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VOLUME 76, PART 18, September 2010 Website
Research articles
Methods
Pronounced Effect of the Nature of the Inoculum on Biofilm Development in Flow Systems
Otini Kroukamp, Romeo G. Dumitrache, and Gideon M. Wolfaardt
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Use of Amino Acids as Inducers for High-Level Protein Expression in the Single-Protein Production System
S. Thangminlal Vaiphei, Lili Mao, Tsutomu Shimazu, Jung-Ho Park, and Masayori Inouye
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High-Resolution In Situ Genotyping of Legionella pneumophila Populations in Drinking Water by Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis Using Environmental DNA
Leila Kahlisch, Karsten Henne, Josefin Draheim, Ingrid Brettar, and Manfred G. Höfle
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Combined Gel Probe and Isotope Labeling Technique for Measuring Dissimilatory Nitrate Reduction to Ammonium in Sediments at Millimeter-Level Resolution
Peter Stief, Anna Behrendt, Gaute Lavik, and Dirk De Beer
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Identification of the Corn Pathogen Pantoea stewartii by Mass Spectrometry of Whole-Cell Extracts and Its Detection with Novel PCR Primers
Annette Wensing, Stefan Zimmermann, and Klaus Geider
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Validation of a Self-Excising Marker in the Human Pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus by Employing the β-Rec/six Site-Specific Recombination System
Thomas Hartmann, Michaela Dümig, Basem M. Jaber, Edyta Szewczyk, Patrick Olbermann, Joachim Morschhäuser, and Sven Krappmann
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering
2-Haloacrylate Hydratase, a New Class of Flavoenzyme That Catalyzes the Addition of Water to the Substrate for Dehalogenation
Amr M. Mowafy, Tatsuo Kurihara, Atsushi Kurata, Tadashi Uemura, and Nobuyoshi Esaki
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Prolyl Aminopeptidase from Streptomyces thermoluteus subsp. fuscus Strain NBRC14270 and Synthesis of Proline-Containing Peptides by Its S144C Variant
Yukihiro Yamamoto, Hirokazu Usuki, Masaki Iwabuchi, and Tadashi Hatanaka
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Food Microbiology
Use of Logistic Regression for Prediction of the Fate of Staphylococcus aureus in Pasteurized Milk in the Presence of Two Lytic Phages
José M. Obeso, Pilar García, Beatriz Martínez, Francisco Noé Arroyo-López, Antonio Garrido-Fernández, and Ana Rodriguez
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Sequencing and Transcriptional Analysis of the Streptococcus thermophilus Histamine Biosynthesis Gene Cluster: Factors That Affect Differential hdcA Expression
Marina Calles-Enríquez, Benjamin Hjort Eriksen, Pia Skov Andersen, Fergal P. Rattray, Annette H. Johansen, María Fernández, Victor Ladero, and Miguel A. Alvarez
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Transcriptional Regulation of the Terephthalate Catabolism Operon in Comamonas sp. Strain E6
Daisuke Kasai, Masahiro Kitajima, Masao Fukuda, and Eiji Masai
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Catabolite Repression of Aox in Pichia pastoris Is Dependent on Hexose Transporter PpHxt1 and Pexophagy
Ping Zhang, Wenwen Zhang, Xiangshan Zhou, Peng Bai, James M. Cregg, and Yuanxing Zhang
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Regulation of the Marinomonas mediterranea Antimicrobial Protein Lysine Oxidase by L-Lysine and the Sensor Histidine Kinase PpoS
Luisa R. Molina-Quintero, Patricia Lucas-Elío, and Antonio Sanchez-Amat
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Accidental Selection and Intentional Restoration of Sporulation-Deficient Bacillus anthracis Mutants
Inka Sastalla, M. J. Rosovitz, and Stephen H. Leppla
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Mycology
Phagocytosis of Cryptococcus neoformans by, and Nonlytic Exocytosis from, Acanthamoeba castellanii
Cara J. Chrisman, Mauricio Alvarez, and Arturo Casadevall
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Cellotriose and Cellotetraose as Inducers of the Genes Encoding Cellobiohydrolases in the Basidiomycete Phanerochaete chrysosporium
Hitoshi Suzuki, Kiyohiko Igarashi, and Masahiro Samejima
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Microbial Ecology
Differential Regulation of Six Heavy Metal Efflux Systems in the Response of Myxococcus xanthus to Copper
Aurelio Moraleda-Muñoz, Juana Pérez, Antonio Luis Extremera, and José Muñoz-Dorado
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Expression and Physiological Role of Three Myxococcus xanthus Copper-Dependent P_1B-Type ATPases during Bacterial Growth and Development
Aurelio Moraleda-Muñoz, Juana Pérez, Antonio Luis Extremera, and José Muñoz-Dorado
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Scent of Danger: Floc Formation by a Freshwater Bacterium Is Induced by Supernatants from a Predator-Prey Coculture
Judith F. Blom, Yannick S. Zimmermann, Thomas Ammann, and Jakob Pernthaler
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Estimation of Uptake of Humic Substances from Different Sources by Escherichia coli Cells under Optimum and Salt Stress Conditions by Use of Tritium-Labeled Humic Materials
Natalia A. Kulikova, Irina V. Perminova, Gennady A. Badun, Maria G. Chernysheva, Olga V. Koroleva, and Eugenia A. Tsvetkova
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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
A Population Genetics-Based and Phylogenetic Approach to Understanding the Evolution of Virulence in the Genus Listeria
Henk C. den Bakker, Brittany N. Bundrant, Esther D. Fortes, Renato H. Orsi, and Martin Wiedmann
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Identification of a Novel Class of Membrane-Bound [NiFe]-Hydrogenases in Thermococcus onnurineus NA1 by In Silico Analysis
Jae Kyu Lim, Sung Gyun Kang, Alexander V. Lebedinsky, Jung-Hyun Lee, and Hyun Sook Lee
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Physiology
Requirement of the Nitrogen Starvation-Induced Protein Sll0783 for Polyhydroxybutyrate Accumulation in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803
Maximilian Schlebusch and Karl Forchhammer
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Phenotypic Characterization of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 under Aerobic and Anaerobic Growth Conditions by Using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy and High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Analyses
Hui Wang, Katherine Hollywood, Roger M. Jarvis, Jonathan R. Lloyd, and Royston Goodacre
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Environmental Microbiology
Construction of Self-Transmissible Green Fluorescent Protein-Based Biosensor Plasmids and Their Use for Identification of N-Acyl Homoserine-Producing Bacteria in Lake Sediments
Putthapoom Lumjiaktase, Claudio Aguilar, Tom Battin, Kathrin Riedel, and Leo Eberl
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Quantitative PCR Assay for Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii and Mycobacterium shottsii and Application to Environmental Samples and Fishes from the Chesapeake Bay
D. T. Gauthier, K. S. Reece, J. Xiao, M. W. Rhodes, H. I. Kator, R. J. Latour, C. F. Bonzek, J. M. Hoenig, and W. K. Vogelbein
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Effect of Nitric Oxide on Anammox Bacteria
Boran Kartal, Nico C. G. Tan, Erwin Van de Biezen, Marlies J. Kampschreur, Mark C. M. Van Loosdrecht, and Mike S. M. Jetten
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Invertebrate Microbiology
New Method for Counting Bacteria Associated with Coral Mucus
Melissa Garren and Farooq Azam
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Chitin Utilization by the Insect-Transmitted Bacterium Xylella fastidiosa
Nabil Killiny, Simone S. Prado, and Rodrigo P. P. Almeida
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Detection of New cry Genes of Bacillus thuringiensis by Use of a Novel PCR Primer System
Pedro A. Noguera and Jorge E. Ibarra
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Effect of Earthworm Feeding Guilds on Ingested Dissimilatory Nitrate Reducers and Denitrifiers in the Alimentary Canal of the Earthworm
Peter S. Depkat-Jakob, Maik Hilgarth, Marcus A. Horn, and Harold L. Drake
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Yersinia enterocolitica Infection and tcaA-Dependent Killing of Caenorhabditis elegans
Britta Spanier, Mandy Starke, Fabian Higel, Siegfried Scherer, and Thilo M. Fuchs
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Plant Microbiology
Interplay between Wheat Cultivars, Biocontrol Pseudomonads, and Soil
Joana Beatrice Meyer, Matthias Peter Lutz, Michele Frapolli, Maria Péchy-Tarr, Laurène Rochat, Christoph Keel, Geneviève Défago, and Monika Maurhofer
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Public Health Microbiology
Interaction of Mycobacterium ulcerans with Mosquito Species: Implications for Transmission and Trophic Relationships
John R. Wallace, Matthew C. Gordon, Lindsey Hartsell, Lydia Mosi, M. Eric Benbow, Richard W. Merritt, and Pamela L. C. Small
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Presence of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in Environmental Samples Collected on Commercial Dutch Dairy Farms
Susanne W. F. Eisenberg, Ad P. Koets, Jeroen Hoeboer, Marina Bouman, Dick Heederik, and Mirjam Nielen
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Biotechnology
Novel In Vivo-Degradable Cellulose-Chitin Copolymer from Metabolically Engineered Gluconacetobacter xylinus
Vikas Yadav, Bruce J. Paniliatis, Hai Shi, Kyongbum Lee, Peggy Cebe, and David L. Kaplan
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Characterization of a Family GH5 Xylanase with Activity on Neutral Oligosaccharides and Evaluation as a Pulp Bleaching Aid
Óscar Gallardo, María Fernández-Fernández, Cristina Valls, Susana Valeria Valenzuela, M. Blanca Roncero, Teresa Vidal, Pilar Díaz, and F. I. Javier Pastor
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Cloning-Independent Expression and Analysis of -Transaminases by Use of a Cell-Free Protein Synthesis System
Yong-Chan Kwon, Kyung-Ho Lee, Ho-Cheol Kim, Kyuboem Han, Joo-Hyun Seo, Byung-Gee Kim, and Dong-Myung Kim
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Biotransformation of Flurbiprofen by Cunninghamella Species
Jessica Amadio, Katherine Gordon, and Cormac D. Murphy
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Restoration of Growth Phenotypes of Escherichia coli DH5 in Minimal Media through Reversal of a Point Mutation in purB
Suk-Chae Jung, Chris L. Smith, Ki-Sung Lee, Min-Eui Hong, Dae-Hyuk Kweon, Gregory Stephanopoulos, and Yong-Su Jin
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Mesophilic Fermentation of Renewable Biomass: Does Hydraulic Retention Time Regulate Methanogen Diversity?
Niclas Krakat, Stefan Schmidt, and Paul Scherer
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Errata
Adaptive Evolution of Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655 during Growth on a Nonnative Carbon Source, L-1,2-Propanediol
Dae-Hee Lee and Bernhard Ø. Palsson
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VOLUME 76, PART 19, October 2010 Website
Research articles
Biodegradation
Functional Characterization of pGKT2, a 182-Kilobase Plasmid Containing the xplAB Genes, Which Are Involved in the Degradation of Hexahydro-1,3,5-Trinitro-1,3,5-Triazine by Gordonia sp. Strain KTR9
Karl J. Indest, Carina M. Jung, Hao-Ping Chen, Dawn Hancock, Christine Florizone, Lindsay D. Eltis, and Fiona H. Crocker
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Anaerobic Biotransformation of High Concentrations of Chloroform by an Enrichment Culture and Two Bacterial Isolates
Huifeng Shan, Harry D. Kurtz, Jr., Nadia Mykytczuk, Jack T. Trevors, and David L. Freedman
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Effect of Pesticide Inoculation, Duration of Composting, and Degradation Time on the Content of Compost Fatty Acids, Quantified Using Two Methods
Alessandra Cardinali, Stefan Otto, Costantino Vischetti, Colin Brown, and Giuseppe Zanin
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Microbial Ecology
Correlation of Particular Bacterial PCR-Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis Patterns with Bovine Ruminal Fermentation Parameters and Feed Efficiency Traits
Emma Hernandez-Sanabria, Le Luo Guan, Laksiri A. Goonewardene, Meiju Li, Denis F. Mujibi, Paul Stothard, Stephen S. Moore, and Monica C. Leon-Quintero
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Identification of Novel Methane-, Ethane-, and Propane-Oxidizing Bacteria at Marine Hydrocarbon Seeps by Stable Isotope Probing
Molly C. Redmond, David L. Valentine, and Alex L. Sessions
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Interrelations between the Microbiotas in the Litter and in the Intestines of Commercial Broiler Chickens
Michael D. Cressman, Zhongtang Yu, Michael C. Nelson, Steven J. Moeller, Michael S. Lilburn, and Henry N. Zerby
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Mutation of High-Affinity Methionine Permease Contributes to Selenomethionyl Protein Production in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Toshihiko Kitajima, Yasunori Chiba, and Yoshifumi Jigami
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Enhanced Production of a Plant Monoterpene by Overexpression of the 3-Hydroxy-3-Methylglutaryl Coenzyme A Reductase Catalytic Domain in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Juan Rico, Ester Pardo, and Margarita Orejas
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Differential Involvement of the Five RNA Helicases in Adaptation of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 to Low Growth Temperatures
Franck Pandiani, Julien Brillard, Isabelle Bornard, Caroline Michaud, Stéphanie Chamot, Christophe Nguyen-the, and Véronique Broussolle
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Biotechnology
Heterologous Expression and Extracellular Secretion of Cellulolytic Enzymes by Zymomonas mobilis
Jeffrey G. Linger, William S. Adney, and Al Darzins
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Optimization of Protease Secretion in Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus licheniformis by Screening of Homologous and Heterologous Signal Peptides
Christian Degering, Thorsten Eggert, Michael Puls, Johannes Bongaerts, Stefan Evers, Karl-Heinz Maurer, and Karl-Erich Jaeger
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Boosting Autofermentation Rates and Product Yields with Sodium Stress Cycling: Application to Production of Renewable Fuels by Cyanobacteria
Damian Carrieri, Dariya Momot, Ian A. Brasg, Gennady Ananyev, Oliver Lenz, Donald A. Bryant, and G. Charles Dismukes
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Deletion of Genes Encoding Cytochrome Oxidases and Quinol Monooxygenase Blocks the Aerobic-Anaerobic Shift in Escherichia coli K-12 MG1655
Vasiliy A. Portnoy, David A. Scott, Nathan E. Lewis, Yekaterina Tarasova, Andrei L. Osterman, and Bernhard Ø. Palsson
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Novel Glycoside Hydrolases Identified by Screening a Chinese Holstein Dairy Cow Rumen-Derived Metagenome Library
Shengguo Zhao, Jiaqi Wang, Dengpan Bu, Kailang Liu, Yaxin Zhu, Zhiyang Dong, and Zhongtang Yu
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Food Microbiology
Genotype and Antibiotic Resistance Analyses of Campylobacter Isolates from Ceca and Carcasses of Slaughtered Broiler Flocks
Simone E. Wirz, Gudrun Overesch, Peter Kuhnert, and Bozena M. Korczak
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The Chitinolytic Activity of Listeria monocytogenes EGD Is Regulated by Carbohydrates but Also by the Virulence Regulator PrfA
M. H. Larsen, J. J. Leisner, and H. Ingmer
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Lactobacillus Strain Ecology and Persistence within Broiler Chickens Fed Different Diets: Identification of Persistent Strains
David P. Stephenson, Robert J. Moore, and Gwen E. Allison
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Glutamate Decarboxylase-Mediated Nisin Resistance in Listeria monocytogenes
Máire Begley, Paul D. Cotter, Colin Hill, and R. Paul Ross
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Development and Application of a New Method for Specific and Sensitive Enumeration of Spores of Nonproteolytic Clostridium botulinum Types B, E, and F in Foods and Food Materials
Michael W. Peck, June Plowman, Clare F. Aldus, Gary M. Wyatt, Walter Penaloza Izurieta, Sandra C. Stringer, and Gary C. Barker
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A Targeted Multilocus Genotyping Assay for Lineage, Serogroup, and Epidemic Clone Typing of Listeria monocytogenes
