The Bacillus subtilis signaling protein SpoIVB defines a new family of serine peptidases.

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis culture incubated anaerobically in nitrate-containing medium lost viability during the first 3 days but recovered thereafter. A flavohemoglobin mutant showed very poor survival under these conditions unless the cells were prevented from carrying out nitrate respiration. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakano MM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wall turnover was studied in Bacillus subtilis. The loss of radioactively labeled wall polymers was followed during exponential growth in batch and chemostat cultures. Turnover kinetics were identical under all growth conditions; pulse-labeled wall material was lost with first-order kinetics, but only after exponentia...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： De Boer WR,Kruyssen FJ,Wouters JT

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal amino acid sequence of the polyhydroxyalkanoic acid (PHA) granule-associated M(r)-15,500 protein of Rhodococcus ruber (the GA14 protein) was analyzed. The sequence revealed that the corresponding structural gene is represented by open reading frame 3, encoding a protein with a calculated M(r) of 14,175 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pieper-Fürst U,Madkour MH,Mayer F,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibiotic resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been associated with the acquisition of R plasmids from heterologous organisms. The broad-host-range plasmids of incompatibility groups P (IncP) and Q (IncQ) have played a role in this genetic exchange in nature. We have utilized derivatives of RSF1010 (IncQ) and RP1 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Butler CA,Gotschlich EC

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus swarming is the rapid cyclical population migration across surfaces by elongated cells that hyperexpress flagellar and virulence genes. The mini-Tn5 transposon mutant mns2 was isolated as a tight nonswarming mutant that did not elongate or upregulate flagellar and hemolysin genes. Individual cell motility was ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hay NA,Tipper DJ,Gygi D,Hughes C

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:If bacteria are incapable of forming and incorporating proteins into the cytoplasmic membranes in all phases of the cell cycle, then not all cells from an asynchronous culture should be capable of growth when switched to a new carbon and energy source whose metabolism requires new membrane function. The transfer of an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koch AL

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiological changes in an F1-ATPase-defective mutant of Escherichia coli W1485 growing in a glucose-limited chemostat included a decreased growth yield (60%) and increased specific rates of both glucose consumption (168%) and respiration (171%). Flux analysis revealed that the mutant showed approximately twice a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Noda S,Takezawa Y,Mizutani T,Asakura T,Nishiumi E,Onoe K,Wada M,Tomita F,Matsushita K,Yokota A

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of an analysis of the conjugative transfer genes associated with the expression of F pili by plasmid F, we have investigated the physical location of the traC and traW genes. We found that plasmid clones carrying a 2.95-kilobase EcoRI-EcoRV F transfer operon fragment were able to complement transfer of F lac t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maneewannakul S,Kathir P,Moore D,Le LA,Wu JH,Ippen-Ihler K

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight mutants of Bacillus subtilis deficient in xylan utilization were isolated and characterized genetically and biochemically. Each mutant was obtained independently after nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis. All of the analyzed mutations were shown to be linked. Reciprocal transformation crosses revealed the existence of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roncero MI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiobacillus neapolitanus, when grown in continuous culture with thiosulfate limiting growth, possessed an apparent maximal molar growth yield of 8.0 g (dry weight) per mole of thiosulfate. The substrate requirement for energy of maintenance was the highest yet reported, amounting to 21.8 mmoles of thiosulfate per g p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hempfling WP,Vishniac W

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Knaysi, Georges (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.). Effect of temperature on the rate of germination in Bacillus cereus. J. Bacteriol. 87:619-622. 1964.-By use of the change of the spores from bright to dark, when observed in dark contrast with a phase microscope, as a criterion for the incipience (first stage) of ger...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： KNAYSI G

更新日期：1964-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After thermal denaturation, an in vivo-labeled RNA was found in a temperature-sensitive initiation mutant of Bacillus subtilis (dna-37) associated with high-molecular-weight DNA. This RNA could be clearly distinguished from other RNA species by different techniques of separation, such as Sepharose 2B filtration, chrom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Henckes G,Vannier F,Buu A,Seror-Laurent SJ

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies were made on the physical and chemical properties of polysaccharides synthesized by cell-free extracts of Streptococcus mutans, Streptococcus sanguis, and Streptococcus sp. and their susceptibilities to dextranases. Among the polysaccharides examined, insoluble glucans were rather resistant to available dextra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ebisu S,Kato K,Kotani S,Misaki A

更新日期：1975-12-01 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：: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：:The YycFG two-component system is the only signal transduction system in Bacillus subtilis known to be essential for cell viability. This system is highly conserved in low-G+C gram-positive bacteria, regulating important processes such as cell wall homeostasis, cell membrane integrity, and cell division. Four other ge...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Szurmant H,Mohan MA,Imus PM,Hoch JA

