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Minireviews:

Birgit M. Prüß, Christopher Besemann, Anne Denton, and Alan J. Wolfe

A Complex Transcription Network Controls the Early Stages of Biofilm Development by Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3731-3739. [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Barbara Setlow, Swaroopa Atluri, Ryan Kitchel, Kasia Koziol-Dube, and Peter Setlow

Role of Dipicolinic Acid in Resistance and Stability of Spores of Bacillus subtilis with or without DNA-Protective /ß-Type Small Acid-Soluble Proteins
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3740-3747. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Raúl García-Estepa, Montserrat Argandoña, Mercedes Reina-Bueno, Nieves Capote, Fernando Iglesias-Guerra, Joaquín J. Nieto, and Carmen Vargas

The ectD Gene, Which Is Involved in the Synthesis of the Compatible Solute Hydroxyectoine, Is Essential for Thermoprotection of the Halophilic Bacterium Chromohalobacter salexigens
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3774-3784. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Miguel A. Providenti, Jason M. O'Brien, Jürgen Ruff, Alasdair M. Cook, and Iain B. Lambert

Metabolism of Isovanillate, Vanillate, and Veratrate by Comamonas testosteroni Strain BR6020
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3862-3869. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stefan Schönert, Sabine Seitz, Holger Krafft, Eva-Anne Feuerbaum, Iris Andernach, Gabriele Witz, and Michael K. Dahl

Maltose and Maltodextrin Utilization by Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3911-3922. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael Riis Hansen, Jesper Tranekjær Jørgensen, and Gert Dandanell

Xanthosine Utilization in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Is Recovered by a Single Aspartate-to-Glycine Substitution in Xanthosine Phosphorylase
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4153-4157. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Jacqueline Abranches, Melissa M. Candella, Zezhang T. Wen, Henry V. Baker, and Robert A. Burne

Different Roles of EIIAB^Man and EII^Glc in Regulation of Energy Metabolism, Biofilm Development, and Competence in Streptococcus mutans
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3748-3756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amy E. Trotochaud and Karen M. Wassarman

6S RNA Regulation of pspF Transcription Leads to Altered Cell Survival at High pH
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3936-3943. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph B. McPhee, Manjeet Bains, Geoff Winsor, Shawn Lewenza, Agnieszka Kwasnicka, Michelle D. Brazas, Fiona S. L. Brinkman, and R. E. W. Hancock

Contribution of the PhoP-PhoQ and PmrA-PmrB Two-Component Regulatory Systems to Mg²⁺-Induced Gene Regulation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3995-4006. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Govindsamy Vediyappan, Tatyana Borisova, and Joe A. Fralick

Isolation and Characterization of VceC Gain-of-Function Mutants That Can Function with the AcrAB Multiple-Drug-Resistant Efflux Pump of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3757-3762. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Shaleen B. Korch and Thomas M. Hill

Ectopic Overexpression of Wild-Type and Mutant hipA Genes in Escherichia coli: Effects on Macromolecular Synthesis and Persister Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3826-3836. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Vyacheslav Palchevskiy and Steven E. Finkel

Escherichia coli Competence Gene Homologs Are Essential for Competitive Fitness and the Use of DNA as a Nutrient
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3902-3910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Xiao-Hua Chen, Joachim Vater, Jörn Piel, Peter Franke, Romy Scholz, Kathrin Schneider, Alexandra Koumoutsi, Gabriele Hitzeroth, Nicolas Grammel, Axel W. Strittmatter, Gerhard Gottschalk, Roderich D. Süssmuth, and Rainer Borriss

Structural and Functional Characterization of Three Polyketide Synthase Gene Clusters in Bacillus amyloliquefaciens FZB 42
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4024-4036. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Takao Igarashi and Peter Setlow

Transcription of the Bacillus subtilis gerK Operon, Which Encodes a Spore Germinant Receptor, and Comparison with That of Operons Encoding Other Germinant Receptors
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4131-4136. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chunhua Zhao, Jianhua Ju, Steven D. Christenson, Wyatt C. Smith, Danfeng Song, Xiufen Zhou, Ben Shen, and Zixin Deng

Utilization of the Methoxymalonyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Biosynthesis Locus for Cloning the Oxazolomycin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster from Streptomyces albus JA3453
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4142-4147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Wenli Li, Jianhua Ju, Hiroyuki Osada, and Ben Shen

