1. Phylogeny and photoheterotrophy in the acidophilic phototrophic purple bacterium Rhodoblastus acidophilus

   • Megan L. Kempher
   • Michael T. Madigan

   Original Paper 29 January 2012 Pages: 567 - 574

   

2. Isolation and identification of a bacteriocin with antibacterial and antibiofilm activity from Citrobacter freundii

   • Robert M. Q. Shanks
   • Aliza Dashiff
   • Daniel E. Kadouri

   Original Paper 31 January 2012 Pages: 575 - 587

   

3. Mutagenesis and biochemical studies on AuaA confirmed the importance of the two conserved aspartate-rich motifs and suggested difference in the amino acids for substrate binding in membrane-bound prenyltransferases

   • Edyta Stec
   • Shu-Ming Li

   Original Paper 07 February 2012 Pages: 589 - 595

   

4. Variable composition of heme oxygenases with different regiospecificities in Pseudomonas species

   • Bjoern Gisk
   • Jessica Wiethaus
   • Nicole Frankenberg-Dinkel

   Original Paper 09 February 2012 Pages: 597 - 606

   

5. Characteristics and distribution of plasmids in a clonally diverse set of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

   • Lucie Kuntová
   • Roman Pantůček
   • Jiří Doškař

   Original Paper 14 February 2012 Pages: 607 - 614

6. Identification of N-acyl homoserine lactones produced by Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus PAL5 cultured in complex and synthetic media

   • Carlos G. Nieto-Peñalver
   • Elisa V. Bertini
   • Lucía I. C. de Figueroa

   Original Paper 18 February 2012 Pages: 615 - 622

   

7. New clusters of arsenite oxidase and unusual bacterial groups in enrichments from arsenic-contaminated soil

   • Munawar Sultana
   • Susann Vogler
   • Michael Schlömann

   Original Paper 21 February 2012 Pages: 623 - 635

   

8. The inner membrane protein, YhiM, is necessary for Escherichia coli (E. coli) survival in acidic conditions

   • Tuan M. Nguyen
   • Rebecca L. Sparks-Thissen

   Short Communication 12 February 2012 Pages: 637 - 641