MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Jessica B. Warner and Juke S. Lolkema

LacZ-promoter fusions: the effect of growth
Microbiology 2002 148: 1241-1243. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ildefonso Cases and Victor de Lorenzo

The genomes of Pseudomonas encode a third HU protein
Microbiology 2002 148: 1243-1245. [Full Text] [PDF]  

MINI-REVIEW:

J. Arjan G. M. de Visser

The fate of microbial mutators
Microbiology 2002 148: 1247-1252. [Full Text] [PDF]  

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Jianping Xu, Christophe Desmerger, and Philippe Callac

Fine-scale genetic analyses reveal unexpected spatial-temporal heterogeneity in two natural populations of the commercial mushroom Agaricus bisporus
Microbiology 2002 148: 1253-1262. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher R. Thornton, Dennis Pitt, Gavin E. Wakley, and Nicholas J. Talbot

Production of a monoclonal antibody specific to the genus Trichoderma and closely related fungi, and its use to detect Trichoderma spp. in naturally infested composts
Microbiology 2002 148: 1263-1279. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oscar Zaragoza, Claudio de Virgilio, José Pontón, and Carlos Gancedo

Disruption in Candida albicans of the TPS2 gene encoding trehalose-6-phosphate phosphatase affects cell integrity and decreases infectivity
Microbiology 2002 148: 1281-1290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Silvino Sousa, Megan M. McLaughlin, Sarita A. Pereira, Stephanie VanHorn, Robert Knowlton, James R. Brown, Richard O. Nicholas, and George P. Livi

The ARO4 gene of Candida albicans encodes a tyrosine-sensitive DAHP synthase: evolution, functional conservation and phenotype of Aro3p-, Aro4p-deficient mutants
Microbiology 2002 148: 1291-1303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jesús Delgado-Jarana, Ana M. Rincón, and Tahía Benítez

Aspartyl protease from Trichoderma harzianum CECT 2413: cloning and characterization
Microbiology 2002 148: 1305-1315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank Riffer, Katrin Eisfeld, Frank Breinig, and Manfred J. Schmitt

Mutational analysis of K28 preprotoxin processing in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2002 148: 1317-1328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María Iranzo, Carmen Aguado, Claudia Pallotti, Jose V. Cañizares, and Salvador Mormeneo

Transglutaminase activity is involved in Saccharomyces cerevisiae wall construction
Microbiology 2002 148: 1329-1334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayuki Ichinomiya, Takayuki Motoyama, Makoto Fujiwara, Masamichi Takagi, Hiroyuki Horiuchi, and Akinori Ohta

Repression of chsB expression reveals the functional importance of class IV chitin synthase gene chsD in hyphal growth and conidiation of Aspergillus nidulans
Microbiology 2002 148: 1335-1347. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Lloyd, Janine C. Harris, Sarah Maroulis, Ron Wadley, James R. Ralphs, Ao C. Hann, Michael P. Turner, and Michael R. Edwards

The ‘primitive’ microaerophile Giardia intestinalis (syn. lamblia, duodenalis) has specialized membranes with electron transport and membrane-potential-generating functions
Microbiology 2002 148: 1349-1354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert K. Shaw, Sarah Daniell, Gad Frankel, and Stuart Knutton

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli translocate Tir and form an intimin–Tir intimate attachment to red blood cell membranes
Microbiology 2002 148: 1355-1365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenneth S. Bell, Anna O. Avrova, Maria C. Holeva, Linda Cardle, Wayne Morris, Walter De Jong, Ian K. Toth, Robbie Waugh, Glenn J. Bryan, and Paul R. J. Birch

Sample sequencing of a selected region of the genome of Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica reveals candidate phytopathogenicity genes and allows comparison with Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2002 148: 1367-1378. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rudolf Gmür and Thomas Thurnheer

Direct quantitative differentiation between Prevotella intermedia and Prevotella nigrescens in clinical specimens
Microbiology 2002 148: 1379-1387. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hisashi Nishigawa, Kenro Oshima, Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Hee-young Jung, Tsutomu Kuboyama, Shin-ichi Miyata, Masashi Ugaki, and Shigetou Namba

Evidence of intermolecular recombination between extrachromosomal DNAs in phytoplasma: a trigger for the biological diversity of phytoplasma?
Microbiology 2002 148: 1389-1396. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Ewering, Tina Lütke-Eversloh, Heinrich Luftmann, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Identification of novel sulfur-containing bacterial polyesters: biosynthesis of poly(3-hydroxy-S-propyl--thioalkanoates) containing thioether linkages in the side chains
Microbiology 2002 148: 1397-1406. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Héctor M. Alvarez, Heinrich Luftmann, Roxana A. Silva, Ana C. Cesari, Alberto Viale, Marc Wältermann, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Identification of phenyldecanoic acid as a constituent of triacylglycerols and wax ester produced by Rhodococcus opacus PD630
Microbiology 2002 148: 1407-1412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mónica Fernández, Yolanda Cuadrado, Eliseo Recio, Jesús F. Aparicio, and Juan F. Martín

