The elastic properties of the caulobacter crescentus adhesive holdfast are dependent on oligomers of N-acetylglucosamine.

abstract：:The nifV and leuA genes, which encode homocitrate synthase and alpha-isopropylmalate synthase, respectively, were cloned from the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 by a PCR-based strategy. Since the N-terminal parts of NifV and LeuA from other bacteria are highly similar to each other, a single p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stricker O,Masepohl B,Klipp W,Böhme H

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The production of extracellular enzymes such as pectate lyase (Pel), polygalacturonase (Peh), cellulase (Cel), and protease (Prt) is activated by the cell density (quorum)-sensing signal, N-(3-oxohexanoyl)-L-homoserine lactone (HSL); plant signals; and aep genes during postexponential growth of Erwinia carotovora subs...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cui Y,Chatterjee A,Liu Y,Dumenyo CK,Chatterjee AK

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a model system, we have studied deletion formation in Bacillus subtilis. When the staphylococcal plasmids pSA2100 (7.1 kilobases) and pUB110 (4.5 kilobases) were ligated to one another at their unique XbaI sites and transformed into either rec+ or recE4 strains of B. subtilis, an intramolecular recombination eve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hahn J,Dubnau D

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Eikenella corrodens expresses 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 colonies....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Villar MT,Hirschberg RL,Schaefer MR

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preincubation of the blue-green alga (cyanobacterium) Nostoc muscorum under an atmosphere of argon plus acetylene in the light led to a greater than fourfold increase of light-induced hydrogen evolution and to a 50% increase of acetylene reduction, as compared to cells that had not been preconditioned. The basic and t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scherer S,Kerfin W,Böger P

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ibeA is a virulence factor found in some extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) strains from the B2 phylogenetic group and particularly in newborn meningitic and avian pathogenic strains. It was shown to be involved in the invasion process of the newborn meningitic strain RS218. In a previous work, we sho...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fléchard M,Cortes MA,Répérant M,Germon P

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spx gene encodes an RNA polymerase-binding protein that exerts negative and positive transcriptional control in response to oxidative stress in Bacillus subtilis. It resides in the yjbC-spx operon and is transcribed from at least five promoters located in the yjbC regulatory region or in the yjbC-spx intergenic re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leelakriangsak M,Kobayashi K,Zuber P

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutational change of the initiation codon to GUA was found to reduce, but not abolish, expression of the recJ gene of Escherichia coli. Specific mutations in translational initiation factor IF3 have been isolated as second-site suppressors of this GUA initiation codon mutation. One of these, infC135, with an arginin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haggerty TJ,Lovett ST

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, the ermC gene encodes an mRNA that is unusually stable (40-min half-life) in the presence of erythromycin, an inducer of ermC gene expression. A requirement for this induced mRNA stability is a ribosome stalled in the ermC leader region. This property of ermC mRNA was used to study the decay of m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bechhofer DH,Zen KH

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzoate catabolism is thought to play a key role in aerobic bacterial degradation of biphenyl and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Benzoate catabolic genes were cloned from a PCB degrader, Rhodococcus sp. strain RHA1, by using PCR amplification and temporal temperature gradient electrophoresis separation. A nucleoti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitagawa W,Miyauchi K,Masai E,Fukuda M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene coding for sorbitol dehydrogenase (SDH) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides Si4 was located 55 nucleotides upstream of the mannitol dehydrogenase gene (mtlK) within a previously unrecognized polyol operon. This operon probably consists of all the proteins necessary for transport and metabolization of various polyols. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stein MA,Schäfer A,Giffhorn F

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particular combinations of fungal strains and transformation vectors allow for fungal rearrangement of normally integrative plasmids, resulting in the creation of linear self-replicating plasmids in Fusarium oxysporum. The rearrangement results in the addition of fungal DNA, including telomere consensus sequences, to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Powell WA,Kistler HC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA transfer stage of conjugation requires the products of the F sex factor genes traMYDIZ and the cis-acting site oriT. Previous interpretation of genetic and protein analyses suggested that traD, traI, and traZ mapped as contiguous genes at the distal end of the transfer operon and saturated this portion of the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Traxler BA,Minkley EG Jr

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The products of phospholipid turnover in Bacillus stearothermophilus were determined in cultures labeled to equilibrium and with short pulses of [32P]phosphate and [2-3H]glycerol. Label lost from the cellular lipid pool was recovered in three fractions: low-molecular-weight extracellular products, extracellular lipid,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Card GL,Finn DJ

