CDP-glycerol:poly(glycerophosphate) glycerophosphotransferase, which is involved in the synthesis of the major wall teichoic acid in Bacillus subtilis 168, is encoded by tagF (rodC).

abstract：:Bacterial biofilms are important in natural settings, biotechnology, and medicine. However, regulation of biofilm development and its persistence in different niches is complex and only partially understood. One key step during the biofilm life cycle is dispersal, when motile cells abandon the mature biofilm to spread...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bartolini M,Cogliati S,Vileta D,Bauman C,Rateni L,Leñini C,Argañaraz F,Francisco M,Villalba JM,Steil L,Völker U,Grau R

更新日期：2018-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:An unusual xylose isomerase produced by Thermoanaerobacterium strain JW/SL-YS 489 was purified 28-fold to gel electrophoretic homogeneity, and the biochemical properties were determined. Its pH optimum distinguishes this enzyme from all other previously described xylose isomerases. The purified enzyme had maximal acti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liu SY,Wiegel J,Gherardini FC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of temperature and attractants on chemotaxis in psychrotrophic Pseudomonas fluorescens were examined using the Adler capillary assay technique. Several organic acids, amino acids, and uronic acids were shown to be attractants, whereas glucose and its oxidation products, gluconate and 2-ketogluconate, elici...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lynch WH

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes are related pathogens that cause crown gall and hairy root diseases, which result from integration and expression of bacterial genes in the plant genome. Single-stranded DNA (T strands) and virulence proteins are translocated into plant cells by a type IV secretio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hodges LD,Lee LY,McNett H,Gelvin SB,Ream W

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Salmonella typhimurium the two enzymes of proline catabolism, proline oxidase and Delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylic acid dehydrogenase, are subject to catabolite repression when the cells are grown in the presence of glucose. Mutants partially relieved of catabolite repression (PutR) for the proline catabolic enzymes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Newell SL,Brill WJ

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lethal activity of a thymineless mutant of Staphylococcus aureus Wood 46 strain has been compared with that of three naturally occurring strains: parent Wood 46, Smith, and coagulase-negative SA-13. The thymineless mutant and the parent Wood 46 strain showed a sharp decline in culturable units from the peritoneal ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mathieu LG,De Repentigny J,Turgeon S,Sonea S

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report we describe the cloning, organization, and promoter analysis of the Staphylococcus aureus thioredoxin (trxA) and thioredoxin reductase (trxB) genes and their transcription in response to changes in oxygen concentration and to oxidative stress compounds. Northern analysis showed that the S. aureus trxA a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Uziel O,Borovok I,Schreiber R,Cohen G,Aharonowitz Y

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a quantitative assay for measuring chemotaxis, we tested a variety of sugars and sugar derivatives for their ability to attract Escherichia coli bacteria. The most effective attractants, i.e., those that have thresholds near 10(-5) M or below, are N-acetyl-d-glucosamine, 6-deoxy-d-glucose, d-fructose, d-fucose, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Adler J,Hazelbauer GL,Dahl MM

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA region encoding early nodulation functions of Bradyrhizobium japonicum 3I1b110 (I110) was isolated by its homology to the functionally similar region from Rhizobium meliloti. Isolation of a number of overlapping recombinant clones from this region allowed the construction of a restriction map of the region. Th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Russell P,Schell MG,Nelson KK,Halverson LJ,Sirotkin KM,Stacey G

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of proteins necessary for the respiratory reduction of nitrate to dinitrogen is induced in most denitrifying bacteria by a shift to anaerobiosis. A homolog of the fur gene, which encodes a redox-active transcriptional activator in Escherichia coli, was isolated from Pseudomonas stutzeri by using the anr ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuypers H,Zumft WG

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coccoid cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis dominates microbial communities in the most extreme arid hot and cold deserts. These communities withstand constraints that result from multiple cycles of drying and wetting and/or prolonged desiccation, through mechanisms which remain poorly understood. Here we describe th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Billi D,Friedmann EI,Helm RF,Potts M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad-host-range plasmids and cloning vectors were conjugatively transferred to Acetobacter xylinum. One of the plasmids, RP4::Mu cts61, was used for the insertion of Tn1 into the 16-, 44-, and 64-kilobase-pair plasmids of A. xylinum. The Tn1-labeled plasmids could be mobilized by a helper plasmid. Many of the Tn1 ins...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Valla S,Coucheron DH,Kjosbakken J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cnm is a surface-associated protein present in a subset of Streptococcus mutans strains that mediates binding to extracellular matrices, intracellular invasion, and virulence. Here, we showed that cnm transcription is controlled by the global regulators CovR and VicRKX. In silico analysis identified multiple putative ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Araújo Alves L,Ganguly T,Mattos-Graner RO,Kajfasz J,Harth-Chu EN,Lemos JA,Abranches J

更新日期：2018-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments presented in this paper suggest that the shift observed in sedimentation of deoxyribonucleic acid from cells of Escherichia coli subjected to amino acid starvation is related to inhibition of ribonucleic acid synthesis rather than to its release from the membrane at the termination of replication. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yaffe E,Grossman N,Ron EZ

