MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

J. Daniel Dubreuil

Escherichia coli STb toxin and prostaglandin production
Microbiology 1999 145: 1507-1508. [PDF]  

ANTIGENS AND IMMUNITY:

Robert B. Ashman, Alma Fulurija, and John M. Papadimitriou

Both CD4⁺ and CD8⁺ lymphocytes reduce the severity of tissue lesions in murine systemic candidiasis, and CD4⁺ cells also demonstrate strain-specific immunopathological effects
Microbiology 1999 145: 1631-1640. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Christina Schäffer, Hanspeter Kählig, Rudolf Christian, Gerhard Schulz, Sonja Zayni, and Paul Messner

The diacetamidodideoxyuronic-acid-containing glycan chain of Bacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a represents the secondary cell-wall polymer of wild-type B. stearothermophilus strains
Microbiology 1999 145: 1575-1583. [Abstract] [PDF]  

John P. H. Reade, Lisa J. Dougherty, Lyndon J. Rogers, and John R. Gallon

Synthesis and proteolytic degradation of nitrogenase in cultures of the unicellular cyanobacterium Gloeothece strain ATCC 27152
Microbiology 1999 145: 1749-1758. [Abstract] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS AND TRANSPORT:

Martha L. Contreras, J. Edgardo Escamilla, I. Patricia Del Arenal, J. R. Dávila, Rita D'mello, and Robert K. Poole

An unusual cytochrome o'-type cytochrome c oxidase in a Bacillus cereus cytochrome a₃ mutant has a very high affinity for oxygen
Microbiology 1999 145: 1563-1573. [Abstract] [PDF]  

DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE:

Gary J. Schoenhals and Robert M. Macnab

FliL is a membrane-associated component of the flagellar basal body of Salmonella
Microbiology 1999 145: 1769-1775. [Abstract] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Svenja Meyer, Ralf Moser, Alexander Neef, Ulf Stahl, and Peter Kämpfer

Differential detection of key enzymes of polyaromatic-hydrocarbon-degrading bacteria using PCR and gene probes
Microbiology 1999 145: 1731-1741. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Lieve Hoflack, Andrea Wilcks, Lars Andrup, and Jacques Mahillon

Functional insights into pGI2, a cryptic rolling-circle replicating plasmid from Bacillus thuringiensis
Microbiology 1999 145: 1519-1530. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Nicholas R. Thomson, William Nasser, Simon McGowan, Mohammed Sebaihia, and George P. C. Salmond

Erwinia carotovora has two KdgR-like proteins belonging to the IcIR family of transcriptional regulators: identification and characterization of the RexZ activator and the KdgR repressor of pathogenesis
Microbiology 1999 145: 1531-1545. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Wulf Oehlmann and Georg Auling

Ribonucleotide reductase (RNR) of Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13032–genetic characterization of a second class IV enzyme
Microbiology 1999 145: 1595-1604. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Francis Martin, Marc-André Selosse, and Francois Le Tacon

The nuclear rDNA intergenic spacer of the ectomycorrhizal basidiomycete Laccaria bicolor: structural analysis and allelic polymorphism
Microbiology 1999 145: 1605-1611. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Masayuki Sudoh, Kenji Tatsuno, Naomi Ono, Atsunori Ohta, Hiroji Chibana, Hisafumi Yamada-Okabe, and Mikio Arisawa

The Candida albicans CHS4 gene complements a Saccharomyces cerevisiae skt5/chs4 mutation and is involved in chitin biosynthesis
Microbiology 1999 145: 1613-1622. [Abstract] [PDF]  

P. W. K. Tsang, B. Cao, P. Y. L. Siu, and J. Wang

Loss of heterozygosity, by mitotic gene conversion and crossing over, causes strain-specific adenine mutants in constitutive diploid Candida albicans
Microbiology 1999 145: 1623-1629. [Abstract] [PDF]  

James E. H. Chua, Paul A. Manning, and Renato Morona

The Shigella flexneri bacteriophage Sf6 tailspike protein (TSP)/endorhamnosidase is related to the bacteriophage P22 TSP and has a motif common to exo- and endoglycanases, and C-5 epimerases
Microbiology 1999 145: 1649-1659. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sarah A. Mathews and Richard S. Stephens

DNA structure and novel amino and carboxyl termini of the Chlamydia ⁷⁰ analogue modulate promoter recognition
Microbiology 1999 145: 1671-1681. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Seiji Kojima, Mitsuyo Kuroda, Ikuro Kawagishi, and Michio Homma

