Sortase B, a new class of sortase in Listeria monocytogenes.

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 T-POP transposon was employed in a general screen for tetracycline (Tet)-induced chromosomal loci that exhibited Tet-activated or Tet-repressed expression of a fliC-lac transcriptional fusion. Insertions that activated flagellar transcription were located in flagellar genes. T-POP insertions that exhibited Tet-dep...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wozniak CE,Lee C,Hughes KT

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated 28 mutants of Bacillus subtilis deficient in the development of competence by using the transposon Tn917lacZ as a mutagen. The mutant strains were poorly transformable with plasmid and chromosomal DNAs but were normally transducible and exhibited wild-type resistance to DNA-damaging agents. The mutations w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hahn J,Albano M,Dubnau D

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antigenically related coaggregation receptor polysaccharides (RPS) of Streptococcus oralis strains C104 and SK144 mediate recognition of these bacteria by other members of the dental plaque biofilm community. In the present study, the structure of strain SK144 RPS was established by high resolution NMR spectroscop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang J,Ritchey M,Yoshida Y,Bush CA,Cisar JO

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of mitomycin C induction to 114 genetically diverse Streptococcus agalactiae strains generated 36 phage suspensions. On electron microscopy of the phage suspensions, it was possible to assign the phages to the Siphoviridae family, with three different morphotypes (A, B, and C). Phage genetic diversity ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Domelier AS,van der Mee-Marquet N,Sizaret PY,Héry-Arnaud G,Lartigue MF,Mereghetti L,Quentin R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The central metabolic model for Geobacter sulfurreducens included a single pathway for the biosynthesis of isoleucine that was analogous to that of Escherichia coli, in which the isoleucine precursor 2-oxobutanoate is generated from threonine. 13C labeling studies performed in G. sulfurreducens indicated that this pat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Risso C,Van Dien SJ,Orloff A,Lovley DR,Coppi MV

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two homologs of the outer membrane protein OmpA were identified in Aeromonas salmonicida by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, immunoblotting, and amino-terminal sequence analyses. An A. salmonicida genomic DNA library was constructed by using lambda GEM-11 and recombinant phage carrying both g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Costello GM,Vipond R,MacIntyre S

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the trp operon of Bacillus subtilis is regulated by attenuation. A trpE'-'lacZ gene fusion preceded by the wild-type trp promoter-leader region was used to analyze regulation. Overproduction of the trp leader transcript in trans from a multicopy plasmid caused constitutive expression of the chromosoma...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuroda MI,Henner D,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DosS (DevS) and DosT histidine kinases form a two-component system together with the DosR (DevR) response regulator in Mycobacterium tuberculosis. DosS and DosT, which have high sequence similarity to each other over the length of their amino acid sequences, contain two GAF domains (GAF-A and GAF-B) in their N-ter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim MJ,Park KJ,Ko IJ,Kim YM,Oh JI

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two arginyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase (EC 6.1.1.13, arginine: ribonucleic acid ligase adenosine monophosphate) activities were found in extracts of Escherichia coli strains AB1132 and NP2. The two arginyl-tRNA synthetase activities in extracts of strain AB1132 were found to be separable by diethylami...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yem DW,Williams LS

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overproduction of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase increased trp operon expression by reducing transcription termination at the trp attenuator. The total cellular level of charged tRNATrp was not affected by increased levels of the synthetase. We propose that excess synthetase binds charged tRNATrp and reduces the concent...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Das A,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pizer, Lewis I. (University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia). Glycine synthesis and metabolism in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 89:1145-1150. 1965.-A correlation was demonstrated between a nutritional requirement that can only be satisfied by glycine and the absence of the enzymatic capacity to interconvert l-serine a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： PIZER LI

更新日期：1965-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Livers of uninfected guinea pigs and of guinea pigs infected with Coxiella burneti were fractionated into smooth endoplasmic reticulum, rough endoplasmic reticulum (RER), pellet, and cell sap fractions. The ribonucleic acid (RNA) and protein of each fraction were determined, and the phosphorylase, glucose-6-phosphatas...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Paretsky D,Stueckemann J

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chloromuconate cycloisomerases of bacteria utilizing chloroaromatic compounds are known to convert 3-chloro-cis,cis-muconate to cis-dienelactone (cis-4-carboxymethylenebut-2-en-4-olide), while usual muconate cycloisomerases transform the same substrate to the bacteriotoxic protoanemonin. Formation of protoanemonin req...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaulmann U,Kaschabek SR,Schlömann M

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides is a free-living, photoheterotrophic bacterium known for its genomic and metabolic complexity. We have discovered that this purple photosynthetic organism possesses a quorum-sensing system. Quorum sensing occurs in a number of eukaryotic host-associated gram-negative bacteria. In these bacteria...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Puskas A,Greenberg EP,Kaplan S,Schaefer AL

