Mutation in a "tesB-like" hydroxyacyl-coenzyme A-specific thioesterase gene causes hyperproduction of extracellular polyhydroxyalkanoates by Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2.

abstract：:The allosteric pattern of control for 3-deoxy-d-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthetase has previously been shown to be strongly conserved among the member species of a given genus in bacteria. The implications of this finding as a procedural tool of bacterial phylogeny were pursued by a study of two organ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jensen RA,Stenmark SL

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Pseudomonas strain produced an enzyme capable of deacylating 7 beta-(4-carboxybutanamido)cephalosporanic acid to 7-aminocephalosporanic acid in response to glutaric acid. The gene for the enzyme was cloned within the PstI site of pBR325 as a 7.35-kilobase-pair DNA segment from a mutant of this strain whose enzyme is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsuda A,Komatsu KI

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hauge, Jens G. (National Institute for Public Health, Oslo, Norway). Glucose dehydrogenation in bacteria: a comparative study. J. Bacteriol. 82:609-614. 1961.-Extracts of a series of bacteria reported to convert glucose to gluconic acid via particulate enzyme systems were fractionated by differential centrifugation in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HAUGE JG

更新日期：1961-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cytoskeletal proteins HMW1 and HMW2 are components of the terminal organelle of the cell wall-less bacterium Mycoplasma pneumoniae. HMW1 is required for a tapered, filamentous morphology but exhibits accelerated turnover in the absence of HMW2. Here, we report that a reciprocal dependency exists between HMW1 and H...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willby MJ,Balish MF,Ross SM,Lee KK,Jordan JL,Krause DC

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Izaki, Kazuo (University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan), Kan Kiuchi, and Kei Arima. Specificity and mechanism of tetracycline resistance in a multiple drug resistant strain of Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 91:628-633. 1966.-A decrease in the uptake of tetracycline occurred concurrently with a rise in the level of resistanc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Izaki K,Kiuchi K,Arima K

更新日期：1966-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unlike the great majority of the aerobactin-producing enteric bacteria documented in the literature, Enterobacter cloacae EK33, isolated from a case of human neonatal meningitis, did not show any homology at the DNA level with the prototype aerobactin system encoded by the ColV-K30 plasmid. However, both the nuclear m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Crosa LM,Wolf MK,Actis LA,Sanders-Loehr J,Crosa JH

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two plasmids containing the penicillinase gene of alkalophilic Bacillus sp. strain 170, pEAP1 and pEAP2, were constructed. Most of the penicillinase produced by Escherichia coli, which carried these plasmids, was found in the culture medium. This excretion is caused by the cloned DNA fragment which contains some compo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kudo T,Kato C,Horikoshi K

更新日期：1983-11-01 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

abstract：:Pleiotropic effects of two ribosomal mutations for cycloheximide resistance were studied in a double-resistant homocaryon. The results obtained indicated that the combination of the two ribosomal mutations results in: (i) morphological abnormalities which suggest a severe distortion in the extension of cell walls and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vomvoyanni VE,Argyrakis MP

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of diphtheria toxin in an Escherichia coli cell-free protein-synthesizing system was examined. When the washed ribosomes were incubated with toxin before addition of messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA), peptide syntheses of (14)C-phenylalanine directed by polyuridylic acid or phage R17 RNA were st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsugawa A,Ohsumi Y,Kato I

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas stutzeri A1501 is a versatile nitrogen-fixing bacterium capable of living in diverse environments and coping with various oxidative stresses. NfiS, a regulatory noncoding RNA (ncRNA) involved in the control of nitrogen fixation in A1501, was previously shown to be required for optimal resistance to H2O2; h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang H,Zhan Y,Yan Y,Liu Y,Hu G,Wang S,Yang H,Qiu X,Liu Y,Li J,Lu W,Elmerich C,Lin M

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The c subunit of Streptococcus mutans ATP synthase (FoF1) is functionally exchangeable with that of Escherichia coli, since E. coli with a hybrid FoF1 is able to grow on minimum succinate medium through oxidative phosphorylation. E. coli F1 bound to the hybrid Fo with the S. mutans c subunit showed N,N'-dicyclohexylca...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Araki M,Hoshi K,Fujiwara M,Sasaki Y,Yonezawa H,Senpuku H,Iwamoto-Kihara A,Maeda M

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fox, Eugene N. (University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.). Intracellular M protein of group A Streptococcus. J. Bacteriol. 85:536-540. 1963.-A heat-labile M protein antigen in protoplasts of a type 14 strain of group A Streptococcus has been demonstrated in a soluble form in the cytoplasm, and also bound to the protoplasm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： FOX EN

更新日期：1963-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitochondrial protein synthesis was studied during release from glucose repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells bearing different mitochondrial genomes. The increase in the rate of the synthesis of mitochondrial translation products was analyzed during respiratory induction. Different kinetic patterns were found ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Falcone C,Agostinelli M,Frontali L

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ompB operon of Escherichia coli contains the structural genes for two proteins, OmpR and EnvZ, which control the osmoregulated biosynthesis of the porin proteins OmpF and OmpC. By inserting XbaI octamer linkers into the cloned ompB locus, four distinct frameshift mutants were isolated and subsequently characterize...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Comeau DE,Ikenaka K,Tsung KL,Inouye M

