Genetics and biochemistry of pyrimidine biosynthesis in Bacillus subtilis: linkage between mutations resulting in a requirement for uracil.

abstract：:The rice pathogen recognition receptor, XA21, confers resistance to Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae strains producing the type one system-secreted molecule, AvrXA21. X. oryzae pv. oryzae requires a regulatory two-component system (TCS) called RaxRH to regulate expression of eight rax (required for AvrXA21 activity) gene...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lee SW,Jeong KS,Han SW,Lee SE,Phee BK,Hahn TR,Ronald P

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycelial mats of Ascodesmis sphaerospora were fixed and embedded for electron microscopy, and thin sections of 1-mm blocks, taken from the 1st to the 7th mm behind the hyphal tips, were cut parallel to the long axis of the hyphae. The hyphal tip region is characterized by an outer zone of electron-transparent vesicles...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Brenner DM,Carroll GC

更新日期：1968-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli K-12 can utilize a gamma-glutamyl peptide as an amino acid source, for which gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase (EC 2.3.2.2) is essential. We suggest that the gamma-glutamyl linkage of a gamma-glutamyl peptide is hydrolyzed by gamma-glutamyltranspeptidase located in the periplasmic space, and the released a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Suzuki H,Hashimoto W,Kumagai H

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cysteines of the Escherichia coli periplasmic enzyme alkaline phosphatase, which are involved in disulfide bonds in the native enzyme, were found to be fully reduced when the protein was retained in the cytoplasm. Under these circumstances the cysteines remained reduced for at least several minutes after the synth...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Derman AI,Beckwith J

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperate bacteriophages play an important role in the pathogenicity of Staphylococcus aureus, for instance, by mediating the horizontal gene transfer of virulence factors. Here we established a classification scheme for staphylococcal prophages of the major Siphoviridae family based on integrase gene polymorphism. Se...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Goerke C,Pantucek R,Holtfreter S,Schulte B,Zink M,Grumann D,Bröker BM,Doskar J,Wolz C

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen often associated with chronic infections in the lungs of individuals with the heritable disease cystic fibrosis (CF). Previous work from our laboratory demonstrated that aromatic amino acids within CF lung secretions (sputum) not only serve as carbon and...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Palmer GC,Palmer KL,Jorth PA,Whiteley M

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the causative agent of melioidosis, an often fatal infection of humans and animals. The virulence of this pathogen is thought to depend on a number of secreted proteins, including the MprA metalloprotease. We observed that MprA is produced upon entry into the stationary phase, when the cel...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Valade E,Thibault FM,Gauthier YP,Palencia M,Popoff MY,Vidal DR

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bam35, a temperate double-stranded DNA bacteriophage with a 15-kb linear genome, infects gram-positive Bacillus thuringiensis cells. Bam35 morphology and genome organization resemble those of PRD1, a lytic phage infecting gram-negative bacteria. Bam35 and PRD1 have an outer protein coat surrounding a membrane that enc...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gaidelyte A,Jaatinen ST,Daugelavicius R,Bamford JK,Bamford DH

更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accumulation of abnormal proteins in cells of bacteria or eukaryotes can induce synthesis of a set of heat shock proteins. We examined such induction following addition of azetidine (a proline analog) or synthesis of a heterologous protein (human prourokinase) in Escherichia coli. Synthesis of heat shock proteins unde...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Kanemori M,Mori H,Yura T

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Burkholderia cenocepacia strain K56-2, a representative of the Burkholderia cepacia complex, is part of the epidemic and clinically problematic ET12 lineage. The strain produced plant tissue watersoaking (ptw) on onion tissue, which is a plant disease-associated trait. Using plasposon mutagenesis, mutants in the ptw p...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Engledow AS,Medrano EG,Mahenthiralingam E,LiPuma JJ,Gonzalez CF

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Deoxyribonucleic acid repair synthesis was studied in one wild-type and two mutant strains of Bacillus subtilis that are defective in excision of pyrimidine dimers. The cells were irradiated with ultraviolet light, and 6-(p-hydroxyphenyl-azo)-uracil was used to block replicative synthesis, allowing only repair synthes...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hadden CT

更新日期：1979-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli has been used as a platform host for studying the production of free fatty acids (FFA) and other energy-dense compounds useful in biofuel applications. Most of the FFA produced by E. coli are found extracellularly. This finding suggests that a mechanism for transport across the cell envelope exists, y...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lennen RM,Politz MG,Kruziki MA,Pfleger BF

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The HPB12 protein from the nucleoid of Bacillus subtilis was previously described, and its DNA binding properties have been reported previously (V. Salti, F. Le Hégarat, and L. Hirschbein, Biochim. Biophys. Acta 1009:161-167, 1989). The DNA-HPB12 complexes were examined by electron microscopy. They appeared as short, ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Arnold-Schulz-Gahmen B,Salti-Montesanto V,Nguyen J,Hirschbein L,Le Hégarat F

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oligotropha carboxidovorans OM5(T) (DSM 1227, ATCC 49405) is a chemolithoautotrophic bacterium with the capability to utilize carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and hydrogen. It is also capable of heterotrophic growth under appropriate environmental conditions. Here we report the annotated genome sequence of the circula...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Paul D,Bridges S,Burgess SC,Dandass Y,Lawrence ML

