MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David W. Ussery and Peter F. Hallin

Genome Update: annotation quality in sequenced microbial genomes
Microbiology 2004 150: 2015-2017. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tom Coenye and Peter Vandamme

Bacterial whole-genome sequences: minimal information and strain availability
Microbiology 2004 150: 2017-2018. [Full Text] [PDF]  

María José López Barragán, Eduardo Díaz, José Luis García, and Manuel Carmona

Genetic clues on the evolution of anaerobic catabolism of aromatic compounds
Microbiology 2004 150: 2018-2021. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Daniel V. Zurawski and Murry A. Stein

The SPI2-encoded SseA chaperone has discrete domains required for SseB stabilization and export, and binds within the C-terminus of SseB and SseD
Microbiology 2004 150: 2055-2068. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jouko Sillanpää, Yi Xu, Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Barbara E. Murray, and Magnus Höök

A family of putative MSCRAMMs from Enterococcus faecalis
Microbiology 2004 150: 2069-2078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David G. Pritchard, Shengli Dong, John R. Baker, and Jeffrey A. Engler

The bifunctional peptidoglycan lysin of Streptococcus agalactiae bacteriophage B30
Microbiology 2004 150: 2079-2087. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Derek W. Hood, Mary E. Deadman, Andrew D. Cox, Katherine Makepeace, Adele Martin, James C. Richards, and E. Richard Moxon

Three genes, lgtF, lic2C and lpsA, have a primary role in determining the pattern of oligosaccharide extension from the inner core of Haemophilus influenzae LPS
Microbiology 2004 150: 2089-2097. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Biochemical and molecular characterization of Lactobacillus reuteri 121 reuteransucrase
Microbiology 2004 150: 2099-2112. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrés Yarzábal, Corinne Appia-Ayme, Jeanine Ratouchniak, and Violaine Bonnefoy

Regulation of the expression of the Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans rus operon encoding two cytochromes c, a cytochrome oxidase and rusticyanin
Microbiology 2004 150: 2113-2123. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edson R. Rocha and C. Jeffrey Smith

Transcriptional regulation of the Bacteroides fragilis ferritin gene (ftnA) by redox stress
Microbiology 2004 150: 2125-2134. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rachel Preneta, K. G. Papavinasasundaram, Alain J. Cozzone, and Bertrand Duclos

Autophosphorylation of the 16 kDa and 70 kDa antigens (Hsp 16·3 and Hsp 70) of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2004 150: 2135-2141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Günter Harth, Sasa Maslesa-Galic, and Marcus A. Horwitz

A two-plasmid system for stable, selective-pressure-independent expression of multiple extracellular proteins in mycobacteria
Microbiology 2004 150: 2143-2151. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroshi Sakamoto, Stéphanie Landais, Cécile Evrin, Christine Laurent-Winter, Octavian Bârzu, and Rod A. Kelln

Structure–function relationships of UMP kinases from pyrH mutants of Gram-negative bacteria
Microbiology 2004 150: 2153-2159. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mette Nielsen, Anders Aa. Rasmussen, Eva Ellehauge, Anke Treuner-Lange, and Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

HthA, a putative DNA-binding protein, and HthB are important for fruiting body morphogenesis in Myxococcus xanthus
Microbiology 2004 150: 2171-2183. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stéphanie Barnay-Verdier, Anita Boisramé, and Jean-Marie Beckerich

Identification and characterization of two -1,6-mannosyltransferases, Anl1p and Och1p, in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Microbiology 2004 150: 2185-2195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcus E. Marvin, Robert P. Mason, and Annette M. Cashmore

The CaCTR1 gene is required for high-affinity iron uptake and is transcriptionally controlled by a copper-sensing transactivator encoded by CaMAC1
Microbiology 2004 150: 2197-2208. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Florence Saint-Prix, Linda Bönquist, and Sylvie Dequin

