Purification and preliminary characterization of the Escherichia coli K-12 recF protein.

abstract：:Methicillin resistance in staphylococci is mediated by PBP2a, a penicillin binding protein with low affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics. The gene encoding PBP2a, mecA, is transcriptionally regulated in some clinical isolates by mecR1 and mecI, genes divergently transcribed from mecA that encode a signal transducer an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sharma VK,Hackbarth CJ,Dickinson TM,Archer GL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysozyme is an important component of the innate immune system. It functions by hydrolyzing the peptidoglycan (PG) layer of bacteria. The human pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is intrinsically lysozyme resistant. The peptidoglycan N-deacetylase PgdA and O-acetyltransferase OatA are two known factors contributing to it...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rismondo J,Schulz LM,Yacoub M,Wadhawan A,Hoppert M,Dionne MS,Gründling A

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The bdr (Borrelia direct repeat) gene family of the genus Borrelia encodes a polymorphic group of proteins that carry a central repeat motif region containing putative phosphorylation sites and a hydrophobic carboxyl-terminal domain. It has been postulated that the Bdr proteins may anchor to the inner membrane via the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts DM,Theisen M,Marconi RT

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli gene coding for dihydropteroate synthase (DHPS) has been cloned and sequenced. The protein has 282 amino acids and a compositional molecular mass of 30,314 daltons. Increased expression of the enzyme was realized by using a T7 expression system. The enzyme was purified and crystallized. A temperat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dallas WS,Gowen JE,Ray PH,Cox MJ,Dev IK

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-based site-directed mutagenesis has been used to generate 38 alanine-substitution mutations in the C-terminal 41 amino acid residues of LuxR. This region plays a critical role in the mechanism of LuxR-dependent transcriptional activation of the Vibrio fischeri lux operon during quorum sensing. The ability of the v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Trott AE,Stevens AM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ZmaR is a resistance determinant of unusual abundance in the environment and confers on gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria resistance to zwittermicin A, a novel broad-spectrum antibiotic produced by species of Bacillus. The ZmaR protein has no sequence similarity to proteins of known function; thus, the purpose ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stohl EA,Brady SF,Clardy J,Handelsman J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A lytic enzyme active against viable, intact staphylococci is released into culture fluids upon lysis of bacteriophage-infected Staphylococcus aureus PS53 cells. This enzyme, staphylococcal phage-associated lysin (PAL), was partially purified by ammonium sulfate precipitation and gel filtration through Sephadex G-200....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sonstein SA,Hammel JM,Bondi A

更新日期：1971-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrobacter litoralis has been known as a bacteriochlorophyll a-containing, aerobic, anoxygenic, phototrophic bacterium. Here we announce the complete genome sequence of E. litoralis HTCC2594, which is devoid of phototrophic potential. E. litoralis HTCC2594, isolated by dilution-to-extinction culturing from seawater...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oh HM,Giovannoni SJ,Ferriera S,Johnson J,Cho JC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria within the Mycobacterium avium complex are prominent in the environment and are a source of serious disseminated infections in patients with AIDS. Serovars of the M. avium complex are distinguished from all other mycobacteria and from one another by the presence of highly antigenic glycolipids, the glycopepti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belisle JT,Pascopella L,Inamine JM,Brennan PJ,Jacobs WR Jr

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are two closely related hik31 operons involved in signal transduction on the chromosome and the pSYSX plasmid in the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp. strain PCC 6803. We studied the growth, cell morphology, and gene expression in operon and hik mutants for both copies, under different growth conditions, to exami...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nagarajan S,Sherman DM,Shaw I,Sherman LA

更新日期：2012-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:cat-86 is a promoter-deficient plasmid gene that encodes chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (CAT). Insertion of a promoter at a site 144 base pairs 5' to the cat-86 coding sequence activates transcription of the gene and allows cat-86 to specify chloramphenicol-inducible CAT activity in Bacillus subtilis. Induction of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ambulos NP Jr,Duvall EJ,Lovett PS

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peptide inhibitors of phage lambda site-specific recombination were previously isolated by screening synthetic combinatorial peptide libraries. These inhibitors cause the accumulation of complexes between the recombinase and the Holliday junction intermediate of several highly divergent tyrosine recombinases. Peptide ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gunderson CW,Boldt JL,Authement RN,Segall AM

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus brevis HPD31 contains a surface (S)-layer protein, termed the HWP, which forms a hexagonal array in the cell wall. The 5' region of the HWP gene was isolated from a DNA library constructed in bacteriophage vector EMBL3 from a partial BamHI digest of the chromosomal DNA. The 3' region contained in a 2.7-kiloba...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ebisu S,Tsuboi A,Takagi H,Naruse Y,Yamagata H,Tsukagoshi N,Udaka S

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alpha-aminoadipate pathway for the biosynthesis of lysine is present only in fungi and euglena. Until now, this unique metabolic pathway has never been investigated in the opportunistic fungal pathogens Candida albicans, Cryptococcus neoformans, and Aspergillus fumigatus. Five of the eight enzymes (homocitrate syn...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Garrad RC,Bhattacharjee JK

