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Contents: August 2009, Volume 75, Issue 15

       Methods

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Plant Microbiology

       Microbial Ecology

       Public Health Microbiology

       Biotechnology

       Food Microbiology

       Physiology

       Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

       Biodegradation

       Invertebrate Microbiology

       Environmental Microbiology

       Enzymology and Protein Engineering

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Methods:

Linking Microbial Community Function to Phylogeny of Sulfate-Reducing Deltaproteobacteria in Marine Sediments by Combining Stable Isotope Probing with Magnetic-Bead Capture Hybridization of 16S rRNA
Tetsuro Miyatake, Barbara J. MacGregor, and Henricus T. S. Boschker
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4927-4935; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00652-09
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Development of an mlrA Gene-Directed TaqMan PCR Assay for Quantitative Assessment of Microcystin-Degrading Bacteria within Water Treatment Plant Sand Filter Biofilms
Daniel Hoefel, Caroline M. M. Adriansen, Magali A. C. Bouyssou, Christopher P. Saint, Gayle Newcombe, and Lionel Ho
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5167-5169; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00036-09
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

USER Friendly Cloning Coupled with Chitin-Based Natural Transformation Enables Rapid Mutagenesis of Vibrio vulnificus
Paul A. Gulig, Matthew S. Tucker, Patrick C. Thiaville, Jennifer L. Joseph, and Roslyn N. Brown
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4936-4949; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02564-08
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Identification of an Arsenic Resistance and Arsenic-Sensing System in Campylobacter jejuni
Liping Wang, Byeonghwa Jeon, Orhan Sahin, and Qijing Zhang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5064-5073; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00149-09
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LasI/R and RhlI/R Quorum Sensing in a Strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Beneficial to Plants
Laura Steindler, Iris Bertani, Luisa De Sordi, Stephan Schwager, Leo Eberl, and Vittorio Venturi
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5131-5140; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02914-08
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Plant Microbiology:

Cellular Responses of the Late Blight Pathogen Phytophthora infestans to Cyclic Lipopeptide Surfactants and Their Dependence on G Proteins
Judith E. van de Mortel, Ha Tran, Francine Govers, and Jos M. Raaijmakers
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4950-4957; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00241-09
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Quantification of Key Genes Steering the Microbial Nitrogen Cycle in the Rhizosphere of Sorghum Cultivars in Tropical Agroecosystems
Brigitte Hai, Ndeye Hélène Diallo, Saidou Sall, Felix Haesler, Kristina Schauss, Moussa Bonzi, Komi Assigbetse, Jean-Luc Chotte, Jean Charles Munch, and Michael Schloter
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4993-5000; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02917-08
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Microbial Ecology:

Photoheterotrophic Microbes in the Arctic Ocean in Summer and Winter
Matthew T. Cottrell and David L. Kirchman
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4958-4966; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00117-09
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Bacterial and Archaeal Phylogenetic Diversity of a Cold Sulfur-Rich Spring on the Shoreline of Lake Erie, Michigan
Anita Chaudhary, Sheridan Kidd Haack, Joseph W. Duris, and Terence L. Marsh
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5025-5036; published ahead of print June 19, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00112-09
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Worldwide Prevalence of Class 2 Integrases outside the Clinical Setting Is Associated with Human Impact
Carlos M. Rodríguez-Minguela, Juha H. A. Apajalahti, Benli Chai, James R. Cole, and James M. Tiedje
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5100-5110; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00133-09
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Molecular Biological Detection and Quantification of Novel Fibrobacter Populations in Freshwater Lakes
James E. McDonald, Alexandre B. de Menezes, Heather E. Allison, and Alan J. McCarthy
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5148-5152; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00701-09
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Public Health Microbiology:

Pig Manure Contamination Marker Selection Based on the Influence of Biological Treatment on the Dominant Fecal Microbial Groups
Romain Marti, Patrick Dabert, and Anne-Marie Pourcher
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4967-4974; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02791-08
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Adherence of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Mutants In Vitro and in Ligated Pig Intestines
Xianhua Yin, James R. Chambers, Roger Wheatcroft, Roger P. Johnson, Jing Zhu, Bianfang Liu, and Carlton L. Gyles
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4975-4983; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00297-09
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Prevalence and Genotypes of Human Noroviruses in Tropical Urban Surface Waters and Clinical Samples in Singapore
Tiong Gim Aw, Karina Yew-Hoong Gin, Lynette Lin Ean Oon, Eileen Xueqin Chen, and Chee Hoe Woo
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 4984-4992; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00489-09
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Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strain Origin, Lineage, and Shiga Toxin 2 Expression Affect Colonization of Cattle
Ross M. S. Lowe, Danica Baines, L. Brent Selinger, James E. Thomas, Tim A. McAllister, and Ranjana Sharma
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5074-5081; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00391-09
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Biotechnology:

