J. Bact -- Table of Contents (October 15 1997, 179 [20])

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Lipoprotein from the osmoregulated ABC transport system OpuA of Bacillus subtilis: purification of the glycine betaine binding protein and characterization of a functional lipidless mutant
B Kempf, J Gade, and E Bremer
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6213-6220;
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Construction and characterization of a Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron recA mutant: transfer of Bacteroides integrated conjugative elements is RecA independent
AJ Cooper, AP Kalinowski, NB Shoemaker, and AA Salyers
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6221-6227;
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Methods for generating precise deletions and insertions in the genome of wild-type Escherichia coli: application to open reading frame characterization
AJ Link, D Phillips, and GM Church
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6228-6237;
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Functional domains of the InsA protein of IS2
GS Lei and ST Hu
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6238-6243;
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A new Bacillus subtilis gene, med, encodes a positive regulator of comK
M Ogura, Y Ohshiro, S Hirao, and T Tanaka
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6244-6253;
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Use of an inducible regulatory protein to identify members of a regulon: application to the regulon controlled by the leucine- responsive regulatory protein (Lrp) in Escherichia coli
SP Bhagwat, MR Rice, RG Matthews, and RM Blumenthal
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6254-6263;
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Interactions of dedicated export membrane proteins of the colicin V secretion system: CvaA, a member of the membrane fusion protein family, interacts with CvaB and TolC
J Hwang, X Zhong, and PC Tai
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6264-6270;
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Cloning of an avilamycin biosynthetic gene cluster from Streptomyces viridochromogenes Tu57
S Gaisser, A Trefzer, S Stockert, A Kirschning, and A Bechthold
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6271-6278;
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Altered extent of cross-linking of beta1,6-glucosylated mannoproteins to chitin in Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants with reduced cell wall beta1,3-glucan content
JC Kapteyn, AF Ram, EM Groos, R Kollar, RC Montijn, H Van Den Ende, A Llobell, E Cabib, and FM Klis
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6279-6284;
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Dual role of alpha-acetolactate decarboxylase in Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis
N Goupil-Feuillerat, M Cocaign-Bousquet, JJ Godon, SD Ehrlich, and P Renault
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6285-6293;
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Increase of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus caused by deletion of a gene whose product is homologous to lytic enzymes
T Fujimura and K Murakami
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6294-6301;
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Bacillus subtilis PhoP binds to the phoB tandem promoter exclusively within the phosphate starvation-inducible promoter
W Liu and FM Hulett
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6302-6310;
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Characterization of the oriC region of Mycobacterium smegmatis
MH Qin, MV Madiraju, S Zachariah, and M Rajagopalan
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6311-6317;
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Characterization of two heat shock genes from Haloferax volcanii: a model system for transcription regulation in the Archaea
YP Kuo, DK Thompson, A St. Jean, RL Charlebois, and CJ Daniels
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6318-6324;
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Rapamycin specifically interferes with the developmental response of fission yeast to starvation
R Weisman, M Choder, and Y Koltin
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6325-6334;
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Cloning, nucleotide sequence, and overexpression of smoS, a component of a novel operon encoding an ABC transporter and polyol dehydrogenases of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Si4
MA Stein, A Schafer, and F Giffhorn
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6335-6340;
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Mechanism of decay of the cry1Aa mRNA in Bacillus subtilis
C Vazquez-Cruz and G Olmedo-Alvarez
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6341-6348;
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Factors controlling in vitro recrystallization of the Caulobacter crescentus paracrystalline S-layer
JF Nomellini, S Kupcu, UB Sleytr, and J Smit
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6349-6354;
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Alternative transcription factor sigmaSB of Staphylococcus aureus: characterization and role in transcription of the global regulatory locus sar
R Deora, T Tseng, and TK Misra
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6355-6359;
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The presence of a dnaK (HSP70) multigene family in members of the orders Planctomycetales and Verrucomicrobiales
N Ward-Rainey, FA Rainey, and E Stackebrandt
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6360-6366;
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Deletion analysis of the fis promoter region in Escherichia coli: antagonistic effects of integration host factor and Fis
TS Pratt, T Steiner, LS Feldman, KA Walker, and R Osuna
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6367-6377;
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The Mycobacterium xenopi GyrA protein splicing element: characterization of a minimal intein
A Telenti, M Southworth, F Alcaide, S Daugelat, WR Jacobs, Jr, and FB Perler
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6378-6382;
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Amylase and chitinase genes in Streptomyces lividans are regulated by reg1, a pleiotropic regulatory gene
