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Contents: March 2008, Volume 190, Issue 6

       Meeting Review

       Enzymes and Proteins

       Physiology and Metabolism

       Molecular Biology of Pathogens

       Microbial Cell Biology

       Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Gene Regulation

       Microbial Communities and Interactions

       Signal Transduction

       Genomics and Proteomics

       Plant Microbiology

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Meeting Review:

Bacterial Signaling and Motility: Sure Bets
Robert Belas, Igor B. Zhulin, and Zhaomin Yang
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1849-1856; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01943-07
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Enzymes and Proteins:

Functional Characterization of MigA and WapR: Putative Rhamnosyltransferases Involved in Outer Core Oligosaccharide Biosynthesis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Karen K. H. Poon, Erin L. Westman, Evgeny Vinogradov, Shouguang Jin, and Joseph S. Lam
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1857-1865; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01546-07
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Functional Differences between Heme Permeases: Serratia marcescens HemTUV Permease Exhibits a Narrower Substrate Specificity (Restricted to Heme) Than the Escherichia coli DppABCDF Peptide-Heme Permease
Sylvie Létoffé, Philippe Delepelaire, and Cécile Wandersman
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1866-1870; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01636-07
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Cel9D, an Atypical 1,4-β-D-Glucan Glucohydrolase from Fibrobacter succinogenes: Characteristics, Catalytic Residues, and Synergistic Interactions with Other Cellulases
Meng Qi, Hyun-Sik Jun, and Cecil W. Forsberg
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1976-1984; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01667-07
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Widespread Distribution in Pathogenic Bacteria of Di-Iron Proteins That Repair Oxidative and Nitrosative Damage to Iron-Sulfur Centers
Tim W. Overton, Marta C. Justino, Ying Li, Joana M. Baptista, Ana M. P. Melo, Jeffrey A. Cole, and Lígia M. Saraiva
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2004-2013; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01733-07
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Role of the Nfo and ExoA Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonucleases in Repair of DNA Damage during Outgrowth of Bacillus subtilis Spores
Juan R. Ibarra, Alma D. Orozco, Juan A. Rojas, Karina López, Peter Setlow, Ronald E. Yasbin, and Mario Pedraza-Reyes
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2031-2038; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01625-07
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Nondecarboxylating and Decarboxylating Isocitrate Dehydrogenases: Oxalosuccinate Reductase as an Ancestral Form of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase
Miho Aoshima and Yasuo Igarashi
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2050-2055; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01799-07
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Functional Analysis of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis FAD-Dependent Thymidylate Synthase, ThyX, Reveals New Amino Acid Residues Contributing to an Extended ThyX Motif
Jonathan E. Ulmer, Yap Boum, Christopher D. Thouvenel, Hannu Myllykallio, and Carol Hopkins Sibley
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2056-2064; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01094-07
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The C-Terminal Extension of Ferrochelatase Is Critical for Enzyme Activity and for Functioning of the Tetrapyrrole Pathway in Synechocystis Strain PCC 6803
Roman Sobotka, Samantha McLean, Monika Zuberova, C. Neil Hunter, and Martin Tichy
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2086-2095; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01678-07
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Functional Analysis of Predicted Coiled-Coil Regions in the Escherichia coli K-12 O-Antigen Polysaccharide Chain Length Determinant Wzz
Cristina L. Marolda, Emily R. Haggerty, Michael Lung, and Miguel A. Valvano
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2128-2137; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01746-07
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Identification of Amino Acid Residues within the N-Terminal Domain of EspA That Play a Role in EspA Filament Biogenesis and Function
Mona P. Singh, Robert K. Shaw, Stuart Knutton, Mark J. Pallen, Valerie F. Crepin, and Gad Frankel
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2221-2226; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01753-07
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Physiology and Metabolism:

Role of Periplasmic Trehalase in Uptake of Trehalose by the Thermophilic Bacterium Rhodothermus marinus
Carla D. Jorge, Luís L. Fonseca, Winfried Boos, and Helena Santos
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1871-1878; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01616-07
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Transcriptome Analysis of Agmatine and Putrescine Catabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Han Ting Chou, Dong-Hyeon Kwon, Mohamed Hegazy, and Chung-Dar Lu
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1966-1975; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01804-07
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The Rcs Phosphorelay Is a Cell Envelope Stress Response Activated by Peptidoglycan Stress and Contributes to Intrinsic Antibiotic Resistance
Mary E. Laubacher and Sarah E. Ades
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2065-2074; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01740-07
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Global Responses of Methanococcus maripaludis to Specific Nutrient Limitations and Growth Rate
Erik L. Hendrickson, Yuchen Liu, Guillermina Rosas-Sandoval, Iris Porat, Dieter Söll, William B. Whitman, and John A. Leigh
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2198-2205; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01805-07
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Identification of the Archaeal alg7 Gene Homolog (Encoding N-Acetylglucosamine-1-Phosphate Transferase) of the N-Linked Glycosylation System by Cross-Domain Complementation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Hosam Shams-Eldin, Bonnie Chaban, Sebastian Niehus, Ralph T. Schwarz, and Ken F. Jarrell
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2217-2220; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01778-07
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DNA Microarray Analysis of Central Carbohydrate Metabolism: Glycolytic/Gluconeogenic Carbon Switch in the Hyperthermophilic Crenarchaeum Thermoproteus tenax
Melanie Zaparty, Alexander Zaigler, Claudia Stamme, Jörg Soppa, Reinhard Hensel, and Bettina Siebers
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2231-2238; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01524-07
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Molecular Biology of Pathogens:

CmeR Functions as a Pleiotropic Regulator and Is Required for Optimal Colonization of Campylobacter jejuni In Vivo
Baoqing Guo, Ying Wang, Feng Shi, Yi-Wen Barton, Paul Plummer, Donald L. Reynolds, Dan Nettleton, Tara Grinnage-Pulley, Jun Lin, and Qijing Zhang
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1879-1890; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01796-07
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Evolution of the Mycobacterial SigK Regulon
Frédéric Veyrier, Battouli Saïd-Salim, and Marcel A. Behr
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1891-1899; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01452-07
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The Response Regulator CpxR Directly Regulates Expression of Several Legionella pneumophila icm/dot Components as Well as New Translocated Substrates
Efrat Altman and Gil Segal
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1985-1996; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01493-07
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Pseudomonas aeruginosa AlgR Regulates Type IV Pilus Biosynthesis by Activating Transcription of the fimU-pilVWXY1Y2E Operon
Belen Belete, Haiping Lu, and Daniel J. Wozniak
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2023-2030; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01623-07
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Structural and Functional Characterization of an Organic Hydroperoxide Resistance Protein from Mycoplasma gallisepticum
Cheryl Jenkins, Ram Samudrala, Steven J. Geary, and Steven P. Djordjevic
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2206-2216; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01685-07
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SarA of Staphylococcus aureus Binds to the sarA Promoter To Regulate Gene Expression
Ambrose L. Cheung, Koren Nishina, and Adhar C. Manna
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2239-2243; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01826-07
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Microbial Cell Biology:

Utilization of Lactoferrin-Bound and Transferrin-Bound Iron by Campylobacter jejuni
Claire E. Miller, Jonathan D. Rock, Kristian A. Ridley, Peter H. Williams, and Julian M. Ketley
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1900-1911; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01761-07
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Borrelia burgdorferi Uniquely Regulates Its Motility Genes and Has an Intricate Flagellar Hook-Basal Body Structure
Melanie S. Sal, Chunhao Li, M. A. Motalab, Satoshi Shibata, Shin-Ichi Aizawa, and Nyles W. Charon
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1912-1921; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01421-07
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Regulation of Type IV Secretion Apparatus Genes during Ehrlichia chaffeensis Intracellular Development by a Previously Unidentified Protein
Zhihui Cheng, Xueqi Wang, and Yasuko Rikihisa
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2096-2105; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01813-07
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The Min System as a General Cell Geometry Detection Mechanism: Branch Lengths in Y-Shaped Escherichia coli Cells Affect Min Oscillation Patterns and Division Dynamics
Archana Varma, Kerwyn Casey Huang, and Kevin D. Young
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2106-2117; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.00720-07
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Protein Subassemblies of the Helicobacter pylori Cag Type IV Secretion System Revealed by Localization and Interaction Studies
Stefan Kutter, Renate Buhrdorf, Jürgen Haas, Wulf Schneider-Brachert, Rainer Haas, and Wolfgang Fischer
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2161-2171; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01341-07
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Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Conjugal Transfer of the Salmonella enterica Virulence Plasmid in the Mouse Intestine
Meritxell García-Quintanilla, Francisco Ramos-Morales, and Josep Casadesús
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1922-1927; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01626-07
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Cloning and Genetic Analyses of the Bacteriocin 41 Determinant Encoded on the Enterococcus faecalis Pheromone-Responsive Conjugative Plasmid pYI14: a Novel Bacteriocin Complemented by Two Extracellular Components (Lysin and Activator)
Haruyoshi Tomita, Elizabeth Kamei, and Yasuyoshi Ike
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2075-2085; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01056-07
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Genomic Characterization of Mycobacteriophage Giles: Evidence for Phage Acquisition of Host DNA by Illegitimate Recombination
Peter Morris, Laura J. Marinelli, Deborah Jacobs-Sera, Roger W. Hendrix, and Graham F. Hatfull
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2172-2182; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01657-07
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Mutagenesis of the C1 Oxidation Pathway in Methanosarcina barkeri: New Insights into the Mtr/Mer Bypass Pathway
Paula V. Welander and William W. Metcalf
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1928-1936; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01424-07
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Characterization of a Novel Gene, wosA, Regulating FlhDC Expression in Proteus mirabilis
Janet K. Hatt and Philip N. Rather
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1946-1955; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01010-07
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Variation in the Group B Streptococcus CsrRS Regulon and Effects on Pathogenicity
Sheng-Mei Jiang, Nadeeza Ishmael, Julie Dunning Hotopp, Manuela Puliti, Luciana Tissi, Nikhil Kumar, Michael J. Cieslewicz, Hervé Tettelin, and Michael R. Wessels
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1956-1965; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01677-07
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Maintenance Forced by a Restriction-Modification System Can Be Modulated by a Region in Its Modification Enzyme Not Essential for Methyltransferase Activity
Satona Ohno, Naofumi Handa, Miki Watanabe-Matsui, Noriko Takahashi, and Ichizo Kobayashi
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2039-2049; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01319-07
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The Chaperone IpgC Copurifies with the Virulence Regulator MxiE
M. Carolina Pilonieta and George P. Munson
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2249-2251; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01824-07
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Gene Regulation:

Physiological Effects of Anti-TRAP Protein Activity and tRNA^Trp Charging on trp Operon Expression in Bacillus subtilis
Luis R. Cruz-Vera, Ming Gong, and Charles Yanofsky
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1937-1945; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01820-07
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Critical Role of a Single Position in the –35 Element for Promoter Recognition by Mycobacterium tuberculosis SigE and SigH
Taeksun Song, Seung-Eun Song, Sahadevan Raman, Mauricio Anaya, and Robert N. Husson
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2227-2230; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01642-07
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Polarity in Archaeal Operon Transcription in Thermococcus kodakaraensis
Thomas J. Santangelo, L'ubomíra Cubonová, Rie Matsumi, Haruyuki Atomi, Tadayuki Imanaka, and John N. Reeve
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2244-2248; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01811-07
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Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Phosphate Acquisition Components of the Myxococcus xanthus Pho Regulon Are Regulated by both Phosphate Availability and Development
David E. Whitworth, Antony B. Holmes, Alistair G. Irvine, David A. Hodgson, and David J. Scanlan
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 1997-2003; published ahead of print January 4, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01781-07
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Signal Transduction:

Functional Consequences of Amino Acid Substitutions to GerVB, a Component of the Bacillus megaterium Spore Germinant Receptor
Graham Christie, Milena Lazarevska, and Christopher R. Lowe
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2014-2022; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01687-07
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Structure-Function Relationships in the HAMP and Proximal Signaling Domains of the Aerotaxis Receptor Aer
Kylie J. Watts, Mark S. Johnson, and Barry L. Taylor
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2118-2127; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01858-07
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Genomics and Proteomics:

The Genome Sequence of the Tomato-Pathogenic Actinomycete Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis NCPPB382 Reveals a Large Island Involved in Pathogenicity
Karl-Heinz Gartemann, Birte Abt, Thomas Bekel, Annette Burger, Jutta Engemann, Monika Flügel, Lars Gaigalat, Alexander Goesmann, Ines Gräfen, Jörn Kalinowski, Olaf Kaup, Oliver Kirchner, Lutz Krause, Burkhard Linke, Alice McHardy, Folker Meyer, Sandra Pohle, Christian Rückert, Susanne Schneiker, Eva-Maria Zellermann, Alfred Pühler, Rudolf Eichenlaub, Olaf Kaiser, and Daniela Bartels
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2138-2149; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01595-07
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Plant Microbiology:

Genome of the Actinomycete Plant Pathogen Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. sepedonicus Suggests Recent Niche Adaptation
Stephen D. Bentley, Craig Corton, Susan E. Brown, Andrew Barron, Louise Clark, Jon Doggett, Barbara Harris, Doug Ormond, Michael A. Quail, Georgiana May, David Francis, Dennis Knudson, Julian Parkhill, and Carol A. Ishimaru
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2150-2160; published ahead of print January 11, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01598-07
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The Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae PhoPQ Two-Component System Is Required for AvrXA21 Activity, hrpG Expression, and Virulence
Sang-Won Lee, Kyu-Sik Jeong, Sang-Wook Han, Seung-Eun Lee, Bong-Kwan Phee, Tae-Ryong Hahn, and Pamela Ronald
J. Bacteriol. March 2008 190: 2183-2197; published ahead of print January 18, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01406-07
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