JOURNAL of BACTERIOLOGY Volume 145 Contents for January 1981 Numberl

JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY Volume 145 Contents for January 1981 Numberl

Morphology and Ultrastructure Structure of the Heptose Region of Lipopolysaccharides from Rho- dospirillum tenue. JOANNA RADZIEJEWSKA-LEBRECHT, U. FEIGE, H. MAYER,* AND J. WECKESSER ...... 138-144 Regulation ofPolarMorphogenesis in Caulobactercrescentus. AKIo FUKUDA,* MAKOTO ASADA, SHIGEO KOYASU, HIDEYA YOSHIDA, KATSUYUKI YAGINUMA, AND YOSHI OKADA ...... 559-572 Isolation and Electron Microscopic Observations of Intracyto- plasmic Inclusions Containing Chlamydia psittaci. AKIRA MATSUMOTO ...... 605-612 Isolation and Properties ofPiil from Spores ofBacillus cereus. JOHN P. DEsROSIER AND J. CANO LARA* ...... 613-619 General Microbiology Lectin, a Possible Basis for Symbiosis Between Bacteria and Sponges. WERNER E. G. MULLER,* RUDOLF K. ZAHN, BRANDO KURELEC, CEDOMIL Lucu, ISABEL MULLER, AND GERD UHLENBRUCK ...... 548-558 Quantitation of Bacillus subtilis L-Form Growth Parameters in Batch Culture. RICHARD W. GILPIN,* SUZANNE K. PATTER- SON, AND RALPH A. KNIGHT ...... 651-653 Plant Microbiology Elaboration of Cellulose Fibrils by Agrobacterium tumefaciens Dur- ing Attachment to Carrot Cells. ANN G. MATTHYSSE,* KATH- RYN V. HOLMES, AND ROBIN H. G. GURLITZ ...... 583-595 Genetics and Molecular Biology Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Protein III and Transducer Gene trg. GERALD L. HAZELBAUER,* PETER ENGSTROM, AND SHI- GEAKI HARAYAMA ...... 43-49 Stringent Response of Bacillus stearothermophilus: Evidence for the Existence of Two Distinct Guanosine 3',5'-Polyphosphate Synthetases. SUSANNE FEHR AND DIETMAR RICHTER* ...... 68-73 Plasmid Transfer and Genetic Recombination by Protoplast Fusion in Staphylococci. F. GOTz, S. AHRNE, AND M. LINDBERG* ... 74-81 Naturally Occurring Macrolide-Lincosamide-Streptogramin B Re- sistance in Bacillus licheniformis. A. DOCHERTY, G. GRANDI, R. GRANDI, T. J. GRYCZAN, A. G. SHIVAKUMAR, AND D. DUBNAU* ...... 129-137 Genetic Circularity of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO Chromo- some. P. L. ROYLE, H. MATSUMOTO, AND B. W. HOLLOWAY* 145-155 Molecular Cloning of Escherichia coli K-12 Hexuronate System Genes: exu Region. PAUL RITZENTHALER,* MIREILLE MATA- GILSINGER, AND FRANSOIS STOEBER ...... 181-190 Three Genes Coding for Subunits of the Membrane Sector (Fo) of the Escherichia coli Adenosine Triphosphatase Complex. J. ALLAN DOWNIE,* GRAEME B. Cox, LYNDALL LANGMAN, GREG ASH, MICHAEL BECKER, AND FRANK GIBSON ...... 200-210 Continued on followingpage Continued fromprecedingpage Regulation of Hexuronate System Genes in Escherichia coli K-12: Multiple Regulation of the uxu Operon by exuR and uxuR Gene Products. JANINE ROBERT-BAUDOUY,* RAYMOND PORTALIER, AND FRAN,OIS STOEBER ...... 211-220 Deletion Map of the Escherichia coli Structural Gene for Alkaline Phosphatase, phoA. APARNA SARTHY, SUSAN MICHAELIS, AND JON BECKWITH* ...... 288-292 Use of Gene Fusions to Determine the Orientation of Gene phoA on the Escherichia coli Chromosome. APARNA SARTHY, SUSAN MICHAELIS, AND JON BECKWITH ...... 