Staphylococcal penicillinase. I. Inhibition and stimulation of activity.

abstract：:The fis operon from Salmonella typhimurium has been cloned and sequenced, and the properties of Fis-deficient and Fis-constitutive strains were examined. The overall fis operon organization in S. typhimurium is the same as that in Escherichia coli, with the deduced Fis amino acid sequences being identical between both...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Osuna R,Lienau D,Hughes KT,Johnson RC

更新日期：1995-04-01 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：:This paper describes the major transmutations of donor deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) after uptake by competent Bacillus subtilis cells. Kinetic experiments confirm that after exposure to competent cells, donor DNA is converted to double-stranded fragments (DSF) which can be isolated as early as 30 s from the beginning o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Davidoff-Abelson R,Dubnau D

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Segregation was studied by measuring the positions of autoradiographic grain clusters in chains formed from single cells containing on average less than one radiolabeled chromosome strand. The degree to which chromosomal and cell wall material cosegregated was quantified by using the methods of S. Cooper and M. Weinbe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Higgins ML,Glaser D,Dicker DT,Zito ET

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus brevis HPD31 contains a surface (S)-layer protein, termed the HWP, which forms a hexagonal array in the cell wall. The 5' region of the HWP gene was isolated from a DNA library constructed in bacteriophage vector EMBL3 from a partial BamHI digest of the chromosomal DNA. The 3' region contained in a 2.7-kiloba...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ebisu S,Tsuboi A,Takagi H,Naruse Y,Yamagata H,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1990-03-01 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：:Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis is the agent of Israeli spotted fever. The present study reports the draft genome of Rickettsia conorii subsp. israelensis strain ISTT CDC1, isolated from a Rhipicephalus sanguineus tick collected in Israel. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sentausa E,El Karkouri K,Robert C,Raoult D,Fournier PE

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some lines of the widely used strain CR34 of Escherichia coli K-12 carry a plasmid. The plasmid has a mass of 12 +/- 2 X 10(6) megadaltons and is maintained at a low copy number per cell (1 to 2), and this number is not amplified by growth of cells in the presence of chloramphenicol. The plasmid is designated as pCU3....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang PY,Relf J,Palchaudhuri S,Iyer VN

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning electron microscopy and transmission electron microscopy have been used to visualize the morphology and ultrastructure of two types of microorganisms in the hindgut of the cockroach Blaberus posticus. Both organisms, designated as either short or long rods, are attached to chitinous projections from the gut w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Foglesong MA,Walker DH Jr,Puffer JS,Markovetz AJ

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Selenomonas ruminantium, a strictly anaerobic and gram-negative bacterium, the degradation of lysine/ornithine decarboxylase (LDC/ODC) by ATP-requiring protease(s) is accelerated by the binding of P22, which is a ribosomal protein of this strain. Amino acid sequence alignment of S. ruminantium P22 with the L10 ribo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamaguchi Y,Takatsuka Y,Kamio Y

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The manganese-containing isozyme of superoxide dismutase (MnSOD) is synthesized by Escherichia coli only during aerobiosis, in accordance with the fact that superoxide can be formed only in aerobic environments. In contrast, E. coli continues to synthesize the iron-containing isozyme (FeSOD) even in the absence of oxy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kargalioglu Y,Imlay JA

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Bacteriophytochrome photoreceptors (BphPs) and their cognate response regulators make up two-component signal transduction systems which direct bacteria to mount phenotypic responses to changes in environmental light quality. Most of these systems utilize single-domain response regulators to transduce signal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baker AW,Satyshur KA,Moreno Morales N,Forest KT

更新日期：2016-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Stable, metabolically active protoplasts of Staphylococcus aureus have been prepared by the use of a staphylolytic enzyme produced by Aeromonas hydrophila. Respiratory and glycolytic rates and synthesis of nucleic acids, protein, and lipid in these protoplasts, stabilized variously in 1.1 M sucrose, 0.37 M sodium succ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Coles NW,Gross R

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mukB gene is essential for the partitioning of sister chromosomes in Escherichia coli. A mukB null mutant is hypersensitive to the DNA gyrase inhibitor novobiocin. In this work, we isolated mutants suppressing the novobiocin hypersensitivity of the mukB null mutation. All suppressor mutations are localized in or n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Adachi S,Hiraga S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kil-kor regulon of the self-transmissible, broad-host-range plasmid RK2 is a unique network with eight coregulated operons. Among the genes encoded by the kil-kor regulon are trfA, which encodes the replication initiator, and several kil loci (kilA, kilB, kilC, and kilE), each of which is lethal to the host cell i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thomson VJ,Jovanovic OS,Pohlman RF,Chang CH,Figurski DH

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Southern blot analysis indicated that the gene encoding the constitutive, NADP-linked bile acid 7 alpha-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase of Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708 was located on a 6.5-kb EcoRI fragment of the chromosomal DNA. This fragment was cloned into bacteriophage lambda gt11, and a 2.9-kb piece of this ins...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baron SF,Franklund CV,Hylemon PB

