Role of the CheW protein in bacterial chemotaxis: overexpression is equivalent to absence.

abstract：:A naturally occurring constitutive macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B (MLS) resistance plasmid, pNE131, from Staphylococcus epidermidis was chosen to study the molecular basis of constitutive expression. Restriction and functional maps of pNE131 are presented along with the nucleotide sequence of ermM, the gene whi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lampson BC,Parisi JT

更新日期：1986-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Modification of gonococcal deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) was investigated, and the relationship with endonuclease production was explored. Both chromosomal and plasmid DNA from different gonococcal strains, irrespective of their plasmid content, was poorly cleaved by the restriction endonucleases HaeII, HaeIII, SacII, a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Norlander L,Davies JK,Hagblom P,Normark S

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid pE194 has been shown to be rescued by integration after cultivation of infected Bacillus subtilis recE4 cells at a restrictive high temperature. The plasmid is also spontaneously excised from the chromosome at a low frequency by precise or imprecise excision (J. Hofemeister, M. Israeli-Reches, and D. Dubnau, M...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Conrad B,Bashkirov VI,Hofemeister J

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The specificity of chitinase C-1 of Streptomyces griseus HUT 6037 for the hydrolysis of the beta-1,4-glycosidic linkages in partially acetylated chitosan is different from that of other microbial chitinases. In order to study the primary structure of this unique chitinase, the chiC gene specifying chitinase C-1 was cl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ohno T,Armand S,Hata T,Nikaidou N,Henrissat B,Mitsutomi M,Watanabe T

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have discovered an unusual and complex regulatory network used by the phytopathogen Pseudomonas solanacearum to control transcription of eps, which encodes for production of its primary virulence factor, the exopolysaccharide EPS I. The major modules of this network were shown to be three separate signal transducti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang J,Carney BF,Denny TP,Weissinger AK,Schell MA

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rates of thermal denaturation and the molecular weights of the two isofunctional enol-lactone hydrolases (ELH I and ELH II) of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus were determined. The molecular weights of ELH I and ELH II were found by gel filtration to be approximately 24,000 and 21,000, respectively. In crude extract at...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Katagiri M,Wheelis ML

更新日期：1971-05-01 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：:Protein synthesis in Allomyces marcogynus mitospores began at the time of encystment and was required for further germination. The rate of protein synthesis in germinating spores decreased in the absence of ribonucleic acid synthesis relative to the uninhibited control. There was a concomitant decrease in polysome con...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith BA,Burke DD

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A colorimetric assay was developed for studying the kinetics of iron oxidation with whole cells of the chemoautotroph, Ferrobacillus ferrooxidans. The assay was more advantageous than the conventional method of Warburg manometry because of its simplicity, rapidity, and the small amount of cells required. The assay mea...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schnaitman CA,Korczynski MS,Lundgren DG

更新日期：1969-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vacuoles project streams of vesicles and membranous tubules into the yeast bud where they fuse, founding the daughter cell organelle, vac5-1, which encodes a truncated form of the Pho80 cyclin, inhibits normal vacuole inheritance. An in vitro inheritance assay which measures the fusion of vacuoles serves as a model fo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nicolson T,Conradt B,Wickner W

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Farrar, W. Edmund, Jr. (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.), Thomas H. Kent, and Van B. Elliott. Lethal gram-negative bacterial superinfection in guinea pigs given bacitracin. J. Bacteriol. 92:496-501. 1966.-Oral administration of a single dose of bacitracin (either 2,000 or 10,000 units) was let...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Farrar WE,Kent TH,Elliott VB

更新日期：1966-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parDE operon, located within the 3.2-kb stabilization region of plasmid RK2, encodes antitoxin (ParD) and toxin (ParE) proteins that stabilize the maintenance of this broad-host-range plasmid via a postsegregational killing mechanism. A ParE protein derivative, designated ParE', was purified by construction of a f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson EP,Strom AR,Helinski DR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of exogenous reducing agents on a number of biological properties of purified Chlamydia trachomatis LGV-434 and Chlamydia psittaci meningopneumonitis elementary bodies (EBs) have been examined in an attempt to identify in vitro correlates of early events in the differentiation of the infectious EB to the r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hackstadt T,Todd WJ,Caldwell HD

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many bacteria, the ferric uptake regulator (Fur) protein plays a central role in the regulation of iron uptake genes. Because iron figures prominently in the agriculturally important symbiosis between soybean and its nitrogen-fixing endosymbiont Bradyrhizobium japonicum, we wanted to assess the role of Fur in the i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Benson HP,LeVier K,Guerinot ML

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ShdA is a large outer membrane protein of the autotransporter family whose passenger domain binds the extracellular matrix proteins fibronectin and collagen I, possibly by mimicking the host ligand heparin. The ShdA passenger domain consists of approximately 1,500 amino acid residues that can be divided into two regio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kingsley RA,Abi Ghanem D,Puebla-Osorio N,Keestra AM,Berghman L,Bäumler AJ

