Role of lithium ions in proline transport in Escherichia coli.

abstract：:Citrate metabolism in Leuconostoc mesenteroides subspecies mesenteroides is associated with the generation of a proton motive force by a secondary mechanism (C. Marty-Teysset, C. Posthuma, J. S. Lolkema, P. Schmitt, C. Divies, and W. N. Konings, J. Bacteriol. 178:2178-2185, 1996). The pathway consists of four steps: (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marty-Teysset C,Lolkema JS,Schmitt P,Diviès C,Konings WN

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We isolated several new mutator mutations of the Escherichia coli replicative polymerase dnaE subunit alpha and used them and a previously reported dnaE mutation to study spontaneous frameshift and base substitution mutations. Two of these dnaE strains produce many more mutants when grown on rich (Luria-Bertani) than ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Strauss BS,Roberts R,Francis L,Pouryazdanparast P

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A key step in the regulation of heat shock genes in Escherichia coli is the stress-dependent degradation of the heat shock promoter-specific sigma(32) subunit of RNA polymerase by the AAA protease, FtsH. Previous studies implicated the C termini of protein substrates, including sigma(32), as degradation signals for AA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Tomoyasu T,Arsène F,Ogura T,Bukau B

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The trehalose content in Saccharomyces cerevisiae can be significantly manipulated by including trehalose at an appropriate level in the growth medium. Its uptake is largely dependent on the expression of AGT1, which encodes an alpha-glucoside transporter. The trehalose found in a tps1 mutant of trehalose synthase may...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Plourde-Owobi L,Durner S,Parrou JL,Wieczorke R,Goma G,François J

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli adhesin involved in diffuse adherence (AIDA-I) is a multifunctional autotransporter protein that mediates bacterial aggregation and biofilm formation, as well as adhesion and invasion of cultured epithelial cells. To elucidate the structure-function relationships of AIDA-I, we performed transposon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Charbonneau ME,Mourez M

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific growth rates as low as 0.005 hr(-1) (generation times of 20 to 200 hr) of aquatic bacteria in natural waters have been calculated from significant differences between dilution rates and washout rates in a chemostat. The measured growth rates were affected by the treatment of the water samples (type of sterili...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Jannasch HW

更新日期：1969-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have examined the uptake of [14C]octopine and [14C]nopaline by Agrobacterium tumefaciens strains containing the C58 chromosomal background in medium suitable for the induction of vir genes. All strains tested could transport both of these opines, regardless of the presence or type of Ti plasmid (octopine or nopalin...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krishnan M,Burgner JW,Chilton WS,Gelvin SB

更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of isocitrate dehydrogenase-deficient (icd) mutants were overgrown by double mutants (icd glt) lacking citrate synthase activity also. The icd mutants grew more slowly than wild-type cells or the double mutants because they accumulated an inhibitory metabolite (possibly citrate). Intracellular citrate levels ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lakshmi TM,Helling RB

更新日期：1976-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Geobacter sulfurreducens RpoS sigma factor was shown to contribute to survival in stationary phase and upon oxygen exposure. Furthermore, a mutation in rpoS decreased the rate of reduction of insoluble Fe(III) but not of soluble forms of iron. This study suggests that RpoS plays a role in regulating metabolism of Geob...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Núñez C,Adams L,Childers S,Lovley DR

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae, the causative agent of the human diarrheal disease cholera, is a motile bacterium with a single polar flagellum. Motility has been implicated as a virulence determinant in some animal models of cholera, but the relationship between motility and virulence has not yet been clearly defined. We have begun...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Klose KE,Mekalanos JJ

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa can express two chemically and immunologically distinct types of lipopolysaccharide (LPS), an antigenically conserved form called A band and the serotype-specific form called B band. To study the molecular controls regulating expression of the A-band LPS antigen, we have cloned t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lightfoot J,Lam JS

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:E2 (dihydrolipoamide acetyltransferase) and E3 (dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase) of the Clostridium magnum acetoin dehydrogenase enzyme system were copurified in a three-step procedure from acetoin-grown cells. The denatured E2-E3 preparation comprised two polypeptides with M(r)s of 49,000 and 67,000, respectively. Mic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Krüger N,Oppermann FB,Lorenzl H,Steinbüchel A

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The expression of R-factor-mediated resistance to tetracycline has been compared in Proteus mirabilis and Escherichia coli. Resistance to a range of concentrations of tetracycline was significantly lower in P. mirabilis than in E. coli in both induced and repressed states. Indirect evidence showed that conditions whic...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Franklin TJ,Rownd R

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The rcs phosphorelay pathway components were originally identified as regulators of capsule synthesis. In addition to the transmembrane sensor kinase RcsC, the RcsA coregulator, and the response regulator RcsB, two new components have been characterized, RcsD and RcsF. RcsD, the product of the yojN gene, now renamed r...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Majdalani N,Heck M,Stout V,Gottesman S

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physiological studies of a mutant of Escherichia coli lacking the three lytic transglycosylases Slt70, MltA, and MltB revealed that interference with murein turnover can prevent AmpC beta-lactamase induction. The triple mutant, although growing normally, shows a dramatically reduced rate of murein turnover. Despite th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kraft AR,Prabhu J,Ursinus A,Höltje JV

