MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

N. B. Grover

The tadpole effect in Escherichia coli B/r
Microbiology 2002 148: 1603-1604. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Annabel H. A. Parret and René De Mot

Escherichia coli's uropathogenic-specific protein: a bacteriocin promoting infectivity?
Microbiology 2002 148: 1604-1606. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Richard E. Williams and Neil C. Bruce

‘New uses for an Old Enzyme’ – the Old Yellow Enzyme family of flavoenzymes
Microbiology 2002 148: 1607-1614. [Full Text] [PDF]  

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Julie Christie, Roderick McNab, and Howard F. Jenkinson

Expression of fibronectin-binding protein FbpA modulates adhesion in Streptococcus gordonii
Microbiology 2002 148: 1615-1625. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard J. Lamont, Azza El-Sabaeny, Yoonsuk Park, Guy S. Cook, J. William Costerton, and Donald R. Demuth

Role of the Streptococcus gordonii SspB protein in the development of Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilms on streptococcal substrates
Microbiology 2002 148: 1627-1636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Tauch, Susanne Schneiker, Werner Selbitschka, Alfred Pühler, Leo S. van Overbeek, Kornelia Smalla, Christopher M. Thomas, Mark J. Bailey, Larry J. Forney, Andrew Weightman, Piotr Ceglowski, Tony Pembroke, Erhard Tietze, Gunnar Schröder, Erich Lanka, and Jan Dirk van Elsas

The complete nucleotide sequence and environmental distribution of the cryptic, conjugative, broad-host-range plasmid pIPO2 isolated from bacteria of the wheat rhizosphere
Microbiology 2002 148: 1637-1653. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum]  

E. Fidelma Boyd and Matthew K. Waldor

Evolutionary and functional analyses of variants of the toxin-coregulated pilus protein TcpA from toxigenic Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 serogroup isolates
Microbiology 2002 148: 1655-1666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suat L. G. Cirillo, Ling Yan, Michael Littman, Mustapha M. Samrakandi, and Jeffrey D. Cirillo

Role of the Legionella pneumophila rtxA gene in amoebae
Microbiology 2002 148: 1667-1677. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia Matz, Arnoud H. M. van Vliet, Julian M. Ketley, and Charles W. Penn

Mutational and transcriptional analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni flagellar biosynthesis gene flhB
Microbiology 2002 148: 1679-1685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lyndsay Radnedge, Peter G. Agron, Patricia L. Worsham, and Gary L. Andersen

Genome plasticity in Yersinia pestis
Microbiology 2002 148: 1687-1698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giovanna Di Tomaso, Stefano Fedi, Monica Carnevali, Marco Manegatti, Carlo Taddei, and Davide Zannoni

The membrane-bound respiratory chain of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 cells grown in the presence or absence of potassium tellurite
Microbiology 2002 148: 1699-1708. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David C. Laux, Joy M. Corson, Michael Givskov, Morten Hentzer, Annette Møller, Kathleen A. Wosencroft, Joan C. Olson, Karen A. Krogfelt, Joanna B. Goldberg, and Paul S. Cohen

Lysophosphatidic acid inhibition of the accumulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 alginate, pyoverdin, elastase and LasA
Microbiology 2002 148: 1709-1723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donald A. MacKenzie, Andrew T. Carter, Prasert Wongwathanarat, John Eagles, Joanne Salt, and David B. Archer

A third fatty acid 9-desaturase from Mortierella alpina with a different substrate specificity to ole1p and ole2p
Microbiology 2002 148: 1725-1735. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary gas chromatogram]  

Michelle L. Hairfield, Caroline Westwater, and Joseph W. Dolan

Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase activity is stimulated during temperature-induced morphogenesis in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2002 148: 1737-1746. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Saskia van Selm, Marc A. B. Kolkman, Bernard A. M. van der Zeijst, Kornelisje A. Zwaagstra, Wim Gaastra, and Jos P. M. van Putten

Organization and characterization of the capsule biosynthesis locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 9V
Microbiology 2002 148: 1747-1755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dorota Kuczynska-Wisnik, Sabina Kçdzierska, Ewelina Matuszewska, Peter Lund, Alina Taylor, Barbara Lipinska, and Ewa Laskowska

The Escherichia coli small heat-shock proteins IbpA and IbpB prevent the aggregation of endogenous proteins denatured in vivo during extreme heat shock
Microbiology 2002 148: 1757-1765. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kohki Endo, Kuniaki Hosono, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda

A novel extracytoplasmic phenol oxidase of Streptomyces: its possible involvement in the onset of morphogenesis
Microbiology 2002 148: 1767-1776. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Magdalena Kotowska, Krzysztof Pawlik, Andrew R. Butler, Eric Cundliffe, Eriko Takano, and Katarzyna Kuczek

