Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 148, Issue 4

31 articles in this issue

Review Article

Sensing, signalling and integrating physical processes during Saccharomyces cerevisiae invasive and filamentous growth

Sean P. Palecek, Archita S. Parikh, Stephen J. Kron

p. 893–907

LuxS: its role in central metabolism and the in vitro synthesis of 4-hydroxy-5-methyl-3(2H)-furanone

Winzer, Klaus, Hardie, Kim R., Burgess, Nicola, Doherty, Neil, Kirke, David, Holden, Matthew T. G., Linforth, Rob, Cornell, Kenneth A. et al.

p. 909

Research Paper

Genetically programmed autoinducer destruction reduces virulence gene expression and swarming motility in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Cornelia Reimmann, Nathalie Ginet, Laurent Michel, Christoph Keel, Patrick Michaux, Viji Krishnapillai, Marcello Zala, Karin Heurlier et al.

p. 923–932

Research Paper

Potassium- or sodium-efflux ATPase, a key enzyme in the evolution of fungi

Begoña Benito, Blanca Garciadeblás, Alonso Rodrı́guez-Navarro

p. 933–941

Development of a P1 phagemid system for the delivery of DNA into Gram-negative bacteria

Westwater, Caroline, Schofield, David A., Schmidt, Michael G., Norris, James S., Dolan, Joseph W.

p. 943

Research Paper

MabA (FabG1), a Mycobacterium tuberculosis protein involved in the long-chain fatty acid elongation system FAS-II

Hedia Marrakchi, Stéphanie Ducasse, Gilles Labesse, Henri Montrozier, Emmanuel Margeat, Laurent Emorine, Xavier Charpentier, Mamadou Daffé et al.

p. 951–960

Physiological consequences associated with overproduction of Mycobacterium tuberculosis FtsZ in mycobacterial hosts

Dziadek, Jaroslaw, Madiraju, Murty V. V. S., Rutherford, Stacey A., Atkinson, Mark A. L., Rajagopalan, Malini

p. 961

Characterization of the genetic locus responsible for the production of ABP-118, a novel bacteriocin produced by the probiotic bacterium Lactobacillus salivarius subsp. salivarius UCC118

Flynn, Sarah, van Sinderen, Douwe, Thornton, Gerardine M., Holo, Helge, Nes, Ingolf F., Collins, J. Kevin

p. 973

Research Paper

Sequence analysis of the lactococcal bacteriophage bIL170: insights into structural proteins and HNH endonucleases in dairy phages

Anne-Marie Crutz-Le Coq, Bénédicte Cesselin, Jacqueline Commissaire, Jamila Anba

p. 985–1001

Research Paper

Metabolic engineering of lactic acid bacteria, the combined approach: kinetic modelling, metabolic control and experimental analysis

Marcel H. N. Hoefnagel, Marjo J. C. Starrenburg, Dirk E. Martens, Jeroen Hugenholtz, Michiel Kleerebezem, Iris I. Van Swam, Roger Bongers, Hans V. Westerhoff et al.

p. 1003–1013

Research Paper

Expression of the Escherichia coli yfiD gene responds to intracellular pH and reduces the accumulation of acidic metabolic end products

Neil R. Wyborn, Sarah L. Messenger, Robin A. Henderson, Gary Sawers, Ruth E. Roberts, Margaret M. Attwood, Jeffrey Green

p. 1015–1026

Research Paper

Escherichia coli aconitases and oxidative stress: post-transcriptional regulation of sodA expression

Yue Tang, Michael A. Quail, Peter J. Artymiuk, John R. Guest, Jeffrey Green

p. 1027–1037

Research Paper

Intracellular cyclic AMP concentration is decreased in Salmonella typhimurium fur mutants

Susana Campoy, Mónica Jara, Núria Busquets, Ana M. Pérez de Rozas, Ignacio Badiola, Jordi Barbé

p. 1039–1048

Research Paper

The Candida albicans Sup35p protein (CaSup35p): function, prion-like behaviour and an associated polyglutamine length polymorphism

Catarina Resende, Steven N. Parham, Caroline Tinsley, Paulo Ferreira, Júlio A. B. Duarte, Mick F. Tuite

p. 1049–1060

Research Paper

Homozygosity at the Candida albicans MTL locus associated with azole resistance

Tige R. Rustad, David A. Stevens, Michael A. Pfaller, Theodore C. White

p. 1061–1072

Research Paper

Complications in cell-surface labelling by biotinylation of Candida albicans due to avidin conjugate binding to cell-wall proteins