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanol dehydrogenase, the enzyme that oxidizes methanol to formaldehyde in gram-negative methylotrophs, contains the prosthetic group pyrroloquinoline quinone (PQQ). To begin to analyze how the synthesis of PQQ is coordinated with the production of other methanol dehydrogenase components, the transcription of one of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramamoorthi R,Lidstrom ME

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When carbon sources become limiting for growth, bacteria must choose which of the remaining nutrients should be used first. We have identified a nutrient-sensing signaling network in Escherichia coli that is activated at the transition to stationary phase. The network is composed of the two histidine kinase/response r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Behr S,Fried L,Jung K

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O157:H7 is responsible for worldwide outbreaks of bloody diarrhea, hemorrhagic colitis, and life-threatening hemolytic uremic syndrome. After colonizing the large intestine, EHEC forms attaching and effacing (AE) lesions on intestinal epithelial cells. These lesions cause dest...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reading NC,Torres AG,Kendall MM,Hughes DT,Yamamoto K,Sperandio V

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the cadA cadmium and zinc resistance determinant of Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pI258 was demonstrated by using gene fusions and direct measurements of transcription. In growth experiments, cells harboring the intact cadA operon were induced with different cations and challenged by an inhibitory concen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoon KP,Misra TK,Silver S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Schizosaccharomyces pombe, which were resistant to concentrations of colcemid inhibitory to the wild-type parent, were not diminished in their permeability to colcemid or colchicine. They also did not modify colcemid to a detectable derivative or to a product that was incapable of binding to brain tubulin. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lederberg S,Gourse RL,Sackett DL

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus responds to changing extracellular environments in part by adjusting its proteome through alterations of transcriptional priorities and selective degradation of the preexisting pool of proteins. In Bacillus subtilis, the proteolytic adaptor protein MecA has been shown to play a role in assisting ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donegan NP,Marvin JS,Cheung AL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis skin element confers resistance to arsenate and arsenite. The ars operon in the skin element contains four genes in the order arsR, ORF2, arsB, and arsC. Three of these genes are homologous to the arsR, arsB, and arsC genes from the staphylococcal plasmid pI258, while no homologs of ORF2 have bee...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sato T,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanolamine (EA) metabolism is a trait associated with enteric pathogens, including enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC). EHEC causes severe bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome. EHEC encodes the ethanolamine utilization (eut) operon that allows EHEC to metabolize EA and gain a competitive advan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Luzader DH,Clark DE,Gonyar LA,Kendall MM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrons facilitate the evolution of complex phenotypes by physical and transcriptional linkage of genes. They can be categorized as chromosomal integrons (CIs) or mobile resistance integrons (MRIs). The significance of MRIs for the problem of multiple antibiotic resistance is well established. CIs are more widesprea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tetu SG,Holmes AJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis swarming behavior is characterized by the development of concentric rings of growth that are formed as cyclic events of swarmer cell differentiation, swarming migration, and cellular differentiation are repeated during colony translocation across a surface. This cycle produces the bull's-eye colony o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belas R,Schneider R,Melch M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reversion behavior of pleiotropic carbohydrate mutants, previously designated as ctr, was studied. The mutants revert to complete restoration of the wild-type phenotype, as well as to a spectrum of partial wild-type phenotypes. Lac(+) reversions were found in the lac region (11 min) and some Mal(+) reversions occu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang RJ,Morse HG,Morse ML

更新日期：1970-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of segregation of prokaryotic plasmids has been derived mainly from the study of the gram-negative bacterial plasmids. We previously reported a replicon of the cryptic plasmid from a gram-positive bacterium, Leifsonia xyli subsp. cynodontis. The replicon contains a putative plasmid partition ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yin P,Li TY,Xie MH,Jiang L,Zhang Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lethal and mutagenic effects of various mutagens on Neisseria gonorrhoeae were investigated. Lethality studies demonstrated that N. gonorrhoeae was relatively sensitive to ethyl methanesulfonate, UV light, and methyl methanesulfonate. Although N. gonorrhoeae was readily mutated by ethyl methanesulfonate and N-meth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Campbell LA,Yasbin RE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxobacteria are predatory and are prolific producers of secondary metabolites. Here, we tested a hypothesized role that secondary metabolite antibiotics function as weapons in predation. To test this, a Myxococcus xanthus Δta1 mutant, blocked in antibiotic TA (myxovirescin) production, was constructed. This TA(-) mut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xiao Y,Wei X,Ebright R,Wall D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Hly region from the chromosome of Vibrio cholerae El Tor strain RV79(Hly-) and the nonhemolytic classical strain 569B were cloned into plasmid vector pBR322. Escherichia coli K-12 transformants possessing these recombinant plasmids were nonhemolytic and were detected with a 32P-labeled hly-specific DNA probe. Rest...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldberg SL,Murphy JR

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00