Beta-glucoside (bgl) operon of Escherichia coli K-12: nucleotide sequence, genetic organization, and possible evolutionary relationship to regulatory components of two Bacillus subtilis genes.

abstract：:Cultures of a stable L-phase variant of Streptococcus faecium F24 produced and retained peptidoglycan precursors intracellularly over the entire growth cycle in a chemically defined medium. The identity of the most abundant precursor, UDP N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanyl-D-glutamyl-L-lysyl-D-alanyl-D-alanine (UDP-MurNAc-penta...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gregory WW,Gooder H

更新日期：1978-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetically homogenous bacterial population may contain physiologically distinct subpopulations. In one such case, a minor part of an otherwise antibiotic-sensitive bacterial population maintains a nondividing state even in a growth-supporting environment and is therefore not killed by bactericidal antibiotics. This...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jõers A,Kaldalu N,Tenson T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactococcus lactis, a gram-positive organism widely used in the food industry, is a potential candidate for the secretion of biologically useful proteins. We examined the secretion efficiency and capacity of L. lactis by using the Staphylococcus aureus nuclease (Nuc) as a heterologous model protein. When expressed in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Le Loir Y,Gruss A,Ehrlich SD,Langella P

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:D-[alpha-14C]]glucosyl phosphorylpolyprenol ([ 14C]Glc-P-prenol) was formed from UDP-D-[14C]glucose in each of the membrane systems obtained from Bacillus coagulans AHU 1631 and AHU 1634 and two Bacillus megaterium strains. Membranes of these B. coagulans strains, which possess beta-D-glucosyl branches on the repeatin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shimada A,Tamatukuri J,Ito E

更新日期：1989-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzoate catabolism is thought to play a key role in aerobic bacterial degradation of biphenyl and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Benzoate catabolic genes were cloned from a PCB degrader, Rhodococcus sp. strain RHA1, by using PCR amplification and temporal temperature gradient electrophoresis separation. A nucleoti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitagawa W,Miyauchi K,Masai E,Fukuda M

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small cytoplasmic RNA (scRNA; 271 nucleotides) is an abundant and stable RNA of the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus subtilis. To investigate the function of scRNA in B. subtilis cells, we developed a strain that is dependent on isopropyl-beta-D-thiogalactopyranoside for scRNA synthesis by fusing the chromosomal scr l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nakamura K,Imai Y,Nakamura A,Yamane K

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The draft genome sequence (4,398,155 bp, with 65.35% G+C content) of Halobiforma lacisalsi AJ5, an extremely halophilic archaeon isolated from a salt lake, is reported here. This is the first genome report for a species of the Halobiforma genus. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jiang X,Wang S,Cheng H,Huo Y,Zhang X,Zhu X,Han X,Ni P,Wu M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hg2+-resistant mutants were isolated from Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Although they were very much like the parental strains in terms of colony-forming ability, they grew faster than the parental strains in the presence of sublethal doses of Hg2+. The Hg2+-resistant mutations were dominant. They were centromere linked a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ono B,Ohue H,Ishihara F

更新日期：1988-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The opportunistic bacterial pathogen Vibrio vulnificus causes severe wound infection and fatal septicemia. We used alkaline phosphatase insertion mutagenesis in a clinical isolate of V. vulnificus to find genes necessary for virulence, and we identified fadR, which encodes a regulator of fatty acid metabolism. The fad...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brown RN,Gulig PA

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The parDE operon, located within the 3.2-kb stabilization region of plasmid RK2, encodes antitoxin (ParD) and toxin (ParE) proteins that stabilize the maintenance of this broad-host-range plasmid via a postsegregational killing mechanism. A ParE protein derivative, designated ParE', was purified by construction of a f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Johnson EP,Strom AR,Helinski DR

更新日期：1996-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperate phage, phi CTX, is a cytotoxin-converting phage of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. In this study, we characterized the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures of phi CTX-resistant mutants derived from phi CTX-sensitive strains. phi CTX infectivity was neutralized by LPS preparations derived from sensitive strains but ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yokota S,Hayashi T,Matsumoto H

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Production of deoxyribonucleotides for DNA synthesis is an essential and tightly regulated process. The class Ia ribonucleotide reductase (RNR), the product of the nrdAB genes, is required for aerobic growth of Escherichia coli. In catalyzing the reduction of ribonucleotides, two of the cysteines of RNR become oxidize...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Feeney MA,Ke N,Beckwith J

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interaction of Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus [GAS]) with its human host requires several surface proteins. In this study, we isolated mutations in a gene required for the surface localization of protein F by transposon mutagenesis of the M6 strain JRS4. This gene (srtA) encodes a protein homologous...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Barnett TC,Scott JR

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phage-induced cell wall solubilizing enzyme isolated from phage-infected Staphylococcus aureus phage type 80 was purified 588-fold. The pH optimal activity was 6.8 to 7.3, and pH optimal stability, 6.5 to 7.5. It was inhibited by p-hydroxymercuribenzoate, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, and specific rabbit antisera...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Doughty CC,Mann JA

更新日期：1967-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The function of the long propeptides of fungal proteinases is not known. Aspergillus fumigatus produces a 33-kDa serine proteinase of the subtilisin family and a 42-kDa metalloproteinase of the thermolysin family. These extracellular enzymes are synthesized as preproenzymes containing large amino-terminal propeptides....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Markaryan A,Lee JD,Sirakova TD,Kolattukudy PE

