Molecular Microbiology 1991: Vol 5 Table of Contents

15 Pages·1991·4.7 MB·English

Contents
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 1 Chlamydia trachomatis contains a protein
similar to the Legionella pneumophila mip
1 gene product
Editorial A. G. Lundemose, S. Birkelund, S. J. Fey,
MicroReviews P. Mose Larsen & G. Christiansen
3 The molecular basis of carbon-starvation-
induced general resistance in Escherichia coli Folding in vitro and transport in vivo of pre-
A. Matin B-lactamase are SecB independent
A. A. Laminet, C. A. Kumamoto, A. Pliickthun
The regulation of genetic competence in
Bacillus subtilis Molecular characterization of an operon (hyp)
D. Dubnau necessary for the activity of the three
Molecular chaperones and protein hydrogenase isoenzymes in Escherichia coli
translocation across the Escherichia coli inner S. Lutz, A. Jacobi, V. Schlensog, R. Bohm,
membrane G. Sawers & A. Bock
C. A. Kumamoto
Control of pilus expression in Neisseria
Research Articles gonorrhoeae as an original system in the
23 Computer modelling of the NAD binding site of family of two-component regulators
ADP-ribosylating toxins: active-site structure M. K. Taha, B. Dupuy, W. Saurin, M. So &
and mechanism of NAD binding C. Marchal
M. Domenighini, C. Montecucco, W. C. Ripka &
R. Rappuoli Completion of DNA repair-deficient
Escherichia coli by the yeast Apn1 apurinic/
Evolution of the MIP family of integral
apyrimidinic endonuclease gene
membrane transport proteins
D. Ramotar, S. C. Popoff & B. Demple
G. M. Pao, L.-F. Wu, K. D. Johnson, H. Hofte,
M. J. Chrispeels, G. Sweet, N. N. Sandal & Sequences downstream from the
M. H. Saier, Jr transcriptional start site are essential for
Identification of glyA as a symbiotically microaerobic, but not symbiotic, expression of
essential gene in Bradyrhizobium japonicum the Rhizobium meliloti nifHDK promoter
S. Rossbach & R. Hennecke Y.-P. Wang, K. Birkenhead, A. Dobson,
B. Boesten & F. O’Gara
Identification of a central regulator of
stationary-phase gene expression in Molecular characterization of the gor gene
Escherichia coli encoding glutathione reductase from
R. Lange & R. Hengge-Aronis Pseudomonas aeruginosa: determinants of
substrate specificity among pyridine
987P fimbrial gene identification and protein
nucleotide-disulphide oxidoreductases
characterization by T7 RNA polymerase-
A. C. F. Perry, N. Ni Bhriain, N. L. Brown &
induced transcription and TnphoA
D. A. Rouch
mutagenesis
D. M. Schifferli, E. H. Beachey & R. K. Taylor The oligopeptide transport system of Bacillus
Molecular characterization of the O-acetyl subtilis plays a role in the initiation of
transferase gene of converting bacteriophage sporulation
SF6 that adds group antigen 6 to Shigella M. Perego, C. F. Higgins, S. R. Pearce,
flexneri M. P. Gallagher & J. A. Hoch
N. K. Verma, J. M. Brandt, D. J. Verma &
Virulence-associated chromosomal loci of
A. A. Lindberg
Shigella flexneri identified by random Tn5
Repression and derepression of conjugation insertion mutagenesis
of plasmid R1 by wild-type and mutated finP N. Okada, C. Sasakawa, T. Tobe, M. Yamada,
antisense RNA S. Nagai, K. A. Talukder, K. Komatsu,
G. Koraimann, C. Koraimann, V. Koronakis, S. Kanegasaki & M. Yoshikawa
S. Schlager & G. H6genauer
Purification and characterization of two-
Partial deletion of the Rhizobium phaseoli subunit cytochrome aa; from Bacillus cereus
CFN23 symbiotic plasmid implies a J. A. Garcia-Horsman, B. Barquera,
concomitant amplification of plasmid DNA D. Gonzalez-Halphen & J. E. Escamilla
sequences
G. Sober6én-Chavez, R. Najera, E. Calva & Evidence that the entire length of a kinetoplast
M. Fernandez DNA minicircle is transcribed in Trypanosoma
cruzi
Control of replication of plasmid R1: the
R. Thertulien, G. Harth & C. G. Haidaris
intergenic region between copA and repA
modulates the level of expression of repA Characterization of the yellow-pigment genes
A. Berzal-Herranz, E. G. H. Wagner & of Erwinia herbicola
R. Diaz-Orejas L.-Y. Lee & S.-T. Liu
A recombinant C-terminal toxin fragment The general protein-export pathway is directly
provides evidence that membrane insertion is required for extracellular pullulanase secretion
important for Clostridium perfringens in Escherichia coli K12
enterotoxin cytotoxicity A. P. Pugsley, M. G. Kornacker & |. Poquet
P. C. Hanna & B. A. McClane
Promoter sequence requirements for Fnr-
dependent activation of transcription of the
narGHJI operon
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 2 M. S. Walker & J. A. DeMoss
Detection of a gene encoding a
phosphatidylinositol-specific phospholipase C
MicroReviews that is co-ordinately expressed with
233 +=~The replication of plasmid pSC101 listeriolysin in Listeria monocytogenes
D. Manen & L. Caro M. Leimeister-Wachter, E. Domann &
T. Chakraborty
239 Molecular aspects of microbial ice nucleation
G. Warren & P. Wolber Identification of phosphatidylinositol-specific
Research Articles phospholipase C activity in Listeria
monocytogenes: a novel type of virulence
245 3’ processing in Dictyostelium: unusual
factor?
