| | Other Issues: previous | next | latest | archiveHypothesis Spatial constraints within the chlamydial host cell inclusion predict interrupted development and persistence Alexander Hoare, Peter Timms, Patrik M Bavoil, and David P Wilson PMCID: PMC2254404 Software PrimerSNP: a web tool for whole-genome selection of allele-specific and common primers of phylogenetically-related bacterial genomic sequences Jiqiang Yao, Hong Lin, Allen Van Deynze, Harshavardhan Doddapaneni, Martha Francis, Eliana Gertrudes Macedo Lemos, and Edwin L Civerolo PMCID: PMC2579435 Research Articles Structural and functional studies of a family of Dictyostelium discoideum developmentally regulated, prestalk genes coding for small proteins Juan J Vicente, María Galardi-Castilla, Ricardo Escalante, and Leandro Sastre PMCID: PMC2257962 External quality assessment of cytomegalovirus DNA detection on dried blood spots Maria Barbi, William G MacKay, Sandro Binda, and Anton M van Loon PMCID: PMC2263050 EndoS from Streptococcus pyogenes is hydrolyzed by the cysteine proteinase SpeB and requires glutamic acid 235 and tryptophans for IgG glycan-hydrolyzing activity Maria Allhorn, Arne Olsén, and Mattias Collin PMCID: PMC2266755 AI-2-dependent gene regulation in Staphylococcus epidermidis Min Li, Amer E Villaruz, Viveka Vadyvaloo, Daniel E Sturdevant, and Michael Otto PMCID: PMC2241598 Characterization of a filamentous biofilm community established in a cellulose-fed microbial fuel cell Shun'ichi Ishii, Takefumi Shimoyama, Yasuaki Hotta, and Kazuya Watanabe PMCID: PMC2254626 Genomic, genetic and structural analysis of pyoverdine-mediated iron acquisition in the plant growth-promoting bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 Christina D Moon, Xue-Xian Zhang, Sandra Matthijs, Mathias Schäfer, Herbert Budzikiewicz, and Paul B Rainey PMCID: PMC2235872 Promoter selectivity of the Bacillus subtilis response regulator DegU, a positive regulator of the fla/che operon and sacB Kensuke Tsukahara and Mitsuo Ogura PMCID: PMC2245950 Propofol lipidic infusion promotes resistance to antifungals by reducing drug input into the fungal cell Sofia Costa-de-Oliveira, Ricardo Araujo, Ana Silva-Dias, Cidália Pina-Vaz, and Acácio Gonçalves Rodrigues PMCID: PMC2258299 Development of bioluminescent Salmonella strains for use in food safety Attila Karsi, Kevin Howe, Tasha B Kirkpatrick, Robert Wills, R Hartford Bailey, and Mark L Lawrence PMCID: PMC2257966 Hepatitis B virus genotypes and resistance mutations in patients under long term lamivudine therapy: characterization of genotype G in Brazil Marcelle Bottecchia, Francisco JD Souto, Kycia MR Ó, Marcia Amendola, Carlos E Brandão, Christian Niel, and Selma A Gomes PMCID: PMC2245951 Pleiotropic phenotypes of a Yersinia enterocolitica flhD mutant include reduced lethality in a chicken embryo model Megan K Townsend, Nathan J Carr, Jyoti G Iyer, Shelley M Horne, Penelope S Gibbs, and Birgit M Prüß PMCID: PMC2262085 Potential for luxS related signalling in marine bacteria and production of autoinducer-2 in the genus Shewanella Agnes Bodor, Bettina Elxnat, Verena Thiel, Stefan Schulz, and Irene Wagner-Döbler PMCID: PMC2233627 The human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori has a potential acetone carboxylase that enhances its ability to colonize mice Priyanka Brahmachary, Ge Wang, Stéphane L Benoit, Michael V Weinberg, Robert J Maier, and Timothy R Hoover PMCID: PMC2244623 The surface protein Shr of Streptococcus pyogenes binds heme and transfers it to the streptococcal heme-binding protein Shp Hui Zhu, Mengyao Liu, and Benfang Lei PMCID: PMC2266757 Adenylate kinase-independent thiamine triphosphate accumulation under severe energy stress in Escherichia coli Tiziana Gigliobianco, Bernard Lakaye, Alexander F Makarchikov, Pierre Wins, and Lucien Bettendorff PMCID: PMC2257965 Demonstration of IS711 transposition in Brucella ovis and Brucella pinnipedialis Alain A Ocampo-Sosa and Juan M García-Lobo PMCID: PMC2266754 Vesicle-independent extracellular release of a proinflammatory outer membrane lipoprotein in free-soluble form Maribasappa Karched, Riikka Ihalin, Kjell Eneslätt, Deyu Zhong, Jan Oscarsson, Sun N Wai, Casey Chen, and Sirkka E Asikainen PMCID: PMC2257964 Moraxella osloensis Gene Expression in the Slug Host Deroceras reticulatum Ruisheng An, Srinand Sreevatsan, and Parwinder S Grewal PMCID: PMC2266756 Temporal transcriptomic analysis of the Listeria monocytogenes EGD-e σB regulon Torsten Hain, Hamid Hossain, Som S Chatterjee, Silke Machata, Ute Volk, Sandra Wagner, Benedikt Brors, Stefan Haas, Carsten T Kuenne, Andre Billion, Sonja Otten, Jan Pane-Farre, Susanne Engelmann, and Trinad Chakraborty PMCID: PMC2248587 Ability of Lactobacillus fermentum to overcome host α-galactosidase deficiency, as evidenced by reduction of hydrogen excretion in rats consuming soya α-galacto-oligosaccharides Jean Guy LeBlanc, Florence Ledue-Clier, Martine Bensaada, Graciela Savoy de Giori, Theodora Guerekobaya, Fernando Sesma, Vincent Juillard, Sylvie Rabot, and Jean-Christophe Piard PMCID: PMC2270848 In vitro activity of telithromycin against Haemophilus influenzae at epithelial lining fluid concentrations Elena De Vecchi, Lucia Nicola, Monica Larosa, and Lorenzo Drago PMCID: PMC2270277 Mutational and transcriptional analyses of an avian pathogenic Escherichia coli ColV plasmid Jerod A Skyberg, Timothy J Johnson, and Lisa K Nolan PMCID: PMC2270849 Heme rescues a two-component system Leptospira biflexa mutant Hélène Louvel, Jean-Michel Betton, and Mathieu Picardeau PMCID: PMC2266917 Intracellular survival and vascular cell-to-cell transmission of Porphyromonas gingivalis Ling Li, Raynald Michel, Joshua Cohen, Arthur DeCarlo, and Emil Kozarov PMCID: PMC2259307 Detection of natural infection with Mycobacterium intracellulare in healthy wild-caught Chacma baboons (Papio ursinus) by ESAT-6 and CFP-10 IFN-γ ELISPOT tests following a tuberculosis outbreak Gerald K Chege, Robin M Warren, Nico C Gey van Pittius, Wendy A Burgers, Robert J Wilkinson, Enid G Shephard, and Anna-Lise Williamson PMCID: PMC2275275 Asymmetric competitive suppression between strains of dengue virus Kim M Pepin, Kalli Lambeth, and Kathryn A Hanley PMCID: PMC2259308 LcrG secretion is not required for blocking of Yops secretion in Yersinia pestis Laura D Reina, Deanna M O'Bryant, Jyl S Matson, and Matthew L Nilles