Effects of deoxyribonucleic acid products on deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis of virulent and avirulent pneumococci.

abstract：:We are engaged in the genetic and physical characterization of an enterotoxin (Ent) plasmid, Ent P307, which contains genes for the production of a hear-labile and a heat-stable enterotoxin. We are using an Escherichia coli K-12 strain, 711 (P307), constructed by S. Falkow, which contains no other plasmids besides Ent...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Santos DS,Palchaudhuri S,Maas WK

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Passive cutaneous anaphylaxis (PCA) was produced in guinea pigs sensitized with guinea pig Coxiella burneti phase I-II antiserum and challenged with dimethylsulfoxide- or trichloroacetic acid-soluble extracts from phase I cells. The PCA reaction could not be induced by whole or mechanically disrupted phase I or phase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peacock M,Munoz J,Tallent GL,Ormsbee RA

更新日期：1968-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the roles of Streptococcus thermophilus phosphogalactosyltransferase (EpsE) (the priming enzyme), tyrosine kinase (EpsD), phosphatase (EpsB), and a membrane-associated protein with no known biochemical function (EpsC) in exopolysaccharide (EPS) synthesis. These proteins are well-conserved among bacteria and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Minic Z,Marie C,Delorme C,Faurie JM,Mercier G,Ehrlich D,Renault P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid pattern in three hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria during growth on various substrates was examined. The predominant fatty acids in acetate-grown cells were C(16), C(16:1), C(18:1), and Br-C(19) and the major fatty acids in propane-grown cells were C(15), C(17), C(17:1), C(18:1), and Br-C(18). When one org...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dunlap KR,Perry JJ

更新日期：1967-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli flaA gene product (also called cheC) plays a crucial role in switching flagellar rotational direction during chemotactic responses. Wild-type and mutant alleles have been cloned onto plasmid vectors, and the gene product has been identified as a 37,000-dalton protein. The flaA product appeared as ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Clegg DO,Koshland DE Jr

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubular and lamellate membrane structures were observed at the log phase of growth in the stable L-forms of Escherichia coli cultured in the absence of penicillin. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eda T,Kanda Y,Kimura S

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodegradation of metal-citrate complexes by Pseudomonas fluorescens depends on the nature of the complex formed between the metal and citric acid. Bidentate Fe(III)-, Ni-, and Zn-citrate complexes were readily biodegraded, but the tridentate Cd- and Cu-citrate, and U-citrate complexes were not. The biodegradation of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joshi-Tope G,Francis AJ

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Resistance to methicillin and other β-lactam antibiotics in staphylococci is due to mecA, which is carried on a genomic island, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec). The chromosomal excision and integration of SCCmec are mediated by the site-specific recombinase CcrAB or CcrC, encoded within this ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang L,Ahmed MH,Safo MK,Archer GL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to study the Salmonella typhimurium cobalamin biosynthetic pathway, the S. typhimurium cob operon was isolated and cloned into Escherichia coli. This approach has given the new host of the cob operon the ability to make cobalamins de novo, an ability that had probably been lost by this organism. In total, 20 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Raux E,Lanois A,Levillayer F,Warren MJ,Brody E,Rambach A,Thermes C

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli possesses a soluble flavohemoglobin, with an unknown function, encoded by the hmp gene. A monolysogen containing an hmp-lacZ operon fusion was constructed to determine how the hmp promoter is regulated in response to heme ligands (O2, NO) or the presence of anaerobically utilized electron acceptors (n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Poole RK,Anjum MF,Membrillo-Hernández J,Kim SO,Hughes MN,Stewart V

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antiserum was made against a single 30S protein, 30S-7. The amount of complement fixed by total 30S protein in the presence of this antiserum indicated that protein 30S-7 was the major antigen in the mixture of proteins. Each of the 30S ribosomal proteins was tested for cross-reactivity with anti-30S-7. This was done ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Strnad BC,Sypherd PS

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:West Indian spiny lobsters, Panulirus argus, synthesized a hemolymph bactericidin after being injected with killed suspensions of gram-negative bacillus EMB-1 isolated from the normal gut of this lobster. To study differences between the primary response and secondary response, animals were given a primary antigen inj...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Evans EE,Weinheimer PF,Painter B,Acton RT,Evans ML

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Banerjea, A. (Rocky Mountain Laboratory, Hamilton, Mont.) and J. Munoz. Antigens of Bordetella pertussis. II, Purification of heat-labile toxin. J. Bacteriol. 84:269-274. 1962.-A mild method of separating heat-labile toxin of Bordetella pertussis from other cellular components is described; it consists of absorbing to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： BANERJEA A,MUNOZ J

更新日期：1962-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other surface pathogens involves the coordinate expression of a wide range of virulence determinants, including type IV pili. These surface filaments are important for the colonization of host epithelial tissues and mediate bacterial attachment to, and translocation across, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leech AJ,Mattick JS