Functional analysis of the ALD gene family of Saccharomyces cerevisiae during anaerobic growth on glucose: the NADP⁺-dependent Ald6p and Ald5p isoforms play a major role in acetate formation
Microbiology 2004 150: 2209-2220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

P. Veiga-Crespo, M. Poza, M. Prieto-Alcedo, and T. G. Villa

Ancient genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2004 150: 2221-2227. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ulrich Stingl, Annelie Maass, Renate Radek, and Andreas Brune

Symbionts of the gut flagellate Staurojoenina sp. from Neotermes cubanus represent a novel, termite-associated lineage of Bacteroidales: description of ‘Candidatus Vestibaculum illigatum’
Microbiology 2004 150: 2229-2235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jose Jason L. Cantera, Hiroko Kawasaki, and Tatsuji Seki

The nitrogen-fixing gene (nifH) of Rhodopseudomonas palustris: a case of lateral gene transfer?
Microbiology 2004 150: 2237-2246. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liang Shi and Weiwen Zhang

Comparative analysis of eukaryotic-type protein phosphatases in two streptomycete genomes
Microbiology 2004 150: 2247-2256. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Marika Renelli, Valério Matias, Reggie Y. Lo, and Terry J. Beveridge

DNA-containing membrane vesicles of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 and their genetic transformation potential
Microbiology 2004 150: 2161-2169. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Helmuth Adelsberger, Christian Hertel, Erich Glawischnig, Vladimir V. Zverlov, and Wolfgang H. Schwarz

Enzyme system of Clostridium stercorarium for hydrolysis of arabinoxylan: reconstitution of the in vivo system from recombinant enzymes
Microbiology 2004 150: 2257-2266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Beer, Yun H. Kong, and Robert J. Seviour

Are some putative glycogen accumulating organisms (GAO) in anaerobic : aerobic activated sludge systems members of the -Proteobacteria?
Microbiology 2004 150: 2267-2275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Arlene Kelly, Martin D. Goldberg, Ronan K. Carroll, Vittoria Danino, Jay C. D. Hinton, and Charles J. Dorman

A global role for Fis in the transcriptional control of metabolism and type III secretion in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Microbiology 2004 150: 2037-2053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Louise Evans, Andrea Feucht, and Jeff Errington

Genetic analysis of the Bacillus subtilis sigG promoter, which controls the sporulation-specific transcription factor ^G
Microbiology 2004 150: 2277-2287. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vinayak Kapatral, John W. Campbell, Scott A. Minnich, Nicholas R. Thomson, Philip Matsumura, and Birgit M. Prüß

Gene array analysis of Yersinia enterocolitica FlhD and FlhC: regulation of enzymes affecting synthesis and degradation of carbamoylphosphate
Microbiology 2004 150: 2289-2300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Markus Pötter, Helena Müller, Frank Reinecke, Roman Wieczorek, Florian Fricke, Botho Bowien, Bärbel Friedrich, and Alexander Steinbüchel

The complex structure of polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) granules: four orthologous and paralogous phasins occur in Ralstonia eutropha
Microbiology 2004 150: 2301-2311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data][Corrigendum]  

Antonio J. Martín-Galiano, Jerry M. Wells, and Adela G. de la Campa

Relationship between codon biased genes, microarray expression values and physiological characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2004 150: 2313-2325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Takashi Miyazaki, Junichi Miyazaki, Hisakazu Yamane, and Makoto Nishiyama

-Aminoadipate aminotransferase from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus
Microbiology 2004 150: 2327-2334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lionel Ferrières, Anne Francez-Charlot, Jérôme Gouzy, Stéphane Rouillé, and Daniel Kahn

FixJ-regulated genes evolved through promoter duplication in Sinorhizobium meliloti
Microbiology 2004 150: 2335-2345. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

MINI-REVIEWS:

Declan M. Roche, Joseph T. Byers, Debra S. Smith, Freija G. Glansdorp, David R. Spring, and Martin Welch

Communications blackout? Do N-acylhomoserine-lactone-degrading enzymes have any role in quorum sensing?
Microbiology 2004 150: 2023-2028. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Adams

