MOLECULAR GENETICS AND IMMUNOBIOLOGY OF MYCOBACTERIA:

Douglas B. Young

Mycobacteria research in the post-genomic era
Microbiology 2002 148: 2915-2917. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stewart T. Cole

Comparative and functional genomics of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Microbiology 2002 148: 2919-2928. [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Turner, Stefan L. Hoyle, Valerie A. Snewin, Marie-Pierre Gares, Ivor N. Brown, and Douglas B. Young

An ex vivo culture model for screening drug activity against in vivo phenotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2002 148: 2929-2936. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kirsty J. McLean, Ker R. Marshall, Alison Richmond, Iain S. Hunter, Kay Fowler, Tobias Kieser, Sudagar S. Gurcha, Gurydal S. Besra, and Andrew W. Munro

Azole antifungals are potent inhibitors of cytochrome P450 mono-oxygenases and bacterial growth in mycobacteria and streptomycetes
Microbiology 2002 148: 2937-2949. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Natalie J. Garton, Henriette Christensen, David E. Minnikin, Richard A. Adegbola, and Michael R. Barer

Intracellular lipophilic inclusions of mycobacteria in vitro and in sputum
Microbiology 2002 148: 2951-2958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Veronica Gruppo, Oliver C. Turner, Ian M. Orme, and Joanne Turner

Reduced up-regulation of memory and adhesion/integrin molecules in susceptible mice and poor expression of immunity to pulmonary tuberculosis
Microbiology 2002 148: 2959-2966. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Christophe Camus, Melinda J. Pryor, Claudine Médigue, and Stewart T. Cole

Re-annotation of the genome sequence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
Microbiology 2002 148: 2967-2973. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ruth A. McAdam, Selwyn Quan, Debbie A. Smith, Stoyan Bardarov, Joanna C. Betts, Fiona C. Cook, Elizabeth U. Hooker, Alan P. Lewis, Peter Woollard, Martin J. Everett, Pauline T. Lukey, Gregory J. Bancroft, William R. Jacobs, Jr, and Ken Duncan

Characterization of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv transposon library reveals insertions in 351 ORFs and mutants with altered virulence
Microbiology 2002 148: 2975-2986. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Susan T. Howard, Thomas F. Byrd, and C. Richard Lyons

A polymorphic region in Mycobacterium abscessus contains a novel insertion sequence element
Microbiology 2002 148: 2987-2996. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María P. Santangelo, Jorge Goldstein, Alicia Alito, Andrea Gioffré, Karina Caimi, Osvaldo Zabal, Martín Zumárraga, Maria I. Romano, Angel A. Cataldi, and Fabiana Bigi

Negative transcriptional regulation of the mce3 operon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2002 148: 2997-3006. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stoyan Bardarov, Svetoslav Bardarov, Jr, Martin S. Pavelka, Jr, Vasan Sambandamurthy, Michelle Larsen, JoAnn Tufariello, John Chan, Graham Hatfull, and William R. Jacobs, Jr

Specialized transduction: an efficient method for generating marked and unmarked targeted gene disruptions in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, M. bovis BCG and M. smegmatis
Microbiology 2002 148: 3007-3017. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. M. Collins, T. Wilson, S. Campbell, B. M. Buddle, B. J. Wards, G. Hotter, and G. W. de Lisle

Production of avirulent mutants of Mycobacterium bovis with vaccine properties by the use of illegitimate recombination and screening of stationary-phase cultures
Microbiology 2002 148: 3019-3027. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pascal Ludwiczak, Martine Gilleron, Yann Bordat, Carlos Martin, Brigitte Gicquel, and Germain Puzo

Mycobacterium tuberculosis phoP mutant: lipoarabinomannan molecular structure
Microbiology 2002 148: 3029-3037. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anil Kr. Ojha, Saaket Varma, and Dipankar Chatterji

