Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 38 - March 15, 2005

Outstanding

Molecular detection of Yersinia pestis in dental pulp

Expression and complexity of the PRT1 multigene family of Pneumocystis carinii

Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression in response to superoxide and peroxide stress

Physiological implications of class IIa bacteriocin resistance in Listeria monocytogenes strains

Cell and developmental biology

Differential surface localization and temperature-dependent expression of the Candida albicans CSH1 protein

Light-regulated asexual reproduction in Paecilomyces fumosoroseus

alr0117, a two-component histidine kinase gene, is involved in heterocyst development in Anabaena sp. PCC 7121

Environmental microbiology

Interactions between intracellular Na+ levels and saxitoxin production in Cylindrospermopsis raciborskii T4

Characterization of a gene cluster encoding the maleylacetate reductase from Ralstonia eutropha 335T, an enzyme recruited for growth with 4-fluorobenzoate

Genes and genomes

Multiplication of an ancestral gene encoding secreted fungalysin preceded species differentiation in the dermatophytes Trichophyton and Microsporum

Regulation of ndh expression in Escherichia coli by Fis

Macro-array and bioinformatic analyses reveal mycobacterial ‘core’ genes, variation in the ESAT-6 gene family and new phylogenetic markers for the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex

Microbiology comments

Genome Update: 161 prokaryotic genomes sequenced, and counting

Molecular detection of Yersinia pestis in dental pulp

Response to Drancourt and Raoult

Expression and complexity of the PRT1 multigene family of Pneumocystis carinii

Phospholipid synthesis in Borrelia burgdorferi: BB0249 and BB0721 encode functional phosphatidylcholine synthase and phosphatidylglycerolphosphate synthase proteins

Biochemical characterization of a Rhizobium etli monovalent cation-stimulated acyl-coenzyme A carboxylase with a high substrate specificity constant for propionyl-coenzyme A

CtaG is required for formation of active cytochrome c oxidase in Bacillus subtilis

The fate of extracellular proteins tagged by the SsrA system of Bacillus subtilis

Pathogens and pathogenicity

Transcriptome and proteome analysis of Bacillus subtilis gene expression in response to superoxide and peroxide stress

RT-PCR detection of Candida albicans ALS gene expression in the reconstituted human epithelium (RHE) model of oral candidiasis and in model biofilms

Accessibility of the peptide backbone of protein ligands is a key specificity determinant in Candida albicans SRS adherence

Deregulation of Listeria monocytogenes virulence gene expression by two distinct and semi-independent pathways

Physiological implications of class IIa bacteriocin resistance in Listeria monocytogenes strains

Absence of Yersinia pestis-specific DNA in human teeth from five European excavations of putative plague victims

Identification of proteins in the exosporium of Bacillus anthracis

Mouse skin passage of Streptococcus pyogenes results in increased streptokinase expression and activity

Physiology

Role of the hprT-ftsH in Sthaphylococcus aureus

Characterization of cyst cell formation in the purple photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum centenum

Regulation of RcsA by the ClpYQ (HslUV) protease in Escherichia coli