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Guest Commentaries:

Hans-Curt Flemming, Thomas R. Neu, and Daniel J. Wozniak

The EPS Matrix: The "House of Biofilm Cells"
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7945-7947. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Meeting Review:

Robert J. Palmer, Jr. and Paul Stoodley

Biofilms 2007: Broadened Horizons and New Emphases
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7948-7960. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Meeting Presentations:

Jeremy M. Yarwood, Kara M. Paquette, Ilya B. Tikh, Esther M. Volper, and E. Peter Greenberg

Generation of Virulence Factor Variants in Staphylococcus aureus Biofilms
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7961-7967. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Peter M. Merritt, Thomas Danhorn, and Clay Fuqua

Motility and Chemotaxis in Agrobacterium tumefaciens Surface Attachment and Biofilm Formation
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8005-8014. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Judith H. Merritt, Kimberly M. Brothers, Sherry L. Kuchma, and George A. O'Toole

SadC Reciprocally Influences Biofilm Formation and Swarming Motility via Modulation of Exopolysaccharide Production and Flagellar Function
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8154-8164. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sherry L. Kuchma, Kimberly M. Brothers, Judith H. Merritt, Nicole T. Liberati, Frederick M. Ausubel, and George A. O'Toole

BifA, a Cyclic-Di-GMP Phosphodiesterase, Inversely Regulates Biofilm Formation and Swarming Motility by Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8165-8178. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Indra Sandal, Wenzhou Hong, W. Edward Swords, and Thomas J. Inzana

Characterization and Comparison of Biofilm Development by Pathogenic and Commensal Isolates of Histophilus somni
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8179-8185. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

N. Luisa Hiller, Benjamin Janto, Justin S. Hogg, Robert Boissy, Susan Yu, Evan Powell, Randy Keefe, Nathan E. Ehrlich, Kai Shen, Jay Hayes, Karen Barbadora, William Klimke, Dmitry Dernovoy, Tatiana Tatusova, Julian Parkhill, Stephen D. Bentley, J. Christopher Post, Garth D. Ehrlich, and Fen Z. Hu

Comparative Genomic Analyses of Seventeen Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains: Insights into the Pneumococcal Supragenome
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8186-8195. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gina Parise Sloan, Cheraton F. Love, Neelima Sukumar, Meenu Mishra, and Rajendar Deora

The Bordetella Bps Polysaccharide Is Critical for Biofilm Development in the Mouse Respiratory Tract
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8270-8276. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Woo-Suk Chang, Martijn van de Mortel, Lindsey Nielsen, Gabriela Nino de Guzman, Xiaohong Li, and Larry J. Halverson

Alginate Production by Pseudomonas putida Creates a Hydrated Microenvironment and Contributes to Biofilm Architecture and Stress Tolerance under Water-Limiting Conditions
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8290-8299. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Wenzhou Hong, Bing Pang, Shayla West-Barnette, and W. Edward Swords

Phosphorylcholine Expression by Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Correlates with Maturation of Biofilm Communities In Vitro and In Vivo
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8300-8307. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Luyan Ma, Haiping Lu, April Sprinkle, Matthew R. Parsek, and Daniel J. Wozniak

Pseudomonas aeruginosa Psl Is a Galactose- and Mannose-Rich Exopolysaccharide
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8353-8356. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mary Jo Kirisits, Jeffrey J. Margolis, Boloroo L. Purevdorj-Gage, Benjamin Vaughan, David L. Chopp, Paul Stoodley, and Matthew R. Parsek

Influence of the Hydrodynamic Environment on Quorum Sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa Biofilms
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8357-8360. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Corinna Schmitt, David Turner, Maria Boesl, Marion Abele, Matthias Frosch, and Oliver Kurzai

A Functional Two-Partner Secretion System Contributes to Adhesion of Neisseria meningitidis to Epithelial Cells
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7968-7976. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Melissa L. Madsen, Michael J. Oneal, Stuart W. Gardner, Erin L. Strait, Dan Nettleton, Eileen L. Thacker, and F. Chris Minion

