Sequencing and diversity analyses reveal extensive similarities between some epsilon-toxin-encoding plasmids and the pCPF5603 Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin plasmid.

abstract：:Plasmid pUB110 was previously used as a vector to clone fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid that complement the trpC2 mutation in Bacillus subtilis from endonuclease EcoRI digested B. licheniformis, B. pumilus, and B. subtilis cellular deoxyribonucleic acid. Each of several such trp plasmids was subsequently shown to c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Keggins KM,Lovett PS,Marrero R,Hoch SO

更新日期：1979-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-four Lactobacillus plantarum supermotifs (LPSMs) with lengths from approximately 800 to 1,000 nucleotides were identified in the L. plantarum genome. LPSMs were conserved in other L. plantarum strains but not in other species. Secondary structure analysis predicted that LPSMs may fold into cruciform-like struct...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wels M,Bongers RS,Boekhorst J,Molenaar D,Sturme M,de Vos WM,Siezen RJ,Kleerebezem M

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Weaver, Judith R. (Iowa State University, Ames), and P. A. Pattee. Inducible resistance to erythromycin in Staphylococcus aureus. J. Bacteriol. 88:574-580. 1964.-The dissociated resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to erythromycin was examined and was found to possess the characteristics of an inducible enzyme. The ind...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： WEAVER JR,PATTEE PA

更新日期：1964-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cysteine and methionine availability influences many processes in the cell. In bacteria, transcription of the specific genes involved in the synthesis of these two amino acids is usually regulated by different mechanisms or regulators. Pathways for the synthesis of cysteine and methionine and their interconversion wer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sperandio B,Polard P,Ehrlich DS,Renault P,Guédon E

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new bacteriocin, termed lactococcin A (LCN-A), from Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris LMG 2130 was purified and sequenced. The polypeptide contained no unusual amino acids and showed no significant sequence similarity to other known proteins. Only lactococci were killed by the bacteriocin. Of more than 120 L. lacti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Holo H,Nilssen O,Nes IF

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae exhibits a novel form of gliding motility that is mediated by the terminal organelle, a differentiated polar structure. Given that genes known to be involved in gliding in other organisms are absent in M. pneumoniae, random transposon mutagenesis was employed to generate mutants with gliding-defi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Page CA,Krause DC

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of Saccharomyces cerevisiae permeabilized by treatment with ether take up and incorporate exogenous deoxynucleoside triphosphate into deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). With rho(+) strains, more than 95% of the product was mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). This report characterizes ether-permeabilized yeast cells and describ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oertel W,Goulian M

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC) causes bloody diarrhea and hemolytic-uremic syndrome. EHEC encodes the sRNA chaperone Hfq, which is important in posttranscriptional regulation. In EHEC strain EDL933, Hfq acts as a negative regulator of the locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE), which encodes most of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kendall MM,Gruber CC,Rasko DA,Hughes DT,Sperandio V

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium secretes iron-binding siderophores called exochelins. The exochelins from M. avium have previously been reported to have unsaturated side chains that terminate in carboxylic acid. In contrast, our data show the side chains to be both saturated and unsaturated and to terminate with either a carboxyl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wong DK,Gobin J,Horwitz MA,Gibson BW

更新日期：1996-11-01 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 trehalose content in Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be significantly manipulated by including trehalose at an appropriate level in the growth medium. Its uptake is largely dependent on the expression of AGT1, which encodes an alpha-glucoside transporter. The trehalose found in a tps1 mutant of trehalose synthase may...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plourde-Owobi L,Durner S,Parrou JL,Wieczorke R,Goma G,François J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Whiteley, H. R. (University of Washington, Seattle) and N. G. McCormick. Degradation of pyruvate by Micrococcus lactilyticus. III. Properties and cofactor requirements of the carbon dioxide-exchange reaction. J. Bacteriol. 85:382-393. 1963.-At an acid pH, extracts of Micrococcus lactilyticus (Veillonella alcalescens) ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： WHITELEY HR,McCORMICK NG

更新日期：1963-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specific activities of 13 aminoacyl-soluble ribonucleic acid (sRNA) synthetases were measured at various time intervals during the germination of Botryodiplodia theobromae conidiospores. The enzyme activities were low or absent in ungerminated spores, and they increased rapidly as germination proceeded. When extra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van Etten JL,Brambl RM

更新日期：1968-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fowler, Audree V. (University of California, Los Angeles), and Irving Zabin. Effects of dimethylsulfoxide on the lactose operon in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 92:353-357. 1966.-Dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) at a concentration of 5% (v/v) in the culture medium inhibits the growth of Escherichia coli to only a slight ext...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fowler AV,Zabin I

