MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF THE PNEUMOCOCCUS:

Adam Finn and Howard F. Jenkinson

The pneumococcus: ‘old man's friend’ and children's foe
Microbiology 2006 152: 281-283. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gavin K. Paterson and Tim J. Mitchell

Innate immunity and the pneumococcus
Microbiology 2006 152: 285-293. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simone Bergmann and Sven Hammerschmidt

Versatility of pneumococcal surface proteins
Microbiology 2006 152: 295-303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kim S. LeMessurier, Abiodun David Ogunniyi, and James C. Paton

Differential expression of key pneumococcal virulence genes in vivo
Microbiology 2006 152: 305-311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Romina Camilli, Elena Pettini, Maria Del Grosso, Gianni Pozzi, Annalisa Pantosti, and Marco R. Oggioni

Zinc metalloproteinase genes in clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae: association of the full array with a clonal cluster comprising serotypes 8 and 11A
Microbiology 2006 152: 313-321. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sébastien Guiral, Vincent Hénard, Chantal Granadel, Bernard Martin, and Jean-Pierre Claverys

Inhibition of competence development in Streptococcus pneumoniae by increased basal-level expression of the ComDE two-component regulatory system
Microbiology 2006 152: 323-331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susana Romao, Guido Memmi, Marco R. Oggioni, and Marie-Claude Trombe

LuxS impacts on LytA-dependent autolysis and on competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2006 152: 333-341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sébastien Guiral, Vincent Hénard, Maria-Halima Laaberki, Chantal Granadel, Marc Prudhomme, Bernard Martin, and Jean-Pierre Claverys

Construction and evaluation of a chromosomal expression platform (CEP) for ectopic, maltose-driven gene expression in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2006 152: 343-349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tomas G. Kloosterman, Jetta J. E. Bijlsma, Jan Kok, and Oscar P. Kuipers

To have neighbour's fare: extending the molecular toolbox for Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2006 152: 351-359. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

A. J. Smith, J. Jefferies, S. C. Clarke, C. Dowson, G. F. S. Edwards, and T. J. Mitchell

Distribution of epidemic antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal clones in Scottish pneumococcal isolates analysed by multilocus sequence typing
Microbiology 2006 152: 361-365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raquel Sá-Leão, Alexandra S. Simões, Sónia Nunes, Natacha G. Sousa, Nelson Frazão, and Hermínia de Lencastre

Identification, prevalence and population structure of non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae in carriage samples isolated from preschoolers attending day-care centres
Microbiology 2006 152: 367-376. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. Bogaert, M. Sluijter, N. Lemmens-den Toom, T. J. Mitchell, W. H. F. Goessens, S. C. Clarke, R. de Groot, and P. W. M. Hermans

Dynamics of pneumococcal colonization in healthy Dutch children
Microbiology 2006 152: 377-385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Caroline Tapparel, Antoinette Monod, and William L. Kelley

The DNA-binding domain of the Escherichia coli CpxR two-component response regulator is constitutively active and cannot be fully attenuated by fused adjacent heterologous regulatory domains
Microbiology 2006 152: 431-441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher D. Sibley, Shawn R. MacLellan, and Turlough Finan

The Sinorhizobium meliloti chromosomal origin of replication
Microbiology 2006 152: 443-455. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keren Zinger-Yosovich, Dvora Sudakevitz, Anne Imberty, Nachman C. Garber, and Nechama Gilboa-Garber

Production and properties of the native Chromobacterium violaceum fucose-binding lectin (CV-IIL) compared to homologous lectins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA-IIL) and Ralstonia solanacearum (RS-IIL)
Microbiology 2006 152: 457-463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank Bardischewsky, Jörg Fischer, Bettina Höller, and Cornelius G. Friedrich

