Lambda transducing bacteriophage carrying deletions of the argCBH-rpoBC region of the Escherichia coli chromosome.

abstract：:Temperate bacteriophages effect chromosomal evolution of their bacterial hosts, mediating rearrangements and the acquisition of novel genes from other taxa. Although the Haemophilus influenzae genome shows evidence of past phage-mediated lateral transfer, the phages presumed responsible have not been identified. To da...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Williams BJ,Golomb M,Phillips T,Brownlee J,Olson MV,Smith AL

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli suffered 95 to 100% lethality when exposed to 1.0 mM paraquat for 30 min at 37 degrees C in aerobic nutrient broth medium but did not lose viability when the exposure was done in Vogel Bonner or tryptic soy yeast extract medium. Paraquat was, however, bacteriostatic in all of these media. Salts, added...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitzler J,Fridovich I

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium japonicum, capable of binding high-molecular-weight donor (32)P-labeled deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) during late log phase in a competence medium, was transformed for streptomycin resistance with a frequency of transformation ranging between 0.02 and 0.08%. Eight to 10% of the homologous native (32)P-labeled ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Raina JL,Modi VV

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a model facultative intracellular pathogen. Tight regulation of virulence proteins is essential for a successful infection, and the gene encoding the annotated thioredoxin YjbH was identified in two forward genetic screens as required for virulence factor production. Accordingly, an L. monocy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ruhland BR,Reniere ML

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA-binding assays using mobility shift polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis revealed the presence of a protein that specifically bound to a restriction fragment -288 to -191 bp upstream from the transcriptional start point of strR, a regulatory gene for streptomycin biosynthesis in Streptomyces griseus. The binding sit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vujaklija D,Horinouchi S,Beppu T

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T4 gene 2 mutants have a pleiotropic phenotype: degradation of injected phage DNA by exonuclease V (ExoV) in the recBCD(+) host cell cytoplasm and a low burst size due, at least in part, to a decreased ability for head-to-tail (H-T) joining. The more N terminal the mutation, the more pronounced is the H-T joining defe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang GR,Vianelli A,Goldberg EB

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polar pili of Pseudomonas aeruginosa are composed of subunits encoded by the pilA gene. Expression of pilA requires the alternative sigma factor RpoN and a pair of regulatory elements, PilS and PilR. These two proteins are members of the two-component regulatory family, in which PilS is the sensory component and P...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boyd JM,Lory S

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs), also known as conjugative transposons, are mobile genetic elements that can transfer from one bacterial cell to another by conjugation. ICEBs1 is integrated into the trnS-leu2 gene of Bacillus subtilis and is regulated by the SOS response and the RapI-PhrI cell-cell peptide...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee CA,Grossman AD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three bacteriophages were tested for ability to transduce the plasmid of pPL10 between W mutant derivatives of Bacillus pumilus NRS 576. Phage PBP1- and PMB1-generated plasmid transductants occurred at about 10% the frequency of transductants for a chromosome marker. Phage PBS1-generated plasmid transductants occurred...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bramucci MG,Lovett PS

更新日期：1976-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been shown previously that Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron, a human colonic anaerobe, can utilize the tissue mucopolysaccharide chondroitin sulfate as a source of carbon and energy and that the enzymes involved in this utilization are all cell associated (A. A. Salyers and M. B. O'Brien, J. Bacteriol. 143:772-780,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuritza AP,Salyers AA

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli adhesin involved in diffuse adherence (AIDA-I) is one of the few glycosylated proteins found in Escherichia coli. Glycosylation is mediated by a specific heptosyltransferase encoded by the aah gene, but little is known about the role of this modification and the mechanism involved. In this study, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Charbonneau ME,Girard V,Nikolakakis A,Campos M,Berthiaume F,Dumas F,Lépine F,Mourez M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified three new Haemophilus influenzae mutations causing cells to exhibit extreme hypercompetence at all stages of growth. The mutations are in murE, which encodes the meso-diaminopimelate-adding enzyme of peptidoglycan synthesis. All are point mutations causing nonconservative amino acid substitutions, t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma C,Redfield RJ

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the bacterium Escherichia coli, oxidized pyrimidines are removed by two DNA glycosylases, endonuclease III and endonuclease VIII (endo VIII), encoded by the nth and nei genes, respectively. Double mutants lacking both of these activities exhibit a high spontaneous mutation frequency, and here we show that all of th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blaisdell JO,Hatahet Z,Wallace SS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type VI secretion systems (T6SS) are bacteriophage-derived macromolecular machines responsible for the release of at least two proteins in the milieu, which are thought to form an extracellular appendage. Although several T6SS have been shown to be involved in the virulence of animal and plant pathogens, clusters enco...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernard CS,Brunet YR,Gavioli M,Lloubès R,Cascales E

