MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MICROBES:

Valérie Dekimpe and Eric Déziel

Revisiting the quorum-sensing hierarchy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: the transcriptional regulator RhlR regulates LasR-specific factors
Microbiology 2009 155: 712-723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

F. J. M. Mojica, C. Díez-Villaseñor, J. García-Martínez, and C. Almendros

Short motif sequences determine the targets of the prokaryotic CRISPR defence system
Microbiology 2009 155: 733-740. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Keiro Watanabe, Yoshiki Tsuchida, Naoko Okibe, Haruhiko Teramoto, Nobuaki Suzuki, Masayuki Inui, and Hideaki Yukawa

Scanning the Corynebacterium glutamicum R genome for high-efficiency secretion signal sequences
Microbiology 2009 155: 741-750. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Yu-Kuo Tsai, Hung-Wen Chen, Ta-Chun Lo, and Thy-Hou Lin

Specific point mutations in Lactobacillus casei ATCC 27139 cause a phenotype switch from Lac^– to Lac⁺
Microbiology 2009 155: 751-760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Hanif Ali and J. Colin Murrell

Development and validation of promoter-probe vectors for the study of methane monooxygenase gene expression in Methylococcus capsulatus Bath
Microbiology 2009 155: 761-771. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rashmi Shrivastava, Ananta Kumar Ghosh, and Amit Kumar Das

Intra- and intermolecular domain interactions among novel two-component system proteins coded by Rv0600c, Rv0601c and Rv0602c of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2009 155: 772-779. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Bradley L. Bearson, In Soo Lee, and Thomas A. Casey

Escherichia coli O157 : H7 glutamate- and arginine-dependent acid-resistance systems protect against oxidative stress during extreme acid challenge
Microbiology 2009 155: 805-812. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY:

Manoj Kumar, Vikas Yadav, Narendra Tuteja, and Atul Kumar Johri

Antioxidant enzyme activities in maize plants colonized with Piriformospora indica
Microbiology 2009 155: 780-790. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anat Lerner, Yaacov Okon, and Saul Burdman

The wzm gene located on the pRhico plasmid of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 is involved in lipopolysaccharide synthesis
Microbiology 2009 155: 791-804. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Lígia S. Nobre, Fátima Al-Shahrour, Joaquin Dopazo, and Lígia M. Saraiva

Exploring the antimicrobial action of a carbon monoxide-releasing compound through whole-genome transcription profiling of Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2009 155: 813-824. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Margarita Trobos, Henrik Christensen, Marianne Sunde, Steen Nordentoft, Yvonne Agersø, Gunnar S. Simonsen, Anette M. Hammerum, and John E. Olsen

Characterization of sulphonamide-resistant Escherichia coli using comparison of sul2 gene sequences and multilocus sequence typing
Microbiology 2009 155: 831-836. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Lorena Ruiz, Yohann Couté, Borja Sánchez, Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán, Jean-Charles Sanchez, and Abelardo Margolles

The cell-envelope proteome of Bifidobacterium longum in an in vitro bile environment
Microbiology 2009 155: 957-967. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

MICROBIAL PATHOGENICITY:

Livia Visai, Naoko Yanagisawa, Elisabet Josefsson, Andrej Tarkowski, Ilaria Pezzali, Suzan H. M. Rooijakkers, Timothy J. Foster, and Pietro Speziale

Immune evasion by Staphylococcus aureus conferred by iron-regulated surface determinant protein IsdH
Microbiology 2009 155: 667-679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

H. Mikkelsen, N. J. Bond, M. E. Skindersoe, M. Givskov, K. S. Lilley, and M. Welch

Biofilms and type III secretion are not mutually exclusive in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2009 155: 687-698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

W. James Gooderham, Shaan L. Gellatly, François Sanschagrin, Joseph B. McPhee, Manjeet Bains, Celine Cosseau, Roger C. Levesque, and Robert E. W. Hancock

The sensor kinase PhoQ mediates virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2009 155: 699-711. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Olga Lobos and Carlos Padilla

Phenotypic characterization and genomic DNA polymorphisms of Escherichia coli strains isolated as the sole micro-organism from vaginal infections
Microbiology 2009 155: 825-830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiaohui Zhou, Michael E. Konkel, and Douglas R. Call