Utilization of the Methoxymalonyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Biosynthesis Locus for Cloning of the Tautomycin Biosynthetic Gene Cluster from Streptomyces spiroverticillatus
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4148-4152. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Julia S. Sabirova, Manuel Ferrer, Daniela Regenhardt, Kenneth N. Timmis, and Peter N. Golyshin

Proteomic Insights into Metabolic Adaptations in Alcanivorax borkumensis Induced by Alkane Utilization
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3763-3773. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Larry E. Taylor, II, Bernard Henrissat, Pedro M. Coutinho, Nathan A. Ekborg, Steven W. Hutcheson, and Ronald M. Weiner

Complete Cellulase System in the Marine Bacterium Saccharophagus degradans Strain 2-40^T
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3849-3861. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. Mavromatis, C. Kuyler Doyle, A. Lykidis, N. Ivanova, M. P. Francino, P. Chain, M. Shin, S. Malfatti, F. Larimer, A. Copeland, J. C. Detter, M. Land, P. M. Richardson, X. J. Yu, D. H. Walker, J. W. McBride, and N. C. Kyrpides

The Genome of the Obligately Intracellular Bacterium Ehrlichia canis Reveals Themes of Complex Membrane Structure and Immune Evasion Strategies
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4015-4023. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Bridget R. Kulasekara, Hemantha D. Kulasekara, Matthew C. Wolfgang, Lisa Stevens, Dara W. Frank, and Stephen Lory

Acquisition and Evolution of the exoU Locus in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4037-4050. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Zhili He, Eric J. Alm, Adam P. Arkin, Edward E. Baidoo, Sharon C. Borglin, Wenqiong Chen, Terry C. Hazen, Qiang He, Hoi-Ying Holman, Katherine Huang, Rick Huang, Dominique C. Joyner, Natalie Katz, Martin Keller, Paul Oeller, Alyssa Redding, Jun Sun, Judy Wall, Jing Wei, Zamin Yang, Huei-Che Yen, Jizhong Zhou, and Jay D. Keasling

Salt Stress in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough: an Integrated Genomics Approach
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4068-4078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Oleg N. Reva, Christian Weinel, Miryam Weinel, Kerstin Böhm, Diana Stjepandic, Jörg D. Hoheisel, and Burkhard Tümmler

Functional Genomics of Stress Response in Pseudomonas putida KT2440
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4079-4092. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Jonathan Tabb Sullivan, Erin Field Jeffery, John D. Shannon, and Girija Ramakrishnan

Characterization of the Siderophore of Francisella tularensis and Role of fslA in Siderophore Production
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3785-3795. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Renata O. Mattos-Graner, Kristen A. Porter, Daniel J. Smith, Yumiko Hosogi, and Margaret J. Duncan

Functional Analysis of Glucan Binding Protein B from Streptococcus mutans
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3813-3825. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Karla D. Passalacqua, Nicholas H. Bergman, Amy Herring-Palmer, and Philip Hanna

The Superoxide Dismutases of Bacillus anthracis Do Not Cooperatively Protect against Endogenous Superoxide Stress
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3837-3848. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Soila Sukupolvi-Petty, Susan Grass, and Joseph W. StGeme, III

The Haemophilus influenzae Type b hcsA and hcsB Gene Products Facilitate Transport of Capsular Polysaccharide across the Outer Membrane and Are Essential for Virulence
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3870-3877. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

A. K. Marr, B. Joseph, S. Mertins, R. Ecke, S. Müller-Altrock, and W. Goebel

Overexpression of PrfA Leads to Growth Inhibition of Listeria monocytogenes in Glucose-Containing Culture Media by Interfering with Glucose Uptake
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3887-3901. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Véronique Robbe-Saule, Valentin Jaumouillé, Marie-Christine Prévost, Stéphanie Guadagnini, Christelle Talhouarne, Hayette Mathout, Annie Kolb, and Françoise Norel

Crl Activates Transcription Initiation of RpoS-Regulated Genes Involved in the Multicellular Behavior of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3983-3994. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Stefanie Keis, Achim Stocker, Peter Dimroth, and Gregory M. Cook

Inhibition of ATP Hydrolysis by Thermoalkaliphilic F₁F_o-ATP Synthase Is Controlled by the C Terminus of the Subunit
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3796-3804. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