James Masuoka, Lori N. Guthrie, Kevin C. Hazen

p. 1073–1079

Research Paper

Identification of a role for Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cgr1p in pre-rRNA processing and 60S ribosome subunit synthesis

Terence I. Moy, Douglas Boettner, Judith C. Rhodes, Pamela A. Silver, David S. Askew

p. 1081–1090

Biosynthesis of the dideoxysugar component of jadomycin B: genes in the jad cluster of Streptomyces venezuelae ISP5230 for L-digitoxose assembly and transfer to the angucycline aglycone

Wang, Liru, White, Robert L., Vining, Leo C.

p. 1091

Research Paper

Nonribosomal biosynthesis of vancomycin-type antibiotics: a heptapeptide backbone and eight peptide synthetase modules

Jürgen Recktenwald, Riham Shawky, Oliver Puk, Frank Pfennig, Ulrich Keller, Wolfgang Wohlleben, Stefan Pelzer

p. 1105–1118

Research Paper

Halogenated furanones inhibit quorum sensing through accelerated LuxR turnover

Michael Manefield, Thomas Bovbjerg Rasmussen, Morten Henzter, Jens Bo Andersen, Peter Steinberg, Staffan Kjelleberg, Michael Givskov

p. 1119–1127

Research Paper

Redundancy, phylogeny and differential expression of Histoplasma capsulatum catalases

Clayton H. Johnson, Martin G. Klotz, J. Lyndal York, Volker Kruft, Joan E. McEwen

p. 1129–1142

Research Paper

Efflux of organic acids in Penicillium simplicissimum is an energy-spilling process, adjusting the catabolic carbon flow to the nutrient supply and the activity of catabolic pathways

Martin Gallmetzer, Wolfgang Burgstaller

p. 1143–1149

Research Paper

Isolation and biochemical characterization of an endo-1,3-β-glucanase from Streptomyces sioyaensis containing a C-terminal family 6 carbohydrate-binding module that binds to 1,3-β-glucan

Tang-Yao Hong, Chun-Wei Cheng, Jenn-Wen Huang, Menghsiao Meng

p. 1151–1159

Research Paper

Influence of extracellular polymeric substances on deposition and redeposition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to surfaces

Cristina Gómez-Suárez, Jos Pasma, Arnout J. van der Borden, Jost Wingender, Hans-Curt Flemming, Henk J. Busscher, Henny C. van der Mei

p. 1161–1169

Research Paper

Envelope instability in DNA adenine methylase mutants of Salmonella enterica

M. Graciela Pucciarelli, Ana I. Prieto, Josep Casadesús, Francisco Garcı́a-del Portillo

p. 1171–1182

Research Paper

Construction and characterization of a nonpigmented mutant of Porphyromonas gingivalis: cell surface polysaccharide as an anchorage for gingipains

Mikio Shoji, Dinath B. Ratnayake, Yixin Shi, Tomoko Kadowaki, Kenji Yamamoto, Fuminobu Yoshimura, Akifumi Akamine, Michael A. Curtis et al.

p. 1183–1191

Interaction of human Tamm-Horsfall glycoprotein with Bordetella pertussis toxin

Menozzi, Franco D., Debrie, Anne-Sophie, Tissier, Jean-Pierre, Locht, Camille, Pethe, Kevin, Raze, Dominique

p. 1193

Identification of genetic differences between two Campylobacter jejuni strains with different colonization potentials

Ahmed, If H., Manning, Georgina, Wassenaar, Trudy M., Cawthraw, Shaun, Newell, Diane G.

p. 1203

Research Paper

The benPK operon, proposed to play a role in transport, is part of a regulon for benzoate catabolism in Acinetobacter sp. strain ADP1

Todd J. Clark, Cory Momany, Ellen L. Neidle

p. 1213–1223

Research Paper

Difference in substrate specificity divides the yeast alkali-metal-cation/H+ antiporters into two subfamilies

Olga Kinclová, Serge Potier, Hana Sychrová

p. 1225–1232

Polymorphism in repeated 16S rRNA genes is a common property of type strains and environmental isolates of the genus Vibrio

Moreno, Claudia, Romero, Jaime, Espejo, Romilio T.

p. 1233