MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Kristoffer Kiil, Jean Baptiste Ferchaud, Christophe David, Tim T. Binnewies, Heng Wu, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, Hanni Willenbrock, and David W. Ussery

Genome update: distribution of two-component transduction systems in 250 bacterial genomes
Microbiology 2005 151: 3447-3452. [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. M. Kirov, J. S. Webb, and S. Kjelleberg

Clinical significance of seeding dispersal in biofilms
Microbiology 2005 151: 3452-3453. [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. Stoodley, B. Purevdorj-Gage, and J. W. Costerton

Clinical significance of seeding dispersal in biofilms: a response
Microbiology 2005 151: 3453. [Full Text] [PDF]  

TYPE IV SECRETION:

Doris Zahrl, Maria Wagner, Karin Bischof, Michaela Bayer, Barbara Zavecz, Andreas Beranek, Christoph Ruckenstuhl, Gernot E. Zarfel, and Günther Koraimann

Peptidoglycan degradation by specialized lytic transglycosylases associated with type III and type IV secretion systems
Microbiology 2005 151: 3455-3467. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christoph Höppner, Anna Carle, Durga Sivanesan, Sabine Hoeppner, and Christian Baron

The putative lytic transglycosylase VirB1 from Brucella suis interacts with the type IV secretion system core components VirB8, VirB9 and VirB11
Microbiology 2005 151: 3469-3482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul K. Judd, David Mahli, and Anath Das

Molecular characterization of the Agrobacterium tumefaciens DNA transfer protein VirB6
Microbiology 2005 151: 3483-3492. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steffen Backert, Terry Kwok, and Wolfgang König

Conjugative plasmid DNA transfer in Helicobacter pylori mediated by chromosomally encoded relaxase and TraG-like proteins
Microbiology 2005 151: 3493-3503. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Héctor D. de Paz, Félix J. Sangari, Silvia Bolland, Juan M. García-Lobo, Christoph Dehio, Fernando de la Cruz, and Matxalen Llosa

Functional interactions between type IV secretion systems involved in DNA transfer and virulence
Microbiology 2005 151: 3505-3516. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raul Fernandez-Lopez, Cristina Machón, Christopher M. Longshaw, Steve Martin, Soren Molin, Ellen L. Zechner, Manuel Espinosa, Erich Lanka, and Fernando de la Cruz

Unsaturated fatty acids are inhibitors of bacterial conjugation
Microbiology 2005 151: 3517-3526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [HTML Page - index.htslp]  

William A. Klimke, Candace D. Rypien, Barbara Klinger, R. Alexander Kennedy, J. Manuel Rodriguez-Maillard, and Laura S. Frost

The mating pair stabilization protein, TraN, of the F plasmid is an outer-membrane protein with two regions that are important for its function in conjugation
Microbiology 2005 151: 3527-3540. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katrin Daehnel, Robin Harris, Lucinda Maddera, and Philip Silverman

Fluorescence assays for F-pili and their application
Microbiology 2005 151: 3541-3548. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James E. Gunton, Matthew W. Gilmour, Guillermina Alonso, and Diane E. Taylor

Subcellular localization and functional domains of the coupling protein, TraG, from IncHI1 plasmid R27
Microbiology 2005 151: 3549-3561. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guillermina Alonso, Kelly Baptista, Trinh Ngo, and Diane E. Taylor

Transcriptional organization of the temperature-sensitive transfer system from the IncHI1 plasmid R27
Microbiology 2005 151: 3563-3573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

B. Koch, T. Liljefors, T. Persson, J. Nielsen, S. Kjelleberg, and M. Givskov

The LuxR receptor: the sites of interaction with quorum-sensing signals and inhibitors
Microbiology 2005 151: 3589-3602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Darío Ortiz de Orué Lucana, Peijian Zou, Marc Nierhaus, and Hildgund Schrempf

Identification of a novel two-component system SenS/SenR modulating the production of the catalase-peroxidase CpeB and the haem-binding protein HbpS in Streptomyces reticuli
Microbiology 2005 151: 3603-3614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Koichi Toyoda, Yoichi Yoshizawa, Hiroyuki Arai, Masaharu Ishii, and Yasuo Igarashi

The role of two CbbRs in the transcriptional regulation of three ribulose-1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase/oxygenase genes in Hydrogenovibrio marinus strain MH-110
Microbiology 2005 151: 3615-3625. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sylvie Blanchin-Roland, Grégory Da Costa, and Claude Gaillardin

ESCRT-I components of the endocytic machinery are required for Rim101-dependent ambient pH regulation in the yeast Yarrowia lipolytica
Microbiology 2005 151: 3627-3637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christoph Kiziak, Doris Conradt, Andreas Stolz, Ralf Mattes, and Joachim Klein

Nitrilase from Pseudomonas fluorescens EBC191: cloning and heterologous expression of the gene and biochemical characterization of the recombinant enzyme
Microbiology 2005 151: 3639-3648. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Birgit Höschle, Volker Gnau, and Dieter Jendrossek

