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Guest Commentaries:

Igor B. Zhulin

Digging with Experimental Pick and Computational Shovel: a New Addition to the Histidine Kinase Superfamily
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 267-269. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Kate L. Farmer and Mark S. Thomas

Isolation and Characterization of Burkholderia cenocepacia Mutants Deficient in Pyochelin Production: Pyochelin Biosynthesis Is Sensitive to Sulfur Availability
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 270-277. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takashi Koyanagi, Takane Katayama, Hideyuki Suzuki, and Hidehiko Kumagai

Identification of the LIV-I/LS System as the Third Phenylalanine Transporter in Escherichia coli K-12
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 343-350. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Valérie Wilquet, Mark Van de Casteele, Daniel Gigot, Christianne Legrain, and Nicolas Glansdorff

Dihydropteridine Reductase as an Alternative to Dihydrofolate Reductase for Synthesis of Tetrahydrofolate in Thermus thermophilus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 351-355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

B. Babbette D. LaMarca, Wenming Zhu, Jean E. L. Arceneaux, B. Rowe Byers, and Michael D. Lundrigan

Participation of fad and mbt Genes in Synthesis of Mycobactin in Mycobacterium smegmatis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 374-382. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Charles A. Testa, Rita M. Cornish, and C. Dale Poulter

The Sorbitol Phosphotransferase System Is Responsible for Transport of 2-C-Methyl-D-Erythritol into Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 473-480. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

William T. Self, Adnan Hasona, and K. T. Shanmugam

Expression and Regulation of a Silent Operon, hyf, Coding for Hydrogenase 4 Isoenzyme in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 580-587. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Helen Yakhnin, Hong Zhang, Alexander V. Yakhnin, and Paul Babitzke

The trp RNA-Binding Attenuation Protein of Bacillus subtilis Regulates Translation of the Tryptophan Transport Gene trpP (yhaG) by Blocking Ribosome Binding
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 278-286. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lisa Lystbæk Christensen and Jytte Josephsen

The Methyltransferase from the LlaDII Restriction-Modification System Influences the Level of Expression of Its Own Gene
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 287-295. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Willem van Schaik, Marcel H. Tempelaars, Jeroen A. Wouters, Willem M. de Vos, and Tjakko Abee

The Alternative Sigma Factor ^B of Bacillus cereus: Response to Stress and Role in Heat Adaptation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 316-325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Anh Ly, James Henderson, Annie Lu, Doreen E. Culham, and Janet M. Wood

Osmoregulatory Systems of Escherichia coli: Identification of Betaine-Carnitine-Choline Transporter Family Member BetU and Distributions of betU and trkG among Pathogenic and Nonpathogenic Isolates
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 296-306. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melissa Drysdale, Agathe Bourgogne, Susan G. Hilsenbeck, and Theresa M. Koehler

atxA Controls Bacillus anthracis Capsule Synthesis via acpA and a Newly Discovered Regulator, acpB
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 307-315. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Orit Uziel, Ilya Borovok, Rachel Schreiber, Gerald Cohen, and Yair Aharonowitz

Transcriptional Regulation of the Staphylococcus aureus Thioredoxin and Thioredoxin Reductase Genes in Response to Oxygen and Disulfide Stress
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 326-334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daiva Dailidiene, Giedrius Dailide, Keiji Ogura, Maojun Zhang, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Kathryn A. Eaton, Giovanni Cattoli, Johannes G. Kusters, and Douglas E. Berg

Helicobacter acinonychis: Genetic and Rodent Infection Studies of a Helicobacter pylori-Like Gastric Pathogen of Cheetahs and Other Big Cats
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 356-365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lu Feng, Sof'ya N. Senchenkova, Jinghua Yang, Alexander S. Shashkov, Jiang Tao, Hongjie Guo, Guang Zhao, Yuriy A. Knirel, Peter Reeves, and Lei Wang

Structural and Genetic Characterization of the Shigella boydii Type 13 O Antigen
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 383-392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isabel Veiga-Malta, Margarida Duarte, Márcia Dinis, Pedro Madureira, Paula Ferreira, and Arnaldo Videira

Identification of NAD⁺ Synthetase from Streptococcus sobrinus as a B-Cell-Stimulatory Protein
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 419-426. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David D. Williams and Charles L. Turnbough, Jr.