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Construction and characterization of a class of multicopy plasmid cloning vehicles containing the replication system of miniplasmid P15A are described. The constructed plasmids have cleavage sites within antibiotic resistance genes for a variety of commonly employed site-specific endonucleases, permitting convenient u...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang AC,Cohen SN

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A RecA-independent chromosomal rearrangement in the upstream region of the streptolysin O (slo) gene of Streptococcus pyogenes which affects slo expression was identified. PCR analysis was used to demonstrate that this kind of rearrangement was found in several strains of different lineages. Chromosomal loci involved ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Savic DJ,Ferretti JJ

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:LéJohn, Herbert B. (Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind.), and James S. Lovett. Ribonucleic acid and protein synthesis in Rhizophlyctis rosea zoospores. J. Bacteriol. 91:709-717. 1966.-The uniflagellate zoospores of Rhizophlyctis rosea display active motility and a high endogenous respiratory metabolism, but neither gro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Léjohn HB,Lovett JS

更新日期：1966-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In contrast to previous findings, we demonstrate that the dissimilatory (bi)sulfite reductase genes (dsrAB) of Desulfobacula toluolica were vertically inherited. Furthermore, Desulfobacterium anilini and strain mXyS1 were identified, by dsrAB sequencing of 17 reference strains, as members of the donor lineage for thos...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zverlov V,Klein M,Lücker S,Friedrich MW,Kellermann J,Stahl DA,Loy A,Wagner M

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A clinical isolate of Staphylococcus aureus was found to be tolerant (MBC much greater than MIC) to a number of beta-lactam antibiotics, including oxacillin. Biophotometric analysis showed that a number of concentrations of oxacillin were capable of stimulating rapid cellular lysis in this organism, but the extent of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jablonski PE,Mychajlonka M

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A protein homooligomer was purified from both the cell envelope fractions and the saline extracts of Rhodopseudomonas sphaeroides cells. This oligomer exhibited strong porin activity when reconstituted into proteoliposomes with egg phosphatidylcholine. In the saline extracts of both chemotrophically and phototrophical...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Weckesser J,Zalman LS,Nikaido H

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of mitomycin C induction to 114 genetically diverse Streptococcus agalactiae strains generated 36 phage suspensions. On electron microscopy of the phage suspensions, it was possible to assign the phages to the Siphoviridae family, with three different morphotypes (A, B, and C). Phage genetic diversity ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Domelier AS,van der Mee-Marquet N,Sizaret PY,Héry-Arnaud G,Lartigue MF,Mereghetti L,Quentin R

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Here, we present the complete genome sequence of Rhodococcus pyridinivorans AK37 strain NCAIM PB1376, which was isolated from an oil-polluted site in Hungary. R. pyridinivorans AK37 is an aerobic, nonsporulating, nonmotile, gram-positive bacterium with remarkable aromatic-decomposing activity. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kriszt B,Táncsics A,Cserháti M,Tóth Á,Nagy I,Horváth B,Nagy I,Tamura T,Kukolya J,Szoboszlay S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the further utilization of a genetic screen that identifies mutations defective in the assembly of proteins into the Escherichia coli cytoplasmic membrane. The screen yielded mutations in each of the known genes encoding components of the E. coli signal recognition particle pathway: ffh, ffs, and ftsY, whi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tian H,Beckwith J

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the DNA sequence and biological analysis of a mycobacterial mercury resistance operon encoding a novel Hg(2+) transporter. MerH was found to transport mercuric ions in Escherichia coli via a pair of essential cysteine residues but only when coexpressed with the mercuric reductase. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schué M,Dover LG,Besra GS,Parkhill J,Brown NL

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes is a gram-positive, psychotrophic, food-borne pathogen which is able to grow in osmotically stressful environments. Carnitine (beta-hydroxy-L-tau-N-trimethyl aminobutyrate) can contribute significantly to growth of L. monocytogenes at high osmolarity (R. R. Beumer, M. C. te Giffel, L. J. Cox, F....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Verheul A,Rombouts FM,Beumer RR,Abee T

更新日期：1995-06-01 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：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：:The Escherichia coli purine repressor, PurR, binds to a 16-bp operator sequence and coregulates the genes for de novo synthesis of purine and pyrimidine nucleotides, formation of a one-carbon unit for biosynthesis, and deamination of cytosine. We have characterized the purified repressor. Chemical cross-linking indica...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Choi KY,Zalkin H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-methylcytosine in chromosomal DNA represents a potential source of frequent spontaneous mutation for hyperthermophiles. To determine the relevance of this threat for the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, the mode of GGCC methylation by its restriction-modification system, SuaI, was investigated. Distinct isoschizo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grogan DW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00