LytR-CpsA-Psr enzymes as determinants of Bacillus anthracis secondary cell wall polysaccharide assembly.

abstract：:With a DNA fragment from within the region encoding the transport functions for K1 production as a hybridization probe in Southern blot experiments, homologous DNA sequences were detected in the DNA from Escherichia coli strains producing K5, K7, K92, and K100 capsular polysaccharides. No homology with the laboratory ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roberts I,Mountford R,High N,Bitter-Suermann D,Jann K,Timmis K,Boulnois G

更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benyesh-Melnick, Matilda (Baylor University College of Medicine, Houston, Tex.), Fern Probstmeyer, Robert McCombs, Jean P. Brunschwig, and Vladimir Vonka. Correlation between infectivity and physical virus particles in human cyto-megalovirus. J. Bacteriol. 92:1555-1561. 1966.-Infectivity titers [measured as plaque-for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Benyesh-Melnick M,Probstmeyer F,McCombs R,Brunschwig JP,Vonka V

更新日期：1966-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The motility of Spirillum volutans is caused by the rotation of each polar flagellar fascicle in a direction opposite to that of the more slowly rotating cell. Both flagella form cones of revolution oriented in the same direction. When the cell reverses its motion, both fascicles simultaneously reverse their rotation ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krieg NR,Tomelty JP,Wells JS Jr

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When an Escherichia coli K-12 culture was starved for glucose, 50% of the cells lost viability in about 6 days. When a K-12 mutant lacking five distinct peptidase activities, CM89, was starved in the same manner, viability was lost much more rapidly; 50% of the cells lost viability in about 2 days, whereas a parent st...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reeve CA,Bockman AT,Matin A

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eight different derivatives of R plasmid RP1 with thermosensitive mutations affecting maintenance in Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were introduce into Rhizobium meliloti. None of the plasmids showed a thermosensitive character in R. meliloti. On the other hand, a certain deletion mutation in RP1 was foun...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hooykaas PJ,den Dulk-Ras H,Schilperoort RA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamine phosphoribosylpyrophosphate amidotransferase is stable in growing cells, but is inactivated in an oxygen-dependent process at various rates in starving or antibiotic-treated cells. On the basis of studies of the purified enzyme, we suggested (D.A. Bernlohr and R.L. Switzer, Biochemistry 20:5675-5681, 1981) t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bernlohr DA,Switzer RL

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mitospores or cysts of Allomyces macrogynus do not take up the glucose analogue 2-deoxyglucose. Uptake of 2-deoxyglucose by germlings begins at 25 min into germination, the start of the rhizoid stage, and increases in rate by approximately 50-fold until 100 min into germination. The rate remains constant from 100 to 2...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Burke DD

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capsulated Haemophilus influenzae type b and two spontaneous mutants (classes I and II variants) were characterized by transmission and scanning electron microscopy. When cells were treated with type b-specific antiserum prior to manipulations for electron microscopy, sectioned capsulated cells had electron-dense, fib...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doern GV,Buckmire FL

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Azotobacter vinelandii, activation of nif gene expression by the transcriptional regulatory enhancer binding protein NIFA is controlled by the sensor protein NIFL in response to changes in levels of oxygen and fixed nitrogen in vivo. NIFL is a novel redox-sensing flavoprotein which is also responsive to adenosine n...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Money T,Jones T,Dixon R,Austin S

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A series of mutations causing alterations in ribosomal protein S21 was mapped close to dnaG, around 66.5 min on the Escherichia coli chromosomal linkage map. They cotransduced about 95% with this marker. These mutations define gene rpsU, which is very likely the structural gene for protein S21. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dabbs ER

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The citrate utilization (Cit+) transposon Tn3411 was shown to be flanked by directly repeated sequences (IS3411L and IS3411R) by restriction enzyme analysis and electron microscope observation. Cit- deletion mutants were frequently found to be generated in pBR322::Tn3411 by intramolecular recombination between the two...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ishiguro N,Sato G

更新日期：1984-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After the demonstration that Stigmatella aurantiaca DW4 secretes an endo-N-acetyl-beta-D-glucosaminidase (ENGase), acting on the di-N-acetylchitobiosyl part of N-linked glycans (S. Bourgerie, Y. Karamanos, T. Grard, and R. Julien, J. Bacteriol. 176:6170-6174, 1994), an ENGase activity having the same substrate specifi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barreaud JP,Bourgerie S,Julien R,Guespin-Michel JF,Karamanos Y

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data have been obtained which imply that chloramphenicol stimulation of ribonucleic acid (RNA) synthesis is a result of the accumulation of aminoacyl transfer RNA (tRNA) molecules. The data also support the hypothesis that chloramphenicol exerts an additional effect upon the stimulation of RNA synthesis. This effect m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kaplan S

