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Contents: June 2008, Volume 190, Issue 11

       Enzymes and Proteins

       Physiology and Metabolism

       Molecular Biology of Pathogens

       Gene Regulation

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Genomics and Proteomics

       Microbial Communities and Interactions

       Microbial Cell Biology

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Enzymes and Proteins:

Identification of Escherichia coli YgaF as an L-2-Hydroxyglutarate Oxidase
Efthalia Kalliri, Scott B. Mulrooney, and Robert P. Hausinger
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3793-3798; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01977-07
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Cloning, Solubilization, and Characterization of Squalene Synthase from Thermosynechococcus elongatus BP-1
Sungwon Lee and C. Dale Poulter
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3808-3816; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01939-07
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Characterization of a Novel Methanol Dehydrogenase in Representatives of Burkholderiales: Implications for Environmental Detection of Methylotrophy and Evidence for Convergent Evolution
Marina G. Kalyuzhnaya, Krassimira R. Hristova, Mary E. Lidstrom, and Ludmila Chistoserdova
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3817-3823; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00180-08
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Dihydrolipoamide Dehydrogenase Mutation Alters the NADH Sensitivity of Pyruvate Dehydrogenase Complex of Escherichia coli K-12
Youngnyun Kim, L. O. Ingram, and K. T. Shanmugam
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3851-3858; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00104-08
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Autophosphorylation and Dephosphorylation by Soluble Forms of the Nitrate-Responsive Sensors NarX and NarQ from Escherichia coli K-12
Chris E. Noriega, Radomir Schmidt, Michael J. Gray, Li-Ling Chen, and Valley Stewart
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3869-3876; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00092-08
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Specific Partial Reduction of Geranylgeranyl Diphosphate by an Enzyme from the Thermoacidophilic Archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Yields a Reactive Prenyl Donor, Not a Dead-End Product
Sho Sato, Motomichi Murakami, Tohru Yoshimura, and Hisashi Hemmi
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3923-3929; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00082-08
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Insight from TonB Hybrid Proteins into the Mechanism of Iron Transport through the Outer Membrane
Wallace A. Kaserer, Xiaoxu Jiang, Qiaobin Xiao, Daniel C. Scott, Matthew Bauler, Daniel Copeland, Salete M. C. Newton, and Phillip E. Klebba
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4001-4016; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00135-08
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Physiology and Metabolism:

Mutations in ampG or ampD Affect Peptidoglycan Fragment Release from Neisseria gonorrhoeae
Daniel L. Garcia and Joseph P. Dillard
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3799-3807; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01194-07
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Cyclic AMP in Mycobacteria: Characterization and Functional Role of the Rv1647 Ortholog in Mycobacterium smegmatis
Bob Kennedy M. Dass, Ritu Sharma, Avinash R. Shenoy, Rohini Mattoo, and Sandhya S. Visweswariah
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3824-3834; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00138-08
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Functional Characterization of a Vitamin B₁₂-Dependent Methylmalonyl Pathway in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Implications for Propionate Metabolism during Growth on Fatty Acids
Suzana Savvi, Digby F. Warner, Bavesh D. Kana, John D. McKinney, Valerie Mizrahi, and Stephanie S. Dawes
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3886-3895; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01767-07
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Growth of Escherichia coli: Significance of Peptidoglycan Degradation during Elongation and Septation
Tsuyoshi Uehara and James T. Park
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3914-3922; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00207-08
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Norepinephrine Mediates Acquisition of Transferrin-Iron in Bordetella bronchiseptica
Mark T. Anderson and Sandra K. Armstrong
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3940-3947; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00086-08
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Molecular Biology of Pathogens:

