Biodiversity and evolution
Molecular phylogeny, biogeography and speciation of the mushroom species Pleurotus cystidiosus and allied taxa
Cell and developmental biology
Downregulation of the motA gene delays the escape of the obligate predator Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J from bdelloplasts of bacterial prey cells
Environmental microbiology
Groupings of highly similar major surface protein (p44)-encoding paralogues: a potential index of genetic diversity amongst isolates of Anaplasma phagocytophilum
Genes and genomes
Two distinct types of rRNA operons in the Bacillus cereus group
Characterization of a new internal promoter (P3) for Rhizobium leguminosarum hydrogenase accessory genes hupGHIJ
Microbiology comments
IVET experiments in Pseudomonas fluorescens reveal cryptic promoters at loci associated with recognizable overlapping genes
Non-gonococcal urethritis, Helicobacter pylori infection and fellatio: a new ménage à trois?
Patatin-like proteins: a new family of lipolytic enzymes present in bacteria?
Clostridium tetani encodes a phosphocarrier protein, HPr
The fifth gene of the iol operon of Bacillus subtilis, iolE, encodes 2-keto-myo-inositol dehydratase
Effect of loss of CheC and other adaptational proteins on chemotactic behaviour in Bacillus subtilis
Interaction of Bacillus subtilis extracytoplasmic function (ECF) sigma factors with the N-terminal regions of their potential anti-sigma factors
Complementation of a ccpA mutant of Lactobacillus casei with CcpA mutants affected in the DNA- and cofactor-binding domains
Biochemical and molecular characterization of a levansucrase from Lactobacillus reuteri
RppA, a transducer homologue, and MmrA, a multidrug transporter homologue, are involved in the biogenesis and/or assembly of polysaccharide in Myxococcus xanthus
Identification of a topoisomerase IV in actinobacteria: purification and characterization of ParYR and GyrBR from the coumermycin A1 producer Streptomyces rishiriensis DSM 40489
Smc01944, a secreted peroxidase induced by oxidative stresses in Sinorhizobium meliloti 1021
Expression of the Pneumocystis carinii major surface glycoprotein epitope is correlated with linkage of the cognate gene to the upstream conserved sequence locus
Temperature-dependent processing of the cspA mRNA in Rhodobacter capsulatus
Redox property and regulation of PpsR, a transcriptional repressor of photosystem gene expression in Rhodobacter sphaeroides
Formaldehyde dehydrogenase preparations from Methylococcus capsulatus (Bath) comprise methanol dehydrogenase and methylene tetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase
Pathogens and pathogenicity
Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) adhesion to intestinal epithelial cells: role of bundle-forming pili (BFP), EspA filaments and intimin
The truA gene of Pseudomonas aeruginosa is required for the expression of type III secretory genes
Molecular analysis of the channel-forming protein P13 and its paralogue family 48 from different Lyme disease Borrelia species
Campylobacter jejuni infection of differentiated THP-1 macrophages results in interleukin 1 release and caspase-1-independent apoptosis
Effect of acid stress on the physiology of biofilm cells of Streptococcus mutans
Disruption of the gene encoding the V-ATPase subunit A results in inhibition of normal growth and abolished sporulation in Aspergillus nidulans
PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS
Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola can be separated into two genetic lineages distinguished by the possession of the phaseolotoxin biosynthetic cluster
