BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Jiraporn Jirakkakul, Juntira Punya, Somchai Pongpattanakitshote, Porntip Paungmoung, Namol Vorapreeda, Anuwat Tachaleat, Cheeranun Klomnara, Morakot Tanticharoen, and Supapon Cheevadhanarak

Identification of the nonribosomal peptide synthetase gene responsible for bassianolide synthesis in wood-decaying fungus Xylaria sp. BCC1067
Microbiology 2008 154: 995-1006. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

David P. Fewer, Ave Tooming-Klunderud, Jouni Jokela, Matti Wahlsten, Leo Rouhiainen, Tom Kristensen, Thomas Rohrlack, Kjetill S. Jakobsen, and Kaarina Sivonen

Natural occurrence of microcystin synthetase deletion mutants capable of producing microcystins in strains of the genus Anabaena (Cyanobacteria)
Microbiology 2008 154: 1007-1014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Oksana V. Barysheva, Jun Fujii, Giichi Takaesu, and Shin-ichi Yoshida

Application of unstable Gfp variants to the kinetic study of Legionella pneumophila icm gene expression during infection
Microbiology 2008 154: 1015-1025. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jian-Shen Zhao, Dominic Manno, and Jalal Hawari

Regulation of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) metabolism in Shewanella halifaxensis HAW-EB4 by terminal electron acceptor and involvement of c-type cytochrome
Microbiology 2008 154: 1026-1037. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Luisa Barreiros, Ana Fernandes, António C. Silva Ferreira, Helena Pereira, Margarida M. S. M. Bastos, Célia M. Manaia, and Olga C. Nunes

New insights into a bacterial metabolic and detoxifying association responsible for the mineralization of the thiocarbamate herbicide molinate
Microbiology 2008 154: 1038-1046. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Ta-Chun Lo, Hung-Wen Chen, Yu-Kuo Tsai, Yang-Cheng Kuo, Chao-Fen Lin, Ssu-Ying Kuo, and Thy-Hou Lin

Formation of an inverted repeat junction in the transposition of insertion sequence ISLC3 isolated from Lactobacillus casei
Microbiology 2008 154: 1047-1058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paul Golby, Javier Nunez, Paul J. Cockle, Katie Ewer, Karen Logan, Philip Hogarth, H. Martin Vordermeier, Jason Hinds, R. Glyn Hewinson, and Stephen V. Gordon

Characterization of two in vivo-expressed methyltransferases of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: antigenicity and genetic regulation
Microbiology 2008 154: 1059-1067. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Karina Brinkrolf, Svenja Plöger, Sandra Solle, Iris Brune, Svenja S. Nentwich, Andrea T. Hüser, Jörn Kalinowski, Alfred Pühler, and Andreas Tauch

The LacI/GalR family transcriptional regulator UriR negatively controls uridine utilization of Corynebacterium glutamicum by binding to catabolite-responsive element (cre)-like sequences
Microbiology 2008 154: 1068-1081. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Ganwu Li, Christa Ewers, Claudia Laturnus, Ines Diehl, Katja Alt, Jianjun Dai, Esther-Maria Antão, Karin Schnetz, and Lothar H. Wieler

Characterization of a yjjQ mutant of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC)
Microbiology 2008 154: 1082-1093. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marcia Shu-Wei Su, Hsi-Chun Kao, Ching-Nan Lin, and Wan-Jr Syu

Gene l0017 encodes a second chaperone for EspA of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 : H7
Microbiology 2008 154: 1094-1103. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leanne Purins, Luisa Van Den Bosch, Vanessa Richardson, and Renato Morona

Coiled-coil regions play a role in the function of the Shigella flexneri O-antigen chain length regulator Wzz_pHS2
Microbiology 2008 154: 1104-1116. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stewart J. Hinchliffe, Sarah L. Howard, Yahui H. Huang, David J. Clarke, and Brendan W. Wren

The importance of the Rcs phosphorelay in the survival and pathogenesis of the enteropathogenic yersiniae
Microbiology 2008 154: 1117-1131. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Daniel W. Dunning, Lathan W. McCall, William F. Powell, W. Tristram Arscott, Erin M. McConocha, Cheryl J. McClurg, Steven D. Goodman, and Grace A. Spatafora

SloR modulation of the Streptococcus mutans acid tolerance response involves the GcrR response regulator as an essential intermediary
Microbiology 2008 154: 1132-1143. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beatriz Álvarez, Javier Álvarez, Aurora Menéndez, and José A. Guijarro

A mutant in one of two exbD loci of a TonB system in Flavobacterium psychrophilum shows attenuated virulence and confers protection against cold water disease
Microbiology 2008 154: 1144-1151. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret E. Bauer, Kate R. Fortney, Alistair Harrison, Diane M. Janowicz, Robert S. Munson, and Stanley M. Spinola

Identification of Haemophilus ducreyi genes expressed during human infection
Microbiology 2008 154: 1152-1160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Lihui Yuan, Paulo H. Rodrigues, Myriam Bélanger, William A. Dunn, Jr, and Ann Progulske-Fox

Porphyromonas gingivalis htrA is involved in cellular invasion and in vivo survival
Microbiology 2008 154: 1161-1169. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suzanne J. C. Verhaegh, André Streefland, Joy K. Dewnarain, David J. Farrell, Alex van Belkum, and John P. Hays

Age-related genotypic and phenotypic differences in Moraxella catarrhalis isolates from children and adults presenting with respiratory disease in 2001–2002
Microbiology 2008 154: 1178-1184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Jan Hegermann, Sven Halbedel, Roger Dumke, Jörg Regula, Razif R. Gabdoulline, Frank Mayer, Jörg Stülke, and Richard Herrmann

The acidic, glutamine-rich Mpn474 protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is surface exposed and covers the complete cell
Microbiology 2008 154: 1185-1192. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Fang Li and Sean P. Palecek

Distinct domains of the Candida albicans adhesin Eap1p mediate cell–cell and cell–substrate interactions
Microbiology 2008 154: 1193-1203. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jochen Kleemann, Hiroyuki Takahara, Kurt Stüber, and Richard O'Connell

Identification of soluble secreted proteins from appressoria of Colletotrichum higginsianum by analysis of expressed sequence tags
Microbiology 2008 154: 1204-1217. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Paul C. Mills, Gary Rowley, Stephen Spiro, Jay C. D. Hinton, and David J. Richardson

A combination of cytochrome c nitrite reductase (NrfA) and flavorubredoxin (NorV) protects Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium against killing by NO in anoxic environments
Microbiology 2008 154: 1218-1228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Martina A. Friedl, Monika Schmoll, Christian P. Kubicek, and Irina S. Druzhinina

Photostimulation of Hypocrea atroviridis growth occurs due to a cross-talk of carbon metabolism, blue light receptors and response to oxidative stress
Microbiology 2008 154: 1229-1241. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Jette Thykaer, Kanchana Rueksomtawin, Henk Noorman, and Jens Nielsen

NADPH-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase in Penicillium chrysogenum is involved in regulation of β-lactam production
Microbiology 2008 154: 1242-1250. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Petter Melin, Malcolm Stratford, Andrew Plumridge, and David B. Archer

Auxotrophy for uridine increases the sensitivity of Aspergillus niger to weak-acid preservatives
Microbiology 2008 154: 1251-1257. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Sebastian Beck, Victoria L. Marlow, Katy Woodall, William T. Doerrler, Euan K. James, and Gail P. Ferguson

The Sinorhizobium meliloti MsbA2 protein is essential for the legume symbiosis
Microbiology 2008 154: 1258-1270. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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