MINI-REVIEWS:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Pearl M. Swe, Nicholas C. K. Heng, Yi-Tian Ting, Hayley J. Baird, Alan Carne, Andreas Tauch, John R. Tagg, and Ralph W. Jack

ef1097 and ypkK encode enterococcin V583 and corynicin JK, members of a new family of antimicrobial proteins (bacteriocins) with modular structure from Gram-positive bacteria
Microbiology 2007 153: 3218-3227. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yannick Lequette, Eglantine Rollet, Aurélie Delangle, E. Peter Greenberg, and Jean-Pierre Bohin

Linear osmoregulated periplasmic glucans are encoded by the opgGH locus of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2007 153: 3255-3263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Mickael Meyrand, Aïda Boughammoura, Pascal Courtin, Christine Mézange, Alain Guillot, and Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier

Peptidoglycan N-acetylglucosamine deacetylation decreases autolysis in Lactococcus lactis
Microbiology 2007 153: 3275-3285. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph M. Sturino and Todd R. Klaenhammer

Inhibition of bacteriophage replication in Streptococcus thermophilus by subunit poisoning of primase
Microbiology 2007 153: 3295-3302. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Jan van Ooyen and Jörg Soppa

Three 2-oxoacid dehydrogenase operons in Haloferax volcanii: expression, deletion mutants and evolution
Microbiology 2007 153: 3303-3313. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Alistair K. Brown, Athina Papaemmanouil, Veemal Bhowruth, Apoorva Bhatt, Lynn G. Dover, and Gurdyal S. Besra

Flavonoid inhibitors as novel antimycobacterial agents targeting Rv0636, a putative dehydratase enzyme involved in Mycobacterium tuberculosis fatty acid synthase II
Microbiology 2007 153: 3314-3322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yan Li, Kenji Kurokawa, Luzia Reutimann, Hikaru Mizumura, Miki Matsuo, and Kazuhisa Sekimizu

dnaB and dnaI temperature-sensitive mutants of Staphylococcus aureus: evidence for involvement of DnaB and DnaI in synchrony regulation of chromosome replication
Microbiology 2007 153: 3370-3379. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Giampiero Pietrocola, Viviana Valtulina, Simonetta Rindi, B. Helen Jost, and Pietro Speziale

Functional and structural properties of CbpA, a collagen-binding protein from Arcanobacterium pyogenes
Microbiology 2007 153: 3380-3389. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

James Matsunaga, Marco A. Medeiros, Yolanda Sanchez, Kristian F. Werneid, and Albert I. Ko

Osmotic regulation of expression of two extracellular matrix-binding proteins and a haemolysin of Leptospira interrogans: differential effects on LigA and Sph2 extracellular release
Microbiology 2007 153: 3390-3398. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evangelina Campos, Cristina Montella, Fernando Garces, Laura Baldoma, Juan Aguilar, and Josefa Badia

Aerobic L-ascorbate metabolism and associated oxidative stress in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2007 153: 3399-3408. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Erratum]  

Anika Kremer, Lucia Westrich, and Shu-Ming Li

A 7-dimethylallyltryptophan synthase from Aspergillus fumigatus: overproduction, purification and biochemical characterization
Microbiology 2007 153: 3409-3416. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eun-Min Cho, Brett H. Kirkland, Diane J. Holder, and Nemat O. Keyhani

Phage display cDNA cloning and expression analysis of hydrophobins from the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria (Cordyceps) bassiana
Microbiology 2007 153: 3438-3447. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Torsten Neuhof, Ralf Dieckmann, Irina S. Druzhinina, Christian P. Kubicek, and Hans von Döhren

Intact-cell MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry analysis of peptaibol formation by the genus Trichoderma/Hypocrea: can molecular phylogeny of species predict peptaibol structures?
Microbiology 2007 153: 3417-3437. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wakako Ikeda-Ohtsubo, Mahesh Desai, Ulrich Stingl, and Andreas Brune

Phylogenetic diversity of ‘Endomicrobia’ and their specific affiliation with termite gut flagellates
Microbiology 2007 153: 3458-3465. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emilie Fréalle, Marion Rodrigue, Nausicaa Gantois, Cécile-Marie Aliouat, Emmanuel Delaporte, Daniel Camus, Eduardo Dei-Cas, Catherine Kauffmann-Lacroix, Jacques Guillot, and Laurence Delhaes

Phylogenetic analysis of Trichophyton mentagrophytes human and animal isolates based on MnSOD and ITS sequence comparison
Microbiology 2007 153: 3466-3477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Birte Meyer and Jan Kuever

Molecular analysis of the distribution and phylogeny of dissimilatory adenosine-5'-phosphosulfate reductase-encoding genes (aprBA) among sulfur-oxidizing prokaryotes
Microbiology 2007 153: 3478-3498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Yoon-Suk Kang, Yunho Lee, Hyungil Jung, Che Ok Jeon, Eugene L. Madsen, and Woojun Park

Overexpressing antioxidant enzymes enhances naphthalene biodegradation in Pseudomonas sp. strain As1
Microbiology 2007 153: 3246-3254. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Diane J. Holder, Brett H. Kirkland, Michael W. Lewis, and Nemat O. Keyhani

