REVIEW:

Graham Bell and Pierre-Henri Gouyon

Arming the enemy: the evolution of resistance to self-proteins
Microbiology 2003 149: 1367-1375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Kevin J. C. Gibson, Martine Gilleron, Patricia Constant, Germain Puzo, Jérôme Nigou, and Gurdyal S. Besra

Structural and functional features of Rhodococcus ruber lipoarabinomannan
Microbiology 2003 149: 1437-1445. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pascale Serror, Golnar Ilami, Hichem Chouayekh, S. Dusko Ehrlich, and Emmanuelle Maguin

Transposition in Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus: identification of two thermosensitive replicons and two functional insertion sequences
Microbiology 2003 149: 1503-1511. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anthony D. Baughn and Michael H. Malamy

The essential role of fumarate reductase in haem-dependent growth stimulation of Bacteroides fragilis
Microbiology 2003 149: 1551-1558. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eloísa Andújar and Eduardo Santero

Site-directed mutagenesis of an extradiol dioxygenase involved in tetralin biodegradation identifies residues important for activity or substrate specificity
Microbiology 2003 149: 1559-1567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Pavel Kotrba, Masayuki Inui, and Hideaki Yukawa

A single V317A or V317M substitution in Enzyme II of a newly identified -glucoside phosphotransferase and utilization system of Corynebacterium glutamicum R extends its specificity towards cellobiose
Microbiology 2003 149: 1569-1580. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Bowen, Thomas A. Rocheleau, Cathy K. Grutzmacher, Laurence Meslet, Michelle Valens, Daniel Marble, Andrea Dowling, Richard ffrench-Constant, and Mark A. Blight

Genetic and biochemical characterization of PrtA, an RTX-like metalloprotease from Photorhabdus
Microbiology 2003 149: 1581-1591. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaroslaw Dziadek, Stacey A. Rutherford, Murty V. Madiraju, Mark A. L. Atkinson, and Malini Rajagopalan

Conditional expression of Mycobacterium smegmatis ftsZ, an essential cell division gene
Microbiology 2003 149: 1593-1603. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Hélène Marchandin, Corinne Teyssier, Michèle Siméon de Buochberg, Hélène Jean-Pierre, Christian Carriere, and Estelle Jumas-Bilak

Intra-chromosomal heterogeneity between the four 16S rRNA gene copies in the genus Veillonella: implications for phylogeny and taxonomy
Microbiology 2003 149: 1493-1501. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Sun-Yang Park, Sang Jun Lee, Tae-Kwang Oh, Jong-Won Oh, Bon-Tag Koo, Do-Young Yum, and Jung-Kee Lee

AhlD, an N-acylhomoserine lactonase in Arthrobacter sp., and predicted homologues in other bacteria
Microbiology 2003 149: 1541-1550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Raymond Wightman and Peter A. Meacock

The THI5 gene family of Saccharomyces cerevisiae: distribution of homologues among the hemiascomycetes and functional redundancy in the aerobic biosynthesis of thiamin from pyridoxine
Microbiology 2003 149: 1447-1460. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcus E. Marvin, Peter H. Williams, and Annette M. Cashmore

The Candida albicans CTR1 gene encodes a functional copper transporter
Microbiology 2003 149: 1461-1474. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Silke Kahl and Bernd Hofer

A genetic system for the rapid isolation of aromatic-ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase activities
Microbiology 2003 149: 1475-1481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dorota Kuchanny-Ardigò and Barbara Lipinska

Cloning and characterization of the groE heat-shock operon of the marine bacterium Vibrio harveyi
Microbiology 2003 149: 1483-1492. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

David K. O'Brien and Stephen B. Melville

Multiple effects on Clostridium perfringens binding, uptake and trafficking to lysosomes by inhibitors of macrophage phagocytosis receptors
Microbiology 2003 149: 1377-1386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreas Lügering, Inga Benz, Sabine Knochenhauer, Michael Ruffing, and M. Alexander Schmidt

The Pix pilus adhesin of the uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain X2194 (O2 : K^- : H6) is related to Pap pili but exhibits a truncated regulatory region
Microbiology 2003 149: 1387-1397. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Astrid de Greeff, Andrea Hamilton, Iain C. Sutcliffe, Herma Buys, Loek van Alphen, and Hilde E. Smith

Lipoprotein signal peptidase of Streptococcus suis serotype 2
Microbiology 2003 149: 1399-1407. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark L. Lawrence, Michelle M. Banes, Parastoo Azadi, and Brenda Y. Reeks

The Edwardsiella ictaluri O polysaccharide biosynthesis gene cluster and the role of O polysaccharide in resistance to normal catfish serum and catfish neutrophils
Microbiology 2003 149: 1409-1421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tanya Parish, Debbie A. Smith, Gretta Roberts, Joanna Betts, and Neil G. Stoker

The senX3–regX3 two-component regulatory system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is required for virulence
Microbiology 2003 149: 1423-1435. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Paula Fareleira, Bruno S. Santos, Célia António, Pedro Moradas-Ferreira, Jean LeGall, António V. Xavier, and Helena Santos

Response of a strict anaerobe to oxygen: survival strategies in Desulfovibrio gigas
Microbiology 2003 149: 1513-1522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luciano Gastaldo and Flavia Marinelli

Changes in GE2270 antibiotic production in Planobispora rosea through modulation of methylation metabolism
Microbiology 2003 149: 1523-1532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. J. K. Ellington, G. Sawers, H. J. Sears, S. Spiro, D. J. Richardson, and S. J. Ferguson

Characterization of the expression and activity of the periplasmic nitrate reductase of Paracoccus pantotrophus in chemostat cultures
Microbiology 2003 149: 1533-1540. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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