Measurement of adhesive forces between individual Staphylococcus aureus MSCRAMMs and protein-coated surfaces by use of optical tweezers.

abstract：:L. Sibold, M. Henriquet, O. Possot, and J.-P. Aubert (Res. Microbiol. 142:5-12, 1991) cloned and sequenced two nifH-homologous open reading frames (ORFs) from Methanosarcina barkeri 227. Phylogenetic analysis of the deduced amino acid sequences of the nifH ORFs from M. barkeri showed that nifH1 clusters with nifH gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chien YT,Zinder SH

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heme prosthetic group of heme proteins contains iron, which can be a limiting nutrient. Here, we show that cytochrome c1 protein from Bradyrhizobium japonicum was strongly affected by the iron status, with low expression in cells grown under iron limitation. This control was not affected in mutants encoding the ir...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gao T,O'Brian MR

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli recF mutants are hypermutable when treated with methyl methanesulfonate (G. C. Walker, Mol. Gen. Genet. 152:93-103, 1977). In this study, methylation hypermutability of recF mutant strains was examined, and it was found that recF+ is required for normal induction of the adaptive response to alkylation...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Volkert MR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli VC30 is a temperature-sensitive mutant which is defective in autolysis. Strain VC30 lyses at 30 degrees C when treated with beta-lactam antibiotics or D-cycloserine or when deprived of diaminiopimelic acid. The same treatments inhibit growth of the mutant at 42 degrees C but do not cause lysis. Strain...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lubitz W,Harkness RE,Ishiguro EE

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus attaches to solid surfaces through an adhesive holdfast located at the tip of its polar stalk, a thin cylindrical extension of the cell membrane. In this paper, the elastic properties of the C. crescentus stalk and holdfast assembly were studied by using video light microsc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li G,Smith CS,Brun YV,Tang JX

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose-6-phosphate kinase (pfkA) mutants have impaired growth on carbon sources which enter glycolysis at or above the level of fructose-6-phosphate, but the degree of impairment depends on the carbon source (e.g., growth on glucose is very much slower than growth on glucose-6-phosphate). The present report contains...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vinopal RT,Fraenkel DG

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated a hybrid plasmid, pDB(mei2)2, containing a 7.4-kilobases (kb) DNA fragment from a Schizosaccharomyces pombe genomic library which is able to complement the mei2 mutation of S. pombe. Integration of the cloned DNA sequence at the mei2 site on chromosome I demonstrated that it contained the mei2 gene. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shimoda C,Uehira M,Kishida M,Fujioka H,Iino Y,Watanabe Y,Yamamoto M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA polymerase (RNAP) binding protein A (RbpA) contributes to the formation of stable RNAP-promoter open complexes (RPo) and is essential for viability in mycobacteria. Four domains have been identified in the RbpA protein, i.e., an N-terminal tail (NTT) that interacts with RNAP β' and σ subunits, a core domain (C...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prusa J,Jensen D,Santiago-Collazo G,Pope SS,Garner AL,Miller JJ,Ruiz Manzano A,Galburt EA,Stallings CL

更新日期：2018-06-11 00:00:00

abstract：:An ADP-ribosylating toxin named Aeromonas salmonicida exoenzyme T (AexT) in A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida, the etiological agent of furunculosis in fish, was characterized. Gene aexT, encoding toxin AexT, was cloned and characterized by sequence analysis. AexT shows significant sequence similarity to the ExoS and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Braun M,Stuber K,Schlatter Y,Wahli T,Kuhnert P,Frey J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The high-potential 4Fe-4S* center ofAzotobacter vinelandii ferredoxin I has been titrated potentiometrically by a reductive procedure. The absorbance decrease at 510 nm accompanying the reduction of the high-potential center titrated with an Em of 320 mV (n = 1). The low-potential 4Fe-4S* center was titrated by using ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoch DC,Carithers RP

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens food poisoning is caused by type A isolates carrying a chromosomal enterotoxin (cpe) gene (C-cpe), while C. perfringens-associated non-food-borne gastrointestinal (GI) diseases are caused by isolates carrying a plasmid-borne cpe gene (P-cpe). C. perfringens spores are thought to be the importan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Paredes-Sabja D,Torres JA,Setlow P,Sarker MR

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanohalophilus strain Z7302 was previously isolated from a hypersaline environment and grows over a range of NaCl concentrations from 1.7 to 4.4 M. We examined the relationships between cell growth rate, cell volume, and intracellular solute concentrations with increasing salinity. This extremely halophilic methano...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lai MC,Gunsalus RP

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrate metabolism in Leuconostoc mesenteroides subspecies mesenteroides is associated with the generation of a proton motive force by a secondary mechanism (C. Marty-Teysset, C. Posthuma, J. S. Lolkema, P. Schmitt, C. Divies, and W. N. Konings, J. Bacteriol. 178:2178-2185, 1996). The pathway consists of four steps: (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marty-Teysset C,Lolkema JS,Schmitt P,Diviès C,Konings WN

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of how the catabolism of a carbon and energy source is affected by the biosynthetic demands of growing bacterial cells. Cultures of Aerobacter aerogenes in l-histidine medium were grown in a chemostat at rates determined by the supply of either sulfate or a required amino acid, l-arginine. It was disc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jensen DE,Neidhardt FC

