Genetic characterization of the metK locus in Escherichia coli K-12.

abstract：:The glnA mRNA, encoding glutamine synthetase, is differentially accumulated in the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 in media containing different nitrogen sources. With the different nitrogen compounds, transcription of glnA initiated at a single site located -146 nucleotides upstream of the translatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cohen-Kupiec R,Gurevitz M,Zilberstein A

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proline analogue, 4,5-dehydro-l-pipecolic acid (baikiain) induces the formation in Salmonella typhimurium of the two enzymes catalyzing the degradation of proline, proline oxidase and Delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylic acid (P5C) dehydrogenase. The level of induction by 20 mm baikiain is about 10% of the maximum level ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dendinger S,Brill WJ

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relative stability of membrane proteins in Escherichia coli was investigated to determine whether these proteins are degraded at heterogeneous rates and, if so, whether the degradative rates are correlated with the sizes or charges of the proteins. Cells growing in a glucose-limited chemostat with a generation tim...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schroer DW,St John AC

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of isocitrate dehydrogenase-deficient (icd) mutants were overgrown by double mutants (icd glt) lacking citrate synthase activity also. The icd mutants grew more slowly than wild-type cells or the double mutants because they accumulated an inhibitory metabolite (possibly citrate). Intracellular citrate levels ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lakshmi TM,Helling RB

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heptapeptide-nucleotide microcin C (McC) targets aspartyl-tRNA synthetase. Upon its entry into a susceptible cell, McC is processed to release a nonhydrolyzable aspartyl-adenylate that inhibits aspartyl-tRNA synthetase, leading to the cessation of translation and cell growth. Here, we surveyed Escherichia coli cel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kazakov T,Vondenhoff GH,Datsenko KA,Novikova M,Metlitskaya A,Wanner BL,Severinov K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, an obligate anaerobe, exhibits a relatively high degree of aerotolerance and possesses superoxide dismutase (SOD) which is induced by exposure to air. To clarify roles for SOD in this organism, the gene encoding SOD (sod) on the P. gingivalis chromosome was disrupted in a gene-directed way by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakayama K

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy was used to measure the thickness of air-dried, collapsed murein sacculi from Escherichia coli K-12 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Air-dried sacculi from E. coli had a thickness of 3.0 nm, whereas those from P. aeruginosa were 1.5 nm thick. When rehydrated, the sacculi of both bacteria swelle...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yao X,Jericho M,Pink D,Beveridge T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli cells are shown to be attracted to the l-amino acids alanine, asparagine, aspartate, cysteine, glutamate, glycine, methionine, serine, and threonine, but not to arginine, cystine, glutamine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, phenylalanine, tryptophan, tyrosine, or valine. Bacteria grown in a pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mesibov R,Adler J

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Interest in finding small RNAs (sRNAs) in bacteria has significantly increased in recent years due to their regulatory functions. Development of high-throughput methods and more sophisticated computational algorithms has allowed rapid identification of sRNA candidates in different species. However, given their various...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsai CH,Liao R,Chou B,Palumbo M,Contreras LM

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A circular genetic map of Bacillus stearothermophilus NUB36 was constructed by transduction with bacteriophage TP-42C and protoplast fusion. Sixty-four genes were tentatively assigned a cognate Bacillus subtilis gene based on growth response to intermediates or end products of metabolism, cross-feeding, accumulation o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vallier H,Welker NE

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sigma 54 associates with bacterial core RNA polymerase and converts it into an enhancer-responsive enzyme. Deletion of the N-terminal 40 amino acids is known to result in loss of the ability to respond to enhancer binding proteins. In this work PCR mutagenesis and genetic screens were used to identify a small patch, f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Syed A,Gralla JD

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellum formation by ubiquinone- and menaquinone-deficient mutant strains of Escherichia coli K-12 was studied under both aerobic and anaerobic growth conditions. Ubiquinone was found to be obligatory for aerobic flagellum formation but could be replaced by menaquinone for anaerobic flagellum formation. A mutant dev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hertz R,Bar-Tana J

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterium was isolated by elective culture with p-hydroxybenzoate as substrate and nitrate as electron acceptor. It grew either aerobically or anaerobically, by nitrate respiration, on a range of aromatic compounds. The organism was identified as a pseudomonad and was given the trivial name Pseudomonas PN-1. Benzoat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor BF,Campbell WL,Chinoy I

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The folded chromosome of Escherichia coli has been investigated under various lysis and physiological conditions. A new gradient system was devised that allows excellent separation between unlysed cells and envelope-associated and envelope-free chromosomes. Isotope incorporation experiments showed that the fraction of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Korch C,Ovrebo S,Kleppe K

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strains lysogenic for a thermoinducible Mu prophage (Mu cts62) undergo rapid lysis about 50 min after heat induction. Induction of Mu cts62 apparently causes damage to the host sequences in which Mu is inserted. The normal expression of A, BU, and X genes of Mu is needed for this specific deleterious ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Razzaki T,Bukhari AI

