Cloning, sequence analysis, and overexpression of Escherichia coli folK, the gene coding for 7,8-dihydro-6-hydroxymethylpterin-pyrophosphokinase.

abstract：:Faine, S. (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia), and J. van der Hoeden. Virulence-linked colonial and morphological variation in Leptospira. J. Bacteriol. 88:1493-1496. 1964.-Large-colony typical hooked Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae was virulent for hamsters and guinea pigs. On cultivation, it was gradually repla...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： FAINE S,VANDERHOEDEN J

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During sporulation, the Bacillus subtilis transcription factor sigmaK is activated by regulated proteolytic processing. I have used a system that facilitates the analysis of the contributions of a modified form of the processing enzyme, SpoIVFB-GFP, and the regulatory proteins BofA and SpoIVFA to the conversion of pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Resnekov O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysozyme is an important component of the innate immune system. It functions by hydrolyzing the peptidoglycan (PG) layer of bacteria. The human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is intrinsically lysozyme resistant. The peptidoglycan N-deacetylase PgdA and O-acetyltransferase OatA are two known factors contributing to it...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rismondo J,Schulz LM,Yacoub M,Wadhawan A,Hoppert M,Dionne MS,Gründling A

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cotransformation frequencies of 16, 39, 51, and 60% were observed when donor alleles were separated by distances of 9.2, 7.4, 6.3, and 5.1 kb, respectively, in donor Acinetobacter calcoaceticus DNA. A different and unexpected pattern was observed when the distance between recipient alleles was reduced from 9.2 to 5.1 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kloos DU,DiMarco AA,Elsemore DA,Timmis KN,Ornston LN

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrony in phototrophic cultures of Rhodospirillum rubrum was induced by stationary-phase cycling or by alterations in light intensity. Intracytoplasmic chromatophore membranes were prepared by differential centrifugation. Analysis of the composition of chromatophores obtained from cells at different times indicated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Myers CR,Collins ML

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis has developed an intricate signal transduction cascade to respond to the imposition of a variety of stresses on the cell. Reversible protein phosphorylation and the formation of alternative protein-protein complexes modulate the activity of sigma(B), the RNA polymerase sigma factor subunit responsibl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Delumeau O,Chen CC,Murray JW,Yudkin MD,Lewis RJ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct targeting of membrane proteins is essential for membrane integrity, cell physiology, and viability. Cotranslational targeting depends on the universally conserved signal recognition particle (SRP), which is a ribonucleoprotein complex comprised of the protein component Ffh and the 4.5S RNA in Escherichia coli ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sauerbrei B,Arends J,Schünemann D,Narberhaus F

更新日期：2020-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The products of the bvgAS locus coordinately regulate expression of the Bordetella pertussis virulence regulon in response to environmental signals. Transcription of bvgAS-activated genes is nearly eliminated by several modulating conditions, including the presence of sulfate anion or nicotinic acid and growth at low ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller JF,Johnson SA,Black WJ,Beattie DT,Mekalanos JJ,Falkow S

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Induction of nod genes in Rhizobium and Bradyrhizobium species is dependent on the presence of plant-produced flavonoids, the NodD protein, and the cis-acting nod box promoter sequence. Although the nodD (nodD1) gene in Rhizobium species is constitutively expressed, nodD1 expression in Bradyrhizobium japonicum is indu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang SP,Stacey G

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a suicide vector, pU1800, containing the transposable element TnphoA (Tn5 IS50L::phoA), for the purpose of producing protein fusions in vivo between the Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase (APase) and proteins of the facultative photoheterotroph, Rhodobacter sphaeroides. We introduced TnphoA into...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moore MD,Kaplan S

更新日期：1989-08-01 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：:Arylamine N-acetyltransferase activity has been described in various bacterial species. Bacterial N-acetyltransferases, including those from bacteria of the gut flora, may be involved in the metabolism of xenobiotics, thereby exerting physiopathological effects. We characterized these enzymes further by steady-state k...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Deloménie C,Fouix S,Longuemaux S,Brahimi N,Bizet C,Picard B,Denamur E,Dupret JM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An RNA polymerase mutant with a single-base-pair change in the rpoC gene affects chromosome initiation control. The mutation, which is recessive, is a G to A transition leading to the substitution of aspartate for glycine at amino acid residue 1033 in the RNA polymerase beta' subunit. The chromosome copy number is inc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Petersen SK,Hansen FG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The copy number of 2 mu DNA-derived plasmids in CIR+ Saccharomyces cerevisiae transformants is determined by its selective marker and is usually much lower than that of the endogenous plasmid. Only plasmids containing the leu2 allele of pJDB219, designated as leu2-d, under selective conditions displayed a higher copy ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Erhart E,Hollenberg CP

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structure of sheathed flagella from Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus was investigated. The first three periods of these flagella were characterized by progressively smaller wavelengths and amplitudes in periods more distal to the cell. The damped appearance was due to a single nonrandom transition between two helical st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thomashow LS,Rittenberg SC

