osmY, a new hyperosmotically inducible gene, encodes a periplasmic protein in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:The genome of the facultative ribulose monophosphate (RuMP) cycle methylotroph Bacillus methanolicus encodes two bisphosphatases (GlpX), one on the chromosome (GlpX(C)) and one on plasmid pBM19 (GlpX(P)), which is required for methylotrophy. Both enzymes were purified from recombinant Escherichia coli and were shown t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stolzenberger J,Lindner SN,Persicke M,Brautaset T,Wendisch VF

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed mercury resistance operon-luciferase (mer-lux) transcriptional fusion plasmids to evaluate in vivo gene expression rates of the mer structural gene promoter (PTPCAD) of transposon Tn21. In vivo gene expression kinetics corresponded well with those previously determined in vitro, yielding an apparent K0....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Condee CW,Summers AO

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In gram-negative bacteria, numerous cell functions, including respiration-linked electron transport, have been ascribed to the cytoplasmic membrane. Gram-negative bacteria which use solid substrates (e.g., oxidized manganese or iron) as terminal electron acceptors for anaerobic respiration are presented with a unique ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Myers CR,Myers JM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of diphtheria toxin in an Escherichia coli cell-free protein-synthesizing system was examined. When the washed ribosomes were incubated with toxin before addition of messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA), peptide syntheses of (14)C-phenylalanine directed by polyuridylic acid or phage R17 RNA were st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsugawa A,Ohsumi Y,Kato I

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus lugdunensis is the only coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species with a locus encoding iron-regulated surface determinant (Isd) proteins. In Staphylococcus aureus, the Isd proteins capture heme from hemoglobin and transfer it across the wall to a membrane-bound transporter, which delivers it into the c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zapotoczna M,Heilbronner S,Speziale P,Foster TJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobrogosz, Walter J. (University of Illinois, Urbana) and Ralph D. DeMoss. Pentose utilization by Pediococcus pentosaceus. J. Bacteriol. 85:1356-1364. 1963.-Data are presented which indicate that pentoses are metabolized by Pediococcus pentosaceus through the use of an inducible phosphoketolase pathway. The utilizatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DOBROGOSZ WJ,DEMOSS RD

更新日期：1963-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine as randomly as possible the role of the beta-ketoacyl and acyl carrier protein (ACP) components of bacterial type II polyketide synthases (PKSs), homologs of the chain-length-factor (CLF) genes were cloned from the environmental community of microorganisms. With PCR primers derived from conserved regions of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seow KT,Meurer G,Gerlitz M,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Hutchinson CR,Davies J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the microbial conversion of added hypoxanthine to 5'-inosinic acid, Mn(2+) concentration in the growth medium is known to have a profound effect both on the yield of 5'-inosinic acid and the morphology of cells of Brevibacterium ammoniagenes. To elucidate the mechanism in which Mn(2+) was concerned with cell morpho...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oka T,Udagawa K,Kinoshita S

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The O polysaccharide of the lipopolysaccharide (O antigen) of Gram-negative bacteria often serves as a receptor for bacteriophages that can make the phage dependent on a given O-antigen type, thus supporting the concept of the adaptive significance of the O-antigen variability in bacteria. The O-antigen layer also mod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Knirel YA,Prokhorov NS,Shashkov AS,Ovchinnikova OG,Zdorovenko EL,Liu B,Kostryukova ES,Larin AK,Golomidova AK,Letarov AV

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coliphage TuIa, which uses the OmpF protein as a receptor, can adapt by mutation to using instead the OmpC or LamB protein, or both. Most of the phage mutants retained the ability to use the OmpF protein, when present, but one class of mutants lost this ability and could only use the OmpC protein. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moreno F,Wandersman C

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CheY is the response regulator in the signal transduction pathway of bacterial chemotaxis. Position 106 of CheY is occupied by a conserved aromatic residue (tyrosine or phenylalanine) in the response regulator superfamily. A number of substitutions at position 106 have been made and characterized by both behavioral an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhu X,Amsler CD,Volz K,Matsumura P

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major structural components of the P2 contractile tail are encoded in the FETUD tail gene operon. The sequences of genes F(I) and F(II), encoding the major tail sheath and tail tube proteins, have been reported previously (L. M. Temple, S. L. Forsburg, R. Calendar, and G. E. Christie, Virology 181:353-358, 1991). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Christie GE,Temple LM,Bartlett BA,Goodwin TS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is an essential component of the outer membrane (OM) in most gram-negative bacteria, and its structure and biosynthetic pathway are well known. Nevertheless, the mechanisms of transport and assembly of this molecule at the cell surface are poorly understood. The inner membrane (IM) transport p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sperandeo P,Lau FK,Carpentieri A,De Castro C,Molinaro A,Dehò G,Silhavy TJ,Polissi A

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients is characterized by a series of genotypic and phenotypic changes that reflect the transition from acute to chronic infection. These include the overproduction of the exopolysaccharide alginate and the loss of complete lipopolysaccharide (LPS). LPS is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Davis MR Jr,Muszynski A,Lollett IV,Pritchett CL,Carlson RW,Goldberg JB

