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Guest Commentaries:

Sanford A. Lacks

Rambling and Scrambling in Bacterial Transformation— a Historical and Personal Memoir
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 1-6. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Meeting Reviews:

Kenneth W. Bayles, Neil E. Welker, Malcolm E. Winkler, and Uldis N. Streips

Wind River Conference on Prokaryotic Biology—2002
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 7-12. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Hrissi Samartzidou, Mahsa Mehrazin, Zhaohui Xu, Michael J. Benedik, and Anne H. Delcour

Cadaverine Inhibition of Porin Plays a Role in Cell Survival at Acidic pH
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 13-19. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guillaume Sapriel, Cécile Wandersman, and Philippe Delepelaire

The SecB Chaperone Is Bifunctional in Serratia marcescens: SecB Is Involved in the Sec Pathway and Required for HasA Secretion by the ABC Transporter
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 80-88. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zonglin Hu, Cristian Saez, and Joe Lutkenhaus

Recruitment of MinC, an Inhibitor of Z-Ring Formation, to the Membrane in Escherichia coli: Role of MinD and MinE
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 196-203. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Masafumi Kaneko, Yasuo Ohnishi, and Sueharu Horinouchi

Cinnamate:Coenzyme A Ligase from the Filamentous Bacterium Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 20-27. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Scott B. Mulrooney and Robert P. Hausinger

Metal Ion Dependence of Recombinant Escherichia coli Allantoinase
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 126-134. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steven J. Kaczowka and Julie A. Maupin-Furlow

Subunit Topology of Two 20S Proteasomes from Haloferax volcanii
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 165-174. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elisabeth Enggist, Michael J. Schneider, Henk Schulz, and Linda Thöny-Meyer

Biochemical and Mutational Characterization of the Heme Chaperone CcmE Reveals a Heme Binding Site
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 175-183. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Heath D. Murray, J. Alex Appleman, and Richard L. Gourse

Regulation of the Escherichia coli rrnB P2 Promoter
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 28-34. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hirofumi Hara, Eiji Masai, Keisuke Miyauchi, Yoshihiro Katayama, and Masao Fukuda

Characterization of the 4-Carboxy-4-Hydroxy-2-Oxoadipate Aldolase Gene and Operon Structure of the Protocatechuate 4,5-Cleavage Pathway Genes in Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 41-50. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Rother, Isabella Mathes, Friedrich Lottspeich, and August Böck

Inactivation of the selB Gene in Methanococcus maripaludis: Effect on Synthesis of Selenoproteins and Their Sulfur-Containing Homologs
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 107-114. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Muller, Didier Lièvremont, Diliana Dancheva Simeonova, Jean-Claude Hubert, and Marie-Claire Lett

Arsenite Oxidase aox Genes from a Metal-Resistant ß-Proteobacterium
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 135-141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Maria CastilloKeller and Rajeev Misra

Protease-Deficient DegP Suppresses Lethal Effects of a Mutant OmpC Protein by Its Capture
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 148-154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María A. Llamas, Juan L. Ramos, and José J. Rodríguez-Herva

Transcriptional Organization of the Pseudomonas putida tol-oprL Genes
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 184-195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takaaki Sato, Toshiaki Fukui, Haruyuki Atomi, and Tadayuki Imanaka

Targeted Gene Disruption by Homologous Recombination in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis KOD1
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 210-220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Atsuko Horino, Yuko Sasaki, Tsuguo Sasaki, and Tsuyoshi Kenri

Multiple Promoter Inversions Generate Surface Antigenic Variation in Mycoplasma penetrans
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 231-242. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John D. Helmann, Ming Fang Winston Wu, Ahmed Gaballa, Phil A. Kobel, Maud M. Morshedi, Paul Fawcett, and Chris Paddon

The Global Transcriptional Response of Bacillus subtilis to Peroxide Stress Is Coordinated by Three Transcription Factors
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 243-253. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

T. Ando, R. A. Aras, K. Kusugami, M. J. Blaser, and T. M. Wassenaar

Evolutionary History of hrgA, Which Replaces the Restriction Gene hpyIIIR in the hpyIII Locus of Helicobacter pylori
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 295-301. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masafumi Hitomi, Hiroshi Nishimura, Yoshiyuki Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Matsui, and Kunihiko Watanabe

Identification of a Helix-Turn-Helix Motif of Bacillus thermoglucosidasius HrcA Essential for Binding to the CIRCE Element and Thermostability of the HrcA-CIRCE Complex, Indicating a Role as a Thermosensor
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 381-385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Claudia Rollenhagen, Haike Antelmann, Janine Kirstein, Olivier Delumeau, Michael Hecker, and Michael D. Yudkin

Binding of ^A and ^B to Core RNA Polymerase after Environmental Stress in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 35-40. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Reiko Ohki, Kozue Tateno, Youji Okada, Haruo Okajima, Kei Asai, Yoshito Sadaie, Makiko Murata, and Toshiko Aiso

A Bacitracin-Resistant Bacillus subtilis Gene Encodes a Homologue of the Membrane-Spanning Subunit of the Bacillus licheniformis ABC Transporter
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 51-59. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Thorsten Mascher, Dorothea Zähner, Michelle Merai, Nadège Balmelle, Antoine B. de Saizieu, and Regine Hakenbeck

The Streptococcus pneumoniae cia Regulon: CiaR Target Sites and Transcription Profile Analysis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 60-70. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dieter Weichart, Nadine Querfurth, Mathias Dreger, and Regine Hengge-Aronis

Global Role for ClpP-Containing Proteases in Stationary-Phase Adaptation of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 115-125. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guido Dietrich, Sebastian Kurz, Claudia Hübner, Christian Aepinus, Stephanie Theiss, Matthias Guckenberger, Ursula Panzner, Jacqueline Weber, and Matthias Frosch

