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    FEMS Microbiology Letters: Volume 254, Issue 1

    1-172
    January 2006
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MiniReviews

Quorum sensing: the many languages of bacteria

Nicola C. Reading,  Vanessa Sperandio, 
  • Pages: 1-11
  • First Published: 09 November 2005

Pathogenesis of enteroaggregative Escherichia coli infection

Susan M. Harrington,  Edward G. Dudley,  James P. Nataro, 
  • Pages: 12-18
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

Research Letters

Isolation of a temperature-sensitive dnaA mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

Nagamoto Murai,  Kenji Kurokawa,  Norikazu Ichihashi,  Miki Matsuo,  Kazuhisa Sekimizu, 
  • Pages: 19-26
  • First Published: 15 November 2005

Comparative study of vanA gene transfer from Enterococcus faecium to Enterococcus faecalis and to Enterococcus faecium in the intestine of mice

Nadège Bourgeois-Nicolaos,  Carole Moubareck,  Nicole Mangeney,  Marie-José Butel,  Florence Doucet-Populaire, 
  • Pages: 27-33
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

Attachment of different soil bacteria to arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal extraradical hyphae is determined by hyphal vitality and fungal species

Jonas F. Toljander,  Veronica Artursson,  Leslie R. Paul,  Janet K. Jansson,  Roger D. Finlay, 
  • Pages: 34-40
  • First Published: 18 November 2005

SipA, a novel type of protein from Synechococcus sp. PCC 7942, binds to the kinase domain of NblS

Javier Espinosa,  Inmaculada Fuentes,  Sergio Burillo,  Francisco Rodríguez-Mateos,  Asunción Contreras, 
  • Pages: 41-47
  • First Published: 09 November 2005

Enterobacter sp. VKGH12 growing with n-butanol as the sole carbon source and cells to which the alcohol is added as pure toxin show considerable differences in their adaptive responses

Yaligara Veeranagouda,  Timmanagouda B. Karegoudar,  Grit Neumann,  Hermann J. Heipieper, 
  • Pages: 48-54
  • First Published: 18 November 2005

Cloning and characterization of a gene encoding a cold-shock protein in Lactobacillus casei

Nicolas Sauvageot,  Sophie Beaufils,  Alain Mazé,  Josef Deutscher,  Axel Hartke, 
  • Pages: 55-62
  • First Published: 09 November 2005

Identification of a Ferric uptake regulator from Microcystis aeruginosa PCC7806

Beatriz Martin-Luna,  Jose A. Hernandez,  M. Teresa Bes,  Maria F. Fillat,  M. Luisa Peleato, 
  • Pages: 63-70
  • First Published: 15 November 2005

Persistent infection in a dairy herd with an unusual genotype of bovine Cryptosporidium parvum

Camilla Björkman,  Jens G. Mattsson, 
  • Pages: 71-74
  • First Published: 15 November 2005

Analysis of integrons in clinical isolates of Escherichia coli in China during the last six years

Jianyu Su,  Lei Shi,  Liansheng Yang,  Zenghuang Xiao,  Xinhui Li,  Shinji Yamasaki, 
  • Pages: 75-80
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

Modification of the biophysical characteristics of membranes incommensal Escherichia coli strains from breast cancer patients

Natella Mirzoyan,  Astghik Pepoyan,  Armen Trchounian, 
  • Pages: 81-86
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

LadR, a new PadR-related transcriptional regulator from Listeria monocytogenes, negatively regulates the expression of the multidrug efflux pump MdrL

Eugénie Huillet,  Philippe Velge,  Tatiana Vallaeys,  Pierre Pardon, 
  • Pages: 87-94
  • First Published: 14 November 2005

Aerobic biodegradation of 4-methylpyridine and 4-ethylpyridine by newly isolated Pseudonocardia sp. strain M43

Jay J. Lee,  Jung-Hoon Yoon,  Sang-Yong Yang,  Sung-Taik Lee, 
  • Pages: 95-100
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

Assignment of the outer-membrane-subunit-selective domain of the membrane fusion protein in the tripartite xenobiotic efflux pump of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Shima Eda,  Hideaki Maseda,  Eisaku Yoshihara,  Taiji Nakae, 
  • Pages: 101-107
  • First Published: 09 November 2005

Purification and sequencing of cerein 7B, a novel bacteriocin produced by Bacillus cereus Bc7

Juan Carlos Oscáriz,  Luis Cintas,  Helge Holo,  Í ñigo Lasa,  Ingolf F. Nes,  Antonio G. Pisabarro, 
  • Pages: 108-115
  • First Published: 09 November 2005

H2 and acetate transfers during xylan fermentation between a butyrate-producing xylanolytic species and hydrogenotrophic microorganisms from the human gut

Christophe Chassard,  Annick Bernalier-Donadille, 
  • Pages: 116-122
  • First Published: 18 November 2005

Enumeration and detection of acetic acid bacteria by real-time PCR and nested PCR

Ángel González,  Núria Hierro,  Montserrat Poblet,  Albert Mas,  José Manuel Guillamón, 
  • Pages: 123-128
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

Comparative study of two typing methods, hsp65 PRA and ITS sequencing, revealed a possible evolutionary link between Mycobacterium kansasii type I and II isolates

Tomotada Iwamoto,  Hajime Saito, 
  • Pages: 129-133
  • First Published: 14 November 2005

Co-operative inhibition by fluoride and zinc of glucosyl transferase production and polysaccharide synthesis by mutans streptococci in suspension cultures and biofilms

Hyun Koo,  Jiangyun Sheng,  Phuong T. M. Nguyen,  Robert E. Marquis, 
  • Pages: 134-140
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

DeoT, a DeoR-type transcriptional regulator of multiple target genes

Maya Elgrably-Weiss,  Eliana Schlosser-Silverman,  Ilan Rosenshine,  Shoshy Altuvia, 
  • Pages: 141-148
  • First Published: 15 November 2005

Insights into the role of gp63-like proteins in lower trypanosomatids

Claudia Masini D'Avila-Levy,  Felipe de Almeida Dias,  Ana Cristina Nogueira de Melo,  Juliana Lopes Martins,  Angela Hampshire De Carvalho Santos Lopes,  André Luis Souza Dos Santos,  Alane Beatriz Vermelho,  Marta Helena Branquinha, 
  • Pages: 149-156
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

Identification and comparative analysis of the large subunit mitochondrial ribosomal proteins of Neurospora crassa

Xiang Gan,  Kyoko Arita,  Setsuko Isono,  Madoka Kitakawa,  Ken-ichi Yoshino,  Kazuyoshi Yonezawa,  Akihiro Kato,  Hirokazu Inoue,  Katsumi Isono, 
  • Pages: 157-164
  • First Published: 15 December 2005

Isolation and analysis of genes specifically expressed during fruiting body development in the basidiomycete Flammulina velutipes by fluorescence differential display

Masato Yamada,  Sou Sakuraba,  Kou Shibata,  Goro Taguchi,  Satoshi Inatomi,  Mitsuo Okazaki,  Makoto Shimosaka, 
  • Pages: 165-172
  • First Published: 15 December 2005