CapE, a 47-amino-acid peptide, is necessary for Bacillus anthracis polyglutamate capsule synthesis.

abstract：:The messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) pattern of log-phase and sporulating cells of Bacillus subtilis has been analyzed by deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-RNA hybrid studies with the complementary-strand fragments of DNA. Approximately 80% of the mRNA of log-phase and sporulating cells from stages I, III, and IV hybridize...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sumida-Yasumoto C,Doi RH

更新日期：1974-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 10-kb region of the Bacillus subtilis genome that contains genes involved in biotin-biosynthesis was cloned and sequenced. DNA sequence analysis indicated that B. subtilis contains homologs of the Escherichia coli and Bacillus sphaericus bioA, bioB, bioD, and bioF genes. These four genes and a homolog of the B. spha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bower S,Perkins JB,Yocum RR,Howitt CL,Rahaim P,Pero J

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxobacterial hemagglutinin (MBHA) is a major developmentally induced protein that accumulates during the period of cellular aggregation in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. It has been shown that this lectin is targeted to the cell surface and periplasmic space of developmental cells, suggesting that it may play a ro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romeo JM,Zusman DR

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We performed a systematic survey of transcription of a large region of the Rhizobium meliloti symbiotic plasmid pSym. This led to the discovery of two new sequences induced during symbiosis. The first sequence was linked to the known nitrogen fixation (nif-fix) gene cluster, and its expression depended on the nifA gen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： David M,Domergue O,Pognonec P,Kahn D

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) has been associated with persistent pediatric diarrhea in the developing world, yet the pathogenetic mechanisms of EAggEC infection are unknown. Our previous data have suggested that aggregative adherence of some EAggEC strains to HEp-2 cells is mediated by flexible, bundle-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nataro JP,Yikang D,Yingkang D,Walker K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A transformable strain of Bacillus subtilis 6160, a derivative of B. subtilis 168, produces three kinds of casein hydrolytic enzymes (alkaline protease, neutral protease, and esterase) in a culture medium. B. natto IAM 1212 produces 15 to 20 times as much total proteolytic activity as does B. subtilis. Extracellular p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Uehara H,Yoneda Y,Yamane K,Maruo B

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We are studying an O4/K54/H5 Escherichia coli bacteremic isolate (CP9) as a model pathogen for extraintestinal infection. Its group 2, K54 capsular polysaccharide is an important virulence determinant and confers serum resistance. In this study the effect of the group 1 capsule regulators, RcsA, RcsB, and Lon protease...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Russo TA,Singh G

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-density tiling microarray and RNA sequencing technologies were used to analyze the transcriptome of the periodontopathogenic bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis. The compiled P. gingivalis transcriptome profiles were based on total RNA samples isolated from three different laboratory culturing conditions, and the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Høvik H,Yu WH,Olsen I,Chen T

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaffar, Abdul (Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah), David R. Terry, and Richard D. Sagers. Amino acid composition of walls from single and filamentous cells of Clostridium acidiurici. J. Bacteriol. 91:1618-1624. 1966.-The walls from single and filamentous cells of Clostridium acidiurici were shown to contain 11 ami...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gaffar A,Terry DR,Sagers RD

更新日期：1966-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shigella flexneri causes bacillary dysentery by invading epithelial cells of the colonic mucosa. The invasion process requires the synthesis and secretion of the virulence plasmid-encoded Ipa proteins. Using TnphoA mutagenesis, we have identified two virulence plasmid genes, mxiJ and mxiM, that encode proteins exporte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allaoui A,Sansonetti PJ,Parsot C

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The organization and transcriptional control of chromosomal cat genes (required for dissimilation of catechol by the beta-ketoadipate pathway) in the Pseudomonas putida biotype strain (ATCC 12633) are reported. Nucleotide sequence reveals that catR is separated by 135 bp from the divergently transcribed catBC,A; catC ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Houghton JE,Brown TM,Appel AJ,Hughes EJ,Ornston LN

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site-directed mutagenesis has previously been used to construct Escherichia coli dnaK mutants encoding proteins that are altered at the site of in vitro phosphorylation (J. S. McCarty and G. C. Walker, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 88:9513-9517, 1991). These mutants are unable to autophosphorylate and are severely defect...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCarty JS,Walker GC

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PsaA, the subunit of the fimbria originally referred to as the "pH 6 antigen," is required for full virulence of Yersinia pestis during bubonic plague. The expression of psaA is dependent upon specific environmental signals, and while the signals (high temperature and acidic pH) are defined, the mechanisms underlying ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Quinn JD,Weening EH,Miner TA,Miller VL

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of a new thermophilic bacterium, Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., is described. Successful enrichment requires incubation at 70 to 75 C, and the use of nutrient media relatively dilute with respect to the organic components. Strains of T. aquaticus have been isolated from a variety of thermal spring...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brock TD,Freeze H

