REVIEW:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Nai-Hua Hsiao, Johannes Söding, Dirk Linke, Corinna Lange, Christian Hertweck, Wolfgang Wohlleben, and Eriko Takano

ScbA from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) has homology to fatty acid synthases and is able to synthesize -butyrolactones
Microbiology 2007 153: 1394-1404. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sylvie Lautru, Daniel Oves-Costales, Jean-Luc Pernodet, and Gregory L. Challis

MbtH-like protein-mediated cross-talk between non-ribosomal peptide antibiotic and siderophore biosynthetic pathways in Streptomyces coelicolor M145
Microbiology 2007 153: 1405-1412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemenatry Table]  

Manuel Wolpert, Bertolt Gust, Bernd Kammerer, and Lutz Heide

Effects of deletions of mbtH-like genes on clorobiocin biosynthesis in Streptomyces coelicolor
Microbiology 2007 153: 1413-1423. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemenatry Table]  

Stéphane L. Benoit, Nalini Mehta, Michael V. Weinberg, Cheryl Maier, and Robert J. Maier

Interaction between the Helicobacter pylori accessory proteins HypA and UreE is needed for urease maturation
Microbiology 2007 153: 1474-1482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathan D. Partridge, Robert K. Poole, and Jeffrey Green

The Escherichia coli yhjA gene, encoding a predicted cytochrome c peroxidase, is regulated by FNR and OxyR
Microbiology 2007 153: 1499-1509. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laurent Michel, Aude Bachelard, and Cornelia Reimmann

Ferripyochelin uptake genes are involved in pyochelin-mediated signalling in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2007 153: 1508-1518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Teresa Soto, Andrés Núñez, Marisa Madrid, Jero Vicente, Mariano Gacto, and Jose Cansado

Transduction of centrifugation-induced gravity forces through mitogen-activated protein kinase pathways in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe
Microbiology 2007 153: 1519-1529. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adhar C. Manna and Binata Ray

Regulation and characterization of rot transcription in Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2007 153: 1538-1545. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Petra Ganas, Marius Mihasan, Gabor L. Igloi, and Roderich Brandsch

A two-component small multidrug resistance pump functions as a metabolic valve during nicotine catabolism by Arthrobacter nicotinovorans
Microbiology 2007 153: 1546-1555. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jorik Arts, Arjan de Groot, Geneviève Ball, Eric Durand, Mohammed El Khattabi, Alain Filloux, Jan Tommassen, and Margot Koster

Interaction domains in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa type II secretory apparatus component XcpS (GspF)
Microbiology 2007 153: 1582-1592. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Ruth E. Wirawan, Kara M. Swanson, Torsten Kleffmann, Ralph W. Jack, and John R. Tagg

Uberolysin: a novel cyclic bacteriocin produced by Streptococcus uberis
Microbiology 2007 153: 1619-1630. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cynthia L. Robson, Philip A. Wescombe, Nikolai A. Klesse, and John R. Tagg

Isolation and partial characterization of the Streptococcus mutans type AII lantibiotic mutacin K8
Microbiology 2007 153: 1631-1641. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zhenjian Xu, Bing Tian, Zongtao Sun, Jun Lin, and Yuejin Hua

Identification and functional analysis of a phytoene desaturase gene from the extremely radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans
Microbiology 2007 153: 1642-1652. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Magdalena Narajczyk, Sylwia Baranska, Anna Szambowska, Monika Glinkowska, Alicja Wegrzyn, and Grzegorz Wegrzyn

Modulation of plasmid and phage DNA replication by Escherichia coli SeqA protein
Microbiology 2007 153: 1653-1663. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Ave Tooming-Klunderud, Thomas Rohrlack, Kamran Shalchian-Tabrizi, Tom Kristensen, and Kjetill S. Jakobsen

Structural analysis of a non-ribosomal halogenated cyclic peptide and its putative operon from Microcystis: implications for evolution of cyanopeptolins
Microbiology 2007 153: 1382-1393. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures][Corrigendum]  

Markus Hilty, Michael Käser, Jakob Zinsstag, Tim Stinear, and Gerd Pluschke

Analysis of the Mycobacterium ulcerans genome sequence reveals new loci for variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) typing
Microbiology 2007 153: 1483-1487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Labbate, Y. Boucher, M. J. Joss, C. A. Michael, M. R. Gillings, and H. W. Stokes

Use of chromosomal integron arrays as a phylogenetic typing system for Vibrio cholerae pandemic strains
Microbiology 2007 153: 1488-1498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Shu Ning Wang, Zhen Liu, Hong Zhi Tang, Jing Meng, and Ping Xu

Characterization of environmentally friendly nicotine degradation by Pseudomonas putida biotype A strain S16
Microbiology 2007 153: 1556-1565. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guokui Qin, Lizhi Zhu, Xiulan Chen, Peng George Wang, and Yuzhong Zhang

Structural characterization and ecological roles of a novel exopolysaccharide from the deep-sea psychrotolerant bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. SM9913
Microbiology 2007 153: 1566-1572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Ghasemali Mohebali, Andrew Ball, Ashk Kaytash, and Behnam Rasekh

