Applied and Environmental Microbiology - September 2007, Volume 73, Issue 17

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Kelly S. Bender, Huei-Che Bill Yen, Christopher L. Hemme, Zamin Yang, Zhili He, Qiang He, Jizhong Zhou, Katherine H. Huang, Eric J. Alm, Terry C. Hazen, Adam P. Arkin, and Judy D. Wall

Analysis of a Ferric Uptake Regulator (Fur) Mutant of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough
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Johannes Sjöholm, Paulo Oliveira, and Peter Lindblad

Transcription and Regulation of the Bidirectional Hydrogenase in the Cyanobacterium Nostoc sp. Strain PCC 7120
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Junfeng Xue and Kurt W. Miller

Regulation of the mpt Operon in Listeria innocua by the ManR Protein
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Environmental Microbiology:

Emilie Lyautey, David R. Lapen, Graham Wilkes, Katherine McCleary, Franco Pagotto, Kevin Tyler, Alain Hartmann, Pascal Piveteau, Aurélie Rieu, William J. Robertson, Diane T. Medeiros, Thomas A. Edge, Victor Gannon, and Edward Topp

Distribution and Characteristics of Listeria monocytogenes Isolates from Surface Waters of the South Nation River Watershed, Ontario, Canada
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Jeannette Muñoz-Aguayo, Kevin S. Lang, Timothy M. LaPara, Gerardo González, and Randall S. Singer

Evaluating the Effects of Chlortetracycline on the Proliferation of Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in a Simulated River Water Ecosystem
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Patrick Duriez and Edward Topp

Temporal Dynamics and Impact of Manure Storage on Antibiotic Resistance Patterns and Population Structure of Escherichia coli Isolates from a Commercial Swine Farm
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

A. J. Watkinson, G. B. Micalizzi, G. M. Graham, J. B. Bates, and S. D. Costanzo

Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli in Wastewaters, Surface Waters, and Oysters from an Urban Riverine System
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Yu-Sin Jang, Young Ryul Jung, Sang Yup Lee, Ji Mahn Kim, Jeong Wook Lee, Doo-Byoung Oh, Hyun Ah Kang, Ohsuk Kwon, Seh Hee Jang, Hyohak Song, Sang Jun Lee, and Kyu Young Kang

Construction and Characterization of Shuttle Vectors for Succinic Acid-Producing Rumen Bacteria [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Mervi H. Toivari, Laura Ruohonen, Andrei N. Miasnikov, Peter Richard, and Merja Penttilä

Metabolic Engineering of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for Conversion of D-Glucose to Xylitol and Other Five-Carbon Sugars and Sugar Alcohols
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Muriel Dufour, Janet M. Manson, Philip J. Bremer, Jean-Pierre Dufour, Gregory M. Cook, and Robin S. Simmonds

Characterization of Monolaurin Resistance in Enterococcus faecalis
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Seishi Iwamoto, Kei Motomura, Yasuharu Shinoda, Masaaki Urata, Junichi Kato, Noboru Takiguchi, Hisao Ohtake, Ryuichi Hirota, and Akio Kuroda

Use of an Escherichia coli Recombinant Producing Thermostable Polyphosphate Kinase as an ATP Regenerator To Produce Fructose 1,6-Diphosphate
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Mycology:

Zuzana Sykorová, Andres Wiemken, and Dirk Redecker

Cooccurring Gentiana verna and Gentiana acaulis and Their Neighboring Plants in Two Swiss Upper Montane Meadows Harbor Distinct Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Dau Hung Anh, René Ullrich, Dirk Benndorf, Ales Svatos, Alexander Muck, and Martin Hofrichter

The Coprophilous Mushroom Coprinus radians Secretes a Haloperoxidase That Catalyzes Aromatic Peroxygenation
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Renaud Ioos, Franck Panabières, Benoît Industri, Axelle Andrieux, and Pascal Frey

Distribution and Expression of Elicitin Genes in the Interspecific Hybrid Oomycete Phytophthora alni
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Chikako Fukuda, Shigeyuki Kawai, and Kousaku Murata

