MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Tim T. Binnewies, Jannick D. Bendtsen, Peter F. Hallin, Natasja Nielsen, Trudy M. Wassenaar, Martin Bastian Pedersen, Per Klemm, and David W. Ussery

Genome Update: Protein secretion systems in 225 bacterial genomes
Microbiology 2005 151: 1013-1016. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dawn Field and Jennifer Hughes

Cataloguing our current genome collection
Microbiology 2005 151: 1016-1019. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Donald M. Gardiner, Paul Waring, and Barbara J. Howlett

The epipolythiodioxopiperazine (ETP) class of fungal toxins: distribution, mode of action, functions and biosynthesis
Microbiology 2005 151: 1021-1032. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Seiya Watanabe, Yoshiaki Yasutake, Isao Tanaka, and Yasuhiro Takada

Elucidation of stability determinants of cold-adapted monomeric isocitrate dehydrogenase from a psychrophilic bacterium, Colwellia maris, by construction of chimeric enzymes
Microbiology 2005 151: 1083-1094. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sio Mei Lai and Hervé Le Moual

PrpZ, a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C with dual substrate specificity
Microbiology 2005 151: 1159-1167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edith M. Sampson, Celeste L. V. Johnson, and Thomas A. Bobik

Biochemical evidence that the pduS gene encodes a bifunctional cobalamin reductase
Microbiology 2005 151: 1169-1177. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ji Yang, Marija Tauschek, Richard Strugnell, and Roy M. Robins-Browne

The H-NS protein represses transcription of the eltAB operon, which encodes heat-labile enterotoxin in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, by binding to regions downstream of the promoter
Microbiology 2005 151: 1199-1208. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masja N. Nierop Groot, Eline Klaassens, Willem M. de Vos, Jean Delcour, Pascal Hols, and Michiel Kleerebezem

Genome-based in silico detection of putative manganese transport systems in Lactobacillus plantarum and their genetic analysis
Microbiology 2005 151: 1229-1238. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Harivony Rakotoarivonina, Marilynn A. Larson, Mark Morrison, Jean-Pierre Girardeau, Brigitte Gaillard-Martinie, Evelyne Forano, and Pascale Mosoni

The Ruminococcus albus pilA1–pilA2 locus: expression and putative role of two adjacent pil genes in pilus formation and bacterial adhesion to cellulose
Microbiology 2005 151: 1291-1299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rita M. Dempsey, David Carroll, Huimin Kong, Lauren Higgins, Conor T. Keane, and David C. Coleman

Sau42I, a BcgI-like restriction–modification system encoded by the Staphylococcus aureus quadruple-converting phage 42
Microbiology 2005 151: 1301-1311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Maddalena V. Coppi

The hydrogenases of Geobacter sulfurreducens: a comparative genomic perspective
Microbiology 2005 151: 1239-1254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Wilailak Klomklang, Akio Tani, Kazuhide Kimbara, Rie Mamoto, Takashi Ueda, Masayuki Shimao, and Fusako Kawai

Biochemical and molecular characterization of a periplasmic hydrolase for oxidized polyvinyl alcohol from Sphingomonas sp. strain 113P3
Microbiology 2005 151: 1255-1262. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rómulo Aráoz, Hoàng-Oanh Nghiêm, Rosmarie Rippka, Nicolae Palibroda, Nicole Tandeau de Marsac, and Michael Herdman

Neurotoxins in axenic oscillatorian cyanobacteria: coexistence of anatoxin-a and homoanatoxin-a determined by ligand-binding assay and GC/MS
Microbiology 2005 151: 1263-1273. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

R. Szczepanowski, S. Braun, V. Riedel, S. Schneiker, I. Krahn, A. Pühler, and A. Schlüter

The 120 592 bp IncF plasmid pRSB107 isolated from a sewage-treatment plant encodes nine different antibiotic-resistance determinants, two iron-acquisition systems and other putative virulence-associated functions
Microbiology 2005 151: 1095-1111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher J. Kershaw, Nigel L. Brown, Chrystala Constantinidou, Mala D. Patel, and Jon L. Hobman

The expression profile of Escherichia coli K-12 in response to minimal, optimal and excess copper concentrations
Microbiology 2005 151: 1187-1198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria I. Pajunen, Arto T. Pulliainen, Jukka Finne, and Harri Savilahti

Generation of transposon insertion mutant libraries for Gram-positive bacteria by electroporation of phage Mu DNA transposition complexes
Microbiology 2005 151: 1209-1218. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Cruz Martín, María Fernández, Daniel M. Linares, and Miguel A. Alvarez

Sequencing, characterization and transcriptional analysis of the histidine decarboxylase operon of Lactobacillus buchneri
Microbiology 2005 151: 1219-1228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

David M. Arana, César Nombela, Rebeca Alonso-Monge, and Jesús Pla

The Pbs2 MAP kinase kinase is essential for the oxidative-stress response in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1033-1049. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clayton B. Green, Xiaomin Zhao, Kathleen M. Yeater, and Lois L. Hoyer

Construction and real-time RT-PCR validation of Candida albicans PALS-GFP reporter strains and their use in flow cytometry analysis of ALS gene expression in budding and filamenting cells
Microbiology 2005 151: 1051-1060. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura L. Sharkey, Wei-li Liao, Anup K. Ghosh, and William A. Fonzi

Flanking direct repeats of hisG alter URA3 marker expression at the HWP1 locus of Candida albicans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1061-1071. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sean F. Laffey and Geraldine Butler

Phenotype switching affects biofilm formation by Candida parapsilosis
Microbiology 2005 151: 1073-1081. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Séverine Aendekerk, Stephen P. Diggle, Zhijun Song, Niels Høiby, Pierre Cornelis, Paul Williams, and Miguel Cámara

The MexGHI-OpmD multidrug efflux pump controls growth, antibiotic susceptibility and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa via 4-quinolone-dependent cell-to-cell communication
Microbiology 2005 151: 1113-1125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eun-Jin Kim, Wei Wang, Wolf-Dieter Deckwer, and An-Ping Zeng

Expression of the quorum-sensing regulatory protein LasR is strongly affected by iron and oxygen concentrations in cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa irrespective of cell density
Microbiology 2005 151: 1127-1138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carmen Pheiffer, Joanna C. Betts, Helen R. Flynn, Pauline T. Lukey, and Paul van Helden

Protein expression by a Beijing strain differs from that of another clinical isolate and Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv
Microbiology 2005 151: 1139-1150. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kristin Furano, Nicole R. Luke, Amy J. Howlett, and Anthony A. Campagnari

Identification of a conserved Moraxella catarrhalis haemoglobin-utilization protein, MhuA
Microbiology 2005 151: 1151-1158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pierre Germon, Yu-Hua Chen, Lina He, Jesús E. Blanco, Annie Brée, Catherine Schouler, Sheng-He Huang, and Maryvonne Moulin-Schouleur

ibeA, a virulence factor of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2005 151: 1179-1186. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Nicole Kloft, Grit Rasch, and Karl Forchhammer

Protein phosphatase PphA from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: the physiological framework of P_II-P dephosphorylation
Microbiology 2005 151: 1275-1283. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sonja Weinitschke, Katharina Styp von Rekowski, Karin Denger, and Alasdair M. Cook

Sulfoacetaldehyde is excreted quantitatively by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus SW1 during growth with taurine as sole source of nitrogen
Microbiology 2005 151: 1285-1290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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