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Journal of Bacteriology JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY Volume 174 April 1992 No. 7 MINIREVIEW Is Cross Regulation by Phosphorylation of Two-Component Barry L. Wanner 2053-2058 Response Regulator Proteins Important in Bacteria? STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION Fan-Shaped Ejections of Regularly Arranged Murosomes Peter Giesbrecht, Thomas Kersten, 2241-2252 Involved in Penicillin-Induced Death of Staphylococci and Jorg Wecke Characterization of thefliE Genes of Escherichia coli and Volker Muller, Christopher J. 2298-2304 SalmoneUla typhimurium and Identification of the FliE Jones, Ikuro Kawagishi, Shin-Ichi Protein as a Component of the Flagellar Hook-Basal Body Aizawa, and Robert M. Macnab Complex PLANT MICROBIOLOGY Characterization of afixlJ-Regulated Bradyrhizobium Denise Anthamatten, Barbara 2111-2120 japonicum Gene Sharing Similarity with the Escherichia coli Scherb, and Hauke Hennecke fnr and Rhizobium melilotifixK Genes Diauxic Growth ofAgrobacterium tumefaciens 15955 on C. Shekhar Nautiyal, Patrice Dion, 2215-2221 Succinate and Mannopine and William Scott Chilton Rhizobium leguminosarum CFN42 Lipopolysaccharide Hong Tao, Nicholas J. Brewin, 2222-2229 Antigenic Changes Induced by Environmental Conditions and K. Dale Noel Chemical Characterization of pH-Dependent Structural U. Ramadas Bhat and R. W. 2230-2235 Epitopes of Lipopolysaccharides from Rhizobium Carlson leguminosarum Biovar Phaseoli Agrobacterium tumefaciens Transfers Extremely Long Agnes Miranda, Gary Janssen, 2288-2297 T-DNAs by a Unidirectional Mechanism Larry Hodges, Ernest G. Peralta, and Walt Ream GENETICS AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY The Bile Acid-Inducible baiB Gene from Eubacterium sp. Darrell H. Mallonee, Janet L. 2065-2071 Strain VPI 12708 Encodes a Bile Acid-Coenzyme A Ligase Adams, and Phillip B. Hylemon Determination of Genome Size, Macrorestriction Pattern Thomas S. Lucier and Robert R. 2078-2086 Polymorphism, and Nonpigmentation-Specific Deletion in Brubaker Yersinia pestis by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Proteins Encoded by the Escherichia coli Replication Peter D. Moir, Renate Spiegelberg, 2102-2110 Terminus Region Ian R. Oliver, J. Howard Pringle, and Millicent Masters Involvement of Phosphotransacetylase, Acetate Kinase, and Barry L. Wanner and M. R. 2124-2130 Acetyl Phosphate Synthesis in Control of the Phosphate Wilmes-Riesenberg Regulon in Escherichia coli A Salmonella typhimurium Cobalamin-Deficient Mutant Charlotte Grabau and John R. 2138-2144 Blocked in 1-Amino-2-Propanol Synthesis Roth The Products of the kdpDE Operon Are Required for James W. Polarek, Gregg Williams, 2145-2151 Expression of the Kdp ATPase of Escherichia coli and Wolfgang Epstein KdpD and KdpE, Proteins That Control Expression of the Mark 0. Walderhaug, James W. 2152-2159 kdpABC Operon, Are Members of the Two-Component Polarek, Petra Voelkner, Jean M. Sensor-Effector Class of Regulators Daniel, Joanne E. Hesse, Karlheinz Altendorf, and Wolfgang Epstein Continued on followingpage Continued firom preceding page Genetic Analysis of the Tn2l mer Operator-Promoter Soon-Jung Park, Joy Wireman, and 2160-2171 Anne 0. Summers Small Cytoplasmic