Analysis of the hypervariable region of the Salmonella enterica genome associated with tRNA(leuX).

abstract：:L-Glutamate decarboxylase (GAD) activity of Clostridium perfringens (ATCC 8009) cells grown in various culture conditions was investigated. Remarkable variations of GAD level occur during the growth cycle in thioglycollate broth. These changes are affected by the pH of the culture medium. Addition of alkali to the cul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cozzani I,Barsacchi R,Dibenedetto G,Saracchi L,Falcone G

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although competence normally develops only in glucose-minimal salts media, mecA and mecB mutations permit the expression of competence and of late competence genes in complex media as well (D. Dubnau and M. Roggiani, J. Bacteriol. 172:4048-4055, 1990). The expression of late competence genes is dependent on the produc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roggiani M,Hahn J,Dubnau D

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae is a motile bacterium responsible for the disease cholera, and motility has been hypothesized to be inversely regulated with virulence. We examined the transcription profiles of V. cholerae strains containing mutations in flagellar regulatory genes (rpoN, flrA, flrC, and fliA) by utilizing whole-genome...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Syed KA,Beyhan S,Correa N,Queen J,Liu J,Peng F,Satchell KJ,Yildiz F,Klose KE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli ssrA encodes a small stable RNA molecule, tmRNA, that has many diverse functions, including tagging abnormal proteins for degradation, supporting phage growth, and modulating the activity of DNA binding proteins. Here we show that ssrA plays a role in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium pathogenes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Julio SM,Heithoff DM,Mahan MJ

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reticulate bodies of the meningopneumonitis (MP) microorganism were purified from L cells 18 hr after infection by the combination of differential centrifugation in 30% sucrose solution and potassium tartrate density gradient centrifugation. It was ascertained by electron microscopy that purified preparations of retic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tamura A,Matsumoto A,Higashi N

更新日期：1967-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon exposure to alkylating agents, Escherichia coli increases expression of aidB along with three genes (ada, alkA, and alkB) that encode DNA repair proteins. While the biological roles of the Ada, AlkA, and AlkB proteins have been defined, despite many efforts, the molecular functions of AidB remain largely unknown....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rippa V,Amoresano A,Esposito C,Landini P,Volkert M,Duilio A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized three distinct families of repeated sequences in the genome of the cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. strain PCC 7601. These repeated sequences were present at a level of about 100 copies per Calothrix genome and consisted of tandemly amplified heptanucleotides. These elements were named short tandemly repe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mazel D,Houmard J,Castets AM,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Pseudomonas putida NP, Pseudomonas species (NCIB 9816), and a Nocardia species, after growth on naphthalene as sole source of carbon and energy, contain a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+)-dependent enzyme that oxidizes cis-dihydrodiols of mono- and polycyclic aromatic compounds. Similarly, cells of a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Patel TR,Gibson DT

更新日期：1976-12-01 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：:The location and extent of the homology between plasmids ColE1 and p15A were determined by analysis of heteroduplexes formed between them as well as with a related plasmid, pBR322, and by hybridization of radioactive deoxyribonucleic acids to restriction fragments of p15A and ColE1. The homology between the plasmids c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bird RE

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia chrysanthemi 3937 secretes several pectinolytic enzymes, among which eight isoenzymes of pectate lyases with an endo-cleaving mode (PelA, PelB, PelC, PelD, PelE, PelI, PelL, and PelZ) have been identified. Two exo-cleaving enzymes, the exopolygalacturonate lyase, PelX, and an exo-poly-alpha-D-galacturonosidase...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shevchik VE,Kester HC,Benen JA,Visser J,Robert-Baudouy J,Hugouvieux-Cotte-Pattat N

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transcriptional control of the kdpFABC (K+ transport) operon of Salmonella typhimurium was characterized with a lacZ fusion. The kdpFABC operon of this organism was induced by K+ limitation and high osmolality, and osmotic induction was antagonized by a high concentration of K+. In the trkA (sapG) kdp+ mutant back...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Frymier JS,Reed TD,Fletcher SA,Csonka LN

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phosphatase specific for the hydrolysis of 3-deoxy-d-manno-octulosonate (KDO)-8-phosphate was purified approximately 400-fold from crude extracts of Escherichia coli B. The hydrolysis of KDO-8-phosphate to KDO and inorganic phosphate in crude extracts of E. coli B, grown in phosphate-containing minimal medium, could...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray PH,Benedict CD

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer program has been designed to study behavior in populations of Spirochaeta aurantia cells, and this program has been used to analyze changes in behavior in response to chemoattractants. Three kinds of behavior were distinguished: smooth swimming, flexing, and reversals in direction of swimming after a short ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fosnaugh K,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulon of the sigma factor RpoS was defined in Geobacter sulfurreducens by using a combination of DNA microarray expression profiles and proteomics. An rpoS mutant was examined under steady-state conditions with acetate as an electron donor and fumarate as an electron acceptor and with additional transcriptional ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Núñez C,Esteve-Núñez A,Giometti C,Tollaksen S,Khare T,Lin W,Lovley DR,Methé BA

