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Guest Commentaries:

A. M. Chakrabarty

Microorganisms and Cancer: Quest for a Therapy
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2683-2686. [Full Text] [PDF]  

George A. O'Toole

To Build a Biofilm
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2687-2689. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Juan-Luis Ramos

Lessons from the Genome of a Lithoautotroph: Making Biomass from Almost Nothing
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2690-2691. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Minireviews:

Jennifer L. Reed and Bernhard Ø. Palsson

Thirteen Years of Building Constraint-Based In Silico Models of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2692-2699. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Antonio Finelli, Claude V. Gallant, Keith Jarvi, and Lori L. Burrows

Use of In-Biofilm Expression Technology To Identify Genes Involved in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Development
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2700-2710. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Yuki Katayama, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Teruyo Ito, Xiao Xue Ma, Yoko Ui-Mizutani, Ichizo Kobayashi, and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Identification in Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus hominis of an Active Primordial Mobile Genetic Element for the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2711-2722. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Michelle M. Barnhart, Frederic G. Sauer, Jerome S. Pinkner, and Scott J. Hultgren

Chaperone-Subunit-Usher Interactions Required for Donor Strand Exchange during Bacterial Pilus Assembly
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2723-2730. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sinda Fedhila, Michel Gohar, Leyla Slamti, Patricia Nel, and Didier Lereclus

The Bacillus thuringiensis PlcR-Regulated Gene inhA2 Is Necessary, but Not Sufficient, for Virulence
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2820-2825. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. L. Sampson, R. M. Warren, M. Richardson, T. C. Victor, A. M. Jordaan, G. D. van der Spuy, and P. D. van Helden

IS6110-Mediated Deletion Polymorphism in the Direct Repeat Region of Clinical Isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2856-2866. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Taeok Bae and Olaf Schneewind

The YSIRK-G/S Motif of Staphylococcal Protein A and Its Role in Efficiency of Signal Peptide Processing
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2910-2919. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Jin-Yong Jeong, Daiva Dailidiene, Paul S. Hoffman, and Douglas E. Berg

The fdxA Ferredoxin Gene Can Down-Regulate frxA Nitroreductase Gene Expression and Is Essential in Many Strains of Helicobacter pylori
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2927-2935. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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

Essentiality of clpX, but Not clpP, clpL, clpC, or clpE, in Streptococcus pneumoniae R6
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2961-2966. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Franz Narberhaus and Sylvia Balsiger

Structure-Function Studies of Escherichia coli RpoH (³²) by In Vitro Linker Insertion Mutagenesis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2731-2738. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Natascha Blaudeck, Peter Kreutzenbeck, Roland Freudl, and Georg A. Sprenger

Genetic Analysis of Pathway Specificity during Posttranslational Protein Translocation across the Escherichia coli Plasma Membrane
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2811-2819. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Y. Loo, K. Mitrakul, I. B. Voss, C. V. Hughes, and N. Ganeshkumar

Involvement of the adc Operon and Manganese Homeostasis in Streptococcus gordonii Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2887-2900. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corinne Teyssier, Hélène Marchandin, Michèle Siméon De Buochberg, Michel Ramuz, and Estelle Jumas-Bilak

Atypical 16S rRNA Gene Copies in Ochrobactrum intermedium Strains Reveal a Large Genomic Rearrangement by Recombination between rrn Copies
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2901-2909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lei Wang, Deborah Rothemund, Heather Curd, and Peter R. Reeves

Species-Wide Variation in the Escherichia coli Flagellin (H-Antigen) Gene
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2936-2943. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Yoshihiro Shimoji, Yohsuke Ogawa, Makoto Osaki, Hidenori Kabeya, Soichi Maruyama, Takeshi Mikami, and Tsutomu Sekizaki

Adhesive Surface Proteins of Erysipelothrix rhusiopathiae Bind to Polystyrene, Fibronectin, and Type I and IV Collagens
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2739-2748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Éric Durand, Alain Bernadac, Geneviève Ball, Andrée Lazdunski, James N. Sturgis, and Alain Filloux

Type II Protein Secretion in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: the Pseudopilus Is a Multifibrillar and Adhesive Structure
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2749-2758. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard B. Weart and Petra Anne Levin

Growth Rate-Dependent Regulation of Medial FtsZ Ring Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2826-2834. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Simon J. Jakubowski, Vidhya Krishnamoorthy, and Peter J. Christie

Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirB6 Protein Participates in Formation of VirB7 and VirB9 Complexes Required for Type IV Secretion
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2867-2878. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Franziska G. Rieß, Marion Elflein, Michael Benk, Bettina Schiffler, Roland Benz, Natalie Garton, and Iain Sutcliffe

The Cell Wall of the Pathogenic Bacterium Rhodococcus equi Contains Two Channel-Forming Proteins with Different Properties
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2952-2960. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Patrick Chain, Jane Lamerdin, Frank Larimer, Warren Regala, Victoria Lao, Miriam Land, Loren Hauser, Alan Hooper, Martin Klotz, Jeanette Norton, Luis Sayavedra-Soto, Dave Arciero, Norman Hommes, Mark Whittaker, and Daniel Arp

Complete Genome Sequence of the Ammonia-Oxidizing Bacterium and Obligate Chemolithoautotroph Nitrosomonas europaea
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2759-2773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Bjørg Mikalsen, Gudrun Boison, Olav M. Skulberg, Jutta Fastner, William Davies, Tove M. Gabrielsen, Knut Rudi, and Kjetill S. Jakobsen

Natural Variation in the Microcystin Synthetase Operon mcyABC and Impact on Microcystin Production in Microcystis Strains
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2774-2785. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Michelle R. Gisi and Luying Xun

Characterization of Chlorophenol 4-Monooxygenase (TftD) and NADH:Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide Oxidoreductase (TftC) of Burkholderia cepacia AC1100
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2786-2792. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David F. Ackerley, Tom T. Caradoc-Davies, and Iain L. Lamont

Substrate Specificity of the Nonribosomal Peptide Synthetase PvdD from Pseudomonas aeruginosa
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2848-2855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David B. McKay, Matthias Prucha, Walter Reineke, Kenneth N. Timmis, and Dietmar H. Pieper

Substrate Specificity and Expression of Three 2,3-Dihydroxybiphenyl 1,2-Dioxygenases from Rhodococcus globerulus Strain P6
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2944-2951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Bjarne Hove-Jensen, Tina J. Rosenkrantz, Andreas Haldimann, and Barry L. Wanner

Escherichia coli phnN, Encoding Ribose 1,5-Bisphosphokinase Activity (Phosphoribosyl Diphosphate Forming): Dual Role in Phosphonate Degradation and NAD Biosynthesis Pathways
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2793-2801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sergio Palacios, Vincent J. Starai, and Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena

Propionyl Coenzyme A Is a Common Intermediate in the 1,2-Propanediol and Propionate Catabolic Pathways Needed for Expression of the prpBCDE Operon during Growth of Salmonella enterica on 1,2-Propanediol
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2802-2810. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

J. Antonio Ibarra, Miryam I. Villalba, and José Luis Puente

Identification of the DNA Binding Sites of PerA, the Transcriptional Activator of the bfp and per Operons in Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2835-2847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sabine Dobinsky, Kathrin Kiel, Holger Rohde, Katrin Bartscht, Johannes K.-M. Knobloch, Matthias A. Horstkotte, and Dietrich Mack

Glucose-Related Dissociation between icaADBC Transcription and Biofilm Expression by Staphylococcus epidermidis: Evidence for an Additional Factor Required for Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin Synthesis
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2879-2886. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wilson B. Muse, Christopher J. Rosario, and Robert A. Bender

Nitrogen Regulation of the codBA (Cytosine Deaminase) Operon from Escherichia coli by the Nitrogen Assimilation Control Protein, NAC
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2920-2926. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emmanuelle d'Alençon, Aziz Taghbalout, Claire Bristow, Renée Kern, Revital Aflalo, and Masamichi Kohiyama

Isolation of a New Hemimethylated DNA Binding Protein Which Regulates dnaA Gene Expression
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2967-2971. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Cécile Crost, Annie Garrivier, Josée Harel, and Christine Martin

Leucine-Responsive Regulatory Protein-Mediated Repression of clp (Encoding CS31A) Expression by L-Leucine and L-Alanine in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2972. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Seshu B. Tummala, Neil E. Welker, and Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis

Design of Antisense RNA Constructs for Downregulation of the Acetone Formation Pathway of Clostridium acetobutylicum
J. Bacteriol. 2003 185: 2973. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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