MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Robin J. Rowbury

Killed cultures of Escherichia coli can protect living organisms from acid stress
Microbiology 2000 146: 1759-1760. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enrico Cabib

On the zymogenic character of chitin synthase 3
Microbiology 2000 146: 1760-1761. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hisafume Yamada-Okabe

Authors' reply to Cabib
Microbiology 2000 146: 1761. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Joachim F. Ernst

Transcription factors in Candida albicans – environmental control of morphogenesis
Microbiology 2000 146: 1763-1774. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Milton H. Saier, Jr

Families of transmembrane transporters selective for amino acids and their derivatives
Microbiology 2000 146: 1775-1795. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Lynne E. Macaskie, Karen M. Bonthrone, Ping Yong, and David T. Goddard

Enzymically mediated bioprecipitation of uranium by a Citrobacter sp.: a concerted role for exocellular lipopolysaccharide and associated phosphatase in biomineral formation
Microbiology 2000 146: 1855-1867. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

DEVELOPMENT AND STRUCTURE:

Supriya Srinivasan, Katherine R. Griffiths, Vince McGuire, Alan Champion, Keith L. Williams, and Stephen Alexander

The cellulose-binding activity of the PsB multiprotein complex is required for proper assembly of the spore coat and spore viability in Dictyostelium discoideum
Microbiology 2000 146: 1829-1839. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert P. Boulianne, Yi Liu, Markus Aebi, Benjamin C. Lu, and Ursula Kües

Fruiting body development in Coprinus cinereus: regulated expression of two galectins secreted by a non-classical pathway
Microbiology 2000 146: 1841-1853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

S. J. Beard, P. A. Davis, D. Iglesias-Rodríguez, O. M. Skulberg, and A. E. Walsby

Gas vesicle genes in Planktothrix spp. from Nordic lakes: strains with weak gas vesicles possess a longer variant of gvpC
Microbiology 2000 146: 2009-2018. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Der-Shyan Sheu, Yun-Ting Wang, and Chia-Yin Lee

Rapid detection of polyhydroxyalkanoate-accumulating bacteria isolated from the environment by colony PCR
Microbiology 2000 146: 2019-2025. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

C. M. G. A. Fontes, H. J. Gilbert, G. P. Hazlewood, J. H. Clarke, J. A. M. Prates, V. A. McKie, T. Nagy, T. H. Fernandes, and L. M. A. Ferreira

A novel Cellvibrio mixtus family 10 xylanase that is both intracellular and expressed under non-inducing conditions
Microbiology 2000 146: 1959-1967. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tanya Parish and Neil G. Stoker

Use of a flexible cassette method to generate a double unmarked Mycobacterium tuberculosis tlyA plcABC mutant by gene replacement
Microbiology 2000 146: 1969-1975. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hideaki Hayashida, Knud Poulsen, Okiuji Takagi, and Mogens Kilian

Phylogenetic associations of ISAa1 and IS150-like insertion sequences in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
Microbiology 2000 146: 1977-1985. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alan C. Andrade, Giovanni Del Sorbo, Johannes G. M. Van Nistelrooy, and Maarten A. De Waard

The ABC transporter AtrB from Aspergillus nidulans mediates resistance to all major classes of fungicides and some natural toxic compounds
Microbiology 2000 146: 1987-1997. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ruth Y. Eberhardt, Harry J. Gilbert, and Geoffrey P. Hazlewood

Primary sequence and enzymic properties of two modular endoglucanases, Cel5A and Cel45A, from the anaerobic fungus Piromyces equi
Microbiology 2000 146: 1999-2008. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENOMICS:

Donald L. Jack, Ian T. Paulsen, and Milton H. Saier

The amino acid/polyamine/organocation (APC) superfamily of transporters specific for amino acids, polyamines and organocations
Microbiology 2000 146: 1797-1814. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Agnieszka Sekowska, Antoine Danchin, and Jean-Loup Risler

Phylogeny of related functions: the case of polyamine biosynthetic enzymes
Microbiology 2000 146: 1815-1828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Frank C. Odds, Luc Van Nuffel, and Neil A. R. Gow

