Physiological function of superoxide dismutase in glucose-limited chemostat cultures of Escherichia coli.

abstract：:To elucidate the biological functions of the ribosomal protein L34, which is encoded by the rpmH gene, the rpmH deletion mutant of Bacillus subtilis and two suppressor mutants were characterized. Although the ΔrpmH mutant exhibited a severe slow-growth phenotype, additional mutations in the yhdP or mgtE gene restored ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Akanuma G,Kobayashi A,Suzuki S,Kawamura F,Shiwa Y,Watanabe S,Yoshikawa H,Hanai R,Ishizuka M

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although 95% of the enterotoxin B produced by Staphylococcus aureus appears during the latter part of the exponential phase of growth, growth per se is not necessary for toxin synthesis. A procedure is described whereby a concentrated suspension (at least 6 x 10(10) cells per ml) of a 16-hr culture of S. aureus was fo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Markus Z,Silverman GJ

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Rhodobacter sphaeroides mutant (CYCA1) lacking cytochrome c2 (cyt c2) was previously constructed (T. J. Donohue, A. G. McEwan, S. Van Doren, A. R. Crofts, and S. Kaplan, Biochemistry, 27: 1918-1924, 1988) by a combination of in vivo and in vitro molecular genetic techniques. CYCA1 was incapable of photosynthetic gro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brandner JP,McEwan AG,Kaplan S,Donohue TJ

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of conjugative plasmids requires relaxases, proteins that cleave one plasmid strand sequence specifically. The F plasmid relaxase TraI (1,756 amino acids) is also a highly processive DNA helicase. The TraI relaxase activity is located within the N-terminal approximately 300 amino acids, while helicase motifs ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dostál L,Schildbach JF

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 6.9-kilobase region of the Escherichia coli F plasmid containing the 3' half of the traD gene and the entire traI gene (encodes the TraI protein, DNA helicase I and TraI, a polypeptide arising from an internal in-frame translational start in traI) has been sequenced. A previously unidentified open reading frame (ten...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bradshaw HD Jr,Traxler BA,Minkley EG Jr,Nester EW,Gordon MP

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis ResD-ResE two-component regulatory system activates genes involved in nitrate respiration in response to oxygen limitation or nitric oxide (NO). The sensor kinase ResE activates the response regulator ResD through phosphorylation, which then binds to the regulatory region of genes involved in ana...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baruah A,Lindsey B,Zhu Y,Nakano MM

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pckA gene of Rhizobium meliloti, encoding phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, was isolated from a genomic cosmid library by complementation of the succinate growth phenotype of a Pck- mutant. The gene region was mapped by subcloning and Tn5 insertion mutagenesis. The DNA sequence for a 2-kb region containing the st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Osterås M,Driscoll BT,Finan TM

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein is the major sensor of cellular iron status. When iron is limiting for growth, derepression of the Fur regulon increases the cellular capacity for iron uptake and mobilizes an iron-sparing response mediated in large part by a small noncoding RNA named FsrA. F...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smaldone GT,Revelles O,Gaballa A,Sauer U,Antelmann H,Helmann JD

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The amounts of glycogen and trehalose have been measured in cells of a prototrophic diploid yeast strain subjected to a variety of nutrient limitations. Both glycogen and trehalose were accumulated in cells deprived specifically of nirogen, sulfur, or phosphorus, suggesting that reserve carbohydrate accumulation is a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lillie SH,Pringle JR

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Escherichia coli is described which is defective in the conversion of arginine to putrescine. The activity of the enzyme agmatine ureohydrolase is greatly reduced, whereas the activity of the other two enzymes of the pathway, the constitutive arginine decarboxylase and the inducible arginine decarboxylase,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hirshfield IN,Rosenfeld HJ,Leifer Z,Maas WK

更新日期：1970-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rogosa, M. (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.). The genus Veillonella. I. General cultural, ecological, and biochemical considerations. J. Bacteriol. 87:162-170. 1964.-Arguments are presented for excluding Veillonella discoides, V. reniformis, V. orbiculus, and V. vulvovaginitidis from the genus, and for re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： ROGOSA M

更新日期：1964-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymatic conversion of 4-fluorocatechol in the simultaneous presence of partially purified preparations of catechol 1,2-dioxygenase from Pseudomonas cepacia and muconate cycloisomerase from Alcaligenes eutrophus 335 yielded a product that was unambiguously identified as (+)-4-fluoromuconolactone [(+)-4-carboxymethyl-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schlömann M,Fischer P,Schmidt E,Knackmuss HJ

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The distribution of glycerophospholipid-cholesterol acyltransferase in selected bacterial species was examined. Enzyme activity was demonstrated in cell-free growth media from all members of the family Vibrionaceae which were tested except Plesiomonas shigelloides. In each case, enzyme was produced in exponential to e...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacIntyre S,Trust TJ,Buckley JT

