Caulobacter crescentus synthesizes an S-layer-editing metalloprotease possessing a domain sharing sequence similarity with its paracrystalline S-layer protein.

abstract：:The 2-(methylthio)ethanesulfonic acid (CH3-S-CoM) reductase catalyzes the final methane-yielding reaction in fastidiously anaerobic methanogenic archaebacteria. This step involves the reductive demethylation of CH3-S-CoM with reducing equivalents from N-7-(mercaptoheptanoyl)-L-threonine O3-phosphate (HS-HTP) to yield ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Olson KD,Chmurkowska-Cichowlas L,McMahon CW,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the draft genome sequence of Paenisporosarcina sp. strain TG-20, which is 4.12 Mb in size and consists of 4,071 protein-coding genes and 76 RNA genes. The genome sequence of Paenisporosarcina sp. TG-20 may provide useful information about molecular adaptations that enhance survival in icy subsurface environm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee JH,Koh HY,Lee SG,Doyle S,Christner BC,Kim HJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The carbon dioxide requirement of 32 strains of rumen bacteria, representing 11 different species, was studied in detail. Increasing concentrations of CO(2) were added as NaHCO(3) to a specially prepared CO(2)-free medium which was tubed and inoculated under nitrogen. Prior depletion of CO(2) in the inoculum was found...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dehority BA

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several mutants of Bacillus subtilis deficient in catalase synthesis generated by nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis have been used to map a locus affecting catalase activity. Two- and three-factor bacteriophage PBS1 transductional crosses were used to locate the locus, named katA, between recH and thiA with 98% linkage to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loewen PC,Switala J

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, flagellar genes are regulated in a cascade headed by FleQ, an NtrC/NifA-type activator. FleQ and RpoN positively regulate expression of flhA, fliE, fliL, and fleSR genes, among others. Direct interaction of FleQ with flhA, fliE, fliL, and fleSR promoters was demonstrated by gel shift assay, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jyot J,Dasgupta N,Ramphal R

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have functionally produced the outer membrane cytochrome OmcA from Shewanella oneidensis in Escherichia coli. Substrate accessibility experiments indicate that OmcA is surface exposed in an E. coli B strain but not in a K-12 strain. We show that a functional type II secretion system is required for surface localiza...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donald JW,Hicks MG,Richardson DJ,Palmer T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase is stable in Escherichia coli but very susceptible to cleavage by at least one endoprotease after cell lysis. The major source of this endoprotease activity was found to be localized to the outer membrane of the cell. A rapid whole-cell assay was developed to screen different strains fo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grodberg J,Dunn JJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exogenous reducing agents on a number of biological properties of purified Chlamydia trachomatis LGV-434 and Chlamydia psittaci meningopneumonitis elementary bodies (EBs) have been examined in an attempt to identify in vitro correlates of early events in the differentiation of the infectious EB to the r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hackstadt T,Todd WJ,Caldwell HD

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic circularity of the Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO chromosome was demonstrated by a series of two- and three-factor crosses and double-selection experiments with Cma plasmids FP2, FP5, FP110, and R68.45. A range of additional markers, including catabolic markers, were located on the chromosome map. Plasmid FP2, kno...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Royle PL,Matsumoto H,Holloway BW

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Liquid holding recovery (LHR) in ultraviolet-irradiated Bacteroides fragilis cells occurred under aerobic conditions but was inhibited by anaerobic conditions. The increase in survival after aerobic LHR resulted in an increase in the shoulder regions of the ultraviolet survival curves. Maximum LHR was obtained after h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jones DT,Woods DR

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Guanosine tetraphosphate (ppGpp) is a key mediator of stringent control, an adaptive response of bacteria to amino acid starvation, and has thus been termed a bacterial alarmone. Previous X-ray crystallographic analysis has provided a structural basis for the transcriptional regulation of RNA polymerase activity by pp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kasai K,Nishizawa T,Takahashi K,Hosaka T,Aoki H,Ochi K

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines are present in high concentrations in archaea, yet little is known about their synthesis, except by extrapolation from bacterial and eucaryal systems. S-Adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) decarboxylase, a pyruvoyl group-containing enzyme that is required for spermidine biosynthesis, has been previously identified ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim AD,Graham DE,Seeholzer SH,Markham GD

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the derivation of two strains of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 which are r- m+ for all three of the known chromosomal genes for the restriction and modification of DNA, hsdLT, hsdSA, and hsdSB; the strains were designated LB5000 and LB5010. LB5000 is a smooth derivative sensitive to phage P22; LB5010 is a gal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bullas LR,Ryu JI

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two highly homologous cbb operons of Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 that are located on the chromosome and on megaplasmid pHG1 contain genes encoding several enzymes of the Calvin carbon reduction cycle. Sequence analysis of a region from the promoter-distal part revealed two open reading frames, designated cbbT and cb...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schäferjohann J,Yoo JG,Kusian B,Bowien B

