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Contents—Volume 26, 1993 Current Microbiology Number 1, January 1993 © Springer-Verlag New York Inc. 1993 Photometabolism of Aromatic Compounds by Rhodopseudomonas palustris S.B. Rahalkar, S.R. Joshi, and N. Shivaraman Molecular Cloning of a Chromosomal DNA Region Encompassing the Dihydrofolate Reductase Gene of Streptococcus pneumoniae Maria Teresa Pérez-Urefia and Manuel Espinosa Antagonism of Pseudomonas cepacia Against Phytopathogenic Fungi R.K. Jayaswal, Marcel Fernandez, R.S. Upadhyay, Luisa Visintin, Michael Kurz, James Webb, and K. Rinehart Salt Stress and Respiration in Aspergillus repens Uddhav Kelavkar, Snehal Pandya, and H.S. Chhatpar The Influence of the Cortex on Protoplast Dehydration in Bacterial Spores Studied with Light Scattering Zbigniew Ulanowski and Ian K. Ludlow Phylogenetic Affiliation of BEV, a Bacterial Parasite of the Leafhopper Euscelidius variegatus, on the Basis of 16S rDNA Sequences Bruce C. Campbell and Alexander H. Purcell Two Rapid Urine Screens for Detection of Bacteriuria: An Evaluation William F. Nauschuetz, Linda S. Harrison, Sylvia B. Trevino, Geri R. Becker, and John Benton Regulation of a-Amylase Formation in Aspergillus oryzae and Aspergillus nidulans Transformants Astrid Lachmund, Ute Urmann, Klaus Minol, Stefan Wirsel, and Edeltraud Ruttkowski Characterization of Enolase from Clostridium difficile Gaynor A. Green, Raymonde Girardot, Olivier Baldacini, Marc Ledig, and Henri Monteil A Method for Taxonomic Determination of Candida albicans with DNA Probes Lucas del Castillo Agudo, Almudena Nieto Soria, and Rafael Sentandreu Number 2, February 1993 A Simple Device for the Rapid Concentration or Isolation of Tetrahymena Daniel Lang and Didier Gauthier Partial Physical and Functional Map of a Mycobacterium aurum Carotenogensis Operon Mahomed Houssaini-Iraqui, Sabine Clavel-Sérés, Nalin Rastogi, and Hugo L. David Ornithine Cycle in Nostoc PCC 73102: Stimulation of In Vitro Ornithine Carbamoyl Transferase Activity by Addition of Arginine Eva Jansson, Antera Martel, and Peter Lindblad The Heat Shock Response and Acquired Thermotolerance in Three Strains of Cyanobacteria Patricia A. Blondin, R. Jason Kirby, and Susan R. Barnum The Effect of a Redox Agent, Methylene Blue, on the Survival of Porphyromonas gingivalis In Vitro Julie M. Fletcher and Michael Wilson Pseudomonas aeruginosa Binds to Soluble Cellular Fibronectin Maria-Cristina Plotkowski, Mario Bernardo Filho, Maria de Nazareth Meirelles, Jean Marie Tournier, and Edith Puchelle... . Effects of Waste Water Treatment on the Species Composition and Antibiotic Resistance of Coliform Bacteria Sigrid Rita Andersen Efficient Gene Transfer of High Copy Number Mobilizable Plasmids Containing a Marine Rhodobacter Origin of Replication J. Grant Burgess, Hiroaki Sudo, Koji Sode, and Tadashi Matsunaga Penicillin-Binding Proteins of Clostridia Lynda Chalkley and Ingrid Van der Westhuyzen A Membrane Technique for Producing Protoplasts of Cryphonectria parasitica Jyan-Chyun Jang, Susan D. McElreath, and Frank H. Tainter A Sporulation Medium for Discula destructiva, the Dogwood Anthracnose Fungus Susan D. McElreath and Frank H. Tainter 362 Contents—Volume 26 Number 3, March 1993 Multiple Responses to Heat Stress by the Basidiomycete