MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Graham N. George, Ingrid J. Pickering, Eileen Y. Yu, and Roger C. Prince

X-ray absorption spectroscopy of bacterial sulfur globules
Microbiology 2002 148: 2267-2268. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander Prange, Christiane Dahl, Hans G. Trüper, Reinhold Chauvistré, Hartwig Modrow, and Josef Hormes

X-ray absorption spectroscopy of bacterial sulfur globules: a detailed reply
Microbiology 2002 148: 2268-2270. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akos Sveiczer, Attila Csikasz-Nagy, and Bela Novak

Morphogenetic checkpoint in fission yeast? Yes!
Microbiology 2002 148: 2270-2271. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ivan Rupes and Paul G. Young

Morphogenetic checkpoint in fission yeast? No!
Microbiology 2002 148: 2271-2272. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW ARTICLES:

Heather Panek and Mark R. O’Brian

A whole genome view of prokaryotic haem biosynthesis
Microbiology 2002 148: 2273-2282. [Full Text] [PDF]  

RESEARCH PAPERS:

Philip J. L. Bell, Anwar Sunna, Moreland D. Gibbs, Natalie C. Curach, Helena Nevalainen, and Peter L. Bergquist

Prospecting for novel lipase genes using PCR
Microbiology 2002 148: 2283-2291. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Z. Dong, C. D. Zelmer, M. J. Canny, M. E. McCully, B. Luit, B. Pan, R. S. Faustino, G. N. Pierce, and J. K. Vessey

Evidence for protection of nitrogenase from O₂ by colony structure in the aerobic diazotroph Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus
Microbiology 2002 148: 2293-2298. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yun H. Kong, Michael Beer, Gavin N. Rees, and Robert J. Seviour

Functional analysis of microbial communities in aerobic–anaerobic sequencing batch reactors fed with different phosphorus/carbon (P/C) ratios
Microbiology 2002 148: 2299-2307. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lovisa Björnsson, Philip Hugenholtz, Gene W. Tyson, and Linda L. Blackall

Filamentous Chloroflexi (green non-sulfur bacteria) are abundant in wastewater treatment processes with biological nutrient removal
Microbiology 2002 148: 2309-2318. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Woojun Park, Parasuraman Padmanabhan, Saraswathi Padmanabhan, Gerben J. Zylstra, and Eugene L. Madsen

nahR, encoding a LysR-type transcriptional regulator, is highly conserved among naphthalene-degrading bacteria isolated from a coal tar waste-contaminated site and in extracted community DNA
Microbiology 2002 148: 2319-2329. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Radajewski, Gordon Webster, David S. Reay, Samantha A. Morris, Philip Ineson, David B. Nedwell, James I. Prosser, and J. Colin Murrell

Identification of active methylotroph populations in an acidic forest soil by stable-isotope probing
Microbiology 2002 148: 2331-2342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Benjamin N. Mijts and Bharat K. C. Patel

Cloning, sequencing and expression of an -amylase gene, amyA, from the thermophilic halophile Halothermothrix orenii and purification and biochemical characterization of the recombinant enzyme
Microbiology 2002 148: 2343-2349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María J. Yebra and Gaspar Pérez-Martínez

Cross-talk between the L-sorbose and D-sorbitol (D-glucitol) metabolic pathways in Lactobacillus casei
Microbiology 2002 148: 2351-2359. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Gravesen, Manilduth Ramnath, K. Björn Rechinger, Natalie Andersen, Lothar Jänsch, Yann Héchard, John W. Hastings, and Susanne Knøchel

High-level resistance to class IIa bacteriocins is associated with one general mechanism in Listeria monocytogenes
Microbiology 2002 148: 2361-2369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Séverine Aendekerk, Bart Ghysels, Pierre Cornelis, and Christine Baysse

Characterization of a new efflux pump, MexGHI-OpmD, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that confers resistance to vanadium
Microbiology 2002 148: 2371-2381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Haridasan Chirakkal, Michele O’Rourke, Abdelmadjid Atrih, Simon J. Foster, and Anne Moir

Analysis of spore cortex lytic enzymes and related proteins in Bacillus subtilis endospore germination
Microbiology 2002 148: 2383-2392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey D. Miller and Herbert A. Thompson

Permeability of Coxiella burnetii to ribonucleosides
Microbiology 2002 148: 2393-2403. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katarzyna A. Palinska, Wassila Laloui, Sylvie Bédu, Susan Loiseaux-de Goer, Anne Marie Castets, Rosmarie Rippka, and Nicole Tandeau de Marsac

The signal transducer P_II and bicarbonate acquisition in Prochlorococcus marinus PCC 9511, a marine cyanobacterium naturally deficient in nitrate and nitrite assimilation
Microbiology 2002 148: 2405-2412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Markus Pötter, Mohamed H. Madkour, Frank Mayer, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Regulation of phasin expression and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granule formation in Ralstonia eutropha H16
Microbiology 2002 148: 2413-2426. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Michèle Valens, Anne-Cécile Broutelle, Mélanie Lefebvre, and Mark A. Blight

A zinc metalloprotease inhibitor, Inh, from the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens
Microbiology 2002 148: 2427-2437. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marco Zielinski, Silke Backhaus, and Bernd Hofer

The principal determinants for the structure of the substrate-binding pocket are located within a central core of a biphenyl dioxygenase subunit
Microbiology 2002 148: 2439-2448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Allison C. Lewin, Phillip A. Doughty, Lynda Flegg, Geoffrey R. Moore, and Stephen Spiro

The ferric uptake regulator of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has no essential cysteine residues and does not contain a structural zinc ion
Microbiology 2002 148: 2449-2456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia Lucas-Elío, Francisco Solano, and Antonio Sanchez-Amat

