A Caulobacter gene involved in polar morphogenesis.

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of the pathogenic spirochete Brachyspira hyodysenteriae bit (for "Brachyspira iron transport") genomic region has been determined. The bit region is likely to encode an iron ATP-binding cassette transport system with some homology to those encountered in gram-negative bacteria. Six open reading...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dugourd D,Martin C,Rioux CR,Jacques M,Harel J

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chimeric plasmids, which were useful as cloning vehicles in a Streptococcus sanguis (Challis) host vector system, have been constructed. By using three different strategies of restriction endonuclease digestion and ligation, a deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) fragment bearing an erythromycin resistance determinant was liga...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Macrina FL,Jones KR,Wood PH

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:rRNA synthesis is the rate-limiting step in ribosome synthesis in Escherichia coli. Its regulation has been described in terms of a negative-feedback control loop in which rRNA promoter activity responds to the amount of translation. The feedback nature of this control system was demonstrated previously by artificiall...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schneider DA,Gourse RL

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following conjugal transfer of the hsdK genes (hsdRK, hsdMK, and hsdSK) of Escherichia coli K-12, restriction activity was first detected only after approximately 15 generations, whereas modification activity was observed immediately. This sequential expression explains the establishment of hsdK genes in a nonmodified...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prakash-Cheng A,Ryu J

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stationary phase/general stress response sigma factor RpoS (σ(S)) is necessary for adaptation and restoration of homeostasis in stationary phase. As a physiological consequence, its levels are tightly regulated at least at two levels. Multiple small regulatory RNA molecules modulate its translation, in a manner th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thompson KM,Gottesman S

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The polycistronic mRNA encoding the nine genes of the unc operon of Escherichia coli was studied. We demonstrated the ribosome-binding capabilities of six of the nine unc genes, uncB, uncE, uncF, uncH, uncA, and uncD, by using the technique of primer extension inhibition or "toeprinting." No toeprint was detected for ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schaefer EM,Hartz D,Gold L,Simoni RD

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fruiting body formation in Myxococcus xanthus involves the aggregation of cells to form mounds and the differentiation of rod-shaped cells into spherical myxospores. The surface of the myxospore is composed of several sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS)-soluble proteins, the best characterized of which is protein S (Mr, 19,0...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McCleary WR,Esmon B,Zusman DR

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cleared lysates of 13 species of filamentous cyanobacteria were examined for the presence of extrachromosomal DNA by using agarose gel electrophoresis and ethidium bromide staining. Seven of the 13 species contained extrachromosomal covalently closed circular DNA, and all but 1 species contained multiple elements. The...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Simon RD

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas MS can grow on methylamine and a number of other compounds containing C1 units as a sole source of carbon and energy. Assimilation of carbon into cell material occurs via the "serine pathway" since enzymes of this pathway are induced after growth on methylamine, but not malate or acetate. A mutant has been...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wagner C,Levitch ME

更新日期：1975-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defects in DNA mismatch repair (MMR) occur frequently in natural populations of pathogenic and commensal bacteria, resulting in a mutator phenotype. We identified a unique genetic element in Streptococcus pyogenes strain SF370 that controls MMR via a dynamic process of prophage excision and reintegration in response t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Scott J,Thompson-Mayberry P,Lahmamsi S,King CJ,McShan WM

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The enzyme system capable of converting coproporphyrinogen to protoporphyrin was demonstrated in the soluble fraction of extracts of Pseudomonas fluorescens grown aerobically, of P. denitrificans grown anaerobically under denitrifying conditions, and of Escherichia coli grown both aerobically and anaerobically. Protop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jacobs NJ,Jacobs JM,Brent P

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The levels of reduced and oxidized nicotinamide adenine dinucleotides were determined in Xanthobacter flavus during a transition from heterotrophic to autotrophic growth. Excess reducing equivalents are rapidly dissipated following induction of the Calvin cycle, indicating that the Calvin cycle serves as a sink for ex...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van Keulen G,Dijkhuizen L,Meijer WG

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel regulatory gene, trh, which is involved in hrp gene expression, is identified in the plant pathogen Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae. In the trh mutant, expression of HrpG, which is a key regulator for hrp gene expression, is reduced both under the in vitro hrp-inducing condition and in planta. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tsuge S,Nakayama T,Terashima S,Ochiai H,Furutani A,Oku T,Tsuno K,Kubo Y,Kaku H

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The host factor (HF-I) for phage Q beta RNA replication is a small protein of 102 amino acid residues encoded by the hfq gene at 94.8 min on the Escherichia coli chromosome. The synthesis rate of HF-I at the exponential-growth phase is higher than at the stationary phase, and it increases concomitantly with the increa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kajitani M,Kato A,Wada A,Inokuchi Y,Ishihama A

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When ratios of the major polypeptides of the outer membrane isolated from cells of Escherichia coli B grown in minimal medium containing either a single amino acid or several amino acids were compared, no difference was observed. However, the ratio of these polypeptides in outer membrane material released into the med...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loeb MR,Kilner J

