Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 153, Issue 4

37 articles in this issue

MINI-REVIEW

Microbial ecology of the cystic fibrosis lung

Freya Harrison

p. 917–923 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/004077-0

A multidrug efflux system is involved in colony growth in Streptomyces lividans

Lee, Li-Fong, Chen, Yueh-Jung, Kirby, Ralph, Chen, Chi, Chen, Carton W.

p. 924 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/000018-0

Adapted tolerance to benzalkonium chloride in Escherichia coli K-12 studied by transcriptome and proteome analyses

Bore, Erlend, Hebraud, Michel, Chafsey, Ingrid, Chambon, Christophe, Skjaeret, Camilla, Moen, Birgitte, Moretro, Trond, Langsrud, Oyvind et al.

p. 935 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.29288-0

GvpD-induced breakdown of the transcriptional activator GvpE of halophilic archaea requires a functional p-loop and an arginine-rich region of GvpD

Scheuch, Sandra, Pfeifer, Felicitas

p. 947 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/004499-0

Functional studies of intimin in vivo and ex vivo: implications for host specificity and tissue tropism

Mundy, Rosanna, Schuller, Stephanie, Girard, Francis, Fairbrother, John M., Phillips, Alan D., Frankel, Gad

p. 959 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003467-0

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

Defect in early lung defence against Pseudomonas aeruginosa in DBA/2 mice is associated with acute inflammatory lung injury and reduced bactericidal activity in naïve macrophages

Kari R. Wilson, Jennifer M. Napper, James Denvir, Vincent E. Sollars, Hongwei D. Yu

p. 968–979 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002261-0

The structure-function relationship of WspR, a Pseudomonas fluorescens response regulator with a GGDEF output domain

Malone, J. G., Williams, R., Christen, M., Jenal, U., Spiers, A. J., Rainey, P. B.

p. 980 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002824-0

A naturally occurring mutation K220T in the pleiotropic activator PrfA of Listeria monocytogenes results in a loss of virulence due to decreasing DNA-binding affinity

Velge, P., Herler, M., Johansson, J., Roche, S. M., Temoin, S., Fedorov, A. A., Gracieux, P., Almo, S. C. et al.

p. 995 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002238-0

Helicobacter hepaticus catalase shares surface-predicted epitopes with mammalian catalases

Alyamani, Essam J., Brandt, Petra, Pena, Jeremy A., Major, Angela M., Fox, James G., Suerbaum, Sebastian, Versalovic, James

p. 1006 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.29184-0

A regulator of a G protein signalling (RGS) gene, cag8, from the insect-pathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae is involved in conidiation, virulence and hydrophobin synthesis

Fang, Weiguo, Pei, Yan, Bidochka, Michael J.

p. 1017 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002105-0

Multiple functions of DOA1 in Candida albicans

Kunze, Donika, MacCallum, Donna, Odds, Frank C., Hube, Bernhard

p. 1026 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002741-0

Comparative analysis of the Corynebacterium glutamicum group and complete genome sequence of strain R

Yukawa, Hideaki, Omumasaba, Crispinus A., Nonaka, Hiroshi, Kos, Peter, Okai, Naoko, Suzuki, Nobuaki, Suda, Masako, Tsuge, Yota et al.

p. 1042 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003657-0

Adhesin-dependent binding and uptake of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium by dendritic cells

Guo, Aizhen, Lasaro, Melissa A., Sirard, Jean-Claude, Kraehenbuhl, Jean-Pierre, Schifferli, Dieter M.

p. 1059 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/000331-0

The yjbEFGH locus in Escherichia coli K-12 is an operon encoding proteins involved in exopolysaccharide production

Ferrieres, Lionel, Aslam, Shazia N., Cooper, Richard M., Clarke, David J.

p. 1070 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002907-0

The periplasmic thioredoxin SoxS plays a key role in activation in vivo of chemotrophic sulfur oxidation of Paracoccus pantotrophus

Orawski, Grazyna, Bardischewsky, Frank, Quentmeier, Armin, Rother, Dagmar, Friedrich, Cornelius G.

p. 1081 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/004143-0

The Tat pathway in Streptomyces lividans: interaction of Tat subunits and their role in translocation

De Keersmaeker, Sophie, Vrancken, Kristof, Van Mellaert, Lieve, Anne, Jozef, Geukens, Nick

p. 1087 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003053-0

Isolation of the biosynthetic gene cluster for tautomycetin, a linear polyketide T cell-specific immunomodulator from Streptomyces sp. CK4412

Choi, Si-Sun, Hur, Yoon-Ah, Sherman, David H., Kim, Eung-Soo

p. 1095 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003194-0

Molecular characterization of the Fur protein of Listeria monocytogenes

Ledala, Nagender, Pearson, Stacy L., Wilkinson, Brian J., Jayaswal, R. K.

p. 1103 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/000620-0

Extracellular proteins of Lactobacillus crispatus enhance activation of human plasminogen

Hurmalainen, Veera, Edelman, Sanna, Antikainen, Jenni, Baumann, Marc, Lahteenmaki, Kaarina, Korhonen, Timo K.

