Population studies of methicillin-resistant and -sensitive Staphylococcus aureus strains reveal a lack of variability in the agrD gene, encoding a staphylococcal autoinducer peptide.

abstract：:Flagellar motility is an important determinant of Campylobacter jejuni that is required for promoting interactions with various hosts to promote gastroenteritis in humans or commensal colonization of many animals. In a previous study, we identified a nonmotile mutant of C. jejuni 81-176 with a transposon insertion in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sommerlad SM,Hendrixson DR

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the autoinducer signal involved in the cell density-dependent activation of Vibrio fischeri luminescence is directed by luxI. The autoinducer is N-(3-oxohexanoyl)homoserine lactone, and little is known about its synthesis. We have measured autoinducer synthesis by amino acid auxotrophs of Escherichia coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hanzelka BL,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to the antifolates methasquin and amethopterin has been studied in new strains of Streptococcus faecium var. durans. Two methasquin-resistant strains (SF/MQ, SF/MQ(T)) and an amethopterin-resistant strain (SF/AM) were selected independently from the wild-type S. faecium var. durans (SF/O). SF/MQ(T) is a thy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rader JI,Hutchison DJ

更新日期：1972-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxococcus xanthus mutants resistant to a clear-plaque derivative of phage Mx8 were isolated. A significant fraction of the mutants, easily recognizable by their colony morphology, were induced by the presence of the phage and may correspond to low-frequency lysogens. They were all defective in cell motility and showe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ruiz-Vázquez R,Murillo FJ

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray studies of the Escherichia coli response to nitric oxide and nitrosative stress have suggested that additional transcriptional regulators of this response remain to be characterized. We identify here the product of the yjeB gene as a negative regulator of the transcription of the ytfE, hmpA and ygbA genes, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bodenmiller DM,Spiro S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum prepared against protocatechuate 3, 4-dioxygenase from Pseudomonas aeruginosa forms precipitin bands without spurs with isofunctional enzymes from different strains of the fluorescent pseudomonads on immunodiffusion plates. Catalytic activity of the isofunctional enzymes was inhibited by an immunoglobulin fr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hou CT,Lillard MO

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The segrosome is the nucleoprotein complex that mediates accurate plasmid segregation. In addition to its multifunctional role in segrosome assembly, the ParG protein of multiresistance plasmid TP228 is a transcriptional repressor of the parFG partition genes. ParG is a homodimeric DNA binding protein, with C-terminal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zampini M,Derome A,Bailey SE,Barillà D,Hayes F

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces linear plasmids and linear chromosomes can replicate also in a circular form when their telomeres are deleted. The 17-kb linear plasmid pSLA2 has been a useful model in studies of such replicons. Here we report that the minimal origin initiating replication of pSLA2-derived plasmids as circular molecules ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qin Z,Shen M,Cohen SN

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing the insertion sites of 8,865 Tn917 insertions in Enterococcus faecalis strain OG1RF identified a hot spot in the replication terminus region corresponding to 6% of the genome where 65% of the transposons had inserted. In E. faecalis, Tn917 preferentially inserted at a 29-bp consensus sequence centered on TA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garsin DA,Urbach J,Huguet-Tapia JC,Peters JE,Ausubel FM

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Neisseria meningitidis, an exclusively human pathogen and the leading cause of bacterial meningitis, must adapt to different host niches during human infection. N. meningitidis can utilize a restricted range of carbon sources, including lactate, glucose, and pyruvate, whose concentrations vary in host niches...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Antunes A,Golfieri G,Ferlicca F,Giuliani MM,Scarlato V,Delany I

更新日期：2015-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously developed a genetic approach to study, with a single antibody, the topology of the outer membrane protein LamB, an Escherichia coli porin with specificity towards maltodextrins and a receptor for bacteriophage lambda. Our initial procedure consisted of inserting at random the same reporter epitope (the C...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Newton SM,Klebba PE,Michel V,Hofnung M,Charbit A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure liquid chromatography of a muramidase digest of murein sacculi from Caulobacter crescentus showed that the absence of D-alanine carboxypeptidase activity in the cells was reflected by a very high content of pentapeptide in the murein. Approximately half of the pentapeptide side chains were shown to conta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Markiewicz Z,Glauner B,Schwarz U

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At specific times in the cell cycle, the bacterium Caulobacter crescentus assembles two major polar organelles, the flagellum and the stalk. Previous studies have shown that flbT mutants overproduce flagellins and are unable to form chemotaxis swarm rings. In this paper, we report alterations in both the stalk and the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Driks A,Schoenlein PV,DeRosier DJ,Shapiro L,Ely B