293-298 Infection of Salmonella typhimurium with Coliphage Mu dl (Apr lac): Construction of pyr::lac Gene Fusions. LAszL6 N. CSONKA, MARTHA M. HOWE, JOHN L. INGRAHAM, LELAND S. PIERSON III, AND CHARLES L. TURNBOUGH, JR.* ...... 299-305 Recombination ofUracil-ContainingLambdaBacteriophages. JOHN B. HAYS,* BRUCE K. DUNCAN, AND SIEGHILD BOEHMER ..... 306-320 Menaquinone Biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis: Isolation of men Mutants and Evidence for Clustering of men Genes. HARRY W. TABER,* ELIZABETH A. DELLERS, AND LINDA RIVoIRE LOMBARDO ...... 321-327 Regulation of Nitrogen Fixation in Klebsiella pneumoniae: Isolation and Characterization of Strains with nif-lac Fusions. DOUGLAS MACNEIL, JIABI ZHU, AND WINSTON J. BRILL* ...... 348-357 Genetic Variability in Halobacterium halobium. F. PFEIFER,* G. WEIDINGER, AND W. GOEBEL ...... 375-381 In Vivo Role of the relA4+ Gene in Regulation of the lac Operon. PAUL PRIMAKOFF ...... 410416 Role of Peptide Chain Elongation Factor G in Guanosine 5'-Diphos- phate 3'-Diphosphate Synthesis. CHIA C. PAO,* JIM FLECK- ENSTEIN, AND BARBARA T. DYESS ...... 429-433 Postreplication Repair of Ultraviolet-Irradiated Transforming De- oxyribonucleic Acid in Bacillus subtilis. CHARLES T. HADDEN ...... 434-441 High-Efficiency, Temperature-Sensitive Suppression of Amber Mu- tations in Escherichia coli. JANICE M. ZENGEL* AND LASSE LINDAHL ...... 459-465 Identity of the B56.5 Protein, the A-Protein, and the groE Gene Product ofEscherichia coli. FREDERICK C. NEIDHARDT,* TER- ESA A. PHILLIPS, RUTH A. VANBOGELEN, MARTIN W. SMITH, YANNIS GEORGALIS, AND ALAP R. SUBRAMANIAN ...... 513-520 Genetic Analysis of the RecE Pathway of Genetic Recombination in Escherichia coli K-12. JANE R. GILLEN, DAVID K. WILLIS, AND ALVIN J. CLARK* ...... 521-532 Biological Consequences of Infection of Escherichia coli B by Al- kylated T7 Bacteriophage. BARBARA KARSKA-WYSOCKI* AND MARGARET D. MAMET-BRATLEY ...... 573-582 Entry of Double-Stranded Deoxyribonucleic Acid During Transfor- mation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. GOUR D. BISWAS* AND P. FREDERICK SPARLING ...... 638-640 Mechanism of the rel Defect in ,8-Galactosidase Synthesis. DIANE FOLEY, PATRICK DENNIS, AND JONATHAN GALLANT* ...... 641-643 Escherichia coli K-12 Clones That Overproduce dam Methylase Are Hypermutable. GAIL E. HERMAN AND PAUL M9DRICH* ..... 644-646 Continued on followingpage Continued fromprecedingpage Use of cir-lac Operon Fusions to Study Transcriptional Regulation of the Colicin Ia Receptor in Escherichia coli K-12. PATRICIA L. WORSHAM AND JORDAN KONISKY* ...... 647-650 Physical Maps ofKlebsiella aerogenes and Salmonella typhimurium hut genes. MIROSLAv BLUMENBERG AND BORIS MAGASANIK* 664-667 Plasmids and T-ransposons Structure of a Naturally Occurring Plasmid with Genes for Entero- toxin Production and Drug Resistance. ANTHONY J. MAZAITIS, RENATA MAAS, AND WERNER K. MAAS* ...... 97-105 Determination of the Functions of Hemolytic Plasmid pHly152 of Escherichia coli. ANGELiKA NOEGEL, URSULA RDEST, AND WERNER GOEBEL* ...... 233-247 Introduction of Bacteriophage Mu into Bacteria of Various Genera and Intergeneric Gene Transfer by RP4::Mu. YOSHIKATSU MU- ROOKA,* NOBORU TAKIZAWA, AND TOKUYA HARADA ...... 358-368 Characterization ofPlasmids in Halobacteria. F. PFEIFER,* G. WEI DINGER, AND W. GOEBEL ...... 