Ultrastructure and antigenicity of the unique cell wall pimple of the Candida opaque phenotype.

abstract：:Isolated cell envelopes of a marine bacterium, M.B.3, have been prepared which possess a nonspecific, cation-activated nucleotidase. The cell envelope comprises approximately 35% (dry weight) of the whole cell and contains protein, 60.2%; lipids, 20.7%; hexose, 3.4%; and ribonucleic acid, 4.6%. No deoxyribonucleic aci...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Thompson J,Green ML,Happold FC

更新日期：1969-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene for the constitutive ribosephosphate isomerase (rpiA) is highly cotransducible with serA at 56.2 min on the genetic linkage map of Escherichia coli K-12. Suppression of ribosephosphate isomerase A-negative mutants can occur by a regulator gene mutation permitting constitutive synthesis of the normally inducible...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Skinner AJ,Cooper RA

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Youmans, Anne S. (Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago, Ill.), and Guy P. Youmans. Effect of trypsin and ribonuclease on the immunogenic activity of ribosomes and ribonucleic acid isolated from Myobacterium tuberculosis. J. Bacteriol. 91:2146-2154. 1966.-The ribosomal fraction of the attenuated strain, H37R...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Youmans AS,Youmans GP

更新日期：1966-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Movement on surfaces, or swarming motility, is effectively mediated by the lateral flagellar (laf) system in Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Expression of laf is induced by conditions inhibiting rotation of the polar flagellum, which is used for swimming in liquid. However, not all V. parahaemolyticus isolates swarm proficie...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jaques S,McCarter LL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fine details of the internal and external morphology of Cryptococcus neoformans as seen in ultrathin sections are described and illustrated with electron micrographs. The capsule characteristic of this species contained microfibrils (30 to 40 A in diameter) that appeared to radiate from the cell wall and to coil and i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Edwards MR,Gordon MA,Lapa EW,Ghiorse WC

更新日期：1967-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized three distinct families of repeated sequences in the genome of the cyanobacterium Calothrix sp. strain PCC 7601. These repeated sequences were present at a level of about 100 copies per Calothrix genome and consisted of tandemly amplified heptanucleotides. These elements were named short tandemly repe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mazel D,Houmard J,Castets AM,Tandeau de Marsac N

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O antigen is the major cell surface antigen of gram-negative bacteria, and the genes responsible for its synthesis are located in a single gene cluster. The wzx (rbfX) gene, which is characteristic of the major class of O-antigen gene clusters, encodes a hydrophobic protein with 12 potential transmembrane segments. We...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liu D,Cole RA,Reeves PR

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of highly purified membrane fractions from phototrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum was achieved by velocity and isopyknic sedimentation under carefully controlled ionic conditions. Bacteriochlorophyll-rich and succinic dehydrogenase-rich chromatophores that were essentially devoid of contamination by no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Collins ML,Niederman RA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of toxT, the transcription activator of cholera toxin and pilus production in Vibrio cholerae, is the consequence of a complex cascade of regulatory events that culminates in activation of the toxT promoter by TcpP and ToxR, two membrane-localized transcription factors. Both are encoded in operons with gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beck NA,Krukonis ES,DiRita VJ

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleoids in Mycoplasma capricolum cells were visualized by phase-combined fluorescence microscopy of DAPI (4', 6-diamidino-2-phenylindole)-stained cells. Most growing cells in a rich medium had one or two nucleoids in a cell, and no anucleate cells were found. The nucleoids were positioned in the center in mononu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seto S,Miyata M

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Pseudomonas strain produced an enzyme capable of deacylating 7 beta-(4-carboxybutanamido)cephalosporanic acid to 7-aminocephalosporanic acid in response to glutaric acid. The gene for the enzyme was cloned within the PstI site of pBR325 as a 7.35-kilobase-pair DNA segment from a mutant of this strain whose enzyme is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matsuda A,Komatsu KI

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In streptococcal species, the key step of competence development is the transcriptional induction of comX, which encodes the alternative sigma factor sigma(X), which positively regulates genes necessary for DNA transformation. In Streptococcus species belonging to the mitis and mutans groups, induction of comX relies ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fontaine L,Boutry C,de Frahan MH,Delplace B,Fremaux C,Horvath P,Boyaval P,Hols P

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Poly-beta-hydroxybutyrate (PHB) synthesis in a cyanobacterium, Synechococcus sp. strain MA19, is controlled at the enzyme level and is dependent on the C/N balance in the culture medium. The control involves at least two enzymes. The first enzyme is PHB synthase. Little PHB synthase activity was detected in crude extr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miyake M,Kataoka K,Shirai M,Asada Y

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven mutants of Haemophilus influenzae were isolated by the criterion of sensitivity to ultraviolet (UV) inactivation of colony formation. These mutants and the wild type were characterized with regard to X-ray inactivation of colony formation, UV induction of division inhibition, the ability of the eight strains to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Setlow JK,Brown DC,Boling ME,Mattingly A,Gordon MP

更新日期：1968-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to DNA damage or the inhibition of normal DNA replication in Escherichia coli, a set of some 20 unlinked operons is induced through the RecA-mediated cleavage of the LexA repressor. We examined the effect of this SOS response on the transposition of Tn5 and determined that the frequency of transposition is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weinreich MD,Makris JC,Reznikoff WS

