REVIEW:

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY:

Ümit Pul, Bianca Lux, Reinhild Wurm, and Rolf Wagner

Effect of upstream curvature and transcription factors H-NS and LRP on the efficiency of Escherichia coli rRNA promoters P1 and P2 – a phasing analysis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2546-2558. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Annelies Justé, Bart Lievens, Ingeborg Frans, Terence L. Marsh, Michael Klingeberg, Chris W. Michiels, and Kris A. Willems

Genetic and physiological diversity of Tetragenococcus halophilus strains isolated from sugar- and salt-rich environments
Microbiology 2008 154: 2600-2610. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cosette Grandvalet, Juan Simón Assad-García, Son Chu-Ky, Marie Tollot, Jean Guzzo, Joseph Gresti, and Raphaëlle Tourdot-Maréchal

Changes in membrane lipid composition in ethanol- and acid-adapted Oenococcus oeni cells: characterization of the cfa gene by heterologous complementation
Microbiology 2008 154: 2611-2619. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yohei Katsuyama, Miku Matsuzawa, Nobutaka Funa, and Sueharu Horinouchi

Production of curcuminoids by Escherichia coli carrying an artificial biosynthesis pathway
Microbiology 2008 154: 2620-2628. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Françoise Bringel, Philippe Hammann, Valérie Kugler, and Florence Arsène-Ploetze

Lactobacillus plantarum response to inorganic carbon concentrations: PyrR₂-dependent and -independent transcription regulation of genes involved in arginine and nucleotide metabolism
Microbiology 2008 154: 2629-2640. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figure]  

Huizhong Chen, Haiyan Xu, Ohgew Kweon, Siwei Chen, and Carl E. Cerniglia

Functional role of Trp-105 of Enterococcus faecalis azoreductase (AzoA) as resolved by structural and mutational analysis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2659-2667. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

José Manuel Inácio, Isabel Lopes Correia, and Isabel de Sá-Nogueira

Two distinct arabinofuranosidases contribute to arabino-oligosaccharide degradation in Bacillus subtilis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2719-2729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hechun Jiang, Haomiao Ouyang, Hui Zhou, and Cheng Jin

GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase is essential for cell wall integrity, morphogenesis and viability of Aspergillus fumigatus
Microbiology 2008 154: 2730-2739. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Table]  

Karen Sapienza, William Bannister, and Rena Balzan

Mitochondrial involvement in aspirin-induced apoptosis in yeast
Microbiology 2008 154: 2740-2747. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Samantha J. Hoot, Brian G. Oliver, and Theodore C. White

Candida albicans UPC2 is transcriptionally induced in response to antifungal drugs and anaerobicity through Upc2p-dependent and -independent mechanisms
Microbiology 2008 154: 2748-2756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yelena Lantsman, Kevin S. W. Tan, Mary Morada, and Nigel Yarlett

Biochemical characterization of a mitochondrial-like organelle from Blastocystis sp. subtype 7
Microbiology 2008 154: 2757-2766. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sugopa Sengupta, Soumitra Ghosh, and Valakunja Nagaraja

Moonlighting function of glutamate racemase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: racemization and DNA gyrase inhibition are two independent activities of the enzyme
Microbiology 2008 154: 2796-2803. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary figures]  

Francesco Imperi, Lorenza Putignani, Federica Tiburzi, Cecilia Ambrosi, Rita Cipollone, Paolo Ascenzi, and Paolo Visca

Membrane-association determinants of the -amino acid monooxygenase PvdA, a pyoverdine biosynthetic enzyme from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Microbiology 2008 154: 2804-2813. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary Figure]  

Tian Ye, Karin Elbing, and Stefan Hohmann

The pathway by which the yeast protein kinase Snf1p controls acquisition of sodium tolerance is different from that mediating glucose regulation
Microbiology 2008 154: 2814-2826. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katarzyna Kolatka, Monika Witosinska, Marcin Pierechod, and Igor Konieczny

Bacterial partitioning proteins affect the subcellular location of broad-host-range plasmid RK2
Microbiology 2008 154: 2847-2856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Manu Deeudom, Michael Koomey, and James W. B. Moir

Roles of c-type cytochromes in respiration in Neisseria meningitidis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2857-2864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sascha Doekel, Marie-Françoise Coëffet-Le Gal, Jian-Qiao Gu, Min Chu, Richard H. Baltz, and Paul Brian

Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase module fusions to produce derivatives of daptomycin in Streptomyces roseosporus
Microbiology 2008 154: 2872-2880. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Beny Spira, Xuye Hu, and Thomas Ferenci

