Conjugative transfer of Tn916 in Enterococcus faecalis: trans activation of homologous transposons.

abstract：:The gram-positive, thermophilic, acetogenic bacterium Moorella thermoacetica can reduce CO2 to acetate via the Wood-Ljungdahl (acetyl coenzyme A synthesis) pathway. This report demonstrates that, despite its classification as a strict anaerobe, M. thermoacetica contains a membrane-bound cytochrome bd oxidase that can ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Das A,Silaghi-Dumitrescu R,Ljungdahl LG,Kurtz DM Jr

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria form communities, termed biofilms, in which cells adhere to each other within a matrix, typically comprised of polysaccharides, proteins, and extracellular DNA. Biofilm formation by the marine bacterium Vibrio fischeri requires the Syp polysaccharide, but the involvement of matrix proteins is as yet unknown. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray VA,Driks A,Visick KL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Binding of Saccharomyces cerevisiae alpha-agglutinin to target a cells was assayed by agglutination inhibition and 125I-alpha-agglutinin binding. The assays showed characteristics of equilibrium binding, namely saturability, competability, and the establishment of a kinetic endpoint in the presence of free alpha-agglu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lipke PN,Terrance K,Wu YS

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hpaB gene encoding an aromatic hydroxylase of Escherichia coli ATCC 11105, a penicillin G acylase-producing strain, has been cloned and expressed in E. coli K-12. This gene was located near the pacA gene coding for penicillin G acylase. The hydroxylase has a molecular mass of 59,000 Da, uses NADH as a cosubstrate,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prieto MA,Perez-Aranda A,Garcia JL

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene sequences encoding the enzymes UDP-N-acetylglucosamine enolpyruvyl transferase (MurA) from many bacterial sources were analyzed. It was shown that whereas gram-negative bacteria have only one murA gene, gram-positive bacteria have two distinct genes encoding these enzymes which have possibly arisen from gene dupl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Du W,Brown JR,Sylvester DR,Huang J,Chalker AF,So CY,Holmes DJ,Payne DJ,Wallis NG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tpr gene family of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum, the causative agent of syphilis, has recently become the focus of intensive investigation. TprF and TprI sequences are highly conserved among different isolates and are the targets of strong humoral and cellular immune responses of the host, and immunization w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giacani L,Hevner K,Centurion-Lara A

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins synthesized in Escherichia coli during recovery from starvation were resolved by two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Nine outgrowth-specific proteins, which appeared in two kinetic groups, that were not detected in either starved or exponential-phase cells were synthesized. Five other proteins...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Siegele DA,Guynn LJ

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maltose regulon consists of three operons controlled by a positive regulatory gene, malT. Deletions of the gene crp were introduced into strains which carried a malT-lacZ hybrid gene. From the observed reduction in beta-galactosidase activity it was concluded that the expression of malT-lacZ, and therefore of malT...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chapon C

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide inhibitors of phage lambda site-specific recombination were previously isolated by screening synthetic combinatorial peptide libraries. These inhibitors cause the accumulation of complexes between the recombinase and the Holliday junction intermediate of several highly divergent tyrosine recombinases. Peptide ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gunderson CW,Boldt JL,Authement RN,Segall AM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An early step in crown gall tumor formation involves the attachment of Agrobacterium tumefaciens to host plant cells. A. tumefaciens C58::A205 (C58 attR) is a Tn3HoHo1 insertion mutant that was found to be avirulent on Bryophyllum daigremontiana and unable to attach to carrot suspension cells. The mutation mapped to a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reuhs BL,Kim JS,Matthysse AG

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type IIb heat-labile enterotoxin (LT-IIb) is produced by Escherichia coli 41. Restriction fragments of total cell DNA from strain 41 were cloned into a cosmid vector, and one cosmid clone that encoded LT-IIb was identified. The genes for LT-IIb were subcloned into a variety of plasmids, expressed in minicells, sequenc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pickett CL,Twiddy EM,Coker C,Holmes RK

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli has a formate hydrogenlyase system which allows it to maintain an electron balance during anaerobic growth by passing electrons from formate to H+ ions, thus generating H2. The Mu d1(Ap lac) bacteriophage was used to generate mutants that were defective in passing electrons from formate to benzyl viol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yerkes JH,Casson LP,Honkanen AK,Walker GC

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moulder, James W. (University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.), Dorothy L. Novosel, and Ilse I. E. Tribby. Changes in mouse pneumonitis agent associated with development of resistance to chlortetracycline. J. Bacteriol. 89:17-22. 1965.-A chlortetracycline-resistant mutant of mouse pneumonitis agent, a member of the psittaco...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MOULDER JW,NOVOSEL DL,TRIBBY II

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia spp. express a functional type III secretion system (T3SS) necessary for pathogenesis and intracellular growth. However, certain essential components of the secretion apparatus have diverged to such a degree as to preclude their identification by standard homology searches of primary protein sequences. One e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Betts HJ,Twiggs LE,Sal MS,Wyrick PB,Fields KA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Lactobacillus casei subsp. rhamnosus possessing two cell wall polysaccharides, a hexosamine-containing H-polysaccharide and a rhamnose-containing R-polysaccharide, were examined for the effect of growth conditions on the production of these two components. In strain NCTC 6375, R- and H-polysaccharides accou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wicken AJ,Ayres A,Campbell LK,Knox KW

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Con minus mutants, conjugation-defective mutants of Escherichia coli K-12, have been shown to be tolerant to colicins K and L. They map at approximately 14 min on the genetic map. The significance of the colicin tolerance of conjugation-defective mutants is discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Davies JK,Reeves P

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The complete sequences of the RhsB and RhsC elements of Escherichia coli K-12 have been determined. These sequence data reveal a new repeated sequence, called H-rpt (Hinc repeat), which is distinct from the Rhs core repetition that is found in all five Rhs elements. H-rpt is found in RhsB, RhsC, and RhsE. Characteriza...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao S,Sandt CH,Feulner G,Vlazny DA,Gray JA,Hill CW

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For cells of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the size at initiation of budding is proportional to growth rate for rates from 0.33 to 0.23 h-1. At growth rates lower than 0.23 h-1, cells displayed a minimum cell size at bud initiation independent of growth rate. Regardless of growth rate, cells displayed an increas...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnston GC,Ehrhardt CW,Lorincz A,Carter BL

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have presented experimental evidence to support the model that gliding motility of Myxococcus xanthus is driven by surface tension. (i) Motility is inhibited by the addition of sufficient exogenous, nontoxic surfactants to swamp out the cells' own surfactant gradient. (ii) M. xanthus does not move polystyrene latex...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dworkin M,Keller KH,Weisberg D

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early stages of nodulation involve the exchange of signals between the bacterium and the host plant. Bacterial nodulation (nod) genes are required for Rhizobium spp. to synthesize lipooligosaccharide morphogens, termed Nod factors. The common nod genes encode enzymes that synthesize the factor core structure, which is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ehrhardt DW,Atkinson EM,Faull KF,Freedberg DI,Sutherlin DP,Armstrong R,Long SR

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli mutant Y16, which shows thermosensitive colony formation and filamentation with reduced amounts of penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3), has mutations in the ftsI gene encoding PBP3 and in the ftsH gene. The ftsI mutation markedly reduces the amount of PBP3 at 42 degrees C, whereas the amount of th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Begg KJ,Tomoyasu T,Donachie WD,Khattar M,Niki H,Yamanaka K,Hiraga S,Ogura T

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetate kinase catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of acetate (CH3COO- + ATP<-->CH3CO2PO3(2-) + ADP). A mechanism which involves a covalent phosphoryl-enzyme intermediate has been proposed, and chemical modification studies of the enzyme from Escherichia coli indicate an unspecified glutamate residue is phosphory...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singh-Wissmann K,Ingram-Smith C,Miles RD,Ferry JG

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominance tests in diploids have confirmed that the product of the tyrR gene is involved in a negative control system affecting the synthesis of both 3-deoxy-d-arabinoheptulosonic acid 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthetase (tyr) and DAHP synthetase (phe). Some tyrR mutants are derepressed for the synthesis of both DAHP synthe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Im SW,Pittard J

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of phospho-beta-glucosidases and beta-glucoside permeases was found in strains of Streptococcus, Bacillus, and Staphylococcus. In streptococci, the phospho-beta-glucosidase activity depends on the antigenic group. The highest activity was found in strains of group D. In group D strains, phospho-beta-gluco...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schaefler S,Malamy A,Green I

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli produces polysaccharide capsules that, based on their mechanisms of synthesis and assembly, have been classified into four groups. The group 4 capsule (G4C) polysaccharide is frequently identical to that of the cognate lipopolysaccharide O side chain and has, therefore, also been termed the O-antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peleg A,Shifrin Y,Ilan O,Nadler-Yona C,Nov S,Koby S,Baruch K,Altuvia S,Elgrably-Weiss M,Abe CM,Knutton S,Saper MA,Rosenshine I

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uptake of homologous DNA by Haemophilus influenzae was studied as a function of the proton motive force in completely competent cultures in the pH range of 6 to 8. The composition and magnitude of the proton motive force were varied by using the ionophores valinomycin and nigericin (in the presence of various pota...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bremer W,Kooistra J,Hellingwerf KJ,Konings WN

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel genetic scheme allowed us to isolate extragenic suppressor mutations that restored mutant OmpF assembly. One group of these mutations, termed asmB for assembly suppressor mutation B, permitted mutant OmpF assembly in a non-allele-specific manner. Genetic mapping analyses placed the asmB mutations at the 2-min ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kloser AW,Laird MW,Misra R

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hogg, Robert W. (University of Illinois, Urbana), Chitra S. Biswas, and Harry P. Broquist. Interference with valine and isoleucine biosynthesis by cyclic hydroxamic acids. J. Bacteriol. 90:1265-1270. 1965.-The introduction of a hydroxyl group in a number of common barbiturates, a substitution which converts these comp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hogg RW,Biswas CS,Broquist HP

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidic hot springs are colonized by a diversity of hyperthermophilic organisms requiring extremes of temperature and pH for growth. To clarify how carbohydrates are consumed in such locations, the structural gene (malA) encoding the major soluble alpha-glucosidase (maltase) and flanking sequences from Sulfolobus solfa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rolfsmeier M,Haseltine C,Bini E,Clark A,Blum P

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria commonly live in dense polymicrobial communities and compete for scarce resources. Consequently, they employ a diverse array of mechanisms to harm, inhibit and kill their competitors. The cell wall is essential for bacterial survival by providing mechanical strength to resist osmotic stress. Because peptidogl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sibinelli-Sousa S,Hespanhol JT,Bayer-Santos E

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00