Stimulation of menaquinone-dependent electron transfer in the respiratory chain of Bacillus subtilis by membrane energization.

abstract：:With a DNA fragment from within the region encoding the transport functions for K1 production as a hybridization probe in Southern blot experiments, homologous DNA sequences were detected in the DNA from Escherichia coli strains producing K5, K7, K92, and K100 capsular polysaccharides. No homology with the laboratory ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts I,Mountford R,High N,Bitter-Suermann D,Jann K,Timmis K,Boulnois G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of bacterial L-ornithine: alpha-ketoglutarate delta-aminotransferase (L-ornithine:2-oxo-acid aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.13]) was investigated, and Bacillus sphaericus (IFO 3525) was found to have the highest activity of the enzyme, which was inducibly formed by addition of L-ornithine or L-arginine to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yasuda M,Tanizawa K,Misono H,Toyama S,Soda K

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Groman, Neal B. (University of Washington, Seattle) and Grace Suzuki. Quantitative study of endolysin synthesis during reproduction of lambda phages. J. Bacteriol. 86:187-194. 1963.-Endolysin is presumed to be a phage-induced enzyme participating in lysis through its destructive action on the host cell wall. A method ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： GROMAN NB,SUZUKI G

更新日期：1963-08-01 00:00:00

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：:The cytoplasmic accumulation of exogenous betaine stimulates the growth of Lactococcus lactis cultivated under hyperosmotic conditions. We report that L. lactis possesses a single betaine transport system that belongs to the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of transporters. Through transposon mutagenesis, a muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Obis D,Guillot A,Gripon JC,Renault P,Bolotin A,Mistou MY

更新日期：1999-10-01 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：UNLABELLED:The ubiquitous bacterial second messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) has recently become prominent as a trigger for biofilm formation in many bacteria. It is generated by diguanylate cyclases (DGCs; with GGDEF domains) and degraded by specific phosphodiesterases (PDEs; containing either EAL or HD-GYP domains)....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Povolotsky TL,Hengge R

更新日期：2015-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration host factor (IHF) is a small, basic protein that is needed for efficient recombination of bacteriophage lambda, as well as for other host and viral functions. We have constructed strains in which the two subunits of IHF, encoded by the himA and hip genes of Escherichia coli, are expressed under the control...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nash HA,Robertson CA,Flamm E,Weisberg RA,Miller HI

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work describes the draft genome sequence of Lactococcus garvieae DCC43. The 2.2-Mb draft genome contains 2,227 predicted protein-coding genes, among which is a region encoding the bacteriocin garvicin ML. No antibiotic resistance genes or capsule-related virulence genes were identified. Two plasmid replication re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gabrielsen C,Brede DA,Hernández PE,Nes IF,Diep DB

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae cultures possess an aerobic pathway for glucose oxidation that is strongly inhibited by cyanide. The products of glucose oxidation by aerobically grown cells of S. agalactiae 50 are lactic and acetic acids, acetylmethylcarbinol, and carbon dioxide. Glucose degradation products by aerobically g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mickelson MN

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneously arising regulatory mutant of the gluconate system in Escherichia coli was isolated. This mutant became constitutive, probably in one step, for gluconate high-affinity transport, gluconokinase, and gluconate-6-P dehydrase. The mutation involved (gntR18) is cotransducible with asd. Pseudorevertants, deri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zwaig N,Nagel de Zwaig R,Istúriz T,Wecksler M

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutator mutation of Salmonella typhimurium, observed in a strain resistant to P22 and rifampin, affects mutation rates of bacterial, R factor, and prophage P22 genes. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guterman SK,Wright A

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of homologous DNA by Haemophilus influenzae was studied as a function of the proton motive force in completely competent cultures in the pH range of 6 to 8. The composition and magnitude of the proton motive force were varied by using the ionophores valinomycin and nigericin (in the presence of various pota...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bremer W,Kooistra J,Hellingwerf KJ,Konings WN

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact yeast cells treated with alkali cations took up plasmid DNA. Li+, Cs+, Rb+, K+, and Na+ were effective in inducing competence. Conditions for the transformation of Saccharomyces cerevisiae D13-1A with plasmid YRp7 were studied in detail with CsCl. The optimum incubation time was 1 h, and the optimum cell concen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ito H,Fukuda Y,Murata K,Kimura A

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Escherichia coli carrying the gene lon typically produced excess capsular polysaccharide, and were sensitive to ultraviolet light (UV) irradiation, thymine starvation, and nalidixic acid, forming long filaments after these treatments. Sensitivity was reduced by a number of posttreatments. In the presence of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donch J,Green MH,Greenberg J

