VhuD facilitates electron flow from H2 or formate to heterodisulfide reductase in Methanococcus maripaludis.

abstract：:Cytochrome bd oxidase operons from more than 50 species of bacteria contain a short gene encoding a small protein that ranges from ∼30 to 50 amino acids and is predicted to localize to the cell membrane. Although cytochrome bd oxidases have been studied for more than 70 years, little is known about the role of this sm...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： VanOrsdel CE,Bhatt S,Allen RJ,Brenner EP,Hobson JJ,Jamil A,Haynes BM,Genson AM,Hemm MR

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The energetic efficiency of microbial growth is significantly reduced in cultures growing under glucose excess compared to cultures growing under glucose limitation, but the magnitude to which different energy-dissipating processes contribute to the reduced efficiency is currently not well understood. We introduce her...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dauner M,Storni T,Sauer U

更新日期：2001-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of Caulobacter crescentus elaborate an S-layer, a two-dimensional protein latticework which covers the cell surface. The S-layer protein (RsaA) is secreted by a type I mechanism (relying on a C-terminal signal) and is unusual among type I secreted proteins because high levels of protein are produced continuous...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Umelo-Njaka E,Bingle WH,Borchani F,Le KD,Awram P,Blake T,Nomellini JF,Smit J

更新日期：2002-05-01 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：:Specific localization of the lysis (L) protein of bacteriophage MS2 in the cell wall of Escherichia coli was determined by immunoelectron microscopy. After induction of the cloned lysis gene, the cells were plasmolyzed, fixed, and embedded in either Epon or Lowicryl K4M. Polyclonal L-protein-specific antiserum was pur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Walderich B,Höltje JV

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas fluorescens strain KU-7 is a prototype microorganism that metabolizes 2-nitrobenzoate (2-NBA) via the formation of 3-hydroxyanthranilate (3-HAA), a known antioxidant and reductant. The initial two steps leading to the sequential formation of 2-hydroxy/aminobenzoate and 3-HAA are catalyzed by a NADPH-depend...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwaki H,Muraki T,Ishihara S,Hasegawa Y,Rankin KN,Sulea T,Boyd J,Lau PC

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of two virulence mutants of Pseudomonas syringae B728a revealed that the Tn 5 sites of insertion were within the gidA open reading frame (ORF). These mutations were pleiotropic, affecting diverse phenotypic traits, such as lipodepsipeptide (syringomycin and syringopeptin) antibiotic production, swarming, pres...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kinscherf TG,Willis DK

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The luminescence (lux) operon (luxICDABEG) of the symbiotic bacterium Vibrio fischeri is regulated by the transcriptional activator LuxR and two acyl-homoserine lactone (acyl-HSL) autoinducers (the luxI-dependent 3-oxo-hexanoyl-HSL [3-oxo-C6-HSL] and the ainS-dependent octanoyl-HSL [C8-HSL]) in a population density-re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Callahan SM,Dunlap PV

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The citrate transporter CitP of lactic acid bacteria catalyzes electrogenic precursor-product exchange of citrate versus L-lactate during citrate-glucose cometabolism. In the absence of sugar, L-lactate is replaced by the metabolic intermediates/end products pyruvate, α-acetolactate, and acetate. In this study, the bi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pudlik AM,Lolkema JS

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory system that controls the expression of the Ti plasmid-borne octopine degradation (uad) and transfer (tra) genes in Agrobacterium tumefaciens was studied. A deletion mutant derived from the cointegrate plasmid R702::Ti-B6S3 was isolated, which was compatible with a wild-type Ti plasmid and which had reta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klapwijk PM,Schilperoort RA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Listeria monocytogenes, the full details of how stress signals are integrated into the σB regulatory pathway are not yet available. To help shed light on this question, we investigated a collection of transposon mutants that were predicted to have compromised activity of the alternative sigma factor B (σB). These m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guerreiro DN,Wu J,Dessaux C,Oliveira AH,Tiensuu T,Gudynaite D,Marinho CM,Boyd A,García-Del Portillo F,Johansson J,O'Byrne CP

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A citrate lyase (EC 4.1.3.6) was purified 25-fold from Leuconostoc mesenteroides and was shown to contain three subunits. The first 42 amino acids of the beta subunit were identified, as well as an internal peptide sequence spanning some 20 amino acids into the alpha subunit. Using degenerated primers from these seque...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bekal S,Van Beeumen J,Samyn B,Garmyn D,Henini S,Diviès C,Prévost H

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiocyanate hydrolase is a newly found enzyme from Thiobacillus thioparus THI 115 that converts thiocyanate to carbonyl sulfide and ammonia (Y. Katayama, Y. Narahara, Y. Inoue, F. Amano, T. Kanagawa, and H. Kuraishi, J. Biol. Chem. 267:9170-9175, 1992). We have cloned and sequenced the scn genes that encode the three ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katayama Y,Matsushita Y,Kaneko M,Kondo M,Mizuno T,Nyunoya H

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus responds to changing extracellular environments in part by adjusting its proteome through alterations of transcriptional priorities and selective degradation of the preexisting pool of proteins. In Bacillus subtilis, the proteolytic adaptor protein MecA has been shown to play a role in assisting ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Donegan NP,Marvin JS,Cheung AL

