Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 43 - September 15, 2005

Outstanding

Functional diversity of three different DsbA proteins from Neisseria meningitidis

Ciliostasis is a key early event during colonization of canine tracheal tissue by Bordetella bronchiseptica

Genome Update: promoter profiles

Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) induce protective Th1-type cytokine epithelial responses in an in vitro model of oral candidosis

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Dynamic localization of membrane proteins in Bacillus subtilis

A differential effect of S on the expression of the PHO regulon genes of Escherichia coli

Functional diversity of three different DsbA proteins from Neisseria meningitidis

Complex regulation of the synthesis of the compatible solute ectoine in the halophilic bacterium Chromohalobacter salexigens DSM 3043T

Expression of Melanocarpus albomyces laccase in Trichoderma reesei and characterization of the purified enzyme

Biodiversity and evolution

Hypermutable Haemophilus influenzae with mutations in mutS are found in cystic fibrosis sputum

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

New roles for CDC25 in growth control, galactose regulation and cellular differentiation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Balamuthia mandrillaris from soil samples

Use of community genome arrays (CGAs) to assess the effects of Acacia angustissima on rumen ecology

Genes and genomes

Transcription of Proteus mirabilis flaAB

A linear megaplasmid, p1CP, carrying the genes for chlorocatechol catabolism of Rhodococcus opacus 1CP

MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS

Genome Update: promoter profiles

Polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) induce protective Th1-type cytokine epithelial responses in an in vitro model of oral candidosis

Pathogens and pathogenicity

Calnexin, calreticulin and cytoskeleton-associated proteins modulate uptake and growth of Legionella pneumophila in Dictyostelium discoideum

Ciliostasis is a key early event during colonization of canine tracheal tissue by Bordetella bronchiseptica

Diversity of stx2 converting bacteriophages induced from Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains isolated from cattle

Genomic subtraction for the identification of putative new virulence factors of an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli strain of O2 serogroup

Involvement of genes of genome maintenance in the regulation of phase variation frequencies in Neisseria meningitidis

Cryptococcus neoformans methionine synthase: expression analysis and requirement for virulence

Cell-surface alterations in class IIa bacteriocin-resistant Listeria monocytogenes strains

Review

Sensing and responding to diverse extracellular signals? Analysis of the sensor kinases and response regulators of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)