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Guest Commentaries:

Paul Messner

Prokaryotic Glycoproteins: Unexplored but Important
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2517-2519. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert P. Hausinger

Metabolic Versatility of Prokaryotes for Urea Decomposition
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2520-2522. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

M. Schirm, S. K. Arora, A. Verma, E. Vinogradov, P. Thibault, R. Ramphal, and S. M. Logan

Structural and Genetic Characterization of Glycosylation of Type a Flagellin in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2523-2531. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Miguel A. de Pedro, Christoph G. Grünfelder, and Heinz Schwarz

Restricted Mobility of Cell Surface Proteins in the Polar Regions of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2594-2602. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sebastian Beck, Dominik Schwudke, Eckhard Strauch, Bernd Appel, and Michael Linscheid

Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus Strains Produce a Novel Major Outer Membrane Protein during Predacious Growth in the Periplasm of Prey Bacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2766-2773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. Ramirez-Arcos, V. Greco, H. Douglas, D. Tessier, D. Fan, J. Szeto, J. Wang, and J. R. Dillon

Conserved Glycines in the C Terminus of MinC Proteins Are Implicated in Their Functionality as Cell Division Inhibitors
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2841-2855. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Takeshi Kanamori, Norihisa Kanou, Haruyuki Atomi, and Tadayuki Imanaka

Enzymatic Characterization of a Prokaryotic Urea Carboxylase
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2532-2539. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marco T. Rincón, Jennifer C. Martin, Vincenzo Aurilia, Sheila I. McCrae, Garry J. Rucklidge, Martin D. Reid, Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed, and Harry J. Flint

ScaC, an Adaptor Protein Carrying a Novel Cohesin That Expands the Dockerin-Binding Repertoire of the Ruminococcus flavefaciens 17 Cellulosome
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2576-2585. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Melanie Blokesch, Michaela Rohrmoser, Sabine Rode, and August Böck

HybF, a Zinc-Containing Protein Involved in NiFe Hydrogenase Maturation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2603-2611. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Osamu Miyake, Akihito Ochiai, Wataru Hashimoto, and Kousaku Murata

Origin and Diversity of Alginate Lyases of Families PL-5 and -7 in Sphingomonas sp. Strain A1
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2891-2896. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Sebastian Jacobi, Rüdiger Schade, and Klaus Heuner

Characterization of the Alternative Sigma Factor ⁵⁴ and the Transcriptional Regulator FleQ of Legionella pneumophila, Which Are Both Involved in the Regulation Cascade of Flagellar Gene Expression
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2540-2547. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yanping Wang, Nadja B. Shoemaker, and Abigail A. Salyers

Regulation of a Bacteroides Operon That Controls Excision and Transfer of the Conjugative Transposon CTnDOT
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2548-2557. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nuria Antón, Marta V. Mendes, Juan F. Martín, and Jesús F. Aparicio

Identification of PimR as a Positive Regulator of Pimaricin Biosynthesis in Streptomyces natalensis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2567-2575. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robyn L. Woodbury, Tingqiu Luo, Lindsay Grant, and W. G. Haldenwang

Mutational Analysis of RsbT, an Activator of the Bacillus subtilis Stress Response Transcription Factor, ^B
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2789-2797. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Gerstmeir, Annette Cramer, Petra Dangel, Steffen Schaffer, and Bernhard J. Eikmanns

RamB, a Novel Transcriptional Regulator of Genes Involved in Acetate Metabolism of Corynebacterium glutamicum
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2798-2809. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Heather D. Carter, Vladimir Svetlov, and Irina Artsimovitch

Highly Divergent RfaH Orthologs from Pathogenic Proteobacteria Can Substitute for Escherichia coli RfaH both In Vivo and In Vitro
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2829-2840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Isabelle Vallet, Stephen P. Diggle, Rachael E. Stacey, Miguel Cámara, Isabelle Ventre, Stephen Lory, Andrée Lazdunski, Paul Williams, and Alain Filloux

Biofilm Formation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Fimbrial cup Gene Clusters Are Controlled by the Transcriptional Regulator MvaT
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2880-2890. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Julia A. Maresca, Aline Gomez Maqueo Chew, Marta Ros Ponsatí, Niels-Ulrik Frigaard, John G. Ormerod, and Donald A. Bryant

The bchU Gene of Chlorobium tepidum Encodes the C-20 Methyltransferase in Bacteriochlorophyll c Biosynthesis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2558-2566. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eiji Masai, Miyuki Sasaki, Yasunori Minakawa, Tomokuni Abe, Tomonori Sonoki, Keisuke Miyauchi, Yoshihiro Katayama, and Masao Fukuda

A Novel Tetrahydrofolate-Dependent O-Demethylase Gene Is Essential for Growth of Sphingomonas paucimobilis SYK-6 with Syringate
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2757-2765. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ingo Schmidt, Peter J. M. Steenbakkers, Huub J. M. op den Camp, Katrin Schmidt, and Mike S. M. Jetten

Physiologic and Proteomic Evidence for a Role of Nitric Oxide in Biofilm Formation by Nitrosomonas europaea and Other Ammonia Oxidizers
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2781-2788. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Abraham Esteve-Núñez, Cinthia Núñez, and Derek R. Lovley

Preferential Reduction of Fe(III) over Fumarate by Geobacter sulfurreducens
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2897-2899. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eric V. Stabb, Melissa S. Butler, and Dawn M. Adin

Correlation between Osmolarity and Luminescence of Symbiotic Vibrio fischeri Strain ES114
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2906-2908. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Eyleen J. O'Rourke, A. Viviana Pinto, E. Alejandro Petroni, Marcelo E. Tolmasky, and Luis Ielpi