Characterization of the Central Metabolic Pathways in Thermoanaerobacter sp. Strain X514 via Isotopomer-Assisted Metabolite Analysis
Xueyang Feng, Housna Mouttaki, Lu Lin, Rick Huang, Bing Wu, Christopher L. Hemme, Zhili He, Baichen Zhang, Leslie M. Hicks, Jian Xu, Jizhong Zhou, and Yinjie J. Tang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5001-5008; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00715-09
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Inactivation of Escherichia coli Endotoxin by Soft Hydrothermal Processing
Toru Miyamoto, Shinya Okano, and Noriyuki Kasai
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5058-5063; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00122-09
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Homo-D-Lactic Acid Fermentation from Arabinose by Redirection of the Phosphoketolase Pathway to the Pentose Phosphate Pathway in L-Lactate Dehydrogenase Gene-Deficient Lactobacillus plantarum
Kenji Okano, Shogo Yoshida, Tsutomu Tanaka, Chiaki Ogino, Hideki Fukuda, and Akihiko Kondo
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5175-5178; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00573-09
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Food Microbiology:

Detection and Enumeration of Clostridium difficile Spores in Retail Beef and Pork
J. Scott Weese, Brent P. Avery, J. Rousseau, and Richard J. Reid-Smith
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5009-5011; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00480-09
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Physiology:

Aerobic Vanillate Degradation and C₁ Compound Metabolism in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
Nirinya Sudtachat, Naofumi Ito, Manabu Itakura, Sachiko Masuda, Shima Eda, Hisayuki Mitsui, Yasuyuki Kawaharada, and Kiwamu Minamisawa
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5012-5017; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00755-09
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Biochemical Properties of Two Cinnamoyl Esterases Purified from a Lactobacillus johnsonii Strain Isolated from Stool Samples of Diabetes-Resistant Rats
Kin Kwan Lai, Graciela L. Lorca, and Claudio F. Gonzalez
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5018-5024; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02837-08
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Effect of Nitrate and Acetylene on nirS, cnorB, and nosZ Expression and Denitrification Activity in Pseudomonas mandelii
Saleema Saleh-Lakha, Kelly E. Shannon, Sherri L. Henderson, Bernie J. Zebarth, David L. Burton, Claudia Goyer, and Jack T. Trevors
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5082-5087; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00777-09
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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Comparative Genome-Wide Transcriptional Profiling of Azorhizobium caulinodans ORS571 Grown under Free-Living and Symbiotic Conditions
Shuhei Tsukada, Toshihiro Aono, Noriko Akiba, Kyung-Bum Lee, Chi-Te Liu, Hiroki Toyazaki, and Hiroshi Oyaizu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5037-5046; published ahead of print June 19, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00398-09
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Coastal Strains of Marine Synechococcus Species Exhibit Increased Tolerance to Copper Shock and a Distinctive Transcriptional Response Relative to Those of Open-Ocean Strains
Rhona K. Stuart, Chris L. Dupont, D. Aaron Johnson, Ian T. Paulsen, and Brian Palenik
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5047-5057; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00271-09
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Genome-Derived Criteria for Assigning Environmental narG and nosZ Sequences to Operational Taxonomic Units of Nitrate Reducers
Katharina Palmer, Harold L. Drake, and Marcus A. Horn
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5170-5174; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00254-09
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Biodegradation:

Aerobic Biodegradation of N-Nitrosodimethylamine by the Propanotroph Rhodococcus ruber ENV425
Diane Fournier, Jalal Hawari, Annamaria Halasz, Sheryl H. Streger, Kevin R. McClay, Hisako Masuda, and Paul B. Hatzinger
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5088-5093; published ahead of print June 19, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00418-09
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

Gut Bacteria Are Not Required for the Insecticidal Activity of Bacillus thuringiensis toward the Tobacco Hornworm, Manduca sexta
Paul R. Johnston and Neil Crickmore
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5094-5099; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00966-09
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Environmental Microbiology:

Pyrosequencing-Based Assessment of Soil pH as a Predictor of Soil Bacterial Community Structure at the Continental Scale
Christian L. Lauber, Micah Hamady, Rob Knight, and Noah Fierer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5111-5120; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00335-09
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Characterization of Airborne Microbial Communities at a High-Elevation Site and Their Potential To Act as Atmospheric Ice Nuclei
Robert M. Bowers, Christian L. Lauber, Christine Wiedinmyer, Micah Hamady, Anna G. Hallar, Ray Fall, Rob Knight, and Noah Fierer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5121-5130; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00447-09
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Identification of an aox System That Requires Cytochrome c in the Highly Arsenic-Resistant Bacterium Ochrobactrum tritici SCII24
Rita Branco, Romeu Francisco, Ana Paula Chung, and Paula Vasconcelos Morais
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5141-5147; published ahead of print June 12, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02798-08
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Structure-Based Rational Design of a Phosphotriesterase
Colin J. Jackson, Kahli Weir, Anthony Herlt, Jeevan Khurana, Tara D. Sutherland, Irene Horne, Christopher Easton, Robyn J. Russell, Colin Scott, and John G. Oakeshott
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5153-5156; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00629-09
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Biochemical Characterization of Haloalkane Dehalogenases DrbA and DmbC, Representatives of a Novel Subfamily
Andrea Jesenská, Marta Monincová, Tána Koudeláková, Khomaini Hasan, Radka Chaloupková, Zbynek Prokop, Arie Geerlof, and Jirí Damborsky
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5157-5160; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00199-09
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Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Lysine Racemase from a Soil Metagenomic Library
I-Chien Chen, Wei-De Lin, Shin-Kuang Hsu, Venkatesan Thiruvengadam, and Wen-Hwei Hsu
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. August 2009 75: 5161-5166; published ahead of print June 5, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00074-09
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