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key step in the regulation of heat shock genes in Escherichia coli is the stress-dependent degradation of the heat shock promoter-specific sigma(32) subunit of RNA polymerase by the AAA protease, FtsH. Previous studies implicated the C termini of protein substrates, including sigma(32), as degradation signals for AA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tomoyasu T,Arsène F,Ogura T,Bukau B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly efficient promoters of coliphage T5 were identified by selecting for functional properties. Eleven such promoters belonging to all three expression classes of the phage were analyzed. Their average AT content was 75% and reached 83% in subregions of the sequences. Besides the well-known conserved sequences arou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gentz R,Bujard H

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A draft genome sequence of Tsukamurella sp., an aerobic bacterium isolated from a human sputum specimen, is described here. A new virus or provirus, TPA4, was characterized. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oulmi L,Gorlas A,Gimenez G,Robert C,Boulahrouf A,Raoult D,Roux V

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A set of Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains with variable expression of only the high-affinity Hxt7 glucose transporter was constructed by partial deletion of the HXT7 promoter in vitro and integration of the gene at various copy numbers into the genome of an hxt1-7 gal2 deletion strain. The glucose transport capacity i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ye L,Kruckeberg AL,Berden JA,van Dam K

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TatA and TatB proteins are essential components of the twin arginine protein translocation pathway in Escherichia coli. C-terminal truncation analysis of the TatA protein revealed that a plasmid-expressed TatA protein shortened by 40 amino acids is still fully competent to support protein translocation. Similar tr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee PA,Buchanan G,Stanley NR,Berks BC,Palmer T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-plasmid-encoded TraI protein, also known as DNA helicase I, is a bifunctional protein required for conjugative DNA transfer. The enzyme catalyzes two distinct but functionally related reactions required for the DNA processing events associated with conjugation: the site- and strand-specific transesterification (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matson SW,Ragonese H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified 3-hydroxypropionate cycle has been proposed as the autotrophic CO2 fixation pathway for the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Metallosphaera sedula. The cycle requires the reductive conversion of 3-hydroxypropionate to propionyl-coenzyme A (propionyl-CoA). The specific activity of the 3-hydroxypropionate-, CoA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alber BE,Kung JW,Fuchs G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an economically important disease of poultry caused by certain Clostridium perfringens type A strains. NE pathogenesis involves the NetB toxin, which is encoded on a large conjugative plasmid within a 42-kb pathogenicity locus. Recent multilocus sequence type (MLST) studies have identified t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lepp D,Gong J,Songer JG,Boerlin P,Parreira VR,Prescott JF

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have functionally produced the outer membrane cytochrome OmcA from Shewanella oneidensis in Escherichia coli. Substrate accessibility experiments indicate that OmcA is surface exposed in an E. coli B strain but not in a K-12 strain. We show that a functional type II secretion system is required for surface localiza...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donald JW,Hicks MG,Richardson DJ,Palmer T

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Products of the approximately 9.5-kb virB operon are proposed to direct the export of T-DNA/protein complexes across the Agrobacterium tumefaciens envelope en route to plant cells. The presence of conserved nucleoside triphosphate (NTP)-binding domains in VirB4 and VirB11 suggests that one or both proteins couple ener...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Berger BR,Christie PJ

更新日期：1993-03-01 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：:A mutant of Escherichia coli resistant to serine hydroxamate which has a large increase in Km for serine of seryl-tRNA synthetase is described. The mutant serS gene was cloned and sequenced and was found to contain a single-base-pair mutation, resulting in the substitution of the residue alanine 262 by valine in motif...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willison JC,Härtlein M,Leberman R

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli purine repressor, PurR, binds to a 16-bp operator sequence and coregulates the genes for de novo synthesis of purine and pyrimidine nucleotides, formation of a one-carbon unit for biosynthesis, and deamination of cytosine. We have characterized the purified repressor. Chemical cross-linking indica...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Choi KY,Zalkin H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 responds to the host-produced epinephrine and norepinephrine, and bacterially produced autoinducer 3 (AI-3), through two-component systems. Further integration of multiple regulatory signaling networks, involving regulators such as the LysR-type transcriptional regulat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Habdas BJ,Smart J,Kaper JB,Sperandio V

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The serotype 5 capsule gene cluster of Staphylococcus aureus comprises 16 genes (cap5A through cap5P), but little is known about how the putative gene products function in capsule biosynthesis. We propose that the N-acetylmannosaminuronic acid (ManNAcA) component of the S. aureus serotype 5 capsular polysaccharide (CP...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kiser KB,Bhasin N,Deng L,Lee JC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dienelactone hydrolases have previously been shown to play a crucial role in chlorocatechol degradation via the modified ortho cleavage pathway. Recently, the enzymes induced in 4-fluorobenzoate-utilizing bacteria have been classified into three groups on the basis of their specificity towards cis- and trans-dienelact...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schlömann M,Ngai KL,Ornston LN,Knackmuss HJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00