PMCID: PMC2262086 Optimized molecular resolution of cross-contamination alerts in clinical mycobacteriology laboratories Ana Martín, Marta Herranz, Miguel Martínez Lirola, Rosa Fernández Fernández, INDAL-TB group, Emilio Bouza, and Darío García de Viedma PMCID: PMC2291055 Characterization and partial purification of Candida albicans Secretory IL-12 Inhibitory Factor Mingyue Wang, Pranab K Mukherjee, Jyotsna Chandra, Ali Abdul Lattif, Thomas S McCormick, and Mahmoud A Ghannoum PMCID: PMC2289826 Chlamydophila pneumoniae derived from inclusions late in the infectious cycle induce aponecrosis in human aortic endothelial cells Joseph Marino, Isabelle Stoeckli, Michael Walch, Sonja Latinovic-Golic, Hanna Sundstroem, Peter Groscurth, Urs Ziegler, and Claudia Dumrese PMCID: PMC2275732 Development of a novel system for isolating genes involved in predator-prey interactions using host independent derivatives of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus 109J Adrian A Medina, Robert M Shanks, and Daniel E Kadouri PMCID: PMC2277423 Evaluation of the new advanced 15-loci MIRU-VNTR genotyping tool in Mycobacterium tuberculosis molecular epidemiology studies Noelia Alonso-Rodríguez, Miguel Martínez-Lirola, Marta Herránz, Marisa Sanchez-Benitez, Pilar Barroso, INDAL-TB group, Emilio Bouza, and Darío García de Viedma PMCID: PMC2291470 Two variants among Haemophilus influenzae serotype b strains with distinct bcs4, hcsA and hcsB genes display differences in expression of the polysaccharide capsule Leo Schouls, Han van der Heide, Sandra Witteveen, Bert Zomer, Arie van der Ende, Marina Burger, and Corrie Schot PMCID: PMC2267795 Swarming and complex pattern formation in Paenibacillus vortex studied by imaging and tracking cells Colin J Ingham and Eshel Ben Jacob PMCID: PMC2268691 Rapid acid treatment of Escherichia coli: transcriptomic response and recovery Geetha Kannan, Jessica C Wilks, Devon M Fitzgerald, Brian D Jones, Sandra S BonDurant, and Joan L Slonczewski PMCID: PMC2270276 Study of the role of Mce3R on the transcription of mce genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis María P Santangelo, Federico C Blanco, María V Bianco, Laura I Klepp, Osvaldo Zabal, Angel A Cataldi, and Fabiana Bigi PMCID: PMC2277422 Different bacterial gene expression patterns and attenuated host immune responses are associated with the evolution of low-level vancomycin resistance during persistent methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia Benjamin P Howden, Danielle J Smith, Ashley Mansell, Paul DR Johnson, Peter B Ward, Timothy P Stinear, and John K Davies PMCID: PMC2289824 Towards a molecular understanding of symbiont function: Identification of a fungal gene for the degradation of xylan in the fungus gardens of leaf-cutting ants Morten Schiøtt, Henrik H De Fine Licht, Lene Lange, and Jacobus J Boomsma PMCID: PMC2291056 The presence of the pilus locus is a clonal property among pneumococcal invasive isolates Sandra I Aguiar, Isa Serrano, Francisco R Pinto, José Melo-Cristino, and Mario Ramirez PMCID: PMC2270847 Multi locus sequence typing of Chlamydiales: clonal groupings within the obligate intracellular bacteria Chlamydia trachomatis Yvonne Pannekoek, Giovanna Morelli, Barica Kusecek, Servaas A Morré, Jacobus M Ossewaarde, Ankie A Langerak, and Arie van der Ende PMCID: PMC2268939 Survey of bacterial diversity in chronic wounds using Pyrosequencing, DGGE, and full ribosome shotgun sequencing Scot E Dowd, Yan Sun, Patrick R Secor, Daniel D Rhoads, Benjamin M Wolcott, Garth A James, and Randall D Wolcott PMCID: PMC2289825 Diversity of the parB and repA genes of the Burkholderia cepacia complex and their utility for rapid identification of Burkholderia cenocepacia Pavel Drevinek, Adam Baldwin, Christopher G Dowson, and Eshwar Mahenthiralingam PMCID: PMC2324101 Xylitol-supplemented nutrition enhances bacterial killing and prolongs survival of rats in experimental pneumococcal sepsis Marjo Renko, Päivi Valkonen, Terhi Tapiainen, Tero Kontiokari, Pauli Mattila, Matti Knuuttila, Martti Svanberg, Maija Leinonen, Riitta Karttunen, and Matti Uhari PMCID: PMC2294124 Characterisation of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 strains isolated from humans in Argentina, Australia and New Zealand Gerardo A Leotta, Elizabeth S Miliwebsky, Isabel Chinen, Estela M Espinosa, Kristy Azzopardi, Sharon M Tennant, Roy M Robins-Browne, and Marta Rivas PMCID: PMC2277424 Aedes aegypti uses RNA interference in defense against Sindbis virus infection Corey L Campbell, Kimberly M Keene, Douglas E Brackney, Ken E Olson, Carol D Blair, Jeffrey Wilusz, and Brian D Foy PMCID: PMC2278134 Reliable identification of mycobacterial species by PCR-restriction enzyme analysis (PRA)-hsp65 in a reference laboratory and elaboration of a sequence-based extended algorithm of PRA-hsp65 patterns Erica Chimara, Lucilaine Ferrazoli, Suely Yoko Misuka Ueky, Maria Conceição Martins, Alan Mitchel Durham, Robert D Arbeit, and Sylvia Cardoso Leão PMCID: PMC2323382 Sequence variability of Campylobacter temperate bacteriophages Clifford G Clark and Lai-King Ng PMCID: PMC2323383 Novel aromatic ring-hydroxylating dioxygenase genes from coastal marine sediments of Patagonia Mariana Lozada, Juan P Riva Mercadal, Leandro D Guerrero, Walter D Di Marzio, Marcela A Ferrero, and Hebe M Dionisi PMCID: PMC2364624 par genes in Mycobacterium bovis and Mycobacterium smegmatis are arranged in an operon transcribed from "SigGC" promoters Yveth Casart, Elida Gamero, Sandra Rivera-Gutierrez, Jorge A González-y-Merchand, and Leiria Salazar PMCID: PMC2346475 Identification of critical residues in Gap3 of Streptococcus parasanguinis involved in Fap1 glycosylation, fimbrial formation and in vitro adhesion Zhixiang Peng, Paula Fives-Taylor, Teresa Ruiz, Meixian Zhou, Baiming Sun, Qiang Chen, and Hui Wu PMCID: PMC2335109 Transcription of hexose transporters of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is affected by change in oxygen provision Eija Rintala, Marilyn G Wiebe, Anu Tamminen, Laura Ruohonen, and Merja Penttilä PMCID: PMC2324102 Recovery of a Burkholderia thailandensis-like isolate from an Australian water source Jay E Gee, Mindy B Glass, Ryan T Novak, Daniel Gal, Mark J Mayo, Arnold G Steigerwalt, Patricia P Wilkins, and Bart J Currie PMCID: PMC2329625 OppA, the ecto-ATPase of Mycoplasma hominis induces ATP release and