Discovery of a nonclassical siderophore, legiobactin, produced by strains of Legionella pneumophila.

abstract：:Mycoplasma mobile has a unique mechanism that enables it to glide on solid surfaces faster than any other gliding mycoplasma. To elucidate the gliding mechanism, we developed a transformation system for M. mobile based on a transposon derived from Tn4001. Modification of the electroporation conditions, outgrowth time,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tulum I,Yabe M,Uenoyama A,Miyata M

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type IV pili of plasmid R64 belonging to the type IVB group are required only for liquid mating. They consist of the major and minor components PilS pilin and PilV adhesin, respectively. PilS pilin is first synthesized as a 22-kDa prepilin from the pilS gene and is then processed to a 19-kDa mature pilin by PilU p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shimoda E,Muto T,Horiuchi T,Furuya N,Komano T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cysB region in Salmonella typhimurium regulates in a positive manner the noncontiguous structural genes for the enzymes responsible for sulfate reduction in cysteine biosynthesis. We treated three cysB mutants with chemical mutagens and selected 81 secondary mutants in which the inability to utilize sulfate was su...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Borum PR,Monty KJ

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The flaW, flaU, and flaV genes of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 were cloned into pBR322. These genes were mapped on the cloned DNA fragments by restriction endonuclease analysis and construction of the deletion derivatives. Their gene products were identified, by the minicell method, as proteins whose molecular weights w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Homma M,Kutsukake K,Iino T

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis ribose transport operon (rbs) was shown to be subject to AbrB-mediated control through direct AbrB-DNA binding interactions in the vicinity of the promoter. Overproduction of AbrB was shown to relieve catabolite repression of rbs during growth in the presence of poorer carbon sources such as arabin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Strauch MA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inactivation of ccpA in Enterococcus faecalis leads to reduction of the growth rate, derepression of the galKETR operon in the presence of a mixture of glucose and galactose, and reduction of transcription of ldh in the presence of glucose. Moreover, the E. faecalis ccpA gene fully complements a Bacillus subtilis ccpA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leboeuf C,Leblanc L,Auffray Y,Hartke A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 6th American Society for Microbiology Conference on Cell-Cell Communication in Bacteria convened from 16 to 19 October 2017 in Athens, GA. In this minireview, we highlight some of the research presented at that meeting that addresses central questions emerging in the field, including the following questions. How a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brown SP,Blackwell HE,Hammer BK

更新日期：2018-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Nisin is a pore-forming antimicrobial peptide. The capacity of nisin to induce transmembrane movement of a fluorescent phospholipid in lipid vesicles was investigated. Unilamellar phospholipid vesicles that contained a fluorescent phospholipid (1-acyl-2-(6-[(7-nitro-2-1, 3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]caproyl)-sn-glycero-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moll GN,Konings WN,Driessen AJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, the 4-amino-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (HMP) moiety of thiamine is synthesized from 5-aminoimidazole ribotide (AIR), a branch point metabolite of purine and thiamine biosynthesis. ThiC is a member of the radical S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) superfamily and catalyzes the complex chemical rearrangeme...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Palmer LD,Dougherty MJ,Downs DM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of mRNA from the lactose (lac) operon of Escherichia coli has been studied in ribonuclease (RNase) III-deficient strains (rnc-105). The induction lag for beta-galactosidase from the first gene was twice as long, and enzyme synthesis was reduced 10-fold in one such mutant compared with its isogenic rnc+ ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Talkad V,Achord D,Kennell D

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fowler, Audree V. (University of California, Los Angeles), and Irving Zabin. Effects of dimethylsulfoxide on the lactose operon in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 92:353-357. 1966.-Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) at a concentration of 5% (v/v) in the culture medium inhibits the growth of Escherichia coli to only a slight ext...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fowler AV,Zabin I

更新日期：1966-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis, specialized cells called heterocysts occur in a regular pattern along the filament and are the sites of nitrogen fixation. We used two different types of DNA-excess RNA hybridization techniques to estimate the number of genes expressed in recently differentiated, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lynn ME,Bantle JA,Ownby JD

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extracellular, 700,000-Mr multiprotein complex that catalyzed the hydrolysis of crystalline cellulose (Avicel) was isolated from cultures of Clostridium sp. strain C7, a mesophile from freshwater sediment. In addition to cellulose (Avicel, ball-milled filter paper), the multiprotein complex hydrolyzed carboxymethyl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cavedon K,Leschine SB,Canale-Parola E

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, carbon catabolite repression (CCR) of many genes is mediated at cis-acting carbon repression elements (cre) by the catabolite repressor protein CcpA. Mutations in transcription-repair coupling factor (mfd) partially relieve CCR at cre sites located downstream of transcriptional start sites by abo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zalieckas JM,Wray LV Jr,Fisher SH

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sharon, Nehama (University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Ind.), Morris Pollard, and W. R. Klemm. Psittacosis-infected cell system for studies on radiation damage. J. Bacteriol. 86:1139-1144. 1963.-The unique replication pattern of the agent of psittacosis in cells provides a means for studying biological effects of radia...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SHARON N,POLLARD M,KLEMM WR

