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Table of Contents

January 15, 2013; Volume 79,Issue 2

Spotlight

  • Free
    Spotlight
    Articles of Significant Interest Selected from This Issue by the Editors

Minireview

  • Minireview
    Taking the Starch out of Oral Biofilm Formation: Molecular Basis and Functional Significance of Salivary α-Amylase Binding to Oral Streptococci
    Anna E. Nikitkova, Elaine M. Haase, Frank A. Scannapieco

Biodegradation

  • Biodegradation
    Impact of Long-Term Diesel Contamination on Soil Microbial Community Structure
    Nora B. Sutton, Farai Maphosa, Jose A. Morillo, Waleed Abu Al-Soud, Alette A. M. Langenhoff, Tim Grotenhuis, Huub H. M. Rijnaarts, Hauke Smidt
  • Biodegradation
    Comparative Genomic Analysis and Benzene, Toluene, Ethylbenzene, and o-, m-, and p-Xylene (BTEX) Degradation Pathways of Pseudoxanthomonas spadix BD-a59
    Eun Jin Choi, Hyun Mi Jin, Seung Hyeon Lee, Renukaradhya K. Math, Eugene L. Madsen, Che Ok Jeon

Biotechnology

  • Biotechnology
    Combinatorial Mutagenesis and Selection of Improved Signal Sequences and Their Application for High-Level Production of Translocated Heterologous Proteins in Escherichia coli
    Tonje Marita Bjerkan Heggeset, Veronika Kucharova, Ingemar Nærdal, Svein Valla, Håvard Sletta, Trond Erling Ellingsen, Trygve Brautaset
  • Biotechnology
    Heterologous Carotenoid-Biosynthetic Enzymes: Functional Complementation and Effects on Carotenoid Profiles in Escherichia coli
    Gyu Hyeon Song, Se Hyeuk Kim, Bo Hyun Choi, Se Jong Han, Pyung Cheon Lee

Environmental Microbiology

  • Environmental Microbiology
    Identification of Methanoculleus spp. as Active Methanogens during Anoxic Incubations of Swine Manure Storage Tank Samples
    Maialen Barret, Nathalie Gagnon, Martin L. Kalmokoff, Edward Topp, Yris Verastegui, Stephen P. J. Brooks, Fernando Matias, Josh D. Neufeld, Guylaine Talbot
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Spatiotemporal Analysis of Cryptosporidium Species/Genotypes and Relationships with Other Zoonotic Pathogens in Surface Water from Mixed-Use Watersheds
    Graham Wilkes, Norma J. Ruecker, Norman F. Neumann, Victor P. J. Gannon, Cassandra Jokinen, Mark Sunohara, Edward Topp, Katarina D. M. Pintar, Thomas A. Edge, David R. Lapen
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Molecular Characterization of Human-Pathogenic Microsporidia and Cyclospora cayetanensis Isolated from Various Water Sources in Spain: a Year-Long Longitudinal Study
    Ana Luz Galván, Angela Magnet, Fernando Izquierdo, Soledad Fenoy, Cristina Rueda, Carmen Fernández Vadillo, Nuno Henriques-Gil, Carmen del Aguila
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Diet-Induced Alterations of Host Cholesterol Metabolism Are Likely To Affect the Gut Microbiota Composition in Hamsters
    Inés Martínez, Diahann J. Perdicaro, Andrew W. Brown, Susan Hammons, Trevor J. Carden, Timothy P. Carr, Kent M. Eskridge, Jens Walter
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Surveying the Microbiome of Ants: Comparing 454 Pyrosequencing with Traditional Methods To Uncover Bacterial Diversity
    Stefanie Kautz, Benjamin E. R. Rubin, Jacob A. Russell, Corrie S. Moreau
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Enhanced Gene Detection Assays for Fumarate-Adding Enzymes Allow Uncovering of Anaerobic Hydrocarbon Degraders in Terrestrial and Marine Systems
    Frederick von Netzer, Giovanni Pilloni, Sara Kleindienst, Martin Krüger, Katrin Knittel, Friederike Gründger, Tillmann Lueders
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Comparative Analysis of Leptospira Strains Isolated from Environmental Soil and Water in the Philippines and Japan
    Mitsumasa Saito, Sharon Y. A. M. Villanueva, Antara Chakraborty, Satoshi Miyahara, Takaya Segawa, Tatsuma Asoh, Ryo Ozuru, Nina G. Gloriani, Yasutake Yanagihara, Shin-ichi Yoshida
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Distribution of Clostridium botulinum Type E Strains in Nunavik, Northern Quebec, Canada
    Daniel Leclair, Jeffrey M. Farber, Bill Doidge, Burke Blanchfield, Sandy Suppa, Franco Pagotto, John W. Austin
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Reconstruction of Novel Cyanobacterial Siphovirus Genomes from Mediterranean Metagenomic Fosmids
    Carolina Megumi Mizuno, Francisco Rodriguez-Valera, Inmaculada Garcia-Heredia, Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Rohit Ghai
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Environmental Transcription of mmoX by Methane-Oxidizing Proteobacteria in a Subarctic Palsa Peatland
    Susanne Liebner, Mette M. Svenning
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Chitin-Induced Gene Expression in Secondary Metabolic Pathways of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) Grown in Soil
    Behnam Nazari, Michihiko Kobayashi, Akihiro Saito, Azam Hassaninasab, Kiyotaka Miyashita, Takeshi Fujii
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Poly-γ-d-Glutamic Acid Capsule Interferes with Lytic Infection of Bacillus anthracis by B. anthracis-Specific Bacteriophages
    David Negus, Jane Burton, Angela Sweed, Romuald Gryko, Peter W. Taylor
  • Environmental Microbiology
    Induction of Nitrate-Dependent Fe(II) Oxidation by Fe(II) in Dechloromonas sp. Strain UWNR4 and Acidovorax sp. Strain 2AN
    Anirban Chakraborty, Flynn Picardal

