Analysis of the σE regulon in Crohn's disease-associated Escherichia coli revealed involvement of the waaWVL operon in biofilm formation.

abstract：:The coccoid cyanobacterium Chroococcidiopsis dominates microbial communities in the most extreme arid hot and cold deserts. These communities withstand constraints that result from multiple cycles of drying and wetting and/or prolonged desiccation, through mechanisms which remain poorly understood. Here we describe th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Billi D,Friedmann EI,Helm RF,Potts M

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on its genome sequence, the pathway of beta-oxidative fatty acid degradation in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium LT2 has been thought to be identical to the well-characterized Escherichia coli K-12 system. We report that wild-type strains of S. enterica grow on decanoic acid, whereas wild-type E. coli str...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iram SH,Cronan JE

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Picolinic acid (PA) is a natural toxic pyridine derivative. Microorganisms can degrade and utilize PA for growth. However, the full catabolic pathway of PA and its physiological and genetic foundation remain unknown. In this study, we identified a gene cluster, designated picRCEDFB4B3B2B1A1A2A3, responsible for the de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qiu J,Zhao L,Xu S,Chen Q,Chen L,Liu B,Hong Q,Lu Z,He J

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial lysis induced by the expression of the cloned lysis gene of the RNA bacteriophage MS2 in Escherichia coli was shown to be under the same regulatory control mechanisms as penicillin-induced lysis. It was controlled by the stringent response and showed the phenomenon of tolerance when E. coli was grown at pH 5...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Walderich B,Ursinus-Wössner A,van Duin J,Höltje JV

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli rho 026 mutation that alters the transcription termination protein Rho prevents growth of wild-type bacteriophage T4. Among the consequences of this mutation are delayed and reduced T4 DNA replication. We show that these defects can be explained by defective synthesis of certain T4 replication-rec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stitt BL,Mosig G

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehalogenases are key enzymes in the metabolism of halo-organic compounds. This paper describes a systematic approach to the isolation and molecular analysis of two families of bacterial alpha-halocarboxylic acid (alphaHA) dehalogenase genes, called group I and group II deh genes. The two families are evolutionarily u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hill KE,Marchesi JR,Weightman AJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bartnicki-Garcia, S. (Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N.J.) and Walter J. Nickerson. Nutrition, growth, and morphogenesis of Mucor rouxii. J. Bacteriol. 84:841-858. 1962.-Mucor rouxii was grown under three different atmospheres of incubation: air, N(2), and CO(2) in parallel cultures. The atmosphere of i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： BARTNICKI-GARCIA S,NICKERSON WJ

更新日期：1962-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilm formation was repressed by glucose in several species of Enterobacteriaceae. In Escherichia coli, this effect was mediated at least in part by cyclic AMP (cAMP)-cAMP receptor protein. A temporal role for cAMP in biofilm development was indicated by the finding that glucose addition after approximately 24 h fai...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jackson DW,Simecka JW,Romeo T

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the cytoplasmic membrane and cell wall of two strains of Escherichia coli, Proteus morganii, P. vulgaris, Acinetobacter anitratum, Moraxella lacunata, Erwinia amylovora, Acinetobacter sp., and of a plant pathogen, unclassified gram-negative, fixed by the Ryter-Kellenberger procedure, was found to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Silva MT,Sousa JC

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PCR-based site-directed mutagenesis has been used to generate 38 alanine-substitution mutations in the C-terminal 41 amino acid residues of LuxR. This region plays a critical role in the mechanism of LuxR-dependent transcriptional activation of the Vibrio fischeri lux operon during quorum sensing. The ability of the v...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Trott AE,Stevens AM

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nisin is a cationic antimicrobial peptide that belongs to the group of lantibiotics. It is thought to form oligomeric pores in the target membrane by a mechanism that requires the transmembrane electrical potential delta psi and that involves local pertubation of the lipid bilayer structure. Here we show that nisin do...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moll GN,Clark J,Chan WC,Bycroft BW,Roberts GC,Konings WN,Driessen AJ

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Payne, W. J. (University of Georgia, Athens), and R. L. Todd. Flavin-linked dehydrogenation of ether glycols by cell-free extracts of a soil bacterium. J. Bacteriol. 91:1533-1536. 1966.-Cell-free extracts of bacterium TEG-5 grown on tetraethylene glycol dehydrogenated a variety of ether glycols and nonylphenoxy and se...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Payne WJ,Todd RL

更新日期：1966-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An inorganic pyrophosphatase was purified over 600-fold to homogeneity as judged by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. The enzyme is a tetramer of Mr = 84,000, has a sedimentation coefficient of 5.8S, a Stokes radius of 3.5 nm, and an isoelectric point of 5.7. Like the enzyme of Escherichia coli, the pyrophosphatase ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Verhoeven JA,Schenck KM,Meyer RR,Trela JM

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The morphology, on MacConkey's agar, of colonies of the bacteria commonly found in enteric specimens is sufficiently characteristic and distinctive, when observed with transmitted oblique illumination and a low-power stereoscopic microscope, to enable identification at the generic (and occasionally the species) level ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Finkelstein RA,Punyashthiti K