Array-Based Genomic Comparative Hybridization Analysis of Field Strains of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7977-7982. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Heather L. Candon, Brenda J. Allan, Cresson D. Fraley, and Erin C. Gaynor

Polyphosphate Kinase 1 Is a Pathogenesis Determinant in Campylobacter jejuni
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8099-8108. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gen-ichiro Sano, Yasunari Takada, Shinichi Goto, Kenta Maruyama, Yutaka Shindo, Kotaro Oka, Hidenori Matsui, and Koichi Matsuo

Flagella Facilitate Escape of Salmonella from Oncotic Macrophages
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8224-8232. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tomoya Katsube, Sohkichi Matsumoto, Masaki Takatsuka, Megumi Okuyama, Yuriko Ozeki, Mariko Naito, Yukiko Nishiuchi, Nagatoshi Fujiwara, Mamiko Yoshimura, Takafumi Tsuboi, Motomi Torii, Nobuhide Oshitani, Tetsuo Arakawa, and Kazuo Kobayashi

Control of Cell Wall Assembly by a Histone-Like Protein in Mycobacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8241-8249. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sarah Dubrac, Ivo Gomperts Boneca, Olivier Poupel, and Tarek Msadek

New Insights into the WalK/WalR (YycG/YycF) Essential Signal Transduction Pathway Reveal a Major Role in Controlling Cell Wall Metabolism and Biofilm Formation in Staphylococcus aureus
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8257-8269. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Antoni P. A. Hendrickx, Willem J. B. van Wamel, George Posthuma, Marc J. M. Bonten, and Rob J. L. Willems

Five Genes Encoding Surface-Exposed LPXTG Proteins Are Enriched in Hospital-Adapted Enterococcus faecium Clonal Complex 17 Isolates
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8321-8332. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Stuart A. Hill, Tracy Woodward, Andrew Reger, Rachel Baker, and Theresa Dinse

Role for the RecBCD Recombination Pathway for pilE Gene Variation in Repair-Proficient Neisseria gonorrhoeae
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7983-7990. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Luciana Gualdi, Letizia Tagliabue, and Paolo Landini

Biofilm Formation-Gene Expression Relay System in Escherichia coli: Modulation of ^S-Dependent Gene Expression by the CsgD Regulatory Protein via ^S Protein Stabilization
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8034-8043. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Amirreza Faridmoayer, Messele A. Fentabil, Dominic C. Mills, John S. Klassen, and Mario F. Feldman

Functional Characterization of Bacterial Oligosaccharyltransferases Involved in O-Linked Protein Glycosylation
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8088-8098. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Silvia Altabe, Paloma Lopez, and Diego de Mendoza

Isolation and Characterization of Unsaturated Fatty Acid Auxotrophs of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus mutans
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8139-8144. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Maria Novikova, Anastasia Metlitskaya, Kirill Datsenko, Teymur Kazakov, Alexey Kazakov, Barry Wanner, and Konstantin Severinov

The Escherichia coli Yej Transporter Is Required for the Uptake of Translation Inhibitor Microcin C
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8361-8365. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Daniel L. Milligan, Sieu L. Tran, Ulrich Strych, Gregory M. Cook, and Kurt L. Krause

The Alanine Racemase of Mycobacterium smegmatis Is Essential for Growth in the Absence of D-Alanine
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8381-8386. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

M. Ramona Aldea, Rodrigo A. Mella-Herrera, and James W. Golden

Sigma Factor Genes sigC, sigE, and sigG Are Upregulated in Heterocysts of the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8392-8396. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Hua Zhang, Jacob P. Herman, Harvey Bolton, Jr., Zhicheng Zhang, Sue Clark, and Luying Xun

