Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 151, Issue 2

28 articles in this issue

Genome Update: 2D clustering of bacterial genomes

Willenbrock, Hanni, Binnewies, Tim T., Hallin, Peter F., Ussery, David W.

p. 333 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27811-0

Diversity within the Campylobacter jejuni type I restriction-modification loci

Miller, William G., Pearson, Bruce M., Wells, Jerry M., Parker, Craig T., Kapitonov, Vladimir V., Mandrell, Robert E.

p. 337 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27327-0

Analysis of type IV pilus and its associated motility in Myxococcus xanthus using an antibody reactive with native pilin and pili

Li, Yinuo, Lux, Renate, Pelling, Andrew E., Gimzewski, James K., Shi, Wenyuan

p. 353 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27614-0

Variation in gene expression patterns as the insect pathogen Metarhizium anisopliae adapts to different host cuticles or nutrient deprivation in vitro

Freimoser, Florian M., Hu, Gang, Leger, Raymond J. St

p. 361 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27560-0

Pseudomonas aeruginosa tolerance to tobramycin, hydrogen peroxide and polymorphonuclear leukocytes is quorum-sensing dependent

Bjarnsholt, Thomas, Jensen, Peter Ostrup, Burmolle, Mette, Hentzer, Morten, Haagensen, Janus A. J., Hougen, Hans Petter, Calum, Henrik, Madsen, Kit G. et al.

p. 373 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27463-0

Characterization of the flexible genome complement of the commensal Escherichia coli strain A0 34/86 (O83 : K24 : H31)

Hejnova, Jana, Dobrindt, Ulrich, Nemcova, Radka, Rusniok, Christophe, Bomba, Alojz, Frangeul, Lionel, Hacker, Jorg, Glaser, Philippe et al.

p. 385 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27469-0

Genome-wide analysis of temporally regulated and compartment-specific gene expression in sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis

Steil, Leif, Serrano, Monica, Henriques, Adriano O., Volker, Uwe

p. 399 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27493-0

Plasmid p256 from Lactobacillus plantarum represents a new type of replicon in lactic acid bacteria, and contains a toxin-antitoxin-like plasmid maintenance system

Sorvig, Elisabeth, Skaugen, Morten, Naterstad, Kristine, Eijsink, Vincent G. H., Axelsson, Lars

p. 421 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27389-0

Protease susceptibility of the Caulobacter crescentus flagellar hook-basal body: a possible mechanism of flagellar ejection during cell differentiation

Kanbe, M., Shibata, S., Umino, Y., Jenal, U., Aizawa, S.-I.

p. 433 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27386-0

Molecular characterization of the CmbR activator-binding site in the metC-cysK promoter region in Lactococcus lactis

Golic, Natasa, Schliekelmann, Martijn, Fernandez, Maria, Kleerebezem, Michiel, van Kranenburg, Richard

p. 439 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27411-0

Osmotic shrinkage of cells of Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803 by water efflux via aquaporins regulates osmostress-inducible gene expression

Shapiguzov, Alexey, Lyukevich, Alexander A., Allakhverdiev, Suleyman I., Sergeyenko, Tatiana V., Suzuki, Iwane, Murata, Norio, Los, Dmitry A.

p. 447 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27530-0

A new subfamily of fungal subtilases: structural and functional analysis of a Pleurotus ostreatus member

Faraco, Vincenza, Palmieri, Gianna, Festa, Giovanna, Monti, Maria, Sannia, Giovanni, Giardina, Paola

p. 457 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27441-0

The mechanism of upstream activation in the rrnB operon of Mycobacterium smegmatis is different from the Escherichia coli paradigm

Arnvig, Kristine B., Gopal, B., Papavinasasundaram, K. G., Cox, Robert A., Colston, M. Joseph

p. 467 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27597-0

Suppression subtractive hybridization as a basis to assess Mycoplasma agalactiae and Mycoplasma bovis genomic diversity and species-specific sequences

Marenda, Marc S., Sagne, Evelyne, Poumarat, Francois, Citti, Christine

p. 475 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27590-0

Identification of large linear plasmids in Arthrobacter spp. encoding the degradation of quinaldine to anthranilate

Overhage, Jorg, Sielker, Sonja, Homburg, Stefan, Parschat, Katja, Fetzner, Susanne

p. 491 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27521-0

A new insertion sequence, IS14999, from Corynebacterium glutamicum

Tsuge, Yota, Ninomiya, Kana, Suzuki, Nobuaki, Inui, Masayuki, Yukawa, Hideaki

p. 501 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27567-0

Concordant evolution of trichothecene 3-O-acetyltransferase and an rDNA species phylogeny of trichothecene-producing and non-producing fusaria and other ascomycetous fungi

Tokai, Takeshi, Fujimura, Makoto, Inoue, Hirokazu, Aoki, Takayuki, Ohta, Kunihiro, Shibata, Takehiko, Yamaguchi, Isamu, Kimura, Makoto

p. 509 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27435-0

Genetic analysis of the {beta}-lactamases of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis and susceptibility to {beta}-lactam antibiotics

Flores, Anthony R., Parsons, Linda M., Pavelka,, Martin S., Jr

p. 521 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27629-0

Transcriptional profiling of Helicobacter pylori Fur- and iron-regulated gene expression

Ernst, Florian D., Bereswill, Stefan, Waidner, Barbara, Stoof, Jeroen, Mader, Ulrike, Kusters, Johannes G., Kuipers, Ernst J., Kist, Manfred et al.

p. 533 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27404-0

Point mutations in the DNA- and cNMP-binding domains of the homologue of the cAMP receptor protein (CRP) in Mycobacterium bovis BCG: implications for the inactivation of a global regulator and strain attenuation

Spreadbury, Claire L., Pallen, Mark J., Overton, Tim, Behr, Marcel A., Mostowy, Serge, Spiro, Stephen, Busby, Stephen J. W., Cole, Jeffrey A.

p. 547 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27444-0

DNA base excision repair potentiates the protective effect of Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 2 within macrophages

Suvarnapunya, Akamol E., Stein, Murry A.

p. 557 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27555-0

Bacillus cereus Fur regulates iron metabolism and is required for full virulence

Harvie, Duncan R., Vilchez, Susana, Steggles, James R., Ellar, David J.

p. 569 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27744-0

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

PHYSIOLOGY

Precursor and temperature modulation of fatty acid composition and growth of Listeria monocytogenes cold-sensitive mutants with transposon-interrupted branched-chain α-keto acid dehydrogenase

Kun Zhu, Darrell O. Bayles, Anming Xiong, R. K. Jayaswal, Brian J. Wilkinson

p. 615–623 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27634-0

The putative autolysin regulator LytR in Streptococcus mutans plays a role in cell division and is growth-phase regulated

Chatfield, Christa H., Koo, Hyun, Quivey,, Robert G., Jr

p. 625 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27604-0