Dynamics of the SetCD-regulated integration and excision of genomic islands mobilized by integrating conjugative elements of the SXT/R391 family.

abstract：:Caulobacter crescentus cells adhere to surfaces by using an extremely strong polar adhesin called the holdfast. The polysaccharide component of the holdfast is comprised in part of oligomers of N-acetylglucosamine. The genes involved in the export of the holdfast polysaccharide and the anchoring of the holdfast to the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Toh E,Kurtz HD Jr,Brun YV

更新日期：2008-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:OxyR is a DNA binding protein that differentially regulates a cell's response to hydrogen peroxide-mediated oxidative stress. We previously reported that the reduced form of OxyR is sufficient for repression of transcription of agn43 from unmethylated template DNA, which is essential for deoxyadenosine methylase (Dam)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wallecha A,Correnti J,Munster V,van der Woude M

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soluble hydrogenase of Desulfovibrio vulgaris was purified and some of its properties are described. The molecular weight was determined for the enzyme by sedimentation equilibrium (45,400) and amino acid analysis (44,800). The hydrogenase appears to be a loosely coiled molecule or to have a high axial ratio, whic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haschke RH,Campbell LL

更新日期：1971-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kinetics of peptidoglycan degradation were examined under different conditions of autolysis of Escherichia coli. With cephaloridine- or moenomycin-induced autolysis, degradation did not exceed 25 to 35%, whereas in EDTA-induced autolysis it rapidly reached 65 to 70%. When nonautolyzing cells were fixed overnight w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leduc M,Frehel C,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1985-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA-binding factor BifA (previously called VF1) binds upstream of the developmentally regulated site-specific recombinase gene xisA in the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120. Besides binding xisA, BifA also binds the glnA, rbcL, and nifH promoter regions. DNase I footprint analysis of BifA binding to glnA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ramasubramanian TS,Wei TF,Golden JW

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discadenine,3-(3-amino-3-carboxypropyl)-N6-delta 2-isopentenyladenine, which inhibits spore germination, was previously found in Dictyostelium discoideum. Studies on the distribution of discadenine in different species of cellular slime molds by high-pressure liquid chromatography showed that discadenine is present in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taya Y,Yamada T,Nishimura S

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Short-term labeling with radioactive thymidine led to inaccurate estimates of deoxyribonucleic acid synthesis at some growth rates in steady-state cultures of Escherichia coli B/r. Estimates were corrected in chemostat cultures by adding adenosine, a known inhibitor of thymidine phosphorylase. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kubitschek HE,Valdez D,Freedman ML

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six mycoplasma strains, isolated under anaerobic conditions from the human oropharynx, were studied by biologic and serologic means. The strains produced nippled colonies with weak hemolytic activity for guinea pig erythrocytes on agar medium. In addition, the strains metabolized arginine with a concomitant alkaline s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fox H,Purcell RH,Chanock RM

更新日期：1969-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic inactivation of pathways involved in DNA alkylation damage repair demonstrated that inactivation of the ada, ogt, tag, uvrA, and mfd genes is required to detect a Salmonella enterica virulence decrease. Furthermore, the fitness of S. enterica, defective in these genes, is lowered only when the bacterium is ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alvarez G,Campoy S,Spricigo DA,Teixidó L,Cortés P,Barbé J

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The SasG surface protein of Staphylococcus aureus has been shown to promote the formation of biofilm. SasG comprises an N-terminal A domain and repeated B domains. Here we demonstrate that SasG is involved in the accumulation phase of biofilm, a process that requires a physiological concentration of Zn(2+). The B doma...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geoghegan JA,Corrigan RM,Gruszka DT,Speziale P,O'Gara JP,Potts JR,Foster TJ

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the fungus Podospora anserina, the interaction between the nonallelic incompatible R and V genes has two consequences: a lytic reaction due to the synthesis of specific proteolytic enzymes, and a quenching in protein and ribonucleic acid synthesis. The incompatibility reaction when vegetative or sexual R and V cell...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Labarére J,Bègueret J,Bernet J

更新日期：1974-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered an unusual and complex regulatory network used by the phytopathogen Pseudomonas solanacearum to control transcription of eps, which encodes for production of its primary virulence factor, the exopolysaccharide EPS I. The major modules of this network were shown to be three separate signal transducti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang J,Carney BF,Denny TP,Weissinger AK,Schell MA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Over the course of the last 3 decades the role of the second messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) as a master regulator of bacterial physiology was determined. Although the control over c-di-GMP levels via synthesis and breakdown and the allosteric regulation of c-di-GMP over receptor proteins (effectors) and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rotem O,Nesper J,Borovok I,Gorovits R,Kolot M,Pasternak Z,Shin I,Glatter T,Pietrokovski S,Jenal U,Jurkevitch E

更新日期：2015-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophage GA-1 infects Bacillus sp. strain G1R and has a linear double-stranded DNA genome with a terminal protein covalently linked to its 5' ends. GA-1 protein p6 is very abundant in infected cells and binds DNA with no sequence specificity. We show here that it binds in vivo to the whole viral genome, as detect...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alcorlo M,Salas M,Hermoso JM

