MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Paul S. Dyer, Mathieu Paoletti, and David B. Archer

Genomics reveals sexual secrets of Aspergillus
Microbiology 2003 149: 2301-2303. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gargi Bagchi, Mayuri, and Jaya S. Tyagi

Hypoxia-responsive expression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv3134c and devR promoters in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2003 149: 2303-2305. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Kousei Tanaka, Kazuo Kobayashi, and Naotake Ogasawara

The Bacillus subtilis YufLM two-component system regulates the expression of the malate transporters MaeN (YufR) and YflS, and is essential for utilization of malate in minimal medium
Microbiology 2003 149: 2317-2329. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thierry Doan, Pascale Servant, Shigeo Tojo, Hirotake Yamaguchi, Guillaume Lerondel, Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Yasutaro Fujita, and Stéphane Aymerich

The Bacillus subtilis ywkA gene encodes a malic enzyme and its transcription is activated by the YufL/YufM two-component system in response to malate
Microbiology 2003 149: 2331-2343. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

José Manuel Inácio, Carla Costa, and Isabel de Sá-Nogueira

Distinct molecular mechanisms involved in carbon catabolite repression of the arabinose regulon in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2003 149: 2345-2355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simone Laska, Friedrich Lottspeich, and Arnulf Kletzin

Membrane-bound hydrogenase and sulfur reductase of the hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon Acidianus ambivalens
Microbiology 2003 149: 2357-2371. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Stancek, Leif A. Isaksson, and Monica Rydén-Aulin

fusB is an allele of nadD, encoding nicotinate mononucleotide adenylyltransferase in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2003 149: 2427-2433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arantxa Palacín, Ricardo de la Fuente, Inmaculada Valle, Luis A. Rivas, and Rafael P. Mellado

Streptomyces lividans contains a minimal functional signal recognition particle that is involved in protein secretion
Microbiology 2003 149: 2435-2442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dylan C. Alexander, David J. Devlin, Duane D. Hewitt, Ann C. Horan, and Thomas J. Hosted

Development of the Micromonospora carbonacea var. africana ATCC 39149 bacteriophage pMLP1 integrase for site-specific integration in Micromonospora spp.
Microbiology 2003 149: 2443-2453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masaru Nagai, Maki Kawata, Hisayuki Watanabe, Machiko Ogawa, Kumiko Saito, Toshikazu Takesawa, Katsuhiro Kanda, and Toshitsugu Sato

Important role of fungal intracellular laccase for melanin synthesis: purification and characterization of an intracellular laccase from Lentinula edodes fruit bodies
Microbiology 2003 149: 2455-2462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Andreas Koehler, Helge Karch, Thomas Beikler, Thomas. F. Flemmig, Sebastian Suerbaum, and Herbert Schmidt

Multilocus sequence analysis of Porphyromonas gingivalis indicates frequent recombination
Microbiology 2003 149: 2407-2415. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qun Li, Matthew Hobbs, and Peter R. Reeves

The variation of dTDP-L-rhamnose pathway genes in Vibrio cholerae
Microbiology 2003 149: 2463-2474. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Lorelei B. Silverman-Gavrila and Roger R. Lew

Calcium gradient dependence of Neurospora crassa hyphal growth
Microbiology 2003 149: 2475-2485. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robin Green, Guillaume Lesage, Anne-Marie Sdicu, Patrice Ménard, and Howard Bussey

A synthetic analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae stress sensor Mid2p, and identification of a Mid2p-interacting protein, Zeo1p, that modulates the PKC1–MPK1 cell integrity pathway
Microbiology 2003 149: 2487-2499. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ryuji Shingaki, Yasuhiro Kasahara, Megumi Iwano, Masayoshi Kuwano, Tomomasa Takatsuka, Tetsuyoshi Inoue, Susumu Kokeguchi, and Kazuhiro Fukui

Induction of L-form-like cell shape change of Bacillus subtilis under microculture conditions
Microbiology 2003 149: 2501-2511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Takashi Nonaka, Taku Kuwabara, Hitomi Mimuro, Asaomi Kuwae, and Shinobu Imajoh-Ohmi

Shigella-induced necrosis and apoptosis of U937 cells and J774 macrophages
Microbiology 2003 149: 2513-2527. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Tina M. Salmassi and Jared R. Leadbetter

Analysis of genes of tetrahydrofolate-dependent metabolism from cultivated spirochaetes and the gut community of the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis
Microbiology 2003 149: 2529-2537. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ece S. Güner, Naoya Hashimoto, Teruki Kadosaka, Yasuyuki Imai, and Toshiyuki Masuzawa

A novel, fast-growing Borrelia sp. isolated from the hard tick Hyalomma aegyptium in Turkey
Microbiology 2003 149: 2539-2544. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Leka Papazisi, Timothy S. Gorton, Gerald Kutish, Philip F. Markham, Glenn F. Browning, Di Kim Nguyen, Steven Swartzell, Anup Madan, Greg Mahairas, and Steven J. Geary

