A mer-lux transcriptional fusion for real-time examination of in vivo gene expression kinetics and promoter response to altered superhelicity.

abstract：:The growth constant and Y (sucrose) (grams of cells per mole of sucrose) for NH(3)-grown cultures of Clostridium pasteurianum were 1.7 times those of N(2)-grown cultures, whereas the rate of sucrose utilized per gram of cells per hour was similar for both conditions. The Y (sucrose) of chemostat cultures grown on limi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daesch G,Mortenson LE

更新日期：1968-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fertility factor F confers bacterial conjugation, a process which involves at least 20 tra genes. Resistance plasmids such as R100, R6-5, and R1 have homology with F in the tra region. Conjugal transfer of these plasmids is, however, repressed, while transfer of F is constitutive. Repression of R transfer is due to th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoshioka Y,Ohtsubo H,Ohtsubo E

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of Neurospora to changes in the availibility of exogenous arginine was investigated. Upon addition of arginine to the growth medium, catabolism is initiated within minutes. This occurs prior to expansion of the arginine pool or augmentation of catabolic enzyme levels. (Basal levels are approximately 25% o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weiss RL,Davis RH

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lankford, C. E. (The University of Texas, Austin), James R. Walker, James B. Reeves, N. H. Nabbut, B. R. Byers, and R. J. Jones. Inoculum-dependent division lag of Bacillus cultures and its relation to an endogenous factor(s) ("schizokinen"). J. Bacteriol. 91:1070-1079. 1966.-When cells of Bacillus megaterium, grown o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lankford CE,Walker JR,Reeves JB,Nabbut NH,Byers BR,Jones RJ

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After UV irradiation, Escherichia coli uvrA mutant cells show higher survival on minimal than on rich growth medium, i.e., they show minimal-medium recovery. This effect of rich growth medium on survival is not observed in a uvrA mutant carrying an mmrA1 mutation, and the uvrA mmrA strain showed the same survival rate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sharma RC,Sargentini NJ,Smith KC

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide second messengers pppGpp and ppGpp [(p)ppGpp] are responsible for the global downregulation of transcription, translation, DNA replication, and growth rate that occurs during the stringent response. More recent studies suggest that (p)ppGpp is also an important effector in many nonstringent processes, i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ababneh QO,Herman JK

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AdnA is a transcription factor in Pseudomonas fluorescens that affects flagellar synthesis, biofilm formation, and sand adhesion. To identify the AdnA regulon, we used a promoterless Tn5-lacZ element to study the phenotypes of insertion mutants in the presence and absence of AdnA. Of 12,000 insertions, we identified s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robleto EA,López-Hernández I,Silby MW,Levy SB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lornitzo, Frank A. (Veterans Administration Hospital, Madison, Wis.), and Dexter S. Goldman. Reversible effect of bicarbonate on the inhibition of mycobacterial and yeast transglucosylases by mycoribnin. J. Bacteriol. 89:1086-1091. 1965.-The transglucosylase which catalyzes the formation of trehalose-6-phosphate from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LORNITZO FA,GOLDMAN DS

更新日期：1965-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) is synthesized de novo in Salmonella typhimurium and is a required cofactor for many enzymes in the cell. Five kinase activities have been implicated in TPP synthesis, which involves joining a 4-methyl-5-(beta-hydroxyethyl)thiazole (THZ) moiety and a 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Petersen LA,Downs DM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 fimbriae and flagella have been previously shown to contribute to the virulence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) within the urinary tract. In this study, the relationship between motility and type 1 fimbrial expression was tested for UPEC strain CFT073 by examining the phenotypic effect of fimbrial expr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lane MC,Simms AN,Mobley HL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After treatment with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine, 133 independent mutants of a haploid strain of Escherichia coli able to use phenyl-beta-galactoside as a carbon source were obtained. The galactoside was specific in selecting for mutants with increases in their uninduced levels of beta-galactosidase. Virtuall...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shineberg B

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a region located downstream of the nifB gene, both in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 and in Rhizobium meliloti, has been determined. This region contains a gene (fdxN) whose predicted polypeptide product strongly resembles typical bacterial ferredoxins. Cyanobacteria have no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mulligan ME,Buikema WJ,Haselkorn R

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three groups of linked markers were mapped in Bacillus thuringiensis 4042B by using two-, three-, and four-factor crosses mediated by the temperate bacteriophages TP-13 and TP-18. The order of markers was (trp-11, trp-2)-(leu-1, leu-2)-his-1-(lys-1, lys-2)-cys-1 in the first group; met-1-(argCl, argOl)-met-2-(pyr-1, p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barsomian GD,Robillard NJ,Thorne CB

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA from the STA1 (extracellular glucoamylase) gene of Saccharomyces diastaticus was used as a probe to enable the cloning by colony hybridization of three DNA fragments from Saccharomyces cerevisiae; these were designated S1, S2, and SGA (intracellular, sporulation-specific glucoamylase gene). To examine the evolutio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamashita I,Nakamura M,Fukui S

