Peptide wrwycr inhibits the excision of several prophages and traps holliday junctions inside bacteria.

abstract：:Pyridine nucleotide-dependent glucose dehydrogenase activity (GPND) is described for the first time in cell-free extracts of certain blue-green algae. When glucose is added to these crude cell extracts, nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate is reduced at twice the rate as nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide; but e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pulich WM,Van Baalen C

更新日期：1973-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, the SecB/SecA branch of the Sec pathway and the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway represent two alternative possibilities for posttranslational translocation of proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane. Maintenance of pathway specificity was analyzed using a model precursor consisting of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blaudeck N,Kreutzenbeck P,Freudl R,Sprenger GA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of mutations causing alterations in ribosomal protein S21 was mapped close to dnaG, around 66.5 min on the Escherichia coli chromosomal linkage map. They cotransduced about 95% with this marker. These mutations define gene rpsU, which is very likely the structural gene for protein S21. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dabbs ER

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of L-methionine-DL-sulfoximine, an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase, on the formation of nitrate reductase in the wild-type strain of Neurospora in the presence of ammonium ions and of glutamine was studied. Under conditions in which glutamine synthetase was inactivated, it was found that only glutamine co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Premakumar R,Sorger GJ,Gooden D

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolated membranes of Bacillus stearothermophilus 2184D can be disrupted by treatment with sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS). This disruption is attended by a decreased turbidity of membrane suspensions and a differential loss of activities of the electron transport system. Reduced methyl viologen (MVH)-nitrate reductase a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kiszkiss DF,Downey RJ

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of variations in growth conditions on the penicillin response of Streptococcus faecium ATCC 9790 were studied. Changes in the growth temperature and medium composition were found to cause striking changes in the bacterial generation time, cellular penicillin sensitivity (minimum inhibitory concentration), ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fontana R,Canepari P,Satta G,Coyette J

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Metal-dependent superoxide dismutases (SODs) with a specific requirement for a manganese or iron ion for catalytic activity and copper- and zinc-dependent enzymes are essential for detoxification of superoxide anion radicals. Genome sequence analyses predict the existence of a nickel-dependent enzyme (NiSOD) as the un...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eitinger T

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many microorganisms the first step for alkane degradation is the terminal oxidation of the molecule by an alkane hydroxylase. We report the characterization of a gene coding for an alkane hydroxylase in a Burkholderia cepacia strain isolated from an oil-contaminated site. The protein encoded showed similarity to ot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marín MM,Smits TH,van Beilen JB,Rojo F

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis mutants deficient in amino acid repression of the histidine utilization (hut) operon were isolated by transposon mutagenesis. Genetic characterization of these mutants indicated that they most likely contained transposon insertions within the codVWXY operon. The codY gene is required for nutritional ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fisher SH,Rohrer K,Ferson AE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary sequence of the small cysteine-rich protein (EnvA) of Chlamydia psittaci 6BC has been shown to possess a potential lipid modification/signal peptidase II-processing site, and the mature protein was labeled by a [3H]palmitic acid precursor. We further characterized the mature EnvA, showing that it lacks the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Everett KD,Desiderio DM,Hatch TP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic and segregation analysis of Escherichia coli strains containing a partial duplication of the trp operon reveal that the 2.5-min-long region trpD-purB is duplicated in tandem in the chromosome. The adjacent loci cysB and fabD are not duplicated. Although one copy of the duplicated region is longer than the maxi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simonian MH,Goldstein RV,Mosteller RD

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence analysis of the large virulence plasmid pLVPK in Klebsiella pneumoniae CG43 revealed the presence of another mucoid factor encoding gene rmpA besides rmpA2. Promoter activity measurement indicated that the deletion of rmpA reduced K2 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) biosynthesis, resulting in decreased colony mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cheng HY,Chen YS,Wu CY,Chang HY,Lai YC,Peng HL

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulolytic strains of Bacillus stearothermophilus were isolated from nature and screened for the presence of activities associated with the degradation of plant cell walls. One isolate (strain XL-65-6) which exhibited strong activities with 4-methylumbelliferyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside (MUG) and 4-methylumbelliferyl-b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lai X,Ingram LO

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alkaline phosphatases of 29 strains of bacteria assigned by various authors to the genera Aerobacter, Klebsiella and Enterobacter were compared by the micro-complement fixation technique. On the basis of phosphatase resemblance, we recommend that all strains hitherto assigned to Aerobacter aerogenes and Enterobact...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Steffen DL,Cocks GT,Wilson AC

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sizes of six different Wolbachia strains from insect and nematode hosts have been determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of purified DNA both before and after digestion with rare-cutting restriction endonucleases. Enzymes SmaI, ApaI, AscI, and FseI cleaved the studied Wolbachia strains at a small number...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sun LV,Foster JM,Tzertzinis G,Ono M,Bandi C,Slatko BE,O'Neill SL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient hydrolysis of native poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (nPHB) granules in vitro by soluble PHB depolymerase of Rhodospirillum rubrum requires pretreatment of nPHB with an activator compound present in R. rubrum cells (J. M. Merrick and M. Doudoroff, J. Bacteriol. 88:60-71, 1964). Edman sequencing of the purified activ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Handrick R,Reinhardt S,Schultheiss D,Reichart T,Schüler D,Jendrossek V,Jendrossek D

