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Guest Commentaries:

Robert B. Bourret

Census of Prokaryotic Senses
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4165-4168. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Signal Transduction:

Michael Y. Galperin

Structural Classification of Bacterial Response Regulators: Diversity of Output Domains and Domain Combinations
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4169-4182. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Marie-Pierre Castanié-Cornet, Kaymeuang Cam, and Annick Jacq

RcsF Is an Outer Membrane Lipoprotein Involved in the RcsCDB Phosphorelay Signaling Pathway in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4264-4270. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jinshi Zhao and John S. Parkinson

Cysteine-Scanning Analysis of the Chemoreceptor-Coupling Domain of the Escherichia coli Chemotaxis Signaling Kinase CheA
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4321-4330. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Michael A. D'Elia, Mark P. Pereira, Yu Seon Chung, Wenjun Zhao, Andrew Chau, Teresa J. Kenney, Mark C. Sulavik, Todd A. Black, and Eric D. Brown

Lesions in Teichoic Acid Biosynthesis in Staphylococcus aureus Lead to a Lethal Gain of Function in the Otherwise Dispensable Pathway
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4183-4189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Yajing Hu and James F. Holden

Citric Acid Cycle in the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrobaculum islandicum Grown Autotrophically, Heterotrophically, and Mixotrophically with Acetate
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4350-4355. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Yohei Hizukuri, Toshiharu Yakushi, Ikuro Kawagishi, and Michio Homma

Role of the Intramolecular Disulfide Bond in FlgI, the Flagellar P-Ring Component of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4190-4197. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Joseph Horzempa, Charles R. Dean, Joanna B. Goldberg, and Peter Castric

Pseudomonas aeruginosa 1244 Pilin Glycosylation: Glycan Substrate Recognition
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4244-4252. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amrisha Verma, Michael Schirm, Shiwani K. Arora, P. Thibault, Susan M. Logan, and Reuben Ramphal

Glycosylation of b-Type Flagellin of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Structural and Genetic Basis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4395-4403. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Phillip Aldridge, Joshua Gnerer, Joyce E. Karlinsey, and Kelly T. Hughes

Transcriptional and Translational Control of the Salmonella fliC Gene
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4487-4496. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Peter Redder and Roger A. Garrett

Mutations and Rearrangements in the Genome of Sulfolobus solfataricus P2
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4198-4206. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Karen P. Scott, Jennifer C. Martin, Gillian Campbell, Claus-Dieter Mayer, and Harry J. Flint

Whole-Genome Transcription Profiling Reveals Genes Up-Regulated by Growth on Fucose in the Human Gut Bacterium "Roseburia inulinivorans"
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4340-4349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Patrick S. G. Chain, Ping Hu, Stephanie A. Malfatti, Lyndsay Radnedge, Frank Larimer, Lisa M. Vergez, Patricia Worsham, May C. Chu, and Gary L. Andersen

Complete Genome Sequence of Yersinia pestis Strains Antiqua and Nepal516: Evidence of Gene Reduction in an Emerging Pathogen
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4453-4463. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Sabrina Tachdjian and Robert M. Kelly

Dynamic Metabolic Adjustments and Genome Plasticity Are Implicated in the Heat Shock Response of the Extremely Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4553-4559. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Haichun Gao, Zamin K. Yang, Liyou Wu, Dorothea K. Thompson, and Jizhong Zhou

Global Transcriptome Analysis of the Cold Shock Response of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 and Mutational Analysis of Its Classical Cold Shock Proteins
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4560-4569. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Marija Pinne, Katrin Denker, Elin Nilsson, Roland Benz, and Sven Bergström

The BBA01 Protein, a Member of Paralog Family 48 from Borrelia burgdorferi, Is Potentially Interchangeable with the Channel-Forming Protein P13
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4207-4217. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Johnny C. Akers and Ming Tan

Molecular Mechanism of Tryptophan-Dependent Transcriptional Regulation in Chlamydia trachomatis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4236-4243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kelly Babb, Tomasz Bykowski, Sean P. Riley, M. Clarke Miller, Edward DeMoll, and Brian Stevenson

