Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 40 - June 15, 2005

Outstanding

Analysis of genetic polymorphisms affecting the four phospholipase C (plc) genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates

The diversity within an expanded and redefined repertoire of phase-variable genes in Helicobacter pylori

Genome Update: AT content in sequenced prokaryotic genomes

Are these stratospheric nanoparticles bacteria?

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Enzymes and genes of taurine and isethionate dissimilation in Paracoccus denitrificans

DevR–DevS is a bona fide two-component system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that is hypoxia-responsive in the absence of the DNA-binding domain of DevR

Phosphorylation and DNA binding of the regulator DcuR of the fumarate-responsive two-component system DcuSR of Escherichia coli

Kinetic and mechanistic analyses of new classes of inhibitors of two-component signal transduction systems using a coupled assay containing HpkA–DrrA from Thermotoga maritima

AstR–AstS, a new two-component signal transduction system, mediates swarming, adaptation to stationary phase and phenotypic variation in Photorhabdus luminescens

Isolation of Vibrio alginolyticus sodium-driven flagellar motor complex composed of PomA and PomB solubilized by sucrose monocaprate

Independent regulation of chitin synthase and chitinase activity in Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Overexpression of HAP4 in glucose-derepressed yeast cells reveals respiratory control of glucose-regulated genes

Functional and structural analysis of members of the TorD family, a large chaperone family dedicated to molybdoproteins

A novel positive regulatory element for exfoliative toxin A gene expression in Staphylococcus aureus

S-layer glycan-specific loci on the chromosome of Geobacillus stearothermophilus NRS 2004/3a and dTDP-L-rhamnose biosynthesis potential of G. stearothermophilus strains

Biodiversity and evolution

Evolution of genomic islands by deletion and tandem accretion by site-specific recombination: ICESt1-related elements from Streptococcus thermophilus

Analysis of genetic polymorphisms affecting the four phospholipase C (plc) genes in Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex clinical isolates

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Translocation of transposition-deficient (TndPKLH2-like) transposons in the natural environment: mechanistic insights from the study of adjacent DNA sequences

Genes for Mn(II)-dependent NahC and Fe(II)-dependent NahH located in close proximity in the thermophilic naphthalene and PCB degrader, Bacillus sp. JF8: cloning and characterization

Regulation of catabolic enzymes during long-term exposure of Delftia acidovorans MC1 to chlorophenoxy herbicides

Relations between macroscopic and microscopic adhesion of Streptococcus mitis strains to surfaces

Genes and genomes

Genetic characterization of pcpS, encoding the multifunctional phosphopantetheinyl transferase of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

The diversity within an expanded and redefined repertoire of phase-variable genes in Helicobacter pylori

Global regulation of quorum sensing and virulence by VqsR in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

A putative transposase gene in the 16S–23S rRNA intergenic spacer region of Mycoplasma imitans

MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS

Genome Update: AT content in sequenced prokaryotic genomes

A new regulator linking quorum sensing and iron uptake in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Are these stratospheric nanoparticles bacteria?