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Over the course of the last 3 decades the role of the second messenger cyclic di-GMP (c-di-GMP) as a master regulator of bacterial physiology was determined. Although the control over c-di-GMP levels via synthesis and breakdown and the allosteric regulation of c-di-GMP over receptor proteins (effectors) and ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rotem O,Nesper J,Borovok I,Gorovits R,Kolot M,Pasternak Z,Shin I,Glatter T,Pietrokovski S,Jenal U,Jurkevitch E

更新日期：2015-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:The Salmonella typhimurium aroF gene, encoding the tyrosine-sensitive 3-deoxy-D-arabino-heptulosonate 7-phosphate (DAHP) synthase, was localized to a chromosomal PstI fragment by Southern blotting with an Escherichia coli aroF probe. This fragment was cloned by screening a plasmid library for complementation of an E. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Muday GK,Herrmann KM

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to assess the roles of specific amino acid residues in the delta 5-3-ketosteroid isomerase from Pseudomonas putida biotype B during catalysis, we replaced aspartic acid 40 with asparagine (D40N) and tyrosine 16 with phenylalanine (Y16F) in the enzyme by site-directed mutagenesis. Both purified mutant enzymes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kim SW,Choi KY

更新日期：1995-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nε-lysine acetylation was recently discovered on many bacterial proteins that function in diverse cellular processes. Thus, many questions remain unanswered. For example, what mechanisms regulate lysine acetylation? Does acetylation affect physiology? To help answer these questions, we studied the Escherichia coli res...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hu LI,Chi BK,Kuhn ML,Filippova EV,Walker-Peddakotla AJ,Bäsell K,Becher D,Anderson WF,Antelmann H,Wolfe AJ

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous mutants of Staphylococcus aureus resistant to rifampin, rifamycin SV, streptovaricin, or streptolydigin were isolated and shown to be resistant due to chromosomal rather than plasmid mutations. Based on data concerning spontaneous mutation rates, genetic cotransduction rates, and in vitro sensitivity studi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Morrow TO,Harmon SA

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cell-free extracts of Thermus thermophilus HB8 catalyze the in vitro, NADH-dependent reduction of potassium tellurite (K2TeO3). Three different protein fractions with tellurite-reducing activities were identified. Two exhibited high molecular weight and were composed of at least two different polypeptides. The protein...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Chiong M,González E,Barra R,Vásquez C

更新日期：1988-07-01 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：:The 2,647-bp nucleotide sequence of cryptic plasmid pTD1, isolated from the oral spirochete Treponema denticola, was determined. The sequence revealed two open reading frames, A and B, which encode polypeptides of 335 and 235 amino acids, respectively. Open reading frame A shows sequence similarity to genes that encod...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MacDougall J,Margarita D,Saint Girons I

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulatory proteins OmpR and EnvZ are both required to activate expression of the genes for the major outer membrane porin proteins, OmpF and OmpC, of Escherichia coli K-12. Here we show that OmpR, under certain conditions, could activate porin expression in the complete absence of EnvZ. In addition, the pleiotrop...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Slauch JM,Garrett S,Jackson DE,Silhavy TJ

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ops and tps genes of Myxococcus xanthus have ca. 90% DNA and amino acid sequence homology and are in the same orientation separated by a spacer region of only 1.4 kilobases. The products of the two genes were found to cross-react immunologically, and both were capable of Ca2+-dependent self-assembly on the surface...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Teintze M,Thomas R,Furuichi T,Inouye M,Inouye S

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-affinity iron acquisition in Bacillus subtilis is mediated via the bacillibactin catechole siderophore pathway. Three of the four essential pathway steps, bacillibactin synthesis, Fe-bacillibactin uptake, and Fe-bacillibactin hydrolysis have been characterized previously. The functional and regulatory components ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miethke M,Schmidt S,Marahiel MA

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid pP51 of Pseudomonas sp. strain P51 contains two gene clusters encoding the degradation of chlorinated benzenes, tcbAB and tcbCDEF. A regulatory gene, tcbR, was located upstream and divergently transcribed from the chlorocatechol oxidative gene cluster tcbCDEF. The tcbR gene was characterized by DNA sequencing ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： van der Meer JR,Frijters AC,Leveau JH,Eggen RI,Zehnder AJ,de Vos WM

更新日期：1991-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moat, Albert G. (Hahnemann Medical College, Philadelphia, Pa.), Isabel J. Barnes, and Eleanor H. McCurley. Factors affecting the survival of auxotrophs and prototrophs of Saccharomyces cerevisiae in mixed populations. J. Bacteriol. 92:297-301. 1966.-The conditions under which the number of yeast prototrophs, as well a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moat AG,Barnes IJ,McCurley EH

更新日期：1966-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriocins are ribosomally synthesized proteinaceous antibacterial peptides. They selectively interfere with the growth of other bacteria. The production and secretion of bacteriocins confer a distinct ecological advantage to the producer in competing against other bacteria that are present in the same ecological ni...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dufour D,Barbour A,Chan Y,Cheng M,Rahman T,Thorburn M,Stewart C,Finer Y,Gong SG,Lévesque CM

更新日期：2020-05-27 00:00:00

abstract：:The valyl-transfer ribonucleic acid (tRNA) synthetase of Escherichia coli strain NP2907, previously described as having an elevated K(m) for adenosine triphosphate and reduced stability in vitro compared to the wild type, was found to be conditionally thermolabile in vivo. The rate of inactivation of this enzyme at a ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Anderson JJ,Neidhardt FC

更新日期：1972-01-01 00:00:00