Surface characteristics of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria (Cordyceps) bassiana
Microbiology 2007 153: 3448-3457. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Paul Golby, Kim A. Hatch, Joanna Bacon, Rory Cooney, Paul Riley, Jon Allnutt, Jason Hinds, Javier Nunez, Philip D. Marsh, R. Glyn Hewinson, and Stephen V. Gordon

Comparative transcriptomics reveals key gene expression differences between the human and bovine pathogens of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex
Microbiology 2007 153: 3323-3336. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [HTML Page - index.htslp]  

Alexander K. Apel, Alberto Sola-Landa, Antonio Rodríguez-García, and Juan F. Martín

Phosphate control of phoA, phoC and phoD gene expression in Streptomyces coelicolor reveals significant differences in binding of PhoP to their promoter regions
Microbiology 2007 153: 3527-3537. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jin Xiong, Carl E. Bauer, and Anjly Pancholy

Insight into the haem d₁ biosynthesis pathway in heliobacteria through bioinformatics analysis
Microbiology 2007 153: 3548-3562. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Abhignya Subedi, Carles Ubeda, Rajan P. Adhikari, José R. Penadés, and Richard P. Novick

Sequence analysis reveals genetic exchanges and intraspecific spread of SaPI2, a pathogenicity island involved in menstrual toxic shock
Microbiology 2007 153: 3235-3245. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sylvia M. Kirov, Jeremy S. Webb, Che Y. O'May, David W. Reid, Jerry K. K. Woo, Scott A. Rice, and Staffan Kjelleberg

Biofilm differentiation and dispersal in mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from patients with cystic fibrosis
Microbiology 2007 153: 3264-3274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aurora Menéndez, Lucia Fernández, Pilar Reimundo, and José A. Guijarro

Genes required for Lactococcus garvieae survival in a fish host
Microbiology 2007 153: 3286-3294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jessica R. McCann, Justin A. McDonough, Martin S. Pavelka, and Miriam Braunstein

-Lactamase can function as a reporter of bacterial protein export during Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of host cells
Microbiology 2007 153: 3350-3359. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Mycobacterial glycolipid trehalose 6,6'-dimycolate-induced hypersensitive granulomas: contribution of CD4⁺ lymphocytes
Microbiology 2007 153: 3360-3369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Javier A. Carter, Carlos J. Blondel, Mercedes Zaldívar, Sergio A. Álvarez, Cristina L. Marolda, Miguel A. Valvano, and Inés Contreras

O-antigen modal chain length in Shigella flexneri 2a is growth-regulated through RfaH-mediated transcriptional control of the wzy gene
Microbiology 2007 153: 3499-3507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrea L. Zbell, Stéphane L. Benoit, and Robert J. Maier

Differential expression of NiFe uptake-type hydrogenase genes in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Microbiology 2007 153: 3508-3516. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erin C. Boyle, Nat F. Brown, John H. Brumell, and B. Brett Finlay

Src homology domain 2 adaptors affect adherence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to non-phagocytic cells
Microbiology 2007 153: 3517-3526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Stacy M. Townsend, Edward Hurrell, Ignacio Gonzalez-Gomez, James Lowe, Jonathan G. Frye, Stephen Forsythe, and Julie L. Badger

Enterobacter sakazakii invades brain capillary endothelial cells, persists in human macrophages influencing cytokine secretion and induces severe brain pathology in the neonatal rat
Microbiology 2007 153: 3538-3547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Vivien M. Sheehan, Roy D. Sleator, Colin Hill, and Gerald F. Fitzgerald

Improving gastric transit, gastrointestinal persistence and therapeutic efficacy of the probiotic strain Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003
Microbiology 2007 153: 3563-3571. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maddalena V. Coppi, Regina A. O'Neil, Ching Leang, Franz Kaufmann, Barbara A. Methé, Kelly P. Nevin, Trevor L. Woodard, Anna Liu, and Derek R. Lovley

Involvement of Geobacter sulfurreducens SfrAB in acetate metabolism rather than intracellular, respiration-linked Fe(III) citrate reduction
Microbiology 2007 153: 3572-3585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Martina Turk, Vera Montiel, Dusan Zigon, Ana Plemenitas, and José Ramos

Plasma membrane composition of Debaryomyces hansenii adapts to changes in pH and external salinity
Microbiology 2007 153: 3586-3592. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stijn van der Veen, Torsten Hain, Jeroen A. Wouters, Hamid Hossain, Willem M. de Vos, Tjakko Abee, Trinad Chakraborty, and Marjon H. J. Wells-Bennik

The heat-shock response of Listeria monocytogenes comprises genes involved in heat shock, cell division, cell wall synthesis, and the SOS response
Microbiology 2007 153: 3593-3607. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Joël F. Pothier, Florence Wisniewski-Dyé, Michèle Weiss-Gayet, Yvan Moënne-Loccoz, and Claire Prigent-Combaret

Promoter-trap identification of wheat seed extract-induced genes in the plant-growth-promoting rhizobacterium Azospirillum brasilense Sp245
Microbiology 2007 153: 3608-3622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

THEORETICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Robert A. Cox

A scheme for the analysis of microarray measurements based on a quantitative theoretical framework for bacterial cell growth: application to studies of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2007 153: 3337-3349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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