MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

David W. Ussery

Genome Update: 161 prokaryotic genomes sequenced, and counting
Microbiology 2004 150: 261-263. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michel Drancourt and Didier Raoult

Molecular detection of Yersinia pestis in dental pulp
Microbiology 2004 150: 263-264. [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jon Cuccui, William White, Niels Lynnerup, Richard W. Titball, Alan Cooper, and Michael B. Prentice

Response to Drancourt and Raoult
Microbiology 2004 150: 264-265. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

H. E. Ambrose, S. P. Keely, E. M. Aliouat, E. Dei-Cas, A. E. Wakefield, R. F. Miller, and J. R. Stringer

Expression and complexity of the PRT1 multigene family of Pneumocystis carinii
Microbiology 2004 150: 293-300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xing-Guo Wang, Joanna P. Scagliotti, and Linden T. Hu

Phospholipid synthesis in Borrelia burgdorferi: BB0249 and BB0721 encode functional phosphatidylcholine synthase and phosphatidylglycerolphosphate synthase proteins
Microbiology 2004 150: 391-397. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael F. Dunn, Gisela Araíza, and Jaime Mora

Biochemical characterization of a Rhizobium etli monovalent cation-stimulated acyl-coenzyme A carboxylase with a high substrate specificity constant for propionyl-coenzyme A
Microbiology 2004 150: 399-406. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jenny Bengtsson, Claes von Wachenfeldt, Lena Winstedt, Per Nygaard, and Lars Hederstedt

CtaG is required for formation of active cytochrome c oxidase in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2004 150: 415-425. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marc A. B. Kolkman and Eugenio Ferrari

The fate of extracellular proteins tagged by the SsrA system of Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2004 150: 427-436. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

David R. Singleton and Kevin C. Hazen

Differential surface localization and temperature-dependent expression of the Candida albicans CSH1 protein
Microbiology 2004 150: 285-292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rosa Icela Sánchez-Murillo, Mayra de la Torre-Martínez, Jesús Aguirre-Linares, and Alfredo Herrera-Estrella

Light-regulated asexual reproduction in Paecilomyces fumosoroseus
Microbiology 2004 150: 311-319. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Degang Ning and Xudong Xu

alr0117, a two-component histidine kinase gene, is involved in heterocyst development in Anabaena sp. PCC 7120
Microbiology 2004 150: 447-453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Francesco Pomati, Carlo Rossetti, Gianluca Manarolla, Brendan P. Burns, and Brett A. Neilan

Interactions between intracellular Na⁺ levels and saxitoxin production in Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii T3
Microbiology 2004 150: 455-461. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Volker Seibert, Monika Thiel, Isabelle-S. Hinner, and Michael Schlömann

Characterization of a gene cluster encoding the maleylacetate reductase from Ralstonia eutropha 335^T, an enzyme recruited for growth with 4-fluorobenzoate
Microbiology 2004 150: 463-472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Olivier Jousson, Barbara Léchenne, Olympia Bontems, Sabrina Capoccia, Bernard Mignon, Jachen Barblan, Manfredo Quadroni, and Michel Monod

Multiplication of an ancestral gene encoding secreted fungalysin preceded species differentiation in the dermatophytes Trichophyton and Microsporum
Microbiology 2004 150: 301-310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura Jackson, Timo Blake, and Jeffrey Green

Regulation of ndh expression in Escherichia coli by Fis
Microbiology 2004 150: 407-413. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Magali Marmiesse, Priscille Brodin, Carmen Buchrieser, Christina Gutierrez, Nathalie Simoes, Veronique Vincent, Philippe Glaser, Stewart T. Cole, and Roland Brosch

Macro-array and bioinformatic analyses reveal mycobacterial ‘core’ genes, variation in the ESAT-6 gene family and new phylogenetic markers for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Microbiology 2004 150: 483-496. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum]  

Jörg Mostertz, Christian Scharf, Michael Hecker, and Georg Homuth

Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression in response to superoxide and peroxide stress
Microbiology 2004 150: 497-512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Clayton B. Green, Georgina Cheng, Jyotsna Chandra, Pranab Mukherjee, Mahmoud A. Ghannoum, and Lois L. Hoyer

RT-PCR detection of Candida albicans ALS gene expression in the reconstituted human epithelium (RHE) model of oral candidiasis and in model biofilms
Microbiology 2004 150: 267-275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nand K. Gaur and Stephen A. Klotz

Accessibility of the peptide backbone of protein ligands is a key specificity determinant in Candida albicans SRS adherence
Microbiology 2004 150: 277-284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea Milenbachs Lukowiak, Kimberly J. Mueller, Nancy E. Freitag, and Philip Youngman

Deregulation of Listeria monocytogenes virulence gene expression by two distinct and semi-independent pathways
Microbiology 2004 150: 321-333. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Viveka Vadyvaloo, Jacky L. Snoep, John W. Hastings, and Marina Rautenbach

Physiological implications of class IIa bacteriocin resistance in Listeria monocytogenes strains
Microbiology 2004 150: 335-340. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Thomas P. Gilbert, Jon Cuccui, William White, Niels Lynnerup, Richard W. Titball, Alan Cooper, and Michael B. Prentice

Absence of Yersinia pestis-specific DNA in human teeth from five European excavations of putative plague victims
Microbiology 2004 150: 341-354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Additional information]  

Caroline Redmond, Leslie W. J. Baillie, Stephen Hibbs, Arthur J. G. Moir, and Anne Moir

Identification of proteins in the exosporium of Bacillus anthracis
Microbiology 2004 150: 355-363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Myrna S. Rezcallah, Michael D. P. Boyle, and Darren D. Sledjeski

Mouse skin passage of Streptococcus pyogenes results in increased streptokinase expression and activity
Microbiology 2004 150: 365-371. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

James K. Lithgow, Eileen Ingham, and Simon J. Foster

Role of the hprT–ftsH locus in Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2004 150: 373-381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James E. Berleman and Carl E. Bauer

Characterization of cyst cell formation in the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum
Microbiology 2004 150: 383-390. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mei-Shiue Kuo, Kuei-Peng Chen, and Whi Fin Wu

Regulation of RcsA by the ClpYQ (HslUV) protease in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2004 150: 437-446. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

José A. Oguiza, Arantza Rico, Luis A. Rivas, Laurent Sutra, Alan Vivian, and Jesús Murillo

Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola can be separated into two genetic lineages distinguished by the possession of the phaseolotoxin biosynthetic cluster
Microbiology 2004 150: 473-482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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