MINI-REVIEWS:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Li-Fong Lee, Yueh-Jung Chen, Ralph Kirby, Chi Chen, and Carton W. Chen

A multidrug efflux system is involved in colony growth in Streptomyces lividans
Microbiology 2007 153: 924-934. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Sandra Scheuch and Felicitas Pfeifer

GvpD-induced breakdown of the transcriptional activator GvpE of halophilic archaea requires a functional p-loop and an arginine-rich region of GvpD
Microbiology 2007 153: 947-958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. G. Malone, R. Williams, M. Christen, U. Jenal, A. J. Spiers, and P. B. Rainey

The structure–function relationship of WspR, a Pseudomonas fluorescens response regulator with a GGDEF output domain
Microbiology 2007 153: 980-994. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Grazyna Orawski, Frank Bardischewsky, Armin Quentmeier, Dagmar Rother, and Cornelius G. Friedrich

The periplasmic thioredoxin SoxS plays a key role in activation in vivo of chemotrophic sulfur oxidation of Paracoccus pantotrophus
Microbiology 2007 153: 1081-1086. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sophie De Keersmaeker, Kristof Vrancken, Lieve Van Mellaert, Jozef Anné, and Nick Geukens

The Tat pathway in Streptomyces lividans: interaction of Tat subunits and their role in translocation
Microbiology 2007 153: 1087-1094. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Si-Sun Choi, Yoon-Ah Hur, David H. Sherman, and Eung-Soo Kim

Isolation of the biosynthetic gene cluster for tautomycetin, a linear polyketide T cell-specific immunomodulator from Streptomyces sp. CK4412
Microbiology 2007 153: 1095-1102. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Nagender Ledala, Stacy L. Pearson, Brian J. Wilkinson, and R. K. Jayaswal

Molecular characterization of the Fur protein of Listeria monocytogenes
Microbiology 2007 153: 1103-1111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Veera Hurmalainen, Sanna Edelman, Jenni Antikainen, Marc Baumann, Kaarina Lähteenmäki, and Timo K. Korhonen

Extracellular proteins of Lactobacillus crispatus enhance activation of human plasminogen
Microbiology 2007 153: 1112-1122. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tuesday Cook, David Roos, Mary Morada, Guan Zhu, Janet S. Keithly, Jean E. Feagin, Gang Wu, and Nigel Yarlett

Divergent polyamine metabolism in the Apicomplexa
Microbiology 2007 153: 1123-1130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

D. L. Gibson, A. P. White, C. M. Rajotte, and W. W. Kay

AgfC and AgfE facilitate extracellular thin aggregative fimbriae synthesis in Salmonella Enteritidis
Microbiology 2007 153: 1131-1140. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Martine Monteil, Benoît Durand, Rim Bouchouicha, Elisabeth Petit, Bruno Chomel, Mardjan Arvand, Henri-Jean Boulouis, and Nadia Haddad

Development of discriminatory multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis for Bartonella henselae
Microbiology 2007 153: 1141-1148. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Elena Kupriyanova, Arsenio Villarejo, Alexandra Markelova, Lyudmila Gerasimenko, Georgy Zavarzin, Göran Samuelsson, Dmitry A. Los, and Natalia Pronina

Extracellular carbonic anhydrases of the stromatolite-forming cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes
Microbiology 2007 153: 1149-1156. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dimitry Yu. Sorokin, Sander van Pelt, Tatjana P. Tourova, Shinichi Takaichi, and Gerard Muyzer

Acetonitrile degradation under haloalkaline conditions by Natronocella acetinitrilica gen. nov., sp. nov.
Microbiology 2007 153: 1157-1164. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Hideaki Yukawa, Crispinus A. Omumasaba, Hiroshi Nonaka, Péter Kós, Naoko Okai, Nobuaki Suzuki, Masako Suda, Yota Tsuge, Junko Watanabe, Yoko Ikeda, Alain A. Vertès, and Masayuki Inui

Comparative analysis of the Corynebacterium glutamicum group and complete genome sequence of strain R
Microbiology 2007 153: 1042-1058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

Lionel Ferrières, Shazia N. Aslam, Richard M. Cooper, and David J. Clarke

The yjbEFGH locus in Escherichia coli K-12 is an operon encoding proteins involved in exopolysaccharide production
Microbiology 2007 153: 1070-1080. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Kari R. Wilson, Jennifer M. Napper, James Denvir, Vincent E. Sollars, and Hongwei D. Yu

Defect in early lung defence against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in DBA/2 mice is associated with acute inflammatory lung injury and reduced bactericidal activity in naïve macrophages
Microbiology 2007 153: 968-979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

P. Velge, M. Herler, J. Johansson, S. M. Roche, S. Témoin, A. A. Fedorov, P. Gracieux, S. C. Almo, W. Goebel, and P. Cossart

