Secretory leukocyte protease inhibitor binding to mRNA and DNA as a possible cause of toxicity to Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Rhodococcus equi is a facultative intracellular pathogen which proliferates rapidly in both manure-enriched soil and alveolar macrophages. Although both environments are characterized by extremely low concentrations of free iron, very little is known regarding the strategies employed by R. equi to thrive under these c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miranda-Casoluengo R,Duffy PS,O'Connell EP,Graham BJ,Mangan MW,Prescott JF,Meijer WG

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Shewanella inhabit various environments; they are capable of synthesizing various types of low-melting-point fatty acids, including monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and branched-chain fatty acids (BCFA) with and without eicosapentanoic acid (EPA). The genes involved in fatty acid synthesis in 15...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wang F,Xiao X,Ou HY,Gai Y,Wang F

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mushin, Rose (University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) and Frances M. Ashburner. Gastrointestinal microflora of mutton birds (Puffinus tenuirostris) in relation to "limy" disease. J. Bacteriol. 83:1260-1267. 1962.-The aerobic bacterial intestinal flora of mutton birds, healthy and affected with "limy" disease, wa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MUSHIN R,ASHBURNER FM

更新日期：1962-06-01 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：:Certain carbohydrates (rhamnose, 3-O-methyl rhamnose, and galactosamine) have been demonstrated to be present in Bacillus anthracis spores but absent in vegetative cells. Others have demonstrated that these spore-specific sugars are constituents of the glycoprotein BclA. In the current work, spore extracts were separa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Waller LN,Stump MJ,Fox KF,Harley WM,Fox A,Stewart GC,Shahgholi M

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 deficient in galactose-1-phosphate uridyl transferase is capable of converting significant amounts of d-[1-(14)C]galactose to (14)CO(2), whereas strains deficient in other enzymes of the Leloir pathway cannot do so. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LaPolla RJ,Geier MR,Friedman TB,Merril CR

更新日期：1975-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty years ago, Coulter and Talalay (A. W. Coulter and P. Talalay, J. Biol. Chem. 243:3238-3247, 1968) established the oxygenase-dependent pathway for the degradation of testosterone by aerobes. The oxic testosterone catabolic pathway involves several oxygen-dependent reactions and is not available for anaerobes. Sin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Leu YL,Wang PH,Shiao MS,Ismail W,Chiang YR

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus contains two [NiFe]hydrogenases: an energy-generating hydrogenase, HupSL, and a regulatory hydrogenase, HupUV. The synthesis of HupSL is specifically activated by H(2) through a signal transduction cascade comprising three proteins: the H(2)-sensing HupUV protein, th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Elsen S,Duché O,Colbeau A

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A systematic analysis of the type III secretion (T3S) genes of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain PAO1 revealed that they are under quorum-sensing control. This observation was supported by the down-regulation of the T3S regulon in the presence of RhlR-C4HSL and the corresponding advanced secretion of ExoS in a rhlI mutant...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bleves S,Soscia C,Nogueira-Orlandi P,Lazdunski A,Filloux A

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) levels were determined for several aerobically grown halophilic vibrios and compared with those found in aerobically grown Escherichia coli K-12. The SOD levels ranged from 25 to 103.6 U/mg of protein for the vibrios compared with 44.6 U/mg of protein for E. coli. The CAT ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daily OP,Debell RM,Joseph SW

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ruvB genes of the highly divergent thermophilic eubacteria Thermus thermophilus and Thermotoga maritima were cloned, sequenced, and expressed in Escherichia coli. Both thermostable RuvB proteins were purified to homogeneity. Like E. coli RuvB protein, both purified thermostable RuvB proteins showed strong double-s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tong J,Wetmur JG

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Freeman, Bob A. (University of Chicago, Chicago, Ill.) and Richard Circo. Effect of tetracyclines on the intracellular amino acids of molds. J. Bacteriol. 86:38-44. 1963.-The tetracycline antibiotics were shown to alter the amino acid metabolism of molds whose growth is not markedly affected. Eight molds were grown in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： FREEMAN BA,CIRCO R

更新日期：1963-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glucose kinase is required for glucose repression of several catabolite-controlled genes in Streptomyces coelicolor and certainly plays an important role in glucose repression in these organisms. We report here that glucose kinase null mutants of S. coelicolor retain transcriptional regulation of the chitinase 63 gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ingram C,Westpheling J

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The TON_0887 gene was identified as the missing histidinol-phosphate phosphatase (HolPase) in the hyperthermophilic archaeon "Thermococcus onnurineus" NA1. The protein contained conserved motifs of the DDDD superfamily of phosphohydrolase, and the recombinantly expressed protein exhibited strong HolPase activity. In t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee HS,Cho Y,Lee JH,Kang SG

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine as randomly as possible the role of the beta-ketoacyl and acyl carrier protein (ACP) components of bacterial type II polyketide synthases (PKSs), homologs of the chain-length-factor (CLF) genes were cloned from the environmental community of microorganisms. With PCR primers derived from conserved regions of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seow KT,Meurer G,Gerlitz M,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Hutchinson CR,Davies J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A primary alcohol dehydrogenase has been purified from Methylococcus capsulatus (Texas strain). The purified enzyme catalyzes the oxidation of methanol and formaldehyde to formate; other primary alcohols are oxidized to their corresponding aldehydes. Ammonium ions are required for enzyme activity. The enzyme has a mol...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Patel RN,Bose HR,Mandy WJ,Hoare DS

