MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

Jannick D. Bendtsen, Tim T. Binnewies, Peter F. Hallin, and David W. Ussery

Genome update: prediction of membrane proteins in prokaryotic genomes
Microbiology 2005 151: 2119-2121. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Florence M. Hoton, Lars Andrup, Izabela Swiecicka, and Jacques Mahillon

The cereulide genetic determinants of emetic Bacillus cereus are plasmid-borne
Microbiology 2005 151: 2121-2124. [Full Text] [PDF]  

REVIEW:

Harald Brüssow

Phage therapy: the Escherichia coli experience
Microbiology 2005 151: 2133-2140. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Wade M. Hicks, Matthew V. Kotlajich, and Jonathan E. Visick

Recovery from long-term stationary phase and stress survival in Escherichia coli require the L-isoaspartyl protein carboxyl methyltransferase at alkaline pH
Microbiology 2005 151: 2151-2158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexander Grundmann and Shu-Ming Li

Overproduction, purification and characterization of FtmPT1, a brevianamide F prenyltransferase from Aspergillus fumigatus
Microbiology 2005 151: 2199-2207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frédéric M. Sapunaric and Stuart B. Levy

Substitutions in the interdomain loop of the Tn10 TetA efflux transporter alter tetracycline resistance and substrate specificity
Microbiology 2005 151: 2315-2322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Diane Beaud, Patrick Tailliez, and Jamila Anba-Mondoloni

Genetic characterization of the -glucuronidase enzyme from a human intestinal bacterium, Ruminococcus gnavus
Microbiology 2005 151: 2323-2330. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Murat Kasap and Jiann-Shin Chen

Clostridium pasteurianum W5 synthesizes two NifH-related polypeptides under nitrogen-fixing conditions
Microbiology 2005 151: 2353-2362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mingang Zhu, Marianne Valdebenito, Günther Winkelmann, and Klaus Hantke

Functions of the siderophore esterases IroD and IroE in iron-salmochelin utilization
Microbiology 2005 151: 2363-2372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Raju Mukherjee, Manuel Gomez, Narayanaswamy Jayaraman, Issar Smith, and Dipankar Chatterji

Hyperglycosylation of glycopeptidolipid of Mycobacterium smegmatis under nutrient starvation: structural studies
Microbiology 2005 151: 2385-2392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna Brzostek, Tomasz Sliwinski, Anna Rumijowska-Galewicz, Malgorzata Korycka-Machala, and Jaroslaw Dziadek

Identification and targeted disruption of the gene encoding the main 3-ketosteroid dehydrogenase in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2005 151: 2393-2402. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Hünten, Bettina Schiffler, Friedrich Lottspeich, and Roland Benz

PorH, a new channel-forming protein present in the cell wall of Corynebacterium efficiens and Corynebacterium callunae
Microbiology 2005 151: 2429-2438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elisabeth Sørvig, Geir Mathiesen, Kristine Naterstad, Vincent G. H. Eijsink, and Lars Axelsson

High-level, inducible gene expression in Lactobacillus sakei and Lactobacillus plantarum using versatile expression vectors
Microbiology 2005 151: 2439-2449. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Vianney, Grégory Jubelin, Sophie Renault, Corine Dorel, Philippe Lejeune, and Jean Claude Lazzaroni

Escherichia coli tol and rcs genes participate in the complex network affecting curli synthesis
Microbiology 2005 151: 2487-2497. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Weiwen Zhang and Liang Shi

Distribution and evolution of multiple-step phosphorelay in prokaryotes: lateral domain recruitment involved in the formation of hybrid-type histidine kinases
Microbiology 2005 151: 2159-2173. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Nozomu Hanaoka, Takashi Umeyama, Keigo Ueno, Kenji Ueda, Teruhiko Beppu, Hajime Fugo, Yoshimasa Uehara, and Masakazu Niimi

A putative dual-specific protein phosphatase encoded by YVH1 controls growth, filamentation and virulence in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2005 151: 2223-2232. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Sabri M. Naser, Fabiano L. Thompson, Bart Hoste, Dirk Gevers, Peter Dawyndt, Marc Vancanneyt, and Jean Swings

Application of multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) for rapid identification of Enterococcus species based on rpoA and pheS genes
Microbiology 2005 151: 2141-2150. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data][Supplementary data]  

Gang Wu, David E. Culley, and Weiwen Zhang

Predicted highly expressed genes in the genomes of Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces avermitilis and the implications for their metabolism
Microbiology 2005 151: 2175-2187. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables][HTML Page - index.htslp]  

Haiming Li, Pierre-Étienne Jacques, Mariana Gabriela Ghinet, Ryszard Brzezinski, and Rolf Morosoli

Determining the functionality of putative Tat-dependent signal peptides in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) by using two different reporter proteins
Microbiology 2005 151: 2189-2198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary sequence data][Supplementary sequence data][Supplementary data]  

Jose M. Rodríguez-Peña, Rosa M. Pérez-Díaz, Sara Alvarez, Clara Bermejo, Raúl García, Catalina Santiago, César Nombela, and Javier Arroyo