369-374 Molecular Cloning and Expression of Bacillus licheniformis fl-Lac- tamase Gene in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. OANH GRAY AND SHING CHANG ...... 422-428 Distribution of Tn551 Insertion Sites Responsible for Auxotrophy on the Staphylococcus aureus Chromosome. PETER A. PATTEE 479-488 Evidence for a Chromosome-Bome Resistance Transposon (Tn916) in Streptococcus faecalis That Is Capable of "Conjugal" Trans- fer in the Absence of a Conjugative Plasmid. ARTHUR E. FRANKE AND DON B. CLEWELL* ...... 494-502 Eucaryotic Cells Regulation of Polyamine Synthesis in Relation to Putrescine and Spermidine Pools in Neurospora crassa. THOMAS J. PAULUS AND ROWLAND H. DAVIS* ...... 14-20 Genetics of Ribosomal Components in Podospora spp. as Revealed by Interspecific Hybridizatin. MICHEL PERROT* AND JOEL BEGUERET ...... 82-87 Inhibition of Sterol Transmethylation by S-Adenosylhomocysteine Analogs. MARK T. MCCAMMON AND L. W. PARKS* ...... 106-112 Genetic and Biochemical Characterization of D-Arabinose Dehydro- genase from Neurospora crassa. ALICIA CARRAsco,* GUIDO PINCHEIRA, AND TITO URETA ...... 164-170 Effect of Glucose on a-Glucan Degradation in Polyporus circina- tus. MARIA B. M. OLIVEIRA AND GLACI T. ZANCAN* ...... 171-174 Structure and Function of the PH082-pho4 Locus Controlling the Synthesis of Repressible Acid Phosphatase of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. AxIO TOH-E,* S. INOUYE, AND Y. OSHMA ...... 221-232 Role of Membranes of Mycelial Mucor rouxii in Synthesis and Secretion of Cell Wall Matrix Polymers. J. MAXWELL Dow, ROBERTO R. CARREON, AND VICENTE D. VILLA* ...... 272-279 Isolation and Characterization ofLinear Deoxyribonucleic Acid Plas- mids from Kluyveromyces lactis and the Plasmid-Associated Killer Character. NORIo GUNGE,* ATSUKO TAMARU, FUMIKO OZAWA, AND KENJI SAKAGUCHI ...... 382-390 Structural Gene for the Alkaline Extracellular Protease of Sacchar- omycopsis lipolytica. PAULA C. SIMMS AND DIVID M. OGRYDZIAK*...... 404-409 Continued on followingpage Continued fromprecedingpage Membranes Multiple Forms of Methyl-Accepting Chemotaxis Proteins Distin- guished by a Factor in Addition to Multiple Methylation. GERALD L. HAZELBAUER* AND PETER ENGSTROM ...... 35-42 Electrophoretic Analysis of the Arrangement of Spiralin and Other Major Proteins in Isolated Spiroplasma citri Cell Membranes. HENRI WR6BLEWSKI ...... 61-67 Regulatory Mutations Confering Constitutive Synthesis of Major Outer Membrane Proteins (OmpC and OmpF) in Escherichia coli. TAKASHI SATO AND TAKASHI YURA* ...... 88-96 Two Interacting Mutations Causing Temperature-Sensitive Phos- phatidylglycerol Synthesis in Escherichia coli Membranes. MASAHIRO NISHIJIMA, CHRISTINE E. BULAWA, AND CHRISTIAN R. H. RAETZ* ...... 113-121 Cadaverine Is Covalently Linked to Peptidoglycan in Selenomonas ruminantium. YOSHIYUKI KAMIO,* YOSHIFUMI ITOH, YOSHIRO TERAWAKI, AND TOMONOBU KUSANO ...... 122-128 Ferric Citrate Transport in Escherichia coli Requires Outer Mem- brane Receptor Protein FecA. WILHELM WAGEGG AND VOLK- MAR BRAUN* ...... 156-163 Increased Binding of a Hydrophobic, Photolabile Probe to Esche- richia coli Inversely Correlates to Membrane Potential but Not Adenosine 5'-Triphosphate Levels. MARcIA K. WOLF AND JOR- DAN KONISKY ...... 