sequence requirements and interaction with a
J. Mengaud, C. Braun-Breton, & P. Cossart
downstream promoter
M. Maniak & W. Nellen Nucleotide sequence of the Escherichia coli
The cell envelope of the hyperthermophilic thymidine kinase gene provides evidence for
archaebacterium Pyrobaculum conservation of functional domains and
organotrophum consists of two regularly quaternary structure
arrayed protein layers: three-dimensional M. E. Black & D. E. Hruby
structure of the outer layer Genetic analysis of superoxide dismutase, the
B. M. Phipps, R. Huber & W. Baumeister 23 kilodalton antigen of Mycobacterium
Molecular cloning, partial purification, and tuberculosis
characterization of a haemin-binding Y. Zhang, R. Lathigra, T. Garbe, D. Catty &
lipoprotein from Haemophilus influenzae D. Young
type b
Functioning of the stable signal peptide of the
M. S. Hanson & E. J. Hansen
pCloDF13-encoded bacteriocin release protein
Pilin expression and processing in pilus J. Luirink, B. Duim, J. W. L. de Gier & B. Oudega
mutants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae: critical role
of Gly_, in assembly The role of a stress-response protein in
M. Koomey, S. Bergstrom, M. Blake & Salmonella typhimurium virulence
J. Swanson K. Johnson, |. Charles, G. Dougan, D. Pickard,
P. O’Gaora, G. Costa, T. Ali, |. Miller
The stringent response in Streptomyces & C. Hormaeche
coelicolor A3(2)
E. Strauch, E. Takano, H. A. Baylis & M. J. Bibb P.70 pertactin, an outer-membrane protein
from Bordetella parapertussis: cloning,
identification of gene products of the P1 nucleotide sequence and surface expression
operon of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in Escherichia coli
B. Sperker, P.-c. Hu & R. Herrmann L. J. Li, G. Dougan, P. Novotny & |. G. Charles
Molecular analysis of the virulence locus of
Segment IV of a Salmonella flagellin gene
the Salmonella dublin plasmid pSDL2
specifies flagellar antigen epitopes
M. Krause, C. Roudier, J. Fierer, J. Harwood, &
S. M. C. Newton, R. D. Wasley, A. Wilson,
D. Guiney
L. T. Rosenberg, J. F. Miller & B. A. D. Stocker
An O antigen can interfere with the function of
the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis invasin Sequence and expression analysis of a cAMP-
responsive gene regulated during late
protein
D. L. Voorhis, S. Dillon, S. B. Formal & development of Dictyostelium discoideum
R. R. Isberg D. P. Ramji, J. T. J. Donovan & B. D. Hames
Role of transcription pausing in the control of Design of CAMP-CRP-activated promoters in
the pyrE attenuator in Escherichia coli Escherichia coli
J. T. Andersen, K. F. Jensen & P. Poulsen P. Valentin-Hansen, B. Holst,
L. Segaard-Andersen, J. Martinussen, J. Nesvera
Molecular analysis of the methane
& S. R. Douthwaite
monooxygenase (MMO) gene cluster of
Methylosinus trichosporium OB3b The TraM protein of plasmid R1 is a DNA-
D. L. N. Cardy, V. Laidler, G. P. C. Salmond & binding protein
J. C. Murrell M. Schwab, H. Gruber & G. Hégenauer
The secretion genes of Pseudomonas Gene sequences and comparison of the
aeruginosa alkaline protease are functionally fimbrial subunits representative of
related to those of Erwinia chrysanthemi Bacteroides nodosus serotypes A to |: class |
proteases and Escherichia coli «-haemolysin and class Il strains
J. Guzzo, F. Duong, C. Wandersman, M. Murgier, J. S. Mattick, B. J. Anderson, P. T. Cox,
& A. Lazdunski B. P. Dalrymple, M. M. Bills, M. Hobbs & J. R.
Egerton
Two global regulators repress the anaerobic
expression of MnSOD in Escherichia coli::Fur Catabolite repression of «-amylase gene
(ferric uptake regulation) and Arc (aerobic expression in Bacillus subtilis involves a trans-
respiration control) acting gene product homologous to the
B. Tardat & D. Touati Escherichia coli lacl and gailR repressors
The trpC gene of Phanerochaete T. M. Henkin, F. J. Grundy, W. L. Nicholson &
chrysosporium is unique in containing an G. H. Chambliss
intron but nevertheless maintains the order of
intervening sequences (IVSs) in the 23S
functional domains seen in other fungi
ribosomal RNA genes of pathogenic Yersinia
A. Schrank, C. Tempelaars, P. F. G. Sims,
enterocolitica strains. The IVSs in Y.