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin resistance in staphylococci is mediated by PBP2a, a penicillin binding protein with low affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics. The gene encoding PBP2a, mecA, is transcriptionally regulated in some clinical isolates by mecR1 and mecI, genes divergently transcribed from mecA that encode a signal transducer an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sharma VK,Hackbarth CJ,Dickinson TM,Archer GL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using nitrogen-fixing Sinorhizobium species that interact with Medicago plants as a model system, we aimed at clarifying how sex has shaped the diversity of bacteria associated with the genus Medicago on the interspecific and intraspecific scales. To gain insights into the diversification of these symbionts, we inferr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bailly X,Olivieri I,Brunel B,Cleyet-Marel JC,Béna G

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding proteins of 180, 89, 80, 68, 61, 41, and 38 kilodaltons were identified in Treponema pallidum (Nichols) by their covalent binding of [35S]benzylpenicillin. Penicillin-binding proteins are localized in the plasma membranes of many bacterial species and may serve as useful markers for determining plas...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cunningham TM,Miller JN,Lovett MA

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous bioinformatics-based search for small RNAs in Escherichia coli identified a novel RNA named IS183. The gene encoding this small RNA is located between and on the opposite strand of genes encoding two transcriptional regulators of the acid response, gadX (yhiX) and gadW (yhiW). Given that IS183 is encoded in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Opdyke JA,Kang JG,Storz G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium leiognathi ATCC 25521 (the type strain and light-organ symbiont of ponyfish) is one of the few bacteria that produces a copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, termed bacteriocuprein. We enzymologically and immunologically characterized the bacteriocuprein superoxide dismutases in sonicates from the type stra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dunlap PV,Steinman HM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanohalophilus strain FDF1 synthesizes beta-glutamine, betaine, and N epsilon-acetyl-beta-lysine as osmoprotective agents when the cells are grown in high external concentrations of NaCl. Nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopic analyses of 13CH3OH-12CO2 label incorporation by the cells provide information on the b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts MF,Lai MC,Gunsalus RP

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent discovery that the protein DksA acts as a coregulator of genes controlled by ppGpp led us to investigate the similarities and differences between the relaxed phenotype of a ppGpp-deficient mutant and the phenotype of a strain lacking DksA. We demonstrate that the absence of DksA and ppGpp has similar effect...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Magnusson LU,Gummesson B,Joksimović P,Farewell A,Nyström T

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel iron(III) transport system of Serratia marcescens, named SFU, was cloned and characterized in Escherichia coli. Iron acquisition by this system differed from that by E. coli and related organisms. No siderophore production and no receptor protein related to the SFU system could be detected. In addition, iron u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zimmermann L,Angerer A,Braun V

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overlapping fdhA and fdhB genes of Methanobacterium formicicum, which encode the alpha and beta subunits, respectively, of formate dehydrogenase, were cotranscribed as part of an approximately 4.5-kb transcript. An additional gene (fdhC) upstream of fdhA was cotranscribed with fdhA and fdhB. The deduced amino acid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： White WB,Ferry JG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Intact spheroplasts of the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans were found to oxidize various exogenous c-type cytochromes with concomitant proton extrusion. In the coupled state, H+/e stoichiometries close to 1 were measured, regardless of absolute reaction rates. It is concluded that the proton translocation observed i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peschek GA

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We purified active hydrogenase from free-living Rhizobium japonicum by affinity chromatography. The uptake hydrogenase of R. japonicum has been treated previously as an oxygen-sensitive protein. In this purification, however, reducing agents were not added nor was there any attempt to exclude oxygen. In fact, the addi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stults LW,Moshiri F,Maier RJ

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The entry of oligogalacturonates into Dickeya dadantii occurs through the specific channel KdgM. The genome of the bacterium encodes a second member of this family of outer membrane proteins, KdgN. We showed that this protein is also involved in the uptake of oligogalacturonates. When KdgN was reconstituted in proteol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Condemine G,Ghazi A

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the osmotolerant yeast Saccharomyces rouxii were transformed to protoplasts in good yield (85%) by digesting cell walls with snail-gut enzyme in the presence of 10 mM dithioerythritol, 0.1 M sodium phosphate buffer (pH 6.8), and 2.0 M KCl. The requirement for 2.0 M KCl compares with that for S. bisporus var. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Arnold WN,Garrison RG

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that the disruption of the ahrC gene encoding a predicted ArgR family transcription factor results in a severe defect in biofilm formation in vitro, as well as a significant attenuation of virulence of Enterococcus faecalis strain OG1RF in multiple experimental infection models. Using transcrip...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manias DA,Dunny GM

更新日期：2018-08-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of the altered lysine transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) in Bacillus subtilis spores is strongly dependent on the medium on which the cells were sporulated. Cells sporulated on synthetic media or dilute complex media contain little or none of the new component, whereas those sporulated on concentrated compl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lazzarini RA,Santangelo E

更新日期：1967-07-01 00:00:00