Cell growth inhibition upon deletion of four toxin-antitoxin loci from the megaplasmids of Sinorhizobium meliloti.

abstract：:The thiol-containing tripeptide glutathione is an important cellular constituent of many eukaryotic and prokaryotic cells. In addition to its disulfide reductase activity, glutathione is known to protect cells from many forms of physiological stress. This report represents the first investigation into the role of glut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Potter AJ,Trappetti C,Paton JC

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The chemical composition of the cell walls of several L-form revertants derived from Nocardia asteroides 10905 was determined at different stages of growth. It was observed that each L-form revertant had a cell well that differed from that of the parental strain when grown under identical conditions. In some strains t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Beaman BL,Bourgeois AL,Moring SE

更新日期：1981-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the CbrA/CbrB two-component system is instrumental in the maintenance of the carbon-nitrogen balance and for growth on carbon sources that are energetically less favorable than the preferred dicarboxylate substrates. The CbrA/CbrB system drives the expression of the small RNA CrcZ, which ant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abdou L,Chou HT,Haas D,Lu CD

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A-factor (2-isocapryloyl-3R-hydroxymethyl-gamma-butyrolactone) is essential for the initiation of aerial mycelium formation in Streptomyces griseus. amfR is one of the genes which, when cloned on a low-copy-number plasmid, suppresses the aerial mycelium-negative phenotype of an A-factor-deficient mutant of S. griseus....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ueda K,Hsheh CW,Tosaki T,Shinkawa H,Beppu T,Horinouchi S

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both the acridine half-mustard, ICR191, and the nonalkylating azaacridine derivative, ICR364-OH, induce three classes of frameshift mutations in the histidine operon of Salmonella typhimurium. (i) One class is completely stable in reversion tests and is presumed to represent deletion of one or a few critical nucleotid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oeschger NS,Hartman PE

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of catalase-deficient mutants of Escherichia coli which exhibit no assayable catalase activity were isolated. The only physiological difference between the catalase mutants and their parents was a 50- to 60-fold greater sensitivity to killing by hydrogen peroxide. For comparison, mutations in the xthA and rec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loewen PC

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have used transcriptional and translational fusions between various vir gene promoters and the lacZ gene to study the regulation of vir genes. Like other vir promoters, the virA promoter was induced by acetosyringone in a virA virG-dependent fashion. In addition to being induced by acetosyringone, the virG promoter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winans SC,Kerstetter RA,Nester EW

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:TOL plasmid pWW0 specifies enzymes for the oxidative catabolism of toluene and xylenes. The upper pathway converts the aromatic hydrocarbons to aromatic carboxylic acids via corresponding alcohols and aldehydes and involves three enzymes: xylene oxygenase, benzyl alcohol dehydrogenase, and benzaldehyde dehydrogenase. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harayama S,Leppik RA,Rekik M,Mermod N,Lehrbach PR,Reineke W,Timmis KN

更新日期：1986-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A characteristic feature of biofilm formation is the production of a protective extracellular polymeric matrix. In the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis, the biofilm matrix is synthesized by the products of the epsABCDEFGHIJKLMNO operon (hereafter called the eps operon) and yqxM-sipW-tasA loci. Transcription f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Murray EJ,Strauch MA,Stanley-Wall NR

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid intermediate in peptidoglycan biosynthesis was isolated from Escherichia coli strain W and characterized as C(55)-isoprenyl-pyrophosphoryl N-acetylmuramyl(-pentapeptide)-N-acetyl-glucosamine. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Umbreit JN,Strominger JL

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A leucine-requiring, rifampin-sensitive strain of Neisseria gonorrhoeae was transformed to a leucine-nonrequiring, rifampin-resistant phenotype with deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) obtained from both N. meningitidis and N. gonorrhoeae. The transforming efficiency of the meningococcal DNA was about 10- to 100-fold less tha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wood DO,Brownell GH

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Succinyl-coenzyme A synthetase of Escherichia coli has an alpha 2 beta 2 subunit structure. By measuring reconstituted enzyme activity present after addition of purified alpha or beta subunits to cell extracts followed by refolding, we have shown that extracts contain no significant excess of either subunit species. T...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolodko WT,Brownie ER,Bridger WA

更新日期：1980-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A reaction center H- strain (RCH-) of Rhodobacter sphaeroides, PUHA1, was made by in vitro deletion of an XhoI restriction endonuclease fragment from the puhA gene coupled with insertion of a kanamycin resistance gene cartridge. The resulting construct was delivered to R. sphaeroides wild-type 2.4.1, with the defectiv...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sockett RE,Donohue TJ,Varga AR,Kaplan S

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell walls of 19 Micromonospora species were analyzed for their components. All the cell walls had xylose and arabinose, but the presence of glucose, galactose, mannose, or rhamnose depended on the strain. Amino acids present in the walls consisted of glycine, glutamic acid, diaminopimelic acid, and alanine, in a mola...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kawamoto I,Oka T,Nara T

