MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Sigrid C. J. DeKeersmaecker and Jos Vanderleyden

Constraints on detection of autoinducer-2 (AI-2) signalling molecules using Vibrio harveyi as a reporter
Microbiology 2003 149: 1953-1956. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Howard Gest

Names of bacteria and their evolutionary relationships
Microbiology 2003 149: 1956-1958. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Mark Dopson, Craig Baker-Austin, P. Ram Koppineedi, and Philip L. Bond

Growth in sulfidic mineral environments: metal resistance mechanisms in acidophilic micro-organisms
Microbiology 2003 149: 1959-1970. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Miki Minamino, Ikuyo Sakaguchi, Takashi Naka, Norikazu Ikeda, Yoshiko Kato, Ikuko Tomiyasu, Ikuya Yano, and Kazuo Kobayashi

Bacterial ceramides and sphingophospholipids induce apoptosis of human leukaemic cells
Microbiology 2003 149: 2071-2081. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vincenza Faraco, Paola Giardina, and Giovanni Sannia

Metal-responsive elements in Pleurotus ostreatus laccase gene promoters
Microbiology 2003 149: 2155-2162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mani Maheswaran and Karl Forchhammer

Carbon-source-dependent nitrogen regulation in Escherichia coli is mediated through glutamine-dependent GlnB signalling
Microbiology 2003 149: 2163-2172. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia Bralley and George H. Jones

Overexpression of the polynucleotide phosphorylase gene (pnp) of Streptomyces antibioticus affects mRNA stability and poly(A) tail length but not ppGpp levels
Microbiology 2003 149: 2173-2182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hui Xu, Rainer Kahlich, Bernd Kammerer, Lutz Heide, and Shu-Ming Li

CloN2, a novel acyltransferase involved in the attachment of the pyrrole-2-carboxyl moiety to the deoxysugar of clorobiocin
Microbiology 2003 149: 2183-2191. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Ravn, José Arnau, Søren M. Madsen, Astrid Vrang, and Hans Israelsen

Optimization of signal peptide SP310 for heterologous protein production in Lactococcus lactis
Microbiology 2003 149: 2193-2201. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Drepper, Silke Groß, Alexander F. Yakunin, Patrick C. Hallenbeck, Bernd Masepohl, and Werner Klipp

Role of GlnB and GlnK in ammonium control of both nitrogenase systems in the phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus
Microbiology 2003 149: 2203-2212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhihao Hu, Blaine A. Pfeifer, Elizabeth Chao, Sumati Murli, Jim Kealey, John R. Carney, Gary Ashley, Chaitan Khosla, and C. Richard Hutchinson

A specific role of the Saccharopolyspora erythraea thioesterase II gene in the function of modular polyketide synthases
Microbiology 2003 149: 2213-2225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicola D. Walker, Neil R. McEwan, and R. John Wallace

Cloning and functional expression of dipeptidyl peptidase IV from the ruminal bacterium Prevotella albensis M384^T
Microbiology 2003 149: 2227-2234. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elaine Small and Stephen G. Addinall

Dynamic FtsZ polymerization is sensitive to the GTP to GDP ratio and can be maintained at steady state using a GTP-regeneration system
Microbiology 2003 149: 2235-2242. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Elena Garrido, Montserrat Bosch, Ricardo Medina, Anna Bigas, Montserrat Llagostera, Ana M. Pérez de Rozas, Ignacio Badiola, and Jordi Barbé

fur-independent regulation of the Pasteurella multocida hbpA gene encoding a haemin-binding protein
Microbiology 2003 149: 2273-2281. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Jianping Xu and Thomas G. Mitchell

Comparative gene genealogical analyses of strains of serotype AD identify recombination in populations of serotypes A and D in the human pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans
Microbiology 2003 149: 2147-2154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Liru Wang and Leo C. Vining

Control of growth, secondary metabolism and sporulation in Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230 by jadW₁, a member of the afsA family of -butyrolactone regulatory genes
Microbiology 2003 149: 1991-2004. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Satoshi Namekawa, Yosuke Ichijima, Fumika Hamada, Nobuyuki Kasai, Kazuki Iwabata, Takayuki Nara, Hirobumi Teraoka, Fumio Sugawara, and Kengo Sakaguchi

DNA ligase IV from a basidiomycete, Coprinus cinereus, and its expression during meiosis
Microbiology 2003 149: 2119-2128. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Céline Verheust, Gert Jensen, and Jacques Mahillon

pGIL01, a linear tectiviral plasmid prophage originating from Bacillus thuringiensis serovar israelensis
Microbiology 2003 149: 2083-2092. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Andreas Uldschmid, Renate Dombi, and Karin Marbach

Identification and functional expression of ctaA, a P-type ATPase gene involved in copper trafficking in Trametes versicolor
Microbiology 2003 149: 2039-2048. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ana Garcerá, Ana Isabel Martínez, Luis Castillo, M. Victoria Elorza, Rafael Sentandreu, and Eulogio Valentín

