Structure-based functional analysis of plasmid R6K’s replication protein: 1 Key amino acids at the π/DNA interface 2 3 Selvi Kunnimalaiyaan, Sheryl A. Rakowski and Marcin Filutowicz* 4 5 Department of Bacteriology, University of Wisconsin 6 420 Henry Mall, Madison, Wisconsin 53706 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Running title: Key amino acids for π binding and function 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 ...

A novel approach to identification of host ligand-binding proteins: 1 leptospiral outer-membrane protein microarray 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Marija Pinne*, James Matsunaga, David A. Haake 9 10 11 12 ResearchService, 151, and Division of Infectious Diseases, 111F, Veterans Affairs 13 Greater Los Angeles Healthcare System, Los Angeles, CA 90073, USA; 14 Departments of Medicine and Urology at The David Geffe...

Lessons in Fundamental Mechanisms and Diverse Adaptations from the 1 2015 BLAST (Bacterial Locomotion and Signal Transduction) Meeting 2 3 Birgit M. Prüβ, Jun Liu, Penelope I. Higgs, Lynmarie K. Thompson 4 Department of Veterinary and Microbiological Sciences, North Dakota State University, Fargo ND 5 58108 6 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Texas Medical School at...

CcpA-Mediated Catabolite Activation of the Bacillus subtilis ilv-leu Operon 1 and Its Negation by Either CodYor TnrA-Mediated Negative Regulation 2 3 4 Yasutaro Fujita*, Takenori Satomura, Shigeo Tojo, and Kazutake Hirooka 5 6 7 Department of Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Science and Biotechnology, Fukuyama 8 University, 985 Sanzo, Higashimura-cho, Fukuyama-shi, Hiroshima 729-0292, Japan 9 10 ...

6 7 Jessica K. Kajfasz , Isamar Rivera-Ramos , Jacqueline Abranches , Alaina R. 8 Martinez , Pedro L. Rosalen , Adam M. Derr , Robert G. Quivey 1,2 and José A. 9 Lemos 1,2* 10 11 12 Center for Oral Biology 1 and Department of Microbiology and Immunology , University 13 of Rochester Medical Center, Rochester, New York 14642; Piracicaba Dental School, 14 Department of Physiological Sciences, Univ...

3 Andaleeb Sajid, Gunjan Arora, Meetu Gupta, Anshika Singhal, Kausik Chakraborty, Vinay 4 Kumar Nandicoori and Yogendra Singh 5 6 Institute of Genomics and Integrative Biology (CSIR), Delhi-110007, India 7 National Institute of Immunology, Aruna Asaf Ali Marg, New Delhi-110067, India 8 9 10 11 Running title: Regulation of mycobacterial Ef-Tu by phosphorylation 12 13 14 15 *Corresponding Address...

Submitted to: Journal of Bacteriology 1 Section: Genetics and Molecular Biology 2 3 4 Modulation of Rho-dependent transcription termination in Escherichia coli by the H-NS 5 family of proteins 6 7 8 Running title : H-NS and Rho-dependent termination 9 10 11 Shivalika Saxena and J. Gowrishankar * 12 13 Laboratory of Bacterial Genetics, Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics, 14 Hyderabad ...

4 Running title: Potassium uptake and impact on C. glutamicum 5 6 Martin Follmann, Markus Becker, Ines Ochrombel, Vera Ott, Reinhard Krämer and 7 Kay Marin 8 9 Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, 50674 Köln, Germany 10 11 * Corresponding authors 12 Kay Marin and Reinhard Krämer 13 Institute of Biochemistry, University of Cologne, 50674 Köln, Germany 14 Tel. 49 (0)221 470 6476 15 F...

Carcinogenesis is a multiyear, multistep, multipath disease of progressive genetic and associated tissue damage. Chemoprevention—defined as the use of drugs or other agents to inhibit, delay or reverse this process—is recognized as a very promising and important area in clinical cancer research [1, 2] and has proved to be an effective strategy for risk reduction of breast, prostate and colorect...

Two new members of the genus Thiomicrospira were isolated from an intertidal mud flat sample with thiosulfate as the electron donor and CO2 as carbon source. On the basis of differences in genotypic and phenotypic characteristics, it is proposed that strain JB-A1T (= DSM 12350T) and strain JB-A2T (= DSM 12351T) are members of two new species, Thiomicrospira kuenenii and Thiomicrospira frisia, r...