Rod shape determination by the Bacillus subtilis class B penicillin-binding proteins encoded by pbpA and pbpH.

abstract：:The mutant sigA allele of Bacillus subtilis DB1005 was confirmed to be temperature sensitive (ts) and transferable among strains of B. subtilis by chromosomal transformation and gene conversion. This ts sigA allele had a pleiotropic effect on gene expression of DB1005. The induction of certain heat shock proteins in D...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang BY,Chen KY,Wen YD,Liao CT

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eisenstein, Richard B. (Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio) and Charles Yanofsky. Tryptophan synthetase levels in Escherichia coli, Shigella dysenteriae, and transduction hybrids. J. Bacteriol. 83:193-204. 1962-Shigella dysenteriae and Escherichia coli, strains K-12 and B, were found to produce low levels of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： EISENSTEIN RB,YANOFSKY C

更新日期：1962-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio parahaemolyticus possesses two distinct motility systems, the polar system used for swimming in liquid environments and the lateral system used for swarming over surfaces. Growth on surfaces induces swarmer cell differentiation and expression of the lateral motility system. Mutants, created by transposon mutage...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCarter LL,Wright ME

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A completely stable F32 merodiploid has been isolated, which has the dsd genotype dsdA(+)dsdCx3 /F -dsdA(+)dsdC(+). The stabilization apparently does not result from an alteration in the F, or from its integration in the chromosome, but rather from a chromosomal aberration. The stable strain can exist in two forms, wh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McFall E

更新日期：1967-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isoenzymes of malate dehydrogenase (MDH) were demonstrated in plasmodia of Physarum polycephalum by polyacrylamide-gel electrophoresis. The more "cathodal" form was uniquely associated with mitochondria (M-MDH) and the other form was found in the soluble cytoplasm (S-MDH). The isoenzymes were separated by acetone ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Teague WM,Henney HR Jr

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nagai, Susumu (National Women's University, Nara, Japan). Differential reduction of tellurite by growing colonies of normal yeast and respiration-deficient mutants. J. Bacteriol. 90:220-222. 1965.-A differential reduction of sodium tellurite was observed between normal and respiration-deficient mutant colonies of seve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nagai S

更新日期：1965-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a lipopolysaccharide (LPS) biosynthetic gene from Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 that complements the defect in the production and incorporation of LPS O side chains in the LPS-rough strain AK1012. This gene was characterized by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, deletion and restriction mapping of the clon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldberg JB,Hatano K,Pier GB

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:Translational efficiency of an AUG, CUG, GUG, or UUG initiation codon was measured for the naturally leaderless cI mRNA from bacteriophage lambda. In a cI-lacZ translational fusion, only AUG supported a high level of expression; GUG supported a low level of expression, while UUG and CUG expression was barely above bac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Donnell SM,Janssen GR

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein K is an outer membrane protein found in pathogenic encapsulated strains of Escherichia coli. We present evidence here that protein K is structurally and functionally related to the E. coli K-12 porin proteins (OmpF, OmpC, and PhoE). Protein K was found to cross-react with antibody to OmpF protein and to share ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sutcliffe J,Blumenthal R,Walter A,Foulds J

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Deacetylation of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) at position C-3 provides valuable starting material for producing semisynthetic β-lactam antibiotics. However, few enzymes have been characterized in this process before now. Comparative analysis of the genome of the thermophilic bacterium Alicyclobacillus...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ding JM,Yu TT,Han NY,Yu JL,Li JJ,Yang YJ,Tang XH,Xu B,Zhou JP,Tang HZ,Huang ZX

更新日期：2015-11-02 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：:Studies on the active product of pepsin digestion of rabbit immunoglobulin G (IgG), F(ab')(2) produced from antiserum against Neurospora glutamate dehydrogenase, showed it to behave in the same way, in both antienzyme and precipitation experiments, as homologous IgG. It is proposed that the inhibition of glutamate deh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts DB

更新日期：1967-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 4.2-kilobase cryptic Bacteroides plasmid, pB8-51, is found in several colonic Bacteroides species. To determine whether pB8-51 is mobilized by any of the known Bacteroides conjugal elements, we constructed an Escherichia coli-Bacteroides shuttle vector, pVAL-1, which contains pB8-51. We constructed Bacteroides unifo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Valentine PJ,Shoemaker NB,Salyers AA

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tol-Pal system of Escherichia coli is involved in maintaining outer membrane stability. Mutations in tolQ, tolR, tolA, tolB, or pal genes result in sensitivity to bile salts and the leakage of periplasmic proteins. Moreover, some of the tol genes are necessary for the entry of group A colicins and the DNA of filam...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray MC,Germon P,Vianney A,Portalier R,Lazzaroni JC