更新日期：1990-04-01 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：:The kinetic parameters of the release of Ca(2+)-dipicolinic acid (CaDPA) during germination of spore populations and multiple individual spores of Bacillus subtilis strains with major alterations in the structure of the spore peptidoglycan (PG) cortex or lacking one or both of the two redundant enzymes involved in cor...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang P,Thomas S,Li YQ,Setlow P

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hexC locus of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 was localized to a 247-bp segment of chromosomal DNA on the multicopy broad-host-range vector pRO1614. The presence of this plasmid (pPZ196) in strain PAO1 produced the so-called "hexC effect," a two- to ninefold increase in the activities of four carbohydrate catabolism e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Temple L,Sage A,Christie GE,Phibbs PV Jr

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin resistance in staphylococci is mediated by PBP2a, a penicillin binding protein with low affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics. The gene encoding PBP2a, mecA, is transcriptionally regulated in some clinical isolates by mecR1 and mecI, genes divergently transcribed from mecA that encode a signal transducer an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sharma VK,Hackbarth CJ,Dickinson TM,Archer GL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid Rms312, specifying resistance to tetracycline (Tc), chloramphenicol (Cm), streptomycin (Sm), sulfonamide (Su), and mercury chloride (Mer), deletes both Tc and Cm Sm Su Mer determinants at a high frequency in Salmonella typhimurium LT2. S. typhimurium mutants that were stable carriers of Rms312 were isolated by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watanabe H,Hashimoto H,Mitsuhashi S

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemotaxis system for Pseudomonas aeruginosa was defined by using the method of Adler. Cells were attracted to compounds in the order ammonium chloride greater than amino acids greater than organic acids. Two sugars were assayed and elicited no response. Comparisons with other model systems are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moench TT,Konetzka WA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By partial acid hydrolysis, methylation and gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry of the methylated monomers (as the alditol acetates), mass spectrometry of trimethylsilylated disaccharide alditols, as well as proton magnetic resonance, the primary structure of the Klebsiella serotype 25 capsular polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Niemann H,Kwiatkowski B,Westphal U,Stirm S

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Azotobacter vinelandii, activation of nif gene expression by the transcriptional regulatory enhancer binding protein NIFA is controlled by the sensor protein NIFL in response to changes in levels of oxygen and fixed nitrogen in vivo. NIFL is a novel redox-sensing flavoprotein which is also responsive to adenosine n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Money T,Jones T,Dixon R,Austin S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloramphenicol-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus contain an inducible enzyme which inactivates chloramphenicol by acetylation in the presence of acetyl coenzyme A. The products of acetylation are chromatographically indistinguishable from those obtained with chloramphenicol-resistant Escherichia coli harbori...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shaw WV,Brodsky RF

更新日期：1968-01-01 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：:Spores of Bacillus subtilis have a thick outer layer of relatively insoluble protein called the coat, which protects spores against a number of treatments and may also play roles in spore germination. However, elucidation of precise roles of the coat in spore properties has been hampered by the inability to prepare sp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ghosh S,Setlow B,Wahome PG,Cowan AE,Plomp M,Malkin AJ,Setlow P

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A periplasmic protein essential for the function of the oligopeptide transport system of Salmonella typhimurium was identified. This protein, encoded by the oppA gene, is one of the most abundant proteins in the periplasm and, with an apparent molecular weight of 52,000, is considerably larger than any other known per...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Higgins CF,Hardie MM

更新日期：1983-09-01 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：:An Escherichia coli F19 recA, nitrate reductase-deficient mutant was constructed by transposon mutagenesis and shown to be resistant to metronidazole. This mutant was a most suitable host for the isolation of Clostridium acetobutylicum genes on recombinant plasmids, which activated metronidazole and rendered the E. co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Santangelo JD,Jones DT,Woods DR

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The propanediol utilization (pdu) operon of Salmonella typhimurium encodes proteins required for the catabolism of propanediol, including a coenzyme B12-dependent propanediol dehydratase. A clone that expresses propanediol dehydratase activity was isolated from a Salmonella genomic library. DNA sequence analysis showe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bobik TA,Xu Y,Jeter RM,Otto KE,Roth JR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) uses Fe(2+) as a corepressor and inhibits transcription from iron-regulated promoters (IRPs) in Corynebacterium diphtheriae. A new IRP, designated IRP6, was cloned from C. diphtheriae by a SELEX-like procedure. DtxR bound to IRP6 in vitro only in the presence of appropriate divale...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qian Y,Lee JH,Holmes RK

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompB operon encodes OmpR and EnvZ, two proteins that are necessary for the expression and osmoregulation of the OmpF and OmpC porins in Escherichia coli. We have used in vitro and in vivo experiments to show that cyclic AMP and the cyclic AMP receptor protein (CRP) directly regulate ompB. ompB expression in an omp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang L,Tsui P,Freundlich M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00