Effect of Selenomethionine on Growth of Escherichia coli and Bacillus megaterium.

abstract：:Benyesh-Melnick, Matilda (Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.), Fern Probstmeyer, Robert McCombs, Jean P. Brunschwig, and Vladimir Vonka. Correlation between infectivity and physical virus particles in human cyto-megalovirus. J. Bacteriol. 92:1555-1561. 1966.-Infectivity titers [measured as plaque-for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Benyesh-Melnick M,Probstmeyer F,McCombs R,Brunschwig JP,Vonka V

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yeast cells growing on mineral medium plus ammonia and glucose contained high levels of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-dependent glutamate dehydrogenase activity, as measured in crude extracts. After suspension of cells in fresh medium lacking glucose, there was a loss of the glutamate dehydrogenase activ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mazón MJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kobayashi, George S. (Tulane University, New Orleans, La.), Lorraine Friedman, and Judith F. Kofroth. Some cytological and pathogenic properties of spheroplasts of Candida albicans. J. Bacteriol. 88:795-801. 1964.-Spheroplasts of Candida albicans were prepared by use of an enzymatic mixture from the digestive tract of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： KOBAYASHI GS,FRIEDMAN L,KOFROTH JF

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Prokaryotic organisms occupy the most diverse set of environments and conditions on our planet. Their ability to sense and respond to a broad range of external cues remain key research areas in modern microbiology, central to behaviors that underlie beneficial and pathogenic interactions of bacteria with multicellular...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watts KJ,Vaknin A,Fuqua C,Kazmierczak BI

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane vesicles capable of energy-dependent calcium uptake have been prepared from Bacillus megaterium cells in log-phase growth or when undergoing sporulation. The uptake is dependent on the calcium concentration and appears saturable in vesicles from cells in log-phase growth. Both ascorbate and phenazine methosul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Golub EE,Bronner F

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The csgA gene produces an intercellular signal during fruiting body formation of the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Sporulating pseudorevertants were isolated to allow us to understand the mechanism by which CsgA is perceived by cells and used to regulate developmental gene expression. Two strains, LS559 and LS560,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee K,Shimkets LJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have implicated glutamine synthetase (L-glutamate:ammonia ligase [adenosine diphosphate for-ing], EC 6.6.1.2) as a major controlling element of the nitrogen fixation (nif) genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae. We report here the isolation of a new class of K. pneumoniae mutants which exhibit altered pattern...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ausubel FM,Bird SC,Durbin KJ,Janssen KA,Margolskee RF,Peskin AP

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western blot (immunoblot) analysis of cell extracts from induced bacteriophage lambda lysogens probed with S-protein-specific antibody (raised against an S--beta-galactosidase fusion protein) demonstrated that the bacteriophage lambda S protein begins to appear 10 min after phage induction and is localized to the inne...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zagotta MT,Wilson DB

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic compounds exhibit various levels of toxicity toward living organisms based upon their ability to insert into biological membranes and disrupt normal membrane function. The primary mechanism responsible for organic solvent tolerance in many bacteria is energy-dependent extrusion via efflux pumps. One such bacte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sun X,Zahir Z,Lynch KH,Dennis JJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we describe that the Helicobacter pylori sensor kinase produced by HP1364 and the response regulator produced by HP1365 and designated CrdS and CrdR, respectively, are both required for transcriptional induction of the H. pylori copper resistance determinant CrdA by copper ions. CrdRS-deficient mutants lacked cop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Waidner B,Melchers K,Stähler FN,Kist M,Bereswill S

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six uvr mutants of Saccharomyces cerevisiae with hypersensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) light were isolated after mutagen treatment with ethylmethanesulfonate. UV sensitivity ranges from moderate to extreme, and four of the mutants are also sensitive to nitrous acid. Ranking in terms of UV sensitivity does not parallel ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Snow R

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in any one of three genes, kdpA, -B, or -C, in Escherichia coli abolish the activity of Kdp, a multisubunit K+-ATPase that belongs to the P-type ATPase family of cation transporters. We found in this study that expression in vivo of a 135-amino-acid-long N-terminal fragment (KdpA'), less than one-quarter the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sardesai AA,Gowrishankar J

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TatA and TatB proteins are essential components of the twin arginine protein translocation pathway in Escherichia coli. C-terminal truncation analysis of the TatA protein revealed that a plasmid-expressed TatA protein shortened by 40 amino acids is still fully competent to support protein translocation. Similar tr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee PA,Buchanan G,Stanley NR,Berks BC,Palmer T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Put3p and Gal4p transcriptional activators are members of a distinct class of fungal regulators called the Cys(6) Zn(II)(2) binuclear cluster family. This family includes over 50 different Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins that share a similar domain organization. Gal4p activates the genes of the galactose utiliza...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： D'Alessio M,Brandriss MC

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydiae are unusual obligately intracellular bacteria that do not synthesize detectable peptidoglycan. However, they possess genes that appear to encode products with peptidoglycan biosynthetic activity. Bioinformatic analysis predicts that chlamydial MurE possesses UDP-MurNAc-L-Ala-D-Glu:meso-diaminopimelic acid (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Patin D,Bostock J,Blanot D,Mengin-Lecreulx D,Chopra I

