Phototaxis and membrane potential in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodospirillum rubrum.

abstract：:Auxotrophs of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus blocked in each reaction of the synthetic pathway from chorismic acid to tryptophan were obtained after N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis. One novel class was found to be blocked in both anthranilate and p-aminobenzoate synthesis; these mutants (trpG) require p-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sawula RV,Crawford IP

更新日期：1972-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid pE194 has been shown to be rescued by integration after cultivation of infected Bacillus subtilis recE4 cells at a restrictive high temperature. The plasmid is also spontaneously excised from the chromosome at a low frequency by precise or imprecise excision (J. Hofemeister, M. Israeli-Reches, and D. Dubnau, M...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Conrad B,Bashkirov VI,Hofemeister J

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our current understanding of segregation of prokaryotic plasmids has been derived mainly from the study of the gram-negative bacterial plasmids. We previously reported a replicon of the cryptic plasmid from a gram-positive bacterium, Leifsonia xyli subsp. cynodontis. The replicon contains a putative plasmid partition ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yin P,Li TY,Xie MH,Jiang L,Zhang Y

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entomopathogenic bacteria of the genus Photorhabdus harbor a type III secretion system. This system was probably acquired prior to the separation of the species within this genus. Furthermore, the core components of the secretion machinery are highly conserved but the predicted effectors differ between Photorhabdus lu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brugirard-Ricaud K,Givaudan A,Parkhill J,Boemare N,Kunst F,Zumbihl R,Duchaud E

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibiotic peptide nisin is the first known lantibiotic that uses a docking molecule within the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane for pore formation. Through specific interaction with the cell wall precursor lipid II, nisin forms defined pores which are stable for seconds and have pore diameters of 2 to 2.5 nm. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wiedemann I,Benz R,Sahl HG

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Electron cryotomography was used to analyze the structure of the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi. This methodology offers a new means for studying the native architecture of bacteria by eliminating the chemical fixing, dehydration, and staining steps of conventional electron microscopy. Using electron cr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Charon NW,Goldstein SF,Marko M,Hsieh C,Gebhardt LL,Motaleb MA,Wolgemuth CW,Limberger RJ,Rowe N

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis possesses different enzymes for the utilization of plant cell wall polysaccharides. This includes a gene cluster containing galactan degradation genes (ganA and ganB), two transporter component genes (ganQ and ganP), and the sugar-binding lipoprotein-encoding gene ganS (previously known as cycB). The...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watzlawick H,Morabbi Heravi K,Altenbuchner J

更新日期：2016-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Regulation of the cadA cadmium and zinc resistance determinant of Staphylococcus aureus plasmid pI258 was demonstrated by using gene fusions and direct measurements of transcription. In growth experiments, cells harboring the intact cadA operon were induced with different cations and challenged by an inhibitory concen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoon KP,Misra TK,Silver S

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The catB and catC genes encode cis,cis-muconate lactonizing enzyme I (EC 5.5.1.1) and muconolactone isomerase (EC 5.3.3.4), respectively. These enzymes are required for the dissimilation of benzoate to beta-ketoadipate by Pseudomonas putida and are under coordinate transcriptional regulation. By deletion analysis and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aldrich TL,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic yersiniae require Ca2+ for growth at 37 degrees C. They harbor closely related plasmids of about 70 kb that are essential for virulence. At 37 degrees C and in the absence of Ca2+ ions, these plasmids cause a decrease in growth rate and the release of large amounts of proteins called Yops. Here we describe ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allaoui A,Scheen R,Lambert de Rouvroit C,Cornelis GR

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hyatt, Mildred T. (Pioneering Research Division. U.S. Army Natick Laboratories, Natick, Mass.), and Hillel S. Levinson. Effect of sugars and other carbon compounds on germination and postgerminative development of Bacillus megaterium spores. J. Bacteriol. 88:1403-1415. 1964.-A total of 77 carbon-containing compounds w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HYATT MT,LEVINSON HS

更新日期：1964-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mecA-27r gene from Staphylococcus aureus 27r encodes penicillin-binding protein 2a (PBP2a-27r), which causes this strain to be methicillin resistant. Removal or replacement of the N-terminal transmembrane domain had no effect on binding of penicillin, but removal of portions of the putative transglycosylase domain...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu CY,Alborn WE Jr,Flokowitsch JE,Hoskins J,Unal S,Blaszczak LC,Preston DA,Skatrud PL

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From the marine sponge Halichondria panicea a lectin was isolated and characterized. The homogeneous lectin (composed of protein to 80.7% and of neutral carbohydrates to 14.1%) had a molecular weight of 78,000 (determined by gel filtration) and consisted of four subunits with a molecular weight of 21,000 each (determi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Müller WE,Zahn RK,Kurelec B,Lucu C,Müller I,Uhlenbruck G

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intestinal pathogen Clostridium difficile is known to grow only within the intestines of mammals, yet little is known about how the bacterium subsists in this environment. In the intestine, C. difficile must contend with innate defenses within the host, such as cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) produced by t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suárez JM,Edwards AN,McBride SM

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane fragments containing diacyl phospholipids were released from viable cells of Haemophilus parainfluenzae during incubation in ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA)- tris(hydroxymethyl)aminomethane (Tris) buffer. The phospholipids located in the part of the membrane that was released during the EDTA-Tris treat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tucker AN,White DC

更新日期：1970-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic bacterial pathogen Vibrio vulnificus causes severe wound infection and fatal septicemia. We used alkaline phosphatase insertion mutagenesis in a clinical isolate of V. vulnificus to find genes necessary for virulence, and we identified fadR, which encodes a regulator of fatty acid metabolism. The fad...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brown RN,Gulig PA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extraction with pentane virtually abolished reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidase activity in small particles from Azotobacter vinelandii, but activity was largely restored by added ubiquinone. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Swank RT,Burris RH

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inducible cat and erm genes are regulated by translational attenuation. In this regulatory model, gene activation results from chloramphenicol- or erythromycin-dependent stalling of a ribosome at a precise site in the leader region of cat or erm transcripts. The stalled ribosome is believed to destabilize a downstream...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rogers EJ,Ambulos NP Jr,Lovett PS

更新日期：1990-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Arc (anoxic redox control) two-component signal transduction system, consisting of the ArcB sensor kinase and the ArcA response regulator, allows adaptive responses of Escherichia coli to changes of O(2) availability. The arcA gene was previously known as the dye gene because null mutants were growth sensitive to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alvarez AF,Malpica R,Contreras M,Escamilla E,Georgellis D

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon incubation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens A348 with acetosyringone, the vir genes encoded by the Ti (tumor-inducing) plasmid are induced. The addition of certain opines, including octopine, nopaline, leucinopine, and succinamopine, enhanced this induction 2- to 10-fold. The compounds mannopine, acetopine, arginine,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Veluthambi K,Krishnan M,Gould JH,Smith RH,Gelvin SB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Marinobacter hydrocarbonoclasticus DSM 8798 has been reported to synthesize isoprenoid wax ester storage compounds when grown on phytol as the sole carbon source under limiting nitrogen and/or phosphorous conditions. We hypothesized that isoprenoid wax ester synthesis involves (i) activation of an isoprenoid fatty aci...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Holtzapple E,Schmidt-Dannert C

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon cold shock, Escherichia coli cell growth transiently stops. During this acclimation phase, specific cold shock proteins (CSPs) are highly induced. At the end of the acclimation phase, their synthesis is reduced to new basal levels, while the non-cold shock protein synthesis is resumed, resulting in cell growth re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamanaka K,Inouye M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Cell shape has been suggested to play an important role in the regulation of bacterial attachment to surfaces and the formation of communities associated with surfaces. We found that a cardiolipin synthase (Δcls) mutant of the rod-shaped bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides--in which synthesis of the anionic, h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lin TY,Santos TM,Kontur WS,Donohue TJ,Weibel DB

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 7 of Escherichia coli is a poorly characterized member of the family of enzymes that synthesize and modify the bacterial cell wall. The approximate chromosomal position of the gene encoding this protein was determined by measuring the expression of PBPs during lytic infection of E. col...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Henderson TA,Templin M,Young KD

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nisin is a pore-forming antimicrobial peptide. The capacity of nisin to induce transmembrane movement of a fluorescent phospholipid in lipid vesicles was investigated. Unilamellar phospholipid vesicles that contained a fluorescent phospholipid (1-acyl-2-(6-[(7-nitro-2-1, 3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]caproyl)-sn-glycero-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moll GN,Konings WN,Driessen AJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filaments of the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis reproduced 35SO4(2)-, incorporating 35S into cysteine, methionine, glutathione, sulfolipid, and several unidentified metabolites. The majority of the incorporated label accumulated in reduced glutathione. Heterocysts isolated from labeled filaments...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giddings TH Jr,Wolk CP,Shomer-Ilan A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The binding of iron-loaded human transferrin at the surface of Neisseria meningitidis is mediated by two polypeptides, Tbp1 and Tbp2. Predicted Tbp amino acid sequences from N. meningitidis strains are highly divergent. This variability is particularly pronounced throughout the Tbp2 polypeptide. In this study, a highl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vonder Haar RA,Legrain M,Kolbe HV,Jacobs E

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Six mycoplasma strains, isolated under anaerobic conditions from the human oropharynx, were studied by biologic and serologic means. The strains produced nippled colonies with weak hemolytic activity for guinea pig erythrocytes on agar medium. In addition, the strains metabolized arginine with a concomitant alkaline s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fox H,Purcell RH,Chanock RM

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline accumulation by the phototrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides has been studied, using the fluorescence properties of the antibiotic and measuring uptake of [7- 3H]tetracycline. Accumulation was carrier mediated, with a Km of approximately 300 micronM. Efflux also appeared to be carried mediated,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weckesser J,Magnuson JA

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00