MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Lars Mølbak, Adrian Tett, David W. Ussery, Kerr Wall, Sarah Turner, Mark Bailey, and Dawn Field

The Plasmid Genome Database
Microbiology 2003 149: 3043-3045. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jacky L. Snoep and Brett G. Olivier

JWS Online Cellular Systems Modelling and Microbiology
Microbiology 2003 149: 3045-3047. [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Tendeng, O. A. Soutourina, A. Danchin, and P. N. Bertin

MvaT proteins in Pseudomonas spp.: a novel class of H-NS-like proteins
Microbiology 2003 149: 3047-3050. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Christopher R. Peabody, Yong Joon Chung, Ming-Ren Yen, Dominique Vidal-Ingigliardi, Anthony P. Pugsley, and Milton H. Saier, Jr

Type II protein secretion and its relationship to bacterial type IV pili and archaeal flagella
Microbiology 2003 149: 3051-3072. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Siu Ling Lam, Shane Kirby, and Anthony B. Schryvers

Foreign signal peptides can constitute a barrier to functional expression of periplasmic proteins in Haemophilus influenzae
Microbiology 2003 149: 3155-3164. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joel N. Maslow, Vida R. Irani, Sun-Hwa Lee, Torsten M. Eckstein, Julia M. Inamine, and John T. Belisle

Biosynthetic specificity of the rhamnosyltransferase gene of Mycobacterium avium serovar 2 as determined by allelic exchange mutagenesis
Microbiology 2003 149: 3193-3202. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Detsch and Jörg Stülke

Ammonium utilization in Bacillus subtilis: transport and regulatory functions of NrgA and NrgB
Microbiology 2003 149: 3289-3297. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yoshiko Okamoto-Hosoya, Takeshi Hosaka, and Kozo Ochi

An aberrant protein synthesis activity is linked with antibiotic overproduction in rpsL mutants of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology 2003 149: 3299-3309. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Monika Adamczyk-Poplawska, Aneta Kondrzycka, Katarzyna Urbanek, and Andrzej Piekarowicz

Tetra-amino-acid tandem repeats are involved in HsdS complementation in type IC restriction–modification systems
Microbiology 2003 149: 3311-3319. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

H. Kloosterman, G. I. Hessels, J. W. Vrijbloed, G. J. Euverink, and L. Dijkhuizen

(De)regulation of key enzyme steps in the shikimate pathway and phenylalanine-specific pathway of the actinomycete Amycolatopsis methanolica
Microbiology 2003 149: 3321-3330. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Iwona Mruk, Magdalena Cichowicz, and Tadeusz Kaczorowski

Characterization of the LlaCI methyltransferase from Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris W15 provides new insights into the biology of type II restriction–modification systems
Microbiology 2003 149: 3331-3341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Karina Sampson, Roger R. Lew, and I. Brent Heath

Time series analysis demonstrates the absence of pulsatile hyphal growth
Microbiology 2003 149: 3111-3119. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. Jiménez-Tobon, W. Kurzatkowski, B. Rozbicka, J. Solecka, I. Pocsi, and M. J. Penninckx

In situ localization of manganese peroxidase production in mycelial pellets of Phanerochaete chrysosporium
Microbiology 2003 149: 3121-3127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Jae Jun Jeong, Ji Hyun Kim, Chi-Kyung Kim, Ingyu Hwang, and Kyoung Lee

3- and 4-alkylphenol degradation pathway in Pseudomonas sp. strain KL28: genetic organization of the lap gene cluster and substrate specificities of phenol hydroxylase and catechol 2,3-dioxygenase
Microbiology 2003 149: 3265-3277. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helia Radianingtyas, Gary K. Robinson, and Alan T. Bull

Characterization of a soil-derived bacterial consortium degrading 4-chloroaniline
Microbiology 2003 149: 3279-3287. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Gerardo Medina, Katy Juárez, Rafael Díaz, and Gloria Soberón-Chávez

