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Guest Commentaries:

Richard L. Gourse, Wilma Ross, and Steven T. Rutherford

General Pathway for Turning on Promoters Transcribed by RNA Polymerases Containing Alternative Factors
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4589-4591. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Meeting Review:

Fabiano L. Thompson, Karl E. Klose the AVIB Group

Vibrio2005: the First International Conference on the Biology of Vibrios
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4592-4596. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ry Young, Tina M. Henkin, and Charles L. Turnbough, Jr.

The Phage Meeting: Classical Venue, New Momentum
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4597-4600. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Margrethe H. Serres and Monica Riley

Genomic Analysis of Carbon Source Metabolism of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1: Predictions versus Experiments
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4601-4609. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Valerie J. Busler, Victor J. Torres, Mark S. McClain, Oscar Tirado, David B. Friedman, and Timothy L. Cover

Protein-Protein Interactions among Helicobacter pylori Cag Proteins
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4787-4800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kim S. Wise, Mark F. Foecking, Kerstin Röske, Young Jin Lee, Young Moo Lee, Anup Madan, and Michael J. Calcutt

Distinctive Repertoire of Contingency Genes Conferring Mutation- Based Phase Variation and Combinatorial Expression of Surface Lipoproteins in Mycoplasma capricolum subsp. capricolum of the Mycoplasma mycoides Phylogenetic Cluster
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4926-4941. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gene Regulation:

Marcus Miethke, Michael Hecker, and Ulf Gerth

Involvement of Bacillus subtilis ClpE in CtsR Degradation and Protein Quality Control
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4610-4619. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Asiya A. Gusa, Jinxin Gao, Virginia Stringer, Gordon Churchward, and June R. Scott

Phosphorylation of the Group A Streptococcal CovR Response Regulator Causes Dimerization and Promoter-Specific Recruitment by RNA Polymerase
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4620-4626. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hidehiko Fujihara, Hideyuki Yoshida, Tetsuya Matsunaga, Masatoshi Goto, and Kensuke Furukawa

Cross-Regulation of Biphenyl- and Salicylate-Catabolic Genes by Two Regulatory Systems in Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4690-4697. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Patricia B. Lodato, Elizabeth J. Rogers, and Paul S. Lovett

A Variation of the Translation Attenuation Model Can Explain the Inducible Regulation of the pBC16 Tetracycline Resistance Gene in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4749-4758. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ishara C. Gunesekere, Charlene M. Kahler, David R. Powell, Lori A. S. Snyder, Nigel J. Saunders, Julian I. Rood, and John K. Davies

Comparison of the RpoH-Dependent Regulon and General Stress Response in Neisseria gonorrhoeae
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4769-4776. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Dane Parker, Ruth M. Kennan, Garry S. Myers, Ian T. Paulsen, J. Glenn Songer, and Julian I. Rood

Regulation of Type IV Fimbrial Biogenesis in Dichelobacter nodosus
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4801-4811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Teresa del Peso-Santos, David Bartolomé-Martín, Cristina Fernández, Sergio Alonso, José Luis García, Eduardo Díaz, Victoria Shingler, and Julián Perera

Coregulation by Phenylacetyl-Coenzyme A-Responsive PaaX Integrates Control of the Upper and Lower Pathways for Catabolism of Styrene by Pseudomonas sp. Strain Y2
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4812-4821. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Yong Cheng, Jian-Hong Li, Lei Shi, Li Wang, Amel Latifi, and Cheng-Cai Zhang

A Pair of Iron-Responsive Genes Encoding Protein Kinases with a Ser/Thr Kinase Domain and a His Kinase Domain Are Regulated by NtcA in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4822-4829. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Rasmus Larsen, Tomas G. Kloosterman, Jan Kok, and Oscar P. Kuipers

GlnR-Mediated Regulation of Nitrogen Metabolism in Lactococcus lactis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4978-4982. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Alessandra Costanzo and Sarah E. Ades

Growth Phase-Dependent Regulation of the Extracytoplasmic Stress Factor, ^E, by Guanosine 3',5'-Bispyrophosphate (ppGpp)
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4627-4634. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Alberto Danielli, Davide Roncarati, Isabel Delany, Valentina Chiarini, Rino Rappuoli, and Vincenzo Scarlato

