Direct quantitation of the numbers of individual penicillin-binding proteins per cell in Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:Alcohol-oxidizing enzymes of the facultative methylotroph PAR were investigated after growth of the bacteria on methanol and ethanol. During methanol growth only a phenazine methosulfate-linked alcohol dehydrogenase was detected. This enzyme had broad specificity for primary alcohols and was also capable of oxidation ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bellion E,Wu GT

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of sterol uptake in Saccharomyces cerevisiae sterol auxotroph FY3 (alpha hem1 erg7 ura) by delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) is dependent on the ability of the organism to synthesize heme from ALA. Sterol-depleted cells not exposed to ALA or strain PFY3 cells, with a double heme mutation, exposed to ALA did n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lorenz RT,Parks LW

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruthenium red stained a capsule external to the exine of the Azotobacter cyst. The central body is therefore surrounded by three layers, the intine, the exine, and the capsule, all containing acid mucopolysaccharide. Vesicles that appear to originate from the contracting cell membrane of the central body may account f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pope LM,Wyss O

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylum Bacteroidetes is large and diverse, with rapid gliding motility and the ability to digest macromolecules associated with many genera and species. Recently, a novel protein secretion system, the Por secretion system (PorSS), was identified in two members of the phylum, the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium jo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McBride MJ,Zhu Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth and sporulation of a Bacillus subtilis mutant deficient in branched fatty acid synthesis (gene symbol bfmB) were examined. The mutant, which produces an acyl-coenzyme A:acyl carrier protein transacylase with reduced affinity for branched fatty acid primers, could grow in media containing any one of a wide range...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boudreaux DP,Freese E

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of pyruvate carboxylase (PC) was studied by using quantitative immunoblot analysis with an antibody raised against PC purified from Rhodobacter capsulatus and was found to vary 20-fold depending on the growth conditions. The PC content was high in cells grown on pyruvate or on carbon substrates metaboliz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yakunin AF,Hallenbeck PC

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the large virulence plasmid pLVPK in Klebsiella pneumoniae CG43 revealed the presence of another mucoid factor encoding gene rmpA besides rmpA2. Promoter activity measurement indicated that the deletion of rmpA reduced K2 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) biosynthesis, resulting in decreased colony mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheng HY,Chen YS,Wu CY,Chang HY,Lai YC,Peng HL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flagellum is a biological nanomachine that rotates to allow bacteria to swim. For flagellar rotation, torque is generated by interactions between a rotor and a stator. The stator, which is composed of MotA and MotB subunit proteins in the membrane, is thought to bind to the peptidoglycan (PG) layer, whic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhu S,Nishikino T,Takekawa N,Terashima H,Kojima S,Imada K,Homma M,Liu J

更新日期：2020-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neurospora crassa, histidine starvation of histidine mutants resulted in derepression of histidine, tryptophan, and arginine biosynthetic enzymes. The same tripartite derepression occurred in wild-type strain 74A when it was grown in medium supplemented with 3-amino-1,2,4-triazole, an inhibitor of histidine biosynt...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Carsiotis M,Jones RF,Wesseling AC

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have carefully characterized and reexamined the motility and phototactic responses of Synechocystis sp. adenylyl cyclase (Cya1) and catabolite activator protein (SYCRP1) mutants to different light regimens, glucose, 3-(3,4-dichlorophenyl)-1,1-dimethylurea, and cyclic AMP. We find that contrary to earlier reports, c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bhaya D,Nakasugi K,Fazeli F,Burriesci MS

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA probe from an internal fragment of the exotoxin A structural gene was used to study the effects of selected culture conditions on steady-state levels of exotoxin-specific mRNA in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Cells grown under conditions of iron deprivation began to synthesize and excrete the exotoxin A polypeptide du...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lory S

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated an Escherichia coli mutant strain that suppresses the glycolate-negative phenotype of a strain deficient in both GlcA and LldP transporters of this compound. This suppressing phenotype was assigned to yjcG, a gene whose function was previously unknown, which was found to encode a membrane protein able to t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gimenez R,Nuñez MF,Badia J,Aguilar J,Baldoma L

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coliphage TuIa, which uses the OmpF protein as a receptor, can adapt by mutation to using instead the OmpC or LamB protein, or both. Most of the phage mutants retained the ability to use the OmpF protein, when present, but one class of mutants lost this ability and could only use the OmpC protein. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moreno F,Wandersman C

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular mechanisms of regulation of the genes involved in the biosynthesis of cysteine are poorly characterized in Bacillus subtilis and other gram-positive bacteria. In this study we describe the expression pattern of the B. subtilis cysH operon in response to sulfur starvation. A 6.1-kb polycistronic transcrip...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mansilla MC,Albanesi D,de Mendoza D

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biosynthesis of the thaxtomin cyclic dipeptide phytotoxins proceeds nonribosomally via the thiotemplate mechanism. Acyladenylation, thioesterification, N-methylation, and cyclization of two amino acid substrates are catalyzed by the txtAB-encoded thaxtomin synthetase. Nucleotide sequence analysis of the region 3' ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Healy FG,Krasnoff SB,Wach M,Gibson DM,Loria R

