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Guest Commentaries:

Douglas M. Heithoff and Michael J. Mahan

Vibrio cholerae Biofilms: Stuck between a Rock and a Hard Place
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4835-4837. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dialog:

Susan M. Rosenberg and P. J. Hastings

Adaptive Point Mutation and Adaptive Amplification Pathways in the Escherichia coli Lac System: Stress Responses Producing Genetic Change
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4838-4843. [Full Text] [PDF]  

John R. Roth and Dan I. Andersson

Rebuttal: Adaptive Point Mutation (Rosenberg and Hastings)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4844. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia L. Foster

Rebuttal: Adaptive Point Mutation (Rosenberg and Hastings)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4845. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia L. Foster

Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4846-4852. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan M. Rosenberg and P. J. Hastings

Rebuttal: Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli (Foster)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4853. [Full Text] [PDF]  

John R. Roth and Dan I. Andersson

Rebuttal: Adaptive Mutation in Escherichia coli (Foster)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4854. [Full Text] [PDF]  

John R. Roth and Dan I. Andersson

Adaptive Mutation: How Growth under Selection Stimulates Lac⁺ Reversion by Increasing Target Copy Number
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4855-4860. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia L. Foster

Rebuttal: Growth under Selection Stimulates Lac⁺ Reversion (Roth and Andersson)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4861. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susan M. Rosenberg and P. J. Hastings

Rebuttal: Growth under Selection Stimulates Lac⁺ Reversion (Roth and Andersson)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4862-4863. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Crystal M. Lauriano, Chandradipa Ghosh, Nidia E. Correa, and Karl E. Klose

The Sodium-Driven Flagellar Motor Controls Exopolysaccharide Expression in Vibrio cholerae
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4864-4874. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jonathan Lefman, Peijun Zhang, Teruhisa Hirai, Robert M. Weis, Jemma Juliani, Donald Bliss, Martin Kessel, Erik Bos, Peter J. Peters, and Sriram Subramaniam

Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopic Imaging of Membrane Invaginations in Escherichia coli Overproducing the Chemotaxis Receptor Tsr
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5052-5061. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Pierre Burguière, Sandrine Auger, Marie-Françoise Hullo, Antoine Danchin, and Isabelle Martin-Verstraete

Three Different Systems Participate in L-Cystine Uptake in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4875-4884. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Milica Sevo, Emanuele Buratti, and Vittorio Venturi

Ribosomal Protein S1 Specifically Binds to the 5' Untranslated Region of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Stationary-Phase Sigma Factor rpoS mRNA in the Logarithmic Phase of Growth
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4903-4909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shipan Dai and Daoguo Zhou

Secretion and Function of Salmonella SPI-2 Effector SseF Require Its Chaperone, SscB
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5078-5086. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dirk-Jan Scheffers and Jeffery Errington

PBP1 Is a Component of the Bacillus subtilis Cell Division Machinery
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5153-5156. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Axelle Ferré, Javier de la Mora, Teresa Ballado, Laura Camarena, and Georges Dreyfus

Biochemical Study of Multiple CheY Response Regulators of the Chemotactic Pathway of Rhodobacter sphaeroides
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5172-5177. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Takane Katayama, Akiko Sakuma, Takatoshi Kimura, Yutaka Makimura, Jun Hiratake, Kanzo Sakata, Takashi Yamanoi, Hidehiko Kumagai, and Kenji Yamamoto

Molecular Cloning and Characterization of Bifidobacterium bifidum 1,2--L-Fucosidase (AfcA), a Novel Inverting Glycosidase (Glycoside Hydrolase Family 95)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4885-4893. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiten M. Patel, Jessica L. Kraszewski, and Biswarup Mukhopadhyay

The Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxylase from Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus Has a Novel Structure
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5129-5137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiromichi Itoh and Toshikazu Shiba

Polyphosphate Synthetic Activity of Polyphosphate:AMP Phosphotransferase in Acinetobacter johnsonii 210A
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5178-5181. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Wataru Kitagawa, Nobutada Kimura, and Yoichi Kamagata

A Novel p-Nitrophenol Degradation Gene Cluster from a Gram-Positive Bacterium, Rhodococcus opacus SAO101
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4894-4902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rebecca C. Green and Andrew J. Darwin

PspG, a New Member of the Yersinia enterocolitica Phage Shock Protein Regulon
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4910-4920. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Björn Grünenfelder, Sherif Tawfilis, Stefanie Gehrig, Magne Østerås, Daniel Eglin, and Urs Jenal

Identification of the Protease and the Turnover Signal Responsible for Cell Cycle-Dependent Degradation of the Caulobacter FliF Motor Protein
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4960-4971. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Kiyoshi Onai, Megumi Morishita, Shino Itoh, Kazuhisa Okamoto, and Masahiro Ishiura

Circadian Rhythms in the Thermophilic Cyanobacterium Thermosynechococcus elongatus: Compensation of Period Length over a Wide Temperature Range
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4972-4977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marianna Ovadis, Xiaoguang Liu, Sagi Gavriel, Zafar Ismailov, Ilan Chet, and Leonid Chernin

The Global Regulator Genes from Biocontrol Strain Serratia plymuthica IC1270: Cloning, Sequencing, and Functional Studies
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4986-4993. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Juan G. Arrieta, Mailin Sotolongo, Carmen Menéndez, Dubiel Alfonso, Luis E. Trujillo, Melvis Soto, Ricardo Ramírez, and Lázaro Hernández

A Type II Protein Secretory Pathway Required for Levansucrase Secretion by Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5031-5039. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Elsa Arias-Barrau, Elías R. Olivera, José M. Luengo, Cristina Fernández, Beatriz Galán, José L. García, Eduardo Díaz, and Baltasar Miñambres

