Evidence for multiple OmpR-binding sites in the upstream activation sequence of the ompC promoter in Escherichia coli: a single OmpR-binding site is capable of activating the promoter.

abstract：:Calcium carbonate precipitation, a widespread phenomenon among bacteria, has been investigated due to its wide range of scientific and technological implications. Nevertheless, little is known of the molecular mechanisms by which bacteria foster calcium carbonate mineralization. In our laboratory, we are studying calc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barabesi C,Galizzi A,Mastromei G,Rossi M,Tamburini E,Perito B

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The glmU gene product of Escherichia coli was recently identified as the N-acetylglucosamine-1-phosphate uridyltransferase activity which catalyzes the formation of UDP-N-acetylglucosamine, an essential precursor for cell wall peptidoglycan and lipopolysaccharide biosyntheses (D. Mengin-Lecreulx and J. van Heijenoort,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mengin-Lecreulx D,van Heijenoort J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Kimler, Alexander (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Md.). Fluorescein amine media for rapid differentiation of staphylococci. J. Bacteriol. 82:106-109. 1961.-By modifying conventional media to include blood, mannitol, and fluorescein amine, staphylococci may be isolated and identified directly. Staphylococcus ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： KIMLER A

更新日期：1961-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many gram-negative bacteria harbor a copper/zinc-containing superoxide dismutase (CuZnSOD) in their periplasms. In pathogenic bacteria, one role of this enzyme may be to protect periplasmic biomolecules from superoxide that is released by host phagocytic cells. However, the enzyme is also present in many nonpathogens ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Korshunov S,Imlay JA

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyamines are required for rapid phospholipid turnover in Escherichia coli growing in media of low osmolarity. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Munro GF,Bell CA

更新日期：1973-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathways of ammonia assimilation into glutamic acid in Bacillus macerans were investigated by measurements of the specific activities of glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH), glutamine synthetase, and glutamate synthase. In ammonia-rich medium, GDH was the predominant pathway of ammonia assimilation. In nitrogen-fixing cells...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kanamori K,Weiss RL,Roberts JD

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tetragenococcus halophila D10 catalyzes the decarboxylation of L-aspartate with nearly stoichiometric release of L-alanine and CO(2). This trait is encoded on a 25-kb plasmid, pD1. We found in this plasmid a putative asp operon consisting of two genes, which we designated aspD and aspT, encoding an L-aspartate-beta-de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abe K,Ohnishi F,Yagi K,Nakajima T,Higuchi T,Sano M,Machida M,Sarker RI,Maloney PC

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In response to iron limitation, the siderophore enterobactin is synthesized and secreted by Escherichia coli. Its biosynthesis is performed by a series of enzymes encoded by the Ent gene cluster. Among the genes of this cluster, ybdB has not been implicated in enterobactin production to date. We demonstrate here an in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leduc D,Battesti A,Bouveret E

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have constructed a promoter-probe expression vector for Bacillus subtilis. This plasmid, pCED6, can be used to fuse various DNA sequences to the structural gene of Escherichia coli beta-galactosidase, permitting analysis of the promoter activity of such sequences. pCED6 replicates and confers drug resistances in bo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donnelly CE,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The disaccharide trehalose is accumulated as a storage product by spores of Streptomyces griseus. Nongerminating spores used their trehalose reserves slowly when incubated in buffer for several months. In contrast, spores rapidly depleted their trehalose pools during the first hours of germination. Extracts of dormant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McBride MJ,Ensign JC

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that progametangia in both the plus and the minus mating types of Mucor mucedo can be induced by one substance, namely (-)-trisporic acid B. A method is described for the determination of the concentration of the sex factors (trisporone, trisporic acid B, trisporic acid C) in mated cultures of Mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van den Ende H,Wiechmann AH,Reyngoud DJ,Hendriks T

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A cell surface antigen complex from Zwittergent-solubilized Myxococcus xanthus has been purified by immunoaffinity chromatography with monoclonal antibody (MAb) 1604 and by subsequent gel filtration. We propose that the cell surface antigen (CSA) 1604 complex participates in intercellular interactions. The apparent to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jarvis BW,Dworkin M

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At a pH of

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Azarkina N,Konstantinov AA

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:NBU1 is an integrated Bacteroides element that can he mobilized from Bacteroides donors to Bacteroides recipients. Previous studies have shown that a plasmid carrying the internal mobilization region of NBU1 could be transferred by conjugation from Bacteroides thetaiotaomicron to Escherichia coli. In this report, we s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shoemaker NB,Wang GR,Salyers AA

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins of the YidC/OxaI/Alb3 family play a crucial role in the insertion, folding, and/or assembly of membrane proteins in prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Bacillus subtilis has two YidC-like proteins, denoted SpoIIIJ and YqjG. SpoIIIJ and YqjG are largely exchangeable in function, but SpoIIIJ has a unique role in sporul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geng Y,de Keyzer J,Scheffers DJ,Driessen AJ

