MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Jing-Yan Li, Birgit Arnold-Schulz Gahmen, and Eduard Kellenberger

Histones and histone-like DNA-binding proteins: correlations between structural differences, properties and functions
Microbiology 1999 145: 1-2. [PDF]  

Volker Gürtler and Barrie C. Mayall

rDNA spacer rearrangements and concerted evolution
Microbiology 1999 145: 2-3. [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

D. E. Rawlings, H. Tributsch, and G. S. Hansford

Reasons why ‘Leptospirillum’-like species rather than Thiobacillus ferrooxidans are the dominant iron-oxidizing bacteria in many commercial processes for the biooxidation of pyrite and related ores
Microbiology 1999 145: 5-13. [PDF]  

ANTIGENS AND IMMUNITY:

F. R. Brennan, T. D. Jones, L. B. Gilleland, T. Bellaby, F. Xu, P. C. North, A. Thompson, J. Staczek, T. Lin, J. E. Johnson, W. D. O. Hamilton, and H. E. Gilleland, Jr

Pseudomonas aeruginosa outer-membrane protein F epitopes are highly immunogenic in mice when expressed on a plant virus
Microbiology 1999 145: 211-220. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Elizabeth A. Somner, Solabomi A. Ogun, Katharine A. Sinha, Lilian M. Spencer Valero, Jeong Jin Lee, Julia A. Harrison, Anthony A. Holder, Carlos E. Hormaeche, and Anjam C. M. Khan

Expression of disulphide-bridge-dependent conformational epitopes and immunogenicity of the carboxy-terminal 19 kDa domain of Plasmodium yoelii merozoite surface protein-1 in live attenuated Salmonella vaccine strains
Microbiology 1999 145: 221-229. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Stephen Tate and Howard Dalton

A low-molecular-mass protein from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) is responsible for the regulation of formaldehyde dehydrogenase activity in vitro
Microbiology 1999 145: 159-167. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Zusheng S. Li, Terry J. Beveridge, Joanna Betts, and Anthony J. Clarke

Partial characterization of a major autolysin from Mycobacterium phlei
Microbiology 1999 145: 169-176. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Bernard Overdijk, Gé J. Van Steijn, and Frank C. Odds

Distribution of chitinase in guinea pig tissues and increases in levels of this enzyme after systemic infection with Aspergillus fumigatus
Microbiology 1999 145: 259-269. [Abstract] [PDF]  

M. Fätima Baltazar, F. Mark Dickinson, and Colin Ratledge

Oxidation of medium-chain acyl-CoA esters by extracts of Aspergillus niger: enzymology and characterization of intermediates by HPLC
Microbiology 1999 145: 271-278. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

Silvia Restrepo, Myriam Duque, Joe Tohme, and Valérie Verdier

AFLP fingerprinting: an efficient technique for detecting genetic variation of Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. manihotis
Microbiology 1999 145: 107-114. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Mei-Shiuan Yu and Chia-Yin Lee

Expression and characterization of the prtV gene encoding a collagenase from Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1999 145: 143-150. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Michael P. Spector, Concetta C. DiRusso, Mark J. Pallen, Francisco Garcia del Portillo, Gordon Dougan, and B. Brett Finlay

The medium-/long-chain fatty acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (fadF) gene of Salmonella typhimurium is a phase 1 starvation-stress response (SSR) locus
Microbiology 1999 145: 15-31. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Juan P. Luna-Arias, Rosaura Hernandez-Rivas, Guadalupe de Dios-Bravo, Job Garcia, Leobardo Mendoza, and Esther Orozco

The TATA-box binding protein of Entamoeba histolytica: cloning of the gene and location of the protein by immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy
Microbiology 1999 145: 33-40. [Abstract] [PDF]  

William T. Self, Amy M. Grunden, Adnan Hasona, and K. T. Shanmugam

Transcriptional regulation of molybdoenzyme synthesis in Escherichia coli in response to molybdenum: ModE-molybdate, a repressor of the modABCD (molybdate transport) operon is a secondary transcriptional activator for the hyc and nar operons
Microbiology 1999 145: 41-55. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Philippe Margot, Marco Pagni, and Dimitri Karamata