S. G. Oliver & P. Broda
enterocolitica and Salmonella typhimurium
Post-transcriptional control of a sporulation have a common origin
regulatory gene encoding transcription factor M. Skurnik & P. Toivanen
o" in Bacillus subtilis
Elimination of the disulphide bridge in
J. Healy, J. Weir, |. Smith, & R. Losick
fragment B of diphtheria toxin: effect on
Variable antigen genes of the relapsing fever membrane insertion, channel formation, and
agent Borrelia hermsii are activated by ATP binding
promoter addition H. Stenmark, S. Olsnes & |. H. Madshus
A. G. Barbour, N. Burman, C. J. Carter, T. Kitten
& S. Bergstrom The cloning and DNA sequence of the gene for
the glutathione-regulated potassium-efflux
Roles of DNA adenine methylation in system KefC of Escherichia coli
controlling replication of the REPI replicon of A. W. Munro, G. Y. Ritchie, A. J. Lamb,
plasmid pColV-K30 R. M. Douglas & |. R. Booth
A. E. Gammie & J. H. Crosa
1S801, an insertion sequence element isolated
Physical and genetic map of the
from Pseudomonas syringae pathovar
Methanococcus voltae chromosome
phaseolicola
J. Sitzmann & A. Klein
M. Romantschuk, G. Y. Richter,
P. Mukhopadhyay & D. Mills
Error-prone EF-Tu reduces in vivo enzyme
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 3 activity and cellular growth rate
D. Hughes
MicroReviews A copy-number mutant of plasmid pSC101
515 Selenocysteine: the 21st amino acid G.-X. Xia, D. Manen, T. Goebel, P. Linder,
A. Bock, K. Forchhammer, J. Heider, G. Churchward, & L. Caro
W. Leinfelder, G. Sawers, B. Veprek & F. Zinoni
lonizing groups in lipopolysaccharides of
521 Pore-forming cytolysins of Gram-negative Pseudomonas cepacia in relation to antibiotic
bacteria resistance
R. A. Welch A. D. Cox & S. G. Wilkinson
Physiological roles of the DnaK and GroE The ferric-pseudobactin receptor PupA of
stress proteins: catalysts of protein folding or Pseudomonas putida WCS358: homology to
macromolecular sponges? TonB-dependent Escherichia coli receptors
R. A. LaRossa & T. K. Van Dyk and specificity of the protein
Physiology and molecular genetics of poly(- W. Bitter, J. D. Marugg, L. A. de Weger,
hydroxy-alkanoic acid) synthesis in J. Tommassen & P. J. Weisbeek
Alcaligenes eutrophus
Gas vesicle synthesis in the cyanobacterium
A. Steinbiichel & H. G. Schlegel
Pseudanabaena sp.: occurrence of a single
Research Articles photoregulated gene
T. Damerval, A.-M. Castets, J. Houmard &
543 Organization of the fimbrial gene region of
N. Tandeau de Marsac
Bacteroides nodosus: class | and class Il
strains Involvement of fixLJ in the regulation of
M. Hobbs, B. P. Dalrymple, P. T. Cox, nitrogen fixation in Azorhizobium caulinodans
S. P. Livingstone, S. F. Delaney & J. S. Mattick P. A. Kaminski & C. Elmerich
Penicillin-binding protein 4 of Escherichia coli: Research Articles
molecular cloning of the dacB gene, controlled
805 A suppressor of yeast spp81/ded1 mutations
overexpression, and alterations in murein
encodes a very similar putative ATP-
composition
dependent RNA helicase
B. Korat, H. Mottl, & W. Keck
D. J. Jamieson & J. D. Beggs
Transcriptional analysis of the restriction and
Translational coupling varying in efficiency
modification genes of bacteriophage P1
between different pairs of genes in the central
A. D. Sharrocks & D. P. Hornby
region of the atp operon of Escherichia coli
Structure and sequence of the rfb (O antigen) K. Hellmuth, G. Rex, B. Surin, R. Zinck &
gene cluster of Salmonella serovar J. E. G. McCarthy
typhimurium (strain LT2)
ERIC sequences: a novel family of repetitive
X.-M. Jiang, B. Neal, F. Santiago, S. J. Lee,
elements in the genomes of Escherichia coli,
L. K. Romana & P. R. Reeves
Salmonella typhimurium and other
Gene 32 transcription and mRNA processing enterobacteria
in T4-related bacteriophages C. S. J. Hulton, C. F. Higgins & P. M. Sharp
D. Loayza, A. J. Carpousis & H. M. Krisch
Characterization of the RNA polymerases of
Comparison of the class 1 outer membrane Crithidia fasciculata
proteins of eight serological reference strains J. Kock & A. W. C. A. Cornelissen
of Neisseria meningitidis
M. C. J. Maiden, J. Suker, A. J. McKenna, The IgA-binding 8 antigen of the c protein
J. A. Bygraves & |. M. Feavers complex of Group B streptococci: sequence
determination of its gene and detection of two
nolC, a Rhizobium fredii gene involved in binding regions
cultivar-specific nodulation of soybean, shares P. G. Jeristrém, G. S. Chhatwal & K. N. Timmis
homology with a heat-shock gene
H. B. Krishnan & S. G. Pueppke The gene specifying RNase E (rne) and a gene
affecting mRNA stability (ams) are the same
Osmotic induction of the periplasmic trehalase gene
in Escherichia coli K12: characterization of the L. Taraseviciene, A. Miczak & D. Apirion
treA gene promoter
F. Repoila & C. Gutierrez Genetic studies of cleavage-initiated mRNA
decay and processing of ribosomal 9S RNA
The role of o* in prespore-specific
show that the Escherichia coli ams and rne
transcription in Bacillus subtilis
loci are the same
S. R. Partridge, D. Foulger and J. Errington
O. Melefors & A. von Gabain
Two distinct steps in pullulanase secretion by
Escherichia coli K12
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 4 A. P. Pugsley, |. Poquet & M. G. Kornacker
Structure and function of periplasmic
MicroReviews chaperone-like proteins involved in the
769 The Escherichia coli cell cycle: one cycle or biosynthesis of K88 and K99 fimbriae in
multiple independent processes that are co- enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
ordinated? D. Bakker, C. E. M. Vader, B. Roosendaal,
K. Nordstr6m, R. Bernander & S. Dasgupta F. R. Mooi, B. Oudega & F. K. de Graaf
Calcium in bacteria: a solution to which Temperature-regulated expression of invasion
problem? genes in Shigella flexneri is controlled through
V. Norris, M. Chen, M. Goldberg, J. Voskuil, the transcriptional activation of the virB gene
G. McGurk & |. B. Holland on the large plasmid
T. Tobe, S. Nagai, N. Okada, B. Adler,
Local DNA topology and gene expression: the
M. Yoshikawa, & C. Sasakawa
case of the /eu-500 promoter
D. M. J. Lilley & C. F. Higgins Origin of tetracycline efflux proteins:
A model for asymmetric septum formation conclusions from nucleotide sequence
during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis analysis
J. Errington R. P. Sheridan & |. Chopra
Cell division and peptidoglycan assembly in Regulation of the chiA locus of Escherichia
Escherichia coli coli K12: involvement of molybdenum cofactor
N. Nanninga K. P. Baker & D. H. Boxer
A family of clostridial and streptococcal Formation of Rhizobium phaseoli symbiotic