341-347 Vectorial and Nonvectorial Transphosphorylation Catalyzed by En- zymes II of the Bacterial Phosphotransferase System. MILTON H. SAIER, JR.,* AND MARY R. SCHMIDT ...... 391-397 Biosynthesis of Membrane Proteins of Pseudomonas aeruginosa: Effects of Various Antibiotics. MITSUE YASUMURA, KENZO NAKAMURA, DAVID MERNOFF, AND MASAYORI INOUYE* ...... 417-421 Isolation and Partial Characterization ofOuter and Inner Membranes from Encapsulated Haemophilus influenzae Type b. MARILYN R. LOEB,* ARTHUR L. ZACHARY, AND DAVID H. SMITH ...... 596-604 Reducing Terminus of O-Hapten Accumulated in a Salmonella montevideo galE Mutant. FRANKLIN A. HEASLEY ...... 624-627 Pseudomonas aeruginosa Outer Membrane: Peptidoglycan-Associ- ated Proteins. ROBERT E. W. HANCOCK,* RANDALL T. IRVIN, J. WILLIAM COSTERTON, AND ALICE M. CAREY ...... 628-631 Preferential Selection of Deletion Mutations of the Outer Membrane Lipoprotein Gene of Escherichia coli by Globomycin. LAURENCE J. ZWIEBEL, MASATOSKI INUKAI, KENZO NAKAMURA, AND MASAYORI INOUYE* ...... 654-656 Globomycin Sensitivity of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium: Effects of Mutations Affecting Structures of Murein Lipoprotein. JIUNU-SHYONG LAI, WILLIAM M. PHILBRICK, SHIGERU HAYASHI, MASATOSHI INUKAI, MAMORU ARAI, YuKI- NORI HIROTA, AND HENRY C. WU* ...... 657-660 Cleavage of Colicin Ia by the Escherichia coli K-12 Outer Membrane Is Not Mediated by the Colicin Ia Receptor. L. K. BOWLES AND JORDAN KONISKY* ...... 668-671 Physiology and Metabolsm Effect of Oxygen on Liquid Holding Recovery in Bacteroides fra- gilis. DAVID T. JONES AND DAVID R. WOODS* ...... 1-7 Continued on followingpage Continued fromprecedingpage Incorporation of Leucine into Phospholipids of Bacteroides thetaio- taomicron. RICHARD D. SMITH AND ABIGAIL A. SALYERS* .. -13 Coenzyme M Derivatives and Their Effects on Methane Formation from Carbon Dioxide and Methanol by Cell Extracts of Meth- anosarcina barkeri. THEO J. HUTTEN, M. HENK DE JONG, BEN P. H. PETERS, CHRIS VAN DER DRIFT, AND GODFRIED D. VOGELS* ...... 27-34 Cell Wall Turnover in Batch and Chemostat Cultures of Bacillus subtilis. WIM R. DE BOER, FRED J. KRUYSSEN, AND JAN T. M. WOUTERS* ...... 50-60 Regulation of Nitrate Reductase Levels in the Cyanobacteria Ana- cystis nidulans, Anabaena sp. Strain 7119, and Nostoc sp. Strain 6719. ANTONIA HERRERO, ENRIQUE FLORES, AND MIGUEL G. GUERRERO* ...... 175-180 Microcalorimetric Studies of the Growth of Sulfate-Reducing Bac- teria: Energetics of Desulfovibrio vulgaris Growth. ALFRED S. TRAORE,* CLAUDE E. HATCHIKIAN, JEAN-PIERRE BELAICH, AND JEAN LE GALL ...... 191-199 Tryptophan Metabolism in Klebsiella aerogenes: Regulation of the Utilization ofAromatic Amino Acids as Sources ofNitrogen. C. GREGORY PARIS AND BORIS MAGASANIK* ...... 257-265 Identification of Bacillus subtilis men Mutants Which Lack o-Suc- cinyl Benzoyl-Coenzyme A Synthetase and Dihydroxynaph- thoate Synthase. R. MEGANATHAN, RONALD BENTLEY,* AND HARRY W. TABER ...... 328-332 Evidence for Involvement of Penicillin-Binding Protein 3 in Murein Synthesis During Septation but Not During Cell Elongation. GIUSEPPE A. BOTTA AND JAMES T. PARK* ...... 333-340 Purification of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 of Escherichia coli. SUSAN J. CURTIS AND JACK L. STROMINGER* ...... 