Neisseria gonorrhoeae DNA recombination and repair enzymes protect against oxidative damage caused by hydrogen peroxide.

abstract：:We have previously cloned the genes for synthesis of capsular polysaccharide (cps) and slime from Erwinia stewartii in cosmid pES2144. In this study, pES2144 was shown to complement 14 spontaneous cps mutants. These mutants were characterized by probing Southern blots of mutant genomic DNA with pES2144; insertions wer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dolph PJ,Majerczak DR,Coplin DL

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:McFadden, B. A. (Washington State University, Pullman), and H. R. Homann. Characteristics and intermediates of short-term C(14)O(2) incorporation during ribose oxidation by Hydrogenomonas facilis. J. Bacteriol. 89:839-847. 1965.-Ribose-grown cells of Hydrogenomonas facilis, which had been suspended in growth medium an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MCFADDEN BA,HOMANN HR

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of our effort to uncover the molecular basis for the phenotypic variation among clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates, we have previously reported that isolates belonging to the W/Beijing lineage constitutively overexpress the DosR-regulated transcriptional program. While generating dosR knockouts in tw...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Domenech P,Kolly GS,Leon-Solis L,Fallow A,Reed MB

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sbarra, Anthony J. (St. Margaret's Hospital, Boston, Mass.) and William Shirley. Phagocytosis inhibition and reversal. I. Effect of glycolytic intermediates and nucleotides on particle uptake. J. Bacteriol. 86:259-265. 1963.-By microscopically monitoring phagocytosis and following the biochemical changes associated wi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SBARRA AJ,SHIRLEY W

更新日期：1963-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By partial acid hydrolysis, methylation and gas-liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry of the methylated monomers (as the alditol acetates), mass spectrometry of trimethylsilylated disaccharide alditols, as well as proton magnetic resonance, the primary structure of the Klebsiella serotype 25 capsular polysaccharide ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Niemann H,Kwiatkowski B,Westphal U,Stirm S

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori is a microaerophilic bacterium associated with gastric inflammation and peptic ulcers. Knowledge of how pathogenic organisms produce energy is important from a therapeutic point of view. We found d-amino acid dehydrogenase-mediated electron transport from d-proline or d-alanine to oxygen via the re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tanigawa M,Shinohara T,Nishimura K,Nagata K,Ishizuka M,Nagata Y

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WO-1 strain of Candida albicans is capable of alternating between two highly distinct yeast cell types termed white and opaque (E. H. A. Rikkerrink, B. B. Magee, and P. T. Magee, J. Bacteriol. 170:895-899, 1988; B. Slutsky, M. Staebell, J. Anderson, L. Risen, M. Pfaller, and D. R. Soll, J. Bacteriol. 169:189-197, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McEachern MJ,Hicks JB

更新日期：1991-12-01 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：:Vibrio cholerae is a motile bacterium responsible for the disease cholera, and motility has been hypothesized to be inversely regulated with virulence. We examined the transcription profiles of V. cholerae strains containing mutations in flagellar regulatory genes (rpoN, flrA, flrC, and fliA) by utilizing whole-genome...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Syed KA,Beyhan S,Correa N,Queen J,Liu J,Peng F,Satchell KJ,Yildiz F,Klose KE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides maintained intracellular ammonium pools of 1.1 to 2.6 mM during growth in several fixed nitrogen sources as well as during diazotrophic growth. Addition of 0.15 mM NH4+ to washed, nitrogen-free cell suspensions was followed by linear uptake of NH4+ from the medium and transient formation of int...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cordts ML,Gibson J

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) from hyperthermophilic archaeon Thermococcus guaymasensis was purified to homogeneity and was found to be a homotetramer with a subunit size of 40 ± 1 kDa. The gene encoding the enzyme was cloned and sequenced; this gene had 1,095 bp, corresponding to 365 amino acids, and showed high seq...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ying X,Ma K

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:We showed that the heat killing curve for exponentially growing Saccharomyces cerevisiae was biphasic. This suggests two populations of cells with different thermal killing characteristics. When exponentially growing cells separated into cell cycle-specific fractions via centrifugal elutriation were heat shocked, the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plesset J,Ludwig JR,Cox BS,McLaughlin CS

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Self-resistance has been investigated in Streptomyces caelestis (producer of the lincosamide antibiotic celesticetin), from which a lincosamide resistance determinant (clr) has been isolated on a 1-kilobase DNA fragment and cloned in Streptomyces lividans. The clr product is a specific methylase which produces a singl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Calcutt MJ,Cundliffe E

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new carboxypeptidase (carboxypeptidase S) was found in a Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain lacking carboxypeptidase Y (D. H. Wolf and U. Weiser, Eur. J. Biochem. 73:553-556, 1977). Mutants devoid of carboxypeptidase S activity were isolated from a mutant strain that was also deficient in carboxypeptidase Y. Four mutan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolf DH,Ehmann C

