Biochemistry and molecular biology
Elucidation of stability determinants of cold-adapted monomeric isocitrate dehydrogenase from a psychrophilic bacterium, Colwellia maris, by construction of chimeric enzymes
PrpZ, a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C with dual substrate specificity
Biochemical evidence that the pduS gene encodes a bifunctional cobalamin reductase
The H-NS protein represses transcription of the eltAB operon, which encodes heat-labile enterotoxin in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, by binding to regions downstream of the promoter
Genome-based in silico detection of putative manganese transport systems in Lactobacillus plantarum and their genetic analysis
The Ruminococcus albus pilA1–pilA2 locus: expression and putative role of two adjacent pil genes in pilus formation and bacterial adhesion to cellulose
Sau42I, a BcgI-like restriction–modification system encoded by the Staphylococcus aureus quadruple-converting phage 42.
Biodiversity and evolution
The hydrogenases of Geobacter sulfurreducens: a comparative genomic perspective
ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY
Biochemical and molecular characterization of a periplasmic hydrolase for oxidized polyvinyl alcohol from Sphingomonas sp. strain 113P3
Neurotoxins in axenic oscillatorian cyanobacteria: coexistence of anatoxin-a and homoanatoxin-a determined by ligand-binding assay and GC/MS
Genes and genomes
The 120 592 bp IncF plasmid pRSB107 isolated from a sewage-treatment plant encodes nine different antibiotic-resistance determinants, two iron-acquisition systems and other putative virulence-associated functions
The expression profile of Escherichia coli K-12 in response to minimal, optimal and excess copper concentrations
Generation of transposon insertion mutant libraries for Gram-positive bacteria by electroporation of phage Mu DNA transposition complexes
Sequencing, characterization and transcriptional analysis of the histidine decarboxylase operon of Lactobacillus buchneri
Microbiology comments
Genome Update: Protein secretion systems in 225 bacterial genomes
Cataloguing our current genome collection
Pathogens and pathogenicity
Identification of a conserved Moraxella catarrhalis haemoglobin-utilization protein, MhuA
ibeA, a virulence factor of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli
Physiology
Protein phosphatase PphA from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: the physiological framework of PII-P dephosphorylation
Reviews
The epipolythiodioxopiperazine (ETP) class of fungal toxins: distribution, mode of action, functions and biosynthesis
