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Structure of the puf operon of the obligately aerobic, bacteriochlorophyll alpha-containing bacterium Roseobacter denitrificans OCh114 and its expression in a Rhodobacter capsulatus puf puc deletion mutant
C Kortluke, K Breese, N Gad'on, A Labahn, and G Drews
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5247-5258;
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Transcription of Staphylococcus aureus fibronectin binding protein genes is negatively regulated by agr and an agr-independent mechanism
P Saravia-Otten, HP Muller, and S Arvidson
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5259-5263;
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FnrN controls symbiotic nitrogen fixation and hydrogenase activities in Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae UPM791
D Gutierrez, Y Hernando, JM Palacios, J Imperial, and T Ruiz-Argueso
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5264-5270;
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Quorum sensing in Aeromonas hydrophila and Aeromonas salmonicida: identification of the LuxRI homologs AhyRI and AsaRI and their cognate N-acylhomoserine lactone signal molecules
S Swift, AV Karlyshev, L Fish, EL Durant, MK Winson, SR Chhabra, P Williams, S Macintyre, and GS Stewart
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5271-5281;
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Control of the shift from homolactic acid to mixed-acid fermentation in Lactococcus lactis: predominant role of the NADH/NAD+ ratio
C Garrigues, P Loubiere, ND Lindley, and M Cocaign-Bousquet
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5282-5287;
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A homoserine lactone autoinducer regulates virulence of an insect- pathogenic bacterium, Xenorhabdus nematophilus (Enterobacteriaceae)
G Dunphy, C Miyamoto, and E Meighen
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5288-5291;
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Identification and molecular characterization of two tandemly located flagellin genes from Aeromonas salmonicida A449
E Umelo and TJ Trust
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5292-5299;
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Cloning and characterization of argR, a gene that participates in regulation of arginine biosynthesis and catabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
SM Park, CD Lu, and AT Abdelal
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5300-5308;
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Purification and characterization of an arginine regulatory protein, ArgR, from Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its interactions with the control regions for the car, argF, and aru operons
SM Park, CD Lu, and AT Abdelal
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5309-5317;
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Role of four major cellulases in triggering of cellulase gene expression by cellulose in Trichoderma reesei
B Seiboth, S Hakola, RL Mach, PL Suominen, and CP Kubicek
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5318-5320;
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The femR315 gene from Staphylococcus aureus, the interruption of which results in reduced methicillin resistance, encodes a phosphoglucosamine mutase
L Jolly, S Wu, J van Heijenoort, H de Lencastre, D Mengin-Lecreulx, and A Tomasz
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5321-5325;
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Fatty acid biosynthesis in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: cloning and characterization of the fabAB operon encoding beta-hydroxyacyl-acyl carrier protein dehydratase (FabA) and beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein synthase I (FabB)
TT Hoang and HP Schweizer
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5326-5332;
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Leaderless polypeptides efficiently extracted from whole cells by osmotic shock
YR Thorstenson, Y Zhang, PS Olson, and D Mascarenhas
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5333-5339;
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Redox buffering by melanin and Fe(II) in Cryptococcus neoformans
ES Jacobson and JD Hong
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5340-5346;
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Biochemical basis for glucose-induced inhibition of malolactic fermentation in Leuconostoc oenos
M Miranda, A Ramos, M Veiga-da-Cunha, MC Loureiro-Dias, and H Santos
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5347-5354;
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Identification of the fliI and fliJ components of the Caulobacter flagellar type III protein secretion system
C Stephens, C Mohr, C Boyd, J Maddock, J Gober, and L Shapiro
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5355-5365;
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Structural characterization of the K antigens from Rhizobium fredii USDA257: evidence for a common structural motif, with strain-specific variation, in the capsular polysaccharides of Rhizobium spp
LS Forsberg and BL Reuhs
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5366-5371;
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Attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to carrot cells and Arabidopsis wound sites is correlated with the presence of a cell-associated, acidic polysaccharide
BL Reuhs, JS Kim, and AG Matthysse
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5372-5379;
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A new type of illegitimate recombination is dependent on restriction and homologous interaction
K Kusano, K Sakagami, T Yokochi, T Naito, Y Tokinaga, E Ueda, and I Kobayashi
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5380-5390;
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Regulation of expression of the Lactobacillus pentosus xylAB operon