René M. de Jong, Kor H. Kalk, Lixia Tang, Dick B. Janssen, and Bauke W. Dijkstra

The X-Ray Structure of the Haloalcohol Dehalogenase HheA from Arthrobacter sp. Strain AD2: Insight into Enantioselectivity and Halide Binding in the Haloalcohol Dehalogenase Family
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4051-4056. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Azuma Taoka, Ryuji Asada, Hideaki Sasaki, Kazushi Anzawa, Long-Fei Wu, and Yoshihiro Fukumori

Spatial Localizations of Mam22 and Mam12 in the Magnetosomes of Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3805-3812. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Avijit Pramanik and Volkmar Braun

Albomycin Uptake via a Ferric Hydroxamate Transport System of Streptococcus pneumoniae R6
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3878-3886. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cristiano G. Moreira, Kelli Palmer, Marvin Whiteley, Marcelo P. Sircili, Luiz R. Trabulsi, Antonio F. P. Castro, and Vanessa Sperandio

Bundle-Forming Pili and EspA Are Involved in Biofilm Formation by Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3952-3961. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Julio E. Cabrera and Ding J. Jin

Active Transcription of rRNA Operons Is a Driving Force for the Distribution of RNA Polymerase in Bacteria: Effect of Extrachromosomal Copies of rrnB on the In Vivo Localization of RNA Polymerase
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4007-4014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Geoff P. Doherty, Donna H. Meredith, and Peter J. Lewis

Subcellular Partitioning of Transcription Factors in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4101-4110. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nancy Rutherford, Marie-Ève Charbonneau, Frédéric Berthiaume, Jean-Michel Betton, and Michael Mourez

The Periplasmic Folding of a Cysteineless Autotransporter Passenger Domain Interferes with Its Outer Membrane Translocation
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4111-4116. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Joakim L. Karlsson, Carlos Cardoso-Palacios, Anders S. Nilsson, and Elisabeth Haggård-Ljungquist

Evolution of Immunity and Host Chromosome Integration Site of P2-Like Coliphages
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3923-3935. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen Mc Grath, Horst Neve, Jos F. M. L. Seegers, Robyn Eijlander, Christina S. Vegge, Lone Brøndsted, Knut J. Heller, Gerald F. Fitzgerald, Finn K. Vogensen, and Douwe van Sinderen

Anatomy of a Lactococcal Phage Tail
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3972-3982. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Masahiro Sota, Hirokazu Yano, Akira Ono, Ryo Miyazaki, Hidenori Ishii, Hiroyuki Genka, Eva M. Top, and Masataka Tsuda

Genomic and Functional Analysis of the IncP-9 Naphthalene-Catabolic Plasmid NAH7 and Its Transposon Tn4655 Suggests Catabolic Gene Spread by a Tyrosine Recombinase
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4057-4067. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Marc Marenda, Valérie Barbe, Géraldine Gourgues, Sophie Mangenot, Evelyne Sagne, and Christine Citti

A New Integrative Conjugative Element Occurs in Mycoplasma agalactiae as Chromosomal and Free Circular Forms
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4137-4141. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Scott M. Ward, Arjan F. Bormans, and Michael D. Manson

Mutationally Altered Signal Output in the Nart (NarX-Tar) Hybrid Chemoreceptor
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3944-3951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stuart Wright, Bharat Walia, John S. Parkinson, and Shahid Khan

Differential Activation of Escherichia coli Chemoreceptors by Blue-Light Stimuli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 3962-3971. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eduardo Perez, Haiyan Zheng, and Ann M. Stock

Identification of Methylation Sites in Thermotoga maritima Chemotaxis Receptors
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4093-4100. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Robert J. Palmer, Jr., Patricia I. Diaz, and Paul E. Kolenbrander

Rapid Succession within the Veillonella Population of a Developing Human Oral Biofilm In Situ
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4117-4124. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yasuo Yoshida, Soumya Ganguly, C. Allen Bush, and John O. Cisar

Molecular Basis of L-Rhamnose Branch Formation in Streptococcal Coaggregation Receptor Polysaccharides
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4125-4130. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Plant Microbiology:

Seiji Tsuge, Takeshi Nakayama, Shinsaku Terashima, Hirokazu Ochiai, Ayako Furutani, Takashi Oku, Kazunori Tsuno, Yasuyuki Kubo, and Hisatoshi Kaku

Gene Involved in Transcriptional Activation of the hrp Regulatory Gene hrpG in Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4158-4162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Lawrence F. Feinberg and James F. Holden

Characterization of Dissimilatory Fe(III) versus NO₃^– Reduction in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4163. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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