| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveMinireviews Ecological Role of Lactobacilli in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Implications for Fundamental and Biomedical Research Jens Walter PMCID: PMC2519286 Unraveling Microbial Interactions in Food Fermentations: from Classical to Genomics Approaches Sander Sieuwerts, Frank A. M. de Bok, Jeroen Hugenholtz, and Johan E. T. van Hylckama Vlieg PMCID: PMC2519258 Genetics and Molecular Biology Environmental and Growth Phase Regulation of the Streptococcus gordonii Arginine Deiminase Genes Yaling Liu, Yiqian Dong, Yi-Ywan M. Chen, and Robert A. Burne PMCID: PMC2519279 Enzymology and Protein Engineering Enhancement of the Alcoholytic Activity of α-Amylase AmyA from Thermotoga maritima MSB8 (DSM 3109) by Site-Directed Mutagenesis Juanita Yazmin Damián-Almazo, Alina Moreno, Agustin López-Munguía, Xavier Soberón, Fernando González-Muñoz, and Gloria Saab-Rincón PMCID: PMC2519283 Isomaltose Production by Modification of the Fructose-Binding Site on the Basis of the Predicted Structure of Sucrose Isomerase from “Protaminobacter rubrum” Hyeon Cheol Lee, Jin Ha Kim, Sang Yong Kim, and Jung Kul Lee PMCID: PMC2519274 Physiology and Biotechnology Engineering Pseudomonas putida S12 for Efficient Utilization of d-Xylose and l-Arabinose Jean-Paul Meijnen, Johannes H. de Winde, and Harald J. Ruijssenaars PMCID: PMC2519266 Broad-Host-Range Expression Vectors with Tightly Regulated Promoters and Their Use To Examine the Influence of TraR and TraM Expression on Ti Plasmid Quorum Sensing Sharik R. Khan, Jennifer Gaines, R. Martin Roop, II, and Stephen K. Farrand PMCID: PMC2519271 Function of Heterologous Mycobacterium tuberculosis InhA, a Type 2 Fatty Acid Synthase Enzyme Involved in Extending C20 Fatty Acids to C60-to-C90 Mycolic Acids, during De Novo Lipoic Acid Synthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Aner Gurvitz, J. Kalervo Hiltunen, and Alexander J. Kastaniotis PMCID: PMC2519256 Purification, Characterization, and Gene Cloning of Ceriporiopsis sp. Strain MD-1 Peroxidases That Decolorize Human Hair Melanin Kenji Nagasaki, Masaro Kumazawa, Shuichiro Murakami, Shinji Takenaka, Kenzo Koike, and Kenji Aoki PMCID: PMC2519264 Noncovalent Immobilization of Streptavidin on In Vitro- and In Vivo-Biotinylated Bacterial Magnetic Particles Yoshiaki Maeda, Tomoko Yoshino, Masaaki Takahashi, Harumi Ginya, Junko Asahina, Hideji Tajima, and Tadashi Matsunaga PMCID: PMC2519255 Group 2 Sigma Factor SigB of Corynebacterium glutamicum Positively Regulates Glucose Metabolism under Conditions of Oxygen Deprivation Shigeki Ehira, Tomokazu Shirai, Haruhiko Teramoto, Masayuki Inui, and Hideaki Yukawa PMCID: PMC2519270 Production of an Insecticidal Crystal Protein from Bacillus thuringiensis by the Methylotroph Methylobacterium extorquens Young J. Choi, J. Lawrence Gringorten, Louise Bélanger, Lyne Morel, Denis Bourque, Luke Masson, Denis Groleau, and Carlos B. Míguez PMCID: PMC2519252 Effect of Silver-Doped Phosphate-Based Glasses on Bacterial Biofilm Growth Sabeel P. Valappil, Jonathan C. Knowles, and Michael Wilson PMCID: PMC2519254 Membrane-Bound Pyrroloquinoline Quinone-Dependent Dehydrogenase in Gluconobacter oxydans M5, Responsible for Production of 6-(2-Hydroxyethyl) Amino-6-Deoxy-l-Sorbose Xue-Peng Yang, Liu-Jing Wei, Jin-Ping Lin, Bo Yin, and Dong-Zhi Wei PMCID: PMC2519276 Mycology Genes for the Biosynthesis of the Fungal Polyketides Hypothemycin from Hypomyces subiculosus and Radicicol from Pochonia chlamydosporia