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of strain araC(c)67, which produces the enzymes of the ara operon constitutively, is inhibited by the addition of ribitol. Isolation of strains resistant to ribitol yields mutants of either the araB or araC genes. A model to account for the inhibition by ribitol is discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katz L

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trfA gene of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 is essential for initiation of plasmid replication. Two related TrfA proteins of 43 and 32 kilodaltons (kDa) are produced by independent translation initiation at two start codons within the trfA open reading frame. These proteins were o overproduced in Escherichia col...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Durland RH,Helinski DR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenic specificity of Listeria monocytogenes types I, II, III, IVa, and IVb was studied by immunochemical techniques. Immunologically active carbohydrates of the various types were extracted from cell walls and were chemically analyzed. Types I and II contained predominantly glucosamine and rhamnose; type III, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ullmann WW,Cameron JA

更新日期：1969-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa utilizes a type III secretion system (T3SS) to evade phagocytosis and damage eukaryotic cells. Transcription of the T3SS regulon is controlled by ExsA, a member of the AraC/XylS family of transcriptional regulators. These family members generally consist of an approxim...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brutinel ED,Vakulskas CA,Yahr TL

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus undergoes multicellular development during times of nutritional stress and uses extracellular signals to coordinate cell behavior. C-signal affects gene expression late in development, including that of Omega4499, an operon identified by insertion of Tn5 lac into the M. xanthus chromos...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoder DR,Kroos L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic spore former Clostridioides difficile causes significant diarrheal disease in humans and other mammals. Infection begins with the ingestion of dormant spores, which subsequently germinate within the host gastrointestinal tract. There, the vegetative cells proliferate and secrete two exotoxins, TcdA and T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Edwards AN,Krall EG,McBride SM

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the tryptophanase (tna) operon of Escherichia coli is regulated by catabolite repression and by tryptophan-induced transcription antitermination at Rho-dependent termination sites in the leader region of the operon. Tryptophan induction is dependent on translation of a short leader peptide coding region,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Konan KV,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cloned 8.3-kilobase-pair DNA fragment carrying all the genes (iucABCD iutA) of the aerobactin iron transport system of plasmid pColV-K30 was subjected to in vitro mutagenesis to afford mutant genes iucA, iucC, and iucA iucC. Complementation analyses and identification of aerobactin precursors accumulated by Escheric...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Lorenzo V,Neilands JB

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-aminoadipate pathway for the biosynthesis of lysine is present only in fungi and euglena. Until now, this unique metabolic pathway has never been investigated in the opportunistic fungal pathogens Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Aspergillus fumigatus. Five of the eight enzymes (homocitrate syn...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garrad RC,Bhattacharjee JK

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth rate control of adherent, sessile populations was achieved by the controlled perfusion of membrane-associated bacterial biofilms by the method of Gilbert et al. (P. Gilbert, D. G. Allison, D. J. Evans, P. S. Handley, and M. R. W. Brown, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 55:1308-1311, 1989). Changes in cell surface hydr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allison DG,Evans DJ,Brown MR,Gilbert P

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage 7-7-1, a member of the family Myoviridae, infects the soil bacterium Agrobacterium sp. strain H13-3. Infection requires attachment to actively rotating bacterial flagellar filaments, with flagellar number, length, and rotation speed being important determinants for infection efficiency. To identify the s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gonzalez F,Helm RF,Broadway KM,Scharf BE

更新日期：2018-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces coelicolor produces four known antibiotics. To define genetic elements that regulate antibiotic synthesis, we screened for mutations that visibly blocked synthesis of the two pigmented antibiotics and found that the mutant strains which we recovered were of two classes--double mutants and mutants in which...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Adamidis T,Riggle P,Champness W

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies from this laboratory, Xanthomonas campestris pv. glycines was found to exhibit a nutrition stress-related postexponential rapid cell death (RCD). The RCD was exhibited in protein-rich media but not in starch or other minimal media. This RCD in X. campestris pv. glycines was found to display features...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Raju KK,Gautam S,Sharma A

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lic3 locus of Haemophilus influenzae consists of four open reading frames. The derived amino acid sequences of orf2 and orf4 exhibit homology to Escherichia coli GalE and AdK, respectively. The functions of orf1 and orf3 remain unknown. orf1 contains multiple tandem repeats of the tetrameric DNA sequence CAAT near...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Szabo M,Maskell D,Butler P,Love J,Moxon R

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adaptation in bacterial chemotaxis involves reversible methylation of specific glutamate residues within the cytoplasmic domains of methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins. The specific sites of methylation in Salmonella enterica and Escherichia coli chemoreceptors, identified 2 decades ago, established a consensus seque...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perez E,Zheng H,Stock AM

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC6803 possesses homologs of known genes of the non-mevalonate 2-C-methyl-D-erythritol 2-phosphate (MEP) pathway for synthesis of isopentenyl diphosphate (IPP) and dimethylallyl diphosphate (DMAPP). Isoprenoid biosynthesis in extracts of this cyanobacterium, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ershov YV,Gantt RR,Cunningham FX Jr,Gantt E

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00