Rsp inhibits attachment and biofilm formation by repressing fnbA in Staphylococcus aureus MW2.

abstract：:Moorella thermoacetica can grow with H₂ and CO₂, forming acetic acid from 2 CO₂ via the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. All enzymes involved in this pathway have been characterized to date, except for methylenetetrahydrofolate reductase (MetF). We report here that the M. thermoacetica gene that putatively encodes this enzyme,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mock J,Wang S,Huang H,Kahnt J,Thauer RK

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Margherita, S. S. (Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pa.), and H. Friedmann. Induction of nonspecific resistance by endotoxin in unresponsive mice. J. Bacteriol. 89:277-280. 1965.-Serratia marcescens endotoxin was tested for protective effect in animals of varying immunological competence. A quantity...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MARGHERITA SS,FRIEDMAN H

更新日期：1965-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium, Bacillus subtilis could convert ethionine to S-adenosylethionine (SAE), as can Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This conversion was essential for growth inhibition by ethionine because metE mutants which were deficient in S-adenosylmethionine synthetase activity, we...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allen ER,Orrego C,Wabiko H,Freese E

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human dental biofilm communities comprise several species, which can interact cooperatively or competitively. Bacterial interactions influence biofilm formation, metabolic changes, and physiological function of the community. Lactic acid, a common metabolite of oral bacteria, was measured in the flow cell effluent of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Periasamy S,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal origin of replication of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 has two potential recognition sequences for the DnaA protein of Escherichia coli. DNA transfer by transformation into a dnaA-null mutant of E. coli showed that DnaA protein is needed for replication or maintenance of mini-RK2. We isolated and purifi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gaylo PJ,Turjman N,Bastia D

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of highly purified membrane fractions from phototrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum was achieved by velocity and isopyknic sedimentation under carefully controlled ionic conditions. Bacteriochlorophyll-rich and succinic dehydrogenase-rich chromatophores that were essentially devoid of contamination by no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Collins ML,Niederman RA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of 35-S during anaerobic metabolism of [35-S]sulfate, [35-S]thiosulfate, and [35-S]sulfate plus unlabeled thiosulfate by washed cell suspensions of Desulfovibrio spp, and of [35-S]thiosulfate by growing D. desulfuricans was examined. The results appear to be inconsistent with the hypothesis that thiosulfate i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chambers LA,Trudinger PA

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate transport capacity was not regulated by cysteine, methionine, or glutathione in Pseudomonas halodurans, but growth on sulfate or thiosulfate suppressed transport. Subsequent sulfur starvation of cultures grown on all sulfur sources except glutathione stimulated uptake. Only methionine failed to regulate sulfat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuhel RL,Taylor CD,Jannasch HW

更新日期：1981-08-01 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 Azorhizobium nifA promoter (PnifA) is positively regulated by two physiological signal transduction pathways, NtrBC, which signals anabolic N status, and FixLJK, which signals prevailing O2 status. Yet, PnifA response (gene product per unit time) to these two activating signals together is more than twice that of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loroch AI,Nguyen BG,Ludwig RA

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyrimidine de novo biosynthesis pathway has been characterized for a number of organisms. The general pathway consists of six enzymatic steps. In the characterization of the pyrimidine pathway of Lactococcus lactis, two different pyrD genes encoding dihydroorotate dehydrogenase were isolated. The nucleotide sequen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Andersen PS,Jansen PJ,Hammer K

更新日期：1994-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate reductase extracted from the membrane of Escherichia coli by alkaline heat treatment was purified to homogeneity and used to prepare specific antibody. Nitrate reductase, precipitated by this antibody from Triton extracts of the membrane, contained a third subunit not present in the purified enzyme used to pre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacGregor CH

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphogenesis of the filamentous bacteriophage f1 occurred at adhesion zones between the inner and outer membranes of the host cell. Quantitation of adhesion zones in cells infected with mutant phage strains suggested that the phage gene I protein may be involved in the formation of adhesion zones for phage assembly. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lopez J,Webster RE

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have recently established that the facultative phototrophic bacterium Rhodobacter sphaeroides, like the closely related Rhodobacter capsulatus species, contains both the previously characterized mobile electron carrier cytochrome c2 (cyt c2) and the more recently discovered membrane-anchored cyt cy. However, R. sph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daldal F,Mandaci S,Winterstein C,Myllykallio H,Duyck K,Zannoni D

更新日期：2001-03-01 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：:The major role of RecA is thought to be in helping repair and restart stalled replication forks. During exponential growth, Bacillus subtilis recA cells exhibited few microscopically observable nucleoid defects. However, the efficiency of plating was about 12% of that of the parent strain. A substantial and additive d...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sciochetti SA,Blakely GW,Piggot PJ

