Tauch, Andreas, Schneiker, Susanne, Selbitschka, Werner, Puhler, Alfred, van Overbeek, Leo S., Smalla, Kornelia, Thomas, Christopher M., Bailey, Mark J. et al.

p. 1637

Research Paper

Evolutionary and functional analyses of variants of the toxin-coregulated pilus protein TcpA from toxigenic Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 serogroup isolates

E. Fidelma Boyd, Matthew K. Waldor

p. 1655–1666

Role of the Legionella pneumophila rtxA gene in amoebae

Cirillo, Suat L. G., Yan, Ling, Littman, Michael, Samrakandi, Mustapha M., Cirillo, Jeffrey D.

p. 1667

Mutational and transcriptional analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni flagellar biosynthesis gene flhB

Matz, Claudia, van Vliet, Arnoud H. M., Ketley, Julian M., Penn, Charles W.

p. 1679

Genome plasticity in Yersinia pestis

Radnedge, Lyndsay, Agron, Peter G., Worsham, Patricia L., Andersen, Gary L.

p. 1687

The membrane-bound respiratory chain of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 cells grown in the presence or absence of potassium tellurite

Di Tomaso, Giovanna, Fedi, Stefano, Carnevali, Monica, Manegatti, Marco, Taddei, Carlo, Zannoni, Davide

p. 1699

Research Paper

Lysophosphatidic acid inhibition of the accumulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 alginate, pyoverdin, elastase and LasA

David C. Laux, Joy M. Corson, Michael Givskov, Morten Hentzer, Annette Møller, Kathleen A. Wosencroft, Joan C. Olson, Karen A. Krogfelt et al.

p. 1709–1723

A third fatty acid {Delta}9-desaturase from Mortierella alpina with a different substrate specificity to ole1p and ole2p

MacKenzie, Donald A., Carter, Andrew T., Wongwathanarat, Prasert, Eagles, John, Salt, Joanne, Archer, David B.

p. 1725

Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase activity is stimulated during temperature-induced morphogenesis in Candida albicans

Hairfield, Michelle L., Westwater, Caroline, Dolan, Joseph W.

p. 1737

Organization and characterization of the capsule biosynthesis locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 9V

van Selm, Saskia, Kolkman, Marc A. B., van der Zeijst, Bernard A. M., Zwaagstra, Kornelisje A., Gaastra, Wim, van Putten, Jos P. M.

p. 1747

The Escherichia coli small heat-shock proteins IbpA and IbpB prevent the aggregation of endogenous proteins denatured in vivo during extreme heat shock

Kuczynska-Wisnik, Dorota, Kcdzierska, Sabina, Matuszewska, Ewelina, Lund, Peter, Taylor, Alina, Lipinska, Barbara, Laskowska, Ewa

p. 1757

A novel extracytoplasmic phenol oxidase of Streptomyces: its possible involvement in the onset of morphogenesis

Endo, Kohki, Hosono, Kuniaki, Beppu, Teruhiko, Ueda, Kenji

p. 1767

Type II thioesterase from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Kotowska, Magdalena, Pawlik, Krzysztof, Butler, Andrew R., Cundliffe, Eric, Takano, Eriko, Kuczek, Katarzyna

p. 1777

Swarming motility in Bacillus cereus and characterization of a fliY mutant impaired in swarm cell differentiation

Senesi, Sonia, Celandroni, Francesco, Salvetti, Sara, Beecher, Douglas J., Wong, Amy C. L., Ghelardi, Emilia

p. 1785

A 5' stem-loop and ribosome binding but not translation are important for the stability of Bacillus subtilis aprE leader mRNA

Hambraeus, Gustav, Karhumaa, Kaisa, Rutberg, Blanka

p. 1795

HPr kinase/phosphatase of Bacillus subtilis: expression of the gene and effects of mutations on enzyme activity, growth and carbon catabolite repression

Hanson, K. G., Steinhauer, Katrin, Reizer, Jonathan, Hillen, Wolfgang, Stulke, Jorg

p. 1805

Many carried meningococci lack the genes required for capsule synthesis and transport

Claus, Heike, Maiden, Martin C. J., Maag, Rainer, Frosch, Matthias, Vogel, Ulrich

p. 1813

Differential cross-complementation patterns of Escherichia coli and Neisseria gonorrhoeae RecA proteins

Stohl, Elizabeth A., Blount, Leslie, Seifert, H. Steven

p. 1821

Genetic diversity of three lgt loci for biosynthesis of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in Neisseria species

Zhu, Peixuan, Klutch, Michael J., Bash, Margaret C., Tsang, Raymond S. W., Ng, Lai-King, Tsai, Chao-Ming

p. 1833

Isolation and characterization of 14 additional genes specifying the anaerobic biosynthesis of cobalamin (vitamin B12) in Propionibacterium freudenreichii (P. shermanii)

Roessner, Charles A., Huang, Ke-xue, Warren, Martin J., Raux, Evelyne, Scott, A. Ian

p. 1845

Location of functional groups in mycobacterial meromycolate chains; the recognition of new structural principles in mycolic acids

Watanabe, Motoko, Aoyagi, Yutaka, Mitome, Hidemichi, Fujita, Tsuyoshi, Naoki, Hideo, Ridell, Malin, Minnikin, David E.

