MINI-REVIEWS:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Yvonne Tiffert, Birke Götz, Jens Reuther, Wolfgang Wohlleben, and Günther Muth

Conjugative DNA transfer in Streptomyces: SpdB2 involved in the intramycelial spreading of plasmid pSVH1 is an oligomeric integral membrane protein that binds to dsDNA
Microbiology 2007 153: 2976-2983. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nicola K. Petty, Ana L. Toribio, David Goulding, Ian Foulds, Nicholas Thomson, Gordon Dougan, and George P. C. Salmond

A generalized transducing phage for the murine pathogen Citrobacter rodentium
Microbiology 2007 153: 2984-2988. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martín Espariz, Susana K. Checa, María E. Pérez Audero, Lucas B. Pontel, and Fernando C. Soncini

Dissecting the Salmonella response to copper
Microbiology 2007 153: 2989-2997. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bae Hoon Kim, Hyeon Guk Kim, Jin Seok Kim, Jung Im Jang, and Yong Keun Park

Analysis of functional domains present in the N-terminus of the SipB protein
Microbiology 2007 153: 2998-3008. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Malgorzata A. Gil, Katherine E. Sherwood, and Julie A. Maupin-Furlow

Transcriptional linkage of Haloferax volcanii proteasomal genes with non-proteasomal gene neighbours including RNase P, MOSC domain and SAM-methyltransferase homologues
Microbiology 2007 153: 3009-3022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Catarina Prista, Juan Carlos González-Hernández, José Ramos, and Maria C. Loureiro-Dias

Cloning and characterization of two K⁺ transporters of Debaryomyces hansenii
Microbiology 2007 153: 3034-3043. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seiya Watanabe, Ahmed Abu Saleh, Seung Pil Pack, Narayana Annaluru, Tsutomu Kodaki, and Keisuke Makino

Ethanol production from xylose by recombinant Saccharomyces cerevisiae expressing protein-engineered NADH-preferring xylose reductase from Pichia stipitis
Microbiology 2007 153: 3044-3054. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Sonja Weinitschke, Karin Denger, Alasdair M. Cook, and Theo H. M. Smits

The DUF81 protein TauE in Cupriavidus necator H16, a sulfite exporter in the metabolism of C₂ sulfonates
Microbiology 2007 153: 3055-3060. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nuria Menéndez, Alfredo F. Braña, José A. Salas, and Carmen Méndez

Involvement of a chromomycin ABC transporter system in secretion of a deacetylated precursor during chromomycin biosynthesis
Microbiology 2007 153: 3061-3070. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tobias D. Schoep and Keith Gregg

Isolation and characterization of putative Pseudobutyrivibrio ruminis promoters
Microbiology 2007 153: 3071-3080. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Fiona Eddy, Adam Powell, Simon Gregory, Linda M. Nunan, Donald V. Lightner, Paul J. Dyson, Andrew F. Rowley, and Robin J. Shields

A novel bacterial disease of the European shore crab, Carcinus maenas – molecular pathology and epidemiology
Microbiology 2007 153: 2839-2849. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Marcelo D. Vinces and Carol A. Kumamoto

The morphogenetic regulator Czf1p is a DNA-binding protein that regulates white–opaque switching in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2007 153: 2877-2884. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yun-Jeong Heo, In-Young Chung, Kelly B. Choi, Gee W. Lau, and You-Hee Cho

Genome sequence comparison and superinfection between two related Pseudomonas aeruginosa phages, D3112 and MP22
Microbiology 2007 153: 2885-2895. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Meranda D. Bradley, Michael B. Beach, A. P. Jason de Koning, Timothy S. Pratt, and Robert Osuna

Effects of Fis on Escherichia coli gene expression during different growth stages
Microbiology 2007 153: 2922-2940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helen E. Stutz, Keith W. M. Quixley, Lynn D. McMaster, and Sharon J. Reid

Co-regulation of the nitrogen-assimilatory gene cluster in Clostridium saccharobutylicum
Microbiology 2007 153: 3081-3090. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroshi Habe, Atsushi Kouzuma, Takayuki Endoh, Toshio Omori, Hisakazu Yamane, and Hideaki Nojiri

Transcriptional regulation of the sulfate-starvation-induced gene sfnA by a ⁵⁴-dependent activator of Pseudomonas putida
Microbiology 2007 153: 3091-3098. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nahid Kamal, Nick Dorrell, Aparna Jagannathan, Susan M. Turner, Chrystala Constantinidou, David J. Studholme, Gemma Marsden, Jason Hinds, Ken G. Laing, Brendan W. Wren, and Charles W. Penn

Deletion of a previously uncharacterized flagellar-hook-length control gene fliK modulates the ⁵⁴-dependent regulon in Campylobacter jejuni
Microbiology 2007 153: 3099-3111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Fernando Navarro-García, Adrián Canizalez-Roman, Jorge E. Vidal, and Ma. Isabel Salazar