ligand-binding proteins with conserved C- plasmids by genetic recombination
terminal repeat sequences G. Sober6én-Chavez, R. Najera, G. Espin &
B. W. Wren S. Moreno ?
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L-pilin variants of Neisseria gonorrhoeae ymoA, a Yersinia enterocolitica chromosomal
MS11 gene modulating the expression of virulence
P. A. Manning, A. Kaufmann, U. Roll, J. Pohiner, functions
T. F. Meyer & R. Haas G. R. Cornelis, C. Sluiters, |. Delor, D. Geib,
K. Kaniga, C. Lambert de Rouvroit, M.-P. Sory,
Isolation and properties of the RepA1 protein
J.-C. Vanooteghem & T. Michiels
of the IncFll replicon, RepFiC
R. Maas, J. Oppenheim, S. Saadi, T. Fuchs &
Peptide transport and chemotaxis in
W. K. Maas
Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium:
Insertional inactivation of the Staphylococcus characterization of the dipeptide permease
aureus £-toxin by bacteriophage 13 occurs (Dpp) and the dipeptide-binding protein
by site- and orientation-specific integration of W. N. Abouhamad, M. Manson, M. M. Gibson &
the 613 genome C. F. Higgins
D. Coleman, J. Knights, R. Russell, D. Shanley,
T. H. Birkbeck, G. Dougan & |. Charles DNA sequence and analysis of the bet genes
encoding the osmoregulatory choline—glycine
A sugar-specific porin, ScrY, is involved in
betaine pathway of Escherichia coli
sucrose uptake in enteric bacteria
T. Lamark, |. Kaasen, M. W. Eshoo,
K. Schmid, R. Ebner, K. Jahreis, J. W. Lengeler &
P. Falkenberg, J. McDougall & A. R. Strom
F. Titgemeyer
Pleiotropic changes resulting from depietion A class of gyrB inutants, substantially
of Era, an essential GTP-binding protein in unaffected in DNA topology, suppresses the
Escherichia coli Escherichia coli K12 ftsZ34 mutation
C. G. Lerner & M. Inouye |. Ruberti, F. Crescenzi, L. Paolozzi &
P. Ghelardini
Replication mutants of Staphylococcus aureus
macrolide—lincosamide—streptogramin B Structure—function analysis of the K88ab
resistance plasmid pT48 fimbrial subunit protein from porcine
|. Catchpole & K. G. H. Dyke enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli
A novel function of the cAMP-—CRP complex in P. A. Pedersen
Escherichia coli: CAMP-—CRP functions as an
adaptor for the CytR repressor in the deo Analysis of the gluconate (gnt) operon of
operon Bacillus subtilis
A. Reizer, J. Deutscher, M. H. Saier, Jr & J. Reizer
L. Segaard-Andersen, H. Pedersen, B. Holst &
P. Valentin-Hansen
Identification and characterization of a
The surface-located YopN protein is involved conserved outer-membrane protein of
in calcium signal transduction in Yersinia Neisseria gonorrhoeae
pseudotuberculosis R. C. Judd, J. C. Strange, R. K. Pettit &
A. Forsberg, A.-M. Viitanen, M. Skurnik & W. M. Shafer
H. Wolf-Watz
Gonococcal penicillin-binding protein 3 and
Modular structure of FixJ: homology of the the surface-exposed 44kDa peptidoglycan-
transcriptional activator domain with the —35 binding protein appear to be the same
domain of sigma factors molecule
D. Kahn & G. Ditta W. M. Shafer & R. C. Judd
Binding of the immunity protein inactivates
colicin M
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 5 T. Olschlager, A. Turba & V. Braun
Molecular cloning of a gene involved in
MicroReviews
lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis and virulence
999 The role of RNA polymerase in transcriptional expression by Haemophilus influenzae type B
fidelity L. D. Cope, R. Yogev, J. Mertsola, J. L. Latimer,
R. T. Libby & J. A. Gallant M. S. Hanson, G. H. McCracken, Jr &
1005 The to/ gene products and the import of E. J. Hansen
macromolecules into Escherichia coli
The cephamycin biosynthetic genes pcbAB,
R. E. Webster
encoding a large multidomain peptide
synthetase, and pcbC of Nocardia
Research Articles lactamdurans are clustered together in an
1013 Molecular analysis of a complex locus from organization different from the same genes in
Haemophilus influenzae involved in phase- Acremonium chrysogenum and Penicillium
variable lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis chrysogenum
D. J. Maskell, M. J. Szabo, P. D. Butler, J. J. R. Coque, J. F. Martin, J. G. Calzada &
A. E. Williams & E. R. Moxon P. Liras
Characterization of legiolysin (/ly), responsible Evidence for a common molecular origin of the
for haemolytic activity, colour production and capsule gene loci in Gram-negative bacteria
fluorescence of Legionella pneumophila expressing group Il capsular polysaccharides
E. Wintermeyer, U. Rdest, B. Ludwig, A. Debes & M. Frosch, U. Edwards, K. Bousset, B. KrauBe &
J. Hacker C. Weisgerber
Chromosome strand segregation during The role of the OOP antisense RNA in
sporulation in Bacillus subtilis coliphage \ development
J. Errington & R. G. Wake L. Krinke, M. Mahoney & D. L. Wulff
A gene (prsA) of Bacillus subtilis involved in a
Common and variable domains of the flagellin
novel, late stage of protein export