Survival in experimental Candida albicans infections depends on inoculum growth conditions as well as animal host
Microbiology 2000 146: 1881-1889. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claude V. Gallant, Tracy L. Raivio, Joan C. Olson, Donald E. Woods, and Douglas G. Storey

Pseudomonas aeruginosa cystic fibrosis clinical isolates produce exotoxin A with altered ADP-ribosyltransferase activity and cytotoxicity
Microbiology 2000 146: 1891-1899. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Mahbubur Rahman, V. S. Kumar Kolli, Charlene M. Kahler, Giles Shih, David S. Stephens, and Russell W. Carlson

The membrane phospholipids of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae as characterized by fast atom bombardment mass spectrometry
Microbiology 2000 146: 1901-1911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mélanie Lalonde, Mariela Segura, Sonia Lacouture, and Marcelo Gottschalk

Interactions between Streptococcus suis serotype 2 and different epithelial cell lines
Microbiology 2000 146: 1913-1921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Anurag Khetan, Wei-Shou Hu, and David H. Sherman

Heterogeneous distribution of lysine 6-aminotransferase during cephamycin C biosynthesis in Streptomyces clavuligerus demonstrated using green fluorescent protein as a reporter
Microbiology 2000 146: 1869-1880. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Derek W. S. Harty, John A. Mayo, Simon L. Cook, and Nicholas A. Jacques

Environmental regulation of glycosidase and peptidase production by Streptococcus gordonii FSS2
Microbiology 2000 146: 1923-1931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph Aduse-Opoku, Nyama N. Davies, Alex Gallagher, Ahmed Hashim, Helen E. A. Evans, Minnie Rangarajan, Jennifer M. Slaney, and Michael A. Curtis

Generation of Lys-gingipain protease activity in Porphyromonas gingivalis W50 is independent of Arg-gingipain protease activities
Microbiology 2000 146: 1933-1940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beate A. Weber, Jürgen R. Klein, and Bernhard Henrich

Expression of the phospho-ß-glycosidase ArbZ from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis in Lactobacillus helveticus: substrate induction and catabolite repression
Microbiology 2000 146: 1941-1948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elba Pereyra, Cynthia Mizyrycki, and Silvia Moreno

Threshold level of protein kinase A activity and polarized growth in Mucor rouxii
Microbiology 2000 146: 1949-1958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Corine Enard and Dominique Expert

Characterization of a tonB mutation in Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937: TonB_Ech is a member of the enterobacterial TonB family
Microbiology 2000 146: 2051-2058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne E. Desjardins, Gui-hua Bai, Ronald D. Plattner, and Robert H. Proctor

Analysis of aberrant virulence of Gibberella zeae following transformation-mediated complementation of a trichothecene-deficient (Tri5) mutant
Microbiology 2000 146: 2059-2068. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Colum Dunne, Yvan Moënne-Loccoz, Frans J. de Bruijn, and Fergal O’Gara

Overproduction of an inducible extracellular serine protease improves biological control of Pythium ultimum by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strain W81
Microbiology 2000 146: 2069-2078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anneke M. Metz, Asmahan Haddad, Jeerapun Worapong, David M. Long, Eugene J. Ford, W. M. Hess, and Gary A. Strobel

Induction of the sexual stage of Pestalotiopsis microspora, a taxol-producing fungus
Microbiology 2000 146: 2079-2089. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION:

Diego Mora, Maria Grazia Fortina, Carlo Parini, Daniele Daffonchio, and Pier Luigi Manachini

Genomic subpopulations within the species Pediococcus acidilactici detected by multilocus typing analysis: relationships between pediocin AcH/PA-1 producing and non-producing strains
Microbiology 2000 146: 2027-2038. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arun S. Kharat and S. Mahadevan

Analysis of the ß-glucoside utilization (bgl) genes of Shigella sonnei: evolutionary implications for their maintenance in a cryptic state
Microbiology 2000 146: 2039-2049. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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