This is a selection of articles from the April 2007 archive. Click here for this month's Microbiology headlines.
Characterization of the gene cluster involved in the biosynthesis of macedocin, the lantibiotic produced by Streptococcus macedonicus
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 30, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Cross-reactive adaptive immune response to oral commensal bacteria results in an induction of receptor activator of nuclear factor-κB ligand (RANKL)-dependent periodontal bone resorption in a mouse model
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Source: Oral Microbiology and Immunology - April 30, 2007 Tags: Short communication Source Type: journals
Identification of periodontopathic bacteria in gingival tissue of Japanese periodontitis patients
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Source: Oral Microbiology and Immunology - April 30, 2007 Tags: Original articles Source Type: journals
Effects of prolonged exposure to alkaline pH on Enterococcus faecalis survival and specific gene transcripts
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Source: Oral Microbiology and Immunology - April 30, 2007 Tags: Original articles Source Type: journals
Genotypic characterization of Porphyromonas gingivalis isolated from Swedish patients with periodontitis and from periodontal abscesses
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Source: Oral Microbiology and Immunology - April 30, 2007 Tags: Original articles Source Type: journals
Ectomycorrhizal fungi: exploring the mycelial frontier
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Reviews - April 28, 2007 Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals
Qualitative and quantitative changes of beech wood degraded by wood-rotting basidiomycetes monitored by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic methods and multivariate data analysis
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 28, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
The ArcA regulon and oxidative stress resistance in Haemophilus influenzae
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 27, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
YaeT-independent multimerization and outer membrane association of secretin 2 PulD 3
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 27, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Sequence analysis of the 181-kb accessory plasmid pSmeSM11b, isolated from a dominant Sinorhizobium meliloti strain identified during a long-term field release experiment
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 27, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
The co-ordinated regulation of iron homeostasis in murine macrophages limits the availability of iron for intracellular Salmonella typhimurium
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Source: Cellular Microbiology - April 26, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
The Flavobacterium psychrophilum OmpA, an outer membrane glycoprotein, induces a humoral response in rainbow trout
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Source: Journal of Applied Microbiology - April 26, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Fishing injury resulting in
Mycobacterium fortuitum
palmar abscess
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Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - April 26, 2007 Tags: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
Treatment failure in a case of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis associated with selection of a GyrB mutant causing fluoroquinolone resistance
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Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - April 26, 2007 Tags: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
Legionella pathogenicity: Genome structure, regulatory networks and the host cell response.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 26, 2007 Authors: Steinert M, Heuner K, Buchrieser C, Albert-Weissenberger C, Glöckner G Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Tackling the intractable - Approaching the genetics of Chlamydiales.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 26, 2007 Authors: Heuer D, Kneip C, Mäurer AP, Meyer TF Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Genetic and biochemical characterization of GES-5, an extended-spectrum class A beta-lactamase from Klebsiella pneumoniae.
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Source: Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease - April 26, 2007 Authors: Bae IK, Lee YN, Jeong SH, Hong SG, Lee JH, Lee SH, Kim HJ, Youn H Tags: Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis Source Type: journals
Porphyromonas gingivalis infection and cell death in human aortic endothelial cells
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 25, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
A postgenomic view of the heat shock proteins in kinetoplastids
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Reviews - April 25, 2007 Tags: Reviews Source Type: journals
Viable but non-culturable Listeria monocytogenes on parsley leaves and absence of recovery to a culturable state
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Source: Journal of Applied Microbiology - April 25, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Effects of substratum on the diversity and stability of ammonia-oxidizing communities in a constructed wetland used for wastewater treatment
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Source: Journal of Applied Microbiology - April 25, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Virulence genes of bovine Staphylococcus aureus from persistent and nonpersistent intramammary infections with different clinical characteristics
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Source: Journal of Applied Microbiology - April 25, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Susceptibility and intrinsic tolerance of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to selected plant volatile compounds
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Source: Journal of Applied Microbiology - April 25, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Reduction in pediatric invasive pneumococcal disease in the Basque Country and Navarre, Spain, after introduction of the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
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Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - April 25, 2007 Tags: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
Comparative genomic analysis for the presence of potential enterococcal virulence factors in the probiotic Enterococcus faecalis strain Symbioflor 1.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 25, 2007 Authors: Domann E, Hain T, Ghai R, Billion A, Kuenne C, Zimmermann K, Chakraborty T Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Biogenetic diversity of cyanobacterial metabolites.
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Source: Advances in Applied Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Authors: Van Wagoner RM, Drummond AK, Wright JL Tags: Adv Appl Microbiol Source Type: journals
Unusual two-component signal transduction pathways in the actinobacteria.
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Source: Advances in Applied Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Authors: Hutchings MI Tags: Adv Appl Microbiol Source Type: journals
In situ bioremediation.
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Source: Advances in Applied Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Authors: Jørgensen KS Tags: Adv Appl Microbiol Source Type: journals
Bacterial cycling of methyl halides.
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Source: Advances in Applied Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Authors: Schäfer H, Miller LG, Oremland RS, Murrell JC Tags: Adv Appl Microbiol Source Type: journals
Microbial exoenzyme production in food.
