MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Jannick D. Bendtsen, Tim T. Binnewies, Peter F. Hallin, Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén, and David W. Ussery

Genome update: prediction of secreted proteins in 225 bacterial proteomes
Microbiology 2005 151: 1725-1727. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Deborah M. Hinton, Suchira Pande, Neelowfar Wais, Xanthia B. Johnson, Madhavi Vuthoori, Anna Makela, and India Hook-Barnard

Transcriptional takeover by appropriation: remodelling of the ⁷⁰ subunit of Escherichia coli RNA polymerase by the bacteriophage T4 activator MotA and co-activator AsiA
Microbiology 2005 151: 1729-1740. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Gautam Das, T. K. Dineshkumar, Swapna Thanedar, and Umesh Varshney

Acquisition of a stable mutation in metY allows efficient initiation from an amber codon in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2005 151: 1741-1750. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark A. Strauch, Petek Ballar, Austin J. Rowshan, and Katherine L. Zoller

The DNA-binding specificity of the Bacillus anthracis AbrB protein
Microbiology 2005 151: 1751-1759. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ching Leang and Derek R. Lovley

Regulation of two highly similar genes, omcB and omcC, in a 10 kb chromosomal duplication in Geobacter sulfurreducens
Microbiology 2005 151: 1761-1767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masakuni Serizawa and Junichi Sekiguchi

The Bacillus subtilis YdfHI two-component system regulates the transcription of ydfJ, a member of the RND superfamily
Microbiology 2005 151: 1769-1778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jee-Hyun Sim, Wenyuan Shi, and Renate Lux

Protein–protein interactions in the chemotaxis signalling pathway of Treponema denticola
Microbiology 2005 151: 1801-1807. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jens Glaeser and Gabriele Klug

Photo-oxidative stress in Rhodobacter sphaeroides: protective role of carotenoids and expression of selected genes
Microbiology 2005 151: 1927-1938. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edward R. Sumner, Anupama Shanmuganathan, Theodora C. Sideri, Sylvia A. Willetts, John E. Houghton, and Simon V. Avery

Oxidative protein damage causes chromium toxicity in yeast
Microbiology 2005 151: 1939-1948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alessandra S. Eustáquio, Shu-Ming Li, and Lutz Heide

NovG, a DNA-binding protein acting as a positive regulator of novobiocin biosynthesis
Microbiology 2005 151: 1949-1961. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eva Heinzelmann, Susanne Berger, Claudia Müller, Thomas Härtner, Karl Poralla, Wolfgang Wohlleben, and Dirk Schwartz

An acyl-CoA dehydrogenase is involved in the formation of the cis3 double bond in the acyl residue of the lipopeptide antibiotic friulimicin in Actinoplanes friuliensis
Microbiology 2005 151: 1963-1974. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mathew D. Lefebre, Ronald S. Flannagan, and Miguel A. Valvano

A minor catalase/peroxidase from Burkholderia cenocepacia is required for normal aconitase activity
Microbiology 2005 151: 1975-1985. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Quatrini, C. Lefimil, D. S. Holmes, and E. Jedlicki

The ferric iron uptake regulator (Fur) from the extreme acidophile Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans
Microbiology 2005 151: 2005-2015. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Lei Dong, Ni Cheng, Ming-Wei Wang, Junfeng Zhang, Chang Shu, and De-Xu Zhu

The leucyl aminopeptidase from Helicobacter pylori is an allosteric enzyme
Microbiology 2005 151: 2017-2023. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gilles Etienne, Françoise Laval, Christelle Villeneuve, Premkumar Dinadayala, Ahmed Abouwarda, Didier Zerbib, Alexandra Galamba, and Mamadou Daffé

The cell envelope structure and properties of Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155: is there a clue for the unique transformability of the strain?
Microbiology 2005 151: 2075-2086. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adeline Burguière, Paul G. Hitchen, Lynn G. Dover, Anne Dell, and Gurdyal S. Besra

Altered expression profile of mycobacterial surface glycopeptidolipids following treatment with the antifungal azole inhibitors econazole and clotrimazole
Microbiology 2005 151: 2087-2095. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Naiel Bisharat, Nicola Jones, Dror Marchaim, Colin Block, Rosalind M. Harding, Pablo Yagupsky, Tim Peto, and Derrick W. Crook

Population structure of group B streptococcus from a low-incidence region for invasive neonatal disease
Microbiology 2005 151: 1875-1881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Tamara Basta, Sibylle Buerger, and Andreas Stolz

Structural and replicative diversity of large plasmids from sphingomonads that degrade polycyclic aromatic compounds and xenobiotics
Microbiology 2005 151: 2025-2037. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joy E. M. Watts, Sonja K. Fagervold, Harold D. May, and Kevin R. Sowers