gene, flaA, in Campylobacter jejuni
V. P. Kontinen, P. Saris & M. Sarvas
S. H. Fischer & |. Nachamkin
The hha gene modulates haemolysin
A DNA region of 9 kbp contains all genes expression in Escherichia coli
necessary for gas vesicle synthesis in J. M. Nieto, M. Carmona, S. Bolland, Y. Jubete,
halophilic archaebacteria F. de la Cruz & A. Juarez
M. Horne, C. Englert, C. Wimmer & P. Pfeifer
A pyruvate-stimulated adenylate cyclase has a
sequence related to the fes/fps oncogenes
and to eukaryotic cyclases
E. P. Peters, A. F. Wilderspin, S. P. Wood,
M. J. J. M. Zvelebil, O. Sezer & A. Danchin VOLUME 5 NUMBER6
Selenocysteyl-tRNA occurs in the diatom
Thalassiosira and in the ciliate Tetrahymena MicroReviews
D. L. Hatfield, B. J. Lee, N. M. Price &
1295 The RecA protein as a recombinational repair
T. C. Stadtman
system
A cloned ompR-like gene of Streptomyces M. M. Cox
lividans 66 suppresses defective me/C1, a 1301 Fermentable sugars and intracellular acidi-
putative copper-transfer gene fication as specific activators of the RAS—
H.-C. Tseng & C. W. Chen adenylate cyclase signalling pathway in yeast:
the relationship to nutrient-induced cell cycle
Genetic and biochemical analysis of the
control
aspartokinase from Corynebacterium
J. M. Thevelein
glutamicum
J. Kalinowski, J. Cremer, B. Bachmann,
L. Eggeling, H. Sahm & A. Pihler Research Articles '
1309 Cassette mutagenesis implicates a helix-turn-
Expression of Salmonella typhi and
helix motif in promoter recognition by the
Escherichia coli OmpC is influenced differently novel RNA polymerase sigma factor o™
by medium osmolarity; dependence on
J. R. Coppard & M. J. Merrick
Escherichia coli OmpR
J. L. Puente, A. Verdugo-Rodriguez & E. Calva Genetic analysis of the Erwinia chrysanthemi
3937 chrysobactin iron-transport system:
Escherichia coli chromosomal mutations that characterization of a gene cluster involved in
permit direct cloning of the Bacteroides uptake and biosynthetic pathways
fragilis metallo-B-lactamase gene, ccrA T. Franza, C. Enard, F. van Gijsegem &
B. A. Rasmussen, Y. Gluzman & F. P. Tally D. Expert
Nucleotide sequence of the endoglucanase C The ArsR protein is a trans-acting regulatory
gene (cenC) of Cellulomonas fimi, its high- protein
level expression in Escherichia coli, and J. Wu & B. P. Rosen
characterization of its products Analysis of an anaerobically induced promoter
J. B. Coutinho, B. Moser, D. G. Kilburn, for the cobalamin biosynthetic genes in
R. A. J. Warren & R. C. Miller, Jr
Salmonella typhimurium
Light and oxygen effects share a common A. A. Richter-Dahlfors & D. |. Andersson
regulatory DNA sequence in Rhodobacter Mitochondrial gene sequences show fungal
capsulatus homology for Pneumocystis carinii
G. Klug, N. Gad’on, S. Jock & M. L. Narro F. J. Pixley, A. E. Wakefield, S. Banerji &
The glucose permease of the J. M. Hopkin
phosphotransferase system of Bacillus Characterization of a polygalacturonase gene
subtilis: evidence for lI@"* and t°'° domains of Aspergillus niger RH5344
G. Gonzy-Tréboul, J. H. de Waard, M. Zagorec & E. Ruttkowski, N. Q. Khanh, F.-J. Wientjes &
P. W. Postma M. Gottschalk
Sequential activation of dual promoters by Anaerobic growth and cyanide synthesis of
different sigma factors maintains spoVJ Pseudomonas aeruginosa depend on anr, a
expression during successive developmental regulatory gene homologous with fnr of
stages of Bacillus subtilis Escherichia coli
D. Foulger & J. Errington A. Zimmermann, C. Reimmann, M. Galimand &
D. Haas
A chimeric nucleotide-binding protein,
encoded by a hisP-—mailK hybrid gene, is
Genetic analysis of the rfb region of Shigella
functional in maltose transport in Salmonelia
flexneri encoding the Y serotype O-antigen
typhimurium
specificity
E. Schneider & C. Walter
D. F. Macpherson, R. Morona, D. W. Beger,
K.-C. Cheah & P. A. Manning
Intranasal immunization using the B subunit of
the Escherichia coli heat-labile toxin fused to
an epitope of the Bordetella pertussis P.69 Anthrax toxin protective antigen: low-pH-
antigen induced hydrophobicity and channel formation
M. Lipscombe, |. G. Charles, M. Roberts, in liposomes
G. Dougan, J. Tite & N. F. Fairweather T. M. Koehler & R. J. Collier
Construction and characterization of Pro-peptide as an intermolecular chaperone:
Bordetella pertussis mutants lacking the vir- renaturation of denatured subtilisin E with a
regulated P.69 outer membrane protein synthetic pro-peptide
M. Roberts, N. F. Fairweather, E. Leininger, Y. Ohta, H. Hojo, S. Aimoto, T. Kobayashi, X. Zhu,
D. Pickard, E. L. Hewlett, A. Robinson, F. Jordan & M. Inouye
C. Hayward, G. Dougan & |. G. Charles
Mutations in the aphA-2 gene of transposon
Organization of genes encoding membrane Tn5 mapping within the regions highly
proteins of the Escherichia coli ferri- conserved in aminoglycoside-phospho-
enterobactin permease transferases strongly reduce aminoglycoside
S. S. Chenault & C. F. Earhart resistance
