Transcriptional analysis of the principal cell division gene, ftsZ, of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

abstract：:The minimum sequence of the enzymatic (A) subunit of Shiga toxin (STX) required for activity was investigated by introducing N-terminal and C-terminal deletions in the molecule. Enzymatic activity was assessed by using an in vitro translation system. A 253-amino-acid STX A polypeptide, which is recognized as the enzym...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haddad JE,al-Jaufy AY,Jackson MP

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suf operon is composed of four genes (sufB, sufC, sufD, and sufS) and is highly conserved in the genomes of cyanobacteria. Open reading frame sll0088 in Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 is located near the 5' end of the suf operon but is transcribed in the direction opposite that of the suf operon. We previously ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang T,Shen G,Balasubramanian R,McIntosh L,Bryant DA,Golbeck JH

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), pulse labeled after ultraviolet irradiation of excision-defective mutants of Haemophilus influenzae, is of lower single strand molecular weight than that of unirradiated cells but approaches the size of DNA from unirradiated cells upon further incubation in growth medium. This gap-filling ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Small GD

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the pPT23A plasmid family of Pseudomonas syringae play an important role in the interaction of this bacterial pathogen with host plants. Complete sequence analysis of several pPT23A family plasmids (PFPs) has provided a glimpse of the gene content and virulence function of these plasmids. We constructed a m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao Y,Ma Z,Sundin GW

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comamonas testosteroni T-2 uses a standard, if seldom examined, attack on an aromatic compound and oxygenates the side chain of p-toluenesulfonate (TS) (or p-toluenecarboxylate) to p-sulfobenzoate (or terephthalate) prior to complete oxidation. The expression of the first three catabolic enzymes in the pathway, the TS...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Junker F,Kiewitz R,Cook AM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three wild strains of bovine septicemic Escherichia coli were selected on the basis of their production of a toxin lethal for mice and chickens and their characteristic surface antigen. The transfer of these virulence (Vir) properties from two of the three to recipient E. coli was detected after mating. One Vir plasmi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lopez-Alvarez J,Gyles CL,Shipley PL,Falkow S

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The delta subunit of RNA polymerase, RpoE, is widespread in low-G+C Gram-positive bacteria and is thought to play a role in enhancing transcriptional specificity by blocking RNA polymerase binding at weak promoter sites and stimulating RNA synthesis by accelerating core enzyme recycling. Despite the well-studied bioch...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xue X,Tomasch J,Sztajer H,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cellular fatty acid composition of Mycobacterium vaccae JOB5 and Mycobacterium convolutum R22 was examined after growth on n-alkanes and compared with the fatty acids of the organisms after growth on 1-chlorohexadecane and 1-chlorooctadecane. Growth on n-alkanes resulted in normal fatty acid profiles. Mass spectra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Murphy GL,Perry JJ

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial flagellum is a biological nanomachine that rotates to allow bacteria to swim. For flagellar rotation, torque is generated by interactions between a rotor and a stator. The stator, which is composed of MotA and MotB subunit proteins in the membrane, is thought to bind to the peptidoglycan (PG) layer, whic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhu S,Nishikino T,Takekawa N,Terashima H,Kojima S,Imada K,Homma M,Liu J

更新日期：2020-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoanemonin is a toxic metabolite which may be formed during the degradation of some chloroaromatic compounds, such as polychlorinated biphenyls, by natural microbial consortia. We show here that protoanemonin can be transformed by dienelactone hydrolase of Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 to cis-acetylacrylate. Although ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brückmann M,Blasco R,Timmis KN,Pieper DH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:l-Lysine caused repression of diaminopimelate decarboxylase synthesis in Bacillus cereus when grown in either a minimal defined medium (CDGS medium) or a complex defined medium (a modified lysine assay medium). When cells were grown in either of the two media, variations in the specific activity of the enzyme as a fun...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grandgenett DP,Stahly DP

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated sheaths of Leptothrix discophora SP-6 (ATCC 51168) were tested for susceptibility to degradation by a variety of chemical denaturants and lytic enzymes and found to be resistant to many reagents and enzyme treatments. However, disulfide bond-reducing agents such as dithiothreitol (DTT), beta-mercaptoethanol, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Emerson D,Ghiorse WC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When allyl alcohol was used as a suicide substrate, spontaneous mutants and UV light- and nitrous acid-generated mutants of Methylobacterium organophilum XX were selected which grew on methylamine but not on methanol. There was no detectable methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) activity in crude extracts of these mutants, yet...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Machlin SM,Tam PE,Bastien CA,Hanson RS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified a gene encoding a putative membrane protein homologous to the major facilitator superfamily, mapping upstream of the lacS gene in Sulfolobus solfataricus. Permeases from this family mediate secondary transport and are widely distributed among eubacteria and eukaryotes; the finding of an archaeal mem...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prisco A,Moracci M,Rossi M,Ciaramella M

