Issue table of contents
Microbiology — Volume 154, Issue 9
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
An analysis of initiation codon utilization in the Domain Bacteria - concerns about the quality of bacterial genome annotation
Introduction of marker-free deletions in Bacillus subtilis using the AraR repressor and the ara promoter
Development of a replicable oriC plasmid for Mycoplasma gallisepticum and Mycoplasma imitans, and gene disruption through homologous recombination in M. gallisepticum
Global transcriptional analysis of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae following exposure to norepinephrine
Highly conserved genes in Geobacter species with expression patterns indicative of acetate limitation
Genetic and physiological diversity of Tetragenococcus halophilus strains isolated from sugar- and salt-rich environments
Changes in membrane lipid composition in ethanol- and acid-adapted Oenococcus oeni cells: characterization of the cfa gene by heterologous complementation
Production of curcuminoids by Escherichia coli carrying an artificial biosynthesis pathway
Lactobacillus plantarum response to inorganic carbon concentrations: PyrR2-dependent and -independent transcription regulation of genes involved in arginine and nucleotide metabolism
Transcriptional interplay among the regulators Rrp2, RpoN and RpoS in Borrelia burgdorferi
Functional role of Trp-105 of Enterococcus faecalis azoreductase (AzoA) as resolved by structural and mutational analysis
PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY
Isolation and characterization of α-enolase, a novel fibronectin-binding protein from Streptococcus suis
The Salmonella SPI-2 effector SseJ exhibits eukaryotic activator-dependent phospholipase A and glycerophospholipid : cholesterol acyltransferase activity
Identification and functional characterization of NifA variants that are independent of GlnB activation in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum
Component and protein domain exchange analysis of a thermoresponsive, two-component regulatory system of Pseudomonas syringae
Expression of copA and cusA in Shewanella during copper stress
Two distinct arabinofuranosidases contribute to arabino-oligosaccharide degradation in Bacillus subtilis
GDP-mannose pyrophosphorylase is essential for cell wall integrity, morphogenesis and viability of Aspergillus fumigatus
Mitochondrial involvement in aspirin-induced apoptosis in yeast
Candida albicans UPC2 is transcriptionally induced in response to antifungal drugs and anaerobicity through Upc2p-dependent and -independent mechanisms
BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Biochemical characterization of a mitochondrial-like organelle from Blastocystis sp. subtype 7
PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY
Threonine biosynthetic genes are essential in Cryptococcus neoformans
Important role of the nucleotide excision repair pathway in Mycobacterium smegmatis in conferring protection against commonly encountered DNA-damaging agents
PHYSIOLOGY
The alternative sigma factor SigF of Mycobacterium smegmatis is required for survival of heat shock, acidic pH and oxidative stress
Moonlighting function of glutamate racemase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis: racemization and DNA gyrase inhibition are two independent activities of the enzyme
Membrane-association determinants of the {omega}-amino acid monooxygenase PvdA, a pyoverdine biosynthetic enzyme from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
The pathway by which the yeast protein kinase Snf1p controls acquisition of sodium tolerance is different from that mediating glucose regulation
The role of {sigma}B in persistence of Staphylococcus epidermidis foreign body infection
The LysR-type transcriptional regulator Hrg counteracts phagocyte oxidative burst and imparts survival advantage to Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium
Bacterial partitioning proteins affect the subcellular location of broad-host-range plasmid RK2
Roles of c-type cytochromes in respiration in Neisseria meningitidis
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY