Periplasmic nitrate reductase (NapABC enzyme) supports anaerobic respiration by Escherichia coli K-12.

abstract：:A method of assay of immunogenic potency of the cholera gut toxin is described; it is based on the relation of dose of antigen to neutralizing antibody titer produced in the rabbit under defined conditions and allows quantification of immunogenicity as immunogenic units per milligram of protein. Evidence, based on imm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaur J,Burrows W,Cercavski L

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using PCR to create a probe based on conserved region 2 of sigma factors, we have cloned the sigA gene coding for the major sigma factor of Rhizobium meliloti. The 684-residue protein encoded by the sigA gene was expressed in vitro in coupled transcription-translation experiments with R. meliloti extracts and migrated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rushing BG,Long SR

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A tandem pair of nearly identical genes from Serpulina hyodysenteriae (B204) were cloned and sequenced. The full open reading frame of one gene and the partial open reading frame of the neighboring gene appear to encode secreted proteins which are homologous to, yet distinct from, the 39-kDa extracytoplasmic protein p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gabe JD,Dragon E,Chang RJ,McCaman MT

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulen, William A. (Charles F. Kettering Foundation, Yellow Springs, Ohio). Effect of tungstate on the uptake and function of molybdate in Azotobacter agilis. J. Bacteriol. 82:130-134. 1961.-The reported competitive inhibition of molybdate by tungstate was investigated in an effort to elucidate molybdenum functions ass...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bulen WA

更新日期：1961-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a gram-negative obligate anaerobe, appears to utilize starch by first binding the polymer to its surface and then translocating it into the periplasmic space. Several genes that encode enzymes or outer membrane proteins involved in starch utilization have been identified. These have been ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： D'Elia JN,Salyers AA

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin and antitoxin (TA) gene pairs are addiction systems that are present in many microbial genomes. Sinorhizobium meliloti is an N2-fixing bacterial symbiont of alfalfa and other leguminous plants, and its genome consists of three large replicons, a circular chromosome (3.7 Mb) and the megaplasmids pSymA (1.4 Mb) an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Milunovic B,diCenzo GC,Morton RA,Finan TM

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The iron-molybdenum cofactor (FeMo-co) of nitrogenase contains molybdenum, iron, sulfur, and homocitrate in a ratio of 1:7:9:1. In vitro synthesis of FeMo-co has been established, and the reaction requires an ATP-regenerating system, dithionite, molybdate, homocitrate, and at least NifB-co (the metabolic product of Ni...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shah VK,Rangaraj P,Chatterjee R,Allen RM,Roll JT,Roberts GP,Ludden PW

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Brevibacterium acetylicum gsk gene, which encodes guanosine kinase (ATP:guanosine 5'-phosphotransferase), a kinase that is involved in guanosine salvage pathways, has been cloned by using the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the purified protein. The cloned chromosomal fragment containing the gsk gene was sequenc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Usuda Y,Kawasaki H,Shimaoka M,Utagawa T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nahmias, André J. (Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Mass.), and Sidney Kibrick. Inhibitory effect of heparin on herpes simplex virus. J. Bacteriol. 87:1060-1066. 1964.-A substance inhibitory to herpes simplex virus was observed during experiments with leukocyte cultures. The component in the cultures resp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nahmias AJ,Kibrick S

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report a phenomenon similar to catabolite repression in Rhizobium meliloti. Succinate, which allows the highest observed rate of growth of R. meliloti, caused an immediate reduction of beta-galactosidase activity when added to cells growing in lactose. A Lac- mutant was unaltered in nodulation and nitrogen fixation...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ucker DS,Signer ER

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Slein, Milton W. (Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.) and Gerald F. Logan, Jr. Mechanism of action of the toxin of Bacillus anthracis. II. Alkaline phosphatasemia produced by culture filtrates of various bacilli. J. Bacteriol. 83:359-369. 1962.-A factor which produces hyperphosphatasemia after intravenous injection into ani...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slein MW,Logan GF

更新日期：1962-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned the cryptic phn operon of a K-12 strain, phn(EcoK), and analyzed the nucleotide sequence of the phn region (11,672 bp). An mRNA start site upstream of the phnC gene was identified by S1 nuclease mapping. The pho regulon activator PhoB protects a pho box region near the mRNA start in DNase I footprinting and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Makino K,Kim SK,Shinagawa H,Amemura M,Nakata A

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of isoleucine, valine, and leucine biosynthesis and isoleucyl-, valyl-, and leucyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase formation was examined in two mutant strains of Escherichia coli. One mutant was selected for growth resistance to the isoleucine analogue, ketomycin, and the other was selected for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson J,Williams LS,Umbarger HE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 deficient in galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase is capable of converting significant amounts of d-[1-(14)C]galactose to (14)CO(2), whereas strains deficient in other enzymes of the Leloir pathway cannot do so. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LaPolla RJ,Geier MR,Friedman TB,Merril CR

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-terminal sequence of a protein, originally described as an adhesin of Helicobacter pylori, was used in an oligonucleotide-based screening procedure of an H. pylori plasmid library in Escherichia coli. Five independent plasmid clones were isolated, all mapping to the same chromosomal region and encoding the H. py...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Odenbreit S,Wieland B,Haas R

