Characterization of the global transcriptional responses to different types of DNA damage and disruption of replication in Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:The virulence of Staphylococcus aureus is controlled by the accessory gene regulator (agr) system, including an extracellular inducer encoded by agrD. Variable agr PCR restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns of unique S. aureus strains (n = 192) were determined for a region comprising agrD and parts o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van Leeuwen W,van Nieuwenhuizen W,Gijzen C,Verbrugh H,van Belkum A

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical topology of the Rhodobacter capsulatus membrane protein LhaA was formulated and evaluated by gene fusion experiments. The apparent topological locations of fusion enzymes were compared with the theoretically derived structure, and a model of LhaA is suggested that consists of 12 transmembrane segments, w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Young CS,Beatty JT

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae uses a variety of strategies for obtaining iron in its diverse environments. In this study we report the identification of a novel iron utilization protein in V. cholerae, VciB. The vciB gene and its linked gene, vciA, were isolated in a screen for V. cholerae genes that permitted growth of an Escheric...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mey AR,Wyckoff EE,Hoover LA,Fisher CR,Payne SM

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria synthesize specific organelles, the magnetosomes, which are membrane-enveloped crystals of the magnetic mineral magnetite (Fe(3)O(4)). The biomineralization of magnetite involves the uptake and intracellular accumulation of large amounts of iron. However, it is not clear how iron uptake and biom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Uebe R,Voigt B,Schweder T,Albrecht D,Katzmann E,Lang C,Böttger L,Matzanke B,Schüler D

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 is a highly invasive, extracellular pathogen in pigs with the capacity to cause severe infections in humans. This study was initiated by the finding that IgM degradation products are released after opsonization of S. suis. The objective of this work was to identify the bacterial factor re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seele J,Singpiel A,Spoerry C,von Pawel-Rammingen U,Valentin-Weigand P,Baums CG

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although arsenic is highly toxic to most organisms, certain prokaryotes are known to grow on and respire toxic metalloids of arsenic (i.e., arsenate and arsenite). Two enzymes are known to be required for this arsenic-based metabolism: (i) the arsenate respiratory reductase (ArrA) and (ii) arsenite oxidase (AoxB). Bot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zargar K,Hoeft S,Oremland R,Saltikov CW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A library of Zymomonas mobilis genomic DNA was constructed in the broad-host-range cosmid pLAFR1. The library was mobilized into a variety of Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas putida trp mutants by using the helper plasmid pRK2013. Five Z. mobilis trp genes were identified by the ability to complement the trp mutants. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eddy CK,Smith OH,Noel KD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, the 4-amino-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (HMP) moiety of thiamine is synthesized from 5-aminoimidazole ribotide (AIR), a branch point metabolite of purine and thiamine biosynthesis. ThiC is a member of the radical S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) superfamily and catalyzes the complex chemical rearrangeme...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Palmer LD,Dougherty MJ,Downs DM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to identify the Agrobacterium tumefaciens phosphate regulatory gene(s), we isolated a clone from an A. tumefaciens cosmid library that restored regulated alkaline phosphatase activity to an Escherichia coli phoB mutant. The gene that complemented phoB was localized by subcloning and deletion analysis, and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mantis NJ,Winans SC

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The valAB locus of Francisella novicida has previously been found to be highly similar at the deduced amino acid level to msbA lpxK of Escherichia coli. Both ValA and MsbA are members of the superfamily of ABC transporters, and they appear to have similar functions. In this study we describe the isolation of a tempera...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McDonald MK,Cowley SC,Nano FE

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence (2,700 bp) between the aldH and pspF genes of Escherichia coli was determined. The pspF gene encodes a sigma54 transcriptional activator of the phage shock protein (psp) operon (pspA to pspE). Downstream of the pspF transcribed region are two open reading frames (ORFs), ordL and goaG, convergently oriente...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jovanovic G,Model P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The decline in colony-forming ability observed during tryptophan starvation of Bacillus subtilis auxotrophs is a concentration-dependent phenomenon. It does not manifest itself when the initial cell concentration is 10(6) cells/ml or lower. This property has been used to test the killing activity of different fraction...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barlati S,Majerfeld I

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the cell envelope preparation of Sphingomonas paucimobilis two membrane fractions with different densities were separated by sucrose density gradient ultracentrifugation. The high-density fraction contained several major proteins, phospholipids, and glycosphingolipids, which are the only glycolipids of this lipop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kawasaki S,Moriguchi R,Sekiya K,Nakai T,Ono E,Kume K,Kawahara K

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Information on the biosynthesis of phospholipids in bacteria has been derived principally from the study of Escherichia coli and other gram-negative organisms. We have now carried out a detailed study of the pathways of phospholipid biosynthesis in the gram-positive organism Bacillus megarterium KM in relation to inve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Langley KE,Yaffe MP,Kennedy EP

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the course of a study of genes located at min 44 of the Escherichia coli genome, we identified an open reading frame with the capacity to encode a 43-kDa polypeptide whose predicted amino acid sequence is strikingly similar to those of the well-known DD-carboxipeptidases penicillin-binding proteins PBP5 and PBP6. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baquero MR,Bouzon M,Quintela JC,Ayala JA,Moreno F

