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Minireviews:

Jens Walter

Ecological Role of Lactobacilli in the Gastrointestinal Tract: Implications for Fundamental and Biomedical Research
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 4985-4996. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sander Sieuwerts, Frank A. M. de Bok, Jeroen Hugenholtz, and Johan E. T. van Hylckama Vlieg

Unraveling Microbial Interactions in Food Fermentations: from Classical to Genomics Approaches
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 4997-5007. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Public Health Microbiology:

Klára Hanincová, Dionysios Liveris, Sabina Sandigursky, Gary P. Wormser, and Ira Schwartz

Borrelia burgdorferi Sensu Stricto Is Clonal in Patients with Early Lyme Borreliosis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5008-5014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Haiqing Sheng, Ji Youn Lim, Maryann K. Watkins, Scott A. Minnich, and Carolyn J. Hovde

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5015-5022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Pravin Kaldhone, Rajesh Nayak, Aaron M. Lynne, Donna E. David, Patrick F. McDermott, Catherine M. Logue, and Steven L. Foley

Characterization of Salmonella enterica serovar Heidelberg from Turkey-Associated Sources
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5038-5046. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

David R. Macinga, Syed A. Sattar, Lee-Ann Jaykus, and James W. Arbogast

Improved Inactivation of Nonenveloped Enteric Viruses and Their Surrogates by a Novel Alcohol-Based Hand Sanitizer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5047-5052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Supakana Nagachinta and Jinru Chen

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5063-5067. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Prevalence and Genetic Diversity of Bartonella Species Isolated from Wild Rodents in Japan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5086-5092. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Patrick S. L. Kwan, Mishele Barrigas, Frederick J. Bolton, Nigel P. French, Peter Gowland, Richard Kemp, Howard Leatherbarrow, Mathew Upton, and Andrew J. Fox

Molecular Epidemiology of Campylobacter jejuni Populations in Dairy Cattle, Wildlife, and the Environment in a Farmland Area
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5130-5138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Musafiri Karama and Carlton L. Gyles

Characterization of Verotoxin-Encoding Phages from Escherichia coli O103:H2 Strains of Bovine and Human Origins
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5153-5158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Stephen T. Cartman, Roberto M. La Ragione, and Martin J. Woodward

Bacillus subtilis Spores Germinate in the Chicken Gastrointestinal Tract
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5254-5258. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Yaling Liu, Yiqian Dong, Yi-Ywan M. Chen, and Robert A. Burne

Environmental and Growth Phase Regulation of the Streptococcus gordonii Arginine Deiminase Genes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5023-5030. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Jean-Paul Meijnen, Johannes H. de Winde, and Harald J. Ruijssenaars

Engineering Pseudomonas putida S12 for Efficient Utilization of D-Xylose and L-Arabinose
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5031-5037. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sharik R. Khan, Jennifer Gaines, R. Martin Roop, II, and Stephen K. Farrand

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5053-5062. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Aner Gurvitz, J. Kalervo Hiltunen, and Alexander J. Kastaniotis

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5078-5085. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kenji Nagasaki, Masaro Kumazawa, Shuichiro Murakami, Shinji Takenaka, Kenzo Koike, and Kenji Aoki

Purification, Characterization, and Gene Cloning of Ceriporiopsis sp. Strain MD-1 Peroxidases That Decolorize Human Hair Melanin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5106-5112. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Yoshiaki Maeda, Tomoko Yoshino, Masaaki Takahashi, Harumi Ginya, Junko Asahina, Hideji Tajima, and Tadashi Matsunaga

Noncovalent Immobilization of Streptavidin on In Vitro- and In Vivo-Biotinylated Bacterial Magnetic Particles
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5139-5145. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Shigeki Ehira, Tomokazu Shirai, Haruhiko Teramoto, Masayuki Inui, and Hideaki Yukawa

Group 2 Sigma Factor SigB of Corynebacterium glutamicum Positively Regulates Glucose Metabolism under Conditions of Oxygen Deprivation
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5146-5152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Young J. Choi, J. Lawrence Gringorten, Louise Bélanger, Lyne Morel, Denis Bourque, Luke Masson, Denis Groleau, and Carlos B. Míguez

Production of an Insecticidal Crystal Protein from Bacillus thuringiensis by the Methylotroph Methylobacterium extorquens
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5178-5182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sabeel P. Valappil, Jonathan C. Knowles, and Michael Wilson

Effect of Silver-Doped Phosphate-Based Glasses on Bacterial Biofilm Growth
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5228-5230. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Xue-Peng Yang, Liu-Jing Wei, Jin-Ping Lin, Bo Yin, and Dong-Zhi Wei

Membrane-Bound Pyrroloquinoline Quinone-Dependent Dehydrogenase in Gluconobacter oxydans M5, Responsible for Production of 6-(2-Hydroxyethyl) Amino-6-Deoxy-L-Sorbose
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5250-5253. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Methods:

Tatsuhiko Hoshino, L. Safak Yilmaz, Daniel R. Noguera, Holger Daims, and Michael Wagner

Quantification of Target Molecules Needed To Detect Microorganisms by Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) and Catalyzed Reporter Deposition-FISH
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5068-5077. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Joanna M. Los, Piotr Golec, Grzegorz Wegrzyn, Alicja Wegrzyn, and Marcin Los

