MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Alan McCarthy and Leo Vining

Special issue on the molecular genetics of streptomycetes
Microbiology 1999 145: 2181-2182. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

David A. Hopwood

Forty years of genetics with Streptomyces: from in vivo through in vitro to in silico
Microbiology 1999 145: 2183-2202. [Full Text] [PDF]  

ANTIGENS AND IMMUNITY:

Sylvain Villeneuve, Alain Boutonnier, Laurence A. Mulard, and Jean-Michel Fournier

Immunochemical characterization of an Ogawa-Inaba common antigenic determinant of Vibrio cholerae O1
Microbiology 1999 145: 2477-2484. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fernando San Gil, Bernadette Turner, Mark J. Walker, Steven P. Djordjevic, and James C. Chin

Contribution of adjuvant to adaptive immune responses in mice against Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
Microbiology 1999 145: 2595-2603. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Isabelle Guillemin, Wladimir Sougakoff, Emmanuelle Cambau, Valérie Revel-Viravau, Nicole Moreau, and Vincent Jarlier

Purification and inhibition by quinolones of DNA gyrases from Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium fortuitum bv. peregrinum
Microbiology 1999 145: 2527-2532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kaoru Inoue, Yukako Fujinaga, Koichi Honke, Kenji Yokota, Tetsuya Ikeda, Tohru Ohyama, Kouichi Takeshi, Toshihiro Watanabe, Katsuhiro Inoue, and Keiji Oguma

Characterization of haemagglutinin activity of Clostridium botulinum type C and D 16S toxins, and one subcomponent of haemagglutinin (HA1)
Microbiology 1999 145: 2533-2542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Teresa Caldas, Nathalie Demont-Caulet, Alexandre Ghazi, and Gilbert Richarme

Thermoprotection by glycine betaine and choline
Microbiology 1999 145: 2543-2548. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Tine R. Licht, Bjarke B. Christensen, Karen A. Krogfelt, and Søren Molin

Plasmid transfer in the animal intestine and other dynamic bacterial populations: the role of community structure and environment
Microbiology 1999 145: 2615-2622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Raimund Eck, Susanne Hundt, Albert Härtl, Ernst Roemer, and Waldemar Künkel

A multicopper oxidase gene from Candida albicans: cloning, characterization and disruption
Microbiology 1999 145: 2415-2422. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Danny K.-H. Wong, Christina Morris, Tin L. Lam, Wan K. R. Wong, and Jim Hackett

Identification of O-antigen polymerase transcription and translation start signals and visualization of the protein in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Microbiology 1999 145: 2443-2451. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mary Lou Nicholson and Bernard Beall

Disruption of tonB in Bordetella bronchiseptica and Bordetella pertussis prevents utilization of ferric siderophores, haemin and haemoglobin as iron sources
Microbiology 1999 145: 2453-2461. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

W. M. A. von Krüger, S. Humphreys, and J. M. Ketley

A role for the PhoBR regulatory system homologue in the Vibrio cholerae phosphate-limitation response and intestinal colonization
Microbiology 1999 145: 2463-2475. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cristina L. Marolda, Mario F. Feldman, and Miguel A. Valvano

Genetic organization of the O7-specific lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis cluster of Escherichia coli VW187 (O7:K1)
Microbiology 1999 145: 2485-2495. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Orla Hartford, Damien McDevitt, and Timothy J. Foster

Matrix-binding proteins of Staphylococcus aureus: functional analysis of mutant and hybrid molecules
Microbiology 1999 145: 2497-2505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle A. Mulder, Harold Zappe, and Lafras M. Steyn

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis katG promoter region contains a novel upstream activator
Microbiology 1999 145: 2507-2518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. J. Zumárraga, A. Bernardell, R. Bastida, V. Quse, J. Loureiro, A. Cataldi, F. Bigi, A. Alito, M. Castro Ramos, S. Samper, I. Otal, C. Martin, and M. I. Romano

