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Contents: October 2009, Volume 191, Issue 20

       Minireviews

       Molecular Biology of Pathogens

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids

       Computational Biology

       Enzymes and Proteins

       Gene Regulation

       Physiology and Metabolism

       Microbial Cell Biology

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Minireviews:

Group I Introns and Inteins: Disparate Origins but Convergent Parasitic Strategies
Rahul Raghavan and Michael F. Minnick
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6193-6202; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00675-09
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Molecular Biology of Pathogens:

Capsular Polysaccharide Production in Enterococcus faecalis and Contribution of CpsF to Capsule Serospecificity
Lance R. Thurlow, Vinai Chittezham Thomas, and Lynn E. Hancock
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6203-6210; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00592-09
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GuaA and GuaB Are Essential for Borrelia burgdorferi Survival in the Tick-Mouse Infection Cycle
Mollie W. Jewett, Kevin A. Lawrence, Aaron Bestor, Rebecca Byram, Frank Gherardini, and Patricia A. Rosa
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6231-6241; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00450-09
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Generation of Metabolically Diverse Strains of Streptococcus pyogenes during Survival in Stationary Phase
Daniel N. Wood, Kathryn E. Weinstein, Andreas Podbielski, Berndt Kreikemeyer, John P. Gaughan, Samara Valentine, and Bettina A. Buttaro
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6242-6252; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00440-09
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Investigation of the Three-Dimensional Architecture of the Collagen Adhesin EmaA of Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans by Electron Tomography
Chunxiao Yu, Keith P. Mintz, and Teresa Ruiz
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6253-6261; published ahead of print August 28, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00563-09
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Characterization of Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced DNA Release by Streptococcus sanguinis and Streptococcus gordonii
Jens Kreth, Hung Vu, Yongshu Zhang, and Mark C. Herzberg
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6281-6291; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00906-09
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A Genome-Scale Proteomic Screen Identifies a Role for DnaK in Chaperoning of Polar Autotransporters in Shigella
Anuradha Janakiraman, Kathryn R. Fixen, Andrew N. Gray, Hironori Niki, and Marcia B. Goldberg
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6300-6311; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00833-09
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Isocitrate Lyase Supplies Precursors for Hydrogen Cyanide Production in a Cystic Fibrosis Isolate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Jessica M. Hagins, Robert Locy, and Laura Silo-Suh
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6335-6339; published ahead of print August 21, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00692-09
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Characterization of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis ESX-3 Conditional Mutant: Essentiality and Rescue by Iron and Zinc
Agnese Serafini, Francesca Boldrin, Giorgio Palù, and Riccardo Manganelli
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6340-6344; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00756-09
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Rbf Promotes Biofilm Formation by Staphylococcus aureus via Repression of icaR, a Negative Regulator of icaADBC
David Cue, Mei G. Lei, Thanh T. Luong, Lisa Kuechenmeister, Paul M. Dunman, Sinead O'Donnell, Sarah Rowe, James P. O'Gara, and Chia Y. Lee
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6363-6373; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00913-09
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Identification of Francisella tularensis Live Vaccine Strain CuZn Superoxide Dismutase as Critical for Resistance to Extracellularly Generated Reactive Oxygen Species
Amanda A. Melillo, Manish Mahawar, Timothy J. Sellati, Meenakshi Malik, Dennis W. Metzger, J. Andres Melendez, and Chandra Shekhar Bakshi
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6447-6456; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00534-09
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

The Multifaceted Proteins MvaT and MvaU, Members of the H-NS Family, Control Arginine Metabolism, Pyocyanin Synthesis, and Prophage Activation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1
Congran Li, Hassan Wally, Shearman J. Miller, and Chung-Dar Lu
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6211-6218; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00888-09
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Organophosphate Hydrolase in Brevundimonas diminuta Is Targeted to the Periplasmic Face of the Inner Membrane by the Twin Arginine Translocation Pathway
Purushotham Gorla, Jay Prakash Pandey, Sunil Parthasarathy, Mike Merrick, and Dayananda Siddavattam
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6292-6299; published ahead of print August 21, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00824-09
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Importance of Proteins Controlling Initiation of DNA Replication in the Growth of the High-Pressure-Loving Bacterium Photobacterium profundum SS9
Ziad W. El-Hajj, Theodora Tryfona, David J. Allcock, Fariha Hasan, Federico M. Lauro, Lindsay Sawyer, Douglas H. Bartlett, and Gail P. Ferguson
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6383-6393; published ahead of print August 21, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00576-09
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Bacteriophages, Transposons, and Plasmids:

