Annals ofImmunoinfectology

Volume: 2 - Number: 6 - April 15, 2002

Outstanding

Lovastatina Biosynthesis by Aspergillus terreus in a Chemically Defined Medium

Identification and Disruption of the proBA Locus in Listeria monocytogenes: Role of Proline Biosynthesis in Salt Tolerance and Murine Infection

Reduction in Exopolysaccharide Viscosity as an Aid to Bacteriophage Penetration through Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

Secretion of Active Recombinant Human Tissue Plasminogen Activator Derivatives in Escherichia coli

Micology

Lovastatina Biosynthesis by Aspergillus terreus in a Chemically Defined Medium

Pathways for Extracellular Fenton Chemistry in the Brown Rot Basidiomycete Gloeophyllum trabeum

Molecular and Genetic Biology

Transposon Mutagenesis in Purple Sulfur Photosynthetic Bacteria: Identification of hypF, Encoding a Protein Capable of Processing [NiFe] Hydrogenases in alpha, beta, and gamma Subdivisions of the Proteobacteria

Cloning and Expression of the Benzoate Dioxygenase Genes from Rhodococcus sp. Strain 19070

Chromosomal Gene Inactivation in the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium tepidum by Natural Transformation

Detection of Toxigenicity by a Probe for the Microcystin Synthetase A Gene (mcyA) of the Cyanobacterial Genus Microcystis: Comparison of Toxicities with 16S rRNA and Phycocyanin Operon (Phycocyanin Intergenic Spacer) Phylogenies

Physiology and Biotechnology

Identification and Disruption of the proBA Locus in Listeria monocytogenes: Role of Proline Biosynthesis in Salt Tolerance and Murine Infection

Cloning of a Phenol Oxidase Gene from Acremonium murorum and Its Expression in Aspergillus awamori

Requirement for Phosphoglucomutase in Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis in Glucose- and Lactose-Utilizing Streptococcus thermophilus

Reduction in Exopolysaccharide Viscosity as an Aid to Bacteriophage Penetration through Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms

Incorporation of [15N]Ammonia by the Cellulolytic Ruminal Bacteria Fibrobacter succinogenes BL2, Ruminococcus albus SY3, and Ruminococcus flavefaciens 18

Biotransformation of D-Limonene to (+) trans-Carveol by Toluene-Grown Rhodococcus opacus PWD4 Cells

Spontaneous Formation of a Mannitol-Producing Variant of Leuconostoc pseudomesenteroides Grown in the Presence of Fructose

Protein and Enzimology Engineering

Purification and Characterization of a Psychrophilic, Calcium-Induced, Growth-Phase-Dependent Metalloprotease from the Fish Pathogen Flavobacterium psychrophilum

Active Subtilisin-Like Protease from a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon in a Form with a Putative Prosequence

Secretion of Active Recombinant Human Tissue Plasminogen Activator Derivatives in Escherichia coli

Purification, Characterization, and Functional Role of a Novel Extracellular Protease from Pleurotus ostreatus