F plasmid ccd mechanism in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:We describe the isolation and characterization of amber mutations in the lexA gene of Escherichia coli K-12. These mutations, designated spr(Am), were isolated and characterized in a lexA tif sfi genetic background. They abolished the sensitivity of the strain to UV light and resulted in high rates of synthesis of rec...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pacelli LZ,Edmiston SH,Mount DW

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium sporogenes PA 3679 is widely used as a nontoxigenic surrogate for proteolytic strains of Clostridium botulinum in the derivation and validation of thermal processes in food. Here we report the draft assembly and annotation of the C. sporogenes PA 3679 genome. Preliminary analysis demonstrates a high degree...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bradbury M,Greenfield P,Midgley D,Li D,Tran-Dinh N,Vriesekoop F,Brown JL

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavin-based electron bifurcation has recently been characterized as an essential energy conservation mechanism that is utilized by hydrogenotrophic methanogenic Archaea to generate low-potential electrons in an ATP-independent manner. Electron bifurcation likely takes place at the flavin associated with the α subunit...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Costa KC,Lie TJ,Xia Q,Leigh JA

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Herbaspirillum sp. strain GW103 was isolated from rhizosphere soil of the reed Phragmites australis on reclaimed land. Here we report the 5.05-Mb draft genome sequence of the strain, providing bioinformation about the agronomic benefits of this strain, such as multiple traits relevant to plant root colonization and pl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee GW,Lee KJ,Chae JC

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Walls of Mortierella parvispora, Pullularia pullulans, Absidia repens, Fusarium oxysporum, and of several Penicillium species varied in their susceptibilities to digestion by glucanase and chitinase. Polysaccharides were present in the residues remaining after enzymatic digestion. Acid hydrolysates of the walls contai...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Pengra RM,Cole MA,Alexander M

更新日期：1969-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the Streptococcus bovis group are important causes of endocarditis. However, factors associated with their pathogenicity, such as adhesins, remain uncharacterized. We recently demonstrated that endocarditis-derived Streptococcus gallolyticus subsp. gallolyticus isolates frequently adhere to extracellular ma...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sillanpää J,Nallapareddy SR,Qin X,Singh KV,Muzny DM,Kovar CL,Nazareth LV,Gibbs RA,Ferraro MJ,Steckelberg JM,Weinstock GM,Murray BE

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gough, Michael (Brown University, Providence, R.I.), and Seymour Lederberg. Methylated bases in the host-modified deoxyribonucleic acid of Escherichia coli and bacteriophage lambda. J. Bacteriol. 91:1460-1468. 1966.-The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) from strains of Escherichia coli and phage lambda was examined to deter...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gough M,Lederberg S

更新日期：1966-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During sporulation, the Bacillus subtilis transcription factor sigmaK is activated by regulated proteolytic processing. I have used a system that facilitates the analysis of the contributions of a modified form of the processing enzyme, SpoIVFB-GFP, and the regulatory proteins BofA and SpoIVFA to the conversion of pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Resnekov O

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have identified and characterized enzymes of phospholipid synthesis in two plasmalogen-rich anaerobes. Megasphaera elsdenii and Veillonella parvula, and one anaerobe lacking plasmalogens. Desulfovibrio vulgaris. All three species contained phosphatidate cytidylyltransferase and phosphatidylserine synthase. Phosphat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Silber P,Borie RP,Mikowski EJ,Goldfine H

更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The vir-type IV secretion system of Agrobacterium is assembled from 12 proteins encoded by the virB operon and virD4. VirB1 is one of the least-studied proteins encoded by the virB operon. Its N terminus is a lytic transglycosylase. The C-terminal third of the protein, VirB1*, is cleaved from VirB1 and secreted to the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zupan J,Hackworth CA,Aguilar J,Ward D,Zambryski P

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell division in Caulobacter crescentus involves constriction and fission of the inner membrane (IM) followed about 20 min later by fission of the outer membrane (OM) and daughter cell separation. In contrast to Escherichia coli, the Caulobacter Tol-Pal complex is essential. Cryo-electron microscopy images of the Caul...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yeh YC,Comolli LR,Downing KH,Shapiro L,McAdams HH

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the involvement of bacterial catalases of the symbiotic gram-negative bacterium Rhizobium meliloti in the development of Medicago-Rhizobium functional nodules, we cloned a putative kat gene by screening a cosmid library with a catalase-specific DNA probe amplified by PCR from the R. meliloti genome. Nuc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hérouart D,Sigaud S,Moreau S,Frendo P,Touati D,Puppo A

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Estrada-Parra, Sergio (Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, México, D.F., México), Abel Zamora, and L. F. Bojalil. Immunochemistry of the group-specific polysaccharide of Nocardia brasiliensis. J. Bacteriol. 90:571-574. 1965.-The group-specific polysaccharide of Nocardia brasiliensis was further purified, yielding...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Estrada-Parra S,Zamora A,Bojalil LF

更新日期：1965-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ultrastructure of the cytoplasmic membrane and cell wall of two strains of Escherichia coli, Proteus morganii, P. vulgaris, Acinetobacter anitratum, Moraxella lacunata, Erwinia amylovora, Acinetobacter sp., and of a plant pathogen, unclassified gram-negative, fixed by the Ryter-Kellenberger procedure, was found to...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Silva MT,Sousa JC