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that narL+ is required for nitrate induction of nitrate reductase synthesis and for nitrate inhibition of fumarate reductase synthesis in Escherichia coli. We cloned narL on a 5.1-kilobase HindIII fragment. Our clone also contained a previously unidentified gene, which we propose to designa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stewart V,Parales J Jr

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of mutations of the P1 plasmid prophage that lead to increased copy number was isolated and analyzed. The copy number of the mutants was elevated at least five- to eightfold relative to wild-type P1, as determined by single-cell resistance to antibiotics, activity of enzymes, content of superhelical DNA, and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scott JR,Kropf MM,Padolsky L,Goodspeed JK,Davis R,Vapnek D

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase variation is important in bacterial pathogenesis, since it generates antigenic variation for the evasion of immune responses and provides a strategy for quick adaptation to environmental changes. In this study, a Helicobacter pylori clone, designated MOD525, was identified that displayed phase-variable lacZ expr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Vries N,Duinsbergen D,Kuipers EJ,Pot RG,Wiesenekker P,Penn CW,van Vliet AH,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Kusters JG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The radB101 and recN262 mutations showed essentially identical phenotypes when compared in isogenic Escherichia coli strains for their effects on gamma and UV radiation survival and on conjugal recombination in a uvrA recB recC sbcB sbcC strain. Complementation tests involving attempts to reconstitute a radB+ recN+ st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sargentini NJ,Smith KC

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chromosomal insertion of transposon Tn917 partially restores the expression of protease and alpha-toxin activities to PM466, a genetically defined agr-null derivative of the wild-type Staphylococcus aureus strain RN6390. In co-transduction experiments, transposon-encoded erythromycin resistance and a protease- and a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McNamara PJ,Milligan-Monroe KC,Khalili S,Proctor RA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pBL2 was identified genetically but not physically in Streptomyces lividans after its mating with S. bambergiensis. During conjugation, pBL2 was transferred at high frequency to S. lividans and S. coelicolor. pBL2.1 DNA isolated from S. coelicolor exconjugants as a circular plasmid was shown to derive from the genome ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zotchev SB,Schrempf H,Hutchinson CR

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dinitrogenase reductase-activating glycohydrolase (DRAG), involved in the regulation of nitrogenase activity in Rhodospirillum rubrum, is associated with chromatophore membranes in cell extracts. We show that DRAG can be specifically released by treatment with MgGDP; other nucleotides studied had no effect. The DRAG a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Norén A,Nordlund S

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the agp gene, which encodes a periplasmic glucose-1-phosphatase, was determined. The deduced amino acid sequence corresponds to a 413-amino-acid-residue polypeptide with a typical hydrophobic signal sequence of 22 amino acids. The mature protein lacks the N-terminal signal peptide and has a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pradel E,Marck C,Boquet PL

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replicating DNA molecules of the nonconjugative R plasmid RSF1010 (Smr Sur) were cleaved with the EcoRI restriction endonuclease and examined with the electron microscope. Results of this analysis indicated that replication is initiated from an origin located at about 19% of total genome size from one of the EcoRI end...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Graaff J,Crosa JH,Heffron F,Falkow S

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the regulation of a transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) biosynthetic enzyme, the tRNA(m5U)methyltransferase (EC 2.1.1.35). This enzyme catalyzes the formation of 5-methyluridine (m5U, ribothymidine) in all tRNA chains of Escherichia coli. Partial deprivation of charged tRNAVal can be imposed by shift...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ny T,Björk GR

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All Escherichia coli strains so far examined possess a chromosomally encoded nanATEK-yhcH operon for the catabolism of sialic acids. These unique nine-carbon sugars are synthesized primarily by higher eukaryotes and can be used as carbon, nitrogen, and energy sources by a variety of microbial pathogens or commensals. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kalivoda KA,Steenbergen SM,Vimr ER,Plumbridge J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The crystal structure of the Na(+)-coupled melibiose permease of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (MelBSt) demonstrates that MelB is a member of the major facilitator superfamily of transporters. Arg residues at positions 295, 141, and 363 are involved in interdomain interactions at the cytoplasmic side by gove...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Amin A,Ethayathulla AS,Guan L

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which iron uptake is facilitated by the siderophore rhodotorulic acid (RA) in the yeast Rhodotorula pilimanae was investigated with radioactively labeled Fe and RA and kinetically inert, chromic-substituted RA complexes. The weight of the evidence supports a model in which RA mediates iron transport t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Carrano CJ,Raymond KN

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium breve is an actinobacterium frequently isolated from colonic microbiota of breastfeeding babies. Here, we report the complete and annotated genome sequence of a B. breve strain isolated from human milk, B. breve CECT 7263. The genome sequence will provide new insights into the biology of this potential...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jiménez E,Villar-Tajadura MA,Marín M,Fontecha J,Requena T,Arroyo R,Fernández L,Rodríguez JM

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pili are functionally expressed during the predivisional and swarmer stages of the Caulobacter crescentus differentiation cycle. They appear on the developing swarmer pole and at the same cellular location as flagella and the phiCbK receptor sites. Pili disappear when the swarmer cell differentiates into a stalked cel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lagenaur C,Agabian N

更新日期：1977-07-01 00:00:00