Involvement of T6 pili in biofilm formation by serotype M6 Streptococcus pyogenes.

abstract：:We have isolated a hybrid plasmid, pDB(mei2)2, containing a 7.4-kilobases (kb) DNA fragment from a Schizosaccharomyces pombe genomic library which is able to complement the mei2 mutation of S. pombe. Integration of the cloned DNA sequence at the mei2 site on chromosome I demonstrated that it contained the mei2 gene. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shimoda C,Uehira M,Kishida M,Fujioka H,Iino Y,Watanabe Y,Yamamoto M

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfection of streptococci is reported here for the first time. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parsons CL,Cole RM

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene coding for thermophilic beta-amylase of Clostridium thermosulfurogenes was cloned into Bacillus subtilis, and its nucleotide sequence was determined. The nucleotide sequence suggested that the thermophilic beta-amylase is translated from monocistronic mRNA as a secretory precursor with a signal peptide of 32 am...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitamoto N,Yamagata H,Kato T,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli mutants with improved organic solvent tolerance levels showed high levels of outer membrane protein TolC and inner membrane protein AcrA. The TolC level was regulated positively by MarA, Rob, or SoxS. A possible mar-rob-sox box sequence was found upstream of the tolC gene. These findings suggest that ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aono R,Tsukagoshi N,Yamamoto M

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fox, Sidney W. (The Florida State University, Tallahassee) and Shuhei Yuyama. Effects of the Gram stain on microspheres from thermal polyamino acids. J. Bacteriol. 85:279-283. 1963.-Microspheres produced from acid proteinoid accept the Gram stain. The stain is negative, but microspheres produced from mixtures containi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： FOX SW,YUYAMA S

更新日期：1963-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli WP2 bacteria with an ochre amino acid auxotrophy show no evidence of growth during the first few days after plating at densities above 10(8) on plates lacking the required amino acid. They lose viability for some days, and then a subpopulation recovers and there is cell turnover. At very low plating d...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bridges BA,Ereira S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two temperature-sensitive sporulation mutants have been characterized. One mutant, which is blocked at stage II, has a short temperature-sensitive period that occurs at about the time when the spore septum is formed. Cells can escape the sporulation block, if incubated for a short period at the permissive temperature,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Young M

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alcohol-oxidizing enzymes of the facultative methylotroph PAR were investigated after growth of the bacteria on methanol and ethanol. During methanol growth only a phenazine methosulfate-linked alcohol dehydrogenase was detected. This enzyme had broad specificity for primary alcohols and was also capable of oxidation ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bellion E,Wu GT

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Vibrio fischeri luminescence (lux) genes are regulated by the 250-amino-acid-residue LuxR protein and a V. fischeri metabolite termed autoinducer. The V. fischeri lux regulon consists of two divergently transcribed units. Autoinducer and LuxR activate transcription of the luxICDABE operon and autoregulate the luxR...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Choi SH,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The butyrogenic genes from Clostridium difficile DSM 1296(T) have been cloned and expressed in Escherichia coli. The enzymes acetyl-coenzyme A (CoA) C-acetyltransferase, 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA dehydrogenase, crotonase, phosphate butyryltransferase, and butyrate kinase and the butyryl-CoA dehydrogenase complex composed o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Aboulnaga el-H,Pinkenburg O,Schiffels J,El-Refai A,Buckel W,Selmer T

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hirota, Yukinori (University of Osaka, Osaka, Japan), Toshio Fujii, and Yukinobu Nishimura. Loss and repair of conjugal fertility and infectivity of the resistance factor and sex factor in Escherichia coli. J. Bacteriol. 91:1298-1304. 1966.-The drug-resistance factor, R, and the sex factor, F, have homologous traits, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hirota Y,Fujii T,Nishimua Y

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid hydrolysates of 140 strains, representing 11 species of the genus Bacteroides, were analyzed by capillary gas-liquid chromatography for total cellular fatty acid. All samples contained components which appeared to be hydroxy fatty acid. The relative amount and chain length distribution of the hydroxy fatty acids,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mayberry WR

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa and members of the Burkholderia cepacia complex often coexist in both the soil and the lungs of cystic fibrosis patients. To gain an understanding of how these different species affect each other's physiology when coexisting, we performed a screen to identify P. aeruginosa genes that are induced...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weaver VB,Kolter R

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine as randomly as possible the role of the beta-ketoacyl and acyl carrier protein (ACP) components of bacterial type II polyketide synthases (PKSs), homologs of the chain-length-factor (CLF) genes were cloned from the environmental community of microorganisms. With PCR primers derived from conserved regions of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seow KT,Meurer G,Gerlitz M,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Hutchinson CR,Davies J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Western immunoblots and assays of Bacillus subtilis extracts showed that intracellular serine protease 1 is produced in a form larger than previously reported, appears not to have undergone N-terminal processing, and is active in the presence or absence of calcium. No evidence for an inactive precursor form of the pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sheehan SM,Switzer RL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic organization of Bordetella pertussis strains has been examined by using a new method. This method does not depend on the prior determination of a restriction map of the bacterial chromosome but is based on the ability to measure directly the distance between two genes. This is accomplished through the inte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stibitz S,Yang MS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Entry into sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is characterized by the formation of a polar septum, which asymmetrically divides the developing cell into forespore (the smaller cell) and mother cell compartments, and by migration of replication origin regions to extreme opposite poles of the cell. Here we show that polar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Graumann PL,Losick R