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae can use nitrate and nitrite as sole nitrogen sources through the nitrate assimilatory pathway. The structural genes for assimilatory nitrate and nitrite reductases together with genes necessary for nitrate transport form an operon, nasFEDCBA. Expression of the nasF operon is regulated both by gen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldman BS,Lin JT,Stewart V

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant sensitive to colicin M at 30 degrees C and tolerant at 42 degrees C to high concentrations of colicin M was isolated from Escherichia coli K-12. A temperature shift from 30 to 42 degrees C rescued all cells up to the time they started to lyse at 30 degrees C (25 min after addition of colicin M). The growth ra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schaller K,Krauel A,Braun V

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent work, we described the excision of a large genomic region from Enterococcus faecium D344R in which the sequence from "joint" regions suggested that excision resulted from the interaction of conjugative transposon Tn916 and the related mobile element Tn5386. In the present study, we examined the ability of in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rice LB,Carias LL,Hutton-Thomas R,Rudin S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MukBEF is a bacterial SMC (structural maintenance of chromosome) complex required for chromosome partitioning in Escherichia coli. We report that overproduction of MukBEF results in marked chromosome condensation. This condensation is rapid and precedes the effects of overproduction on macromolecular synthesis. Conden...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang Q,Mordukhova EA,Edwards AL,Rybenkov VV

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conti, S. F. (Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, N.H.), and Peter Hirsch. Biology of budding bacteria. III. Fine structure of Rhodomicrobium and Hyphomicrobium spp. J. Bacteriol. 89:503-512. 1965.-The ultrastructure of 14 strains of hyphomicrobia, and of Rhodomicrobium vannielii, was investigated by means of electron ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： CONTI SF,HIRSCH P

更新日期：1965-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deacetylcephalosporin C synthetase (hydroxylase) gene from Streptomyces clavuligerus has been cloned and sequenced. The open reading frame codes for a protein with an Mr of 34,584. The hydroxylase gene (cefF) is closely linked to the epimerase gene (cefD) and the expandase gene (cefE) and is transcribed in the opp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kovacevic S,Miller JR

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic organization of the foc gene cluster has been studied; six genes involved in the biogenesis of F1C fimbriae were identified. focA encodes the major fimbrial subunit, focC encodes a product that is indispensable for fimbria formation, focG and focH encode minor fimbrial subunits, and focI encodes a protein ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Riegman N,Kusters R,Van Veggel H,Bergmans H,Van Bergen en Henegouwen P,Hacker J,Van Die I

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and sequenced a fragment of the Bacillus stearothermophilus NUB36 chromosome that contains two open reading frames (ORFs) whose products were detected only in cells of cultures grown in complex medium at high temperature. The nucleotide sequence of the two ORFs exhibited significant identity to the sequence ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu L,Welker NE

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mu promoters active during the lytic cycle were located by isolating RNA at various times after induction of Mu prophages, radiolabeling it by capping in vitro, and hybridizing it to Mu DNA fragments on Southern blots. Signals were detected from four new promoters in addition to the previously characterized Pe (early)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stoddard SF,Howe MM

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidic hot springs are colonized by a diversity of hyperthermophilic organisms requiring extremes of temperature and pH for growth. To clarify how carbohydrates are consumed in such locations, the structural gene (malA) encoding the major soluble alpha-glucosidase (maltase) and flanking sequences from Sulfolobus solfa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rolfsmeier M,Haseltine C,Bini E,Clark A,Blum P

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GTP cyclohydrolase II catalyzes the first committed step in the biosynthesis of riboflavin. The gene coding for this enzyme in Escherichia coli has been cloned by marker rescue. Sequencing indicated an open reading frame of 588 bp coding for a 21.8-kDa peptide of 196 amino acids. The gene was mapped to a position at 2...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Richter G,Ritz H,Katzenmeier G,Volk R,Kohnle A,Lottspeich F,Allendorf D,Bacher A

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloarchaea in their natural environment are exposed to hypersalinity, intense solar radiation, and desiccation, all of which generate high levels of oxidative stress. Previous work has shown that haloarchaea are an order of magnitude more resistant to oxidative stress than most mesophilic organisms. Despite this resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gelsinger DR,DiRuggiero J

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene for histidyl-tRNA synthetase was localized to 53.8 min on the Escherichia coli genome. The gene order in this region was determined to be dapE-purC-upp-purG-(guaA, guaB)-hisS-glyA. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parker J,Fishman SE

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phospholipase hydrolyzing cardiolipin to phosphatidic acid and phosphatidyl glycerol was characterized in gram-negative bacteria but was absent in preparations of gram-positive bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and rat liver mitochondria. In cell-free extracts of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Proteus v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cole R,Proulx P

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00