RNA of Bacillus subtilis: Functional Kouji Nakamura, Yoko Imai, 2185-2192 Relationship with Human Signal Recognition Particle 7S Akira Nakamura, and Kunio RNA and Escherichia coli 4.5S RNA Yamane Physical and Genetic Mapping of the Genomes of Five S0ren A. Ladefoged and Gunna 2199-2207 Mycoplasma hominis Strains by Pulsed-Field Gel Christiansen Electrophoresis Staphylococcal Phosphoenolpyruvate-Dependent Detlef Kohlbrecher, Reinhard 2208-2214 Phosphotransferase System: Molecular Cloning and Eisermann, and Wolfgang Nucleotide Sequence of the Staphylococcus carnosus ptsI Hengstenberg Gene and Expression and Complementation Studies of the Gene Product A Single Regulatory Gene Integrates Control of Vitamin B12 Thomas A. Bobik, Michael Ailion, 2253-2266 Synthesis and Propanediol Degradation and John R. Roth The poc Locus Is Required for 1,2-Propanediol-Dependent Michelle R. Rondon and Jorge C. 2267-2272 Transcription of the Cobalamin Biosynthetic (cob) and Escalante-Semerena Propanediol Utilization (pdu) Genes of Salmonella typhimurium Characterization of the Lactococcus lactis Lactose Operon Rutger J. van Rooijen, Mike J. 2273-2280 Promoter: Contribution of Flanking Sequences and LacR Gasson, and Willem M. de Vos Repressor to Promoter Activity Cloning, Characterization, and Inactivation of the Bacillus Kimio Ito, Shigezo Udaka, and 2281-2287 brevis lon Gene Hideo Yamagata Interaction between DNA and a/Is-Type Small, Acid-Soluble Barbara Setlow, Dongxu Sun, and 2312-2322 Spore Proteins: a New Class of DNA-Binding Protein Peter Setlow Structural and Biochemical Characterization of the Thierry Meinnel, Emmanuelle 2323-2331 Escherichia coli argE Gene Product Schmitt, Yves Mechulam, and Sylvain Blanquet Genome Maps of Campylobacterjejuni and Campylobacter Diane E. Taylor, Michelle Eaton, 2332-2337 coli William Yan, and Nicholas Chang Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence of a Negative Regulator Hiroyuki Azakami, Hiroyuki 2344-2351 Gene for Klebsiefla aerogenes Arylsulfatase Synthesis and Sugino, and Yoshikatsu Murooka Identification of the Gene asfoL4 Growth Conditions Mediate Differential Transcription offim William R. Schwan, H. S. Seifert, 2367-2375 Genes Involved in Phase Variation of Type 1 Pili and James L. Duncan Similarity between the Myxococcus xanthus and StigmateUa Mei-Yin Hsu, Chunying Xu, 2384-2387 aurantiaca Reverse Transcriptase Genes Associated with Masayori Inouye, and Sumiko Multicopy, Single-Stranded DNA Inouye Chromosome Partitioning in Escherichia coli in the Absence Daniel Vinella, Aline Jaffe, Richard 2388-2390 of Dam-Directed Methylation D'Ari, Masamichi Kohiyama, and Patrick Hughes Revised Nucleotide Sequence of the gltP Gene, Which B. Tolner, B. Poolman, B. 2391-2393 Encodes the Proton-Glutamate-Aspartate Transport Protein Wallace, and W. N. Konings of Escherichia coli K-12 Impaired Cell Division and Sporulation of a Bacilus subtilis Bernard Beall and Joe Lutkenhaus 2398-2403 Strain with theftsA Gene Deleted Structure of the Gene Complementing uvr-402 in Nicole Sicard, Jacqueline Oreglia, 2412-2415 Streptococcus pneumoniae: Homology with Escherichia coli and Anne-Marie Estevenon uvrB and the Homologous Gene in Micrococcus luteus Escherichia coli Mutant Y16 Is a Double Mutant Carrying Kenneth J. Begg, Toshifumi 