AmiC functions as an N-acetylmuramyl-l-alanine amidase necessary for cell separation and can promote autolysis in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

abstract：:A fragment of the Lactococcus lactis chromosome containing an open reading frame of 265 codons, denoted bglR, has been characterized. The polypeptide encoded by bglR shares 36 to 30% sequence identity with a family of regulatory proteins including ArbG from Erwinia chrysanthemi, BglG from Escherichia coli, and SacT an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bardowski J,Ehrlich SD,Chopin A

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell survival, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) degradation, and the repair of DNA single-strand breaks were measured for Escherichia coli K-12 pol+, polA1, polC1026(ts), and polA1 polC1026(ts) cells after 137Cs gamma irradiation. The results indicate that DNA polymerase III is required for growth medium-dependent (type II...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hamelin C,Youngs DA,Smith KC

更新日期：1976-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lockart, Royce Z., Jr. (The University of Texas, Austin). Variations in the abilities of several lines of L cells to produce and to be affected by interferon. J. Bacteriol. 89:117-122. 1965.-The amounts of interferon produced by three different lines of L cells and mouse embryonic cells when inoculated with two strain...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LOCKART RZ Jr

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces venezuelae ATCC 10595 harbors seven rRNA gene clusters which can be distinguished by BglII digestion. The three rRNA genes present in each set are closely linked with the general structure 16S-23S-5S. We cloned rrnA and sequenced the 16S-23S spacer region and the region downstream of the 5S rRNA gene. No ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： La Farina M,Stira S,Mancuso R,Grisanti C

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anaerobic spore former Clostridioides difficile causes significant diarrheal disease in humans and other mammals. Infection begins with the ingestion of dormant spores, which subsequently germinate within the host gastrointestinal tract. There, the vegetative cells proliferate and secrete two exotoxins, TcdA and T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Edwards AN,Krall EG,McBride SM

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni commensally colonizes the cecum of birds. The RacR (reduced ability to colonize) response regulator was previously shown to be important in avian colonization. To explore the means by which RacR and its cognate sensor kinase RacS may modulate C. jejuni physiology and colonization, ΔracR and ΔracS ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Apel D,Ellermeier J,Pryjma M,Dirita VJ,Gaynor EC

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fatty acid pattern in three hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria during growth on various substrates was examined. The predominant fatty acids in acetate-grown cells were C(16), C(16:1), C(18:1), and Br-C(19) and the major fatty acids in propane-grown cells were C(15), C(17), C(17:1), C(18:1), and Br-C(18). When one org...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dunlap KR,Perry JJ

更新日期：1967-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five strains, representing 18 species of the genus Bacillus, were surveyed for production of hemolysin against rabbit erythrocytes. Broth cultures of B. cereus, B. alvei, and B. laterosporus contained lysins that closely resembled streptolysin O. B. subtilis and a single strain of B. cereus may produce lysins ha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernheimer AW,Grushoff P

更新日期：1967-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultrastructural and biochemical studies of a recombinant Treponema pallidum surface antigen designated 4D have been conducted due to its likely biological significance. Electron microscopy demonstrated that the 190-kilodalton (kDa) 4D molecule is an ordered ring structure of 10-nm diameter. The 90-kDa proteinase K-tre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fehniger TE,Radolf JD,Lovett MA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conjugative plasmid pTR2030 has been used extensively to confer phage resistance in commercial Lactococcus starter cultures. The plasmid harbors a 16-kb region, flanked by insertion sequence (IS) elements, that encodes the restriction/modification system LlaI and carries an abortive infection gene, abiA. The AbiA ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Durmaz E,Klaenhammer TR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens and Agrobacterium rhizogenes are related pathogens that cause crown gall and hairy root diseases, which result from integration and expression of bacterial genes in the plant genome. Single-stranded DNA (T strands) and virulence proteins are translocated into plant cells by a type IV secretio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hodges LD,Lee LY,McNett H,Gelvin SB,Ream W

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella effector protein SopA is translocated into host cells via the SPI-1 type III secretion system (TTSS) and contributes to enteric disease. We found that the chaperone InvB binds to SopA and slightly stabilizes it in the bacterial cytosol and that it is required for its transport via the SPI-1 TTSS. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ehrbar K,Hapfelmeier S,Stecher B,Hardt WD

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth of strain araC(c)67, which produces the enzymes of the ara operon constitutively, is inhibited by the addition of ribitol. Isolation of strains resistant to ribitol yields mutants of either the araB or araC genes. A model to account for the inhibition by ribitol is discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katz L

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) agglutinated mouse and rabbit erythrocytes but not human, guinea pig, or pronghorn antelope erythrocytes. Hemagglutination was not specific for Chlamydia spp., as rough LPSs from Coxiella burnetii and Escherichia coli also agglutinated erythrocytes from the same animal species. Nona...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watkins NG,Caldwell HD,Hackstadt T

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pelA and pelC genes from Erwinia chrysanthemi EC16 were sequenced and overexpressed in Escherichia coli cells. These genes and two others from the same strain that were characterized previously encode catalytically related pectate lyase proteins that are involved with the maceration and soft-rotting of plant tissu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tamaki SJ,Gold S,Robeson M,Manulis S,Keen NT

