BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Denis Tielker, Stephanie Hacker, Remy Loris, Martin Strathmann, Jost Wingender, Susanne Wilhelm, Frank Rosenau, and Karl-Erich Jaeger

Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin LecB is located in the outer membrane and is involved in biofilm formation
Microbiology 2005 151: 1313-1323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Bovbjerg Rasmussen, Mette E. Skindersoe, Thomas Bjarnsholt, Richard K. Phipps, Kathrine Bisgaard Christensen, Peter Ostrup Jensen, Jens Bo Andersen, Birgit Koch, Thomas Ostenfeld Larsen, Morten Hentzer, Leo Eberl, Niels Hoiby, and Michael Givskov

Identity and effects of quorum-sensing inhibitors produced by Penicillium species
Microbiology 2005 151: 1325-1340. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daan van den Broek, Thomas F. C. Chin-A-Woeng, Guido V. Bloemberg, and Ben J. J. Lugtenberg

Role of RpoS and MutS in phase variation of Pseudomonas sp. PCL1171
Microbiology 2005 151: 1403-1408. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shahid Noor and Narayan S. Punekar

Allosteric NADP-glutamate dehydrogenase from aspergilli: purification, characterization and implications for metabolic regulation at the carbon–nitrogen interface
Microbiology 2005 151: 1409-1419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Patrice Bruscella, Laure Cassagnaud, Jeanine Ratouchniak, Gaël Brasseur, Elisabeth Lojou, Ricardo Amils, and Violaine Bonnefoy

The HiPIP from the acidophilic Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is correctly processed and translocated in Escherichia coli, in spite of the periplasm pH difference between these two micro-organisms
Microbiology 2005 151: 1421-1431. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures and Table]  

Huizhong Chen, Sherryll L. Hopper, and Carl E. Cerniglia

Biochemical and molecular characterization of an azoreductase from Staphylococcus aureus, a tetrameric NADPH-dependent flavoprotein
Microbiology 2005 151: 1433-1441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yukiko Fujita, Takashi Naka, Takeshi Doi, and Ikuya Yano

Direct molecular mass determination of trehalose monomycolate from 11 species of mycobacteria by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry
Microbiology 2005 151: 1443-1452. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Gabriela Bowden, Wei Chen, Jenny Singvall, Yi Xu, Sharon J. Peacock, Viviana Valtulina, Pietro Speziale, and Magnus Höök

Identification and preliminary characterization of cell-wall-anchored proteins of Staphylococcus epidermidis
Microbiology 2005 151: 1453-1464. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Carmen-Lisset Flores, Oscar H. Martínez-Costa, Valentina Sánchez, Carlos Gancedo, and Juan J. Aragón

The dimorphic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica possesses an atypical phosphofructokinase: characterization of the enzyme and its encoding gene
Microbiology 2005 151: 1465-1474. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomonori Suzuki, Toshihiro Watanabe, Shingo Mutoh, Kimiko Hasegawa, Hirokazu Kouguchi, Yoshimasa Sagane, Yukako Fujinaga, Keiji Oguma, and Tohru Ohyama

Characterization of the interaction between subunits of the botulinum toxin complex produced by serotype D through tryptic susceptibility of the isolated components and complex forms
Microbiology 2005 151: 1475-1483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Candela, Tâm Mignot, Xavier Hagnerelle, Michel Haustant, and Agnès Fouet

Genetic analysis of Bacillus anthracis Sap S-layer protein crystallization domain
Microbiology 2005 151: 1485-1490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sung O. Han, Hideaki Yukawa, Masayuki Inui, and Roy H. Doi

Effect of carbon source on the cellulosomal subpopulations of Clostridium cellulovorans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1491-1497. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Inge A. Unsöld and Shu-Ming Li

Overproduction, purification and characterization of FgaPT2, a dimethylallyltryptophan synthase from Aspergillus fumigatus
Microbiology 2005 151: 1499-1505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vivian Miao, Marie-Françoise Coëffet-LeGal, Paul Brian, Renee Brost, Julia Penn, Andrew Whiting, Steven Martin, Robert Ford, Ian Parr, Mario Bouchard, Christopher J. Silva, Stephen K. Wrigley, and Richard H. Baltz

Daptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces roseosporus: cloning and analysis of the gene cluster and revision of peptide stereochemistry
Microbiology 2005 151: 1507-1523. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Rainer Kurmayer, Guntram Christiansen, Marlies Gumpenberger, and Jutta Fastner

Genetic identification of microcystin ecotypes in toxic cyanobacteria of the genus Planktothrix
Microbiology 2005 151: 1525-1533. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Hope L. Lancero, Schryl Castaneda, Nora B. Caberoy, Xiaoyuan Ma, Anthony G. Garza, and Wenyuan Shi

Analysing protein–protein interactions of the Myxococcus xanthus Dif signalling pathway using the yeast two-hybrid system
Microbiology 2005 151: 1535-1541. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karina Sampson and I. Brent Heath

The dynamic behaviour of microtubules and their contributions to hyphal tip growth in Aspergillus nidulans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1543-1555. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Danny S. Tuckwell, Matthew J. Nicholson, Christopher S. McSweeney, Michael K. Theodorou, and Jayne L. Brookman

The rapid assignment of ruminal fungi to presumptive genera using ITS1 and ITS2 RNA secondary structures to produce group-specific fingerprints
Microbiology 2005 151: 1557-1567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

