Transcription activation by NtcA in the absence of consensus NtcA-binding sites in an anabaena heterocyst differentiation gene promoter.

abstract：:We studied the roles of Streptococcus thermophilus phosphogalactosyltransferase (EpsE) (the priming enzyme), tyrosine kinase (EpsD), phosphatase (EpsB), and a membrane-associated protein with no known biochemical function (EpsC) in exopolysaccharide (EPS) synthesis. These proteins are well-conserved among bacteria and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Minic Z,Marie C,Delorme C,Faurie JM,Mercier G,Ehrlich D,Renault P

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the roles of specific amino acid residues in the delta 5-3-ketosteroid isomerase from Pseudomonas putida biotype B during catalysis, we replaced aspartic acid 40 with asparagine (D40N) and tyrosine 16 with phenylalanine (Y16F) in the enzyme by site-directed mutagenesis. Both purified mutant enzymes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim SW,Choi KY

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dobrogosz, Walter J. (University of Illinois, Urbana) and Ralph D. DeMoss. Pentose utilization by Pediococcus pentosaceus. J. Bacteriol. 85:1356-1364. 1963.-Data are presented which indicate that pentoses are metabolized by Pediococcus pentosaceus through the use of an inducible phosphoketolase pathway. The utilizatio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DOBROGOSZ WJ,DEMOSS RD

更新日期：1963-06-01 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：:Electrical events after a light-dark stimulus were studied in the multicellular organism Phormidium uncinatum. Normally, such a stimulus causes the gliding trichome to reverse direction. By directing a large light spot on the end of a batch of trichomes and then switching it off, we achieved synchronization of the tri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Murvanidze GV,Glagolev AN

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Escherichia coli the SOS response, induced by DNA-damaging treatments, includes two systems of cell division inhibition, SfiA and SfiC, which are thought to prevent cell division by interacting with the division protein FtsZ. It is shown here that SfiA-mediated division inhibition is readily reversible, even in the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maguin E,Lutkenhaus J,D'Ari R

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetracycline accumulation by the phototrophic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides has been studied, using the fluorescence properties of the antibiotic and measuring uptake of [7- 3H]tetracycline. Accumulation was carrier mediated, with a Km of approximately 300 micronM. Efflux also appeared to be carried mediated,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weckesser J,Magnuson JA

更新日期：1979-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:HypA and HypB are maturation proteins required for incorporation of nickel into the hydrogenase large subunit. To examine the functions of these proteins in nickel insertion, the hybF gene, which is a homolog of hypA essential for maturation of hydrogenases 1 and 2 from Escherichia coli, was overexpressed, and the pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blokesch M,Rohrmoser M,Rode S,Böck A

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium perfringens type B and D isolates produce epsilon-toxin, the third most potent clostridial toxin. The epsilon-toxin gene (etx) is plasmid borne in type D isolates, but etx genetics have been poorly studied in type B isolates. This study reports the first sequencing of any etx plasmid, i.e., pCP8533etx, fro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miyamoto K,Li J,Sayeed S,Akimoto S,McClane BA

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new type of temperature-sensitive deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) synthesis mutant, which can divide without a completion of DNA replication, was isolated from a thymidine-requiring Escherichia coli strain by means of photo-bromouracil selection after nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis. In this mutant, in spite of the fact th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Inouye M

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi strains harbor native plasmids belonging to the pPT23A plasmid family (PFPs) which are detected in all pathovars of the related species Pseudomonas syringae examined and contribute to the ecological and pathogenic fitness of their host. However, there is a general lack of informat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pérez-Martínez I,Zhao Y,Murillo J,Sundin GW,Ramos C

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Huston, Charles K. (U.S. Army Biological Laboratories, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.), and Phillip W. Albro. Lipids of Sarcina lutea. I. Fatty acid composition of the extractable lipids. J. Bacteriol. 88:425-432. 1964.-The extractable lipids of Sarcina lutea were separated into several fractions by a combination of col...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HUSTON CK,ALBRO PW

更新日期：1964-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The type III secretion system (T3SS) encoded by Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 (SPI-2) is involved in systemic infection and intracellular replication of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. In this study, we investigated the function of SsaE, a small cytoplasmic protein encoded within the SPI-2 locus, which sh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miki T,Shibagaki Y,Danbara H,Okada N

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isozymes of chorismate mutase (CA mutase(1) and CA mutase(2)) and two isozymes of prephenate dehydratase (PPA dehydratase(1) and PPA dehydratase(2)) have been found in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. The activities CA mutase(2)-PPA dehydratase(2) catalyzing phenylalanine biosynthesis have been purified almost 40-fold and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ahmed SI,Campbell JJ

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to reduce Hg(II) to Hg(0), which is determined by a plasmid-borne gene in Escherichia coli, is conferred by a Hg(II)-inducible activity which is located in the cytoplasm rather than in the periplasmic space of the cell. This Hg(II)-reducing activity can be isolated from the supernatant of a 160,000 x g cen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Summers AO,Sugarman LI

