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Guest Commentaries:

Robert P. Hausinger

New Insights into Acetone Metabolism
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 671-673. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Minireviews:

N. Shapir, E. F. Mongodin, M. J. Sadowsky, S. C. Daugherty, K. E. Nelson, and L. P. Wackett

Evolution of Catabolic Pathways: Genomic Insights into Microbial s-Triazine Metabolism
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 674-682. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Wesley D. Swingley, Sumedha Sadekar, Stephen D. Mastrian, Heather J. Matthies, Jicheng Hao, Hector Ramos, Chaitanya R. Acharya, Amber L. Conrad, Heather L. Taylor, Liza C. Dejesa, Maulik K. Shah, Maeve E. O'Huallachain, Michael T. Lince, Robert E. Blankenship, J. Thomas Beatty, and Jeffrey W. Touchman

The Complete Genome Sequence of Roseobacter denitrificans Reveals a Mixotrophic Rather than Photosynthetic Metabolism
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 683-690. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Bentley Lim, Sinem Beyhan, and Fitnat H. Yildiz

Regulation of Vibrio Polysaccharide Synthesis and Virulence Factor Production by CdgC, a GGDEF-EAL Domain Protein, in Vibrio cholerae
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 717-729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Anna Maciag, Elisa Dainese, G. Marcela Rodriguez, Anna Milano, Roberta Provvedi, Maria R. Pasca, Issar Smith, Giorgio Palù, Giovanna Riccardi, and Riccardo Manganelli

Global Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Zur (FurB) Regulon
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 730-740. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Zalán Szabó, Adriana Oliveira Stahl, Sonja-V. Albers, Jessica C. Kissinger, Arnold J. M. Driessen, and Mechthild Pohlschröder

Identification of Diverse Archaeal Proteins with Class III Signal Peptides Cleaved by Distinct Archaeal Prepilin Peptidases
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 772-778. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Linus Sandegren and Britt-Marie Sjöberg

Self-Splicing of the Bacteriophage T4 Group I Introns Requires Efficient Translation of the Pre-mRNA In Vivo and Correlates with the Growth State of the Infected Bacterium
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 980-990. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Thomas J. Radosevich, Timothy A. Reinhardt, John D. Lippolis, John P. Bannantine, and Judith R. Stabel

Proteome and Differential Expression Analysis of Membrane and Cytosolic Proteins from Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Strains K-10 and 187
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1109-1117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Ashlee M. Earl, Richard Losick, and Roberto Kolter

Bacillus subtilis Genome Diversity
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1163-1170. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Rebecca Giorno, Joel Bozue, Christopher Cote, Theresa Wenzel, Krishna-Sulayman Moody, Michael Mallozzi, Matthew Ryan, Rong Wang, Ryszard Zielke, Janine R. Maddock, Arthur Friedlander, Susan Welkos, and Adam Driks

Morphogenesis of the Bacillus anthracis Spore
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 691-705. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gina Parise, Meenu Mishra, Yoshikane Itoh, Tony Romeo, and Rajendar Deora

Role of a Putative Polysaccharide Locus in Bordetella Biofilm Development
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 750-760. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jason W. Rosch, Fong Fu Hsu, and Michael G. Caparon

Anionic Lipids Enriched at the ExPortal of Streptococcus pyogenes
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 801-806. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Narisara Chantratita, Vanaporn Wuthiekanun, Khaemaporn Boonbumrung, Rachaneeporn Tiyawisutsri, Mongkol Vesaratchavest, Direk Limmathurotsakul, Wirongrong Chierakul, Surasakdi Wongratanacheewin, Sasithorn Pukritiyakamee, Nicholas J. White, Nicholas P. J. Day, and Sharon J. Peacock

Biological Relevance of Colony Morphology and Phenotypic Switching by Burkholderia pseudomallei
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 807-817. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Jaiyanth Daniel, Tae-Jin Oh, Chang-Muk Lee, and Pappachan E. Kolattukudy

AccD6, a Member of the Fas II Locus, Is a Functional Carboxyltransferase Subunit of the Acyl-Coenzyme A Carboxylase in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 911-917. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandeep Tamber, Elke Maier, Roland Benz, and Robert E. W. Hancock

Characterization of OpdH, a Pseudomonas aeruginosa Porin Involved in the Uptake of Tricarboxylates
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 929-939. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert DeMars, Jason Weinfurter, Erin Guex, John Lin, and Yvonne Potucek

Lateral Gene Transfer In Vitro in the Intracellular Pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 991-1003. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Alistair Harrison, William C. Ray, Beth D. Baker, David W. Armbruster, Lauren O. Bakaletz, and Robert S. Munson, Jr.