A naturally occurring mutation K220T in the pleiotropic activator PrfA of Listeria monocytogenes results in a loss of virulence due to decreasing DNA-binding affinity
Microbiology 2007 153: 995-1005. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Essam J. Alyamani, Petra Brandt, Jeremy A. Pena, Angela M. Major, James G. Fox, Sebastian Suerbaum, and James Versalovic

Helicobacter hepaticus catalase shares surface-predicted epitopes with mammalian catalases
Microbiology 2007 153: 1006-1016. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Weiguo Fang, Yan Pei, and Michael J. Bidochka

A regulator of a G protein signalling (RGS) gene, cag8, from the insect-pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae is involved in conidiation, virulence and hydrophobin synthesis
Microbiology 2007 153: 1017-1025. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Donika Kunze, Donna MacCallum, Frank C. Odds, and Bernhard Hube

Multiple functions of DOA1 in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2007 153: 1026-1041. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aizhen Guo, Melissa A. Lasaro, Jean-Claude Sirard, Jean-Pierre Kraehenbühl, and Dieter M. Schifferli

Adhesin-dependent binding and uptake of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by dendritic cells
Microbiology 2007 153: 1059-1069. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rocío Canals, Silvia Vilches, Markus Wilhelms, Jonathan G. Shaw, Susana Merino, and Juan M. Tomás

Non-structural flagella genes affecting both polar and lateral flagella-mediated motility in Aeromonas hydrophila
Microbiology 2007 153: 1165-1175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert J. Owen and Jacqueline Xerry

Geographical conservation of short inserts in the signal and middle regions of the Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin gene
Microbiology 2007 153: 1176-1186. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Kasturi Mukhopadhyay, William Whitmire, Yan Q. Xiong, Jaime Molden, Tiffanny Jones, Andreas Peschel, Petra Staubitz, Jill Adler-Moore, Peter J. McNamara, Richard A. Proctor, Michael R. Yeaman, and Arnold S. Bayer

In vitro susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein-1 (tPMP-1) is influenced by cell membrane phospholipid composition and asymmetry
Microbiology 2007 153: 1187-1197. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katsuhiko Amimoto, Taichi Noro, Eiji Oishi, and Mitsugu Shimizu

A novel toxin homologous to large clostridial cytotoxins found in culture supernatant of Clostridium perfringens type C
Microbiology 2007 153: 1198-1206. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Jochen Klumpp and Thilo M. Fuchs

Identification of novel genes in genomic islands that contribute to Salmonella typhimurium replication in macrophages
Microbiology 2007 153: 1207-1220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. N. Giacomodonato, S. Uzzau, D. Bacciu, R. Caccuri, S. H. Sarnacki, S. Rubino, and M. C. Cerquetti

SipA, SopA, SopB, SopD and SopE2 effector proteins of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium are synthesized at late stages of infection in mice
Microbiology 2007 153: 1221-1228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiuhua Pang, Phong Vu, Thomas F. Byrd, Saleena Ghanny, Patricia Soteropoulos, Galina V. Mukamolova, Shiping Wu, Buka Samten, and Susan T. Howard

Evidence for complex interactions of stress-associated regulons in an mprAB deletion mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2007 153: 1229-1242. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

G. Michael Taylor, Eileen Murphy, Richard Hopkins, Paul Rutland, and Yuri Chistov

First report of Mycobacterium bovis DNA in human remains from the Iron Age
Microbiology 2007 153: 1243-1249. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Erlend Bore, Michel Hébraud, Ingrid Chafsey, Christophe Chambon, Camilla Skjæret, Birgitte Moen, Trond Møretrø, Øyvind Langsrud, Knut Rudi, and Solveig Langsrud

Adapted tolerance to benzalkonium chloride in Escherichia coli K-12 studied by transcriptome and proteome analyses
Microbiology 2007 153: 935-946. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Alexander Kern, Franz S. Hartner, Maria Freigassner, Julia Spielhofer, Cornelia Rumpf, Laura Leitner, Kai-Uwe Fröhlich, and Anton Glieder

Pichia pastoris ‘just in time’ alternative respiration
Microbiology 2007 153: 1250-1260. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chuntao Yin, Weizhi Li, Ye Du, Renqiu Kong, and Xudong Xu

Identification of a gene, ccr-1 (sll1242), required for chill-light tolerance and growth at 15 °C in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Microbiology 2007 153: 1261-1267. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bettina Franz, Henning Lichtenberg, Josef Hormes, Hartwig Modrow, Christiane Dahl, and Alexander Prange

Utilization of solid ‘elemental’ sulfur by the phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum: a sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy study
Microbiology 2007 153: 1268-1274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerd Seibold, Stefan Dempf, Joy Schreiner, and Bernhard J. Eikmanns

Glycogen formation in Corynebacterium glutamicum and role of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase
Microbiology 2007 153: 1275-1285. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Cecilia I. Muglia, Daniel H. Grasso, and O. Mario Aguilar

Rhizobium tropici response to acidity involves activation of glutathione synthesis
Microbiology 2007 153: 1286-1296. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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