REVIEWS:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Jan Rybniker, Georg Plum, Nirmal Robinson, Pamela L. Small, and Pia Hartmann

Identification of three cytotoxic early proteins of mycobacteriophage L5 leading to growth inhibition in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2304-2314. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xavier Meniche, Célia de Sousa-d'Auria, Bénoit Van-der-Rest, Suresh Bhamidi, Emilie Huc, Hairong Huang, Diane De Paepe, Marielle Tropis, Mike McNeil, Mamadou Daffé, and Christine Houssin

Partial redundancy in the synthesis of the D-arabinose incorporated in the cell wall arabinan of Corynebacterineae
Microbiology 2008 154: 2315-2326. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Adrian F. Alvarez, Héctor M. Alvarez, Rainer Kalscheuer, Marc Wältermann, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Cloning and characterization of a gene involved in triacylglycerol biosynthesis and identification of additional homologous genes in the oleaginous bacterium Rhodococcus opacus PD630
Microbiology 2008 154: 2327-2335. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Pedro Filipe Teixeira, Anders Jonsson, Martina Frank, He Wang, and Stefan Nordlund

Interaction of the signal transduction protein GlnJ with the cellular targets AmtB1, GlnE and GlnD in Rhodospirillum rubrum: dependence on manganese, 2-oxoglutarate and the ADP/ATP ratio
Microbiology 2008 154: 2336-2347. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Airat Kayumov, Annette Heinrich, Margarita Sharipova, Olga Iljinskaya, and Karl Forchhammer

Inactivation of the general transcription factor TnrA in Bacillus subtilis by proteolysis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2348-2355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fernando Santos-Beneit, Antonio Rodríguez-García, Etelvina Franco-Domínguez, and Juan F. Martín

Phosphate-dependent regulation of the low- and high-affinity transport systems in the model actinomycete Streptomyces coelicolor
Microbiology 2008 154: 2356-2370. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kristiina S. Hildén, Ralf Bortfeldt, Martin Hofrichter, Annele Hatakka, and Taina K. Lundell

Molecular characterization of the basidiomycete isolate Nematoloma frowardii b19 and its manganese peroxidase places the fungus in the corticioid genus Phlebia
Microbiology 2008 154: 2371-2379. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Sijana H. Dzinic, Meghna Shukla, Ilir Mandija, Tammy S. Ram, and Jeffrey L. Ram

Variable length tandem repeat polyglutamine sequences in the flexible tether region of the Tsr chemotaxis receptor of Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2008 154: 2380-2386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Yongqing Ni, Dongshi Wan, and Kaiyu He

16S rDNA and 16S–23S internal transcribed spacer sequence analyses reveal inter- and intraspecific Acidithiobacillus phylogeny
Microbiology 2008 154: 2397-2407. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark J. Jacobson, Guangyun Lin, Thomas S. Whittam, and Eric A. Johnson

Phylogenetic analysis of Clostridium botulinum type A by multi-locus sequence typing
Microbiology 2008 154: 2408-2415. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Johannes Sikorski, Evelyne Brambilla, Reiner M. Kroppenstedt, and Brian J. Tindall

The temperature-adaptive fatty acid content in Bacillus simplex strains from ‘Evolution Canyon’, Israel
Microbiology 2008 154: 2416-2426. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Carole Janis, Daniela Bischof, Géraldine Gourgues, Joachim Frey, Alain Blanchard, and Pascal Sirand-Pugnet

Unmarked insertional mutagenesis in the bovine pathogen Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides SC: characterization of a lppQ mutant
Microbiology 2008 154: 2427-2436. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Klaus Harms and Wilfried Wackernagel

The RecBCD and SbcCD DNases suppress homology-facilitated illegitimate recombination during natural transformation of Acinetobacter baylyi
Microbiology 2008 154: 2437-2445. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melanie Legrand, Christine L. Chan, Peter A. Jauert, and David T. Kirkpatrick

Analysis of base excision and nucleotide excision repair in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2008 154: 2446-2456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jolanda M. Lambert, Roland J. Siezen, Willem M. de Vos, and Michiel Kleerebezem

Improved annotation of conjugated bile acid hydrolase superfamily members in Gram-positive bacteria
Microbiology 2008 154: 2492-2500. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Maria Hadjifrangiskou and Theresa M. Koehler

Intrinsic curvature associated with the coordinately regulated anthrax toxin gene promoters
Microbiology 2008 154: 2501-2512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Da-Kang Shen, Didier Filopon, Hichem Chaker, Stephanie Boullanger, Madiha Derouazi, Benoit Polack, and Bertrand Toussaint

