Promoter of the pertussis toxin operon and production of pertussis toxin.

abstract：:Doxtader, K. G. (Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.), and M. Alexander. Role of 3-nitropropanoic acid in nitrate formation by Aspergillus flavus. J. Bacteriol. 91:1186-1191. 1966.-Aspergillus flavus formed nitrate, 3-nitropropanoic acid (3-NPA), kojic acid, and a substance tentatively identified as N-formyl-N-hydroxy-gl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doxtader KG,Alexander M

更新日期：1966-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a quantitative assay for measuring chemotaxis, we tested a variety of sugars and sugar derivatives for their ability to attract Escherichia coli bacteria. The most effective attractants, i.e., those that have thresholds near 10(-5) M or below, are N-acetyl-d-glucosamine, 6-deoxy-d-glucose, d-fructose, d-fucose, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Adler J,Hazelbauer GL,Dahl MM

更新日期：1973-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni, a spiral-shaped gram-negative bacterium, is a leading bacterial cause of human food-borne illness. Acute disease is associated with C. jejuni invasion of the intestinal epithelium. Further, maximal host cell invasion requires the secretion of proteins termed Campylobacter invasion antigens (Cia)....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Malik-Kale P,Parker CT,Konkel ME

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A conditionally germination-defective mutant of Neurospora crassa has been found to be partially curable by ferricrocin and other siderophores. The mutant conidia rapidly lose their membrane-bound siderophores when suspended in buffer or growth media. Germination is consequently delayed unless large numbers of conidia...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Charlang G,Williams NP

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previously undetected Bacillus subtilis aspartokinase isozyme, which we have called aspartokinase III, has been characterized. The new isozyme was most readily detected in extracts of cells grown with lysine, which repressed aspartokinase II and induced aspartokinase III, or in extracts of strain VS11, a mutant lack...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Graves LM,Switzer RL

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mobilizable Bacteroides element NBU2 (11 kbp) was found originally in two Bacteroides clinical isolates, Bacteroides fragilis ERL and B. thetaiotaomicron DOT. At first, NBU2 appeared to be very similar to another mobilizable Bacteroides element, NBU1, in a 2.5-kbp internal region, but further examination of the fu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang J,Shoemaker NB,Wang GR,Salyers AA

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Halobacterium sp. strain NRC-1 contains a large gene cluster, gvpMLKJIHGFEDACNO, that is both necessary and sufficient for the production of buoyant gas-filled vesicles. Due to the resistance of gas vesicles to solubilization, only the major gas vesicle protein GvpA and a single minor protein, GvpC, were...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shukla HD,DasSarma S

更新日期：2004-05-01 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：:Filaments of the heterocyst-forming cyanobacterium Anabaena variabilis reproduced 35SO4(2)-, incorporating 35S into cysteine, methionine, glutathione, sulfolipid, and several unidentified metabolites. The majority of the incorporated label accumulated in reduced glutathione. Heterocysts isolated from labeled filaments...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giddings TH Jr,Wolk CP,Shomer-Ilan A

更新日期：1981-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Expression of the Escherichia coli OmpC and OmpF outer membrane proteins is regulated by the osmolarity of the culture media. In contrast, expression of OmpC in Salmonella typhi is not influenced by osmolarity, while OmpF is regulated as in E. coli. To better understand the lack of osmoregulation of OmpC expression in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Martínez-Flores I,Cano R,Bustamante VH,Calva E,Puente JL

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-affinity iron acquisition in Bacillus subtilis is mediated via the bacillibactin catechole siderophore pathway. Three of the four essential pathway steps, bacillibactin synthesis, Fe-bacillibactin uptake, and Fe-bacillibactin hydrolysis have been characterized previously. The functional and regulatory components ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miethke M,Schmidt S,Marahiel MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RasP is a predicted intramembrane metalloprotease of Bacillus subtilis that has been proposed to cleave the stress response anti-sigma factors RsiW and RsiV, the cell division protein FtsL, and remnant signal peptides within their transmembrane segments. To provide evidence for direct effects of RasP on putative subst...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Parrell D,Zhang Y,Olenic S,Kroos L

更新日期：2017-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli BS-12 uvrA lon is hypersensitive to ultraviolet light. On minimal agar plates at densities in excess of about 10(7) bacteria per plate, as few as one or two photoreversible pyrimidine dimers in the entire genome are sufficient to cause inhibition of cell division. Most of the resulting filaments are u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bridges BA,Mottershead RP,Green MH

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene in Legionella pneumophila that has significant homology to published hfq genes demonstrated regulation by RpoS and the transcriptional regulator LetA. Additionally, Hfq has a positive effect on the presence of transcripts of the genes for CsrA and the ferric uptake regulator Fur. Mutants lacking hfq demonstrate...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McNealy TL,Forsbach-Birk V,Shi C,Marre R