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation by two transcriptional activators of flagellar expression (FlhD and FlhC) and the chemotaxis methyl-accepting protein Aer was studied with glass slide DNA microarrays. An flhD::Kan insertion and an aer deletion were independently introduced into two Escherichia coli K-12 strains, and the effects upon ge...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prüss BM,Campbell JW,Van Dyk TK,Zhu C,Kogan Y,Matsumura P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena (Nostoc) sp. strain PCC 7120 produces specialized cells for nitrogen fixation called heterocysts. Previous work showed that the group 2 sigma factor sigE (alr4249; previously called sigF) is upregulated in differentiating heterocysts 16 h after nitrogen step-down. We now show th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mella-Herrera RA,Neunuebel MR,Kumar K,Saha SK,Golden JW

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exoelectrogens are able to transfer electrons extracellularly, enabling them to respire on insoluble terminal electron acceptors. Extensively studied exoelectrogens, such as Geobacter sulfurreducens and Shewanella oneidensis, are Gram negative. More recently, it has been reported that Gram-positive bacteria, such as L...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jeuken LJC,Hards K,Nakatani Y

更新日期：2020-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The Czc system of Alcaligenes eutrophus mediates resistance to cobalt, zinc, and cadmium through ion efflux catalyzed by the CzcCB2A cation-proton antiporter. DNA sequencing of the region upstream of the czcNICBADRS determinant located on megaplasmid pMOL30 revealed the 5' end of czcN and a gene for a MgtC-like protei...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grosse C,Grass G,Anton A,Franke S,Santos AN,Lawley B,Brown NL,Nies DH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase, which reductively liberates nitrite from nitrate esters, is related to old yellow enzyme. Pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase follows a ping-pong mechanism with competitive substrate inhibition by NADPH, is strongly inhibited by steroids, and is capable of reducing the unsatu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： French CE,Nicklin S,Bruce NC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase-contrast and serial-section electron microscopy were used to study the patterns of localized plasmolysis that occur when cells of Salmonella typhimurium and Escherichia coli are exposed to hypertonic solutions of sucrose. In dividing cells the nascent septum was flanked by localized regions of periseptal plasmol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cook WR,MacAlister TJ,Rothfield LI

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the considerable knowledge of bacterial high-molecular-weight (HMW) polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) metabolism, the key enzyme(s) and its pleiotropic and epistatic behavior(s) responsible for low-molecular-weight (LMW) PAHs in HMW PAH-metabolic networks remain poorly understood. In this study, a phenotyp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kweon O,Kim SJ,Kim DW,Kim JM,Kim HL,Ahn Y,Sutherland JB,Cerniglia CE

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Bacillus subtilis trpEDCFBA operon has been shown to be regulated by transcription attenuation in response to the availability of L-tryptophan. Regulation is mediated by the tryptophan-activated trp RNA-binding attenuation protein, TRAP, the product of mtrB. Formation of mutually exclusive RNA anti-t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Merino E,Babitzke P,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amplification of the mraY gene, previously called open reading frame Y (ORF-Y, 1,080 bp), at 2 min in the chromosome map of Escherichia coli enhanced the activity of UDP-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide: undecaprenyl-phosphate phospho-N-acetylmuramoyl-pentapeptide transferase (EC 2.7.8.13). This enzyme catalyzes the form...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ikeda M,Wachi M,Jung HK,Ishino F,Matsuhashi M

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of heat shock on Myxococcus xanthus was investigated during both glycerol- and starvation-induced development. Cells heat shocked at 40 degrees C for 1 h prior to a development-inducing signal displayed an accelerated rate of myxospore formation at 30 degrees C. Additionally, M. xanthus cells heat shocked p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Killeen KP,Nelson DR

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manganese is accumulated in Bacillus subtilis by a highly specific active transport system. This trace element "pump" is insensitive to added magnesium or calcium and preferentially accumulates manganese in the presence of cobalt, iron, and copper. Manganese uptake in B. subtilis is inhibited by cyanide, azide, pentac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eisenstadt E,Fisher S,Der CL,Silver S

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the archaeal trkA gene homolog in Methanosarcina mazei S-6 was studied at the optimal growth temperature of 37 degrees C and after heat shock at 45 degrees C. Northern (RNA) blotting results (transcript size) and data from primer extension experiments to map the transcription initiation site indicate ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Conway de Macario E,Macario AJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microtubular and lamellate membrane structures were observed at the log phase of growth in the stable L-forms of Escherichia coli cultured in the absence of penicillin. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eda T,Kanda Y,Kimura S

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large-scale fractionation scheme purified the major molybdenum(Mo)-binding protein (Mop) from crude extracts of Clostridium pasteurianum, with a 10 and 0.2% yield of Mo and protein, respectively. The apparent molecular weight of the purified molybdoprotein is 5,700, as determined by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacryla...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hinton SM,Merritt B

更新日期：1986-11-01 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：:The nucleotide sequences of a 3,479-base-pair HindIII DNA fragment from Bacillus sphaericus 2362 and a 2,940-base-pair fragment from strain 2297 were determined; only minor differences were detected between them. Each contained two open reading frames coding for proteins of 51.4 and 41.9 kilodaltons. Both proteins wer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baumann L,Broadwell AH,Baumann P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00