Expression of primary sigma factor (PSF) and PSF-like sigma factors in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803.

abstract：:Exogenous proline specifically stimulates the growth rate of enteric bacteria in media of inhibitory osmotic strength (J. H. B. Christian, Aust. J. Biol. Sci. 8:490-497, 1955). I observed that Salmonella typhimurium mutants which lack both of the previously known proline permeases (putP proP) are stimulated by proline...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Csonka LN

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arc (anoxic redox control) two-component signal transduction system of Escherichia coli, which comprises the tripartite ArcB sensor kinase and the ArcA response regulator, modulates the expression of numerous operons in response to redox conditions of growth. We demonstrate that the arcA and arcB genes of Haemophi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Georgellis D,Kwon O,Lin EC,Wong SM,Akerley BJ

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a transcriptional fusion to the lacZ gene, we have analyzed the anaerobic regulation of the hydrogenase 1 (hya) operon in response to different anaerobic growth conditions and to mutations in regulatory genes. We found that the transcription of the hya operon was induced when the growth condition was changed fro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brøndsted L,Atlung T

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two merodiploids of Escherichia coli that contain genes for the lac operon on both chromosome and episome were tested for production of lac enzymes after growth on various carbon sources. The specific activity of beta-galactosidase (and of thiogalactoside transacetylase) was about twice that from haploid cells when gr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fowler AV

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two Rhizobium phaseoli mutants, isolated previously by Tn5 mutagenesis, elicited infection threads which ceased development prematurely, usually within root hairs. These infection threads were wide, globular, and otherwise altered in morphology, compared with normal infection threads. Anatomy and division of the root ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Noel KD,Vandenbosch KA,Kulpaca B

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae move rapidly over surfaces. Mutations in gldN cause a partial defect in gliding. A novel bacteriophage selection strategy was used to aid construction of a strain with a deletion spanning gldN and the closely related gene gldO in an otherwise wild-type F. johnso...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rhodes RG,Samarasam MN,Shrivastava A,van Baaren JM,Pochiraju S,Bollampalli S,McBride MJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A nonpathogenic mutant of Erwinia carotovora obtained by Mu d1 mutagenesis was defective in the ability to utilize several carbon sources. The basis of the mutation was analyzed biochemically and shown to be a defect in the ability to form UDP glucose-pyrophosphorylase. The nonpathogenic phenotype of the mutant was ca...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jayaswal RK,Bressan RA,Handa AK

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large-scale fractionation scheme purified the major molybdenum(Mo)-binding protein (Mop) from crude extracts of Clostridium pasteurianum, with a 10 and 0.2% yield of Mo and protein, respectively. The apparent molecular weight of the purified molybdoprotein is 5,700, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacryla...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hinton SM,Merritt B

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western (immunoblot) analysis using Escherichia coli anti-RecA antiserum revealed that expression of the RecA protein of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO is induced upon exposure of the bacterium to UV irradiation or norfloxacin, a quinolone related to nalidixic acid. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller RV,Kokjohn TA

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic marker for sulfadiazine resistance was transferred by means of purified deoxyribonucleic acid from sulfadiazine-resistant Neisseria meningitidis and N. perflava to a sulfadiazine-sensitive strain of N. meningitidis. Over 80% of the isolates from these experiments, selected on the basis of sulfadiazine resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes a novel approach to identify unique genomic DNA sequences from the unsequenced strain C. jejuni ATCC 43431 by comparison with the sequenced strain C. jejuni NCTC 11168. A shotgun DNA microarray was constructed by arraying 9,600 individual DNA fragments from a C. jejuni ATCC 43431 genomic library o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Poly F,Threadgill D,Stintzi A

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toluene dioxygenase from Pseudomonas putida F1 has been studied extensively with aromatic substrates. The present work examined the toluene dioxygenase-catalyzed oxidation of various halogenated ethenes, propenes, butenes and nonhalogenated cis-2-pentene, an isomeric mix of 2-hexenes, cis-2-heptene, and cis-2-octene a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lange CC,Wackett LP

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanothece sp. strain ATCC 51142 is a unicellular, diazotrophic cyanobacterium which demonstrated extensive metabolic periodicities of photosynthesis, respiration, and nitrogen fixation when grown under N2-fixing conditions. N2 fixation and respiration peaked at 24-h intervals early in the dark or subjective-dark peri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Colón-López MS,Sherman DM,Sherman LA

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) plays a central role in the regulation of motility, virulence, and biofilm formation in many pathogenic bacteria. EAL domain-containing phosphodiesterases are the major signaling proteins responsible for the degradation of c-di-GMP and maintenance of its cellular level...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen MW,Kotaka M,Vonrhein C,Bricogne G,Rao F,Chuah ML,Svergun D,Schneider G,Liang ZX,Lescar J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Escherichia coli lacking all cytoplasmic chemotaxis proteins except CheY swim smoothly under most conditions. However, they tumble when exposed to acetate. Acetate coenzyme A synthetase (EC 6.2.1.1) was thought to be essential for this response. New evidence suggests that the tumbling is mediated instead by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dailey FE,Berg HC

