Evolutionary relationships among strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with few copies of IS6110.

abstract：:We are studying an O4/K54/H5 Escherichia coli bacteremic isolate (CP9) as a model pathogen for extraintestinal infection. Its group 2, K54 capsular polysaccharide is an important virulence determinant and confers serum resistance. In this study the effect of the group 1 capsule regulators, RcsA, RcsB, and Lon protease...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Russo TA,Singh G

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria in biofilms often undergo active dispersal events and revert to a free-swimming, planktonic state to complete the biofilm life cycle. The signaling molecule nitric oxide (NO) was previously found to trigger biofilm dispersal in the opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa at low, nontoxic concentrations ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barraud N,Schleheck D,Klebensberger J,Webb JS,Hassett DJ,Rice SA,Kjelleberg S

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti is a free-living soil bacterium which is capable of establishing a symbiotic relationship with the alfalfa plant (Medicago sativa). This symbiosis involves a network of bacterium-host signaling, as well as the potential for bacterium-bacterium communication, such as quorum sensing. In this study...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marketon MM,González JE

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) isolated from a number of actinomycetes to reassociate with reference DNA from Actinoplanes philippinensis or Streptomyces venezuelae has been measured. All of the DNA preparations except for those from Nocardia erythropolis and Thermomonospora viridis contained 70 to 73 mole...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Farina G,Bradley SG

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analyses of the Staphylococcus epidermidis multiresistance plasmids pSK697 and pSK818 have revealed them to be closely related to the trimethoprim resistance plasmid pSK639, also isolated from S. epidermidis. pSK697 and pSK818 were found to contain a cointegrated copy of a second plasmid related to the S. epidermidis ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leelaporn A,Firth N,Paulsen IT,Skurray RA

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1. The library was mobilized into a variety of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida trp mutants by using the helper plasmid pRK2013. Five Z. mobilis trp genes were identified by the ability to complement the trp mutants. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eddy CK,Smith OH,Noel KD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A map location of the gluconate-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (gnd) marker was estimated in Escherichia coli C at approximately 46 min by P1 transduction. The gnd locus appears to lie between the co-transducible histidine and prophage P2 location I markers. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robbins RS,Kelly B

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group A Streptococcus (GAS) sof gene encodes the serum opacity factor protein, which is capable of opacifying mammalian sera and binding at least two host proteins, fibronectin and fibrinogen. The sof gene exists in approximately 50% of clinical isolates, and there is a classical association of so-called nephritog...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jeng A,Sakota V,Li Z,Datta V,Beall B,Nizet V

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Neurospora crassa assimilatory nitrite reductase structural gene, nit-6, has been isolated. A cDNA library was constructed from poly(A)+ RNA isolated from Neurospora mycelia in which nitrate assimilation had been induced. This cDNA was ligated into lambda ZAP II (Stratagene) and amplified. This library was then sc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Exley GE,Colandene JD,Garrett RH

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PhoQ/PhoP two-component system is repressed by divalent cations, such as Mg(2+) and Ca(2+), in the growth medium and stimulated by low pH and certain cationic antimicrobial peptides. In Escherichia coli, it was recently shown that the histidine kinase PhoQ is also modulated by at least two additional factors, the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lippa AM,Goulian M

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylella fastidiosa is a phytopathogenic bacterium that is responsible for diseases in many economically important crops. Although different strains have been studied, little is known about X. fastidiosa stress responses. One of the better characterized stress responses in bacteria is the heat shock response, which ind...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koide T,Vêncio RZ,Gomes SL

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein and ribonucleic acid (RNA) syntheses were measured in both lethally injured and thermally damaged viable cells after heating at lethal temperatures. Immediately after heating, cells were incubated in growth media containing either [14C]leucine or [3H]uracil. The labeled cells were subsequently treated with pen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dean RG,McGroarty EJ

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two related killer strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were mutagenized and screened for nonkiller variants. About 20% of the mutants derived from one strain lacked all detectable double-straned ribonucleic acid (dsRNA). About 70% of the mutants from the other strain lacked one of the dsRNA species normally associated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vodkin M

更新日期：1977-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-dimensional structure of the nickel-containing hydrogenase from Thiocapsa roseopersicina has been determined at a resolution of 2 nm in the plane and 4 nm in the vertical direction by electron microscopy and computerized image processing on microcrystals of the enzyme. The enzyme forms a large ring-shaped co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sherman MB,Orlova EV,Smirnova EA,Hovmöller S,Zorin NA

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A late-log-phase culture of an Escherichia coli nadB pncA double mutant took up 6-[7-14C]aminonicotinic acid and excreted 6-[14C]aminonicotinamide. This mutant also accumulated intracellularly several radioactive compounds which have been tentatively identified as 6-amino analogs of compounds in the pyridine nucleotid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cobb JR,Pearcy SC,Gholson RK

