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Guest Commentaries:

Robert E. Blankenship

Identification of a Key Step in the Biosynthetic Pathway of Bacteriochlorophyll c and Its Implications for Other Known and Unknown Green Sulfur Bacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5187-5188. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Minireviews:

Kensuke Furukawa, Hikaru Suenaga, and Masatoshi Goto

Biphenyl Dioxygenases: Functional Versatilities and Directed Evolution
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5189-5196. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Juan F. Martín

Phosphate Control of the Biosynthesis of Antibiotics and Other Secondary Metabolites Is Mediated by the PhoR-PhoP System: an Unfinished Story
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5197-5201. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

James E. Bidlack and Philip M. Silverman

An Active Type IV Secretion System Encoded by the F Plasmid Sensitizes Escherichia coli to Bile Salts
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5202-5209. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Toshiharu Yakushi, Shingo Maki, and Michio Homma

Interaction of PomB with the Third Transmembrane Segment of PomA in the Na⁺-Driven Polar Flagellum of Vibrio alginolyticus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5281-5291. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Peter Burghout, Frank Beckers, Emmie de Wit, Ria van Boxtel, Guy R. Cornelis, Jan Tommassen, and Margot Koster

Role of the Pilot Protein YscW in the Biogenesis of the YscC Secretin in Yersinia enterocolitica
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5366-5375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Niels-Ulrik Frigaard, Julia A. Maresca, Colleen E. Yunker, A. Daniel Jones, and Donald A. Bryant

Genetic Manipulation of Carotenoid Biosynthesis in the Green Sulfur Bacterium Chlorobium tepidum
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5210-5220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Hai Xu, Yuzhen Zhang, Xiaokui Guo, Shuangxi Ren, Andreas A. Staempfli, Juishen Chiao, Weihong Jiang, and Guoping Zhao

Isoleucine Biosynthesis in Leptospira interrogans Serotype lai Strain 56601 Proceeds via a Threonine-Independent Pathway
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5400-5409. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Rosa L. López-Marqués, José R. Pérez-Castiñeira, Manuel Losada, and Aurelio Serrano

Differential Regulation of Soluble and Membrane-Bound Inorganic Pyrophosphatases in the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum Provides Insights into Pyrophosphate-Based Stress Bioenergetics
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5418-5426. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thierry Touzé, Renan Goude, Sylvie Georgeault, Carlos Blanco, and Sylvie Bonnassie

Erwinia chrysanthemi O Antigen Is Required for Betaine Osmoprotection in High-Salt Media
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5547-5550. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

John Varga, Veronica L. Stirewalt, and Stephen B. Melville

The CcpA Protein Is Necessary for Efficient Sporulation and Enterotoxin Gene (cpe) Regulation in Clostridium perfringens
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5221-5229. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Radha Krishnakumar, Maureen Craig, James A. Imlay, and James M. Slauch

Differences in Enzymatic Properties Allow SodCI but Not SodCII To Contribute to Virulence in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strain 14028
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5230-5238. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yasser Musa Ibrahim, Alison R. Kerr, Jackie McCluskey, and Tim J. Mitchell

Control of Virulence by the Two-Component System CiaR/H Is Mediated via HtrA, a Major Virulence Factor of Streptococcus pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5258-5266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tony W. Ng, Leyla Akman, Mary Osisami, and David G. Thanassi

The Usher N Terminus Is the Initial Targeting Site for Chaperone-Subunit Complexes and Participates in Subsequent Pilus Biogenesis Events
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5321-5331. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen T. Elvers, Guanghui Wu, Nicola J. Gilberthorpe, Robert K. Poole, and Simon F. Park

Role of an Inducible Single-Domain Hemoglobin in Mediating Resistance to Nitric Oxide and Nitrosative Stress in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5332-5341. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Graham S. Timmins, Sharon Master, Frank Rusnak, and Vojo Deretic

Requirements for Nitric Oxide Generation from Isoniazid Activation In Vitro and Inhibition of Mycobacterial Respiration In Vivo
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5427-5431. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xavier Charpentier and Eric Oswald

