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CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MICROBES:

Nicoletta Castiglione, Serena Rinaldo, Giorgio Giardina, and Francesca Cutruzzolà

The transcription factor DNR from Pseudomonas aeruginosa specifically requires nitric oxide and haem for the activation of a target promoter in Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2009 155: 2838-2844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Lesic, M. Starkey, J. He, R. Hazan, and L. G. Rahme

Quorum sensing differentially regulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa type VI secretion locus I and homologous loci II and III, which are required for pathogenesis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2845-2855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Yannick D. N. Tremblay, Henry Lo, Yung-Hua Li, Scott A. Halperin, and Song F. Lee

Expression of the Streptococcus mutans essential two-component regulatory system VicRK is pH and growth-phase dependent and controlled by the LiaFSR three-component regulatory system
Microbiology 2009 155: 2856-2865. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keith E. Weaver, Shirisha G. Reddy, Cassandra L. Brinkman, Smita Patel, Kenneth W. Bayles, and Jennifer L. Endres

Identification and characterization of a family of toxin–antitoxin systems related to the Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1 par addiction module
Microbiology 2009 155: 2930-2940. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Morten Kjos, Ingolf F. Nes, and Dzung B. Diep

Class II one-peptide bacteriocins target a phylogenetically defined subgroup of mannose phosphotransferase systems on sensitive cells
Microbiology 2009 155: 2949-2961. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Jennifer Hedger, Peter C. Holmquist, Kimberly A. Leigh, Kumuda Saraff, Christina Pomykal, and Michael L. Summers

Illumination stimulates cAMP receptor protein-dependent transcriptional activation from regulatory regions containing class I and class II promoter elements in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Microbiology 2009 155: 2994-3004. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Nivedita P. Khairnar and Hari S. Misra

DNA polymerase X from Deinococcus radiodurans implicated in bacterial tolerance to DNA damage is characterized as a short patch base excision repair polymerase
Microbiology 2009 155: 3005-3014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Aya Iida, Yasuo Ohnishi, and Sueharu Horinouchi

Identification and characterization of target genes of the GinI/GinR quorum-sensing system in Gluconacetobacter intermedius
Microbiology 2009 155: 3021-3032. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth M. Vanderlinde, Artur Muszynski, Joe J. Harrison, Susan F. Koval, Dallas L. Foreman, Howard Ceri, Elmar L. Kannenberg, Russell W. Carlson, and Christopher K. Yost

Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae 3841, deficient in 27-hydroxyoctacosanoate-modified lipopolysaccharide, is impaired in desiccation tolerance, biofilm formation and motility
Microbiology 2009 155: 3055-3069. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Shigeki Moriya, Yoshikazu Kawai, Sakiko Kaji, Adrian Smith, Elizabeth J. Harry, and Jeffery Errington

Effects of oriC relocation on control of replication initiation in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2009 155: 3070-3082. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Donald M. Gardiner, Sheree Osborne, Kemal Kazan, and John M. Manners

Low pH regulates the production of deoxynivalenol by Fusarium graminearum
Microbiology 2009 155: 3149-3156. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

ENVIRONMENTAL AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY:

Maarten Fauvart, Natalie Verstraeten, Bruno Dombrecht, Ruth Venmans, Serge Beullens, Christophe Heusdens, and Jan Michiels

Rhizobium etli HrpW is a pectin-degrading enzyme and differs from phytopathogenic homologues in enzymically crucial tryptophan and glycine residues
Microbiology 2009 155: 3045-3054. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaigeeth Deveryshetty and Prashant S. Phale

Biodegradation of phenanthrene by Pseudomonas sp. strain PPD: purification and characterization of 1-hydroxy-2-naphthoic acid dioxygenase
Microbiology 2009 155: 3083-3091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yumi Imanishi, Sasitorn Jindamorakot, Savitree Limtong, and Takashi Nakase

Mode of vegetative reproduction of the bipolar budding yeast species Wickerhamomyces pijperi and related strains
Microbiology 2009 155: 3142-3148. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Joanne Cummins, F. Jerry Reen, Christine Baysse, Marlies J. Mooij, and Fergal O'Gara

Subinhibitory concentrations of the cationic antimicrobial peptide colistin induce the pseudomonas quinolone signal in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2009 155: 2826-2837. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Timothy Sampson, Gregory W. Broussard, Laura J. Marinelli, Deborah Jacobs-Sera, Mondira Ray, Ching-Chung Ko, Daniel Russell, Roger W. Hendrix, and Graham F. Hatfull

Mycobacteriophages BPs, Angel and Halo: comparative genomics reveals a novel class of ultra-small mobile genetic elements
Microbiology 2009 155: 2962-2977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Arnaldo Videira, Takao Kasuga, Chaoguang Tian, Catarina Lemos, Ana Castro, and N. Louise Glass

