Annals ofClinical Microbiology

Volume: 6 - Number: 57 - November 15, 2006

Outstanding

Biofilm diversity as a test of the insurance hypothesis

Escherichia coli O157 : H7 forms attaching and effacing lesions at the terminal rectum of cattle and colonization requires the LEE4 operon

Cell lysis directed by E in early stationary phase and effect of induction of the rpoE gene on global gene expression in Escherichia coli

Identification of pathogen-specific genes through microarray analysis of pathogenic and commensal Neisseria species

Biochemistry and molecular biology

The Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 wrinkly spreader biofilm requires attachment factor, cellulose fibre and LPS interactions to maintain strength and integrity

epsABCJ genes are involved in the biosynthesis of the exopolysaccharide mauran produced by Halomonas maura

Ala160 and His116 residues are involved in activity and specificity of apyrase, an ATP-hydrolysing enzyme produced by enteroinvasive Escherichia coli

Novel surface layer protein genes in Bacillus sphaericus associated with unusual insertion elements

Inactivation of the 20S proteasome in Streptomyces lividans and its influence on the production of heterologous proteins

Environmental microbiology

The tcrB gene is part of the tcrYAZB operon conferring copper resistance in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

Identification of two lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase genes with overlapping function in Pseudomonas fluorescens

GENES AND GENOMES

Cell lysis directed by E in early stationary phase and effect of induction of the rpoE gene on global gene expression in Escherichia coli

The clpB gene of Bifidobacterium breve UCC 2003: transcriptional analysis and first insights into stress induction

Identification of pathogen-specific genes through microarray analysis of pathogenic and commensal Neisseria species

Microbiology comments

Biofilm diversity as a test of the insurance hypothesis

Genetic variation in biofilms and the insurance effects of diversity

Default taxonomy and the genomics era

Pathogens and pathogenicity

Two glutathione peroxidases in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans are expressed in the presence of specific substrates

The MAP kinase Mkc1p is activated under different stress conditions in Candida albicans

Induction of the SOS regulon of Haemophilus influenzae does not affect phase variation rates at tetranucleotide or dinucleotide repeats

Campylobacter jejuni activates mitogen-activated protein kinases in Caco-2 cell monolayers and in vitro infected primary human colonic tissue

Escherichia coli O157 : H7 forms attaching and effacing lesions at the terminal rectum of cattle and colonization requires the LEE4 operon

Physiology

Loss of topoisomerase I function affects the RpoS-dependent and GAD systems of acid resistance in Escherichia coli

Plant-microbe interactions

Specific gene targeting in Spiroplasma citri: improved vectors and production of unmarked mutations using site-specific recombination

Influence of fusaric acid on phenazine-1-carboxamide synthesis and gene expression of Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain PCL1391