Issue table of contents

Microbiology — Volume 155, Issue 3

28 articles in this issue

Immune evasion by Staphylococcus aureus conferred by iron-regulated surface determinant protein IsdH

Visai, Livia, Yanagisawa, Naoko, Josefsson, Elisabet, Tarkowski, Andrej, Pezzali, Ilaria, Rooijakkers, Suzan H. M., Foster, Timothy J., Speziale, Pietro

p. 667 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.025684-0

Biological characterization of the zinc site coordinating histidine residues of staphylococcal enterotoxin C2

Wang, Xiaogang, Zhang, Huiwen, Xu, Mingkai, Cai, Yongming, Liu, Changxiao, Su, Zhencheng, Zhang, Chenggang

p. 680 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.025254-0

Biofilms and type III secretion are not mutually exclusive in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Mikkelsen, H., Bond, N. J., Skindersoe, M. E., Givskov, M., Lilley, K. S., Welch, M.

p. 687 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.025551-0

Revisiting the quorum-sensing hierarchy in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: the transcriptional regulator RhlR regulates LasR-specific factors

Dekimpe, Valerie, Deziel, Eric

p. 712 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.022764-0

Is gas-discharge plasma a new solution to the old problem of biofilm inactivation?

Joaquin, Jonathan C., Kwan, Calvin, Abramzon, Nina, Vandervoort, Kurt, Brelles-Marino, Graciela

p. 724 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.021501-0

Microbiology

p. 733

CELL AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY OF MICROBES

Short motif sequences determine the targets of the prokaryotic CRISPR defence system

F. J. M. Mojica, C. Díez-Villaseñor, J. García-Martínez, C. Almendros

p. 733–740 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.023960-0

Specific point mutations in Lactobacillus casei ATCC 27139 cause a phenotype switch from Lac- to Lac+

Tsai, Yu-Kuo, Chen, Hung-Wen, Lo, Ta-Chun, Lin, Thy-Hou

p. 751 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.021907-0

Development and validation of promoter-probe vectors for the study of methane monooxygenase gene expression in Methylococcus capsulatus Bath

Ali, Hanif, Murrell, J. Colin

p. 761 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.021816-0

ENVIRONMENTAL AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Antioxidant enzyme activities in maize plants colonized with Piriformospora indica

Manoj Kumar, Vikas Yadav, Narendra Tuteja, Atul Kumar Johri

p. 780–790 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.019869-0

The wzm gene located on the pRhico plasmid of Azospirillum brasilense Sp7 is involved in lipopolysaccharide synthesis

Lerner, Anat, Okon, Yaacov, Burdman, Saul

p. 791 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.021824-0

Escherichia coli O157 : H7 glutamate- and arginine-dependent acid-resistance systems protect against oxidative stress during extreme acid challenge

Bearson, Bradley L., Lee, In Soo, Casey, Thomas A.

p. 805 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.022905-0

Exploring the antimicrobial action of a carbon monoxide-releasing compound through whole-genome transcription profiling of Escherichia coli

Nobre, Ligia S., Al-Shahrour, Fatima, Dopazo, Joaquin, Saraiva, Ligia M.

p. 813 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.023911-0

Phenotypic characterization and genomic DNA polymorphisms of Escherichia coli strains isolated as the sole micro-organism from vaginal infections

Lobos, Olga, Padilla, Carlos

p. 825 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.021733-0

Characterization of sulphonamide-resistant Escherichia coli using comparison of sul2 gene sequences and multilocus sequence typing

Trobos, Margarita, Christensen, Henrik, Sunde, Marianne, Nordentoft, Steen, Agerso, Yvonne, Simonsen, Gunnar S., Hammerum, Anette M., Olsen, John E.

p. 831 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.024190-0

MICROBIAL PATHOGENICITY

Type III secretion system 1 of Vibrio parahaemolyticus induces oncosis in both epithelial and monocytic cell lines

Xiaohui Zhou, Michael E. Konkel, Douglas R. Call

p. 837–851 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.024919-0

Identification of neisserial DNA binding components

Emma Lång, Kristine Haugen, Burkhard Fleckenstein, Håvard Homberset, Stephan A. Frye, Ole Herman Ambur, Tone Tønjum

p. 852–862 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.022640-0

The Borrelia burgdorferi outer-surface protein ErpX binds mammalian laminin

Catherine A. Brissette, Ashutosh Verma, Amy Bowman, Anne E. Cooley, Brian Stevenson

p. 863 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.024604-0

Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium HtrA: regulation of expression and role of the chaperone and protease activities during infection

Lewis, Claire, Skovierova, Henrieta, Rowley, Gary, Rezuchova, Bronislava, Homerova, Dagmar, Stevenson, Andrew, Spencer, Janice, Farn, Jacinta et al.

p. 873 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.023754-0

MICROBIAL PATHOGENICITY

A type II secreted RNase of Legionella pneumophila facilitates optimal intracellular infection of Hartmannella vermiformis

Ombeline Rossier, Jenny Dao, Nicholas P. Cianciotto

p. 882–890 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.023218-0

lmo1273, a novel gene involved in Listeria monocytogenes virulence

Bigot, Armelle, Raynaud, Catherine, Dubail, Iharilalao, Dupuis, Marion, Hossain, Hamid, Hain, Torsten, Chakraborty, Trinad, Charbit, Alain

p. 891 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.022277-0

PHYSIOLOGY AND BIOCHEMISTRY

Identification of non-flagellar genes involved in swarm cell differentiation using a Bacillus thuringiensis mini-Tn10 mutant library

Sara Salvetti, Francesco Celandroni, Mara Ceragioli, Sonia Senesi, Emilia Ghelardi

p. 912–921 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.021741-0

Cereulide synthesis in emetic Bacillus cereus is controlled by the transition state regulator AbrB, but not by the virulence regulator PlcR

Lucking, Genia, Dommel, Monica K., Scherer, Siegfried, Fouet, Agnes, Ehling-Schulz, Monika

p. 922 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.024125-0

CpgA, EF-Tu and the stressosome protein YezB are substrates of the Ser/Thr kinase/phosphatase couple, PrkC/PrpC, in Bacillus subtilis

Absalon, Cedric, Obuchowski, Michal, Madec, Edwige, Delattre, Delphine, Holland, I. Barry, Seror, Simone J.

p. 932 https://doi.org/10.1099/mic.0.022475-0