Transcription from fusion promoters generated during transposition of transposon Tn4652 is positively affected by integration host factor in Pseudomonas putida.

abstract：:The predominant mode of growth of bacteria in the environment is within sessile, matrix-enclosed communities known as biofilms. Biofilms often complicate chronic and difficult-to-treat infections by protecting bacteria from the immune system, decreasing antibiotic efficacy, and dispersing planktonic cells to distant b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson DW,Suzuki K,Oakford L,Simecka JW,Hart ME,Romeo T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pdrK encodes a pyridoxine (PN)/pyridoxal (PL)/pyridoxamine (PM) kinase thought to function in the salvage pathway of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) coenzyme biosynthesis. The observation that pdxK null mutants still contain PL kinase activity led to the hypothesis that Escherichia coli K-12 contains at least one other B...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang Y,Tsui HC,Man TK,Winkler ME

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Bacillus thuringiensis containing refractile spores autolyzed readily when suspended in buffer. The autolysate contained enzymes which lysed vegetative cell walls of the organism. Three enzymes were isolated from the autolysate, and each was purified approximately 30-fold. One enzyme, most active near pH 4.0,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kingan SL,Ensign JC

更新日期：1968-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of the fungal respiratory and systemic pathogen Histoplasma capsulatum have been placed in several different classes by using genomic restriction fragment length polymorphisms (RFLPs), but in general have not been distinguished further. We report here that a polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based DNA ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kersulyte D,Woods JP,Keath EJ,Goldman WE,Berg DE

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501 is a versatile nitrogen-fixing bacterium capable of living in diverse environments and coping with various oxidative stresses. NfiS, a regulatory noncoding RNA (ncRNA) involved in the control of nitrogen fixation in A1501, was previously shown to be required for optimal resistance to H2O2; h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang H,Zhan Y,Yan Y,Liu Y,Hu G,Wang S,Yang H,Qiu X,Liu Y,Li J,Lu W,Elmerich C,Lin M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence obtained with an improved in vivo assay of fimbrial phase variation in Escherichia coli supported a revised understanding of the roles of fimB and fimE in the site-specific DNA rearrangement with which they are associated. A previously proposed model argued that fimB and fimE play antagonistic, unidirectional...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McClain MS,Blomfield IC,Eisenstein BI

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SAL-TOL in vivo recombinant plasmid pKF439 was characterized in a strain from a mixed culture of bacteria harboring various degradative plasmids. Analysis of the gene organization of pKF439 revealed that the 57-kilobase TOL fragment, including the 40-kilobase TOL metabolic region, was inserted into the complete SAL re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Furukawa K,Miyazaki T,Tomizuka N

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phytoplasmas are plant-pathogenic bacteria that cause numerous diseases. This study shows a strong positive selection on the phytoplasma antigenic membrane protein (Amp). The ratio of nonsynonymous to synonymous substitutions was >1 with all the methods we tested. The clear positive selections imply an important biolo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kakizawa S,Oshima K,Jung HY,Suzuki S,Nishigawa H,Arashida R,Miyata S,Ugaki M,Kishino H,Namba S

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pertussis toxin (PT) is secreted from Bordetella pertussis by a type IV secretion system, known as the Ptl transporter, that comprises nine different proteins, PtlA to PtlI. In this study, we found that PtlD is required for the stability of three Ptl proteins, PtlE, PtlF, and PtlH. A region limited to the C-terminal 7...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Verma A,Cheung AM,Burns DL

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MotA contains a conserved C-terminal cluster of negatively charged residues, and MotB contains a conserved N-terminal cluster of positively charged residues. Charge-altering mutations affecting these residues impair motility but do not diminish Mot protein levels. The motility defects are reversed by second-site mutat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hosking ER,Manson MD

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells of Escherichia coli THU were starved for thymine, they continued to grow without division for at least two successive volume doublings at their initial rate. Within experimental error this average rate of volume increase, 0.21 mum(3) per hr, was identical with that observed in control cultures during two ge...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kubitschek HE

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tol-Pal system of Escherichia coli is involved in maintaining outer membrane stability. Mutations in tolQ, tolR, tolA, tolB, or pal genes result in sensitivity to bile salts and the leakage of periplasmic proteins. Moreover, some of the tol genes are necessary for the entry of group A colicins and the DNA of filam...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray MC,Germon P,Vianney A,Portalier R,Lazzaroni JC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MreC and MreD, along with the actin homologue MreB, are required to maintain the shape of rod-shaped bacteria. The depletion of MreCD in rod-shaped bacteria leads to the formation of spherical cells and the accumulation of suppressor mutations. Ovococcus bacteria, such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, lack MreB homologues...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Land AD,Winkler ME

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tectiviridae is a family of tailless bacteriophages with Gram-negative and Gram-positive hosts. The family model PRD1 and its close relatives all infect a broad range of enterobacteria by recognizing a plasmid-encoded conjugal transfer complex as a receptor. In contrast, tectiviruses with Gram-positive hosts are highl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kan S,Fornelos N,Schuch R,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AraC homolog ToxT coordinately regulates virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae. ToxT is required for transcriptional activation of the genes encoding cholera toxin and the toxin coregulated pilus, among others. In this work we focused on the interaction of ToxT with the tcpA promoter and investigated the me...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hulbert RR,Taylor RK

