Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 151, Issue 7

39 articles in this issue

Genome update: prediction of membrane proteins in prokaryotic genomes

Bendtsen, Jannick D., Binnewies, Tim T., Hallin, Peter F., Ussery, David W.

p. 2119 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28181-0

The cereulide genetic determinants of emetic Bacillus cereus are plasmid-borne

Hoton, Florence M., Andrup, Lars, Swiecicka, Izabela, Mahillon, Jacques

p. 2121 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28069-0

Databases and software for the comparison of prokaryotic genomes

Field, Dawn, Feil, Edward J., Wilson, Gareth A.

p. 2125 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28006-0

REVIEW

Phage therapy: the Escherichia coli experience

Harald Brüssow

p. 2133–2140 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27849-0

Application of multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) for rapid identification of Enterococcus species based on rpoA and pheS genes

Naser, Sabri M., Thompson, Fabiano L., Hoste, Bart, Gevers, Dirk, Dawyndt, Peter, Vancanneyt, Marc, Swings, Jean

p. 2141 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27840-0

Recovery from long-term stationary phase and stress survival in Escherichia coli require the L-isoaspartyl protein carboxyl methyltransferase at alkaline pH

Hicks, Wade M., Kotlajich, Matthew V., Visick, Jonathan E.

p. 2151 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27835-0

Distribution and evolution of multiple-step phosphorelay in prokaryotes: lateral domain recruitment involved in the formation of hybrid-type histidine kinases

Zhang, Weiwen, Shi, Liang

p. 2159 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27987-0

GENES AND GENOMES

Predicted highly expressed genes in the genomes of Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces avermitilis and the implications for their metabolism

Gang Wu, David E. Culley, Weiwen Zhang

p. 2175–2187 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27833-0

Determining the functionality of putative Tat-dependent signal peptides in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) by using two different reporter proteins

Li, Haiming, Jacques, Pierre-Etienne, Ghinet, Mariana Gabriela, Brzezinski, Ryszard, Morosoli, Rolf

p. 2189 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27893-0

Overproduction, purification and characterization of FtmPT1, a brevianamide F prenyltransferase from Aspergillus fumigatus

Grundmann, Alexander, Li, Shu-Ming

p. 2199 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27962-0

CreA influences the metabolic fluxes of Aspergillus nidulans during growth on glucose and xylose

David, Helga, Krogh, Astrid Morkeberg, Roca, Christophe, Akesson, Mats, Nielsen, Jens

p. 2209 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27787-0

A putative dual-specific protein phosphatase encoded by YVH1 controls growth, filamentation and virulence in Candida albicans

Hanaoka, Nozomu, Umeyama, Takashi, Ueno, Keigo, Ueda, Kenji, Beppu, Teruhiko, Fugo, Hajime, Uehara, Yoshimasa, Niimi, Masakazu

p. 2223 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27999-0

Glutathione-dependent extracellular ferric reductase activities in dimorphic zoopathogenic fungi

Zarnowski, Robert, Woods, Jon P.

p. 2233 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27918-0

The 'yeast cell wall chip' - a tool to analyse the regulation of cell wall biogenesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Rodriguez-Pena, Jose M., Perez-Diaz, Rosa M., Alvarez, Sara, Bermejo, Clara, Garcia, Raul, Santiago, Catalina, Nombela, Cesar, Arroyo, Javier

p. 2241 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27989-0

Prc protease promotes mucoidy in mucA mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Reiling, S. A., Jansen, J. A., Henley, B. J., Singh, S., Chattin, C., Chandler, M., Rowen, D. W.

p. 2251 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27772-0

Effect of static growth and different levels of environmental oxygen on toxA and ptxR expression in the Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1

Gaines, Jennifer M., Carty, Nancy L., Colmer-Hamood, Jane A., Hamood, Abdul N.

p. 2263 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27754-0

Utilization of geraniol is dependent on molybdenum in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: evidence for different metabolic routes for oxidation of geraniol and citronellol

Hoschle, Birgit, Jendrossek, Dieter

p. 2277 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27957-0

Multiple genotypes of Chlamydia pneumoniae identified in human carotid plaque

Cochrane, Melanie, Walker, Philip, Gibbs, Harry, Timms, Peter

p. 2285 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27781-0

DNA methylation in Yersinia enterocolitica: role of the DNA adenine methyltransferase in mismatch repair and regulation of virulence factors

Falker, Stefan, Schmidt, M. Alexander, Heusipp, Gerhard

p. 2291 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27946-0

Role of type III secretion in Edwardsiella tarda virulence

Tan, Y. P., Zheng, J., Tung, S. L., Rosenshine, I., Leung, K. Y.

p. 2301 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28005-0

Substitutions in the interdomain loop of the Tn10 TetA efflux transporter alter tetracycline resistance and substrate specificity

Sapunaric, Frederic M., Levy, Stuart B.

p. 2315 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27997-0

Genetic characterization of the {beta}-glucuronidase enzyme from a human intestinal bacterium, Ruminococcus gnavus

