Contribution of the mannan backbone of cryptococcal glucuronoxylomannan and a glycolytic enzyme of Staphylococcus aureus to contact-mediated killing of Cryptococcus neoformans.

abstract：:The DnaA protein concentration in Escherichia coli was increased above the wild-type level by inducing a lacP-controlled dnaA gene located on a plasmid. In these cells with different DnaA protein levels, we measured several parameters: dnaA gene expression; cell size, amount of DNA per cell, and number of origins per ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Atlung T,Hansen FG

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From several presumably pure cultures of Thiobacillus ferrooxidans, we isolated a pair of stable phenotypes. One was a strict autotroph utilizing sulfur or ferrous iron as the energy source and unable to utilize glucose; the other phenotype was an acidophilic obligate heterotroph capable of utilizing glucose but not s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harrison AP Jr,Jarvis BW,Johnson JL

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell surface antigen complex from Zwittergent-solubilized Myxococcus xanthus has been purified by immunoaffinity chromatography with monoclonal antibody (MAb) 1604 and by subsequent gel filtration. We propose that the cell surface antigen (CSA) 1604 complex participates in intercellular interactions. The apparent to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jarvis BW,Dworkin M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have detected a cholesterol-dependent cytolysin, which we have named mitilysin, in a small number of Streptococcus mitis isolates. We have sequenced the mitilysin gene from seven isolates of S. mitis. Comparisons with the pneumococcal pneumolysin gene show 15 amino acid substitutions. S. mitis appear to release mit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jefferies J,Nieminen L,Kirkham LA,Johnston C,Smith A,Mitchell TJ

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The steps in the biosynthetic transformation of GTP to 7,8-dihydro-D-erythro-neopterin (H2neopterin), the precursor to the modified folates found in the methanogenic archaea, has been elucidated for the first time in two members of the domain Archaea. In Methanococcus thermophila and Methanobacterium thermoautotrophic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Howell DM,White RH

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective phage lambdadg, when present in certain Salmonella typhosa hybrids, could be eliminated with acridine orange or ethidium bromide treatment. The lambdadg deoxyribonucleic acid could be separated from the S. typhosa host deoxyribonucleic acid as a distinctly covalently closed molecule. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Falkow S,Baron LS

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the effect of time, temperature, and the presence of sodium chloride, nitrates, and nitrites in the medium on the growth and production of enterotoxin B by Staphylococcus aureus. Assays by the double gel-diffusion method showed that maximal enterotoxin B production occurs at the beginning of the statio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McLean RA,Lilly HD,Alford JA

更新日期：1968-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two riboflavin synthase activities (heavy and light) have been observed in earlier studies with Bacillus subtilis. The heavy enzyme is a complex of one molecule of light enzyme (consisting of three alpha subunits) and approximately 60 beta subunits (A. Bacher, R. Bauer, U. Eggers, H. Harders, and H. Schnepple, p. 729-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bacher A,Mailänder B

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aggregative amoebae of Dictyostelium discoideum, D. mucoroides, D. purpureum, and D. rosarium react chemotactically to cyclic AMP (cAMP). We measured the chemotactic activity of 14 cAMP analogs and found that these four species have a similar sensitivity to chemical modifications of cAMP; this suggests that the cAMP r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van Haastert PJ,Jastorff B,Pinas JE,Konijn TM

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recF gene of Escherichia coli is known to encode an Mr-40,000 protein that is involved in DNA recombinationa nd postreplication DNA repair. To characterize the role of the recF gene product in these processes, the recF gene was cloned downstream of a tac promoter to facilitate overproduction of the recF gene produ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Griffin TJ 4th,Kolodner RD

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hemA mutation of Escherichia coli K-12 confers a requirement for delta-aminolevulinic acid (ALA). Cell extract prepared from the hemA strain SASX41B was incapable of producing ALA from either glutamate or glutamyl-tRNA, whereas extract of the hem+ strain HB101 formed colorimetrically detectable amounts of ALA and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Avissar YJ,Beale SI

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first generalized transducing bacteriophage reported for Bacillus megaterium has been characterized. Optimum conditions for lysate production and transduction procedures were established so that transducing frequencies of 8 x 10(-6) and higher are now possible. The phage, MP13, has a head diameter of 97 nm and a c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vary PS,Garbe JC,Franzen M,Frampton EW

更新日期：1982-03-01 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：: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：:Proteus mirabilis is a dimorphic bacterium which exists in liquid cultures as a 1.5- to 2.0-microns motile swimmer cell possessing 6 to 10 peritrichous flagella. When swimmer cells are placed on a surface, they differentiate by a combination of events that ultimately produce a swarmer cell. Unlike the swimmer cell, th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belas R,Erskine D,Flaherty D