Type II thioesterase from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology 2002 148: 1777-1783. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sonia Senesi, Francesco Celandroni, Sara Salvetti, Douglas J. Beecher, Amy C. L. Wong, and Emilia Ghelardi

Swarming motility in Bacillus cereus and characterization of a fliY mutant impaired in swarm cell differentiation
Microbiology 2002 148: 1785-1794. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gustav Hambraeus, Kaisa Karhumaa, and Blanka Rutberg

A 5' stem–loop and ribosome binding but not translation are important for the stability of Bacillus subtilis aprE leader mRNA
Microbiology 2002 148: 1795-1803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. G. Hanson, Katrin Steinhauer, Jonathan Reizer, Wolfgang Hillen, and Jörg Stülke

HPr kinase/phosphatase of Bacillus subtilis: expression of the gene and effects of mutations on enzyme activity, growth and carbon catabolite repression
Microbiology 2002 148: 1805-1811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heike Claus, Martin C. J. Maiden, Rainer Maag, Matthias Frosch, and Ulrich Vogel

Many carried meningococci lack the genes required for capsule synthesis and transport
Microbiology 2002 148: 1813-1819. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth A. Stohl, Leslie Blount, and H. Steven Seifert

Differential cross-complementation patterns of Escherichia coli and Neisseria gonorrhoeae RecA proteins
Microbiology 2002 148: 1821-1831. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peixuan Zhu, Michael J. Klutch, Margaret C. Bash, Raymond S. W. Tsang, Lai-King Ng, and Chao-Ming Tsai

Genetic diversity of three lgt loci for biosynthesis of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in Neisseria species
Microbiology 2002 148: 1833-1844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Charles A. Roessner, Ke-xue Huang, Martin J. Warren, Evelyne Raux, and A. Ian Scott

Isolation and characterization of 14 additional genes specifying the anaerobic biosynthesis of cobalamin (vitamin B₁₂) in Propionibacterium freudenreichii (P. shermanii)
Microbiology 2002 148: 1845-1853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maïwenn Olier, Fabrice Pierre, Jean-Paul Lemaître, Charles Divies, André Rousset, and Jean Guzzo

Assessment of the pathogenic potential of two Listeria monocytogenes human faecal carriage isolates
Microbiology 2002 148: 1855-1862. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karola Waar, Henny C. van der Mei, Hermie J. M. Harmsen, John E. Degener, and Henk J. Busscher

Enterococcus faecalis surface proteins determine its adhesion mechanism to bile drain materials
Microbiology 2002 148: 1863-1870. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harivony Rakotoarivonina, Grégory Jubelin, Michel Hebraud, Brigitte Gaillard-Martinie, Evelyne Forano, and Pascale Mosoni

Adhesion to cellulose of the Gram-positive bacterium Ruminococcus albus involves type IV pili
Microbiology 2002 148: 1871-1880. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Motoko Watanabe, Yutaka Aoyagi, Hidemichi Mitome, Tsuyoshi Fujita, Hideo Naoki, Malin Ridell, and David E. Minnikin

Location of functional groups in mycobacterial meromycolate chains; the recognition of new structural principles in mycolic acids
Microbiology 2002 148: 1881-1902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric E. Allen and Douglas H. Bartlett

Structure and regulation of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase genes from the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum strain SS9
Microbiology 2002 148: 1903-1913. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin F. Kayser, Zöhre Ucurum, and Stéphane Vuilleumier

Dichloromethane metabolism and C₁ utilization genes in Methylobacterium strains
Microbiology 2002 148: 1915-1922. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jose Jason L. Cantera, Hiroko Kawasaki, and Tatsuji Seki

Evolutionary relationship of phototrophic bacteria in the -Proteobacteria based on farnesyl diphosphate synthase
Microbiology 2002 148: 1923-1929. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

André Sobczyk, Audrey Bellier, Julie Viala, and Philippe Mazodier

The lon gene, encoding an ATP-dependent protease, is a novel member of the HAIR/HspR stress-response regulon in actinomycetes
Microbiology 2002 148: 1931-1937. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fumika Kamada, Suzuna Abe, Nobuhiro Hiratsuka, Hiroyuki Wariishi, and Hiroo Tanaka

Mineralization of aromatic compounds by brown-rot basidiomycetes – mechanisms involved in initial attack on the aromatic ring
Microbiology 2002 148: 1939-1946. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hosam Elsaied, Hiroyuki Kimura, and Takeshi Naganuma

Molecular characterization and endosymbiotic localization of the gene encoding D-ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase–oxygenase (RuBisCO) form II in the deep-sea vestimentiferan trophosome
Microbiology 2002 148: 1947-1957. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Youzhong Li, Richard Parsons, David A. Day, and Fraser J. Bergersen

Reassessment of major products of N₂ fixation by bacteroids from soybean root nodules
Microbiology 2002 148: 1959-1966. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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