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alkaline phosphatase (APase) is induced as a culture enters stationary phase because of limiting phosphate. The results presented here show that expression of APase is regulated both negatively and positively. PhoP, a homolog of a family of bacterial transcription factors, and PhoR, a homolog of bacterial histidine pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jensen KK,Sharkova E,Duggan MF,Qi Y,Koide A,Hoch JA,Hulett FM

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Band 7 proteins, which encompass members of the stomatin, prohibitin, flotillin, and HflK/C protein families, are integral membrane proteins that play important physiological roles in eukaryotes but are poorly characterized in bacteria. We have studied the band 7 proteins encoded by the cyanobacterium Synechocystis sp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boehm M,Nield J,Zhang P,Aro EM,Komenda J,Nixon PJ

更新日期：2009-10-01 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：:The capsular polysaccharide is a critical virulence factor for group B streptococci associated with human infections, yet little is known about capsule biosynthesis. We detected CMP-Neu5Ac synthetase, the enzyme which activates N-acetylneuraminic acid (Neu5Ac, or sialic acid) for transfer to the nascent capsular polys...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Haft RF,Wessels MR

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Rhizobium meliloti, an aspartate aminotransferase (AspAT) encoded within a 7.3-kb HindIII fragment was previously shown to be required for symbiotic nitrogen fixation and aspartate catabolism (V. K. Rastogi and R.J. Watson, J. Bacteriol. 173:2879-2887, 1991). A gene coding for an aromatic aminotransferase located w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Watson RJ,Rastogi VK

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CatR, a LysR family protein, positively regulates the Pseudomonas putida catBC operon, which is required for growth on benzoate as a sole carbon source. Transcriptional studies show that the catR and catBC promoters are divergent and overlapping by 2 bp. A beta-galactosidase promoter probe vector was constructed to an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rothmel RK,Shinabarger DL,Parsek MR,Aldrich TL,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensory adaptation by the chemotaxis system of Escherichia coli requires adjustments of the extent of methyl esterification of the chemotaxis receptor proteins. One mechanism utilized by E. coli to make such adjustments is to control the activity of CheB, the enzyme responsible for removing receptor methyl ester group...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stewart RC,Roth AF,Dahlquist FW

更新日期：1990-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis undergoes a highly distinctive division during spore formation. It yields two unequal cells, the mother cell and the prespore, and septum formation is completed before the origin-distal 70% of the chromosome has entered the smaller prespore. The mother cell subsequently engulfs the prespore. Two diff...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bogush M,Xenopoulos P,Piggot PJ

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Anacystis nidulans, upon infection with cyanophage AS-1, after a lag period of 1 h the level of deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity increaded rapidly up to 15- to 20-fold in 4 to 5 h in the light. In contrast, the ribonuclease and phosphomonoesterase activities increased significantly only 4 to 5 h after infection, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Udvardy J,Sivok B,Borbely G,Farkas GL

更新日期：1976-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to the absolute Na(+) requirement for anaerobic growth of Aerobacter aerogenes on citrate as sole carbon source, aerobic growth of this microorganism did not require the presence of Na(+). However, Na(+) (optimal concentration, 10 mm) did increase the maximal amount of aerobic growth by 60%, even though it...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： O'Brien RW,Stern JR

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two methods of mutagenesis, chemical alkylation and insertion of the tetracycline resistance transposon Tn10, were used to generate mutants of Salmonella typhimurium which had reduced levels of endodeoxyribonucleolytic activity. The chemically induced mutations defined a locus, endA, which was cotransduced with serA a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zabel DJ,Trucksis M,Depew RE

更新日期：1980-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hurwitz, Charles (Veterans Administration Hospital, Albany, N.Y.) and Carmen L. Rosano. Chloramphenicol-sensitive and -insensitive phases of the lethal action of streptomycin. J. Bacteriol. 83:1202-1209. 1962.-If chloramphenicol is added to sensitive Escherichia coli cells at the same time as streptomycin, the lethal ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： HURWITZ C,ROSANO CL

更新日期：1962-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Mg-2+-Sarkosyl crystals (M band) procedure was used to study the effect of ribonuclease (RNase) A on the association of Escherichia coli deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) with membrane. Incubation of gently prepared cell extracts with RNase results in the release of DNA from membrane. This effect appears to result from ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McIntosh MA,Earhart CF

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RpoS is a conserved alternative sigma factor that regulates the expression of many stress response genes in Escherichia coli. The RpoS regulon is large but has not yet been completely characterized. In this study, we report the identification of over 100 RpoS-dependent fusions in a genetic screen based on the differen...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vijayakumar SR,Kirchhof MG,Patten CL,Schellhorn HE

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of arsenite [As(III)] on several levels of cellular metabolism and gene regulation was examined in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. P. aeruginosa isogenic mutants devoid of antioxidant enzymes or defective in various metabolic pathways, DNA repair systems, metal storage proteins, global regulators, or quorum sensing...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parvatiyar K,Alsabbagh EM,Ochsner UA,Stegemeyer MA,Smulian AG,Hwang SH,Jackson CR,McDermott TR,Hassett DJ

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00