Analysis of the cellular localization of Bdr paralogs in Borrelia burgdorferi, a causative agent of lyme disease: evidence for functional diversity.

abstract：:The penultimate step in the biosynthesis of riboflavin (vitamin B2) involves the condensation of 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate with 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione, which is catalyzed by 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase (lumazine synthase). Pathogenic Brucella species adapted to an intr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zylberman V,Klinke S,Haase I,Bacher A,Fischer M,Goldbaum FA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis anti-TRAP protein regulates the ability of the tryptophan-activated TRAP protein to bind to trp operon leader RNA and promote transcription termination. AT synthesis is regulated both transcriptionally and translationally by uncharged tRNA(Trp). In this study, we examined the roles of AT synthesi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cruz-Vera LR,Gong M,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodopseudomonas capsulata required potassium (or rubidium or cesium as analogs of potassium) for growth. These cations were actively accumulated by the cells by a process following Michaelis-Menten saturation kinetics. The monovalent cation transport system had Km's of 0.2 mM K+, 0.5 mM Rb+, and 2.6 mM Cs+. The rates...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jasper P

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that progametangia in both the plus and the minus mating types of Mucor mucedo can be induced by one substance, namely (-)-trisporic acid B. A method is described for the determination of the concentration of the sex factors (trisporone, trisporic acid B, trisporic acid C) in mated cultures of Mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van den Ende H,Wiechmann AH,Reyngoud DJ,Hendriks T

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The homotrimeric enzyme Mt-Cam from Methanosarcina thermophila is the archetype of the gamma class of carbonic anhydrases. A search of databases queried with Mt-Cam revealed that a majority of the homologs comprise a putative subclass (CamH) in which there is major conservation of all of the residues essential for the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zimmerman SA,Tomb JF,Ferry JG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of Escherichia coli purR, which encodes the pur regulon repressor protein, is autoregulated. Autoregulation at the level of transcription requires two operator sites, designated purRo1 and purRo2 (O1 and O2). Operator O1 is in the region of DNA between the transcription start site and the site for trans...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rolfes RJ,Zalkin H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comamonas sp. strain CNB-1 degrades nitrobenzene and chloronitrobenzene via the intermediates 2-aminomuconate and 2-amino-5-chloromuconate, respectively. Deamination of these two compounds results in the release of ammonia, which is used as a source of nitrogen for bacterial growth. In this study, a novel deaminase wa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liu L,Wu JF,Ma YF,Wang SY,Zhao GP,Liu SJ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptidoglycan was prepared from purified Bacillus subtilis spores of wild-type and several mutant strains. Digestion with muramidase resulted in cleavage of the glycosidic bonds adjacent to muramic acid replaced by peptide or alanine side chains but not the bonds adjacent to muramic lactam. Reduction of the resulting ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Popham DL,Helin J,Costello CE,Setlow P

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven mutants of Haemophilus influenzae were isolated by the criterion of sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) inactivation of colony formation. These mutants and the wild type were characterized with regard to X-ray inactivation of colony formation, UV induction of division inhibition, the ability of the eight strains to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow JK,Brown DC,Boling ME,Mattingly A,Gordon MP

更新日期：1968-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice pathogen recognition receptor, XA21, confers resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae strains producing the type one system-secreted molecule, AvrXA21. X. oryzae pv. oryzae requires a regulatory two-component system (TCS) called RaxRH to regulate expression of eight rax (required for AvrXA21 activity) gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee SW,Jeong KS,Han SW,Lee SE,Phee BK,Hahn TR,Ronald P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of independently derived uracil-requiring mutant strains of the parent strain 168 were mapped by inter-mutant transformation crosses. Only a few of these mutant strains were found to be transformable. Studies were performed in which these transformable uracil-requiring mutant strains were used as the recipien...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kelleher RJ Jr,Gooder H

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the ATP:GTP 3'-pyrophosphotransferase (guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase I [GPSI]) from Streptomyces antibioticus is stimulated maximally by methanol at 20% (vol/vol) in assay mixtures. Although the enzyme is not activated by ribosomes, its activity is stimulated by tRNA (uncharged or charged) and by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jones GH

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaver, Judith R. (Iowa State University, Ames), and P. A. Pattee. Inducible resistance to erythromycin in Staphylococcus aureus. J. Bacteriol. 88:574-580. 1964.-The dissociated resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to erythromycin was examined and was found to possess the characteristics of an inducible enzyme. The ind...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： WEAVER JR,PATTEE PA

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) plays a central role in the regulation of motility, virulence, and biofilm formation in many pathogenic bacteria. EAL domain-containing phosphodiesterases are the major signaling proteins responsible for the degradation of c-di-GMP and maintenance of its cellular level...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen MW,Kotaka M,Vonrhein C,Bricogne G,Rao F,Chuah ML,Svergun D,Schneider G,Liang ZX,Lescar J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phage 21 holin, S(21), forms small membrane holes that depolarize the membrane and is designated as a pinholin, as opposed to large-hole-forming holins, like S(lambda). Pinholins require secreted SAR endolysins, a pairing that may represent an intermediate in the evolution of canonical holin-endolysin systems. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Park T,Struck DK,Dankenbring CA,Young R