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication initiation depends on origin recognition, helicase, and primase activities. In phage P4, a second DNA region, the cis replication region (crr), is also required for replication initiation. The multifunctional alpha protein of phage P4, which is essential for DNA replication, combines the three aforemention...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ziegelin G,Calendar R,Lurz R,Lanka E

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The three-component naphthalene dioxygenase (NDO) enzyme system carries out the first step in the aerobic degradation of naphthalene by Pseudomonas sp. strain NCIB 9816-4. The three-dimensional structure of NDO revealed that several of the amino acids at the active site of the oxygenase are hydrophobic, which is consi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parales RE,Lee K,Resnick SM,Jiang H,Lessner DJ,Gibson DT

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The σE envelope stress response is an essential signal transduction pathway which detects and removes mistargeted outer membrane (OM) β-barrel proteins (OMPs) in the periplasm of Escherichia coli It relies on σE, an alternative sigma factor encoded by the rpoE gene. Here we report a novel mutation, a nucleot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Konovalova A,Schwalm JA,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine acetotrophic and three methylotrophic strains of methane-producing bacteria were screened for the presence of plasmid DNA. Plasmids were detected in three marine isolates, including Methanosarcina acetivorans. All three plasmids appeared to be similar based on size and restriction site analyses. The plasmid from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sowers KR,Gunsalus RP

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) from Azotobacter vinelandii, like the corresponding enzyme from other organisms, is activated by acetyl coenzyme A and inhibited by l-aspartate. Both modifiers affect primarily the affinity of the enzyme for phosphoenolpyruvate. This is the first enzyme with a strictly ana...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liao CL,Atkinson DE

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) produced by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is an extracellular peptide toxin that evokes watery diarrhea in the host. Two types of STs, STI and STII, have been found. Both STs are synthesized as precursor proteins and are then converted to the active forms with intramolecular disulfi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamanaka H,Kobayashi H,Takahashi E,Okamoto K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The double-stranded DNA bacteriophage PRD1 uses an IncP plasmid-encoded conjugal transfer complex as a receptor. Plasmid functions in the PRD1 life cycle are restricted to phage adsorption and DNA entry. A single phage structural protein, P2, located at the fivefold capsid vertices, is responsible for PRD1 attachment ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grahn AM,Caldentey J,Bamford JK,Bamford DH

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for the complete pathways for two polycyclic aromatic polyketides of the angucyclinone class have been cloned and heterologously expressed. Genomic DNAs of Streptomyces rimosus NRRL 3016 and Streptomyces strain WP 4669 were partially digested with MboI, and libraries (ca. 40-kb fragments) in Escherichia coli...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hong ST,Carney JR,Gould SJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the catalase-peroxidase of Caulobacter crescentus, a gram-negative member of the alpha subdivision of the Proteobacteria, is 50-fold higher in stationary-phase cultures than in exponential cultures. To identify regulators of the starvation response, Tn5 insertion mutants were isolated with reduced expres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rava PS,Somma L,Steinman HM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphate moiety of D-mannitol-1-phosphate in Escherichia coli is subject to rapid turnover and is in close equilibrium with Pi and the phosphorus of fructose-1,6-bisphosphate. These three compounds account for the bulk of 32P label found in cells after several minutes of uptake of 32Pi and mannitol-1-phosphate re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosenberg H,Pearce SM,Hardy CM,Jacomb PA

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the pneumococcal type 1 pilus is bistable and positively regulated by the transcription factor RlrA. RlrA is also known to positively control its own expression. Here we present evidence that bistable expression of the type 1 pilus is mediated by the positive-feedback loop controlling rlrA expression. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Basset A,Turner KH,Boush E,Sayeed S,Dove SL,Malley R

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobium phaseoli lacks glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH) and assimilates ammonium by the glutamine synthetase-glutamate synthase pathway. A strain of R. phaseoli harboring the Escherichia coli GDH structural gene (gdhA) was constructed. GDH activity was expressed in R. phaseoli in the free-living state and in symbiosis....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bravo A,Becerril B,Mora J

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus attaches to solid surfaces through an adhesive holdfast located at the tip of its polar stalk, a thin cylindrical extension of the cell membrane. In this paper, the elastic properties of the C. crescentus stalk and holdfast assembly were studied by using video light microsc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li G,Smith CS,Brun YV,Tang JX

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae injects numerous bacterial proteins into host plant cells through a type 3 secretion system (T3SS). One of the first such bacterial effectors discovered, HopA1, is a protein that has unknown functions in the host cell but possesses close homologs that trigger the plant hypersensitive response in r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Janjusevic R,Quezada CM,Small J,Stebbins CE

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphatidyl ethanolamine and lipopolysaccharide were extracted and purified from the cell envelope fractions of Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium. The two components were studied separately and after recombination, by use of electron microscopy and monolayer techniques, and by measuring their ability to par...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rothfield L,Horne RW

更新日期：1967-05-01 00:00:00