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Guest Commentaries:

Michiko E. Taga and Graham C. Walker

Pseudo-B₁₂ Joins the Cofactor Family
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1157-1159. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Peter J. Anderson, Jozsef Lango, Colleen Carkeet, Audrey Britten, Bernhard Kräutler, Bruce D. Hammock, and John R. Roth

One Pathway Can Incorporate either Adenine or Dimethylbenzimidazole as an -Axial Ligand of B₁₂ Cofactors in Salmonella enterica
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1160-1171. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Noriyasu Ohshima, Saori Yamashita, Naoko Takahashi, Chizu Kuroishi, Yoshitsugu Shiro, and Koji Takio

Escherichia coli Cytosolic Glycerophosphodiester Phosphodiesterase (UgpQ) Requires Mg²⁺, Co²⁺, or Mn²⁺ for Its Enzyme Activity
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1219-1223. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Ricardo E. de Cristóbal, Paula A. Vincent, and Raúl A. Salomón

A Combination of sbmA and tolC Mutations in Escherichia coli K-12 Tn10-Carrying Strains Results in Hypersusceptibility to Tetracycline
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1491-1494. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Josephine R. Chandler and Gary M. Dunny

Characterization of the Sequence Specificity Determinants Required for Processing and Control of Sex Pheromone by the Intramembrane Protease Eep and the Plasmid-Encoded Protein PrgY
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1172-1183. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Eriko Shimoda, Tatsuya Muto, Takayuki Horiuchi, Nobuhisa Furuya, and Teruya Komano

Novel Class of Mutations of pilS Mutants, Encoding Plasmid R64 Type IV Prepilin: Interface of PilS-PilV Interactions
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1202-1208. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Rachele Isticato, Assunta Pelosi, Rita Zilhão, Loredana Baccigalupi, Adriano O. Henriques, Maurilio De Felice, and Ezio Ricca

CotC-CotU Heterodimerization during Assembly of the Bacillus subtilis Spore Coat
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1267-1275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marie-Laure Chesne-Seck, Nathalie Barilone, Frédéric Boudou, Jesús Gonzalo Asensio, Pappachan E. Kolattukudy, Carlos Martín, Stewart T. Cole, Brigitte Gicquel, Deshmukh N. Gopaul, and Mary Jackson

A Point Mutation in the Two-Component Regulator PhoP-PhoR Accounts for the Absence of Polyketide-Derived Acyltrehaloses but Not That of Phthiocerol Dimycocerosates in Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Ra
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1329-1334. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Patrick Bättig and Kathrin Mühlemann

Influence of the spxB Gene on Competence in Streptococcus pneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1184-1189. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Daniel Paredes-Sabja, J. Antonio Torres, Peter Setlow, and Mahfuzur R. Sarker

Clostridium perfringens Spore Germination: Characterization of Germinants and Their Receptors
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1190-1201. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cheryl L. Tarr, Adam M. Nelson, Lothar Beutin, Katharina E. P. Olsen, and Thomas S. Whittam

Molecular Characterization Reveals Similar Virulence Gene Content in Unrelated Clonal Groups of Escherichia coli of Serogroup O174 (OX3)
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1344-1349. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Todd C. Hoopman, Wei Wang, Chad A. Brautigam, Jennifer L. Sedillo, Thomas J. Reilly, and Eric J. Hansen

Moraxella catarrhalis Synthesizes an Autotransporter That Is an Acid Phosphatase
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1459-1472. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Raquel Paes da Rocha, Apuã César de Miranda Paquola, Marilis do Valle Marques, Carlos Frederico Martins Menck, and Rodrigo S. Galhardo

Characterization of the SOS Regulon of Caulobacter crescentus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1209-1218. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Pieter-Jan Ceyssens, Vadim Mesyanzhinov, Nina Sykilinda, Yves Briers, Bart Roucourt, Rob Lavigne, Johan Robben, Artem Domashin, Konstantin Miroshnikov, Guido Volckaert, and Kirsten Hertveldt

The Genome and Structural Proteome of YuA, a New Pseudomonas aeruginosa Phage Resembling M6
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1429-1435. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Cindy A. Capestany, Gena D. Tribble, Kazuhiko Maeda, Donald R. Demuth, and Richard J. Lamont

Role of the Clp System in Stress Tolerance, Biofilm Formation, and Intracellular Invasion in Porphyromonas gingivalis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1436-1446. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Gene Regulation:

Boris R. Belitsky and Abraham L. Sonenshein

Genetic and Biochemical Analysis of CodY-Binding Sites in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1224-1236. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Allyson M. MacLean, Michelle I. Anstey, and Turlough M. Finan

Binding Site Determinants for the LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulator PcaQ in the Legume Endosymbiont Sinorhizobium meliloti
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1237-1246. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Cristian Ruiz, Laura M. McMurry, and Stuart B. Levy

Role of the Multidrug Resistance Regulator MarA in Global Regulation of the hdeAB Acid Resistance Operon in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1290-1297. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Shouji Yamamoto, Yuxi He, Kenji Arakawa, and Haruyasu Kinashi

-Butyrolactone-Dependent Expression of the Streptomyces Antibiotic Regulatory Protein Gene srrY Plays a Central Role in the Regulatory Cascade Leading to Lankacidin and Lankamycin Production in Streptomyces rochei
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1308-1316. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Susanne Gebhard and Gregory M. Cook

Differential Regulation of High-Affinity Phosphate Transport Systems of Mycobacterium smegmatis: Identification of PhnF, a Repressor of the phnDCE Operon
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1335-1343. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

