Flavobacterium johnsoniae SprA is a cell surface protein involved in gliding motility.

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：:High-resolution electron microscopy of polarly flagellated bacteria revealed that their flagella originate at a circular, differentiated portion of the cytoplasmic membrane approximately 25 nm in diameter. The flagella also have discs attaching them to the cell wall. These attachment discs are extremely resistant to l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vaituzis Z,Doetsch RN

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cook, Thomas M. (Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, N.Y.), William H. Deitz, and William A. Goss. Mechanism of action of nalidixic acid on Escherichia coli. IV. Effects on the stability of cellular constituents. J. Bacteriol. 91:774-779. 1996.-Treatment of Escherichia coli 15TAU with nalidixic acid resu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cook TM,Deitz WH,Goss WA

更新日期：1966-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface protein composition of members of a serogroup of Aeromonas hydrophila which exhibit high virulence for fish was examined. Treatment of whole cells of representative strain A. hydrophila TF7 with 0.2 M glycine buffer (pH 4.0) resulted in the release of sheets of a tetragonal surface protein array. Sodium do...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dooley JS,Trust TJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the gliding bacterium Flavobacterium johnsoniae move rapidly over surfaces. Mutations in gldN cause a partial defect in gliding. A novel bacteriophage selection strategy was used to aid construction of a strain with a deletion spanning gldN and the closely related gene gldO in an otherwise wild-type F. johnso...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rhodes RG,Samarasam MN,Shrivastava A,van Baaren JM,Pochiraju S,Bollampalli S,McBride MJ

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a previous search for mutants of Salmonella typhimurium that are defective in heme synthesis, one class that is apparently defective in 5-aminolevulinic acid (ALA) uptake (alu) was found. Here, I describe the characterization of these mutations. The mutations all map to a single locus near 77.5 min on the genetic m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Elliott T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Mycobacterium tuberculosis possesses a thick and highly hydrophobic cell wall principally composed of a mycolyl-arabinogalactan-peptidoglycan complex, which is critical for survival and virulence. DprE1 is a well-characterized component of decaprenyl-phospho-ribose epimerase, which produces decaprenyl-phosph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kolly GS,Mukherjee R,Kilacsková E,Abriata LA,Raccaud M,Blaško J,Sala C,Dal Peraro M,Mikušová K,Cole ST

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group A streptococcus (GAS) Streptococcus pyogenes is known to cause self-limiting purulent infections in humans. The role of GAS pili in host cell adhesion and biofilm formation is likely fundamental in early colonization. Pilus genes are found in the FCT (fibronectin-binding protein, collagen-binding protein, an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kimura KR,Nakata M,Sumitomo T,Kreikemeyer B,Podbielski A,Terao Y,Kawabata S

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolypyruvate-dependent maltose:phosphotransferase activity was induced in cells of Fusobacterium mortiferum ATCC 25557 during growth on maltose. The disaccharide was rapidly metabolized by washed cells maintained under anaerobic conditions, but fermentation ceased immediately upon exposure of the cell suspensi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robrish SA,Fales HM,Gentry-Weeks C,Thompson J

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsulated Haemophilus influenzae type b and two spontaneous mutants (classes I and II variants) were characterized by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. When cells were treated with type b-specific antiserum prior to manipulations for electron microscopy, sectioned capsulated cells had electron-dense, fib...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doern GV,Buckmire FL

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:T4 gene 2 mutants have a pleiotropic phenotype: degradation of injected phage DNA by exonuclease V (ExoV) in the recBCD(+) host cell cytoplasm and a low burst size due, at least in part, to a decreased ability for head-to-tail (H-T) joining. The more N terminal the mutation, the more pronounced is the H-T joining defe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang GR,Vianelli A,Goldberg EB

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Components of membranes isolated from Spiroplasma citri and corn stunt spiroplasma grown at 28 degrees C were analyzed. On a protein basis, lipid phosphorus was lower and cholesterol was higher in S. citri. Only minor differences between the two species were found in fatty acid composition, reduced nicotinamide adenin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mudd JB,Lee IM,Liu HY,Calavan EC

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major conjugative transfer gene cluster of staphylococcal plasmid pGO1 (trs) consists of 13 open reading frames (trsA to trsM) transcribed from one DNA strand and a single 189-bp open reading frame (trsN) within the first 348 bp of trs that is transcribed divergently. Promoter regions for trsN and trsA partially o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sharma VK,Johnston JL,Morton TM,Archer GL

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-Ribulose 1,5-bisphosphate (RuBP) carboxylase has been purified from the photosynthetic extreme halophile Ectothiorhodospira halophila. Despite a growth requirement for almost saturating sodium chloride in the medium, both crude and homogeneous preparations of RuBP carboxylase obtained from this organism were inhibit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tabita FR,McFadden BA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:With two-dimensional restriction enzyme analysis we have been able to cleave the Bacillus subtilis genome and resolve the resulting deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) segments into discrete bands on agarose gels. A general procedure for gene purification has been developed by coupling multidimensional restriction analysis wi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Potter SS,Bott KF,Newbold JE

