MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Paul Rainey

Reviews in Microbiology – less is more
Microbiology 1999 145: 3003. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alicia Greated and Christopher M. Thomas

A pair of PCR primers for IncP-9 plasmids
Microbiology 1999 145: 3003-3004. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Ge Wang, Peter G. Boulton, Nora W. C. Chan, Monica M. Palcic, and Diane E. Taylor

Novel Helicobacter pylori 1,2-fucosyltransferase, a key enzyme in the synthesis of Lewis antigens
Microbiology 1999 145: 3245-3253. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jörg Mampel, Jürgen Ruff, Frank Junker, and Alasdair M. Cook

The oxygenase component of the2-aminobenzenesulfonate dioxygenase system from Alcaligenes sp. strain O-1
Microbiology 1999 145: 3255-3264. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christina Leutwein and Johann Heider

Anaerobic toluene-catabolic pathway in denitrifying Thauera aromatica: activation and ß-oxidation of the first intermediate, (R)-(+)-benzylsuccinate
Microbiology 1999 145: 3265-3271. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

George N. Marchenko, Natalia D. Marchenko, Yuriy D. Tsygankov, and Andrei Y. Chistoserdov

Organization of threonine biosynthesis genes from the obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatus
Microbiology 1999 145: 3273-3282. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRIGENDUM:

Amir H. Noormohammadi, Philip F. Markham, Jillian F. Markham, Kevin G. Whithear, and Glenn F. Browning

Mycoplasma synoviae surface protein MSPB as a recombinant antigen in an indirect ELISA
Microbiology 1999 145: 3317. [Full Text] [PDF]  

DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE:

Alma L. Guerrero-Barrera, Mireya de la Garza, Ricardo Mondragón, Claudia García-Cuéllar, and Magdalena Segura-Nieto

Actin-related proteins in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and their interactions with actin-binding proteins
Microbiology 1999 145: 3235-3244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Hidetoshi Urakawa, Kumiko Kita-Tsukamoto, and Kouichi Ohwada

Microbial diversity in marine sediments from Sagami Bay and Tokyo Bay, Japan, as determined by 16S rRNA gene analysis
Microbiology 1999 145: 3305-3315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Michael P. Jennings, Yogitha N. Srikhanta, E. Richard Moxon, Marco Kramer, Jan T. Poolman, Betsy Kuipers, and Peter van der Ley

The genetic basis of the phase variation repertoire of lipopolysaccharide immunotypes in Neisseria meningitidis
Microbiology 1999 145: 3013-3021. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toshiko Yamada-Okabe, Toshiyuki Mio, Yuji Kashima, Mitsuaki Matsui, Mikio Arisawa, and Hisafumi Yamada-Okabe

The Candida albicans gene for mRNA 5'-cap methyltransferase: identification of additional residues essential for catalysis
Microbiology 1999 145: 3023-3033. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael P. Spector, Francisco Garcia del Portillo, Shawn M. D. Bearson, Atif Mahmud, Maureen Magut, B. Brett Finlay, Gordon Dougan, John W. Foster, and Mark J. Pallen

The rpoS-dependent starvation-stress response locus stiA encodes a nitrate reductase (narZYWV) required for carbon-starvation-inducible thermotolerance and acid tolerance in Salmonella typhimurium
Microbiology 1999 145: 3035-3045. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Dudley Page and Stuart J. Ferguson

Mutational analysis of the Paracoccus denitrificans c-type cytochrome biosynthetic genes ccmABCDG: disruption of ccmC has distinct effects suggesting a role for CcmC independent of CcmAB
Microbiology 1999 145: 3047-3057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Genetic and functional analysis of genes required for the post-modification of the polyketide antibiotic TA of Myxococcus xanthus
Microbiology 1999 145: 3059-3067. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yue Tang and John R. Guest

Direct evidence for mRNA binding and post-transcriptional regulation by Escherichia coli aconitases
Microbiology 1999 145: 3069-3079. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mingli Hsieh, Hsiu-Mei Hsu, Shiow-Fen Hwang, Feng-Chen Wen, Ju-Shan Yu, Chun-Chiang Wen, and Chuan Li

The hydrophobic heptad repeat in Region III of Escherichia coli transcription factor sigma 54 is essential for core RNA polymerase binding
Microbiology 1999 145: 3081-3088. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Uta Binnie, Kenny Wong, Sean McAteer, and Millicent Masters

Absence of RNase III alters the pathway by which RNAI, the antisense inhibitor of ColE1 replication, decays
Microbiology 1999 145: 3089-3100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathan R. Halstead, Philip E. Vercoe, Harry J. Gilbert, Keith Davidson, and Geoffrey P. Hazlewood

A family 26 mannanase produced by Clostridium thermocellum as a component of the cellulosome contains a domain which is conserved in mannanases from anaerobic fungi
Microbiology 1999 145: 3101-3108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

