Enterohemolysin production is associated with a temperate bacteriophage in Escherichia coli serogroup O26 strains.

abstract：:The sigA and sigB genes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis encode two sigma 70-like sigma factors of RNA polymerase. While transcription of the sigA gene is growth rate independent, sigB transcription is increased during entry into stationary phase. The sigA gene transcription is unresponsive to environmental stress but th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hu Y,Coates AR

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wzc(CPS) is a tyrosine autokinase essential for the assembly of a high-molecular-weight (HMW) group 1 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) in Escherichia coli. Homologues of Wzc participate in the formation of CPS and exopolysaccharides in a variety of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Phosphorylation of tyrosine res...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Paiment A,Hocking J,Whitfield C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Controlled acetolysis of yeast mannans yields mixtures of oligosaccharides with (1-->2) and (1-->3) linkages between the mannose units, whereas the less stable (1-->6) linkages of the polysaccharide backbone are cleaved. The "fingerprints," obtained by gel filtration of the oligosaccharide mixtures, can be used to dis...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kocourek J,Ballou CE

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Attaching and effacing (AE) pathogens colonize the gut mucosa using a type three secretion system (T3SS) and a suite of effector proteins. The locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE) is the defining genetic feature of the AE pathogens, encoding the T3SS and the core effector proteins necessary for pathogenesis. Extensive...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Furniss RCD,Clements A

更新日期：2017-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial second messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) regulates the transition between sessility and motility. In Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium, the expression of CsgD, the regulator of multicellular rdar morphotype behavior, is a major target of c-di-GMP signaling. CsgD expression is positively regulated ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simm R,Remminghorst U,Ahmad I,Zakikhany K,Römling U

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The restriction systems McrA and McrB of Escherichia coli K-12 are known to attack DNA containing modified cytosine. In strains lacking both activities, however, we observed that DNA methylated at CG dinucleotides (as is mammalian DNA) was still significantly restricted. We show that this substantial barrier to the ac...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kelleher JE,Raleigh EA

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sphingomonas (formerly Pseudomonas) paucimobilis UT26 utilizes gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane (gamma-HCH), a halogenated organic insecticide, as a sole carbon and energy source. In a previous study, we showed that gamma-HCH is degraded to 2,5-dichlorohydroquinone (2,5-DCHQ) (Y. Nagata, R. Ohtomo, K. Miyauchi, M. Fukuda, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miyauchi K,Suh SK,Nagata Y,Takagi M

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nylon oligomer (6-aminohexanoic acid cyclic dimer) degradation genes on plasmid pOAD2 of Flavobacterium sp. KI72 were cloned into Escherichia coli vector pBR322. The locus of one of the genes, the structural gene of 6-aminohexanoic acid linear oligomer hydrolase, was determined by constructing various deletion pla...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Negoro S,Taniguchi T,Kanaoka M,Kimura H,Okada H

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic organization of the foc gene cluster has been studied; six genes involved in the biogenesis of F1C fimbriae were identified. focA encodes the major fimbrial subunit, focC encodes a product that is indispensable for fimbria formation, focG and focH encode minor fimbrial subunits, and focI encodes a protein ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Riegman N,Kusters R,Van Veggel H,Bergmans H,Van Bergen en Henegouwen P,Hacker J,Van Die I

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti is a soil-dwelling alphaproteobacterium that engages in a nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis with leguminous plants. Cell surface polysaccharides are important both for adapting to stresses in the soil and for the development of an effective symbiotic interaction. Among the polysaccharides ch...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barnett MJ,Long SR

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell division of Escherichia coli K-12 strain PA3092 was inhibited by the addition of adenosine 3',5'-phosphate (cAMP), and the cellular morphology was changed from rods into filaments. Nucleoids in the filaments were regularly distributed and septum formation was perfectly inhibited. This inhibition of cell division ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Utsumi R,Tanabe H,Nakamoto Y,Kawamukai M,Sakai H,Himeno M,Komano T,Hirota Y

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two nrdF genes, nrdF1 and nrdF2, encoding the small subunit (R2) of ribonucleotide reductase (RR) from Mycobacterium tuberculosis have 71% identity at the amino acid level and are both highly homologous with Salmonella typhimurium R2F. The calculated molecular masses of R2-1 and R2-2 are 36,588 (322 amino acids [aa]) ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang F,Curran SC,Li LS,Avarbock D,Graf JD,Chua MM,Lu G,Salem J,Rubin H

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fungal pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans is killed by the bacterium Staphylococcus aureus, and the killing is inhibited by soluble capsular polysaccharides. To investigate the mechanism of killing, cells in coculture were examined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy. S. aureus attached to the capsule o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ikeda R,Saito F,Matsuo M,Kurokawa K,Sekimizu K,Yamaguchi M,Kawamoto S

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rohlfing, S. R. (Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio), and I. P. Crawford. Purification and characterization of the beta-galactosidase of Aeromonas formicans. J. Bacteriol. 91:1085-1097. 1966.-The beta-galactosidase of Aeromonas formicans was purified by diethylaminoethyl cellulose chromatography and gel filtr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rohlfing SR,Crawford IP

