BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Zhijun Wang, Zhenghong Yuan, Li Xiang, Junjie Shao, and Grzegorz Wegrzyn

tRNA-dependent cleavage of the ColE1 plasmid-encoded RNA I
Microbiology 2006 152: 3467-3476. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kristen J. Kanack, Laura J. Runyen-Janecky, Evan P. Ferrell, Sang-Jin Suh, and Susan E. H. West

Characterization of DNA-binding specificity and analysis of binding sites of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa global regulator, Vfr, a homologue of the Escherichia coli cAMP receptor protein
Microbiology 2006 152: 3485-3496. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Abelardo Margolles, Ana Belén Flórez, José Antonio Moreno, Douwe van Sinderen, and Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán

Two membrane proteins from Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 constitute an ABC-type multidrug transporter
Microbiology 2006 152: 3497-3505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yuhui Sun, Hui Hong, Markiyan Samborskyy, Tatiana Mironenko, Peter F. Leadlay, and Stephen F. Haydock

Organization of the biosynthetic gene cluster in Streptomyces sp. DSM 4137 for the novel neuroprotectant polyketide meridamycin
Microbiology 2006 152: 3507-3515. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Corrigendum]  

Miguel Balado, Carlos R. Osorio, and Manuel L. Lemos

A gene cluster involved in the biosynthesis of vanchrobactin, a chromosome-encoded siderophore produced by Vibrio anguillarum
Microbiology 2006 152: 3517-3528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Igor Kucera

Interference of chlorate and chlorite with nitrate reduction in resting cells of Paracoccus denitrificans
Microbiology 2006 152: 3529-3534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhihong Xie, Yuetang Dou, Shuzheng Ping, Ming Chen, Guoying Wang, Claudine Elmerich, and Min Lin

Interaction between NifL and NifA in the nitrogen-fixing Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501
Microbiology 2006 152: 3535-3542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Timo M. Takala and Per E. J. Saris

C terminus of NisI provides specificity to nisin
Microbiology 2006 152: 3543-3549. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kei Fujiwara, Taishi Tsubouchi, Tomohisa Kuzuyama, and Makoto Nishiyama

Involvement of the arginine repressor in lysine biosynthesis of Thermus thermophilus
Microbiology 2006 152: 3585-3594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marta Marques, Dominik Mojzita, Maria A. Amorim, Teresa Almeida, Stefan Hohmann, Pedro Moradas-Ferreira, and Vítor Costa

The Pep4p vacuolar proteinase contributes to the turnover of oxidized proteins but PEP4 overexpression is not sufficient to increase chronological lifespan in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2006 152: 3595-3605. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Alex Olvera, Marta Cerdà-Cuéllar, and Virginia Aragon

Study of the population structure of Haemophilus parasuis by multilocus sequence typing
Microbiology 2006 152: 3683-3690. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Wieke R. Teertstra, Heine J. Deelstra, Miroslav Vranes, Ralph Bohlmann, Regine Kahmann, Jörg Kämper, and Han A. B. Wösten

Repellents have functionally replaced hydrophobins in mediating attachment to a hydrophobic surface and in formation of hydrophobic aerial hyphae in Ustilago maydis
Microbiology 2006 152: 3607-3612. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Claressa E. Lucas, Ellen Brown, and Barry S. Fields

Type IV pili and type II secretion play a limited role in Legionella pneumophila biofilm colonization and retention
Microbiology 2006 152: 3569-3573. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akihiko Terada, Atsushi Yuasa, Takashi Kushimoto, Satoshi Tsuneda, Akio Katakai, and Masao Tamada

Bacterial adhesion to and viability on positively charged polymer surfaces
Microbiology 2006 152: 3575-3583. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Kazunari Kamachi, Masahiro Sota, Yuji Tamai, Noriyo Nagata, Toshifumi Konda, Toshiro Inoue, Eva M. Top, and Yoshichika Arakawa

Plasmid pBP136 from Bordetella pertussis represents an ancestral form of IncP-1 plasmids without accessory mobile elements
Microbiology 2006 152: 3477-3484. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Andre A. Kotze, I. Marla Tuffin, Shelly M. Deane, and Douglas E. Rawlings

Cloning and characterization of the chromosomal arsenic resistance genes from Acidithiobacillus caldus and enhanced arsenic resistance on conjugal transfer of ars genes located on transposon TnAtcArs
Microbiology 2006 152: 3551-3560. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Doléans-Jordheim, Mongi Akermi, Christophe Ginevra, Christel Cazalet, Elizabeth Kay, Dominique Schneider, Carmen Buchrieser, Danièle Atlan, François Vandenesch, Jerome Etienne, and Sophie Jarraud

