Mutations in the Escherichia coli dnaG gene suggest coupling between DNA replication and chromosome partitioning.

abstract：:We describe techniques for isolating individual pairs of mating Escherichia coli and observing them under the light microscope. Some pairs achieved close cell-to-cell contact, whereas others remained loosely connected by invisible connections which may be F pili. After 30 min of mating, the pairs were separated and al...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ou JT,Anderson TF

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the predacious gram-negative bacterium Bdellovibrio bacteriovorous 109J and free-living strains 109J-A1 and 109J-KA1 derived therefrom for penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs). We compared their PBPs with those of the host bacterium, Escherichia coli, and with those of a facultatively predacious bdellovibrio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Park JT,Mahadevan S

更新日期：1988-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have found, using a newly developed genetic method, a protein (named Cnu, for oriC-binding nucleoid-associated) that binds to a specific 26-base-pair sequence (named cnb) in the origin of replication of Escherichia coli, oriC. Cnu is composed of 71 amino acids (8.4 kDa) and shows extensive amino acid identity to a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim MS,Bae SH,Yun SH,Lee HJ,Ji SC,Lee JH,Srivastava P,Lee SH,Chae H,Lee Y,Choi BS,Chattoraj DK,Lim HM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deletions of the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome between trpR and thr render the bacterium sensitive to the dye toluidine blue (Dye-), and if male (Hfr or F'), the strain is sterile (Fex-), failing to donate F' or chromosomal markers and resistant to male-specific phages as a consequence of its inability to elaborate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Buxton RS,Drury LS

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides maintained intracellular ammonium pools of 1.1 to 2.6 mM during growth in several fixed nitrogen sources as well as during diazotrophic growth. Addition of 0.15 mM NH4+ to washed, nitrogen-free cell suspensions was followed by linear uptake of NH4+ from the medium and transient formation of int...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cordts ML,Gibson J

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dworkin, Martin (Indiana University Medical Center, Indianapolis, Ind.). Nutritional requirements for vegetative growth of Myxococcus xanthus. J. Bacteriol. 84:250-257. 1962.-This investigation was part of a program to clarify the environmental regulation of fruiting-body formation in a fruiting myxobacterium. By use ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DWORKIN M

更新日期：1962-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribonucleotide reductases (RNRs) are crucial to all living cells, since they provide deoxyribonucleotides (dNTPs) for DNA synthesis and repair. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis, a class Ib RNR comprising nrdE- and nrdF2-encoded subunits is essential for growth in vitro. Interestingly, the genome of this obligate human pa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mowa MB,Warner DF,Kaplan G,Kana BD,Mizrahi V

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two regulatory proteins, Gal repressor and isorepressor, control the expression of the gal and mgl operons in Escherichia coli. The transcription start sites for galR and galS, the genes for the repressor and isorepressor, were determined by primer extension of in vivo transcripts. Study of the promoter-lacZ gene fusi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weickert MJ,Adhya S

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A proline analogue, 4,5-dehydro-l-pipecolic acid (baikiain) induces the formation in Salmonella typhimurium of the two enzymes catalyzing the degradation of proline, proline oxidase and Delta(1)-pyrroline-5-carboxylic acid (P5C) dehydrogenase. The level of induction by 20 mm baikiain is about 10% of the maximum level ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dendinger S,Brill WJ

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the pathogenic spirochete Brachyspira hyodysenteriae bit (for "Brachyspira iron transport") genomic region has been determined. The bit region is likely to encode an iron ATP-binding cassette transport system with some homology to those encountered in gram-negative bacteria. Six open reading...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dugourd D,Martin C,Rioux CR,Jacques M,Harel J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Daniel, John W. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), and Karlee Babcock. Methionine metabolism of the myxomycete Physarum polycephalum. J. Bacteriol. 92:1028-1035. 1966.-Previous studies have shown that Physarum polycephalum requires exogenous methionine for growth, but not cysteine, folic acid, or vitamin B(12). Methi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daniel JW,Babcock K

更新日期：1966-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since relatively few quantitative immunological studies had been conducted with invertebrates, this study was designed to learn more about the immune potential of the oyster, a molluscan representative. Experiments measured the primary and secondary clearance rates of T2 coliphage in the oyster. The fate of phage inje...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Acton RT,Evans EE

更新日期：1968-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A map location of the gluconate-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (gnd) marker was estimated in Escherichia coli C at approximately 46 min by P1 transduction. The gnd locus appears to lie between the co-transducible histidine and prophage P2 location I markers. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robbins RS,Kelly B

更新日期：1973-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Overproduction of tryptophanyl-tRNA synthetase increased trp operon expression by reducing transcription termination at the trp attenuator. The total cellular level of charged tRNATrp was not affected by increased levels of the synthetase. We propose that excess synthetase binds charged tRNATrp and reduces the concent...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Das A,Yanofsky C

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The symbiotic plasmid of Rhizobium etli CE3 belongs to the RepABC family of plasmid replicons. This family is characterized by the presence of three conserved genes, repA, repB, and repC, encoded by the same DNA strand. A long intergenic sequence (igs) between repB and repC is also conserved in all members of the plas...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramírez-Romero MA,Soberón N,Pérez-Oseguera A,Téllez-Sosa J,Cevallos MA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Converse, John L. (U.S. Army Biological Laboratories, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.), Merida W. Castleberry, and Ernest M. Snyder. Experimental viable vaccine against pulmonary coccidioidomycosis in monkeys. J. Bacteriol. 86:1041-1051. 1963.-Monkeys (Macaca mulatta) vaccinated by subcutaneous injection in the forearm w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： CONVERSE JL,CASTLEBERRY MW,SNYDER EM

更新日期：1963-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 secretion systems (T1SS) are present in a wide range of Gram-negative bacteria and are involved in the secretion of diverse substrates such as proteases, lipases, and hemophores. T1SS consist of three proteins: an inner membrane ABC (ATP binding cassette) protein, a periplasmic adaptor, and an outer membrane ch...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Masi M,Wandersman C

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scanning electron microscopy was used to examine the major stages of the life cycle of two wild-type strains of Neurospora crassa Shear and Dodge (St. Lawrence 3.1a and 74A): mycelia, protoperithecium formation, perithecia, ascospores, ascospore germination and outgrowth, macro and microconidia, and germination and ou...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seale T

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The S-layers of Thermus thermophilus HB27 and T. thermophilus HB8 are composed of protein units of 95 kDa (P95) and 100 kDa (P100), respectively. We have selected S-layer deletion mutants from both strains by complete replacement of the slpA gene. Mutants of the two strains showed similar defects in growth and morphol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fernández-Herrero LA,Olabarría G,Castón JR,Lasa I,Berenguer J

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general, genetic technique for determining the direction of transcription for bacterial genes is presented. By comparing the phenotype of Mu-Mud1 dilysogens with the phenotype of deletion-containing derivatives, the direction of transcription for the gene containing Mud1 can be unambiguously determined. This method ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacNeil D

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A class II restriction endonuclease which recognizes the same nucleotide sequence as EndoR.HaeIII has been found in four of seven isolates of Neisseria gonorrhoeae tested. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Clanton DJ,Woodward JM,Miller RV

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 produces at least two ATP-dependent proteases, Lon (La) and Clp (Ti), the latter consisting of a regulatory subunit (ClpA) and a proteolytic subunit (ClpP). The gene clpB encoding an analog of ClpA had been found at 57 min on the E. coli chromosome. Cloning and examination of novel heat shock pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitagawa M,Wada C,Yoshioka S,Yura T

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Repaske, Roy (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Bethesda, Md.). Nutritional requirements for Hydrogenomonas eutropha. J. Bacteriol. 83: 418-422. 1962.-A simple apparatus for the autotrophic cultivation of Hydrogenomonas eutropha in 100-ml shake cultures is described. Nitrogen, in the form of ammon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： REPASKE R

更新日期：1962-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism by which iron uptake is facilitated by the siderophore rhodotorulic acid (RA) in the yeast Rhodotorula pilimanae was investigated with radioactively labeled Fe and RA and kinetically inert, chromic-substituted RA complexes. The weight of the evidence supports a model in which RA mediates iron transport t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Carrano CJ,Raymond KN

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoanemonin is a toxic metabolite which may be formed during the degradation of some chloroaromatic compounds, such as polychlorinated biphenyls, by natural microbial consortia. We show here that protoanemonin can be transformed by dienelactone hydrolase of Pseudomonas sp. strain B13 to cis-acetylacrylate. Although ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brückmann M,Blasco R,Timmis KN,Pieper DH

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of cytosine deaminase in Salmonella typhimurium is repressed by pyrimidines. This repression is mediated by both a uridine and a cytidine compound, indicating a distinct difference in the regulation of synthesis of cytosine deaminase from the regulation of the de novo pyrimidine pathway enzymes. A salvag...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： West TP,O'Donovan GA

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients are highly susceptible to chronic pulmonary disease caused by mucoid Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains that overproduce the exopolysaccharide alginate. We showed here that a mutation in zwf, encoding glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PDH), leads to a approximately 90% reduction in alginat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Silo-Suh L,Suh SJ,Phibbs PV,Ohman DE

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-five strains, representing 18 species of the genus Bacillus, were surveyed for production of hemolysin against rabbit erythrocytes. Broth cultures of B. cereus, B. alvei, and B. laterosporus contained lysins that closely resembled streptolysin O. B. subtilis and a single strain of B. cereus may produce lysins ha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernheimer AW,Grushoff P

更新日期：1967-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3.1-Mb genome of an outbreak methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain (TW20) contains evidence of recently acquired DNA, including two large regions (635 kb and 127 kb). The strain is resistant to a wide range of antibiotics, antiseptics, and heavy metals due to resistance genes encoded on mobile ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Holden MT,Lindsay JA,Corton C,Quail MA,Cockfield JD,Pathak S,Batra R,Parkhill J,Bentley SD,Edgeworth JD

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The conditions for the infection of Bacillus stearothermophilus 4S with TP-1C phage deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) are described. Cells from log-phase cultures are the most susceptible to phage DNA infection (transfection). A cellular component (competence factor) which enhances transfection is released into the culture ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Streips UN,Welker NE

更新日期：1971-06-01 00:00:00