Evidence that the isomerization of D-ribose and L-rhamnose is catalyzed by the same enzyme in Mycobacterium smegmatis.

abstract：:In this report, we show that biofilm formation by Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19 gives rise to variants (the small mucoid variant [SMV] and the acapsular small-colony variant [SCV]) differing in capsule production, attachment, and biofilm formation compared to wild-type strains. All biofilm-derived variants harb...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allegrucci M,Sauer K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biochemical basis for the acquired or natural resistance of various gram-positive organisms to glycopeptides was studied by high-pressure liquid chromatographic analysis of their peptidoglycan UDP-MurNAc-peptide precursors. In all cases, resistance was correlated with partial or complete replacement of the C-termi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Billot-Klein D,Gutmann L,Sablé S,Guittet E,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1994-04-01 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 gene coding for sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Si4 was located 55 nucleotides upstream of the mannitol dehydrogenase gene (mtlK) within a previously unrecognized polyol operon. This operon probably consists of all the proteins necessary for transport and metabolization of various polyols. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stein MA,Schäfer A,Giffhorn F

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the thermophilic archaeon Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum Marburg, the structural gene for isoleucyl-tRNA synthetase (ileS) is flanked upstream by orf401 and downstream by purL. orf401 encodes a 43.5-kDa protein with an unknown function. Northern (RNA) hybridization and S1 nuclease protection experiments showe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jenal U,Thurner C,Leisinger T

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most puzzling results from the complete genome sequence of the methanogenic archaeon Methanococcus jannaschii was that the organism may have only one DNA polymerase gene. This is because no other DNA polymerase-like open reading frames (ORFs) were found besides one ORF having the typical alpha-like DNA poly...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishino Y,Komori K,Cann IK,Koga Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizopines are selective growth substrates synthesized in nodules only by strains of rhizobia capable of their catabolism. We report the isolation and study of genes for the synthesis and catabolism of a new rhizopine, scyllo-inosamine (sIa), from alfalfa nodules induced by Rhizobium meliloti Rm220-3. This compound is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Saint CP,Wexler M,Murphy PJ,Tempé J,Tate ME,Murphy PJ

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hall, Herbert E. (Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio), Robert Angelotti, Keith H. Lewis, and Milton J. Foter. Characteristics of Clostridium perfringens strains associated with food and food-borne disease. J. Bacteriol. 85:1094-1103. 1963.-A total of 83 strains of Clostridium perfringens-30 f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HALL HE,ANGELOTTI R,LEWIS KH,FOTER MJ

更新日期：1963-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stator of the sodium-driven flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus is a membrane protein complex composed of four PomA and two PomB subunits. PomB has a peptidoglycan-binding motif in the C-terminal region. In this study, four kinds of PomB deletions in the C terminus were constructed. None of the deletion protei...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yakushi T,Hattori N,Homma M

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 12 incD repeats in the F plasmid each contain about 60 bits of information, which is three times the amount of conservation that a single protein would need to distinguish the repeats from the rest of the Escherichia coli genome. This is the first reported discovery of a case of threefold excess information, and i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herman ND,Schneider TD

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans produces large amounts of the acyclic pentitol D-arabitol in culture and in infected animals and humans, and most strains also grow on minimal D-arabitol medium. An earlier study showed that the major metabolic precursor of D-arabitol in C. albicans was D-ribulose-5-PO4 from the pentose pathway, that ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wong B,Leeson S,Grindle S,Magee B,Brooks E,Magee PT

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neuS-encoded polysialytransferase (polyST) in Escherichia coli K1 catalyzes synthesis of polysialic acid homopolymers composed of unbranched sialyl alpha 2,8 linkages. Subcloning and complementation experiments showed that the K1 neuS was functionally interchangeable with the neuS from E. coli K92 (S. M. Steenberg...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vimr ER,Bergstrom R,Steenbergen SM,Boulnois G,Roberts I

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sortases are transamidases that covalently link proteins to the peptidoglycan of gram-positive bacteria. The genome of the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes encodes two sortases genes, srtA and srtB. The srtA gene product anchors internalin and some other LPXTG-containing proteins to the listerial surface. H...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bierne H,Garandeau C,Pucciarelli MG,Sabet C,Newton S,Garcia-del Portillo F,Cossart P,Charbit A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P fimbrial gene clusters encoding the serologically different F7(1), F7(2), F9, and F11 fimbriae were compared functionally. The results show that these gene clusters are closely related. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van Die I,Van Megen I,Zuidweg E,Hoekstra W,De Ree H,Van den Bosch H,Bergmans H