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A highly efficient protoplast transformation system for Streptococcus faecalis has been developed by systematically optimizing different parameters. Up to 10(6) transformants per micrograms of DNA were consistently obtained within 3 days, and cell wall regeneration of protoplasts was virtually 100%. A systematic searc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wirth R,An FY,Clewell DB

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lazaroff, Norman (British Columbia Research Council, Vancouver, B.C., Canada). Sulfate requirement for iron oxidation by Thiobacillus ferrooxidans. J. Bacteriol. 85:78-83. 1963.-The growth of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans is initially inhibited in media containing ferrous chloride in place of ferrous sulfate. This inhibit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lazaroff N

更新日期：1963-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the derivation of two strains of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 which are r- m+ for all three of the known chromosomal genes for the restriction and modification of DNA, hsdLT, hsdSA, and hsdSB; the strains were designated LB5000 and LB5010. LB5000 is a smooth derivative sensitive to phage P22; LB5010 is a gal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bullas LR,Ryu JI

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：:An enzyme which liberates Pi from myo-inositol hexaphosphate (phytic acid) was shown to be present in culture filtrates of Bacillus subtilis. It was purified until it was homogeneous by ultracentrifugation, but it still showed two isozymes on polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme differed from other previousl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Powar VK,Jagannathan V

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708 is an anaerobic intestinal bacterium that has inducible bile acid 7-dehydroxylation activity. At least four new polypeptides were synthesized after addition of primary bile acids to the growth medium. One of these, of molecular weight 27,000 (P-27), was shown to be involved in the 7-de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Coleman JP,White WB,Lijewski M,Hylemon PB

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis undergoes a highly distinctive division during spore formation. It yields two unequal cells, the mother cell and the prespore, and septum formation is completed before the origin-distal 70% of the chromosome has entered the smaller prespore. The mother cell subsequently engulfs the prespore. Two diff...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bogush M,Xenopoulos P,Piggot PJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When cells of Escherichia coli THU were starved for thymine, they continued to grow without division for at least two successive volume doublings at their initial rate. Within experimental error this average rate of volume increase, 0.21 mum(3) per hr, was identical with that observed in control cultures during two ge...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kubitschek HE

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Our laboratory recently discovered that Escherichia coli cells starved for the DNA precursor dGTP are killed efficiently (dGTP starvation) in a manner similar to that described for thymineless death (TLD). Conditions for specific dGTP starvation can be achieved by depriving an E. coli optA1 gpt strain of the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Itsko M,Schaaper RM

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage and perturbations in DNA replication can induce global transcriptional responses that can help organisms repair the damage and survive. RecA is known to mediate transcriptional responses to DNA damage in several bacterial species by inactivating the repressor LexA and phage repressors. To gain insight into ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goranov AI,Kuester-Schoeck E,Wang JD,Grossman AD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In gram-negative bacteria, numerous cell functions, including respiration-linked electron transport, have been ascribed to the cytoplasmic membrane. Gram-negative bacteria which use solid substrates (e.g., oxidized manganese or iron) as terminal electron acceptors for anaerobic respiration are presented with a unique ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Myers CR,Myers JM

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 2 x 10(11) viable Pasteurella tularensis cells per ml, contained in suspensions, were killed by exposure to 10(6) r of gamma-radiation. When injected intraperitoneally into mice, the irradiated suspensions initially contained about 10 ld(50) per ml, and immunized mice against challenge with fully virulen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Landay ME,Wright GG,Pulliam JD,Finegold MJ

更新日期：1968-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyphosphate of average chain length corresponding to 10 phosphate units was detected in the mycelial extract of zygomycetes. Gel electrophoresis techniques commonly used for the separation and characterization of acidic mucopolysaccharides were successfully used for the detection, purification, and characterization ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dietrich SM

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Helicobacter pylori must be able to rapidly respond to fluctuating conditions within the stomach. Despite this need for constant adaptation, H. pylori encodes few regulatory proteins. Of the identified regulators, the ferric uptake regulator (Fur), the nickel response regulator (NikR), and the two-component ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Servetas SL,Carpenter BM,Haley KP,Gilbreath JJ,Gaddy JA,Merrell DS

更新日期：2016-08-25 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：:A thermosensitive sporulation mutant of Bacillus subtilis containing a mutation in the secY gene was isolated and characterized. No asymmetric septum specific to the sporulation was detected by electron microscopy at the nonpermissive temperature, indicating that the block occurred at a very early stage of sporulation...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoshikawa H,Jeong SM,Hirata A,Kawamura F,Doi RH,Takahashi H

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00