MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

MINI-REVIEW:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Gary A. Strobel, Berk Knighton, Katreena Kluck, Yuhao Ren, Tom Livinghouse, Meghan Griffin, Daniel Spakowicz, and Joe Sears

The production of myco-diesel hydrocarbons and their derivatives by the endophytic fungus Gliocladium roseum (NRRL 50072)
Microbiology 2008 154: 3319-3328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akihiro Saito, Takeshi Fujii, Tomonori Shinya, Naoto Shibuya, Akikazu Ando, and Kiyotaka Miyashita

The msiK gene, encoding the ATP-hydrolysing component of N,N'-diacetylchitobiose ABC transporters, is essential for induction of chitinase production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
Microbiology 2008 154: 3358-3365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shingo Nozaki and Tohru Ogawa

Determination of the minimum domain II size of Escherichia coli DnaA protein essential for cell viability
Microbiology 2008 154: 3379-3384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lieke B. van Alphen, Manfred Wuhrer, Nancy M. C. Bleumink-Pluym, Paul J. Hensbergen, André M. Deelder, and Jos P. M. van Putten

A functional Campylobacter jejuni maf4 gene results in novel glycoforms on flagellin and altered autoagglutination behaviour
Microbiology 2008 154: 3385-3397. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew P. Tomaras, Michael J. Flagler, Caleb W. Dorsey, Jennifer A. Gaddy, and Luis A. Actis

Characterization of a two-component regulatory system from Acinetobacter baumannii that controls biofilm formation and cellular morphology
Microbiology 2008 154: 3398-3409. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sture Karlsson, Lars G. Burman, and Thomas Åkerlund

Induction of toxins in Clostridium difficile is associated with dramatic changes of its metabolism
Microbiology 2008 154: 3430-3436. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Adam Polkinghorne, Urs Ziegler, Yanela González-Hernández, Andreas Pospischil, Peter Timms, and Lloyd Vaughan

Chlamydophila pneumoniae HflX belongs to an uncharacterized family of conserved GTPases and associates with the Escherichia coli 50S large ribosomal subunit
Microbiology 2008 154: 3537-3546. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcha L. Gravenbeek and George H. Jones

The endonuclease activity of RNase III is required for the regulation of antibiotic production by Streptomyces coelicolor
Microbiology 2008 154: 3547-3555. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kuang-Ren Chung and Hui-Ling Liao

Determination of a transcriptional regulator-like gene involved in biosynthesis of elsinochrome phytotoxin by the citrus scab fungus, Elsinoë fawcettii
Microbiology 2008 154: 3556-3566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maurine D. Miner, Gary C. Port, and Nancy E. Freitag

Functional impact of mutational activation on the Listeria monocytogenes central virulence regulator PrfA
Microbiology 2008 154: 3579-3589. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Irina S. Druzhinina, Monika Komon-Zelazowska, László Kredics, Lóránt Hatvani, Zsuzsanna Antal, Temesgen Belayneh, and Christian P. Kubicek

Alternative reproductive strategies of Hypocrea orientalis and genetically close but clonal Trichoderma longibrachiatum, both capable of causing invasive mycoses of humans
Microbiology 2008 154: 3447-3459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tao Sha, Jianping Xu, Malliya Gounder Palanichamy, Han-Bo Zhang, Tao Li, Zhi-Wei Zhao, and Ya-Ping Zhang

Genetic diversity of the endemic gourmet mushroom Thelephora ganbajun from south-western China
Microbiology 2008 154: 3460-3468. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

C. Vamsee-Krishna and Prashant S. Phale

Carbon source-dependent modulation of NADP-glutamate dehydrogenases in isophthalate-degrading Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PP4, Pseudomonas strain PPD and Acinetobacter lwoffii strain ISP4
Microbiology 2008 154: 3329-3337. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Subhankar Chatterjee and Tapan K. Dutta

Metabolic cooperation of Gordonia sp. strain MTCC 4818 and Arthrobacter sp. strain WY in the utilization of butyl benzyl phthalate: effect of a novel co-culture in the degradation of a mixture of phthalates
Microbiology 2008 154: 3338-3346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia Sánchez-Baracaldo, Barbara A. Handley, and Paul K. Hayes

Picocyanobacterial community structure of freshwater lakes and the Baltic Sea revealed by phylogenetic analyses and clade-specific quantitative PCR
Microbiology 2008 154: 3347-3357. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Akiko Hasegawa, Hiroshi Ogasawara, Ayako Kori, Jun Teramoto, and Akira Ishihama

The transcription regulator AllR senses both allantoin and glyoxylate and controls a set of genes for degradation and reutilization of purines
Microbiology 2008 154: 3366-3378. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Michael L. Kotewicz, Mark K. Mammel, J. Eugene LeClerc, and Thomas A. Cebula

