The SXT conjugative element and linear prophage N15 encode toxin-antitoxin-stabilizing systems homologous to the tad-ata module of the Paracoccus aminophilus plasmid pAMI2.

abstract：:Protein K is an outer membrane protein found in pathogenic encapsulated strains of Escherichia coli. We present evidence here that protein K is structurally and functionally related to the E. coli K-12 porin proteins (OmpF, OmpC, and PhoE). Protein K was found to cross-react with antibody to OmpF protein and to share ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sutcliffe J,Blumenthal R,Walter A,Foulds J

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaea are abundant and drive critical microbial processes in the Earth's cold biosphere. Despite this, not enough is known about the molecular mechanisms of cold adaptation and no biochemical studies have been performed on stenopsychrophilic archaea (e.g., Methanogenium frigidum). This study examined the structural ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giaquinto L,Curmi PM,Siddiqui KS,Poljak A,DeLong E,DasSarma S,Cavicchioli R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase enzyme was used as a reporter molecule for genetic fusions in Rhodobacter capsulatus. DNA fragments that were from the upstream region of the hydrogenase structural operon hupSLM and contained 5' hupS sequences were fused in frame to a promoterless lacZ gene, yielding fusion pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Colbeau A,Vignais PM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filaments of a thermosensitive Bacillus megaterium mutant showed an altered macromolecular composition compared with salt-cured mutant cells and parental cells. Filaments contained more peptidoglycan, polyglucose, poly-beta-hydroxy-butyrate, and deoxyribonucleic acid per unit of protein. The ribonucleic acid-to-protei...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yan LP,Hitchins AD

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Comparative genome analysis of Enterococcus faecium recently revealed that a genomic island containing the esp gene, referred to as the esp-containing pathogenicity island (esp PAI), can be transferred by conjugation and contains a partial Tn916-like element and an integrase gene, intA. Here, we characterize the role ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Top J,Sinnige JC,Majoor EA,Bonten MJ,Willems RJ,van Schaik W

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TcbR transcriptional activator protein, which is encoded by the tcbR gene of Pseudomonas sp. strain P51 (J. R. van der Meer, A. C. J. Frijters, J. H. J. Leveau, R. I. L. Eggen, A. J. B. Zehnder, and W. M. de Vos, J. Bacteriol. 173:3700-3708, 1991), was purified from overproducing Escherichia coli cells by using a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leveau JH,de Vos WM,van der Meer JR

更新日期：1994-04-01 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：:All bacteria use the conserved Sec pathway to transport proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane, with the SecA ATPase playing a central role in the process. Mycobacteria are part of a small group of bacteria that have two SecA proteins: the canonical SecA (SecA1) and a second, specialized SecA (SecA2). The SecA2-depe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ligon LS,Rigel NW,Romanchuk A,Jones CD,Braunstein M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ftsB gene of Escherichia coli is believed to be involved in cell division. In this report, we show that plasmids containing the nrdB gene could complement the ftsB mutation, suggesting that ftsB is an allele of nrdB. We compared changes in the cell shape of isogenic nrdA, nrdB, ftsB, and pbpB strains at permissive...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taschner PE,Verest JG,Woldringh CL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ragland, T. E. (Brandeis University, Waltham, Mass.), T. Kawasaki, and J. M. Lowenstein. Comparative aspects of some bacterial dehydrogenases and transhydrogenases. J. Bacteriol. 91:236-244. 1966.-Twenty-eight diverse bacterial species were surveyed for the activities and coenzyme specificities of four enzymes: isocit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ragland TE,Kawasaki T,Lowenstein JM

更新日期：1966-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1 undergoes conjugative transfer in response to cAD1, a peptide sex pheromone emitted by potential bacterial recipients. Regulation of pAD1 transfer involves a number of plasmid-encoded determinants:iad, which determines a peptide-competitive inhibitor iAD1; signal sensing and tran...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pontius LT,Clewell DB

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method is described that allows a direct determination of the location of a portion of the dipicolinic acid (DPA) in spores. Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation is shown to cause cross-linkage of DPA to spore proteins which have the characteristics of membrane proteins. We suggest that DPA resides in the inner foresp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Germaine GR,Murrell WG

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chlorosome envelope of Chlorobaculum tepidum contains 10 proteins that belong to four structural motif families. A previous mutational study (N.-U. Frigaard, H. Li, K. J. Milks, and D. A. Bryant, J. Bacteriol. 186:646-653, 2004) suggested that some of these proteins might have redundant functions. Six multilocus m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li H,Bryant DA

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the complete genome sequence of Yersinia pestis KIM, the etiologic agent of bubonic and pneumonic plague. The strain KIM, biovar Mediaevalis, is associated with the second pandemic, including the Black Death. The 4.6-Mb genome encodes 4,198 open reading frames (ORFs). The origin, terminus, and most genes en...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Deng W,Burland V,Plunkett G 3rd,Boutin A,Mayhew GF,Liss P,Perna NT,Rose DJ,Mau B,Zhou S,Schwartz DC,Fetherston JD,Lindler LE,Brubaker RR,Plano GV,Straley SC,McDonough KA,Nilles ML,Matson JS,Blattner FR,Perry RD

