Induction of manganese-containing superoxide dismutase is required for acid tolerance in Vibrio vulnificus.

abstract：:A stereospecific enzyme activity capable of cleaving the amide bond of the synthetic substrate N-benzoyl-D-arginine-p-nitroanilide (D-BAPA) has been found in all aerobic and anaerobic members of the family Bacillaceae tested by us. Cells of nonsporeforming gram-positive or gram-negative bacteria contain a hydrolase ac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gofshtein-Gandman LV,Keynan A,Milner Y

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In aquatic environments, Caulobacter spp. can be found at the boundary between liquid and air known as the neuston. I report an approach to study temporal features of Caulobacter crescentus colonization and pellicle biofilm development at the air-liquid interface and have defined the role of cell surface structures in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fiebig A

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen strains of mycoplasmata representing 11 named species were compared serologically by three parameters: growth inhibition on agar, double immunodiffusion, and complement fixation. In growth-inhibition studies, a strain labeled Mycoplasma histotropicum was found related to and perhaps best classified as M. pul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kenny GE

更新日期：1969-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis has been employed to address the functional significance of the highly conserved aspartic and glutamic acid residues present in the Walker B (also called motif II) sequence in Escherichia coli DNA helicase II. Two mutant proteins, UvrDE221Q and UvrDD220NE221Q, were expressed and purified to a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brosh RM Jr,Matson SW

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the cytoplasmic proteins MreB and FtsZ play crucial roles in ensuring that new muropeptide subunits are inserted into the cell wall in a spatially correct way during elongation and division. In particular, to retain a constant diameter and overall shape, new material must be inserted into the wall...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Varma A,Young KD

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Features of the amino acid sequence of the TnaC nascent peptide are recognized by the translating ribosome. Recognition leads to tryptophan binding within the translating ribosome, inhibiting the termination of tnaC translation and preventing Rho-dependent transcription termination in the tna operon leader region. It ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cruz-Vera LR,New A,Squires C,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis secA mutant, secA12, which is blocked at an early stage of sporulation, is able to grow as well as the wild-type strain at all temperatures tested. Experiments with lacZ fusion genes showed that the induction of kinA expression, as well as the sporulation-specific transcription of the spo0A gene, w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Asai K,Kawamura F,Sadaie Y,Takahashi H

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of yeast lacking proteinase C (carboxypeptidase Y) activity has been found by using a histochemical stain to screen mutagenized colonies. This defect segregates 2:2 in meiotic tetrads. Cell extracts lacked the esterolytic, amidase, and proteolytic activities associated with proteinase C. The absence of protei...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolf DH,Fink GR

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium secretes iron-binding siderophores called exochelins. The exochelins from M. avium have previously been reported to have unsaturated side chains that terminate in carboxylic acid. In contrast, our data show the side chains to be both saturated and unsaturated and to terminate with either a carboxyl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wong DK,Gobin J,Horwitz MA,Gibson BW

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exosporium of Bacillus anthracis is comprised of two distinct layers: a basal layer and a hair-like nap that covers the basal layer. The hair-like nap contains the glycoproteins BclA and, most likely, BclB. BclA and BclB are directed to assemble into the exosporium by motifs in their N-terminal domains. Here, we i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thompson BM,Hoelscher BC,Driks A,Stewart GC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide excision repair (NER) is universally used to recognize and remove many types of DNA damage. In eubacteria, the NER system typically consists of UvrA, UvrB, UvrC, the UvrD helicase, DNA polymerase I, and ligase. In addition, when DNA damage blocks transcription, transcription-repair coupling factor (TRCF), t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LeCuyer BE,Criss AK,Seifert HS

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PB15 is an Hfr strain of Escherichia coli K-12. It arose from an F' strain carrying a temperature-sensitive F-gal by an event which blocked the detachment of F-gal in the normally reversible integration process. In PB15, the detachment of F-gal by a second mechanism can now be detected: this mechanism results in the e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bergquist PL,Adelberg EA

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic survey for the presence of plasmids in 17 different xenobiotic-degrading Sphingomonas strains was performed. In almost all analyzed strains, two to five plasmids with sizes of about 50 to 500 kb were detected by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. A comparison of plasmid preparations untreated or trea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Basta T,Keck A,Klein J,Stolz A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells induce YVH1 expression and enter the developmental pathway, leading to sporulation when starved for nitrogen. We show that yvh1 disruption causes a defect in spore maturation; overexpression of MCK1 or IME1 suppresses this yvh1 phenotype. While mck1 mutations are epistatic to tho...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beeser AE,Cooper TG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated pili from Escherichia coli SS142. These pili had a diameter of 6 nm and an average length of 400 nm. They were composed of subunits with a molecular weight of 18,000. Their amino acid composition was determined; methionine and proline were not detected. The isolated pili retained mannose-resistant hemagglu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mett H,Kloetzlen L,Vosbeck K

