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Meeting Review:

Karen L. Visick and Clay Fuqua

Decoding Microbial Chatter: Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5507-5519. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Structural Biology:

Alexey Teplyakov, Galina Obmolova, John Toedt, Michael Y. Galperin, and Gary L. Gilliland

Crystal Structure of the Bacterial YhcH Protein Indicates a Role in Sialic Acid Catabolism
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5520-5527. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Anna K. Chikova and Roel M. Schaaper

The Bacteriophage P1 hot Gene Product Can Substitute for the Escherichia coli DNA Polymerase III Subunit
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5528-5536. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

K. K. Nightingale, K. Windham, and M. Wiedmann

Evolution and Molecular Phylogeny of Listeria monocytogenes Isolated from Human and Animal Listeriosis Cases and Foods
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5537-5551. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lauren Charles, Ignazio Carbone, Keith G. Davies, David Bird, Mark Burke, Brian R. Kerry, and Charles H. Opperman

Phylogenetic Analysis of Pasteuria penetrans by Use of Multiple Genetic Loci
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5700-5708. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Michael Rother, Paolo Boccazzi, Arpita Bose, Matthew A. Pritchett, and W. W. Metcalf

Methanol-Dependent Gene Expression Demonstrates that Methyl-Coenzyme M Reductase Is Essential in Methanosarcina acetivorans C2A and Allows Isolation of Mutants with Defects in Regulation of the Methanol Utilization Pathway
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5552-5559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Leise Riber and Anders Løbner-Olesen

Coordinated Replication and Sequestration of oriC and dnaA Are Required for Maintaining Controlled Once-per-Cell-Cycle Initiation in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5605-5613. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Barbara C. McCabe, David R. Pawlowski, and Gerald B. Koudelka

The Bacteriophage 434 Repressor Dimer Preferentially Undergoes Autoproteolysis by an Intramolecular Mechanism
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5624-5630. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Keith O. Strother and Aravinda de Silva

Role of Borrelia burgdorferi Linear Plasmid 25 in Infection of Ixodes scapularis Ticks
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5776-5781. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jordi Cuñé, Paul Cullen, Gerard Mazon, Susana Campoy, Ben Adler, and Jordi Barbe

The Leptospira interrogans lexA Gene Is Not Autoregulated
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5841-5845. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Yizhi Meng, Yaxin Li, Cheryl D. Galvani, Guixia Hao, James N. Turner, Thomas J. Burr, and H. C. Hoch

Upstream Migration of Xylella fastidiosa via Pilus-Driven Twitching Motility
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5560-5567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Ana Tereza R. Vasconcelos, Henrique B. Ferreira, Cristiano V. Bizarro, Sandro L. Bonatto, Marcos O. Carvalho, Paulo M. Pinto, Darcy F. Almeida, Luiz G. P. Almeida, Rosana Almeida, Leonardo Alves-Filho, Enedina N. Assunção, Vasco A. C. Azevedo, Maurício R. Bogo, Marcelo M. Brigido, Marcelo Brocchi, Helio A. Burity, Anamaria A. Camargo, Sandro S. Camargo, Marta S. Carepo, Dirce M. Carraro, Júlio C. de Mattos Cascardo, Luiza A. Castro, Gisele Cavalcanti, Gustavo Chemale, Rosane G. Collevatti, Cristina W. Cunha, Bruno Dallagiovanna, Bibiana P. Dambrós, Odir A. Dellagostin, Clarissa Falcão, Fabiana Fantinatti-Garboggini, Maria S. S. Felipe, Laurimar Fiorentin, Gloria R. Franco, Nara S. A. Freitas, Diego Frías, Thalles B. Grangeiro, Edmundo C. Grisard, Claudia T. Guimarães, Mariangela Hungria, Sílvia N. Jardim, Marco A. Krieger, Jomar P. Laurino, Lucymara F. A. Lima, Maryellen I. Lopes, Élgion L. S. Loreto, Humberto M. F. Madeira, Gilson P. Manfio, Andrea Q. Maranhão, Christyanne T. Martinkovics, Sílvia R. B. Medeiros, Miguel A. M. Moreira, Márcia Neiva, Cicero E. Ramalho-Neto, Marisa F. Nicolás, Sergio C. Oliveira, Roger F. C. Paixão, Fábio O. Pedrosa, Sérgio D. J. Pena, Maristela Pereira, Lilian Pereira-Ferrari, Itamar Piffer, Luciano S. Pinto, Deise P. Potrich, Anna C. M. Salim, Fabrício R. Santos, Renata Schmitt, Maria P. C. Schneider, Augusto Schrank, Irene S. Schrank, Adriana F. Schuck, Hector N. Seuanez, Denise W. Silva, Rosane Silva, Sérgio C. Silva, Célia M. A. Soares, Kelly R. L. Souza, Rangel C. Souza, Charley C. Staats, Maria B. R. Steffens, Santuza M. R. Teixeira, Turan P. Urmenyi, Marilene H. Vainstein, Luciana W. Zuccherato, Andrew J. G. Simpson, and Arnaldo Zaha

