Purification and characterization of PBP4a, a new low-molecular-weight penicillin-binding protein from Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:This study investigated the apparent genetic redundancy in the biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in the Rhodospirillum rubrum genome revealed by the occurrence of three homologous PHA polymerase genes (phaC1, phaC2, and phaC3). In vitro biochemical assays established that each gene product encodes PHA polym...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jin H,Nikolau BJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the use of a fusion to the green fluorescent protein to visualize the assembly of the morphogenetic protein SpoIVA around the developing forespore during the process of sporulation in the bacterium Bacillus subtilis. Using a deconvolution algorithm to process digitally-collected optical sections, we show tha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Price KD,Losick R

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The galP1 promoter is responsible for galactose-dependent, glucose-sensitive transcription of the galactose utilization operon of Streptomyces coelicolor and Streptomyces lividans. We describe the characterization of mutations that were positioned directly upstream of the apparent transcription start site of galP1 and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mattern SG,Brawner ME,Westpheling J

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the mechanism of osmotic stress adaptation (osmoregulation) in Agrobacterium tumefaciens biotype I (salt-tolerant) and biotype II (salt-sensitive) strains. Using natural-abundance 13C nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, we identified all organic solutes that accumulated to significant levels ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith LT,Smith GM,Madkour MA

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of glycerophospholipid-cholesterol acyltransferase in selected bacterial species was examined. Enzyme activity was demonstrated in cell-free growth media from all members of the family Vibrionaceae which were tested except Plesiomonas shigelloides. In each case, enzyme was produced in exponential to e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacIntyre S,Trust TJ,Buckley JT

更新日期：1979-07-01 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：:Using a model system, we have studied deletion formation in Bacillus subtilis. When the staphylococcal plasmids pSA2100 (7.1 kilobases) and pUB110 (4.5 kilobases) were ligated to one another at their unique XbaI sites and transformed into either rec+ or recE4 strains of B. subtilis, an intramolecular recombination eve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hahn J,Dubnau D

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Clostridium perfringens type D strains are usually associated with diseases of livestock, and their virulence requires the production of epsilon toxin (ETX). We previously showed (J. Li, S. Sayeed, S. Robertson, J. Chen, and B. A. McClane, PLoS Pathog 7:e1002429, 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li J,Freedman JC,McClane BA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingobium japonicum UT26 utilizes gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH) as its sole source of carbon and energy. In our previous studies, we cloned and characterized genes encoding enzymes for the conversion of gamma-HCH to beta-ketoadipate in UT26. In this study, we analyzed a mutant obtained by transposon mutage...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Endo R,Ohtsubo Y,Tsuda M,Nagata Y

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of mitochondrial biogenesis in yeast have been hampered by a lack of suitable membrane markers in anaerobically grown cells subsequently grown in air. Cytochrome c peroxidase activity and subcellular location was studied to determine whether it would be a useful marker for an analysis of mitochondrial formatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Avers CJ

更新日期：1967-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A d-glucosamine 6-phosphate N-acetyltransferase from Blastocladiella emersonii zoospores was partially purified to a specific activity of 2.41 IU per mg of protein. Its pH optimum was 8.05 and its K(m) values were 2.4 x 10(-4) M d-glucosamine 6-phosphate and 0.38 x 10(-4) M Na(3)S-acetyl coenzyme A. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giddings TH,Cantino EC

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elemental composition of individual cells of rapidly frozen and cryosectioned Escherichia coli B was measured with electron optical microanalytic methods. The Ca content was high (26.2 mmol/kg) in a 10-nm-wide region of the cell envelope. Amounts of cytoplasmic Ca in actively dividing cells were significantly high...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang CF,Shuman H,Somlyo AP

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although 95% of the enterotoxin B produced by Staphylococcus aureus appears during the latter part of the exponential phase of growth, growth per se is not necessary for toxin synthesis. A procedure is described whereby a concentrated suspension (at least 6 x 10(10) cells per ml) of a 16-hr culture of S. aureus was fo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Markus Z,Silverman GJ

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the constitutive phenotypes of two catM mutants of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, the CatM protein was proposed to repress expression of two different loci involved in catechol degradation, catA and catBCIJFD (E. Neidle, C. Hartnett, and L. N. Ornston, J. Bacteriol. 171:5410-5421, 1989). In spite of its ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romero-Arroyo CE,Schell MA,Gaines GL 3rd,Neidle EL

