Mycobacterium tuberculosis can utilize heme as an iron source.

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

abstract：:The anaerobic spore former Clostridioides difficile causes significant diarrheal disease in humans and other mammals. Infection begins with the ingestion of dormant spores, which subsequently germinate within the host gastrointestinal tract. There, the vegetative cells proliferate and secrete two exotoxins, TcdA and T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Edwards AN,Krall EG,McBride SM

更新日期：2020-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a 7.3-kilobase-pair fragment of DNA encoding a hemolytic activity from Serratia marcescens was determined. Two large open reading frames were identified, designated shlA (Serratia hemolysin) and shlB, capable of encoding polypeptides of 165, 056 and 61,897 molecular weight, respectively. Bot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Poole K,Schiebel E,Braun V

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli W3110 contains four types of IS1 elements in the chromosome. Using an insertion element entrapping system, we collected 116 IS1 plasmid insertion mutants, which resulted from a minimum of 26 independent IS1 insertion events. All of them had insertions of IS1 of the IS1A (IS1E and IS1G) type. Inspectio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen JH,Hsu WB,Hwang JL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysates of Escherichia coli Ymel obtained from cultures grown in the absence of tryptophan in minimal medium supplemented with 0.1% casein hydrolysate show an approximate fivefold increase in steady-state specific activity of both anthranilate synthetase and tryptophan synthetase A protein relative to cultures grown i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stubbs JD,Stubbs EA

更新日期：1971-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mir M7 is a spontaneous morphologically conditional mutant of Klebsiella pneumoniae which grows as round cells (cocci) at pH 7 and as normal rods at pH 5.8. We studied the rates of peptidoglycan synthesis of cocci and rods growing at pH values of 7 and 5.8, respectively. It was found that exponentially growing cocci p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Satta G,Fontana R,Canepari P,Botta G

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison of the distribution of CO oxidation activity between soluble and particulate protein fractions obtained after disruption of CO-grown Rhodopseudomonas gelatinosa 1 by French pressure cell breakage and osmotic lysis of spheroplasts suggested that, in situ, the enzyme complex was associated with the cell mem...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wakim BT,Uffen RL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillin-binding protein 4a (PBP4a) from Bacillus subtilis was overproduced and purified to homogeneity. It clearly exhibits DD-carboxypeptidase and thiolesterase activities in vitro. Although highly isologous to the Actinomadura sp. strain R39 DD-peptidase (B. Granier, C. Duez, S. Lepage, S. Englebert, J. Dusart, O...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Duez C,Vanhove M,Gallet X,Bouillenne F,Docquier J,Brans A,Frère J

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the roles of specific amino acid residues in the delta 5-3-ketosteroid isomerase from Pseudomonas putida biotype B during catalysis, we replaced aspartic acid 40 with asparagine (D40N) and tyrosine 16 with phenylalanine (Y16F) in the enzyme by site-directed mutagenesis. Both purified mutant enzymes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim SW,Choi KY

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ClpX is a well-characterized bacterial chaperone that plays a role in many processes, including protein turnover and the remodeling of macromolecular complexes. All of these activities require ATP hydrolysis-dependent, ClpX-mediated protein unfolding. Here we used site-directed mutagenesis in combination with genetics...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haeusser DP,Lee AH,Weart RB,Levin PA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the virB gene, a transcriptional regulator of invasion genes on the large plasmid of Shigella flexneri, is strictly regulated by growth temperature; when bacteria are grown at 37 degrees C, virB transcription is highly activated, while at 30 degrees C the level of virB transcription decreases to less ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tobe T,Yoshikawa M,Sasakawa C

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial peptidoglycan consists of glycan chains of repeating beta-1,4-linked N-acetylglucosaminyl-N-acetylmuramyl units cross-linked through short peptide chains. The polymerization of the glycans, or glycosyltransfer (GT), and transpeptidation (TP) are catalyzed by bifunctional penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Di Guilmi AM,Dessen A,Dideberg O,Vernet T

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the late prespore-specific RNA polymerase sigma factor sigma(G) during Bacillus subtilis sporulation coincides with completion of the engulfment process, when the prespore becomes a protoplast fully surrounded by the mother cell cytoplasm and separated from it by a double membrane system. Activation of s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Serrano M,Vieira F,Moran CP Jr,Henriques AO

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The generalized transducing phage T4GT7 grew well on recA strains of Escherichia coli and transduced recA into F- and Hfr strains of E. coli at high frequency. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plakidou S,Moffat KG,Salmond GP,Mackinnon G

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this report, we show that biofilm formation by Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 19 gives rise to variants (the small mucoid variant [SMV] and the acapsular small-colony variant [SCV]) differing in capsule production, attachment, and biofilm formation compared to wild-type strains. All biofilm-derived variants harb...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allegrucci M,Sauer K

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli exhibits a wide range of lifestyles encompassing commensalism and various pathogenic behaviors which its highly dynamic genome contributes to develop. How environmental and host factors shape the genetic structure of E. coli strains remains, however, largely unknown. Following a previous study of E. c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vieira G,Sabarly V,Bourguignon PY,Durot M,Le Fèvre F,Mornico D,Vallenet D,Bouvet O,Denamur E,Schachter V,Médigue C

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Balish, Edward (Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Ill.), and George Svihla. Ultraviolet microscopy of Candida albicans. J. Bacteriol. 92:1812-1820. 1966.-Yeast and mycelial strains of Candida albicans were grown in medium supplemented with sulfur amino acids in an effort to determine factors that control the morph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Balish E,Svihla G

更新日期：1966-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Helicobacter pylori must be able to rapidly respond to fluctuating conditions within the stomach. Despite this need for constant adaptation, H. pylori encodes few regulatory proteins. Of the identified regulators, the ferric uptake regulator (Fur), the nickel response regulator (NikR), and the two-component ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Servetas SL,Carpenter BM,Haley KP,Gilbreath JJ,Gaddy JA,Merrell DS

更新日期：2016-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Many microbes coexist within biofilms, or multispecies communities of cells encased in an extracellular matrix. However, little is known about the microbe-microbe interactions relevant for creating these structures. In this study, we explored a striking dual-species biofilm between Bacillus subtilis and Pantoea agglom...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yannarell SM,Grandchamp GM,Chen SY,Daniels KE,Shank EA

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoplasts of Bacillus megaterium readily reverted to bacillary form in liquid media and when plated in a soft-agar layer onto the surface of appropriate agar media. Three phases of the reversion sequence could be differentiated by phase contrast microscopy: (i) increase in size of the individual protoplasts, (ii) no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hadlaczky G,Fodor K,Alföldi L

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in carbohydrate-negative mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 individually deficient in glucose 6-phosphate dehydrogenase (zwf), 6-phosphogluconate dehydratase (edd), or pyruvate carboxylase (pyc) were mapped on the chromosome by plasmid R68.45-mediated conjugation and by bacteriophage F116L-mediated trans...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roehl RA,Feary TW,Phibbs PV Jr

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli outer membrane protein Tsx functions as a nucleoside-specific channel and serves as the receptor for colicin K and a number of T-even-type bacteriophages, including phage T6. To identify those segments of the Tsx protein that are important for its phage receptor function, we devised a selection an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schneider H,Fsihi H,Kottwitz B,Mygind B,Bremer E

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A noncomposite transposon, designated Tn5541, was isolated from strain Fd33 of the filamentous cyanobacterium Fremyella diplosiphon UTEX 481. Sequence analysis showed that Tn5541 is structurally and genetically very similar to Tn5469, which is also endogenous to F. diplosiphon. Both Tn5469 and Tn5541 encode homologous...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schaefer MR,Kahn K

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fructose transport in Streptococcus mutans LG-1 is mediated by at least two distinct phosphoenolpyruvate fructose phosphotransferase systems. One system is constitutive and consists of membrane components enzyme II as well as enzyme I and heat-stable protein. The other system is inducible and requires, in addition to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gauthier L,Mayrand D,Vadeboncoeur C

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii remains an important opportunistic fungal pathogen causing life-threatening pneumonia in patients with AIDS and malignancy. Currently, little is known about how the organism adapts to environmental stresses and maintains its cellular integrity. We recently discovered an open reading frame approxim...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kottom TJ,Thomas CF Jr,Limper AH

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper describes the major transmutations of donor deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) after uptake by competent Bacillus subtilis cells. Kinetic experiments confirm that after exposure to competent cells, donor DNA is converted to double-stranded fragments (DSF) which can be isolated as early as 30 s from the beginning o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Davidoff-Abelson R,Dubnau D

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens VirD2 polypeptide, in the presence of VirD1, catalyzes a site- and strand-specific nicking reaction at the T-DNA border sequences. VirD2 is found tightly attached to the 5' end of the nicked DNA. The protein-DNA complex is presumably formed via a tyrosine residue of VirD2 (F. Durrenberger, A....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vogel AM,Das A

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Quantitative mass conversion of intact bacterial cells of Bacillus subtilis and B. licheniformis to L-phase variants has been effected after lysozyme treatment. After subculture of the unstable L-phase variants for several months in the presence of methicillin, stable L-phase variants were obtained which grew in the a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wyrick PB,Rogers HJ

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A ubiquinone-deficient mutant, carrying mutations in two genes affecting ubiquinone biosynthesis, has been used, in comparison with a normal strain, to determine the sequence of some of the components of the electron transport chain of Escherichia coli. The amounts of cytochromes reduced during aerobic steady-state co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Downie JA,Cox GB

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunity to leptospirosis is principally humorally mediated and involves opsonization of leptospires for phagocytosis by macrophages and neutrophils. The only protective antigen identified to date is the leptospiral lipopolysaccharide (LPS), which biochemically resembles typical gram-negative LPS but has greatly reduc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mitchison M,Bulach DM,Vinh T,Rajakumar K,Faine S,Adler B

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00