The Homogentisate Pathway: a Central Catabolic Pathway Involved in the Degradation of L-Phenylalanine, L-Tyrosine, and 3-Hydroxyphenylacetate in Pseudomonas putida
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5062-5077. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Franco Ferracci, James B. Day, Heather J. Ezelle, and Gregory V. Plano

Expression of a Functional Secreted YopN-TyeA Hybrid Protein in Yersinia pestis Is the Result of a +1 Translational Frameshift Event
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5160-5166. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco Aviles-Jimenez, Darren P. Letley, Gerardo Gonzalez-Valencia, Nina Salama, Javier Torres, and John C. Atherton

Evolution of the Helicobacter pylori Vacuolating Cytotoxin in a Human Stomach
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5182-5185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Yisheng Kang, Tim Durfee, Jeremy D. Glasner, Yu Qiu, David Frisch, Kelly M. Winterberg, and Frederick R. Blattner

Systematic Mutagenesis of the Escherichia coli Genome
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4921-4930. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Gireesh Rajashekara, Jeremy D. Glasner, David A. Glover, and Gary A. Splitter

Comparative Whole-Genome Hybridization Reveals Genomic Islands in Brucella Species
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5040-5051. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Robert A. Kingsley, Daad Abi Ghanem, Nahum Puebla-Osorio, A. Marijke Keestra, Luc Berghman, and Andreas J. Bäumler

Fibronectin Binding to the Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium ShdA Autotransporter Protein Is Inhibited by a Monoclonal Antibody Recognizing the A3 Repeat
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4931-4939. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaiyanth Daniel, Chirajyoti Deb, Vinod S. Dubey, Tatiana D. Sirakova, Bassam Abomoelak, Hector R. Morbidoni, and Pappachan E. Kolattukudy

Induction of a Novel Class of Diacylglycerol Acyltransferases and Triacylglycerol Accumulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis as It Goes into a Dormancy-Like State in Culture
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5017-5030. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark R. H. Hurst, Travis R. Glare, and Trevor A. Jackson

Cloning Serratia entomophila Antifeeding Genes—a Putative Defective Prophage Active against the Grass Grub Costelytra zealandica
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5116-5128. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carlos G. Osorio, Hector Martinez-Wilson, and Andrew Camilli

The ompU Paralogue vca1008 Is Required for Virulence of Vibrio cholerae
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5167-5171. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Iris Porat, Brian W. Waters, Quincy Teng, and William B. Whitman

Two Biosynthetic Pathways for Aromatic Amino Acids in the Archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4940-4950. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daisuke Kasai, Eiji Masai, Keisuke Miyauchi, Yoshihiro Katayama, and Masao Fukuda

Characterization of the 3-O-Methylgallate Dioxygenase Gene and Evidence of Multiple 3-O-Methylgallate Catabolic Pathways in Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4951-4959. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Amy E. Trotochaud and Karen M. Wassarman

6S RNA Function Enhances Long-Term Cell Survival
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4978-4985. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Barbara C. McCabe and Paul Gollnick

Cellular Levels of trp RNA-Binding Attenuation Protein in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5157-5159. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Todd J. Ward, Lisa Gorski, Monica K. Borucki, Robert E. Mandrell, Jan Hutchins, and Kitty Pupedis

Intraspecific Phylogeny and Lineage Group Identification Based on the prfA Virulence Gene Cluster of Listeria monocytogenes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 4994-5002. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Dongsheng Zhou, Yanping Han, Yajun Song, Zongzhong Tong, Jin Wang, Zhaobiao Guo, Decui Pei, Xin Pang, Junhui Zhai, Min Li, Baizhong Cui, Zhizhen Qi, Lixia Jin, Ruixia Dai, Zongmin Du, Jingyue Bao, Xiuqing Zhang, Jun Yu, Jian Wang, Peitang Huang, and Ruifu Yang

DNA Microarray Analysis of Genome Dynamics in Yersinia pestis: Insights into Bacterial Genome Microevolution and Niche Adaptation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5138-5146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dongsheng Zhou, Zongzhong Tong, Yajun Song, Yanping Han, Decui Pei, Xin Pang, Junhui Zhai, Min Li, Baizhong Cui, Zhizhen Qi, Lixia Jin, Ruixia Dai, Zongmin Du, Jin Wang, Zhaobiao Guo, Jian Wang, Peitang Huang, and Ruifu Yang

Genetics of Metabolic Variations between Yersinia pestis Biovars and the Proposal of a New Biovar, microtus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5147-5152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Maria Victoria Francia, Shuhei Fujimoto, Patricia Tille, Keith E. Weaver, and Don B. Clewell

Replication of Enterococcus faecalis Pheromone-Responding Plasmid pAD1: Location of the Minimal Replicon and oriV Site and RepA Involvement in Initiation of Replication
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5003-5016. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John Stavrinides and David S. Guttman

Nucleotide Sequence and Evolution of the Five-Plasmid Complement of the Phytopathogen Pseudomonas syringae pv. maculicola ES4326
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5101-5115. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Li Tan and Creg Darby

A Movable Surface: Formation of Yersinia sp. Biofilms on Motile Caenorhabditis elegans
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5087-5092. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Structural Biology:

Shigeru Chohnan, Kentaro Shiraki, Kiyonobu Yokota, Makoto Ohshima, Natsuki Kuroiwa, Kashfia Ahmed, Takeharu Masaki, and Fumio Sakiyama

A Second Lysine-Specific Serine Protease from Lysobacter sp. Strain IB-9374
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5093-5100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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