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mukB gene is essential for the partitioning of sister chromosomes in Escherichia coli. A mukB null mutant is hypersensitive to the DNA gyrase inhibitor novobiocin. In this work, we isolated mutants suppressing the novobiocin hypersensitivity of the mukB null mutation. All suppressor mutations are localized in or n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Adachi S,Hiraga S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces coelicolor Müller contains two superoxide dismutases (SODs), nickel-containing (NiSOD) and iron- and zinc-containing SOD (FeZnSOD). The sodF gene encoding FeZnSOD was isolated by using PCR primers corresponding to the N-terminal peptide sequence of the purified FeZnSOD and a C-terminal region conserved am...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim EJ,Chung HJ,Suh B,Hah YC,Roe JH

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Vibrio vulnificus metalloprotease gene, vvp, was turned up rapidly when bacterial growth reached the late log phase. A similar pattern of expression has been found in the metalloprotease gene of Vibrio cholerae, and this has been shown to be regulated by a Vibrio harveyi LuxR-like transcriptional act...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shao CP,Hor LI

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydiae are widespread Gram-negative pathogens of humans and animals. Salicylidene acylhydrazides, developed as inhibitors of type III secretion system (T3SS) in Yersinia spp., have an inhibitory effect on chlamydial infection. However, these inhibitors also have the capacity to chelate iron, and it is possible tha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bao X,Gylfe A,Sturdevant GL,Gong Z,Xu S,Caldwell HD,Elofsson M,Fan H

更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Auxotrophs of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus blocked in each reaction of the synthetic pathway from chorismic acid to tryptophan were obtained after N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis. One novel class was found to be blocked in both anthranilate and p-aminobenzoate synthesis; these mutants (trpG) require p-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sawula RV,Crawford IP

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is a human pathogen that produces lethal septicemia in susceptible persons, and the primary virulence factor for this organism is capsular polysaccharide (CPS). The role of the capsule in V. vulnificus biofilms was examined under a variety of conditions, by using either defined CPS mutants or spontan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joseph LA,Wright AC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus DSM 8798 has been reported to synthesize isoprenoid wax ester storage compounds when grown on phytol as the sole carbon source under limiting nitrogen and/or phosphorous conditions. We hypothesized that isoprenoid wax ester synthesis involves (i) activation of an isoprenoid fatty aci...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Holtzapple E,Schmidt-Dannert C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pink yeast Rhodotorula rubra of marine origin was found to be capable of extended growth at very low phosphate concentrations (K(0.5) = 10.8 nm). Average intracellular phosphate concentrations, based on isotope exchange techniques, were 15 to 200 nm, giving concentration gradients across the cell envelope of about...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Button DK,Dunker SS,Morse ML

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization and transcriptional control of chromosomal cat genes (required for dissimilation of catechol by the beta-ketoadipate pathway) in the Pseudomonas putida biotype strain (ATCC 12633) are reported. Nucleotide sequence reveals that catR is separated by 135 bp from the divergently transcribed catBC,A; catC ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Houghton JE,Brown TM,Appel AJ,Hughes EJ,Ornston LN

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germination of Bacillus subtilis spores is normally initiated when nutrients from the environment interact with germinant receptors (GRs) in the spores' inner membrane (IM), in which most of the lipids are immobile. GRs and another germination protein, GerD, colocalize in the IM of dormant spores in a small focus term...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Troiano AJ Jr,Zhang J,Cowan AE,Yu J,Setlow P

更新日期：2015-01-01 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：:Staphylococcus aureus was shown to transport iron complexed to a variety of hydroxamate type siderophores, including ferrichrome, aerobactin, and desferrioxamine. An S. aureus mutant defective in the ability to transport ferric hydroxamate complexes was isolated from a Tn917-LTV1 transposon insertion library after sel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sebulsky MT,Hohnstein D,Hunter MD,Heinrichs DE

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double mutants which carry mutations in genes (rodA, pbpA) required for cell elongation (i.e., maintenance of rod shape) in combination with mutations in genes (ftsA, ftsI, ftsQ, or ftsZ) required for septation were constructed. Such mutants were able to grow for about two mass doublings at a normal rate at the restri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Begg KJ,Donachie WD

更新日期：1985-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For Escherichia coli, growth on acetate requires the induction of the enzymes of the glyoxylate bypass, isocitrate lyase and malate synthase. The branch point between the glyoxylate bypass and the Krebs cycle is controlled by phosphorylation of isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH), inhibiting that enzyme's activity and thus...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ikeda T,LaPorte DC

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequenced collection of plasmid-borne random fusions of Escherichia coli DNA to a Photorhabdus luminescens luxCDABE reporter was used as a starting point to select a set of 689 nonredundant functional gene fusions. This group, called LuxArray 1.0, represented 27% of the predicted transcriptional units in E. coli. Hi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van Dyk TK,DeRose EJ,Gonye GE

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00