Evidence that Bacterial ABC-Type Transporter Imports Free EDTA for Metabolism
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7991-7997. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tobias Fuhrer, Lifeng Chen, Uwe Sauer, and Dennis Vitkup

Computational Prediction and Experimental Verification of the Gene Encoding the NAD⁺/NADP⁺-Dependent Succinate Semialdehyde Dehydrogenase in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8073-8078. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tung-Kung Wu, Yu-Kuo Wang, Yi-Chin Chen, Jen-Min Feng, Yen-Hsi Liu, and Ting-Yi Wang

Identification of a Vibrio furnissii Oligopeptide Permease and Characterization of Its In Vitro Hemolytic Activity
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8215-8223. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Young Kwan Kim, Kenji Mizutani, Kyung-Hee Rhee, Ki-Hyun Nam, Won Ho Lee, Eun Hye Lee, Eunice Eunkyeong Kim, Sam-Yong Park, and Kwang Yeon Hwang

Structural and Mutational Analysis of tRNA Intron-Splicing Endonuclease from Thermoplasma acidophilum DSM 1728: Catalytic Mechanism of tRNA Intron-Splicing Endonucleases
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8339-8346. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Javier de la Mora, Teresa Ballado, Bertha González-Pedrajo, Laura Camarena, and Georges Dreyfus

The Flagellar Muramidase from the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 7998-8004. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Harish Samaluru, L. SaiSree, and Manjula Reddy

Role of SufI (FtsP) in Cell Division of Escherichia coli: Evidence for Its Involvement in Stabilizing the Assembly of the Divisome
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8044-8052. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Edson R. Rocha, Arthur O. Tzianabos, and C. Jeffrey Smith

Thioredoxin Reductase Is Essential for Thiol/Disulfide Redox Control and Oxidative Stress Survival of the Anaerobe Bacteroides fragilis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8015-8023. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Frank Imkamp, Eva Biegel, Elamparithi Jayamani, Wolfgang Buckel, and Volker Müller

Dissection of the Caffeate Respiratory Chain in the Acetogen Acetobacterium woodii: Identification of an Rnf-Type NADH Dehydrogenase as a Potential Coupling Site
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8145-8153. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

J. Richard Miller, Jeffrey Ohren, Ronald W. Sarver, W. Thomas Mueller, Piet de Dreu, Heather Case, and Venkataraman Thanabal

Phosphopantetheine Adenylyltransferase from Escherichia coli: Investigation of the Kinetic Mechanism and Role in Regulation of Coenzyme A Biosynthesis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8196-8205. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Keiichi Uchino, Terumi Saito, Birgit Gebauer, and Dieter Jendrossek

Isolated Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) Granules Are Complex Bacterial Organelles Catalyzing Formation of PHB from Acetyl Coenzyme A (CoA) and Degradation of PHB to Acetyl-CoA
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8250-8256. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Martín Alcorlo, Margarita Salas, and José M. Hermoso

In Vivo DNA Binding of Bacteriophage GA-1 Protein p6
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8024-8033. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mujin Tang, Dennis K. Bideshi, Hyun-Woo Park, and Brian A. Federici

Iteron-Binding ORF157 and FtsZ-Like ORF156 Proteins Encoded by pBtoxis Play a Role in Its Replication in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8053-8058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sabyasachi Halder, Ajit Bikram Datta, and Pradeep Parrack

Probing the Antiprotease Activity of CIII, an Inhibitor of the Escherichia coli Metalloprotease HflB (FtsH)
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8130-8138. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sophie Zuber, Catherine Ngom-Bru, Caroline Barretto, Anne Bruttin, Harald Brüssow, and Emmanuel Denou

Genome Analysis of Phage JS98 Defines a Fourth Major Subgroup of T4-Like Phages in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8206-8214. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jens A. Hammerl, Iris Klein, Bernd Appel, and Stefan Hertwig

