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Minireviews:

Cornelius G. Friedrich, Dagmar Rother, Frank Bardischewsky, Armin Quentmeier, and Jörg Fischer

Oxidation of Reduced Inorganic Sulfur Compounds by Bacteria: Emergence of a Common Mechanism?
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2873-2882. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claude P. Selitrennikoff

Antifungal Proteins
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2883-2894. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Food Microbiology:

Jaheon Koo, Douglas L. Marshall, and Angelo DePaola

Antacid Increases Survival of Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio vulnificus Phage in a Gastrointestinal Model
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2895-2902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carolyn A. Haskard, Hani S. El-Nezami, Pasi E. Kankaanpää, Seppo Salminen, and Jorma T. Ahokas

Surface Binding of Aflatoxin B₁ by Lactic Acid Bacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3086-3091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrick C. Wouters, Ad P. Bos, and Joerg Ueckert

Membrane Permeabilization in Relation to Inactivation Kinetics of Lactobacillus Species due to Pulsed Electric Fields
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3092-3101. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ingeborg Hein, Angelika Lehner, Petra Rieck, Kurt Klein, Ernst Brandl, and Martin Wagner

Comparison of Different Approaches To Quantify Staphylococcus aureus Cells by Real-Time Quantitative PCR and Application of This Technique for Examination of Cheese
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3122-3126. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vladimir Chizhikov, Avraham Rasooly, Konstantin Chumakov, and Dan D. Levy

Microarray Analysis of Microbial Virulence Factors
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3258-3263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wenli Li and Mary Anne Drake

Development of a Quantitative Competitive PCR Assay for Detection and Quantification of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Cells
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3291-3294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Lidia Muscariello, Rosangela Marasco, Maurilio De Felice, and Margherita Sacco

The Functional ccpA Gene Is Required for Carbon Catabolite Repression in Lactobacillus plantarum
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2903-2907. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ingeborg C. Boels, Ana Ramos, Michiel Kleerebezem, and Willem M. de Vos

Functional Analysis of the Lactococcus lactis galU and galE Genes and Their Impact on Sugar Nucleotide and Exopolysaccharide Biosynthesis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3033-3040. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexandra Friedrich, Thomas Hartsch, and Beate Averhoff

Natural Transformation in Mesophilic and Thermophilic Bacteria: Identification and Characterization of Novel, Closely Related Competence Genes in Acinetobacter sp. Strain BD413 and Thermus thermophilus HB27
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3140-3148. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

X.-H. Zhang, P. G. Meaden, and B. Austin

Duplication of Hemolysin Genes in a Virulent Isolate of Vibrio harveyi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3161-3167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maddalena V. Coppi, Ching Leang, Steven J. Sandler, and Derek R. Lovley

Development of a Genetic System for Geobacter sulfurreducens
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3180-3187. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fabio L. G. Arenghi, Davide Berlanda, Enrica Galli, Guido Sello, and Paola Barbieri

Organization and Regulation of meta Cleavage Pathway Genes for Toluene and o-Xylene Derivative Degradation in Pseudomonas stutzeri OX1
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3304-3308. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Methods:

Daniel R. Shelton and Jeffrey S. Karns

Quantitative Detection of Escherichia coli O157 in Surface Waters by Using Immunomagnetic Electrochemiluminescence
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2908-2915. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David Bastviken and Lars Tranvik

The Leucine Incorporation Method Estimates Bacterial Growth Equally Well in Both Oxic and Anoxic Lake Waters
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2916-2921. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laurie A. Achenbach, Jennifer Carey, and Michael T. Madigan

Photosynthetic and Phylogenetic Primers for Detection of Anoxygenic Phototrophs in Natural Environments
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2922-2926. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Petra Becker, Wendy Hufnagle, Georg Peters, and Mathias Herrmann

Detection of Differential Gene Expression in Biofilm-Forming versus Planktonic Populations of Staphylococcus aureus Using Micro-Representational-Difference Analysis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2958-2965. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Linping Kuai, Arjun A. Nair, and Martin F. Polz

Rapid and Simple Method for the Most-Probable-Number Estimation of Arsenic-Reducing Bacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3168-3173. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fanrong Kong, Gregory James, Susanna Gordon, Anna Zelynski, and Gwendolyn L. Gilbert

