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Contents: February 2007, Volume 73, Issue 4

       Environmental Microbiology

       Microbial Ecology

       Enzymology and Protein Engineering

       Plant Microbiology

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Methods

       Mycology

       Physiology and Biotechnology

       Food Microbiology

       Invertebrate Microbiology

       Public Health Microbiology

       Biodegradation

       Errata

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Environmental Microbiology:

Molecular Analysis of Arsenate-Reducing Bacteria within Cambodian Sediments following Amendment with Acetate
G. Lear, B. Song, A. G. Gault, D. A. Polya, and J. R. Lloyd
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1041-1048; published ahead of print November 17, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01654-06
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Microbial Communities Involved in Anaerobic Degradation of Unsaturated or Saturated Long-Chain Fatty Acids
Diana Z. Sousa, M. Alcina Pereira, Alfons J. M. Stams, M. Madalena Alves, and Hauke Smidt
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1054-1064; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01723-06
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In Situ Biosurfactant Production by Bacillus Strains Injected into a Limestone Petroleum Reservoir
N. Youssef, D. R. Simpson, K. E. Duncan, M. J. McInerney, M. Folmsbee, T. Fincher, and R. M. Knapp
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1239-1247; published ahead of print December 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02264-06
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Identification and Cultivation of Anaerobic, Syntrophic Long-Chain Fatty Acid-Degrading Microbes from Mesophilic and Thermophilic Methanogenic Sludges
Masashi Hatamoto, Hiroyuki Imachi, Akiyoshi Ohashi, and Hideki Harada
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1332-1340; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02053-06
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Microbial Ecology:

Separation of Marine Bacteria according to Buoyant Density by Use of the Density-Dependent Cell Sorting Method
Katsuyuki Inoue, Masahiko Nishimura, Binaya B. Nayak, and Kazuhiro Kogure
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1049-1053; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01158-06
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Reduced Dietary Intake of Carbohydrates by Obese Subjects Results in Decreased Concentrations of Butyrate and Butyrate-Producing Bacteria in Feces
Sylvia H. Duncan, Alvaro Belenguer, Grietje Holtrop, Alexandra M. Johnstone, Harry J. Flint, and Gerald E. Lobley
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1073-1078; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02340-06
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Species-Specific Secondary Metabolite Production in Marine Actinomycetes of the Genus Salinispora
Paul R. Jensen, Philip G. Williams, Dong-Chan Oh, Lisa Zeigler, and William Fenical
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1146-1152; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01891-06
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Response of Nitrosospira sp. Strain AF-Like Ammonia Oxidizers to Changes in Temperature, Soil Moisture Content, and Fertilizer Concentration
Sharon Avrahami and Brendan J. M. Bohannan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1166-1173; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01803-06
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Ralstonia solanacearum
José A. Castillo and Jean T. Greenberg
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1225-1238; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01253-06
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Physiological, Ecological, and Phylogenetic Characterization of Stappia, a Marine CO-Oxidizing Bacterial Genus
Carolyn F. Weber and Gary M. King
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1266-1276; published ahead of print December 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01724-06
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Influences of Infaunal Burrows on the Community Structure and Activity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Intertidal Sediments
Hisashi Satoh, Yoshiyuki Nakamura, and Satoshi Okabe
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1341-1348; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02073-06
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Retention of Virulence in a Viable but Nonculturable Edwardsiella tarda Isolate
Meng Du, Jixiang Chen, Xiaohua Zhang, Aijuan Li, Yun Li, and Yingeng Wang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1349-1354; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02243-06
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Metaproteomics Approach To Study the Functionality of the Microbiota in the Human Infant Gastrointestinal Tract
Eline S. Klaassens, Willem M. de Vos, and Elaine E. Vaughan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1388-1392; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01921-06
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Isolation of a Multiheme Protein with Features of a Hydrazine-Oxidizing Enzyme from an Anaerobic Ammonium-Oxidizing Enrichment Culture
Munetaka Shimamura, Takashi Nishiyama, Hiroyuki Shigetomo, Takeshi Toyomoto, Yuka Kawahara, Kenji Furukawa, and Takao Fujii
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1065-1072; published ahead of print December 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01978-06
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Synthesis and Selection of De Novo Proteins That Bind and Impede Cellular Functions of an Essential Mycobacterial Protein
Alka Rao, Geeta Ram, Adesh Kumar Saini, Reena Vohra, Krishan Kumar, Yogendra Singh, and Anand Ranganathan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1320-1331; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02461-06
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Plant Microbiology:

Global Effect of Indole-3-Acetic Acid Biosynthesis on Multiple Virulence Factors of Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937
Shihui Yang, Qiu Zhang, Jianhua Guo, Amy O. Charkowski, Bernard R. Glick, A. Mark Ibekwe, Donald A. Cooksey, and Ching-Hong Yang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1079-1088; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01770-06
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Amino Acid Substitutions in GyrA of Burkholderia glumae Are Implicated in Not Only Oxolinic Acid Resistance but Also Fitness on Rice Plants
Yukiko Maeda, Akinori Kiba, Kouhei Ohnishi, and Yasufumi Hikichi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1114-1119; published ahead of print December 28, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02400-06
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Role of Microbial Immigration in the Colonization of Apple Leaves by Aureobasidium pullulans
Molly J. McGrath and John H. Andrews
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1277-1286; published ahead of print December 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01620-06
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Phylogenetic Analysis of the pPT23A Plasmid Family of Pseudomonas syringae
Zhonghua Ma, James J. Smith, Youfu Zhao, Robert W. Jackson, Dawn L. Arnold, Jesús Murillo, and George W. Sundin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1287-1295; published ahead of print November 17, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01923-06
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Characterization of Strong Promoters from an Environmental Flavobacterium hibernum Strain by Using a Green Fluorescent Protein-Based Reporter System
S. Chen, M. Bagdasarian, M. G. Kaufman, and E. D. Walker
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1089-1100; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01577-06
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Salivaricin A2 and the Novel Lantibiotic Salivaricin B Are Encoded at Adjacent Loci on a 190-Kilobase Transmissible Megaplasmid in the Oral Probiotic Strain Streptococcus salivarius K12
Otto Hyink, Philip A. Wescombe, Mathew Upton, Nancy Ragland, Jeremy P. Burton, and John R. Tagg
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1107-1113; published ahead of print December 28, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02265-06
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The Absence of Intervening Sequences in 23S rRNA Genes of Campylobacter coli Isolates from Turkeys Is a Unique Attribute of a Cluster of Related Strains Which Also Lack Resistance to Erythromycin
Kamfai Chan, William G. Miller, Robert E. Mandrell, and Sophia Kathariou
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1208-1214; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01995-06
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Characterization of a Large, Stable, High-Copy-Number Streptomyces Plasmid That Requires Stability and Transfer Functions for Heterologous Polyketide Overproduction
Ryan Fong, Zhihao Hu, C. Richard Hutchinson, Jianqiang Huang, Stanley Cohen, and Camilla Kao
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1296-1307; published ahead of print December 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01888-06
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Gateway-Based Destination Vectors for Functional Analyses of Bacterial ORFeomes: Application to the Min System in Brucella abortus
Régis Hallez, Jean-Jacques Letesson, Jean Vandenhaute, and Xavier De Bolle
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1375-1379; published ahead of print December 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01873-06
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Methods:

Development and Evaluation of Methods To Detect Nucleopolyhedroviruses in Larvae of the Douglas-Fir Tussock Moth, Orgyia pseudotsugata (McDunnough)
Christine M. Thorne, Imre S. Otvos, Nicholas Conder, and David B. Levin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1101-1106; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01958-06
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Identification and Expression of Benzylsuccinate Synthase Genes in a Toluene-Degrading Methanogenic Consortium
Cheryl E. Washer and Elizabeth A. Edwards
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1367-1369; published ahead of print December 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01904-06
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Mycology:

Biogeography, Host Specificity, and Molecular Phylogeny of the Basidiomycetous Yeast Phaffia rhodozyma and Its Sexual Form, Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous
Diego Libkind, Alejandra Ruffini, Maria van Broock, Leonor Alves, and José Paulo Sampaio
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1120-1125; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01432-06
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Physiology and Biotechnology:

Cre-lox-Based System for Multiple Gene Deletions and Selectable-Marker Removal in Lactobacillus plantarum
Jolanda M. Lambert, Roger S. Bongers, and Michiel Kleerebezem
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1126-1135; published ahead of print December 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01473-06
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Hydrogen Metabolism in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
Galit Meshulam-Simon, Sebastian Behrens, Alexander D. Choo, and Alfred M. Spormann
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1153-1165; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01588-06
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Identification of Specific Chemoattractants and Genetic Complementation of a Borrelia burgdorferi Chemotaxis Mutant: Flow Cytometry-Based Capillary Tube Chemotaxis Assay
Richard G. Bakker, Chunhao Li, Michael R. Miller, Cynthia Cunningham, and Nyles W. Charon
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1180-1188; published ahead of print December 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01913-06
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A Novel High-Throughput Screen Reveals Yeast Genes That Increase Secretion of Heterologous Proteins
Alane E. Wentz and Eric V. Shusta
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1189-1198; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02427-06
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Altered Metabolic Flux due to Deletion of odhA causes L-Glutamate Overproduction in Corynebacterium glutamicum
Yoko Asakura, Eiichiro Kimura, Yoshihiro Usuda, Yoshio Kawahara, Kazuhiko Matsui, Tsuyoshi Osumi, and Tsuyoshi Nakamatsu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1308-1319; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01867-06
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Metabolic Engineering of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli by Ordered Gene Assembly in Bacillus subtilis
Tomoko Nishizaki, Kenji Tsuge, Mitsuhiro Itaya, Nobuhide Doi, and Hiroshi Yanagawa
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1355-1361; published ahead of print December 28, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02268-06
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Benzoate Catabolite Repression of the Phthalate Degradation Pathway in Rhodococcus sp. Strain DK17
Ki Young Choi, Gerben J. Zylstra, and Eungbin Kim
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1370-1374; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02379-06
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Food Microbiology:

Role of Broiler Carcasses and Processing Plant Air in Contamination of Modified-Atmosphere-Packaged Broiler Products with Psychrotrophic Lactic Acid Bacteria
Elina Vihavainen, Hanna-Saara Lundström, Tuija Susiluoto, Joanna Koort, Lars Paulin, Petri Auvinen, and K. Johanna Björkroth
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1136-1145; published ahead of print December 1, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01644-06
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Biodiversity of Bacterial Ecosystems in Traditional Egyptian Domiati Cheese
Gaber El-Baradei, Agnès Delacroix-Buchet, and Jean-Claude Ogier
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1248-1255; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01667-06
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

CO₂ Uptake and Fixation by Endosymbiotic Chemoautotrophs from the Bivalve Solemya velum
Kathleen M. Scott and Colleen M. Cavanaugh
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1174-1179; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01817-06
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Mechanism of Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Cry1Ac in a Greenhouse Population of the Cabbage Looper, Trichoplusia ni
Ping Wang, Jian-Zhou Zhao, Ana Rodrigo-Simón, Wendy Kain, Alida F. Janmaat, Anthony M. Shelton, Juan Ferré, and Judith Myers
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1199-1207; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01834-06
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Role of Host Nutrition in Symbiont Regulation: Impact of Dietary Nitrogen on Proliferation of Obligate and Facultative Bacterial Endosymbionts of the Pea Aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum
T. L. Wilkinson, R. Koga, and T. Fukatsu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1362-1366; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01211-06
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Public Health Microbiology:

Rugosity in Grimontia hollisae
S. K. Curtis, M. H. Kothary, R. J. Blodgett, R. B. Raybourne, G. C. Ziobro, and B. D. Tall
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1215-1224; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02553-06
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Effectiveness of Disinfectants in Killing Enterobacter sakazakii in Suspension, Dried on the Surface of Stainless Steel, and in a Biofilm
Hoikyung Kim, Jee-Hoon Ryu, and Larry R. Beuchat
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1256-1265; published ahead of print December 15, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.01766-06
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Escherichia coli O157:H7 Colonization at the Rectoanal Junction of Long-Duration Culture-Positive Cattle
Ji Youn Lim, Jie Li, Haiqing Sheng, Thomas E. Besser, Kathleen Potter, and Carolyn J. Hovde
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1380-1382; published ahead of print December 22, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02242-06
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Biodegradation:

Polyphosphate Accumulation by Pseudomonas putida CA-3 and Other Medium-Chain-Length Polyhydroxyalkanoate-Accumulating Bacteria under Aerobic Growth Conditions
Karen M. Tobin, John W. McGrath, Alan Mullan, John P. Quinn, and Kevin E. O'Connor
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1383-1387; published ahead of print December 8, 2006, doi:10.1128/AEM.02007-06
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Errata:

Engineering of Deinococcus radiodurans R1 for Bioprecipitation of Uranium from Dilute Nuclear Waste
Deepti Appukuttan, Amara Sambasiva Rao, and Shree Kumar Apte
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. February 2007 73: 1393
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