Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 151, Issue 3

37 articles in this issue

Genome Update: base skews in 200+ bacterial chromosomes

Hallin, Peter F., Nielsen, Natasja, Devine, Kevin M., Binnewies, Tim T., Willenbrock, Hanni, Ussery, David W.

p. 633 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27889-0

The evolution of groups of cooperating bacteria and the growth rate versus yield trade-off

Kreft, Jan-Ulrich, Bonhoeffer, Sebastian

p. 637 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27415-0

Fungus or bacterium and vice versa?

Paterson, R. Russell M.

p. 641 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27732-0

The structure of secondary cell wall polymers: how Gram-positive bacteria stick their cell walls together

Schaffer, Christina, Messner, Paul

p. 643 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27749-0

CRISPR elements in Yersinia pestis acquire new repeats by preferential uptake of bacteriophage DNA, and provide additional tools for evolutionary studies

Pourcel, C., Salvignol, G., Vergnaud, G.

p. 653 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27437-0

Mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis unable to grow at acidic pH in the presence of the protonophore carbonyl cyanide m-chlorophenylhydrazone

Tran, Sieu L., Rao, Min, Simmers, Cameron, Gebhard, Susanne, Olsson, Karen, Cook, Gregory M.

p. 665 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27624-0

Functional specificity of Candida albicans Als3p proteins and clade specificity of ALS3 alleles discriminated by the number of copies of the tandem repeat sequence in the central domain

Oh, Soon-Hwan, Cheng, Georgina, Nuessen, Jennifer A., Jajko, Robert, Yeater, Kathleen M., Zhao, Xiaomin, Pujol, Claude, Soll, David R. et al.

p. 673 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27680-0

GENES AND GENOMES

Functional analysis and annotation of the virulence plasmid pMUM001 from Mycobacterium ulcerans

Timothy P. Stinear, Melinda J. Pryor, Jessica L. Porter, Stewart T. Cole

p. 683–692 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27674-0

Metabolic flux analysis of Escherichia coli in glucose-limited continuous culture. I. Growth-rate-dependent metabolic efficiency at steady state

Kayser, Anke, Weber, Jan, Hecht, Volker, Rinas, Ursula

p. 693 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27481-0

Metabolic flux analysis of Escherichia coli in glucose-limited continuous culture. II. Dynamic response to famine and feast, activation of the methylglyoxal pathway and oscillatory behaviour

Weber, Jan, Kayser, Anke, Rinas, Ursula

p. 707 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27482-0

Influence of flavomycin on ruminal fermentation and microbial populations in sheep

Edwards, Joan E., McEwan, Neil R., McKain, Nest, Walker, Nicola, Wallace, R. John

p. 717 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27602-0

The pimFABCDE operon from Rhodopseudomonas palustris mediates dicarboxylic acid degradation and participates in anaerobic benzoate degradation

Harrison, Faith H., Harwood, Caroline S.

p. 727 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27731-0

Dissimilation of cysteate via 3-sulfolactate sulfo-lyase and a sulfate exporter in Paracoccus pantotrophus NKNCYSA

Rein, Ulrike, Gueta, Ronnie, Denger, Karin, Ruff, Jurgen, Hollemeyer, Klaus, Cook, Alasdair M.

p. 737 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27548-0

Skew-Laplace distribution in Gram-negative bacterial axenic cultures: new insights into intrinsic cellular heterogeneity

Julia, Olga, Vives-Rego, Josep

p. 749 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27460-0

Statistical assessment of a laboratory method for growing biofilms

Goeres, Darla M., Loetterle, Linda R., Hamilton, Martin A., Murga, Ricardo, Kirby, Douglas W., Donlan, Rodney M.

p. 757 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27709-0

Analysis of ATPases of putative secretion operons in the thermoacidophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus

Albers, Sonja-Verena, Driessen, Arnold J. M.

p. 763 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27699-0

Evidence for two recA genes mediating DNA repair in Bacillus megaterium

Nahrstedt, Hannes, Schroder, Christine, Meinhardt, Friedhelm

p. 775 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27626-0

Comparison of gene expression in trap cells and vegetative hyphae of the nematophagous fungus Monacrosporium haptotylum

Ahren, Dag, Tholander, Margareta, Fekete, Csaba, Rajashekar, Balaji, Friman, Eva, Johansson, Tomas, Tunlid, Anders

p. 789 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27485-0

Hypoxia abolishes transience of the heat-shock response in the methylotrophic yeast Hansenula polymorpha

Guerra, Emanuela, Chye, Poh Poh, Berardi, Enrico, Piper, Peter W.

p. 805 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27272-0

Identification of the DNA-binding site of the Rgg-like regulator LasX within the lactocin S promoter region

