Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 148, Issue 1

35 articles in this issue

E. coli O157 persistence in the environment

Brown, Michael R. W., Smith, Anthony W., Barker, John, Humphrey, Thomas J., Dixon, Bernard

p. 1

In reply

Reilly, W. J.

p. 2

SGM Special Lecture

Immigration control of DNA in bacteria: self versus non-self

Noreen E. Murray

p. 3–20

The enigma of the origin of life and its timing

Line, Martin A.

p. 21

Reductive iron uptake by Candida albicans: role of copper, iron and the TUP1 regulator

Knight, Simon A. B., Lesuisse, Emmanuel, Stearman, Robert, Klausner, Richard D., Dancis, Andrew

p. 29

Secretion of active anti-Ras single-chain Fv antibody by the yeasts Yarrowia lipolytica and Kluyveromyces lactis

Swennen, Dominique, Paul, Marie-Francoise, Vernis, Laurence, Beckerich, Jean-Marie, Fournier, Alain, Gaillardin, Claude

p. 41

The candicidin gene cluster from Streptomyces griseus IMRU 3570

Campelo, Ana Belen, Gil, Jose A.

p. 51

Characterization of the attP site of the integrative element pSAM2 from Streptomyces ambofaciens

Raynal, Alain, Friedmann, Annick, Tuphile, Karine, Guerineau, Michel, Pernodet, Jean-Luc

p. 61

Investigation of in vivo cross-talk between key two-component systems of Escherichia coli

Verhamme, Daniel T., Arents, Jos C., Postma, Pieter W., Crielaard, Wim, Hellingwerf, Klaas J.

p. 69

Fast lysis of Escherichia coli filament cells requires differentiation of potential division sites

de Pedro, Miguel Angel, Holtje, Joachim-Volker, Schwarz, Heinz

p. 79

Inhibition of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm bacteria by a halogenated furanone compound

Hentzer, Morten, Riedel, Kathrin, Rasmussen, Thomas B., Heydorn, Arne, Andersen, Jens Bo, Parsek, Matthew R., Rice, Scott A., Eberl, Leo et al.

p. 87

kdsA mutations affect FtsZ-ring formation in Escherichia coli K-12

Fujishima, H., Nishimura, A., Wachi, M., Takagi, H., Hirasawa, T., Teraoka, H., Nishimori, K., Kawabata, T. et al.

p. 103

The starvation-stress response of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium requires {sigma}E-, but not CpxR-regulated extracytoplasmic functions

Kenyon, William J., Sayers, D. Geary, Humphreys, Sue, Roberts, Mark, Spector, Michael P.

p. 113

Regulation of carbon utilization by sulfur availability in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium

Quan, John A., Schneider, Barbara L., Paulsen, Ian T., Yamada, Mamoru, Kredich, Nicholas M., Saier, Milton H., Jr

p. 123

AcnC of Escherichia coli is a 2-methylcitrate dehydratase (PrpD) that can use citrate and isocitrate as substrates

Blank, Lindsay, Green, Jeffrey, Guest, John R.

p. 133

Fur-mediated transcriptional and post-transcriptional regulation of FeSOD expression in Escherichia coli

Dubrac, Sarah, Touati, Daniele

p. 147

Immunodominant membrane proteins from two phytoplasmas in the aster yellows clade (chlorante aster yellows and clover phyllody) are highly divergent in the major hydrophilic region

Barbara, Derek J., Morton, Anne, Clark, Michael F., Davies, David L.

p. 157

Immunological response mounted by Aboriginal Australians living in the Northern Territory of Australia against Streptococcus pyogenes serum opacity factor

Gillen, Christine M., Towers, Rebecca J., McMillan, David J., Delvecchio, Armando, Sriprakash, K. S., Currie, Bart, Kreikemeyer, Berndt, Chhatwal, Gurusharan S. et al.

p. 169

Differentiation of plasmids in marine diazotroph assemblages determined by randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis

Beeson, Keri E., Erdner, Deana L., Bagwell, Christopher E., Lovell, Charles R., Sobecky, Patricia A.

