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Guest Commentaries:

Kevin D. Young

Why Spherical Escherichia coli Dies: the Inside Story
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1497-1498. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gene Regulation:

Laetitia Abdou, Céline Boileau, Pascale de Philip, Sandrine Pagès, Henri-Pierre Fiérobe, and Chantal Tardif

Transcriptional Regulation of the Clostridium cellulolyticum cip-cel Operon: a Complex Mechanism Involving a Catabolite-Responsive Element
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1499-1506. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Renata Moreno and Fernando Rojo

The Target for the Pseudomonas putida Crc Global Regulator in the Benzoate Degradation Pathway Is the BenR Transcriptional Regulator
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1539-1545. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

I. Hernández-Lucas, A. L. Gallego-Hernández, S. Encarnación, M. Fernández-Mora, A. G. Martínez-Batallar, H. Salgado, R. Oropeza, and E. Calva

The LysR-Type Transcriptional Regulator LeuO Controls Expression of Several Genes in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1658-1670. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Yoriko Murayama, Tokitaka Oyama, and Takao Kondo

Regulation of Circadian Clock Gene Expression by Phosphorylation States of KaiC in Cyanobacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1691-1698. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Phu Vuong, Drew Bennion, Jeremy Mantei, Danielle Frost, and Rajeev Misra

Analysis of YfgL and YaeT Interactions through Bioinformatics, Mutagenesis, and Biochemistry
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1507-1517. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Pamela L. Obuchowski and Christine Jacobs-Wagner

PflI, a Protein Involved in Flagellar Positioning in Caulobacter crescentus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1718-1729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [HTML Page - index.htslp] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ulrike Jahn, Martin Gallenberger, Walter Paper, Benjamin Junglas, Wolfgang Eisenreich, Karl O. Stetter, Reinhard Rachel, and Harald Huber

Nanoarchaeum equitans and Ignicoccus hospitalis: New Insights into a Unique, Intimate Association of Two Archaea
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1743-1750. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Felipe O. Bendezú and Piet A. J. de Boer

Conditional Lethality, Division Defects, Membrane Involution, and Endocytosis in mre and mrd Shape Mutants of Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1792-1811. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Alex Formstone, Rut Carballido-López, Philippe Noirot, Jeffery Errington, and Dirk-Jan Scheffers

Localization and Interactions of Teichoic Acid Synthetic Enzymes in Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1812-1821. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Plant Microbiology:

Aïda Boughammoura, Berthold F. Matzanke, Lars Böttger, Sylvie Reverchon, Emmanuel Lesuisse, Dominique Expert, and Thierry Franza

Differential Role of Ferritins in Iron Metabolism and Virulence of the Plant-Pathogenic Bacterium Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1518-1530. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Khaled Ahmed Aly, Lilian Krall, Friedrich Lottspeich, and Christian Baron

The Type IV Secretion System Component VirB5 Binds to the trans-Zeatin Biosynthetic Enzyme Tzs and Enables Its Translocation to the Cell Surface of Agrobacterium tumefaciens
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1595-1604. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Sarayut Nijvipakul, Janewit Wongratana, Chutintorn Suadee, Barrie Entsch, David P. Ballou, and Pimchai Chaiyen

LuxG Is a Functioning Flavin Reductase for Bacterial Luminescence
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1531-1538. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Simon Grill, Simone Busenbender, Matthias Pfeiffer, Uwe Köhler, and Matthias Mack

The Bifunctional Flavokinase/Flavin Adenine Dinucleotide Synthetase from Streptomyces davawensis Produces Inactive Flavin Cofactors and Is Not Involved in Resistance to the Antibiotic Roseoflavin
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1546-1553. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Daan J. van Haaster, Pedro J. Silva, Peter-Leon Hagedoorn, Jaap A. Jongejan, and Wilfred R. Hagen

Reinvestigation of the Steady-State Kinetics and Physiological Function of the Soluble NiFe-Hydrogenase I of Pyrococcus furiosus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1584-1587. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sara Mae Belchik and Luying Xun

Functions of Flavin Reductase and Quinone Reductase in 2,4,6-Trichlorophenol Degradation by Cupriavidus necator JMP134
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1615-1619. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jerry D. King, Erin F. Mulrooney, Evgeny Vinogradov, Bernd Kneidinger, Kristen Mead, and Joseph S. Lam

lfnA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa O12 and wbuX from Escherichia coli O145 Encode Membrane-Associated Proteins and Are Required for Expression of 2,6-Dideoxy-2-Acetamidino-L-Galactose in Lipopolysaccharide O Antigen
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1671-1679. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Chen Yang, Dmitry A. Rodionov, Irina A. Rodionova, Xiaoqing Li, and Andrei L. Osterman

Glycerate 2-Kinase of Thermotoga maritima and Genomic Reconstruction of Related Metabolic Pathways
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1773-1782. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [HTML Page - index.htslp] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Yang Yang, Chuntao Yin, Weizhi Li, and Xudong Xu

-Tocopherol Is Essential for Acquired Chill-Light Tolerance in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1554-1560. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Daryl J. Smith, Marianna A. Patrauchan, Christine Florizone, Lindsay D. Eltis, and William W. Mohn

Distinct Roles for Two CYP226 Family Cytochromes P450 in Abietane Diterpenoid Catabolism by Burkholderia xenovorans LB400
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1575-1583. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bin Ding, Sirko Schmeling, and Georg Fuchs

Anaerobic Metabolism of Catechol by the Denitrifying Bacterium Thauera aromatica—a Result of Promiscuous Enzymes and Regulators?
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1620-1630. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Federico M. Lauro, Khiem Tran, Alessandro Vezzi, Nicola Vitulo, Giorgio Valle, and Douglas H. Bartlett

Large-Scale Transposon Mutagenesis of Photobacterium profundum SS9 Reveals New Genetic Loci Important for Growth at Low Temperature and High Pressure
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1699-1709. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Chi-Ling Tseng and Gwo-Chyuan Shaw

Genetic Evidence for the Actin Homolog Gene mreBH and the Bacitracin Resistance Gene bcrC as Targets of the Alternative Sigma Factor SigI of Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1561-1567. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Damian Gawel, Phuong T. Pham, Iwona J. Fijalkowska, Piotr Jonczyk, and Roel M. Schaaper

Role of Accessory DNA Polymerases in DNA Replication in Escherichia coli: Analysis of the dnaX36 Mutator Mutant
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1730-1742. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Karen E. Chapman, Paula S. Duggan, Natalie A. Billington, née, and David G. Adams

Mutation at Different Sites in the Nostoc punctiforme cyaC Gene, Encoding the Multiple-Domain Enzyme Adenylate Cyclase, Results in Different Levels of Infection of the Host Plant Blasia pusilla
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1843-1847. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Margaret I. Kanipes, Xuan Tan, Aurel Akelaitis, Jiajun Li, David Rockabrand, Patricia Guerry, and Mario A. Monteiro

Genetic Analysis of Lipooligosaccharide Core Biosynthesis in Campylobacter jejuni 81-176
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1568-1574. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Robert DeMars and Jason Weinfurter

Interstrain Gene Transfer in Chlamydia trachomatis In Vitro: Mechanism and Significance
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1605-1614. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Raúl Miranda-CasoLuengo, John F. Prescott, José A. Vázquez-Boland, and Wim G. Meijer

The Intracellular Pathogen Rhodococcus equi Produces a Catecholate Siderophore Required for Saprophytic Growth
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1631-1637. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Chung-Te Lee, Carmen Amaro, Keh-Ming Wu, Esmeralda Valiente, Yi-Feng Chang, Shih-Feng Tsai, Chuan-Hsiung Chang, and Lien-I Hor

A Common Virulence Plasmid in Biotype 2 Vibrio vulnificus and Its Dissemination Aided by a Conjugal Plasmid
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1638-1648. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [HTML Page - index.htslp] [Reprints and Permissions]  

H. J. Betts, L. E. Twiggs, M. S. Sal, P. B. Wyrick, and K. A. Fields

Bioinformatic and Biochemical Evidence for the Identification of the Type III Secretion System Needle Protein of Chlamydia trachomatis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1680-1690. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Amit Mukherjee, Mark K. Mammel, J. Eugene LeClerc, and Thomas A. Cebula

Altered Utilization of N-Acetyl-D-Galactosamine by Escherichia coli O157:H7 from the 2006 Spinach Outbreak
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1710-1717. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mary F. Farrow and Eric J. Rubin

Function of a Mycobacterial Major Facilitator Superfamily Pump Requires a Membrane-Associated Lipoprotein
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1783-1791. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Adeline Derouaux, Benoît Wolf, Claudine Fraipont, Eefjan Breukink, Martine Nguyen-Distèche, and Mohammed Terrak

The Monofunctional Glycosyltransferase of Escherichia coli Localizes to the Cell Division Site and Interacts with Penicillin-Binding Protein 3, FtsW, and FtsN
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1831-1834. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Tomohiko Sugiyama, Tetsuya Iida, Kaori Izutsu, Kwon-Sam Park, and Takeshi Honda

Precise Region and the Character of the Pathogenicity Island in Clinical Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1835-1837. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Eric S. Anderson, James T. Paulley, and R. Martin Roop, II

The AraC-Like Transcriptional Regulator DhbR Is Required for Maximum Expression of the 2,3-Dihydroxybenzoic Acid Biosynthesis Genes in Brucella abortus 2308 in Response to Iron Deprivation
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1838-1842. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Signal Transduction:

Pier-Luc Tremblay and Patrick C. Hallenbeck

Ammonia-Induced Formation of an AmtB-GlnK Complex Is Not Sufficient for Nitrogenase Regulation in the Photosynthetic Bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1588-1594. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Structural Biology:

Sigrid Flahaut, Evgeny Vinogradov, Kathryn A. Kelley, Shannon Brennan, Keiichi Hiramatsu, and Jean C. Lee

Structural and Biological Characterization of a Capsular Polysaccharide Produced by Staphylococcus haemolyticus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1649-1657. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Alex Ter Beek, Bart J. F. Keijser, Andre Boorsma, Anna Zakrzewska, Rick Orij, Gertien J. Smits, and Stanley Brul

Transcriptome Analysis of Sorbic Acid-Stressed Bacillus subtilis Reveals a Nutrient Limitation Response and Indicates Plasma Membrane Remodeling
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1751-1761. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Peter R. Braun, Hesham Al-Younes, Joscha Gussmann, Jeannette Klein, Erwin Schneider, and Thomas F. Meyer

Competitive Inhibition of Amino Acid Uptake Suppresses Chlamydial Growth: Involvement of the Chlamydial Amino Acid Transporter BrnQ
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1822-1830. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Takashi Yoshida, Keizo Nagasaki, Yukari Takashima, Yoko Shirai, Yuji Tomaru, Yoshitake Takao, Shigetaka Sakamoto, Shingo Hiroishi, and Hiroyuki Ogata

Ma-LMM01 Infecting Toxic Microcystis aeruginosa Illuminates Diverse Cyanophage Genome Strategies
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1762-1772. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Errata:

Rakhi Pait Chowdhury, Surbhi Gupta, and Dipankar Chatterji

Identification and Characterization of the dps Promoter of Mycobacterium smegmatis: Promoter Recognition by Stress-Specific Extracytoplasmic Function Sigma Factors ^H and ^F
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 1848. [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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