Novel xylose dehydrogenase in the halophilic archaeon Haloarcula marismortui.

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis PurR mediates adenine repression and guanosine induction of purA. PRPP inhibits binding of PurR to DNA in vitro. Mutations in the PRPP binding motif of PurR caused strong repression regardless of purine exclusions or additions, establishing the role of PRPP as regulator of PurR. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rappu P,Pullinen T,Mäntsälä P

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical topology of the Rhodobacter capsulatus membrane protein LhaA was formulated and evaluated by gene fusion experiments. The apparent topological locations of fusion enzymes were compared with the theoretically derived structure, and a model of LhaA is suggested that consists of 12 transmembrane segments, w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Young CS,Beatty JT

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth cycle of Rickettsia quintana was studied for the first time in liquid culture. Growth of the microorganism in a transparent broth medium was made possible by the finding that fetal calf serum (FCS), but not calf serum (CS), satisfied the requirement of R. quintana (Fuller strain) for red blood cell lysate. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mason RA

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of competence by the dental caries pathogen Streptococcus mutans is mediated primarily through the alternative sigma factor ComX (SigX), which is under the control of multiple regulatory systems and activates the expression of genes involved in DNA uptake and recombination. Here we report that the indu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guo Q,Ahn SJ,Kaspar J,Zhou X,Burne RA

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta toxin is a neutral sphingomyelinase secreted by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus. This virulence factor lyses erythrocytes in order to evade the host immune system as well as scavenge nutrients. The structure of beta toxin was determined at 2.4-A resolution using crystals that were merohedrally twinned. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huseby M,Shi K,Brown CK,Digre J,Mengistu F,Seo KS,Bohach GA,Schlievert PM,Ohlendorf DH,Earhart CA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis mutants with reduced rates of cell wall autolysis reached a constant rate of wall turnover after a longer lag than the standard strain but eventually showed the same turnover rate. In reverse, a turnover-deficient mutant autolysed at a slightly higher rate than the standard strain. Consequently, ther...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vitković L,Cheung HY,Freese E

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic organization of the acidophilic chemolithoautotrophic bacterium Thiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 21834 has been studied by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE). Analysis of its intact DNA, as well as the restriction patterns obtained with several endonucleases, allowed the characterization of one circular...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Irazabal N,Marín I,Amils R

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motility of Spirillum volutans is caused by the rotation of each polar flagellar fascicle in a direction opposite to that of the more slowly rotating cell. Both flagella form cones of revolution oriented in the same direction. When the cell reverses its motion, both fascicles simultaneously reverse their rotation ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krieg NR,Tomelty JP,Wells JS Jr

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-methylcytosine in chromosomal DNA represents a potential source of frequent spontaneous mutation for hyperthermophiles. To determine the relevance of this threat for the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, the mode of GGCC methylation by its restriction-modification system, SuaI, was investigated. Distinct isoschizo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grogan DW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Radiorespirometric and enzymatic analyses reveal that glucose-grown cells of Rhizobium japonicum isolates I-110 and L1-110, both derivatives of R. japonicum strain 3I1b110, possess an active tricarboxylic acid cycle and metabolize glucose by simultaneous operation of the Embden-Meyerhof-Parnas and Entner-Doudoroff pat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mulongoy K,Elkan GH

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HPB12 protein from the nucleoid of Bacillus subtilis was previously described, and its DNA binding properties have been reported previously (V. Salti, F. Le Hégarat, and L. Hirschbein, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1009:161-167, 1989). The DNA-HPB12 complexes were examined by electron microscopy. They appeared as short, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Arnold-Schulz-Gahmen B,Salti-Montesanto V,Nguyen J,Hirschbein L,Le Hégarat F

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:The Gram-positive bacterium Streptococcus pyogenes (also called group A Streptococcus [GAS]), is found strictly in humans and is capable of causing a wide variety of infections. Here we demonstrate that serine catabolism in GAS is controlled by the transcriptional regulator Spy49_0126c. We have designated this regulat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LaSarre B,Federle MJ

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phoB gene of Bacillus subtilis encodes an alkaline phosphatase (PhoB, formerly alkaline phosphatase III) that is expressed from separate promoters during phosphate deprivation in a PhoP-PhoR-dependent manner and at stage two of sporulation under phosphate-sufficient conditions independent of PhoP-PhoR. Isogenic st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abdel-Fattah WR,Chen Y,Eldakak A,Hulett FM

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete nucleotide sequence of the hutH gene, encoding histidine ammonia-lyase (histidase), in Pseudomonas putida ATCC 12633 has been determined from the appropriate portions of the hut region that had been cloned into Escherichia coli. The resulting DNA sequence revealed an open reading frame of 1,530 base pairs...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Consevage MW,Phillips AT

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mycoplasma Acholeplasma laidlawii was shown to have mechanisms for both host cell and ultraviolet (UV) reactivation of UV-irradiated mycoplasmaviruses. Host cell reactivation was examined by comparing the survival abilities of UV-irradiated double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid mycoplasmavirus plated on both untre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Das J,Nowak JA,Maniloff J

