Alternative transcription factor sigma(B) is involved in regulation of biofilm expression in a Staphylococcus aureus mucosal isolate.

abstract：:The Escherichia coli promoter p(BAD), under the control of the AraC protein, drives the expression of mRNA encoding the AraB, AraA, and AraD gene products of the arabinose operon. The binding site of AraC at p(BAD) overlaps the RNA polymerase -35 recognition region by 4 bases, leaving 2 bases of the region not contact...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dhiman A,Schleif R

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TonB-gated transporters have beta-barrels containing an amino-terminal globular domain that occludes the interior of the barrel. Mutations in the globular domain prevent transport of ligands across the outer membrane. Surprisingly, FepA with deletions of the globular domain (amino acids 3 to 150 and 17 to 150) was pre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vakharia HL,Postle K

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rpoS, a gene that encodes an alternative sigma factor (also known as katF), is critical for the ability of Yersinia enterocolitica grown at 37 degrees C, but not at 26 degrees C, to survive diverse environmental insults such as high temperature, hydrogen peroxide, osmolarity, and low pH. However, a Y. enterocolitica r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Badger JL,Miller VL

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ssa subfamily of Hsp70 molecular chaperones in the budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae has four members, encoded by SSA1, SSA2, SSA3, and SSA4. Deletion of the two constitutively expressed genes, SSA1 and SSA2, results in cells which are slow growing and temperature sensitive. In this study, we demonstrate that...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baxter BK,Craig EA

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid-soluble spore proteins (ASSPs) comprise about 5% of the total protein of mature spores of different Bacillus subtilis strains. They consist of three abundant species, alpha, beta, and gamma, four less abundant species, and several minor species, alpha, beta, and gamma make up about 18, 18 and 36%, respectively, o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson WC,Tipper DJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is the etiologic agent of cholera in humans. Intestinal colonization occurs in a stepwise fashion, initiating with attachment to the small intestinal epithelium. This attachment is followed by expression of the toxin-coregulated pilus, microcolony formation, and cholera toxin (CT) production. We have r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jude BA,Martinez RM,Skorupski K,Taylor RK

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol trinitrate (GTN) reductase, which enables Agrobacterium radiobacter to utilize GTN and related explosives as sources of nitrogen for growth, was purified and characterized, and its gene was cloned and sequenced. The enzyme was a 39-kDa monomeric protein which catalyzed the NADH-dependent reductive scission of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Snape JR,Walkley NA,Morby AP,Nicklin S,White GF

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of class II restriction endonucleases (enzymes that both recognize and cleave a specific nucleotide sequence in deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA] in Staphylococcus aureus has been investigated by analysis of crude extracts obtained from different propagating strains of the International Phage Typing System. O...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stobberingh EE,Schiphof R,Sussenbach JS

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A handful of nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) regulate the vast majority of genes in a bacterial cell. H-NS, the histone-like nucleoid-structuring protein, is one of these NAPs and protects Escherichia coli from foreign gene expression. Though lacking any sequence similarity with E. coli H-NS, Rv3852 was annotated ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Odermatt NT,Sala C,Benjak A,Kolly GS,Vocat A,Lupien A,Cole ST

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to delineate the region involved in feedback regulation of the RNA polymerase beta subunit (encoded by rpoB), a collection of rpoB-lacZ translational fusions with different endpoints both upstream and downstream of the rpoB start site was assembled on lambda phage vectors. The extent of translational repressi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Passador L,Linn T

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two distinct phenotypic classes of lysine requiring auxotrophs of Escherichia coli are described. Mutants of the LysA class produce little or no active diaminopimelic acid (DAP) decarboxylase and specifically require lysine for growth. Mutants of the LysB class produce a cryptic DAP decarboxylase which can be activate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bukhari AI,Taylor AL

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Escherichia coli is described which is defective in the conversion of arginine to putrescine. The activity of the enzyme agmatine ureohydrolase is greatly reduced, whereas the activity of the other two enzymes of the pathway, the constitutive arginine decarboxylase and the inducible arginine decarboxylase,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hirshfield IN,Rosenfeld HJ,Leifer Z,Maas WK

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gonococcal lsi-6 locus was cloned and shown by DNA sequence analysis to have homology with the E. coli rfaD gene, which encodes ADP-L-glycero-D-mannoheptose epimerase. This enzyme is involved in the biosynthesis of the lipopolysaccharide precursor ADP-L-glycero-D-mannoheptose. A site-directed frameshift mutation i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Drazek ES,Stein DC,Deal CD

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adler, H. E. (University of California, Davis), M. Shifrine, and Herrad Ortmayer. Mycoplasma inocuum sp. n., a saprophyte from chickens. J. Bacteriol. 82:239-240. 1961.-A new species of Mycoplasma was isolated from the infraorbital sinuses of chickens. The organism, a saprophyte, differs from all known mycoplasmas of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ADLER HE,SHIFRINE M,ORTMAYER H

更新日期：1961-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely conserved second messenger cyclic diguanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) plays a key role in quorum-sensing (QS)-dependent production of virulence factors in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. The detection of QS diffusible signal factor (DSF) by the sensor RpfC leads to the activation of response regulat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tao F,He YW,Wu DH,Swarup S,Zhang LH