Todd J. Ward, Thomas Usgaard, and Peter Evans
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Physiology
Denitrification Response Patterns during the Transition to Anoxic Respiration and Posttranscriptional Effects of Suboptimal pH on Nitrogen Oxide Reductase in Paracoccus denitrificans
Linda Bergaust, Yuejian Mao, Lars R. Bakken, and Åsa Frostegård
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Modeling the Effect of Abrupt Acid and Osmotic Shifts within the Growth Region and across Growth Boundaries on Adaptation and Growth of Listeria monocytogenes
Y. Le Marc, P. N. Skandamis, C. I. A. Belessi, S. I. Merkouri, S. M. George, A. S. Gounadaki, S. Schvartzman, K. Jordan, E. H. Drosinos, and J. Baranyi
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering
Improving Biocatalyst Performance by Integrating Statistical Methods into Protein Engineering
Moran Brouk, Yuval Nov, and Ayelet Fishman
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Design of Thermostable Beta-Propeller Phytases with Activity over a Broad Range of pHs and Their Overproduction by Pichia pastoris
José M. Viader-Salvadó, Juan A. Gallegos-López, J. Gerardo Carreón-Treviño, Miguel Castillo-Galván, Arturo Rojo-Domínguez, and Martha Guerrero-Olazarán
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Characterization of a Cellobiohydrolase (MoCel6A) Produced by Magnaporthe oryzae
Machiko Takahashi, Hideyuki Takahashi, Yuki Nakano, Teruko Konishi, Ryohei Terauchi, and Takumi Takeda
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Public Health Microbiology
Bovine Norovirus: Carbohydrate Ligand, Environmental Contamination, and Potential Cross-Species Transmission via Oysters
Maha Zakhour, Haifa Maalouf, Ilaria Di Bartolo, Larissa Haugarreau, Françoise S. Le Guyader, Nathalie Ruvoën-Clouet, Jean-Claude Le Saux, Franco Maria Ruggeri, Monique Pommepuy, and Jacques Le Pendu
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Quantification of Enteric Viruses, Pathogen Indicators, and Salmonella Bacteria in Class B Anaerobically Digested Biosolids by Culture and Molecular Methods
Kelvin Wong, Brandon M. Onan, and Irene Xagoraraki
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Evaluating the Growth Potential of Pathogenic Bacteria in Water
Marius Vital, David Stucki, Thomas Egli, and Frederik Hammes
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Distribution of Legionella Species from Environmental Water Sources of Public Facilities and Genetic Diversity of L. pneumophila Serogroup 1 in South Korea
Hae Kyung Lee, Jung Im Shim, Hye Eun Kim, Jae Yon Yu, and Yeon Ho Kang
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Decontamination Options for Bacillus anthracis-Contaminated Drinking Water Determined from Spore Surrogate Studies
Ellen Raber and Alison Burklund
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Comparison of Single- and Multilocus Genetic Diversity in the Protozoan Parasites Cryptosporidium parvum and C. hominis
Giovanni Widmer and Yongsun Lee
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Influence of the Diversity of Bacterial Isolates from Drinking Water on Resistance of Biofilms to Disinfection
Lúcia Chaves Simões, Manuel Simões, and Maria João Vieira
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Mycobacterium avium Infections of Acanthamoeba Strains: Host Strain Variability, Grazing-Acquired Infections, and Altered Dynamics of Inactivation with Monochloramine
David Berry, Matthias Horn, Chuanwu Xi, and Lutgarde Raskin
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Bar-Coded Pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA Gene Amplicons Reveals Changes in Ileal Porcine Bacterial Communities Due to High Dietary Zinc Intake
W. Vahjen, R. Pieper, and J. Zentek
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Phylogenetic Groups and Pathogenicity Island Markers in Fecal Escherichia coli Isolates from Asymptomatic Humans in China
Bin Li, Jing-yong Sun, Li-zhong Han, Xin-hong Huang, Qiang Fu, and Yu-xing Ni
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Mycology
