Abstract:
:The buoyant density in rapidly growing Streptococcus faecium 9790 cells varies over the cell cycle, in contrast to the density in Escherichia coli. Buoyant density in S. faecium was measured by using Percoll (Pharmacia Fine Chemicals, Piscataway, N.J.) density gradients. We found that the mean and coefficient of variation of the population density increased with growth rate; and within a population, the mean cell volume, which was measured electronically, increased with density. These results were compared with electron microscopic measurements of the size distributions of cell wall growth sites within each fraction of the density gradient. As the density increased within a population, the frequency of large cells increased and the frequency of newly initiated cell wall growth sites increased. These effects were more marked as the growth rate increased. Next, these data were regrouped by cell size by using the size of the central growth site as an index of cell cycle stage. Each frequency value was weighted by the proportion of the population represented by that density fraction. Then, the average buoyant density was calculated for each value of cell size. In all cell populations, the density decreased and then increased as the central site enlarged. Peripheral growth sites were initiated as density reached a maximum. At faster growth rates, density increased more steeply, and new peripheral growth sites opened up at a higher frequency. We suggest that the rate at which density increases during the cell cycle correlates with the initiation of new cell wall growth sites.
journal_name
J Bacterioljournal_title
Journal of bacteriologyauthors
Glaser D,Higgins Mdoi
10.1128/jb.171.2.669-673.1989subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1989-02-01 00:00:00pages
669-73issue
2eissn
0021-9193issn
1098-5530journal_volume
171pub_type
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.86.4.673-680.1963
更新日期:1963-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1993-02-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1982-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.117.3.1017-1022.1974
更新日期:1974-03-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2004-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2008-11-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2015-02-15 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:1967-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.182.6.1641-1649.2000
更新日期:2000-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Thiobacillus neapolitanus, when grown in continuous culture with thiosulfate limiting growth, possessed an apparent maximal molar growth yield of 8.0 g (dry weight) per mole of thiosulfate. The substrate requirement for energy of maintenance was the highest yet reported, amounting to 21.8 mmoles of thiosulfate per g p...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.93.3.874-878.1967
更新日期:1967-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.108.3.1181-1191.1971
更新日期:1971-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.180.5.1037-1043.1998
更新日期:1998-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.01418-13
更新日期:2014-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.164.2.947-949.1985
更新日期:1985-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Beta toxin is a neutral sphingomyelinase secreted by certain strains of Staphylococcus aureus. This virulence factor lyses erythrocytes in order to evade the host immune system as well as scavenge nutrients. The structure of beta toxin was determined at 2.4-A resolution using crystals that were merohedrally twinned. T...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.00741-07
更新日期:2007-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.151.1.127-134.1982
更新日期:1982-07-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.117.1.48-55.1974
更新日期:1974-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.90.5.1265-1270.1965
更新日期:1965-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::To assess the contributions of single-strand DNases (ssDNases) to recombination in a recBCD+ background, we studied 31 strains with all combinations of null alleles of exonuclease I (delta xon), exonuclease VII (xseA), RecJ DNase (recJ), and SbcCD DNase (sbcCD) and exonuclease I mutant alleles xonA2 and sbcB15. The xs...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.01052-07
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The importance of proton movements was assessed in the moderate halophile Vibrio costicola. When anaerobic cells in acidic buffer (pH 6.5) were given an O2 pulse, protons were extruded regardless of the presence of Na+. At pH 8.5, however, V. costicola produced an acidic response to an O2 pulse in the absence of Na+ a...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.161.2.681-686.1985
更新日期:1985-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Howard, Dexter H. (University of California, Los Angeles). Intracellular behavior of Histoplasma capsulatum. J. Bacteriol. 87:33-38. 1964.-The tinctorial characteristics and intracellular generation time of Histoplasma capsulatum within mouse histiocytes maintained in tissue culture were studied. The appearance of via...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.87.1.33-38.1964
更新日期:1964-01-01 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
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.180.8.2160-2166.1998
更新日期:1998-04-01 00:00:00
abstract::Razin, S. (University of Connecticut, Storrs), M. E. Tourtellotte, R. N. McElhaney, and J. D. Pollack. Influence of lipid components of Mycoplasma laidlawii membranes on osmotic fragility of cells. J. Bacteriol. 91:609-616. 1966.-Lipid composition of Mycoplasma laidlawii membranes could be significantly changed by var...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.91.2.609-616.1966
更新日期:1966-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bacteroides fragilis synthesizes eight distinct capsular polysaccharides, more than any described bacterium outside the order Bacteroidales. Here, we show that this organism also produces a high-molecular-weight extracellular polysaccharide (EPS). Expression of the EPS results in the formation of a large polysaccharid...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.01519-07
更新日期:2008-02-01 00:00:00
abstract::When titanium(III) citrate was used as electron donor for the reduction of methyl coenzyme M by the methyl coenzyme M methylreductase system of Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum delta H, component A1 was no longer required. The simpler system thus obtained required components A2, A3, and C as well as catalytic amou...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/jb.170.9.3946-3952.1988
更新日期:1988-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Duerre, John A. (University of North Dakota, Grand Forks), and Patrick J. Buckley. Pigment production from tryptophan by an Achromobacter species. J. Bacteriol. 90:1686-1691. 1965.-A microorganism was isolated from the soil near the University of North Dakota. Biochemical and morphological characteristics indicated th...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.90.6.1686-1691.1965
更新日期:1965-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Microbial communities span many orders of magnitude, ranging in scale from hundreds of cells on a single particle of soil to billions of cells within the lumen of the gastrointestinal tract. Bacterial cells in all habitats are members of densely populated local environments that facilitate competition between neighbor...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1128/JB.00275-16
更新日期:2016-07-28 00:00:00
abstract::We have isolated a mutant of Pseudomonas aeruginosa deficient in fructose 1,6-bisphosphate aldolase activity. This mutant, similar to the mutants deficient in any of the Entner-Doudoroff pathway enzymes, does not allow appreciable alginate formation from glucose and gluconate, but allows alginate synthesis from mannit...
journal_title:Journal of bacteriology
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1128/JB.161.1.458-460.1985
更新日期:1985-01-01 00:00:00