Type III secretion system 1 of Vibrio parahaemolyticus induces oncosis in both epithelial and monocytic cell lines
Microbiology 2009 155: 837-851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Catherine A. Brissette, Ashutosh Verma, Amy Bowman, Anne E. Cooley, and Brian Stevenson

The Borrelia burgdorferi outer-surface protein ErpX binds mammalian laminin
Microbiology 2009 155: 863-872. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Claire Lewis, Henrieta Skovierova, Gary Rowley, Bronislava Rezuchova, Dagmar Homerova, Andrew Stevenson, Janice Spencer, Jacinta Farn, Jan Kormanec, and Mark Roberts

Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium HtrA: regulation of expression and role of the chaperone and protease activities during infection
Microbiology 2009 155: 873-881. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ombeline Rossier, Jenny Dao, and Nicholas P. Cianciotto

A type II secreted RNase of Legionella pneumophila facilitates optimal intracellular infection of Hartmannella vermiformis
Microbiology 2009 155: 882-890. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Armelle Bigot, Catherine Raynaud, Iharilalao Dubail, Marion Dupuis, Hamid Hossain, Torsten Hain, Trinad Chakraborty, and Alain Charbit

lmo1273, a novel gene involved in Listeria monocytogenes virulence
Microbiology 2009 155: 891-902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Genia Lücking, Monica K. Dommel, Siegfried Scherer, Agnes Fouet, and Monika Ehling-Schulz

Cereulide synthesis in emetic Bacillus cereus is controlled by the transition state regulator AbrB, but not by the virulence regulator PlcR
Microbiology 2009 155: 922-931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY:

Xiaogang Wang, Huiwen Zhang, Mingkai Xu, Yongming Cai, Changxiao Liu, Zhencheng Su, and Chenggang Zhang

Biological characterization of the zinc site coordinating histidine residues of staphylococcal enterotoxin C2
Microbiology 2009 155: 680-686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathan C. Joaquin, Calvin Kwan, Nina Abramzon, Kurt Vandervoort, and Graciela Brelles-Mariño

Is gas-discharge plasma a new solution to the old problem of biofilm inactivation?
Microbiology 2009 155: 724-732. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roger R. Lew and Shanar Nasserifar

Transient responses during hyperosmotic shock in the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa
Microbiology 2009 155: 903-911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sara Salvetti, Francesco Celandroni, Mara Ceragioli, Sonia Senesi, and Emilia Ghelardi

Identification of non-flagellar genes involved in swarm cell differentiation using a Bacillus thuringiensis mini-Tn10 mutant library
Microbiology 2009 155: 912-921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cédric Absalon, Michal Obuchowski, Edwige Madec, Delphine Delattre, I. Barry Holland, and Simone J. Séror

CpgA, EF-Tu and the stressosome protein YezB are substrates of the Ser/Thr kinase/phosphatase couple, PrkC/PrpC, in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2009 155: 932-943. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Johanna C. Karst, Anne-Emmanuelle Foucher, Tracey L. Campbell, Anne-Marie Di Guilmi, David Stroebel, Chand S. Mangat, Eric D. Brown, and Jean-Michel Jault

The ATPase activity of an ‘essential’ Bacillus subtilis enzyme, YdiB, is required for its cellular function and is modulated by oligomerization
Microbiology 2009 155: 944-956. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yasuo Yoshida, Takako Sasaki, Shuntaro Ito, Haruki Tamura, Kazushi Kunimatsu, and Hirohisa Kato

Identification and molecular characterization of tryptophanase encoded by tnaA in Porphyromonas gingivalis
Microbiology 2009 155: 968-978. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rhonda I. Hobb, Joshua A. Fields, Christopher M. Burns, and Stuart A. Thompson

Evaluation of procedures for outer membrane isolation from Campylobacter jejuni
Microbiology 2009 155: 979-988. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Masayuki Muramatsu, Kintake Sonoike, and Yukako Hihara

Mechanism of downregulation of photosystem I content under high-light conditions in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Microbiology 2009 155: 989-996. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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