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metD D-methionine transporter locus of Escherichia coli was identified as the abc-yaeE-yaeC cluster (now renamed metNIQ genes). The abc open reading frame is preceded by tandem MET boxes bracketed by the -10 and -35 boxes of a promoter. The expression driven by this promoter is controlled by the MetJ repressor and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gál J,Szvetnik A,Schnell R,Kálmán M

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:Two types of mutants unable to excrete hemolysin were obtained when E. coli 5K carrying the multicopy hemolytic recombinant plasmid pANN202-312 was mutagenized with Mu d1. One type is altered in the plasmid hly-specific gene, hlyBb, but the other is caused by an insertion of Mu d1 into a chromosomal locus. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Juarez A,Goebel W

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myxobacteria are predatory and are prolific producers of secondary metabolites. Here, we tested a hypothesized role that secondary metabolite antibiotics function as weapons in predation. To test this, a Myxococcus xanthus Δta1 mutant, blocked in antibiotic TA (myxovirescin) production, was constructed. This TA(-) mut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xiao Y,Wei X,Ebright R,Wall D

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 2,647-bp nucleotide sequence of cryptic plasmid pTD1, isolated from the oral spirochete Treponema denticola, was determined. The sequence revealed two open reading frames, A and B, which encode polypeptides of 335 and 235 amino acids, respectively. Open reading frame A shows sequence similarity to genes that encod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacDougall J,Margarita D,Saint Girons I

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides ovatus, a human colonic anaerobe, utilizes the galactomannan guar gum as a sole source of carbohydrate. Previously, we found that none of the galactomannan-degrading enzymes were extracellular, and we characterized an outer membrane mannanase which hydrolyzes the backbone of guar gum to produce large fragm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gherardini FC,Salyers AA

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hook-associated proteins (HAPs) were excreted into the culture medium of the Fla+ strain as well as into the growth medium of the filamentless mutants of Salmonella typhimurium. This indicates that the bacteria synthesize HAPs excessively, beyond the amount required for construction of flagella. The extra HAPs are she...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Homma M,Iino T

更新日期：1985-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria within the Mycobacterium avium complex are prominent in the environment and are a source of serious disseminated infections in patients with AIDS. Serovars of the M. avium complex are distinguished from all other mycobacteria and from one another by the presence of highly antigenic glycolipids, the glycopepti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belisle JT,Pascopella L,Inamine JM,Brennan PJ,Jacobs WR Jr

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of a 3,479-base-pair HindIII DNA fragment from Bacillus sphaericus 2362 and a 2,940-base-pair fragment from strain 2297 were determined; only minor differences were detected between them. Each contained two open reading frames coding for proteins of 51.4 and 41.9 kilodaltons. Both proteins wer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baumann L,Broadwell AH,Baumann P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic element integrating site specifically into a prokaryotic gene usually carries a copy of the 3' portion of that gene that restores the active gene even as the original is disrupted. A cryptic element in Mesorhizobium loti instead carries a copy of the 5' end of the tRNA gene into which it integrated. This has...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao S,Williams KP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Escherichia coli take up vitamin B(12) (cyano-cobalamin [CN-Cbl]) and iron chelates by use of sequential active transport processes. Transport of CN-Cbl across the outer membrane and its accumulation in the periplasm is mediated by the TonB-dependent transporter BtuB. Transport across the cytoplasmic membrane...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cadieux N,Bradbeer C,Reeger-Schneider E,Köster W,Mohanty AK,Wiener MC,Kadner RJ

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized group A Streptococcus (GAS) genome-wide responses to hydrogen peroxide and assessed the role of the peroxide response regulator (PerR) in GAS under oxidative stress. Comparison of transcriptome changes elicited by peroxide in wild-type bacteria with those in a perR deletion mutant showed that 76 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grifantini R,Toukoki C,Colaprico A,Gryllos I

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A periplasmic protein essential for the function of the oligopeptide transport system of Salmonella typhimurium was identified. This protein, encoded by the oppA gene, is one of the most abundant proteins in the periplasm and, with an apparent molecular weight of 52,000, is considerably larger than any other known per...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Higgins CF,Hardie MM

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elongation factor Tu, encoded by tuf genes, is a GTP binding protein that plays a central role in protein synthesis. One to three tuf genes per genome are present, depending on the bacterial species. Most low-G+C-content gram-positive bacteria carry only one tuf gene. We have designed degenerate PCR primers derive...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ke D,Boissinot M,Huletsky A,Picard FJ,Frenette J,Ouellette M,Roy PH,Bergeron MG

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms contribute to virulence of Staphylococcus aureus. Formation of biofilms is multifactorial, involving polysaccharide, protein, and DNA components, which are controlled by various regulators. Here we report that deletion of the rsp gene resulted in an increase in biofilm formation in strain MW2, suggesting that...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lei MG,Cue D,Roux CM,Dunman PM,Lee CY

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00