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    FEMS Microbiology Letters: Volume 178, Issue 1

    1-197
    September 1999
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Toward an understanding of evolutionary potential

Barry G Hall, 
  • Pages: 1-6
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Expression of urease does not affect the ability of Bordetella bronchiseptica to colonise and persist in the murine respiratory tract

David J. McMillan,  Eva Medina,  Carlos A. Guzmán,  Mark J. Walker, 
  • Pages: 7-11
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Reconstitution of active recombinant Shiga toxin (Stx)1 from recombinant Stx1-A and Stx1-B subunits independently produced by E. coli clones

Toru Nishikawa,  Jun Fujii,  Shin-ichi Yoshida,  Takashi Yutsudo, 
  • Pages: 13-18
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Isolation of two subpopulations of Mycobacterium avium within human macrophages1

Luiz E. Bermudez,  Martin Wu,  Elizabeth Miltner,  Clark B. Inderlied, 
  • Pages: 19-26
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

PauA: a novel plasminogen activator from Streptococcus uberis

E.L. Rosey,  R.A. Lincoln,  P.N. Ward,  R.J. Yancey Jr,  J.A. Leigh, 
  • Pages: 27-33
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

The Aspergillus niger acuA and acuB genes correspond to the facA and facB genes in Aspergillus nidulans

Stella Papadopoulou,  Heather M Sealy-Lewis, 
  • Pages: 35-37
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Transcriptional analysis of the cyclophilin A gene (cypA) of Streptomyces chrysomallus

Rico Berger,  Florian Schauwecker,  Ullrich Keller, 
  • Pages: 39-45
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

The broad host range plasmid pLF1311 from Lactobacillus fermentum VKM1311

Vladimir V. Aleshin,  Elena V. Semenova,  Vera G. Doroshenko,  Yurgis V. Jomantas,  Boris V. Tarakanov,  Vitaliy A. Livshits, 
  • Pages: 47-53
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Single-step PCR amplification and enzyme restriction analysis of the entire Helicobacter pylori cytotoxin vacA gene for genetic variability studies

G Perales,  J Sanchez,  A Mohar,  R Lara-Lemus,  A Hernández,  R Herrera-Goepfert,  I Barrios-Jacobo,  G Ayala, 
  • Pages: 55-62
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Up-regulation of narX, encoding a putative ‘fused nitrate reductase’ in anaerobic dormant Mycobacterium bovis BCG

Bernd Hutter,  Thomas Dick, 
  • Pages: 63-69
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Green fluorescent protein (GFP) as a reporter gene for the plant pathogenic oomycete Phytophthora palmivora

Pieter van West,  Brian Reid,  Tracey A. Campbell,  Robert W. Sandrock,  William E. Fry,  Sophien Kamoun,  Neil A.R. Gow, 
  • Pages: 71-80
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Incubation of Streptococcus uberis with extracellular matrix proteins enhances adherence to and internalization into bovine mammary epithelial cells

Raul A Almeida,  Douglas A Luther,  Stephen P Oliver, 
  • Pages: 81-85
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Isolation and characterization of a thermophilic Bacillus sp. JF8 capable of degrading polychlorinated biphenyls and naphthalene

Minoru Shimura,  Gouri Mukerjee-Dhar,  Kazuhide Kimbara,  Hiroko Nagato,  Hohzoh Kiyohara,  Takashi Hatta, 
  • Pages: 87-93
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Changes in cell morphology and actin organization during heat shock in Dictyostelium discoideum: does HSP70 play a role in acquired thermotolerance?

Wei Xiang,  Ludger Rensing, 
  • Pages: 95-107
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Hexavalent chromium uptake by sensitive and tolerant mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe

Klára Czakó-Vér,  Martin Batiè,  Peter Raspor,  Mathias Sipiczki,  Miklós Pesti, 
  • Pages: 109-115
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Listeria monocytogenes infection of Caco-2 human epithelial cells induces activation of transcription factor NF-κB/Rel-like DNA binding activities

Nadja Hauf,  Werner Goebel,  Franz Fiedler,  Michael Kuhn, 
  • Pages: 117-122
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Cloning of two cold shock genes, cspA and cspG, from the deep-sea psychrophilic bacterium Shewanella violacea strain DSS12

Shinsuke Fujii,  Kaoru Nakasone,  Koki Horikoshi, 
  • Pages: 123-128
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Cloning of the rplA gene encoding ribosomal protein L1 from Streptomyces aureofaciens and its transcriptional analysis in the course of differentiation

Kormanec Ján,  Nováková Renáta,  Kl'učár L'uboš,  Homérová Dagmar,  Ševčíková Beatrica,  Sprušanský Ondrej, 
  • Pages: 129-134
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

A practicable and accurate method to differentiate between intra- and extracellular water of microbial cells

P. Illmer,  C. Erlebach,  F. Schinner, 
  • Pages: 135-139
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Increased thermosensitivity associated with topoisomerase I deletion and promoter mutations in Escherichia coli

Haiyan Qi,  Rolf Menzel,  Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh, 
  • Pages: 141-146
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Substrate range of benzylsuccinate synthase from Azoarcus sp. strain T

Harry R Beller,  Alfred M Spormann, 
  • Pages: 147-153
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Lithoheterotrophic growth and electron transfer chain components of the filamentous gliding bacterium Leucothrix mucor DSM 2157 during oxidation of sulfur compounds

Margarita Yu. Grabovich,  Maria S. Muntyan,  Valentina Yu. Lebedeva,  Vladimir S. Ustiyan,  Galina A. Dubinina, 
  • Pages: 155-161
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

A nonsense mutation abrogates production of a functional enterotoxin A in Clostridium difficile toxinotype VIII strains of serogroups F and X

Christoph von Eichel-Streiber,  Ines Zec-Pirnat,  Miklavz Grabnar,  Maja Rupnik, 
  • Pages: 163-168
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Involvement of the Cpx signal transduction pathway of E. coli in biofilm formation

Corinne Dorel,  Olivier Vidal,  Claire Prigent-Combaret,  Isabelle Vallet,  Philippe Lejeune, 
  • Pages: 169-175
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Comparison of eae, tir, espA and espB genes of bovine and human attaching and effacing Escherichia coli by multiplex polymerase chain reaction

Bernard China,  Frédéric Goffaux,  Vinciane Pirson,  Jacques Mainil, 
  • Pages: 177-182
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Sequence and transcriptional studies of five clustered flagellin genes from hyperthermophilic archaeon Pyrococcus kodakaraensis KOD1

Keisuke Nagahisa,  Satoshi Ezaki,  Shinsuke Fujiwara,  Tadayuki Imanaka,  Masahiro Takagi, 
  • Pages: 183-190
  • First Published: 17 January 2006

Purification and characterization of an extracellular proline iminopeptidase from Arthrobacter nicotianae 9458

Emanuele Smacchi,  Marco Gobbetti,  Rosalba Lanciotti,  Patrick F. Fox, 
  • Pages: 191-197
  • First Published: 17 January 2006