The MscS and MscL families of mechanosensitive channels act as microbial emergency release valves.

abstract：:The master regulator for entry into sporulation in Bacillus subtilis is the response regulator Spo0A, which directly governs the expression of about 121 genes. Using cells in which the synthesis of Spo0A was under the control of an inducible promoter or in which production of the regulatory protein was impaired by a p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fujita M,González-Pastor JE,Losick R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Escherichia coli OmpC and OmpF outer membrane proteins is regulated by the osmolarity of the culture media. In contrast, expression of OmpC in Salmonella typhi is not influenced by osmolarity, while OmpF is regulated as in E. coli. To better understand the lack of osmoregulation of OmpC expression in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Martínez-Flores I,Cano R,Bustamante VH,Calva E,Puente JL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. strain LB400 grows on biphenyl as the sole carbon and energy source. This organism also cooxidizes several chlorinated biphenyl congeners. Biphenyl dioxygenase activity in cell extract required addition of NAD(P)H as an electron donor for the conversion of biphenyl to cis-2,3-dihydroxy-2,3-dihydrobiphe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haddock JD,Nadim LM,Gibson DT

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Orf20 of the conjugative transposon Tn916 was purified as a chimeric protein fused to maltose binding protein (MBP-Orf20). The chimeric protein possessed endonucleolytic activity, cleaving both strands of the Tn916 origin of conjugal transfer (oriT) at several distinct sites and favoring GT dinucleotides. Incubation o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rocco JM,Churchward G

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilizing a homologous gene replacement in order to retain the native promoter and 5' and 3' untranslated messenger regions (and thereby ensure physiological validity), we have shown that deletion of the N-terminal 389 amino acids of the transcriptional activator AREA does not result in nitrogen metabolite derepressio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Caddick MX,Arst HN Jr

更新日期：1998-11-01 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：:The biological activities of Bacillus subtilis ribosomes pretreated with 0.5, 1, or 2 mmp-chloromercuribenzoate (PCMB) were examined. The ribosomes treated with 1 or 2 mm PCMB lost their capacity to synthesize polyphenylalanine as well as the capacity to bind phenylalanyl-transfer ribonucleic acid. On the other hand, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ranu RS,Kaji A

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Loss of the ability of Pseudomonas syringae pv. "phaseolicola" NPS3121 to elicit a hypersensitive response on tobacco and other nonhost plants was associated with loss of pathogenicity on the susceptible host bean. Eight independent, prototrophic transposon Tn5 insertion mutants which had lost the ability to elicit a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lindgren PB,Peet RC,Panopoulos NJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:By using a method that labels sulfhydryl-containing proteins in situ, we have detected a major outer membrane protein of Neisseria gonorrhoeae at 41 kDa. A protein of this molecular mass has not previously been shown to be a major outer membrane protein in gonococci. In addition, a minor protein rich in cysteinyl resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Norrod EP,Browne SL,Feldweg A,Leonard J

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diphtheria toxin repressor (DtxR) uses Fe(2+) as a corepressor and inhibits transcription from iron-regulated promoters (IRPs) in Corynebacterium diphtheriae. A new IRP, designated IRP6, was cloned from C. diphtheriae by a SELEX-like procedure. DtxR bound to IRP6 in vitro only in the presence of appropriate divale...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qian Y,Lee JH,Holmes RK

更新日期：2002-09-01 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：:If bacteria are incapable of forming and incorporating proteins into the cytoplasmic membranes in all phases of the cell cycle, then not all cells from an asynchronous culture should be capable of growth when switched to a new carbon and energy source whose metabolism requires new membrane function. The transfer of an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Koch AL

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The GcvA protein is a LysR family regulatory protein necessary for both activation and repression of the Escherichia coli glycine cleavage enzyme operon (gcv) and negative regulation of gcvA. Gel shift assays indicated that overexpressed GcvA in crude extracts is capable of binding specifically to DNA containing the g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wilson RL,Urbanowski ML,Stauffer GV

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The operons of the glp regulon encoding the glycerol metabolic enzymes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa were hitherto believed to be positively regulated by the product of the glpR regulatory gene. During nucleotide sequence analysis of the region located upstream of the previously characterized glpD gene, encoding sn-glycer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schweizer HP,Po C

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：:Tetracycline resistance of three Bacteroides fragilis strains was shown to be inducible by subinhibitory concentrations of tetracycline. Tetracycline resistance markers could be transferred to another B. fragilis strain by filter mating. The transferability was inducible by subinhibitory concentrations of tetracycline...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rashtchian A,Dubes GR,Booth SJ

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces clavuligerus produces at least five different clavam metabolites, including clavulanic acid and the methionine antimetabolite, alanylclavam. In vitro transposon mutagenesis was used to analyze a 13-kb region upstream of the known paralogue gene cluster. The paralogue cluster includes one group of clavulan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zelyas NJ,Cai H,Kwong T,Jensen SE

