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Meeting Review:

Bruce Budowle, Steven E. Schutzer, James P. Burans, Douglas J. Beecher, Thomas A. Cebula, Ranajit Chakraborty, William T. Cobb, Jacqueline Fletcher, Martha L. Hale, Robert B. Harris, Michael A. Heitkamp, Frederick Paul Keller, Cheryl Kuske, Joseph E. LeClerc, Babetta L. Marrone, Thomas S. McKenna, Stephen A. Morse, Luis L. Rodriguez, Nancy B. Valentine, and Jagjit Yadev

Quality Sample Collection, Handling, and Preservation for an Effective Microbial Forensics Program
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6431-6438. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Evelyne Krin, Nesrine Chakroun, Evelyne Turlin, Alain Givaudan, François Gaboriau, Isabelle Bonne, Jean-Claude Rousselle, Lionel Frangeul, Céline Lacroix, Marie-Françoise Hullo, Laetitia Marisa, Antoine Danchin, and Sylviane Derzelle

Pleiotropic Role of Quorum-Sensing Autoinducer 2 in Photorhabdus luminescens
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6439-6451. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Avinash M. Sonawane, Birendra Singh, and Klaus-Heinrich Röhm

The AauR-AauS Two-Component System Regulates Uptake and Metabolism of Acidic Amino Acids in Pseudomonas putida
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6569-6577. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Woo-Kon Lee, Keiji Ogura, John T. Loh, Timothy L. Cover, and Douglas E. Berg

Quantitative Effect of luxS Gene Inactivation on the Fitness of Helicobacter pylori
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6615-6622. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raquel Criado, Dzung B. Diep, Ågot Aakra, Jorge Gutiérrez, Ingolf F. Nes, Pablo E. Hernández, and Luis M. Cintas

Complete Sequence of the Enterocin Q-Encoding Plasmid pCIZ2 from the Multiple Bacteriocin Producer Enterococcus faecium L50 and Genetic Characterization of Enterocin Q Production and Immunity
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6653-6666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christina S. Vegge, Horst Neve, Lone Brøndsted, Knut J. Heller, and Finn K. Vogensen

Analysis of the Collar-Whisker Structure of Temperate Lactococcal Bacteriophage TP901-1
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6815-6818. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mohamed N. Seleem, Mohammed Ali, Stephen M. Boyle, Biswarup Mukhopadhyay, Sharon G. Witonsky, Gerhardt G. Schurig, and Nammalwar Sriranganathan

Establishment of a Gene Expression System in Ochrobactrum anthropi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6833-6836. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Environmental Microbiology:

Paul J. Hunter, Geoff M. Petch, Leo A. Calvo-Bado, Tim R. Pettitt, Nick R. Parsons, J. Alun W. Morgan, and John M. Whipps

Differences in Microbial Activity and Microbial Populations of Peat Associated with Suppression of Damping-Off Disease Caused by Pythium sylvaticum
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6452-6460. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Laura Hobley, John R. King, and R. Elizabeth Sockett

Bdellovibrio Predation in the Presence of Decoys: Three-Way Bacterial Interactions Revealed by Mathematical and Experimental Analyses
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6757-6765. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Satoshi Nakagawa, Fumio Inagaki, Yohey Suzuki, Bjørn Olav Steinsbu, Mark Alexander Lever, Ken Takai, Bert Engelen, Yoshihiko Sako, Charles Geoffrey Wheat, Koki Horikoshi, and Integrated Ocean Drilling Program Expedition 301 Scientists

Microbial Community in Black Rust Exposed to Hot Ridge Flank Crustal Fluids
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6789-6799. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Food Microbiology:

Mohamed Nawaz, Kidon Sung, Saeed A. Khan, Ashraf A. Khan, and Roger Steele

Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Tetracycline-Resistant Aeromonas veronii Isolates from Catfish
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6461-6466. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

F. Fonseca, M. Marin, and G. J. Morris

Stabilization of Frozen Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus in Glycerol Suspensions: Freezing Kinetics and Storage Temperature Effects
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6474-6482. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jürgen Behr, Michael G. Gänzle, and Rudi F. Vogel

Characterization of a Highly Hop-Resistant Lactobacillus brevis Strain Lacking Hop Transport
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6483-6492. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

