REVIEW:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Joanna Skorko-Glonek, Anna Sobiecka-Szkatula, Joanna Narkiewicz, and Barbara Lipinska

The proteolytic activity of the HtrA (DegP) protein from Escherichia coli at low temperatures
Microbiology 2008 154: 3649-3658. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hideaki Takano, Takumi Tanaka, Teruhiko Beppu, and Kenji Ueda

Identification of sas, a conserved gene cluster involved in the regulation of aerial mycelium formation in Streptomyces griseus
Microbiology 2008 154: 3668-3675. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Krisztina Gábor, Kagnew Hailesellasse Sene, Hauke Smidt, Willem M. de Vos, and John van der Oost

Divergent roles of CprK paralogues from Desulfitobacterium hafniense in activating gene expression
Microbiology 2008 154: 3686-3696. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bing Tian, Zongtao Sun, Zhenjian Xu, Shaochuan Shen, Hu Wang, and Yuejin Hua

Carotenoid 3',4'-desaturase is involved in carotenoid biosynthesis in the radioresistant bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans
Microbiology 2008 154: 3697-3706. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures]  

Ava Masoumi, Ilka Ursula Heinemann, Manfred Rohde, Michael Koch, Martina Jahn, and Dieter Jahn

Complex formation between protoporphyrinogen IX oxidase and ferrochelatase during haem biosynthesis in Thermosynechococcus elongatus
Microbiology 2008 154: 3707-3714. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna E. Grzegorzewicz, Yufang Ma, Victoria Jones, Dean Crick, Avraham Liav, and Michael R. McNeil

Development of a microtitre plate-based assay for lipid-linked glycosyltransferase products using the mycobacterial cell wall rhamnosyltransferase WbbL
Microbiology 2008 154: 3724-3730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul R. Wheeler, Roland Brosch, Nicholas G. Coldham, Jacqueline K. Inwald, R. Glyn Hewinson, and Stephen V. Gordon

Functional analysis of a clonal deletion in an epidemic strain of Mycobacterium bovis reveals a role in lipid metabolism
Microbiology 2008 154: 3731-3742. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

André M. Murad, Eliane F. Noronha, Robert N. G. Miller, Fabio T. Costa, Caroline D. Pereira, Ângela Mehta, Ruy A. Caldas, and Octávio L. Franco

Proteomic analysis of Metarhizium anisopliae secretion in the presence of the insect pest Callosobruchus maculatus
Microbiology 2008 154: 3766-3774. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Jinfeng Teng, Rika Goto, Kazuko Iida, Itaru Kojima, and Hidetoshi Iida

Ion-channel blocker sensitivity of voltage-gated calcium-channel homologue Cch1 in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2008 154: 3775-3781. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Iskandar Ben Salah, Toidi Adékambi, Didier Raoult, and Michel Drancourt

rpoB sequence-based identification of Mycobacterium avium complex species
Microbiology 2008 154: 3715-3723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Zhonghui Gai, Bo Yu, Xiaoyu Wang, Zixin Deng, and Ping Xu

Microbial transformation of benzothiophenes, with carbazole as the auxiliary substrate, by Sphingomonas sp. strain XLDN2-5
Microbiology 2008 154: 3804-3812. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joy D. Van Nostrand, John M. Arthur, Lisa E. Kilpatrick, Benjamin A. Neely, Paul M. Bertsch, and Pamela J. Morris

Changes in protein expression in Burkholderia vietnamiensis PR1₃₀₁ at pH 5 and 7 with and without nickel
Microbiology 2008 154: 3813-3824. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figures and Tables]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Nils Hülter and Wilfried Wackernagel

Frequent integration of short homologous DNA tracks during Acinetobacter baylyi transformation and influence of transcription and RecJ and SbcCD DNases
Microbiology 2008 154: 3676-3685. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. Nevarez, V. Vasseur, G. Le Dréan, A. Tanguy, I. Guisle-Marsollier, R. Houlgatte, and G. Barbier