更新日期：2010-02-01 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：:Erythrobacter litoralis has been known as a bacteriochlorophyll a-containing, aerobic, anoxygenic, phototrophic bacterium. Here we announce the complete genome sequence of E. litoralis HTCC2594, which is devoid of phototrophic potential. E. litoralis HTCC2594, isolated by dilution-to-extinction culturing from seawater...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oh HM,Giovannoni SJ,Ferriera S,Johnson J,Cho JC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal oxidase content of Bacillus firmus OF4, a facultative alkaliphile that grows well over the pH range of 7.5 to 10.5, was studied by difference spectroscopy. Evidence was found for three terminal oxidases under different growth conditions. The growth pH and the stage of growth profoundly affected the expres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hicks DB,Plass RJ,Quirk PG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slein, Milton W. (Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.) and Gerald F. Logan, Jr. Mechanism of action of the toxin of Bacillus anthracis. II. Alkaline phosphatasemia produced by culture filtrates of various bacilli. J. Bacteriol. 83:359-369. 1962.-A factor which produces hyperphosphatasemia after intravenous injection into ani...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slein MW,Logan GF

更新日期：1962-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously reported that the methicillin resistance gene mecA is carried by a novel type of mobile genetic element, SCCmec (staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec), in the chromosome of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). These elements are precisely excised from the chromosome and integrated into a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katayama Y,Takeuchi F,Ito T,Ma XX,Ui-Mizutani Y,Kobayashi I,Hiramatsu K

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LamB-LacZ fusion proteins have classically been used in studies of the general secretion pathway of Escherichia coli. Here we describe how increasing signal sequence hydrophobicity routes LamB-LacZ Hyb42-1 to the signal recognition particle (SRP) pathway. Secretion of this hydrophobic fusion variant (H*LamB-LacZ) was ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bowers CW,Lau F,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysozyme Chalaropsis, a beta-1,4-N,6-O-diacetylmuramidase, attacks the cell wall murein of Staphylococcus aureus H in a random manner. In hypertonic sucrose solutions, true protoplasts are produced and, in the process, mesosomal tubules are extruded into the medium. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robinson JP,Robinson RD,Hash JH

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella virulence requires the initial invasion of host cells, followed by modulation of the intracellular environment for survival and replication. In an effort to characterize the role of small RNAs in Salmonella pathogenesis, we inadvertently identified a 5-kDa protein named YshB that is involved in the intracel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bomjan R,Zhang M,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese is accumulated in Bacillus subtilis by a highly specific active transport system. This trace element "pump" is insensitive to added magnesium or calcium and preferentially accumulates manganese in the presence of cobalt, iron, and copper. Manganese uptake in B. subtilis is inhibited by cyanide, azide, pentac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eisenstadt E,Fisher S,Der CL,Silver S

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Bacterial type IV coupling proteins (T4CPs) bind and mediate the delivery of DNA substrates through associated type IV secretion systems (T4SSs). T4CPs consist of a transmembrane domain, a conserved nucleotide-binding domain (NBD), and a sequence-variable helical bundle called the all-alpha domain (AAD). In ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Whitaker N,Chen Y,Jakubowski SJ,Sarkar MK,Li F,Christie PJ

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Staphylococcus aureus cidABC and lrgAB operons have been shown to regulate murein hydrolase activity and affect antibiotic tolerance. The cid operon enhances murein hydrolase activity and antibiotic sensitivity, whereas the lrg operon inhibits these processes. Based on these findings and the structural similaritie...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang SJ,Rice KC,Brown RJ,Patton TG,Liou LE,Park YH,Bayles KW

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ruvB genes of the highly divergent thermophilic eubacteria Thermus thermophilus and Thermotoga maritima were cloned, sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli. Both thermostable RuvB proteins were purified to homogeneity. Like E. coli RuvB protein, both purified thermostable RuvB proteins showed strong double-s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tong J,Wetmur JG

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general strategy for cloning the functional homologs of an Escherichia coli gene was used to clone homologs of 4.5S RNA from other bacteria. The genes encoding these homologs were selected by their ability to complement a deletion of the gene for 4.5S RNA. DNA sequences of the regions encoding the homologs were dete...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brown S,Thon G,Tolentino E

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phycocyanin subunit gene cluster is duplicated on the chromosome of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans UTEX 625. The two gene clusters cpcB1A1 (left) and cpcB2A2 (right) are separated by about 2,500 base pairs, and in each cluster the beta-subunit gene is located upstream from the alpha-subunit gene. Filter hyb...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kalla SR,Lind LK,Lidholm J,Gustafsson P

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sequences from the prolific Roseobacter clade in the Alphaproteobacteria are beginning to reveal the genetic basis for the diverse lifestyles of these organisms. Here we present the genome sequences of Oceanicola granulosus HTCC2516(T) and Oceanicola batsensis HTCC2597(T), two marine Roseobacter species isolate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thrash JC,Cho JC,Vergin KL,Giovannoni SJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00