L. Coroller, I. Leguerinel, E. Mettler, N. Savy, and P. Mafart

General Model, Based on Two Mixed Weibull Distributions of Bacterial Resistance, for Describing Various Shapes of Inactivation Curves
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6493-6502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreja Rajkovic, Benaissa El Moualij, Mieke Uyttendaele, Philippe Brolet, Willy Zorzi, Ernst Heinen, Ellen Foubert, and Johan Debevere

Immunoquantitative Real-Time PCR for Detection and Quantification of Staphylococcus aureus Enterotoxin B in Foods
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6593-6599. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. Métris, S. M. George, and J. Baranyi

Use of Optical Density Detection Times To Assess the Effect of Acetic Acid on Single-Cell Kinetics
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6674-6679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Naoyuki Miyata, Yukinori Tani, Kanako Maruo, Hiroshi Tsuno, Masahiro Sakata, and Keisuke Iwahori

Manganese(IV) Oxide Production by Acremonium sp. Strain KR21-2 and Extracellular Mn(II) Oxidase Activity
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6467-6473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas Vattakaven, Peter Bond, Graham Bradley, and Colin B. Munn

Differential Effects of Temperature and Starvation on Induction of the Viable-but-Nonculturable State in the Coral Pathogens Vibrio shiloi and Vibrio tasmaniensis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6508-6513. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Attila Andor, Antónia Jekkel, David A. Hopwood, Ferenc Jeanplong, Éva Ilkoy, Attila Kónya, István Kurucz, and Gábor Ambrus

Generation of Useful Insertionally Blocked Sterol Degradation Pathway Mutants of Fast-Growing Mycobacteria and Cloning, Characterization, and Expression of the Terminal Oxygenase of the 3-Ketosteroid 9-Hydroxylase in Mycobacterium smegmatis mc²155
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6554-6559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Jacob Parnell, Joonhong Park, Vincent Denef, Tamara Tsoi, Syed Hashsham, John Quensen, III, and James M. Tiedje

Coping with Polychlorinated Biphenyl (PCB) Toxicity: Physiological and Genome-Wide Responses of Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 to PCB-Mediated Stress
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6607-6614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Armelle Bigot, Eleonore Botton, Iharilalao Dubail, and Alain Charbit

A Homolog of Bacillus subtilis Trigger Factor in Listeria monocytogenes Is Involved in Stress Tolerance and Bacterial Virulence
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6623-6631. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María Pérez, Felipe Lombó, Irfan Baig, Alfredo F. Braña, Jürgen Rohr, José A. Salas, and Carmen Méndez

Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Antitumor Deoxysugar Pathways in Streptomyces griseus: Reconstitution of "Unnatural Natural Gene Clusters" for the Biosynthesis of Four 2,6-D-Dideoxyhexoses
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6644-6652. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Mónica Herrero, Covadonga Quirós, Luis A. García, and Mario Díaz

Use of Flow Cytometry To Follow the Physiological States of Microorganisms in Cider Fermentation Processes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6725-6733. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jan Hänisch, Marc Wältermann, Horst Robenek, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Eukaryotic Lipid Body Proteins in Oleogenous Actinomycetes and Their Targeting to Intracellular Triacylglycerol Inclusions: Impact on Models of Lipid Body Biogenesis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6743-6750. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Public Health Microbiology:

Heidi Hilpertshauser, Peter Deplazes, Manuela Schnyder, Lise Gern, and Alexander Mathis

Babesia spp. Identified by PCR in Ticks Collected from Domestic and Wild Ruminants in Southern Switzerland
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6503-6507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suk-Kyung Lim, Koichi Tanimoto, Haruyoshi Tomita, and Yasuyoshi Ike

Pheromone-Responsive Conjugative Vancomycin Resistance Plasmids in Enterococcus faecalis Isolates from Humans and Chicken Feces
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6544-6553. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. M. Adaska, A. J. Silva, A. C. B. Berge, and W. M. Sischo

Genetic and Phenotypic Variability among Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Isolates from California Dairy Cattle and Humans
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6632-6637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Schierack, Hartmut Steinrück, Sylvia Kleta, and Wilfried Vahjen

Virulence Factor Gene Profiles of Escherichia coli Isolates from Clinically Healthy Pigs
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6680-6686. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eila Torvinen, Teija Meklin, Pirjo Torkko, Sini Suomalainen, Marjut Reiman, Marja-Leena Katila, Lars Paulin, and Aino Nevalainen

