Biochemistry and molecular biology
The Bacillus subtilis ywkA gene encodes a malic enzyme and its transcription is activated by the YufL/YufM two-component system in response to malate
Distinct molecular mechanisms involved in carbon catabolite repression of the arabinose regulon in Bacillus subtilis
Membrane-bound hydrogenase and sulfur reductase of the hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon Acidianus ambivalens
fusB is an allele of nadD, encoding nicotinate mononucleotide adenylyltransferase in Escherichia coli
Streptomyces lividans contains a minimal functional signal recognition particle that is involved in protein secretion
Development of the Micromonospora carbonacea var. africana ATCC 39149 bacteriophage pMLP1 integrase for site-specific integration in Micromonospora spp.
Important role of fungal intracellular laccase for melanin synthesis: purification and characterization of an intracellular laccase from Lentinula edodes fruit bodies
Biodiversity and evolution
Multilocus sequence analysis of Porphyromonas gingivalis indicates frequent recombination
The variation of dTDP-L-rhamnose pathway genes in Vibrio cholerae
Cell and developmental biology
Calcium gradient dependence of Neurospora crassa hyphal growth
A synthetic analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae stress sensor Mid2p, and identification of a Mid2p-interacting protein, Zeo1p, that modulates the PKC1–MPK1 cell integrity pathway
Induction of L-form-like cell shape change of Bacillus subtilis under microculture conditions
Shigella-induced necrosis and apoptosis of U937 cells and J774 macrophages
Environmental microbiology
Analysis of genes of tetrahydrofolate-dependent metabolism from cultivated spirochaetes and the gut community of the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis
A novel, fast-growing Borrelia sp. isolated from the hard tick Hyalomma aegyptium in Turkey
Genes and genomes
The complete genome sequence of the avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum strain Rlow
An ordered collection of expressed sequences from Cryphonectria parasitica and evidence of genomic microsynteny with Neurospora crassa and Magnaporthe grisea
A transposon encoding the complete 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid degradation pathway in the alkalitolerant strain Delftia acidovorans P4a
The colicin G, H and X determinants encode microcins M and H47, which might utilize the catecholate siderophore receptors FepA, Cir, Fiu and IroN
Spontaneous zygogenesis in Escherichia coli, a form of true sexuality in prokaryotes
Microbiology comments
Genomics reveals sexual secrets of Aspergillus
Hypoxia-responsive expression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv3134c and devR promoters in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Physiology
Cholic acid accumulation and its diminution by short-chain fatty acids in bifidobacteria
Phenotypic characterization of overexpression or deletion of the Escherichia coli crcA, cspE and crcB genes
Glucose uptake in germinating Aspergillus nidulans conidia: involvement of the creA and sorA genes
Plant-microbe interactions
Novel bacteria degrading N-acylhomoserine lactones and their use as quenchers of quorum-sensing-regulated functions of plant-pathogenic bacteria