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lethal and mutagenic effects of various mutagens on Neisseria gonorrhoeae were investigated. Lethality studies demonstrated that N. gonorrhoeae was relatively sensitive to ethyl methanesulfonate, UV light, and methyl methanesulfonate. Although N. gonorrhoeae was readily mutated by ethyl methanesulfonate and N-meth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Campbell LA,Yasbin RE

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At various stages during spore formation sporangia were shocked by cold treatment or with toluene, and the germination requirements of the prespores were examined. Up to 5 h after induction of sporulation (t5) germination was spontaneous; i.e., it occurred without any added germinants. After t5, during stages V and VI...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dion P,Mandelstam J

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primer extension analysis of transcripts of the Bacillus subtilis autolysin (cwlB) operon indicated that SigD-dependent transcripts from the Pd promoter are missing in the degU32(Hy) and degS200 (Hy) mutants. The degU32(Hy) mutation caused a 99% reduction in the expression of a sigD-lacZ translational fusion gene cons...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tokunaga T,Rashid MH,Kuroda A,Sekiguchi J

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium tumefaciens R10 was mutagenized by using the promoter probe transposon Tn5-gusA7, and a library of approximately 5,000 transcriptional fusions was screened for octopine-inducible patterns of gene expression. Twenty-one mutants carrying strongly inducible gusA fusions, 20 of which showed defects in the ca...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cho K,Fuqua C,Martin BS,Winans SC

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purified L-asparaginase from Serratia marcescens had an apparent-weight average molecular weight of 171,000 to 180,000 as determined by electrophoresis on polyacrylamide gels and by sedimentation equilibrium at low speed in an analytical ultracentrifuge. A subunit molecular weight of 31,500 +/- 1,500 was estimated for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stern ML,Phillips AW,Gottlieb AJ

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metE gene of Salmonella typhimurium was cloned into plasmid pACYC184 by using a lambda gt7 -metE transducing phage as a source of metE DNA. The recombinant plasmid, designated pGS41 , carries a 12.8-kilobase-pair EcoRI insert fragment. The metE gene was subcloned from pGS41 into plasmid pBR322 on a 4.2-kilobase-pa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schulte LL,Stauffer LT,Stauffer GV

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During the methanogenic fermentation of acetate by Methanosarcina thermophila, the CO dehydrogenase complex cleaves acetyl coenzyme A and oxidizes the carbonyl group (or CO) to CO2, followed by electron transfer to coenzyme M (CoM)-S-S-coenzyme B (CoB) and reduction of this heterodisulfide to HS-CoM and HS-CoB (A. P. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peer CW,Painter MH,Rasche ME,Ferry JG

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triggering of germination in Bacillus megaterium QM B1551 spores with D-glucose was studied. First, the interaction of glucose with spores for less than 1 min resulted in triggering almost 90% of the spores after the glucose was removed by dilution. Therefore only a brief time is needed for glucose to trigger germinat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Racine FM,Dills SS,Vary JC

更新日期：1979-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Identification of new genes involved in biofilm formation is needed to understand the molecular basis of strain variation and the pathogenic mechanisms implicated in chronic staphylococcal infections. A biofilm-producing Staphylococcus aureus isolate was used to generate biofilm-negative transposon (Tn917) insertion m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cucarella C,Solano C,Valle J,Amorena B,Lasa I,Penadés JR

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Rickettsia prowazekii to transport potential sources of the glucose moiety of bacterial polysaccharides was determined. Transport was determined both by filtration assays and by centrifugation through nonaqueous layers. Uridine 5'-diphosphoglucose (UDPG) was transported, whereas glucose was not transpor...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winkler HH,Daugherty RM

更新日期：1986-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A positive selection method for isolation of nitrogenase-derepressed mutant strains of a filamentous cyanobacterium, Anabaena variabilis, is described. Mutant strains that are resistant to a glutamate analog, L-methionine-D,L-sulfoximine, were screened for their ability to produce and excrete NH4+ into medium. Mutant ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Spiller H,Latorre C,Hassan ME,Shanmugam KT

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis swarming behavior is characterized by the development of concentric rings of growth that are formed as cyclic events of swarmer cell differentiation, swarming migration, and cellular differentiation are repeated during colony translocation across a surface. This cycle produces the bull's-eye colony o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Belas R,Schneider R,Melch M

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conjugation system initially discovered in beta-lactamase-producing gonococci mobilized small non-selftransmissible R plasmids encoding beta-lactamase (penicillinase) production into other gonococci, Neisseria, and Escherichia coli. This conjugation system was mediated by a separate selftransmissible plasmid of 23.9...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sox TE,Mohammed W,Blackman E,Biswas G,Sparling PF

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00