Mycobacteria and Fungi in Moisture-Damaged Building Materials
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6822-6824. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geomicrobiology:

T. R. Kulp, S. E. Hoeft, L. G. Miller, C. Saltikov, J. N. Murphy, S. Han, B. Lanoil, and R. S. Oremland

Dissimilatory Arsenate and Sulfate Reduction in Sediments of Two Hypersaline, Arsenic-Rich Soda Lakes: Mono and Searles Lakes, California
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6514-6526. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mycology:

Zoltán Kerényi, Brigitta Oláh, Apor Jeney, László Hornok, and John F. Leslie

The Homologue of het-c of Neurospora crassa Lacks Vegetative Compatibility Function in Fusarium proliferatum
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6527-6532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthias Sipiczki

Metschnikowia Strains Isolated from Botrytized Grapes Antagonize Fungal and Bacterial Growth by Iron Depletion
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6716-6724. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Ecology:

Violetta Lesniewska, Ian Rowland, Patrice D. Cani, Audrey M. Neyrinck, Nathalie M. Delzenne, and Patrick J. Naughton

Effect on Components of the Intestinal Microflora and Plasma Neuropeptide Levels of Feeding Lactobacillus delbrueckii, Bifidobacterium lactis, and Inulin to Adult and Elderly Rats
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6533-6538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Titta J. K. Manninen, Minna L. Rinkinen, Shea S. Beasley, and Per E. J. Saris

Alteration of the Canine Small-Intestinal Lactic Acid Bacterium Microbiota by Feeding of Potential Probiotics
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6539-6543. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Claudia Piccini, Daniel Conde, Cecilia Alonso, Ruben Sommaruga, and Jakob Pernthaler

Blooms of Single Bacterial Species in a Coastal Lagoon of the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6560-6568. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S.-O. Jeon, J. Bunge, T. Stoeck, K. J.-A. Barger, S.-H. Hong, and S. S. Epstein

Synthetic Statistical Approach Reveals a High Degree of Richness of Microbial Eukaryotes in an Anoxic Water Column
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6578-6583. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank Scheckenbach, Claudia Wylezich, Alexander P. Mylnikov, Markus Weitere, and Hartmut Arndt

Molecular Comparisons of Freshwater and Marine Isolates of the Same Morphospecies of Heterotrophic Flagellates
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6638-6643. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sanin Musovic, Gunnar Oregaard, Niels Kroer, and Søren J. Sørensen

Cultivation-Independent Examination of Horizontal Transfer and Host Range of an IncP-1 Plasmid among Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria Indigenous to the Barley Rhizosphere
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6687-6692. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andrew B. Dalby, Daniel N. Frank, Allison L. St. Amand, Alison M. Bendele, and Norman R. Pace

Culture-Independent Analysis of Indomethacin-Induced Alterations in the Rat Gastrointestinal Microbiota
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6707-6715. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ying Yang, Prem K. Sreenivasan, Ravi Subramanyam, and Diane Cummins

Multiparameter Assessments To Determine the Effects of Sugars and Antimicrobials on a Polymicrobial Oral Biofilm
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6734-6742. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrick D. Schloss and Jo Handelsman

Introducing SONS, a Tool for Operational Taxonomic Unit-Based Comparisons of Microbial Community Memberships and Structures
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6773-6779. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anna Edlund and Janet K. Jansson

Changes in Active Bacterial Communities before and after Dredging of Highly Polluted Baltic Sea Sediments
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6800-6807. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Klaus Michalke, Jörg Meyer, and Reinhard Hensel

Effect of Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane on Methylation of Bismuth by Methanosarcina barkeri
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6819-6821. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Ryan Penton, Allan H. Devol, and James M. Tiedje

Molecular Evidence for the Broad Distribution of Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing Bacteria in Freshwater and Marine Sediments
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6829-6832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ashvini Chauhan and Andrew Ogram

Phylogeny of Acetate-Utilizing Microorganisms in Soils along a Nutrient Gradient in the Florida Everglades
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6837-6840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Hidetoshi Urakawa, Hideaki Maki, Sumiko Kawabata, Taketomo Fujiwara, Haruo Ando, Toshio Kawai, Takehiko Hiwatari, Kunio Kohata, and Masataka Watanabe

Abundance and Population Structure of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria That Inhabit Canal Sediments Receiving Effluents from Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6845-6850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Shinji Kawasaki, Tsuyoshi Mimura, Takumi Satoh, Kouji Takeda, and Youichi Niimura