cell death in HeLa cells Miriam Hopfe and Birgit Henrich PMCID: PMC2323007 Diversity and seasonal dynamics of bacterial community in indoor environment Helena Rintala, Miia Pitkäranta, Mika Toivola, Lars Paulin, and Aino Nevalainen PMCID: PMC2323381 Molecular and functional characterization of a Rho GDP dissociation inhibitor in the filamentous fungus Tuber borchii Michele Menotta, Antonella Amicucci, Giorgio Basili, Emanuela Polidori, Vilberto Stocchi, and Francisco Rivero PMCID: PMC2362126 Epiphytic bacterial community composition on two common submerged macrophytes in brackish water and freshwater Melanie Hempel, Maja Blume, Irmgard Blindow, and Elisabeth M Gross PMCID: PMC2386815 Relationships between emm and multilocus sequence types within a global collection of Streptococcus pyogenes Debra E Bessen, Karen F McGregor, and Adrian M Whatmore PMCID: PMC2359762 Limited functional conservation of a global regulator among related bacterial genera: Lrp in Escherichia, Proteus and Vibrio Robert E Lintner, Pankaj K Mishra, Poonam Srivastava, Betsy M Martinez-Vaz, Arkady B Khodursky, and Robert M Blumenthal PMCID: PMC2374795 Genome-wide screen for temperature-regulated genes of the obligate intracellular bacterium, Rickettsia typhi Sheila M Dreher-Lesnick, Shane M Ceraul, M Sayeedur Rahman, and Abdu F Azad PMCID: PMC2335108 Assessment of CcpA-mediated catabolite control of gene expression in Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 Menno van der Voort, Oscar P Kuipers, Girbe Buist, Willem M de Vos, and Tjakko Abee PMCID: PMC2358912 Genotyping of Chlamydophila psittaci using a new DNA microarray assay based on sequence analysis of ompA genes Konrad Sachse, Karine Laroucau, Helmut Hotzel, Evelyn Schubert, Ralf Ehricht, and Peter Slickers PMCID: PMC2362127 Virulence studies of Enterobacter sakazakii isolates associated with a neonatal intensive care unit outbreak Stacy Townsend, Edward Hurrell, and Stephen Forsythe PMCID: PMC2386127 The influence of in vitro fitness defects on pneumococcal ability to colonize and to cause invasive disease Jenny Fernebro, Christel Blomberg, Eva Morfeldt, Hans Wolf-Watz, Staffan Normark, and Birgitta Henriques Normark PMCID: PMC2375889 Distribution of transferrin binding protein B gene (tbpB) variants among Neisseria species Odile B Harrison, Martin CJ Maiden, and Bachra Rokbi PMCID: PMC2386816 Identification and molecular characterisation of a fibrinogen binding protein from Streptococcus iniae. Justice CF Baiano, Reiny A Tumbol, Aarti Umapathy, and Andrew C Barnes PMCID: PMC2387161 Cell division in Escherichia coli cultures monitored at single cell resolution Johanna Roostalu, Arvi Jõers, Hannes Luidalepp, Niilo Kaldalu, and Tanel Tenson PMCID: PMC2377270 Transcription of the extended hyp-operon in Nostoc sp. strain PCC 7120 Åsa Agervald, Karin Stensjö, Marie Holmqvist, and Peter Lindblad PMCID: PMC2408588 Lsa21, a novel leptospiral protein binding adhesive matrix molecules and present during human infection Marina V Atzingen, Angela S Barbosa, Thales De Brito, Silvio A Vasconcellos, Zenáide M de Morais, Dirce MC Lima, Patricia AE Abreu, and Ana LTO Nascimento PMCID: PMC2386478 Identification of new genes in Sinorhizobium meliloti using the Genome Sequencer FLX system Chunhong Mao, Clive Evans, Roderick V Jensen, and Bruno WS Sobral PMCID: PMC2396165 Performance of a 70-mer oligonucleotide microarray for genotyping of Campylobacter jejuni Sandra Rodin, Anders F Andersson, Valtteri Wirta, Lena Eriksson, Marianne Ljungström, Britta Björkholm, Hans Lindmark, and Lars Engstrand PMCID: PMC2396164 Sequence diversity in the A domain of Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin-binding protein A Anthony Loughman, Tara Sweeney, Fiona M Keane, Giampiero Pietrocola, Pietro Speziale, and Timothy J Foster PMCID: PMC2390562 Characterization of two heparan sulphate-binding sites in the mycobacterial adhesin Hlp Michelle I Portugal, Adriane R Todeschini, Cristiana S de Lima, Carlos AM Silva, Ronaldo Mohana-Borges, Tom HM Ottenhoff, Lucia Mendonça-Previato, Jose O Previato, and Maria CV Pessolani PMCID: PMC2409343 Complete genome sequence of Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum strain SS14 determined with oligonucleotide arrays Petra Matějková, Michal Strouhal, David Šmajs, Steven J Norris, Timothy Palzkill, Joseph F Petrosino, Erica Sodergren, Jason E Norton, Jaz Singh, Todd A Richmond, Michael N Molla, Thomas J Albert, and George M Weinstock PMCID: PMC2408589 Dxr is essential in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and fosmidomycin resistance is due to a lack of uptake Amanda C Brown and Tanya Parish PMCID: PMC2409342 Human methanogen diversity and incidence in healthy and diseased colonic groups using mcrA gene analysis Pauline D Scanlan, Fergus Shanahan, and Julian R Marchesi PMCID: PMC2408590 Functional comparison of plasma-membrane Na+/H+ antiporters from two pathogenic Candida species Yannick Krauke and Hana Sychrova PMCID: PMC2424070 Prevalence of A2143G mutation of H. pylori-23S rRNA in Chinese subjects with and without clarithromycin use history Zhuoqi Liu, Jing Shen, Lian Zhang, Lin Shen, Qiang Li, Baozhen Zhang, Jing Zhou, Liankun Gu, Guoshuang Feng, Junling Ma, Wei-Cheng You, and Dajun Deng PMCID: PMC2427034 Assessment of decorin-binding protein A to the infectivity of Borrelia burgdorferi in the murine models of needle and tick infection Jon S Blevins, Kayla E Hagman, and Michael V Norgard PMCID: PMC2430964 Variation in expression of HMW1 and HMW2 adhesins in invasive nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae isolates Maria Giufrè, Alessandra Carattoli, Rita Cardines, Paola Mastrantonio, and Marina Cerquetti PMCID: PMC2424069 The GraRS regulatory system controls Staphylococcus aureus susceptibility to antimicrobial host defenses Dirk Kraus, Silvia Herbert, Sascha A Kristian, Arya Khosravi, Victor Nizet, Friedrich Götz, and Andreas Peschel PMCID: PMC2430206 Rapid identification of Brucella isolates to the species level by real time PCR based single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) analysis Krishna K Gopaul, Mark S Koylass, Catherine J Smith, and Adrian M Whatmore PMCID: PMC2442087 Analysis of outer membrane vesicle associated proteins isolated from the plant pathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris Vishaldeep K Sidhu, Frank-Jörg Vorhölter, Karsten