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Contents: November 2009, Volume 75, Issue 21

       Microbial Ecology

       Physiology

       Food Microbiology

       Enzymology and Protein Engineering

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Environmental Microbiology

       Biotechnology

       Plant Microbiology

       Public Health Microbiology

       Methods

       Invertebrate Microbiology

       Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

       Biodegradation

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Microbial Ecology:

The Bacterially Produced Metabolite Violacein Is Associated with Survival of Amphibians Infected with a Lethal Fungus
Matthew H. Becker, Robert M. Brucker, Christian R. Schwantes, Reid N. Harris, and Kevin P. C. Minbiole
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6635-6638; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01294-09
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Use of Inorganic and Organic Nitrogen by Synechococcus spp. and Diatoms on the West Florida Shelf as Measured Using Stable Isotope Probing
Boris Wawrik, Amy V. Callaghan, and Deborah A. Bronk
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6662-6670; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01002-09
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Protozoan-Induced Regulation of Cyclic Lipopeptide Biosynthesis Is an Effective Predation Defense Mechanism for Pseudomonas fluorescens
Mark Mazzola, Irene de Bruijn, Michael F. Cohen, and Jos M. Raaijmakers
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6804-6811; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01272-09
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Diversity of Frankia Populations in Root Nodules of Geographically Isolated Arizona Alder Trees in Central Arizona (United States)
Allana K. Welsh, Jeffrey O. Dawson, Gerald J. Gottfried, and Dittmar Hahn
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6913-6918; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01103-09
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Composition and Activity of an Autotrophic Fe(II)-Oxidizing, Nitrate-Reducing Enrichment Culture
Marco Blöthe and Eric E. Roden
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6937-6940; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01742-09
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Physiology:

Rhodobacter capsulatus Catalyzes Light-Dependent Fe(II) Oxidation under Anaerobic Conditions as a Potential Detoxification Mechanism
Alexandre J. Poulain and Dianne K. Newman
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6639-6646; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00054-09
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Insufficiency of Copper Ion Homeostasis Causes Freeze-Thaw Injury of Yeast Cells as Revealed by Indirect Gene Expression Analysis
Shunsuke Takahashi, Akira Ando, Hiroshi Takagi, and Jun Shima
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6706-6711; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00905-09
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Conjugative Plasmid Transfer and Adhesion Dynamics in an Escherichia coli Biofilm
Cheryl-Lynn Y. Ong, Scott A. Beatson, Alastair G. McEwan, and Mark A. Schembri
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6783-6791; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00974-09
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Biogenic Formation of As-S Nanotubes by Diverse Shewanella Strains
Shenghua Jiang, Ji-Hoon Lee, Min-Gyu Kim, Nosang V. Myung, James K. Fredrickson, Michael J. Sadowsky, and Hor-Gil Hur
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6896-6899; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00450-09
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Food Microbiology:

Multiplexed Bead-Based Mesofluidic System for Detection of Food-Borne Pathogenic Bacteria
Sheng-Quan Jin, Bin-Cheng Yin, and Bang-Ce Ye
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6647-6654; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00854-09
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Inhibition of Listeria monocytogenes in Cooked Ham by Virulent Bacteriophages and Protective Cultures
A. Holck and J. Berg
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6944-6946; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00926-09
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Processivity, Synergism, and Substrate Specificity of Thermobifida fusca Cel6B
Thu V. Vuong and David B. Wilson
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6655-6661; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01260-09
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Cloning and Characterization of an Intracellular Esterase from the Wine-Associated Lactic Acid Bacterium Oenococcus oeni
Krista M. Sumby, Angela H. Matthews, Paul R. Grbin, and Vladimir Jiranek
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6729-6735; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01563-09
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Regulation of Mannose Phosphotransferase System Permease and Virulence Gene Expression in Listeria monocytogenes by the EII_t^Man Transporter
Hung Vu-Khac and Kurt W. Miller
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6671-6678; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01104-09
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Edwardsiella ictaluri Encodes an Acid-Activated Urease That Is Required for Intracellular Replication in Channel Catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) Macrophages
Natha J. Booth, Judith B. Beekman, and Ronald L. Thune
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6712-6720; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01670-09
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Negative Roles of a Novel Nitrogen Metabolite Repression-Related Gene, TAR1, in Laccase Production and Nitrate Utilization by the Basidiomycete Cryptococcus neoformans
Nan Jiang, Dongguang Xiao, Defa Zhang, Naiyu Sun, Bing Yan, and Xudong Zhu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6777-6782; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00708-09
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Identity of the Growth-Limiting Nutrient Strongly Affects Storage Carbohydrate Accumulation in Anaerobic Chemostat Cultures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Lucie A. Hazelwood, Michael C. Walsh, Marijke A. H. Luttik, Pascale Daran-Lapujade, Jack T. Pronk, and Jean-Marc Daran
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6876-6885; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01464-09
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Environmental Microbiology:

Correlation of Methane Production and Functional Gene Transcriptional Activity in a Peat Soil
Thomas E. Freitag and James I. Prosser
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6679-6687; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01021-09
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Effect of Cinnamon Oil on icaA Expression and Biofilm Formation by Staphylococcus epidermidis
Titik Nuryastuti, Henny C. van der Mei, Henk J. Busscher, Susi Iravati, Abu T. Aman, and Bastiaan P. Krom
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6850-6855; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00875-09
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Seasonal Distribution of Cyprinid Herpesvirus 3 in Lake Biwa, Japan
Toshifumi Minamoto, Mie N. Honjo, and Zen'ichiro Kawabata
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6900-6904; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01411-09
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Dehalogenation Activities and Distribution of Reductive Dehalogenase Homologous Genes in Marine Subsurface Sediments
Taiki Futagami, Yuki Morono, Takeshi Terada, Anna H. Kaksonen, and Fumio Inagaki
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6905-6909; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01124-09
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Pseudoalteromonas Bacteria Are Capable of Degrading Paralytic Shellfish Toxins
Carrie J. Donovan, Rafael A. Garduño, Martin Kalmokoff, John C. Ku, Michael A. Quilliam, and Tom A. Gill
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6919-6923; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01384-09
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Biotechnology:

Engineering of Bacillus subtilis 168 for Increased Nisin Resistance
Mette E. Hansen, Romilda Wangari, Egon B. Hansen, Ivan Mijakovic, and Peter R. Jensen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6688-6695; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00943-09
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Metabolic Engineering of Escherichia coli for Efficient Conversion of Glycerol to Ethanol
Cong T. Trinh and Friedrich Srienc
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6696-6705; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00670-09
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L-Ribose Production from L-Arabinose by Using Purified L-Arabinose Isomerase and Mannose-6-Phosphate Isomerase from Geobacillus thermodenitrificans
Soo-Jin Yeom, Nam-Hee Kim, Chang-Su Park, and Deok-Kun Oh
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6941-6943; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01867-09
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Plant Microbiology:

Diminished Exoproteome of Frankia spp. in Culture and Symbiosis
J. E. Mastronunzio, Y. Huang, and D. R. Benson
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6721-6728; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01559-09
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Mutations That Disrupt Either the pqq or the gdh Gene of Rahnella aquatilis Abolish the Production of an Antibacterial Substance and Result in Reduced Biological Control of Grapevine Crown Gall
Yan Bin Guo, Jinyun Li, Lei Li, Fan Chen, Wenliang Wu, Jianhui Wang, and Huimin Wang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6792-6803; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00902-09
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Public Health Microbiology:

Thermotolerant Coliforms Are Not a Good Surrogate for Campylobacter spp. in Environmental Water
Karen St-Pierre, Simon Lévesque, Eric Frost, Nathalie Carrier, Robert D. Arbeit, and Sophie Michaud
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6736-6744; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00486-09
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Diverse Enterotoxin Gene Profiles among Clonal Complexes of Staphylococcus aureus Isolates from the Bronx, New York
Avanish K. Varshney, José R. Mediavilla, Natalie Robiou, Alice Guh, Xiabo Wang, Philip Gialanella, Michael H. Levi, Barry N. Kreiswirth, and Bettina C. Fries
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6839-6849; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00272-09
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Small-Colony Variant Selection as a Survival Strategy for Staphylococcus aureus in the Presence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Lalitha Biswas, Raja Biswas, Martin Schlag, Ralph Bertram, and Friedrich Götz
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6910-6912; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01211-09
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Analysis of the Clonal Relationship of Serotype O26:H11 Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Isolates from Cattle
Lutz Geue, Sabrina Klare, Christina Schnick, Birgit Mintel, Katharina Meyer, and Franz J. Conraths
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6947-6953; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00605-09
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Methods:

Rapid Identification of Vibrio parahaemolyticus by Whole-Cell Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry
Tracy H. Hazen, Robert J. Martinez, Yanfeng Chen, Patricia C. Lafon, Nancy M. Garrett, Michele B. Parsons, Cheryl A. Bopp, M. Cameron Sullards, and Patricia A. Sobecky
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6745-6756; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01171-09
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Comparison and Utilization of Repetitive-Element PCR Techniques for Typing Lactobacillus Isolates from the Chicken Gastrointestinal Tract
David P. Stephenson, Robert J. Moore, and Gwen E. Allison
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6764-6776; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01150-09
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Labeled Trichoderma reesei Cellulase as a Marker for Acanthamoeba Cyst Wall Cellulose in Infected Tissues
Monika Derda, Jadwiga Winiecka-Krusnell, Markus B. Linder, and Ewert Linder
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6827-6830; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01555-09
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Combination of Chromogenic Differential Medium and estA-Specific PCR for Isolation and Detection of Phytopathogenic Xanthomonas spp.
Yung-An Lee, Ai-Ning Sung, Tzu-Fen Liu, and Yung-Shan Lee
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6831-6838; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01653-09
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Cryptosporidium Propidium Monoazide-PCR, a Molecular Biology-Based Technique for Genotyping of Viable Cryptosporidium Oocysts
Cristin C. Brescia, Shannon M. Griffin, Michael W. Ware, Eunice A. Varughese, Andrey I. Egorov, and Eric N. Villegas
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6856-6863; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00540-09
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

Prevalence of Cardinium Bacteria in Planthoppers and Spider Mites and Taxonomic Revision of "Candidatus Cardinium hertigii" Based on Detection of a New Cardinium Group from Biting Midges
Yuki Nakamura, Sawako Kawai, Fumiko Yukuhiro, Saiko Ito, Tetsuo Gotoh, Ryoiti Kisimoto, Tohru Yanase, Yukiko Matsumoto, Daisuke Kageyama, and Hiroaki Noda
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6757-6763; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01583-09
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Microhabitats within Venomous Cone Snails Contain Diverse Actinobacteria
Olivier Peraud, Jason S. Biggs, Ronald W. Hughen, Alan R. Light, Gisela P. Concepcion, Baldomero M. Olivera, and Eric W. Schmidt
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6820-6826; published ahead of print September 11, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01238-09
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High-Level Resistance of Nosema ceranae, a Parasite of the Honeybee, to Temperature and Desiccation
S. Fenoy, C. Rueda, M. Higes, R. Martín-Hernández, and C. del Aguila
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6886-6889; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01025-09
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Symbiont Succession during Embryonic Development of the European Medicinal Leech, Hirudo verbana
Rita V. M. Rio, Michele Maltz, Benjamin McCormick, Alexander Reiss, and Joerg Graf
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6890-6895; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01129-09
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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

The Complete Genome of Comamonas testosteroni Reveals Its Genetic Adaptations to Changing Environments
Ying-Fei Ma, Yun Zhang, Jia-Yue Zhang, Dong-Wei Chen, Yongqian Zhu, Huajun Zheng, Sheng-Yue Wang, Cheng-Ying Jiang, Guo-Ping Zhao, and Shuang-Jiang Liu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6812-6819; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00933-09
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Novel Features of the Polysaccharide-Digesting Gliding Bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae as Revealed by Genome Sequence Analysis
Mark J. McBride, Gary Xie, Eric C. Martens, Alla Lapidus, Bernard Henrissat, Ryan G. Rhodes, Eugene Goltsman, Wei Wang, Jian Xu, David W. Hunnicutt, Andrew M. Staroscik, Timothy R. Hoover, Yi-Qiang Cheng, and Jennifer L. Stein
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6864-6875; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01495-09
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Comparative Analyses of Prophage-Like Elements Present in Bifidobacterial Genomes
Marco Ventura, Francesca Turroni, Gipsi Lima-Mendez, Elena Foroni, Aldert Zomer, Sabrina Duranti, Vanessa Giubellini, Francesca Bottacini, Philippe Horvath, Rodolphe Barrangou, David A. Sela, David A. Mills, and Douwe van Sinderen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6929-6936; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01112-09
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Biodegradation:

Isolation and Identification of Novel Microcystin-Degrading Bacteria
Pathmalal M. Manage, Christine Edwards, Brajesh K. Singh, and Linda A. Lawton
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. November 2009 75: 6924-6928; published ahead of print September 4, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01928-09
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