Spector, Michael P., Garcia del Portillo, Francisco, Bearson, Shawn M. D., Mahmud, Atif, Magut, Maureen, Finlay, B. Brett, Dougan, Gordon, Foster, John W. et al.

p. 3035

Mutational analysis of the Paracoccus denitrificans c-type cytochrome biosynthetic genes ccmABCDG: disruption of ccmC has distinct effects suggesting a role for CcmC independent of CcmAB

Page, M. Dudley, Ferguson, Stuart J.

p. 3047

Genetic and functional analysis of genes required for the post-modification of the polyketide antibiotic TA of Myxococcus xanthus

Paitan, Yossi, Orr, Elisha, Ron, Eliora Z., Rosenberg, Eugene

p. 3059

Direct evidence for mRNA binding and post-transcriptional regulation by Escherichia coli aconitases

Tang, Yue, Guest, John R.

p. 3069

The hydrophobic heptad repeat in Region III of Escherichia coli transcription factor sigma 54 is essential for core RNA polymerase binding

Hsieh, Mingli, Hsu, Hsiu-Mei, Hwang, Shiow-Fen, Wen, Feng-Chen, Yu, Ju-Shan, Wen, Chun-Chiang, Li, Chuan

p. 3081

Absence of RNase III alters the pathway by which RNAI, the antisense inhibitor of ColE1 replication, decays

Binnie, Uta, Wong, Kenny, McAteer, Sean, Masters, Millicent

p. 3089

A family 26 mannanase produced by Clostridium thermocellum as a component of the cellulosome contains a domain which is conserved in mannanases from anaerobic fungi

Halstead, Jonathan R., Vercoe, Philip E., Gilbert, Harry J., Davidson, Keith, Hazlewood, Geoffrey P.

p. 3101

Genetics And Molecular Biology

Genetic and biochemical characterization of the α and β components of a propionyl-CoA carboxylase complex of Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2)

E. Rodrı́guez, H. Gramajo

p. 3109–3119

A novel member of the subtilisin-like protease family from Bacillus subtilis

Valbuzzi,, Angela, Ferrari, Eugenio, Albertini, Alessandra M.

p. 3121

Sequence analysis of three Bacillus cereus loci carrying PlcR-regulated genes encoding degradative enzymes and enterotoxin

Okstad, Ole A., Gominet, Myriam, Purnelle, Benedicte, Rose, Matthias, Lereclus, Didier, Kolsto, Anne-Brit

p. 3129

Insertional inactivation of hblC encoding the L2 component of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 haemolysin BL strongly reduces enterotoxigenic activity, but not the haemolytic activity against human erythrocytes

Lindback, Toril, Okstad, Ole Andreas, Rishovd, Anne-Lise, Kolsto, Anne-Brit

p. 3139

PepR1, a CcpA-like transcription regulator of Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. lactis -- Schick et al. 145 (11): 3147 -- Microbiology

p. 3147

Synthesis of lactococcin 972, a bacteriocin produced by Lactococcus lactis IPLA 972, depends on the expression of a plasmid-encoded bicistronic operon

Martinez, Beatriz, Fernandez, Maria, Suarez, Juan E., Rodriguez, Ana

p. 3155

IS1626, a new IS900-related Mycobacterium avium insertion sequence

Puyang, Xiaoling, Lee, Karen, Pawlichuk, Corey, Kunimoto, Dennis Y.

p. 3163

Context-sensitive transposition of IS6110 in mycobacteria

Wall, Sue, Ghanekar, Kiran, McFadden, Johnjoe, Dale, Jeremy W.

p. 3169

Alteration of a single amino acid residue reverses fosfomycin resistance of recombinant MurA from Mycobacterium tuberculosis

De Smet, Koen A. L., Kempsell, Karen E., Gallagher, Alex, Duncan, Ken, Young, Douglas B.

p. 3177

Analysis of the role of 7 kDa cold-shock proteins of Lactococcus lactis MG1363 in cryoprotection