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems are utilized by prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to sense and respond to environmental stimuli, both to maintain homeostasis and to rapidly adapt to changing conditions. Studies have begun to emerge that utilize a large-scale mutagenesis approach to analyzing these systems in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hussa EA,O'Shea TM,Darnell CL,Ruby EG,Visick KL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti strains lacking BacA function are impaired in symbiosis with alfalfa host plants and display altered sensitivities to a number of compounds relative to wild-type strains. With the goal of finding clues to the currently unknown biological function(s) of BacA, we carried out a genetic analysis to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LeVier K,Walker GC

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides producing thymine-requiring mutants (thy), trimethoprim (TMP) cured the mini-ColE1 replicon pML21 at an appreciable frequency. The cured Escherichia coli K-12 cells behaved like polA mutants by failing to support the stable maintenance of the ColE1 plasmid. The mini-F replicon pSC138, which was lacking all thr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mukhopadhyay P,Palchaudhuri S

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most bacteria are likely to face osmotic challenges, but there is yet much to learn about how such environmental changes affect the architecture of bacterial cells. Here, we report a cell-biological study in model organisms of the genus Streptomyces, which are actinobacteria that grow in a highly polarized fashion to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fuchino K,Flärdh K,Dyson P,Ausmees N

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Mechanisms of Li+ stimulation of proline transport were studied in cells of Escherichia coli 7 and NR70, a mutant of strain 7 lacking adenosine triphosphatase (EC 3.6.1.3). An electrochemical potential difference of Li+ induced in an inward direction of energy-depleted cells caused a transient uptake of proline depend...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kayama-Gonda Y,Kawasaki T

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sugar composition of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) isolated from whole cells of Alteromonas haloplanktis 214 (previously referred to as marine pseudomonas B-16, ATCC 19855), variant 3, of the lipid A, core, and side-chain fractions derived from it, and of the LPS fractions (LPS I, II, and III) obtained by subjecting it...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DiRienzo JM,MacLeod RA

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RpoS is a conserved alternative sigma factor that regulates the expression of many stress response genes in Escherichia coli. The RpoS regulon is large but has not yet been completely characterized. In this study, we report the identification of over 100 RpoS-dependent fusions in a genetic screen based on the differen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vijayakumar SR,Kirchhof MG,Patten CL,Schellhorn HE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic system was developed to investigate the supercoil structure of bacterial chromosomes. New res-carrying transposons were derived from MudI1734 (MudJr1 and MudJr2) and Tn10 (Tn10dGn). The MudJr1 and MudJr2 elements each have a res site in opposite orientation so that when paired with a Tn10dGn element in the s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Higgins NP,Yang X,Fu Q,Roth JR

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The twisting and writhing during growth of single-cell filaments of Bacillus subtilis which lead to macrofiber formation was studied in both left- and right-handed forms of strains FJ7 and RHX. Filament bending, touching, and loop formation (folding), followed by winding up into a double-strand fiber, were documented....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mendelson NH,Thwaites JJ,Kessler JO,Li C

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the involvement of bacterial catalases of the symbiotic gram-negative bacterium Rhizobium meliloti in the development of Medicago-Rhizobium functional nodules, we cloned a putative kat gene by screening a cosmid library with a catalase-specific DNA probe amplified by PCR from the R. meliloti genome. Nuc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hérouart D,Sigaud S,Moreau S,Frendo P,Touati D,Puppo A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following arrest by UV-induced DNA damage, replication is restored through a sequence of steps that involve partial resection of the nascent DNA by RecJ and RecQ, branch migration and processing of the fork DNA surrounding the lesion by RecA and RecF-O-R, and resumption of DNA synthesis once the blocking lesion has be...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Courcelle CT,Landstrom AJ,Anderson B,Courcelle J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of the inducible penicillinase-producing strain 749 of Bacillus licheniformis, induced with small amounts of benzylpenicillin, synthesized penicillinase at a high rate for a short period, after which the rate of synthesis slowly declined. During the period of active synthesis, the rate of secretion, as a frac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sargent MG,Ghosh BK,Lampen JO

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Over the course of the last 3 decades the role of the second messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) as a master regulator of bacterial physiology was determined. Although the control over c-di-GMP levels via synthesis and breakdown and the allosteric regulation of c-di-GMP over receptor proteins (effectors) and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rotem O,Nesper J,Borovok I,Gorovits R,Kolot M,Pasternak Z,Shin I,Glatter T,Pietrokovski S,Jenal U,Jurkevitch E

更新日期：2015-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori urease requires nickel ions in the enzyme active site for catalytic activity. Nickel ions must, therefore, be actively acquired by the bacterium. NixA (high-affinity nickel transport protein)-deficient mutants of H. pylori retain significant urease activity, suggesting the presence of alternate nic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hendricks JK,Mobley HL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a system of chromatography through columns of DEAE-Bio-Gel, HTP-Bio-Gel, and CM-Bio-Gel, we isolated and characterized six different (1 leads to 3)-beta-glucanases from cell wall autolysates and cell extracts of Saccharomyces cerevisiae haploid strain 2180B. These enzymes were designated glucanases I, II, IIIA, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hien NH,Fleet GH

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00