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the ATP:GTP 3'-pyrophosphotransferase (guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase I [GPSI]) from Streptomyces antibioticus is stimulated maximally by methanol at 20% (vol/vol) in assay mixtures. Although the enzyme is not activated by ribosomes, its activity is stimulated by tRNA (uncharged or charged) and by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jones GH

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One step in de novo pyridoxine (vitamin B6) and pyridoxal 5'-phosphate biosynthesis was predicted to be an oxidation catalyzed by an unidentified D-erythrose-4-phosphate dehydrogenase (E4PDH). To help identify this E4PDH, we purified the Escherichia coli K-12 gapA- and gapB-encoded dehydrogenases to homogeneity and te...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao G,Pease AJ,Bharani N,Winkler ME

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Serratia marcescens was found to produce a bacteriocin that inhibits the growth of certain Escherichia coli strains. This inhibition was bacteriocidal rather than bacteriostatic and was not caused by a bacteriophage. Whereas the bacteriocin was inactive on the 7 Serratia strains tested, it killed 11 of the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Foulds JD,Shemin D

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Particular combinations of fungal strains and transformation vectors allow for fungal rearrangement of normally integrative plasmids, resulting in the creation of linear self-replicating plasmids in Fusarium oxysporum. The rearrangement results in the addition of fungal DNA, including telomere consensus sequences, to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Powell WA,Kistler HC

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutant, cdc16-116, has been isolated which undergoes uncontrolled septation during its cell division cycle. The mutant accumulates two types of cells after 3 h of growth at the restrictive temperature: (i) type I cells (85% of the population), which complete nuclear di...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Minet M,Nurse P,Thuriaux P,Mitchison JM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus suis serotype 2 (S. suis 2) is an important swine and human pathogen responsible for septicemia and meningitis. A novel gene, designated atl and encoding a major autolysin of S. suis 2 virulent strain HA9801, was identified and characterized in this study. The Atl protein contains 1,025 amino acids with ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ju CX,Gu HW,Lu CP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Further studies on the expression of the two aspartokinase activities in Bacillus bovis are presented. Aspartokinase I (previously shown to be inhibited and repressed by lysine) was found to be repressed by diaminopimelate in the wild-type strain. However, in a mutant unable to convert diaminopimelate to lysine, starv...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hitchcock MJ,Hodgson B,Linforth JL

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins of the YidC/OxaI/Alb3 family play a crucial role in the insertion, folding, and/or assembly of membrane proteins in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Bacillus subtilis has two YidC-like proteins, denoted SpoIIIJ and YqjG. SpoIIIJ and YqjG are largely exchangeable in function, but SpoIIIJ has a unique role in sporul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geng Y,de Keyzer J,Scheffers DJ,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibitory effect of fungitoxic derivatives of 1,4-oxathiin on substrate oxidation by the basidiomycete Ustilago maydis is diminished by a single-gene mutation (oxr). The difference between mutant and wild type is approximately the same on the basis of inhibition of either growth and operation of the tricarboxylic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Georgopoulos SG,Alexandri E,Chrysayi M

更新日期：1972-06-01 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 human pathogen Eikenella corrodens synthesizes type IV pili and exhibits a phase variation involving the irreversible transition from piliated to nonpiliated variants. On solid medium, piliated variants form small (S-phase), corroding colonies whereas nonpiliated variants form large (L-phase), noncorroding colonie...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Villar MT,Helber JT,Hood B,Schaefer MR,Hirschberg RL

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium xenopi is a slow-growing, thermophilic, water-related Mycobacterium species. Like other nontuberculous mycobacteria, M. xenopi more commonly infects humans with altered immune function, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. It is considered clinically relevant in a significant proportio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abdallah AM,Rashid M,Adroub SA,Elabdalaoui H,Ali S,van Soolingen D,Bitter W,Pain A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our previous work showed that pap pilin gene transcription is subject to a thermoregulatory control mechanism under which pap pilin is not transcribed at a low temperature (23 degrees C) (L. B. Blyn, B. A. Braaten, C. A. White-Ziegler, D. H. Rolfson, and D. A. Low, EMBO J. 8:613-620, 1989). In order to isolate genes i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： White-Ziegler CA,Low DA

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A locus unlinked to either katE or katF that affected catalase levels in Escherichia coli was identified and localized between metB and ppc at 89.2 min on the genome. The locus was named katG. Mutations in katG which prevented the formation of both isoenzyme forms of the bifunctional catalase-peroxidase HPI were creat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loewen PC,Triggs BL,George CS,Hrabarchuk BE

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00