BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Lyudmila V. Nazarenko, Igor M. Andreev, Alexander A. Lyukevich, Tatiana V. Pisareva, and Dmitry A. Los

Calcium release from Synechocystis cells induced by depolarization of the plasma membrane: MscL as an outward Ca²⁺ channel
Microbiology 2003 149: 1147-1153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luis F. Larrondo, Marcela Avila, Loreto Salas, Dan Cullen, and Rafael Vicuña

Heterologous expression of laccase cDNA from Ceriporiopsis subvermispora yields copper-activated apoprotein and complex isoform patterns
Microbiology 2003 149: 1177-1182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marco J. L. de Groot, Peter J. I. van de Vondervoort, Ronald P. de Vries, Patricia A. vanKuyk, George J. G. Ruijter, and Jaap Visser

Isolation and characterization of two specific regulatory Aspergillus niger mutants shows antagonistic regulation of arabinan and xylan metabolism
Microbiology 2003 149: 1183-1191. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Iwona Wojda, Rebeca Alonso-Monge, Jan-Paul Bebelman, Willem H. Mager, and Marco Siderius

Response to high osmotic conditions and elevated temperature in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is controlled by intracellular glycerol and involves coordinate activity of MAP kinase pathways
Microbiology 2003 149: 1193-1204. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tatsuya Funahashi, Tomotaka Tanabe, Hiroaki Aso, Hiroshi Nakao, Yoshio Fujii, Keinosuke Okamoto, Shizuo Narimatsu, and Shigeo Yamamoto

An iron-regulated gene required for utilization of aerobactin as an exogenous siderophore in Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Microbiology 2003 149: 1217-1225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arihide Kamaguchi, Tohru Ohyama, Eiko Sakai, Reiko Nakamura, Toshihiro Watanabe, Hisae Baba, and Koji Nakayama

Adhesins encoded by the gingipain genes of Porphyromonas gingivalis are responsible for co-aggregation with Prevotella intermedia
Microbiology 2003 149: 1257-1264. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shigeo Abe, Tomohisa Okutsu, Harushi Nakajima, Nobuto Kakuda, Iwao Ohtsu, and Rikizo Aono

n-Hexane sensitivity of Escherichia coli due to low expression of imp/ostA encoding an 87 kDa minor protein associated with the outer membrane
Microbiology 2003 149: 1265-1273. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher K. Cote and Allen L. Honeyman

The LicT protein acts as both a positive and a negative regulator of loci within the bgl regulon of Streptococcus mutans
Microbiology 2003 149: 1333-1340. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mamta Rawat, Svetozar Kovacevic, Helen Billman-Jacobe, and Yossef Av-Gay

Inactivation of mshB, a key gene in the mycothiol biosynthesis pathway in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2003 149: 1341-1349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Wexler, J. D. Todd, O. Kolade, D. Bellini, A. M. Hemmings, G. Sawers, and A. W. B. Johnston

Fur is not the global regulator of iron uptake genes in Rhizobium leguminosarum
Microbiology 2003 149: 1357-1365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Christine Yeates, Aaron M. Saunders, Gregory R. Crocetti, and Linda L. Blackall

Limitations of the widely used GAM42a and BET42a probes targeting bacteria in the Gammaproteobacteria radiation
Microbiology 2003 149: 1239-1247. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Baoguang Li, Ho-Ching T. Tsui, J. Eugene LeClerc, Manashi Dey, Malcolm E. Winkler, and Thomas A. Cebula

Molecular analysis of mutS expression and mutation in natural isolates of pathogenic Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2003 149: 1323-1331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

R. El-Shehawy, C. Lugomela, A. Ernst, and B. Bergman

Diurnal expression of hetR and diazocyte development in the filamentous non-heterocystous cyanobacterium Trichodesmium erythraeum
Microbiology 2003 149: 1139-1146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melanie Bolte, Patrick Dieckhoff, Cindy Krause, Gerhard H. Braus, and Stefan Irniger

