MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Mengjin Liu, Frank H.J. van Enckevort, and Roland J. Siezen

Genome update: lactic acid bacteria genome sequencing is booming
Microbiology 2005 151: 3811-3814. [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Mora, C. Monnet, and D. Daffonchio

Balancing the loss and acquisition of pathogenic traits in food-associated bacteria
Microbiology 2005 151: 3814-3816. [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Peter C. Fineran, Lee Everson, Holly Slater, and George P. C. Salmond

A GntR family transcriptional regulator (PigT) controls gluconate-mediated repression and defines a new, independent pathway for regulation of the tripyrrole antibiotic, prodigiosin, in Serratia
Microbiology 2005 151: 3833-3845. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shingo Mutoh, Tomonori Suzuki, Kimiko Hasegawa, Yozo Nakazawa, Hirokazu Kouguchi, Yoshimasa Sagane, Koichi Niwa, Toshihiro Watanabe, and Tohru Ohyama

Four molecules of the 33 kDa haemagglutinin component of the Clostridium botulinum serotype C and D toxin complexes are required to aggregate erythrocytes
Microbiology 2005 151: 3847-3858. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Phoebe Tsang, Justin Merritt, Trang Nguyen, Wenyuan Shi, and Fengxia Qi

Identification of genes associated with mutacin I production in Streptococcus mutans using random insertional mutagenesis
Microbiology 2005 151: 3947-3955. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philippe Perron-Savard, Gregory De Crescenzo, and Hervé Le Moual

Dimerization and DNA binding of the Salmonella enterica PhoP response regulator are phosphorylation independent
Microbiology 2005 151: 3979-3987. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lee A. Talarico, Malgorzata A. Gil, Lorraine P. Yomano, Lonnie O. Ingram, and Julie A. Maupin-Furlow

Construction and expression of an ethanol production operon in Gram-positive bacteria
Microbiology 2005 151: 4023-4031. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masaki Osawa and Harold P. Erickson

Probing the domain structure of FtsZ by random truncation and insertion of GFP
Microbiology 2005 151: 4033-4043. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gargi Bagchi, Santosh Chauhan, Deepak Sharma, and Jaya Sivaswami Tyagi

Transcription and autoregulation of the Rv3134c-devR-devS operon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2005 151: 4045-4053. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yuji Nakada and Yoshifumi Itoh

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 genes for 3-guanidinopropionate and 4-guanidinobutyrate utilization may be derived from a common ancestor
Microbiology 2005 151: 4055-4062. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David P. Dibden and Jeffrey Green

In vivo cycling of the Escherichia coli transcription factor FNR between active and inactive states
Microbiology 2005 151: 4063-4070. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Edit Díaz-Mireles, Margaret Wexler, Jonathan D. Todd, Dominico Bellini, Andrew W. B. Johnston, and R. Gary Sawers

The manganese-responsive repressor Mur of Rhizobium leguminosarum is a member of the Fur-superfamily that recognizes an unusual operator sequence
Microbiology 2005 151: 4071-4078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura M. Wainwright, Karen T. Elvers, Simon F. Park, and Robert K. Poole

A truncated haemoglobin implicated in oxygen metabolism by the microaerophilic food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni
Microbiology 2005 151: 4079-4091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Saija Kiljunen, Kristo Hakala, Elise Pinta, Suvi Huttunen, Patrycja Pluta, Aneta Gador, Harri Lönnberg, and Mikael Skurnik

Yersiniophage R1-37 is a tailed bacteriophage having a 270 kb DNA genome with thymidine replaced by deoxyuridine
Microbiology 2005 151: 4093-4102. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Denise F. Jones, Rachelle A. Stenzel, and Timothy J. Donohue

Mutational analysis of the C-terminal domain of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides response regulator PrrA
Microbiology 2005 151: 4103-4110. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arpaporn Deeraksa, Somporn Moonmangmee, Hirohide Toyama, Mamoru Yamada, Osao Adachi, and Kazunobu Matsushita

Characterization and spontaneous mutation of a novel gene, polE, involved in pellicle formation in Acetobacter tropicalis SKU1100
Microbiology 2005 151: 4111-4120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Lori A. S. Snyder, Stephen A. Jarvis, and Nigel J. Saunders

Complete and variant forms of the ‘gonococcal genetic island’ in Neisseria meningitidis
Microbiology 2005 151: 4005-4013. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Casiraghi, S. R. Bordenstein, L. Baldo, N. Lo, T. Beninati, J. J. Wernegreen, J. H. Werren, and C. Bandi

