirstin Schrank, Bong-Kyu Choi, Michael Wagner, and Ulf B Göbel

Fluorescence in situ hybridization shows spatial distribution of as yet uncultured treponemes in biopsies from digital dermatitis lesions
Microbiology 1998 144: 2459-2467. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Pan F. Chan and Simon J. Foster

The role of environmental factors in the regulation of virulence-determinant expression in Staphylococcus aureus 8325-4
Microbiology 1998 144: 2469-2479. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jun Tamaoki, Atsushi Chiyotani, Etsuko Tagaya, Minako Araake, and Atsushi Nagai

Airway hyper-responsiveness to neurokinin A and bradykinin following Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection associated with reduced epithelial neutral endopeptidase
Microbiology 1998 144: 2481-2486. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Britta Ahlström and Lars Edebo

Hydrolysis of the soft amphiphilic antimicrobial agent tetradecyl betainate is retarded after binding to and killing Salmonella typhimurium
Microbiology 1998 144: 2497-2504. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Yvette M. Murley, Thomas D. Edlind, P Artur Plett, and John J. LiPuma

Cloning of the haemocin locus of Haemophilus influenzae type b and assessment of the role of haemocin in virulence
Microbiology 1998 144: 2531-2538. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Margit Görl, Jörg Sauer, Tina Baier, and Karl Forchhammer

Nitrogen-starvation-induced chlorosis in Synechococcus PCC 7942: adaptation to long-term survival
Microbiology 1998 144: 2449-2458. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jan R. van der Ploeg, Nicola J. Cummings, Thomas Leisinger, and Ian F. Connerton

Bacillus subtilis genes for the utilization of sulfur from aliphatic sulfonates
Microbiology 1998 144: 2555-2561. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Laura S. Frost and Jan Manchak

F^- phenocopies: characterization of expression of the F transfer region in stationary phase
Microbiology 1998 144: 2579-2587. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ilaria Mannazzu, Emanuela Guerra, Rosanna Strabbioli, Dario Pediconi, and Fabrizio Fatichenti

The vanadate-tolerant yeast Hansenula polymorpha undergoes cellular reorganization during growth in, and recovery from, the presence of vanadate
Microbiology 1998 144: 2589-2597. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sergio Encarnación, Jorge Calderón, Alan S. Gelbard, Arthur J. L Cooper, and Jaime Mora

Glutamine biosynthesis and the utilization of succinate and glutamine by Rhizobium etli and Sinorhizobium meliloti
Microbiology 1998 144: 2629-2638. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Ann Van de Broek, Mark Lambrecht, and Jos Vanderleyden

Bacterial chemotactic motility is important for the initiation of wheat root colonization by Azospirillum brasilense
Microbiology 1998 144: 2599-2606. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Kevin P O'Connell, Sandra J. Raffel, Barry J. Saville, and Jo Handelsman

Mutants of Rhizobium tropici strain CIAT899 that do not induce chlorosis in plants
Microbiology 1998 144: 2607-2617. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zerong You, Xuefeng Gao, Mei M. Ho, and Dulal Borthakur

A stomatin-like protein encoded by the slp gene of Rhizobium etli is required for nodulation competitiveness on the common bean
Microbiology 1998 144: 2619-2627. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION:

Karine Rolland, Nicole Lambert-Zechovsky, Bertrand Picard, and Erick Denamur

Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli strains are derived from distinct ancestral strains of E. coli
Microbiology 1998 144: 2667-2672. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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