Characterization of iucA and iucC genes of the aerobactin system of plasmid ColV-K30 in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:2-Carboxybenzaldehyde dehydrogenase from the phenanthrene-degrading bacterium Nocardioides sp. strain KP7 was purified and characterized. The purified enzyme had a molecular mass of 53 kDa by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis and 205 kDa by gel filtration chromatography. Thus, the homotetramer ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Iwabuchi T,Harayama S

更新日期：1997-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Endonuclease V is specific for single-stranded DNA or for duplex DNA that contains uracil or that is damaged by a variety of agents (B. Demple and S. Linn, J. Biol. Chem. 257:2848-2855, 1982). Thus, it may be a versatile DNA repair enzyme. The protein was purified to apparent homogeneity, and from its N-terminal seque...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guo G,Ding Y,Weiss B

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:5-methylcytosine in chromosomal DNA represents a potential source of frequent spontaneous mutation for hyperthermophiles. To determine the relevance of this threat for the archaeon Sulfolobus acidocaldarius, the mode of GGCC methylation by its restriction-modification system, SuaI, was investigated. Distinct isoschizo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Grogan DW

更新日期：2003-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 produces at least two ATP-dependent proteases, Lon (La) and Clp (Ti), the latter consisting of a regulatory subunit (ClpA) and a proteolytic subunit (ClpP). The gene clpB encoding an analog of ClpA had been found at 57 min on the E. coli chromosome. Cloning and examination of novel heat shock pro...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kitagawa M,Wada C,Yoshioka S,Yura T

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Defective phage lambdadg, when present in certain Salmonella typhosa hybrids, could be eliminated with acridine orange or ethidium bromide treatment. The lambdadg deoxyribonucleic acid could be separated from the S. typhosa host deoxyribonucleic acid as a distinctly covalently closed molecule. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Falkow S,Baron LS

更新日期：1970-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Caulobacter crescentus DNA adenine methyltransferase CcrM and its homologs in the alpha-Proteobacteria are essential for viability. CcrM is 34% identical to the yhdJ gene products of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. This study provides evidence that the E. coli yhdJ gene encodes a DNA adenine methyltransf...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Broadbent SE,Balbontin R,Casadesus J,Marinus MG,van der Woude M

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

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：:Fructose-6-phosphate kinase (pfkA) mutants have impaired growth on carbon sources which enter glycolysis at or above the level of fructose-6-phosphate, but the degree of impairment depends on the carbon source (e.g., growth on glucose is very much slower than growth on glucose-6-phosphate). The present report contains...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Vinopal RT,Fraenkel DG

更新日期：1974-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Picolinic acid (PA), a typical C-2-carboxylated pyridine derivative, is a metabolite of l-tryptophan and many other aromatic compounds in mammalian and microbial cells. Microorganisms can degrade and utilize PA for growth. However, the precise mechanism of PA metabolism remains unknown. Alcaligenes faecalis strain JQ1...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Qiu J,Zhang Y,Yao S,Ren H,Qian M,Hong Q,Lu Z,He J

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Elongation factor P (EF-P) facilitates the translation of certain peptide motifs, including those with multiple proline residues. EF-P must be posttranslationally modified for full functionality; in enterobacteria, this is accomplished by two enzymes, namely, EpmA and EpmB, which catalyze the β-lysylation of EF-P at a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klee SM,Sinn JP,Holmes AC,Lehman BL,Krawczyk T,Peter KA,McNellis TW

更新日期：2019-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component regulatory system, OmpR-EnvZ, of Escherichia coli K-12 regulates the expression of the major outer membrane porin protein, OmpF. OmpR is a DNA-binding protein which acts as both an activator and a repressor to control ompF transcription. In this article, we describe a new OmpR-binding site that is lo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Huang KJ,Schieberl JL,Igo MM

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus subtilis dciA operon encodes a dipeptide transport complex that is induced rapidly as cells enter stationary phase and initiate sporulation. Expression of this operon in growing cells is repressed by glucose, by a mixture of amino acids, and by the AbrB protein. A genetic screen was devised to identify mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slack FJ,Mueller JP,Sonenshein AL

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The group A streptococcus (GAS), Streptococcus pyogenes, is an important human pathogen that causes infections ranging in severity from self-limiting pharyngitis to severe invasive diseases that are associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The pathogenic effects of GAS are mediated by the expression of vir...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gusa AA,Gao J,Stringer V,Churchward G,Scott JR

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Davis, Nour A. (University of Lagos Medical School, Lagos, Nigeria), and G. H. G. Davis. Ecology of nasal staphylococci. J. Bacteriol. 89:1163-1168. 1965.-The rate of nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigerian adults (46%) approximates that found in other countries. The rate in infants under 12 months was ca....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： DAVIS NA,DAVIS GH

更新日期：1965-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caldicellulosiruptor bescii efficiently degrades cellulose, xylan, and native grasses at high temperatures above 70°C under anaerobic conditions. C. bescii extracellularly secretes multidomain glycoside hydrolases along with proteins of unknown function. In this study, we analyzed the C. bescii proteins that bind to t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yokoyama H,Yamashita T,Morioka R,Ohmori H

