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Research Article:

Purification and characterization of formyl-coenzyme A transferase from Oxalobacter formigenes.
A L Baetz and M J Allison
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3537-3540;
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A mutation of the transactivation gene of satellite bacteriophage P4 that suppresses the rpoA109 mutation of Escherichia coli.
C Halling, M G Sunshine, K B Lane, E W Six, and R Calendar
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3541-3548;
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Bacteriophage P2 ogr and P4 delta genes act independently and are essential for P4 multiplication.
C Halling and R Calendar
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3549-3558;
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Rhizobium meliloti suhR suppresses the phenotype of an Escherichia coli RNA polymerase sigma 32 mutant.
A F Bent and E R Signer
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3559-3568;
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Brucella abortus 16S rRNA and lipid A reveal a phylogenetic relationship with members of the alpha-2 subdivision of the class Proteobacteria.
E Moreno, E Stackebrandt, M Dorsch, J Wolters, M Busch, and H Mayer
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3569-3576;
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Effect of outer membrane permeability on chemotaxis in Escherichia coli.
C Ingham, M Buechner, and J Adler
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3577-3583;
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Genetic assessment of stationary phase for cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
M A Drebot, C A Barnes, R A Singer, and G C Johnston
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3584-3589;
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Genetic analysis of the O7-polysaccharide biosynthesis region from the Escherichia coli O7:K1 strain VW187.
C L Marolda, J Welsh, L Dafoe, and M A Valvano
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3590-3599;
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Structural and functional similarities between the replication region of the Yersinia virulence plasmid and the RepFIIA replicons.
J C Vanooteghem and G R Cornelis
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3600-3608;
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Diversity and origin of Desulfovibrio species: phylogenetic definition of a family.
R Devereux, S H He, C L Doyle, S Orkland, D A Stahl, J LeGall, and W B Whitman
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3609-3619;
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Cloning and sequencing of a Bacteroides ruminicola B(1)4 endoglucanase gene.
O Matsushita, J B Russell, and D B Wilson
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3620-3630;
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Involvement of gamma-glutamyl peptides in osmoadaptation of Escherichia coli.
D McLaggan, T M Logan, D G Lynn, and W Epstein
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3631-3636;
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Regulation of trehalose metabolism by Streptomyces griseus spores.
M J McBride and J C Ensign
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3637-3643;
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An operon containing the genes for cholesterol oxidase and a cytochrome P-450-like protein from a Streptomyces sp.
M Horii, T Ishizaki, S Y Paik, T Manome, and Y Murooka
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3644-3653;
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Purification and characterization of an alpha-glucosidase from a hyperthermophilic archaebacterium, Pyrococcus furiosus, exhibiting a temperature optimum of 105 to 115 degrees C.
H R Costantino, S H Brown, and R M Kelly
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3654-3660;
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Identification of cis-acting sequences required for translational autoregulation of the ermC methylase.
F Breidt and D Dubnau
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3661-3668;
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Genetic transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae: nucleotide sequence and predicted amino acid sequence of recP.
B A Radnis, D K Rhee, and D A Morrison
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3669-3674;
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Characterization of ompF domains involved in Escherichia coli K-12 sensitivity to colicins A and N.
D Fourel, C Hikita, J M Bolla, S Mizushima, and J M Pagès
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3675-3680;
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Isolation and in vitro assembly of the components of the outer S layer of Lampropedia hyalina.
J W Austin and R G Murray
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3681-3689;
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Oxidation of aromatic alcohols by purified methanol dehydrogenase from Methylosinus trichosporium.
D O Mountfort
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3690-3694;
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DNA sequence and translational product of a new nodulation-regulatory locus: syrM has sequence similarity to NodD proteins.
M J Barnett and S R Long
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3695-3700;
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Depressed light emission by symbiotic Vibrio fischeri of the sepiolid squid Euprymna scolopes.
K J Boettcher and E G Ruby
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3701-3706;
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Mutations leading to constitutive expression from the TOL plasmid meta-cleavage pathway operon are located at the C-terminal end of the positive regulator protein XylS.
L M Zhou, K N Timmis, and J L Ramos
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3707-3710;
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Translocation and compartmentalization of Escherichia coli hemolysin (HlyA).
R L Oropeza-Wekerle, W Speth, B Imhof, I Gentschev, and W Goebel
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3711-3717;
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Properties of cell wall-associated DD-carboxypeptidase of Enterococcus hirae (Streptococcus faecium) ATCC 9790 extracted with alkali.
R Kariyama, O Massidda, L Daneo-Moore, and G D Shockman
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3718-3724;
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Unusual evolution of a superoxide dismutase-like gene from the extremely halophilic archaebacterium Halobacterium cutirubrum.
B P May and P P Dennis
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3725-3729;
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The Bacillus subtilis 168 alkaline phosphatase III gene: impact of a phoAIII mutation on total alkaline phosphatase synthesis.
C Bookstein, C W Edwards, N V Kapp, and F M Hulett
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3730-3737;
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Insertional mutagenesis of Listeria monocytogenes with a novel Tn917 derivative that allows direct cloning of DNA flanking transposon insertions.
