Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 6 - Number: 53 - July 15, 2006

Outstanding

Ethambutol, a cell wall inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, elicits L-glutamate efflux of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Cationic antimicrobial peptides elicit a complex stress response in Bacillus subtilis that involves ECF-type sigma factors and two-component signal transduction systems

Evidence of a charge-density threshold for optimum efficiency of biocidal cationic surfaces

Phenotypic differentiation and seeding dispersal in non-mucoid and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Biochemistry and molecular biology

The HiPIP from the acidophilic Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is correctly processed and translocated in Escherichia coli, in spite of the periplasm pH difference between these two micro-organisms

Biochemical and molecular characterization of an azoreductase from Staphylococcus aureus, a tetrameric NADPH-dependent flavoprotein

Direct molecular mass determination of trehalose monomycolate from 11 species of mycobacteria by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

Identification and preliminary characterization of cell-wall-anchored proteins of Staphylococcus epidermidis

The dimorphic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica possesses an atypical phosphofructokinase: characterization of the enzyme and its encoding gene

Characterization of the interaction between subunits of the botulinum toxin complex produced by serotype D through tryptic susceptibility of the isolated components and complex forms

Genetic analysis of Bacillus anthracis Sap S-layer protein crystallization domain

Effect of carbon source on the cellulosomal subpopulations of Clostridium cellulovorans

Overproduction, purification and characterization of FgaPT2, a dimethylallyltryptophan synthase from Aspergillus fumigatus

Daptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces roseosporus: cloning and analysis of the gene cluster and revision of peptide stereochemistry

Biodiversity and evolution

Genetic identification of microcystin ecotypes in toxic cyanobacteria of the genus Planktothrix

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Analysing protein–protein interactions of the Myxococcus xanthus Dif signalling pathway using the yeast two-hybrid system

The dynamic behaviour of microtubules and their contributions to hyphal tip growth in Aspergillus nidulans

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

The rapid assignment of ruminal fungi to presumptive genera using ITS1 and ITS2 RNA secondary structures to produce group-specific fingerprints

Phenotypic differentiation and seeding dispersal in non-mucoid and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Genes and genomes

Enterococcus faecalis divIVA: an essential gene involved in cell division, cell growth and chromosome segregation

Cationic antimicrobial peptides elicit a complex stress response in Bacillus subtilis that involves ECF-type sigma factors and two-component signal transduction systems

Pathogens and pathogenicity

Evidence of a charge-density threshold for optimum efficiency of biocidal cationic surfaces

The putative vacuolar ATPase subunit Vma7p of Candida albicans is involved in vacuole acidification, hyphal development and virulence

Physiology

Ethambutol, a cell wall inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, elicits L-glutamate efflux of Corynebacterium glutamicum