Borrelia burgdorferi EbfC, a Novel, Chromosomally Encoded Protein, Binds Specific DNA Sequences Adjacent to erp Loci on the Spirochete's Resident cp32 Prophages
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4331-4339. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

An X. Tran, Judy D. Whittimore, Priscilla B. Wyrick, Sara C. McGrath, Robert J. Cotter, and M. Stephen Trent

The Lipid A 1-Phosphatase of Helicobacter pylori Is Required for Resistance to the Antimicrobial Peptide Polymyxin
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4531-4541. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Anne Tøndervik, Haakon R. Torgersen, Hans K. Botnmark, and Arne R. Strøm

Transposon Mutations in the 5' End of glnD, the Gene for a Nitrogen Regulatory Sensor, That Suppress the Osmosensitive Phenotype Caused by otsBA Lesions in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4218-4226. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Martin Overgaard, Sigrun Wegener-Feldbrügge, and Lotte Søgaard-Andersen

The Orphan Response Regulator DigR Is Required for Synthesis of Extracellular Matrix Fibrils in Myxococcus xanthus
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4384-4394. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Hervé Nicoloff, Vincent Perreten, Laura M. McMurry, and Stuart B. Levy

Role for Tandem Duplication and Lon Protease in AcrAB-TolC- Dependent Multiple Antibiotic Resistance (Mar) in an Escherichia coli Mutant without Mutations in marRAB or acrRAB
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4413-4423. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Qinhong Wang, Elena A. Mordukhova, Andrea L. Edwards, and Valentin V. Rybenkov

Chromosome Condensation in the Absence of the Non-SMC Subunits of MukBEF
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4431-4441. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Rob Van Houdt, Pieter Moons, Maria Hueso Buj, and Chris W. Michiels

N-Acyl-L-Homoserine Lactone Quorum Sensing Controls Butanediol Fermentation in Serratia plymuthica RVH1 and Serratia marcescens MG1
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4570-4572. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Terry G. Wilkinson, II, G. C. Kedar, Chi Lee, Elena C. Guzmán, Douglas W. Smith, and Judith W. Zyskind

The Synchrony Phenotype Persists after Elimination of Multiple GATC Sites from the dnaA Promoter of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4573-4576. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rajesh Kasiviswanathan, Jae-Ho Shin, and Zvi Kelman

DNA Binding by the Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus Cdc6 Protein Is Inhibited by the Minichromosome Maintenance Helicase
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4577-4580. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pamela J. Bonner and Lawrence J. Shimkets

Cohesion-Defective Mutants of Myxococcus xanthus
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4585-4588. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Jesse D. Woodson and Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena

The cbiS Gene of the Archaeon Methanopyrus kandleri AV19 Encodes a Bifunctional Enzyme with Adenosylcobinamide Amidohydrolase and -Ribazole-Phosphate Phosphatase Activities
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4227-4235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pascal D. Fortin, Geoff P. Horsman, Hao M. Yang, and Lindsay D. Eltis

A Glutathione S-Transferase Catalyzes the Dehalogenation of Inhibitory Metabolites of Polychlorinated Biphenyls
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4424-4430. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Amy J. Vogler, Christine Keys, Yoshimi Nemoto, Rebecca E. Colman, Zack Jay, and Paul Keim

Effect of Repeat Copy Number on Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Mutations in Escherichia coli O157:H7
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4253-4263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Richard C. Huard, Michel Fabre, Petra de Haas, Luiz Claudio Oliveira Lazzarini, Dick van Soolingen, Debby Cousins, and John L. Ho

Novel Genetic Polymorphisms That Further Delineate the Phylogeny of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4271-4287. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Gene Regulation:

Adhar C. Manna and Ambrose L. Cheung

Expression of SarX, a Negative Regulator of agr and Exoprotein Synthesis, Is Activated by MgrA in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4288-4299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Ying Zhang, Shunji Nakano, Soon-Yong Choi, and Peter Zuber

