Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 149, Issue 9

38 articles in this issue

COMMENT

Genomics reveals sexual secrets of Aspergillus

Paul S. Dyer, Mathieu Paoletti, David B. Archer

p. 2301–2303 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.C0119-0

Hypoxia-responsive expression of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Rv3134c and devR promoters in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Bagchi, Gargi, Mayuri,, Tyagi, Jaya S.

p. 2303 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.C0120-0

The complete genome sequence of the avian pathogen Mycoplasma gallisepticum strain Rlow

Papazisi, Leka, Gorton, Timothy S., Kutish, Gerald, Markham, Philip F., Browning, Glenn F., Nguyen, Di Kim, Swartzell, Steven, Madan, Anup et al.

p. 2307 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26427-0

The Bacillus subtilis YufLM two-component system regulates the expression of the malate transporters MaeN (YufR) and YflS, and is essential for utilization of malate in minimal medium

Tanaka, Kousei, Kobayashi, Kazuo, Ogasawara, Naotake

p. 2317 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26257-0

The Bacillus subtilis ywkA gene encodes a malic enzyme and its transcription is activated by the YufL/YufM two-component system in response to malate

Doan, Thierry, Servant, Pascale, Tojo, Shigeo, Yamaguchi, Hirotake, Lerondel, Guillaume, Yoshida, Ken-Ichi, Fujita, Yasutaro, Aymerich, Stephane

p. 2331 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26256-0

Distinct molecular mechanisms involved in carbon catabolite repression of the arabinose regulon in Bacillus subtilis

Inacio, Jose Manuel, Costa, Carla, de Sa-Nogueira, Isabel

p. 2345 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26326-0

Membrane-bound hydrogenase and sulfur reductase of the hyperthermophilic and acidophilic archaeon Acidianus ambivalens

Laska, Simone, Lottspeich, Friedrich, Kletzin, Arnulf

p. 2357 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26455-0

An ordered collection of expressed sequences from Cryphonectria parasitica and evidence of genomic microsynteny with Neurospora crassa and Magnaporthe grisea

Dawe, Angus L., McMains, Vanessa C., Panglao, Maria, Kasahara, Shin, Chen, Baoshan, Nuss, Donald L.

p. 2373 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26371-0

The roles of SsrA-SsrB and OmpR-EnvZ in the regulation of genes encoding the Salmonella typhimurium SPI-2 type III secretion system

Garmendia, Junkal, Beuzon, Carmen R., Ruiz-Albert, Javier, Holden, David W.

p. 2385 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26397-0

Klebsiella pneumoniae MrkD-mediated biofilm formation on extracellular matrix- and collagen-coated surfaces

Jagnow, Jennifer, Clegg, Steven

p. 2397 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26434-0

Multilocus sequence analysis of Porphyromonas gingivalis indicates frequent recombination

Koehler, Andreas, Karch, Helge, Beikler, Thomas, Flemmig, Thomas. F., Suerbaum, Sebastian, Schmidt, Herbert

p. 2407 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26267-0

Gingival epithelial cell signalling and cytoskeletal responses to Porphyromonas gingivalis invasion

Yilmaz, Ozlem, Young, Patrick A., Lamont, Richard J., Kenny, George E.

p. 2417 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26483-0

fusB is an allele of nadD, encoding nicotinate mononucleotide adenylyltransferase in Escherichia coli

Stancek, Martin, Isaksson, Leif A., Ryden-Aulin, Monica

p. 2427 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26337-0

Streptomyces lividans contains a minimal functional signal recognition particle that is involved in protein secretion

Palacin, Arantxa, de la Fuente, Ricardo, Valle, Inmaculada, Rivas, Luis A., Mellado, Rafael P.

p. 2435 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26313-0

Development of the Micromonospora carbonacea var. africana ATCC 39149 bacteriophage pMLP1 integrase for site-specific integration in Micromonospora spp.

Alexander, Dylan C., Devlin, David J., Hewitt, Duane D., Horan, Ann C., Hosted, Thomas J.

p. 2443 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26318-0

Important role of fungal intracellular laccase for melanin synthesis: purification and characterization of an intracellular laccase from Lentinula edodes fruit bodies

Nagai, Masaru, Kawata, Maki, Watanabe, Hisayuki, Ogawa, Machiko, Saito, Kumiko, Takesawa, Toshikazu, Kanda, Katsuhiro, Sato, Toshitsugu

p. 2455 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26414-0

The variation of dTDP-L-rhamnose pathway genes in Vibrio cholerae

Li, Qun, Hobbs, Matthew, Reeves, Peter R.

p. 2463 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26382-0

Calcium gradient dependence of Neurospora crassa hyphal growth

Silverman-Gavrila, Lorelei B., Lew, Roger R.

p. 2475 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26302-0

A synthetic analysis of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae stress sensor Mid2p, and identification of a Mid2p-interacting protein, Zeo1p, that modulates the PKC1-MPK1 cell integrity pathway

Green, Robin, Lesage, Guillaume, Sdicu, Anne-Marie, Menard, Patrice, Bussey, Howard

p. 2487 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26471-0

Induction of L-form-like cell shape change of Bacillus subtilis under microculture conditions

Shingaki, Ryuji, Kasahara, Yasuhiro, Iwano, Megumi, Kuwano, Masayoshi, Takatsuka, Tomomasa, Inoue, Tetsuyoshi, Kokeguchi, Susumu, Fukui, Kazuhiro

p. 2501 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26259-0

Shigella-induced necrosis and apoptosis of U937 cells and J774 macrophages

Nonaka, Takashi, Kuwabara, Taku, Mimuro, Hitomi, Kuwae, Asaomi, Imajoh-Ohmi, Shinobu

p. 2513 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26341-0

Analysis of genes of tetrahydrofolate-dependent metabolism from cultivated spirochaetes and the gut community of the termite Zootermopsis angusticollis

Salmassi, Tina M., Leadbetter, Jared R.

p. 2529 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26351-0

A novel, fast-growing Borrelia sp. isolated from the hard tick Hyalomma aegyptium in Turkey

Guner, Ece S., Hashimoto, Naoya, Kadosaka, Teruki, Imai, Yasuyuki, Masuzawa, Toshiyuki

p. 2539 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26464-0

A transposon encoding the complete 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid degradation pathway in the alkalitolerant strain Delftia acidovorans P4a

Hoffmann, Doreen, Kleinsteuber, Sabine, Muller, Roland H., Babel, Wolfgang

p. 2545 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26260-0

The colicin G, H and X determinants encode microcins M and H47, which might utilize the catecholate siderophore receptors FepA, Cir, Fiu and IroN

Patzer, S. I., Baquero, M. R., Bravo, D., Moreno, F., Hantke, K.

p. 2557 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26396-0

Spontaneous zygogenesis in Escherichia coli, a form of true sexuality in prokaryotes

Gratia, Jean-Pierre, Thiry, Marc

p. 2571 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26348-0

Gene expression level influences amino acid usage, but not codon usage, in the tsetse fly endosymbiont Wigglesworthia

Herbeck, Joshua T., Wall, Dennis P., Wernegreen, Jennifer J.

p. 2585 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26381-0

N-Acetylglucosamine-inducible CaGAP1 encodes a general amino acid permease which co-ordinates external nitrogen source response and morphogenesis in Candida albicans

Biswas, Subhrajit, Roy, Monideepa, Datta, Asis

p. 2597 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26215-0

Human microvascular endothelial cells resist Shiga toxins by IFN-{gamma} treatment in vitro

Yoshida, Tomoaki, Sugiyama, Tsuyoshi, Koide, Naoki, Mori, Isamu, Yokochi, Takashi

p. 2609 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26142-0

Dissection of homologous translocon operons reveals a distinct role for YopD in type III secretion by Yersinia pseudotuberculosis

Broms, Jeanette E., Forslund, Anna-Lena, Forsberg, Ake, Francis, Matthew S.

p. 2615 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26322-0

Iron deficiency leads to inhibition of oxygen transfer and enhanced formation of virulence factors in cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1

Kim, Eun-Jin, Sabra, Wael, Zeng, An-Ping

p. 2627 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26276-0

A major catalase (KatB) that is required for resistance to H2O2 and phagocyte-mediated killing in Edwardsiella tarda

Srinivasa Rao, P. S., Yamada, Yoshiyuki, Leung, Ka Yin

p. 2635 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26478-0

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

Effect of enzyme I of the bacterial phosphoenolpyruvate : sugar phosphotransferase system (PTS) on virulence in a murine model

Menno Kok, Guillaume Bron, Bernhard Erni, Seema Mukhija

p. 2645–2652 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26406-0

Amylase-binding proteins A (AbpA) and B (AbpB) differentially affect colonization of rats' teeth by Streptococcus gordonii

Tanzer, J. M., Grant, L., Thompson, A., Li, L., Rogers, J. D., Haase, E. M., Scannapieco, F. A.

p. 2653 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26022-0

PHYSIOLOGY

Aer and Tsr guide Escherichia coli in spatial gradients of oxidizable substrates

Suzanne E. Greer-Phillips, Gladys Alexandre, Barry L. Taylor, Igor B. Zhulin

p. 2661–2667 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26304-0

Investigation by 13C-NMR and tricarboxylic acid (TCA) deletion mutant analysis of pathways for succinate formation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae during anaerobic fermentation

Camarasa, Carole, Grivet, Jean-Philippe, Dequin, Sylvie

p. 2669 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26007-0

Marinomonas mediterranea is a lysogenic bacterium that synthesizes R-bodies

Hernandez-Romero, Diana, Lucas-Elio, Patricia, Lopez-Serrano, Daniel, Solano, Francisco, Sanchez-Amat, Antonio

p. 2679 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26524-0

Glucose and trehalose PTS permeases of Spiroplasma citri probably share a single IIA domain, enabling the spiroplasma to adapt quickly to carbohydrate changes in its environment

Andre, Aurelie, Maccheroni, Walter, Doignon, Francois, Garnier, Monique, Renaudin, Joel

p. 2687 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.26336-0