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Replication initiator proteins in bacteria not only allow DNA replication but also often regulate the rate of replication initiation as well. The regulation is mediated by limiting the synthesis or availability of initiator proteins. The applicability of this principle is demonstrated here for RctB, the replication in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pal D,Venkova-Canova T,Srivastava P,Chattoraj DK

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a region located downstream of the nifB gene, both in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 and in Rhizobium meliloti, has been determined. This region contains a gene (fdxN) whose predicted polypeptide product strongly resembles typical bacterial ferredoxins. Cyanobacteria have no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mulligan ME,Buikema WJ,Haselkorn R

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin was detected intracellularly about 3 hr after the inoculation of vegetative cells into sporulation medium. The subsequent increase in intracellular enterotoxin concentration roughly paralleled but followed by 2.5 to 5 hr the increase in number of heat-resistant spores. The increase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Duncan CL

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gcaD, prs, and ctc genes were shown to be organized as a tricistronic operon. The transcription of the prs gene, measured as phosphoribosyl diphosphate synthetase activity, and of the ctc gene, measured as beta-galactosidase activity specified by a ctc-lacZ protein fusion, were dependent on the promoter in front o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hilden I,Krath BN,Hove-Jensen B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although competence normally develops only in glucose-minimal salts media, mecA and mecB mutations permit the expression of competence and of late competence genes in complex media as well (D. Dubnau and M. Roggiani, J. Bacteriol. 172:4048-4055, 1990). The expression of late competence genes is dependent on the produc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roggiani M,Hahn J,Dubnau D

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TatA and TatB proteins are essential components of the twin arginine protein translocation pathway in Escherichia coli. C-terminal truncation analysis of the TatA protein revealed that a plasmid-expressed TatA protein shortened by 40 amino acids is still fully competent to support protein translocation. Similar tr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee PA,Buchanan G,Stanley NR,Berks BC,Palmer T

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA involved in the mobilization of broad-host-range plasmid R1162 was localized to a region of 2.7 kilobases within coordinates 3.4 to 6.1 kilobases on the R1162 map. By examining the transfer properties of plasmids containing cloned fragments of DNA from within this region, we showed that at least four trans-active ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brasch MA,Meyer RJ

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic marker for sulfadiazine resistance was transferred by means of purified deoxyribonucleic acid from sulfadiazine-resistant Neisseria meningitidis and N. perflava to a sulfadiazine-sensitive strain of N. meningitidis. Over 80% of the isolates from these experiments, selected on the basis of sulfadiazine resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A fusion between lacZ and ftsZ of Escherichia coli was constructed to obtain a beta-galactosidase-FtsZ fusion protein. This fusion protein was used to raise antibodies against cell division protein FtsZ. Six monoclonal antibodies were obtained, and they reacted with FtsZ from cytoplasm and membrane fractions. The epit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Voskuil JL,Westerbeek CA,Wu C,Kolk AH,Nanninga N

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five lacY mutants with amber stop codons at known positions were each placed into 12 different suppressor strains. The 60 amino acid substitutions obtained in this manner were tested for growth on lactose-minimal medium plates and for transport of lactose, melibiose, and thiomethylgalactoside. Most of the amino acid s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang AM,Lee JI,King SC,Wilson TH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Emulsan, the polyanionic emulsifying agent synthesized by Acinetobacter calcoaceticus RAG-1, was depolymerized by an enzyme obtained from a soil bacterium YUV-1. The extracellular emulsan depolymerase was produced when strains RAG-1 and YUV-1 were grown together on agar medium. The enzyme was extracted from the agar a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shoham Y,Rosenberg E

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The arginine biosynthetic precursors, ornithine, citrulline, and argininosuccinate, inhibit arginyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase (EC 6.1.1.13, arginine: soluble RNA ligase, adenosine monophosphate) activity in the in vitro attachment assay system. Ornithine is the most potent, argininosuccinate is next,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yem DW,Williams LS

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The control of men gene expression during growth and sporulation of Bacillus subtilis was examined at the transcriptional level. Two different approaches were used. (i) Steady-state levels of men-specific mRNA were measured directly. (ii) A men'-lacZ gene fusion was constructed. In both cases, it was observed that men...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller P,Mueller J,Hill K,Taber H

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) fractions were isolated from three species of blue-green algae of the genus Phormidium, namely, P. africanum, P. laminosum, and P. uncinatum, by using a phenol-water procedure followed by exhaustive extraction with ammonium oxalate. The materials obtained were shown to be closely related bioch...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mikheyskaya LV,Ovodova RG,Ovodov YS

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 5 to 10 peritrichously inserted complex flagella of Rhizobium meliloti MVII-1 were found to form right-handed flagellar bundles. Bacteria swam at speeds up to 60 microns/s, their random three-dimensional walk consisting of straight runs and quick directional changes (turns) without the vigorous angular motion (tum...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Götz R,Schmitt R

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the nine genes comprising the L-rhamnose operon of Rhizobium leguminosarum, rhaU has not been assigned a function. The construction of a Delta rhaU strain revealed a growth phenotype that was slower than that of the wild-type strain, although the ultimate cell yields were equivalent. The transport of L-rhamnose int...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Richardson JS,Carpena X,Switala J,Perez-Luque R,Donald LJ,Loewen PC,Oresnik IJ

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00