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies by R. Lin et al. (J. Bacteriol. 174:1948-1955, 1992) suggested that the Escherichia coli leu operon might be a member of the Lrp regulon. Their results were obtained with a leucine auxotroph; in leucine prototrophs grown in a medium lacking leucine, there was little difference in leu operon expression between ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Landgraf JR,Boxer JA,Calvo JM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The O polysaccharide of the lipopolysaccharide (O antigen) of Gram-negative bacteria often serves as a receptor for bacteriophages that can make the phage dependent on a given O-antigen type, thus supporting the concept of the adaptive significance of the O-antigen variability in bacteria. The O-antigen layer also mod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Knirel YA,Prokhorov NS,Shashkov AS,Ovchinnikova OG,Zdorovenko EL,Liu B,Kostryukova ES,Larin AK,Golomidova AK,Letarov AV

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An understanding of the enzymatic reactions catalyzing the degradation of substituted phenols, a major group of environmental pollutants, is required for the development of biological methods for the decontamination of halophenol-polluted sites. We found that a flavomonooxygenase, pentachlorophenol hydroxylase, isolat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Xun L,Topp E,Orser CS

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rickettsia japonica strain YH, isolated in 1984 in Japan, is the type strain of R. japonica, the tick-borne agent of Japanese spotted fever. Here, we report the 1.33-Mb genome of this rickettsial species. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dong X,El Karkouri K,Robert C,Raoult D,Fournier PE

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TspO outer membrane protein of Rhodobacter sphaeroides has been shown to be involved in controlling the transcription of a number of genes which encode enzymes involved in photopigment biosynthesis and the puc operon. The display of regulated genes appears identical to those genes encompassing the PpsR/AppA repres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zeng X,Kaplan S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Escherichia coli unable to synthesize a functional pyruvate formate-lyase (PFL) are severely impaired in their capacity to grow by glucose fermentation. In a functional complementation assay designed to isolate the pfl gene from Clostridium butyricum, we fortuitously identified a gene that did not encode a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sawers G,Hesslinger C,Muller N,Kaiser M

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amino acid transport rates and amino acid binding proteins were examined in a strain containing the rho-120 mutation (formerly SuA), which has been shown to lower the rho-dependent, ribonucleic acid-activated adenosine triphosphatase activity to 9% of the rho activity in the isogenic wild-type strain. Tryptophan and p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Quay SC,Oxender DL

更新日期：1977-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the major porin structural genes, ompF and ompC, is influenced by medium osmotic strength and requires the products of two regulatory genes, ompR and envZ. To help define the sites required for the expression of both porin genes, we have used a novel selection to identify mutations that decrease ompF tra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor RK,Garrett S,Sodergren E,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An ultraviolet (UV)-sensitive mutator gene, mutU, was identified in Escherichia coli K-12. The mutation mutU4 is very close to uvrD, between metE and ilv, on the E. coli chromosome. It was recessive as a mutator and as a UV-sensitive mutation. The frequency of reversion of trpA46 on an F episome was increased by mutU4...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Siegel EC

更新日期：1973-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulk membrane fragments were prepared from cells of Bacillus cereus ATCC 4342 harvested at different stages of growth and sporulation and examined for enzymes involved in electron transport functions. The presence of succinate: DCPIP oxidoreductase (EC 1.3.99.1), succinate: cytochrome c oxidoreductase (EC 1.3.2.1), NA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lang DR,Felix J,Lundgren DG

更新日期：1972-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports the partial characterization of two temperature-sensitive mutants of Escherichia coli with alterations in ribosomal ribonucleic acid (rRNA) metabolism at the restrictive temperature. Both mutants continue to synthesize deoxyribonucleic acid and protein at 42 C but showed little or no accumulation of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson JM 3rd,Chaney SG

更新日期：1976-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hypothesis that preferential rejection of donor markers by the hex system of pneumococcus is due to lethal double-strand breaks has been examined in terms of its implications for the extent of the excision required. Experiments reported here were directed at asking whether hex-dependent marker efficiency depends on ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guild WR,Shoemaker NB

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycolic acids are a key component of the mycobacterial cell wall, providing structure and forming a major permeability barrier. In Mycobacterium tuberculosis mycolic acids are synthesized by type I and type II fatty acid synthases. One of the enzymes of the type II system is encoded by fabG1. We demonstrate here that ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parish T,Roberts G,Laval F,Schaeffer M,Daffé M,Duncan K

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage-inducible DNA replication in SOS-induced Escherichia coli cells, termed inducible stable DNA replication (iSDR), has previously been shown to require either the RecBCD or the RecE pathway of homologous recombination for initiation. Here, we demonstrate that recB recC sbcC quadruple mutant cells are capable ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Asai T,Kogoma T

更新日期：1994-11-01 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：:Recombination studies of bacteria are often carried out with multicopy plasmids, and recombination frequencies are often deduced from the proportion of cells in the population that express a recombinant phenotype. These frequencies should however be called apparent frequencies, since detection of the recombinant cells...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chédin F,Dervyn R,Ehrlich SD,Noirot P

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Bacillus subtilis is subjected to phosphate starvation, genes of the Pho regulon are either induced or repressed. Among those induced are genes encoding alkaline phosphatases (APases). A set of isogenic mutants, with a beta-galactosidase gene transcriptionally fused to the inactivated target gene, was used to ide...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prágai Z,Eschevins C,Bron S,Harwood CR

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00