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Guest Commentaries:

Gladys Alexandre

A Sense of Self-Worth: Energy Taxis Provides Insight into How Helicobacter pylori Navigates through Its Environment
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3095-3097. [Full Text] [PDF]  

Molecular Biology Of Pathogens:

Chunxiao Yu, Teresa Ruiz, Christopher Lenox, and Keith P. Mintz

Functional Mapping of an Oligomeric Autotransporter Adhesin of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3098-3109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Natalia Jimenez, Rocío Canals, Anna Lacasta, Anna N. Kondakova, Buko Lindner, Yuriy A. Knirel, Susana Merino, Miguel Regué, and Juan M. Tomás

Molecular Analysis of Three Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3 (Serotype O34) Lipopolysaccharide Core Biosynthesis Gene Clusters
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3176-3184. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Arto Tapio Pulliainen, Jukka Hytönen, Sauli Haataja, and Jukka Finne

Deficiency of the Rgg Regulator Promotes H₂O₂ Resistance, AhpCF-Mediated H₂O₂ Decomposition, and Virulence in Streptococcus pyogenes
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3225-3235. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Tobias Schweinitzer, Tomoko Mizote, Naohiro Ishikawa, Alexey Dudnik, Sakiko Inatsu, Sören Schreiber, Sebastian Suerbaum, Shin-Ichi Aizawa, and Christine Josenhans

Functional Characterization and Mutagenesis of the Proposed Behavioral Sensor TlpD of Helicobacter pylori
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3244-3255. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Amy A. Rambow-Larsen, Gireesh Rajashekara, Erik Petersen, and Gary Splitter

Putative Quorum-Sensing Regulator BlxR of Brucella melitensis Regulates Virulence Factors Including the Type IV Secretion System and Flagella
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3274-3282. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Xiaoyan Han, Ruth M. Kennan, John K. Davies, Leslie A. Reddacliff, Om P. Dhungyel, Richard J. Whittington, Lynne Turnbull, Cynthia B. Whitchurch, and Julian I. Rood

Twitching Motility Is Essential for Virulence in Dichelobacter nodosus
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3323-3335. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Terry R. Field, Abigail N. Layton, Jennie Bispham, Mark P. Stevens, and Edouard E. Galyov

Identification of Novel Genes and Pathways Affecting Salmonella Type III Secretion System 1 Using a Contact-Dependent Hemolysis Assay
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3393-3398. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Amrita Kumar and Charles P. Moran, Jr.

Promoter Activation by Repositioning of RNA Polymerase
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3110-3117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Marta Martínez, Maria-Victoria Colombo, Jose-Manuel Palacios, Juan Imperial, and Tomás Ruiz-Argüeso

Novel Arrangement of Enhancer Sequences for NifA-Dependent Activation of the Hydrogenase Gene Promoter in Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viciae
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3185-3191. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jihwan Hwang and Masayori Inouye

RelA Functionally Suppresses the Growth Defect Caused by a Mutation in the G Domain of the Essential Der Protein
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3236-3243. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert Bunet, Marta V. Mendes, Nicolas Rouhier, Xiuhua Pang, Laurence Hotel, Pierre Leblond, and Bertrand Aigle

Regulation of the Synthesis of the Angucyclinone Antibiotic Alpomycin in Streptomyces ambofaciens by the Autoregulator Receptor AlpZ and Its Specific Ligand
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3293-3305. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Robert L. Kerby, Hwan Youn, and Gary P. Roberts

RcoM: A New Single-Component Transcriptional Regulator of CO Metabolism in Bacteria
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3336-3343. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Dibyendu Samanta, Debashis Mukhopadhyay, Saheli Chowdhury, Jaydip Ghosh, Saumen Pal, Arunima Basu, Arpita Bhattacharya, Anindita Das, Debasis Das, and Chanchal DasGupta

Protein Folding by Domain V of Escherichia coli 23S rRNA: Specificity of RNA-Protein Interactions
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3344-3352. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Jeanette H. Sutherland, Bokun Cheng, I-Fen Liu, and Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh

SOS Induction by Stabilized Topoisomerase IA Cleavage Complex Occurs via the RecBCD Pathway
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3399-3403. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Gene Regulation:

Patricia Domínguez-Cuevas, Patricia Marín, Stephen Busby, Juan L. Ramos, and Silvia Marqués

Roles of Effectors in XylS-Dependent Transcription Activation: Intramolecular Domain Derepression and DNA Binding
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3118-3128. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Sarika Agarwal, Shite Sebastian, Borys Szmigielski, Peter A. Rice, and Caroline A. Genco

Expression of the Gonococcal Global Regulatory Protein Fur and Genes Encompassing the Fur and Iron Regulon during In Vitro and In Vivo Infection in Women
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3129-3139. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Ngoc Phuong Tran, Jerôme Gury, Véronique Dartois, Thi Kim Chi Nguyen, Hélène Seraut, Lise Barthelmebs, Patrick Gervais, and Jean-François Cavin

Phenolic Acid-Mediated Regulation of the padC Gene, Encoding the Phenolic Acid Decarboxylase of Bacillus subtilis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3213-3224. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Taku Nishimura, Haruhiko Teramoto, Alain A. Vertès, Masayuki Inui, and Hideaki Yukawa

ArnR, a Novel Transcriptional Regulator, Represses Expression of the narKGHJI Operon in Corynebacterium glutamicum
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3264-3273. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Enzymes and Proteins:

Mehtap Abu-Qarn, Assunta Giordano, Francesca Battaglia, Andrej Trauner, Paul G. Hitchen, Howard R. Morris, Anne Dell, and Jerry Eichler

