Specificity and biological distribution of coenzyme M (2-mercaptoethanesulfonic acid).

abstract：:Cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate isolated from Mycobacterium smegmatis cells was identified by thin-layer chromatography, stepwise conversion to adenosine 5'-monophosphate and adenosine, ultraviolet absorption spectrum, phosphate analysis, and detection by two relatively specific radioisotopic methods. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee CH

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletion mutagenesis analysis of a duplicated gene necessary for Haemophilus influenzae serotype b capsule expression showed that only one functional copy of this gene is required for capsule production and for virulence in infant rats. Mutant strains generated in this study differed from each other and from the paren...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ely S,Tippett J,Kroll JS,Moxon ER

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the great majority of the aerobactin-producing enteric bacteria documented in the literature, Enterobacter cloacae EK33, isolated from a case of human neonatal meningitis, did not show any homology at the DNA level with the prototype aerobactin system encoded by the ColV-K30 plasmid. However, both the nuclear m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Crosa LM,Wolf MK,Actis LA,Sanders-Loehr J,Crosa JH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The degradation of synthetic compounds requires bacteria to recruit and adapt enzymes from pathways for naturally occurring compounds. Previous work defined the steps in 2,4-dinitrotoluene (2,4-DNT) metabolism through the ring fission reaction. The results presented here characterize subsequent steps in the pathway th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson GR,Jain RK,Spain JC

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Altenbern, Robert A. (U.S. Army Biological Laboratories, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.). Growth of L forms of streptomycin-dependent Proteus mirabilis. J. Bacteriol. 85:619-622. 1963.-A streptomycin-dependent mutant of Proteus mirabilis produces L forms on penicillin-containing medium when dihydrostreptomycin is also p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ALTENBERN RA

更新日期：1963-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In wild-type Escherichia coli, fumarate reductase encoded by the frd operon is inducible by its substrate in the absence of molecular oxygen and nitrate. Synthesis of this enzyme under permissive conditions requires the fnr+ gene product, which is believed to be a pleiotropic regulatory protein that activates transcri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iuchi S,Kuritzkes DR,Lin EC

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The frizzy (frz) genes of Myxococcus xanthus are required to control directed motility during vegetative growth and fruiting body formation. FrzCD, a protein homologous to the methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins from enteric bacteria, is modified by methylation in response to environmental conditions. Transfer of cel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McBride MJ,Zusman DR

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A detailed study of the cultural characteristics and cellular fatty acid composition of 27 isolates of Corynebacterium acnes was performed to establish the properties by which this organism may be identified and characterized. The fatty acids were extracted directly from whole cells and examined as methyl esters by ga...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moss CW,Dowell VR Jr,Lewis VJ,Schekter MA

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoinduction is a conserved mechanism of cell density-dependent gene regulation that occurs in a variety of gram-negative bacteria. Autoinducible luminescence in Vibrio fischeri requires a transcriptional activator, LuxR, while a LuxR homolog, LasR, activates elastase expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Both LuxR a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gray KM,Passador L,Iglewski BH,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of heat shock on Myxococcus xanthus was investigated during both glycerol- and starvation-induced development. Cells heat shocked at 40 degrees C for 1 h prior to a development-inducing signal displayed an accelerated rate of myxospore formation at 30 degrees C. Additionally, M. xanthus cells heat shocked p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Killeen KP,Nelson DR

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a transcriptional fusion to the lacZ gene, we have analyzed the anaerobic regulation of the hydrogenase 1 (hya) operon in response to different anaerobic growth conditions and to mutations in regulatory genes. We found that the transcription of the hya operon was induced when the growth condition was changed fro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brøndsted L,Atlung T

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An enzymatic assay was developed to measure tetrahydromethanopterin (H(4)MPT) levels in wild-type and mutant cells of Methylobacterium extorquens AM1. H(4)MPT was detectable in wild-type cells but not in strains with a mutation of either the orf4 or the dmrA gene, suggesting a role for these two genes in H(4)MPT biosy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rasche ME,Havemann SA,Rosenzvaig M

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Escherichia coli K12 have been prepared that carry the ruv mutation in combination with lon or uvrA mutant alleles. The ruv minus uvrA minus double mutant is more sensitive to ultraviolet light than the urvA minus single mutant, whereas the strain with ruv and ion mutations shows the same sensitivity to ult...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iyehara H,Otsuji N

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls (LOG walls) were isolated from cultures of Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790 in the exponential phase of growth. These walls were either allowed to undergo autolytic dissolution (in the presence or absence of trypsin) or wall autolysis was inactivated with sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS walls). Inactivated walls...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shockman GD,Martin JT

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The products of phospholipid turnover in Bacillus stearothermophilus were determined in cultures labeled to equilibrium and with short pulses of [32P]phosphate and [2-3H]glycerol. Label lost from the cellular lipid pool was recovered in three fractions: low-molecular-weight extracellular products, extracellular lipid,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Card GL,Finn DJ