更新日期：1973-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The BacA protein is essential for the long-term survival of Sinorhizobium meliloti and Brucella abortus within acidic compartments in plant and animal cells, respectively. Since both the S. meliloti and B. abortus bacA mutants have an increased resistance to bleomycin, it was hypothesized that BacA was a transporter o...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ferguson GP,Roop RM 2nd,Walker GC

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ftsZ gene of Escherichia coli, which lies in a cluster of cell division genes at 2 min on the genetic map, codes for a protein which is thought to play a key role in triggering cell division. Using an ftsZ::lacZ operon fusion, we have studied the transcription of the ftsZ gene under conditions in which cell divisi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Robin A,Joseleau-Petit D,D'Ari R

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mecA-27r gene, which encodes PBP2a-27r, was modified by site-specific mutagenesis, resulting in replacement of the N-terminal membrane anchor with a short chelating peptide (CP-PBP2a-27r). CP-PBP2a-27r retained the same binding affinity for beta-lactam antibiotics as the wild-type enzyme. Approximately 95% pure CP...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wu CY,Blaszczak LC,Smith MC,Skatrud PL

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cefsulodin lyses actively growing Escherichia coli by binding specifically to penicillin-binding proteins (PBPs) 1a and 1b. Recent findings (F. García del Portillo, M. A. de Pedro, D. Joseleau-Petit, and R. D'Ari, J. Bacteriol. 171:4217-4221, 1989) have linked cefsulodin-induced lysis to septation during the first div...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jacoby GH,Young KD

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Broad-host-range plasmids and cloning vectors were conjugatively transferred to Acetobacter xylinum. One of the plasmids, RP4::Mu cts61, was used for the insertion of Tn1 into the 16-, 44-, and 64-kilobase-pair plasmids of A. xylinum. The Tn1-labeled plasmids could be mobilized by a helper plasmid. Many of the Tn1 ins...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Valla S,Coucheron DH,Kjosbakken J

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence obtained with an improved in vivo assay of fimbrial phase variation in Escherichia coli supported a revised understanding of the roles of fimB and fimE in the site-specific DNA rearrangement with which they are associated. A previously proposed model argued that fimB and fimE play antagonistic, unidirectional...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： McClain MS,Blomfield IC,Eisenstein BI

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The WalRK two-component system plays important roles in maintaining cell wall homeostasis and responding to antibiotic stress in low-GC Gram-positive bacteria. In the major human pathogen, Streptococcus pneumoniae, phosphorylated WalR(Spn) (VicR) response regulator positively controls the transcription of genes encodi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gutu AD,Wayne KJ,Sham LT,Winkler ME

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An in vitro system based on extracts of Escherichia coli infected with bacteriophage T7 was used to study genetic deletions between directly repeated sequences. The frequency of deletion was highest under conditions in which the DNA was actively replicating. Deletion frequency increased markedly with the length of the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kong D,Masker W

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Agrobacterium rhizogenes strain 15834, which incites hairy root disease in plants, harbors three large plasmids: pAr15834a (107 x 10(6) daltons), pAr15834b (154 x 10(6) daltons), and pAr15834c (258 x 10(6) daltons). Kanamycin-resistant transconjugants were selected in a cross of kanamycin-resistant derivate of strain ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： White FF,Nester EW

更新日期：1980-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli strain cs2-68 is a cold-sensitive (c) mutant that forms a long filamentous cell at 20 degrees C with a large nucleoid mass in its central region. We have recently shown that the pcsA68 mutation causing the cs phenotype is a single-base substitution within the dinD gene, a DNA damage-inducible gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yasuda T,Nagata T,Ohmori H

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aquatic bacterium Caulobacter crescentus attaches to solid surfaces through an adhesive holdfast located at the tip of its polar stalk, a thin cylindrical extension of the cell membrane. In this paper, the elastic properties of the C. crescentus stalk and holdfast assembly were studied by using video light microsc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Li G,Smith CS,Brun YV,Tang JX

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli K-12 mtr gene, which encodes a tryptophan-specific permease, was cloned, and its nucleotide sequence was determined. The precise location of the mtr gene at 69 min on the E. coli chromosome was determined. The mtr gene product was identified as a 414-amino-acid residue protein with a calculated mo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sarsero JP,Wookey PJ,Pittard AJ

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nearly every known species of Eubacteria encodes a homolog of the Borrelia burgdorferi EbfC DNA-binding protein. We now demonstrate that fluorescently tagged EbfC associates with B. burgdorferi nucleoids in vivo and that chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) of wild-type EbfC showed it to bind in vivo to sites througho...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jutras BL,Bowman A,Brissette CA,Adams CA,Verma A,Chenail AM,Stevenson B

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma virus L2 is subject to host-specific restriction and modification in Acholeplasma laidlawii strains JA1 and K2. We have examined the DNAs from both host cells and viruses propagated on these strains with respect to susceptibility to cleavage by restriction endonucleases and for DNA base modifications. We sh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dybvig K,Swinton D,Maniloff J,Hattman S

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Shiga toxin operon (stx) is composed of two genes for the A and B subunits, which are transcribed from a promoter 5' to the stxA gene. The 1A:5B subunit stoichiometry of the holotoxin suggests that the stxA and stxB genes are differentially regulated. In a previous study, we demonstrated the existence of a second ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Habib NF,Jackson MP

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Faithful DNA replication involves the removal of RNA residues from genomic DNA prior to the ligation of nascent DNA fragments in all living organisms. Because the physiological roles of archaeal type 2 RNase H are not fully understood, the substrate structure requirements for the detection of RNase H activity need fur...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Le Laz S,Le Goaziou A,Henneke G

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00