Identification and study of a Candida albicans protein homologous to Saccharomyces cerevisiae Ssr1p, an internal cell-wall protein
Microbiology 2003 149: 2137-2145. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Shin-ichi Miyata, Kenro Oshima, Shigeyuki Kakizawa, Hisashi Nishigawa, Hee-Young Jung, Tsutomu Kuboyama, Masashi Ugaki, and Shigetou Namba

Two different thymidylate kinase gene homologues, including one that has catalytic activity, are encoded in the onion yellows phytoplasma genome
Microbiology 2003 149: 2243-2250. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicole Desnoues, Min Lin, Xianwu Guo, Luyan Ma, Ricardo Carreño-Lopez, and Claudine Elmerich

Nitrogen fixation genetics and regulation in a Pseudomonas stutzeri strain associated with rice
Microbiology 2003 149: 2251-2262. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Jessica Indrigo, Robert L. Hunter, Jr, and Jeffrey K. Actor

Cord factor trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate (TDM) mediates trafficking events during mycobacterial infection of murine macrophages
Microbiology 2003 149: 2049-2059. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John P. Bannantine, Jason F. J. Huntley, Elizabeth Miltner, Judith R. Stabel, and Luiz E. Bermudez

The Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis 35 kDa protein plays a role in invasion of bovine epithelial cells
Microbiology 2003 149: 2061-2069. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth A. Creasey, Robin M. Delahay, Sarah J. Daniell, and Gad Frankel

Yeast two-hybrid system survey of interactions between LEE-encoded proteins of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2003 149: 2093-2106. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. R. Corbett, M. N. Burtnick, C. Kooi, D. E. Woods, and P. A. Sokol

An extracellular zinc metalloprotease gene of Burkholderia cepacia
Microbiology 2003 149: 2263-2271. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liang Chen, Daniel B. Paulsen, Daniel W. Scruggs, Michelle M. Banes, Brenda Y. Reeks, and Mark L. Lawrence

Alteration of DNA adenine methylase (Dam) activity in Pasteurella multocida causes increased spontaneous mutation frequency and attenuation in mice
Microbiology 2003 149: 2283-2290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brigitte A. Cowell, Sally S. Twining, Jeffrey A. Hobden, Mary S. F. Kwong, and Suzanne M. J. Fleiszig

Mutation of lasA and lasB reduces Pseudomonas aeruginosa invasion of epithelial cells
Microbiology 2003 149: 2291-2299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Hiroya Yurimoto, Bumjun Lee, Taisuke Yano, Yasuyoshi Sakai, and Nobuo Kato

Physiological role of S-formylglutathione hydrolase in C₁ metabolism of the methylotrophic yeast Candida boidinii
Microbiology 2003 149: 1971-1979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum]  

Eric Déziel, François Lépine, Sylvain Milot, and Richard Villemur

rhlA is required for the production of a novel biosurfactant promoting swarming motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: 3-(3-hydroxyalkanoyloxy)alkanoic acids (HAAs), the precursors of rhamnolipids
Microbiology 2003 149: 2005-2013. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

H.-L. Alakomi, M. Saarela, and I. M. Helander

Effect of EDTA on Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium involves a component not assignable to lipopolysaccharide release
Microbiology 2003 149: 2015-2021. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kumiko Nagata, Yoko Nagata, Tadashi Sato, Masayuki A. Fujino, Kazuhiko Nakajima, and Toshihide Tamura

L-Serine, D- and L-proline and alanine as respiratory substrates of Helicobacter pylori: correlation between in vitro and in vivo amino acid levels
Microbiology 2003 149: 2023-2030. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Kurdi, Hiroshi Tanaka, Hendrik W. van Veen, Kozo Asano, Fusao Tomita, and Atsushi Yokota

Cholic acid accumulation and its diminution by short-chain fatty acids in bifidobacteria
Microbiology 2003 149: 2031-2037. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Olivier Sand, Monica Gingras, Nancy Beck, Christine Hall, and Nancy Trun

Phenotypic characterization of overexpression or deletion of the Escherichia coli crcA, cspE and crcB genes
Microbiology 2003 149: 2107-2117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew P. MacCabe, Pilar Miró, Luisa Ventura, and Daniel Ramón

Glucose uptake in germinating Aspergillus nidulans conidia: involvement of the creA and sorA genes
Microbiology 2003 149: 2129-2136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Stéphane Uroz, Cathy D'Angelo-Picard, Aurélien Carlier, Miena Elasri, Carine Sicot, Annik Petit, Phil Oger, Denis Faure, and Yves Dessaux

Novel bacteria degrading N-acylhomoserine lactones and their use as quenchers of quorum-sensing-regulated functions of plant-pathogenic bacteria
Microbiology 2003 149: 1981-1989. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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