Mechanisms of pathogenesis in Listeria monocytogenes infection. 3. Carbohydrate metabolism.

abstract：:Several mutants of Bacillus subtilis deficient in catalase synthesis generated by nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis have been used to map a locus affecting catalase activity. Two- and three-factor bacteriophage PBS1 transductional crosses were used to locate the locus, named katA, between recH and thiA with 98% linkage to ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Loewen PC,Switala J

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:PsaA, the subunit of the fimbria originally referred to as the "pH 6 antigen," is required for full virulence of Yersinia pestis during bubonic plague. The expression of psaA is dependent upon specific environmental signals, and while the signals (high temperature and acidic pH) are defined, the mechanisms underlying ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Quinn JD,Weening EH,Miner TA,Miller VL

更新日期：2019-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Different preparations of the methylreductase were tested in a simplified methylcoenzyme M methylreductase assay with artificial electron donors under a nitrogen atmosphere. ATP and Mg2+ stimulated the reaction. Tris(2,2'-bipyridine)ruthenium (II), chromous chloride, chromous acetate, titanium III citrate, 2,8-diamino...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Hartzell PL,Escalante-Semerena JC,Bobik TA,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Necrotic enteritis (NE) is an economically important disease of poultry caused by certain Clostridium perfringens type A strains. NE pathogenesis involves the NetB toxin, which is encoded on a large conjugative plasmid within a 42-kb pathogenicity locus. Recent multilocus sequence type (MLST) studies have identified t...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Lepp D,Gong J,Songer JG,Boerlin P,Parreira VR,Prescott JF

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pst gene cluster encodes the phosphate-specific transport (Pst) system. Inactivation of the Pst system constitutively activates the two-component regulatory system PhoBR and attenuates the virulence of pathogenic bacteria. In uropathogenic Escherichia coli strain CFT073, attenuation by inactivation of pst is predo...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Crépin S,Porcheron G,Houle S,Harel J,Dozois CM

更新日期：2017-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A rough (R) Brucella abortus 45/20 mutant was more sensitive to the bactericidal activity of polymyxin B and lactoferricin B than was its smooth (S) counterpart but considerably more resistant than Salmonella montevideo. The outer membrane (OM) and isolated lipopolysaccharide (LPS) of S. montevideo showed a higher aff...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Freer E,Moreno E,Moriyón I,Pizarro-Cerdá J,Weintraub A,Gorvel JP

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains are able to produce two distinct lipopolysaccharide (LPS) O-polysaccharide types, A-band (common-antigen) and B-band (serotype-specific) LPSs. The relative expression levels of these two LPS types in P. aeruginosa PAO1 (O5 serotype) at various growth temperatures were investigated b...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Makin SA,Beveridge TJ

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomic organization of Bordetella pertussis strains has been examined by using a new method. This method does not depend on the prior determination of a restriction map of the bacterial chromosome but is based on the ability to measure directly the distance between two genes. This is accomplished through the inte...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Stibitz S,Yang MS

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The syrB gene is required for syringomycin production by Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae and full virulence during plant pathogenesis. Strain B3AR132 containing a syrB::lacZ fusion was used to detect transcriptional activation of the syrB gene in syringomycin minimal medium by plant metabolites with signal activity....

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Mo YY,Gross DC

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The so-called symbiotic region of the Bradyrhizobium japonicum chromosome (C. Kündig, H. Hennecke, and M. Göttfert, J. Bacteriol. 175:613-622, 1993) was screened for the presence of genes controlled by the nitrogen fixation regulatory protein NifA. Southern blots of restriction enzyme-digested cosmids that represent a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Nienaber A,Huber A,Göttfert M,Hennecke H,Fischer HM

更新日期：2000-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Azotobacter vinelandii DJ71, which contains a mutation in the nifV gene, was derepressed for nitrogenase in the presence of homocitrate. When dinitrogenase was isolated from this culture, it was found to be identical to the wild-type dinitrogenase. However, when the same NifV- strain was derepressed in the presence of...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Madden MS,Paustian TD,Ludden PW,Shah VK

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Wall turnover was studied in Bacillus subtilis. The loss of radioactively labeled wall polymers was followed during exponential growth in batch and chemostat cultures. Turnover kinetics were identical under all growth conditions; pulse-labeled wall material was lost with first-order kinetics, but only after exponentia...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： De Boer WR,Kruyssen FJ,Wouters JT

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Analysis of a Yersinia pestis Delta caf1A mutant demonstrated that the Caf1A usher is required for the assembly and secretion of the fraction 1 capsule. The capsule assembled into thin fibrils and denser aggregates on the bacterial surface. Pilus-like fibers were also detected on the surface of Y. pestis. The capsule ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Runco LM,Myrczek S,Bliska JB,Thanassi DG

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：:Formation of the Escherichia coli division septum is catalyzed by a number of essential proteins (named Fts) that assemble into a ring-like structure at the future division site. Many of these Fts proteins are intrinsic transmembrane proteins whose functions are largely unknown. In the present study, we attempted to i...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Karimova G,Robichon C,Ladant D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genetic element integrating site specifically into a prokaryotic gene usually carries a copy of the 3' portion of that gene that restores the active gene even as the original is disrupted. A cryptic element in Mesorhizobium loti instead carries a copy of the 5' end of the tRNA gene into which it integrated. This has...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Zhao S,Williams KP