p. 179

Ras1 and Ras2 contribute shared and unique roles in physiology and virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans

Waugh, Michael S., Nichols, Connie B., DeCesare, Cameron M., Cox, Gary M., Heitman, Joseph, Alspaugh, J. Andrew

p. 191

Multiple origins of hybrid strains of Cryptococcus neoformans with serotype AD

Xu, Jianping, Luo, Guizhen, Vilgalys, Rytas J., Brandt, Mary E., Mitchell, Thomas G.

p. 203

Antisense repression in Cryptococcus neoformans as a laboratory tool and potential antifungal strategy

Gorlach, Jenifer M., McDade, Henry C., Perfect, John R., Cox, Gary M.

p. 213

Evidence for degradation of 2-chlorophenol by enrichment cultures under denitrifying conditions

Bae, Hee-Sung, Yamagishi, Takao, Suwa, Yuichi

p. 221

A broad-host-range vector of incompatibility group Q can work as a plasmid vector in Neisseria meningitidis: a new genetical tool

Takahashi, Hideyuki, Watanabe, Haruo

p. 229

Clostridium perfringens{alpha}-toxin induces rabbit neutrophil adhesion

Ochi, Sadayuki, Miyawaki, Toshihumi, Matsuda, Hisaaki, Oda, Masataka, Nagahama, Masahiro, Sakurai, Jun

p. 237

A newly described cellulosomal cellobiohydrolase, CelO, from Clostridium thermocellum: investigation of the exo-mode of hydrolysis, and binding capacity to crystalline cellulose

Zverlov, Vladimir V., Velikodvorskaya, Galina A., Schwarz, Wolfgang H.

p. 247

Determination of bacterial load by real-time PCR using a broad-range (universal) probe and primers set

Nadkarni, Mangala A., Martin, F. Elizabeth, Jacques, Nicholas A., Hunter, Neil

p. 257

Research Paper

Quantitative speciation of sulfur in bacterial sulfur globules: X-ray absorption spectroscopy reveals at least three different species of sulfur

Alexander Prange, Reinhold Chauvistré, Hartwig Modrow, Josef Hormes, Hans G. Trüper, Christiane Dahl

p. 267–276

Effect of nutrient limitation on biofilm formation and phosphatase activity of a Citrobacter sp.

Allan, Victoria J. M., Callow, Maureen E., Macaskie, Lynne E., Paterson-Beedle, Marion

p. 277

The metabolism of 2-methyladenosine in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Chen, Chih-Kuang, Barrow, Esther W., Allan, Paula W., Bansal, Namita, Maddry, Joseph A., Suling, William J., Barrow, William W., Parker, William B.

p. 289

Bacillus amyloliquefaciens orthologue of Bacillus subtilis ywrO encodes a nitroreductase enzyme which activates the prodrug CB 1954

Anlezark, Gill M., Vaughan, Thomas, Fashola-Stone, Elizabeth, Paul Michael, N., Murdoch, Heather, Sims, Meg A., Stubbs, Simon, Wigley, Stuart et al.

p. 297

Killing of spores of Bacillus subtilis by peroxynitrite appears to be caused by membrane damage

Genest, Peter C., Setlow, Barbara, Melly, Elizabeth, Setlow, Peter

p. 307

Research Paper

Establishment of a functional symbiosis between the cyanobacterium Nostoc punctiforme and the bryophyte Anthoceros punctatus requires genes involved in nitrogen control and initiation of heterocyst differentiation

Francis C. Y. Wong, John C. Meeks

p. 315–323

NAD(P)H regeneration is the key for heterolactic fermentation of hexoses in Oenococcus oeni

Maicas, Sergi, Ferrer, Sergi, Pardo, Isabel

p. 325

Methanol and acriflavine resistance in Dictyostelium are caused by loss of catalase

Garcia, Ma. Xenia U., Roberts, Catherine, Alexander, Hannah, Stewart, A. Michael, Harwood, Adrian, Alexander, Stephen, Insall, Robert H.

p. 333