Mutational Analysis of the Bacillus subtilis RNA Polymerase C-Terminal Domain Supports the Interference Model of Spx-Dependent Repression
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4300-4311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Krzysztof Hinc, Krzysztofa Nagórska, Adam Iwanicki, Grzegorz Wegrzyn, Simone J. Séror, and Michal Obuchowski

Expression of Genes Coding for GerA and GerK Spore Germination Receptors Is Dependent on the Protein Phosphatase PrpE
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4373-4383. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Esteban Lombardía, Adrián J. Rovetto, Ana L. Arabolaza, and Roberto R. Grau

A LuxS-Dependent Cell-to-Cell Language Regulates Social Behavior and Development in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4442-4452. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Valentina Rosu, Fabienne F. V. Chevance, Joyce E. Karlinsey, Takanori Hirano, and Kelly T. Hughes

Translation Inhibition of the Salmonella fliC Gene by the fliC 5' Untranslated Region, fliC Coding Sequences, and FlgM
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4497-4507. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Aurelien L. Carlier and S. B. von Bodman

The rcsA Promoter of Pantoea stewartii subsp. stewartii Features a Low-Level Constitutive Promoter and an EsaR Quorum-Sensing-Regulated Promoter
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4581-4584. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Martin Kalmokoff, Patricia Lanthier, Tammy-Lynn Tremblay, Mary Foss, Peter C. Lau, Greg Sanders, John Austin, John Kelly, and Christine M. Szymanski

Proteomic Analysis of Campylobacter jejuni 11168 Biofilms Reveals a Role for the Motility Complex in Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4312-4320. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Adam P. Roberts, Ian J. Davis, Lorna Seville, Aurelie Villedieu, and Peter Mullany

Characterization of the Ends and Target Site of a Novel Tetracycline Resistance-Encoding Conjugative Transposon from Enterococcus faecium 664.1H1
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4356-4361. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michal Dmowski, Izabela Sitkiewicz, and Piotr Ceglowski

Characterization of a Novel Partition System Encoded by the and Genes from the Streptococcal Plasmid pSM19035
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4362-4372. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Stephen M. Kwong, Ronald A. Skurray, and Neville Firth

Replication Control of Staphylococcal Multiresistance Plasmid pSK41: an Antisense RNA Mediates Dual-Level Regulation of Rep Expression
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4404-4412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Structural Biology:

Max A. Keniry, Ah Young Park, Elisabeth A. Owen, Samir M. Hamdan, Guido Pintacuda, Gottfried Otting, and Nicholas E. Dixon

Structure of the Subunit of Escherichia coli DNA Polymerase III in Complex with the Subunit
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4464-4473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Catherine L. Lawson, Brian H. Yung, Alan G. Barbour, and Wolfram R. Zückert

Crystal Structure of Neurotropism-Associated Variable Surface Protein 1 (Vsp1) of Borrelia turicatae
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4522-4530. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Martin K. Safo, Faik N. Musayev, Martino L. di Salvo, Sharyn Hunt, Jean-Baptiste Claude, and Verne Schirch

Crystal Structure of Pyridoxal Kinase from the Escherichia coli pdxK Gene: Implications for the Classification of Pyridoxal Kinases
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4542-4552. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Plant Microbiology:

Daniela M. Russo, Alan Williams, Anne Edwards, Diana M. Posadas, Christine Finnie, Marcelo Dankert, J. Allan Downie, and Angeles Zorreguieta

Proteins Exported via the PrsD-PrsE Type I Secretion System and the Acidic Exopolysaccharide Are Involved in Biofilm Formation by Rhizobium leguminosarum
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4474-4486. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katherine E. Gibson, Gordon R. Campbell, Javier Lloret, and Graham C. Walker

CbrA Is a Stationary-Phase Regulator of Cell Surface Physiology and Legume Symbiosis in Sinorhizobium meliloti
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4508-4521. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

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