MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David W. Ussery, Peter F. Hallin, Karin Lagesen, and Trudy M. Wassenaar

Genome Update: tRNAs in sequenced microbial genomes
Microbiology 2004 150: 1603-1606. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paolo De Marco

Methylotrophy versus heterotrophy: a misconception
Microbiology 2004 150: 1606-1607. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEWS:

Eduardo P. C. Rocha

The replication-related organization of bacterial genomes
Microbiology 2004 150: 1609-1627. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sylvie Lautru and Gregory L. Challis

Substrate recognition by nonribosomal peptide synthetase multi-enzymes
Microbiology 2004 150: 1629-1636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Bart Ghysels, Bui Thi Min Dieu, Scott A. Beatson, Jean-Paul Pirnay, Urs A. Ochsner, Michael L. Vasil, and Pierre Cornelis

FpvB, an alternative type I ferripyoverdine receptor of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2004 150: 1671-1680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rachel Pinto, Quing Xui Tang, Warwick J. Britton, Thomas S. Leyh, and James A. Triccas

The Mycobacterium tuberculosis cysD and cysNC genes form a stress-induced operon that encodes a tri-functional sulfate-activating complex
Microbiology 2004 150: 1681-1686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum (author name)]  

Agnieszka Kwiatek, Monika Kobes, Kamil Olejnik, and Andrzej Piekarowicz

DNA methyltransferases from Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae FA1090 associated with mismatch nicking endonucleases
Microbiology 2004 150: 1713-1722. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas J. Hosted, Tim Wang, and Ann C. Horan

Characterization of the Streptomyces lavendulae IMRU 3455 linear plasmid pSLV45
Microbiology 2004 150: 1819-1827. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicole Gliese, Viola Khodaverdi, Max Schobert, and Helmut Görisch

AgmR controls transcription of a regulon with several operons essential for ethanol oxidation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 17933
Microbiology 2004 150: 1851-1857. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karin Denger, Jürgen Ruff, David Schleheck, and Alasdair M. Cook

Rhodococcus opacus expresses the xsc gene to utilize taurine as a carbon source or as a nitrogen source but not as a sulfur source
Microbiology 2004 150: 1859-1867. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine L. Tavano, James C. Comolli, and Timothy J. Donohue

The role of dor gene products in controlling the P2 promoter of the cytochrome c₂ gene, cycA, in Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Microbiology 2004 150: 1893-1899. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah J. Coulthurst, C. Léopold Kurz, and George P. C. Salmond

luxS mutants of Serratia defective in autoinducer-2-dependent ‘quorum sensing’ show strain-dependent impacts on virulence and production of carbapenem and prodigiosin
Microbiology 2004 150: 1901-1910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcelo A. Vallim, Larissa Fernandes, and J. Andrew Alspaugh

The RAM1 gene encoding a protein-farnesyltransferase -subunit homologue is essential in Cryptococcus neoformans
Microbiology 2004 150: 1925-1935. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deepan S. H. Shah and Roy R. B. Russell

A novel glucan-binding protein with lipase activity from the oral pathogen Streptococcus mutans
Microbiology 2004 150: 1947-1956. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akihiro Ishii, Takako Sato, Masaaki Wachi, Kazuo Nagai, and Chiaki Kato

Effects of high hydrostatic pressure on bacterial cytoskeleton FtsZ polymers in vivo and in vitro
Microbiology 2004 150: 1965-1972. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takuji Oka, Tetsu Hamaguchi, Yuka Sameshima, Masatoshi Goto, and Kensuke Furukawa

Molecular characterization of protein O-mannosyltransferase and its involvement in cell-wall synthesis in Aspergillus nidulans
Microbiology 2004 150: 1973-1982. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takahiro Oura and Susumu Kajiwara

Saccharomyces kluyveri FAD3 encodes an 3 fatty acid desaturase
Microbiology 2004 150: 1983-1990. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Elzbieta Krzywinska, Jaroslaw Krzywinski, and Jeffrey S. Schorey

Phylogeny of Mycobacterium avium strains inferred from glycopeptidolipid biosynthesis pathway genes
Microbiology 2004 150: 1699-1706. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sameer M. Dixit, David M. Gordon, Xi-Yang Wu, Toni Chapman, Kaila Kailasapathy, and James J.-C. Chin

Diversity analysis of commensal porcine Escherichia coli – associations between genotypes and habitat in the porcine gastrointestinal tract
Microbiology 2004 150: 1735-1740. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Jonas Bunikis, Ulf Garpmo, Jean Tsao, Johan Berglund, Durland Fish, and Alan G. Barbour

Sequence typing reveals extensive strain diversity of the Lyme borreliosis agents Borrelia burgdorferi in North America and Borrelia afzelii in Europe
Microbiology 2004 150: 1741-1755. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Details]  

Henrik Christensen, Øystein Angen, John Elmerdahl Olsen, and Magne Bisgaard

Revised description and classification of atypical isolates of Pasteurella multocida from bovine lungs based on genotypic characterization to include variants previously classified as biovar 2 of Pasteurella canis and Pasteurella avium
Microbiology 2004 150: 1757-1767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Murray N. Gardner and Douglas E. Rawlings

