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Gene Regulation:

Peter A. Bron, Maria Marco, Sally M. Hoffer, Esther Van Mullekom, Willem M. de Vos, and Michiel Kleerebezem

Genetic Characterization of the Bile Salt Response in Lactobacillus plantarum and Analysis of Responsive Promoters In Vitro and In Situ in the Gastrointestinal Tract
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7829-7835. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David E. Whitworth, Samantha J. Bryan, Andrew E. Berry, Simon J. McGowan, and David A. Hodgson

Genetic Dissection of the Light-Inducible carQRS Promoter Region of Myxococcus xanthus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7836-7846. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Audry C. Almengor and Kevin S. McIver

Transcriptional Activation of sclA by Mga Requires a Distal Binding Site in Streptococcus pyogenes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7847-7857. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ji Ma and Martha M. Howe

Binding of the C-Terminal Domain of the Subunit of RNA Polymerase to the Phage Mu Middle Promoter
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7858-7864. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason W. Hickman, Vernon C. Witthuhn, Jr., Miguel Dominguez, and Timothy J. Donohue

Positive and Negative Transcriptional Regulators of Glutathione-Dependent Formaldehyde Metabolism
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7914-7925. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sven Halbedel, Claudine Hames, and Jörg Stülke

In Vivo Activity of Enzymatic and Regulatory Components of the Phosphoenolpyruvate:Sugar Phosphotransferase System in Mycoplasma pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7936-7943. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shelley A. Haveman, E. Anne Greene, Claire P. Stilwell, Johanna K. Voordouw, and Gerrit Voordouw

Physiological and Gene Expression Analysis of Inhibition of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough by Nitrite
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7944-7950. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Lynn E. Hancock and Marta Perego

Systematic Inactivation and Phenotypic Characterization of Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems of Enterococcus faecalis V583
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7951-7958. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Andrea Büsch, Anne Pohlmann, Bärbel Friedrich, and Rainer Cramm

A DNA Region Recognized by the Nitric Oxide-Responsive Transcriptional Activator NorR Is Conserved in ß- and -Proteobacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7980-7987. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christine B. Michalowski, Megan D. Short, and John W. Little

Sequence Tolerance of the Phage P_RM Promoter: Implications for Evolution of Gene Regulatory Circuitry
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7988-7999. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Padungsri Dubbs, James M. Dubbs, and F. Robert Tabita

Effector-Mediated Interaction of CbbR_I and CbbR_II Regulators with Target Sequences in Rhodobacter capsulatus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8026-8035. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Amit P. Bhavsar, Laura K. Erdman, Jeffrey W. Schertzer, and Eric D. Brown

Teichoic Acid Is an Essential Polymer in Bacillus subtilis That Is Functionally Distinct from Teichuronic Acid
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7865-7873. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Heather R. Panek and Mark R. O'Brian

KatG Is the Primary Detoxifier of Hydrogen Peroxide Produced by Aerobic Metabolism in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7874-7880. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Doreen Munkelt, Gregor Grass, and Dietrich H. Nies

The Chromosomally Encoded Cation Diffusion Facilitator Proteins DmeF and FieF from Wautersia metallidurans CH34 Are Transporters of Broad Metal Specificity
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8036-8043. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Terry M. Bricker, Shulu Zhang, Susan M. Laborde, Paul R. Mayer, III, Laurie K. Frankel, and James V. Moroney

The Malic Enzyme Is Required for Optimal Photoautotrophic Growth of Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803 under Continuous Light but Not under a Diurnal Light Regimen
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8144-8148. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Celeste L. V. Johnson, Marian L. Buszko, and Thomas A. Bobik

Purification and Initial Characterization of the Salmonella enterica PduO ATP:Cob(I)alamin Adenosyltransferase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7881-7887. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael V. Weinberg, Francis E. Jenney, Jr., Xiaoyuan Cui, and Michael W. W. Adams

Rubrerythrin from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus Is a Rubredoxin-Dependent, Iron-Containing Peroxidase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7888-7895. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Victoria R. Sutton, Erin L. Mettert, Helmut Beinert, and Patricia J. Kiley

Kinetic Analysis of the Oxidative Conversion of the [4Fe-4S]²⁺ Cluster of FNR to a [2Fe-2S]²⁺ Cluster
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8018-8025. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sirko Schmeling, Ariun Narmandakh, Oliver Schmitt, Nasser Gad'on, Karola Schühle, and Georg Fuchs

Phenylphosphate Synthase: a New Phosphotransferase Catalyzing the First Step in Anaerobic Phenol Metabolism in Thauera aromatica
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8044-8057. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sam J. Barkley, Shrivallabh B. Desai, and C. Dale Poulter