Stabilization of water/gas oil emulsions by desulfurizing cells of Gordonia alkanivorans RIPI90A
Microbiology 2007 153: 1573-1581. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Catherine Tanous, Emilie Chambellon, and Mireille Yvon

Sequence analysis of the mobilizable lactococcal plasmid pGdh442 encoding glutamate dehydrogenase activity
Microbiology 2007 153: 1664-1675. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Moshe Shemesh, Avshalom Tam, and Doron Steinberg

Differential gene expression profiling of Streptococcus mutans cultured under biofilm and planktonic conditions
Microbiology 2007 153: 1307-1317. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Liang Yang, Kim B. Barken, Mette E. Skindersoe, Allan B. Christensen, Michael Givskov, and Tim Tolker-Nielsen

Effects of iron on DNA release and biofilm development by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2007 153: 1318-1328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Ø. Jensen, Thomas Bjarnsholt, Richard Phipps, Thomas B. Rasmussen, Henrik Calum, Lars Christoffersen, Claus Moser, Paul Williams, Tacjana Pressler, Michael Givskov, and Niels Høiby

Rapid necrotic killing of polymorphonuclear leukocytes is caused by quorum-sensing-controlled production of rhamnolipid by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2007 153: 1329-1338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Movie]  

Alan McNally, Roberto M. La Ragione, Angus Best, Georgina Manning, and Diane G. Newell

An aflagellate mutant Yersinia enterocolitica biotype 1A strain displays altered invasion of epithelial cells, persistence in macrophages, and cytokine secretion profiles in vitro
Microbiology 2007 153: 1339-1349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew J. Roe, Luke Tysall, Tracy Dransfield, Dai Wang, Douglas Fraser-Pitt, Arvind Mahajan, Chrystala Constandinou, Neil Inglis, Alison Downing, Richard Talbot, David G. E. Smith, and David L. Gally

Analysis of the expression, regulation and export of NleA–E in Escherichia coli O157 : H7
Microbiology 2007 153: 1350-1360. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kate von Lackum, Kristina M. Ollison, Tomasz Bykowski, Andrew J. Nowalk, Jessica L. Hughes, James A. Carroll, Wolfram R. Zückert, and Brian Stevenson

Regulated synthesis of the Borrelia burgdorferi inner-membrane lipoprotein IpLA7 (P22, P22-A) during the Lyme disease spirochaete's mammal–tick infectious cycle
Microbiology 2007 153: 1361-1371. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yolanda Pedreño, Pilar González-Párraga, María Martínez-Esparza, Rafael Sentandreu, Eulogio Valentín, and Juan-Carlos Argüelles

Disruption of the Candida albicans ATC1 gene encoding a cell-linked acid trehalase decreases hypha formation and infectivity without affecting resistance to oxidative stress
Microbiology 2007 153: 1372-1381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joanna Bacon, Lynn G. Dover, Kim A. Hatch, Yi Zhang, Jessica M. Gomes, Sharon Kendall, Lorenz Wernisch, Neil G. Stoker, Philip D. Butcher, Gurdyal S. Besra, and Philip D. Marsh

Lipid composition and transcriptional response of Mycobacterium tuberculosis grown under iron-limitation in continuous culture: identification of a novel wax ester
Microbiology 2007 153: 1435-1444. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sara Montanari, Antonio Oliver, Paola Salerno, Ana Mena, Giovanni Bertoni, Burkhard Tümmler, Lisa Cariani, Massimo Conese, Gerd Döring, and Alessandra Bragonzi

Biological cost of hypermutation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from patients with cystic fibrosis
Microbiology 2007 153: 1445-1454. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cheryl Jenkins, Steven J. Geary, Martha Gladd, and Steven P. Djordjevic

The Mycoplasma gallisepticum OsmC-like protein MG1142 resides on the cell surface and binds heparin
Microbiology 2007 153: 1455-1463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sara Garbom, Martina Olofsson, Ann-Catrin Björnfot, Manoj Kumar Srivastava, Victoria L. Robinson, Petra C. F. Oyston, Richard W. Titball, and Hans Wolf-Watz

Phenotypic characterization of a virulence-associated protein, VagH, of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis reveals a tight link between VagH and the type III secretion system
Microbiology 2007 153: 1464-1473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Chen and Richard P. Novick

svrA, a multi-drug exporter, does not control agr
Microbiology 2007 153: 1604-1608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ségolène Calvez, Alain Rincé, Yanick Auffray, Hervé Prévost, and Djamel Drider

Identification of new genes associated with intermediate resistance of Enterococcus faecalis to divercin V41, a pediocin-like bacteriocin
Microbiology 2007 153: 1609-1618. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Henrike Gebhardt, Xavier Meniche, Marielle Tropis, Reinhard Krämer, Mamadou Daffé, and Susanne Morbach

The key role of the mycolic acid content in the functionality of the cell wall permeability barrier in Corynebacterineae
Microbiology 2007 153: 1424-1434. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roger R. Lew and Natalia N. Levina

Turgor regulation in the osmosensitive cut mutant of Neurospora crassa
Microbiology 2007 153: 1530-1537. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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