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several preparations of staphylococcal alpha-toxin and delta-lysin were studied in order to compare hemolytic activity with capacity to lyse bacterial protoplasts. delta-Lysin in relatively low concentration lysed protoplasts of Sarcina lutea, protoplasts of Streptococcus faecalis, and spheroplasts of Escherichia coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernheimer AW,Avigad LS,Grushoff P

更新日期：1968-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned three copies of a repeated DNA segment from Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto strain B31, present on both circular and linear plasmids of this and other B. burgdorferi sensu lato strains. The DNA sequences are characterized by a highly homologous segment containing two open reading frames (ORFs), ORF-A...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zückert WR,Meyer J

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MobB is a small protein encoded by the broad-host-range plasmid R1162 and required for efficient mobilization of its DNA during conjugation. The protein was shown previously to stabilize the relaxosome, the complex of plasmid DNA and mobilization proteins at the origin of transfer (oriT). We have generated in-frame mo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perwez T,Meyer RJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose-6-phosphate kinase (pfkA) mutants have impaired growth on carbon sources which enter glycolysis at or above the level of fructose-6-phosphate, but the degree of impairment depends on the carbon source (e.g., growth on glucose is very much slower than growth on glucose-6-phosphate). The present report contains...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vinopal RT,Fraenkel DG

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conjugative transfer and replacement of hundreds of kilobases of a bacterial chromosome can occur in vitro, but replacements in nature are either an order of magnitude smaller or involve the movement of mobile genetic elements. We discovered that two lineages of Staphylococcus aureus, including a pandemic methicillin-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robinson DA,Enright MC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cohen, Jay O. (Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Ga.), Glenda S. Cowart, and William B. Cherry. Antibodies against Staphylococcus aureus in nonimmunized rabbits. J. Bacteriol. 82:110-114. 1961.-Antibody against staphylococci was demonstrated in the serum of each of 36 nonimmunized specific-pathogen-free rabbits th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： COHEN JO,COWART GS,CHERRY WB

更新日期：1961-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When 100 group A streptococcus isolates were screened, drs, a variant of sic, was identified in emm12 and emm55 isolates. Molecular characterization showed that the drs gene sequence is highly conserved, unlike the sic gene sequence. However, the variation in gene size observed was due to the presence of extra interna...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sagar V,Kumar R,Ganguly NK,Menon T,Chakraborti A

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 has one Mo nitrogenase that is made under oxic growth conditions in specialized cells called heterocysts and a second Mo nitrogenase that is made only under anoxic conditions in vegetative cells. The two large nif gene clusters responsible for these two nitrogenases are under the control...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vernon SA,Pratte BS,Thiel T

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid starvation allows limited synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in Bacillus subtilis strain W23. DNA synthesis increased by about 30% after leucine starvation and by about 60% after histidine starvation. Genetic analysis on the DNA synthesized after amino acid starvation showed that all genetic markers e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Copeland JC

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tryptophan is an essential amino acid that is required for normal development in Chlamydia species, and tryptophan metabolism has been implicated in chlamydial persistence and tissue tropism. The ability to synthesize tryptophan is not universal among the Chlamydiaceae, but species that have a predicted tryptophan bio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Akers JC,Tan M

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lignin peroxidases (LiP) of Phanerochaete chrysosporium are encoded by a family of six closely related genes. Five LiP genes have been localized to the same dimorphic chromosome. In this investigation, relative transcript levels of the LiP genes were determined. Transcripts of the LiPA, LiPB, and O282 genes were at si...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stewart P,Kersten P,Vanden Wymelenberg A,Gaskell J,Cullen D

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predicted amino acid sequence of Bacillus subtilis ycsK exhibits similarity to the GDSL family of lipolytic enzymes. Northern blot analysis showed that ycsK mRNA was first detected from 4 h after the onset of sporulation and that transcription of ycsK was dependent on SigK and GerE. The fluorescence of the YcsK-gr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Masayama A,Kuwana R,Takamatsu H,Hemmi H,Yoshimura T,Watabe K,Moriyama R

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freundlich, Martin (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) and Herman C. Lichstein. Tryptophanase-tryptophan synthetase systems in Escherichia coli. III. Requirements for enzyme synthesis. J. Bacteriol. 84:996-1006. 1962.-The requirements for the formation of tryptophanase and tryptophan synthetase in Escherichia coli ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： FREUNDLICH M,LICHSTEIN HC

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five temperature-sensitive lysis mutants were found to possess very low diaminopimelic acid (Dpm) adding enzyme activity in vitro. Murein synthesis at 42 C was impaired, and uridine-5'-diphosphate-N-acetyl-muramyl-l-Ala- d-Glu (UDP-MurNAc-dipeptide) was accumulated. In the presence of NaCl, the mutants could grow at 4...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lugtenberg EJ,v Schijndel-van Dam A

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric reductase activity was examined in Azotobacter vinelandii and was found to be located in the cytoplasm. The specific activities of soluble cell extracts were not affected by the iron concentration of the growth medium; however, activity was inhibited by the presence of Zn2+ during cell growth and also by the ad...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huyer M,Page WJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00