In Vivo Dissection of the Helicobacter pylori Fur Regulatory Circuit by Genome-Wide Location Analysis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4654-4662. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Trudi L. Bannam, Wee Lin Teng, Dieter Bulach, Dena Lyras, and Julian I. Rood

Functional Identification of Conjugation and Replication Regions of the Tetracycline Resistance Plasmid pCW3 from Clostridium perfringens
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4942-4951. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Natsumi Saito, Jun Xu, Takeshi Hosaka, Susumu Okamoto, Hiroyuki Aoki, Mervyn J. Bibb, and Kozo Ochi

EshA Accentuates ppGpp Accumulation and Is Conditionally Required for Antibiotic Production in Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4952-4961. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Masami Yamada, Tatsuo Nunoshiba, Masatomi Shimizu, Petr Gruz, Hiroyuki Kamiya, Hideyoshi Harashima, and Takehiko Nohmi

Involvement of Y-Family DNA Polymerases in Mutagenesis Caused by Oxidized Nucleotides in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4992-4995. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Masaaki Tazoe, Keiko Ichikawa, and Tatsuo Hoshino

Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide-Dependent 4-Phospho-D-Erythronate Dehydrogenase Is Responsible for the 4-Phosphohydroxy-L-Threonine Pathway in Vitamin B₆ Biosynthesis in Sinorhizobium meliloti
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4635-4645. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Izumi Orita, Takaaki Sato, Hiroya Yurimoto, Nobuo Kato, Haruyuki Atomi, Tadayuki Imanaka, and Yasuyoshi Sakai

The Ribulose Monophosphate Pathway Substitutes for the Missing Pentose Phosphate Pathway in the Archaeon Thermococcus kodakaraensis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4698-4704. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Guillaume Lerondel, Thierry Doan, Nicola Zamboni, Uwe Sauer, and Stéphane Aymerich

YtsJ Has the Major Physiological Role of the Four Paralogous Malic Enzyme Isoforms in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4727-4736. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kelly A. McAllister, Robert B. Peery, and Genshi Zhao

Acyl Carrier Protein Synthases from Gram-Negative, Gram-Positive, and Atypical Bacterial Species: Biochemical and Structural Properties and Physiological Implications
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4737-4748. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Florence Arsène-Ploetze, Hervé Nicoloff, Benoît Kammerer, Jan Martinussen, and Françoise Bringel

Uracil Salvage Pathway in Lactobacillus plantarum: Transcription and Genetic Studies
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4777-4786. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Thomas E. Grys, Laura L. Walters, and Rodney A. Welch

Characterization of the StcE Protease Activity of Escherichia coli O157:H7
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4646-4653. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Cheryl Spence, W. Greg Wells, and C. Jeffrey Smith

Characterization of the Primary Starch Utilization Operon in the Obligate Anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis: Regulation by Carbon Source and Oxygen
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4663-4672. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Meliza T. Talaue, Vishwanath Venketaraman, Manzour Hernando Hazbón, Marcy Peteroy-Kelly, Anjali Seth, Roberto Colangeli, David Alland, and Nancy D. Connell

Arginine Homeostasis in J774.1 Macrophages in the Context of Mycobacterium bovis BCG Infection
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4830-4840. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sünje Johanna Pamp, Dorte Frees, Susanne Engelmann, Michael Hecker, and Hanne Ingmer

Spx Is a Global Effector Impacting Stress Tolerance and Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4861-4870. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tomasz Bykowski, Kelly Babb, Kate von Lackum, Sean P. Riley, Steven J. Norris, and Brian Stevenson

Transcriptional Regulation of the Borrelia burgdorferi Antigenically Variable VlsE Surface Protein
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4879-4889. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Scott A. Koepsell, Marilynn A. Larson, Mark A. Griep, and Steven H. Hinrichs

