YycH and YycI interact to regulate the essential YycFG two-component system in Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:The papA gene of the uropathogenic strain Escherichia coli J96, coding for the Pap pili subunit, was subjected to DNA sequencing, and found to code for an 185-amino acid-long polypeptide with a 22-amino acid-long signal peptide. Here we present the primary sequence, the hydrophilicity profile, and the predicted polype...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Båga M,Normark S,Hardy J,O'Hanley P,Lark D,Olsson O,Schoolnik G,Falkow S

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a Gram-negative bacterium causing nosocomial infections worldwide. To gain quick insight into the molecular basis of biofilm formation in A. baumannii, we determined the complete genome sequence of A. baumannii strain 1656-2, which forms sturdy biofilm and is resistant to multiple drugs. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Park JY,Kim S,Kim SM,Cha SH,Lim SK,Kim J

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method consisting of sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and subsequent detection of endoglucanases by blotting with a polyclonal antibody against endoglucanase I was used to investigate the effect of induction and carbon catabolite derepression on the synthesis of multiple forms of endoglucana...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Messner R,Gruber F,Kubicek CP

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:wbdA is a mannosyltransferase gene that is involved in synthesis of the Escherichia coli O9a polysaccharide, a mannose homopolymer with a repeating unit of 2-alphaMan-1,2-alphaMan-1,3-alphaMan-1, 3-alphaMan-1. The equivalent structural O polysaccharide in the E. coli O9 and Klebsiella O3 strains is 2-alphaMan-1,2-alph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kido N,Kobayashi H

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis expresses multicomponent organelles called type four pili (Tfp), which are key virulence factors required for attachment to human cells during carriage and disease. Pilin (PilE) is the main component of Tfp, and N. meningitidis isolates either have a class I pilE locus and express pilins that un...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lobanovska M,Tang CM,Exley RM

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae exhibits a novel form of gliding motility that is mediated by the terminal organelle, a differentiated polar structure. Given that genes known to be involved in gliding in other organisms are absent in M. pneumoniae, random transposon mutagenesis was employed to generate mutants with gliding-defi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Page CA,Krause DC

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By extracellular labeling of peptides of intact Corynebacterium diphtheriae, followed by fractionation of the cells and chain completion by isolated polysomes, it is shown that diphtheria toxin is formed and secreted cotranslationally by membrane-bound polysomes; free polysomes from none. Moreover, when the chains on ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith WP,Tai PC,Murphy JR,Davis BD

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon exposure to alkylating agents, Escherichia coli increases expression of aidB along with three genes (ada, alkA, and alkB) that encode DNA repair proteins. While the biological roles of the Ada, AlkA, and AlkB proteins have been defined, despite many efforts, the molecular functions of AidB remain largely unknown....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rippa V,Amoresano A,Esposito C,Landini P,Volkert M,Duilio A

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of studies were performed on a Staphylococcus aureus strain thought to contain a pencillinase plasmid integrated into the host chromosome. Reassociation kinetics analysis of whole-cell deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in the presence of pure radioactive plasmid DNA revealed that plasmid-specific sequences were pre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Novick R,Zouzias D,Rush M

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We screened mini-Mu plasmid libraries from Enterobacter aerogenes IFO 12010 for plasmids that complement Escherichia coli phn mutants that cannot use phosphonates (Pn) as the sole source of phosphorus (P). We isolated two kinds of plasmids that, unexpectedly, encode genes for different metabolic pathways. One kind com...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee KS,Metcalf WW,Wanner BL

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain group VIIIB transition metal compounds were found to inhibit cell division in Escherichia coli, causing marked filamentous growth. Gram-negative bacilli were the most sensitive to this effect, whereas gram-positive bacilli responded only at near-toxic levels of the metal. None of the cocci tested showed any ap...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosenberg B,Renshaw E,Vancamp L,Hartwick J,Drobnik J

更新日期：1967-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic albomycin is highly effective against Streptococcus pneumoniae, with an MIC of 10 ng/ml. The reason for the high efficacy was studied by measuring the uptake of albomycin into S. pneumoniae. Albomycin was transported via the system that transports the ferric hydroxamates ferrichrome and ferrioxamine B. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pramanik A,Braun V

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding Neisseria gonorrhoeae periplasmic binding protein FbpA contains two regions whose sequences exhibit homology with the Escherichia coli ferric uptake regulator protein (Fur) consensus binding sequence. In this study, DNase I footprinting experiments were employed to characterize the operator sequences...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Desai PJ,Angerer A,Genco CA

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis mutants deficient in amino acid repression of the histidine utilization (hut) operon were isolated by transposon mutagenesis. Genetic characterization of these mutants indicated that they most likely contained transposon insertions within the codVWXY operon. The codY gene is required for nutritional ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fisher SH,Rohrer K,Ferson AE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence genes in Listeria monocytogenes are coordinately expressed under the control of the transcriptional activator PrfA, encoded by prfA, a member of the cyclic AMP (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP)/FNR family of bacterial regulators. Strain P14-A is a spontaneous mutant of L. monocytogenes serovar 4b which produces ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ripio MT,Domínguez-Bernal G,Lara M,Suárez M,Vazquez-Boland JA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adenosine 5'-triphosphate (ATP) synthesis energized by an artificially imposed protonmotive force (delta p) in adenosine 5'-diphosphate-loaded membrane vesicles of Escherichia coli was investigated. The protonmotive force is composed of an artificially imposed pH gradient (delta pH) or membrane potential (deltapsi), o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsuchiya T

