Nature Reviews Microbiology contents September 2016 Volume 14 Number 9 pp 543-600

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September 2016 Volume 14 Number 9		Advertisement
Impact Factor 24.727 *	In this issue Editorial Research Highlights News and Analysis Focus on: Bacterial growth Reviews Correspondence Also this month Article series: Microbial biofilms  Featured article: The physiology of growth arrest: uniting molecular and environmental microbiology Megan Bergkessel, David W. Basta & Dianne K. Newman	nature.com webcasts Springer Nature presents a custom webcast on: Accelerated biophysical characterization and screening of biologics using array surface plasmon resonance imaging Thursday September 15, 2016 8.30AM PDT, 11.30AM EDT, 4.30PM BST, 5.30PM CEST  Register for the webcast and live Q&A session Sponsored by:  Wasatch Microfluidics Inc.
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EDITORIAL		Top
Population dynamics p543 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.123 This Focus issue on bacterial growth, highlights the versatility and adaptability with which bacterial cells respond to their environmental and community context. Full Text | PDF
RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS Top Bacterial pathogenesis: Getting all tangled up p545 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.112 This study shows that deletion of a dehydratase attenuates Mycobacterium abscessus pathogenicity, owing to decreased cord formation and intracellular growth impairment. PDF Bacterial toxins: Strain competition keeps a lid on gut pathogens p546 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.121 Interstrain competition enables non-toxigenic Bacteroides fragilis to exclude enterotoxic bacteria from the same species, thereby protecting the gut from inflammation and disease. PDF Bacterial genetics: SMRT-seq reveals an epigenetic switch p546 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.122 Single-molecule, real-time sequencing shows that a phase variation-induced epigenetic switch controls colony morphology in Streptococcus pneumoniae. PDF Bacterial physiology: Salmonella get attached p547 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.120 This study shows that the effectors SseF and SseG bind to mammalian ACBD3 to localize Salmonella-containing vacuoles to the Golgi network. PDF IN BRIEF Microbiome: Microbial mobilomes differ between societies | Bacterial genetics: A new class of Hfq-like sRNA chaperones? | Bacterial pathogenesis: Gut bugs in the lung link sepsis to ARDS PDF
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GENOME WATCH A bit of a mouthful James Hadfield & Sophia David p548 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.124 This month's Genome Watch explores recent advances in the identification of species-level and strain-level diversity in microbiome studies, and highlights how these have provided insights into the tropism and persistence of Neisseria spp. in the human oral cavity. PDF
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Focus on: Bacterial growth REVIEWS Top The physiology of growth arrest: uniting molecular and environmental microbiology Megan Bergkessel, David W. Basta & Dianne K. Newman p549 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.107 The dominant lifestyle of most bacteria involves little or no growth. In this Review, Newman and colleagues discuss the physiology of these little-studied growth states, including changes to metabolism, transcription and translation, and the maintenance of genome replication and integrity. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Article series: Microbial biofilms Biofilms: an emergent form of bacterial life Hans-Curt Flemming, Jost Wingender, Ulrich Szewzyk, Peter Steinberg, Scott A. Rice & Staffan Kjelleberg p563 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.94 Numerous metabolic functions, social interactions and survival mechanisms are specific to, or more pronounced in, biofilms than in planktonic cells. In this Review, Flemming and colleagues highlight the central role of the self-produced matrix in establishing these 'emergent properties' of biofilms. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Quorum sensing signal-response systems in Gram-negative bacteria Kai Papenfort & Bonnie L. Bassler p576 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.89 Quorum sensing is used to control the behaviour of bacterial communities. In this Review, Papenfort and Bassler highlight recent discoveries about quorum sensing in Gram-negative bacteria, such as novel autoinducers and signalling networks that promote communication that ranges from intra-species to inter-kingdom. Abstract | Full Text | PDF Article series: Microbial biofilms Spatial structure, cooperation and competition in biofilms Carey D. Nadell, Knut Drescher & Kevin R. Foster p589 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.84 Microbial biofilms exhibit vast complexity in terms of both resident species composition and phenotypic diversity. Here, Foster and colleagues discuss theoretical and experimental work that reveals how the spatial arrangement of genotypes within microbial communities influences the cooperative and competitive cell-cell interactions that define biofilm form and function. Abstract | Full Text | PDF
CORRESPONDENCE		Top
Correspondence: Comment on Tocheva et al. "Sporulation, bacterial cell envelopes and the origin of life" Iain C. Sutcliffe & Lynn G. Dover p600 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.113 Full Text | PDF
Correspondence: Author's reply Elitza I. Tocheva, Davi R. Ortega & Grant J. Jensen p600 | doi:10.1038/nrmicro.2016.114 Full Text | PDF
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