Identification of the Secretion and Translocation Domain of the Enteropathogenic and Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Effector Cif, Using TEM-1 ß-Lactamase as a New Fluorescence-Based Reporter
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5486-5495. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shantini D. Gamage, Colleen M. McGannon, and Alison A. Weiss

Escherichia coli Serogroup O107/O117 Lipopolysaccharide Binds and Neutralizes Shiga Toxin 2
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5506-5512. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shelley N. Luck, Sally A. Turner, Kumar Rajakumar, Ben Adler, and Harry Sakellaris

Excision of the Shigella Resistance Locus Pathogenicity Island in Shigella flexneri Is Stimulated by a Member of a New Subgroup of Recombination Directionality Factors
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5551-5554. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Aina Maria Cladera, Antonio Bennasar, Maria Barceló, Jorge Lalucat, and Elena García-Valdés

Comparative Genetic Diversity of Pseudomonas stutzeri Genomovars, Clonal Structure, and Phylogeny of the Species
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5239-5248. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lubomir Grozdanov, Carsten Raasch, Jürgen Schulze, Ulrich Sonnenborn, Gerhard Gottschalk, Jörg Hacker, and Ulrich Dobrindt

Analysis of the Genome Structure of the Nonpathogenic Probiotic Escherichia coli Strain Nissle 1917
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5432-5441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tie Koide, Paulo A. Zaini, Leandro M. Moreira, Ricardo Z. N. Vêncio, Adriana Y. Matsukuma, Alan M. Durham, Diva C. Teixeira, Hamza El-Dorry, Patrícia B. Monteiro, Ana Claudia R. da Silva, Sergio Verjovski-Almeida, Aline M. da Silva, and Suely L. Gomes

DNA Microarray-Based Genome Comparison of a Pathogenic and a Nonpathogenic Strain of Xylella fastidiosa Delineates Genes Important for Bacterial Virulence
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5442-5449. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Tsute Chen, Yumiko Hosogi, Kiyoshi Nishikawa, Kevin Abbey, Robert D. Fleischmann, Jennifer Walling, and Margaret J. Duncan

Comparative Whole-Genome Analysis of Virulent and Avirulent Strains of Porphyromonas gingivalis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5473-5479. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

P. Wout, K. Pu, S. M. Sullivan, V. Reese, S. Zhou, B. Lin, and J. R. Maddock

The Escherichia coli GTPase CgtA_E Cofractionates with the 50S Ribosomal Subunit and Interacts with SpoT, a ppGpp Synthetase/Hydrolase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5249-5257. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adhar C. Manna, Susham S. Ingavale, MaryBeth Maloney, Willem van Wamel, and Ambrose L. Cheung

Identification of sarV (SA2062), a New Transcriptional Regulator, Is Repressed by SarA and MgrA (SA0641) and Involved in the Regulation of Autolysis in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5267-5280. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Albrecht Ludwig, Christine von Rhein, Susanne Bauer, Christian Hüttinger, and Werner Goebel

Molecular Analysis of Cytolysin A (ClyA) in Pathogenic Escherichia coli Strains
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5311-5320. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Irina A. Oussenko, Roberto Sanchez, and David H. Bechhofer

Bacillus subtilis YhcR, a High-Molecular-Weight, Nonspecific Endonuclease with a Unique Domain Structure
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5376-5383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frank J. Grundy and Tina M. Henkin

Kinetic Analysis of tRNA-Directed Transcription Antitermination of the Bacillus subtilis glyQS Gene In Vitro
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5392-5399. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daisuke Imamura, Kazuo Kobayashi, Junichi Sekiguchi, Naotake Ogasawara, Michio Takeuchi, and Tsutomu Sato

spoIVH (ykvV), a Requisite Cortex Formation Gene, Is Expressed in Both Sporulating Compartments of Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5450-5459. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hanh H. Hoang, Anke Becker, and Juan E. González

The LuxR Homolog ExpR, in Combination with the Sin Quorum Sensing System, Plays a Central Role in Sinorhizobium meliloti Gene Expression
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5460-5472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Norma Angélica Oviedo de Anda, Luis Kameyama, José Manuel Galindo, Gabriel Guarneros, and Javier Hernandez-Sanchez