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most motile bacteria are able to bias their movement towards more favorable environments or to escape from obnoxious substances by a process called chemotaxis. Chemotaxis depends on a chemosensory system that is able to sense specific environmental signals and generate a behavioral response. Typically, the signal is t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ringgaard S,Yang W,Alvarado A,Schirner K,Briegel A

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The β-barrel assembly machinery (BAM) complex is the core machinery for the assembly of β-barrel membrane proteins, and inhibition of BAM complex activity is lethal to bacteria. Discovery of integral membrane proteins that are key to pathogenesis and yet do not require assistance from the BAM complex raises the questi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hay ID,Belousoff MJ,Dunstan RA,Bamert RS,Lithgow T

更新日期：2018-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A DNA sequence (brpA) which regulates the expression of the genes of the bialaphos biosynthesis pathway (bap) in Streptomyces hygroscopicus was identified and characterized. A newly isolated nonproducing mutant (NP57) had a pleiotropic defect involving at least 6 of the 13 known bap genes; only the step 6 conversion c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Anzai H,Murakami T,Imai S,Satoh A,Nagaoka K,Thompson CJ

更新日期：1987-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stable inheritance of the broad-host-range plasmid RK2 is due at least in part to functions within a region located at coordinates 32.8 to 35.9 kb, termed the RK2 par locus. This locus encodes four previously identified genes in two operons (parCBA and parD; M. Gerlitz, O. Hrabak, and H. Schwab, J. Bacteriol. 172:...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts RC,Helinski DR

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of L-methionine-DL-sulfoximine, an inhibitor of glutamine synthetase, on the formation of nitrate reductase in the wild-type strain of Neurospora in the presence of ammonium ions and of glutamine was studied. Under conditions in which glutamine synthetase was inactivated, it was found that only glutamine co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Premakumar R,Sorger GJ,Gooden D

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The overlapping fdhA and fdhB genes of Methanobacterium formicicum, which encode the alpha and beta subunits, respectively, of formate dehydrogenase, were cotranscribed as part of an approximately 4.5-kb transcript. An additional gene (fdhC) upstream of fdhA was cotranscribed with fdhA and fdhB. The deduced amino acid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： White WB,Ferry JG

更新日期：1992-08-01 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：:RsbT is an essential component of the pathway that activates the Bacillus subtilis sigma(B) transcription factor in response to physical stress. rsbT is located within an operon that includes the genes for its principal negative regulator (RsbS) and the stress pathway component that it activates (RsbU), as immediate u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhang S,Reeves A,Woodbury RL,Haldenwang WG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the genus Prosthecobacter express homologs of eukaryotic α- and β-tubulin, called BtubA and BtubB (BtubA/B), that have been observed to assemble into filaments in the presence of GTP. BtubA/B polymers are proposed to be composed in vitro by two to six protofilaments in contrast to that in vivo, where they ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Díaz-Celis C,Risca VI,Hurtado F,Polka JK,Hansen SD,Maturana D,Lagos R,Mullins RD,Monasterio O

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome sizes of six different Wolbachia strains from insect and nematode hosts have been determined by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of purified DNA both before and after digestion with rare-cutting restriction endonucleases. Enzymes SmaI, ApaI, AscI, and FseI cleaved the studied Wolbachia strains at a small number...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sun LV,Foster JM,Tzertzinis G,Ono M,Bandi C,Slatko BE,O'Neill SL

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germaine, G. R. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis), and D. L. Anderson. Binding of homologous polymerized deoxyribonucleic acid by Streptomyces griseus. J. Bacteriol. 92:662-667. 1966-An irreversible P(32) deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) binding system is described for Streptomyces griseus S104. The 69% guanine plus c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Germaine GR,Anderson DL

更新日期：1966-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:At some time during sporulation development, cells of Bacillus subtilis develop a commitment to continue sporulation even after addition of or dilution into a fresh nutrient. The extent of commitment was measured by the titer of spores produced at the time at which the original culture sporulated maximally. Since newl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cooney PH,Whiteman PF,Freese E

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ESX-1 (ESAT-6 system 1) secretion system plays a conserved role in the virulence of diverse mycobacterial pathogens, including the human pathogen Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. marinum, an environmental mycobacterial species. The ESX-1 system promotes the secretion of protein virulence factors to the extracytop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bosserman RE,Nicholson KR,Champion MM,Champion PA

更新日期：2019-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavobacterium johnsoniae cells glide rapidly over surfaces by an unknown mechanism. Transposon-induced sprA mutants formed nonspreading colonies on agar, and the cells examined in wet mounts were deficient in attachment to surfaces and were almost completely nonmotile. Exposure of intact cells to proteinase K cleaved...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nelson SS,Glocka PP,Agarwal S,Grimm DP,McBride MJ

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen often associated with chronic infections in the lungs of individuals with the heritable disease cystic fibrosis (CF). Previous work from our laboratory demonstrated that aromatic amino acids within CF lung secretions (sputum) not only serve as carbon and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Palmer GC,Palmer KL,Jorth PA,Whiteley M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane vesicles isolated from competent cultures of Bacillus subtilis 168 bound up to 20 mug of double-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) per mg of membrane protein in the presence of ethylenediaminetetraacetate. The formation of the DNA-membrane complex was time, temperature, and pH dependent. Eighty per cent of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Joenje H,Konings WN,Venema G

更新日期：1974-09-01 00:00:00