更新日期：1981-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A specific gamma-aminobutyrate (GABA) transport system in Escherichia coli K-12 cells with a K(m) of 12 muM and a V(max) of 278 nmol/ml of intracellular water per min is described. Membrane vesicles contained d-lactate-dependent activity of the system. Mutants defective in GABA transport were isolated; they lost the a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kahane S,Levitz R,Halpern YS

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The O antigen is an important cell wall antigen of gram-negative bacteria, and the genes responsible for its biosynthesis are located in a gene cluster. We have cloned and sequenced the DNA segment unique to the O-antigen gene cluster of Salmonella enterica group D3. This segment includes a novel O-antigen polymerase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Curd H,Liu D,Reeves PR

更新日期：1998-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequence (2,700 bp) between the aldH and pspF genes of Escherichia coli was determined. The pspF gene encodes a sigma54 transcriptional activator of the phage shock protein (psp) operon (pspA to pspE). Downstream of the pspF transcribed region are two open reading frames (ORFs), ordL and goaG, convergently oriente...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jovanovic G,Model P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial lipases play important roles in bacterial metabolism and environmental response. Our laboratory recently discovered that a novel lipoprotein lysophospholipase, VolA, localizes on the surface of the Gram-negative aquatic pathogen Vibrio cholerae. VolA functions to cleave exogenous lysophosphatidylcholine, fre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pride AC,Guan Z,Trent MS

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Clostridium perfringens type D strains are usually associated with diseases of livestock, and their virulence requires the production of epsilon toxin (ETX). We previously showed (J. Li, S. Sayeed, S. Robertson, J. Chen, and B. A. McClane, PLoS Pathog 7:e1002429, 2011, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li J,Freedman JC,McClane BA

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycogen accumulation in Escherichia coli is inversely related to the growth rate and occurs most actively when cells enter the stationary phase. The levels of the three biosynthetic enzymes undergo corresponding changes under these conditions, suggesting that genetic control of enzyme biosynthesis may account for at ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Romeo T,Preiss J

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erythrobacter litoralis has been known as a bacteriochlorophyll a-containing, aerobic, anoxygenic, phototrophic bacterium. Here we announce the complete genome sequence of E. litoralis HTCC2594, which is devoid of phototrophic potential. E. litoralis HTCC2594, isolated by dilution-to-extinction culturing from seawater...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Oh HM,Giovannoni SJ,Ferriera S,Johnson J,Cho JC

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phospholipase hydrolyzing cardiolipin to phosphatidic acid and phosphatidyl glycerol was characterized in gram-negative bacteria but was absent in preparations of gram-positive bacteria, Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and rat liver mitochondria. In cell-free extracts of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium, Proteus v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cole R,Proulx P

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The csgA gene produces an intercellular signal during fruiting body formation of the myxobacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Sporulating pseudorevertants were isolated to allow us to understand the mechanism by which CsgA is perceived by cells and used to regulate developmental gene expression. Two strains, LS559 and LS560,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee K,Shimkets LJ

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemotaxis to the aromatic acid 4-hydroxybenzoate (4-HBA) by Pseudomonas putida is mediated by PcaK, a membrane-bound protein that also functions as a 4-HBA transporter. PcaK belongs to the major facilitator superfamily (MFS) of transport proteins, none of which have so far been implicated in chemotaxis. Work with two...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ditty JL,Harwood CS

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed for the isolation of Neurospora bradytrophs. The bradytrophs (representing lesions in a number of pathways) were resistant to DL-p-fluorophenylalanine when growing in a leaky fashion but were sensitive when grown in the presence of their stimulating supplement. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kinsey JA

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five lacY mutants with amber stop codons at known positions were each placed into 12 different suppressor strains. The 60 amino acid substitutions obtained in this manner were tested for growth on lactose-minimal medium plates and for transport of lactose, melibiose, and thiomethylgalactoside. Most of the amino acid s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang AM,Lee JI,King SC,Wilson TH

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cerulenin is a fungal mycotoxin that potently inhibits fatty acid synthesis by covalent modification of the active site thiol of the chain-elongation subtypes of beta-ketoacyl-acyl carrier protein (ACP) synthases. The Bacillus subtilis fabF (yjaY) gene (fabF(b)) encodes an enzyme that catalyzes the condensation of mal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schujman GE,Choi KH,Altabe S,Rock CO,de Mendoza D

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oleandomycin, a macrolide antibiotic produced by Streptomyces antibioticus, contains two sugars attached to the aglycon: L-oleandrose and D-desosamine. oleY codes for a methyltransferase involved in the biosynthesis of L-oleandrose. This gene was overexpressed in Escherichia coli to form inclusion bodies and in Strept...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rodríguez L,Rodríguez D,Olano C,Braña AF,Méndez C,Salas JA

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We showed previously that the outer membrane of the Escherichia coli cell envelope normally contains about 200 to 250 B12 receptors, and that these receptors function both in B12 transport and as receptors for the E colicins. This paper shows that this receptor system is also shared with bacteriophage BF23. A strong p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bradbeer C,Woodrow ML,Khalifah LI

更新日期：1976-03-01 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