MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David W. Ussery and Peter F. Hallin

Genome Update: AT content in sequenced prokaryotic genomes
Microbiology 2004 150: 749-752. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pierre Cornelis and Séverine Aendekerk

A new regulator linking quorum sensing and iron uptake in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2004 150: 752-756. [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Wainwright, N. C. Wickramasinghe, J. V. Narlikar, and P. Rajaratnam

Are these stratospheric nanoparticles bacteria?
Microbiology 2004 150: 756-758. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Chantal Brüggemann, Karin Denger, Alasdair M. Cook, and Jürgen Ruff

Enzymes and genes of taurine and isethionate dissimilation in Paracoccus denitrificans
Microbiology 2004 150: 805-816. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deepak Kumar Saini, Vandana Malhotra, Deepanwita Dey, Neha Pant, Taposh K. Das, and Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi

DevR–DevS is a bona fide two-component system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is hypoxia-responsive in the absence of the DNA-binding domain of DevR
Microbiology 2004 150: 865-875. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ingo G. Janausch, Inma Garcia-Moreno, Daniela Lehnen, Yvonne Zeuner, and Gottfried Unden

Phosphorylation and DNA binding of the regulator DcuR of the fumarate-responsive two-component system DcuSR of Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2004 150: 877-883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Estelle Foster, Qin Sheng, Jonathan R. McClain, Mark Bures, Thalia I. Nicas, Kenneth Henry, Malcolm E. Winkler, and Raymond Gilmour

Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of new classes of inhibitors of two-component signal transduction systems using a coupled assay containing HpkA–DrrA from Thermotoga maritima
Microbiology 2004 150: 885-896. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Sylviane Derzelle, Saravuth Ngo, Évelyne Turlin, Éric Duchaud, Abdelkader Namane, Frank Kunst, Antoine Danchin, Philippe Bertin, and Jean-François Charles

AstR–AstS, a new two-component signal transduction system, mediates swarming, adaptation to stationary phase and phenotypic variation in Photorhabdus luminescens
Microbiology 2004 150: 897-910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toshiharu Yakushi, Masaru Kojima, and Michio Homma

Isolation of Vibrio alginolyticus sodium-driven flagellar motor complex composed of PomA and PomB solubilized by sucrose monocaprate
Microbiology 2004 150: 911-920. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Serena Selvaggini, Carol A. Munro, Serge Paschoud, Dominique Sanglard, and Neil A. R. Gow

Independent regulation of chitin synthase and chitinase activity in Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2004 150: 921-928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Romeo Lascaris, Jan Piwowarski, Hans van der Spek, Joost Teixeira de Mattos, Les Grivell, and Jolanda Blom

Overexpression of HAP4 in glucose-derepressed yeast cells reveals respiratory control of glucose-regulated genes
Microbiology 2004 150: 929-934. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marianne Ilbert, Vincent Méjean, and Chantal Iobbi-Nivol

Functional and structural analysis of members of the TorD family, a large chaperone family dedicated to molybdoproteins
Microbiology 2004 150: 935-943. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susumu Sakurai, Hitoshi Suzuki, Toshiaki Hata, Yukio Yoshizawa, Ritsuko Nakayama, Katsuhiko Machida, Shogo Masuda, and Takashi Tsukiyama

A novel positive regulatory element for exfoliative toxin A gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2004 150: 945-952. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

René Novotny, Christina Schäffer, Joseph Strauss, and Paul Messner

S-layer glycan-specific loci on the chromosome of Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a and dTDP-L-rhamnose biosynthesis potential of G. stearothermophilus strains
Microbiology 2004 150: 953-965. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Guillaume Pavlovic, Vincent Burrus, Brigitte Gintz, Bernard Decaris, and Gérard Guédon

Evolution of genomic islands by deletion and tandem accretion by site-specific recombination: ICESt1-related elements from Streptococcus thermophilus
Microbiology 2004 150: 759-774. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Viana-Niero, P. E. de Haas, D. van Soolingen, and S. C. Leão

Analysis of genetic polymorphisms affecting the four phospholipase C (plc) genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates
Microbiology 2004 150: 967-978. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Gennady Kholodii, Sofia Mindlin, Zhosefine Gorlenko, Mayya Petrova, Jon Hobman, and Vadim Nikiforov

Translocation of transposition-deficient (Tn^dPKLH2-like) transposons in the natural environment: mechanistic insights from the study of adjacent DNA sequences
Microbiology 2004 150: 979-992. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Daisuke Miyazawa, Gouri Mukerjee-Dhar, Minoru Shimura, Takashi Hatta, and Kazuhide Kimbara

Genes for Mn(II)-dependent NahC and Fe(II)-dependent NahH located in close proximity in the thermophilic naphthalene and PCB degrader, Bacillus sp. JF8: cloning and characterization
Microbiology 2004 150: 993-1004. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dirk Benndorf, Ian Davidson, and Wolfgang Babel

