Modulation of anaerobic energy metabolism of Bacillus subtilis by arfM (ywiD).

abstract：:Despite their remarkable genetic homology, members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex express very different phenotypes, most notably in their spectra of clinical presentation. For example, M. tuberculosis is regarded as pathogenic to humans, whereas members having deleted RD1, such as Mycobacterium microti and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mostowy S,Cousins D,Behr MA

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ethanol oxidase respiratory chain of Gluconobacter suboxydan was characterized by using G. suboxydans subsp. alpha, a variant species of G. suboxydans incapable of oxidizing ethanol. The membranes of G. suboxydans subsp. alpha exhibited neither alcohol dehydrogenase, ethanol oxidase, nor glucose-ferricyanide oxido...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsushita K,Nagatani Y,Shinagawa E,Adachi O,Ameyama M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to isolate the superoxide dismutase (SOD) gene from the anaerobic sulfate-reducing bacterium Desulfoarculus baarsii, a DNA fragment was isolated which functionally complemented an Escherichia coli mutant (sodA sodB) deficient in cytoplasmic SODs. This region carries two open reading frames with sequences...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pianzzola MJ,Soubes M,Touati D

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli B dependence on CO2 for growth was demonstrated. At suboptimal CO2 concentrations the rate of growth was controlled by CO2 concentration. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Repaske R,Clayton MA

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical consequences of inositol limitation in an inositol auxotroph of Neurospora crassa have been examined as a means of disclosing the cellular role of inositol. The cellular levels of inositol in the inl mutant were proportional to the concentration of inositol in the growth medium whereas inositol phospha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hanson BA

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of gonococcal deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was investigated, and the relationship with endonuclease production was explored. Both chromosomal and plasmid DNA from different gonococcal strains, irrespective of their plasmid content, was poorly cleaved by the restriction endonucleases HaeII, HaeIII, SacII, a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Norlander L,Davies JK,Hagblom P,Normark S

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the catabolism of xanthone by an Arthrobacter sp. (strain GFB100) capable of growth on xanthone as its main source of carbon and energy. An early catabolic intermediate was 3,4-dihydroxyxanthone. This compound was isolated from the growth medium of a mutant strain of the Arthrobacter sp. which lack...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tomasek PH,Crawford RL

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fermentative alcohol dehydrogenase of Escherichia coli is encoded by the adhE gene, which is induced under anaerobic conditions but repressed in air. Previous work suggested that induction of adhE might depend on NADH levels. We therefore directly measured the NAD+ and NADH levels for cultures growing aerobically ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leonardo MR,Dailly Y,Clark DP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic peptide nisin is the first known lantibiotic that uses a docking molecule within the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane for pore formation. Through specific interaction with the cell wall precursor lipid II, nisin forms defined pores which are stable for seconds and have pore diameters of 2 to 2.5 nm. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wiedemann I,Benz R,Sahl HG

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion-duplication mutagenesis was used to generate mutants of Streptococcus pneumoniae that produced truncated forms of PspA (pneumococcal surface protein A). The truncated products, representing from 20 to 80% of the complete PspA molecule, were all secreted from the cell and could be detected in unconcentrated c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yother J,Handsome GL,Briles DE

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Escherichia coli, previously shown to contain abnormal nucleoside triphosphate pools, was found to be defective in its ability to synthesize thymidine nucleotides. The defect is not in the enzyme thymidylate synthetase but in deoxycytidine triphosphate deaminase, an enzyme that supplies deoxyuridine monoph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Donovan GA,Edlin G,Fuchs JA,Neuhard J,Thomassen E

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Mexico, actinomycetoma is mainly caused by Nocardia brasiliensis, which is a soil inhabitant actinobacterium. Here, we report for the first time the draft genome of a strain isolated from a human case that has largely been found in in vitro and experimental models of actinomycetoma, N. brasiliensis HUJEG-1. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vera-Cabrera L,Ortiz-Lopez R,Elizondo-Gonzalez R,Perez-Maya AA,Ocampo-Candiani J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of a simple negative staining technique and freeze-etching has revealed detailed information on the species-specific surface structure of spores and aerial hyphae of streptomycetes. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wildermuth H

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme A, as a prosthetic group, is found exclusively in respiratory oxidases of mitochondria and aerobic bacteria. Bacillus subtilis CtaA and other heme A synthases catalyze the conversion of a methyl side group on heme O into a formyl group. The catalytic mechanism of heme A synthase is not understood, and little is k...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hederstedt L,Lewin A,Throne-Holst M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plant cell wall, which consists of a highly complex array of interconnecting polysaccharides, is the most abundant source of organic carbon in the biosphere. Microorganisms that degrade the plant cell wall synthesize an extensive portfolio of hydrolytic enzymes that display highly complex molecular architectures. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DeBoy RT,Mongodin EF,Fouts DE,Tailford LE,Khouri H,Emerson JB,Mohamoud Y,Watkins K,Henrissat B,Gilbert HJ,Nelson KE

