Mutations that define the promoter of ompF, a gene specifying a major outer membrane porin protein.

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：:Studies by R. Lin et al. (J. Bacteriol. 174:1948-1955, 1992) suggested that the Escherichia coli leu operon might be a member of the Lrp regulon. Their results were obtained with a leucine auxotroph; in leucine prototrophs grown in a medium lacking leucine, there was little difference in leu operon expression between ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Landgraf JR,Boxer JA,Calvo JM

更新日期：1999-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts of Bacillus licheniformis and B. cereus were found to contain high specific activities of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate (NADP)-dependent-l-glutamate dehydrogenase [EC 1.4.1.4; l-glutamate: NADP oxidoreductase (deaminating)]. Maximum specific activities were found in extracts of cells d...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Phibbs PV Jr,Bernlohr RW

更新日期：1971-05-01 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：:Macrocysts have been found among strains of Dictyostelium rosarium Raper and Cavender (K. B. Raper and J. C. Cavender, J. Elisha Mitchell Sci. Soc. 84:31-47, 1968). Strains that exhibit mating capabilities could be classified into one of three mating types: A1, A2, or A3. Each mating type was self-incompatible but cro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chang MT,Raper KB

更新日期：1981-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The highly purified lipoprotein of the outer membrane of Escherichia coli forms paracrystals. The ultrastructures of these paracrystals were examined by electron microscopy. The needle-shaped paracrystals show several different band patterns, depending on conditions of paracrystallization. Models are presented to expl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DeMartini M,Inouye S,Inouye M

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although competence normally develops only in glucose-minimal salts media, mecA and mecB mutations permit the expression of competence and of late competence genes in complex media as well (D. Dubnau and M. Roggiani, J. Bacteriol. 172:4048-4055, 1990). The expression of late competence genes is dependent on the produc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Roggiani M,Hahn J,Dubnau D

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The region upstream of the Escherichia coli bgl operon is an insertion hot spot for several transposons. Elements as distantly related as Tn1, Tn5, and phage Mu home in on this location. To see what characteristics result in a high-affinity site for transposition, we compared in vivo and in vitro Mu transposition patt...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Manna D,Wang X,Higgins NP

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis responds to phosphate starvation stress by inducing the PhoP and SigB regulons. While the PhoP regulon provides a specific response to phosphate starvation stress, maximizing the acquisition of phosphate (P(i)) from the environment and reducing the cellular requirement for this essential nutrient, th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Allenby NE,O'Connor N,Prágai Z,Ward AC,Wipat A,Harwood CR

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Type 1 pili of Escherichia coli are the prototype of the somatic class of pili found on many strains of bacteria. As a first step in the genetic analysis of type 1 piliation, an extensive series of nonpiliated derivatives of E. coli K-12 strain AW405, was characterized to produce attached or free pili when examined in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Swaney LM,Liu YP,To CM,To CC,Ippen-Ihler K,Brinton CC Jr

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In growing cultures of Escherichia coli, the nonacylated glycerol of phosphatidylglycerol (PG) is labeled more rapidly than is the acylated glycerol. This is, in part, due to a rapid exchange reaction of the nonacylated glycerol. Only some of the PG molecules undergo this reaction while others are stable. Using a muta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ballesta JP,De Garcia CL,Schaechter M

更新日期：1973-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous bioinformatics-based search for small RNAs in Escherichia coli identified a novel RNA named IS183. The gene encoding this small RNA is located between and on the opposite strand of genes encoding two transcriptional regulators of the acid response, gadX (yhiX) and gadW (yhiW). Given that IS183 is encoded in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Opdyke JA,Kang JG,Storz G

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component regulatory system, composed of virA and virG, is indispensable for transcription of virulence genes within Agrobacterium tumefaciens. However, virA and virG are insufficient to activate transcription from virulence gene promoters within Escherichia coli cells, indicating a requirement for additional ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lohrke SM,Nechaev S,Yang H,Severinov K,Jin SJ

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation by two transcriptional activators of flagellar expression (FlhD and FlhC) and the chemotaxis methyl-accepting protein Aer was studied with glass slide DNA microarrays. An flhD::Kan insertion and an aer deletion were independently introduced into two Escherichia coli K-12 strains, and the effects upon ge...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Prüss BM,Campbell JW,Van Dyk TK,Zhu C,Kogan Y,Matsumura P

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial Gre factors associate with RNA polymerase (RNAP) and stimulate intrinsic cleavage of the nascent transcript at the active site of RNAP. Biochemical and genetic studies to date have shown that Escherichia coli Gre factors prevent transcriptional arrest during elongation and enhance transcription fidelity. Fur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kusuya Y,Kurokawa K,Ishikawa S,Ogasawara N,Oshima T

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ureolytic clinical isolates of Providencia stuartii, Salmonella spp., and some Escherichia coli strains contain large urease-encoding plasmids. Expression of urease activity from these isolates is induced at least 20-fold by urea. In order to facilitate studies on the regulatory mechanism controlling this urea-inducib...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： D'Orazio SE,Collins CM