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid repair synthesis was studied in one wild-type and two mutant strains of Bacillus subtilis that are defective in excision of pyrimidine dimers. The cells were irradiated with ultraviolet light, and 6-(p-hydroxyphenyl-azo)-uracil was used to block replicative synthesis, allowing only repair synthes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hadden CT

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H10407 is a strain of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) that utilizes CFA/I pili to adhere to surfaces of the small intestine, where it elaborates toxins that cause profuse watery diarrhea in humans. Expression of the CFA/I pilus is positively regulated at the level of transcription by CfaD, a member of the AraC...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pilonieta MC,Bodero MD,Munson GP

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When allyl alcohol was used as a suicide substrate, spontaneous mutants and UV light- and nitrous acid-generated mutants of Methylobacterium organophilum XX were selected which grew on methylamine but not on methanol. There was no detectable methanol dehydrogenase (MDH) activity in crude extracts of these mutants, yet...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Machlin SM,Tam PE,Bastien CA,Hanson RS

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of reduced and oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides were determined in Xanthobacter flavus during a transition from heterotrophic to autotrophic growth. Excess reducing equivalents are rapidly dissipated following induction of the Calvin cycle, indicating that the Calvin cycle serves as a sink for ex...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van Keulen G,Dijkhuizen L,Meijer WG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Boivin preparation of Brucella abortus, unlike common enterobacterial endotoxins, failed to depress water intake or increase numbers of hemolysin-producing spleen cells in mice, or to cause delayed inflammatory reactions in rabbit skin. Reactivity to the B. abortus endotoxin was found only in animals which were prev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Freedman HH,Fox AE,Willis RS,Schwartz BS

更新日期：1968-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dormant spores of Bacillus subtilis exhibit two prominent X-ray scattering peaks. These peaks persisted in spores lacking most alpha/beta-type small, acid-soluble protein or the CotE protein responsible for assembly of much spore coat protein, but they were absent from spores of strains lacking the late sporulation-sp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qiu X,Setlow P

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of a stable L-phase variant of Streptococcus faecium F24 produced and retained peptidoglycan precursors intracellularly over the entire growth cycle in a chemically defined medium. The identity of the most abundant precursor, UDP N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamyl-L-lysyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine (UDP-MurNAc-penta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gregory WW,Gooder H

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some Escherichia coli strains with impaired cell division form branched cells at high frequencies during certain growth conditions. Here, we show that neither FtsI nor FtsZ activity is required for the development of branches. Buds did not form at specific positions along the cell surface during high-branching conditi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gullbrand B,Akerlund T,Nordström K

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short sequence repeats (SSRs), potentially representing variable numbers of tandem repeat (VNTR) loci, were identified for the human-pathogenic yeast species Candida albicans by computerized DNA sequence scanning. The individual SSR regions were investigated in different clinical isolates of C. albicans. Most of the C...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lunel FV,Licciardello L,Stefani S,Verbrugh HA,Melchers WJ,Meis JF,Scherer S,van Belkum A

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tests for utilization of d-octopine and nopaline in defined media containing a carbon and nitrogen source were made on 60 strains of Agrobacterium representing four species and on a representative of each of five species of Rhizobium. Among 46 virulent strains of Agrobacterium, only two strains were found which utiliz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lippincott JA,Beiderbeck R,Lippincott BB

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heat-stable enterotoxin (ST) produced by enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli is an extracellular peptide toxin that evokes watery diarrhea in the host. Two types of STs, STI and STII, have been found. Both STs are synthesized as precursor proteins and are then converted to the active forms with intramolecular disulfi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamanaka H,Kobayashi H,Takahashi E,Okamoto K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis, a leading cause of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CaUTI), differentiates into swarm cells that migrate across catheter surfaces and medium solidified with 1.5% agar. While many genes and nutrient requirements involved in the swarming process have been identified, few studies have addre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Armbruster CE,Hodges SA,Mobley HL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three additional ATPase genes, clustered in the order ahaH, ahaI, and ahaK, were found upstream of the previously characterized genes ahaECFABDG coding for the archaeal A1A0 ATPase from Methanosarcina mazei. ahaH, the first gene in the cluster, is preceded by a conserved promoter sequence. Northern blot analysis revea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ruppert C,Wimmers S,Lemker T,Müller V

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Martinez, R. J. (University of California, Los Angeles), and E. Z. Gordee. Formation of bacterial flagella. I. Demonstration of a functional flagellin pool in Spirillum serpens and Bacillus subtilis. J. Bacteriol. 91:870-875. 1966-Exponentially growing cultures of Spirillum serpens and Bacillus subtilis regained motil...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Martinez RJ,Gordee EZ

更新日期：1966-02-01 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