Random mutagenesis of the pomA gene encoding a putative channel component of the Na⁺-driven polar flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus
Microbiology 1999 145: 1759-1767. [Abstract] [PDF]  

GENOMICS:

Montserrat Puig and Rosina Gironés

Genomic structure of phage B40-8 of Bacteroides fragilis
Microbiology 1999 145: 1661-1670. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Jean Rauzier, Eamonn Gormley, M. Cristina Gutierrez, Eric Kassa-Kelembho, Laurie J. Sandall, Chris Dupont, Brigitte Gicquel, and Alan Murray

A novel polymorphic genetic locus in members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Microbiology 1999 145: 1695-1701. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Cristina L. Marolda, Bärbel Hauröder, Michael A. John, Rolf Michel, and Miguel A. Valvano

Intracellular survival and saprophytic growth of isolates from the Burkholderia cepacia complex in free-living amoebae
Microbiology 1999 145: 1509-1517. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Fernando Abaitua, Aitor Rementería, Rosario San Millan, Ainhoa Eguzkiza, Jose Antonio Rodriguez, José Pontón, and María Jesús Sevilla

In vitro survival and germination of Candida albicans in the presence of nitrogen compounds
Microbiology 1999 145: 1641-1647. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Sture Karlsson, Lars G. Burman, and Thomas Åkerlund

Suppression of toxin production in Clostridium difficile VPI 10463 by amino acids
Microbiology 1999 145: 1683-1693. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Oscar G. Gómez-Duarte, Alejandro Ruiz-Tagle, Diana C. Gómez, Gloria I. Viboud, Karen G. Jarvis, James B. Kaper, and Jorge A. Girón

Identification of IngA, the structural gene of longus type IV pilus of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1999 145: 1809-1816. [Abstract] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Fabien Gérard, Anna-Maria Dri, and Patrice L. Moreau

Role of Escherichia coli RpoS, LexA and H-NS global regulators in metabolism and survival under aerobic, phosphate-starvation conditions
Microbiology 1999 145: 1547-1562. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Michael J. Dilworth, Fiona G. Rynne, Joanne M. Castelli, Ana I. Vivas-Marfisi, and Andrew R. Glenn

Survival and exopolysaccharide production in Sinorhizobium meliloti WSM419 are affected by calcium and low pH
Microbiology 1999 145: 1585-1593. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Henrik Siegumfeldt, K. Björn Rechinger, and Mogens Jakobsen

Use of fluorescence ratio imaging for intracellular pH determination of individual bacterial cells in mixed cultures
Microbiology 1999 145: 1703-1709. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Christopher D. Boswell, R. Elaine Dick, and Lynne E. Macaskie

The effect of heavy metals and other environmental conditions on the anaerobic phosphate metabolism of Acinetobacter johnsonii
Microbiology 1999 145: 1711-1720. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Hisashi Saeki, Miura Akira, Keizo Furuhashi, Beate Averhoff, and Gerhard Gottschalk

Degradation of trichloroethene by a linear-plasmid-encoded alkene monooxygenase in Rhodococcus corallinus (Nocardia corallina) B-276
Microbiology 1999 145: 1721-1730. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Ruslan N. Ivanovsky, Yuri I. Fal, Ivan A. Berg, Natalya V. Ugolkova, Elena N. Krasilnikova, Olga I. Keppen, Leonid M. Zakharchuc, and Anatolii M. Zyakun

Evidence for the presence of the reductive pentose phosphate cycle in a filamentous anoxygenic photosynthetic bacterium, Oscillochloris trichoides strain DG-6
Microbiology 1999 145: 1743-1748. [Abstract] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION:

Gillian C. Baker, Trevor J. C. Beebee, and Mark A. Ragan

Prototheca richardsi, a pathogen of anuran larvae, is related to a clade of protistan parasites near the animal-fungal divergence
Microbiology 1999 145: 1777-1784. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Volker Gürtler, Rao YuJun, Stephen R. Pearson, Susan M. Bates, and Barrie C. Mayall

DNA sequence heterogeneity in the three copies of the long 16S–23S rDNA spacer of Enterococcus faecalis isolates
Microbiology 1999 145: 1785-1796. [Abstract] [PDF]  

Denis O. Krause, Brian P. Dalrymple, Wendy J. Smith, Roderick I. Mackie, and Christopher S. McSweeney

16S rDNA sequencing of Ruminococcus albus and Ruminococcus flavefaciens: design of a signature probe and its application in adult sheep
Microbiology 1999 145: 1797-1807. [Abstract] [PDF]  

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