Biochemical and phylogenetic characterization of a novel diaminopimelate biosynthesis pathway in prokaryotes identifies a diverged form of LL-diaminopimelate aminotransferase.

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) encoded by Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) is involved in systemic infection and intracellular replication of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. In this study, we investigated the function of SsaE, a small cytoplasmic protein encoded within the SPI-2 locus, which sh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miki T,Shibagaki Y,Danbara H,Okada N

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Alcaligenes eutrophus JMP134 plasmid pJP4 contains genes necessary for the complete degradation of 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D) and 3-chlorobenzoic acid. tfdA encodes 2,4-D monooxygenase, the initial enzyme in the 2,4-D catabolic pathway. The tfdA locus has recently been localized to a region on pJP4 13 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perkins EJ,Lurquin PF

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two bile acid-inducible polypeptides from Eubacterium sp. strain VPI 12708 with molecular weights of 27,000 and approximately 45,000 have previously been shown to be encoded by genes residing on a 2.9-kb EcoRI fragment. We now report the cloning and sequencing of three additional overlapping DNA fragments upstream fro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mallonee DH,White WB,Hylemon PB

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diploid Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells induce YVH1 expression and enter the developmental pathway, leading to sporulation when starved for nitrogen. We show that yvh1 disruption causes a defect in spore maturation; overexpression of MCK1 or IME1 suppresses this yvh1 phenotype. While mck1 mutations are epistatic to tho...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beeser AE,Cooper TG

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the major porin structural genes, ompF and ompC, is influenced by medium osmotic strength and requires the products of two regulatory genes, ompR and envZ. To help define the sites required for the expression of both porin genes, we have used a novel selection to identify mutations that decrease ompF tra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor RK,Garrett S,Sodergren E,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the human diarrheal disease cholera, is a motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum. Motility has been implicated as a virulence determinant in some animal models of cholera, but the relationship between motility and virulence has not yet been clearly defined. We have begun...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klose KE,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lambda S lysis gene was cloned into a Saccharomyces cerevisiae expression vector under GAL1 control. Induction with galactose in S. cerevisiae terminated cell growth and prevented colony formation. Several membrane proteins immunoreactive with anti-S antibody accumulated in the membranes, indicating that sodium do...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garrett J,Bruno C,Young R

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two-component signal transduction systems are utilized by prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells to sense and respond to environmental stimuli, both to maintain homeostasis and to rapidly adapt to changing conditions. Studies have begun to emerge that utilize a large-scale mutagenesis approach to analyzing these systems in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hussa EA,O'Shea TM,Darnell CL,Ruby EG,Visick KL

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faine, S. (University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia), and J. van der Hoeden. Virulence-linked colonial and morphological variation in Leptospira. J. Bacteriol. 88:1493-1496. 1964.-Large-colony typical hooked Leptospira icterohaemorrhagiae was virulent for hamsters and guinea pigs. On cultivation, it was gradually repla...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： FAINE S,VANDERHOEDEN J

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen low-temperature conditional division mutants of Escherichia coli K-12 was isolated. They grew normally at 39 degrees C but formed filaments at 30 degrees C. All exhibited a coordinated burst of cell division when the filaments were shifted to the permissive temperature (39 degrees C). None of the various agent...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sturgeon JA,Ingram LO

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The par stability determinant, encoded by the Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1, is the only antisense RNA regulated postsegregational killing system identified in gram-positive bacteria. Because of the unique organization of the par locus, the par antisense RNA, RNA II, binds to its target, RNA I, at relatively smal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weaver KE,Ehli EA,Nelson JS,Patel S

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The EutD protein of Salmonella enterica is homologous to the catalytic domain of the phosphotransacetylase (Pta) enzyme. The Pta-like activity level of the EutD enzyme compared favorably to that of other Pta enzymes. High-pressure liquid chromatography and mass spectrometry verified that acetyl-coenzyme A was the prod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brinsmade SR,Escalante-Semerena JC

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an Escherichia coli B strain missing ribosomal protein L1, the synthesis rate of L11 is 50% greater than that of other ribosomal proteins. This finding is in agreement with the previous conclusion that L1 regulates synthesis of itself and L11 and indicates that this regulation is important for maintaining the balan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jinks-Robertson S,Nomura M

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the constitutive phenotypes of two catM mutants of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, the CatM protein was proposed to repress expression of two different loci involved in catechol degradation, catA and catBCIJFD (E. Neidle, C. Hartnett, and L. N. Ornston, J. Bacteriol. 171:5410-5421, 1989). In spite of its ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romero-Arroyo CE,Schell MA,Gaines GL 3rd,Neidle EL

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Little is known about the effect of the host on the genetic stability of bacterial plant pathogens. Crown gall, a plant disease caused by Agrobacterium tumefaciens, may represent a useful model to study this effect. Indeed, our previous observations on the natural occurrence and origin of nonpathogenic agrobacteria su...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bélanger C,Canfield ML,Moore LW,Dion P

