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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Charu Dogra, Vishakha Raina, Rinku Pal, Mrutyunjay Suar, Sukanya Lal, Karl-Heinz Gartemann, Christof Holliger, Jan Roelof van der Meer, and Rup Lal

Organization of lin Genes and IS6100 among Different Strains of Hexachlorocyclohexane-Degrading Sphingomonas paucimobilis: Evidence for Horizontal Gene Transfer
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2225-2235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Adrienne D. Putteet-Driver, Jianmin Zhong, and Alan G. Barbour

Transgenic Expression of RecA of the Spirochetes Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii in Escherichia coli Revealed Differences in DNA Repair and Recombination Phenotypes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2266-2274. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alyssa Mlouka, Katia Comte, Anne-Marie Castets, Christiane Bouchier, and Nicole Tandeau de Marsac

The Gas Vesicle Gene Cluster from Microcystis aeruginosa and DNA Rearrangements That Lead to Loss of Cell Buoyancy
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2355-2365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jack H. Staddon, Edward M. Bryan, Dawn A. Manias, and Gary M. Dunny

Conserved Target for Group II Intron Insertion in Relaxase Genes of Conjugative Elements of Gram-Positive Bacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2393-2401. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ho-San Kim, D. Sherman, F. Johnson, and A. I. Aronson

Characterization of a Major Bacillus anthracis Spore Coat Protein and Its Role in Spore Inactivation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2413-2417. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rene Handrick, Simone Reinhardt, Daniel Schultheiss, Thomas Reichart, Dirk Schüler, Verena Jendrossek, and Dieter Jendrossek

Unraveling the Function of the Rhodospirillum rubrum Activator of Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) Degradation: the Activator Is a PHB-Granule-Bound Protein (Phasin)
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2466-2475. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather Maughan, Belinda Galeano, and Wayne L. Nicholson

Novel rpoB Mutations Conferring Rifampin Resistance on Bacillus subtilis: Global Effects on Growth, Competence, Sporulation, and Germination
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2481-2486. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yiqian Dong, Yi-Ywan M. Chen, and R. A. Burne

Control of Expression of the Arginine Deiminase Operon of Streptococcus gordonii by CcpA and Flp
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2511-2514. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Stefaan Johan Vandecasteele, Willy Eduard Peetermans, An Carbonez, and Johan Van Eldere

Metabolic Activity of Staphylococcus epidermidis Is High during Initial and Low during Late Experimental Foreign-Body Infection
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2236-2239. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Corien Bakermans and Kenneth H. Nealson

Relationship of Critical Temperature to Macromolecular Synthesis and Growth Yield in Psychrobacter cryopegella
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2340-2345. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ulrike Dahl, Tina Jaeger, Bao Trâm Nguyen, Julia M. Sattler, and Christoph Mayer

Identification of a Phosphotransferase System of Escherichia coli Required for Growth on N-Acetylmuramic Acid
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2385-2392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Ulrike Mäder, Susanne Hennig, Michael Hecker, and Georg Homuth

Transcriptional Organization and Posttranscriptional Regulation of the Bacillus subtilis Branched-Chain Amino Acid Biosynthesis Genes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2240-2252. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kimberly K. Jefferson, Danielle B. Pier, Donald A. Goldmann, and Gerald B. Pier

The Teicoplanin-Associated Locus Regulator (TcaR) and the Intercellular Adhesin Locus Regulator (IcaR) Are Transcriptional Inhibitors of the ica Locus in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2449-2456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sergio Lejona, María Eugenia Castelli, María Laura Cabeza, Linda J. Kenney, Eleonora García Véscovi, and Fernando C. Soncini

PhoP Can Activate Its Target Genes in a PhoQ-Independent Manner
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2476-2480. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

A. Merkx-Jacques, R. K. Obhi, G. Bethune, and C. Creuzenet

The Helicobacter pylori flaA1 and wbpB Genes Control Lipopolysaccharide and Flagellum Synthesis and Function
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2253-2265. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dionysios Liveris, Vishwaroop Mulay, and Ira Schwartz

Functional Properties of Borrelia burgdorferi recA
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2275-2280. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

E. Valade, F. M. Thibault, Y. P. Gauthier, M. Palencia, M. Y. Popoff, and D. R. Vidal

The PmlI-PmlR Quorum-Sensing System in Burkholderia pseudomallei Plays a Key Role in Virulence and Modulates Production of the MprA Protease
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2288-2294. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Steven R. Monday, Scott A. Minnich, and Peter C. H. Feng

A 12-Base-Pair Deletion in the Flagellar Master Control Gene flhC Causes Nonmotility of the Pathogenic German Sorbitol-Fermenting Escherichia coli O157:H^- Strains
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2319-2327. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yukihiro Akeda and Jorge E. Galán

Genetic Analysis of the Salmonella enterica Type III Secretion-Associated ATPase InvC Defines Discrete Functional Domains
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2402-2412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alexa A. Pragman, Jeremy M. Yarwood, Timothy J. Tripp, and Patrick M. Schlievert

Characterization of Virulence Factor Regulation by SrrAB, a Two-Component System in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2430-2438. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kim Millman, Carolyn M. Black, Robert E. Johnson, Walter E. Stamm, Robert B. Jones, Edward W. Hook, David H. Martin, Gail Bolan, Simon Tavaré, and Deborah Dean

