Two active forms of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase in gram-positive bacteria.

abstract：:Mycoplasmas isolated from simian (Cercopithecus aethiops) tissues were shown to have biological, biochemical, and serological properties and electrophoretic cell protein patterns similar to strain Navel isolated from man 15 years ago. The simian and human Navel strains comprised a single serogroup, distinct from the e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DelGiudice RA,Carski TR,Barile MF,Lemcke RM,Tully JG

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated the Bradyrhizobium japonicum gene encoding glutamine synthetase I (glnA) from a phage lambda library by using a fragment of the Escherichia coli glnA gene as a hybridization probe. The rhizobial glnA gene has homology to the E. coli glnA gene throughout the entire length of the gene and can complement...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Carlson TA,Guerinot ML,Chelm BK

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized three distinct families of repeated sequences in the genome of the cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. strain PCC 7601. These repeated sequences were present at a level of about 100 copies per Calothrix genome and consisted of tandemly amplified heptanucleotides. These elements were named short tandemly repe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mazel D,Houmard J,Castets AM,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene coding for the delta 5-3-ketosteroid isomerase (KSI) of Pseudomonas putida biotype B has been cloned, and its entire nucleotide sequence has been determined by a dideoxynucleotide chain termination method. A 2.1-kb DNA fragment containing the ksi gene was cloned from a P. putida biotype B genomic l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim SW,Kim CY,Benisek WF,Choi KY

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperate phage, phi CTX, is a cytotoxin-converting phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this study, we characterized the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures of phi CTX-resistant mutants derived from phi CTX-sensitive strains. phi CTX infectivity was neutralized by LPS preparations derived from sensitive strains but ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yokota S,Hayashi T,Matsumoto H

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emulsan, the polyanionic emulsifying agent synthesized by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1, was depolymerized by an enzyme obtained from a soil bacterium YUV-1. The extracellular emulsan depolymerase was produced when strains RAG-1 and YUV-1 were grown together on agar medium. The enzyme was extracted from the agar a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shoham Y,Rosenberg E

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the active product of pepsin digestion of rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG), F(ab')(2) produced from antiserum against Neurospora glutamate dehydrogenase, showed it to behave in the same way, in both antienzyme and precipitation experiments, as homologous IgG. It is proposed that the inhibition of glutamate deh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts DB

更新日期：1967-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weiss, K. F. (Iowa State University, Ames), J. C. Ayres, and A. A. Kraft. Inhibitory action of selenite on Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris, and Salmonella thompson. J. Bacteriol. 90:857-862. 1965.-The resistance of three microorganisms, Escherichia coli (ISU-41), Proteus vulgaris (ISU-37c), and Salmonella thompson ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weiss KF,Ayres JC,Kraft AA

更新日期：1965-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of six strains of Escherichia coli K-12 carrying mutations affecting the citrate-dependent iron uptake system is described. Genetic analysis of these mutants showed that the mutation affecting the citrate system are cluster together at about min 6 on the E. coli chromosome. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Woodrow GC,Langman L,Young IG,Gibson F

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chb operon of Escherichia coli is involved in the utilization of the β-glucosides chitobiose and cellobiose. The function of chbG (ydjC), the sixth open reading frame of the operon that codes for an evolutionarily conserved protein is unknown. We show that chbG encodes a monodeacetylase that is essential for growt...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Verma SC,Mahadevan S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella typhimurium pi-histidine episome was identified by Ames et al. (2) in an unstable partial revertant of a deletion mutation-containing strain, hisG203. HisG203 lacks the histidine operator, promoter, and part of the first structural gene. In this paper, we study some properties of pi factor and demonstra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Levinthal M,Yeh J

更新日期：1972-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An early step in crown gall tumor formation involves the attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to host plant cells. A. tumefaciens C58::A205 (C58 attR) is a Tn3HoHo1 insertion mutant that was found to be avirulent on Bryophyllum daigremontiana and unable to attach to carrot suspension cells. The mutation mapped to a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reuhs BL,Kim JS,Matthysse AG

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotactic transducer proteins of Escherichia coli contain four or five methyl-accepting glutamates that are crucial for sensory adaptation and gradient sensing. Two residues arise from posttranslational deamidation of glutamines to yield methyl-accepting glutamates. We addressed the significance of this arrangement ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Park C,Dutton DP,Hazelbauer GL

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Rhodobacter capsulatus hemC mutant has been isolated and used to show that oxygen regulates the intracellular levels of porphobilinogen. Experiments using a hemB-cat gene fusion demonstrated that oxygen does not transcriptionally regulate hemB transcription. Porphobilinogen synthase activity is not regulated by oxyg...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Biel AJ,Canada K,Huang D,Indest K,Sullivan K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent, and other members of the spirochetal genus Borrelia have double-stranded linear plasmids in addition to supercoiled circular plasmids. The copy number relative to the chromosome was determined for 49- and 16-kb linear plasmids and a 27-kb circular plasmid of the type strai...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hinnebusch J,Barbour AG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brucellae are the etiological agents of brucellosis, a worldwide-distributed zoonosis. These bacteria are facultative intracellular parasites and thus are able to adjust their metabolism to the extra- and intracellular environments encountered during an infectious cycle. However, this aspect of Brucella biology is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zúñiga-Ripa A,Barbier T,Conde-Álvarez R,Martínez-Gómez E,Palacios-Chaves L,Gil-Ramírez Y,Grilló MJ,Letesson JJ,Iriarte M,Moriyón I