Beaud, Diane, Tailliez, Patrick, Anba-Mondoloni, Jamila

p. 2323 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27712-0

Functional analysis of the lysis genes of Staphylococcus aureus phage P68 in Escherichia coli

Takac, Marian, Witte, Angela, Blasi, Udo

p. 2331 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27937-0

Acd, a peptidoglycan hydrolase of Clostridium difficile with N-acetylglucosaminidase activity

Anne Dhalluin, Ingrid Bourgeois, Martine Pestel-Caron, Emilie Camiade, Gregory Raux, Pascal Courtin, Marie-Pierre Chapot-Chartier, Jean-Louis Pons

p. 2343–2351 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27878-0

Clostridium pasteurianum W5 synthesizes two NifH-related polypeptides under nitrogen-fixing conditions

Kasap, Murat, Chen, Jiann-Shin

p. 2353 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27931-0

Functions of the siderophore esterases IroD and IroE in iron-salmochelin utilization

Zhu, Mingang, Valdebenito, Marianne, Winkelmann, Gunther, Hantke, Klaus

p. 2363 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27888-0

Shifts from glucose to certain secondary carbon-sources result in activation of the extracytoplasmic function sigma factor {sigma}E in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

Kenyon, William J., Thomas, Sheena M., Johnson, Erin, Pallen, Mark J., Spector, Michael P.

p. 2373 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27649-0

Hyperglycosylation of glycopeptidolipid of Mycobacterium smegmatis under nutrient starvation: structural studies

Mukherjee, Raju, Gomez, Manuel, Jayaraman, Narayanaswamy, Smith, Issar, Chatterji, Dipankar

p. 2385 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27908-0

Identification and targeted disruption of the gene encoding the main 3-ketosteroid dehydrogenase in Mycobacterium smegmatis

Brzostek, Anna, Sliwinski, Tomasz, Rumijowska-Galewicz, Anna, Korycka-Machala, Malgorzata, Dziadek, Jaroslaw

p. 2393 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27953-0

Porins limit the intracellular persistence of Mycobacterium smegmatis

Sharbati-Tehrani, Soroush, Stephan, Joachim, Holland, Gudrun, Appel, Bernd, Niederweis, Michael, Lewin, Astrid

p. 2403 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27969-0

Immunogenic membrane-associated proteins of Mycobacterium tuberculosis revealed by proteomics

Sinha, Sudhir, Kosalai, K., Arora, Shalini, Namane, Abdelkader, Sharma, Pawan, Gaikwad, Anil N., Brodin, Priscille, Cole, Stewart T.

p. 2411 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27799-0

Two functional FAS-I type fatty acid synthases in Corynebacterium glutamicum

Radmacher, Eva, Alderwick, Luke J., Besra, Gurdyal S., Brown, Alistair K., Gibson, Kevin J. C., Sahm, Hermann, Eggeling, Lothar

p. 2421 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28012-0

PorH, a new channel-forming protein present in the cell wall of Corynebacterium efficiens and Corynebacterium callunae

Hunten, Peter, Schiffler, Bettina, Lottspeich, Friedrich, Benz, Roland

p. 2429 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27903-0

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

High-level, inducible gene expression in Lactobacillus sakei and Lactobacillus plantarum using versatile expression vectors

Elisabeth Sørvig, Geir Mathiesen, Kristine Naterstad, Vincent G. H. Eijsink, Lars Axelsson

p. 2439–2449 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28084-0

Campylobacter jejuni inhibits the absorptive transport functions of Caco-2 cells and disrupts cellular tight junctions

MacCallum, Amanda, Hardy, Simon P., Everest, Paul H.

p. 2451 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27950-0

Atomic force microscopy study on specificity and non-specificity of interaction forces between Enterococcus faecalis cells with and without aggregation substance

Waar, Karola, van der Mei, Henny C., Harmsen, Hermie J. M., de Vries, Joop, Atema-Smit, Jelly, Degener, John E., Busscher, Henk J.

p. 2459 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27877-0

Bap-dependent biofilm formation by pathogenic species of Staphylococcus: evidence of horizontal gene transfer?

Tormo, M. Angeles, Knecht, Erwin, Gotz, Friedrich, Lasa, Inigo, Penades, Jose R.

p. 2465 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27865-0

A surface-exposed DraD protein of uropathogenic Escherichia coli bearing Dr fimbriae may be expressed and secreted independently from DraC usher and DraE adhesin

Zalewska, Beata, Piatek, Rafal, Bury, Katarzyna, Samet, Alfred, Nowicki, Bogdan, Nowicki, Stella, Kur, Jozef

p. 2477 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28083-0

Escherichia coli tol and rcs genes participate in the complex network affecting curli synthesis

Vianney, Anne, Jubelin, Gregory, Renault, Sophie, Dorel, Corine, Lejeune, Philippe, Lazzaroni, Jean Claude

p. 2487 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27913-0