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- 1From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedDrylands constitute the most extensive terrestrial biome, covering more than one-third of the Earth's continental surface. In these environments, stress limits animal and plant life, so life forms that can survive...
- 2From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe facilitated diffusion theory has been used to describe how transcription factors combine three-dimensional diffusion in the cytoplasm with one-dimensional sliding on the DNA to locate their specific chromosomal...
- 3From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedLike bacteria, archaea reproduce asexually and can exchange DNA through lateral gene transfer (LGT). Distinct lineages or 'species' are maintained owing to the presence of barriers to LGT, such as geographic isolation,...
- 4From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedMetagenomics and 16S pyrosequencing have enabled the study of ecosystem structure and dynamics to great depth and accuracy. Co-occurrence and correlation patterns found in these data sets are increasingly used for the...
- 5From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAlthough most plants obtain N from N-fixing bacteria, a recent paper describes how the soil fungi Metarhizium spp. act as vectors to shuttle insect-derived N to two common plant species. In addition to forming...
- 6From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedViroporins are small, hydrophobic proteins that are encoded by a wide range of clinically relevant animal viruses. When these proteins oligomerize in host cell membranes, they form hydrophilic pores that disrupt a...
- 7From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe skin disease chytridiomycosis, which is caused by the chytrid fungal pathogen Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, has devastated amphibian populations worldwide. Writing in mBio, Abryamyan and Stajich describe how they...
- 8From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedMerry Youle, Forest Rohwer, Apollo Stacy, Marvin Whiteley, Bradley C. Steel, Nicolas J. Delalez, Ashley L. Nord, Richard M. Berry, Judith P. AArmitage, Sophien Kamoun, Saskia Hogenhout, Stephen P. Diggle, James Gurney,...
- 9From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedTransition metals occupy an essential niche in biological systems. Their electrostatic properties stabilize substrates or reaction intermediates in the active sites of enzymes, and their heightened reactivity is...
- 10From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThe fungus Magnaporthe oryzae, the causative agent of rice blast disease, infects leaves using a specialized dome-shaped cell known as an appressorium. The melanin-rich cell wall of the appressorium enables it to...
- 11From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedPhage lysins rupture bacterial cells by hydrolysing the peptidoglycan (PG) layer of the cell envelope, which is accessible in Gram-positive bacteria but is shielded by the outer membrane in Gram-negative species. A...
- 12From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedThis month's Genome Watch describes how knowledge of the malaria parasite genome can be used to better understand and mitigate the emergence of drug resistance. The year 2012 marks the tenth anniversary of the...
- 13From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedCancer has long been considered a genetic disease. However, accumulating evidence supports the involvement of infectious agents in the development of cancer, especially in those organs that are continuously exposed to...
- 14From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedStephen B. Pointing & Jayne Belnap Nature Reviews Microbiology 10, 551-562 (2012) In the original article, the wrong image was mistakenly introduced for Fig. 2h. The correct image has now been included. We...
- 15From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedDespite the increasing global importance of Acinetobacter baumannii as a nosocomial pathogen, little is known about the factors responsible for its pathogenesis. However, a recent paper reports the identification of a...
- 16From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAlthough phages were not previously thought to have a dedicated cytoskeleton, it has recently emerged that some phages actually contain actin-like proteins, and one report identified a phage homologue of the bacterial...
- 17From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedEvery four years, the Olympic Games plays host to competitors who have built on their natural talent by training for many years to become the best in their chosen discipline. Similar spirit and endeavour can be found...
- 18From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedIf asked, could you immediately point to your left, or indeed your right, retroauricular crease? How about your antecubital fossae? These niches--behind the ears and in the crooks of the elbows, naturally--are just two...
- 19From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedAutophagic degradation of intracellular bacteria (termed xenophagy) was recently discovered as an important host defence pathway, but the events that trigger this process were unclear. Tattoli et al. now reveal that...
- 20From: Nature Reviews Microbiology. (Vol. 10, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedA new HIV regimen that combines four medications into one pill, known as Quad, has been shown to be safe and effective, and may increase adherence to anti-HIV treatment. Quad, developed by Gilead, comprises three...