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serpulina hyodysenteriae, the etiologic agent of swine dysentery, contains complex periplasmic flagella which are composed of multiple class A and class B polypeptides. To examine the role these proteins play in flagellar synthesis, structure, and function and to develop strains which may provide insight into the impo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosey EL,Kennedy MJ,Petrella DK,Ulrich RG,Yancey RJ Jr

更新日期：1995-10-01 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：:A plasmid, R773, which confers resistance to arsenic compounds, is transmissible between strains of Escherichia coli. It is a member of compatibility group F(1). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hedges RW,Baumberg S

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase is stable in growing cells, but is inactivated in an oxygen-dependent process at various rates in starving or antibiotic-treated cells. On the basis of studies of the purified enzyme, we suggested (D.A. Bernlohr and R.L. Switzer, Biochemistry 20:5675-5681, 1981) t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernlohr DA,Switzer RL

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas putida DOT-T1E is a solvent-resistant strain that is able to grow in the presence of high concentrations of toluene. We have cloned and sequenced the cti gene of this strain, which encodes the cis/trans isomerase, termed Cti, that catalyzes the cis-trans isomerization of esterified fatty acids in phospholi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Junker F,Ramos JL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of uncharged tRNA to the nascent transcript promotes readthrough of a leader region transcription termination signal in genes regulated by the T box transcription antitermination mechanism. Each gene in the T box family responds independently to its cognate tRNA, with specificity determined by base pairing of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grundy FJ,Henkin TM

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Escherichia coli, previously shown to contain abnormal nucleoside triphosphate pools, was found to be defective in its ability to synthesize thymidine nucleotides. The defect is not in the enzyme thymidylate synthetase but in deoxycytidine triphosphate deaminase, an enzyme that supplies deoxyuridine monoph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Donovan GA,Edlin G,Fuchs JA,Neuhard J,Thomassen E

更新日期：1971-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-dimensional gel analyses were made of proteins synthesized in Escherichia coli during various O2- -generating conditions. Nine proteins were constitutively synthesized over wild-type levels in superoxide dismutase (sodA sodB) double mutants. Addition of redox cycling agents such as paraquat and plumbagin at variou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Walkup LK,Kogoma T

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of sulfate reduction in B tsnC*7004, a mutant of Escherichia coli lacking thioredoxin, is reported. Although thioredoxin is indispensable for the adenosine 3'-phosphate 5'-phosphosulfate (PAPS) sulfotransferase reaction under the usual conditions of assay in extracts of wild-type cells, the mutant gre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsang ML,Schiff JA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified gel electrophoresis technique provided a reproducible way of detecting and isolating plasmids with molecular weights ranging from 12 X 10(6) to 370 X 10(6) for Azospirillum species. Analysis with the nifHD region of Rhizobium trifolii showed that the Azospirillum nif genes were chromosomally located in all ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plazinski J,Dart PJ,Rolfe BG

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes a number of infections in humans, but is best known for its association with cystic fibrosis. It is able to use a wide range of sulfur compounds as sources of sulfur for growth. Gene expression in response to changes in sulfur supply was studied in P. aer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tralau T,Vuilleumier S,Thibault C,Campbell BJ,Hart CA,Kertesz MA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type IV secretion system encoded by the virB operon is required for full virulence of Brucella sp., and the present study links the RNA chaperone Hfq to wild-type expression of virB in Brucella abortus 2308. Studies employing virB-lacZ fusions, quantitative reverse transcription-PCR, and immunoblot analysis showed...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Caswell CC,Gaines JM,Roop RM 2nd

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Many bacteria utilize actin-like proteins to direct peptidoglycan (PG) synthesis. MreB and MreB-like proteins are thought to act as scaffolds, guiding the localization and activity of key PG-synthesizing proteins during cell elongation. Despite their critical role in viability and cell shape maintenance, ver...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Duan Y,Sperber AM,Herman JK

更新日期：2016-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：:plsB mutants of Escherichia coli are sn-glycerol 3-phosphate auxotrophs which owe their requirement to a K(m) defect in sn-glycerol 3-phosphate acyltransferase, the first enzyme in the phospholipid biosynthetic pathway. We have located the plsB gene at minute 69 of the E. coli genetic map, far removed from the gene de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cronan JE Jr,Bell RM

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gifsy-1 phage integrates site specifically into the Salmonella chromosome via an integrase-mediated site-specific recombination mechanism. Initial genetic analysis suggests that Gifsy-1 integrase-mediated excision of the Gifsy-1 phage is influenced by proteins encoded by both the Gifsy-1 and the Gifsy-2 phages. Ou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Flanigan A,Gardner JF

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many gram-negative bacteria harbor a copper/zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) in their periplasms. In pathogenic bacteria, one role of this enzyme may be to protect periplasmic biomolecules from superoxide that is released by host phagocytic cells. However, the enzyme is also present in many nonpathogens ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Korshunov S,Imlay JA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00