A 54-kilodalton protein encoded by pBtoxis is required for parasporal body structural integrity in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis.

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：:Mutations in the araC gene of Escherichia coli B/r were isolated which alter both activation of the araBAD operon expression and autoregulation. The mutations were isolated on an araC-containing plasmid by hydroxylamine mutagenesis of plasmid DNA. The mutant phenotype selected was the inability to autoregulate. The DN...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cass LG,Wilcox G

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Melanin production is a major virulence factor for Cryptococcus neoformans, an organism causing life-threatening infections in an estimated 10% of AIDS patients. In order to characterize the events involved in melanin synthesis, an enzyme having diphenol oxidase activity was purified and its gene was cloned. The enzym...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Williamson PR

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The hyperthermophilic eubacterium Thermotoga maritima possesses an operon encoding an Hsp70 molecular chaperone protein and a protein with meaningful homology to the small heat shock protein family of chaperones. This represents the first demonstrated co-operon organization for these two important classes of molecular...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Michelini ET,Flynn GC

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The isolation and some properties of two mutants of Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790 (S. faecium) which autolyze at a much slower rate than the wild type are described. Compared with the wild type, mutant E71 autolyzed more slowly, contained less active but more latent autolysin in the isolated wall fraction, and poss...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pooley HM,Shockman GD,Higgins ML,Porres-Juan J

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pakula, Roman (University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada). Factors regulating competence in transformation of streptococci. J. Bacteriol. 90:1320-1324. 1965.-The highly transformable group H Streptococcus strain Challis produced an exocellular competence-provoking enzyme capable of converting to the state of com...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pakula R

更新日期：1965-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zorbamycin (U-30,604E) induces rapid degradation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) and ribonucleic acid (RNA) in Bacillus subtilis cells. DNA degradation is initiated first and is closely followed by the degradation of RNA. No interaction between isolated DNA and zorbamycin is observed. Nucleic acid and protein syntheses...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reusser F

更新日期：1971-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A computer program has been designed to study behavior in populations of Spirochaeta aurantia cells, and this program has been used to analyze changes in behavior in response to chemoattractants. Three kinds of behavior were distinguished: smooth swimming, flexing, and reversals in direction of swimming after a short ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fosnaugh K,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bradyrhizobium diazoefficiens is a soil alphaproteobacterium that possesses two evolutionarily distinct flagellar systems, a constitutive subpolar flagellum and inducible lateral flagella that, depending on the carbon source, may be expressed simultaneously in liquid medium and used interactively for swimming. In each...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mengucci F,Dardis C,Mongiardini EJ,Althabegoiti MJ,Partridge JD,Kojima S,Homma M,Quelas JI,Lodeiro AR

更新日期：2020-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A sucrose-inducible alpha-glucosidase activity that hydrolyzes sucrose in Candida albicans has been demonstrated previously. The enzyme is assayable in whole cells and was inhibited by both sucrose and maltose. A C. albicans gene (CASUC1) that affects sucrose utilization and alpha-glucosidase activity was cloned by ex...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kelly R,Kwon-Chung KJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of L-methionine-DL-sulfoximine, an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase, on the formation of nitrate reductase in the wild-type strain of Neurospora in the presence of ammonium ions and of glutamine was studied. Under conditions in which glutamine synthetase was inactivated, it was found that only glutamine co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Premakumar R,Sorger GJ,Gooden D

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oleandomycin, a macrolide antibiotic produced by Streptomyces antibioticus, contains two sugars attached to the aglycon: L-oleandrose and D-desosamine. oleY codes for a methyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of L-oleandrose. This gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli to form inclusion bodies and in Strept...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rodríguez L,Rodríguez D,Olano C,Braña AF,Méndez C,Salas JA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory element NosR was identified within the nos region of the denitrification gene cluster of Pseudomonas stutzeri ZoBell (ATCC 14405) and characterized. It is essential for expression of the N2O reductase encoded by nosZ immediately downstream of nosR. The nosR region was initially identified by Tn5 mutagen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cuypers H,Viebrock-Sambale A,Zumft WG

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic of N2-fixing cyanobacteria in symbiotic associations appears to be release of N2-derived NH4+. The specific activity of the primary ammonium-assimilating enzyme, glutamine synthetase (GS), was found to be three- to fourfold lower in Nostoc sp. strain 7801 grown in symbiotic association with the bryoph...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joseph CM,Meeks JC

更新日期：1987-06-01 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：:In Escherichia coli, the SecB/SecA branch of the Sec pathway and the twin-arginine translocation (Tat) pathway represent two alternative possibilities for posttranslational translocation of proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane. Maintenance of pathway specificity was analyzed using a model precursor consisting of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blaudeck N,Kreutzenbeck P,Freudl R,Sprenger GA

