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Guest Commentaries:

Roy David Magnuson

Hypothetical Functions of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6089-6092. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Meeting Review:

Cecilia M. Arraiano, Jaana Bamford, Harald Brüssow, Agamemnon J. Carpousis, Vladimir Pelicic, Katharina Pflüger, Patrice Polard, and Jörg Vogel

Recent Advances in the Expression, Evolution, and Dynamics of Prokaryotic Genomes
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6093-6100. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Virginie Tsilibaris, Geneviève Maenhaut-Michel, Natacha Mine, and Laurence Van Melderen

What Is the Benefit to Escherichia coli of Having Multiple Toxin-Antitoxin Systems in Its Genome?
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6101-6108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Adam Reeves, Ulf Gerth, Uwe Völker, and W. G. Haldenwang

ClpP Modulates the Activity of the Bacillus subtilis Stress Response Transcription Factor, ^B
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6168-6175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Patricia Skorski, Florence Proux, Chainez Cheraiti, Marc Dreyfus, and Sylvie Hermann-Le Denmat

The Deleterious Effect of an Insertion Sequence Removing the Last Twenty Percent of the Essential Escherichia coli rpsA Gene Is Due to mRNA Destabilization, Not Protein Truncation
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6205-6212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hai Xu, Julian Davies, and Vivian Miao

Molecular Characterization of Class 3 Integrons from Delftia spp.
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6276-6283. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sang-Joon Ahn and Robert A. Burne

Effects of Oxygen on Biofilm Formation and the AtlA Autolysin of Streptococcus mutans
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6293-6302. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Andrew D. Berti, Nathan J. Greve, Quin H. Christensen, and Michael G. Thomas

Identification of a Biosynthetic Gene Cluster and the Six Associated Lipopeptides Involved in Swarming Motility of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6312-6323. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Donald A. Morrison, Isabelle Mortier-Barrière, Laetitia Attaiech, and Jean-Pierre Claverys

Identification of the Major Protein Component of the Pneumococcal Eclipse Complex
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6497-6500. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Bethany A. Rader, Shawn R. Campagna, Martin F. Semmelhack, Bonnie L. Bassler, and Karen Guillemin

The Quorum-Sensing Molecule Autoinducer 2 Regulates Motility and Flagellar Morphogenesis in Helicobacter pylori
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6109-6117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Xiuhua Pang and Susan T. Howard

Regulation of the -Crystallin Gene acr2 by the MprAB Two-Component System of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6213-6221. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Christopher J. Fields and Robert L. Switzer

Regulation of pyr Gene Expression in Mycobacterium smegmatis by PyrR-Dependent Translational Repression
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6236-6245. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gena D. Tribble, Gwyneth J. Lamont, Ann Progulske-Fox, and Richard J. Lamont

Conjugal Transfer of Chromosomal DNA Contributes to Genetic Variation in the Oral Pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6382-6388. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Stacie A. Brown and Marvin Whiteley

A Novel Exclusion Mechanism for Carbon Resource Partitioning in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6407-6414. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Luciano A. Marraffini and Olaf Schneewind

Sortase C-Mediated Anchoring of BasI to the Cell Wall Envelope of Bacillus anthracis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6425-6436. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Anne-Laure Prunier, Raymond Schuch, Reinaldo E. Fernández, and Anthony T. Maurelli

Genetic Structure of the nadA and nadB Antivirulence Loci in Shigella spp.
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6482-6486. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Agathe Bourgogne, Kavindra V. Singh, Kristina A. Fox, Kathryn J. Pflughoeft, Barbara E. Murray, and Danielle A. Garsin

EbpR Is Important for Biofilm Formation by Activating Expression of the Endocarditis and Biofilm-Associated Pilus Operon (ebpABC) of Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6490-6493. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Dominic Nehme and Keith Poole

Assembly of the MexAB-OprM Multidrug Pump of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Component Interactions Defined by the Study of Pump Mutant Suppressors
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6118-6127. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mengxi Jiang, Susan M. Sullivan, Patrice K. Wout, and Janine R. Maddock