398-403 Manganese and Defenses Against Oxygen Toxicity in Lacto- bacillus plantarum. FREDERICK S. ARCHIBALD AND IRWIN FRIDOVICH* ...... 442-451 Influence of Heme and Vitamin B12 on Growth and Fermentations of Bacteroides Species. MIN CHEN* AND M. J. WOLIN ...... 466-471 Lipid Synthesis During the Escherichia coli Cell Cycle. C. E. CARTY AND L. 0. INGRAM* ...... 472-478 Induction of Bacillus subtilis Sporulation by Nucleosides: Inosine Appears to be Sporogen. VAITHILINGAN SEKAR, SELMA P. WILSON, AND JAMES H. HAGEMAN* ...... 489-493 Rhizobium japonicum Mutant Strains Unable to Grow Chemoau- totrophically with H2. ROBERT J. MAIER ...... 533-540 Synthesis of Bacillus cereus Spore Coat Protein. ARTHUR I. ARONSON ...... 541-547 Divergent Effects of Cyclic Adenosine 3',5'-Monophosphate on For- mation of Type 1 Fimbriae in Different K-12 Strains of Esche- richia coli. BARRY I. EISENSTEIN,* EDWIN H. BEACHEY, AND SOLOMON S. SOLOMON ...... 620-623 Effects of Furazlocilin, a ft-Lactam Antibiotic Which Binds Selec- tively to Penicillin-Binding Protein 3, on Escherichia coli Mu- tants Deficient in Other Penicillin-Binding Proteins. LAURA S. SCHMIDT, GIUSEPPE BOTTA, AND JAMES T. PARK* ...... 632-637 Enzymology Purification and Properties of Deoxyribonucleic Acid Polymerase from Bacillus stearothermophilus. 0. K. KABOEV, L. A. LUCHKINA, A. T. AKHMEDOV, AND M. L. BEKKER* ...... 21-26 Continued on followingpage C(oontinued fromprecedingpage In Vitro Activation of Inactive Nitrogenase Component I with Mo- lybdate. PHILIP T. PIENKOS, STEPHEN KLEVICKIS, AND WIN- STON J. BRILL* ...... 248-256 Purification and Properties of Aromatic Amino Acid Aminotrans- ferase from Klebsiella aerogenes. C. GREGORY PARIS AND BORIS MAGASANIK* ...... 266-271 L-Cysteine Oxidase Activity in the Membrane of Neisseria menin- gitidis. E. K. C. Yu AND I. W. DEVOE* ...... 280-287 Glyoxylate Bypass Enzymes in Yersinia Species and Multiple Forms of Isocitrate Lyase in Yersinia pestis. SHARON HILLIER AND W. T. CHARNETZKY ...... 452-458 Sequence Homology in the Amino-Terminal and Active-Site Regions of Thermolabile Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase from a Thermophile. JOHN W. CRABB, ARCHIE L. MURDOCK, TSUNEO SUZUKI, JAMES W. HAMILTON, JAMES H. MCLINDEN, AND REMI E. AMELUNXEN ...... 503-512 Purification of Streptococcus Group C Bacteriophage Lysin.

JAWAHAR L. RAINA ...... 661-663 Errata Spontaneous Emergence of an Hfr Strain with a Cit Plasmid from Natural Isolates of Citrate-Positive Escherichia coli of Bovine Origin. NAOTAKA ISHIGURO, CHIAKI OKA, MASAYOSHI ASAGI, GIHEI SATO, AND MASANOSUKE. YOSHIKAWA ...... 672 Regulation of ilvEDA Expression Occurs Upstream of ilvG in Esch- erichia coli: Additional Evidence for an ilvGEDA Operon. C. S. SUBRAHMANYAM, JOHN D. NOTI, AND H. E. UMBARGER 673 In Vitro Formation of f8-Galactosidase with a Template Containing the lac Genes Fused to Gene ilvD. JOHN D. NonI AND H. E. UMBARGER ...... 673 Morphogenesis of Candida albicans and Cytoplasmic Proteins As- sociated with Differences in Morphology, Strain, or Tempera- ture. MARCIA MANNING AND THOMAS G. MITCHELL .... 673 * Asterisk refers to person to whom inquiries regarding the paper should be addressed.