Nucleotide sequence of a Pseudomonas denitrificans 5.4-kilobase DNA fragment containing five cob genes and identification of structural genes encoding S-adenosyl-L-methionine: uroporphyrinogen III methyltransferase and cobyrinic acid a,c-diamide synthase.

abstract：:A temperate phage, phi CTX, is a cytotoxin-converting phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this study, we characterized the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures of phi CTX-resistant mutants derived from phi CTX-sensitive strains. phi CTX infectivity was neutralized by LPS preparations derived from sensitive strains but ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yokota S,Hayashi T,Matsumoto H

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polycistronic mRNA encoding the nine genes of the unc operon of Escherichia coli was studied. We demonstrated the ribosome-binding capabilities of six of the nine unc genes, uncB, uncE, uncF, uncH, uncA, and uncD, by using the technique of primer extension inhibition or "toeprinting." No toeprint was detected for ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schaefer EM,Hartz D,Gold L,Simoni RD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the pleiotropic phenotypes of mutations affecting DNA gyrase activity in Salmonella typhimurium is the constitutive deattenuation of the histidine operon. In the present work, we isolated and characterized a suppressor mutation which restores his attenuation in the presence of a defective gyrase. Such a suppres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blanc-Potard AB,Bossi L

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The citrate transporter CitP of lactic acid bacteria catalyzes electrogenic precursor-product exchange of citrate versus L-lactate during citrate-glucose cometabolism. In the absence of sugar, L-lactate is replaced by the metabolic intermediates/end products pyruvate, α-acetolactate, and acetate. In this study, the bi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pudlik AM,Lolkema JS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rabbits immunized with mucopeptide derived from cell wall debris of Streptococcus agalactiae by use of the formamide extraction technique developed specific antibodies for bovine heart, skeletal muscle, lymph nodes, and blood buffy coat extracts. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dodd K,Norcross NL

更新日期：1967-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The endophytic diazotroph Azoarcus sp. strain BH72 is capable of infecting rice roots and of expressing the nitrogenase (nif) genes there. In order to study the genetic background for nitrogen fixation in strain BH72, the structural genes of nitrogenase (nifHDK) were cloned and sequenced. The sequence analysis reveale...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Egener T,Martin DE,Sarkar A,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western blot (immunoblot) analysis of cell extracts from induced bacteriophage lambda lysogens probed with S-protein-specific antibody (raised against an S--beta-galactosidase fusion protein) demonstrated that the bacteriophage lambda S protein begins to appear 10 min after phage induction and is localized to the inne...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zagotta MT,Wilson DB

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wild strain of Serratia marcescens rapidly degraded threonine and formed aminoacetone in a medium containing glucose and urea. Extracts of this strain showed high threonine dehydrogenase and "biosynthetic" threonine deaminase activities, but no threonine aldolase activity. Threonine dehydrogenase-deficient strain ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Komatsubara S,Murata K,Kisumi M,Chibata I

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical composition of the cell walls of several L-form revertants derived from Nocardia asteroides 10905 was determined at different stages of growth. It was observed that each L-form revertant had a cell well that differed from that of the parental strain when grown under identical conditions. In some strains t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beaman BL,Bourgeois AL,Moring SE

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic analysis of a 12-kb DNA fragment containing Pseudomonas denitrificans cob genes was performed by transposon-mediated insertional mutagenesis. The nucleotide sequence and genetic analysis have shown that a 4.8-kb DNA subfragment carried two cob genes (cobS and cobT). Biochemical data concerning the complement...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cameron B,Guilhot C,Blanche F,Cauchois L,Rouyez MC,Rigault S,Levy-Schil S,Crouzet J

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cold-sensitive mutants of Escherichia coli have been isolated which show a reduced ability to synthesize deoxyribonucleic acid at low temperature. The mutants also have a reduced ability to incorporate nucleoside triphosphates into deoxyribonucleic acid at low temperature in cell preparations made permeable with ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wehr CT,Waskell L,Glaser DA

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isopropylmalate isomerase in Salmonella typhimurium is the second enzyme specific for leucine biosynthesis. It is a complex enzyme composed of two subunits which are coded for by two genes of the leucine operon, leuC and leuD. The two polypeptides have been shown to copurify through successive ammonium sulfate fra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fultz PN,Kemper J

更新日期：1981-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of heme as an iron source by Bradyrhizobium japonicum involves induction of the outer membrane heme receptor gene hmuR and other genes within the heme utilization locus. Here, we discovered the hmuP gene located upstream of hmuR and transcribed divergently from it along with hmuTUV. hmuP encodes a small pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Escamilla-Hernandez R,O'Brian MR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia heilongjiangensis is an emerging tick-transmitted human pathogen causing far-Eastern spotted fever. Here we report the complete sequence and the main features of the genome of R. heilongjiangensis (strain 054). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Duan C,Tong Y,Huang Y,Wang X,Xiong X,Wen B

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the long-chain n-alkane degrader Acinetobacter sp. strain M-1, two alkane hydroxylase complexes are switched by controlling the expression of two n-alkane hydroxylase-encoding genes in response to the chain length of n-alkanes, while rubredoxin and rubredoxin ruductase are encoded by a single gene and expressed con...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tani A,Ishige T,Sakai Y,Kato N