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni remains among the leading causes of bacterial food-borne illness. The current understanding of Campylobacter physiology suggests that it is asaccharolytic and is unable to catabolize exogenous carbohydrates. Contrary to this paradigm, we provide evidence for l-fucose utilization by C. jejuni. The ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Muraoka WT,Zhang Q

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major coat protein of the bacteriophage f1 is synthesized during infection of Escherichia coli and becomes tightly associated with the host membrane. This synthesis was studied in conjunction with the strain BB26-36, a mutant defective in phospholipid synthesis, to investigate basic questions concerning membrane p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cashman JS,Webster RE

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the bacterium Escherichia coli, oxidized pyrimidines are removed by two DNA glycosylases, endonuclease III and endonuclease VIII (endo VIII), encoded by the nth and nei genes, respectively. Double mutants lacking both of these activities exhibit a high spontaneous mutation frequency, and here we show that all of th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blaisdell JO,Hatahet Z,Wallace SS

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated pili from Escherichia coli SS142. These pili had a diameter of 6 nm and an average length of 400 nm. They were composed of subunits with a molecular weight of 18,000. Their amino acid composition was determined; methionine and proline were not detected. The isolated pili retained mannose-resistant hemagglu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mett H,Kloetzlen L,Vosbeck K

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nifV and leuA genes, which encode homocitrate synthase and alpha-isopropylmalate synthase, respectively, were cloned from the filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 by a PCR-based strategy. Since the N-terminal parts of NifV and LeuA from other bacteria are highly similar to each other, a single p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stricker O,Masepohl B,Klipp W,Böhme H

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flac mutants have been isolated in Escherichia coli K-12 which carry dominant mutations resulting in insensitivity to transfer inhibition by the Fin(+) I-like plasmid R62. These mutants were still sensitive to transfer inhibition by the fin(+) F-like plasmid R100 and, conversely, FlactraO(-) and traP(-) mutants, which...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willetts NS,Paranchych W

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified superdormant spores of Bacillus cereus, B. megaterium, and B. subtilis isolated after optimal heat activation of dormant spores and subsequent germination with inosine, d-glucose, or l-valine, respectively, germinate very poorly with the original germinants used to remove dormant spores from spore populations...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ghosh S,Zhang P,Li YQ,Setlow P

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two replicons were isolated independently from different IncHI1 plasmids. One was isolated from R27, and a second was isolated from pIP522. We demonstrate, by DNA-DNA hybridization experiments, that these maintenance regions are different and that they are specific to, and carried by, all IncHI1 plasmids tested. In vi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gabant P,Newnham P,Taylor D,Couturier M

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycine betaine is an effective osmoprotectant for Bacillus subtilis. Its import into osmotically stressed cells led to the buildup of large pools, whose size was sensitively determined by the degree of the osmotic stress imposed. The amassing of glycine betaine caused repression of the formation of an osmostress-adap...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hoffmann T,Wensing A,Brosius M,Steil L,Völker U,Bremer E

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, IRE1 encodes a bifunctional protein with transmembrane kinase and endoribonuclease activities. HAC1 encodes a transcription factor which has a basic leucine zipper domain. Both gene products play a crucial role in the unfolded protein response. Mutants in which one of these genes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sugiyama M,Nikawa J

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most motile bacteria are able to bias their movement towards more favorable environments or to escape from obnoxious substances by a process called chemotaxis. Chemotaxis depends on a chemosensory system that is able to sense specific environmental signals and generate a behavioral response. Typically, the signal is t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ringgaard S,Yang W,Alvarado A,Schirner K,Briegel A

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We have overexpressed and purified the Helicobacter pylori Fur protein and analyzed its interaction with the intergenic regions of divergent genes involved in iron uptake (frpB and ceuE) and oxygen radical detoxification (katA and tsaA). DNase I footprint analysis showed that Fur binds specifically to a high-affinity ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Delany I,Pacheco AB,Spohn G,Rappuoli R,Scarlato V

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tectiviridae is a family of tailless bacteriophages with Gram-negative and Gram-positive hosts. The family model PRD1 and its close relatives all infect a broad range of enterobacteria by recognizing a plasmid-encoded conjugal transfer complex as a receptor. In contrast, tectiviruses with Gram-positive hosts are highl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kan S,Fornelos N,Schuch R,Fischetti VA

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integration host factor (IHF) is a small, basic protein that is needed for efficient recombination of bacteriophage lambda, as well as for other host and viral functions. We have constructed strains in which the two subunits of IHF, encoded by the himA and hip genes of Escherichia coli, are expressed under the control...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nash HA,Robertson CA,Flamm E,Weisberg RA,Miller HI

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the CpxRA two-component signal transduction system senses and responds to aggregated and misfolded proteins in the bacterial envelope. We show that CpxR-P (the phosphorylated form of the cognate response regulator) activates cpxRA expression in conjunction with RpoS, suggesting an involvement of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： De Wulf P,Kwon O,Lin EC

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00