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bfe locus codes for the cell surface receptor for vitamin B12, the E colicins, and bacteriophage BF23 in the Escherichia coli outer membrane. When the bfe+ allele, which is closely linked to the argH locus, was introduced into an argH bfe recipient by conjugation, arg+ recombinant cells rapidly and simultaneously ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bassford PJ Jr,Kadner RJ,Schnaitman CA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:d-Desthiobiotin synthetase, an enzyme that catalyzes the synthesis of d-desthiobiotin from dl-7,8-diaminopelargonic acid and HCO(3) (-), was purified 100-fold from cells of a biotin mutant strain of Escherichia coli. Adenosine triphosphate and Mg(2+) were shown, especially in purified extracts, to be obligatory for en...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheeseman P,Pai CH

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the deoxyribonucleic acid prepared from Proteus mirabilis, Escherichia coli, and Serratia marcescens in an alkaline CsCl gradient has shown that there is an asymmetric distribution of guanine plus thymine residues between the complementary strands of the deoxyribonucleic acid. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hershberger C,Mickel S,Rownd R

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maleylacetate reductase (EC 1.3.1.32) plays a major role in the degradation of chloroaromatic compounds by channelling maleylacetate and some chlorinated derivatives into the 3-oxoadipate pathway. Several substituted maleylacetates were prepared in situ by alkaline or enzymatic hydrolysis of dienelactones as the precu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaschabek SR,Reineke W

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli K-12, the rcsA and rcsB gene products are positive regulators in expression of the slime polysaccharide colanic acid. We have previously demonstrated the presence of rcsA sequences in E. coli K1 and K5, strains with group II capsular K antigens, and shown that introduction of multicopy rcsA into th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Keenleyside WJ,Bronner D,Jann K,Jann B,Whitfield C

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Bacillus thuringiensis containing refractile spores autolyzed readily when suspended in buffer. The autolysate contained enzymes which lysed vegetative cell walls of the organism. Three enzymes were isolated from the autolysate, and each was purified approximately 30-fold. One enzyme, most active near pH 4.0,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kingan SL,Ensign JC

更新日期：1968-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) synthesis driven by an artificially imposed membrane potential in right-side-out membrane vesicles of Escherichia coli was investigated. Membrane vesicles prepared in the presence of adenosine diphosphate were loaded with K+ by incubation with 0.5 M potassium phosphate. Addition of vali...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsuchiya T,Rosen BP

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pep 5 and nisin are cationic peptide antibiotics which in addition to their membrane-disruptive action induce autolysis in staphylococci. To investigate the mechanism of lysis induction, the influence of the peptides on the activity of the N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase of Staphylococcus simulans 22 was studied. I...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bierbaum G,Sahl HG

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An IMP dehydrogenase gene was isolated from Candida albicans on a approximately 2.9-kb XbaI genomic DNA fragment. The putative Candida IMP dehydrogenase gene (IMH3) encodes a protein of 521 amino acids with extensive sequence similarity to the IMP dehydrogenases of Saccharomyces cerevisiae and various other organisms....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Köhler GA,White TC,Agabian N

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn916 [carries tet(M)] is a 16.4-kb conjugative transposon that can establish itself in multiple copies in Enterococcus faecalis. To study the interaction of coresident homologous transposons during conjugation, an E. faecalis mutant defective in homologous recombination was utilized for construction of strains harbor...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Flannagan SE,Clewell DB

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-potential 4Fe-4S* center ofAzotobacter vinelandii ferredoxin I has been titrated potentiometrically by a reductive procedure. The absorbance decrease at 510 nm accompanying the reduction of the high-potential center titrated with an Em of 320 mV (n = 1). The low-potential 4Fe-4S* center was titrated by using ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoch DC,Carithers RP

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage-inducible DNA replication in SOS-induced Escherichia coli cells, termed inducible stable DNA replication (iSDR), has previously been shown to require either the RecBCD or the RecE pathway of homologous recombination for initiation. Here, we demonstrate that recB recC sbcC quadruple mutant cells are capable ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Asai T,Kogoma T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the kinetics of beta-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) induction in the yeast Kluyveromyces lactis. Enzyme activity began to increase 10 to 15 min, about 1/10 of a cell generation, after the addition of inducer and continued to increase linearly for from 7 to 9 cell generations before reaching a maximum, some 12...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dickson RC,Markin JS

更新日期：1980-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli possesses a soluble flavohemoglobin, with an unknown function, encoded by the hmp gene. A monolysogen containing an hmp-lacZ operon fusion was constructed to determine how the hmp promoter is regulated in response to heme ligands (O2, NO) or the presence of anaerobically utilized electron acceptors (n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Poole RK,Anjum MF,Membrillo-Hernández J,Kim SO,Hughes MN,Stewart V

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chpB locus is a chromosomal homolog of the pem locus, which is responsible for stable maintenance of plasmid R100 within the host cells. Like pem, chpB codes for two genes, chpBK and chpBI, encoding a growth inhibitor and a suppressor for the killing action of the ChpBK protein, respectively. Here, we determined t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Masuda Y,Ohtsubo E

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00