E. Rodríguez and H. Gramajo

Genetic and biochemical characterization of the and ß components of a propionyl-CoA carboxylase complex of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology 1999 145: 3109-3119. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Angela Valbuzzi,, Eugenio Ferrari, and Alessandra M. Albertini

A novel member of the subtilisin-like protease family from Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 1999 145: 3121-3127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ole A. Økstad, Myriam Gominet, Bénédicte Purnelle, Matthias Rose, Didier Lereclus, and Anne-Brit Kolstø

Sequence analysis of three Bacillus cereus loci carrying PlcR-regulated genes encoding degradative enzymes and enterotoxin
Microbiology 1999 145: 3129-3138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toril Lindbäck, Ole Andreas Økstad, Anne-Lise Rishovd, and Anne-Brit Kolstø

Insertional inactivation of hblC encoding the L₂ component of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 haemolysin BL strongly reduces enterotoxigenic activity, but not the haemolytic activity against human erythrocytes
Microbiology 1999 145: 3139-3146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joachim Schick, Beate Weber, Jürgen R. Klein, and Bernhard Henrich

PepR1, a CcpA-like transcription regulator of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis
Microbiology 1999 145: 3147-3154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beatriz Martínez, María Fernández, Juan E. Suárez, and Ana Rodríguez

Synthesis of lactococcin 972, a bacteriocin produced by Lactococcus lactis IPLA 972, depends on the expression of a plasmid-encoded bicistronic operon
Microbiology 1999 145: 3155-3161. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiaoling Puyang, Karen Lee, Corey Pawlichuk, and Dennis Y. Kunimoto

IS1626, a new IS900-related Mycobacterium avium insertion sequence
Microbiology 1999 145: 3163-3168. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sue Wall, Kiran Ghanekar, Johnjoe McFadden, and Jeremy W. Dale

Context-sensitive transposition of IS6110 in mycobacteria
Microbiology 1999 145: 3169-3176. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Sarah L. Hosking, Jane E. Craig, and Nicola J. High

Phase variation of lic1A, lic2A and lic3A in colonization of the nasopharynx, bloodstream and cerebrospinal fluid by Haemophilus influenzae type b
Microbiology 1999 145: 3005-3011. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Koen A. L. De Smet, Karen E. Kempsell, Alex Gallagher, Ken Duncan, and Douglas B. Young

Alteration of a single amino acid residue reverses fosfomycin resistance of recombinant MurA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 1999 145: 3177-3184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine D. M. Müller-Graf, Adrian M. Whatmore, Samantha J. King, Krzysztof Trzcinski, A. Paul Pickerill, Neil Doherty, John Paul, David Griffiths, Derek Crook, and Christopher G. Dowson

Population biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from oropharyngeal carriage and invasive disease
Microbiology 1999 145: 3283-3293. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xin-He Lai, Su-Yan Wang, and Bernt Eric Uhlin

Expression of cytotoxicity by potential pathogens in the standard Escherichia coli collection of reference (ECOR) strains
Microbiology 1999 145: 3295-3303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Jeroen A. Wouters, Boyan Jeynov, Frank M. Rombouts, Willem M. de Vos, Oscar P. Kuipers, and Tjakko Abee

Analysis of the role of 7 kDa cold-shock proteins of Lactococcus lactis MG1363 in cryoprotection
Microbiology 1999 145: 3185-3194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isabelle Martin-Verstraete, Anne Galinier, Emmanuelle Darbon, Yves Quentin, Marie-Claude Kilhoffer, Véronique Charrier, Jacques Haiech, Georges Rapoport, and Josef Deutscher

The Q15H mutation enables Crh, a Bacillus subtilis HPr-like protein, to carry out some regulatory HPr functions, but does not make it an effective phosphocarrier for sugar transport
Microbiology 1999 145: 3195-3204. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emmanuelle Darbon, Kiyoshi Ito, Hua-Shan Huang, Tadashi Yoshimoto, Sandrine Poncet, and Josef Deutscher

Glycerol transport and phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent enzyme I- and HPr-catalysed phosphorylation of glycerol kinase in Thermus flavus
Microbiology 1999 145: 3205-3212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcos A. Vannier-Santos, Andrea Martiny, Ulysses Lins, Julio A. Urbina, Valéria M. Borges, and Wanderley de Souza

Impairment of sterol biosynthesis leads to phosphorus and calcium accumulation in Leishmania acidocalcisomes
Microbiology 1999 145: 3213-3220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard Nass and Rajini Rao

The yeast endosomal Na⁺/H⁺ exchanger, Nhx1, confers osmotolerance following acute hypertonic shock
Microbiology 1999 145: 3221-3228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria Antônia Noventa-Jordão, Ricardo M. Couto, Maria Helena S. Goldman, Jesus Aguirre, Suresh Iyer, Allan Caplan, Hector F. Terenzi, and Gustavo H. Goldman

Catalase activity is necessary for heat-shock recovery in Aspergillus nidulans germlings
Microbiology 1999 145: 3229-3234. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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