A PCR-based specific assay reveals a population of bacteria within the Chloroflexi associated with the reductive dehalogenation of polychlorinated biphenyls
Microbiology 2005 151: 2039-2046. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomoyuki Nakagawa, Kaichiro Yamada, Shuki Fujimura, Takashi Ito, Tatsuro Miyaji, and Noboru Tomizuka

Pectin utilization by the methylotrophic yeast Pichia methanolica
Microbiology 2005 151: 2047-2052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Graham P. Stafford, Tomoo Ogi, and Colin Hughes

Binding and transcriptional activation of non-flagellar genes by the Escherichia coli flagellar master regulator FlhD₂C₂
Microbiology 2005 151: 1779-1788. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Niamh Harraghy, Jan Kormanec, Christiane Wolz, Dagmar Homerova, Christiane Goerke, Knut Ohlsen, Saara Qazi, Philip Hill, and Mathias Herrmann

sae is essential for expression of the staphylococcal adhesins Eap and Emp
Microbiology 2005 151: 1789-1800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Péant, G. LaPointe, C. Gilbert, D. Atlan, P. Ward, and D. Roy

Comparative analysis of the exopolysaccharide biosynthesis gene clusters from four strains of Lactobacillus rhamnosus
Microbiology 2005 151: 1839-1851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicholas V. Coleman and Andrew J. Holmes

The native Pseudomonas stutzeri strain Q chromosomal integron can capture and express cassette-associated genes
Microbiology 2005 151: 1853-1864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vinh D. Pham, Conrad W. Shebelut, Michelle E. Diodati, Carolee T. Bull, and Mitchell Singer

Mutations affecting predation ability of the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus
Microbiology 2005 151: 1865-1874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Naola M. Ferguson, Diego Hepp, Shulei Sun, Nilo Ikuta, Sharon Levisohn, Stanley H. Kleven, and Maricarmen García

Use of molecular diversity of Mycoplasma gallisepticum by gene-targeted sequencing (GTS) and random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) analysis for epidemiological studies
Microbiology 2005 151: 1883-1893. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Andrea Feucht and Jeffery Errington

ftsZ mutations affecting cell division frequency, placement and morphology in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2005 151: 2053-2064. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Dorothee Stübs, Thilo M. Fuchs, Boris Schneider, Armin Bosserhoff, and Roy Gross

Identification and regulation of cold-inducible factors of Bordetella bronchiseptica
Microbiology 2005 151: 1895-1909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Llull, Patrick Veiga, Josselyne Tremblay, and Saulius Kulakauskas

Immobilization-based isolation of capsule-negative mutants of Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2005 151: 1911-1917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Victoria L. Taylor, Richard W. Titball, and Petra C. F. Oyston

Oral immunization with a dam mutant of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis protects against plague
Microbiology 2005 151: 1919-1926. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yukiko Fujita, Takeshi Doi, Koji Sato, and Ikuya Yano

Diverse humoral immune responses and changes in IgG antibody levels against mycobacterial lipid antigens in active tuberculosis
Microbiology 2005 151: 2065-2074. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kylie E. Rodriguez-Siek, Catherine W. Giddings, Curt Doetkott, Timothy J. Johnson, Mohamed K. Fakhr, and Lisa K. Nolan

Comparison of Escherichia coli isolates implicated in human urinary tract infection and avian colibacillosis
Microbiology 2005 151: 2097-2110. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarah E. Burr, Dmitri Pugovkin, Thomas Wahli, Helmut Segner, and Joachim Frey

Attenuated virulence of an Aeromonas salmonicida subsp. salmonicida type III secretion mutant in a rainbow trout model
Microbiology 2005 151: 2111-2118. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Dimitrios I. Tsitsigiannis, Terri M. Kowieski, Robert Zarnowski, and Nancy P. Keller

Three putative oxylipin biosynthetic genes integrate sexual and asexual development in Aspergillus nidulans
Microbiology 2005 151: 1809-1821. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine Rathsam, Ruth E. Eaton, Christine L. Simpson, Gina V. Browne, Tracey Berg, Derek W. S. Harty, and N. A. Jacques

Up-regulation of competence- but not stress-responsive proteins accompanies an altered metabolic phenotype in Streptococcus mutans biofilms
Microbiology 2005 151: 1823-1837. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Odile Juille, Dominique Le Bars, and Vincent Juillard

The specificity of oligopeptide transport by Streptococcus thermophilus resembles that of Lactococcus lactis and not that of pathogenic streptococci
Microbiology 2005 151: 1987-1994. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Neil Macpherson, Lana Shabala, Henrietta Rooney, Marcus G. Jarman, and Julia M. Davies

Plasma membrane H⁺ and K⁺ transporters are involved in the weak-acid preservative response of disparate food spoilage yeasts
Microbiology 2005 151: 1995-2003. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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