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fundamental questions in bacterial gene regulation concern how multiple regulatory proteins interact with the transcription apparatus at a single promoter and what are the roles of protein contacts with RNA polymerase and changes in DNA conformation. Transcription of the Escherichia coli uhpT gene, encoding the induci...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Olekhnovich IN,Kadner RJ

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obligate intracellular bacteria comprising the order Chlamydiales lack the ability to synthesize nucleotides de novo and must acquire these essential compounds from the cytosol of the host cell. The environmental protozoan endosymbiont Protochlamydia amoebophila UWE25 encodes five nucleotide transporters with specific...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fisher DJ,Fernández RE,Maurelli AT

更新日期：2013-08-01 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：:Studies on the composition of total fatty acids of Alcaligenes faecalis harvested at different growth phases have been carried out. Ability of the organism to desaturate palmitic and stearic acid has also been tested. The organism contained palmitic (16:0), stearic (18:0), palmitoleic (16:1), cis-vaccenic (18:1), cycl...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ghaneker AS,Nair PM

更新日期：1973-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence flanking the bfpA locus on the enteroadherent factor plasmid of the enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) strain B171-8 (O111:NM) was obtained to identify genes that might be required for bundle-forming pilus (BFP) biosynthesis. Deletion experiments led to the identification of a contiguous cluster of at l...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sohel I,Puente JL,Ramer SW,Bieber D,Wu CY,Schoolnik GK

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacillus anthracis, the causative agent of anthrax, replicates as chains of vegetative cells by regulating the separation of septal peptidoglycan. Surface (S)-layer proteins and associated proteins (BSLs) function as chain length determinants and bind to the secondary cell wall polysaccharide (SCWP). In this study, we...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Liszewski Zilla M,Chan YG,Lunderberg JM,Schneewind O,Missiakas D

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Saccharomyces cerevisiae gene MEC1 represents a structural homolog of the human gene ATM mutated in ataxia telangiectasia patients. Like human ataxia telangiectasia cell lines, mec1 mutants are defective in G2 and S-phase cell cycle checkpoints in response to radiation treatment. Here we show an additional defect ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Siede W,Allen JB,Elledge SJ,Friedberg EC

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dehalococcoides species are key players in the anaerobic transformation of halogenated solvents at contaminated sites. Here, we analyze isotopologue distributions in amino acid pools from peptides of Dehalococcoides strain CBDB1 after incubation with (13)C-labeled acetate or bicarbonate as a carbon source. The resulti...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Marco-Urrea E,Seifert J,von Bergen M,Adrian L

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella typhimurium contains three "major proteins" or "porins" (34K, 35K, and 36K) in the outer membrane. A mutant strain producing only the 35K porin was first grown in media containing high concentrations of NaCl to "repress" the porin synthesis and then was shifted into a medium without NaCl. The newly made por...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Smit J,Nikaido H

更新日期：1978-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations of Escherichia coli from sensitivity to nalidixic acid resistance were studied by fluctuation analysis. The mutant distributions in replicate cultures were not significantly affected either by the age of the carbon-starved preculture used for inocula or by the inoculum size. The data from 23 fluctuation test...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Boe L,Tolker-Nielsen T,Eegholm KM,Spliid H,Vrang A

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Silicibacter sp. strain TM1040, a member of the Roseobacter clade, forms a symbiosis with unicellular phytoplankton, which is inextricably linked to the biphasic "swim or stick" lifestyle of the bacteria. Mutations in flaC bias the population toward the motile phase. Renewed examination of the FlaC(-) strain (HG1016) ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sule P,Belas R

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported previously that a Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis dam mutant expressing a truncated Dam protein does not agglutinate in the presence of specific antibodies against O9 polysaccharide. Here we investigate the participation of Dam in lipopolysaccharide (LPS) synthesis in Salmonella. The LPS O-antigen ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Sarnacki SH,Marolda CL,Noto Llana M,Giacomodonato MN,Valvano MA,Cerquetti MC

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is presented that progametangia in both the plus and the minus mating types of Mucor mucedo can be induced by one substance, namely (-)-trisporic acid B. A method is described for the determination of the concentration of the sex factors (trisporone, trisporic acid B, trisporic acid C) in mated cultures of Mu...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Van den Ende H,Wiechmann AH,Reyngoud DJ,Hendriks T

更新日期：1970-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Certain group VIIIB transition metal compounds were found to inhibit cell division in Escherichia coli, causing marked filamentous growth. Gram-negative bacilli were the most sensitive to this effect, whereas gram-positive bacilli responded only at near-toxic levels of the metal. None of the cocci tested showed any ap...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Rosenberg B,Renshaw E,Vancamp L,Hartwick J,Drobnik J

更新日期：1967-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Martin, Alice J. (Nassau County Department of Health, Hempstead, N.Y.), and Margaret O'Brien. Detection of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli in fecal cultures by use of a modified fluorescent-antibody technique. J. Bacteriol. 89:570-573. 1965.-The application of the fluorescent-antibody (FA) technique to cultures of f...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： MARTIN AJ,O'BRIEN M

更新日期：1965-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A temperature-sensitive Schizosaccharomyces pombe mutant, cdc16-116, has been isolated which undergoes uncontrolled septation during its cell division cycle. The mutant accumulates two types of cells after 3 h of growth at the restrictive temperature: (i) type I cells (85% of the population), which complete nuclear di...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Minet M,Nurse P,Thuriaux P,Mitchison JM

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00