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Contents: May 2009, Volume 191, Issue 10

       Minireviews

       Genomics and Proteomics

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Structural Biology

       Gene Regulation

       Microbial Cell Biology

       Molecular Biology of Pathogens

       Physiology and Metabolism

       Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids

       Enzymes and Proteins

       Errata

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Polyhydroxyalkanoate Granules Are Complex Subcellular Organelles (Carbonosomes)
Dieter Jendrossek
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3195-3202; published ahead of print March 6, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01723-08
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Genomics and Proteomics:

Structure and Complexity of a Bacterial Transcriptome
Karla D. Passalacqua, Anjana Varadarajan, Brian D. Ondov, David T. Okou, Michael E. Zwick, and Nicholas H. Bergman
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3203-3211; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00122-09
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Whole-Genome Tiling Array Analysis of Mycobacterium leprae RNA Reveals High Expression of Pseudogenes and Noncoding Regions
Takeshi Akama, Koichi Suzuki, Kazunari Tanigawa, Akira Kawashima, Huhehasi Wu, Noboru Nakata, Yasunori Osana, Yasubumi Sakakibara, and Norihisa Ishii
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3321-3327; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00120-09
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Large Intergenic Cruciform-Like Supermotifs in the Lactobacillus plantarum Genome
Michiel Wels, Roger S. Bongers, Jos Boekhorst, Douwe Molenaar, Mark Sturme, Willem M. de Vos, Roland J. Siezen, and Michiel Kleerebezem
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3420-3423; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01672-08
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Searching for Protein-Protein Interactions within the Bacillus subtilis Spore Coat
Daniela Krajcíková, Magda Lukácová, Denisa Müllerová, Simon M. Cutting, and Imrich Barák
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3212-3219; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01807-08
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Identification and Characterization of a Novel Multidrug Resistance Operon, mdtRP (yusOP), of Bacillus subtilis
Ji-Yun Kim, Takashi Inaoka, Kazutaka Hirooka, Hiroshi Matsuoka, Makiko Murata, Reiko Ohki, Yoshikazu Adachi, Yasutaro Fujita, and Kozo Ochi
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3273-3281; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00151-09
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Regulation of Superoxide Dismutase (sod) Genes by SarA in Staphylococcus aureus
Anand Ballal and Adhar C. Manna
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3301-3310; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01496-08
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Surface Location of Individual Residues of SlpA Provides Insight into the Lactobacillus brevis S-Layer
Heikki Vilen, Ulla Hynönen, Helga Badelt-Lichtblau, Nicola Ilk, Pentti Jääskeläinen, Mika Torkkeli, and Airi Palva
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3339-3349; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01782-08
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Identification of a Polymyxin Synthetase Gene Cluster of Paenibacillus polymyxa and Heterologous Expression of the Gene in Bacillus subtilis
Soo-Keun Choi, Soo-Young Park, Rumi Kim, Seong-Bin Kim, Choong-Hwan Lee, Jihyun F. Kim, and Seung-Hwan Park
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3350-3358; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01728-08
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Competence for Genetic Transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae: Termination of Activity of the Alternative Sigma Factor ComX Is Independent of Proteolysis of ComX and ComW
Andrew Piotrowski, Ping Luo, and Donald A. Morrison
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3359-3366; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01750-08
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Transsexuality in the Rhizosphere: Quorum Sensing Reversibly Converts Agrobacterium tumefaciens from Phenotypically Female to Male
Hongbaek Cho, Uelinton M. Pinto, and Stephen C. Winans
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3375-3383; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01608-08
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Structural Biology:

Crystal Structure of a Chimeric Receptor Binding Protein Constructed from Two Lactococcal Phages
Marina Siponen, Silvia Spinelli, Stéphanie Blangy, Sylvain Moineau, Christian Cambillau, and Valérie Campanacci
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3220-3225; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01637-08
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Structural Characterization of an Oligosaccharide Made by Neisseria sicca
Ellen T. O'Connor, Hui Zhou, Kevin Bullock, Karen V. Swanson, J. McLeod Griffiss, Vernon N. Reinhold, Clinton J. Miller, and Daniel C. Stein
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3311-3320; published ahead of print March 6, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01433-08
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Gene Regulation:

Similar and Divergent Effects of ppGpp and DksA Deficiencies on Transcription in Escherichia coli
Anna Åberg, Jorge Fernández-Vázquez, Juan David Cabrer-Panes, Alex Sánchez, and Carlos Balsalobre
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3226-3236; published ahead of print February 27, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01410-08
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The Global Virulence Regulator PhcA Negatively Controls the Ralstonia solanacearum hrp Regulatory Cascade by Repressing Expression of the PrhIR Signaling Proteins
Takeshi Yoshimochi, Yasufumi Hikichi, Akinori Kiba, and Kouhei Ohnishi
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3424-3428; published ahead of print December 5, 2008, doi:10.1128/JB.01113-08
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Microbial Cell Biology:

Mechanism for Sortase Localization and the Role of Sortase Localization in Efficient Pilus Assembly in Enterococcus faecalis
Kimberly A. Kline, Andrew L. Kau, Swaine L. Chen, Adeline Lim, Jerome S. Pinkner, Jason Rosch, Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy, Barbara E. Murray, Birgitta Henriques-Normark, Wandy Beatty, Michael G. Caparon, and Scott J. Hultgren
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3237-3247; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01837-08
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Cytoskeletal Asymmetrical Dumbbell Structure of a Gliding Mycoplasma, Mycoplasma gallisepticum, Revealed by Negative-Staining Electron Microscopy
Daisuke Nakane and Makoto Miyata
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3256-3264; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01823-08
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Structural Requirements of the Pseudomonas Quinolone Signal for Membrane Vesicle Stimulation
Lauren Mashburn-Warren, Jörg Howe, Klaus Brandenburg, and Marvin Whiteley
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3411-3414; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00052-09
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Molecular Biology of Pathogens:

Staphylococcus aureus MazF Specifically Cleaves a Pentad Sequence, UACAU, Which Is Unusually Abundant in the mRNA for Pathogenic Adhesive Factor SraP
Ling Zhu, Koichi Inoue, Satoshi Yoshizumi, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Yonglong Zhang, Ming Ouyang, Fuminori Kato, Motoyuki Sugai, and Masayori Inouye
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3248-3255; published ahead of print February 27, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01815-08
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Genetic Variation and Evolution of the Pathogenicity Island of Enterococcus faecalis
Shonna M. McBride, Phillip S. Coburn, Arto S. Baghdayan, Rob J. L. Willems, Maria J. Grande, Nathan Shankar, and Michael S. Gilmore
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3392-3402; published ahead of print March 6, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00031-09
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Physiology and Metabolism:

Nitrite Transport Activity of the ABC-Type Cyanate Transporter of the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus elongatus
Shin-ichi Maeda and Tatsuo Omata
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3265-3272; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00013-09
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The Biosynthetic Pathway for Myxol-2' Fucoside (Myxoxanthophyll) in the Cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. Strain PCC 7002
Joel E. Graham and Donald A. Bryant
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3292-3300; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00050-09
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Thioredoxins in Redox Maintenance and Survival during Oxidative Stress of Bacteroides fragilis
Michael A. Reott, Anita C. Parker, Edson R. Rocha, and C. Jeffrey Smith
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3384-3391; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01665-08
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Oxidation of Cysteine 645 of Cobalamin-Independent Methionine Synthase Causes a Methionine Limitation in Escherichia coli
Elise R. Hondorp and Rowena G. Matthews
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3407-3410; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01722-08
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Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Molecular Analysis of an Extrachromosomal Element Containing the C2 Toxin Gene Discovered in Clostridium botulinum Type C
Yoshihiko Sakaguchi, Tetsuya Hayashi, Yumiko Yamamoto, Keisuke Nakayama, Kai Zhang, Shaobo Ma, Hideyuki Arimitsu, and Keiji Oguma
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3282-3291; published ahead of print March 6, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01797-08
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Enzymes and Proteins:

Biochemical Analysis of a β-D-Xylosidase and a Bifunctional Xylanase-Ferulic Acid Esterase from a Xylanolytic Gene Cluster in Prevotella ruminicola 23
Dylan Dodd, Svetlana A. Kocherginskaya, M. Ashley Spies, Kyle E. Beery, Charles A. Abbas, Roderick I. Mackie, and Isaac K. O. Cann
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3328-3338; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01628-08
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Redundancy of Enzymes for Formaldehyde Detoxification in Pseudomonas putida
Amalia Roca, Jose J. Rodríguez-Herva, and Juan L. Ramos
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3367-3374; published ahead of print March 20, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00076-09
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A Novel Nitroreductase of Staphylococcus aureus with S-Nitrosoglutathione Reductase Activity
Ana Filipa N. Tavares, Lígia S. Nobre, Ana M. P. Melo, and Lígia M. Saraiva
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3403-3406; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00022-09
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Identification and Characterization of Inorganic Pyrophosphatase and PAP Phosphatase from Thermococcus onnurineus NA1
Hyun Sook Lee, Yun Jae Kim, Jung-Hyun Lee, and Sung Gyun Kang
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3415-3419; published ahead of print March 13, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.01699-08
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Errata:

Complete Genome Sequence of Macrococcus caseolyticus Strain JCSC5402, Reflecting the Ancestral Genome of the Human-Pathogenic Staphylococci
Tadashi Baba, Kyoko Kuwahara-Arai, Ikuo Uchiyama, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Teruyo Ito, and Keiichi Hiramatsu
J. Bacteriol. May 2009 191: 3429
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