Structural characterization and corepressor binding of the Escherichia coli purine repressor.

abstract：:Experiments are described in which the tensile strength, the initial (Youngs') modulus, and other mechanical properties of the bacterial cell wall were obtained as functions of relative humidity (RH) in the range of 20 to 95%. These properties were deduced from tensile tests on bacterial thread, a fiber consisting of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thwaites JJ,Surana UC

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MalK is a peripheral cytoplasmic membrane protein that has multiple activities in Escherichia coli. It associates with integral cytoplasmic membrane proteins MalF and MalG to form the maltose transport complex (MalFGK), a member of the ATP-binding cassette (ABC) superfamily of proteins. In addition, MalK participates ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lippincott J,Traxler B

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-kb BamHI fragment of the lactose plasmid pNZ63 from Leuconostoc lactis NZ6009 was cloned in Escherichia coli MC1061 by using pACYC184 and was found to express a functional beta-galactosidase. Deletion and complementation analysis showed that the coding region for beta-galactosidase was located on a 5.8-kb SalI-Ba...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： David S,Stevens H,van Riel M,Simons G,de Vos WM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Escherichia coli cells are unable to grow on beta-glucosides. Spontaneous mutants arise, however, which are able to utilize certain aromatic beta-glucosides such as salicin or arbutin as carbon sources, revealing the presence of a cryptic operon called bgl. Mutations activating the operon map within (or clos...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schnetz K,Toloczyki C,Rak B

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitospores or cysts of Allomyces macrogynus do not take up the glucose analogue 2-deoxyglucose. Uptake of 2-deoxyglucose by germlings begins at 25 min into germination, the start of the rhizoid stage, and increases in rate by approximately 50-fold until 100 min into germination. The rate remains constant from 100 to 2...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Burke DD

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the bacterium Escherichia coli, oxidized pyrimidines are removed by two DNA glycosylases, endonuclease III and endonuclease VIII (endo VIII), encoded by the nth and nei genes, respectively. Double mutants lacking both of these activities exhibit a high spontaneous mutation frequency, and here we show that all of th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blaisdell JO,Hatahet Z,Wallace SS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria often encounter environments where nutrient availability is limited, and they must adapt accordingly. To identify Pasteurella multocida genes that are differentially expressed during nutrient limitation, we utilized whole-genome microarrays to compare levels of gene expression during growth in rich and minima...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Paustian ML,May BJ,Kapur V

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two regulatory proteins, Gal repressor and isorepressor, control the expression of the gal and mgl operons in Escherichia coli. The transcription start sites for galR and galS, the genes for the repressor and isorepressor, were determined by primer extension of in vivo transcripts. Study of the promoter-lacZ gene fusi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weickert MJ,Adhya S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermus thermophilus HB8 can grow anaerobically by using a membrane-bound nitrate reductase to catalyze the reduction of nitrate as a final electron acceptor in respiration. In contrast to other denitrifiers, the nitrite produced does not continue the reduction pathway but accumulates in the growth medium after its ac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramírez S,Moreno R,Zafra O,Castán P,Vallés C,Berenguer J

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells of two auxotrophic mutants of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius are mixed and incubated on solid medium, they form stable genetic recombinants which can be selected, enumerated, and characterized. Any of a variety of auxotrophic markers can recombine with each other, and the phenomenon has been observed at temperat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grogan DW

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penultimate step in the biosynthesis of riboflavin (vitamin B2) involves the condensation of 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate with 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione, which is catalyzed by 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase (lumazine synthase). Pathogenic Brucella species adapted to an intr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zylberman V,Klinke S,Haase I,Bacher A,Fischer M,Goldbaum FA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the frequencies of IS50 and Tn5 transposition are greater in Dam- cells than in isogenic Dam+ cells. IS50 transposition is increased approximately 1,000-fold and Tn5 transposition frequencies are increased about 5- to 10-fold in the absence of Dam methylation. However, in cells that are deficient ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Makris JC,Nordmann PL,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the hurIR bhuRSTUV heme utilization locus in Bordetella bronchiseptica is coordinately controlled by the global iron-dependent regulator Fur and the extracytoplasmic function sigma factor HurI. Activation of HurI requires transduction of a heme-dependent signal via HurI, HurR, and BhuR, a three-component...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： King-Lyons ND,Smith KF,Connell TD

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide inhibitors of phage lambda site-specific recombination were previously isolated by screening synthetic combinatorial peptide libraries. These inhibitors cause the accumulation of complexes between the recombinase and the Holliday junction intermediate of several highly divergent tyrosine recombinases. Peptide ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gunderson CW,Boldt JL,Authement RN,Segall AM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are structured multicellular communities of bacteria that form through a developmental process. In standing culture, undomesticated strains of Bacillus subtilis produce a floating biofilm, called a pellicle, with a distinct macroscopic architecture. Here we report on a comprehensive analysis of B. subtilis pe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kobayashi K