Rawlinson, Elizabeth L. Andersen, Nes, Ingolf F., Skaugen, Morten

p. 813 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27364-0

Influence of homologous phasins (PhaP) on PHA accumulation and regulation of their expression by the transcriptional repressor PhaR in Ralstonia eutropha H16

Potter, Markus, Muller, Helena, Steinbuchel, Alexander

p. 825 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27613-0

Identification of a gene cluster encoding an arginine ATP-binding-cassette transporter in the genome of the thermophilic Gram-positive bacterium Geobacillus stearothermophilus strain DSMZ 13240

Fleischer, Rebecca, Wengner, Antje, Scheffel, Frank, Landmesser, Heidi, Schneider, Erwin

p. 835 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27591-0

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Novel stationary-phase-upregulated protein of Porphyromonas gingivalis influences production of superoxide dismutase, thiol peroxidase and thioredoxin

Yuichiro Kikuchi, Naoya Ohara, Keiko Sato, Mamiko Yoshimura, Hideharu Yukitake, Eiko Sakai, Mikio Shoji, Mariko Naito et al.

p. 841–853 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27589-0

The interplay of glycogen metabolism and differentiation provides an insight into the developmental biology of Streptomyces coelicolor

Yeo, Marcus, Chater, Keith

p. 855 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27428-0

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

Identification of the outer-membrane protein PagC required for the serum resistance phenotype in Salmonella enterica serovar Choleraesuis

Miki Nishio, Nobuhiko Okada, Tsuyoshi Miki, Takeshi Haneda, Hirofumi Danbara

p. 863–873 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27654-0

Construction of a combined physical and genetic map of the chromosome of Lactobacillus acidophilus ATCC 4356 and characterization of the rRNA operons

EL-Osta, Youssef G. Abs, Hillier, Alan J., Dobos, Marian

p. 875 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27134-0

The plasmids of Chlamydia trachomatis and Chlamydophila pneumoniae (N16): accurate determination of copy number and the paradoxical effect of plasmid-curing agents

Pickett, Mark A., Everson, J. Sylvia, Pead, Patrick J., Clarke, Ian N.

p. 893 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27625-0

Diverse roles for HspR in Campylobacter jejuni revealed by the proteome, transcriptome and phenotypic characterization of an hspR mutant

Andersen, Marianne Thorup, Brondsted, Lone, Pearson, Bruce M., Mulholland, Francis, Parker, Mary, Pin, Carmen, Wells, Jerry M., Ingmer, Hanne

p. 905 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27513-0

Phase variation mediated niche adaptation during prolonged experimental murine infection with Helicobacter pylori

Salaun, Laurence, Ayraud, Sarah, Saunders, Nigel J.

p. 917 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27379-0

The Dps-like protein Fri of Listeria monocytogenes promotes stress tolerance and intracellular multiplication in macrophage-like cells

Olsen, Katja N., Larsen, Marianne H., Gahan, Cormac G. M., Kallipolitis, Birgitte, Wolf, Xenia A., Rea, Rosemary, Hill, Colin, Ingmer, Hanne

p. 925 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27552-0

The vlhA loci of Mycoplasma synoviae are confined to a restricted region of the genome

Allen, Joanne L., Noormohammadi, Amir H., Browning, Glenn F.

p. 935 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27109-0

Genetic structure and chromosomal integration site of the cryptic prophage CP-1639 encoding Shiga toxin 1

Creuzburg, Kristina, Kohler, Bernd, Hempel, Helena, Schreier, Peter, Jacobs, Enno, Schmidt, Herbert

p. 941 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27632-0

Analysis of virulence plasmid gene expression defines three classes of effectors in the type III secretion system of Shigella flexneri

Gall, Tony Le, Mavris, Maria, Martino, Maria Celeste, Bernardini, Maria Lina, Denamur, Erick, Parsot, Claude

p. 951 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27639-0

Reduced initiation frequency from oriC restores viability of a temperature-sensitive Escherichia coli replisome mutant

Skovgaard, Ole, Lobner-Olesen, Anders

p. 963 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27630-0

Two site-specific recombinases are implicated in phenotypic variation and competitive rhizosphere colonization in Pseudomonas fluorescens

Martinez-Granero, Francisco, Capdevila, Silvia, Sanchez-Contreras, Maria, Martin, Marta, Rivilla, Rafael

p. 975 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27583-0

The pel genes of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAK strain are involved at early and late stages of biofilm formation

Vasseur, Perrine, Vallet-Gely, Isabelle, Soscia, Chantal, Genin, Stephane, Filloux, Alain

p. 985 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27410-0

Dynamic localization of penicillin-binding proteins during spore development in Bacillus subtilis

Scheffers, Dirk-Jan

p. 999 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27692-0