Characterization of Three mnp Genes of Fomitiporia mediterranea and Report of Additional Class II Peroxidases in the Order Hymenochaetales
Ingo Morgenstern, Deborah L. Robertson, and David S. Hibbett
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Exploring Mechanisms of Resistance to Respiratory Inhibitors in Field Strains of Botrytis cinerea, the Causal Agent of Gray Mold
Pierre Leroux, Michel Gredt, Michaela Leroch, and Anne-Sophie Walker
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Environmental Microbiology
Variation in pH Optima of Hydrolytic Enzyme Activities in Tropical Rain Forest Soils
Benjamin L. Turner
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Adaptation of Methanogenic Communities to the Cofermentation of Cattle Excreta and Olive Mill Wastes at 37°C and 55°C
Marta Goberna, Maria Gadermaier, Carlos García, Bernhard Wett, and Heribert Insam
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Polyphasic Characterization of a Thermotolerant Siderophilic Filamentous Cyanobacterium That Produces Intracellular Iron Deposits
Igor I. Brown, Donald A. Bryant, Dale Casamatta, Kathie L. Thomas-Keprta, Svetlana A. Sarkisova, Gaozhong Shen, Joel E. Graham, Eric S. Boyd, John W. Peters, Daniel H. Garrison, and David S. McKay
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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology
Evolutionary Dynamics of Insertion Sequences in Relation to the Evolutionary Histories of the Chromosome and Symbiotic Plasmid Genes of Rhizobium etli Populations
Luis Lozano, Ismael Hernández-González, Patricia Bustos, Rosa I. Santamaría, Valeria Souza, J. Peter W. Young, Guillermo Dávila, and Víctor González
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Transcriptomic Analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and K-12 Cultures Exposed to Inorganic and Organic Acids in Stationary Phase Reveals Acidulant- and Strain-Specific Acid Tolerance Responses
Thea King, Sacha Lucchini, Jay C. D. Hinton, and Kari Gobius
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Methods
Development of pyrF-Based Genetic System for Targeted Gene Deletion in Clostridium thermocellum and Creation of a pta Mutant
Shital A. Tripathi, Daniel G. Olson, D. Aaron Argyros, Bethany B. Miller, Trisha F. Barrett, Daniel M. Murphy, Jesse D. McCool, Anne K. Warner, Vineet B. Rajgarhia, Lee R. Lynd, David A. Hogsett, and Nicky C. Caiazza
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Response of Porcine Intestinal In Vitro Organ Culture Tissues following Exposure to Lactobacillus plantarum JC1 and Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium SL1344
J. W. Collins, N. G. Coldham, F. J. Salguero, W. A. Cooley, W. R. Newell, R. A. Rastall, G. R. Gibson, M. J. Woodward, and R. M. La Ragione
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Endopeptidase Activities of Botulinum Neurotoxin Type B Complex, Holotoxin, and Light Chain
Hai-Hong Wang, Stephen Riding, Paul Lindo, and Bal Ram Singh
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VOLUME 76, PART 20, October 2010 Website
Research articles
Public Health Microbiology
Prevalence of ColE1-Like Plasmids and Kanamycin Resistance Genes in Salmonella enterica Serovars
Chin-Yi Chen, Rebecca L. Lindsey, Terence P. Strobaugh, Jr., Jonathan G. Frye, and Richard J. Meinersmann
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Effect of Estuarine Wetland Degradation on Transport of Toxoplasma gondii Surrogates from Land to Sea
Karen Shapiro, Patricia A. Conrad, Jonna A. K. Mazet, Wesley W. Wallender, Woutrina A. Miller, and John L. Largier
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Bartonella Genotypes in Fleas (Insecta: Siphonaptera) Collected from Rodents in the Negev Desert, Israel
Danny Morick, Boris R. Krasnov, Irina S. Khokhlova, Georgy I. Shenbrot, Michael Y. Kosoy, and Shimon Harrus
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Use of Purified Clostridium difficile Spores To Facilitate Evaluation of Health Care Disinfection Regimens
Trevor D. Lawley, Simon Clare, Laura J. Deakin, David Goulding, Jennifer L. Yen, Claire Raisen, Cordelia Brandt, Jon Lovell, Fiona Cooke, Taane G. Clark, and Gordon Dougan
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Physiology