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavobacterium johnsoniae cells glide rapidly over surfaces by an unknown mechanism. Transposon-induced sprA mutants formed nonspreading colonies on agar, and the cells examined in wet mounts were deficient in attachment to surfaces and were almost completely nonmotile. Exposure of intact cells to proteinase K cleaved...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nelson SS,Glocka PP,Agarwal S,Grimm DP,McBride MJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of various salts on the autolysis of cell wall of a ribitol teichoic acid-deficient mutant of Staphylococcus aureus H (strain 52A5 carrying tar-1) was compared with the parent strain. In the presence of high concentrations of certain salts such as 1.0 m NaCl, the mutant undergoes autolysis with the release ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gilpin RW,Chatterjee AN,Young FE

更新日期：1972-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different preparations of the methylreductase were tested in a simplified methylcoenzyme M methylreductase assay with artificial electron donors under a nitrogen atmosphere. ATP and Mg2+ stimulated the reaction. Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium (II), chromous chloride, chromous acetate, titanium III citrate, 2,8-diamino...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hartzell PL,Escalante-Semerena JC,Bobik TA,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription of the virG gene of Agrobacterium tumefaciens was previously shown to be expressed from two tandem promoters and to be responsive to three stimuli: plant-released phenolic compounds, phosphate starvation, and acidic media. In this report, I describe a set of deletions and other alterations of the 5' end ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winans SC

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vir locus of Bordetella pertussis apparently encodes a trans-acting positive regulator that is required for the coordinate expression of genes associated with virulence: pertussis toxin, filamentous hemagglutinin (FHA), hemolysin, and adenylate cyclase toxin. DNA clones of vir and of genes required for the synthes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stibitz S,Weiss AA,Falkow S

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The origin of replication of Bacillus subtilis 168 trp thy dna-1 (temperature-sensitive initiation mutant) was labeled with [3H]thymidine. Analysis of labeled cells by autoradiography revealed that most of the radioactivity was associated with cell pole areas. To label the terminus, cells that had initiated were treat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sonnenfeld EM,Koch AL,Doyle RJ

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During spore formation, Bacillus subtilis divides asymmetrically, resulting in two cells with different fates. Immediately after division, the transcription factor σ(F) becomes active in the smaller prespore, followed by activation of σ(E) in the larger mother cell. We recently showed that a delay in σ(E) activation r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xenopoulos P,Piggot PJ

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haight, Rodger D. (Oregon State University, Corvallis), and Richard Y. Morita. Thermally induced leakage from Vibrio marinus, an obligately psychrophilic bacterium. J. Bacteriol. 92:1388-1393. 1966.-Leakage of various cellular components into the surrounding menstruum occurred when Vibrio marinus was subjected to temp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haight RD,Morita RY

更新日期：1966-11-01 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：:Transcription of the archaeal trkA gene homolog in Methanosarcina mazei S-6 was studied at the optimal growth temperature of 37 degrees C and after heat shock at 45 degrees C. Northern (RNA) blotting results (transcript size) and data from primer extension experiments to map the transcription initiation site indicate ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Conway de Macario E,Macario AJ

更新日期：1995-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The terminus region of the Caulobacter crescentus chromosome and the dif chromosome dimer resolution site were characterized. The Caulobacter genome contains skewed sequences that abruptly switch strands at dif and may have roles in chromosome maintenance and segregation. Absence of dif or the XerCD recombinase result...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jensen RB

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes for protein synthesis elongation factors Tu and G were cloned from the cyanobacterium Anacystis nidulans. The locations of these genes were mapped within the cloned DNA fragment by hybridization with Escherichia coli probes. The organization of the cloned fragment and the DNA flanking it in the A. nidulans c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mickel FS,Spremulli LL

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the genus Prosthecobacter express homologs of eukaryotic α- and β-tubulin, called BtubA and BtubB (BtubA/B), that have been observed to assemble into filaments in the presence of GTP. BtubA/B polymers are proposed to be composed in vitro by two to six protofilaments in contrast to that in vivo, where they ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Díaz-Celis C,Risca VI,Hurtado F,Polka JK,Hansen SD,Maturana D,Lagos R,Mullins RD,Monasterio O

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Streptococcus pneumoniae is able to integrate exogenous DNA into its genome by natural genetic transformation. Transient accumulation of high levels of the only S. pneumoniae alternative σ factor is insufficient for development of full competence without expression of a second competence-specific protein, Co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tovpeko Y,Bai J,Morrison DA

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00