Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 6 - Number: 56 - October 15, 2006

Outstanding

Acclimation of unicellular cyanobacteria to macronutrient deficiency: emergence of a complex network of cellular responses

Orphans as taxonomically restricted and ecologically important genes

Modulation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through alteration of membrane properties

Candida albicans strains deficient in CHS7, a key regulator of chitin synthase III, exhibit morphogenetic alterations and attenuated virulence

Biochemistry and molecular biology

Identification of tailoring genes involved in the modification of the polyketide backbone of rifamycin B by Amycolatopsis mediterranei S699

Modulation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through alteration of membrane properties

The gene stlA encodes a phenylalanine ammonia-lyase that is involved in the production of a stilbene antibiotic in Photorhabdus luminescens TT01

The high-affinity phosphate-binding protein PstS is accumulated under high fructose concentrations and mutation of the corresponding gene affects differentiation in Streptomyces lividans

Analysis of the nearly identical morpholine monooxygenase-encoding mor genes from different Mycobacterium strains and characterization of the specific NADH : ferredoxin oxidoreductase of this cytochrome P450 system

Stability of the Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 circadian clock under directed anti-phase expression of the kai genes

Adaptation and acclimatization to formaldehyde in methylotrophs capable of high-concentration formaldehyde detoxification

Candida albicans strains deficient in CHS7, a key regulator of chitin synthase III, exhibit morphogenetic alterations and attenuated virulence

Molecular insight into extreme copper resistance in the extremophilic archaeon ‘Ferroplasma acidarmanus’ Fer1

Biodiversity and evolution

Conserved indels in essential proteins that are distinctive characteristics of Chlamydiales and provide novel means for their identification

Subtractive hybridization reveals a high genetic diversity in the fish pathogen Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida: evidence of a SXT-like element

Structure and distribution of the phosphoprotein phosphatase genes, prpA and prpB, among Shigella subgroups

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY

Altered morphology produced by ftsZ expression in Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13869

Mass flow and pressure-driven hyphal extension in Neurospora crassa

Characterization of a regulatory gene essential for the production of the angucycline-like polyketide antibiotic auricin in Streptomyces aureofaciens CCM 3239

Cellular Biology

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin

GENES AND GENOMES

Effects of growth phase and the developmentally significant bldA-specified tRNA on the membrane-associated proteome of Streptomyces coelicolor

Microbiology comments

Orphans as taxonomically restricted and ecologically important genes

Review

Acclimation of unicellular cyanobacteria to macronutrient deficiency: emergence of a complex network of cellular responses