Transglycosylase and endopeptidase participate in the degradation of murein during autolysis of Escherichia coli.

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

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis mutants deficient in amino acid repression of the histidine utilization (hut) operon were isolated by transposon mutagenesis. Genetic characterization of these mutants indicated that they most likely contained transposon insertions within the codVWXY operon. The codY gene is required for nutritional ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fisher SH,Rohrer K,Ferson AE

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterium was isolated by elective culture with p-hydroxybenzoate as substrate and nitrate as electron acceptor. It grew either aerobically or anaerobically, by nitrate respiration, on a range of aromatic compounds. The organism was identified as a pseudomonad and was given the trivial name Pseudomonas PN-1. Benzoat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taylor BF,Campbell WL,Chinoy I

更新日期：1970-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation of highly purified membrane fractions from phototrophically grown Rhodospirillum rubrum was achieved by velocity and isopyknic sedimentation under carefully controlled ionic conditions. Bacteriochlorophyll-rich and succinic dehydrogenase-rich chromatophores that were essentially devoid of contamination by no...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Collins ML,Niederman RA

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Salmonella typhimurium, three groups of genes located in rfb, rfe, and rff clusters are known to be involved in the biosynthesis of the enterobacterial common antigen. We found that enzymatic synthesis of uridine diphosphate N-acetylmannosaminouric acid, the activated form of a constituent sugar of the common antig...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lew HC,Nikaido H,Mäkelä PH

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Independently controlled, inducible, catabolic genes in Pseudomonas aeruginosa are subject to strong catabolite repression control by intermediates of the tricarboxylic acid cycle. Mutants which exhibited a pleiotropic loss of catabolite repression control of multiple pathways were isolated. The mutations mapped in th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wolff JA,MacGregor CH,Eisenberg RC,Phibbs PV Jr

更新日期：1991-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tat system is a recently discovered protein export pathway that serves to translocate folded proteins, often containing redox cofactors, across the bacterial cytoplasmic membrane. Here we report that tat strains are associated with a mutant cell septation phenotype, where chains of up to 10 cells are evident. Muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stanley NR,Findlay K,Berks BC,Palmer T

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wild-type Escherichia coli cells are unable to grow on beta-glucosides. Spontaneous mutants arise, however, which are able to utilize certain aromatic beta-glucosides such as salicin or arbutin as carbon sources, revealing the presence of a cryptic operon called bgl. Mutations activating the operon map within (or clos...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schnetz K,Toloczyki C,Rak B

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Virus-host interactions are regulated by complex coevolutionary dynamics. In Streptococcus pneumoniae, phase-variable type I restriction-modification (R-M) systems are part of the core genome. We hypothesized that the ability of the R-M systems to switch between six target DNA specificities also has a key role in prev...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Furi L,Crawford LA,Rangel-Pineros G,Manso AS,De Ste Croix M,Haigh RD,Kwun MJ,Engelsen Fjelland K,Gilfillan GD,Bentley SD,Croucher NJ,Clokie MR,Oggioni MR

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus alternates between two colony types distinguished by colony morphology and pigmentation. Because the two phases are interconvertible, this phenomenon has been termed phase variation. In one phase, the colonies are bright yellow, rough, and swarming. In the alternate phase, the colonies...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Laue BE,Gill RE

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate bacteriophages play an important role in the pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus, for instance, by mediating the horizontal gene transfer of virulence factors. Here we established a classification scheme for staphylococcal prophages of the major Siphoviridae family based on integrase gene polymorphism. Se...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goerke C,Pantucek R,Holtfreter S,Schulte B,Zink M,Grumann D,Bröker BM,Doskar J,Wolz C

更新日期：2009-06-01 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：:2-Aminonumconic 6-semialdehyde is an unstable intermediate in the biodegradation of nitrobenzene and 2-aminophenol by Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes JS45. Previous work has shown that enzymes in cell extracts convert 2-aminophenol to 2-aminomuconate in the presence of NAD+. In the present work, 2-aminomuconic semialdeh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： He Z,Davis JK,Spain JC

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The copy number of 2 mu DNA-derived plasmids in CIR+ Saccharomyces cerevisiae transformants is determined by its selective marker and is usually much lower than that of the endogenous plasmid. Only plasmids containing the leu2 allele of pJDB219, designated as leu2-d, under selective conditions displayed a higher copy ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Erhart E,Hollenberg CP

更新日期：1983-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides producing thymine-requiring mutants (thy), trimethoprim (TMP) cured the mini-ColE1 replicon pML21 at an appreciable frequency. The cured Escherichia coli K-12 cells behaved like polA mutants by failing to support the stable maintenance of the ColE1 plasmid. The mini-F replicon pSC138, which was lacking all thr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mukhopadhyay P,Palchaudhuri S

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutans of Pseudomonas testosteroni were isolated for their inability to grow on m-hydroxybenzoate as sole carbon source. These mutants hydroxylated m-hydroxybenzoate for form 2,3-dihydroxybenzoate in high yeilds. The bioconversion described in this report represents the first reported example of 3-hydroxybenzoate 2-hy...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Daumy GO,McColl AS,Andrews GC