Bacillus subtilis 168 gene lytF encodes a -D-glutamate-meso-diaminopimelate muropeptidase expressed by the alternative vegetative sigma factor, ^D
Microbiology 1999 145: 57-65. [Abstract] [PDF]  

I. M. Solovieva, R. A. Kreneva, D. J. Leak, and D. A. Perumov

The ribR gene encodes a monofunctional riboflavin kinase which is involved in regulation of the Bacillus subtilis riboflavin operon
Microbiology 1999 145: 67-73. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Catherine Madzak, Sylvie Blanchin-Roland, Ricardo R. Cordero Otero, and Claude Gaillardin

Functional analysis of upstream regulating regions from the Yarrowia lipolytica XPR2 promoter
Microbiology 1999 145: 75-87. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Frank L. Thies, Andreas Weishaupt, Helge Karch, Hans-Peter Hartung, and Gerhard Giegerich

Cloning, sequencing and molecular analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni groESL bicistronic operon
Microbiology 1999 145: 89-98. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Henrik Christensen, Kirsten Jørgensen, and John Elmerdahl Olsen

Differentiation of Campylobacter coli and C. jejuni by length and DNA sequence of the 16S-23S rRNA internal spacer region
Microbiology 1999 145: 99-105. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Thomas Haverkamp and Jens D. Schwenn

Structure and function of a cysBJIH gene cluster in the purple sulphur bacterium Thiocapsa roseopersicina
Microbiology 1999 145: 115-125. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tadhg O'Sullivan, Douwe van Sinderen, and Gerald Fitzgerald

Structural and functional analysis of pCI65st, a 6·5 kb plasmid from Streptococcus thermophilus NDI-6
Microbiology 1999 145: 127-134. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Lihong Zhang, Karin Jacobsson, Katrin Ström, Martin Lindberg, and Lars Frykberg

Staphylococcus aureus expresses a cell surface protein that binds both IgG and β₂-glycoprotein I
Microbiology 1999 145: 177-183. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ian J. Seymour and Peter W. Piper

Stress induction of HSP30, the plasma membrane heat shock protein gene of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, appears not to use known stress-regulated transcription factors
Microbiology 1999 145: 231-239. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Tomoko Iwaki, Youichi Tamai, and Yasuo Watanabe

Two putative MAP kinase genes, ZrHOG1 and ZrHOG2, cloned from the salt-tolerant yeast Zygosaccharomyces rouxii are functionally homologous to the Saccharomyces cerevisiae HOG1 gene
Microbiology 1999 145: 241-248. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Helene Martin, Adilia Dagkessamanskaia, Galina Satchanska, Nathalie Dallies, and Jean François

KNR4, a suppressor of Saccharomyces cerevisiae cwh mutants, is involved in the transcriptional control of chitin synthase genes
Microbiology 1999 145: 249-258. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENOMICS:

D. L. Arnold, J. Brown, R. W. Jackson, and A. Vivian

A dispensable region of the chromosome which is associated with an avirulence gene in Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi
Microbiology 1999 145: 135-141. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Hui Zhao, Xin Li, David E. Johnson, and Harry L. T. Mobley

Identification of protease and rpoN-associated genes of uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis by negative selection in a mouse model of ascending urinary tract infection
Microbiology 1999 145: 185-195. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James W. LillardJr, Scott W. Bearden, Jacqueline D. Fetherston, and Robert D. Perry

The haemin storage (Hms⁺) phenotype of Yersinia pestis is not essential for the pathogenesis of bubonic plague in mammals
Microbiology 1999 145: 197-209. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Narito Asanuma, Miwa Iwamoto, and Tsuneo Hino

Structure and transcriptional regulation of the gene encoding pyruvate formate-lyase of a ruminal bacterium, Streptococcus bovis
Microbiology 1999 145: 151-157. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS:

Guidelines for Authors
Microbiology 1999 145: v-x. [PDF]  

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