Synthesis of an unusual polar glycopeptidolipid in glucose-limited culture of Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2002 148: 3039-3048. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Devinder Kaur, Todd L. Lowary, Varalakshmi D. Vissa, Dean C. Crick, and Patrick J. Brennan

Characterization of the epitope of anti-lipoarabinomannan antibodies as the terminal hexaarabinofuranosyl motif of mycobacterial arabinans
Microbiology 2002 148: 3049-3057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ian C. Hancock, Stephen Carman, Gurdyal S. Besra, Patrick J. Brennan, and Emma Waite

Ligation of arabinogalactan to peptidoglycan in the cell wall of Mycobacterium smegmatis requires concomitant synthesis of the two wall polymers
Microbiology 2002 148: 3059-3067. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tanya Parish and Neil G. Stoker

The common aromatic amino acid biosynthesis pathway is essential in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2002 148: 3069-3077. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dharshini Jeevarajah, John H. Patterson, Malcolm J. McConville, and Helen Billman-Jacobe

Modification of glycopeptidolipids by an O-methyltransferase of Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2002 148: 3079-3087. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gilles Etienne, Christelle Villeneuve, Helen Billman-Jacobe, Catherine Astarie-Dequeker, Marie-Ange Dupont, and Mamadou Daffé

The impact of the absence of glycopeptidolipids on the ultrastructure, cell surface and cell wall properties, and phagocytosis of Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2002 148: 3089-3100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James D. Douglas, Suzanne J. Senior, Caroline Morehouse, Benjawan Phetsukiri, Ian B. Campbell, Gurdyal S. Besra, and David E. Minnikin

Analogues of thiolactomycin: potential drugs with enhanced anti-mycobacterial activity
Microbiology 2002 148: 3101-3109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Edith M. Dullaghan, Chad A. Malloff, Alice H. Li, Wan L. Lam, and Richard W. Stokes

Two-dimensional bacterial genome display: a method for the genomic analysis of mycobacteria
Microbiology 2002 148: 3111-3117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

José Astola, Manuel Muñoz, Marco Sempere, Pere Coll, Marina Luquin, and Pedro L. Valero-Guillén

The HPLC-double-cluster pattern of some Mycobacterium gordonae strains is due to their dicarboxy-mycolate content
Microbiology 2002 148: 3119-3127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Graham R. Stewart, Lorenz Wernisch, Richard Stabler, Joseph A. Mangan, Jason Hinds, Ken G. Laing, Douglas B. Young, and Philip D. Butcher

Dissection of the heat-shock response in Mycobacterium tuberculosis using mutants and microarrays
Microbiology 2002 148: 3129-3138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

S. S. Master, B. Springer, P. Sander, E. C. Boettger, V. Deretic, and G. S. Timmins

Oxidative stress response genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: role of ahpC in resistance to peroxynitrite and stage-specific survival in macrophages
Microbiology 2002 148: 3139-3144. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laurent Kremer, Yann Guérardel, Sudagar S. Gurcha, Camille Locht, and Gurdyal S. Besra

Temperature-induced changes in the cell-wall components of Mycobacterium thermoresistibile
Microbiology 2002 148: 3145-3154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Salomé Gomes and Rui Appelberg

NRAMP1- or cytokine-induced bacteriostasis of Mycobacterium avium by mouse macrophages is independent of the respiratory burst
Microbiology 2002 148: 3155-3160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lucy E. DesJardin, Thomas M. Kaufman, Brian Potts, Beth Kutzbach, Hong Yi, and Larry S. Schlesinger

Mycobacterium tuberculosis-infected human macrophages exhibit enhanced cellular adhesion with increased expression of LFA-1 and ICAM-1 and reduced expression and/or function of complement receptors, FcRII and the mannose receptor
Microbiology 2002 148: 3161-3171. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lanfranco Fattorini, Roberto Nisini, Yuming Fan, Yong-Jun Li, Dejiang Tan, Sabrina Mariotti, Raffaela Teloni, Elisabetta Iona, and Graziella Orefici

