Sulfur amino acid metabolism and its control in Lactococcus lactis IL1403.

abstract：:Bacteriocins are ribosomally synthesized proteinaceous antibacterial peptides. They selectively interfere with the growth of other bacteria. The production and secretion of bacteriocins confer a distinct ecological advantage to the producer in competing against other bacteria that are present in the same ecological ni...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dufour D,Barbour A,Chan Y,Cheng M,Rahman T,Thorburn M,Stewart C,Finer Y,Gong SG,Lévesque CM

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain carbohydrates (rhamnose, 3-O-methyl rhamnose, and galactosamine) have been demonstrated to be present in Bacillus anthracis spores but absent in vegetative cells. Others have demonstrated that these spore-specific sugars are constituents of the glycoprotein BclA. In the current work, spore extracts were separa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Waller LN,Stump MJ,Fox KF,Harley WM,Fox A,Stewart GC,Shahgholi M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydophila pneumoniae is a gram-negative obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that causes pneumonia and bronchitis and may contribute to atherosclerosis. The developmental cycle of C. pneumoniae includes a morphological transition from an infectious extracellular elementary body (EB) to a noninfectious intrace...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson DL,Stone CB,Mahony JB

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The structural gene coding for the delta 5-3-ketosteroid isomerase (KSI) of Pseudomonas putida biotype B has been cloned, and its entire nucleotide sequence has been determined by a dideoxynucleotide chain termination method. A 2.1-kb DNA fragment containing the ksi gene was cloned from a P. putida biotype B genomic l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim SW,Kim CY,Benisek WF,Choi KY

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli gene cluster encoding enzymatic activities responsible for the synthesis and activation of 2,3-dihydroxybenzoic acid in the formation of the catechol siderophore enterobactin was localized to a 4.2-kilobase chromosomal DNA fragment. Analysis of various subclones and transposon insertion mutations ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nahlik MS,Fleming TP,McIntosh MA

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methionine sulfoxide reductase (Msr) catalyzes the thioredoxin-dependent reduction and repair of methionine sulfoxide (MetO). Although Msr genes are not present in most hyperthermophile genomes, an Msr homolog encoding an MsrA-MsrB fusion protein (MsrAB(Tk)) was present on the genome of the hyperthermophilic archaeon ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fukushima E,Shinka Y,Fukui T,Atomi H,Imanaka T

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ruminococcin A (RumA) is a trypsin-dependent lantibiotic produced by Ruminococcus gnavus E1, a gram-positive strict anaerobic strain isolated from a human intestinal microbiota. A 12.8-kb region from R. gnavus E1 chromosome, containing the biosynthetic gene cluster of RumA, has been cloned and sequenced. It consisted ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gomez A,Ladiré M,Marcille F,Fons M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Manohar, M. (University of Minnesota, St. Paul), S. Kumar, and R. K. Lindorfer. Heat reactivation of the alpha-hemolytic, dermonecrotic, and lethal activities of crude and purified staphylococcal alpha-toxin. J. Bacteriol. 91:1681-1685. 1966.-Crude staphylococcal toxin loses its alpha-hemolytic activity more rapidly a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manohar M,Kumar S,Lindorfer RK

更新日期：1966-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the spoIIIA and spoIIIJ loci disrupt the compartmentalization of gene expression during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis. The breakdown in compartmentalization is not the cause of their being blocked in spore formation. Rather, it appears to be a consequence of the engulfed prespore's being unstable. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li Z,Di Donato F,Piggot PJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria within the Mycobacterium avium complex are prominent in the environment and are a source of serious disseminated infections in patients with AIDS. Serovars of the M. avium complex are distinguished from all other mycobacteria and from one another by the presence of highly antigenic glycolipids, the glycopepti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belisle JT,Pascopella L,Inamine JM,Brennan PJ,Jacobs WR Jr

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli prefers growth in neutral pH environments but can withstand extremely acidic conditions (pH 2) for long periods. Of the four E. coli systems that contribute to acid resistance, one, the glutamate-dependent system, is remarkable in its efficacy and regulatory complexity. The resistance mechanism involv...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma Z,Masuda N,Foster JW

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penultimate step in the biosynthesis of riboflavin (vitamin B2) involves the condensation of 3,4-dihydroxy-2-butanone 4-phosphate with 5-amino-6-ribitylamino-2,4(1H,3H)-pyrimidinedione, which is catalyzed by 6,7-dimethyl-8-ribityllumazine synthase (lumazine synthase). Pathogenic Brucella species adapted to an intr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zylberman V,Klinke S,Haase I,Bacher A,Fischer M,Goldbaum FA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gellan gum is a widely used commercial material, available in many different forms. Its economic importance has led to studies into the biosynthesis of exopolysaccharide gellan gum, which is industrially prepared in high yields using Sphingomonas elodea ATCC 31461. Glucose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase mediates the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aragão D,Fialho AM,Marques AR,Mitchell EP,Sá-Correia I,Frazão C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants that require exogenous D-glucosamine for growth were isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae X2180-1A after ethyl methane sulfonate mutagenesis. Class A auxotrophs fail to grow on yeast extract-peptone-dextrose and minimal media, whereas class B auxotrophs grow on minimal medium and readily revert to grow on ye...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Whelan WL,Ballou CE

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemically defined medium (MI(c)) is described in which cells of Haemophilus influenzae Rd grow rapidly (generation time, 35 +/- 5 min) and reach a stationary level of 10(10) cells/ml. Our strain of cells grown in this medium developed high levels of competence when transferred to another medium designed for that pu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herriott RM,Meyer EY,Vogt M,Modan M