Regulation of catabolic enzymes during long-term exposure of Delftia acidovorans MC1 to chlorophenoxy herbicides
Microbiology 2004 150: 1005-1014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Virginia Vadillo-Rodríguez, Henk J. Busscher, Willem Norde, Joop de Vries, and Henny C. van der Mei

Relations between macroscopic and microscopic adhesion of Streptococcus mitis strains to surfaces
Microbiology 2004 150: 1015-1022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Nazir Barekzi, Swati Joshi, Scott Irwin, Todd Ontl, and Herbert P. Schweizer

Genetic characterization of pcpS, encoding the multifunctional phosphopantetheinyl transferase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2004 150: 795-803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laurence Salaün, Bodo Linz, Sebastian Suerbaum, and Nigel J. Saunders

The diversity within an expanded and redefined repertoire of phase-variable genes in Helicobacter pylori
Microbiology 2004 150: 817-830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Mario Juhas, Lutz Wiehlmann, Birgit Huber, Doris Jordan, Joerg Lauber, Prabhakar Salunkhe, Anna Silke Limpert, Franz von Götz, Ivo Steinmetz, Leo Eberl, and Burkhard Tümmler

Global regulation of quorum sensing and virulence by VqsR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2004 150: 831-841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ryô Harasawa, David G. Pitcher, Ana S. Ramírez, and Janet M. Bradbury

A putative transposase gene in the 16S–23S rRNA intergenic spacer region of Mycoplasma imitans
Microbiology 2004 150: 1023-1029. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Colleen Thomas, Carol R. Andersson, Shannon R. Canales, and Susan S. Golden

PsfR, a factor that stimulates psbAI expression in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942
Microbiology 2004 150: 1031-1040. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

A. M. Prouty, I. E. Brodsky, S. Falkow, and J. S. Gunn

Bile-salt-mediated induction of antimicrobial and bile resistance in Salmonella typhimurium
Microbiology 2004 150: 775-783. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Hogardt, Maximilian Roeder, Anna Maria Schreff, Leo Eberl, and Jürgen Heesemann

Expression of Pseudomonas aeruginosa exoS is controlled by quorum sensing and RpoS
Microbiology 2004 150: 843-851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia Mailaender, Norbert Reiling, Harald Engelhardt, Stefan Bossmann, Stefan Ehlers, and Michael Niederweis

The MspA porin promotes growth and increases antibiotic susceptibility of both Mycobacterium bovis BCG and Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2004 150: 853-864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Darren J. Trott, David P. Alt, Richard L. Zuerner, Dieter M. Bulach, Michael J. Wannemuehler, Judi Stasko, Kirsty M. Townsend, and Thaddeus B. Stanton

Identification and cloning of the gene encoding BmpC: an outer-membrane lipoprotein associated with Brachyspira pilosicoli membrane vesicles
Microbiology 2004 150: 1041-1053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William R. Schwan, Keith J. Wetzel, Timothy S. Gomez, Melissa A. Stiles, Brian D. Beitlich, and Sandra Grunwald

Low-proline environments impair growth, proline transport and in vivo survival of Staphylococcus aureus strain-specific putP mutants
Microbiology 2004 150: 1055-1061. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. A. Cogan, F. Jørgensen, H. M. Lappin-Scott, C. E. Benson, M. J. Woodward, and T. J. Humphrey

Flagella and curli fimbriae are important for the growth of Salmonella enterica serovars in hen eggs
Microbiology 2004 150: 1063-1071. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yasuko Honma, Reinaldo E. Fernández, and Anthony T. Maurelli

A DNA adenine methylase mutant of Shigella flexneri shows no significant attenuation of virulence
Microbiology 2004 150: 1073-1078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bryn Edwards-Jones, Paul R. Langford, J. Simon Kroll, and Jun Yu

The role of the Shigella flexneri yihE gene in LPS synthesis and virulence
Microbiology 2004 150: 1079-1084. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Lars M. Blank and Uwe Sauer

TCA cycle activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae is a function of the environmentally determined specific growth and glucose uptake rates
Microbiology 2004 150: 1085-1093. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

George J. G. Ruijter, Jaap Visser, and Arjen Rinzema

Polyol accumulation by Aspergillus oryzae at low water activity in solid-state fermentation
Microbiology 2004 150: 1095-1101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ana Ramos, Ana Rute Neves, Rita Ventura, Christopher Maycock, Paloma López, and Helena Santos

Effect of pyruvate kinase overproduction on glucose metabolism of Lactococcus lactis
Microbiology 2004 150: 1103-1111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

David Ezra, Uvidelio F. Castillo, Gary A. Strobel, Wilford M. Hess, Heidi Porter, James B. Jensen, Margaret A. M. Condron, David B. Teplow, Joseph Sears, Michelle Maranta, Michelle Hunter, Barbara Weber, and Debbie Yaver

Coronamycins, peptide antibiotics produced by a verticillate Streptomyces sp. (MSU-2110) endophytic on Monstera sp.
Microbiology 2004 150: 785-793. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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