Strain variation in ppGpp concentration and RpoS levels in laboratory strains of Escherichia coli K-12
Microbiology 2008 154: 2887-2895. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

BIODIVERSITY AND EVOLUTION:

Juliane Viezens and Mardjan Arvand

Simultaneous presence of two different copies of the 16S rRNA gene in Bartonella henselae
Microbiology 2008 154: 2881-2886. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY:

Carla Risso, Barbara A. Methé, Hila Elifantz, Dawn E. Holmes, and Derek R. Lovley

Highly conserved genes in Geobacter species with expression patterns indicative of acetate limitation
Microbiology 2008 154: 2589-2599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Valerie Pintens, Caroline Massonet, Rita Merckx, Stefaan Vandecasteele, Willy E. Peetermans, Johannes K.-M. Knobloch, and Johan Van Eldere

The role of ^B in persistence of Staphylococcus epidermidis foreign body infection
Microbiology 2008 154: 2827-2836. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Saravanan Ayyadurai, Linda Houhamdi, Hubert Lepidi, Claude Nappez, Didier Raoult, and Michel Drancourt

Long-term persistence of virulent Yersinia pestis in soil
Microbiology 2008 154: 2865-2871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

GENES AND GENOMES:

Andre Villegas and Andrew M. Kropinski

An analysis of initiation codon utilization in the Domain Bacteria – concerns about the quality of bacterial genome annotation
Microbiology 2008 154: 2559-2661. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Shenghao Liu, Keiji Endo, Katsutoshi Ara, Katsuya Ozaki, and Naotake Ogasawara

Introduction of marker-free deletions in Bacillus subtilis using the AraR repressor and the ara promoter
Microbiology 2008 154: 2562-2570. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S.-W. Lee, G. F. Browning, and P. F. Markham

Development of a replicable oriC plasmid for Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma imitans, and gene disruption through homologous recombination in M. gallisepticum
Microbiology 2008 154: 2571-2580. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY:

Michael J. Oneal, Erin R. Schafer, Melissa L. Madsen, and F. Chris Minion

Global transcriptional analysis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae following exposure to norepinephrine
Microbiology 2008 154: 2581-2588. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Zhiming Ouyang, Jon S. Blevins, and Michael V. Norgard

Transcriptional interplay among the regulators Rrp2, RpoN and RpoS in Borrelia burgdorferi
Microbiology 2008 154: 2641-2658. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

Miriam Esgleas, Yuanyi Li, Mark A. Hancock, Josée Harel, J. Daniel Dubreuil, and Marcelo Gottschalk

Isolation and characterization of -enolase, a novel fibronectin-binding protein from Streptococcus suis
Microbiology 2008 154: 2668-2679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joanne M. Kingsbury and John H. McCusker

Threonine biosynthetic genes are essential in Cryptococcus neoformans
Microbiology 2008 154: 2767-2775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary table]  

Amit Lahiri, Priyanka Das, and Dipshikha Chakravortty

The LysR-type transcriptional regulator Hrg counteracts phagocyte oxidative burst and imparts survival advantage to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Microbiology 2008 154: 2837-2846. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplementary data]  

PHYSIOLOGY:

Xiaoxiao Zou, Yu Zhu, Edward L. Pohlmann, Jilun Li, Yaoping Zhang, and Gary P. Roberts

Identification and functional characterization of NifA variants that are independent of GlnB activation in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum
Microbiology 2008 154: 2689-2699. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ann-Charlotte M. Toes, Maria H. Daleke, J. Gijs Kuenen, and Gerard Muyzer

Expression of copA and cusA in Shewanella during copper stress
Microbiology 2008 154: 2709-2718. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Krishna Kurthkoti, Pradeep Kumar, Ruchi Jain, and Umesh Varshney

Important role of the nucleotide excision repair pathway in Mycobacterium smegmatis in conferring protection against commonly encountered DNA-damaging agents
Microbiology 2008 154: 2776-2785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susanne Gebhard, Anja Hümpel, Alexander D. McLellan, and Gregory M. Cook

The alternative sigma factor SigF of Mycobacterium smegmatis is required for survival of heat shock, acidic pH and oxidative stress
Microbiology 2008 154: 2786-2795. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

PLANT-MICROBE INTERACTIONS:

Yvonne Braun, Angela V. Smirnova, Alexander Schenk, Helge Weingart, Claudia Burau, Georgi Muskhelishvili, and Matthias S. Ullrich

Component and protein domain exchange analysis of a thermoresponsive, two-component regulatory system of Pseudomonas syringae
Microbiology 2008 154: 2700-2708. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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