更新日期：1966-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic survey for the presence of plasmids in 17 different xenobiotic-degrading Sphingomonas strains was performed. In almost all analyzed strains, two to five plasmids with sizes of about 50 to 500 kb were detected by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. A comparison of plasmid preparations untreated or trea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Basta T,Keck A,Klein J,Stolz A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae adherence to host cells is a multifactorial process that requires the cytadhesin P1 and additional accessory proteins. The hmw gene cluster consists of the genes p30, hmw3, and hmw1, the products of which are known to be essential for cytadherence, the rpsD gene, and six open reading frames of un...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Waldo RH 3rd,Popham PL,Romero-Arroyo CE,Mothershed EA,Lee KK,Krause DC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive mutant of Escherichia coli with a temperature-dependent change in the control of initiation of DNA replication was isolated. The phenotype of the mutant was dependent on a mutation in the RNA polymerase gene rpoC. In vitro RNA polymerase activity was temperature sensitive. The mutant grew and s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rasmussen KV,Atlung T,Kerszman G,Hansen GE,Hansen FG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncoupled enzyme IIGlc of the phosphoenolpyruvate (PEP):glucose phosphotransferase system (PTS) in Salmonella typhimurium is able to catalyze glucose transport in the absence of PEP-dependent phosphorylation. As a result of the ptsG mutation, the apparent Km of the system for glucose transport is increased about 1,000...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ruijter GJ,Postma PW,van Dam K

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lundgren, D. G. (Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.) and J. J. Cooney. Chemical analyses of asporogenic mutants of Bacillus cereus. J. Bacteriol. 83:1287-1293. 1962.-Bacillus cereus ATCC 4342 and three temperature-sensitive asporogenic mutants were compared regarding some basic cellular components and response to met...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LUNDGREN DG,COONEY JJ

更新日期：1962-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three groups of linked markers were mapped in Bacillus thuringiensis 4042B by using two-, three-, and four-factor crosses mediated by the temperate bacteriophages TP-13 and TP-18. The order of markers was (trp-11, trp-2)-(leu-1, leu-2)-his-1-(lys-1, lys-2)-cys-1 in the first group; met-1-(argCl, argOl)-met-2-(pyr-1, p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barsomian GD,Robillard NJ,Thorne CB

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetics of antibiotic resistance in mutant strains of Streptococcus pyrogenes was studied. Utilizing a type 6 strain (9440) primarily resistant to strepttomycin (Strr), classes of mutant strains were isolated that were resistant to one of the following antibiotics: rifampin (Rifr), erythromycin (Eryr), thiostrept...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stuart JG,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lipoteichoic acid (LTA) was extracted from Listeria monocytogenes (serotype 1) by phenol-water partition and isolated by gel-filtration chromatography. The LTA exhibited amphiphilic properties by changes in gel-filtration mobility in the presence of detergent buffers and after mild base hydrolysis. In a hemagglutina...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hether NW,Jackson LL

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mobilizable genomic islands (MGIs) are small genomic islands that are mobilizable by SXT/R391 integrating conjugative elements (ICEs) due to similar origins of transfer. Their site-specific integration and excision are catalyzed by the integrase that they encode, but their conjugative transfer entirely depends upon th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daccord A,Mursell M,Poulin-Laprade D,Burrus V

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to multiple antibiotics and certain oxidative stress compounds was conferred by three independently selected mutations (marR1, soxQ1, and cfxB1) that mapped to 34 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. Mutations at this locus can activate the marRAB operon, in which marR encodes a putative repressor of mar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ariza RR,Cohen SP,Bachhawat N,Levy SB,Demple B

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the tcmII-tcmIV region of the Streptomyces glaucescens chromosome block the C-3 and C-8 O-methylations of the polyketide antibiotic tetracenomycin C (Tcm C). The nucleotide sequence of this region reveals the presence of two genes, tcmN and tcmO, whose deduced protein products display similarity to the hy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Summers RG,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Motamedi H,Hutchinson CR

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus brevis HPD31 contains a surface (S)-layer protein, termed the HWP, which forms a hexagonal array in the cell wall. The 5' region of the HWP gene was isolated from a DNA library constructed in bacteriophage vector EMBL3 from a partial BamHI digest of the chromosomal DNA. The 3' region contained in a 2.7-kiloba...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ebisu S,Tsuboi A,Takagi H,Naruse Y,Yamagata H,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Enterococcus faecalis, the site 2 protease Eep generates sex pheromones, including cAM373. Intriguingly, in Staphylococcus aureus, a peptide similar to cAM373, named cAM373_SA, is produced from the camS gene. Here, we report that the staphylococcal Eep homolog is not only responsible for the production of cAM373_SA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheng D,Lv H,Yao Y,Cheng S,Huang Q,Wang H,Liu X,Bae T,Li M,Liu Q

更新日期：2020-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine details of the internal and external morphology of Cryptococcus neoformans as seen in ultrathin sections are described and illustrated with electron micrographs. The capsule characteristic of this species contained microfibrils (30 to 40 A in diameter) that appeared to radiate from the cell wall and to coil and i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Edwards MR,Gordon MA,Lapa EW,Ghiorse WC

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AdnA is a transcription factor in Pseudomonas fluorescens that affects flagellar synthesis, biofilm formation, and sand adhesion. To identify the AdnA regulon, we used a promoterless Tn5-lacZ element to study the phenotypes of insertion mutants in the presence and absence of AdnA. Of 12,000 insertions, we identified s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robleto EA,López-Hernández I,Silby MW,Levy SB

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Resistance to methicillin and other β-lactam antibiotics in staphylococci is due to mecA, which is carried on a genomic island, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec). The chromosomal excision and integration of SCCmec are mediated by the site-specific recombinase CcrAB or CcrC, encoded within this ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang L,Ahmed MH,Safo MK,Archer GL

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00