Regulation of growth of the mother cell and chromosome replication during sporulation of Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:Peptide deformylase (PDF) is an essential bacterial metalloprotease involved in deformylation of N-formyl group from nascent polypeptide chains during protein synthesis. Iron-containing variants of this enzyme from Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (sPDF) and Mycobacterium tuberculosis (mPDF), although inhibited...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kumar S,Kanudia P,Karthikeyan S,Chakraborti PK

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetically homogenous bacterial population may contain physiologically distinct subpopulations. In one such case, a minor part of an otherwise antibiotic-sensitive bacterial population maintains a nondividing state even in a growth-supporting environment and is therefore not killed by bactericidal antibiotics. This...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jõers A,Kaldalu N,Tenson T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study investigated the apparent genetic redundancy in the biosynthesis of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) in the Rhodospirillum rubrum genome revealed by the occurrence of three homologous PHA polymerase genes (phaC1, phaC2, and phaC3). In vitro biochemical assays established that each gene product encodes PHA polym...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jin H,Nikolau BJ

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis gene ypfP, which is located at 196 degrees on the genetic map, shows similarity to both the monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase gene of Cucumis sativus, which encodes a galactosyltransferase, and the murG genes of B. subtilis, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Synechocystis sp. strain P...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Price KD,Roels S,Losick R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the cytoplasmic membrane and cell wall of two strains of Escherichia coli, Proteus morganii, P. vulgaris, Acinetobacter anitratum, Moraxella lacunata, Erwinia amylovora, Acinetobacter sp., and of a plant pathogen, unclassified gram-negative, fixed by the Ryter-Kellenberger procedure, was found to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Silva MT,Sousa JC

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:On the basis of the constitutive phenotypes of two catM mutants of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus, the CatM protein was proposed to repress expression of two different loci involved in catechol degradation, catA and catBCIJFD (E. Neidle, C. Hartnett, and L. N. Ornston, J. Bacteriol. 171:5410-5421, 1989). In spite of its ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romero-Arroyo CE,Schell MA,Gaines GL 3rd,Neidle EL

更新日期：1995-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In bacteria, the 4-amino-hydroxymethyl-2-methylpyrimidine (HMP) moiety of thiamine is synthesized from 5-aminoimidazole ribotide (AIR), a branch point metabolite of purine and thiamine biosynthesis. ThiC is a member of the radical S-adenosylmethionine (AdoMet) superfamily and catalyzes the complex chemical rearrangeme...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Palmer LD,Dougherty MJ,Downs DM

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies on the crisp-1 (cr-1), cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP)-deficient mutants of Neurospora crassa were undertaken to characterize the response of these mutants to exogenous cyclic nucleotides and cyclic nucleotide analogs. A growth tube bioassay and a radioimmune assay for cyclic nucleotides yielded th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosenberg G,Pall ML

更新日期：1979-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endonuclease was detected in strains of Salmonella typhimurium containing the drug resistance plasmid pKM101. The enzyme was not detectable in strains lacking this plasmid, but it was present in strains containing mutants of pKM101 that were no longer able to enhance host cell mutagenesis. The endonuclease had a mo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lackey D,Walker GC,Keng T,Linn S

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) fractions were isolated from three species of blue-green algae of the genus Phormidium, namely, P. africanum, P. laminosum, and P. uncinatum, by using a phenol-water procedure followed by exhaustive extraction with ammonium oxalate. The materials obtained were shown to be closely related bioch...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mikheyskaya LV,Ovodova RG,Ovodov YS

更新日期：1977-04-01 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：:Hurwitz, Charles (Veterans Administration Hospital, Albany, N.Y.) and Carmen L. Rosano. Chloramphenicol-sensitive and -insensitive phases of the lethal action of streptomycin. J. Bacteriol. 83:1202-1209. 1962.-If chloramphenicol is added to sensitive Escherichia coli cells at the same time as streptomycin, the lethal ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HURWITZ C,ROSANO CL

更新日期：1962-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O111a is a thermosensitive strain which, when grown at 40 C, accumulates large quantities of intracellular membranes. The ultrastructure of these membranes in cells which have been chemically fixed, embedded, and examined as thin sections has been compared with that of membranes in cells negatively st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weigand RA,Holt SC,Shively JM,Decker GL,Greenawalt JW

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A general strategy for cloning the functional homologs of an Escherichia coli gene was used to clone homologs of 4.5S RNA from other bacteria. The genes encoding these homologs were selected by their ability to complement a deletion of the gene for 4.5S RNA. DNA sequences of the regions encoding the homologs were dete...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brown S,Thon G,Tolentino E

更新日期：1989-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli (EAggEC) has been associated with persistent pediatric diarrhea in the developing world, yet the pathogenetic mechanisms of EAggEC infection are unknown. Our previous data have suggested that aggregative adherence of some EAggEC strains to HEp-2 cells is mediated by flexible, bundle-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nataro JP,Yikang D,Yingkang D,Walker K

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia spp. express a functional type III secretion system (T3SS) necessary for pathogenesis and intracellular growth. However, certain essential components of the secretion apparatus have diverged to such a degree as to preclude their identification by standard homology searches of primary protein sequences. One e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Betts HJ,Twiggs LE,Sal MS,Wyrick PB,Fields KA

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of high doses of radiation (1, 5, or 20 Mrad) on the toxicity, pyrogenicity, and immunogenicity of Salmonella typhimurium cells and endotoxin were studied. Toxicity decreased progressively after exposure to 1, 5, or 20 Mrad. The lethal effect of 1-Mrad exposed cells was greater than that of heat-, acetone-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Previte JJ

更新日期：1968-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small nuclear ribonucleoprotein (snRNP) particles play an important role in the processing of pre-mRNA. snRNPs have been identified immunologically in a variety of cells, but none have ever been observed in prokaryotic systems. This report provides the first evidence for the presence of snRNP-like components in two ty...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kovacs SA,O'Neil J,Watcharapijarn J,Moe-Kirvan C,Vijay S,Silva V

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) levels were determined for several aerobically grown halophilic vibrios and compared with those found in aerobically grown Escherichia coli K-12. The SOD levels ranged from 25 to 103.6 U/mg of protein for the vibrios compared with 44.6 U/mg of protein for E. coli. The CAT ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daily OP,Debell RM,Joseph SW

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tar and tap loci of Escherichia coli encode methyl-accepting inner membrane proteins that mediate chemotactic responses to aspartate and maltose or to dipeptides. These genes lie adjacent to each other in the same orientation on the chromosome and have extensive sequence homology throughout the C-terminal portions...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slocum MK,Halden NF,Parkinson JS

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mukB gene is essential for the partitioning of sister chromosomes in Escherichia coli. A mukB null mutant is hypersensitive to the DNA gyrase inhibitor novobiocin. In this work, we isolated mutants suppressing the novobiocin hypersensitivity of the mukB null mutation. All suppressor mutations are localized in or n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Adachi S,Hiraga S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Escherichia coli K-12 was examined which has growth medium-dependent lysyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) ligase activity. In minimal medium or 0.5% yeast extract, the activity of the enzyme in the mutant strain was 5 to 10% of wild type. However, when the mutant was grown in a highly enriched medium, su...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hirshfield IN,Bukald NE

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heme A, as a prosthetic group, is found exclusively in respiratory oxidases of mitochondria and aerobic bacteria. Bacillus subtilis CtaA and other heme A synthases catalyze the conversion of a methyl side group on heme O into a formyl group. The catalytic mechanism of heme A synthase is not understood, and little is k...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hederstedt L,Lewin A,Throne-Holst M

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmids for high-level expression of penicillin-binding protein 6 (PBP6) were constructed, giving rise to overproduction of PBP6 under the control of the lambda pR promoter in either the periplasmic or the cytoplasmic space. In contrast to penicillin-binding protein 5 (PBP5), the presence of high amounts of PBP6 in t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van der Linden MP,de Haan L,Hoyer MA,Keck W

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma penetrans is a newly identified species of the genus MYCOPLASMA: It was first isolated from a urine sample from a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patient. M. penetrans changes its surface antigen profile with high frequency. The changes originate from ON<==>OFF phase variations of the P35 family...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Horino A,Sasaki Y,Sasaki T,Kenri T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls (LOG walls) were isolated from cultures of Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790 in the exponential phase of growth. These walls were either allowed to undergo autolytic dissolution (in the presence or absence of trypsin) or wall autolysis was inactivated with sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS walls). Inactivated walls...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shockman GD,Martin JT

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have indicated that a single enzyme, "kynureninase," catalyzes the reactions of l-kynurenine to anthranilate and l-3-hydroxykynurenine to 3-hydroxyanthranilate in Neurospora crassa and in other organisms. The present report describes separate enzymes which catalyze these reactions in N. crassa. The fi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gaertner FH,Cole KW,Welch GR

更新日期：1971-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The luminescence (lux) operon (luxICDABEG) of the symbiotic bacterium Vibrio fischeri is regulated by the transcriptional activator LuxR and two acyl-homoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) autoinducers (the luxI-dependent 3-oxo-hexanoyl-HSL [3-oxo-C6-HSL] and the ainS-dependent octanoyl-HSL [C8-HSL]) in a population density-re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Callahan SM,Dunlap PV

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five transposon Tn5 mutants of the procaryote Myxococcus xanthus had been shown previously to be defective in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis (J. M. Fink,-M. Kalos, and J. F. Zissler, J. Bacteriol. 171:2033-2041, 1989). These mutants were studied for possible defects in gliding motility and multicellular development. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fink JM,Zissler JF

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flac mutants have been isolated in Escherichia coli K-12 which carry dominant mutations resulting in insensitivity to transfer inhibition by the Fin(+) I-like plasmid R62. These mutants were still sensitive to transfer inhibition by the fin(+) F-like plasmid R100 and, conversely, FlactraO(-) and traP(-) mutants, which...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Willetts NS,Paranchych W

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00