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Minireviews:

Ryan Sinclair, Stephanie A. Boone, David Greenberg, Paul Keim, and Charles P. Gerba

Persistence of Category A Select Agents in the Environment
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 555-563. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francesca Cappitelli and Claudia Sorlini

Microorganisms Attack Synthetic Polymers in Items Representing Our Cultural Heritage
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 564-569. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hidetoshi Okuyama, Yoshitake Orikasa, and Takanori Nishida

Significance of Antioxidative Functions of Eicosapentaenoic and Docosahexaenoic Acids in Marine Microorganisms
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 570-574. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Environmental Microbiology:

Regina Lamendella, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Catherine Kelty, and Daniel B. Oerther

Bifidobacteria in Feces and Environmental Waters
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 575-584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

George R. Golding, Richard Sparling, and Carol A. Kelly

Effect of pH on Intracellular Accumulation of Trace Concentrations of Hg(II) in Escherichia coli under Anaerobic Conditions, as Measured Using a mer-lux Bioreporter
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 667-675. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Miles R. Majcher, Kathryn A. Bernard, and Syed A. Sattar

Identification by Quantitative Carrier Test of Surrogate Spore-Forming Bacteria To Assess Sporicidal Chemicals for Use against Bacillus anthracis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 676-681. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. Jean-Gilles Beaubrun, M. H. Kothary, S. K. Curtis, N. C. Flores, B. E. Eribo, and B. D. Tall

Isolation and Characterization of Vibrio tubiashii Outer Membrane Proteins and Determination of a toxR Homolog
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 907-911. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Public Health Microbiology:

Sung-Chul Seo, Tiina Reponen, Linda Levin, Tiffany Borchelt, and Sergey A. Grinshpun

Aerosolization of Particulate (13)-β-D-Glucan from Moldy Materials
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 585-593. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lies Durnez, Miriam Eddyani, Georgies F. Mgode, Abdul Katakweba, Charles R. Katholi, Robert R. Machang'u, Rudovik R. Kazwala, Françoise Portaels, and Herwig Leirs

First Detection of Mycobacteria in African Rodents and Insectivores, Using Stratified Pool Screening
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 768-773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

F. Abram, Wan-Lin Su, M. Wiedmann, K. J. Boor, P. Coote, C. Botting, K. A. G. Karatzas, and C. P. O'Byrne

Proteomic Analyses of a Listeria monocytogenes Mutant Lacking ^B Identify New Components of the ^B Regulon and Highlight a Role for ^B in the Utilization of Glycerol
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 594-604. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthieu Jules, Gemma Beltran, Jean François, and Jean Luc Parrou

New Insights into Trehalose Metabolism by Saccharomyces cerevisiae: NTH2 Encodes a Functional Cytosolic Trehalase, and Deletion of TPS1 Reveals Ath1p-Dependent Trehalose Mobilization
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 605-614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Valdinéia Aparecida Oliveira, Maristela Araújo Vicente, Luciano Gomes Fietto, Ieso de Miranda Castro, Maurício Xavier Coutrim, Dorit Schüller, Henrique Alves, Margarida Casal, Juliana de Oliveira Santos, Leandro Dias Araújo, Paulo Henrique Alves da Silva, and Rogelio Lopes Brandão

Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Strains Obtained from Sugar-Cane Juice Fermentations and Their Impact in Cachaça Production
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 693-701. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oscar Maestre, Teresa García-Martínez, Rafael A. Peinado, and Juan C. Mauricio

Effects of ADH2 Overexpression in Saccharomyces bayanus during Alcoholic Fermentation
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 702-707. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Valeria A. Torok, Kathy Ophel-Keller, Maylene Loo, and Robert J. Hughes

Application of Methods for Identifying Broiler Chicken Gut Bacterial Species Linked with Increased Energy Metabolism
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 783-791. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Matthew R. Cutter and Peter G. Stroot

Determination of Specific Growth Rate by Measurement of Specific Rate of Ribosome Synthesis in Growing and Nongrowing Cultures of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 901-903. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Masja N. Nierop Groot, Jeroen Godefrooij, and Michiel Kleerebezem

Heterologous Expression of the Pneumococcal Serotype 14 Polysaccharide in Lactococcus lactis Requires Lactococcal epsABC Regulatory Genes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 912-915. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Geomicrobiology:

Harald von Canstein, Jun Ogawa, Sakayu Shimizu, and Jonathan R. Lloyd

Secretion of Flavins by Shewanella Species and Their Role in Extracellular Electron Transfer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 615-623. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Ecology:

Ann K. Manske, Uta Henßge, Jens Glaeser, and Jörg Overmann

Subfossil 16S rRNA Gene Sequences of Green Sulfur Bacteria in the Black Sea and Their Implications for Past Photic Zone Anoxia
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 624-632. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Odile Ménard, Marie-José Butel, Valérie Gaboriau-Routhiau, and Anne-Judith Waligora-Dupriet

Gnotobiotic Mouse Immune Response Induced by Bifidobacterium sp. Strains Isolated from Infants
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 660-666. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher J. Grim, Elisa Taviani, Munirul Alam, Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack, and Rita R. Colwell

Occurrence and Expression of Luminescence in Vibrio cholerae
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 708-715. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hidetoshi Urakawa, Yoshiyuki Tajima, Yoshiyuki Numata, and Satoshi Tsuneda

Low Temperature Decreases the Phylogenetic Diversity of Ammonia-Oxidizing Archaea and Bacteria in Aquarium Biofiltration Systems
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 894-900. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Invertebrate Microbiology:

Dawn M. Adin, Nancy J. Phillips, Bradford W. Gibson, Michael A. Apicella, Edward G. Ruby, Margaret J. McFall-Ngai, Daniel B. Hall, and Eric V. Stabb

Characterization of htrB and msbB Mutants of the Light Organ Symbiont Vibrio fischeri
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 633-644. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geoffrey W. Pittman, Stevens M. Brumbley, Peter G. Allsopp, and Scott L. O'Neill

"Endomicrobia" and Other Bacteria Associated with the Hindgut of Dermolepida albohirtum Larvae
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 762-767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Eugenia Nuñez-Valdez, Marco A. Calderón, Eduardo Aranda, Luciano Hernández, Rosa M. Ramírez-Gama, Laura Lina, Zitlhally Rodríguez-Segura, María del C. Gutiérrez, and Francisco J. Villalobos

Identification of a Putative Mexican Strain of Serratia entomophila Pathogenic against Root-Damaging Larvae of Scarabaeidae (Coleoptera)
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 802-810. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

David G. Bourne, Holly V. Boyett, Meegan E. Henderson, Andrew Muirhead, and Bette L. Willis

Identification of a Ciliate (Oligohymenophorea: Scuticociliatia) Associated with Brown Band Disease on Corals of the Great Barrier Reef
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 883-888. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Gerald D. Baldridge, Nicole Y. Burkhardt, Roderick F. Felsheim, Timothy J. Kurtti, and Ulrike G. Munderloh

Plasmids of the pRM/pRF Family Occur in Diverse Rickettsia Species
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 645-652. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Troco Kaan Mihali, Ralf Kellmann, Julia Muenchhoff, Kevin D. Barrow, and Brett A. Neilan

Characterization of the Gene Cluster Responsible for Cylindrospermopsin Biosynthesis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 716-722. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ombeline Rossier, Jenny Dao, and Nicholas P. Cianciotto

The Type II Secretion System of Legionella pneumophila Elaborates Two Aminopeptidases, as Well as a Metalloprotease That Contributes to Differential Infection among Protozoan Hosts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 753-761. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mickaël Boyer, Jacqueline Haurat, Sylvie Samain, Béatrice Segurens, Frédérick Gavory, Víctor González, Patrick Mavingui, René Rohr, René Bally, and Florence Wisniewski-Dyé

Bacteriophage Prevalence in the Genus Azospirillum and Analysis of the First Genome Sequence of an Azospirillum brasilense Integrative Phage
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 861-874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Methods:

Harry B. Hines, Alexander D. Kim, Robert G. Stafford, Shirin S. Badie, Ernst E. Brueggeman, David J. Newman, and James J. Schmidt

Use of a Recombinant Fluorescent Substrate with Cleavage Sites for All Botulinum Neurotoxins in High-Throughput Screening of Natural Product Extracts for Inhibitors of Serotypes A, B, and E
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 653-659. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Orin C. Shanks, Emina Atikovic, A. Denene Blackwood, Jingrang Lu, Rachel T. Noble, Jorge Santo Domingo, Shawn Seifring, Mano Sivaganesan, and Richard A. Haugland

Quantitative PCR for Detection and Enumeration of Genetic Markers of Bovine Fecal Pollution
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 745-752. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

A. Mechaly, E. Zahavy, and M. Fisher

Development and Implementation of a Single-Chain Fv Antibody for Specific Detection of Bacillus anthracis Spores
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 818-822. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas A. Isenbarger, Michael Finney, Carlos Ríos-Velázquez, Jo Handelsman, and Gary Ruvkun

