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Guest Commentaries:

Karen Carniol and Michael S. Gilmore

Signal Transduction, Quorum-Sensing, and Extracellular Protease Activity in Enterococcus faecalis Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8161-8163. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Aimee E. Belanger, Melissa J. Clague, John I. Glass, and Donald J. LeBlanc

Pyruvate Oxidase Is a Determinant of Avery's Rough Morphology
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8164-8171. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Iris Keren, Devang Shah, Amy Spoering, Niilo Kaldalu, and Kim Lewis

Specialized Persister Cells and the Mechanism of Multidrug Tolerance in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8172-8180. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

C. Y. Loo, K. Mitrakul, S. Jaafar, C. Gyurko, C. V. Hughes, and N. Ganeshkumar

Role of a nosX Homolog in Streptococcus gordonii in Aerobic Growth and Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8193-8206. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia Romero, Rubens López, and Ernesto García

Characterization of LytA-Like N-Acetylmuramoyl-L-Alanine Amidases from Two New Streptococcus mitis Bacteriophages Provides Insights into the Properties of the Major Pneumococcal Autolysin
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8229-8239. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shahar Amitai, Yussuf Yassin, and Hanna Engelberg-Kulka

MazF-Mediated Cell Death in Escherichia coli: a Point of No Return
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8295-8300. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nancy A. Beck, Eric S. Krukonis, and Victor J. DiRita

TcpH Influences Virulence Gene Expression in Vibrio cholerae by Inhibiting Degradation of the Transcription Activator TcpP
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8309-8316. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sung Ok Han, Hideaki Yukawa, Masayuki Inui, and Roy H. Doi

Isolation and Expression of the xynB Gene and Its Product, XynB, a Consistent Component of the Clostridium cellulovorans Cellulosome
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8347-8355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

WenLian Xu, Candice R. Jones, Christopher A. Dunn, and Maurice J. Bessman

Gene ytkD of Bacillus subtilis Encodes an Atypical Nucleoside Triphosphatase Member of the Nudix Hydrolase Superfamily
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8380-8384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Somalinga R. V. Vijayakumar, Mark G. Kirchhof, Cheryl L. Patten, and Herb E. Schellhorn

RpoS-Regulated Genes of Escherichia coli Identified by Random lacZ Fusion Mutagenesis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8499-8507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sean R. Murray, Karim Suwwan de Felipe, Pamela L. Obuchowski, Jeremy Pike, David Bermudes, and K. Brooks Low

Hot Spot for a Large Deletion in the 18- to 19-Centisome Region Confers a Multiple Phenotype in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Strain ATCC 14028
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8516-8523. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Moses L. Joloba, Katy M. Clemmer, Darren D. Sledjeski, and Philip N. Rather

Activation of the gab Operon in an RpoS-Dependent Manner by Mutations That Truncate the Inner Core of Lipopolysaccharide in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8542-8546. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Angeliki Mavroidi, Daniel Godoy, David M. Aanensen, D. Ashley Robinson, Susan K. Hollingshead, and Brian G. Spratt

Evolutionary Genetics of the Capsular Locus of Serogroup 6 Pneumococci
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8181-8192. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

S. V. Lynch, E. L. Brodie, and A. Matin

Role and Regulation of ^s in General Resistance Conferred by Low-Shear Simulated Microgravity in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8207-8212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hiroshi Ogasawara, Jun Teramoto, Kiyo Hirao, Kaneyoshi Yamamoto, Akira Ishihama, and Ryutaro Utsumi

Negative Regulation of DNA Repair Gene (ung) Expression by the CpxR/CpxA Two-Component System in Escherichia coli K-12 and Induction of Mutations by Increased Expression of CpxR
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8317-8325. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Brian Weinrick, Paul M. Dunman, Fionnuala McAleese, Ellen Murphy, Steven J. Projan, Yuan Fang, and Richard P. Novick

Effect of Mild Acid on Gene Expression in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8407-8423. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lina Laskos, Catherine S. Ryan, Janet A. M. Fyfe, and John K. Davies

The RpoH-Mediated Stress Response in Neisseria gonorrhoeae Is Regulated at the Level of Activity
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8443-8452. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eun-Jin Lee, You-Hee Cho, Hyo-Sub Kim, Bo-Eun Ahn, and Jung-Hye Roe

Regulation of ^B by an Anti- and an Anti-Anti-Sigma Factor in Streptomyces coelicolor in Response to Osmotic Stress
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8490-8498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wendi L. Kuhnert, Guolu Zheng, Roberta C. Faustoferri, and Robert G. Quivey, Jr.

The F-ATPase Operon Promoter of Streptococcus mutans Is Transcriptionally Regulated in Response to External pH
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8524-8528. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frédéric Berthiaume, Cécile Crost, Vincent Labrie, Christine Martin, Elaine B. Newman, and Josée Harel

Influence of L-Leucine and L-Alanine on Lrp Regulation of foo, Coding for F165₁, a Pap Homologue
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8537-8541. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Jeffrey B. Kaplan, Kabilan Velliyagounder, Chandran Ragunath, Holger Rohde, Dietrich Mack, Johannes K.-M. Knobloch, and Narayanan Ramasubbu

Genes Involved in the Synthesis and Degradation of Matrix Polysaccharide in Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans and Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Biofilms
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8213-8220. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plamena Entcheva-Dimitrov and Alfred M. Spormann

Dynamics and Control of Biofilms of the Oligotrophic Bacterium Caulobacter crescentus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8254-8266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Melisa J. Willby, Mitchell F. Balish, Stephanie M. Ross, Kyungok K. Lee, Jarrat L. Jordan, and Duncan C. Krause