Population-Based Genetic and Evolutionary Analysis of Chlamydia trachomatis Urogenital Strain Variation in the United States
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2457-2465. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Limei Meng Okkels and Peter Andersen

Protein-Protein Interactions of Proteins from the ESAT-6 Family of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2487-2491. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Simon C. Williams, Erin K. Patterson, Nancy L. Carty, John A. Griswold, Abdul N. Hamood, and Kendra P. Rumbaugh

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Autoinducer Enters and Functions in Mammalian Cells
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2281-2287. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Mark J. McBride and Timothy F. Braun

GldI Is a Lipoprotein That Is Required for Flavobacterium johnsoniae Gliding Motility and Chitin Utilization
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2295-2302. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jay E. Johnson, Laura L. Lackner, Cynthia A. Hale, and Piet A. J. de Boer

ZipA Is Required for Targeting of ^DMinC/DicB, but Not ^DMinC/MinD, Complexes to Septal Ring Assemblies in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2418-2429. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Asa Eitan and Eitan Bibi

The Core Escherichia coli Signal Recognition Particle Receptor Contains Only the N and G Domains of FtsY
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2492-2494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

John S. Van Arnam, Jonathan L. McMurry, May Kihara, and Robert M. Macnab

Analysis of an Engineered Salmonella Flagellar Fusion Protein, FliR-FlhB
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2495-2498. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Ranjit K. Deka, Martin S. Goldberg, Kayla E. Hagman, and Michael V. Norgard

The Tp38 (TpMglB-2) Lipoprotein Binds Glucose in a Manner Consistent with Receptor Function in Treponema pallidum
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2303-2308. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christian Hildmann, Milena Ninkovic, Rüdiger Dietrich, Dennis Wegener, Daniel Riester, Thomas Zimmermann, Olwen M. Birch, Christine Bernegger, Peter Loidl, and Andreas Schwienhorst

A New Amidohydrolase from Bordetella or Alcaligenes Strain FB188 with Similarities to Histone Deacetylases
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2328-2339. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karen O'Dwyer, Joseph M. Watts, Sanjoy Biswas, Jennifer Ambrad, Michael Barber, Hervé Brulé, Chantal Petit, David J. Holmes, Magdalena Zalacain, and Walter M. Holmes

Characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae TrmD, a tRNA Methyltransferase Essential for Growth
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2346-2354. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hsin-Hsien Hsu, Wei-Cheng Huang, Jia-Perng Chen, Liang-Yin Huang, Chai-Fong Wu, and Ban-Yang Chang

Properties of Bacillus subtilis ^A Factors with Region 1.1 and the Conserved Arg-103 at the N Terminus of Region 1.2 Deleted
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2366-2375. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather Seidle, Vidhya Rangaswamy, Robin Couch, Carol L. Bender, and Ronald J. Parry

Characterization of Cfa1, a Monofunctional Acyl Carrier Protein Involved in the Biosynthesis of the Phytotoxin Coronatine
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2499-2503. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Sébastien Cunnac, Christian Boucher, and Stéphane Genin

Characterization of the cis-Acting Regulatory Element Controlling HrpB-Mediated Activation of the Type III Secretion System and Effector Genes in Ralstonia solanacearum
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2309-2318. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Toshiki Uchiumi, Takuji Ohwada, Manabu Itakura, Hisayuki Mitsui, Noriyuki Nukui, Pramod Dawadi, Takakazu Kaneko, Satoshi Tabata, Tadashi Yokoyama, Kouhei Tejima, Kazuhiko Saeki, Hirofumi Omori, Makoto Hayashi, Takaki Maekawa, Rutchadaporn Sriprang, Yoshikatsu Murooka, Shigeyuki Tajima, Kenshiro Simomura, Mika Nomura, Akihiro Suzuki, Yoshikazu Shimoda, Kouki Sioya, Mikiko Abe, and Kiwamu Minamisawa

Expression Islands Clustered on the Symbiosis Island of the Mesorhizobium loti Genome
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2439-2448. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Valerie B. Weaver and Roberto Kolter

Burkholderia spp. Alter Pseudomonas aeruginosa Physiology through Iron Sequestration
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2376-2384. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Therese Brendler, Lucretia Reaves, and Stuart Austin

Interplay between Plasmid Partition and Postsegregational Killing Systems
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2504-2507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oliver Hasselmayer, Veit Braun, Claudia Nitsche, Michael Moos, Maja Rupnik, and Christoph von Eichel-Streiber

Clostridium difficile IStron CdISt1: Discovery of a Variant Encoding Two Complete Transposase-Like Proteins
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2508-2510. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Amrita Kumar, Cindy Buckner Starke, Mark DeZalia, and Charles P. Moran, Jr.

Surfaces of Spo0A and RNA Polymerase Sigma Factor A That Interact at the spoIIG Promoter in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2515. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Riccardo Manganelli, Roberta Provvedi, Sebastien Rodrigue, Jocelyn Beaucher, Luc Gaudreau, and Issar Smith

Factors and Global Gene Regulation in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2516. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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