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A compound, isolated from the culture fluid of a nadC auxotroph of Escherichia coli grown in a minimal medium, supports the growth of both a nadA and a nadB mutant. This metabolite exhibits an ultraviolet light absorption spectrum and a mass spectrum, different from quinolinic acid. This compound may be the precursor ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen JL,Tritz GJ

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tprK gene of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the causative agent of venereal syphilis, belongs to a 12-member gene family and encodes a protein with a predicted cleavable signal sequence and predicted transmembrane domains. Except for the Nichols type strain, all rabbit-propagated isolates of T. pallidum exami...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LaFond RE,Centurion-Lara A,Godornes C,Rompalo AM,Van Voorhis WC,Lukehart SA

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present experimental evidence for the existence of multiple activator-binding sites in the upstream sequence of the ompC promoter, the expression of which is activated by the positive regulator OmpR in response to the osmolarity of the medium. We also found that a single OmpR-binding site can activate the ompC prom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maeda S,Mizuno T

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coliphage TuIa, which uses the OmpF protein as a receptor, can adapt by mutation to using instead the OmpC or LamB protein, or both. Most of the phage mutants retained the ability to use the OmpF protein, when present, but one class of mutants lost this ability and could only use the OmpC protein. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moreno F,Wandersman C

更新日期：1980-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Selection for chlorate resistance yields mol (formerly chl) mutants with defects in molybdenum cofactor synthesis. Complementation and genetic mapping analyses indicated that the Klebsiella pneumoniae mol genes are functionally homologous to those of Escherichia coli and occupy analogous genetic map positions. Hypoxan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garzón A,Li J,Flores A,Casadesus J,Stewart V

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zierdt, C. H. (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.), and P. J. Schmidt. Dissociation in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. J. Bacteriol. 87:1003-1010. 1964.-Evidence is presented that dissociation of Pseudomonas aeruginosa occurs in vivo as well as in vitro, although it is suppressed in the blood stream. Of 116 primary ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zierdt CH,Schmidt PJ

更新日期：1964-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic transformation mutant Rd(DB117)rec- has a pleiotropic phenotype that includes reduced levels of phage recombination. Physical mapping experiments showed that this strain has a 78.5-kbp insertion in the rec-2 gene. The rec-2 dependence of phage recombination was reexamined to determine whether the defective...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kupfer DM,McCarthy D

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfosporosinus species are sulfate-reducing bacteria belonging to the Firmicutes. Their genomes will give insights into the genetic repertoire and evolution of sulfate reducers typically thriving in terrestrial environments and able to degrade toluene (Desulfosporosinus youngiae), to reduce Fe(III) (Desulfosporosin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pester M,Brambilla E,Alazard D,Rattei T,Weinmaier T,Han J,Lucas S,Lapidus A,Cheng JF,Goodwin L,Pitluck S,Peters L,Ovchinnikova G,Teshima H,Detter JC,Han CS,Tapia R,Land ML,Hauser L,Kyrpides NC,Ivanova NN,Pagani

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The methanol-insoluble, heat-stable enterotoxin of Escherichia coli synthesized by clinical strains or strains that harbor the cloned gene was shown to be an extracellular polypeptide. The toxin (STB) was first detected as an 8,100-Mr precursor (pre-STB) that was converted to a transiently cell-associated 5,200-Mr for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kupersztoch YM,Tachias K,Moomaw CR,Dreyfus LA,Urban R,Slaughter C,Whipp S

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the lysine decarboxylase gene (cadA) of Escherichia coli is induced upon external acidification. To dissect the molecular mechanisms responsible for this regulation, we analyzed a 4.2-kbp region upstream from cadA. DNA sequencing revealed two long open reading frames upstream of and on the same strand as...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watson N,Dunyak DS,Rosey EL,Slonczewski JL,Olson ER

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proline dehydrogenase (PutA) is a bifunctional enzyme that catalyzes the oxidation of proline to glutamate. In Sinorhizobium meliloti, as in other microorganisms, the putA gene is transcriptionally activated in response to proline. In Rhodobacter capsulatus, Agrobacterium, and most probably in Bradyrhizobium, this act...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Soto MJ,Jiménez-Zurdo JI,van Dillewijn P,Toro N

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodococcus sp. strain DK17 is capable of utilizing various derivatives of benzene and bicyclics containing both aromatic and alicyclic moieties as sole carbon and energy sources. Here, we present the 9,107,362-bp draft genome sequence of DK17 and its genomic analysis in comparison with other members of the genus Rhod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoo M,Kim D,Choi KY,Chae JC,Zylstra GJ,Kim E

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 20 clinical isolates of Haemophilus parainfluenzae, 13 produced a mannose-resistant hemagglutinin that agglutinated erythrocytes from chickens, horses, rabbits, and sheep. Examination with the electron microscope showed that only strain HR-885 was pilate. Grown in static liquid culture, the 12 hemagglutinating, non...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kahn ME,Gromkova R

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Green fluorescent protein (GFP) fusions, immunofluorescence microscopy, and cryo-electron tomography revealed that the chemoreceptors of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi form long, thin arrays near both cell poles. These arrays are in close proximity to the flagellar motors. This information provides a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xu H,Raddi G,Liu J,Charon NW,Li C

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The restriction systems McrA and McrB of Escherichia coli K-12 are known to attack DNA containing modified cytosine. In strains lacking both activities, however, we observed that DNA methylated at CG dinucleotides (as is mammalian DNA) was still significantly restricted. We show that this substantial barrier to the ac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kelleher JE,Raleigh EA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00