The OxyR Regulon in Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1004-1012. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Kate Cosgrove, Graham Coutts, Ing-Marie Jonsson, Andrej Tarkowski, John F. Kokai-Kun, James J. Mond, and Simon J. Foster

Catalase (KatA) and Alkyl Hydroperoxide Reductase (AhpC) Have Compensatory Roles in Peroxide Stress Resistance and Are Required for Survival, Persistence, and Nasal Colonization in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1025-1035. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sandra Fresno, Natalia Jiménez, Rocío Canals, Susana Merino, Maria Michela Corsaro, Rosa Lanzetta, Michelangelo Parrilli, Giuseppina Pieretti, Miguel Regué, and Juan M. Tomás

A Second Galacturonic Acid Transferase Is Required for Core Lipopolysaccharide Biosynthesis and Complete Capsule Association with the Cell Surface in Klebsiella pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1128-1137. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Ahmad Jomaa, Daniela Damjanovic, Vivian Leong, Rodolfo Ghirlando, Jack Iwanczyk, and Joaquin Ortega

The Inner Cavity of Escherichia coli DegP Protein Is Not Essential for Molecular Chaperone and Proteolytic Activity
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 706-716. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Julie Vézina, Diane Barriault, and Michel Sylvestre

Family Shuffling of Soil DNA To Change the Regiospecificity of Burkholderia xenovorans LB400 Biphenyl Dioxygenase
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 779-788. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Carsten Sanders, Clémence Boulay, and Fevzi Daldal

Membrane-Spanning and Periplasmic Segments of CcmI Have Distinct Functions during Cytochrome c Biogenesis in Rhodobacter capsulatus
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 789-800. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ky-Anh Nguyen, James Travis, and Jan Potempa

Does the Importance of the C-Terminal Residues in the Maturation of RgpB from Porphyromonas gingivalis Reveal a Novel Mechanism for Protein Export in a Subgroup of Gram-Negative Bacteria?
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 833-843. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Sakae Kitada, Tsuneo Uchiyama, Tomoyuki Funatsu, Yumiko Kitada, Tadashi Ogishima, and Akio Ito

A Protein from a Parasitic Microorganism, Rickettsia prowazekii, Can Cleave the Signal Sequences of Proteins Targeting Mitochondria
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 844-850. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jason A. Hall and Ana M. Pajor

Functional Reconstitution of SdcS, a Na⁺-Coupled Dicarboxylate Carrier Protein from Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 880-885. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tetsuya Kotani, Hiroya Yurimoto, Nobuo Kato, and Yasuyoshi Sakai

Novel Acetone Metabolism in a Propane-Utilizing Bacterium, Gordonia sp. Strain TY-5
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 886-893. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Haibo Bai and A-Lien Lu

Physical and Functional Interactions between Escherichia coli MutY Glycosylase and Mismatch Repair Protein MutS
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 902-910. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jason R. Dale, Roy Wade, Jr., and Thomas J. DiChristina

A Conserved Histidine in Cytochrome c Maturation Permease CcmB of Shewanella putrefaciens Is Required for Anaerobic Growth below a Threshold Standard Redox Potential
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1036-1043. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Franziska Peters, Yoshifumi Shinoda, Michael J. McInerney, and Matthias Boll

Cyclohexa-1,5-Diene-1-Carbonyl-Coenzyme A (CoA) Hydratases of Geobacter metallireducens and Syntrophus aciditrophicus: Evidence for a Common Benzoyl-CoA Degradation Pathway in Facultative and Strict Anaerobes
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1055-1060. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Changqi Sun, Sharyn L. Rusch, Jinoh Kim, and Debra A. Kendall

