MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David W. Ussery, Tim T. Binnewies, Rodrigo Gouveia-Oliveira, Hanne Jarmer, and Peter F. Hallin

Genome Update: DNA repeats in bacterial genomes
Microbiology 2004 150: 3519-3521. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timothy J. Donohue and Christopher M. Thomas

Policy proposal for publication of papers with data sets from genome-wide studies
Microbiology 2004 150: 3521-3522. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microarray Gene Expression Data Society

An open letter on microarray data from the MGED Society
Microbiology 2004 150: 3522-3524. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nick Coleman, Sasha Tetu, Neil Wilson, and Andrew Holmes

An unusual integron in Treponema denticola
Microbiology 2004 150: 3524-3526. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Purificación Cabello, M. Dolores Roldán, and Conrado Moreno-Vivián

Nitrate reduction and the nitrogen cycle in archaea
Microbiology 2004 150: 3527-3546. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Paulo Oliveira, Elsa Leitão, Paula Tamagnini, Pedro Moradas-Ferreira, and Fredrik Oxelfelt

Characterization and transcriptional analysis of hupSLW in Gloeothece sp. ATCC 27152: an uptake hydrogenase from a unicellular cyanobacterium
Microbiology 2004 150: 3647-3655. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Caleb W. Dorsey, Andrew P. Tomaras, Pamela L. Connerly, Marcelo E. Tolmasky, Jorge H. Crosa, and Luis A. Actis

The siderophore-mediated iron acquisition systems of Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606 and Vibrio anguillarum 775 are structurally and functionally related
Microbiology 2004 150: 3657-3667. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Pierre Daguer, Thomas Geissmann, Marie-Françoise Petit-Glatron, and Régis Chambert

Autogenous modulation of the Bacillus subtilis sacB–levB–yveA levansucrase operon by the levB transcript
Microbiology 2004 150: 3669-3679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Kralj, G. H. van Geel-Schutten, M. M. G. Dondorff, S. Kirsanovs, M. J. E. C. van der Maarel, and L. Dijkhuizen

Glucan synthesis in the genus Lactobacillus: isolation and characterization of glucansucrase genes, enzymes and glucan products from six different strains
Microbiology 2004 150: 3681-3690. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhanna I. Budarina, Dmitri V. Nikitin, Nikolay Zenkin, Marina Zakharova, Ekaterina Semenova, Michael G. Shlyapnikov, Ekaterina A. Rodikova, Svetlana Masyukova, Oleg Ogarkov, Gleb E. Baida, Alexander S. Solonin, and Konstantin Severinov

A new Bacillus cereus DNA-binding protein, HlyIIR, negatively regulates expression of B. cereus haemolysin II
Microbiology 2004 150: 3691-3701. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bert Boesten and Ursula B. Priefer

The C-terminal receiver domain of the Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae FixL protein is required for free-living microaerobic induction of the fnrN promoter
Microbiology 2004 150: 3703-3713. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gabriele Gerlach, Simone Janzen, Dagmar Beier, and Roy Gross

Functional characterization of the BvgAS two-component system of Bordetella holmesii
Microbiology 2004 150: 3715-3729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

I. Torrecilla, F. Leganés, I. Bonilla, and F. Fernández-Piñas

A calcium signal is involved in heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC7120
Microbiology 2004 150: 3731-3739. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Man-Tak Wong, Fea Mein Tan, Wun Jern Ng, and Wen-Tso Liu

Identification and occurrence of tetrad-forming Alphaproteobacteria in anaerobic–aerobic activated sludge processes
Microbiology 2004 150: 3741-3748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robin L. Stingley, Barbara Brezna, Ashraf A. Khan, and Carl E. Cerniglia

Novel organization of genes in a phthalate degradation operon of Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1
Microbiology 2004 150: 3749-3761. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Abigail K. P. Harris, Neil R. Williamson, Holly Slater, Anthony Cox, Sophia Abbasi, Ian Foulds, Henrik T. Simonsen, Finian J. Leeper, and George P. C. Salmond

The Serratia gene cluster encoding biosynthesis of the red antibiotic, prodigiosin, shows species- and strain-dependent genome context variation
Microbiology 2004 150: 3547-3560. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sergio Casas-Flores, Mauricio Rios-Momberg, Martha Bibbins, Patricia Ponce-Noyola, and Alfredo Herrera-Estrella