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Source: Advances in Applied Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Authors: Braun PG Tags: Adv Appl Microbiol Source Type: journals
Cold-active acetogenic bacteria from surficial sediments of perennially ice-covered Lake Fryxell, Antarctica
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
A novel self-capping mechanism controls aggregation of periplasmic chaperone Caf1M
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Tags: Corrigendum Source Type: journals
Identification of a system required for the functional surface localization of sugar binding proteins with class III signal peptides in Sulfolobus solfataricus
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
Sre1p, a regulator of oxygen sensing and sterol homeostasis, is required for virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
Telomere resolution by Borrelia burgdorferi ResT through the collaborative efforts of tethered DNA binding domains
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
Systematic capsule gene disruption reveals the central role of galactose metabolism on Cryptococcus neoformans virulence
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
An antisense RNA controls synthesis of an SOS-induced toxin evolved from an antitoxin
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
The RecJ DNase strongly suppresses genomic integration of short but not long foreign DNA fragments by homology-facilitated illegitimate recombination during transformation of Acinetobacter baylyi
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
Antifungal compounds from cultures of dairy propionibacteria type strains
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Inhibition of infection of the rice blast fungus by halisulfate 1, an isocitrate lyase inhibitor
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Functional analysis of a lipid galactosyltransferase synthesizing the major envelope lipid in the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Diverse homologues of the archaeal repressor NrpR function similarly in nitrogen regulation
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 24, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Yersinia outer proteins E, H, P, and T differentially target the cytoskeleton and inhibit phagocytic capacity of dendritic cells.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Authors: Adkins I, Köberle M, Gröbner S, Bohn E, Autenrieth IB, Borgmann S Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Aspects of genome plasticity in pathogenic Escherichia coli.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 24, 2007 Authors: Bielaszewska M, Dobrindt U, Gärtner J, Gallitz I, Hacker J, Karch H, Müller D, Schubert S, Alexander Schmidt M, Sorsa LJ, Zdziarski J Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Detection of constitutive molecules on Histoplasma capsulatum yeasts through single chain variable antibody fragments displayed in M13 phages
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Source: FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology - April 23, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
Chloroquine is therapeutic in murine experimental model of paracoccidioidomycosis
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Source: FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology - April 23, 2007 Tags: Research Articles Source Type: journals
Innate immune recognition on the intestinal mucosa.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 23, 2007 Authors: Lotz M, Ménard S, Hornef M Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Class I and class II lysyl-tRNA synthetase mutants and the genetic encoding of pyrrolysine in Methanosarcina spp.
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 22, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
An altered FtsA can compensate for the loss of essential cell division protein FtsN in Escherichia coli
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Source: Molecular Microbiology - April 22, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
The skin as interface in the transmission of arthropod-borne pathogens
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Source: Cellular Microbiology - April 22, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Rac Interacts with Abi-1 and WAVE2 to Promote an Arp2/3 Dependent Actin Recruitment During Chlamydial Invasion
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Source: Cellular Microbiology - April 22, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Development of Intracellular Bacterial Communities of Uropathogenic E. coli Depends on Type 1 Pili
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Source: Cellular Microbiology - April 22, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Enhanced activity of strobilurin and fludioxonil by using berberine and phenolic compounds to target fungal antioxidative stress response
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Source: Letters in Applied Microbiology - April 21, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
In vitro biofilm model for studying tongue flora and malodour
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Source: Journal of Applied Microbiology - April 21, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Advances in sepsis research derived from animal models.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 21, 2007 Authors: Männel DN Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Expression and structural diversity of the lipopolysaccharide of Haemophilus influenzae: Implication in virulence.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 21, 2007 Authors: Schweda EK, Richards JC, Hood DW, Moxon ER Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
The physicochemistry of endotoxins in relation to bioactivity.
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Source: International Journal of Medical Microbiology - April 21, 2007 Authors: Gutsmann T, Schromm AB, Brandenburg K Tags: Int J Med Microbiol Source Type: journals
Relative importance of amino acids, glycine–betaine and ectoine synthesis in the biocontrol agent Pantoea agglomerans CPA-2 in response to osmotic, acidic and heat stress
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Source: Letters in Applied Microbiology - April 20, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
ε-Poly-l-lysine and nisin A act synergistically against Gram-positive food-borne pathogens Bacillus cereus and Listeria monocytogenes
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Source: Letters in Applied Microbiology - April 20, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Mesorhizobium spp. are the main microsymbionts of Caragana spp. grown in Liaoning Province of China
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 20, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Isolation and characterization of Bacillus thioparus sp. nov., chemolithoautotrophic, thiosulfate-oxidizing bacterium
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 20, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Porphyromonas gingivalis short fimbriae are regulated by a FimS/FimR two-component system
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 20, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Antifungal activity of lactobacilli isolated from salami
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Source: FEMS Microbiology Letters - April 20, 2007 Tags: Research Letters Source Type: journals
Detection by PCR of eight groups of enteric pathogens in 4,627 faecal samples: re-examination of the English case-control Infectious Intestinal Disease Study (1993–1996)
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Source: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases - April 20, 2007 Tags: European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases Source Type: journals
Tyrosine phosphorylation controls cortactin binding to two enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli effectors: Tir and EspFu/TccP
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Source: Cellular Microbiology - April 19, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Taguchi approach significantly increases bioremediation process efficiency: a case study with Hg (II) removal by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
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Source: Letters in Applied Microbiology - April 19, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Bactericidal synergism through enterocin AS-48 and chemical preservatives against Staphylococcus aureus
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Source: Letters in Applied Microbiology - April 19, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Optimization of DNA isolation from legume nodules
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Source: Letters in Applied Microbiology - April 19, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Bactericidal effect of bovicin HC5 and nisin against Clostridium tyrobutyricum isolated from spoiled mango pulp
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Source: Letters in Applied Microbiology - April 19, 2007 Tags: Original Articles Source Type: journals
Cloning and sequencing of the class A beta-lactamase gene (bla(TEM-15)) located on a chromosomal Tn801 transposon.
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