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phase variation is important in bacterial pathogenesis, since it generates antigenic variation for the evasion of immune responses and provides a strategy for quick adaptation to environmental changes. In this study, a Helicobacter pylori clone, designated MOD525, was identified that displayed phase-variable lacZ expr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： de Vries N,Duinsbergen D,Kuipers EJ,Pot RG,Wiesenekker P,Penn CW,van Vliet AH,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,Kusters JG

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spo0A is a DNA binding protein in Bacillus subtilis required for the activation of spoIIG and other promoters at the onset of endospore formation. Activation of some of these promoters may involve interaction of Spo0A and the sigmaA subunit of RNA polymerase. Previous studies identified two single-amino-acid substitut...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Buckner CM,Schyns G,Moran CP Jr

更新日期：1998-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Archaea are abundant and drive critical microbial processes in the Earth's cold biosphere. Despite this, not enough is known about the molecular mechanisms of cold adaptation and no biochemical studies have been performed on stenopsychrophilic archaea (e.g., Methanogenium frigidum). This study examined the structural ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Giaquinto L,Curmi PM,Siddiqui KS,Poljak A,DeLong E,DasSarma S,Cavicchioli R

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arylamine N-acetyltransferase activity has been described in various bacterial species. Bacterial N-acetyltransferases, including those from bacteria of the gut flora, may be involved in the metabolism of xenobiotics, thereby exerting physiopathological effects. We characterized these enzymes further by steady-state k...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Deloménie C,Fouix S,Longuemaux S,Brahimi N,Bizet C,Picard B,Denamur E,Dupret JM

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 16-kb BamHI fragment of the lactose plasmid pNZ63 from Leuconostoc lactis NZ6009 was cloned in Escherichia coli MC1061 by using pACYC184 and was found to express a functional beta-galactosidase. Deletion and complementation analysis showed that the coding region for beta-galactosidase was located on a 5.8-kb SalI-Ba...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： David S,Stevens H,van Riel M,Simons G,de Vos WM

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psbAII gene of the cyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. strain PCC 7942 is a member of a three-gene family that encodes the D1 protein of the photosystem II reaction center. Transcription of psbAII is rapidly induced when the light intensity reaching the culture increases from 125 microE.m-2.s-1 (low light) to 750 mic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li R,Dickerson NS,Mueller UW,Golden SS

更新日期：1995-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyze in molecular terms how Sulfolobus genomes diverge, damage-induced mutations and natural polymorphisms (PMs) were identified in laboratory constructs and wild-type isolates, respectively, of Sulfolobus acidocaldarius Among wild-type isolates drawn from one local population, pairwise nucleotide diver...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mao D,Grogan DW

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Assays of CDP-glycerol:poly(glycerophosphate) glycerophosphotransferase (CGPTase) (EC 2.7.8.12) in membranes isolated from Bacillus subtilis 168 wild type and 11 strains bearing conditional lethal thermosensitive mutations in tagB, tagD, or tagF revealed that CGPTase deficiency was associated only with mutant tagF all...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pooley HM,Abellan FX,Karamata D

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzoyl coenzyme A (benzoyl-CoA) reductase is a key enzyme in the anaerobic metabolism of aromatic compounds catalyzing the ATP-driven reductive dearomatization of benzoyl-CoA. The enzyme from Thauera aromatica uses a reduced 2[4Fe-4S] ferredoxin as electron donor. In this work, we identified 2-oxoglutarate:ferredoxin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dörner E,Boll M

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Veillonella parvula M4, which grows readily in lactate broth without a requirement for carbon dioxide, has been isolated from the oral cavity. Anaerobic, washed cells of this organism fermented sodium lactate to the following products (moles/100 moles of lactate): propionate, 66; acetate, 40; carbon dioxid...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ng SK,Hamilton IR

更新日期：1971-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ornithine lipid of Thiobacillus thiooxidans was found to be 1.9% of the total polar lipids. Approximately 80% of this lipid was found to be localized in the outer membrane. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dees C,Shively JM

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methicillin resistance in staphylococci is mediated by PBP2a, a penicillin binding protein with low affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics. The gene encoding PBP2a, mecA, is transcriptionally regulated in some clinical isolates by mecR1 and mecI, genes divergently transcribed from mecA that encode a signal transducer an...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sharma VK,Hackbarth CJ,Dickinson TM,Archer GL

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The surface structure and cell envelope layers of various virulent Bacteroides nodosus strains were examined by light microscopy and by electron microscopy by using negative staining, thin-section, and freeze-fracture-etch techniques. Three surface structures were described: pili and a diffuse material, both of which ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Every D,Skerman TM

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The roles of three TATA binding protein (TBP) homologs (TBP1, TBP2, and TBP3) in the archaeon Methanosarcina acetivorans were investigated by using genetic and molecular approaches. Although tbp2 and tbp3 deletion mutants were readily obtained, a tbp1 mutant was not obtained, and the growth of a conditional tbp1 expre...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Reichlen MJ,Murakami KS,Ferry JG

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00