MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Lemese Ah Tow and Don A. Cowan

Non-specificity of Staphylococcus generic primers
Microbiology 2003 149: 1605-1607. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Katerina Petrícková and Miroslav Petrícek

Eukaryotic-type protein kinases in Streptomyces coelicolor: variations on a common theme
Microbiology 2003 149: 1609-1621. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Sequence alignment][Sequence alignment]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

José M. Fernández-Abalos, Verónica Reviejo, Margarita Díaz, Sonia Rodríguez, Fernando Leal, and Ramón I. Santamaría

Posttranslational processing of the xylanase Xys1L from Streptomyces halstedii JM8 is carried out by secreted serine proteases
Microbiology 2003 149: 1623-1632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Koji Ichinose, Makoto Ozawa, Keiko Itou, Kanako Kunieda, and Yutaka Ebizuka

Cloning, sequencing and heterologous expression of the medermycin biosynthetic gene cluster of Streptomyces sp. AM-7161: towards comparative analysis of the benzoisochromanequinone gene clusters
Microbiology 2003 149: 1633-1645. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Narottam Acharya, Pradeep Kumar, and Umesh Varshney

Complexes of the uracil-DNA glycosylase inhibitor protein, Ugi, with Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis uracil-DNA glycosylases
Microbiology 2003 149: 1647-1658. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mladen Tzvetkov, Corinna Klopprogge, Oskar Zelder, and Wolfgang Liebl

Genetic dissection of trehalose biosynthesis in Corynebacterium glutamicum: inactivation of trehalose production leads to impaired growth and an altered cell wall lipid composition
Microbiology 2003 149: 1659-1673. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genoveva Yagüe, Manuel Segovia, and Pedro L. Valero-Guillén

Phospholipid composition of several clinically relevant Corynebacterium species as determined by mass spectrometry: an unusual fatty acyl moiety is present in inositol-containing phospholipids of Corynebacterium urealyticum
Microbiology 2003 149: 1675-1685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alejandro F. Alice, Gaspar Pérez-Martínez, and Carmen Sánchez-Rivas

Phosphoenolpyruvate phosphotransferase system and N-acetylglucosamine metabolism in Bacillus sphaericus
Microbiology 2003 149: 1687-1698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thore Rohwerder and Wolfgang Sand

The sulfane sulfur of persulfides is the actual substrate of the sulfur-oxidizing enzymes from Acidithiobacillus and Acidiphilium spp.
Microbiology 2003 149: 1699-1710. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John W. Smalley, Jack Silver, Andrew J. Birss, Robert Withnall, and Philip J. Titler

The haem pigment of the oral anaerobes Prevotella nigrescens and Prevotella intermedia is composed of iron(III) protoporphyrin IX in the monomeric form
Microbiology 2003 149: 1711-1718. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yuli Song, Chengxu Liu, Maureen McTeague, Ann Vu, Jia Yia Liu, and Sydney M. Finegold

Rapid identification of Gram-positive anaerobic coccal species originally classified in the genus Peptostreptococcus by multiplex PCR assays using genus- and species-specific primers
Microbiology 2003 149: 1719-1727. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Henry Wong and Anthony B. Schryvers

Bacterial lactoferrin-binding protein A binds to both domains of the human lactoferrin C-lobe
Microbiology 2003 149: 1729-1737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Uldis Kalnenieks, Malda M. Toma, Nina Galinina, and Robert K. Poole

The paradoxical cyanide-stimulated respiration of Zymomonas mobilis: cyanide sensitivity of alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH II)
Microbiology 2003 149: 1739-1744. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

V. Paredes, A. Franco, T. Soto, J. Vicente-Soler, M. Gacto, and J. Cansado

Different roles for the stress-activated protein kinase pathway in the regulation of trehalose metabolism in Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Microbiology 2003 149: 1745-1752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Miguel A. De Pedro, Heinz Schwarz, and Arthur L. Koch

Patchiness of murein insertion into the sidewall of Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2003 149: 1753-1761. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Ryszard Zielke, Aleksandra Sikora, Rafal Dutkiewicz, Grzegorz Wegrzyn, and Agata Czyz

Involvement of the cgtA gene function in stimulation of DNA repair in Escherichia coli and Vibrio harveyi
Microbiology 2003 149: 1763-1770. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Graham P. Stafford, Julie Scanlan, Ian R. McDonald, and J. Colin Murrell

rpoN, mmoR and mmoG, genes involved in regulating the expression of soluble methane monooxygenase in Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b
Microbiology 2003 149: 1771-1784. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Róbert Csáki, Levente Bodrossy, József Klem, J. Colin Murrell, and Kornél L. Kovács