J. Blazquez, J. Davies & F. Moreno
Nucleotide sequence and genetic organization
of the ferric enterobactin transport system:
The Rhizobium meliloti exoZ/exoB fragment of
homology to other periplasmic binding
megaplasmid 2: ExoB functions as a UDP-
protein-dependent systems in Escherichia coli
glucose 4-epimerase and ExoZ shows homo-
C. M. Shea & M. A. Mcintosh
logy to NodX of Rhizobium leguminosarum
Characterization of the opa (class 5) gene biovar viciae strain TOM
family of Neisseria meningitidis A. M. Buendia, B. Enenkel, R. Képlin, K. Niehaus,
E. L. Aho, J. A. Dempsey, M. M. Hobbs, W. Arnold & A. Puhler
D. G. Klapper & J. G. Cannon
Enhancement of the invasive ability of
Type 1 fimbriae mutants of Escherichia coli Neisseria gonorrhoeae by contact with HecIB,
K12: characterization of recognized afimbriate an adenocarcinoma endometrial cell line
strains and construction of new fim deletion J. C.-R. Chen, P. Bavoil & V. L. Clark
mutants
|. C. Blomfield, M. S. McClain & B. |. Eisenstein A new system for amplifying 2;.m plasmid
copy number in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Allelic exchange in Escherichia coli using the
S. Unternahrer, D. Pridmore & A. Hinnen
Bacillus subtilis sacB gene and a temperature-
sensitive pSC101 replicon
The Haemophilus influenzae capsulation gene
|. C. Blomfield, V. Vaughn, R. F. Rest &
cluster: a compound transposon
B. |. Eisenstein
J. S. Kroll, B. M. Loynds & E. R. Moxon
Organization of the genes coding for the
reaction-centre L and M subunits and B870 Transformation of Mycobacterium aurum and
antenna polypeptides a and £ from the aerobic Mycobacterium smegmatis with the broad
photosynthetic bacterium Erythrobacter host-range Gram-negative cosmid vector
species OCH114 pJRD215
R. Liebetanz, U. Hornberger & G. Drews J. Hermans, C. Martin, G. N. M. Huijberts,
T. Goosen & J. A. M. de Bont
Identification and molecular characterization
of a transcriptional regulator from Pseudo- Macronuclear and micronuclear
monas aeruginosa PAQ1 exhibiting structural configurations of a gene encoding the protein
and functional similarity to the FNR protein of synthesis elongation factor EF 10 in
Escherichia coli Stylonychia lemnae
R. G. Sawers P. Bierbaum, T. Dénhoff & A. Klein
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 7 A gene in the archaebacterium Sulfolobus
solfataricus that codes for a protein equivalent
to the alpha subunits of the signal recognition
MicroReviews particle receptor in eukaryotes
1577 Mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa in cystic C. Ramirez & A. T. Matheson
fibrosis: signal transduction and histone-like The three-dimensional structure of the regular
elements in the regulation of bacterial surface protein of Comamonas acidovorans
virulence derived from native outer membranes and
V. Deretic, C. D. Mohr & D. W. Martin reconstituted two-dimensional crystals
TyrR protein of Escherichia coli and its role as H. Engelhardt, S. Gerbl-Rieger, U. Santarius &
repressor and activator W. Baumeister
A. J. Pittard & B. E. Davidson Both genes for EF-1a in Candida albicans are
Regulation of methionine synthesis in translated
Escherichia coli P. Sundstrom, M. Irwin, D. Smith & P. S. Sypherd
H. Weissbach & N. Brot Possible role of calmodulin in the secretion of
Regulation of capsular polysaccharide Entamoeba histolytica electron-dense
synthesis in Escherichia coli K12 granules containing collagenase
S. Gottesman & V. Stout M. de L. Mufioz, M. A. Moreno, J. N. Pérez-
Garcia, G. R. Tovar & V. |. Hernandez
Filamentous phage assembly
M. Russel Purification and mutant analysis of Citrobacter
freundii AmpR, the regulator for chromosomal
AmpC £-lactamase
Research Articles E. Bartowsky & S. Normark
1615 The repair of double-strand breaks and S1
Expression of the fibronectin-binding
nuclease-sensitive sites can be monitored
components of Streptococcus pyogenes in
chromosome-specifically in Saccharomyces
Escherichia coli demonstrates that they are
cerevisiae using pulsed-field gel
proteins
electrophorsesis
S. R. Talay, E. Ehrenfeld, G. S. Chhatwal &
E.-M. Geig! & F. Eckardt-Schupp
K. N. Timmis
Thirty-three nucleotides of 5’ flanking
Marker exchange mutagenesis of the hydN
sequence including the ‘TATA’ box are
genes in Desulfovibrio fructosovorans
necessary and sufficient for efficient U2
M. Rousset, Z. Dermoun, M. Chippaux &
snRNA transcription in Schizosaccharomyces
J. P. Bélaich
pombe
T. Dandekar & D. Tollervey Absence of acetohydroxy acid synthetase III in
Salmonella typhimurium is due to early
Topographic analysis of the toxic Gef protein
termination of translation within the i/vi gene
from Escherichia coli
E. Ricca, C. T. Lago, M. Sacco & M. De Felice
L. K. Poulsen, A. Refn, S. Molin & P. Andersson
The gef gene from Escherichia coli is The mdoA locus of Escherichia coli consists of
regulated at the level of translation an operon under osmotic control
