MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Volker Gürtler and Barrie C. Mayall

Genetic transfer and genome evolution in MRSA
Microbiology 2001 147: 3195-3197. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olivier Attree and Ina Attree

A second type III secretion system in Burkholderia pseudomallei: who is the real culprit?
Microbiology 2001 147: 3197-3199. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helena Porta and Mario Rocha-Sosa

Lipoxygenase in bacteria: a horizontal transfer event?
Microbiology 2001 147: 3199-3200. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Thien B. Cao and Milton H. Saier, Jr

Conjugal type IV macromolecular transfer systems of Gram-negative bacteria: organismal distribution, structural constraints and evolutionary conclusions
Microbiology 2001 147: 3201-3214. [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary sequences]  

ANTIGENS AND IMMUNITY:

Mary Meehan, Yvonne Lynagh, Caroline Woods, and Peter Owen

The fibrinogen-binding protein (FgBP) of Streptococcus equi subsp. equi additionally binds IgG and contributes to virulence in a mouse model
Microbiology 2001 147: 3311-3322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY:

Evangelia Vretou, Panagiota Giannikopoulou, and Evgenia Psarrou

Polymorphic outer-membrane proteins of Chlamydophila abortus are glycosylated
Microbiology 2001 147: 3303-3310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniël T. Verhamme, Jos C. Arents, Pieter W. Postma, Wim Crielaard, and Klaas J. Hellingwerf

Glucose-6-phosphate-dependent phosphoryl flow through the Uhp two-component regulatory system
Microbiology 2001 147: 3345-3352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOENERGETICS AND TRANSPORT:

Paula Ludovico, Filipe Sansonetty, and Manuela Côrte-Real

Assessment of mitochondrial membrane potential in yeast cell populations by flow cytometry
Microbiology 2001 147: 3335-3343. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOTECHNOLOGY:

T. Schlösser, G. Schmidt, and K.-P. Stahmann

Transcriptional regulation of 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate synthase
Microbiology 2001 147: 3377-3386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Masae Horinouchi, Takako Yamamoto, Katsuhiko Taguchi, Hiroyuki Arai, and Toshiaki Kudo

Meta-cleavage enzyme gene tesB is necessary for testosterone degradation in Comamonas testosteroni TA441
Microbiology 2001 147: 3367-3375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Lewis E. H. Bingle, Jane L. Eastlake, Mick Bailey, and Wendy C. Gibson

A novel GFP approach for the analysis of genetic exchange in trypanosomes allowing the in situ detection of mating events
Microbiology 2001 147: 3231-3240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Artem Khlebnikov, Kirill A. Datsenko, Tove Skaug, Barry L. Wanner, and Jay D. Keasling

Homogeneous expression of the P_BAD promoter in Escherichia coli by constitutive expression of the low-affinity high-capacity AraE transporter
Microbiology 2001 147: 3241-3247. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kathrin Riedel, Morten Hentzer, Otto Geisenberger, Birgit Huber, Anette Steidle, Hong Wu, Niels Høiby, Michael Givskov, Søren Molin, and Leo Eberl

N-Acylhomoserine-lactone-mediated communication between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Burkholderia cepacia in mixed biofilms
Microbiology 2001 147: 3249-3262. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karine Dalet, Yves Cenatiempo, Pascale Cossart, and Yann Héchard

A ⁵⁴-dependent PTS permease of the mannose family is responsible for sensitivity of Listeria monocytogenes to mesentericin Y105
Microbiology 2001 147: 3263-3269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. G. Papavinasasundaram, Colin Anderson, Patricia C. Brooks, Nicola A. Thomas, Farahnaz Movahedzadeh, Peter J. Jenner, M. Joseph Colston, and Elaine O. Davis

Slow induction of RecA by DNA damage in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2001 147: 3271-3279. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra Galamba, Karine Soetaert, Xiao-Ming Wang, Jacqueline De Bruyn, Paul Jacobs, and Jean Content

Disruption of adhC reveals a large duplication in the Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155 genome
Microbiology 2001 147: 3281-3294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Didi Baev, Xuewei Li, and Mira Edgerton

Genetically engineered human salivary histatin genes are functional in Candida albicans: development of a new system for studying histatin candidacidal activity
Microbiology 2001 147: 3323-3334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qingsheng Qi and Bernd H. A. Rehm

Polyhydroxybutyrate biosynthesis in Caulobacter crescentus: molecular characterization of the polyhydroxybutyrate synthase
Microbiology 2001 147: 3353-3358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kornelia Kuhn, Katrin Steinmetzer, and Sabine Brantl

Transcriptional repressor CopR: dissection of stabilizing motifs within the C terminus
Microbiology 2001 147: 3387-3392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amit Gupta, Le T. Phung, Diane E. Taylor, and Simon Silver

Diversity of silver resistance genes in IncH incompatibility group plasmids
Microbiology 2001 147: 3393-3402. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary alignments]  

Christopher A. Elkins, Scott A. Moser, and Dwayne C. Savage

Genes encoding bile salt hydrolases and conjugated bile salt transporters in Lactobacillus johnsonii 100-100 and other Lactobacillus species
Microbiology 2001 147: 3403-3412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yannick Pereira, Marie-Françoise Petit-Glatron, and Régis Chambert

yveB, encoding endolevanase LevB, is part of the sacB–yveB–yveA levansucrase tricistronic operon in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2001 147: 3413-3419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENICITY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Mark Payton, Claire Gifford, Pamela Schartau, Chris Hagemeier, Adeel Mushtaq, Stuart Lucas, Katalin Pinter, and Edith Sim

Evidence towards the role of arylamine N-acetyltransferase in Mycobacterium smegmatis and development of a specific antiserum against the homologous enzyme of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2001 147: 3295-3302. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND GROWTH:

Huanli Liu, Yaowei Kang, Stéphane Genin, Mark A. Schell, and Timothy P. Denny

Twitching motility of Ralstonia solanacearum requires a type IV pilus system
Microbiology 2001 147: 3215-3229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giancarlo A. Biagini, Jeong H. Park, David Lloyd, and Michael R. Edwards

The antioxidant potential of pyruvate in the amitochondriate diplomonads Giardia intestinalis and Hexamita inflata
Microbiology 2001 147: 3359-3365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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