Enzymology and Protein Engineering

  • Enzymology and Protein Engineering
    Cello-Oligosaccharide Oxidation Reveals Differences between Two Lytic Polysaccharide Monooxygenases (Family GH61) from Podospora anserina
    Mathieu Bey, Simeng Zhou, Laetitia Poidevin, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M. Coutinho, Jean-Guy Berrin, Jean-Claude Sigoillot
  • Enzymology and Protein Engineering
    Systems Engineering of Tyrosine 195, Tyrosine 260, and Glutamine 265 in Cyclodextrin Glycosyltransferase from Paenibacillus macerans To Enhance Maltodextrin Specificity for 2-O-d-Glucopyranosyl-l-Ascorbic Acid Synthesis
    Ruizhi Han, Long Liu, Hyun-dong Shin, Rachel R. Chen, Jianghua Li, Guocheng Du, Jian Chen
  • Enzymology and Protein Engineering
    Clostridium carboxidivorans Strain P7T Recombinant Formate Dehydrogenase Catalyzes Reduction of CO2 to Formate
    Apostolos Alissandratos, Hye-Kyung Kim, Hayden Matthews, James E. Hennessy, Amy Philbrook, Christopher J. Easton

Food Microbiology

  • Food Microbiology
    Quantification of Yeast and Bacterial Gene Transcripts in Retail Cheeses by Reverse Transcription-Quantitative PCR
    Christophe Monnet, Cécile Straub, Jessie Castellote, Djamila Onesime, Pascal Bonnarme, Françoise Irlinger
  • Food Microbiology
    Landscape and Meteorological Factors Affecting Prevalence of Three Food-Borne Pathogens in Fruit and Vegetable Farms
    Laura K. Strawn, Esther D. Fortes, Elizabeth A. Bihn, Kendra K. Nightingale, Yrjö T. Gröhn, Randy W. Worobo, Martin Wiedmann, Peter W. Bergholz
  • Food Microbiology
    Intracellular Free Iron and Its Potential Role in Ultrahigh-Pressure-Induced Inactivation of Escherichia coli
    Yuan Yan, Joy G. Waite-Cusic, Periannan Kuppusamy, Ahmed E. Yousef

Genetics and Molecular Biology

  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
    Molecular Control of Sucrose Utilization in Escherichia coli W, an Efficient Sucrose-Utilizing Strain
    Suriana Sabri, Lars K. Nielsen, Claudia E. Vickers
  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
    Gene Flow, Recombination, and Selection in Cyanobacteria: Population Structure of Geographically Related Planktothrix Freshwater Strains
    Hanne Sogge, Thomas Rohrlack, Trine B. Rounge, Jørn Henrik Sønstebø, Ave Tooming-Klunderud, Tom Kristensen, Kjetill S. Jakobsen
  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
    Molecular Analysis of Human and Canine Staphylococcus aureus Strains Reveals Distinct Extended-Host-Spectrum Genotypes Independent of Their Methicillin Resistance
    S. Vincze, I. Stamm, S. Monecke, P. A. Kopp, T. Semmler, L. H. Wieler, A. Lübke-Becker, B. Walther
  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
    Regulons of Three Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 Iron Starvation Sigma Factors
    Eric Markel, Bronwyn G. Butcher, Christopher R. Myers, Paul Stodghill, Sam Cartinhour, Bryan Swingle
  • Genetics and Molecular Biology
    Identification of Gold Nanoparticle-Resistant Mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae Suggests a Role for Respiratory Metabolism in Mediating Toxicity
    Mark R. Smith, Matthew G. Boenzli, Vihangi Hindagolla, Jun Ding, John M. Miller, James E. Hutchison, Jeffrey A. Greenwood, Hagai Abeliovich, Alan T. Bakalinsky