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid composition of the membranes of three different penicillin-produced L-forms of Streptococcus faecalis was determined: (i) a stable (nonreverting) L-form (T(53)) cultured in brain heart infusion (BHI) with 0.5 M sucrose; (ii) a stable L-form (T(531)) cultured in BHI without sucrose; and (iii) an unstable...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Montgomerie JZ,Kalmanson GM,Guze LB

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early stages of nodulation involve the exchange of signals between the bacterium and the host plant. Bacterial nodulation (nod) genes are required for Rhizobium spp. to synthesize lipooligosaccharide morphogens, termed Nod factors. The common nod genes encode enzymes that synthesize the factor core structure, which is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ehrhardt DW,Atkinson EM,Faull KF,Freedberg DI,Sutherlin DP,Armstrong R,Long SR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) occur frequently in natural populations of pathogenic and commensal bacteria, resulting in a mutator phenotype. We identified a unique genetic element in Streptococcus pyogenes strain SF370 that controls MMR via a dynamic process of prophage excision and reintegration in response t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scott J,Thompson-Mayberry P,Lahmamsi S,King CJ,McShan WM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2-aminoethylphosphonate transaminase (AEPT; the phnW gene product) of the Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium 2-aminoethylphosphonate (AEP) degradation pathway catalyzes the reversible reaction of AEP and pyruvate to form phosphonoacetaldehyde (P-Ald) and L-alanine (L-Ala). Here, we describe the purification a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim AD,Baker AS,Dunaway-Mariano D,Metcalf WW,Wanner BL,Martin BM

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two solid medium formulations, designated 100:10 and 10:10, were developed for the growth of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. The new media contain a mixture of both ferrous iron and thiosulfate as available energy sources, permitting the detection of colony morphology variants that arise spontaneously in a wild-type popula...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schrader JA,Holmes DS

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rcs phosphorelay pathway components were originally identified as regulators of capsule synthesis. In addition to the transmembrane sensor kinase RcsC, the RcsA coregulator, and the response regulator RcsB, two new components have been characterized, RcsD and RcsF. RcsD, the product of the yojN gene, now renamed r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Majdalani N,Heck M,Stout V,Gottesman S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate carboxylase-oxygenase (RuBPC-O) activity was greatly enhanced when Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides was grown in a mineral salts medium supplied with 1.5% CO2 in hydrogen. Analysis of cell extracts by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis indicated that cells growing on 1.5% C...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jouanneau Y,Tabita FR

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selection procedure is described which permits a large number of Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutants to be screened for specific lesions in mitochondrial respiratory enzymes and the adenosine triphosphatase. The method has been used to isolate nuclear mutant strains with specific lesions in coenzyme QH2-cytochrome c re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tzagoloff A,Akai A,Needleman RB

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disaccharide trehalose is accumulated as a storage product by spores of Streptomyces griseus. Nongerminating spores used their trehalose reserves slowly when incubated in buffer for several months. In contrast, spores rapidly depleted their trehalose pools during the first hours of germination. Extracts of dormant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McBride MJ,Ensign JC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-pressure liquid chromatography of a muramidase digest of murein sacculi from Caulobacter crescentus showed that the absence of D-alanine carboxypeptidase activity in the cells was reflected by a very high content of pentapeptide in the murein. Approximately half of the pentapeptide side chains were shown to conta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Markiewicz Z,Glauner B,Schwarz U

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis culture incubated anaerobically in nitrate-containing medium lost viability during the first 3 days but recovered thereafter. A flavohemoglobin mutant showed very poor survival under these conditions unless the cells were prevented from carrying out nitrate respiration. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakano MM

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a number of approaches we were unable to demonstrate a chemotactic response of Myxococcus xanthus to a variety of defined and complex materials. These data in addition to a number of prima facie arguments considerably reduce the likelihood that M. xanthus possesses a mechanism for chemotactic behavior. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dworkin M,Eide D

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Romano, Antonio H. (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio), and Dorothy J. Geason. Pattern of sheath synthesis in Sphaerotilus natans. J. Bacteriol. 88:1145-1150. 1964.-Formation of the characteristic sheath of Sphaerotilus natans was followed by immunofluorescence. Fluorescent antisheath antibody was obtained by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ROMANO AH,GEASON DJ

更新日期：1964-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional regulation of the Mg(2+)-citrate transporter, CitM, the main citrate uptake system of Bacillus subtilis, was studied during growth in rich medium. Citrate in the growth medium was required for induction under all growth conditions. In Luria-Bertani medium containing citrate, citM expression was complet...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Warner JB,Magni C,Lolkema JS

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region upstream of the Escherichia coli bgl operon is an insertion hot spot for several transposons. Elements as distantly related as Tn1, Tn5, and phage Mu home in on this location. To see what characteristics result in a high-affinity site for transposition, we compared in vivo and in vitro Mu transposition patt...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manna D,Wang X,Higgins NP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00