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Contents: September 2003, Volume 185, Issue 18

       Enzymes and Proteins

       Microbial Cell Biology

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Physiology and Metabolism

       Microbial Communities and Interactions

       Gene Regulation

       Genomics and Proteomics

       Molecular Biology of Pathogens

       Plant Microbiology

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Enzymes and Proteins:

Characterization of Hybrid Toluate and Benzoate Dioxygenases
Yong Ge and Lindsay D. Eltis
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5333-5341;
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YqfS from Bacillus subtilis Is a Spore Protein and a New Functional Member of the Type IV Apurinic/Apyrimidinic-Endonuclease Family
José M. Salas-Pacheco, Norma Urtiz-Estrada, Guadalupe Martínez-Cadena, Ronald E. Yasbin, and Mario Pedraza-Reyes
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5380-5390;
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Biochemical Characterization of a ß-Galactosidase with a Low Temperature Optimum Obtained from an Antarctic Arthrobacter Isolate
James A. Coker, Peter P. Sheridan, Jennifer Loveland-Curtze, Kevin R. Gutshall, Ann J. Auman, and Jean E. Brenchley
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5473-5482;
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DNA Topoisomerase III from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus with Specific DNA Cleavage Activity
Penggao Dai, Ying Wang, Risheng Ye, Liang Chen, and Li Huang
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5500-5507;
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Moritella Cold-Active Dihydrofolate Reductase: Are There Natural Limits to Optimization of Catalytic Efficiency at Low Temperature?
Ying Xu, Georges Feller, Charles Gerday, and Nicolas Glansdorff
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5519-5526;
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Clostridium pasteurianum F₁F_o ATP Synthase: Operon, Composition, and Some Properties
Amaresh Das and Lars G. Ljungdahl
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5527-5535;
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Epoxyalkane:Coenzyme M Transferase in the Ethene and Vinyl Chloride Biodegradation Pathways of Mycobacterium Strain JS60
Nicholas V. Coleman and Jim C. Spain
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5536-5545;
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Strictly Polyphosphate-Dependent Glucokinase in a Polyphosphate-Accumulating Bacterium, Microlunatus phosphovorus
Shotaro Tanaka, Sun-Og Lee, Kazuhiro Hamaoka, Junichi Kato, Noboru Takiguchi, Kazunori Nakamura, Hisao Ohtake, and Akio Kuroda
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5654-5656;
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Microbial Cell Biology:

Overproduction of Inactive Variants of the Murein Synthase PBP1B Causes Lysis in Escherichia coli
Ute Meisel, Joachim-Volker Höltje, and Waldemar Vollmer
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5342-5348;
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Chimeric Analysis of AcrA Function Reveals the Importance of Its C-Terminal Domain in Its Interaction with the AcrB Multidrug Efflux Pump
Christopher A. Elkins and Hiroshi Nikaido
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5349-5356;
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Extracellular Polysaccharides Associated with Thin Aggregative Fimbriae of Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis
A. P. White, D. L. Gibson, S. K. Collinson, P. A. Banser, and W. W. Kay
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5398-5407;
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In Vivo Reconstitution of the FhuA Transport Protein of Escherichia coli K-12
Michael Braun, Franziska Endriss, Helmut Killmann, and Volkmar Braun
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5508-5518;
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Interactions of FliJ with the Salmonella Type III Flagellar Export Apparatus
Gillian M. Fraser, Bertha González-Pedrajo, Jeremy R. H. Tame, and Robert M. Macnab
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5546-5554;
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Autotransporters as Scaffolds for Novel Bacterial Adhesins: Surface Properties of Escherichia coli Cells Displaying Jun/Fos Dimerization Domains
Esteban Veiga, Víctor de Lorenzo, and Luis Angel Fernández
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5585-5590;
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Rapid Surface Motility in Bacillus subtilis Is Dependent on Extracellular Surfactin and Potassium Ion
Rebecca F. Kinsinger, Megan C. Shirk, and Ray Fall
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5627-5631;
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Mycobacterium tuberculosis FurA Autoregulates Its Own Expression
Claudia Sala, Francesca Forti, Elisabetta Di Florio, Fabio Canneva, Anna Milano, Giovanna Riccardi, and Daniela Ghisotti
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5357-5362;
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Arsenic Sensing and Resistance System in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803
Luis López-Maury, Francisco J. Florencio, and José C. Reyes
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5363-5371;
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Effect of Translational Signals on mRNA Decay in Bacillus subtilis
Josh S. Sharp and David H. Bechhofer
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5372-5379;
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Natural Transformation of Campylobacter jejuni Requires Components of a Type II Secretion System
Rebecca S. Wiesner, David R. Hendrixson, and Victor J. DiRita
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5408-5418;
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TodK, a Putative Histidine Protein Kinase, Regulates Timing of Fruiting Body Morphogenesis in Myxococcus xanthus
Anders A. Rasmussen and Lotte Søgaard-Andersen
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5452-5464;
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Jumping the Barrier to ß-Lactam Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
Yuki Katayama, Hong-Zhong Zhang, Dong Hong, and Henry F. Chambers
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5465-5472;
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Influence of Temperature on tRNA Modification in Archaea: Methanococcoides burtonii (Optimum Growth Temperature [T_opt], 23°C) and Stetteria hydrogenophila (T_opt, 95°C)
Kathleen R. Noon, Rebecca Guymon, Pamela F. Crain, James A. McCloskey, Michael Thomm, Julianne Lim, and Ricardo Cavicchioli
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5483-5490;
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A Dual Binding Site for Integration Host Factor and the Response Regulator CtrA inside the Caulobacter crescentus Replication Origin
Rania Siam, Ann Karen C. Brassinga, and Gregory T. Marczynski
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5563-5572;
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Physiology and Metabolism:

Identification and Characterization of a New Enoyl Coenzyme A Hydratase Involved in Biosynthesis of Medium-Chain-Length Polyhydroxyalkanoates in Recombinant Escherichia coli
Si Jae Park and Sang Yup Lee
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5391-5397;
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Glutathione and Catalase Provide Overlapping Defenses for Protection against Respiration-Generated Hydrogen Peroxide in Haemophilus influenzae
Bjorn Vergauwen, Frederik Pauwels, and Jozef J. Van Beeumen
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5555-5562;
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Lactobacillus reuteri CRL1098 Produces Cobalamin
María P. Taranto, José L. Vera, Jeroen Hugenholtz, Graciela F. De Valdez, and Fernando Sesma
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5643-5647;
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Irp9, Encoded by the High-Pathogenicity Island of Yersinia enterocolitica, Is Able To Convert Chorismate into Salicylate, the Precursor of the Siderophore Yersiniabactin
Cosima Pelludat, Daniela Brem, and Jürgen Heesemann
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5648-5653;
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Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Genetic Loci for Coaggregation Receptor Polysaccharide Biosynthesis in Streptococcus gordonii 38
De-Qi Xu, John Thompson, and John O. Cisar
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5419-5430;
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Periodicity of Cell Attachment Patterns during Escherichia coli Biofilm Development
Konstantin Agladze, Debra Jackson, and Tony Romeo
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5632-5638;
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Gene Regulation:

Multiple Regulators Control Capsular Polysaccharide Production in Vibrio parahaemolyticus
Zehra Tüzün Güvener and Linda L. McCarter
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5431-5441;
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Disparate Oxygen Responsiveness of Two Regulatory Cascades That Control Expression of Symbiotic Genes in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
Michel-Angelo Sciotti, Astrid Chanfon, Hauke Hennecke, and Hans-Martin Fischer
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5639-5642;
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Genomics and Proteomics:

Global Analyses of Transcriptomes and Proteomes of a Parent Strain and an L-Threonine-Overproducing Mutant Strain
Jin-Ho Lee, Dong-Eun Lee, Bheong-Uk Lee, and Hak-Sung Kim
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5442-5451;
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Genome Diversification in Phylogenetic Lineages I and II of Listeria monocytogenes: Identification of Segments Unique to Lineage II Populations
Chaomei Zhang, Min Zhang, Jingliang Ju, Joseph Nietfeldt, John Wise, Philip M. Terry, Michael Olson, Stephen D. Kachman, Martin Wiedmann, Mansour Samadpour, and Andrew K. Benson
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5573-5584;
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Complete Genome Sequence of the Oral Pathogenic Bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis Strain W83
Karen E. Nelson, Robert D. Fleischmann, Robert T. DeBoy, Ian T. Paulsen, Derrick E. Fouts, Jonathan A. Eisen, Sean C. Daugherty, Robert J. Dodson, A. Scott Durkin, Michelle Gwinn, Daniel H. Haft, James F. Kolonay, William C. Nelson, Tanya Mason, Luke Tallon, Jessica Gray, David Granger, Hervé Tettelin, Hong Dong, Jamie L. Galvin, Margaret J. Duncan, Floyd E. Dewhirst, and Claire M. Fraser
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5591-5601;
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Physiological Studies of Escherichia coli Strain MG1655: Growth Defects and Apparent Cross-Regulation of Gene Expression
Eric Soupene, Wally C. van Heeswijk, Jacqueline Plumbridge, Valley Stewart, Daniel Bertenthal, Haidy Lee, Gyaneshwar Prasad, Oleg Paliy, Parinya Charernnoppakul, and Sydney Kustu
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5611-5626;
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Molecular Biology of Pathogens:

Characterization of Dominantly Negative Mutant ClyA Cytotoxin Proteins in Escherichia coli
Sun Nyunt Wai, Marie Westermark, Jan Oscarsson, Jana Jass, Elke Maier, Roland Benz, and Bernt Eric Uhlin
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5491-5499;
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Plant Microbiology:

Mutations in rpoBC Suppress the Defects of a Sinorhizobium meliloti relA Mutant
Derek H. Wells and Sharon R. Long
J. Bacteriol. September 2003 185: 5602-5610;
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