更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The whole-genome sequence of Mycobacterium bolletii M24, isolated from the bronchoalveolar lavage fluid of a Malaysian patient, is reported here. The circular chromosome of 5,507,730 bp helped to clarify the taxonomic position of this organism within the M. abscessus complex and revealed the presence of proteins poten...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Wong YL,Choo SW,Tan JL,Ong CS,Ng KP,Ngeow YF

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetosyringone, a phenolic inducer of the virulence (vir) genes of Agrobacterium tumefaciens, inhibited the growth of the nopaline-type strains T37 and C58 incubated under acidic conditions. In the course of a 6-day incubation with acetosyringone, avirulent clones were produced in different proportions by strains T37 ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Fortin C,Nester EW,Dion P

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Autoinduction is a conserved mechanism of cell density-dependent gene regulation that occurs in a variety of gram-negative bacteria. Autoinducible luminescence in Vibrio fischeri requires a transcriptional activator, LuxR, while a LuxR homolog, LasR, activates elastase expression in Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Both LuxR a...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gray KM,Passador L,Iglewski BH,Greenberg EP

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lipid intermediate in peptidoglycan biosynthesis was isolated from Escherichia coli strain W and characterized as C(55)-isoprenyl-pyrophosphoryl N-acetylmuramyl(-pentapeptide)-N-acetyl-glucosamine. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Umbreit JN,Strominger JL

更新日期：1972-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nitrogenase proteins from eight organisms have been highly purified, and a survey of their cross-reactions shows that the nitrogenase proteins from a wide variety of organisms can interact with one another. An active cross-reaction is the complementary functioning of the MoFe protein and the Fe protein from differ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Emerich DW,Burris RH

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The acetohydroxy acid synthase III isozyme, which catalyzes the first common step in the biosynthesis of isoleucine, leucine, and valine in Escherichia coli K-12, is composed of two subunits, the ilvI and ilvH gene products. A missense mutation in ilvH (ilvH612), which reduced the sensitivity of the enzyme to the end ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ricca E,Limauro D,Lago CT,de Felice M

更新日期：1988-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Escherichia coli K42 capsular polysaccharide consists of leads to 3)-alpha-D-Galp-(1 leads to 3)-alpha-D-GalUAp-(1 leads to 3)-alpha-L-Fucp-(1 leads to repeating units. The E. coli K42 and Klebsiella K63 antigens are serologically identical. ...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Niemann H,Chakraborty AK,Friebolin H,Stirm S

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spontaneous mutants that were resistant to zinc were isolated from Alcaligenes eutrophus CH34 containing either the native plasmid pMOL28 or a derivative derepressed for its self-transfer, pMOL50. With the cured plasmid-free derivative of CH34, strain AE104, such mutants were not detected. The mutations, which were sh...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Collard JM,Provoost A,Taghavi S,Mergeay M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A phosphatase specific for the hydrolysis of 3-deoxy-d-manno-octulosonate (KDO)-8-phosphate was purified approximately 400-fold from crude extracts of Escherichia coli B. The hydrolysis of KDO-8-phosphate to KDO and inorganic phosphate in crude extracts of E. coli B, grown in phosphate-containing minimal medium, could...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Ray PH,Benedict CD

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six peptidase activities have been distinguished electrophoretically in cell extracts of Salmonella typhimurium with the aid of a histochemical stain. The activities can also be partially separated by chromatography on diethylaminoethyl-cellulose. These peptidases show overlapping substrate specificities. Mutants (pep...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Miller CG,Mackinnon K

更新日期：1974-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pbpB gene product penicillin-binding protein 3 (PBP3) of Escherichia coli is one of the major targets of beta-lactam antibiotics. At the permissive temperature, the temperature-sensitive pbpBr1 mutant, which was obtained after selection for increased resistance to cephalexin, shows a dramatic change in shape which...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Taschner PE,Ypenburg N,Spratt BG,Woldringh CL

更新日期：1988-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ultraviolet (UV) microscopy was used to study the capacity of yeast (ATCC 10231 and 10261) and filamentous (ATCC 10259) strains of Candida albicans to accumulate UV-absorbing materials from a medium supplemented with purines, pyrimidines, amino acids, or related compounds as the main nitrogen source. All strains accum...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Balish E,Svihla G

更新日期：1968-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haloarchaea in their natural environment are exposed to hypersalinity, intense solar radiation, and desiccation, all of which generate high levels of oxidative stress. Previous work has shown that haloarchaea are an order of magnitude more resistant to oxidative stress than most mesophilic organisms. Despite this resi...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Gelsinger DR,DiRuggiero J

更新日期：2018-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A modified 3-hydroxypropionate cycle has been proposed as the autotrophic CO2 fixation pathway for the thermoacidophilic crenarchaeon Metallosphaera sedula. The cycle requires the reductive conversion of 3-hydroxypropionate to propionyl-coenzyme A (propionyl-CoA). The specific activity of the 3-hydroxypropionate-, CoA...

journal_title：Journal of bacteriology

authors： Alber BE,Kung JW,Fuchs G

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00