Genes involved in the copper-dependent regulation of soluble methane monooxygenase of Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath): cloning, sequencing and mutational analysis
Microbiology 2003 149: 1785-1795. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claire Streten and Karen S. Gibb

Identification of genes in the tomato big bud phytoplasma and comparison to those in sweet potato little leaf-V4 phytoplasma
Microbiology 2003 149: 1797-1805. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James A. Carroll, Philip E. Stewart, Patricia Rosa, Abdallah F. Elias, and Claude F. Garon

An enhanced GFP reporter system to monitor gene expression in Borrelia burgdorferi
Microbiology 2003 149: 1819-1828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Keyi Liu, Jinzhi Yu, and David G. Russell

pckA-deficient Mycobacterium bovis BCG shows attenuated virulence in mice and in macrophages
Microbiology 2003 149: 1829-1835. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cécile Rousseau, Tatiana D. Sirakova, Vinod S. Dubey, Yann Bordat, Pappachan E. Kolattukudy, Brigitte Gicquel, and Mary Jackson

Virulence attenuation of two Mas-like polyketide synthase mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2003 149: 1837-1847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emily A. L. Thompson, Ian M. Feavers, and Martin C. J. Maiden

Antigenic diversity of meningococcal enterobactin receptor FetA, a vaccine component
Microbiology 2003 149: 1849-1858. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joanne E. Dove, Kazutoyo Yasukawa, Colin R. Tinsley, and Xavier Nassif

Production of the signalling molecule, autoinducer-2, by Neisseria meningitidis: lack of evidence for a concerted transcriptional response
Microbiology 2003 149: 1859-1869. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sven Laarmann and M. Alexander Schmidt

The Escherichia coli AIDA autotransporter adhesin recognizes an integral membrane glycoprotein as receptor
Microbiology 2003 149: 1871-1882. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anisia J. Silva, Kim Pham, and Jorge A. Benitez

Haemagglutinin/protease expression and mucin gel penetration in El Tor biotype Vibrio cholerae
Microbiology 2003 149: 1883-1891. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Florian M. Freimoser, Steven Screen, Gang Hu, and Raymond St. Leger

EST analysis of genes expressed by the zygomycete pathogen Conidiobolus coronatus during growth on insect cuticle
Microbiology 2003 149: 1893-1900. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Junko K. Akada, Keiji Ogura, Daiva Dailidiene, Giedrius Dailide, James M. Cheverud, and Douglas E. Berg

Helicobacter pylori tissue tropism: mouse-colonizing strains can target different gastric niches
Microbiology 2003 149: 1901-1909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Pavel Suchan, Daniel Vyoral, Jirí Petrák, Robert Sut'ák, Dominique Rasoloson, Eva Nohynková, Pavel Dolezal, and Jan Tachezy

Incorporation of iron into Tritrichomonas foetus cell compartments reveals ferredoxin as a major iron-binding protein in hydrogenosomes
Microbiology 2003 149: 1911-1921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Diane McDougald, Sujatha Srinivasan, Scott A. Rice, and Staffan Kjelleberg

Signal-mediated cross-talk regulates stress adaptation in Vibrio species
Microbiology 2003 149: 1923-1933. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sergine Even, Nic D. Lindley, and Muriel Cocaign-Bousquet

Transcriptional, translational and metabolic regulation of glycolysis in Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG 1363 grown in continuous acidic cultures
Microbiology 2003 149: 1935-1944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joshua D. Nosanchuk and Arturo Casadevall

Budding of melanized Cryptococcus neoformans in the presence or absence of L-dopa
Microbiology 2003 149: 1945-1951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Ana M. Buendía-Clavería, Ahmed Moussaid, F. Javier Ollero, José M. Vinardell, Antonio Torres, Javier Moreno, Antonio M. Gil-Serrano, Miguel A. Rodríguez-Carvajal, Pilar Tejero-Mateo, Jan L. Peart, Nicholas J. Brewin, and José E. Ruiz-Sainz

A purL mutant of Sinorhizobium fredii HH103 is symbiotically defective and altered in its lipopolysaccharide
Microbiology 2003 149: 1807-1818. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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