High-cell-density regulation of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type III secretion system: implications for tryptophan catabolites
Microbiology 2008 154: 2195-2208. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Patrick D. Kiely, Julie O'Callaghan, Abdelhamid Abbas, and Fergal O'Gara

Genetic analysis of genes involved in dipeptide metabolism and cytotoxicity in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Microbiology 2008 154: 2209-2218. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John M. Atack and David J. Kelly

Contribution of the stereospecific methionine sulphoxide reductases MsrA and MsrB to oxidative and nitrosative stress resistance in the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni
Microbiology 2008 154: 2219-2230. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Paredes-Sabja, Colton Bond, Robert J. Carman, Peter Setlow, and Mahfuzur R. Sarker

Germination of spores of Clostridium difficile strains, including isolates from a hospital outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD)
Microbiology 2008 154: 2241-2250. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ibtissem Gueriri, Camille Cyncynatus, Sarah Dubrac, Alejandro Toledo Arana, Olivier Dussurget, and Tarek Msadek

The DegU orphan response regulator of Listeria monocytogenes autorepresses its own synthesis and is required for bacterial motility, virulence and biofilm formation
Microbiology 2008 154: 2251-2264. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katrina E. Traber, Elsie Lee, Sarah Benson, Rebecca Corrigan, Mariela Cantera, Bo Shopsin, and Richard P. Novick

agr function in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates
Microbiology 2008 154: 2265-2274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Indranil Biswas, Jyoti K. Jha, and Nicholas Fromm

Shuttle expression plasmids for genetic studies in Streptococcus mutans
Microbiology 2008 154: 2275-2282. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Débora Barreiros Petrópolis, Juliany Cola Fernandes Rodrigues, Bruno da Rocha-Azevedo, and Fernando Costa e Silva-Filho

The binding of Tritrichomonas foetus to immobilized laminin-1 and its role in the cytotoxicity exerted by the parasite
Microbiology 2008 154: 2283-2290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alice H. Li, Wan L. Lam, and Richard W. Stokes

Characterization of genes differentially expressed within macrophages by virulent and attenuated Mycobacterium tuberculosis identifies candidate genes involved in intracellular growth
Microbiology 2008 154: 2291-2303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Josefin Bartholdson, Alan R. Brown, Ben R. Mewburn, David J. Clarke, Stephen C. Fry, Dominic J. Campopiano, and John R. W. Govan

Plant host and sugar alcohol induced exopolysaccharide biosynthesis in the Burkholderia cepacia complex
Microbiology 2008 154: 2513-2521. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Andrea Zelmer, Mark Bowen, Anne Jokilammi, Jukka Finne, J. Paul Luzio, and Peter W. Taylor

Differential expression of the polysialyl capsule during blood-to-brain transit of neuropathogenic Escherichia coli K1
Microbiology 2008 154: 2522-2532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Marco Candela, Giacomo Miccoli, Simone Bergmann, Silvia Turroni, Beatrice Vitali, Sven Hammerschmidt, and Patrizia Brigidi

Plasminogen-dependent proteolytic activity in Bifidobacterium lactis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2457-2462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrick Scheu, Sven Sdorra, Yun-Feng Liao, Maria Wegner, Thomas Basché, Gottfried Unden, and Wolfgang Erker

Polar accumulation of the metabolic sensory histidine kinases DcuS and CitA in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2008 154: 2463-2472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Shawn R. Starkenburg, Daniel J. Arp, and Peter J. Bottomley

D-Lactate metabolism and the obligate requirement for CO₂ during growth on nitrite by the facultative lithoautotroph Nitrobacter hamburgensis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2473-2481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chris Hlynialuk, Ryan Schierholtz, Amanda Vernooy, and George van der Merwe

Nsf1/Ypl230w participates in transcriptional activation during non-fermentative growth and in response to salt stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2008 154: 2482-2491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Laura Mattinen, Panu Somervuo, Johanna Nykyri, Riitta Nissinen, Petri Kouvonen, Garry Corthals, Petri Auvinen, Marja Aittamaa, Jari P. T. Valkonen, and Minna Pirhonen

Microarray profiling of host-extract-induced genes and characterization of the type VI secretion cluster in the potato pathogen Pectobacterium atrosepticum
Microbiology 2008 154: 2387-2396. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table][Corrigendum - new Fig. 2]  

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