Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 151, Issue 8

28 articles in this issue

COMMENT

Orphans as taxonomically restricted and ecologically important genes

G. A. Wilson, N. Bertrand, Y. Patel, J. B. Hughes, E. J. Feil, D. Field

p. 2499–2501 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28146-0

Acclimation of unicellular cyanobacteria to macronutrient deficiency: emergence of a complex network of cellular responses

Rakefet Schwarz, Karl Forchhammer

p. 2503–2514 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27883-0

Identification of tailoring genes involved in the modification of the polyketide backbone of rifamycin B by Amycolatopsis mediterranei S699

Xu, Jun, Wan, Eva, Kim, Chang-Joon, Floss, Heinz G., Mahmud, Taifo

p. 2515 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28138-0

Modulation of quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa through alteration of membrane properties

Baysse, Christine, Cullinane, Meabh, Denervaud, Valerie, Burrowes, Elizabeth, Dow, J. Maxwell, Morrissey, John P., Tam, Ling, Trevors, Jack T. et al.

p. 2529 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28185-0

The gene stlA encodes a phenylalanine ammonia-lyase that is involved in the production of a stilbene antibiotic in Photorhabdus luminescens TT01

Williams, Jane S., Thomas, Marie, Clarke, David J.

p. 2543 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28136-0

Clustered regularly interspaced short palindrome repeats (CRISPRs) have spacers of extrachromosomal origin

Bolotin, Alexander, Quinquis, Benoit, Sorokin, Alexei, Ehrlich, S. Dusko

p. 2551 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28048-0

Altered morphology produced by ftsZ expression in Corynebacterium glutamicum ATCC 13869

Ramos, Angelina, Letek, Michal, Campelo, Ana Belen, Vaquera, Jose, Mateos, Luis M., Gil, Jose A.

p. 2563 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28036-0

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

Two glutathione peroxidases in the fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans are expressed in the presence of specific substrates

Tricia A. Missall, Jocie F. Cherry-Harris, Jennifer K. Lodge

p. 2573–2581 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28132-0

The high-affinity phosphate-binding protein PstS is accumulated under high fructose concentrations and mutation of the corresponding gene affects differentiation in Streptomyces lividans

Diaz, Margarita, Esteban, Ana, Fernandez-Abalos, Jose Manuel, Santamaria, Ramon I.

p. 2583 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27983-0

Analysis of the nearly identical morpholine monooxygenase-encoding mor genes from different Mycobacterium strains and characterization of the specific NADH : ferredoxin oxidoreductase of this cytochrome P450 system

Sielaff, Bernhard, Andreesen, Jan R.

p. 2593 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28039-0

Stability of the Synechococcus elongatus PCC 7942 circadian clock under directed anti-phase expression of the kai genes

Ditty, Jayna L., Canales, Shannon R., Anderson, Breanne E., Williams, Stanly B., Golden, Susan S.

p. 2605 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28030-0

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Adaptation and acclimatization to formaldehyde in methylotrophs capable of high-concentration formaldehyde detoxification

Rotsaman Chongcharoen, Thomas J. Smith, Kenneth P. Flint, Howard Dalton

p. 2615–2622 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27912-0

Candida albicans strains deficient in CHS7, a key regulator of chitin synthase III, exhibit morphogenetic alterations and attenuated virulence

Sanz, Maria, Carrano, Lucia, Jimenez, Cristina, Candiani, Gianpaolo, Trilla, Jose A., Duran, Angel, Roncero, Cesar

p. 2623 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28093-0

Molecular insight into extreme copper resistance in the extremophilic archaeon 'Ferroplasma acidarmanus' Fer1

Baker-Austin, Craig, Dopson, Mark, Wexler, Margaret, Sawers, R. Gary, Bond, Philip L.

p. 2637 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28076-0

Conserved indels in essential proteins that are distinctive characteristics of Chlamydiales and provide novel means for their identification

Griffiths, Emma, Petrich, Astrid K., Gupta, Radhey S.

p. 2647 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28057-0

Subtractive hybridization reveals a high genetic diversity in the fish pathogen Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida: evidence of a SXT-like element

Juiz-Rio, Sandra, Osorio, Carlos R., de Lorenzo, Victor, Lemos, Manuel L.

p. 2659 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27891-0

Structure and distribution of the phosphoprotein phosphatase genes, prpA and prpB, among Shigella subgroups

Li, Baoguang, Brown, Eric W., D'Agostino, Christine, LeClerc, J. Eugene, Cebula, Thomas A.

p. 2671 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27990-0

Mass flow and pressure-driven hyphal extension in Neurospora crassa

Lew, Roger R.

p. 2685 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27947-0

Characterization of a regulatory gene essential for the production of the angucycline-like polyketide antibiotic auricin in Streptomyces aureofaciens CCM 3239

Novakova, Renata, Homerova, Dagmar, Feckova, Lubomira, Kormanec, Jan

p. 2693 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28019-0

Effects of growth phase and the developmentally significant bldA-specified tRNA on the membrane-associated proteome of Streptomyces coelicolor

Kim, Dae-Wi, Chater, Keith F., Lee, Kye-Joon, Hesketh, Andy

p. 2707 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28000-0

Cell lysis directed by {sigma}E in early stationary phase and effect of induction of the rpoE gene on global gene expression in Escherichia coli

Kabir, Md. Shahinur, Yamashita, Daisuke, Koyama, Satoshi, Oshima, Taku, Kurokawa, Ken, Maeda, Maki, Tsunedomi, Ryouichi, Murata, Masayuki et al.

p. 2721 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28004-0

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

The MAP kinase Mkc1p is activated under different stress conditions in Candida albicans

Federico Navarro-García, Blanca Eisman, Sonia M. Fiuza, César Nombela, Jesús Pla

p. 2737–2749 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28038-0

Induction of the SOS regulon of Haemophilus influenzae does not affect phase variation rates at tetranucleotide or dinucleotide repeats

Sweetman, Wendy A., Moxon, E. Richard, Bayliss, Christopher D.

p. 2751 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27996-0

Campylobacter jejuni activates mitogen-activated protein kinases in Caco-2 cell monolayers and in vitro infected primary human colonic tissue

MacCallum, Amanda, Haddock, Graham, Everest, Paul H.

p. 2765 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.27979-0

Escherichia coli O157 : H7 forms attaching and effacing lesions at the terminal rectum of cattle and colonization requires the LEE4 operon

Naylor, Stuart W., Roe, Andrew J., Nart, Pablo, Spears, Kevin, Smith, David. G. E., Low, J. Christopher, Gally, David L.

p. 2773 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28060-0

Loss of topoisomerase I function affects the RpoS-dependent and GAD systems of acid resistance in Escherichia coli

Stewart, Natalee, Feng, Jingyang, Liu, Xiaoping, Chaudhuri, Devyani, Foster, John W., Drolet, Marc, Tse-Dinh, Yuk-Ching

p. 2783 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28022-0

Specific gene targeting in Spiroplasma citri: improved vectors and production of unmarked mutations using site-specific recombination

Duret, Sybille, Andre, Aurelie, Renaudin, Joel

p. 2793 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28123-0

Influence of fusaric acid on phenazine-1-carboxamide synthesis and gene expression of Pseudomonas chlororaphis strain PCL1391

van Rij, E. Tjeerd, Girard, Genevieve, Lugtenberg, Ben J. J., Bloemberg, Guido V.

p. 2805 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.28063-0