MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Jean-Michel Panoff, Nathalie Desmasures, Bouachanh Thammavongs, and Micheline Guéguen

In situ protection of microbiodiversity is under consideration
Microbiology 2002 148: 625. [Full Text] [PDF]  

MINI-REVIEW:

Rüdiger Schmitt

Sinorhizobial chemotaxis: a departure from the enterobacterial paradigm
Microbiology 2002 148: 627-631. [Full Text] [PDF]  

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Thomas Wenner, Virginie Roth, Bernard Decaris, and Pierre Leblond

Intragenomic and intraspecific polymorphism of the 16S–23S rDNA internally transcribed sequences of Streptomyces ambofaciens
Microbiology 2002 148: 633-642. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicole K. Trepanier, Susan E. Jensen, Dylan C. Alexander, and Brenda K. Leskiw

The positive activator of cephamycin C and clavulanic acid production in Streptomyces clavuligerus is mistranslated in a bldA mutant
Microbiology 2002 148: 643-656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Stephen Reece, Cameron P. Simmons, Robert J. Fitzhenry, Miranda Batchelor, Christine Hale, Stephen Matthews, Alan D. Phillips, Gordon Dougan, and Gad Frankel

Mutagenesis of conserved tryptophan residues within the receptor-binding domain of intimin: influence on binding activity and virulence
Microbiology 2002 148: 657-665. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marco Soriani, Lorna Bailey, and Timothy R. Hirst

Contribution of the ADP-ribosylating and receptor-binding properties of cholera-like enterotoxins in modulating cytokine secretion by human intestinal epithelial cells
Microbiology 2002 148: 667-676. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jalal Taneera, Anthony P. Moran, Sean O. Hynes, Hans-Olof Nilsson, Waleed abu Al-Soud, and Torkel Wadström

Influence of activated charcoal, porcine gastric mucin and ß-cyclodextrin on the morphology and growth of intestinal and gastric Helicobacter spp.
Microbiology 2002 148: 677-684. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jyoti Velayudhan and David J. Kelly

Analysis of gluconeogenic and anaplerotic enzymes in Campylobacter jejuni: an essential role for phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase
Microbiology 2002 148: 685-694. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María J. Gosalbes, Carlos D. Esteban, and Gaspar Pérez-Martínez

In vivo effect of mutations in the antiterminator LacT in Lactobacillus casei
Microbiology 2002 148: 695-702. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alain Rincé, Marilyne Uguen, Yoann Le Breton, Jean-Christophe Giard, Sigrid Flahaut, Alain Dufour, and Yanick Auffray

The Enterococcus faecalis gene encoding the novel general stress protein Gsp62
Microbiology 2002 148: 703-711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander Kaplun, David M. Chipman, and Ze’ev Barak

Isoleucine starvation caused by sulfometuron methyl in Salmonella typhimurium measured by translational frameshifting
Microbiology 2002 148: 713-717. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Assunta Sansone, Patricia R. Watson, Timothy S. Wallis, Paul R. Langford, and J. Simon Kroll

The role of two periplasmic copper- and zinc-cofactored superoxide dismutases in the virulence of Salmonella choleraesuis
Microbiology 2002 148: 719-726. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Lloyd, James R. Ralphs, and Janine C. Harris

Giardia intestinalis, a eukaryote without hydrogenosomes, produces hydrogen
Microbiology 2002 148: 727-733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simona Kahane, Nina Kimmel, and Maureen G. Friedman

The growth cycle of Simkania negevensis
Microbiology 2002 148: 735-742. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claire L. Vogan, Carolina Costa-Ramos, and Andrew F. Rowley

Shell disease syndrome in the edible crab, Cancer pagurus – isolation, characterization and pathogenicity of chitinolytic bacteria
Microbiology 2002 148: 743-754. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grace Spatafora, Neal Van Hoeven, Katherine Wagner, and Paula Fives-Taylor

Evidence that ORF3 at the Streptococcus parasanguis fimA locus encodes a thiol-specific antioxidant
Microbiology 2002 148: 755-762. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicola A. Burgess, David F. Kirke, Paul Williams, Klaus Winzer, Kim R. Hardie, Nicholas L. Meyers, Joseph Aduse-Opoku, Michael A. Curtis, and Miguel Cámara

LuxS-dependent quorum sensing in Porphyromonas gingivalis modulates protease and haemagglutinin activities but is not essential for virulence
Microbiology 2002 148: 763-772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rachel Schneider, C. Virginia Lockatell, David Johnson, and Robert Belas

Detection and mutation of a luxS-encoded autoinducer in Proteus mirabilis
Microbiology 2002 148: 773-782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carlos A. Rivera-Marrero, Jeffrey D. Ritzenthaler, Sarah A. Newburn, Jesse Roman, and Richard D. Cummings

Molecular cloning and expression of a novel glycolipid sulfotransferase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2002 148: 783-792. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bridget G. Kelly, Daniel M. Wall, Clara A. Boland, and Wim G. Meijer

Isocitrate lyase of the facultative intracellular pathogen Rhodococcus equi
Microbiology 2002 148: 793-798. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gesche Heiss, Klaus W. Hofmann, Natalie Trachtmann, Dana M. Walters, Pierre Rouvière, and Hans-Joachim Knackmuss

npd gene functions of Rhodococcus (opacus) erythropolis HL PM-1 in the initial steps of 2,4,6-trinitrophenol degradation
Microbiology 2002 148: 799-806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katarína Muchová, Eva Kutejová, David J. Scott, James A. Brannigan, Richard J. Lewis, Anthony J. Wilkinson, and Imrich Barák

Oligomerization of the Bacillus subtilis division protein DivIVA
Microbiology 2002 148: 807-813. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vladimir Lazarevic, François-Xavier Abellan, Siham Beggah Möller, Dimitri Karamata, and Catherine Mauël

Comparison of ribitol and glycerol teichoic acid genes in Bacillus subtilis W23 and 168: identical function, similar divergent organization, but different regulation
Microbiology 2002 148: 815-824. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas B. Bartnikas, Yousheng Wang, Tanya Bobo, Andrei Veselov, Charles P. Scholes, and James P. Shapleigh

Characterization of a member of the NnrR regulon in Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.3 encoding a haem–copper protein
Microbiology 2002 148: 825-833. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reet Marits, Marina Tshuikina, Minna Pirhonen, Eve Laasik, and Andres Mäe

Regulation of the expression of prtW::gusA fusions in Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora
Microbiology 2002 148: 835-842. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Pikis, Stefan Immel, Stanley A. Robrish, and John Thompson

Metabolism of sucrose and its five isomers by Fusobacterium mortiferum
Microbiology 2002 148: 843-852. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ulrike Sydow, Pia Wohland, Irmgard Wolke, and Heribert Cypionka

Bioenergetics of the alkaliphilic sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfonatronovibrio hydrogenovorans
Microbiology 2002 148: 853-860. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María F. Vázquez-Bermúdez, Javier Paz-Yepes, Antonia Herrero, and Enrique Flores

The NtcA-activated amt1 gene encodes a permease required for uptake of low concentrations of ammonium in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942
Microbiology 2002 148: 861-869. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dariusz Bartosik, Jadwiga Baj, Aneta A. Bartosik, and Miroslawa Wlodarczyk

Characterization of the replicator region of megaplasmid pTAV3 of Paracoccus versutus and search for plasmid-encoded traits
Microbiology 2002 148: 871-881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elisabeth Sonnleitner, Isabella Moll, and Udo Bläsi

Functional replacement of the Escherichia coli hfq gene by the homologue of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2002 148: 883-891. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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