Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 154, Issue 4

27 articles in this issue

Identification of the nonribosomal peptide synthetase gene responsible for bassianolide synthesis in wood-decaying fungus Xylaria sp. BCC1067

Jirakkakul, Jiraporn, Punya, Juntira, Pongpattanakitshote, Somchai, Paungmoung, Porntip, Vorapreeda, Namol, Tachaleat, Anuwat, Klomnara, Cheeranun, Tanticharoen, Morakot et al.

p. 995 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013995-0

Natural occurrence of microcystin synthetase deletion mutants capable of producing microcystins in strains of the genus Anabaena (Cyanobacteria)

Fewer, David P., Tooming-Klunderud, Ave, Jokela, Jouni, Wahlsten, Matti, Rouhiainen, Leo, Kristensen, Tom, Rohrlack, Thomas, Jakobsen, Kjetill S. et al.

p. 1007 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/016097-0

Application of unstable Gfp variants to the kinetic study of Legionella pneumophila icm gene expression during infection

Barysheva, Oksana V., Fujii, Jun, Takaesu, Giichi, Yoshida, Shin-ichi

p. 1015 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013144-0

ENVIRONMENTAL MICROBIOLOGY

Regulation of hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) metabolism in Shewanella halifaxensis HAW-EB4 by terminal electron acceptor and involvement of c-type cytochrome

Jian-Shen Zhao, Dominic Manno, Jalal Hawari

p. 1026–1037 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013409-0

New insights into a bacterial metabolic and detoxifying association responsible for the mineralization of the thiocarbamate herbicide molinate

Barreiros, Luisa, Fernandes, Ana, Ferreira, Antonio C. Silva, Pereira, Helena, Bastos, Margarida M. S. M., Manaia, Celia M., Nunes, Olga C.

p. 1038 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/015297-0

Formation of an inverted repeat junction in the transposition of insertion sequence ISLC3 isolated from Lactobacillus casei

Lo, Ta-Chun, Chen, Hung-Wen, Tsai, Yu-Kuo, Kuo, Yang-Cheng, Lin, Chao-Fen, Kuo, Ssu-Ying, Lin, Thy-Hou

p. 1047 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013227-0

Characterization of two in vivo-expressed methyltransferases of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex: antigenicity and genetic regulation

Golby, Paul, Nunez, Javier, Cockle, Paul J., Ewer, Katie, Logan, Karen, Hogarth, Philip, Vordermeier, H. Martin, Hinds, Jason et al.

p. 1059 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014548-0

Microbiology

p. 1068

The LacI/GalR family transcriptional regulator UriR negatively controls uridine utilization of Corynebacterium glutamicum by binding to catabolite-responsive element (cre)-like sequences

Brinkrolf, Karina, Ploger, Svenja, Solle, Sandra, Brune, Iris, Nentwich, Svenja S., Huser, Andrea T., Kalinowski, Jorn, Puhler, Alfred et al.

p. 1068 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014001-0

Characterization of a yjjQ mutant of avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC)

Li, Ganwu, Ewers, Christa, Laturnus, Claudia, Diehl, Ines, Alt, Katja, Dai, Jianjun, Antao, Esther-Maria, Schnetz, Karin et al.

p. 1082 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/015784-0

Gene l0017 encodes a second chaperone for EspA of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157 : H7

Su, Marcia Shu-Wei, Kao, Hsi-Chun, Lin, Ching-Nan, Syu, Wan-Jr

p. 1094 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013946-0

PATHOGENS AND PATHOGENICITY

Coiled-coil regions play a role in the function of the Shigella flexneri O-antigen chain length regulator WzzpHS2

Leanne Purins, Luisa Van Den Bosch, Vanessa Richardson, Renato Morona

p. 1104–1116 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014225-0

The importance of the Rcs phosphorelay in the survival and pathogenesis of the enteropathogenic yersiniae

Stewart J. Hinchliffe, Sarah L. Howard, Yahui H. Huang, David J. Clarke, Brendan W. Wren

p. 1117–1131 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/012534-0

SloR modulation of the Streptococcus mutans acid tolerance response involves the GcrR response regulator as an essential intermediary

Dunning, Daniel W., McCall, Lathan W., Powell, William F., Arscott, W. Tristram, McConocha, Erin M., McClurg, Cheryl J., Goodman, Steven D., Spatafora, Grace A.

p. 1132 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/012492-0

A mutant in one of two exbD loci of a TonB system in Flavobacterium psychrophilum shows attenuated virulence and confers protection against cold water disease

Alvarez, Beatriz, Alvarez, Javier, Menendez, Aurora, Guijarro, Jose A.

p. 1144 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/010900-0

Identification of Haemophilus ducreyi genes expressed during human infection

Bauer, Margaret E., Fortney, Kate R., Harrison, Alistair, Janowicz, Diane M., Munson, Robert S., Spinola, Stanley M.

p. 1152 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013953-0

Porphyromonas gingivalis htrA is involved in cellular invasion and in vivo survival

Yuan, Lihui, Rodrigues, Paulo H., Belanger, Myriam, Dunn, William A., Jr, Progulske-Fox, Ann

p. 1161 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/015131-0

Molecular epidemiology of meningococcal disease in England and Wales 1975-1995, before the introduction of serogroup C conjugate vaccines

Russell, Joanne E., Urwin, Rachel, Gray, Stephen J., Fox, Andrew J., Feavers, Ian M., Maiden, Martin C. J.

p. 1170 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014761-0

Age-related genotypic and phenotypic differences in Moraxella catarrhalis isolates from children and adults presenting with respiratory disease in 2001-2002

Verhaegh, Suzanne J. C., Streefland, Andre, Dewnarain, Joy K., Farrell, David J., van Belkum, Alex, Hays, John P.

p. 1178 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/015057-0

The acidic, glutamine-rich Mpn474 protein of Mycoplasma pneumoniae is surface exposed and covers the complete cell

Hegermann, Jan, Halbedel, Sven, Dumke, Roger, Regula, Jorg, Gabdoulline, Razif R., Mayer, Frank, Stulke, Jorg, Herrmann, Richard

p. 1185 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013342-0

Distinct domains of the Candida albicans adhesin Eap1p mediate cell-cell and cell-substrate interactions

Li, Fang, Palecek, Sean P.

p. 1193 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/013789-0

Identification of soluble secreted proteins from appressoria of Colletotrichum higginsianum by analysis of expressed sequence tags

Kleemann, Jochen, Takahara, Hiroyuki, Stuber, Kurt, O'Connell, Richard

p. 1204 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014944-0

PHYSIOLOGY

A combination of cytochrome c nitrite reductase (NrfA) and flavorubredoxin (NorV) protects Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium against killing by NO in anoxic environments

Paul C. Mills, Gary Rowley, Stephen Spiro, Jay C. D. Hinton, David J. Richardson

p. 1218–1228 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014290-0

Photostimulation of Hypocrea atroviridis growth occurs due to a cross-talk of carbon metabolism, blue light receptors and response to oxidative stress

Friedl, Martina A., Schmoll, Monika, Kubicek, Christian P., Druzhinina, Irina S.

p. 1229 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.2007/014175-0