更新日期：1963-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding protein WhiA is conserved in Gram-positive bacteria and is present in the genetically simple cell wall-lacking mycoplasmas. The protein shows homology to eukaryotic homing endonucleases but lacks nuclease activity. WhiA was first characterized in streptomycetes, where it regulates the expression of key...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bohorquez LC,Surdova K,Jonker MJ,Hamoen LW

更新日期：2018-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A combined physical and genetic map of the genome of strain SG24 of Vibrio cholerae O139 Bengal, a novel non-O1 strain having epidemic potential, has been constructed by using the enzymes NotI, SfiI, and CeuI. The genome of SG24 is circular, and the genome size is about 3. 57 Mb. The linkages between 47 NotI and 32 Sf...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Khetawat G,Bhadra RK,Kar S,Das J

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Escherichia coli cells are unable to grow on beta-glucosides. Spontaneous mutants arise, however, which are able to utilize certain aromatic beta-glucosides such as salicin or arbutin as carbon sources, revealing the presence of a cryptic operon called bgl. Mutations activating the operon map within (or clos...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schnetz K,Toloczyki C,Rak B

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines certain membrane-related aspects of oxygen poisoning in Escherichia coli K1060 (fabB fadE lacI) and its parent strain, K-12 Ymel. Cells were grown to exponential or stationary phase in a minimal medium and exposed to air plus 300 lb/in2 of O2 as a suspension in minimal salts. After an initial lag, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harley JB,Santangelo GM,Rasmussen H,Goldfine H

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ToxR protein of Vibrio cholerae regulates the expression of several virulence factors that play important roles in the pathogenesis of cholera. Previous experiments with ToxR-alkaline phosphatase (ToxR-PhoA) fusion proteins suggested a model for gene regulation in which the inactive form of ToxR was a monomer and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ottemann KM,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smith, P. B. (Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Ga.). Growth of staphylococci on mercuric chloride agar. J. Bacteriol. 84:1016-1019. 1962.-An attempt has been made to corroborate a report that "epidemic" strains of staphylococci are more resistant to mercuric salts than are "nonepidemic" strains. A comparison of m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SMITH PB

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addition of casein hydrolysate to suspensions of washed, nonpigmented, nonproliferating Serratia marcescens incubating at 27 C induced biosynthesis of prodigiosin. Four amino acids of casein hydrolysate, dl-aspartic acid, l-glutamic acid, l-proline, and l-alanine caused formation of pigment when added individually. dl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Williams RP,Gott CL,Qadri SM

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two key elements that are thought to be required for replication initiation in eubacteria are the DnaA protein, a trans-acting factor, and the replication origin, a cis-acting element. As a first step in studying the replication initiation process in mycobacteria, we have isolated a 4-kb chromosomal DNA fragment from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rajagopalan M,Qin MH,Nash DR,Madiraju MV

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans is an opportunistic pathogenic yeast which frequently develops resistance to the antifungal agent fluconazole (FCZ) in patients undergoing long-term therapy. FCZ-resistant strains often display a reduced intracellular FCZ accumulation which correlates with the overexpression of the ATP-binding cassett...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alarco AM,Raymond M

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photorhabdus is a genus of gram-negative Enterobacteriaceae that is pathogenic to insect larvae while also maintaining a mutualistic relationship with nematodes from the family Heterorhabditis, where the bacteria occupy the gut of the infective juvenile (IJ) stage of the nematode. In this study we describe the identif...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bennett HP,Clarke DJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several phosphate-starvation-inducible (psi) genetic loci in Salmonella typhimurium were identified by fusing the lacZ gene to psi promoters by using the Mu d1 and Mu d1-8 bacteriophages. Although several different starvation conditions were examined, the psi loci responded solely to phosphate deprivation. A regulator...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Foster JW,Spector MP

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used Tn917lacZ to mutagenize the Bacillus subtilis chromosome and have isolated mutants that are defective in chemotaxis and motility. Mapping of the transposon inserts identified two new loci. Mutations in one of these loci generated mutants that had paralyzed flagella. Accordingly, we designate this a mot lo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zuberi AR,Ying CW,Parker HM,Ordal GW

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme nicotinamide mononucleotide (NMN) adenylyltransferase (EC 2.7.7.1) catalyzes the synthesis of NAD+ and nicotinic acid adenine dinucleotide. It has been purified to homogeneity from cellular extracts of the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus. Through a database search, a highly significant match w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Raffaelli N,Pisani FM,Lorenzi T,Emanuelli M,Amici A,Ruggieri S,Magni G

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cloning vectors were introduced into Streptococcus faecalis by conjugation. A conjugative plasmid (pVA797) and cloning vector pVA838 recombined in Streptococcus sanguis at homologous sequences, forming a cointegrate. The pVA797::pVA838 cointegrate transferred to S. faecalis by conjugation. Recombination between homolo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith MD,Clewell DB

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has two separate genes (APT1 and APT2) that encode two potentially different forms of adenine phosphoribosyltransferase (APRT). However, genetic analysis indicated that only APT1 could code for a complementing activity. Cloning and expression of both the APT1 and APT2 genes in Escher...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alfonzo JD,Crother TR,Guetsova ML,Daignan-Fornier B,Taylor MW

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00