BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Rosa C. Baños, José I. Pons, Cristina Madrid, and Antonio Juárez

A global modulatory role for the Yersinia enterocolitica H-NS protein
Microbiology 2008 154: 1281-1289. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Germán E. Piñas, Paulo R. Cortes, Andrea G. Albarracín Orio, and José Echenique

Acidic stress induces autolysis by a CSP-independent ComE pathway in Streptococcus pneumoniae
Microbiology 2008 154: 1300-1308. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Tadayuki Toratani, Toshihiro Shoji, Tomonori Ikehara, Kazushi Suzuki, and Takeshi Watanabe

The importance of chitobiase and N-acetylglucosamine (GlcNAc) uptake in N,N'-diacetylchitobiose [(GlcNAc)₂] utilization by Serratia marcescens 2170
Microbiology 2008 154: 1326-1332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liang Liang, Xihong He, Gang Liu, and Huarong Tan

The role of a purine-specific nucleoside hydrolase in spore germination of Bacillus thuringiensis
Microbiology 2008 154: 1333-1340. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cecilia Quiroga, Paul H. Roy, and Daniela Centrón

The S.ma.I2 class C group II intron inserts at integron attC sites
Microbiology 2008 154: 1341-1353. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Miguel Balado, Carlos R. Osorio, and Manuel L. Lemos

Biosynthetic and regulatory elements involved in the production of the siderophore vanchrobactin in Vibrio anguillarum
Microbiology 2008 154: 1400-1413. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Stéphane G. Rolland and Christophe A. Bruel

Sulphur and nitrogen regulation of the protease-encoding ACP1 gene in the fungus Botrytis cinerea: correlation with a phospholipase D activity
Microbiology 2008 154: 1464-1473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Sanjay S. Hiremath, Anuradha Chowdhary, Tusharantak Kowshik, Harbans S. Randhawa, Sheng Sun, and Jianping Xu

Long-distance dispersal and recombination in environmental populations of Cryptococcus neoformans var. grubii from India
Microbiology 2008 154: 1513-1524. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Kim-Ly Chhour, Lyn A. Hinds, Elizabeth M. Deane, and Nicholas A. Jacques

The microbiome of the cloacal openings of the urogenital and anal tracts of the tammar wallaby, Macropus eugenii
Microbiology 2008 154: 1535-1543. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

CELL AND DEVELOPMENTAL BIOLOGY:

Michelle A. Hubbard and Susan G. W. Kaminskyj

Rapid tip-directed movement of Golgi equivalents in growing Aspergillus nidulans hyphae suggests a mechanism for delivery of growth-related materials
Microbiology 2008 154: 1544-1553. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Paula Ristow, Pascale Bourhy, Sophie Kerneis, Christine Schmitt, Marie-Christine Prevost, Walter Lilenbaum, and Mathieu Picardeau

Biofilm formation by saprophytic and pathogenic leptospires
Microbiology 2008 154: 1309-1317. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ivan Rychlík, Helena Hradecka, and Marcela Malcova

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium typing by prophage-specific PCR
Microbiology 2008 154: 1384-1389. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Dawn E. Holmes, Tünde Mester, Regina A. O'Neil, Lorrie A. Perpetua, M. Juliana Larrahondo, Richard Glaven, Manju L. Sharma, Joy E. Ward, Kelly P. Nevin, and Derek R. Lovley

Genes for two multicopper proteins required for Fe(III) oxide reduction in Geobacter sulfurreducens have different expression patterns both in the subsurface and on energy-harvesting electrodes
Microbiology 2008 154: 1422-1435. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kelly A. Bidle, P. Aaron Kirkland, Jennifer L. Nannen, and Julie A. Maupin-Furlow

Proteomic analysis of Haloferax volcanii reveals salinity-mediated regulation of the stress response protein PspA
Microbiology 2008 154: 1436-1443. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dimitry Yu. Sorokin, Tatjana P. Tourova, Anne M. Henstra, Alfons J. M. Stams, Erwin A. Galinski, and Gerard Muyzer

Sulfidogenesis under extremely haloalkaline conditions by Desulfonatronospira thiodismutans gen. nov., sp. nov., and Desulfonatronospira delicata sp. nov. – a novel lineage of Deltaproteobacteria from hypersaline soda lakes
Microbiology 2008 154: 1444-1453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Iain C. Sutcliffe, Gary W. Black, and Dean J. Harrington

Bioinformatic insights into the biosynthesis of the Group B carbohydrate in Streptococcus agalactiae
Microbiology 2008 154: 1354-1363. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Filipa Gil, Maria João Catalão, José Moniz-Pereira, Paula Leandro, Michael McNeil, and Madalena Pimentel

The lytic cassette of mycobacteriophage Ms6 encodes an enzyme with lipolytic activity
Microbiology 2008 154: 1364-1371. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Javier F. Mariscotti and Francisco García-del Portillo

Instability of the Salmonella RcsCDB signalling system in the absence of the attenuator IgaA
Microbiology 2008 154: 1372-1383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Sylvie Malembic-Maher, Fiona Constable, Agnès Cimerman, Guillaume Arnaud, Patricia Carle, Xavier Foissac, and Elisabeth Boudon-Padieu

A chromosome map of the Flavescence dorée phytoplasma
Microbiology 2008 154: 1454-1463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Jingru Sun, Jennifer Kintner, and Robert V. Schoborg

The host adherens junction molecule nectin-1 is downregulated in Chlamydia trachomatis-infected genital epithelial cells
Microbiology 2008 154: 1290-1299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Takashi Shimizu, Yutaka Kida, and Koichi Kuwano

Ureaplasma parvum lipoproteins, including MB antigen, activate NF-B through TLR1, TLR2 and TLR6
Microbiology 2008 154: 1318-1325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alix T. Coste, Mark Ramsdale, Françoise Ischer, and Dominique Sanglard

Divergent functions of three Candida albicans zinc-cluster transcription factors (CTA4, ASG1 and CTF1) complementing pleiotropic drug resistance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2008 154: 1491-1501. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra Woodacre, Robert P. Mason, Rose E. Jeeves, and Annette M. Cashmore

Copper-dependent transcriptional regulation by Candida albicans Mac1p
Microbiology 2008 154: 1502-1512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Akiko Kusumoto, Akari Shinohara, Hiroyuki Terashima, Seiji Kojima, Toshiharu Yakushi, and Michio Homma

Collaboration of FlhF and FlhG to regulate polar-flagella number and localization in Vibrio alginolyticus
Microbiology 2008 154: 1390-1399. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roland H. Müller, Thore Rohwerder, and Hauke Harms

Degradation of fuel oxygenates and their main intermediates by Aquincola tertiaricarbonis L108
Microbiology 2008 154: 1414-1421. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Dolores Cordoba Cañero and M. Isabel G. Roncero

Influence of the chloride channel of Fusarium oxysporum on extracellular laccase activity and virulence on tomato plants
Microbiology 2008 154: 1474-1481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Pieter van West, Samantha J. Shepherd, Claire A. Walker, Shuang Li, Alex A. Appiah, Laura J. Grenville-Briggs, Francine Govers, and Neil A. R. Gow

Internuclear gene silencing in Phytophthora infestans is established through chromatin remodelling
Microbiology 2008 154: 1482-1490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

CORRIGENDUM:

Annette Fagerlund, Toril Lindbäck, Anne K. Storset, Per Einar Granum, and Simon P. Hardy

Bacillus cereus Nhe is a pore-forming toxin with structural and functional properties similar to the ClyA (HlyE, SheA) family of haemolysins, able to induce osmotic lysis in epithelia
Microbiology 2008 154: 1554. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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