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BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Yanjie Li, Lei Zhang, Depeng Wang, Hui Zhou, Haomiao Ouyang, Jia Ming, and Cheng Jin

Deletion of the msdS/AfmsdC gene induces abnormal polarity and septation in Aspergillus fumigatus
Microbiology 2008 154: 1960-1972. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Yuhao Ren, Gary A. Strobel, Jill C. Graff, Mark Jutila, Sung Gyoo Park, Sankar Gosh, David Teplow, Margaret Condron, Eric Pang, Wilford M. Hess, and Emily Moore

Colutellin A, an immunosuppressive peptide from Colletotrichum dematium
Microbiology 2008 154: 1973-1979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dagmar Rother, Josefina Ringk, and Cornelius G. Friedrich

Sulfur oxidation of Paracoccus pantotrophus: the sulfur-binding protein SoxYZ is the target of the periplasmic thiol–disulfide oxidoreductase SoxS
Microbiology 2008 154: 1980-1988. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Janine Heinrich, Tuula Lundén, Vesa P. Kontinen, and Thomas Wiegert

The Bacillus subtilis ABC transporter EcsAB influences intramembrane proteolysis through RasP
Microbiology 2008 154: 1989-1997. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher D. Doern, Robert C. Holder, and Sean D. Reid

Point mutations within the streptococcal regulator of virulence (Srv) alter protein–DNA interactions and Srv function
Microbiology 2008 154: 1998-2007. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kirsty A. McFarland and Charles J. Dorman

Autoregulated expression of the gene coding for the leucine-responsive protein, Lrp, a global regulator in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Microbiology 2008 154: 2008-2016. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luciana Gualdi, Letizia Tagliabue, Stefano Bertagnoli, Teresa Ieranò, Cristina De Castro, and Paolo Landini

Cellulose modulates biofilm formation by counteracting curli-mediated colonization of solid surfaces in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2008 154: 2017-2024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Gerson Moura Ferreira and Beny Spira

The pst operon of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli enhances bacterial adherence to epithelial cells
Microbiology 2008 154: 2025-2036. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Ave Tooming-Klunderud, Bjørg Mikalsen, Tom Kristensen, and Kjetill S. Jakobsen

The mosaic structure of the mcyABC operon in Microcystis
Microbiology 2008 154: 1886-1899. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Julia M.-L. Sung, David H. Lloyd, and Jodi A. Lindsay

Staphylococcus aureus host specificity: comparative genomics of human versus animal isolates by multi-strain microarray
Microbiology 2008 154: 1949-1959. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Loretta Jackson-Hayes, Terry W. Hill, Darlene M. Loprete, Lauren M. Fay, Barbara S. Gordon, Sonia A. Nkashama, Ravi K. Patel, and Caroline V. Sartain

Two GDP-mannose transporters contribute to hyphal form and cell wall integrity in Aspergillus nidulans
Microbiology 2008 154: 2037-2047. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Zulma Rocí Suárez-Moreno, Jesús Caballero-Mellado, and Vittorio Venturi

The new group of non-pathogenic plant-associated nitrogen-fixing Burkholderia spp. shares a conserved quorum-sensing system, which is tightly regulated by the RsaL repressor
Microbiology 2008 154: 2048-2059. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Min Zhang, Kun Sun, and Li Sun

Regulation of autoinducer 2 production and luxS expression in a pathogenic Edwardsiella tarda strain
Microbiology 2008 154: 2060-2069. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jean-Frédéric Dubern, Eric R. Coppoolse, Willem J. Stiekema, and Guido V. Bloemberg

Genetic and functional characterization of the gene cluster directing the biosynthesis of putisolvin I and II in Pseudomonas putida strain PCL1445
Microbiology 2008 154: 2070-2083. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hongyue Dang, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jin Sun, Tiegang Li, Zhinan Zhang, and Guanpin Yang

Diversity and spatial distribution of sediment ammonia-oxidizing crenarchaeota in response to estuarine and environmental gradients in the Changjiang Estuary and East China Sea
Microbiology 2008 154: 2084-2095. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Nagarajan Thirunavukkarasu, Mukti Nath Mishra, Stijn Spaepen, Jos Vanderleyden, Carol A. Gross, and Anil K. Tripathi

An extra-cytoplasmic function sigma factor and anti-sigma factor control carotenoid biosynthesis in Azospirillum brasilense
Microbiology 2008 154: 2096-2105. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Linru Wang and Min Lin

A novel cell wall-anchored peptidoglycan hydrolase (autolysin), IspC, essential for Listeria monocytogenes virulence: genetic and proteomic analysis
Microbiology 2008 154: 1900-1913. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Bishop, Deborah House, Timothy Perkins, Stephen Baker, Robert A. Kingsley, and Gordon Dougan

Interaction of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi with cultured epithelial cells: roles of surface structures in adhesion and invasion
Microbiology 2008 154: 1914-1926. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stacy L. Agar, Jian Sha, Sheri M. Foltz, Tatiana E. Erova, Kristin G. Walberg, Todd E. Parham, Wallace B. Baze, Giovanni Suarez, Johnny W. Peterson, and Ashok K. Chopra

Characterization of a mouse model of plague after aerosolization of Yersinia pestis CO92
Microbiology 2008 154: 1939-1948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj, François Sanschagrin, Ashley Peterson, Marvin Whiteley, Brian Boyle, John MacKay, and Roger C. Levesque

Functional genomics of PycR, a LysR family transcriptional regulator essential for maintenance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the rat lung
Microbiology 2008 154: 2106-2118. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Dongru Qiu, Vonya M. Eisinger, Nathan E. Head, Gerald B. Pier, and Hongwei D. Yu

ClpXP proteases positively regulate alginate overexpression and mucoid conversion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2008 154: 2119-2130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Christina L. Airhart, Harold N. Rohde, Gregory A. Bohach, Carolyn J. Hovde, Claudia F. Deobald, Stephen S. Lee, and Scott A. Minnich

Induction of innate immunity by lipid A mimetics increases survival from pneumonic plague
Microbiology 2008 154: 2131-2138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xhavit Zogaj, Subhra Chakraborty, Jirong Liu, David G. Thanassi, and Karl E. Klose

Characterization of the Francisella tularensis subsp. novicida type IV pilus
Microbiology 2008 154: 2139-2150. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Yukiko Taniuchi, Shinya Yoshikawa, Shin-ichi Maeda, Tatsuo Omata, and Kaori Ohki

Diazotrophy under continuous light in a marine unicellular diazotrophic cyanobacterium, Gloeothece sp. 68DGA
Microbiology 2008 154: 1859-1865. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Luis E. Chávez de Paz, Ian R. Hamilton, and Gunnel Svensäter

Oral bacteria in biofilms exhibit slow reactivation from nutrient deprivation
Microbiology 2008 154: 1927-1938. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beatriz Galán, Isabel Manso, Annie Kolb, José Luis García, and María A. Prieto

The role of FIS protein in the physiological control of the expression of the Escherichia coli meta-hpa operon
Microbiology 2008 154: 2151-2160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sophie Laurent, Jichan Jang, Annick Janicki, Cheng-Cai Zhang, and Sylvie Bédu

Inactivation of spkD, encoding a Ser/Thr kinase, affects the pool of the TCA cycle metabolites in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803
Microbiology 2008 154: 2161-2167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRIGENDUM:

Choong-Min Kang, Seeta Nyayapathy, Jung-Yeon Lee, Joo-Won Suh, and Robert N. Husson

Wag31, a homologue of the cell division protein DivIVA, regulates growth, morphology and polar cell wall synthesis in mycobacteria
Microbiology 2008 154: 2168. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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