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Friday, 9 May 2014

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Frontiers is pleased to announce a number of exciting new articles in the field of Microbiology.

 

Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology

Virulent Type A Francisella tularensis actively suppresses cytokine responses in human monocytes
Devyn D Gilette, Heather M Curry, Thomas Cremer, David Ravneberg, Kavin Fatehchad, Prexy Shah, Mark D Wewers, Larry S Schlesinger, Jonathan P Butchar, Susheela Tridandapani, and Mikhail A Gavrilin
Commonly prescribed β-lactam antibiotics induce C. trachomatis persistence/stress in culture at physiologically relevant concentrations
Jennifer Kintner, Dawn Lajoie, Jennifer Hall, Judy Whittimore, and Robert V Schoborg
Host immune responses after hypoxic reactivation of IFN-γ induced persistent Chlamydia trachomatis infection
Stefan Jerchel, Inga Kaufhold, Larissa Schuchardt, Kensuke Shima, and Jan Rupp
Implications of free Shiga toxin-converting bacteriophages occurring outside bacteria for the evolution and the detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli
Alexandre Martinez-Castillo and Maite Muniesa
Supra-organismal interactions in the human intestine
Andrew Free and Laura Glendinning
Tissue communication in regenerative inflammatory signaling: lessons from the fly gut
Kristina Kux and Chrysoula Pitsouli
The bacterial pathogen Listeria monocytogenes and the interferon family: type I, type II and type III interferons
Olivier Dussurget, Hélène Bierne, and Pascale Cossart
Ribonucleotide reductases: essential enzymes for bacterial life
Eduard Torrents
Low occurrence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in agricultural soils with and without organic amendment
Sylvie Nazaret, Amelie Deredjian, Céline Colinon Dupuech, Lionel Ranjard, Samuel Dequiedt, Alain Hartmann, Elisabeth BROTHIER, Benjamin Youenou, Benoit Cournoyer, Edmond Hien, Nicolas PA Saby, Sabine Houot, and Claudy Jolivet
Social behavior and decision making in bacterial conjugation
Günther Koraimann and Maria Anna Wagner
How Listeria monocytogenes organizes its surface for virulence
Filipe Carvalho, Sandra Sousa, and Didier Cabanes

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Antimicrobials, Resistance and Chemotherapy”

New edge of antibiotic development: antimicrobial peptides and corresponding resistance
Nádia Skorupa Parachin and Octavio Luiz Franco
Effect of methylglyoxal on multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Katsuhiko Hayashi, Aiko Fukushima, Mitsuko Hasyashi-Nishino, and Kunihiko Nishino
Biofilm formation of Clostridium perfringens and its exposure to low-dose antimicrobials
Audrey Charlebois, Mario Jacques, and Marie Archambault
Antivirulence activity of azithromycin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Francesco Imperi, Livia Leoni, and Paolo Visca

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Aquatic Microbiology”

A survey of deepwater horizon (DWH) oil-degrading bacteria from the Eastern oyster biome and its surrounding environment
Jesse Thomas, Denis Wafula, Ashvini Chauhan, Stefan J Green, Richard Gragg, and Charles Jagoe
Biodegradation of MC252 oil in oil:sand aggregates in a coastal headland beach environment
Vijaikrishnah Elango, Marilany Urbano, Kendall R Lemelle, and John H Pardue
Kinetic parameters for nutrient enhanced crude oil biodegradation in intertidal marine sediments
Arvind K Singh, Angela Sherry, Neil D Gray, D Martin Jones, Bernard FJ Bowler, and Ian M Head
Effective bioremediation strategy for rapid in situ cleanup of anoxic marine sediments in mesocosm oil spill simulation
Maria Genovese, Francesca Crisafi, Renata Denaro, Simone Cappello, Daniela Russo, Rosario Calogero, Santina Santisi, Maurizio Catalfamo, Alfonso Modica, Francesco Smedile, Lucrezia Genovese, Peter N. Golyshin, Laura Giuliano, and Michail Yakimov
Mycoloop: chytrids in aquatic food webs
Maiko Kagami, Takeshi Miki, and Gaku Takimoto
Infectious microbial diseases and host defense responses in Sydney rock oysters
David Andrew Raftos
Linking activity and function to ecosystem dynamics in a coastal bacterioplankton community
Scott Michael Gifford, Shalabh Sharma, and Mary Ann Moran