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the energy status of the yeast cell in the sensitivity of cultures to two yeast toxins was examined by using 12K release from cells as a measure of toxin action. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer toxin bound to sensitive cells in the presence of drugs that interfered with the generation or use of energy,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Skipper N,Bussey H

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Methanococcus maripaludis energy-conserving hydrogenase B (Ehb) generates low potential electrons required for autotrophic CO(2) assimilation. To analyze the importance of individual subunits in Ehb structure and function, markerless in-frame deletions were constructed in a number of M. maripaludis ehb genes. Thes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Major TA,Liu Y,Whitman WB

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By extracellular labeling of peptides of intact Corynebacterium diphtheriae, followed by fractionation of the cells and chain completion by isolated polysomes, it is shown that diphtheria toxin is formed and secreted cotranslationally by membrane-bound polysomes; free polysomes from none. Moreover, when the chains on ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith WP,Tai PC,Murphy JR,Davis BD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capsular polysaccharide is a critical virulence factor for group B streptococci associated with human infections, yet little is known about capsule biosynthesis. We detected CMP-Neu5Ac synthetase, the enzyme which activates N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac, or sialic acid) for transfer to the nascent capsular polys...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haft RF,Wessels MR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The master regulator for entry into sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is the response regulator Spo0A, which directly governs the expression of about 121 genes. Using cells in which the synthesis of Spo0A was under the control of an inducible promoter or in which production of the regulatory protein was impaired by a p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fujita M,González-Pastor JE,Losick R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Developmental expression of the Myxococcus xanthus gene 4521 requires extracellular A-signal. This signal is generated in response to nutrient limitation and functions in cell density sensing. To identify the upstream limit of the minimum region required in vivo for A-signal-dependent 4521 expression, a 5' deletion an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gulati P,Xu D,Kaplan HB

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspartate transcarbamylase is synthesized during exponential growth of Bacillus subtilis and is inactivated when the cells enter the stationary phase. This work is a study of the regulation of aspartate transcarbamylase synthesis during growth and the stationary phase. Using specific immunoprecipitation of aspartate t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maurizi MR,Switzer RL

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:mRNA levels from the bop (bacterio-opsin), brp (bacterio-opsin-related protein), and bat (bacterio-opsin activator) genes in wild-type Halobacterium halobium and two bacteriorhodopsin-overproducing mutants (ET1001 and II-7) were quantitated under conditions in which oxygen levels were steadily depleted and then cultur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shand RF,Betlach MC

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Welker, N. E. (Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio and University of Illinois, Urbana), and L. Leon Campbell. De novo synthesis of alpha-amylase by Bacillus stearothermophilus. J. Bacteriol. 86:1202-1210. 1963.-The pH optimum for the synthesis of alpha-amylase by washed-cell suspensions was 6.7. alpha-Amylase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： WELKER NE,CAMPBELL LL

更新日期：1963-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous paper it was shown that cocultivation of Rhizobium leguminosarum with the plant Vicia sativa subsp. nigra on solid medium causes a changed mode of growth of the plant roots, resulting in thick and short roots (Tsr). The Sym plasmid present in the bacterium appeared to be essential for causing Tsr (A. A. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van Brussel AA,Zaat SA,Cremers HC,Wijffelman CA,Pees E,Tak T,Lugtenberg BJ

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique for identifying and characterizing staphylococcal hemolysins by first separating them electrophoretically in barbital-buffered agar gel (pH 8.4) at 5 ma/cm for 2 hr and then determining their hemolytic activities by exposing them to human, horse, rabbit, and sheep erythrocytes is described. The alpha-hemol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haque RU

更新日期：1967-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic growth of Klebsiella aerogenes NCDO 711 (NCTC 418) on citrate was dependent on the presence of Na+ in the medium, and fermentation of citrate was mediated via the fermentation pathway enzymes, citrate lyase and a Na+-dependent oxalacetate decarboxylase. This confirms the previous findings on strain NCTC 418....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Brien RW

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus thuringiensis var. thuringiensis Berliner grown at 14 C on a chemically defined liquid medium slowly produced spores and parasporal inclusions. Sporulation ultimately attained 50 to 100% of that of cultures grown at 30 C. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aronson JN,Thompson FM

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) occur frequently in natural populations of pathogenic and commensal bacteria, resulting in a mutator phenotype. We identified a unique genetic element in Streptococcus pyogenes strain SF370 that controls MMR via a dynamic process of prophage excision and reintegration in response t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scott J,Thompson-Mayberry P,Lahmamsi S,King CJ,McShan WM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Starvation and cell density regulate the developmental expression of Myxococcus xanthus gene 4521. Three classes of mutants allow expression of this developmental gene during growth on nutrient agar, such that colonies of strains containing a Tn5 lac Omega4521 fusion are Lac(+). One class of these mutants inactivates ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guo D,Wu Y,Kaplan HB

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00