Intoxication of epithelial cells by plasmid-encoded toxin requires clathrin-mediated endocytosis
Microbiology 2007 153: 2828-2838. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Gunnar N. Schroeder, Naja J. Jann, and Hubert Hilbi

Intracellular type III secretion by cytoplasmic Shigella flexneri promotes caspase-1-dependent macrophage cell death
Microbiology 2007 153: 2862-2876. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Isabelle Pattis, Evelyn Weiss, Romy Laugks, Rainer Haas, and Wolfgang Fischer

The Helicobacter pylori CagF protein is a type IV secretion chaperone-like molecule that binds close to the C-terminal secretion signal of the CagA effector protein
Microbiology 2007 153: 2896-2909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Camila C. Figueiredo, Paula M. S. Deccache, Leila M. Lopes-Bezerra, and Verônica Morandi

TGF-1 induces transendothelial migration of the pathogenic fungus Sporothrix schenckii by a paracellular route involving extracellular matrix proteins
Microbiology 2007 153: 2910-2921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna M. Kolodziejek, Dylan J. Sinclair, Keun S. Seo, Darren R. Schnider, Claudia F. Deobald, Harold N. Rohde, Austin K. Viall, Scott S. Minnich, Carolyn J. Hovde, Scott A. Minnich, and Gregory A. Bohach

Phenotypic characterization of OmpX, an Ail homologue of Yersinia pestis KIM
Microbiology 2007 153: 2941-2951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Weili Liang, Alberto Pascual-Montano, Anisia J. Silva, and Jorge A. Benitez

The cyclic AMP receptor protein modulates quorum sensing, motility and multiple genes that affect intestinal colonization in Vibrio cholerae
Microbiology 2007 153: 2964-2975. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sylvie Chauvaux, Marie-Laure Rosso, Lionel Frangeul, Céline Lacroix, Laurent Labarre, Angèle Schiavo, Michaël Marceau, Marie-Agnès Dillies, Jeannine Foulon, Jean-Yves Coppée, Claudine Médigue, Michel Simonet, and Elisabeth Carniel

Transcriptome analysis of Yersinia pestis in human plasma: an approach for discovering bacterial genes involved in septicaemic plague
Microbiology 2007 153: 3112-3124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sarah E. Cross, Jens Kreth, Lin Zhu, Richard Sullivan, Wenyuan Shi, Fengxia Qi, and James K. Gimzewski

Nanomechanical properties of glucans and associated cell-surface adhesion of Streptococcus mutans probed by atomic force microscopy under in situ conditions
Microbiology 2007 153: 3124-3132. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jennifer Lynett and Richard W. Stokes

Selection of transposon mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with increased macrophage infectivity identifies fadD23 to be involved in sulfolipid production and association with macrophages
Microbiology 2007 153: 3133-3140. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jiaxin Li, Cheryl Ryder, Manas Mandal, Farzana Ahmed, Parastoo Azadi, D. Scott Snyder, Roger D. Pechous, Thomas Zahrt, and Thomas J. Inzana

Attenuation and protective efficacy of an O-antigen-deficient mutant of Francisella tularensis LVS
Microbiology 2007 153: 3141-3153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Hope Richard and John W. Foster

Sodium regulates Escherichia coli acid resistance, and influences GadX- and GadW-dependent activation of gadE
Microbiology 2007 153: 3154-3161. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vineet K. Singh, Sugunya Utaida, Letitia S. Jackson, R. K. Jayaswal, Brian J. Wilkinson, and Neal R. Chamberlain

Role for dnaK locus in tolerance of multiple stresses in Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2007 153: 3162-3173. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nuria Antón, Javier Santos-Aberturas, Marta V. Mendes, Susana M. Guerra, Juan F. Martín, and Jesús F. Aparicio

PimM, a PAS domain positive regulator of pimaricin biosynthesis in Streptomyces natalensis
Microbiology 2007 153: 3174-3183. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Uma Shankar Sagaram, Brian D. Shaw, and Won-Bo Shim

Fusarium verticillioides GAP1, a gene encoding a putative glycolipid-anchored surface protein, participates in conidiation and cell wall structure but not virulence
Microbiology 2007 153: 2850-2861. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Simon H. Miller, Rachel M. Elliot, John T. Sullivan, and Clive W. Ronson

Host-specific regulation of symbiotic nitrogen fixation in Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii
Microbiology 2007 153: 3184-3195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Shengyi Liu, Xiaojia Hu, Scott M. Lohrke, C. Jaycn Baker, Jeffrey S. Buyer, Jorge T. de Souza, and Daniel P. Roberts

Role of sdhA and pfkA and catabolism of reduced carbon during colonization of cucumber roots by Enterobacter cloacae
Microbiology 2007 153: 3196-3209. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

THEORETICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Belinda Barnes, Harvinder Sidhu, and David M. Gordon

Host gastro-intestinal dynamics and the frequency of colicin production by Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2007 153: 2823-2827. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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