HMW1 Is Required for Stability and Localization of HMW2 to the Attachment Organelle of Mycoplasma pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8221-8228. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bernadette M. Meberg, Avery L. Paulson, Richa Priyadarshini, and Kevin D. Young

Endopeptidase Penicillin-Binding Proteins 4 and 7 Play Auxiliary Roles in Determining Uniform Morphology of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8326-8336. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Soumya Pastoret, Claudine Fraipont, Tanneke den Blaauwen, Benoît Wolf, Mirjam E. G. Aarsman, André Piette, Annick Thomas, Robert Brasseur, and Martine Nguyen-Distèche

Functional Analysis of the Cell Division Protein FtsW of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8370-8379. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Paul L. DeAngelis and Carissa L. White

Identification of a Distinct, Cryptic Heparosan Synthase from Pasteurella multocida Types A, D, and F
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8529-8532. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fasahath Husain, Matthew Humbard, and Rajeev Misra

Interaction between the TolC and AcrA Proteins of a Multidrug Efflux System of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8533-8536. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

William S. Reznikoff, Seth R. Bordenstein, and Jennifer Apodaca

Comparative Sequence Analysis of IS50/Tn5 Transposase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8240-8247. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandra Chibani-Chennoufi, Josette Sidoti, Anne Bruttin, Marie-Lise Dillmann, Elizabeth Kutter, Firdausi Qadri, Shafiqul Alam Sarker, and Harald Brüssow

Isolation of Escherichia coli Bacteriophages from the Stool of Pediatric Diarrhea Patients in Bangladesh
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8287-8294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carlos São-José, Catarina Baptista, and Mário A. Santos

Bacillus subtilis Operon Encoding a Membrane Receptor for Bacteriophage SPP1
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8337-8346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Víctor González-Huici, Martín Alcorlo, Margarita Salas, and José M. Hermoso

Phage 29 Proteins p1 and p17 Are Required for Efficient Binding of Architectural Protein p6 to Viral DNA In Vivo
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8401-8406. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Lynn C. Thomason, Donald L. Court, Atin R. Datta, Rita Khanna, and Judah L. Rosner

Identification of the Escherichia coli K-12 ybhE Gene as pgl, Encoding 6-Phosphogluconolactonase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8248-8253. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francisco Velázquez, Ilaria di Bartolo, and Víctor de Lorenzo

Genetic Evidence that Catabolites of the Entner-Doudoroff Pathway Signal C Source Repression of the ⁵⁴ Pu Promoter of Pseudomonas putida
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8267-8275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Suzanne E. Dale, M. Tom Sebulsky, and David E. Heinrichs

Involvement of SirABC in Iron-Siderophore Import in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8356-8362. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason S. Richardson, Michael F. Hynes, and Ivan J. Oresnik

A Genetic Locus Necessary for Rhamnose Uptake and Catabolism in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. trifolii
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8433-8442. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David S. Nichols, Matthew R. Miller, Noel W. Davies, Amber Goodchild, Mark Raftery, and Ricardo Cavicchioli

Cold Adaptation in the Antarctic Archaeon Methanococcoides burtonii Involves Membrane Lipid Unsaturation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8508-8515. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Sandra Chibani-Chennoufi, Carlos Canchaya, Anne Bruttin, and Harald Brüssow

Comparative Genomics of the T4-Like Escherichia coli Phage JS98: Implications for the Evolution of T4 Phages
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8276-8286. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiu-Feng Wan, Nathan C. VerBerkmoes, Lee Ann McCue, Dawn Stanek, Heather Connelly, Loren J. Hauser, Liyou Wu, Xueduan Liu, Tingfen Yan, Adam Leaphart, Robert L. Hettich, Jizhong Zhou, and Dorothea K. Thompson

Transcriptomic and Proteomic Characterization of the Fur Modulon in the Metal-Reducing Bacterium Shewanella oneidensis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8385-8400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Deepan S. H. Shah, Gilles Joucla, Magali Remaud-Simeon, and Roy R. B. Russell

Conserved Repeat Motifs and Glucan Binding by Glucansucrases of Oral Streptococci and Leuconostoc mesenteroides
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8301-8308. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Mohammad Aboulwafa and Milton H. Saier, Jr.

Characterization of Soluble Enzyme II Complexes of the Escherichia coli Phosphotransferase System
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8453-8462. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Structural Biology:

Yun Qu, Paul Hyman, Timothy Harrah, and Edward Goldberg

In Vivo Bypass of Chaperone by Extended Coiled-Coil Motif in T4 Tail Fiber
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8363-8369. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Matthew Schau, Amr Eldakak, and F. Marion Hulett

Terminal Oxidases Are Essential To Bypass the Requirement for ResD for Full Pho Induction in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8424-8432. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Wolfgang Haas, Jack Sublett, Deepak Kaushal, and Elaine I. Tuomanen

Revising the Role of the Pneumococcal vex-vncRS Locus in Vancomycin Tolerance
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8463-8471. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yngve Östberg, Ignas Bunikis, Sven Bergström, and Jörgen Johansson

The Etiological Agent of Lyme Disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, Appears To Contain Only a Few Small RNA Molecules
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8472-8477. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Bret M. Benton, J. P. Zhang, Skip Bond, Casey Pope, Todd Christian, Lawrence Lee, Kelly M. Winterberg, Molly B. Schmid, and Jerry M. Buysse

Large-Scale Identification of Genes Required for Full Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8478-8489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Authors' Corrections:

Christopher D. Herring and Frederick R. Blattner

Conditional Lethal Amber Mutations in Essential Escherichia coli Genes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 8547. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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: 8548. [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: 8549. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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