Niehaus, and Steven A Watt PMCID: PMC2438364 Formate hydrogenlyase in the hyperthermophilic archaeon, Thermococcus litoralis Mária Takács, András Tóth, Balázs Bogos, András Varga, Gábor Rákhely, and Kornél L Kovács PMCID: PMC2432063 Genetic characterization of clinical and agri-food isolates of multi drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg from Canada Ashleigh K Andrysiak, Adam B Olson, Dobryan M Tracz, Kathryn Dore, Rebecca Irwin, Lai-King Ng, Matthew W Gilmour, and Canadian Integrated Program for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance Collaborative PMCID: PMC2438365 Antibodies from women urogenitally infected with C. trachomatis predominantly recognized the plasmid protein pgp3 in a conformation-dependent manner Zhongyu Li, Youmin Zhong, Lei Lei, Yimou Wu, Shiping Wang, and Guangming Zhong PMCID: PMC2432062 The mycobacterial DNA-binding protein 1 (MDP1) from Mycobacterium bovis BCG influences various growth characteristics Astrid Lewin, Daniela Baus, Elisabeth Kamal, Fabienne Bon, Ralph Kunisch, Sven Maurischat, Michaela Adonopoulou, and Katharina Eich PMCID: PMC2453136 The interplay of StyR and IHF regulates substrate-dependent induction and carbon catabolite repression of styrene catabolism genes in Pseudomonas fluorescens ST Giordano Rampioni, Livia Leoni, Biancamaria Pietrangeli, and Elisabetta Zennaro PMCID: PMC2442086 Polymerase chain reaction is superior to serology for the diagnosis of acute Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection and reveals a high rate of persistent infection Anna C Nilsson, Per Björkman, and Kenneth Persson PMCID: PMC2446399 Sequencing and expression of two arsenic resistance operons with different functions in the highly arsenic-resistant strain Ochrobactrum tritici SCII24T Rita Branco, Ana-Paula Chung, and Paula V Morais PMCID: PMC2440759 Phagocytosis of Aspergillus fumigatus conidia by primary nasal epithelial cells in vitro Françoise Botterel, Karine Gross, Oumaïma Ibrahim-Granet, Khaled Khoufache, Virginie Escabasse, André Coste, Catherine Cordonnier, Estelle Escudier, and Stéphane Bretagne PMCID: PMC2440385 LuxS-independent formation of AI-2 from ribulose-5-phosphate Timothy J Tavender, Nigel M Halliday, Kim R Hardie, and Klaus Winzer PMCID: PMC2443158 A two-genome microarray for the rice pathogens Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae and X. oryzae pv. oryzicola and its use in the discovery of a difference in their regulation of hrp genes Young-Su Seo, Malinee Sriariyanun, Li Wang, Janice Pfeiff, Jirapa Phetsom, Ye Lin, Ki-Hong Jung, Hui Hsien Chou, Adam Bogdanove, and Pamela Ronald PMCID: PMC2474671 Transcriptional analysis of Mycobacterium fortuitum cultures upon hydrogen peroxide treatment using the novel standard rrnA-P1 María Carmen Núñez, María Carmen Menéndez, María José Rebollo, and María J García PMCID: PMC2443159 Predicting transcriptional regulatory interactions with artificial neural networks applied to E. coli multidrug resistance efflux pumps Diogo FT Veiga, Fábio FR Vicente, Marisa F Nicolás, and Ana Tereza R Vasconcelos PMCID: PMC2453137 Genomic and proteomic analysis of the Alkali-Tolerance Response (AlTR) in Listeria monocytogenes 10403S Efstathios S Giotis, Arunachalam Muthaiyan, Ian S Blair, Brian J Wilkinson, and David A McDowell PMCID: PMC2443805 High genetic diversity among Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex strains from Sierra Leone Susanne Homolka, Erik Post, Barbara Oberhauser, Abu Garawani George, Lars Westman, Foday Dafae, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes, and Stefan Niemann PMCID: PMC2447842 Automated discovery and phylogenetic analysis of new toxin-antitoxin systems Julien Guglielmini, Cédric Szpirer, and Michel C Milinkovitch PMCID: PMC2446400 A laminar flow model of aerosol survival of epidemic and non-epidemic strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolated from people with cystic fibrosis Ian J Clifton, Louise A Fletcher, Clive B Beggs, Miles Denton, and Daniel G Peckham PMCID: PMC2443368 Characterization of a restriction modification system from the commensal Escherichia coli strain A0 34/86 (O83:K24:H31) Marie Weiserová and Junichi Ryu PMCID: PMC2481252 Cytokine responses in primary chicken embryo intestinal cells infected with Campylobacter jejuni strains of human and chicken origin and the expression of bacterial virulence-associated genes Yi-Ping Li, Hanne Ingmer, Mogens Madsen, and Dang D Bang PMCID: PMC2443369 Bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex are cyanogenic under biofilm and colonial growth conditions Ben Ryall, Xiaoyun Lee, James EA Zlosnik, Saiko Hoshino, and Huw D Williams PMCID: PMC2504479 Dictyostelium transcriptional responses to Pseudomonas aeruginosa: common and specific effects from PAO1 and PA14 strains Sergio Carilla-Latorre, Javier Calvo-Garrido, Gareth Bloomfield, Jason Skelton, Robert R Kay, Alasdair Ivens, José L Martinez, and Ricardo Escalante PMCID: PMC2474670 Molecular analysis of the emergence of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus E Fidelma Boyd, Ana Luisa V Cohen, Lynn M Naughton, David W Ussery, Tim T Binnewies, O Colin Stine, and Michelle A Parent PMCID: PMC2491623 Lethal photosensitization of wound-associated microbes using indocyanine green and near-infrared light Ghada S Omar, Michael Wilson, and Sean P Nair PMCID: PMC2516521 Molecular epidemiology and pathogenic potential of underdiagnosed human papillomavirus types Stefano Menzo, Andrea Ciavattini, Patrizia Bagnarelli, Katia Marinelli, Stefano Sisti, and Massimo Clementi PMCID: PMC2491624 Gene disruption of the DNA topoisomerase IB small subunit induces a non-viable phenotype in the hemoflagellate Leishmania major Rafael Balaña-Fouce, Carlos García-Estrada, Yolanda Pérez-Pertejo, and Rosa M Reguera PMCID: PMC2492870 Natriuretic peptides modify Pseudomonas fluorescens cytotoxicity by regulating cyclic nucleotides and modifying LPS structure Wilfried Veron, Nicole Orange, Marc GJ Feuilloley, and Olivier Lesouhaitier PMCID: PMC2488351 Development of methods for the genetic manipulation of Flavobacterium columnare Andrew M Staroscik, David W Hunnicutt, Kate E Archibald, and David R Nelson PMCID: PMC2483708 Processing of predicted substrates of fungal Kex2 proteinases from Candida albicans, C. glabrata, Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pichia