BLR-1 and BLR-2, key regulatory elements of photoconidiation and mycelial growth in Trichoderma atroviride
Microbiology 2004 150: 3561-3569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dmitry A. Rodionov, Mikhail S. Gelfand, and Nicole Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat

Comparative genomics of the KdgR regulon in Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937 and other gamma-proteobacteria
Microbiology 2004 150: 3571-3590. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

H. Heuer, R. Szczepanowski, S. Schneiker, A. Pühler, E. M. Top, and A. Schlüter

The complete sequences of plasmids pB2 and pB3 provide evidence for a recent ancestor of the IncP-1 group without any accessory genes
Microbiology 2004 150: 3591-3599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jos Boekhorst, Roland J. Siezen, Marie-Camille Zwahlen, David Vilanova, Raymond D. Pridmore, Annick Mercenier, Michiel Kleerebezem, Willem M. de Vos, Harald Brüssow, and Frank Desiere

The complete genomes of Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus johnsonii reveal extensive differences in chromosome organization and gene content
Microbiology 2004 150: 3601-3611. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Rafael Szczepanowski, Irene Krahn, Burkhard Linke, Alexander Goesmann, Alfred Pühler, and Andreas Schlüter

Antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pRSB101 isolated from a wastewater treatment plant is related to plasmids residing in phytopathogenic bacteria and carries eight different resistance determinants including a multidrug transport system
Microbiology 2004 150: 3613-3630. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicholas A. Saunders, Anthony Underwood, Angela M. Kearns, and Gillian Hallas

A virulence-associated gene microarray: a tool for investigation of the evolution and pathogenic potential of Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2004 150: 3763-3771. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Piotr Zaleski and Andrzej Piekarowicz

Characterization of a dam mutant of Haemophilus influenzae Rd
Microbiology 2004 150: 3773-3781. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerard Mazón, Ivan Erill, Susana Campoy, Pilar Cortés, Evelyne Forano, and Jordi Barbé

Reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the LexA-binding sequence
Microbiology 2004 150: 3783-3795. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Landon W. Westfall, A. Marie Luna, Michael San Francisco, Stephen P. Diggle, Kathryn E. Worrall, Paul Williams, Miguel Cámara, and Abdul N. Hamood

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa global regulator MvaT specifically binds to the ptxS upstream region and enhances ptxS expression
Microbiology 2004 150: 3797-3806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Francis Dziva, Pauline M. van Diemen, Mark P. Stevens, Amanda J. Smith, and Timothy S. Wallis

Identification of Escherichia coli O157 : H7 genes influencing colonization of the bovine gastrointestinal tract using signature-tagged mutagenesis
Microbiology 2004 150: 3631-3645. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bénédicte Fournier and André Klier

Protein A gene expression is regulated by DNA supercoiling which is modified by the ArlS–ArlR two-component system of Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2004 150: 3807-3819. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joakim Starck, Gunilla Källenius, Britt-Inger Marklund, Dan I. Andersson, and Thomas Åkerlund

Comparative proteome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis grown under aerobic and anaerobic conditions
Microbiology 2004 150: 3821-3829. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer Mitchell, Anne Tristan, and Timothy J. Foster

Characterization of the fibrinogen-binding surface protein Fbl of Staphylococcus lugdunensis
Microbiology 2004 150: 3831-3841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Sue, Daniel Fink, Martin Wiedmann, and Kathryn J. Boor

^B-dependent gene induction and expression in Listeria monocytogenes during osmotic and acid stress conditions simulating the intestinal environment
Microbiology 2004 150: 3843-3855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Michelle R. Rondon, Katie S. Ballering, and Michael G. Thomas

Identification and analysis of a siderophore biosynthetic gene cluster from Agrobacterium tumefaciens C58
Microbiology 2004 150: 3857-3866. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Danièle Cavard

Role of Cal, the colicin A lysis protein, in two steps of colicin A release and in the interaction with colicin A–porin complexes
Microbiology 2004 150: 3867-3875. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sergio Palacios and Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena

2-Methylcitrate-dependent activation of the propionate catabolic operon (prpBCDE) of Salmonella enterica by the PrpR protein
Microbiology 2004 150: 3877-3887. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Silvia Capdevila, Francisco M. Martínez-Granero, María Sánchez-Contreras, Rafael Rivilla, and Marta Martín

Analysis of Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 genes implicated in flagellar filament synthesis and their role in competitive root colonization
Microbiology 2004 150: 3889-3897. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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