更新日期：1974-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Activation of the late prespore-specific RNA polymerase sigma factor sigma(G) during Bacillus subtilis sporulation coincides with completion of the engulfment process, when the prespore becomes a protoplast fully surrounded by the mother cell cytoplasm and separated from it by a double membrane system. Activation of s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Serrano M,Vieira F,Moran CP Jr,Henriques AO

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) of 209 cell division (or growth) temperature-sensitive mutants of Streptococcus faecium were analyzed in this study. A total of nine strains showed either constitutive or temperature-sensitive conditional damage in the PBPs. Analysis of these nine strains yielded the following re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Canepari P,Lleò MM,Fontana R,Satta G

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oxolinic acid reduced RNA synthesis rates whether chromosome supercoiling decreased, increased, or remained unchanged. Thus, inhibition of RNA synthesis by oxolinic acid appears to involve factors other than average DNA supercoiling level. Coumermycin A1 caused RNA synthesis rates to increase or decrease roughly in pa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manes SH,Pruss GJ,Drlica K

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously undetected Bacillus subtilis aspartokinase isozyme, which we have called aspartokinase III, has been characterized. The new isozyme was most readily detected in extracts of cells grown with lysine, which repressed aspartokinase II and induced aspartokinase III, or in extracts of strain VS11, a mutant lack...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Graves LM,Switzer RL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage and perturbations in DNA replication can induce global transcriptional responses that can help organisms repair the damage and survive. RecA is known to mediate transcriptional responses to DNA damage in several bacterial species by inactivating the repressor LexA and phage repressors. To gain insight into ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goranov AI,Kuester-Schoeck E,Wang JD,Grossman AD

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrony in phototrophic cultures of Rhodospirillum rubrum was induced by stationary-phase cycling or by alterations in light intensity. Intracytoplasmic chromatophore membranes were prepared by differential centrifugation. Analysis of the composition of chromatophores obtained from cells at different times indicated...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Myers CR,Collins ML

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces davawensis JCM 4913 synthesizes the antibiotic roseoflavin, a structural riboflavin (vitamin B(2)) analog. Here, we report the 9,466,619-bp linear chromosome of S. davawensis JCM 4913 and a 89,331-bp linear plasmid. The sequence has an average G+C content of 70.58% and contains six rRNA operons (16S-23S-5...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jankowitsch F,Schwarz J,Rückert C,Gust B,Szczepanowski R,Blom J,Pelzer S,Kalinowski J,Mack M

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colorimetric assay was developed for studying the kinetics of iron oxidation with whole cells of the chemoautotroph, Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. The assay was more advantageous than the conventional method of Warburg manometry because of its simplicity, rapidity, and the small amount of cells required. The assay mea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schnaitman CA,Korczynski MS,Lundgren DG

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii, the etiological agent of acute and chronic Q fever in humans, is a naturally intracellular pathogen that directs the formation of an acidic Coxiella-containing vacuole (CCV) derived from the host lysosomal network. Central to its pathogenesis is a specialized type IVB secretion system (T4SS) that de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weber MM,Chen C,Rowin K,Mertens K,Galvan G,Zhi H,Dealing CM,Roman VA,Banga S,Tan Y,Luo ZQ,Samuel JE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several authors have suggested that the SOS-associated (sfiA-dependent) system of division inhibition, normally induced by perturbations of DNA replication, also regulates steady-state (unperturbed) cell division. The present work shows that mean cell mass is identical in sfiA+ and sfiA mutant cultures during steady-s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huisman O,Jacques M,D'ari R,Caro L

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The process of flagellar assembly in Salmonella typhimurium was investigated by using temperature-sensitive mutants. The mutants were grown at the restrictive temperature and then at the permissive temperature, with radiolabel supplied in the first phase of the experiment and not the second, or vice versa. Flagellar h...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jones CJ,Macnab RM

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To understand further the role of the flagellum of Vibrio anguillarum in virulence, invasive and adhesive properties of isogenic motility mutants were analyzed by using a chinook salmon embryo cell line. Adhesion was unaffected but invasion of the cell line was significantly decreased in nonmotile or partially motile ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ormonde P,Hörstedt P,O'Toole R,Milton DL

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chromosomally mediated penicillinase present in three strains of Escherichia coli K-12 has been purified and characterized. Two of the strains carried the ampA gene and the third the wild-type allele. The purification involves release of the enzyme by spheroplast formation, dialysis, chromatography on sulfoethyl c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Linström EB,Boman HG,Steele BB

更新日期：1970-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Widely studied Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium strains ATCC 14028s and SL1344 harbor a cryptic ST64B prophage unable to produce infectious virions. We found that coculturing either strain with an isogenic sibling lacking the prophage leads to the appearance of active forms of the virus. Active phage originates...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Figueroa-Bossi N,Bossi L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic marker for sulfadiazine resistance was transferred by means of purified deoxyribonucleic acid from sulfadiazine-resistant Neisseria meningitidis and N. perflava to a sulfadiazine-sensitive strain of N. meningitidis. Over 80% of the isolates from these experiments, selected on the basis of sulfadiazine resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kingsbury DT

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00