A Camilli, A Portnoy, and P Youngman
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3738-3744;
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Structural and functional characterization of tnpI, a recombinase locus in Tn21 and related beta-lactamase transposons.
J Mercier, J Lachapelle, F Couture, M Lafond, G Vézina, M Boissinot, and R C Levesque
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3745-3757;
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Bacterial cell shape regulation: testing of additional predictions unique to the two-competing-sites model for peptidoglycan assembly and isolation of conditional rod-shaped mutants from some wild-type cocci.
M M Lleo, P Canepari, and G Satta
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3758-3771;
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The ermC leader peptide: amino acid alterations leading to differential efficiency of induction by macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B antibiotics.
M Mayford and B Weisblum
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3772-3779;
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The Yersinia enterocolitica inv gene product is an outer membrane protein that shares epitopes with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis invasin.
J C Pepe and V L Miller
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3780-3789;
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Cloning of spiramycin biosynthetic genes and their use in constructing Streptomyces ambofaciens mutants defective in spiramycin biosynthesis.
M A Richardson, S Kuhstoss, M L Huber, L Ford, O Godfrey, J R Turner, and R N Rao
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3790-3798;
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Regulation of the Escherichia coli glyA gene by the purR gene product.
J G Steiert, R J Rolfes, H Zalkin, and G V Stauffer
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3799-3803;
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Repression and catabolite repression of the lactose operon of Staphylococcus aureus.
B Oskouian and G C Stewart
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3804-3812;
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Cloning and in vivo and in vitro regulation of cyclic AMP-dependent carbon starvation genes from Escherichia coli.
P H Blum, S B Jovanovich, M P McCann, J E Schultz, S A Lesley, R R Burgess, and A Matin
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3813-3820;
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Physical map of the Bacillus cereus chromosome.
A B Kolstø, A Grønstad, and H Oppegaard
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3821-3825;
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Genetic suppression demonstrates interaction of TonB protein with outer membrane transport proteins in Escherichia coli.
P E Bell, C D Nau, J T Brown, J Konisky, and R J Kadner
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3826-3829;
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Site-specific transposition of insertion sequence IS630.
T Tenzen, S Matsutani, and E Ohtsubo
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3830-3836;
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DNA sequence of a Fibrobacter succinogenes mixed-linkage beta-glucanase (1,3-1,4-beta-D-glucan 4-glucanohydrolase) gene.
R M Teather and J D Erfle
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3837-3841;
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Cloning, sequence, and expression of the pantothenate permease (panF) gene of Escherichia coli.
S Jackowski and J H Alix
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3842-3848;
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Replication of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2: direct measurement of intracellular concentrations of the essential TrfA replication proteins and their effect on plasmid copy number.
R H Durland and D R Helinski
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3849-3858;
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Mutations in the trfA replication gene of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 result in elevated plasmid copy numbers.
R H Durland, A Toukdarian, F Fang, and D R Helinski
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3859-3867;
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Genetic analysis of tag mutants of Myxococcus xanthus provides evidence for two developmental aggregation systems.
K A O'Connor and D R Zusman
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3868-3878;
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DNA sequence analysis of pglA and mechanism of export of its polygalacturonase product from Pseudomonas solanacearum.
J H Huang and M A Schell
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3879-3887;
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Rhizobium meliloti and Rhizobium leguminosarum dctD gene products bind to tandem sites in an activation sequence located upstream of sigma 54-dependent dctA promoters.
H Ledebur, B Gu, J Sojda, 3rd, and B T Nixon
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3888-3897;
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Isolation of the Candida albicans histidinol dehydrogenase (HIS4) gene and characterization of a histidine auxotroph.
Z Altboum, S Gottlieb, G A Lebens, I Polacheck, and E Segal
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3898-3904;
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Molecular cloning and characterization of an extracellular protease gene from Aeromonas hydrophila.
O Rivero, J Anguita, C Paniagua, and G Naharro
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3905-3908;
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Ethanol formation in adh0 mutants reveals the existence of a novel acetaldehyde-reducing activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
C Drewke, J Thielen, and M Ciriacy
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3909-3917;
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The Escherichia coli K-12 metJ193 allele contains a point mutation which alters the hydrophobic pocket responsible for in vitro binding of S-adenosylmethionine: effects on cell growth and induction of met regulon expression.
C D Collier and J R Johnson
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3918-3924;
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Expression of the Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 xisA gene from a heterologous promoter results in excision of the nifD element.
J S Brusca, C J Chastain, and J W Golden
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3925-3931;
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Co-overproduction and localization of the Escherichia coli motility proteins motA and motB.
M L Wilson and R M Macnab
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3932-3939;
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Overproduction of tyrosyl-tRNA synthetase is toxic to Escherichia coli: a genetic analysis.
H Bedouelle, V Guez, A Vidal-Cros, and M Hermann
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3940-3945;
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Highly virulent strains of Pseudomonas solanacearum that are defective in extracellular-polysaccharide production.
P L Xu, M Iwata, S Leong, and L Sequeira
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3946-3951;
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The beta-lactam biosynthesis genes for isopenicillin N epimerase and deacetoxycephalosporin C synthetase are expressed from a single transcript in Streptomyces clavuligerus.