Evidence of bar Minigene Expression and tRNA₂^IleSequestration as Peptidyl-tRNA₂^Ileduring Lambda Bacteriophage Development
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5533-5537. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Katja Otto, Karin Hofstetter, Martina Röthlisberger, Bernard Witholt, and Andreas Schmid

Biochemical Characterization of StyAB from Pseudomonas sp. Strain VLB120 as a Two-Component Flavin-Diffusible Monooxygenase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5292-5302. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Annette Sauter and Volkmar Braun

Defined Inactive FecA Derivatives Mutated in Functional Domains of the Outer Membrane Transport and Signaling Protein of Escherichia coli K-12
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5303-5310. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Haruhiko Sakuraba, Ryushi Kawakami, Hajime Takahashi, and Toshihisa Ohshima

Novel Archaeal Alanine:Glyoxylate Aminotransferase from Thermococcus litoralis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5513-5518. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jessica Bertrand, Karlheinz Altendorf, and Marc Bramkamp

Amino Acid Substitutions in Putative Selectivity Filter Regions III and IV in KdpA Alter Ion Selectivity of the KdpFABC Complex from Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5519-5522. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Hanna M. Kivelä, Rimantas Daugelavicius, Riina H. Hankkio, Jaana K. H. Bamford, and Dennis H. Bamford

Penetration of Membrane-Containing Double-Stranded-DNA Bacteriophage PM2 into Pseudoalteromonas Hosts
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5342-5354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robin L. Harris and Philip M. Silverman

Tra Proteins Characteristic of F-Like Type IV Secretion Systems Constitute an Interaction Group by Yeast Two-Hybrid Analysis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5480-5485. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Grégory Resch, Eva M. Kulik, Fred S. Dietrich, and Jürg Meyer

Complete Genomic Nucleotide Sequence of the Temperate Bacteriophage Aa23 of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5523-5528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liisa Räisänen, Karin Schubert, Tiina Jaakonsaari, and Tapani Alatossava

Characterization of Lipoteichoic Acids as Lactobacillus delbrueckii Phage Receptor Components
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5529-5532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Virginie Roth, Bertrand Aigle, Robert Bunet, Thomas Wenner, Céline Fourrier, Bernard Decaris, and Pierre Leblond

Differential and Cross-Transcriptional Control of Duplicated Genes Encoding Alternative Sigma Factors in Streptomyces ambofaciens
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5355-5365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Esteban A. Roberts, Amanda Clark, Sarah McBeth, and Richard L. Friedman

Molecular Characterization of the eis Promoter of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5410-5417. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cinthia Núñez, Lorrie Adams, Susan Childers, and Derek R. Lovley

The RpoS Sigma Factor in the Dissimilatory Fe(III)-Reducing Bacterium Geobacter sulfurreducens
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5543-5546. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Sunhee Lee, M. Flores-Encarnación, M. Contreras-Zentella, L. Garcia-Flores, J. E. Escamilla, and Christina Kennedy

Indole-3-Acetic Acid Biosynthesis Is Deficient in Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus Strains with Mutations in Cytochrome c Biogenesis Genes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5384-5391. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Leo M. Schouls, Han G. J. van der Heide, Luc Vauterin, Paul Vauterin, and Frits R. Mooi

Multiple-Locus Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis of Dutch Bordetella pertussis Strains Reveals Rapid Genetic Changes with Clonal Expansion during the Late 1990s
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5496-5505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

María-Rosario Baquero, Annika I. Nilsson, María del Carmen Turrientes, Dorthe Sandvang, Juan Carlos Galán, Jose Luís Martínez, Niels Frimodt-Møller, Fernando Baquero, and Dan I. Andersson

Polymorphic Mutation Frequencies in Escherichia coli: Emergence of Weak Mutators in Clinical Isolates
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5538-5542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Sergio Burillo, Ignacio Luque, Inmaculada Fuentes, and Asunción Contreras

Interactions between the Nitrogen Signal Transduction Protein PII and N-Acetyl Glutamate Kinase in Organisms That Perform Oxygenic Photosynthesis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 5555. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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