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we have shown that flagella and the O-specific polysaccharide of lipopolysaccharide play a role in colonization of the potato root by plant growth-promoting Pseudomonas strains WCS374 and WCS358. In this paper, we describe a novel cell surface-exposed structure in Pseudomonas putida WCS358 examined with a s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Weger LA,Bloemberg GV,van Wezel T,van Raamsdonk M,Glandorf DC,van Vuurde J,Jann K,Lugtenberg BJ

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The par stability determinant, encoded by the Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1, is the only antisense RNA regulated postsegregational killing system identified in gram-positive bacteria. Because of the unique organization of the par locus, the par antisense RNA, RNA II, binds to its target, RNA I, at relatively smal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weaver KE,Ehli EA,Nelson JS,Patel S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As a step towards studying representative members of the two-component family of signal transduction proteins, we have cloned genes encoding a histidine protein kinase and a response regulator from the hyperthermophilic bacterium Thermotoga maritima. The genes have been designated HpkA and drrA, respectively. The dedu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee PJ,Stock AM

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is killed by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, and the killing is inhibited by soluble capsular polysaccharides. To investigate the mechanism of killing, cells in coculture were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. S. aureus attached to the capsule o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ikeda R,Saito F,Matsuo M,Kurokawa K,Sekimizu K,Yamaguchi M,Kawamoto S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of Escherichia coli purR, which encodes the pur regulon repressor protein, is autoregulated. Autoregulation at the level of transcription requires two operator sites, designated purRo1 and purRo2 (O1 and O2). Operator O1 is in the region of DNA between the transcription start site and the site for trans...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rolfes RJ,Zalkin H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hauge, Jens G. (National Institute for Public Health, Oslo, Norway). Glucose dehydrogenation in bacteria: a comparative study. J. Bacteriol. 82:609-614. 1961.-Extracts of a series of bacteria reported to convert glucose to gluconic acid via particulate enzyme systems were fractionated by differential centrifugation in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HAUGE JG

更新日期：1961-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The products of in-frame overlapping genes II and X carried by the filamentous phage f1 genome are proteins with required but opposing functions in phage DNA replication. Their normal relative levels are important for continuous production of phage DNA without killing infected Escherichia coli hosts. Here we identify ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kokoska RJ,Steege DA

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogenase is a functionally constant protein catalyzing N2 reduction, which is found in many phylogenetic lineages of Archaea and Bacteria. A phylogenetic analysis of nif genes may provide insights into the evolution of the bacterial genomes. Moreover, it may be used to study diazotrophic communities, when classical...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hurek T,Egener T,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bladen, Howard A. (National Institute of Dental Health, Bethesda, Md.), and Edward G. Hampp. Ultrastructure of Treponema microdentium and Borrelia vincentii. J. Bacteriol. 87:1180-1191.-A small oral Treponema (FM) and Borrelia vincentii (N9) were harvested after 3 to 7 days of incubation and either embedded in Vestopa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bladen HA,Hampp EG

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that narL+ is required for nitrate induction of nitrate reductase synthesis and for nitrate inhibition of fumarate reductase synthesis in Escherichia coli. We cloned narL on a 5.1-kilobase HindIII fragment. Our clone also contained a previously unidentified gene, which we propose to designa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stewart V,Parales J Jr

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic analysis of the type III secretion (T3S) genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1 revealed that they are under quorum-sensing control. This observation was supported by the down-regulation of the T3S regulon in the presence of RhlR-C4HSL and the corresponding advanced secretion of ExoS in a rhlI mutant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bleves S,Soscia C,Nogueira-Orlandi P,Lazdunski A,Filloux A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC) causes bloody diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome. EHEC encodes the sRNA chaperone Hfq, which is important in posttranscriptional regulation. In EHEC strain EDL933, Hfq acts as a negative regulator of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), which encodes most of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kendall MM,Gruber CC,Rasko DA,Hughes DT,Sperandio V

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ftsZ gene is thought to be an essential cell division gene in Escherichia coli. We constructed a null allele of ftsZ in a strain carrying additional copies of ftsZ on a plasmid with a temperature-sensitive replication defect. This strain was temperature sensitive for cell division and viability, confirming that ft...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dai K,Lutkenhaus J

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:THREE PREVIOUSLY STUDIED R FACTORS WERE USED: 222/R4, controlling transmissible resistance to sulfonamide, streptomycin, chloromycetin, and tetracycline (SU(r) SM(r) CM(r) TC(r)); 222/R3, a derivative of 222/R4 (now termed 222/R3W) having lost TC(r); and R15, controlling infectious resistance to SU and SM only. Two ty...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nisioka T,Mitani M,Clowes RC

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a mutational analysis of the left half of Tn10-encoded tet operator O2, located in the 5' nontranslated region of the mRNA for the resistance protein TetA, and determined the importance of that region for translation efficiency and mRNA stability. Transcriptional fusions of 17 mutants to lacZ expressed th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Flache P,Baumeister R,Hillen W

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00