Fungal cell wall chitinases and glucanases
Microbiology 2004 150: 2029-2035. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Andrew J. Needham, Monica Kibart, Howard Crossley, Philip W. Ingham, and Simon J. Foster

Drosophila melanogaster as a model host for Staphylococcus aureus infection
Microbiology 2004 150: 2347-2355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sunao Iyoda and Haruo Watanabe

Positive effects of multiple pch genes on expression of the locus of enterocyte effacement genes and adherence of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 : H7 to HEp-2 cells
Microbiology 2004 150: 2357-2571. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shinichi Sekine, Kosuke Kataoka, Muneo Tanaka, Hideki Nagata, Toru Kawakami, Kenichi Akaji, Saburo Aimoto, and Satoshi Shizukuishi

Active domains of salivary statherin on apatitic surfaces for binding to Fusobacterium nucleatum cells
Microbiology 2004 150: 2373-2379. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandra Neuendorf, Kati Hedtke, Gerhard Tangen, and Elke Genersch

Biochemical characterization of different genotypes of Paenibacillus larvae subsp. larvae, a honey bee bacterial pathogen
Microbiology 2004 150: 2381-2390. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Idalia Enríquez-Verdugo, Alma L. Guerrero, J. Jesús Serrano, Delfino Godínez, J. Luis Rosales, Víctor Tenorio, and Mireya de la Garza

Adherence of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae to swine-lung collagen
Microbiology 2004 150: 2391-2400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter M. Vesey and Howard K. Kuramitsu

Genetic analysis of Treponema denticola ATCC 35405 biofilm formation
Microbiology 2004 150: 2401-2407. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Halpern, Alexandra Gruss, Jean-Pierre Claverys, and Meriem El Karoui

rexAB mutants in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2004 150: 2409-2414. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiaomin Zhao, Soon-Hwan Oh, Georgina Cheng, Clayton B. Green, Jennifer A. Nuessen, Kathleen Yeater, Roger P. Leng, Alistair J. P. Brown, and Lois L. Hoyer

ALS3 and ALS8 represent a single locus that encodes a Candida albicans adhesin; functional comparisons between Als3p and Als1p
Microbiology 2004 150: 2415-2428. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Carlos Pina, Paula Gonçalves, Catarina Prista, and Maria C. Loureiro-Dias

Ffz1, a new transporter specific for fructose from Zygosaccharomyces bailii
Microbiology 2004 150: 2429-2433. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dimitry Yu. Sorokin, Tat'yana P. Tourova, Alexey N. Antipov, G. Muyzer, and J. Gijs Kuenen

Anaerobic growth of the haloalkaliphilic denitrifying sulfur-oxidizing bacterium Thialkalivibrio thiocyanodenitrificans sp. nov. with thiocyanate
Microbiology 2004 150: 2435-2442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Abdelhamid Abbas, John E. McGuire, Delores Crowley, Christine Baysse, Max Dow, and Fergal O'Gara

The putative permease PhlE of Pseudomonas fluorescens F113 has a role in 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol resistance and in general stress tolerance
Microbiology 2004 150: 2443-2450. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Basem Soboh, Dietmar Linder, and Reiner Hedderich

A multisubunit membrane-bound [NiFe] hydrogenase and an NADH-dependent Fe-only hydrogenase in the fermenting bacterium Thermoanaerobacter tengcongensis
Microbiology 2004 150: 2451-2463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Emanuele G. Biondi, Francesca Marini, Fabio Altieri, Laura Bonzi, Marco Bazzicalupo, and Maddalena del Gallo

Extended phenotype of an mreB-like mutant in Azospirillum brasilense
Microbiology 2004 150: 2465-2474. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arjen ten Have, Ester Dekkers, John Kay, Lowri H. Phylip, and Jan A. L. van Kan

An aspartic proteinase gene family in the filamentous fungus Botrytis cinerea contains members with novel features
Microbiology 2004 150: 2475-2489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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