Interplay between the Temperate Phages PY54 and N15, Linear Plasmid Prophages with Covalently Closed Ends
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8366-8370. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Plant Microbiology:

Brian H. Kvitko, Adela R. Ramos, Joanne E. Morello, Hye-Sook Oh, and Alan Collmer

Identification of Harpins in Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000, Which Are Functionally Similar to HrpK1 in Promoting Translocation of Type III Secretion System Effectors
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8059-8072. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hye-Sook Oh, Brian H. Kvitko, Joanne E. Morello, and Alan Collmer

Pseudomonas syringae Lytic Transglycosylases Coregulated with the Type III Secretion System Contribute to the Translocation of Effector Proteins into Plant Cells
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8277-8289. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tomohiro Morohoshi, Yuta Nakamura, Go Yamazaki, Akio Ishida, Norihiro Kato, and Tsukasa Ikeda

The Plant Pathogen Pantoea ananatis Produces N-Acylhomoserine Lactone and Causes Center Rot Disease of Onion by Quorum Sensing
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8333-8338. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Shin Okazaki, Yoshiyuki Hattori, and Kazuhiko Saeki

The Mesorhizobium loti purB Gene Is Involved in Infection Thread Formation and Nodule Development in Lotus japonicus
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8347-8352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Kelli L. Palmer, Lindsay M. Aye, and Marvin Whiteley

Nutritional Cues Control Pseudomonas aeruginosa Multicellular Behavior in Cystic Fibrosis Sputum
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8079-8087. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Esther Heikens, Marc J. M. Bonten, and Rob J. L. Willems

Enterococcal Surface Protein Esp Is Important for Biofilm Formation of Enterococcus faecium E1162
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8233-8240. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Emmanuel Denou, Bernard Berger, Caroline Barretto, Jean-Michel Panoff, Fabrizio Arigoni, and Harald Brüssow

Gene Expression of Commensal Lactobacillus johnsonii Strain NCC533 during In Vitro Growth and in the Murine Gut
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8109-8119. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gene Regulation:

Rosa Alduina, Luca Lo Piccolo, Davide D'Alia, Clelia Ferraro, Nina Gunnarsson, Stefano Donadio, and Anna Maria Puglia

Phosphate-Controlled Regulator for the Biosynthesis of the Dalbavancin Precursor A40926
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8120-8129. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

José Manuel Inácio and Isabel de Sá-Nogueira

trans-Acting Factors and cis Elements Involved in Glucose Repression of Arabinan Degradation in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8371-8376. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ming He, Bethany K. Boardman, Dalai Yan, and X. Frank Yang

Regulation of Expression of the Fibronectin-Binding Protein BBK32 in Borrelia burgdorferi
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8377-8380. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Luis Caetano M. Antunes, Amy L. Schaefer, Rosana B. R. Ferreira, Nan Qin, Ann M. Stevens, Edward G. Ruby, and E. Peter Greenberg

Transcriptome Analysis of the Vibrio fischeri LuxR-LuxI Regulon
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8387-8391. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Signal Transduction:

Sarah J. Reisinger, Sarah Huntwork, Patrick H. Viollier, and Kathleen R. Ryan

DivL Performs Critical Cell Cycle Functions in Caulobacter crescentus Independent of Kinase Activity
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8308-8320. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ana Martínez del Campo, Teresa Ballado, Javier de la Mora, Sebastian Poggio, Laura Camarena, and Georges Dreyfus

Chemotactic Control of the Two Flagellar Systems of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Is Mediated by Different Sets of CheY and FliM Proteins
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8397-8401. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genome Announcement:

Bruce M. Pearson, Duncan J. H. Gaskin, Ruud P. A. M. Segers, Jerry M. Wells, Piet J. M. Nuijten, and Arnoud H. M. van Vliet

The Complete Genome Sequence of Campylobacter jejuni Strain 81116 (NCTC11828)
J. Bacteriol. 2007 189: 8402-8403. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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