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces azureus carried one copy or less of plasmid pSA1, which elicited pocks at 0.1 to 1.0%. Strain PK100 was isolated from the wild-type strain after UV irradiation. PK100 carried approximately 20 to 30 copies of pSA1.1, a derivative of pSA1. Plasmid pSA1.1 elicited pocks at 100% and inhibited spore and thiost...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miyoshi YK,Ogata S,Hayashida S

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent work, we described the excision of a large genomic region from Enterococcus faecium D344R in which the sequence from "joint" regions suggested that excision resulted from the interaction of conjugative transposon Tn916 and the related mobile element Tn5386. In the present study, we examined the ability of in...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rice LB,Carias LL,Hutton-Thomas R,Rudin S

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rice pathogen recognition receptor, XA21, confers resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae strains producing the type one system-secreted molecule, AvrXA21. X. oryzae pv. oryzae requires a regulatory two-component system (TCS) called RaxRH to regulate expression of eight rax (required for AvrXA21 activity) gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee SW,Jeong KS,Han SW,Lee SE,Phee BK,Hahn TR,Ronald P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:MobB is a small protein encoded by the broad-host-range plasmid R1162 and required for efficient mobilization of its DNA during conjugation. The protein was shown previously to stabilize the relaxosome, the complex of plasmid DNA and mobilization proteins at the origin of transfer (oriT). We have generated in-frame mo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Perwez T,Meyer RJ

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methylation of DNA at the C-5 position of cytosine occurs in diverse organisms. This modification can increase the rate of C→T transitions at the methylated position. In Escherichia coli and related enteric bacteria, the inner C residues of the sequence CCWGG (W is A or T) are methylated by the Dcm enzyme. These sites...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cherry JL

更新日期：2018-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the transformation of Bacteroides fragilis with plasmid DNA was developed by using the clindamycin resistance plasmid pBFTM10 as the source of transforming DNA. The method was technically simple to perform and resulted in an average of 4.2 X 10(3) transformants per microgram of pBFTM10 added. A method for...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smith CJ

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bfe locus codes for the cell surface receptor for vitamin B12, the E colicins, and bacteriophage BF23 in the Escherichia coli outer membrane. When the bfe+ allele, which is closely linked to the argH locus, was introduced into an argH bfe recipient by conjugation, arg+ recombinant cells rapidly and simultaneously ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bassford PJ Jr,Kadner RJ,Schnaitman CA

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:IS630 is a 1.15-kilobase sequence in Shigella sonnei that, unlike many mobile elements, seems not to mediate cointegration between different replicons. To assess its transposition, we constructed composite elements containing inverted copies of IS630 flanking a drug resistance gene. We found that these composite eleme...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tenzen T,Matsutani S,Ohtsubo E

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic nucleotide-independent protein kinase (EC 2.7.1.37) activity was found in the nuclear cap organelle, within which ribosomes of zoospores of Blastocladiella emersonii are sequestered. Two protein kinase activities were resolved from the high-salt wash fraction of zoospore ribosomes by selective adsorption to DEA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bonato MC,da Costa Maia JC,Juliani MH

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus licheniformis strain 749/C (constitutive for penicillinase formation) and uninduced cells of strain 749 (penicillinase-inducible) were examined after freezeetching. In the early stationary phase, strain 749/C organisms had clusters of vesicles (30 to 40 nm in diameter) on the outer surface of the plasma membr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ghosh BK,Lampen JO,Remsen CC

更新日期：1969-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activities of Bacillus subtilis ribosomes pretreated with 0.5, 1, or 2 mmp-chloromercuribenzoate (PCMB) were examined. The ribosomes treated with 1 or 2 mm PCMB lost their capacity to synthesize polyphenylalanine as well as the capacity to bind phenylalanyl-transfer ribonucleic acid. On the other hand, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ranu RS,Kaji A

更新日期：1972-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isotopic exchange of (35)S between penicillins and 6-amino-penicillanic acid (6-APA) was observed in cell-free extracts of Penicillium chrysogenum. Sulfhydryl-containing compounds were required for activity. Dithiothreitol, dithioerythritol, mercaptoethanol, and glutathione served as activators. The acyltransferase wa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pruess DL,Johnson MJ

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nocardia brasiliensis possess proteolytic activities that can be readily detected in a variety of media. In a modified formulation of a growth medium originally used for Streptomyces aureofaciens, N. brasiliensis was found to secrete proteolytic enzymes, one of which was capable of hydrolyzing casein. This enzyme was ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zlotnik H,Schramm VL,Buckley HR

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major structural components of the P2 contractile tail are encoded in the FETUD tail gene operon. The sequences of genes F(I) and F(II), encoding the major tail sheath and tail tube proteins, have been reported previously (L. M. Temple, S. L. Forsburg, R. Calendar, and G. E. Christie, Virology 181:353-358, 1991). ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Christie GE,Temple LM,Bartlett BA,Goodwin TS

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00