Schizophyllum commune Sean M. Higgins and Walt W. Lilly Congruent Evolution Between Whiteflies (Homoptera: Aleyrodidae) and Their Bacterial Endosymbionts Based on Respective 18S and 16S rDNAs Bruce C. Campbell Effects of Fumarate, t-Malate, and an Aspergillus oryzae Fermentation Extract on p-Lactate Utilization by the Ruminal Bacterium Selenomonas ruminantium David J. Nisbet and Scott A. Martin Indoor Airborne Penicillium Species in Taiwan Ding-Ling Wei, Juei-Hsieh Chen, Shung-Chang Jong, and Horng-Der Shen Degradation of Amniotic Collagen Fibrils by Group B Streptococci Rosalind J. Jackson, Kimberly L. Gates, Richard J. Sheridan, and Daniel V. Lim Temperature Sensitivity of Fructose-1,6-Biphosphate Aldolase Accounts for the Inability of the High-Virulence Clone of Streptococ- cus agalactiae to Grow at 40°C Stephen J. Mattingly and Elizabeth K. Eskew Isolation of Mutants of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 Deficient in Protease Activity Ce... ccced ceo elaehhkeweeeenVlGhere eeuseoessdentecdddecenncdedodseys 151 Hg?* Uptake in a Cyanobacterium P.K. Pandey and S.P. Singh The Genome of the Non-Cultured, Bacterial-Like Organism Associated with Citrus Greening Disease Contains the nusG-rp/KAJL- rpoBC Gene Cluster and the Gene for a Bacteriophage Type DNA Polymerase Sandrine Villechanoux, Monique Garnier, Frédéric Laigret, Joé] Renaudin, and Joseph-Marie Bové Characterization and Forms of JC3, a New Methanosarcina \solate: Comparison with Methanosarcina mazei Strains S-6', MC3, and LYC Manuel Clarens, Jordi J. Cairé6, Josep M. Paris, Alberto J.L. Macario, and Everly Conway de Macario Overexpression of FtsA Induces Large Bulges at the Septal Regions in Escherichia coli Haichao Wang, Margaret C. Henk, and Randall C. Gayda Number 4, April 1993 Determination of the G + C Content of Two Syntrophus buswellii Strains by Ultracentrifugation Techniques Marie-Laure Fardeau, Bernard Ollivier, Anne Soubrane, Paul Sauve, Gérard Prensier, Jean-Louis Garcia, and Jean-Pierre Bélaich Ethambutol Potentiates Extracellular and Intracellular Activities of Clarithromycin, Sparfloxacin, Amikacin, and Rifampin Against Mycobacterium avium Nalin Rastogi, Valérie Labrousse, and Joao Paulo Carvalho de Sousa Identification of the purA Gene Encoding Adenylosuccinate Synthetase in Thiobacillus ferrooxidans Tomonobu Kusano, Toshiyuki Takeshima, Chihiro Inoue, and Kazuyuki Sugawara Physiological and Biochemical Analysis of the Glutamine Synthetase-Impaired Mutants of the Nitrogen-Fixing Cyanobacterium Nostoc muscorum Renu Srivastava and D.V. Amla Cloning of the Cyclomaltodextrinase Gene from Bacillus subtilis High-Temperature Growth Transformant H-17 Bradley M. Krohn and James A. Lindsay Effect of an Antibiotic from Oscillatoria late-virens on Growth, Photosynthesis, and Toxicity of Microcystis aeruginosa Suvendra Nath Bagchi, Vikas Singh Chauhan, and Jyoti Bala Marwah Effects of Penicillin on a Moderately Halophilic Bacterium, Vibrio costicola Y. Peerbaye and D.J. Kushner Aspects of Energy-Yielding Metabolism in the Aphid, Schizaphis graminum, and Its Endosymbiont: Detection of Gene Fragments Potentially Coding for the ATP Synthase B-Subunit and Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Marta A. Clark and Paul Baumann Occurrence of 2-Keto-3-Deoxyoctonate (KDO) and