Evolution of compatible replicons of the related IncQ-like plasmids, pTC-F14 and pTF-FC2
Microbiology 2004 150: 1797-1808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Daria Julkowska, Michal Obuchowski, I. Barry Holland, and Simone J. Séror

Branched swarming patterns on a synthetic medium formed by wild-type Bacillus subtilis strain 3610: detection of different cellular morphologies and constellations of cells as the complex architecture develops
Microbiology 2004 150: 1839-1849. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Glen E. Palmer, Kevin J. Johnson, Sumana Ghosh, and Joy Sturtevant

Mutant alleles of the essential 14-3-3 gene in Candida albicans distinguish between growth and filamentation
Microbiology 2004 150: 1911-1924. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Chris K. C. Syn, Jon K. Magnuson, Mark T. Kingsley, and Sanjay Swarup

Characterization of Pseudomonas putida genes responsive to nutrient limitation
Microbiology 2004 150: 1661-1669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bruno Gomez-Gil, Sonia Soto-Rodríguez, Alejandra García-Gasca, Ana Roque, Ricardo Vazquez-Juarez, Fabiano L. Thompson, and Jean Swings

Molecular identification of Vibrio harveyi-related isolates associated with diseased aquatic organisms
Microbiology 2004 150: 1769-1777. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dewi P. Bakker, Henk J. Busscher, Joyce van Zanten, Joop de Vries, Job W. Klijnstra, and Henny C. van der Mei

Multiple linear regression analysis of bacterial deposition to polyurethane coatings after conditioning film formation in the marine environment
Microbiology 2004 150: 1779-1784. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Welker, Matthias Brunke, Karina Preussel, Indra Lippert, and Hans von Döhren

Diversity and distribution of Microcystis (Cyanobacteria) oligopeptide chemotypes from natural communities studied by single-colony mass spectrometry
Microbiology 2004 150: 1785-1796. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Elzbieta Krzywinska, Jaroslaw Krzywinski, and Jeffrey S. Schorey

Naturally occurring horizontal gene transfer and homologous recombination in Mycobacterium
Microbiology 2004 150: 1707-1712. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lia W. Liefting, Mary E. Shaw, and Bruce C. Kirkpatrick

Sequence analysis of two plasmids from the phytoplasma beet leafhopper-transmitted virescence agent
Microbiology 2004 150: 1809-1817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary sequence alignments]  

Annette Hofacker, Kerstin-Maike Schmitz, Alexander Cichonczyk, Simone Sartorius-Neef, and Felicitas Pfeifer

GvpE- and GvpD-mediated transcription regulation of the p-gvp genes encoding gas vesicles in Halobacterium salinarum
Microbiology 2004 150: 1829-1838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Ramakrishnan Srikumar, Leonie G. Mikael, Peter D. Pawelek, Ali Khamessan, Bernard F. Gibbs, Mario Jacques, and James W. Coulton

Molecular cloning of haemoglobin-binding protein HgbA in the outer membrane of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae
Microbiology 2004 150: 1723-1734. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Amin A. Mousavi and Geoffrey D. Robson

Oxidative and amphotericin B-mediated cell death in the opportunistic pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus is associated with an apoptotic-like phenotype
Microbiology 2004 150: 1937-1945. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. V. Karlyshev, P. Everest, D. Linton, S. Cawthraw, D. G. Newell, and B. W. Wren

The Campylobacter jejuni general glycosylation system is important for attachment to human epithelial cells and in the colonization of chicks
Microbiology 2004 150: 1957-1964. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shankarling Krishnamurthy, Armêl Plaine, Juliane Albert, Tulika Prasad, Rajendra Prasad, and Joachim F. Ernst

Dosage-dependent functions of fatty acid desaturase Ole1p in growth and morphogenesis of Candida albicans
Microbiology 2004 150: 1991-2003. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

George Makris, John D. Wright, Eileen Ingham, and Keith T. Holland

The hyaluronate lyase of Staphylococcus aureus – a virulence factor?
Microbiology 2004 150: 2005-2013. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Julian Ihssen and Thomas Egli

Specific growth rate and not cell density controls the general stress response in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2004 150: 1637-1648. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Delphine Jean, Valérie Briolat, and Gilles Reysset

Oxidative stress response in Clostridium perfringens
Microbiology 2004 150: 1649-1659. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margarita Shleeva, Galina V. Mukamolova, Michael Young, Huw D. Williams, and Arseny S. Kaprelyants

Formation of ‘non-culturable’ cells of Mycobacterium smegmatis in stationary phase in response to growth under suboptimal conditions and their Rpf-mediated resuscitation
Microbiology 2004 150: 1687-1697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xueming Wei, Luis A. Sayavedra-Soto, and Daniel J. Arp

The transcription of the cbb operon in Nitrosomonas europaea
Microbiology 2004 150: 1869-1879. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ryan T. Novak, Rachel F. Gritzer, Edward R. Leadbetter, and Walter Godchaux

Phototrophic utilization of taurine by the purple nonsulfur bacteria Rhodopseudomonas palustris and Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Microbiology 2004 150: 1881-1891. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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