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Contents: April 2005, Volume 187, Issue 7

       Microbial Cell Biology

       Physiology and Metabolism

       Molecular Biology of Pathogens

       Gene Regulation

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Plant Microbiology

       Signal Transduction

       Enzymes and Proteins

       Genomics and Proteomics

       Structural Biology

       Microbial Communities and Interactions

       Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids

       Errata

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Microbial Cell Biology:

Identification of a TcpC-TcpQ Outer Membrane Complex Involved in the Biogenesis of the Toxin-Coregulated Pilus of Vibrio cholerae
Niranjan Bose and Ronald K. Taylor
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2225-2232;
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Interaction Network among Escherichia coli Membrane Proteins Involved in Cell Division as Revealed by Bacterial Two-Hybrid Analysis
Gouzel Karimova, Nathalie Dautin, and Daniel Ladant
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2233-2243;
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Strong Decrease in Invasive Ability and Outer Membrane Vesicle Release in Crohn's Disease-Associated Adherent-Invasive Escherichia coli Strain LF82 with the yfgL Gene Deleted
Nathalie Rolhion, Nicolas Barnich, Laurent Claret, and Arlette Darfeuille-Michaud
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2286-2296;
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Identification of New Protein-Protein Interactions Involving the Products of the Chromosome- and Plasmid-Encoded Type IV Secretion Loci of the Phytopathogen Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. citri
Marcos C. Alegria, Diorge P. Souza, Maxuel O. Andrade, Cassia Docena, Leticia Khater, Carlos H. I. Ramos, Ana C. R. da Silva, and Chuck S. Farah
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2315-2325;
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Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120 Gene devH Is Required for Synthesis of the Heterocyst Glycolipid Layer
Martha E. Ramírez, Pratibha B. Hebbar, Ruanbao Zhou, C. Peter Wolk, and Stephanie E. Curtis
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2326-2331;
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Inhibition of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Lipopolysaccharide Deacylation by Aminoarabinose Membrane Modification
Kiyoshi Kawasaki, Robert K. Ernst, and Samuel I. Miller
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2448-2457;
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Structural and Genetic Characterization of the Shigella boydii Type 10 and Type 6 O Antigens
Sof'ya N. Senchenkova, Lu Feng, Jinghua Yang, Alexander S. Shashkov, Jiansong Cheng, Dan Liu, Yuriy A. Knirel, Peter R. Reeves, Qi Jin, Qiang Ye, and Lei Wang
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2551-2554;
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Physiology and Metabolism:

Investigation of the First Events Leading to Loss of Culturability during Escherichia coli Starvation: Future Nonculturable Bacteria Form a Subpopulation
Caroline Cuny, Laure Dukan, Laetitia Fraysse, Manuel Ballesteros, and Sam Dukan
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2244-2248;
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Chloromethylmuconolactones as Critical Metabolites in the Degradation of Chloromethylcatechols: Recalcitrance of 2-Chlorotoluene
Katrin Pollmann, Victor Wray, and Dietmar H. Pieper
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2332-2340;
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N Glycolylation of the Nucleotide Precursors of Peptidoglycan Biosynthesis of Mycobacterium spp. Is Altered by Drug Treatment
Sebabrata Mahapatra, Hataichanok Scherman, Patrick J. Brennan, and Dean C. Crick
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2341-2347;
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Pleiotropic Effect of a Histidine Kinase on Carbohydrate Metabolism in Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803 and Its Requirement for Heterotrophic Growth
Abhay K. Singh and Louis A. Sherman
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2368-2376;
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The gusBC Genes of Escherichia coli Encode a Glucuronide Transport System
Wei-Jun Liang, Kate J. Wilson, Hao Xie, Jan Knol, Shun'ichi Suzuki, Nicholas G. Rutherford, Peter J. F. Henderson, and Richard A. Jefferson
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2377-2385;
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Novel Dephosphotetrahydromethanopterin Biosynthesis Genes Discovered via Mutagenesis in Methylobacterium extorquens AM1
Ludmila Chistoserdova, Madeline E. Rasche, and Mary E. Lidstrom
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2508-2512;
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Molecular Biology of Pathogens:

Staphylococcus aureus NfrA (SA0367) Is a Flavin Mononucleotide-Dependent NADPH Oxidase Involved in Oxidative Stress Response
Karin Streker, Christoph Freiberg, Harald Labischinski, Jörg Hacker, and Knut Ohlsen
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2249-2256;
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Regulation of the Vibrio anguillarum Metalloprotease EmpA by Posttranslational Modification
Andrew M. Staroscik, Steven M. Denkin, and David R. Nelson
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2257-2260;
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Transposon Mutagenesis of Mb0100 at the ppe1-nrp Locus in Mycobacterium bovis Disrupts Phthiocerol Dimycocerosate (PDIM) and Glycosylphenol-PDIM Biosynthesis, Producing an Avirulent Strain with Vaccine Properties At Least Equal to Those of M. bovis BCG
Grant S. Hotter, Barry J. Wards, Pania Mouat, Gurdyal S. Besra, Jessica Gomes, Monica Singh, Shalome Bassett, Pamela Kawakami, Paul R. Wheeler, Geoffrey W. de Lisle, and Desmond M. Collins
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2267-2277;
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The Pasteurella multocida nrfE Gene Is Upregulated during Infection and Is Essential for Nitrite Reduction but Not for Virulence
David J. Boucher, Ben Adler, and John D. Boyce
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2278-2285;
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Evidence that the Essential Response Regulator YycF in Streptococcus pneumoniae Modulates Expression of Fatty Acid Biosynthesis Genes and Alters Membrane Composition
M. Luz Mohedano, Karin Overweg, Alicia de la Fuente, Mark Reuter, Silvia Altabe, Francis Mulholland, Diego de Mendoza, Paloma López, and Jerry M. Wells
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2357-2367;
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MgrA Is a Multiple Regulator of Two New Efflux Pumps in Staphylococcus aureus
Q. C. Truong-Bolduc, P. M. Dunman, J. Strahilevitz, S. J. Projan, and D. C. Hooper
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2395-2405;
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The relA Homolog of Mycobacterium smegmatis Affects Cell Appearance, Viability, and Gene Expression
John L. Dahl, Kriti Arora, Helena I. Boshoff, Danelle C. Whiteford, Sophia A. Pacheco, Olaus J. Walsh, Dalia Lau-Bonilla, William B. Davis, and Anthony G. Garza
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2439-2447;
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Analysis of the Hypervariable Region of the Salmonella enterica Genome Associated with tRNA^leuX
Anne L. Bishop, Stephen Baker, Sara Jenks, Maria Fookes, Peadar Ó Gaora, Derek Pickard, Muna Anjum, Jeremy Farrar, Tran T. Hien, Al Ivens, and Gordon Dougan
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2469-2482;
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Gene Regulation:

Regulation of Major Cellulosomal Endoglucanases of Clostridium thermocellum Differs from That of a Prominent Cellulosomal Xylanase
Tali W. Dror, Adi Rolider, Edward A. Bayer, Raphael Lamed, and Yuval Shoham
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2261-2266;
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Interaction between Individual Protein Components of the GerA and GerB Nutrient Receptors That Trigger Germination of Bacillus subtilis Spores
Takao Igarashi and Peter Setlow
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2513-2518;
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Soj Antagonizes Spo0A Activation of Transcription in Bacillus subtilis
Brett N. McLeod and George B. Spiegelman
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2532-2536;
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Transcriptional Analysis of the Principal Cell Division Gene, ftsZ, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Sougata Roy and Parthasarathi Ajitkumar
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2540-2550;
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Role of the Extracytoplasmic Function Protein Family Sigma Factor RpoE in Metal Resistance of Escherichia coli
Monique Egler, Cornelia Grosse, Gregor Grass, and Dietrich H. Nies
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2297-2307;
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Involvement of AlpV, a New Member of the Streptomyces Antibiotic Regulatory Protein Family, in Regulation of the Duplicated Type II Polyketide Synthase alp Gene Cluster in Streptomyces ambofaciens
Bertrand Aigle, Xiuhua Pang, Bernard Decaris, and Pierre Leblond
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2491-2500;
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Genotyping of Ochrobactrum spp. by AFLP Analysis
Diana Sara Leal-Klevezas, Octavio Martínez-de-la-Vega, Ector Jaime Ramírez-Barba, Björn Osterman, Juan Pablo Martínez-Soriano, and June Simpson
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2537-2539;
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Plant Microbiology:

Effects on Promoter Activity of Base Substitutions in the cis-Acting Regulatory Element of HrpXo Regulons in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
Seiji Tsuge, Shinsaku Terashima, Ayako Furutani, Hirokazu Ochiai, Takashi Oku, Kazunori Tsuno, Hisatoshi Kaku, and Yasuyuki Kubo
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2308-2314;
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The Type III-Dependent Hrp Pilus Is Required for Productive Interaction of Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria with Pepper Host Plants
Ernst Weber, Tuula Ojanen-Reuhs, Elisabeth Huguet, Gerd Hause, Martin Romantschuk, Timo K. Korhonen, Ulla Bonas, and Ralf Koebnik
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2458-2468;
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Signal Transduction:

SarA Is an Essential Positive Regulator of Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Development
María Ángeles Tormo, Miguel Martí, Jaione Valle, Adhar C. Manna, Ambrose L. Cheung, Iñigo Lasa, and José R. Penadés
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2348-2356;
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Enzymes and Proteins:

Characterization of the Acetate Binding Pocket in the Methanosarcina thermophila Acetate Kinase
Cheryl Ingram-Smith, Andrea Gorrell, Sarah H. Lawrence, Prabha Iyer, Kerry Smith, and James G. Ferry
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2386-2394;
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The Presumptive Magnetosome Protein Mms16 Is a Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Granule-Bound Protein (Phasin) in Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense
Daniel Schultheiss, René Handrick, Dieter Jendrossek, Marianne Hanzlik, and Dirk Schüler
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2416-2425;
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Characteristic Thermodependence of the RadA Recombinase from the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Desulfurococcus amylolyticus
Yury V. Kil, Eugene A. Glazunov, and Vladislav A. Lanzov
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2555-2557;
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Genomics and Proteomics:

Comparative Genomic Hybridizations Reveal Genetic Regions within the Mycobacterium avium Complex That Are Divergent from Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Isolates
Michael L. Paustian, Vivek Kapur, and John P. Bannantine
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2406-2415;
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Insights on Evolution of Virulence and Resistance from the Complete Genome Analysis of an Early Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain and a Biofilm-Producing Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Strain
Steven R. Gill, Derrick E. Fouts, Gordon L. Archer, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Robert T. DeBoy, Jacques Ravel, Ian T. Paulsen, James F. Kolonay, Lauren Brinkac, Mauren Beanan, Robert J. Dodson, Sean C. Daugherty, Ramana Madupu, Samuel V. Angiuoli, A. Scott Durkin, Daniel H. Haft, Jessica Vamathevan, Hoda Khouri, Terry Utterback, Chris Lee, George Dimitrov, Lingxia Jiang, Haiying Qin, Jan Weidman, Kevin Tran, Kathy Kang, Ioana R. Hance, Karen E. Nelson, and Claire M. Fraser
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2426-2438;
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Transcriptome Analysis of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 in Response to Elevated Salt Conditions
Yongqing Liu, Weimin Gao, Yue Wang, Liyou Wu, Xueduan Liu, Tinfeng Yan, Eric Alm, Adam Arkin, Dorothea K. Thompson, Matthew W. Fields, and Jizhong Zhou
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2501-2507;
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Structural Biology:

Crystal Structure of the Terminal Oxygenase Component of Cumene Dioxygenase from Pseudomonas fluorescens IP01
Xuesong Dong, Shinya Fushinobu, Eriko Fukuda, Tohru Terada, Shugo Nakamura, Kentaro Shimizu, Hideaki Nojiri, Toshio Omori, Hirofumi Shoun, and Takayoshi Wakagi
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2483-2490;
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Microbial Communities and Interactions:

High-Frequency Phase Variation of Vibrio vulnificus 1003: Isolation and Characterization of a Rugose Phenotypic Variant
Brenda L. Grau, Margaret C. Henk, and Gregg S. Pettis
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2519-2525;
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Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Identification of Cohesive Ends and Genes Encoding the Terminase of Phage 16-3
Anita Ganyu, Zsolt Csiszovszki, Tamás Ponyi, András Kern, Zsuzsanna Buzás, László Orosz, and Péter P. Papp
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2526-2531;
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Errata:

The Transmembrane Helix of the Escherichia coli Division Protein FtsI Localizes to the Septal Ring
Mark C. Wissel, Jennifer L. Wendt, Calista J. Mitchell, and David S. Weiss
J. Bacteriol. April 2005 187: 2558
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