Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 6 - Number: 48 - February 15, 2006

Outstanding

Genome Update: proteome comparisons

Gene expression diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates

Degradation of the xenoestrogen nonylphenol by aquatic fungi and their laccases

Recovery of an environmental chlamydia strain from activated sludge by co-cultivation with Acanthamoeba sp.

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Respiratory gene clusters of Metallosphaera sedula – differential expression and transcriptional organization

Disruption of MRG19 results in altered nitrogen metabolic status and defective pseudohyphal development in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Acetaminophen toxicity and resistance in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Temperature adaptation in Dictyostelium: role of 5 fatty acid desaturase

A unique nine-gene comY operon in Streptococcus mutans

Characterization of the cleavage site and function of resulting cleavage fragments after limited proteolysis of Clostridium difficile toxin B (TcdB) by host cells

The formation of cyclopropane fatty acids in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

Detailed studies of the binding mechanism of the Sinorhizobium meliloti transcriptional activator ExpG to DNA

DNA-binding activity of LndI protein and temporal expression of the gene that upregulates landomycin E production in Streptomyces globisporus 1912

Biodiversity and evolution

Molecular evolution of Vibrio pathogenicity island-2 (VPI-2): mosaic structure among Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio mimicus natural isolates

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Influences of temperature, salinity and starvation on the motility and chemotactic response of Vibrio anguillarum

Degradation of the xenoestrogen nonylphenol by aquatic fungi and their laccases

Different gvpC length variants are transcribed within single filaments of the cyanobacterium Planktothrix rubescens

Recovery of an environmental chlamydia strain from activated sludge by co-cultivation with Acanthamoeba sp.

Genes and genomes

Two relA/spoT homologous genes are involved in the morphological and physiological differentiation of Streptomyces clavuligerus

Gene expression diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates

Microbiology comments

Genome Update: proteome comparisons