BC Lokman, M Heerikhuisen, RJ Leer, A van den Broek, Y Borsboom, S Chaillou, PW Postma, and PH Pouwels
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5391-5397;
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Mutational characterization of promoter regions recognized by the Salmonella dublin virulence plasmid regulatory protein SpvR
P Grob, D Kahn, and DG Guiney
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5398-5406;
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DNA bending by the TrpI protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
S Pineiro, I Olekhnovich, and GN Gussin
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5407-5413;
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Purified outer membranes of Serpulina hyodysenteriae contain cholesterol
H Plaza, TR Whelchel, SF Garczynski, EW Howerth, and FC Gherardini
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5414-5421;
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Differential levels of specific cytochrome c biogenesis proteins in response to oxygen: analysis of the ccl operon in Rhodobacter capsulatus
KK Gabbert, BS Goldman, and RG Kranz
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5422-5428;
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In vitro phosphorylation study of the arc two-component signal transduction system of Escherichia coli
D Georgellis, AS Lynch, and EC Lin
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5429-5435;
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Isolation, analysis, and expression of two genes from Thermoanaerobacterium sp. strain JW/SL YS485: a beta-xylosidase and a novel acetyl xylan esterase with cephalosporin C deacetylase activity
WW Lorenz and J Wiegel
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5436-5441;
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The genes for butanol and acetone formation in Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 reside on a large plasmid whose loss leads to degeneration of the strain
E Cornillot, RV Nair, ET Papoutsakis, and P Soucaille
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5442-5447;
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An lrp-like gene of Bacillus subtilis involved in branched-chain amino acid transport
BR Belitsky, MC Gustafsson, AL Sonenshein, and C Von Wachenfeldt
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5448-5457;
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Mutation of a single MalK subunit severely impairs maltose transport activity in Escherichia coli
AL Davidson and S Sharma
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5458-5464;
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Outer membrane localization of murein hydrolases: MltA, a third lipoprotein lytic transglycosylase in Escherichia coli
J Lommatzsch, MF Templin, AR Kraft, W Vollmer, and JV Holtje
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5465-5470;
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Osmotically induced response in representatives of halophilic prokaryotes: the bacterium Halomonas elongata and the archaeon Haloferax volcanii
FJ Mojica, E Cisneros, C Ferrer, F Rodriguez-Valera, and G Juez
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5471-5481;
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TRAP transporters: a new family of periplasmic solute transport systems encoded by the dctPQM genes of Rhodobacter capsulatus and by homologs in diverse gram-negative bacteria
JA Forward, MC Behrendt, NR Wyborn, R Cross, and DJ Kelly
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5482-5493;
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Expression of the Bacillus subtilis ureABC operon is controlled by multiple regulatory factors including CodY, GlnR, TnrA, and Spo0H
LV Wray, Jr, AE Ferson, and SH Fisher
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5494-5501;
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A gene coding for a putative sigma 54 activator is developmentally regulated in Caulobacter crescentus
MV Marques, SL Gomes, and JW Gober
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5502-5510;
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Environmental signals triggering methylenomycin production by Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
A Hayes, G Hobbs, CP Smith, SG Oliver, and PR Butler
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5511-5515;
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Metals control activity and expression of the heme biosynthesis enzyme delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydratase in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
S Chauhan, DE Titus, and MR O'Brian
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5516-5520;
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Mutation of the htrB gene in a virulent Salmonella typhimurium strain by intergeneric transduction: strain construction and phenotypic characterization
MG Sunshine, BW Gibson, JJ Engstrom, WA Nichols, BD Jones, and MA Apicella
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5521-5533;
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SpoVM, a small protein essential to development in Bacillus subtilis, interacts with the ATP-dependent protease FtsH
S Cutting, M Anderson, E Lysenko, A Page, T Tomoyasu, K Tatematsu, T Tatsuta, L Kroos, and T Ogura
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5534-5542;
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A fragment liberated from the Escherichia coli CheA kinase that blocks stimulatory, but not inhibitory, chemoreceptor signaling
TB Morrison and JS Parkinson
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5543-5550;
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Analysis of the interaction of FtsZ with itself, GTP, and FtsA
X Wang, J Huang, A Mukherjee, C Cao, and J Lutkenhaus
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5551-5559;
