A bacterial signal transduction system controls genetic exchange and motility.

abstract：:Azotobacter vinelandii was grown diazotrophically in chemostat cultures limited by sucrose, citrate, or acetate. Specific activities of cellular oxygen consumption (qO2) and nitrogenase (acetylene reduction) were measured in situ at different dilution rates (D, representing the specific growth rate mu at steady state)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuhla J,Oelze J

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis grows under anaerobic conditions utilizing nitrate ammonification and various fermentative processes. The two-component regulatory system ResDE and the redox regulator Fnr are the currently known parts of the regulatory system for anaerobic adaptation. Mutation of the open reading frame ywiD located ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marino M,Ramos HC,Hoffmann T,Glaser P,Jahn D

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the first example of a gene, hmp, encoding a soluble flavohemoglobin in Escherichia coli K-12, which is up-regulated by paraquat in a SoxRS-independent manner. Unlike what is found for other paraquat-inducible genes, high concentrations of paraquat (200 microM) were required to increase the level of hmp expr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Membrillo-Hernández J,Kim SO,Cook GM,Poole RK

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using an auxotrophic strain of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, we examined the kinetics of ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis following inhibition of protein synthesis caused by amino acid starvation or cycloheximide. Removal of a required amino acid immediately stopped net protein synthesis. After a brief lag, RNA synthesis ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roth RM,Dampier C

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently established that the facultative phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, like the closely related Rhodobacter capsulatus species, contains both the previously characterized mobile electron carrier cytochrome c2 (cyt c2) and the more recently discovered membrane-anchored cyt cy. However, R. sph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daldal F,Mandaci S,Winterstein C,Myllykallio H,Duyck K,Zannoni D

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic bacterial pathogen which poses a major threat to long-term-hospitalized patients and individuals with cystic fibrosis. The capacity of P. aeruginosa to form biofilms is an important requirement for chronic colonization of human tissues and for persistence in implanted medical...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vallet I,Diggle SP,Stacey RE,Cámara M,Ventre I,Lory S,Lazdunski A,Williams P,Filloux A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen accumulation in Escherichia coli is inversely related to the growth rate and occurs most actively when cells enter the stationary phase. The levels of the three biosynthetic enzymes undergo corresponding changes under these conditions, suggesting that genetic control of enzyme biosynthesis may account for at ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romeo T,Preiss J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Berry, L. Joe (Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.), Dorothy S. Smythe, and Louise S. Colwell. Inhibition of inducible liver enzymes by endotoxin and actinomycin D. J. Bacteriol. 92:107-115. 1966.-Bacterial endotoxin at the ld(50) level lowers liver tryptophan pyrrolase in mice, it prevents for 16 to 20 hr the induction...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Berry LJ,Smythe DS,Colwell LS

更新日期：1966-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marRAB operon is one of two operons in the mar locus of Escherichia coli that are divergently transcribed from a central regulatory region, marO. The marRAB operon, transcribed from marOII, controls intrinsic resistance or susceptibility to multiple antibiotics and is inducible by structurally unrelated compounds ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seoane AS,Levy SB

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of abnormal proteins in cells of bacteria or eukaryotes can induce synthesis of a set of heat shock proteins. We examined such induction following addition of azetidine (a proline analog) or synthesis of a heterologous protein (human prourokinase) in Escherichia coli. Synthesis of heat shock proteins unde...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kanemori M,Mori H,Yura T

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of chromosome replication and cell division have been examined in recA mutants of Escherichia coli B/r containing F' plasmids of various sizes. Plasmid-mediated alterations in growth properties were detected only with the presence of the larger F' plasmids, and were reflected in decreased mean cell sizes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weinberger M,Helmstetter CE

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a step towards studying representative members of the two-component family of signal transduction proteins, we have cloned genes encoding a histidine protein kinase and a response regulator from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima. The genes have been designated HpkA and drrA, respectively. The dedu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee PJ,Stock AM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain oral treponemes express a highly proteolytic phenotype and have been associated with periodontal diseases. The periodontal pathogen Treponema denticola produces dentilisin, a serine protease of the subtilisin family. The two-gene operon prcA-prtP is required for expression of active dentilisin (PrtP), a putati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Correia FF,Plummer AR,Ellen RP,Wyss C,Boches SK,Galvin JL,Paster BJ,Dewhirst FE

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Serratia marcescens was found to produce a bacteriocin that inhibits the growth of certain Escherichia coli strains. This inhibition was bacteriocidal rather than bacteriostatic and was not caused by a bacteriophage. Whereas the bacteriocin was inactive on the 7 Serratia strains tested, it killed 11 of the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Foulds JD,Shemin D

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is a highly motile bacterium which possesses a single polar flagellum as a locomotion organelle. Motility is thought to be an important factor for the virulence of V. cholerae. The genome sequencing project of this organism is in progress, and the genes that are highly homologous to the essential genes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kojima S,Yamamoto K,Kawagishi I,Homma M