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology”

Immune modulation of the brain-gut-microbe axis
Sahar El Aidy, Timothy G. Dinan, and John F Cryan
Bacteriophage T7 DNA polymerase – sequenase
Bin Zhu
Osmoregulation and the human mycobiome
Abhishek Saxena and Ramakrishnan Sitaraman
DNA replication origins in archaea
Zhenfang Wu, Jingfang Liu, Haibo Yang, and Hua Xiang
Combined metagenomic and phenomic approaches identify a novel salt tolerance gene from the human gut microbiome
Roy D Sleator, Eamonn Culligan, Colin Hill, and Julian Marchesi
Impact of the gut microbiota on the development of obesity and type 2 diabetes mellitus
Isabel Moreno Indias, Fernando Cardona, Francisco Tinahones, and MARIA ISABEL QUEIPO ORTUÑO

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Extreme Microbiology”

Mining a database of single amplified genomes from Red Sea brine pool extremophiles—improving reliability of gene function prediction using a profile and pattern matching algorithm (PPMA)
Stefan Wolfgang Grötzinger, Intikhab Alam, Wail Ba Alawi, Vladimir Bajic, Ulrich Stingl, and Jörg Eppinger
Protective role of salt in catalysis and maintaining structure of halophilic proteins against denaturation
Rajeshwari Sinha and Sunil Kumar Khare

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Extreme Microbiology” (Continued)

Evidence from phylogenetic and genome fingerprinting analyses suggests rapidly changing variation in Halorubrum and Haloarcula populations
Nikhil Ram Mohan, Matthew S Fullmer, Andrea M Makkay, Ryan W Wheeler, Antonio Ventosa, Adit Naor, Johann Peter Gogarten, and R Thane Papke
Metal resistance or tolerance? Acidophiles confront high metal loads via both abiotic and biotic mechanisms
Mark Dopson, Francisco Ossandon, Lars Lövgren, and David S Holmes
Population and genomic analysis of the genus Halorubrum
Matthew S. Fullmer, Shannon M. Soucy, Kristen S. Swithers, Andrea M Makkay, Ryan Wheeler, Antonio Ventosa, Johann Peter Gogarten, and R Thane Papke
Glutamine synthetase 2 is not essential for biosynthesis of compatible solutes in Halobacillus halophilus
Anna Shiyan, Melanie Thompson, Saskia Köcher, Michaela Tausendschön, Helena Santos, Inga Hänelt, and Volker Müller
Recent studies in microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons in hypersaline environments
Babu Zhereppa Fathepure

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Food Microbiology”

Aflatoxins and safe storage
Philippe Villers

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Microbial Physiology and Metabolism”

Cell division in Corynebacterineae
Catriona Donovan and Marc Bramkamp
Biochemical aspects of bacterial strategies for handling the incomplete translation processes
Yoshihiro Shimizu
The fail-safe system to rescue the stalled ribosomes in Escherichia coli
Tatsuhiko Abo and Yuhei Chadani
Comparison of transcriptional profiles of Clostridium thermocellum grown on cellobiose and pretreated yellow poplar using RNA-Seq
Hui Wei, Yan Fu, Lauren Magnusson, John O. Baker, Pin-Ching Maness, Qi Xu, Shihui Yang, Andrew Bowersox, Igor Bogorad, Wei Wang, Melvin P. Tucker, Michael E. Himmel, and Shi-You Ding
Genetic basis for nitrate resistance in Desulfovibrio strains
Hannah Korte, Samuel R Fels, Geoffrey A Christensen, Morgan N Price, Jennifer V Kuehl, Grant M Zane, Adam M Deutschbauer, Adam P Arkin, and Judy D Wall
Metabolic engineering of yeasts by heterologous enzyme production for degradation of cellulose and hemicellulose from biomass: a perspective
William Kricka, James Fitzpatrick, and Ursula Bond

