Secretion of methanol-insoluble heat-stable enterotoxin (STB): energy- and secA-dependent conversion of pre-STB to an intermediate indistinguishable from the extracellular toxin.

abstract：:Escherichia coli recF mutants are hypermutable when treated with methyl methanesulfonate (G. C. Walker, Mol. Gen. Genet. 152:93-103, 1977). In this study, methylation hypermutability of recF mutant strains was examined, and it was found that recF+ is required for normal induction of the adaptive response to alkylation...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Volkert MR

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 strain CU1008 cannot use L-serine as the sole carbon source, but it could use L-serine as an auxiliary carbon source with glucose, L-alanine, or pyruvate and could derive energy from L-serine to support oxygen uptake. CU1008 grew with L-serine if it was also provided with glycine and leucine. The...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Newman EB,Walker C

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 22-kb segment of chromosomal DNA from Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF containing the pyrimidine biosynthesis genes pyrC and pyrD was previously detected as complementing Escherichia coli pyrC and pyrD mutations. In the present study, it was found that the E. faecalis pyrimidine biosynthetic genes in this clone (designat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li X,Weinstock GM,Murray BE

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly defective rho-15 mutant of Escherichia coli produces plasmid DNA that is 22% less negatively supercoiled than DNA from an isogenic wild-type strain (J. S. Fassler, G. F. Arnold, and I. Tessman, Mol. Gen. Genet. 204:424-429, 1986). We extended our measurements of plasmid superhelicity to additional rho mutan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Arnold GF,Tessman I

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recipient (F(-)) cells of Escherichia coli are sensitive to an excess of Hfr donor cells. This phenomenon of lethal zygosis is associated with conjugation and is observed as a continuous fall in F(-) viable cells during liquid mating, or as inhibition of F(-) growth on solid media. One class of survivors, which arose ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Skurray RA,Reeves P

更新日期：1974-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing a homologous gene replacement in order to retain the native promoter and 5' and 3' untranslated messenger regions (and thereby ensure physiological validity), we have shown that deletion of the N-terminal 389 amino acids of the transcriptional activator AREA does not result in nitrogen metabolite derepressio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Caddick MX,Arst HN Jr

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protocatechuate 3,4-dioxygenase is a member of a family of bacterial enzymes that cleave the aromatic rings of their substrates between two adjacent hydroxyl groups, a key reaction in microbial metabolism of varied environmental chemicals. In an appropriate genetic background, it is possible to select for Acinetobacte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： D'Argenio DA,Vetting MW,Ohlendorf DH,Ornston LN

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rough variants of serovars from the Mycobacterium avium-Mycobacterium intracellulare-Mycobacterium scrofulaceum complex were isolated in high frequency from pellicle growth of the wild-type strains. Rough morphology could be correlated with the lack of an outer cell wall sheath and its constituent C-mycoside glycopept...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barrow WW,Brennan PJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new insertion sequence, IS1634, has been identified in Mycoplasma mycoides subsp. mycoides small-colony type (SC). IS1634 shows structural and functional similarities to IS1549 of Mycobacterium smegmatis and with it seems to form a new class or family of insertion sequences. IS1634 has a size of 1,872 bp, including ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vilei EM,Nicolet J,Frey J

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 3-hydroxypropionate/4-hydroxybutyrate cycle operates in autotrophic CO(2) fixation in various Crenarchaea, as studied in some detail in Metallosphaera sedula. This cycle and the autotrophic 3-hydroxypropionate cycle in Chloroflexus aurantiacus have in common the conversion of acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and two bicarbon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Teufel R,Kung JW,Kockelkorn D,Alber BE,Fuchs G

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A delta tyrT::kan mutant from Escherichia coli K-12 (DTK-12) shows a transient growth lag that is caused by glycine starvation (U. Michelsen, M. Bösl, T. Dingermann, and H. Kersten, J. Bacteriol. 171:5987-5994, 1989). The same deletion, transduced into the relA1 spoT1 mutant CA274 to construct strain DTC274, caused co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bösl M,Kersten H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligoribonuclease, an exoribonuclease specific for small oligoribonucleotides, was initially characterized 20 years ago (S. K. Niyogi and A. K. Datta, J. Biol. Chem. 250:7307-7312, 1975) and shown to be different from RNase II and polynucleotide phosphorylase. Here we demonstrate, using mutant strains and purified enz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yu D,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A class of galactose-resistant mutants has been derived from strains of Salmonella typhimurium which are defective in uridine diphosphoglucose-4-epimerase. Resistant strains are phenotypically similar to parent organisms but do not lyse in the presence of galactose. Low levels of functional epimerase can be detected i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shuster CW,Rundell K

更新日期：1969-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transferable plasmids play an important role in the dissemination of clindamycin-erythromycin resistance in Bacteroides fragilis. We previously described the isolation and properties of pBFTM10, a 14.9-kb ClnR transfer factor from B. fragilis TMP10. We also reported the isolation of a transfer-deficient deletion deriv...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hecht DW,Jagielo TJ,Malamy MH

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of fimA, the structural gene for type 1 fimbriae of Escherichia coli, is phase variable. Significant homologies were identified between the recombinases which control fimbrial phase variation, FimB and FimE, and the integrase class of site-specific recombinases. Normal expression of fimA was shown to requir...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dorman CJ,Higgins CF

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following arrest by UV-induced DNA damage, replication is restored through a sequence of steps that involve partial resection of the nascent DNA by RecJ and RecQ, branch migration and processing of the fork DNA surrounding the lesion by RecA and RecF-O-R, and resumption of DNA synthesis once the blocking lesion has be...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Courcelle CT,Landstrom AJ,Anderson B,Courcelle J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotopic exchange of (35)S between penicillins and 6-amino-penicillanic acid (6-APA) was observed in cell-free extracts of Penicillium chrysogenum. Sulfhydryl-containing compounds were required for activity. Dithiothreitol, dithioerythritol, mercaptoethanol, and glutathione served as activators. The acyltransferase wa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pruess DL,Johnson MJ

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SecY39(Cs) (cold-sensitive) alteration of Arg357 results in a defect of translocation initiation. As a means to dissect the Sec translocation machinery, we isolated mutations that act as suppressors of the secY39 defect. A specific secE mutation, designated secE105, was thus isolated. This mutation proved to be id...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mori H,Akiyama Y,Ito K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NAD-independent lactate dehydrogenases are commonly thought to be responsible for lactate utilization during the stationary phase of aerobic growth in Lactobacillus plantarum. To substantiate this view, we constructed single and double knockout mutants for the corresponding genes, loxD and loxL. Lactate-to-acetate con...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goffin P,Lorquet F,Kleerebezem M,Hols P

更新日期：2004-10-01 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 enzyme system capable of converting coproporphyrinogen to protoporphyrin was demonstrated in the soluble fraction of extracts of Pseudomonas fluorescens grown aerobically, of P. denitrificans grown anaerobically under denitrifying conditions, and of Escherichia coli grown both aerobically and anaerobically. Protop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jacobs NJ,Jacobs JM,Brent P

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of gram-negative bacteria have a quorum-sensing system and produce N-acyl-l-homoserine lactone (AHL) that they use them as a quorum-sensing signal molecule. Pantoea ananatis is reported as a common colonist of wheat heads at ripening and causes center rot of onion. In this study, we demonstrated that P. anana...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morohoshi T,Nakamura Y,Yamazaki G,Ishida A,Kato N,Ikeda T

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The transmembrane Tsr protein of Escherichia coli mediates chemotactic responses to environmental serine gradients. Serine binds to the periplasmic domain of the homodimeric Tsr molecule, promoting a small inward displacement of one transmembrane helix (TM2). TM2 piston displacements, in turn, modulate the s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitanovic S,Ames P,Parkinson JS

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA region carrying lysS, the gene encoding the lysyl-tRNA synthetase, was cloned from the extreme thermophile prokaryote Thermus thermophilus VK-1 and sequenced. The analysis indicated an open reading frame encoding a protein of 492 amino acids. This putative protein has significant homologies to previously sequenc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen J,Brevet A,Lapadat-Tapolsky M,Blanquet S,Plateau P

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several phosphate-starvation-inducible (psi) genetic loci in Salmonella typhimurium were identified by fusing the lacZ gene to psi promoters by using the Mu d1 and Mu d1-8 bacteriophages. Although several different starvation conditions were examined, the psi loci responded solely to phosphate deprivation. A regulator...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Foster JW,Spector MP

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:SaPIbov2 is a member of the SaPI family of staphylococcal pathogenicity islands and is very closely related to SaPIbov1. Typically, certain temperate phages can induce excision and replication of one or more of these islands and can package them into special small phage-like particles commensurate with their genome si...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maiques E,Ubeda C,Tormo MA,Ferrer MD,Lasa I,Novick RP,Penadés JR

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heating at 55 C causes the intracellular degradation of ribosomes of Staphylococcus aureus MF-31. The 30S subunit of heated cells appears to be selectively attacked. Analysis of ribonucleic acid (RNA) showed that 16S RNA was destroyed and that the secondary structure of 23S RNA was altered. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosenthal LJ,Iandolo JJ

更新日期：1970-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Energy-coupling factor (ECF) transporters form a large group of vitamin uptake systems in prokaryotes. They are composed of highly diverse, substrate-specific, transmembrane proteins (S units), a ubiquitous transmembrane protein (T unit), and homo- or hetero-oligomeric ABC ATPases. Biotin transporters represent a spec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Finkenwirth F,Kirsch F,Eitinger T

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli sigma70-dependent promoters have typically been characterized as either -10/-35 promoters, which have good matches to both the canonical -10 and the -35 sequences or as extended -10 promoters (TGn/-10 promoters), which have the TGn motif and an excellent match to the -10 consensus sequence. We report ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hook-Barnard I,Johnson XB,Hinton DM

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry into the host bacterial cell is one of the least understood steps in the life cycle of bacteriophages. The different envelopes of Gram-negative and Gram-positive bacteria, with a fluid outer membrane and exposing a thick peptidoglycan wall to the environment respectively, impose distinct challenges for bacteriop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jakutytė L,Baptista C,São-José C,Daugelavičius R,Carballido-López R,Tavares P

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00