Bacterial-type ferredoxin genes in the nitrogen fixation regions of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. strain PCC 7120 and Rhizobium meliloti.

abstract：:The ability to form type 1 fimbriae (Fim(+)) was readily transduced to 159 out of 161 wild-type motile Fim(-) FIRN strains of Salmonella typhimurium with phage P22 propagated on a Fim(+) donor strain. Fim(+) clones were isolated from about 35% of tests after the fimbriate bacteria in the transduction mixture had been ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Old DC,Duguid JP

更新日期：1971-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of carbon source utilization pathways are repressed in Bacillus subtilis by the global regulator CcpA, which also acts as an activator of carbon excretion pathways during growth in media containing glucose. In this study, CcpA mutants defective in transcriptional activation of the alsSD operon, which is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Turinsky AJ,Moir-Blais TR,Grundy FJ,Henkin TM

更新日期：2000-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans produces large amounts of the acyclic pentitol D-arabitol in culture and in infected animals and humans, and most strains also grow on minimal D-arabitol medium. An earlier study showed that the major metabolic precursor of D-arabitol in C. albicans was D-ribulose-5-PO4 from the pentose pathway, that ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wong B,Leeson S,Grindle S,Magee B,Brooks E,Magee PT

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The primary sequence of the small cysteine-rich protein (EnvA) of Chlamydia psittaci 6BC has been shown to possess a potential lipid modification/signal peptidase II-processing site, and the mature protein was labeled by a [3H]palmitic acid precursor. We further characterized the mature EnvA, showing that it lacks the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Everett KD,Desiderio DM,Hatch TP

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two plasmids containing the penicillinase gene of alkalophilic Bacillus sp. strain 170, pEAP1 and pEAP2, were constructed. Most of the penicillinase produced by Escherichia coli, which carried these plasmids, was found in the culture medium. This excretion is caused by the cloned DNA fragment which contains some compo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kudo T,Kato C,Horikoshi K

更新日期：1983-11-01 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：:Legionella pneumophila is the causative agent of the severe and potentially fatal pneumonia Legionnaires' disease. L. pneumophila is able to replicate within macrophages and protozoa by establishing a replicative compartment in a process that requires the Icm/Dot type IVB secretion system. The signals and regulatory p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hovel-Miner G,Pampou S,Faucher SP,Clarke M,Morozova I,Morozov P,Russo JJ,Shuman HA,Kalachikov S

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli W3110 contains four types of IS1 elements in the chromosome. Using an insertion element entrapping system, we collected 116 IS1 plasmid insertion mutants, which resulted from a minimum of 26 independent IS1 insertion events. All of them had insertions of IS1 of the IS1A (IS1E and IS1G) type. Inspectio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chen JH,Hsu WB,Hwang JL

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations (env) which resulted in increased sensitivity of gonococci to diverse compounds were studied by transformation. Strains carrying an env mutation were more sensitive than wild-type strains to several antibiotics, dyes, and detergents. The env mutations resulted in complete phenotypic suppression of low-level ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sarubbi FA Jr,Sparling PF,Blackman E,Lewis E

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes a number of infections in humans, but is best known for its association with cystic fibrosis. It is able to use a wide range of sulfur compounds as sources of sulfur for growth. Gene expression in response to changes in sulfur supply was studied in P. aer...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tralau T,Vuilleumier S,Thibault C,Campbell BJ,Hart CA,Kertesz MA

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We constructed a shuttle vector, pE5-2, which can replicate in both Bacteroides spp. and Escherichia coli. pE5-2 contains a cryptic Bacteroides plasmid (pB8-51), a 3.8-kilobase (kb) EcoRI-D fragment from the 41-kb Bacteroides fragilis plasmid pBF4, and RSF1010, an IncQ E. coli plasmid. pE5-2 was mobilized by R751, an ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shoemaker NB,Guthrie EP,Salyers AA,Gardner JF

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthesis of the Salmonella typhimurium hook protein from the gene cloned on a multicopy plasmid results in partial suppression of the flagellar assembly defects of certain classes of Escherichia coli mutants (K. Ohnishi, M. Homma, K. Kutsukake, and T. Iino, J. Bacteriol, 169:1485-1488, 1987). This phenomenon allowed ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jones CJ,Homma M,Macnab RM

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of 35-S during anaerobic metabolism of [35-S]sulfate, [35-S]thiosulfate, and [35-S]sulfate plus unlabeled thiosulfate by washed cell suspensions of Desulfovibrio spp, and of [35-S]thiosulfate by growing D. desulfuricans was examined. The results appear to be inconsistent with the hypothesis that thiosulfate i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chambers LA,Trudinger PA

更新日期：1975-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experiments presented in this paper suggest that the shift observed in sedimentation of deoxyribonucleic acid from cells of Escherichia coli subjected to amino acid starvation is related to inhibition of ribonucleic acid synthesis rather than to its release from the membrane at the termination of replication. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yaffe E,Grossman N,Ron EZ