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Microbial Symbioses”

The giant ciliate Zoothamnium niveum and its thiotrophic epibiont Candidatus Thiobios zoothamnicoli: a model system to study interspecies cooperation
Monika Bright, Salvador Espada-Hinojosa, Ilias Lagkouvardos, and Jean-Marie Volland
Cooperation, communication, and co-evolution: grand challenges in microbial symbiosis research
Nicole Suzanne Webster
Extracellular enzyme production and cheating in Pseudomonas fluorescens depend on diffusion rates
Steven Allison, Lucy Lu, Alyssa Giselle Kent, and Adam C Martiny
Metagenomic analysis of the medicinal leech gut microbiota
Michele A Maltz, Lindsey Bomar, Pascal Lapierre, Hilary G Morrison, Emily Ann McClure, Mitchell L Sogin, and Joerg Graf

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Microbiotechnology, Ecotoxicology and Bioremediation”

The safety of biocleaning technologies for cultural heritage
Pilar Bosch-Roig and Giancarlo Ranalli
Recombinant protein expression in Escherichia coli: advances and challenges
Germán Leandro Rosano and Eduardo A. Ceccarelli

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Plant-Microbe Interaction”

Effect of the soil type on the microbiome in the rhizosphere of field-grown lettuce
Susanne Schreiter, Guo-chun Ding, Holger Heuer, Günter Neumann, Martin Sandmann, Rita Grosch, Siegfried Kropf, and Kornelia Smalla
The impact of the pathogen Rhizoctonia solani and its beneficial counterpart Bacillus amyloliquefaciens on the indigenous lettuce microbiome
Armin Erlacher, Massimiliano Cardinale, Rita Grosch, Martin Grube, and Gabriele Berg

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Systems Microbiology”

Phototrophic biofilm assembly in microbial-mat-derived unicyanobacterial consortia: model systems for the study of autotroph-heterotroph interactions
Jessica K Cole, Janine R Hutchison, Ryan Scott Renslow, Young-Mo Kim, William B Chrisler, Heather E Engelmann, Alice C Dohnalkova, Dehong Hu, Thomas O Metz, Jim K Fredrickson, and Stephen R Lindemann
Microbial ecology and biogeochemistry of continental Antarctic soils
Don A Cowan, Thulani Makhalanyane, Paul Dennis, and David Hopkins

Frontiers in Microbiology, Section “Virology”

New insights into an X-traordinary viral protein
Torsten Schaller, Hélène Bauby, Stéphane Hué, Michael H Malim, and Caroline Goujon
Phages of Listeria offer novel tools for diagnostics and biocontrol
Martin J Loessner and Steven Hagens
Counteraction of the multifunctional restriction factor tetherin
Daniel Sauter
Antiviral activity of Ladania067, an extract from wild black currant leaves against influenza A virus in vitro and in vivo
Emanuel Haasbach, Carmen Hartmayer, Alice Hettler, Alicja Sarnecka, Ulrich Wulle, Christina Ehrhardt, Stephan Ludwig, and Oliver Planz
DNA damage repair machinery and HIV escape from innate immune sensing
Christelle Bregnard, Monsef Benkirane, and Nadine Laguette
Bacteriophages of Leuconostoc, Oenococcus, and Weissella
Witold P. Kot, Horst Neve, Knut J. Heller, and Finn Kvist Vogensen
Clostridium difficile phages: still difficult?
Katherine Rose Hargreaves and Martha Rebecca Jane Clokie
Membrane interaction of retroviral Gag proteins
Robert Alfred Dick and Volker M Vogt
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