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hook-associated proteins (HAPs) were excreted into the culture medium of the Fla+ strain as well as into the growth medium of the filamentless mutants of Salmonella typhimurium. This indicates that the bacteria synthesize HAPs excessively, beyond the amount required for construction of flagella. The extra HAPs are she...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Homma M,Iino T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic d-cycloserine is an effective inhibitor of alanine racemase. The lack of inhibition by l-cycloserine of alanine racemase from Staphylococcus aureus led Roze and Strominger to formulate the cycloserine hypothesis. This hypothesis states that d-cycloserine has the conformation required of the substrates o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lambert MP,Neuhaus FC

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freundlich, Martin (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis) and Herman C. Lichstein. Tryptophanase-tryptophan synthetase systems in Escherichia coli. III. Requirements for enzyme synthesis. J. Bacteriol. 84:996-1006. 1962.-The requirements for the formation of tryptophanase and tryptophan synthetase in Escherichia coli ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： FREUNDLICH M,LICHSTEIN HC

更新日期：1962-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During insect infection Photorhabdus luminescens emits light and expresses virulence factors, including insecticidal toxin complexes (Tcs) and an RTX-like metalloprotease (Prt). Using quantitative PCR and protein assays, we describe the expression patterns of these factors both in culture and during insect infection a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daborn PJ,Waterfield N,Blight MA,Ffrench-Constant RH

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:trpG of Bacillus subtilis encodes a glutamine amidotransferase subunit that is involved in the synthesis of both folic acid and L-tryptophan. Expression of trpG is negatively regulated by tryptophan even though this gene is located within a folic acid biosynthetic operon. Examination of both transcriptional and transl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang M,de Saizieu A,van Loon AP,Gollnick P

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli nusA gene, nusAEc, encodes an essential protein that influences transcription elongation. Derivatives of E. coli in which the Salmonella typhimurium nusA gene, nusASt, has replaced nusAEc are viable. Thus, NusASt can substitute for NusAEc in supporting essential bacterial activities. However, hybr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Craven MG,Granston AE,Schauer AT,Zheng C,Gray TA,Friedman DI

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Firmicutes, two-component regulatory systems of the LiaSR type sense and orchestrate the response to various agents that perturb cell envelope functions, in particular lipid II cycle inhibitors. In the current study, we found that the corresponding system in Streptococcus pneumoniae displays similar properties ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eldholm V,Gutt B,Johnsborg O,Brückner R,Maurer P,Hakenbeck R,Mascher T,Håvarstein LS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1 undergoes conjugative transfer in response to cAD1, a peptide sex pheromone emitted by potential bacterial recipients. Regulation of pAD1 transfer involves a number of plasmid-encoded determinants:iad, which determines a peptide-competitive inhibitor iAD1; signal sensing and tran...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pontius LT,Clewell DB

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

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：:Two low-molecular-weight basic proteins, termed A and B proteins, comprise about 15% of the protein of dormant spores of Bacillus megaterium. Irradiation of intact dormant spores with ultraviolet light results in covalent cross-linking of the A and B proteins to other spore macromolecules. The cross-linked A and B pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow B,Setlow P

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The predominant mode of growth of bacteria in the environment is within sessile, matrix-enclosed communities known as biofilms. Biofilms often complicate chronic and difficult-to-treat infections by protecting bacteria from the immune system, decreasing antibiotic efficacy, and dispersing planktonic cells to distant b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson DW,Suzuki K,Oakford L,Simecka JW,Hart ME,Romeo T

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompB operon of Escherichia coli contains the structural genes for two proteins, OmpR and EnvZ, which control the osmoregulated biosynthesis of the porin proteins OmpF and OmpC. By inserting XbaI octamer linkers into the cloned ompB locus, four distinct frameshift mutants were isolated and subsequently characterize...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Comeau DE,Ikenaka K,Tsung KL,Inouye M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described that uses an indicator plasmid (pSC201) to identify cells in a bacterial population that have been co-transformed with a second plasmid lacking detectable phenotypic properties. Under appropriate conditions of indirect selection, between 50 and 85% of transformants carrying the indicator plasm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kretschmer FJ,Chang AC,Cohen SN

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 2 x 10(11) viable Pasteurella tularensis cells per ml, contained in suspensions, were killed by exposure to 10(6) r of gamma-radiation. When injected intraperitoneally into mice, the irradiated suspensions initially contained about 10 ld(50) per ml, and immunized mice against challenge with fully virulen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Landay ME,Wright GG,Pulliam JD,Finegold MJ

更新日期：1968-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic spore former Clostridioides difficile causes significant diarrheal disease in humans and other mammals. Infection begins with the ingestion of dormant spores, which subsequently germinate within the host gastrointestinal tract. There, the vegetative cells proliferate and secrete two exotoxins, TcdA and T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Edwards AN,Krall EG,McBride SM

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00