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In exponentially growing cultures of Escherichia coli strains carrying the dnaC28 mutation, DNA replication can be synchronized by temperature changes (R. L. Rodriguez, M. S. Dalbey, and C. I. Davern, J. Mol. Biol. 74:599-604, 1973). We used this synchronization procedure and DNA-DNA hybridization to develop a techniq...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fayet O,Prere MF

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Photorhabdus luminescens is a symbiont of the entomopathogenic nematode Heterorhabditis bacteriophora. The nematode requires the bacterium for infection of insect larvae and as a substrate for growth and reproduction. The nematodes do not grow and reproduce in insect hosts or on artificial media in the a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ciche TA,Bintrim SB,Horswill AR,Ensign JC

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system based on extracts of Escherichia coli infected with bacteriophage T7 was used to study genetic deletions between directly repeated sequences. The frequency of deletion was highest under conditions in which the DNA was actively replicating. Deletion frequency increased markedly with the length of the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kong D,Masker W

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Apparent pK values were determined for a series of commercially available carboxylic acids in a search for a buffer suitable for bacterial studies at pH 7 in media free from nitrogen, sulfur, and phosphorus. Of the compounds possessing pK' values near pH 7,3,6-endomethylene-1,2,3,6-tetrahydrophthalic acid (EMTA) was c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mallette MF

更新日期：1967-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 120 strains of gliding bacteria which were screened for restriction endonucleases, 27 were found positive. Additionally, three strains carried enzymes able to release the supercoiled state of closed circular DNA. By using a new rapid method, restriction endonuclease activity was released by stirring about 0.5 g ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mayer H,Reichenbach H

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-micrometer deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), a circular plasmid of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, contains two nontandem repeated sequences which are inverted with respect to one another. These repeated sequences together account for 21% of the molecule length. Restriction endonuclease analysis and electron microscopy demon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Livingston DM,Klein HL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:31P and 13C nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiments were performed on suspensions of the phototrophic bacterium Chromatium vinosum incubated anaerobically in the dark. 31P NMR spectra revealed that during prolonged dark incubation high ATP levels are maintained. This phenomenon was independent of the presence of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nicolay K,van Gemerden H,Hellingwerf KJ,Konings WN,Kaptein R

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis skin element confers resistance to arsenate and arsenite. The ars operon in the skin element contains four genes in the order arsR, ORF2, arsB, and arsC. Three of these genes are homologous to the arsR, arsB, and arsC genes from the staphylococcal plasmid pI258, while no homologs of ORF2 have bee...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sato T,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific changes in the chemical and microbial composition of Thermoanaerobium brockii fermentations were compared and related to alterations of process rates, end product yields, and growth parameters. Fermentation of starch as compared with glucose was associated with significant decreases in growth rate and intrace...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ben-Bassat A,Lamed R,Zeikus JG

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulent bacteria of the genus Yersinia secrete a number of virulence determinants called Yops. These proteins lack typical signal sequences and are not posttranslationally processed. Two gene loci have been identified as being involved in the specific Yop secretion system (G. Cornelis, p. 231-265, In C. E. Hormache, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bergman T,Erickson K,Galyov E,Persson C,Wolf-Watz H

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 catabolized the aromatic amines tyramine and octopamine through 4-hydroxyphenylacetic acid and 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (HPA). meta ring cleavage was mediated by 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetate 2,3-dioxygenase (HPADO), producing 2-hydroxy-5-carboxymethylmuconic semialdehyde (MSA). An NAD-d...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuskey SM,Olsen RH

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Carboxybenzaldehyde dehydrogenase from the phenanthrene-degrading bacterium Nocardioides sp. strain KP7 was purified and characterized. The purified enzyme had a molecular mass of 53 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and 205 kDa by gel filtration chromatography. Thus, the homotetramer ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwabuchi T,Harayama S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five clostridial species were found to ferment gluconate via 2-keto-3-deoxygluconate which subsequently is phosphorylated to yield 2-keto-3-deoxy-6-phosphogluconate (KDPG). This compound is then cleaved by KDPG aldolase. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bender R,Andreesen JR,Gottschalk G

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein glycosylation is an important posttranslational modification that occurs in all domains of life. Pilins, the structural components of type IV pili, are O glycosylated in Neisseria meningitidis, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, and some strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this work, we characterized the P. aeruginosa 1...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Faridmoayer A,Fentabil MA,Mills DC,Klassen JS,Feldman MF

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The citrate utilization (Cit+) transposon Tn3411 was shown to be flanked by directly repeated sequences (IS3411L and IS3411R) by restriction enzyme analysis and electron microscope observation. Cit- deletion mutants were frequently found to be generated in pBR322::Tn3411 by intramolecular recombination between the two...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishiguro N,Sato G

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00