Characterization of spores of Bacillus subtilis that lack most coat layers.

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae harvested from media which had become acid lost the ability both to induce formation of tetrazolium reduction inhibition antibody and to act as antigens in immunodiffusion against human convalescent-phase sera. Incorporation of N-tris(hydroxymethyl)-2-aminoethane sulfonic acid and N-2-hydroxyethy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pollack JD,Somerson NL,Senterfit LB

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial Gre factors associate with RNA polymerase (RNAP) and stimulate intrinsic cleavage of the nascent transcript at the active site of RNAP. Biochemical and genetic studies to date have shown that Escherichia coli Gre factors prevent transcriptional arrest during elongation and enhance transcription fidelity. Fur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kusuya Y,Kurokawa K,Ishikawa S,Ogasawara N,Oshima T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vir-type IV secretion system of Agrobacterium is assembled from 12 proteins encoded by the virB operon and virD4. VirB1 is one of the least-studied proteins encoded by the virB operon. Its N terminus is a lytic transglycosylase. The C-terminal third of the protein, VirB1*, is cleaved from VirB1 and secreted to the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zupan J,Hackworth CA,Aguilar J,Ward D,Zambryski P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus oralis, a commensal species of the human oral cavity, belongs to the Mitis group of streptococci, which includes one of the major human pathogens as well, S. pneumoniae. We report here the first complete genome sequence of this species. S. oralis Uo5, a high-level penicillin- and multiple-antibiotic-resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reichmann P,Nuhn M,Denapaite D,Brückner R,Henrich B,Maurer P,Rieger M,Klages S,Reinhard R,Hakenbeck R

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of two virulence mutants of Pseudomonas syringae B728a revealed that the Tn 5 sites of insertion were within the gidA open reading frame (ORF). These mutations were pleiotropic, affecting diverse phenotypic traits, such as lipodepsipeptide (syringomycin and syringopeptin) antibiotic production, swarming, pres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kinscherf TG,Willis DK

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PcsB is a protein of unknown function that plays a critical role in cell division in Streptococcus pneumoniae and other ovococcus species of Streptococcus. We constructed isogenic sets of mutants expressing different amounts of PcsB in laboratory strain R6 and virulent serotype 2 strain D39 to evaluate its cellular ro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barendt SM,Land AD,Sham LT,Ng WL,Tsui HC,Arnold RJ,Winkler ME

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis JH642 and a wild strain of B. subtilis called 22a both produce an antilisterial peptide that can be purified by anion-exchange and gel filtration chromatography. Amino acid analysis confirmed that the substance was the cyclic bacteriocin subtilosin. A mutant defective in production of the substance w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zheng G,Yan LZ,Vederas JC,Zuber P

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tm of Bacillus stearothermophilus 5S ribonucleic acid (RNA) is 1.5 +/- 0.5 C higher than that of 5S RNAs from B. subtilis and Escherichia coli. Melting in 50% methanol and in formaldehyde indicate that both base stacking and helical regions are involved in the slightly increased thermal stability of B. stearotherm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Varricchio F,Marotta CA

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of bacterial L-ornithine: alpha-ketoglutarate delta-aminotransferase (L-ornithine:2-oxo-acid aminotransferase [EC 2.6.1.13]) was investigated, and Bacillus sphaericus (IFO 3525) was found to have the highest activity of the enzyme, which was inducibly formed by addition of L-ornithine or L-arginine to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yasuda M,Tanizawa K,Misono H,Toyama S,Soda K

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acyl-homoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) quorum-sensing signaling is common to many Proteobacteria. Acyl-HSLs are synthesized by the LuxI family of synthases, and the signal response is mediated by members of the LuxR family of transcriptional regulators. Burkholderia thailandensis is a member of a closely related cluster o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chandler JR,Duerkop BA,Hinz A,West TE,Herman JP,Churchill ME,Skerrett SJ,Greenberg EP

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for protein synthesis elongation factors Tu and G were cloned from the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans. The locations of these genes were mapped within the cloned DNA fragment by hybridization with Escherichia coli probes. The organization of the cloned fragment and the DNA flanking it in the A. nidulans c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mickel FS,Spremulli LL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PomA is thought to be a component of the ion channel in the sodium-driven polar-flagellar motor of Vibrio alginolyticus. We have found that some cysteine substitutions in the periplasmic region of PomA result in a slow-motility phenotype, in which swarming and swimming speeds are reduced even in the presence of high c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kojima S,Shoji T,Asai Y,Kawagishi I,Homma M

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of the cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis starved for phosphate for 3 days took up phosphate at about 100 times the rate of unstarved cells. Kinetic data suggested that a new transport system had been induced by starvation for phosphate. The inducible phosphate transport system was quickly repressed by addition ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thiel T

更新日期：1988-03-01 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：:A specific gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) transport system in Escherichia coli K-12 cells with a K(m) of 12 muM and a V(max) of 278 nmol/ml of intracellular water per min is described. Membrane vesicles contained d-lactate-dependent activity of the system. Mutants defective in GABA transport were isolated; they lost the a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kahane S,Levitz R,Halpern YS