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS), with their ability to form a thick, multilayered biofilm on foreign bodies, have been identified as the major cause of implant-associated infections, no data are available about biofilm formation by staphylococcal small-colony variants (SCVs). In the past years, a number ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Al Laham N,Rohde H,Sander G,Fischer A,Hussain M,Heilmann C,Mack D,Proctor R,Peters G,Becker K,von Eiff C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of class II restriction endonucleases (enzymes that both recognize and cleave a specific nucleotide sequence in deoxyribonucleic acid [DNA] in Staphylococcus aureus has been investigated by analysis of crude extracts obtained from different propagating strains of the International Phage Typing System. O...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stobberingh EE,Schiphof R,Sussenbach JS

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis skin element confers resistance to arsenate and arsenite. The ars operon in the skin element contains four genes in the order arsR, ORF2, arsB, and arsC. Three of these genes are homologous to the arsR, arsB, and arsC genes from the staphylococcal plasmid pI258, while no homologs of ORF2 have bee...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sato T,Kobayashi Y

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Xenorhabdus nematophilus, a gram-negative bacterium, is a mutualist of Steinernema carpocapsae nematodes and a pathogen of larval-stage insects. We use this organism as a model of host-microbe interactions to identify the functions bacteria require for mutualism, pathogenesis, or both. In many gram-negative bacteria, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vivas EI,Goodrich-Blair H

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MinD binds to phospholipid vesicles in the presence of ATP and is released by MinE, which stimulates the MinD ATPase. Membrane binding requires a short conserved C-terminal region, which has the potential to form an amphipathic helix. This finding has led to a model in which the binding of ATP regulates the formation ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhou H,Lutkenhaus J

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The activity of the ATP:GTP 3'-pyrophosphotransferase (guanosine pentaphosphate synthetase I [GPSI]) from Streptomyces antibioticus is stimulated maximally by methanol at 20% (vol/vol) in assay mixtures. Although the enzyme is not activated by ribosomes, its activity is stimulated by tRNA (uncharged or charged) and by...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jones GH

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A delta tyrT::kan mutant from Escherichia coli K-12 (DTK-12) shows a transient growth lag that is caused by glycine starvation (U. Michelsen, M. Bösl, T. Dingermann, and H. Kersten, J. Bacteriol. 171:5987-5994, 1989). The same deletion, transduced into the relA1 spoT1 mutant CA274 to construct strain DTC274, caused co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bösl M,Kersten H

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) is required for biofilm formation and virulence of the oral pathogen Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, and we previously showed that lsrB codes for a receptor for AI-2. The lsrB gene is expressed as part of the lsrACDBFG operon, which is divergently transcribed from an adjacent lsrRK operon. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Torres-Escobar A,Juárez-Rodríguez MD,Lamont RJ,Demuth DR

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptidoglycan from two types of filamentous cell division mutants of Agmenellum quadruplicatum strain BG1 has been compared to that of the parent organism. Small variations in the total peptidoglycan composition on a dry-weight basis were found in the mutants. The reduced level of peptidoglycan in the serpentine m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ingram LO,Van Baalen C,Fisher WD

更新日期：1972-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Mycobacterium smegmatis unable to use the dipeptide carnosine (beta-alanyl-L-histidine) as a sole carbon or nitrogen source was isolated. Carnosinase activity and the ability to grow on beta-Ala and/or L-His were similar in the mutant and the wild type. However, the mutant showed significant impairment in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bhatt A,Green R,Coles R,Condon M,Connell ND

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transcription-coupled repair (TCR) is a cellular process by which some forms of DNA damage are repaired more rapidly from transcribed strands of active genes than from nontranscribed strands or the overall genome. In humans, the TCR coupling factor, CSB, plays a critical role in restoring transcription following both ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schalow BJ,Courcelle CT,Courcelle J

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:FpvR is a presumed cytoplasmic membrane-associated anti-sigma factor that controls the activities of extracytoplasmic function sigma factors PvdS and FpvI responsible for transcription of pyoverdine biosynthetic genes and the ferric pyoverdine receptor gene, fpvA, respectively. Using deletion analysis and an in vivo b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rédly GA,Poole K

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here we announce the complete genome sequence of the copper-resistant bacterium Cupriavidus necator N-1, the type strain of the genus Cupriavidus. The genome consists of two chromosomes and two circular plasmids. Based on genome comparison, the chromosomes of C. necator N-1 share a high degree of similarity with the t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Poehlein A,Kusian B,Friedrich B,Daniel R,Bowien B

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smith, Rodney F. (University of Maryland, Baltimore), Donald E. Shay, and Norman J. Doorenbos. Antimicrobial action of nitrogen-containing steroids. J. Bacteriol. 85:1295-1299. 1963.-A new group of 16 synthetic nitrogen-containing steroids have been tested against a variety of microorganisms for antimicrobial properti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SMITH RF,SHAY DE,DOORENBOS NJ

更新日期：1963-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The position of the termination codon in lacZX90 was determined by isolation of a lac+ revertant. Lysine was found to replace tyrosine at position 1,012 of beta-galactosidase, indicating that X90 protein lacked the carboxyl-terminal 10 residues. A heat- and urea-sensitive hybrid enzyme was formed in vivo when supC, wh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mandecki W,Fowler AV,Zabin I

更新日期：1981-08-01 00:00:00