Issue table of contents
Microbiology — Volume 148, Issue 8
X-ray absorption spectroscopy of bacterial sulfur globules: a detailed reply
Morphogenetic checkpoint in fission yeast? Yes!
Morphogenetic checkpoint in fission yeast? No!
A whole genome view of prokaryotic haem biosynthesis
Prospecting for novel lipase genes using PCR
Evidence for protection of nitrogenase from O2 by colony structure in the aerobic diazotroph Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus
Functional analysis of microbial communities in aerobic-anaerobic sequencing batch reactors fed with different phosphorus/carbon (P/C) ratios
Filamentous Chloroflexi (green non-sulfur bacteria) are abundant in wastewater treatment processes with biological nutrient removal
nahR, encoding a LysR-type transcriptional regulator, is highly conserved among naphthalene-degrading bacteria isolated from a coal tar waste-contaminated site and in extracted community DNA
Identification of active methylotroph populations in an acidic forest soil by stable-isotope probing
Cloning, sequencing and expression of an {alpha}-amylase gene, amyA, from the thermophilic halophile Halothermothrix orenii and purification and biochemical characterization of the recombinant enzyme
Cross-talk between the L-sorbose and D-sorbitol (D-glucitol) metabolic pathways in Lactobacillus casei
High-level resistance to class IIa bacteriocins is associated with one general mechanism in Listeria monocytogenes
Characterization of a new efflux pump, MexGHI-OpmD, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa that confers resistance to vanadium
Analysis of spore cortex lytic enzymes and related proteins in Bacillus subtilis endospore germination
Permeability of Coxiella burnetii to ribonucleosides
The signal transducer PII and bicarbonate acquisition in Prochlorococcus marinus PCC 9511, a marine cyanobacterium naturally deficient in nitrate and nitrite assimilation
Regulation of phasin expression and polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granule formation in Ralstonia eutropha H16
A zinc metalloprotease inhibitor, Inh, from the insect pathogen Photorhabdus luminescens
The principal determinants for the structure of the substrate-binding pocket are located within a central core of a biphenyl dioxygenase {alpha} subunit
The ferric uptake regulator of Pseudomonas aeruginosa has no essential cysteine residues and does not contain a structural zinc ion
Regulation of polyphenol oxidase activities and melanin synthesis in Marinomonas mediterranea: identification of ppoS, a gene encoding a sensor histidine kinase
Mechanisms of in vitro development of resistance to metronidazole in Trichomonas vaginalis
Plasmid-borne macrolide resistance in Micrococcus luteus
Differential effects of Kid toxin on two modes of replication of lambdoid plasmids suggest that this toxin acts before, but not after, the assembly of the replication complex
Diversity within inc genes of clinical Chlamydia trachomatis variant isolates that occupy non-fusogenic inclusions
BfpU, a soluble protein essential for type IV pilus biogenesis in enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli virulence-plasmid-carried apyrase (apy) and ospB genes are organized as a bicistronic operon and are subject to differential expression
Evolution of multi-gene segments in the mutS-rpoS intergenic region of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2
Protein signatures distinctive of chlamydial species: horizontal transfers of cell wall biosynthesis genes glmU from archaea to chlamydiae and murA between chlamydiae and Streptomyces
Small genome of Candidatus Blochmannia, the bacterial endosymbiont of Camponotus, implies irreversible specialization to an intracellular lifestyle
Conflicting phylogeographic patterns in rRNA and nifD indicate regionally restricted gene transfer in Bradyrhizobium
Research Paper