Species-Specific PCR for Identification of Common Contaminant Mollicutes in Cell Culture
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3195-3200. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Han-Chung Wu, Chia-Tsui Yeh, Yue-Ling Huang, Lih-Jeng Tarn, and Chien-Cheng Lung

Characterization of Neutralizing Antibodies and Identification of Neutralizing Epitope Mimics on the Clostridium botulinum Neurotoxin Type A
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3201-3207. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Allen Helm and Stanley Maloy

Rapid Approach To Determine rrn Arrangement in Salmonella Serovars
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3295-3298. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Public Health Microbiology:

Pierre-André Cabanes, France Wallet, Emmanuelle Pringuez, and Pierre Pernin

Assessing the Risk of Primary Amoebic Meningoencephalitis from Swimming in the Presence of Environmental Naegleria fowleri
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2927-2931. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian P. Chauret, Chris Z. Radziminski, Michael Lepuil, Robin Creason, and Robert C. Andrews

Chlorine Dioxide Inactivation of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts and Bacterial Spore Indicators
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2993-3001. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael L. Spinner and George D. Di Giovanni

Detection and Identification of Mammalian Reoviruses in Surface Water by Combined Cell Culture and Reverse Transcription-PCR
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3016-3020. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael J. Brumlik, Urszula Szymajda, Dorota Zakowska, Xudong Liang, Rajendra J. Redkar, Guy Patra, and Vito G. Del Vecchio

Use of Long-Range Repetitive Element Polymorphism-PCR To Differentiate Bacillus anthracis Strains
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3021-3028. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gwy-Am Shin, Karl G. Linden, Michael J. Arrowood, and Mark D. Sobsey

Low-Pressure UV Inactivation and DNA Repair Potential of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3029-3032. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael A. Grant, Stephen D. Weagant, and Peter Feng

Glutamate Decarboxylase Genes as a Prescreening Marker for Detection of Pathogenic Escherichia coli Groups
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3110-3114. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. Petersen, E. M. Nielsen, J. Engberg, S. L. W. On, and H. H. Dietz

Comparison of Genotypes and Serotypes of Campylobacter jejuni Isolated from Danish Wild Mammals and Birds and from Broiler Flocks and Humans
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3115-3121. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Peltola, M. A. Andersson, T. Haahtela, H. Mussalo-Rauhamaa, F. A. Rainey, R. M. Kroppenstedt, R. A. Samson, and M. S. Salkinoja-Salonen

Toxic-Metabolite-Producing Bacteria and Fungus in an Indoor Environment
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3269-3274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ramon A. Carreno, Nicholas J. Pokorny, Susan C. Weir, Hung Lee, and Jack T. Trevors

Decrease in Cryptosporidium parvum Oocyst Infectivity In Vitro by Using the Membrane Filter Dissolution Method for Recovering Oocysts from Water Samples
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3309-3313. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Araki, S. Martín-Gomez, E. Bécares, E. De Luis-Calabuig, and F. Rojo-Vazquez

Effect of High-Rate Algal Ponds on Viability of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3322-3324. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

R. Podschun, S. Pietsch, C. Höller, and U. Ullmann

Incidence of Klebsiella Species in Surface Waters and Their Expression of Virulence Factors
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3325-3327. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. S. Islam, A. Siddika, M. N. H. Khan, M. M. Goldar, M. A. Sadique, A. N. M. H. Kabir, Anwar Huq, and R. R. Colwell

Microbiological Analysis of Tube-Well Water in a Rural Area of Bangladesh
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3328-3330. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Ecology:

Beatriz Díez, Carlos Pedrós-Alió, and Ramon Massana

Study of Genetic Diversity of Eukaryotic Picoplankton in Different Oceanic Regions by Small-Subunit rRNA Gene Cloning and Sequencing
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2932-2941. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beatriz Díez, Carlos Pedrós-Alió, Terence L. Marsh, and Ramon Massana

Application of Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis (DGGE) To Study the Diversity of Marine Picoeukaryotic Assemblages and Comparison of DGGE with Other Molecular Techniques
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2942-2951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon A. Q. Burton and Jim I. Prosser