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:CooA is a heme-containing transcriptional activator that enables Rhodospirillum rubrum to sense and grow on CO as a sole energy source. We have identified a number of CooA homologs through database searches, expressed these heterologously in Escherichia coli, and monitored their ability to respond to CO in vivo. Furth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Youn H,Kerby RL,Conrad M,Roberts GP

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptococcus salivarius, a gram-positive bacterium found in the human oral cavity, expresses flexible peritrichous fimbriae. In this paper, we report purification and partial characterization of S. salivarius fimbriae. Fimbriae were extracted by shearing the cell surface of hyperfimbriated mutant A37 (a spontaneous m...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lévesque C,Vadeboncoeur C,Chandad F,Frenette M

更新日期：2001-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Functional domain structures of pyocins AP41, S1, and S2 were assigned by examining the functions of chimeric pyocins and deletion derivatives. Pyocins AP41, S1, and S2 are essentially composed of three domains, the receptor-binding domain, the translocation domain, and the DNase domain, in that order from the N termi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sano Y,Kobayashi M,Kageyama M

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：:An essential component of type III secretion systems (TTSS) is a supramolecular structure termed the needle complex. In Salmonella enterica, at least four proteins make up this structure: InvG, PrgH, PrgK, and PrgI. Another protein, PrgJ, is thought to play a role in the assembly of this structure, but its function is...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sukhan A,Kubori T,Galán JE

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhodobacter sphaeroides maintained intracellular ammonium pools of 1.1 to 2.6 mM during growth in several fixed nitrogen sources as well as during diazotrophic growth. Addition of 0.15 mM NH4+ to washed, nitrogen-free cell suspensions was followed by linear uptake of NH4+ from the medium and transient formation of int...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Cordts ML,Gibson J

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The McrB restriction system of Escherichia coli K-12 is responsible for the biological inactivation of foreign DNA that contains 5-methylcytosine residues (E. A. Raleigh and G. Wilson, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 83:9070-9074, 1986). Within the McrB region of the chromosome is the mcrB gene, which encodes a protein of ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ross TK,Achberger EC,Braymer HD

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rebers, P. A. (Rutgers, The State University, New Brunswick, N. J.), E. Hurwitz, M. Heidelberger, and S. Estrada-Parra. Immunochemistry of the pneumococcal types II, V, and VI. III. Tests with derivatives of the specific polysaccharides of types II and VI. J. Bacteriol. 83:335-342. 1962.-The type-specific pneumococcal...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： REBERS PA,HURWITZ E,HEIDELBERGER M,ESTRADA-PARRA S

更新日期：1962-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three wild strains of bovine septicemic Escherichia coli were selected on the basis of their production of a toxin lethal for mice and chickens and their characteristic surface antigen. The transfer of these virulence (Vir) properties from two of the three to recipient E. coli was detected after mating. One Vir plasmi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lopez-Alvarez J,Gyles CL,Shipley PL,Falkow S

更新日期：1980-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma penetrans is a newly identified species of the genus MYCOPLASMA: It was first isolated from a urine sample from a human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-infected patient. M. penetrans changes its surface antigen profile with high frequency. The changes originate from ON<==>OFF phase variations of the P35 family...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Horino A,Sasaki Y,Sasaki T,Kenri T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines certain membrane-related aspects of oxygen poisoning in Escherichia coli K1060 (fabB fadE lacI) and its parent strain, K-12 Ymel. Cells were grown to exponential or stationary phase in a minimal medium and exposed to air plus 300 lb/in2 of O2 as a suspension in minimal salts. After an initial lag, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Harley JB,Santangelo GM,Rasmussen H,Goldfine H

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phosphomannose isomerase (pmi) gene of Escherichia coli was cloned on a broad-host-range cosmid vector and expressed in Pseudomonas aeruginosa at a low level. Plasmid pAD3, which harbors the E. coli pmi gene, contains a 6.2-kilobase-pair HindIII fragment derived from the chromosome of E. coli. Subcloning produced ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Darzins A,Nixon LL,Vanags RI,Chakrabarty AM

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biodegradative threonine dehydratase (tdc) operon was mapped at 68 min on the Escherichia coli K-12 chromosome. The order of markers in the clockwise direction was dnaG uxaA tdc argG. A tdc deletion was isolated and mapped to this region of the chromosome. By using a tdcB-lacZ fusion the clockwise direction of tra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Schweizer HP,Datta P

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterium Myxococcus xanthus undergoes multicellular development during times of nutritional stress and uses extracellular signals to coordinate cell behavior. C-signal affects gene expression late in development, including that of Omega4499, an operon identified by insertion of Tn5 lac into the M. xanthus chromos...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yoder DR,Kroos L

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discovery of a novel multicistronic operon that encodes phosphofructokinase, pyruvate kinase, and lactate dehydrogenase in the lactic acid bacterium Lactococcus lactis is reported. The three genes in the operon, designated pfk, pyk, and ldh, contain 340, 502, and 325 codons, respectively. The intergenic distances ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Llanos RM,Harris CJ,Hillier AJ,Davidson BE

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00