Transcriptional analysis of the response of Neurospora crassa to phytosphingosine reveals links to mitochondrial function
Microbiology 2009 155: 3134-3141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

MICROBIAL PATHOGENICITY:

Cora Kooi and Pamela A. Sokol

Burkholderia cenocepacia zinc metalloproteases influence resistance to antimicrobial peptides
Microbiology 2009 155: 2818-2825. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter T. Beernink and Dan M. Granoff

The modular architecture of meningococcal factor H-binding protein
Microbiology 2009 155: 2873-2883. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Miguel Betancourt-Sanchez and Fernando Navarro-Garcia

Pet secretion, internalization and induction of cell death during infection of epithelial cells by enteroaggregative Escherichia coli
Microbiology 2009 155: 2895-2906. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. House, J. V. Kus, N. Prayitno, R. Mair, L. Que, F. Chingcuanco, V. Gannon, D. G. Cvitkovitch, and D. Barnett Foster

Acid-stress-induced changes in enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 : H7 virulence
Microbiology 2009 155: 2907-2918. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

John A. Wright, Sabine S. Tötemeyer, Isabelle Hautefort, Corinne Appia-Ayme, Mark Alston, Vittoria Danino, Gavin K. Paterson, Pietro Mastroeni, Nathalie Ménager, Matthew Rolfe, Arthur Thompson, Sanja Ugrinovic, Leanne Sait, Tom Humphrey, Helen Northen, Sarah E. Peters, Duncan J. Maskell, Jay C. D. Hinton, and Clare E. Bryant

Multiple redundant stress resistance mechanisms are induced in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium in response to alteration of the intracellular environment via TLR4 signalling
Microbiology 2009 155: 2919-2929. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Disha Awasthy, Sheshagiri Gaonkar, R. K. Shandil, Reena Yadav, Sowmya Bharath, Nimi Marcel, Venkita Subbulakshmi, and Umender Sharma

Inactivation of the ilvB1 gene in Mycobacterium tuberculosis leads to branched-chain amino acid auxotrophy and attenuation of virulence in mice
Microbiology 2009 155: 2978-2987. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Jia-Xun Feng, Zhi-Zhong Song, Cheng-Jie Duan, Shuai Zhao, Ying-Qiao Wu, Chao Wang, J. Maxwell Dow, and Ji-Liang Tang

The xrvA gene of Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, encoding an H-NS-like protein, regulates virulence in rice
Microbiology 2009 155: 3033-3044. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Joe Tiralongo, Therese Wohlschlager, Evelin Tiralongo, and Milton J. Kiefel

Inhibition of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia binding to extracellular matrix proteins by sialic acids: a pH effect?
Microbiology 2009 155: 3100-3109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY:

Claes Wickström, Mark C. Herzberg, David Beighton, and Gunnel Svensäter

Proteolytic degradation of human salivary MUC5B by dental biofilms
Microbiology 2009 155: 2866-2872. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. D. Miller, M. S. Sal, M. Schell, J. D. Whittimore, and J. E. Raulston

Chlamydia trachomatis YtgA is an iron-binding periplasmic protein induced by iron restriction
Microbiology 2009 155: 2884-2894. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sybille Tachon, Damien Michelon, Emilie Chambellon, Monique Cantonnet, Christine Mezange, Lucy Henno, Rémy Cachon, and Mireille Yvon

Experimental conditions affect the site of tetrazolium violet reduction in the electron transport chain of Lactococcus lactis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2941-2948. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masanobu Nishikawa and Kei Kobayashi

Streptomyces roseoverticillatus produces two different poly(amino acid)s: lariat-shaped -poly(L-glutamic acid) and -poly(L-lysine)
Microbiology 2009 155: 2988-2993. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Barbara M. A. van Vugt-Lussenburg, Laura van der Weel, Wilfred R. Hagen, and Peter-Leon Hagedoorn

Identification of two [4Fe–4S]-cluster-containing hydro-lyases from Pyrococcus furiosus
Microbiology 2009 155: 3015-3020. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elena Garre and Emilia Matallana

The three trehalases Nth1p, Nth2p and Ath1p participate in the mobilization of intracellular trehalose required for recovery from saline stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Microbiology 2009 155: 3092-3099. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael W. Lewis, Ines V. Robalino, and Nemat O. Keyhani

Uptake of the fluorescent probe FM4-64 by hyphae and haemolymph-derived in vivo hyphal bodies of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana
Microbiology 2009 155: 3110-3120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Arun Wanchoo, Michael W. Lewis, and Nemat O. Keyhani

Lectin mapping reveals stage-specific display of surface carbohydrates in in vitro and haemolymph-derived cells of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana
Microbiology 2009 155: 3121-3133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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