Genetic determinants of Silicibacter sp. TM1040 motility.

abstract：:With a DNA fragment from within the region encoding the transport functions for K1 production as a hybridization probe in Southern blot experiments, homologous DNA sequences were detected in the DNA from Escherichia coli strains producing K5, K7, K92, and K100 capsular polysaccharides. No homology with the laboratory ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts I,Mountford R,High N,Bitter-Suermann D,Jann K,Timmis K,Boulnois G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Galactose-negative mutants of the group H Streptococcus strain Challis were obtained by treatment with nitrosoguanidine. Enzyme assays of extracts of these mutants revealed that 12 of the mutants were lacking one of the enzymes of the Leloir pathway. Thus, the Leloir pathway is the major means of galactose metabolism ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Luginbuhl GH,Gooder H

更新日期：1972-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature-sensitive nalA mutants of Escherichia coli have been used to investigate the structure and functions of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) gyrase. Extracts of one such mutant (nalA43) had thermosensitive DNA gyrase subunit A activity but normal gyrase subunit B activity, proving definitively that nalA is the stru...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kreuzer KN,Cozzarelli NR

更新日期：1979-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinyl-coenzyme A synthetase of Escherichia coli has an alpha 2 beta 2 subunit structure. By measuring reconstituted enzyme activity present after addition of purified alpha or beta subunits to cell extracts followed by refolding, we have shown that extracts contain no significant excess of either subunit species. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolodko WT,Brownie ER,Bridger WA

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication of the R factor Rts1 in Proteus mirabilis was examined by using the technique of CsCl density-gradient centrifugation. The proportion of Rts1 deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) relative to the host chromosomal DNA (% R-DNA) was 7% in both exponential and stationary growth phases in Penassay Broth and suppleme...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Terawaki Y,Rownd R

更新日期：1972-02-01 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：:Using nitrogen-fixing Sinorhizobium species that interact with Medicago plants as a model system, we aimed at clarifying how sex has shaped the diversity of bacteria associated with the genus Medicago on the interspecific and intraspecific scales. To gain insights into the diversification of these symbionts, we inferr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bailly X,Olivieri I,Brunel B,Cleyet-Marel JC,Béna G

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dctA gene, coding for the dicarboxylate transport protein, has an inducible promoter dependent on activation by the two-component sensor-regulator pair DctB and DctD. LacZ fusion analysis indicates that there is a single promoter for dctB and dctD. The dctA promoter is also induced by nitrogen limitation, an effec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reid CJ,Poole PS

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Graber, C. D. (Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.), R. M. O'Neal, and E. R. Rabin. Effect of high fat diets on intestinal microflora and serum cholesterol in rats. J. Bacteriol. 89:47-51. 1965.-Differential bacterial counts of feces and total plasma cholesterol determinations were performed on 60 Wis...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： GRABER CD,O'NEAL RM,RABIN ER

更新日期：1965-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental plaque is a complex biofilm that accretes in a series of discrete steps proceeding from a gram-positive streptococcus-rich biofilm to a structure rich in gram-negative anaerobes. This study investigated information flow between two unrelated plaque bacteria, Streptococcus cristatus and Porphyromonas gingivalis....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xie H,Cook GS,Costerton JW,Bruce G,Rose TM,Lamont RJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis, a leading cause of catheter-associated urinary tract infection (CaUTI), differentiates into swarm cells that migrate across catheter surfaces and medium solidified with 1.5% agar. While many genes and nutrient requirements involved in the swarming process have been identified, few studies have addre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Armbruster CE,Hodges SA,Mobley HL

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3 lateral flagella are not assembled when bacteria grow in liquid media; however, lateral flagellar genes are transcribed. Our results indicate that A. hydrophila lateral flagellar genes are transcribed at three levels (class I to III genes) and share some similarities with, but have many impor...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wilhelms M,Gonzalez V,Tomás JM,Merino S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is reported here that alkalinization of Clostridium acetobutylicum cytoplasm involves hydrogenase activity. A decrease of in vivo hydrogenase activity is accompanied by intracellular accumulation of protons leading to a negative (interior acidic) pH gradient. However, the organism is able to maintain a consta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Girbal L,Vasconcelos I,Soucaille P

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activities of DNA methyltransferases are important for a variety of cellular functions in bacteria. In this study, we developed a modified high-throughput technique called methyl homopolymer tail mediated sequencing (methyl HTM-seq) to identify the undermethylated sites in the Vibrio cholerae genome for the two DN...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dalia AB,Lazinski DW,Camilli A

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six mutants, allelic to ade3, were isolated after mutagenic treatment of a prototrophic strain of yeast. All six grow on medium supplemented with adenine alone and four respond to histidine. Supplementation with adenine plus histidine or methionine inhibits growth, but a mixture of these three is stimulatory. Heteroal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lomax CA,Gross TS,Woods RA

