MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David W. Ussery, Mette S. Jensen, Tine R. Poulsen, and Peter F. Hallin

Genome Update: alignment of bacterial chromosomes
Microbiology 2004 150: 2491-2493. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Se H. Kim, Abraham B. Chang, and Milton H. Saier, Jr

Sequence similarity between multidrug resistance efflux pumps of the ABC and RND superfamilies
Microbiology 2004 150: 2493-2495. [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Régis Stentz, Karen Jury, Tracy Eaton, Mary Parker, Arjan Narbad, Mike Gasson, and Claire Shearman

Controlled expression of CluA in Lactococcus lactis and its role in conjugation
Microbiology 2004 150: 2503-2512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francesca Comitini, Natalia Di Pietro, Laura Zacchi, Ilaria Mannazzu, and Maurizio Ciani

Kluyveromyces phaffii killer toxin active against wine spoilage yeasts: purification and characterization
Microbiology 2004 150: 2535-2541. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Darío Ortiz de Orué Lucana, Tanja Schaa, and Hildgund Schrempf

The novel extracellular Streptomyces reticuli haem-binding protein HbpS influences the production of the catalase-peroxidase CpeB
Microbiology 2004 150: 2575-2585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kazutoshi Mihara, Tomotaka Tanabe, Yoshiko Yamakawa, Tatsuya Funahashi, Hiroshi Nakao, Shizuo Narimatsu, and Shigeo Yamamoto

Identification and transcriptional organization of a gene cluster involved in biosynthesis and transport of acinetobactin, a siderophore produced by Acinetobacter baumannii ATCC 19606^T
Microbiology 2004 150: 2587-2597. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Krehenbrink and Alexander Steinbüchel

Partial purification and characterization of a non-cyanobacterial cyanophycin synthetase from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus strain ADP1 with regard to substrate specificity, substrate affinity and binding to cyanophycin
Microbiology 2004 150: 2599-2608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicholas E. E. Allenby, Nicola O'Connor, Zoltán Prágai, Noel M. Carter, Marcus Miethke, Susanne Engelmann, Michael Hecker, Anil Wipat, Alan C. Ward, and Colin R. Harwood

Post-transcriptional regulation of the Bacillus subtilis pst operon encoding a phosphate-specific ABC transporter
Microbiology 2004 150: 2619-2628. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gopalakrishnapillai Anilkumar, Ramanujam Srinivasan, and Parthasarathi Ajitkumar

Genomic organization and in vivo characterization of proteolytic activity of FtsH of Mycobacterium smegmatis SN2
Microbiology 2004 150: 2629-2639. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhiying Shan, Haijin Xu, Xingqi Shi, Yan Yu, Hongming Yao, Xiuming Zhang, Yanling Bai, Caichang Gao, Per E. J. Saris, and Mingqiang Qiao

Identification of two new genes involved in twitching motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2004 150: 2653-2661. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Julien Brillard and Didier Lereclus

Comparison of cytotoxin cytK promoters from Bacillus cereus strain ATCC 14579 and from a B. cereus food-poisoning strain
Microbiology 2004 150: 2699-2705. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kerstin Baier, Heike Lehmann, Dirk Paul Stephan, and Wolfgang Lockau

NblA is essential for phycobilisome degradation in Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 but not for development of functional heterocysts
Microbiology 2004 150: 2739-2749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ross Zirkle, James M. Ligon, and István Molnár

Heterologous production of the antifungal polyketide antibiotic soraphen A of Sorangium cellulosum So ce26 in Streptomyces lividans
Microbiology 2004 150: 2761-2774. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Xia Zhou, Stephen J. Bent, Maria G. Schneider, Catherine C. Davis, Mohammed R. Islam, and Larry J. Forney

Characterization of vaginal microbial communities in adult healthy women using cultivation-independent methods
Microbiology 2004 150: 2565-2573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Rhonda R. Powell and Lesly A. Temesvari