Swine and Poultry Pathogens: the Complete Genome Sequences of Two Strains of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae and a Strain of Mycoplasma synoviae
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5568-5577. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Borja Sánchez, Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès, Patricia Anglade, Fabienne Baraige, Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán, Abelardo Margolles, and Monique Zagorec

Proteomic Analysis of Global Changes in Protein Expression during Bile Salt Exposure of Bifidobacterium longum NCIMB 8809
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5799-5808. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ines Thiele, Thuy D. Vo, Nathan D. Price, and Bernhard Ø. Palsson

Expanded Metabolic Reconstruction of Helicobacter pylori (iIT341 GSM/GPR): an In Silico Genome-Scale Characterization of Single- and Double-Deletion Mutants
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5818-5830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Atsuko Uenoyama and Makoto Miyata

Identification of a 123-Kilodalton Protein (Gli123) Involved in Machinery for Gliding Motility of Mycoplasma mobile
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5578-5584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bryan J. Lowder, Mark D. Duyvesteyn, and David F. Blair

FliG Subunit Arrangement in the Flagellar Rotor Probed by Targeted Cross-Linking
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5640-5647. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Venkata Ramana Vepachedu and Peter Setlow

Localization of SpoVAD to the Inner Membrane of Spores of Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5677-5682. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nico Nouwen, Magdalena Piwowarek, Greetje Berrelkamp, and Arnold J. M. Driessen

The Large First Periplasmic Loop of SecD and SecF Plays an Important Role in SecDF Functioning
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5857-5860. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Jesse S. Wright, III, Katrina E. Traber, Rebecca Corrigan, Sarah A. Benson, James M. Musser, and Richard P. Novick

The agr Radiation: an Early Event in the Evolution of Staphylococci
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5585-5594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Lorea Manterola, Ignacio Moriyón, Edgardo Moreno, Alberto Sola-Landa, David S. Weiss, Michel H. J. Koch, Jörg Howe, Klaus Brandenburg, and Ignacio López-Goñi

The Lipopolysaccharide of Brucella abortus BvrS/BvrR Mutants Contains Lipid A Modifications and Has Higher Affinity for Bactericidal Cationic Peptides
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5631-5639. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Natalia A. Kozak, Seema Mattoo, Amy K. Foreman-Wykert, Julian P. Whitelegge, and Jeff F. Miller

Interactions between Partner Switcher Orthologs BtrW and BtrV Regulate Type III Secretion in Bordetella
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5665-5676. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Huang Wenxiang, George M. Weinstock, and Barbara E. Murray

Molecular Characterization of a Widespread, Pathogenic, and Antibiotic Resistance-Receptive Enterococcus faecalis Lineage and Dissemination of Its Putative Pathogenicity Island
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5709-5718. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aloka B. Bandara, Nammalwar Sriranganathan, Gerhardt G. Schurig, and Stephen M. Boyle

Carboxyl-Terminal Protease Regulates Brucella suis Morphology in Culture and Persistence in Macrophages and Mice
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5767-5775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Liem Nguyen, Anne Walburger, Edith Houben, Anil Koul, Stefan Muller, Monika Morbitzer, Bert Klebl, Giorgio Ferrari, and Jean Pieters

Role of Protein Kinase G in Growth and Glutamine Metabolism of Mycobacterium bovis BCG
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5852-5856. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Ayami Tomono, Yisan Tsai, Haruka Yamazaki, Yasuo Ohnishi, and Sueharu Horinouchi

Transcriptional Control by A-Factor of strR, the Pathway-Specific Transcriptional Activator for Streptomycin Biosynthesis in Streptomyces griseus
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5595-5604. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cosette Grandvalet, Françoise Coucheney, Charlotte Beltramo, and Jean Guzzo

