Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 146, Issue 9

28 articles in this issue

The 409 bp tandem repeat spanning genes yxaK and yxaL is absent from the Bacillus subtilis chromosome

Petit, Marie-Agnes, Yoshida, Ken-ishi, Fujita, Yasutaro, Ehrlich, S. Dusko

p. 2091

A microbial mat composed of iron bacteria

Carlile, Michael J., Dudeney, A. William L.

p. 2092

Comparative genomics of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Escherichia coli for recombination (rec) genes

Muniyappa, K., Vaze, M. B., Ganesh, N., Sreedhar Reddy, M., Guhan, N., Venkatesh, R.

p. 2093

Allele-specific gene targeting in Candida albicans results from heterology between alleles

Yesland, Kyle, Fonzi, William A.

p. 2097

Effect of salivary secretory IgA on the adhesion of Candida albicans to polystyrene

San Millan, Rosario, Elguezabal, Natalia, Regulez, Pilar, Moragues, Maria Dolores, Quindos, Guillermo, Ponton, Jose

p. 2105

Hyperphosphorylation of Msn2p and Msn4p in response to heat shock and the diauxic shift is inhibited by cAMP in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Garreau, Herve, Hasan, Rukhsana Nilofer, Renault, Georges, Estruch, Francisco, Boy-Marcotte, Emmanuelle, Jacquet, Michel

p. 2113

Cell wall perturbation in yeast results in dual phosphorylation of the Slt2/Mpk1 MAP kinase and in an Slt2-mediated increase in FKS2-lacZ expression, glucanase resistance and thermotolerance

de Nobel, Hans, Ruiz, Cristina, Martin, Humberto, Morris, Wayne, Brul, Stanley, Molina, Maria, Klis, Frans M.

p. 2121

Suppression of sorbitol dependence in a strain bearing a mutation in the SRB1/PSA1/VIG9 gene encoding GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase by PDE2 overexpression suggests a role for the Ras/cAMP signal-transduction pathway in the control of yeast cell-wall biogenesis

Tomlin, Gregory C., Hamilton, Grant E., Gardner, David C. J., Walmsley, Richard M., Stateva, Lubomira I., Oliver, Stephen G.

p. 2133

Each peptide of the two-component lantibiotic lacticin 3147 requires a separate modification enzyme for activity

McAuliffe, Olivia, Hill, Colin, Ross, R. Paul

p. 2147

The synthesis of the bacteriocin sakacin A is a temperature-sensitive process regulated by a pheromone peptide through a three-component regulatory system

Diep, Dzung B., Axelsson, Lars, Grefsli, Camilla, Nes, Ingolf F.

p. 2155

Study of the bldG locus suggests that an anti-anti-sigma factor and an anti-sigma factor may be involved in Streptomyces coelicolor antibiotic production and sporulation

Bignell, Dawn R. D., Warawa, Jason L., Strap, Janice L., Chater, Keith F., Leskiw, Brenda K.

p. 2161

ISBst12, a novel type of insertion-sequence element causing loss of S-layer-gene expression in Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC 12980

Egelseer, Eva M., Idris, Rughia, Jarosch, Marina, Danhorn, Thomas, Sleytr, Uwe B., Sara, Margit

p. 2175

Characterization of IS900 loci in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis and development of multiplex PCR typing

Bull, Tim J., Hermon-Taylor, John, Pavlik, Ivo, El-Zaatari, Fouad, Tizard, Mark

p. 2185

Inhibition of chromosome replication in Mycobacterium smegmatis: effect of the rpmH-dnaA promoter region

Salazar, Leiria

p. 2199

Mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis impaired in stationary-phase survival

Keer, Jacquie, Smeulders, Marjan J., Gray, Kathryn M., Williams, Huw D.

p. 2209

Genetics And Molecular Biology

Molecular basis for resistance to the anticancer drug cisplatin in Dictyostelium

Guochun Li, Hannah Alexander, Natalie Schneider, Stephen Alexander

p. 2219–2227

Fructose operon mutants of Spiroplasma citri

Gaurivaud, Patrice, Laigret, Frederic, Verdin, Eric, Garnier, Monique, Bove, Joseph M.

p. 2229

The Sinorhizobium meliloti ExpE1 protein secreted by a type I secretion system involving ExpD1 and ExpD2 is required for biosynthesis or secretion of the exopolysaccharide galactoglucan

Moreira, Leonilde M., Becker, Jorg D., Puhler, Alfred, Becker, Anke

p. 2237

The replication and stable-inheritance functions of IncP-9 plasmid pM3

Greated, Alicia, Titok, Marina, Krasowiak, Renata, Fairclough, Rebecca J., Thomas, Christopher M.

p. 2249

Genetics And Molecular Biology

Conjugal transfer of plasmid pMV158: uncoupling of the pMV158 origin of transfer from the mobilization gene mobM, and modulation of pMV158 transfer in Escherichia coli mediated by IncP plasmids

Marı́a Eugenia Farı́as, Manuel Espinosa

p. 2259–2265

Mosaic plasmids and mosaic replicons: evolutionary lessons from the analysis of genetic diversity in IncFII-related replicons

Osborn, A. Mark, da Silva Tatley, Fernanda M., Steyn, Lafras M., Pickup, Roger W., Saunders, Jon R.

p. 2267

Metal-ion tolerance in Escherichia coli: analysis of transcriptional profiles by gene-array technology

Brocklehurst, Kathryn R., Morby, Andrew P.

p. 2277

Concerted evolution of duplicate fla genes in Campylobacter

Meinersmann, Richard J., Hiett, Kelli L.

p. 2283

Genetic variation of dTDP-L-rhamnose pathway genes in Salmonella enterica

Li, Qun, Reeves, Peter R.

p. 2291

A deeply branched novel phylotype found in Japanese paddy soils

Kim, Hongik, Honda, Daiske, Hanada, Satoshi, Kanamori, Norihiro, Shibata, Satoshi, Miyaki, Taro, Nakamura, Kazunori, Oyaizu, Hiroshi

p. 2309

Binding of glycoglycerolipid derived from membranes of Acholeplasma laidlawii PG8 and synthetic analogues to lymphoid cells

Toujima, Saori, Kuwano, Koichi, Zhang, Ye, Fujimoto, Naoyuki, Hirama, Masahiro, Oishi, Tohru, Fukuda, Sumiko, Nagumo, Yoko et al.

p. 2317

Evidence that the rate-limiting step for the biosynthesis of arachidonic acid in Mortierella alpina is at the level of the 18:3 to 20:3 elongase

Wynn, James P., Ratledge, Colin

p. 2325

Regulation of the glucose-specific phosphotransferase system (PTS) of Staphylococcus carnosus by the antiterminator protein GlcT

Knezevic, Igor, Bachem, Steffi, Sickmann, Albert, Meyer, Helmut E., Stulke, Jorg, Hengstenberg, Wolfgang

p. 2333