Annual Review of Microbiology articles from January 1 1999

Annual Review of Microbiology archives from January 1 1999

PREFACE.
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TRANSFORMATION OF LEUKOCYTES BY THEILERIA PARVA AND T. ANNULATA.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Department of Molecular Pathology, Institute of Animal Pathology, University of Berne, CH-3012 Berne, Switzerland; e-mail: dirk@dobbelaere@itpa.unibe.ch Key Words parasite, signal transduction, apoptosis, nuclear factor-kB *...

ADDICTION MODULES AND PROGRAMMED CELL DEATH AND ANTIDEATH IN BACTERIAL CULTURES.
January 1, 1999... Hanna Engelberg-Kulka [1] Gad Glaser [2] Departments of [1] Molecular Biology and [2] Cellular Biochemistry, The Hebrew University Hadassah-Medical School, Jerusalem 91010, Israel, e-mail: hanita@cc.huji.ac.il Key Words...

WOLBACHIA PIPIENTIS: Microbial Manipulator of Arthropod Reproduction.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... R. Stouthamer [1] J.A.J. Breeuwer [2] G.D.D. Hurst [3] [1] Laboratory of Entomology, Wageningen Agricultural University, 6700 EH Wageningen, Netherlands; [2] Department of Fundamental and Applied Ecology, University of...

AEROTAXIS AND OTHER ENERGY-SENSING BEHAVIOR IN BACTERIA.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Barry L. Taylor [1] Igor B. Zhulin [2] Mark S. Johnson [3] Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, School of Medicine, Loma Linda University, Loma Linda, California 92350; e-mail: [1] blTaylor@som.llu.edu, [2]...

IN VIVO GENETIC ANALYSIS OF BACTERIAL VIRULENCE.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Su L. Chiang [1] John J. Mekalanos [1] David W. Holden [2] [1] Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and Shipley Institute of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115; e-mail: jmekalan...

THE INDUCTION OF APOPTOSIS BY BACTERIAL PATHOGENS.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Department of Microbiology, Skirball Institute and Kaplan Cancer Center, New York University School of Medicine, New York, New York 10016; e-mail: zychlinsky@saturn.med.nyu.edu Key Words toxins, bacteria, infections, effectors, virulence...

POLES APART: Biodiversity and Biogeography of Sea Ice Bacteria.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Department of Microbiology 357242, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195; e-mail: jtstaley@ u.washington.edu Key Words polar microbiology, sea ice microbiology, psychrophilic bacteria, bacterial biodiversity * Abstract...

DNA UPTAKE IN BACTERIA.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Public Health Research Institute, New York, NY 10016; e-mail: dubnau@phri.nyu.edu Key Words competence, transformation, DNA transport, type-2 secretion, pilus formation * Abstract Natural competence is widespread among bacterial...

INTEGRATING DNA: Transposases and Retroviral Integrases.
January 1, 1999... Laboratorie de Microbiologie et Genetique Molecularie, CNRS (UPR 9007) and Universite Paul Sabatier, 31062 Toulouse, France; e-mail: mike@ibcg.biotoul.fr Key Words transposons, insertion sequences, structure, transposition mechanism ...

TRANSMISSIBLE SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHIES IN HUMANS.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333; e-mail: ebb8@cdc.gov Key Words Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, fatal familial insomnia,...

BACTERIAL BIOCATALYSTS: Molecular Biology, Three-Dimensional Structures, and Biotechnological Applications of Lipases.(Statistical Data Included)
January 1, 1999... Lehrstuhl Biologie der Mikroorganismen, Ruhr-Universitat, D-44780 Bochum, Germany; e-mail: karl-erich.jaeger@ruhr-uni-bochum.de Laboratory of Biophysical Chemistry Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, NL-9747 AG Groningen, The Netherlands;...

CONTRIBUTIONS OF GENOME SEQUENCING TO UNDERSTANDING THE BIOLOGY OF HELICOBACTER PYLORI.
January 1, 1999... Division of Comparative Medicine, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139 Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2H7: e-mail:...

CIRCADIAN PROGRAMS IN CYANOBACTERIA: Adaptiveness and Mechanism.
January 1, 1999... Carl Hirschie Johnson [1] Susan S. Golden [2] [1] Department of Biology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee 37235; e-mail: carl.h.johnson@vanderbilt.edu; [2] Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station,...

CONSTRUCTING POLYKETIDES: From Collie to Combinatorial Biosynthesis.
January 1, 1999... Department of Biological Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, e-mail: rbentley@pitt.edu Department of Cell and Molecular Biology, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana 70118; e-mail:...

GIANT VIRUSES INFECTING ALGAE.
January 1, 1999... James L. Van Etten [1] Russel H. Meints [2] [1] Department of Plant Pathology University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68583-0722; e-mail: jvanetten@unlnotes.unl.edu; [2] Department of Botany and Plant Pathology, Center for Gene...

MECHANISMS FOR REDOX CONTROL OF GENE EXPRESSION.
January 1, 1999... Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Department of Biology, Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana 47405 National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 Key...

INTERCELLULAR SIGNALING DURING FRUITING-BODY DEVELOPMENT OF MYXOCOCCUS XANTHUS.
January 1, 1999... Department of Microbiology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia 30602 Key Words myxobacterium, fruiting body, cell-cell signaling * Abstract The myxobacterium Myxocaccus xanthus has a life cycle that is dominated by social...

CLOSTRIDIAI TOXINS AS THERAPEUTIC AGENTS: Benefits of Nature's Most Toxic Proteins.
January 1, 1999... Department of Food Microbiology and Toxicology, Food Research Institute, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin 53706; e-mail: eajohnso@facstaffwisc.edu Key Words Clostridium, neurotoxin, botulinum, pharmaceutical * Abstract...

VIRUSES AND APOPTOSIS.
January 1, 1999... Anne Roulston [1] Richard C. Marcellus [1] Philip E. Branton [1,2] [1] GeminX Biotechnologies Inc., Montreal, Quebec, Canada H2W 2M9; e-mail: aroulston @geminx.com, marcellus@gemiux.com, and [2] Department of Biochemistry,...

THE CYTOSKELETON OF TRYPANOSOMATID PARASITES.
January 1, 1999... School of Biological Sciences, University of Manchester; Manchester M13 9PT, United Kingdom; e-mail: K.Gull@man.ac.uk Key Words cytoskeleton, microtubule, flagellum, parasite, trypanosome, Leishmania, kinetoplast, protozoa * Abstract...