Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 151, Issue 5

38 articles in this issue

Pseudomonas aeruginosa lectin LecB is located in the outer membrane and is involved in biofilm formation

Tielker, Denis, Hacker, Stephanie, Loris, Remy, Strathmann, Martin, Wingender, Jost, Wilhelm, Susanne, Rosenau, Frank, Jaeger, Karl-Erich

p. 1313 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27701-0

Identity and effects of quorum-sensing inhibitors produced by Penicillium species

Rasmussen, Thomas Bovbjerg, Skindersoe, Mette E., Bjarnsholt, Thomas, Phipps, Richard K., Christensen, Kathrine Bisgaard, Jensen, Peter Ostrup, Andersen, Jens Bo, Koch, Birgit et al.

p. 1325 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27715-0

Evidence of a charge-density threshold for optimum efficiency of biocidal cationic surfaces

Kugler, R., Bouloussa, O., Rondelez, F.

p. 1341 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27526-0

Characterization of the ERK homologue CpMK2 from the chestnut blight fungus Cryphonectria parasitica

Choi, Eun-Sil, Chung, Hea-Jong, Kim, Myoung-Ju, Park, Seung-Moon, Cha, Byeong-Jin, Yang, Moon-Sik, Kim, Dae-Hyuk

p. 1349 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27796-0

Ethambutol, a cell wall inhibitor of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, elicits L-glutamate efflux of Corynebacterium glutamicum

Radmacher, Eva, Stansen, Kathrin C., Besra, Gurdyal S., Alderwick, Luke J., Maughan, William N., Hollweg, Gunter, Sahm, Hermann, Wendisch, Volker F. et al.

p. 1359 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27804-0

CAMP factor homologues in Propionibacterium acnes: a new protein family differentially expressed by types I and II

Valanne, Susanna, McDowell, Andrew, Ramage, Gordon, Tunney, Michael M., Einarsson, Gisli G., O'Hagan, Seamus, Wisdom, G. Brian, Fairley, Derek et al.

p. 1369 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27788-0

Enterococcus faecalis divIVA: an essential gene involved in cell division, cell growth and chromosome segregation

Ramirez-Arcos, Sandra, Liao, Mingmin, Marthaler, Susan, Rigden, Marc, Dillon, Jo-Anne R.

p. 1381 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27718-0

Mechanism of internalization of the cytolethal distending toxin of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

Akifusa, Sumio, Heywood, Wendy, Nair, Sean P., Stenbeck, Gudrun, Henderson, Brian

p. 1395 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27671-0

Role of RpoS and MutS in phase variation of Pseudomonas sp. PCL1171

van den Broek, Daan, Chin-A-Woeng, Thomas F. C., Bloemberg, Guido V., Lugtenberg, Ben J. J.

p. 1403 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27777-0

Allosteric NADP-glutamate dehydrogenase from aspergilli: purification, characterization and implications for metabolic regulation at the carbon-nitrogen interface

Noor, Shahid, Punekar, Narayan S.

p. 1409 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27751-0

The HiPIP from the acidophilic Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is correctly processed and translocated in Escherichia coli, in spite of the periplasm pH difference between these two micro-organisms

Bruscella, Patrice, Cassagnaud, Laure, Ratouchniak, Jeanine, Brasseur, Gael, Lojou, Elisabeth, Amils, Ricardo, Bonnefoy, Violaine

p. 1421 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27476-0

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Biochemical and molecular characterization of an azoreductase from Staphylococcus aureus, a tetrameric NADPH-dependent flavoprotein

Huizhong Chen, Sherryll L. Hopper, Carl E. Cerniglia

p. 1433–1441 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27805-0

Direct molecular mass determination of trehalose monomycolate from 11 species of mycobacteria by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry

Fujita, Yukiko, Naka, Takashi, Doi, Takeshi, Yano, Ikuya

p. 1443 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27791-0

Identification and preliminary characterization of cell-wall-anchored proteins of Staphylococcus epidermidis

Bowden, M. Gabriela, Chen, Wei, Singvall, Jenny, Xu, Yi, Peacock, Sharon J., Valtulina, Viviana, Speziale, Pietro, Hook, Magnus

p. 1453 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27534-0

The dimorphic yeast Yarrowia lipolytica possesses an atypical phosphofructokinase: characterization of the enzyme and its encoding gene

Flores, Carmen-Lisset, Martinez-Costa, Oscar H., Sanchez, Valentina, Gancedo, Carlos, Aragon, Juan J.

p. 1465 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27856-0

Characterization of the interaction between subunits of the botulinum toxin complex produced by serotype D through tryptic susceptibility of the isolated components and complex forms

Suzuki, Tomonori, Watanabe, Toshihiro, Mutoh, Shingo, Hasegawa, Kimiko, Kouguchi, Hirokazu, Sagane, Yoshimasa, Fujinaga, Yukako, Oguma, Keiji et al.

p. 1475 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27801-0

Genetic analysis of Bacillus anthracis Sap S-layer protein crystallization domain