SoxV transfers electrons to the periplasm of Paracoccus pantotrophus – an essential reaction for chemotrophic sulfur oxidation
Microbiology 2006 152: 465-472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kim A. Susanna, Fabrizia Fusetti, Andy-Mark W. H. Thunnissen, Leendert W. Hamoen, and Oscar P. Kuipers

Functional analysis of the competence transcription factor ComK of Bacillus subtilis by characterization of truncation variants
Microbiology 2006 152: 473-483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sanela Begic and Elizabeth A. Worobec

Regulation of Serratia marcescens ompF and ompC porin genes in response to osmotic stress, salicylate, temperature and pH
Microbiology 2006 152: 485-491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Arunava Dasgupta, Pratik Datta, Manikuntala Kundu, and Joyoti Basu

The serine/threonine kinase PknB of Mycobacterium tuberculosis phosphorylates PBPA, a penicillin-binding protein required for cell division
Microbiology 2006 152: 493-504. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

David Moreira, Francisco Rodríguez-Valera, and Purificación López-García

Metagenomic analysis of mesopelagic Antarctic plankton reveals a novel deltaproteobacterial group
Microbiology 2006 152: 505-517. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

G. W. P Joshua, C. Guthrie-Irons, A. V. Karlyshev, and B. W. Wren

Biofilm formation in Campylobacter jejuni
Microbiology 2006 152: 387-396. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rikke Louise Meyer, Aaron Marc Saunders, and Linda Louise Blackall

Putative glycogen-accumulating organisms belonging to the Alphaproteobacteria identified through rRNA-based stable isotope probing
Microbiology 2006 152: 419-429. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Elizabeth Burrowes, Christine Baysse, Claire Adams, and Fergal O'Gara

Influence of the regulatory protein RsmA on cellular functions in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1, as revealed by transcriptome analysis
Microbiology 2006 152: 405-418. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Oscar Q. Pich, Raul Burgos, Raquel Planell, Enrique Querol, and Jaume Piñol

Comparative analysis of antibiotic resistance gene markers in Mycoplasma genitalium: application to studies of the minimal gene complement
Microbiology 2006 152: 519-527. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rob Lavigne, Jean-Paul Noben, Kirsten Hertveldt, Pieter-Jan Ceyssens, Yves Briers, Debora Dumont, Bart Roucourt, Victor N. Krylov, Vadim V. Mesyanzhinov, Johan Robben, and Guido Volckaert

The structural proteome of Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteriophage KMV
Microbiology 2006 152: 529-534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Sung-Hoon Lee, Kack-Kyun Kim, In-Chul Rhyu, Sukhoon Koh, Dae-Sil Lee, and Bong-Kyu Choi

Phenol/water extract of Treponema socranskii subsp. socranskii as an antagonist of Toll-like receptor 4 signalling
Microbiology 2006 152: 535-546. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sascha Brunke and Bernhard Hube

MfLIP1, a gene encoding an extracellular lipase of the lipid-dependent fungus Malassezia furfur
Microbiology 2006 152: 547-554. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Verónica Regueiro, Miguel A. Campos, Jaume Pons, Sebastián Albertí, and José A. Bengoechea

The uptake of a Klebsiella pneumoniae capsule polysaccharide mutant triggers an inflammatory response by human airway epithelial cells
Microbiology 2006 152: 555-566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Balamurugan Sampathkumar, Scott Napper, Catherine D. Carrillo, Philip Willson, Eduardo Taboada, John H. E. Nash, Andrew A. Potter, Lorne A. Babiuk, and Brenda J. Allan

Transcriptional and translational expression patterns associated with immobilized growth of Campylobacter jejuni
Microbiology 2006 152: 567-577. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Yasuko Fujita, Eiko Ukena, Haruyuki Iefuji, Yuko Giga-Hama, and Kaoru Takegawa

Homocysteine accumulation causes a defect in purine biosynthesis: further characterization of Schizosaccharomyces pombe methionine auxotrophs
Microbiology 2006 152: 397-404. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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