Methylcrotonyl-CoA and geranyl-CoA carboxylases are involved in leucine/isovalerate utilization (Liu) and acyclic terpene utilization (Atu), and are encoded by liuB/liuD and atuC/atuF, in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2005 151: 3649-3656. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takuji Oka, Yuka Sameshima, Tomoko Koga, Hoon Kim, Masatoshi Goto, and Kensuke Furukawa

Protein O-mannosyltransferase A of Aspergillus awamori is involved in O-mannosylation of glucoamylase I
Microbiology 2005 151: 3657-3667. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Satoshi H. Namekawa, Kazuki Iwabata, Hiroko Sugawara, Fumika N. Hamada, Akiyo Koshiyama, Hiroyuki Chiku, Takashi Kamada, and Kengo Sakaguchi

Knockdown of LIM15/DMC1 in the mushroom Coprinus cinereus by double-stranded RNA-mediated gene silencing
Microbiology 2005 151: 3669-3678. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Hui Ma, Laelie A. Snook, Susan G. W. Kaminskyj, and Tanya E. S. Dahms

Surface ultrastructure and elasticity in growing tips and mature regions of Aspergillus hyphae describe wall maturation
Microbiology 2005 151: 3679-3688. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ángel Manteca, Marisol Fernández, and Jesús Sánchez

A death round affecting a young compartmentalized mycelium precedes aerial mycelium dismantling in confluent surface cultures of Streptomyces antibioticus
Microbiology 2005 151: 3689-3697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rachel E. Muir, Jesse Easter, and James W. Gober

The trans-acting flagellar regulatory proteins, FliX and FlbD, play a central role in linking flagellar biogenesis and cytokinesis in Caulobacter crescentus
Microbiology 2005 151: 3699-3711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Hiroshi Habe, Jin-Sung Chung, Ayako Ishida, Kano Kasuga, Kazuki Ide, Tetsuo Takemura, Hideaki Nojiri, Hisakazu Yamane, and Toshio Omori

The fluorene catabolic linear plasmid in Terrabacter sp. strain DBF63 carries the -ketoadipate pathway genes, pcaRHGBDCFIJ, also found in proteobacteria
Microbiology 2005 151: 3713-3722. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Meng Zhang, Kelly A. FitzGerald, and Mary E. Lidstrom

Identification of an upstream regulatory sequence that mediates the transcription of mox genes in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1
Microbiology 2005 151: 3723-3728. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Serkalem Tadesse, Judita Mascarenhas, Bernd Kösters, Andrej Hasilik, and Peter L. Graumann

Genetic interaction of the SMC complex with topoisomerase IV in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2005 151: 3729-3737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Jaewha Kim, Kyungseop Ahn, Sungran Min, Jinghua Jia, Unhwan Ha, Donghai Wu, and Shouguang Jin

Factors triggering type III secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2005 151: 3575-3587. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jae-Chul Lee, Kenji Yokota, Hideyuki Arimitsu, Hyun-Jung Hwang, Yoshihiko Sakaguchi, Jinhua Cui, Kouichi Takeshi, Toshihiro Watanabe, Tohru Ohyama, and Keiji Oguma

Production of anti-neurotoxin antibody is enhanced by two subcomponents, HA1 and HA3b, of Clostridium botulinum type B 16S toxin–haemagglutinin
Microbiology 2005 151: 3739-3747. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Griselle E. Montañez, Melody N. Neely, and Zehava Eichenbaum

The streptococcal iron uptake (Siu) transporter is required for iron uptake and virulence in a zebrafish infection model
Microbiology 2005 151: 3749-3757. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Flavie Pouillot, Anne Derbise, Maini Kukkonen, Jeannine Foulon, Timo K. Korhonen, and Elisabeth Carniel

Evaluation of O-antigen inactivation on Pla activity and virulence of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis harbouring the pPla plasmid
Microbiology 2005 151: 3759-3768. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine Raynaud and Alain Charbit

Regulation of expression of type I signal peptidases in Listeria monocytogenes
Microbiology 2005 151: 3769-3776. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Boris Görke, Elodie Foulquier, and Anne Galinier

YvcK of Bacillus subtilis is required for a normal cell shape and for growth on Krebs cycle intermediates and substrates of the pentose phosphate pathway
Microbiology 2005 151: 3777-3791. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vincent J. Starai, Jane Garrity, and Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena

Acetate excretion during growth of Salmonella enterica on ethanolamine requires phosphotransacetylase (EutD) activity, and acetate recapture requires acetyl-CoA synthetase (Acs) and phosphotransacetylase (Pta) activities
Microbiology 2005 151: 3793-3801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles D. Sohaskey

Regulation of nitrate reductase activity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis by oxygen and nitric oxide
Microbiology 2005 151: 3803-3810. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

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