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides ruminicola B(1)4, a noncellulolytic rumen bacterium, produces an endoglucanase (carboxymethylcellulase [CMCase]) that is excreted into the culture supernatant. Cultures grown on glucose, fructose, maltose, mannose, and cellobiose had high specific activities of CMCase (greater than 3 mmol of reducing sugar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsushita O,Russell JB,Wilson DB

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned a lytic enzyme, PlyPH, with a specific lytic effect on Bacillus anthracis strains. PlyPH remains active between pH 4 and 10.5, and a single dose rescued a significant percentage of mice infected intraperitoneally with an attenuated B. anthracis strain. We propose PlyPH as a novel therapeutic agent. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoong P,Schuch R,Nelson D,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinyl-coenzyme A synthetase of Escherichia coli has an alpha 2 beta 2 subunit structure. By measuring reconstituted enzyme activity present after addition of purified alpha or beta subunits to cell extracts followed by refolding, we have shown that extracts contain no significant excess of either subunit species. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolodko WT,Brownie ER,Bridger WA

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The light organ of the squid Euprymna scolopes is specifically colonized to a high density by the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri. To date, only a few factors contributing to the specificity of this symbiosis have been identified. Using a genetic screen for random transposon mutants defective in initiating the symbio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Visick KL,Skoufos LM

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic DNA fragment from Desulfovibrio fructosovorans, which strongly hybridized with the hydAB genes from Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough, was cloned and sequenced. This fragment was found to contain four genes, named hndA, hndB, hndC, and hndD. Analysis of the sequence homologies indicated that HndA shows 29...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Malki S,Saimmaime I,De Luca G,Rousset M,Dermoun Z,Belaich JP

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kinsky, Stephen C. (Washington University, St. Louis, Mo.). Induction and repression of nitrate reductase in Neurospora crassa. J. Bacteriol. 82:898-904. 1961.-Techniques are described for studying induced enzyme formation in Neurospora crassa. The effects of various parameters (time, pH, nitrate concentration, etc.) ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： KINSKY SC

更新日期：1961-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaea are abundant and drive critical microbial processes in the Earth's cold biosphere. Despite this, not enough is known about the molecular mechanisms of cold adaptation and no biochemical studies have been performed on stenopsychrophilic archaea (e.g., Methanogenium frigidum). This study examined the structural ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giaquinto L,Curmi PM,Siddiqui KS,Poljak A,DeLong E,DasSarma S,Cavicchioli R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fusidic acid or chloramphenicol was used to inhibit peptide synthesis to 1% of normal in Escherichia coli B, strain AS19. After 10 min of inhibition, peptide synthesis could be quickly restored to 80% of the normal rate after washing the bacteria on a filter. However, even in the presence of adenosine 3'-5'-cyclic-mon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pastushok C,Kennell D

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overexpression of evgA, a response regulator of a two-component system, increased multidrug efflux in Escherichia coli. Since overexpression of the emrKY operon, which is controlled by evgAS, could account only for deoxycholate resistance, the evgAS locus apparently controls expression of at least one other multidrug ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nishino K,Yamaguchi A

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathways of ammonia assimilation into glutamic acid in Bacillus macerans were investigated by measurements of the specific activities of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), glutamine synthetase, and glutamate synthase. In ammonia-rich medium, GDH was the predominant pathway of ammonia assimilation. In nitrogen-fixing cells...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kanamori K,Weiss RL,Roberts JD

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hall, Herbert E. (Robert A. Taft Sanitary Engineering Center, Cincinnati, Ohio), Robert Angelotti, Keith H. Lewis, and Milton J. Foter. Characteristics of Clostridium perfringens strains associated with food and food-borne disease. J. Bacteriol. 85:1094-1103. 1963.-A total of 83 strains of Clostridium perfringens-30 f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HALL HE,ANGELOTTI R,LEWIS KH,FOTER MJ

更新日期：1963-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens is a soil alphaproteobacterium that possesses two evolutionarily distinct flagellar systems, a constitutive subpolar flagellum and inducible lateral flagella that, depending on the carbon source, may be expressed simultaneously in liquid medium and used interactively for swimming. In each...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mengucci F,Dardis C,Mongiardini EJ,Althabegoiti MJ,Partridge JD,Kojima S,Homma M,Quelas JI,Lodeiro AR

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-binding factor BifA (previously called VF1) binds upstream of the developmentally regulated site-specific recombinase gene xisA in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. Besides binding xisA, BifA also binds the glnA, rbcL, and nifH promoter regions. DNase I footprint analysis of BifA binding to glnA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramasubramanian TS,Wei TF,Golden JW

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exit of glutamate from Escherichia coli K-12 cells preloaded with the radioactive amino acid and its relation to the reaction of entry were studied. Experiments with cells preloaded to different intracellular concentrations of radioactive glutamate confirmed our earlier conclusion that glutamate exit was a first-o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Halpern YS,Barash H,Druck K

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis anti-TRAP protein regulates the ability of the tryptophan-activated TRAP protein to bind to trp operon leader RNA and promote transcription termination. AT synthesis is regulated both transcriptionally and translationally by uncharged tRNA(Trp). In this study, we examined the roles of AT synthesi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cruz-Vera LR,Gong M,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00