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis ureABC operon encodes homologs of the three subunits of urease enzymes of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Disruption of ureC prevented utilization of urea as a nitrogen source and resulted in a partial growth defect in minimal medium containing limiting amounts of arginine or allantoin as the sole...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cruz-Ramos H,Glaser P,Wray LV Jr,Fisher SH

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prolyl-phenylalanine-specific serine protease (dentilisin) is a major extracellular protease produced by Treponema denticola. The gene, prtP, coding for the protease was recently cloned and sequenced (K. Ishihara, T. Miura, H. K. Kuramitsu, and K. Okuda, Infect. Immun. 64:5178-5186, 1996). In order to determine the ro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishihara K,Kuramitsu HK,Miura T,Okuda K

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caulobacter crescentus cells adhere to surfaces by using an extremely strong polar adhesin called the holdfast. The polysaccharide component of the holdfast is comprised in part of oligomers of N-acetylglucosamine. The genes involved in the export of the holdfast polysaccharide and the anchoring of the holdfast to the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Toh E,Kurtz HD Jr,Brun YV

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of starving Escherichia coli for glucose and required amino acids were determined. The disappearance of the majority of the ribosomal population, particularly of the ribonucleic acid (RNA) moiety, was noted. The events during recovery are detailed, with emphasis placed on the timing, requirements, and cont...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jacobson A,Gillespie D

更新日期：1968-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Supercoiled double-stranded DNA molecules (plasmids) were isolated from plants infected with three laboratory strains of western aster yellows mycoplasma-like organism (AY-MLO) by using cesium chloride-ethidium bromide density gradients. Southern blot analysis, using plasmids from the severe strain of AY-MLO (SAY-MLO)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuske CR,Kirkpatrick BC

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Silica is deposited in and around the spore coat layer of Bacillus cereus, and enhances the spore's acid resistance. Several peptides and proteins, including diatom silaffin and silacidin peptides, are involved in eukaryotic silica biomineralization (biosilicification). Homologous sequence search revealed a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Motomura K,Ikeda T,Matsuyama S,Abdelhamid MA,Tanaka T,Ishida T,Hirota R,Kuroda A

更新日期：2015-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid composition was studied in two strains each of mid-log phase cells of Bacillus thuringiensis, B. larvae, B. popilliae, B. alvei, and B. lentimorbus. Total lipids varied from 2.5 to 3.5% of the cell dry weight of B. thuringiensis to 4.3 to 5.0% of B. popilliae. Phospholipids in the organisms examined ranged from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bulla LA,Bennett GA,Shotwell OL

更新日期：1970-12-01 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：:The spores of Bacillus subtilis show remarkable resistance to many environmental stresses, due in part to the presence of an outer proteinaceous structure known as the spore coat. GerQ is a spore coat protein essential for the presence of CwlJ, an enzyme involved in the hydrolysis of the cortex during spore germinatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ragkousi K,Setlow P

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12 incD repeats in the F plasmid each contain about 60 bits of information, which is three times the amount of conservation that a single protein would need to distinguish the repeats from the rest of the Escherichia coli genome. This is the first reported discovery of a case of threefold excess information, and i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herman ND,Schneider TD

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the Salmonella typhimurium hook protein from the gene cloned on a multicopy plasmid results in partial suppression of the flagellar assembly defects of certain classes of Escherichia coli mutants (K. Ohnishi, M. Homma, K. Kutsukake, and T. Iino, J. Bacteriol, 169:1485-1488, 1987). This phenomenon allowed ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jones CJ,Homma M,Macnab RM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulen, William A. (Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Yellow Springs, Ohio). Effect of tungstate on the uptake and function of molybdate in Azotobacter agilis. J. Bacteriol. 82:130-134. 1961.-The reported competitive inhibition of molybdate by tungstate was investigated in an effort to elucidate molybdenum functions ass...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bulen WA

更新日期：1961-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A thermosensitive sporulation mutant of Bacillus subtilis containing a mutation in the secY gene was isolated and characterized. No asymmetric septum specific to the sporulation was detected by electron microscopy at the nonpermissive temperature, indicating that the block occurred at a very early stage of sporulation...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoshikawa H,Jeong SM,Hirata A,Kawamura F,Doi RH,Takahashi H

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sixteen independent Azorhizobium sesbaniae ORS571 vector insertion (Vi) mutants defective in ammonium assimilation (Asm-) were selected; genomic DNA sequences flanking the insertion endpoints were cloned directly. Resulting recombinant plasmids were used to identify, by hybridization, corresponding wild-type DNA seque...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donald RG,Lapointe J,Ludwig RA

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00