Differential substrate specificity and kinetic behavior of Escherichia coli YfdW and Oxalobacter formigenes formyl coenzyme A transferase.

abstract：:Secreted and cell envelope-associated proteins are important to both Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis and the generation of protective immunity to M. tuberculosis. We used an in vitro Tn552'phoA transposition system to identify exported proteins of M. tuberculosis. The system is simple and efficient, and the tr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Braunstein M,Griffin TJ IV,Kriakov JI,Friedman ST,Grindley ND,Jacobs WR Jr

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene (aad) coding for an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase (AAD) was identified immediately upstream of the previously cloned ctfA (J. W. Cary, D. J. Petersen, E. T. Papoutsakis, and G. N. Bennett, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56:1576-1583, 1990) of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 and sequenced. The 2,619-bp aad codes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nair RV,Bennett GN,Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some bacteriophages target potentially pathogenic bacteria by exploiting surface-associated virulence factors as receptors. For example, phage have been identified that exhibit specificity for Vi capsule producing Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. Here we have characterized the Vi-associated E1-typing bacteriophage u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pickard D,Thomson NR,Baker S,Wain J,Pardo M,Goulding D,Hamlin N,Choudhary J,Threfall J,Dougan G

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehority, B. A. (Ohio Agricultural Experiment Station, Wooster). Degradation and utilization of isolated hemicellulose by pure cultures of cellulolytic rumen bacteria. J. Bacteriol. 89:1515-1520. 1965.-Hemicelluloses isolated from flax, corn hulls, alfalfa, oat hulls, and fescue grass were used as sole energy sources ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DEHORITY BA

更新日期：1965-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The oral bacterium Streptococcus salivarius takes up lactose via a transporter called LacS that shares 95% identity with the LacS from Streptococcus thermophilus, a phylogenetically closely related organism. S. thermophilus releases galactose into the medium during growth on lactose. Expulsion of galactose is mediated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lessard C,Cochu A,Lemay JD,Roy D,Vaillancourt K,Frenette M,Moineau S,Vadeboncoeur C

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of isoleucine, valine, and leucine biosynthesis and isoleucyl-, valyl-, and leucyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase formation was examined in two mutant strains of Escherichia coli. One mutant was selected for growth resistance to the isoleucine analogue, ketomycin, and the other was selected for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson J,Williams LS,Umbarger HE

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyatt, Mildred T. (Pioneering Research Division. U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Mass.), and Hillel S. Levinson. Effect of sugars and other carbon compounds on germination and postgerminative development of Bacillus megaterium spores. J. Bacteriol. 88:1403-1415. 1964.-A total of 77 carbon-containing compounds w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HYATT MT,LEVINSON HS

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The direction of chromosome replication in a temperature-sensitive initiation mutant of Escherichia coli (CT28) is shown autoradiographically to be bidirectional. This mode of replication persists even when the rate of replication is reduced by slow growth in succinate minimal medium or in the presence of chlorampheni...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rodriguez RL,Davern CI

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hydrocarbon-utilizing Brevibacterium which grew into the oil phase of an oil-water system was tested for survival at elevated temperature. Cells suspended in oil and cells that had been resuspended in aqueous solution were tested by placing 1-ml samples of the cell suspension in small test tubes immersed in a contro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Severance MM,LaRock PA

更新日期：1973-12-01 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：:A method has been developed for studying the specific activity of the pool of S-adenosylmethionine in yeast. The pool reaches half-maximal specific activity within 30 s after the addition of [methyl-3H]methionine. After addition of an excess of nonradioactive methionine, the specific activity of S-adenosylmethionine i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Warner JR,Morgan SA,Shulman RW

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many streptococcal pathogens require a polysaccharide capsule for survival in the host during systemic infection. The highly conserved CpsA protein is proposed to be a transcriptional regulator of capsule production in streptococci, although the regulatory mechanism is unknown. Hydropathy plots of CpsA predict an inte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hanson BR,Lowe BA,Neely MN

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated cell envelopes of a marine bacterium, M.B.3, have been prepared which possess a nonspecific, cation-activated nucleotidase. The cell envelope comprises approximately 35% (dry weight) of the whole cell and contains protein, 60.2%; lipids, 20.7%; hexose, 3.4%; and ribonucleic acid, 4.6%. No deoxyribonucleic aci...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thompson J,Green ML,Happold FC

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During development of the symbiotic soil bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti into nitrogen-fixing bacteroids, DNA replication and cell division cease and the cells undergo profound metabolic and morphological changes. Regulatory genes controlling the early stages of this process have not been identified. As a first step ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barnett MJ,Hung DY,Reisenauer A,Shapiro L,Long SR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cepacia AC1100 metabolizes 2,4,5-trichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4,5-T) via formation of 5-chlorohydroxyquinol (5-CHQ), hydroxyquinol (HQ), maleylacetate, and beta-oxoadipate. The step(s) leading to the dechlorination of 5-CHQ to HQ has remained unidentified. We demonstrate that a dechlorinating enzyme, Tf...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zaborina O,Daubaras DL,Zago A,Xun L,Saido K,Klem T,Nikolic D,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The widely conserved second messenger cyclic diguanosine monophosphate (c-di-GMP) plays a key role in quorum-sensing (QS)-dependent production of virulence factors in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris. The detection of QS diffusible signal factor (DSF) by the sensor RpfC leads to the activation of response regulat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tao F,He YW,Wu DH,Swarup S,Zhang LH