Chloroplast SecA and Escherichia coli SecA Have Distinct Lipid and Signal Peptide Preferences
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1171-1175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tadashi Ogawa, Keiko Murakami, Hirotada Mori, Nobuyoshi Ishii, Masaru Tomita, and Masataka Yoshin

Role of Phosphoenolpyruvate in the NADP-Isocitrate Dehydrogenase and Isocitrate Lyase Reaction in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1176-1178. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

H. Chouayekh, H. Nothaft, S. Delaunay, M. Linder, B. Payrastre, N. Seghezzi, F. Titgemeyer, and M. J. Virolle

Phosphoinositides Are Involved in Control of the Glucose-Dependent Growth Resumption That Follows the Transition Phase in Streptomyces lividans
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 741-749. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Francesca Borsetti, Francesco Francia, Raymond J. Turner, and Davide Zannoni

The Thiol:Disulfide Oxidoreductase DsbB Mediates the Oxidizing Effects of the Toxic Metalloid Tellurite (TeO₃^2–) on the Plasma Membrane Redox System of the Facultative Phototroph Rhodobacter capsulatus
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 851-859. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Yinjie J. Tang, Adam L. Meadows, James Kirby, and Jay D. Keasling

Anaerobic Central Metabolic Pathways in Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Reinterpreted in the Light of Isotopic Metabolite Labeling
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 894-901. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rainer Kalscheuer, Tim Stöveken, Ursula Malkus, Rudolf Reichelt, Peter N. Golyshin, Julia S. Sabirova, Manuel Ferrer, Kenneth N. Timmis, and Alexander Steinbüchel

Analysis of Storage Lipid Accumulation in Alcanivorax borkumensis: Evidence for Alternative Triacylglycerol Biosynthesis Routes in Bacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 918-928. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Yinjie Tang, Francesco Pingitore, Aindrila Mukhopadhyay, Richard Phan, Terry C. Hazen, and Jay D. Keasling

Pathway Confirmation and Flux Analysis of Central Metabolic Pathways in Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough using Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry and Fourier Transform-Ion Cyclotron Resonance Mass Spectrometry
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 940-949. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Tetsuyoshi Inoue, Ryuji Shingaki, Shotaro Hirose, Kaori Waki, Hirotada Mori, and Kazuhiro Fukui

Genome-Wide Screening of Genes Required for Swarming Motility in Escherichia coli K-12
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 950-957. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

George S. Espie, Farid Jalali, Tommy Tong, Natalie J. Zacal, and Anthony K.-C. So

Involvement of the cynABDS Operon and the CO₂-Concentrating Mechanism in the Light-Dependent Transport and Metabolism of Cyanate by Cyanobacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1013-1024. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Mario Juhas, Derrick W. Crook, Ioanna D. Dimopoulou, Gerton Lunter, Rosalind M. Harding, David J. P. Ferguson, and Derek W. Hood

Novel Type IV Secretion System Involved in Propagation of Genomic Islands
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 761-771. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

K. K. Hill, T. J. Smith, C. H. Helma, L. O. Ticknor, B. T. Foley, R. T. Svensson, J. L. Brown, E. A. Johnson, L. A. Smith, R. T. Okinaka, P. J. Jackson, and J. D. Marks

Genetic Diversity among Botulinum Neurotoxin-Producing Clostridial Strains
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 818-832. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Helen Yakhnin, Alexander V. Yakhnin, and Paul Babitzke

Translation Control of trpG from Transcripts Originating from the Folate Operon Promoter of Bacillus subtilis Is Influenced by Translation-Mediated Displacement of Bound TRAP, While Translation Control of Transcripts Originating from a Newly Identified trpG Promoter Is Not
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 872-879. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Benchamas Subsin, Catherine E. Chambers, Michelle B. Visser, and Pamela A. Sokol

Identification of Genes Regulated by the cepIR Quorum-Sensing System in Burkholderia cenocepacia by High-Throughput Screening of a Random Promoter Library
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 968-979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chad W. Euler, Patricia A. Ryan, Judith M. Martin, and Vincent A. Fischetti