更新日期：1977-02-01 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：:Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA)-dependent ribonucleic acid (RNA) polymerase (EC 2.7.7.6) from Acinetobacter calcoaceticus was purified to apparent homogeneity and its properties were compared with those of the Escherichia coli B enzyme. The molecular weights of the two native active enzymes as well as their alpha and beta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kleppe RK,Kleppe K

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deduced amino acid sequences of the flagellins of Pseudomonas syringae pv. tabaci and P. syringae pv. glycinea are identical; however, their abilities to induce a hypersensitive reaction are clearly different. The reason for the difference seems to depend on the posttranslational modification of the flagellins. To...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Takeuchi K,Taguchi F,Inagaki Y,Toyoda K,Shiraishi T,Ichinose Y

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional domains in the RepI replication initiator protein have been identified by classical and site-directed mutagenesis techniques. Mutations conferring an increase in plasmid copy number contained alterations in a key position of a putative helix-turn-helix DNA binding motif. The mutations did not appear to affe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gammie AE,Tolmasky ME,Crosa JH

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pyridine-2,6-bis(thiocarboxylate) (PDTC), produced by certain pseudomonads, is a sulfur-containing siderophore that binds iron, as well as a wide range of transition metals, and it affects the net hydrolysis of the environmental contaminant carbon tetrachloride. The pathway of PDTC biosynthesis has not been defined. H...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lewis TA,Glassing A,Harper J,Franklin MJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An open reading frame (slr0899) on the genome of Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803 encodes a polypeptide of 149 amino acid residues, the sequence of which is 40% identical to that of cyanase from Escherichia coli. Introduction into a cyanase-deficient E. coli strain of a plasmid-borne slr0899 resulted in expression of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harano Y,Suzuki I,Maeda S,Kaneko T,Tabata S,Omata T

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhythmically advancing waves of cells, called ripples, arise spontaneously during the aggregation of Myxococcus xanthus into fruiting bodies. Extracts prepared by washing rippling cells contain a substance that will induce quiescent cells to ripple. Three lines of evidence indicate that murein (peptidoglycan) is the r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shimkets LJ,Kaiser D

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spirochete MA-2, which is anaerobic, ferments glucose, forming acetate as a major product. The spirochete also ferments (but does not utilize as growth substrates) small amounts of l-leucine, l-isoleucine, and l-valine, forming the branched-chain fatty acids isovalerate, 2-methylbutyrate, and isobutyrate, respectively...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harwood CS,Canale-Parola E

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Growth of a derivative of Escherichia coli K-10 was strongly inhibited by 2 times 10(-4) M L-5(1-amino-2-methylbutyl)-tetrazole (isoleucine tetrazole). Growth inhibition was reversed by isoleucine, threonine, glycyl-L-isoleucine, or glycyl-L-threonine, and, in a valine-resistant mutant, by L-valine. Partial reversal o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willshaw GA,Tristram H

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sortases are transamidases that covalently link proteins to the peptidoglycan of gram-positive bacteria. The genome of the pathogenic bacterium Listeria monocytogenes encodes two sortases genes, srtA and srtB. The srtA gene product anchors internalin and some other LPXTG-containing proteins to the listerial surface. H...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bierne H,Garandeau C,Pucciarelli MG,Sabet C,Newton S,Garcia-del Portillo F,Cossart P,Charbit A

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas oleovorans contains an isomerase which catalyzes the cis-trans conversion of the abundant unsaturated membrane fatty acids 9-cis-hexadecenoic acid (palmitoleic acid) and 11-cis-octadecenoic acid (vaccenic acid). We purified the isomerase from the periplasmic fraction of Pseudomonas oleovorans. The molecula...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pedrotta V,Witholt B

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxalate catabolism is conducted by phylogenetically diverse organisms, including Methylobacterium extorquens AM1. Here, we investigate the central metabolism of this alphaproteobacterium during growth on oxalate by using proteomics, mutant characterization, and (13)C-labeling experiments. Our results confirm that ener...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schneider K,Skovran E,Vorholt JA

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Haemophilus cryptic genospecies is an important cause of maternal genital tract and neonatal systemic infections and initiates infection by colonizing the genital or respiratory epithelium. In recent work, we identified a unique Haemophilus cryptic genospecies protein called Cha, which mediates efficient adherence...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sheets AJ,St Geme JW 3rd

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described 14 rare spontaneous morphological mutants of Candida albicans that were associated with chromosomal aberrations (E. P. Rustchenko-Bulgac, F. Sherman, and J. B. Hicks, J. Bacteriol. 172:1276-1283, 1990). Improved conditions for separation of chromosomes, as well as hybridization probes, were use...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rustchenko-Bulgac EP

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00