更新日期：1972-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 200-megadalton plasmid was mobilized from Rhizobium japonicum USDA 191 to other Rhizobium strains either that cannot nodulate soybeans or that form Fix- nodules on certain cultivars. The symbiotic properties of the transconjugants indicate that both soybean specificity for nodulation and cultivar specificity for nit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Appelbaum ER,McLoughlin TJ,O'Connell M,Chartrain N

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aerobic respiratory chain of Escherichia coli can function with either of two different membrane-bound NADH dehydrogenases (NDH-1 and NDH-2) and with either of two ubiquinol oxidases (bd-type and bo-type). The amounts of each of these enzymes present in the E. coli membrane depend on growth conditions in general a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Calhoun MW,Oden KL,Gennis RB,de Mattos MJ,Neijssel OM

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neurospora crassa, the expression of nit-3, the structural gene which encodes nitrate reductase, is highly regulated and requires both nitrate induction and nitrogen catabolite derepression. The major nitrogen regulatory gene, nit-2, acts in a positive fashion to turn on the expression of nit-3 and other nitrogen-r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fu YH,Marzluf GA

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of transcription of the rplKAJLrpoBC gene cluster of Escherichia coli appears to be complex. At least four different promoters and a transcriptional attenuator have been identified. To compare the relative effect of each of the putative promoters and the attenuator on transcription of these genes, we fused...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ralling G,Linn T

更新日期：1984-04-01 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：:Weiss, K. F. (Iowa State University, Ames), J. C. Ayres, and A. A. Kraft. Inhibitory action of selenite on Escherichia coli, Proteus vulgaris, and Salmonella thompson. J. Bacteriol. 90:857-862. 1965.-The resistance of three microorganisms, Escherichia coli (ISU-41), Proteus vulgaris (ISU-37c), and Salmonella thompson ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weiss KF,Ayres JC,Kraft AA

更新日期：1965-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell suspensions of Bacteroides fragilis were allowed to ferment glucose and lactate labeled with (14)C in different positions. The fermentation products, propionate and acetate, were isolated, and the distribution of radioactivity was determined. An analysis of key enzymes of possible pathways was also made. The resu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Macy JM,Ljungdahl LG,Gottschalk G

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nisin is a pore-forming antimicrobial peptide. The capacity of nisin to induce transmembrane movement of a fluorescent phospholipid in lipid vesicles was investigated. Unilamellar phospholipid vesicles that contained a fluorescent phospholipid (1-acyl-2-(6-[(7-nitro-2-1, 3-benzoxadiazol-4-yl)amino]caproyl)-sn-glycero-...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moll GN,Konings WN,Driessen AJ

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The replication of the bacteriocinogenic plasmid Clo DF13 has been studied in the seven temperature-sensitive Escherichia coli mutants defective in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) replication (dnaA-dnaG). Experiments with dna initiation mutants revealed that the replication of the Clo DF13 plasmid depends to a great exten...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Veltkamp E,Nijkamp HJ

更新日期：1974-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nosocomial infections caused by antibiotic-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae are emerging as a major health problem worldwide, while community-acquired K. pneumoniae infections present with a range of diverse clinical pictures in different geographic areas. In particular, an invasive form of K. pneumoniae that causes li...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu KM,Li LH,Yan JJ,Tsao N,Liao TL,Tsai HC,Fung CP,Chen HJ,Liu YM,Wang JT,Fang CT,Chang SC,Shu HY,Liu TT,Chen YT,Shiau YR,Lauderdale TL,Su IJ,Kirby R,Tsai SF

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene amplifications have been detected as a transitory phenomenon in bacterial cultures. They are predicted to contribute to rapid adaptation by simultaneously increasing the expression of genes clustered on the chromosome. However, genome amplifications have rarely been described in natural isolates. Through DNA arra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brochet M,Couvé E,Zouine M,Poyart C,Glaser P

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five transposon Tn5 mutants of the procaryote Myxococcus xanthus had been shown previously to be defective in lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis (J. M. Fink,-M. Kalos, and J. F. Zissler, J. Bacteriol. 171:2033-2041, 1989). These mutants were studied for possible defects in gliding motility and multicellular development. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fink JM,Zissler JF

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase (EC 4.1.1.31) from Azotobacter vinelandii, like the corresponding enzyme from other organisms, is activated by acetyl coenzyme A and inhibited by l-aspartate. Both modifiers affect primarily the affinity of the enzyme for phosphoenolpyruvate. This is the first enzyme with a strictly ana...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liao CL,Atkinson DE

更新日期：1971-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ferric reductase activity was examined in Azotobacter vinelandii and was found to be located in the cytoplasm. The specific activities of soluble cell extracts were not affected by the iron concentration of the growth medium; however, activity was inhibited by the presence of Zn2+ during cell growth and also by the ad...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huyer M,Page WJ

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00