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel sucrose hydrolase (SUH) from Xanthomonas axonopodis pv. glycines, a causative agent of bacterial pustule disease on soybeans, was studied at the functional and molecular levels. SUH was shown to act rather specifically on sucrose (K(m) = 2.5 mM) but not on sucrose-6-phosphate. Protein analysis of purified SUH ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim HS,Park HJ,Heu S,Jung J

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of the porcine pathogen Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae often form adherent colonies on agar plates due to expression of an operon, pgaABCD, encoding a poly-beta-1,6-N-acetyl-D-glucosamine (PGA) extracellular matrix. The adherent colony phenotype, which correlates with the ability to form biofilms on...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bossé JT,Sinha S,Li MS,O'Dwyer CA,Nash JH,Rycroft AN,Kroll JS,Langford PR

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various methods of inducing autolysis of Escherichia coli cells were investigated, some being described here for the first time. For the autolysis of growing cells only induction methods interfering with the biosynthesis of peptidoglycan were taken into consideration, whereas with harvested cells autolysis was induced...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leduc M,Kasra R,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens H17c glgB gene, was isolated by direct selection for colonies that produced clearing on starch azure plates. The gene was expressed in Escherichia coli from its own promoter. The glgB gene consisted of an open reading frame of 1,920 bp encoding a protein of 639 amino acids (calculated Mr, 7...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rumbak E,Rawlings DE,Lindsey GG,Woods DR

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporters form a large group of vitamin uptake systems in prokaryotes. They are composed of highly diverse, substrate-specific, transmembrane proteins (S units), a ubiquitous transmembrane protein (T unit), and homo- or hetero-oligomeric ABC ATPases. Biotin transporters represent a spec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Finkenwirth F,Kirsch F,Eitinger T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:von Graevenitz, Alexander (Yale University, New Haven, Conn.). Genetic transfer of streptomycin and aminopropanolstreptomycin resistance. J. Bacteriol. 88:960-964. 1964.-Transduction and conjugation experiments with Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli suggest that resistance to streptomycin (S) and aminopropano...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： VONGRAEVENITZ A

更新日期：1964-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage phi29 protein p6 is a viral architectural protein, which binds along the whole linear phi29 DNA in vivo and is involved in initiation of DNA replication and transcription control. Protein p1 is a membrane-associated viral protein, proposed to attach the viral genome to the cell membrane. Protein p17 is i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： González-Huici V,Alcorlo M,Salas M,Hermoso JM

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic Yersinia species employ a type III secretion system (TTSS) to target antihost factors, Yop proteins, into eukaryotic cells. The secretion machinery is constituted of ca. 20 Ysc proteins, nine of which show significant homology to components of the flagellar TTSS. A key event in flagellar assembly is the swi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lavander M,Sundberg L,Edqvist PJ,Lloyd SA,Wolf-Watz H,Forsberg A

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a promoter-probe expression vector for Bacillus subtilis. This plasmid, pCED6, can be used to fuse various DNA sequences to the structural gene of Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase, permitting analysis of the promoter activity of such sequences. pCED6 replicates and confers drug resistances in bo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donnelly CE,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysaccharide-containing material was located by histochemical staining on ultrathin sections of Bacillus cereus and several clostridial species during various phases of growth. These components were located along the cell wall in young vegetative cells and along the developing cortex in sporulating cells. In B. cere...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Walker PD,Short J

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of bacterial L-ornithine: alpha-ketoglutarate delta-aminotransferase (L-ornithine:2-oxo-acid aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.13]) was investigated, and Bacillus sphaericus (IFO 3525) was found to have the highest activity of the enzyme, which was inducibly formed by addition of L-ornithine or L-arginine to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yasuda M,Tanizawa K,Misono H,Toyama S,Soda K

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugation system of the IncP alpha plasmid RK2/RP4 is encoded by transfer regions designated Tra1, Tra2, and Tra3. The Tra1 core region, cloned on plasmid pDG4 delta 22, consists of the origin of transfer (oriT) and 2.6 kilobases of flanking DNA providing IncP alpha plasmid-specific functions that allow pDG4 del...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guiney DG,Deiss C,Simnad V,Yee L,Pansegrau W,Lanka E

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-aminoethylphosphonate transaminase (AEPT; the phnW gene product) of the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium 2-aminoethylphosphonate (AEP) degradation pathway catalyzes the reversible reaction of AEP and pyruvate to form phosphonoacetaldehyde (P-Ald) and L-alanine (L-Ala). Here, we describe the purification a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim AD,Baker AS,Dunaway-Mariano D,Metcalf WW,Wanner BL,Martin BM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made to determine whether factors other than the availability of phosphorus were involved in the regulation of synthesis of teichoic and teichuronic acids in Bacillus subtilis subsp. niger WM. First, the nature of the carbon source was varied while the dilution rate was maintained at about 0.3 h-1. Irrespe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kruyssen FJ,de Boer WR,Wouters JT

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) occur frequently in natural populations of pathogenic and commensal bacteria, resulting in a mutator phenotype. We identified a unique genetic element in Streptococcus pyogenes strain SF370 that controls MMR via a dynamic process of prophage excision and reintegration in response t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scott J,Thompson-Mayberry P,Lahmamsi S,King CJ,McShan WM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00