Miniprimer PCR, a New Lens for Viewing the Microbial World
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 840-849. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Zhongtang Yu, Rubén García-González, Floyd L. Schanbacher, and Mark Morrison

Evaluations of Different Hypervariable Regions of Archaeal 16S rRNA Genes in Profiling of Methanogens by Archaea-Specific PCR and Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 889-893. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine Fenselau, Crystal Havey, Nuttinee Teerakulkittipong, Stephen Swatkoski, Olli Laine, and Nathan Edwards

Identification of β-Lactamase in Antibiotic-Resistant Bacillus cereus Spores
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 904-906. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Reza Nejadnik, Henny C. van der Mei, Henk J. Busscher, and Willem Norde

Determination of the Shear Force at the Balance between Bacterial Attachment and Detachment in Weak-Adherence Systems, Using a Flow Displacement Chamber
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 916-919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Kathryne S. Auernik, Yukari Maezato, Paul H. Blum, and Robert M. Kelly

The Genome Sequence of the Metal-Mobilizing, Extremely Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Metallosphaera sedula Provides Insights into Bioleaching-Associated Metabolism
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 682-692. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Eu Jin Chung, He Kyoung Lim, Jin-Cheol Kim, Gyung Ja Choi, Eun Jin Park, Myung Hwan Lee, Young Ryun Chung, and Seon-Woo Lee

Forest Soil Metagenome Gene Cluster Involved in Antifungal Activity Expression in Escherichia coli
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 723-730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas E. Macdonald, Charles H. Helma, Lawrence O. Ticknor, Paul J. Jackson, Richard T. Okinaka, Leonard A. Smith, Theresa J. Smith, and Karen K. Hill

Differentiation of Clostridium botulinum Serotype A Strains by Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 875-882. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Food Microbiology:

R. B. Seale, S. H. Flint, A. J. McQuillan, and P. J. Bremer

Recovery of Spores from Thermophilic Dairy Bacilli and Effects of Their Surface Characteristics on Attachment to Different Surfaces
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 731-737. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patrick M. Lucas, Olivier Claisse, and Aline Lonvaud-Funel

High Frequency of Histamine-Producing Bacteria in the Enological Environment and Instability of the Histidine Decarboxylase Production Phenotype
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 811-817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hongliang Qian, Ervinna Pang, Qingyun Du, Jason Chang, Jin Dong, Say Ling Toh, Fook Kheong Ng, Ai Ling Tan, and Jimmy Kwang

Production of a Monoclonal Antibody Specific for the Major Outer Membrane Protein of Campylobacter jejuni and Characterization of the Epitope
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 833-839. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Barbara Cardazzo, Enrico Negrisolo, Lisa Carraro, Leonardo Alberghini, Tomaso Patarnello, and Valerio Giaccone

Multiple-Locus Sequence Typing and Analysis of Toxin Genes in Bacillus cereus Food-Borne Isolates
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 850-860. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Plant Microbiology:

Corey D. Broeckling, Amanda K. Broz, Joy Bergelson, Daniel K. Manter, and Jorge M. Vivanco

Root Exudates Regulate Soil Fungal Community Composition and Diversity
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 738-744. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Charles K. Lee, S. Craig Cary, Alison E. Murray, and Roy M. Daniel

Enzymic Approach to Eurythermalism of Alvinella pompejana and Its Episymbionts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 774-782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Biodegradation:

Christian Winderl, Bettina Anneser, Christian Griebler, Rainer U. Meckenstock, and Tillmann Lueders

Depth-Resolved Quantification of Anaerobic Toluene Degraders and Aquifer Microbial Community Patterns in Distinct Redox Zones of a Tar Oil Contaminant Plume
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 792-801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mycology:

Serenella A. Sukno, Verónica M. García, Brian D. Shaw, and Michael R. Thon

Root Infection and Systemic Colonization of Maize by Colletotrichum graminicola
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 823-832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

M. T. S. Felício, T. Hogg, P. Gibbs, P. Teixeira, and M. Wiedmann

Recurrent and Sporadic Listeria monocytogenes Contamination in Alheiras Represents Considerable Diversity, Including Virulence-Attenuated Isolates
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 920. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Khaled K. Mahmoud, Damian McNeely, Chelsea Elwood, and Susan F. Koval

Design and Performance of a 16S rRNA-Targeted Oligonucleotide Probe for Detection of Members of the Genus Bdellovibrio by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 921. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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