更新日期：1971-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PhoB is the response regulator of the Pho regulon. It is composed of two distinct domains, an N-terminal receiver domain and a C-terminal output domain that binds DNA and interacts with sigma(70) to activate transcription of the Pho regulon. Phosphorylation of the receiver domain is required for activation of the prot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ellison DW,McCleary WR

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the tryptophanase (tna) operon of Escherichia coli is regulated by catabolite repression and tryptophan-induced transcription antitermination. Induction results from ribosome stalling after translation of tnaC, the coding region for a 24-residue leader peptide. The last sense codon of tnaC, proline co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gong M,Gong F,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminal oxidase content of Bacillus firmus OF4, a facultative alkaliphile that grows well over the pH range of 7.5 to 10.5, was studied by difference spectroscopy. Evidence was found for three terminal oxidases under different growth conditions. The growth pH and the stage of growth profoundly affected the expres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hicks DB,Plass RJ,Quirk PG

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different preparations of the methylreductase were tested in a simplified methylcoenzyme M methylreductase assay with artificial electron donors under a nitrogen atmosphere. ATP and Mg2+ stimulated the reaction. Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium (II), chromous chloride, chromous acetate, titanium III citrate, 2,8-diamino...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hartzell PL,Escalante-Semerena JC,Bobik TA,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AraC protein, a transcriptional regulator of the L-arabinose operon in Escherichia coli, is dimeric. Each monomer consists of a domain for DNA binding plus transcription activation and a domain for dimerization plus arabinose binding. These are connected to one another by a linker region of at least 5 amino acids. Her...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eustance RJ,Schleif RF

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex is the core machinery for the assembly of β-barrel membrane proteins, and inhibition of BAM complex activity is lethal to bacteria. Discovery of integral membrane proteins that are key to pathogenesis and yet do not require assistance from the BAM complex raises the questi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hay ID,Belousoff MJ,Dunstan RA,Bamert RS,Lithgow T

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:We present the genomic sequence of the human pathogen Legionella pneumophila serogroup 12 strain 570-CO-H (ATCC 43290), a clinical isolate from the Colorado Department of Health, Denver, CO. This is the first example of a genome sequence of L. pneumophila from a serogroup other than serogroup 1. We highlight the simil...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Amaro F,Gilbert JA,Owens S,Trimble W,Shuman HA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NADPH is an intermediate in the oxidation of organic compounds coupled to Fe(III) reduction in Geobacter species, but Fe(III) reduction with NADPH as the electron donor has not been studied in these organisms. Crude extracts of Geobacter sulfurreducens catalyzed the NADPH-dependent reduction of Fe(III)-nitrilotriaceti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaufmann F,Lovley DR

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome comparisons have demonstrated that dramatic genetic change often underlies the emergence of new bacterial pathogens. Evolutionary analysis of Escherichia coli O157:H7, a pathogen that has emerged as a worldwide public health threat in the past two decades, has posited that this toxin-producing pathogen evolved ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wick LM,Qi W,Lacher DW,Whittam TS

更新日期：2005-03-01 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：:Jones, Lois M. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), C. R. McDuff, and J. B. Wilson. Phenotypic alterations in the colonial morphology of Brucella abortus due to a bacteriophage carrier state. J. Bacteriol. 83:860-866. 1962.-In the course of examining a number of Brucella cultures with a brucellaphage, it was observed t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： JONES LM,McDUFF CR,WILSON JB

更新日期：1962-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:H-NS is an abundant nucleoid-associated protein involved in the maintenance of chromosomal architecture in bacteria. H-NS also has a role in silencing the expression of a variety of environmentally regulated genes during growth under nonpermissive conditions. In this study we demonstrate a role for H-NS in the negativ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nye MB,Pfau JD,Skorupski K,Taylor RK

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both fi(+) and fi(-) type R factors function as intact replicative units when segregated into Escherichia coli minicells. Hybridization studies demonstrate that at least 95% of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) in R(+) minicells is episomal in origin. About half of the DNA can be extracted in a closed circular form and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Levy SB

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Examination of the ilvF locus at 54 min on the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome revealed that it is a cryptic gene for expression of a valine-resistant acetohydroxy acid synthase (acetolactate synthase; EC 4.1.3.18) distinct from previously reported isozymes. A spontaneous mutation, ilvF663, yielded IlvF+ enzyme activ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alexander-Caudle C,Latinwo LM,Jackson JH

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using PCR to create a probe based on conserved region 2 of sigma factors, we have cloned the sigA gene coding for the major sigma factor of Rhizobium meliloti. The 684-residue protein encoded by the sigA gene was expressed in vitro in coupled transcription-translation experiments with R. meliloti extracts and migrated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rushing BG,Long SR

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00