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The spirochete Borrelia hermsii, a relapsing fever agent, evades the host's immune response through multiphasic antigenic variation. Antigen switching results from sequential expression of genes for serotype-specific outer membrane proteins known as variable major proteins (Vmp's); of the 25 serotypes that have been i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitten T,Barrera AV,Barbour AG

更新日期：1993-05-01 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：:The phoP-phoQ operon of Salmonella typhimurium is a member of the family of two-component regulatory systems and controls expression of the phoN gene that codes for nonspecific acid phosphatase and the genes involved in the pathogenicity of the bacterium. The phoP-phoQ operon of Escherichia coli was cloned on a plasmi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kasahara M,Nakata A,Shinagawa H

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antigen 43 has been identified as a unique protein complex in the outer membrane of Escherichia coli. The complex contains two different polypeptides, alpha (Mr, 60,000) and beta (Mr, 53,000), in equal stoichiometry (P. Owen, P. Caffrey, and L.-G. Josefsson, J. Bacteriol. 169:3770-3777, 1987). The alpha subunit was re...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Caffrey P,Owen P

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma pneumoniae harvested from media which had become acid lost the ability both to induce formation of tetrazolium reduction inhibition antibody and to act as antigens in immunodiffusion against human convalescent-phase sera. Incorporation of N-tris(hydroxymethyl)-2-aminoethane sulfonic acid and N-2-hydroxyethy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pollack JD,Somerson NL,Senterfit LB

更新日期：1969-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The importance of the physiological state of a culture of Saccharomyces cerevisiae for tolerance to sudden osmotic dehydration was studied, and it was investigated whether specific osmotolerance factors were demonstrable. The microcalorimeter was used to monitor growth, and different physiological states of the cultur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Blomberg A,Larsson C,Gustafsson L

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The model of pneumonia produced by intranasal inoculation of Mycoplasma pulmonis in gnotobiotic mice provided the opportunity to study the localization and identification of the infecting organisms in the tissues by immunofluorescence techniques. Frozen sections of pneumonic mouse lung were fixed in acetone, layered w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Organick AB,Lutsky II

更新日期：1968-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Upon incubation of Agrobacterium tumefaciens A348 with acetosyringone, the vir genes encoded by the Ti (tumor-inducing) plasmid are induced. The addition of certain opines, including octopine, nopaline, leucinopine, and succinamopine, enhanced this induction 2- to 10-fold. The compounds mannopine, acetopine, arginine,...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Veluthambi K,Krishnan M,Gould JH,Smith RH,Gelvin SB

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis, which causes bubonic and pneumonic plague, forms pigmented red colonies on Congo red (CR) dye agar. The hmsHFRS genes required for CR binding (Crb(+)) are genetically linked to virulence-associated genes encoding a siderophore uptake system. These genes are contained in a 102-kb chromosomal pgm locus ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hare JM,McDonough KA

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lysogenization of Salmonella typhimurium with either of the bacteriophages A3 and A4 results in O-acetylation of the L-rhamnose residues of the O-polysaccharide chain of the lipopolysaccharide of the bacterial cell envelope. The O-acetyl group is found on both O-2 and O-3 of the L-rhamnosyl residues. This lysogenic co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wollin R,Stocker BA,Lindberg AA

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stalk synthesis in Caulobacter crescentus is a developmentally controlled and spatially restricted event that requires the synthesis of peptidoglycan at the stalk-cell body junction. We show that the beta-lactam antibiotic mecillinam prevents stalk synthesis by inhibiting stalk elongation. In addition, mecillinam caus...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seitz LC,Brun YV

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis contains two minimal Tat translocases, TatAdCd and TatAyCy, which are each involved in the secretion of one or more specific protein substrates. We have investigated the subcellular localization of the TatA components by employing C-terminal green fluorescent protein (GFP)...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ridder AN,de Jong EJ,Jongbloed JD,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exonuclease III-deficient strain of Escherichia coli K-12, BW2001 (xthA11), was unable to perform rapid repair of X-ray-induced deoxyribonucleic acid single-strand breaks and appeared to have a defect in the priming of the 3'-termini necessary for initiation of repair synthesis at the breaks. This defect cannot be ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seeberg E,Steinum AL

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A procedure to identify genes that are lethal when cloned on multicopy plasmids was developed. It depends on the ability of mini-Mu plasmid elements to be used for both in vivo cloning and generalized transduction of enterobacterial genes. The feasibility of this procedure was demonstrated by using the tetA gene of Tn...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Berg CM,Liu L,Wang B,Wang MD

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The general stress regulon of Bacillus subtilis comprises approximately 200 genes and is under the control of the alternative sigma factor σ(B). The activation of σ(B) occurs in response to multiple physical stress stimuli as well as energy starvation conditions. The expression of the general stress proteins provides ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reder A,Höper D,Gerth U,Hecker M

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several resistant mutants of a transformable group H streptococcus, strain Challis, were isolated from media containing high concentrations of streptomycin. Mutants SR5a and SR5 exhibited high and low transformability, respectively, when exposed to deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from a novobiocin-resistant Challis strain...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perry D

更新日期：1968-01-01 00:00:00