pastoris Oliver Bader, Yannick Krauke, and Bernhard Hube PMCID: PMC2515848 Specific genetic markers for detecting subtypes of dengue virus serotype-2 in isolates from the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz, Mexico Catalina E Gardella-Garcia, Gerardo Perez-Ramirez, Joel Navarrete-Espinosa, Alejandro Cisneros, Fabiola Jimenez-Rojas, Luis R Ramírez-Palacios, Rocio Rosado-Leon, Minerva Camacho-Nuez, and Maria de L Munoz PMCID: PMC2515156 A dengue receptor as possible genetic marker of vector competence in Aedes aegypti Ricardo F Mercado-Curiel, William C Black, IV, and Maria de L Muñoz PMCID: PMC2488350 Presence of Helicobacter pylori in a Mexican Pre-Columbian Mummy Gonzalo Castillo-Rojas, Marco A Cerbón, and Yolanda López-Vidal PMCID: PMC2483284 Tuberculosis vaccine strain Mycobacterium bovis BCG Russia is a natural recA mutant Peter M Keller, Erik C Böttger, and Peter Sander PMCID: PMC2483709 Enzymatic, immunological and phylogenetic characterization of Brucella suis urease Araceli Contreras-Rodriguez, Jose Quiroz-Limon, Ana M Martins, Humberto Peralta, Eric Avila-Calderon, Nammalwar Sriranganathan, Stephen M Boyle, and Ahide Lopez-Merino PMCID: PMC2492869 A multicopy suppressor screening approach as a means to identify antibiotic resistance determinant candidates in Yersinia pestis Karen L Stirrett, Julian A Ferreras, Sebastian M Rossi, Richard L Moy, Fabio V Fonseca, and Luis EN Quadri PMCID: PMC2500020 Morphology and molecular phylogeny of a marine interstitial tetraflagellate with putative endosymbionts: Auranticordis quadriverberis n. gen. et sp. (Cercozoa) Chitchai Chantangsi, Heather J Esson, and Brian S Leander PMCID: PMC2500021 Differential expression of lipoprotein genes in Mycoplasma pneumoniae after contact with human lung epithelial cells, and under oxidative and acidic stress Katri M Hallamaa, Sen-Lin Tang, Nino Ficorilli, and Glenn F Browning PMCID: PMC2515320 Evaluation of the bacterial diversity in the feces of cattle using 16S rDNA bacterial tag-encoded FLX amplicon pyrosequencing (bTEFAP) Scot E Dowd, Todd R Callaway, Randall D Wolcott, Yan Sun, Trevor McKeehan, Robert G Hagevoort, and Thomas S Edrington PMCID: PMC2515157 Identification of the genetic determinants of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium that may regulate the expression of the type 1 fimbriae in response to solid agar and static broth culture conditions Yin-Ching Chuang, Ke-Chuan Wang, Yi-Tseng Chen, Chia-Huei Yang, Shang-Chin Men, Chia-Chun Fan, Li-Huan Chang, and Kuang-Sheng Yeh PMCID: PMC2527010 Characterization of new IS elements and studies of their dispersion in two subspecies of Leifsonia xyli Marcelo M Zerillo, Marie-Anne Van Sluys, Luis Eduardo A Camargo, and Claudia B Monteiro-Vitorello PMCID: PMC2516522 Spx mediates oxidative stress regulation of the methionine sulfoxide reductases operon in Bacillus subtilis CongHui You, Agnieszka Sekowska, Olivera Francetic, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete, YiPing Wang, and Antoine Danchin PMCID: PMC2518928 Polymorphism, genetic exchange and intragenic recombination of the aureolysin gene among Staphylococcus aureus strains Artur J Sabat, Benedykt Wladyka, Klaudia Kosowska-Shick, Hajo Grundmann, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Julia Kowal, Peter C Appelbaum, Adam Dubin, and Waleria Hryniewicz PMCID: PMC2515849 Short tandem repeat sequences in the Mycoplasma genitalium genome and their use in a multilocus genotyping system Liang Ma, Stephanie Taylor, Jørgen S Jensen, Leann Myers, Rebecca Lillis, and David H Martin PMCID: PMC2515158 Reverse transcriptase-PCR differential display analysis of meningococcal transcripts during infection of human cells: Up-regulation of priA and its role in intracellular replication Adelfia Talà, Mario De Stefano, Cecilia Bucci, and Pietro Alifano PMCID: PMC2527323 Eradication of Salmonella Typhimurium infection in a murine model of typhoid fever with the combination of probiotic Lactobacillus fermentum ME-3 and ofloxacin Kai Truusalu, Raik-Hiio Mikelsaar, Paul Naaber, Tõnis Karki, Tiiu Kullisaar, Mihkel Zilmer, and Marika Mikelsaar PMCID: PMC2518159 Altered expression of cell cycle and apoptotic proteins in chronic hepatitis C virus infection Saira Sarfraz, Saeed Hamid, Anwar Siddiqui, Snawar Hussain, Shahid Pervez, and Graeme Alexander PMCID: PMC2518161 Species distribution and in vitro antifungal susceptibility of oral yeast isolates from Tanzanian HIV-infected patients with primary and recurrent oropharyngeal candidiasis Omar JM Hamza, Mecky IN Matee, Mainen J Moshi, Elison NM Simon, Ferdinand Mugusi, Frans HM Mikx, Wim H van Palenstein Helderman, Antonius JMM Rijs, André JAM van der Ven, and Paul E Verweij PMCID: PMC2518160 CCL5 regulation of mucosal chlamydial immunity and infection Senthilkumar K Sakthivel, Udai P Singh, Shailesh Singh, Dennis D Taub, Joseph U Igietseme, and James W Lillard, Jr PMCID: PMC2543025 Detection of quorum-sensing-related molecules in Vibrio scophthalmi Cristina García-Aljaro, Leo Eberl, Kathrin Riedel, and Anicet R Blanch PMCID: PMC2527009 Inducible Siphoviruses in superficial and deep tissue isolates of Propionibacterium acnes Rolf Lood, Matthias Mörgelin, Anna Holmberg, Magnus Rasmussen, and Mattias Collin PMCID: PMC2533672 Recombination and selectional forces in cyanopeptolin NRPS operons from highly similar, but geographically remote Planktothrix strains Trine B Rounge, Thomas Rohrlack, Tom Kristensen, and Kjetill S Jakobsen PMCID: PMC2533009 The PagN protein of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is an adhesin and invasin Matthew A Lambert and Stephen GJ Smith PMCID: PMC2553418 Staphylococcus epidermidis: A differential trait of the fecal microbiota of breast-fed infants Esther Jiménez, Susana Delgado, Antonio Maldonado, Rebeca Arroyo, Mar Albújar, Natalia García, Manel Jariod, Leonides Fernández, Adolfo Gómez, and Juan M Rodríguez PMCID: PMC2551609 Characterization of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli (AEEC) isolated from pigs and sheep Erik Fröhlicher, Gladys Krause, Claudio Zweifel, Lothar Beutin, and Roger Stephan PMCID: PMC2571105 A novel receptor – ligand pathway for entry of Francisella tularensis in monocyte-like THP-1 cells: interaction between surface nucleolin and bacterial elongation factor Tu Monique Barel, Ara G Hovanessian, Karin Meibom, Jean-Paul Briand, Marion