S Kovacevic, M B Tobin, and J R Miller
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3952-3958;
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Hyperthermus butylicus, a hyperthermophilic sulfur-reducing archaebacterium that ferments peptides.
W Zillig, I Holz, D Janekovic, H P Klenk, E Imsel, J Trent, S Wunderl, V H Forjaz, R Coutinho, and T Ferreira
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3959-3965;
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The sacT gene regulating the sacPA operon in Bacillus subtilis shares strong homology with transcriptional antiterminators.
M Debarbouille, M Arnaud, A Fouet, A Klier, and G Rapoport
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3966-3973;
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Critical regions of the Vibrio fischeri luxR protein defined by mutational analysis.
J Slock, D VanRiet, D Kolibachuk, and E P Greenberg
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3974-3979;
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Use of regulated cell lysis in a lethal genetic selection in Escherichia coli: identification of the autoinducer-binding region of the LuxR protein from Vibrio fischeri ATCC 7744.
G S Shadel, R Young, and T O Baldwin
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3980-3987;
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Regions of the Streptococcus sobrinus spaA gene encoding major determinants of antigen I.
R M Goldschmidt, M Thoren-Gordon, and R Curtiss, 3rd
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 3988-4001;
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Prey-derived signals regulating duration of the developmental growth phase of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus.
K M Gray and E G Ruby
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4002-4007;
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Streptomyces relC mutants with an altered ribosomal protein ST-L11 and genetic analysis of a Streptomyces griseus relC mutant.
K Ochi
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4008-4016;
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Chitinase system of Bacillus circulans WL-12 and importance of chitinase A1 in chitin degradation.
T Watanabe, W Oyanagi, K Suzuki, and H Tanaka
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4017-4022;
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Genetic tagging, cloning, and DNA sequence of the Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 gene (gnd) encoding 6-phosphogluconate dehydrogenase.
S E Broedel, Jr and R E Wolf, Jr
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4023-4031;
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Construction by site-directed mutagenesis of a 39-kilodalton mosquitocidal protein similar to the larva-processed toxin of Bacillus sphaericus 2362.
A H Broadwell, M A Clark, L Baumann, and P Baumann
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4032-4036;
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Carbohydrate utilization in Streptococcus thermophilus: characterization of the genes for aldose 1-epimerase (mutarotase) and UDPglucose 4-epimerase.
B Poolman, T J Royer, S E Mainzer, and B F Schmidt
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4037-4047;
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Growth medium-independent genetic competence mutants of Bacillus subtilis.
D Dubnau and M Roggiani
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4048-4055;
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Suppression of early competence mutations in Bacillus subtilis by mec mutations.
M Roggiani, J Hahn, and D Dubnau
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4056-4063;
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Transcriptional regulation of comC: evidence for a competence-specific transcription factor in Bacillus subtilis.
S Mohan and D Dubnau
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4064-4071;
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Characterization of the light-regulated operon encoding the phycoerythrin-associated linker proteins from the cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon.
N A Federspiel and A R Grossman
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4072-4081;
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Molecular characterization of an Enterobacter cloacae gene (romA) which pleiotropically inhibits the expression of Escherichia coli outer membrane proteins.
T Komatsu, M Ohta, N Kido, Y Arakawa, H Ito, T Mizuno, and N Kato
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4082-4089;
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Transposition in Shigella dysenteriae: isolation and analysis of IS911, a new member of the IS3 group of insertion sequences.
M F Prère, M Chandler, and O Fayet
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4090-4099;
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Identification and cloning of genes involved in anaerobic sulfite reduction by Salmonella typhimurium.
C J Huang and E L Barrett
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4100-4102;
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In vitro characterization of two different Phycomyces blakesleeanus mutants with impaired phytoene desaturation.
A Schmidt and G Sandmann
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4103-4105;
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Regulation of Escherichia coli sigma F RNA polymerase by flhD and flhC flagellar regulatory genes.
D N Arnosti
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4106-4108;
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Endogenous transmembrane tunnel formation mediated by phi X174 lysis protein E.
A Witte, G Wanner, U Bläsi, G Halfmann, M Szostak, and W Lubitz
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4109-4114;
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Enzymes of phosphoinositide synthesis in secretory vesicles destined for the plasma membrane in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
A J Kinney and G M Carman
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4115-4117;
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Transcriptional induction of purple membrane and gas vesicle synthesis in the archaebacterium Halobacterium halobium is blocked by a DNA gyrase inhibitor.
C F Yang and S DasSarma
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4118-4121;
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Simultaneous loss of N5-(carboxyethyl)ornithine synthase, nisin production, and sucrose-fermenting ability by Lactococcus lactis K1.
J A Donkersloot and J Thompson
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4122-4126;
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Nucleotide sequence of the traI (helicase I) gene from the sex factor F.
H D Bradshaw, Jr, B A Traxler, E G Minkley, Jr, E W Nester, and M P Gordon
J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4127-4131;
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Errata:

The Functional Domain of Adenylate Cyclase Associated with Entry into Meiosis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

J. Bacteriol. July 1990 172: 4132
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