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavobacterium johnsoniae cells move rapidly over surfaces by gliding motility. Gliding results from the movement of adhesins such as SprB and RemA along the cell surface. These adhesins are delivered to the cell surface by a Bacteroidetes-specific secretion system referred to as the type IX secretion system (T9SS). G...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shrivastava A,Johnston JJ,van Baaren JM,McBride MJ

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli recF mutants are hypermutable when treated with methyl methanesulfonate (G. C. Walker, Mol. Gen. Genet. 152:93-103, 1977). In this study, methylation hypermutability of recF mutant strains was examined, and it was found that recF+ is required for normal induction of the adaptive response to alkylation...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Volkert MR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis, extracellular peptide signaling regulates several biological processes. Secreted Phr signaling peptides are imported into the cell and act intracellularly to antagonize the activity of regulators known as Rap proteins. B. subtilis encodes several Rap proteins and Phr peptides, and the processes r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Auchtung JM,Lee CA,Grossman AD

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic nitrogen-fixing bacterium Sinorhizobium meliloti possesses the Sin quorum-sensing system based on N-acyl homoserine lactones (AHLs) as signal molecules. The Sin system consists of SinI, the AHL synthase, and SinR, the LuxR-type regulator. This system regulates the expression of a multitude of S. meliloti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McIntosh M,Krol E,Becker A

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of catalase-deficient mutants of Escherichia coli which exhibit no assayable catalase activity were isolated. The only physiological difference between the catalase mutants and their parents was a 50- to 60-fold greater sensitivity to killing by hydrogen peroxide. For comparison, mutations in the xthA and rec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loewen PC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the trp operon of Bacillus subtilis is regulated by attenuation. A trpE'-'lacZ gene fusion preceded by the wild-type trp promoter-leader region was used to analyze regulation. Overproduction of the trp leader transcript in trans from a multicopy plasmid caused constitutive expression of the chromosoma...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuroda MI,Henner D,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis unable to use the dipeptide carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine) as a sole carbon or nitrogen source was isolated. Carnosinase activity and the ability to grow on beta-Ala and/or L-His were similar in the mutant and the wild type. However, the mutant showed significant impairment in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bhatt A,Green R,Coles R,Condon M,Connell ND

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of 12 phage strains with bacilli, protoplasts, and L forms of Bacillus subtilis 168 and with eight of its mutants and two of its lysogens is described qualitatively and quantitatively. After removal of the cell wall from B. subtilis 168, 11 of the 12 phage strains can still adsorb to the protoplasts, n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jacobson ED,Landman OE

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Conditions for continuous culture of Escherichia coli K-12 His- Thi- under glucose limitation were established. Both the capacity for respiration, at D greater than 0.2/h, and specific activity of superoxide dismutase increased as a function of specific growth rate, whereas peroxidase and catalase were either invarian...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hassan HM,Fridovich I

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Grunberg, E. (Hoffman-La Roche, Inc., Nutley, N.J.), and R. Cleeland. Fluorescence and viability of Proteus mirabilis stained directly with fluorescein isothiocyanate. J. Bacteriol. 92:23-27. 1966.-Washed cell suspensions of Proteus mirabilis, under the proper conditions, stained well with fluorescein isothiocyanate w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grunberg E,Cleeland R

更新日期：1966-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of the Escherichia coli K10 capsule gene cluster identified two regions, regions 1 and 3, conserved between different group III capsule gene clusters. Region 1 encodes homologues of KpsD, KpsM, KpsT, and KpsE proteins, and region 3 encodes homologues of the KpsC and KpsS proteins. An rfaH mutation abolished K...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Clarke BR,Pearce R,Roberts IS

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus megaterium mutants JV-9 and JV-10 are temperature sensitive for initiation of spore germination. At 46 C, they did not lose heat resistance, dipicolinic acid, or absorbance, indicating that the temperature-sensitive blocks are very early in the sequence of initiation reactions. Strain JV-9 was temperature sen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vary JC

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of beta-lactamase induction in Pseudomonas maltophilia IID1275/873 were investigated. Upon induction with beta-lactam antibiotics, a correlation was seen between the increase in specific beta-lactamase activity and the generation time, as well as the concentration of inducer in the medium. The specific be...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosta S,Mett H

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strain has been constructed to facilitate tightly regulated gene expression. Arabinose-inducible and glucose-repressible expression of a T7 RNA polymerase gene that has been integrated with an adjacent araC-P(BAD) control element into the bacterial chromosome allows dynami...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McKinney J,Guerrier-Takada C,Galán J,Altman S

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00