James P. Coleman, L. Lynn Hudson, Susan L. McKnight, John M. Farrow, III, M. Worth Calfee, Claire A. Lindsey, and Everett C. Pesci

Pseudomonas aeruginosa PqsA Is an Anthranilate-Coenzyme A Ligase
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1247-1255. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

David J. Lee, Stephen J. W. Busby, Lars F. Westblade, and Brian T. Chait

Affinity Isolation and I-DIRT Mass Spectrometric Analysis of the Escherichia coli O157:H7 Sakai RNA Polymerase Complex
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1284-1289. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Akesh Sinha, Sankalp Gupta, Shweta Bhutani, Anuj Pathak, and Dibyendu Sarkar

PhoP-PhoP Interaction at Adjacent PhoP Binding Sites Is Influenced by Protein Phosphorylation
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1317-1328. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Wolfgang Liebl, Christoph Winterhalter, Wolfgang Baumeister, Martin Armbrecht, and Michael Valdez

Xylanase Attachment to the Cell Wall of the Hyperthermophilic Bacterium Thermotoga maritima
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1350-1358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Masato Ohnishi, Makoto Saito, Sadao Wakabayashi, Morio Ishizuka, Katsushi Nishimura, Yoko Nagata, and Sabu Kasai

Purification and Characterization of Serine Racemase from a Hyperthermophilic Archaeon, Pyrobaculum islandicum
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1359-1365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jan Zarzycki, Ansgar Schlichting, Nina Strychalsky, Michael Müller, Birgit E. Alber, and Georg Fuchs

Mesaconyl-Coenzyme A Hydratase, a New Enzyme of Two Central Carbon Metabolic Pathways in Bacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1366-1374. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

José Navarro-Fernández, Irene Martínez-Martínez, Silvia Montoro-García, Francisco García-Carmona, Hideto Takami, and Álvaro Sánchez-Ferrer

Characterization of a New Rhamnogalacturonan Acetyl Esterase from Bacillus halodurans C-125 with a New Putative Carbohydrate Binding Domain
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1375-1382. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Birgit E. Alber, Johannes W. Kung, and Georg Fuchs

3-Hydroxypropionyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase from Metallosphaera sedula, an Enzyme Involved in Autotrophic CO₂ Fixation
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1383-1389. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hongyun Wang, Bing Na, Hsiuchin Yang, and Phang C. Tai

Additional In Vitro and In Vivo Evidence for SecA Functioning as Dimers in the Membrane: Dissociation into Monomers Is Not Essential for Protein Translocation in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1413-1418. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Erumbi S. Rangarajan, Abdalin Asinas, Ariane Proteau, Christine Munger, Jason Baardsnes, Pietro Iannuzzi, Allan Matte, and Miroslaw Cygler

Structure of [NiFe] Hydrogenase Maturation Protein HypE from Escherichia coli and Its Interaction with HypF
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1447-1458. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Su Bu, Yirong Li, Meixian Zhou, Parastoo Azadin, Meiqin Zeng, Paula Fives-Taylor, and Hui Wu

Interaction between Two Putative Glycosyltransferases Is Required for Glycosylation of a Serine-Rich Streptococcal Adhesin
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1256-1266. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Michael J. Noto, Barry N. Kreiswirth, Alastair B. Monk, and Gordon L. Archer

Gene Acquisition at the Insertion Site for SCCmec, the Genomic Island Conferring Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1276-1283. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Alice L. Erwin, Sara A. Sandstedt, Paul J. Bonthuis, Jennifer L. Geelhood, Kevin L. Nelson, William C. T. Unrath, Mathew A. Diggle, Mary J. Theodore, Cynthia R. Pleatman, Elizabeth A. Mothershed, Claudio T. Sacchi, Leonard W. Mayer, Janet R. Gilsdorf, and Arnold L. Smith

Analysis of Genetic Relatedness of Haemophilus influenzae Isolates by Multilocus Sequence Typing
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1473-1483. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Hanna M. Kivelä, Stefania Madonna, Mart Krupovìc, M. Luisa Tutino, and Jaana K. H. Bamford

Genetics for Pseudoalteromonas Provides Tools To Manipulate Marine Bacterial Virus PM2
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1298-1307. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Hélène Deveau, Rodolphe Barrangou, Josiane E. Garneau, Jessica Labonté, Christophe Fremaux, Patrick Boyaval, Dennis A. Romero, Philippe Horvath, and Sylvain Moineau

Phage Response to CRISPR-Encoded Resistance in Streptococcus thermophilus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1390-1400. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Philippe Horvath, Dennis A. Romero, Anne-Claire Coûté-Monvoisin, Melissa Richards, Hélène Deveau, Sylvain Moineau, Patrick Boyaval, Christophe Fremaux, and Rodolphe Barrangou

Diversity, Activity, and Evolution of CRISPR Loci in Streptococcus thermophilus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1401-1412. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Richard J. Gradman and William S. Reznikoff

Tn5 Synaptic Complex Formation: Role of Transposase Residue W450
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1484-1487. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Susanne Hennig and Wilma Ziebuhr

A Transposase-Independent Mechanism Gives Rise to Precise Excision of IS256 from Insertion Sites in Staphylococcus epidermidis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1488-1490. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Signal Transduction:

Jayita Guhaniyogi, Ti Wu, Smita S. Patel, and Ann M. Stock

Interaction of CheY with the C-Terminal Peptide of CheZ
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1419-1428. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Genome Announcement:

Simon J. Foote, Janine T. Bossé, Anne B. Bouevitch, Paul R. Langford, N. Martin Young, and John H. E. Nash

The Complete Genome Sequence of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae L20 (Serotype 5b)
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1495-1496. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

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