Type II Isopentenyl Diphosphate Isomerase from Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8156-8158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Garima Bhatt and Timothy P. Denny

Ralstonia solanacearum Iron Scavenging by the Siderophore Staphyloferrin B Is Controlled by PhcA, the Global Virulence Regulator
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7896-7904. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Jacobo Zuñiga-Castillo, David Romero, and Jaime M. Martínez-Salazar

The Recombination Genes addAB Are Not Restricted to Gram-Positive Bacteria: Genetic Analysis of the Recombination Initiation Enzymes RecF and AddAB in Rhizobium etli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7905-7913. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fergus G. Priest, Margaret Barker, Les W. J. Baillie, Edward C. Holmes, and Martin C. J. Maiden

Population Structure and Evolution of the Bacillus cereus Group
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7959-7970. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Shigeo Tojo, Takenori Satomura, Kaori Morisaki, Ken-Ichi Yoshida, Kazutake Hirooka, and Yasutaro Fujita

Negative Transcriptional Regulation of the ilv-leu Operon for Biosynthesis of Branched-Chain Amino Acids through the Bacillus subtilis Global Regulator TnrA
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7971-7979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jessica M. Silvaggi, David L. Popham, Adam Driks, Patrick Eichenberger, and Richard Losick

Unmasking Novel Sporulation Genes in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8089-8095. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Madhab K. Chattopadhyay, Renée Kern, Michel-Yves Mistou, Abhaya M. Dandekar, Sandra L. Uratsu, and Gilbert Richarme

The Chemical Chaperone Proline Relieves the Thermosensitivity of a dnaK Deletion Mutant at 42°C
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8149-8152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Nina R. Salama, Benjamin Shepherd, and Stanley Falkow

Global Transposon Mutagenesis and Essential Gene Analysis of Helicobacter pylori
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 7926-7935. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Michael C. Toporowski, John F. Nomellini, Peter Awram, and John Smit

Two Outer Membrane Proteins Are Required for Maximal Type I Secretion of the Caulobacter crescentus S-Layer Protein
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8000-8009. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Anja H. Schiemann, Jasna Rakonjac, Michael Callanan, James Gordon, Kayla Polzin, Mark W. Lubbers, and Paul W. O'Toole

Essentiality of the Early Transcript in the Replication Origin of the Lactococcal Prolate Phage c2
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8010-8017. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Richard P. Bonocora and David A. Shub

A Self-Splicing Group I Intron in DNA Polymerase Genes of T7-Like Bacteriophages
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8153-8155. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Orla Sherlock, Mark A. Schembri, Andreas Reisner, and Per Klemm

Novel Roles for the AIDA Adhesin from Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli: Cell Aggregation and Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8058-8065. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeremy S. Webb, Mathew Lau, and Staffan Kjelleberg

Bacteriophage and Phenotypic Variation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilm Development
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8066-8073. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kai M. Thormann, Renée M. Saville, Soni Shukla, Dale A. Pelletier, and Alfred M. Spormann

Initial Phases of Biofilm Formation in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8096-8104. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Structural Biology:

Martin K. Safo, Faik N. Musayev, Sharyn Hunt, Martino L. di Salvo, Neel Scarsdale, and Verne Schirch

Crystal Structure of the PdxY Protein from Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8074-8082. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Guennadi Kozlov, Demetra Elias, Anthony Semesi, Adelinda Yee, Miroslaw Cygler, and Kalle Gehring

Structural Similarity of YbeD Protein from Escherichia coli to Allosteric Regulatory Domains
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8083-8088. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rohini Qamra and Shekhar C. Mande

Crystal Structure of the 65-Kilodalton Heat Shock Protein, Chaperonin 60.2, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8105-8113. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Zaini Mohd-Zain, Sarah L. Turner, Ana M. Cerdeño-Tárraga, Andrew K. Lilley, Thomas J. Inzana, A. Jane Duncan, Rosalind M. Harding, Derek W. Hood, Timothy E. Peto, and Derrick W. Crook

Transferable Antibiotic Resistance Elements in Haemophilus influenzae Share a Common Evolutionary Origin with a Diverse Family of Syntenic Genomic Islands
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8114-8122. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Andrew T. Ulijasz, David R. Andes, Jeremy D. Glasner, and Bernard Weisblum

Regulation of Iron Transport in Streptococcus pneumoniae by RitR, an Orphan Response Regulator
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8123-8136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Bethany Kay Boardman and Karla J. Fullner Satchell

Vibrio cholerae Strains with Mutations in an Atypical Type I Secretion System Accumulate RTX Toxin Intracellularly
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8137-8143. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Authors' Corrections:

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: 8159. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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