March, 2010
Volume 18, Issue 3

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Volume 18, Issue 3

Mycobacteria that cause human infections can range from true pathogens (i.e. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium leprae, and Mycobacterium ulcerans) to opportunistic (i.e. Mycobacterium avium). Mycobacterium abscessus is an emerging opportunistic pathogen, however, unlike some mycobacteria, it grows rapidly. On pages 117–123, Medjahed et al. discuss what is currently known about M. abscessus. Cover design by Jean-Louis Gaillard.



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  • Editor
    Gail Teitzel
  • Executive Editor, Microbiology
    Lakshmi Goyal
  • Journal Manager
    Jeanette Bakker
  • Journal Administrator
    Peggy Kristanto

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Editorial Board

  • Adriano Aguzzi
    Norma Andrews
    Barry Bloom
    Ulla Bonas
    Julian Davies
    W. Ford Doolittle
    Brett Finlay
    Vincent Fischetti
    William Goldman
    Bryan Grenfell
    Stefan Kaufmann
    Ulrich Koszinowski
    John Mekalanos
    Richard Moxon
    Ken Nealson
    Glen Nemerow
    Donald Nuss
    Philippe Sansonetti
    Chihiro Sasakawa
    Olaf Schneewind
    Robin Weiss

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Mycobacterial outer membranes: in search of proteins
Michael Niederweis, Olga Danilchanka, Jason Huff, Christian Hoffmann, and Harald Engelhardt
10.1016/j.tim.2009.12.005
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Articles of Interest in Other Journals

Cell
The lta4h Locus Modulates Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infection in Zebrafish and Humans
David M. Tobin, Jay C. Vary, John P. Ray, Gregory S. Walsh, Sarah J. Dunstan, Nguyen D. Bang, Deanna A. Hagge, Saraswoti Khadge, Mary-Claire King, Thomas R. Hawn, Cecilia B. Moens, Lalita Ramakrishnan

Cell
Genome-wide Analysis of the Host Intracellular Network that Regulates Survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Dhiraj Kumar, Lekha Nath, Md. Azhar Kamal, Ankur Varshney, Avinash Jain, Sarman Singh, Kanury V.S. Rao

Cell Host & Microbe
Enhanced Infection of Liver Sinusoidal Endothelial Cells in a Mouse Model of Antibody-Induced Severe Dengue Disease
Raphaël M. Zellweger, Tyler R. Prestwood, Sujan Shresta

Molecular Cell
Negative Feedback Loops Involving Small Regulatory RNAs Precisely Control the Vibrio harveyi Quorum-Sensing Response
Kimberly C. Tu, Tao Long, Sine L. Svenningsen, Ned S. Wingreen, Bonnie L. Bassler



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In the March Issue of Trends in Microbiology

Niederweis Mycobacterial outer membranes: in search of proteins
Michael Niederweis and colleagues discuss the structure of the mycobacterial outer membrane and make predictions for other potential proteins present in the outer membrane.
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Gaillard Mycobacterium abscessus: a new player in the mycobacterial field
Mycobacteria that cause human infections can range from true pathogens (i.e. Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium leprae, and Mycobacterium ulcerans) to opportunistic (i.e. Mycobacterium avium). Mycobacterium abscessus is an emerging opportunistic pathogen, however, unlike some mycobacteria, it grows rapidly. Jean-Louis Gaillard and colleagues discuss what is currently known about M. abscessus.
Other articles in the March issue:

Do the organic sulfur compounds DMSP and DMS drive coral microbial associations?
Uncovering newly emerging variants of Streptococcus suis, an important zoonotic agent
Functional diversity of ankyrin repeats in microbial proteins

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Forthcoming Articles

Tucker There's NO stopping NsrR, a global regulator of the bacterial NO stress response
The bacterial protein NsrR has been suggested to be a global regulator of nitric oxide (NO) stress response. Nicholas Tucker and colleagues review the NsrR regulon and discuss how NsrR senses NO.

Bordenstein Phage WO of Wolbachia: lambda of the endosymbiont world
Bethany Kent and Seth Bordenstein discuss how arthropods, Wolbachia, and phage WO influence each other's biology and evolution. In addition, phage WO and Wolbachia are suggested to act as a model system for obligate intracellular bacteria.

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Celebrating Darwin: Evolution of Hosts, Microbes and Parasites

Trends in Microbiology had a series on ‘Evolutionary Microbiology’ to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birthday (12th February, 1809) along with Trends in Parasitology and Cell Host & Microbe.

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These are the five most downloaded papers for the 30 days preceding March 11, 2010. See full list of most read articles

Quorum sensing in natural environments: emerging views from microbial mats
Alan W. Decho, R. Sean Norman, Pieter T. Visscher
10.1016/j.tim.2009.12.008
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Bacterial tyrosine kinases: novel targets for antibacterial therapy?
Alain J. Cozzone
10.1016/j.tim.2009.09.005
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New dimensions of the virus world discovered through metagenomics
David M. Kristensen, Arcady R. Mushegian, Valerian V. Dolja, Eugene V. Koonin
10.1016/j.tim.2009.11.003
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Architecture of peptidoglycan: more data and more models
Waldemar Vollmer, Stephen J. Seligman
10.1016/j.tim.2009.12.004
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Functional viral metagenomics and the next generation of molecular tools
Thomas Schoenfeld, Mark Liles, K. Eric Wommack, Shawn W. Polson, Ronald Godiska, David Mead
10.1016/j.tim.2009.10.001
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