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open-reading-frame fragment of a Methylobacterium sp. strain AM1 gene (moxF) encoding a portion of the methanol dehydrogenase structural protein has been used as a hybridization probe to detect similar sequences in a variety of methylotrophic bacteria. This hybridization was used to isolate clones containing putati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stephens RL,Haygood MG,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a 45-kDa protein (45K) of Chlamydia trachomatis serovar F was cloned, sequenced, and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. Alignment of the deduced peptide sequence with E. coli elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) demonstrated 69% identity. The 45K was recognized by a Chlamydia genus-specific monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang YX,Shi Y,Zhou M,Petsko GA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:It is well established that the RpoN-RpoS sigma factor (σ(54)-σ(S)) cascade plays an essential role in differential gene expression during the enzootic cycle of Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease. The RpoN-RpoS pathway is activated by the response regulator/σ(54)-dependent activator (a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yin Y,Yang Y,Xiang X,Wang Q,Yang ZN,Blevins J,Lou Y,Yang XF

更新日期：2016-04-28 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：:Neisseria meningitidis can be the causative agent of meningitis or septicemia. This bacterium expresses type IV pili, which mediate a variety of functions, including autoagglutination, twitching motility, biofilm formation, adherence, and DNA uptake during transformation. The secretin PilQ supports type IV pilus extru...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Balasingham SV,Collins RF,Assalkhou R,Homberset H,Frye SA,Derrick JP,Tønjum T

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We cloned and sequenced a fragment of the Bacillus stearothermophilus NUB36 chromosome that contains two open reading frames (ORFs) whose products were detected only in cells of cultures grown in complex medium at high temperature. The nucleotide sequence of the two ORFs exhibited significant identity to the sequence ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu L,Welker NE

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is universally used to recognize and remove many types of DNA damage. In eubacteria, the NER system typically consists of UvrA, UvrB, UvrC, the UvrD helicase, DNA polymerase I, and ligase. In addition, when DNA damage blocks transcription, transcription-repair coupling factor (TRCF), t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LeCuyer BE,Criss AK,Seifert HS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MobB is a small protein encoded by the broad-host-range plasmid R1162 and required for efficient mobilization of its DNA during conjugation. The protein was shown previously to stabilize the relaxosome, the complex of plasmid DNA and mobilization proteins at the origin of transfer (oriT). We have generated in-frame mo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perwez T,Meyer RJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When an Escherichia coli K-12 culture was starved for glucose, 50% of the cells lost viability in about 6 days. When a K-12 mutant lacking five distinct peptidase activities, CM89, was starved in the same manner, viability was lost much more rapidly; 50% of the cells lost viability in about 2 days, whereas a parent st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reeve CA,Bockman AT,Matin A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell walls isolated from axenically grown leprosy-derived corynebacteria were submitted to various chemical and enzymatic degradations. The glycan strands of the wall peptidoglycan are essentially composed of N-acetylglycosaminyl-N-acetylmuramic acid disaccharide units. Small amounts of N-acetylglycosaminyl-N-glyc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Janczura E,Leyh-Bouille M,Cocito C,Ghuysen JM

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Insertion of Tn7 in nine independently derived isolates occurred in a single small region of the Caulobacter crescentus chromosome, suggesting that Tn7 insertion occurs at or near a single site. The order of markers in this region of the Caulobacter chromosome was shown to be flaA-argG-Tn7. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ely B

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Veillonella parvula M4, which grows readily in lactate broth without a requirement for carbon dioxide, has been isolated from the oral cavity. Anaerobic, washed cells of this organism fermented sodium lactate to the following products (moles/100 moles of lactate): propionate, 66; acetate, 40; carbon dioxid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ng SK,Hamilton IR

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A locus unlinked to either katE or katF that affected catalase levels in Escherichia coli was identified and localized between metB and ppc at 89.2 min on the genome. The locus was named katG. Mutations in katG which prevented the formation of both isoenzyme forms of the bifunctional catalase-peroxidase HPI were creat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loewen PC,Triggs BL,George CS,Hrabarchuk BE

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first generalized transducing bacteriophage reported for Bacillus megaterium has been characterized. Optimum conditions for lysate production and transduction procedures were established so that transducing frequencies of 8 x 10(-6) and higher are now possible. The phage, MP13, has a head diameter of 97 nm and a c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vary PS,Garbe JC,Franzen M,Frampton EW

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationships of five feedback inhibitors for the Bacillus licheniformis glutamine synthetase were investigated. The inhibitors were distinguishable by differences in their competitive relationship for the substrates of the enzyme. Mixtures of l-glutamine and adenosine-5'-monophosphate (AMP) or histidine and AMP c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hubbard JS,Stadtman ER

更新日期：1967-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Flavobacterium sp. (strain 50001), capable of degrading 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetate (2,4-D), 2-methyl-4-chlorophenoxyacetate, and 2-chlorobenzoate and imparting resistance to mercury, harbored a degradative plasmid, pRC10. Cured strains of the Flavobacterium sp. lost the plasmid as well as the ability to degrade thes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chaudhry GR,Huang GH

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00