Exposure of BALB/c mice to low doses of Mycobacterium avium increases resistance to a subsequent high-dose infection
Microbiology 2002 148: 3173-3181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Tracey A. Hunt, Wen-Tao Peng, Isabelle Loubens, and Douglas G. Storey

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa alternative sigma factor PvdS controls exotoxin A expression and is expressed in lung infections associated with cystic fibrosis
Microbiology 2002 148: 3183-3193. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wael Sabra, Eun-Jin Kim, and An-Ping Zeng

Physiological responses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 to oxidative stress in controlled microaerobic and aerobic cultures
Microbiology 2002 148: 3195-3202. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tanja Egener, Abhijit Sarkar, Dietmar E. Martin, and Barbara Reinhold-Hurek

Identification of a NifL-like protein in a diazotroph of the ß-subgroup of the Proteobacteria, Azoarcus sp. strain BH72
Microbiology 2002 148: 3203-3212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Åkerlund, Björn Gullbrand, and Kurt Nordström

Effects of the Min system on nucleoid segregation in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2002 148: 3213-3222. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefanie B. Pluschkell and Michael C. Flickinger

Dissimilation of [¹³C]methanol by continuous cultures of Bacillus methanolicus MGA3 at 50 °C studied by ¹³C NMR and isotope-ratio mass spectrometry
Microbiology 2002 148: 3223-3233. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steve Garvis, Ji-Min Mei, Javier Ruiz-Albert, and David W. Holden

Staphylococcus aureus svrA: a gene required for virulence and expression of the agr locus
Microbiology 2002 148: 3235-3243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dieter J. Reinscheid, Claudia Stößer, Kerstin Ehlert, Ralph W. Jack, Kerstin Möller, Bernhard J. Eikmanns, and Gursharan S. Chhatwal

Influence of proteins Bsp and FemH on cell shape and peptidoglycan composition in group B streptococcus
Microbiology 2002 148: 3245-3254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicholas S. Jakubovics, Anthony W. Smith, and Howard F. Jenkinson

Oxidative stress tolerance is manganese (Mn²⁺) regulated in Streptococcus gordonii
Microbiology 2002 148: 3255-3263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daisuke Shiomi, Michio Homma, and Ikuro Kawagishi

Intragenic suppressors of a mutation in the aspartate chemoreceptor gene that abolishes binding of the receptor to methyltransferase
Microbiology 2002 148: 3265-3275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katrin Steinhauer, Tanja Jepp, Wolfgang Hillen, and Jörg Stülke

A novel mode of control of Mycoplasma pneumoniae HPr kinase/phosphatase activity reflects its parasitic lifestyle
Microbiology 2002 148: 3277-3284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert van der Geize, Gerda I. Hessels, and Lubbert Dijkhuizen

Molecular and functional characterization of the kstD2 gene of Rhodococcus erythropolis SQ1 encoding a second 3-ketosteroid ¹-dehydrogenase isoenzyme
Microbiology 2002 148: 3285-3292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jörg Tölle, Klaus-Peter Michel, Jochen Kruip, Uwe Kahmann, Angelika Preisfeld, and Elfriede K. Pistorius

Localization and function of the IdiA homologue Slr1295 in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803
Microbiology 2002 148: 3293-3305. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Slawomir Dabrowski, Marcin Olszewski, Rafal Piatek, Anna Brillowska-Dabrowska, Grazyna Konopa, and Jozef Kur

Identification and characterization of single-stranded-DNA-binding proteins from Thermus thermophilus and Thermus aquaticus – new arrangement of binding domains
Microbiology 2002 148: 3307-3315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shu-Ming Li, Lucia Westrich, Jürgen Schmidt, Christine Kuhnt, and Lutz Heide

Methyltransferase genes in Streptomyces rishiriensis: new coumermycin derivatives from gene-inactivation experiments
Microbiology 2002 148: 3317-3326. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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