Promoter recognition and activation by the global response regulator CbrB in Pseudomonas aeruginosa.

abstract：:Sulfate-utilizing revertants of a cysteine auxotroph of Salmonella pullorum have been found that cause an accumulation in growth medium of a sulfur compound more oxidized than sulfide. The sulfur compound was presumptively identified as sulfite by the formation of a colored complex in the presence of basic fuchsin and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kline BC,Schoenhard DE

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disaccharide trehalose is accumulated as a storage product by spores of Streptomyces griseus. Nongerminating spores used their trehalose reserves slowly when incubated in buffer for several months. In contrast, spores rapidly depleted their trehalose pools during the first hours of germination. Extracts of dormant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McBride MJ,Ensign JC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four genes encoding for polypeptides with apparent molecular weights of 17,000, 26,000 (the fimbrial subunit), 27,000, and 81,000 have been implicated in the biosynthesis of the K88ab fimbria (Mooi et al., J. Bacteriol. 150:512-521, 1982). Escherichia coli mutants with defects in these genes were examined for the pres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mooi FR,Wijfjes A,de Graaf FK

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Howard, Dexter H. (University of California, Los Angeles). Intracellular behavior of Histoplasma capsulatum. J. Bacteriol. 87:33-38. 1964.-The tinctorial characteristics and intracellular generation time of Histoplasma capsulatum within mouse histiocytes maintained in tissue culture were studied. The appearance of via...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HOWARD DH

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene (aad) coding for an aldehyde/alcohol dehydrogenase (AAD) was identified immediately upstream of the previously cloned ctfA (J. W. Cary, D. J. Petersen, E. T. Papoutsakis, and G. N. Bennett, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 56:1576-1583, 1990) of Clostridium acetobutylicum ATCC 824 and sequenced. The 2,619-bp aad codes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nair RV,Bennett GN,Papoutsakis ET

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cecropins are a family of small, basic antibacterial polypeptides which can be isolated from pupae of immunized Lepidoptera. They are active against both gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria. We studied a mutant of Escherichia coli, strain SB1004, which is more sensitive to cecropin D than is the parental strain. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sidén I,Boman HG

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The coccoid cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis dominates microbial communities in the most extreme arid hot and cold deserts. These communities withstand constraints that result from multiple cycles of drying and wetting and/or prolonged desiccation, through mechanisms which remain poorly understood. Here we describe th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Billi D,Friedmann EI,Helm RF,Potts M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The quorum-sensing (QS) system present in the emerging nosocomial pathogen Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is based on the signaling molecule diffusible signal factor (DSF). Production and detection of DSF are governed by the rpf cluster, which encodes the synthase RpfF and the sensor RpfC, among other components. Despit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huedo P,Yero D,Martínez-Servat S,Estibariz I,Planell R,Martínez P,Ruyra A,Roher N,Roca I,Vila J,Daura X,Gibert I

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell size at bud initiation shows the same relationship to growth rate in wild-type and petite yeast cells. The nutrient-modulated size control is related to growth rate rather than a change from fermentative to oxidative metabolism. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bugeja VC,Carter BL

更新日期：1982-08-01 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：:An assay was developed to determine the amount of cyanophycin granules in blue-green algae. The amount of this polypeptide in cells of Anabaena cylindrica was measured as a function of culture age and was compared with changes in other proteinaceous cellular components. The data presented support the notion that the c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simon RD

更新日期：1973-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Unsaturated fatty acid (ufa) auxotrophs of Neurospora crassa were obtained by treatment of conidia with N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine followed by isolation on media containing polyunsaturated fatty acids suspended in Tergitol NP-40. The 24 mutants for which reisolates were obtained from crosses with wild type w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scott WA

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The promoter region of the pColV-K30-encoded operon specifying biosynthesis and transport of the siderophore aerobactin was subjected to deletion analysis to determine the smallest DNA sequence affording iron regulation of a iucA'-'lacZ gene fusion. A 78-base-pair (bp) region containing the main (P1) promoter retained...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Lorenzo V,Wee S,Herrero M,Neilands JB

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequences of a 3,479-base-pair HindIII DNA fragment from Bacillus sphaericus 2362 and a 2,940-base-pair fragment from strain 2297 were determined; only minor differences were detected between them. Each contained two open reading frames coding for proteins of 51.4 and 41.9 kilodaltons. Both proteins wer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baumann L,Broadwell AH,Baumann P

更新日期：1988-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene coding for thermophilic beta-amylase of Clostridium thermosulfurogenes was cloned into Bacillus subtilis, and its nucleotide sequence was determined. The nucleotide sequence suggested that the thermophilic beta-amylase is translated from monocistronic mRNA as a secretory precursor with a signal peptide of 32 am...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitamoto N,Yamagata H,Kato T,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cosmid vector has been constructed, using a lambda replicon. A library of cosmids from Anabaena variabilis ATCC 29413 based on use of this vector is shown to be highly deficient in sites for the two type II restriction endonucleases found in that organism. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herrero A,Elhai J,Hohn B,Wolk CP

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional domains in the RepI replication initiator protein have been identified by classical and site-directed mutagenesis techniques. Mutations conferring an increase in plasmid copy number contained alterations in a key position of a putative helix-turn-helix DNA binding motif. The mutations did not appear to affe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gammie AE,Tolmasky ME,Crosa JH

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sequence-specific modification methylase (M . SinI) was isolated and purified from Escherichia coli harboring a derivative of recombinant plasmid pSI4 (see accompanying manuscript: C. Karreman and A. de Waard, J. Bacteriol. 170:2527-2532, 1988), which contains a Salmonella infantis DNA insert. The enzyme uniquely me...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Karreman C,de Waard A

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus [GAS]), a catalase-negative gram-positive bacterium, is aerotolerant and survives H2O2 exposures that kill many catalase-positive bacteria. The molecular basis of the H2O2 resistance is poorly known. Here, we demonstrate that serotype M49 GAS lacking the Rgg regulator is m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pulliainen AT,Hytönen J,Haataja S,Finne J

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare complex (MAC) is the most common isolate of nontuberculous mycobacteria and causes pulmonary and extrapulmonary diseases. MAC species can be grouped into 31 serotypes by the epitopic oligosaccharide structure of the species-specific glycopeptidolipid (GPL) antigen. The ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fujiwara N,Nakata N,Naka T,Yano I,Doe M,Chatterjee D,McNeil M,Brennan PJ,Kobayashi K,Makino M,Matsumoto S,Ogura H,Maeda S

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZoBell, Claude E. (University of California, La Jolla) and Andre B. Cobet. Growth, reproduction, and death rates of Escherichia coli at increased hydrostatic pressures. J. Bacteriol. 84:1228-1236. 1962.-Pressures ranging from 100 to 500 atm were found to retard the growth and reproduction of Escherichia coli in nutrie...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ZOBELL CE,COBET AB

更新日期：1962-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the transition from a free-swimming, single-cell lifestyle to a sessile, multicellular state called a biofilm, bacteria produce and secrete an extracellular matrix comprised of nucleic acids, exopolysaccharides, and adhesion proteins. The Vibrio cholerae biofilm matrix contains three major protein components, R...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giglio KM,Fong JC,Yildiz FH,Sondermann H

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants deficient in the production of bacteriochlorophyll c (Bchl c) and one mutant lacking colored carotenoids were isolated from the filamentous gliding bacterium Chloroflexus aurantiacus. Mutagenesis was achieved by using UV radiation or N-methyl-N'-nitro-N-nitrosoguanidine. Several clones were isolated that were ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pierson BK,Keith LM,Leovy JG

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide inhibitors of phage lambda site-specific recombination were previously isolated by screening synthetic combinatorial peptide libraries. These inhibitors cause the accumulation of complexes between the recombinase and the Holliday junction intermediate of several highly divergent tyrosine recombinases. Peptide ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gunderson CW,Boldt JL,Authement RN,Segall AM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under static growth conditions, hyperpiliated, nontwitching pilT and pilU mutants of Pseudomonas aeruginosa formed dense biofilms, showing that adhesion, not twitching motility, is necessary for biofilm initiation. Under flow conditions, the pilT mutant formed mushroom-like structures larger than those of the wild typ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chiang P,Burrows LL

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The double-stranded DNA bacteriophage PRD1 uses an IncP plasmid-encoded conjugal transfer complex as a receptor. Plasmid functions in the PRD1 life cycle are restricted to phage adsorption and DNA entry. A single phage structural protein, P2, located at the fivefold capsid vertices, is responsible for PRD1 attachment ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grahn AM,Caldentey J,Bamford JK,Bamford DH

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli rho 026 mutation that alters the transcription termination protein Rho prevents growth of wild-type bacteriophage T4. Among the consequences of this mutation are delayed and reduced T4 DNA replication. We show that these defects can be explained by defective synthesis of certain T4 replication-rec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stitt BL,Mosig G

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Earlier observations that phenol is a repellent for Salmonella typhimurium but an attractant for Escherichia coli were confirmed. This behavioral difference was found to correlate with a difference in the effect phenol had on receptor methylation levels; it caused net demethylation in S. typhimurium but net methylatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Imae Y,Oosawa K,Mizuno T,Kihara M,Macnab RM

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding ammonia monooxygenase (amoCAB), hydroxylamine oxidoreductase (hao), and the c-type cytochrome c-554 (hcy) are present in multiple copies in the genome of Nitrosomonas europaea. The upstream regions of the two copies of amoC, the three copies of hao, and one copy of hcy were cloned and sequenced. Pri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hommes NG,Sayavedra-Soto LA,Arp DJ

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In wild-type Escherichia coli, fumarate reductase encoded by the frd operon is inducible by its substrate in the absence of molecular oxygen and nitrate. Synthesis of this enzyme under permissive conditions requires the fnr+ gene product, which is believed to be a pleiotropic regulatory protein that activates transcri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iuchi S,Kuritzkes DR,Lin EC

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00