MINI-REVIEW:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

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

Identification of TmcN as a pathway-specific positive regulator of tautomycetin biosynthesis in Streptomyces sp. CK4412
Microbiology 2008 154: 2912-2919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Manish Kumar and Dipankar Chatterji

Cyclic di-GMP: a second messenger required for long-term survival, but not for biofilm formation, in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2942-2955. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Diego Ruiz, Paloma Salinas, Maria Luisa Lopez-Redondo, Maria Luisa Cayuela, Alberto Marina, and Asunción Contreras

Phosphorylation-independent activation of the atypical response regulator NblR
Microbiology 2008 154: 3002-3015. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Freya Senf, Jan Tommassen, and Margot Koster

Polar secretion of proteins via the Xcp type II secretion system in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2008 154: 3025-3032. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Silvia Maggi, Orietta Massidda, Giuseppe Luzi, Daniela Fadda, Luciano Paolozzi, and Patrizia Ghelardini

Division protein interaction web: identification of a phylogenetically conserved common interactome between Streptococcus pneumoniae and Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2008 154: 3042-3052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beatrice Benkert, Nicole Quäck, Kerstin Schreiber, Lothar Jaensch, Dieter Jahn, and Max Schobert

Nitrate-responsive NarX-NarL represses arginine-mediated induction of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa arginine fermentation arcDABC operon
Microbiology 2008 154: 3053-3060. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katarzyna Piekarska, Guy Hardy, Els Mol, Janny van den Burg, Karin Strijbis, Carlo van Roermund, Marlene van den Berg, and Ben Distel

The activity of the glyoxylate cycle in peroxisomes of Candida albicans depends on a functional β-oxidation pathway: evidence for reduced metabolite transport across the peroxisomal membrane
Microbiology 2008 154: 3061-3072. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sung Ok Han, Masayuki Inui, and Hideaki Yukawa

Effect of carbon source availability and growth phase on expression of Corynebacterium glutamicum genes involved in the tricarboxylic acid cycle and glyoxylate bypass
Microbiology 2008 154: 3073-3083. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen M. Kwong, Ricky Lim, Rebecca J. LeBard, Ronald A. Skurray, and Neville Firth

Analysis of the pSK1 replicon, a prototype from the staphylococcal multiresistance plasmid family
Microbiology 2008 154: 3084-3094. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rita Fischer, Fenja S. Bleichrodt, and Ulrike C. Gerischer

Aromatic degradative pathways in Acinetobacter baylyi underlie carbon catabolite repression
Microbiology 2008 154: 3095-3103. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Yanina R. Sevastsyanovich, Renata Krasowiak, Lewis E. H. Bingle, Anthony S. Haines, Sergey L. Sokolov, Irina A. Kosheleva, Anastassia A. Leuchuk, Marina A. Titok, Kornelia Smalla, and Christopher M. Thomas

Diversity of IncP-9 plasmids of Pseudomonas
Microbiology 2008 154: 2929-2941. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Katy Webb, Keith A. Jolley, Zoe Mitchell, Carl Robinson, J. Richard Newton, Martin C. J. Maiden, and Andrew Waller

Development of an unambiguous and discriminatory multilocus sequence typing scheme for the Streptococcus zooepidemicus group
Microbiology 2008 154: 3016-3024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Marcos A. Vannier-Santos, Diego Menezes, Marcus F. Oliveira, and Fernando G. de Mello

The putrescine analogue 1,4-diamino-2-butanone affects polyamine synthesis, transport, ultrastructure and intracellular survival in Leishmania amazonensis
Microbiology 2008 154: 3104-3111. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Vinh Hoa Pham, Jeong-Joong Yong, Soo-Je Park, Dae-No Yoon, Won-Hyong Chung, and Sung-Keun Rhee

Molecular analysis of the diversity of the sulfide : quinone reductase (sqr) gene in sediment environments
Microbiology 2008 154: 3112-3121. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Niels P. Boks, Willem Norde, Henny C. van der Mei, and Henk J. Busscher

Forces involved in bacterial adhesion to hydrophilic and hydrophobic surfaces
Microbiology 2008 154: 3122-3133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Jan R. van der Ploeg

Characterization of Streptococcus gordonii prophage PH15: complete genome sequence and functional analysis of phage-encoded integrase and endolysin
Microbiology 2008 154: 2970-2978. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Dennis Dienst, Ulf Dühring, Hans-Joachim Mollenkopf, Jörg Vogel, Jochen Golecki, Wolfgang R. Hess, and Annegret Wilde

The cyanobacterial homologue of the RNA chaperone Hfq is essential for motility of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Microbiology 2008 154: 3134-3143. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Data]  