Wouters, Jeroen A., Jeynov, Boyan, Rombouts, Frank M., de Vos, Willem M., Kuipers, Oscar P., Abee, Tjakko

p. 3185

The Q15H mutation enables Crh, a Bacillus subtilis HPr-like protein, to carry out some regulatory HPr functions, but does not make it an effective phosphocarrier for sugar transport

Martin-Verstraete, Isabelle, Galinier, Anne, Darbon, Emmanuelle, Quentin, Yves, Kilhoffer, Marie-Claude, Charrier, Veronique, Haiech, Jacques, Rapoport, Georges et al.

p. 3195

Glycerol transport and phosphoenolpyruvate-dependent enzyme I- and HPr-catalysed phosphorylation of glycerol kinase in Thermus flavus

Darbon, Emmanuelle, Ito, Kiyoshi, Huang, Hua-Shan, Yoshimoto, Tadashi, Poncet, Sandrine, Deutscher, Josef

p. 3205

Impairment of sterol biosynthesis leads to phosphorus and calcium accumulation in Leishmania acidocalcisomes

Vannier-Santos, Marcos A., Martiny, Andrea, Lins, Ulysses, Urbina, Julio A., Borges, Valeria M., de Souza, Wanderley

p. 3213

The yeast endosomal Na+/H+ exchanger, Nhx1, confers osmotolerance following acute hypertonic shock

Nass, Richard, Rao, Rajini

p. 3221

Catalase activity is necessary for heat-shock recovery in Aspergillus nidulans germlings

Noventa-Jordao, Maria Antonia, Couto, Ricardo M., Goldman, Maria Helena S., Aguirre, Jesus, Iyer, Suresh, Caplan, Allan, Terenzi, Hector F., Goldman, Gustavo H.

p. 3229

Actin-related proteins in Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and their interactions with actin-binding proteins

Guerrero-Barrera, Alma L., de la Garza, Mireya, Mondragon, Ricardo, Garcia-Cuellar, Claudia, Segura-Nieto, Magdalena

p. 3235

Novel Helicobacter pylori {alpha}1,2-fucosyltransferase, a key enzyme in the synthesis of Lewis antigens

Wang, Ge, Boulton, Peter G., Chan, Nora W. C., Palcic, Monica M., Taylor, Diane E.

p. 3245

The oxygenase component of the2-aminobenzenesulfonate dioxygenase system from Alcaligenes sp. strain O-1

Mampel, Jorg, Ruff, Jurgen, Junker, Frank, Cook, Alasdair M.

p. 3255

Anaerobic toluene-catabolic pathway in denitrifying Thauera aromatica: activation and {beta}-oxidation of the first intermediate, (R)-(+)-benzylsuccinate

Leutwein, Christina, Heider, Johann

p. 3265

Organization of threonine biosynthesis genes from the obligate methylotroph Methylobacillus flagellatus

Marchenko, George N., Marchenko, Natalia D., Tsygankov, Yuriy D., Chistoserdov, Andrei Y.

p. 3273

Population biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from oropharyngeal carriage and invasive disease

Muller-Graf, Christine D. M., Whatmore, Adrian M., King, Samantha J., Trzcinski, Krzysztof, Pickerill, A. Paul, Doherty, Neil, Paul, John, Griffiths, David et al.

p. 3283

Expression of cytotoxicity by potential pathogens in the standard Escherichia coli collection of reference (ECOR) strains

Lai, Xin-He, Wang, Su-Yan, Uhlin, Bernt Eric

p. 3295

Microbial diversity in marine sediments from Sagami Bay and Tokyo Bay, Japan, as determined by 16S rRNA gene analysis

Urakawa, Hidetoshi, Kita-Tsukamoto, Kumiko, Ohwada, Kouichi

p. 3305

Mycoplasma synoviae surface protein MSPB as a recombinant antigen in an indirect ELISA

Noormohammadi, Amir H., Markham, Philip F., Markham, Jillian F., Whithear, Kevin G., Browning, Glenn F.

p. 3317