Dupuis, and Alain Charbit PMCID: PMC2551611 Allele distribution and genetic diversity of VNTR loci in Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis isolates from different sources Seongbeom Cho, Thomas S Whittam, David J Boxrud, Joanne M Bartkus, and A Mahdi Saeed PMCID: PMC2561042 Functional analyses reveal an important role for tyrosine residues in the staphylococcal multidrug efflux protein QacA Jingqin Wu, Karl A Hassan, Ronald A Skurray, and Melissa H Brown PMCID: PMC2553796 Predictive analysis of transmissible quinolone resistance indicates Stenotrophomonas maltophilia as a potential source of a novel family of Qnr determinants María B Sánchez, Alvaro Hernández, José M Rodríguez-Martínez, Luis Martínez-Martínez, and José L Martínez PMCID: PMC2556341 Cinnamaldehyde and cinnamaldehyde derivatives reduce virulence in Vibrio spp. by decreasing the DNA-binding activity of the quorum sensing response regulator LuxR Gilles Brackman, Tom Defoirdt, Carol Miyamoto, Peter Bossier, Serge Van Calenbergh, Hans Nelis, and Tom Coenye PMCID: PMC2551610 Comparative analysis of emm type pattern of Group A Streptococcus throat and skin isolates from India and their association with closely related SIC, a streptococcal virulence factor Vivek Sagar, Rajesh Kumar, Nirmal K Ganguly, and Anuradha Chakraborti PMCID: PMC2556678 Altered cellular infiltration and cytokine levels during early Mycobacterium tuberculosis sigC mutant infection are associated with late-stage disease attenuation and milder immunopathology in mice Khairul-Bariah Abdul-Majid, Lan H Ly, Paul J Converse, Deborah E Geiman, David N McMurray, and William R Bishai PMCID: PMC2564956 Detection of Francisella tularensis in ticks and identification of their genotypes using multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis Fang Zhang, Wei Liu, Xiao-Ming Wu, Zhong-Tao Xin, Qiu-Min Zhao, Hong Yang, and Wu-Chun Cao PMCID: PMC2567983 Role of IFN-gamma and IL-6 in a protective immune response to Yersinia enterocolitica in mice Gianluca Matteoli, Edda Fahl, Philipp Warnke, Steffen Müller, Michael Bonin, Ingo B Autenrieth, and Erwin Bohn PMCID: PMC2556677 Lack of genomic evidence of AI-2 receptors suggests a non-quorum sensing role for luxS in most bacteria Fabio Rezzonico and Brion Duffy PMCID: PMC2561040 Hfq regulates the expression of the thermostable direct hemolysin gene in Vibrio parahaemolyticus Masayuki Nakano, Akira Takahashi, Zehong Su, Nagakatsu Harada, Kazuaki Mawatari, and Yutaka Nakaya PMCID: PMC2561041 The stress responsive and morphologically regulated hsp90 gene from Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is essential to cell viability André M Nicola, Rosângela V Andrade, Alessandra S Dantas, Patrícia A Andrade, Fabrício BM Arraes, Larissa Fernandes, Ildinete Silva-Pereira, and Maria Sueli S Felipe PMCID: PMC2556680 Passive administration of monoclonal antibodies to Anthrolysin O prolong survival in mice lethally infected with Bacillus anthracis Antonio Nakouzi, Johanna Rivera, Richard F Rest, and Arturo Casadevall PMCID: PMC2559844 Structural analysis of FAD synthetase from Corynebacterium ammoniagenes Susana Frago, Marta Martínez-Júlvez, Ana Serrano, and Milagros Medina PMCID: PMC2573891 Development of a luciferase-based reporter system to monitor Bifidobacterium breve UCC2003 persistence in mice Michelle Cronin, Roy D Sleator, Colin Hill, Gerald F Fitzgerald, and Douwe van Sinderen PMCID: PMC2564955 Bordetella pertussis isolates in Finland: Serotype and fimbrial expression Eriikka Heikkinen, Dorothy K Xing, Rose-Marie Ölander, Jukka Hytönen, Matti K Viljanen, Jussi Mertsola, and Qiushui He PMCID: PMC2562373 Identification and characterization of domains responsible for self-assembly and cell wall binding of the surface layer protein of Lactobacillus brevis ATCC 8287 Silja Åvall-Jääskeläinen, Ulla Hynönen, Nicola Ilk, Dietmar Pum, Uwe B Sleytr, and Airi Palva PMCID: PMC2571106 Regulatory and structural properties differentiating the chromosomal and the bacteriophage-associated Escherichia coli O157:H7 Cu, Zn Superoxide Dismutases Melania D'Orazio, Raffaella Scotti, Laura Nicolini, Laura Cervoni, Giuseppe Rotilio, Andrea Battistoni, and Roberta Gabbianelli PMCID: PMC2569942 The Mycoplasma pneumoniae MPN229 gene encodes a protein that selectively binds single-stranded DNA and stimulates Recombinase A-mediated DNA strand exchange Marcel Sluijter, Theo Hoogenboezem, Nico G Hartwig, and Cornelis Vink PMCID: PMC2572620 Motility is required for the competitive fitness of entomopathogenic Photorhabdus luminescens during insect infection Catherine A Easom and David J Clarke PMCID: PMC2569044 Cloning of the cytochrome p450 reductase (crtR) gene and its involvement in the astaxanthin biosynthesis of Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous Jennifer Alcaíno, Salvador Barahona, Marisela Carmona, Carla Lozano, Andrés Marcoleta, Mauricio Niklitschek, Dionisia Sepúlveda, Marcelo Baeza, and Víctor Cifuentes PMCID: PMC2575211 Determination of the mimic epitope of the M-like protein adhesin in swine Streptococcus equi subsp. zooepidemicus Hongjie Fan, Yongshan Wang, Fuyu Tang, and Chengping Lu PMCID: PMC2567331 Microbiological and 16S rRNA analysis of sulphite-reducing clostridia from river sediments in central Italy Stefania Marcheggiani, Marcello Iaconelli, Annamaria D'angelo, Elio Pierdominici, Giuseppina La Rosa, Michele Muscillo, Michele Equestre, and Laura Mancini PMCID: PMC2569943 Global transcriptional response to mammalian temperature provides new insight into Francisella tularensis pathogenesis Joseph Horzempa, Paul E Carlson, Jr, Dawn M O'Dee, Robert MQ Shanks, and Gerard J Nau PMCID: PMC2576331 Characterization of biofilm matrix, degradation by DNase treatment and evidence of capsule downregulation in Streptococcus pneumoniae clinical isolates Luanne Hall-Stoodley, Laura Nistico, Karthik Sambanthamoorthy, Bethany Dice, Duc Nguyen, William J Mershon, Candice Johnson, Fen Ze Hu, Paul Stoodley, Garth D Ehrlich, and J Christopher Post PMCID: PMC2600794 Sulphur metabolism and cellulase gene expression are connected processes in the filamentous fungus Hypocrea jecorina (anamorph Trichoderma reesei) Gabriela Gremel, Marcel Dorrer, and Monika Schmoll PMCID: PMC2584116 Concurrent genotyping of Helicobacter pylori virulence genes and human cytokine SNP sites using whole genome amplified DNA derived