Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 146, Issue 4

26 articles in this issue

Review Article

Surface-active proteins enable microbial aerial hyphae to grow into the air

Han A. B. Wösten, Joanne M. Willey

p. 767–773

Nicotinoprotein (NADH-containing) alcohol dehydrogenase from Rhodococcus erythropolis DSM 1069: an efficient catalyst for coenzyme-independent oxidation of a broad spectrum of alcohols and the interconversion of alcohols and aldehydes

Schenkels, Peter, Duine, Johannis A.

p. 775

Ubiquinone limits oxidative stress in Escherichia coli

Soballe, Britta, Poole, Robert K.

p. 787

Incorporation of [2-3H]glycerol into cell surface components of Bacillus subtilis 168 and thermosensitive mutants affected in wall teichoic acid synthesis: effect of tunicamycin

Pooley, Harold M., Karamata, Dimitri

p. 797

The yexA gene product is required for phosphoribosylformylglycinamidine synthetase activity in Bacillus subtilis

Saxild, Hans H., Nygaard, Per

p. 807

The Bacillus subtilis cysP gene encodes a novel sulphate permease related to the inorganic phosphate transporter (Pit) family

Mansilla, Maria Cecilia, de Mendoza, Diego

p. 815

RT-PCR as a tool for systematic transcriptional analysis of large regions of the Bacillus subtilis genome

Hernandez, Alicia, Figueroa, Angelica, Rivas, Luis A., Parro, Victor, Mellado, Rafael P.

p. 823

Analysis of the Rhizobium leguminosarum siderophore-uptake gene fhuA: differential expression in free-living bacteria and nitrogen-fixing bacteroids and distribution of an fhuA pseudogene in different strains

Yeoman, Kay H., Wisniewski-Dye, Florence, Timony, Christopher, Stevens, James B., deLuca, Nicola G., Downie, J. Allan, Johnston, Andrew W. B.

p. 829

Expression and purification of four different rhizobial acyl carrier proteins

Lopez-Lara, Isabel M., Geiger, Otto

p. 839

Genomics

Absence of translationally selected synonymous codon usage bias in Helicobacter pylori

Bénédicte Lafay, John C. Atherton, Paul M. Sharp

p. 851–860

The {alpha}-amylase gene amyH of the moderate halophile Halomonas meridiana: cloning and molecular characterization

Coronado, Maria-Jose, Vargas, Carmen, Mellado, Encarnacion, Tegos, Georgios, Drainas, Constantin, Nieto, Joaquin J., Ventosa, Antonio

p. 861

Candida albicans CFL1 encodes a functional ferric reductase activity that can rescue a Saccharomyces cerevisiae fre1 mutant

Hammacott, Jane E., Williams, Peter H., Cashmore, Annette M.

p. 869

Cellular lipid composition influences stress activation of the yeast general stress response element (STRE)

Chatterjee, Mahua T., Khalawan, Seunath A., Curran, Brendan P. G.

p. 877

Novel genes involved in the regulation of pathogenicity factor production within the rpf gene cluster of Xanthomonas campestris

Dow, J. Maxwell, Feng, Jia-Xun, Barber, Christine E., Tang, Ji-Liang, Daniels, Michael J.

p. 885

Chromosome mapping of the sweet potato little leaf phytoplasma reveals genome heterogeneity within the phytoplasmas

Padovan, Anna C., Firrao, Giuseppe, Schneider, Bernd, Gibb, Karen S.

p. 893

An acyl-coenzyme A carboxylase encoding gene associated with jadomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230

Han, L., Yang, K., Kulowski, K., Wendt-Pienkowski, E., Hutchinson, C. R., Vining, L. C.

p. 903

The homologous terminal sequence of the Streptomyces lividans chromosome and SLP2 plasmid

Bey, Shian-Jy, Tsou, Meng-Fu, Huang, Chih-Hung, Yang, Chien-Chin, Chen, Carton W.

p. 911

The 1-kb-repeat-encoded DNA-binding protein as repressor of an {alpha}-glucosidase operon flanking the amplifiable sequence AUD1 of Streptomyces lividans

Volff, Jean-Nicolas, Altenbuchner, Josef

p. 923

Six putative two-component regulatory systems isolated from Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris MG1363

O'Connell-Motherway, Mary, van Sinderen, Douwe, Morel-Deville, Francoise, Fitzgerald, Gerald F., Ehrlich, S. Dusko, Morel, Patrice

p. 935

Lactococcin 972, a bacteriocin that inhibits septum formation in lactococci

Martinez, Beatriz, Rodriguez, Ana, Suarez, Juan E.

p. 949

A Clostridium difficile gene encoding flagellin

Tasteyre, Albert, Barc, Marie-Claude, Karjalainen, Tuomo, Dodson, Paul, Hyde, Susan, Bourlioux, Pierre, Borriello, Peter

p. 957

Genetics And Molecular Biology

Genetic characterization of pilin glycosylation in Neisseria meningitidis

Peter M. Power, Louise F. Roddam, Manuela Dieckelmann, Yogitha N. Srikhanta, Yoke Cheng Tan, Andrew W. Berrington, Michael P. Jennings

p. 967–979

Identification of Staphylococcus aureus genes expressed during growth in milk: a useful model for selection of genes important in bovine mastitis?

Lammers, Aart, Kruijt, Ellard, van de Kuijt, Corine, Nuijten, Piet J. M., Smith, Hilde E.

p. 981

Biochemical characterization of different types of adherence of Vibrio species to fish epithelial cells

Wang, X. H., Leung, K. Y.

p. 989

Molecular analysis of genetic differences between virulent and avirulent strains of Aeromonas hydrophila isolated from diseased fish

Zhang, Y. L., Ong, C. T., Leung, K. Y.

p. 999

The gene encoding P27 lipoprotein and a putative antibiotic-resistance gene form an operon in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis

Bigi, F., Alito, A., Romano, M. I., Zumarraga, M., Caimi, K., Cataldi, A.

p. 1011