Growth-phase-dependent mobility of the lvh-encoding region in Legionella pneumophila strain Paris
Microbiology 2006 152: 3561-3568. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Diganta Maiti, Bhabatosh Das, Arjun Saha, Ranjan K. Nandy, G. Balakrish Nair, and Rupak K. Bhadra

Genetic organization of pre-CTX and CTX prophages in the genome of an environmental Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139 strain
Microbiology 2006 152: 3633-3641. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xi Chen and Carol A. Kumamoto

A conserved G protein (Drg1p) plays a role in regulation of invasive filamentation in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2006 152: 3691-3700. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Renata Grifantini, Nikhil Kumar, Yih Ling Tzeng, Derrick Fouts, Elisabetta Frigimelica, Monia Draghi, Marzia Monica Giuliani, Rino Rappuoli, David S. Stephens, Guido Grandi, and Hervé Tettelin

Comparative genomics of Neisseria meningitidis: core genome, islands of horizontal transfer and pathogen-specific genes
Microbiology 2006 152: 3733-3749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Paul Casaz, Lynne K. Garrity-Ryan, David McKenney, Caroline Jackson, Stuart B. Levy, S. Ken Tanaka, and Michael N. Alekshun

MarA, SoxS and Rob function as virulence factors in an Escherichia coli murine model of ascending pyelonephritis
Microbiology 2006 152: 3643-3650. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Putthapoom Lumjiaktase, Stephen P. Diggle, Suvit Loprasert, Sumalee Tungpradabkul, Mavis Daykin, Miguel Cámara, Paul Williams, and Mongkol Kunakorn

Quorum sensing regulates dpsA and the oxidative stress response in Burkholderia pseudomallei
Microbiology 2006 152: 3651-3659. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amanda J. MacCallum, Dawn Harris, Graham Haddock, and Paul H. Everest

Campylobacter jejuni-infected human epithelial cell lines vary in their ability to secrete interleukin-8 compared to in vitro-infected primary human intestinal tissue
Microbiology 2006 152: 3661-3665. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael J. Lodes, Heather Secrist, Darin R. Benson, Shyian Jen, Kurt D. Shanebeck, Jeffrey Guderian, Jean-François Maisonneuve, Ajay Bhatia, David Persing, Sheila Patrick, and Yasir A. W. Skeiky

Variable expression of immunoreactive surface proteins of Propionibacterium acnes
Microbiology 2006 152: 3667-3681. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Bénédicte Rognon, Zuzana Kozovska, Alix T. Coste, Giacomo Pardini, and Dominique Sanglard

Identification of promoter elements responsible for the regulation of MDR1 from Candida albicans, a major facilitator transporter involved in azole resistance
Microbiology 2006 152: 3701-3722. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ashok Varma, Shaoxi Wu, Ningru Guo, Wanqing Liao, Guxia Lu, Anshen Li, Yonglin Hu, Glenn Bulmer, and Kyung J. Kwon-Chung

Identification of a novel gene, URE2, that functionally complements a urease-negative clinical strain of Cryptococcus neoformans
Microbiology 2006 152: 3723-3731. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Stephan A. Frye, Reza Assalkhou, Richard F. Collins, Robert C. Ford, Christoffer Petersson, Jeremy P. Derrick, and Tone Tønjum

Topology of the outer-membrane secretin PilQ from Neisseria meningitidis
Microbiology 2006 152: 3751-3764. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Tera V. Guidry, Robert L. Hunter, Jr, and Jeffrey K. Actor

CD3⁺ cells transfer the hypersensitive granulomatous response to mycobacterial glycolipid trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate in mice
Microbiology 2006 152: 3765-3775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Matsunaga, Kristian Werneid, Richard L. Zuerner, Ami Frank, and David A. Haake

LipL46 is a novel surface-exposed lipoprotein expressed during leptospiral dissemination in the mammalian host
Microbiology 2006 152: 3777-3786. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Vendula Valásková and Petr Baldrian

Degradation of cellulose and hemicelluloses by the brown rot fungus Piptoporus betulinus – production of extracellular enzymes and characterization of the major cellulases
Microbiology 2006 152: 3613-3622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kenlee Nakasugi, Charles J. Svenson, and Brett A. Neilan

The competence gene, comF, from Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is involved in natural transformation, phototactic motility and piliation
Microbiology 2006 152: 3623-3631. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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