Transcriptome Analysis of Neisseria meningitidis during Infection
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 155-164. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Igor B. Zhulin, Anastasia N. Nikolskaya, and Michael Y. Galperin

Common Extracellular Sensory Domains in Transmembrane Receptors for Diverse Signal Transduction Pathways in Bacteria and Archaea
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 285-294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Marjorie Fournier, Yi Zhang, Janine D. Wildschut, Alain Dolla, Johanna K. Voordouw, David C. Schriemer, and Gerrit Voordouw

Function of Oxygen Resistance Proteins in the Anaerobic, Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 71-79. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elizabeth Skovran and Diana M. Downs

Lack of the ApbC or ApbE Protein Results in a Defect in Fe-S Cluster Metabolism in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 98-106. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sae W. Park, Eun H. Hwang, Hyuck Park, Jeong A. Kim, Jinho Heo, Key H. Lee, Taeksun Song, Eungbin Kim, Young T. Ro, Si W. Kim, and Young M. Kim

Growth of Mycobacteria on Carbon Monoxide and Methanol
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 142-147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Svetlana Alexeeva, Klaas J. Hellingwerf, and M. Joost Teixeira de Mattos

Requirement of ArcA for Redox Regulation in Escherichia coli under Microaerobic but Not Anaerobic or Aerobic Conditions
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 204-209. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shery Varghese, Yue Tang, and James A. Imlay

Contrasting Sensitivities of Escherichia coli Aconitases A and B to Oxidation and Iron Depletion
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 221-230. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

MingHua Dai, Julie Bull Rogers, Joseph R. Warner, and Shelley D. Copley

A Previously Unrecognized Step in Pentachlorophenol Degradation in Sphingobium chlorophenolicum Is Catalyzed by Tetrachlorobenzoquinone Reductase (PcpD)
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 302-310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Andreia M. Caldwell and Ronald L. Smith

Membrane Topology of the ZntB Efflux System of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 374-376. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gerardo Medina, Katy Juárez, and Gloria Soberón-Chávez

The Pseudomonas aeruginosa rhlAB Operon Is Not Expressed during the Logarithmic Phase of Growth Even in the Presence of Its Activator RhlR and the Autoinducer N-Butyryl-Homoserine Lactone
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 377-380. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

J. Alex Appleman and Valley Stewart

Mutational Analysis of a Conserved Signal-Transducing Element: the HAMP Linker of the Escherichia coli Nitrate Sensor NarX
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 89-97. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yinghua Chen, Catherine Birck, Jean-Pierre Samama, and F. Marion Hulett

Residue R113 Is Essential for PhoP Dimerization and Function: a Residue Buried in the Asymmetric PhoP Dimer Interface Determined in the PhoPN Three-Dimensional Crystal Structure
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 262-273. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Structural Biology:

Catherine Birck, Yinghua Chen, F. Marion Hulett, and Jean-Pierre Samama

The Crystal Structure of the Phosphorylation Domain in PhoP Reveals a Functional Tandem Association Mediated by an Asymmetric Interface
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 254-261. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Roderick McNab, Suzannah K. Ford, Azza El-Sabaeny, Bruno Barbieri, Guy S. Cook, and Richard J. Lamont

LuxS-Based Signaling in Streptococcus gordonii: Autoinducer 2 Controls Carbohydrate Metabolism and Biofilm Formation with Porphyromonas gingivalis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 274-284. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Meeting Presentations:

J. D. Woodson, R. F. Peck, M. P. Krebs, and J. C. Escalante-Semerena

The cobY Gene of the Archaeon Halobacterium sp. Strain NRC-1 Is Required for De Novo Cobamide Synthesis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 311-316. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Don Walthers, Van K. Tran, and Linda J. Kenney

Interdomain Linkers of Homologous Response Regulators Determine Their Mechanism of Action
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 317-324. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melanie M. Marketon, Sarah A. Glenn, Anatol Eberhard, and Juan E. González

Quorum Sensing Controls Exopolysaccharide Production in Sinorhizobium meliloti
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 325-331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Dougherty and Diana M. Downs

The stm4066 Gene Product of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Has Aminoimidazole Riboside (AIRs) Kinase Activity and Allows AIRs To Satisfy the Thiamine Requirement of pur Mutant Strains
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 332-339. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Norma Urtiz-Estrada, José M. Salas-Pacheco, Ronald E. Yasbin, and Mario Pedraza-Reyes

Forespore-Specific Expression of Bacillus subtilis yqfS, Which Encodes Type IV Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease, a Component of the Base Excision Repair Pathway
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 340-348. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ping Luo and Donald A. Morrison

Transient Association of an Alternative Sigma Factor, ComX, with RNA Polymerase during the Period of Competence for Genetic Transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 349-358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wai-Leung Ng, Krystyna M. Kazmierczak, Gregory T. Robertson, Raymond Gilmour, and Malcolm E. Winkler

Transcriptional Regulation and Signature Patterns Revealed by Microarray Analyses of Streptococcus pneumoniae R6 Challenged with Sublethal Concentrations of Translation Inhibitors
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 359-370. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bhushan V. Desai, Harvard Reiter, and Donald A. Morrison

Choline Starvation Induces the Gene licD2 in Streptococcus pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 371-373. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Ikuo Kojima, Kano Kasuga, Masayuki Kobayashi, Akira Fukasawa, Satoshi Mizuno, Akira Arisawa, and Hisayoshi Akagawa

The rpoZ Gene, Encoding the RNA Polymerase Omega Subunit, Is Required for Antibiotic Production and Morphological Differentiation in Streptomyces kasugaensis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 386. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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