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p. 1129

Eubacterial arylamine N-acetyltransferases - identification and comparison of 18 members of the protein family with conserved active site cysteine, histidine and aspartate residues

Payton, Mark, Mushtaq, Adeel, Yu, Tin-Wein, Wu, Ling-Juan, Sinclair, John, Sim, Edith

p. 1137

Evaluation of in vivo activation of protein kinase A under non-dissociable conditions through the overexpression of wild-type and mutant regulatory subunits in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Portela, Paula, Zaremberg, Vanina, Moreno, Silvia

p. 1149

Insertion of fluorescent fatty acid probes into the outer membranes of the pathogenic spirochaetes Treponema pallidum and Borrelia burgdorferi

Cox, David L., Radolf, Justin D.

p. 1161

Highly conserved sequences flank avirulence genes: isolation of novel avirulence genes from Pseudomonas syringae pv. pisi

Arnold, Dawn L., Jackson, Robert W., Fillingham, A. Jane, Goss, Susan C., Taylor, John D., Mansfield, John W., Vivian, Alan

p. 1171

Application of fibre-FISH (fluorescence in situ hybridization) to filamentous fungi: visualization of the rRNA gene cluster of the ascomycete Cochliobolus heterostrophus

Tsuchiya, Dai, Taga, Masatoki

p. 1183

Development of Streptococcus thermophilus lacZ as a reporter gene for Candida albicans

Uhl, M. Andrew, Johnson, Alexander D.

p. 1189

Genomic analysis of the histidine kinase family in bacteria and archaea

Kim, Dong-jin, Forst, Steven

p. 1197

A chromosome map of the European stone fruit yellows phytoplasma

Marcone, Carmine, Seemuller, Erich

p. 1213

Identity elements in tRNA-mediated transcription antitermination: implication of tRNA D- and T-arms in mRNA recognition

van de Guchte, Maarten, Ehrlich, S. Dusko, Chopin, Alain

p. 1223

Cyclic heptapeptide microcystin biosynthesis requires the glutamate racemase gene

Nishizawa, Tomoyasu, Asayama, Munehiko, Shirai, Makoto

p. 1235

Comparison of Tn5397 from Clostridium difficile, Tn916 from Enterococcus faecalis and the CW459tet(M) element from Clostridium perfringens shows that they have similar conjugation regions but different insertion and excision modules

Roberts, Adam P., Johanesen, Priscilla A., Lyras, Dena, Mullany, Peter, Rood, Julian I.

p. 1243

Isolation of strong expression signals of Mycobacterium tuberculosis

Triccas, James A., Britton, Warwick J., Gicquel, Brigitte

p. 1253

zur: a Zn2+-responsive regulatory element of Staphylococcus aureus

Lindsay, Jodi A., Foster, Simon J.

p. 1259

Lethality of glnD null mutations in Azotobacter vinelandii is suppressible by prevention of glutamine synthetase adenylylation

Colnaghi, Rita, Rudnick, Paul, He, Luhong, Green, Andrew, Yan, Dalai, Larson, Ethan, Kennedy, Christina

p. 1267

Genetics And Molecular Biology

Neisserial TonB-dependent outer-membrane proteins: detection, regulation and distribution of three putative candidates identified from the genome sequences

Paul C. Turner, Christopher E. Thomas, Igor Stojiljkovic, Christopher Elkins, Goksel Kizel, Dlawer A. A. Ala’Aldeen, P. F. Sparling

p. 1277–1290

Expression of the gap gene encoding glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase of Streptomyces aureofaciens requires GapR, a member of the AraC/XylS family of transcriptional activators

Sprusansky, O., Rezuchova, B., Homerova, D., Kormanec, J.

p. 1291

The Burkholderia cepacia fur gene: co-localization with omlA and absence of regulation by iron

Lowe, Carolyn A., Asghar, Atif H., Shalom, Gil, Shaw, Jonathan G., Thomas, Mark S.

p. 1303

The bio operon on the acquired symbiosis island of Mesorhizobium sp. strain R7A includes a novel gene involved in pimeloyl-CoA synthesis

Sullivan, John T., Brown, Steven D., Yocum, R. Rogers, Ronson, Clive W.

p. 1315

Molecular characterization of Pseudomonas putida KT2440 rpoH gene regulation

Manzanera, Maximino, Aranda-Olmedo, Isabel, Ramos, Juan L., Marques, Silvia

p. 1323

Transcripts of the genes sacB, amyE, sacC and csn expressed in Bacillus subtilis under the control of the 5' untranslated sacR region display different stabilities that can be modulated

Pereira, Yannick, Chambert, Regis, Leloup, Laurence, Daguer, Jean-Pierre, Petit-Glatron, Marie-Francoise

p. 1331

A general strategy for identification of S-layer genes in the Bacillus cereus group: molecular characterization of such a gene in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. galleriae NRRL 4045

Mesnage, Stephane, Haustant, Michel, Fouet, Agnes

p. 1343

Analysis of the structure-function relationship of the S-layer protein SbsC of Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC 12980 by producing truncated forms

Jarosch, Marina, Egelseer, Eva M., Huber, Carina, Moll, Dieter, Mattanovich, Diethard, Sleytr, Uwe B., Sara, Margit

p. 1353

Structure of the cell envelope of corynebacteria: importance of the non-covalently bound lipids in the formation of the cell wall permeability barrier and fracture plane

Puech, Virginie, Chami, Mohamed, Lemassu, Anne, Laneelle, Marie-Antoinette, Schiffler, Bettina, Gounon, Pierre, Bayan, Nicolas, Benz, Roland et al.

p. 1365

Assessment of GFP fluorescence in cells of Streptococcus gordonii under conditions of low pH and low oxygen concentration

Hansen, Martin C., Palmer, Robert J., Jr, Udsen, Camilla, White, David C., Molin, Soren

p. 1383