Phylogeny of Wolbachia pipientis based on gltA, groEL and ftsZ gene sequences: clustering of arthropod and nematode symbionts in the F supergroup, and evidence for further diversity in the Wolbachia tree
Microbiology 2005 151: 4015-4022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Gouri Mukerjee-Dhar, Minoru Shimura, Daisuke Miyazawa, Kazuhide Kimbara, and Takashi Hatta

bph genes of the thermophilic PCB degrader, Bacillus sp. JF8: characterization of the divergent ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase and hydrolase genes upstream of the Mn-dependent BphC
Microbiology 2005 151: 4139-4151. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Hiroyasu Onaka, Mizuho Nakaho, Keiko Hayashi, Yasuhiro Igarashi, and Tamotsu Furumai

Cloning and characterization of the goadsporin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces sp. TP-A0584
Microbiology 2005 151: 3923-3933. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Antonio J. Martín-Galiano, Karin Overweg, Maria J. Ferrándiz, Mark Reuter, Jerry M. Wells, and Adela G. de la Campa

Transcriptional analysis of the acid tolerance response in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2005 151: 3935-3946. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Devendra H. Shah, Mi-jin Lee, Jin-ho Park, John-hwa Lee, Seong-kug Eo, Jung-thek Kwon, and Joon-seok Chae

Identification of Salmonella gallinarum virulence genes in a chicken infection model using PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis
Microbiology 2005 151: 3957-3968. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Nidia León-Sicairos, Magda Reyes-López, Adrián Canizalez-Román, Rosa María Bermúdez-Cruz, Jesús Serrano-Luna, Rossana Arroyo, and Mireya de la Garza

Human hololactoferrin: endocytosis and use as an iron source by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica
Microbiology 2005 151: 3859-3871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Bjarnsholt, Peter Østrup Jensen, Thomas B. Rasmussen, Lars Christophersen, Henrik Calum, Morten Hentzer, Hans-Petter Hougen, Jørgen Rygaard, Claus Moser, Leo Eberl, Niels Høiby, and Michael Givskov

Garlic blocks quorum sensing and promotes rapid clearing of pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections
Microbiology 2005 151: 3873-3880. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alisdair McMeechan, Margaret A. Lovell, Tristan A. Cogan, Kerrie L. Marston, Tom J. Humphrey, and Paul A. Barrow

Glycogen production by different Salmonella enterica serotypes: contribution of functional glgC to virulence, intestinal colonization and environmental survival
Microbiology 2005 151: 3969-3977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Clara Belzer, Jeroen Stoof, Catherine S. Beckwith, Ernst J. Kuipers, Johannes G. Kusters, and Arnoud H. M. van Vliet

Differential regulation of urease activity in Helicobacter hepaticus and Helicobacter pylori
Microbiology 2005 151: 3989-3995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Nicolas Verneuil, Alain Rincé, Maurizio Sanguinetti, Brunella Posteraro, Giovanni Fadda, Yanick Auffray, Axel Hartke, and Jean-Christophe Giard

Contribution of a PerR-like regulator to the oxidative-stress response and virulence of Enterococcus faecalis
Microbiology 2005 151: 3997-4004. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Bart Pieterse, Rob J. Leer, Frank H. J. Schuren, and Mariët J. van der Werf

Unravelling the multiple effects of lactic acid stress on Lactobacillus plantarum by transcription profiling
Microbiology 2005 151: 3881-3894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric Guédon, Brice Sperandio, Nicolas Pons, Stanislav Dusko Ehrlich, and Pierre Renault

Overall control of nitrogen metabolism in Lactococcus lactis by CodY, and possible models for CodY regulation in Firmicutes
Microbiology 2005 151: 3895-3909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Kohji Miyazaki, Tatsuaki Hirase, Yoichi Kojima, and Harry James Flint

Medium- to large-sized xylo-oligosaccharides are responsible for xylanase induction in Prevotella bryantii B₁4
Microbiology 2005 151: 4121-4125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark Dopson, Craig Baker-Austin, and Philip L. Bond

Analysis of differential protein expression during growth states of Ferroplasma strains and insights into electron transport for iron oxidation
Microbiology 2005 151: 4127-4137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Jie Feng, Guosheng Liu, Gopalan Selvaraj, Geoffrey R. Hughes, and Yangdou Wei

A secreted lipase encoded by LIP1 is necessary for efficient use of saturated triglyceride lipids in Fusarium graminearum
Microbiology 2005 151: 3911-3921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

THEORETICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Joao B. Xavier, Cristian Picioreanu, Suriani Abdul Rani, Mark C. M. van Loosdrecht, and Philip S. Stewart

Biofilm-control strategies based on enzymic disruption of the extracellular polymeric substance matrix – a modelling study
Microbiology 2005 151: 3817-3832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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