from minute amounts of gastric biopsy specimen DNA Anna Ryberg, Kurt Borch, Yi-Qian Sun, and Hans-Jürg Monstein PMCID: PMC2577186 Enhancing bile tolerance improves survival and persistence of Bifidobacterium and Lactococcus in the murine gastrointestinal tract Debbie Watson, Roy D Sleator, Colin Hill, and Cormac GM Gahan PMCID: PMC2577680 Development and application of the active surveillance of pathogens microarray to monitor bacterial gene flux Richard A Stabler, Lisa F Dawson, Petra CF Oyston, Richard W Titball, Jim Wade, Jason Hinds, Adam A Witney, and Brendan W Wren PMCID: PMC2607285 Rapid screening of Salmonella enterica serovars Enteritidis, Hadar, Heidelberg and Typhimurium using a serologically-correlative allelotyping PCR targeting the O and H antigen alleles Yang Hong, Tongrui Liu, Margie D Lee, Charles L Hofacre, Marie Maier, David G White, Sherry Ayers, Lihua Wang, Roy Berghaus, and John J Maurer PMCID: PMC2577679 Transcriptional regulation of subclass 5b fimbriae Maria D Bodero, Elizabeth A Harden, and George P Munson PMCID: PMC2579436 Acid stress damage of DNA is prevented by Dps binding in Escherichia coli O157:H7 Kwang Cheol Jeong, Kai Foong Hung, David J Baumler, Jeffrey J Byrd, and Charles W Kaspar PMCID: PMC2588596 A comparison of cecal colonization of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhimurium in white leghorn chicks and Salmonella-resistant mice Christine P Sivula, Lydia M Bogomolnaya, and Helene L Andrews-Polymenis PMCID: PMC2596157 The YvfTU Two-component System is involved in plcR expression in Bacillus cereus Julien Brillard, Kim Susanna, Caroline Michaud, Claire Dargaignaratz, Michel Gohar, Christina Nielsen-Leroux, Nalini Ramarao, Anne-Brit Kolstø, Christophe Nguyen-the, Didier Lereclus, and Véronique Broussolle PMCID: PMC2588459 Biofilm development by potentially pathogenic non-pigmented rapidly growing mycobacteria Jaime Esteban, Nieves Z Martín-de-Hijas, Teemu J Kinnari, Guillermo Ayala, Ricardo Fernández-Roblas, and Ignacio Gadea PMCID: PMC2588597 The lantibiotic mersacidin is a strong inducer of the cell wall stress response of Staphylococcus aureus Peter Sass, Andrea Jansen, Christiane Szekat, Vera Sass, Hans-Georg Sahl, and Gabriele Bierbaum PMCID: PMC2592248 Phenotypic screening, transcriptional profiling, and comparative genomic analysis of an invasive and non-invasive strain of Candida albicans Sascha Thewes, Gary P Moran, Beatrice B Magee, Martin Schaller, Derek J Sullivan, and Bernhard Hube PMCID: PMC2579918 Functional analysis of the group A streptococcal luxS/AI-2 system in metabolism, adaptation to stress and interaction with host cells Maria Siller, Rajendra P Janapatla, Zaid A Pirzada, Christine Hassler, Daniela Zinkl, and Emmanuelle Charpentier PMCID: PMC2603038 Involvement of a phospholipase C in the hemolytic activity of a clinical strain of Pseudomonas fluorescens Gaelle Rossignol, Annabelle Merieau, Josette Guerillon, Wilfried Veron, Olivier Lesouhaitier, Marc GJ Feuilloley, and Nicole Orange PMCID: PMC2613904 Chlamydia trachomatis responds to heat shock, penicillin induced persistence, and IFN-gamma persistence by altering levels of the extracytoplasmic stress response protease HtrA Wilhelmina M Huston, Christina Theodoropoulos, Sarah A Mathews, and Peter Timms PMCID: PMC2585093 Genetic diversity of clinical isolates of Bacillus cereus using multilocus sequence typing Alex R Hoffmaster, Ryan T Novak, Chung K Marston, Jay E Gee, Leta Helsel, James M Pruckler, and Patricia P Wilkins PMCID: PMC2585095 VNTR analysis reveals unexpected genetic diversity within Mycoplasma agalactiae, the main causative agent of contagious agalactia Laura McAuliffe, Colin P Churchward, Joanna R Lawes, Guido Loria, Roger D Ayling, and Robin AJ Nicholas PMCID: PMC2585094 Immunization against Clostridium perfringens cells elicits protection against Clostridium tetani in mouse model: identification of cross-reactive proteins using proteomic methodologies Syed Imteyaz Alam, Sunita Bansod, and Lokendra Singh PMCID: PMC2621373 Comparative analysis of selected methods for the assessment of antimicrobial and membrane-permeabilizing activity: a case study for lactoferricin derived peptides Susana Sánchez-Gómez, Marta Lamata, José Leiva, Sylvie E Blondelle, Roman Jerala, Jörg Andrä, Klaus Brandenburg, Karl Lohner, Ignacio Moriyón, and Guillermo Martínez-de-Tejada PMCID: PMC2615442 Isolation of the phe-operon from G. stearothermophilus comprising the phenol degradative meta-pathway genes and a novel transcriptional regulator Bastian Omokoko, Uwe K Jäntges, Martin Zimmermann, Monika Reiss, and Winfried Hartmeier PMCID: PMC2590616 Seasonality and outbreak of a predominant Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 1 clone from The Gambia: Expansion of ST217 hypervirulent clonal complex in West Africa Martin Antonio, Ishrat Hakeem, Timothy Awine, Ousman Secka, Kawsu Sankareh, David Nsekpong, George Lahai, Abiodun Akisanya, Uzochukwu Egere, Godwin Enwere, Syed MA Zaman, Philip C Hill, Tumani Corrah, Felicity Cutts, Brian M Greenwood, and Richard A Adegbola PMCID: PMC2587476 Structural Prediction and Mutational Analysis of the Gifsy-1 Xis Protein Asa Flanigan and Jeffrey Gardner PMCID: PMC2603039 Characterization of Mce4A protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis: role in invasion and survival Neeraj Kumar Saini, Monika Sharma, Amita Chandolia, Rashmi Pasricha, Vani Brahmachari, and Mridula Bose PMCID: PMC2596156 Expression of the pstS gene of Streptomyces lividans is regulated by the carbon source and is partially independent of the PhoP regulator Ana Esteban, Margarita Díaz, Ana Yepes, and Ramón I Santamaría PMCID: PMC2605767 PCR-based rapid genotyping of Stenotrophomonas maltophilia isolates Emanuela Roscetto, Francesco Rocco, M Stella Carlomagno, Mariassunta Casalino, Bianca Colonna, Raffaele Zarrilli, and Pier Paolo Di Nocera PMCID: PMC2613905 Comparative analysis of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis isolates from cattle, sheep and goats by short sequence repeat and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing Iker Sevilla, Lingling Li, Alongkorn Amonsin, Joseba M Garrido, Maria V Geijo, Vivek Kapur, and Ramón A Juste PMCID: PMC2605457 Proinflammatory effect in whole blood by free soluble bacterial components released from planktonic and biofilm cells Jan Oscarsson, Maribasappa Karched, Bernard