Surface Layer Protein EA1 Is Not a Component of Bacillus anthracis Spores but Is a Persistent Contaminant in Spore Preparations
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 566-569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Samuel M. Moskowitz, Robert K. Ernst, and Samuel I. Miller

PmrAB, a Two-Component Regulatory System of Pseudomonas aeruginosa That Modulates Resistance to Cationic Antimicrobial Peptides and Addition of Aminoarabinose to Lipid A
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 575-579. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Abhijit Basu, Sujoy Chatterjee, and Sujoy K. Das Gupta

Translational Coupling to an Upstream Gene Promotes Folding of the Mycobacterial Plasmid pAL5000 Replication Protein RepB and Thereby Its Origin Binding Activity
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 335-342. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pauline W. Wang, Linda Chu, and David S. Guttman

Complete Sequence and Evolutionary Genomic Analysis of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa Transposable Bacteriophage D3112
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 400-410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anita C. Parker and C. Jeffrey Smith

A Multicomponent System Is Required for Tetracycline-Induced Excision of Tn4555
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 438-444. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jens Klockgether, Oleg Reva, Karen Larbig, and Burkhard Tümmler

Sequence Analysis of the Mobile Genome Island pKLC102 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa C
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 518-534. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Matthew P. DeLisa, Philip Lee, Tracy Palmer, and George Georgiou

Phage Shock Protein PspA of Escherichia coli Relieves Saturation of Protein Export via the Tat Pathway
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 366-373. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mark C. Wissel and David S. Weiss

Genetic Analysis of the Cell Division Protein FtsI (PBP3): Amino Acid Substitutions That Impair Septal Localization of FtsI and Recruitment of FtsN
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 490-502. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Zhihao Zhuang, Feng Song, Hideto Takami, and Debra Dunaway-Mariano

The BH1999 Protein of Bacillus halodurans C-125 Is Gentisyl-Coenzyme A Thioesterase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 393-399. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hong-Suk Kim, Hyoung-Joon Park, Sunggi Heu, and Jin Jung

Molecular and Functional Characterization of a Unique Sucrose Hydrolase from Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. glycines
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 411-418. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tracey L. Grimek and Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena

The acnD Genes of Shewenella oneidensis and Vibrio cholerae Encode a New Fe/S-Dependent 2-Methylcitrate Dehydratase Enzyme That Requires prpF Function In Vivo
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 454-462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian H. Lower, M. Ben Potters, and Peter J. Kennelly

A Phosphoprotein from the Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus with Protein-Serine/Threonine Kinase Activity
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 463-472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bin Lin, Desiree A. Thayer, and Janine R. Maddock

The Caulobacter crescentus CgtA_C Protein Cosediments with the Free 50S Ribosomal Subunit
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 481-489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Iris Porat, Michael Vinogradov, Maria Vyazmensky, Chung-Dar Lu, David M. Chipman, Ahmed T. Abdelal, and Ze'ev Barak

Cloning and Characterization of Acetohydroxyacid Synthase from Bacillus stearothermophilus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 570-574. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

James Schelert, Vidula Dixit, Viet Hoang, Jessica Simbahan, Melissa Drozda, and Paul Blum

Occurrence and Characterization of Mercury Resistance in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus by Use of Gene Disruption
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 427-437. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Baruch Karniol and Richard D. Vierstra

The HWE Histidine Kinases, a New Family of Bacterial Two-Component Sensor Kinases with Potentially Diverse Roles in Environmental Signaling
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 445-453. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shahid Khan and David R. Trentham

Biphasic Excitation by Leucine in Escherichia coli Chemotaxis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 588-592. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Erin C. Gaynor, Shaun Cawthraw, Georgina Manning, Joanna K. MacKichan, Stanley Falkow, and Diane G. Newell

The Genome-Sequenced Variant of Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168 and the Original Clonal Clinical Isolate Differ Markedly in Colonization, Gene Expression, and Virulence-Associated Phenotypes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 503-517. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hong Ge, Yao-Yu Eric Chuang, Shuping Zhao, Min Tong, Mong-Hsun Tsai, Joseph J. Temenak, Allen L. Richards, and Wei-Mei Ching

Comparative Genomics of Rickettsia prowazekii Madrid E and Breinl Strains
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 556-565. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

W. R. Streit, R. A. Schmitz, X. Perret, C. Staehelin, W. J. Deakin, C. Raasch, H. Liesegang, and W. J. Broughton

An Evolutionary Hot Spot: the pNGR234b Replicon of Rhizobium sp. Strain NGR234
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 535-542. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lisa M. Schechter, Kathy A. Roberts, Yashitola Jamir, James R. Alfano, and Alan Collmer

Pseudomonas syringae Type III Secretion System Targeting Signals and Novel Effectors Studied with a Cya Translocation Reporter
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 543-555. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Authors' Corrections:

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

Complete Genome Sequence of the Oral Pathogenic Bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis Strain W83
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 593. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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