Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 6 - Number: 50 - April 15, 2006

Outstanding

Genome Update: base skews in 200+ bacterial chromosomes

The evolution of groups of cooperating bacteria and the growth rate versus yield trade-off

Hypoxia abolishes transience of the heat-shock response in the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha

Novel stationary-phase-upregulated protein of Porphyromonas gingivalis influences production of superoxide dismutase, thiol peroxidase and thioredoxin

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Dissimilation of cysteate via 3-sulfolactate sulfo-lyase and a sulfate exporter in Paracoccus pantotrophus NKNCYSA

Analysis of ATPases of putative secretion operons in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Evidence for two recA genes mediating DNA repair in Bacillus megaterium

Hypoxia abolishes transience of the heat-shock response in the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha

Identification of the DNA-binding site of the Rgg-like regulator LasX within the lactocin S promoter region

Influence of homologous phasins (PhaP) on PHA accumulation and regulation of their expression by the transcriptional repressor PhaR in Ralstonia eutropha H16

Novel stationary-phase-upregulated protein of Porphyromonas gingivalis influences production of superoxide dismutase, thiol peroxidase and thioredoxin

Reduced initiation frequency from oriC restores viability of a temperature-sensitive Escherichia coli replisome mutant

Biodiversity and evolution

CRISPR elements in Yersinia pestis acquire new repeats by preferential uptake of bacteriophage DNA, and provide additional tools for evolutionary studies

Functional specificity of Candida albicans Als3p proteins and clade specificity of ALS3 alleles discriminated by the number of copies of the tandem repeat sequence in the central domain

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

The interplay of glycogen metabolism and differentiation provides an insight into the developmental biology of Streptomyces coelicolor

Dynamic localization of penicillin-binding proteins during spore development in Bacillus subtilis

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Statistical assessment of a laboratory method for growing biofilms

Genes and genomes

Functional analysis and annotation of the virulence plasmid pMUM001 from Mycobacterium ulcerans

Comparison of gene expression in trap cells and vegetative hyphae of the nematophagous fungus Monacrosporium haptotylum

Identification of a gene cluster encoding an arginine ATP-binding-cassette transporter in the genome of the thermophilic Gram-positive bacterium Geobacillus stearothermophilus strain DSMZ 13240

Microbiology comments

Genome Update: base skews in 200+ bacterial chromosomes

The evolution of groups of cooperating bacteria and the growth rate versus yield trade-off

Fungus or bacterium and vice versa?

Review

The structure of secondary cell wall polymers: how Gram-positive bacteria stick their cell walls together