Thay, Casey Chen, and Sirkka Asikainen PMCID: PMC2612679 The expression and antigenicity of a truncated spike-nucleocapsid fusion protein of severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus Feng Mu, Dongsheng Niu, Jingsong Mu, Bo He, Weiguo Han, Baoxing Fan, Shengyong Huang, Yan Qiu, Bo You, and Weijun Chen PMCID: PMC2613400 Global transcriptional responses of Pseudomonas syringae DC3000 to changes in iron bioavailability in vitro Philip A Bronstein, Melanie J Filiatrault, Christopher R Myers, Michael Rutzke, David J Schneider, and Samuel W Cartinhour PMCID: PMC2613906 Heat shock cognate protein 70 contributes to Brucella invasion into trophoblast giant cells that cause infectious abortion Kenta Watanabe, Masato Tachibana, Satoshi Tanaka, Hidefumi Furuoka, Motohiro Horiuchi, Hiroshi Suzuki, and Masahisa Watarai PMCID: PMC2607286 Uptake and intra-inclusion accumulation of exogenous immunoglobulin by Chlamydia-infected cells David V Pollack, Nancy L Croteau, and Elizabeth S Stuart PMCID: PMC2621372 Insecticidal genes of Yersinia spp.: taxonomical distribution, contribution to toxicity towards Manduca sexta and Galleria mellonella, and evolution Thilo M Fuchs, Geraldine Bresolin, Lisa Marcinowski, Joachim Schachtner, and Siegfried Scherer PMCID: PMC2613401 Acinetobacter baumannii invades epithelial cells and outer membrane protein A mediates interactions with epithelial cells Chul Hee Choi, Jun Sik Lee, Yoo Chul Lee, Tae In Park, and Je Chul Lee PMCID: PMC2615016 Evaluation of an in silico predicted specific and immunogenic antigen from the OmcB protein for the serodiagnosis of Chlamydia trachomatis infections Olfa Frikha-Gargouri, Radhouane Gdoura, Abir Znazen, Boutheina Gargouri, Jalel Gargouri, Ahmed Rebai, and Adnene Hammami PMCID: PMC2615015 Environmental rRNA inventories miss over half of protistan diversity Sunok Jeon, John Bunge, Chesley Leslin, Thorsten Stoeck, Sunhee Hong, and Slava S Epstein PMCID: PMC2625359 Assessment of genetic and functional diversity of phosphate solubilizing fluorescent pseudomonads isolated from rhizospheric soil Popavath Ravindra Naik, Gurusamy Raman, Kannan Badri Narayanan, and Natarajan Sakthivel PMCID: PMC2625360 Methodology Articles Fieldable genotyping of Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis based on 25-loci Multi Locus VNTR Analysis Andrea Ciammaruconi, Saverio Grassi, Riccardo De Santis, Giovanni Faggioni, Valentina Pittiglio, Raffaele D'Amelio, Alessandra Carattoli, Antonio Cassone, Gilles Vergnaud, and Florigio Lista PMCID: PMC2257963 Stable transformation of an episomal protein-tagging shuttle vector in the piscine diplomonad Spironucleus vortens Scott C Dawson, Jonathan K Pham, Susan A House, Elizabeth E Slawson, Daniela Cronembold, and W Zacheus Cande PMCID: PMC2386477 High throughput detection of Coxiella burnetii by real-time PCR with internal control system and automated DNA preparation Marcus Panning, Jochen Kilwinski, Susanne Greiner-Fischer, Martin Peters, Stefanie Kramme, Dimitrios Frangoulidis, Hermann Meyer, Klaus Henning, and Christian Drosten PMCID: PMC2397412 Multi-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis for outbreak studies of Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis Burkhard Malorny, Ernst Junker, and Reiner Helmuth PMCID: PMC2430564 Sensitive and rapid detection of cholera toxin-producing Vibrio cholerae using a loop-mediated isothermal amplification Wataru Yamazaki, Kazuko Seto, Masumi Taguchi, Masanori Ishibashi, and Kiyoshi Inoue PMCID: PMC2446398 Development of multiple strain competitive index assays for Listeria monocytogenes using pIMC; a new site-specific integrative vector Ian R Monk, Pat G Casey, Michael Cronin, Cormac GM Gahan, and Colin Hill PMCID: PMC2440758 Generation of a restriction minus enteropathogenic Escherichia coli E2348/69 strain that is efficiently transformed with large, low copy plasmids Neil Hobson, Nancy L Price, Jordan D Ward, and Tracy L Raivio PMCID: PMC2518929 Evolutional selection of a combinatorial phage library displaying randomly-rearranged various single domains of immunoglobulin (Ig)-binding proteins (IBPs) with four kinds of Ig molecules Hua Yang, Jie Cao, Lian-Qing Li, Xia Zhou, Qiu-Li Chen, Wen-Ting Liao, Zong-Mei Wen, Shao-Hua Jiang, Rong Xu, Jian-An Jia, Xin Pan, Zhong-Tian Qi, and Wei Pan PMCID: PMC2532689 Assignment of Streptococcus agalactiae isolates to clonal complexes using a small set of single nucleotide polymorphisms Erin Honsa, Thomas Fricke, Alex J Stephens, Danny Ko, Fanrong Kong, Gwendolyn L Gilbert, Flavia Huygens, and Philip M Giffard PMCID: PMC2533671 Development of a real-time multiplex PCR assay for the detection of multiple Salmonella serotypes in chicken samples Edel O'Regan, Evonne McCabe, Catherine Burgess, Sheila McGuinness, Thomas Barry, Geraldine Duffy, Paul Whyte, and Séamus Fanning PMCID: PMC2564954 Evaluation of an immunomagnetic separation method to capture Candida yeasts cells in blood Véronique Apaire-Marchais, Marie Kempf, Corinne Lefrançois, Agnès Marot, Patricia Licznar, Jane Cottin, Daniel Poulain, and Raymond Robert PMCID: PMC2556679 Development of a loop-mediated Isothermal amplification assay for sensitive and rapid detection of Vibrio parahaemolyticus Wataru Yamazaki, Masanori Ishibashi, Ryuji Kawahara, and Kiyoshi Inoue PMCID: PMC2572065 An efficient method for visualization and growth of fluorescent Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae in planta Sang-Wook Han, Chang-Jin Park, Sang-Won Lee, and Pamela C Ronald PMCID: PMC2569045 PCR and real-time PCR primers developed for detection and identification of Bifidobacterium thermophilum in faeces Sophie Mathys, Christophe Lacroix, Raffaella Mini, and Leo Meile PMCID: PMC2588598 Expression of recombinant Clostridium difficile toxin A and B in Bacillus megaterium Guilin Yang, Boping Zhou, Jufang Wang, Xiangyun He, Xingmin Sun, Weijia Nie, Saul Tzipori, and Hanping Feng PMCID: PMC2586027 Detection of Balamuthia mandrillaris DNA by real-time PCR targeting the RNase P gene Albrecht F Kiderlen, Elke Radam, and Astrid Lewin PMCID: PMC2612680 Fluorescent-BOX-PCR for resolving bacterial genetic diversity, endemism and biogeography Lorenzo Brusetti, Iana Malkhazova, Maher Gtari, Isabella Tamagnini, Sara Borin, Maya Merabishvili, Nina Chanishvili, Diego Mora, Francesca Cappitelli, and Daniele Daffonchio PMCID: PMC2625358 |
