MICROBIOLOGY COMMENTS:

CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MICROBES:

Lei Zhang, Deqin Feng, Wenxia Fang, Haomiao Ouyang, Yuanming Luo, Ting Du, and Cheng Jin

Comparative proteomic analysis of an Aspergillus fumigatus mutant deficient in glucosidase I (AfCwh41)
Microbiology 2009 155: 2157-2167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hirofumi Hara, Yasuo Ohnishi, and Sueharu Horinouchi

DNA microarray analysis of global gene regulation by A-factor in Streptomyces griseus
Microbiology 2009 155: 2197-2210. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Vegard Eldholm, Ola Johnsborg, Kristine Haugen, Hilde Solheim Ohnstad, and Leiv Sigve Håvarstein

Fratricide in Streptococcus pneumoniae: contributions and role of the cell wall hydrolases CbpD, LytA and LytC
Microbiology 2009 155: 2223-2234. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Satoshi Kimura, Yoshihiro Shiraiwa, and Iwane Suzuki

Function of the N-terminal region of the phosphate-sensing histidine kinase, SphS, in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803
Microbiology 2009 155: 2256-2264. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Marko Davinic, Nancy L. Carty, Jane A. Colmer-Hamood, Michael San Francisco, and Abdul N. Hamood

Role of Vfr in regulating exotoxin A production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2009 155: 2265-2273. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Bénédicte Cesselin, Djae Ali, Jean-Jacques Gratadoux, Philippe Gaudu, Patrick Duwat, Alexandra Gruss, and Meriem El Karoui

Inactivation of the Lactococcus lactis high-affinity phosphate transporter confers oxygen and thiol resistance and alters metal homeostasis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2274-2281. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Cecilia Osera, Giuseppe Amati, Cinzia Calvio, and Alessandro Galizzi

SwrAA activates poly--glutamate synthesis in addition to swarming in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2282-2287. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anne Jamet, Clotilde Rousseau, Jean-Benoît Monfort, Eric Frapy, Xavier Nassif, and Patricia Martin

A two-component system is required for colonization of host cells by meningococcus
Microbiology 2009 155: 2288-2295. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroaki Hasegawa and Claudia C. Häse

The extracellular metalloprotease of Vibrio tubiashii directly inhibits its extracellular haemolysin
Microbiology 2009 155: 2296-2305. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY:

Rafael Szczepanowski, Burkhard Linke, Irene Krahn, Karl-Heinz Gartemann, Tim Gützkow, Wolfgang Eichler, Alfred Pühler, and Andreas Schlüter

Detection of 140 clinically relevant antibiotic-resistance genes in the plasmid metagenome of wastewater treatment plant bacteria showing reduced susceptibility to selected antibiotics
Microbiology 2009 155: 2306-2319. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Emiel B. M. Spuesens, Minoushka Oduber, Theo Hoogenboezem, Marcel Sluijter, Nico G. Hartwig, Annemarie M. C. van Rossum, and Cornelis Vink

Sequence variations in RepMP2/3 and RepMP4 elements reveal intragenomic homologous DNA recombination events in Mycoplasma pneumoniae
Microbiology 2009 155: 2182-2196. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Nadeeza Ishmael, Julie C. Dunning Hotopp, Panagiotis Ioannidis, Sarah Biber, Joyce Sakamoto, Stefanos Siozios, Vishvanath Nene, John Werren, Kostas Bourtzis, Seth R. Bordenstein, and Hervé Tettelin

Extensive genomic diversity of closely related Wolbachia strains
Microbiology 2009 155: 2211-2222. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Naofumi Handa, Asao Ichige, and Ichizo Kobayashi

Contribution of RecFOR machinery of homologous recombination to cell survival after loss of a restriction–modification gene complex
Microbiology 2009 155: 2320-2332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vijay A. K. B. Gundi, Lenie Dijkshoorn, Sophie Burignat, Didier Raoult, and Bernard La Scola

Validation of partial rpoB gene sequence analysis for the identification of clinically important and emerging Acinetobacter species
Microbiology 2009 155: 2333-2341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary tables]  

Anand Ballal and Adhar C. Manna

Expression of the sarA family of genes in different strains of Staphylococcus aureus
Microbiology 2009 155: 2342-2352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MICROBIAL PATHOGENICITY:

Zhiqiang Qin, Liang Yang, Di Qu, Soeren Molin, and Tim Tolker-Nielsen

Pseudomonas aeruginosa extracellular products inhibit staphylococcal growth, and disrupt established biofilms produced by Staphylococcus epidermidis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2148-2156. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sonia Arafah, Marie-Laure Rosso, Linda Rehaume, Robert E. W. Hancock, Michel Simonet, and Michaël Marceau

An iron-regulated LysR-type element mediates antimicrobial peptide resistance and virulence in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2168-2181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Takafumi Mukaihara and Naoyuki Tamura

Identification of novel Ralstonia solanacearum type III effector proteins through translocation analysis of hrpB-regulated gene products
Microbiology 2009 155: 2235-2244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

María de la Paz Santangelo, Laura Klepp, Javier Nuñez-García, Federico C. Blanco, Marcelo Soria, Maria del Carmen García-Pelayo, María Verónica Bianco, Angel A. Cataldi, Paul Golby, Mary Jackson, Stephen V. Gordon, and Fabiana Bigi

Mce3R, a TetR-type transcriptional repressor, controls the expression of a regulon involved in lipid metabolism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2245-2255. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

Madushini N. Dharmasena, Shelly J. Krebs, and Ronald K. Taylor

Characterization of a novel protective monoclonal antibody that recognizes an epitope common to Vibrio cholerae Ogawa and Inaba serotypes
Microbiology 2009 155: 2353-2364. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jer-Horng Su, Yin-Ching Chung, Hsin-Chun Lee, I-Cheng Tseng, and Ming-Chung Chang

Ferrous iron-binding protein Omb of Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis promotes resistance to hydrophobic antibiotics and contributes to its virulence
Microbiology 2009 155: 2365-2374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amel El Khéchine, Mireille Henry, Didier Raoult, and Michel Drancourt

Detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex organisms in the stools of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2384-2389. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jouko Sillanpää, Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Janeu Houston, Vannakambadi K. Ganesh, Agathe Bourgogne, Kavindra V. Singh, Barbara E. Murray, and Magnus Höök

A family of fibrinogen-binding MSCRAMMs from Enterococcus faecalis
Microbiology 2009 155: 2390-2400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. E. Cron, H. J. Bootsma, N. Noske, P. Burghout, S. Hammerschmidt, and P. W. M. Hermans

Surface-associated lipoprotein PpmA of Streptococcus pneumoniae is involved in colonization in a strain-specific manner
Microbiology 2009 155: 2401-2410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY:

Yusuke Kajiyama, Masato Otagiri, Junichi Sekiguchi, Toshiaki Kudo, and Saori Kosono

The MrpA, MrpB and MrpD subunits of the Mrp antiporter complex in Bacillus subtilis contain membrane-embedded and essential acidic residues
Microbiology 2009 155: 2137-2147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Matthew J. Wargo and Deborah A. Hogan

Identification of genes required for Pseudomonas aeruginosa carnitine catabolism
Microbiology 2009 155: 2411-2419. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Tables]  

Juhyun Kim, Jinki Yeom, Che Ok Jeon, and Woojun Park

Intracellular 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate is the signal for carbon catabolite repression of phenylacetic acid metabolism in Pseudomonas putida KT2440
Microbiology 2009 155: 2420-2428. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vesela Encheva, Haroun N. Shah, and Saheer E. Gharbia

Proteomic analysis of the adaptive response of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium to growth under anaerobic conditions
Microbiology 2009 155: 2429-2441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Igor A. Dvortsov, Natalia A. Lunina, Ludmila A. Chekanovskaya, Wolfgang H. Schwarz, Vladimir V. Zverlov, and Galina A. Velikodvorskaya

Carbohydrate-binding properties of a separately folding protein module from β-1,3-glucanase Lic16A of Clostridium thermocellum
Microbiology 2009 155: 2442-2449. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Yirong Zhang, Linquan Bai, and Zixin Deng

Functional characterization of the first two actinomycete 4-amino-4-deoxychorismate lyase genes
Microbiology 2009 155: 2450-2459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary material]  

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