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The porin composition of the Escherichia coli cell envelope was analyzed during growth at different external pHs (pHo) as a function of the acetyl phosphate (AcP) level (DeltaackA pta or ackA mutant, pyruvate or glucose as the carbon source) in the presence or absence of EnvZ. Our results indicate that the AcP level i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Heyde M,Laloi P,Portalier R

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:pdrK encodes a pyridoxine (PN)/pyridoxal (PL)/pyridoxamine (PM) kinase thought to function in the salvage pathway of pyridoxal 5'-phosphate (PLP) coenzyme biosynthesis. The observation that pdxK null mutants still contain PL kinase activity led to the hypothesis that Escherichia coli K-12 contains at least one other B...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang Y,Tsui HC,Man TK,Winkler ME

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti can live as a soil saprophyte and can engage in a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with plant roots. To succeed in such diverse environments, the bacteria must continually adjust gene expression. Transcriptional plasticity in eubacteria is often mediated by alternative sigma (σ) factors interacting wit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barnett MJ,Bittner AN,Toman CJ,Oke V,Long SR

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coscarelli, Waldimero (Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N.J.) and David Pramer. Nutrition and growth of Arthrobotrys conoides. J. Bacteriol. 84:60-64. 1962-Despite its ability to capture, kill, and subsist on nematodes, the predacious fungus Arthrobotrys conoides does not demonstrate a unique nutritional ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： COSCARELLI W,PRAMER D

更新日期：1962-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of the asparagine synthetase A gene of Escherichia coli was studied in vitro with a coupled transcription-translation system. It was shown that the 17-kilodalton gene, which is transcribed divergently from the adjacent asnA gene, codes for an activator of asnA transcription. The synthesis of the 17-kilo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kölling R,Lother H

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic survey for the presence of plasmids in 17 different xenobiotic-degrading Sphingomonas strains was performed. In almost all analyzed strains, two to five plasmids with sizes of about 50 to 500 kb were detected by using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. A comparison of plasmid preparations untreated or trea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Basta T,Keck A,Klein J,Stolz A

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA uptake by natural competence is a central process underlying the genetic plasticity, biology, and virulence of the human respiratory opportunistic pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae A study reported in this issue (J. Slager, R. Aprianto, and J.-W. Veening, J. Bacteriol. 201:e00780-18, https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.007...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winkler ME,Morrison DA

更新日期：2019-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The broad-host-range IncP plasmids RP4, R68.45, RP1::Tn501, and pUB307 were transferred to acidophilic, obligately chemolithotrophic Thiobacillus ferrooxidans from Escherichia coli by conjugation. A genetic marker of kanamycin resistance was expressed in T. ferrooxidans. Plasmid RP4 was transferred back to E. coli fro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Peng JB,Yan WM,Bao XZ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We previously described a gene, lpt3, required for the addition of phosphoethanolamine (PEtn) at the 3 position on the beta-chain heptose (HepII) of the inner-core Neisseria meningitidis lipopolysaccharide (LPS), but it has long been recognized that the inner-core LPS of some strains possesses PEtn at the 6 position (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wright JC,Hood DW,Randle GA,Makepeace K,Cox AD,Li J,Chalmers R,Richards JC,Moxon ER

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postembedding staining of intracellular carbohydrates on thin sections of Staphylococcus aureus was studied by the silver methenamine and the wheat germ agglutinin-gold techniques. Staining of silver grains was observed on both the cell wall and the cross wall. The staining was interpreted to be due to teichoic acid. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morioka H,Tachibana M,Suganuma A

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The main chain of teichoic acids can be assembled in cell-free membrane preparations by the transfer of residues from the appropriate nucleotide precursors to an incompletely characterized amphiphilic molecule, lipoteichoic acid carrier (LTC). However, in the cell wall, the main chain is attached to peptidoglycan thro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McArthur HA,Hancock IC,Baddiley J

更新日期：1981-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe techniques for isolating individual pairs of mating Escherichia coli and observing them under the light microscope. Some pairs achieved close cell-to-cell contact, whereas others remained loosely connected by invisible connections which may be F pili. After 30 min of mating, the pairs were separated and al...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ou JT,Anderson TF

更新日期：1970-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota plays a crucial role in the development of the immune system and confers benefits or disease susceptibility to the host. Emerging studies have indicated the gut microbiota could affect pulmonary health and disease through cross talk between the gut microbiota and the lungs. Gut microbiota dysbiosis c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhou A,Lei Y,Tang L,Hu S,Yang M,Wu L,Yang S,Tang B

更新日期：2021-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:We characterized the traU gene of the Escherichia coli K-12 conjugative plasmid F. Plasmids carrying segments of the F transfer operon were tested for their capacity to complement F lac traU526. The protein products of TraU+ clones were identified, and the nucleotide sequence of traU was determined. traU mapped betwee...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moore D,Maneewannakul K,Maneewannakul S,Wu JH,Ippen-Ihler K,Bradley DE

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas sp. isolated by selective culture with 3-phenylbutyrate (3-PB) as the sole carbon source metabolized the compound through two different pathways by initial oxidation of the benzene ring and by initial oxidation of the side chain. During early exponential growth, a catechol substance identified as 3-(2,3-di...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sariaslani FS,Sudmeier JL,Focht DD

更新日期：1982-10-01 00:00:00