Candela, Thomas, Mignot, Tam, Hagnerelle, Xavier, Haustant, Michel, Fouet, Agnes

p. 1485 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27832-0

Effect of carbon source on the cellulosomal subpopulations of Clostridium cellulovorans

Han, Sung O., Yukawa, Hideaki, Inui, Masayuki, Doi, Roy H.

p. 1491 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27605-0

Overproduction, purification and characterization of FgaPT2, a dimethylallyltryptophan synthase from Aspergillus fumigatus

Unsold, Inge A., Li, Shu-Ming

p. 1499 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27759-0

Daptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces roseosporus: cloning and analysis of the gene cluster and revision of peptide stereochemistry

Miao, Vivian, Coeffet-LeGal, Marie-Francoise, Brian, Paul, Brost, Renee, Penn, Julia, Whiting, Andrew, Martin, Steven, Ford, Robert et al.

p. 1507 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27757-0

Genetic identification of microcystin ecotypes in toxic cyanobacteria of the genus Planktothrix

Kurmayer, Rainer, Christiansen, Guntram, Gumpenberger, Marlies, Fastner, Jutta

p. 1525 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27779-0

Analysing protein-protein interactions of the Myxococcus xanthus Dif signalling pathway using the yeast two-hybrid system

Lancero, Hope L., Castaneda, Schryl, Caberoy, Nora B., Ma, Xiaoyuan, Garza, Anthony G., Shi, Wenyuan

p. 1535 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27743-0

The dynamic behaviour of microtubules and their contributions to hyphal tip growth in Aspergillus nidulans

Sampson, Karina, Heath, I. Brent

p. 1543 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27750-0

The rapid assignment of ruminal fungi to presumptive genera using ITS1 and ITS2 RNA secondary structures to produce group-specific fingerprints

Tuckwell, Danny S., Nicholson, Matthew J., McSweeney, Christopher S., Theodorou, Michael K., Brookman, Jayne L.

p. 1557 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27689-0

Phenotypic differentiation and seeding dispersal in non-mucoid and mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms

Purevdorj-Gage, B., Costerton, W. J., Stoodley, P.

p. 1569 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27536-0

Cationic antimicrobial peptides elicit a complex stress response in Bacillus subtilis that involves ECF-type sigma factors and two-component signal transduction systems

Pietiainen, Milla, Gardemeister, Marika, Mecklin, Maria, Leskela, Soile, Sarvas, Matti, Kontinen, Vesa P.

p. 1577 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27761-0

The Ess1 prolyl isomerase is dispensable for growth but required for virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans

Ren, Ping, Rossettini, Anne, Chaturvedi, Vishnu, Hanes, Steven D.

p. 1593 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27786-0

Roles of Brucella abortus SpoT in morphological differentiation and intramacrophagic replication

Kim, Suk, Watanabe, Kenta, Suzuki, Hiroshi, Watarai, Masahisa

p. 1607 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27782-0

Analysis of the Candida albicans Als2p and Als4p adhesins suggests the potential for compensatory function within the Als family

Zhao, X., Oh, S.-H., Yeater, K. M., Hoyer, L. L.

p. 1619 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27763-0

Yeast wall protein 1 of Candida albicans

Granger, Bruce L., Flenniken, Michelle L., Davis, Dana A., Mitchell, Aaron P., Cutler, Jim E.

p. 1631 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27663-0

The putative vacuolar ATPase subunit Vma7p of Candida albicans is involved in vacuole acidification, hyphal development and virulence

Poltermann, Sophia, Nguyen, Monika, Gunther, Juliane, Wendland, Jurgen, Hartl, Albert, Kunkel, Waldemar, Zipfel, Peter F., Eck, Raimund

p. 1645 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27505-0

Prolonged selection in aerobic, glucose-limited chemostat cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae causes a partial loss of glycolytic capacity

Jansen, Mickel L. A., Diderich, Jasper A., Mashego, Mlawule, Hassane, Adham, de Winde, Johannes H., Daran-Lapujade, Pascale, Pronk, Jack T.

p. 1657 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27577-0

mrpA, a gene with roles in resistance to Na+ and adaptation to alkaline pH in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC7120

Blanco-Rivero, A., Leganes, F., Fernandez-Valiente, E., Calle, P., Fernandez-Pinas, F.

p. 1671 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27848-0

Deletion of the yiaMNO transporter genes affects the growth characteristics of Escherichia coli K-12

Plantinga, Titia H., van der Does, Chris, Tomkiewicz, Danuta, van Keulen, Geertje, Konings, Wil N., Driessen, Arnold J. M.

p. 1683 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27851-0

PHYSIOLOGY

Pleiotropic effect of the SCO2127 gene on the glucose uptake, glucose kinase activity and carbon catabolite repression in Streptomyces peucetius var. caesius

Guzman, Silvia, Carmona, Alonso, Escalante, Laura, Imriskova, Iveta, Lopez, Ruth, Rodriguez-Sanoja, Romina, Ruiz, Beatriz, Servin-Gonzalez, Luis et al.

p. 1717 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27557-0