Synergistic inhibition of APC/C by glucose and activated Ras proteins can be mediated by each of the Tpk1–3 proteins in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2003 149: 1205-1216. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Caleb W. Dorsey, Marcelo E. Tolmasky, Jorge H. Crosa, and Luis A. Actis

Genetic organization of an Acinetobacter baumannii chromosomal region harbouring genes related to siderophore biosynthesis and transport
Microbiology 2003 149: 1227-1238. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ildikó Szeverényi, Zita Nagy, Tibor Farkas, Ferenc Olasz, and János Kiss

Detection and analysis of transpositionally active head-to-tail dimers in three additional Escherichia coli IS elements
Microbiology 2003 149: 1297-1310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amanda S. Nouwens, Scott A. Beatson, Cynthia B. Whitchurch, Bradley J. Walsh, Herbert P. Schweizer, John S. Mattick, and Stuart J. Cordwell

Proteome analysis of extracellular proteins regulated by the las and rhl quorum sensing systems in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Microbiology 2003 149: 1311-1322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masayuki Yamasaki, Yasuhiro Ikuto, Akiyo Ohira, Keith Chater, and Haruyasu Kinashi

Limited regions of homology between linear and circular plasmids encoding methylenomycin biosynthesis in two independently isolated streptomycetes
Microbiology 2003 149: 1351-1356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Andrew M. Edwards, David Dymock, Martin J. Woodward, and Howard F. Jenkinson

Genetic relatedness and phenotypic characteristics of Treponema associated with human periodontal tissues and ruminant foot disease
Microbiology 2003 149: 1083-1093. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pia T. Sunde, Ingar Olsen, Ulf B. Göbel, Dirk Theegarten, Sascha Winter, Gilberto J. Debelian, Leif Tronstad, and Annette Moter

Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) for direct visualization of bacteria in periapical lesions of asymptomatic root-filled teeth
Microbiology 2003 149: 1095-1102. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Javier Ruiz-Albert, Rosanna Mundy, Xiu-Jun Yu, Carmen R. Beuzón, and David W. Holden

SseA is a chaperone for the SseB and SseD translocon components of the Salmonella pathogenicity-island-2-encoded type III secretion system
Microbiology 2003 149: 1103-1111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer C. Miller and Brian Stevenson

Immunological and genetic characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi BapA and EppA proteins
Microbiology 2003 149: 1113-1125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marie-Annick Lety, Claude Frehel, Jean-luc Beretti, Patrick Berche, and Alain Charbit

Modification of the signal sequence cleavage site of listeriolysin O does not affect protein secretion but impairs the virulence of Listeria monocytogenes
Microbiology 2003 149: 1249-1255. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

María del Carmen Vargas, Sergio Encarnación, Araceli Dávalos, Agustín Reyes-Pérez, Yolanda Mora, Alejandro García-de los Santos, Susana Brom, and Jaime Mora

Only one catalase, katG, is detectable in Rhizobium etli, and is encoded along with the regulator OxyR on a plasmid replicon
Microbiology 2003 149: 1165-1176. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Megan Cooper, Gholam Reza Tavankar, and Huw D. Williams

Regulation of expression of the cyanide-insensitive terminal oxidase in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2003 149: 1275-1284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna Toptchieva, Gary Sisson, Louis J. Bryden, Diane E. Taylor, and Paul S. Hoffman

An inducible tellurite-resistance operon in Proteus mirabilis
Microbiology 2003 149: 1285-1295. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Ronald C. Keith, Lisa M. W. Keith, Gustavo Hernández-Guzmán, Srinivasa R. Uppalapati, and Carol L. Bender

Alginate gene expression by Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 in host and non-host plants
Microbiology 2003 149: 1127-1138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

THEORETICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Stephen M. Hunt, Martin A. Hamilton, John T. Sears, Gary Harkin, and Jason Reno

A computer investigation of chemically mediated detachment in bacterial biofilms
Microbiology 2003 149: 1155-1163. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary movie]  

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