更新日期：1967-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caulobacter crescentus trp mutants were identified from a collection of auxotrophs. Precursor feeding experiments, accumulation studies, and complementation experiments resulted in the identification of six genes corresponding to trpA, trpB, trpC, trpD, trpE, and trpF. Genetic mapping experiments demonstrated that the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Winkler ME,Schoenlein PV,Ross CM,Barrett JT,Ely B

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In streptococcal species, the key step of competence development is the transcriptional induction of comX, which encodes the alternative sigma factor sigma(X), which positively regulates genes necessary for DNA transformation. In Streptococcus species belonging to the mitis and mutans groups, induction of comX relies ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fontaine L,Boutry C,de Frahan MH,Delplace B,Fremaux C,Horvath P,Boyaval P,Hols P

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetate kinase catalyzes the reversible phosphorylation of acetate (CH3COO- + ATP<-->CH3CO2PO3(2-) + ADP). A mechanism which involves a covalent phosphoryl-enzyme intermediate has been proposed, and chemical modification studies of the enzyme from Escherichia coli indicate an unspecified glutamate residue is phosphory...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Singh-Wissmann K,Ingram-Smith C,Miles RD,Ferry JG

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small subunit rRNA sequences have been determined for 10 of the most clinically important pathogenic species of the yeast genus Candida (including Torulopsis [Candida] glabrata and Yarrowia [Candida] lipolytica) and for Hansenula polymorpha. Phylogenetic analyses of these sequences and those of Saccharomyces cerevisia...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barns SM,Lane DJ,Sogin ML,Bibeau C,Weisburg WG

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA damage-inducible DNA replication in SOS-induced Escherichia coli cells, termed inducible stable DNA replication (iSDR), has previously been shown to require either the RecBCD or the RecE pathway of homologous recombination for initiation. Here, we demonstrate that recB recC sbcC quadruple mutant cells are capable ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Asai T,Kogoma T

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The response of Salmonella typhimurium to various forms of environmental stress was examined by using O'Farrell two-dimensional gel electrophoresis. Polypeptides (a total of 110) which quantitatively increased during various starvations, anaerobiosis, or heat shock were identified and cataloged in reference to a stand...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Spector MP,Aliabadi Z,Gonzalez T,Foster JW

更新日期：1986-10-01 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：:Thiamine pyrophosphate (TPP) is a required cofactor in Salmonella typhimurium that is generated de novo by the condensation of 4-amino-5-hydroxymethyl pyrimidine (HMP) pyrophosphate and 4-methyl-5-(beta-hydroxyethyl)-thiazole (THZ) monophosphate. The THZ and HMP moieties are independently synthesized, and labeling stu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Webb E,Claas K,Downs DM

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrolytic deamination of cytosine to uracil in DNA is increased in organisms adapted to high temperatures. Hitherto, the uracil base excision repair (BER) pathway has only been described in two archaeons, the crenarchaeon Pyrobaculum aerophilum and the euryarchaeon Archaeoglobus fulgidus, which are hyperthermophiles ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moen MN,Knævelsrud I,Haugland GT,Grøsvik K,Birkeland NK,Klungland A,Bjelland S

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella pneumophila expresses two peroxide-scavenging alkyl hydroperoxide reductase systems (AhpC1 and AhpC2D) that are expressed differentially during the bacterial growth cycle. Functional loss of the postexponentially expressed AhpC1 system is compensated for by increased expression of the exponentially expresse...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： LeBlanc JJ,Brassinga AK,Ewann F,Davidson RJ,Hoffman PS

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The heptapeptide-nucleotide microcin C (McC) targets aspartyl-tRNA synthetase. Upon its entry into a susceptible cell, McC is processed to release a nonhydrolyzable aspartyl-adenylate that inhibits aspartyl-tRNA synthetase, leading to the cessation of translation and cell growth. Here, we surveyed Escherichia coli cel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kazakov T,Vondenhoff GH,Datsenko KA,Novikova M,Metlitskaya A,Wanner BL,Severinov K

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid pUB110 was previously used as a vector to clone fragments of deoxyribonucleic acid that complement the trpC2 mutation in Bacillus subtilis from endonuclease EcoRI digested B. licheniformis, B. pumilus, and B. subtilis cellular deoxyribonucleic acid. Each of several such trp plasmids was subsequently shown to c...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Keggins KM,Lovett PS,Marrero R,Hoch SO

更新日期：1979-09-01 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：:Osmotic stress was found to induce biofilm formation in a Staphylococcus aureus mucosal isolate. Inactivation of a global regulator of the bacterial stress response, the alternative transcription factor sigma(B), resulted in a biofilm-negative phenotype and loss of salt-induced biofilm production. Complementation of t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rachid S,Ohlsen K,Wallner U,Hacker J,Hecker M,Ziebuhr W

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The AraC homolog ToxT coordinately regulates virulence gene expression in Vibrio cholerae. ToxT is required for transcriptional activation of the genes encoding cholera toxin and the toxin coregulated pilus, among others. In this work we focused on the interaction of ToxT with the tcpA promoter and investigated the me...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hulbert RR,Taylor RK

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure is described for the purification of the cores of flagella sheared from Vibrio cholerae. V. cholerae is a monotrichous organism whose flagellar core (FC) is enclosed within a sheath. The purification procedure consists of several cycles of differential centrifugation and cesium chloride density-gradient ul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yang GC,Schrank GD,Freeman BA

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00