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under starvation conditions, a swarm of Myxococcus xanthus cells will undergo development, a multicellular process culminating in the formation of many aggregates called fruiting bodies, each of which contains up to 100,000 spores. The mechanics of symmetry breaking and the self-organization of cells into fruiting bod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang H,Angus S,Tran M,Xie C,Igoshin OA,Welch RD

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the uptake of [14C]octopine and [14C]nopaline by Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains containing the C58 chromosomal background in medium suitable for the induction of vir genes. All strains tested could transport both of these opines, regardless of the presence or type of Ti plasmid (octopine or nopalin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krishnan M,Burgner JW,Chilton WS,Gelvin SB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drugs known to interrupt the chain of protein synthesis (streptomycin, chloramphenicol, ethidium bromide) appeared to affect production of the group D lysin by Streptococcus zymogenes by inhibiting growth. Drugs which block cell wall synthesis (vancomycin, bacitracin, d-cycloserine, and phosphonomycin) inhibited lytic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Werth JM,Jackson RW

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using PCR to create a probe based on conserved region 2 of sigma factors, we have cloned the sigA gene coding for the major sigma factor of Rhizobium meliloti. The 684-residue protein encoded by the sigA gene was expressed in vitro in coupled transcription-translation experiments with R. meliloti extracts and migrated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rushing BG,Long SR

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis strains containing deletions in the genes coding for one or two of the major small, acid-soluble spore proteins (SASP; termed SASP-alpha and SASP-beta) were constructed. These mutants sporulated normally, but the spores lacked either SASP-alpha, SASP-beta, or both proteins. The level of minor SASP di...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mason JM,Setlow P

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fusion between the pCloDF13-derived bacteriocin release protein and beta-lactamase was constructed to investigate the subcellular localization and posttranslational modification of the bacteriocin release protein in Escherichia coli. The signal sequence and 25 of the 28 amino acid residues of the mature bacteriocin ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Luirink J,Watanabe T,Wu HC,Stegehuis F,de Graaf FK,Oudega B

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of high doses of radiation (1, 5, or 20 Mrad) on the toxicity, pyrogenicity, and immunogenicity of Salmonella typhimurium cells and endotoxin were studied. Toxicity decreased progressively after exposure to 1, 5, or 20 Mrad. The lethal effect of 1-Mrad exposed cells was greater than that of heat-, acetone-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Previte JJ

更新日期：1968-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have isolated transposon insertions in the lacA gene encoding an endogenous beta-galactosidase of Bacillus subtilis. Upstream of the putative operon containing lacA is a negative regulator, lacR, which encodes a product related to a family of regulators that includes the lactose repressor, lacI, of Escherichia coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daniel RA,Haiech J,Denizot F,Errington J

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding the two isoenzymes of methyl coenzyme M reductase (MRI and MRII) in Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum delta H have been cloned and sequenced. The MRI-encoding mcr operon (mcrBDCGA) has been located immediately upstream from the mtr operon (mtrEDCBA) that encodes N5-methyltetrahydromethanopterin:c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pihl TD,Sharma S,Reeve JN

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequences essential to the chloramphenicol-inducible expression of cat-86, a chloramphenicol acetyltransferase gene, reside in a 144-base pair (bp) regulatory region that intervenes between the cat-86 coding sequence and its promoter. A key regulatory element within the 144-bp segment consists of a pair of inverted-re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ambulos NP Jr,Mongkolsuk S,Kaufman JD,Lovett PS

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompA gene of Escherichia coli codes for a major protein of the outer membrane. When this gene was moved between various unrelated strains (E. coli K-12 and two clinical isolates of E. coli) by transduction, the gene was expressed very poorly. Recombinants carrying "foreign" genes produced no OmpA protein which cou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beher M,Pugsley A,Schnaitman C

更新日期：1980-07-01 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：:The phylum Bacteroidetes is large and diverse, with rapid gliding motility and the ability to digest macromolecules associated with many genera and species. Recently, a novel protein secretion system, the Por secretion system (PorSS), was identified in two members of the phylum, the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium jo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McBride MJ,Zhu Y

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Bacillus thuringiensis such as B. thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (ONR-60A) and B. thuringiensis subsp. morrisoni (PG-14) pathogenic for mosquito larvae produce a complex parasporal body consisting of several protein endotoxins synthesized during sporulation that form an aggregate of crystalline inclusions...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Diaz-Mendoza M,Bideshi DK,Federici BA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence genes in Listeria monocytogenes are coordinately expressed under the control of the transcriptional activator PrfA, encoded by prfA, a member of the cyclic AMP (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP)/FNR family of bacterial regulators. Strain P14-A is a spontaneous mutant of L. monocytogenes serovar 4b which produces ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ripio MT,Domínguez-Bernal G,Lara M,Suárez M,Vazquez-Boland JA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrons constitute a novel family of DNA elements which evolved by site-specific integration of discrete units between two conserved segments. On the In4 integron of Tn1696, a precisely inserted gene cassette of 1,549 bp conferring nonenzymatic chloramphenicol resistance (cmlA) is present between the streptomycin-sp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bissonnette L,Champetier S,Buisson JP,Roy PH

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00