MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Robert E. W. Hancock

Concerns regarding resistance to self-proteins
Microbiology 2003 149: 3343-3344. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Graham Bell

Response to Hancock
Microbiology 2003 149: 3344-3345. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

G. Di Lallo, M. Fagioli, D. Barionovi, P. Ghelardini, and L. Paolozzi

Use of a two-hybrid assay to study the assembly of a complex multicomponent protein machinery: bacterial septosome differentiation
Microbiology 2003 149: 3353-3359. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kaoru Inoue, Mack Sobhany, Thomas R. Transue, Keiji Oguma, Lars C. Pedersen, and Masahiko Negishi

Structural analysis by X-ray crystallography and calorimetry of a haemagglutinin component (HA1) of the progenitor toxin from Clostridium botulinum
Microbiology 2003 149: 3361-3370. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean Huaqian Jin and Andreas Seyfang

High-affinity myo-inositol transport in Candida albicans: substrate specificity and pharmacology
Microbiology 2003 149: 3371-3381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carrie A. Poore and Harry L. T. Mobley

Differential regulation of the Proteus mirabilis urease gene cluster by UreR and H-NS
Microbiology 2003 149: 3383-3394. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María J. Delgado, Nathalie Bonnard, Alvaro Tresierra-Ayala, Eulogio J. Bedmar, and Peter Müller

The Bradyrhizobium japonicum napEDABC genes encoding the periplasmic nitrate reductase are essential for nitrate respiration
Microbiology 2003 149: 3395-3403. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jirí Mazoch, Michal Kunák, Igor Kucera, and Rob J. M. van Spanning

Fine-tuned regulation by oxygen and nitric oxide of the activity of a semi-synthetic FNR-dependent promoter and expression of denitrification enzymes in Paracoccus denitrificans
Microbiology 2003 149: 3405-3412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ahmed Gaballa, Min Cao, and John D. Helmann

Two MerR homologues that affect copper induction of the Bacillus subtilis copZA operon
Microbiology 2003 149: 3413-3421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Perkins-Balding, M. T. Baer, and I. Stojiljkovic

Identification of functionally important regions of a haemoglobin receptor from Neisseria meningitidis
Microbiology 2003 149: 3423-3435. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dilip Chandu and Dipankar Nandi

PepN is the major aminopeptidase in Escherichia coli: insights on substrate specificity and role during sodium-salicylate-induced stress
Microbiology 2003 149: 3437-3447. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Milija Jovanovic, Mirjana Lilic, Dragutin J. Savic, and Goran Jovanovic

The LysR-type transcriptional regulator CysB controls the repression of hslJ transcription in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2003 149: 3449-3459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fernando Martínez-Morales, Max Schobert, Isabel M. López-Lara, and Otto Geiger

Pathways for phosphatidylcholine biosynthesis in bacteria
Microbiology 2003 149: 3461-3471. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew P. Tomaras, Caleb W. Dorsey, Richard E. Edelmann, and Luis A. Actis

Attachment to and biofilm formation on abiotic surfaces by Acinetobacter baumannii: involvement of a novel chaperone-usher pili assembly system
Microbiology 2003 149: 3473-3484. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Michael Feldgarden, Noah Byrd, and Frederick M. Cohan

Gradual evolution in bacteria: evidence from Bacillus systematics
Microbiology 2003 149: 3565-3573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Principal component analysis]  

David M. Gordon and Ann Cowling

The distribution and genetic structure of Escherichia coli in Australian vertebrates: host and geographic effects
Microbiology 2003 149: 3575-3586. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [HTML Page - index.htslp]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Angelina Ramos, María Pilar Honrubia, Noelia Valbuena, José Vaquera, Luis M. Mateos, and José A. Gil

Involvement of DivIVA in the morphology of the rod-shaped actinomycete Brevibacterium lactofermentum
Microbiology 2003 149: 3531-3542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Anja Battermann, Claudia Disse-Krömker, and Brigitte Dreiseikelmann

A functional plasmid-borne rrn operon in soil isolates belonging to the genus Paracoccus
Microbiology 2003 149: 3587-3593. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Begoña Torres, Susanne Jaenecke, Kenneth N. Timmis, José L. García, and Eduardo Díaz

A dual lethal system to enhance containment of recombinant micro-organisms
Microbiology 2003 149: 3595-3601. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

J. O'Callaghan, M. X. Caddick, and A. D. W. Dobson

A polyketide synthase gene required for ochratoxin A biosynthesis in Aspergillus ochraceus
Microbiology 2003 149: 3485-3491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Torun Wall, Stefan Roos, Karin Jacobsson, Anna Rosander, and Hans Jonsson

Phage display reveals 52 novel extracellular and transmembrane proteins from Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 20016^T
Microbiology 2003 149: 3493-3505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom Coenye and Peter Vandamme

Extracting phylogenetic information from whole-genome sequencing projects: the lactic acid bacteria as a test case
Microbiology 2003 149: 3507-3517. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Michael J. LaGier, Jan Tachezy, Frantisek Stejskal, Katerina Kutisova, and Janet S. Keithly

Mitochondrial-type iron–sulfur cluster biosynthesis genes (IscS and IscU) in the apicomplexan Cryptosporidium parvum
Microbiology 2003 149: 3519-3530. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MINI-REVIEW:

Jerry Eichler

Facing extremes: archaeal surface-layer (glyco)proteins
Microbiology 2003 149: 3347-3351. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

David L. Wilson, Julia A. Bell, Vincent B. Young, Stacey R. Wilder, Linda S. Mansfield, and John E. Linz

Variation of the natural transformation frequency of Campylobacter jejuni in liquid shake culture
Microbiology 2003 149: 3603-3615. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Sabet, S.-W. Lee, R. K. Nauman, T. Sims, and H.-S. Um

The surface (S-) layer is a virulence factor of Bacteroides forsythus
Microbiology 2003 149: 3617-3627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clarissa J. Nobile, Vincent M. Bruno, Mathias L. Richard, Dana A. Davis, and Aaron P. Mitchell

Genetic control of chlamydospore formation in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2003 149: 3629-3637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth A. Creasey, Devorah Friedberg, Robert K. Shaw, Tatiana Umanski, Stuart Knutton, Ilan Rosenshine, and Gad Frankel

CesAB is an enteropathogenic Escherichia coli chaperone for the type-III translocator proteins EspA and EspB
Microbiology 2003 149: 3639-3647. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. A. Sokol, U. Sajjan, M. B. Visser, S. Gingues, J. Forstner, and C. Kooi

The CepIR quorum-sensing system contributes to the virulence of Burkholderia cenocepacia respiratory infections
Microbiology 2003 149: 3649-3658. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Christine Baysse, Sandra Matthijs, Max Schobert, Gunhild Layer, Dieter Jahn, and Pierre Cornelis

Co-ordination of iron acquisition, iron porphyrin chelation and iron–protoporphyrin export via the cytochrome c biogenesis protein CcmC in Pseudomonas fluorescens
Microbiology 2003 149: 3543-3552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Manasherob, Arieh Zaritsky, Yifah Metzler, Eitan Ben-Dov, Mark Itsko, and Itzhak Fishov

Compaction of the Escherichia coli nucleoid caused by Cyt1Aa
Microbiology 2003 149: 3553-3564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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