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We purified membrane-bound cytochrome c-550 [cytochrome c-550(m)] to an electrophoretically homogeneous state from Nitrobacter winogradskyi. The cytochrome showed peaks at 409 and 525 nm in the oxidized form and peaks at 416, 521, and 550 nm in the reduced form. The molecular weight of the cytochrome was estimated to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nomoto T,Fukumori Y,Yamanaka T

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A polysaccharide-rich particulate fraction was isolated from cytoplasmic extracts of Candida albicans by a procedure using differential centrifugation. The polysaccharide particles obtained after purification with deoxycholate treatment were essentially free of nitrogen and were identified chemically as polyglucosan, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yamaguchi H,Kanda Y,Iwata K

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six of the genes encoding enzymes of the beta-ketoadipate pathway for benzoate and 4-hydroxybenzoate degradation in Pseudomonas putida are organized into at least three separate transcriptional units. As an initial step to defining this pca regulon at the molecular level, lacZ fusions were made with the pcaI and pcaJ ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parales RE,Harwood CS

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The kil-kor regulon of the self-transmissible, broad-host-range plasmid RK2 is a unique network with eight coregulated operons. Among the genes encoded by the kil-kor regulon are trfA, which encodes the replication initiator, and several kil loci (kilA, kilB, kilC, and kilE), each of which is lethal to the host cell i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thomson VJ,Jovanovic OS,Pohlman RF,Chang CH,Figurski DH

更新日期：1993-04-01 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：: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：: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：:Tn2603 is a multiple-resistance transposon encoding resistance to ampicillin, streptomycin, sulfonamide, and mercury and having a molecular size of 20 kilobase pairs, with 200-base-pair inverted repeats at both ends. The essential sites and functions of Tn2603 which are required for its transposition were determined t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tanaka M,Harafuji H,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium sporogenes PA 3679 is widely used as a nontoxigenic surrogate for proteolytic strains of Clostridium botulinum in the derivation and validation of thermal processes in food. Here we report the draft assembly and annotation of the C. sporogenes PA 3679 genome. Preliminary analysis demonstrates a high degree...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bradbury M,Greenfield P,Midgley D,Li D,Tran-Dinh N,Vriesekoop F,Brown JL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group A streptococcus (GAS), Streptococcus pyogenes, is an important human pathogen that causes infections ranging in severity from self-limiting pharyngitis to severe invasive diseases that are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The pathogenic effects of GAS are mediated by the expression of vir...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gusa AA,Gao J,Stringer V,Churchward G,Scott JR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Host range mutants of phage T1 (T1h), which productively infected tonB mutants of Escherichia coli, were isolated. The phage mutants were inactivated by isolated outer membranes of E. coli in contrast to the wild-type phage, which only adsorbed reversibly. For the infection process, the tonB function is apparently onl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hantke K,Braun V

更新日期：1978-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lüderitz, O. (Max-Planck-Institut für Immunbiologie, Frieburg, Germany), H. J. Risse, H. Schulte-Holthausen, J. L. Strominger, I. W. Sutherland, and O. Westphal. Biochemical studies of the smooth-rough mutation in Salmonella minnesota. J. Bacteriol. 89:343-354. 1965.-A comparative study of the O antigen from the smoot...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LUEDERITZ O,RISSE HJ,SCHULTE-HOLTHAUSEN H,STROMINGER JL,SUTHERLAND IW,WESTPHAL O

更新日期：1965-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several spontaneous cya and crp mutants of Escherichia coli have been selected as clones simultaneously resistant to phage lambda and nalidixic acid and characterized. Both cya and crp mutants have been found to grow as cocci with increased doubling times. They have increased resistance to some mutagens (methylmethane...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kumar S

更新日期：1976-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genes encoding the rrn operons, the 4.5S and 6S RNAs, elements of protein secretion, and outer membrane proteins F and I, and regulatory as well as structural genes for exotoxin A, alkaline phosphatase, and alginate and tryptophan biosynthesis, were assigned on the SpeI/DpnI macrorestriction map of the Pseudomonas...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Römling U,Duchéne M,Essar DW,Galloway D,Guidi-Rontani C,Hill D,Lazdunski A,Miller RV,Schleifer KH,Smith DW

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The celA1 gene encoding an endo-beta-1,4-glucanase from a mesophilic actinomycete, strain JM8, identified as Streptomyces halstedii, was cloned and expressed in S. lividans JI66. From the nucleotide sequence of a 1.7-kb DNA fragment we identified an open reading frame of 963 nucleotides encoding a protein of 321 amino...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fernández-Abalos JM,Sánchez P,Coll PM,Villanueva JR,Pérez P,Santamaría RI

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated several new mutator mutations of the Escherichia coli replicative polymerase dnaE subunit alpha and used them and a previously reported dnaE mutation to study spontaneous frameshift and base substitution mutations. Two of these dnaE strains produce many more mutants when grown on rich (Luria-Bertani) than ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Strauss BS,Roberts R,Francis L,Pouryazdanparast P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00