p. 1112 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/000901-0

BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Divergent polyamine metabolism in the Apicomplexa

Tuesday Cook, David Roos, Mary Morada, Guan Zhu, Janet S. Keithly, Jean E. Feagin, Gang Wu, Nigel Yarlett

p. 1123–1130 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/001768-0

AgfC and AgfE facilitate extracellular thin aggregative fimbriae synthesis in Salmonella Enteritidis

Gibson, D. L., White, A. P., Rajotte, C. M., Kay, W. W.

p. 1131 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/000935-0

Development of discriminatory multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis for Bartonella henselae

Martine Monteil, Benoît Durand, Rim Bouchouicha, Elisabeth Petit, Bruno Chomel, Mardjan Arvand, Henri-Jean Boulouis, Nadia Haddad

p. 1141–1148 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/001164-0

Extracellular carbonic anhydrases of the stromatolite-forming cyanobacterium Microcoleus chthonoplastes

Kupriyanova, Elena, Villarejo, Arsenio, Markelova, Alexandra, Gerasimenko, Lyudmila, Zavarzin, Georgy, Samuelsson, Goran, Los, Dmitry A., Pronina, Natalia

p. 1149 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003905-0

Acetonitrile degradation under haloalkaline conditions by Natronocella acetinitrilica gen. nov., sp. nov.

Sorokin, Dimitry Yu., van Pelt, Sander, Tourova, Tatjana P., Takaichi, Shinichi, Muyzer, Gerard

p. 1157 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/004150-0

Non-structural flagella genes affecting both polar and lateral flagella-mediated motility in Aeromonas hydrophila

Canals, Rocio, Vilches, Silvia, Wilhelms, Markus, Shaw, Jonathan G., Merino, Susana, Tomas, Juan M.

p. 1165 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/000687-0

Geographical conservation of short inserts in the signal and middle regions of the Helicobacter pylori vacuolating cytotoxin gene

Owen, Robert J., Xerry, Jacqueline

p. 1176 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002923-0

In vitro susceptibility of Staphylococcus aureus to thrombin-induced platelet microbicidal protein-1 (tPMP-1) is influenced by cell membrane phospholipid composition and asymmetry

Mukhopadhyay, Kasturi, Whitmire, William, Xiong, Yan Q., Molden, Jaime, Jones, Tiffanny, Peschel, Andreas, Staubitz, Petra, Adler-Moore, Jill et al.

p. 1187 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003111-0

A novel toxin homologous to large clostridial cytotoxins found in culture supernatant of Clostridium perfringens type C

Amimoto, Katsuhiko, Noro, Taichi, Oishi, Eiji, Shimizu, Mitsugu

p. 1198 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002287-0

Identification of novel genes in genomic islands that contribute to Salmonella typhimurium replication in macrophages

Klumpp, Jochen, Fuchs, Thilo M.

p. 1207 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/004747-0

SipA, SopA, SopB, SopD and SopE2 effector proteins of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium are synthesized at late stages of infection in mice

Giacomodonato, M. N., Uzzau, S., Bacciu, D., Caccuri, R., Sarnacki, S. H., Rubino, S., Cerquetti, M. C.

p. 1221 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002758-0

Evidence for complex interactions of stress-associated regulons in an mprAB deletion mutant of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Pang, Xiuhua, Vu, Phong, Byrd, Thomas F., Ghanny, Saleena, Soteropoulos, Patricia, Mukamolova, Galina V., Wu, Shiping, Samten, Buka et al.

p. 1229 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.29281-0

First report of Mycobacterium bovis DNA in human remains from the Iron Age

Taylor, G. Michael, Murphy, Eileen, Hopkins, Richard, Rutland, Paul, Chistov, Yuri

p. 1243 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/002154-0

Pichia pastoris 'just in time' alternative respiration

Kern, Alexander, Hartner, Franz S., Freigassner, Maria, Spielhofer, Julia, Rumpf, Cornelia, Leitner, Laura, Frohlich, Kai-Uwe, Glieder, Anton

p. 1250 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/001404-0

Identification of a gene, ccr-1 (sll1242), required for chill-light tolerance and growth at 15 {degrees}C in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

Yin, Chuntao, Li, Weizhi, Du, Ye, Kong, Renqiu, Xu, Xudong

p. 1261 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/005074-0

Utilization of solid 'elemental' sulfur by the phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium Allochromatium vinosum: a sulfur K-edge X-ray absorption spectroscopy study

Franz, Bettina, Lichtenberg, Henning, Hormes, Josef, Modrow, Hartwig, Dahl, Christiane, Prange, Alexander

p. 1268 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003954-0

Glycogen formation in Corynebacterium glutamicum and role of ADP-glucose pyrophosphorylase

Seibold, Gerd, Dempf, Stefan, Schreiner, Joy, Eikmanns, Bernhard J.

p. 1275 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003368-0

Rhizobium tropici response to acidity involves activation of glutathione synthesis

Muglia, Cecilia I., Grasso, Daniel H., Aguilar, O. Mario

p. 1286 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2006/003483-0