NADP(H) Phosphatase Activities of Archaeal Inositol Monophosphatase and Eubacterial 3'-Phosphoadenosine 5'-Phosphate Phosphatase
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jeong Min Seo, Geun Eog Ji, Sang Hee Cho, Myung Soo Park, and Hyong Joo Lee

Characterization of a Bifidobacterium longum BORI Dipeptidase Belonging to the U34 Family
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Sung-Jae Yang, Byoung-Chul Min, Young-Wan Kim, Sang-Mok Jang, Byong-Hoon Lee, and Kwan-Hwa Park

Changes in the Catalytic Properties of Pyrococcus furiosus Thermostable Amylase by Mutagenesis of the Substrate Binding Sites
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Isabelle Benoit, Michèle Asther, Yves Bourne, David Navarro, Stéphane Canaan, Laurence Lesage-Meessen, Marga Herweijer, Pedro M. Coutinho, Marcel Asther, and Eric Record

Gene Overexpression and Biochemical Characterization of the Biotechnologically Relevant Chlorogenic Acid Hydrolase from Aspergillus niger
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Food Microbiology:

Francesco Villani, Annalisa Casaburi, Carmela Pennacchia, Luisa Filosa, Federica Russo, and Danilo Ercolini

Microbial Ecology of the Soppressata of Vallo di Diano, a Traditional Dry Fermented Sausage from Southern Italy, and In Vitro and In Situ Selection of Autochthonous Starter Cultures
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Christin Vanberg, Bjart Frode Lutnaes, Thor Langsrud, Ingolf F. Nes, and Helge Holo

Propionibacterium jensenii Produces the Polyene Pigment Granadaene and Has Hemolytic Properties Similar to Those of Streptococcus agalactiae
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Anders Broberg, Karin Jacobsson, Katrin Ström, and Johan Schnürer

Metabolite Profiles of Lactic Acid Bacteria in Grass Silage
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Nicoletta Belletti, Sylvain Sado Kamdem, Francesca Patrignani, Rosalba Lanciotti, Alessandro Covelli, and Fausto Gardini

Antimicrobial Activity of Aroma Compounds against Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Improvement of Microbiological Stability of Soft Drinks as Assessed by Logistic Regression
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You Ueki, Mika Shoji, Atsushi Suto, Toru Tanabe, Yoko Okimura, Yoshihiko Kikuchi, Noriyuki Saito, Daisuke Sano, and Tatsuo Omura

Persistence of Caliciviruses in Artificially Contaminated Oysters during Depuration
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Public Health Microbiology:

Sandro Wolf, Wendy M. Williamson, Joanne Hewitt, Malet Rivera-Aban, Susan Lin, Andrew Ball, Paula Scholes, and Gail E. Greening

Sensitive Multiplex Real-Time Reverse Transcription-PCR Assay for the Detection of Human and Animal Noroviruses in Clinical and Environmental Samples
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Lorenza Ferrero Poschetto, Anthony Ike, Tibor Papp, Ulrich Mohn, Reinhard Böhm, and Rachel E. Marschang

Comparison of the Sensitivities of Noroviruses and Feline Calicivirus to Chemical Disinfection under Field-Like Conditions
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Jessica Welin-Neilands and Gunnel Svensäter

Acid Tolerance of Biofilm Cells of Streptococcus mutans
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Romain Froquet, Nathalie Cherix, Sarah E. Burr, Joachim Frey, Silvia Vilches, Juan M. Tomas, and Pierre Cosson

Alternative Host Model To Evaluate Aeromonas Virulence
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Katlyn E. Wainwright, Manuel Lagunas-Solar, Melissa A. Miller, Bradd C. Barr, Ian A. Gardner, Cecilia Pina, Ann C. Melli, Andrea E. Packham, Nolan Zeng, Tin Truong, and Patricia A. Conrad

Physical Inactivation of Toxoplasma gondii Oocysts in Water
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Hiroshi Urakami, Kumiko Ikarashi, Ko Okamoto, Yukari Abe, Tamami Ikarashi, Takeshi Kono, Yukifumi Konagaya, and Nobumasa Tanaka

Chlorine Sensitivity of Feline Calicivirus, a Norovirus Surrogate
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Microbial Ecology:

Lauren I. Stoddard, Jennifer B. H. Martiny, and Marcia F. Marston

Selection and Characterization of Cyanophage Resistance in Marine Synechococcus Strains
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Olga V. Mavrodi, Dmitri V. Mavrodi, Linda S. Thomashow, and David M. Weller

Quantification of 2,4-Diacetylphloroglucinol-Producing Pseudomonas fluorescens Strains in the Plant Rhizosphere by Real-Time PCR
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Vanessa K. Michelou, Matthew T. Cottrell, and David L. Kirchman

Light-Stimulated Bacterial Production and Amino Acid Assimilation by Cyanobacteria and Other Microbes in the North Atlantic Ocean
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Juan C. Santos-González, Roger D. Finlay, and Anders Tehler

Seasonal Dynamics of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Communities in Roots in a Seminatural Grassland
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Anja Vespermann, Marco Kai, and Birgit Piechulla

Rhizobacterial Volatiles Affect the Growth of Fungi and Arabidopsis thaliana
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J.Michael Beman, Kathryn J. Roberts, Linda Wegley, Forest Rohwer, and Christopher A. Francis

Distribution and Diversity of Archaeal Ammonia Monooxygenase Genes Associated with Corals

[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Plant Microbiology:

Adeline Renier, Eric Vivien, Stéphane Cociancich, Philippe Letourmy, Xavier Perrier, Philippe C. Rott, and Monique Royer

Substrate Specificity-Conferring Regions of the Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase Adenylation Domains Involved in Albicidin Pathotoxin Biosynthesis Are Highly Conserved within the Species Xanthomonas albilineans
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Cheryl P. Andam and Matthew A. Parker

Novel Alphaproteobacterial Root Nodule Symbiont Associated with Lupinus texensis
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Ana Luisa V. Cohen, James D. Oliver, Angelo DePaola, Edward J. Feil, and E. Fidelma Boyd

Emergence of a Virulent Clade of Vibrio vulnificus and Correlation with the Presence of a 33-Kilobase Genomic Island
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Invertebrate Microbiology:

Rok Kostanjsek, Jasna Strus, and Gorazd Avgustin

"Candidatus Bacilloplasma," a Novel Lineage of Mollicutes Associated with the Hindgut Wall of the Terrestrial Isopod Porcellio scaber (Crustacea: Isopoda)
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Dana M. Cook, Emily DeCrescenzo Henriksen, Rima Upchurch, and Joy B. Doran Peterson

Isolation of Polymer-Degrading Bacteria and Characterization of the Hindgut Bacterial Community from the Detritus-Feeding Larvae of Tipula abdominalis (Diptera: Tipulidae)
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Biodegradation:

Dimitry Y. Sorokin, Sander van Pelt, Tatjana P. Tourova, and Gerard Muyzer

Microbial Isobutyronitrile Utilization under Haloalkaline Conditions
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Methods:

Yohann Couté, Céline Hernandez, Ron D. Appel, Jean-Charles Sanchez, and Abelardo Margolles

Labeling of Bifidobacterium longum Cells with ¹³C-Substituted Leucine for Quantitative Proteomic Analyses [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Panagiotis Karanis, Oriel Thekisoe, Klytaimnistra Kiouptsi, Jerry Ongerth, Ikuo Igarashi, and Noborou Inoue

Development and Preliminary Evaluation of a Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification Procedure for Sensitive Detection of Cryptosporidium Oocysts in Fecal and Water Samples
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]

Muna F. Anjum, Muriel Mafura, Peter Slickers, Karin Ballmer, Peter Kuhnert, Martin J. Woodward, and Ralf Ehricht

Pathotyping Escherichia coli by Using Miniaturized DNA Microarrays [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]

Geomicrobiology:

Francesca Cappitelli, Lucia Toniolo, Antonio Sansonetti, Davide Gulotta, Giancarlo Ranalli, Elisabetta Zanardini, and Claudia Sorlini

Advantages of Using Microbial Technology over Traditional Chemical Technology in Removal of Black Crusts from Stone Surfaces of Historical Monuments
[Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]