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gilden, R. V. (Wistar Institute, Philadelphia, Pa.), and R. I. Carp. Effects of cycloheximide and puromycin on synthesis of simian virus 40 T antigen in green monkey kidney cells. J. Bacteriol. 91:1295-1297. 1966.-Synthesis of the simian virus 40 (SV40) T antigen in primary African green monkey kidney cells was abolis...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gilden RV,Carp RI

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term labeling with radioactive thymidine led to inaccurate estimates of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis at some growth rates in steady-state cultures of Escherichia coli B/r. Estimates were corrected in chemostat cultures by adding adenosine, a known inhibitor of thymidine phosphorylase. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kubitschek HE,Valdez D,Freedman ML

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quorum-sensing system of Staphylococcus aureus, the accessory gene regulator (Agr) system, is responsible for increased transcription of certain exoprotein genes and decreased transcription of certain cell wall-associated proteins during the postexponential phase of growth. This regulation is important for virulen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tseng CW,Zhang S,Stewart GC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the complete genome sequence of Listeria welshimeri, a nonpathogenic member of the genus Listeria. Listeria welshimeri harbors a circular chromosome of 2,814,130 bp with 2,780 open reading frames. Comparative genomic analysis of chromosomal regions between L. welshimeri, Listeria innocua, and Listeria monoc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hain T,Steinweg C,Kuenne CT,Billion A,Ghai R,Chatterjee SS,Domann E,Kärst U,Goesmann A,Bekel T,Bartels D,Kaiser O,Meyer F,Pühler A,Weisshaar B,Wehland J,Liang C,Dandekar T,Lampidis R,Kreft J,Goebel W,Chakraborty

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu), encoded by tuf genes, carries aminoacyl-tRNA to the ribosome during protein synthesis. Duplicated tuf genes (tufA and tufB), which are commonly found in enterobacterial species, usually coevolve via gene conversion and are very similar to one another. However, sequence analysis of tuf gen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Isabel S,Leblanc E,Boissinot M,Boudreau DK,Grondin M,Picard FJ,Martel EA,Parham NJ,Chain PS,Bader DE,Mulvey MR,Bryden L,Roy PH,Ouellette M,Bergeron MG

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A population of Bacillus subtilis can be fractionated into at least two components on the basis of their buoyant densities on a Renografin gradient. In competent cultures, most, and perhaps all, of the competent bacteria appear in the lighter fraction which composes 2 to 10% of the bulk population. These "lighter" bac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cahn FH,Fox MS

更新日期：1968-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leptospira spp. are thin, highly motile, slow-growing spirochetes that can be distinguished from other bacteria on the basis of their unique helical shape. Defining the mechanisms by which these bacteria generate and maintain this atypical morphology should greatly enhance our understanding of the fundamental physiolo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slamti L,de Pedro MA,Guichet E,Picardeau M

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of chromosome replication and cell division have been examined in recA mutants of Escherichia coli B/r containing F' plasmids of various sizes. Plasmid-mediated alterations in growth properties were detected only with the presence of the larger F' plasmids, and were reflected in decreased mean cell sizes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weinberger M,Helmstetter CE

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twelve strains of Agrobacterium radiobacter isolated from naturally occurring crown galls or soil were found to be avirulent on sunflower, tomato, Kalanchoe, and carrot. Eleven strains contained plasmids of molecular weights 77 X 10(6) to 182 X 10(6) as determined by electron microscopy. One strain contained only a sm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Merlo DJ,Nester EW

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified recD mutants of Salmonella typhimurium by their ability to support growth of phage P22 abc (anti-RecBCD) mutants, whose growth is prevented by normal host RecBCD function. As in Escherichia coli, the recD gene of S. typhimurium lies between the recB and argA genes at min 61 of the genetic map. Plasm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miesel L,Roth JR

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae porin genes were analyzed to detect mutations accounting for the porin deficiency observed in many beta-lactam-resistant strains. PCR and Southern blot analysis revealed the existence of a third porin gene in addition to the OmpK36 and OmpK35 porin genes previously described. This new porin gene ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doménech-Sánchez A,Hernández-Allés S,Martínez-Martínez L,Benedí VJ,Albertí S

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus mutans is a key contributor to the formation of the extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) matrix in dental biofilms. The exopolysaccharides, which are mostly glucans synthesized by streptococcal glucosyltransferases (Gtfs), provide binding sites that promote accumulation of microorganisms on the tooth surfa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koo H,Xiao J,Klein MI,Jeon JG

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis sbo-alb operon contains sboA, the structural gene for the bacteriocin subtilosin, and the alb genes required for subtilosin production. Transcription from the sbo-alb promoter is highly induced by oxygen limitation. The transcriptional regulation of the sbo-alb operon is under dual control involv...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakano MM,Zheng G,Zuber P

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The products of the bvgAS locus coordinately regulate expression of the Bordetella pertussis virulence regulon in response to environmental signals. Transcription of bvgAS-activated genes is nearly eliminated by several modulating conditions, including the presence of sulfate anion or nicotinic acid and growth at low ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller JF,Johnson SA,Black WJ,Beattie DT,Mekalanos JJ,Falkow S

更新日期：1992-02-01 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