Chalker, Alison F., Ingraham, Karen A., Lunsford, R. Dwayne, Bryant, Alexander P., Bryant, Joanna, Wallis, Nicola G., Broskey, John P., Pearson, Stewart C. et al.

p. 1547

A novel {beta}-glucoside-specific PTS locus from Streptococcus mutans that is not inhibited by glucose

Cote, Christopher K., Cvitkovitch, Dennis, Bleiweis, Arnold S., Honeyman, Allen L.

p. 1555

The mannitol-specific enzyme II (mtlA) gene and the mtlR gene of the PTS of Streptococcus mutans

Honeyman, Allen L., Curtiss, Roy, III

p. 1565

The essential two-component regulatory system encoded by yycF and yycG modulates expression of the ftsAZ operon in Bacillus subtilis

Fukuchi, Keisuke, Kasahara, Yasuhiro, Asai, Kei, Kobayashi, Kazuo, Moriya, Shigeki, Ogasawara, Naotake

p. 1573

The acetyl xylan esterase of Bacillus pumilus belongs to a family of esterases with broad substrate specificity

Degrassi, Giuliano, Kojic, Milan, Ljubijankic, Goran, Venturi, Vittorio

p. 1585

Phylogeny and functional conservation of {sigma}E in endospore-forming bacteria

Arcuri, Edna F., Wiedmann, Martin, Boor, Kathryn J.

p. 1593

Functional analysis of the ClpATPase ClpA of Brucella suis, and persistence of a knockout mutant in BALB/c mice

Ekaza, Euloge, Guilloteau, Laurence, Teyssier, Jacques, Liautard, Jean-Pierre, Kohler, Stephan

p. 1605

Dual regulation of catecholate siderophore biosynthesis in Azotobacter vinelandii by iron and oxidative stress

Tindale, Anne E., Mehrotra, Manisha, Ottem, Derek, Page, William J.

p. 1617

Plant-Microbe Interactions

Role of GOGAT in carbon and nitrogen partitioning in Rhizobium etli

Adriana Castillo, Hermenegildo Taboada, Alberto Mendoza, Brenda Valderrama, Sergio Encarnación, Jaime Mora

p. 1627–1637

Interaction of Salmonella serotypes with porcine macrophages in vitro does not correlate with virulence

Watson, Patricia R., Paulin, Sue M., Jones, Philip W., Wallis, Timothy S.

p. 1639

Microvirus of Chlamydia psittaci strain Guinea pig Inclusion Conjunctivitis: isolation and molecular characterization

Hsia, Ru-ching, Ting, Li-Min, Bavoil, Patrik M.

p. 1651

Investigation of the translation-initiation factor IF2 gene, infB, as a tool to study the population structure of Streptococcus agalactiae

Hedegaard, Jakob, Hauge, Majbritt, Fage-Larsen, Jeppe, Mortensen, Kim Kusk, Kilian, Mogens, Sperling-Petersen, Hans Uffe, Poulsen, Knud

p. 1661

The newly characterized colicin Y provides evidence of positive selection in pore-former colicin diversification

Riley, M. A., Cadavid, Luis, Collett, Marc S., Neely, Melody N., Adams, Mark D., Phillips, Cheryl M., Neel, James V., Friedman, David

p. 1671

Systematics And Evolution

Genetic diversity of Ralstonia solanacearum as assessed by PCR-RFLP of the hrp gene region, AFLP and 16S rRNA sequence analysis, and identification of an African subdivision

Stéphane Poussier, Danielle Trigalet-Demery, Peggy Vandewalle, Bruno Goffinet, Jacques Luisetti, André Trigalet

p. 1679–1692

Development of oligonucleotide probes and PCR primers for detecting phylogenetic subgroups of sulfate-reducing bacteria

Daly, Kristian, Sharp, Richard J., McCarthy, Alan J.

p. 1693

Arrangement and regulation of the genes for meta-pathway enzymes required for degradation of phenol in Comamonas testosteroni TA441

Arai, Hiroyuki, Ohishi, Tohru, Chang, Mee Young, Kudo, Toshiaki

p. 1707

Carbohydrate sulfation effects on growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Chance, Deborah L., Mawhinney, Thomas P.

p. 1717

Serine and alanine racemase activities of VanT: a protein necessary for vancomycin resistance in Enterococcus gallinarum BM4174

Arias, Cesar A., Weisner, Jan, Blackburn, Jonathan M., Reynolds, Peter E.

p. 1727

Osmotic regulation of cyclic 1,2-{beta}-glucan synthesis

de Iannino, Nora Inon, Briones, Gabriel, Iannino, Florencia, Ugalde, Rodolfo A.

p. 1735

Dynein and dynactin deficiencies affect the formation and function of the Spitzenkorper and distort hyphal morphogenesis of Neurospora crassa

Riquelme, Meritxell, Gierz, Gerhard, Bartnicki-Garcia, Salomon

p. 1743

Reduced virulence of Candida albicans mutants lacking the GNA1 gene encoding glucosamine-6-phosphate acetyltransferase

Mio, Toshiyuki, Kokado, Michiko, Arisawa, Mikio, Yamada-Okabe, Hisafumi

p. 1753