Evidence for the Active Role of a Novel Nuclease from Helicobacter pylori in the Horizontal Transfer of Genetic Information
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2586-2593. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kelley M. Hovis, John V. McDowell, LaToya Griffin, and Richard T. Marconi

Identification and Characterization of a Linear-Plasmid-Encoded Factor H-Binding Protein (FhbA) of the Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia hermsii
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2612-2618. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kelly Babb, Jason D. McAlister, Jennifer C. Miller, and Brian Stevenson

Molecular Characterization of Borrelia burgdorferi erp Promoter/Operator Elements
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2745-2756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David A. Haake, Marc A. Suchard, Melissa M. Kelley, Manjula Dundoo, David P. Alt, and Richard L. Zuerner

Molecular Evolution and Mosaicism of Leptospiral Outer Membrane Proteins Involves Horizontal DNA Transfer
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2818-2828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Helene L. Andrews-Polymenis, Wolfgang Rabsch, Steffen Porwollik, Michael McClelland, Carlos Rosetti, L. Garry Adams, and Andreas J. Bäumler

Host Restriction of Salmonella enterica Serotype Typhimurium Pigeon Isolates Does Not Correlate with Loss of Discrete Genes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2619-2628. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Christopher D. Herring and Frederick R. Blattner

Conditional Lethal Amber Mutations in Essential Escherichia coli Genes
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2673-2681. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Silvia G. Acinas, Luisa A. Marcelino, Vanja Klepac-Ceraj, and Martin F. Polz

Divergence and Redundancy of 16S rRNA Sequences in Genomes with Multiple rrn Operons
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2629-2635. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Beatriz Sabater-Muñoz, Roeland C. H. J. van Ham, Andrés Moya, Francisco J. Silva, and Amparo Latorre

Evolution of the Leucine Gene Cluster in Buchnera aphidicola: Insights from Chromosomal Versions of the Cluster
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2646-2654. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sudhanshu Dole, Yvonne Klingen, V. Nagarajavel, and Karin Schnetz

The Protease Lon and the RNA-Binding Protein Hfq Reduce Silencing of the Escherichia coli bgl Operon by H-NS
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2708-2716. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Radi Tegova, Andres Tover, Kairi Tarassova, Mariliis Tark, and Maia Kivisaar

Involvement of Error-Prone DNA Polymerase IV in Stationary-Phase Mutagenesis in Pseudomonas putida
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2735-2744. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sharon A. Taft-Benz and Roel M. Schaaper

The Subunit of Escherichia coli DNA Polymerase III: a Role in Stabilizing the Proofreading Subunit
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2774-2780. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marion Stermann, Ludwig Sedlacek, Silvia Maass, and Franz-Christoph Bange

A Promoter Mutation Causes Differential Nitrate Reductase Activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium bovis
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2856-2861. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erika Wolff, Mandy Kim, Kaibin Hu, Hanjing Yang, and Jeffrey H. Miller

Polymerases Leave Fingerprints: Analysis of the Mutational Spectrum in Escherichia coli rpoB To Assess the Role of Polymerase IV in Spontaneous Mutation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2900-2905. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Vincent Burrus and Matthew K. Waldor

Formation of SXT Tandem Arrays and SXT-R391 Hybrids
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2636-2645. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jeremy Allen Smith and Roy David Magnuson

Modular Organization of the Phd Repressor/Antitoxin Protein
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2692-2698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Anthony R. Poteete

Modulation of DNA Repair and Recombination by the Bacteriophage Orf Function in Escherichia coli K-12
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2699-2707. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eowyn Tinsley, Asma Naqvi, Agathe Bourgogne, Theresa M. Koehler, and Saleem A. Khan

Isolation of a Minireplicon of the Virulence Plasmid pXO2 of Bacillus anthracis and Characterization of the Plasmid-Encoded RepS Replication Protein
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2717-2723. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sen-Lin Tang, Stewart Nuttall, and Mike Dyall-Smith

Haloviruses HF1 and HF2: Evidence for a Recent and Large Recombination Event
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2810-2817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

S. O'Flaherty, A. Coffey, R. Edwards, W. Meaney, G. F. Fitzgerald, and R. P. Ross

Genome of Staphylococcal Phage K: a New Lineage of Myoviridae Infecting Gram-Positive Bacteria with a Low G+C Content
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2862-2871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Daniela Albanesi, María Cecilia Mansilla, and Diego de Mendoza

The Membrane Fluidity Sensor DesK of Bacillus subtilis Controls the Signal Decay of Its Cognate Response Regulator
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2655-2663. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Knut Jahreis, Tom B. Morrison, Andrés Garzón, and John S. Parkinson

Chemotactic Signaling by an Escherichia coli CheA Mutant That Lacks the Binding Domain for Phosphoacceptor Partners
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2664-2672. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Zezhang T. Wen and Robert A. Burne

LuxS-Mediated Signaling in Streptococcus mutans Is Involved in Regulation of Acid and Oxidative Stress Tolerance and Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2682-2691. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xin Wang, James F. Preston, III, and Tony Romeo

The pgaABCD Locus of Escherichia coli Promotes the Synthesis of a Polysaccharide Adhesin Required for Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2724-2734. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Structural Biology:

Colin J. Bent, Neil W. Isaacs, Timothy J. Mitchell, and Alan Riboldi-Tunnicliffe

Crystal Structure of the Response Regulator 02 Receiver Domain, the Essential YycF Two-Component System of Streptococcus pneumoniae in both Complexed and Native States
J. Bacteriol. 2004 186: 2872-2879. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

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