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

Phenotypic differentiation and seeding dispersal in non-mucoid and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms
Microbiology 2005 151: 1569-1576. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary movies]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Sandra Ramirez-Arcos, Mingmin Liao, Susan Marthaler, Marc Rigden, and Jo-Anne R. Dillon

Enterococcus faecalis divIVA: an essential gene involved in cell division, cell growth and chromosome segregation
Microbiology 2005 151: 1381-1393. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Milla Pietiäinen, Marika Gardemeister, Maria Mecklin, Soile Leskelä, Matti Sarvas, and Vesa P. Kontinen

Cationic antimicrobial peptides elicit a complex stress response in Bacillus subtilis that involves ECF-type sigma factors and two-component signal transduction systems
Microbiology 2005 151: 1577-1592. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

R. Kügler, O. Bouloussa, and F. Rondelez

Evidence of a charge-density threshold for optimum efficiency of biocidal cationic surfaces
Microbiology 2005 151: 1341-1348. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susanna Valanne, Andrew McDowell, Gordon Ramage, Michael M. Tunney, Gisli G. Einarsson, Seamus O'Hagan, G. Brian Wisdom, Derek Fairley, Ajay Bhatia, Jean-Francois Maisonneuve, Michael Lodes, David H. Persing, and Sheila Patrick

CAMP factor homologues in Propionibacterium acnes: a new protein family differentially expressed by types I and II
Microbiology 2005 151: 1369-1379. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sumio Akifusa, Wendy Heywood, Sean P. Nair, Gudrun Stenbeck, and Brian Henderson

Mechanism of internalization of the cytolethal distending toxin of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1395-1402. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ping Ren, Anne Rossettini, Vishnu Chaturvedi, and Steven D. Hanes

The Ess1 prolyl isomerase is dispensable for growth but required for virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1593-1605. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suk Kim, Kenta Watanabe, Hiroshi Suzuki, and Masahisa Watarai

Roles of Brucella abortus SpoT in morphological differentiation and intramacrophagic replication
Microbiology 2005 151: 1607-1617. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

X. Zhao, S.-H. Oh, K. M. Yeater, and L. L. Hoyer

Analysis of the Candida albicans Als2p and Als4p adhesins suggests the potential for compensatory function within the Als family
Microbiology 2005 151: 1619-1630. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bruce L. Granger, Michelle L. Flenniken, Dana A. Davis, Aaron P. Mitchell, and Jim E. Cutler

Yeast wall protein 1 of Candida albicans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1631-1644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Sophia Poltermann, Monika Nguyen, Juliane Günther, Jürgen Wendland, Albert Härtl, Waldemar Künkel, Peter F. Zipfel, and Raimund Eck

The putative vacuolar ATPase subunit Vma7p of Candida albicans is involved in vacuole acidification, hyphal development and virulence
Microbiology 2005 151: 1645-1655. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Eva Radmacher, Kathrin C. Stansen, Gurdyal S. Besra, Luke J. Alderwick, William N. Maughan, Günter Hollweg, Hermann Sahm, Volker F. Wendisch, and Lothar Eggeling

Ethambutol, a cell wall inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, elicits L-glutamate efflux of Corynebacterium glutamicum
Microbiology 2005 151: 1359-1368. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Mickel L. A. Jansen, Jasper A. Diderich, Mlawule Mashego, Adham Hassane, Johannes H. de Winde, Pascale Daran-Lapujade, and Jack T. Pronk

Prolonged selection in aerobic, glucose-limited chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae causes a partial loss of glycolytic capacity
Microbiology 2005 151: 1657-1669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

A. Blanco-Rivero, F. Leganés, E. Fernández-Valiente, P. Calle, and F. Fernández-Piñas

mrpA, a gene with roles in resistance to Na⁺ and adaptation to alkaline pH in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC7120
Microbiology 2005 151: 1671-1682. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Titia H. Plantinga, Chris van der Does, Danuta Tomkiewicz, Geertje van Keulen, Wil N. Konings, and Arnold J. M. Driessen

Deletion of the yiaMNO transporter genes affects the growth characteristics of Escherichia coli K-12
Microbiology 2005 151: 1683-1689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thongchai Taechowisan, Chunhua Lu, Yuemao Shen, and Saisamorn Lumyong

Secondary metabolites from endophytic Streptomyces aureofaciens CMUAc130 and their antifungal activity
Microbiology 2005 151: 1691-1695. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Linda M. I. de Poorter, Wim J. Geerts, and Jan T. Keltjens

Hydrogen concentrations in methane-forming cells probed by the ratios of reduced and oxidized coenzyme F₄₂₀
Microbiology 2005 151: 1697-1705. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dagmar Rother, Grazyna Orawski, Frank Bardischewsky, and Cornelius G. Friedrich

SoxRS-mediated regulation of chemotrophic sulfur oxidation in Paracoccus pantotrophus
Microbiology 2005 151: 1707-1716. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Silvia Guzmán, Alonso Carmona, Laura Escalante, Iveta Imriskova, Ruth López, Romina Rodríguez-Sanoja, Beatriz Ruiz, Luis Servín-González, Sergio Sánchez, and Elizabeth Langley

Pleiotropic effect of the SCO2127 gene on the glucose uptake, glucose kinase activity and carbon catabolite repression in Streptomyces peucetius var. caesius
Microbiology 2005 151: 1717-1723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Eun-Sil Choi, Hea-Jong Chung, Myoung-Ju Kim, Seung-Moon Park, Byeong-Jin Cha, Moon-Sik Yang, and Dae-Hyuk Kim

Characterization of the ERK homologue CpMK2 from the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica
Microbiology 2005 151: 1349-1358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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