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid titrations of intact and butanol-treated cells of Streptococcus faecalis revealed that nearly all of the intracellular K(+) ions could diffuse into the suspending medium in association with small anions, including ribonucleic acid breakdown products, when the cell membrane was damaged. In contrast, nearly all of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marquis RE,Porterfield N,Matsumura P

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified bulk tRNA from Methanococcus vanielii (carbon source, formate) showed variation in the modified nucleoside pattern reported for Escherichia coli as analyzed by both ion-exchange and thin-layer chromatography. Ribothymidine and 7-methylguanosine were absent; 1-methyladenosine, 1-methylguanosine, N2-methylguano...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Best AN

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins of the YidC/OxaI/Alb3 family play a crucial role in the insertion, folding, and/or assembly of membrane proteins in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Bacillus subtilis has two YidC-like proteins, denoted SpoIIIJ and YqjG. SpoIIIJ and YqjG are largely exchangeable in function, but SpoIIIJ has a unique role in sporul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geng Y,de Keyzer J,Scheffers DJ,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic transformation mutant Rd(DB117)rec- has a pleiotropic phenotype that includes reduced levels of phage recombination. Physical mapping experiments showed that this strain has a 78.5-kbp insertion in the rec-2 gene. The rec-2 dependence of phage recombination was reexamined to determine whether the defective...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kupfer DM,McCarthy D

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our recent identification and genetic analysis of the biosynthetic gene cluster for production of the ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptide cypemycin revealed a new class of peptide natural products, the linaridins. Here we describe the identification and characterization of grisemycin, a li...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Claesen J,Bibb MJ

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene (hmgA) for 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A (HMG-CoA) reductase (EC 1.1.1.34) from the thermophilic archaeon Sulfolobus solfataricus P2 was cloned and sequenced. S. solfataricus HMG-CoA reductase exhibited a high degree of sequence identity (47%) to the HMG-CoA reductase of the halophilic archaeon Halofe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bochar DA,Brown JR,Doolittle WF,Klenk HP,Lam W,Schenk ME,Stauffacher CV,Rodwell VW

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) inhibitory factor (Cif) is a virulence factor secreted by Pseudomonas aeruginosa that reduces the quantity of CFTR in the apical membrane of human airway epithelial cells. Initial sequence analysis suggested that Cif is an epoxide hydrolase (EH), but its seque...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bahl CD,Morisseau C,Bomberger JM,Stanton BA,Hammock BD,O'Toole GA,Madden DR

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The gene encoding a nonoxidative decarboxylase capable of catalyzing the transformation of 2-hydroxy-1-naphthoic acid (2H1NA) to 2-naphthol was identified, recombinantly expressed, and purified to homogeneity. The putative gene sequence of the decarboxylase (hndA) encodes a 316-amino-acid protein (HndA) with...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pal Chowdhury P,Basu S,Dutta A,Dutta TK

更新日期：2016-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Theophylline, aminophylline, and isobutylmethylxanthine, compounds reported to be inhibitors of adenosine 3',5'-phosphate (cAMP) phosphodiesterase, prevented the alpha-factor-induced cell cycle arrest of Saccharomyces cerevisiae a cells. To determine whether the in vivo effect of these methylxanthines on yeast pheromo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liao HH,Thorner J

更新日期：1981-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The four methyl-accepting chemotaxis proteins of Escherichia coli, often called transducers, are transmembrane receptor proteins that exhibit substantial identity among the sequences of their cytoplasmic domains. Thus, antiserum raised to one of these proteins recognizes the others and might be expected to recognize r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morgan DG,Baumgartner JW,Hazelbauer GL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transduction efficiency of Tn551, a staphylococcal transposon coding for erythromycin resistance (ermB), was increased by a factor of about five in acceptor strains carrying the gene for methicillin resistance (mec), as compared with methicillin-sensitive strains. This enhancement was independent of the generalize...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Berger-Bächi B

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glycosyltransferase (GT) module of class A penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) and monofunctional GTs (MGTs) belong to the GT51 family in the sequence-based classification of GTs. They both possess five conserved motifs and use lipid II precursor (undecaprenyl-pyrophosphate-N-acetylglucosaminyl-N-acetylmuramoyl- pe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Terrak M,Nguyen-Distèche M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, the ermC gene encodes an mRNA that is unusually stable (40-min half-life) in the presence of erythromycin, an inducer of ermC gene expression. A requirement for this induced mRNA stability is a ribosome stalled in the ermC leader region. This property of ermC mRNA was used to study the decay of m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bechhofer DH,Zen KH

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Bacillus megaterium spores germinate in the absence of an exogenous carbon source, the first minutes of germination are accompanied by production of large amounts (approximately 70 nmol/mg of dry spores) of acetate and much smaller amounts of pyruvate and lactate. The majority of these compounds are excreted into...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow B,Shay LK,Vary JC,Setlow P

更新日期：1977-11-01 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