Staphylococcus aureus Helicase but Not Escherichia coli Helicase Stimulates S. aureus Primase Activity and Maintains Initiation Specificity
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4673-4680. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Liang Shi, Baowei Chen, Zheming Wang, Dwayne A. Elias, M. Uljana Mayer, Yuri A. Gorby, Shuison Ni, Brian H. Lower, David W. Kennedy, David S. Wunschel, Heather M. Mottaz, Matthew J. Marshall, Eric A. Hill, Alexander S. Beliaev, John M. Zachara, James K. Fredrickson, and Thomas C. Squier

Isolation of a High-Affinity Functional Protein Complex between OmcA and MtrC: Two Outer Membrane Decaheme c-Type Cytochromes of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4705-4714. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kimberly H. Halsey, Luis A. Sayavedra-Soto, Peter J. Bottomley, and Daniel J. Arp

Site-Directed Amino Acid Substitutions in the Hydroxylase Subunit of Butane Monooxygenase from Pseudomonas butanovora: Implications for Substrates Knocking at the Gate
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4962-4969. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Henriette Macmillan, Kelly A. Brayton, Guy H. Palmer, Travis C. McGuire, Gerhard Munske, William F. Siems, and Wendy C. Brown

Analysis of the Anaplasma marginale Major Surface Protein 1 Complex Protein Composition by Tandem Mass Spectrometry
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4983-4991. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Gianni Prosseda, Maria Carmela Latella, Mariassunta Casalino, Mauro Nicoletti, Stefano Michienzi, and Bianca Colonna

Plasticity of the P_junc Promoter of ISEc11, a New Insertion Sequence of the IS1111 Family
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4681-4689. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hongmei Wang, Margaret C. M. Smith, and Peter Mullany

The Conjugative Transposon Tn5397 Has a Strong Preference for Integration into Its Clostridium difficile Target Site
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4871-4878. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Plant Microbiology:

Yaya Cui, Asita Chatterjee, Hiroaki Hasegawa, and Arun K. Chatterjee

Erwinia carotovora Subspecies Produce Duplicate Variants of ExpR, LuxR Homologs That Activate rsmA Transcription but Differ in Their Interactions with N-Acylhomoserine Lactone Signals
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4715-4726. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Christine Bobik, Eliane Meilhoc, and Jacques Batut

FixJ: a Major Regulator of the Oxygen Limitation Response and Late Symbiotic Functions of Sinorhizobium meliloti
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4890-4902. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Damien Meyer, Sébastien Cunnac, Mareva Guéneron, Céline Declercq, Frédérique Van Gijsegem, Emmanuelle Lauber, Christian Boucher, and Matthieu Arlat

PopF1 and PopF2, Two Proteins Secreted by the Type III Protein Secretion System of Ralstonia solanacearum, Are Translocators Belonging to the HrpF/NopX Family
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4903-4917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Signal Transduction:

Bonnie B. Stephens, Star N. Loar, and Gladys Alexandre

Role of CheB and CheR in the Complex Chemotactic and Aerotactic Pathway of Azospirillum brasilense
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4759-4768. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Kottayil I. Varughese, Igor Tsigelny, and Haiyan Zhao

The Crystal Structure of Beryllofluoride Spo0F in Complex with the Phosphotransferase Spo0B Represents a Phosphotransfer Pretransition State
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4970-4977. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Sumita Jain, Peter van Ulsen, Inga Benz, M. Alexander Schmidt, Rachel Fernandez, Jan Tommassen, and Marcia B. Goldberg

Polar Localization of the Autotransporter Family of Large Bacterial Virulence Proteins
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4841-4850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sophie de Bentzmann, Marianne Aurouze, Geneviève Ball, and Alain Filloux

FppA, a Novel Pseudomonas aeruginosa Prepilin Peptidase Involved in Assembly of Type IVb Pili
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4851-4860. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Paul D. Straight, Joanne M. Willey, and Roberto Kolter

Interactions between Streptomyces coelicolor and Bacillus subtilis: Role of Surfactants in Raising Aerial Structures
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4918-4925. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gili Regev-Yochay, Krzysztof Trzcinski, Claudette M. Thompson, Richard Malley, and Marc Lipsitch

Interference between Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus: In Vitro Hydrogen Peroxide-Mediated Killing by Streptococcus pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2006 188: 4996-5001. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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