Crystal ball - 2011

The Bacterial Cytoskeleton

(2010) Matthew T. Cabeen et al.   Annual Review of Genetics

Iron-Oxidizing Bacteria: An Environmental and Genomic Perspective

(2010) David Emerson et al.   Annual Review of Microbiology

Structure, evolution and dynamics of transcriptional regulatory networks

(2010) M. Madan Babu   BIOCHEMICAL SOCIETY TRANSACTIONS

3-D-QSAR and docking studies on the neuronal choline transporter

(2010) Werner J. Geldenhuys et al.   BIOORGANIC & MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY LETTERS

Evolution of electron transfer out of the cell: comparative genomics of six Geobacter genomes

(2010) Jessica E Butler et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Extensive In Vivo Metabolite-Protein Interactions Revealed by Large-Scale Systematic Analyses

(2010) Xiyan Li et al.   CELL

Phenotypic Landscape of a Bacterial Cell

(2010) Robert J. Nichols et al.   CELL

Amino acid signatures of salinity on an environmental scale with a focus on the Dead Sea

(2010) Matthew E. Rhodes et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

First description of giant Archaea (Thaumarchaeota) associated with putative bacterial ectosymbionts in a sulfidic marine habitat

(2010) Félix Muller et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Metapopulation structure of Vibrionaceae among coastal marine invertebrates

(2010) Sarah P. Preheim et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Thermodynamic limits to microbial life at high salt concentrations

(2010) Aharon Oren   ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Carbon and nitrogen fluxes associated with the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon sp. in the Baltic Sea

(2010) Helle Ploug et al.   ISME Journal

AMD biofilms: using model communities to study microbial evolution and ecological complexity in nature

(2010) Vincent J Denef et al.   ISME Journal

NADP+ Reduction with Reduced Ferredoxin and NADP+ Reduction with NADH Are Coupled via an Electron-Bifurcating Enzyme Complex in Clostridium kluyveri

(2010) S. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

The CRISPR System: Small RNA-Guided Defense in Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) Fedor V. Karginov et al.   MOLECULAR CELL

NanoMonitor: a miniature electronic biosensor for glycan biomarker detection

(2010) Vinay J Nagaraj et al.   Nanomedicine

Metabolic streamlining in an open-ocean nitrogen-fixing cyanobacterium

(2010) H. James Tripp et al.   NATURE

Structural basis of Na+-independent and cooperative substrate/product antiport in CaiT

(2010) Sabrina Schulze et al.   NATURE

Electric currents couple spatially separated biogeochemical processes in marine sediment

(2010) Lars Peter Nielsen et al.   NATURE

A human gut microbial gene catalogue established by metagenomic sequencing

(2010) Junjie Qin et al.   NATURE

CRISPR interference: RNA-directed adaptive immunity in bacteria and archaea

(2010) Luciano A. Marraffini et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Bile Acid-Induced Virulence Gene Expression of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Reveals a Novel Therapeutic Potential for Bile Acid Sequestrants

(2010) Kazuyoshi Gotoh et al.   PLoS One

Precambrian microbe-like pseudofossils: A promising solution to the problem

(2010) J. William Schopf et al.   PRECAMBRIAN RESEARCH

Ecosystem-specific selection pressures revealed through comparative population genomics

(2010) M. L. Coleman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Individuality in gut microbiota composition is a complex polygenic trait shaped by multiple environmental and host genetic factors

(2010) A. K. Benson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Rapid evolution of stability and productivity at the origin of a microbial mutualism

(2010) K. L. Hillesland et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Proteogenomic basis for ecological divergence of closely related bacteria in natural acidophilic microbial communities

(2010) V. J. Denef et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Electrical transport along bacterial nanowires from Shewanella oneidensis MR-1

(2010) M. Y. El-Naggar et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

CRISPR-mediated phage resistance and the ghost of coevolution past

(2010) P. F. Vale et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Alleviating Cancer Drug Toxicity by Inhibiting a Bacterial Enzyme

(2010) B. D. Wallace et al.   SCIENCE

High Frequency of Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Oceans

(2010) L. D. McDaniel et al.   SCIENCE

Plant Peptides Govern Terminal Differentiation of Bacteria in Symbiosis

(2010) W. Van de Velde et al.   SCIENCE

c-di-AMP Secreted by Intracellular Listeria monocytogenes Activates a Host Type I Interferon Response

(2010) J. J. Woodward et al.   SCIENCE

CRISPR/Cas, the Immune System of Bacteria and Archaea

(2010) P. Horvath et al.   SCIENCE

Quorum sensing in natural environments: emerging views from microbial mats

(2010) Alan W. Decho et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Functional Molecular Ecological Networks

(2010) J. Zhou et al.   mBio

Electron Cryotomography

(2010) E. I. Tocheva et al.   Cold Spring Harbor Perspectives in Biology

The case for cloud computing in genome informatics

(2010) Lincoln D Stein   GENOME BIOLOGY

Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences

(2010) Justin Kuczynski et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy

(2009) Bo Huang et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Atomic force microscopy reveals microscale networks and possible symbioses among pelagic marine bacteria

(2009) F Malfatti et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Prokaryotic homologs of Argonaute proteins are predicted to function as key components of a novel system of defense against mobile genetic elements

(2009) Kira S Makarova et al.   Biology Direct

Is evolution Darwinian or/and Lamarckian?

