Leon-Sicairos, Nidia, Reyes-Lopez, Magda, Canizalez-Roman, Adrian, Bermudez-Cruz, Rosa Maria, Serrano-Luna, Jesus, Arroyo, Rossana, de la Garza, Mireya

p. 3859 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28121-0

Garlic blocks quorum sensing and promotes rapid clearing of pulmonary Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

Bjarnsholt, Thomas, Jensen, Peter Ostrup, Rasmussen, Thomas B., Christophersen, Lars, Calum, Henrik, Hentzer, Morten, Hougen, Hans-Petter, Rygaard, Jorgen et al.

p. 3873 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27955-0

Unravelling the multiple effects of lactic acid stress on Lactobacillus plantarum by transcription profiling

Pieterse, Bart, Leer, Rob J., Schuren, Frank H. J., van der Werf, Mariet J.

p. 3881 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28304-0

Overall control of nitrogen metabolism in Lactococcus lactis by CodY, and possible models for CodY regulation in Firmicutes

Guedon, Eric, Sperandio, Brice, Pons, Nicolas, Ehrlich, Stanislav Dusko, Renault, Pierre

p. 3895 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28186-0

A secreted lipase encoded by LIP1 is necessary for efficient use of saturated triglyceride lipids in Fusarium graminearum

Feng, Jie, Liu, Guosheng, Selvaraj, Gopalan, Hughes, Geoffrey R., Wei, Yangdou

p. 3911 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28261-0

Cloning and characterization of the goadsporin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces sp. TP-A0584

Onaka, Hiroyasu, Nakaho, Mizuho, Hayashi, Keiko, Igarashi, Yasuhiro, Furumai, Tamotsu

p. 3923 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28420-0

Transcriptional analysis of the acid tolerance response in Streptococcus pneumoniae

Martin-Galiano, Antonio J., Overweg, Karin, Ferrandiz, Maria J., Reuter, Mark, Wells, Jerry M., de la Campa, Adela G.

p. 3935 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28238-0

Identification of genes associated with mutacin I production in Streptococcus mutans using random insertional mutagenesis

Tsang, Phoebe, Merritt, Justin, Nguyen, Trang, Shi, Wenyuan, Qi, Fengxia

p. 3947 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28221-0

Identification of Salmonella gallinarum virulence genes in a chicken infection model using PCR-based signature-tagged mutagenesis

Shah, Devendra H., Lee, Mi-jin, Park, Jin-ho, Lee, John-hwa, Eo, Seong-kug, Kwon, Jung-thek, Chae, Joon-seok

p. 3957 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28126-0

Glycogen production by different Salmonella enterica serotypes: contribution of functional glgC to virulence, intestinal colonization and environmental survival

McMeechan, Alisdair, Lovell, Margaret A., Cogan, Tristan A., Marston, Kerrie L., Humphrey, Tom J., Barrow, Paul A.

p. 3969 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28292-0

Dimerization and DNA binding of the Salmonella enterica PhoP response regulator are phosphorylation independent

Perron-Savard, Philippe, De Crescenzo, Gregory, Moual, Herve Le

p. 3979 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28236-0

Differential regulation of urease activity in Helicobacter hepaticus and Helicobacter pylori

Belzer, Clara, Stoof, Jeroen, Beckwith, Catherine S., Kuipers, Ernst J., Kusters, Johannes G., van Vliet, Arnoud H. M.

p. 3989 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28188-0

Contribution of a PerR-like regulator to the oxidative-stress response and virulence of Enterococcus faecalis

Verneuil, Nicolas, Rince, Alain, Sanguinetti, Maurizio, Posteraro, Brunella, Fadda, Giovanni, Auffray, Yanick, Hartke, Axel, Giard, Jean-Christophe

p. 3997 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28325-0

Complete and variant forms of the 'gonococcal genetic island' in Neisseria meningitidis

Snyder, Lori A. S., Jarvis, Stephen A., Saunders, Nigel J.

p. 4005 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27925-0

Phylogeny of Wolbachia pipientis based on gltA, groEL and ftsZ gene sequences: clustering of arthropod and nematode symbionts in the F supergroup, and evidence for further diversity in the Wolbachia tree

Casiraghi, M., Bordenstein, S. R., Baldo, L., Lo, N., Beninati, T., Wernegreen, J. J., Werren, J. H., Bandi, C.

p. 4015 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28313-0

Construction and expression of an ethanol production operon in Gram-positive bacteria

Talarico, Lee A., Gil, Malgorzata A., Yomano, Lorraine P., Ingram, Lonnie O., Maupin-Furlow, Julie A.

p. 4023 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28375-0

Probing the domain structure of FtsZ by random truncation and insertion of GFP

Osawa, Masaki, Erickson, Harold P.

p. 4033 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28219-0

Transcription and autoregulation of the Rv3134c-devR-devS operon of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Bagchi, Gargi, Chauhan, Santosh, Sharma, Deepak, Tyagi, Jaya Sivaswami

p. 4045 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28333-0

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 genes for 3-guanidinopropionate and 4-guanidinobutyrate utilization may be derived from a common ancestor

Yuji Nakada, Yoshifumi Itoh

p. 4055–4062 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28258-0

In vivo cycling of the Escherichia coli transcription factor FNR between active and inactive states

Dibden, David P., Green, Jeffrey

p. 4063 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28253-0

The manganese-responsive repressor Mur of Rhizobium leguminosarum is a member of the Fur-superfamily that recognizes an unusual operator sequence

Diaz-Mireles, Edit, Wexler, Margaret, Todd, Jonathan D., Bellini, Dominico, Johnston, Andrew W. B., Sawers, R. Gary

p. 4071 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28342-0

Characterization and spontaneous mutation of a novel gene, polE, involved in pellicle formation in Acetobacter tropicalis SKU1100

Deeraksa, Arpaporn, Moonmangmee, Somporn, Toyama, Hirohide, Yamada, Mamoru, Adachi, Osao, Matsushita, Kazunobu

p. 4111 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28350-0

Medium- to large-sized xylo-oligosaccharides are responsible for xylanase induction in Prevotella bryantii B14

Miyazaki, Kohji, Hirase, Tatsuaki, Kojima, Yoichi, Flint, Harry James

p. 4121 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28270-0

Analysis of differential protein expression during growth states of Ferroplasma strains and insights into electron transport for iron oxidation

Dopson, Mark, Baker-Austin, Craig, Bond, Philip L.

p. 4127 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28362-0

bph genes of the thermophilic PCB degrader, Bacillus sp. JF8: characterization of the divergent ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase and hydrolase genes upstream of the Mn-dependent BphC

Mukerjee-Dhar, Gouri, Shimura, Minoru, Miyazawa, Daisuke, Kimbara, Kazuhide, Hatta, Takashi

p. 4139 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28437-0

Microbiology — Volume 151, Issue 12

Genome update: lactic acid bacteria genome sequencing is booming

Balancing the loss and acquisition of pathogenic traits in food-associated bacteria

Biofilm-control strategies based on enzymic disruption of the extracellular polymeric substance matrix - a modelling study

A GntR family transcriptional regulator (PigT) controls gluconate-mediated repression and defines a new, independent pathway for regulation of the tripyrrole antibiotic, prodigiosin, in Serratia

Four molecules of the 33 kDa haemagglutinin component of the Clostridium botulinum serotype C and D toxin complexes are required to aggregate erythrocytes

Human hololactoferrin: endocytosis and use as an iron source by the parasite Entamoeba histolytica