A Novel Staphylococcus aureus Biofilm Phenotype Mediated by the Fibronectin-Binding Proteins, FnBPA and FnBPB
Eoghan O'Neill, Clarissa Pozzi, Patrick Houston, Hilary Humphreys, D. Ashley Robinson, Anthony Loughman, Timothy J. Foster, and James P. O'Gara
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3835-3850; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00167-08
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Functional and Phylogenetic Characterization of Vaginolysin, the Human-Specific Cytolysin from Gardnerella vaginalis
Shari E. Gelber, Jorge L. Aguilar, Kanako L. T. Lewis, and Adam J. Ratner
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3896-3903; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01965-07
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Glycine Betaine Uptake by the ProXVWZ ABC Transporter Contributes to the Ability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis To Initiate Growth in Human Macrophages
Christopher T. D. Price, Archana Bukka, Michael Cynamon, and James E. Graham
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3955-3961; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01476-07
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The Carriage Population of Staphylococcus aureus from Mali Is Composed of a Combination of Pandemic Clones and the Divergent Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Positive Genotype ST152
Raymond Ruimy, Aminata Maiga, Laurence Armand-Lefevre, Ibrahim Maiga, Amadou Diallo, Abdel Karim Koumaré, Kalilou Ouattara, Sambou Soumaré, Kevin Gaillard, Jean-Christophe Lucet, Antoine Andremont, and Edward J. Feil
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3962-3968; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01947-07
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Mobilization of the incQ Plasmid R300B with a Chromosomal Conjugation System in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi
Stephen Baker, Derek Pickard, Sally Whitehead, Jeremy Farrar, and Gordon Dougan
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4084-4087; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00065-08
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Identification of a Novel Mycobacterial 3-Hydroxyacyl-Thioester Dehydratase, HtdZ (Rv0130), by Functional Complementation in Yeast
Aner Gurvitz, J. Kalervo Hiltunen, and Alexander J. Kastaniotis
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4088-4090; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00016-08
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Sodium Chloride Affects Helicobacter pylori Growth and Gene Expression
Hanan Gancz, Kathleen R. Jones, and D. Scott Merrell
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4100-4105; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01728-07
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Gene Regulation:

Transcriptional Regulation of the tad Locus in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans: a Termination Cascade
Karin E. Kram, Galadriel A. Hovel-Miner, Mladen Tomich, and David H. Figurski
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3859-3868; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00128-08
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Defining the Growth Conditions and Promoter-Proximal DNA Sequences Required for Activation of Gene Expression by CreBC in Escherichia coli
S. James L. Cariss, Amy E. Tayler, and Matthew B. Avison
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3930-3939; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00108-08
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Transcriptional Organization of the Region Encoding the Synthesis of the Flagellar Filament in Pseudomonas fluorescens
Miguel Redondo-Nieto, Javier Lloret, Javiera Larenas, Emma Barahona, Ana Navazo, Francisco Martínez-Granero, Silvia Capdevila, Rafael Rivilla, and Marta Martín
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4106-4109; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00178-08
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Transcriptional Analysis and Functional Characterization of a Gene Pair Encoding Iron-Regulated Xenocin and Immunity Proteins of Xenorhabdus nematophila
Jitendra Singh and Nirupama Banerjee
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3877-3885; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00209-08
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Involvement of a Protein Kinase Activity Inducer in DNA Double Strand Break Repair and Radioresistance of Deinococcus radiodurans
Yogendra S. Rajpurohit, Roja Gopalakrishnan, and Hari S. Misra
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3948-3954; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00026-08
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Purification and Properties of the Plasmid Maintenance Proteins from the Borrelia burgdorferi Linear Plasmid lp17
Jan Deneke and George Chaconas
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3992-4000; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00057-08
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Genetic Analysis of the Methanol- and Methylamine-Specific Methyltransferase 2 Genes of Methanosarcina acetivorans C2A
Arpita Bose, Matthew A. Pritchett, and William W. Metcalf
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4017-4026; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00117-08
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Photoregulation of Cellular Morphology during Complementary Chromatic Adaptation Requires Sensor-Kinase-Class Protein RcaE in Fremyella diplosiphon
Juliana R. Bordowitz and Beronda L. Montgomery
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4069-4074; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00018-08
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Insertion Hot Spot for Horizontally Acquired DNA within a Bidirectional Small-RNA Locus in Salmonella enterica
Roberto Balbontín, Nara Figueroa-Bossi, Josep Casadesús, and Lionello Bossi
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4075-4078; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00220-08
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The Gene Encoding RNase III in Streptomyces coelicolor Is Transcribed during Exponential Phase and Is Required for Antibiotic Production and for Proper Sporulation
Jason K. Sello and Mark J. Buttner
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4079-4083; published ahead of print March 21, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01889-07
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The Methanothermobacter thermautotrophicus Cdc6-2 Protein, the Putative Helicase Loader, Dissociates the Minichromosome Maintenance Helicase
Jae-Ho Shin, Gun Young Heo, and Zvi Kelman
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4091-4094; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00233-08
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Genomics and Proteomics:

Differential Transcriptional Analysis of the Cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. Strain ATCC 51142 during Light-Dark and Continuous-Light Growth
Jörg Toepel, Eric Welsh, Tina C. Summerfield, Himadri B. Pakrasi, and Louis A. Sherman
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3904-3913; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00206-08
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Comparative Genome Analysis of "Candidatus Phytoplasma australiense" (Subgroup tuf-Australia I; rp-A) and "Ca. Phytoplasma asteris" Strains OY-M and AY-WB
L. T. T. Tran-Nguyen, M. Kube, B. Schneider, R. Reinhardt, and K. S. Gibb
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3979-3991; published ahead of print March 21, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01301-07
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Complete Genome Sequence of Uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis, a Master of both Adherence and Motility
Melanie M. Pearson, Mohammed Sebaihia, Carol Churcher, Michael A. Quail, Aswin S. Seshasayee, Nicholas M. Luscombe, Zahra Abdellah, Claire Arrosmith, Becky Atkin, Tracey Chillingworth, Heidi Hauser, Kay Jagels, Sharon Moule, Karen Mungall, Halina Norbertczak, Ester Rabbinowitsch, Danielle Walker, Sally Whithead, Nicholas R. Thomson, Philip N. Rather, Julian Parkhill, and Harry L. T. Mobley
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4027-4037; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01981-07
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Genome Sequence of the Streptomycin-Producing Microorganism Streptomyces griseus IFO 13350
Yasuo Ohnishi, Jun Ishikawa, Hirofumi Hara, Hirokazu Suzuki, Miwa Ikenoya, Haruo Ikeda, Atsushi Yamashita, Masahira Hattori, and Sueharu Horinouchi
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4050-4060; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00204-08
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Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Opr86 Is Essential for Viability and Is a Potential Candidate for a Protective Antigen against Biofilm Formation by Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Yosuke Tashiro, Nobuhiko Nomura, Ryoma Nakao, Hidenobu Senpuku, Reiko Kariyama, Hiromi Kumon, Saori Kosono, Haruo Watanabe, Toshiaki Nakajima, and Hiroo Uchiyama
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 3969-3978; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.02004-07
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa Twitching Motility-Mediated Chemotaxis towards Phospholipids and Fatty Acids: Specificity and Metabolic Requirements
Rhea M. Miller, Andrew P. Tomaras, Adam P. Barker, Dennis R. Voelker, Edward D. Chan, Adriana I. Vasil, and Michael L. Vasil
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4038-4049; published ahead of print April 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00129-08
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CSF, a Species-Specific Extracellular Signaling Peptide for Communication among Strains of Bacillus subtilis and Bacillus mojavensis
Mridula Pottathil, April Jung, and Beth A. Lazazzera
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4095-4099; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00187-08
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Microbial Cell Biology:

CabC, an EF-Hand Calcium-Binding Protein, Is Involved in Ca²⁺-Mediated Regulation of Spore Germination and Aerial Hypha Formation in Streptomyces coelicolor
Sheng-Lan Wang, Ke-Qiang Fan, Xu Yang, Zeng-Xi Lin, Xin-Ping Xu, and Ke-Qian Yang
J. Bacteriol. June 2008 190: 4061-4068; published ahead of print March 28, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01954-07
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