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptidoglycan layer surrounding the photosynthetic organelles (cyanelles) of the protist Cyanophora paradoxa is thought to be a relic of their cyanobacterial ancestors. The separation of muropeptides by gel filtration and reverse-phase high-performance liquid chromatography revealed four different muropeptide mono...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pfanzagl B,Zenker A,Pittenauer E,Allmaier G,Martinez-Torrecuadrada J,Schmid ER,De Pedro MA,Löffelhardt W

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CRM 228 (T. Uchida, A. M. Pappenheimer, and R. Greany, J. Biol. Chem. 248:3838-3844, 1973), a mutant form of diphtheria toxin which completely lacks ADP-ribosyltransferase activity, contains five amino acid substitutions. The two amino acid changes that fall within the A chain of the toxin (G79D and E162K) were separa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson VG,Nicholls PJ

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining cell envelope integrity is critical for bacterial survival, including bacteria living in a complex and dynamic environment such as the human oral cavity. Streptococcus mutans, a major etiological agent of dental caries, uses two-component signal transduction systems (TCSTSs) to monitor and respond to vario...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suntharalingam P,Senadheera MD,Mair RW,Lévesque CM,Cvitkovitch DG

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemF gene of Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 is predicted to code for an oxygen-dependent coproporphyrinogen III oxidase. We found that a HemF- mutant strain is unable to grow under aerobic conditions. We also determined that hemF expression is controlled by oxygen, which is mediated, at least in part, by the respon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zeilstra-Ryalls JH,Schornberg KL

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biochemical and immunological experiments have suggested that the Escherichia coli enzyme p-aminobenzoate synthetase and anthranilate synthetase are structurally related. Both enzymes are composed of two nonidentical subunits. Anthranilate synthetase is composed of proteins encoded by the genes trp(G)D and trpE, where...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goncharoff P,Nichols BP

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain gram-negative pathogens are known to control virulence gene expression through cell-cell communication via small diffusible signal molecules termed autoinducers. This intercellular signal transduction mechanism termed quorum sensing depends on the interaction of an N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) auto-inducer m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Milton DL,Hardman A,Camara M,Chhabra SR,Bycroft BW,Stewart GS,Williams P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding protein 4a (PBP4a) from Bacillus subtilis was overproduced and purified to homogeneity. It clearly exhibits DD-carboxypeptidase and thiolesterase activities in vitro. Although highly isologous to the Actinomadura sp. strain R39 DD-peptidase (B. Granier, C. Duez, S. Lepage, S. Englebert, J. Dusart, O...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Duez C,Vanhove M,Gallet X,Bouillenne F,Docquier J,Brans A,Frère J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have previously used the bacteriophage transposon Mu d1 (which encodes the lacZY structural genes but without their promoter) to construct strains that have lacZY fused to phosphate-regulated promoters in Escherichia coli K-12. Among 18 identified phosphate-starvation-inducible (psi) genes, three (the phoA and two ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wanner BL,Wieder S,McSharry R

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After treatment with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, 133 independent mutants of a haploid strain of Escherichia coli able to use phenyl-beta-galactoside as a carbon source were obtained. The galactoside was specific in selecting for mutants with increases in their uninduced levels of beta-galactosidase. Virtuall...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shineberg B

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inducible phosphoenolpyruvate:fructose phosphotransferase system has been detected in Azospirillum brasilense, which requires a minimum of two components of the crude extracts for activity: (i) a soluble fraction (enzyme I) and (ii) a membrane fraction (enzyme II). The uninduced cells neither show any uptake of fru...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gupta KD,Ghosh S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydophila pneumoniae is a gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes pneumonia and bronchitis and may contribute to atherosclerosis. The developmental cycle of C. pneumoniae includes a morphological transition from an infectious extracellular elementary body (EB) to a noninfectious intrace...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson DL,Stone CB,Mahony JB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrate lyase, the key enzyme of anaerobic citrate catabolism, could not be deleted from Salmonella typhimurium. The only class of mutants found had a mode of covalent regulation that strongly resembled the Escherichia coli system: citrate lyase was only active, i.e., acetylated, when a cosubstrate was present. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kulla HG

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms protecting nitrogenase in Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus from damage by oxygen were studied. Evidence is provided suggesting that in G. diazotrophicus these mechanisms include respiratory protection as well as conformational protection in which a putative FeSII Shethna protein is involved. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ureta A,Nordlund S

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fusion constructed between the putative attenuator plus the first 219 nucleotides of the ermC (erythromycin resistance) structural gene and a 5' terminally deleted lacZ gene produced a moderate, basal level of beta-galactosidase which was increased by erythromycin addition. Another construction containing an intact ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kirsch DR,Lai MH

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that Escherichia coli tolC mutations reduce the high-level resistance to tetracycline afforded by the transposon Tn10-encoded TetA pump from resistance at 200 microg/ml to resistance at 40 microg/ml. In this study, we found that the addition of an sbmA mutation to a tolC::Tn10 mutant exacer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Cristóbal RE,Vincent PA,Salomón RA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00