Characterization of the hom–thrC–thrB cluster in aminoethoxyvinylglycine-producing Streptomyces sp. NRRL 5331
Microbiology 2002 148: 1413-1420. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia Bralley and George H. Jones

cDNA cloning confirms the polyadenylation of RNA decay intermediates in Streptomyces coelicolor
Microbiology 2002 148: 1421-1425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Encarnación Mellado, Luis Miguel Lorenzana, Marta Rodríguez-Sáiz, Bruno Díez, Paloma Liras, and José Luis Barredo

The clavulanic acid biosynthetic cluster of Streptomyces clavuligerus: genetic organization of the region upstream of the car gene
Microbiology 2002 148: 1427-1438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masahisa Watarai, Sou-ichi Makino, and Toshikazu Shirahata

An essential virulence protein of Brucella abortus, VirB4, requires an intact nucleoside-triphosphate-binding domain
Microbiology 2002 148: 1439-1446. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marta Marchetti and Rino Rappuoli

Isogenic mutants of the cag pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori in the mouse model of infection: effects on colonization efficiency
Microbiology 2002 148: 1447-1456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janja Trcek, Gottfried Wilharm, Christoph A. Jacobi, and Jürgen Heesemann

Yersinia enterocolitica YopQ: strain-dependent cytosolic accumulation and post-translational secretion
Microbiology 2002 148: 1457-1465. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Townsend, Linda Goodwin, Tania M. Stevanin, Paul B. Silcocks, Andrew Parker, Martin C. J. Maiden, and Robert C. Read

Invasion by Neisseria meningitidis varies widely between clones and among nasopharyngeal mucosae derived from adult human hosts
Microbiology 2002 148: 1467-1474. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen T. Elvers and Simon F. Park

Quorum sensing in Campylobacter jejuni: detection of a luxS encoded signalling molecule
Microbiology 2002 148: 1475-1481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea Marra, Stacey Lawson, Jyoti S. Asundi, Daniel Brigham, and Alexander E. Hromockyj

In vivo characterization of the psa genes from Streptococcus pneumoniae in multiple models of infection
Microbiology 2002 148: 1483-1491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karine Rolland, Laurent Mereghetti, Stephane Watt, Sonia Chatellier, and Roland Quentin

tRNA gene clusters at the 3' end of rRNA operons are specific to virulent subgroups of Streptococcus agalactiae strains, as demonstrated by molecular differential analysis at the population level
Microbiology 2002 148: 1493-1499. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernd Kreikemeyer, Susanne Beckert, Andrea Braun-Kiewnick, and Andreas Podbielski

Group A streptococcal RofA-type global regulators exhibit a strain-specific genomic presence and regulation pattern
Microbiology 2002 148: 1501-1511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David M. Gordon, Sonja Bauer, and James R. Johnson

The genetic structure of Escherichia coli populations in primary and secondary habitats
Microbiology 2002 148: 1513-1522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helene Oberreuter, Joachim Charzinski, and Siegfried Scherer

Intraspecific diversity of Brevibacterium linens, Corynebacterium glutamicum and Rhodococcus erythropolis based on partial 16S rDNA sequence analysis and Fourier-transform infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy
Microbiology 2002 148: 1523-1532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Magdalena Gabig, Anna Herman-Antosiewicz, Marta Kwiatkowska, Marcin Los, Mark S. Thomas, and Grzegorz Wegrzyn

The cell surface protein Ag43 facilitates phage infection of Escherichia coli in the presence of bile salts and carbohydrates
Microbiology 2002 148: 1533-1542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olga A. Soutourina, Evelyne Krin, Christine Laurent-Winter, Florence Hommais, Antoine Danchin, and Philippe N. Bertin

Regulation of bacterial motility in response to low pH in Escherichia coli: the role of H-NS protein
Microbiology 2002 148: 1543-1551. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evelyne Krin, Odile Sismeiro, Antoine Danchin, and Philippe N. Bertin

The regulation of Enzyme IIA^Glc expression controls adenylate cyclase activity in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2002 148: 1553-1559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sang-Jin Suh, Laura J. Runyen-Janecky, Tricia C. Maleniak, Paul Hager, Carolyn H. MacGregor, Nicolette A. Zielinski-Mozny, Paul V. Phibbs, Jr, and Susan E. H. West

Effect of vfr mutation on global gene expression and catabolite repression control of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2002 148: 1561-1569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Russell J. Hobson, Alan J. A. McBride, Karen E. Kempsell, and Jeremy W. Dale

Use of an arrayed promoter-probe library for the identification of macrophage-regulated genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2002 148: 1571-1579. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. O. Shleeva, K. Bagramyan, M. V. Telkov, G. V. Mukamolova, M. Young, D. B. Kell, and A. S. Kaprelyants

Formation and resuscitation of ‘non-culturable’ cells of Rhodococcus rhodochrous and Mycobacterium tuberculosis in prolonged stationary phase
Microbiology 2002 148: 1581-1591. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zoltán Prágai and Colin R. Harwood

Regulatory interactions between the Pho and ^B-dependent general stress regulons of Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2002 148: 1593-1602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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