2416-2417 ThermosensitiveftsH andftsI Mutations Tomoyasu, William D. Donachie, Medhat Khattar, Hironori Niki, Kunitoshi Yamanaka, Sota Hiraga, and Teru Ogura Continued on following page Continued from preceding page PLASMIDS AND TRANSPOSONS Nonrandom F-Plasmid Replication in Escherichia coli K-12 Luud J. H. Koppes 2121-2123 Mutations Affecting Translational Coupling between the rep J. Praszkier, I. W. Wilson, and A. 2376-2383 Genes of an IncB Miniplasmid J. Pittard CELL SURFACES Structural Determinants in Addition to the Amino-Terminal Joseph M. Gennity, Hyeonsuk 2095-2101 Sorting Sequence Influence Membrane Localization of Kim, and Masayori Inouye Escherichia coli Lipoproteins Capsule Structure of Proteus mirabilis (ATCC 49565) Linda M. Beynon, Anita J. 2172-2177 Dumanski, Robert J. C. McLean, Leann L. MacLean, James C. Richards, and Malcolm B. Perry Monoclonal Antibodies as Probes To Examine Joseph S. Lam, Michele Y. C. 2178-2184 Serotype-Specific and Cross-Reactive Epitopes of Handelsman, Teresa R. Chivers, Lipopolysaccharides from Serotypes 02, 05, and 016 of and Leslie A. MacDonald Pseudomonas aeruginosa Analysis of a Novel Linkage Unit of O-Linked Paul Messner, Rudolf Christian, 2236-2240 Carbohydrates from the Crystalline Surface Layer Judith Kolbe, Gerhard Schulz, and Glycoprotein of Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum S102-70 Uwe B. Sleytr Production of Active Serratia marcescens Metalloprotease Yousin Suh and Michael J. 2361-2366 from Escherichia coli by at-Hemolysin HlyB and HlyD Benedik Common Antigen Lipopolysaccharide from Pseudomonas M. Rivera, T. R. Chivers, J. S. 2407-2411 aeruginosa AK1401 as a Receptor for Bacteriophage A7 Lam, and E. J. McGroarty PHYSIOLOGY AND METABOLISM The mtrAB Operon of Bacillus subtiis Encodes GTP Paul Babitzke, Paul Gollnick, and 2059-2064 Cyclohydrolase I (MtrA), an Enzyme Involved in Folic Acid Charles Yanofsky Biosynthesis, and MtrB, a Regulator of Tryptophan Biosynthesis Oxygen Sensitivity of an Escherichia coli Mutant Howard Adler, Richard Mural, and 2072-2077 Bruce Suttle Degradation of 2,7-Dichlorodibenzo-p-Dioxin by the Khadar Valli, Hiroyuki Wariishi, 2131-2137 Lignin-Degrading Basidiomycete Phanerochaete and Michael H. Gold chrysosporium Iron(III) Hydroxamate Transport in Escherichia coil K-12: Gabriele Schultz-Hauser, Wolfgang 2305-2311 FhuB-Mediated Membrane Association of the FhuC Protein Koster, Heinz Schwarz, and and Negative Complementation ofjhuC Mutants Volkmar Braun Isolation and Genetic Complementation of a C. Benning and C. R. Somerville 2352-2360 Sulfolipid-Deficient Mutant of Rhodobacter sphaeroides ENZYMES AND PROTEINS Identification of a Cocaine Esterase in a Strain of Adrian J. Britt, Neil C. Bruce, and 2087-2094 Pseudomonas maltophilia Christopher R. Lowe Spectroscopic and Genetic Evidence for Two James P. Shapleigh, John J. Hill, 2338-2343 Heme-Cu-Containing Oxidases in Rhodobacter sphaeroides James 0. Alben, and Robert B. Gennis The Structural Genes of the Nitric Oxide Reductase Cornelia Braun and Walter G. 2394-2397 Complex from Pseudomonas stutzeri Are Part of a Zumft 30-Kilobase Gene Cluster for Denitrification Continued on following page Continued from preceding page BACTERIOPHAGES Proteolysis
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