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The level of extracellular alpha-amylase (EC 3.2.1.1) of Bacillus subtilis Marburg was increased about fivefold by introducing the amyR marker from B. natto 1212 through transformation. amyR2 of B. natto 1212 has been assumed to determine a high level of alpha-amylase of the organism. The gene acts specifically on alp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamaguchi K,Nagata Y,Maruo B

更新日期：1974-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium that lacks the DNA adenine methylase (Dam) ectopically expresses multiple genes that are preferentially expressed during infection, is attenuated for virulence, and confers heightened immunity in vaccinated hosts. The safety of dam mutant Salmonella vaccines was evaluated by scr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Heithoff DM,Badie G,Julio SM,Enioutina EY,Daynes RA,Sinsheimer RL,Mahan MJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently reported a novel genetic locus located in the sbcB-his region of the chromosomal map of Escherichia coli K-12 which directs the expression of group 6-positive phenotype in Shigella flexneri lipopolysaccharide, presumably due to the transfer of O-acetyl groups onto rhamnose residues of the S. flexneri O-spe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yao Z,Valvano MA

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of arsenite [As(III)] on several levels of cellular metabolism and gene regulation was examined in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. P. aeruginosa isogenic mutants devoid of antioxidant enzymes or defective in various metabolic pathways, DNA repair systems, metal storage proteins, global regulators, or quorum sensing...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parvatiyar K,Alsabbagh EM,Ochsner UA,Stegemeyer MA,Smulian AG,Hwang SH,Jackson CR,McDermott TR,Hassett DJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific growth rates as low as 0.005 hr(-1) (generation times of 20 to 200 hr) of aquatic bacteria in natural waters have been calculated from significant differences between dilution rates and washout rates in a chemostat. The measured growth rates were affected by the treatment of the water samples (type of sterili...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jannasch HW

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite extensive similarities between the genomes of the Streptomyces temperate phages phiC31 and phiBT1, the attP-int loci are poorly conserved. Here we demonstrate that phiBT1 integrates into a different attachment site than phiC31. phiBT1 attB lies within SCO4848 encoding a 79-amino-acid putative integral membrane...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gregory MA,Till R,Smith MC

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of SufI, a well-studied substrate of the TatABC translocase in Escherichia coli, is not known. It was earlier implicated in cell division, based on the finding that multiple copies of sufI suppressed the phenotypes of cells with mutations in ftsI (ftsI23), which encodes a divisomal transpeptidase. Recentl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Samaluru H,SaiSree L,Reddy M

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Eikenella corrodens synthesizes type IV pili and exhibits a phase variation involving the irreversible transition from piliated to nonpiliated variants. On solid medium, piliated variants form small (S-phase), corroding colonies whereas nonpiliated variants form large (L-phase), noncorroding colonie...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Villar MT,Helber JT,Hood B,Schaefer MR,Hirschberg RL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we describe some of the characteristics of the Comamonas testosteroni B-356 biphenyl (BPH)-chlorobiphenyl dioxygenase system, which includes the terminal oxygenase, an iron-sulfur protein (ISPBPH) made up of an alpha subunit (51 kDa) and a beta subunit (22 kDa) encoded by bphA and bphE, respectively; a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hurtubise Y,Barriault D,Powlowski J,Sylvestre M

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) reassociation analyses were employed to determine the molecular relationships between recombinable nocardiae. Analysis of the compatibility system of Nocardia erythropolis Mat-Ce and Mat-cE mating strains demonstrated the existence of extensive homology under both exacting and nonexacting c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Clark JE,Brownell GH

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequencing of the EcoRI-HindIII fragment complementing mutations in the structural genes of the L-rhamnose regulon of Escherichia coli has permitted identification of the open reading frames corresponding to rhaB, rhaA, and rhaD. The deduced amino acid sequences gave a 425-amino-acid polypeptide corresponding to r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moralejo P,Egan SM,Hidalgo E,Aguilar J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over most of the range of salt concentrations in which the moderately halophilic bacterium Vibrio costicola could grow, the sum of the cell-associated Na+ + K+ ions was at least as high as in the external medium. This is in contrast to other moderate halophiles, which have substantially lower internal than external sa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shindler DB,Wydro RM,Kushner DJ

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neurospora crassa mutants deficient in asparagine synthetase were selected by using the procedure of inositol-less death. Complementation tests among the 100 mutants isolated suggested that their alterations were genetically allelic. Recombination analysis with strain S1007t, an asparagine auxotroph, indicated that th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacPhee KG,Nelson RE,Schuster SM

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa and members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex often coexist in both the soil and the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. To gain an understanding of how these different species affect each other's physiology when coexisting, we performed a screen to identify P. aeruginosa genes that are induced...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weaver VB,Kolter R

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00