High Stability and Fast Recovery of Expression of the TOL Plasmid-Carried Toluene Catabolism Genes of Pseudomonas putida mt-2 under Conditions of Oxygen Limitation and Oscillation
Paula M. Martínez-Lavanchy, Christina Müller, Ivonne Nijenhuis, Uwe Kappelmeyer, Marieke Buffing, Kyle McPherson, and Hermann J. Heipieper
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Hydrogen Cycling by the Unicellular Marine Diazotroph Crocosphaera watsonii Strain WH8501
Samuel T. Wilson, Sasha Tozzi, Rachel A. Foster, Irina Ilikchyan, Zbigniew S. Kolber, Jonathan P. Zehr, and David M. Karl
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Sensitization of Microcin J25-Resistant Strains by a Membrane-Permeabilizing Peptide
María Fernanda Pomares, Mónica A. Delgado, Natalia S. Corbalán, Ricardo N. Farías, and Paula A. Vincent
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Link between Phosphate Starvation and Glycogen Metabolism in Corynebacterium glutamicum, Revealed by Metabolomics
Han Min Woo, Stephan Noack, Gerd M. Seibold, Sabine Willbold, Bernhard J. Eikmanns, and Michael Bott
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Inhibition of the Activity of Both Domains of Lysostaphin through Peptidoglycan Modification by the Lysostaphin Immunity Protein
Shaw R. Gargis, Harry E. Heath, Paul A. LeBlanc, Linda Dekker, Robin S. Simmonds, and Gary L. Sloan
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Microbial Ecology
Randomly Amplified Polymorphic DNA Reveals Tight Links between Viruses and Microbes in the Bathypelagic Zone of the Northwestern Mediterranean Sea
Christian Winter and Markus G. Weinbauer
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Horizon-Specific Bacterial Community Composition of German Grassland Soils, as Revealed by Pyrosequencing-Based Analysis of 16S rRNA Genes
Christiane Will, Andrea Thürmer, Antje Wollherr, Heiko Nacke, Nadine Herold, Marion Schrumpf, Jessica Gutknecht, Tesfaye Wubet, François Buscot, and Rolf Daniel
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Vertical Distribution of Ammonia-Oxidizing Crenarchaeota and Methanogens in the Epipelagic Waters of Lake Kivu (Rwanda-Democratic Republic of the Congo)
Marc Llirós, Frederic Gich, Anna Plasencia, Jean-Christophe Auguet, François Darchambeau, Emilio O. Casamayor, Jean-Pierre Descy, and Carles Borrego
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Comparative Analysis of Myxococcus Predation on Soil Bacteria
Andrew D. Morgan, R. Craig MacLean, Kristina L. Hillesland, and Gregory J. Velicer
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Biodegradation
Isolation and Characterization of 4-tert-Butylphenol-Utilizing Sphingobium fuliginis Strains from Phragmites australis Rhizosphere Sediment
Tadashi Toyama, Naonori Momotani, Yuka Ogata, Yuji Miyamori, Daisuke Inoue, Kazunari Sei, Kazuhiro Mori, Shintaro Kikuchi, and Michihiko Ike
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Anaerobic Oxidation of Arsenite Linked to Chlorate Reduction
Wenjie Sun, Reyes Sierra-Alvarez, Lily Milner, and Jim A. Field
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering
Site-Directed Mutagenesis of the Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120 Nitrogenase Active Site To Increase Photobiological Hydrogen Production
Hajime Masukawa, Kazuhito Inoue, Hidehiro Sakurai, C. Peter Wolk, and Robert P. Hausinger
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Discovery and Characterization of a Distinctive Exo-1,3/1,4-β-Glucanase from the Marine Bacterium Pseudoalteromonas sp. Strain BB1
Yoshio Nakatani, Iain L. Lamont, and John F. Cutfield
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Geomicrobiology
Comparative Analysis of Acidobacterial Genomic Fragments from Terrestrial and Aquatic Metagenomic Libraries, with Emphasis on Acidobacteria Subdivision 6
Anna M. Kielak, Johannes A. van Veen, and George A. Kowalchuk
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Environmental Microbiology
Significant Association between Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria and Uranium-Reducing Microbial Communities as Revealed by a Combined Massively Parallel Sequencing-Indicator Species Approach