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation of a new thermophilic bacterium, Thermus aquaticus gen. n. and sp. n., is described. Successful enrichment requires incubation at 70 to 75 C, and the use of nutrient media relatively dilute with respect to the organic components. Strains of T. aquaticus have been isolated from a variety of thermal spring...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brock TD,Freeze H

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) is required for biofilm formation and virulence of the oral pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, and we previously showed that lsrB codes for a receptor for AI-2. The lsrB gene is expressed as part of the lsrACDBFG operon, which is divergently transcribed from an adjacent lsrRK operon. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Torres-Escobar A,Juárez-Rodríguez MD,Lamont RJ,Demuth DR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Bacterial cell division is an essential and highly coordinated process. It requires the polymerization of the tubulin homologue FtsZ to form a dynamic ring (Z-ring) at midcell. Z-ring formation relies on a group of FtsZ-associated proteins (Zap) for stability throughout the process of division. In Escherichi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roach EJ,Wroblewski C,Seidel L,Berezuk AM,Brewer D,Kimber MS,Khursigara CM

更新日期：2016-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:A group of enzymes of sulfur metabolism (arylsulfatase, cholinesulfatase, and a number of others) are normally repressed in Neurospora crassa by an abundant supply of a "favored" sulfur source such as methionine or inorganic sulfate. A mutant called scon(c) was isolated in which the formation of each of these enzymes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Burton EG,Metzenberg RL

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia sp. strain GG4, isolated from the ginger rhizosphere, possesses a unique N-acylhomoserine lactone (AHL)-modifying activity that reduces 3-oxo-AHLs to 3-hydroxy-AHLs. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first sequenced genome from a bacterium of the genus Burkholderia that shows both quorum-sensing a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hong KW,Koh CL,Sam CK,Yin WF,Chan KG

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The invasion of intestinal epithelial cells by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium is mediated by a type III secretion system (T3SS) encoded on Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI1). Expression of the SPI1 T3SS is tightly regulated by the combined action of HilC, HilD, and RtsA, three AraC family members that c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ellermeier JR,Slauch JM

更新日期：2008-01-01 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：:A modified transformation procedure that is effective for the introduction of plasmid deoxyribonucleic acid at high frequency into Salmonella typhimurium, as well as into Escherichia coli, is described. Transformed bacteria acquire a circular deoxyribonucleic acid species having the genetic and molecular characteristi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lederberg EM,Cohen SN

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis cwlD and dacB mutants produce spore peptidoglycan (PG) with increased cross-linking but with little change in spore core hydration compared to the wild type. A cwlD dacB double mutant produced spores with a two- to fourfold greater increase in PG cross-linking and novel muropeptides containing glycin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Popham DL,Meador-Parton J,Costello CE,Setlow P

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have investigated the evolutionary relationships between two facultatively anaerobic Magnetospirillum strains (AMB-1 and MGT-1) and fastidious, obligately microaerophilic species, such as Magnetospirillum magnetotacticum, using a molecular phylogenetic approach. Genomic DNA from strains MGT-1 and AMB-1 was used as ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Burgess JG,Kawaguchi R,Sakaguchi T,Thornhill RH,Matsunaga T

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isocitrate lyase from a thermophilic Bacillus is activated about threefold by a variety of salts. Such strong stimulation of activity is not seen with isocitrate lyase from the mesophiles, Bacillus licheniformis, Bacillus megaterium, Escherichia coli, and Aspergillus nidulans. The salt activation is markedly pH-de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Griffiths MW,Sundaram TK

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Brevibacterium acetylicum gsk gene, which encodes guanosine kinase (ATP:guanosine 5'-phosphotransferase), a kinase that is involved in guanosine salvage pathways, has been cloned by using the N-terminal amino acid sequence of the purified protein. The cloned chromosomal fragment containing the gsk gene was sequenc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Usuda Y,Kawasaki H,Shimaoka M,Utagawa T

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The force required to rupture bonds between individual Staphylococcus aureus MSCRAMMs and surfaces coated with extracellular matrix molecules has been quantified by using optical tweezers. The observed binding forces between fibrinogen or fibronectin and S. aureus MSCRAMMs occurred as an approximate integer multiple o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simpson KH,Bowden G,Höök M,Anvari B

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Double exbB tolQ mutants of Escherichia coli were completely resistant to bacteriophages T1 and phi 80, in contrast to strains with exbB or tolQ mutations, which were sensitive. Cells carrying mutations in exbB were partially tolerant to colicins B, D, and M and became fully tolerant by the introduction of tolQ mutati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Braun V

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ellar, D. J. (Syracuse University, Syracuse, N.Y.), and D. G. Lundgren. Fine structure of sporulation in Bacillus cereus grown in a chemically defined medium. J. Bacteriol. 92:1748-1764. 1966.-A study was made of the fine structure of sporulating cells of Bacillus cereus grown in a chemically defined medium. The devel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ellar DJ,Lundgren DG

更新日期：1966-12-01 00:00:00