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dental plaque is a complex biofilm that accretes in a series of discrete steps proceeding from a gram-positive streptococcus-rich biofilm to a structure rich in gram-negative anaerobes. This study investigated information flow between two unrelated plaque bacteria, Streptococcus cristatus and Porphyromonas gingivalis....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xie H,Cook GS,Costerton JW,Bruce G,Rose TM,Lamont RJ

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genetic transformation of auxotrophs of the extreme thermophile Thermus thermophilus HB27 to prototrophy was obtained at high frequencies of 10(-2) to 10(-1) when proliferating cell populations were exposed to chromosomal DNA from a nutritionally independent wild-type strain. The transformation frequency was proportio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koyama Y,Hoshino T,Tomizuka N,Furukawa K

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanogenesis from the non-physiological C1 donors thioproline, thiazolidine, hexamethylenetetramine, formaldehyde (HCHO), and HOCH2-S-coenzyme M (CoM) was catalyzed by cell extracts of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum under a hydrogen atmosphere. Tetrahydromethanopterin (H4MPT) and HS-CoM were required in the re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Escalante-Semerena JC,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultural characteristics and serological relationships of pathogenic marine vibrios isolated from fish in the Pacific Northwest were studied. These organisms were compared with cultures of Vibrio anguillarum, a known fish pathogen. On the basis of morphological and cultural characteristics, the Pacific Northwest strai...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pacha RE,Kiehn ED

更新日期：1969-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Bacillus subtilis the deoxyribonucleic acid content and the extent of cell division during inhibition of chromosome replication increased as a function of the average cell mass, independent of the growth rate. At each growth rate, mass, deoxyribonucleic acid, and residual division varied in different cultures. The ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Holmes M,Rickert M,Pierucci O

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Holins are a diverse group of small integral membrane proteins elaborated by bacteriophages to lyse bacterial hosts and effect release of progeny phages in a precisely timed manner. Recently, the holin S gene of phage lambda was overexpressed and the holin protein was purified to homogeneity by means of an oligohistid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith DL,Young R

更新日期：1998-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerulenin is a fungal mycotoxin that potently inhibits fatty acid synthesis by covalent modification of the active site thiol of the chain-elongation subtypes of beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) synthases. The Bacillus subtilis fabF (yjaY) gene (fabF(b)) encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the condensation of mal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schujman GE,Choi KH,Altabe S,Rock CO,de Mendoza D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of formate dehydrogenase coupled to formate hydrogenlyase activity in Escherichia coli was found to require the product of the fhlA gene. Transcription of fdhF, the gene coding for the 80-kilodalton (kDa) selenopeptide of formate dehydrogenase, was not detected in an fhlA genetic background. Mutations in the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sankar P,Lee JH,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains are able to produce two distinct lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O-polysaccharide types, A-band (common-antigen) and B-band (serotype-specific) LPSs. The relative expression levels of these two LPS types in P. aeruginosa PAO1 (O5 serotype) at various growth temperatures were investigated b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Makin SA,Beveridge TJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The filamentous cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 can fix N(2) under oxic conditions, and the activity of nitrogen fixation occurs exclusively in heterocysts, cells differentiated from vegetative cells in response to a limitation of a combined-nitrogen source in the growth medium. At the late stages of heter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shi L,Li JH,Cheng Y,Wang L,Chen WL,Zhang CC

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To circumvent the permeability barrier of its outer membrane, Pseudomonas aeruginosa has evolved a series of specific porins. These channels have binding sites for related classes of molecules that facilitate uptake under nutrient-limited conditions. Here, we report on the identification of a 19-member family of porin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tamber S,Ochs MM,Hancock RE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chemotaxis system for Pseudomonas aeruginosa was defined by using the method of Adler. Cells were attracted to compounds in the order ammonium chloride greater than amino acids greater than organic acids. Two sugars were assayed and elicited no response. Comparisons with other model systems are discussed. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moench TT,Konetzka WA

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The first step in the transfer of the Bacteroides conjugative transposon CTnDOT is excision of the integrated element from the chromosome to form a circular transfer intermediate. Excision occurs only after the bacteria are exposed to tetracycline. Previously, four excision genes were identified. One was the integrase...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moon K,Shoemaker NB,Gardner JF,Salyers AA

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage T7 RNA polymerase is stable in Escherichia coli but very susceptible to cleavage by at least one endoprotease after cell lysis. The major source of this endoprotease activity was found to be localized to the outer membrane of the cell. A rapid whole-cell assay was developed to screen different strains fo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grodberg J,Dunn JJ

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Bacillus megaterium spores germinate in the absence of an exogenous carbon source, the first minutes of germination are accompanied by production of large amounts (approximately 70 nmol/mg of dry spores) of acetate and much smaller amounts of pyruvate and lactate. The majority of these compounds are excreted into...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow B,Shay LK,Vary JC,Setlow P

更新日期：1977-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nickel-deficient (Nic-) mutants of Alcaligenes eutrophus requiring high levels of nickel ions for autotrophic growth with hydrogen were characterized. The Nic- mutants carried defined deletions in the hydrogenase gene cluster of the indigenous pHG megaplasmid. Nickel deficiency correlated with a low level of the nicke...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eberz G,Eitinger T,Friedrich B

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00