Molecular characterization of mycobacteria isolated from seals
Microbiology 1999 145: 2519-2526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MOLECULAR GENETICS OF STREPTOMYCETES:

Barry Smith and Paul Dyson

Genetic instability associated with insertion of IS6100 into one end of the Streptomyces lividans chromosome
Microbiology 1999 145: 2203-2208. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shih-Jie Wang, Hua-Mei Chang, Yi-Shing Lin, Chih-Hung Huang, and Carton W. Chen

Streptomyces genomes: circular genetic maps from the linear chromosomes
Microbiology 1999 145: 2209-2220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jongho Sun, Gabriella H. Kelemen, José Manuel Fernández-Abalos, and Mervyn J. Bibb

Green fluorescent protein as a reporter for spatial and temporal gene expression in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology 1999 145: 2221-2227. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Klas Flärdh, Kim C. Findlay, and Keith F. Chater

Association of early sporulation genes with suggested developmental decision points in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology 1999 145: 2229-2243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zsuzsa Birkó, Andrea Sümegi, Andrea Vinnai, Gilles van Wezel, Ferenc Szeszák, Sándor Vitális, Pál T. Szabó, Zoltán Kele, Tamás Janáky, and Sándor Biró

Characterization of the gene for factor C, an extracellular signal protein involved in morphological differentiation of Streptomyces griseus
Microbiology 1999 145: 2245-2253. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Víctor Parro, Sabine Schacht, Jozef Anné, and Rafael P. Mellado

Four genes encoding different type I signal peptidases are organized in a cluster in Streptomyces lividans TK21
Microbiology 1999 145: 2255-2263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenji Ueda, Kouichi Matsuda, Hideaki Takano, and Teruhiko Beppu

A putative regulatory element for carbon-source-dependent differentiation in Streptomyces griseus
Microbiology 1999 145: 2265-2271. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tohru Yonekawa, Yasuo Ohnishi, and Sueharu Horinouchi

Involvement of amfC in physiological and morphological development in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology 1999 145: 2273-2280. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takashi Umeyama, Ping-Chin Lee, Kenji Ueda, and Sueharu Horinouchi

An AfsK/AfsR system involved in the response of aerial mycelium formation to glucose in Streptomyces griseus
Microbiology 1999 145: 2281-2292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gertjan Hoogvliet, Gilles P. van Wezel, and Barend Kraal

Evidence that a single EF-Ts suffices for the recycling of multiple and divergent EF-Tu species in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and Streptomyces ramocissimus
Microbiology 1999 145: 2293-2301. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Josette Gagnat, Hichem Chouayekh, Claude Gerbaud, François Francou, and Marie-Joelle Virolle

Disruption of sblA in Streptomyces lividans permits expression of a heterologous -amylase gene in the presence of glucose
Microbiology 1999 145: 2303-2312. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Fink, D. Falke, W. Wohlleben, and A. Engels

Nitrogen metabolism in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2): modification of glutamine synthetase I by an adenylyltransferase
Microbiology 1999 145: 2313-2322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ying-Xin Zhang, Claudio D. Denoya, Deborah D. Skinner, Ronald W. Fedechko, Hamish A. I. McArthur, Margaret R. Morgenstern, Richard A. Davies, Sandra Lobo, Kevin A. Reynolds, and C. Richard Hutchinson

Genes encoding acyl-CoA dehydrogenase (AcdH) homologues from Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces avermitilis provide insights into the metabolism of small branched-chain fatty acids and macrolide antibiotic production
Microbiology 1999 145: 2323-2334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhihao Hu, Daniel Hunziker, C. Richard Hutchinson, and Chaitan Khosla

A host–vector system for analysis and manipulation of rifamycin polyketide biosynthesis in Amycolatopsis mediterranei
Microbiology 1999 145: 2335-2341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Todd Anderson, Paul Brian, Perry Riggle, Renqiu Kong, and Wendy Champness