Transcriptional regulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa rhlR, encoding a quorum-sensing regulatory protein
Microbiology 2003 149: 3073-3081. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masato Kaji, Osamu Matsushita, Eiji Tamai, Shigeru Miyata, Yuki Taniguchi, Seiko Shimamoto, Seiichi Katayama, Shushi Morita, and Akinobu Okabe

A novel type of DNA curvature present in a Clostridium perfringens ferredoxin gene: characterization and role in gene expression
Microbiology 2003 149: 3083-3091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jun Xu and Zhen Zhen Gong

Intron requirement for AFP gene expression in Trichoderma viride
Microbiology 2003 149: 3093-3097. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy J. D. Goodwin, Margaret I. Butler, and Russell T. M. Poulter

Cryptons: a group of tyrosine-recombinase-encoding DNA transposons from pathogenic fungi
Microbiology 2003 149: 3099-3109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary sequence alignments]  

A. Schlüter, H. Heuer, R. Szczepanowski, L. J. Forney, C. M. Thomas, A. Pühler, and E. M. Top

The 64 508 bp IncP-1 antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pB10 isolated from a waste-water treatment plant provides evidence for recombination between members of different branches of the IncP-1 group
Microbiology 2003 149: 3139-3153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Ruth Griffin, Andrew D. Cox, Katherine Makepeace, James C. Richards, E. Richard Moxon, and Derek W. Hood

The role of lex2 in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Haemophilus influenzae strains RM7004 and RM153
Microbiology 2003 149: 3165-3175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tamsin D. Terry, Yaramah M. Zalucki, Shannon L. Walsh, P. J. Blackall, and Michael P. Jennings

Genetic analysis of a plasmid encoding haemocin production in Haemophilus paragallinarum
Microbiology 2003 149: 3177-3184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rigoberto Hernández-Castro, María Cruz Rodríguez, Asunción Seoane, and Juan María García Lobo

The aquaporin gene aqpX of Brucella abortus is induced in hyperosmotic conditions
Microbiology 2003 149: 3185-3192. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Desmond M. Collins, R. Pamela Kawakami, Bryce M. Buddle, Barry J. Wards, and Geoffrey W. de Lisle

Different susceptibility of two animal species infected with isogenic mutants of Mycobacterium bovis identifies phoT as having roles in tuberculosis virulence and phosphate transport
Microbiology 2003 149: 3203-3212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. M. Taylor, G. R. Stewart, M. Cooke, S. Chaplin, S. Ladva, J. Kirkup, S. Palmer, and D. B. Young

Koch's Bacillus – a look at the first isolate of Mycobacterium tuberculosis from a modern perspective
Microbiology 2003 149: 3213-3220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

G. W. P. Joshua, A. V. Karlyshev, M. P. Smith, K. E. Isherwood, R. W. Titball, and B. W. Wren

A Caenorhabditis elegans model of Yersinia infection: biofilm formation on a biotic surface
Microbiology 2003 149: 3221-3229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pablo Zunino, Vanessa Sosa, Andrew G. Allen, Andrew Preston, Geraldine Schlapp, and Duncan J. Maskell

Proteus mirabilis fimbriae (PMF) are important for both bladder and kidney colonization in mice
Microbiology 2003 149: 3231-3237. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Astrid Roosjen, Hans J. Kaper, Henny C. van der Mei, Willem Norde, and Henk J. Busscher

Inhibition of adhesion of yeasts and bacteria by poly(ethylene oxide)-brushes on glass in a parallel plate flow chamber
Microbiology 2003 149: 3239-3246. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Sue, Kathryn J. Boor, and Martin Wiedmann

^B-dependent expression patterns of compatible solute transporter genes opuCA and lmo1421 and the conjugated bile salt hydrolase gene bsh in Listeria monocytogenes
Microbiology 2003 149: 3247-3256. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Chris D. Powell, David E. Quain, and Katherine A. Smart

Chitin scar breaks in aged Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2003 149: 3129-3137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jian-Hong Li, Sophie Laurent, Viren Konde, Sylvie Bédu, and Cheng-Cai Zhang

An increase in the level of 2-oxoglutarate promotes heterocyst development in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120
Microbiology 2003 149: 3257-3263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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