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The R1162-encoded protein RepIB is essential for replication of the plasmid and binds specifically to iterons within the replicative origin. The protein causes the localized melting of DNA (determined by sensitivity to P1 nuclease) at a site within the AT-rich region of the origin, about 60 bp from the iteron binding ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim YJ,Meyer RJ

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, a subset of membrane proteins insert into the membrane via the Sec apparatus with the assistance of the widely conserved essential membrane protein insertase YidC. After threading into the SecYEG translocon, transmembrane segments of nascent proteins are thought to exit the translocon via a lateral gate i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li Z,Boyd D,Reindl M,Goldberg MB

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:CbrA is an atypical sensor kinase found in Pseudomonas. The autokinase domain is connected to a putative transporter of the sodium/solute symporter family (SSSF). CbrA functions together with its cognate response regulator, CbrB, and plays an important role in nutrient acquisition, including regulation of hu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang XX,Gauntlett JC,Oldenburg DG,Cook GM,Rainey PB

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas MS can grow on methylamine and a number of other compounds containing C1 units as a sole source of carbon and energy. Assimilation of carbon into cell material occurs via the "serine pathway" since enzymes of this pathway are induced after growth on methylamine, but not malate or acetate. A mutant has been...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wagner C,Levitch ME

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory properties of acetohydroxy acid synthetase (AHAS), the first enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway to valine and the second in the isoleucine pathway, were investigated in the fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe. The enzyme was partially purified from crude extracts by protamine sulfate treatment, ammo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McDonald RA,Satyanarayana T,Kaplan JG

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adler, H. E. (University of California, Davis), M. Shifrine, and Herrad Ortmayer. Mycoplasma inocuum sp. n., a saprophyte from chickens. J. Bacteriol. 82:239-240. 1961.-A new species of Mycoplasma was isolated from the infraorbital sinuses of chickens. The organism, a saprophyte, differs from all known mycoplasmas of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ADLER HE,SHIFRINE M,ORTMAYER H

更新日期：1961-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is able to efficiently utilize glycerol as a carbon source. In a defined minimal medium, the growth rate (during balanced growth) in the presence of glycerol is similar to that in the presence of glucose or cellobiose. Comparative transcriptome analyses of L. monocytogenes showed high-level tran...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joseph B,Mertins S,Stoll R,Schär J,Umesha KR,Luo Q,Müller-Altrock S,Goebel W

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To isolate strains with new recA mutations that differentially affect RecA protein functions, we mutagenized in vitro the recA gene carried by plasmid mini-F and then introduced the mini-F-recA plasmid into a delta recA host that was lysogenic for prophage phi 80 and carried a lac duplication. By scoring prophage indu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dutreix M,Moreau PL,Bailone A,Galibert F,Battista JR,Walker GC,Devoret R

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia japonica strain YH, isolated in 1984 in Japan, is the type strain of R. japonica, the tick-borne agent of Japanese spotted fever. Here, we report the 1.33-Mb genome of this rickettsial species. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dong X,El Karkouri K,Robert C,Raoult D,Fournier PE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 has one Mo nitrogenase that is made under oxic growth conditions in specialized cells called heterocysts and a second Mo nitrogenase that is made only under anoxic conditions in vegetative cells. The two large nif gene clusters responsible for these two nitrogenases are under the control...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vernon SA,Pratte BS,Thiel T

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The bfe locus codes for the cell surface receptor for vitamin B12, the E colicins, and bacteriophage BF23 in the Escherichia coli outer membrane. When the bfe+ allele, which is closely linked to the argH locus, was introduced into an argH bfe recipient by conjugation, arg+ recombinant cells rapidly and simultaneously ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bassford PJ Jr,Kadner RJ,Schnaitman CA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internal and surface structures of asci and ascospores were studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to establish the character and number of ascospores within the ascus of Metschnikowia krissii. Enzyme digestion with snail gut enzymes and SEM examination suggested th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Talens LT,Miller MW,Miranda M

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis, which grows under aerobic conditions, employs fatty acid desaturase (Des) to fluidize its membrane when subjected to temperature downshift. Des requires molecular oxygen for its activity, and its expression is regulated by DesK-DesR, a two-component system. Transcription of des is induced by the tem...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beranová J,Mansilla MC,de Mendoza D,Elhottová D,Konopásek I

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing a homologous gene replacement in order to retain the native promoter and 5' and 3' untranslated messenger regions (and thereby ensure physiological validity), we have shown that deletion of the N-terminal 389 amino acids of the transcriptional activator AREA does not result in nitrogen metabolite derepressio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Caddick MX,Arst HN Jr

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:von Graevenitz, Alexander (Yale University, New Haven, Conn.). Genetic transfer of streptomycin and aminopropanolstreptomycin resistance. J. Bacteriol. 88:960-964. 1964.-Transduction and conjugation experiments with Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli suggest that resistance to streptomycin (S) and aminopropano...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： VONGRAEVENITZ A

更新日期：1964-10-01 00:00:00