Integration host factor plays a role in IS50 and Tn5 transposition.

abstract：:Freeze-etching was applied to preparations, with and without glycerol, of Acinetobacter sp. strain MJT/F5/199A, consisting of intact cells after normal growth or after incubation with chloramphenicol, spheroplasts, and isolated cell walls and outer membranes. Etched preparations show that a regular array of subunits f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sleytr UB,Thornley MJ

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tn2603 is a multiple-resistance transposon encoding resistance to ampicillin, streptomycin, sulfonamide, and mercury and having a molecular size of 20 kilobase pairs, with 200-base-pair inverted repeats at both ends. The essential sites and functions of Tn2603 which are required for its transposition were determined t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tanaka M,Harafuji H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for polyethylene glycol-induced protoplast transformation of glutamate-producing bacteria with plasmid DNA was established. Protoplasts were prepared from cells grown in the presence of penicillin by treatment with lysozyme in a hypertonic medium. The concentration of penicillin during growth affected the eff...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katsumata R,Ozaki A,Oka T,Furuya A

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：: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：:The nucleotide sequence of the plasmid-encoded LlaKR2I restriction-modification (R-M) system of Lactococcus lactis subsp. lactis biovar diacetylactis KR2 was determined. This R-M system comprises divergently transcribed endonuclease (llaKR2IR) and methyltransferase (llaKR2IM) genes; located in the intergenic region is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Twomey DP,McKay LL,O'Sullivan DJ

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipopolysaccharide (LPS) from a Rhizobium phaseoli mutant, CE109, was isolated and compared with that of its wild-type parent, CE3. A previous report has shown that the mutant is defective in infection thread development, and sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis shows that it has an altered LP...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Carlson RW,Kalembasa S,Turowski D,Pachori P,Noel KD

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical properties of the cell wall of Mycobacterium lepraemurium strain Hawaii were investigated. Five subunits of the cell wall, arabinose mycolate, mycolic acids, tetrapeptide (Ala-Gln-diaminopimelic acid-Ala), disaccharide (N-acetylglucosaminyl-beta-1,4-N-glycolylmuramic acid), and arabinogalactan, were obtai...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Azuma I,Yamamura Y,Tanaka Y,Kosaka K,Mori T

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The valyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase of Escherichia coli strain NP2907, previously described as having an elevated K(m) for adenosine triphosphate and reduced stability in vitro compared to the wild type, was found to be conditionally thermolabile in vivo. The rate of inactivation of this enzyme at a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Anderson JJ,Neidhardt FC

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of the energy status of the yeast cell in the sensitivity of cultures to two yeast toxins was examined by using 12K release from cells as a measure of toxin action. The Saccharomyces cerevisiae killer toxin bound to sensitive cells in the presence of drugs that interfered with the generation or use of energy,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Skipper N,Bussey H

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the characterization of three new transcription units expressed during sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. Two of the units, cse15 and cse60, were mapped at about 123 degrees and 62 degrees on the genetic map, respectively. Their transcription commenced around h 2 of sporulation and showed an absolute requi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Henriques AO,Bryan EM,Beall BW,Moran CP Jr

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A second synchrony induction treatment, half-way through the deoxyribonucleic acid replication process of an already synchronized culture, resulted in defective subsequent cell growth. This supports a previous explanation for the partial loss of viability after synchrony induction. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herdman M,Carr NG

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface protein composition of members of a serogroup of Aeromonas hydrophila which exhibit high virulence for fish was examined. Treatment of whole cells of representative strain A. hydrophila TF7 with 0.2 M glycine buffer (pH 4.0) resulted in the release of sheets of a tetragonal surface protein array. Sodium do...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dooley JS,Trust TJ

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the tryptophanase (tna) operon of Escherichia coli is regulated by catabolite repression and tryptophan-induced transcription antitermination. Induction results from ribosome stalling after translation of tnaC, the coding region for a 24-residue leader peptide. The last sense codon of tnaC, proline co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gong M,Gong F,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3 lateral flagella are not assembled when bacteria grow in liquid media; however, lateral flagellar genes are transcribed. Our results indicate that A. hydrophila lateral flagellar genes are transcribed at three levels (class I to III genes) and share some similarities with, but have many impor...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wilhelms M,Gonzalez V,Tomás JM,Merino S

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disrupted spheroplast preparations of Pseudomonas schuylkilliensis strain P contained fragments of cytoplasmic membrane and approximately 82% of the total cellular phospholipid. The protoplast-bursting factor (PB-factor), partially purified from pig pancreas, and a heat-treated pancreatic lipase fraction both inhibite...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mizuno S,Maruo B

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure of Escherichia coli strains deficient in molybdopterin biosynthesis (moa) to the purine base N-6-hydroxylaminopurine (HAP) is mutagenic and toxic. We show that moa mutants exposed to HAP also exhibit elevated mutagenesis, a hyperrecombination phenotype, and increased SOS induction. The E. coli rdgB gene encod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Burgis NE,Brucker JJ,Cunningham RP