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial pathogenesis depends on changes in metabolic and virulence gene expression in response to changes within a pathogen's environment. The plague-causing pathogen, Yersinia pestis, requires expression of the gene encoding the Pla protease for progression of pneumonic plague. The catabolite repressor protein Crp,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ritzert JT,Lathem WW

更新日期：2018-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The guanine plus cytosine (GC) content of the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of 11 isolates of host-dependent (H-D) bdellovibrios and 18 host-independent (H-I) derivatives was determined from thermal denaturation curves and buoyant densities in CsCl. The H-D and respective H-I cultures have GC contents which are identica...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seidler RJ,Starr MP,Mandel M

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In acetate-limited chemostat cultures started with single-colony cultures of Thiobacillus versutus, a mutant appeared after approximately 85 volume changes. The inhomogeneity of the culture was detected by the development of two different types of colonies on agar plates. When a pure culture of the mutant was grown in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Claassen PA,Kortstee GJ,Oosterveld-van Vliet WM,van Neerven AR

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Feldman, L. A. (Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.), J. L. Melnick, and F. Rapp. Influence of SV40 genome on the replication of an adenovirus-SV40 "hybrid" population. J. Bacteriol. 90:778-782. 1965.-Replication of a type 7 adenovirus-SV40 hybrid population in primary African green monkey kidney cell...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Feldman LA,Melnick JL,Rapp F

更新日期：1965-09-01 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：:The 12 incD repeats in the F plasmid each contain about 60 bits of information, which is three times the amount of conservation that a single protein would need to distinguish the repeats from the rest of the Escherichia coli genome. This is the first reported discovery of a case of threefold excess information, and i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Herman ND,Schneider TD

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric reductase activity was examined in Azotobacter vinelandii and was found to be located in the cytoplasm. The specific activities of soluble cell extracts were not affected by the iron concentration of the growth medium; however, activity was inhibited by the presence of Zn2+ during cell growth and also by the ad...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huyer M,Page WJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The product of the papD gene of uropathogenic Escherichia coli is required for the biogenesis of digalactoside-binding P pili. Mutations within papD result in complete degradation of the major pilus subunit, PapA, and of the pilinlike proteins PapE and PapF and also cause partial breakdown of the PapG adhesin. The pap...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lindberg F,Tennent JM,Hultgren SJ,Lund B,Normark S

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several resistant mutants of a transformable group H streptococcus, strain Challis, were isolated from media containing high concentrations of streptomycin. Mutants SR5a and SR5 exhibited high and low transformability, respectively, when exposed to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from a novobiocin-resistant Challis strain...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perry D

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Pseudomonas (P. putida HS1) was found to resemble P. putida (arvilla) mt-2 in its ability to degrade toluene, m- and p-xylene, 1,2,4-trimethylbenzene (pseudocumene), and 3-ethyltoluene via oxidation of a methyl substituent and reactions of the meta-fission pathway. The ability to degrade these substrates b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kunz DA,Chapman PJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The weak organic acid sorbic acid is a commonly used food preservative, as it inhibits the growth of bacteria, yeasts, and molds. We have used genome-wide transcriptional profiling of Bacillus subtilis cells during mild sorbic acid stress to reveal the growth-inhibitory activity of this preservative and to identify po...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ter Beek A,Keijser BJ,Boorsma A,Zakrzewska A,Orij R,Smits GJ,Brul S

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:sigma E is a sporulation-specific sigma factor of Bacillus subtilis that is formed from an inactive precursor protein (pro-sigma E) by the removal of 27 to 29 amino acids from the pro-sigma E amino terminus. By using oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis, sequential deletions were constructed in the precursor-specific ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peters HK 3rd,Carlson HC,Haldenwang WG

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fermentative hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus contains an NADPH-utilizing, heterotetrameric (alphabetagammadelta), cytoplasmic hydrogenase (hydrogenase I) that catalyzes both H(2) production and the reduction of elemental sulfur to H(2)S. Herein is described the purification of a second enzyme of this type, hy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ma K,Weiss R,Adams MW

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Jones, Lois M. (University of Wisconsin, Madison), C. R. McDuff, and J. B. Wilson. Phenotypic alterations in the colonial morphology of Brucella abortus due to a bacteriophage carrier state. J. Bacteriol. 83:860-866. 1962.-In the course of examining a number of Brucella cultures with a brucellaphage, it was observed t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： JONES LM,McDUFF CR,WILSON JB

更新日期：1962-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virulence genes in Listeria monocytogenes are coordinately expressed under the control of the transcriptional activator PrfA, encoded by prfA, a member of the cyclic AMP (cAMP) receptor protein (CRP)/FNR family of bacterial regulators. Strain P14-A is a spontaneous mutant of L. monocytogenes serovar 4b which produces ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ripio MT,Domínguez-Bernal G,Lara M,Suárez M,Vazquez-Boland JA

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the identification and characterization of two genes and their gene products responsible for determining receptor binding and pilus length in type 1-piliated Escherichia coli. One gene, pilE, conferred the ability of piliated cells to agglutinate guinea pig erythrocytes. The other gene, pilF, determined pi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maurer L,Orndorff PE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00