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TetA(C) protein, encoded by the tetA(C) gene of plasmid pBR322, is a member of a family of membrane-bound proteins that mediate energy-dependent efflux of tetracycline from the bacterial cell. The tetA(C) gene was mutagenized with hydroxylamine, and missense mutations causing the loss of tetracycline resistance we...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McNicholas P,Chopra I,Rothstein DM

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Streptococcus mutans, enzyme II(scr) and sucrose-6-phosphate hydrolase are two important enzymes in the transport and metabolism of dietary sucrose. The scr regulon of S. mutans is composed of three genes, scrA and scrB, which code for enzyme II(scr) and sucrose-6-phosphate hydrolase, respectively, and scrR, which ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang B,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously constructed trp-S-lacZ fusion encoding a hybrid protein with beta-galactosidase activity was subcloned from a multicopy plasmid onto a lambda vector. Single-copy lysogens of lambda trpS-lacZ were used to determine whether trpS was regulated in a manner similar to that of other aminoacyl-tRNA synthetases. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hall CV,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:THREE PREVIOUSLY STUDIED R FACTORS WERE USED: 222/R4, controlling transmissible resistance to sulfonamide, streptomycin, chloromycetin, and tetracycline (SU(r) SM(r) CM(r) TC(r)); 222/R3, a derivative of 222/R4 (now termed 222/R3W) having lost TC(r); and R15, controlling infectious resistance to SU and SM only. Two ty...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nisioka T,Mitani M,Clowes RC

更新日期：1970-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most motile bacteria are able to bias their movement towards more favorable environments or to escape from obnoxious substances by a process called chemotaxis. Chemotaxis depends on a chemosensory system that is able to sense specific environmental signals and generate a behavioral response. Typically, the signal is t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ringgaard S,Yang W,Alvarado A,Schirner K,Briegel A

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Corynebacterium glutamicum metabolizes sialic acid (Neu5Ac) to fructose-6-phosphate (fructose-6P) via the consecutive activity of the sialic acid importer SiaEFGI, N-acetylneuraminic acid lyase (NanA), N-acetylmannosamine kinase (NanK), N-acetylmannosamine-6P epimerase (NanE), N-acetylglucosamine-6P deacetyl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Uhde A,Brühl N,Goldbeck O,Matano C,Gurow O,Rückert C,Marin K,Wendisch VF,Krämer R,Seibold GM

更新日期：2016-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The pink yeast Rhodotorula rubra of marine origin was found to be capable of extended growth at very low phosphate concentrations (K(0.5) = 10.8 nm). Average intracellular phosphate concentrations, based on isotope exchange techniques, were 15 to 200 nm, giving concentration gradients across the cell envelope of about...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Button DK,Dunker SS,Morse ML

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain TP985, which has an insertional mutation in the gene for the periplasmic murein tripeptide binding protein MppA, was previously reported to overproduce MarA and exhibit a multiple-antibiotic resistance (Mar) phenotype (H. Li and J. T. Park, J. Bacteriol. 181:4842-4847, 1999). We found that TP98...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bina X,Perreten V,Levy SB

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of enzymes were prepared from the culture fluids of streptococci belonging to groups A, B, C, G, and L, and from a strain of Streptococcus sanguis. These streptococcal enzymes (designated St-sialidases) released a substance shown to belong to the sialic acid group from the specific substrate BSM-St, a sialomuc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hayano S,Tanaka A

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens strain KU-7 is a prototype microorganism that metabolizes 2-nitrobenzoate (2-NBA) via the formation of 3-hydroxyanthranilate (3-HAA), a known antioxidant and reductant. The initial two steps leading to the sequential formation of 2-hydroxy/aminobenzoate and 3-HAA are catalyzed by a NADPH-depend...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwaki H,Muraki T,Ishihara S,Hasegawa Y,Rankin KN,Sulea T,Boyd J,Lau PC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two low-molecular-weight basic proteins, termed A and B proteins, comprise about 15% of the protein of dormant spores of Bacillus megaterium. Irradiation of intact dormant spores with ultraviolet light results in covalent cross-linking of the A and B proteins to other spore macromolecules. The cross-linked A and B pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow B,Setlow P

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleared lysates of 13 species of filamentous cyanobacteria were examined for the presence of extrachromosomal DNA by using agarose gel electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining. Seven of the 13 species contained extrachromosomal covalently closed circular DNA, and all but 1 species contained multiple elements. The...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simon RD

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Aer protein in Escherichia coli is a membrane-bound, FAD-containing aerotaxis and energy sensor that putatively monitors the redox state of the electron transport system. Binding of FAD to Aer requires the N-terminal PAS domain and residues in the F1 region and C-terminal HAMP domain. The PAS domains of other PAS ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herrmann S,Ma Q,Johnson MS,Repik AV,Taylor BL

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ftsH gene encodes an ATP- and Zn(2+)-dependent metalloprotease which is anchored to the cytoplasmic membrane via two transmembrane segments in such a way that the very short amino- and the long carboxy termini are exposed to the cytoplasm. Deletion of the ftsH gene in Bacillus subtilis results in a pleiotropic phe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wehrl W,Niederweis M,Schumann W

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00