Christopher D. Reeves, Zhihao Hu, Ralph Reid, and James T. Kealey PMCID: PMC2519290 Public Health Microbiology Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto Is Clonal in Patients with Early Lyme Borreliosis Klára Hanincová, Dionysios Liveris, Sabina Sandigursky, Gary P. Wormser, and Ira Schwartz PMCID: PMC2519259 Characterization of an Escherichia coli O157:H7 O-Antigen Deletion Mutant and Effect of the Deletion on Bacterial Persistence in the Mouse Intestine and Colonization at the Bovine Terminal Rectal Mucosa Haiqing Sheng, Ji Youn Lim, Maryann K. Watkins, Scott A. Minnich, and Carolyn J. Hovde PMCID: PMC2519267 Characterization of Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg from Turkey-Associated Sources Pravin Kaldhone, Rajesh Nayak, Aaron M. Lynne, Donna E. David, Patrick F. McDermott, Catherine M. Logue, and Steven L. Foley PMCID: PMC2519265 Improved Inactivation of Nonenveloped Enteric Viruses and Their Surrogates by a Novel Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer David R. Macinga, Syed A. Sattar, Lee-Ann Jaykus, and James W. Arbogast PMCID: PMC2519287 Transfer of Class 1 Integron-Mediated Antibiotic Resistance Genes from Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli to a Susceptible E. coli K-12 Strain in Storm Water and Bovine Feces Supakana Nagachinta and Jinru Chen PMCID: PMC2519284 Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Bartonella Species Isolated from Wild Rodents in Japan Kai Inoue, Soichi Maruyama, Hidenori Kabeya, Naoyuki Yamada, Norio Ohashi, Yukita Sato, Masayoshi Yukawa, Toshiyuki Masuzawa, Fumihiko Kawamori, Teruki Kadosaka, Nobuhiro Takada, Hiromi Fujita, and Hiroki Kawabata PMCID: PMC2519277 Molecular Epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni Populations in Dairy Cattle, Wildlife, and the Environment in a Farmland Area Patrick S. L. Kwan, Mishele Barrigas, Frederick J. Bolton, Nigel P. French, Peter Gowland, Richard Kemp, Howard Leatherbarrow, Mathew Upton, and Andrew J. Fox PMCID: PMC2519278 Characterization of Verotoxin-Encoding Phages from Escherichia coli O103:H2 Strains of Bovine and Human Origins Musafiri Karama and Carlton L. Gyles PMCID: PMC2519251 Bacillus subtilis Spores Germinate in the Chicken Gastrointestinal Tract Stephen T. Cartman, Roberto M. La Ragione, and Martin J. Woodward PMCID: PMC2519260 Environmental Microbiology Molecular Characterization of Giardia Isolates from Calves and Humans in a Region in Which Dairy Farming Has Recently Intensified Cynthia L. Winkworth, James J. Learmonth, Christoph D. Matthaei, and Colin R. Townsend PMCID: PMC2519288 Persistence of Biomarker ATP and ATP-Generating Capability in Bacterial Cells and Spores Contaminating Spacecraft Materials under Earth Conditions and in a Simulated Martian Environment Patricia Fajardo-Cavazos, Andrew C. Schuerger, and Wayne L. Nicholson PMCID: PMC2519281 Evaluation of PCR Primer Selectivity and Phylogenetic Specificity by Using Amplification of 16S rRNA Genes from Betaproteobacterial Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Environmental Samples Pilar Junier, Ok-Sun Kim, Ora Hadas, Johannes F. Imhoff, and Karl-Paul Witzel PMCID: PMC2519257 Microbial Ecology Isolation of Surfactant-Resistant Bacteria from Natural, Surfactant-Rich Marine Habitats Craig J. Plante, Kieran M. Coe, and Rebecca G. Plante PMCID: PMC2519273 Quantitative Microbial Community Analysis of Three Different Sulfidic Mine Tailing Dumps Generating Acid Mine Drainage Dagmar Kock and Axel Schippers PMCID: PMC2519280 