Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 37 - February 15, 2005

Outstanding

Integrons or super integrons?

Aspirin commits yeast cells to apoptosis depending on carbon source

The role and regulation of the extracellular proteases of Staphylococcus aureus

Analysis of geospecific markers for Helicobacter pylori variants in patients from Japan and Nigeria by triple-locus nucleotide sequence typing

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Development of an insertional expression vector system for Methylobacterium extorquens AM1 and generation of null mutants lacking mtdA and/or fch

The importance of the Tat-dependent protein secretion pathway in Streptomyces as revealed by phenotypic changes in tat deletion mutants and genome analysis

Characterization of a glycosylphosphatidylinositol-bound cell-wall protein (GPI-CWP) in Yarrowia lipolytica

Importance of mycoloyltransferases on the physiology of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Biosynthesis of the dichloroacetyl component of chloramphenicol in Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230: genes required for halogenation

Organization of the teicoplanin gene cluster in Actinoplanes teichomyceticus

Bovicin HJ50, a novel lantibiotic produced by Streptococcus bovis HJ50

Aspirin commits yeast cells to apoptosis depending on carbon source

Azorhizobium caulinodans electron-transferring flavoprotein N electrochemically couples pyruvate dehydrogenase complex activity to N2 fixation

The Clostridium perfringens TetA(P) efflux protein contains a functional variant of the Motif A region found in major facilitator superfamily transport proteins

Protein kinase A is involved in the control of morphology and branching during aerobic growth of Mucor circinelloides

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION

Analysis of geospecific markers for Helicobacter pylori variants in patients from Japan and Nigeria by triple-locus nucleotide sequence typing

Metronidazole induces programmed cell death in the protozoan parasite Blastocystis hominis

Functional relationship between SpoVIF and GerE in gene regulation during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis

Environmental microbiology

Demonstration of antifreeze protein activity in Antarctic lake bacteria

Temperature and growth-phase effects on Aeromonas hydrophila survival in natural seawater microcosms

Genes and genomes

GadE (YhiE): a novel activator involved in the response to acid environment in Escherichia coli

The csp operon of Streptococcus salivarius encodes two predicted cell-surface proteins, one of which, CspB, is associated with the fimbriae

A polymorphic tandem repeat potentially useful for typing in the chromosome of Yersinia enterocolitica

Chlamydia trachomatis 28 recognizes the fliC promoter of Escherichia coli and responds to heat shock in chlamydiae

Microbiology comments

The principal chloroquine resistance protein of Plasmodium falciparum is a member of the drug/metabolite transporter superfamily

Integrons or super integrons?

Did the loss of two-component systems initiate pseudogene accumulation in Mycobacterium leprae?

Pathogens and pathogenicity

The role and regulation of the extracellular proteases of Staphylococcus aureus

Deletion of the NOT4 gene impairs hyphal development and pathogenicity in Candida albicans

Intracellular autoregulation of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis PrrA response regulator

Physiology

Aggregation of heat-shock-denatured, endogenous proteins and distribution of the IbpA/B and Fda marker-proteins in Escherichia coli WT and grpE280 cells

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS

Secretion of immunodominant membrane protein from onion yellows phytoplasma through the Sec protein-translocation system in Escherichia coli