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of virulence factors by Bordetella pertussis is altered by environmental signals (antigenic modulation) and is dependent on an activator encoded by a gene called vir. We have used TnphoA (Tn5 IS50L::phoA) gene fusions to define two sets of genes whose expression is either activated (vag loci) or repressed (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Knapp S,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA of bacteriophage Mu, extracted from induced lysates, is partially resistant to digestion by the endonuclease BalI. This modification of DNA is controlled by the Mu modification function (mom), which acts in conjunction with the dam (DNA-adenine methylation) function of Escherichia coli. Since the BalI recognit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Khatoon H,Bukhari AI

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CatR, a LysR family protein, positively regulates the Pseudomonas putida catBC operon, which is required for growth on benzoate as a sole carbon source. Transcriptional studies show that the catR and catBC promoters are divergent and overlapping by 2 bp. A beta-galactosidase promoter probe vector was constructed to an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rothmel RK,Shinabarger DL,Parsek MR,Aldrich TL,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the ability of Pseudomonas syringae pv. "phaseolicola" NPS3121 to elicit a hypersensitive response on tobacco and other nonhost plants was associated with loss of pathogenicity on the susceptible host bean. Eight independent, prototrophic transposon Tn5 insertion mutants which had lost the ability to elicit a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lindgren PB,Peet RC,Panopoulos NJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:Evidence from pulse-chase experiments indicates that the outer membrane matrix protein or porin of Escherichia coli B/r passes through a Sarkosyl-soluble membrane pool on the way to its eventual Sarkosyl-insoluble state in the outer membrane. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boyd A,Holland IB

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracer studies of pyrimidine biosynthesis in Lactobacillus leichmannii (ATCC 7830) indicated that, while aspartate is utilized in the usual manner, the guanido carbon of arginine, rather than carbon dioxide, is utilized as a pyrimidine precursor. The guanido carbon of arginine also contributes, to some extent, to the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hutson JY,Downing M

更新日期：1968-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 can fix N(2) under oxic conditions, and the activity of nitrogen fixation occurs exclusively in heterocysts, cells differentiated from vegetative cells in response to a limitation of a combined-nitrogen source in the growth medium. At the late stages of heter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shi L,Li JH,Cheng Y,Wang L,Chen WL,Zhang CC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flagellar biogenesis and hence motility of Vibrio fischeri depends upon the presence of magnesium. In the absence of magnesium, cells contain few or no flagella and are poorly motile or nonmotile. To dissect the mechanism by which this regulation occurs, we screened transposon insertion mutants for those that could mi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Shea TM,Klein AH,Geszvain K,Wolfe AJ,Visick KL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pGC1, a self-transmissible lac plasmid that originated in Yersinia enterocolitica 842, is described. This plasmid is freely transmissible between strains of Y. enterocolitica and from such strains to strains of Escherichia coli. The plasmid can also be transferref among G. coli strains and back to Y. enterocolitica, a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cornelis G,Bennett PM,Grinsted J

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated 28 mutants of Bacillus subtilis deficient in the development of competence by using the transposon Tn917lacZ as a mutagen. The mutant strains were poorly transformable with plasmid and chromosomal DNAs but were normally transducible and exhibited wild-type resistance to DNA-damaging agents. The mutations w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hahn J,Albano M,Dubnau D

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ends of the bacterial transposon gamma delta contain adjacent binding sites for gamma delta transposase and integration host factor (IHF). IHF+ and IHF- strains were used in conjunction with gamma delta transposon ends containing or lacking the site for IHF binding to determine the role that IHF plays in various g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wiater LA,Grindley ND

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerulenin is a fungal mycotoxin that potently inhibits fatty acid synthesis by covalent modification of the active site thiol of the chain-elongation subtypes of beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) synthases. The Bacillus subtilis fabF (yjaY) gene (fabF(b)) encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the condensation of mal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schujman GE,Choi KH,Altabe S,Rock CO,de Mendoza D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two genes, xylP and xylQ, from the xylose regulon of Lactobacillus pentosus were cloned and sequenced. Together with the repressor gene of the regulon, xylR, the xylPQ genes form an operon which is inducible by xylose and which is transcribed from a promoter located 145 bp upstream of xylP. A putative xylR binding sit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chaillou S,Lokman BC,Leer RJ,Posthuma C,Postma PW,Pouwels PH

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Rhodobacter capsulatus hemC mutant has been isolated and used to show that oxygen regulates the intracellular levels of porphobilinogen. Experiments using a hemB-cat gene fusion demonstrated that oxygen does not transcriptionally regulate hemB transcription. Porphobilinogen synthase activity is not regulated by oxyg...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Biel AJ,Canada K,Huang D,Indest K,Sullivan K

更新日期：2002-03-01 00:00:00