Response of the Microaerophilic Bifidobacterium Species, B. boum and B. thermophilum, to Oxygen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6854-6858. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Invertebrate Microbiology:

Steven J. Dodd, Mark R. H. Hurst, Travis R. Glare, Maureen O'Callaghan, and Clive W. Ronson

Occurrence of sep Insecticidal Toxin Complex Genes in Serratia spp. and Yersinia frederiksenii
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6584-6592. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emma L. Walker, Jeffrey L. Bose, and Eric V. Stabb

Photolyase Confers Resistance to UV Light but Does Not Contribute to the Symbiotic Benefit of Bioluminescence in Vibrio fischeri ES114
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6600-6606. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daisuke Kageyama, Hisashi Anbutsu, Masayoshi Watada, Takahiro Hosokawa, Masakazu Shimada, and Takema Fukatsu

Prevalence of a Non-Male-Killing Spiroplasma in Natural Populations of Drosophila hydei
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6667-6673. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Caroline Anselme, Agnès Vallier, Séverine Balmand, Marie-Odile Fauvarque, and Abdelaziz Heddi

Host PGRP Gene Expression and Bacterial Release in Endosymbiosis of the Weevil Sitophilus zeamais
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6766-6772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yuichi Hongoh, Pinsurang Deevong, Satoshi Hattori, Tetsushi Inoue, Satoko Noda, Napavarn Noparatnaraporn, Toshiaki Kudo, and Moriya Ohkuma

Phylogenetic Diversity, Localization, and Cell Morphologies of Members of the Candidate Phylum TG3 and a Subphylum in the Phylum Fibrobacteres, Recently Discovered Bacterial Groups Dominant in Termite Guts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6780-6788. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Biodegradation:

Diane Fournier, Jalal Hawari, Sheryl H. Streger, Kevin McClay, and Paul B. Hatzinger

Biotransformation of N-Nitrosodimethylamine by Pseudomonas mendocina KR1
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6693-6698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew de la Peña Mattozzi, Sundiep K. Tehara, Thomas Hong, and Jay D. Keasling

Mineralization of Paraoxon and Its Use as a Sole C and P Source by a Rationally Designed Catabolic Pathway in Pseudomonas putida
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6699-6706. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Methods:

Trinelise Blomqvist, Hilde Steinmoen, and Leiv Sigve Håvarstein

Natural Genetic Transformation: a Novel Tool for Efficient Genetic Engineering of the Dairy Bacterium Streptococcus thermophilus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6751-6756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hannah S. Shafaat and Adrian Ponce

Applications of a Rapid Endospore Viability Assay for Monitoring UV Inactivation and Characterizing Arctic Ice Cores
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6808-6814. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

John R. Baker, Chengbao Liu, Shengli Dong, and David G. Pritchard

Endopeptidase and Glycosidase Activities of the Bacteriophage B30 Lysin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6825-6828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Benson Munyali Wamalwa, Makiko Sakka, Paul Mwanza Shiundu, Kunio Ohmiya, Tetsuya Kimura, and Kazuo Sakka

Essentiality of a Newly Identified Carbohydrate-Binding Module for the Function of CelB (BH0603) from the Alkaliphilic Bacterium Bacillus halodurans
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6851-6853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Clara A. Fuchsman and Gabrielle Rocap

Whole-Genome Reciprocal BLAST Analysis Reveals that Planctomycetes Do Not Share an Unusually Large Number of Genes with Eukarya and Archaea
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6841-6844. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Letters to the Editor:

Hsiu-Yun Shih and Yusen Eason Lin

Caution on Interpretation of Legionella Results Obtained Using Real-Time PCR for Environmental Water Samples
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6859. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ingeborg Hein, Gabriele Flekna, Martin Wagner, Andreas Nocker, and Anne K. Camper

Possible Errors in the Interpretation of Ethidium Bromide and PicoGreen DNA Staining Results from Ethidium Monoazide-Treated DNA
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6860-6862. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Gilles P. van Wezel, Preben Krabben, Bjørn A. Traag, Bart J. F. Keijser, Rob Kerste, Erik Vijgenboom, Josef J. Heijnen, and Barend Kraal

Unlocking Streptomyces spp. for Use as Sustainable Industrial Production Platforms by Morphological Engineering
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2006 72: 6863. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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