p. 1881

Structure and regulation of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase genes from the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum strain SS9

Allen, Eric E., Bartlett, Douglas H.

p. 1903

Research Paper

Dichloromethane metabolism and C1 utilization genes in Methylobacterium strains

Martin F. Kayser, Zöhre Ucurum, Stéphane Vuilleumier

p. 1915–1922

Evolutionary relationship of phototrophic bacteria in the {alpha}-Proteobacteria based on farnesyl diphosphate synthase

Cantera, Jose Jason L., Kawasaki, Hiroko, Seki, Tatsuji

p. 1923

The lon gene, encoding an ATP-dependent protease, is a novel member of the HAIR/HspR stress-response regulon in actinomycetes

Sobczyk, Andre, Bellier, Audrey, Viala, Julie, Mazodier, Philippe

p. 1931

Mineralization of aromatic compounds by brown-rot basidiomycetes - mechanisms involved in initial attack on the aromatic ring

Kamada, Fumika, Abe, Suzuna, Hiratsuka, Nobuhiro, Wariishi, Hiroyuki, Tanaka, Hiroo

p. 1939

Molecular characterization and endosymbiotic localization of the gene encoding D-ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO) form II in the deep-sea vestimentiferan trophosome

Elsaied, Hosam, Kimura, Hiroyuki, Naganuma, Takeshi

p. 1947

Reassessment of major products of N2 fixation by bacteroids from soybean root nodules

Li, Youzhong, Parsons, Richard, Day, David A., Bergersen, Fraser J.

p. 1959

Microbiology — Volume 148, Issue 6

The tadpole effect in Escherichia coli B/r

Escherichia coli's uropathogenic-specific protein: a bacteriocin promoting infectivity?

‘New uses for an Old Enzyme’ – the Old Yellow Enzyme family of flavoenzymes

Expression of fibronectin-binding protein FbpA modulates adhesion in Streptococcus gordonii

Role of the Streptococcus gordonii SspB protein in the development of Porphyromonas gingivalis biofilms on streptococcal substrates

The complete nucleotide sequence and environmental distribution of the cryptic, conjugative, broad-host-range plasmid pIPO2 isolated from bacteria of the wheat rhizosphere

Evolutionary and functional analyses of variants of the toxin-coregulated pilus protein TcpA from toxigenic Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 serogroup isolates

Role of the Legionella pneumophila rtxA gene in amoebae

Mutational and transcriptional analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni flagellar biosynthesis gene flhB

Genome plasticity in Yersinia pestis

The membrane-bound respiratory chain of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 cells grown in the presence or absence of potassium tellurite

Lysophosphatidic acid inhibition of the accumulation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 alginate, pyoverdin, elastase and LasA

A third fatty acid {Delta}9-desaturase from Mortierella alpina with a different substrate specificity to ole1p and ole2p

Phosphatidylinositol-4-phosphate 5-kinase activity is stimulated during temperature-induced morphogenesis in Candida albicans

Organization and characterization of the capsule biosynthesis locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 9V

The Escherichia coli small heat-shock proteins IbpA and IbpB prevent the aggregation of endogenous proteins denatured in vivo during extreme heat shock

A novel extracytoplasmic phenol oxidase of Streptomyces: its possible involvement in the onset of morphogenesis

Type II thioesterase from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

Swarming motility in Bacillus cereus and characterization of a fliY mutant impaired in swarm cell differentiation

A 5' stem-loop and ribosome binding but not translation are important for the stability of Bacillus subtilis aprE leader mRNA

HPr kinase/phosphatase of Bacillus subtilis: expression of the gene and effects of mutations on enzyme activity, growth and carbon catabolite repression

Many carried meningococci lack the genes required for capsule synthesis and transport

Differential cross-complementation patterns of Escherichia coli and Neisseria gonorrhoeae RecA proteins

Genetic diversity of three lgt loci for biosynthesis of lipooligosaccharide (LOS) in Neisseria species

Isolation and characterization of 14 additional genes specifying the anaerobic biosynthesis of cobalamin (vitamin B12) in Propionibacterium freudenreichii (P. shermanii)

Assessment of the pathogenic potential of two Listeria monocytogenes human faecal carriage isolates

Enterococcus faecalis surface proteins determine its adhesion mechanism to bile drain materials

Adhesion to cellulose of the Gram-positive bacterium Ruminococcus albus involves type IV pili

Location of functional groups in mycobacterial meromycolate chains; the recognition of new structural principles in mycolic acids

Structure and regulation of the omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid synthase genes from the deep-sea bacterium Photobacterium profundum strain SS9

Dichloromethane metabolism and C1 utilization genes in Methylobacterium strains

Evolutionary relationship of phototrophic bacteria in the {alpha}-Proteobacteria based on farnesyl diphosphate synthase

The lon gene, encoding an ATP-dependent protease, is a novel member of the HAIR/HspR stress-response regulon in actinomycetes

Mineralization of aromatic compounds by brown-rot basidiomycetes - mechanisms involved in initial attack on the aromatic ring

Molecular characterization and endosymbiotic localization of the gene encoding D-ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBisCO) form II in the deep-sea vestimentiferan trophosome

Reassessment of major products of N2 fixation by bacteroids from soybean root nodules