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A succinate dehydrogenase with novel structure and properties from the hyperthermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius: genetic and biophysical characterization
S Janssen, G Schafer, S Anemuller, and R Moll
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5560-5569;
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Lactose carrier mutants of Escherichia coli with changes in sugar recognition (lactose versus melibiose)
MF Varela, RJ Brooker, and TH Wilson
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5570-5573;
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A transcriptional activator, FleQ, regulates mucin adhesion and flagellar gene expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa in a cascade manner
SK Arora, BW Ritchings, EC Almira, S Lory, and R Ramphal
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5574-5581;
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Division pattern of a round mutant of Escherichia coli
S Cooper
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5582-5584;
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Negative feedback from a Proteus class II flagellum export defect to the flhDC master operon controlling cell division and flagellum assembly
RB Furness, GM Fraser, NA Hay, and C Hughes
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5585-5588;
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Characterization of cspB, a cold-shock-inducible gene from Lactococcus lactis, and evidence for a family of genes homologous to the Escherichia coli cspA major cold shock gene
MP Chapot-Chartier, C Schouler, AS Lepeuple, JC Gripon, and MC Chopin
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5589-5593;
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GDH3 encodes a glutamate dehydrogenase isozyme, a previously unrecognized route for glutamate biosynthesis in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
A Avendano, A Deluna, H Olivera, L Valenzuela, and A Gonzalez
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5594-5597;
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Oxygen-dependent growth of the obligate anaerobe Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough
MS Johnson, IB Zhulin, ME Gapuzan, and BL Taylor
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5598-5601;
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Cell cycle regulation of flagellar genes
BM Pruss and P Matsumura
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5602-5604;
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Activation of the Bacillus subtilis spoIIG promoter requires interaction of Spo0A and the sigma subunit of RNA polymerase
G Schyns, CM Buckner, and CP Moran, Jr
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5605-5608;
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Nitrogen GATA factors participate in transcriptional regulation of vacuolar protease genes in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
JA Coffman and TG Cooper
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5609-5613;
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The transmission disadvantage of yeast mitochondrial intergenic mutants is eliminated in the mgt1 (cce1) background
J Piskur
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5614-5617;
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Analysis of the role of the nnrR gene product in the response of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 to exogenous nitric oxide
AV Kwiatkowski, WP Laratta, A Toffanin, and JP Shapleigh
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5618-5620;
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BglG, the response regulator of the Escherichia coli bgl operon, is phosphorylated on a histidine residue
O Amster-Choder and A Wright
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5621-5624;
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A nuclear genetic lesion affecting Saccharomyces cerevisiae mitochondrial translation is complemented by a homologous Bacillus gene
SI Kim, N Stange-Thomann, O Martins, KW Hong, D Soll, and TD Fox
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5625-5627;
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Properties of the phosphorylation reaction catalyzed by SpoIIAB that help to regulate sporulation of Bacillus subtilis
SM Najafi, DA Harris, and MD Yudkin
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5628-5631;
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Identification and characterization of cell wall-cell division gene clusters in pathogenic gram-positive cocci
MJ Pucci, JA Thanassi, LF Discotto, RE Kessler, and TJ Dougherty
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5632-5635;
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Isolation and characterization of the lacA gene encoding beta- galactosidase in Bacillus subtilis and a regulator gene, lacR
RA Daniel, J Haiech, F Denizot, and J Errington
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5636-5638;
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High-frequency transposition of IS1373, the insertion sequence delimiting the amplifiable element AUD2 of Streptomyces lividans
JN Volff and J Altenbuchner
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5639-5642;
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A flagellar sheath protein of Helicobacter pylori is identical to HpaA, a putative N-acetylneuraminyllactose-binding hemagglutinin, but is not an adhesin for AGS cells
AC Jones, RP Logan, S Foynes, A Cockayne, BW Wren, and CW Penn
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5643-5647;
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Protein expression in response to folate stress in Escherichia coli
EY Huang, AM Mohler, and CE Rohlman
J. Bacteriol. September 1997 179: 5648-5653;
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