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April 15, 2014; Volume 196,Issue 8

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Natural Competence and the Evolution of DNA Uptake Specificity
Joshua Chang Mell, Rosemary J. Redfield

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Roles of Cyclic Di-GMP and the Gac System in Transcriptional Control of the Genes Coding for the Pseudomonas putida Adhesins LapA and LapF
Marta Martínez-Gil, María Isabel Ramos-González, Manuel Espinosa-Urgel
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The Acetylation Motif in AMP-Forming Acyl Coenzyme A Synthetases Contains Residues Critical for Acetylation and Recognition by the Protein Acetyltransferase Pat of Rhodopseudomonas palustris
Heidi A. Crosby, Jorge C. Escalante-Semerena
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Functional Analysis of the Accessory Protein TapA in Bacillus subtilis Amyloid Fiber Assembly
Diego Romero, Hera Vlamakis, Richard Losick, Roberto Kolter
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The mthA Mutation Conferring Low-Level Resistance to Streptomycin Enhances Antibiotic Production in Bacillus subtilis by Increasing the S-Adenosylmethionine Pool Size
Shigeo Tojo, Ji-Yun Kim, Yukinori Tanaka, Takashi Inaoka, Yoshikazu Hiraga, Kozo Ochi
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Identification of an O-Acyltransferase Gene (oacB) That Mediates 3- and 4-O-Acetylation of Rhamnose III in Shigella flexneri O Antigens
Jianping Wang, Yuriy A. Knirel, Ruiting Lan, Sof'ya N. Senchenkova, Xia Luo, Andrei V. Perepelov, Yiting Wang, Alexander S. Shashkov, Jianguo Xu, Qiangzheng Sun
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Regulation of Expression of abcA and Its Response to Environmental Conditions
Regis A. Villet, Que Chi Truong-Bolduc, Yin Wang, Zoe Estabrooks, Heidi Medeiros, David C. Hooper
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A Sporulation Factor Is Involved in the Morphological Change of Clostridium perfringens Biofilms in Response to Temperature
Nozomu Obana, Kouji Nakamura, Nobuhiko Nomura
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Plasmid Conjugation from Proteobacteria as Evidence for the Origin of Xenologous Genes in Cyanobacteria
David Encinas, M. Pilar Garcillán-Barcia, María Santos-Merino, Luis Delaye, Andrés Moya, Fernando de la Cruz
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Conditional, Temperature-Induced Proteolytic Regulation of Cyanobacterial RNA Helicase Expression
Oxana S. Tarassova, Danuta Chamot, George W. Owttrim
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Cyclic AMP Receptor Protein Regulates cspD, a Bacterial Toxin Gene, in Escherichia coli
Sheetal Uppal, Deeksha M. Shetty, Narendra Jawali
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A Conserved Streptococcal Membrane Protein, LsrS, Exhibits a Receptor-Like Function for Lantibiotics
Saswati Biswas, Indranil Biswas
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The Bifunctional Cell Wall Hydrolase CwlT Is Needed for Conjugation of the Integrative and Conjugative Element ICEBs1 in Bacillus subtilis and B. anthracis
Tyler DeWitt, Alan D. Grossman
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Differential Transcriptional Regulation of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans lsrACDBFG and lsrRK Operons by Integration Host Factor Protein
Ascención Torres-Escobar, María Dolores Juárez-Rodríguez, Donald R. Demuth
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Characterization of the Operon Encoding the Holliday Junction Helicase RuvAB from Mycoplasma genitalium and Its Role in mgpB and mgpC Gene Variation
Raul Burgos, Patricia A. Totten
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Characterization of the Vibrio cholerae VolA Surface-Exposed Lipoprotein Lysophospholipase
Aaron C. Pride, Ziqiang Guan, M. Stephen Trent
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Function and Localization Dynamics of Bifunctional Penicillin-Binding Proteins in Caulobacter crescentus
Wolfgang Strobel, Andrea Möll, Daniela Kiekebusch, Kathrin E. Klein, Martin Thanbichler

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Conserved Terminal Organelle Morphology and Function in Mycoplasma penetrans and Mycoplasma iowae
Dominika A. Jurkovic, Jaime T. Newman, Mitchell F. Balish