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of 209 cell division (or growth) temperature-sensitive mutants of Streptococcus faecium were analyzed in this study. A total of nine strains showed either constitutive or temperature-sensitive conditional damage in the PBPs. Analysis of these nine strains yielded the following re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Canepari P,Lleò MM,Fontana R,Satta G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression pattern of the Escherichia coli genome is controlled in part by regulating the utilization of a limited number of RNA polymerases among a total of its approximately 4,600 genes. The distribution pattern of RNA polymerase changes from modulation of two types of protein-protein interactions: the interacti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishihama A,Kori A,Koshio E,Yamada K,Maeda H,Shimada T,Makinoshima H,Iwata A,Fujita N

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ToxR protein of Vibrio cholerae regulates the expression of several virulence factors that play important roles in the pathogenesis of cholera. Previous experiments with ToxR-alkaline phosphatase (ToxR-PhoA) fusion proteins suggested a model for gene regulation in which the inactive form of ToxR was a monomer and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ottemann KM,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the iron content of the medium on the yields of extracellular products by seven distinct strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was examined. All strains showed at least an 85% decrease in toxin A yields when grown in medium containing 5.0 mug of iron per ml (high iron) as compared to 0.05 mug/ml (low iron), ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bjorn MJ,Sokol PA,Iglewski BH

更新日期：1979-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene tyrP, which codes for a component of the tyrosine-specific transport system, has been localized on the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome at min 42. A tyrP-lac operon fusion was constructed and used to isolate mutants that have altered expression from the tyrP promoter. All putative tyrP operator mutations were...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kasian PA,Pittard J

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tsr gene specifies a methyl-accepting membrane protein involved in chemotaxis to serine and several repellent compounds. We have characterized a special class of tsr mutations designated cheD which alter the signaling properties of the Tsr transducer. Unlike tsr null mutants, cheD strains are generally nonchemotac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Callahan AM,Parkinson JS

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Assays of CDP-glycerol:poly(glycerophosphate) glycerophosphotransferase (CGPTase) (EC 2.7.8.12) in membranes isolated from Bacillus subtilis 168 wild type and 11 strains bearing conditional lethal thermosensitive mutations in tagB, tagD, or tagF revealed that CGPTase deficiency was associated only with mutant tagF all...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pooley HM,Abellan FX,Karamata D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding the major NAD(P)H-flavin oxidoreductase (flavin reductase) of the luminous bacterium Vibrio fischeri ATCC 7744 was isolated by using synthetic oligonucleotide probes corresponding to the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the enzyme. Nucleotide sequence analysis suggested that the major flavin reducta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zenno S,Saigo K,Kanoh H,Inouye S

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cold-tolerant bacterium Pusillimonas sp. strain T7-7 is able to utilize diesel oils (C5 to C30 alkanes) as a sole carbon and energy source. In the present study, bioinformatics, proteomics, and real-time reverse transcriptase PCR approaches were used to identify the alkane hydroxylation system present in this bact...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li P,Wang L,Feng L

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The salmonellae are a diverse group of bacteria within the family Enterobacteriaceae that includes two species, Salmonella enterica and Salmonella bongori. In order to characterize the phylogenetic relationships of the species and subspecies of Salmonella, we analyzed four housekeeping genes, gapA, phoP, mdh and recA,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McQuiston JR,Herrera-Leon S,Wertheim BC,Doyle J,Fields PI,Tauxe RV,Logsdon JM Jr

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and characterized enzymes of phospholipid synthesis in two plasmalogen-rich anaerobes. Megasphaera elsdenii and Veillonella parvula, and one anaerobe lacking plasmalogens. Desulfovibrio vulgaris. All three species contained phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase and phosphatidylserine synthase. Phosphat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Silber P,Borie RP,Mikowski EJ,Goldfine H

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 12.1-kilobase PstI fragment from Rhizobium japonicum, which contains homology to both the Klebsiella pneumoniae and the Rhizobium meliloti nifH genes, was cloned into vector pHE3 . The nifH -homologous region was localized on the restriction enzyme cleavage map by Southern blot hybridization experiments. DNA fragmen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fuhrmann M,Hennecke H

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, carbon catabolite repression (CCR) of many genes is mediated at cis-acting carbon repression elements (cre) by the catabolite repressor protein CcpA. Mutations in transcription-repair coupling factor (mfd) partially relieve CCR at cre sites located downstream of transcriptional start sites by abo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zalieckas JM,Wray LV Jr,Fisher SH

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary sequence of the small cysteine-rich protein (EnvA) of Chlamydia psittaci 6BC has been shown to possess a potential lipid modification/signal peptidase II-processing site, and the mature protein was labeled by a [3H]palmitic acid precursor. We further characterized the mature EnvA, showing that it lacks the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Everett KD,Desiderio DM,Hatch TP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dermatophyte Trichophyton schoenleinii elaborates an extracellular collagenase which is specific for native collagen and gelatin and is separable from an enzyme which is active against Azocoll. The fungal enzyme differs from the bacterial collagenases in its acid pH and small molecular weight. In addition, the fun...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rippon JW

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00