(2009) Eugene V Koonin et al.   Biology Direct

RNA-Guided RNA Cleavage by a CRISPR RNA-Cas Protein Complex

(2009) Caryn R. Hale et al.   CELL

Iron-oxidizing microbial ecosystems thrived in late Paleoproterozoic redox-stratified oceans

(2009) Noah Planavsky et al.   EARTH AND PLANETARY SCIENCE LETTERS

The Iron-Hydrogenase of Thermotoga maritima Utilizes Ferredoxin and NADH Synergistically: a New Perspective on Anaerobic Hydrogen Production

(2009) G. J. Schut et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Endogenous Phenazine Antibiotics Promote Anaerobic Survival of Pseudomonas aeruginosa via Extracellular Electron Transfer

(2009) Y. Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

How the Microbial World Saved Evolution from the Scylla of Molecular Biology and the Charybdis of the Modern Synthesis

(2009) C. R. Woese et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY REVIEWS

The ATP-binding cassette transporter Cbc (choline/betaine/carnitine) recruits multiple substrate-binding proteins with strong specificity for distinct quaternary ammonium compounds

(2009) Chiliang Chen et al.   MOLECULAR MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular basis of transport and regulation in the Na+/betaine symporter BetP

(2009) Susanne Ressl et al.   NATURE

Viruses manipulate the marine environment

(2009) Forest Rohwer et al.   NATURE

Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation

(2009) Francisco Rodriguez-Valera et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

STITCH 2: an interaction network database for small molecules and proteins

(2009) Michael Kuhn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Subseafloor sedimentary life in the South Pacific Gyre

(2009) Steven D'Hondt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying environmental adaptation of metabolic pathways in metagenomics

(2009) T. A. Gianoulis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative systems biology across an evolutionary gradient within the Shewanella genus

(2009) K. T. Konstantinidis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Characterization of an electron conduit between bacteria and the extracellular environment

(2009) Robert S. Hartshorne et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacteriophages Encode Factors Required for Protection in a Symbiotic Mutualism

(2009) K. M. Oliver et al.   SCIENCE

Topographical and Temporal Diversity of the Human Skin Microbiome

(2009) E. A. Grice et al.   SCIENCE

Deep-Sea Archaea Fix and Share Nitrogen in Methane-Consuming Microbial Consortia

(2009) A. E. Dekas et al.   SCIENCE

Functional Characterization of the Antibiotic Resistance Reservoir in the Human Microflora

(2009) M. O. A. Sommer et al.   SCIENCE

The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity

(2009) C. Fraser et al.   SCIENCE

CRISPR-based adaptive and heritable immunity in prokaryotes

(2009) John van der Oost et al.   TRENDS IN BIOCHEMICAL SCIENCES

New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics

(2009) David M. Kristensen et al.   TRENDS IN MICROBIOLOGY

Metagenetics: spending our inheritance on the future

(2009) Jo Handelsman   Microbial Biotechnology

Fast Growth Increases the Selective Advantage of a Mutation Arising Recurrently during Evolution under Metal Limitation

(2009) Hsin-Hung Chou et al.   PLoS Genetics

Toward a Biomechanical Understanding of Whole Bacterial Cells

(2008) Dylan M. Morris et al.   Annual Review of Biochemistry

Community structure of marine bacterioplankton: patterns, networks, and relationships to function

(2008) JA Fuhrman et al.   AQUATIC MICROBIAL ECOLOGY

Comparative genomics of Geobacter chemotaxis genes reveals diverse signaling function

(2008) Hoa T Tran et al.   BMC GENOMICS

GbdR Regulates Pseudomonas aeruginosa plcH and pchP Transcription in Response to Choline Catabolites

(2008) M. J. Wargo et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY

The Compatible-Solute-Binding Protein OpuAC from Bacillus subtilis: Ligand Binding, Site-Directed Mutagenesis, and Crystallographic Studies

(2008) S. H. J. Smits et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Intracellular Organic Osmolytes: Function and Regulation

(2008) Maurice B. Burg et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Crystal Structures of the Choline/Acetylcholine Substrate-binding Protein ChoX fromSinorhizobium melilotiin the Liganded and Unliganded-Closed States

(2008) Christine Oswald et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

A core gut microbiome in obese and lean twins

(2008) Peter J. Turnbaugh et al.   NATURE

Mesophilic crenarchaeota: proposal for a third archaeal phylum, the Thaumarchaeota

(2008) Céline Brochier-Armanet et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Molecular eco-systems biology: towards an understanding of community function

(2008) Jeroen Raes et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Inter-kingdom signalling: communication between bacteria and their hosts

(2008) David T. Hughes et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Genome analysis of the proteorhodopsin-containing marine bacterium Polaribacter sp. MED152 (Flavobacteria)

(2008) J. M. Gonzalez et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Extreme polyploidy in a large bacterium

(2008) J. E. Mendell et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Bacteria Subsisting on Antibiotics

(2008) G. Dantas et al.   SCIENCE

Small CRISPR RNAs Guide Antiviral Defense in Prokaryotes

(2008) S. J. J. Brouns et al.   SCIENCE

Redox-Active Antibiotics Control Gene Expression and Community Behavior in Divergent Bacteria

(2008) L. E. P. Dietrich et al.   SCIENCE

Resource Partitioning and Sympatric Differentiation Among Closely Related Bacterioplankton

(2008) D. E. Hunt et al.   SCIENCE

Use of voltammetric solid-state (micro)electrodes for studying biogeochemical processes: Laboratory measurements to real time measurements with an in situ electrochemical analyzer (ISEA)

(2007) George W. Luther et al.   MARINE CHEMISTRY

Is evolvability evolvable?

(2007) Massimo Pigliucci   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS