UDP-glucuronic acid decarboxylases of Bacteroides fragilis and their prevalence in bacteria.

abstract：:The level of the vitamin B12 transport protein BtuB in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli is strongly reduced by growth in the presence of cobalamins. Previous analyses of regulatory mutants and of btuB-lacZ fusions indicated that the primary site of btuB gene regulation was at the translational level, and this re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nou X,Kadner RJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:This study shows that sequential introduction of drug resistance mutations substantially increased enzyme production in Paenibacillus agaridevorans The triple mutant YT478 (rsmG Gln225→stop codon, rpsL K56R, and rpoB R485H), generated by screening for resistance to streptomycin and rifampin, expressed a 1,100-fold-lar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Funane K,Tanaka Y,Hosaka T,Murakami K,Miyazaki T,Shiwa Y,Gibu S,Inaoka T,Kasahara K,Fujita N,Yoshikawa H,Hiraga Y,Ochi K

更新日期：2018-08-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Although arsenic is highly toxic to most organisms, certain prokaryotes are known to grow on and respire toxic metalloids of arsenic (i.e., arsenate and arsenite). Two enzymes are known to be required for this arsenic-based metabolism: (i) the arsenate respiratory reductase (ArrA) and (ii) arsenite oxidase (AoxB). Bot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zargar K,Hoeft S,Oremland R,Saltikov CW

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA sequence of the central regulatory locus vir of Bordetella pertussis predicts that three gene products, BvgA, BvgB, and BvgC, are encoded. Features of the predicted primary structures of these proteins and their homology to other two-component systems suggest that BvgA is located in the cytoplasm, BvgB is loca...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stibitz S,Yang MS

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lasA gene (whose product is involved in the production of extracellular elastolytic activity) was isolated from a genomic bank containing DNA from Pseudomonas aeruginosa FRD1. Recombinant plasmid pELA1, containing the lasA gene, complemented the temperature-sensitive elastase mutation (lasA1) in P. aeruginosa PAO-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goldberg JB,Ohman DE

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the physiological state of a culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for tolerance to sudden osmotic dehydration was studied, and it was investigated whether specific osmotolerance factors were demonstrable. The microcalorimeter was used to monitor growth, and different physiological states of the cultur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blomberg A,Larsson C,Gustafsson L

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a suicide vector, pU1800, containing the transposable element TnphoA (Tn5 IS50L::phoA), for the purpose of producing protein fusions in vivo between the Escherichia coli alkaline phosphatase (APase) and proteins of the facultative photoheterotroph, Rhodobacter sphaeroides. We introduced TnphoA into...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moore MD,Kaplan S

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have devised a coupled radiochemical assay for detecting phosphatidylglycerolphosphate (PGP) phosphatase activity in Escherichia coli colonies immobilized on filter paper. There appeared to be at least two enzymes capable of dephosphorylating PGP, as judged by the characterization of mutations in two genes designat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Icho T,Raetz CR

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeast metallothionein gene CUP1 was cloned into a bacterial expression system to achieve efficient, controlled expression of the stable, unprocessed protein product. The Escherichia coli-synthesized yeast metallothionein bound copper, cadmium, and zinc, indicating that the protein was functional. Furthermore, E. c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Berka T,Shatzman A,Zimmerman J,Strickler J,Rosenberg M

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts with high nitrogenase activity were prepared by sonic oscillation and French press treatment from the blue-gree alga Anabaena cylindrica. Extracts were prepared from cells grown on a 95% N(2)-5% CO(2) gas mixture followed by a period of nitrogen starvation under an atmosphere of 95% argon-5% CO(2). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith RV,Evans MC

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type III secretion systems (T3SSs) secrete needle components, pore-forming translocators, and the translocated effectors. In part, effector recognition by a T3SS involves their N-terminal amino acids and their 5' mRNA. To investigate whether similar molecular constraints influence translocator secretion, we scrutinize...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Amer AA,Åhlund MK,Bröms JE,Forsberg Å,Francis MS

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gcaD, prs, and ctc genes were shown to be organized as a tricistronic operon. The transcription of the prs gene, measured as phosphoribosyl diphosphate synthetase activity, and of the ctc gene, measured as beta-galactosidase activity specified by a ctc-lacZ protein fusion, were dependent on the promoter in front o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hilden I,Krath BN,Hove-Jensen B

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have utilized transposon mutagenesis to obtain insertional mutations in Providencia stuartii that activate the chromosomal aac(2')-la gene. Two closely linked mini-Tn5Cm insertions were obtained in a locus designated aarA, and a single insertion was obtained in a separate locus, aarC. Nucleotide sequence analysis, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rather PN,Orosz E

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly(U)- and poly(UG)-programmed cell-free systems were developed from the extreme thermophilic, anaerobic eubacterium Thermotoga maritima, and their susceptibility to aminoglycoside and other antibiotics was assayed at a temperature (75 degrees C) close to the physiological optimum (80 degrees C) for cell growth and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Londei P,Altamura S,Huber R,Stetter KO,Cammarano P

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochete Borrelia hermsii, a relapsing fever agent, evades the host's immune response through multiphasic antigenic variation. Antigen switching results from sequential expression of genes for serotype-specific outer membrane proteins known as variable major proteins (Vmp's); of the 25 serotypes that have been i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitten T,Barrera AV,Barbour AG

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polysomes were extracted from Bacillus subtilis cells starved for a required amino acid. The monosome peak appeared soon after starvation; no difference in the rate of degradation was detected when the cells were starved for arginine or tryptophan in a double auxotroph. RNA production during starvation was not inhibit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barlati S

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously developed a genetic approach to study, with a single antibody, the topology of the outer membrane protein LamB, an Escherichia coli porin with specificity towards maltodextrins and a receptor for bacteriophage lambda. Our initial procedure consisted of inserting at random the same reporter epitope (the C...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Newton SM,Klebba PE,Michel V,Hofnung M,Charbit A

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The par genes of unit-copy plasmids P1 and F promote equitable distribution of plasmid copies to daughter cells and can be considered to be functional analogs of eucaryotic centromeres. Composite plasmids were constructed which carry either two functional P1 par regions or one F and one P1 region. Unlike dicentric chr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Austin SJ

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Filaments of the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis reproduced 35SO4(2)-, incorporating 35S into cysteine, methionine, glutathione, sulfolipid, and several unidentified metabolites. The majority of the incorporated label accumulated in reduced glutathione. Heterocysts isolated from labeled filaments...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giddings TH Jr,Wolk CP,Shomer-Ilan A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary trajectories and mutational landscapes of drug-resistant bacteria are influenced by cell-intrinsic and extrinsic factors. In this study, I demonstrated that loss of the Lon protease altered susceptibility of Escherichia coli to trimethoprim and that these effects were strongly contingent on the drug conce...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matange N

更新日期：2020-01-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens enterotoxin was detected intracellularly about 3 hr after the inoculation of vegetative cells into sporulation medium. The subsequent increase in intracellular enterotoxin concentration roughly paralleled but followed by 2.5 to 5 hr the increase in number of heat-resistant spores. The increase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Duncan CL

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zymomonas mobilis is endowed with two isoenzymes of fermentative alcohol dehydrogenase, a zinc-containing enzyme (ADH I) and an iron-containing enzyme (ADH II). The activity of ADH I remains fully conserved, while ADH II activity decays when anaerobic cultures are shifted to aerobiosis. This differential response depe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tamarit J,Cabiscol E,Aguilar J,Ros J

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loci termed rfa, determining biosynthesis of somatic lipopolysaccharide core, have been mapped in Salmonella typhimurium LT2. The smooth-specific phage P22 co-transduced two leaky rfa alleles with cysE and with pyrE; one of the leaky alleles is perhaps rfaG, and the other is an unidentified gene concerned with synthes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kuo TT,Stocker BA

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Pediococcus cerevisiae mutant that actively accumulated folate (PteGlu), in contrast to the wild-type, was also found to exhibit changes in the pattern of uptake of 5-methyl-tetrahydrofolate (5-CH3-H4PteGlu) and amethopterin. Most of the 5-CH3-H4PteGlue accumulated through a glucose- and temperature-dependent proces...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mandelbaum-Shavit F,Grossowicz N

更新日期：1975-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two nifA-like genes, designated anfA and vnfA, have been identified in Azotobacter vinelandii. The anfA gene is located upstream from the nitrogenase-3 structural gene cluster (anfHDGK) and is preceded by a sequence that is potentially part of a ntrA-dependent promoter. The product of anfA appears to be required for e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joerger RD,Jacobson MR,Bishop PE

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inorganic pyrophosphatase was purified over 600-fold to homogeneity as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme is a tetramer of Mr = 84,000, has a sedimentation coefficient of 5.8S, a Stokes radius of 3.5 nm, and an isoelectric point of 5.7. Like the enzyme of Escherichia coli, the pyrophosphatase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Verhoeven JA,Schenck KM,Meyer RR,Trela JM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of formate dehydrogenase coupled to formate hydrogenlyase activity in Escherichia coli was found to require the product of the fhlA gene. Transcription of fdhF, the gene coding for the 80-kilodalton (kDa) selenopeptide of formate dehydrogenase, was not detected in an fhlA genetic background. Mutations in the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sankar P,Lee JH,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sets of compounds that can support growth of an organism are defined by the presence of transporters and metabolic pathways that convert nutrient sources into cellular components and energy for growth. A collection of known nutrient sources can therefore serve both as an impetus for investigating new metabolic pat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mackie A,Paley S,Keseler IM,Shearer A,Paulsen IT,Karp PD

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell permeabilization procedure is described that reduces viability less than 10% and does not significantly reduce the rates of ribonucleic acid and protein synthesis when appropriately supplemented. Permeabilization abolishes the normal stringent coupling of protein and ribonucleic acid synthesis. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Atherly AG

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00