Analysis of plasmid deletional instability in Bacillus subtilis.

abstract：:Histidine decarboxylases from Klebsiella planticola and Enterobacter aerogenes were purified to homogeneity and compared with the histidine decarboxylase from Morganella morganii. All three enzymes required pyridoxal 5'-phosphate as a coenzyme, showed optimal activity at pH 6.5, decarboxylated only histidine among the...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Guirard BM,Snell EE

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli F plasmid gene required for amino-terminal acetylation of F-pilin subunits was identified. Using Western blots (immunoblots), we assayed the reaction of monoclonal antibodies with F-pilin polypeptides in inner membrane preparations from various F mutant strains. It was known that JEL92 recognizes ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Moore D,Hamilton CM,Maneewannakul K,Mintz Y,Frost LS,Ippen-Ihler K

更新日期：1993-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All bacteria use the conserved Sec pathway to transport proteins across the cytoplasmic membrane, with the SecA ATPase playing a central role in the process. Mycobacteria are part of a small group of bacteria that have two SecA proteins: the canonical SecA (SecA1) and a second, specialized SecA (SecA2). The SecA2-depe...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ligon LS,Rigel NW,Romanchuk A,Jones CD,Braunstein M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numerous field isolates of Moraxella bovis have previously been classified by serological techniques into seven serogroups, each defined by homologous cross-reaction with antisera prepared against purified pili of a single prototype strain. The gene encoding pilin from each of the prototype strains has been characteri...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Atwell JL,Tennent JM,Lepper AW,Elleman TC

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pentalenolactone (PL) irreversibly inactivates the enzyme glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase [D-glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate:NAD+ oxidoreductase (phosphorylating)] (EC 1.2.1.12) and thus is a potent inhibitor of glycolysis in both procaryotic and eucaryotic cells. We showed that PL-producing strain Streptomyces ar...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Maurer KH,Pfeiffer F,Zehender H,Mecke D

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When ratios of the major polypeptides of the outer membrane isolated from cells of Escherichia coli B grown in minimal medium containing either a single amino acid or several amino acids were compared, no difference was observed. However, the ratio of these polypeptides in outer membrane material released into the med...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loeb MR,Kilner J

更新日期：1979-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrogen fixation occurs in two domains, Archaea and Bacteria. We have characterized a nif (nitrogen fixation) gene cluster in the methanogenic archaeon Methanococcus maripaludis. Sequence analysis revealed eight genes, six with sequence similarity to known nif genes and two with sequence similarity to glnB. The gene ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kessler PS,Blank C,Leigh JA

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The F-plasmid-encoded TraI protein, also known as DNA helicase I, is a bifunctional protein required for conjugative DNA transfer. The enzyme catalyzes two distinct but functionally related reactions required for the DNA processing events associated with conjugation: the site- and strand-specific transesterification (...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Matson SW,Ragonese H

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wzc(CPS) is a tyrosine autokinase essential for the assembly of a high-molecular-weight (HMW) group 1 capsular polysaccharide (CPS) in Escherichia coli. Homologues of Wzc participate in the formation of CPS and exopolysaccharides in a variety of gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria. Phosphorylation of tyrosine res...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Paiment A,Hocking J,Whitfield C

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In vitro transcription from the promoter for the nitrogen fixation regulatory operon nifLA of K. pneumoniae requires four protein fractions: the core form of RNA polymerase; NTRA, an alternate sigma factor; NTRC, an auxiliary DNA-binding protein; and NTRB, a bifunctional enzyme that controls the activity of NTRC by co...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wong PK,Popham D,Keener J,Kustu S

更新日期：1987-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mevinolinic acid, the open acid form of mevinolin, which is a metabolite of Aspergillus terreus, has been shown to be a competitive inhibitor of the enzyme 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A reductase (Alberts et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 77:3957-3961, 1980). The biosynthesis of mevinolinic acid was studie...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Greenspan MD,Yudkovitz JB

更新日期：1985-05-01 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：:Many streptococcal pathogens require a polysaccharide capsule for survival in the host during systemic infection. The highly conserved CpsA protein is proposed to be a transcriptional regulator of capsule production in streptococci, although the regulatory mechanism is unknown. Hydropathy plots of CpsA predict an inte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hanson BR,Lowe BA,Neely MN

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:The strict human pathogen Neisseria gonorrhoeae is exposed to oxidative damage during infection. N. gonorrhoeae has many defenses that have been demonstrated to counteract oxidative damage. However, recN is the only DNA repair and recombination gene upregulated in response to hydrogen peroxide (H(2)O(2)) by microarray...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stohl EA,Seifert HS

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two-component system SaeRS of Staphylococcus aureus is closely involved in the regulation of major virulence factors. However, little is known about the signals leading to saeRS activation. A total of four overlapping transcripts (T1 to T4) from three different transcription starting points are expressed in the sa...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Geiger T,Goerke C,Mainiero M,Kraus D,Wolz C