Identification of AglE, a Second Glycosyltransferase Involved in N Glycosylation of the Haloferax volcanii S-Layer Glycoprotein
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3140-3146. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Kun Zhu and Charles O. Rock

RhlA Converts β-Hydroxyacyl-Acyl Carrier Protein Intermediates in Fatty Acid Synthesis to the β-Hydroxydecanoyl-β-Hydroxydecanoate Component of Rhamnolipids in Pseudomonas aeruginosa
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3147-3154. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Genomics and Proteomics:

Alena Sebkova, Daniela Karasova, Magdalena Crhanova, Eva Budinska, and Ivan Rychlik

aro Mutations in Salmonella enterica Cause Defects in Cell Wall and Outer Membrane Integrity
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3155-3160. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Emmanuel Denou, Raymond David Pridmore, Bernard Berger, Jean-Michel Panoff, Fabrizio Arigoni, and Harald Brüssow

Identification of Genes Associated with the Long-Gut-Persistence Phenotype of the Probiotic Lactobacillus johnsonii Strain NCC533 Using a Combination of Genomics and Transcriptome Analysis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3161-3168. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Microbial Communities and Interactions:

Ilana Kolodkin-Gal and Hanna Engelberg-Kulka

The Extracellular Death Factor: Physiological and Genetic Factors Influencing Its Production and Response in Escherichia coli
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3169-3175. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Chen Niu, Katy M. Clemmer, Robert A. Bonomo, and Philip N. Rather

Isolation and Characterization of an Autoinducer Synthase from Acinetobacter baumannii
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3386-3392. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Population Genetics and Evolution:

Martin Pilhofer, Kristina Rappl, Christina Eckl, Andreas Peter Bauer, Wolfgang Ludwig, Karl-Heinz Schleifer, and Giulio Petroni

Characterization and Evolution of Cell Division and Cell Wall Synthesis Genes in the Bacterial Phyla Verrucomicrobia, Lentisphaerae, Chlamydiae, and Planctomycetes and Phylogenetic Comparison with rRNA Genes
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3192-3202. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Physiology and Metabolism:

Anders Omsland, Diane C. Cockrell, Elizabeth R. Fischer, and Robert A. Heinzen

Sustained Axenic Metabolic Activity by the Obligate Intracellular Bacterium Coxiella burnetii
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3203-3212. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

André O. Hudson, Charles Gilvarg, and Thomas Leustek

Biochemical and Phylogenetic Characterization of a Novel Diaminopimelate Biosynthesis Pathway in Prokaryotes Identifies a Diverged Form of LL-Diaminopimelate Aminotransferase
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3256-3263. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

John Thompson, Nicholas Jakubovics, Bindu Abraham, Sonja Hess, and Andreas Pikis

The sim Operon Facilitates the Transport and Metabolism of Sucrose Isomers in Lactobacillus casei ATCC 334
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3362-3373. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Katharina Pflüger and Víctor de Lorenzo

Evidence of In Vivo Cross Talk between the Nitrogen-Related and Fructose-Related Branches of the Carbohydrate Phosphotransferase System of Pseudomonas putida
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3374-3380. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Pablo I. Nikel, Alejandra de Almeida, M. Julia Pettinari, and Beatriz S. Méndez

The Legacy of HfrH: Mutations in the Two-Component System CreBC Are Responsible for the Unusual Phenotype of an Escherichia coli arcA Mutant
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3404-3407. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Joshua A. Fields and Stuart A. Thompson

Campylobacter jejuni CsrA Mediates Oxidative Stress Responses, Biofilm Formation, and Host Cell Invasion
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3411-3416. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Microbial Cell Biology:

Michal Letek, Efrén Ordóñez, José Vaquera, William Margolin, Klas Flärdh, Luis M. Mateos, and José A. Gil

DivIVA Is Required for Polar Growth in the MreB-Lacking Rod-Shaped Actinomycete Corynebacterium glutamicum
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3283-3292. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Seiji Kojima, Yukio Furukawa, Hideyuki Matsunami, Tohru Minamino, and Keiichi Namba

Characterization of the Periplasmic Domain of MotB and Implications for Its Role in the Stator Assembly of the Bacterial Flagellar Motor
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3314-3322. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Lisa M. Runco, Selina Myrczek, James B. Bliska, and David G. Thanassi

Biogenesis of the Fraction 1 Capsule and Analysis of the Ultrastructure of Yersinia pestis
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3381-3385. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

Dariusz Bartosik, Mateusz Putyrski, Lukasz Dziewit, Edyta Malewska, Michal Szymanik, Ewa Jagiello, Jacek Lukasik, and Jadwiga Baj

Transposable Modules Generated by a Single Copy of Insertion Sequence ISPme1 and Their Influence on Structure and Evolution of Natural Plasmids of Paracoccus methylutens DM12
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3306-3313. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Carlos R. Osorio, Joeli Marrero, Rachel A. F. Wozniak, Manuel L. Lemos, Vincent Burrus, and Matthew K. Waldor

Genomic and Functional Analysis of ICEPdaSpa1, a Fish-Pathogen-Derived SXT-Related Integrating Conjugative Element That Can Mobilize a Virulence Plasmid
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3353-3361. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF]  

Abbie Coros, Erin DeConno, and Keith M. Derbyshire

IS6110, a Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex-Specific Insertion Sequence, Is Also Present in the Genome of Mycobacterium smegmatis, Suggestive of Lateral Gene Transfer among Mycobacterial Species
J. Bacteriol. 2008 190: 3408-3410. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material]  

Errata:

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: 3417. [Full Text] [PDF]  

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