M.SpyI, a DNA Methyltransferase Encoded on a mefA Chimeric Element, Modifies the Genome of Streptococcus pyogenes
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1044-1054. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

M. Han, M. Yagura, and T. Itoh

Specific Interaction between the Initiator Protein (Rep) and Origin of Plasmid ColE2-P9
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1061-1071. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Patricia L. Pelczar, Takao Igarashi, Barbara Setlow, and Peter Setlow

Role of GerD in Germination of Bacillus subtilis Spores
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1090-1098. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Nagatoshi Fujiwara, Noboru Nakata, Shinji Maeda, Takashi Naka, Matsumi Doe, Ikuya Yano, and Kazuo Kobayashi

Structural Characterization of a Specific Glycopeptidolipid Containing a Novel N-Acyl-Deoxy Sugar from Mycobacterium intracellulare Serotype 7 and Genetic Analysis of Its Glycosylation Pathway
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1099-1108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Miwa Yamada, Koichi Yamashita, Akiko Wakuda, Kazuyoshi Ichimura, Akira Maehara, Michihisa Maeda, and Seiichi Taguchi

Autoregulator Protein PhaR for Biosynthesis of Polyhydroxybutyrate [P(3HB)] Possibly Has Two Separate Domains That Bind to the Target DNA and P(3HB): Functional Mapping of Amino Acid Residues Responsible for DNA Binding
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1118-1127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Frédérique Pompeo, Jennifer Luciano, and Anne Galinier

Interaction of GapA with HPr and Its Homologue, Crh: Novel Levels of Regulation of a Key Step of Glycolysis in Bacillus subtilis?
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1154-1157. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Sarah Lebeer, Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker, Tine L. A. Verhoeven, Abeer A. Fadda, Kathleen Marchal, and Jos Vanderleyden

Functional Analysis of luxS in the Probiotic Strain Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG Reveals a Central Metabolic Role Important for Growth and Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 860-871. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Dietmar Hillmann, Iris Eschenbacher, Anja Thiel, and Michael Niederweis

Expression of the Major Porin Gene mspA Is Regulated in Mycobacterium smegmatis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 958-967. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jonathan D. Rock, Melanie J. Thomson, Robert C. Read, and James W. B. Moir

Regulation of Denitrification Genes in Neisseria meningitidis by Nitric Oxide and the Repressor NsrR
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1138-1144. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Annette Cramer, Marc Auchter, Julia Frunzke, Michael Bott, and Bernhard J. Eikmanns

RamB, the Transcriptional Regulator of Acetate Metabolism in Corynebacterium glutamicum, Is Subject to Regulation by RamA and RamB
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1145-1149. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Michael S. Schurdell, Garrett M. Woodbury, and William R. McCleary

Genetic Evidence Suggests that the Intergenic Region between pstA and pstB Plays a Role in the Regulation of rpoS Translation during Phosphate Limitation
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1150-1153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Neil A. Wesslund, Gui-Rong Wang, Bo Song, Nadja B. Shoemaker, and Abigail A. Salyers

Integration and Excision of a Newly Discovered Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon, CTnBST
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1072-1082. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Masaomi Kanbe, Jin Yagasaki, Susanne Zehner, Michael Göttfert, and Shin-Ichi Aizawa

Characterization of Two Sets of Subpolar Flagella in Bradyrhizobium japonicum
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1083-1089. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

J. McCarren and B. Brahamsha

SwmB, a 1.12-Megadalton Protein That Is Required for Nonflagellar Swimming Motility in Synechococcus
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1158-1162. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Errata:

Benjamin M. Hasselbring, Clinton A. Page, Edward S. Sheppard, and Duncan C. Krause

Transposon Mutagenesis Identifies Genes Associated with Mycoplasma pneumoniae Gliding Motility
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1179. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Naofumi Handa and Ichizo Kobayashi

Type III Restriction Is Alleviated by Bacteriophage (RecE) Homologous Recombination Function but Enhanced by Bacterial (RecBCD) Function
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 1180. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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