L. K. Poulsen, A. Refn, S. Molin & P. Andersson J.-M. Lacroix, |. Loubens, M. Témpete,
B. Menichi & J.-P. Bohin
Cloning and sequencing of the structural gene
for the porin protein of Bordetella pertussis Analysis of structure and function of the B
Z. M. Li, J. H. Hannah, S. Stibitz, N. Y. Nguyen, subunit of cholera toxin by the use of site-
C. R. Manclark & M. J. Brennan directed mutagenesis
M. G. Jobling & R. K. Holmes
Substitutions at a single amino acid residue in
the nitrogen-regulated activator protein NTRC Deletion of the COX7 gene in Saccharomyces
differentially influence its activity in response cerevisiae reveals a role for cytochrome c
to phosphorylation oxidase subunit VIl in assembly of remaining
R. Dixon, T. Eydmann, N. Henderson & S. Austin subunits
K. M. Calder & J. E. McEwen
In vitro activation of Escherichia coli
prohaemolysin to the mature membrane- Characterization of the oriT region of the
targeted toxin requires HlyC and a low IncFV plasmid pED208
molecular-weight cytosolic polypeptide L. Di Laurenzio, L. S. Frost, B. B. Finlay &
K. R. Hardie, J.-P. Issartel, E. Koronakis, W. Paranchych
C. Hughes & V. Koronakis
Differential decay of a polycistronic
Preferential cytoplasmic location of FtsZ, a Escherichia coli transcript is initiated by
protein essential for Escherichia coli septation RNase E-dependent endonucleolytic
J. Pla, M. Sanchez, P. Palacios, M. Vicente & processing
M. Aldea P. Nilsson & B. E. Uhlin
xi
1801 Location of the RNA-processing enzymes Transcriptional regulation of a Bacillus subtilis
RNase Ill, RNase E and RNase P in the dipeptide transport operon
Escherichia coli cell F. J. Slack, J. P. Mueller, M. A. Strauch,
A. Miczak, R. A. K. Srivastava & D. Apirion C. Mathiopoulos & A. L. Sonenshein
Secretion of a potential virulence factor, a The spoilIA operon of Bacillus subtilis defines
fungal ribonucleotoxin, during human a new temporal class of mother-cell-specific
aspergillosis infections sporulation genes under the control of the o®
B. Lamy, M. Moutaouakil, J.-P. Latge & J. Davies form of RNA polymerase
N. llling & J. Errington
Site-specific insertion of genes into integrons:
role of the 59-base element and determination
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 8 of the recombination cross-over point
R. M. Hall, D. E. Brookes & H. W. Stokes
The rifampicin-inducible genes srnB from F
MicroReviews and pnd from R483 are regulated by antisense
1817 The pathogenic mechanisms of Shiga toxin RNAs and mediate plasmid maintenance by
and the Shiga-like toxins killing of plasmid-free segregants
V.L. Tesh & A. D. O’Brien A. K. Nielsen, P. Thorsted, T. Thisted,
E. G. H. Wagner & K. Gerdes
1823 Regulation of retrotransposition in
Saccharomyces cerevisiae Closely linked genetic loci required for swarm
M. J. Curcio & D. J. Garfinkel cell differentiation and multicellular migration
by Proteus mirabilis
Research Articles C. Allison & C. Hughes
1831 The role of pili in the interactions of Regulation of nitrogen fixation in
pathogenic Neisseria with cultured human Azorhizobium caulinodans: identification of a
endothelial cells fixK-like gene, a positive regulator of nifA
M. Virji, H. Kayhty, D. J. P. Ferguson, P. A. Kaminski, K. Mandon, F. Arigoni,
C. Alexandrescu, J. E. Heckels & E. R. Moxon N. Desnoues & C. Elmerich
The Entamoeba histolytica rDNA episome: Interspecies recombinational events during
nuclear localization, DNAse | sensitivity map, the evolution of altered PBP 2x genes in
and specific DNA-protein interactions penicillin-resistant clinical isolates of
M. Zurita, A. Alagon, J. Vargas-Villareal & Streptococcus pneumoniae
P. M. Lizardi G. Laible, B. G. Spratt & R. Hakenbeck
Cloning and expression of the rfe—rff gene Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasA: a second
cluster of Escherichia coli elastase under the transcriptional control of
M. Ohta, K. Ina, K. Kusuzaki, N. Kido, Y. Arakawa lasR
& N. Kato D. S. Toder, M. J. Gambello & B. H. Iglewski
Structure of two retrons of Escherichia coli Simultaneous expression of a bacteriophage
and their common chromosomal insertion site Mu transposase and repressor: a way of
D. Lim preventing killing due to mini-Mu replication
Cloning of the rfb gene cluster of 4 group C2 A. Toussaint, D. Expert & L. Desmet
Salmonelia strain: comparison with the rfb Characterization of a Legionella pneumophila
regions of groups B and D gene encoding a lipoprotein antigen
P. K. Brown, L. K. Romana & P. R. Reeves N. C. Engleberg, D. C. Howe, J. E. Rogers,
Complement activation and antibody binding J. Arroyo & B. |. Eisenstein
by pneumolysin via a region of the toxin
Transcription of the Vibrio cholerae
homologous to a human acute-phase protein
haemolysin gene, hlyA, and cloning of a
T. J. Mitchell, P. W. Andrew, F. K. Saunders,
positive regulatory locus, hiyU
A. N. Smith & G. J. Boulnois