更新日期：1969-05-01 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：:Heterokaryons of Mucor racemosus were produced by fusion of spheroplasts from two auxotrophic strains of the fungus. Germinated sporangiospores were converted to spheroplasts by using commercial chitinase and Myxobacter AL-1 chitosanase. Spheroplasts from the auxotrophic strains were mixed in a buffered Ca(NO3)2 solut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Genthner FJ,Borgia PT

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Over the course of the last 3 decades the role of the second messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) as a master regulator of bacterial physiology was determined. Although the control over c-di-GMP levels via synthesis and breakdown and the allosteric regulation of c-di-GMP over receptor proteins (effectors) and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rotem O,Nesper J,Borovok I,Gorovits R,Kolot M,Pasternak Z,Shin I,Glatter T,Pietrokovski S,Jenal U,Jurkevitch E

更新日期：2015-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli K-12 hisT gene has been cloned, and its organization and expression have been analyzed on multicopy plasmids. The hisT gene, which encodes tRNA pseudouridine synthase I (PSUI), was isolated on a Clarke-Carbon plasmid known to contain the purF gene. The presence of the hisT gene on this plasmid was...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marvel CC,Arps PJ,Rubin BC,Kammen HO,Penhoet EE,Winkler ME

更新日期：1985-01-01 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：:Functional domain structures of pyocins AP41, S1, and S2 were assigned by examining the functions of chimeric pyocins and deletion derivatives. Pyocins AP41, S1, and S2 are essentially composed of three domains, the receptor-binding domain, the translocation domain, and the DNase domain, in that order from the N termi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sano Y,Kobayashi M,Kageyama M

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis anti-TRAP protein regulates the ability of the tryptophan-activated TRAP protein to bind to trp operon leader RNA and promote transcription termination. AT synthesis is regulated both transcriptionally and translationally by uncharged tRNA(Trp). In this study, we examined the roles of AT synthesi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cruz-Vera LR,Gong M,Yanofsky C

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Utilization of heme as an iron source by Bradyrhizobium japonicum involves induction of the outer membrane heme receptor gene hmuR and other genes within the heme utilization locus. Here, we discovered the hmuP gene located upstream of hmuR and transcribed divergently from it along with hmuTUV. hmuP encodes a small pr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Escamilla-Hernandez R,O'Brian MR

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The DNA binding proteins ArgR and AhrC are essential for regulation of arginine metabolism in Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis, respectively. A unique property of these regulators is that they form hexameric protein complexes, mediating repression of arginine biosynthetic pathways as well as activation of argini...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Larsen R,Buist G,Kuipers OP,Kok J

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Choline-containing teichoic acid seems to be essential for the adsorption of bacteriophage Dp-1 to pneumococci. This conclusion is based on the following observations: In contrast to pneumococci grown in choline-containing medium, cells grown in medium containing ethanolamine or other submethylated aminoalcohols inste...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lopez R,Garcia E,Garcia P,Ronda C,Tomasz A

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A denitrifying Pseudomonas sp. is able to oxidize aromatic compounds compounds completely to CO2, both aerobically and anaerobically. It is shown that benzoate is aerobically oxidized by a new degradation pathway via benzoyl-coenzyme A (CoA) and 3-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA. The organism grew aerobically with benzoate, 3-hydr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Altenschmidt U,Oswald B,Steiner E,Herrmann H,Fuchs G

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impurities believed to be polysaccharides have been found in mycobacterial deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) preparations. Agar-gel diffusion of the DNA preparations against concanavalin A indicated the presence of three polysaccharides and was used to follow the purification procedures. The polysaccharides appeared to be t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hill EB,Wayne LG,Gross WM

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The MurNAc etherase MurQ of Escherichia coli is essential for the catabolism of the bacterial cell wall sugar N-acetylmuramic acid (MurNAc) obtained either from the environment or from the endogenous cell wall (i.e., recycling). High-level expression of murQ is required for growth on MurNAc as the sole source of carbo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jaeger T,Mayer C

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Compared with the other class B multimodular penicillin- binding proteins (PBPs), the low-affinity PBP5 responsible for penicillin resistance in Enterococcus hirae R40, has an extended non-penicillin-binding module because of the presence of an approximately 110-amino-acid E-46(-)D-160 insert downstream from the membr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mollerach ME,Partoune P,Coyette J,Ghuysen JM

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ski22::Tn917lac insertion mutation in Bacillus subtilis was isolated in a screen for mutations that cause a defect in sporulation but are suppressed by the presence or overexpression of the histidine protein kinase encoded by kinA (spoIIJ). The ski22::Tn917lac insertion mutation was in ald, the gene encoding alani...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Siranosian KJ,Ireton K,Grossman AD

更新日期：1993-11-01 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 protein SpoIVB plays a key role in signaling in the final sigma(K) checkpoint of Bacillus subtilis. This regulatory mechanism coordinates late gene expression during development in this organism and we have recently shown SpoIVB to be a serine peptidase. SpoIVB signals by transiting a membrane, undergoing self-cle...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hoa NT,Brannigan JA,Cutting SM

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00