KDO Phosphate in Lipopolysaccharides of Bacteroides Species Hidefumi Kumada, Yuji Haishima, Seiichi Kondo, Toshio Umemoto, and Kazuhito Hisatsune Contents—Volume 26 Number 5, May 1993 Succinate-Mediated Catabolite Repression of Enzymes of Glucose Metabolism in Root-Nodule Bacteria Narayan Chandra Mandal and Pran K. Chakrabartty Cholesterol Incorporation into Bacillus megaterium Without Compositional Modification of Membrane Lipids in Response to Changes of the Membrane Functions Hideki Tani, Masaru Sato, Hironori Tsuchiya, and Isamu Namikawa Characterization of Tn5-259-Induced Pyrimidine Mutants of Pseudomonas cepacia Scott A. Borchardt and R.K. Jayaswal Effect of Glucose and Carboxymethylcellulose on Growth and Rifamycin Oxidase Production by Curvularia lunata Uttam Chand Banerjee Amylolytic Enzymes Produced by a Color Variant Strain of Aureobasidium pullulans Badal C. Saha, Robert W. Silman, and Rodney J. Bothast Resistance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Sodium Dimethyldithiocarbamate by Adaptation Volker S. Brézel and T. Eugene Cloete Increased Stability of Recombinant Plasmids by Tn/000 Insertion in Chemostat Cultures of Recombinant Escherichia coli GT123 B. Clara Nudel, Ben Vosman, M. Joost Teixeira de Mattos, Klaas J. Hellingwerf, and Oense M. Neijssel Netropsin Suppresses the Rise of Activity of an Intracellular Proteolytic System in Sporulating Bacillus megaterium Helena Kuéerova, Jana Moravcova, LibuSe Vachova, Jifi Ludvik, and Jifi Chaloupka Electron Microscope Studies on the Host Cell Energy Requirement for Injection of PL-1 Phage DNA into Lactobacillus casei Kenji Watanabe, Mitsuhiro Shirabe, Tomoharu Fukuzaki, Yukari Kakita, Yukuhiko Nakashima, and Fumio Miake Isolation and Characterization of an Exopolysaccharide Depolymerase from Pseudomonas marginalis HT041B Stanley F. Osman, William F. Fett, Peter L. Irwin, David G. Bailey, Nicholas Parris, and Joanne V. O'Connor Number 6, June 1993 Isolation and Regeneration of Protoplasts from Gills of Agaricus bisporus Xiao-Ya Chen and Riidiger Hampp Regulation of Aspartate-Derived Amino Acid Biosynthesis in the Yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae Enrique Martinez-Force and Tahia Benitez Growth and Respiratory Oxidation of Reduced Sulfur Compounds by Intact Cells of Thiobacillus novellus (Type Strain) Grown on Thiosulfate Trello Beffa, Catherine Fischer, and Michel Aragno Carboxylation and Mineralization of m-Cresol by a Sulfate-Reducing Bacterial Enrichment K. Ramanand and Joseph M. Suflita Breakdown of Different Peptides by Prevotella (Bacteroides) ruminicola and Mixed Microorganisms from the Sheep Rumen R. John Wallace, Nest McKain, and Glen A. Broderick The Membrane Binding C-Terminus of Protein A from Staphylococcus aureus Affects Its Cellular Localization and Causes Structural Deformation When Expressed in Escherichia coli Alan Warnes, Michael R.W. Brown, Anthony R. Fooks, Helen Shuttleworth, A. Barry Dowsett, Jack Melling, and John R. Stephenson Starvation-Survival of Deep Subsurface Isolates Penny S. Amy, Cheryl Durham, Deborah Hall, and Dana L. Haldeman A Simple and Reliable EDDA Method for Mycobactin Production in Mycobacteria: Optimal Conditions and Use in Mycobacterial Speciation Suzana Bosne, Fernand Papa, Sabine Clavel-Sérés, and Nalin Rastogi