DifA, a methyl-accepting chemoreceptor protein-like sensory protein, uses a novel signaling mechanism to regulate exopolysaccharide production in Myxococcus xanthus.

abstract：:The mutations of eight chemotaxis-deficient strains of Salmonella typhimurium, including five new mutants in strain LT2, were mapped by P22 transduction in relation to various fla mot deletions in S. abortus-equi. Seven recessive che mutations mapped between motB and flaC: three, all nontumbling, the che region I, adj...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Collins AL,Stocker BA

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spontaneous lac+ revertant of an adenylate cyclase deletion strain of Escherichia coli K-12 was isolated and characterized. This revertant, designated strain KC20, exhibited a pleiotropic suppression of the adenylate cyclase defect, with the crp locus being the site of the suppressor mutation. Cyclic adenosine 3',5'...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bankaitis VA,Kline EL

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Structural studies were carried out on lipoteichoic acids obtained from defatted cells of 10 Bacillus strains by phenol-water partition followed by chromatography on DEAE-Sephacel and Octyl-Sepharose columns. A group of the tested bacteria (group A), Bacillus subtilis, Bacillus licheniformis, and Bacillus pumilus, was...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwasaki H,Shimada A,Ito E

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cold-tolerant bacterium Pusillimonas sp. strain T7-7 is able to utilize diesel oils (C5 to C30 alkanes) as a sole carbon and energy source. In the present study, bioinformatics, proteomics, and real-time reverse transcriptase PCR approaches were used to identify the alkane hydroxylation system present in this bact...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li P,Wang L,Feng L

更新日期：2013-05-01 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：:The repressive effects of exogenous cytidine on growing cells was examined in a specially constructed strain in which the pool sizes of endogenous uridine 5'-diphosphate and uridine 5'-triphosphate cannot be varied by the addition of uracil and/or uridine to the medium. Five enzymes of the pyrimidine biosynthetic path...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kelln RA,Kinahan JJ,Foltermann KF,O'Donovan GA

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli, putrescine is metabolized to succinate for use as a carbon and nitrogen source by the putrescine utilization pathway (Puu pathway). One gene in the puu gene cluster encodes a transcription factor, PuuR, which has a helix-turn-helix DNA-binding motif. DNA microarray analysis of an E. coli puuR muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nemoto N,Kurihara S,Kitahara Y,Asada K,Kato K,Suzuki H

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we show that Salmonella produces an O-antigen capsule coregulated with the fimbria- and cellulose-associated extracellular matrix. Structural analysis of purified Salmonella extracellular polysaccharides yielded predominantly a repeating oligosaccharide unit similar to that of Salmonella enterica serova...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gibson DL,White AP,Snyder SD,Martin S,Heiss C,Azadi P,Surette M,Kay WW

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The csgA gene produces an intercellular signal during fruiting body formation of the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Sporulating pseudorevertants were isolated to allow us to understand the mechanism by which CsgA is perceived by cells and used to regulate developmental gene expression. Two strains, LS559 and LS560,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee K,Shimkets LJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major sheath protein-encoding gene (mspA) of the oral spirochete Treponema maltophilum ATCC 51939(T) was cloned by screening a genomic library with an anti-outer membrane fraction antibody. The mspA gene encodes a precursor protein of 575 amino acids with a predicted molecular mass of 62.3 kDa, including a signal ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Heuner K,Choi BK,Schade R,Moter A,Otto A,Göbel UB

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetate kinase catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of acetate (CH3COO- + ATP<-->CH3CO2PO3(2-) + ADP). A mechanism which involves a covalent phosphoryl-enzyme intermediate has been proposed, and chemical modification studies of the enzyme from Escherichia coli indicate an unspecified glutamate residue is phosphory...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singh-Wissmann K,Ingram-Smith C,Miles RD,Ferry JG

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MobB is a small protein encoded by the broad-host-range plasmid R1162 and required for efficient mobilization of its DNA during conjugation. The protein was shown previously to stabilize the relaxosome, the complex of plasmid DNA and mobilization proteins at the origin of transfer (oriT). We have generated in-frame mo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perwez T,Meyer RJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soluble reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide oxidase activity in extracts of Bacillus subtilis spores was stimulated by the addition of not only flavine mononucleotide (FMN) or flavine adenine dinucleotide (FAD) but also alpha-alpha'-dipyridyl or o-phenanthroline. These chelating agents showed stronger effect on ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tochikubo K

更新日期：1974-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FtsK is essential for Escherichia coli cell division. We report that cells lacking the C terminus of FtsK are defective in chromosome segregation as well as septation, often exhibiting asymmetrically positioned nucleoids and large anucleate regions. Combining the corresponding truncated ftsK gene with a mukB null muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yu XC,Weihe EK,Margolin W

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During bacteriophage T7 infection, the Escherichia coli RNA polymerase beta' subunit is phosphorylated by the phage-encoded kinase Gp0.7. Here, we used proteolytic degradation and mutational analysis to localize the phosphorylation site to a single amino acid, Thr(1068), in the evolutionarily hypervariable segment of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Severinova E,Severinov K

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines are present in high concentrations in archaea, yet little is known about their synthesis, except by extrapolation from bacterial and eucaryal systems. S-Adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) decarboxylase, a pyruvoyl group-containing enzyme that is required for spermidine biosynthesis, has been previously identified ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim AD,Graham DE,Seeholzer SH,Markham GD

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Catabolic mannopine (MOP) cyclase encoded by certain Agrobacterium Ti and Ri plasmids lactonizes MOP to agropine (AGR). The enzyme, purified to homogeneity from a recombinant clone, has a molecular mass of 45 kDa as measured by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and size exclusion chromatography...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hong SB,Farrand SK

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacterium halobium spontaneously reverses its swimming direction with a frequency of about 0.1 s-1. The self-sustained periodicity can be entrained by rhythmic light stimuli within a limited range between 0.13 and 0.3 s-1. Increase of temperature increases the reversal frequency and shortens the time to reach maxi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schimz A,Hildebrand E

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The intermolecular interactions of the mycobacteriophage Ms6 secretion chaperone with endolysin were characterized. The 384-amino-acid lysin (lysin(384))-binding domain was found to encompass the N-terminal region of Gp1, which is also essential for a lysis phenotype in Escherichia coli. In addition, a GXXXG-like moti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Catalão MJ,Gil F,Moniz-Pereira J,Pimentel M

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The growth phase-dependent change in sucrose density gradient centrifugation patterns of ribosomes was analyzed for both laboratory strains of Escherichia coli and natural isolates from the ECOR collection. All of the natural isolates examined formed 100S ribosome dimers in the stationary phase, and ribosome modulatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wada A,Mikkola R,Kurland CG,Ishihama A

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn5-induced C4-dicarboxylate transport mutants of Rhizobium meliloti 2011 which could be complemented by cosmid pRmSC121 were subdivided into two classes. Class I mutants (RMS37 and RMS938) were defective in symbiotic C4-dicarboxylate transport and in nitrogen fixation. They were mutated in the structural g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Engelke T,Jording D,Kapp D,Pühler A

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory proteins OmpR and EnvZ are both required to activate expression of the genes for the major outer membrane porin proteins, OmpF and OmpC, of Escherichia coli K-12. Here we show that OmpR, under certain conditions, could activate porin expression in the complete absence of EnvZ. In addition, the pleiotrop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slauch JM,Garrett S,Jackson DE,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A plasmid, R773, which confers resistance to arsenic compounds, is transmissible between strains of Escherichia coli. It is a member of compatibility group F(1). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hedges RW,Baumberg S

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 30 conjugative plasmids of enteric bacteria from 23 incompatibility (Inc) groups, we found 19 (from 12 Inc groups) which can complement defects caused by a defective single-stranded DNA-binding protein of Escherichia coli K-12. The genes which are responsible for the complementation from three of these plasmids ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Golub EI,Low KB

更新日期：1985-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Romano, Antonio H. (University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio), and Dorothy J. Geason. Pattern of sheath synthesis in Sphaerotilus natans. J. Bacteriol. 88:1145-1150. 1964.-Formation of the characteristic sheath of Sphaerotilus natans was followed by immunofluorescence. Fluorescent antisheath antibody was obtained by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ROMANO AH,GEASON DJ

更新日期：1964-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To isolate genes from Escherichia coli which regulate the labile hydrogenase activity, a plasmid library was used to transform hydL mutants lacking the labile hydrogenase. A single type of gene, designated hydG, was isolated. This gene also partially restored the hydrogenase activity in hydF mutants (which are defecti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stoker K,Reijnders WN,Oltmann LF,Stouthamer AH

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The halophilic bacterium Chromohalobacter salexigens synthesizes and accumulates compatible solutes in response to salt and temperature stress. (13)C-nuclear magnetic resonance analysis of cells grown in minimal medium at the limiting temperature of 45 degrees C revealed the presence of hydroxyectoine, ectoine, glutam...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： García-Estepa R,Argandoña M,Reina-Bueno M,Capote N,Iglesias-Guerra F,Nieto JJ,Vargas C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic element integrating site specifically into a prokaryotic gene usually carries a copy of the 3' portion of that gene that restores the active gene even as the original is disrupted. A cryptic element in Mesorhizobium loti instead carries a copy of the 5' end of the tRNA gene into which it integrated. This has...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao S,Williams KP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trfA gene of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 is essential for initiation of plasmid replication. Two related TrfA proteins of 43 and 32 kilodaltons (kDa) are produced by independent translation initiation at two start codons within the trfA open reading frame. These proteins were o overproduced in Escherichia col...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Durland RH,Helinski DR

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is presented for the rapid screening of bacterial colonies to detect mutants unable to produce 14CO2 from a labeled precursor. The method is especially useful for mass screening for mutants that cannot be easily detected by their phenotypic characteristics. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tabor H,Tabor CW,Hafner EW

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00