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus subtilis JH642 and a wild strain of B. subtilis called 22a both produce an antilisterial peptide that can be purified by anion-exchange and gel filtration chromatography. Amino acid analysis confirmed that the substance was the cyclic bacteriocin subtilosin. A mutant defective in production of the substance w...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zheng G,Yan LZ,Vederas JC,Zuber P

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinorhizobium meliloti, the nitrogen-fixing symbiont of alfalfa, has the ability to catabolize myo-, scyllo-, and D-chiro-inositol. Functional inositol catabolism (iol) genes are required for growth on these inositol isomers, and they play a role during plant-bacterium interactions. The inositol catabolism genes compr...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kohler PR,Choong EL,Rossbach S

更新日期：2011-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrons constitute a novel family of DNA elements which evolved by site-specific integration of discrete units between two conserved segments. On the In4 integron of Tn1696, a precisely inserted gene cassette of 1,549 bp conferring nonenzymatic chloramphenicol resistance (cmlA) is present between the streptomycin-sp...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Bissonnette L,Champetier S,Buisson JP,Roy PH

更新日期：1991-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A macrorestriction map representing the complete physical map of the Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 chromosomes has been constructed by ordering the chromosomal DNA fragments from total genomic DNA digested with the restriction endonucleases AseI, SpeI, DraI, and SnaBI. Junction fragments and multiple restriction endon...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suwanto A,Kaplan S

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium LT2 normally expresses two acetohydroxy acid synthases (AHAS I and AHAS II). The function of AHAS I in this organism was unclear, since AHAS I-deficient (ilvBN) mutants of LT2 grew well on glucose or succinate minimal media, whereas AHAS II-deficient (ilvGM) mutants requried isoleucine for norma...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Dailey FE,Cronan JE Jr,Maloy SR

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Halobacterium halobium swims with a polarly inserted motor-driven flagellar bundle. The swimming direction of the cell can be reserved by switching the rotational sense of the bundle. The switch is under the control of photoreceptor and chemoreceptor proteins that act through a branched signal chain. The swimming beha...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marwan W,Alam M,Oesterhelt D

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli mutants lacking activities of all known cytosolic ATP-dependent proteases (Lon, ClpAP, ClpXP, and HslVU), due to double deletions [DeltahslVU and Delta(clpPX-lon)], cannot grow at low (30 degrees C) or very high (45 degrees C) temperatures, unlike those carrying either of the deletions. Such growth de...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kanemori M,Yanagi H,Yura T

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Internal and surface structures of asci and ascospores were studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and by scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to establish the character and number of ascospores within the ascus of Metschnikowia krissii. Enzyme digestion with snail gut enzymes and SEM examination suggested th...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Talens LT,Miller MW,Miranda M

更新日期：1973-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium xenopi is a slow-growing, thermophilic, water-related Mycobacterium species. Like other nontuberculous mycobacteria, M. xenopi more commonly infects humans with altered immune function, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. It is considered clinically relevant in a significant proportio...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Abdallah AM,Rashid M,Adroub SA,Elabdalaoui H,Ali S,van Soolingen D,Bitter W,Pain A

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transposon Tn5-induced C4-dicarboxylate transport mutants of Rhizobium meliloti 2011 which could be complemented by cosmid pRmSC121 were subdivided into two classes. Class I mutants (RMS37 and RMS938) were defective in symbiotic C4-dicarboxylate transport and in nitrogen fixation. They were mutated in the structural g...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Engelke T,Jording D,Kapp D,Pühler A

更新日期：1989-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine as randomly as possible the role of the beta-ketoacyl and acyl carrier protein (ACP) components of bacterial type II polyketide synthases (PKSs), homologs of the chain-length-factor (CLF) genes were cloned from the environmental community of microorganisms. With PCR primers derived from conserved regions of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Seow KT,Meurer G,Gerlitz M,Wendt-Pienkowski E,Hutchinson CR,Davies J

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silverman, Sidney J. (U.S. Army Biological Laboratories, Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.), Lynn P. Elwell, and James F. Drawdy. Influence of route of infection and other factors on growth and distribution of Listeria monocytogenes in organs of mice. J. Bacteriol. 86:355-362. 1963.-The growth of Listeria monocytogenes in ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： SILVERMAN SJ,ELWELL LP,DRAWDY JF

更新日期：1963-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using physical and genetic data, we have demonstrated that Rhizobium meliloti SU47 has a symbiotic megaplasmid, pRmeSU47b, in addition to the previously described nod-nif megaplasmid pRmeSU47a. This plasmid includes four loci involved in exopolysaccharide (exo) synthesis as well as two loci involved in thiamine biosyn...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Finan TM,Kunkel B,De Vos GF,Signer ER

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gaines, Sidney (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Washington, D.C.), Julius A. Currie, and Joseph G. Tully. Detection and persistence of Vi antigen in tissues of actively immunized mice. J. Bacteriol. 89:776-781. 1965.-The presence, distribution, and persistence of Vi antigen in mouse tissue was determined by me...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： GAINES S,CURRIE JA,TULLY JG

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00