J Nguyen, F Francou, MJ Virolle, and M Guerineau
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6383-6390;
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Three genes of a motility operon and their role in flagellar rotary speed variation in Rhizobium meliloti
J Platzer, W Sterr, M Hausmann, and R Schmitt
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6391-6399;
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Identification of human transferrin-binding sites within meningococcal transferrin-binding protein B
G Renaud-Mongenie, D Poncet, L von Olleschik-Elbheim, T Cournez, M Mignon, MA Schmidt, and MJ Quentin-Millet
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6400-6407;
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Characterization of two genes encoding the Mycobacterium tuberculosis ribonucleotide reductase small subunit
F Yang, SC Curran, LS Li, D Avarbock, JD Graf, MM Chua, G Lu, J Salem, and H Rubin
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6408-6415;
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Acyltransferase domain substitutions in erythromycin polyketide synthase yield novel erythromycin derivatives
X Ruan, A Pereda, DL Stassi, D Zeidner, RG Summers, M Jackson, A Shivakumar, S Kakavas, MJ Staver, S Donadio, and L Katz
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6416-6425;
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Identification of an essential Caulobacter crescentus gene encoding a member of the Obg family of GTP-binding proteins
J Maddock, A Bhatt, M Koch, and J Skidmore
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6426-6431;
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Stationary-phase mutants of Sinorhizobium meliloti are impaired in stationary-phase survival or in recovery to logarithmic growth
C Uhde, R Schmidt, D Jording, W Selbitschka, and A Puhler
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6432-6440;
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Identification, isolation, and characterization of the 42-kilodalton major outer membrane protein (MompA) from Treponema pectinovorum ATCC 33768
SG Walker, JL Ebersole, and SC Holt
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6441-6447;
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Transcriptional characterization of the Rickettsia prowazekii major macromolecular synthesis operon
EI Shaw, GL Marks, HH Winkler, and DO Wood
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6448-6452;
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Structural characterization of the lipid A component of Helicobacter pylori rough- and smooth-form lipopolysaccharides
AP Moran, B Lindner, and EJ Walsh
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6453-6463;
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Filamentous phage infection: required interactions with the TolA protein
EM Click and RE Webster
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6464-6471;
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Contribution of different segments of the par region to stable maintenance of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2
CL Easter, PA Sobecky, and DR Helinski
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6472-6479;
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Clostridium perfringens epsilon-toxin acts on MDCK cells by forming a large membrane complex
L Petit, M Gibert, D Gillet, C Laurent-Winter, P Boquet, and MR Popoff
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6480-6487;
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Biochemical and genetic characterization of 2-carboxybenzaldehyde dehydrogenase, an enzyme involved in phenanthrene degradation by Nocardioides sp. strain KP7
T Iwabuchi and S Harayama
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6488-6494;
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HrpA, a new ribosome-associated protein which appears in heat-stressed Mycobacterium bovis bacillus Calmette-Guerin
N Ohara, N Ohara, M Naito, C Miyazaki, S Matsumoto, Y Tabira, and T Yamada
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6495-6498;
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Characterization of a thermostable DNA photolyase from an extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus HB27
R Kato, K Hasegawa, Y Hidaka, S Kuramitsu, and T Hoshino
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6499-6503;
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Evidence that rseC, a gene in the rpoE cluster, has a role in thiamine synthesis in Salmonella typhimurium
BJ Beck, LE Connolly, A De Las Penas, and DM Downs
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6504-6508;
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Genetic diversity in temperate bacteriophages of Streptococcus pyogenes: identification of a second attachment site for phages carrying the erythrogenic toxin A gene
WM McShan and JJ Ferretti
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6509-6511;
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Two distinct models account for short and long deletions within sequence repeats in Escherichia coli
S Schumacher, RP Fuchs, and M Bichara
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6512-6517;
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A mutational study of the site-specific cleavage of EC83, a multicopy single-stranded DNA (msDNA): nucleotides at the msDNA stem are important for its cleavage
K Kim, D Jeong, and D Lim
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6518-6521;
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The Serratia marcescens NucE protein functions as a holin in Escherichia coli
M Berkmen, MJ Benedik, and U Blasi
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6522-6524;
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Transcriptional regulation of the cydDC operon, encoding a heterodimeric ABC transporter required for assembly of cytochromes c and bd in Escherichia coli K-12: regulation by oxygen and alternative electron acceptors
GM Cook, J Membrillo-Hernandez, and RK Poole
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6525-6530;
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Temporal regulation of sigD from Bacillus subtilis depends on a minor promoter in front of the gene
R Allmansberger
J. Bacteriol. October 1997 179: 6531-6535;
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