Autotrophic Ammonia Oxidation at Low pH through Urea Hydrolysis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2952-2957. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Scott R. Miller and Richard W. Castenholz

Ecological Physiology of Synechococcus sp. Strain SH-94-5, a Naturally Occurring Cyanobacterium Deficient in Nitrate Assimilation
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3002-3009. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeffrey T. LeJeune, Thomas E. Besser, and Dale D. Hancock

Cattle Water Troughs as Reservoirs of Escherichia coli O157
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3053-3057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

René L. van Winsen, Bert A. P. Urlings, Len J. A. Lipman, Jos M. A. Snijders, David Keuzenkamp, Jos H. M. Verheijden, and Frans van Knapen

Effect of Fermented Feed on the Microbial Population of the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Pigs
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3071-3076. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wolfgang Eder, Linda L. Jahnke, Mark Schmidt, and Robert Huber

Microbial Diversity of the Brine-Seawater Interface of the Kebrit Deep, Red Sea, Studied via 16S rRNA Gene Sequences and Cultivation Methods
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3077-3085. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John H. Ansede, Perry J. Pellechia, and Duane C. Yoch

Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Analysis of [1-¹³C]Dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP) and [1-¹³C]Acrylate Metabolism by a DMSP Lyase-Producing Marine Isolate of the -Subclass of Proteobacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3134-3139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yun-Juan Chang, Aaron D. Peacock, Philip E. Long, John R. Stephen, James P. McKinley, Sarah J. Macnaughton, A. K. M. Anwar Hussain, Arnold M. Saxton, and David C. White

Diversity and Characterization of Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria in Groundwater at a Uranium Mill Tailings Site
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3149-3160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Deborah A. Chiavelli, Jane W. Marsh, and Ronald K. Taylor

The Mannose-Sensitive Hemagglutinin of Vibrio cholerae Promotes Adherence to Zooplankton
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3220-3225. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Mark Ibekwe, Sharon K. Papiernik, Jianying Gan, Scott R. Yates, Ching-Hong Yang, and David E. Crowley

Impact of Fumigants on Soil Microbial Communities
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3245-3257. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jingrang Lu, Feng Chen, and Robert E. Hodson

Distribution, Isolation, Host Specificity, and Diversity of Cyanophages Infecting Marine Synechococcus spp. in River Estuaries
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3285-3290. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Roland Thar and Tom Fenchel

True Chemotaxis in Oxygen Gradients of the Sulfur-Oxidizing Bacterium Thiovulum majus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3299-3303. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine Joulian, Niels B. Ramsing, and Kjeld Ingvorsen

Congruent Phylogenies of Most Common Small-Subunit rRNA and Dissimilatory Sulfite Reductase Gene Sequences Retrieved from Estuarine Sediments
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3314-3318. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mycology:

Theresa Lee, Dae-Woong Oh, Hye-Seon Kim, Jungkwan Lee, Yong-Ho Kim, Sung-Hwan Yun, and Yin-Won Lee

Identification of Deoxynivalenol- and Nivalenol-Producing Chemotypes of Gibberella zeae by Using PCR
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2966-2972. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. E. Glenn, D. M. Hinton, I. E. Yates, and C. W. Bacon

Detoxification of Corn Antimicrobial Compounds as the Basis for Isolating Fusarium verticillioides and Some Other Fusarium Species from Corn
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2973-2981. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jacob M. Hornby, Ellen C. Jensen, Amber D. Lisec, Joseph J. Tasto, Brandon Jahnke, Richard Shoemaker, Patrick Dussault, and Kenneth W. Nickerson

Quorum Sensing in the Dimorphic Fungus Candida albicans Is Mediated by Farnesol
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 2982-2992. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Invertebrate Microbiology:

Y. Xu, M. Nagai, M. Bagdasarian, T. W. Smith, and E. D. Walker

Expression of the p20 Gene from Bacillus thuringiensis H-14 Increases Cry11A Toxin Production and Enhances Mosquito-Larvicidal Activity in Recombinant Gram-Negative Bacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3010-3015. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yong-Biao Liu, Bruce E. Tabashnik, Susan K. Meyer, and Neil Crickmore