Involvement of a Rab8-like protein of Dictyostelium discoideum, Sas1, in the formation of membrane extensions, secretion and adhesion during development
Microbiology 2004 150: 2513-2525. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Md. Shahinur Kabir, Takehiro Sagara, Taku Oshima, Yuya Kawagoe, Hirotada Mori, Ryouichi Tsunedomi, and Mamoru Yamada

Effects of mutations in the rpoS gene on cell viability and global gene expression under nitrogen starvation in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2004 150: 2543-2553. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pascale Joseph, Annick Guiseppi, Alexei Sorokin, and François Denizot

Characterization of the Bacillus subtilis YxdJ response regulator as the inducer of expression for the cognate ABC transporter YxdLM
Microbiology 2004 150: 2609-2617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luis F. Larrondo, Bernardo González, Dan Cullen, and Rafael Vicuña

Characterization of a multicopper oxidase gene cluster in Phanerochaete chrysosporium and evidence of altered splicing of the mco transcripts
Microbiology 2004 150: 2775-2783. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MINI-REVIEWS:

David A. D'Argenio and Samuel I. Miller

Cyclic di-GMP as a bacterial second messenger
Microbiology 2004 150: 2497-2502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

A. Santos and D. Marquina

Killer toxin of Pichia membranifaciens and its possible use as a biocontrol agent against grey mould disease of grapevine
Microbiology 2004 150: 2527-2534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amparo Galán, Manuel Casanova, Amelia Murgui, Donna M. MacCallum, Frank C. Odds, Neil A. R. Gow, and José P. Martínez

The Candida albicans pH-regulated KER1 gene encodes a lysine/glutamic-acid-rich plasma-membrane protein that is involved in cell aggregation
Microbiology 2004 150: 2641-2651. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Manilduth Ramnath, Safia Arous, Anne Gravesen, John W. Hastings, and Yann Héchard

Expression of mptC of Listeria monocytogenes induces sensitivity to class IIa bacteriocins in Lactococcus lactis
Microbiology 2004 150: 2663-2668. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark P. Stevens, Ashraful Haque, Timothy Atkins, Jim Hill, Michael W. Wood, Anna Easton, Michelle Nelson, Cindy Underwood-Fowler, Richard W. Titball, Gregory J. Bancroft, and Edouard E. Galyov

Attenuated virulence and protective efficacy of a Burkholderia pseudomallei bsa type III secretion mutant in murine models of melioidosis
Microbiology 2004 150: 2669-2676. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keith P. Mintz

Identification of an extracellular matrix protein adhesin, EmaA, which mediates the adhesion of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans to collagen
Microbiology 2004 150: 2677-2688. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Annette Fagerlund, Ola Ween, Terje Lund, Simon P. Hardy, and Per E. Granum

Genetic and functional analysis of the cytK family of genes in Bacillus cereus
Microbiology 2004 150: 2689-2697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Won-Sik Kim, Heike Salm, and Klaus Geider

Expression of bacteriophage Ea1h lysozyme in Escherichia coli and its activity in growth inhibition of Erwinia amylovora
Microbiology 2004 150: 2707-2714. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gil Kaufman, Benjamin A. Horwitz, Ruthi Hadar, Yehuda Ullmann, and Israela Berdicevsky

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a vital marker for pathogenic development of the dermatophyte Trichophyton mentagrophytes
Microbiology 2004 150: 2785-2790. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Astrid Massé, Ruth L. Airs, Brendan J. Keely, and Rutger de Wit

The impact of different intensities of green light on the bacteriochlorophyll homologue composition of the chlorobiaceae Prosthecochloris aestuarii and Chlorobium phaeobacteroides
Microbiology 2004 150: 2555-2564. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Angela V. Smirnova and Matthias S. Ullrich

Topological and deletion analysis of CorS, a Pseudomonas syringae sensor kinase
Microbiology 2004 150: 2715-2726. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alejandro Peñaloza-Vázquez, Mohamed K. Fakhr, Ana M. Bailey, and Carol L. Bender

AlgR functions in algC expression and virulence in Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae
Microbiology 2004 150: 2727-2737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

THEORETICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Jan-Ulrich Kreft

Biofilms promote altruism
Microbiology 2004 150: 2751-2760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary movies]  

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