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two chemotactic transducers for inorganic phosphate (P(i)), designated CtpH and CtpL, have been identified in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The corresponding genes (ctpH and ctpL) were inactivated by inserting kanamycin and tetracycline resistance gene cassettes into the wild-type genes in the P. aeruginosa PAO1 genome. Com...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu H,Kato J,Kuroda A,Ikeda T,Takiguchi N,Ohtake H

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Deacetylation of 7-aminocephalosporanic acid (7-ACA) at position C-3 provides valuable starting material for producing semisynthetic β-lactam antibiotics. However, few enzymes have been characterized in this process before now. Comparative analysis of the genome of the thermophilic bacterium Alicyclobacillus...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ding JM,Yu TT,Han NY,Yu JL,Li JJ,Yang YJ,Tang XH,Xu B,Zhou JP,Tang HZ,Huang ZX

更新日期：2015-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Formation of photosynthesis complexes in Rhodobacter sphaeroides is regulated in a redox- and light-dependent manner by the AppA/PpsR and PrrB/PrrA systems. While on the one hand, blue light is sensed by the flavin adenine dinucleotide-binding BLUF domain of AppA, on the other, light is absorbed by bacteriochlorophyll...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Metz S,Jäger A,Klug G

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus is a human pathogen that produces lethal septicemia in susceptible persons, and the primary virulence factor for this organism is capsular polysaccharide (CPS). The role of the capsule in V. vulnificus biofilms was examined under a variety of conditions, by using either defined CPS mutants or spontan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joseph LA,Wright AC

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase, which reductively liberates nitrite from nitrate esters, is related to old yellow enzyme. Pentaerythritol tetranitrate reductase follows a ping-pong mechanism with competitive substrate inhibition by NADPH, is strongly inhibited by steroids, and is capable of reducing the unsatu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： French CE,Nicklin S,Bruce NC

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasmas isolated from simian (Cercopithecus aethiops) tissues were shown to have biological, biochemical, and serological properties and electrophoretic cell protein patterns similar to strain Navel isolated from man 15 years ago. The simian and human Navel strains comprised a single serogroup, distinct from the e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DelGiudice RA,Carski TR,Barile MF,Lemcke RM,Tully JG

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the H303A mutant form of the cbb(3) oxidase (H303A oxidase), which has the H303A mutation in its catalytic subunit (CcoN), was purified from Rhodobacter sphaeroides. The H303A oxidase showed the same catalytic activity as did the wild-type form of the oxidase (WT oxidase). The heme contents of the mutan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim YJ,Ko IJ,Lee JM,Kang HY,Kim YM,Kaplan S,Oh JI

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) plays a central role in the regulation of motility, virulence, and biofilm formation in many pathogenic bacteria. EAL domain-containing phosphodiesterases are the major signaling proteins responsible for the degradation of c-di-GMP and maintenance of its cellular level...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen MW,Kotaka M,Vonrhein C,Bricogne G,Rao F,Chuah ML,Svergun D,Schneider G,Liang ZX,Lescar J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We show that both flanking IS256 elements carried by transposon Tn4001 are capable of generating head-to-tail tandem copies and free circular forms, implying that both are active. Our results suggest that the tandem structures arise from dimeric copies of the donor or vector plasmid present in the population by a mech...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prudhomme M,Turlan C,Claverys JP,Chandler M

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pantothenate kinase (CoaA) is a key regulator of coenzyme A (CoA) biosynthesis in Escherichia coli, and its activity is controlled by feedback inhibition by CoA and its thioesters. The importance of feedback inhibition in the control of the intracellular CoA levels was tested by constructing three site-directed mutant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rock CO,Park HW,Jackowski S

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two highly homologous cbb operons of Alcaligenes eutrophus H16 that are located on the chromosome and on megaplasmid pHG1 contain genes encoding several enzymes of the Calvin carbon reduction cycle. Sequence analysis of a region from the promoter-distal part revealed two open reading frames, designated cbbT and cb...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schäferjohann J,Yoo JG,Kusian B,Bowien B

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we demonstrated that Escherichia coli tolC mutations reduce the high-level resistance to tetracycline afforded by the transposon Tn10-encoded TetA pump from resistance at 200 microg/ml to resistance at 40 microg/ml. In this study, we found that the addition of an sbmA mutation to a tolC::Tn10 mutant exacer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Cristóbal RE,Vincent PA,Salomón RA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The asg mutants of Myxococcus xanthus are defective in production of extracellular A-signal, which serves as a cell density signal for fruiting-body development. The DNA sequence of asgB, one of the three asg genes, was determined. The deduced amino acid sequence of AsgB contains a DNA-binding helix-turn-helix motif n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plamann L,Davis JM,Cantwell B,Mayor J

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00