Genome sequence of a recently emerged, highly transmissible, multi-antibiotic- and antiseptic-resistant variant of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, sequence type 239 (TW).

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii is a Gram-negative, obligate intracellular bacterial pathogen that resides within the harsh, acidic confines of a lysosome-like compartment of the host cell that is termed a parasitophorous vacuole. In this study, we characterized a thiol-specific peroxidase of C. burnetii that belongs to the atypica...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hicks LD,Raghavan R,Battisti JM,Minnick MF

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable inheritance of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 is due at least in part to functions within a region located at coordinates 32.8 to 35.9 kb, termed the RK2 par locus. This locus encodes four previously identified genes in two operons (parCBA and parD; M. Gerlitz, O. Hrabak, and H. Schwab, J. Bacteriol. 172:...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts RC,Helinski DR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the traU gene of the Escherichia coli K-12 conjugative plasmid F. Plasmids carrying segments of the F transfer operon were tested for their capacity to complement F lac traU526. The protein products of TraU+ clones were identified, and the nucleotide sequence of traU was determined. traU mapped betwee...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moore D,Maneewannakul K,Maneewannakul S,Wu JH,Ippen-Ihler K,Bradley DE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutational analysis of the carboxy-terminal region of Escherichia coli HlyC was performed by site-directed mutagenesis. Replacement of residue Val-127 or Lys-129 reduced the activity of HlyC to about 30 or 60%, respectively, of that of the wild type, while replacement of Gly-128 reduced the activity to less than 1% of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guzmán-Verri C,García F,Arvidson S

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activities of gamma-butyrobetaine hydroxylase and carnitine dehydrogenase were low in cells of Pseudomonas sp. AK 1 grown in the absence of their respective substrates. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lindstedt G,Lindstedt S,Midtvedt T,Tofft M

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia plymuthica strain PRI-2C is a rhizosphere bacterial strain with antagonistic activity against different plant pathogens. Here we present the 5.39-Mb (G+C content, 55.67%) draft genome sequence of S. plymuthica strain PRI-2C with the aim of providing insight into the genomic basis of its antagonistic activity....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garbeva P,van Elsas JD,de Boer W

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Globomycin is an antibiotic which inhibits the processing of the prolipoprotein. Eighty globomycin-resistant mutants were independently isolated from Escherichia coli K-12 which had a deletion mutation in chromosomal lipoprotein gene (lpp), but contained a plasmid carrying the wild-type lpp gene. Twenty-six of the mut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zwiebel LJ,Inukai M,Nakamura K,Inouye M

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study of the distribution of pyrrolidone carboxylyl peptidase (PCP) activity among cell fractions of Streptococcus cremoris HP revealed that this enzyme is associated with a particulate fraction, which mainly consists of membrane material. This location could only be established using a gentle nonmechanical method f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Exterkate FA

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane vesicles capable of energy-dependent calcium uptake have been prepared from Bacillus megaterium cells in log-phase growth or when undergoing sporulation. The uptake is dependent on the calcium concentration and appears saturable in vesicles from cells in log-phase growth. Both ascorbate and phenazine methosul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Golub EE,Bronner F

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unique lipids found in Azotobacter vinelandii cysts are derived primarily from beta-hydroxybutyrate used to induce encystment. Tracer studies with beta-[14C]hydroxybutyrate showed that the biosynthesis of these compounds during encystment began at 8 to 12 h after induction and reached maximal levels after 2 days, Seve...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Su CJ,Sadoff HL

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The exosporium of Bacillus anthracis is comprised of two distinct layers: a basal layer and a hair-like nap that covers the basal layer. The hair-like nap contains the glycoproteins BclA and, most likely, BclB. BclA and BclB are directed to assemble into the exosporium by motifs in their N-terminal domains. Here, we i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thompson BM,Hoelscher BC,Driks A,Stewart GC

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The strict human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae is exposed to oxidative damage during infection. N. gonorrhoeae has many defenses that have been demonstrated to counteract oxidative damage. However, recN is the only DNA repair and recombination gene upregulated in response to hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) by microarray...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stohl EA,Seifert HS

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deibel, R. H. (American Meat Institute Foundation, Chicago, Ill.). Hydrolysis of proteins and nucleic acids by Lancefield group A and other streptococci. J. Bacteriol. 86:1270-1274. 1963.-Classically, group A streptococci have been considered to be nonproteolytic in spite of the observation that a proteinase is produc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DEIBEL RH

更新日期：1963-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the pleiotropic phenotypes of mutations affecting DNA gyrase activity in Salmonella typhimurium is the constitutive deattenuation of the histidine operon. In the present work, we isolated and characterized a suppressor mutation which restores his attenuation in the presence of a defective gyrase. Such a suppres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blanc-Potard AB,Bossi L

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain gram-negative pathogens are known to control virulence gene expression through cell-cell communication via small diffusible signal molecules termed autoinducers. This intercellular signal transduction mechanism termed quorum sensing depends on the interaction of an N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL) auto-inducer m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Milton DL,Hardman A,Camara M,Chhabra SR,Bycroft BW,Stewart GS,Williams P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DnaA is an AAA+ ATPase and the conserved replication initiator in bacteria. Bacteria control the timing of replication initiation by regulating the activity of DnaA. DnaA binds to multiple sites in the origin of replication (oriC) and is required for recruitment of proteins needed to load the replicative helicase. Dna...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bonilla CY,Grossman AD

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular vanadium metabolism was studied in Saccharomyces cerevisiae by isolating and characterizing vanadate [VO4(3-), V(V)]-resistant mutants. Vanadate growth inhibition was reversed by the removal of the vanadate from the medium, and vanadate resistance was found to be a recessive trait. Vanadate-resistant mutants ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willsky GR,Leung JO,Offermann PV Jr,Plotnick EK,Dosch SF

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most bacteria are likely to face osmotic challenges, but there is yet much to learn about how such environmental changes affect the architecture of bacterial cells. Here, we report a cell-biological study in model organisms of the genus Streptomyces, which are actinobacteria that grow in a highly polarized fashion to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fuchino K,Flärdh K,Dyson P,Ausmees N

更新日期：2016-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloarchaea in their natural environment are exposed to hypersalinity, intense solar radiation, and desiccation, all of which generate high levels of oxidative stress. Previous work has shown that haloarchaea are an order of magnitude more resistant to oxidative stress than most mesophilic organisms. Despite this resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gelsinger DR,DiRuggiero J

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogenesis depends on changes in metabolic and virulence gene expression in response to changes within a pathogen's environment. The plague-causing pathogen, Yersinia pestis, requires expression of the gene encoding the Pla protease for progression of pneumonic plague. The catabolite repressor protein Crp,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ritzert JT,Lathem WW

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella virulence requires the initial invasion of host cells, followed by modulation of the intracellular environment for survival and replication. In an effort to characterize the role of small RNAs in Salmonella pathogenesis, we inadvertently identified a 5-kDa protein named YshB that is involved in the intracel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bomjan R,Zhang M,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Beta toxin is a neutral sphingomyelinase secreted by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus. This virulence factor lyses erythrocytes in order to evade the host immune system as well as scavenge nutrients. The structure of beta toxin was determined at 2.4-A resolution using crystals that were merohedrally twinned. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huseby M,Shi K,Brown CK,Digre J,Mengistu F,Seo KS,Bohach GA,Schlievert PM,Ohlendorf DH,Earhart CA

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ADP-ribosylating toxin named Aeromonas salmonicida exoenzyme T (AexT) in A. salmonicida subsp. salmonicida, the etiological agent of furunculosis in fish, was characterized. Gene aexT, encoding toxin AexT, was cloned and characterized by sequence analysis. AexT shows significant sequence similarity to the ExoS and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Braun M,Stuber K,Schlatter Y,Wahli T,Kuhnert P,Frey J

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic studies have identified a specificity domain for prohead binding in the C-terminal 32 amino acids of gpA, the large subunit of bacteriophage lambda terminase (S. Frackman, D. A. Siegele, and M. Feiss, J. Mol. Biol. 180:283-300, 1984). In the present work, an amber mutation, Aam42, in the fifth-to-last codon of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sippy J,Feiss M

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized three distinct families of repeated sequences in the genome of the cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. strain PCC 7601. These repeated sequences were present at a level of about 100 copies per Calothrix genome and consisted of tandemly amplified heptanucleotides. These elements were named short tandemly repe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mazel D,Houmard J,Castets AM,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A positive selection method for isolation of nitrogenase-derepressed mutant strains of a filamentous cyanobacterium, Anabaena variabilis, is described. Mutant strains that are resistant to a glutamate analog, L-methionine-D,L-sulfoximine, were screened for their ability to produce and excrete NH4+ into medium. Mutant ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Spiller H,Latorre C,Hassan ME,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains missing several genes required for chemotaxis toward amino acids, peptides, and certain sugars were tethered and their rotational behavior was analyzed. Null strains (called gutted) were deleted for genes that code for the transducers Tsr, Tar, Tap, and Trg and for the cytoplasmic proteins CheA, CheW, CheR, Ch...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolfe AJ,Conley MP,Kramer TJ,Berg HC

更新日期：1987-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Escherichia coli cannot grow on L-1,2-propanediol; mutants that can do so have increased basal activity of an NAD-linked L-1,2-propanediol oxidoreductase. This enzyme belongs to the L-fucose system and functions normally as L-lactaldehyde reductase during fermentation of the methylpentose. In wild-type cells...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen YM,Chakrabarti T,Lin EC

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle operates in autotrophic CO(2) fixation in various Crenarchaea, as studied in some detail in Metallosphaera sedula. This cycle and the autotrophic 3-hydroxypropionate cycle in Chloroflexus aurantiacus have in common the conversion of acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and two bicarbon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Teufel R,Kung JW,Kockelkorn D,Alber BE,Fuchs G

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous determination of the nucleotide sequence of the iol region of the Bacillus subtilis genome allowed us to predict the structure of the iol operon for myo-inositol catabolism, consisting of 10 iol genes (iolA to iouJ); iolG corresponds to idh, encoding myo-inositol 2-dehydrogenase (Idh). Primer extension analys...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoshida KI,Aoyama D,Ishio I,Shibayama T,Fujita Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00