Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 151, Issue 4

28 articles in this issue

Genome Update: Protein secretion systems in 225 bacterial genomes

Binnewies, Tim T., Bendtsen, Jannick D., Hallin, Peter F., Nielsen, Natasja, Wassenaar, Trudy M., Pedersen, Martin Bastian, Klemm, Per, Ussery, David W.

p. 1013 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27966-0

Cataloguing our current genome collection

Field, Dawn, Hughes, Jennifer

p. 1016 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27914-0

The epipolythiodioxopiperazine (ETP) class of fungal toxins: distribution, mode of action, functions and biosynthesis

Gardiner, Donald M., Waring, Paul, Howlett, Barbara J.

p. 1021 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27847-0

The Pbs2 MAP kinase kinase is essential for the oxidative-stress response in the fungal pathogen Candida albicans

Arana, David M., Nombela, Cesar, Alonso-Monge, Rebeca, Pla, Jesus

p. 1033 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27723-0

Construction and real-time RT-PCR validation of Candida albicans PALS-GFP reporter strains and their use in flow cytometry analysis of ALS gene expression in budding and filamenting cells

Green, Clayton B., Zhao, Xiaomin, Yeater, Kathleen M., Hoyer, Lois L.

p. 1051 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27696-0

Flanking direct repeats of hisG alter URA3 marker expression at the HWP1 locus of Candida albicans

Sharkey, Laura L., Liao, Wei-li, Ghosh, Anup K., Fonzi, William A.

p. 1061 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27487-0

Phenotype switching affects biofilm formation by Candida parapsilosis

Laffey, Sean F., Butler, Geraldine

p. 1073 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27739-0

Elucidation of stability determinants of cold-adapted monomeric isocitrate dehydrogenase from a psychrophilic bacterium, Colwellia maris, by construction of chimeric enzymes

Watanabe, Seiya, Yasutake, Yoshiaki, Tanaka, Isao, Takada, Yasuhiro

p. 1083 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27667-0

The 120 592 bp IncF plasmid pRSB107 isolated from a sewage-treatment plant encodes nine different antibiotic-resistance determinants, two iron-acquisition systems and other putative virulence-associated functions

Szczepanowski, R., Braun, S., Riedel, V., Schneiker, S., Krahn, I., Puhler, A., Schluter, A.

p. 1095 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27773-0

The MexGHI-OpmD multidrug efflux pump controls growth, antibiotic susceptibility and virulence in Pseudomonas aeruginosa via 4-quinolone-dependent cell-to-cell communication

Aendekerk, Severine, Diggle, Stephen P., Song, Zhijun, Hoiby, Niels, Cornelis, Pierre, Williams, Paul, Camara, Miguel

p. 1113 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27631-0

Expression of the quorum-sensing regulatory protein LasR is strongly affected by iron and oxygen concentrations in cultures of Pseudomonas aeruginosa irrespective of cell density

Kim, Eun-Jin, Wang, Wei, Deckwer, Wolf-Dieter, Zeng, An-Ping

p. 1127 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27566-0

Protein expression by a Beijing strain differs from that of another clinical isolate and Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv

Pheiffer, Carmen, Betts, Joanna C., Flynn, Helen R., Lukey, Pauline T., van Helden, Paul

p. 1139 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27518-0

Identification of a conserved Moraxella catarrhalis haemoglobin-utilization protein, MhuA

Kristin Furano, Nicole R. Luke, Amy J. Howlett, Anthony A. Campagnari

p. 1151–1158 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27820-0

PrpZ, a Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi serine/threonine protein phosphatase 2C with dual substrate specificity

Lai, Sio Mei, Moual, Herve Le

p. 1159 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27585-0

Biochemical evidence that the pduS gene encodes a bifunctional cobalamin reductase

Sampson, Edith M., Johnson, Celeste L. V., Bobik, Thomas A.

p. 1169 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27755-0

ibeA, a virulence factor of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli

Germon, Pierre, Chen, Yu-Hua, He, Lina, Blanco, Jesus E., Bree, Annie, Schouler, Catherine, Huang, Sheng-He, Moulin-Schouleur, Maryvonne

p. 1179 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27809-0

GENES AND GENOMES

The expression profile of Escherichia coli K-12 in response to minimal, optimal and excess copper concentrations

Christopher J. Kershaw, Nigel L. Brown, Chrystala Constantinidou, Mala D. Patel, Jon L. Hobman

p. 1187–1198 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27650-0

The H-NS protein represses transcription of the eltAB operon, which encodes heat-labile enterotoxin in enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, by binding to regions downstream of the promoter

Yang, Ji, Tauschek, Marija, Strugnell, Richard, Robins-Browne, Roy M.

p. 1199 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27734-0

GENES AND GENOMES

Generation of transposon insertion mutant libraries for Gram-positive bacteria by electroporation of phage Mu DNA transposition complexes

Maria I. Pajunen, Arto T. Pulliainen, Jukka Finne, Harri Savilahti

p. 1209–1218 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27807-0

Sequencing, characterization and transcriptional analysis of the histidine decarboxylase operon of Lactobacillus buchneri

Martin, M. Cruz, Fernandez, Maria, Linares, Daniel M., Alvarez, Miguel A.

p. 1219 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27459-0

Genome-based in silico detection of putative manganese transport systems in Lactobacillus plantarum and their genetic analysis

Groot, Masja N. Nierop, Klaassens, Eline, de Vos, Willem M., Delcour, Jean, Hols, Pascal, Kleerebezem, Michiel

p. 1229 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27375-0

The hydrogenases of Geobacter sulfurreducens: a comparative genomic perspective

Coppi, Maddalena V.

p. 1239 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27535-0

Biochemical and molecular characterization of a periplasmic hydrolase for oxidized polyvinyl alcohol from Sphingomonas sp. strain 113P3

Klomklang, Wilailak, Tani, Akio, Kimbara, Kazuhide, Mamoto, Rie, Ueda, Takashi, Shimao, Masayuki, Kawai, Fusako

p. 1255 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27655-0

Neurotoxins in axenic oscillatorian cyanobacteria: coexistence of anatoxin-a and homoanatoxin-a determined by ligand-binding assay and GC/MS

Araoz, Romulo, Nghiem, Hoang-Oanh, Rippka, Rosmarie, Palibroda, Nicolae, de Marsac, Nicole Tandeau, Herdman, Michael

p. 1263 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27660-0

Protein phosphatase PphA from Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803: the physiological framework of PII-P dephosphorylation

Kloft, Nicole, Rasch, Grit, Forchhammer, Karl

p. 1275 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27771-0

Sulfoacetaldehyde is excreted quantitatively by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus SW1 during growth with taurine as sole source of nitrogen

Weinitschke, Sonja, von Rekowski, Katharina Styp, Denger, Karin, Cook, Alasdair M.

p. 1285 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27838-0

The Ruminococcus albus pilA1-pilA2 locus: expression and putative role of two adjacent pil genes in pilus formation and bacterial adhesion to cellulose

Rakotoarivonina, Harivony, Larson, Marilynn A., Morrison, Mark, Girardeau, Jean-Pierre, Gaillard-Martinie, Brigitte, Forano, Evelyne, Mosoni, Pascale

p. 1291 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27735-0

Sau42I, a BcgI-like restriction-modification system encoded by the Staphylococcus aureus quadruple-converting phage {pi}42

Dempsey, Rita M., Carroll, David, Kong, Huimin, Higgins, Lauren, Keane, Conor T., Coleman, David C.

p. 1301 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27646-0