Isolation and analysis of differentially expressed genes in Penicillium glabrum subjected to thermal stress
Microbiology 2008 154: 3752-3765. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Jay L. Mellies, Fredrick J. Larabee, Melissa A. Zarr, Katy L. Horback, Emily Lorenzen, and David Mavor

Ler interdomain linker is essential for anti-silencing activity in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2008 154: 3624-3638. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maricel Vidal, Valeria Prado, Gregory C. Whitlock, Aldo Solari, Alfredo G. Torres, and Roberto M. Vidal

Subtractive hybridization and identification of putative adhesins in a Shiga toxin-producing eae-negative Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2008 154: 3639-3648. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Stacy M. Townsend, Edward Hurrell, Juncal Caubilla-Barron, Catherine Loc-Carrillo, and Stephen J. Forsythe

Characterization of an extended-spectrum beta-lactamase Enterobacter hormaechei nosocomial outbreak, and other Enterobacter hormaechei misidentified as Cronobacter (Enterobacter) sakazakii
Microbiology 2008 154: 3659-3667. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takahiro Oura and Susumu Kajiwara

Disruption of the sphingolipid ⁸-desaturase gene causes a delay in morphological changes in Candida albicans
Microbiology 2008 154: 3795-3803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Julie Lamothe and Miguel A. Valvano

Burkholderia cenocepacia-induced delay of acidification and phagolysosomal fusion in cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)-defective macrophages
Microbiology 2008 154: 3825-3834. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles L. Larson, Devendra H. Shah, A. Singh Dhillon, Douglas R. Call, Soohyoun Ahn, Gary J. Haldorson, Chris Davitt, and Michael E. Konkel

Campylobacter jejuni invade chicken LMH cells inefficiently and stimulate differential expression of the chicken CXCLi1 and CXCLi2 cytokines
Microbiology 2008 154: 3835-3847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hencelyn G. Chu, Sara K. Weeks, Diana M. Gilligan, and Daniel D. Rockey

Host -adducin is redistributed and localized to the inclusion membrane in Chlamydia- and Chlamydophila-infected cells
Microbiology 2008 154: 3848-3855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Regina Stoll, Sonja Mertins, Biju Joseph, Stefanie Müller-Altrock, and Werner Goebel

Modulation of PrfA activity in Listeria monocytogenes upon growth in different culture media
Microbiology 2008 154: 3856-3876. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Enrique Llobet, Juan M. Tomás, and Jose A Bengoechea

Capsule polysaccharide is a bacterial decoy for antimicrobial peptides
Microbiology 2008 154: 3877-3886. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isabel Martinez-Argudo and Mark A. Jepson

Salmonella translocates across an in vitro M cell model independently of SPI-1 and SPI-2
Microbiology 2008 154: 3887-3894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isaac Cervantes-Sandoval, José de Jesús Serrano-Luna, Ethel García-Latorre, Víctor Tsutsumi, and Mineko Shibayama

Mucins in the host defence against Naegleria fowleri and mucinolytic activity as a possible means of evasion
Microbiology 2008 154: 3895-3904. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Juhyun Kim, Che Ok Jeon, and Woojun Park

Dual regulation of zwf-1 by both 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate and oxidative stress in Pseudomonas putida
Microbiology 2008 154: 3905-3916. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jens O. Krömer, Christoph J. Bolten, Elmar Heinzle, Hartwig Schröder, and Christoph Wittmann

Physiological response of Corynebacterium glutamicum to oxidative stress induced by deletion of the transcriptional repressor McbR
Microbiology 2008 154: 3917-3930. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Severine Grouffaud, Pieter van West, Anna O. Avrova, Paul R. J. Birch, and Stephen C. Whisson

Plasmodium falciparum and Hyaloperonospora parasitica effector translocation motifs are functional in Phytophthora infestans
Microbiology 2008 154: 3743-3751. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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