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The transmembrane Tsr protein of Escherichia coli mediates chemotactic responses to environmental serine gradients. Serine binds to the periplasmic domain of the homodimeric Tsr molecule, promoting a small inward displacement of one transmembrane helix (TM2). TM2 piston displacements, in turn, modulate the s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitanovic S,Ames P,Parkinson JS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus brevis 47 contains two cell wall proteins termed the outer wall protein (OWP) and middle wall protein (MWP), each of which forms hexagonal arrays in the cell wall. A 6-kilobase BglII-BclI fragment of B. brevis 47 DNA cloned into Bacillus subtilis with a derivative of pHW1 as a vector directed the synthesis of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsuboi A,Uchihi R,Tabata R,Takahashi Y,Hashiba H,Sasaki T,Yamagata H,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidithiobacillus caldus is an extremely acidophilic, moderately thermophilic, chemolithoautotrophic gammaproteobacterium that derives energy from the oxidation of sulfur and reduced inorganic sulfur compounds. Here we present the draft genome sequence of Acidithiobacillus caldus ATCC 51756 (the type strain of the spe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Valdes J,Quatrini R,Hallberg K,Dopson M,Valenzuela PD,Holmes DS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parallel studies were performed with methionineless derivatives of Escherichia coli 15 T(-) and Bacillus megaterium KM: T(-). Methylated bases are present in the total cell ribonucleic acid (RNA) of B. megaterium. The level of RNA methylation in E. coli is about 60% greater than that in B. megaterium. Although E. coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wachsman JT,Irwin V

更新日期：1970-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Mycobacterium smegmatis MutT1, MutT2, MutT3, and Rv3908 (MutT4) enzymes were screened for an antimutator role. Results indicate that both MutT1, in M. tuberculosis and M. smegmatis, and MutT4, in M. smegmatis, have that role. Furthermore, an 8-oxo-guanosine triphosphatase function for Mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dos Vultos T,Blázquez J,Rauzier J,Matic I,Gicquel B

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulolytic strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus were isolated from nature and screened for the presence of activities associated with the degradation of plant cell walls. One isolate (strain XL-65-6) which exhibited strong activities with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (MUG) and 4-methylumbelliferyl-b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lai X,Ingram LO

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, carbon catabolite repression (CCR) of many genes is mediated at cis-acting carbon repression elements (cre) by the catabolite repressor protein CcpA. Mutations in transcription-repair coupling factor (mfd) partially relieve CCR at cre sites located downstream of transcriptional start sites by abo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zalieckas JM,Wray LV Jr,Fisher SH

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxycytosine methylase (Dcm) enzyme activity causes mutagenesis in vitro either directly by enzyme-induced deamination of cytosine to uracil in the absence of the methyl donor, S-adenosylmethionine (SAM), or indirectly through spontaneous deamination of [5-methyl]cytosine to thymine. Using a Lac reversion assay, we i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Macintyre G,Atwood CV,Cupples CG

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three floc-forming, gram-negative, polarly flagellated rods were isolated and characterized. Our isolates were compared to four similar floc-forming organisms previously isolated in another laboratory and classified as two species of Zoogloea, one of Pseudomonas, and as one unidentified gram-negative rod. Possession o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Friedman BA,Dugan PR

更新日期：1968-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintaining cell envelope integrity is critical for bacterial survival, including bacteria living in a complex and dynamic environment such as the human oral cavity. Streptococcus mutans, a major etiological agent of dental caries, uses two-component signal transduction systems (TCSTSs) to monitor and respond to vario...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suntharalingam P,Senadheera MD,Mair RW,Lévesque CM,Cvitkovitch DG

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological studies of a mutant of Escherichia coli lacking the three lytic transglycosylases Slt70, MltA, and MltB revealed that interference with murein turnover can prevent AmpC beta-lactamase induction. The triple mutant, although growing normally, shows a dramatically reduced rate of murein turnover. Despite th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kraft AR,Prabhu J,Ursinus A,Höltje JV

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spheroplasts of two different auxotrophic strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, both of mating type a, were fused with the aid of polyethylene glycol and calcium ions. After reversion to vegetative cells in solid media, the resulting zygotes were shown to be diploid cells of mating type aa. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van Solingen P,van der Plaat JB

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six of the genes encoding enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway for benzoate and 4-hydroxybenzoate degradation in Pseudomonas putida are organized into at least three separate transcriptional units. As an initial step to defining this pca regulon at the molecular level, lacZ fusions were made with the pcaI and pcaJ ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parales RE,Harwood CS

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The draft genome sequence (4,398,155 bp, with 65.35% G+C content) of Halobiforma lacisalsi AJ5, an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a salt lake, is reported here. This is the first genome report for a species of the Halobiforma genus. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jiang X,Wang S,Cheng H,Huo Y,Zhang X,Zhu X,Han X,Ni P,Wu M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moat, Albert G. (Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.), Isabel J. Barnes, and Eleanor H. McCurley. Factors affecting the survival of auxotrophs and prototrophs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in mixed populations. J. Bacteriol. 92:297-301. 1966.-The conditions under which the number of yeast prototrophs, as well a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moat AG,Barnes IJ,McCurley EH

更新日期：1966-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms by which Legionella pneumophila, a facultative intracellular parasite and the agent of Legionnaires' disease, acquires iron are largely unexplained. Several earlier studies indicated that L. pneumophila does not elaborate siderophores. However, we now present evidence that supernatants from L. pneumophi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liles MR,Scheel TA,Cianciotto NP

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00