G-Protein Control of the Ribosome-Associated Stress Response Protein SpoT
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6140-6147. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Guifeng Sun, Sukumar Pal, Annahita K. Sarcon, Soyoun Kim, Etsuko Sugawara, Hiroshi Nikaido, Melanie J. Cocco, Ellena M. Peterson, and Luis M. de la Maza

Structural and Functional Analyses of the Major Outer Membrane Protein of Chlamydia trachomatis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6222-6235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Anuradha Alahari, Nathalie Saint, Sylvie Campagna, Virginie Molle, Gérard Molle, and Laurent Kremer

The N-Terminal Domain of OmpATb Is Required for Membrane Translocation and Pore-Forming Activity in Mycobacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6351-6358. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Richard F. Collins, Muhammad Saleem, and Jeremy P. Derrick

Purification and Three-Dimensional Electron Microscopy Structure of the Neisseria meningitidis Type IV Pilus Biogenesis Protein PilG
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6389-6396. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jon Clardy and Sean F. Brady

Cyclic AMP Directly Activates NasP, an N-Acyl Amino Acid Antibiotic Biosynthetic Enzyme Cloned from an Uncultured ß-Proteobacterium
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6487-6489. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Yin Li, Carlos Canchaya, Fang Fang, Emma Raftis, Kieran A. Ryan, Jan-Peter van Pijkeren, Douwe van Sinderen, and Paul W. O'Toole

Distribution of Megaplasmids in Lactobacillus salivarius and Other Lactobacilli
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6128-6139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Asa Flanigan and Jeffrey F. Gardner

Interaction of the Gifsy-1 Xis Protein with the Gifsy-1 attP Sequence
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6303-6311. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Andrey V. Mardanov and Nikolai V. Ravin

The Antirepressor Needed for Induction of Linear Plasmid-Prophage N15 Belongs to the SOS Regulon
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6333-6338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Michael R. King, Ross P. Vimr, Susan M. Steenbergen, Lodewijk Spanjaard, Guy Plunkett, III, Frederick R. Blattner, and Eric R. Vimr

Escherichia coli K1-Specific Bacteriophage CUS-3 Distribution and Function in Phase-Variable Capsular Polysialic Acid O Acetylation
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6447-6456. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Joeli Marrero and Matthew K. Waldor

Determinants of Entry Exclusion within Eex and TraG Are Cytoplasmic
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6469-6473. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Jennifer C. Ast, Henryk Urbanczyk, and Paul V. Dunlap

Natural Merodiploidy of the lux-rib Operon of Photobacterium leiognathi from Coastal Waters of Honshu, Japan
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6148-6158. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jamie M. Bacher, William F. Waas, David Metzgar, Valérie de Crécy-Lagard, and Paul Schimmel

Genetic Code Ambiguity Confers a Selective Advantage on Acinetobacter baylyi
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6494-6496. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Sean M. Caffrey, Hyung-Soo Park, Johanna K. Voordouw, Zhili He, Jizhong Zhou, and Gerrit Voordouw

Function of Periplasmic Hydrogenases in the Sulfate-Reducing Bacterium Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6159-6167. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Aline Gomez Maqueo Chew, Niels-Ulrik Frigaard, and Donald A. Bryant

Bacteriochlorophyllide c C-8² and C-12¹ Methyltransferases Are Essential for Adaptation to Low Light in Chlorobaculum tepidum
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6176-6184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Daryl J. Smith, Joonhong Park, James M. Tiedje, and William W. Mohn

A Large Gene Cluster in Burkholderia xenovorans Encoding Abietane Diterpenoid Catabolism
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6195-6204. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tao Gao and Mark R. O'Brian

Control of DegP-Dependent Degradation of c-Type Cytochromes by Heme and the Cytochrome c Maturation System in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6253-6259. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Alexa Price-Whelan, Lars E. P. Dietrich, and Dianne K. Newman

Pyocyanin Alters Redox Homeostasis and Carbon Flux through Central Metabolic Pathways in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6372-6381. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Paiboon Vattanaviboon, Weerachai Tanboon, and Skorn Mongkolsuk