The ‘yeast cell wall chip’ – a tool to analyse the regulation of cell wall biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2005 151: 2241-2249. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marian Takác, Angela Witte, and Udo Bläsi

Functional analysis of the lysis genes of Staphylococcus aureus phage P68 in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2005 151: 2331-2342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Dhalluin, Ingrid Bourgeois, Martine Pestel-Caron, Emilie Camiade, Gregory Raux, Pascal Courtin, Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier, and Jean-Louis Pons

Acd, a peptidoglycan hydrolase of Clostridium difficile with N-acetylglucosaminidase activity
Microbiology 2005 151: 2343-2351. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MINI-REVIEWS:

Dawn Field, Edward J. Feil, and Gareth A. Wilson

Databases and software for the comparison of prokaryotic genomes
Microbiology 2005 151: 2125-2132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Robert Zarnowski and Jon P. Woods

Glutathione-dependent extracellular ferric reductase activities in dimorphic zoopathogenic fungi
Microbiology 2005 151: 2233-2240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. A. Reiling, J. A. Jansen, B. J. Henley, S. Singh, C. Chattin, M. Chandler, and D. W. Rowen

Prc protease promotes mucoidy in mucA mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2005 151: 2251-2261. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer M. Gaines, Nancy L. Carty, Jane A. Colmer-Hamood, and Abdul N. Hamood

Effect of static growth and different levels of environmental oxygen on toxA and ptxR expression in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1
Microbiology 2005 151: 2263-2275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melanie Cochrane, Philip Walker, Harry Gibbs, and Peter Timms

Multiple genotypes of Chlamydia pneumoniae identified in human carotid plaque
Microbiology 2005 151: 2285-2290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Fälker, M. Alexander Schmidt, and Gerhard Heusipp

DNA methylation in Yersinia enterocolitica: role of the DNA adenine methyltransferase in mismatch repair and regulation of virulence factors
Microbiology 2005 151: 2291-2299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Y. P. Tan, J. Zheng, S. L. Tung, I. Rosenshine, and K. Y. Leung

Role of type III secretion in Edwardsiella tarda virulence
Microbiology 2005 151: 2301-2313. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Soroush Sharbati-Tehrani, Joachim Stephan, Gudrun Holland, Bernd Appel, Michael Niederweis, and Astrid Lewin

Porins limit the intracellular persistence of Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2005 151: 2403-2410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sudhir Sinha, K. Kosalai, Shalini Arora, Abdelkader Namane, Pawan Sharma, Anil N. Gaikwad, Priscille Brodin, and Stewart T. Cole

Immunogenic membrane-associated proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by proteomics
Microbiology 2005 151: 2411-2419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Amanda MacCallum, Simon P. Hardy, and Paul H. Everest

Campylobacter jejuni inhibits the absorptive transport functions of Caco-2 cells and disrupts cellular tight junctions
Microbiology 2005 151: 2451-2458. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karola Waar, Henny C. van der Mei, Hermie J. M. Harmsen, Joop de Vries, Jelly Atema-Smit, John E. Degener, and Henk J. Busscher

Atomic force microscopy study on specificity and non-specificity of interaction forces between Enterococcus faecalis cells with and without aggregation substance
Microbiology 2005 151: 2459-2464. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Ángeles Tormo, Erwin Knecht, Friedrich Götz, Iñigo Lasa, and José R. Penadés

Bap-dependent biofilm formation by pathogenic species of Staphylococcus: evidence of horizontal gene transfer?
Microbiology 2005 151: 2465-2475. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beata Zalewska, Rafal Piatek, Katarzyna Bury, Alfred Samet, Bogdan Nowicki, Stella Nowicki, and Józef Kur

A surface-exposed DraD protein of uropathogenic Escherichia coli bearing Dr fimbriae may be expressed and secreted independently from DraC usher and DraE adhesin
Microbiology 2005 151: 2477-2486. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Helga David, Astrid Mørkeberg Krogh, Christophe Roca, Mats Åkesson, and Jens Nielsen

CreA influences the metabolic fluxes of Aspergillus nidulans during growth on glucose and xylose
Microbiology 2005 151: 2209-2221. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Birgit Höschle and Dieter Jendrossek

Utilization of geraniol is dependent on molybdenum in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: evidence for different metabolic routes for oxidation of geraniol and citronellol
Microbiology 2005 151: 2277-2283. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William J. Kenyon, Sheena M. Thomas, Erin Johnson, Mark J. Pallen, and Michael P. Spector

Shifts from glucose to certain secondary carbon-sources result in activation of the extracytoplasmic function sigma factor ^E in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Microbiology 2005 151: 2373-2383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eva Radmacher, Luke J. Alderwick, Gurdyal S. Besra, Alistair K. Brown, Kevin J. C. Gibson, Hermann Sahm, and Lothar Eggeling

Two functional FAS-I type fatty acid synthases in Corynebacterium glutamicum
Microbiology 2005 151: 2421-2427. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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