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human pathogen Vibrio cholerae carries a chromosomal superintegron (SI). The SI contains an array of hundreds of gene cassettes organized in tandem which are stable under conditions when no particular stress is applied to bacteria (such as during laboratory growth). Rearrangements of these cassettes are catalyzed ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baharoglu Z,Krin E,Mazel D

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dominance tests in diploids have confirmed that the product of the tyrR gene is involved in a negative control system affecting the synthesis of both 3-deoxy-d-arabinoheptulosonic acid 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthetase (tyr) and DAHP synthetase (phe). Some tyrR mutants are derepressed for the synthesis of both DAHP synthe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Im SW,Pittard J

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional domain structures of pyocins AP41, S1, and S2 were assigned by examining the functions of chimeric pyocins and deletion derivatives. Pyocins AP41, S1, and S2 are essentially composed of three domains, the receptor-binding domain, the translocation domain, and the DNase domain, in that order from the N termi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sano Y,Kobayashi M,Kageyama M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neurospora crassa, the expression of nit-3, the structural gene which encodes nitrate reductase, is highly regulated and requires both nitrate induction and nitrogen catabolite derepression. The major nitrogen regulatory gene, nit-2, acts in a positive fashion to turn on the expression of nit-3 and other nitrogen-r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fu YH,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CheY is the response regulator in the signal transduction pathway of bacterial chemotaxis. Position 106 of CheY is occupied by a conserved aromatic residue (tyrosine or phenylalanine) in the response regulator superfamily. A number of substitutions at position 106 have been made and characterized by both behavioral an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhu X,Amsler CD,Volz K,Matsumura P

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy and electron microscopy of unstained specimens have been used to study the binding of chloropentaammineosmium(III) chloride to isolated walls of Bacillus subtilis. Native walls bound 0.220 mumol of the osmium probe per mg (dry weight) of walls, whereas walls which were chemically treate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beveridge TJ,Jack T

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a 45-kDa protein (45K) of Chlamydia trachomatis serovar F was cloned, sequenced, and overexpressed in Escherichia coli. Alignment of the deduced peptide sequence with E. coli elongation factor Tu (EF-Tu) demonstrated 69% identity. The 45K was recognized by a Chlamydia genus-specific monoclonal antibo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang YX,Shi Y,Zhou M,Petsko GA

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis was exposed to ultraviolet light (UV) or X rays, and gene frequency analysis was used to study the location of initiation sites of postirradiation deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis. It was found that DNA synthesis resumes primarily from the origin after UV exposure. With X irradiation, the origin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Billen D,Hellerman G,Carreira L

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli has a formate hydrogenlyase system which allows it to maintain an electron balance during anaerobic growth by passing electrons from formate to H+ ions, thus generating H2. The Mu d1(Ap lac) bacteriophage was used to generate mutants that were defective in passing electrons from formate to benzyl viol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yerkes JH,Casson LP,Honkanen AK,Walker GC

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Bacillus subtilis sigM null mutant, lacking the extracytoplasmic function sigma(M) protein, was sensitive to paraquat (PQ), a superoxide-generating reagent, but not to the redox stress-inducing compounds hydrogen peroxide, cumene hydroperoxide, t-butyl hydroperoxide, or diamide. Surprisingly, a sigM mutant was only ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cao M,Moore CM,Helmann JD

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been clear for over sixty years that the principal method whereby cells replicate and segregate their DNA is semiconservative. It is much less clear why it should be like this rather than, say, conservative. Recently, evidence has accumulated that supports the hypothesis that one of the functions of the cell cy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Norris V

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently we identified a bacterial factor (BimA) required for actin-based motility of Burkholderia pseudomallei. Here we report that Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia thailandensis are capable of actin-based motility in J774.2 cells and that BimA homologs of these bacteria can restore the actin-based motility defec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stevens JM,Ulrich RL,Taylor LA,Wood MW,Deshazer D,Stevens MP,Galyov EE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli pur regulon repressor protein was overproduced in a phage T7 expression system. The overexpressed repressor constituted approximately 35% of the soluble cellular protein. Pur repressor was purified to near homogeneity by two chromatographic steps. Hypoxanthine or guanine was required for binding o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rolfes RJ,Zalkin H

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MurNAc etherase MurQ of Escherichia coli is essential for the catabolism of the bacterial cell wall sugar N-acetylmuramic acid (MurNAc) obtained either from the environment or from the endogenous cell wall (i.e., recycling). High-level expression of murQ is required for growth on MurNAc as the sole source of carbo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jaeger T,Mayer C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rogosa, M. (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.). The genus Veillonella. I. General cultural, ecological, and biochemical considerations. J. Bacteriol. 87:162-170. 1964.-Arguments are presented for excluding Veillonella discoides, V. reniformis, V. orbiculus, and V. vulvovaginitidis from the genus, and for re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ROGOSA M

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00