Aurélie A. Huet, Jose L. Raygada, Kabir Mendiratta, Susan M. Seo, and Glenn W. Kaatz

Multidrug efflux pump overexpression in Staphylococcus aureus after single and multiple in vitro exposures to biocides and dyes
Microbiology 2008 154: 3144-3153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John P. Paluszynski, Roland Klassen, and Friedhelm Meinhardt

Genetic prerequisites for additive or synergistic actions of 5-fluorocytosine and fluconazole in baker's yeast
Microbiology 2008 154: 3154-3164. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zaed Z. R. Hamady, Mark D. Farrar, Terence R. Whitehead, Keith T. Holland, J. Peter A. Lodge, and Simon R. Carding

Identification and use of the putative Bacteroides ovatus xylanase promoter for the inducible production of recombinant human proteins
Microbiology 2008 154: 3165-3174. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elisabeth Sonnleitner, Theresa Sorger-Domenigg, Monika J. Madej, Sven Findeiss, Jörg Hackermüller, Alexander Hüttenhofer, Peter F. Stadler, Udo Bläsi, and Isabella Moll

Detection of small RNAs in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by RNomics and structure-based bioinformatic tools
Microbiology 2008 154: 3175-3187. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Rishi D. Pathirana, Neil M. O'Brien-Simpson, Kumar Visvanathan, John A. Hamilton, and Eric C. Reynolds

The role of the RgpA–Kgp proteinase–adhesin complexes in the adherence of Porphyromonas gingivalis to fibroblasts
Microbiology 2008 154: 2904-2911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Silvana K. Rampini, Petra Selchow, Christine Keller, Stefan Ehlers, Erik C. Böttger, and Peter Sander

LspA inactivation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis results in attenuation without affecting phagosome maturation arrest
Microbiology 2008 154: 2991-3001. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Priscilla M. Ueno, Jorge Timenetsky, Victoria E. Centonze, Jimmy J. Wewer, Marianna Cagle, Murry A. Stein, Manickam Krishnan, and Joel B. Baseman

Interaction of Mycoplasma genitalium with host cells: evidence for nuclear localization
Microbiology 2008 154: 3033-3041. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oscar Q. Pich, Raul Burgos, Mario Ferrer-Navarro, Enrique Querol, and Jaume Piñol

Role of Mycoplasma genitalium MG218 and MG317 cytoskeletal proteins in terminal organelle organization, gliding motility and cytadherence
Microbiology 2008 154: 3188-3198. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Jouko Sillanpää, Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Vittal P. Prakash, Xiang Qin, Magnus Höök, George M. Weinstock, and Barbara E. Murray

Identification and phenotypic characterization of a second collagen adhesin, Scm, and genome-based identification and analysis of 13 other predicted MSCRAMMs, including four distinct pilus loci, in Enterococcus faecium
Microbiology 2008 154: 3199-3211. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Antoni P. A. Hendrickx, Marc J. M. Bonten, Miranda van Luit-Asbroek, Claudia M. E. Schapendonk, Angela H. M. Kragten, and Rob J. L. Willems

Expression of two distinct types of pili by a hospital-acquired Enterococcus faecium isolate
Microbiology 2008 154: 3212-3223. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Saeed Tarighi, Qing Wei, Miguel Cámara, Paul Williams, Matthew P. Fletcher, Tommi Kajander, and Pierre Cornelis

The PA4204 gene encodes a periplasmic gluconolactonase (PpgL) which is important for fitness of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2008 154: 2979-2990. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Simona Gazzola and Pier Sandro Cocconcelli

Vancomycin heteroresistance and biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis from food
Microbiology 2008 154: 3224-3231. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Hiroshi Hojo, Makoto Koyanagi, Masayuki Tanaka, Shigeru Kajihara, Kouhei Ohnishi, Akinori Kiba, and Yasufumi Hikichi

The hrp genes of Pseudomonas cichorii are essential for pathogenicity on eggplant but not on lettuce
Microbiology 2008 154: 2920-2928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marc Breton, Sybille Duret, Nathalie Arricau-Bouvery, Laure Béven, and Joël Renaudin

Characterizing the replication and stability regions of Spiroplasma citri plasmids identifies a novel replication protein and expands the genetic toolbox for plant-pathogenic spiroplasmas
Microbiology 2008 154: 3232-3244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

THEORETICAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Andreas Dötsch, Jörg Severin, Wolfgang Alt, Erwin A. Galinski, and Jan-Ulrich Kreft

A mathematical model for growth and osmoregulation in halophilic bacteria
Microbiology 2008 154: 2956-2969. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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