Regulation of polyphenol oxidase activities and melanin synthesis in Marinomonas mediterranea: identification of ppoS, a gene encoding a sensor histidine kinase
Microbiology 2002 148: 2457-2466. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dominique Rasoloson, Stepanka Vanacova, Eva Tomkova, Jakub Razga, Ivan Hrdy, Jan Tachezy, and Jaroslav Kulda

Mechanisms of in vitro development of resistance to metronidazole in Trichomonas vaginalis
Microbiology 2002 148: 2467-2477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Liebl, Wesley E. Kloos, and Wolfgang Ludwig

Plasmid-borne macrolide resistance in Micrococcus luteus
Microbiology 2002 148: 2479-2487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katarzyna Potrykus, Sandra Santos, Marc Lemonnier, Ramon Diaz-Orejas, and Grzegorz Wegrzyn

Differential effects of Kid toxin on two modes of replication of lambdoid plasmids suggest that this toxin acts before, but not after, the assembly of the replication complex
Microbiology 2002 148: 2489-2495. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel D. Rockey, Wasna Viratyosin, John P. Bannantine, Robert J. Suchland, and Walter E. Stamm

Diversity within inc genes of clinical Chlamydia trachomatis variant isolates that occupy non-fusogenic inclusions
Microbiology 2002 148: 2497-2505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wiebke Schreiber, Kelly D. Stone, Margaret A. Strong, Louis J. DeTolla, Jr, Michael Hoppert, and Michael S. Donnenberg

BfpU, a soluble protein essential for type IV pilus biogenesis in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2002 148: 2507-2518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniela Santapaola, Mariassunta Casalino, Andrea Petrucca, Carlo Presutti, Carlo Zagaglia, Francesca Berlutti, Bianca Colonna, and Mauro Nicoletti

Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli virulence-plasmid-carried apyrase (apy) and ospB genes are organized as a bicistronic operon and are subject to differential expression
Microbiology 2002 148: 2519-2529. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael L. Kotewicz, Baoguang Li, Dan D. Levy, J. Eugene LeClerc, Andrew W. Shifflet, and Thomas A. Cebula

Evolution of multi-gene segments in the mutS–rpoS intergenic region of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2
Microbiology 2002 148: 2531-2540. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emma Griffiths and Radhey S. Gupta

Protein signatures distinctive of chlamydial species: horizontal transfers of cell wall biosynthesis genes glmU from archaea to chlamydiae and murA between chlamydiae and Streptomyces
Microbiology 2002 148: 2541-2549. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

J. J. Wernegreen, Adam B. Lazarus, and Patrick H. Degnan

Small genome of Candidatus Blochmannia, the bacterial endosymbiont of Camponotus, implies irreversible specialization to an intracellular lifestyle
Microbiology 2002 148: 2551-2556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew A. Parker, Benedicte Lafay, Jeremy J. Burdon, and Peter van Berkum

Conflicting phylogeographic patterns in rRNA and nifD indicate regionally restricted gene transfer in Bradyrhizobium
Microbiology 2002 148: 2557-2565. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David L. Lakey, Yueru Zhang, Adel M. Talaat, Buka Samten, Lucy E. DesJardin, Kathleen D. Eisenach, Stephen A. Johnston, and Peter F. Barnes

Priming reverse transcription with oligo(dT) does not yield representative samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis cDNA
Microbiology 2002 148: 2567-2572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karin Schnetz

Silencing of the Escherichia coli bgl operon by RpoS requires Crl
Microbiology 2002 148: 2573-2578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seiya Watanabe, Naoto Yamaoka, Yasuhiro Takada, and Noriyuki Fukunaga

The cold-inducible icl gene encoding thermolabile isocitrate lyase of a psychrophilic bacterium, Colwellia maris
Microbiology 2002 148: 2579-2589. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Satoru Suzuma, Sayaka Asari, Keigo Bunai, Keiko Yoshino, Yoshinari Ando, Hiroshi Kakeshita, Masaya Fujita, Kouji Nakamura, and Kunio Yamane

Identification and characterization of novel small RNAs in the aspS–yrvM intergenic region of the Bacillus subtilis genome
Microbiology 2002 148: 2591-2598. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco J. Alvarez-Peral, Oscar Zaragoza, Yolanda Pedreno, and Juan-Carlos Argüelles

Protective role of trehalose during severe oxidative stress caused by hydrogen peroxide and the adaptive oxidative stress response in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2002 148: 2599-2606. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert C. Davidson, Jill R. Blankenship, Peter R. Kraus, Marisol de Jesus Berrios, Christina M. Hull, Cletus D’Souza, Ping Wang, and Joseph Heitman

A PCR-based strategy to generate integrative targeting alleles with large regions of homology
Microbiology 2002 148: 2607-2615. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhonghui Yang, Renata C. Pascon, Andrew Alspaugh, Gary M. Cox, and John H. McCusker

Molecular and genetic analysis of the Cryptococcus neoformans MET3 gene and a met3 mutant
Microbiology 2002 148: 2617-2625. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian G. Oliver, John C. Panepinto, David S. Askew, and Judith C. Rhodes

cAMP alteration of growth rate of Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger is carbon-source dependent
Microbiology 2002 148: 2627-2633. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mojca Saudohar, Mojca Bencina, Peter J.I van de Vondervoort, Henk Panneman, Matic Legisa, Jaap Visser, and George J. G. Ruijter

Cyclic AMP-dependent protein kinase is involved in morphogenesis of Aspergillus niger
Microbiology 2002 148: 2635-2645. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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