Erick Cardenas, Wei-Min Wu, Mary Beth Leigh, Jack Carley, Sue Carroll, Terry Gentry, Jian Luo, David Watson, Baohua Gu, Matthew Ginder-Vogel, Peter K. Kitanidis, Philip M. Jardine, Jizhong Zhou, Craig S. Criddle, Terence L. Marsh, and James M. Tiedje
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Curli Produced by Escherichia coli PHL628 Provide Protection from Hg(II)
Gabriela Hidalgo, Xincai Chen, Anthony G. Hay, and Leonard W. Lion
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Acquisition of Iron by Alkaliphilic Bacillus Species
Duncan G. G. McMillan, Imelda Velasquez, Brook L. Nunn, David R. Goodlett, Keith A. Hunter, Iain Lamont, Sylvia G. Sander, and Gregory M. Cook
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Plant Microbiology
Transmission of Plant-Pathogenic Bacteria by Nonhost Seeds without Induction of an Associated Defense Reaction at Emergence
Armelle Darrasse, Arnaud Darsonval, Tristan Boureau, Marie-Noëlle Brisset, Karine Durand, and Marie-Agnès Jacques
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Food Microbiology
Differential Phenotypic Diversity among Epidemic-Spanning Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Isolates from Humans or Animals
Lucía Yim, Laura Betancor, Arací Martinez, Gerardo Giossa, Clare Bryant, Duncan Maskell, and Jose A. Chabalgoity
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Extracts of Edible and Medicinal Plants Damage Membranes of Vibrio cholerae
Eduardo Sánchez, Santos García, and Norma Heredia
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Association of Campylobacter jejuni Cj0859c Gene (fspA) Variants with Different C. jejuni Multilocus Sequence Types
C. P. A. de Haan, R. Kivistö, and M. L. Hänninen
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Diversity and Abundance of Zoonotic Pathogens and Indicators in Manures of Feedlot Cattle in Australia
Marcus Klein, Leearna Brown, Robyn W. Tucker, Nicholas J. Ashbolt, Richard M. Stuetz, and David J. Roser
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Invertebrate Microbiology
Coexistence of Pathogens in Host-Seeking and Feeding Ticks within a Single Natural Habitat in Central Germany
Jan Franke, Julia Fritzsch, Herbert Tomaso, Eberhard Straube, Wolfram Dorn, and Anke Hildebrandt
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Proteolytic Enzyme Production by Strains of the Insect Pathogen Xenorhabdus and Characterization of an Early-Log-Phase-Secreted Protease as a Potential Virulence Factor
Mustafa K. Massaoud, Judit Marokházi, András Fodor, and István Venekei
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Genetics and Molecular Biology
Characterization of Lactococcus lactis Phage 949 and Comparison with Other Lactococcal Phages
Julie E. Samson and Sylvain Moineau
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Development of a Genetic System for Combinatorial Biosynthesis of Lipopeptides in Streptomyces fradiae and Heterologous Expression of the A54145 Biosynthesis Gene Cluster
Dylan C. Alexander, Jessica Rock, Xiaowei He, Paul Brian, Vivian Miao, and Richard H. Baltz
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Biotechnology
Characterization of Thermobifida fusca Cutinase-Carbohydrate-Binding Module Fusion Proteins and Their Potential Application in Bioscouring
Yao Zhang, Sheng Chen, Meng Xu, Artur Cavoco-Paulo, Jing Wu, and Jian Chen
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Engineered Lactic Acid Bacterium Lactococcus lactis Capable of Binding Antibodies and Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha
Matjaz Ravnikar, Borut Strukelj, Natasa Obermajer, Mojca Lunder, and Ales Berlec
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Methods
Quantitative Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization of Microbial Communities in the Rumens of Cattle Fed Different Diets
Yunhong Kong, Maolong He, Tim McAlister, Robert Seviour, and Robert Forster
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Enhancement of Targeted Homologous Recombination in Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. capri by Inclusion of Heterologous recA
Ayman B. Allam, Leticia Reyes, Nacyra Assad-Garcia, John I. Glass, and Mary B. Brown
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