MOL ECULAR M IC R OBIOL OGY|VOL U M E 98|

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D E C E M B E R 2015

V O L UME 9 8|

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ISSN 0950-382X|w w w .m o l - m i cr o .co mContents
MicroCommentaries
995 A strange family, or how a new pleolipovirus reveals its
friends and relatives
M. Dyall-Smith & K. Porter

Research Articles
1002 Identification and characterization of SNJ2, the first
temperate pleolipovirus integrating into the genome ofthe SNJ1-lysogenic archaeal strainY. Liu, J. Wang, Y. Liu, Y. Wang, Z. Zhang,
H. M. Oksanen, D. H. Bamford & X. Chen
1021 Evidence that a modified type IV pilus-like system
powers gliding motility and polysaccharide secretion infilamentous cyanobacteria
B. Khayatan, J. C. Meeks & D. D. Risser
1037 A thiol-disulfide oxidoreductase of the Gram-positive
pathogen Corynebacterium diphtheriae is essential for
viability, pilus assembly, toxin production and virulence
M. E. Reardon-Robinson, J. Osipiuk, N. Jooya,C. Chang, A. Joachimiak, A. Das & H. Ton-That

1147 BadR (BB0693) controls growth phase-dependent
induction of rpoS and bosR in Borrelia burgdorferi via
recognizing TAAAATAT motifs
Z. Ouyang & J. Zhou
1168 MntR(Rv2788): a transcriptional regulator that controls
manganese homeostasis in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
R. Pandey, R. Russo, S. Ghanny, X. Huang, J. Helmann& G. M. Rodriguez
1184 Stereochemical conversion of C3-vinyl group to
1-hydroxyethyl group in bacteriochlorophyll c by thehydratases BchF and BchV: adaptation of green sulfur
bacteria to limited-light environments*
J. Harada, M. Teramura, T. Mizoguchi, Y. Tsukatani,
K. Yamamoto & H. Tamiaki
1199 Essentiality of threonylcarbamoyladenosine (t6A), auniversal tRNA modification, in bacteria
P. C. Thiaville, B. El Yacoubi, C. Köhrer, J. J. Thiaville,
C. Deutsch, D. Iwata-Reuyl, J. M. Bacusmo,
J. Armengaud, Y. Bessho, C. Wetzel, X. Cao,P. A. Limbach, U. L. RajBhandary & V. de Crécy-Lagard

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1089 Core pathways operating during methylotrophy ofBacillus methanolicus MGA3 and induction of abacillithiol-dependent detoxification pathway upon
formaldehyde stress
J. E. N. Müller, F. Meyer, B. Litsanov, P. Kiefer &J. A. Vorholt

1133 Osmoporin OmpC forms a complex with MlaA tomaintain outer membrane lipid asymmetry in
Escherichia coli
Z.-S. Chong, W.-F. Woo & S.-S. Chng|

1073 Phenotypic heterogeneity and temporal expression of
the capsular polysaccharide in Staphylococcus aureus
S. E. George, T. Nguyen, T. Geiger, C. Weidenmaier,J. C. Lee, J. Liese & C. Wolz

1115 Disruption of the GABA shunt affects mitochondrial
respiration and virulence in the cereal pathogen
Fusarium graminearum
J. Bönnighausen, D. Gebhard, C. Kröger, B. Hadeler,
T. Tumforde, R. Lieberei, J. Bergemann, W. Schäfer& J. Bormann

VOL U M E 9 81051 Refining the pH response in Aspergillus nidulans: amodulatory triad involving PacX, a novel zinc binuclear
cluster protein*
H.-J. Bussink, E. M. Bignell, T. Múnera-Huertas,
D. Lucena-Agell, C. Scazzocchio, E. A. Espeso,
M. Bertuzzi, J. Rudnicka, S. Negrete-Urtasun,
M. M. Peñas-Parilla, L. Rainbow, M. Á. Peñalva,
H. N. Arst Jr. & J. Tilburn

molecular microbiology

998 Motility in cyanobacteria: polysaccharide tracks andType IV pilus motors
A. Wilde & C. W. Mullineaux1101 A repeat sequence domain of the ring-exported protein1 of Plasmodium falciparum controls export machineryarchitecture and virulence protein trafficking
E. McHugh, S. Batinovic, E. Hanssen, P. J. McMillan,
S. Kenny, M. D. W. Griffin, S. Crawford, K. R. Trenholme,
D. L. Gardiner, M. W. A. Dixon & L. Tilley

Corrigendum
1222 Identification of host genes that affect acquisition of an
integrative and conjugative element in Bacillus subtilis
C. M. Johnson & A. D. Grossman|
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molecular
microbiology
On the cover:Low-light adaptation
and bacteriochlorophyllmaturation in green
sulfur bacteria
New insights into
pH regulation inAspergillus nidulans
A type IV pilus-like
nanomotor powers
gliding motility inﬁlamentous
cyanobacteria
E. coli OmpC and outermembrane lipid
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