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of thermal denaturation and the molecular weights of the two isofunctional enol-lactone hydrolases (ELH I and ELH II) of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus were determined. The molecular weights of ELH I and ELH II were found by gel filtration to be approximately 24,000 and 21,000, respectively. In crude extract at...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katagiri M,Wheelis ML

更新日期：1971-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:CbrA is an atypical sensor kinase found in Pseudomonas. The autokinase domain is connected to a putative transporter of the sodium/solute symporter family (SSSF). CbrA functions together with its cognate response regulator, CbrB, and plays an important role in nutrient acquisition, including regulation of hu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang XX,Gauntlett JC,Oldenburg DG,Cook GM,Rainey PB

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tracer studies of pyrimidine biosynthesis in Lactobacillus leichmannii (ATCC 7830) indicated that, while aspartate is utilized in the usual manner, the guanido carbon of arginine, rather than carbon dioxide, is utilized as a pyrimidine precursor. The guanido carbon of arginine also contributes, to some extent, to the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hutson JY,Downing M

更新日期：1968-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanisms involved in the virulence of Yersinia pestis, the plague pathogen, are not fully understood. In previous research, we found that a Y. pestis mutant lacking the HicB3 (YPO3369) putative orphan antitoxin was attenuated for virulence in a murine model of bubonic plague. Toxin-antitoxin systems (TASs) are w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bibi-Triki S,Li de la Sierra-Gallay I,Lazar N,Leroy A,Van Tilbeurgh H,Sebbane F,Pradel E

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polysaccharide intercellular adhesin or the cell wall-anchored accumulation-associated protein (Aap) mediates cellular accumulation during Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm maturation. Mutation of sortase, which anchors up to 11 proteins (including Aap) to the cell wall, blocked biofilm development by the cerebro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Conlon BP,Geoghegan JA,Waters EM,McCarthy H,Rowe SE,Davies JR,Schaeffer CR,Foster TJ,Fey PD,O'Gara JP

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found, using a newly developed genetic method, a protein (named Cnu, for oriC-binding nucleoid-associated) that binds to a specific 26-base-pair sequence (named cnb) in the origin of replication of Escherichia coli, oriC. Cnu is composed of 71 amino acids (8.4 kDa) and shows extensive amino acid identity to a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim MS,Bae SH,Yun SH,Lee HJ,Ji SC,Lee JH,Srivastava P,Lee SH,Chae H,Lee Y,Choi BS,Chattoraj DK,Lim HM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survivors of nitrosoguanidine-treated cultures of a colicinogenic strain of Salmonella typhimurium were tested for spontaneous production of colicin E1. Of about 1,000 colonies tested, 13 produced no (or very narrow) colicin zones. Four of these isolates proved to be more sensitive to ultraviolet (UV) light, X rays, a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacPhee DG

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile, a proteolytic Gram-positive anaerobe, has emerged as a significant nosocomial pathogen. Stickland fermentation reactions are thought to be important for growth of C. difficile and appear to influence toxin production. In Stickland reactions, pairs of amino acids donate and accept electrons, gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bouillaut L,Self WT,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phospholipid synthesis has been reported to be subject to stringent control in Escherichia coli. We present evidence that demonstrates a strict correlation between guanosine tetraphosphate accumulation and inhibition of phospholipid synthesis. In vivo experiments designed to examine the pattern of phospholipid labelin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Merlie JP,Pizer LI

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae is a nosocomial pathogen frequently isolated from opportunistic infections, especially in clinical environments. In spite of its potential pathogenicity, this microorganism has several metabolic potentials that could be used in biotechnology applications. K. pneumoniae is able to metabolize glyce...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marçal D,Rêgo AT,Carrondo MA,Enguita FJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growing cells of Campylobacter coli and C. jejuni were naturally transformed by naked DNA without the requirement for any special treatment. Transformation frequencies for homologous chromosomal DNA were approximately 10(-3) transformants per recipient cell in C. coli and 10(-4) in C. jejuni. Maximum competence was fo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang Y,Taylor DE

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HlyD, a member of the membrane fusion protein family, is essential for the secretion of the RTX hemolytic toxin HlyA from Escherichia coli. Random point mutations affecting HlyA secretion were obtained, distributed in most periplasmic regions of the HlyD molecule. Analysis of the secretion phenotypes of different muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pimenta AL,Racher K,Jamieson L,Blight MA,Holland IB

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cat-86 is a promoter-deficient plasmid gene that encodes chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Insertion of a promoter at a site 144 base pairs 5' to the cat-86 coding sequence activates transcription of the gene and allows cat-86 to specify chloramphenicol-inducible CAT activity in Bacillus subtilis. Induction of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ambulos NP Jr,Duvall EJ,Lovett PS

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rpoS, a gene that encodes an alternative sigma factor (also known as katF), is critical for the ability of Yersinia enterocolitica grown at 37 degrees C, but not at 26 degrees C, to survive diverse environmental insults such as high temperature, hydrogen peroxide, osmolarity, and low pH. However, a Y. enterocolitica r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Badger JL,Miller VL

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcriptional factor CarD is the only reported prokaryotic analog of eukaryotic high-mobility-group A (HMGA) proteins, in that it has contiguous acidic and AT hook DNA-binding segments and multifunctional roles in Myxococcus xanthus carotenogenesis and fruiting body formation. HMGA proteins are small, randomly struc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cayuela ML,Elías-Arnanz M,Peñalver-Mellado M,Padmanabhan S,Murillo FJ

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00