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October 15, 2014; Volume 196,Issue 20

Meeting Review

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Meeting Review
Communication, Cooperation, and Social Interactions: a Report from the Third Young Microbiologists Symposium on Microbe Signalling, Organisation, and Pathogenesis
Delphine L. Caly, Sarah J. Coulthurst, Shi-qi An, Sophie Helaine, Jacob G. Malone, Robert P. Ryan

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Escherichia coli Genes and Pathways Involved in Surviving Extreme Exposure to Ionizing Radiation
Rose T. Byrne, Stefanie H. Chen, Elizabeth A. Wood, Eric L. Cabot, Michael M. Cox
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Self-Association Is Required for Occupation of Adjacent Binding Sites in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Type III Secretion System Promoters
Anne E. Marsden, Florian D. Schubot, Timothy L. Yahr
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Spermidine Biosynthesis and Transport Modulate Pneumococcal Autolysis
Adam J. Potter, James C. Paton
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Role of an Archaeal PitA Transporter in the Copper and Arsenic Resistance of Metallosphaera sedula, an Extreme Thermoacidophile
Samuel McCarthy, Chenbing Ai, Garrett Wheaton, Rahul Tevatia, Valerie Eckrich, Robert Kelly, Paul Blum
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FipB, an Essential Virulence Factor of Francisella tularensis subsp. tularensis, Has Dual Roles in Disulfide Bond Formation
Aiping Qin, Yan Zhang, Melinda E. Clark, Meaghan M. Rabideau, Luis R. Millan Barea, Barbara J. Mann
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Commitment to Lysogeny Is Preceded by a Prolonged Period of Sensitivity to the Late Lytic Regulator Q in Bacteriophage λ
Sine Lo Svenningsen, Szabolcs Semsey
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Mutational Analysis of the Mycobacteriophage BPs Promoter P_R Reveals Context-Dependent Sequences for Mycobacterial Gene Expression
Lauren M. Oldfield, Graham F. Hatfull
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Identification of 9α-Hydroxy-17-Oxo-1,2,3,4,10,19-Hexanorandrostan-5-Oic Acid in Steroid Degradation by Comamonas testosteroni TA441 and Its Conversion to the Corresponding 6-En-5-Oyl Coenzyme A (CoA) Involving Open Reading Frame 28 (ORF28)- and ORF30-Encoded Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenases
Masae Horinouchi, Toshiaki Hayashi, Hiroyuki Koshino, Michal Malon, Hiroshi Hirota, Toshiaki Kudo
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Regulation of Nitrogenase Gene Expression by Transcript Stability in the Cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis
Brenda S. Pratte, Teresa Thiel
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ε, a New Subunit of RNA Polymerase Found in Gram-Positive Bacteria
Andrew N. Keller, Xiao Yang, Jana Wiedermannová, Olivier Delumeau, Libor Krásný, Peter J. Lewis
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Epoxide-Mediated Differential Packaging of Cif and Other Virulence Factors into Outer Membrane Vesicles
Alicia E. Ballok, Laura M. Filkins, Jennifer M. Bomberger, Bruce A. Stanton, George A. O'Toole
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Towards an Informative Mutant Phenotype for Every Bacterial Gene
Adam Deutschbauer, Morgan N. Price, Kelly M. Wetmore, Daniel R. Tarjan, Zhuchen Xu, Wenjun Shao, Dacia Leon, Adam P. Arkin, Jeffrey M. Skerker
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Serotype-Converting Bacteriophage SfII Encodes an Acyltransferase Protein That Mediates 6-O-Acetylation of GlcNAc in Shigella flexneri O-Antigens, Conferring on the Host a Novel O-Antigen Epitope
Qiangzheng Sun, Yuriy A. Knirel, Jianping Wang, Xia Luo, Sofya N. Senchenkova, Ruiting Lan, Alexander S. Shashkov, Jianguo Xu
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Enzymes Involved in a Novel Anaerobic Cyclohexane Carboxylic Acid Degradation Pathway
Johannes W. Kung, Anne-Katrin Meier, Mario Mergelsberg, Matthias Boll