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ToxR protein of Vibrio cholerae regulates the expression of several virulence factors that play important roles in the pathogenesis of cholera. Previous experiments with ToxR-alkaline phosphatase (ToxR-PhoA) fusion proteins suggested a model for gene regulation in which the inactive form of ToxR was a monomer and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ottemann KM,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylella fastidiosa is a xylem-limited nonflagellated bacterium that causes economically important diseases of plants by developing biofilms that block xylem sap flow. How the bacterium is translocated downward in the host plant's vascular system against the direction of the transpiration stream has long been a puzzlin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Meng Y,Li Y,Galvani CD,Hao G,Turner JN,Burr TJ,Hoch HC

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Calcium carbonate precipitation, a widespread phenomenon among bacteria, has been investigated due to its wide range of scientific and technological implications. Nevertheless, little is known of the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria foster calcium carbonate mineralization. In our laboratory, we are studying calc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barabesi C,Galizzi A,Mastromei G,Rossi M,Tamburini E,Perito B

更新日期：2007-01-01 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：:Histidine decarboxylases from Klebsiella planticola and Enterobacter aerogenes were purified to homogeneity and compared with the histidine decarboxylase from Morganella morganii. All three enzymes required pyridoxal 5'-phosphate as a coenzyme, showed optimal activity at pH 6.5, decarboxylated only histidine among the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guirard BM,Snell EE

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Harvey, R. J. (University of California, Davis) and E. B. Collins. Citrate transport system of Streptococcus diacetilactis. J. Bacteriol. 83:1005-1009. 1962.-The uptake of citrate by Streptococcus diacetilactis is mediated by a transport system that was distinguished from passive diffusion by inducibility and kinetics...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HARVEY RJ,COLLINS EB

更新日期：1962-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anabaenopeptins (AP) are bioactive cyclic hexapeptides synthesized nonribosomally in cyanobacteria. APs are characterized by several conserved motifs, including the ureido bond, N-methylation in position 5, and d-Lys in position 2. All other positions of the AP molecule are variable, resulting in numerous structural v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Christiansen G,Philmus B,Hemscheidt T,Kurmayer R

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：:The ethanol oxidase respiratory chain of Gluconobacter suboxydan was characterized by using G. suboxydans subsp. alpha, a variant species of G. suboxydans incapable of oxidizing ethanol. The membranes of G. suboxydans subsp. alpha exhibited neither alcohol dehydrogenase, ethanol oxidase, nor glucose-ferricyanide oxido...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsushita K,Nagatani Y,Shinagawa E,Adachi O,Ameyama M

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular fibrils are involved in cell cohesion and cell development in Myxococcus xanthus. One group of social motility mutants, Dsp, is unable to produce extracellular fibrils; these mutants also lose the abilities to cohere and to develop. Extracellular fibrils isolated from vegetative wild-type cells and added...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang BY,Dworkin M

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA region encoding early nodulation functions of Bradyrhizobium japonicum 3I1b110 (I110) was isolated by its homology to the functionally similar region from Rhizobium meliloti. Isolation of a number of overlapping recombinant clones from this region allowed the construction of a restriction map of the region. Th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Russell P,Schell MG,Nelson KK,Halverson LJ,Sirotkin KM,Stacey G

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the Escherichia coli K10 capsule gene cluster identified two regions, regions 1 and 3, conserved between different group III capsule gene clusters. Region 1 encodes homologues of KpsD, KpsM, KpsT, and KpsE proteins, and region 3 encodes homologues of the KpsC and KpsS proteins. An rfaH mutation abolished K...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Clarke BR,Pearce R,Roberts IS

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fec region of the Escherichia coli chromosome determines a citrate-dependent iron(III) transport system. The nucleotide sequence of fec revealed five genes, fecABCDE, which are transcribed from fecA to fecE. The fecA gene encodes a previously described outer membrane receptor protein. The fecB gene product is form...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Staudenmaier H,Van Hove B,Yaraghi Z,Braun V

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An attempt was made to explain the puzzling observation that in bacteria 2,6-diaminopurine can replace guanine for guanineless mutants and for xanthineless mutants (both of which can make adenosine monophosphate de novo) but not for nonexacting purine auxotrophs (which cannot make adenosine monophosphate de novo). The...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Demain AL,Shigeura HT

更新日期：1968-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O55 is an important antigen which is often associated with enteropathogenic E. coli clones. We sequenced the genes responsible for its synthesis and identified genes for O-antigen polymerase, O-antigen flippase, four enzymes involved in GDP-colitose synthesis, and three glycosyltransferases, all by co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang L,Huskic S,Cisterne A,Rothemund D,Reeves PR

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella spp. are the major cause of bacillary dysentery worldwide. The pathogenic process involves bacterial invasion and lysis of the phagocytic vacuole, followed by replication and movement within the cell cytoplasm and, ultimately, spread directly into adjacent cells. This study demonstrates that S. flexneri cytoc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Way SS,Sallustio S,Magliozzo RS,Goldberg MB

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00