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  More than Motility: Salmonella Flagella Contribute to Overriding Friction and Facilitating Colony Hydration during Swarming

  Jonathan D. Partridge, Rasika M. Harshey
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  Identification of a Novel Host-Specific IgM Protease in Streptococcus suis

  Jana Seele, Alena Singpiel, Christian Spoerry, Ulrich von Pawel-Rammingen, Peter Valentin-Weigand, Christoph G. Baums
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  Orthologous Gene Clusters and Taxon Signature Genes for Viruses of Prokaryotes

  David M. Kristensen, Alison S. Waller, Takuji Yamada, Peer Bork, Arcady R. Mushegian, Eugene V. Koonin
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  Chlamydia trachomatis Outer Membrane Complex Protein B (OmcB) Is Processed by the Protease CPAF

  Shuping Hou, Lei Lei, Zhangsheng Yang, Manli Qi, Quanzhong Liu, Guangming Zhong
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  Formation of Highly Twisted Ribbons in a Carboxymethylcellulase Gene-Disrupted Strain of a Cellulose-Producing Bacterium

  Tomonori Nakai, Yasushi Sugano, Makoto Shoda, Hitoshi Sakakibara, Kazuhiro Oiwa, Satoru Tuzi, Tomoya Imai, Junji Sugiyama, Miyuki Takeuchi, Daisuke Yamauchi, Yoshinobu Mineyuki
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  PanG, a New Ketopantoate Reductase Involved in Pantothenate Synthesis

  Cheryl N. Miller, Eric D. LoVullo, Todd M. Kijek, James R. Fuller, Jason C. Brunton, Shaun P. Steele, Sharon A. Taft-Benz, Anthony R. Richardson, Thomas H. Kawula
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  Bacillus anthracis Acetyltransferases PatA1 and PatA2 Modify the Secondary Cell Wall Polysaccharide and Affect the Assembly of S-Layer Proteins

  J. Mark Lunderberg, Sao-Mai Nguyen-Mau, G. Stefan Richter, Ya-Ting Wang, Jonathan Dworkin, Dominique M. Missiakas, Olaf Schneewind
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  Variation among Desulfovibrio Species in Electron Transfer Systems Used for Syntrophic Growth

  Birte Meyer, Jennifer Kuehl, Adam M. Deutschbauer, Morgan N. Price, Adam P. Arkin, David A. Stahl
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  Requirements for In Vitro Germination of Paenibacillus larvae Spores

  Israel Alvarado, Andy Phui, Michelle M. Elekonich, Ernesto Abel-Santos
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  Protein-Protein Interaction Domains of Bacillus subtilis DivIVA

  Suey van Baarle, Ilkay Nazli Celik, Karan Gautam Kaval, Marc Bramkamp, Leendert W. Hamoen, Sven Halbedel
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  Autoregulation of PhoP/PhoQ and Positive Regulation of the Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein-Cyclic AMP Complex by PhoP in Yersinia pestis

  Yiquan Zhang, Li Wang, Yanping Han, Yanfeng Yan, Yafang Tan, Lei Zhou, Yujun Cui, Zongmin Du, Xiaoyi Wang, Yujing Bi, Huiying Yang, Yajun Song, Pingping Zhang, Dongsheng Zhou, Ruifu Yang
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  The ABC Transporter Encoded at the Pneumococcal Fructooligosaccharide Utilization Locus Determines the Ability To Utilize Long- and Short-Chain Fructooligosaccharides

  Caroline M. Linke, Shireen A. Woodiga, Dustin J. Meyers, Carolyn M. Buckwalter, Hussam E. Salhi, Samantha J. King
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  Reduction of Cellular Stress by TolC-Dependent Efflux Pumps in Escherichia coli Indicated by BaeSR and CpxARP Activation of spy in Efflux Mutants

  Judah L. Rosner, Robert G. Martin
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  The GTPase Activity of FlhF Is Dispensable for Flagellar Localization, but Not Motility, in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

  Maren Schniederberend, Kholis Abdurachim, Thomas Scott Murray, Barbara I. Kazmierczak
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  Insights into the Function and Structural Flexibility of the Periplasmic Molecular Chaperone SurA

  Meng Zhong, Brent Ferrell, Wei Lu, Qian Chai, Yinan Wei
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  The PaaX-Type Repressor MeqR2 of Arthrobacter sp. Strain Rue61a, Involved in the Regulation of Quinaldine Catabolism, Binds to Its Own Promoter and to Catabolic Promoters and Specifically Responds to Anthraniloyl Coenzyme A

  Heiko Niewerth, Katja Parschat, Melanie Rauschenberg, Bart Jan Ravoo, Susanne Fetzner
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  Transcriptional Regulation of Fatty Acid Biosynthesis in Lactococcus lactis

  Tom H. Eckhardt, Dorota Skotnicka, Jan Kok, Oscar P. Kuipers
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  Novel Twin Streptolysin S-Like Peptides Encoded in the sag Operon Homologue of Beta-Hemolytic Streptococcus anginosus

  Atsushi Tabata, Kota Nakano, Kazuto Ohkura, Toshifumi Tomoyasu, Ken Kikuchi, Robert A. Whiley, Hideaki Nagamune
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  The Escherichia coli Lpt Transenvelope Protein Complex for Lipopolysaccharide Export Is Assembled via Conserved Structurally Homologous Domains

  Riccardo Villa, Alessandra M. Martorana, Suguru Okuda, Louise J. Gourlay, Marco Nardini, Paola Sperandeo, Gianni Dehò, Martino Bolognesi, Daniel Kahne, Alessandra Polissi