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microcin J25 (MccJ25) is a small peptide antibiotic produced by an Escherichia coli strain isolated from human feces. The genetic determinants for MccJ25 synthesis and immunity have been cloned from the low-copy-number wild-type plasmid pTUC1OO into the compatible vectors pBR322 and pACYC184. Physical and phenotypical...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Solbiati JO,Ciaccio M,Farías RN,Salomón RA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rebers, P. A. (Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N. J.), E. Hurwitz, M. Heidelberger, and S. Estrada-Parra. Immunochemistry of the pneumococcal types II, V, and VI. III. Tests with derivatives of the specific polysaccharides of types II and VI. J. Bacteriol. 83:335-342. 1962.-The type-specific pneumococcal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： REBERS PA,HURWITZ E,HEIDELBERGER M,ESTRADA-PARRA S

更新日期：1962-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xylose is rarely described as a component of bacterial glycans. UDP-xylose is the nucleotide-activated form necessary for incorporation of xylose into glycans and is synthesized by the decarboxylation of UDP-glucuronic acid (UDP-GlcA). Enzymes with UDP-GlcA decarboxylase activity include those that lead to the formati...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Coyne MJ,Fletcher CM,Reinap B,Comstock LE

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

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：:Acinetobacter baumannii is a severe threat to human health as a frequently multidrug-resistant hospital-acquired pathogen. Part of the danger from this bacterium comes from its genome plasticity and ability to evolve quickly by taking up and recombining external DNA into its own genome in a process called natural comp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vesel N,Blokesch M

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic bacterial pathogen Vibrio vulnificus causes severe wound infection and fatal septicemia. We used alkaline phosphatase insertion mutagenesis in a clinical isolate of V. vulnificus to find genes necessary for virulence, and we identified fadR, which encodes a regulator of fatty acid metabolism. The fad...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brown RN,Gulig PA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the uptake of [14C]octopine and [14C]nopaline by Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains containing the C58 chromosomal background in medium suitable for the induction of vir genes. All strains tested could transport both of these opines, regardless of the presence or type of Ti plasmid (octopine or nopalin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krishnan M,Burgner JW,Chilton WS,Gelvin SB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mechanism of action of diphtheria toxin in an Escherichia coli cell-free protein-synthesizing system was examined. When the washed ribosomes were incubated with toxin before addition of messenger ribonucleic acid (RNA), peptide syntheses of (14)C-phenylalanine directed by polyuridylic acid or phage R17 RNA were st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsugawa A,Ohsumi Y,Kato I

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) polymerase activities in Bacillus subtilis strains Marburg 168 (thy-trp2) and D22, a DNA polymerase I-deficient mutant, were measured at various stages of sporulation. The DNA polymerase I activity, which had decreased after the exponential growth, began to increase at the early stage o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Honjo M,Shibano Y,Komano T

更新日期：1976-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leucine-requiring, rifampin-sensitive strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was transformed to a leucine-nonrequiring, rifampin-resistant phenotype with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) obtained from both N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae. The transforming efficiency of the meningococcal DNA was about 10- to 100-fold less tha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wood DO,Brownell GH

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa produces multifunctional, polar, filamentous appendages termed type IV pili. Type IV pili are involved in colonization during infection, twitching motility, biofilm formation, bacteriophage infection, and natural transformation. Electrostatic surface analysis of modele...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van Schaik EJ,Giltner CL,Audette GF,Keizer DW,Bautista DL,Slupsky CM,Sykes BD,Irvin RT

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Enterococcus faecalis plasmid pAD1 undergoes conjugative transfer in response to cAD1, a peptide sex pheromone emitted by potential bacterial recipients. Regulation of pAD1 transfer involves a number of plasmid-encoded determinants:iad, which determines a peptide-competitive inhibitor iAD1; signal sensing and tran...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pontius LT,Clewell DB

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 400 suppressible mutations have been isolated in the araC gene of Escherichia coli. Based on deletion mapping, growth patterns when suppressed, and intragenic recombination, 37 mutants have been determined to contain unique mutations. Rapid plate assays were developed to test for each of the three AraC prot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schecter JB

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carotovoricin Er is a phage-tail-like bacteriocin produced by Erwinia carotovora subsp. carotovora strain Er, a causative agent for soft rot disease in plants. Here we studied binding and killing spectra of carotovoricin Er preparations for various strains of the bacterium (strains 645Ar, EC-2, N786, and P7) and found...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nguyen HA,Tomita T,Hirota M,Kaneko J,Hayashi T,Kamio Y

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00