MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David J. Studholme, Martin Buck, and Tracy Nixon

Identification of potential ^N-dependent promoters in bacterial genomes
Microbiology 2000 146: 3021-3023. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Katarzyna A. Palinska, Thomas Jahns, Rosmarie Rippka, and Nicole Tandeau de Marsac

Prochlorococcus marinus strain PCC 9511, a picoplanktonic cyanobacterium, synthesizes the smallest urease
Microbiology 2000 146: 3099-3107. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Lloyd, Janine C. Harris, Sarah Maroulis, Giancarlo A. Biagini, Robert B. Wadley, Michael P. Turner, and Michael R. Edwards

The microaerophilic flagellate Giardia intestinalis: oxygen and its reaction products collapse membrane potential and cause cytotoxicity
Microbiology 2000 146: 3109-3118. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eugene R. Baizman, Arthur A. Branstrom, Clifford B. Longley, Nigel Allanson, Michael J. Sofia, David Gange, and Robert C. Goldman

Antibacterial activity of synthetic analogues based on the disaccharide structure of moenomycin, an inhibitor of bacterial transglycosylase
Microbiology 2000 146: 3129-3140. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kevin E. Wee, Christopher R. Yonan, and F. N. Chang

A new broad-spectrum protease inhibitor from the entomopathogenic bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens
Microbiology 2000 146: 3141-3147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS AND TRANSPORT:

Peter von Felten and Reinhard Bachofen

Continuous monitoring of the cytoplasmic pH in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum using the intracellular factor F₄₂₀ as indicator
Microbiology 2000 146: 3245-3250. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María C. Rodríguez, Alexandrine Froger, Jean-Paul Rolland, Daniel Thomas, Jesús Agüero, Christian Delamarche, and Juan M. García-Lobo

A functional water channel protein in the pathogenic bacterium Brucella abortus
Microbiology 2000 146: 3251-3257. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRIGENDUM:

Tim J. Bull, John Hermon-Taylor, Ivo Pavlik, Fouad El-Zaatari, and Mark Tizard

Characterization of IS900 loci in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and development of multiplex PCR typing
Microbiology 2000 146: 3285. [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

C. J. Ingham and P. A. Furneaux

Mutations in the ß subunit of the Bacillus subtilis RNA polymerase that confer both rifampicin resistance and hypersensitivity to NusG
Microbiology 2000 146: 3041-3049. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gustav Hambraeus, Martin Persson, and Blanka Rutberg

The aprE leader is a determinant of extreme mRNA stability in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2000 146: 3051-3059. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Per Nygaard, Søren M. Bested, Kasper A. K. Andersen, and Hans H. Saxild

Bacillus subtilis guanine deaminase is encoded by the yknA gene and is induced during growth with purines as the nitrogen source
Microbiology 2000 146: 3061-3069. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katrin C. B. Jennert, Chantal Tardif, Danielle I. Young, and Michael Young

Gene transfer to Clostridium cellulolyticum ATCC 35319
Microbiology 2000 146: 3071-3080. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael G. Lorenz and Johannes Sikorski

The potential for intraspecific horizontal gene exchange by natural genetic transformation: sexual isolation among genomovars of Pseudomonas stutzeri
Microbiology 2000 146: 3081-3090. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sabine Himpens, Camille Locht, and Philip Supply

Molecular characterization of the mycobacterial SenX3–RegX3 two-component system: evidence for autoregulation
Microbiology 2000 146: 3091-3098. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle Burger, Rick G. Woods, Conor McCarthy, and Ifor R. Beacham

Temperature regulation of protease in Pseudomonas fluorescens LS107d2 by an ECF sigma factor and a transmembrane activator
Microbiology 2000 146: 3149-3155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Muna F. Anjum, Jeffrey Green, and John R. Guest

YeiL, the third member of the CRP–FNR family in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2000 146: 3157-3170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Natalia Vassinova and Dmitri Kozyrev

A method for direct cloning of Fur-regulated genes: identification of seven new Fur-regulated loci in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2000 146: 3171-3182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Bovbjerg Rasmussen, Michael Manefield, Jens Bo Andersen, Leo Eberl, Uffe Anthoni, Carsten Christophersen, Peter Steinberg, Staffan Kjelleberg, and Michael Givskov

How Delisea pulchra furanones affect quorum sensing and swarming motility in Serratia liquefaciens MG1
Microbiology 2000 146: 3237-3244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bharat Joshi, Lubomir Janda, Zoia Stoytcheva, and Pavel Tichy

PkwA, a WD-repeat protein, is expressed in spore-derived mycelium of Thermomonospora curvata and phosphorylation of its WD domain could act as a molecular switch
Microbiology 2000 146: 3259-3267. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENOMICS:

Jesús A. G. Ochoa de Alda and Jean Houmard

Genomic survey of cAMP and cGMP signalling components in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis PCC 6803
Microbiology 2000 146: 3183-3194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Líbia Zé-Zé, Rogério Tenreiro, and Helena Paveia

The Oenococcus oeni genome: physical and genetic mapping of strain GM and comparison with the genome of a ‘divergent’ strain, PSU-1
Microbiology 2000 146: 3195-3204. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joanna C. Betts, Paul Dodson, Selwyn Quan, Alan P. Lewis, Pam J. Thomas, Ken Duncan, and Ruth A. McAdam

Comparison of the proteome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Rv with clinical isolate CDC 1551
Microbiology 2000 146: 3205-3216. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MINI-REVIEW:

Per Klemm and Mark A. Schembri

Fimbrial surface display systems in bacteria: from vaccines to random libraries
Microbiology 2000 146: 3025-3032. [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Douglas J. Beecher and Amy C. L. Wong

Cooperative, synergistic and antagonistic haemolytic interactions between haemolysin BL, phosphatidylcholine phospholipase C and sphingomyelinase from Bacillus cereus
Microbiology 2000 146: 3033-3039. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janine C. Harris, Sue Plummer, Michael P. Turner, and David Lloyd

The microaerophilic flagellate Giardia intestinalis: Allium sativum (garlic) is an effective antigiardial
Microbiology 2000 146: 3119-3127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pete Kaiser, Lisa Rothwell, Edouard E. Galyov, Paul A. Barrow, Joan Burnside, and Paul Wigley

Differential cytokine expression in avian cells in response to invasion by Salmonella typhimurium, Salmonella enteritidis and Salmonella gallinarum
Microbiology 2000 146: 3217-3226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frieda Jørgensen, Steve Leach, Stephen J. Wilde, Angela Davies, Gordon S. A. B. Stewart, and Tom Humphrey

Invasiveness in chickens, stress resistance and RpoS status of wild-type Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimurium definitive type 104 and serovar Enteritidis phage type 4 strains
Microbiology 2000 146: 3227-3235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Roger Schneiter, Andrew T. Carter, Yolanda Hernando, Günther Zellnig, Lilian M. Schweizer, and Michael Schweizer

The importance of the five phosphoribosyl-pyrophosphate synthetase (Prs) gene products of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in the maintenance of cell integrity and the subcellular localization of Prs1p
Microbiology 2000 146: 3269-3278. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle Momany and Ian Taylor

Landmarks in the early duplication cycles of Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus nidulans: polarity, germ tube emergence and septation
Microbiology 2000 146: 3279-3284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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