MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

G. A. Wilson, N. Bertrand, Y. Patel, J. B. Hughes, E. J. Feil, and D. Field

Orphans as taxonomically restricted and ecologically important genes
Microbiology 2005 151: 2499-2501. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Rakefet Schwarz and Karl Forchhammer

Acclimation of unicellular cyanobacteria to macronutrient deficiency: emergence of a complex network of cellular responses
Microbiology 2005 151: 2503-2514. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Jun Xu, Eva Wan, Chang-Joon Kim, Heinz G. Floss, and Taifo Mahmud

Identification of tailoring genes involved in the modification of the polyketide backbone of rifamycin B by Amycolatopsis mediterranei S699
Microbiology 2005 151: 2515-2528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine Baysse, Méabh Cullinane, Valérie Dénervaud, Elizabeth Burrowes, J. Maxwell Dow, John P. Morrissey, Ling Tam, Jack T. Trevors, and Fergal O'Gara

Modulation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through alteration of membrane properties
Microbiology 2005 151: 2529-2542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jane S. Williams, Marie Thomas, and David J. Clarke

The gene stlA encodes a phenylalanine ammonia-lyase that is involved in the production of a stilbene antibiotic in Photorhabdus luminescens TT01
Microbiology 2005 151: 2543-2550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margarita Díaz, Ana Esteban, José Manuel Fernández-Abalos, and Ramón I. Santamaría

The high-affinity phosphate-binding protein PstS is accumulated under high fructose concentrations and mutation of the corresponding gene affects differentiation in Streptomyces lividans
Microbiology 2005 151: 2583-2592. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernhard Sielaff and Jan R. Andreesen

Analysis of the nearly identical morpholine monooxygenase-encoding mor genes from different Mycobacterium strains and characterization of the specific NADH : ferredoxin oxidoreductase of this cytochrome P450 system
Microbiology 2005 151: 2593-2603. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jayna L. Ditty, Shannon R. Canales, Breanne E. Anderson, Stanly B. Williams, and Susan S. Golden

Stability of the Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 circadian clock under directed anti-phase expression of the kai genes
Microbiology 2005 151: 2605-2613. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rotsaman Chongcharoen, Thomas J. Smith, Kenneth P. Flint, and Howard Dalton

Adaptation and acclimatization to formaldehyde in methylotrophs capable of high-concentration formaldehyde detoxification
Microbiology 2005 151: 2615-2622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

María Sanz, Lucia Carrano, Cristina Jiménez, Gianpaolo Candiani, José A. Trilla, Angel Durán, and César Roncero

Candida albicans strains deficient in CHS7, a key regulator of chitin synthase III, exhibit morphogenetic alterations and attenuated virulence
Microbiology 2005 151: 2623-2636. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Craig Baker-Austin, Mark Dopson, Margaret Wexler, R. Gary Sawers, and Philip L. Bond

Molecular insight into extreme copper resistance in the extremophilic archaeon ‘Ferroplasma acidarmanus’ Fer1
Microbiology 2005 151: 2637-2646. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Alexander Bolotin, Benoit Quinquis, Alexei Sorokin, and S. Dusko Ehrlich

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin
Microbiology 2005 151: 2551-2561. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

Emma Griffiths, Astrid K. Petrich, and Radhey S. Gupta

Conserved indels in essential proteins that are distinctive characteristics of Chlamydiales and provide novel means for their identification
Microbiology 2005 151: 2647-2657. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandra Juíz-Río, Carlos R. Osorio, Víctor de Lorenzo, and Manuel L. Lemos

Subtractive hybridization reveals a high genetic diversity in the fish pathogen Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida: evidence of a SXT-like element
Microbiology 2005 151: 2659-2669. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Baoguang Li, Eric W. Brown, Christine D'Agostino, J. Eugene LeClerc, and Thomas A. Cebula

Structure and distribution of the phosphoprotein phosphatase genes, prpA and prpB, among Shigella subgroups
Microbiology 2005 151: 2671-2683. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Angelina Ramos, Michal Letek, Ana Belén Campelo, José Vaquera, Luis M. Mateos, and José A. Gil

Altered morphology produced by ftsZ expression in Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13869
Microbiology 2005 151: 2563-2572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roger R. Lew

Mass flow and pressure-driven hyphal extension in Neurospora crassa
Microbiology 2005 151: 2685-2692. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Renata Novakova, Dagmar Homerova, Lubomira Feckova, and Jan Kormanec

Characterization of a regulatory gene essential for the production of the angucycline-like polyketide antibiotic auricin in Streptomyces aureofaciens CCM 3239
Microbiology 2005 151: 2693-2706. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dae-Wi Kim, Keith F. Chater, Kye-Joon Lee, and Andy Hesketh

Effects of growth phase and the developmentally significant bldA-specified tRNA on the membrane-associated proteome of Streptomyces coelicolor
Microbiology 2005 151: 2707-2720. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Md. Shahinur Kabir, Daisuke Yamashita, Satoshi Koyama, Taku Oshima, Ken Kurokawa, Maki Maeda, Ryouichi Tsunedomi, Masayuki Murata, Chieko Wada, Hirotada Mori, and Mamoru Yamada

Cell lysis directed by ^E in early stationary phase and effect of induction of the rpoE gene on global gene expression in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2005 151: 2721-2735. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Tricia A. Missall, Jocie F. Cherry-Harris, and Jennifer K. Lodge

Two glutathione peroxidases in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans are expressed in the presence of specific substrates
Microbiology 2005 151: 2573-2581. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Federico Navarro-García, Blanca Eisman, Sonia M. Fiuza, César Nombela, and Jesús Pla

The MAP kinase Mkc1p is activated under different stress conditions in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2005 151: 2737-2749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wendy A. Sweetman, E. Richard Moxon, and Christopher D. Bayliss

Induction of the SOS regulon of Haemophilus influenzae does not affect phase variation rates at tetranucleotide or dinucleotide repeats
Microbiology 2005 151: 2751-2763. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amanda MacCallum, Graham Haddock, and Paul H. Everest

Campylobacter jejuni activates mitogen-activated protein kinases in Caco-2 cell monolayers and in vitro infected primary human colonic tissue
Microbiology 2005 151: 2765-2772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stuart W. Naylor, Andrew J. Roe, Pablo Nart, Kevin Spears, David. G. E. Smith, J. Christopher Low, and David L. Gally

Escherichia coli O157 : H7 forms attaching and effacing lesions at the terminal rectum of cattle and colonization requires the LEE4 operon
Microbiology 2005 151: 2773-2781. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Natalee Stewart, Jingyang Feng, Xiaoping Liu, Devyani Chaudhuri, John W. Foster, Marc Drolet, and Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh

Loss of topoisomerase I function affects the RpoS-dependent and GAD systems of acid resistance in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2005 151: 2783-2791. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Sybille Duret, Aurélie André, and Joël Renaudin

Specific gene targeting in Spiroplasma citri: improved vectors and production of unmarked mutations using site-specific recombination
Microbiology 2005 151: 2793-2803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

E. Tjeerd van Rij, Geneviève Girard, Ben J. J. Lugtenberg, and Guido V. Bloemberg

Influence of fusaric acid on phenazine-1-carboxamide synthesis and gene expression of Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain PCL1391
Microbiology 2005 151: 2805-2814. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

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