Invertebrate Microbiology

  • Invertebrate Microbiology
    Bacillus thuringiensis Metalloproteinase Bmp1 Functions as a Nematicidal Virulence Factor
    Xiaoxia Luo, Ling Chen, Qiong Huang, Jinshui Zheng, Wei Zhou, Donghai Peng, Lifang Ruan, Ming Sun
  • Invertebrate Microbiology
    Characterization of a Newly Discovered Symbiont of the Whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae)
    Xiao-Li Bing, Jiao Yang, Einat Zchori-Fein, Xiao-Wei Wang, Shu-Sheng Liu

Methods

  • Methods
    A New, Sensitive Marine Microalgal Recombinant Biosensor Using Luminescence Monitoring for Toxicity Testing of Antifouling Biocides
    Sophie Sanchez-Ferandin, Fanny Leroy, François-Yves Bouget, Fabien Joux
  • Methods
    Use of Flow Cytometry for Rapid, Quantitative Detection of Poliovirus-Infected Cells via TAT Peptide-Delivered Molecular Beacons
    Divya Sivaraman, Hsiao-Yun Yeh, Ashok Mulchandani, Marylynn V. Yates, Wilfred Chen
  • Methods
    Construction of a Broad-Host-Range Tn7-Based Vector for Single-Copy PBAD-Controlled Gene Expression in Gram-Negative Bacteria
    F. Heath Damron, Elizabeth S. McKenney, Herbert P. Schweizer, Joanna B. Goldberg
  • Methods
    Multiplex PCR Assay Targeting a Diguanylate Cyclase-Encoding Gene, cgcA, To Differentiate Species within the Genus Cronobacter
    L. Carter, L. A. Lindsey, C. J. Grim, V. Sathyamoorthy, K. G. Jarvis, G. Gopinath, C. Lee, J. A. Sadowski, L. Trach, M. Pava-Ripoll, B. A. McCardell, B. D. Tall, L. Hu

Microbial Ecology

  • Microbial Ecology
    Predation Response of Vibrio fischeri Biofilms to Bacterivorus Protists
    Alba Chavez-Dozal, Clayton Gorman, Martina Erken, Peter D. Steinberg, Diane McDougald, Michele K. Nishiguchi
  • Microbial Ecology
    Characterization of Newcastle Disease Viruses in Wild and Domestic Birds in Luxembourg from 2006 to 2008
    Chantal J. Snoeck, Marianna Marinelli, Emilie Charpentier, Aurélie Sausy, Tom Conzemius, Serge Losch, Claude P. Muller
  • Microbial Ecology
    Influence of Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Infection on the Development of the Cecum Microbiota in Newly Hatched Chicks
    H. Juricova, P. Videnska, M. Lukac, M. Faldynova, V. Babak, H. Havlickova, F. Sisak, I. Rychlik

Physiology

  • Physiology
    Osmoprotection of Bacillus subtilis through Import and Proteolysis of Proline-Containing Peptides
    Adrienne Zaprasis, Jeanette Brill, Marietta Thüring, Guido Wünsche, Magnus Heun, Helena Barzantny, Tamara Hoffmann, Erhard Bremer
  • Physiology
    Physiological and Metabolic Effects of Carbon Monoxide Oxidation in the Model Marine Bacterioplankton Ruegeria pomeroyi DSS-3
    Michael Cunliffe

Plant Microbiology

  • Plant Microbiology
    Contribution of Nitrate Assimilation to the Fitness of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae B728a on Plants
    Audrey Parangan-Smith, Steven Lindow

Public Health Microbiology

  • Public Health Microbiology
    Bifidobacterial Succession and Correlation Networks in a Large Unselected Cohort of Mothers and Their Children
    E. Avershina, O. Storrø, T. Øien, R. Johnsen, R. Wilson, T. Egeland, K. Rudi
  • Public Health Microbiology
    Persistence and Leaching Potential of Microorganisms and Mineral N in Animal Manure Applied to Intact Soil Columns
    M. G. Mostofa Amin, Anita Forslund, Xuan Thanh Bui, René K. Juhler, Søren O. Petersen, Mette Lægdsmand

Erratum

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    Erratum: Vol. 78, no. 23, 2012, Table of Contents

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