Optical mapping and 454 sequencing of Escherichia coli O157 : H7 isolates linked to the US 2006 spinach-associated outbreak
Microbiology 2008 154: 3518-3528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Kate Porter, Brendan E. Russ, Ji Yang, and Michael L. Dyall-Smith

The transcription programme of the protein-primed halovirus SH1
Microbiology 2008 154: 3599-3608. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Yung-Hua Li, Xiao-Lin Tian, Gillian Layton, Chris Norgaard, and Gary Sisson

Additive attenuation of virulence and cariogenic potential of Streptococcus mutans by simultaneous inactivation of the ComCDE quorum-sensing system and HK/RR11 two-component regulatory system
Microbiology 2008 154: 3256-3265. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Julian R. Naglik, David Moyes, Jagruti Makwana, Priya Kanzaria, Elina Tsichlaki, Günther Weindl, Anwar R. Tappuni, Catherine A. Rodgers, Alexander J. Woodman, Stephen J. Challacombe, Martin Schaller, and Bernhard Hube

Quantitative expression of the Candida albicans secreted aspartyl proteinase gene family in human oral and vaginal candidiasis
Microbiology 2008 154: 3266-3280. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ulrich Lermann and Joachim Morschhäuser

Secreted aspartic proteases are not required for invasion of reconstituted human epithelia by Candida albicans
Microbiology 2008 154: 3281-3295. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hassan Badrane, M. Hong Nguyen, Shaoji Cheng, Vipul Kumar, Hartmut Derendorf, Kenneth A. Iczkowski, and Cornelius J. Clancy

The Candida albicans phosphatase Inp51p interacts with the EH domain protein Irs4p, regulates phosphatidylinositol-4,5-bisphosphate levels and influences hyphal formation, the cell integrity pathway and virulence
Microbiology 2008 154: 3296-3308. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Thyagarajan Srikantha, Karla J. Daniels, Wei Wu, Shawn R. Lockhart, Song Yi, Nidhi Sahni, Ning Ma, and David R. Soll

Dark brown is the more virulent of the switch phenotypes of Candida glabrata
Microbiology 2008 154: 3309-3318. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qilong Xu, Kristy McShan, and Fang Ting Liang

Modification of Borrelia burgdorferi to overproduce OspA or VlsE alters its infectious behaviour
Microbiology 2008 154: 3420-3429. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Prachi P. Singh, Marcela Parra, Nathalie Cadieux, and Michael J. Brennan

A comparative study of host response to three Mycobacterium tuberculosis PE_PGRS proteins
Microbiology 2008 154: 3469-3479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Leonardo Rocchetto Coelho, Raquel Rodrigues Souza, Fabienne Antunes Ferreira, Márcia Aparecida Guimarães, Bernadete Teixeira Ferreira-Carvalho, and Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo

agr RNAIII divergently regulates glucose-induced biofilm formation in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2008 154: 3480-3490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kei-ichi Uchiya and Toshiaki Nikai

Salmonella virulence factor SpiC is involved in expression of flagellin protein and mediates activation of the signal transduction pathways in macrophages
Microbiology 2008 154: 3491-3502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michelle C. Hares, Stewart J. Hinchliffe, Philippa C. R. Strong, Ioannis Eleftherianos, Andrea J. Dowling, Richard H. ffrench-Constant, and Nick Waterfield

The Yersinia pseudotuberculosis and Yersinia pestis toxin complex is active against cultured mammalian cells
Microbiology 2008 154: 3503-3517. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Rivka Cahan, Hen Friman, and Yeshayahu Nitzan

Antibacterial activity of Cyt1Aa from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
Microbiology 2008 154: 3529-3536. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Belén Álvarez, María M. López, and Elena G. Biosca

Survival strategies and pathogenicity of Ralstonia solanacearum phylotype II subjected to prolonged starvation in environmental water microcosms
Microbiology 2008 154: 3590-3598. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Amy L. Turnbull and Michael G. Surette

L-Cysteine is required for induced antibiotic resistance in actively swarming Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Microbiology 2008 154: 3410-3419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akio Tani, Chiemi Inoue, Yoko Tanaka, Yoko Yamamoto, Hideki Kondo, Syuntaro Hiradate, Kazuhide Kimbara, and Fusako Kawai

The crucial role of mitochondrial regulation in adaptive aluminium resistance in Rhodotorula glutinis
Microbiology 2008 154: 3437-3446. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ramón O. García-Rico, Francisco Fierro, Elba Mauriz, Ana Gómez, María Ángeles Fernández-Bodega, and Juan F. Martín

The heterotrimeric G protein Pga1 regulates biosynthesis of penicillin, chrysogenin and roquefortine in Penicillium chrysogenum
Microbiology 2008 154: 3567-3578. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

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