CtsR Is the Master Regulator of Stress Response Gene Expression in Oenococcus oeni
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5614-5623. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gyula Alan Rédly and Keith Poole

FpvIR Control of fpvA Ferric Pyoverdine Receptor Gene Expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Demonstration of an Interaction between FpvI and FpvR and Identification of Mutations in Each Compromising This Interaction
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5648-5657. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eva M. Camacho, Ana Serna, Cristina Madrid, Silvia Marqués, Raúl Fernández, Fernando de la Cruz, Antonio Juárez, and Josep Casadesús

Regulation of finP Transcription by DNA Adenine Methylation in the Virulence Plasmid of Salmonella enterica
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5691-5699. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Eric Batchelor, Don Walthers, Linda J. Kenney, and Mark Goulian

The Escherichia coli CpxA-CpxR Envelope Stress Response System Regulates Expression of the Porins OmpF and OmpC
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5723-5731. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Kyung Moon, Nadja B. Shoemaker, Jeffrey F. Gardner, and Abigail A. Salyers

Regulation of Excision Genes of the Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon CTnDOT
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5732-5741. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Fabio Canneva, Manuela Branzoni, Giovanna Riccardi, Roberta Provvedi, and Anna Milano

Rv2358 and FurB: Two Transcriptional Regulators from Mycobacterium tuberculosis Which Respond to Zinc
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5837-5840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Willem van Schaik, Marcel H. Tempelaars, Marcel H. Zwietering, Willem M. de Vos, and Tjakko Abee

Analysis of the Role of RsbV, RsbW, and RsbY in Regulating ^B Activity in Bacillus cereus
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5846-5851. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Elizabeth E. Wyckoff, Gregory F. Lopreato, Kimberly A. Tipton, and Shelley M. Payne

Shigella dysenteriae ShuS Promotes Utilization of Heme as an Iron Source and Protects against Heme Toxicity
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5658-5664. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lonnie O. Driskell, Aimee M. Tucker, Herbert H. Winkler, and David O. Wood

Rickettsial metK-Encoded Methionine Adenosyltransferase Expression in an Escherichia coli metK Deletion Strain
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5719-5722. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kieran A. Ryan, Najma Karim, Mulugeta Worku, Charles W. Penn, and Paul W. O'Toole

Helicobacter pylori Flagellar Hook-Filament Transition Is Controlled by a FliK Functional Homolog Encoded by the Gene HP0906
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5742-5750. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Kimberly P. Dobrinski, Dana L. Longo, and Kathleen M. Scott

The Carbon-Concentrating Mechanism of the Hydrothermal Vent Chemolithoautotroph Thiomicrospira crunogena
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5761-5766. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Junsang Ko, Insook Kim, Seokho Yoo, Bumchan Min, Kyungmin Kim, and Chankyu Park

Conversion of Methylglyoxal to Acetol by Escherichia coli Aldo-Keto Reductases
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5782-5789. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Paiboon Vattanaviboon, Chotirote Seeanukun, Wirongrong Whangsuk, Supa Utamapongchai, and Skorn Mongkolsuk

Important Role for Methionine Sulfoxide Reductase in the Oxidative Stress Response of Xanthomonas campestris pv. phaseoli
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5831-5836. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Jun-Rong Wei, Yu-Huan Tsai, Po-Chi Soo, Yu-Tze Horng, Shang-Chen Hsieh, Shen-Wu Ho, and Hsin-Chih Lai

Biochemical Characterization of RssA-RssB, a Two-Component Signal Transduction System Regulating Swarming Behavior in Serratia marcescens
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5683-5690. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. G. Papavinasasundaram, Bosco Chan, Ji-Hae Chung, M. Joseph Colston, Elaine O. Davis, and Yossef Av-Gay

Deletion of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis pknH Gene Confers a Higher Bacillary Load during the Chronic Phase of Infection in BALB/c Mice
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5751-5760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

María Pilar Trotonda, Adhar C. Manna, Ambrose L. Cheung, Iñigo Lasa, and José R. Penadés

SarA Positively Controls Bap-Dependent Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5790-5798. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Tonia Urick, Chien I-Chang, Ellen Arena, WenLian Xu, Maurice J. Bessman, and Carmel G. Ruffolo

The pnhA Gene of Pasteurella multocida Encodes a Dinucleoside Oligophosphate Pyrophosphatase Member of the Nudix Hydrolase Superfamily
J. Bacteriol. 2005 187: 5809-5817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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