MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Marie-Agnès Petit, Ken-ishi Yoshida, Yasutaro Fujita, and S. Dusko Ehrlich

The 409 bp tandem repeat spanning genes yxaK and yxaL is absent from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome
Microbiology 2000 146: 2091-2092. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael J. Carlile and A. William L. Dudeney

A microbial mat composed of iron bacteria
Microbiology 2000 146: 2092-2093. [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. Muniyappa, M. B. Vaze, N. Ganesh, M. Sreedhar Reddy, N. Guhan, and R. Venkatesh

Comparative genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Escherichia coli for recombination (rec) genes
Microbiology 2000 146: 2093-2095. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Saori Toujima, Koichi Kuwano, Ye Zhang, Naoyuki Fujimoto, Masahiro Hirama, Tohru Oishi, Sumiko Fukuda, Yoko Nagumo, Hiroto Imai, Tsukasa Kikuchi, and Sumio Arai

Binding of glycoglycerolipid derived from membranes of Acholeplasma laidlawii PG8 and synthetic analogues to lymphoid cells
Microbiology 2000 146: 2317-2323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James P. Wynn and Colin Ratledge

Evidence that the rate-limiting step for the biosynthesis of arachidonic acid in Mortierella alpina is at the level of the 18:3 to 20:3 elongase
Microbiology 2000 146: 2325-2331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Igor Knezevic, Steffi Bachem, Albert Sickmann, Helmut E. Meyer, Jörg Stülke, and Wolfgang Hengstenberg

Regulation of the glucose-specific phosphotransferase system (PTS) of Staphylococcus carnosus by the antiterminator protein GlcT
Microbiology 2000 146: 2333-2342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Kyle Yesland and William A. Fonzi

Allele-specific gene targeting in Candida albicans results from heterology between alleles
Microbiology 2000 146: 2097-2104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hans de Nobel, Cristina Ruiz, Humberto Martin, Wayne Morris, Stanley Brul, Maria Molina, and Frans M. Klis

Cell wall perturbation in yeast results in dual phosphorylation of the Slt2/Mpk1 MAP kinase and in an Slt2-mediated increase in FKS2–lacZ expression, glucanase resistance and thermotolerance
Microbiology 2000 146: 2121-2132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gregory C. Tomlin, Grant E. Hamilton, David C. J. Gardner, Richard M. Walmsley, Lubomira I. Stateva, and Stephen G. Oliver

Suppression of sorbitol dependence in a strain bearing a mutation in the SRB1/PSA1/VIG9 gene encoding GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase by PDE2 overexpression suggests a role for the Ras/cAMP signal-transduction pathway in the control of yeast cell-wall biogenesis
Microbiology 2000 146: 2133-2146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olivia McAuliffe, Colin Hill, and R. Paul Ross

Each peptide of the two-component lantibiotic lacticin 3147 requires a separate modification enzyme for activity
Microbiology 2000 146: 2147-2154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dzung B. Diep, Lars Axelsson, Camilla Grefsli, and Ingolf F. Nes

The synthesis of the bacteriocin sakacin A is a temperature-sensitive process regulated by a pheromone peptide through a three-component regulatory system
Microbiology 2000 146: 2155-2160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dawn R. D. Bignell, Jason L. Warawa, Janice L. Strap, Keith F. Chater, and Brenda K. Leskiw

Study of the bldG locus suggests that an anti-anti-sigma factor and an anti-sigma factor may be involved in Streptomyces coelicolor antibiotic production and sporulation
Microbiology 2000 146: 2161-2173. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eva M. Egelseer, Rughia Idris, Marina Jarosch, Thomas Danhorn, Uwe B. Sleytr, and Margit Sára

ISBst12, a novel type of insertion-sequence element causing loss of S-layer-gene expression in Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC 12980
Microbiology 2000 146: 2175-2183. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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: 2185-2197. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum]  

Leiria Salazar

Inhibition of chromosome replication in Mycobacterium smegmatis: effect of the rpmH–dnaA promoter region
Microbiology 2000 146: 2199-2207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guochun Li, Hannah Alexander, Natalie Schneider, and Stephen Alexander

Molecular basis for resistance to the anticancer drug cisplatin in Dictyostelium
Microbiology 2000 146: 2219-2227. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrice Gaurivaud, Frédéric Laigret, Eric Verdin, Monique Garnier, and Joseph M. Bové

Fructose operon mutants of Spiroplasma citri
Microbiology 2000 146: 2229-2236. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leonilde M. Moreira, Jörg D. Becker, Alfred Pühler, and Anke Becker

The Sinorhizobium meliloti ExpE1 protein secreted by a type I secretion system involving ExpD1 and ExpD2 is required for biosynthesis or secretion of the exopolysaccharide galactoglucan
Microbiology 2000 146: 2237-2248. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alicia Greated, Marina Titok, Renata Krasowiak, Rebecca J. Fairclough, and Christopher M. Thomas

The replication and stable-inheritance functions of IncP-9 plasmid pM3
Microbiology 2000 146: 2249-2258. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María Eugenia Farías and Manuel Espinosa

Conjugal transfer of plasmid pMV158: uncoupling of the pMV158 origin of transfer from the mobilization gene mobM, and modulation of pMV158 transfer in Escherichia coli mediated by IncP plasmids
Microbiology 2000 146: 2259-2265. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Mark Osborn, Fernanda M. da Silva Tatley, Lafras M. Steyn, Roger W. Pickup, and Jon R. Saunders

Mosaic plasmids and mosaic replicons: evolutionary lessons from the analysis of genetic diversity in IncFII-related replicons
Microbiology 2000 146: 2267-2275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kathryn R. Brocklehurst and Andrew P. Morby

Metal-ion tolerance in Escherichia coli: analysis of transcriptional profiles by gene-array technology
Microbiology 2000 146: 2277-2282. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Rosario San Millán, Natalia Elguezabal, Pilar Regúlez, María Dolores Moragues, Guillermo Quindós, and José Pontón

Effect of salivary secretory IgA on the adhesion of Candida albicans to polystyrene
Microbiology 2000 146: 2105-2112. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Hervé Garreau, Rukhsana Nilofer Hasan, Georges Renault, Francisco Estruch, Emmanuelle Boy-Marcotte, and Michel Jacquet

Hyperphosphorylation of Msn2p and Msn4p in response to heat shock and the diauxic shift is inhibited by cAMP in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2000 146: 2113-2120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jacquie Keer, Marjan J. Smeulders, Kathryn M. Gray, and Huw D. Williams

Mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis impaired in stationary-phase survival
Microbiology 2000 146: 2209-2217. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTION:

Richard J. Meinersmann and Kelli L. Hiett

Concerted evolution of duplicate fla genes in Campylobacter
Microbiology 2000 146: 2283-2290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qun Li and Peter R. Reeves

Genetic variation of dTDP-L-rhamnose pathway genes in Salmonella enterica
Microbiology 2000 146: 2291-2307. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hongik Kim, Daiske Honda, Satoshi Hanada, Norihiro Kanamori, Satoshi Shibata, Taro Miyaki, Kazunori Nakamura, and Hiroshi Oyaizu

A deeply branched novel phylotype found in Japanese paddy soils
Microbiology 2000 146: 2309-2315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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