Influence of Particle Size on Bacterial Community Structure in Aquatic Sediments as Revealed by 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis Colin R. Jackson and Andrew Q. Weeks PMCID: PMC2519289 Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis as a Tool To Determine Batch Similarity of Probiotic Cultures of Porcine Cecal Bacteria Michael E. Hume, Charles M. Scanlan, Roger B. Harvey, Kathleen Andrews, James D. Snodgrass, Armen G. Nalian, Alexandra Martynova-Van Kley, and David J. Nisbet PMCID: PMC2519268 Probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum 299v Does Not Counteract Unfavorable Phytohemagglutinin-Induced Changes in the Rat Intestinal Microbiota Gabriele Gross, Jessica Wildner, Arjan Schonewille, Jan L. W. Rademaker, Roelof van der Meer, and Johannes Snel PMCID: PMC2519263 Food Microbiology Heterologous Expression of a Position 2-Substituted (1→3)-β-d-Glucan in Lactococcus lactis María Laura Werning, María Angeles Corrales, Alicia Prieto, Pilar Fernández de Palencia, Jesús Navas, and Paloma López PMCID: PMC2519285 Invertebrate Microbiology Analysis of a Novel Insect Cell Culture Medium-Based Growth Medium for Bartonella Species Tanja Riess, Florian Dietrich, Katja V. Schmidt, Patrick O. Kaiser, Heinz Schwarz, Andrea Schäfer, and Volkhard A. J. Kempf PMCID: PMC2519262 Methods Quantification of Target Molecules Needed To Detect Microorganisms by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Catalyzed Reporter Deposition-FISH Tatsuhiko Hoshino, L. Safak Yilmaz, Daniel R. Noguera, Holger Daims, and Michael Wagner PMCID: PMC2519275 Simple Method for Plating Escherichia coli Bacteriophages Forming Very Small Plaques or No Plaques under Standard Conditions Joanna M. Łoś, Piotr Golec, Grzegorz Węgrzyn, Alicja Węgrzyn, and Marcin Łoś PMCID: PMC2519272 The Porous Surface Model, a Novel Experimental System for Online Quantitative Observation of Microbial Processes under Unsaturated Conditions Arnaud Dechesne, Dani Or, Gamze Gülez, and Barth F. Smets PMCID: PMC2519293 High-Throughput, Single-Cell Analysis of Macrophage Interactions with Fluorescently Labeled Bacillus anthracis Spores Bojana Stojkovic, Eric M. Torres, Angela M. Prouty, Hetal K. Patel, Lefan Zhuang, Theresa M. Koehler, Jimmy D. Ballard, and Steven R. Blanke PMCID: PMC2519261 Identification and Characterization of Bacillus anthracis Spores by Multiparameter Flow Cytometry William C. Schumacher, Craig A. Storozuk, Prabir K. Dutta, and Andrew J. Phipps PMCID: PMC2519269 Letter to the Editor Reorganization and Monophyly of the Genus Rickettsiella: All in Good Time Andreas Leclerque PMCID: PMC2519291 Errata Genetic Tools for Select-Agent-Compliant Manipulation of Burkholderia pseudomallei Kyoung-Hee Choi, Takehiko Mima, Yveth Casart, Drew Rholl, Ayush Kumar, Ifor R. Beacham, and Herbert P. Schweizer PMCID: PMC2519282 Corrects: Kyoung-Hee Choi, et al. Genetic Tools for Select-Agent-Compliant Manipulation of Burkholderia pseudomallei . Appl Environ Microbiol. 2008 February; 74(4): 1064–1075. Sheathless Mutant of Cyanobacterium Gloeothece sp. Strain PCC 6909 with Increased Capacity To Remove Copper Ions from Aqueous Solutions Ernesto Micheletti, Sara Pereira, Francesca Mannelli, Pedro Moradas-Ferreira, Paula Tamagnini, and Roberto De Philippis PMCID: PMC2519253 Corrects: Ernesto Micheletti, et al. Sheathless Mutant of Cyanobacterium Gloeothece sp. Strain PCC 6909 with Increased Capacity To Remove Copper Ions from Aqueous Solutions . Appl Environ Microbiol. 2008 May; 74(9): 2797–2804. |