Genetic suppression analysis of non-antibiotic-producing mutants of the Streptomyces coelicolor absA locus
Microbiology 1999 145: 2343-2353. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Luc Pernodet, Anne Gourmelen, Marie-Hélène Blondelet-Rouault, and Eric Cundliffe

Dispensable ribosomal resistance to spiramycin conferred by srmA in the spiramycin producer Streptomyces ambofaciens
Microbiology 1999 145: 2355-2364. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fabiola Valdez, Gabriela González-Cerón, Helen M. Kieser, and Luis Servín-González

The Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) lipAR operon encodes an extracellular lipase and a new type of transcriptional regulator
Microbiology 1999 145: 2365-2374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather L. Craster, Chris A. Potter, and Simon Baumberg

End-product control of expression of branched-chain amino acid biosynthesis genes in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2): paradoxical relationships between DNA sequence and regulatory phenotype
Microbiology 1999 145: 2375-2384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pascale Servant, Georges Rapoport, and Philippe Mazodier

RheA, the repressor of hsp18 in Streptomyces albus G
Microbiology 1999 145: 2385-2391. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kevin T. Chow, Margaret K. Pope, and Julian Davies

Characterization of a vanillic acid non-oxidative decarboxylation gene cluster from Streptomyces sp. D7
Microbiology 1999 145: 2393-2403. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Jan Schmid, Scott Herd, Paul R. Hunter, Richard D. Cannon, M. Salleh M. Yasin, Shamin Samad, Mary Carr, Dinah Parr, Wendy McKinney, Mona Schousboe, Ben Harris, Rosemary Ikram, Mike Harris, Angela Restrepo, Guillermo Hoyos, and Kumar P. Singh

Evidence for a general-purpose genotype in Candida albicans , highly prevalent in multiple geographical regions, patient types and types of infection
Microbiology 1999 145: 2405-2413. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alex J. Bolton, Michael P. Osborne, Tim S. Wallis, and John Stephen

Interaction of Salmonella choleraesuis, Salmonella dublin and Salmonella typhimurium with porcine and bovine terminal ileum in vivo
Microbiology 1999 145: 2431-2441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Martin, E. Fidelma Boyd, Roland Quentin, Pascal Massicot, and Robert K. Selander

Enzyme polymorphism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains recovered from cystic fibrosis patients in France
Microbiology 1999 145: 2587-2594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Ki-Bong Oh, Takahide Watanabe, and Hideaki Matsuoka

A novel copper-binding protein with characteristics of a metallothionein from a clinical isolate of Candida albicans
Microbiology 1999 145: 2423-2429. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raymond J. Turner, Joel H. Weiner, and Diane E. Taylor

Tellurite-mediated thiol oxidation in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 1999 145: 2549-2557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raf Callewaert, Helge Holo, Bart Devreese, Jozef Van Beeumen, Ingolf Nes, and Luc De Vuyst

Characterization and production of amylovorin L471, a bacteriocin purified from Lactobacillus amylovorus DCE 471 by a novel three-step method
Microbiology 1999 145: 2559-2568. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

George J. G. Ruijter, Peter J. I. van de Vondervoort, and Jaap Visser

Oxalic acid production by Aspergillus niger: an oxalate-non-producing mutant produces citric acid at pH 5 and in the presence of manganese
Microbiology 1999 145: 2569-2576. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fernanda Lages, Magda Silva-Graça, and Candida Lucas

Active glycerol uptake is a mechanism underlying halotolerance in yeasts: a study of 42 species
Microbiology 1999 145: 2577-2585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION:

Yoshiaki Kawamura, Robert A. Whiley, Shin-Ei Shu, Takayuki Ezaki, and Jeremy M. Hardie

Genetic approaches to the identification of the mitis group within the genus Streptococcus
Microbiology 1999 145: 2605-2613. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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