S. G. Williams & P. A. Manning
The opacity proteins of Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Evolved neomycin phosphotransferase from
strain MS11 are encoded by a family of 11
an isolate of Klebsiella pneumoniae
complete genes
K.-Y. Lee, J. D. Hopkins & M. Syvanen
K. S. Bhat, C. P. Gibbs, O. Barrera,
S. G. Morrison, F. Jahnig, A. Stern, 1$900-promoted stable integration of a foreign
E.-M. Kupsch, T. F. Meyer & J. Swanson gene into mycobacteria
P. M. England, S. Wall & J. McFadden
A Bacillus subtilis dipeptide transport system
expressed early during sporulation Repression and induction of the nag regulon
C. Mathiopoulos, J. P. Mueller, F. J. Slack, of Escherichia coli K-12: the roles of nagC and
C. G. Murphy, S. Patankar, G. Bukusoglu & nagA in maintentance of the uninduced state
A. L. Sonenshein J. A. Plumbridge
xii
2063 Bacillus subtilis cytochrome oxidase mutants: Construction of a physical map of the
biochemical analysis and genetic evidence for chromosome of Shigella flexneri 2a and the
two aa;-type oxidases direct assir; nent of nine virulence-associated
J. van der Oost, C. von Wachenfeld, loci identified by Tn5 insertions
L. Hederstedt & M. Saraste N. Okada, C. Sasakawa, T. Tobe, K. A. Talukder,
K. Komatsu & M. Yoshikawa
Separate promoters direct expression of
VOLUME 5 NUMBER 9 phoAlll, a member of the Bacillus subtilis
alkaline phosphatase multigene family, during
phosphate starvation and sporulation
MicroReviews R. S. Chesnut, C. Bookstein & F. M. Hulett
2073 PhoP/PhoQ: macrophage-specific modulators Analysis of an Erwinia chrysanthemi gene
of Salmonelia virulence? cluster involved in pectin degradation
S. |. Miller S. Reverchon, W. Nasser & J. Robert-Baudouy
2079 Control of maltase synthesis in yeast
Characterization of kdgR, a gene of Erwinia
R. Needleman
chrysanthemi that regulates pectin
2085 The role of the ‘gearbox’ in the transcription of degradation.
essential genes S. Reverchon, W. Nasser & J. Robert-Baudouy
M. Vicente, S. R. Kushner, T. Garrido & M. Aldea
Nucleotide sequence of the jpaBCD structural
Energy requirements for protein translocation genes of Shigella dysenteriae
across the Escherichia coli inner membrane R. Yao & S. Palchaudhuri
B. L. Geller
Molecular cloning and expression in
Occurrence and biological function of
Escherichia coli K-12 of the rfb gene cluster
cytochrome P450 monooxygenases in the
determining the O antigen of an E. coli 0111
actinomycetes
strain
D. P. O’Keefe & P. A. Harder
D. A. Bastin, L. K. Romana & P. R. Reeves
Research Articles The sugar-specific outer membrane channel
2107 The products of Rhizobium genes, psi and pss, ScrY contains functional characteristics of
which affect exopolysaccharide production, general diffusion pores and substrate-specific
are associated with the bacterial cell surface porins
J. W. Latchford, D. Borthakur & A. W. B. Johnston K. Schilein, K. Schmid & R. Benz
illegitimate integration of non-replicative In vivo analysis of integration of membrane
vectors in the genome of Rhodococcus proteins in Escherichia coli
fascians upon electrotransformation as an K. Ito & Y. Akiyama
insertional mutagenesis system
Horizontal transfer of multiple penicillin-
J. Desomer, M. Crespi & M. Van Montagu
binding protein genes, and capsular
Pseudomonas aeruginosa LasB mutant biosynthetic genes, in natural populations of
constructed by insertional mutagenesis Streptococcus pneumoniae
reveals elastolytic activity due to alkaline T. J. Coffey, C. G. Dowson, M. Daniels, J. Zhou,
proteinase and the LasA fragment C. Martin, B. G. Spratt and J. M. Musser
C. Wolz, E. Hellstern, M. Haug, D. R. Galloway,
M. L. Vasil & G. Déring Cloning of a sequence of Aquaspirillum
magnetotacticum that complements the aroD
Binding of basement-mem:£rane laminin by
gene of Escherichia coli
Escherichia coli
A. E. Berson, D. V. Hudson & N. S. Waleh
K. H. Valkonen, J. Veijola, B. Dagberg & B. E.
Uhlin 1S901, a new member of a widespread class of
atypical insertion sequences, is associated
Molecular cloning, characterization and
with pathogenicity in Mycobacterium avium
analysis of the regulation of the ARO2 gene,
Z. M. Kunze, S. Wall, R. Appelberg, M. T. Silva, F.
encoding chorismate synthase, of
Portaels & J. J. McFadden
Saccharomyces cerevisiae
D. G. L. Jones, U. Reusser & G. H. Braus Pleiotropic control of Listeria monocytogenes
The bacterial porin superfamily: sequence virulence factors by a gene that is
alignment and structure prediction autoregulated
D. Jeanteur, J. H. Lakey & F. Pattus J. Mengaud, S. Dramsi, E. Gouin, J. A. Vazquez-
Boland & P. Cossart
Characterization of two insertion sequences,
1S701 and 1S702, from the cyanobacterium Sequencing, mutational analysis, and
Calothrix species PCC 7601 transcriptional regulation of the Escherichia
D. Mazel, C. Bernard, R. Schwarz, A. M. Castets, coli htrB gene
J. Houmard & N. Tandeau de Marsac M. Karow & C. Georgopoulos