The Structure and Assembly Dynamics of Plasmid Actin AlfA Imply a Novel Mechanism of DNA Segregation
Jessica K. Polka, Justin M. Kollman, David A. Agard, and R. Dyche Mullins
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6219-6230; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00676-09
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tISCpe8, an IS1595-Family Lincomycin Resistance Element Located on a Conjugative Plasmid in Clostridium perfringens
Dena Lyras, Vicki Adams, Susan A. Ballard, Wee L. Teng, Pauline M. Howarth, Paul K. Crellin, Trudi L. Bannam, J. Glenn Songer, and Julian I. Rood
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6345-6351; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00668-09
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Tetracycline-Associated Transcriptional Regulation of Transfer Genes of the Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon CTnDOT
Robert T. Jeters, Gui-Rong Wang, Kyung Moon, Nadja B. Shoemaker, and Abigail A. Salyers
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6374-6382; published ahead of print August 21, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00739-09
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Site-Specific Insertion of IS492 in Pseudoalteromonas atlantica
Brian P. Higgins, Adam C. Popkowski, Peter R. Caruana, and Anna C. Karls
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6408-6414; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00771-09
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Comparative Biology of Two Natural Variants of the IncQ-2 Family Plasmids, pRAS3.1 and pRAS3.2
Wesley Loftie-Eaton and Douglas E. Rawlings
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6436-6446; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00864-09
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Computational Biology:

A Comparative Genomics, Network-Based Approach to Understanding Virulence in Vibrio cholerae
Jianying Gu, Yufeng Wang, and Timothy Lilburn
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6262-6272; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00475-09
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Enzymes and Proteins:

Synthetic Microcin C Analogs Targeting Different Aminoacyl-tRNA Synthetases
Pieter Van de Vijver, Gaston H. M. Vondenhoff, Teymur S. Kazakov, Ekaterina Semenova, Konstantin Kuznedelov, Anastasia Metlitskaya, Arthur Van Aerschot, and Konstantin Severinov
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6273-6280; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00829-09
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The Uracil DNA Glycosylase UdgB of Mycobacterium smegmatis Protects the Organism from the Mutagenic Effects of Cytosine and Adenine Deamination
Roger M. Wanner, Dennis Castor, Carolin Güthlein, Erik C. Böttger, Burkhard Springer, and Josef Jiricny
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6312-6319; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00613-09
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Structural and Mutational Analysis of Band 7 Proteins in the Cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. Strain PCC 6803
Marko Boehm, Jon Nield, Pengpeng Zhang, Eva-Mari Aro, Josef Komenda, and Peter J. Nixon
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6425-6435; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00644-09
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Identification of the [FeFe]-Hydrogenase Responsible for Hydrogen Generation in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum and Demonstration of Increased Ethanol Yield via Hydrogenase Knockout
A. Joe Shaw, David A. Hogsett, and Lee R. Lynd
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6457-6464; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00497-09
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Gene Regulation:

A New Member of the Escherichia coli fad Regulon: Transcriptional Regulation of fadM (ybaW)
Youjun Feng and John E. Cronan
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6320-6328; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00835-09
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Inactivation of VicK Affects Acid Production and Acid Survival of Streptococcus mutans
D. Senadheera, K. Krastel, R. Mair, A. Persadmehr, J. Abranches, R. A. Burne, and Dennis G. Cvitkovitch
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6415-6424; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00793-09
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Physiology and Metabolism:

Characterization of Alanine Catabolism in Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Its Importance for Proliferation In Vivo
Megan L. Boulette, Patricia J. Baynham, Peter A. Jorth, Irena Kukavica-Ibrulj, Aissa Longoria, Karla Barrera, Roger C. Levesque, and Marvin Whiteley
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6329-6334; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00817-09
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Malonic Semialdehyde Reductase, Succinic Semialdehyde Reductase, and Succinyl-Coenzyme A Reductase from Metallosphaera sedula: Enzymes of the Autotrophic 3-Hydroxypropionate/4-Hydroxybutyrate Cycle in Sulfolobales
Daniel Kockelkorn and Georg Fuchs
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6352-6362; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00794-09
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The Escherichia coli Azoreductase AzoR Is Involved in Resistance to Thiol-Specific Stress Caused by Electrophilic Quinones
Guangfei Liu, Jiti Zhou, Q. Shiang Fu, and Jing Wang
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6394-6400; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00552-09
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Allosteric Regulation of Glucosamine-6-Phosphate Deaminase (NagB) and Growth of Escherichia coli on Glucosamine
Laura I. Álvarez-Añorve, Ismael Bustos-Jaimes, Mario L. Calcagno, and Jacqueline Plumbridge
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6401-6407; published ahead of print August 21, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00633-09
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Microbial Cell Biology:

The Iho670 Fibers of Ignicoccus hospitalis: a New Type of Archaeal Cell Surface Appendage
Daniel W. Müller, Carolin Meyer, Sonja Gürster, Ulf Küper, Harald Huber, Reinhard Rachel, Gerhard Wanner, Reinhard Wirth, and Annett Bellack
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6465-6468; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00858-09
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Autonomous and FliK-Dependent Length Control of the Flagellar Rod in Salmonella enterica
Noriko Takahashi, Shino Mizuno, Takanori Hirano, Fabienne F. V. Chevance, Kelly T. Hughes, and Shin-Ichi Aizawa
J. Bacteriol. October 2009 191: 6469-6472; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/JB.00509-09
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