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The role of chromosomal toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems, which are ubiquitous within the genomes of free-living bacteria, is still debated. We have scanned the Vibrio cholerae N16961 genome for class 2 TA genes and identified 18 gene pair candidates. Interestingly, all but one are located in the chromosome 2 su...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iqbal N,Guérout AM,Krin E,Le Roux F,Mazel D

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halalkalicoccus jeotgali B3(T), isolated from salt-fermented seafood from South Korea, is an extremely halophilic archaeon belonging to the family Halobacteriaceae. Here, we present the complete genome sequence of the type strain H. jeotgali B3(T) (3,698,650 bp, with a G+C content of 62.5%), which consists of one chro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roh SW,Nam YD,Nam SH,Choi SH,Park HS,Bae JW

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polynucleotide phosphorylase (PNP) plays a central role in RNA degradation, generating a pool of ribonucleoside diphosphates (rNDPs) that can be converted to deoxyribonucleoside diphosphates (dNDPs) by ribonucleotide reductase. We report here that spontaneous mutations resulting from replication errors, which are norm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Becket E,Tse L,Yung M,Cosico A,Miller JH

更新日期：2012-10-01 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：:The genome sequence of the enteric bacterial pathogen Campylobacter jejuni NCTC 11168 (11168-GS) was published in 2000, providing a valuable resource for the identification of C. jejuni-specific colonization and virulence factors. Surprisingly, the 11168-GS clone was subsequently found to colonize 1-day-old chicks fol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gaynor EC,Cawthraw S,Manning G,MacKichan JK,Falkow S,Newell DG

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated flagellar filaments of Sulfolobus shibatae were 15 nm in diameter, and they were composed of two major flagellins which have M(r)s of 31,000 and 33,000 and which stained positively for glycoprotein. The flagellar filaments of Thermoplasma volcanium were 12 nm in diameter and were composed of one major flagell...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Faguy DM,Bayley DP,Kostyukova AS,Thomas NA,Jarrell KF

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have sequenced a DNA fragment containing the pneumococcal bacteriophage HB-3 hbl gene, which codes for the phage lytic amidase. A remarkable nucleotide similarity (87.1%) between the lytA gene, coding for the pneumococcal amidase, the major autolysin of Streptococcus pneumoniae, and the hbl gene was found. This sim...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romero A,Lopez R,Garcia P

更新日期：1990-09-01 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 growth cycle of Rickettsia quintana was studied for the first time in liquid culture. Growth of the microorganism in a transparent broth medium was made possible by the finding that fetal calf serum (FCS), but not calf serum (CS), satisfied the requirement of R. quintana (Fuller strain) for red blood cell lysate. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mason RA

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn2424, a multiresistance transposon 25 kilobases long, was isolated from IncFII plasmid NR79. Tn2424 transposed resistance to sulfonamides, streptomycin and spectinomycin, mercuric chloride, chloramphenicol, and amikacin with a frequency of 6 X 10(-5). Resistance to amikacin was mediated by a 6'-N-acetyltransferase, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Meyer JF,Nies BA,Wiedemann B

更新日期：1983-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the identification and characterization of two Listeria monocytogenes (Tn917-LTV3) relA and hpt transposon insertion mutants that were impaired in growth after attachment to a model surface. Both mutants were unable to accumulate (p)ppGpp in response to amino acid starvation, whereas the wild-type str...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor CM,Beresford M,Epton HA,Sigee DC,Shama G,Andrew PW,Roberts IS

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of any given bacterial protein is predicted to depend on (i) the transcriptional regulation of the promoter and the translational regulation of its mRNA and (ii) the synthesis and translation of total (bulk) mRNA. This is because total mRNA acts as a competitor to the specific mRNA for the binding of in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liang ST,Xu YC,Dennis P,Bremer H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Divercin V41, a class IIa bacteriocin with strong antilisterial activity, is produced by Carnobacterium divergens V41. To express a recombinant version of divercin V41, we constructed a synthetic gene that encodes the mature divercin V41 peptide and then overexpressed the gene in pET-32b by using the T7 RNA polymerase...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Richard C,Drider D,Elmorjani K,Marion D,Prévost H

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An extremely thermophilic bacterium, Thermus thermophilus HB8, is one of the model organisms for systems biology. Its genome consists of a chromosome (1.85 Mb), a megaplasmid (0.26 Mb) designated pTT27, and a plasmid (9.3 kb) designated pTT8, and the complete sequence is available. We show here that T. thermophilus is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ohtani N,Tomita M,Itaya M

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whole cells of Bacillus subtilis transported d-alanine and l-alanine by two different systems. The high-affinity system (K(m) of 1 muM and V(max) of 0.6 to 0.8 nmol/min per mg of protein) was specific for the two stereoisomers of alanine. The low-affinity system (K(m) of 10 muM for l-alanine and 20 muM for d-alanine a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Clark VL,Young FE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn551 inactivation of femA, a factor involved in methicillin resistance of Staphylococcus aureus, caused the production of peptidoglycan in which the fraction of monoglycyl- and serine-containing muropeptides was increased at the expense of pentaglycyl muropeptides. femA mutants have a specific block in the biosynthes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Jonge BL,Sidow T,Chang YS,Labischinski H,Berger-Bachi B,Gage DA,Tomasz A

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00