Physiological and Expression Analyses of Agrobacterium tumefaciens trxA, Encoding Thioredoxin
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6477-6481. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Chris E. Noriega, Vandana Sharma, and John J. Rowe

Artificial Control of Nitrate Respiration through the lac Promoter Permits the Assessment of Oxygen-Mediated Posttranslational Regulation of the nar Operon in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6501-6505. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Plant Microbiology:

Rosicler L. Barbosa and Celso E. Benedetti

BigR, a Transcriptional Repressor from Plant-Associated Bacteria, Regulates an Operon Implicated in Biofilm Growth
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6185-6194. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Dafna Tamir-Ariel, Naama Navon, and Saul Burdman

Identification of Genes in Xanthomonas campestris pv. vesicatoria Induced during Its Interaction with Tomato
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6359-6371. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jian Yao and Caitilyn Allen

The Plant Pathogen Ralstonia solanacearum Needs Aerotaxis for Normal Biofilm Formation and Interactions with Its Tomato Host
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6415-6424. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Jordana Dutra de Mendonça, Fernanda Ely, Mario Sergio Palma, Jeverson Frazzon, Luiz Augusto Basso, and Diógenes Santiago Santos

Functional Characterization by Genetic Complementation of aroB-Encoded Dehydroquinate Synthase from Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv and Its Heterologous Expression and Purification
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6246-6252. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Shaolin Chen and David B. Wilson

Proteomic and Transcriptomic Analysis of Extracellular Proteins and mRNA Levels in Thermobifida fusca Grown on Cellobiose and Glucose
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6260-6265. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Xianwu Guo, Margarita Flores, Lucía Morales, Delfino García, Patricia Bustos, Víctor González, Rafael Palacios, and Guillermo Dávila

DNA Diversification in Two Sinorhizobium Species
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6474-6476. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gene Regulation:

Natalie D. King-Lyons, Kelsy F. Smith, and Terry D. Connell

Expression of hurP, a Gene Encoding a Prospective Site 2 Protease, Is Essential for Heme-Dependent Induction of bhuR in Bordetella bronchiseptica
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6266-6275. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

So-Young Oh, Jung-Ho Shin, and Jung-Hye Roe

Dual Role of OhrR as a Repressor and an Activator in Response to Organic Hydroperoxides in Streptomyces coelicolor
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6284-6292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Meropi K. Matta, Efthimia E. Lioliou, Cynthia H. Panagiotidis, Dimitrios A. Kyriakidis, and Christos A. Panagiotidis

Interactions of the Antizyme AtoC with Regulatory Elements of the Escherichia coli atoDAEB Operon
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6324-6332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Patrizia Contursi, Raffaele Cannio, Santina Prato, Qunxin She, Mosè Rossi, and Simonetta Bartolucci

Transcriptional Analysis of the Genetic Element pSSVx: Differential and Temporal Regulation of Gene Expression Reveals Correlation between Transcription and Replication
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6339-6350. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Structural Biology:

Sakura Suzuki, Ayako Tatsuguchi, Eiko Matsumoto, Masahito Kawazoe, Tatsuya Kaminishi, Mikako Shirouzu, Yutaka Muto, Chie Takemoto, and Shigeyuki Yokoyama

Structural Characterization of the Ribosome Maturation Protein, RimM
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6397-6406. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

André Scheffel and Dirk Schüler

The Acidic Repetitive Domain of the Magnetospirillum gryphiswaldense MamJ Protein Displays Hypervariability but Is Not Required for Magnetosome Chain Assembly
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6437-6446. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Marco Plomp, J. Michael McCaffery, Ian Cheong, Xin Huang, Chetan Bettegowda, Kenneth W. Kinzler, Shibin Zhou, Bert Vogelstein, and Alexander J. Malkin

Spore Coat Architecture of Clostridium novyi NT Spores
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6457-6468. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Errata:

Gillian L. Ryan and Andrew D. Rutenberg

Clocking Out: Modeling Phage-Induced Lysis of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6506. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Katy J. Evans, Carey Lambert, and R. Elizabeth Sockett

Predation by Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus HD100 Requires Type IV Pili
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 6507. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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