Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 5 - Number: 45 - November 15, 2005

Outstanding

A virulence-associated gene microarray: a tool for investigation of the evolution and pathogenic potential of Staphylococcus aureus

Genome Update: DNA repeats in bacterial genomes

Policy proposal for publication of papers with data sets from genome-wide studies

Comparative proteome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis grown under aerobic and anaerobic conditions

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Autogenous modulation of the Bacillus subtilis sacB–levB–yveA levansucrase operon by the levB transcript

Glucan synthesis in the genus Lactobacillus: isolation and characterization of glucansucrase genes, enzymes and glucan products from six different strains

A new Bacillus cereus DNA-binding protein, HlyIIR, negatively regulates expression of B. cereus haemolysin II

The C-terminal receiver domain of the Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae FixL protein is required for free-living microaerobic induction of the fnrN promoter

Functional characterization of the BvgAS two-component system of Bordetella holmesii

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

A calcium signal is involved in heterocyst differentiation in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC7120

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Identification and occurrence of tetrad-forming Alphaproteobacteria in anaerobic–aerobic activated sludge processes

Novel organization of genes in a phthalate degradation operon of Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1

Genes and genomes

The complete genomes of Lactobacillus plantarum and Lactobacillus johnsonii reveal extensive differences in chromosome organization and gene content

Antibiotic multiresistance plasmid pRSB101 isolated from a wastewater treatment plant is related to plasmids residing in phytopathogenic bacteria and carries eight different resistance determinants including a multidrug transport system

A virulence-associated gene microarray: a tool for investigation of the evolution and pathogenic potential of Staphylococcus aureus

Characterization of a dam mutant of Haemophilus influenzae Rd

Reconstruction of the evolutionary history of the LexA-binding sequence

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa global regulator MvaT specifically binds to the ptxS upstream region and enhances ptxS expression

MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS

Genome Update: DNA repeats in bacterial genomes

Policy proposal for publication of papers with data sets from genome-wide studies

An unusual integron in Treponema denticola

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

Identification of Escherichia coli O157 : H7 genes influencing colonization of the bovine gastrointestinal tract using signature-tagged mutagenesis

Protein A gene expression is regulated by DNA supercoiling which is modified by the ArlS–ArlR two-component system of Staphylococcus aureus

Comparative proteome analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis grown under aerobic and anaerobic conditions

Review

Nitrate reduction and the nitrogen cycle in archaea