The complete genome sequence of the avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum strain R_low
Microbiology 2003 149: 2307-2316. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Angus L. Dawe, Vanessa C. McMains, Maria Panglao, Shin Kasahara, Baoshan Chen, and Donald L. Nuss

An ordered collection of expressed sequences from Cryphonectria parasitica and evidence of genomic microsynteny with Neurospora crassa and Magnaporthe grisea
Microbiology 2003 149: 2373-2384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Doreen Hoffmann, Sabine Kleinsteuber, Roland H. Müller, and Wolfgang Babel

A transposon encoding the complete 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid degradation pathway in the alkalitolerant strain Delftia acidovorans P4a
Microbiology 2003 149: 2545-2556. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. I. Patzer, M. R. Baquero, D. Bravo, F. Moreno, and K. Hantke

The colicin G, H and X determinants encode microcins M and H47, which might utilize the catecholate siderophore receptors FepA, Cir, Fiu and IroN
Microbiology 2003 149: 2557-2570. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Pierre Gratia and Marc Thiry

Spontaneous zygogenesis in Escherichia coli, a form of true sexuality in prokaryotes
Microbiology 2003 149: 2571-2584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joshua T. Herbeck, Dennis P. Wall, and Jennifer J. Wernegreen

Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia
Microbiology 2003 149: 2585-2596. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Subhrajit Biswas, Monideepa Roy, and Asis Datta

N-Acetylglucosamine-inducible CaGAP1 encodes a general amino acid permease which co-ordinates external nitrogen source response and morphogenesis in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2003 149: 2597-2608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary sequence alignment]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Junkal Garmendia, Carmen R. Beuzón, Javier Ruiz-Albert, and David W. Holden

The roles of SsrA–SsrB and OmpR–EnvZ in the regulation of genes encoding the Salmonella typhimurium SPI-2 type III secretion system
Microbiology 2003 149: 2385-2396. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer Jagnow and Steven Clegg

Klebsiella pneumoniae MrkD-mediated biofilm formation on extracellular matrix- and collagen-coated surfaces
Microbiology 2003 149: 2397-2405. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Movie]  

Özlem Yilmaz, Patrick A. Young, Richard J. Lamont, and George E. Kenny

Gingival epithelial cell signalling and cytoskeletal responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis invasion
Microbiology 2003 149: 2417-2426. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomoaki Yoshida, Tsuyoshi Sugiyama, Naoki Koide, Isamu Mori, and Takashi Yokochi

Human microvascular endothelial cells resist Shiga toxins by IFN- treatment in vitro
Microbiology 2003 149: 2609-2614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeanette E. Bröms, Anna-Lena Forslund, Åke Forsberg, and Matthew S. Francis

Dissection of homologous translocon operons reveals a distinct role for YopD in type III secretion by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Microbiology 2003 149: 2615-2626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eun-Jin Kim, Wael Sabra, and An-Ping Zeng

Iron deficiency leads to inhibition of oxygen transfer and enhanced formation of virulence factors in cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Microbiology 2003 149: 2627-2634. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. S. Srinivasa Rao, Yoshiyuki Yamada, and Ka Yin Leung

A major catalase (KatB) that is required for resistance to H₂O₂ and phagocyte-mediated killing in Edwardsiella tarda
Microbiology 2003 149: 2635-2644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Menno Kok, Guillaume Bron, Bernhard Erni, and Seema Mukhija

Effect of enzyme I of the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate : sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) on virulence in a murine model
Microbiology 2003 149: 2645-2652. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

J. M. Tanzer, L. Grant, A. Thompson, L. Li, J. D. Rogers, E. M. Haase, and F. A. Scannapieco

Amylase-binding proteins A (AbpA) and B (AbpB) differentially affect colonization of rats' teeth by Streptococcus gordonii
Microbiology 2003 149: 2653-2660. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suzanne E. Greer-Phillips, Gladys Alexandre, Barry L. Taylor, and Igor B. Zhulin

Aer and Tsr guide Escherichia coli in spatial gradients of oxidizable substrates
Microbiology 2003 149: 2661-2667. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carole Camarasa, Jean-Philippe Grivet, and Sylvie Dequin

Investigation by ¹³C-NMR and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) deletion mutant analysis of pathways for succinate formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during anaerobic fermentation
Microbiology 2003 149: 2669-2678. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Diana Hernández-Romero, Patricia Lucas-Elío, Daniel López-Serrano, Francisco Solano, and Antonio Sanchez-Amat

Marinomonas mediterranea is a lysogenic bacterium that synthesizes R-bodies
Microbiology 2003 149: 2679-2686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Aurélie André, Walter Maccheroni, François Doignon, Monique Garnier, and Joël Renaudin

Glucose and trehalose PTS permeases of Spiroplasma citri probably share a single IIA domain, enabling the spiroplasma to adapt quickly to carbohydrate changes in its environment
Microbiology 2003 149: 2687-2696. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Sequence Alignment]  

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