Simple Method for Plating Escherichia coli Bacteriophages Forming Very Small Plaques or No Plaques under Standard Conditions
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5113-5120. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Arnaud Dechesne, Dani Or, Gamze Gülez, and Barth F. Smets

The Porous Surface Model, a Novel Experimental System for Online Quantitative Observation of Microbial Processes under Unsaturated Conditions
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5195-5200. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bojana Stojkovic, Eric M. Torres, Angela M. Prouty, Hetal K. Patel, Lefan Zhuang, Theresa M. Koehler, Jimmy D. Ballard, and Steven R. Blanke

High-Throughput, Single-Cell Analysis of Macrophage Interactions with Fluorescently Labeled Bacillus anthracis Spores
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5201-5210. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

William C. Schumacher, Craig A. Storozuk, Prabir K. Dutta, and Andrew J. Phipps

Identification and Characterization of Bacillus anthracis Spores by Multiparameter Flow Cytometry
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5220-5223. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Ecology:

Craig J. Plante, Kieran M. Coe, and Rebecca G. Plante

Isolation of Surfactant-Resistant Bacteria from Natural, Surfactant-Rich Marine Habitats
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5093-5099. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Dagmar Kock and Axel Schippers

Quantitative Microbial Community Analysis of Three Different Sulfidic Mine Tailing Dumps Generating Acid Mine Drainage
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5211-5219. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Colin R. Jackson and Andrew Q. Weeks

Influence of Particle Size on Bacterial Community Structure in Aquatic Sediments as Revealed by 16S rRNA Gene Sequence Analysis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5237-5240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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

Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis as a Tool To Determine Batch Similarity of Probiotic Cultures of Porcine Cecal Bacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5241-5243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gabriele Gross, Jessica Wildner, Arjan Schonewille, Jan L. W. Rademaker, Roelof van der Meer, and Johannes Snel

Probiotic Lactobacillus plantarum 299v Does Not Counteract Unfavorable Phytohemagglutinin-Induced Changes in the Rat Intestinal Microbiota
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5244-5249. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Environmental Microbiology:

Cynthia L. Winkworth, James J. Learmonth, Christoph D. Matthaei, and Colin R. Townsend

Molecular Characterization of Giardia Isolates from Calves and Humans in a Region in Which Dairy Farming Has Recently Intensified
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5100-5105. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Patricia Fajardo-Cavazos, Andrew C. Schuerger, and Wayne L. Nicholson

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
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5159-5167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Pilar Junier, Ok-Sun Kim, Ora Hadas, Johannes F. Imhoff, and Karl-Paul Witzel

Evaluation of PCR Primer Selectivity and Phylogenetic Specificity by Using Amplification of 16S rRNA Genes from Betaproteobacterial Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacteria in Environmental Samples
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5231-5236. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mycology:

Christopher D. Reeves, Zhihao Hu, Ralph Reid, and James T. Kealey

Genes for the Biosynthesis of the Fungal Polyketides Hypothemycin from Hypomyces subiculosus and Radicicol from Pochonia chlamydosporia
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5121-5129. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Juanita Yazmin Damián-Almazo, Alina Moreno, Agustin López-Munguía, Xavier Soberón, Fernando González-Muñoz, and Gloria Saab-Rincón

Enhancement of the Alcoholytic Activity of -Amylase AmyA from Thermotoga maritima MSB8 (DSM 3109) by Site-Directed Mutagenesis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5168-5177. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hyeon Cheol Lee, Jin Ha Kim, Sang Yong Kim, and Jung Kul Lee

Isomaltose Production by Modification of the Fructose-Binding Site on the Basis of the Predicted Structure of Sucrose Isomerase from "Protaminobacter rubrum"
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5183-5194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Invertebrate Microbiology:

Tanja Riess, Florian Dietrich, Katja V. Schmidt, Patrick O. Kaiser, Heinz Schwarz, Andrea Schäfer, and Volkhard A. J. Kempf

Analysis of a Novel Insect Cell Culture Medium-Based Growth Medium for Bartonella Species
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5224-5227. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Food Microbiology:

María Laura Werning, María Angeles Corrales, Alicia Prieto, Pilar Fernández de Palencia, Jesús Navas, and Paloma López

Heterologous Expression of a Position 2-Substituted (13)-β-D-Glucan in Lactococcus lactis
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5259-5262. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Letter to the Editor:

Andreas Leclerque, Richard Cordaux, and Didier Bouchon

Reorganization and Monophyly of the Genus Rickettsiella: All in Good Time
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5263-5264. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Errata:

Kyoung-Hee Choi, Takehiko Mima, Yveth Casart, Drew Rholl, Ayush Kumar, Ifor R. Beacham, and Herbert P. Schweizer

Genetic Tools for Select-Agent-Compliant Manipulation of Burkholderia pseudomallei
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5265. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ernesto Micheletti, Sara Pereira, Francesca Mannelli, Pedro Moradas-Ferreira, Paula Tamagnini, and Roberto De Philippis

Sheathless Mutant of Cyanobacterium Gloeothece sp. Strain PCC 6909 with Increased Capacity To Remove Copper Ions from Aqueous Solutions
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2008 74: 5266. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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