JMMB Volume 2 Number 4

JMMB Volume 2 Number 4. October 2000

Spirochetes: Evolution, Genome Analyses and Physiology
Milton H. Saier, Jr [access full article]

Phylogenetic Foundation of Spirochetes
Bruce J. Paster and Floyd E. Dewhirst [access full article]

Spirochete Periplasmic Flagella and Motility
Chunhao Li, Md. Abdul Motaleb, Melanie Sal, Stuart F. Goldstein, and Nyles W. Charon [access full article]

Chemotaxis in Pathogenic Spirochetes: Directed Movement Toward Targeting Tissues?
Renate Lux, Annette Moter, and Wenyuan Shi [access full article]

Bacteriophages of Spirochetes
Christian H. Eggers, Sherwood Casjens, Stanley F. Hayes, Claude F. Garon, Christopher J. Damman, Donald B. Oliver, and D. Scott Samuels [access full article]

Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis in Leptospira
Dieter M. Bulach, Thareerat Kalambaheti, Alejandro de la Peña-Moctezuma and Ben Adler [access full article]

Vector-Host Interactions in Disease Transmission
P.A. Nuttall, G.C. Paesen, C.H. Lawrie and H. Wang [access full article]

Genome Analyses of Spirochetes: A Study of the Protein Structures, Functions and Metabolic Pathways in Treponema pallidum and Borrelia burgdorferi
Rajdeep Das, Hedi Hegyi, and Mark Gerstein [access full article]

Whole Genome Analyses of Transporters in Spirochetes: Borrelia burgdorferi and Treponema pallidum
Milton H. Saier, Jr. and Ian T. Paulsen [access full article]

Borrelia Genomes in the Year 2000
Sherwood Casjens [access full article]

Repetition, Conservation, and Variation: the Multiple cp32 Plasmids of Borrelia Species
Brian Stevenson, Wolfram R. Zückert and Darrin R. Akins [access full article]

JMMB Symposium: Spirochete Molecular Biology

Genetic Development in Spirochetes
Jorge García-Lara [access full article]

Antibiotic Selective Markers and Spirochete Genetics
John M. Hardham and Everett L. Rosey [access full article]

DNA Exchange and Insertional Inactivation in Spirochetes
Kit Tilly, Abdallah F. Elias, James L. Bono, Philip Stewart, and Patricia Rosa [access full article]

Development of Shuttle Vectors for Spirochetes
I. Saint Girons, Bo Chi, and Howard Kuramitsu [access full article]

The Role of Genomics in Approaching the Study of Borrelia DNA Replication
Jorge García-Lara, Mathieu Picardeau, B. Joseph Hinnebusch, Wai Mun Huang, and Sherwood Casjens [access full article]

Technological Advances in the Molecular Biology of Leptospira
Richard Zuerner, David Haake, Ben Adler, and Ruud Segers [access full article]

The Many Faces of Borrelia burgdorferi
J. Seshu and Jonathan T. Skare [access full article]

Transcriptional Regulation in Spirochetes
Karl J. Indest, Ramesh Ramamoorthy, and Mario T. Philipp [access full article]

JMMB Review

Regulation of the pts Operon in Low G+C Gram-Positive Bacteria
Christian Vadeboncoeur, Michel Frenette, and Louis-André Lortie [access full article]

JMMB Correspondence

A Novel Phototaxis Receptor Hidden in the Cyanobacterial Genome
Igor B. Zhulin [access full article]

JMMB Bioinformatics Corner

GRASP-DNA: A Web Application to Screen Prokaryotic Genomes for Specific DNA-Binding Sites and Repeat Motifs
Christophe H. Schilling, Lance Held, Mike Torre and Milton H. Saier, Jr. [access full article]

ABCdb: an ABC Transporter Database
Yves Quentin and Gwennaele Fichant [access full article]

JMMB Communications

Molecular Characterization of Borrelia Spp. Isolates from Greater Metropolitan Chicago Reveals the Presence of Borrelia bissettii. Preliminary Report
Roger N. Picken and Maria M. Picken [access full article]

Bacterial Homologs of the Small Subunit of Eukaryotic DNA Primase
Eugene V. Koonin, Yuri I. Wolf, Alexy S. Kondrashov and L. Aravind [access full article]

JMMB Research Articles

Sequence Analysis and Functional Characterization of the Violacein Biosynthetic Pathway from Chromobacterium violaceum
P.R. August, T.H. Grossman, C. Minor, M.P. Draper, I. A. MacNeil, J.M. Pemberton, K.M. Call, D. Holt, and M. S. Osburne [access full article]

A Baker's Yeast Mutant (fil) With a Specific, Partially Inactivating Mutation in Adenylate Cyclase Maintains a High Stress Resistance During Active Fermentation and Growth
Patrick Van Dijck, Pingsheng Ma, Matthias Versele, Marie-Françoise Gorwa, Sonia Colombo, Katleen Lemaire, Daniela Bossi, Annie Loïez and Johan M. Thevelein [access full article]

Differential Regulation of Two Thiolase Genes from Clostridium acetobutylicum DSM 792
Klaus Winzer, Karin Lorenz, Brigitte Zickner, and Peter Dürre [access full article]

Characterization and Expression of the Arginine Biosynthesis Gene Cluster of Streptomyces clavuligerus
Antonio Rodríguez-García, Álvaro de la Fuente, Rosario Pérez-Redondo, Juan F. Martín, and Paloma Liras [access full article]

Application of redD, the Transcriptional Activator Gene of the Undecylprodigiosin Biosynthetic Pathway, as a Reporter for Transcriptional Activity in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) and Streptomyces lividans
Gilles P. van Wezel, Janet White, Gertjan Hoogvliet, and Mervyn J. Bibb [access full article]

Identification of a Substrate for Pkn2, a Protein Ser/Thr Kinase from Myxococcus xanthus by a Novel Method for Substrate Identification
Hiroshi Udo, Cuong Kim Lam, Shuji Mori, Masayori Inouye, and Sumiko Inouye [access full article]

The ram-Dependence of Streptomyces lividans Differentiation is Bypassed by Copper
Bart J.F. Keijser, Gilles P. van Wezel, Gerard W. Canters, Tobias Kieser and Erik Vijgenboom [access full article]

Interaction with Borrelia burgdorferi Causes Increased Expression of the CR3 Integrin and Increased Binding Affinity to Fibronectin via CR3
Marina Cinco, Elisabetta Panfili, Gianni Presani and Sandra Perticarari [access full article]

Insertional Inactivation of the prtP Gene of Treponema denticola Confirms Dentilisin's Disruption of Epithelial Junctions
Richard P. Ellen, Kevin S.-C. Ko, Chun-Min Lo, David A. Grove, and Kazuyuki Ishihara [access full article]

Sugar Uptake and Carbon Catabolite Repression in Bacillus megaterium Strains With Inactivated ptsHI
Andrea Wagner, Elke Küster-Schöck and Wolfgang Hillen [access full article]