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus spo0H gene codes for sigma H, which, as part of the RNA polymerase holoenzyme E sigma H, is responsible for the transcription of several genes which are expressed at the beginning of the sporulation process. In this communication, we examined the regulation of the spo0H gene of Bacillus subtilis by using ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weir J,Predich M,Dubnau E,Nair G,Smith I

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific localization of the lysis (L) protein of bacteriophage MS2 in the cell wall of Escherichia coli was determined by immunoelectron microscopy. After induction of the cloned lysis gene, the cells were plasmolyzed, fixed, and embedded in either Epon or Lowicryl K4M. Polyclonal L-protein-specific antiserum was pur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Walderich B,Höltje JV

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxobacterial hemagglutinin (MBHA) is a major developmentally induced protein that accumulates during the period of cellular aggregation in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. It has been shown that this lectin is targeted to the cell surface and periplasmic space of developmental cells, suggesting that it may play a ro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romeo JM,Zusman DR

更新日期：1987-08-01 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：:We have determined the amounts of a number of small molecules and enzymes in the mother cell compartment and the developing forespore during sporulation of Bacillus megaterium. Significant amounts of adenosine 5'-triphosphate and reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide were present in the forespore compartment befor...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singh RP,Setlow B,Setlow P

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two clindamycin-erythromycin resistance transfer factors of Bacteroides fragilis, pBF4 and pBFTM10, were analyzed for regions of DNA homology. Although the plasmids were derived from different clinical isolates of B. fragilis and have different sizes, they showed homology in the clindamycin-erythromycin resistance reg...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shimell MJ,Smith CJ,Tally FP,Macrina FL,Malamy MH

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mathematical analysis of branched pathway regulation has led to the prediction of a novel homoserine control in Escherichia coli B. Experimental support for such control is presented in this paper. Homoserine, the precursor of both threonine and methionine, inhibits nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP(...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kotre AM,Sullivan SJ,Savageau MA

更新日期：1973-11-01 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：:Nalidixic acid (NAL) is bactericidal for E. coli B. Synthesis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), ribonucleic acid and protein was necessary to initiate the lethal effect, but only protein synthesis was necessary to sustain it. NAL inhibited DNA synthesis specifically, but this inhibition occurred even under conditions th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winshell EB,Rosenkranz HS

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of archaea to salvage cobinamide has been under question because archaeal genomes lack orthologs to the bacterial nucleoside triphosphate:5'-deoxycobinamide kinase enzyme (cobU in Salmonella enterica). The latter activity is required for cobinamide salvaging in bacteria. This paper reports evidence that ar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Woodson JD,Zayas CL,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nif promoters of Klebsiella pneumoniae must be activated by proteins bound to upstream sequences which are thought to interact with the sigma54-RNA polymerase holoenzyme by DNA looping. NifA is the activator for most of the promoters, and integration host factor (IHF) mediates the DNA looping. While NtrC is the ac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheema AK,Choudhury NR,Das HK

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference strains from 48 selected serovars representing eight species of Leptospira were examined by two polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based strategies. First, mapped restriction site polymorphisms (MRSP) were examined in PCR products from portions of rrs (16S rRNA gene) and rrl (23S rRNA gene). Twenty MRSP and 2 l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ralph D,McClelland M,Welsh J,Baranton G,Perolat P

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smith, P. B. (Communicable Disease Center, Atlanta, Ga.). Growth of staphylococci on mercuric chloride agar. J. Bacteriol. 84:1016-1019. 1962.-An attempt has been made to corroborate a report that "epidemic" strains of staphylococci are more resistant to mercuric salts than are "nonepidemic" strains. A comparison of m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SMITH PB

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompA gene of Escherichia coli codes for a major protein of the outer membrane. When this gene was moved between various unrelated strains (E. coli K-12 and two clinical isolates of E. coli) by transduction, the gene was expressed very poorly. Recombinants carrying "foreign" genes produced no OmpA protein which cou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beher M,Pugsley A,Schnaitman C

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that oxidizes methanol to formaldehyde in gram-negative methylotrophs, contains the prosthetic group pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ). To begin to analyze how the synthesis of PQQ is coordinated with the production of other methanol dehydrogenase components, the transcription of one of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramamoorthi R,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purine nucleoside phosphorylase (EC 2.4.2.1) from Bacillus cereus T was examined at hourly intervals during growth and sporulation. The enzyme has maximal activity in extracts prepared from cells during stages I and II. The activity during exponential growth is only 6.6% of the maximum and that in free spores is only ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Englebrecht HL

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00