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Periplasmic membrane fusion proteins (MFPs) are essential components of multidrug efflux pumps and type I protein secretion systems of gram-negative bacteria. Located in the periplasm, MFPs function by creating a physical link between inner membrane transporters and outer membrane channels. The most conserved sequence...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ge Q,Yamada Y,Zgurskaya H

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RNA transcript levels in the syphilis spirochete Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (Nichols) isolated from experimentally infected rabbits were determined by the use of DNA microarray technology. This characterization of the T. pallidum transcriptome during experimental infection provides further insight into the imp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smajs D,McKevitt M,Howell JK,Norris SJ,Cai WW,Palzkill T,Weinstock GM

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The copy number and stability of artificial 2-micron circle-based plasmids have been accurately measured in [Cir+] and [Cir0] strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae. We conclude that (i) instability and copy number vary greatly from plasmid to plasmid; (ii) instability and copy number are negatively correlated--that is, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Futcher AB,Cox BS

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf20 of the conjugative transposon Tn916 was purified as a chimeric protein fused to maltose binding protein (MBP-Orf20). The chimeric protein possessed endonucleolytic activity, cleaving both strands of the Tn916 origin of conjugal transfer (oriT) at several distinct sites and favoring GT dinucleotides. Incubation o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rocco JM,Churchward G

更新日期：2006-03-01 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：:The biological activity of Odontomyces viscosus, which has been reported to cause periodontal disease in hamsters, was examined. The microorganism was cultured anaerobically in Brain Heart Infusion broth, and the cells were harvested. The washed cells were injected intradermally into the abdomen of rabbits. After 72 h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schuster GS,Hayashi JA,Bahn AN

更新日期：1967-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. aizawai EG6346, a novel grain dust isolate, was analyzed by Southern blot hybridization for its insecticidal crystal protein (ICP) gene profile. Strain EG6346 lacks previously characterized cryIA ICP genes yet does possess novel cryI-related gene sequences. A recombinant genomic plasmid l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chambers JA,Jelen A,Gilbert MP,Jany CS,Johnson TB,Gawron-Burke C

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sdiA gene codes for a protein that regulates expression of the ftsQAZ cluster of essential cell division genes of Escherichia coli. SdiA up-regulates the ftsQ2p promoter that initiates transcription into the ftsQAZ cluster. In this paper, we report that expression of sdiA is itself regulated by a factor that is re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： García-Lara J,Shang LH,Rothfield LI

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:Deletion of sigE, the structural gene for the sporulation-induced RNA polymerase sigma factor, sigma E, prevented endospore formation by Bacillus subtilis. The effects of integration of plasmids into the sigE region of the chromosome and the use of complementation analyses demonstrated that sigE is part of an operon t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kenney TJ,Moran CP Jr

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular fibrils are involved in cell cohesion and cell development in Myxococcus xanthus. One group of social motility mutants, Dsp, is unable to produce extracellular fibrils; these mutants also lose the abilities to cohere and to develop. Extracellular fibrils isolated from vegetative wild-type cells and added...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang BY,Dworkin M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Differential expression of genes within the puf photosynthesis operon of Rhodobacter capsulatus is achieved primarily through marked segmental differences in stability within the polycistronic puf operon transcripts. The comparatively stable pufBA segment of these transcripts outlives the labile pufLMX segment and acc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen CY,Belasco JG

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, normal mutation frequencies are mostly around 10(-10) per base pair. However, there exists natural isolates, called "mutators," that exhibit permanent mutation occurrences up to 1,000-fold greater than usual. As mutations play essential roles, particularly in the evolution of antibiotic resistance, bacter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Le Bars H,Bousarghin L,Bonnaure-Mallet M,Jolivet-Gougeon A,Barloy-Hubler F

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced a DNA fragment containing the pneumococcal bacteriophage HB-3 hbl gene, which codes for the phage lytic amidase. A remarkable nucleotide similarity (87.1%) between the lytA gene, coding for the pneumococcal amidase, the major autolysin of Streptococcus pneumoniae, and the hbl gene was found. This sim...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romero A,Lopez R,Garcia P

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A handful of nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs) regulate the vast majority of genes in a bacterial cell. H-NS, the histone-like nucleoid-structuring protein, is one of these NAPs and protects Escherichia coli from foreign gene expression. Though lacking any sequence similarity with E. coli H-NS, Rv3852 was annotated ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Odermatt NT,Sala C,Benjak A,Kolly GS,Vocat A,Lupien A,Cole ST

更新日期：2017-07-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) are a set of enzymes that participate in bacterial peptidoglycan assembly. The absolute numbers of each PBP were determined by direct measurement and have been reported for two Staphylococcus aureus strains, RN4220 (methicillin-sensitive S. aureus) and RN450M (methicillin-resista...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pucci MJ,Dougherty TJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00