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acidified phenol extracts prepared from competent cultures of a group H Streptococcus strain Wicky made competent with competence factor derived from cultures of another group H Streptococcus, strain Challis, showed a difference in polyacrylamide-gel protein patterns when compared to extracts prepared from noncompeten...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ranhand JM,Theodore TS,Cole RM

更新日期：1970-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Membrane vesicles containing internal alcohol dehydrogenase and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) were prepared from Escherichia coli ML308-225. Upon the addition of ethanol, these vesicles respired and transported several amino acids. Transport rates driven by internally generated reduced NAD (NADH) were about ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Futai M

更新日期：1974-11-01 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：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa XMG, isolated from soil, utilizes lactate. Here we present a 6.45-Mb assembly of its genome sequence. Besides the lactate utilization mechanism of the strain, the genome sequence may also provide other useful information related to P. aeruginosa, such as identifying genes involved in virulence, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gao C,Hu C,Ma C,Su F,Yu H,Jiang T,Dou P,Wang Y,Qin T,Lv M,Xu P

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Macrocysts have been found among strains of Dictyostelium rosarium Raper and Cavender (K. B. Raper and J. C. Cavender, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 84:31-47, 1968). Strains that exhibit mating capabilities could be classified into one of three mating types: A1, A2, or A3. Each mating type was self-incompatible but cro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang MT,Raper KB

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A mutant of Escherichia coli lacking hydroxyethylthiazole kinase (EC 2.7.1.50) was produced by a further mutation of a temperature-sensitive, auxotrophic mutant for hydroxyethylthiazole. The parent cells possessed two distinct enzymes capable of phosphorylating hydroxyethylthiazole: one was hydroxyethylthiazole kinase...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mizote T,Nakayama H

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria meningitidis expresses multicomponent organelles called type four pili (Tfp), which are key virulence factors required for attachment to human cells during carriage and disease. Pilin (PilE) is the main component of Tfp, and N. meningitidis isolates either have a class I pilE locus and express pilins that un...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lobanovska M,Tang CM,Exley RM

更新日期：2019-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Two unusual characteristics of some outer membrane proteins of Rhizobium leguminosarum are described. First, most of the major outer membrane proteins could only be visualized by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis after lysozyme treatment of the isolated cell envelopes, suggesting a very strong,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Maagd RA,Wientjes FB,Lugtenberg BJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Atomic force microscopy was used to measure the thickness of air-dried, collapsed murein sacculi from Escherichia coli K-12 and Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Air-dried sacculi from E. coli had a thickness of 3.0 nm, whereas those from P. aeruginosa were 1.5 nm thick. When rehydrated, the sacculi of both bacteria swelle...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yao X,Jericho M,Pink D,Beveridge T

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of variations in growth conditions on the penicillin response of Streptococcus faecium ATCC 9790 were studied. Changes in the growth temperature and medium composition were found to cause striking changes in the bacterial generation time, cellular penicillin sensitivity (minimum inhibitory concentration), ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fontana R,Canepari P,Satta G,Coyette J

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reference strains from 48 selected serovars representing eight species of Leptospira were examined by two polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-based strategies. First, mapped restriction site polymorphisms (MRSP) were examined in PCR products from portions of rrs (16S rRNA gene) and rrl (23S rRNA gene). Twenty MRSP and 2 l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ralph D,McClelland M,Welsh J,Baranton G,Perolat P

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ends of the bacterial transposon gamma delta contain adjacent binding sites for gamma delta transposase and integration host factor (IHF). IHF+ and IHF- strains were used in conjunction with gamma delta transposon ends containing or lacking the site for IHF binding to determine the role that IHF plays in various g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wiater LA,Grindley ND

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Citrate metabolism in Leuconostoc mesenteroides subspecies mesenteroides is associated with the generation of a proton motive force by a secondary mechanism (C. Marty-Teysset, C. Posthuma, J. S. Lolkema, P. Schmitt, C. Divies, and W. N. Konings, J. Bacteriol. 178:2178-2185, 1996). The pathway consists of four steps: (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marty-Teysset C,Lolkema JS,Schmitt P,Diviès C,Konings WN

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis gene ypfP, which is located at 196 degrees on the genetic map, shows similarity to both the monogalactosyldiacylglycerol synthase gene of Cucumis sativus, which encodes a galactosyltransferase, and the murG genes of B. subtilis, Escherichia coli, Haemophilus influenzae, and Synechocystis sp. strain P...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Price KD,Roels S,Losick R

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two primary alcohols (1-butanol and ethanol) are major fermentation products of several clostridial species. In addition to these two alcohols, the secondary alcohol 2-propanol is produced to a concentration of about 100 mM by some strains of Clostridium beijerinckii. An alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) has been purified t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ismaiel AA,Zhu CX,Colby GD,Chen JS

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The P1 plasmid addiction operon is a compact genetic structure consisting of promoter, operator, antitoxin gene (phd), and toxin gene (doc). The 73-amino-acid antitoxin protein, Phd, has two distinct functions: it represses transcription (by binding to its operator) and it prevents host death (by binding and neutraliz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith JA,Magnuson RD

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00