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis utilizes the methylerythritol phosphate (MEP) pathway for biosynthesis of isopentenyl diphosphate and its isomer, dimethylallyl diphosphate, precursors of all isoprenoid compounds. This pathway is of interest as a source of new drug targets, as it is absent from humans and disruption of the ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Eoh H,Brown AC,Buetow L,Hunter WN,Parish T,Kaur D,Brennan PJ,Crick DC

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The sequential morphological events in spore formation by Clostridium perfringens type D were observed in Ellner's medium where 80 to 100% of the cells formed spores. Gross structural changes were studied with the light microscope under phase-contrast, and in fixed cells by the use of both nigrosin and Giemsa preparat...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hoeniger JF,Stuart PF,Holt SC

更新日期：1968-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The obligate intracellular pathogen Chlamydia trachomatis expresses a type III secretion system (T3SS) which has the potential to contribute significantly to pathogenesis. Based on a demonstrated role of type III secretion (T3S)-specific chaperones in the secretion of antihost proteins by gram-negative pathogens, we i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fields KA,Fischer ER,Mead DJ,Hackstadt T

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligoribonuclease, an exoribonuclease specific for small oligoribonucleotides, was initially characterized 20 years ago (S. K. Niyogi and A. K. Datta, J. Biol. Chem. 250:7307-7312, 1975) and shown to be different from RNase II and polynucleotide phosphorylase. Here we demonstrate, using mutant strains and purified enz...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Yu D,Deutscher MP

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gcr2 null mutant of Saccharomyces cerevisiae grows well on glucose in spite of its lower level of glycolytic enzymes between triose phosphates and pyruvate. A quantitative analysis shows that these levels are adequate to the flux but glycerate phosphates are elevated. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Uemura H,Fraenkel DG

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After heating at 65 C, ribosomes isolated from Bacillus stearothermophilus were strikingly more heat-stable than comparable preparations from Escherichia coli when tested for ability to support polyuridylic acid-directed phenylalanine incorporation at 37 C. The stability of ribosomes was also determined by measurement...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Friedman SM,Axel R,Weinstein IB

更新日期：1967-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Well-characterized Salmonella mutants formerly used in biosynthetic studies of lipopolysaccharides were used to study the toxic portion of the complex endotoxin. Endotoxins prepared from wild types and their mutants were tested for their biological activities, including pyrogenicity, lethality, and immunogenicity. The...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim YB,Watson DW

更新日期：1967-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanolamine (EA) metabolism is a trait associated with enteric pathogens, including enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC). EHEC causes severe bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome. EHEC encodes the ethanolamine utilization (eut) operon that allows EHEC to metabolize EA and gain a competitive advan...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Luzader DH,Clark DE,Gonyar LA,Kendall MM

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to examine the potential role of bacterial collagenases in periodontal tissue destruction, we recently isolated a gene, prtC, from Porphyromonas gingivalis ATCC 53977, which expressed collagenase activity (N. Takahashi, T. Kato, and H. K. Kuramitsu, FEMS Microbiol. Lett. 84:135-138, 1991). The nucleotide sequ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kato T,Takahashi N,Kuramitsu HK

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel method is described that allows a direct determination of the location of a portion of the dipicolinic acid (DPA) in spores. Ultraviolet (UV) irradiation is shown to cause cross-linkage of DPA to spore proteins which have the characteristics of membrane proteins. We suggest that DPA resides in the inner foresp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Germaine GR,Murrell WG

更新日期：1974-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycoplasma fermentans is a microorganism commonly found in the genitourinary and respiratory tracts of healthy individuals and AIDS patients. The complete genome of the repetitive-sequence-rich M. fermentans strain M64 is reported here. Comparative genomics analysis revealed dramatic differences in genome size between...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Shu HW,Liu TT,Chan HI,Liu YM,Wu KM,Shu HY,Tsai SF,Hsiao KJ,Hu WS,Ng WV

更新日期：2011-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic system was developed to investigate the supercoil structure of bacterial chromosomes. New res-carrying transposons were derived from MudI1734 (MudJr1 and MudJr2) and Tn10 (Tn10dGn). The MudJr1 and MudJr2 elements each have a res site in opposite orientation so that when paired with a Tn10dGn element in the s...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Higgins NP,Yang X,Fu Q,Roth JR

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Photobacterium leiognathi ATCC 25521 (the type strain and light-organ symbiont of ponyfish) is one of the few bacteria that produces a copper-zinc superoxide dismutase, termed bacteriocuprein. We enzymologically and immunologically characterized the bacteriocuprein superoxide dismutases in sonicates from the type stra...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dunlap PV,Steinman HM

更新日期：1986-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Klebsiella pneumoniae LZ is a bacterium isolated from soil which can produce 1,3-propanediol from glycerol. Here we present a 5,431,750-bp assembly of its genome sequence. We annotated 9 coding sequences (CDSs) responsible for glycerol fermentation to 1,3-propanediol, 19 CDSs encoding glycerol utilization, and 134 CDS...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tao F,Tai C,Liu Z,Wang A,Wang Y,Li L,Gao C,Ma C,Xu P

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collection of 169 strains, including 91 obtained from cases of gastroenteritis and 41 from localized tissue infections and infections of the eye and ear, was submitted to an extensive nutritional, physiological, and morphological characterization. The nutritional and physiological data obtained from these strains, a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Baumann P,Baumann L,Reichelt JL

更新日期：1973-03-01 00:00:00