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:XbaI digestion and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of the genome of Salmonella typhimurium LT2 yields 24 fragments: 23 fragments (total size, 4,807 kb) are from the chromosome, and one fragment (90 kb) is from the virulence plasmid pSLT. Some of the 23 fragments from the chromosome were located on the linkage map by ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liu SL,Sanderson KE

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three plasmid-mediated chloramphenicol acetyltransferases isolated from different Haemophilus influenzae strains were purified and characterized. All three enzymes had properties in common with the gram-negative family of chloramphenicol acetyltransferase. The Haemophilus enzymes and the enteric type II enzyme were se...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts M,Corney A,Shaw WV

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive, psychotrophic, food-borne pathogen which is able to grow in osmotically stressful environments. Carnitine (beta-hydroxy-L-tau-N-trimethyl aminobutyrate) can contribute significantly to growth of L. monocytogenes at high osmolarity (R. R. Beumer, M. C. te Giffel, L. J. Cox, F....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Verheul A,Rombouts FM,Beumer RR,Abee T

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The actinomycin synthetases ACMS I, II, and III catalyze the assembly of the acyl peptide lactone precursor of actinomycin by a nonribosomal mechanism. We have cloned the genes of ACMS I (acmA) and ACMS II (acmB) by hybridization screening of a cosmid library of Streptomyces chrysomallus DNA with synthetic oligonucleo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schauwecker F,Pfennig F,Schröder W,Keller U

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis ureABC operon encodes homologs of the three subunits of urease enzymes of the family Enterobacteriaceae. Disruption of ureC prevented utilization of urea as a nitrogen source and resulted in a partial growth defect in minimal medium containing limiting amounts of arginine or allantoin as the sole...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cruz-Ramos H,Glaser P,Wray LV Jr,Fisher SH

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterioferritin (BFR) of Escherichia coli K-12 is an iron-storage hemoprotein, previously identified as cytochrome b1. The bacterioferritin gene (bfr) has been cloned, sequenced, and located in the E. coli linkage map. Initially a gene fusion encoding a BFR-lambda hybrid protein (Mr 21,000) was detected by immuno...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Andrews SC,Harrison PM,Guest JR

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial metabolite 2,4-diacetylphloroglucinol (2,4-DAPG) contributes to the capacity of Pseudomonas fluorescens strain CHA0 to control plant diseases caused by soilborne pathogens. A 2, 4-DAPG-negative Tn5 insertion mutant of strain CHA0 was isolated, and the nucleotide sequence of the 4-kb genomic DNA regio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schnider-Keel U,Seematter A,Maurhofer M,Blumer C,Duffy B,Gigot-Bonnefoy C,Reimmann C,Notz R,Défago G,Haas D,Keel C

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysyl-transfer ribonucleic acid synthetase (EC 6.1.1.6) was identified as four polypeptide spots after two-dimensional polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis of whole-cell lysates of Escherichia coli. Identification was made by migration with partially purified enzyme preparations, by peptide map patterns, by mutant analy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hirshfield IN,Bloch PL,Van Bogelen RA,Neidhardt FC

更新日期：1981-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of R (rough) Salmonella minnesota mutants with rfb, rfe, and rfa mutations leading to various defects in the biosynthesis of cell wall lipopolysaccharide was analyzed as to their enterobacterial common antigen (CA) content. All mutants that had functional rfe genes were CA(+) as is the wild-type parent. This ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mäkelä PH,Mayer H,Whang HY,Neter E

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microarray studies of the Escherichia coli response to nitric oxide and nitrosative stress have suggested that additional transcriptional regulators of this response remain to be characterized. We identify here the product of the yjeB gene as a negative regulator of the transcription of the ytfE, hmpA and ygbA genes, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bodenmiller DM,Spiro S

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene III (gIII) of phiLf, a filamentous phage specifically infecting Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, was previously shown to encode a virion-associated protein (pIII) required for phage adsorption. In this study, the transcription start site for the gene and the N-terminal sequence of the protein were determine...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lin NT,Liu TJ,Lee TC,You BY,Yang MH,Wen FS,Tseng YH

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the identification and characterization of two genes and their gene products responsible for determining receptor binding and pilus length in type 1-piliated Escherichia coli. One gene, pilE, conferred the ability of piliated cells to agglutinate guinea pig erythrocytes. The other gene, pilF, determined pi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maurer L,Orndorff PE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phs mutation of Escherichia coli has been suggested to affect the Na+/H+ antiport (D. Zilberstein, E. Padan, and S. Schuldiner, FEBS Lett. 168:327-330, 1980). We have recently shown that the mutation affects the rpoA gene and thus affects transcription. The extent of the pleiotropy of the phs mutation was investig...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giffard PM,Rowland GC,Kroll RG,Stewart LM,Bakker EP,Booth IR

更新日期：1985-11-01 00:00:00