Cross-Resistance and Stability of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Cry1C in Diamondback Moth
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3216-3219. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Margaret C. Wirth, Armelle Delécluse, and William E. Walton

Cyt1Ab1 and Cyt2Ba1 from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. medellin and B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis Synergize Bacillus sphaericus against Aedes aegypti and Resistant Culex quinquefasciatus (Diptera: Culicidae)
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3280-3284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Seigo Shima, Melanie Sordel-Klippert, Andrei Brioukhanov, Alexander Netrusov, Dietmar Linder, and Rudolf K. Thauer

Characterization of a Heme-Dependent Catalase from Methanobrevibacter arboriphilus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3041-3045. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Ciani and F. Fatichenti

Killer Toxin of Kluyveromyces phaffii DBVPG 6076 as a Biopreservative Agent To Control Apiculate Wine Yeasts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3058-3063. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroaki Motoyama, Hiroshi Yano, Yoko Terasaki, and Hideharu Anazawa

Overproduction of L-Lysine from Methanol by Methylobacillus glycogenes Derivatives Carrying a Plasmid with a Mutated dapA Gene
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3064-3070. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernd H. A. Rehm, Timothy A. Mitsky, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Role of Fatty Acid De Novo Biosynthesis in Polyhydroxyalkanoic Acid (PHA) and Rhamnolipid Synthesis by Pseudomonads: Establishment of the Transacylase (PhaG)-Mediated Pathway for PHA Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3102-3109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. I. Tsapin, I. Vandenberghe, K. H. Nealson, J. H. Scott, T. E. Meyer, M. A. Cusanovich, E. Harada, T. Kaizu, H. Akutsu, D. Leys, and J. J. Van Beeumen

Identification of a Small Tetraheme Cytochrome c and a Flavocytochrome c as Two of the Principal Soluble Cytochromes c in Shewanella oneidensis Strain MR1
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3236-3244. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Lucie Miché and Jacques Balandreau

Effects of Rice Seed Surface Sterilization with Hypochlorite on Inoculated Burkholderia vietnamiensis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3046-3052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Antonio Rogel, Ismael Hernández-Lucas, L. David Kuykendall, David L. Balkwill, and Esperanza Martinez-Romero

Nitrogen-Fixing Nodules with Ensifer adhaerens Harboring Rhizobium tropici Symbiotic Plasmids
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3264-3268. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Environmental Microbiology and Biodegradation:

R. Margesin and F. Schinner

Bioremediation (Natural Attenuation and Biostimulation) of Diesel-Oil-Contaminated Soil in an Alpine Glacier Skiing Area
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3127-3133. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. A. Borchardt, E. J. Allain, J. J. Michels, G. W. Stearns, R. F. Kelly, and W. F. McCoy

Reaction of Acylated Homoserine Lactone Bacterial Signaling Molecules with Oxidized Halogen Antimicrobials
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3174-3179. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. P. Busalmen and S. R. de Sánchez

Adhesion of Pseudomonas fluorescens (ATCC 17552) to Nonpolarized and Polarized Thin Films of Gold
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3188-3194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. M. Roane, K. L. Josephson, and I. L. Pepper

Dual-Bioaugmentation Strategy To Enhance Remediation of Cocontaminated Soil
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3208-3215. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason J. Plumb, Joanne Bell, and David C. Stuckey

Microbial Populations Associated with Treatment of an Industrial Dye Effluent in an Anaerobic Baffled Reactor
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3226-3235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geomicrobiology:

Kazem Kashefi, Jason M. Tor, Kelly P. Nevin, and Derek R. Lovley

Reductive Precipitation of Gold by Dissimilatory Fe(III)-Reducing Bacteria and Archaea
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3275-3279. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Tatsuji Sakamoto and Jean-François Thibault

Exo-Arabinanase of Penicillium chrysogenum Able To Release Arabinobiose from -1,5-L-Arabinan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3319-3321. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

D. V. Singh, Maria H. Matte, G. R. Matte, Sunny Jiang, F. Sabeena, B. N. Shukla, S. C. Sanyal, A. Huq, and R. R. Colwell

Molecular Analysis of Vibrio cholerae O1, O139, non-O1, and non-O139 Strains: Clonal Relationships between Clinical and Environmental Isolates
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2001 67: 3331. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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